2 20 118 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/52feb4fdfc36b14b47297528404c8d89.pdf e1fc8dfd96a922719af70e4c716e6027 PDF Text Text SANTA FE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE ANNAPOLIS ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1~ ~ 1r1~r 1 1r1 f 1'1i1n 111111111111111 31696 01138 2130 GROUNDBREAKING FOR HALL OF RECORDS RENOVATION .............. PAGE 3 BOOKWORM BLUES .. PAGE S SANTA FE WHOOPS ANNAPOLIS IN B-BALL ............................................ PAGE 2 STATEMENT OF EDUCATI,ONAL POLICY. ......... PAG E 6 SCHOLARSHIP. ............. PAGE 7 POST BACCALAUREATE BLUES? ........................... PAGE 10 THE ST. JOHN'S HOMESCHOOL CONNECTION ...... . ........................................... PAGE 12 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS .............................. PAGE 14 ALUMNI NOTES ........ PAGE 18 JOHNNY MORONIC'S ESSAY. ............................. PAGE 22 PRINTS AT MITCHELL GALLERY. ...................... PAGE 24 �NEWS FROM WATSON FUNDS STUDY OF "INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES" Jillian Conrad, SF95, has been awarded a Watson Fellowship for studyoutside the United States. Originally from Las Cruces, New Mexico, Ms. Conrad will spend next year visiting a Rudolf Steiner farm in J arna, Sweden, a kibbutz in Israel and a community of rickshaw drivers in Vellore, India. In her proposal to the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, Ms. Connor said her intent was to "experience the dayto-day life of a group of people driven to create their own community by their dedication to a certain philosophical, religious or cultural ideal. Each of these communities depends on farming or other physical work to keep the community self-sufficient. I plan to work, eat and relax alongside the members of these communities in order to figure out what makes a community, and whether intentional communities work." Watson Fellowships are awarded annually to graduating seniors from select liberal arts colleges. The program provides stipends of $16,000 for Ill single Fellows. THORNE SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED IN SANTA FE The Pre-Medical Committee on the Santa Fe campus has awarded Thorne Scholarships for the 1995 year to the following students: Carmen (Liz) Hering, SF95; Max O'Donnell, SF95; Svetlana Pilyugina, SF97; and Mathew Strickland, SF96. The award, which funds summer classes in general and inorganic chemistry, is given to students committed to the field of medicine who demonstrate financial need II and a strong academic record. THE BELL TOWERS ••• BRETHREN IN BOOKS VIE FOR HOOP HONORS BY SUS3AN BORDEN 'rou~d Ann~polis t~e ~ame pl~yed ( J 7 h e word going the campus about intercamvus basketball to be March 22 was, perhaps, a tad rconfident. Annapolis would wm, everyone agreed. First and foremost, Annapolis students said, we have a gym, where we ve been honing our skills for the past four months of our basketball season. Second, they reasoned, we have our all-star team here, at home, ready to play. Who, Naptown Johnnies wondered, would the Santa Fe team have, but a handful of guys who were willing and able to make the long trip east. Sure, they agreed, the Annapolis team would take it easy on Santa Fe. After all, you have to feel sorry for our Brethren in Books who, because they have no gym, need to travel 2100 miles just to play an intramural game. But as far as Annapolis farts were concerned, the fates had decided and Zeus had decreed: Annapolis would win. But even before the initial tip-off, some fans started changing their tune. A glimpse of the opposing team revealed a formidable group of athletes, not the scraggly bunch of road-trippers they had imagined. Still, most remained confident in the Annapolis team, classically clad in the orange St. John's "books and balance" t-shirt. But Santa Fe looked pretty tough in their black uniforms which proudly proclaimed "Great Books" on the front, while defiantly declaring "No Gym" on the back. Before the game, all present gathered around a podium placed at center court, where a sneakershod Eva Brann delivered the fifth lecture in the Temple Iglehart Lecture Series "On The Body." Reminding students from both campuses of their metacorvoreal connection, the Annapolis dean pointed out that "we, the St. John's College campuses, are twins, but not mere twins, not even mere identical twins: We are Siamese twins. So, we are seeing the incredible sight of a bunch of Siamese twins playing ball with each other." Ms. Brann's lecture went on to explore the theory of basketball which, she noted, "begins by taking into account Newton's third law, the law of recoil: that bodies coming together in violence, or Newton implies in a long lost scholium-in love, come apart with equal and reciprocal force." With the words of Miss Brann still ringing in their ears, the teams took to the court. Annapolis and Santa Fe played the first several minutes fairly even, with basket answering basket. But around the fifteen minute mark, Santa Fe pulled ahead, ending the half up by twelve points. Santa Fe widened the lead in the second half, at one point pulling ahead of Annapolis by twenty points. As the end drew near, Santa Fe slowed its pace, but by then their victory was assured. The final score: Santa Fe 67, Annapolis 58. The next day a student, arriving at the gym for an early morning workout, found a handwritten note taped to the locker room door. 1 Oh, somewhere on I.his campus you can hear I.he lunes of:JJac.h. 9real minds are racin!J somewhere, J1ffedw1'fh Xanl andJfume andBoche. :Jlndsomewhere !/o.IJ'nnies are fauyhiny, andlea/iny lhrouy.h ~nlaiyne. :JJul I.here is no /oy in Xaplown-danla Ye has won l.£e yame. II �REPORTER BACK TO THE FUTURE OR IS IT THE PAST? BY BARBARA GOYETTE Breaking ground for the new library in Annapolis, where tradition gets an update ~ h; library traditionally has played an important role e life of St. John's, from earliest times when the books of Thomas Bray (the first public library in the colonies) were given to King William's School, to the Civil War era when many of the college's books were purloined by soldiers quartered on campus, to the New Program when the term "great books" assumed a mystique of significance and became the public marker of the college's identity. The tradition is due for an update. In a groundbreaking ceremony on February 28, President Chris Nelson and a host of alumni, students, staff, politicians and local friends took shiny new shovels and dipped them into the historic dirt of front campus to begin formally the project of converting the Hall of Records building into a college library. Led by President Nelson, groups of shovel-wielders donned hard hats and posed for pictures. Among those in attendance were Louis Goldstein, comptroller for the state of Maryland and Al Hopkins, mayor of Annapolis. The renovation and conversion of the Maryland State Hall of Reco;:ds building should take about 14 months~ and be finished by the spring di..1996, just in time to kick off the college's 300th anniversary celebration. In the meantime, a huge hole decorates front campus, and the Hall of Records building is surrounded by an eight-foot-tall chain link fence. From the outside, the new library will retain the appearance of the present Georgian Revival building, which was built by the state in 1934 to hold its archives. When you walk inside, however, you'll experience sights and spaces unlike anything else on the Annapolis campus. Architect Travis Price, who attended St. John's in 1968-69, designed a three-storied atrium lit from above by a large skylight. Stainless steel and cherry wood will be used for the balconies, curving stairway, and columns that ascend upward through the three stories. Walk to the right and you'll be zapped into a time warp as you enter the elegant Queen Anne Room, two stories high with a series of round windows and woodwork embellished by carved moldings. Mr. Price calls this juxtaposition "a CONT. ON PAGE 4 Representatives of the college's Annapolis Friends group join C~ris Nelson in shoveling symbolic hunks of dirt: Peggy Sue Atterburg, Joy Shover, Mory Koy Biern, Maryanne Spencer, Chris Nelson, Esther Slaff, St. John's librarian Kitty Kinzer, Mox Duncan and John Moore. Photo by John Bildohl 3 STUDENT RECOGNIZED FOR SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT Jeremiah James, a junior on the Annapolis campus, has been named a Becton Dickinson Fellow. Underwritten by Becton Dickinson & Company, in cooperation with the Independent College Fund of Maryland, the fellows program recognizes superior academic achievement in the life sciences. Jeremiah has worked as an administrative assistant to the director of laboratories and was a lab assistant for freshman lab class. II AWARD FUNDS STUDY IN NEUROSCIENCE Kelly Stirman, SF97, of Lubbock, Texas, and India Morrison, SF96, of Tempe, Arizona, have each won a $2500 fellowship for summer study at Duke University. The Undergraduate Neurosciences Summer Research Program in Mechanism of Behavior is funded by the National Science Foundation. Ms. Stirman and Ms. Morrison were among twelve students nationwide selected for the award. II ~ St John's College f~"\_ SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO 66 LEARNING IS A .~ KIND OF NATURAL Cl} FOOD FOR THE MINDn Cl} - Cicero And a week of St. John's ......_ College Summer Classics is the r " intellectual equivalent of a '-I Thanksgiving feast. Where Cl} ~ else can you go to read and ~ discuss the greatest literature, ~ philosophy and opera of all time, explore one of the world's E most historic cities, visit pueblos ~ ~ ~ ~ and archeological sites, attend great opera, hike, fish and much more? If learning and play are important to you, we invite you to join us this summer. TUITION FROM $950 I WEEK INCLUDES ROOM & BOARD. WRITE TO: SUMMER CLASSICS-C. ST .JOHN'S COLLEGE SANTA FE. NEW MEXICO 87501-4599 • (505) 984-6104 �4 T R2EPORTER H E CAMPAIGN GRANTS FUND CAPITAL CAMPAIGN, LIBRARY AND FINANCIAL AID St. John's College has received a number of grants recently in support of various projects and programs; From the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the two campuses are sharing a $125,000 grant; in Santa Fe it will be used for the NEH challenge and in Annapolis for the newlibrary. In Annapolis, local businesses and corporations have demonstrated their support of the college by making pledges for the new library: First National Bank of Maryland, $50,000; Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, $75,000; UNC Incorporated, $25,000; Nationwide Insurance Company and Nationwide Foundation, $50,000; Annapolis Banking and Trust Company, $25,000. The Beneficial CorporationHodson Trust donated $250,000 for the computer system for-the library. The system will be named Clarence in honor of Clarence Hodson, who established the Hodson Trust in his will. To provide Graduate Institute fellowships for public school teachers in Milwaukee, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is providing a grant for $50,000. The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation has given a grant for $100,037 to fund the Touchstones program and Graduate Institute fellowships for Harlem schoolteachers. The program is in its : second year. The college has received grants for financial aid from the J.M. Kaplan Fund ($5,000), from the Beneficial Corporation-Hodson Trust ($412,000), and from the James M. Johnston Trust for Charitable and Educational Purposes ($10,000). All of these groups have long supported St. John's. For funding preceptorials, the college received a grant of $57,000 from the Evalyn Cook Richter and Paul K. Richter Memorial Funds. To connect the Annapolis campus with the Internet, the National Science Foundation granted $25,000. In Santa Fe, the Brown Foundation gave $500,000 for the NEH challenge. To fund a series of lectures and a conference on the CONT.ONPAGE5 F 0 R 0 U R F 0 U R T H c R y DEADLINE NEARS FORllBRARY CHALLENGE GRANT the Spring of 1996, St. John's College will begin the ebration of its tercentenary with the dedication of the new library in Annapolis. The Hall of Records library is the latest chapter for what began as the first free and public library in North America, when Rev. Thomas Bray gave his collection of books to King William's School in 1696. The new library also will complete a 60-year quest by the college to re-acquire that parcel of land on its campus which it sold to the State of Maryland in 1934. The new library will more than double the square feet and shelving for books, while tripling the study and reading areas. It will remain a quiet place for students and tutors to read, study and reflect. In addition, an on-line computer system will offer access to all other collections nationwide. To complete this project, we must meet the $2,900,000 challenge set by the State of Maryland which expires in June 1995. Opportunities exist in the new library to specially acknowledge gifts of all sizes. While every donor will FUTURE CONT. FROM PAGE 2 metaphorical passage of time based on an architecture of today meeting an architecture of yesterday." The new library also will have an underground addition extending toward Paca-Carroll. Two sides will be at ground level and will be lined with large windows. With its elliptical shape, this addition is another startlingly different kind of At the groundbreaking for the new library in space. It will hold 65 perAnnapolis, State Comptroller Louis Goldstein {left) cent of the collection and joined architect Travis Price, Tom McCrac~en of provide areas for study Henry Lewis Contractors, and a future resident of and reading. A landthe building, librarian Kitty Kinzer. scaped terrace will be be recognized on a plaque in the library, some donors may wish to ha'fe their names appear on a particular area of the library in recognition of their generosity. Study carrels, reading rooms, a periodical room, a rare book room, stack areas and gardens are available for gifts ranging from $25,000 to $1,000,000. We need help from alumni, friends and parents of alumni and students if we are to meet this important challenge and if we are to create this exciting new facility for St. John's College. If you wish to make a gift or suggest other sources ofsupport, please contact Jeff Bishop or Chris Nelson on the Annapolis campus. II Annapolis president Chris Nelson was happy to receive a check for $250,000 from the Beneficial CorporationHodson Trust to fund the computer system, dubbed (\arence, for the new library. Finn Caspersen from the trust presented the check af a ceremony in Baltimore. built on top of the addition. From front campus, the addition will hardly be noticeable, thus preserving the sweep of lawn with brick buildings on three sides. In remarks at the groundbreaking ceremony, President Nelson called the new library "a community effort if ever there was one." Indeed, the college and the architect worked closely with the Historic District Commission in Annapolis to come up with a design that would both serve the needs of the college and conform to historic district guidelines. The campus planning committee and librarian Kitty Kinzer contributed ideas about the elements that were necessary for the final design. Alumni from every era as well as the Friends of St. John's College, individuals and businesses in Annapolis, have been involved with fundraising for the project. Woodward Hall, the library since 1899, will be remodeled into a center for the Graduate Institute, tutor offices and classrooms. The King William Room will stay as is (but with spiffed up furniture) and senior orals will still be held there - one tradition that will remain. II �REPORTER T H CAMPAIGN E 5 F 0 R 0 U R F 0 U "GREAT BOOKS, NO GYM" OR THE BOOKWORM BLUES reat Books, No Gym." Despite the slogan's dark umor, it underscores an aspect of life on the Santa Fe ampus which few find appealing. Constructed in 1909, the Annapolis gymnasium has long been a central part of student life in Annapolis. And, as far back as 1962, the college identified the need for a student activities center in its original master plan for the Santa Fe campus. That need was reaffirmed by overwhelming votes from the faculty in 1987, 1992 and again in 1994. However, over the years more pressing demands for classrooms, dormitories and a library have delayed its construction. Today, the need is greater than ever. Over the past ten years, the campus population has doubled to its current enrollment of 500 undergraduate and graduate students. More than 85 percent of these students are enrolled in some form of extracurricular activity, from life-drawing and yoga to volleyball, fencing and dance. Without an appropriate facility, students have scheduled these activities wherever possible -typically in lobbies, classrooms and common rooms. Ihe Funding the construction of the center is one of the highest objectives -0f The Campaign for Our Fourth Century. For an estimated cost of $4 .7 million, the center will include a gymnasium; studios for dance, art, photography and pottery; a weight-training room; handball and racquetball courts; a student activities office; and a center for the St. John's College Search and Rescue Team. Perhaps most importantly, the center will provide a location for social interaction beyond the classroom. "St. John's has thought about this building for thirty years now," said John Agresto, president of the Santa Fe campus. "Every generation of students has looked forward to it. The faculty has repeatedly reaffirmed its commitment to it. What's been a promise for thirty years can now become a reality." This reality will only be possible with the help of alumni, parents and friends. Students for generations to come will benefit directly and lastingly from the foresight of those who help today. In turn, the student activities center offers an opportunity to be a part of St. John's future. Join us in establishing this historic cornerstone. R T H c R y GRANTS CONT. FROM PAGE 4 relationship of philosophy to public affairs, called the Tocqueville Lectures, the John M. Olin Foundation gave $25,000. The Cimmarron Foundation made a $100,000 contribution to The Campaign For Our Fourth Century. For the Presidential Discretionary Fund, the Earhart Foundation has given a grant of $9,000. Two foundations demonstrated their support of the college with grants for financial aid: The Ahmanson Foundation ($7,500) and the Hubbard Foundation ($4,554). II FUNDS ENDOW TEACHING CHAIR The Santa Fe campus of St. John's College has received an award of $500,000 from The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, Texas. The funds will complete the match for a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to establish an endowed teaching chair. At the recommendation of the foundation, the chair will be named the Louise Talbot Trigg Distinguished Teaching Chair in the Humanities, in honor of St. John's visitor emerita. To be filled on a rotating term, the chair will provide an opportunity for members of the St. John's faculty to undertake scholarly and educational endeavors of benefit both to the college and to the wider educational community. In particular, faculty members holding the chair will have the time and resources to help in various outreach activities for educational institutions -schools, high schools and colleges -interested in the type of education fostered by St. John's. II PROPOSED STUDENT ACTIVITIES CENTER IN SANTA FE TO NAME: BUILDING - WEIGHT-TRAINING ROOM - 2,500,000 BUILDING ENDOWMENT - DANCE/AEROBICS STUDIO - 1,000,000 MULTI-PURPOSE GYMNASIUM - LOBBY - A LOCKER ROOM 750,000 500,000 STUDENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE - ART STUDIO - SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM CENTER - 250,000 THE CAMPAIGN FOR OUR FOURTH CENTURY 100,000 Santa Fe: Jeff Morgan, Vice-President for Advancement 505-984-6099 (2) - 100,000 100,000 PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO - 250,000 CONTACT 250,000 POTTERY STUDIO - 100,000 "Annapolis: Jeff Bishop, Vice-President for Advancement 410-263-2371 50,000 HANDBALURACQUETBALL COURT (3) - 25,000 �THOMAS MAY APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE INSTITUTE Tutor Thomas May has been appointed director of the Gradµate Institute on the Annapolis campus for a three-year term beginning in June. John Verdi, the present director, will resume his regular teaching duties at the college. Mr. May, who has b~en on the faculty since 1979, served previously as the director of the Graduate Institute from 1986 to 1989. He was a visiting fellow of St. Chad's College, Durham University, in England. A 1971 graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore, Mr. May worked toward his doctoral degree at Fordham University. Before coming to St. John's he taught classes in ethics, aesthetics and western philosophy, and classical Hindu thought at Loyola and Goucher colleges. Mr. May has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate level across the St. John's curriculum, including music and Freshman Chorus. He has a special interest in art and chairs the faculty advisory committee for the Mitchell Gallery. II The Reporter is published in April and October by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, 1160 Camino-Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe, NM 87 501 and in July and January by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MO 21404. SANTA FE: Lesli Allison, editor John Schroeder, assistant editor Lisa Donenfeld, graphic designer. ANNAPOLIS: Barbara Goyette, editor Sus3an Borden, writer Betsy Blume, Eva Brann, John Christensen, Pamela Kraus, Benjamin Milner, Brother Robert Smith, and· Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. USPS 018-750 DEAN'S ANNUAL STATEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL POLICY BY STEPHEN R. VAN LUCHENE DEAN, SANTA FE .............................................................................................................................................................................,. ....... . 0 he Dean's Statement this year describes the situation of both perspectives since they are mutually implied. It is a tall Santa Fe campus and suggests some possibilities for order to undertake a full discussion of the serious practical difp nning our future. It presents a detailed analysis of our ficulties, to inquire deeply into the connection between the financial situation followed by a primer on financial aid and practical difficulties and the quality .of instructional life, and describes the two major financial problems we face: that our expenfinally to ask if there are ways of rethinking our work here that ditures exceed our income and that institutionally providedfinancial in addressing the practical difficultie~ will help us to succeed aid is taking a share of revenue that will soon overtake the cost of even more fully with our kind of learning. To set our sights any instruction if it follows its present trend. lower than this would be unworthy of us as we begin our fourth The statement describes several features of the college that must decade in Santa Fe. I hope with this paper at least to make a be kept in mind and balanced as we consider the proper ways of real beginning with this much needed project. addressing these concerns. It offers a new way of thinking through the In focusing on the Santa Fe campus, I intend no slight on problems of college financing, both from our institutional standpoint our sister campus in Annapolis. In plain fact, the problems and from the standpoint of students and their parents. It proposes Annapolis faces just now are manageable matters of strengthenrevitalizing the phrase "working my way through college" and ing a college that rests on a firm, if restructuring student labor and finannot large, financial and demographic cial aid in ways that would make it base. Santa Fe, on the other hand, possible for students to bear more faces issues that begin with material responsibility for their education while preparing themselves to bear the larger well being and reach beyond to the responsibilities they will face in the very heart of our essential work. world of work when they have left the ~lways have been an It is appropriate to begin by college. noticing how far the Santa Fe campus has come since its beginning in rented rooms at La Posada thirty years ago. Today, the Santa Fe camonly after painstaking deliberation. But we have pus, like the Annapolis campus, can point proudly to traditions of scholalso traditionally prided ourselves on not only our arship and learning that constitute the soul of the college. This campus willingness but our insistence on exploring even the has grown from the seed planted here thirty years ago into a vital organism most troublesome of serious issues to their very roots. with a dedicated and mature faculty, seasoned officers and a talented support staff, a growing body of distinguished alumni, enrollment virtually at capacity for the last several years, and a magnificent campus equipped with nearly all the buildings we might need or want. Our financial condition, if it is not all we might wish, is a. far cry from what it was in those days even fifteen years ago when (as was reported by an accredited agency) we regularly needed to be saved, and usually at the The deans in Santa Fe and Annapolis alternate each year last minute before the books were closed, by the US cavalry in in presenting a Statement of Educational Policy to the college the form of a beloved supporter from Texas. as a whole. This statement has taken many forms over the Much more could be said in praise of our accomplishyears. At times it has been dedicated to a single pressing colments, but this occasion can better be used to look hard at the lege-wide issue. such as writing at the college or the question of problems we face, both old and new, as the college prepares for flexibility in the program; at other times, it has been the occa-. its next generation of students. sion for describing some dimension .of life at the college-the For the past several years we have operated in what might role of the tutor or the intellectual life of the students. This be described as the "hopeful" mode. Our hope was focused on year, the thirtieth anniversary of the Santa Fe campus, I will 1) expectations of rapid receipt of the first $7.8 million from the depart from the usual and appropriate distinction we make capital campaign proceeds, 2) the seeming success of sharp between "educational poliGy" on the one hand and "practical increases in tuition and fees over the past five years, and 3) matters" on the other to discuss the condition of the Santa Fe campus and its prospects for the future as fully as possible from CONT. ON PAGE 7 The penultimate section of the paper is meant to help the Santa Fe campus ask fundamental questions about its work and the principles it serves. It suggests that while the common enterprise of the college on its two campuses-its national mission-is of great importance, each campus must also build a strong relationship with its local community and region. The paper builds a case for certain changes in practice and for reexamining certain fundamental questions that can be best understood in the context of the whole document. Its introductory paragraphs (following) will give you a sense of the questions it addresses and perhaps whet your appetite to read the whole: institution committed to conservative action and change �REPORTER 7 SCHOLARSHIP ••• SANTA FE TUTORS STUDY MODERN THOUGHT M ODERN TIM:ES BY TRAVIS DUNN o ,,he philosophy of the past 60 years is the focus of a w faculty study group on the Santa Fe campus. Created he fall of the 1994-95 school year, the Modern Times Study Group was made possible by the Schmidt Tutorship~a fund which alternates between the two campuses and normally allows for one tutor to have 1/3 release time for one year in order for the tutor to examine a text. Dean Van Luchene decided to break up the tutorship amongst four tutors over a two-year span and have each tutor lead this new study group for one semester. The tutors were to construct reading lists from 20th cenniry texts. "The dean thought it [the Schmidtt Tutorship] should have a thematic unity that it doesn't always have," said Santa Fe tutor Joshua Kates. Duringthe fall semester the group, led by Mr. Kates; focused on 20th century continental philosophy. Thi~ semester the group was led by John Cornell with the focus on philosophical anthropology. Ralph Sweritzell and Bruce Venable will each run the group for a semester next year, and their respective objects of study will be artificial intelligence and neurophysiology. "It might be good, as a faculty, to be aware of some of the more significant developments in the last 60 years or so," said Mr. Kates. The purpose of the study group is not explicitly to change the program or modernize it, he said, but rather to give tutors insight into developments in modern thought - and such insight may lead to new texts being considered as program material. "There is some common direction in 20th centu:ry thought that I think we're getting a glimpse of," faid Mr. Cornell. Last semester the group, led by Mr. Kates, studied the writings of Heidegger, Husserl and Derrida. "In those readings we were trying to get a sense of Heidegger's overall itinerary," said Mr. Kates. "We then turned to Husserl to see what he had to say about reason in history and finally to Derrida who writes about Husserl." Mr. Cornell began his segment with Marcel Mauss The Gift - "one of those rare texts in anthropology that tries to show something essential about all societies by looking at the ones that have been called primitive." The reading list for this semester also included writers like de Saussure and Levi-Strauss. Structural linguistics involves "looking beneath grammar to the way language is structured on another plane .... [Structuralism] is also an attack on the Cartesian subject which is the foundation of modern thought in the West....It makes a major statement about what human beings are." The authors the group has studied this semester are well-read in the Great Books, Mr. Cornell said. "Their discourse tends to be of a philosophical nature that gets to radical questions ... and therefore I think they have something in common with our texts ... although they were not recognized by many of my colleagues until we started this. So I think, in that respect, it's been well received by people because they recognize these are people who are doing social science-they're thinking about human questions with some new methods, but it's not like they're a bunch of specialists who are out of touch with what the grand tradition has been thinking about. There is a real community between some of these authors and the authors that we read." As an example, the Oedipus myth is brought up throughout readings on this semester's list, he said. The format of the study group basically is that of a normal seminar. "If it's like a seminar, it's like some of the hottest St. John's seminars because tutors see things at stake," Mr. Cornell said. "I think teachers will identif}r or oppose more vehemently the voices of their own centu:ry. One gets to see where tutors really livewhat they think is really important, how they read things, what they detest, what they hope for out of the life of the mind, and what they think the direction of the Great Books looks like in our century.. .I think it's fun." Ill READING L I S T SPRIN'G 1 9 9 5 MARCEL MAuss, THE GIFT FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE, COURSE IN GENERAL LINGUISTICS INTRO. (CH CH. 1, CH. 3 (SECS. 1-6); PT II: 3); PT. I: CHS. 3-5 CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS, "STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS IN LINGUISTICS AND ANTHROPOLOGY", FROM STRUCTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (BASIC BOOKS) PP. 31-51; AND GEORGES BATAILLE, "THE PROHIBITION OF INCEST", PT. 2 OF VOL. II OF THE ACCURSED SHARE (ZONE BOOKS) PP. 27-58 CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS, "THE STRUCTURAL STUDY OF MYTH 11 1 ANTHROPOLOGY, PP. FROM STRUCTURAL 206-230 SIGMUND FREUD, TOTFAI AND TABOO, CH. (SEC. 4), CH. 2 4 (SECS. 3-7) CLAUDE LEVI STRAUSS, TOT&UIS&I (BEACON 1-3, 15-32 PRESS), PP. (CH. 1, "THE TOTEMIC ILLUSION") AND RENE GIRARD, "VIOLENCE AND REPRESENTATION IN THE MYTHICAL TEXT", FROM To DOUBLE BUSINESS BOUND (JOHNS HOPKINS), PP. 178-197 CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS, THE SAVAGE MIND DEAN CONT. FROM PAGE 6 stability or slight growth in enrollment, even with higher tuition. As I will show, these grounds for hope have diminished, and two particularly ominous financial trends suggest that, while we are not in critical danger, we easily could be within a year or two if these trends are not broken. I will make the case for replacing "hopefulness" with a new mode that might be dubbed "self-reliant forethought" and suggest some new ways of thinking about Santa Fe. We alway.s have been an institution committed to conservative action and change only and after painstaking deliberation. But we have also traditionally prided ourselves on not only our willingness but our insistence on exploring even the most troublesome of serious issues to their very roots. With the future of the college at stake, we must muster our collective powers of intellect and imagination to explore eve:ry possibility that offers some promise for our future. Though there are any number of issues looming just over the horizon with respect to encroachment by outside agencies, demands for accountability, urgings toward multiculturalis~, attacks on the "canon," and so on, the two issues that press hardest now are first our problem of regularly spending more money than we take in, and, not completely independent of it, an alarming trend that has emerged over the last few years in financial aid, though its effects go further. The causes of these difficulties are largely national conditions of education and of the economy, though they manifest themselves in a peculiar way here. That the causes are larger than little St. John's should give us small comfort; it is up to us to solve them for ourselves if we can, for no one else is going to, and there is much in our favor. While large universities may be compelled to follow out the course on which they are determined, it should be possible for a small, dynamic, thoughtful college like St. John's to take greater charge in shaping its own future. Copied of the complete document may he requ&Jted from the Dean d Offi£e in Santa Fe at 505-984-6070. Ill (U. CHICAGO), CH. 1: "THE SCIENCE OF THE CONCRETE", PP. 1-33. MIRCEA ELIADE, "SENSE-EXPERIENCE AND MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE AMONG PRIMITIVES", FROM MYTHS, DREMIS, AND MYSTERIES (HARPER) I PP. 73-84 AND CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS, "THE SORCERER AND HIS MAGIC", FROM STRUCTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, PP. 167-184 CLAUDE LEVI~STRAUSS, TRISTES TROPIQUES, CHS. 20, 23: "A NATIVE SOCIETY AND ITS STYLE"; "THE LIVING AND THE DEAD" (PENGUIN 178-197, 230-246) �8 REPORTER JOHNNIES ATTEND AIR FORCE ASSEMBLY CAREY REVIEWS RADIATION STUDIES AT LOS ALAMOS Elizabeth Trice, SF97, and Aysha Massell, SF96, were the two St. John's College representatives chosen to attend the 37th annual Academy Assembly at the Air Force Academy in February. The three-day conference undertook the topic of "U.S. Intervention Policy in the PostCold War World." Over 80 colleges were represented, with approximately 40 percent of the participants having military affiliations. Even though they were the only liberal arts majors to attend, and "philosopher king" jokes were abundant, the St. John's name preceded them. Brigadier General Reuben A. Cuvero, dean of faculty at the Air Force Academy, approached the two Johnnies to express his admiration for the St. John's tradition, Ms. Trice said. Dr. Karl Walling, A84, a political science professor at the academy, said that even though he feels "a little out of place at the academy," he finds that he is "well appreciated for his ability to think creatively and ask questions that otherwise wouldn't arise." Iii BY LESLI ALLISON Santo Fe tutor Jim Corey recently was invited to join the Human Studies Project Team of Los Alamos National Laboratory as on ethical consultant. Reporter file photo. Ill Physiological studies in which scientists investigated new uses of radioactive tracers for studying physiological processes in the body, such as the metabolism of iron in blood formation. Such tests were forerunners of today's nuclear medicine. The most controversial of these studies involved the injection of west of Santa Fe, and within sight of St. John's plutonium into human subjects. "Workers are exposed to minute amounts of plutonium and the Hege, is Los Alamos National Laboratory, home of the question was, what is the rate at which it is excreted?" Mr. Carey atomic bomb. It was here that Oppenheimer and fellow said. "The studies focused on the excretion of plutonium, not on how scientists helped launch the world into the nuclear age. It is here, much damage plutonium can do to the body. Listening to the press, too, that much of the nation's nuclear research still is conducted. one could be led to believe that the plutonium was given to determine Once a gated and top secret community, Los Alamos has long been how much could be given before damage occurred. In fact, the people the target of rumors and the source of many a sensational headline. were given plutonium only to see how quickly it could be excreted Today, Los Alamos National Laboratory is again at the center from the body, and of course it was given in very small doses, in of a media maelstrom, this time for past radiation experiments conalmost every case the smallest amount that could be measured." ducted on human subjects. Headlines in local papers clamor about In terms of whether the individuals involved in these experiexperiments on dead fetuses, radiation injections into unsuspecting ments gave informed consent, Mr. Carey said there are some cases individuals and autopsies on deceased government workers. where gray areas exist. The stir is the result of the "Openness Initiative" announced by "It's not clear whether or not informed consent was given in all Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary in December of 1993. "The Cold of the cases, since informed consent used not to be obtained in writing." War is Over-We're Coming Clean" was her theme. Under this inihe said. "If indeed these people were exposed without informed consent, tiative, thousands of formerly classified documents were released to I think it was definitely wrong, but it wasn't the egregious, Frankenstein the public. Ensuing media reports focused on documents revealing experiment that it's been made out to have been." past radiation experiments on human subjects, and allegations that While he did write a paper for the team on rationalism and scientists had acted unethically in conducting these experiments. ethics, and learned more about At Los Alamos, The the labs as a result of his Human Studies Project Team involvement, he said the main was created to locate, review and thing he carried away was a deeprelease documents pertaining to end mistrust of the media the radiation studies. Santa Fe "I learned more about the tutor Jim Carey was invited to s not clear whether press than anything," he said. join the team as one of two ethi"When I would see what the cal consultants. Other team or not informed consent was given in all of the team was doing and then I members primarily are senior would read articles in the press, cases. indeed these people were exposed laboratory officials. I came away with the sense that "Our role was to be prewithout informed consent, I think it was definitely the press was much more intersent at the weekly meetings to ested in what their readers, with offer advice when it was needed wrong, but it wasn't the egregious, Frankenstein their insatiable craving for enteron anything pertaining to ethical want to read. matters," Mr. Carey said. "We experiment that it's been made out to have been." tainment, would the truth, if it The concern for also were supposed to bring the wasn't lurid, was not very high. perspective of informed citizens The content that was worthy to the project." didn't get much attention at all, According to fact sheets whereas an unsubstantiated alleissued by the team, the biomedgation would get front center attention. It's unlikely ical research conducted at Los Alamos National that the public could be educated on an issue as comLaboratories from the 194 Os through the 1960s plex as this through the press. Someone once said consisted of four primary categories: 'News is the first draft of history' but it's an unbalanced draft." Iii Bioassay studies to measure specific types of radiation in urine, He continued to add, however, that while the media may be at feces, and other biological samples for materials such as plutonium fault for preferring the sensational to the substantive, the general and tritium public is even more to blame. II The development of radiation detectors for radiation monitoring "I would suspect the problem isn't so much with the press as Ill Dosimetry calibration in which scientists studied how the body with the public, whose purient curiosity is tempered only by laziabsorbs, retains and distributes internally the various radionuclides ness." he said. "For instance, an enormous number of documents needed for radiation dosimetry. Most of this work was done in aniwas released directly to the public. One place they were made mals, but some stud~es involved low doses to people to verify that available was in the reading room at the Santa Fe Public Library, the animal results were applicable to humans. These studies were and, according what we were told several months after the release, considered especially important in assessing the risk from fallout only one person had bothered to peruse that material." II after atmospheric weapons tests. "fj;, STUDENTS AWARDED AMBASSADORIAL, SCHOLARSHIPS Sara Harris, a student in the Graduate Program in Eastern Classics, and Rebecca Amaral, SF96, have each received an Ambassadorial Scholarship from the Rotary International Foundation. The award of approximately $21,000 will cove,r transportation, tuition and living expenses for graduate study abroad. The award is given annually to 1500 applicants nationwide. Ms. Harris, who currently holds a B.A. in East Asian studies from Oberlin, intends to study next year at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. The focus of her studies will be international communications. Originally from Brenham, Texas, Ms. Amaral will studyliterature and writing in Great Britain. II If �REPORTER GUIDING THE WAY TO REAL SCIENCE translation and provided commentary. Also in the works are volumes on Newton's Principia and three papers by Maxwell on the electromagnetic field (chosen and with commentary by tutor Thomas Simpson). Mr. Flaumenhaft himself is working on one on Ptolemy and Copernicus and another on early and modern geometry, including Apollonius and Descartes. LTiutor Harvey Flaumenhaft is working on a series of guidebooks to help reluctant science readers IN THE BEGINNING WERE THE NOTEBOOKS Q r some people, reading science can be like trying to gure out all the positions of the various sides in the Bosnia conflict -- or even like going to the dentist twice a year; it's something you think you should do but for lack of time or compelling motivation you just don't get to it. Annapolis tutor Harvey Flaumenhaft has a solution. For those who think they should read the scientists that have been important in the history of thought~ Newton, Copernicus, Descartes, Aristotle, Ptolemy~but don't, he has designed guidebooks. As series editor of the "Masterworks of Discovery" his mission is to make real science accessible. Mr. Flaumenhaft has :found that many people are eager to understand the scientific works that form the underpinnings of our thought. The key is to make the works less formidable, and that is what he has done in the "Masterworks of Discovery" books. "I think of them as available both to people who are utterly naive about science and to people who have advanced degrees. Instead of taking the current state of the art and running with it, they want to have some notion of where their starting points originated," he said. Each"Masterworks" volume~softcover, about 150 pages, and published by Rutgers University Press~contains portions of text, commentary, explanations of terms, diagrams, and background on the scientist. The first one, Gregor Mendei'J &cperimentJ on Plant HybriJJ, by Alain F. Corcos and Floyd V Monaghan, came out in 1992. Next was Newton'J Opticd by Dennis Sepper. Joe Sachs, another tutor in Annapolis, has prepared a volume on Aristotle's PhyJicJ which will be ready for publication soon. He's done a fresh The idea for the series came from several sources. Mr. Flaumenhaft participated in a panel to advise the National Endowment for the Humanities. A joint program with the National Science Foundation to foster studies that included bioethics and values clarification was near an end, and the NEH wanted ideas about how to continue linking the humanities with science. "I suggested that they might get people to write guidebooks to help those who were not experts but, nevertheless, wanted to read the great works in science," Mr. Flaumenhaft said. "Then I got a phone call from John Agresto [who is now president of the Santa Fe campus but was then acting director of NEH] saying they thought the guidebooks were right on target, and would I be interested in taking charge of such a thing. My first thought was that it was crazy, but my second thought was that you just don't walk away from such a project." In fact, Mr. Flaumenhaft had been keeping notebooks with questions and comments on the tutorials he taught at St. John's. He had a lot of material that he felt related to the project. "In teaching at St. John's, I was in a situation where it was expected that people who were not specialists could read the scientific texts and get something out of it. The classes here are part of a successful on-going experiment in reading these works," he said. That he taught at St. John's was a major help in setting up the series. In 1987, Mr Flaumenhaft accepted a grant from NEH that freed him from class time so that he could line up writers and a publisher. Karen Reeds, an editor at Rutgers University Press, contacted him about Rutgers handling the series. "She was very enthusiastic, very intelligent, with a doctorate in the history of science and an active professional life in the field," said Mr. Flaumenhaft. CONT. ON PAGE 20 The association has worked well. 9 HOMECOMING JULY 2JL = 23 KN SANTA FE o ,.,he classes of '70, '75, '80, 85, '90 and Graduate Institute alumni have seminars, picnics, dancing, hiking and more planned for a memorable Homecoming weekend. All alumni are invited! SUMMER ALUMNK PROGRAM JULY JL6 28 = In Week One of the Summer Alumni Program, Focw on the VuuaL ArtJ (July 16 - 21), alumni will have the opportunity to explore the visual arts as they have the great books. Week Two, P(}LiticaL PhiloJophy: Pa.Jt and Pruent (July 23 - 28), will include discussion of international relations and American politics. Distinguished speaker and scholar, Thomas E. Mann, director of the Governmental Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, will give the opening lecture for Week Two, "American Politics: Is It Everything the Founders Envisioned It Would Be?" Detailed information is included in the Homecoming and Summer Alumni Program brochure sent to all alumni. If you have not received a brochure or would like further information, please contact the Santa Fe Alumni Office at 505-984-6109. la �10 REPORTER PATHS?~ POST BACCALAUREATE BLUES? COMMENTARY BY LESLI ALLISON NAME: John Agresto POSITION: President, Santa Fe Campus COLLEGE: Boston College MAJOR: Political Science WHAT DID YOU WANT TO DO? I didn't know. I thought I wanted to teach. DID YOU EXPECT TO BE ACOLLEGE PRESIDENT?: Don't be silly. HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO GET ON YOUR PERMANENT CAREER PATH? I went to graduate school immediately and it's been a straight academic path ever since. ANY REGRETS?: "Regrets? I have a few. But then again, too few to mention." NAME: John Schroeder POSITION: Secretary, Public Relations COLLEGE: St. John's University MAJOR: Government WHAT DID YOU WANT TO DO? Originally I wanted to go into politics, but now I'll probably end up teaching. DID YOU IMAGINE YOU WOULD ONE DAY WORK IN APUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE? No. If you had told me when I was in college that I'd be working in public relations, I would have said you were a fool. HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO GET ON YOUR PERMANENT CAREER PATH? I'm not there yet. Had I not been here, I certainly wouldn't be getting a master's in liberal arts, I'd be more focused in my studies. This is a detour. ANY REGRETS? No. NAME: Jennifer Chenoweth POSITION: Director of Placement, SF COLLEGE: Kansas City Art Institute MAJOR: Fine Art WHAT DID YOU WANT TO DO? I knew I wanted to be in academia. I wanted to go to graduate school and I wanted to be a teacher, but I didn't know if I could do it. DID YOU IMAGINE YOU WOULD ONE DAY BE APLACEMENT DIRECTOR? Heck no. HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO GET ON YOUR PERMANENT CAREER PATH? I've been out four years. I think in part I'm building the foundations for a career. ANY REGRETS? No. (!) n the surface, our messages compete. One publication In a follow-up interview to the NooMoon article, Ms. designed to attract students to St. John's tells you we Chenoweth explained that comparing the transition period for St. are among the top schools in the nation in the percentJohn's students with the transition period cited by other schools is age of graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D. Another publication actually like comparing apples and oranges. tells you a liberal arts education is the best career preparation of "I think other schools are just looking at whether their graduall. But a third and seemingly contradictory position often found in ates are employed or not," she said. "What we're looking at is the time it takes them to find their primary career path. Other schools college publications tells you just the opposite: We deliberately do NOT prepare our students for a career or for graduate study. are not measuring the transition time in terms of quality." An informal survey of several other liberal arts colleges conIt's not difficult to reconcile these messages. While the St. John's program is not career-oriented, it does, in fact, provide stufirmed that when these schools keep statistics on their alumnidents with essential skills for the future. This has been documented which few seem to do-they determinethe length of the transition by studies of alumni career paths and by reports on the skills necperiod based on full-time employment rather than the attainment of essary to succeed in a variety of fields - skills such as analytical a professional career or path. thinking, careful listenAccording to Ms. ing and communication. Chenoweth, if we use Despite these studthe standard measure ies, however, there is a of transition time, St. John's compares favorperception among some ably to other colleges. In students, alumni and fact, an October 1994 other members of the is tempting these days to believe that article in Cow?Jeling college community that specialization is the key to future success, but we think that is exactly wrong. True, for a St. John's education Today cited a survey in many students required courses-even in the major field-are a nuisance tolerated as a which St. John's was doesn't adequately premeans to the end of the diploma that wins the job that begins the career. For these rated among the top five pare and can even students a college education is, at best, an introduction to some technical knowledge, colleges and universities unprepare students for in the nation in terms of the working world. And, most of which will be re-learned on the job, along with all the things never learned in the likelihood of its the thinking continues, college that make up the substance of professional life. The professions themselves graduates finding a good while this is an unfortugrounded as they are in what we casually refer to as "the real world" -sometimes job after graduation. nate consequence of a denigrate the very pre-professional graduates drawn to the field: ad agencies don't want In addition, the pure liberal arts educaadvertising majors; newspapers and magazines won't hire journalism graduates. 1994 Money Magazine tion, the sacrifice is §t GuiJe to Col!egeJ found worth the gain. that only 27% of all Perhaps this perWe don't mean to dismiss the importance of specific knowledge. Far from it. But, college graduates go ception stems from forgetting for the moment the aura that often surrounds a technical degree from an elite on to pursue advanced the college's repeated university, companies in most fields are looking for well-rounded employees; people study. By comparison, emphasis on the purwho can read and understand, organize and analyze, plan and execute. 74% of St. John's pose of its liberal graduates pursue arts curriculum as educa-The National &view College GuiJe advanced study with tional, not vocational. up to 70% of those Nevertheless, it appears earning Ph.D.s. to be a largely unfounded In a 1993 study by perception and one possithe Higher Education bly detrimental to our Data Sharing college community. Consortium, St. John's ranked in the top 10% of all American colIn a recent edition of the Santa Fe student newspaper, NooMoon, leges and universities in terms of the percentage of its graduates an article on changes in the work-study program gave an alarming comparison. It said that according to Santa Fe placement director who earn doctoral degrees. Karen Holland, director of placement in Annapolis, said most Jennifer Chenoweth, Johnnies have a five- to ten-year gap between graduation and starting a career, whereas other institutions claim a St. John's graduates go to graduate school within three to five years. She also said that most recent graduates get entry-level jobs one- to three-year transition period. with an average salary of about $18,000. And, within five to ten "The impression I've always had is that it takes Johnnies years "our graduates do spectacularly well and get great jobs," she longer to get into the real world in terms of employment or a career," said Travis Dunn, a sophomore in Santa Fe. "From everysaid. "They do everything you can imagine." Why then, if St. John's has such a high success rate among its thing I've heard, though, St. John's alumni eventually go on to really good jobs. I never thought St. John's prepared one for getting a graduates do some Johnnies end up waiting tables or driving taxis? According to the U.S. New,1 and World Report 1995 Guide to career immediately. I think that's probably the general perception." On further examination, however, it appears the notion that College,1, fewer than 20% of all college graduates have secured fulltime employment of any kind by graduation. As it turns out, it's not St. John's graduates are at a disadvantage in the job market or at all unusual for recent graduates from any college_ or university to entering graduate programs has little, if any, factual support. �REPORTER 11 an incremental pay scale. want to take time off, to travel or to work in a non-professional or "There are some skills that are easy to give them, like resume entry-level job while considering the future. In fact, it may be good writing, but they need more than that," he said. "They need the to take some time off. underlying attitude, the confidence. That's why it's good to provide "I think some transition time is a very healthy thing," Ms. solid on-campus jobs for them which offer both criticism and Chenoweth said. "There are some things in life you can only do when rewards. We want to give them experience in job situations. That you're just out of college, like travel, be a little bit irresponsible, and will give them a sense of familiarity with the world of work and help experiment with jobs and with different parts of the country." take away that sense that it's unknown and scary or frightening." Despite the favorable studies, surveys and the notion that some This focus, however, is relatively new at St. John's and one drifting after graduation is healthy, the issue of the St. John's transiwhich continues to be met by some resistance in the college commution period has lately entered the limelight. Students on campus connity. Simply put, some believe that concerns about things unrelated tinue to debate the merits and shortcomings of the St. John's educato the academic program can be distracting at best and destructive to tion in terms of its value in the job market. And alumni and the colthe New Program at worst. lege administration have continued to emphasize the need for "I think just the opposite," expanded career counseling services. Mr. Van Luchene said. "You If St. John's compares so don't want students to be workfavorably against other schools in ing more than 10 - 12 hours per this respect, why such concern? week, but on the other hand, for And why does the perception them to have an appropriate job remain that students here may be helps them with their studies disadvantaged in the job market? B INDIVIDUAL EXIT INTERVIEWS WITH DIRECTOR OF because it develops a certain kind According to Mr. Van PLACEMENT FOR EACH SENIORIN SPRING of discipline. A successful work Luchene, self-confidence and familexperience can also help with iarity with the environment of the II REQUIRED MEETING OF SENIORSWITH DEAN AND some of the personal and psychoworking world are important for DIRECTOR OF PLACEMENT IN THE FALL logical problems we see in sturecent graduates as they make their Bl ALUMNI OUTREACH PROGRAM TO RECENT dents because it contributes to way in "the real world." Since St. GRADUATING CLASSES things like self-esteem." John's students occupy a fairly While a lack of self-confidence insulated, protected environment B NETWORK OF ALUMNI AVAILABLE TO ASSIST RECENT GRADUATES WITH CAREERAND TRANSITION ADVICE and "real-world" experience may for four years, they may feel less plague some students at St. John's, prepared for the "push and shove" 8 COUNSELING AND PLANNING ASSISTANCE FOR the overall picture remains favorworld outside than students who STUDENTS AND ALUMNI able: Johnnies get jobs and go to attend larger institutions, he said. II GRADUATE SCHOOLAPPLICATION ASSISTANCE graduate school at a rate compara"Some students leave thinking ble to or better than students at that getting back to St. John's 8 RECRUITING ON CAMPUS BY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYERS, other institutions. College is what they should be BUSINESSES AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS The supposition that Johnnies striving for, but we don't mean for II MEETINGS WITH STUDENTS REGARDING MEDICINE, LAW, are less prepared than other stuit to be that sort an oasis," Santa Fe EDUCATION, JOURNALISM AND COMPUTER SCIENCE dents for the "real world," theredean Steve Van Luchen said. "It's a fore, is misleading. It's also dannecessary feature of the life of the Bl WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTSON GRANT~WRIT1NG, gerous. It is dangerous because it college. But we can't let them forSCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS, WRITING, AND gives students and alumni a false get about the world, so we need to TEACHING ENGLISH ABROAD perception of themselves, of the give some constant attention to that Bl CURRENT INFORMATION ON JOBS, INTERNSHIPS AND merits of their education and of all the way along. That's a little bit VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES the college. It contributes to the different from when I came to the myth that St. John's has "spoiled" college. We now believe we have a Bl ·NEWSLETTERWITH ARTICLES, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES AND COMPETITIONS its students, unfitted them in serious obligation to make that some way for fruitful employment transition period a little more proThis information was submitted by the Placement Office in Santa and future success. In some cases, ductive. That's why we have the Fe. Similar programs are conducted by the Annapolis Placement this can become a self-fulfilling placement director involved with Office. For further information~ contact the Placement Office in prophecy as new graduates them early on, so the transition Santa·Fe at(505) 984-6066,.orinAnnapolis at (410) 263-2371. approach employers without from the life of the college to the confidence. Finally, it can lead to world can be more seamless. a suspicion among recent graduates that somehow, people who For this reason, Mr. Van Luchene and Ms. Chenoweth are went to other schools have skills and attributes that Johnnies didn't implementing several changes to the work-study program on camget. This is false. Take it from an Ivy League English major: Out in pus. The maximum amount of hours students can work will be the job market we're shooting from the hip, just like you. increased from 10 to 12. Work-study positions also will allow for increased levels of responsibility and, accordingly, will now have STUDENT/ALUMNI. SERVICES PROVIDED BYTHE PlACEMENlOFFlfE nm a NAME: Lesli Allison POSITION: Director of Communications COLLEGE: Columbia University MAJOR: English WHAT DID YOU WANT TO DO? Write, photojournalism, ranch, adventure DID YOU IMAGINE YOU WOULD ONE DAY BE APUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR? Absolutely not. I still can't believe it. HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO GET ON YOUR PERMANENT CAREER PATH? It's been eight years since I graduated and I'm not on it yet. I don't know that I ever will be. ANY REGRETS? Not really. I sometimes wish I had majored in physics, and I do wish I'd had the quality of education our undergraduates here receive. NAME: Nick Giacona POSITION: Director of Prospect Management and Research COLLEGE: UCLA MAJOR: Psychobiology WHAT DID YOU WANT TO DO? Medical research, studying mind/body relationships. I actually did it for a couple of years afterward and that's when I decided I didn't want to do medical research. DID YOU IMAGINE YOU WOULD ONE DAY BE ADIRECTOR OF PROSPECT MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH? Never. I think when I was in college, my career didn't exist. HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO GET ON YOUR PERMANENT CAREER PATH? I graduated in '79 and I started doing research in '82, but I didn't really get serious until '85, so a good six years. ANY REGRETS? None. It was a circuitous route, but I'm happy about the way it turned out and I wouldn't change it. I think I found the right calling for my instincts. I just had to wait for my career to evolve. NAME: Larry Clendenin POSITION: Director of Admission COLLEGE: St. John's College MAJOR: Not applicable WHAT DID YOU WANT TO DO? Be a college president DID YOU IMAGINE YOU WOULD ONE DAY BE ADIRECTOR OF ADMISSION? No HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO GET ON YOUR PERMANENT CAREER PATH? Two years. ANY REGRETS? No. II �I see that St. John's is abolishing the French Reading Knowledge Exam as a condition for entering the senior year. I think you should keep the exam, if not as a requirement, then as a TARGET-a recommended level which students should TRY to achieve. You say that some students do well in language class yet are unable to pass the exam. Do you think some of those who do well in class may have difficulty using French out in the world after graduation? I say give them the exam anyway; the experience won't hurt and may encourage them to work on their language some more and to begin to realize that there is a lot of French to be met outside the comfortable walls of the classroom. THE ST. JOHN'S-HOMESCHOOL CONNECTION BY BARBARA GOYETTE there a connection between the type of education fered at St. John's and the homeschooling movement? veral of the current students on the Annapolis campus were taught at home (see profiles on pages 13 and 21), and a number of alumni, formulating their own theories about how children learn, have kept their children out of traditional schools and are working with them at home. Nationwide, between 650,000 and one million children are taught at home, according to estimates by homeschooling groups. Reasons for homeschooling differ widely. Some Christian fundamentalist families want their children to have religion as the focus of their learning. Some homeschooling parents think children learn -Daniel H Daniel! Beth Kuper's letter about her "unseminar" struck a sore point with me, too. When I attended the Graduate Institute I had already done two master's degrees and was self-employed in my own management development business. As an undergraduate I had won regional and national contests in intercollegiate debate and group discussion. St. John's seminar format looked inviting and easy. During my first summer, after a stormy exchange, the tutor, John White, suggested I meet with him for coffee and a little private discourse. "Mr. Snyder," he said, "stop dominating the seminar. You' re preventing others from exploring their own ideas." He shocked me speechless, but he helped me listen, ponder, and gain new ideas from other bright minds. The process was not so easy after all. By the end of my second summer, I could listen for an endless 25 minutes (wow!) before I jumped into the flow. I don't think I'd have attended any "prep course" on how to do seminars, if one had been offered. I didn't think I needed it at first. The intellectual experience had to hit me, just like the classic texts. Would Beth have been interested in a prep course on how to study Plato, much less how to discuss it? St. John's group discussion process is truly complex. Perhaps an analysis and self-critique after a session or two would be valuable and maybe less painful than your tutor's counsel. -Joel J. Snyder, SG/85 Ill something that truly interests and inspires them-and this can be better attempted at home than in a classroom. "My primary reason for choosing to homeschool my children came from watching them," said Janet Nelson Berggren, A72, who lives in Evanston, Illinois. "I wanted to preserve the sense of joy in learning and curiosity children have at a young age." She's working with Charlie, who's in first grade, trying to integrate history, geography, math and language skills into whatever they decide to study. Recently, for example, Charlie developed an interest in knights and castles when they read about King Arthur. Anne Glenn Cruse, A76, takes a similar approach with her daughter, Emma, who is five. "Living is learning," Anne said. "There are opportunities for children all the time; we ruin it when we put them into buildings and require that they all study the same things at the same time." Recently she and Emma watched their cat stalk a bird, then learned all about the bird, including its name, what it eats, where it migrates. Emma has learned about weight and measurement from studying horses, and SOOfi: she will start riding lessons. Janel Nelson Berggren, A72, with her son, Charlie, at Homecoming. Janet homeschools Charlie. and tries to nurture his "tremendous capacity to learn." Photo by Keith Harvey. best when they are pursuing what interests them. Some parents hope to cover more academic ground than traditional schools do. Homeschools range from the highly regimented to the completely unstructured; some use prepared curricula, others look for unconventional teaching methods. Homeschooling is legal in every state, although regulations governing it vary considerably. St. John~s seems to attract independent-minded students who have been homeschooled. According to Admissions director John Christensen, homeschooled students are asked to submit either GED results or scores from standardized tests, just like other applicants who do not have a high school diploma. Three alumni who homeschool their children share an opinion about education: Those who take responsibility for their own learning get the most out of it. And all three homeschooling alumni expressed the same thought about sending their children to "regular" school: Children will learn best when they are working on "I don't feel that people who send their children to school are wrong. This is a personal decision for us," says Laurie Richardson Cavanaugh, A83. She homeschools her son, Patrick, who is seven, and she'll work with her two other children Molly (5) and Althea (3) when they are ready. When Laurie thought about her children going off to school all day, she realized that she would be delegating their education to others - and also that she would be missing all the fun. Patrick loves math and science, and Laurie and her hus- �that only experts have the answers." Because she doesn't feel that band Steve worried that the elementary schools tended to emphasize language arts. They didn't want Patrick to become disenchanttraditional schools can provide such opportunities, she calls herself an "unschooler." ed with learning because of school. Laurie Cavanaugh considers herself a tutor or facilitator rather None of the Johnnie homeschoolers are following a prepared curriculum; only Laurie Cavanaugh, who lives in Wilmington, than a teacher. Her broad-based St. John's background, which covDelaware, has to submit curriculum guidelines to her local school. ered all disciplines, makes Laurie more confident about helping her In Maryland, where Anne and Bryant Cruse, A73, live, parchildren to follow their interests. ents who homeschool must have their program checked by the Janet Berggren agrees. She comes from a quintessential St. local school, or they can join a satellite school, an organization that John's family (she, her father, and her brothers all went to St. John's, and her brother Chris is now president in Annapolis). provides resources for homeschoolers. Anne has joined a group in Janet thinks the notion of taking Annapolis that is orientresponsibility for learning is the ed toward people with link between St. John's and her philosophy, which homeschooling, and she says, "In was influenced by John homeschooling, you are trusting Taylor Gatto, a teacher that your children have the abiliin the New York public ty and desire to learn. It's similar schools who writes to the St. John's notion that stuabout the evils of tradidents can tackle the readings tional schooling, and by John Holt, the educaand have the ability to discuss tional guru whose Teach and learn from them. Your Own is a classic among homeschoolers. Illinois law treats homeschools like private schools, so Janet Berggren must cover certain subject areas with her children, but by Su,J]an Bordan she does not need to Emily Murphy, A95, began submit tests or progress Christy Mcflroy A97 and sister Charissa Mcflroy benefitted from homeschooling as children. her homeschooling in fourth reports. She also cites See story page 21. grade when she and her parents John Holt as an influsought a better education for her, one that would capitalize on her ence on her decision to homeschool, and adds David and Micki special talents without dwelling on her academic weaknesses. Colfax's Home..!Choolingfor EwelLence and Nancy Wallace's Better Than An early reader (she started reading at age 2), Emily was Schooling to the list. already writing in complete sentences by the time she entered first Anne, Janet and Laurie all take their children to the library, to grade. Her handwriting, however, was terrible. Her teachers, museums and on field trips. The usual trapping of elementary uncertain what to do with Emily the precocious student, focussed on schools-textbooks, worksheets and tests-may or may not be Emily with the atrocious handwriting. One teacher, upon discoverused. But another ingredient of regular school is essential-playing ing that Emily's math abilities lagged behind her language skills, frewith other children. One of the big questions for homeschoolers is quently used this discrepancy as an opportunity to berate her. When how to provide opportunities for socialization for their children. the Murphy family moved to Homeschooling networks or groups can be part of the answer. Connecticut in 1981, they decided Often homeschoolers with differing philosophies and children of to try homeschooling. different ages can band together for activities; Janet Berggren's At first, Emily's experiences group, for example, holds weekly gym and nature classes. For in school led her to refuse to do Anne Cruse, finding a group that jibes with her own philosophyany math or writing. "I wouldn't in which education hinges on exploration rather than regimentaeven write my own name," she tion- has been important. says. Her father worked with her Laurie Cavanaugh said she thinks homeschooling goes along to overcome her writing problem, with the St. John's philosophy of not dwelling on testing and spending an hour each evening grades. She's interested in developing a great books program for taking dictation from Emily. her children and would like to hear from other St. John's alumni When that method became too who are homeschooling. She and Steve talk with other homeschoolers slow for her, she took up the pen on the Internet, where Laurie reports that St. John's is mentioned and their focus turned to editing. as a good college for homeschooled students. (Laurie's e-mail Her math aversion was cured address is: Lauriel030@aol.com.) when, after some shopping The alumni interviewed for this article shared similar goals around, she found amath textand methods in their quest to provide education for their children. book she was comfortable with. All allow their children's interests to dictate what they study-at Emily Murphy, A95 Although math and writing least at this early point in their homeschooling experience. And were struggles, Emily had no they agree that their background as St. John's students gives them problems with history and English literature. "I've always been a confidence to act as teachers. Anne Cruse, for example, remembers that at St. John's she voracious reader of history," she said. "And my mother has a maslearned best the things that she figured out for herself. Anne wants ter's in English and my father has a PhD, so my parents just put out her daughter to be able to think independently; she wants her "out their Norton Anthologies and we'd study that." CONT. ON PAGE21 of a system that rewards dependence and passivity and teaches you II m STUDENT PROFILE: EMILY MURPHY LIBERALARTS FOR MATURE LEARNERS "A lot of the students sitting around the seminar table could be my grandchildren," Annapolis Graduate Institute student Robert Gamble said. "It was a little awkward at first, but soon I felt I fit right into the discussions." Mr. Gamble, who is 84 and lives in Annapolis, applied to the Graduate Institute at his wife's urging. He's the oldest student ever to enroll. Mr. Gamble graduated from the Naval Academy in engineering and worked in industry for many years. He did management work for a trucking company and a farm machinery company, and he was also involved with labor relations. "I never had the opportunity to experience this kind of liberal arts education. The St. John's Graduate Institute is such an unusual course," he said. Studying the philosophy and theology segment is interesting, Mr. Gamble said, because he can explore the beliefs of other thinkers. And he praised the expertise of the tutors and the discussion format of the classes, where he contributes to the give and take of ideas. Older people can be a good market for the Graduate Institute, Mr. Gamble said. "Instead of disliking learning, they feel they would like some more. There's a sort of a vacuum that education fills."B , TUTORS TO TEACH SUMMER COURSES Laurence Berns and Gisela Berns, both tutors in Annapolis, will teach courses this summer at The Clearing, a rustic retreat in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin. Mr. Berns' class, titled "Human Nature, Eating, and Ethics," will use as text The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Pe1fecting of Our . Nature by Leon Kass. Dr. Kass, a physician, teaches philosophy and literature at the University of Chicago and formerly taught at St. John's. Mr. Berns hopes to explore "how our biological make-up sets the conditions for our spiritual, social and ethical lives." Mrs. Berns will teach a class titled "The Romantic Imagination: Nature as Expression of the Human Heart." Poems by different authors (Shakespeare, Keats, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens) will be examined in light of their sensibilities about nature as an expression of the human heart. Their classes run July 23-29. For information on The Clearing, contact: P.O. Box 65, Ellison Bay, WI 54210. B �14 REPORTER Spring 1995 St. John's College Alumni Association News Glenn Ballard, 868, editor - Thomas Geyer, A68, communications committee chair ELECTION NOTICES Election of Alumni Representatives to the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors. In accordance with Article VIII, section II of the By-Laws of the St. John's College Alumni Association, notice is hereby given that the following alumni have been nominated by the Alumni Association Board of Directors for election to the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors. For his second term: STEWART GREENFIELD, A53, Westport, CT Military Service, 1953-55; Founder and CEO, Oak Investment Partners, 1974-90; Vice President and General Partner, Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, 19717 4; Director, National Venture Capital Association; Board member, Nature Conservancy; Trustee, Nature Center, Westport, CT; Member, St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, 1993 - . For her second term: ANNE L. LANE, SGl84, Santa Fe, NM B.A., Political Science, George Washington University, 1966; Civilian Employee Relations, Kirkland Air Force Base, 1968-78; Post-graduate course work toward a Ph.D. in Classical Philosophy, 1985-87, University of New Mexico; Volunteer leader of honors seminars, Albuquerque Public High Schools, 1987-91; Substitute teacher, Bernalillo Public School System, Sandoval County, NM; Member, St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, 1993For her first term: DR. SUSAN M. FERRON, SF77, Marine-on-St. Croix, MN Post-Baccalaureate, University of Minnesota, 198082, 1990-94; M.D., Mayo Medical School, 1986; Residency in Internal Medicine, Mayo CONT. ON PAGE 15 WHO PAYS THEIR ASSOCIATION DUES? 1994 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Sharon Bishop, President 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% PERCENT OF ALUMNI DUES PAYERS BY YEAR 25 _••••••••••••••• i7. ................... '2.q 19 .••••••••••••••'..?~ ~L-------------- ~------ll 9 1 '"' 9 10 92 93 94 u 5% n earlier annual reports, we focused on the committees and operations of the Alumni Association Board (1993) and on what we do with the dues (1992). This year, we thought it would be interesting to look at "who" pays their Association dues. I Association Members vs. Members in Good Standing First, ALL alumni are members of the St. John's College Alumni Association (SJCAA), whether they pay their dues or not. The bylaws of the Association define alumni as all who have been awarded a degree by the College and all who have completed at least one semester of undergraduate study or at least one segment of Graduate Institute Study (after their entering class would have graduated}. Further, "all who have ever been alumni shall continue to be." To be a member of the SJCAA "in good standing," however, requires that current Association dues are paid. Being a member in good standing means that the alumnus/a is entitled to cast one vote in person or by proxy at any Association meeting. From the by-laws: "A member who current dues are unpaid is not in good standing and may not vote at any meeting, in person or by proxy." What The Dues Are Annual Association dues in 1994 were $30.00 for members of the classes of 1984 and earlier, $7.50 for members of the classes of 1985 to 1993, and free for members of the class of 1994. Dues are free for members of each year's graduating class. Association dues have not increased since l 989. Reportedly, some members are confused between Association dues and contributions to the College. A financial contribution to the College, while extremely worthwhile, does not constitute payment of Association dues or render a member in good standing with the Association. The Association is an independently chartered organization which keeps its own separate accounts and files with the IRS as a non-profit organization. The College provides financial support for alumni activities but does not give the Association any money. All Association funds come directly from alumni. In the event that an alumnus/ a sends the Association more money than is required for the dues (which happens periodically), the Association assumes that the overage was intended as a contribution to the College and transfers that amount to the College's Annual Fund. The result is that you can send money to the Association intended for the College, and it will get there, but you can't send money to the College intended for the Association. 1994 Dues Income and Payers In 1994, the Association received $30,349.45 from 1,433 members, representing approximately 17 percent of the 8,240 alumni for whom the Association has valid addresses. Over the last four years, the actual number of alumni paying dues has increased substantially: from 1,256 in 1991 to 1,433 in 1994. The overall percentage of alumni paying dues has, however, remained fairly constant: 17 percent in-1991 and 17 percent in 1994. The reason for this apparent anomaly is that the total number of alumni with valid addresses has also increased substantially: from 7,433 in 1991 to 8,240 in 1994, partially as a result of graduating classes and partially as a result of College efforts to find "lost" alumni. 0% 91 - - - Non Grads AN + SF ••••••••• Graduates AN + SF - - - All Alumni Overall, a much higher percentag~ of alumni who are graduates (23%) pay dues than nongraduates (10%). Also, alumni of the undergraduate program (19%) are more likely to pay Associates dues than alumni of the Graduate lnstlh.Jte (13%). Dues Payers By Decade . _. _ On a percentage basis, the DecClcf~ 'of the Forties are the most stalwart supporters of the Alumni Association: fully one third (33%) of alumni from this decade paid their 1994 Association dues. They are followed by the Decade of the Fifties with 29%, and the Decade of the Thirties with 27%, of their members paying dues. Interestingly, these "older" decades, as well as the Decade of the Twenties (which only. has 49 alumni remaining}, all have a higher percentage of dues-paying alumni than any more recent decade. For the Annapolis Decades of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, the percentage of duespayers i~ fairly consistent, ranging only from 20-22%. For the comparable Santa Fe Decades, the range is much greater: 23% of the Decades of the Sixties are duespayers, compared to only 11-13% of the Decades of the Seventies and Eighties. Our most recent alumni {the Decade of the Nineties) have the lowest percentage of duespayers: only 16% from Annapolis classes and 11 % from Santa Fe. ALUMNI DUES PAYERS BY CLASS DECADE (UNDERGRADUATE CLASSES ONLY) A 1920'• 1930'1 1940'• 19SO'I SP 1960'1 A SP 1970'1 A SF 1980'1 A SF 1990'1 Dues Payers By Class Year For some unknown reason, the percentage of alumni who are dues payers varies significantly by class year. Some classes have a fairly high percentage of dues payers while other adjacent classes have a fairly low percentage. For example, the Annapolis Class of 1962 has the highest percentage of dues payers (32%), while the Class of 1961 has the lowest percentage (13%) in the Decade of the Sixties. The Santa Fe Class of l 977 has twice the percentage of dues payers (20%) compared to the Santa Fe Class of 1976 (10%). To the 1,433 alumni who paid their 1994 dues; THANK YOU! We hope you will continue to support the Association. To the 6,807 alumni who did not pay their 1994 dues: we hope you will become an Association member in good standing with the payment of your 1995 dues. Just think how much stronger the Ill Association could be with financial support from all alumni! �REPORTER NEW YORK CHAPTER VIEWS THE THAW COLLECTION BY MICHAEL DAVID BLUME A78 n Thursday, December 29th of the year just passed, on a mild ofternoon punctuated by chilly gusts of wind, some two dozen alumni and friends of the College congregated at the Pierpont Morgan Library to attend a docent-led tour of the collection of master drawings assembled by Eugene Thaw, an alumnus of the class of '46. They came from Trenton, New Jersey, and Rockland County, New York, as well as various sections of New York City, braving holiday traffic and the first stirrings of rush hour, to converge at 36th Street off of Madison, in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan. Some were of Mr. Thaw's era, the decade of the forties, when Barr and Buchanan reigned. Among those forties alumni were Allan Hoffman, Peter Weiss alld Peter Davies. Other decades were represented, of course, among them Tom Williams from the Fifties, Frances Burns from the Sixties, and numerous younger alumni, among them Adam Eggers, Fielding Dupuy and the current president of the New York Chapter, Justin Burke. Charles Nelson and his wife Ann, the parents of the current Annapolis campus President, made it down from Croton-on-Hudson. And, of course, my wife Betsy Blume, the Annapolis campus Director of Alumni Activities, and myself, both '70's graduates, drove up from Annapolis. Our son David, at age 10, was the youngest participant, but he has become an old hand both at museum going and chapter visitation. The Alumni Association felt that the exhibit was of such importance, it deserved a visit, and Justin Burke showed real enthusiasm for incorporating a tour into the schedule of New York chapter activities. After soliciting advice from Francis Mason '43, a former director of the Morgan Library, Betsy and Justin arranged the particulars with splendid cooperation from the Library staff. The Library was first established by John Pierpont Morgan, one of the most important financiers and industrialists of his day, as well as a philanthropist and patron of the arts. With ample expert advice, in particular from Bella de Costa Greene, whom he hired as his librarian in 1905, Morgan had already amassed considerable manuscript holdings, as well as paintings, sculptures, and objets d'art, by the time he hired Charles McKim to build his library edifice on 36th Street. McKim, a leading neodassicist, designed a marble rectangle with a recessed portico, decorated with becoming simplicily and tasfe. The interior was much more richly and colorfully O decorated, most impressively in the Rotunda, the vaulted foyer to the Library. The Library was completed in 1906, although much of Morgan's collection remained elsewhere, and after his death in 1913, the disposition of his various holdings took some time to settle. His son, J.P. Morgan, Jr., established the Library as a public institution with its own trustees and endowment in 1924. Since then, the Library has undergone various renovations and expansions, most recently when it acquired J. P. Morgan Jr.'s former townhouse, which was adjacent to the Library property. It has also, of course, built up its collections. The collection of drawings and prints held by the Library is strong, with its strength much enhanced by the Eugene V. and Clare Thaw collection, which, of course, had exerted the attraction on our group in the first place. Gene Thaw has been one of the more important dealers in Old Master paintings for much of his adult life, and has collected in _that area as well as in drawings. Since retirement, he has taken up resiCONT. ON PAGE 16 HILAIRE-GERMAIN-EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917), Seated Dancer, essence over pencil, on pink paper. l 0 15/16 x 8 11/16 inches. Collection of Eugene V. and Clore Thaw. Photography by: David A. Loggie. c.1994 The Pierpont Morgon Library. 15 ELECTION CONT. FROM PAGE 16 Graduate School of Medicine, 198689; Asst. Director of Admissions, St. John's College, Santa Fe Campus, 1977-78; Director of Admissions, St. John's College, Santa Fe, 1978-79; Medical,Staff, Brainerd Regional Human Services Center, Brainerd, MN, 1989-1994; Instructor, Dept. of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, 1995-present; Certification, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1989; Member, Ethics Committee, Brainerd Regional Human Services, 1989-93, Chairman, 1990-93; American College of Physicians, 1991-present. NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN THAT NOMINATIONS MAY BE MADE BY PETITION The rules governing submission of nominations by petition are as follows: 1. Petitions must be signed by at least 50 members of the Alumni Association in good standing. 2. Nominations must be accompanied by a biographical sketch of the nominee. 3. The consent of all persons nominated must be obtained. 4. The petition must reach the Directors of Alumni Activities NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 1, 1995; c/o St. John's College, PO Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. If nominations by petition are received, there will be an election conducted by mail ballot. If there are no such nominations, the nominees listed above will be considered elected. Terms will begin July, 1996. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS Of THE ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION In accordance with the Article VII, Sections I and II of the By-Laws of the Alumni Association, notice is hereby given that the following alumni have been nominated to serve on the St. John's College Alumni Association Board of Directors: For three year terms as Directors: BARBARA SKAUG I.AUER SF76, Laramie, WY J. D. with Honors, University of Wyoming, 1984; L.L.M. University of Edinburgh, 1988; Appellate Counsel and Assistant Public Defender, Wyoming State Public Defender, 19891992; Partner, Lauer & Newlon, 1993 - ; CONT. ON PAGE 16 �16 REPORTER ELECTION CONT. FROM PAGE 15 THAW CONT. FROM PAGE 15 Editor, legal Publications Division of lugamo Corp., 1994 - ; taught Jurisprudence at U. of Wyoming College of law, 1989-90; judicial clerk, Wyoming Supreme Court, 1987-88; Registrar, Graduate Institute, St. John's College; Director, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1986; Advisory Board, land and Water Review, 1987 ; Colorado Bar Assoc. legal Fee Arbitration Committee, 1989 ; Member, St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, 1991 ; Chair, Alumni Relations Committee, 1992 . dence in Santa Fe, pursuing an interest in Native American artifacts, from an aesthetic rather than anthropological stand-point. (That collection is to go to the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown, N.Y.) He has also written extensively on art, notably in a book about his friend Jackson Pollock, and as a contributing editor for The New Republic. His association with the Library, as trustee and benefactor, has been of long-standing, making this gift particularly appropriate. The exhibition begins with a Rhenish drapery study from the 15th century, unattributed, presum~d to be preparatory to a painting of the Presentation of Christ in the TJmple, a familiar subject of the time. It is followed by a study of three standing Apostles, by Mantegna, from the same period. The first drawing is an exquisite play of light and shadow, with subtly wrought folds and almost painterly expressiveness. The second is much sketchier, a working through of compositional ideas, with figural relations the dominant concern. In a show of about 100 drawings, many of the drawings have a "working", unfinished quality, where the interest lies predominantly in following the genesis of an artist's ideas. But many are complete works in themselves, some colored in pastel chalk, watercolor, or gouache. A fine portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder uses thinly applied oil paint on paper. Entitled "Portrait of a Man in a Black Cap," it is a robust character study absorbing one in facial details. Jacques de Gheyn ll's "Animal Studies" employs ink, chalk, watercolor, and gouache in startlingly detailed renderings of a bird, a dragonfly, a frog, and a frog's head. Among Mr. Thaw's favorite drawings is Rembrandt's "Three Studies for a Descent from the Cross," which allows for some comparison of the ideas for treatment of the theme that Rembrandt contemplated. Another favorite is by Francisco Jose de Goya, captioned "leave it all to providence" (in Spanish), taken from the Black Border Album, and showing a young woman in an attitude of resignation. Degas's drawings, particularly "Mlle. Becat at the Cafe des Ambassadeurs," show a strong affinity to Toulouse-lautrec. Matisse's "Self-Portrait" and Picasso's "Portrait of Lydia lopovka" show affinities in the way they had come to handle lines. Picasso's "Portrait of Marie-Therese Walter" is· almost too intimate, as the subject was his lover on her way out of favor, and, perhaps, reveals a certain shameless appropriativeness on the artist's part. The last two works in the exhibition are unexpected. There is a still life by Alberto Giacometti, most famous as a sculptor, which shows his draughtsmanship and solidity of observation. last, an WILLIAM TILLES, A59, Rockville, MD IBM Corporation, 1961-92; Manager, Public Safety, Courts and Corrections Public Sector Industry Marketing Staff, 1990-92; Manager of Systems Integration Marketing, State and local Government, 1987-90; Marketing Manager, Federal Systems Division, 1985-87; Senior Program Administrator for the IBM Information Network, 1982-85; Founder, Tampa, Florida, library Great Books Program, 1982- 85; President, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1970-72; CoChair, Washington D.C. Chapter, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1971-72; Member, St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, 1992; Chair, Visiting Committee, l 993 ; Director, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1993 . DORINE TEPPER REAL, SF69, Westport, CA Work themes include education: organizing coop preschool program, aide in Montessori preschool, math, reading tutor for independent primary school, aide in special education classrooms, adult literacy tutor; computers: setup and training of a wordprocessing network for scientific publications group; and editing; Director, Westport County Water District; active member, Northern California Chapter, St. John's College Alumni Association; Director, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1993 . MARK MIDDLEBROOK, A83, San Francisco, CA M.S., Engineering Science, University of California at Berkeley; Principal, Daedalus Consulting, specializing in computer CONT. ON PG 19 extraordinary untitled drawing by Jackson Pollock, showing the influence of surrealism, with nebulous glyphs and biomorphic figures overwhelming more recognizable figures, but pointing towards the purer abstraction of Action Painting. After the guided tour, we spent time on our own in the library, after which about fifteen of us adj~urned to a brasserie in the neighborhood, at which Mr.. Burke had made reservations, called Bienvenue. It was modest, comfortable, and tasty, and permitted some catchingup amongst old acquaintances, or the striking up of new ones. Allan Hoffman and I briefly reminisced about an event that took place nearly a dozen years ago, when he was New York Chapter President. Gene Thaw had addressed the New York Chapter and various College officials on the desirability of including the fine arts in the Program, on the suggested basis of seminars similar to those on The St. Matthew's Passion, Don Giovanni, and Tristan and Isolde. Before the lecture, some of us had drinks with Gene in the bar of the Princeton Club, and I got a chance to talk with him at some length. I found him formidably knowledgeable, and passionate about art. His lecture demonstrated those qualities, along with eloquence. As it happened, Edwin Delattre, the former President, suggested I write up the lecture for the College weekly. Thus, this is not the first occasion I have had to praise Gene in print. ., And praise him I must, for his pra~tfced eye and the scholarly appreciation he brought to the selection of these drawings; the intelligence and tenacity with which he advanced his collection; and the generosity of his dispositive intent. I have seen many collections by individuals (and their advisers), such as those of Barnes, Hirshhorn, and the Cone sisters. Although more modest in scope, and representative of only a fraction of his holdings, this collection compares favorably in terms of sureness of taste, diversity of interests, and historical comprehensiveness. The nature of Gene's interest may be summarized in something he wrote: "It is a particular quality of drawings, their kinship to handwriting, which most attracts us to them as evidence of the authentic touch of the artists' own hand. In this age of computers, multiples, and other devices for graphics programming and duplication, the artists' hand seems to be getting less and less important. All the more reason to cherish such survivals from other times when the hand of genius was a sign of civilization." It may also be said that the conne>l~~eur's eye is a sign of civilization, and his passion a hope for its~ontinuance. We should be grateful to Gene for his achievements, and proud of him as an alumII nus of St. John's. CHAPTER CONTACTS Please call those listed below for information about alumni activities in each area. ALBUQUERQUE: Harold M. Morgan, Jr. (505) 256-0294 NEW YORK: Justin Burke (212) 228-8423 or (l 12) 620-3955 ANNAPOLIS: Joel D. Lehman (410) 956-2814 AUSTIN: Joe Reynolds (512) 867-8461 BOSTON: Alvin Aronson (617) 566-6657 PHILADELPHIA: Jim Schweidel (215) 836-7632 PORTLAND: Rachel Sullivan (503) 629-:5838 BUFFALO/ROCHESTER/TORONTO: Hank Constantine (716) 586-5393 CHICAGO: Rick Lightburn (312) 667-0068 or Amanda Fuller (312) 337-4105 SACRAMENTO: Arianne Laidlaw (916) 362-513 I or Helen Hobart (916) 452-1082 DALLAS/FORT WORTH: Suzanne Doremus (811) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis (214) 340-8442 SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Alex Poulsen (510) 4301924 LOS ANGELES: Julia Takahashi (310) 434-7624 SANTA FE: john Pollak (505) 983-2.144 or Cindy Jokela (505) 984-6103 SEATILE: Jim Doherty (206) 937-8886 MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL: Glenda Eoyang (612) 783-1405 or (612) 3793883 (W) WASHINGTON, D.C.: Sam Stiles (30 I) 424-91 19 or Bill Ross (30 I) 230-4594 �·REPORTER - · WASHINGTON, D.C., ALUMNI CHAPTER BY WILLIAM WARFIELD ROSS, A47 Murasaki (see photo). last year Annapolis dean Eva Brann chose he Washington area chapter serves more than 800 alumni/ ae W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe, which made for a wonderful seminar in the District of Columbia and suburban Maryland and (the film was entitled Field of Dreams}. Dean Brann returned this Virginia-the largest alumni concentration in the country. This spring to lead a discussion on cognitive psychology. Other Annapolis area offers an unusually wide range of organizational, cultural, and tutors who have led seminars for us include Laurence Berns, Chester social activities, and perhaps for this reason the chapter has succeedBurke, A74, Henry Higuera, Adam Schulman, John White, A65, and ed largely through its emphasis on the seminars, which provide an Curtis Wilson. Former Annapolis dean Robert Goldwin, A50, who ongoing opportunity for continuing dialogue on perennial questions. now lives in Washington, led a seminar last year on Plutarch and Seminars are held every other week throughout the year except returns this spring for one on Polybius. We have also taken advanfor July and August. We have been meeting regularly since 1979, tage of lwo journies east, on other business, by Santa Fe tutors. Tutor when the seminar was organized by Edward F. Grandi, A77, and Mark Aickelin, A75. Readings are suggested by those who attend. They have included a re-reading of some of the works that we read as students, some non-program books by the same authors, and other works ancient and modem-poetry and fiction, science, philosophy and public affairs. Some by Plato, Aristotle and Shakespeare usually show up on our list at least once a year, and the moderns have ranged from Hannah Arendt to Victor Zuckerkandl. Over the summer break we usually read something that we would not have time for during the year, such as Madame Bovary or Anna Karinina. For many years we met at a left to right: Jeon Mitsok, SGl85, Samuel V. Stiles, A54, Annapolis tutor George Doskow, and William R. Tilles, A59, discussing branch library in the District of The Tole of Genji (2/1/95) ot the Armadillo Grill, Bethesda, Md. Photo by Vivion Ronoy, A65. Columbia, then we went to dinner at one of several nearby restaurants. When budget cuts last year caused the library to dose in the emeritus Charles Bell presented a slide show on the eighteenth centuevenings, we were forced to find somewhere else to meet, and it has ry and led the discussion; and Cary Stickney, A75, the new director proved to be even better. We hold our seminar in a private room of a of The Graduate Institute, led a seminar in January on a short story restaurant, ordering dinner before the discussion begins. Two hours by Harold Brodkey. later, the doors are opened and dinner is served at our table. The Each December we hold our annual chapter business meeting, conversation may, or course, continue, but informally. followed by a holiday party. We are now able to have these events in In addition to the regular seminars, we have gone to the Air and the same restaurant that we use for seminars. Other social events Space Museum twice for large screen films, followed by discussion, have included picnics, summer outings, and potluck dinners at homes thanks to arrangements by James T. Hyder, A84. We have also had of alumni. several fine arts seminars in recent years. For these, we meet at an Edward Grandi was for some years the seminar coordinator, folart museum or gallery to sit before one or lwo paintings and discuss lowed by Samuel V. Stiles, A54. When we formally organized ourthem for an hour or so. These have been led by Sharon H. Garvey, selves into a chapter of the Alumni Association, the first president was SGl78, who has selected and researched the paintings and made Deborah Papier, A72, who was succeeded by Sharon Garvey and arrangements for the viewing and seminars. We held an afternoon then Samuel Stiles. seminar on an opera, in which we watched a video, followed by disAlumni who visit the Washington area are invited to join us for cussion. The opera was be Boito's Mefistofefe, and the discussion built seminars and other events. For further information on chapter activion our recent seminar on Goethe's Faust, Part I. ties, call Sam Stiles at (301) 424-9119, or Bill Ross at (301) Because Washington is only thirty miles from Annapolis, we 320-4594. have been able to call on tutors to lead seminars more frequently than can most alumni chapters. Tutor Sam Kutler, A54, led a series of seminars on Einstein's Relativity and Stephen W. Hawking's A Brief History of Time. Annapolis president Chris Nelson, SF70, led a seminar on short stories by Matsu-Basho and Komo No Ch-mei, and tutor George Doskow led one recenrly on The Tale of Genii by lady T 17 ELEOION CONT. FROM PAGE 18 for engineering firms, 1988 ; Contributing Editor, CADalyst magazine, 1990 ; President, Northern California Chapter, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1988-91; Homecoming lecturer, St. John's College, Santa Fe, 1991; Director, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1993 . BEVERLY ANGEL SGl89, Austin, TX Teacher and Dept. Chair, Chemistry, Math and Physics, St. Michael's Academy, 1992 ; Elgin High School, 1990-92; Teacher, 1977 ; Teaching Certificate, University of Houston, 1977; Volunteer Teacher, Austin Adult literacy Council; Volunteer, Kerrville Summer Music Festival; Founder and President, Austin Chapter, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1990-93; Director, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1990-93, 1994 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT NOMINATIONS MAY BE MADE BY PETITION: Rules governing submission of nominations by petition are as follows: 1 . Petitions must be signed by no fewer than thirty (30) members of the Alumni Association in good standing. 2. Petitions must be presented to the Secretary of the Alumni Association prior to the Annual Meeting at which the election is to be held. George Bingham, SF68, Secretary St. John's College Alumni Association P.O. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404 3. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on Saturday, July 22, 1995, at 2:00 p.m., in the Senior Common Room, Peterson Student Center, Santa Fe Campus. 4. The candidates for Directors receiving the highest number of votes for those offices shall be declared elected. H �18 ALUMNI REPORTER NOTES AND PROFILES ••• Morris Parslow (A). reports that having retired, he is now professor emeritus of Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. The spring 1994 issue of The Merton SeaJonaL contains an article by Bill Buchanan (A) on "The Search for Brahmachari." Brahmachari is the Hindu friend Thomas Merton speaks of so endearingly in The SeJJen Story Mountain. Bill tracked him down and interviewed him. He is living in an ashram near the Calcutta airport, still writing and teaching, in his nineties. Bill also has an article in Swami ViJJek.ananda, a Hundred YearJ Since ChU:ago, a CommemoratiJJe Volume. It is called "Notes on Swami Vivekananda, Christian Science, and Vedanta," and in it Christian Science is seen as a kind of distant American cousin of Vedanta. Charles R. Powleske (A) is beginning his 36th year at the Business Council for International Understanding. For the past 12 years he has been president and CEO. Munir Hussein, A90, is BCIU's vice president for programs. Charles writes that Munir was "mainly responsible for organizing the White House Conference on Trade and Investment in Central and Eastern Europe, which was held in Cleveland in January. Over 1200 people participated, including President Clinton, Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, and 14 high-level government delegations &om the region. This was an ambitious undertaking for BCIU and, happily, one of our most successful." Ronald McGuirk (A), a senior vice president of First National Bank of Maryland, has been named corporate secretary of the bank's holding company, First Maryland Bancorp and each of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, including four subsidiary banks. As secretary, he will play an active role in corporate governance and in coordinating matters for the various boards of directors and advisory boards. Ronald has been with First National for 35 years. He has served as a member of the Anne Arundel County Council and is active in the local community. Frank B. Murray (A) was conferred an honorary Doctor of Science degree by Moray House College, Institute of Dear Alumni of St. John's College, It is with deep regret that lhave accepted Cindy Jokela's resignation as director of Alumni Relations in Santa Fe. Cindy has done an outstanding job over the past four years, and her efforts and commitmentt<>~t. John's and its alumni will be sorely missed. . .. . Cindy, her husband John, and sons, Karlin and Les, will best8;ying in Minnesota where John. h.as an opportunity to stay on as a faculty member at St. Olaf College. Cindy will continue with her campaign re~ponsibilities. So, for all of you who are volunteers in the campaign, Cindy wiU continue to be the key staff person in Santa Fe for the Alumni D~vision of the campaign. We have begun a ~~arch for the director of Alumni Relations and, there~ fore, I want to share with you some of the key criteria for the position and encourage any of you who are interested to apply~ The Alumni Relations Director develops,. promotes and. coordinates al~ni activities for the Santa Fe campus in conjunction with the Alumni Association and its hoard. The person in this position .recruits, trains, motivates and works with alumni fundraising volunteers. The director is expected to maintain close co;mmunication and coordinati,on with the Annapolis alumni direct~r. The director coordinates and supports activities of the alumni fundraising volunteers. The person in this position reports to the vice president for college advancement. Qualified candidates·~ holci a BAand have two y~a:rs administrative experience in a.college setting, one year.office m.anaget;nentexperience and one year of writing., editing and public .relations expe~ie:11ce. The position requires excellent organizati~naland communications skills •. ·. ' To apply for this position, or to obtain additional inf()rin,atlon, please call or write to: Ted (;onzales, Director of Personnel,(505)984-6141, 1160 Camino Cruz Blanc~. &anta Fe, New Mexico 8750}-4599 Sincerely, Jeffrey D. Morgan, Vice President for Advancement Education, at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Currently dean of the College of Education at the University of Delaware, Dr. Murray earned his MAT in 1961 and his PhD in 1966 from Johns Hopkins University. He taught high school for several years, then taught at Johns Hopkins, the University of Minnesota, and Teachers' College of Columbia University. In the speech marking the presentation, Dr. Murray was honored as "a scholar and researcher of outstanding distinction and international renown, having sustained for nearly 30 years an unbroken series of publications." His work in developmental and educational psychology has been devoted to the line of psychology pioneered by Jean Piaget. Dr. Murray was cited for helping to create a research tradition that has "extended our understanding of children's cognitive, affective and conceptual development and provided a richer understanding of the complexities of learning to read and how mathematical and other types of thinking can be nurtured." Barbara Mordes Ross (A) reports that the Homecoming reunion for the class of '69 was "fantastic." She's looking for anyone interested in a 1965-75 middle of the decades reunion, since many of her classmates took longer than four years to graduate. At the University of Alabama, Tuskaloosa, Michael Hendry (A) is teaching Latin, Greek, and Greek mythology. He has published almost 20 articles. Douglas Mayer (A) has joined the law firm ofWachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. Sheri Anderson (SF) reports that she received a letter from the mother of classmate Leeza Tschursin. Leeza had completed a doctorate in microbiology, but a&er efforts to deal with serious depression, she took her life. Her mother requests prayers, for her from her friends. Her mother's address is: Diana MacArthur, 5103 Cape Cod Court, Bethesda, Md. The Oberlin News-Tribune in Oberlin, Ohio, named Anne Hawk (A) "Oberlinian of the Year" for her work with families and children. Anne is the guiding force behind the Lorain County Family Fun Fair, a day of recreation arid exchange of information that brings together parents, children, and the agencies that serve them. The fair has been held each summer for two years, last year attracting thousands of visitors and including more than 60 local businesses. Anne works with Families Yes!, an organization that supports'al1 families however they are made up and entourages programs that help families before they are in crisis. 1 John Polgreen (SF) is a founding partner in the WPA Group in St. Paul. The company develops computer-based training and related services. In 1988 he completed a PhD in education at the University of Minnesota. He writes that he is married and has three children, two of whom are currently sophomores at St. John's in Annapolis. Jacques Duvoisin (A) teaches ethics at Babson College in Boston. A man of few words, Matthew Hartzell (A) says "Hi" to his classmates. Peter Davis (A) reports that he has recently become the manager of public policy for NationsBank Corp. He is still living in Atlanta, where he's been for the past 12 years. Prudence Davis (A) is the Mother Prioress of the Benedictine Priory of Vita Pax in Turve, Bedford, England. Erica Chaney King (A), a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps, was transferred in October 1994 from California to North Carolina, where she now serves as the commanding officer of the Financial Management School, Camp Lejeune. Sara Marcy (SF) and her husband, David Garcia, had a baby girl, Victoria Amparo Garcia, on January 12, 1995. They're living in Queens, Ny., while David completes law school at St. John's University. Sara is the New York Technology Manager for Chubb Insurance. They can be contacted via email at 74312.174@compuserve.com. Sara also writes that Tina Clark (SF) is in the process of starting her own fashion company and currently is traveling in Europe, and Lance Forsythe, SF81, currently is working at St. John's ----------------------------~----·~--~~- -~-- -- �University in New F oundland, Canada and can be reached via E-mail at forsythl@sparky2.esd.mun.ca. Judi Hammett and Carl Aron (both A) became the proud parents of Maia Hammett-Aron on May 15. Maia was in a hurry and didn't want to wait to get to the Baltimore Birth Center, so she was delivered by Carl in the bathroom at home, as their friends looked on -including Dave Lowther, A86. Curran G. Engel (SE)and his fiancee, Annalisa Chamherlain, have moved to a new home in Oakland, Ca. Curran reports that he is still working in film. Their new address is: 2515 Carmel Street, Oakland, CA 94602; (510)-5302293; e-mail: Curran E@alo.com. Jeremy Lauer (A) writes that he will be moving to Geneva, Switzerland, where he will take a position as editor for the Office of Publication of the World Hea\th Organization. Charles Beckman(A) has passed the bar exam. Andrew Beckman (A) is in his third year of medical school. Eleanor Hamburger (A) is now an attorney with Consumers Union in San Francisco. She is working 011 mental health issues. Shirley M. Banks (SF) writes, "After hiding out since 19B6, when I left St. John's, I am pleased to send a note about the state of my life here in Atlanta. "I live in Midtown, one of the city's most urban neighborhoods .... After working for six years at the Feminist Women's Health Center in Atlanta, I returned to school in the summer of 1993,I am a fulltime student at Kennesaw State.College, majoring in biology and mathematics. I tutor mathematics for a living. (Jack Lincoln, my freshman math tutor, will not miss the irony of this development, having lamented my "unnecessary diffidence" toward the subject in my first don rag. Katharine Mulford, my sophomore math tutor, will be astounded. Ain't life grand?) Intermittently I work at Borders Book Shop where James Silver, A79, is an assistant manager. I was confirmed in the Episcopal Church in 1988, and serve as a verger (a what?) and cantor at All Saints' Church, and sit on the board of directors of Integrity/Atlanta. "Richard Stark, SF90, my best friend, lived in Atlanta until 1990. He now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and manages a bookstore in Chelsea. He says 'hi.' "I would love to hear from old friends. My e-mail address is sbanks@pigseye.kennesaw.edu and my mailing address is: 790 Myrtle Street, N.E., Apartment 6, Atlanta, GA 303081431; phone: (404) B75-1449." Debbie Hollis (SF) currently is working on her second master's degree while working for USWEST as a research librarian. She got her first master's in library science from the University of Washington in 1989, moved to Denver, and "temped around" until she started with USWEST. Her second master's will be in computer information systems and she will finish in June, 1995. She also has taken up Timiki Aikido and just received her black belt. Friends are welcome to write or call or Internet. Her address is: 3336 S. Alcott Street, Sheridan, CO BO 11 O; phone: (303) 7891769; e-mail: Library30@aol.com. After many tumultuous engagements, Melissa Johnson (SF) and CJ Dallett (SF) were married on Friday, October 7, 1994 in Santa Fe at the home of Deborah Fleig, SFBB. The majority of those witnessing the union were Johnnies: Lara Anderson, SFBB; Denise Malone Barlow, SFBB, Toby Barlow, SF8B, and their daughters Nora and Rose; Theresa Donnelly, SFBB; Caren Friedman, ABB, and Richard Scholnik, SFB5; Robyn Hodges, SFB7; Myra Andrews Keen, SFBB; Sarah Maxwell, SF92, and Jeremy Parfitt, SFB9; tutor Elliott Skinner; the Slakeys: Anne, SF88, Bill, SFB8, and Tom, SFBl; and Mark van de Walle, SFB9. Melissa teaches math at Capital High School in Santa Fe and CJ is the owner of "Red D Designs,"a furniture design and restoration company. They welcome letters at P.O. Box 203, Ojo Caliente, NM B7549. Jennifer Lapham (A) is a graduate student at the Art Institute of Chicago. Jeanne Duvoisin (A) earned an LLM in tax law from NYU Law School last May; she works in Los Angeles now. Raymond Gifford (A) hasjoined the law firm of Raker & Hostetler in Denver. The firm has offices in eight U.S. cities. Raymond, who was formerly with Kirkland and Ellis, has practiced in general commercial litigation, handling matters including toxic tort litigation and securities fraud. He earned his JD degree from the University of Chicago. "On September 4, I married Cristina Bernardi of Chicago," writes Mark Shiffman (A). Guests included Jay and Fawn Powers, ABB, Sophie Ehrhadt (formerly Romano), SFB9, Owen Jones, Olivia Neel, Frances Daniels, and William Culley , all SF90. Eric Lavoie, ABB, was best man. Alexandra Kincannon (A) married Paul Moorehead in May 1993. She is currently living in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Jim Kolsky (SF) got an MS in statistics from University of California, Davis, in 1992. He is currently working on a PhD in statistics at Oregon state University and hopes to be done during the summer of 1996. He is also planning to get married at the end of June to Cathy Baker. Adam Eggers (A) graduated from law school in 1994. He finished at Cardozo School of Law in New York, and is now living and working in NYC. "Having survived law school and the bar exam, it is time to make a living," he says. His message is: B "H. Sapna Gandhi Slatkin (A) writes, "I met my husband, Robert, on December 31, 1993 at the bookstore where I worked. Our eyes met-it was love at first sight! After an hour or so of making eye contact, Robert asked me out for New Year's Eve. Unfortunately, I had other commitments but we immediately made plans to lunch the next day. On Saturday, we met for lunch and spent the entire afternoon together falling in love. On Sunday, we had dinner and after dessert, Robert suggested we get married. I quickly agreed. We were married in a dual ceremony on July 30 at a historic home in Louisville. First, we had an American/Western wedding, with the bride wearing a traditional ivory gown and the groom wearing a tux. An hour later, we married again in an abbreviated Indian ceremony that lasted only one and a half hours. Bride and groom wore Indian garb (see photo, pg. lB). The wedding was attended by over 200 guests from Toronto, Montreal, London, San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Atlanta, Baltimore, Maui, Hawaii, and Melbourne, Florida. Johnnies in attendance were Andrea Rush (SF), Jill Ingram, lnesAzcarate (A). We were told that everyone had a great time and that the weddings were beautiful. We'll have to take them at their word because our memory is blurred. Married life is great. I would love to hear from friends. 1046 Everett Avenue, Louisville, KY 40204; 502-459-B655." Ken Geter (SF) recently was accepted into the Graduate Program at the Department of Environmental Health at Colorado State University. He is seeking a master's.degree in veterinary epidemiology. Ken currently is employed at The Center for Veterinary Epidemiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State Univ. Kimi Kanda (SF) and her husband, Eran Williams, SF89, have been living in Hungary for the past six months, "enjoying an Eastern European adventure." Eran is teaching with the Soros Foundation and Kim is learning Hungarian and doing private tutoring. The couple expects to remain in Hungary for at least another year. Sarah Miles (SF) was married to Brandon Valentini in November at the Cristo Rey Catholic Church in Santa Fe. Sarah currently works as a statistical analyst with Research and Polling Inc. of Albuquerque. Brandon is a business student and works for the New Mexico State Fair. James Perriguey (SF) reports that he "will be enjoying a travel spree 'til July as a student of metaphysical law and astrology under the renowned astrologer Alan Oken. He will be assisting an international group of travellers to the ancient temples of Central America where he will meet with the Dalai-Lama at ChichenItza. Then to Norway, Denmark, Lourdes, Zurich and Portugal, working as an apprentice and assistant." He adds that he is "eager to correspond with y'all." His address is: 3211 Breeze Terrace, Austin, TX 7B722-1911. Nicholas Burmeister (SF) is attending the University of Seattle to obtain a degree in existential psychotherapy. He says that any Johnnies who come through can give him a call or write a riote. His address is 605 10th Ave. East, Apt. 1, Seattle, WA 98102. Brian Dorland (A) writes that he recently has been accepted into the University of Maryland's Graduate Physics program .. He writes: "I have the privilege of going to France and Germany in April. I will be presenting a paper entitled 'The Utility of Metadata Catalog Databases Using HTML Interfaces' at the Weaving the Astronomy Web' conference in Strasbourg, France, and also attending the Third International World Wide Web conference right after it in Darmstadt, Germany. The paper is pretty dry, except where I sneak the Kantian term 'schema' into a discussion of computer databases ...Also, my dne"atlci:-a-half-year-old daughter �20 Natalya's favorite word is 'book.' Hmmm ... " Robert Nease, Jr. (A) is pursuing a masters in writing and publishing at Emerson College in Boston. He received a Bookbuilders Award. Diana Rempe Cetas and Justin Cetas (both SF) would like to announce (somewhat belatedly) the birth of their daughter, Isabelle Sophia Cetas, on September 14, 1994. Diana writes, "We are living in Tucson for what feels like the rest of our lives, as Justin has just begun work on his MD/Ph.D and I begin grad school in the fall. Isabelle is content simply to practice rolling over. "Our door is open to anyone who should find her/himself in Tucson. Our phone number is (602) 623-4030 or send e-mail to: jcetas@gas.uug.arizona.edu." Heather Malcom (SF)writes: "I have been back in New York City six months already and the only things I am addicted to so far are e-mail, cheap sunglasses and vinyl. Chris Leyclon, A93, made it out here with me and hasn't freaked out yet either. I work for an amazing woman at New York University. She is a professor with a joint appointment in Chemistry and Math, we have a computer lab where she and about ten other people use computational techniques to research the dynamics of bio- , molecules. I am pretty lost most of the time, but I do have to admit that I would be much worse off had it not been for senior lab. I WAS paying attention, Mr. Forkin! ! But the most exciting thing for me at the moment is that I have been elected to serve on the board of Third Wave, a national non-profit organization dedicated to feminist and youth activism for social change. Our next big project is Freedom Summer '96, when we will be traveling around the country to register voters for the '96 election. Anyone interested in Third Wave (or NYU or NYCor me) should contact me at: Courant Institute, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012; e-mail: malcolmh@nyu.edu P.S. I continue to send books in for the Books by Women Project, I hope others will too! IEI SCIENCE CONT. FROM PAGE 9 Although Mr. Flaumenhaft's degrees are in political philosophy, he encountered no unfriendly gatekeepers protecting academic turf in the field of history of REPORTER science. Encouragement, advice and support from renowned historian of science and tutor emeritus Curtis Wilson was invaluable. Mr. Flaumenhaft's St. John's background made up for any lack of formal credentials. According to his way of thinking, the connection between political philosophy and science is not far-fetched. He is particularly interested in the emergence of early modern political thought in opposition to classical political thought. During the Enlightenment, the divisions common in modern minds between math/science and the humanities had not yet been defined. MARKETING MENDEL AND NEWTON His first answer to the question of who would read these guidebooks to science is "Me, thirty years ago." In other words, people who are not St. Johnnies but who are perhaps professionals in the academic world. They read Aristotle, Hobbes and Locke and are aware that they are dealing with only part of the story. They might like to read Ptolemy or Descartes' scientific work, but they don't have the time or the opportunity to sit down with students and work through it. Commentaries by specialists tend to be forbidding. The guidebooks, on the other hand, are user-friendly. Everything such a person would need is included: texts, charts, diagrams, notes, commentary. Another group of readers are engineers, scientists and military or business types who do high-tech work. They might want to investigate the source of their presuppositions. Also they are curious about why Ptolemy, for instance, envisioned the universe as revolving around the earth and why he tried to explain everything with circles. "These people are not technophobes," he says, "but they are not about to pick up Ptolemy. If it were available in a guidebook they might." A third group of readers Mr. Flaumenhaft identifies are those involved with core curricula. Those establishing such a curriculum can be at a loss for what to do about teaching science. They don't want just introductory material, or what Mr. Flaumenhaft calls "physics for poets," which lack substance and rigor. The material in the guidebooks is real science, however, and quite do-able in a classroom setting. This is also the kind of science that perhaps should be taught to high school and elementary school teachers, Mr. Flaumenhaft said. A group not mentioned by Mr. Flaumenhaft is St. John's alumni. Science and math are such use-it-or-lose-it disciplines, that if alumni haven't spent time on Ptolemy or Newton in 20 years, they might not remember much. These guidebooks make a great refresher course. While it's true that at one time these scientific texts were read by well-educated people, today they are considered difficult going. BEAUTY IN THE BEAST But it is difficult, are they also beautiful, as beautiful as Shakespeare? According to Mr. Flaumenhaft, you have to do a good deal of work before you can make that judgment. "In some books that I have studied for years, I find the artistry austere but simply amazing," he said. Apollonius he finds especially beautiful. There is a long stretch of propositions that is extremely tedious, but ultimately the whole "is something neatly and tightly put together, with no waste, that enables you to see wondrous sights." Even for those who can't bring themselves to go to the dentist or solve the puzzle of Bosnia, then, reading science can be worthwhile. IEI ALUMNI PROFILE PATRICIAMEYE~ SGI82: GNING STUDENTSA VOICE hy Sara Harru, EC95 One of the most direct ways to put a St. John's education to work, it would seem, would be to teach it. It is remarkable to hear of the. innovative ways the basic pedagogy is being implemented across the country.In particular, the work of Patricia Meyer, a high school teacher in the Glenbard East (Lombard, II.) humanities department is noteworthy. Ms. Meyer has tailored the St. John's pedagogy to a large-class public high school humanities curriculum and made it "one of the showcase classes" of the district. One of the most innovative measures is her development of student leader/facilitators who guide the discussion within a five- or snc-member group of classmates. The leader I facilitators are required to tum in their questions at the beginning of discussion days and meet weekly with other student leader/facilitators to discuss their successes and problems. Ms. Meyer was working as a public school teacher when she decided to return to school for a master's degree. Her colleague, a St. John's graduate, encouraged her to go to St. John's and she started in the summer of 1979, attending each summer for four years until 1982. That also was the year her school district proposed starting a humanities course-- and tapped her to help develop it. 1 'We kn.ew we wanted to use primacy texts and we knew we wanted to use the seminar mode," Ms. Meyer said. So, with some advice from her former tutors and the help of her alumni colleague, in 1982 she established the fust humanities program for Glenbard East. Having student leader/facilitators is a recent develOpment, the result of budget cutbacks that forced the end of team teaching. "I put out a call to all the kids who were enrolled" and instead of the handful of students she expected, ''half the class showed up. JI Ms~ Meyer runs an all-day workshop in the summer, which covers how to ask a good question, how to find the core issues of a text, how to evoke responses and how to control the dynamics of a discussion. Then the students practice on a short piece and discuss the qualitiesof the questions and techniques that worked well. Since that time, the popularity of the class has grown steadily. The students ''truly love it/' Ms.Meyer said. She consistently gets positive feedback, as well as requests to become student leader/facilitators. The most common response is students saying/'We love having a voice in class.'' Aside from the size of the class, the biggest change Ms. Meyer said she has noticed over the· 13-year life of the program is the 11 increase in female students questioning the values of what men have told us." .The question of how this perspective affects how laws were written, for example, is likely to arise in a discussion of Locke. In addition, she 8aid her role has changed from organizing the discussion and drawing outthe main points, to spending more time with student leaders and visiting each discussion group during class. Infact, she now worries about "not taking over their role," she said. Ms. Meyer also hope& to take her show on the road, spreading the word about the program in the region and encouraging wider participation. Part of their work was a teacher's workshop she. presented with four of her students at a Shakespeare Reperto1yworkshop. The reading listlargelyreflects the St. John's seminar curriculum but also includes a selection of African folk tales and a choice of the works of Chinua Achebe, Bessie Head or Buchi Emecheta. Discussion classes also are interspersed with field trips, essay writing, viewings ofart and architecture and listening to music. B �ALUMNl PROFILE · SECOND CAREER TIME: A LETTER FROM CHRIS KING, A75 Here's some news aboutmy wife, Amy L. Oosterhout, A82, and me: Aniy works as a real estate title searcher. She has been in business for h~rself for about seven years. She specializes in searching titles in the various Circuit Courts in the Baltimore area for attorneys located in other areas. of the state, though she has some clients in Baltimore as well. Business has been growing slowly, but steadily, through the years, though not yet to the point that she has to become an employer. Amy is on the cutting edge in the record rooms around Baltimore; her portable computer has almost completely replaced pen and paper for her, and this has aroused great curiosity among her fellow title searchers. In 1990, after almost ten years as a litigator, I quit the practice oflaw, and became a bus driver. I did :Ratenjoythelaw (except for a part-time position teaching legal writing at the University of Baltimore Law School). There was too much pressure, too much fighting (whic:;h is what people hire lawyers to do, I know), too little personal satisfaction (most. ~ases are settled, that is, compromised, not won or lost), and, frankly, it was not particularly lucrative for me (lest one think my decision completely noble or insane). Driving MTA buses here in Baltimore combines two long-time loves of mine: professional driving and cities. The lines I drive serve people in all parts of the city, during all hours of the day (and night). After four years, I remain happy with my job and my decision to leave the law. I still love my city, but I don't know any more about how to solve its problems than I did when I started this job. If I figure it out, I'll be sure to let someone know. For additional fun, I do a little desktop publishing and typesetting with the family desktop computer, and I play with Harry. Harry, our only child, would make his namesake, Harry Golding, proud. He is six DOVVj and loves computers and maps and Thomas the Tank Engine. I could praise him for pages on end, but you still wouldn't think he was as wonderfulas your kids, I know. Within the past year, we learned that Harry has a genetic deficiency called Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome (VCFS). Medicine discovered VCFS only about 15 years ago, and learned to confirm it with blood tests only about two years ago. Information about VCFS is still pretty spare, and limited mostly t() technical articles in genetic journals. If anyone in the St. John's community knows about VCFS or knows of any support groups for it, please let us know. Classmates finding themselves in the Baltimore-Washington area: please get in touch. We're at: 135 Soutp Potomac St., Baltimore, MD 21224.;2252. Phone (410)522-2665; Fax (410)522-2033; E-mail 71071.613@compuserve.com. ill HOMESCHOOL CONT. FROM PAGE 13 For her science education, Emily took summer and weekend courses for gifted high school students at a nearby college. "It wasn't like regular school," she said. "There weren't grades. The majority of the kids were there because they really wanted to do the work." Her enjoyment of science continues at St. John's, where the college's approach matches her learning style. "The way we go about it here requires a lot less rote memorization and a lot more explanation, which really helps me. I always want to know why I'm doing something." . She said this approach is what drew her to the college. "I mainly chose St. .. John's because of the conversations," she said. "That's really been the way I've learned. I'd read something and then I'd talk about it with my mom." But, although the college's emphasis on conversation dovetails with her home schooling experience, the all-required program is in direct contrast to her earlier education, where she. determined her own curriculum. This c_ontrast has never bothered Emily. "Another reason I chose St. John's was that I liked the idea of trying a little regimentation after eighteen years of having to do it all myself. It's nice to have structure every once in a while. And St. John's has a lot of freedom within that structure. You can do a lot outside of class." Now a senior preparing to graduate, Emily plans to enter museum studies. She has applied to the Wmterthur Program in Early American Material Culture, and is exploring several possibilities for internships. STUDENT PROFILE: MARY CATHERINE FORD by Ben ZeNey, A98 Many students applying to St. John's come from umique academic situations. Some have been at the top of their class, earning straight N.s and astronomically high standardized test scores. Some, although intelligent, lag behind the others, unmotivated or unchallenged by the traditional educational systems. Very few take the initiative to change how their education is progressing. However, that is just what Mary Catherine Ford (a January freshman in Annapolis) decided to do after years of dissatisfaction with traditional schools. Ms. Ford claims her high school was "boring and a waste of time." After transferring between several different schools, she decided to take personal responsibility for her academic pursuits. After reading a newspaper ad for a homeschooling program, Ms. Ford and her father decided this would be a great substitute for a traditional high school education. In addition, the cost of the homeschooling program was substantially less than the tuition at her parochial school. She used the Seton Home Study School materials. Ms. Ford taught herself about literature, grammar, history, American government, and even studied several languages. Although she did not have a laboratory available for her use, Ms. Ford was able to study basic biology at home, as well. In addition, because she was enrolled in a Catholic-run program, she was able to continue her study of religion. Ms. Ford's academic performance drastically improved with homeschooling. She was motivated to read and formulate ideas about her readings. Many aspects of Ms. Ford's homeschooling experience parallel the St. John's program. Both experiences promote selfrehance in a challenging environment, and both encourage students to think about what they read. In fact, Ms. Ford applied only to St. John's. "After I read about St. John's .. .! knew it was the place for me," she said. STUDENT PROFILE: CHRISTY McELROY by Siu3an Bordan Christy McElroy, A!97, and her sister Charissa (who is currently applying to St. John's) began their education in a small private school. But by the time Christy reached third grade, the McElroy family had grown to five children; the cost of private school became prohibitive. The family explored the public school system and found it incompatible with their fundamentalist Christian beliefs. They decided to homeschool their children. What at first looked like a financial decision had become a religious necessity. When Chrisij and Charissa were young, their parents designed their studies. "We've never used anyone's curriculum," Charissa said. "We have this big laundry room full of resource materials, textbooks and workbooks, on subjects from art to math and everything in between." But for the McElroys, as for most homeschoolers, education is not limited to books. "The emphasis was to be wellrounded," Christy says. "Over the years we did so many social things. We were involved in several church groups, setting up and performing musical programs. As some of the oldest students still in homeschooling, we were asked to offer courses to other homeschoolers. I was in a ballet company for several years. We did Girl Scouts. People may say that we' re sheltered, but we didn't just stay at home and study." One aspect of their education that Christy and Charissa are often called upon to explain is its religious emphasis. "People look at me and think I've been brainwashed, just like they think I've been sheltered," Christy said. "But I've had a specific education in a belief system. When I read the authors at St. John's who have another belief system, I have something to compare it with. If you have an idea of what justice is like according to the Bible, it's easier to understand justice according to Aristotle, because you can say 'it's not like the Bible because it's like this, but it is like the Bible because it's like this.'" Charissa agrees that her education not only has not closed her mind, but also makes a good fit with St. John's. "St. John's is a natural extension of homeschooling in three ways, she said, "in method of education, the actual things learned, and the quality of education." "The similarity of method is perhaps the most striking thing," Christy said. "The discussion method can be considered the primary thing that is different about St. John's. They study the great thinkers in other programs at other colleges, but not like we do here. In our home, discussion was fundamental to our learning. We would have oral tests all the time and constantly be asked about our studies during dinner." Even with Christy now attending college, the sisters continue discussing their studiestogether. Although Charissa is studying under the aegis of her school district in Pennsylvania, she lives in Annapolis with Christy. The sisters review Charissa's work and discuss what each is learning. "Homeschooling doesn't necessarily have to involve parents," Christy points out. "It's kind of like St. John's," Charissa says, "because you have to be interested in your QWn education and be Ill responsible foryourown learning." 11 �22 LOGOI OF THEMYTHOI Were duels once held in the hallways of Pinkney? Is Mellon Hall earthquake-proof? Was Mr. Kaplan really a taxi driver in New York who was discovered by two tutors discussing . philosophy in the back seat of his cab? Did Mr. Lenkowski really make a killing in the stock market? A school that is nearly 300 years old must have accumulated a number of myths and legends. Let us hear from you alumni-what were the stories of your era? The ace reporters in Annapolis will try to figure out if there is any truth to them. Send in the fullest version of the story you'd like to find out about, complete with names, places, dates, sources. Get it to us via any means of communication: write The Reporter, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404; call (410)6262539; fax The Reporter (410)263-4828; we'll even be on the lookout for carrier pigeons and bottles with messages floatII ing in College Creek. COLLEGE OFFICIALS SERVE COUNTY President Chris Nels on and Vice President for Advancement Jeff Bishop are both serving on the transition team for John Gary, the newly elected county executive for Anne Arundel County. Mr. Nelson co-chairs the group that is reviewing Anne Arundel Community College. Mr. Bishop chairs the Committee on Social Services. "The department deals with income maintenance, child abuse and neglect, homelessness, dependent care, and other issues," said Mr. Bishop. "After studying how the department is organized and how services are delivered, we will be making recommendations about how to improve efficiency and delivery," Most of what the department does is mandated by the federal government and funded by the states, and Mr. Bishop said the co~nty handles its role well. "Since we spend time here at St. John's discussing man's responsibility to his community, I think it's important for the college to serve as an example of community involvement," he said. II REPORTER 1 JOHNNY MORONIC S SENIOR ESSAY HAILED AS MASTERPIECE BY SUS3AN BORDEN mong the 80 essays submitted to Miss Brann at the annual senior essay writing party this year was a work that revealed such depth of understanding and passion of thought that, although its author is not a currently enrolled student, it was accepted immediately. The essay, aptly titled "As Any Reader Can Clearly See" was written by Johnny Moronic, a newcomer to the St. John's community, yet clearly a thinker whose piercing insights and unique vision rank him among the greatest essayists ever to ring the bell atop McDowell Hall. Indeed, some faculty members say, not since Johnny Quest Moron has the college seen the likes of an essay such as Mr. Moronic's. Johnny Quest Moron, you'll remember, is the author of a 1981 senior essay intriguingly titled "Johnny Moron's Senior Essay." Mr. Moron's work, so subtle in its design, yet so cunning in its structure, appears to the uneducated eye as a collection of random musings by an assortment of amateur thinkers, almost as if several seniors had nothing better to do during the essay writing period than contribute a page or two of incoherent ramblings to a joke essay. But, those who know better say this haphazard appearance reveals the genius of the work. The seeming incoherence satisfies the casual reader, while masking the essay's esoteric teachings that only the dedicated student will work to decipher. Imagine the genius of a mind that brings us a sentence such as: "And if we take it as a line and bring it to a cube so that it can be perceived, we have the distance between tragedies, and it has been shown that Wagner's opera is five hundred thirty one thousand, four hundred forty one times more tragic than the World Spirit." Indeed, Mr. Moron's idiocy is transcended only by the depth of his underlying profundity. But while Mr. Moron's 1981 essay was a masterpiece of encrypted wisdom, Mr. Moronic's 1995 essay is the very eidos of clarity. Consider its opening sentence, which plainly describes the condition of modern man: "Since all of the paralogisms of practical reason are ampliative, there can be no doubt that our knowledge, then, abstracts from all content of a priori knowledge; certainly, the architectonic of natural reason teaches us nothing whatsoever regarding the content of the Antinomies." Contemplate the wisdom of the final page which treats the reader to the elegant Alex Bowles beauty of simple truths laid bare: "We can deduce that space teaches us nothing whatsoever regarding the content of our sense perceptions; however, the discipline of human reason proves the validity of, however, the Ideal of practical reason." Yet not all are happy with Mr. Moronic's intellectual mastery. There are rumors within the senior class that Mr. Moronic did not write the essay by himself. Some have gone so far as to charge that Mr. Moronic's essay was, in fact, written by a Kant-generating computer program. But others suggest that those making the accusations are resentful of the fact that Mr. Moronic's work is obviously a shoo-in for the essay prize. Senior Zena Hitz, far from casting aspersions on the essay's genesis, had nothing but praise for the work and its author. "I don't think the school will see anything like it for a long time," she said. "Mr. Moronic has really broken new ground. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if his essay were put on the program. It's far more lucid than much of what we read." Mr. Moronic agreed. "The essay is perhaps better than Kant, he said. 'Tve obtained and perfected the form th~t he sought." II 11 MOVIE MOGUL IN THE MAKING BY BARBARA GOYETTE Annapolis junior Alex Bowles loves film; his student-run production company is already working on a St. John's movie. a ih~. has its own language~" said Alex Bowles, a junior the Annapolis campus, "so that ifyou see more films and those of a better quality, you will understand the medium better." In his role as Film Archon, Alex is the chief cheese of the committee that chooses and shows the weekend films at the college. He said he picks movies that he's always wanted to see as well as those he's always loved. The result is one of the campus's most popular diversions-and one shared by the Annapolis community, since "townies" fill half the seats at every showing. Alex, who grew up in San Francisco, traces his interest in film to a strong interest in painting. "That's what I was best at in high school, what I put the most serious consistent effort into," he said. He didn't realize that film would become his passion until he took a year off between high school and college to travel and sort things through. After deferring his enrollment at St. John's he spent three months in Africa and seven months traveling around the Mediterranean .. "I just woke up one morning and was in bed thinking about where I should have breakfast, when it occurred to me that I wanted to be involved in making films," he said. So why would a student talented at painting and considering a career in film choose a college like St. John's? "I was brought up in a house full of books, not being allowed to watch much TV The idea of reading these books for four years really appealed to me," he said. "I also liked the idea of not having to sit through lectures." The stuff of drama, he noted, hasn't changed, and at St. John's he can concentrate on reading and discussing the foundations of drama, literature and philosophy. He continues his interest in art, not by painting (he hasn't picked up a brush in four years) but by working as a student aide at the Mitchell Gallery. When he led tours of the Rembrandt exhibit this fall, he found that the 45 minutes allotted for the tour 'was always over too quickly. "There was so much to talk about in the pictures; every time I looked at them, I found more," he said. CONT. ON PAGE 23 �OBITUARIES AND MEMORIAM ••• ROY ARMSTRONG Roy Armstrong, who served for 27 years at St. John's in Annapolis, died in January. Mr. Armstrong retired as director of laboratories in 1992; he began working for the college in 1965. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he received a degree in electronics from the National Radio Institute. In the 1940s he played guitar with country music star Hank Snow and his band. · - Mr. Armstrong lived in Edgewater, Md., and was interested in computers and electronics. He is survived by his wife, Hilda Mae Snow Armstrong; one son; and three daughters. IN MEMORIAM: JOHN SILVER How strange to read the obituary of a friend, especially when the words speak so little of the friend I knew. Hidden between the articles recounting the achievements of other now dead, the few lines spoke the barest facts d the case: he .died, he was buried. A young man, he had so little time to accomplish what he had hoped for the world around him, l~t aloil~ what he dreamed for himself. I cannot now describ9 fhe kind of person that John had been, the traits which I admired in my friend, and the weaknesses which made us both laugh when we would discuss ourselves. I have come to recognize a kind of memory disorder in myself which prevents such recollections. Yet I cannot forget what I felt toward John, the friendship I continue-to feel. I care nothing when I hear of the deaths of other talented or important people. No Kennedy assassination, no Crucifixion could affect me more than the death of my friend, John. It is the persistence of friendship without my friend which causeis me pain. Perhaps that is all that survives death. If so, what a legacy you've · left me, John. 'Z>.idyou .know) J7o.£n7 I.ha! day mhenyou &ave lo l/ie s£ore7 you drove lo i/ie s/ia.flow edje ofhfa? 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Xo) lei l£e02 buoyyou onward for as fang as 02y £rfa carr1es w1lhn If whalyou c/iose lo 571ve. -Marie Ru.J/er, A89 RAYMOND FREDERICK DEVANTIER JR., SGl93 Raymond Frederick DeVantier Jr. died in an automobile accident November 30, 1994. Mr. DeVantier was a long-term substitute teacher and night school teacher at Santa Fe High School. He was deeply involved in the education of children and will be greatly missed by his students, colleagues, and friends. Mr. DeVantier was born on April 28, 1952 in Bethlehem, Pa. He graduated from Windham College in Vermont, earned a master's degree from the St. John's Graduate Institute in Santa Fe, and pursued graduate study at the University of Chicago. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond DeVantier of Bethlehem, Pa.; two sisters: Ellen Desnoyers of Syracuse, Ny. and Andrea Whitney of Cranston, Ri.; his grandmother, Ellwood Gordon of Moscow, Pa.; and an aunt, Jeanne Gordon, also of Moscow. Contributions to the Raymond F. De Vantier Memorial Scholarship Fund may be· sent to Santa Fe High School, 2100 Yucca Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501. LAVERA LEVERETT, SGl70 LaVera Leverett, known by her married name, LaVera Loyd, died in February of Alzheimer's Disease. Born in 1926 in Clarksville, Tx., Ms. Leverett earned her Associate of Arts degree from Southern Methodist University. She moved to New Mexico in 1949, were she taught school in Rutheron, a small ranching community. In 1960, Ms. Leverett and her husband moved to Santa Fe. She earned her bachelor's degree from the College of Santa Fe in 1965 and later completed her master's degree at the St. John's Graduate Institute and her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado. A life-long educator, Ms. Leverett taught English at Santa Fe High School from 1966 to 1976. In 1978, after completing her doctorate, she returned to Santa Fe High as an assistant principal, a position she held until her retirement in 1988. She was a founding member of the Santa Fe chapter of the National Organization for Women, was active in the local Democratic Women's Organization, and served on the local draft board and on the city drunken driving task force. She is survived by her sons Lannis and Richard Loyd and daughters Lori Ann Gallegos and R. Gail Morozoff; three grandchildren, five sisters, two brothers and numerous nieces and nephews. RALPH (. DAVIS, Al8 Ralph Cresap Davis, a retired attorney and law professor, died in February. Mr. Davis was former chairman of the Maryland Humanities Council. He began his law practice in Annapolis in 1949 and served as counsel to St. John's, the Naval Institute, Historic Annapolis, the Key School, and the Annapolis Housing Authority before moving to Smithsburg in 1968. The Rev. John McDowell Leavitt, president of St. John's from 1881to1883, was Mr. Davis' great-grandfather. Mr. Davis received his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1949 and his master of law degree from Georgetown . University in 1962. He served as a lieutenant in the Navy from 1942 to 1946 and fought at Okinawa. While he lived in Annapolis, Mr. Davis was the organizing counsel and member of the board of trustees of Historic Annapolis and the Key School. He served on major standing committees of the Anne Arundel County Bar Association and headed the 1958 special committee that recommended the creation of the county Law Department. He was also a founding mem her of the Annapolis Unitarian Universalist Church. From 1961 to 1968 he was the supervising trial attorney for the Office of the Solicitor of the U.S. Department of Labor. After moving to Washington County in 1968, he taught business law and management at Frederick Community College and at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, the Mont Alto campus of Penn State and at Anne Arundel Community College. He served on the Maryland Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, from 1981to1989. He was also a founding member of the Ocean World Institute. He is survived by his wife, Emma Lou Davis; three daughters; B one step-son; and four grandchildren. MOGUL CONT. FROM PAGE 22 In addition to promoting the films and art gallery exhibits among his fellow students, Alex is starting a production company so that students can make films. "When I took over as Film Archon it was just a matter of running the theater on weekends," he said. "I want to set up a group and actually make some short films so that people here get a real sense of what's involved." He said he hopes to raise enough money showing movies to get some basic equipment like editing decks, monitors, a camera, a simple lighting kit and a shotgun microphone. This spring Alex has started a filmmaking project using borrowed equipment and the expertise he picked up working last summer in film production in San Francisco. About 20 students are interested in the project, which will be a 40-minute film called "Surviving Desire, an academic romance." Each student participating in the film will get a sense of the whole production process, working through all the steps from directing to camera work to editing-a very St. John's-like approach to learning. Alex is working with Justin Burke, A 87, a director of Archive Films in New York, to set up a database of alumni in film production. Putting a list on the Internet, will encourage communication between current students and alumni already established in the field. Although Alex will take next year off from school to work on a film he's writing, St. John's will be very much a part of his script. "Being immersed in the books for the last three years has had an effect-the ideas are bound to be reflected in what I do," he said. "What you learn here is central to making good drama. You have to learn how to think in order to write-and what's on the El screen has to make sense." �ART ... PRINTS AT THE MITCHELL GALLERY .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. c::i ~ ~ CF] ~ <:)', <:)', ~ ~ ~ "f' ,...., ~ 0 ca ~ ..J :::: 00 r.11 ~ '-' ca ~ i;.;i ~ ~ 0 :i.. :;.:i ~ ~ z 0 g::: Q.) u z ·5= z = 0 Q.) ca ~ u 0 ,...., ~ '° ,...., r.11 ~ 0 :::::: """':> §-.; O' ..J 0 0 E:$ ·:;;; u "' ~ \,,,) "' = ~ .. :;.:i = t- ;:i <£ ca ~ 0 u CF] CF] i:.; p:: Ci ca c =< if1 Jim Barrett of Annapolis finds his specs make viewing the details easier. He's looking at one of the prints in the Whistler exhibit in January. Photo by Keith Harvey a mg off a banner year at the Mitchell Gallery will be an exhibit of 169 prints by artists like Albrecht Altdorfer, Durer, Rembrandt, Anthony Van Dyck, Stephano della Bella and Claude le Lorrain. The exhibit, called "Masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque Printmaking," concludes the focus on prints begun in September with the Rembrandt exhibit and continued through the winter with a display of Whistler's etchings. "Masterpieces" runs April 7 through May 21. The "Masterpieces" exhibit chronicles the development of printmaking in Europe from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century. With artists from both northern Europe and Italy represented, the exhibit also points up the ways printmaking was prac- Claude Gellee (le lorrain) French, 1600-1682, Harbor with large ca. 1 Etching, 4 15/16 x 77/16 inches. Bayly Art Museum, 1986.5 ticed in different locations. From the early sixteenth century onward, artists travelled, spreading their own styles and techniques while studying new ones. Northern artists, including Hendrick Goltzius and Albrecht Durer, made the trip to Italy frequently; it was less common for Italians to journey outside their own country, but exceptions included Jacopo de Barbari and the Italians working at Fountainebleau. In contrast to painting and architecture, advances in printmaking techniques often began in northern Europe rather than in Italy. Engraving, drypoint, chiaroscuro woodcut, and other refinements were first developed by northern artists. Durer in particular was admired by Italian artists and collectors. Many of the prints in the exhibit illustrate scenes from mythology, ancient history or the Bible, giving them a strong relevance to the works read in the St. John's program. Works in the exhibit are from the collections of the Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and Mrs. Gertrude Weber. It is organized by the Trust for Museum Ill Exhibitions in Washington, D.C. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The St. John's Reporter</em> Description An account of the resource College newspaper which started publication in 1974. Continued publication into 2000. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY l\ l~\ \l\ \ l fl~lilfi(il\ ~f\ [ ~ \1\ l\ \1\ l\ \ \1 The St. ] ohn's 3 1696 01138 2114 I VOLUME 21, ISSUE 2 ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, AND SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO WINTER 1995 I ANNAPOLIS EDITION Honoring the Decade of the Forties Homecoming in Annapolis, with memories of Stringfellow Barr, Scott Buchanan, and the early days of the New Program ............... page 8 WHEN JOHNNIES· CAME HOME How the passage of the G.I. Bill, which guaranteed education benefits to those who had served in World War II, changed college.......... page 6 A report from Santa Fe by a Graduate Institute participant......... page 12 News from Annapolis & Santa Fe, alumni, students, faculty, Graduate Institute, parents, staff, and friends ................ page 2 News from the classes, ............ ~. . . . . . . . profiles ............ page 13 ............................. 1 1 ' """t-""'"'' l'.AJI., .......... The latest efforts graduates find jobs .... page 16 g, ................ Preceptorial offerings in Santa Fe and Annapolis, plus recommended readings ........... page 19 1-"rnn-r"ll ·rn ~CllOlctrsrup: Profiles of tutors Michael Dink in Annapolis and Charles Bell in Santa Fe .................. page 20 St. John's students on campuses volunteer in their local communities ............. page 22 The Arts: Concerts and art exhibits in Santa Fe and Annapolis ...... page 24 At Homecoming in Annapolis, tutor Chester Burke, a graduate of the class of '74, shares a quiet moment of conversation with Sally Greppin DeKorne (AB4) on the quad. Photo by Keith Harvey. ~NSIDE: 1993-94 ANNUAL REPORT! �l What might Socrates have said about the Internet? Johnnies now have the opportunity to explore this form of global dialogue. Thanks to generous donations from the late James Connor, a former board member, and Santa Fe tutor Grant Franks, the Santa Fe campus went on-line this October. According to Catalog/Systems Librarian Patrick Emerson, the wizard behind the hook-up, the Meem Library is to be connected to the Internet through Checsnet. Students with computers and phone lines can now dial in directly from their dorm rooms. Computers in the library also provide access. College librarian Inga Waite said access to the Internet has been a dream of many students and faculty for the past three years. "It's a form of communication that's sweeping the academic world and people at St. John's are really interested," she said. The Internet offers a wide range of resources and opportunities for students, faculty, and staff. While one advantage is that it is less expensive to send a message via E-mail to somebody in Annapolis (or even Europe) than it would be to call or write to them, the Internet is far more than an electronic postal system. "I see it as a way for the college to be able to communicate its approach to education on a global scale, more than the college has been able to do before now," Waite said. "For instance, students and faculty will be participating in dialogues with people all over the world through newsgroups and mailing lists." In addition, the Placement Office hopes to use the Internet to fmd jobs for graduating seniors and to allow students to correspond directly with graduate schools and professors. "One of the things that's made both campuses excited is the idea ofbeing able to communicate," Waite said. "We think it will bring the campuses closer together." Library services also will be expanded through the net. "We can search virtually any library catalogue in the world," Emerson said. "It should help us improve our own service and give us more options." Waite said professional networking is yet another major advantage to being online. "Ifl want information about a library security system, I can send out a message asking for information about the system and I can get feedback from fellow librarians before I make a decision." While Internet access can be costly, St. John's received a relatively low-cost rate on the hookup. According to Emerson, this is because St. John's has fewer users than most colleges and universities and therefore can use a slower line. (For the present, access will be limited to current students, faculty, and In aa<Imon, -th ....n.n.-rh Higher Education Comrmt1ng consortium of New academic computing services, St. John's can take advantage of lower prices on equipment and software.According to Emerson, Mosaic, FTP (File Transfer Protocal), and E-mail will be available from the start. For those who can only visualize the Internet as a giant spiderweb from space, help is available. Emerson said training and even classes are being provided. by Lesli Allison 2 THE,R£PORTER Hassan Ali Abu-Jarad, a professor from Al-Azhar University in Gaza, attended the Graduate Institute in Annapolis this fall on a Fulbright scholarship. Although Hassan enrolled in the literature segment, the true focus of his studies was discussion itself. Hassan, who leads his university's workshops for school teachers, decided to attend St. John's to find solutions to recurring difficulties he faces in his classes. Many times, students in his classes stray from the texts, he says, and the discussions turn into general, unfocused conversations. When papers are assigned, the very students who are comfortable voicing their own thoughts in class revert to writing about ideas only as the authors present them. During his semester at St. John's, Hassan studied the techniques tutors used to bring students back to the texts, encourage gentle criticism among classmates, and try to understand the larger questions posed by a work, rather than simply make sense of the text. The great books workshops at Al-Azhar University started in 1978. Hassan, whose field is linguistics, was immediately enthusiastic. The text ofhis first class was the story Hay !ben Yaqathan by Iben Tufeil, which was written during the A bas sad period, a time of peace and freedom from 775-1050 a.d. During this time, known as the golden age of Islamic history, educational custom was similar to that practiced at St. John's. People joined together to study and discuss texts. Students whose parents could afford to, set up labs in which they reproduced the landmark experiments of science. Now, although the Abassad period is long past, Hassan hopes a new golden age will come to his part of the world. He has plans to help usher it in. During his stay in Annapolis, Hassan wrote a book, Leading Discussion: An Introduction To Arab t l Educators, and translated Touchstones texts into Arabic. When he returns to Gaza, he plans to start seminar groups for children, modeled after the Touchstones program developed by St. John's tutors. As he introduces this method of learning into his community, he will search for Israeli and Arab-Israeli partners to conduct corresponding seminars with Israeli and Arab- Israeli children. Slowly, he plans to move the groups together, so they can read important texts and discuss important matters together as groups that are already familiar with the techniques of critical, thoughtful, but peaceful discussion. How will he seek these partners? "Very quietly," he says, answering in a whisper even in the safe and crowded Coffee Shop. Although most people starting such an enterprise would seek publicity, Hassan must do the opposite. He fears that a fanatic ("from either side," he stresses) might target him or his groups. Hassan's dream is to see St. John's style campuses, concentrating on the great works of the Middle East, eventually take over Arab and Israeli military bases. "The aim of this program," Hassan says, "is to transform fanatics from all sides into human beings by offering them discussion, ALL-COLLEGE SEMINAR ON MOVIE IN ANNAPOLIS The Annapolis campus held an all-college seminar on the movie "High Noon" (1952) one Friday evening in November. Twice a year, an all-college seminar replaces the weekly lecture; the Student Committee on Instruction chooses the seminar topics. "High Noon" won several Oscars, including best picture. (It also happens to be one of Dean Brann's favorites; she claims she's seen it eight and a halftimes.) It is a western whose little action comes in the last 20 minutes of the film. Gary Cooper plays a small town marshall who marries a Quaker, played by Grace Kelly, and gives up his job out of love for her. Just as marry, he receives news that the man had once terrorized the town and who had been convicted of murder has been pardoned and is returning on the noon train. Waiting at the station are three members of his old gang. The marshall must decide whether to leave with his pacifist wife or stay and fight. The people of the town-for a variety of reasonsrefuse to help him. The college showed the movie twice, and turnout was good for both showings. Students, faculty, staff, and visitors broke into several student volunteer-led groups of 18 to discuss the film and its themes of courage, duty, private vision, and morality. The discussions went well, and many seminar readings were brought into them, including Achilles' actions in the Iliad, Odysseus and Penelope's relationship in the Odyssey, Plato's inner journey of recollection, and Aristotle's Poetics. Many participants hoped there would be more film-based all-college seminars, including some on recent films, such as "The Unforgiven" or "Pulp Fiction." by Michael Christian (A98) The Reporter is published in July and January by the Rublic Relations Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404, and in October and April by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, 1160 Camino de la Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Annapolis: Barbara Goyette, editor; Sus3an Borden, writer,; Betsy Blume, Eva Brann, John Christensen, Pamela Kraus, Benjamin Milner, Brother Robert Smith, and Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board; Marcia Baldwin, tech support. Santa Fe: Lesli Allison, editor. USPS 018-750 l, t Hassan Ali Abu-Jarad shares insights on discussion with Gl Director John Verdi. Photo by John Bildahl one of the most important things that people do. It's time to start a new era of peace, coexistence, and understanding. That is the core of what we plan to do." by Sus3an Borden BOARD ACTS TO CHANGE MANAGEMENT OF ENDOWMENT FUND At the October Board of Visitors and Governors meeting in Santa Fe, the board voted to switch the management of the St. John's endowment funds to the Common Fund. The Annapolis endowment had two managers prior to the change, Manning and Napier in Rochester, New York, and Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Co. in Baltimore. Santa Fe used Fayez Sarofim and Co. in Houston. The Common Fund is a non-profit organization, the only one of its kind in the country, s-et up solely to manage college and university endowments. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Westport, Connecticut, the Common Fund now manages over $17 billion for 1300 member institutions. It is the largest pool of educational endowment and operating funds in the world. A committee of the board studied the investment question for many months before recommending the switch. treaAccording to Fred "Bud" advansurer at the Annapolis campus, the Common Fund are that outstarldUlg t1Jnanc1a1 mana~~ers with expertise make decisions on how the college's money is to be invested. Investments will be diversified, with money going into international markets, venture capital, and real estate as well as the traditional U.S. stocks and bonds. "By diversifying , we reduce our overall risk and further enhance our capability to get a better overall return on our investment... The track record of the Common Fund is excellent," said Mr. Billups. �faculty, Graduate Institute, parents, staff, friends CARITAS SOCIETY: 25 YEARS OF HELPING GREAT ISSUES: KIRKPATRICK ON PEACEKEEPING Speaking at the Great Issues forum in Annapolis in December, former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick warned that the cost of world peacekeeping is high, and that we should tread carefully when intervening in troublespots around the world. Almost 400 people, including local citizens and high school students, prominent state and national politicians, and St. John's students, tutors, and staff, attended the program. Dr. Kirkpatrick discussed the U.N. peacekeeping roles in Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, and Kuwait. In clear terms, she laid out the history of U.N. peacekeeping, explaining how that mission relates to the overall aims of the international union. "The U.N. embodies a dream of a world without war, and a world without power," she said. The founders of the United Nations were interested in protecting the sovereign rights of states, and wanted to prevent intervention in the internal affairs of individual countries. "This is one of the most clearly stated ideas in the U.N. charter; in article 51 they [the founders] recognized the irreducible right of states to self-defense," said Dr. Kirkpatrick. "Nothing in the charter provides for pe:Iceket~Plltlg--n was a later invention." In 1956 Dag HaJrnrr-Larsk10lel drew up rules for a U.N. role. A pe<:tce.kee~pulg force should be teiJtlP<)raJry arran!~enaeiJLts have gone on uc;•..;;::aJLt;;;::;. u~.., ......... ,,A. Dr. Kirkpatrick with the con- War and unof Boutros Boutros Nations has to pe(lCe.kee:prrtg forces to turn agatt~::m]pt to restore order to the internal affairs states. Dr. KJJrkpatrLck ""'"'''"''~""''~"~ out that in side a "will to peace" and yet U.N. forces are there; peacekeeping is not peacemaking, she said, noting that "there are no philosopher kings operating out of the Secretary General's office." In another reference to Plato, Dr. Kirkpatrick said that governments grow out of the customs and natures of the ... .., ........ ..,,,.., ........ 1-' JL.l'V._. ............. Founded in Annapolis in 1969 with the aim of helping St. John's students who were in financial trouble, the Caritas Society has fulfilled its goal for twenty five years now-and helped countless Johnnies by giving out over $100,000 in emergency aid. At a gala dinner and concert in November the group, now grown to more than 125 members, celebrated its silver anniversary. The celebration included a short piano and cello concert in the Great Hall by Elliott Zuckerman, tutor, and Eric Stoltzfus, music librarian. Then the guests enjoyed wine and socializing before the banquet, served in Randall Hall. Two hundred guests attended, including founders and past presidents of the society, college alumni, and college officials. Chairing the event were Anna E. Greenberg and Lillian B. Wray. Other committee members included Joy Shaver, Caritas Society president, and Trudi Barris, Martha Breed, Cynthia Jartman, Maryanne Spencer, Margot Hammill, Sandy Altherr, Elaine Reed, Veronica Meneely, and Joan Davis. Robert Goldwin (A50) and Ray Cave (A49) returned to Annapolis to thelp lead Great Issues seminars (above). Former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick is greeted by President Chris Nelson and Maryland State Senaror John Astle (right) . Photos by John Bildahl. people ("constitutions do not come from sticks and stones but from the nature of men") and thus you can't send in troops and have them change a society, as was the hope in Somalia. Dr. Kirkpatrick said. she it was not a mistake to try to feed in Somalia, but the U.N. effort at nmlont-otmamg was bound to be a failure because of the way Somali sociwas structured-"War do not to ate, that is the nature lords," she said. She forsees the same problems in Haiti, where the traditions of violence aJtld one-man rule, plus the country's weak institutions and poor economy, meaJtl that democracy is not likely to succeed. After the lecture, the audience attended seminars to discuss Dr. Kirkpatrick's comments as well as two readings, selections from the U.N. charter and selections Joining the staff of the pus' Public Relations office Borden, a 1988 She replacj~s Donna who continues her freelance career as a writer and teacher. Sus3aJtl freelances as a for a local malrkt~tirLg For the past two years, Sus3an has been director of residence at the.~. lis campus. Students know her as the one to turn to for advice with a dorm room problem; because she is also in charge of the college's writing assistance program, she guides students through the thickets of paper-writing as well. Writing stories for the Reporter, she says, is the perfect job for her, as it will capitalize on her love of gossip, an interest she developed at St. John's. The "3" in her name is not a typo; she adopted it in elementary school where there were myriad other Susans. JLU.L.I.U.L'"' from Hugo Grotius 's De Jure Belli Ac Pacis Libri Tres. St. John's tutors co-led theseminars with local and national figures who have an interest or expertise in foreign affairs. by Barbara Goyette When Annapolis tutor emeritus Curtis Wilson gave a lecture on the subject of dynamical chaos this fall, he didn't have to rely on words alone to explain his ideas: He used a model, dubbed the "Loony Machine" that was built by lab technicians AI Toft and Otto Friedrich. Built according to a description in the American Journal ofPhysics (1992), the pair of double pendulums in tandem illustrates chaos. Each of the double pendulums is made up of an upper and a lower part which turn on bearings, thus minimizing friction. When the pendulums are displaced in a small oscillation, they travel together very nearly. However, when there is a large initial displacement, the pendulums go "loony." As described by Mr. Wilson, dynamical chaos-the behavior first called chaos by James Yorke in 1975-is "order and apparent randomness intertwined." When, in the double pendulum demonstration, the upper and lower pendulums perturb each other, the result is "circular causation." In the photograph Director of Laboratories Mark Daly, in the center, checks out the chaos with Jeff Burger, a junior, on the left, and Peter Rispin, also a junior, on the right. Photo by John Bildahl WINTER1995 3 �From the Bell Tower BOYD OPENS NEW CHUTE OVER TRAGIC BATTLE SITE People have different ways of commemorating things. Santa Fe tutor emeritus Stuart Boyd recently dropped 8,000 feet out of a plane to commemorate one of the most tragic battles of World War II. OperationMarket Garden, the largest airborne attack of the war, was executed on September 17,1944. Mr. Boyd was among thousands of paratroopers under the British First Airborne who dropped to what eventually became known as "the bridge too far." Cut off from British military support and surrounded by German panzer and infantry divisions, roughly 2,000 paratroopers were killed. Some of those who survived escaped across the Rhine. The remainder, including Mr. Boyd at the age of22, were captured. "In effect, it led to the destruction of the British First Airborne and the destruction of the town of Arnhem where the brave and trusting citizens who met us and helped us, thinking that they were to be liberated, found themselves instead with a destroyed city and still in the grasp of the German army," Mr. Boyd said. For nine months following his capture, Mr. Boyd, a native of Scotland, remained a prisoner of war. "I was in a prison camp near Hanover, and then was transported by train to the Polish border to another camp," he said. "From there we were marched back in the worst winter of the war because of the approaching Russian onslaught. Then, in May ofl945, the British Seventh Armor Division, the famous Desert Rats, broke through into the prison camp and I was released and returned to hospital in Scotland." On September 18, 1994, Mr. Boyd made the jump again, this time to commemorate with his colleagues the 50th anniversary of the ill-fated battle. "It was a very emotional experience because the last time I jumped there it had such a tragic outcome for so many friends," he said. "This return was a kind of salute to their memory. It was also an opportunity to see whether I could still do it. Dropping in freefall for 8,000 feet and reaching terminal velocity and not knowing whether the chute is going to open is, to say the least, an exhilarating experience. It's quite different from the wartime operation jumps, which were from 1,000 feet-the object being to get on the ground as soon as possible because there was a good chance you would be a target and be shot at." The commemorative jump not only allowed survivors to revisit the site and the memories of friends lost, but it also raised funds to benefit the Charity for the British Airborne. The fund helps to support families who have suffered casualties. "I managed to collect $5,000, a considerable portion of which came from faculty, staff, and friends of St. John's College," Mr. Boyd said. Today Mr. Boyd is retired and "nursing sore knees" at home with his wife and his dog in the north of Scotland. "I paint a little, write a little, think a lot, swim, walk and potter in my garden," he said. by Lesli Allison Santa Fe tutor Stuart Boyd re-enacted a parachute drop he originally made in World War II (right). During the war he was taken prisoner (top left), along with others from his unit (left). ANNAPOLIS CAMPUS BREAKS WITH TRADITION, SERVES GOOD FOOD IN COFFEE SHOP It's a little disconcerting, the first few times it happens. You walk into the Coffee Shop in Annapolis and there's that ... smell. Not the traditional institutional smell of canned food overcooking, or the comforting, slightly acrid smell of coffee going stale. No, this smell is unsettlingly unfamiliar to long-time Coffee Shop patrons. It's the smell of hot pizza in the oven, fresh cookies baking, and newly brewed coffee. Community members now accustomed to these smells advise their colleagues to take a deep breath, relax, and get used to them, because if the St. John's community has its way, these smells, and those responsible for them, will be with us for a long time. The responsible party is a father and son team sharing the name Ray Sears, who made the Coffee Shop a satellite of their Pizza Express shop when school opened this past August. They expanded the menu, extended the hours, and began cooking a lot of food for a lot of happy customers. In fact, they're cooking far more food than they ever would have guessed. "When we started, Marriott [who had been running the coffee shop] told us we would do fourteen or fifteen hundred dollars of business a week," says Sears the Younger. "Now, we do that on a Monday." Sears credits the addition of pizza to the menu for the increased sales. "Pizza is our most popular item by far," he says. "We do about sixty percent pizza. One 4 THE REPORTER guy comes in here for pizza four times a day, every day." Students credit the responsive nature ofPizza Express management. From the start, the team has asked for and quickly responded to requests for new and different products. A recent survey further encouraged community input by rewarding respondents with a free soft drink or candy bar. Pizza Express heard Pizza anyone? Chris Gillen, Shon Cook, and Ray Sears Senior can really dish it out. Photo by John Bildahl. from about 180 people, who voiced almost unanimously positive responses. Almost thirty of the comments were along the lines of ''wish you ran the dining hall." When asked ifhe would consider bidding for the food service contract, Sears says. "That's already come up several times. To tell you the truth, I would be the first in line." Graduate Institute students in particular have benefited from the new Coffee Shop's extended hours. In the past, with only one hour to eat between classes, they had two choices: they could dash off campus, or pay full price for the dining hall's all-you-can-eat meal, which they had to consume in the twenty minutes between the end of their class and the dining hall's closing time. Now they can go to the Coffee Shop. John Verdi, director of the Graduate Institute, has already noticed the effect this has on Gis. "Whenever you go down there between 6:30 and 7:30, it's just packed with Gls. Before the Coffee Shop was open at these hours, they had to go off campus to eat, so they'd all disperse. Now they're here in groups, talking before seminar. I think it's even had an impact academically." But not all are so happy with the new Coffee Shop. College horticulturist Blythe Woods resents the tempting smells and flavorful offerings of Pizza Express and pines for the days when the lunch hour was never a challenge to her dietary resolve. "When I step on the scale in the morning," Woods says, "I kind of wish the Coffee Shop had never changed." by Sus3an Borden �CAPITAL CAMPAIGN ON TARGET FOR . . . . . . .,.."" .... As of January 1, 1995, we have 550 days to the conclusion of the Campaign For Our Fourth Century. We have in hand pledges of $24.5 million toward the $30 million goal. Chairman Ray Cave (A49) is optimistic that the college will successfully complete the campaign on time and on goal. What that means is 5 50 days, $5.5 million, or $10,000 every day! For the remainder of the campaign the focus will be on giving every alumnus the opportunity to participate and on fundthe two physical facility needs: the conversion of the Hall of Records buildinto a new library in and creation of a student building in Santa Fe. of any asset are welGifts of all comed and needed. To help secure the independence of St. John's College, call Jeff Bishop (410-626-2505) or Jeff Morgan (505-984-6101). The Annapolis campus experienced a taste of Hollywood when portions of the up1cornmtg movie "Boys" were filmed in September. Produced by PF Productions and distributed by Disney, the film is directed by Stacy Cochran ("My New and stars Winona Ryder ("Age of Innocence," "Little Women") and Lukas Haas ("Witness," "Rambling Rose"). The plot has something to do with Winona failing off a horse and being rescued by boys from a nearby prep schoola place with green lawns, towering trees, historic-looking brick buildings, in short, St. John's College. Scenes were shot in the Coffee Shop (which was re-done in orange and ocher and subsequently returned to its original form), in Randall Hall, in the kitchen, in a Mellon classroom, and on back campus. Few students saw Winona; most discussions seemed to focus on whether this whole movie thing was a giant hassle or sort of interesting. The money the college received was put to good use immediately, with some going for a new sound system in FSK Auditorium (hooray! no more dead zones) and some earmarked for dorm renovations. $30 MILLION Gifts received to date 1 at $5,000,000 ............................................. . 2 at $2,500,000 .......................................... . 5 at $1,000,00 ...................................... . 7 at $500,000 ................................. . 11 at $250,000 ............................ . 12 at $100,000 ...................... . 15 at $50,000 ................. . 20 at $25,000 ............. . 30 at $10,000 ........ . Many less than $10,000 The relationship between philosophy and public affairs will be explored in a new conference and lecture series recently initiated on the Santa Fe campus. The "Tocqueville Lectures" will serve as a forum to engage students, public figures, and local citizens in exploring the character of citizenship, leadership, and education in contemporary American life. The program was created in response to students who have expressed an interest in fmding ways to bring what they know from their studies into the arena of public policy. The series, which will focus on a different topic each year, is funded through a grant from the John M. Olin Foundation. Speakers in the 1994-95 "Citizenship and Democracy" series will examine the complementary duties and responsibilities of democratic citizenship. "They will not only raise the policy questions-what do we do to increase or cultivate a sense of responsible citizenship in a society based on rights- but also the major historical and philosophical questions as well, like why are republican virtues difficult to sustain in liberal societies?" said President Agresto. "We hope these lectures will help to illuminate the difficulties that a liberal and democratic society has in striving for self-excellence and moderating self-interest in the service of public good." Robert Goldwin (ASO), American Enterprise Institute Fellow, former Annapolis dean, and former member of the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, inaugurated the series with a lecture titled, "Civic Rights vs. Civic Duties: An Unfair Fight." Ira Glasser of the American Civil Liberties Union is scheduled to speak on Tuesday, February 7, 1995. His lecture is titled, "To Secure These Rights: What Are Traditional American Values?" In addition to the lecture series, a conference will be held March 31 - April 1 to address in greater detail the issues raised under the lecture topic for the year. Wednesday, November 9, 1994 Robert Goldwin American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. Tuesday, February 7, 1995 Ira Glasser American Civil Liberties Union, New York February 28, 1995 Michael Novak Crisis Magazine, Washington, D.C. Friday, March 31, 1995 James Q. Wilson University of California, Los Angeles by Lesli Allison ADLER AT SANTA FE'S 30TH ANNIVERSARY Mortimer J. Adler spoke to students in Santa Fe on the occasion of the colleges 30th anniversary earlier this year. Mr. Adler later was honored during Founders Day for his contributions to St. Johns College and education. Photo by Joshua Goldberg. EVA BRANN REAPPOINTED DEAN IN ANNAPOLIS The Board ofVisitors and Governors has approved the reappointment ofEva Brann as dean. Miss Brann, the college's first woman dean, has held the position since 1990. She agreed to serve an additional two years of a second term; the usual term is five years. Miss Brann has been a tutor at the college since 1957. She graduated from Brooklyn College and received her master's degree in classics and her doctoral degree in archaeology, both from Yale University. Before coming to St. John's, she was an instructor in archaeology at Stanford University. She has received many academic honors and has been visiting professor at Whitman College and Visiting Honors Scholar at the University of Delaware. Miss Brann is the author of three books and of numerous journal articles. Her most recent book is The World of the Imagination. BASKETBALL RIVALRY? WHAT BASKETBALL RIVALRY? While the Santa Fe campus awaits a gym, its b-ball hounds practice in the parking lot, at the hoops set up there. Meanwhile, in Annapolis, teams that run like proverbial well-oiled machines practice on full courts and play regularly in competitions. What will happen when Johnnies from the two campuses meet to play hoops? The St. John's College Men's Basketball Team from Santa Fe will play an All-Star Men's Team from Annnapolis on March 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Annapolis. Santa Fe students are still on spring break when Annapolis re-opens, so some Western Johnnies can visit the Annapolis campus to play. All alumni, students, and interested parties are invited to attend the big game. WINTER 1995 5 �WHEN JOHNNIES CAME MARCHING HOME early 1940s young men age to war instead Enrollment fohn's *** During thelow. But following Worldofcollegewithwentpassage ofthe G.ofschoolveterans filledat St.classes. *** IL the I Bill the remained ~r by Barbara Goyette "I wasn't planning on going to college because it was just not part of my vocabulary, not something that anyone in my family ever did," says Jack Ladd Carr (A50). "All I wanted after high school was to be in the war." But Mr. Carr had read the article about St.John's College that appeared in Life magazine in February, 1940. And when he was in the Army in the Philippines, he thought more about the school as he read an article about it in the Saturday Evening Post. After he was discharged in Mr. Carr could think about colhad before, lege, as no one in his because ofthe passage of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of known as the G.I. Bill of Rights. Fifty years ago, the G.I. Bill changed the course ofhigher education in America. Before the war, going to college was the privilege of the few; in 1939, approximately 160,000 students graduated from four-year schools. But in 1950 the number increased to 500,000-mainly because the G.I. Bill money for veterans to go to college or to receive advanced trm"mnlg. Nearly eight million World War II veterans took of the "'"~'""a-.+" with two million attt~ndmg ... v .... ...,Jo:.""'· At St. John's the war had a continual with low enrollment. Scott Buchanan and ~trmgtelJlovv established the New u ...,..,,,.,...,..,.,..., in the tract faculty and interested .:nuu...,!.u,:,, Life article brought the innovations of the program to the public's attention. But after the war broke out, many students enlisted in the service. High school graduates went straight off to Europe or the Pacific. Of the 90 who started as freshmen at St. John's in 1940, only seven graduated in 1944. Numbers remained low during the course of the war. However, when the war was finally over, the good guys having won and the country bouncing back from the Depression and a war-time economy, the millions of veterans who flooded the nation's colleges brought hope and vitality. At St. John's, students who had left their studies to fight returned. And others, many of whom would not otherwise have considered college, came to try out the "Great Books school." Education interrupted by war At St. John's, the drought in numbers of students was over by the fall term of 1946 when the veterans arrived. According to the 1946-47 yearbook, "the anxiety of the preceding three years was non-existent. The student body had increased and our academic interests had become more intense." Many seniors were returning vets, who were much older than the other seniors who had not left. Those returning had to pass an enabling exam, but otherwise there was no provision for refreshing memories of past studies. Of the 56 juniors in 194647, 39 were veterans. Some veterans re-took a quarter of 6 THE REPORTER ary of 1947. The founders of the Program, the rescuers ofthe tiny liberal arts school, they were tired and frustrated by the conflict with the Navy over the possibility of the Naval Academy taking over the campus. When the veterans returned, the college had a new president, John Kieffer, and a new Jack Neustadt. Students thought of the time between 1937 and 1945 as a sort of golden age at St. John's. After the war, "it was traumatic" without Barr and says but the in those days Mr. Van was very was well ...,....,.~ ............. established to run with different Tutors like were and Simon in their These same men would with the college for twenty years or more, several generations of students. In the of the war, St. John's tried to attract and students in order mto survive. Under the Freshman schoolers who demcould do the work were admitted as freshmen. Classes ran trn·ou!Zh~:::mt the summers so that those at age 16 could several years of before old to the ser:.:. describes himself as a and successful student at the Gilman School in Baltimore. His father thought that the war would continue for a long time and advised him to try to start out at St. John's rather than finish at the prep school. "There were a number of other 16-year-olds let in, and we did rather well," said Mr. Atterbury. "My disciplined high school background helped, but I was not mature enough to realize the full implication of what I was exposed to." Mr. VanSant also enrolled early, entering with a state senatorial scholarship. "But there weren't many students here ++~~·l..n.~T Two scenes from the 1947 yearbook illustrate what happened at St. John's as a result of the passage of the G./. Bill. The top photo shows the junior class, many of whom left college to serve in the armed forces and then returned. The huge (for St. John's) freshman class, the class of 1950, also had many veteran members; some of these students would not have considered college if they had not received the stipend for education that was part of the veterans' benefits package. study; George VanSant (A47), for example, had started as a freshman in the summer of 1943, left for the service in June of 1945, and re-entered in January of 1947. "We were on the quarter system, so I took the last term over and then began," he explains. "I was only gone really a year and half," says Mr. Van Sant. "I was in north China and when the war ended we went on occupation duty. I was in the Marine Corps, and we served as support for Chiang Kai-Shek. There were some pretty hairy times." Gerald Atterbury (A46), who enrolled at St. John's when he was 16 and had not yet finished high school, enlisted in the Army Air Corps when he was 18, then came back to St. John's several years later under the G .I. Bill. "I thought the break between my sophomore and junior years was felicitous," he says. "When I came back I was quite a different person. I had been a sheltered rich man's son, but I learned a lot about people in the service. It was a real maturation process I wouldn't have missed." The returning veterans did not identify themselves as a group, nor did they segregate on the basis of officers and enlisted men. They tried to blend in with the other students as much as possible both in class and outside of class. And yet, their age and the experience of having lived through a war inevitably changed the way they viewed their studies. '~ter the war, there was a vitality; everyone worked hard, there was a real seriousness, an aliveness and optimism." "Having been in the service did focus my attention on what the Great Books were saying in a much more intense way. I would have liked to repeat the first two years to see what I missed," admits Mr. Atterbury. Mr. Van Sant says that he thinks being in the war changed the tenor of discussions at the college. "When I came back I lived in the dorm. My roommate and I had cocktails every afternoon, then we went to dinner. When we came back to the room we studied and never talked until 11 p.m. We were quite disciplined," he says. In another important respect the college was a different place before and after World War II. Scott Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr had both left by Janu- because of the war. It slowly dribbled down, and by the time I left in June of 1945, the student body was at about 78. It was forlorn," he says. When he returned a year and a half later, with his tuition, fees, and a stipend provided by the G.I. Bill, the college was transformed; "there was a vitality, everyone worked hard, there was a real seriousness, an aliveness and optimism." Veterans try the Great Books The veterans' optimism sprang not only from their faith in the future but also from the support, both economic and emotional, that the G.I. Bill represented. When President Roosevelt signed the bill in June, 1944, he said, "This ... gives em- �phatic notice to the men and women in our armed forces that the American people do not intend to let them down." Citizen groups like the American Legion had been lobbying hard for educational and other benefits for the returning vets, and federal government committees had been studying various proposals for a benefit program. There were concerns about the potential for political trouble when thousands of G.I.s came back and entered the workforce. The Servicemen's "Having been in the service did focus my attention on the Great Books in an . Intense way. " Readjustment Act benefit package that was guaranteed to veterans allowed for retraining, college education, unemployment benefits, and help with home mortgages. Veterans could receive $500 for tuition and books, plus a monthly stipend of $25 (more for those with families). This was sufficient for almost any college in the country. The class of 1950 was the first one to start at St. John's after the war. It contained a number of veterans, some of whom were married. When Robert Goldwin enrolled as a freshman, he came to Annapolis with his wife, Daisy, and baby daughter. He had been stationed at Fort Meade near Annapolis after serving in the Philippines. After reading several articles about St. John's-one about a garbage scow captain who read philosophy in his long hours at sea and had been invited to lecture and then teach at the college-he decided he was interested. "I was 24 when I came, nearly the same age as some of the tutors, and some of the upperclassmen were very young because they had started early," says Mr. Goldwin. "I had no way of knowing what to expect, but within a few weeks I was completely out of this world and back in third century B.C. Athens." Mr. Goldwin and his family soon moved into the veterans housing that was constructed on back campus, where the Mellon offices are now. There were four long wooden buildings, each divided into three small apartments, with a living room, a bathroom, a kitchen, and two bedrooms. Twelve families lived in the housing, and those with children had priority. Disabled veterans like Mr. Goldwin received their benefits from Public Law 16, rather than the G.I. Bill, but the provisions were similar. For all of the veteran families, he says, lack of money was a problem. "There was no keeping up with the Joneses, though, because we were all in the same boat." One problem was that the veterans' benefits only ran for nine months; everyone had to scramble for money during· the summer. "But rent was low on the barracks, and my wife was renowned for having many hamburger recipes." The 1949 yearbook comments on life in the barracks: "This bourgeois domesticity, blooming in the rarefied air of dialectic and logic, nevertheless provided the closest approach to the much bewailed community of minds that St. John's intended to offer. The genuineness of this way of life and study reached not only through the network of little homes, but up to the dormitories and out to the other married students living in town." While the new students who were veterans attempted to assimilate into the life of the college, they were on the average older than the other students on campus. With having been away from school for several years and preoccupied with other concerns in the service, some of them were ill-prepared for the rigors of the program and had to work very hard just to keep up. Jack Carr, a high school graduate who joined the Army straight out of school and came to St. John's as a freshman in 1946, took some courses in geometry and algebra at a veterans high school in Philadelphia. The attrition rate at St. John's was high; of the 80 members of the class of 1950 who started in 1946, 28 graduated. "What I remember most of all was how small the seminars were getting by the time I was a senior," says Mr. Carr. Mr. Goldwin remembers the long hours spent in class and studying. "There was some feeling among the wives that the Many veterans who came to St. John's after the war were married, and the presence of their families added a touch of hominess to the campus. A group of wives and children enjoy the shade on front campus in this picture from the 1950 yearbook (top). Some veterans joined the American Veterans Committee, which recruited members on campus. The AVC (which distinguished itself from the Veterans of Foreign Wars) held functions in Annapolis and Baltimore (right). college was the great rival. As time went on the wives organized seminars for themselves," he says. A spirit of optimism The veterans at St. John's surely brought diversity to the campus and to the program. They were older; some were married and fathers; they had been in combat or involved in dangerous situations; many had not grown up with the expectation of going to college. They participated fully in the life of St. John's, from study groups to dances to basketball. The college itself had been through tough times-extremely small numbers of students, faculty who left to fight in the war, a risky experimental curriculum that was evolving even as it was being taught, two leaders who had to deal not only with serious financial problems but also with the possibility that their campus would be taken over by the military. Even with the assurance of adequate numbers of students who came under the G.I.Bill, financial and administrative difficulties remained. The veteran students, though, felt optimistic, even if they were aware of the college's problems. Mr. Carr says he doesn't remember ever worrying about getting a job with his St. John's background- "I walked out and there were jobs to pick from." "We really thought we could do anything, " says Mr. Van Sant. ~ Postscript: Of the many veterans who attended St. Johns, we interViewed four. Gerald Atterbury and George Van Sant both enrolled before joining the service and then returned under the G.!. ]Jjll. .•, Robert Goldwin and Jack Ladd Cafr Families with children had priority for the veterans' housing that was built on back campus in 1946. Although small and at times uncomfortable, the barracks proved a welcome alternative to town housing for the young families (above). started as freshmen after the war. Mr. Goldwin, fascinated from the start by the political works of Plato and Aristotle, went to graduate school at the University ofChicago. He s served in the White House, was dean of the Annapolis campus during the early 1970s, and is now a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. George Van Sant came from an academic background (his father, a Princeton grad, taught at Penn State) and went to graduate school in philosophy at the University of Virginia. He taught philosophy at Mary Washington College for 32 years. Mr. Atterbury studied engineering at Johns Hopkins, then workedfor IBM, Gould, and Martin Marietta. Jack Ladd Carr earned his masters in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania and went on to serve in planning positions for the cities of Charleston and Annapolis, andfor the state of Maryland. WINTER 1995 7 �• events were lined up to honor .._,...,...,.......... of the '40s under the ""~""""".,.'"rr' committee of David Dobreer (A44)), Sinkey,(A46), George Van Sant (A47), Jonathan Brooks (A49), and Allan Hoffinan There were reminiscences of Barr and Buchanan at the Alumni Association meetnu! (see pages 10-11), a luncheon with more reminiscences (some spontaneous, some rehearsed), a seminar on Scott Buchanan's Res Publica with tutors Curtis Wilson and Hugh McGrath, an elotoast at the banquet by George Van Sant (A47), and several awards (see beclass of 1939, celebrating its 55th reunion, hosted a discussion on St. John's during the transition from the old program to the new program. Chaired by James Boyle and Les Medford, the discussion drew participants from many eras, including alumni from the 1930s, present students, new programers from the '60s, '70s, and '80s, and President Christopher Nelson (SF70). One of the questions under debate was who turned out the lights on Mortimer Adler in one of his early lee- tures at the college-no definitive answer was discovered. Alumni remembered when students would commandeer the local milk horses, and ing scraps of wood to build the annual bonfire. According to one version of the story, the students carted off an outhouse. Various other pranks were remembered with fondness; the spirit of a St. John's community continuing from old program to new seemed to the participants. Several classes celebrated reunions with luncheons, dinners, parties, and/or seminars. The class of'59 marked its 35th (chaired by Goldstein) with a seminar on Kenneth Clarke's "The Nude", led by Malcolm Wyatt. Plato's "Meno" was the reading for the class of 1969's seminar with Eva Brann; steering committee members were Maya Hasegawa and Andy Garrison. The class of 1979-with steering committee members Marjorie Allison, Lisa Simeone, Carol Katrina Plaut, Marjorie Hutter, and Carol Colatrella-had a family picnic on back campus under the sycamore trees, a seminar on Toni Morrison's Beloved led by Michael Comenetz and George Doskow, and a classic Rock Party in the Boat House with Robert George (A85) as DJ. Celebrating their 1Oth reunion, the class of 1984 attended the waltz party in the Great Hall and then a rock party in the coffee shop, participated in the was born in 1926; after serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he attended St. John's, graduating in 1949. He went on to Yale Law School. Some of his corporate clients included Smith Barney, E.F. Hutton, Continental Can, Paine Webber, and Prudential. He retired in 1991. Mr. Rea was unable to attend Homecoming because of ill health; the Alumni Award of Merit was presented to him in absentia by Allan Hoffman (A49). The Alumni Association granted Awards of Merit to Henry Clay Smith (A34 ), David Rea (A49), Ahmet Ertegun Tutor and former dean Thomas Slakey was made an the Class Clay Smith: Man ofa Million Words Henry Clay Smith, born in Catonsville, came to St. John's in 1930 on a scholarship. He was given a Senior Fellowship in 1933, which meant he could study what he wanted. After graduating from St. John's, he received his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins, served as Director of Training at Western Electric, and then was made a professor of psychology at Michigan State University. He retired in 1983 after 34 years. Some of the books he's written are: Industrial Behavior, Personality Development, and Ten Keys to Un- 8 THE REPORTER family picnic on back campus (with a miniseminar convened of babies and toddlers in strollers and on blankets), attended a seminar on the Phaedrus led by Brother Robert, Peter Kalkavage, Nicholas Maistrellis, and Jon Tuck, and hosted a couple of sporting events (tug of war, croquet). Ahmet Ertegun: Master ofjazz Alumni Association president Sharon Bishop (A65) presents an Award of Merit to Henry Clay Smith at the Annapolis Homecoming. derstanding People. In introducing him, Roland Bailey (A35) noted that Henry Clay Smith has written over a million words. In his address to the Alumni Association, Mr.. Smith paid tribute to his St. John's education, and especially to teachers like Ford K. Brown and Richard Scofield. "I wanted to live in a place like St. John's, be a teacher like Brown and Scofield, and have friends like my frater- nity brothers," he said. Mr. Smith explained that he was thankful to St. John's for providing the ideals he has followed in his teaching and writing. David Rea: Lawyer A corporate lawyer at one of the country's most prestigious law firms, David Rea served on the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors. He Ahmet Ertegun turned his avocation-a love of jazz-into his vocation when he founded Atlantic Records, a company that showcased the music of artists like Joe Turner, Ray Charles, the Coasters, Aretha Franklin, and more recently, Twisted Sister and Pete Townshend. In his introduction, John Hedeman (A43) told about Mr. Ertegun's earliest encounter with jazz when his father, a diplomat from Turkey, took him to London to hear Duke Ellington. After finishing at St. John's in 1944, Mr. Ertegun received a degree in music from Georgetown. With a borrowed sum of $1 0, 000 he started Atlantic Recording Company. Many consider him to be one of the founders of rhythm and blues music; the Award of Merit is in honor of his contribution to popular music as a composer and producer �Oopposite page: A group of '84s, including Pierre and Nancy Mease Gagnier and their baby, meet up on back campus during the picnic. This page, clockwise from top: Annapolis Dean Eva Brann catches up with some friends (top left). Santha Bundy Farah (AGI93) strikes the typical SJC 'thinker'' pose (top right). Lenore Parens (A84) and Joshua Parens (A83) try to convince their future Johnnie that the food is OK (right). James Boyle (A39), Frank White (A39), Norton Schwartz (A39), and Harry Hamilton (A39) look at pictures from the Old Program era (center). At the luncheon for the Decade of the '40s, Frederick Davis (A43) and Stephen Bergen (A47) reminisce (above). All Homecoming photos by Keith Harvey. to the best college in America." He continued, "My mother insisted that the chauffeur bring my prayer rug into the dormitory room. I was the only Moslem in the college at the time; I was also the only Moslem who went on to study St. Thomas in graduate school...St. John's taught me to learn logic, to think out problems; it gave me the ethical instruction that kept me out of trouble, and most important, it taught me to be a good person." Thomas Slakey: Honorary Alumnus Ahmet Ertegun (A44) addresses the Homecoming Banquet crowd as he accepts his award. and also for his service on the Board of Visitors and Governors. In reminiscing about his time at St. John's Mr. Ertegun said that when he arrived on campus at the age of 16, "I came Tutor and former dean Thomas Slakey was made an honorary member of the class of 1994 and member of the Alumni Association. George Bingham (S68) presented the honor, citing Mr. Slakey's devoted service to the college, his exemplary promotion of the liberal arts in programs established elsewhere, and his friendship and mentoring of many students and colleagues over the years. Mr. Bingham related how Mr. Slakey induced him, when he (Mr. Thomas S/akey (right), tutor and former dean, with his wife Marion (center) and George Bingham (;eft). Bingham) was a student, into an "out of body experience" by drawing out thoughts he did not know he had. Mr. Slakey was one of the first to bring to the Santa Fe campus the true spirit of St. John's. Mr. Bingham also recognized Mr. Slakey's "sorties into the real world," when he participated in sit-ins in Annapolis in the 1960s and when he spoke out on the moral dangers of the McCarthy era in the 1950s. WINTER 1995 9 �ANNAPOLIS H 0 m e In honor of the decade of the forties, Charles Nelson and John Van Doren spoke at the Alumni Association meeting about their memories of Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan. Those first exciting years of the New Program-when Stringellow Barr as president and Scott Buchanan as dean shaped the course of study and the methods of teaching and learning, chose the Great Books, found a faculty, and welcomed pioneering students-is indeed a time to remember. Here are excerpts of remarks by two who do remember. REMEMBERING WINKlE by Charles Nelson, A45 This gathering includes many, I am happy to note, who remember Winkie well. There are others not present, living and dead, who also know Winkie and who have had pertinent things to say about him. Since I have the unmerited honor to speak somehow on behalf of both, I have were often ignored or forgotten. He had, like Jefferson, an enormous sense ofthe importance of roots. Yet he outgrew local prejudices and regional biases. He led the way towards racial equality long before the Civil Rights movementofthe '60s ...Hehadthecour~ age to oppose publicly the atmosphere ofsuspicion and distrust engendered by the Joseph McCarthy investigations in the early '50s, and in a true sense 'defended our ancient liberties.' " Allan Hoffman in his remarks at the memorial service recollected a quintessential Winkie Barr story. Charles Nelson (A45) addresses the Alumni Association at Homecoming Allan had gone to with Barr And Buchanan looking on. Photo by Keith Harvey. visit with him at Goodwin House in decided that these remarks should conAlexandria (his last residence; he was sist largely of selections from the carethen in his eighties). "Winkie told me: fully chosen words of these friends and I was in the back of the elevator waitadmirers of Stringfellow Barr. I draw in ing for the doors to close when two large part on the remarks of speakers at elderly gentlemen stepped in. One said his memorial service in the Great Hall on to the other, 'I don't know what February 26, 1982,23 days after his death Goodwin House is coming to; now at age 85 ... they are letting in all kinds. There's a When Wmfree Smith spoke at the mefellow on the second floor who thinks morial service he recalled his experience he's Napoleon, and now we have a new resident on the fourth floor who as a student of Barr's at the University of Vrrginia. Yet (strangely enough) I think is going around and actually telling evthe most compelling reference in his triberybody that he is Stringfellow Barr.'" ute was to the words of Douglas Steve Benedict, on the same occasion, said: "No one isolated Winkie's Buchanan, class of '43 (Douglas, of They made St. John's a place for explorers. It would never be as good a place for those who have the answers as for those who are trying to find their way. course, knew Winkie better than any of us here): "Whenever I think of Wmkie, and I do this often, I think ofhis gallantry, his good humor, and his courage ...His loyalty and his old-fashioned friendship for my father, whom he often gave up home, comforts, and even his work to be with, were very touching. "He, like Thomas Jefferson, operated by a code of honor in his relations with others in an era when loyalty, discretion, and 'virtue' (in the ancient Greek sense) 10 THE REPORTER center more accurately than Mark Van Doren in remarks he made on a windswept hilltop in 195 8 at a party for him and Scott Buchanan. "[He said that] both of them are incendiary; both are burning; they have always burned. Scott burns slowly and smokelessly. Winkie burns with a blaze, bright and red and always there, always at the top of his intensity. He can be loving and he can be angry, and his anger presents itself in spontane- c 0 m • z n g ous fashion. He can lay all areas waste." SCOTT BUCHANAN It is very hard to understand, lookby John Van Doren, A47 ing back, how this college survived those first ten years of theNew Program. Just as Barr and Buchanan were turnWe all knew him, of course-had had ing up the lights on this campus in the encounters with him, if only at the openlate '30s, the lights were going out all ing ceremony of the year when as freshover Europe. . .My freshman class armen we were formally taken into the colrived here exactly two months before lege community. Sometimes he appeared Pearl Harbor...Within two years 60 of before us, as at college meetings or lecthe 65 members were scattered all over tures. Always he presided over the questhe world. tion period after the lecture, and at least Yet, for me at least, the memories of in the first years of the program he was the college from the fall of '41 to the often to be found sitting in the Coffee spring of '43 when I left, and from 1945 Shop, smoking cigarettes and drinking when I returned through 1946 when endless. cups of coffee while some disWmkie left-those memories are not of cussion went on. Later he was less vishardship and struggle but of exuberance, ible save as we happened to catch sight spirited conversation, and laughter. The of him coming on one of the campus tone and style and mood were set by walks in the dark coat and familiar black Winkie. Without his lively presence, hat he always wore, striding in his cuthose would have been grim days inriously stiff-armed way. deed. He didn't tell us, and we didn't If we thought of him it was mostly need to know, the terrible daily struggle as a presence in the dean's office, then in which he and Scott and the faculty in McDowell Hall, where underneath were engaged to keep this place alive. the creaking staircase he did the work No sooner had the veterans begun to he had to, protected from interruption return to the campus than another war by Miss Strange. Some of us were erupted: St. John's battle with the Navy. called to that office for academic failSince Winkie and Scott had suggested ure or disciplinary reasons, and the exupon my return in '45 that my student aid job should be to serve as Wmkie 's assistant, I had a close-up view of those events. My most memorable duties consisted of carrying messages from our two leaders to the Washington apartment of Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, an ally in the battle, and serving as chauffeur, in Winkie's lovely bottle-green Buick, for those who went to the Congressional hearings ... The John Van Doren remembering Scott Buchanan. Photo by Keith Harvey. passage of the years has simplified those events in my memory: Wmkie got out his slingperience could be unpleasant. Most of shot and slew Goliath, whose name was us went by the door, thinking-! know Admiral Ben Moreen. I thought-that within was the dark According to Wmfree's account there center of things that one didn't apwas a long period of vacillation before proach carelessly. The dean was a man of moods, a brooding figure, of whom Winkie decided to place that smooth stone in his slingshot. And so it is that we were most of us afraid, and yet whom the lives of our heroes always prove to we respected-whom we revered. be more complex, more ambiguous, Whether we understood how much more human than our memories allow... the college was his creation, I am not Wmkie and Scott were voyagers tosure. Even I, who took it as an article gether. They made St. John's a place for of faith, hardly grasped the truth. We explorers. It would never be as good a owed to him the statement of the frrst place for those who have the answers college catalogue, which did so much as for those who are trying to fmd their to defme the program. We owed-we way. On that theme Wmkie left us all a still owe-the inclusion of the mathfond, thoughtful farewell message. It apematical and scientific works that are pears as the last words of what I think is unique to it. We owed its whole delivhis best book, The Will of Zeus: "And ery system, the mix of seminars, tutonow, my reader, if you choose to emrials, laboratories, and lectures that bark, or re-embark, on these Greek seas, turned out to be the heart of it and has may you, like Odysseus, see the cities not changed essentially in nearly 60 years. We owed the lack of rank among and learn the minds of many men before you fmd home."• the tutors, whose lowly title turned out �to be, like Roman citizenship, the highest honor of our state, needing no more. Mr. Buchanan did not teach much after 1943, when I started at the college-he had no time ... Yet he was frequently enough seen standing among a group of students who had cornered him with a question-standing characteristically with his hands in the back pockets ofhis trousers, his legs crossed at the ankles, grinning and nodding at what was said, fixing those piercing blue eyes on someone who raised some new point and coming back with a remark that had a sort of transcendence about it, so that the discussion was suddenly taken to a higher plane-we were made to hear the overtones in what we had been saying. Now and then, when someone said something he hadn't thought of, he'd laugh in his peculiar silent way. He was the best kind of teacher, the kind who makes you realize not how little you know, but how much-who indeed drew out of you stuff (he liked that word, "stuff") you didn't know you had in you, so that you staggered about afterwards in a sort of daze, wondering how you had managed to say that, won- dering if you understood what presumably you meant. I recall a memorable oral exam in which I found myself saying things I had no idea I knew. Perhaps I didn't know then. Indeed I think I realized afterwards how imperfectly I'd grasped my argument. Yet the book had been opened to me, and I never forgot the new way in which I had been invited to examine it. By 1946, when he resigned, Mr. Buchanan was exhausted, having carried on his shoulders for so long not the college he conceived, but the juryrigged affair, the collection of children and retreads with which the war had forced him to make do. Even at best it had had some air of wild improvisation about it, which could not have been sustained, which disappeared when it became Mr. Klein's college, and which is hard now to remember. Something of its flavor returns when I recollect one question period at which Mortimer said a good argument was like a tennis game in which you batted the ball across the net until some shot was a winner or went out. Scott said that was a good figure, except he thought it was best when you didn't have a net. Winkie and Scott were young men, barely into their forties, when they started at St.John's. Bob Hutchins and Moritmer Adler were even younger when they took over at Chicago. They were all buccaneers, boarding academic ships in distress, saving what they wanted and throwing overboard the rest. None of them could now be dean or president of any institution. We may be glad that we were among the seized, that our hearts and minds were caught by their fantastic schemes, that we were set upon new courses. It has not been easy for us since, some of us, sometimes. St. John's is a college of misfits, or should be, partly-of people who are not quite at home in respectable places. When Scott retired we gave hime the Loeb Odyssey as a parting gift, the book for a man whose home is hard to reach and who leaves it when he gets there. We knew he was a wanderer. Nor did he ever return except to make a speech or two, was buried elsewhere when his time came. This place, though, is where in essence he remains, and will as long as the books are read, and the conversation he had said that we would find in them is carried on.~ 1995 HOMECOMING IN SANTA FE The classes of 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, and 1990 will celebrate their class reunions this year. All alumni are welcome to join in the festivities of the Homecoming Weekend and the Alumni Program sessions. The Summer Alumni Program will take place from July 16 through July 28 (the weeks before and after the Homecoming weekend). Week 1 (July 16-21) will focus on the fine arts. This week will give alumni a look at what happens in the senior fme arts segment in Santa Fe, as well as including other varied material. There will be seminars on paintings, tutorials on readings by artists, and practicum sessions. Week 2 (July 23-28) will include readings in political philosophy and international relations. Both classical and contemporary texts/issues will be explored. Further information will be mailed to all alumni this spring. Class of 1975: Recession following the conferring of degrees. Members of the class of 1970 give downtown Santa a taste of "Reality." Members of the class of 1980 are doing something, but we're not sure what. Members of the class of 1990 perform a balancing act. WINTER1995__ 11 �F CULT¥, STUDE INAF I DISE LAND A look at how the the Eastern Classics program is going in Santa Fe by Sara Harris, EC95 With equal parts humility and enthusiasm, students and faculty in Santa Fe have completed the first official semester of study in Eastern thought. Two years ago a pilot program confirmed the feasibility of such an undertaking. Last year the board and faculty of both campuses approved the program, which offers a master's degree. This fall, with a class of 21 students (nine of whom are SJC alumni), St. John's opened the Graduate Program in Eastern Classics. While some at the college have expressed concern that Eastern material may not lend itself well to the St. John's semi" nar table, students reviewing their first semester said the program, in fact, offers a solid introduction to the writings, arguments, images, and textures of Eastern thought. "It's certainly been a question here at St. John's for a long time," said student and Graduate Council co-chair Derrick Miller. "I think we've finally come up with a good solution." At the same time, students interviewed said they did not believe the undergraduate program should be altered to accommodate Eastern works, a perennial debate within the college community. Some said they thought it necessary first to know intimately the roots of American or Western civilization. Others said they would be concerned with factors such as the limited time available within the program, potential conflicts with the demands of learning Sanskrit or Chinese language, or difficulties accommodating Eastern and Western perspectives in the same curriculum. "It's only natural that the Eastern program should be somewhat separate in that it has its own language[ s]. To mix the two would not be entirely beneficial; you wouldn't really get as much out of it," said student Scott Geib. Difficult content inspires study Motivation for joining the program varies widely, as does the experience brought to it. In fact, students said the program benefits greatly from the varied backgrounds of its participants. For instance, Virginia Tierney spent several years teaching in China before entering the program. "While we were there we made very dear friendships," said Ms. Tierney, "[but then] the political situation became so disturbing to me that I started really wanting to know what was Chinese culture and what was Western culture. I wanted to start making some distinctions because the Chinese would often say that \ their way was not the Western way, and yet many of the things they were doing seemed to me to be very Machiavellian." Students said the level of enthusiasm, commitment, and preparation among their classmat,es enhances the quality of the 12 THE REPORTER classroom experience. Comparing his Sanskrit class with undergraduate study Mr. Miller at St. ing a fairly similar method I think the fervor with which the students approach it is much different." "I think we have a really enthusiastic class. Everybody works and we don't have the 'I didn't prepare' situation-ever." said Ms. Tierney. All students attend the main seminar, which during the fall semester focused on texts within the Indian philosophical, religious, and literary tradition, and during spring will emphasize Chinese and Japanese classics. In addition, students study either Sanskrit or Classical Chinese language, stressing grammar and translation, and participate in two preceptorials each semester which focus on a particular text or tradition. The four offered so far include Taoist and pre-Taoist texts; plays by Kalidasa; a choice of texts in the tradition of Zen Buddhism; and Sankara's commentary on the Upanis ads. Students also have access to a program publication. Maril Blanchard started Open Forum, a monthly newsletter that serves as an information resource and a forum for further exchange. The newsletter has featured detailed essays supplementing works read in class, synopses of student papers, information on doctorallevel education programs, and on-line resources for Asian studies. The remains the most profound element of the students' eXJJen em;es. "You can read them a hundred times " Mr. and always get something Geib said. "I always want to go back and read it again." In comparing the St. John's approach to Asian studies at other schools, Ms. Tierney said it is valuable and unique that St. John's combines religious, philosophical and aesthetic elements as a whole. With this approach, students have been able to look at a range of thought in these traditions, which in many cases has had a powerful impact, she said. "Even if they bothered me or if they angered me, I was passionate about them, dying to read them again." to talk about Eastern works As perhaps in all seminars, the initial classes of the year were difficult and demanded adjustments of all the students. In addition, however, the first Eastern Classics seminars raised issues concerning the perspective of the students in addressing these texts, their qualifications for discussing the works, and the need for contextual information. "At the beginning we were distraught because we didn't know what direction we were going," said Mr. Geib, "but [the St. John's approach to books] works quite well once we get going in it." The program provides students the opportunity to examine the roots of several Asian cultures and in many instances, compare them to basics of American culture. Nonetheless, students interviewed said it was hard to classify differences. "Most of the basic questions are pretty much the same," said Mr. Miller. "The approach to asking them is very different." "Our civilizations evolved differently but we're stillkindofgrabbingatthe same ideas," Mr. Geib said. Join people from around the country this summer to read and discuss some of the greatest literature, philosophy and opera of all time. Summer Classics is a one to three week residential education/vacation opportunity for adults from all backgrounds. Seminars are conducted by members of the faculty each morning from 10 A.M. to noon. In the afternoons and evenings participants are free to explore historic Santa Fe and the surrounding region. Week I JULY 16-22 Homer, Iliad Dostoevski, Crime and Punishment Sophocles, The Theban Plays Week I I JULY 23-29 Opera, Salome, Fanciulla Founding Documents, Partii Virgil, The Aeneid Week I I I JULY 30-AUGUST5 Opera, Salome, Fanciulla Old Testament: Genesis,Exodus,Deuteronomy Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathttstra Tuition ~rom $950/week includes room:& boar€~, Wrlte to: Stm1mer Classics-R, St. Jonn's Cotlege , Santa Fe, New M~;xico 8'75£l'\!Hl599 (SOS) 984-6104 ' �Alumni otes Lt. Col. F. Noble (Ret.), extends an official hello to all members of the classes of 1922 to 1924. He lives in Medford, Oregon. Frank Townsend (A) retired from the of medicine in 1986 and lives in City, Md. He reports that he is "alive and well as a result of a total knee rer,la<~enlenlt, a cardiac and two cataract lens rep1lacem.en1:s. Dr. Barry Fisher (A) is an associate professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. He has a new son, Joshua, born in March. at Brown studying Russian and music; his other children are in a high school production of "Oliver." His wife Masha is on the school board and Republican Town Committee and he's "trying to imagine medical care in the rational world of 'managed care' where the bottom line is $only." oralctH~e L. Wheaton Smith (A) retired from IBM in 1992 after 30 years. He's still doing some consulting based on 44 years working with computers, mostly software. Along with his wife, he enjoys traveling throughout the world and enjoys visiting his grandchildren closer to home. Virtual Latin is an artificial intelligence software system developed by John Adcock (A). Vrrtual Latin is a surmort system for the PHI Latin CD/ROM 5.3, which contains all extant Latin texts from the founding of Rome to A.D. 200. John says the PC/DOS based software introduces computer assisted reading (LECTRIX) and incorporates an extensive apparatus for the scholar called AMAMUENSYS. "It should be of interest to the scholar, the teacher, the student, and the general reader. Virtual Latin em- Joseph isnow teaching organization at Boston College and has just published a large reference book, The United Nations System (Oxford: Clio Press, 1995). Thomas Day (A) is currently the project manager for the Association of Farmworker Opportunities Programs (AFOP). He's working on setting up a national database of migrant and seasonal workers. On the homefront, he reports that his family has converted to Catholicism ("I just got tired of arguing with the Bible"); his parish (St. Catherine of Siena in Great Falls, Va.) is interested in starting a private Catholic academy with an integrated curriculum a la St. John's. Tom's wife Lois (Eckler) (A77) is proofreading for the NIH. His son is a sophomore in high school; his two daughters are 7th and 2nd graders. He is interested in hearing from any Johnnies who have concrete ideas on how to structure an integrated K through 8 curriculum at: 26 Brookfield Circle, Sterling, VA 20164. Barbara Sherman Simpson (A) is a practicing veterinarian and has recently moved to North Carolina with her husband Dale Simpson and her three-yearold daughter Diana Sherman Simpson. An editorial by Seth about American foreign policy on the op-ed page of The Washington Times on December 6. He is with the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies in Germany. Cruger Johnson Phillips (A) reports that she still works as a Community Educator and counselor at the West Hartford St. Ministry, still teaches counseling courses at St. Joseph College, is still in private practice, is still married to the same man, and still has the same two children: Emily, 10, and Emmett, 6. 1976 Meg Collingwood Kimble (A) has been elected to the St. Anne's (Annapolis) vestry, where she also has taught Church School and participated in a number of other parish activities. She lives in Annapolis with husband Ken (A 77) and their children Elizabeth, 7, and Ned, 5, and works as a manager at Kitchen Bazaar, a gourmet cooking supply store. Janet Durholtz, From Teaching to Torts by Sus3an Borden Carolyn Johnson Forche (Fortier) (A) was recently awarded second place for her manuscript of a children's book called Colors Come from God. ..Just Like Me. She writes: "This book was inspired by my 3-year-old granddaughter, who came home from school crying, 'I don't want to be brown anymore because people don't like you when you're brown.' " The award was presented by the Manuscriptors Guild of Houston, Texas. Ms. F orche was the first woman and first African American to be appointed public affairs director of the U.S. Region Five office, covering six states in the midwest. She served from 1979 to 1981. She has also been the public affairs specialist at Provident Hospital in Chicago and worked on many marketing ·campaigns for children's, health, and service organizations. Col. John Lane (A) has resigned his position as Associate Executive Director and Chief Information Officer at the Securities and Exchange Commission to accept the position of Senior Vice PresiTechnology, with NationsBank. He lives in Great Falls, Va. powers the reader without Latin to read texts in Latin and without translation, radically obscuring the distinction betweenreading and learning," he says. For more info, contact Anagnostic Schema, PlO. Box 420362, San Francisco, CA 94142. 1967 Judith Brownstone Sapp (A) writes that her experience at Covington and Burling continues to support the proposition that one year at St. John's is worth much more than four years at Harvard, Yale, or anywhere else. B. Meredith Burke (A) has written a book with Aliza Kolker titled Prenatal Testing: A Sociological Perspective. The book analyzes the social-psychological and ethical implications of invasive prenatal testing. Publisher is Greenwood Publishing Group of Westport, Ct. 1968 Dr. Charles Watson (A) recently acquired a retreat or "dacha" on Martha's Vineyard, which he calls "luxury in middle age." His first son is a sophomore St. John's students like to point out that St. John's College and the Naval Academy are the only two schools in the country that teach Ptolemy. But thanks to alumna Janet Durholz (A82), some students at Cornell University's DDe_roru:tinent Studies can count themselves among those schooled in the mysteries of the eccentric and ecliptic hypotheses. As a graduate student in comparative literature and medieval studies, Durholz developed the course "Astrotexts: Literature and Astronomy." The course was such a hit, she was invited to teach it five or six times. But when she left the Romance Studies Department to attend Cornell's law school, "Astrotexts" dissipated into the ether. Why did Durholz leave comparative literature, romance studies, and medieval languages for the world of product liability and tax code? Durholz cites her affinity for the intellectual rigors of law school. "I loved being a law student," she says. "It's an intellectual challenge. It puts a very high premium on logic compared to the study of literature and languages, where logical thinking is optional or even a detriment." Durholz's other reason for attending law school developed during a decade of work with the Tompkins County Task Force for Battered Women. She realized that, as a lawyer, she could be more effective in making a difference in the lives of abused women. Not content to put her efforts to help battered women on hold while she pursued her degree, Durholz worked with the group throughout law school. "It was kind of strange," she recounts, "being in law school and getting these 3 a.m. phone calls to come to some police station in the middle of the country somewhere to help a beat up woman and her crying kids." Durholz will combine her love of law with her concern for women when she begins work with Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering, a Washington, D.C., law firm with a large pro bono department. But the high degree of burnout in her specialty and her love of academics lead her to predict an eventual return to teaching. Though some might question this circuitous route from academics to law and back to teaching, Durholz has built her success by pursuing her interests, no matter how varied, and she's encouraged others to do the same. As academic advisor at Cornell, Durholz was surprised when freshmen, on their first day of college, asked her what classes they should take to prepare for law school. Durholz, who thrived in law school with no formal undergraduate preparation, could only offer the counsel she's always lived by. Though her words might sound hollow coming from anyone else, Durholz's standing as Cornell Law School's recipient of the 1993 Fraser Prize for Academic Excellence would make any freshman willing to listen to her advice: "Just learn what you love, and keep learning what you love." Photo by Keith Harvey WINTER 1995 13 �Alumni Notes Russell Kyle Munroe (SF) is the owner of an executive recruiting firm which he founded three years ago. His address is: Peral Pia Bldg. 102; 5-18-7 Minamisuna; Koto-ku, Tokyo 136; Japan. 1977 Lydia Ossorgin (SF) reports that she and Kevin Holthaus (SF83) continue to work (more than full time) training teachers in the Socratic seminar practice in the Anchorage Public Schools. She adds: "In two high schools we have seminar 'schools within schools' where students and teachers spend two hour periods daily with the best works of Eastern and Western traditions. Mike Strong (SF85) joined up this year from Homer, Alaska, along with his wife, Mally Mechaw Strong (SF 84 ), who works as a seminar coach in the schools. My son Michael (13) spent five weeks in Santa Fe this semester studying Euclid and Greek with Tracey Wernet (SF 95). My other children, Maria (11 ), Sergio (1 0), and Juliana (9) join in family evening seminars, especially when the salmon aren't jumping or the bears appearing in spring. Practice begins early for a third generation of Ossorgins heading for St. John's!" 1982 Mark Krinock (SF) presently lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he has started a practice following four years of medical school, six years of residency, and a year of fellowship. He says the only complaint he has received during his studies is ''that! am too 'cerebral' regarding my profession of neurosurgeryimagine that!" He and his wife Karen have been married 13 years, have three boys, with another child on the way. He writes, "I appreciate the invitations to the Chicago chapter events and regret only to be too busy during my first year to attend. Even though I am getting busier, I will get better organized and then be able to take advantage of a truly superior cerebral experience! St. John's continues to be and, I suppose, always will be the point of departure for all that I do! Hello, everybody." Jim Jarvis: Physician/Researcher Working on the front lines of the AIDS battle Even in the throes of patient care and research on HIV transmission between infected mothers and their babies, Dr. James Jarvis (A75) is thinking about Aristotle. In September he lectured at the Annapolis campus on the relationship between modern biology and Aristotle's approach to living things, arguing that the language oftoday's medical research owes more to Aristotle than Descartes. Combining patient care with research, Jim fmds himself constantly referring to his St. John's background as he deals with both the emotional and intellectual sides of his work. Jim's field is clinical immunology and rheumatology. He is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit and an associate in the Department of Immunology/Microbiology at Wayne State University. After graduating from St. John's, he earned his medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He was a resident in pediatrics and a fellow in rheumatology, and for a while served as the only pediatrician in a small town in South Carolina. "What Aristotle tells us is that you have to look at living things in a certain way, because that's the way they are," says Jim. As an example of why mod- 1985 1978 In his second year as an assistant professor of mathematics at Clinton Community College in Plattsburgh, New York, is Winfield Ihlow (A). He, his wife, and his son moved to the north country of New York in 1993. The campus "is in an old 'Grand Hotel' on a high bluff overlooking Lake Champlain, with a magnificent view of the lake, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the Adirondack Mountains of New York. We have wonderful summers and great winter sports," he writes. Winfield is interested in forming an alumni seminar group and invites Johnnies in the northeast New York, northwest Vermont, and Montreal areas to write him at: Clinton Community College, Lake Shore Road, Plattsburgh, N.Y. 12901. Philip Jemielita (A) reports that after four years working in Holland for Avery Corporation, he has taken a finance director's position for Henkel-Ecolab in Dusseldorf, Germany. He and Kim and their two boys, Matthew (8) and Thomas ( 5) will be relocating in the spring. Another Johnnie in the international community, Chris Olson (A), has moved with his wife Marcela and sons Conrad (8) and Axel (3) from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Waterloo, Belgium. Chris handles Citibank's relationsips with the European Union institutions and major Belgian banks. He made his annual visit to St. John's in July, when he enjoyed seeing old friends and reading Leon Kass 's new book on the ethics of eating. Robert Covelli (A) recently founded Luna Court, a new literary in the southwest. The monthly will feature interviews with est::tbllsne:o. up-and-coming writers, original short fiction, book reviews and several columns. Two of these columns will feature reviews or reconsiderations of great books which either slipped through the cracks of history or were forgotten over the years. The second column focuses on the kernel of ideas: Did an apple really 14 fall on Isaac Newton's head? Where did Jazz really begin? Anyone interested in subscribing or contributing to Luna Court should contact Robert at 544 East Coronado, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 505-983-4788. THE REPORTER Far-flung alumna Maggie Kinser Saiki (A) writes from Japan that she and her husband Hiromu Saidi have bought a century-old thatched roof farmhouse in the mountains north of Kyoto. They are living peacefully among the cedars and beech trees and raising Hannah Jane (3) and Thomas Korekiyo Saiki, born August 5, 1994. Nancy Pound Townsend (A) recently joined the Directors Guild of America as a second assistant director. She is currently living in Los Angeles, "pining for the East Coast." 1986 Edith Hill Updike (A) received her MS. in journalism from Columbia University in May 1994. She will reutrn to Tokyo under a generous fellowship from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. She hopes to meet up with Johnnies James Kennealley, Stephen McShane, Maggie Kinser-Saiti, and Chuk Besher. 1987 Chris (A) and Sabrina Wald Howell (A88) announce the birth of Zebediah Christopher Quinein Howell, on August 21, 1994. Todd B. Peterson (A), a lieutenant in the Navy, recently reported for duty with Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15, in Alameda Calif. Todd joined the Navy in June 1988. Brother Robert reports that Smith (A) lives in Boston, has a son named Theodore and works in a theology formed when an Episand a merged and opened in a new building. Eleanor has been selected the 1994 for Economic Justice the West Coast Regional Office of Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports. Her initial focus during the two-year fellowship will be on health issues affecting low-in:.. Jim Jarvis (left) discussesresearch on HIV with fellow physician/researcher Steve Holland (A79) when both visited the Annapolis campus to participate in a career forum for students interested in medicine. ern cell biology can be considered more Aristotelian than Cartesian, he cites what happens to a cell as its pH level begins to fall outside of the physiologic range. "We can give a whole series of things that are inevitable. Enzy~es no longer work efficiently when the pH level falls. Our final understandmg of that process is that those enzymes have a function and ~hen they are denatured, they lose that function." Although we use a Cartesian approach to measure and describe what is happening in the cell, that approach is informed by our understanding of the cell as a part of an organism. Jim is fascinated by the kinds of questions raised during research; he says his daily patient care experiences influence his research directions. "The tremendous beauty of human struggle and vulnerability is something that motivates you every day in the lab," he says. "You want to improve the conditions under which people struggle." It was his interest in the immune system that led him to work with HIV positive children; his focus is the transmission of the virus from mother to child. Jim feels that although progress is being made in understanding the disease, there is still a wide gap between research and actually making patients' lives better. "Young women between the ages of20 and 25 are most at risk and represent the fastest growing number of AIDS cases," says Jim. They become infected between the ages of 15 and 20, and the symptoms begin to appear as they enter their childbearing period. He warns, "If you ~ru;tted ~o wipe out the human species the thing to do is pick an asymptomatic, mvanably lethal, sexually transmitted disease." Outside the field of medicine, Jim pursues his interests in literature (he's recently read Proust, and there's always a book of poetry on his bedside history (he's reading Stephen Ambrose's parallel biographies of General Custer and Crazy Horse), and his family (he enjoys coaching his kids' soccer by Barbara Goyette come and consumers. She has more than six years advocating to protect the rights of tenants, children, and persons with disabilities. Eleanor received her law degree from New York University School of Law in 1993 and she has done advocacy work for groups in New Jersey, New York City, Seattle, Massachusetts, and West Vrrginia. Sara Catania (A) received her master's in journalism from UC Berkeley and is now a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. Lael Gold (SF) has received a Claud �Alumni Notes W. Place fellowship for her study toward a doctorate in comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley. 1991 Dianne Cowan (A) is pursuing her Master of Architecture/Master ofArchitecture and Urban Design at Washington University in St. Louis. She says that alumni and students who are interested in architecture or particularly urban design should feel free to contact her at : 6602 Clems Ave., Apt. #3W, St. Louis, MO 63130. Julia Goldberg (SF) was awarded the Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction for 1994-95 from the University of New Mexico's Graduate English Department, where she is completing a master's degree. Recently moved to Pennsylvania, Benjamin F. Moss IV (A) is working toward a masters in theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Anne Marlow (SF) and Kenneth David Geter (SF) were married in August in Snoqualmie Falls, Washington. Anne Grabborn (A) and Marcus Hunt (SF95) were married on August 16, 1994, in Concord, Mass. Oliver Reynai (SF92) was Marcus' best man and Rick Redington (SF94) was an usher. The couple reports: "After an all too briefhoneymoon in Bermuda, we have returned to Santa Fe for Marcus' senior year." Seth Padner (A) received his B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin in 1992 and is currently teaching remedial science classes at Roberto Clemente High School in Chicago. Steve Zell (SF) announces his decision to attend Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He intends to become a rabbi and return to the United States to build a congregation. Scott Saxman: Building a Future in Furniture by Sus3an Borden In the enclave-establishing tradition of Johnnies who've lived in Chicago, Paris, and Tokyo, nearly ten percent of the Annapolis class of '94 has settled in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Five of these new graduates live in the same house; two of them, Scott Saxman and Paul Morf, have gone into business together as Saxman and Morf Furnituremakers. During their senior year, Saxman taught woodworking to Morf and his wife Aimee LaLone. This past summer, while Saxman was wondering what to do with his future, Morf called to suggest that the three move in together somewhere and start a business. Saxman eagerly agreed, but they remained uncertain where they would live until they and several friends attended the June 10 wedding of classmates Lori Williamson and David Clement in St. Paul. At the wedding, classmate Beth Martin realized she liked Minneapolis enough to move there. Saxman, Morf, and LaLone decided to join her, and convinced Muneet Bakshi to complete their household. Now, Bakshi works for Ritz Camera and drives a schoolbus, Martin works in a bowling alley and as a restaurant prep cook, and LaLone works for an architect while Saxman and Morf The Minnesota Crew: David Clement, Lori Clement, Scott Saxman, Muneet Bakshi, Aimee LaLone, Paul Mort, Beth Martin build their business. Saxman's interest in woodworking is natural, if not genetic. His grandfather is a cabinet maker whose pieces are in the White House, the Dupont collection, and at Monticello. "But he's not really a teacher," Saxman says. "I was just around it all my life." Even without direct instruction, his grandfather must have found a way to communicate his skills. Saxman recounts, almost with surprise: "One day, I was in the St. John's woodshop, and Amy Wuebbels wanted a lap desk. I hadn't done anything for money, but I did it and it worked." Saxman exhibited his first commissioned piece in the 1993 Mitchell Art Gallery Community Show. Later he sold his work to other community members including Chris Nelson, the Cohens, and the Higueras. These days, Saxman and Morf divide their efforts between custom orders and experimental pieces for Art Borders, an art gallery in Minneapolis. The two seem to enjoy choosing the names that are required for their gallery pieces. Of their current project, a cabinet in Australian lacewood, teak, and maple, Saxman says "it's thin at the bottom and gets wider at the top, so we're calling it Dr. Caligari's Cabinet." 1992 Catherine Emily Barrier (A) is in her second year of law school at UNCChapel Hill. She asks whether there are any Johnnies near her, and gives her address as: 109 Coleridge Ct, Carrboro, N.C.27510, email:ceb7991 @email.tmc.edu 1993 Working at a homeless shelter in downtown Milwaukee, Carmen Denk (A) says that she fmally gets "to work in a job helping people. I'm learning much about other backgrounds and cultures, and am being stretched in numerous ways. I'm slowly realizing ways in which my SJC education has improved my character and helped prepare me for a career in counseling." Millicant Roberts (A) writes that after spending five months in Toulouse, France, she's returned to Oxford, Mississippi, to work with Project LEAP (Learn, Earn and Prosper), an organization devoted to the education of AFDC recipients. 1994 Kevin Johnson (A), who's living in Brighton, Mass., is an administrative assistant for a small government agency that advises the legislature on health care policy. "It beats bussing tables, I' 11 tell you that ri:LUch," he writes. RE-EVALUATING SEMINAR DISCUSSIONS In Santa Fe last July I attended the 25th reunion of the class of '69, which for me was a heartwarming experience of reuniting with St. John's classmates, some of whom I hadn't seen in 25 years. The weekend's activities were beautifully orchestrated, well-planned, and well-organized. The event that probably meant the most to me was the Saturday afternoon "unseminar" led by Joe Reynolds. After the unseminar was over, we were so fired up with ideas that somehow I got nominated to do something with them-so here they are ... A good dozen of us showed up at the unseminar. Joe's opening question was how the St. John's readings had affected our lives, but we quickly plunged into the more emotional territory of what we felt was wrong with many seminars we attended during 1965-1969. The biggest disturbance most of us felt was that we were never taught how to have a discussion. There we were, fresh out of high school, with most of us never having experienced a single real discussion in school, let alone four hours of them every week! Yet we were expected to sit down and just know how to do it. The result was often a freefor-all, with the most aggressive students dominating, and the quieter students sitting back, unable to contribute. Often, the tutors showed little leadership in mediating the argumentative discussions or insisting on fairness and common courtesy among the students. At the end of those seminars we frequently felt frustrated and dejected. Now, we of the unseminar are not here just to criticize; we have specific suggestions. We suggest that every freshman take a seminar on "How to Have a Seminar": how to listen, how to let the other person fmish before you speak, how to summarize what the other person said before you say your piece, how to stick to the topic, and so forth. These techniques of group dynamics are being taught in some (lucky) high schools in the Touchstones Program. But just taking a seminar (or series of seminars) on group dynamics will do nothing unless these techniques are specifically practiced. We suggest that at the end of every Great Books semi- nar, students take the last 15 minutes and analyze how they carried on the discussion that evening and critique themselves. Selfobservation never becomes habitual; it must be consciously and continuously practiced. And it must be shared with each other. It's not only the students who have to learn how to carry on a discussion, but also tutors. How many of them went to colleges where they had seminars discussing great ideas? Just because they're tutors doesn't mean they are knowledgeable about how to lead a seminar. So there should be tutor training in seminar leadership. We also felt the number of students in a seminar, 18-22, was too large. Why do two tutors need to be present? Why not split the group into 10-12 students, each led by one tutor? It's a much less intimidating environment, especially for students who are not confident in speaking in such a large group. And why do only the tutors come up with the opening questions? Why don't the students get a chance to do this? Why not have a rotating assignment, where each stucontinued on page 17 WINTER 1995 15 �Winter 1995 Alumni St. John's College Association News Glenn Ballard, S68, editor Thomas Geyer, A68, communications committee chair ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ESTABLISHES CAREER NETWORK Professionals in the field of placement say that 70 percent of the time people get jobs through person-to-person contact. Only 30 percent of jobs come through search firms or agencies, direct mail or newspapers. The Alumni Association and the Placement Directors of both campuses have initiated an Alumni Network to assist recent graduates of the college in their career development. Help is especially needed in today's difficult employment market, with keen competition for graduate school admissions, and with many new graduates heavily burdened with debt from their four years at St. John's. Objectives of the Alumni Network The purpose of networking is to provide assistance to the graduate in any way possible. Assistance may come from a word of encouragement or advice. A professional or mentor relationship may develop. It may be that he or she knows of a job opening and can direct the graduate to that opportunity, though that may be rare. Bill Tilles (A59), chair of the Placement Committee of the Alumni Association, says: "This is not a 'provide a job for a graduate' campaign. It employs the effective networking techniques in use throughout the country today to assist the graduate with information, suggestions, and contacts so to the right The Alumni Network will smooth the transition to the real world of work or study after St. John's. Graduates will have immediate contact with people who understand the unique qualifications and concerns of a Johnnie. Not all new graduates will have a clear idea about career choices. 16 THE REPORTER There may be graduates who are interested in meeting with an alumnus or alumna just to talk about the future and get some perspective on "what's out there." The contribution of the alumnus/ a may be a discussion of the qualifications for specific fields, jobs, or graduate schools. The alumnus/a may wish to recommend the Justin Burke (A87) was aided in his job search by alumni. graduate to someone else with whom he or she can further develop an approach to a career field, a graduate school program, or close in on a specific job. All of these contacts will help the graduate better understand his or her options and make the next contact in the network more meaningful. Justin Burke (A87) found a job working through alumni, and he brought the idea of an alumni network to the Placement Office and the Association. Justin has made himself available to who are seeking information that will lead to a career opportunity. "Directly after graduation," he said, "I obtained a position that was advertised through the Placement Office by Jonathan Zavin (A68). Within two years, I moved on to a small yet rapidly growing company where I oversaw employee hiring. Wanting to return the favor of the· employment opportunity provided by Jonathan, I contacted the Placement Office and offered my experience and assistance to students making the transition from St. John's directly into the job market. I figured that with such a common basis of understanding, each graduate should not have to reinvent the wheel and could receive helpful insight from experienced alumni." Getting Started The Placement Directors are currently contacting alumni interested in participating in the network. According to Jennifer Chenoweth, Placement Director on the Santa Fe campus, a list has been compiled of more than 400 alumni who are interested in the network. In addition to occupational information, both Jennifer and Karen Holland, Placement Director in Annapolis, will be collecting biographical information in their interviews. Such biographical information will help graduates identify those alumni with whom they have common interests. When a student inquires about a career field and seeks advice on alumni contacts, they will be given background as well as vocational information on the prospective alumni contact. The Placement Directors will send a postcard to the alumnus/a alerting him or her to the upcoming call. The rest is up to the graduate and the alumnus/a. The ripple effect of an Alumni Network of 400-plus members represents thousands potential contacts, each with some of information or specific assistance. The Alumni Network will be invaluable to the graduates willing to work diligently at the process. -Bill Tilles, Annapolis '59 Chairperson, SJC Alumni Association Placement Committee Chapter Profile: PORTLAND Alumni in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington, who have shown an ongoing interest in forming and sustaining a chapter for seminars and social events, met again January 21, 1995, for an alumni-led seminar on Shakespeare's ''The Tempest:' Other recent events have been held in Portland-so this one took place in Salem. Seminars on Shakespeare, forged on the native strength of his perfect English, often attain great fluidity and vigor, as if by some Pentecostal visit of the Bard himself. For exact time and location of chapter events, contact Rachel Sullivan at 503629-5838. The recent history of the Portland-area group begins on May 31 , 1992, when Santa Fe tutor Glen Freitas led a "sampler seminar'' on Flannery O'Connor's short Story "Parker's Back." The seminar, held in downtown Portland, attracted about 30 alumni-some from as far away as Eugene, 100 miles to the south. Subsequent phone calls and several potlucks revealed that about half of the alumni living in the Eugene-Portland-Vancouver area had an interest in seminars, social events, or both. In March, 1993, about 15 alumni enjoyed a staged reading of "Fever," a new play by nationally known playwright Sharon Whitney, afterward sought comment, questions, and Three weeks later, tutor Carey Stickney conducted an animated seminar on Sophocles's play "Philoctetes." About 20 alumni attended, with many staying for dinner at one of Portland's best Greek restaurants. Our most recent scheduled event occurred in January, 1994, with tutor Torrance Kirby leading 25 �15 an opportunity to ask the openOr, not have the whole group come a dozen opening qm!stlons and the group decide what que:stiCm or questions to focus on? not have a rotating "observer"? This is someone who doesn't in the discussion for the seminar, but who gives a at the end of the seminar. The observer gives feedback to the group on his/her observations of how the group carried on the discussion, what went well, and what needs improvement. The role of observer changes from student to student each so that everyone gets a chance. St. John's is dedicated to teachstudents how to think. But the college needs to be just as dedicated in teaching students how to analyze their own discussion process with each other. After all, we live in a world with other people, and we are always sharing ideas. One of the joys I have in coming back to St. John's as an "adult" is the week-long Summer Seminars. Everyone is so considerate! The seminars are usually very satisfying because we've learned a lot about how to carry on a discussion in a group since we were students. We must improve the process of discussion if we want to improve the content of the seminars. Certainly, St. John's has a bias toward letting students figure out things for themselves, but I think sometimes the slowness of that process can hinder growth. We could let children in grade school just "figure out for themselves" how to read-but if we did, many of them would never learn how, so we speed up the process very deliberately. So, why not speed up everyone's evolution in college and assist them more in the process for group dynamics? Why shouldn't you feel some satisfaction at the end of a seminar? Not because you have "answers," but because you shared your ideas, listened to other peoples' ideas, and evolved a larger picture in the synergy of discovery. 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Letters may be edited for clarity and/or length. Please address to The Reporter, St. John's College, P.O. Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404 or The Reporter, St. John's College, 1160 Camino de la Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe, NM 87501 WINTER 1995 17 �OBITUARIES Mr. Lampee served in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II. He is survived by his wife, Sallie Lampee, two sons, one daughter, and four grandchildren. JAMES E. CONNOR: Board Member James E. Connor, a member of the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, died in Dallas on October 30. Mr. Connor was a member of the board from 1991 until his untimely death. He served as chairman of the board's audit committee and was a member of the finance committee. He also served as a member of the Executive Committee of The Campaign for Our Fourth Century. "St. John's has lost a true friend and a strong leader," said John Agresto, president of the Santa Fe campus. "Jim gave generously and worked tirelessly on behalf of this college. He also, for many of us, was a close personal friend. His dedication and commitment to St. John's will always be remembered, and he will be deeply missed." Outside of his contributions to St. John's, Mr. Connor led a full and active life. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University, where he was an assistant professor of political science from 1965-68. During this time he also was selected as a White House fellow and was a staff assistant to the director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget. From 1971-74 he held several executive positions in the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Commerce and the Office of Economic Opportunity. From 1974-77 he served in the Ford Administration as secretary to the Cabinet and staff secretary to the president. After leaving Washington, Mr. Connor became the managing director at First Boston Corporation in New York until his retirement in 1989. Following retirement, Mr. Connor also served on the board of directors for Suncoast Industries, where he was interim president and chief executive officer during their restructuring, and he recently had joined the board of the Neuroscience Institute, part of the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, California. In addition, Mr. Connor found the time to write two books, one on the Soviet banking system, and another on the state of America today, entitled, Everything Old is New Again, which will be published posthumously. Mr. Connor was an amateur astronomer, military historian, gardener, and golfer. ROBERT BUTMAN: Creative Writing Teacher Robert Hawes Butman, who taught creative writing in the fine arts program in Annapolis since 1991, died on October 21. He was 70. Mr. Butman received a master's degree in English at the University of North Carolina. His history with St. John's goes back to 1953 when he began a two-year teaching internship on a Ford Foundation grant. After teaching at Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges for many years, he returned to St. John's in 1979, when he coled a freshman seminar and directed a production of the Oresteia. When he retired and moved to Annapolis, he began to teach the writing course. Mr. Butman's wit, attention to detail, imagination, and love ofteaching combined to make him a sought-after instructor. GEORGE L. DARLEY: Lawyer George L. Darley (A24) died in September. He retired in 1966 after working as a staff lawyer for several insurance companies. A Baltimore native, he attended Polytechnic Institute. He was an All-American quarterback at St. John's and was known for his punting and broken-field running. After graduating from St.' John's, he coached at Johns Hopkins for eleven years. He served as assistant coach and chief scout for the football and lacrosse teams, and he became head basketball coach and head football coach. He resigned his coaching duties in 193 5 as the university was de-emphasizing intercollegiate sports. 18 THE REPORTER MILBURN ALEXANDER BUCKLER: Class of '25 Milburn Alexander Buckler, a member of the class of 1925 and a resident of Calvert County, Md., died in June. He graduated from preparatory school in Annapolis before entering St. John's. At the college he was president of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, and Battalion Major of the Cadet Corps. Mr. Buckler worked in a variety of occupations; he was principal of Calvert County High School, an engineer with the Navy at Solomons, an executive with Woodward and Lothrop in Washington, and was manager of his father's farm. From the 1940s until his retirement in 1964, he taught in Calvert County. LEWIS SCHEFFENACKER: Retired Salesman Lewis E.Scheffenacker (A34) died in October in Milford, Delaware. A former resident of Roland Park in Baltimore, he was a retired salesman. Born and reared on Guilford Avenue, he atttended Baltimore city schools and graduated from St. John's, where he was an all-American lacrosse player. ROBERT H. LAMPEE: Newspaper Ad Executive Robert H. Lampee (A35) died in August in Whitehall, Michigan. He had been a newspaper advertising executive for 3 5 years, beginning his career at the Grand Rapids Herald. He also owned and operated a calligraphy studio for 15 years. ISRAEL GREENGOLD: Annapolis Merchant Israel "Sonny" Greengold (A3 8) died in August in Annapolis. Born in 1915, he attended Annapolis High School, St. John's, and Baltimore Business College. During World War II he served in the Army. Following the war he returned to Annapolis and the family business, a men's and boy's clothing store that was started by his parents in 1908. He was co-owner of Greengold's for 25 years before retiring in 1980. Mr. Greengold was involved in many community activities in Annapolis, including Congregation Kneseth Israel, Amos Masonic Lodge No. 226, the Jewish War Veterans, the American Heart Association, and Anne Arundel Medical Center. ELLEN LUFF: Lawyer and Women's Advocate Ellen Luff(A61) died ofbrain cancer in November in California. Born in Washington, D.C., Ms. Luff was a graduate of St. John's and the University ofBaltimore Law School. She was involved in politics, feminism, holistic health, and spiritual development. She worked with the Legal Aid Bureau and was an assistant state's attorney in Baltimore following law school. Later she became an associate attorney with the law firm ofBlumenthal, May and Downs. She formed the partnership of Luff and Perkins with Robert Perkins of Annapolis. In 1992, she recieved an award for her pioneering efforts in founding the Women's Law Center in Baltimore. Ms. Luff helped write and worked for passage of the Maryland Equal Rights Amendment adopted by the General Assembly in 1972. After that, she traveled around the world studying the status of women in a variety of legal systems. She was an active tree farmer, herbalist, reflexologist, and a graduate of the Baltimore School of Massage. She was on the board of directors of the Annapolis Holistic Health Community. TAMES BARRETT: Retired Officer Lt. Col. James Herman Barrett (A41) was killed in a shooting at the Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic in July. Lt. Col. Barrett and his wife June were volunteering as escorts to Dr. John Britton and were with him outside the clinic when a gunman opened fire. Both Lt. Col. Barrett and Dr. Britton were killed, and Mrs. Barrett was injured. The Barretts had lived in Annapolis for many years and had retired to Florida. Lt. Col. Barrett served in World War II as a navigator and then taught elementary school in Maryland. DONALD BOUNDS: Baltimore Accountant Donald Bounds (A48) died of cancer at his home in Lutherville, Md., in August. Born and raised in Salisbury, Md~, he atended Wicomico High School and St. John's College before earning a degree in accounting from the University of Baltimore. He was a partner for 20 years in the Baltimore income tax service firm of Bert, Bell, and Bounds, which was formerly known as Katz and Bounds. Earlier he had worked for Commercial Credit Corporation in Salisbury and Washington, D.C., and as Manager ofValuation Department at Baltimore Life Insurance Company in Baltimore. He was a member of the board of directors of E.S. Adkins and Company in Salisbury, and was a former softball coach for the Lutherville-Timonium Recreation Council. He was an owner and breeder of standardbred race horses and a member of the United States Trotting Association. Mr. Bounds served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He is survived by his wife, Eleanor Adkins Bounds, a daughter, Alicia Bounds, a grandson, and his mother, E. Lucille Bounds. ROBERT SPAETH: Former Tutor and Assistant Dean Mr. Spaeth, a tutor on the Annapolis campus from 1963 to 1979, died on November 28, 1994 in Saulk Rapids, Minnesota. Mr. Spaeth also served as Assistant Dean, and he was involved in local Annapolis politics. He taught at St. Johns University in his native Minnesota after leaving Annapolis. The following is written by Geoffrey Comber. There were many sides to Bob Spaeth and they all came together in the complex person whose company I always found enjoyable, though at times he could be irritatingly stubborn. But the very last thing that anyone could call Bob was dull or boring. Politics, science, jazz, religion, history, and so much more were activities he made a part of himself. And one of the keys that made the many facets of Bob into the one whole person that you wanted to know and be with was that, for him, all those things that mattered to him had to be activities in which he could actually engage himself. If they were not activities that could truly affect him, make changes, shape and make connections with his life, they were not for him. In an address he gave to freshmen at St. John's University when he was Dean of Arts there in 1984, he said, "Conversation is worthwhile in proportion to the importance of the idea discussed. And ideas are important in proportion to their connection to the worldnature, persons, society, God." In tum, it was important to him that those same matters, when he spoke with others about them, cor1nected personally with whomsoever he was speaking. This was true of continued on page 24 �The Program PRECEPTORIALS WHAT'S HOT AND WHAT'S NOT In deciding which preceptorial to sign up for, St. John's students actually get to exercise the subject-choosing faculty of the mind. Whether that faculty had been forcibly restrained during the rigors of allrequiredness or had just been gratefully napping with one less demand to worry about, it still had to shake itself awake and decide. Among the many positives: Students break out of the seminar mold for eight weeks. They concentrate on one subject. They new conversation-mates, they might not have shared an interest. own for choosing reading or study matter *Messiaen's "Quatour," for piano, ,. ,. ..............,...- violin, and cello, composed in a Nazi concentration camp in Silesia. Readings include Elie Wiesel's novel Night, Jean-Paul Sartre's essay "Existentialism," passages from the Book of Revelation, Proposed and field are to the Holocaust Museum and to a Burke. doctrine of or Nature, the unity of mind and body, and the possibility and limits of human freedom or blessedness. Leader: Mr. Cohen. *Plato's Republic and the question: What effect does justice have on the soul of the just person.. .Is it good? Is it profitable? Does it lead to happiness? Leader: Mr. Dink. *Seven Heidegger essays: "On the Essence of Truth," "What Calls for Thinking?," "The Thing," "The Question Concerning Technology," "The Origin of the Work of Art," "The Way to Language," and "Poetically Man Dwells." Leader: Ms. Haigney. *Thucydides. Leader: Mr. AJI.'-''AJS'-'A"· *Rousseau's Emile. Leader: Mr. Maistrellis. Leader: Mr. Kutler. *"The Clouds" The can be read as a of art and also as a source, the only source that gives some hint of the way his contemporaries view Socrates. Leader: Mr. Radista. *Faulkner's Go Down, Moses; The Sound and the Fury; Requiem for a Nun. Leader: Mr. Sachs. *Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Kant. Leader: Mr. Sageng. *Aristotle's Metaphysics. Leader: Mr. Schoener. *The problem of Odysseus, as por- trayed in Homer and in Sophocles' "Ajax" and "Philoctetes." Leader: Mr. Schulman. *Plato's Sophist. Leader: Ms. Seeger. *Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. Leader: Mr. Sparrow. *Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, with a concentration on the last twothirds, most parts of which are not read for senior seminar. Leader: Mr. Williamson. *The poetry and essays of T.S. Eliot, read in chronological order. Texts include: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Waste Land," "Four Quartets," "Reflections on Vers Libre," "Tradition and the Individual Talent," "The Perfect ""The Function of Criticism," and "What is a Classic?" Leader: Mr. Yee. *Is there History? Works by Hegel, Nietzsche, and Foucault as a of how response to the affects truth. Leader: Mr. Zeiderman. *Miguel De Unamuno's The Tragic Sense ofLife. Leader: George Aigla. *Aristotle's Politics. Leader: David Bolotin. *Kant's of Judgement. Leader: James Carey. *Three French novels: Rousseau's La Nouvelle Heloise, Mme. de La Fayette's La Princesse de Cleves, andLes Liaisons Jar.!o-P.rP.n'sP..« by Laclos. Leader: James ..._...._,_,.""'·UJLl"""' from Claude Levi-Strauss. How can we understand another culture without sacrificing it to our logic and our logic to it? Leader: John Cornell. *Machiavelli's The Prince and Aristotle's Politics. Leader: Janet Dougherty. *Shakespeare Tragedies: Macbeth, Othello, King Lear. Leader: Elizabeth Engel. *Shakespeare's The Tempest. Leader: James Forkin. *Proust's Swann s Way. Leader: Glenn Freitas. *Thoreau's Walden and "Civil Disobedience." Leader: William Kerr. *Augustine's Confessions. Leader: Torrance Kirby. *Hume's Treatise on Human Nature. Leader: Georgia Knight. *A study of the holocaust through the testimony of its victims, perpetrators and resistors. Leader: Philip LeCuyer. *Dostoevski 's Crime and Punishment. Leader: Basia Miller. *Aristotle's Metaphysics. Leader: Timothy Miller. *Husserl 's Cartesian Meditations. Leader: Victoria Mora. *Jung's psychological essays. Leader: Gerald Proietti. *Plato's Laws. Leader: Robert Richardson. *Archimedes. Leader: Robert Sacks. *Mallarme's poetry. Leader: Thomas Scally. *Selected Trinitarian and Christo logical Discourses of Sts. Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus the Confessor. Leader: David Starr. . *Cervantes's Don Quixote. Leader: Joan Silver. *Madison's notes from the Constitutional Convention. Leader: Jack Steadman. *Plato's The Statesman. Leader: by some of the mt1eH!ge11t writers on film such as r:....... u.._ . ..,u_J,.. , Andre Serge L1e:gtr1ea KnlCaller, and others. Leader: Venkatesh. *Godel's Proof. Leader: Hans Von Brie sen. ........ .., ....... AUf''" -'-'H.A.:>L\.-AH' Recommended Readings and Books ofNote And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts. A stunning expose of how AIDS was left to spread uncontrolled during the early eighties. No one who had anything to do with ignoring the problem is left unscathed, from the president and the media, to the medical and the gay communities. Well written and well documented, this is great reading for anyone interested in AIDS and how people attempted to fight one of the worst diseases of this century. -Recommended by John Schroeder, Graduate Institute student and Public Relations assistant, Santa Fe The Evolution ofCooperation, by Robert Axelrod. Under the influence of Machiavelli, social Darwinism, and scarcity of resources, one might be led to ignore the sheer obviousness of cooperation as a natural survival mechanism, in nature as well as in business. This volume, centered on the iterated prisoner's dilemma, but including both bacterial behavior and warfare, is a wonderful antidote to the notion of the world as unremittingly competitive. The limits on cooperation are also discussed. -Recommended by Hans Von Briesen, Director of Laboratories, Santa Fe A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. By the same author who wrote The World According to Garp, this is a satirical romp through life in the United States. It tells the story of the son of a granite quarry owner who believes that he is God's instrument, and he is. -Recommended by John Schroeder, Santa Fe Nature as Landscape, Dwelling and Understanding, by Kraft E. von Maltzahn. Human interaction with the natural world has created serious environmental problems. InNature as Landscape Kraft von Maltzahn examines the 'unnatural' relationship that has developed between human beings and nature. Drawing on evidence from philosophy and the history of science, he argues that humans have become estranged from nature and shows how this estrangement has evolved. Von Maltzahn focuses on how we experience aspects of nature in terms of their outer appearance, such as landscape, and contends that the naturalistic scientific tradition has taught us to divorce ourselves from the natural world, to become impartial observers rather than participants. He examines the nature of the human life-world as merely subjective. Drawing on phenomenology, semiotics, visual thinking, gestalt psychology, and Paleness arguments about tacit knowing, he offers an alternative way of perceiving the natural world that would reunite humans and nature. -Recommended by Torrance Kirby, tutor, Santa Fe A Guide to Oriental Classics, from Columbia University Press, is a bibliographic tour of the great books of the Islamic, Indian, Chinese and Japanese traditions. For each work information is given on translations, secondary sources, and possible topics for discussion. This is an excellent resource for anyone exploring Eastern territory for the first time: just reading the table of contents is illuminating. Recommended for those in search of alumni seminar topics. -Recommended by Jennie Packard, Admissions Secretary for the Graduate Program in Eastern Classics and pilot program alumna Liberal Education and the Canon, by Laura Christian Ford. Laura Ford is Associate Provost of Wake Forest University, and, accordingly, her dealings with the canon wars are, for once, completely practical. Under six headings, from "Sexual Harassment" to "The Death Penalty," she shows how canonical texts can be used to throw light on current issues. The first case of"explicitly bartered sex," it turns out, is documented in Odyssey V: Calypso extracts sexual favors from Odysseus who, being mortal, is subordinate and wants, moreover, to go home. -Reviewed by Eva Brann, Dean, Annapolis WINTER 1995 19 �Scholarship I to to. by Barbara Goyette Every year two tutors on the Annapolis from the Nathat enables them to devote more time to a single and of interest usual teaching schedule allows. year Michael Dink will be concentrating on a constellation of questions arising from study of Plato, whose works have fascinated him since his student days at St. John's (he graduated in 1975). The National Endowment for the Humanities endows a in Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance Thought and a Thought; a tutor holds chair for two years, studying year leading a gtvmg a group end of the second year. When one tutor is the year of study on an "ancient" topic, another is second year of work on a "modem" As Mr. begins thinking about Plato, Peter Kalkavage is in his second year and is leading a faculty study group on Hegel's Phenomenology ofSpirit. The NEH grant frees the tutors from part of their teaching load for both years. Defining a complex ofquestions Mr. Dink's questions deal with the most basic grounds of philosophy. He explains: "One could call the project 'Philosophy and the Human Good in Plato.' How is the claim that philosophy is good related to other claims made about the good for man?" This subject involves a complex of issues, beginning with a discussion of the goals of philosophy: are they practical-for the guidance of human life-or are they theoretical-knowledge for its own sake? An attendant question is whether the goals of philosophy are achievable; can one still defend the goodness ofphilosophy if its goals cannot be reached? "Achievability is a big issue in the Platonic dialogues," says Mr. Dink. Philosophy is sometimes called an impossible task, and the dialogues often suggest that philosophy is reaching for something that's beyond human grasp. The "Symposium," which deals with different kinds of eros or love, will be one focus of study. "The linking of eros to philosophy is one of the things that brings up the question of achievability," 20 THE REPORTER good for man is posed: pleasure versus intelligence." to Already well-used, Michael DiRk's copy of the "Republic" will get even more use over the next two years as he pursues a long-held interest in the basic questions of philsoophy. Photo by John Bildahl says Mr. Dink. Diatoma gives an account of eros as a child of poverty and resource, and not as a god. She claims that gods don't philosophize-because they are already wise. "So if one achieved wisdom, that would be in a way the death of philosophy. Philosophy qua philosophy is essentially lacking in wisdom." As to whether there might be an intrinsic good in the activity of searching itself, Mr. Dink-laughing-offers an example of what that might mean for the enterprise of philosophy: "Suppose you participate in a sport like basketball with the purpose ofwinning a game, and you do not win. Does that mean the activity has not been good? You could say the exercise was good for us or that certain kinds of excellence have been achieved. In a similar way, we can ask whether the activity of philosophizing does something good for the soul, even if wisdom is in principle beyond its grasp." Almost any dialogue would address the questions Mr. Dink is thinking about in his study, but he plans to focus on just a few. In addition to the "Symposium" he will be spending time on the "Republic," the subject of his preceptorial this fall. "Does the 'Republic' actually defend or does it critique the goodness of justice; does philosophy end up superseding justice as the best candidate for human good, or do philosophy and justice presuppose or mutually imply one another?" he asks. "I think it's still an open question. There are obvious senses in which philosophy presupposes some level of justice ... There are notorious questions about whether the order of the soul which Socrates calls just is related to acting on behalf of the common good Are the goals of philosophy practical-for the guidance of human life-or are they theoretical-knowledge for its own sake? or acting justly in the city... One might have that order of the soul and decide the city is ofno concern." In addition to reading the "Republic" with his preceptorial group, he will deliver a lecture at Catholic University in the spring, on the topic of the goodness ofjustice and the goodness of philosophy. A third dialogue he hopes to spend time on is the "Timaeus," with its accounts of the cosmos pointing the way on the at Catholic University, he worked on Plato as well as Aristotle; Husserl and Heidegger; and phy (Descartes through Hegel). master's thesis topic was the "Phaedo" and his dissertation was a line-by-line commentary on the "Sophist." While Mr. Dink has a solid interest in philosophy, he ardently pursues the other facets ofthe program as well. Before entering St. John's as a Febbie, he finished a year and a half at Harvard. The necessity of declaring a major finally induced him to give St. John's a try, and he's been devoted to its ideals ever since. After graduate school, he taught at the Santa Fe campus from 1980to 1984 and then came east to Annapolis. Relating other intellectual concerns to Plato is easy for someone so wrapped up in the St. John's program. Kant's moral philosophy, although a "nest of problems," interests Mr. Dink, especially the notion of moral obligation as a distinct kind of good. "Also, in the course of doing sophomore seminar and because my wife has a revived interest in her Jewish heritage, I've been thinking about the Jewish Bible, and the questions ofjustice, law, and morality," he says. "I'd also like to spend more time on Emanuel Levinas, who talks about justice in the relationship of the self to the radically other, and claims that this relationship is at the basis of any discourse about truth. Unlike other 'post modem' thinkers, he does not claim to be rejecting philosophy, but giving it a more radical basis." a. �Career Opportunities CoNTRADICTION EQuALs CoMPLEMENTARITY Bell Returns to Heracleitus by Travis Dunn, S97 After showing his Symbolic History Through Sight and Sound series for the past 25 years, Santa Fe tutor Charles Bell has decided to take time off from presenting his weekly multimedia shows in order to complete a book of philosophy. Mr. Bell, born in 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, said the impetus for his system of philosophy came from his reading about the dual particle-wave nature of light as a 13year-old. "But I've worked it out since then," he said with an impish grin. "The first essay I published making it very clear was 194 5 the of Science magazine ... [My philosophy] is still as now as it was " Mr. Bell stood back and wondered. Mr. Bell doesn't stand back and wonder: He affirms the paradox and says virtue is both taught and innate. Mr. Bell gives another example of Contours but still needs He when I was about thirteen," he said. "If I come upon the possibility of an axiomatic complementarity then I say since the axioms are complementary, both are true-true over the condition of contradiction... Whenever you precipitate one of these axioms you have to see that out into the fabric of reality--of actuality-those are complementary axioms." Thus Mr. Bell affirms Dionysian and Apollonian, action and meditation. "So what [I'm] doing is taking what. .. was formerly seen to be the shipwreck of reason .. and saying that's the principle of reason. "I see that causality can be emergent. ... [Today] we don't know of any purely primal causality," as ancients thought they he For example, Beethoven spent 20 years revising the chorale ofhis Ninth phony- "that's the way an a.n-•a.... o-""~"'t . . , .........., . . . . . _ .._) works-like an ,.... Mr. Bell said he is uncertain how his book eventually will be published, since all of the publishers who accepted his novels and books of poetry have died. Though he's "taking time off' to work on his book, Charles Bell seems unable to limit himself to doing one thing at one time: *Besides his "big project"-his book of philosophy-he's also working on a little book on translation. It will include an anthology of poetic translations he's made himself for Symbolic History and an essay explaining his method of translation.(His method, not surprisingly, follows from his philosophy of "embracing the poles," i.e. he affirms both highly literal and creatively interpretive translation.) *Mr. Bell still plans to present Symbolic History shows as well, though less frequently and out-of-order. When he does present a show, he said he '11 choose one that has relevance to a seminar reading that a class is doing. *Mr. Bell also plans to bring his Symbolic History to completion by typing up the rest of the scripts to the shows and transferring all his material to a permanent form on CD ROM. *And in order to clarify the ideas to be presented in his book, he'll also give lectures on his philosophy in which students, tutors, and townspeople can discuss his work.-. 7 ...... , . , , . . . . " ' . " " ' his The Half Gods): He wrote sketches over a number of years, then took a year off to work on one of the books, memorized the sketches, then put the parts together into a completed whole. "My philosophy starts with the intention-with the belief-that one can reconstitute what has been axiomatic of philosophy," said Mr. Bell. He thinks that previous philosophers have had a confused notion of causality, a notion he seeks to correct in his book. Ancient philosophers find one effect and seek one cause, he said. According to Mr. Bell, this method fails when one takes into account modem scientific knowledge, particularly the theory of evolution. "The old one-way value truth will not hold with regard to organized reality," he said. In a way, Mr. Bell's philosophy is a return to Heracleitus. Mr. Bell, like Heracleitus, says contradictory axioms are true simultaneously. "Whenever I look for axioms I find complementary axioms which seem in a certain sense to contradict one another," he said. Mr. Bell gives the example of Plato's "Meno," in which the characters debate whether virtue can be taught or is innate. Plato and other philosophers saw that the answer was a paradox, but they were so afraid of paradox and contradiction that they .... T11".,t ........... Charles Bell, tutor in Santa Fe. two axioms being simultaneously true. He takes the Euclidian axiom that a whole is equal to the sum of its parts and says this axiom only applies to conceptual things-such as the geometric figures that Euclid treats. Mr. Bell says that the converse is true of organized things, such as harpsichords or students. For if the parts are separated from these wholes, the wholes are destroyed. But both of these statements are true, and instead of seeing the propositions "the whole is equal to the sum of its parts" and "whole is not equal to the sum of its parts" as contradictory, as Aristotle would, Mr. Bell sees these propositions as complementary. Mr. Bell's ideas spring from Schrodinger's writings on the nature of light. Schrodinger affirms both the proposition that light travels in waves and the propostion that light doesn't travel in waves (it also travels in particles). Schrodinger embraces this paradox and creates a scientific system that predicts and -explains how light operates. Mr. Bell incorporates this acceptance of paradox into all rational thought. "I got the scientific sense that you had to reason that way from reading about the complementarity of light from the Annapolis Placement Office The National Science Foundation offers opportunities for research in universities, national research institutes, and corporate laboratories in Japan. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Awards are available for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and senior investigators for the long and medium term research visits, short-term visits, bilateral seminars, and dissertation enhancement. For further information call: (703)3061130. RWD Technologies, Inc. of Columbia, Maryland, announces Fellows Programs to enhance personal research and teaching while applying current research ideas to real-world technological projects. Candidates must be full-time, four-year college and university faculty in the region near Columbia and be able to contribute one day per week for a semester (typically 15 weeks). A stipend of $5,000 is awarded. For an application form, write: Dr. R.W. Deutsch, RWD Technologies, Inc., Attention: Fellows Program, 10480 Little Patuxent Parkway, Suite 1200, Columbia, Maryland 21044-3530. ..........~~""" of at the of Alabama seeks a tenured member to serve as Director of its Hudson Strode in Renaissance Studies. The Director has overall supervision of the and activities of the program. record of excellence in teaching, scholarship, and publication consistent with a tenured appointment as an associate or full professor. Applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and the names of at least three references to : John P. Hermann and Harold Weber, Co-chairs, Strode Search Committee, Department of English, P.O. Box 870244, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244. Screening of applications begins on October 1, 1994 and continues until the position is filled. ••~, lnii,.,<~>wo•~it.., The James Madison Fellowship Program is a federally-endowed effort to strengthen teaching in the nation's schools about the framing, principles, and history of the U.S. Constitution. In the Spring of 1995, James Madison Junior and Senior Fellowships will be awarded to college seniors, college graduates, and experienced teachers for use in the 1995-96 academic year. Junior Fellows will be eligible for a maximum of$24,000 for up to two years of full-time study and Senior Fellows for a maximum of$24,000 for up to five years of part-time study. For more information call: (800)525-6928. Deadline: March 1, 1995. The Mathematical Sciences Program at the University of Texas at Dallas invites applications for a tenure-track junior appointment in Applied Mathematics and a tenure-track appointment in Statistics to begin Fall 1995. Applicants are asked to send a letter of application and curriculum vitae, and to arrange for at least three letters of recommendation to be sent to : Academic Search #20 17 and #20 18, respectively, MIS MP 12, The University ofTexas at Dallas, PO Box 830688, Richardson, Texas, 75083-0688. Applications will be accepted until January 15, 1995 or until the position is filled. For further information you may contact: Professor Robert Sterling at (214) 690-2361. WINTER 1995 21 �Campus Life OUTTHERE IN THE REAL WORLD ST. JOHN'S SAYS GOOD MORNING TO AMERICA by John Schroeder, SGI by Barbara Goyette St. John's College in Santa Fe recently initiated a new work-study program to take the seminar style oflearning to local high schools. While St. John's students have long volunteered in local schools, this program, begun by Director of Placement Jennifer Chenoweth, enables students to earn work-study funds for community service. Melissa Cate, a junior from Londonderry, N.H.; Tony Lagouranis, a sophomore from New York; Richard Martin, a sophomore from Mililani, Hawaii; and Patrick Nash, a sophomore from West Newfield, Maine, were selected for the program based on their interest in teaching careers and tutor recommendations. After contacting all the high schools in New Mexico, the four established the program, which consists of five weekly seminars at Santa Fe and Capital high schools. "It seems strange to be reading parts of books that [the students] will never read entirely... but the dialogue skills that they are developing are good, even if they are not going to be scholars," Mr. Lagouranis said. As the program goes on the high school students are asking more questions and are to talk to one another. aren't always are "Mr. ""'""'.,.."'""' 1 "' said. "Sometimes those who aren't in the of their class say the that are most out" Melissa Cate said found that "It takes a while for them to get used to the discussions ... but now they are bringing up a lot of insights that I hadn't thought of, which is great, because I'm learning at the same time as they are." In addition to the weekly seminars, the program has conducted seminars at the New Mexico Military Institute, Crownpoint High School, and Alamagordo High School, allowing a variety of high school classes and teachers to be exposed to the St. John's style of teaching. The New Mexico School for the Deaf asked the St. John's students to prepare an activity for fifth and sixth grade classes who were studying ancient Greece. After acting out several of Aesop's fables, the St. John's leaders held a seminar. "The students seemed to enjoy it a lot, because it was something they were interested in," Ms. Chenoweth said. "We would like to do a lot more programs like that." Next semester St. John's will host a seminar on campus, with participants chosen by their teachers and seminar leaders. The high school students will be able to share their ideas with other students from Santa Fe in the college environment. "The goal is to help out and share with the local ,..,."....,.,..,.., .....,,+-.T We'd like to do as many schools as possible," Melissa Cate said. "It's an op.,..,.,.,....-,".''t"' for to see new ways of on and Twelve third and fourth graders were sitting on the legs in as rapt attention as I could expect from eightve::~.r-IJms. As I read from a children's book about the Trojan war, my voice dropped when I got to the part about Agamemnon, eager to satisfy the gods and set sail for Troy, sacrificing his young daughter Iphagenia. "You don't mean ... ?" asked Kate Axford, a curious third grader with long straight hair, her eyes widening. "Yes, Kate, I'm afraid so," I replied. "Sometimes this isn't a very pretty story." This was Junior Great Books, an activity that Caroline Christensen, director of financial aid at the Annapolis campus, and I have been leading at the Chesapeake Academy Elementary School in Arnold, Md., since October. The Junior Great Books program provides curricula for elementary schools around the country to implement St. John's style discussions ofliterature in the classroom. Chesapeake Academy is one of several schools around Annapolis to draw volunteers from the college. The philosophy of Junior Great Books should be familiar to those who know the St. John's program. The rules are simple. After hearing or reading a short story, a small group of students discusses the text, offering only opinions that they can support with the text. When I heard my first Junior Great Books discussion, my first impression was that it was similar to the seminars I would expect from adults. may be '•U.L.LV.I.,~U~o wonder about the same things as juniors and seniors at St. John's. When I was reading aloud about the Trojan Horse, Jonathan Stepanuk, a vocal third grader, blurted out with astonishment, "But that's against the rules of war!" The students then weighed these rules, and the resulting talk was, in form at least, what one would expect from a freshman seminar. The students weren't the only ones to learn from the experience. Mrs. Christensen and I had to find ways to draw the class's girls into the discussions. "The boys just dominated so totally," said Mrs. Christensen. "As a mother of two daughters it made me worry." In our search to find material that would bring the girls into the conversation, we were surprised to discover that the favorite stories among both girls and boys were the ones about war. After reading both the myth of Persephone's journey into Hades and the history of the battle ofMarathon, we asked the students to choose their favorite. The vote was almost unanimously for Marathon. Working with twelve energetic eightand nine-year-olds was certainly taxing. "You give them an inch, they take a mile," said Mrs. Christensen. "If one got to go to the bathroom, suddenly they all had to go." This is one problem I don't recall from my freshman seminar. 22 THE REPORTER Eight and a half minutes of the college's 15 minutes of fame ticked off when ABC TV's "Good Morning America" featured the St. John's Annapolis campus on Sunday, November 6. The program originated in Annapolis and the producers' idea was to compare and contrast the town's two "universities" (their word): St. John's and the U.S. Naval Academy. Preparations for the eight and a half minutes began in early October when scouts from ABC toured the campus. GMA honcho Randy Berone and segment producer Cindy Greenberg decided to use a taped segment about "a day in the life" of a St. John's student and a midshipman to lead into a live segment, a forum on the two schools with students discussing their educations. On October 20, a three-person film crew arrived to tape senior Gregory Hodges as he spent a typical Thursday. About ten hours' ·worth of material was edited down to about five minutes, including shots of Greg jogging at the Academy, meeting with tutor Mera Flaumenhaft in the Coffee Shop, commenting in seminar, and sitting in the library with his girlfriend, Alice Brown. The crew also shot the Freshman Chorus singing Henry Purcell's "Come Along Fellow Sailors." For the live portion of the show, Mike Mangiaracina ('95), Cora Johnson ('95), Victoria Printz ('95), Adam Wing ('96), Ian Nyberg ('96), and Salvatore Scibona ('97) assembled at dawn to troop down to the City Dock, where a stage had been set up along the water, dozens of TV types scurried around messing with lights, reflectors and miles UA.LH.n.JL.LJLE; Cora Johnson, a senior, chats with middies while waiting in the rain during the Good Morning America live broadcast (above.) Adam Wing, a junior, talks with Midshipman Bridety (right). of cable, and several hundred Annapolitans had gathered. It started to drizzle, then it poured. The Johnnies were seated with Naval Academy midshipmen, awaiting the promised forum. Anchors Willow Bay and Antonio Mora talked into mikes, the lights shone, the audience clapped. After the taped segments on the schools were broadcast, Willow Bay asked a couple of questions-should the schools interact more? what do you think of the role of the Naval Academy today? what about this croquet match? Cora Johnson and Mike Mangiaracina commented, along with three middies. Then it was over. While the students on campus generally pronounced the St. John's segment "cheesy" because it didn't explain the program, it made the Johnnies appear involved and intelligent, and the campus looked great. (n.b. "cheesy" in today's parlance means tacky.) President Chris Nelson said the segment "might have seemed a bit lightweight" but that it nevertheless brought St. John's to the public's attention. Positive outcomes from the appearance: the Johnnies and middies went to brunch together and formulated plans for activities like St. John's students having lunch at the Academy, midshipmen attending a seminar, and a joint waltz party. �A by Sus3an Borden by John Schroeder, SGI A recent meeting of the Live Poets' Society began with a brief discussion of whether or not members wanted to abandon the two most whimsical features of their group: its name and its meeting place in the cupola room of McDowell Hall. Members don't mind climbing the four flights of steps to their weekly meetings and they don't consider the name inaccurate. But they wonder if these features give the group an inappropriate mystique of obscure pretension that keeps other students from joining. Although they reached no decision, it was clear from the meeting that followed that, far from being a cultish gathering of artistes engaged in vainglorious versifying, the Live Poets' Society is a hard-working down-to-earth group of students who are serious about writing poetry. At their Sunday night meetings, members read poems they've written during the week, then ask for specific feedback: Is the meaning clear? Are the images vivid? Those listening also ask questions, usually about technique and interpretation. After a disclaimer announcing that she wrote her poem a half hour before the meeting, Senior Marissa Mijal read out loud: We conducted a survey of students in Santa Fe to see what their reactions were to the recent election, the press, politics in general, and the need for "philosopher kings." The conservatives on campus proved to be the most willing to fill out and return our surveys, in hopes of countering what they view as a liberal student body. No one seemed surprised about the outcome of the election, although there was no consensus on whether this was a direct reflection on Clinton's presidency. However, few expected much to come out ofWashington in the next two years; those who responded foresee gridlock to continue, or ensue, depending on their political persuasion. One person stated that he hopes the Republicans don't let the election go to their "collective heads (as it appears that it has)." The media received good marks for its coverage of the elections on a nationallevel, but according to students, did a poor job of informing people about the candidates in the local races. On the whole, students seemed to feel the media has a positive influence on politics as long as they are covering the issues, but has a negative influence when they start covering the personal lives of candidates. The media also received negative marks for reducing elections to issues of who looks the best and who can come up with the best six-second bumper-sticker quote. Students thought that with more major third party candidates, elections will get better, more issues will be discussed, and voter turnout will increase, as long as the press starts treating these parties seriously. They also expressed some hesitation at people with no political experience running for major political offices, especially on the federal level. Many students, including one conservative, still feel Clinton has a chance of winning in 1996. Some of the issues The phyllophagous silkworm. The phyllophagous silkworm Goes phaging through the trees, Eating phyllornes ofmulberries. But someone put phrenetic virus in the near phreatic well, And when the roots open up to drink In the poisons seep. The toxins, · Entering the veins, cause phyllomania; All the better for the phyllophagous silkworm. "Did you write this during lab?" someone asked Mijal. "No." "Did you write this with the dictionary in your hand?" Tutor David Stephenson PARENTS' The words of live poets can charm even souls of stone, it seems. Tutor David Stephenson and sophomore Adam Marker discuss the work of Live Poets' Society members. Photo by Keith Harvey. guessed-correctly. After arguing in seminars and tutorials about the words of authors long dead, the Live Poets find it satisfying to be able to ask writers about the meaning of their words. Mr. Stephenson started the Live Poets' Society in 1990 to give a group of students the chance to work on and publish poetry. "I had been thinking about it for a few years," he said, "because I felt that one of the real drawbacks of studying so many great poets was that when I would ask students to try to write a poem, they would just despair. They thought that they had to measure up to Shakespeare or Sappho or Yeats. I thought it was important that we have a workshop in which people could compare works in progress, works that were imperfect, works at any stage in the process of writing." The group takes its name from the movie "The Dead Poets' Society." Changing the name to Live Poets emphasizes the difference between the group's endeavors and those of the language tutorial. Freshman Danielle Tabela explained: "The point of it is to keep the work contemporary. Poems are supposed to be written by the people in the group, but if we're going to read someone else's work, it should be someone alive." WEEKEND IN SANTA Parents could experience something of the lifestyles of the young and philosophical at the annual Parents' Weekend, held in Santa Fe October 13-16 and in Annapolis October 29-30. Attending seminars and tutorials, parents discussed, reasoned, and attempted to understand (if only they had known they could sit down and talk rationally like this when their students were fourteen!). In Annapolis, Alex Pickands, a senior, and his sister Christina Jeffers practiced their "similar smiles" routine (right). In Santa Fe, Meghan Williams and her mother, Paula Craig-Williams, participated in the Student-Parent LookAlike Contest emceed by President John Agresto (above). More than 200 Annapolis parents attended the weekend this year, and 176 visited in Santa Fe. FE AND the next presidential candidates might face are education, health care, the size of the federal government, crime, the environment, trade, and governmental gridlock. Students said that they believe America will retain its leadership role in the 21st century. One said we will retain our leadership role because we have the ability to do things that other countries cannot. Another said the U.S. will retain its position because "we have lots and lots of bombs." A third said "if we return to the values of the founders and return our republic to a truly free country with a bustling free market, strong military, limited government and strong citizen participation in all levels of government, we would be envied by the entire world." While just one person expressed an interest in running for public office, all who answered said they would consider going into politics or government in an appointed position or as a career. Only one of the respondents voted in this election. The reasons why students didn't vote ranged from a bureaucratic snafu in voter registration and being too out-of-touch with the issues to vote, to the belief that you should vote for someone rather than against someone else. However, all agreed the student body should be more politically active. Everyone who answered the survey agreed that Aristotle was right in his assertion that man is by nature a political animal, and most agreed that we should be searching for "philosopher kings" to run our government. Although this survey does not reflect the views of the entire student body in Santa Fe, Johnnies here, while not currently active in politics, seem to hold faith in the future. All that were polled are willing to be a part of that future, which is definitely a good sign for America. ANNAPOLIS 1 WINTER 1995 23 �The Arts The newly established Fine Arts Guild has invited two artists to exhibit work in the Santa Fe art gallery this February. Arlene Becker and Stan Berning are the flrst artists to be selected by the guild. Mr. Berning, a surrealist painter and Santa Fe gallery owner, will exhibit paint sketches and various drawings as preliminary studies for an oil-on-canvas series he plans to create in 1995. Ms. Becker, who resides both in Santa Fe and Chicago, will exhibit her sculptures which display the "interconnection between human beings and the natural world." "This is a flrst for our gallery-an exhibit featuring a sculptor and a painter in a joint exhibition. It promises to be very exciting," said art gallery coordinator Ginger Roherty. The show will open with a reception from 3-5 p.m. on Sunday, February 5, 1995, in the Fireside Lounge and will run through Sunday, February 26. For more information or for gallery hours, please call Ms. Roherty at (505) 984-6099. Continuing the exploration of the history of printmaking from Rembrandt to the Twentieth Century. An exhibit of works by James Whistler will be on in the Elizabeth Mitchell at St. John's Col10-March 'lr<rnr.i .... -1-n of 3, 1995. Whistler" features James 40 images the foremost etcher since Rembrandt. ing in HncTI"'-rui The images in this exhibit of life and trace as he lived and traveled England, and Venice. Works in the exhibit are from the Syracuse University Art Collection and include "Sixteen Etchings of the Thames," a famous set, and several "Nocturnes." Whistler was an American, born in Massachusetts in 1834. As a young man he joined the U.S. Coast & Geodesic Survey in Washington, D.C., where he learned the fundamentals of etching doing topographical surveys. As an artist in Paris, he carried small etching plates with him and sketched on them the scenes he came across. He deVl..l!..i.J.I..d ..i.L 24 THE REPORTER etching tecnmqm~s pn:as1:w<1 a scene's Jan,lctuarTm~s cused instead on ""'-11"''-'u Whistler studied and combined that with the scenes and evepts of the age. Whistler the influential French set after France and in 1858. He began work on the Thames set in London the year. These works ...... u,._..,.,,.L St. John's Concert Series: Music on Both Campuses The Francesco Trio, pictured abo~e on the left, performed on the Santa Fe campus in November as ~art of~e 30th anmversary concert series. Featuring pianist Nathan Schwartz, celhst Bonrne Hampton, and violinist Miwako Watanabe, the trio has won numerous awards. . In Annapolis, the St. John's Concert Series featured the Angeles String quartet .m January. The Bachmann-Klibonoff-Fridman Trio, pictured above on the nght, Will perform on April 7. continued from page 18 ve 1rmf~rt his etcJtnn!;IS he began to employ r~.,.,.,.,.,.'"''"datmospheric softness. Although Whistler's etchings were ...,~,_, .............. his were not well-rehe a libel suit against criticJohnRuskinin 1877. Whistlerwon the suit but was awarded only a farthing in damages, leaving him bankrupt. Whistler's final two sets of etchings both portrayed scenes from Venice. By the time the second set was published in 1886, he had achieved acclaim for all of his work; his paintings and etchings were exhibited in Europe and America. Black Lion Wharf, 1859 and his social true with his students. no means did he claim to underall he but his students knew that he cared what texts said and that he also insisted on author esr>eciiaUv) tant to studer1ts, .lLl.u~uu..:>, or anyone who to be nearby until he had a new perspective. It was for characteristics such as along with his sense that so many students became his friends. Bob entered into everything he did with zest and enthusiasm. He came to St. John's College in Annapolis in 1963. We shared an office until 1967, when he became Assistant Dean. His interest and personal involvement in politics at all levels of government was of long standing. Ever since he arrived in Annapolis, he had held especially Sunday mornings, over informal Democratic party headquarters at Buddy Levy's Capital Drug Store on West St. 1971, he convinced himself, with encouragement from his to run for the office of alderman for the Annapolis City Council. He won. Not surprisingly, his integrity in that office was notoriously impeccable. I personally knew him to refuse gifts and donations when there was even the remotest appearance of a conflict of interest. His political interests and connections went back to his Minnesota roots in the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party. Whether they agreed or bitterly disagreed with him, his political associates always repected him. One of his longna1ont~ne:d time J.J..u,.~..~.u,.:>, ex-U.S. senator and pn~sictentlal carldi~jat,e, gave the eulogy at his funeral. It seems to close this with an account of how some of the "sent him off' on his Her account catches the scene, its miliar memories. She has can use her langmLge. "And we sent off with tributes from his old friends: .LJF.'"'!uJcau, Gene and Fr. Emeric. A good friend of ours, Don several Duke will ever have Solitude" gone to communion to "In and "Take a Train. Once Bob to me that not only was jazz the only kind I could get all its .,.....,,.,.""''.,...n just one piece: "On the Sunny Side Street. Don that as everyone left the Church. then we all came back to the house to have one last But it wasn't sad: we ate is a chef at restaurant and he we listened to Billie t1cmacav. and Spaeth stories 50 You should know, too, that L. the children have opened a Spaeth Scholarship Memorial Fund for students who need help at St. John's University. Contributions should be sent to Betty at: 8939 Crestview Dr., St. Josephs, MN 56374. We all remember you with fondness, Spaeth. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY IllIIll IIIlllf~1 fl~fl\lf1 1 1 f1'1 1 il1111111111111111 Ill The St. John's ~-1_~~~ 0113_8_2_0_8~~-~ _c VOLUME FALL ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND AND SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO 21, ISSUE 1 1994 1 9 6 4 1 9 9 4 Santa Fe Celebrates its ANNIVERSARY Workers lay the sidewalk on the Santa Fe campus, 1964. Richard D. Weigle and Richard F. Cle:veland lay the cornerstone for the college, 1963. French reading knowledge exam abolished Competency to be stressed in junior language tutorials Freshmen await departure for orientation in Santa Fe. Welcome Freshmen! Incoming freshmen find friendly advisors to help them adjust to a new life "In the beginning were the Advisors ... " says the Gospel according to St. John's, and that's what the newly organized Freshman Orientation Committee in Annapolis is all about. The group aims to smooth the introduction to St. John's for incoming freshmen, who have a host of things to deal with living on their own, figuring out their schedules, finding the right type of cereal in the dining hall, reading the most difficult but intriguing books. Led by Rebecca Dzamov, A95, Malinda Campbell, A97, and John Clasby, A96, and sporting teeshirts emblazoned with the Gospel on the front and the college seal on the back, the Orientation Committee members took groups of freshmen on tours of campus, led workshops, supplied donuts, and just generally tried to make the newest Johnnies feel at home sooner. Every freshman was assigned an advisor who could offer pointers on fathoming some of the intricacies of the St. John's way of doing things.One of the first tasks freshman year is learning the Greek alphabet. With this more energetic integration effort, the freshmen will be able to jump right into the program, the sooner to be able to translate the Gospel according to St. John's: ) ) ')' INSIDE 2 4 5 6 Goings On-Santa Fe Alumni Association Alumni Notes Obituaries Art Gallery at faculty meetings on both campuses, the faculty endorsed the proposal. Some of the arguments to abolish the exam were: 1) Tutors can monitor the progress of their students' learning. The junior language tutorial is the place to make sure that students learn to read French well enough to translate the kinds of passages that are discussed senior year. 2) Some students who do well in language class are yet unable to pass the exam. Students who can translate in class and contribute to the discussion should be allowed to continue into si::nior year. 3) The examination tests a skill not much emphasized in class, time-limited, unassisted sight translation. 4) The dean usually finds contingency arrangements necessary for those students who do not pass the exam before senior year. For example, extensive tutoring or classes at other colleges over the summer have been recommended before the student tries the exam again. ·Miss Brann, Annapolis dean, referred to the "adjustment and deception" involved in figuring out what to do about students who do not pass. The threat that they might not be allowed to continue at the college is essentially c Ev apxfl T\ crav 01 l:uµ~ouA,01, Ka\ ot Luµ~ouA,m ~O"aV n:poc; 'tOUc; µa0yttac;, Kat ot ..Euµ~ouA,m ~crav µa01ltal. SANTA FE EDITION News/Announcements Letters to the Editor The Campaign For Our Fourth Century Goings On-Annapolis rr.,he faculty at both campuses agreed this fall: no more French reading knowledge exam. Passing the test, which involved translating a passage from French into English, had been a condition for entering the senior year. The reading knowledge exam was administered four times during the junior year; students could bring dictionaries and other reference books with them to help them translate the given passage within a two-hour time limit. For most students, the junior year includes several weeks of intensive French grammar, a program designed to teach the basics to those who have not studied French before and as a refresher for those who had it in high school. The more subtle translation work on poetry and essays that takes place during senior language tutorials depends on students being able to read French, and the purpose of the French reading knowledge exam was to assure that students attained a certain level of competency before senior year. At the Joint Instruction Committee meeting last spring, the . Proposal to abolish the exam was introduced. After spirited discussions 7 14 18 23 24 continued on page 3 J IN ANNAPOLIS l September 23 - November 19 "Rembrandt Etchings: Selection of the Carnegie Museum of Art," I l • The Mitchell Gallery is fortunate to ·have a group of 51 etchings by Rembrandt on display from September 2 3 to November 19. The exhibit title 1s "Rembrandt Etchings: Seiections of the Carnegie Museum of Art." more on page 2 4 1 �Page 2 THE Seven tutors appointed: Annapolis F ive new tutor~, ~hristopher Cosans, Wayne Ed1s1s, Emily Hope Brooker Langston, Carl Page, and Edward C. Smith, have been named to the faculty at the Annapolis campus. Christopher Cosans brings to St. John's ten years' experience in teaching science at the University of Chicago. A 1986 graduate of the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in history, philosophy, and social studies of science, he earned his master of science degree in anatomy in 1988, and in 1993 his doctorate on the conceptual foundations of science, both from Chicago. At Chicago, h~ taught courses in anatomy, · philosophy of science, and evolutionary theory. He has also taught logic and the technology of human values at Roosevelt University. His research interests include the philosophy of biology from the Presocratics to Galen, the philosophical justification of holistic biology from Kant to the present, and biomedical ethics. He reads both German and Greek. Mr. Cosans recently participated in a one year course on the Foundations of Bioethics at the University of Chicago's Center for Clinical Ethics. He is also a VITAS Hospice volunteer. Wayne Edisis, who will be a visiting tutor for 1994-95, is a senior economic policy adviser for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. From 1985-1987, he was director for International Investment Policy for the Executive Office of the President, negotiating for the U.S. government international treaties and agreements on trade and investment. Mr. Edisis entered the University of Chicago at 16, graduated in 1979, and was awarded the Albert Gallati~· Fellowship at the Graduate Institute of International Relations in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1983. That same year he earned his Ph.D. in politics from Brandeis University. In 1984 he was honored by the American Political Science Association for writing the year's best doctoral thesis in the field of international relations, economics, and law. Philosophy of history, Aristotle, and Heidegger are among Carl Page's special interests. A professor at Emory University in Atlanta since 1987, he also was an instructor at Pennsylvania State University and a lecturer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Mr. Page graduated in 1980 from the University of Auckland with an undergraduate degree in philosophy and mathematics. He earned both his master's and doctoral degrees in philosophy a few years later from Auckland and Pennsylvania State University, respectively. He reads Ancient Greek, French, and German and has published articles and lectured on such topics as the philosophy of mathematics, the rationality of Cartesian doubt, and philosophical hermeneutics. Emily Hope Brooker Langston has a background in the history of Christianity, Jewish studies, and feminist thought. She created and taught the courses "The Holocaust" at Emory University and "Religion and Literature: Literature of Suffering" at Eckerd College in Florida. Ms. Langston earned her undergraduate degree from Emory University in 1987, her master's degree in theology and church history from the University of Chicago in 1988, and is pursuing her doctorate in religion from Emory University. In 199 2-199 3 she attended the Oxford Center for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies at St. Cross College at Oxford University. Edward C. Smith has been appointed a part-time tutor. He is a tenured professor at The American University, where he has taught since 1969. He was also director of the American Studies Program and special assistant to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1991 he was awarded the university's Distinguished Faculty Member Award. He has served as a consultant to the Library of Congress, the United States Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other fedFrom 1977-1978, he eral agencies. took a leave of absence from teaching to serve as a presidential speechwriter at the White House during the Carter Administration. His articles have appeared in The Yale Review, The Military Review, and The Washington Historical Journal. He is an editor of The Lincoln Review and is currently working on two books on the American Civil War. T Project puts vvoinen on the shelves During her senior year, Heather Malcolm, SF94, started the Books by Women Project on the Santa Fe campus. The project's aim is to acquire books by women for the St. john's College Meem Library collection. To date the project has amassed more than 100 books. How did the Books by Women Project get started? I think it really happened because · I got to the end of my senior year and realized I had been bothered for four years about the issue of women in the program but had never done anything about it. I realized part of the reason I hadn't done anything is that there's so much controversy over what can be done to remedy the problem, so I wanted to do something that was voluntary in terms of participation but that everybody would have access to. I figured if I couldn't put a hundred books by women in the program I could at least put them in the library. How did you solicit books? Basically, I wrote letters to people I knew and my sister, Allison, designed the book plates. I talked to Inga Waite and she set up a little display in the library.- I also should thank my mom, She was really supportive throughout the whole thing and encouraged me when I felt like it was going to be an impossible project. Q.iHow many books have you acquired? We have 110 books now and they're still trickling in slowly. What kind of books have been donated? ~ 1 We got s~ many differe_nt kinds- .• poetry, biography, philosophy, a few history books by women. We got some strange things like The Book of Women's Firsts. I was impressed by the variety. .{):Vid you ask for specific titles or cate:~ gories? Santa Fe he Santa Fe faculty welcomes two new members this fall. James H. Wilkinson and Claudia Honeywell have received one-year, fulltime appointments. Mr. Wilkinson holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Pennsy 1vania State University. Most recently he held the position of visiting assistant professor in philosophy at the University of Kentucky. His areas of specialization include 19th century philosophy, early Fall 1994 REPORTER AI modern philosophy, and social and political philosophy. Ms. Honeywell recently received her Ph.D. in classics from the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation, "Plutarch's Dialogues: An Analysis of Structure and Content," focused on Plutarch's use of dialogue as a genre, and his significance as an author of philosophical dialogue. While at the University of Minnesota Ms. Honeywell also instructed first year Greek and Latin. guess I really wanted the community to say what they thought was important, for one thing because books by women is uncharted territory. I actually made up a big list of books we might want, but people didn't really end up using it. They seemed to have a book or books they really cared about that they wanted to donate. Q What has the response been? A It's been really interesting because it's taken a while for people to sort of catch on. As time has gone on people have warmed up to it. We ended up getting a lot more books than people thought we would. Heather Malcolm .Which books haw you personally donated? ·I've only donated a couple so far because I wanted to wait and see what was not there. I did donate Joyce Carol Oates and I will donate a hard cover copy of The Second Sex. 'Do you think there is a place for women authors in the program? ll? think it's a myth that there aren't ·really women who have been influential in our society, but I think they get lost and people forget about them. One of the reasons I did the project is that it might help lay the groundwork for future consideration of books by women. This year I gave my seminar a speech by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was the start of the women's suffrage movement. I did it when we did the civil rights readings. It really fit in well and it was a short reading. My tutor, Mr. Taylor, was going to take it to the Instruction Committee. I think that's one thing that could definitely be in there. I'd also like to see us stop switching the readings by women around so much because that makes it look like they' re interchangeable and not worthy of a permanent place on the program and that they're actually there as a sort of lip-service to women. I'd also like to see people do more stuff in precepts. Why do you see it as important to include more women in the program? f4,, I think something like Vir?inia 1 "· Woolf s A Room of One's Own gives a perspective no male author could ever give us. That's one reading that tells us what the silent half of the world might be thinking. ;QDo men and women think differently? AI don't think we've talked about it enough to know. What are your hopes for the future of the Books by Women Project? I intend to send books in every year and I hope it's an ongoing project. I hope when people read a book they really appreciate by a woman they'll think of St. John's. Anyone wishing to make a contribution to the Books by Women Project should address it to the attention of Inga Waite, Library Director, St. John's College Meem Library, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM 87501-4599; or call (505) 984-6041. �Page 3 THE N E KEPLER AND NEWTON SUBJECT OF ARTICLES BY CURTIS WILSON Annapolis tutor emeritus Curtis Wilson is the author of an article· in the June issue of the French magazine Cahiers de Science Vie. Mr. Wilson was asked to contribute to the publication, which was devoted entirely to Kepler. The article by Mr. Wilson, who is widely recognized for his writ~ ings on the beginning of modern astronomy, is called "Des Regles Qui Font Lois" and deals with how Kepler's three planetary laws came to be called laws. The spring issue of the journal Historica Mathematica also carried an article by Mr. Wilson. It is titled "Newton on the Equiangular Spiral: An Addendum to Erlichson's Account." EATING RIGHT FOR THE HEALTH OF THE SOUL Dr. Leon Kass, a former tutor on the Annapolis campus who now teaches at the University of Chicago, has w s Fall 1994 REPORTER B R I written a book titled The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature (The Free Press, New York, 248 pages, $24,95 ). The subject is how table manners relate to morality and how the habits, customs and rituals of eating are tied in with the rise of civilization. E F s C. Fraser Smith, an analyst for the Baltimore Sun newspaper, predicts: "Mrs. Townsend will be an energetic presence on the Glendening team, a person whose smile evokes at least a generation of national glory and pain. If Mr. Glendening is 'Parris who?' Mrs. Townsend is a member of the nation's first family. She could help him cement MARYLAND POLITICS: THE ST. JOHN'S CONNECTION Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, wife of Annapolis tutor David Lee Townsend, has been chosen as a candidate for lieutenant governor of Mary land by gubenetorial candidate Parris Glendening. Mr. Glendening, the Democratic county executive of Prince George's County, picked as a running mate a woman, a babyboomer (Mrs.Townsend is 43), someone from the Baltimore suburbs, and someone with tremendous name recognition. Mrs. Townsend is the oldest daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and a niece of President John Kennedy. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Jeane Kirkpatrick to speak at Great Issues forunl What is the role of the U.S. in international affairs? r. Jeane Kirkpatrick, foreign practice of American for- U.S. representative French test ing to the history and policy expert and former the black, moderate and liberal vote he must have to win." Until recently, Mrs. Townsend worked in Washington as a deputy assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice, where she administered a $2 .4 billion aid program for law enforcement. She is a former assistant attorney general for Maryland and directed the Maryland Student Alliance, a public-private partnership she founded to inspire young people to serve their communities. Under her leadership, Mary land became the first state to require all high school students to perform community service. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of New Mexico Law School, Mrs. Townsend has taught at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, at Essex and Dundalk Community Colleges, and at the University of Pennsylvania. The Townsends live in Ruxton, outside· Baltimore, with their four daughters. eign policy. to the United Nations, will be the featured After more than four speaker at the next program of the years as the United States Great Issues series, to be held on the representative to the Annapolis campus December 3. The United Nations and Great Issues programs provide public member of the Cabinet, forums on substantive subjects. The the first woman to serve St. John's style seminar-discussion is in that office, Jeane French is taught in the utilized as a way of provoking Kirkpatrick resumed her thoughtful response to a thematic lee- position ture. Professor at Georgetown program, and students' ptt:>gress in, ~tering it ca~ be monitored in the junior language t:ur:oria1 (iee the first argumen,t above)~ as algebra exam. algebra is not taught in the pr1og1rat)11, but its use. is required in we mathem~tics that they have .mas- Leavey Dr. Kirkpatrick will address the University and as Senior role of the United States in the affairs Fellow at the American of other countries. What justification Enterprise Institute. She does the U.S. have for entering into a also served as a member peacekeeping or humanitarian role in of the President's Foreign an international troubles pot? Under Intelligence Advisory what premise does our country Board and the Defense become involved, and what ethical, what circumstances should the Policy Review Board, and chaired the Former U.N. Representative Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick will speak at the Great Issues forum on foreign policy scheduled Commission to review for December 3 in Annapolis. America's Nuclear United States support multinational Command and Control (e.g. U.N.) intervention? These and System. military, or economic limits should be considered? To what extent and under Nationall and International Dimensions; at Georgetown and the American The Reagan Phenomenon; Dismantling Following the lecture, a question Enterprise Institute, Dr. Kirkpatrick is the Parties: Reflections on Party Reform _and answer period will allow program finishing a book on the U.S. role at and Party Decomposition; The New participants to probe more deeply into the United Nations and in the world. Presidential Elite; and Political Woman. points discussed by Dr. Kirkpatrick. She writes a syndicated column and A noted academic, Dr. Kirkpatrick Then seminars, co-led by a St. John's lectures extensively throughout the received her A.A. from Stephens, A.B. tutor and someone in the foreign rela- country. from Barnard, and M.A. and Ph.D. Dr. Kirkpatrick in her lecture. .Argumef.lts agai~st ~bolishi,11g the test: focused·. on ;;~b~thftt stu.. dents· would· :really t~n· enough French without the $pett-er of the exam facing. them. the g<laf of aiquirtng ·enough· facility· in the lang~ge to translate the pass~ge oti. the exam .a .goad to learning g:i;ammar ~ncl 11111r1&•f"- as In addition to her responsibilities' similar questions will be addressed by tutorial, students tions field, will convene to further A prolific writer, her recent books degrees from Columbia. She has been examine the issues raised and to dis- include: The Withering Away of the awarded more than a dozen honorary cuss several appropriate readings relat- Totalitarian State; Legitimacy and Force: degrees. �Page4 THE Fall 1994 REPORTER ANNAPOLIS ADVANCEMENT APPOINTMENTS Alum to tackle public relations for the college; two advancement staffpromoted Several new appointments were made recently in the Advancement office of the Annapolis campus, including the announcement of Barbara Goyette, A 7 3, as the new director of Public Relations and Publications. She replaces the retiring Nancy Osius, whose plans include getting married and crms1ng the Intracoastal Waterway. Since 1988 Mrs. Goyette has been senior editor at Chesapeake Bay Magazine in Annapolis. She was responsible for features and columns at the monthly publication. She was a freelance editor from 1979 to 1988, and rn the 197 Os worked · at Waterway Guide, where she hired many Johnnies as proofreaders. After graduating from St. John's, Mrs. Goyette studied at the School of Philosophy of Catholic University in Washington, D.C. and worked for the Review of Metaphysics. Mrs. Goyette lives in Shady Side with her husband and three sons. She has been a tutor of illiterate adults for the Anne Arundel Literacy Council and is active in the local schools as a volunteer and member of the Citizens Advisory Committee. Joan Dawson Ruch has accepted the position of director of Annual Giving, replacing Marylou Symonds, who is spending a year in England while her husband, Naval Academy professor and author Craig Symonds, teaches there. Mrs. Ruch is responsible for increasing annual alumni donations,. and she oversees the alumni's role in the Capital Campaign. As assistant to LETTERS WHAT IS REAL EDUCATIONAL REFORM? I read with interest your report in the March issue of The Reporter concerning the selection of the college by Project Kaleidoscope as "one of the most exemplary programs in the nation for its undergraduate science and mathematics studies." While there is certainly nothing amiss in being singled out for recognition, in this case it is important to have an understanding of the broader context under which this recognition was in all likelihood offered, and to be at least dimly aware of the labyrinthine interconnections and ambitions of the educational reform organizations that have sprung up since the end of the Cold War-many with impressive financial and social credentials-and of their spin-off reformers spreading out through our institutions of higher learning. I hope that any St. Johnnie will recognize the substitute for thought that is characteristic of the current jargon of education reform-words and phrases like: hands-on, lab-ri~h, collaborative, educational community partners in learning, community of learn~;rs, students of all "backgrounds" [?] finding success in mathematics and science. I finq troubling the statement that St. John's' possesses "the potential to be adapted to ot~er institutional settings for 'larger' instid:itional reform." Where have these peopl~: been all these years? :This kind of rhetoric is rampant these qays on American university campuses, with its flattering, and at the same time strangely condescending cliches. I would suggest that before the college accepts this distinction, it should question the people and cdrporations extending it as to what they t~ink of the real voice of the program __;_do they believe that the Great Books are the wave of the future for curriculum reform in American higher education? I think you will rather find that most present-day reformers are far more in favor of trashing the "goods of our civilization," to borrow a phrase from Dean Brann. I have no idea if it's possible to build a kaleidoscope in the shape of a large wooden horse, but whatever its shape, the college had better see what's inside before letting it through the gates. Scott Desjardins, A47 A VERY EARLY CONNECTION I was very interested in the June issue of The Reporter with the picture of the proposed plan for the new library. 1934 was the year I graduated from St. John's, but my connection with the school began in TO 1913. That was the year when my father, ]. Clifford Gray, was hired to be the head of the chemistry department at St. John's. While he was on the faculty, we lived in an apartment in the top left side of the PaceC ar ro 11 House. And the chemistry facilities were in Humphrey Hall, on the far right on the proposed plan. I have enclosed a picture that was taken of me in 1915 that shows McDowell Hall and Pinkney Hall in the background. I was probably standing close to the middle of the new library facility. My brother Joseph, class of 1936, was born in 1915, in the Pace-Carroll House, not in a hospital. He is probably the only graduate of St. John's who was born "on campus." I have two other brothers, Frederick and Ellis, who attended St. John's. They finished their college work at other schools. My father left St. John's in 1916 to join the faculty in the chemistry department at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he remained until, he retired in 1950. After graduating from St. John's I completed the work for an engineering degree at Johns Hopkins University; several years later I received my Master's degree from the Chemical Engineering School of A little]ohnnie in 1915: Edward E. Gray, A34, grew up on the Annapolis campus while his father was head of the chemistry department. the University of Michigan. I spent my eiitire professional career with E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co. in the Wilmington, Delaware, area. My career covered 42 years as a Senior Production Supervisor and as a Senior Economic Analyst. I have b~en married for over 5 3 years, and my wife and I have two children and four grandchildren. I have been wanting to write this letter for some time, and the recent issue of The the director of Annual Giving for the past four years, Mrs. Ruch increased communication between the college and parents and created a welcome package for new college parents. Prior to coming to St. John's, Mrs. Ruch was an assistant to the dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at American University from 19891990. From 1983-1989 she was a legislative public relations consultant in Washington, D.C., and from 1981-1983 she served as a legislative aide for U.S. Senator Sam Nunn. A 1980 graduate of the University of Georgia with a B.A. in political science, Mrs. Ruch earned her master's in government from Georgetown University in 1982. She lives in Severna Park with her husband and baby daughter, and is active in com- THE munity affairs, serving on the boards of the Annapolis Junior League, the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Caritas Society of St. John's College. Kathleen Dulisse, former assistant to vice president ] eff Bishop, has accepted the appointment as assistant director of the Annual Fund. Mrs. Dulisse is a 1973 graduate of Pennsylvania State University and a 1987 graduate of the St. John's Graduate Institute. As assistant director of the Annual Fund, Mrs. Dulisse will lead the parents' annual fund; as the mother of a college student she feels especially close to this group. She lives in Annapolis with her husband and daughter. EDITOR Reporter triggered this response. Edward E. Gray, A34 prayer that her truly remarkable soul lives on-somewhere near a sea. Ted Blanton, A75 WAVES RIPPLE BELOVED TUTORS As the first anniversary of Jam es Talbert's death approaches, I am joining the many in the St. John's community who have already paid tribute to this warm, gallant, and civilized man. My stay at St. John's was quite unhappy: rigid rules and procedures which were relaxed for later classes left me with uncongenial roommates and in uncongenial tutorials. Jim Tolbert was the only permanent staff member to offer me warmth, sympathy, and a believing ear. He tried his best to assist me. Although I left the college, I sought Dr. Tolbert out on those occasions when I returned to campus; I never caught sight of him without experiencing a wave of warmth and affection. I regret I never had him as a tutor, but I rejoice I was among those privileged to know him. B. Meredith Burke, A67 I read the obituary once; I couldn't bear to read it again. I sat outside for a while and allowed sadness to overwhelm me. Tutor Deborah Traynor was my freshman seminar tutor in the fall of 1971. The news of her death evokes fine evenings of a quarter century ago when together we pondered Achilles and Patroclus, Hector and Andromache, Odysseus and Penelope, in those richest of ancient epics. Debbie Traynor possessed an unusual openness to the world and to the many-sidedness of the human beings who inhabit it. She revealed her joys-and a considerable part of her heartaches as well-to her students, simply because she was so alive. Several years after that seminar Miss Traynor left St. John's for Ireland, finally settling on the Aran Islands off the west coast, a place she had long loved. In 1976 my wife, Mary, and I visited Debbie there, where life moved in a more ancient rhythm, a rhythm dictated by the winedark sea, a sea never out of sight or mind. We laughed over the fact that life on the Arans was "before junioJ? year," preBaconian in its spirit and tenor. Debbie Traynor brought life into relief in many ways. She attended to the heart as well as the mind, she showed that serious choices must be made about how to live. In her absence the earth is diminished. It is my An appreciation of Michael Ossorgin VI, tutor and priest, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of his falling asleep in the Lord, by William A.B. Malloy, SF76: Was he not as some sun, and were we not as so many/ planets, satellites or cornets passing by? Did we not make up/ soine solar system, some ellipse with foci at Annapolis and Santa/ Fe? Now we who have travelled on have returned to that place in/ our orbit where we should see him shining. We see him not./ He has moved on to the other side of eternity, has Mikhail Mikhailovich. Was he not a beacon to us, as on our ships and boats/ and rafts, or clinging to logs, we made our way through deep fog/ in rockfilled, murky waters? The beacon has dimmed, and he/ no longer watches us from this shore of our existence. Did he not join us at the oaken table, he who had begun/ at the oldest academy at Annapolis, our tutor and a priest?/ As the black ships that had sailed with heroes aboard, did not/ the table serve as a vessel for our quest? Were we not fellow/-travellers/ in inquiry? A chair sits empty now; an oar, idle. A falling rock makes waves that ripple about, circling,/ pushing on for shore. They come to shore, spent./ Are we not as rocks, we orbiters who come to apprehend/ our loss, then fall into the pool of our own tears? The waves ripple toward the shore where stand Mikhail Mikhailovich/ Ossorgin's widow, sons and daughter, joined by his sister,/ brothers, grandchildren, kinsmen, and all those for whom he served as priest,/ from Alaskan villages to the capitol of New Mexico. These waves are not spent, but speak softly for us, saying/ "God rest his soul. May his memory be eternal." _______J �Page 5 THE Fall REPORTER 1994 St John's College THE CAMPAIGN FOR OUR FOURTH CENTURY Annapolis, Maryland Santa Fe, New Mexico 1 ·9 9 6 1 6 9 6 $24 million and counting .... C ampaign chairman Ray Cave was both optimistic and cautious in his October address to the St. Joh n's College Board of Visitors and Governors. The good news is that alumni, parents and friends of the college have pledged $24,300,000 to the Campaign for Our Fourth Century. On the other hand, he said, achieving the remainder of the $30 million goal will pose the greatest challenge in the campaign. Two major campaign projects have yet to achieve full funding: the Annapolis Hall of Records/Library renovation, and the construction of a Student Activity Center in Santa Fe. In March, 1993, the Maryland State Board of Public Works approved St. John's bid to buy the old state Hall of Records on the Annapolis campus. In a final session six weeks later, legislators passed a $2.9 million State of Maryland Capital Facilities Improvement Matching Grant for renovating the building for use as a new library. The deadline for raising $2.9 million in matching funds is June 1995. To date, $1.5 million has been raised. In Santa Fe, plans and fundraising for the long-awaited Student Activity Center are now underway. Preliminary meetings have been held with community members and a local advisory committee is being formed. The facility will house a volleyball/basketball court, fitness training facilities, studio space, the Student Activity office and an operations base for the St. John's College Search and Rescue Team. The project, which has been unanimously endorsed by the faculty, has long been a priority for the Santa Fe campus. In fact, the Student Activity Center originally was considered of greater priority than the administration building, the fine arts building and the library. The project will cost $4. 7 million, including a $ .5 million endowment for operating costs. Several foundations have expressed interest in help- ing fund the facility. That funding, however, will be contingent on a strong demonstration of support from alumni and friends of the college. In both Santa Fe and Annapolis, campaign gifts to the college continue to come from a wide variety of sources and in a number of different forms. ~ cu :::::: 0 CJ .... 0 _(/) 0 0 0 o~ 0 0 .s (ij 0 ~ "We are leaving no stone unturned in our attempt to have broad participation among our friends, corporations and governments in Annapolis," said Annapolis president Chris Nelson. "Needing $2.9 million by June 1995 to earn the $2.9 million match- 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 Goal Pledges in Hand 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Alumni CAMPAIGN FOR G OUR 0 A L Friends Parents FONS/Corps GVTS FOURTH CENTURY GOALS October 1994 % OF TOTAL PLEDJES IN HAND BY SOURCE % OF GOAL Alumni $13,500,000 41.9% $12,323,013 Friends 9,099,000 28.3% 4,924,750 54% Parents 3,455,000 10.7% 2,317,500 67% FD NS/Corps/ 6,150,000 19.1% 5,410,000 88% $32,194,000 100% $24,975,263 for the NEH Distinguished Teaching Chair in Santa Fe. The Hearst Foundation has invited the Santa Fe campus to apply for a $25 ,000 award that will bring the total Hearst Scholarship endowment to $100,000. Also in Santa Fe, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee has agreed to provide the master planning necessary for continued development of the campus. The value of the planning is in excess of $20,000. Another member of the Presidential Advisory Committee, Stan Davis, has agreed to qecome special assistant to the president for Renovation and Construction. Mr. Davis' assistance will save the college thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours in the renovation of college dormitories and the construction of the Student Activity Center. Mr. Davis recently retired as the president of Stan Davis and Associates, one of the largest construction firms in New Mexico. A third member of the Presidential Advisory Committee has agreed to help lead community efforts in support of the Student Activity Center. "I think they do the most wonderful thing by giving us their time, their efforts, their expertise and their good will," said Santa Fe president John Agresto. "There's not really a price tag you could ever put on it." For more information about the Campaign for Our Fourth Century, the Hall of Records or the Student Activity Center, call the Campaign Hotline or contact Annapolis vice president Jeff Bishop at (410) 6262505 or Santa Fe vice president Jeff Morgan at (505)984-6099. 78% 91% GVTS Total: The City of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, and the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association have combined to give the college $127 ,000 toward the Hall of Records/Library project on the Annapolis Campus. ing funds from the State of Maryland, St. John's is inviting everyone to participate." Both campuses have received a joint award of $125,000 from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations for the Hall of Records in Annapolis and Santa Fe G.I. student aw-arded Rotary scholarship K risten Koster, SGI94, has been awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship for study in France at the Sorbonne. The scholarship includes $21,000 plus travel expenses. Ms. Koster will study French literature with particular emphasis on the translation of Ftench poetry. Ms. Koster said the primary purpose of this particular scholarship is cultural exchange. "I'll give talks to the Rotaries there and I'll speak to Rotaries here when I return," she said. "A primary function of the Rotaries is to promote peace through education. They might want to hear how a country or culture is affected by another country's art and literature, for example. They're interested in sending people overseas who want to learn about that culture and teach them the differences." Ms. Koster <1-pplied for the scholarship through the Santa Fe Downtown Rotary Club. "I did an interview with them and wrote three essays about my study plans," she said. "I was selected as a finalis~ and went to Las Cruces for the final interview." Of those who applied from New Mexico, two people were awarded scholarships. "The Rotary Clubs do very positive things," she said. "I felt like I could speak sincerely to them, they were very receptive. They were impressed with the people from St. John's and they have a really positive outlook on this college so I would encourage people to try it. Teachers should also consider other Rotary scholarship options." �Page 6 THE G 0 CHECK IT I N G Our: s Photo by john Bildahl A traditional gesture of goodwill, the handing over of a check on behalf of a worthy cause, is played out on front campus in Annapolis. 0 N Fall 1994 REPORTER A N N A p 0 Adam Wasserman (A 76) lectures on the current state of the former Soviet Union to Annapolis Chapter Alumni and the student political forum. L I s Reviewing the schedule before the first day's activities. See related story on page 1. Under the Liberty Tree, George Rinehart, chairman of the board of the Brass Chamber Music Society of Annapolis, presents a check to St. John's president Christopher Nelson. The money will be used to support the Music in the Great Hall concert series. Looking on is Anne Rinehart, education chairman of the Brass Chamber Music Society) standing next to her husband. Carolyn Surrick, a viola da gamba player and rnernber uf Ensemble Gali lei, represents the Mu;ician the Great Hall series. In presenting the check 1 Mr. Reinhart explained that the Brass Chamber Music Society had been in existence for about 15 years but had recently disbanded. "This money is part of the distribution of the remaining funds of other similarly directed non-profit music groups, )J he said. The Music in the Great Hall series features early music performances in the Great Hall which provides an ideal acoustic setting for small 1 ensemble and vocal groups. Six performances are scheduled for the 1994-95 season. The Freshman Orientation Committee on the steps of McDowell. Tutors Catherine Haigney and Thomas May look at a Rembrandt landscape. The exhibit also included portraits, genre The exhibit of Rembrandt etchings this fall brought the pictures, and religious and mythological scenes. A seminar and St. john's community as well as many interested towns- the several gallery talks scheduled during the exhibit were wellpeople to the Mitchell Gallery. Because of their size and attended. detail with which they are drawn, the etchings demanded close attention, as demonstrated by Berta Lee of Annapolis, who used the gallery-supplied magnifying glasses to study the "Self Portrait with Saskia." At the exhibit opening, gallery director Hydee Schaller converses with Frans L.B. Hulsman, the counselor for press and cultural affairs with the Royal Netherlands . Embassy in Washington, D. C. Photos: Keith HaN!ey �Page 7 THE G 0 I N G s 0 Fall 1994 REPORTER N s A N TA Above: Shakespeare's Tempest takes a humorous turn in this season)s performance by "Shakespeare in Santa Fe" as Caliban (Robert Murphy), Stephano (Rod Harrison) and Trinculo (Ted Schaeffer, SF96) delight the audience with a drunken plot to assassinate Prospero and take control of the island. The company was on campus every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening for six weeks in July and August, attracting nearly 10,000 spectators. Santa Fe Graduate Institute student Yvonne Woods played Miranda and Santa Fe alumnus Scott Capehart, SF93, performed as the shipwrecked prince, Ferdinand. F E Left to right: Martha Black Jordan, SGI 86, with Santa Fe tutor Torrance Kirby. Ms. Jordan, bi-lingual poet, author and trans lator, conducted a poetry reading on the Santa Fe Campus on July 29 titled "Wrestling with the Angel of Translation.') Ms. Jordan is the founder of the Tramontane Poetry Group of Mexico City, which is dedicated to being a bridge between the worlds of poetry in Mexico and North America. She is the author of a bilingual book of poetry) Manos en Agua/Hands in Water, and her translations and poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Left: Santh Fe artist Margaret Lefranc convePses with a friend during a recent ceremony in which she donated a major painting to the college. Ms.Lefranc has exhibited work in the United States and France, including the New York World's Fair Fine Arts Exhibition in 1939, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.) and Galerie Cardo, the salons d'Automne, des Tuileries, and des Artistes Franciais in Paris, and the North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work also is included in the collections of the Bellas Artes Museum in Mexico City and New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts. Lynne V Cheney, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, spoke in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of St.John's College in Santa Fe on October 22 in the Great Hall on the Santa Fe campus. Left: Television cameramen film St. john's Search and Rescue member Mary Freitas, SFBO, during a widely publicized mission in July. Publicity focused on a conflict between the U.S. Forest Service and the New Mexico State Police which hindered efforts to rescue a 14-. year-old boy scout from Illinois who was lost in the Pecos Wilderness. St. John's played a key role in the eventual rescue. �Page 8 THE Fall 1994 REPORTER • Santa Fe campus explores the art, science of permaculture BY LESLI ALLISON W hen Santa Fe residents were asked this summer to limit their water consumption voluntarily due to drought conditions, St. John's College already was a step ahead. Not only had students, on their own initiative, installed water-saving shower-heads in the dorms, the college had already taken steps toward water conservation in campus landscaping. Since its construction in the early 1960s, the college has incorporated native plants and water conservation elements into its landscape design. This effort was taken even further, however, when the college contracted with permaculture specialist Ben Haggard, SF79, for the landscaping of the new dorms. Haggard, whose father is Santa Fe tutor Dean Haggard, is widely known for his contributions in the area of permaculture. According to Grounds and Landscaping supervisor Pat McCue, SGI83, the philosophy behind permaculture is to cooperate with nature through recycling, the use of native plants and the reduction of energy consumption, all at an overall lower cost. "In designing the landscape, wind, sunlight and waterflow are taken into consideration," McCue said. "The principal strategy in this kind of environment is to get water into the ground, so you do a lot of berms and water catchments. The water doesn't run off, you hold it and the roots get deep, and then they pretty much take care of themselves." One of the key ingredients to success in permaculture is the quality of the soil. Healthy soil is alive with microbes. These microbes serve to release the nutrients plants need to .survive. When these microbes die, the nutrients are locked in the soil. According to McCue, soil dies whep it dries up, for instance through wind and water erosion once trees and other plants are cut down or removed. The trick, then is to revitalize the soil with compost which keeps the soil moist, protects it from the sun and allows the microbes to live. With this in mind, McCue initiated a composting program last December. He collects vegetable wastes from the campus, including leaves, grass, limbs and brush. He also collects vegetable wastes from the kitchen and manure from local Native plants} many of them edible} take root around the new dorms. stables. "This is all combined into a pile," he said. "If it's done properly, it cooks into a beautiful mulch which you put around the plants and that's how you build soil." Finally, of course, the plants themselves are carefully selected. As it turns out, much of the landscaping around the new dorms is edible. "We have pear trees, apricot trees, apple trees, cherry trees and servicebe rries, which is a tree," he said. Non-edible trees include New Mexican privets, Russian olives, honey locusts, wafer ashes, and fourteen ponderosa pines. Other edible plants include raspberries, choke-cherries, chives, comfrey and beebalm (also known as oregano de la sierra). Native shrubs include Apache plume, chamisa, four-wing saltbush, three-leaf sumac, winterfat and silvermound. Native grasses include blue gramma, side oats gramma and galleta. It's not all green, however. Among the newly planted flowers are rosa rigosa (wild rose), black-eyed susans, purple coneflowers, iron-weed, butterfly-weed, whirling butterflies, nepeta, soapwort, blanket daisies, wild irises, baskets of gold, day 1ilies and numerous other things. Pat McCue} SCI 83} directs landscaping on the Santa Fe campus. A young wafer ash tree prospers during a drought year. Gone Whalin' Douglas Hand, ·currently a student in the Graduate Institute in S~nta Fe} has recently had a book published entitled Gone Whaling. The following review was published in the Los Angeles Times on July 101 1994: ''I live in New York City now and I like it here," writes Douglas Hand, "but I have to tell you this story." That's his opening sentence, and he keeps up the combination of simplicity, humility, and humor all the way through. Hand's trail, which begins with a killer-whale totem pole carved by a Haida Indian in the American Museum of Natural History, led him to spend God knows how many months asking total strangers why they were driven to make whales the focus of their entire life's work, be it science or carving. My take on it is that Hand was driven to the whales because the whale is his totem animal and his spirit animal. He would probably laugh. I practically did writing it, but there it is. He never once says anything of the kind, but he is led so uncoincidentally from one storyteller to another, and is able to come at our fascination with areas from so many different angles. Why killer· whales? he asks each person he interviews. After a litany of reasons given to him by one scientist, from their wildness to their power, Hand responds: "You could also just say they eat until they' re full. Then they stop." Why killer whales?" Hand asks Dr. Murray Newman, director at the Vancouver Public Aquarium. "It's a very symbolic animal," Newman replies blandly. Doug Ford, curator of marine mammals and an expert on killer whale communication, keeps a similar distance. "Are they being creative when they make up a new call?" Hand asks. "Creative? No," says Ford. Hand visits Ken Balcomb, head of the Center for Whale Research, also in Vancouver, where he sees his first whales close up. "Did you have a good encounter?" one of the volunteers asks him. "I hadn't felt the illumination," Hand responds honestly "I hadn't crossed the line." "To us," say Sam, a Nimpkish Indian Hand meets on a ferry, "they're people ... All animals can transform themselves to human form. They're very much like us. It has enough food, so it's a very good life. It's a sensual life. I think that's the way the Nimpkish used to live. Food was always very plentiful, so we had time to play." Back in New York, reflecting on' the Haid~ carving, Hand wonders: "Where does one" creature end and the other begin?" �Page9 THE G. R A D u A T E Don Quixote offers wisdom to graduates Study in the St. John's College Graduate Institute need not be thought of as an interruption in life, Santa Fe tutor Joan Silver told 2 5 candidates for the Master of Arts at the G.I. summer commencement. Drawing on colorful accounts of the travels of Don Quixote, Ms. Silver suggested the differences between stories in books and the realities of our lives may not be as great as we often believe. ''I'd like to make the case that the reading and discussion of works here at St. John's is (or can be) like the engagement that one has with life," Ms. Silver said. "We say that we read great books here-we do not say that we are studying great questions or great claims on their own. Now great questions or great claims may be imbedded in the books that we read (I suppose that we all hope and assume that they are), but if we read only for these, our readings would at least be much shorter. It seems, too, that they would be less, compelling. Even when faced with great questions we (most of us) are too likely to come up with familiar answers; and a great claim, made in the form of an assertion, remains too easily dismissedor embraced. The books are more haunting than this; they have a life and depth of their own, a life and depth that can arise only in our active presence and struggle with them. "You are leaving your world of reading and study in part because of the fact of a degree which is marked by this rite of passage. Perhaps as Don Quixote bought books of knight-errantry, you too have, as Cervantes says, 'sold many acres of arable land' to have this opportunity of reading and talking about books. In any case, we see Don Quixote taken out of his comfortable home and into the world by a fancy he has about the intersection of his books and life. "You each have what we might call roles to play in this world to which you are returning," she continued. "Your relation to these roles and to your life will have everything to do with how you take these books-or in fact your reading of them-with you when you go. "Not only Sancho but also Don Quixote confuses stories and life. Don Quixote appears both to have read and to have lived wrongly. He took something intended as a romance for something real, and imposed this fiction on the world around him. On the other hand, perhaps in his reading he saw something Annapolis G .I. grants 14 degrees Visiting tutor and local businessman speaks on integrating the St. J ohnJs experience into real life. The positive influences af a liberal education on life in the business world was the topic of the commencement address to this year's crop of mast_er's degree candidates on the Annapolis campus. Graduate Institute alumnus Jeffrey Franklin, AGI81, spoke to the 14 graduates, their families and friends on August 12 in the Great Hall. · After a welcome by John Verdi, director of the Graduate Institute, Fall 1994 REPORTER the prize for best tutorial essay was presented to Patricia M. Greer. The award was given by Betsy Blume, director of Alumni Activities, on behalf of the Alumni Association; Ms. Greer's paper was titled "Can Philosophers be Friends? Reflections on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics." President Nelson conferred the degrees to students from six states and Ontario, Canada; seven students were from Maryland. Mr. Franklin, who has served as· a v1s1tmg tutor for the Graduate Institute since 1982, is the founder of Be Beep-A Toy Shop. He sells "real" toys in the midst of a mass market directed President Christopher Nelson grants the Masters in Liberal Arts degree to toward pleasMary Anne LeVeque of Takoma Park, Md. Assisting with the accoutrements ing the TV.is tutor Rados/av Datchev. Photo by Keith Harvey. fed desires of I N s T I T u real that begged for embodiment. His reading changed his life. As the awkward embodiment of courage and compassion in the form of a knighterrant, he introduced not fiction, but authenMariam Idriss rejoices on tic possibility into the lives of those he happened to meet. Don Quixote himself was not exempted from this charmed and yet real circle; he, too, is recreated by his own role and his en~ounter through it with the actuality of the world. Faced with a failure, he feels the shame that is often a part of human renewal. And, faced with the death that Cervantes reminds us is undeniable for us all, he experiences a genuine conversion, a return to his own real self. "Our roles and masks are neither so eccentric nor so easily identifiable as Don Quixote's. It may be easier for us than it was for him to hide in these roles from the reality of our lives. The world will, perhaps, bump up against us less. A mystery or even a good novel can be a place to disappear into, a vaca- T E receiving her master's degree in Santa Fe. tion as it were from the moments of life. So can a role. A role can change living into a sort of fiction when we accept it as the final word on who to be and how to act." In conclusion, Ms. Silver spoke to the importance of friendship and conversation as a means of bringing the possibilities of books into our lives. "Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in their friendship become human beings who see each other clearly beyond the roles of squire and knight. May you be blessed with friends with whom to share stories, books, and talk-fictions-that will take you together to real friendship beyond such roles. Keep reading, talking, and living well." America's kids. He started the shop with his wife at a small location in downtown Annapolis and has expanded the business over the past 15 years to three large shops in the Annapolis area. Follow- J e/frey Franklin delivers the address at the 16th summer commencement i ng are of the Graduate Institute. Photo by Keith Harvey. excerpts of How do I see what I do? What his address: does it mean to say this perspective I think it takes effort to keep your was in part shaped by, and is now love of learning and pursuit of truth protected by my liberal educaactive in the face of the pressures of tion? ... The goals of running a busidaily life, which are connected priness could and should be different marily to making a living and honorfrom the goal in a game of ing increasing responsibilities to Monopoly-amassing a fortune by those you love and to your communibankrupting your friends ... You will ty. There are tensions between action have to formulate your own measure and contemplation, but this morning for success. Your education here has I would like to focus on how your equipped you to examine the worthistudy of the nature of human action ness of partjcular ends. Your characcan assist you in acting well. ter will determine the efficacy of that Isolating the influence of any parexamination in your actions. I hope ticular experience on your life is difgood character and good education ficult, but I can identify two imporwill enable you to define success tant ways my liberal education well, and good fortune and hard work informs what I do. It helped shape will enable you to achieve it. and continues to protect the way I see what I do, and it is a source of good counsel. continued on page 10 �Page 10 THE REPORTER Fall 1994 ways: wooden the classes bring townspeople onto campus and provide an interesting sidelight for St. John's students. Mr. Poston, who led boatbuilding classes at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut for seven years, has taught three classes on the St. John's campus, in the woodshop of the Heating Plant. The latest class produced a 16-foot Rhodes Wherry which will be used as the tender for the Maryland Dove, a replica of the pinnace that brought the first settlers and supplies to the Maryland colony in 1634. The Dove is berthed at St. Mary's City in southern Maryland. Having read about the need for a tender for the Dove, Mr. Poston submitted a design based on the drawings of a New England wherry, and it was chosen by the Dove s captain. "A wherry is a very old style of boat, probably originally brought over to the colonies with the British," says Mr. Poston. "The lines for this Rhodes wherry were copied from a boat in Maine. It was likely used in the inshore fisheries out of small harbors. The fishermen would haul in their nets, loading the 400 to 500 pounds of fish right into the little boat. She can carry a lot of weight and still move through the water." The graceful boat has a lapstrake construction,. which means that the planks on the side slightly overlap one another. Even though it was a H ow can the activity of building a boat be like the activity of making your way through the St. John's program? Perhaps both can be considered activities in which the wheel is reinvented. In reading the books and then discussing them, you don't lean on previously dictated formulas for what it all means. Everyone figures the readings out for him/herself, as much as is figurable. When you build a boat the same sort of thing has to happen. Because every batch of wood is different, as is every interplay of rivet and plank, plane and keelson, even if you' re following a set of plans, you have to think and improvise-that is, figure it out-every step of the way. When Annapolis athletic director Leo Pickens asked Clark Poston to lead traditional boatbuilding classes at St. John's, he was hoping to reintroduce an activity that had been popular on campus in the 1940s. The popularity of boatbuilding here undoubtedly had more to do with the college's beautiful location on College Creek than with the intrinsic merits of the exercise itself, but boatbuilding is something many amateurs get hooked on. You can't really understand what a boat is and what it can do until you've built one, and reinventing the wheel is always fun when a pretty vessel is the product. Plus, 1 boats with a unique design, to be called St. John's Flyers. Mr. beginner class, Mr. Poston decided to Pickens hopes to increase community tackle this rather difficult vessel, with involvement by having different a result he calls "fantastic." local schools and organizations buy Eight class members, including the boats; then rowing competione recent graduate of the college, tions would bring the boat purchasers worked well over the 7 0 class hours together with rowers-and also boatplanned to fashion the traditionally builders-from St. John's. shaped wooden rowboat. Old and new tools were used; Poston's theory is that you should employ "whatever is applicable because sometimes the best tool was devised in the eighteenth century and sometimes you need a new band saw or planer to do the job right." Different types of wood were used for different parts of the boat, for example white cedar from North Carolina for the planking and spruce for the oars. The result is a beautiful blend of wood tones on a vessel with a lithe shape that rows easily. Already there are requests for another class, and Mr. Poston and Mr. Pickens are planning a more ambitious pro- Classic in wood: Boatwright Clark Posten points out the traject-building a series. ditional lines of the rowboat his class built. The boat will be of small wooden row- used.on the Maryland Dove, a replica of an historic ship. Annapolis GI Graduation, cont. PARTICIPATING IN A LARGER ENTERPRISE WITH ITS OWN ENDS You will not be acting alone. In earning a living, you will be part of a larger institution or enterprise with its own ends. This corporate body will, in turn, be part of a larger field of endeavor such as government, academia, business, or the arts .... Even if you do not participate directly in business, you cannot escape the consequences of business activities. You will consume the goods and services businesses provide. You will work for academic and gov.ernmental institutions supported by business either dir.ectly or through Happy graduate Paul Gerard Barker poses with taxation. The quality of the air you breathe and the water you drink will be affected by business activities. Businesses aim to identify or create a need for goods or services that they can then satisfy for a profit. The growth of our economy is built upon distributing an ever-increasing variety of needs by manufacturing and distributing an ever-increasing variety of products and services. It is important to recognize that businesses create needs as well as serving existing ones .... The specific need addressed and enhanced by my industry is a child's need for toys. Toys are tools for play and the type of play can be influenced by the choice of tools made available to a child. Statistics indicate our children need lots of toys. Last year they needed over $13,000,000,000 worth. The toy industry is a bifurcated industry divided pretty distinctly into the mass-market segment and the specialty segment. The massmarket segment depends heavily on "hot" toys, fads generated by extensive television advertising and by licensing-the association of a toy with a copyrighted character from movies or Saturday morning television in order to increase the demand for it ... his What's the difference for chil- . family in front of McDowell. The Barkers are from Fallston, Md. Photo by Keith Harvey 1 dren? As you can. imagine the answer to that question is subject to ferocious debate within our industry. the licensors asserting that a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger space gun has added play value because the child can act out the stories of the character he knows. The anti-licensors reply that in addition to being violent, the pre-established connection with the TV show Jeffrey Lane Edwards of Simsbury, Ct., receives an award from director narrows the child's play john Verdi for acting as summer activities counselor at the Graduate by encouraging him to Institute. Photo by Keith Harvey. . mimic mindless TV lead inevitably to a particular busiplots .... ness philosophy any more than it inevitably leads to a particular politiPERSPECTIVE5 SHAPED BY LIBERAL EDUCATION cal philosophy. It does, I think, teach Now that you know a little about you to ask different questions than the context in which I act, I can come technical training does. Whatever back to a question I posed earlier. What you choose to do, continue to ask does it mean to say this perspective was yourself and your colleagues quesin part shaped by, and is now protected tions about the ends of the enterprises by my liberal education? in which you are involved and the My liberal education compels me means it employs to achieve them. to ask questions beyond "Will it sell?" I must ask myself, "Will it be good for the child who plays with it?" and "Is my store a good place for parents and children?" I have to examine the ends of my business enterprise within the context of my broader ends as a human being . A St. John's education does not �Page 11 THE Fall 1994 REPORTER a legacy on the importance von nnapolis tutor emerita Beate SUNDAY, JULY 17, Ruhm von Oppen has a particular interest in the events of one day-July 20, 1944. On that date fifty years ago, a group of Germans attempted to assassinate Hitler; the effects of their unsuccess- ful try reverberate even today, as the world continues to deal with the legacy of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis. Like all occurrences in his- Humanity at tory, this one had many events that led up to it, and many that followed Large from it. Miss von Oppen has for years BY BEATE RUHM VON 0PPEN studied German resistance to Hitler, the various attempts to stop him, and the repercussions for those who were discovered. Working for the British Foreign Office in political intelligence at the time of the 1944 assassination attempt, she knew first-hand the excitement-and the controversythe actions of the German resistance were causing among the allies: While ANNAPOLIS, •MD When the first news fragments about the failed attempt to kill Adolf the ticker tape in the. afternoon of July 20, 1944, it was almost unbearably exciting. I was working in Political Intelligence lJeoartment the British Foreign machine that gave us intercepts of the German news agency. ..1'1;)1.CiJLC.l.J. the was the thing to do - thc»ugn it would the soldiers from the oath of loyalty they had all sworn to him personally. Thus, Helmuth James von Moltke thought it better and beat the responfor tbe defeat. Moltke was an international. lawyer in the Abwehr, the mlli tary intelligence as legal adviser to the Ger.man High Command. He helped save many lives. He was one the victims of the purges carried out the July 20 assasSi•natioti attempt. The judge saw Moltke as at. least as dangerous to the regime as those who had taken viol~nt steps to end it. Moltke had opposed the Nazis from· the beginning, but had argued against the assassination and coup attempts. He did, not think they would bring about the necessary change in the German mentality, young Protestant theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, held the. oppoHe. thought that of tQ much of the focus from historians has fallen on the July 20 date, Miss von Oppen in her work has studied the whole of the German resistance movement-"all efforts to foil the intentions of the regime, whether aimed at its violent overthrow or not," she says. Miss von Oppen has written extensively on the topic, including a book, Helmuth James von Moltke: Letters to Freya 1939-1945, and the introduction to the recently re-published book The Secret War Against Hitler by Fabian von Schlabrendorff. In July of 1993, she spoke in Berlin at a commemoration of the assassination attempt; recently she was invited, along with several other scholars and historians espousing a variety of views on German resistance, to speak at symposium connected with an exhibit on the movement at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The following is an article published in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, July 1 7, on the subject of the overlying importance of the Hitler plot. about it~it was his voice. He denounced the "tiny clique" of traitorous, ambitious and officers who had tried to rob the German people of· its leadership and way life. The stab in the of the bat~ tled nation had failed. There would not. be another 1918. The traitors would be exterminated mercilessly. The next day, there to be a silver lining in the doud of disappointment when official. word spread in London that the failure of the plot might be a good thing. Success might have made a martyr of Hider and might not have broken his spell. And it .might have a riew legend that plotter, Hans Oster. One of their good worKs-1me successful transfer of a small gr-01.lp of Jews to Switzerland under the of German intelligence agents-·Jed to Bonhoeffer's and von Dohnanyi's over, their are still with us. Divisions between left and right, even East and West, persist, straining German commemorations of the anti-Hitler resistance. Social Democrats want Chancellor Helmut Kohl to be the main speaker at the ceremonies the 50th anniversary of the assassination attempt. Some of the people connected with the permanent center of commemoration at the Stauufenbergstrasse in are worried that the military Establishment is muscling in .. Conversely, others object to indud..: ing exhibits representing Moscow sponsored groups. Yet the decision seems right not to censor them, but to let people make up their own minds about the likely motives and relative merits of the diversity of Germans who opposed, the Nazi The Allies called the events July a' "Generals' Plot." It was a misnomer,. Obviously, ~ei111::1ws �THE Page 12 St. llY ALA!\ C. TAYLOR (SGI 9_c,) he creation of the Santa fe campus was described in 1966 as "a magnificent achievement, unmatclwd, to our knowledge, in che contemporary collegiate scene" by chair Ruth Adams in a report by the Middle States and North Central Associations of Colleges and Secondary Schools. She went on co say: "This total achievement merits unstinted admiration." There have been branch campuses built within state university systems, but a college cloning itself at a distance of 2000 miles, spreading a philosophy and methodology of liberal education, providing within itself a forum for the exchange of ideas and discoveries, was unprecedented. This was no easy task, creating a college among sage, pinon, jackrabbit and raven. But Richard Weigle, then president of St. John's, was motivated by the guiding ideal of centunes of intellectual tradition, as codified by Barr and Buchanan's Program, and the principle expressed by the faculty that "it is desirable that t:he St. Fall 1994 REPORTER 's ' John's curriculum be made available to as many students as possible." As with most things St. John's, it all began with a conversation. Publicist Milton Mayer, while visiting his daughter, in 1959 in Annapolis, was hav1 ng coffee w i ch President Weigle. fie mentioned that a group of citizens on the Monterey Pen111sula wanted to start a college along the lines of St. John's, then asked if Weigle would be willing to help. He eagerly John Gc111· J\11:'1:'1!1 mu! St. John~r Jm:sidmt Richc1rd V(/eigle stm•ey thef!!t!fre site of the ll'estem camp11s. I C)oO. agreed. After a prelimiwould be "a bold and imaginative ty ro spread the word, to provide "a nary trip to California, Weigle noted venture which would focus new twin for the Annapolis campus with that the local committee "lacked national attention ... on the college." It concomitant interchange of ideas, facthe administrative rnlent would provide for the exchange of ulty, and students," proved unyieldand the financial hackstudents, faculty and ideas, and a mg. ing essential to the western branch of "the Program" Weig le rec om menJed that St. project." But the would be a useful goad to educational John's take the initiative and created hook had been set, thinking across the country. As to the a faculty committee to explore the the dust blown off obvious fears of siphoning funds from feasibility of such an undertaking. of the machinery. Annapolis's coffers, the new campus Their study revealed that applicants Mr. Weigle menwould be supported by money from for admission were steadily growing, tions in his book California and the west which was and that expanding the student body The Colonization of a not available to Annapolis. in Annapolis would jeopardize the College that "there At the board meeting, the ayes distinctive intimacy and efficacy of was little to justify carried the motion with only one disthe St. John's community. Expansion embarking upon a senting vote. Weigle would spearwas not an option. The faculty cast a western venture. Yet head the building of a second campus split decision in favor of colonization. there seemed to be a at a site to be determined. Robert Bart, chair of the commitchallenge in the concept A TIME J1Iagazine article on St. tee, recalls "the decision was preceded of a second campus that I John's decision to colo,nize generated by a lot of talk and discussion with a for one could not escape." 3 2 in vi rations across the country great deal of enthusiasm and opposiThe opportunifrom prospective locations. These tion." were narrowed to three in California: The concerns were legion. Among the Mission Inn in Riverside, them were: the task of training new Claremont Colleges, and the faculty to carry the program indepenMonterey Peninsula. Weigle and his dently; funding; splitting the presiwife, Mary, traveled to Denver in dent's time between the two campusJanuary 1961 for a meeting of the es; and the objection that this diviAssociation of American Colleges. sion at the cellular level would dissiAfterward, they had planned to visit pate the college's energies, which the sites and report back to the faculshould be aimed at perfecting the ty. curriculum. While her husband was busy On the other side, Weigle attending meetings, Mary looked forclaimed a second campus of ward to a day of relaxing in Denver. 300 students As she descended in the elevator, an "inner voice" said, "Go back co your room." She brushed it aside, placed her key at the front desk, and started to walk out the from doors. The voice became more agitated, "Go back to your room!" Annoyed, she returned, slamming the door, then underneath the echoes of her anger, heard the phone ring. It was Robert McKinney, a former member of the board, publisher of the Sama Fe Neu• Mexican, and then ambassador to Switzerland. �64 His message was short, "Have you ever thought of bringing St. John's College to Santa Fe?" Weigle visited Santa Fe, where John Gaw Meem, at a luncheon at his house, asked Weigle how much land he would need for the new college. Weigle was ready with the answer. Doubling the size of the Annapolis property, he responded, "Seventy acres." Meem motioned over his shoulder saying, "I have some property over the hill here that I would like to give to the college if it moves to Santa Fe." Only later did Weigle understand why so many at the luncheon appeared surprised: The gift was more than 2 00 acres of gently sloping mountain property. Upon his return, Weigle suggested that a faculty committee be appointed to review each of the four sites. In February 1961, Douglas Allanbrook, Robert Bart, William A. Dar key, Jr. and Barbara Leonard, accompanied by Weigle, traveled west. The Mission Inn was rejected because of proximity to Los Angeles and its growing smog, lack of room for an athletic field, and, on the lighter side, recounts Mr. Bart, the committee wondered what the college would do with the five bars located in the resort. The offer to build a sixth college within the Claremont cluster was also turned down because of insufficient space and the inevitable competition for funds. And finally, Monterey reluctantly was crossed off the list because the property's topography (beautiful hillsides sloping down to the Pacific) presented many difficulties for a college. The faculty committee unanimously recommended Santa Fe for several reasons: In 1956, several citizens had formed a committee to build a small, excellent, liberal arts college with integrated studies, seminar system, superior library, intramural athletics, and a relationship to the Presbyterian Church. Santa Fe's welcome was magnificent, financial support seemed adequate, the cultural orientation of the city was inviting ("there were at least a dozen private art galleries," says Weigle in Colonization), the gift of land was very generous, and there was no institution like St. John's would be from the Texas border to Colorado to the West Coast. St. Michael's College (now College of Santa Fe) at that time was mostly oriented to priestly vocations. The Presbyterian College committee threw their full support to St. John's, and, said Mr. Darkey, "The people of Santa Fe were very warm, hospitable, and open. They made the site committee feel very comfortable and welcome." Whereas the people of replied, "No." Monterey had said how lucky for the On April 22, college to be located on the peninsula, the people of Santa Fe considered 1963, John Meem, using the same shovthemselves lucky for the college to be el that broke ground built in their city. Mr. Darkey recalls that Santa Fe for the Key Auditorium and was chosen, in part, because of the Mellon Hall in marvelous gift of land from the Meems, who "had a good sense of Annapolis, initiated construction of the community. They; with several others, wanted to do something for Santa Santa Fe campus. As the student Fe. And we felt quite strongly that center, science labothis college needed to be a part of a ratories, Santa Fe community because the college by Hall, and the upper nature is part of a community. There is dormitories rose a continuum; liberal education leads to from the dust of participation in a community." The faculty agreed, and then on construction and the frantic search February 22, 1961, so did the board. for funds, another The following two years boiled with planning and fundraising activiproblem had to be resolved: capable ties. Land for the new college had to faculty. The first be assembled, the master plan preorder was to select a pared, and the college Polity had to dean. A committee be amended to make the new campus of tenured tutors legal. The architectural firm of recommended Holien and Buckley, John Meem's Clarence Kramer, a successor firm, developed the master plan, and Weigle stoked the fund1949 graduate and raising fires. He estimated that the tutor for nine years. first eight years of the new campus Tutors were canwould bottom line at $12M. vassed as to their Foundation funds, half of the interest in being pioneeded money, dribbled in pathetineers. Of those cally. The second phase of large indiexpressing a desire, vidual donors proved more encouragten were chosen. ing. Yet, by February 1963, in spite Seven had a cumulaof the generosity of Santa Fe citizens tive total of 98 years of St. John's teachand others, only half of the $4M ing experience. needed for construction and expenses By the summer of 1964, the for the first year of operation had dream, the challenge, had molded been received. But Weigle was not form and matter into a new entity. the sort of person who would enterWeigle says: tain possibilities of failure. Once, St. john's College in Santa Fe was a recalled Mr. Darkey, Weigle and a reality after three and a half years of few others were looking at the camplanning, building, staffing, and pus at 10 p.m. when Weigle pointed fundraising. Once again the College had to one of the globe lights that lit the proven itself an educational pioneer. It paths and said, "There are too many demonstrated the feasibility of establishof those things, get rid of that one." It immediately went out. "We all laughed about that," said Mr. Dar key. "Defeat wasn't in his character," said Mr. Bart. "He had certain faith that the college would not go bankrupt. I al ways compared him to Don Quixote, which was a favorable comparison in my estimation, in that where everybody else saw one thing, he saw a rosy future." When asked if the new venture might fail, he curtly and firmly Construction of the Santa Fe campus, 1963. NI ER SAR ing a second campus as an alternative to constant growth and enlargement of existing camp us es. Through duplicating itself St. john's reaffirmed its faith in the small college as an ideal learning community for both student and teacher. .. The combination of a promotional film produced in 1961 and a 1963 article in the Saturday Review by David Boroff spawned 420 formal applications for admission for the two campuses, practically twice the number from the previous year. By the end of September 1964, the campus was ready to receive the first batch of students. Well, almost. continued on page 21 �Page 14 THE Glenn Ballard, editor - Alumni in Performing Arts Building Bridges to the College and Community n Annapolis, which has one of the more continuously active chapters in the country, we have had a particularly energetic year. Besides the monthly luncheon group, there were three dinners with programs,. as well as several seminars. The luncheon group continued to invite prominent Maryland politicians to become better acquainted with the college, among them Delegate Clarence Davis, an African-American legislative leader; Ellen Sauerbrey, a Republican State Delegate seeking her party's nomination for Governor; and Lyn· Nofziger, a prominent Republican operative currently aiding the gubernatorial campaign of Rep. Helen Bentley. Additionally, two alumni addressed the group: Dr. David Krimins '63 on the pulmonary system, and Dr. John Hedeman, '43 on Winston Churchill. The dinners included a presentation by tutor Tom May on Durham Cathedral in England, which was built in the I Ith Century and is notable for its architectural evolution, reflecting the transition from the Romanesque to the Gothic as dominant styles in Medieval Europe. In March, the chapter joined with the Annapolis Symphony to plan a dinner and lecture to be followed by a concert featuring selections by Stravinsky and Rachmaninov. Friends of the College were invited to participate. The lecture was given by Eric Stoltzfus, who is currently in charge of the College's Music Library. In the Spring, the chapter was addressed by Adam Wasserman, '76A an alumnus currently advising the State Department on issues arising from the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The program was cosponsored by the student's Political Forum. He particularly spoke to the political and economic prospects of the non-Russian republics, and of the tensions and strengths in their rela- tionship with the Russian Federation. The seminars were kicked off by tutor Lawrence Berns in February, with Lincoln readings and an essay of his own, in honor of the I 6th president. The discussion was lively, particularly since two of the participants were Southerners by birth, and could offer a more ambivalent perspective on the Civil War. There was a subsequent seminar on a selection from tutor Wendy Allanbrook's recent book on Mozart and dance motif, led by the author and drawing nearly as many tutors as alumni. The musicological issues led to a strong discussion of broader aesthetic and cultural topics. Shortly afterwards, tutor and alumnus Sam Kutler led a seminar on Plato's Divided Line, and the ensuing discussion provided quite a different perspective from freshman year, as might be imagined. Finally, a special seminar in honor of the late James Tolbert was led by Hugh McGrath, with readings from George Orwell and James Tolbert on the issue of lucidity in English and its relationship to clarity in thought and public life. Inevitably, the topic of political correctness arose, with a surprising diversity of perspectives articulately argued. Credit must be given to the chapter president, Joel Lehman, for his vigorous leadership, as well as the vice president and program chairman, Jack Carr, who was particularly helpful on the Symphonic Evening and the two newsletters published this year. Irving Wasserman put together the seminar program, Michael Blume oversaw immediate arrangements and helped on the newsletters, and, of course, the Alumni Office provided a great deal of backup. Also, the chapter is gratef u I to all those who spoke or led seminars, and to the food service for its attentiveness in the course of the year. Please call those listed below for information about alumni activities in each area. (212) 463-7392 PHILADELPHIA: Jim Schweidel (215) 836-7632 PORTLAND: Dale Mortimer (206) 737-7587 RICHMOND: Maya Hasegawa (804) 355-5095 SACRAMENTO: Arianne Laidlaw (916) 362-513 I or Helen Feeley (916) 452-1082 ST. LOUIS: Lorin Cuoco (314) 935-5576 or (314) 725-8972 (W) SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Toni Wilkinson (415) 255-2255 or (415) 550-1280 (W) SANTA FE: John Pollak (505) 983-2144 or Cindy Jokela (505) 984-6103 SEATTLE: Jim Doherty (206) 937-8886 WASHINGTON, D.C: Sam Stiles (30 I) 424-9 I 19 ALBUQUERQUE: Harold M. Morgan, Jr. (505) 256-0294 ANNAPOLIS: Joel D. Lehman (410) 956-2814 AUSTIN: Paul Martin (512) 327-6854 BOSTON: Alvin Aronson (617) 566-6657 BUFFALO/ROCHESTER/TORONTO: Hank Constantine (716) 586-5393 CHICAGO: Rick Lightburn (312) 667-0068 or Amanda Fuller (312) 337-4105 DALLAS/FORT WORTH: Suzanne Doremus (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis (214) 340-8442 LOS ANGELES: Julia Takahashi (3 I 0) 434-7624 MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL: Glenda Eoyang (612) 783-1405 or (612) 379-3883 (W) NEW YORK: Sylvia Hermanson A Thomas Geyer A'68 communications committee chair The Annapolis I Fall 1994 REPORTER T his past summer, at the 25th reunion of the first class to begin at the Santa Fe campus, an editor of this publication asked me to put together a piece on the particu1 perspective of St. Johnnies who ar work in the performing arts. I wrote to the 30-odd alumni who are so listed in the alumni register. Two months later, it appeared that the opening generalization of my article would have to be something like the following: "The kind of person who went to St. John's and now works in the performing arts is the kind of person who doesn't discuss it" Just as I began to panic, letters started arriving. True, most were my own, still sealed and returned undeliverable. But a few contained replies. So what follows are some thoughts from me and my respondents to several questions that essentially boil down to one: How has your time at St. john's influenced your life as an artist? Actually, I put this central question this way in my letter: "How do Amlin Gray people still living out and/or reacting against the St John's paradigm of the examined life relate that way of living to their lives as artists?" Only one respondent says that she doesn't relate it at all. Having worked in film in various capacities (now working in the field of mental health), she dismisses the whole St. John's experience for the narrow cultural and especially the single-gender perspective of the curriculum. She ascribes her estrangement from St. John's ("I never think about it") to her feminist perspective. It seems also to result from a pronounced version of a discovery that many St. Johnnies make. When you're away from St John's for even a brief time even, while s t i I I enrolledfor a Christmas vacation, t h a t intensely involuted learning community feels like it's Kari Jensen on the moon. This respondent reports that, several years out of Santa Fe, she took a documentary film crew that was recordthe ing American Scene to Andrew White hear a tutor giving a guest lecture in Los Angeles. At that distance in time from her enrollment, his talk left her gaping. "INCOMPREHENSIBLE!" she writes. At the opposite pole, a New York actress, an Annapolis graduate, writes that it is the tenor of discourse outside St. John's from which she feels estranged. "With the Balkanization of our society the profusion of non-conversation, slogans and sound bites, I have found it increasingly difficult to have real discussions/arguments without risking total alienation. Romantic, perhaps, but I have felt that with at least some of my friends from St. John's it has been possible to argue, disagree, and remain friends. There seems to be a tacit understanding that the truth is not fixed in the mire of dead opinion but is rare and precious and requires diligent, unceasing pursuit." At this summer's reunion, I had a startling reencounter with St. John's style significant discourse. This was in the seminar that was part of the threeday proceedings. The subject w a s Conrad's The Shadow Line, chosen (by former Dean Kramer, who led the session) because its theme is the passage from youth to maturity. Greg Congleton We twenty or so 25ers, having crossed the line out of or into the shadow (Conrad never specifies on which side maturity lies), sat down in a room where all of us had had classes at one time or another. For most, as it appeared to me, it was all at once as if this were a Thursday evening and they had assembled the previous Tuesday evening and every Tuesday and Thursday all year. They were off like a shot. From Mr. Kramer's First Question they were right onto the Last Questions of the Cosmos. Left in the dust, I sat there flabbergasted. As a playwright my tendency, �THE Page 15 e nBY MARK MIDDLEBROOK n the March 1994 issue of this newsletter ("Alumni Online: the St. John's Conversation Goes Electronic." page 16), I reported on the inchoate attempts of a small but adventurous group of alumni to communicate by computer and modem. Since then these early, groping efforts have blossomed into a steady conversation, thanks to the establishment of an electronic "meeting place'' and the ongoing interest of alumni. I •ANATOMY OF A MAILING LIST The alumni "meeting place" is a computer that is connected to the Internet and that receives, stores, and transmits email messages automatically. The computer is called a "mail server" and the messages and people among whom messages flow are called a mailing list. Alumnus Rich Green (SF87) set up the alumni mailing list on a mail server he administers at Stanford University. (Thus the list isn't sponsored or controlled by the College or the Alumni Association; it's simply a convenient way for alumni to converse with one another.) The mailing list acts something like a hybrid of a post office, a magazine, and a seminar. Alumni subscribe to the mailing list by sending an email message via the Internet to the mail server's administrative, or "mailserv", address. This action is equivalent to subscribing to a magazine, except that neither the mail server nor the Internet charges you anything. Once you've subscribed to the list, you receive, as email, copies of each message that gets posted to the list. Messages get posted, in the form of email messages sent to a slightly different Internet address, by the same alumni who subscribe. Thus posting a message Is aKi11 to se11di11g a letter to the editor of the magazine, except that: (I) the letter is guaranteed to be published, (2) the magazine consists of nothing but letters to the editor, and (3) there is no editor. (By now you're probably longing for the conceptual simplicity of, say, the waveparticle duali- and when not my tendency my selfpoliced practice, is to hold off interpretation till a late stage of revision. It's true that we weren't writing The ShadowLine, we were reading it; but even as a dramaturg (a literary advisor for theaters) my whole training is to devote all my initial effort to seeing a work (whether a new play still under revision or a classic) on its own terms: what's happening here, why is it happening and why to precisely these people, why is x element included and y element left out, where on a scale from photographic to essentialized (abstracted) does the play stake its claim to reality? In the seminar room, speaker after speaker ventured the broadest, most exposed and personal philosophical statements. I was shocked: No one was discussing the book! Eventually, though, I began to admire what people were doing. What's a book for, after all? Its dimensions, its proportions are important to somebody working on it technically, say as a dramaturg works on a play, but ultimately what's its usefulness? The people in the seminar were using The Shadow Line as a springboard to attempt new heights in the develop- Fall 1994 REPORTER ty.) It's important to realize that mailing lists aren't limited to people with full Internet access (e.g., students at most universities, government workers, and employees of larger companies). Most commercial online services, such as CompuServe and America Online, can send email to and receive it from Internet addresses, and that's all you need. For example, I don't have an Internet account, but I do subscribe to CompuServe, which allows me to be a full participant in the mailing list discussions. (CompuServe charges me for this privilege on the basis of the number and length of messages sent and received.) •THE CYBERCOFFEE SHOP AND ESEMINARS Those are some of the technical details of the mailing list. In practice what we've got is a cross between a seminar and a coffee shop discussion. Alumni can post messages on any subject they like, with the proviso that a message's title should bear some resemblance to its content, and messages about the same subject should use the same title. This convention helps participants mentally group messages that are intended to be part of the same conversation (since all messages arrive in one's mailbox in the same, undifferentiated fashion). Conversation about one subject will flow and ebb over the course of days or weeks, depending on the level of interest and activity. The topics of conversation have been many and various, including the source of moral and aesthetic judgments, the sexual orientation nondiscrimination issue, how alumni make their way in the world, skepticism vs. dogmatism, whether 'tis better to buy or borrow books (and whether Quality Paperback Books is a good place from which to buy them), the unity of the campuses, movies, and, of course, the St. John's curriculum. Amidst the general chatter, alumni have led and participated in three electronic seminars (or "e seminars", as alumnus Owen Goldin dubbed them): Gandhi's All Men Are Brothers, some of Shakespeare's sonnets, and Vaclav Havel's essay, "The Power of the Powerless". Messages that are part of a seminar appear just like any other message; again, the message titles help sort out conversations. The most intriguing characteristics of an eseminar are that it happens over weeks rather than in the space of two hours, and that one can respond to different parts of the discussion. The first characteristic can cause a certain diffuseness in the ment of their own philosophical systems. How long had it been since I, even outside of my professional function, had had the seriousness and courage to use a book that way? This was, for me, one very intense seminar. One theme that emerges in my letters from artist St Johnnies is intimidation. The List gave one actress "the sense that all the great works have already been written, which seemed sometimes to produce a sort of paralysis of imagination." A fellow actor echoes her concern: "At first the education got in the way of my performances. I found myself thinking too methodically about each scene, and so a certain creative edge was lacking. It took me years to liberate my mind to the point where I could trust my spontaneous instincts onstage. The St. Johnnie and the actor should, ideally, each inform the other, but it has taken years for me to reach the point where the two work well in tandem." The same respondent writes of the vital importance to the actor of adopting "a wholeheartedly and with a mind totally positive" the viewpoint cont. on pg. 20 I conversation (since it evolves slowly and one has to keep the discussion in mind over a long time), but it also encourages more careful replies and longer reflection. The second characteristic means that eseminars often will branch in several directions at once, rather than forge one more-or-less well-defined path. to the mailing list. UNSUBSCRIBE JOHNNY tells the mail server to remove you from the subscriber list, so that you no longer receive mailing list messages. •GETTING CONNECTED SET JOHNNY MAIL DIGEST To take part in the alumni mailing list, you need a computer, a modem, and email access to the Internet. Following is a brief description of how to join and participate. The instructions assume that your modem, communications software, and Internet connection are already set up. To subscribe to the alumni mailing list, compose an email message that says only: turns on "digest mode" which means that you'll receive just one message per day that contains all of that day's traffic. This is a useful option, since the alumni mailing list can generate from a few to over a dozen messages per day. I find that receiving all of them in one neat package each day is more convenient than a mail box full of individual messages. One caveat: if your connection to the Internet is via CompuServe or another commercial online service (e.g., America Online), then you'll need to write the addresses so that the service knows to send messages to the Internet In the case of CompuServe, the convention is to precede the address with ">INTERNET:", like so: SUBSCRIBE JOHNNY your name This text must be in the body of the message; the message title doesn't matter. "Your name" is the name by which you want to identify yourself to others who participate in the alumni mailing list. It need not (and generally should not) be your email address, since the mail server extracts your address automatically from the message header. Send the message to: >INTERN ET:mai lservslyman.stanford.edu and: mailserv@lyman.stanford.edu >INTERNET:johnnyelyman.stanford.edu When the mail server software receives your message, it "reads" your email address and the instruction contained in the message body, and then carries out the instruction (in this case, adding you to the list of subscribers). From that time forward, you'll receive all the public messages from other alumni. You only use the above address for instructing the mail server in how to treat . you. To send a public message to other alumni who are subscribed to the list, send it to: •A WORD johnnyelyman.stanford.edu These two operations, subscribing and sending messages, are all you need to do to participate. The mail server provides several other useful commands, which, like SUBSCRIBE JOHNNY, you can execute by sending them in the body of a message to mailserv@lyman.stanford.edu. REVIEW JOHNNY sends you a list of alumni who are subscribed 8. MEREDITH BURKE, Ph.D. 22996 Standing Oak Court Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 9730963 Dear Mr. Ballard, My life has had two speeds: stagnation and overdrive. As it seems to be headed into the latter gear, I thought I would bring my classmates up-to-date. This summer I and Aliza Kolker (of George Mason University. Fairfax, Va.) are celebrating the publication of our book Prenatal Testing: A Sociological Perspective (Greenwood Press). It is based on a decade of research we conducted on genetic counselors and their clients for prenatal diagnosis. Meanwhile I have re.ceived a Laurel Foundation grant, to support me and my computer analyst in analyzing twenty years of fertility data supplied me by the California Dept. of Health Services. I anticipate the results, which will document the precise contributions of different immigrant groups to the Baby Boom currently being experienced in this state, will be politically explosive though demographically sound. I continue to try for a career as a newspaper columnist, a sort of academic version of Ellen Goodman-Anna Quindlen. I have had four articles to date in The Wall Street Joumo/ (last December's on our educational neglect of our gifted children brought me ON "NETIQUETTE" Anyone who's spent much time using email, particularly among groups of strangers, knows that misunderstandings can occur more easily than in face-to-face conversations. Email messages lack tone of voice, facial expression, and physical gesture, all of which can be as important as one's words in conveying meaning. for eXaI11ple, it's surprisingly easy for one person's intended irony or playfUlness to be read by another person as hostility. The potential for misunderstanding is not a reason to avoid contmversy (of which the alumni mailing list has had plenty), but ft does suggest a scrupulous concern for clarity. If you're new to electronic communications, you might want to play the prospective student in seminar for a few days: listen to the conversation, note the protocol, and ask questions in the coffee shop before you let everyone have ft with both intellectual barrels. Alumnus David Grey Stahl (AN' 85) has prepared a file containing answers to frequently asked questions (or, in Internet lingo, "FAQ") which includes some email etiquette pointers. You can receive this document by sending the command: GET PUB/JOHNNY FAQto mailserv@lyman.stanford.edu. letters and phone calls from around the country from desperate parents) plus others . in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and the San Jose Mercury News. If any St Johnnie has an "in" with any newspaper publisher, I'd be delighted to exploit it then.last fall taught the graduate health policy class at. San Jose State University: a fascinating time to do so! I was especially proud of the sections of my syllabus dealing with women as an emerging force in shaping health policy and with the cost/benefits of psychotherapy. Because of my earnings as a writer and activist, I have lacked health coverage for all but one three month period of the last three years. Dr. Kolker, covered under Blue Cross of Northern Virginia, has just been informed they will not pay for the bone marrow transplant recommended for her inflammatory breast cancer (at age 46). Perhaps The Reporter would like to conduct a forum among alumni on the topic of health care? I have been divorced since 1978 from the husband I met via Susan Kennedy (Hide) '66. As a demographer I am a devout believer in matchmaking, so I welcome introductions to civilized, nonsexist men with a sense of humor. B. Meredith Burke, Ph.D. (A67) (formerly Barbara Goldberg) �Page 16 THE Fall 1994 REPORTER NTA EE It's or some, Homecoming is simply an enjoyable gettogether, but for many it can be a life-changing experience, says Santa Fe alumni director Cindy Jokela. During the past few years, attendance at the Santa Fe Homecoming has increased dramatically. This summer, more than 200 participants, including families, turned out for the festivities. In the following interview, Ms. Jokela explains some of the changes that have occurred and some of the reasons Homecoming is bringing more ] ohnnies together each year. What has drawn more alumni to homecoming in recent summers? I think it has a lot to do with involving more people. Each reunion class has a committee which has great input into the planning and execution of their reunion. We also stay in contact with the alumni involved throughout the year, through correspondence and projects like putting together class notes. Often alumni see a picture along with the notes, which brings back a lot of memories. I also respond to suggestions from the previous years. For instancet this past summer we had more class-specific activities. Homecoming in Santa Fe started out fairly small. As it grew, it became clear that in addition to the class seminar it would be good to have some other activities specifically for the individual classes and Graduate Institute alumni. This year, for example, we had class dinners and a wine and cheese reception for G.I. alumni. The class of '79 had a do-ityourself dinner off campus which was a good icebreaker. The class of '84 was interested in seminars and had two seminars, about which I heard great feedback, particularly the one on fine arts. Actually, we are thinking of expanding on that and offering a full week of fine arts during the alumni program next summer. We have many alumni who are involved in the arts and it will be interesting to those who are not directly involved in the arts as well. It will also giv~ the alumni a look at what the seniors in Santa Fe are doing in the fine arts program. This Homecoming we had an all alumni seminar on an Eastern reading that was not class specific. Although that had been offered in the past, the participation had not been strong. This year we had a long waiting list! So, in addition to the class specific seminars, we will probably offer a couple of all alumni seminars in the future. I think the overall success of Homecoming and the Alumni Program weeks depends on being very responsive to the needs and interests of the alumni. Then, of course, we also try to make the weekend itself as fun and as fulfilling as possible. What do alumni get out of the weekend? I know that for a lot of people it's a very good time with a lot of socializing, with a different kind of conversation in seminar, and with some nostalgia. It's great to be back on campus and in Santa Fe. But in thinking back on the words and phrases I hear, and also why it means a lot to me to put the Homecoming weekend together, what stands out is the talk of the richness and depth of people's experience, the various ways this Homecoming has enriched their lives. For me it has to do with getting beyond the fun and nostalgia to a. deeper feeling about what St. John's and the relationships that were formed here meant to people, and what this place continues to mean to them. The Homecoming weekend can be very intense, it can encapsulate aspects of the St. John's experience for alumni, but with the life experience and maturity that the intervening years have given them. It's interesting that some people from the class of '7 4 had mentioned to me independently that there was something special that happened when they· came together after 20 years Sally Gross, daughter of Kate and David Gross (both that hadn't quite hapSF7 4) enjoys the Alumni Picnic. pened when they were Santa Fe tutor William Darkey addresses the Alumni Association, July, 1994: "I think I should try to say something about what the Instruction Committee is in general. You, as students may have been vaguely aware of its existence as a sort of mysterious Star Chamber. Or possibly as those six oracles who regularly face the questions offreshmen at their induction when they inevitably ask 'Why are there no Eastern books on the reading list?' and 'What can you actually DO when you get out of here?"' Instruction Committee, 1969. "The object {of the Instruction Committee} then, as now, was to find a way to preserve the curriculum as its radical self, and yet to be able to make changes that might improve it. NO SMALLJOB!"- William Darkey students. It might sound dramatic, but it can really make some changes in how people look at aspects of their life. A lot of people talk about it as a kind of renewal. One person said it was not only a confirmation of her past but of her present and future. Conversations over the weekend helped not only resolve issues of the past but gave her a sense of her potential as an individual. For others it is primarily a relaxed good time. Many alumni talk about the importance of the college in their life. The class of '69 had an "unseminar," a roundtable discussion. They talked specifically about how they felt the St. John's experience had affected their lives. They raved about that conversation. One person thought a similar conversation was an absolute must for the 30th reunion. Did any one event stand out at this Homecoming? I think the dinner on Saturday night is always a special event. It's the only sit-down dinner where everyone is together. Someone from each reunion class gives a toast to the class, which is often entertaining, often moving. I think for each person it was something different. For some people it's the seminar, for others it's casual conversations with their classmates, or just being back at the college and back in Santa Fe. Participants often refer, sometimes in surprise, to the gifts that come in the form of conversations they have had, the interaction. They are thankful for the opportunity to come together. Do many families attend Homecoming? Quiet a few, yes. We ask people ahead of time if we can help them with babysitting, then we round up students and a location. We like to be sure it's as easy for alumni with families to come as those without families. Probably the most enjoyable �Page 17 THE Fall 1994 REPORTER event we've had for families with kids is the reunion picnic. We have games for both children and adults. Children are also welcome at the president's brunch and the class gatherings. When can people expect to see information about next year's Homecoming? The first letters to people in the reunion classes are going out now. Homecoming is scheduled for July 21-23. In the next Reporter we'll have more information as well. The brochure itself goes out in late March so everyone should receive it by the first part of April. The undergraduate reunion classes that will be getting together are '70, '75, '80, '85 and '90, along with all G.I. alumni. This will be our first five year undergraduate class reunion. We also expect and welcome all the people who are not in the reunion classes. Homecoming is for all alumni. For more information about Homecoming or alumni programs, and to volunteer to help with planning, contact the Alumni Office in Santa Fe. Homecoming Dinner, 1994 Above: George Bingham, SF66, speaks about Roger Peterson: We all learned from .Roger Peterson both in the formal settings of the classroom, and while we were sprawled in less formal discussion on his living room floor. And we learned from his example, from his disciplined approach to the materials, and the books that we read, and the excitement that he brought to the world around him, and to us. And we learned from his example as he transformed a group of ramshackle adobe outbuildings into wonderful living spaces and studio Jpaces. Steadman on Aristotle's Ethics. The preceptorial met twice a week, so on average, we should have read one book a session, there being, as you recall, ten books in Aristotle's Ethics. That, in fact, was our plan. Howeve1~ not all the ten books of Aristotle's Ethics have the same number of pages. I'm quantitative, I counted them; ] ack's quantitative, he counted them. We noticed that they're not all the same size; some have more, some have less. I suggested to Jack as we were about to face Book 7 that we might want to modify that plan. But jack resisted. He said, "Well, Book 7, you know, it's long, but it's boring." Jack Steadman and his wife Anne have been parts of the St. john's College community for more than thirty years and .Above: Rick Lightburn, SF76, speaks about jack Steadman: Seventeen years ago, I was in a preceptorial with Jack Jack has brought a sense of intensity and a sense of affection and a sense of humor to his teaching and to his collegiality, and to his friendship. Medical ethics, Eastern works foster alumni discussion BY LESLI A Above: Randal Pair, SF74, about Roger Peterson: Roger introduced to many johnnies the true joy of biology, in his work and most of all by introducing us to Farley Moab's book, Never Cry Wolf. One other aspect of a St. ] ohn's alum, I guess, is that he or she leads an examined life. And Roger, having helped us, many of us, to do that for ourselves, is now trying to help the body politic of this nation examine its political life, particularly in the management of public lands. I Beverly Angel, SGI89, speaks about Jill Wilkinson (with Sharon Bishop, left): I'm pretty certain that most of you here probably never heard Jill Wilkinson's name before tonight. You may have been wondering why we in the Alumni Association want to make her one of us. If I were to trumpet all the ways that Jill has been a friend to this college, I know that she'd be sitting there stammering and blushing pretty quickly and all of you would be wishing that we would get it over with, because it would go on forever. When I went back to Austin and wanted to organize an Austin chapter of the Alumni Association, I gave Jill a call to invite her to join us. And I was really surprised by her response: She seemed really surprised that we would want her to join us, because, she sai~ "I'm not really one of you, because I was never an alumna of the college." Well, tonight we want to change that. ALLISON n unusually hot summer in Santa Fe didn't keep alumni away from Homecoming and the St. John's Summer Alumni Program. Approximately 200 alumni and family members attended the Homecoming weekend and more than 70 enrolled in seminars and precepts during the program weeks. Medical Ethics was the focus of Week I, July 10-15. The opening lecture offered an introduction to biomedical ethics by David A. Bennahum, professor of medicine; director, Medicine and the Humanities Program; and longtime chair of the Biomedical Ethics Committee at the University of New Mexico. Seminars were offered on the Hippocratic Oath and the American Medical Association Code of Ethics; and Ethical Issues Concerning the End of Life. The seminars were cooled by Annapolis tutor Nicholas Capozzoli, neurologist, founder and member of the Ethics Committee and founder of Hospice Program, Anne Arundel Medical Center; and Santa Fe tutor Katharine Mulford, member of the Ethics Committee, St. Vincent's Hospital. Preceptorials included the Allocation of Health Care Resources, led by Mr. Capozzoli; and Medical Issues in the Law, led by Santa Fe tutor Grant Franks. Alumni-led sessions focused on: Ethical issues concerning persons who are unable to make an informed decision, led by Susan M. Ferron, SF77, physician in internal medicine and former chair, Ethics Committee; William Carlos William's The Use of Force, led by Irwin Hoffman, A85, cardiologist; and Tillie Olse's Tell Me a Riddle, led by David S. Krimins, A63, physician. Mr. Capozzoli said discussions in the groups he led were lively and fruitful for both medical professionals as well as those outside the medical field. "I thought that it was very well received," he said. "I subsequently received about three or four letters from people who enjoyed the discussion we had." "Discussion about medical ethics can be emotionally very charged and it was nice to have a rational forum where the topics could be discussed," said Dr. Ferron. "It gave me an · opportunity to explore different sides of certain issues that I hadn't been able to look at carefully before." Dr. Ferron said her alumni discussion group centered on the case of continued on page 20 �Page 18 THE A L u M N Fall 1994 REPORTER I N 0 T E s I 1942 Ernest Heinmuller (A) is chairman of the Talbot County (Md.) Recycling Task Force. The organization was awarded a Maryland Environmental Service Outstanding Task Force Award for its high percentage of recycled materials. 1950 John Logue (A), who received his B.A. from Yale in 1946 before enrolling as a freshman at St. John's in 1946, attended the 50th reunion of his Yale 1944 class. He is senior vice president of the W odd Federalist Association. "Now retired and enjoying it .after 25 years of teaching," reports Ben Moskowitz (A). He's living in Bellevue, Pa. 1952 After retiring five years ago from his position with the federal government, Martin A. Dyer (A) is now associate director of a small private non-profit organization fighting housing discrimination in the Baltimore metropolitan area. "Recently we won a $2.5 million verdict against a major developer," he says." "Wonderful work! It's so satisfying that I many not again retire until I'm95." 1960 An essay titled "This Park is Central" by Mary Campbell Gallagher (A) was published in the April 22, 1994, issue of Commonweal. 1965 Susan A. Smolin (A) reports that· she graduated from the Boston University School of Management in May 1994 with an MBA. Her comment: ~'Whew!" 1967 Rev. Clark Lobenstine (A) recently celebrated 15 years as executive director of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington. He continues to enjoy his work with the Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Latter-day Saints, Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Sikh faith communities in the region as they work together on critical social justice issues and on increasing understanding. Ezra Harris (A) says, "My application to serve as an inspector for the Palestinian Police Force has been rejected so I'll probably go back to work as a teacher of the profoundly handicapped." Christine (Lauth) Connell (A) is living in Easton, across the Chesapeake Bay from Annapolis, and doing calligraphy. 1969 Martin Kalmar (A) and his wife Deborah Kalmar (A 70) sent a long letter remembering their time with Marvin Cooper (A), who was senselessly killed in a robbery in Baltimore. "Marvin will be sorely missed. He truly embodied the love of learning, the inquiry, and the analytical thinking we all admired and tried to achieve at St. John's," they said. The Kalmars are collecting memories of Marvin for his wife and family. Letters can be sent to them at 3308 Marnat Rd., Baltimore, MD 21208. Martin enjoys his job as head of the math department at Frederick Community College. He also holds seminars in political philosophy. Deborah is a revenue agent with the IRS, which she finds a challenging and satisfying job. 1970 David Debus (SF) will soon publish an anthology on fathering. In addition to being a licensed psychologist, David is also a poet and painter, and recently studied music composition. Mirrors of the Self, an anthology edited by Christine Downing, includes one of his essays. 197 1 George Elias (A) reports that his third daughter "will be born any day now." 1972 Denise Fort (SF), an associate professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law, has been named chairman of the Advisory Commission on Western Water Resources by President Clinton. New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman and Representative Bill Richardson recommended Denise for. the post. Denise is currently director of the Water Resources Administration Program, which offers a master's degree based on interdisciplinary studies in water resources. She has previously served as director of the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Division, cabinet secretary for the New Mexico Department o.f Finance, and as leg~.l counsel for the state Taxation and Revenue Department. As of 1992, Laurel E. Susco Sherr (SF) has entered the world of the entrepreneur. She's now the proprietor and owner of Tree Eagle Trading Co., an innovative hat and boot company. Friends and Johnnie family are invited to stop by at 118 Old Santa Fe Trail or write to: 225 Hyde Park Estates, Santa Fe, N.M. 87501, or call (505) 989-3881. All three of the little eagles 0esse, 17; Dante, 17; and Argen, 19) have flown from the nest. 1975 On sabbatical leave at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center at Mt. Holyoke College, Nancy L. Coiner (A) is working on a book titled Speaking the Self Otherwise: Allegory and Gender in Late Medieval Narrative. She's "having a great time." Steven McNamara (SGI) is taking a leave of absence from the philosophy program at Boston College to work and travel in Asia. Beginning in · September he will be teaching English Language in Shanghai, China. Anyone wishing to write can contact him at Shanghai Institute of Building Materials, 100 Wu Dong Lu #125, Shanghai 200434, People's Republic of China. 1977 Marlene Strong (A) received her MA in Clinical Psychology from John F. Kennedy University in June. "I still have a lot of experience before I can take the licensing exam, but it is the first step toward my goal of becoming a therapist. Juggling work and school has not been easy. I don't expect that juggling work and internship will be any easier. But at least I have the summer off-a little breathing time," she reports. Lydia Ossorgin, (SF) writes "Kevin Holthaus (SF83) and I continue to work more than full-time training teachers in the Socratic Seminar practice in the Anchorage public schools. In two high schoois we have seminar "schools within schools" where students (10th-12th grades) and teachers spend two hour periods daily with the great works of Eastern and Western traditions. Mike Strong (SF 88) joined us this year from Homer, Alaska, along with his wife, Mally Mechau Strong (SF84), who works as a seminar coach in the schools. My son Michael (13), spent five weeks in Santa Fe this semester studying Euclid and Greek with Tracey Wernet (SF95). My other children, Maria (11), Sergio (10) and Juliana (9) join in family evening seminars, especially when the salmon aren't jumping or when the bears appear in the spring. Practice begins early for a third generation of Ossorgins heading for St. John's!" 1979 The Very Reverend John Raymond Fortin (SGI) has gone on to earn a master's and then PhD in medieval studies from Notre Dame. His dissertation, Clarembald of Arras: ·A Twelfth Centurv Commentator on Boethius' 'Opuscula Sacra' will be published by Thomas Jefferson University Press. He has also been a member of the Forum for 1.JS/Soyiet Dialogue, meeting in ¥oscow and St. Petersburg. Most recently; Father John has returned to Saint Anselm College, where he earned his B.A. before coming to St. John's. He has served as instructor, residence hall director, and dean at the 2,000-student, four-year liberal arts institution. In July, he was appointed the new prior of the monastery. He currently serves as a member of the Council of Seniors, which is the governing board of the college, as well as the philosophy department in which he helps conduct its Great Books program. As prior, he holds the second-ranking position in the Benedictine community. Eliza Pennypacker (A), an associate professor of landscape architecture and interim head of the Dep~rtment of Landscape Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University, received Penn State's Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award last spring. The Palmer Award honors outstanding work in guiding the professional development of junior faculty. She serves on the College Committee on Research and Creative Activities, the college and department promotion and tenure committees, as acting associate dean for research in the College of Arts and Architecture, and as associate director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies. In 1989, Eliza collaborated with three others to produce the winning design for the Korean War Veteran's Memorial for the Mall in Washington, D.C. Her recent publications include "What is Taste, and Why Should I Care?" in the Proceedings of the 1992 Conference of Educators in Landscape Architecture. After St. John's, she received a master's of landscape architecture from the University of Virginia and studied architecture in Vicenza, Italy. In August, Kate Kominars (A) received her PhD from Temple University in Counseling Psychology. Ben Haggard (SF), of Santa Fe, is an author, teacher, garden designer, and president of the Permaculture Drylands Institute. He has a book out titled The Living Community. 1980 Lee Tarpley (SF) writes from Texas A&M University that he married Ming-Hsuan Chen in October of 1988. Their son, William Wenhao Tarpley, was born in October of 1992. Lee received his PhD in plant physiology from Texas A&M in 1993. 198 1 Christopher J. Mark (A) writes that he is going farther than anyone he's ever known-he's accepted a position to teach calculus at the UAE University in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf. "The compensation package is very attractive, and hard to pass up with the state of the job market for mathematicians these days," he adds. He welcomes any Johnnies in the Gulf region to contact him; he will be happy to sponsor them for entry visas. Address is c/o Basic University Education Center, UAE University, P.O. Box 17172, Al Ain, UAE. E-mail at 73261.1327@compuserve,com. 1982 Dr. Mark Weber Gocke (SF) was married to Margaret Conger Mell on April 9 in Hobe Sound, Florida. From Cummington, Massachusetts, Martha Keasley (A) writes: "My husband (Dan Harris) and I are adopting children, Emily (nine years old) and her brother Joe (seven years old). Tom G. Palmer (A) received his MA in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in 1993; he's now a John M. Olin fellow at Hertford College, Oxford, working on a D.Phil. in politics ("Free Association and Political Order"). He's currently on sabbatical for two years from the Institute for Human Studies at George Mason University. Rebecca (Coursey) King (SF) and Dave King are the proud parents of their first daughter, Galen Elizabeth King, born June 4. Rebecca and Dave have moved to Bozeman, Montana, and live across from the Bridger Bowl ski area. 1983 Sue (Maguire) Shock (A) had a great time at the tenth reunion and is looking forward to next year's bash. She is now staff editor of the journal Medicine and encourages anyone who has written an analytical review of internal medicine, dermatology, neurology, pediatrics, or psychiatry to send it to her at Blalock 1007, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287-4922. Richards Sean Cahall (SF) writes that he received his BA in Hawaiian Studies from the University of Hawaii in June 1993. He is currently teaching the Hawaiian language and culture in the public schools. His address and telephone are: 87258 Farmington Highway, Waianae, Hawaii 96792, (808) 696-2220. �· Page 19 THE A L u 1985 Currently working as a freelance photographer, Kent Dayton (SF) is doing both commercial and news-related work in the northeast. Kim Brinck-Johnson (A) and Renee Bergland (A86) would like to announce the birth of their daughter, Annelisa Bergland Brinck-Johnson, on July 4, 1994. Eric Burman (A) and his wife, Erica, became parents of their first child, Abigail, on June 29. The family moved in August from Washington, D.C., where they resided since Eric's graduation from St. John's, to Botswana where Eric is serving as associate director of the Peace Corps. In the late 80's the couple volunteered for the Corps in the Garn bia in western Africa. Eric has also been an aide to Congressman Bill Richardson of northern New Mexico, and was responsible for legislation regarding environmental protection and international development. He also was a program analyst for the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Solid Waste. Erica will continue her research for the W odd Resources Institute in Botswana. Eric would love to hear from all: APCD, Peace Corps/Botswana, Dept. of State/ Gaborone, Washington, D.C. 205212170. 1986 Debbie Jones Humphries (SF) is currently in a PhD progrram at Cornell University, conducting research in Vietnam on nutrition and parasite infections. 1987 Kateri Ann Clement (A) writes that she is leaving her position with the FrenchAmerican Chamber of Commerce to go to grad school- The Fletch School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She's currently working on lovely thank you notes to Mr. Boel and Mr. Higuera for their help. Currently living and working in Florida is Mary Anderson Britain (A). 'Tm enjoying my new family-husband Bill and son Travis (one year already in August!)," she writes. 1988 Jennifer Lapham (A) reports she has no job, no husband, and no children. She and her companion Cougar are moving to Cqicago this fall where Jennffer will begin graduate work in fine arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The following communication was re2eived from Tidge Holmberg (A): 'Tm married!!!!! Wahooo! I'm in B.U. law School! Yecchh! I'm thinking of also getting an engineering degree! Hhhmmm ... Fight the power!" . Erin Milnes (A) reports that she is back in Chicago after some travelling last fall. She is working for Amnesty International and expects to be travelling around the U.S. by car starting next ·spring. She expects that she will be look. ing for floors to crash on at that time; Erin can be reached at (312) 404-6363. RickCraven (A) writes, 'Tm entering my fifth year of teaching and continue to find it a rewarding experience. I'm 1 M N Fall 1994 REPORTER I finishing up a masters in education this summer. I've seen Simon McNabb several times and would enjoy hearing from anyone passing through Tennessee." Carole Cunningham Simpson (A) is a student advisor at Coleman College in La Mesa, California, and teaching desktop publishing and database. She has also begun work on her master's degree at San Diego State. Her husband is attending college full-time. They are busy and very happy with life in southern California. Melania Yeats (SF) reports: "After two years of successful tofu-ranching with David Blankenbaker (SF 88), I am now beginning medical school at University of New Mexico, where David teaches math when he's not busy teaching our feline, Simone de Beauvoir, the art of pastry making. Seriously, we'd enjoy communications at 2821 Silver SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, or E-mail maya@triton.unm.edi." 1989 Martin Gelfand (A) writes that he has begun his first year at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. As he was trying to decide which law school to attend he met up with two St. John's alumni and recent CWRU law grads, Scott Young (A89) and Steve Virgil (A88). Scott finished CWRU in 1993 arid is now practicing labor law with a Cle~eland firm. Steve just finished in 1994, took the bar exam, and is working at a one-year fellowship on environmental justice. 1990 For just over a year, Christine Robertson (A) has been working at the San Francisco Visitor Information Center as the designated French speaker. She's been keeping busy studying German and Dutch. "Drop by and say hi when you're in the city!" she writes. Scott Walters (A) writes: "I graduated from law school at the University of Iowa in May 1993, got married to Kimberly Hunter, also a '93 Iowa law grad, in September 199 3, and finished my first year of a master's in health care administration at the University of Minnesota this June." 'Tm single and very happy about it," says Karl A. Meyer (A). He has a new job working for a company that distributes chemicals to paint manufacturers in the Chicago area; "it's challenging work and things are great," he adds. Lisa Liske-Doorandish (A) has a new job as a cello teacher at theRenaissance Conservatory in Blacksburg, Virginia. Courtney Oakes Williams (A) will begin veterinary school at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, this fall. She is currently an Emergency Animal Veterinarian Assistant in Poulsbo, Washington. Brian Walker (SF) is teaching in Fukoka, Japan, and serving as goodwill ambassador to nearby Niijata, sister city of his hometown, Gal~eston, Texas . 1991 Elliot Allen Tulloch (SF) was married to Diana Emily Tut on July 2 on the island N 0 T E s of Belize. James Mc Shane (A) is a Peace Corps volunteer who welcomes any correspondence: James McShane PVC, Corps de la Paix Americaine, BP 3 5, Save Benin Afrique. Miriam (nee Maureen) Spectre (A) received her master's of science in information studies from Drexel University in June. She continues as an archivist at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. She recently completed working on the papers of the late Nobel laureate Salvador Luria, a molecular biologist and political activist. Akiba J. Covitz (A) recently received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania. All that remains to finish the elusive PhD is the dissertation, as of now, an attempt to reconnect the study of politics (particularly the judiciary and constitutions) with the study of the soul (particularly Plato and Freud). Akiba requests alumni send thoughts and ideas on "souls, minds, the Supreme Court, Montesquieu, Hegel, and how they are related as soon as possible, to acovitz@sas.upenn.edu." Nate Downey (SF) was recently elected New Mexico Green Party Secretary. He schedul~d the New Mexico Green Party Convention in the Great Hall at St. John's in Santa Fe in June. Kemmer Anderson (AGI) has published a chapbook, A Compass Reading for Ithaca (Iota Press). Currently pursuing a master's degree in library science at the University of Toronto, Deirdre Routt (A) will be adding to her previously earned master of arts degree in history, also from the University of Toronto. Her husband Kevin Graham (A90) is there also, writing his PhD thesis in philosophy. Andrew Alan N el-Qon (A) will be in graduate school at University of Nebraska-Lincoln beginning in the fall semester. He'll be studying in the English department. 1992 Curtis Hyatt (SF) writes: Directly following graduation I spent a nihilistic summer in Los Angeles drinking a great deal of coffee and trying to evaluate the post-St. John's experience with James Papiano (SF). In September '92 I started a job teaching English in Izmir, Turkey. After twelve months there I moved on to the Czech Republic to continue teaching in the tiny Eastern Bohemian town of Iitomysl. During my ten-month stay I had a visit from Simon Bone (SF92) who was living in Berlin, learning German, and contemplating going to the University of Wittenberg (I think). After the Czech Republic (and a lot of 20 cent beer)! studied French for a month at the University of Nancy in eastern France and visited Christian Eddleman (SF92) in Munich who was himself studying a bit of German and waiting to attend law school in autumn. After returning to the U.S. I started my drive out from L.A. to Boston where I caught up with Keith Maestas, J. Huebert, and Lila Kerns (all SF92) in Santa Fe. As of this September, I will be starting a master's program in international affairs at Boston University. I would be happy to hear from any Johnnies passing though or residing in the Boston area. My permanent address has been changed to: 84 Clinton Road, Brookline, MA 02146; (617) 738-8150. Julie Rehmeyer (SF) finished a degree in mathematics at Wellesley College after leaving St. John's. She is now in graduate school at MIT studying pure mathematics with funding from the National Science Foundation. She writes that she is "excited to be buying a house with fellow alumna Lisa Calvelli (90SGI)." Millard "Ed" Prud'homme (SF) has recently returned from Europe. Since then he has worked on two political campaigns, serving as campaign manager for one of the races. Nora Dalton Olsson (SF) writes, "I am currently working with VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) as the director of a children's literacy program in Albuquerque's far north valley. VISTA is the equivalent to a domestic Peace Corps in the U.S." Hannah Anne Stires (A) has recently completed her master's degree in sociology at the University of Maryland and will be entering Harvard Law School in the fall. Marti Acosta (A) begins a dual degree program (MBA/MA) in arts administration at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in September. Also the marketing director for Xpose, an arts promotional quarterly, Marti welcomes short essays on arts issues and reviews of nationally touring exhibits. Send articles to Xpose, 3403 B Main St., Dallas, TX 75226. 1993 Christina Swartwout (SF) married Andrew Farmer in a double-ring ceremony celebrated May 29, at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe. Alexander Ellerman (AGI) and Vanessa Ellerman (A) are in Corpus Christi, where they keep the local library staff running ragged. Alex is currently in Navy flight school and hopes to finish the first phase in the fall. Vanessa is substitute teaching. In Boston, Katherine Wolff (AGI) is currently working for the Boston Phoenix as a staff editor. Julie Girone (A) reports that she has finally landed a job in the publishing industry, almost exactly one year after graduation. 'Tm working for HarperCollins publishers in New York City and I live in the glorious outlands of Brooklyn. I worked a publishing internship for six months last year and without that, a job in publishing would never have happened. Also, I waitressed quite a bit," she says. Julie offers info on interviewing for a publishing job in New York, or just general info concerning publishing. She can be contacted at 265 Hoyt St., Brooklyn, NY 11217, phone (718)260-9689. �Page 20 THE Alumni Association News, continued of "any character the director gives you." Philosophers, he says citing Plato, Aristotle, and Marx, are prone to seeing only their side of a question and to spending their best energies ignoring and caricaturing anybody who disagrees with them. I would say, to the contrary, that unless you put your adversary in his/her best light and understand opposing arguments as they were intended, your own thoughts aren't valid." Since "actors alone gaze fearlessly at those who differ from them, accept their opponents, understand and embrace them, they are alone the true philosophers." Another actor, while not making quite so bold a claim, invokes Aristophanes' account in The Symposium of the division of the too powerful "rolypoly" people into halves, male and female, and of the severed people's attempts ever since to reunite. Acting, too, attempts to reunite divided man. A fourth actor responded to my letter by writing a play. One and a half pages long, it depicts the encounter of young Johnny Pilgrim and old codger Socks at a flea market "somewhere in Appalachia." Socks has a booth there. The sign over the booth reads, ANSWERS $ \ , QUESTIONS $5." Paying Socks a dollar, Johnny asks him whether "a classical education, i.e. one steeped in the western tradition," has value for the "creative or interpretive" artist. Socks answers that "the dialogue that constitutes that tradition is the subtext of human existence for innumerable lives." Johnny's second question (for another dollar) is: "Isn't there an overly analytical approach in such an education, one that ignores or even stunts the emotional and spiritual life? Socks replies that his antithesis between analysis and spirituality is false, that "a resonant spiritual and emotional life must precede any lasting contribution to the dia1 ogue Returning to Johnny's first question (for free), he says that a classical education, although it will not provide the particular skills required of performers, will certainly prepare the student to interpret, extend and represent the dialogue and the tradition." The piece ends with Sock's failure, after he offers a quantity discount, to sell Johnny a $5 question. My final reply, from a costume designer and teacher of theater, comes from the opposite perspective than that the others. They studied, then practiced. This woman, after thirty five years' work in the theater, is now enrolled in the St. John's Graduate Institute at Annapolis. ''I'm going to St. John's to begin to insert a foundation under my jerrybuilt intellectual construct. If I can strengthen my body to do yoga and climb mountains, I can toughen up my mind to have some kind of conversation with Aristotle." Having chosen the Literature segment to begin with, she thought she was taking the "easiest route but of course I found it incredibly difficult because I came into discussions about the Greek plays (which I teach in Dramatic Lit courses) and The Tempest (which I've designed twice) with monstrous preconceptions. What an incredible experience it was to have my pet theories and the 'accepted' interpretations unseated and examined: 'Could you say a bit· more about that?' The first weeks were uncomfortable but very chalengi ng. I did finally read King Lear with wholly new eyes. And everything else." How has St. John's contributed to, or retarded, the work of people in the performing arts? We end this patchwork colloquy, in good St. John's fashion, with more questions than answers. Well, we got them free. We didn't pay old codger Socks five bucks for them. Thanks to my respondents: Greg Congleton of Knoxville, Tennessee; Rosemary Ingham of Fredericksburg, Virginia; Kari Benson of New York City; David Mazzeo of New York City; Joan Townsend of Boulder, Colorado; and Andrew White of Arlington, Virginia.Am/in Gray, SF '68 1 Alumni Weeks, cont. Nancy Beth Cruzan vs. the State of Missouri, in which Ms. Cruzan's parents requested the removal of a feeding tube that was keeping their daughter alive in a vegetative state. The Missouri court ruled against removing the tube and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Missouri court's opinion. The opening question Ms. Ferron presented to the group was, "What do both sides have to lose?" Beverly Angel, SGI89, who also participated in the Medical Ethics program, said it was one of the best things she had ever attended. "The discussions about abortion were very good," she said. "Some of the questions were, who should decide and why, and should a fetus have rights. "Then, in Nicolas Capozzoli's discussion, we started talking about the right to die and I came to real insights about the problems physicians face in deciding to turn off the machine ... we've been asking the doctors to make the decision and then we get mad at them for thinking they' re God, but we've asked them to be God." Ms. Angel said she would like to see more Graduate Institute alumni present in the future. "At first I was hesitant to come because I thought it was geared for undergraduate alumni, but I've never felt less than welcome. I've made a whole lot of new friends and look forward to seeing them again." In fact, according to Santa Fe Alumni Director Cindy Jokela, almost half of all participants in the alumni program weeks were G.I. alumni. ,WEEK Fall 1994 REPORTER Two Week two of the Alumni program weeks focused on Eastern classics. The general theme was repeated from last year by popular demand, with more emphasis on contemporary literature, philosophy and film. Seminar discussions revolved around two Japanese films, Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa and Ugetsu Monogatari by Kenji Mizoguchi, and were led by Santa Fe tutors James Carey and Krishnan Venkatesh. Preceptorials included: Beauty and Sadness, Through the Snow Country, and ] apan, the Beautiful, Y Kawabata's acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, led by Santa Fe tutor Tom Harris; Narayan's The Guide, led by Santa Fe tutor Dean Haggard; and The Kena Upanishad led by Santa Fe tutor Martin Cohen. In addition, a preceptorial was offered on Nishida Kitaro (a Japanese philosopher) during program Week One by Tom Harris. Raquel Bech, SGI71, attended Week Two with. her husband, Larry Martin, and their two-year-old child. "We loved it," she said. "I went to the precept on The Guide. That was excellent. My husband went to the precept on the Kena Upanishad." Ms. Bech said her husband, who is not an alumnus, was impressed by the experience. "He came back really excited after the first meeting," she said. "The questions that people posed and the way people tried to answer them opened up a whole lot of significance for him. He was just totally won over. When you see intelligent, artistic people taking this stuff seriously, it gives you new respect for the method and for the readings." Ms. Bech also said she was surprised to discover the Eastern material was well suited to the St. John's method. "It lent itself very well to the kind of analysis that goes on at St. John's," she said. In addition to seminars and preceptorials, the Summer Alumni Program includes a variety of special activities. This summer, activities included an interactive lecture by David Bennahum, eX:cursions to the Tsankawi ruins and local museums, performances of the Santa Fe Opera, an alumni dinner at La Casa Sena, a reception and a farewell luncheon. During the Eastern topics program week, alumni enjoyed excursions to the Taos Pueblo. A portrait of Annapolis Hoillecorning W hat would you find at Annapolis Homecoming in the fall? If you went in '94, for example, how would the schedule read? You would find nine reunions, from the class of '3 9 to the class of '84. Notable, the schedule includes an omnibus reunion of the classes '41 to '50, replete with special luncheons, tributes to Barr and Buchanan, and a lecture from Corky Kramer '46. It also includes a special reception for alumni of the Graduate Institute, as well as a luncheon for Delta Psi Omega, a former fraternity. But beyond reunions you would find parties (both waltz and rock); seminars on works by Sophocles, St. Paul, Stringfellow Barr, and Scott Buchanan; an awards banquet; and a champagne brunch. You would find opportunities to hear from the President and the Dean about the state of the College, or to touch base with faculty members attending the wine and cheese party on Friday, or the cocktail party on Saturday. You would have the chance to meet students at dinner on Friday night, at vari- ous parties, or at the bookstore while browsing for that replacement copy of Aristotle you've been wanting. Looking more closely, one finds a discussion of the transition from the New Regime to the New Program among the class members of '39. And a discussion of an exhibition, of Rembrandt etchings among the '40's classes. And discussions of works by Kenneth Clarke, Plato, and Toni Morrison highlighting other reunions. So many discussions, such a diversity of interests, as well as the usual catching-up and gossiping, nostalgia and jocularity. After all, the '40's reunion includes Dave Dobreer, Bruce Sinkey, George Van Sant, Jonathan Brooks, and Allan Hoffman. Who wouldn't be curious to see how everybody turned out? Or Bernie Jacob (' 5 4)? Harvey Goldstein ('59)? Maya Hasegawa, Lisa Simeone, Claiborne Booker - and on and on, so many names from various eras, too many to note. That's what the '94 schedule is like. And its not so different from any other year. We hope you will take the next good chance to visit us for Homecoming in Annapolis, whether you have a reunion, or just need to reconnect with St. John's. Whether in '94 or a couple of years down the road, we are always glad to see you. �Page 21 THE REPORTER Fall 1994 Santa Fe, 1964-1994, cont. bags of cement. Jim Liljenwall, also a member of the first class, recalls "workers laying tile everywhere and walking on boards to get to our drmns and classrooms. " Mr. Darkey remembers that the "usual ballast of upperclassmen to answer the thousands of questions" was not present. "There was no gossip on the new campus, and gossip is important. Any kind of garbage will turn into compost. We had no garbage yet." But that, too, worked into its own advantage. "Anybody was accessible," said Liljenwall. "Tutors, the dean, other students were all eager to answer any question." That built a very strong sense of community, and, coupled with the fact that this was the first class, proprietorship. "I remember returning in 1984 to give a lecture," said Liljenwall with a laugh, "and wondering who all these Administrative staff set up house in the laboratory building, placing their typewriters, file cabinets and potted geraniums around bunsen burners and lab sinks. Mr. Darkey, one of the "original ten," remembers faculty and staff on hands and knees tacking carpets in the upper dorms in the few days before registration. Then, on October 1, 1964, 51 males and 33 females became the first class of St. John's College, Santa Fe, the class of 1968. Richard Siege, a member of the first class, wrote in the 1968 Commencement Issue: There was sawdust in every corne~ in the drawers, on the beds, left by carpenters hastily finishing their work. To reach their dormitories, the 85 freshmen had to dodge trenches, stumble in the dark, and pick their way through piles of rocks and strangers were on my campus." The classrooms were crisp and new-smelling, but there was something else missing. Mr. Dar key recalls stepping into his first class in Santa Fe Hall and being struck by a paradox that: "The newness was inevitable and conflicted with the actual fact that St. John's College was the third oldest college in the United States, but not here, and the Program was tested by 27 years of history, but not here." But the purpose of this whole exercise was not to gawk at unfinished business. The purpose was education, and no one lost any time recognizing the business at hand. Liljenwall said, "We immediately dove into the books." No one, especially Weigle, would have wanted it any other way. Stuart Boyd Boyd parachutes for charity S tuart Boyd, tutor emeritus SF Tutor publishes 111athe111atics articles of the Santa Fe Campus, recently completed a series M r. Michael Rawn, a tutor at Santa Fe, has recently The second article to be published is entitled, jumps as part of a retraining pro- had accepted two articles for publication in the ") ournal of Mathematical Analysis and of 10,000 foot free-fall parachute "{e +/-iCn-Jl4>x}nEZ is not a basis for L2 [-n:,n:}." Applications". One article, entitled "On the Summation of gram in preparation for a parachuting return to Arnhem, Fourier and Bessel Series", provides a unified framework for Associated with the problem of representing arbitrary func- most of the classical Fourier series, and generalizes several tions by infinite series of simple trigonometric functions wellknown results. In addition, many new Bessel series are (Fourier series) are two intimately related problems: 1) can the derived involving the zeros of Bessel functions of the first class of functions that are representable be described as an infi- kind. nite dimensional geometric space replete with notions of per- served with the British 1st The problem of representing sufficiently well-behaved func- pendicularity and distance? 2) Can we represent the same Parachute Brigade in North tions by infinite series of simpler, elementary functions has functions with non-harmonic Fourier series, i.e., series of Africa, Sicily, Italy and Europe, been a major concern of modern mathematicians for at least 70 trigonometric functions of the form before being wounded and cap- years now. In the curriculum at St. John's, one is introduced to L this problem when trying to represent an arbitrary function by longer integers, but any real numbers. The first problem can L. an xn. Mr. Rawn's be answered in the affirmative, and this infinite dimensional work is concerned with Fourier series, i.e., an infinite series of geometric space of functions is usually denoted by the symbol, L. an sin (nx) + bncos (nx). A second, much L2 [-n:,1t} and is called the space of all Lebesgue square inte- older, concern of mathematicians is discovering new relation- grable functions. The second question was first studied by teer survivors of the battle who ships between the elementary functions of mathematics. The Norbert Wiener and R.E.A.C. Paley during the 1930's, and is will commemorate the 5 0th three kinds of elementary functions considered in Mr. Rawn's essentially concerned with how "stable" the traditional anniversary with the parachuting work are the trigonometric functions sin(x), cos(x); the polyno- trigonometric series (the harmonic Fourier series) is under per- return to the Bridge; all are pen- mial functions xn, n=l,2,3 ... ; and the Bessel functionsJ/x), turbation (stability of bases). The results of Mr. Rawn's work sioners in their 70's and 80's who µ£R. help clarify the maximum interval of perturbation that guar- a Taylor Series, i.e., a series of the form the form: Examples of the formulae that Mr. Rawn is able to generate ansin(Anx:)+bncos(crnx:), where the AnCTn are no antees the non-harmonic trigonometric series will be able to represent any function in L2 [-n:,n:}. from a single "mother of all formulae" follow: Holland, where in September 1944 be jumped to the disastrous battle for The Bridge Too Far. Boyd tured at Arnhem. He was in prisoner-of-war camps in Germany until the end of the war in Europe. He is one of a group of 80 volun- are raising funds for the Airborne Charities Fund. For anyone wishing to contact Boyd to· help sponsor his efforts, c:p xm = l: (-l)n+lsinm(nx) n=l , valid for -n:<x<n; mEN · - m ,;,:.,::i m ' Examples of the formulae that Mr. Rawn is able to generate from a single "mother of all formulae" follow: his address is: The Gate House Cambusavie By Dornoch Sutherland IV25 3JD ID xfl 2µ+1r(µ+l) Scotland, UK = ~ (-l)n+lJµ(nx), valid for µ>-1/2, -n:<y<n:; n-1 nµ Telephone: 0408-633596 n=l , valid for -n:<x+y<n:, m£N. nm valid for -7t /m<x<n/m, mEN �Page 22 THE B Mera J. Flaumenhaft, The Civic Spectacle: Essays on Drama and Community (Lanham, MD. Rowman & Littlefield, 1994) BY PAMELA KRAUS, TUTOR, ANNAPOLIS T he essays in this volume, although concentrating on four seldom produced plays, are finally an ambitious attempt to provide a proper, middle ground for the understanding of drama altogether. In our time this ground has been fought over and occupied now by politicizing theories, such as those that characterize much academic and other critical literature, now by a primarily aesthetic attitude which minimizes or even disregards on principle the relation of drama-to its audience and its time. The author believes that each of these distorts drama in ways that distort us. Instead of awakening us to questions about "good and bad, leadership, right and wrong, human nature ... men and women," the one substitutes a reductive theory that all can be explained - using a highly abstract jargon, accessible to very few - wholly in terms of power or might, while the other prohibits such questions as extraneous, except where they are an explicit subject. By contrast, these essays speak in straightforward prose, directly about human experience, about questions that matter to audiences and readers and students, and that ought to be primary concerns to us all. It is n.either an academic or theoretical book nor a merely popular one. It uses detailed study and reliance on the critical tradition, but directs its observations and insights to problems with which we as observers increasingly contend. The thought that pervades all of the essays is that it is an essential, perhaps the essential, property of drama that it can and does shape us. It is formative, working not by force, but through the power of looking: spectators are shaped and led in the best cases to a kind of self-knowledge by witnessing the re-presentation of human action. She holds that the power extends to reflection as well, for in showing us the varieties of looking and being looked at in these four plays, she invites us readers to look at ourselves, to c"ampare and contrast forms of drama in our 0 Fall 1994 REPORTER K at and are formed by them The four essays, three of which are revisions of essays published elsewhere, have important connections with one another. The book begins with "Seeing Justice Done: Aeschylus' Oresteia." This "first and foremost drama of the Western world" presents the transition from private revenge as retribution for injury to the establishment of public courts wherein justice is seen to be done. Justice is a matter of looking: accused is confronted by accuser before the witness of a community; guilt or innocence is a matter to be determined in public, by a decision of citizens; the guilty person is observed in his or her guilt by the community that has been injured. · The three plays that constitute the Oresteia represent stages of this transition, each stage characterized by a different relation between the private or familial, and the public, and thus by a distinctive kind of looking. In the Agamemnon, no onlookers are acknowledged by the family, members of the house of Atreus, whose past is filled with horror and violation. Clytemnestra by her own hands avenges her husband for the injuries he has caused, but not before she has made a spectacle of him. As he treads the red carpet, he displays, for all to see, both his violation of family and Clytemnestra's refusal to allow him back on his own ground. Even if Clytemnestra keeps for her eyes alone the face-to-face confrontation as she slays him, she makes us hear a gruesome report of his murder. Orestes, charged with the command to avenge his mother's crime, has first to recognize his sister and show signs of his own identity in the Libation Bearers. Onlookers gain in importance here. The chorus in this play, unlike those in the former, knows what is occurring as Orestes kills his mother. Orestes confronts his mother with accusations, and she " ... is now a self-conscious observer, as well as participant, in her own trial and punishment." Thus Libation Bearers serves as a threshold to the final play, Eumenides. This play shows the establishment of a public forum, where the alleged crime can be re-told before public witnesses, who in turn will judge and render retribution. This enlightened, distanced, and public view heals injury rather than provoking another as did the private, blood-based revenge that dominated the first play, · and was inspired by the Furies. The Oresteia, on this interpretation, is a play about what it itself does: the formation of a community as lookers on justice. That the Oresteia R E v I E w disappeared, but something important has entered in its place, with its own dangers. Looking at our own courts, at 20th century trials, like that of "Baby M", at plea bargaining, which exempts the accused from having to face an accuser, at televised court dramas, we see dangers in a too-distanced, too-rationalized viewing. In the second essay, "Looking Together in Athens: Euripides' Bacchae and the Festival of Dionysus," the authot shows this very possibility is t~cognizable in the character of Pentheus, who exempts himself from all community of looking, of seeing with others and being seen by them. Yet he is inevitably drawn to the Bacchic ritual. He who holds himself apart from all secretly watches those who merge utterly with all, and lose all articulation, all ineasuredness, all contours and distinctions of place and time, who lose themselves as individuals and as humans in an obscene frenzy. Pentheus saw what should not be seen and was destroyed by it. Such drama, performed under the controlled conditions and circumstances of officially sanctioned festivals, permits viewers to see what should not be seen, Communities of citizens looking together at "their own buried monstrousness," actors executing the practiced dances and rhythmic. shouts before this community, maintain their distance from these excesses while recalling their connectedness to them. The most wonderful being is also the most terrible, the chorus in Antigone recites. Recalling and recognizing Dionysus in such spectacles is "essential to the moral and civic ends of tragedy." In contrast, the "new" theater of the 1960s, which invoked the name and spirit of Dionysus, ignored the civic context in which that spirit was viewed. The "new" theatre could only mouth the notion of community, since "everyone could do and feel his own thing, but together." The third essay shows another transition, not from private retribution to public justice, but from both ancient and Christian notions of virtue to a dif.., ferent, realistic virtue. Machiavelli's Mandragola exploits the subversive possibilities of comedy to undermine the reigning mores and the august tradition, especially in its teachings about chastity. It uses the classic story of the rape of Lucretia, who, having been violated, lives long enough to denounce her attacker, but takes her own life rather than live in shame as a married woman. Machiavelli turns the story to an explicit political purpose. He makes his audience - not the community of citizens, but a small group of young noblemen whose opinions will have most effect on that community - see and enjoy what they would ordinarily have thought to be immoral. Honor and loyalty and love do not win the day; they are revealed to be nothing but self-interest. Machiavelli's comedy makes us conspirators in the demise of those virtues which were thought to be binding for any community. The final essay considers another Annapolis tutor l'vfera Flaumenhaft, author of a newly published book on how we as spectators are influenced by witnessing drama. dramatic form, the history play, in relation to two versions translated into the contemporary medium of film. "Three Views of Henry V: Shakespeare, Olivier, and Branagh," contrasts two film versions with the text of the play, and with each other. Shakespeare's beginning is a fitting subject for the final essay of this volume. The Prologue calls attention to the difference between the stage and life. It forces us to consider the virtues as well as the limitations of the stage, the wooden 0. Since Olivier's film was his contribution to the war effort, he adds a further difference: London, the location of Shakespeare's stage, comes into view. This very difference fuses the audience with the victors at Agincourt. It is an exhortation to English spirit and greatness during a terrible time. Branagh's only explicit nod to his audience is to have a solitary artist address us in the Prologue. Branagh is throughout more interested in the psychology of the King. Close-ups, the insertion of a poignant reminiscence of his days with Falstaff from a different text, his overt distress at the hanging of Randolph absent in Shakespeare - the confused brutality of battle for both sides, and countless other examples reveal that, in Branagh's views, although the public office may force the private man into a kind of retreat, yet the private man, with his attachment to friendship, is ultimately more important. Shakespeare, by contrast, shows us the King, a masterful public man, more Machiavellian, and thus more problematic than either of the films convey. Henry embodies the theatricality of politics in his power of speech, in the hiddenness of his private self, and in his ability to unite his citizens in witness of a self-understanding he has given them. The essay, and the book, ends with a reflection on the difference that the new medium of film has made to our viewing, to what is shown, to what can be shown, as to how we ourselves see. While providing wide access to dramas, it nevertheless isolates and dismantles our community. The virtues of the wooden 0 stand up brightly against these differences. �THE Page 23 0 WILLIAM WILLIAMS RETIRED MARINE OFFICER Retired Marine Corps Col. William Richard Williams, A27, died in March in Chula Vista, Calif. He was 88. Born in Annapolis, Col. Williams was commissioned in the Marine Corps upon graduation from St. John's in 1927. He played end that year on the All-Marine football team, which won 10 games and the All-Service championship. During World War II he was operations officer for the 7th Marines and commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, First Marine Division, during the Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester operations. At the end of the war he was commanding officer of the 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division. Subsequently he was with the former Atomic Energy Commission in Idaho, was assistant chief-of-staff at Camp Lejeune, and instructed amphibious warfare planning at the Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado, Calif. After retiring from the military in 1957 he was employed by General Dynamics in San Diego, in the Atlas and Centaur programs. He retired in 1970. He is survived by his wife, Timora Mahan Williams; two daughters, Dorothy Eleanor Williams Eargle of Grandview, Tx., and Joan Williams of Austin, Tx.; one sister; and one granddaughter. WILLARD 0. ASH B I T u A R I E s daughter-in-law, Garrett and Jill Ash; and five grandchildren. two daughters, Bonnie Rafer and Nancy Hennen; two brothers; and three grandchildren. FERRIS THOMSEN STEVEN NAGANO LACROSSE COACH LAWYER Ferris "Buck" Thomsen, A3 7, died in June of complications resulting from Alzheimer's disease. Born rn Baltimore in 1907, Mr. Thomsen graduated from Baltimore Friends School and attended Swarthmore College, where he once scored 14 goals in one lacrosse game, a record that still stands today. For his junior and senior years, Ferris transfered to St. John's, where he played on the Johnnies' 1929 National Championship squad and earned AllAmerican honors. For four years he coached at McDonough School in Baltimore and then was a coach and athletic director at the Gilman School from 1935-1946. He was at the University of Pennsylvania until 1950, when he began a 20 year stint at Princeton University. During his career at Princeton he won two National Championships, ten Ivy League crowns, was inducted into the Lacross Hall of Fame in 1963, and was voted coach of the year in 1967. "Coach" or "Buck," as he was affectionately called, started Camp Deerwood for Boys in Holderness, N.H., with his wife Helen in 1945. Su.rvivors include his wife Lil; two sons, Ferris Thomsen Jr. and Leonard Thomsen; seven grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Steven Nagano, SF73, died unexpectedly in April of heart-related trauma. After attending St. John's College for one year Mr. Nagano went on to graduate from the MacGeorge Law School. He is survived by his wife and two children, as well as his cousin, Maria Kwong, SF7 4. MATHEMATICS EDUCATOR Dr. Willard 0. Ash, A3 7, died last September in Stuart, Florida. A native of Cumberland, Md., he earned his BA from St. John's, where he was vice-president of his class in his senior year. At graduation he received the Keene Cup for excellency in mathematics. He was the last president of the local De Omega fraternity which went into Rho-Delta chapter of Sigma Alpha Episilon. He was also a member of the college tennis team for all four years. Dr. Ash earned his doctorate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg. He taught mathematics and statistics for 3 3 years at the University of North Florida, the University of West Florida, the University of Florida, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Iowa State University, and the University of Maryland. He was founding dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Florida at Jacksonville before his retirement. Survivors include his wife, Louise Ash; a daughter, Abby Goodwin; a son and ·Fall 1994 REPORTER CHARLES RUSSELL LEVERING DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST Charles Russell Levering, A44, died in February at his home in La Plata, Md. He was a tobacco marketing specialist for the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Levering was born in Milwaukee, WI., and attended the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and the University of Maryland in addition to St. John's. He served from 1943-45 as a navigator on B-l 7s and B-29s in the U.S. Air Force and continued in active reserves until 1961. From 1945-66 Mr. Levering worked in the private tobacco industry as a buyer for various companies. In 1966 he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture as leader of the tobacco group. For many years Mr. Levering served as a volunteer cooperative weather observer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He also enjoyed gardening and was a member of the board of directors for the Historical Society of Charles County. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Grainger Levering; CHRISTOPHER COE NOTED AUTHOR Christopher Coe, SF7 4 (aka George Gordon Coe), died on September 6 of pneumonia at his home in Greenwich Village, New York. He was 41. Mr. Coe was the author of the critically acclaimed I Look Divine (Ticknor and Fields, 1987) which Doris Grumbach called "a major work of the imagination, written with the kind of perfect economy that is the mark of a stunningly original fiction writer." The review of the New York Times (August 30, 1987) by Richard Burgin noted, "Mr. Coe ... is an icy and acute observer... He has chosen a difficult theme, self love, and understands both its comedy and its tragedy." His second novel Such Times (Harcourt Brace, 1993) was recently published. David Leavitt said of this novel: "Christopher Coe, a writer of ferocious talent and bravery, has crafted, in Such Times, perhaps the great novel of the AIDS epidemic. A story that could be told by no one but himself and yet belongs to all of us." Mr. Coe's short stories were published in Harper's magazine and Story. His plans for a third novel about his childhood were uncompleted at the time of his death. He is survived by his sister, brother-in-law, nieces and nephews. JOHN SILVER A89 John Silver died Sunday, August 21 in a swimming accident. A service was held in Allendale, New Jersey, on Thursday, August 25. BRIGITTE ELMENDORF HARTMAN 81SF Brigitte Elmendorf Hartman died on Saturday, August 13, after a valiant struggle with lymphoma. She was 34 years old. Brigitte died at her home in Point Reyes, California,. in the company of family and loved ones, as she had wished. She is survived by her parents, Esther and Bill Elmendorf, her sisters, Diane Elmendorf and Sabrina Weinstein, her nieces, Leah and Dina Weinstein, her brother Curtis and Brigitte's fiveyear-old daughter, Ursula. Brigitte, who was born in Rabat, Morocco, on October 10, 1959, left St. John's College in her senior year to explore the "wisdom of the body" as a registered nurse like her mother. She had numerous causes-among the more prominent, the Alternatives to Violence Project. For Brigitte this · entailed setting up workshops for the inmates at San Quentin. She will be missed there as well. All who loved Brigitte knew they were very lucky. A memorial service was held on Mt. Vision at Spirit Rock in Marin County and another in Illinois where her parents live. Brigitte was buried at B'nai Israel Cemetery in Belleville, Illinois, where there is a grove of trees surrounded by corn fields. Her headstone will read "Freewoman." A fund has been established for Brigitte's daughter, Ursula. Contributions may be sent to Ursula Hartman, attn. Diane Elmendorf, c/o . Esther and William Elmendorf, 1015 Lantern Lane, Lebanon, IL 62254. Other correspondence may be sent to Ursula in care of Peter Hartman, 5707 Shasta Avenue, Dur-smuir, CA 96025. Submitted by: Beatrice Butler, SF80 1561 S. Foothills Highway, #G-2 Boulder, CO 80303 PAUL D. KNUDSEN, SF 73 Paul Knudsen, 43, passed away at his .home in Santa Fe on Tuesday, September 20, 1994. Mr. Knudsen, who was a computer programmer with Los Alamos National Labs, died from a brain tumor. He leaves behind his wife, Mary Gauler Knudsen, SF 73, and three children. �Page 24 THE Fall 1994 REPORTER Rembrandt Etchings at Mitchell Gallery T here can be debate about a list of the greatest painters in the western tradition, but there probably would be agreement about a core group of names, including Rembrandt. The Mitchell Gallery is fortunate to have a group of 51 etchings by Rembrandt on display from September 23 to November 19. The exhibit title is "Rembrandt Etchings: Selections from the Carnegie Museum of Art." Rembrandt was a supreme draftsman, and his etchings defined the boundaries of the medium. When he first began to produce etchings by drawing with a simple needle through resin onto copper plates, Rembrandt seemed interested in· exploring the dramatic lighting effects that could be achieved. Etching allowed an artist to be more spontaneous than engraving did because the lines on the plate were actually cut with acid, which was applied to the resin that had been drawn on. The early "Self Portrait with Saskia," dated 1636, shows how the artist used the technique to give the woman in the background an ethereal quality, while the main subject is shown in high contrast. A variety of crosshatching, single lines, shading, flecks, and long curved lines is used. Etchings were made to be sold as prints and became a popular means for the prosperous Dutch merchant class of the 1600s to invest in art. Prints covered a range of subjects including portraits, genre, landscape, and still life. Rembrandt experimented in all of these subjects. He became recognized for what are called histories, scenes from the Bible, mythology, and ancient history. Some of his best-known etchings are scenes like "The Three Crosses" (1651) and "Christ Preaching" (The Hundred Guilder Print) (1649). Rembrandt's depictions of life in Amsterdam capture the flavor of the time, as in his vignette of the three beggars receiving coins from a benefactor, or in the interestingly shaped landscapes of the nearby countryside, filled with intricate details. Evolving in style, the etchings of the later years are much simpler in form, and the minute details that appeared in the early works is displaced by a greater emphasis on balancing the structure of the piece. Rembrandt produced etchings for more than 40 years, until 1665, four years before his death. The Mitchell Gallery exhibit contains 51 etchings and was organized by the American Federation of Arts and The Carnegie Museum of Art. The Goldweigher)s Field, 1651 etching and drypoint. Bequest of Charles]. Rosenbloom (74. 7.188) Carnegi~ Museum of Art/Courtesy The American Federation of Arts Guild boosts Santa Fe library, gallery T he recent. cre~tion of a Fine Arts Guild 1s expected ·to bring energy and new direction to library projects and art exhibits on the Santa Fe campus. The volunteer guild, which is divided into two subcommittees for the gallery and the library, is composed of local friends of the college. According to gallery director Ginger Roherty, the mission of the art gallery subcommittee is to help with the acquisition of art, the selection of exhibits, the sale of artwork and cultivation of friends in support of the gallery. One major focus of the gallery subcommittee, chaired by Susan Kelly, will be to invite noted local artists to exhibit their works in the gallery. "I think it's going in the right direction and I'm very pleased to have these individuals involved in this effort," Ms. Roherty said. The library subcommittee, chaired by Willard Lewis, will work in cooperation with Meem Library director Inga Waite and the faculty advisory committee on special library projects. According to Ms. Waite, some of projects under consideration for volunteer support from the committee include, the creation of a college arc;-hive; the expansion of the library's art collection; assistance with future book sales; and lectures by local authors. Peggy Jones, SGI94, a member of the library subcommittee said the guild hopes to contribute both support and expertise to Ms. Waite m the execution of these projects. Artist Margaret LeFranc with Santa Fe president john Agresto. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1~ Mf 1l~ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1tll111\f11f 31696 01138 2056 to a modification plans for the former Hall of Records into line with historic district "'-l'"AA''H...,.,....u.", officials on the towards a fall target to break for its new new exConversion costs for pected to be finished in 1996, and for the present Woodward been set at nearly million. The latest design for the transformation of the 1934 Georgian revival into a was approved 10 by the Historic Commission. Plans unveiled a year ago at the time of the building's sale to the college for 1 1 LESLI ALLISON NANCYOSIUS In his address "Preparing for the Unreal World," journalist and commentator Charles Sykes told 88 recipients of bachelors' degrees and 18 of masters' degrees under the Liberty Tree in Annapolis that while know the answers to such questions as "What is Justice? What is Noble? What is Courage?", as St. John's gra.a.mttes at least know the answers are worth for. a world of some me:animg ideas matter and where pursuing them matters as to the clicM, their life has been "in a National Public Radio's veteran reporter-commentator Daniel Schorr addressed a crowd of more than 700 at the Santa Fe commencement this year. A window of sunny weather blessed the weekend an otherwise rainy month. Degrees were conferred on 84 students. undergraduates and 37 those the Master of Arts were five members of the St. John's staff: Susan Lesli Allison, Deborah Nl<uttne:l, Hudson and Robert McClees. the event, Mr. Schorr drew from a lifei:ime 101.rrn.a11sm to advise the new gratctuate:s. 1- 1·",,....."'"''· u a member of Edward R le~~enda:I"'V CBS team, he ,,.,,~..,.,..-,nu 11 1ourn:u1s:uc excellence, ~A~L~~~L'"' " 11-1•........ ~~T'" " and decorations of state. In 1993 he won the HDC, a city advisory a mod-· officials understood then that est variance procedure would be needed for the additions in which a significant part the browsing was to be housed. But difficulties arose. While the drawn up by Takoma Park architect Travis Price, SF '71, involved no increase in the height of the building-already several feet taller than permitted by the ordinancethe roof configuration violated the city's height and bulk limit and would require city council action. "We did not want to be the first in 40 years to attack a valuable historic district zoning ordinance. We voluntarily agreed to a revision," says President Christopher Nelson. "The changes represent a sacrifice of certain views from the top of the as well as a rather modest additional construction cost. But by doing this, we avoid potential zoning battles and public as well as costly delays. We now have the of everyone to go forward." ··1-1·u-·un n""" includes the state's Mary.......... ".. v ...... .., Trust and the Historic District Lomrms:s1o:n, as well as the Historic Inc., and the both of which had the 1 For the additions, the new substitute a considerable extension of the which will house api:iroJnm.are.!y 65% of the as Continued on page 14 cow in elusive television interview with a Soviet Nikita Khrushchev. He ,,.u,ont <>1 found himself trouble the KGB and was barred from the Soviet Union. the next few years he interviewed Fidel Castro and traveled with President Eisenhower to South America, and Europe. In 11 NPR's Daniel Schorr Continued on page 11 �THE REPORTER 2 Figure-Form-Symbol, works in clay by Nita Schwartz and The Appearing Object, paintings by Dennis Fiedler, will be on exhibit in the St. John's College Art Gallery throughout the month. Wednesday, June 22: President John Agresto will present a lecture entitled, The Proust of the Papuans. three p.m. in the Junior Common Room. th1·ou:gb n.1.11;i:.u1;:i;a.; Shakespeare in Santa Fe will present The Tempest, with New York director Jay Raphael. Performances begin July 8 and continue through August 14. Show time is 7 p.m. in the Meem Library Courtyard. July 10 • 15: Summer Alumni Program Week One will focus on perspectives on medical ethics. Trips to the opera, and special dinners and field trips are interspersed throughout the week for added enjoyment. All alumni are welcome. To register, contact the Alumni office in Santa Fe. July 15 -17: Homecoming weekend. All alumni are welcome. To register, contact the alumni office in Santa Fe. July 17 - 22: Summer Alumni Program Week Two will focus on Eastern topics, including Japanese films. 17 - August 6: St. John's College Summer Classics is an educational retreat for adults. Seminar topics will include: Death of Socrates (Plato's Apology, Crito, Phaedo); American Founding Documents; Shakespeare (Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing); Opera (Marriage of Figaro, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Tosca, The Barber of Seville); Arthurian Legends (Tristan and Isolde); and Homer's Odyssey. There are residential and non-residential rates. Receptions, dinners and excursions included For more information contact the Office of Public Relations in Santa Fe. Wednesday, 20: Vedic Orthodoxy and the Emergence ofPhilosophy in Ancient India: An Introduction, a lecture by James Carey, tutor, will herald in the new Graduate Program in Eastern Classics. three p.m. in the Junior Common Room. Other groups on campus this summer include the Bread Loaf School of English, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Young Musicians Program, and the Berkshire Choral Institute. Summer G.1 students at Santa Fe will fmd an increasing number of college professors in their midst, thanks to a major grant from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. The award of $66,200 will provide fellowships ofup to $2900 to college and university professors for summer study in the Santa Fe Graduate Institute. The fellowship program was initiated in response to growing interest in the St. John's curriculum among faculty at other colleges. Many of these faculty members come to the Graduate Institute not so much to earn another degree but rather to learn the St. John's way of teaching and to immerse themselves in the study of the great books. "We have a number who come here each year from other colleges," Santa Fe campus President John Agresto said, "not only to improve their own teaching, but also for the impact it can have on their own institutions. They fmd the St. John's curriculum and methods are helpful in shaping the direction of their courses and increasingly useful in departmental and institutional curricular considerations." To be eligible, a college must propose at lease two faculty members to attend each summer and cover part of the instructional costs. fu 1993, teachers from Eckerd College in Florida, Oxford College of Emory University, and Mercer University in Georgia attended the institute. For information about fellowship opportunities in 1994 and 1995, please contact the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe. Lawyers and Judges convened on the Santa Fe campus in March to study Artistotle 's Nico machean Ethics, Book I. The seminar, led by Santa Fe Dean Steve Van Luchene and Santa Fe President John Agresto, was offered for credit tlrrough the New Mexico State Bar Continuing Legal Education program. According to Mr. VanLuchene, the firsttime seminar was a success. Participants responded very favorably to the format but cautioned that lawyers given this kind of opportunity "talk too much and monopolize discussions." Nevertheless, all the participants who responded to the evaluation said the seminar far exceeded their expectations and they would like to see St. John's seminars continue to be offered under the continuing legal education program. Santa Fe Placement Director Jennifer Chenowith, who organized the seminar, said the college hopes to continue the program with seminars once or twice each year. Joseph-Charles MacKenzie, SF'84, firstplace trophy winner in the long-poem category of the annual Scottish International Open Poetry Competition recently traveled to hvine, Scotland, to receive his award The winning poem, entitled" Abandonment" (40 pages), is an allegory written in formal verse, which chronicles the journey of emotions following the loss of a first love. MacKenzie, now a doctoral candidate in French literature at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, first received international recognition last year when he won second place in the Scottish competition for his sequence of 156 sonnets entitled "A Lover's Apprenticeship." The sequence is regarded as one of the longest in American literature (160 pages). "I spew forth; it's terrible," he said jokingly. He received his award at the private Robert Burns Club in Irvine which sponsored the competition. The panel of judges consisted of poets from throughout the United Kingdom. "I drank in a pub in Kilnarnock where Robert Burns drank," he said. "I found out that the Irvine Burns Club has had very distinguished members throughout the years, including Charles Dickens, Albert Schweitzer and Dwight Eisenhower. I visited several poets in Edinburgh and gave a speech at the Ayrshire Writers' Society." Mackenzie also received acclaim for his recitations of the poetry of Norman MacCraig, the "Robert Frost" of Scotland. The Raportaris published in June and December by the News and Information Office, St. John's College, Box 2800 Annap<>lis, MD 21404, and in September and March by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Box 4599, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Annapolis; Nancy Osius, editor; Donna Boetig assistant edttor; Wye Allanbrook, Betsy Bll1me, Eva Brann, John Chrislensen._,Benjamin Milner, Brother Robert Smith, and Elliott £.uckerman, advisory_ board; Marcia Baldwin, design· Ex-offico member: Thomas Geyer. 1 Santa Fe: Lesh Alison, editor USPS 018-750 Santa Fe Vice President for Advancement -......,.....-•• u1nr1'1:::11n nri!Clk~o.nl"At~ of to Angie Cross, director of Inn of the Anasazi. hosted a wine-tasting in January to scholarship funds for students from the Southwest to attend St. John's. The event was conducted by board member Warren Winiarski, A'52, who is the owner and founder of Stag's leap Wine Cellars. "Desert Evoking the sensation of a southwest sunset, "Desert Southwest," a large oil painting on canvas, graces the foyer of the Mitchell Gallery at Annapolis. The twopaneled work by Washington D.C. artist Cynthia Littlefield was a recent gift of Jill Wilkinson, a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors. "One of the things I like (about the painting) is that it inspires me to contemplate it," Mrs. Wilkinson explained from her home in Austin, Texas. "It has a quality of light and space and also somehow a quality of architecture about it that I really like. You can look and look." Mrs. Wilkinson previously donated a Littlefield painting to the Santa Fe campus and owns several of the artist's works. The two are friends. Reared in Texas, Ms. Littlefield earned degrees in art from the University of Texas and American University. She begins a work with pencil sketches and watercolor studies. Then, as she starts to paint, her wdrks acquire a luminous and elegant surface, an effect that, though it looks simple, is the result of a careful and exact discipline. Littlefield, oil on canvas "Desert Sunset" summons the sensation of sunset immediately after the sun has gone down, she says. When one is left with a mere reflection oflight-as if the land has absorbed light and is still holding it-its deep rich colors are like jewels reflecting the earth's tones. Nathan Rosen, A'82, and the acting company he founded, Annapolis Company Theater, for the third summer will mount a Shakespearean play, Much Ado About Nothing, in the Great Hall of McDowell Hall on the Annapolis campus. The play will be presented for 10 days between July 15 and 31. Earlier productions were Twelfth Night and Macbeth with a number of current St. John's students and alumni in both casts. For more information, call 410-268-2793. �THE REPORTER Santa Fe tutor Cary Stickney will assume direction of the Santa Fe Graduate Institute this summer. Mr. Stickney replaces N n c y Buchenauer who has served in the position for the past three years. Officially, his term begins July 1. Tutor Cary Stickney Mr. Stickney has been a member of the faculty at St. John's College since January of 1980. He received his B.A. from St.John's in Annapolis in 1975 and his M.A. in 1979 from Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet in Freiburg, Germany. As director, he said his primary focus will be to maintain the current level of enrollment during the academic year and to build summer enrollment. He also said he is pleased with the quality and balance of the student body. "There seems to be a really productive proportion of older students to younger students, people who have been teachers to people who want to be teachers, and people who are just continuing their education as an end in itself," he said. "So a lot of my thought is to try to keep it going as well as it seems to be working right now." In addition to directing the Graduate Institute in Liberal Education, Mr. Stickney will oversee the new Graduate Program in Eastern Classics. "I'm very excited about it,"he said. "Two years ago I was part of the study group in Sanskrit and I found it interesting not only as a language, but in the way that any language contains a whole world. I could see hints of that world peeping through the etymologies of some of these words and through some of the simple sentences of the great epics, which made me eager to read these things and discuss them with others." He added that he would like to teach in the program during the next three years. In accepting the position, Mr. Stickney said he hopes to make a personal contribution to the life of the college. "The college by and large runs so well because of the understanding and the flexibility and the humanity of the people who administrate it and I've benefitted from the style of administration at St. John's for years now," he said. "One of the things that I'm happy about is that I can try to do for my colleagues and students what has been done for me throughout the years. Other people have born those burdens. I'm really glad to get a chance to repay a debt." Tutors Anita Kronsberg, A'SO, and William Pastille have been named assistant A11llla1Jol1ts, n~pHtcirt,g Wye Al- PAGE3 Fresh from a sabbatical year, Mr. Pastille says that he was able to do some work impossible in an ordinary year, reading some Zen and Daoist books and finishing several articles for publication. Next year, he will teach three courses in addition to his new administrative duties. Mr. Pastille expects no his tenure as assistant dean. he has a commitment to "irnm·ovem1ents in student life that will foscmmnunitv the Mrs. Allanb:rook and Mr. Tuck "have de:fmed the so well, that we are very to be able to follow Annapolis Admissions Director John Christensen, center, is pictured in Wales with other admissions officers on their two-week visit to 24 international secondary schools. They are from left, Steve Silver, Dartmouth; John Nissen, Lawrence University; Mr. Christensen; Terri Overton, Wesleyan University; and Sidonia Dalby, Smith College. Not pictured is Mimi Tung from Scripps. Student Recruitment trip to Europe Annapolis Admissions Director John Christensen and six other college admissions officers visited schools in seven European cities in May to pitch their individual institutions as well as to present programs explaining the range and variety of American colleges. On a two-week trip they visited 24 bilingual and international schools in London, Vienna, Geneva, Paris, Rennes, Athens, and Thessaloniki, following an itinerary that was crammed full but also professionally satisfying, according to Mr. Christensen. Team members explained to student-parent audiences the college application pro- cess and described types of colleges and their expectations. As they represented various institutions, they always drew good crowds. "I was pleasantly surprised by how much interest there was in St. John's-good, intelligent interest everywhere we went," said Mr. Chrstensen. While the results of the trip in terms of new applicants can't be measured in any way for several years, attendance at the presentations and the very real interest shown suggests the value of following up, said Mr. Christensen, and the group is examining ways to do so. In the meantime, another trip next year is highly likely. see each class for the next class Recent student initiatives have made him ~~•f;~1nho~ A .Kr1oru:be1rg says she will up the curriculum and very able" teenagers-among the best in the nationas she did two years ago. has been a longtime Mrs. member of the Campus Committee, actively working during the past year with architects and consultants on plans for the new library facility. She will become chairman of the committee in the fall, a position she also held several years ago at the time of the McDowell Hall restoration. In addition to teaching and administrative duties, she will continue work next fall on her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland in the history and philosophy of science. She expects to finish her course work in 1995, with dissertation to follow on the history of optics. in the master calendar for the will considered for the Mr. Pastille is much encouraged, he says, to have the initiation and design come from students instead of being imposed from above. A tutor at the college since 1986, Mr. Pastille earned his undergraduate degree in music from Brown University in 1976, his master's degree 1979 and his Ph.D. in 1985, both from Cornell University. In 1985-86, he was a visiting faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison school of music. He has published many articles on music theory in scholarly journals. Wye Allanbrook named U-C visiting professor The Annapolis campus Assistant Dean Wye Jamison Allanbrook, a nationally recognized music historian who has written an award-winning book on Mozart, has accepted an appointment as the Ernest Bloch Visiting Professor of Music at the University of California in Berkeley. A tutor since 1969, she will be on leave from the college for the academic year 1994-1995. Next fall at Berkeley Mrs. Allanbrook will deliver the Ernest Bloch Lectures in Music, a series of six weekly lectures given each year by a visiting composer, critic, or music historian. The working title of Mrs. Allanbrook' s lectures is "Mozart and the Conditions of Comedy." The talks will later be published as a book by the University of California Press. Additionally in the fall, Mrs. Allanbrook will teach one class in the department of music, and in the spring, two classes. The lecture series, inaugurated in 1964, was named for the late Prof. Bloch, a djstinguished Swiss composer who taught at Berkeley for 10 years. The list of notable Bloch lecturers includes harpsichordist Two long-legged, short-haired, enterprising St. John's College junior students on offterrain bikes are delivering prescriptions, documents, hot soup and cold sodas to their customers, and even-should someone wish it-a bouquet of flowers to a loved one any time between eight in the morning and six at night. If you live in Annapolis and want fast delivery, call the Bay Runners at 410-626-5900, which signals Tom Donehower and Matt Fretas by beeper. They return the calls immediately. By the way, there's a 10% discount for senior citizens, and furthermore, the young men contribute a portion of the proceeds from every errand to Save the Bay Foundation. Ralph Kirkpatrick, composers Roger Sessions, Gunther Schuller and George Perle, pianist and critic Charles Rosen, and New Yorker critic Andrew Porter. The invitation to the lectureship, which Mrs. Allanbrook calls "an extraordinary compliment," came to her unsought. Others attribute the high honor to her work and lectures on Mozart, especially in the bicentennial year of his death, which one critic said has allowed people to look at the composer "in a new way." The author of Rhythmic Gesture in Mo- zart: Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, Mrs. Allanbrook participated in many na- tional and international events in the bicentennial year of 1991. She took part in festivals and symposia in London, New York, Boston, Washington, Houston, St. Paul, Pittsburgh, and Palo Alto. Additionally, during that whirlwind year, she gave invited lectures at Penn State, the University of Virginia, Cornell University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and UCLA. To accept the Berkeley appointment, she is leaving her position as assistant dean at Annapolis, a role she also filled in the years 1987-1990. Tutor Anita Kronsberg has been named to the post to replace her. �PAGE4 THE REPORTER J 1 :; G~J_ , 1\ 1943 "We had a time at the 50th reunion," reports Dr. H. Jr. (A). "It was fun to see old friends, some not having been seen for 50 years. We were all very happy after 50 years to be still alive." 1944 Peter Wolff (A)-who is looking forward to attending his 50th reunion in September, along with his son, Ted, who will be celebrating his 20th-recalls the commencement of 1944 overshadowed by war. "The day was gloomy; rain forced the exercises into Iglehart Hall. Only seven of us were present out of a class of 91 who had matriculated. Many members returned from the war and finished their college careers with later classes." He wishes the class of 1994 a happy and sunny commencement. "I hope their lives will be as posi tiv el y influenced by their St. John's experience, as was mine." 1947 John Brunn (A) is teaching at Chabot Community College in Hayward, CA. He says, "We have a program in interdisciplinary studies very familiar to St. John's." 1951 PaulN. Westerbeke,Jr. (A) of Blue Point, NY, is a geriatric charge nurse at the Patchoque Nursing Center. 1953 Charles R. Powleske (A) recently celebrated his 34th anniversary with the 35-yearold Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU). Munir Hussein (A'90) joined BCUI's small staff soon after graduation and is now vice-president in charge of program activity that brings government leaders together for briefings with the U.S. private sector active internationally. Since 1990, the number of programs organized by BCIU has grown over 300 percent. 1954 Sydney Porter (A) was recently made afull professor at Drexell University in Philadelphia, where he teaches radiological physics and radiological biology. He studies the effects of radiation on humans. 1956 John Chase (A) hopes to get back to Maine in time for the Friendship Sloop races this summer. "Check it out," he advises Johnnies. And hints, "I could use a crew." 1959 "Earth, Air, and Water," a one-woman show in acrylic and collage was presented in May by artist Lorna Cahall (A) in historic Savage, l\ID. She donated half of her proceeds to a building fund for a local church. , ' " ·-·--i••BlllB' 8 Wisconsin/Milwaukee. On sabbatical during the spring semester, he was a visiting scholar at Rutgers University, helping the faculty to establish a peace studies program. Anne M. Lowry (A) is a physical therapist at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. 1969 Meredith Artis Anthony (A) is the co-author of the ultimate post-St John's book101 Reasons Why We're Doomed: A Cynic's Guide To What's Left of the Future, an Avon paperback. She is also a contributing editor of Hysteria, a women's humor quarterly. 1970 Pat von Scbwerdtner (A) is the new manager of the South County branch of the Anne Arundel County, l\ID, Public Library. She is responsible for all operations of the branch, including public service, staff supervision, collection management and building maintenance. Its lending rate averages 13,000 items a month. Pat earned a master's degree in library science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1989. 1972 In September, 1993, John Kvapil (SF), his wife, and daughter, 10, bailed out of the "workaholic yuppiedom" of Bainbridge Island, WA (a ferry ride from Seattle) to relocate in Bend, Oregon. Most folks there x-country ski, kayak, fly fish or backpack and "work" as an avocation, he says. John's a senior architect with a local finn. He requests that Johnnies from the Revolution Years stop by any time. His address: 1100 N.W. Lexington, Bend, Oregon. 97701. 1977 Mary Brandon (A) would like to hear from friends. Hernew address is: 13605 Turkey Foot Ct, Chantilly, VA 22021; (703) 803-3110. Stephanie Forrest (SF) is a computer science professor at the University of New Mexico. William A.B. Malloy (SF) was surprised to learn that he was not the first member of his family to attend St John's: First cousin, twice removed, Hewett Langsdale, graduated in 1922. William was skimming through family correspondence from his great-grandmother's home when his eye caught the name 'St. John's.' "As the letter was from Maryland, I jumped. What sort of skeleton had I uncovered?" he writes. DatedJan.19, 1921, Easton, Maryland, from an aunt to a niece: "Hewett Two (Jr.) is doing nicely at St. John's-their difficulties as to hazing-something that the eastern papers have been full of and you have probably read-are about over." Hazing? "We still do it; but with love, in the form of the Freshman reading list," William comments. "The pressure is greater than conventional hazing, but it sure is good for them." 1979 1962 Susan Cliver Purinton (A) writes that her daughter and husband, both music graduates of Bennington College, are owners and brewers at McNeill's Brewery in Brattleboro, VT. Her son is a junior at Harvard. "We are celebrating our empty nest in El Salvador, courtesy of the Foreign Service," she says. 1964 David Jordan (A) announces the publication ofFirstEditions of Greek Classics (147 6-1516), a catalogue of an exhibition recently opened at the Gennadius Library, illustrating the development of Greek studies in a late Renaissance liberal education. Copies, $6 (including postage): Gennadius Library, American School of Classical Studies, 106 76 Athens Greece. Jeremy Leven (A), who wrote the film script "Don Juan and the Centerfold," is malcing his directing debut with Marlon Brando in a leading role. The film's producer, Francis Ford Coppola, is working with Brando for the first time since "Apolcalyse Now" (1979). 1966 Dr. Ian M. Harris (A) has been promoted to full professor of educational policy and community studies at the University of JUNE 1994 "Having survived this past winter in New England by cultivating snow shoveling as a strenuous form of meditation, I am currently revived with the signs of early here (Fitzwilliam, N.H.)," writes Bomford (SF). After an arts administration stretch at The Hebrew Arts School in New York City, she "descended into academia at Harvard and emerged with a calling to the ministry-have been a 'circuit rider' preacher, a hospital chaplain, and am now directing the religious education program at a Unitarian Universalist church. There's no money in it," she says, "but there are creative compensations." Summer finds her camping in the Chago Canyon with her daughter, 4, and Elizabeth Donsbach (SF). 1981 Jim Melcher (A) continues working in his family's construction business and traveling nationwide for the electrical transmission industry. He and his wife, Ruth, have two children: Gus, 3, and Greta, 1. Jim's active in the Twin City Alumni Group and corresponds with Johnnies. 1982 . Stephen Acciani (SF) and Betsy Acciani (SF'81) are proud parents of Anna Rebecca, 1 1 1 ! m' u Tu \ ~ born Feb. 3, 1994, 7 lbs. 5 oz. Walter Kokernot is a graduate student at Texas A & M. Cynthia Rutz is teaching at the University of Chicago in the Basic Program of Education for Adults. 1984 Tuck Bowerfind (A), who has worked at the University School in Shaker Heights, OH, and at St. Paul's Church at Cleveland Heights, OH, marriedDeleaJolyof Atlanta in 1992. The couple and daughter, Tiffany, 13, are preparing to welcome a new baby in November. Pierre Gagnier (A) and his wife, Nancy Marie Gagnier (A), proudly announce the birth of daughter Camille Patrice on December 3, 1993, weighing 7 lbs., 12 oz. For several years, Joseph Houseal (A) operated his own dance production company out of Tokyo. After staging several successful avant-garde shows, Joe left Japan last year and is currently pursuing a doctorate in England. Barbara Smalley (A) is in her fourth year of graduate study towards a doctorate of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has become an avid fan of UNC basketball. William Spence (SF), who received his MBA from the University of Rochester in 1981, is now a manufacturing operations man- 0 0" t 0 8 in south central ager at a small vania. "It's not really what I ex-i:Jected. graduating," he "But I doing and we make 1 mvV\rt·<1nt DIC>du1cts ttonnu.m ,.,;111'UT<1>1r..: (SF), who is a wife and mother of two little girls, writes business plans and does desktop publishing. She's looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion. Write her at: Box 875, Glenpool, OK 74033, 918-486-5993. Karl received a joint Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in August, 1992. After teaching part-time at Harvard, Chicago, and Carleton College-and submitting more than 180 job applications-he discovered what he considers "the academic equivalent of the Holy Grail: a permanent teaching position atthe U.S. Air Force Academy." Karl will be an assistant professor of political science, teaching courses in American political thought and institutions, international relations, and the national security system, and political philosophy. His book, The Theory and Practice of Republican Empire: War and Liberty in Hamiltonian Politics, will be published by year's end. He and his wife and two children plan never to move again. They welcome visits from Johnnies. Write him at: Department of Political Science, USAF Academy, CO 80840-5701. 1 Alumni Profile: Tia Pansie, A'85, Organizer of the Croatian Democracy Project By NANCY OSIUS One colleague calls Tia Pausic, A'85, "a pioneer for democracy in the Balkans." Without question the explosive and tragic events in the former Yugoslavian territories have called on Tia Pausic's resourcefulness, courage and intelligence, and they have dramatically changed the course of her career. After graduation in 1989 from Harvard law schoo~, Tia came to Washington to work for a llil!ge law firm, where she stayed two and a half years. But the Balkan convulsions had special intensity for Tia, whose parents are Croatian and Rumanian, and for several other young professionals of Croatian heritage. fu 1990 they formed the nonprofit Croatian Democracy Project. At first without an office, the organization today has three fulltime staff members and offices in Zagreb and Washington. Supported by federal grants as well as private donations, the CDP is called upon by the White House, Congress, and the media to provide background for events in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. At Christmas time, Tia returned from twoyearsinCroatia, where the CDP maintains a fully equipped office in the historic district of Zagreb and runs an active program focused on humanitarian and legal matters. Working with a children's hospital, the CDP operates a 30-foot mobile medical clinic with portable diagnostic equipment for use in Croatian refugee camps. They also provide legal assistance programs; Tia has seen two pieces of legislation she drew up passed in the Croatian parliament. One law created a code of official conduct for parliament. The other created rules ensuring fairness in bidding for government contracts. "The Croatian government is riddled with corrupt practices," Tia comments. "futroducing concepts of ethical conduct as well as fair business practices will help them grow out of that." She lived in a flat in Zagreb, a beautiful old city characterized by its tum-of-thecentury Austrian architecture and removed from the zone of hostilities. But the war was not far away, as she learned when her early morning train to the coast was shelled by the Serbs as it passed close to the occupied territories. The passengers were evacuated and hurried to a bomb shelter where they remained for six hours. The combination of exhaustion and terror was "excruciating," Tia says. Back in the U.S., in February she guided nine visitors from different regions, political parties, and ethnic groups of Croatia on a U.S. study tour examining legal protection for minorities. Funded by a USIA grant, the group visited five U.S. cities, and met with representatives of many organizations, including government, universities, the ACLU, and the U.S. fustitute of peace. Since that time, she has been occupied with speaking, raising money and writing. Her op-ed articles have appeared in The Los Angeles Times and the St. Louis PostDispatch, while a series of feature articles were published in the Pittsburgh City Paper. She is working now on a grant proposal that would send her back to Croatia for tlrree years. Tia's partner in CDP, Max Primorac, a graduate of the University of Chicago and a policy analyst, has been with her on the project from the beginning. While he speaks bitterly of U.S. leadership failures in the Balkans, the watchful caution of the U.S. has seemed to harden the will of the young people in the democracy project. "Tia spearheaded our efforts in Zagreb," he says. "She was the first American to go over there to help build a democratic country, and to work towards that in a systematic matter. She has been a recognizedpointpersoninCroatiaforanyone interested in providing assistance." �JUNE 1994 THE REPORTER PAGES Alumni Profile: Curnm Engel With the advent of digital imaging, it is possible to send video files as well as text files. Of course, everyone with access to the database will be able to get in touch with other subscribers via e-mail. Also, an Internet connection allows seminar-type conversations in which subscribers can share information, find solutions to problems, and keep current with the very rapid change multi-media technology is bringing to the industry. People are beginning to regard the computer less as a tool and more as a medium. As the system's and possibiliu..,'v v.l'VIJ,, the network Will become more ex1JanLCTrr1g set Producer eying feature film market By ALEX BOWLES, A'96 Four years of discussion about Western Man's best ideas and the books in which he has expressed them to his fellow men, provide an background for graduates in the media and ~A~~uu.~~, Curran tion assistant cornmmv PA work is the traditional startto work in film and television, as it nrc"11.:1P.11 per1ern:::e in all skills develop, people tend to specialize in aspects they find particularly engaging. Mr. Engel's interest was in producing, which means bringing together all the elements necessary for a film's completion, from script development to distribution agreements, from financing to catering. He is the one who hires talent, finds locations, and is responsible for delivering the project on time and under budget. Mr.Engel'smostrecentprojecthasbeen producing a short film about inter-Asian bigotry, "You Not Chinese." It is the story of an older Chinese immigrant who accuses a younger Chinese man born in America of not being "Chinese enough." Though the film's themes extend far beyond the bounds of the Asian community, director Wilson Wu chose an angle closest to his own experience. The film will be shown this summer in festivals around the country, including the San FranCisco Film Festival, the AsianAmerican Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival. Ideally, it will attract the sort of interest that will lead to the financing of Mr. Wu's next film. Seeing that it does is a large part of Mr. Engel's responsibility. l\1:r. Engel's long-term plans involve establishing a center for feature film production in the Bay Area. While most American features are produced in or around Holly- 1985 Diana Y. Adams (SF) recently completed the Lawyers' Military Justice Course at the Naval Justice School in Newport, R.I., where she studied the application of prior law school and legal knowledge to the military cmnnmn1ty She also completed the Officer lndloctnnatlcm School at the Naval Education Center in N<>unnnrr available work is for commercials, industrial and documentaries. Much of the to work on features, but without having to move to Los Angeles. With San Francisco's emergence as the center of multi-media development and production, its role as a focus for entertainment industries is rapidly expanding. It is Mr. Engel's belief that the establishment of large-scale production facilities in the Bay Area will be a necessary part of multimedia' s growth. Mr. Engel has suggested that students interested in a career in production get in touch with him (phone: 510.654.3978). As almost everyone in the industry works on a freelance basis, finding an established place to start one's career can be difficult. Knowing someone who can answer the questions and offer solutions to the problems that arise is an advantage. He would also like to get in touch with alumni, to find out what sorts of things they are doing. Currently, I am working with Mr. Engel and Karen Holland at the Annapolis placement office to establish such a network for alumni working in film and television. With St. John's projected investment in an Internet connection for on-campus networks, we will be able to provide a college- 1993 brought a move to Charlotte for Linda Sullivan Shea (SF) who writes thatits "downto-earth ambience reminds me of the Westah, but are there any Johnnies?" Other stand-outs, she says, were signing with a Hollywood finishing another script, InR omance in the Caribbean Ph1ta11.etioh1a, and being invited to judge competition along 1 n1'rP<'rc1r of Last of the a 1930s bun- received her Mellon and is ,., .....,,,..tiu em1nlc>ved. architect at the prc~st:1g11Jus architecural firm. Jamie n..11::uu11::u.v based service that should be enormously helpful to students and alumni alike. Because the system is electronic, anyone with a modem will be able to access the databases. These will include listings of who. and where people are, what they have done and what they are doing, and what their future interests are. Subscribers will be able to update their own files as needs arise. (The last time the Placement Office's files were updated was 1989). 94611. See profile this page. Debbie Jan (SF), living in Costa Rica, is a volunteer the National Park Service. She works with nesting Leatherback Sea Turtles. She plans to visit Santa Fe and friends Sarah Harwell (SF'86), Don Fassett Barb Ritter and Annie Decker Seidl (A) left Japan recently stint as a teacher/school ad.which he became fluent in ................ ...,,"UJ' he's Europe with fiancee/artist Sharon Molloy is considerpwrsumg gntdu.ate studies in rhetoric. (A) is working toward a at the University of Studies. 1987 "The Real Adventures of Sammy Sperm doll Lieberman (A), who helped set a by coming to Japan with MEm.llten M@:M1a111e shortly after graduation, has now completed his medical degree from N.Y. University and is living in the City with his Japanese wife, Masami. Stephen McShane (A), a N.Y. attorney, is an International Business Development Coordinator for Joso Incorporated of Tokyo. Johnnie own translation and English editing business. Jason can be reached at: Ole Vigsgt.5, 5006 Norway. (A) has graduated from New York University Law School. She will work in San Francisco at Consumers' Union magazine. .~urrP1nl'gJ1 uate studies program. writes: aspects and gathering and organizing the information available, so it can be transferred to the data base. We will be online by the end of the 1994 fall term. Mr. Bowles is the Archon of the Film Club in Annapolis. He worked as a PA on "You Not Chinese," and plans to study/Um after graduation in 1996. He will be interning this summer at Brilliant Media, a San Francisco based multi-media production company. Jason Bockman (A) moved to Norway and coloring book is now available in stores! Have your local independent bookseller order a few copies from Bookpeople--or send $2 and a stamp to my address: P.O. Box 20653, Oakland, CA. 94620. Coming in fall: Emily Ovum's Guide to Fashion and Stuff." Curran G. (SF) is currently producing a short film, Not Chinese." He hopes to finish it in the fall, and to exhibit it in the Mill Valley and San Francisco Film Festivals. He'd like to hear from all members of the extended SJC community. You may reach him at: 4214 Montgomery St., Oakland. CA. from Southern California in 1992, where he had earned a master's degree in political science and studied martial arts. Since then he has studied Norwegian, his second course ending with a national test for foreigners. He is also developing a greater speaking ability in the language. Jason married Berit in Oct., 1992, and says, "it turned out to be the smartest thing I've done in my whole life. Tove, my stepdaughter, 7, is one of the great blessings in my life." Jason had a temporary job with the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen. He is also developing his 1988 Melinda classmates Kim Ya1ne111ru1tn, Matthew Sweda, Dane were recently reunited in Memphis. in law school at the University of Michigan. Dan has finished medical school and will begin his residency in Chapel Hill, NC; He is married with two sons. Matthew is in law school at the University of Notre Dame; He is married with one daughter. Brian is in law school at Georgetown University his dissertation on and is married. Kim is the Gospel of Luke at the of Notre Dame. He and his wife, Martis m->~n·oP,1u·1.,.th (A'86), were expecting their first child in May. All welcome any and all correspondence. Continued on page six �6 Continued from page five 1989 writes, "I had my senior 18, and will this DONNA BOETIG cm1tnbut10n to the cornmimv. ....,.,,h<>hlu bringing my is assistant director of 11n.nPT'l1rr·1hri10 "Because the company owners are young abhor the typical corporate environment, Tennessee says that it offers tremendous to individuals with who have background in inthing I knew about insurance when I that if I didn't pay my pre:m1um and then had an accident, I was out " he says. He'd love to hear from Johnnies. Contact him at new address: 4709 Antioch, TN 37013, or phone Miller (A) has relocated in ton,D.C., "after graduating from the Northwestern University law school in May, 1993. When not studying for the Virginia bar exam, he explores his new neighborhood (Cleveland Park), shops for alarmingly colorful ties, and puts in the odd appearance at his summer law firm job. Joe begins a two year clerkship with a federal appellate judge in D.C. at the end of August. Write him at: 3801 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Apartment 909, Washington, D.C. 20008. Jeannine is president-elect of the International Communications Society (IICS), a non-profit association of professionals in the interactive/multi-media innot@ netcom.com. dustries. email: 1990 Lee Katherine Goldstein received her juris doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law on 9, 1993. She was admitted to practice law in the state of Florida in October, 1993, and is now working at a small commercial litigation firm in Miami. She writes, "I never run into any of my classmates from my two years at St. John's in Santa Fe. I truly appreciate the news and information provided by The Reporter. I always read the Alumni Notes section, hoping to see a familiar name and to catch a glimpse of their post-graduate lives. It's also fun to see pictures and quotes from my father, Harvey Goldstein, and my stepmother, Mary Bittner Goldstein." Timothy Hugh McNicholl (A) says he is "still working on his Ph.D. in mathematics at George Washington University. One more year (hopefully)!" 1991 Joanna and Christoph Amberger (AGI) announce the birth of their first child, Johann Maximilian (Max), born June 2, 1993, weighing 7 lbs., 13 oz. The family lives in Towson, Nill. Kemmer Anderson (AGI) has published two chapbooks of poetry: Poem Sightings at Hunting Island (New Spirit Press, 1993) andA Compass Reading/or /thaca(IotaPress,1994). Dianne J. Cowan (A) has been accepted by Washington University's School of Architecture and will be moving to St. Louis to begin work on her master's degree. Anyone interested in architecture should contact her at her as11un12:ton address dence S.E., "What can you do tion?" asks Ramona prc>te1;sicm to the list: m11dw1te1-v He's heard them all-and considers the current judicial system in this country no laughing matter. "Considering what the legal profession should these jokes are a signal that change is needed," says this former career Federal Trade Commission lawyer and principal of Harrison Sheppard Law and Public Relations of San Francisco. He claims that "lawyers don'thave to be the butt As anyone who has ever traveled abroad knows, our goiifer:nment of laws' is one of the great achievements of our society." the decline in the profession's ethical standards, in its prestige, and in modern education in the traditions of the law, Mr. Sheppard is determined to do something about it. In August, he and his business partner Richard Wing, president of Alaythia, Inc., a newly-formed California consulting fnm, will be presenting the first of its national seminarn, "The New Civil Lawyer," to the annual convention of the American Bar Association. In fact, the president of the American Bar AssociaR. William Ide, III, has labeled the on target." Johnnies are well re1Jre1sented in the program. Theodore Barnes Stinchecum, A'61, a professional actor, director, and voice coach is instructing Mr. Sheppard in voice training and presentation skills, while Martin Gelfand, A'89, a public relations practitioner in Washington, D.C., is promoting the national tour. Meanwhile, William T. Braitwaite and George Anastaplo, both professors at Loyola University School of Law in Chicago and fathers of St. John's students, are providing seminar material. The one-day thoughtful yet practical w·orkshop promotes the lawyer's role as problem solver and conciliator responsible for serving the client's interest, says Mr. Sheppard. It downplays the adversarial role so evident in litigation. His main point is that practitioners profit by cutting quickly to the bottom line of disputes. They get repeat business by emphasizing resolution over process, and by churning out results rather than billable hours. "I hardly ever met a lawsuit I didn't dislike," says this attorney with more than 25 years' experience in both government and private practice and in policythe auspices of the UN in Khartoum. Since mail's a problem in the Sudan, write her at: 3920 Dawes Dr., Ames, IA 50010-4115. Andrea Rush (SF) is currently living in the Hawaiian Islands on Maui working as a substitute teacher (K-12) and potter while finding her way in the field of relief work. In January she made her second trip as a medical missionary to the Dominican Republic. Anyone cruising Hawaii, should contact Andrea at 12 .n.a11.1ua1u St., Makawao, HI 96768. Aloha! 1992 pnlctlcalway. Maureen 1 ri.111 •,,.mr·,,...,, Mericle (AGI) just a year's employment as a grant officer for the International Rescue Committee, under (SF) is in a master of studies proat the University of Detroit-Mercy. She a studio at 3138 Trowbridge, Hamtramck, 1\111 48212. "I am working in Washington, D.C., for a private firm that studies the future of various aspects of society, and of society as a whole," writes Dietz (SF). "I help research and write reports which are commissioned by clients. My company is basically a making for psychology-based institutions. He loves practicing law when it's an instrument of justice, he says, but not when it's an instrument of battle. "Much litigation is based on t!ie failure of two or more lawyers to be wiser than their clients," he adds. In Japanese a lawsuit is another way of saying that counsel has failed. As a practicing government counselor with a law degree from the University of California in 1967 and postgraduate work at University, Mr. ~hi;:ppard then observed how befuddled some became when summoned to discover the facts in a or negotiate solutions to their clients' problems. Twenty years later in private practice, Mr. Sheppard observed "a major shift in civil law practice. Lawyers had become rude to one another; some even had to be warned by judges to watch their language. Many weren't polite enough to return phone calls." Nevertheless, civil law clients generally value the humanity and civility of their lawyers above the outcome of the case or its costs, he points out Even CEOs rank an attorney's personal interest: in their problems as more important than low fees, firm size, or political connections. "Many legal malpractice suits are lost not on incompetence but on poor behavior," he explains. Recent studies demonstrate that the more business people have to deal with lawyers, the less they like them, Mr. Sheppard says. They regard them as arrogant, with superior attitudes and complain that their bills are indecipherable. small think-tank, and everyone there is insane, so I fit right in. I can be reached at: Coates and Jarratt, Inc., 3738 Kanawha St., N.W., WashD.C. 20015. Attn: S. Dietz. (SF) writes, "Since 1992, I been working in a 1JUL<.u'-'i:.u.1.-~v1>"' positon at Baker and Botts, TX. I had the good fortune to be involved in a big trial and won. Since the verdict, I have moved out of the trial department to the international where I research and build a for the Moscow office. Re- Un1versi1-:v's Freeman I was also Business to pursue an nated a Morton A. Aldrich Fellow, with tuition. I should be in the 'big early August. Until then, my address is Beverly Hill,#32, Houston, TX 77056, and my number is (713) 621-2342." Siofra Rucker (SF) moved from Seattle to "Lawyers forget it's their to serve their client-not just represent a of view," Mr. says. The key to the crisis, he adds, is that most attorneys are oriented to their own process, not to the resolution of the client's conflict Part of America's culture when in truth conflict is not a call for alarm but a call for resolution. What's needed is effective communication. Chief Justice Earl Warren said that the true function of the should be to the shortest amount of stress and at the lowest cost to the client With this in min4 Mr. "The New Civil Lawyer" focuses on three areas. The first-effective ing-emphasizes the civil role as a problem solver and conciliator and puts the civil adversarial function in perspective. The second-improved client services-focuses on how to meet reasonable client expectations by applying established principles of customer service, drawn from general business practices. And the third-stronger client relations- improves the quality of their personal relationships with clients. On the personal level, Mr. Sheppard declares that the program would help counselors combat widespread job dissatisfaction in their profession by minimizing stress and increasing professional satisfaction. The germ for "The New Civil Lawyer" was planted more than 30 years ago at the Annapolis campus. For that, Mr. Sheppard is grateful. the sunny (?) Bay Area recently and is an environmental consultant establishing school recycling programs. She was planning to go to Thailand this past February. Hannah Shires (A) received her master's degree in sociology from the University of Maryland in May and will be attending law school at Harvard in Seotemt>er. Sarah Elise (A) is working on an a master of science degree in marine biology at the University of Delaware and "loving it" 1993 (A) expected to graduate in May, 1994, from the College of Notre Dame with a liberal arts degree in English and philosophy. �JUNE 1994 LiE!!beirm:an. A'85, who helped set a nr;:•rP,rlPTlf- by coming to with SU!Pllten M<::Stm11te shortly after graduation, has now completed his medical degree from N.Y. University, and is living in New York City with bis Japanese wife Masami. Nathan was in 1987-89, studying Japanese and teaching glish, and giving the locals a lesson or two in Socratic monologue and Bacchic celebration. Lawrence left Japan recently, after a 3 1/2 year stint as a teacher/school administrator, during which time he became fluent in Japanese. He is currently touring Europe with fiance/artist Sharon Molloy, and is considering pursuing graduate studies in rhetoric. Joseph Houseal, A'84, livedinJapanfor several years, running bis own dance production company out of Kyoto. After staging many successful avant-garde shows, Joe left Japan with a bang last year and is currently pursuing a doctorate in England. Edith Updike, A' 86, also left Japan last year after several years, honing her journalistic/editorial skills on well-known magazines. She is currently emolled in the Colwnbia University School of Journalism graduate studies program. Sandy Israel, A'85, received his MBA from Georgetown University and has spent bis last two years at Grey Advertising's Japanese joint-venture company as Assistant Account Executive on the Dell computer account, assisting Dell on their launch in the With so many of our alumni prospering in spirit as well as in business, it seems only natural that a forum be created whereby they can share this enthusiasm and knowledge with recent graduates and current students. The placement directors in Santa Fe and Annapolis, Jennifer Chenoweth and Karen Holland, have developed a St. John's College Alumni Network, known as the Alumni/Student Wormation Exchange. The new network is envisioned as a means of facilitating person-to-person contact between graduates and alumni to help locate work opportunities, or to help develop effective strategies for being ac- PAGE7 THE REPORTER Japanese market. Jennifer Israel, whom you all knew as Jennifer after receiving her master's degree in architecture from Carnegie Mellon University, is employed as a full-time design architect at the prestigious Kenzo Tange architectural firm. Sandy and Jenny will be celebrating their third anniversary this Japanese citizen turned to his home country five years ago, and after a career in government and media, is now president of bis own management consulting firm based in Tokyo. He wed New York art dealer Kara here at Nicolaido Russian Orthodox Church in 1991. Jamie Kennelly, A'85, is an International Business Coordinator/Buyer for a Japanese trading company. Jamie is based in Tokyo but travels extensively on business, having covered India, China, Europe, Thailand, Korea, and the U.S. this past year alone. Stephen McShane, A'85, married to the lovely Kazue, is an International Business Development Coordinator for J oso Incorporated of Tokyo. Steve is also a N.Y. Attorney-at-Law, having successfully passed the Bar exam at the end of last year. Contacts in Japan: Sandy & Jenny Israel 3-11-8-304 Ebisu Minami, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150 Chuk Besher 5-11-11 Shiroganedai, Minato-kn, Tokyo 108 cepted into graduate school The personal assistance offered by alumni can range from general life advice to contacts in a certain field of business. Alumni, having worked through the process of relating their education to their careers, will have the experience and insight to pass along to a student in need of expertise or a friendly voice outside the College. Students will be encouraged to contact their placement director, who, in turn, will provide names, addresses, and telephone numbers of alumni who have volunteered for this service. If you are an alumna/alumnus who is interested in serving as a link in this network, please contact the Placement Office at either campus. Crownsville a 300 bed psychiatric searching for a ,._,,..,, ............. position offers the opportunity to combine clinical, managerial, and interpersonal skills at the administrative level. Qualifications: MSN (preferred) or Master's in related health field, 4 years psychiatric nursing experience including 3 years at a supervisory, consultative, or administrative capacity. Competitive salary and benefits package offered. Send curriculum vitae to: Mr. Joseph Elliott, Personnel Officer, Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene, 201 West Preston Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201. The Intercultural Communication Institute announces its 1994 Summer Institute For Intercultural Communication (SIIC). The Summer Institute presents a range of workshops to meet the needs of professionals in intercultural and multicultural education, training, business, counseling, and consulting. snc offers an opportunity to explore the foundations of intercultural communication, develop greater skills and a broader knowledge in the field, gather resources, and network with other professionals in a stimulating and supportive environment. Three one week sessions will be held July 20 - August 5, 1994. In addition, an internship program is offered for those who are interested in exploring career opportunities within the discipline of intercultural communication. For more information contact: The Intercultural Communication In· 8835 SW Canyon Lane, Suite 238, Vinril!Mnri OR 97225, {503)297-4622. Boston University College of Communication announces its annual Professional Communications Institute to be held July 6-29, 1994. This rigorous program offers lectures, workshops, and lab sessions designed to enhance professional communications skills in writing and media production. Participants also gain advanced education and career development needed to be effective communicators. Training is provided in applied communication techniques for & fields such as health care, social business, education, the arts, and the communication The curriculum includes writing, desktop and visual media production. tuition fee is $2, 192, which includes a materials fee. Room and board are available. Boston University, College of Communica tion, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, (617)353-5015. Cleveland Public Radio, WCPN FM, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is currently recruiting for the position of Jazz Music Director/Producer. The Music Director is responsible for format oversight, staff supervision, concert and other special production, library systems development, and community outreach. Requirements include an FCC license, air/production experience, jazz knowledge, supervisory skills, post-secondary degree or equivalent, computer literacy; performing and/or publication track record desirable. Send resume, cover letter, tape & references to: D. Edwards, WCPN/Cleveland Public 3100 Chester Avenue, Ohio, 44114. University of Delaware Press announces a new $1,000 award for the best booklength manuscript submitted in the field of Literature. Manuscripts must be submitted by December 31, 1994. For details and entry form, write: Shakespeare Manuscript University of Delaware Press, 326 Hullihen Newark, Delaware 19716, 1Ju'"""'l'J..1.··.i1...1.."1'7. The Board of Education of Kent County, Maryland is seeking candidates for the position of Superintendent of Schools. The school board welcomes applications from top administrators in other school districts, leaders in the teaching profession and its related organizations, and qualified candidates in college, universities, and other institutions. Candidates must have, or qualify for and obtain, a valid Maryland Superintendent's Certificate. For more information, contact: Mrs. Ann H. Dwyer, :trn1ir11n~u11 Board of Education of Kent --·-aaw .... 208 North Main 0 The Board of Education of Kenilworth Elementary District, Illinois is This small seeking a new elementary district is located in Kenilworth, a north shore, Chicago suburban community, that willingly contributes a major portion of its substantial wealth to the education of children. Qualifications include the following: excellence as an educational leader, a strong leadership style, competence as a financial and administrative manager, and exceptional communication skills. For more information contact: Roderick & Associates, Box The Annapolis Chapter of the Alumni Association turned out in large numbers for spring dinner in when Adam Wasserman, ~'76, spo~e on t~e subject: "How Russia. Treats Its Neighbors: Is Any of Our Business?" Here Mr. Wasserman, right, who as Special Assistant to the Coordmator for Regional Affairs for the Newly Independent States (of the Soviet ~nion), chats with his father, Irving Wasserman, SGl'88, left, and Tutor Emeritus Curtis Wilson, HA'83. Mr. Wasserman stalk was co-sponsored by the student Political Forum. Keith Harvey photo San Diego State University announces two positions in the Department of Philosophy: Assistant Professor of Phifos1oottv (tenure track), and Full-time Lecturer (Assistant Professor level, one year sabbatical replacement). Ph.D. in philosophy preferred, but an exceptionally well-qualified ABD in the final stages of thesis may be considered Probable salary range for Assistant Professor position is $31,764 - $43,896 and for Full-time Lecturer, $31,764 $39,984. .should send a placement file or at least a CV, transcripts, three reference and available reports on teaching effec-, tiveness to: Chair, Hiring Committee, Department of Philosophy, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182. �-ka t icnic and m /lets away! II NANCYOSIUS Sometimes the small white-clad figures, miniature warriors, came riding into the competition ring on the shoulders of h !:n,r1 IPT<;! the strong men of Avengers who have Hawkins coach karate to thousands of children in inner city Baltimore. Sometimes the ..,. . . ,"_,_.. . ...,. . . , toJJ~etJ1er across Hall to the arena, but often solemn the executed the time-honored kicks and thrusts and feints of the ancient martial art In a few rmnu1tes, their small one would be declared a winner. On the other there was no real loser. Hawkins sees to that. On -'F>'-'"'............ gatne1red to watch an event quite without on the Annapolis campus. of Baltimore, a karate champion who has used his skills to work with a generation of at-risk children in the gyms and recreation centers of Baltimore, had brought his athletes, young and old, and scores of their family members to Annapolis to demonstrate their prowess. Much ritual was part of the pageant, from the unforgettable melismatic rendering of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by a quartet of singers in evening clothes, to the distribution of long-stemmed roses to the performers' mothers and to every other woman in sight. At the center of it all was powerful Riley Hawkins, smiling and genial, light on his feet, looking like a mature and burly Samurai ready to teach a necessary lesson to some man half his age. Among the judges was Riley's good friend and admirer Dean Eva Brann, who had made the day possible by extending an invitation to the performers. · "I love the dignified ceremony and the good-h~arted discipline of the Avenger events, and especially I love to watch all pn~ceae1n Master Hawkins and friends Eva Brann and cn1r1s1:oolher Nelson Photo reprinted permission of Dave Trozzo, The Capital. To right, Riley Hawkins with young contenders in combat and victory those serious and happy children," said Miss Brann. Riley's Avengers began as a tool to keep children, many poor and without parents, from drugs and crime. It has evolved into a non-profit program producing some of the finest martial artists in the country-and, Riley likes to point out, some of Baltimore's finest citizens. "I think of Riley and his friends as people who really do make the world-their local world-better," said Miss Brann. "I'm proud of our friendship, and I wanted our campus to see Riley's group." 1 Duncan ... students the Nearly a third of the Annapolis campus went to sea on Sunday, May 1, as a grand flotilla of yachts-21 in all-motored into two Annapolis Yacht Club piers to scoop up 130 students and take them out to the Chesapeake Bay for the annual sail picnic, sponsored for the sixth time by the Friends of St. John's. This the sailing outing was christened the Amie Gay Sail Picnic, named sailboat racing champion and civic activist Arnold C. Gay, who chaired the event for three years before his death last On a day that began with showers and ended with 20 knot winds under a bright sun, operation sail picnic proceeded smoothly under the unflappable yachtspersons new co-chairmen of the event, Esther and Bob Slaff. and Friends of St. John's members Alan and Vivian organized the event and ran it for two years in 1989 and 1990.) Boats participating ranged from Pete Geis's feisty little Nevrenuf, which stepson Drew Mutch brought smartly alongside the AYC pier-without benefit of power-to pick up his crew, to six or eight yachts more than 40 feet in length. The wind piped up for the afternoon sail, which was highlighted by a mid-afternoon raft-up in Whitehall Bay with picnicking for all and swimming for the hardy, and concluded with a leisurely late afternoon sail back to Annapolis. Others taking part were Ray Barnard on his yachtRunaway, William Bear's yacht Callisto skippered by Dave Blair, Melvin Bender on Hours Between, Charles Deakyne on Scrimshaw, Pat Drenning's Westering Home skippered by Mike and Trish Lehman, Steve and Ruth Dukkony on The Annapolis Traveler, RobertDunneonRush,ArtandPatEdwards' Rajfinee,JackFeesonLachamade, Robert C. Frey, Jr. on Phoenix III, Vincent Iatesta on Night Wind, Steve Jordan on Souffle, Kurt Karsten onAssaydeh, Larry Littig on Sea Cat, Tmant Lomax on Motley, Betsy and Alan Schreitmueller on Jaguar, Robert Siegel on Shalom, Jack and Jill Svahn on Tantrum 2, and Fred Zimmerman on Santara. �JUNE 1994 THE REPORTER John's, PAGE9 Navy, 3 NANCYOSIUS "At 4:26 p.m. the United States Naval Academy unconditionally surrendered to St. John's "-'VJU.'-'J!;;,'-'· These were the savored words of writer 23 was the best of Chaucerian "shoures soote." All to the radiant But on the field it was all one way, three games to in the best of five, with every........ pp••.... up in tbree and a half hours. As a matter of the series now nine games, stands at St. John's U.S. Naval A.caae:my members of the St. Sirl<ln, Some even intricacies of the venerable The St John's sometimes for the first match in when Callahan, left, was they Navy team captain. On April had their own small game going, and Sheila Callahan used her crutch as a mallet. There are a lot of limbs in this picture, but only a few are in motion. In the foreground, the well-turned ankle and shapely wrist behind kilted Chris Ranck, A'96, belong to Maura Tenner, A'96. Imperial Wicket Power consults with Reuben Marshall, A'95, as he lines up ball and wicket, in a strategy that brought victory. here? For the first time-at least in mte•mil"'lir\ir_1rno Banner" to open the match. Here n~1tr1n1ta~1m sn,Ann•a:i-tt A study in decorum was this proper couple, Nathan Humphrey, A'94, and Margaret Nicholson, A'97. Keith Harvey Photos �Annapolis Continuedfrom page one the Real World," he said. In a speech castigating popular culture, pretentious language, moral sloth, and American education generally, he told his 1100 listeners that out in the Unreal World, by contrast, Beavis and Butthead are role models and Oprah Winfrey an oracle. Presenting a catalogue of American self-indulgences, he said that happiness is not something we pursue, but something to which we think we are entitled-along with "all sorts of self-actualization, self-fulfillment and good sex (with no strings attached) ... " An abolition of responsibility accompanies these entitlements, he said, and a society that doesn't hold people accountable, "also doesn't take them seriously as human beings. It denies them the dignity of making choices-including wrong ones." Of all the losses, he rued most "the loss of our society does not realize ing off of accumulated Lnll~ttec:twcu capital and drawing down on it Skyes stories-those about courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, loyalty, and faith." In place of we substitute attitudes and postures, he said. .n.i~.uvL.i.J;;:,.u we have lost along with our stories, the there in fact, u.u"'"''-'U'.l.w>, we can't control fate ru11.J. 1,.,11ru11'!1:'. we turn Guide. In connection wi· many television appea: Oprah Winfrey Show, dress. His articles have, papers as The Wall ~ Tribune, and The Phila, A second speaker, s~ seniors, was tutor Anq books, who has taught : 1990 after earlier teach Dame Universities. In a and 1 authorities from Aristot Eliot-Mr. Barbera cont tions," he i prepared its students for, it hasn't," he said. "St. tence," he said we wou desire to love and to be There will be many < he told his no which choices about material ; "because the severe and immediate.' 1 has a record of blasteducation and moral decay in such books as Pr;1-t.\';•nm Professors and the Demise of Higher Eduand A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character. His admiration for St. John's College is on record in The National Review College The senior Man and Woman who their oar1icioation '"'"'rl •·cn in most to the College's athletic program: WASE to the students who submitted the DOMINIC CRAPUCHETTES 0 1 bi ~"""""'"'""Award to the senior who has JOHN LYNCH The Walter S. Baird Prize for the Senior who has demonstrated excellence ir ences: COLIN RAY Charles Vernon Moran Prize to the member of the Senior Class who art to the Art Exhibition: LAURA ANN Honorable Me PADUANO and RAY Governor's Summer Intern: CORA JOHNSON His mother has a for John ceived the Caritas award for ou1:sta1ndina to the Annapolis Community. Goldwater Scholar: MELISSA CATE Insouciant Alex Battles is dressed for the day .. Keith Harvey photos �11 I ~ l Continued from page one A Nation ofVictims, he made ances, including one on the a target in his Annapolis adbeen published in such newstreet Journal, The Chicago Inquirer. lected from the faculty by the e Barbera, the author of two t the Annapolis campus since g posts at Cornell and Notre oadly allusive lecture-citing e to James Joyce and George e to the graduates on love, courhis "No Epic Life." nts' public and adult life was threats, danger, competition, a couple of my favorinuous failure to meet expectavhether life at St John's had loved." ipportunities to be courageous, t only in the world of academia t, intellect and but also in ieeds and physical .. ...,..... -._,,..,..u,i=.. for courageous action is often nal announcement was that the had made a to the college llon1ec·ommg Lecture every fall. ~st ithe arts, poems: or sci- ed the best work of visual ntion: STEPHANIE 1960 he served as bureau chief in Bonn, covering the Berlin crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall. And in 1972 as CBS' chief Watergate correspondent, he found himself on President Nixon's "enemies list." In 1979 he helped Ted Turner create CNN and served as its senior correspondent until 1985. According to Mr. Schorr, "Risk, Redemption and Reality" are the three R's graduates need to know as they enter the "real world." Recounting an experience in which he "almost had to go to jail as a matter of principle," he explained that risk is essential to a meaningful life. "I will tell you that if life is going to mean anything to you, some time in your lifetime you will have to take a risk for something you believe in and which may cost you something," he said. "There is enormous satisfaction in doing that." The second "R," redemption, was one he said he only learned about recently. "When [Nixon] died, there were people who criticized me for comments I made in '' ·is going to mean anything to · you, sometime your lifetime you to you believe cost you ''-Daniel Schorr Offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors, the Medal for Academic Excellence: KENNETH WOLFE The Robert Neidorf Memorial Scholarship given to a member of the Sophomore class: KIRA ZIELINSl<I The Duane L Peterson Scholarship given to a member of the Junior Class for academic achievement, constructive membership in the college community and commitment to post-graduate study: JILLIAN CONRAD Acknowledgment of excellenc9 for his Greek translation: JUAN PAGANI The St. John's College Community Scholarship: Class of 1995, DARIEN LARGE, FRANCES NOONE; Class Of 1996, DAVID DUNCAN, ROBERT HOWELL The Thome Endowment Scholarship for summer study in preparation for medicine: Class of 1995, C. ELIZABETH HERING, MAX O'DONNELL; Class Of 1996, MATHEW STRICKLAND; Class Of 1997, SVETLANA PILYUGINA The Walter S. Baird Prize given to the senior who has demonstrated achievement in the arts, literature, or science: HOPE DEL CARLO Honored for Outstanding Performance in Athletics: Class of 1994, CORINNE BELSKY, DAVID HARMON, PATRICIA SIMPSON Honored for Outstanding Contributions in All Student Activities: Class of 1994, TRAVIS FELDMAN, EMILY MACKIL Fehervary Fencing Award given in honor of the founder of the fencing program: THOMAS JACOBSON The Alumni Association award to the senior who has contributed most to the college community: TROY LEWIS which I seemed to be too soft on this guy who me on his enemies list and I wondered I'd gone soft on Nixon. The answer to it was that life is too short and the world is I was to have an enemies list and now that he was no this country as he able to so hard to seek from this country, I would not Ivlr. Schon- said the third ,...,..,...,,..,,.,. 1 -,,,.,,r to him because we are ,..,..,1-,,... ...,.,,.r1 television and the role it now in 1939 I saw the fast exhibition of ex1Jerurn:mta1 device and it far-kind of a toy. Now I see it more or less our lives and der what is real and what is not. And let me what we now have in television hasn't helped you very much. We've given you a diet of docu-drama, realitybased programs which could better be called reality de-based. We've phonied up the news so you're not quite sure what is true in it and what is not true in it. We've created a situation around the world where people will kill to get on television-and some do. And worst of all, we've exposed people to such a diet of violence on television that sometimes I think that when kids kill kids in drive-by shootings today, it's because their minds have been scrambled by growing up with television until they don't understand the reality of killing and expect that maybe the kids will stand up at the end of the next commercial and we can start all over if you can, to cling to again. "I sometimes tremble at what television does to us,'' he said. "You know I spent many years in television, then I was off television. I do mostly radio now. Some people, older people, remember me from television. One day I was leaving a restaurant when a man stopped me in a revolving door-came all the way back around-put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Hey, didn't you used to be Daniel Schorr?' That's what television does." - Hats fly in Santa Fe at the conclusion of the ceremonies. Bob Wartell photos �PAGE12 JUNE 1994 THE REPORTER 1, 1 Election of Directors of the St. John's vv111vYIQ Alumni Association SF'76 arrison Keillor describes Minne- In accordance with Article of the Alumni As~mcJrattcm the that the trouro1;11inn serve on the St. Association Board of Directors: For mnse-vei:::i.r terms as directors """°"'"" .... ..," .... ,.. 1, 1995: D.C. 1992-. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT NOMINATIONS subBE MADE BY PETITION: Rules nominations bout twice each year, we are tutors from the """'"'''<:>~'""· rol"'anTn1 Sam Kutler led us in a seminar on the Electra Bob Sacks us to lead a seminar on The Book of Michael Littleton led us in a discussion of three poems with and death. Other tutors have generous with their time and leadership, and it is always exciting to hear about current college events and to place the seminar in the hands of "pros." We do occasionally venture beyond the standard process and seminar fare. Twice, a small group of fanatics attended Twins games together and contemplated a wonderful essay by Moe Berg entitled Pitchers and Catchers. In April, a group of sixteen Johnnies and guests met at the beautiful Ordway Theater in St. Paul to hear II Travatore. A delicious dinner and lively conversation followed. also included a Parent's Semorganized Susan Friedman of the Santa Fe campus and Mark and Jeanne Jacobson ents current Kirsten ......,,..,,..,"'""' The seminar drew an eclectic group MD 21404 The election India, 1962-63; member, St. John's ColBoard of Visitors and Governors, 1988-1994; Director, St. - John's College Alumni Association, i 988- . held at the Annual n 1100nr1n ua1Lu11.•av. October 1, 1994at10:30 a.m., Conversation Mellon Hall, Annapolis Campus. The candidates for Directors receiving the number of votes for those offices shall be declared elected. �THE 1 Hopkins too to o, which was a moral victory, only to find that the college had decided two things in spite of our fighting: to get rid of intercollegiate athletics and to get rid of fraternities. "My first year I lived at My second at my fraternity house, Kappa Alpha, biggest house on campus. Then rid of the fraternities. and fourth years I down in the former Phi house." And what about the program? "I found it exciting. What I found exciting most were the very interesting people who came onto the campus. We had the opportunity to rub shoulders with the likes of Mortimer Adler, Alexander Meiklejohn, and a lot of who came because were interested in how this was would either sit in on seminars or lead the seminars in some instances. We even had one had been a former of "We had a lot of the same that are still too. We had the tutors with the students. were discussed Freshman Barr and Buchanan. was Buchanan like? "It seemed like he was in a time. He was also he was He with had launched a St. teach ,.,.,,,..,..,,;, .... ,,.,,.. is new - and these retired in 1 nne•toritu is absent. '41, the last program Paul +.. ...,,-i;ta,.""')" 1937 freshman Paul was less charitable about Buchanan and Barr: "I asked the other after his didn't like either one of them. were both sort of seminar at the Barrs. "I guess we started something." .-.u.::.rho::1r·1n11 to old program students. I didn't see much concerned. The Not a lot of lore - life on campus tales of them. concerned themselves more with the for mstance. has been collected on paper. When I was at Santa Fe new program guys. affair and didn't show. were sort of ro,,nn•torl inteirmitte1ntlv from 1972 to 1978, I learned virtually "I didn't associate with the new program guys at all. from the community, which caused a very very poor about the new program's origins. While I Not that I had anything against them or they had anytown-gown relationship. knew who Barr and Buchanan were, until I read thing against me. It's just that I was concerned with my "Barr would be around the campus, either in the coffee Smith's slim 1983 history I didn't even know J. stuff and they were concerned with theirs. I belonged shop or somewhere else. He was always dressed flamboythat they had left the school in its infancy. to a fraternity, Phi Alpha, and most of the socializing I antly, say a red shirt and a purple coat, and he'd wear ties Here are some comments from several students who did was there. The house was right across the street for the most part but they were kind of odd-looking things were there from 1937to 1941, describing the beginning. from the college." too. He was red-headed and had this hair all over his head, "The first year had great things and lousy things," The half dozen fraternities on and off campus were and a pretty heavy moustache. says Comegys, '41. "\chose to go to the new program "He and his wife, Oak, had the core of the because I understood that it wquld be a Brice House, a big old colonial home that the wonderful pre-law course. That's what I "I didn't associate with the new program guys at all. Not that I college owned. Oak was British and she looked thought I'd like to do. down her nose atthe Annapolis community. But had anything against them or they had anything against me.... "We had Winkie Barr who was a very with the students, she really did try to be helpful I belonged to a fraternity and most of the socializing I did was intriguing guy and Scott Buchanan who - to these poor little souls who were really so was a sort of distant and mysterious there. " - Paul Sachs, A '41 wanting intellectually. person. And we had other people who "She directed a play, Murder in the Cathehad come from the University of Chidral. We'd meet at the Brice House. I was the "In the end, at graduation, I think people had the feeling that cago with them, and it was a very very Archbishop of Canterbury. That was my second new kind of thing." they had done something different and that we had made year or something like that. I enjoyed that a It wasn't only the first class under the great deal.'' some great discoveries about how people should be taught." Chicago boys, but also the last class of What were the concerns that the experi- Paul Comegys, A '41 the old bastion. That created tensions ment would fail? "I suppose there were such that played out academically, fraternally worries, but I guess I was pretty naive and I and on the sports field. scorned by the new regime; so was the school's once suspect so were most of us. It's hard to Fewer than half of the 45 freshmen in 1937 graduavaunted sports program. describe how things were in those days. It was still ted four years later. It was the Depression. The school Comegys lived in both worlds: He was a new prothe Depression and there was St. John's - broke itself was in turmoil - academically, scholastically, grammer who was a member of a fraternity and a and horribly in debt-but so was almost everybody. financially, and personally. Were the old programmers linebacker. "I do remember being very upset though when we given short shrift by the upstarts Barr and Buchanan? "It was almost a two-world situation. The other kids were not accredited, thinking that I had made a The school lost its accreditation for a while. Robert on the campus looked very suspiciously on the new mistake in coming. Hutchins didn't make the break form Chicago to come program and thought they were way out, I guess. I "In the end, at graduation, I think people had the feeling help. Old Guard Annapolis took its time warming up to leaned more in the direction of the old program guys. that they had done something different and that we had the new crowd. The school's debt seemed hopelessly I'm sorry to say that in some ways, because old promade some great discoveries about how should War was coming. gram seemed like more natural people, more like and how remarkably in together, For Lewis M. Alexander, who stayed only a year, St. John's the kids I in high school. all the different disciplines, and how it is to think was an easy choice for college. He was raised in Annapolis "I had football through high school. I of them that way, with them and see the and an uncle had been a professor at St. John's. on the line and I of course played immediately at St. development of mankind the years.'' "I was "Alexander recalled. "I was to take These are just notes from a few members of John's. It was a ridiculous kind of schedule we had. We the but sister and some other the Class of '41. But 1 :.-.imc.ri\lc::.' NYU had a football teams like the Great ' So I did. It was over US around to an UUt::l:'.>U'UI program then, and the of Maryland. a great education but I sure didn't new programmers, who are now in their can such a tough schedule? The sports program ,..,norC>t<:>l"1n it." answer: How does the program affect a lifetime of public didn't have any money, so to keep a team going we "I remember we had an oral examination at midterm. and private experiences? played teams where we we could get some Buchanan was on the examining group. He said, Lots of St. John's graduates have theories of what games. I think NYU beat us something 'Supposing I started a whole new number system. like 59-0. The University of Maryland beat us 40-0. they have taken with them from the program. Some Would it work?' I said, 'No, it wouldn't work. You've got "We had been a powerhouse in basketball and labelieve that the program has substantial lasting value to go back to the unit number system.' He just smiled." crosse, and we had some good athletes who were still that is unlike and superior to more American Alexander transferred to Middlebury and ended up a curricula. The Class of '41 is the to provide a there, mainly seniors that first year. professor of marine affairs at the University of Rhode complete perspective; might the find a method"I played for two years. That's all we had any interIsland. ical way to harness the memories opinions of early collegiate athletics. They were supposed to be gone Alexander's friend and classmate from high school students and again test the premises of Buchanan and after the first year, but we valiantly got together a very in Annapolis, William Darden, also attended the homeSt. John's Barr, this time against the lives actually lived poor football team on our own the second year. Then town college, but didn't choose the new program. alumni? Or whatever happened to the Class of '41 ? the teams that we should have been equal to were "It was a small class for two reasons: the new probeating the heck out of us. gram had started and the old program was not "At the end of the season we played Hopkins, with ballyhooed enough," Darden recalled. "The administrawhom we had I guess the second-oldest rivalry in the tion of the college was reluctant, I think, to let anyone nation. They had had a marvelous season. We kept 111111uu1111u �15 NANCYOSIUS ell Hall on the Annapolis campus where their tutors waited. Their tutors were St. John's students. At first Zach Rasmuson, A'95, metin the evening with James, 12, whose grandmother brought him to the sessions because he didn't seem to be his homework. What was Zach sup- pretty much given up." soon, James began coming around to the gym in the afternoon to shoot a few hoops with Zach and his friends before the two walked over to McDowell. They would talk for 10-15 minutes about sports and school before got down to work. Immediate, dramatic improvement for James? Naa11. "Atfirsthisgradeswentdown,"saysZach. "He was just lazy. He had better things to do. But then his grades went back up." They worked together on book reports, math, English and social studies projects, complete with maps. Once they went to the public library to use the reference section. "Later on, we started reading stories aloud," says Zach. "He started to enjoy that." Genial, easy-going Zach expects to tutor again nextfall, andhe would like to work again with James. "I'd rather work with someone consistently," he says. Even before that, he will be teaching an honors program this summer called "Advanced Thinking and Writing" as an intern at an independent school near his home in Massachusetts. He plans to use the Touchstones discussion and reading program as his when he works with inner and seniors. Zach is one of about 80 student volunteers on the campus who multitude of services to the crnnrrmniitv rubric Politae, the project." Coordinated by the Placement office under Director Karen Holland and her assistant Renee Trogden, Project Politae is run by rising seniors Terry Moore and Bill Bolan, whose student aide jobs are funded by the Samuel Rubin Foundation. Terry is in charge of the on-campus which includes about 25 Johnnies as tutors. Their service is aimed principally but not entirely towards "at risk" students, economically disadvantaged youngsters already on an academic downslide. Inspired by a course at Cornell two summers ago called "Teaching for the 21st Centuzy," Terry helped start the volunteer tutoring program in the fall of 1992 under former Placement Director Barbara Altman. In the beginning, Terry found his St. John's volunteers through notices and posters, and he found the children requiring help through newspaper announcements and visits to public school counselors. The first time parents and children came to the McDowell sessions, Terry was on hand to greet them. Last fall he had two pupils himself, for a while meeting with two cousins, Vernon and Derrick, aged 14 and 16, to work on "everything." Next fall he hopes to arrange carpooling for students from Bates Middle School, a source of many of the youngsters needing help. Bill Bolan directs all the other volunteer activities, which encompass a range of humanitarian and ecological concerns. Working with Terry, he also helps arrange offcampus tutoring. St. John's volunteers this year served regularly in three Annapolis public schools, Georgetown East, Germantown, and Eastport elementary schools. A major venue for volunteerism has been the Anne Arundel County Medical Center, where 10 students on a regular basis have been visiting patients as needed, assisting in emergency services, and acting as greeters for newly-admitted patients. One of these students is rising junior Caitlin Aptowicz, who, beginning in November, spent Wednesday evenings from 9 p.m. to one a.m. in the emergency room. Initially, her responsibilities were to wheel patients to treatment, get their files, talk to them and the like. As she became known to be capable and reliable, she is at work in the classroom. Keith Harvey photo was entrusted with further duties, and today often stocks materials and makes rounds with doctors. She has dealt with suicidal teenagers, precipitate births, accident and mugging victims. Caitlin intends to study medicine after a post-baccalaureate year, perhaps to become an emergency room physician. She considers such hands-on experience a great opportunity for anyone who thinks of going to medical school. "The medical center is a five minute walk away," she notes. Another off-campus activity was a Habitat for Humanity project on February 5, the renovation of a Baltimore row house. Twenty-four students found the demolition and carpentry tasks hugely gratifying. In April, a dozen volunteers planted 15 trees on the back campus in connection with a project run by the Annapolis Parks and Recreation Department. Other students have worked with Love and Action, a Christian ministry for people with AIDS, and still others have helped run the Save the Bay Shop in downtown Annapolis. As the semester waned, Bill saw to it that Goodwill boxes were placed in every corridor for end-of-the-year discards. At a May wrap-up luncheon in the boathouse for the volunteers, students made suggestions for next year: can we do more more environmental work, said one, can we work with old people, said another, could we visit penitentiaries, said a third. It was a time to express frustration as well: what can be done about the problem of noshows, some wanted to know. Mourned another: "I don'tknow DID anything." Caitlin's view is very positive: "It's a great way to At this campus, we can get buried in our work. We get a chance to see others' difficulties, to see how we are. It's good to get anc>tht::r nersnec:tiv,e. Bill Bolan is too. "The volunteer sornethlng we do as a diversion for the week. The students I have talked to give it their all-the students who are prepare for their sessions-, those at the hospital genuinely care about their patients. It is very rewarding, very encouraging. It is very, very nice." Ian Nyberg, A'95, top, and Alex Zavracky, A'96, below, worked with Habitat for Humanity in Baltimore in February. �THE REPORTER PAGE14 about JUNE 1994 Fe The Simon Kaplan Memorial and Board of Visitors and Governors Prize given to the members of the senior class who have written the best senior essays: IVY B. TURKJNGTON (A), EMILY BROCK (A), and BRIAN SATTERFIELD (A) The Richard D. Weigle to the senior who has written the best senior essay: KENNETH WOLFE (SF) . The Senator Millard E. Tydings Memorial Prize given to the member of the Senior Class honored for excellence in speaking: CHARLOTTE ODUM (A); GARTH KUPPERT (SF) The Kathryn Mylorie Stevens Memorial Prize to the members of the junior Class who have written the best annual essays: NEDALINA DINEVA (A) and CARRIE LYNN SAGER(A) The Judge Walter I. Dawkins Memorial for the member of the sophomore class who has written the best annual essay: MATTHEW BRAITHWAITE (A) and BORIL MANCHEV (A); Honorable Mention: RY AN MADISON (A). Acknowledgement Of Excellence For Her Sophomore Essay: ALLISON BROWN (SF) 'The Jacob Klein Memorial Prize to the member of the freshmen class who has written the best annual essay: MARY DIETSCH (A); Acknowledgement Of Excellence For Her Freshman Essay: KATHLEEN EAMON (SF) and DEBORAH TYRRELL (SF) Acknowledgment of excellence for her first semester freshman essay: SUSAN BENCOMO (SF) The Alumni Association Award to the Graduate Institute student who submitted the most distinguished preceptorial essay in 1993-94: JOHN MORGAN (A); NEVITT REESOR (SF); Honorable Mention, DONALD WHITFIELD (SF) Chicago Business Fellowship: ZDRAVKO DASKALOV (A); WAN PAGANI (SF) Garth Janssen is accompanied to the podium by his sister Tamarin, who received her B.A. from the University of the Pacific the previous day. Since their family could not attend both Commencement exercises, the degree was conferred on her ceremoniously at the Santa Fe campus. Bob Wartell photos Salute to GJ. by ''philosopher Mom'' (Thirty-five years elapsed between bachelor's and master's degrees for Peggy A.Jones, BA .1959; MA. 1994. The following poem tells all.) continued from page one elevated, landscaped, and graded area between Humphreys andPaca-Carroll dormitories, while from St. John's Street it will be seen at ground level, roofed by a plaza that remains a vital part of the architectural design. Architect Price has been pleased with the changes, calling the new design "a heightened dialogue with the past." "What was old is being retained," he says, "and what is new has its own being." His central aesthetic for the library, the metaphors of illumination and the planetary paths, have been retained in the new design, he points out, finding expression not only in the light-filled atrium of the historic building, but echoed in the curvilinear plaza addition. The underground building will be in close proximity to Paca-Carroll and Humpreys residence halls. "We have worked with general planning consultants, architects, and site designers about ways to minimize this intmsion into campus space," says Mr. Nelson, "as well as to minimize the intrusion of noise from the neighboring dormitories into the library space." Among these consultants is John Gutting, a site planner from Churchill, Maryland, who was asked earlier this year by the Campus Planning Committee to provide a longterm blueprint for the entire campus usable until well into the next century. One of his first projects turned out to be collaboration with architect Price in drawing up a plan for the plaza and addition. While work· on the extension is set to begin in the fall, renovation of the building itself must wait until the Governor's staff presently occupying it leaves at the end of December. Heavy construction work will begin in January, 1995, and is expected to Soon the paierfamilias cumfilios andfilias And the friends and relations-a mob!Will be gathered together To speculate whether Philosopher Mom can be called "a real job." I suggest (with appropriate modesty): On this ancient-to-postmodern Odyssey, Our present employment Is enlightened enjoyment Of nectar for the soul's curiosity! To her offspring it seemed quite ironic That their mother was waxing symphonic Over old Lobachevski, All things Dostoevsky, And Dialogues deadly Platonic. (The housecat' s response--catatonic ... ) Keith Harvey photos There once was a woman so quizzical She dreamed of the realm metaphysical Of Homeric mythology, Augustinian theology, The mathematic, Socratic-and mystical! So she entered the halls academic To engage in discourses polemic With medieval scholastics And desert monastics In quest of the "paradigm pandemic." who spent two years on each campus, elected to receive diploma at Annapolis so that his could be with him. And the Great Books give the manna its leaven For our journey to the mind's Seventh Heaven With Dante (and Thomas!) To fulfill Virgil's promiseWha cares if Seminar goes past eleven! When the materfamilias to herfilios and/Was Chanced to read Aristotle a while, Did they hearken-and ponder? Or did their minds wander? As they'd pass the wine bottle and smile. be completed 13 months later in time for the college's 300th anniversary celebration in 1996. The new library, with more than 25,000 square feet for library use, will have double the shelf space ofWoodwardHall, and much increased study space. "We are looking forward to being able to see our collection grow in a deliberate and sensible way," says Annapolis librarian Kathryn Kinzer, who at present has overflow books shelved on library carts. "In addition, this building will offer us a great deal more work space for people who serve the library." "At the same time," she points out, "the library will be automated, which will make the nation's library resources known to library users here." Work on Woodward Hall, the current library, which will house the Graduate fusti- So tune up the Gregorian ChorFrom the rooftops and towers, let soar "Alleluias!" and "Glorias!" For St. Johnnies victorious, The graduates of May, Ninety-Four! -Peggy A. Jones tute and faculty offices, will begin as soon as the new library is completed. The name for the new library, as yet undecided, is likely to be determined by the wishes of a substantial donor. A group of graduates from the 1940s have set themselves a target of raising $2 million in support of their proposal to name the library after Scott Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr, first dean and first president of the college under the New Program. In the meantime, the college must match the $2.9 Maryland Capital Facilities Improvement grant for the project by June 1, 1995. A goal of one million dollars towards this has been set by the Friends of St. John's, who have already raised $250,000 of this. Other monies are expected to come from a variety of sources. His eye on the June deadline, President Nelson says, "We expect to be there." �JUNE 1994 THE REPORTER PAGE16 campus accreditation By DONNA BOETIG The Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association, impressed by the cohesive program of St. John's College in Annapolis, the seriousness of its students toward learning, and the strength of its intellectual life, informed President Christopher Nelson in March that it had reaffirmed the college's accreditation. The commission has made several recommendations for all aspects based on its evaluation team's campus visit as well as the selfThe the Board of Visitors and it is submitted to the comrmss10n 1, 1996. At the same the commission will evaluate the college's progress towards other goals. A nPr1nr11" review is due June 1, 1999. St. John's College and other members of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools are reviewed every 10 years, with a five-year periodic review. For the full scale review, institutions are required to submit a self-study to the commission which serves as a basis for the team's visit. The evaluation team report, the response of the college, and the self-study are reviewed by the commission. The commission then decides whether to reaffirm accreditation. A seven-member team of educators, led by Dr. Carol Harter, president of SUNY at Geneseo, was wannly welcomed by faculty, staff, and students when it visited the campus for three days last October. "They were amazed at how eager we were to guide them into the arms of students," said Dean Eva T .H. Brann. "We urged them to attend classes. This was unusual because many class visits are generally viewed as an embarrassing intrusion." Once inside the classroom, the team was impressed by how well the program works. "They saw that we mean what we say," Mr. Nelson says, "that classroom learning requires participation by students and that by and large the tutors don't lecture or give answers. We have a lot of faults, and they saw these, too. But they saw us doing something different from everyone else. We're a very pure liberal arts school." At the same time, the team zeroed in on the small private institution's biggest challengefinancial stability-and its leaders to to ensure the a continuation of the college mission. "The number one concern of the team was our long range " he said. it wants a sketch of what we want our college to be 10 years from now. This includes our pnon1t1es for endowment spending raising funds to build the classroom space to acand commodate a campus of 470 university with electives how a small, nondepartmental school works," she said. Because of the team's openness to this kind of institution's diversity, its recommendations were "minimal and reasonable," according to the dean. "Many of the criticisms elabo-· rated on our own self-study." Miss Brann chaired a steering committee consisting of Mr. Nels on and Marilyn Higuera and Peter tutors and members of the Instruction Committee. The the evaluation about the way the college that there is no administration sepa" Miss Brann said. rate from the Every member in the self-study, giving issue-oriented descriptions of the program to the archons (faculty leaders), who then assembled their comments in a report for the dean to work up. Staff members reviewed the performance of their own offices, and together these reports produced a confident and candidly critical picture of the college in the sixth decade ofitsNew Program. "The result was a document that describes the living college better than any other piece of writing fu the May/June issue of The National Geographic Traveler, published six times a year by the National Geographic Society, St. Johll's College earns admiring words in a 12-page article" Annapolis-little city by a big Bay." Says writer K.M. Kostyal, "[The] college is hardly a large place, but its intellectual credentials are daunting." After describing the curriculum, the writer zooms in on the annual croquet match: "[It] takes place under the leafy sprawl of the college's ancient Liberty Tree, a 400-yearold tulip poplar where Annapolis's own Revolutionary Sons of Liberty once met. Spectators, dressed to the nines in widebrimmed hats and other finery of yesteryear, cheer the teams on. Croquet apparently is more a thinking man's sport, because St. John's has emerged victorious in 7 out of the last 11 matches. The Navy has taken to hiring a croquet coach to improve its performance in battle." I've seen," Miss Brann said. "It showed what works and what doesn't, and it was good to see how the parts are integrated. The self-study will be of interest to the college in the next decade." While the self-evaluation may have produced as many questions as solutions, Mrs. Higuerafoundituseful "to onoccato the outside world what we're doing." the issues: What can be done to improve students' How can freshman address its commitment to ... .....f., .....'."'" e:icpJamted. that the convey to the team that while very serious about written work the college may have pnon1ties other than elegant expression. We may not wish to sacrifice a student's opporan issue and to ask to think orJ:?:ant.zat1on in an essay, she .....,.,,,"'."'m"' exposed in the self-study arenatural consequences of deciexsions deemed necessary, the plained "When we decide to read so many books, we realize we can't read any one in News and fuformation writer Donna Boetig spent a croquet afternoon with photographer Annie Griffiths Belt last year. "Too Much Politics in School?" is the name of the article by Claude R. Marx in the December 30 issue of Investor's Business Daily, which suggests that "standards can suffer when "Correctness is goal." Acknowledging in an interview that "it is important to define a body of knowledge that an educated person should have," NEH chairman Sheldon Hackney points out that "there is a whole spectrum of opinion of what specifically should be taught." Examining a number of schools' response to pressures for multicultural studies-Stanford, Yale, Duke and Brown among them-the writer cites St. John's and the University of Chicago as institutions which don't compromise on the liberal arts. The writer turns to Annapolis Dean Eva Brann to voice this position: "Students are intro- depth," he said. "When we learn French so that we're able to read a good French or French poetry, we forego conversing French; it• s a natural consequence of our choice. We'd still make that choice, but we should understand the consequences. time you teach with an emphasis on quesfewer answers. tions, you tend to "The team saw self-study as a curriculum evaluation and a way at our teacrung, too," Mr. Nelson said. "The team cntlCllZITLg us; it was about us, our choices, and us to understand those too. of multi-culturalism was not The an issue with the team. Since the Commission Education had allowed the ing an economically diverse student body, as generous and far-reach- mission statement, said Miss Brann. The Commission looks to this statement to evaluate how well the institution is performing its function. Miss Brann drafted the five-page statement, Continued on facing page duced to the notions and principles that have shaped our existence. It makes them see the world more clearly. And the program is actively unvocational." Here is a "Heads up!" for the summer issue of American Way, the American Airlines in-flight magazine. Writer Christopher Tucker spent two days on the Annapolis campus in March and expects his 1500 word article to appear in the magazine probably by mid-summer. Do you receive Sallie Mae's Annual Report? A team led by photographer Jennifer Bishop spent a day at Annapolis seeking the generic college shots which appear along with those from three other area campuses in the handsome document. Using double exposures to achieve artistic generality, Ms. Bishop superimposed people, sites and academic artifacts in the gym, bookstore, and classroom. See inset. the team's specampus maLllltemmce, especially its dormitories, of campus planning . .r:u.•.uv•.1.J::,.u. the college conducts periodic instructional reviews, Mr. Nelson said it has not included instructional µrnJ:uJJmg like other colleges whether to add or subtract departments or programs, St. John's has a single, whole, integrated program. It also has an active fustruction Committee that looks at all aspects of the program on an ongoing basis. Miss Brann had felt apprehensive about this latest visit by the evaluation team. "It's hard to explain to educators used to a large An example of the generalized artistry achieved through the use of double exposure by photographer Jennifer Bishop for the same Mae Annual Report is a photo with Pia Thadani, A'97, left, and Machelle Sitton, A'95, as the central figures in this Iglehart Hall photograph. photo courtesy of Jennifer Bishop �THE REPORTER PAGE17 percent of the time the teacher spoke, seven percent of the time the class was disrupted, and the minutes students comto speak. Now for the first their "expertise" is validated The very trait that made them poor students in the standard classroomtheirunwillingness to depend on a teacherhere elevates their words to a probing discussion. They address their fellow participants and listen with remarkable ease. While their discussion deviates from the text, it is serious, heartfelt. DONNA BOETIG Seated in a circle on metal chairs, the 16 men halt their quiet conversations and tum towards the speaker's voice. "Is the natural state of man freedom from law?" the one with a ponytail asks. "It's within ourself to treat others with respect," another offers, stroking the rim of his tortoise shell specs. "You 're taught to have a conscience, but if you're taught that the only way to get something is to take it away from someone weaker, then that's your conscience." "Are you saying society teaches us what's right and wrong?" the leader interjects. With complete thoughts and few interruptions, the spirited voices drown the din of passersby through the large activity room displaying the Optimist Creed. Insights, ideas, and ideals never before shared with an audience take form. The scene could be a discussion of important ideas at any liberal arts college in the country. Instead, it's Touchstones behind bars, an innovative program bringing the discussion of texts from many cultures to prisoners, many of whom are serving life sentences at the Maryland House of Correction for Men at Jessup. Touchstones, designed to help students think and communicate better, is the brainchild of Annapolis tutors Geoffrey Comber, Nicholas Maistrellis, and Howard Zeiderman. Begun in· 1984 with students at the Classical Magnet School in Hartford, Connecticut, it has gone on to irifluence more than a quarter of a million students, in grades four through 12, throughout the United States and six foreign countries. Now it is reaching out to an audience others have abandoned. The impetus came from within the prison itself. Last year inmate Marvin Hale, who had seen some Touchstones readings, invited Mr. Zeiderman to meet with him and 10 other inmates. These longtimers, many of whom were officers of prison organizations such as Acc1 ~ p~, ~rm continued from page 16 which was then submitted to the Instruction Committee for review and revision. The team also recommended that the college unify its extracurricular activities by assigning one person the responsibility for student life as a whole. Currently, the assistant deans and directors of residence and activities share the task. Although the college is considering this as well as the other suggestions-and has, for example, provided a full-time counselor to be on call, the president and dean question whether the students really want a highly structured extracurricular program, when they have so little choice in their academic studies. It is probably advantageous at a small school to have a number of persons, rather than one person, to offer counsel. Although Mrs. Higuera plans no radical changes in her daily role as a tutor because of the study, she says she is more aware of student non-academic life, and will be especially attuned to this area. Other areas of the team's interest included the administration of, and harmonious relations between, the two campuses. It was the team's opinion that if Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses are to remain together, they must allow their differences to grow. "While no one is looking forrampant change, a certain amount of separate JUNE 1994 In busy activity room, inmates take part in Touchstones discussion. the Legal Clinic, asked him to bring Touchstones to their institution. Mr. Zeiderman agreed to this radical experiment. He would work with a group of 15-20 inmates over a period of months, eventually teaching them to become leaders themselves, spreading the program throughout the prison population. An inmate stated their purpose succinctly: To help other inmates think for themselves. 1 own presuppositions shatter. "If the real experts on prison populations-the inmates themselves-felt Touchstones could be useful, who was I to dissuade them?" he asks. Besides, he had witnessed the power of Touchstones to transform people of all backgrounds and abilities into active participants, who through discussions grew to appreciate opposing views and to feel at ease ''The program will not solve the problem of crime, [but] it will permit others to recognize that inmates are human beings capable of a very high and difficult form of activity.' ' This past fall Mr. Zeiderman approached the administration of the medium/maximum security prison, volunteering to present the Touchstones program, including the texts, to the inmates free of charge. (As the program expands, however, he seeks funding for materials.) Would prisoners-some of whom could not read or write-be able to discuss texts from the Touchstones volumes? "Many conventional experts, held captive by their own assumptions about prisoners, doubted it," Mr. Zeiderman admits. Persuaded by the seriousness displayed in his first meeting with the inmates, he felt his growth is healthy and necessary to reflect natural differences that develop in response to changes in the world around us," Mr. Nelson said. Since 30 to 40 percent of the students transfer between campuses, and the faculty is committed to keeping this possibility open, there is restraint in divergence, he added. The team also advised increasing the serious study of life sciences, and "it happens that the Instruction Committee, together with a special committee functioning on both campuses, is reviewing and restructuring the freshmen program," Mr. Nelson explained. However, he noted, while the commission suggested that science be taught as a special method of inquiry, that is not the aim of the laboratory program here. Instead, St. John's prefers to replicate crucial experiments, and to read foundational texts concerning inanimate and animate nature and then to inquire whether the subject matter does in fact require a special mode of investigation. In the end, it was the esprit de corps developed within the visiting team that allowed them to produce a report that is a recognizable likeness of the college. According to Miss Brann, "This visit provided us with the opportunity to see how St John's College looks to the outside, and the result is indeed gratifying: it looks good." thinking in uncertain situations. Now he was ready to help the inmates make a difference in their own lives. Throughout the 10 sessions, inmates who voluntarily joined the program would address the complex intellectual and behavioral issues brought up by Touchstones texts. After the 90-minute discussions, the group spends equal time analyzing what occurred: who dominated, who didn't listen, and who was interrupted. Most important, they consider how they'll respond when they 're in charge. Today, less than a year later through The Jessup Project, as the inmates call it, the group has created within a hostile environment a thoughtful continuing discussion. As a core group of leaders develops among the inmates, Mr. Zeiderman observes that while "the program will not solve the problem of crime, it will permit others to recognize that inmates are human beings capable of a very high and difficult form of activity." In a typical session, Mr. Zeiderman reads aloud an excerpt from Hobbes' Leviathan. He then asks members to write a question they would use to initiate discussion on the text. To begin discourse, he throws out the first question: "What would you be like in an environment where no one had power over you?" Thoughts flow. Within minutes the text and the inmates' own experiences are interwoven. Such texts as the Leviathan contain life experiences. As an interesting contrast with Hobbes' text, the prisoners live simultaneously under the power of the state and also within the state of nature. hands go up, but eyes roam the group, lips purse for a second of silence to · jump into the discussion. For some it never comes. ("One thing you learn in prison is patience," Mr. Zeiderman says. "These men already know how to speak sensitively, or else they'd be dead.") The group feeds off itself as one by one by one participants bask in the recognition of their peers and leader. This is an aboutface from their past schooling where 85 With the group's emotion's rising, Mr. Zeiderman' s presence as leader wanes-although it never entirely disappears. He glances at one man anxious to comment, and amazingly, the conversation ebbs, allowing the participant to make a point. The leader's direction is almost imperceptible-and that's the way he wants it. Gradually, he's abdicating his role to the group. It's time for the future leaders to take charge. After Mr. Zeiderman reads the text, sentiments erupt around the circle. ''It's about the haves and the have-nots," a stocky middle-aged man offers. "It's about accumulating things. It's about kids having kids." "What's really happened is that Europeans kept and still keep blacks in their place," one says rather matter-of-factly. "On one side is the predator and the other side is the victim." "It's fear of genetic annihilation," a third says. "Europeans are at war because they fear the black man. The black man was God on earth, and they usurped our rightful place from us in war," a prisoner claims. In the midst of emotion, Mr. Zeiderman halts the conversation. He wants the men to feel their own ability and thoughtfulness. Before long they'll be leading difficult discussions in sometimes tense circumstances. They'll have to evaluate both the opportunities and risks inherent in a discussion. "What's happened here the last 60 minutes?" he asks. "We learned something about ourselves," one offers. "Was it a state of war here?" Mr. Zeiderman questions. "No, we can't use the term war simply because we disagreed." ''Was it possible for you to speak if you wanted? "No," another responds. "You tried twice," Mr. Zeiderman sympathizes. "Did anyone fear speaking?" "Yes, because of lack of knowledge, afraid of being wrong," one concedes. "It's the nature of man," another says. "Some share, some don't." "The topic got away," another says, looking to the leader. "Why didn't you bring it back to the topic?" Zeiderman has waited for this moment. To prepare for leadership, members have to take control of the group and work out problems without external power, the very issue raised by the text discussed. "I'll train you to lead, but I will not lead you,"hesaysslowly. "Myjobistotrytomake room for someone who wants to speak, not to ensure that we stay with the text--though we did stick close to it What would you want to happen if you were running the group?" he asks turning back to the inmates. "I suggest we go aroun~the room giving everyone a tum," one says. \ "That's easy," Mr. Zeiderman explains. "But then the pressure is on for everyone to speak. Instead, we as a group must figure out who wants to speaknext. And each of us has to risk pushing in. It's a risk because it is asserting power and then the group may not listen to you. But you take a risk in not speaking, too. "It's hard to trust," he acknowledges. "But that's where the power lies." �Snowed out but undaunted by the blizzard of' 93, the Caritas Society brought back a more ambitious and ever more popular floral extravaganza for the third annual Flower and Garden Show in March. Under show chairman Spencer, the event was mounted for three days instead two, spilled over from the FSK lobby into nearby rooms and a heated pavillion, and netted nearly $10,000 for the Caritas commitment to the Campaign for Our Fourth Century. From left are artist Lydia Sparrow and Trudi Barris, chairman of the art show, Joy Shaver, president of the Caritas Society, and Elaine Reed, co-chairman of the art show. Photos reprinted courtesy of Mark M. Odell, The Capital For three years, Maryanne Spencer has chaired the fundraiser. Lachaise' s opulent work draws crowds Sometimes tender, sometimes fiercely comic, the compelling sculpted women in the Gaston Lachaise exhibit at the Mitchell Gallery in March and April drew many visitors. Visitor Marie Pierce Charles from the lachaise Fo1unc:latiion for whom she was named. / from Vice President for AdvanceSpencer, and Arsen Charles of the Keith Harvey photos Ducklings restored to careless mom By NANCY OSIUS From the April day that the mallard hen selected the east wall of the FSK lobby in Annapolis for her nest, dozens of well-wishers watched and waited from a respectful distance. One May Monday, tutor Erik Sageng noted that the mother, still on the nest, was stretching and fluffing her wings in an unaccustomed manner. Hmmm, he thought But it was his wife Shelley and daughter Annie, 6, who were the lucky ones. The next morning, as they watched, the mother duck rose out ofher nest and set off-presumably towards College Creek-with six little ducklings in her wake. Annie and her mother's d,elight changed to mild alarm as the duck headed towards St. John's Street instead of across the relatively safe playing field. With difficulty the babies scrambled along behind their mother, negotiating curbs and other hazards as they made their way down the street towards the overflow parking lot. Cars and passersby paused appreciatively as the procession went by. But now, for reasons no other mother in the universe would be able to discern. the mallard stepped across a storm drain and ascended the curb. Three ducklings gamely hopped over the grate after her. Tirree, cheeping piteously, disappeared down the drain. Distraught, Annie and Mrs. Sageng 'rushed across the street to another drain, where the babies soon appeared six feet below peeping for help. What to do! No one could possibly move the heavy grate off the opening. "Go to the state office building," advised a bystander, and the two hastened off to the Department of General Services, the college's St. John's Street neighbor. There they found four good men who knew at once that you don't leave baby ducks in a drain. Soon a forklift arrived While the mother and her remaining babies watched the proceedings, the men fastened a huge chain to the grate, and off it came. Next, a deft swipe with a crabnet-and, presto, the babies were restored to their mother. Shelley and Annie hope that the rest of their journey to College Creek was uneventful. �PAGE19 In what appeared to be a ranqom robbery-slaying, Marvin B. Cooper, A'70, a Baltimore lawyer, was shot to death May 28 near his home in the Guilford section of Baltimore. He was 45 years old. A master chess player, Mr. Cooper was returning to his home in North Baltimore's Guilford neighborhood at - 1:30 a.m. from a chess club meeting when he was confronted by a man who took his wallet and shot him in the stomach. He was able to get to a nearby house to summon help and to give police a brief description of what had happened, but he died in surgery two hours later. There were no witnesses to the shooting. As The Reporter goes to press, no suspects have been apprehended. More than 500 people crowded into the funeral home a day later to honor for his generosity and intelligence "a man who had served them as friend, teacher, real estate adviser, chess master, legislative aide and attorney," according to The Baltimore Sun (May 30, 1994). Said one friend, "It would take others many lifetimes to accomplish what he did in one. People were his hobby-his very life. He was an encyclopedia of knowlfrom baseball to Beethoven and Pvl'•n.rl'h1ru1 in between." r'1AJL.l-'"'-i1..1v .... ., President Christopher Nelson remembered Mr. Cooper "well and fondly" as a classmate with whom he shared sophomore and junior seminars. "He was a modest and unassuming guy, and everybody liked him," he said Beginning as a child, Mr. Cooper had been a remarkable chess player, Mr. Nelson noted, who played several boards at one time, sometimes blindedfolded, and carried his skill out Joan 63, a founding member and first president of the Caritas Society and a contributor of remarkable energy and vision to the cultural life of Annapolis, died in December at her home in Chestertown, MD. In a letter to the Annapolis Capital written soon after her death, four Annapolis citizens wrote: "Joan envisioned the benefits of involving the community with St. John's College. She worked with college officials to found the Caritas Society, a 'town and gown' support group. As the first president of Caritas, she orchestrated a timely, significant event at the college which affected many women's lives in the early 1970s: the. memorable 'Focus on Women' Conference brought Anais Nin, Marlo Thomas and other heroines of the early women's movement to an SRO audience." Later, Ms. Baldwin helped initiate the student emergency fmancial assistance program for which Caritas fund-raising is now designated. Ms. Baldwin was actively involved in turning the fledgling Annapolis Fine Arts Festival, which began on the St. John's campus, into a major cultural event, by initiating its move to the Annapolis City Dock. Held there for many years, the festival brought thousands of visitors to Annapolis. A founder of the Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre, she was the one who located for the theater an abandoned blacksmith's shop and gave a vital new role to an historic landmark. into the community where he played multiple opponents. At that time he also worked on community service projects and led junior great books seminars in the local elementary schools, according to Mr. Nelson. It had been his intention to telephone Mr. Cooper, who had passed through Annapolis the previous week, Mr. Nelson noted sadly. The dead man's name and telephone number were on his desk as he spoke. After leaving St. John's, which he had entered as a 16-year-old, Mr. Cooper was for several years a professional chess player, travelling extensively to play in tournaments, giving chess demonstrations, and teaching the game as a volunteer. He returned to Baltimore in 1973 to work as a real estate appraiser, and in 1978, he entered law school, graduating in 1981. fu 1984, he went into private practice. He was active in a variety of community activities, serving as president of the Pikesville Jaycees from 1974-1976, and teaching chess to pupils in South Baltimore over a period of years. For several years before his death, he volunteered as an English tutor for the Hebrew Society. llll~oui~out career he contributed pro bono legal work generously to community causes. Mr. Cooper is survived by his wife Gustava Taler Cooper, his mother LeEtta Cooper, a sister, Janet Fay Hirsh, and a Dr. Robert Menachem Cooper. His father, a highly respected retired professor at the Baltimore School of Law, had died only the month before. She was also a founder of The Twentyfirst Century Club, a group of women "without whom the town of Annapolis would not be the same." The club still meets monthly on the Annapolis campus for talk and shared information through a program of visiting speakers. Born in Pittsburgh, she was a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. Professionally, she was afreelancepublic relations and fund-raising consultant who was at one time a staff member of the former Maryland Division of Tourism. Her work with the organizers of the Clam Festival led to the development of the Annapolis Seafood Festival; she expanded the scope of Chesapeake Appreciation Day to crowddrawing two-day event Later she served as director of public relations and fund-raising for the Fairfield nursing center in Crownsville, MD. "Without her vision," said the public letter, "[Annapolis] wouldnotpossessmany of the advantages we enjoy today. fu the exciting years of the 1960s and '70s, Joan Baldwin helped to shape the future of Annapolis by developing enduring cultural and social entities that continue to enhance our lives." Ms. Baldwin is survived by a son, James Baldwin of Annapolis, a daughter, Meghan Baldwin of Cockeysville, MD., a grandson, and two brothers, Douglas Lisotto of Fort Lauderdale, FL., and Wayne Lisotto of Pittsburgh. · Charles S. Dell, Sr., A '24, a prominent Chesapeake Bay yachtsman and retired businessman, died in Annapolis on N ovember 28, 1993, after a long illness. He was 90. Born in Baltimore, Mr. Dell graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic, where he played varsity football and lacrosse. He was also a varsity player in those sports at St. John's, where he was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity. He founded the Charles S. Dell Industrial Roofmg and Sheet Metal Co. in Baltimore, a company he owned and operated for 55 years. During World War Il, he was involved in the production of PT boats. A victorious racing skipper, he was a member and commodore of both the Annapolis Yacht Club and the Sailing Club of the Chesapeake. He was also a member of the Cruising Club of America, the Royal Ocean Yacht Racing Club of England, and the New York and Gibson Island yacht clubs. He was active in the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association. He is survived by his wife, Hildegarde Wood Dell, and one son, Charles S. Dell, of Helena, Montana. 1: James King, Sr., A'3 l, a retired corporate executive with Burlington Industries, fuc., died in November, 1993, in Charlotte, NC, at age 85. After graduation from St. John's, Mr. King attended the Harvard business school. He worked for the Coca Cola Company and American Associated Consultants before joining Burlington Industries in 1956. He was a corporate vice president in charge of worldwide industrial engineering for Burlington when he retired in 1968. He remained active as a consultant to Blue Inc., for another 10 years. An avid hunter and fisherman, he took trophies in northern British Columbia that are listed in the Boone and Crockett Record Book. He was a member of Camp Bryan Rod and Gun Club in North Carolina for more than 50 years. Two wives, Mary Molloy King and Billie Sherwood King, died before him. He is survived by two sons, James King, Jr., of Charlotte, NC, and William D. King, of Rolling Hills, CA, a stepson, Douglas H. Reece, Jr., of Boulder, CO; and four grandchildren. His interment was to be at the King f amily site in Druid Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore, :MD. 91: Ronald Arthur Landor, father of six Johnnies, husband to another Johnnie andhimself a student of the Graduate died in April. Mr. Landor was a dedicated supporter of what he believed to be the best college in the country. His family writes, " ... because of him eight Landors attended St. John's for a total of two B.A. 'sand two M.A. 'sand much assorted credit." At the May, 1993, commencement in Santa Fe, President Agresto gave mention to Mr. Landor for his years votion and service to the college, and for the donation of his book, The Education of EveryChild-a liberal arts curriculum devoted to the K-8 child. James G. McCurry, A'32, former president of the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, died in September of lung cancer in Huntington, West Virginia. He was 82. After attending St. John's in Annapolis, Mr. McCurry was graduated from Ohio State University. In addition to his leadership of the operators' association, which represented some of the nation's largest coal operators, Mr. McCurry was also a former president of Imperial Smokeless Coal Co. He is survived by his wife, Jean, and a son. Mary Ellen Nichols, co-owner of the Little Campus Inn in Annapolis, died April 9 at the Anne Arundel Medical Center after a brief illness. She was 57. The second generation to operate the popular restaurant, Mrs. Nichols, her husband Evangelos ("Ange"), andhis brother, the late George T. Nichols, succeeded the late Theodore Nichols inmanaging the restaurant the elder Nichols had bought in 1923. With its homey food, attractive prices, and familiar faces, the Little Campus was a hangout for generations of St. John's students and faculty, and scores of students were employed there at one time or another. Elegant Mrs. Nichols was often on hand to show guests to their tables. The Inn has been a landmark also to local citizens, legislators and other political figures, and to midshipmen. The story that the croquet match between St. John's and the Naval Academy was hatched in the restaurant appears to be erroneous, but it is absolute fact that the Annapolis Cup, symbol of the competition, is housed there on neutral ground throughout the year. This year, Mrs. Nichols' husband, Evangelos Nichols, threw out the first ball for the croquet match April 30. Mrs. Nichols was born Mary EllenHopkins in Annapolis, where she was a graduate of Annapolis High School. She was a member of Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, and the Christ Child Society. Besides her husband, Mrs. Nichols is survived by one son, Ted Nichols of Annapolis, one daughter Anna "Niki" Nichols McCarty of Annapolis, and a brother and sister. �The nearly legendary founders of the St Jolm's College New in 1937, the late President Stringfellow Barr and the late Dean Scott Buchanan, will be honored by all the alumni returning September 30-0ctober2 to Homecoming Weekend at Annapolis. The celebration will be dedicated to the two men. No one is anticipating the event with more pleasure than the Decade of the 40s, which will join forces for reunions that stretch from the 45th to the 54th. In the thin wartime and swollen postwar classes were some of the men who knew Messrs Barr and Buchanan best "We see this as a kind of celebration of the whole program from its when the school was a idea," says Dr. David Dobreer, A'44, Alumni Association and a member of the Decade's committee. "It was a in which a whole school no future." He recalls one earlier Decade of the 40s reunion, in 1974, the 25th reunion of the class of 1949. He and Allan Hoffman, A'49-like Dr. Dobreer, a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors and alumni activist-wrote to leaders of every class which had been on campus the 1940s to urge The alumni returned numbers, every spot set aside for them. "We think we can do "says Dr. Dobreer. MARY MOORE it was the it was lured the muse from the of artist-in-residence or the new visual arts tutorial. Whatever the cause, blossomed on the Santa Fe campus this year. An art in the upper dmmit:orv <>.1.i::.Jua.1..1..,.... the 1Ze1rre1·ation was intended to stimulate student interaction and an for artistic ex1Jre1;sicm and add some color to the campus. "Around I was as were other stu.de1rrts, tion was breaking down in classes and we weren't expressing ourselves. At the same the upper dormitory commons seemed to be really neglected and not functioning as a gathering place, so I decided to make a " mural to brighten it Todd, Sarah SF'96, and Kere Lamphear, SF'95, got a group of artists together and went through the proper channels to get permission for the project. In the end, they decorated the room and held an art dance and party that raise money for weekend. "We all worked on our and that had a party," said Homann. "It was the gallery. The show opened Friday evening, April 15, with a well-attended reception. With 58 pieces, the show was the student art exhibit since the founding of the Santa Fe campus. Works included paintings, uu'"IJJLA.uo..:>, dratwunl!s in charcoal and colored sclllDtur1e: a wire net dress had suffered abuse, Gutadaluoe. enclosed room it. We permanent space for student Aitists involved in the and also names Hoffman, his onetime roommate, as ure in reunion "It all starts Hoffman, and I pay for his ideas," says Mr. Brooks, who remembers that he was drawn friend into the 15th in 1964 and has worked on reunions ever since. In some ways, the of 50 years Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Brooks is an emblem of the decade. Mr. Hoffman entered the in the fall of 1945 the usual age of 17 or 18, while Mr. Brooks, a -~~,.. -~.~~veteran four or five years older, entered as a freshman 1946, and had to work hard to be for the sophomore senior year, the two men, year in the fall. years and the of the war, were roommates who had become the fast friends have remained ever since. In 1994, as in 1974, the Decade of the 40s reunion will include every student who was on campus from 1940-1950, those students whose graidu:aucm c:arr1e A series of events is the architects. Two i:?:ra:dm:i.tes the 1940s will give tribute to the men at the annual meeting morning: former members of the Board of Visitors and Governors John VanDoren, A'47, and Charles Nelson, A'45, will speak about Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Barr respectively. After the 40s luncheon in the Beneficial-Hodson Boathouse, anyone who wishes to share recollections of the two men will be invited to the podium. In the afternoon, Decade members will gather in the King William Room of the library to listen to Mr. Buchanan's lecture "Res Publica," excerpts of his essay by the same name. Tutors Emeriti Curtis Wilson and Hugh McGrath will lead the seminar that follows. Besides Dr. Dobreer, Mr. Hoffman, and Mr. Brooks, committee members for the Decade reunion are Bruce A'46, Van Sant, A'47. It is a Decade member-who was also a and the at the A'46, who will deliver the Homeon Alumni Association's A wards of Merit will be distinguilshi:::d in-adm:ttes of the era, ruJau~oL1..:•1u;;,1<.u.u, A'44, founder of Atlantic Records, and David Rea, A' 49, a former member of Board of Visitors and Governors, to transform an old tele- A second major event was an· art exhibit by 19 ~tg:.nt11&:11n Van 1..u•..,. ll<c:'ll iic:. SF'94 students in the campus art based on the ancient Greek bnngmg the dead souls underworld. "We have had student art shows done-never featured a collection of serious " he said. "I we can artists like continue to have a student show each year and get some recognition in the community." for their classmates have set a million towards the transformation of the old Hall of Records into a new Annapolis library. Class leaders want the building to be named the Barr and Buchanan Library. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The St. John's Reporter</em> Description An account of the resource College newspaper which started publication in 1974. Continued publication into 2000. 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E stern classics M.A. gains final approval by Lesli Allison The Graduate Program in Eastern Classics has received a unanimous vote of approval from the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors. The program had earlier been approved by a wide margin in a vote by the faculty of both campuses. Focusing on the major texts of China, India and Japan, along with language study in classical Chinese and Sanskrit, the program will begin this fall on the Santa Fe campus. The three-term course of study will be conducted under the auspices of The Graduate Institute and lead to the Master of Arts in Eastern Classics. Class size will be limited to 21 students and applications currently are being accepted. "The Eastern classics program has been well planned and is highly appropriate to the mission of the college," said Santa Fe Dean Stephen Van Luchene. "But even more, the fact that we can mount such an effort shows the enduring vitality of the college and its ability not to stay mired in its own past. With the Eastern classics program we have an exciting new opportunity to see how the fundamental principles of the college can work in an important domain of thought that until now was virtually closed to us." According to James Carey, founder of the Eastern classics program, St. John's is in a unique and advantageous position to study non-Western works. "The faculty has spent a lot of time trying to understand the roots of our own tradition, and as far as I can tell, most Western expositors of the Eastern traditions have not done that," he said. "I think that only if someone has really come to terms with the Western tradition, as we do at St. John's, can he or she be on guard against placing Western constructs on Eastern thought. In fact, in general, I've thought the person wanting to begin a study of the Eastern classics could hardly do better than to start by spending four years at St. John's College studying the Western tradition, and then going to Eastern studies. Many Westerners want to study Eastern traditions without the foggiest idea of what their own tradition really is all about. As a consequence, they are influenced by the Western tradition without fully realizing it." Those interested in finding out more about the Graduate Program in Eastern Classics should contact The Graduate Institute, St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501-4599; (505) 984-6083. Dallas Morning News Features College St. John's College continues to attract media attention nationwide. In December the college was featured in the Dallas Morning News under the headline, "At St. John's College Classes are always Classic." The article states, "Students say they come not to seek careers or fortunes but to ponder life's unanswerable questions .... If is all sounds a bit irrelevant, St. John's administrators have some down-to-earth answers." One of those answers came from Santa Fe Dean Stephen Van Luchene. "At times, the school does seem purposely to turn its back on the present. All students are required to take ancient Greek so they can read some of the authors in their original language. "You can't buy a ticket anyplace in ancient Greece. We're not trying to tool them up for something that's immediately marketable." "Instead," the article continues, "the school teaches the discipline of thinking and reasoning." Two weeks later the Dallas Morning News also ran an interview with President John Agresto. (see page 7) Santa Fe Edition INSIDE page News/ Announcements Letters to the Editor The Campaign For Our Fourth Century Goings On-Annapolis Goings On-Santa Fe Alumni Notes Alumni Association Obituaries Art Gallery At a ceremony in December at the Baltimore World Trade Center, Finn M W. Caspersen, chief executive officer of the Beneficial Corporation and chairman of The Hodson Trust, right, announced a $358, 124 grant to the Annapolis campus, part of a total of $2.91 million awarded to four Maryland insmutions. On hand to accept the gift were President Christopher Nelson, left, and Vice President for Advancement Jeffrey Bishop. Besides the Annapolis campus, other grant recipients are Washington College, Hood College, and The Johns Hopkins University. This year's grants bring the amount of money awarded to the four institutions to nearly $52.3 million since the trust was established more than 70 years ago by the family of Col. Clarence Hodson, founder of the Beneficial Corporation. Project Kaleidoscope cites SJC progratn as uexetnplary" St. John's College has been selected by Project Kaleidoscope as one of the most exemplary programs in the nation for its undergraduate science and mathematics studies. Project Kaleidoscope, a national alliance formed to strengthen undergraduate science and mathematics programs, is supported by the National Science Foundation, The Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education, the Research Corporation, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation and the W: W. Keck Foundation. Since 1992, Project Kaleidoscope has been searching for successful educational models to serve as catalysts for reform of undergraduate programs across the nation. A secondary goal is to improve public awareness of the critical role of the undergraduate community in the national effort to build a stronger scientific and educational infrastructure. Project Kaleidoscope Programs That Work, which will feature St. John's, will be highlighted in a nationwide series of colloquia, symposia, workshops, in Project Kaleidoscope publications and on its Internet link. The college academic program was one of four selected in the General Program category on the basis of its requirement for all liberal arts students to take four years of substantive classes in mathematics and three years of laboratory science. Critical to St. John's selection were the following criteria met by the college: demonstration of the effectiveness of teaching and learning that is hands-on, "lab-rich, and collaborative"; making connections between classroom and lab, different areas of study, the undergraduate and other sectors of the educational community, and the professional world; bringing faculty and students together as partners in learning, with faculty equally committed to undergraduate research and their own projects; building a community of learners with students of all backgrounds and career aspirations finding success in mathematics and science; and possessing the potential to be adapted to other institutional settings for larger institutional reform. 2 3 4 8 10 12 15 18 20 Santa Fe Homecoming 1994 See page 3 �The Reporter page2 Fe offers SJCS classic vacation St. John's College in Santa Fe announces Summer Classics 1994. Now entering its fourth year, the program is scheduled for July 17 - August 6. Summer Classics is a one to three week residential program for adults of all ages and educational backgrounds. Participants come from around the country and as far away as Japan, Panama and Alaska to study the classics of literature, philosophy and opera St. John's style. Last year 92 people, including teachers, retirees, lawyers, psychologists, businessmen and friends of the college, participated in the program. Seminar classes meet for two hours each morning and are led by members of the St. John's faculty and occasional guest tutors. Optional excursions to local sights of interest are offered in the afternoons. In the evenings participants take advantage of the world renowned Santa Fe Opera, fine dining and Santa Fe's active summer night life. The tuition from $900/week includes accommodations and meals for six nights and seven days, six seminar sessions, excursions, receptions and extras. For additional information please contact: Summer Classics, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM 87501-4599 (505) 984-6104. March 1994 Jennifer Chenoweth named director of Placement in Santa Fe Summer Classics 1994 Week I - July 17 - 23: Death of Socrates Plato's Apology, Crito, Phaedo Founding Documents Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Federalist (selected), Gettysburg Address Shakespeare As You Like Tt; Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night Week II - July 24 • 30: Opera Marriage of Figaro and The Abduction from the Seraglio Edith Wharton Age of Innocence and Ethan Frame Arthurian Legends Tristan and Isolde Week III- July 31-August 6: Opera Tosca and The Barber of Seville The Evolution Debate Darwin's Origin of Species and other authors on evollltionary theory Homer Odyssey anta Fe welcomes an artist-in-residence by Lesli Allison Marty Garhart, professor of art at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, will spend the spring semester on the Santa Fe campus as artistin-residence. Mr. Garhart is no stranger to St. John's College. In 1991 he was instrumental in the creation of the Artists/Teachers Series on the Santa Fe campus. He also has taught drawing and painting in the St. John's Summer Classics program. As artist-in-residence, Mr. Garhart will provide students with an opportunity to learn more about art. Students will be able to observe Mr. Garhart in the process of creating his work and also to discuss their own projects, ideas or questions. A student group has been formed which will organize special weekly events with Mr. Garhart such as seminars, hands-on workshops and gallery walks. According to Mr. Garhart, there are three primary aspects to the residence program. "The first is completing my own work in order to provide the opportunity for the students to view a working artist," he said. "The second is to generate dialogue about my work and about the kinds of considerations one makes regarding visual art. The third aspect is to deal with the kinds of questions students might have about art activities, ranging from their own work to general questions, either pragmatic or philosophic, about art and the art world-not necessarily to provide answers but to have a dialogue." Mr. Garhart has taught studio art at Kenyon College for more than 20 years. Among his former pupils is Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. Graduate student Jennifer Chenoweth has been appointed to replace Don Parker in the Placement Office. Don Parker left in October for a position in New York City. Originally from Oklahoma, Ms. Chenoweth earned her undergraduate degree from the Kansas City Art Institute. She initially discovered St. John's during her undergraduate years when considering a transfer to a liberal arts college. She made the decision at the time to finish her degree at the art institute and to attend St. John's College in Santa Fe at the graduate level. Now in her final semester of The Graduate Institute, Ms. Chenoweth will remain with the college as Placement director. "I'd like to provide consistent resources and opportunities for students to explore areas in which they are interested," Ms. Chenoweth said. As interim director, Chenoweth created a first for the Santa Fe campusG overnmen t Service Career Day. Among the 18 organizations sending representatives to the event were New Mexico's U.S. senators, branches of the U.S. military, the FBI, Forest Service, Park Service, Department of Health and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, among others. Ms. Chenoweth also plans to create an annual workshop for students on graduate school research and grant writing, and to develop further opportunities for students interested in teaching. According to Ms. Chenoweth, not only is it important to create opportunities for students, but it also is important that those opportunities are scheduled consistently (i.e. a job fair scheduled for the same time each year) so students can begin to plan their futures. Ms. Chenoweth encourages alumni who know of employment or educational opportunities to contact theSantaFe Placement Office at (505) 984-6066. · T-wo SJC students to be interns in Maryland Archives Two internships for SJC students in the Maryland State Archives have been made possible by a grant from the Abraham and Ruth Krieger Family Foundation, according to a recent announcement by President Christopher Nelson. The Krieger Foundation is funding one full position and the archives is matching the grant with a second position designated for a St. John's student. The nationally recognized, 10-week summer internship program provides training in historical research and archival management. Interns gain experience with the procedures involved in collecting and preserving valuable historical records and in using them for their own research projects. In addition to the two spots designated for St. John's students, the Maryland State Archives has openings for other Maryland college students and Maryland residents attending out-ofstate colleges or universities. Applicants must demonstrate academic excellence and an interest in archival science, history, library science or related fields. Project Politae reaches out to Annapolis com.m.unity Nominated for his work in Project Politae on the Annapolis campus, Terry Moore, A'95, was one of four finaliststwo young businessmen and two college students-for the Annapolis Jaycees' title "Outstanding Young Annapolitan," in January. Mr. Moore is a co-founder and coordinator of volunteers for Project Politae, which recruits St. John's students to help meet needs in the Annapolis community. Terry is a work-study student in the Placement Office, where the project was setup. At present, he is scheduling sessions for about 25 Johnnies-usually Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons on the third floor of McDowell-to tutor youngsters aged 7 to 17 in "everything." Last semester, he himself helped two teenaged youths with math, reading and writing. Part of his job is to bring the tutoring opportunity to the attention of at-risk students and their parents, which he has done principally through school contacts and newspaper articles. Eleven other Johnnies are volunteering at the Anne Arundel Medical Center. On a recent weekend; 20 St. John's students signed up for a Habitat for Humanity project, to complete a house in Baltimore. In the summer of 1992, Mr. Moore was selected for a week-long program for undergraduates at Cornell University called "Teaching in the 21st Century," which emphasized strategies for reaching at-risk young people. "It was one of the best things I've ever done," he says. That fall, he helped plan and publicize the program at Annapolis, which began to place Johnnies with at-risk young people in January, 1993. �page3 The Reporter March 1994 N e-w Mexico high school teachers pick the "Prickly Rose of Politics" Mexico. "We do not often get the opportunity to learn together with The New Mexico Endowment of teachers outside of our immediate the Humanities and the Graduate region," said Jennifer Chenoweth who Institute of St. John's College are working has been working on the project with together on a project to give secondary Nancy Buchenauer, the director of the school teachers in New Mexico a chance Graduate Institute. Part of the funding to study ethical problems of political for this project includes a travel and social life in seminars at the college. allowance for teachers traveling over 75 The four-part seminar series is titled miles for the seminars. We have had "The Prickly Rose of Politics: Readings terrific responses from the teachers from in Human Responsibility." The readings distant parts of the state. Many have for these seminars are, respectively, expressed their thanks for an opportunity they could not ordinarily afford. The Plato's Apology and Crito, Machiavelli's The Prince, Isak .-----------------.., travel allowance e Ration eShiprock eChama lets us host teachers Dinesen' s "Sorrow Cimarron• Clayton9 that have a real Acre," and ShakesEl Rito e Taos e hunger for intellecpeare's King Lear. •Navajo Espanola e eLosAlamos tual growth and for The readings e Crownpoint • Santa Fe e Las Vegas new ideas for their were chosen to e Rio Rancho own classes." address timeless eZuni e Albuquerque Comments human issues in from the teachers personal and publet the Graduate lic politics and Magdalena e e Socorro Institute know that responsibility. In the seminars are philosophical, 9 Roswell Cloudcroft 9 filling a need. political and liter"This focused ary frameworks, LaMesa9 effort to give acadethe texts speak to mic considerations a wide range of a time and space audiences. Students are Teachers from around New Mexico have to be is encouraging. Secondary entangled in sim- enrolled in The Prickly Rose of Politics. teachers too often ilar conflicts as defer to the practical they develop into at the expense of keeping the elevated adult citizens at the threshold of civic experience vital." responsibility. Since teachers are "I hope these continue, as the addressing these issues in their classintellectual stimulation helps carry the rooms and lives daily, the seminars enthusiasm into the classroom." open a door to the discussion of these "I find it very interesting that so issues in a way not usually approached many educators (colleagues) are so in high schools. The readings involve highly attuned to the need for this kind people personally, compel them to deal of dialogue. I am encouraged to continue with issues common to all human the course of action I have begun with my beings, and excite students when they middle-school students since previously discover that these issues concern their there was a fear of 'over-intellectualizing' own lives. One of the most exciting aspects of my approach." The seminars are sponsored by the these seminars for the Graduate New Mexico Endowment for the Institute is the ability to reach out to Humanities and are free of charge. teachers in schools all over the New by Jennifer Chenoweth GET READY FOR HOMECOMING IN SANTA FE! July 15through17 The classes of '69, '74, '79 and '84 will celebrate their reunions this summer. Plans are brewing and looking more and more lively as the future celebrants confer. Mark your calendars now! This year's Summer Alumni Program offerings will provide another opportunity for an intellectually stimulating and fun experience on the Western campus. The first program week (July 10-15) will focus on issues in medical ethics (which will, of course, include readings in the liberal arts) and will be just as appealing for non-physicians as for those in the medical field. Back by popular demand will be a second week (July 17-22) delving into the study of the Eastern cultures, both contemporary literature and film, and the classics. More detailed information will follow, or contact the alumni office in Santa Fe at (505) 984-6109. See you in Santa Fe! The Annapolis campus anticipates two entry-level positions in the Admissions Office. If you are interested, please send a letter and resume to Deborah Anawalt, Director of Personnel, Annapolis campus. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: I was the last "prospective" interviewed by Mr. Tolbert and the first admitted by Mr. Hamm to the class of 1976. In seeking admission to the college, I did what I thought was my best with the essays. A few weeks later, Mr. Tolbert mailed my application back to me. His stern but encouraging note said, "Try again. You can do better than this." Mr. Tolbert has my eternal gratitude for admitting me to a world of fine souls. In my junior year, I was in Mr. Tolbert's French class and his seminar. I recall that my junior essay received a grade of "B-." During the summer after my junior year, I obtained early admission to law school. In the summer between being a St. John's junior and a Tulane freshman, I worked for Mr. Brown. I also rewrote my junior essay. When I called Mr. Tolbert and asked for an appointment to discuss it, his response was a deafening silence. I asked what was wrong. He said, ''You are still trying to do better, aren't you?" I suppose I owed it to him. It makes me glad to read of the happy accomplishments of the best of our school. It makes me happy to know what St. John's means for the students on whom it takes a chance. William Watt Campbell, A'76 To the Editor: Reading about James Tolbert in The Reporter this month prompts this former St. Johnnie to write at last. It's pushing four decades since Mr. Tolbert interviewed me in a Boston hotel, starting me down the path of membership in the class of 1960. Now my eldest daughter is preparing to go to college and is impressed that I attended St. John's. Her college guides rank the school highly. . I join others who so - eloquently captured the personality of Mr. Tolbert. His charm, keen mind and paternal concern are correct impressions. I recall vividly the few discussions we enjoyed together. (A very attractive receptionist worked in his office in 1956 whose presence caused me to make a number of otherwise needless visits there.) Memories of St. John's crop up everywhere of late. I saw Tom Van Sant, A' 59, interviewed on a PBS science documentary this month. (His work on making the first world map from satellite photos was the topic of a Newsweek article about three years ago.) The Reporter piece on Tolbert mentions the friendship of Paul Matsushita, a prominent international lawyer, another good friend of mine from those days. This letter is a homecoming of sorts for me. I was cast out of St. John's, banned from its academic halls after my two year exams .. .I felt quite at sea, bewildered, blindsided, excommunicated. .. a painful episode in my life. So it is with mixed emotions that memories of those days are stirred. Despite the hurt, I loved St. John's. The years spent there, the friends made, the youthful experiences, always will be close to my heart. I recall a cliche, "Once a St. Johnnie, always a St. Johnnie." Part of me will always be. Jonathan M. Brickman, A'60 �March 1994 The Reporter page4 St Johri's College THE CAMPAIGN FOR OUR FOURTH CENTURY Annapolis, Maryland Santa Fe, New Mexico 1696 - 1996 $21 million and counting • • • Gifts received to date 1 at $5,000,000 - 2 at $2,500,000 5 at $1,000,000 "The Still Water Foundation trusts unreservedly that St. John's is concerned with the very best human beings are capable of. Moreover, the college's conscientious and above all, thoughtful, approach in the classroom allows these ideals to be refiected in every aspect of community life." -Still Water Foundation 7 at $500,000 11 at $250,000 12 at $100,000 15 at $50,000 "St. John's is unique in this country in terms of 20 at $25 ,000 30 at $10,000 to offer the fine tradition of classical education." -River Branch Foundation III Many less than $10,000 (1 million) (1 million) (1 million) (1 million) (1 million) (1 million) CAMPAIGN UPDATE St. John's College has good reason for optimism but there still is a long way to go. This was the message directed to the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors by capital campaign Chairman Ray Cave at its January meeting. Mr. Cave had just announced that the college has raised more than $21 million in pledges toward its $30 million campaign goal. While the news was received as encouraging, Mr. Cave also cautioned that much of the hardest work on the part of campaign volunteers is yet to come. Gifts at all levels are needed to ensure the success of the campaign, including major gifts at the top of the gift pyramid. Recent major gifts include a $500,000 collective pledge from Alumni Association Board members. Association President Sharon Bishop said, "We really wanted to set an example for other alumni to follow. And, we wanted to demonstrate a high level of alumni giving to show to nonalumni potential donors that the alumni are, in fact, committed to the college." Another major gift came from the Friends of St. John's, Annapolis. Dr. Robert 0. Biern, prominent Annapolis cardiologist and president of the Friends of St. John's, announced a $200,000 pledge by the Friends board along with a commitment to help raise an additional $800,000 from the community for the new library in the Hall of Records building. Additionally, Warren Spector, A'81, has challenged alumni with a dollar for dollar match up to $10,000 for a gift of $25,000 or more. Faculty pledges have topped a remarkable $2 million. The current focus of the campaign is in the alumni division. Chaired by Warren Winiarski, A'52, the Alumni Committee has assembled a force of approximately 100 alumni volunteers who will serve as class leaders and decade chairmen. Volunteer orientation meetings were held in Annapolis and Santa Fe last October and November. In a recent interview, Mr. Winiarski said he hopes alumni will realize their support is vital to the future of the college. "None of us can take for granted that St. John's will be able to live on ... unless we are willing to help ... in whatever way we can." If you would like to find out more about The Campaign for Our Fourth Century, contact Jeffrey Morgan, Santa Fe Vice-President for Advancement at (505) 984-6099 or Jeffrey Bishop, Annapolis Vice-President for Advancement at (410) 626-2505. Priority Needs Endowment $16,800,000 (56%) • For Tutors and Academic Program • For Students: Financial Aid • For Advancement of Liberal Education Physical Facilities 1,000,000 $8,200,000 (27%) • Student Activities Center - Santa Fe • Hall of Records Building & Woodward Hall-Annapolis 3,500,000 Operating Funds $5,000,000 (17%) Campaign Hotline Number 1-800-234-3691 13,600,000 2,200,000 Total $30,000,000 �The Reporter March 1994 Kalkavage • at ease 1n NEH chair by Nancy Osius It isn't entirely easy to picture Peter Kalkavage seated in his living room with Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in his lap while in and out of the room, pur~uing the active pleasures of the very young, are Matthew, almost six, Sophia, four and a half, and Michael, almost three. of 1994-1995, one of the provisions of the NEH endowment. On a Friday night in the spring of 1995, Mr. Kalkavage will deliver a public lecture on some aspect of the philosopher's work, yet another provision of the grant. Additionally, occupants of the endowed chairs have two-thirds time off from teaching duties. At present a second endowed chair on ancient, medieval and renaissance thought is held by tutor Elliott Zuckerman, who is concluding his two-year study of prosody, meter and verse. For Peter Kalkavage, the opportunity presented by the two endowed chairs is "exactly the right thing" for the college, and it comes for him at the right time. Behind him at the college are the years of finishing his dissertation even as he worked through the program. Behind him, too, are the pleasurable years of leading Freshman Chorus and Small Chorus, his years on the Instruction Committee, and most recently his membership on the steering committee for the accreditation process the Annapolis campus completed last fall. Despite the demands in those busy years, there was time to study harpsichord with Tutor Emeritus Douglas Allanbrook, and even the leisure to sit down at the piano once in a while. This year he comes full circle to those studies pages Santa Fe faculty to study modem times by Stephen Van Luchene, Dean, Santa Fe The Santa Fe campus will soon begin a two-year study project aimed at introducing the faculty to areas of thought that have become important since the New Program was established in the late 1930s. The Schmidt tutorship, which alternates between the campuses, will provide the core funding for this project. By a series of accidents, the Schmidt tutorship has been in Annapolis for the last two years and will be in Santa Fe for the next two. In the past, when in Santa Fe, the Schmidt tutorship has allowed one tutor to be released from one third of the normal teaching assignment for a whole year to lead a faculty study group. Under this plan, four tutors will be released from a third of the teaching assignment for one semester only during which they will lead a faculty study group and make reports to the faculty. The four tutors will constitute a core group for the two-year project, serving as central members of the study group when they are not leading it. This arrangement offers several advantages: In a time when funds for faculty development are scarce, more tutors will have the benefit of released time for study, reflection, and conversation with colleagues. The core concept means that the responsibility and focus can more easily become a common undertaking than when only one tutor leads. Finally there is a greater chance that a strong, ongoing faculty study group will take shape. If more money becomes available, this project is easily expandable to include more tutors with released time, formal panel discussions with the entire faculty, and extra-curricular work with students. The Schmidt tutorship by itself, however, provides sufficient money for a respectable, if modest, undertaking. The Schmidt tutors and the specific topics will be chosen in the next few weeks. At this point we are entertaining topics in art, literature, philosophy and anthropology as well as some in economics and psychology (as specified in the Schmidt guidelines). We are intentionally vague about the ultimate outcome. This project could lead to a deep rethinking of the books and expectations of the senior year. On the other hand, it will be of great value if it goes only as far as introducing many of us to some of the more important developments of modern times, developments we ought to know something about. that have interested Peter Kalkavage Somewhere in the background, keeping a lid on things, is Christine Kalkavage, a scholar herself, who also manages to teach and read under siege conditions. "I've never been able to work in a library or an office," Peter remarks. "I like a bit of distraction and noise to work against. I like the sense that I am in the trenches somehow." "Of course, sometimes it is utterly impossible," he concedes. This is the first of two years that Peter Kalkavage, who joined the Annapolis faculty in 1977, has occupied the NEH-funded Chair of Modern Thought, and his project is the study of The Phenomenology of Spirit, by the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a notably challenging work St. John's students read and discuss for seven seminar meetings in their senior year. More specifically, Mr. Kalkavage hopes that by "re-entering the work and attempting finally to think it through as a whole," he will come out with a better understanding of what the philosopher means by "actual knowing," and the implications of the philosopher's "audacious claim to have completed philosophy." "We make a valiant attempt at St. John's to read Hegel, but I think we need help. His work is enormously important for all four years of the curriculum," says Mr. Kalkavage. He sees this help coming in part from a faculty study group which will gather to read and discuss Hegel's book in the fall semester him for the 20-some years since his undergraduate days at Pennsylvania State University where he received his B. A. in philosophy in 1973, his master's degree in 1976, and his doctorate in 1983. His Ph.D. dissertation was not on Hegel, however, but on Plato's Timaeus. Mr. Kalkavage sees a marked connection between Plato and Hegel and the tasks they set themselves. The central theme of the Phenomenology is philosophical education, which puts the work in direct relation to Plato's Republic and Symposium. In Timaeus, he notes, Socrates asks for a speech showing the best city displaying its virtue in war, while "I see Hegel attempting to address the same thing through his theory of history." Mr. Kalkavage calls Phenomenology a "philosophical novel"; Hegel calls it a "gallery of images" -"living characters who come on the scene, articulate their vision of truth, and pass away," Mr. Kalkavage explains. The truth differs profoundly from type to type, and Hegel examines the truths of these different claims-i.e. that the truth is what the senses tell you; or that the truth is what conscience tells you; or that the truth is what physical science tells you. These human types and their quests for truth "all fail necessarily," says Mr. Kalkavage, but they all fail in an orderly fashion, and it is the task of the philosopher to exhibit that order. Furthermore, the failures are all fruitful. "They have a specific result, which is that when one stage falls, it falls into the next stage and gives rise to what Hegel means by absolute knowing." While the philosopher's claim to have reached absolute knowing might seem audacious, says Mr. Kalkavage, in (continued on page 19) Einstein/ by Lesli Allison The relationship between Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka is the subject of a recent paper by Santa Fe tutor and musician-in-residence Peter Pesic. "Before the Law: Einstein and Kafka" will appear early this year in Literature and Theology which is published in England by Oxford University Press. "I began to write this essay more than 20 years ago when I first became aware that Einstein and Kafka had both lived in Prague from 1910-1912," Mr. Pesic said. "They had shared friends and been in the same circles, but nothing much was known about their interaction." This information served as springboard for Mr. Pesic to explore what might be parallel or divergent in the lives and works of the two men. "As I taught at St. John's College over a number of years and worked with my students on Einstein in senior mathematics, I became aware of the theme of The Law which he was seeking. Einstein's Law has no graven images but is known in the form of mathematical equations and has an interesting parallel with the Mosaic Law in the Book of Exodus. This in turn leads back to Kafka whose works circle obsessively around a hidden and mysterious Law, sought but never found." According to Mr. Pesic, the paper is f a tie a comparison of the treatments of this transcendent law in Einstein and Kafka. "It leads particularly to the question of whether human activity should try to transcend what Einstein called the 'merely personal' or whether daily life might hold some essential secret." During the course of his work Mr. Pesic said he came across a novel which Kafka's friend Max Brad wrote, ostensibly about Kepler and Tycho Brahe but which also is a disguised portrait of Einstein. This book sheds light on the way Kafka and his friends might have thought about Einstein and his extraordinary activities. "The anguished darkness which surrounds Kafka's Law stands in provocative contrast to Einstein's basic optimism," Mr. Pesic said. "There is also a fascinating counterpoint between their views concerning identity. Einstein insisted that each particle might have an irreducible identity and a determinate path according to the Law. He parted ways with quantum theory, in which there is a pervasive and unavoidable loss of identity which leads to indeterminacy. In contrast, Kafka's novels and parables are filled with strange blurrings and mergings of identity, from human to animal and beyond. Kafka's conception of the Law moves beyond the boundaries of individual identity to a new realm more akin in spirit to quantum theory." �Boffin.an provides dedicated leadership By Donna Boetig When Allan Hoffman, JV 49, graduated from St. John's College, he admits to having felt indifferent towards it. "I had a new life to lead," he says. Consequently for the next 25 years, this recipient of the Alumni Award of Merit in 1985 was, in his words, "a casual alumnus." It wasn't till Jake Brooks, A'49, req_uested his help in 1973 in plan- ning a 25th reunion to coincide with a birthday celebration for Stringfellow Barr, co-founder of the New Program, that Mr. Hoffman "found out what it means to love St. John's." Today, this fifth-term member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, 13year chairman of the Alumni Relations Committee, and former president of the New York Alumni Association chapter, is chairing the Decade of the 40s for the capital campaign. Having guided fellow 40s ·alumni towards an ·ambitious $2 million campaign goal, Mr. Hoffman is a primary figure in seeking the money earmarked to convert the Hall of Records into a new college library. He and decade.:mates hope to have the library named for the founders of the New Program, Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan. Mr. Barr, who was Mr. Hoffman's freshman seminar leader in 1945, had retired near Princeton, New Jersey. When contacted by Mr. Hoffman in 1973, he remembered him immediately. "I was delighted," his former student recalls. "Winky and I were good friends till his death." "You would have to know Barr and talk to him to understand his influence;" Mr. Hoffman says. "St. John's College meant a great deal to him, far beyond an institution. It was what it stood for; what it was trying to do." "Back in the 40s, St. John's was not accredited and had no endowment. The drop-out rate was horrendous; 50% (of the students) didn't know what St. John's was about. The school was vibrant because of the spirits of Barr and Buchanan and others like them," he says. "The money we had was spent on learning. The tutors put their hearts and souls into it, and the students responded." It was more than nostalgia that brought Mr. Hoffman back to his alma mater. "It was a recognition that St. John's had always been an active influence in my life," he says. He felt its importance at every step in his career: from the time that he was awarded "best trainee" in the executive training class at B. Gertz Inc. department store in Long Island; to his being named at 27 the youngest merchandise manager of Allied Stores' 26 main stores; to his rise to vice president of Associated Merchandising Corporation and Amiee Wholesale Corporation; and finally, to his position as president of Handy Andy Specialty Corporation, a decorative bathroom accessories manufacturing corporation. Recalling his early executive training: "I had an advantage over the NYU graduates because St. John's taught me John Hollander, poet and critic, is visiting scholar in April John Hollander, poet, critic, distinguished teacher (he is the Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English at Yale University), and editor of the muchpraised two-volume anthology of American poetry published last year, will be the guest lecturer at the Annapolis campus on Friday, April 8, under the Andrew Steiner Visiting Scholar Program. He will speak on ekphrasis, or the imaging of works of art in poetry, at his 8:15 p.m. lecture in the FSK auditorium. "By seemingly universal consent," wrote poet and critic David Lehman in the December 26, 1993, Washington Post Book World, "John Hollander was the perfect choice to edit the Library of America's two-volume anthology of 19th century American poetry, which has become one of this season's highbrow literary hits." Mr. Hollander's "ardor for the art is matched only by his intimidating erudition," wrote the critic, noting that a few months ago Mr. Hollander also published his latest collection of poems, Tesserae, "a triumph of lyric mastery and formal virtuosity." March 1994 The Reporter page6 Mr. Hollander is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry and many works of criticism, including Vision and Resonance: Two Senses of Poetic Form, Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse, and Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language. He is co-editor of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature. In 1990, Mr. Hollander was awarded one of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowships granted by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The visiting scholar program was established by the family and friends of Andrew Steiner, A'63, who died in 1991 in an automobile accident. More than $150,000 has been contributed to the memorial, set up to bring to the Annapolis campus distinguished visitors in disparate disciplines. In 1992-93, guests were an Oxford classicist and a Biblical scholar. Last fall internationally known Harvard mathematician Barry Mazur and his artistwriter wife Gretchen Mazur were guests under the program. the difference between the general and the particular. NYU taught them to do particular things in a particular way, but if I understood the policy, it was easy to understand what action should be taken in a particular situation." Once back at St. John's in 1973, Mr. Hoffman quickly made his presence and experience felt, especially in its alumni association. Betsy Blume, Director of Alumni Activities, points to Allan Hoffman as a prime influence for improving collegealumni relations. "He was instrumental in opening the Alumni Association to nationwide participation on its board," Mrs. Blume says. "His drive and vision have been indispensable." "The old alumni association, founded by Francis Scott Key, did its job well," Mr. Hoffman explains. "But events changed; We developed a western campus and our alumni became national in scope." At the time Mr. Hoffman became involved, interest in the Alumni Association had been waning, and disenchanted alumni considered forming regional groups. (continued on page 19) Over There Ensign Alexander W. Ellermann, USN (The article below is reprinted with permission of the editors of the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association magazine "Shipmate," where it appeared in September, 1993.) Early last November, I sat on a bench in the hallway outside the office of Chris Nelson, the president of St. John's College. It was a working day and I was in my Service Dress Blues. I had an appointment to see him at 0900 to discuss some administrative matters. At around 0910, a rather matronly looking woman walked past me as she fished for her keys in her purse, did a double take, and said, "What are you doing here?" It was Eva Brann, dean of the college. I rose to my feet and replied, "I go here. I'm in my second semester at the Graduate Institute." "Really?" she said. "How delightful! I had no idea one of you had escaped over the wall. Imagine that- a traitor!" Just another day at St. John's College. My association with the school began during my Youngster Year, when I fell in love with a freshman there after crashing a party one Saturday night. I spent most of my free time around Johnnies for the next three years. I liked them because they were so different fromthe·people I lived and worked wlth; .. I felt as if I were visiting another world just by crossing the street. When I had the idea to pursue graduate studies there at night while working at the Academy and awaiting my flight school date, I thought that most of the objections I would encounter would come from people at the Academy. Maybe I expected my fellows to start looking for peace medallions under my uniform or Jimi Hendrix tapes in my car. I don't know. As it turns out, when people hear what I'm doing they usually say something along the lines of, "That's great," ask a couple of questions about the program, and move the conversation along to other subjects. At St. John's, on the other hand, I frequently find myself stereotyped by my profession. Every now and then, someone'll whistle the Old Spice jingle as I walk past. I smile and wink. Johnnies I meet on campus often say, "Oh, you're the traitor," or "So you're the Navy guy I heard about," and then go on about how amazed they are that the Navy would let me study there. I just say, "Hey, the cold war's over." Once, my Academy training even got me into a little hot water with one of my tutors (That's what they call profs there.). I remember the day she took me aside after class: "Mister Ellermann," she said, "you need to change the way you express yourself in class. You shouldn't sound so decisive. It may be discouraging some of the others from exploring new ideas out loud." I thought, "I've spent four years learning how to sound decisive!" I said, "O.K. I'll work on it." We got along fine after that. Of course, sometimes it's fun to be an alien. I watched my first marchover from the outside this past football season. I stood with the johnnies, right next to a young gentleman who stood about six-two in his heavy leather boots, clad in black from head to toe. Though he looked forbidding, he was friendly enough. We chatted about Annapolis, the weather, and St. John's. Either he didn't notice my Plebe issue sweatshirt or he just didn't bother to mention it. He started looking at me strangely when, among a crowd of people shouting "Go Army!" and other unspeakables, he found himself next to the one guy hollering "Go Navy!" It probably didn't help that I also returned the waves or shouts of the Mids in the ranks who recognized me among the group. When it was all over and 36th Company receded into the distance, some of the johnnies who knew me asked what it was like to be on the other side. At that point, the young gentleman asked my wife Vanessa (that very same girl from the party) how I knew all those Mids. "Oh, he used to be one," she told him. "He just graduated last year." "And he's going here?" "Yeah." He stared at me, dumbfounded. As we walked away, he just stood there, muttering something, apparently trying to process the information. "He's a freshman," my wife explained. Maybe the cold war isn't over quite yet. (Editor's Note: Dean Brann declares that she NEVER arrives as late as Ensign Ellermann reports above.) �The Reporter March 1994 page7 Sunday, December 12, 1993 THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS An interview with President Agresto The liberal arts are in trouble, according a new organization of scholars. Since last spring, the American Academy for Liberal Education has been working to establish an accrediting board for traditional liberal arts schools. The qualifications would be tough, with only about 100 of the country's 3,500 colleges and universities qualifying for the group's seal of approval. The University of Dallas is one of many colleges that have expressed interest in the credential. The group's chairman, Dr. John Agresto, is president of St. John's College in Santa Fe, N.M, where all undergraduates spend four years studying the western classics in a "Great Books" program. Dr. Agresto, acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities during the Reagan administration, has taken the lead in defending the traditional liberal arts. His views stand in contrast to the move toward diverse - so called politically correctstudies on many campuses. Dr. Agresto recently spoke with Dallas Morning News education writer Larry Bleiberg about the role of the liberal arts. The following are excerpts: Q: Some have suggested that your organization is a backlash to the move toward diversity on campuses. Is that correct? A: In some-ways yes and in some ways no. I'm not sure what it means to say that we will not accredit a school unless students graduate with at least an intermediate-level knowledge of a foreign language. How is that a reactionary thing to say? Or, we will not accredit a school unless it offers to all students a serious introduction to mathematics and the natural sciences. You simply can't go and just take poetry courses and say you're liberally educated. You have to have the natural sciences and mathematics as part of your education. I'm not sure how that's reactionary. Q: Who needs the liberal arts? A: On one level, nobody needs the liberal arts-if what you're talking about is making a living. On another level, everybody needs the liberal arts because what the liberal arts really are are sort of opening your eyes to the world and to human nature and to the history of your country and other countries. I think the liberal arts don't make you a good practitioner of any field. I think other things do that very well. I think they make you smarter about things that really matter. Q: Like? A Like what's this country all about. Why do we act this way and not a different way? And then even more philosophical, literary questions that always intrigue students. What do I owe myself? What do I owe my country? What do I owe my parents? What's love? What's tragedy? What's happiness all about? What should I hate? What do I owe my friends? What do my friends owe me? Those are the kind of questions you really can't get out of a course in heating and air conditioning repair. Q: But what about getting a job? A: Most people will not only change jobs, but maybe even change careers somewhere between seven and nine times. All colleges are now doing is preparing students for their first job. We want to prepare students for their last job, for all their jobs. And we want to do that by giving students the skills of analyzing, of thinking, of reasoning something through. Skills of conversation. We think that if they know something about human life and about human nature and about science and mathematics, then they will do better in this world. Q: Why have the liberal arts focused on Western culture? A: I think that in America anyone who doesn't know about the founding of this country and the Declaration of lndepend en ce and the Constitution and American history, and anyone who can't tell the difference between Madonna, who's Christ's mother, and Madonna, who's Sean Penn's ex-wife, isn't very bright. Or let's say isn't very well-educated. Western civilization is what formed us, where we live, what made us what we are. So yes, anybody who doesn't know something intelligent about democracy and liberty and equality, doesn't know something intelligent about the Reformation or the Renaissance, is really missing out on intelligence. That's not to say, absolutely not to say, that once you know Western civilization you know everything you need to know. That's not true. Q: That's the foundation to build from? A: It should be. And it could be because of the incredible intelligence that has gone into this civilization, both in science and mathematics and then also philosophy and literature. Q: Isn't it also important to learn about other groups, other cultures? A: It's certainly important. But those other groups that make up part of this country are, by and large, also the shapers and the contributors of Western civilization. Q:Howso? A: Someone asked me yesterday: Is it important to know something about African culture? I said I don't think you know as much about African-Americans in this country by studying African culture as you do by studying the history of African-Americans in this country. And the funny part is, if you look at American history, it is by and large the history of African-Americans and whites. It's not the history of Italians. It's not the history of Jews. It's not the history of Norwegians. If you want to know something about blacks, a distinct and important part of this culture, American history is far more important. With the history of slavery, with the Dred Scott case, with the civil war, with all the Supreme Court cases that have to do with equality-it's through understanding the black contribution to America that we understand something about liberty, equality and democracy and American history, not by studying West Africa. (continued on page 19) Scott Capeheart, SF'93, and Graduate Institute student Yvonne Woods perform A Winter's Tale for Chaparral Elementary School. Students bring Shakespeare to children by Lesli Allison When St. John's College offered summer performance space to a local Shakespeare theater company, it signaled the beginning of a partnership destined to bring Shakespeare to thousands. The first Shakespeare in Santa Fe production at the college in the summer of 1991, Twelfth Night, drew almost 7,000 people to campus. After a year's hiatus to re-negotiate and re-group, Shakespeare in Santa Fe returned to the St. John's campus in 1993, attracting more than 8,000 people for the production of Romeo and Juliet. Two St. John's students were among the cast, including Scott Capehart, SF'93, as Mercutio. With elaborate sets, hand made costumes, live musicians and dedicated actors, the company is growing in leaps and bounds, both in terms of size and quality. In 1994 Shakespeare in Santa Fe will feature The Tempest, headed by New York director Jay Raphael. In addition, Shakespeare in Santa Fe has reached out to local school children with "Shakespeare in the Schools." Now in its second year, the program is in such high demand that the company has had to turn down requests from some schools. This year's "Shakespeare in the Schools" production of A Winter's Tale is being directed by St. John's student Erika Hildebrand, SF'95. Another Johnnie, Richard Saja, SF'93, is the set designer. Scott Capehart and Graduate Institute student Yvonne Woods, are members of the seven-person cast. The school program is being funded by local. businesses and foundations. Performances are scheduled for local Pueblos, elementary, junior high and high schools, and the New Mexico Military Academy in Roswell, New Mexico, among others. Shakespeare in Santa Fe director Rachel Kelly said the idea for the school program came about in response to children who attended summer performances. "We were amazed at how excited the children were," she said. "One kid said 'Hey, this is better than TV!' During performances of Mid-Summer Night's Dream, their eyes would get bigger and bigger and, without realizing it, they would start creeping up onto the stage." Kelly, who formerly taught theater to children, saw a natural relationship between children and the Bard. She also envisioned an opportunity to help young actors and directors build skills and gain experience. "That's one reason I chose to work with Erika," Kelly said. "I approached her and she was very excited about the idea. Erika and I spent some time trying to decide how to adapt the play to a 30 or 40-minute performance for children with seven actors playing twelve roles. Erika did a beautiful job with the editing." Kelly said she selected A Winter's Tale because it is reminiscent, in her view, of a classic fairy tale. �March 1994 The Reporter page8 G 0 I N G s 0 N Nationally-syndicated columnist Colman McCarthy spoke before a capacity crowd in the Conversation Room on the Annapolis campus in January, while a concert scheduled for January 21 by Eugene istomin, one of the world's great living pianists, was iced out by the brutal winter storm that paralyzed the eastern U.S. for a week. Mr. lstomin was unwilling to perform without the use of his own piano, which could not be transported from New York to Annapolis by concert time. His piano recital, which is free and open to the public, has been rescheduled for the FSK auditorium at 3 p.m. March 27. This concert season is the golden anniversary season for a pianist who Mr. McCarthy beguiles listeners debuted with the Philadelphia and New York Philharmonic orchestras at the age of 17, and who has, in the years since, collaborated in performance with the world's greatest conductors. Mr. McCarthy, a guest of the student-run Political Forum, exhorted students and visitors packed into the Conversation Room to redouble their efforts for peace. The founder and director of the Center for Teaching Peace and a committed vegetarian, Mr. McCarthy is a man whO also makes time to teach classes on nonvio- · lence in secondary school classrooms. Before. the Annapolis ·.audience, he was both entertaining and movingly sincere, his talk ranging from nonviolence to animal rights to the efficacy of prayer, at every point inviting his audience to reassess unquestioned beliefs. Rather than ask our children what they want to be when they grow up, he said, ask them instead, "How are you going to serve society?" A N N A p 0 L I s A harpsichord concert by Tutor Emeritus Douglas Allanbrook, composer and performer, is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, April 24, in the Great Hall at Annapolis. Shown here with his son John, 16, with whom he presented a concert for harpsichord and French horn in January, Mr. Allanbrook was also scheduled to play a Bach series at Grace Church in Georgetown in February. Keith Harvey photo Mr. lstomin's concert re-scheduled F rm r SJC vice president honored William 8. Dunham, vice president at the Annapolis campus from 1973 to 1978 after a career in the State Department, was recently honored in New York City by Chamber Music America. More than 400 people-performers, managers, publishers and critics-were on hand to see him presented with the Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to the organization for professional chamber music players, a group he has served for the past 15 years. In 1979, when he first became interested in the national organization for chamber music players, he found the group's board of directors "in serious trouble," he says. He assisted them in reorganization, and was largely responsible for the corporate and foundation funding which took the group's budget_ from $10,000 to over $1 million today. The son and grandson of pianists, he is married to musician and teacher Charlotte Dunham and is the father of four children, two of whom are professional musicians. Before coming to St. John's in 1973 at the invitation of the late President Richard D. Weigle, Mr. Dunham had several careers. He served in the Department of State from 1943 to 1963, where he was senior desk officer for Spain and Portugal, and worked closely with former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. He served as vice president at Carleton College, his alma mater, beginning in 1963. Members of Tutor David Townsend's Graduate Institute preceptorial on "Chaos and Fractals" in Annapolis gather with him around a Mandelbrot Set cake baked for their final class last semester by class member Marilyn Roper. From left are Aaron Rutherford, Jason Goscha, G.A. Donovan, Mr. Townsend, Ms. Roper, Mitchell Prothero, Laura Glass, and Janice Muscio. CROQUET ALERT The malletmen and women are out there practicing these days in readiness for the 12th-yes, TWELFTH-croquet match between the Johnnies and the Middies under the Liberty Tree. The tentative date is Saturday, April 23. Time: one p.m. Rain date: Sunday. To verify, call 410-626-2539. To date-Johnnies, 7; Middies, 4. Bundle up your lawn chairs, pack the watercress sandwiches in your picnic basket, clap a straw hat on your head, and c'mon out. �The Reporter March 1994 G 0 I N G s 0 N page9 A N N A p 0 L I s Left - These three Caritas Society members bring a bit of spring to a fierce Annapolis winter as they prepare for the third annual Flower and Garden Show, a benefit for SJC student emergencies. The flower arrangement is a hands-on operation for Casey Pingle, left, assistant chairman of the show, Marjorie Rigg, the creator, center, and Flower and Garden Show chairman Maryanne Spencer. The floral extravaganza has expanded from one day to two-Saturday and Sunday, March 12 and 13-and spilled over into an outside pavilion for exhibitors in addition to the FSK lobby and adjacent rooms and corridors. Included in the festivities are a Friday night gala preview party and silent auction and a Saturday "Bloomin' Breakfast," with Washington Post Ornamental Gardener columnist Charles Fenyvesi as speaker. General admission, $5; sponsors (including preview, breakfast and admission), $50; patrons (preview, admission), $35; and breakfast and admission, $15. For information, call 410-626-2539. Keith Harvey photo Gallery members find satire timeless The French satirist's sometimes savage and often comic rendering of his times drew an appreciative crowd to the January Mitchell Gallery members' opening of "The Artist as Social Commentator: Prints by Honore Daumier." The 46 lithographs, shown for the first time as a group, date from 1849-1860, the time of the Second Republic and the first half of the Second Empire. Daumier's satiric drawings reproduced in the il\ustrated journals of his time were accessible even to the illiterate. They made him a powerful friend or enemy, often pitting him against individuals, government and the church. Upper left - Board of Visitors and Governors member Anna E. Greenberg and husband, Capt. Edwin G. Greenberg (USN-Ret.), left, chat with Marylou Symonds, Director of the Annual Fund, and Naval Academy professor Craig Symonds, right. Lower right - From left, Mitchell Gallery founding member Bennett Shaver, Capt. Frederick W. Zimmerman (USN-Ret.), Fred Lewis and wife Nancy Lewis, the college registrar discuss the exhibit. Upper right - Mitchell Gallery Committee chairman John Moore, left, has a word with gallery director Hydee Schaller and potter Rick Malmgren. Lower left - Dr. Don Garren and his wife, Lorraine Garren, a member of the gaJlery committee, admire a caricature. Keith Harvey photos �March 1994 The Reporter page 10 G 0 I N G s 0 N s A N T A F E Above - St. John's College at Santa Fe hosted a holiday party for 200 community children· December 4, 1993, which included this gallery exhibit of art by local school children. Other activities in the Great Hall were ornament making, storytelling and holiday films. Above: Members of the St. John's community and local residents are enjoying the rare opportunity to hear the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. Over the course of two years, Musician-in-Residence Peter Pesic is performing all 32 sonatas in two different cycles. One cycle is being performed once each month throughout the academic year. The second cycle is being performed on a weekly basis during the summer. Performances are being conducted in the format of informal lunch-time concerts that include discussion of the works by Mr. Pesic. "It's an unusual occurrence to hear all 32 sonatas," Mr. Pesic said. He added that the performances are arranged in chronological order to give people a sense of the complete unfolding of Beethoven's works. Below - Warren Winiarski, A '52, delights guests with tips on the fine art of wine-making. Founder and owner of the renowned Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Mr. Winiarski conducted a wine-tasting on January 23 in Santa Fe to raise funds for the St. John's College Southwest Scholarship Fund. The fund provides financial assistance for students from the southwest to attend St. John's. The benefit was hosted by a local hotel, the Inn of the Anasazi. Participants tasted a variety of red and white wines, among them the award winning 1973 SL V Cabernet Sauvignon, famous for taking first place over distinguished California Cabemets and First Growth Bordeaux at the Paris Tasting in 1975. Above - Santa Claus (David Finley, SF '93) has a helper at the children's holiday party. Below - Marvin Slaves, a new member of the St. John's College Board of Visnors and Governors, wins the raffle for a bottle of the distinguished 1973 SL V Cabernet Sauvignon. �The Reporter March 1994 G 0 I N G s 0 N The Dean's Winter FilITI Series Tt-i~ §IL~~T ~12A • Intolerance •Diary Of A Lost Girl • Cops/Balloonatics •College page 11 s A N T A F E Dinish D'Souza, author of Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus was on campus February 22 for the first President's Annual President's Day Lecture. Mr. D'Souza addressed the topic of ''The Challenge of Diversity and Political Correctness." Formerly a senior White House policy analyst and editor of Pot;cy Review, Mr. D'Souza currently is a research feffow at the American Enterprise Institute. Excerpts from his talk will folfow in the next issue of The Reporter. • An Italian Straw Hat • Thomas Graal's Best Film • Hot Water/Safety Last • The Freshman • The Nibelungen •Sunrise This year's Dean's Winter Film Series featured classic films from the silent era. The series is sponsored by the dean and is free to members of St. John's College and the Santa Fe community. Santa Fe City Manager David Sena (above) and City Councilor Ouida Mac Gregor (below) address a small gathering at the February 2 dedication of a new public trail. St. John's has been working in collaboration with the City of Santa Fe and local residents to expand public access to the nearby national forest. As part of the effort, St. John's granted easement rights in the arroyo where the city will build and maintain the public trail. The issue of public access has become increasingly heated in the Santa Fe area as widespread development impedes access to outlying national forest areas. The agreement between the college and the city may eventually be used as a model in negotiations with private property owners. The award-winning Lark String Quartet performed in Santa Fe on February 12 as part of the St. John's College Concert Series. Musicians-in-residence at Dartmouth College, the quartet won the Gold Medal in the 1991 Shostakovich lnternaUonal String Quartet Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the coveted Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1990. In addition to Jive concerts in the Great Hall, St. John's is recording performances and broadcasting the programs on public radio stations throughout New Mexico. �page 12 II 1936 Ralph M. Schley (A) is retired and does volunteer work at the Senior Citizens Center and at the Navy and Marine Corps relief office. "I'm looking forward to our class's 60th reunion at the same time as the college's 300th birthday." 1937 "My news for The Reporter is: Why don't we hear from anyone else in the class of 1937?" writes Leon Boro (A) from Fresno, CA "I will be 78 years old this month. Surely there must be others who are still living. LET US HEAR FROM YOU WHILE YOU ARE STILL BREATHING." Writes Cdr. Bernard G. Fold (A) from Rockville, MD: "What about the '37 reunion?" Dr. Robert Lewis (A), who was director of the graduate school and acting dean of humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, has been named professor emeritus. "I spend the winters in Naples, FL," writes John Owens (A), "where I lose money on the golf course and am writing a book about Owens Yacht Co. as an entrepreneurial story." 1938 Dr. Francis J. Townsend, Jr. (A) reports that all goes well after a total replacement of his left knee and an orthoscopic examination of his right knee in February, 1993. 1943 While he has been ill for the past six-seven years, Dr. Douglas Buchanan (A) reports that he is now better and is teaching Shakespeare using Mark Van Doren as a "mentor." He is interested in music, he writes, in the politics of the left, and he has been fortunate enough to meet a lady he is "very interested in." 1945 As a Santa Fe Graduate Institute degree holder in the class of '78 as well as a member of the class of '45, George Cayley (A) is one of that very small band of students who have taken part in both the undergradt,rnte and graduate programs at St. John's College. The new Register includes only the 1978 listing. Mr. Cayley wants '45 classmates to know that he is indeed still one of their number. Lawrence L. Levin (A) reports that he is "into a third career at 70. I counsel the guests at the soup kitchen at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Manhattan and cook in the soup kitchen as well." 1948 Dr. L. Wheaton Smith (A) retired from IBM Corp. last year. He is doing some consulting, a lot of work for various non-profit organizations, and some travelling, he writes. 1949 The Rev. Frederick P. Davis (A) writes from Rancho Mirage, CA that 1993 has been a year of attending class reunions with his wife Rita: his 50th high school reunion in Minneapolis in June, his 40th at the Episcopal Seminary in Alexandria, VA, in October, as well as their first three churches in northwest The Reporter Alumni Notes Minnesota and Fargo, ND. They plan to return to Annapolis next October for Rita's 50th high school reunion and his 45th at SJC. "Maybe some who missed the 40th will make plans?" he suggests. 1951 John F. Horne, Jr., wants to know if anyone from the class of '51 other than himself is now retired near sunny Tempe, AZ2 After he retired from the MetroDa de Police Department in August, 1993, William T. Roberts II (A) toured Europe by car for five weeks, driving 6,000 miles through Germany, Austria, Italy, France, N. Spain, the Lowlands, and Denmark. "Too expensive, no parking available in cities, too many tourists. But fun! Spent the rest of October watching leaves change, an event we don't have in south Florida." George Wend (A) writes that his retirement in June, 1993, from an engineering job at Westinghouse Electric began with a trip to China. 1954 Sydney W. Porter (A) has been elected president of the American Association of Radon Scientists. 1955 Paul A. Lowdenslager (A) reports that his sabbatical from Western State College in Gunnison, CO was spent in Spain at the University of Granada College of Law-" exciting," he says, as was the Alhambra. "And the time spent in Strasbourg teaching for Syracuse University enabled me to enjoy lots of wines and conversations with the French. The best wines I had came from Rioja, Spain." 1959 Dr. Hugh M. Curtler (A) recently completed a "Socratic" textbook that encourages critical thinking in ethicsEthical Argument, published by Paragon House. 1960 Col. John J. Lane (A) has resigned his position as executive vice president at Shearson Lehman in NYC to accept the position of associate executive director of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC. 1963 Miriam Golub Duhan (A), who was married last year to Terrill Tory, was to move to Paris with her husband Dec. 1. 1964 Susan Cliver Purinton (A) reports that her daughter and her husband, both music graduates of Bennington College, are the owners and brewers of McNeill's Brewery in Brattleboro, VT, while their son is a junior at Harvard University. "We are celebrating our empty nest in El Salvador, courtesy of the Foreign Service." 1966 Robert G. Fenley (A) received the A ward of Distinction in Medical Science Writing from the American Association of Medical Colleges. In July, Barry Fisher (A) joined the full-time faculty of the University of Nevada School of Medicine as associate professor of surgery. Extensive structural changes to the 137-year-old St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Baltimore were the subject of a Baltimore Sun article September 23, 1993, which traced the venerable church's history, reconstruction, and the reality of holding weddings under the scaffolding. Rector of the church is the Rev. William N. McKeachie (A) who is quoted as saying to the Sun reporter, "I wouldn't exactly call it a blessing in disguise, but we'll be better off when this work is complete." 1967 Inese Muzikants Franzke (A) writes "I realize it is still very early, but if there is any information available on the tricentennial, would appreciate receiving it-dates, etc." 1968 Donald Booth (A) is director of design at Zuhair Fayez & Associates architectural and engineering consultants in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Peter S. Roth (SGI} writes that he has resumed work as an investment advisor after making a partial recovery from a severe injury. Dr. Charles Watson (A) writes that "absence does not make me disinterested." He is "pursuing minor goals at Bridgeport [CT] Hospital," he writes, where he heads the department of anesthesiology, while his wife Marsha is on the school board, his oldest son a freshman at Brown, his second son in high school, and his 10-year-old busy with ballet, piano, violin, gymnastics, and such. 1969 Prof. Catherine J. Allen (A), currently on sabbatical from George Washington University, is writing a book on Andean aesthetics on a fellowship at Dunbarton Oaks. Her first book, The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community (Smithsonian Press, 1988) has done well, she reports. She is married to a Hungarian writer, Andras Sandor, and has a six-year-old daughter, Andrea. From Oxford, OH, Andrew Garrison (A) reports that he is teaching an undergraduate course on political philosophy and the rise of National Socialism in Weimar. 1970 John Dean (A) writes that "things go well here in the City of Light (Paris) and the capital of Europe (Strasbourg). Professionally, I've just published another book (on the history of ideas and American popular culture) and directed our national convention of American Studies specialists. Otherwise Europe is in a period of creative chaos, as ever; deeply divided about the war in Yugoslavia, what to do about Sarajevo, its own chronic social problems and how the weather will affect next year's wine." Steven Hanft (A) writes: "I am an extremely lucky man. After 15 years, I still love my wife and she loves me. We have a wonderful son who's no dummy and doesn't suffer from obvious genetic defects. We own our home and can afford the mortgage payments. Sometimes we go out to dinner." March 1994 II 1971 Dr. Jim Cockey (A), his wife Cathy, sister of Arthur Luse (A'70), and their three children live in Salisbury, on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Dr. Cockey practices internal medicine "and walks humbly with his God." Barry N. Sher (A) writes from NYC th.at he spent the last year "designing prayer books." 1973 John T. Ferrier (A), who was chairperson of the Michigan State Bar's Family Law Section in 1993, writes ebulliently that he "capped off a great year-20 years out-with a seminar on Much Ado About Nothing, led by the legendary Miss Barbara Leonard. Spear and I will aim even higher for our 25th. KILL YOUR TELEVISION!" 1974 Maj. Roger C. Burk, USAF (A) is now an assistant professor of operations research at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Marguerite Judson (A), writes "My new job started this summer at Consumer Action in San Francisco and focuses on community organizing and legislative work to improve access to banking and credit services for low income consumers. It combines six years of community organizing experience (in the East Bay for alcohol recovery services) with a preceding five years of banking experience. I find myself surprised to be returning to my high school love of the political process and fulfilling the original Great Books program goal of preparing community leaders. "I enjoy living in a flat in Noe Valley with Brenda Barnette, my partner of two years. We met on the Board of The Parsonage, an Episcopal ministry advocating justice for gays and lesbians, and witnessing to the godliness of lesbian and gay love. Who'd have thought my MTS (1977) from Virginia Seminary would prepare me for this? Though four years of board service ends this winter, I'll continue to produce the monthly radio show-reading drama and literature by and about lesbians and bisexual women, on KPFA which I started for The Parsonage in 1993. "Time is even more crunched by the current search for a middle school for our 11-year-old son and high school for our 13-year-old daughter. It is a business I cherish because the death of my daughter Ereina Christin Smith in 1987 seemed to end parenting in my life. Plus there are three cats and one small dog who live with us. Life is amazingly strong and resilient; am profoundly content." 1975 Laura Bridgman (A) writes that she is a naturopathic medical student at Bastyr College in Seattle who plans to complete the four-year program in 1995. She studies with "great-spirited, caring people and we're learning Good Medicine. I hike in these forests and mountains and play folk music on the hammered dulcimer with friends in my spare time." Malcolm Handte (A) is now working lower Manhattan "for more or less the same company, Zurich Reinsurance Centre as senior v.p.," while Janis �March 1994 II Popowicz Handte (A'77) works at Columbia Presbyterian Medical, and pursues an M.P.H. Their big news is the birth of Winston Felix Handte on February 22, 1993. Marsha Donne Hayden (SGI), who now wishes to go by just Donne, is currently teaching English and is Department Chair at Associacao Escola Graduada de Sao Paulo in Brazil. One of her English Department colleagues is another St. John's alumnus - Peter Born (A'83). 1976 Timothy Born (A) and Juliet Goslee Born (A) are still in Mozambique, a richly-endowed country, but one "considered the poorest in the world, due to the legacies of 15 years of socialist policies and two decades of civil war." The two "help manage and monitor your U.S. taxpayer support during the still-dicey U.N.-supervised peace process." Sons Christopher (12) and Levin (9) "remain the most wonderful creatures on earth-even African wild dogs, rhinoceroses and cheetahs don't come dose." 1977 Mary Brandon (A) recently moved to Virginia and wants friends to know her new address: 13605 Turkey Foot Court, Chantilly, VA, 22021-2413. Dr. David S. Brody (A) writes that he plans to move to. St. Johnsbury, VT, with his new wife, and would be interested in hearing from any alumni in the area. Miriam Hock (AGO graduated from the Michigan State University College of Nursing with honors last May. She is now employed at the V.A. Medical Center in Battle Creek, MI, as staff nurse. 1979 Jeff McElroy (SF) has closed his private law practice and is writing a book about AIDS in New Mexico and a freelance travel book. He is enrolled in the UCLA Writer's Program. He is also working with his life partner Enrique in the architectural lighting business with offices in Hollywood, Caracas, and Santo Domingo. 1981 Robert Kozlowski (SF) writes that, contrary to the Register entry, and to his friends' expressed surprise "at the apparent fact that I never graduated/' he did indeed do so in 1981. He is an attorney and an environmental consultant in Chicago. He can be reached at 2610 W. Montrose, Chicago, IL 60618-1543; (312) 463-5983. Carla Meeske (SF) writes that she is "taking a pause in life to make a documentary on the commercial mushroom harvest in the forests of the Pacific Northwest." She would love to discuss this and related environmental matters with anyone interested. Rosamond Rice (AGI) is now assistant librarian at Baltimore's International Culinary College library after spending two years doing library work in Saipan. Nancy Schauber (A), who received her Ph.D. from Yale, now teaches philosophy at the University of Richmond. The Reporter Alumni Notes 1982 Adam Farquhar (SF), writes "Last May, I received my Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. Two weeks afterwards, I moved with my wife Angelea and our son Sebastian to Palo Alto, California. I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University. On October 12th of 1993, Angelea gave birth to our second son, Gregory Robert Farquhar, at Stewfare Hospital." Trudy Koch (AGI) will travel for the third time to Izmir, Turkey, and points north to the Baltic Sea to visit Dr. Seckin Ergin (AGI '81), her friend from the Graduate Instit.ute program. "The heights of Pergamum and the cliffs of Pammukale are sights to remember!" she writes. 1984 Lenore S. Parens (A) and Joshua Parens (A'83) are parents of a son, Raphael, born in July in Israel. Joshua has a postdoctoral position in political science at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, while Lenore continues her work as a freelance college math textbook editor. "Our phone number in Israel is (3) 5497475: Johnnies should call and visit." C. Allen Speight (A) has been named assistant professor of philosophy at Boston University's College of Liberal Arts. A specialist in German Idealist philosophy and Greek philosophy, he has been on the faculty at St. Xavier University and the University of Chicago, where he was a lecturer at the Center for Continuing studies and chairman of the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults. Prof. Speight received a Fulbright Grant for study in Germany and the University of Chicago's special Humanities Fellowship and Richard M. Weaver Fellowship. 1985 Beth Anderson {A) has begun a dermatology practice in Camp Hill, PA, while David Stahl (A) is working in Carlisle, PA, for Stoner Associates writing software for the Gas and Water Utilities industries. Nelson Denman (SF), writes "Last month I was an invited speaker at the first International Healthy Cities and Communities Conference, held in San Francisco. I spoke on my green work in Santa Fe over the past 5 plus years, from writing Verde Santa Fe, A Green City Program and working with Santa Fe City Planning Department developing ecological guidelines for future growth and development to helping start the Santa Fe Green Party, now the New Mexico Green Party and starting The Green Pages in the Santa Fe Reporter." Writes Bert Porter (A): "I am married, practicing yoga and meditation, and teaching algebra by a Socratic method to elementary children in low-income neighborhoods of the San Francisco Bay area." Julie Spencer (SF) writes from Angel Fire, NM, that she has a full-time massage therapy practice. "My son Joe is five and is learning how to ski this winter." Margo Hobbs Thompson (A) married Court Thompson in September, 1992. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in art history at Northwestern University, "which prevents me seeing as. much as I'd like of Sarah [Powers Knight] (A'85) and Dan Knight (A'84) and their two children Matthew, three, and Helen, six months." Steven Vitto (A) is currently working at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum while he completes a master's degree at George Washington University. He has a five-year-old daughter Donna Randall-Vitto. 1986 Elisabeth Long Anderson (A) is working as head of binding operations at the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago, while husband Paul Anderson (A'87) has finished a translation from the German of Epigenesis, which will be published in the fall of 1994 by Stanford University Press. Kristen Ann Baumgardner (SF), was married on August 1, 1993, to David Charles Caven, in a mountain meadow in Boulder, Colorado. Jennifer Flynn Israel (A) and Michael Ryan (SF) were both there for the event. Curran G. Engel (SF) is currently producing a 20-min. short film entitled "You Not Chinese." "We will finish production in Feb. '94," he writes, "and hope to exhibit it in next year's Mill Valley and San Francisco Film Festivals. I would. like to encourage all members of the extended SJC community to contact me at the following address and numbers: 4214 Montgomery St., Oakland, CA 94611. (510) 406-9254." Jeremy Lauer (A) finished a master's degree in applied economics/ economics at the CT-Wisconsin at Madison in 1991. He is currently working as a medical writer at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is finishing a book on the history and philosophy of economics on his own time. After Ben Monaghan (A) and wife Anna moved to Germany with their newborn daughter Alina, he worked as a teacher. In the next two years daughters Theresa and Marieke were born. "After Anna finished her studies (she gave birth to Marieke in the morning and then rushed to attend her graduation ceremonies that evening), we decided to move back to Maine and make a go of it." He has not yet found the desired teaching post, but works days at the YMCA, "which I enjoy," while Anna works evenings at L.L. Bean. "It is all perfectly absurd, but we're hanging in." Keith Glenn Rosen (AGO writes that he has worked as an assistant professor of history and political science at Brevard Community College in Melbourne, FL. Capt. Henry B. Williamson, USMC (A) writes that he is now flying the T-45 "Goshawk" jet trainer as a flight instructor at the Navy's flight school in Kingsville, TX. 1987 Tracy Fox Carpenter (A) has moved to Lawrenceville, NJ. She would like to see anyone from the class of '87 who lives in the area. Anyone who wants to visit should contact area code 609 directory and ask for the H. and T. Carpenter listing. page 13 II Sallie Fine (A) received her master's degree in education in May, 1992, and has since been teaching 9th, 10th, and 11th grade English at a small public high school in a suburb of Akron. In addition to full-time teaching, she has co-founded a small company called Fine Fish Productions. She and her business partner have completed the first book in a series highlighting Cleveland subculture-The Hole Story, a guide book to donut shops. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the transitional housing program for homeless and jobless families where Sallie worked last summer. "The irony is that neither my co-author nor I eat donuts, so we had to have a donut tasting party in order to complete our research." Another aspect of Fine Fish is a line of jewelry. The partners are making beaded pins and bracelets and are currently showing in several Cleveland and Akron area galleries. "My head is spinning, but I'm having a great time!" Christopher Howell (A) is married to Sabrina Wald Howell (A'BB). They are living in Santa Rosa, CA, where Chris is a sales rep/manager for a high tech art printing co. Sabrina is completing a B.S. in computer programming at Sonoma State University. Joyce Turner Reyes (A) and husband Luis have just purchased a 1994 Peterbilt truck and are now owner-operators, hauling freight across the U.S. and into Canada. 1988 Irene Laporte (A), who received an M.B.A. from the CT-Michigan in May, 1992, is currently working as a market research consultant in the Seattle area. She will marry Thomas Plenefisch, whom she met at the U of M, in May. "I would love to hear from friends with whom, regrettably, I have lost touch at 206-486-6386." Cat Mantione-Holmes (A) reports that she and husband Mike became the parents of "a very beautiful little girl, Chloe Elizabeth, on June 3 this year." Cat is publisher I editor of Flagpole, the alternative weekly paper in Athens, GA and welcomes correspondence at 95 Springdale, Athens, GA 3-0605; (706) 613-5312. Ted Merz (A) writes that his wife Diana Palmer Martinez (SF'87) is in her fourth year at Cornell Medical School. He is working as a reporter for a newswire service in NYC 1989 Richard DiBianca (AGI) recently left a principalship in Pennsylvania to begin a Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago. Tristan Forgus (A), who received a master's degree from the University of Chicago, is teaching physics and math at the Cathedral High School in Chicago. John Freeman (A) teaches in an inner-city Montessori elementary classroom for the Hartford (CT) public schools. He is considering the shape of _education and solicits ideas, suggested readings or dialogue from fellow alumni and the St. John's community. Contact John at 330 Laurel St. Apt. 403, Hartford, CT 06105. �page 14 II Mark Shiffman (A) who is studying in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, will marry Cristina Bernardi on September 4. George Turner (A) is mid-way through the University of California law school (Boalt Hall) program. Selah Anne Wolbarsht (A) is currently working as a licensed massage therapist in Greenville, NC, and attending East Carolina University in preparation for entrance, she hopes, into a physical therapy program. 1990 David Marquez (SF) is currently working as the banquet managerat the Inn of the Anasazi. "I am happy to say that I throw parties for a living. I still read books." Lisa Rallman Hopkins (SF) and her husband Phil Hopkins (SGI'92) had a gorgeous baby girl, Rebecca Leyna Hopkins, on Sept. 2, 1993. Deborah Quirion Reinke (AGI) writes that she married Daniel Reinke (AGI '89), whom she met at the Graduate Institute in Annapolis, on August 15, 1992. In 1993, she completed a master of music degree at Temple University while Daniel received his medical degree from Dartmouth College. In June, the couple moved to Spokane, Washington. Jeffrey Wright (AGI) writes that after two summers in Annapolis and one at the Santa Fe Graduate Institute, he will finish at Santa Fe in 1994. 1991 Patrick Cho (A) is working as a teaching assistant in the post-baccalaureate program at Goucher College in Towson, MD. Joan Ross Crist (A) received the Jacob K Javitz Fellowship for Graduate Study in the Humanities, and is presently engaged in studies and projects concerning the United Nations in NYC. Andy Schuchart (AGI) is teaching political science at the University of Northern Iowa, specializing in political theory. 1992 From Ipswich, MA, Alice Holliday Mangum (SGI) sends "best wishes to all my fellow Gis ('91-'94, especially)." Moira Russell (SF) married Timothy Chase March 31, 1993. She is working on a master's degree in creative writing at the University of New Mexico and has just had her first short story accepted ("and paid money for!") by The Atlantean Press Review. Her semi-permanent address is c/ o 2944 Plaza Blanca, Santa Fe, NM 87501. 1993 Allison Hamilton (SF) is working on a film at Cornell, and expects to graduate there in 1994. 312 Elmwood Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850. Christopher Leydon (A) writes: "Christopher Leydon, now living in sin with Santa Fe senior Heather Malcolm, recently signed over the entirety of his first paycheck since graduation to this year's SJC Annual Fund." The Reporter March 1994 Alumni Notes Thornton Lockwood (AGI) is a PhD. candidate at Boston University ("exp. grad. c. 1998") who welcomes all correspondence and/ or visitors: 28 Quint Avenue, Apt. #31, Allston, MA 02134. Nancy Marcus (A) graduated in May from James Madison College at Michigan State University with a degree in political theory and constitutional democracy. She will attend law school in September "at whichever of the 11 schools I applied to offers me the most money." She is working as an intern for State Senator Debbie Stabenow who is running for governor. .. "future first female guv of Michigan!" Laura Melbin (SF) is working in a group h.ome in the city for adolescent girls who have committed minor crimes, like assault and battery. "It's very exciting, intense and difficult." Panayiotis Pappas (A) is agraduate student at Ohio State University. From Tennis to the Times By Donna Boetig If you're going to call Paul Fishleder, A'75, at work, make it on a Monday. By the end of the week, Mr. Fishleder, the editor of the new City Section of The New York Times, a weekly news magazine section with a circulation in Manhattan and the boroughs in excess of 600,000, feels pressured. Although he no longer faces the daily deadlines he once confronted as assistant metropolitan editor, he admits with a laugh to "obsessing'' over his paper. Last summer, Mr. Fishleder was given carte blanche to create a publication that "would help New Yorkers navigate through life." Since then, he's had "lots of fun" developing-with a staff of four assistant editors, six staff writers and a slew of other literary types-stories that instruct readers to make the city work for them. "It's been great to be involved in something the paper cares a lot about," he says. "Of course, we hope for more circulation, but this isn't the (economic) climate for that." Cover stories have run the gamut from a survey of specialty books stores in New York, to how kids cope with school violence, to a profile of a Queens community organizer. Each issue includes a report on eight neighborhoods. 'We cover the city from the bottom up," he says, "by a conglomeration of little stories highlighting social, economic, or immigration problems that taken together make bigger sense of the city." After graduating from St. John's, Mr. Fishleder's first job-for pure survival-was selling tennis balls at a Manhattan sports store. Three years later, he began work on a master's degree in journalism at the University of Missouri, and upon earning his degree began mounting the journalistic job ladder. After a few months as copy editor II ALUMNI OPPORTUNITIES Front The Placentent Office Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, is seeking applications and nominations for the position of Dean of Students. The Dean of Students has primary responsibility for a broad range of of student and support services. Candidate should possess an appreciation and understanding of Hampshire's distinctive program of interdisciplinary, individualized learning, and an ability to work in a multicultural environment and promote nice and cultural diversity. Qualifications include ten years' experience in an academic institution with significant.and progressively responsible administrative positions within student . affairs or related area and an ability to work collaboratively with~ students, faculty, and staff. Relevant academic credentials required. Position ~vailable July l, 1994.Send nominations, detailed application letter and resume; and the names addresses and telephone numbers of three references that can be called immediately to Nancy Kelly, Chair, Dean of Students Search Committee, c/ o Personnel Office, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002. Review of applications will begin January 15, 1994, and continue until the position is filled. Trinity College, Hartford, CT, invites applications and nominations for the position of Dean of the Faculty. The dean is responsible for assuring the integrity of the college's curriculum, overseeing academic personnel decisions, fostering research and excellence in teaching, and constructing the academic budget. The college seeks a dean of scholarly distinction who is an accomplished teacher committed to the values of undergraduate education in liberal arts. Administrative experience and an ability to represent the college are required. Applications (including a letter, curriculum vitae, and four references), inquiries, or nominations may be directed to Professor Howard DeLong, Chair of the Search Comrnitt~e, Tririity College, 300 Summitt Street, Hartford, CT, 06106. Review of applications will begin January 1, 1994, and continue up to time of selection. The position begins on or before July 1, 1994. The Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, offers the equivalent of M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in.intemationalrelations. The institute is "a teaching and research establishment devoted to the scientific study of contemporary international relations. As such, it subscribes to no preconceived doctrine and abstains from all propaganda: it aims to contribute to the advancement of international solidarity through impartial observation and objective analysis of ideas and events." Because the program is small and selective, the institute is able to offer support (fellowships and assistantships) to several students, as well as subsidizing students' research and travel to international conferences. For more information write or call lnstitut Univeritaire De Hautes Etudes lnternationales, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, 132, Rue de Lausanne, Case Postale 36, CH 1211 Geneve 21, telephone number (022)731 17 30. The Institute of World Politics offers graduate-level courses in International Affairs and National Security with transferable academic credit granted by Boston University. The mission of the institute is "to provide a sound understanding of international realities, methods of statecraft, and the historic principles of American political philosophy in order to protect and advance American vital interests." Courses include the following: "Ideas and Values in International Politics: Political Culture and Public Diplomacy," "Political Foundations of National Security Policy" and "The Post-Soviet Successor States." For more information call or write: The Institute of World Politics, 1420 16th St., NW, Washington, DC 20036, (202)462-2101. Adelphi University, Garden City, Long Island, requests volunteer tutorial support for helping students with writing, reading and mathematics. If you live in the area and have a few hours each week to assist this program, please call Harvey S. Wiener, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, (516)877-3160. for The Columbia Daily Tribune in Missouri, he switched to the Kansas City Star. Seven months later, when The New York Daily News began publishing an afternoon edition as a last ditch effort to survive, Mr. Fishleder was hired as copy editor. When the edition failed, he moved on in September 1981 to copy editor on the metro desk of The New York Times. A couple of years later he became deputy night editor of the metro desk-:--Second in charge of the news covered in the Big Apple after sunset. From there, he became weekend editor, and spent the mid-1980s assigning such stories as the Howard Beach racial incident in which a young black man ventured into the predominantly white section of Queens only to be chased onto a highway and killed by an oncoming car. He also covered the bridge collapse in upstate New York in which six people lost their lives, resulting in a national alert on the need for highway maintenance. On weekends, he and his wife, Lisa Gubernick, a senior editor at Forbes and an author, retreat to upstate New York and their ca. 1850 farmhouse that they share with their collie mix "Ottis." Occasionally he picks up a tennis racquet. Recalling his years on the Annapolis campus, Mr. Fishleder says learning to think, analyze, and synthesize helped prepare him for his career. "Curiosity also stands you in good stead here," he says. �The Reporter March 1994 page 15 March 1994 ST.JOHN'S COLLEGE Glenn Ballard, editor - Thomas Geyer A'68 communications committee chair Alumni Association 1993 Annual Report The table (1993 Budget Report) shows how we spent your dues in 1993. Here's how the Alumni Association Board of Directors spent its time. Institutional Relations. The Institutional Relations Committee, chaired by Vice President Allan Hoffman, '49A, probably has the most extensive agenda of all the Board committees. Committee members plan Homecomings and the two-week alumni summer program in Santa Fe, oversee the development and publication of the Alumni Register, and identify portraits and memorials appropriate for Association support. This committee also has oversight of the senior dinners sponsored by the Board. Anything related to the College and not covered by another committee belongs to this one. BOARD COMPOSITION The Association Board has about 45 members, depending on the number of Chapter presidents and appointed members. There are now 14 chartered chapters, of which 13 have elected presidents. In addition to the four officers of the Association, 15 at-large directors are elected each year for staggered three year terms. Three at-large slots are reserved for Graduate Institute alumni. The President of the Association may appoint a total of 8 directors, including 2 a\umn\ members _o1 the Go\\ege's Board of Visitors and Governors, 2 alumni tutors, 2 undergraduate students and 2 Graduate Institute students. The two immediate past presidents of the Association and the alumni relations officers of each campus are ex officio members of the Board. BOARD MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO ALL ALUMNI The Association Board meets quarter1y, alternating between the two campuses. Meetings are held in conjunction with Homecomings on each campus (Santa Fe in July and Annapolis in October). The January and April meetings coincide with meetings of the Board of Visitors and Governors, typically on the third weekend of January and April. An annual meeting of the Association membership is held at Homecoming, alternating between the campuses each year, with a "special" meeting on the other campus. Association Board members donate their time and pay their own expenses to attend Board meetings. Your dues provide less than $1,000 per year to support Board meetings. COMMITTEES The work of the Association Board ·is conducted largely through Board committees. Committee chairmen are appointed by the President. Nominating. The Nominating Committee is chaired by Barbara Leonard, '55A (honorary). This committee nominates Association officers, Board directors, and alumni representatives to the Board of Visitors and Governors. The committee also nominates alumni recipients for the Award of Merit and individuals to be made honorary alumni. All nominations require approval of the full Board. Chapters. Chaired by Glenda Eoyang, '76SF, President of the Minneapolis/St. Paul chapter, this committee is responsible for supporting chartered chapters and developing new chapters. The Association sponsors a workshop for chapter presidents every two years at the July meeting in Santa Fe. Small stipends are provided to chapters to help offset travel expenses and enable attendance. The workshop focuses on sharing information and ideas among the chapters and between the chapters and the Board. Career Counseling/Placement. Chairman Bill Tilles, '59A, directs this committee's efforts to help St. John's students and alumni with careers, graduate study, and employment. The committee meets regularly with the College placement officers on each campus to discuss the kinds. of services available to students and alumni and what can be done to help. Communications. The Communications Committee, chaired by Tom Geyer, '68A, is responsible for communications with alumni, and specifically for publication of this Association newsletter in The Reporter. Glenn Ballard, '68SF, serves as newsletter editor. Glenn and the committee are responsible for the changes made in the newsletter this year and will continue to work on making it more interesting to readers. Continuing Liberal Education. Jason Walsh, '85A, chairs this committee, which is responsible for supporting continuing liberal education among the alumni and the outreach of alumni to current students and to the communities in which alumni live. In 1993, this committee sponsored an alumni-led seminar with current students on gender differences using a text from Virginia Woolf. The committee is also developing reading lists for special interest seminar readings (e.g., medical, legal, educational) which can be used for alumni-led seminars with non-alumni groups. Budget and Finance. Chaired by Barbara Lauer, '76SF, the Budget and Finance Committee oversees the planned and actual expenditures of the Association. With the assistance of Rick Lightburn, '76SF, Treasurer of the Association, the committee develops an annual budget for the Association and monitors income and expenditures. Other committees that want funds allocated for special projects submit requests to this committee. Annual budgets and quarterly treasurer reports are reviewed and approved by the full Board. Dear Readers, Please send me news items regarding alumni for publication or mention in this space. * The Association and the Association Board of Directors would not function without the generous support of the College, provided principally by the alumni relations directors on each campus: Betsy Blume, '75A, in Annapolis and Cindy Jokela (a Yale alumna) in Santa Fe. We owe both of them a round of applause for their work with us over the past year. We welcome your comments, ideas, support, and suggestions. If you want to help further the goals of the Association and the College, if you are interested in student recruitment, career counseling/placement, communications, or continuing liberal education, or if you think we should be doing something we aren't, PLEASE LET US KNOW. We want to hear from you, and we would be delighted to have your help. Please feel tree to contact officers or oomr:nittee chairs. Addresses and phone numbers are in the 1992 Alumni Register. Sharon Bishop '65A President Allan Hoffman '49A Vice President George Bingham '66SF Secretary Rick Lightburn '76SF Treasurer 1993 BUDGET REPORT .INCOME Dues Interest/Other Alumni in the News $30,000 $28,000 $ 2,000 EXPENSES Chapter support $ 2,000 Final payment: 1992 1,000 Alumni Register Communications 8,000 Senior dinners 3,000 Homecomings 8,500 Portraits/memorials 500 Prizes and blazers 800 Alumni-student seminars 200 Administrative costs 1,000 Additions to reserves 5,000 (1996 Alumni Register) $30,000 Glenn Ballard Alumni Association Newsletter Editor 4536 Fieldbrook Road Oakland, California 94619 (51 0) 530-8656 Fax: (510) 530-2048 E-Mail: ballardz@euler.berkeley.edu E-Mail Correction Despite an MV where an MU was meant in a December 1993 Reporter invitation to St. John's community members interested in the possibility of an Electronic Mail mailing list, Owen Goldin (SF'79) reports that he had "a handful of enthusiastic responses from Johnnies who managed to figure out my correct address," so it looks as if the St. John's conversation over E-mail could get off the ground. The correct address follows: 6145GOLDINO@VMSF.CSD.M U.EDU "Unlike the U.S. Post Office, which is run by human beings with some real nous, who can usually get a letter with an incorrect address through to its real destination, even a minor error in an E-Mail address will result in the message not getting through at all," Owen notes. Musical Evening for Annapolis Chapter Members and guests of the Annapolis Chapter of the Alumni Association will gather for a special musical evening Friday, March 4. A festive dinner and speaker in the Great Hall will be followed by an Annapolis Symphony Orchestra concert at Maryland Hall. Eric Stoltzfus, music librarian on the Annapolis campus and cellist with the ASO, will talk to dinner guests about the program to come: Irving Fine's Diversions for Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky's Petroushka Suite and Rachaminoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with Tzimon Barto as soloist. Sixty-four tickets at $29.50 each will be sold to guests for cocktails at 5:30, dinner at 6, and the concert at 8 p.m. Mr. Stoltzfus will speak at 7, concluding in ample time for the concert. For information, call 410-626-2531. �page 16 The Reporter March 1994 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS ALUMNI ON-LINE: THE ST. JOHN S CONVERSATION GOES ELECTRONIC 1 "Is a moral framework adopted by example from our social relationships or is it a set of natural laws we discover through our experiments in living?" Thus did Alex Poulsen (SF'74) launch an alumni discussion on January 19th. The question apparently merited rumination, for the first replies, from Bob DiSilverio (SF'79) and Mark Middlebrook (AN'83), were a day in coming. Mr. DiSilverio, refusing to be gored, grabbed the dilemma squarely by the horns and answered in the affirmative to both possibilities. Four days later came two more replies, from Sheri Anderson (SF'78) and Owen Goldin (SF'79). Mr. Goldin took Mr. DiSilverio to task for conflating a moral framework with a moral precept, and offered up Thoreau's cautionary advice against trusting the advice (moral or otherwise) of one's elders. The next day, Mr. Poulsen rejoined the discussion with a refusal to let Mr. DiSilverio have it both ways and a determination to continue looking for a "fixed star" lest his "moral compass (continue) spinning wildly." Another four days later, Mr. Middlebrook weighed in on Mr. DiSilverio's side and complained that the aesthetic dimension of moral judgments was getting short shrift. No, this is not a demented attempt to carry on the world's slowest conversation; our intention (besides the Search for Truth, of course) is to test the notion of an "on-line" electronic alumni seminar. The participants are scattered across the country and carry on their ends of the conversation by sending messages from computers connected via modems, phone lines, and a variety of on-line "information services". Electronic communications among alumni have been an ongoing subject of discussion in the Alumni Association Board's meetings during the past year. We're exploring how such communications might support our other efforts, including alumni gatherings, an "alumni network", and maintaining alumni data. In January the Alumni Board's Communications and Placement committees met together to discuss these matters in detail. The remainder of this article presents some of our ideas and ends with an invitation for your thoughts and suggestions. ON-LINE SEMINARS As the opening paragraphs suggest, electronic communications might serve as an alternative to chapter or homecoming seminars for those alumni who want to continue the "St. John's conversation" but who find it difficult to attend the face-to-face meetings. On-line discussions remove the pesky requirement of space-time contiguity that afflicts traditional alumni meetings. Alumni can participate from the places and at the times of their choosing, which is especially beneficial for alumni who live far from an active chapter. I hasten to add that it's unclear whether on-line seminars will live up to the quality and intensity of the aroundthe table variety. Certainly something is lost by stretching a conversation out over days, rather than concentrating it into two hours. Also, on-line conversations have a different "topology" than face-toface ones. From an initial question, an electronic discussion can branch in multiple directions as different participants reply to different parts of different messages at different times. One might argue that something similar happens in a traditional seminar when someone harkens back to a previous point, but met. The availability of fresher data would be a great boon to newer alumni, many of whom move several times during the four or five years between Alumni Registers. THE INTERNET AND ON-LINE SERVICES These are some of the ideas for electronic communications among alumni; how do we envision achieving them? We investigated three kinds of electronic "meeting places": a private bulletin board system (BBS), one of the commercial on-line services (such as CompuServe, America On-line, or connected to the Internet. The Internet is everywhere because it's practically ubiquitous in graduate schools and government and becoming so in business. Thus many alumni already have Internet accounts or can get them easily. In addition, most commercial on-line services (CompuSeNe and its ilk) offer at least limited access to the internet through a "gateway" where by their subscribers can exchange e-mail with denizens of the Internet. Other on1in e services (e.g., Delphi) offer full Internet access. Alumni who don't subscribe to one of the on-line services can purchase Internet accounts from so called "service providers". The amorphous structure of the Internet is advantageous because it allows alumni to begin communicating electronically without the Alumni Association or College first having to set up a computer on which to store messages. Alumni can simply send e-mail back and forth. Seminar-sized conversations are possible through various mechanisms that "broadcast" e-mail messages to multiple recipients. Of course e-mail has its limits, and some of the possibilities being considered require an Alumni Association or College "presence" on the Internet that we don't yet have. Nonetheless, we can get started without that presence. REQUEST FOR FEEDBACK question is whether alumni will find computers and modems a compelling means of talking to one another. We'd like to hear your thoughts and suggestions. Would you be inclined to participate in on-line alumni seminars or be part of an electronic alumni network? What other kinds of electronic communications among alumni interest you? What on-line seNices (if any) do you use now? What access (if any) do you have to the Internet? Should we be approaching electronic communications differently or should we drop the idea entirely? nonetheless, most seminar discussions approximate a more-or-less well-defined (if meandering) line. In any event, it will be intriguing to see how the medium of electronic communications influences our conversations. ALUMNI NETWORK A less lofty, but no less important, goal is fostering an alumni network- in this case a human "network" rather than electronic one. The Alumni Association Board is working on establishing a network of alumni that students and other alumni can use to find job and graduate school opportunities, information about a new geographical location, or simply a sympathetic compatriot with whom to discuss ideas and aspirations. Electronic avenues of communication can supplement the telephone and postal service for students and alumni who want to take advantage of this network. There are other potential uses for electronic communications among alumni, including maintaining up-to-date alumni data of the sort that the College and the Alumni Association publish in the Alumni Register. Perhaps some of this data could be available on-line to alumni, assuming privacy concerns were Delphi), and the Internet. It quickly became apparent that the Internet would work best for our purposes, in part because it's both everywhere and nowhere. I'll attempt to explain this koan-like characterization. The Internet is nowhere because it's not a specific computer or network of computers; it doesn't reside in a place. Instead, it's a "network of networks 11 : a huge but loose confederation of computer networks in government, academe, and private industry. These networks are connected with one another in a labyrinthine fashion and agree to exchange data using particular protocols. As a result, an electronic mail {11 e-mail 11 ) message sent from one computer connected to the Internet wends its way through other computers until it reaches its destination, much the way a letter travels through the postal network. In addition to e-mail, there are various ways of posting a public message on the Internet. This message eventually infiltrates all other parts of the lnt€rnet so that, at least in principle, it's available to anyone who cares to read it. In a similar way, computer files such as databases, software programs, or senior essays can be made available for downloading (i.e., transferring to one's own computer) by placing them on a computer that's Send your comments via e-mail or U.S.Mail to one of the Alumni Board members listed below. America On-line: Tom Geyer: simplicio CompuServe: Mark Middlebrook: 73030, 1604 Delphi: Glenda Eoyang: eoyang The Internet: Mark Middlebrook: 73030.1604@compuserve.com U.S. Mail: Mark Middlebrook 435 Clifton Street Oakland, CA 94618 Note: If you'd like to participate in the current alumni on-line discussions, send a note to Owen Goldin at his Internet address: 6145GOLDINO@vmsf.csd.mu.edu. by Mark Middlebrook, Alumni Board member �The Reporter March 1994 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS L.A. Alumni Shake, Rattle and ... Read by Amy Jo Cooper The Los Angeles alumni is a very active group with a small core of devoted regulars. The major focus of our activities is the monthly, well, almost monthly, seminar. This year we've organized our readings around the theme of negotiation-the gentle, and sometimes, not so gentle, art of persuasion. Readings include selections from Aristotle's On Rhetoric, The Art of War, The Discourses by Machiavelli, On War by Van Clausewitz, Thomas Middleton's The Changeling and selections from the letters of Abelard and Heloise. For a change of pace and a chance to escape from the smog, crime, plastic surgery ads in the newspaper (my favorite is the penile enlargement ad which, in bold letters, states, For Men Only. Is this not self-evident?), and the occasional 6.6 earthquake-all the little things that endear the city of Los Angeles to its inhabitants-we have planned a three-day retreat to the picturesque town of Ojai for the weekend of April 29th. Dean Haggard will join us to lead a joint seminar with the faculty and students of St. Thomas Aquinas College. Our reading will be The Journey to the West, or as it is also known, Monkey. (continued on page 19) Election of Alumni Representatives to the St. John's College Board of Visitors & Governors In accordance with Article VIII, Section II of the By-Laws of the St. John's College Alumni Association, notice is hereby given that the following alumni have been nominated by the Alumni Association Board of Directors for election to the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors. For his second three-year term: Vernon E. Derr '44(A) Boulder, CO Ph.D., Physics and Mathematics, The Johns Hopkins University, 1958; Captain, U.S. Army, 1942-46: Senior StrHmUstt · National· Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Environmental Research Laboratories, 1967-; Deputy Director, 1980-83; Director, 1983-88; Principal Scientist, Martin Marietta Corp. 1959-67; Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering Dept., U. of Colorado, 1968-; Two Scientist of the Year Awards, Martin Marietta Corp.; Distinguished Executive Presidential Rank Award, 1987; Exceptional Achievement Award in the Senior Executive Service, Senior Executive Association, 1988; St. John's College Alumni Association Award of Merit, 1987; St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, 1992-. For his second three-year term: William Tilles '58(A) Rockville, MD Retired from IBM in 1992 after more than 30 years in various management and prof essi o na I capacities; most recent assignments were in IBM's national marketing organization specializing in State and Local government products and services. Since leaving IBM, he has been consulting principally in the area of information technology for management. Among his clients are the two campuses of St. John's College where he has been donating his time to assisting the campuses in the evaluation, selection and implementation of their information systems. Bill is currently in his first term on the Board of Visitors and Governors (since 1992) where he serves as Chair of the Visiting Committee, and is a member of the Alumni Relations, Long Range Planning and Annapolis Plant Evaluation Committee. He also serves as a Director of the St. John's Alumni Association and is Co-Chair of. its Placement and Chapters Committee as well as serving on its Nominating Committee. For his second term: Stewart A. Washburn '53(A) Lakeville, MA Certified Management Consultant and internationally recognized authority on the management of sales and marketing functions; founding member of the Institute of Management Consultants, Director 1978-, President, New England Chapter, 1984-87; founder, and Associate Editor, "Journal of Management Consulting," Board Member, Entrepreneur's Forum of Southeastern Massachusetts. ,~::,?":f ,;":1:,0< NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN THAT NOMINATIONS MAY BE MADE BY PETITION. The rules governing submission of nominations by petition are as follows: 1. Petitions must be signed by at least 50 members of the Alumni Association in good standing. 2. Nominations must be accompanied by a biographical sketch of the nominee. 3. The consent of all persons nominated must be obtained. 4. The petition must reach the Director of Alumni Activities NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 1, 1994; c/o St. John's College, P.O. Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. If nominations by petition are received, there will be an election conducted by mail ballot. If there are no such nominations, the nominees listed above will be considered elected'. Terms will begin July, 1995. ELECTION NOTICE: Election of Officers of the St. John's College Alumni Association. For President: Sharon Bishop, 65(A) Washington, D.C. M.S.S., 1970, Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research; Vice-President and founding partner, Caliber Associates, Inc., Fairfax, VA, providing research, evaluation and management consulting services for government social programs; Principal, Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc., 1972-83; St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, 1976-82, 1985-90; Director, St. John's College Alumni Assoc., 1988- 90; Host, Washington D.C. area prospective student receptions, 1985-, President St. John's College Alumni Assoc., 1992-. For Vice President: Allan Hoffman, 49 (A) Lawrence, NY Retired CEO, Handy-Andy Specialty Co.; Member, St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, 1979- and Chair of BVG's Alumni Relations and Career Counseling Committee; St. John's College AlumnjAssociation Board of Directors, 1981- , Vice President 1992- ; President, New York Chapter, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1981-84; Seminar leader, Peninsula (Lawrence) Public Library "Learning from the Past" seminars, 1978-88; Greater New York Fund Merit Award for outstanding community service, 1965; Alumni Association Award of Merit, 1985. For Secretary: George Bingham, 66 (S) Santa Fe, NM United States Army, 1964-65; J.D., U. of New Mexico Law School; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., 197275; Securities Investor Protection Corporation, 197586; Director and shareholder, Gallegos Law Firm (business, commercial and art transaction), 19871991; member, Federal Bar Association; Director, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1988-, Secretary, 1992-. For Treasurer: Richard Lightburn, 76 (S) Chicago, IL M.A., 1978, Mathe- ' matics, U. of Colorado; M.B.A., 1981, Graduate School of Business, U. of Chicago; Marketing Decision Systems Department, DDS Needham Worldwide Advertising, 1983-92, Associate Director, 1986-92; Group Project Manager, Strategic Analysis, McDonald's Corporation, 1992-; Member, American Statistical Association, Mathematical Assoc. of America; Chicago Chapter, St. John's College Alumni Association - President, 1985-1992, Program Director, 1988-; Director, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1989-, Treasurer, 1991-. page 17 Chapte,r Contacts Please call those listed below for information about alumni activities in each area. ALBUQUERQUE: Harold M. Morgan, Jr. (505) 256-0294 ANNAPOLIS: Joel D. Lehman (410) 956-2814 AUSTIN: Paul Martin (512~327-6854 BOSTON: AMnArons<;>n (617). 566~6657 BUFFALO/ROCHESTER/ ·.····¥oRONTO: Hartk Constatltine (716) 586.. 5393 CHICAGO: Rick Lightburn (312) 667-0068 or Amanda ftuller (312) 337-4105 DALLAS/FORT WORTH: Suzanne Doremus (817) 496-8571 o~ Jonathan Hustis (214) 340-8442 LOS ANGELES: Julia Takahashi (310) 434-7624 Glenda Eoyang · (612) 783-1405 or (612) 379-3883 (W) PORTLAND: Dale Mortimer (206). 737-7587 RfeHMONO: M~ya Hasegawa (804) 355..5095 SACRAMENTO: Arianne Laidlaw (916) 362-~131 or Helen Feeley (916) 452-1082 ST. LOUIS: Lorin Cuoco (314) 935-5576 or (314) 725-8972 (W) SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ' Toni Wilkinson (415) 255-2255 or (415) 550-1280-,(W) SANTA FE: John Pollak (5Q5) 983-2144 or Cindy Jokela {505) 982-3691 SEATTLE: Jim. Doherty (206) 937-~886 WASHINGTON, O.C.: Sam Stiles J~01 )424-~119 �The Reporter page 18 II OBITUARIES Richard F. Bumpass: Baptist minister The Rev. Richard Franklin Bumpass, 60, a beloved figure on the Annapolis campus to a generation of students who knew him through the Baptist student union or through his Bible study classes, died at his Annapolis home in December after a heart attack. Many hundreds of friends and students attended his memorial service December 13 in the Naval Academy chapel. He had been director of the Baptist Student Union at the Academy since 1969, while at the same time, he worked with student unions at St. John's and the Anne Arundel Community College. He was also the interim pastor at many Southern Baptist churches in Maryland. At St. John's, Mr. Bumpass counseled students, as well as leading Bible discussion groups during some years, armed, said his former student and friend Roberta Rusch, A'78, "only with the Greek." "He was just an incredibly generous, sweet and decent man," she said, whose kindness and support made him a father figure for many students. The friendships continued long past student days. "It was a privilege for us to get to know him," said Sarita Cargas, A'89. "He was a bigger than life human being, an example of how to live." He learned the names of great numbers of students and staff, she said, addressing them with characteristic warmth whenever he saw them, sometimes after months and years. Born in Eastland, TX, Mr. Bumpass received a B.S. degree from Texas A&M University, where he played football for Coach "Bear" Bryant. He received his master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1960, earned a master's degree from Texas Christian University in 1971, and received a doctorate in ministry from the Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA, in 1987. An active member of the Broadneck Baptist Church, he was co-founder of the Association of Southern Baptist Campus Ministers. He wrote extensively on his faith and ministry. He is survived by his wife, Nancy A. Bumpass; three sons, Nick Bumpass of Garland, TX, Kelly Bumpass of College Station, TX, and Robert Garder of Annapolis; two daughters, Tiffin Bumpass of Annapolis and Lori Sultemeier of Fort Worth, TX; his mother Anna Grace Bumpass, and sister, Betty Williams, both of Fort Worth, and three grandchildren. Dr. Wiley W. Crawford: tutor emeritus The oldest tutor emeritus of the St. John's College faculty, died on Nov. 25th at his home in Santa Fe. New Mexico. He was 93. Dr. Crawford taught at St. John's from 1950 until his retirement in 1968. He was honored by the college as the first Arthur de Talma Valk Tutor. On the Annapolis campus his particular responsibility was the course work in biology. When a second St. John's campus was founded in Santa Fe, in 1965, Dr. Crawford supervised the planning and installation of the biology laboratory. Dr. Crawford was born on a large ranch near Visalia, California. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Missouri and his doctorate from the University of Minnesota. Before coming to St. John's, he taught biology at schools in the Midwest, including four years at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and twelve years at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois. During Dr. Crawford's tenure in Annapolis, his wife, Helen Hayes Crawford, was a social worker for the state with responsibility for adoptions. In 1971 the couple left Annapolis for Santa Fe, where Dr. Crawford spent much of his time in gardening and photography. Mrs. Crawford died in 1986, a month before their 62nd wedding anniversary. Their son, Curtis Crawford, lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Arnold C. Gay: friend of St. John's Arnold C. Gay, a champion racing yachtsman, a community leader, and a generous supporter of the college sailing program in Annapolis, died January 26 at the Anne Arundel Medical Center after a lengthy illness. He was 74 years old. A former commodore of the Annapolis Yacht Club, and for many years the owner of the Arnold C. Gay yacht yard, Mr. Gay was instrumental in building up the city as a recreational yachting center after World War II. He was also a community activist who was a former president of the Annapolis Chamber of Commerce, the former president of the American Boat Builders and Repairers Association, and the first president and charter member of the Navy League. An advisor to a succession of Annapolis mayors, he supported city restoration and beautification measures and served on the city Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. He also served on the board of the Key School. A legendary racing skipper, Mr. Gay made the Newport to Bermuda race many times, winning in 1978 at the helm of Babe, one of a number of racing March 1994 yachts that took him to victory in Chesapeake Bay and offshore races. He became interested in St. John's College in recent years, expressing this interest through his support of the sailing program and his membership on the board of the Friends of St. John's. He was responsible for a number of donations to the college of small boats, some of which were resold to help fund boathouse programs. In 1991, 1992, and 1993, Mr. Gay was chairman of the annual Sail Picnic, which drew more than 100 students a year for an afternoon's outing on the Bay as guests on the sailboats of local yachtsmen. "Arnie was a man of immense good will, a personal friend of the college, and a quiet advisor and counselor," said Vice President for Advancement Jeff Bishop, who worked closely with Mr. Gay. "His presence in the life of the college and in our lives will be missed." Mr. Gay is survived by his wife Julia, his daughter, Nan Gay of Annapolis, two stepdaughter's, Lyn Grady of Wilkes-Barre, PA, Karen Grady Joslin of Philadelphia, and two grandchildren. II The Rev. Bruce Hathorne, A'76: pastor The Rev. Bruce Hathorne, A'76, pastor of Asbury United Methodist Church in Arnold, MD, died in October at the Washington Hospital Center after a long illness. Born in Quincy, MA, and raised in Bethesda, MD, Mr. Hathorne attended St, John's in Annapolis before graduation from the College of William and Mary. He received his master of divinity degree from Wesley Seminary in Washington and was working on a doctorate at Asbury Seminary in Wilmore, KY, when he was taken ill. In 1980 he was ordained a deacon and in 1982 an elder of the United Methodist Church. He served churches in Potomac, Galesville; and Damascus, MD, before accepting his present position five years ago. An accomplished musician, composer, and photographer, he used these talents in working with young people at his various churches, beginning a successful monthly coffee house at the Arnold church. He was also instrumental in building a new educational wing and office complex at the church. He is survived by his wife, Debra Mauller Hathorne, and one brother, the Rev. Mark Hathorne of Pensnett, Brierly, England. Philip Peterson III A'84: N . J. lawyer H. Philip Peterson, III, A'84, died December 7 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Far Hills, NJ. An attorney with the law firm of Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst and Ducas in New Brunswick, NJ, he was 31 years old. Born in Boston, Mr. Peterson lived in Somerville, NJ. After graduating from St. John's, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving as a lieutenant on· board the USS Kittyhawk and the USS LaSalle in areas that included the Persian Gulf, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. He . graduated with honors in international law from Rutgers University School of Law in Camden, NJ. Remembered by friends and colleagues as a man who could be rigorously analytical and unabashedly silly, often in the same breath, Mr. Peterson was described by longtime friend Robert Sacco, A'84, as "the only person I know who no one didn't like." Friend and colleague Francine Chillemi recalled Mr. Peterson as "a man of immense intellect and creativity. Phil loved and respected the law. Work was never a bore, never a chore, never drudgery. He constantly challenged himself to reach new limits." At. St. John's, Mr. Peterson served as president of the study polity. He also nurtured an enduring interest in Buddhism and provided many of his classmates with their first exposure to Eastern thought. His other interests ranged from video games and "B" movies to opera and ethnic cooking. Surviving are his parents, Jacqueline Garabedian of Waltham, MA, and H. Philip Peterson, Jr., of Woburn, MA; his sister, Victoria I. Peterson of Garfield, MA; his brother, Eric of Pinckney, MI; his grandfather, John N. Garabedian of Woburn; an aunt and two uncles. Gifts in Mr. Peterson's name may be made to The Campaign for Our Fourth Century, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD. 21404. Phoebe Schock, AGl'82: cooking teacher Phoebe Ann Bender Scho'ck, AGI'82, a noted Annapolis cooking teacher and chef, died in October, 1993, at her home in Nantucket, MA, after a long illness. She was 59. Born in Okmulgee, OK., Ms. Schock attended Vassar College and was graduated from Stanford University. She received her Graduate Institute degree in 1982. Active in the Junior League of Annapolis and the Children's Theatre, she taught gourmet cooking at her home and in her retail kitchenware shop in West Annapolis for some years. She also served as a chef in Annapolis as well as on Nantucket Island. Formerly married to retired Naval Academy professor Robert Bender of Annapolis, she is survived by one son, Frank Bender, of Washington, DC, one daughter Susan Russell of Baltimore, and two grandchildren. A son, David Bender, predeceased her. ·Eric Dennard: SJC artist-in-residence Eric Dennard, admired Maryland painter and sculptor, and artist-in-residence on the Annapolis campus in 196869, died of liver cancer at his home on the. Maryland Eastern Shore November 21. He was 51. Family and friends gathered December 19 for an exhibit celebration of his life and work at the MassoniSommer Gallery in Chestertown, MD, on what would have been the opening of his latest show. Best known in recent years for his large, colorful three-dimensional wooden wall sculpture, Mr. Dennard was assisted in continuing his work by artist friends after his illness was diagnosed. Two friends collaborated with him to make the last year of his life an amazingly productive one: one artist translated his sketches into blueprints; a second fabricated the pieces of wood that made up the sculpture. Mr. Dennard then completed the pieces in his studio with sealers and paint. Born in Marshall, TX, where he received his early education, he studied at Tufts University and the Boston Museum School. According to a close friend, "He really received his art education in the galleries and jazz clubs of New York, Boston, Washington and Barcelona" (The Baltimore Sun, November 23, 1993). From 1969 to 1978, he was chairman of the art department at the Key School in Annapolis. He moved to the Eastern Shore in 1985 while he was employed as an art therapist for several state sponsored alcohol and drug reha- �The Reporter March 1994 page 19 OBITUARIES II bilitation programs. His drawings, paintings, and sculpture have been displayed widely and hang in such museums as the Barcelona Museum of Fine Arts, the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. A lover of the outdoors, it was Mr. Dennard's wish that his ashes be spread at the Black Water National Wildlife Refuge. He is survived by three former wives, a daughter Nicole Dennard of Los Angeles, a sister, Kay Fryer of Austin, TX, and his mother Virginia Lynch of Little Compton, RI. II Louis Snyder: A'28, expert on Nazism Louis Snyder, A'28, an authority on Nazi Germany who was the author of more than 60 books, died November 25 in Princeton, NJ, of a bile duct infection. Hewas86. An Annapolis native, Mr. Snyder studied at the University of Frankfort-amMain in Germany as a GermanAmerican Exchange Fellow and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, appointed by the government of the Weimar Republic. He received his doctorate there in 1931. In 1931-32, he held the Schiff Fellowship in political science at Columbia University. During World War II, he acted as consultant for the Psychological Warfare Branch of the War Department. Later he served as an air force officer in World War II. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus of the City College of New York, where he had begun his teaching career in 1933, had been appointed professor in 1953, and had . retired in 1977. He was awarded a Ford Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 1952 and a Rockefeller Foundation grant for study in Amsterdam and London in 1965. He also served as a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne. He published his first book, Hitlerism, the Iron Fist in Germany in 1932, a year before the Nazis came to power. His most recent book~ Hitler's Elite (1989), dealt with such high-ranking Nazis as Field Marshal Hermann Goering and SS leader Heinrich Himmler. He also wrote Encyclopedia of the Third Reich: Varieties of German Nationalism (1976), Roots of German Nationalism (1978) and Diplomacy in Iron (1985). He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Ida Mae Brown Snyder, three sisters, Irene Walder and Faye Lieberman, both of Annapolis, and Rosalie Leace of Baltimore, and a brother Harold Snyder of Baltimore. Interview Los Angeles Chapter Alumni continued from page 17 This year, in addition to the seminars, we have offered a music preceptorial centered around three performances by the Winthrop Fleet, a chamber ensemble that plays baroque and classical music on period instruments. The first concert, held last October, featured the music of J.S. Bach and his sons. Participants met beforehand and discussed the structure and development of the trio sonata. We listened to two recordings, one on harpsichord and one on piano, of one of the dances from J.S. Bach's French Suite, a piece we later heard performed. After a delightful concert, we all went out to dinner where I found myself discussing Anselm's Ontological argument, much against my will. You try to be polite and to respond accordingly, but really, some things just go too 'ar. \ plan next time to sit at the other end of the table. They were discussing dairy products, from what I could overhear. The next program entitled, Europa! Europa ! presents the music of Couperin, Handel, Schaffrath, Zelenka and Roman. We will discuss the trio sonata as it developed in Europe and the gallant style that marked the Rococo period. The last concert is scheduled for May 8th and features baroque music from the Italian school. If anyone in the L.A. area is interested in joining us, please contact Amy Cooper at (213) 855-0174. Following on the success of the music preceptorial, an architecture preceptorial is in the works. And what would L.A. be without movies? It is an industry town after all. The St. John's L.A. alumni chapter does its part to keep the dream continuing with our regular movie outings. Each month, a movie Csar is appointed whose sole responsibility is to pick what film we are going to see. A weighty office, to be sure. Because, believe me, if you pick something that nobody else likes, you never hear the end of it. The last Saturday of every month is designated movie night, although, this changes sometimes. (Listen, the world's in flux. What do you want me to do about it?) For those of you in the L.A. area who have been meaning to, but haven't yet participated in any of the chapter's activities, please contact our wonderful and very dedicated leader, Julia Takahashi at (310) 434-7624. Peter Kalkavage continued from page 7 continued from page 5 Q: Don't we need to know what other another sense it is very modest, because Hegel's conclusions are not labeled as his own private insights. "He sees himself as simply articulating the wisdom history has produced. He felt the book was making public what the world was ready for." Published in 1807, when Hegel was 37-not so young an age two centuries ago-Phenomenology nevertheless has all the markings of a youthful work, with a quality of enthusiasm and confidence, says Mr. Kalkavage. A supporter of Napoleon, Hegel expected a new world, a world of peace and stability to follow the bloodshed and terror of the French Revolution. This theory of history is utterly crucial to The Phenomenology, says Mr. Kalkavage, and is an idea he is particularly interested in. Besides being conceptually rigorous, the book is resonant with allusions to all sorts of aspects of human culture, and Mr. Kalkavage has drawn up a reading list of works within the culture that Hegel responds to. Because the book lies in the tradition of novels about education, Rousseau's Emile is on the list. Hegel was very much influenced by French as well as German writers and Diderot's Rameau 's Nephew and Schiller's The Robbers are on the list. "It helps me to put Hegel in context," Mr. Kalkavage remarks. people are thinking, people who don't share our culture and values? A: I'm against this sort of: "Gee, I'm really well educated. I took a course in Eastern Thought." That's kind of silly and usually kind of patronizing. You' re not well-educated in other cultures by having taken a little bite of this or a little taste of that. I don't think even in our own culture you're well educated if you say: "Yeah, I'm liberally educated because I took a semester in group psychology." Or "I took a course on 'Was Melville a homosexual?'" You're not well-educated with stuff like that because you haven't put together a coherent course of study. Q: Is that how the liberal arts are taught? A: Most colleges do think that liberal education means not coherent, but incoherent. Liberal education means take a little bit of this, take a little bit of that. Try this, try that. And the more disparate, the less connected they are, the better. The view of liberal education on most college campuses is simply chaos. Q: With the result being chaotic? Allan Hoffman continued from page 6 As chairman of the Alumni Relations Committee of the Board of Visitors and Governors, Mr. Hoffman appealed to alumni members to adopt a series of amendments to the by-laws. These included provisions for meetings to be held weekends and at alternate campuses; a revised committee structure making it easier to obtain a quorum; and steps to foster closer relationships between the Alumni Association, the college, and the college board. "Hundreds of ballots were turned in, and the amendments passed," Mr. Hoffman recalls. "It was an internal revolution that succeeded peacefully and legally." Mr. Hoffman is quick to praise others for their efforts in resurrecting the group. "The Alumni Association wouldn't be where it is today without the insight of [former president] Ed DeLattre, and all of the efforts of Betsy Blume and many others," he says. Since then, interest in the association has increased, evidenced by dramatic growth in good will and financial support. Back home, Mr. Hoffman in the mid-1970s led weekly seminars in his local library, based on the St. John's readings. Participants discussed books from Homer to Einstein, and more. The program was so successful that all of its 18 participants remained for 10 years, save a few separated by death. The seminar was featured in The New York Times twice, and Newsday. He also began a pilot for the "The Honors Seminars Program," a SJC alumni-led program in literature for high school juniors and seniors that spread the word of the college and its program. "St. John's makes you a good teacher," he says. Rewards for his indefatigable efforts? "Friendships," he says, remembering last· summer's fishing expedition at Montauk with fellow alumni. He treasures especially "those made back in the 40s, 50s, and 60s that are still going strong." A: With the result being that students have a smattering of knowledge here and there on disparate and disconnected subjects, and think they've gotten a liberal education, but they haven't. Q: Will the liberal arts, as we're dis- cussing them, be around in 100 years7 A: I have no doubt that it will be around. Whether we'll see more professional colleges and universities, I don't know. My great hope at one time was that high schools would do far more of the teaching of the liberal arts than they do. And that indeed all colleges and universities could be more technical or narrower. But high schools seem to have abandoned the liberal arts in even greater numbers than colleges have, which means that liberal arts in the colleges and liberal arts colleges are even more necessary than ever before. Reprinted with permission of The Dallas Morning News. Nowadays, in his living room chair at the vortex of family life, Mr. Kalkavage finds "an odd kind of privacy" as he continues his dialogue with the thinker who has challenged him all his adult life. "It is good to get back to our own studies," he says. The Reporter Santa Fe Edition The Reporter is published in June and December by the News and Information Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404 and in September and March by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe, NM 87501-4599. Annapolis - Nancy Osius, editor, Donna Boetig, assistant editor, Wye Allanbrook, Betsy Blume, John Christensen, Benjamin Milner, Brother Robert Smith, and Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. Santa Fe - Lesli Allison, editor, Patrick Daugherty, design. �page 20 March 1994 The Reporter Lachaise's Sculptures and Drawings Exhibited at Mitchell Gallery An exhibition of 45 sculptures and 20 drawings by Gaston Lachaise, considered one of the most significant sculptors to Gaston Lachaise's "Head of A Woman," (Egyptian have worked in the United Head), a 1923 bronze sculpture, 13 and-a-half inches States during the early part of this century, is on display high, is one of 45 sculptures and 20 drawings on disat the Mitchell Gallery from play at the Mitchell Gallery from March 18-April 24. Lachaise, celebrated among the first generation of March 18-April 24. modern American sculptors, is best known for his interLachaise is best known pretations in bronze of the female form as a symbol of for his interpretations in bronze of the female figure womanhood. as a symbol of womanhood; director of several American art museums, his drawings of female figures offer an also served as dean of faculty for the interesting contrast to the sculpture. Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. On April 12, Gerald Nordland, a Artist Gaston Lachaise was born in 20th century art expert, a Guggenheim Paris in 1882. He studied at the Ecole Fellow, and a widely published author, Bernard Palissy and at the Academie will speak on the current exhibition. The Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. He lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the had just won the coveted Prix de Rome Conversation Room. when he met a visiting American, Isabel Mr. Nordland, who is a former Santa Fe Photographic Workshop Exhibit Opens Spring Season by Mary Moore A group show of twelve artists from the Santa Fe Photographic Workshop, taught by National Geographic photographer Sam Abell, opened Sunday, February 6, at the Santa Fe campus Art Gallery and continues through the 28th. The show was arranged by photographer Bill Wright of Abilene, Texas. Two prints in black and white, color, cibachrome, or chromagenic were submitted by each artist. Sam Abell, an active member of the Santa Fe Workshop's Board of Advisors, selected advanced photographers for his workshop, "The Next Step." Abell learned photography from his father, Thad Abell. He worked for newspapers and taught school until he took an internship with picture editors at National Geographic. Several years later, in 1969 he began working as a contract photographer for National Geographic, a relationship which has lasted 20 years and has taken him from Canada to Japan, Russia, Australia, Switzerland, and London. He has covered a variety of editorial assignments ranging from the wilderness to cultural events. His quiet yet powerful images have been used to illustrate many books. He has lectured widely and exhibited his photographs throughout the world. In June the Santa Fe gallery will feature a two-person show. "Figure, Form and Symbol, works in clay" by Santa Fe artist Nita Schwartz will be exhibited in the Placita Area and paintings of artist Dennis Fiedler will be featured in the gallery. Following a lifelong commitment to painting and drawing, Nita Schwartz began sculpting in clay in 1987 with a family of potters from Zuni Pueblo who invited her to work alongside them for a day, hand building pots at the School of American Research in Santa Fe. Sculpting in clay felt natural from the beginning, Nita said. She learned that her parental great grandmother had been a village potter in Italy. A spring 1993 art studies program with the University of Gear~ in Cortona, Italy, and yearly ceramic workshop experience with Tony Hepburn, Christine Federighi and Judy Moonelis at Anderson Ranch Center and Larry Bell at Santa Fe Institute of Fine Art have contributed to the growth of her work. Ceramic pieces built over the past three years range from 29 inches to 57 inches and are abstract in form. She uses both low and high fire clay bodies with slip, terrasigillata and oxide finishes. Ms. Schwartz' work has been shown at College of Santa Fe, Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, in the Wilderness Society Art Exhibition at Peyton-Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, and New Mexico Community Foundation show at Santuario De Guadalupe. Dennis Fiedler was born in Houston, Texas and received his BFA from the University of Houston. He has lived and worked in Texas, California Dutaud Nagle. The two married in 1917 and lived in New York City. With his wife as his muse and model, he developed a mature style in which the heroic female nude became the predominant theme. He sought to emphasize certain aspects of the female form in drawings and sculptures with a succession of stylistic variations. Even when he works on small-scale figures, the impression is one of monumentality. These figures transcend the physical, becoming symbols of the artist's vision. Lachaise participated in the historic New York Armory Exhibition of 1913, the first exhibition of modern art in the United States. From 1918-1935, he presented several one-man shows at many galleries and museums. He received numerous public and private commissions and from 1931-1934 executed reliefs for the RCA and International Buildings at Rockefeller Center and the Chicago World's Fair. He also- created portraits of such notable persons as John Marin, Marianne Moore, e.e. cummings, and Edgar Varese. Several of these are included in the exhibition. Lachaise died in 1935 at the age of 53, only three months after the opening of his Retrospective Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His work is included in collections such as the Nels on A. Rockefeller Collection; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery; the Franklin D. Murphy Gardens, Washington; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition was organized by The Lachaise Foundation of Boston. ANNAPOLIS Lecture: Gerald Nordland, an independent specialist in 20th century art and author of Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, will speak on the current exhibit on Tuesday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Conversation Room. Mr. Nordland is a former director of several American art museums, a Guggenheim Fellow, an educator, curator, lecturer and widely published author. Discussion: David Moreland, artist, educator, and practicing painter and sculptor, will lead discussion on the exhibit on Wednesday, April 20, at 4 p.m. in the Gallery. Photograph by Bobbie Crosby and New Mexico. He has shown his work at the Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, College of Santa Fe, Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe and at the New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was artistin-residence from 1987 to 1988 at Sol y Sombra Foundation (of Georgia O'Keefe) in Santa Fe. Dennis credits twenty years of yoga practice and meditation for the development of his work. The show opens Friday, June 3 with a reception and continues through the 27th. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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In Room 22 McDowell on the Annapolis campus, 15 men and women seated about the seminar table are considering that fundamental social partnership, the household ("Aman, a woman, and an ox for plowing") and its relation to the larger partnership of the city. Copies of Aristotle's Politics lie open around the table as the participants take up the topic they will toss about for much of the next hour and a half: Does a city primarily exist for the collective good of the inhabitants or for the good of the individual? Today the seminar leader is President Christopher Nelson, sitting in for Nicholas Capozzoli, who, a neurologist as well as a tutor, has been summoned away to an emergency. One student admits with exasperation, "I expected this to be the greatest book I had ever opened. But it's very difficult to get to what he's driving at." There is sympathetic laughter. and several times to last month's assignment in which Sophocles' Antigone pitted the individual against the state. There will be those putting forth the notion that the city exists essentially for the protection of the individual. There is a moment of suspended assent when one participant says, "The city EXECUTIVE food/or thought SEMINARS Professionals savor With swoops and pauses to define terms, the discussion will move from Thomas Jefferson to taxation to NAFT A to monopolies, exists for the sake of living well." As the alloted 90 minutes draw to a close, President Nelson asks a surprising question to these members of an Executive Seminar: "Have you ever wondered what you are doing around this table? Why are we here?" Self-fulfillment, says one-"Getting beyond the daily concerns." Another ventures, smiling, "We'll be hoping that the good of all is a part of the purpose of our being here." Presently this group of adults, who include a sailmaker, an engineer, a banker, a public relations executive, and several business men and women among their numbers, close their books, and after a few more pleasantries, file out of the room to head back to their Tuesday lives. Bill Henderson, who runs an engineering (Continued on page 13) ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ~ m1 r 1 1r1 l1'~ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 The St. Jolu1 :~ 31696 01138 2007 Volume 20, Issue 2 Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM December 1993 ' LESLI ALLISON Following several years of study, including a one-year pilot program in 1992-93, St. John's College in Santa Fe is about to create a new graduate program in Eastern classics. successful completion of the threeterm course of study, students will receive a Master of Arts degree in Eastern classics, under the auspices of the Graduate Institute. The program was approved by a wide in a vote by the faculty of both campuses on November 15. The progran1, which needs final approval by the Board of Visitors and Governors, will be voted upon at the Board's January meeting. "This new project is something that will be noticed nationwide," said President John Agresto. "It pushes out further the boundaries of liberal education and finds another way of testing and sharpening the principles of our own civilization, and shows again how, by taking other cultures seriously, not patronizingly or politically, we can learn from them on their own terms." According to Santa Fe Tutor James Carey, who directed the pilot phase of the program, the vote indicated solid support from both the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses. "I'm glad it passed by so large a margin because it indicates a lot of collegial allegiance andrespectforwhat we're trying to do," he said. "We look forward to doing something in the program that's worthy of St. John's College. There have been lots and lots of inquiries and lots of people are going to be very happy that we have done this." The program will focus on classic texts of India, China and Japan. All students in the program will be required to study either Classical Chinese or Sanskrit. The three terms required to complete the program will span the fall, spring, and summer semesters. According to Mr. Carey, the intent of the Peter Davies, A' 48, provided food for the hungry NANCYOSIUS Not too long ago he was moving between such countries as Somalia and Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, bringing to places of great human hardship the expert knowledge gained over long years of service to underdeveloped nations. When the subject was famine or drought, Peter Davies was likely to be offe1ing testimony at Congressional hearings or speaking to the media. As president of InterAction, a coalition of intcrnati onal relief, development, refugee, environmental and population groups, he ANNAPOLIS EDITION -INSIDEStatement of Educational Policy Pages 16 & 17 Search and Rescue . Parents' weekends . Alumni Notes . . . Homecoming . . . Alumni Association Letters to Editor Obituaries . . . . . 4 6,7 8,9 10, 11 14, 15 18 19 "You are from New York City?" said played a signal role in advocating for and Gandhi, adding somewhat surprisingly, eliciting the generous help Americans have "You can grow leafy salads in window traditionally shown to the needy around the boxes there." (Thirty years later, Peter world. Davies' son Kenneth was heading "OperaToday he is back in Annapolis for his tion Green Thumb" in New York, teaching 45th reunion, one of many who are looking people to grow leafy vegetables on vacant into old classrooms and greeting old friends. land. Continuing to follow in his father's He is back for a singular reason as well: at footsteps, Kenneth is cunently the Homcoming Banquet last night, the Alumni Association in Swaziland working for the UN World Food Program.) presented him with its highest Mr. Davies himself came honor, the Award of Merit. away from the fateful meeting PeterDavies has justretiredfrom with Gandhi withafirmcommitInterAction, which he helped fom1 ment. After completing his AB. in 1984. His post as president and degree at St. John's he received chief executive officer was the cula master's degree in agricultural mination of a career in intemational economics from the Harvard development and assistance that took him around and around the Graduate School of Public Adglobe. ministration (now the Kennedy He likes to say that it all Peter Davies, A'48 School). As a conscientious obbegan in 1946, when as a merjector, he was initially blocked in chant seaman who had landed in Bombay, his chosen career in public service by McCarthy era security strictures, but after President he sought out and met Mahatma Gandhi at Kennedy was elected, Mr. Davies was named a prayer meeting. The wise man asked him where he had come from. (Continued on page 12) program is to explore the Eastern tradition with the same kind of approach the college takes to the Western tradition. "In undertaking a serious and systematic study of the philosophical traditions and great books of the East, we are seeking genuine merely exposure to diversity," he said "In the our interest is neither the Western mind nor the Eastern mind, but the human mind." The program is scheduled to in the fall of 1994, with enrollment limited to 21 students. Tuition will be the same per credit hour as the Graduate Institute at $387/credit hour (estimated for 1994-95). Completion of the program will require 34 credit hours for a total tuition of approximately $13,200. Limited financial aid will be available. Literature on the graduate program in Eastern classics will be available shortly. Due to the limited enrollment, anyone interested should contact the college as soon as possible. All inquiries should be directed to The Graduate Institute, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM 87501-4599; (505) 988-4361 or (505) 984-6082. SJC good for African- Americans, says guide At a time when the "politically correct" trend in colleges and universities appears to be toward diversifying studies, the liberal arts education offered at St. John's has been included in The JOOBestCollegesforAfricanAmerican Students, by Erlene B. Wilson (Penguin). "Traditionally, this kind of thought-provoking education has eluded African-Americans as they struggle with issues of basic survival and the distractions of family life and community responsibility," Ms. Wilson writes. "Ironically, it is perhaps this kind of education that can most benefit African-American students as they are challenged to deal with an increasingly tense society." �PAGE2 New telephone system at S DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER Fe campus In October, St. John's College in Santa Fe installed a new telephone system, MYTEL 20001 FIBEROPTIC. According to switchboard supervisor Chris Burke, "The buildings on campus are now connected by fiberoptic cable. The new system is state of the art and is an excellent platform on which to build all our telecommunication needs for the future. "One of the main advantages to the college is that people can now dial directly into the departments from outside, bypassing the switchboard," Chris said. "We also cut down enormously on the number of lines that the college was using previously. We had separate lines for almost everything: modems, faxes and pay phones; and now we've incorporated all these under one 'umbrella' which will save significantly in telephone charges." According to Chris the college had outgrown the old system which could not accommodate increasing demands, nor could it be expanded. This problem became critical with the addition of new dormitories. The new phone system now offers a number of time-saving features, including the soonto-be installed voice mail. "It basically acts as an answering machine for all staff offices and executives, increasing our ability to exchange information and cut down on paperwork," Chris said. "With the voicemail feature we will be able to access messages from anywhere." New key telephone numbers ar¢ as follows: Main Number: New switchboard number is 984-6000 although lhe old number 9823691 will remain valid for at least a year. For direct dial use (505) 984 +extension Admissions: 6060 Advancement 6099 Alumni: 6103 Bookstore: 6056 Conferences & Symposia: 6024 Dean's Office: 6070 Graduate Institute: 6082 6042 Library: Parent Program: 6082 President's Office: 6098 Public Relations: 6104 Fax # :984-6003 on Adler's Colleges To hear Mortimer Adler tell it, St. John's is one of only three first-rate undergraduate colleges in the country, according to an article published in the August 13, 1993, edition of the Pittsburgh PostGazette. Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif., and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana are the two others that offer a classical approach to teaching. While it is fashionable for academics to deride the classics in favor of feminist or multicultural writings, Mr. Adler remains a supporter of writers such as Plutarch, John Locke, and John Stuart Mill. "I make no apology for being in favor of dead, white European males," he said, referring to favorite authors such as Plato and Aristotle. "The truth is always the same ... Cultural diversity is all right with respect to dance, dress, and cuisine." The Reporteris published in June and Decerrber by the News and Information Office, St. John's College, Box 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404, and in Septerrber and March by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Box 4599, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Annapolis; Nancy Osius, editor; Donna Boetig, assistant editor; Wye Allanbrook, Betsy Blume, Eva Brann, John Christensen.,Benjamin Milner, Brother Robert Smith, and Elliott Luckerman, advisory_ board; Marcia Baldwin. design; Ex-offico member: Thomas Geyer. Santa Fe: Lesli Allison, editor; Patrick Daugherty, design. USPS 018-750 $100,000 grant Annapolis President Christopher B. Nelson recently announced that the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation has awarded the Annapolis campus a $100,000 grant for an outreach program. The Kornfeld Foundation is located inN ew York. The four-year program will enable three teachers from Rice High School, located in Harlem, to obtain masters' degrees from the St. John's Graduate Institute. These teachers and many of their colleagues at Rice will also be trained in the methods of the Touchstones Discussion Project, a program for grades 4-12 based on the St. John's seminar method. By the end of the four-year grant period, all students at Rice will be participating in weekly T 1mch- By MARY JO MOORE St. John's College and the Grex student theatre group presented Sophocles' Antigone with four show dates in November. Director Scott Capehart, a recent graduate of St. John's, wrote the musical score. Richard Saja, who designed A Midsummer Night's Dream in May was artistic director for set and costumes. The cast included Yvonne Woods as Antigone, Tyler Hartford as Creon and Ann Laurino as Ismene. The chorus was Erika Hildebrandt, Melissa Bisagni, and Gillian Tan. According to Director Scott Capehart, his decision to produce the Greek tragedy was prompted by "the particular resources and knowledge available at the college.'' "The play has always interested me," he said. "I think of all the Greek tragedies we read (at St. John's), the relationships among the characters seem the most real and dramatic .... It was a very stark and simple production. We made an effort not to try to associate the play with any particular time period." Crediting early teachers in Winchester, Virginia with nurturing his interest in acting, Scott said, "My first directing experience was at Annapolis in my freshman year. The play was William Saroyan's Hello Out There. I definitely learned from the process." The ensemble for the play consisted of two flutes, an oboe, three strings and percussion. "The music, like the design, was stark", Scott said. "It was definitely influenced by modern dissonant music. Shostakovich has been the biggest influence on me. It's exciting that I've given myself an opportunity to write within a structure rather than trying to just sit down and write." Antigone tells the story of a young girl who goes to her death defending her most deeply held beliefs. Creon, the king, refuses to grant burial to Antigone's brother because of his attempt to conquer the city. Antigone, believing that Creon's action violates the fundamental laws of the gods, buries the body, consciously defying Creon's decree. He sends Antigone to her death, intent on maintaining the integrity of the laws and upholding his authority as king. The gods punish him for his stubborn and irreverent actions. While it addresses the question of reconciling earthly and eternal laws and the relationship of the individual to the state, the focus of this production is on the broader conflict between the individual's con- teachers from stones discussions. Rice High School is a Catholic school operated by the Order of Irish Christian Brothers. It was recommended for the project on the basis of its key position in both the New York Archdiocese and the worldwide Christian Brothers school systems. The Order of the Clnistian Brothers is noted for the quality of its schools serving students of all backgrounds. Rice High School has a diverse racial, ethnic, and religious population. The Touchstones Project model of cooperative learning has been incorporated into the curriculum of schools in more than 25 states and four foreign countries. The project, developed by tutors Geoffrey Comber, Nicholas Maistrellis, and Howard Zeitler- man, has proven successful for students of the entire range of abilities and interests, from those at-risk to the highly gifted. When notified of the grant, Brother John Walderman, vice-principal of Rice High School, said, "Touchstones discussion classes produce essential skills not found anywhere else in schools. Our students will learn how to become collaborators in their own education." He also praised the Graduate Institute, noting that the Kornfeld Fellows, as they will be known, will learn new approaches to teaching and learning in which the primary role of faculty is to encourage inquiry by asking and clarifying questions instead of lecturing as authority. The program will begin in November. science and respect for the law. "The thing that I really focused on in the play was the relationship between awareness and free will, and I think that that's one of the broadest themes of the play and perhaps not the most obvious," Scott said. "It seems like the play subtly suggests that through our awareness we create our own ability to be volitional and Antigone embodies that, while Creon, through his lack of awareness, is more controlled by 'fate'." According to Erika Hildebrandt, chairman of Grex, "Grex is St. John's community theater and consists of graduate students as well as cunent students." Erika, whose mother was a director at a small college in Pennsylvania, grew up with the theater around her. "Every summer since I was 15 I have been an actress at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Fair, so I learned a lot of improvisational and pe~iod Shakespearian theater there. "At St.John's there was theater going on when I got here at the end of the freshman year, but I wasn't cast in any of the shows that I auditioned for. Then, 'Reality' was so dismal in my sophomore year that I thought it would be uplifting for our 'Reality' as sophomores to have a huge production. I really started Grex as a group in order to launch a production of A Midsummer Nights Dream. Antigone was our second production." Her role as Chairman of Grex in Antigone was advisory. "I helped with logistical things." She said, "I also played the chorus leader in the play. The chorus involved choreography and singing as well as the line work and appeared during five major odes as well as within the scenes. We share the role, and serve as advisor to Creon." Erika said, "In the original Greek they all would speak as one voice." The cast also included Nicolas Gray as Haemon, Casey Joseph as the sentry, Chad Rackowitz, Tiresias and Ben Haller, the messenger. Student production of Antigone on Santa Fe Campus �DECEMBER 1993 I I fu PAGE3 THE REPORTER . lllBIJllll\11111111 l s " The first of 11 projected volumes in the series Masterworks of Discovery, Guided Studies Texts in Science, a project first conceived and subsequently organized and edited by Annapolis tutor Harvey Flaumenhaft, has been published by Rutgers University Press. The volume is Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids by Alain F. Corcos and Floyd V. Monaghan. Mr. Flaumenhafthas been working on the project since 1985, when he came up with a suggestion for the National Endowment for the Humanities panel he was sitting on: Educated people, who would read writings of Shakespeare or Rousseau but not those by great thinkers in natural science and mathematics, might benefit from short "guidebooks" to help make the thought of these thinkers accessible, he said. The NEH was receptive to the idea and a warded Mr. Flaumenhaft a grant to set a series in motion and to begin writing his own volumes for it. The NEH also made grants for the writing of some other volumes in the series. Mr. Flaumenhaft has been joined in the project by other tutors from both St. John's campuses: Annapolis Tutor Emeritus Thomas K. Simpson, Annapolis tutor Joe Sachs, Santa Fe tutor Dana Densmore, and former Santa Fe Tutor William Donohue. Noting that most books presenting the great scientists are either popularizations that merely talk about their work or else are commentaries on their writings for special- ists, Mr. Flaumenhaftremarkedrecently that the Masterworks of Discovery series "is for intelligent persons who want to read these texts for themselves, and are willing to do some work if given appropriate help." In his preface to the first volume, Mr. Flaumenhaft wrote, "To be thoughtful human beings-to be thoughtful about what it is that makes us human-we need to read the record of the thinking that has shaped the world around us, and still shapes our minds as well." Scientific thinking is fundamental to this record, he continued. To be published in the series this winter is Newton's Optical Writings by Dennis Sepper of the University of Dallas. After that will come Maxwell's Papers on the Electromagnetic Field by Mr. Simpson; Newton's Principia, by Ms. Densmore; and Aristotle's Physics by Mr. Sachs. Mr. Simpson's manuscript is now being used in a preceptorial by tutor Marilyn Higuera on the Annapolis campus. Currently supported by the Bradley Foundation, Mr. Flaumenhaft himself is writing two volumes for later publication in the series: Apollonius and Descartes on Geometry and Ptolemy and Copernicus on Astronomy. Other books in the series will be Aristotle's Parts of Animals by Jam cs Lennox, and Kepler's Account of the Plane ls by Mr. Donahue. Under negotiation are books on Lavoisier's Chemistry and Darwin's Origin of Species. Pesic writes on "Hyperspace" Idea for paper originated in undergraduate days By LESLI ALLISON "Euclidean Hyperspace and its Physical Significance," an article by Santa Fe tutor Peter Pesic, was published in the November issue of 11 Nuovo Cimento, the physics journal of the Italian Society of Physics (Societa Italiana di Fisica). The publication is one of the standard international journals of physics. According to Mr. Pesic, the. idea for the article originated 25 years ago in a discussion he had as a student witl1 a Harvard professor, Julian Schwinger, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics. "Ihad been asking him how to understand some of the central ideas of modern quantum field theory, especially the TCP theorem, which shows the necessity of particles and anti-particles of the same mass and charge," Mr. Pesic said. "He mentioned to me work of his that connected this theorem with the idea of a four-dimensional Euclidian space attached to the four-dimensional space-time used since Einstein and Minkowski." Mr. Pesic noted that during the past 20 years, Euclidean techniques have become widely used, particularly in the search for an adequate theory of quantum gravity. Since his dis.cussion with Professor Schwinger, Mr. Pesic said he has remained intrigued by the idea for many years. "I tried to Ulink about whether it nlight be only a mathematical trick as most physicists seem to think, or whether it might have some real physical significance. Gradually I came to think that it was physically significant and have tried to show in this paper what that significance is. "The heart of my idea is that the Euclidean space introduced by Schwinger and others, which I call "hyperspace," gives a deeper insight into what underlies the quantum theory of fields and the emerging quantum theory of gravity, even though this hyperspace is not directly observable, but is knowable as one probes the underpinnings of those theories. In the space-time which Minkowski and Einstein introduced, space and time are, to some extent, kept distinct and separate in character, even though they are unified together into a four-dimensional manifold. By contrast, in Euclidean hyperspace, space and time are completely interchangeable and thus a perfect symmetry between space and time can be introduced into physics at this fundamental, theoretical level, even though observation will only show distinguishable space and tin1e. In essence, Minkowski's dream of the unification of space and time has here found surprising realization. "It is musing to think that Euclid reemerges into contemporaiy physics after it had seemed that he was completely superseded by non-Euclidean geometries." Mr. Pesic, who is musician-in-residence at Santa Fe, holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Stanford and formerly did research on elementaiy particles at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Liberal eeti By LESLI ALLISON Members of the American Academy of Liberal Education (AALE) convened October 29 and 30 at St. John's College in Santa Fe to discuss future accreditation standai·ds for liberal arts colleges. The keynote speaker for the event was Jacques Barzun, author, former provost and professor emeritus at Columbia University. Dr. Bai·zun spoke on the social repercussions of declining education standards. Discussion panelists included, among others: Dr. Paul Gross, director of the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia; Dr. Ralph Lerner, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago; Dr. Thomas E. Dillon, president of St. Thomas Aquinas College; Dr. Ralph A. Rossum, Fletcher Jones professor of American Politics, University of Redlands; and Stephen Balch, president of the National Association of Scholars. The first of three pai:el discussions focused on past, present and future accrediting standards for liberal education; the second on the role of science in liberal education; and the third on freedom of speech on campus. The purpose of the panel discussions was to discuss guidelines and policies of the AALE which plans to become an accrediting agency for liberal arts colleges. Comprised of some of the nation's leading scholars and college presidents, r George Dolan, SF'92, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for overseas study. The award will allow :Mr. Dolan to teach English in a South Korean middle school for one to two years. Mr. Dolan already has arrived on the island of Cheju-Do where he will reside parttime with a Korean family and part-time in an apartment. According to his mother, Barbara Dolan, he will have a two-month winter holiday which will enable him to travel. After completing the school year, he may opt for a second year's assignment in the same or different locale. The Fulbright will provide Mr. Dolan with a $1000/month stipend in addition to all expenses and travel. Created in 1964 by the U.S. Congress, the Fulbright Grant's mission is to foster mutual understanding among nations through educational and cultural exchanges. Each year, approximately 5,000 grants are awarded to American students, teachers and scholars to study, teach and conduct research around the world, and to foreign nationals engaged in similar activities in the United States. The U.S. student progran1 is designed to give recent BS/BA graduates, master's and doctoral candidates, young professionals the AALE made national headlines with the announcement of its formation in March, 1993. The board of directors, chaired by Santa Fe President John Agresto, includes: Jacques Barzun; Edward 0. Wilson, Harvard University science professor and Pulitzer Prize winner; former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm; Chester E. Finn, Jr., former assistant secretary of education and founding partn~r of Chris Whittle's Edison Project; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, professor and former director of women's studies at Emory University; and Shelby Steele, English professor at San Jose University, among others. Jeffery D. Wallin is the executive director. In a New York press conference last spring, members of the academy said their intent is to provide support and guidelines for traditional liberal education. The group, which aims to acquire accrediting status, has proposed 17 standards for providing a liberal education. These include the central importance of teaching over other activities, including research; having senior faculty members teach introductory and other lower-level courses, and graduation requirements insuring that at least a third of a student's course work be devoted to general liberal arts courses such as history, literature, languages, mathematics and science. olan, S 92 and artists opportunities for personal development and international experience. The prnl='"1Il1 includes university course work, indf;"J endent library or field research, classes in~ Jsic conservatory or art school, special projects, or a combination of these. It is the policy of the Fulbright Scholarship Board that grants be awarded to the best qualified students regardless of degree level. Anyone wishing to write Mr. Dolan can contact him at the following address: George Dolan, Cheju Chung-Ang Middle School, 323-14 Yeon-Dong, ChejuShi, Cheju-Do 690-170, Korea George Dolan, SF '92 �DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER PAGE4 Profile of a mission: Search team rescues plane crash survivors By LESLI ALLISON 0 n August 28 two persons-Luiz and Nancy Natalicio, from El Paso, Texaswere fl,ying a Cessna 172 in the vicinity of Terrero, New Mexico approximately 40 miles northeastofSantaFe. Turning up into Bear Creek Canyon, Luiz realized he could not gain enough altitude to clear Elk Mountain at the east end of the canyon and would have to crash. Rather than panic, he reduced speed, searched for the best site and, approximately ten feet above treeline, deliberately stalled the plane. The Natalicios survived the crash. This mission profile is an account of the events leading to the crash and the ensuing rescue by the St. John's College Search and Rescue Team. While in Santa Fe to attend a workshop on flying in mountainous areas, Luiz and Nancy N atalicio decided to make a quick flight over Terrero where Nancy had spent summers during her childhood. They had taken some photos and were heading back when Luiz realized he had turned into Bear Creek Canyon and had lost altitude. Facing Elk Mountain, and with canyon walls on either side, he saw there was no alternative but to crash. A neurologist who works with physiological trauma victims, Luiz said he has spent considerable time reflecting on the way he himself responded at the time he realized the dilemma. "All systems that were detracting shut down," he said. "I was focused only on finding the right place to put it down." When he finally did stall the plane, it was over a younger stand of timber. According to the FAA inspector, the plane knocked over one tree and then spun 360 degrees on impact with a second tree. The plane slid down the second tree and came to rest at the base. "!remember seeing the green trees going by out the side of the plane," Nancy said. "I would not look ahead. The next thing I remember is looking up to see Luiz washing blood off his face with gasoline dripping from the wing." When Nancy pointed out to Luiz that it was gasoline, not water, he said, "No wonder it bums!" Despite multiple injuries, the N atalicios decided the best course would be to leave the plane and walk down-stream in order to find their way out. At 2 p.m. on August 28, the plane's emergency signal was detected by Scott Air Force Base, and the New Mexico State Police was notified. A mission was initiated with participating teams including: Civil Air Patrol, the Los Alamos Fire Brigade, CDl, the 542ndfromKirkland Air Force Base and St. John's College Search and Rescue. At approximately 4 p.m. a Civil Air Patrol plane located the crash about two to three miles northwest of Elk Mountain, at an elevation of 10, 100 feet. The State Police helicopter reached the site a short time later; hovering about 200 feet over the wreckage, the helicopter personnel saw no signs of life. St. John's Search and Rescue was mobilized at 8: 15 p.m. Two field tean1s and a base camp team left St.John's College for Rescue Base near Elk Mountain. St. John's Search and Rescue volunteer Troy Lewis, SF'94, was a member of Team 1. According to Troy, the weather was a major factor throughout the course of the mission. Visibility was less than the range of the flashlights and the terrain was extremely rugged and with dense tree cover. "Those were some of the worst conditions for a search I've ever been in," Troy said. "Part of the terrain danger was that we had to go across these fields of wet, lichencovered rock, carrying packs." As the night turned to daylight and the rain continued, team morale began to drop. "We were all kind of nervous and apprehensive because with plane crashes you never know what you'll find, especially since it was a small plane," he said. "After about four hours of searching-it was about 6:30 a.m.-we all sat out on some rocks in a clearing. I think that was the low point for all of us since we had been searching all night and we hadn't found them. We'd all been up 24 hours by that time and we were fading in and out of sleep." Although the wreckage had been spotted from the air, the two ground teams had difficulty locating the site due to terrain, poor visibility and inaccurate coordinates. At approximately 9:40 a.m., as the weather began to clear, the State Police helicopter arrived to help guide the teams to the crash site. "We all ran to where the chopper was hovering," Troy said. "To have a sprint like plane and had taken a small piece of carpet and two large maps of the region.Nancy had carried with her a purse and camera. "That camera case was really helpful," Luiz said "We used the strap to immobilize her arm." Initially, the Natalicios had not expected to spend the night, particularly when the helicopter appeared that evening over the crash site. However, when the weather began to worsen and the helicopter departed, they knew they were in for a long night. "At about six o'clock the helicopter took off down the canyon, right in front of our eyes," Luiz said. "When Nancy asked for a cigarette, I knew things were bad because she hasn't smoked in ten years. By the way, I also knew the forecast. We knew it would rain." The N atalicios used the small piece of carpet, the maps, and Nancy's large purse to keep their upper torsos dry that evening. "We just let the rest of us get wet," Luiz said. They spent the night against a tree on the steep slope of the canyon just above the cliff. "/ never thought I would consider suicide as an option," Nancy told the team later. "[But] after seeing the helicopter leave, I wasn't very hopeful." that was very demanding. I got to the site right after Brian did. He and I dropped our packs and approached the aircraft, still anticipating the worst. And to our surprise, it was completely empty. There was a trail of blood-soaked kleenexes leading away from the plane." The two tean1s made a decision to initiate a search immediately. "We were worried about the condition of the pilot and we were still unsure if there was a passenger," Troy said. "We began searching downstream, aggressively calling for the subject." It was not long before they heard a response to their calls. heard the faintest 'hello'," said Luiz. "When the team found us it was a critical moment." The Natalicios, after leaving the plane, had bushwhacked down the canyon until they came to what for them was an impassable cliff. In the effort to get around the cliff, they had climbed part way up the canyon until they realized they could not continue. Due to injuries which included a fractured clavicle, a dislocated shoulder and a fractured humerus, Nancy could only use one arm to pull herself up steep slopes or to balance in precarious places. Luiz, at one point, had gone back to the The next morning, their hope was rekindled by the appearance of the State Police helicopter. "It came really close an<;l pointed right at us," Luiz said. "I just knew he was looking right at me. We waved our maps and our arms. The helicopter kept moving very slowly, all armmd us and pointing right at us but then it started to move away, over the ridge, until we couldn't hear it anymore." TheNatalicioscouldnothaveknown that the helicopter, rather than looking for survivors, was directing ground teams to the crash site. "I never thought I would consider suicide as an option," Nancy told the team later. "After seeing the helicopter leave, I wasn't very hopeful. I knew they call off searches after a certain amount of time. Luiz suggested getting back to the plane but I wasn't sure we could make it or even find the plane again. There was a bluff right in front of us and rather than do it slowly and painfully, I thought we could throw ourselves over and get it over with. I was just waiting for the right moment to suggest this to Luiz." According to team members, theNatalicios, standing above them, at first sight looked like raggedly dressed homeless people. "Just like on previous searches, there's always a feeling of disbelief.. .I'm not hearing anything .. .it must be one of our own team members yelling back," Troy said. "But within minutes, Brian, Gene and myself were talking to the Natalicios." "I fell to my knees and sobbed, Nancy said. I couldn't believe they were there." For the next two hours, while waiting for the arrival of CH-60 Blackhawk helicopter from Kirkland Air Force Base, the teams helped warm the Natalicios with hot drinks, clothing and sleeping bags and attended to their injmies. When the helicopter arrived, the Natalicios were bundled, one at a time, into litters and hoisted 75-100 feet up into the helicopter. "It was quite an experience having the chopper so close," Troy said. "The turbulence was so strong we were holding on to trees and vines. Two packs were almost blown down the mountain. But we were all in good spirits because we knew we would be out in three or four hours." Once the helicopter left, Teams 1 and 2 combined and different members of the teams elected to depart by different routes. Some climbed the steep canyon wall that they had descended the night before. Others chose to hike down Bear Creek to the Bear Creek campground. "I vividly remember being told it would be an' easy, four-mile hike downhill,"' Troy said, "a stroll, if you will, something we were all looking forward to." They set out downstream at 3 p.m., only to encounter numerous creek crossings at mid-thigh to mid-knee, dense growth, and fields of slippe1y, lichen-covered rocks. "I think I bonded more intensely with the members of the team that were on the last part of the hike than I ever have before in previous searches," Troy said. "I think the endurance requirement or necessity that we were subjected to, coupled with our fatigue, made for a situation where we either were considerate or compassionate toward each other or our team integiity would have been compromised." "I remember at one point Rick (Gaudet, SF'92), asked me how I was doing, and I replied, 'I'm cold, wet and miserable,' and he kind of chuckled and said, 'Oh, then you're fine,' and kind of smiled. And we both really laughed because that put things in perspective for me. I realized that we 're all friends here, it had for all of us to be where we are now, but we're still a team." At 9 p.m. the team decided to stop for the night. Short on food and minus one sleeping bag which had been sent with the N atalicios, the team combined resources to make it through the night. "We consolidated what we had and worked together as a team tomakedo,"Troy said. "It was very unifying. Once you're in the field like that, your deficiencies are eve1yone 's deficiencies." The next morning the team left the canyon bottom and climbed to the top of the ridge where they located a trail. After several more hours they reached the campground. "We came upon Gene Tyson (rescue volunteer), lying in the back of his pick-up trnck, reading a book, with a big vat of hot cocoa going," Troy said. A1most two months later, the Natalicios returned to Santa Fe to meet and thank the team that rescued them. "You are on our minds constantly, Luiz said. And we can only dimly appreciate the kind of effort it takes to keep a program like this going." �DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER Sandra Schubert Brock of Annapolis, an expert in international trade and government relations and wife of former United State Senator William E. John Duncan Mack of Ringoes, New Jersey, a farmer corporate president and vice pn~s1c1en.t; and Marvin Sloves of North chairNew and Santa man and chief executive officer of an international advertising agency, have been to the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors. The 56member board makes and oversees administration of the college. Sandra Brock began her government working on the Republican subsequently to a senior position she was within the administration. In 1978 a highly-regarded transportation firm representing the interests of domestic and international air carriers. When the firm was merged with a large Washington law firm in 1984, Mrs. Brock became its international aviation trade specialist. her numerous honors is the distinction of being elected in 1983 as the first woman president of the AERO Club, the oldest aviation and aerospace organization in the country. That same year, she was recognized by the national aviation club as one of the 10 most outstanding President woman in aviation. In amJ01nted her to the President's Com.mission on Privatization........ '"'"'"'"uuv.u, Mrs. Brock sits on the boards of the Pedi1-1niirnr1<>rinn· the U.S. Holocaust president of the Hunterdon Central High School Foundation. He has served as national fundraising chairman of St. John's College, and is a former trustee of the New York City and the Dr. Franklin Perkins School for Exceptional Children in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Mr. Mack received the Silver Star in World War II while serving in the Infantry. He is married with four children. Marvin Sloves is chairman and chief executive officer of Slaves, Inc. The advertising agency, with worldwide billings, was identified as "one ofthemostcreativeagenciesin the United States," by the French Strate- gies. Mr. Sloves began his career as a researcher for the Marlboro account at Leo Burnett in Chicago. In 1964 he joined Papert, Koenig, Lois as vice president and account supervisor of Xerox Corporation. In 1967, he cofounded Scali, McCabe, Sloves, Inc. Among his numerous honors was being named one of the Top 10 Men in Advertising (New York) by McCall's Magazine in 1992. Mr. Sloves is on the Board of Directors for The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln The Santa Fe Opera, The Santa Fe Chamber Music New York Council for the Humanities and The Burden Center for the Aging. He is an alumnus and fellow of Brandeis University. He did n-r<>,rln<:itP Chinese at the served as president of Carter Products Division from 197 6 to 1991 where he was responsible for product lines such as Pearl Drops, and First Response. Mr. Mack began his career as a salesman, working his way up to manager of Duncan Hines Enterprises. He thenjoined Clairol as advertising manager, and later directed a 400-person regular Clairol sales force and founded the electric hairsetter business. As executive vice president of the company, he made several major acquisitions. In addition to serving as director of the Board of Appliance Science Corporation, Mr. Mack is a town committeeman and planning board committeeman in East Amwell, New Jersey; trustee of the ComFoundation of New Jersey; and Keith Harvey photo PAGES �PAGE6 DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER Parents ' Wee/(f,nd in .9Lnnapo[is By KATHY DULISSE Umelenting rains did little to dampen the enthusiasm of the record number of parents and family members who attended Parents' Weekend on the Annapolis campus. The 282 participants-parents, grandparents and siblingsjoined 148 students for a weekend of special activities which included seminars, a meeting with college administrators, social events, and a student organized Halloween Waltz Party. On Friday, parents were invited to audit their student's classes, and for many it was their first opportunity to see the St. John's teaching method in action. "My mother was very impressed," said Stacie Slotnick whose mother Joyce Slotnick attended her senior math class. "I can't believe we talked about skewed lines at dinner that night." The next day both parents and students were eager participants in seminars on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Freshman Larry McNeely enjoyed hearing his father voice the same conclusions that he had reached in an earlier seminar on the same subject. President Christopher Nelson welcomed parents to campus at a special parents' session where he talked briefly about the Middle States Reaccreditation Review the College had recently gone through. Dean Eva Brann, and Assistant Deans Jonathan Tuck and Wendy Allanbrook answered questions from parents that focused mainly on the college's academic program. Saturday evening was free time for parents and students, and many took advantage of the fine restaurants in downtown Annapolis, then danced the night away at the students Halloween Waltz Party in McDowell Hall. The Weekend concluded with a Sunday brunch hosted by President Nelson. Perhaps the success of the weekend can be summed up in the words of Freshman Rebecca Michael, "My mom and I had such a special time together; we enjoyed ourselves so much. I really hated to see her go." Bosworth and for Parents' visitors. Keith Harvey photos at Anne Fischer, <laugher-in-law of the collectors of the German Expressionist artwork displayed at the Mitchell Galle1y, was an honored guest at the opening reception in September, along with the ambassador from the Geiman Federal Republic, hnmo F. H. Stabreit and his wife Barbara. The work displayed in "The Eye of the Collector: Ludwig and Rosy Fischer and the Rise of German Expressionist Art," organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, was produced between 1909 and 1924, and was taken safely out of the country by the Fischers when they fled Germany in the 1930s. The unsettled world before World War I and between the wars was reflected in the prints, painting and sculpture which were soon to be labelled "degenerate" in Hitler's Ge1many. Mark M. Odell photos, reprinted from The Capital �DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER PAGE7 Parents' 'Wee/(?nd in Santa ~e "4..1..AJlJl.. ............Jl Parents' Weekend in Santa Fe was Weekend guests 186 ..ILJL.Jl..~A.11..'-"'U of - Mr. Arvind Shah and Mrs. Shah of Santa California with their""''""''""·......... SF'97. over books Parents' Weekend Meem Book Sale. Lesli Allison photos Santa Fe mayor honors Rescue Team founder Santa Fe Mayor Sam Pick has declared Sunday, December 12, 1993, Herb Kincey Day. Kincey is the founder and general coordinator of the St. John's College Search and Rescue Team. Originally from North Carolina, Kincey was driving through New Mexico in 1969 when he decided to visit Santa Fe. From that moment on, he made Santa Fe his home. An Outward Bound instructor at the time, Kincey soon became involved in outdoor and wilderness activities in New Mexico, founding the St. John's Search and Rescue Team in 1971. With 18 original members, the goal of the team was to teach wilderness survival skills and to offer their rescue expertise to the public in the event of emergencies. Today the team, which is headquartered at the college, consists of approximately 90 volunteers, half of whom are St. John's students and the other half, members of the local community . Working in cooperation with the New Mexico State Police, the team searches for and evacuates lost or injured people in wilderness and remote areas. The driving force behind the team, Kincey assists during rescue missions, both in the radio room and the field. He also trains students and community members in wilderness survival, rock-climbing, technical rescue, navigational skills, radio-use and first aid, among other things. For many Lett to right-Team member Patrick French, SF'95, Herb Kincey and team President Elizabeth Rohrback, SF'86. students he has served as a mentor in leadership, communication, team work and community service. In addition to his activities with the team, Kincey holds the rank of captain in the Civil Air Patrol and in 1990 was awarded the CAP national Exceptional Service Award. In 1991 he was made an honorary member of the St. John's College Alumni Association. See rescue story, page 4. �PAGES DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER 1919 John W. Wood Jr. (A) was the subject of a recent feature in The Annapolis Capital elaborating on the active life of this World War I veteran. Mr. Wood, who attended both the St. John's Preparatory School and the U.S. Naval Academy, went on to win wrestling championships in his 20s, and last fall at the age of 93, won a croquet championship at his retirement community. When not swimming his daily 10 laps in the pool, he is an outstanding member of the volunteer discharge team at Anne Arundel Medical Center-helping escort 16 patients from their rooms to their waiting cars on a typical weekday. Mr. Wood worked in the metallurgy division of the former Navy Experimental Station, with an interlude at Westinghouse and the Annapolis Metropolitan Sewage Commission. 1940 William A. Carter (A) was appointed in May to the Delaware Higher Education Commission, and in June received an honorary degree from Deiaware Technical and Community College. In 1965, Mr. Carter, a businessman, headed a state committee that decided a community college system was feasible. He was president of the trustees from 1973 to 1983. When asked what was the most significant contribution of the college to Delaware, Bill said, "It made, for the first time, two years of higher education available to every citizen of Delaware, regardless of their socio-economic background." After graduating from St. John's, Bill entered the U.S. Naval Academy for Reserve Naval Officer training. Shortly after World War II began, Bill commanded a U.S. Naval gun crew on a Merchant Ship Ironclad and participated in the celebrated convoy "PQ 17 ."For his heroic efforts, he was awarded both the Silver Star and the Russian decoration, "Order of Fatherland Wars, 1st Class." Upon return to civilian life, Bill became superintendent of the Houston-White Company basket manufacturing plant. In the 1970s he helped develop a shopping center in Millsboro, Delaware. 1943 Paul Ehrlich (A) regrets having missed the 50th anniversary homecoming having been enroute from Singapore to Hong Kong. He sends regards to all and would especially like to hear from Douglas Buchanan. 1966 Kay Randolph-Back (A) was named program associate in the health area by W. K. Kellogg Foundation. In addition to providing program support in health matters, Kay contributes to the advancement of the mission and goals of the foundation. She assists program directors with project analysis, development, and implementation. Previously, she served as director of public policy for the Hunger Action Coalition of Southeastern Michigan. Kay earned a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and herjuris doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center. She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the National Health Lawyers Association, and the American Public Health Association. 1971 Perry Braunstein (A) is living with his wife and two children at his in-laws' fruit farm in Germany. The 1603 farmhouse is "quite quaint and cozy," hereports ... "we've got a still which we use for making 'Schnaps,' kirschwasser, and the like with the fruit we pick." Perry earned his master's degree in classics from N.Y.U., then taught at the Ecole d'Humanite'in Switzerland. Next he studied in Germany and took state exams. Since then he's been teaching, and has organized several student exchange programs hoping to overcome the historical prejudices between German and French students. He'd enjoy hearing from St. Johnnies, especially those living in Europe and Israel. 1973 Jan Lisa Huttner (A) extends her regrets at being unable to attend her 20th reunion but "swears by the memory of Harold Stone's vampire cape that I WILL attend our 25th." From Chicago she sends regards to all. 1974 Theodore G. Wolff (A) was married on July 19, 1991. His wife, Peggy, is an architect. This January he launched "Wolff Associates," a planning, urban design, environmental assessment, and landscape architectural firm. 1975 "Great-spirited, caring people and we're learning good medicine," writes Laura T. Bridgman (A), a naturopathic medical student at Bastyr College in Seattle. She plans to complete the four-year program in 1995, and in the meantime hikes the forests and mountains, and plays folk music on hammered dulcimer with friends. Marsha Donna Hayden (SFGI), who now wishes to be known as just Donna, is currently teaching English and is department chair at Associacao Escola Graduada de Sao Paulo in Brazil. One of her English department colleagues is another St. John's alumnus-Peter Born (A'83). 1979 Marjorie Hutter (A) and husband, Russell Frank, recently became parents of Simone Claire .. The couple lives in Amherst, Mass., where Frank practices law, and Marjorie recently became assistant director of Foundations and Corporate Support in the Alumni Affairs and Development Office of Amherst College. Their address is 251 Middle St. Amherst, Mass. 01002. Michael J. Sloper (SF) was recently appointed director of the central office of the Esperanto League of North America. He invites inquiries and conversation about world language problems and their possible solutions. He especially welcomes contact from teachers of language (and other forms of rationality). Write him at Box 1129 El Cerrito, CA. 94530. Michael reports that his theatre work "has been on the upswing lately," having played in Brigadoon, this summer, and MacBeth, this fall, and recently singing chorus in the Revels, a semi-pagan holy-day dramatic ritual. 1981 Emi Sarah Geiger (A) married Boaz Leslau in 1992 and gave birth to a son, Reginald Gilead, in February, 1993. "We are enjoying our tranquil, happy lives in Jerusalem," she writes. "We have a garden with hundreds of flowers, hummingbirds, woodpeckers, and one small poisonous snake. Oh well." Christopher Mark (A), who recently moved 15 miles from the country to the "big city" of Erie, PA., is anxious to hear from Johnnies in the area. Christopher, who tutors in math, reports business is brisk. Friends can reach him at 157 Sheridan Ave. #3, Erie, PA. 16502. 1984 Alexandra E. Mullen (A) recently joined the faculty of Providence College in Rhode Island, where she teaches Victorian literature. Last January she married Roger Kimball, a New York City writer and critic. Donna K. Wilson (A) married Michael Vales and the couple has a son, Andrew. Donna's address is 133 Del Oaks Road, Madisonville, LA. 70447. 1985 Martin Marklin (A) and his wife, Christine, proudly announce the birth of their first child, a son, Matthias Kolbe, born August 15. Matthias weighed 8 lbs., 7 oz., and was 21 inches long. 1986 Kristen Ann Baumgardner (SF) married David Charles Caven on August 1, 1993, in a mountain meadow in Boulder, Colorado. Jennifer Flynn Israel (A) and Michael Ryan (SF) were both there for the event. 1987 Justin Burke (A) participated in a Fantasy Day Event at Fenway Park in Boston. The sponsorship campaign was supported by more than 30 friends, family members and business contacts who contributed more than $3,000 for the Jimmy Fund for Children's Cancer Research, which benefits from the event. Justin got to try to hit a home run at the Green Monster, the left field fence that's 38 feet high. He and friends started out in the 600 Club, a glass-enclosed hospitality section above and behind home plate. Justin got a Red Sox jersey and cap and was escorted to the visitor's locker room to change. Naturally, while in the batting cages, he had good luck with practice swings, but no luck with the real 10 pitches. With the excitement, he even missed seeing his name on the scoreboard. Joy Kaplan (SF) writes that after two years of working with international theatre groups and teaching English in Alexandria, Egypt, she moved to Istanbul to continue her work. She's also making documentary films with her husband, AhmedHamouda, whom she married in May. She would like to hear from anyone involved in international theatre, especially in North Africa, Europe, or the former Soviet Republics. "Istanbul is a great town. Contact me if you'd like to visit," she says. 1989 Linda Hamm (A) and Don Schwimmer (SF'79)) moved to Seattle three years ago. She is a legal assistant and he works for Microsoft. Lisa Kallman Hopkins (SF) and her husband Phil Hopkins (SGl'92) became parents of daughter, Rebecca Leyna Hopkins, on Sept. 2, 1993. 1990 Alexandra Edelglass (A) is a medical student at SUNY at Stony Brook. Andy Ghiz (A) married Christi Zehringer in Richmond, VA., on September 28. Present were Susan Haines (A), groomsmen Charlie Schlueter (A) and Ken Paradis (A). The couple will be moving to Pittsburgh in November. Andy is a branch manager for Ghiz Inc., an industrial sales and engineering firm. Chris Newman (A) and Paola Newman have returned from a two year stint teaching English in Japan. They brought back lots of souvenirs, a little Japanese language, and a child,. their first. "Lucus," according to Mom and Dad, is adjusting well to America after spending his first month in Japan. They're living in family housing at the University of Michigan, where Paola is pursuing a degree in architecture and Chris is working for a law firm. They'd love to hear from any classmates or friends who are passing through. Their address is: 1634 Mcintyre, Ann Arbor, MI. 48105, or phone (313) 764-6188. (Continued on page nine) Liberal Education on an Alaskan Island Alumni Profile: Dorik Mechau, A'56 By LESLI ALLISON It may be fairly said that where Johnnies go, dialogue follows, even to the more remote regions of the globe. The case certainly seems to be true for Dorik Mechau. On Sitka, a small Alaskan island, Mechau is now the Associate Director of The Island Institute. Formerly director of the Alaska Humanities Forum, Mechau became involved with the Institute when he married its founder and director, Carolyn Servid. "Together, we are engaged in the further development and nurture of [the Island Institute] through a number of interrelated programs, projects and activities, whose object might be characterized as deinsitutionalized liberal education," Mechau said. A small, non-profit organization, The Island Institute is now in its eleventh year. The Institute offers four primary programs designed to generate dialogue about issues central to human experience. The Sitka Symposium on Human Values and the Written Word is an annual conference which explores relationships between writing and questions of social and ethical importance, between ideas and the responsibilities of our work and our lives. According to a brochure on the program, "Because so much about our human lives is recorded and preserved through language, we frame each symposium with a guest faculty of writers and thinkers whose work lends insight to questions posed by a selected theme." The symposium theme for 1994 will focus on the theme of work in terms of its implications for people's lives, human values and its impact on the quality of government and society. Held in June each year, the symposium welcomes participants from around the country for a modest tuition ($185/week in 1993). The Island Institute' s Residency program brings writers, artists, and humanities scholars to the island of Sitka for month-long stints three times a year. Participants are provided with room and board and afforded the opportunity to pursue their own work. In turn, once each week, residents engage in some form of dialogue or conversation with the community. "We combine talents from outside the community with talents of the com. munity," Mechau said. "Sitka is on an island. It's got a regular daily jet service. We're a large community relative to other area island communities. Those other communities have very little opportunity to do the kind of thing we 're doing, so we try to work with them and share these opportunities." The Visiting Writer Series is a program initiated by the Institute in cooperation with English departments at the University of Alaska Anchorage and Fairbanks campuses that brings writers to Sitka for readings and discussion. Finally, the Community Forum Series provides panel discussions and seminars for local residents on issues ranging from "The Purpose of Education" to "Community Conflict." "We're very interested in trying to further the democratic process in our community and to get people to think about what kinds of demands a democratic government makes on people," Mechau said. "If I were to simplify our purpose I would say that our interest is in engaging the imagination and intellect and spirit of people in this community and those who attend from other places, to engage them in an active way so that they're thinking about these issues themselves and not relying on expert to tell them what the truth is. "Finally, I might say that we have a very strong interest in including Alaskan Native people in our program. Although they now represent a small percentage of the population here, they are very important in our thinking. For instance, relative to the subject of work, it's very clear that the traditional subsistence way of life is very different from work in a wage economy where you are working for someone else. Many Native people are working through this transition and burning issues include things like whether they will have a right to hunt and fish in the old ways or whether they will have to bend to the requirements of state and federal agencies." Anyone wishing to know more about the Island Institute can contact Dori1c Mechau at: The Island Institute Box 2420 Sitka, Alaska, 99835 (907) 747-3794. �DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER A writer at the wheel Alumni Profile: Joyce Turner Reyes, A'87 By DONNA BOETIG "Possibility of snow," the National Weather Service announced over the airwaves, breaking the easy talk show banter of the mid-morning. Of course, it's winter in Wyoming, whatwouldyou expect? Joyce Turner Reyes, A'87, thought as she maneuvered the 75,000 pound tanker loaded with dry goods over the curvy hills. Her body ached. She had been driving for nearly 10 hours. The snow began falling as she glimpsed her husband, Luis Reyes, also a long-haul trucker, asleep on the soft mattress in the rear of the blue tractor. The two took turns at 4 a.m., breaking for cofthe This had been going well until sudthe denly the wind from the snow like a fan with confetti, and minutes later the road before her disappeared under a sheet of white. 0 h my, God, Joyce thought as the snow rendered her windshield wipers useless. White out! "How are the roads up ahead?" Joyce asked, turning on the CB radio. "The highway's closed from Rock Springs to Little America (Wyoming)," a stem voice replied. Another driver interrupted, "Can anyone see me?" "Yes, you 're off the road. You 're in a ditch," someone replied. "It's one mile to a truck stop," a voice instructed Joyce. Can I make it safely? she thought. Out of the comer of her eye she spotted faint gray tracks in the pavement. Are they on or off the road? she wondered, horrified. Taking a deep breath, she mustered her confidence and slowed the rig to a crawl. Then following the barely visible tracks, she inched her way inside the white cloud, every tum of the wheels knotting her nerves. With intense concentration, she banished her nightmares. Finally, reaching the truck stop, she turned off the engine, allowing her body to sink deep into her seat. Then she smiled a broad proud grin. Joyce left St. John's after two years"too many coffee shop parties, and too little studying," she says-then headed for the 1991 James Abram McShane ("Shum") (A), writing from Africa says that he is teaching math and "finds the Peace Corps challenging and real. As brother Michael, A'88, has said, 'Mail in your mailbox is psychological currency wherever you are."' Shum also writes "Teeth! Tongue! Lips! An entire goat mouth! Served in a succulent, yet subtly peppy red sauce yesterday to me! At breakfast! for a free sample and a copy of Mortimer Adler and Mike Pfister's co-authored classic Truly Appalling African Breakfasts/or Everyman. Shum's address: Corps de la Paix Americaine, BP 35, Save, Republic of Benin, Afrique. The number for his family in Nebraska: (402)-488-0262. 1992 Block (SF) will be spending two years with the Peace Corp in Kaduna, Nigeria, beginning December, volunteering in the Health Extension program, Guinea Worm Eradication-Sanitation. The first year she will teach young girls how to prevent the spread of a worm that breeds in running water by using alternative water methods. The second year, she '11 direct the construction of wells and water filtration systems in the villages. Elyette spent four days in November training in North Carolina and will receive another three months of in-country training in Nigeria before being sent shores of North Carolina to write her novel. With the book unfinished, she enrolled at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and organized a philosophy club, with degrees in both biolthen ogy and philosophy. "While at college I realized I wanted military discipline and adventure," she says. Enlisting as a seaman apprentice in the Coast Guard-she would be promoted to third-class boatswain's mate within three years, and remain on inactive status today-she earned $240, plus benefits, for a weekend of rescuing boaters. "Most of work was fairly routine, very little of dramatic stuff," she says. Still she enjoyed the diversion, and as fate would have it on summer duty at Harbor Beach, Michigan, she fell in love with Luis, a warm hearted damage controlman from Puerto Rico with a son and daughter. As the Gulf crisis intensified, Joyce wondered whether it would affect her. Sure enough, she got called for duty on her wedding day. But she sought and received a reprieve. Happily married, Joyce still suffered wanderlust when she spotted a television commercial for a tractor trailer driving school. "We could do that together," she called out to her husband, who was already enrolled in a similar program. "I knew someday I'd want graduate school and maybe a career in environmental science," Joyce says, "but for now I wanted travel, to learn about this country, meet its people, write, and be with Luis." After two months of full-tin1e study at to a village. Gigi Escalante (A) sends greetings from New York City. Tim Hanes (A) expected to leave Los Angeles in October heading for Costa Rica for "fun and excitement" and learning Spanish. He planned to be in language school in Antigua, Guatemala, five hours a day, five times a week, and expected to spend Christmas with his family there. Tim has enlisted for a four year stint in the Army's Signals Intelligence/Electronic Warfare Operations Field (linguist), and is set to leave for basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, Jan. 20, 1994. After basic training, he will attend the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Pamela Stark (A) works at the Center for Literacy as a VISTA volunteer in charge of curriculum and resource development. "My job is very interesting," she writes. "I love it." 1993 and her husband, Ben, announce the birth of their daughter, Amelia Jane, born Oct. 9, 1993, who weighed six pounds, twelve ounces. Sara Ard (A) and Tedd Naff (A'92), who were married July 17, 1993, in Marion, Iowa, are living in the Bronx, New Ymk, where Ted is attending Fordham University's philosophy program. Justin Cetas (SF) and Diana Rempe (SF) the truck driving school, they earned their commercial drivers license permitting them to operate trucks up to 80,000 pounds, and received endorsements for tanker, double, and triple trucks, and trucks carrying hazardous materials. In April 1991, the pair began driving as a team and so far have covered 44 states. Their most popular route is Interstate 80 from the mid-west to California. Says Joyce, "The road rises from a little above sea level to nearly 8,000 feet with lots of blowing snow in the winter. There are deserted areas, and it's not unusual to see herds of roaming antelope." With power steering, brakes, and mirof a 65-foot rig is rors, the actual easy, or so she says. "It's harder to chive a car because you can't see as far ahead." Yet on occasion when she drove double she concedes "there's a into spaces-you a year, up to 11 weeks her to drink bottomstraight, can less cups of coffee, pop caffeine pills, listen to financial reports, talk shows, and all types of music on the AM stations. "You play tapes at your own risk because the truck's vibrations tangles them," she says. An air bag on the bottom of the driver's seat absorbs shock, and she has learned to regulate how much she drinks because, as she puts it, you can't always find a rest room in isolated territory. After adding 5 pounds the first year to her 5'-2" frame, she managed to lose 10 pounds scaling back on snacks. Among the joys of her job are the friends she has made: an older woman customs broker in Canada, a retired widow in Nevada. Says she, "The most important thing I learned about talking with people is to ask questions of older ones ... They're the best sources of information about the history, customs, and economic bases of an area." Most intriguing to Joyce are the perceptions strangers have of her. "Women break their necks to stare up at me," she says. "Because I'm driving a truck some think I'm trashy. They don't realize I'm educated, and have manners ... " Trucking has inspired Joyce's writing, and she has published two short stories about her experiences. Currently she's writing an adult book about her travels, and plans a column for a South Carolina newspaper. But for now, Joyce is tlnilled to be able to earn her living experiencing adventure eveiy day. were married in Dallas on July 17. The wedding was attended by more than 20 Johnnies, and was a mini-reunion for the class of '93. James Lank (A) is attending Haivard Law School "Truly paradise on earth," is the way Bill McMabon (A) describes his teaching assignment on the Island of Palau, in Micronesia. As a member of the Jesuit International Volunteer Corps, he is teaching for geometry, chemistry, and computer skills two years in a government high school. Walter ~t,•r111no Jr. recipient of a J avits Fellowship and teaching assistant in philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta, writes: " ... When I first thought about philosophy and graduate school, I was very uncertain as to what, in fact, those words applied. One of the first things I heard a tutor say on the subject was that we at SJC speak our own peculiar dialect, while the rest of academia speaks theirs, and some translation is in order. This sounded right to me, and I think it was useful to hear, because it was at least a provisional way to understand the gap that I knew I had to cross. In the end, however, I think the translation was relatively minor in comparison to how much my St. John's education had taught me what I need to know to get started in the academic world of philosophy .... " PAGE9 ALUMNI OPPORTUNITIES from the Placement Office The Oregon State University Center for the Humanities invites invitations for faculty research fellowships for 1994-95. The Center for the Humanities will appoint up to four external faculty fellows with annual stipends up to $27,000. Applicants are encournged to submit proposals which address the research theme, "The Idea of Order in the Arts and Sciences." Applicants must have a Ph.D. and at least one year's teaching experience. Contact: Peter J. Copek, Director, The Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University, 811 S.W. Jefferson, Corvallis, OR Deadline: 1994. The National Research Council to award among and scholai-s in the humanities For more ~~~,,.u~•AVLA, National Re~~•AAA~.u, 2101 Constitution Ave.,.._,,u.,.,.,r.'•'n..., D.C. 20418. Deadline: The Robert L. Gale Fund for the of supports basic and applied research projects aimed at improving understanding of governing boards and trustee characteristics, responsibilities, and performance, as well as presidential roles and practices as they relate to board responsibilities. Grants ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 may be awarded to individuals or institutions, and proposals are invited from academic researchers, independent scholars, nonprofit practitioners, and doctoral candidates. The deadline for proposals is January 31, 1994. Contact: Barbara Taylor, (202)2968400. PSI Services, Inc. is seeking candidates for the position of Psychologist, to conduct evaluations and interprets tests and observation results using DSM IDR. In addition, candidate will provide consultation to PSI treatment programs, and conduct individual and group therapy sessions. Qualifications: M.A. or Ph.D. in Psychology, demonstrated clinical testing and writing skills, experience in evaluation and treatment planning for developmentally disabled, infants, or young children. To apply send resume to: Mr. William Howard, PSI Services, Inc., Commercenter West, Building A, Suite 220, 1777 Reisterstown Road, Baltimore, MD 21208, (410)486-4757. The Department of History at Appalachian State University offers to a qualified graduate student, a Master of Arts degree in History and the opportunity to learn about scholarly publishing by working as an editorial assistant for Albion, a journal of British studies. Qualifications for internship: conscientious and accurate work habits, good language skills, a commitment to learning, ability to use word processing and database applications, and know ledge of the humanities, social sciences, and history. Internship carries a stipend of $7,000 per year, and consideration to receive an out-of-state tuition waiver. Apply to: The Cratis D. Williams Graduate School, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608 and submit separately a letter explaining why the internship is desired and what your qualification are to Dr. Michael J. Moore, Department of History, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, (704)2626004. Applications will be reviewed beginning March 1, 1994. �THE REPORTER PAGE10 DECEMBER 1993 j{omecoming 1993 "One Man's Meter'' witty, nostalgic By NANCY OSIUS he didn't have time to "ring all the changes of what happens when we leave off various measures of the original quatrain"-an exercise he would likely have Annapolis Tutor Elliott Zuckerman began his Homecoming lecture "One Man's Meter" October 1 enjoyed He moved then to the identification and effect of in a reminiscent vein. stress patterns in lines of great poetry. Presenting a Evoking the Brooklyn of his childhood was the nameless critic's assertion that many iambic pentamfirst of many strategies in the speaker's entertaining eter lines have only four enunciated stresses, he journey towards his thesis that understanding meter passed along that critic's example-"the most fais essential for understanding poetry. fu this childmous speech in Shakespeare"-for analysis, hood Brooklyn, Ebbets Field was visible from the Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy. He agreed roof of his apartment house, the Brooklyn Museum that in the first lines of the passage there were four, provided a first introduction to the great names in not five, stresses grouped into pairs on either side of intellectual history, and the Botanic Garden with its a central unstressed preposition-the stressed sylla"metrically" arranged Japanese cherry trees was the bles in the first line are be, not, that and question. But setting for his earliest reading of poetry. Alumni Association Honorees Peter Davies, left, and Edward Sparrow. his own effective rendering of the line supported his In a witty and densely allusive lecture, Mr. Zuckerman, a painter and musician himself, used assertion that these lines contain a fifth and central, visual and musical parallels to verse; a poet and but unheard, stress. "Most English verse is not purely accentual, but what is called accentual-syllabic," he editor, he performed metrical and lexical sleight of noted, and misreadings hand to demonstrate the richness of great result in placing the four verse and the thinness stresses equidistant in "The chief reason for attending to the of lesser versifying. these irregular lines. details of meter is not peiformance but Mr. Zuckerman, In Macbeth's soliloplain knowing"-Elliott Zuckerman who has been a memquywhere the king begins sity, Mr. Sparrow "escapee ber of the Annapolis "to contemplate the paTwo distinguished men were honored at the Homesive education by joining · coming Banquet Saturday, October 2, the recipients faculty since 1961, is rade of his magnificent said Michael Blume, A'78. of the highest honors the Alumni Association has to in his second and final despair," the line "ToRecalling the hospitalil bestow. -year as occupant of the chair on ancient, medieval morrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" invites artichold, the "homey contentn The first of these, Edward Sparrow, tutor at the ulation of all five stresses of the pentameter, Mr. and renaissance thought, partially funded by the Nacider" in preparation for tl college since 1957 and dean from 1977-1982, was Zuckerman said, including the two ands. "The little tional Endowment for the Arts. This year he has led the vigorous discussions made an honorary member of the St. John's College word and can be the most wearying of common a faculty study group on prosody, meter and verse, as about all mai Alumni Association. Mr. Sparrow retired words," he said "It can also connect worlds of hopea provision of the grant. trips with stt from the faculty at the end offall semester, lessness, as it does, for example at the dead center of A. E. Housman's familiar poem, "Loveliest of monastery in 1 1992. trees"-"not a good poem," said the speaker, who Tristan and Isolde." Blume said The second honoree was Peter Davies, Turning to the comparison of metrics in prose and thereafter pitilessly subverted it for his own purtouched "an u A'48, who recently retired from a career poetry, he suggested that poetry can be viewed as poses-was his chief example in the lecture. fuitially to an unusual in international relief and development. "representing a selection and stylization of the more the poem was useful for examination of its regulari"particularly He was given the Alumni Association complex elements of ordinary language." His expresties and irregularities and a combination of distincmade into an. Award of Merit. sive reading of the first lines of the Declaration of tion and banality. It also allowed Mr. Zuckerman to Peter Davi The honorary alumni membership was Independence ("five and a half lines of rather good draw from his own etymological storehouse about tions to inter: presented to Mr. Sparrow "in virtue of his iambic pentameter") supported his assertion that such matters as the names of numbers. relief efforts, many years of devoted service to the colreading prose aloud benefits from the fu the meantime, those in the audience who had C'.t~.lvU.J.U.U '-' and rer>rQC:l.U(;tJ lege" and with "gratitude for the friendship he has of speech "and where are." Similarly, is forgotten their iambs, trochees and dactyls were get"leadership in bus:me~ss, extended to generations of students and colleagues, small wonder that the attention to poetic elements an entertaining short course, as the speaker laid thropy," were noted in t helping to foster a greater sense of community on the should improve one's performance of verse." out the metrical expectations set up by a poem and A ward of Merit. Annapolis campus," according to the citation. But effective performance in either medium was the force of controverting such expectations. An alumnus of Harvard College, class of not the goal of the study of prosody, he made clear. those who remembered their metrics met up with a law degree from Harvard Law school and an "The chief reason for attending to the details of meter with some new words: a stressed beM.A. from the Teacher's College, Columbia Univeris not performance but plain knowing," he concluded. tween two unstressed syllables, or isochronous.. equidistant in He defended the effort to force a phrase into a metrical pattern set up by the poem: it is "bound to be Mr. Zuckerman gave more respectful attention to Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress" revealing," he said. "I have yet where he found first amusement and then power in to find a poem or piece of the use of stresses in two lines: vegetable music that doesn't survive such fitting with a new noticeable love should grow I Vaster than Empires, and more slow ... " Marvell's second line here provided a valurichness." able parallel to line one of Housman's poem, where Mr. Zuckerman's complete a similar metrical reversal, "Loveliest of Trees, the address may be published in a cherry now" is, in Mr. Zuckerman's words, "so arfuture issue of The St. John's resting that it carries the rest of the poem-carries it Review. right into the anthologies." In a display of often amusing virtuosity, Mr. Zuckerman now scattered enough new syllables into the Housman poem to stretch the four foot lines into five feet-iambic pentameter-and to evoke both Keats and Alexander Pope along the way. "It is because of such desecrations that I chose a mediocre poem [Housman's] to work on," he commented, adding, however, that tampering even with the tunes of great artists-Mozart and Bach-is useful in understanding how they work. At brunch are Mark Micidl1eb1·001k Elizabeth, 4, and Dr. Daniel wife of classmate, Jim. bounty at Sunday brunch. A passing glance at other quatrains-ballad meter as used in Wordsworth's poignant poem "Lucy," a second poem by Housman, and the limerickbrought Mr. Zuckerman to the rueful admission that Edward Sparrow, Peter Davie honored at Homecoming B• �DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER PAGE11 Freshman chorus revisited, with tutor Michael Littleton at the piano. President Chris Nelson addresses fellow alumni. s, A'48, nquet l both the bar and progresthe faculty of St. John's," y of the Sparrow house1ent of baking and sipping ,e annual Christmas party, Mr. Sparrow engaged in mer of tlrings, the many dents to the Benedictine apper New York state, Mr. that Mr. Sparrow had nusual number of students degree"; it was, therefore, appropriate that [he] be honorary alumnus." es' "outstanding contribunational development and ~uticularly in the areas of .Ve as well as his and philanhls encomium for the other Johnnies as Doug Buchanan, A' 43, David Rea, A'49, Peter Weiss, A'46, Jerry Cantor, A'47, and Harris Wofford, HA'87, the participants did farm work by day, and sat up half the night to debate the merits of the kibbutz idea-" a kind of travelling seminar." "Of all those in the group, Peter was not only the best real worker-he also really knew sometlring and really cared about farming and life on the land," said Mr. Bergen. While Peter Davies didn't become a farmer himself, "he did go on to devote his life to efforts to alleviate world hunger and poverty, especially in rural areas." In reply, Peter Davies turned first to his memories of those "wonderful formative years at St. John's," with a short nostalgic journey through recollections of respected classmates, venerated tutors, late dances and long arguments. With the rueful hindsight of maturity, he said that as a student he failed to appreciate the abilities of his tutors, especially their patience in "letting us roam and then pulling us back on track with a well chosen question." He did not realize at the time how important St. John's was to be in his life. But the "skills gained at St. John's" have been valuable throughout his career, he said-such skills as those he used as a recent participant in a session on ethical and legal issues in humanitarian assistance in conflict situations-"to think for myself, to be articulate, to press one's own view, to see the larger picture and to develop and express ethical principles." Many details of his distinguished career in public service are included in an interview on page one. Stella Gold, 11, and her father trip the light tan1tas1Uc. while their campanion Kari Jenson, A'78, not shown, nursed a sore foot. Allan Hoffman photo Reunion sights and sounds Beginning in July, 1992, chief organizer Lyn Cronin began to prod friends from the class of '83-by the fall of 1993, planners were linked regularly by conference calls initiated in her Norwood, Massachusetts, office. Classmates came in droves, although ironically Lyn, ailing, couldn't come. Big events for the class were the Rock Party on Friday night with deejay professors Richard Miller and Darrel Moellendorf providing the patter, and the first ever Homecoming Waltz party, orchestrated by Jim Bailey. Other planners were Sue Maguire Shock, Kathy Bergren Smith, William Hill, Cindy Walton Mccawley, and Mark Middlebrook. Children gambolled and parents chatted at the Saturday picnic under the trees, and then the class of '78 decamped to McDowell to discuss New Program founder Scott Buchanan's essay "The Liberal Arts." David Woolwine, Fred Bomer, and Larry Ostrovsky Richard Weigle in his vigorous stewardship-proper and exuberant by turns, the good-humored observer of student shenanigans, a visionary, an activist-these were the memories drawn forth from three alumni who were students during his tenure as president of the college from 1949 to 1980. A fourth alumnus read a resolution passed by the Alumni Association board "which conveys at least some of the sadness and sense of loss which we feel at [his] passing." The climax of the special Alumni Association were the planners. A "Hospitality Suite"inMcDowell 22 awaited the returning member of the class of '73, where they were greeted by steering committee members Jane Spear, Maria Coughlin, Ted Hendricks, Jessica Weissman, and Dan Pearl. Nothing was nicer at the class of 1968's 25th reunion than lunch on Dorcey Wend Rose's sunlit deck overlooking Lake Hillsmere, followed by a seminar on "Don Quixote" led by Brother Robert Smith. Besides Darcey, reunion planners were Vicki Cone, Deborah Schwartz Renaut, Gilbert Renaut, and Joe Sachs. Gathering for their 40th reunion, headed up by Frank Atwell, many of the class of 1953 lunched together Saturday noon in the Private Dining Room and then whiled away the afternoon reminiscing. (Continued on page 12) meeting at Homecoming in Annapolis October 2 was the Tribute to Richard D. Weigle, who died December 14, 1992. It was the first opportunity for Annapolis alumni to praise the man to whom the 1993 Homecoming celebration was dedicated. Mary Weigle, his companion for over 50 years of marriage, listened attentively to the speakers. Harvey Goldstein, A'59, fmmer Alumni Association president, remembered being summoned into the presidential office by an amused President Weigle in (Continued on page 12) �PAGE12 DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER Annapolis: J{omecomin , 1993 More Reunion Sights (Continued from page 11) A letter and invitation from Peter Kellogg-Smith, filled with light-hearted memories, summoned the class of 1943 last fall to its SOth reunion. They remembered, they came, and on Sunday morning, they gave Peter a standing ovation for his efforts. Some of Peter's memories: numerous "SW1day mornings"; Bob Story constructing a still in his dorm room closet; Nicholas Nabokov conducting the St John's Symphony Orchestra, made up of three Johnnies and 32 townies and Navy bandsmen; a.ndrecollections of cheerful Miss Ebaugh on the switchboard, "surrogate mother" Kitty Lathrop in the bookstore, and boatbuilder Franz Plunder. These men came back to the "big five-o": besides Peter, Ralph Bal!zell, Monte Bourjaily, Douglas Buchanan, Alan Eckhart, Bill Hart, Claude LeffeL Richard Mallon, Francis Mason, Alexander Slaflcosky, Willard Stem, Ollie Thompson, andJrunes \Varanch. Above - Classmates revisit 1983 Jonathan Tuck. Peter Davies (Continued from page one) Special Assistant to the Special Assistant to the President Tutor Emeritus Edward Sparrow visits with Tutor Joe for trade policy, promoting the Trade Expansion Act at the Cohen at Class of '68 reumon. Stephanie Harvey photo White House. The years following found him worlcing as deputy managing director of a $68 million fertilizer pr9ject in India and as director of the Accelerated Rural Development Program in Thailand. Then it was the Food for Peace AID program in Brazil, where he directed agricultural, health, nutrition and population programs; next, four years of travel through Latin America and the Caribbean as program director for the International Planned Parenthood Federation. For eightyears he was president of Meals for Millions/Freedom fromHW1ger Foundation, commuting to Davis, CA He added to the number of rountries and rural develop- uA~•rh 1... n1.r with Assistant Dean Harvey and Harvey mentprograms served, andincreasedsevenfoldthefoundati.on' sbudget After he helped form InterActi.on, presiding over a merger of two intemationaldevelopmentagencyumhellaorganizations,heis credited with doubling its membersillp (there are now 152 international private voluntary member organizations such as CARE, Save the Children, International Rescue Committee and Oxfam). InterAction' s members accoW1t for over $15 billion of private funding and $600 million of government funds. St John's provided him with ''the language to build ronsensus, '' he says. "St. John's taught me to see the larger world picture and to work to help others to realiz.e that they have the innate ability to gain self-reliance and respect The college has always been an important part of my life." While he speaks with pleasure of retirement and more time with his wife Phyllis, a lawyer with New Y orlc City, also now retired, and hisfamily(asecondsonisaveterinarianandaPhD.inimmunogenetics doing research on cattle disease), Peter Davies of course has new projects afoot He expects to wmk with Saferworld, a British group dedicated to curbing the arms trade. He also expects to consult for Save the Children, UNICEF and Oxfam, and other" short term assignments." The more things change, the more things remain the same. Weigle Memorial (Co11tin11edfro111page 11) inside after removing the locks, and rigging the horn to sound the 1950s. He and several fellow students were building a computer for their senior lab project, and were displaying the acronym Deborah Papier, A'72 waltzes with Peter Fairbanks, A'73 in the Great Hall. for the Boolean Algebra TabulatKeith Harvey photo ing and Reasoning Device everywhere possible-a French word thought not fit for the eyes of President Eisenhower, who was about to visit the campus for a dedication. Mr. Gold.steinrecfilled as anew graduate in the 1%0s being summoned into the president's office by an excited Dr. Weigle to see the maps and plans and blueprints of the SantaFecrunpus. Sharon Bishop, A'65, remembered Dr. Weigle as tl1e college's in loco paren!is, "somewhat remote, morally stric~ even stem at times." When she was a student in the 1960s and dorrnilmy gender segregation was the rule, she remembered one occasion when she and her friends were in a nUxed social situation in a men's residence and suddenly Dr. Weigle was at the door. ''Fear was in my heart,'' she said However, the president surveyed tlle scene, and kindly gave them pennission to continue. By the 1970s, as amemberoftheBuardofVisitors and Governors, she had begW1 to understru1d and fully to appreciate Dr. Weigle's contribution to tl1e college. "Dick was a man ofvision--is there another small liberal arts college with two campuses with tl1e same program 2,CXXl miles apmt? he was a mm1 of action ... he was also sometlung of a magician-he rescued the college from the brink of finm1cial disaster too many times to even count" Dr. Weigle was "irnpressive--so proper and correc~" said Brad David.son, A'77, speaking for the students of tl1e 70s. His generation called him ''Uncle Wiggley, ''and peipetrated an infamous senior prank on him, to wluch he was apparently equal-"parking [Dr. Weigle's] Jeff Wall, A'83, plays with small companions at the purple college car on the Quad, removing tl1e tires, locking two pigs '83 picnic. Stephanie Harvey photo when we closed the car at 5 a.m." An Annapolis resident, who served several terms on the Annapolis City Council, Mr. Davidson sought advice from his mentor, but Dr. Weigle never offered any unless asked Mr. Davidson had special words ofpraise for Dr. Weigle' s role as afoundcr and early president of.Historic Annapolis. He helped "preserve...Annapolis for the ages," said Mr. Davidson. The Alumni Association resolution read by George Bingham, SF'66, said, in part: "Dr. Weigle's leadership and vision guided St John'sCollegeduringhismorethan30yearsasitspresidentHedevoted his seemingly boundless energies to the well-being of the college and of the St. John's program and brought to it the vigor and vitality which the college enjoys today. He touched and enhanced the lives of two generations of alumni and all who succeed them are in his debt" It was Dr. Weigle's vision of the college that Annapolis president Christopher Nelson pledged to cany foIWard in the remarks he made at the opening of the morning meeting. He brought good news to his listeners about the college financial situation. After thanking them for their participation in annual fund giving, SupJXJrt of the capital campaign launched in April and in other ways, he reviewed the acquisition of the former stateHallofRecords, and its planned transfonnation into the new college hbrary beginning in 1996. In addition, a recent accumulated operating deficit had been erased, he annoW1ced 1he rollege is on schedule in its steps to reduce annual reliance onendowmentfundsfrom9.6%to5%overafouryearperiod Threeyears ofbudgetcuts-throughreducedstaff,salaryfreeze.s,reduceddiscretionary funds, and reduced instructional dollars-have set the stage for this. In her mmual academic report to the alumni,DeanEvaBrann explained tl1e Instruction Committee rationale for the 19CJ3-94 budget-cutting expedient of using one ratl1er tllan two tutors for senior seminars: "the principle of variability." In order to set no budgetary precedents, "we never do the same thing for two years" to cut costs, she said �DECEMBER 1993 Zeiderman, and Brother Robert Smith came in later, replacing Mr. Zuckerman, who had other commitments. The three tutors organize and administer the program and spell each other in travelling to New York for 30 Sunday afternoon meetings a year. Mr. Brody's group committed itself to the very ambitious goal of covering the undergraduate seminar readings, and laid out a five year program to do so-150 two-hour seminars. In 1992, Mi·. Brody was elected to the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors; early this year he gave up that seat when he moved to Washington to become president of the Export-hnport Bank. Mr. Brody had met Bill Clinton in the spring of 1992 through their mutual involvement in the Democratic Leadership Council; later he became the candidate's leading New York fundraiser. During the general election, he helped line up political endorsements from the corporate world. Although its founder is gone, the Brody group continues its Sunday afternoon discussions. The New York group "is a serious educational enterprise, one committed to reading and discussing very difficult books," Mr. Maistrellis comments. "The Executive Seminars seem to be an idea quality of discussion is very high-often as whose time has come. Professionals outside high as any I have ever been in." Perhaps the college purview have shown themselves predictably, once in Washington Mr. Brody eager to gather for thoughtful discussions on gathered a new timeless books group of 14 conor timely topics. genial spirits Ninety-two around him. He such studentscollected this bankers, physigroup, Mr. cians, lawyers, Maistrellis says, business people, in order to "finish journalists, the fifth year of highly placed the program he government fighad begun" in ures (past and -Tutor Ben Milner New Yark. Like present), and the New York others-are group, the Washpresently enington group is presently reading 19th and rolled in five separate seminars meeting in 20th century works, just now completing Washington, New York, and Annapolis. Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and There is likely no more enthusiastic supNietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. porter of these outreach efforts than PresiSo we have seminar number two. dent Nelson himself-"a continuing Also in Washington is seminar number presence," in the words of one tutor, as cothree, called the "Thaler group," which, leader of several of the seminars. named after Washington lawyer Martin "These government and business leaders Thaler, beganin the fall of 1992, and is now are concerned with issues that are shaping into the third set of six-week seminars. Mr. our society, and their perspectives are exThaler, the initiating spirit along with Tutor tremely interesting," Mr. Nelson said reEmeritus Tom Simpson, died after the projcently. "I'm excited that the people who ect got under way, but the seminars conmake such a difference in our society are tinue, meeting at the Metropolitan Club, active students of the books we are reading usually co-led by President Nelson and in our pro gram." Donna Schueler, AGI'89. Beginning in 1988, the Great Issues seBack in Annapolis, each with its own ries, a program spearheaded by Vice Presidistinguished rosters, are the two groups dent for Advancement Jeff Bishop and Bill actually called Executive Seminars. As varBrill, president of the Friends of St. John's, iegated as the other groups, with a former began to offer the satisfactions of seminar U.S. Senator, a soon-to-be anlbassador, docdiscussions to groups beyond the devoted tors, businessmen and others among its cadre of community and· alumni seminar members, the first Executive Seminar was members-to people barely acquainted with formed two years ago when 15 men and the college and its program. Hundreds of women responded to a college invitation to suchnewcomers crowded on campus to hear take part. speakers like Elliot Richardson, Robert "Man and Citizen" was the seminar Bork, and Arthur Ashe address the subject theme, and the readings which began with of ethics in different areas of public life-law, Plato's Crito, Sophocles' Antigone, and medicine, athletics and the like. After these Aristotle's Politics (Book I) ex tended major speeches, attendees divided into small through 10 sessions to conclude with group seminars, co-led by tutors, to discuss Thoreau's Civil Disobedience.' assigned readings. The Great Issues series Tutor Ben Milner, a member of the colcontinues-last winter David Gergen took lege faculty since 1965, has been its leader up the topic "Whose Government is it, anyever since. He still enjoys it, he says. way?" "As a group, they bring into discussions Other formats for seminars have permitall the wisdom, insight and understanding ted participants to meet much more frethat comes with maturity," he comments. quently-weekly, monthly, or They "talk to the books and ideas," he says, bi-monthly-often over an entire year. and don't approach topics from their own The first of these was begun in 1989 by private perspectives as businessmen or lawKenneth Brody, then a partner in Goldman yers or the like to make a point. Sachs, the New York investment banking He warms to the subject. "For a group of house. He approached Dean Thomas Slakey people just assembled around an idea, you'd seeking a tutor to lead a group of bankers, expect more abrasion, more conflict. You doctors, and lawyers wanting to read and wouldn't expect people to fall automatically talk about worthwhile books. Responding to into the habits and way of conducting themthat invitation were tutors Nicholas selves in a class like that. But their expectaMaistrellis and Elliott Zuckerman. Howard Executive Semiars (Continued from page one) consulting fom and was a thoughtful and confident contributor to today's discussion, stays behind for a few minutes to help with that final question. This is a man who has built power and de-salinization plants, and has found much satisfaction in such work. "I like a challenging problem that a customer needs help on," he explains. He adds, "There's more to life than two plus two. I thought this seminar might be a way to expand myself." Other members of the group are in their first year of Executive Seminars; he is in his second, having chosen this theme, "Man and Citizen," and its readings, over an alternative. In fact, several members of today's class are here because, in one way or another, he recruited them. "I have often found the readings very difficult," he says. "They have stretched me a little bit. It has taken some getting used to. Sometimes last year I wasn't sure I had read the same book as. the others." But he has a sense that he is "filling in a part of something that is missing.;, "There is a lot of disagreement as such. But conflict, no, except one time when a participant brought up the Vietnam war." PAGE13 THE REPORTER NSA funds new Annapolis telescope; Russian student exchange continues By DONNA BOETIG Soon St. John's students in Annapolis may be searching for new supernovae in nearby galaxies, monitoring variable stars, and reporting information to professional astronomers. They may gaze at new comets, track planets, and watch for unusual phenomena on the surface of the moon. They will, in a very real sense, advance their understanding of. science by making their own observationsthanks to a new telescope that makes it possible to detect and record observations even in the daylight. The college has recently received $16,000 in matching funds from tl1e U.S. National Science Foundation to fund this telescope. Construction will begin soon on the mini-observatory at the top of the pendulum pit in Mellon Hall, a site intended to be used for an observatory by the building's architect in the 1950s. The new 14-inch Cassegrain telescope uses a charge-coupled device, or CCD. This CCD is. a computer chip, sensitive to light, that subtracts the background effects of the sky and enlarges the resulting images. Currently students use an eight-inch telescope, without a CCD camera. The new 14-inch telescope alone increases threefold the number of stars students see with the telescope. With the CCD, the number of stars that can be seen increases by a fraction of several hundred. "The purpose of the telescope," said astrophysicist and Annapolis tutor Jim Beall, "is to get students more involved by taking data and recording measurement for scientific observation so they can get a better understanding of natural phenomena and their relation to physical theories." The new telescope will complement the current students exchange agreement between St. John's and thePulkhovo Observatory in St. Petersburg, Russia, which began with five students in the summer of 1992. In August, 1993, Mr. Beall flew to St. Petersburg to join the second group of Johnnies in the exchange, Kirk Duncan (A'96), Matt Miller (A'96), and Richard Schwidt (A'96). The three students were there for a three-week period to study observational astronomy and astrophysics at the Pulkhovo Observatory. While there, Mr. Beall lectured on "The Role of Relativistic Jets in The Broad Line Regions of Active Galactic Nuclei" at the Observatory; the students picked up a little Russian; shared meals with the scientists' families, and were treated to a guided tour of the historic city by Dr. Grigorii Kaganov, an expert on the role of St. Petersburg in Russian culture. Three Russian students are planning to apply to the St. Johri's Graduate Institute in part to explore the intellectual origins of The American Republic. In June, Maryland signed a sister state relationship with the Leningrad Oblast and a collaboration agreement with the City of St. Petersburg, beginning what may be an ongoing relationship through exchanges in business, education, culture, technology, sports, port development, and other areas of mutual interest. Croatian native Leo Raditsa writes on Bosnia A letter to the editor in the October 10 issue of The Washington Times expresses the conclusions Annapolis tutor Leo Raditsa reached as an observer in Croatia last August. Mr. Raditsa was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where his father, Bogdan Raditsa, was with the Yugoslav delegation at the League of Nations. He came to the U.S. in 1940 when his father was assigned to the Yugoslav embassy. In Croatia he found widespread denial of the secret agreement made between Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic in March 1991 to partition Bosnia-Herzegovina, "Mr. Tudjman's readiness to deal with Mr. Milosevic behind his people's back. ..betrays ambivalence about independence, and worse still, a readiness to make his countrymen complicit with the Serbs destroying the Bosnians." Decrying plans to partition Bosnia, Mr. Raditsa called on Croatia to back Bosnian independence and to oppose partitionsuggesting that partititon of Croatia, now one-third under Serbian control, would soon follow. By backing Bosnia, Croatia would reassure its own minorities, many of them Serbian, Mr. Raditsa said, concluding, "As things stand, if I were a Serb in Croatia, I would be afraid." A "Letter from Zagreb," also drawn from Mr. Raditsa's observations last summer, will be published in January in The American tions seemed to lead them naturally into comfortable conversation." It is not that they all agree, he hastens to add. "There's a lot of disagreement as such." But conflict, no, except one time when a participant brought up the Vietnam war, he says. This seminar and the next are co-led by Mr. Nelson whenever he is in town. Last year's seminar readings, based on the theme "Justice," included plays by Aeschylus, and selections from Thucydides, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau and Tocqueville. Now in their third year, a core group of original participants plus some new members is reading from Homer, Herodotus, Plutarch, Shakespeare, Swift, Abraham Lincoln and others, under the rubric, "Leadership and Authority." Seminar number five, described at the beginning of this article, is the second Executive Seminar in Annapolis, which began the "Man and Citizen" readings in September. Spectator. "On the Past," an essay he wrote on the central importance of history, appeared in the winter, 1992, issue of The Gallatin Review of New York University. "The Relevance of Thucydides Today," drawn from a series of lectures Mr. Raditsa gave in South Africa in 1991, uses Thucydides' insistence on the "interconnectedness of apparently discrete events" to gain perspective on more recent events, especially those of this century. The article appeared in 1993 in The American Review, which is published by the Rand Afrikaans University, where he lectured two years ago. "All the seminars are helping to make substantial contacts for the college," President Nelson remarked recently. "All are introducing many people to the college who care more about it as a consequence." He paused reflectively before continuing. The seminars extend the arm of college to the world outside for"good educational purposes," he said, "and then they bring the world back to the college to help suppmt the program." �PAGE14 DECEMBER 1993 THE REPORTER Descartes in Queens "St. John's should set its sights very high and strive from the beginning to produce a program that is distinctive and superio, ... " So wrote Robert Goldwin to Dick Weigle in 1966 regarding the creation of the Graduate Institute, originally called the Teacher Institute. After its initial Summer '67 offering on Politics and Society, the Institute continued its orientation to teachers. The following is from a 1968 Bulletin: "The Institute offers to members of the teaching profession-and others who are qualified-an opportunity to pursue a demanding and comprehensive course in the liberal arts .. " What impact has the GI had on American education? How has it changed its student-teachers? With this issue, we conclude a series of articles written GI graduates, all career educators. Our thanks to our contributors: Martin Drew '74SGI, Principal, Unden JHS, St. Albans, Dr. Paul Bitting '74SGI, Ass't Prof., North Carolina State U., Beverly Angel '89SG!, math/science teacher, St. Michael's Academy, Austin, TX. How has my education at St. John's affected my teaching? I wish I could say that I have initiated major curriculum changes or been moved to begin a "Great Books Seminar for Students" because the connection between St. John's and those sorts of activities is direct and therefore easy to explain. For me, as a science and math teacher, the impact has been far more subtle, though, I believe, just as radical. The greatest changes have been in how I treat non-math/science topics in the classroom, in the type of role model I believe I present to my students and in how I relate to my colleagues in other teaching fields. Teachers in the Graduate Institute program on scientific/mathematical facts, theories and processes, I now pepper my lectures with historic and literary allusions and I so frequently stress the necessity of clearly communicating one's ideas that my students complain that I should have been an English teacher. I allow more class discussion and require more reading, more writing, and, I hope, more thinking. Because I feel comfortable doing so, I 11 Graduate appealed to me To explain, let me begin now take time to discuss by saying that I had been on a personal level because I a the political, social and ethteaching in private, colical impact of science and growing sense lege-prep high schools for technol us indieight years (with a reason- narrowness of my LULIL-•ctU•.J• rectly answering my quesable degree of success) tions about why they have before I ever heard of St. to study math and science. John's. The Graduate Institute appealed to me on a Interestingly, quite often students will respond to purely personal level because I felt a growing sense such discussions with "We talked about that in History of dissatisfaction with the narrowness of my educa(or English, or Theology, etc.) just yesterday and have tion. I wanted to learn more about the ideas I someyou ever heard about Aristotle? (or Kant? or Hobbes? times overheard the liberal arts teachers talking etc.)" When my students express surprise that I, a about in the faculty room. Simply put, the other math/science teacher, should know anything of the math/science teachers never seemed to have the "liberal arts," I have learned to respond with "Well, same off-periods that I had and I didn't like feeling that's part of what it means to be educated." I hope, in left out of the conversations. I never considered or this way, that I'm also giving my math/science type expected that St. John's would affect my scistudents answers to the questions with which they ence/math classroom. plague their liberal arts teachers. At that time I did not realize that one of the biggest problems we face in education is the "departmentalization of knowledge." By high school, students have begun to classify themselves as math/science types and to shun, as far as they possibly can, any course that is not their type. And, because we as teachers are also typed, they inveigle us to be their allies. I can't count the number of times I have been confronted by a some liberal arts type student with the whine: "Why do we have to take this course? I asked my English (or History, or Latin, etc.) teacher for help on this Chemistry (or Algebra, or Physics, etc.) assignment and he/she couldn't do it either, so why do I have to learn it? I hate math/science anyway and I'm never going to use it!" I used to get furious with my colleagues (fortunately, mostly silently!) for providing my students with fuel for such complaints and thus making my job more difficult. It never occurred to me that, when one of my star math/science types asked for "help" on a poetry interpretation theme paper, he or she might be gathering fuel for a similar attack on the English teacher! When adolescents ask such a question about the utility of a topic, there is no way to give them a simple, direct and satisfactory answer. The answer must, I think, be "built in" to what we teach and modeled by who we are. In the classroom, where I used to stick strictly to In any case, my relationships with my colleagues have also chang·ed. As I had hoped, I'm no longer left out of the conversation whenever anything deeper than last night's TV show is discussed in the faculty room. We have some marvelous discussions and occasionally the topic even veers towards a math/science field! Very often it seems that we talk about how insights or methods in one field can help to illuminate other areas and all of us are, I believe, experiencing a greater sense of collegiality. Before I began teaching at this school, Larry Davis (SGI '87), who also teaches here, was instrumental in getting a group ot the together in a St. John's style seminar on a Theology/Philosophy related text. We still meet once a month and I think these discussions are affecting the faculty, making them more open to new ideas, more willing to take intellectual risks, and more committed to education as a life-long process. For example, a few weeks ago one of the math teachers became ill and an English teacher, Mrs. Maher, was called upon to "babysit" his pre-calculus class. The students had been left an assignment to complete but ran into difficulty and asked her for help. One of my liberal arts type students gleefully reported to me that Mrs. Maher had no idea how to work the problem but "she made us all pull our chairs up in a circle and talk about the problem and she kept asking us questions and making us explain things to her and we figured it out. Pretty good for an English teacher, huh?" "Well," I was glad to answer, "that's part of what it means to be educated." Beverly Angel, '89 SGI St. Michael's Academy, Austin, TX. CHAPTER CONTACTS Please call those listed below for information about alumni activities in each area. ALBUQUERQUE: Harold M. Morgan, Jr. (505)266-5330. ANNAPOLIS: Joel D. Lehman (410)956-2814 AUSTIN: Paul Martin (512)327-6854. BOSTON: Alvin Aronson (617)566-6657. BUFFALO/ROCHESTER/TORONTO: Annapolis Alumni Director Betsy Blume (410)626-2531. CHICAGO: Rick Lightburn (312)552-1461 or (708)575-3956(W}, or Erin Milnes at (312)271-1039. DALLAS/FORT WORTH: Suzanne Doremus (817)496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis at (214)340-8442. LOS ANGELES: Julia Takahashi (213)434-7624. MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL: Glenda Eoyang (612)783-1405 or 379-3883(W). NEW YORK: Sylvia Hermanson (212)463-7392, or Peter Burdge or Jill Silberman at (212)677-i 145. PHILADELPHIA: Jim Schweidel (215)836-7632. PORTLAND: Dale Mortimer (206)737-7587. RICHMOND: Maya Hasegawa (804)355-5095. SACRAMENTO: Arianne Ludlow (916)362-5131 or Helen Feeley at 452-1082. ST. LOUIS: Lorin Cuoco (314)935-5576 or 725-8972(W). SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Toni Wilkinson (415)255-2255 or 550-1280(W). SANTA FE: John Pollak (505)983-2144 or Cindy Jokela at 982-3691. SEATILE: Jim Doherty (206)937-8886. WASHINGTON, D.C.: Sam Stiles (301 }424-9119. �DECEMBER 1993 PAGE15 THE REPORTER homes, on alternate months from the Princeton Club seminars. At each discussion, members decide collectively on the time, place and reading selection for their next gathering. Most often, the group has settled on more contemporary, and longer, works than those tackled at the seminars. Past readings have included, for instance, AIDS and Its Metaphors, by Susan Sontag; Lincoln at Gettysburg, by Garry Wills; and Beloved, by Toni Morrison. N.Y. Chapter members include all graduates and former students of both the undergraduate and Editor The New York Chapter's yearly schedule of years Tom Geyer (A'68) has hosted this event. His events follows a form familiar to most "St. Johnhillside home near Morristown, New Jersey, overnies"-reading and discussing. looking the forests where General Four times a year-twice in the fall and George Washington once wintered his twice in the winter/spring-alumni from in troops, provides a comfortable and picturesque setting for an afternoon of eatand around New York meet at Manhattan's Princeton Club, in Midtown. There a guest ing and talking. In the fall of 1992, another readingtutor, most often from the Annapolis campus, leads a seminar on a preselected and-discussion group took shape when reading. Fall 1993 seminars featured the a handful of alumni met one evening to Nathaniel Hawthorne short story, "Peter informally discuss their reading of "The Timothy Tutor John Verdi Pagan Rabbi," a short story by Goldthwaite's Treasure," led Miller, and one of Montaigne's essays, "On Ozick. Experience," led by John Verdi. Since then, these meetings have continued, and In June, area alumni, their families, children and taken on a life as the chapter's "Reading " guests meet for a picnic and seminar. In recent Participants take turns hosting the group in their own Graduate Institute programs, from both the Santa Fe and the Annapolis campuses, who live within a wide radius of New York City. All are invited to attend chapter events. At all events guests are welcome and encouraged to participate. Me::.1rm~:anc~nn Of the alumni who responded to information about their 590 are in business-related nrriuor,,on SF'80 1 80 VV\J\,Jl-J>O.LIVI 160 -~ :;;: 0 1 40 1 20 1 00 80 I now "the Q) E 60 ::I z 40 20 "O Ql c:; are involved in nro,_<:r-·n remainder have administrative 1 ""' 0: u ~ six dentists .... .,r'"- nrc• nurses, and ministers and 96 are counseling thc•r~ 1"\ 1 c·tc doing our part in the legal field lawyers. 1 Social Services Arts/Communication Law Services "' ~ :;;: The Most Popular Jobs Business/Finance What do SJC Alumni do for a Ql "O "' ;::: "O Ql _;: (/) 0 As we see, 789 alumni are in occuptions other than those discussed above. Other occupations include being a student (180), retired (113), research (110), government (99), engineering (58), homemaking (49), museums/libraries/galleries (48), and public affairs (42). Smaller numbers are involved in skilled trades, conservation, construction, farming/ranching, transportation/travel, labor unions, oil/mining/energy resources, and language/translating/interpreting. Do any of you readers know about occupational distributions for alumni of other colleges, or other possible comparisons such as total national population? If you have data or know how to go about getting it, please let me know. When I was a student at St. John's, we believed that most alumni became teachers, doctors, or lawThat may or may not have been true in the but it certainly is not true today. The 1992 Alumni Register reveals that more of us are in business than in education, and that more alumni are in arts/communications than are in either law or medicine. The Computers 193 are Even so, altogether these amount to of all alumni. I plan to do an ongoing series of articles about alumni in various occupations. First on the list is ALUMNI IN THE ARTS. What should be second on us toward worthy individuals Are you one of the 193 professionals? Are to write an article for the series? Please me a call or write to: �PAGE16 Statement of Educational By EVAT. H. BRANN (The following are extracts from the Dean's statement, prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Polity. Not reprinted are sections VIII. Rigor and Vigor; IX. Class Discipline; X. Tutors' Conduct; XI. Politics in Class; XII., _ """,.."' The Dean' sDuties. The statement in its may be obtained to the Dean's office in nn!na,0011s.J teaLcl1:in2 at St. John's College an acin line with the standard of instrnction or a forbidding Is it articulable know ledge or intuitable art? Is it a demonstrably to be done or a hit-and-miss muddling-about? Is it a career or a vocation, an ancillary occupation or a calling? among us has not been puzzled by these questions, leaning to cheerful or to dismal answers, as we are feeling exhila.., rated or exhausted? This moment seems a good time for me to try my hand at delineating teaching at this school. For three years now I have not been in a classroom except occasionally. At such a distance the messy perplexities of daily practice are transmuted into neat precepts of universal wisdom - it is the common condition of those "that do not do the most do show." On the other hand, the more often I am obliged to our central the more it seems to me an impossibility, recalcitrant to words and unachievable in deed. A.re we so different from all other teachers? to my mind all teachers do have some rock-bottom virtues in common. Faithful and fairness in evaluatstudents are among these mc11s1Jer1sable and decencies of the trade. There is another set of virtues often reflect on the that like ours, that are not tionable in very sensible: the and classroom free of the distance from students. we have not had many of these bedevilments. And then there is a of excellences. There is a conception of teaching in respect to which we really do differ, to to caelo, frommost of the academic world. In institutions of higher education elsewhere, especially in university teaching, engaging in cutting-edge research, publishing copiously, delivering authoritative lectures, performing stimulatingly in the classroom, are all requirements of promotion. With us these count as side issues or even as real mischief. It follows that our positive teaching modes, which I attempt to set out below, will indeed be different from those of the academy, in fact dramatically opposed to them. Teaching seems to me to be our last frontier for the rest of the twentieth century. If the present principle is to make ourselves, such as we are, better and better, teaching is the place of action. Teaching happens to be what our students care about most. They will put up with common spaces that invite vandalism and toilets that defy gravity if only their classes are good. Classes are also what they complain about most. They put up with their out-of-sync curriculum with wonderful equanimity; when it is challenged they more often than not defend it fiercely. But class conduct is the focus of complaints. Some of these complaints make me sorry and ashamed. Occasionally, sensitized by the huge expense of their education, students treat it as a commodity and want value delivered, as if they had not understood the 1993-1994 college at all. Occasionally a student, drawing too abrupt a conclusion from our saying that all students are co-responsible for the class, comes to complain about other students, beholding sternly the mote in a classmate's eye but considering not the beam in their own. All three deans in Annapolis try to deal with this campus phenomenon, which is recent that we had a meeting about it not ago) with whatever manifestation of aversion and sympathy it r<>rt>Hr'~" Finally it is in order to talk about [ea.crum!! because we must, all of us, but ticularly, our requirements to new tutors and to tutors up forreappointment. All newer tutors are in need of help with teaching devices, some do not so much need as desire to be told what a tutor is supposed to and some require reiterated instruction in anticipation of the hoped-for moment when they take off on their own. Therefore I shall try my hand at articulating briefly, under a baker's dozen of rubrics, what it means to teach in this college. Busy colleagues may pick and choose among the headings that interest them. I would, however, be obliged, if they read Section VII on the "Middle Way," since it is for me the crux of the Statement. I. Tutors' Intellectual Life mean to talk here of the problems and practicalities of our intellectual life, not of its essence, which is beyond the scope of this probably any) institutional statement. Our teaching is, as our title of "tutor" prc)cicnm.s. a kind of we hold a brief with respect to our but students' learning. It is an also an way. All are the tried-and-true lecture notes, the "h'"'"~'""' test and the TA-marked blue books, the office hour, the of the didactic them when at the same tin1e we are as uncertain as Socrates was that true can be drunk (Protagoras 324 a-b, 175 d). Moreover, precisely because we do not preempt the intellectual initiative, we have to be prepared for every kind of question, and just because we do not assume any professional authority, our students want to share our intellectual substance. Hence in the account book of the intellect, tutors will in the course of years show red ink, having expended themselves in teaching without quite sufficiently replenishing their minds by leisurely learning. So it seems to me that our reticent but responsible way of teaching requires a particularly vigorous and continually reinvigorated intellectual life. What can we do to support it? 1. A first help is for tutors to accustom themselves to listening in a profitable way. Even in the first years of teaching it is not going to happen very often that we learn from the students in the direct way of hearing something startlingly illmninating. But I think that tutors for whom the seminar retains its savor learn to carry on an internal conversation, a kind of silent descant embellishing the theme of the audible discussion. Such inner talk is not unlike a reader's response to a Platonic dialogue, in which continuous critical commentary on the argument itself is melded with an avid interest in who says what. 2. A well-thought-out and balanced progress through the Program seems to me among the first desiderata. We share with our students the acedia, the dispirited disgust (a theological sub-vice of tristitia, depression) that comes from doing too much too perfunctorily; it is our perpetual problem. The tutors, however, get another chance. Immediate repetition of tutorials both for better classes and for the tutor's intellectual satisfaction seems to me very healthy. I even think - though some colleagues disagree - that doubling classes is often profitable; the students in one class ~ave the immediate advantage of the expenence the other and the tutor gains time for The complementary necessity is for learning new parts of the Program. Advancto the next stage often casts an illumination even over classes that seem at first to have intellectually miscarried. 3. The well-springs of the college's intellectual life are our many and various funded and unfunded study groups. There is no better restorative for tutors than these studies freely chosen and then discovered to be very pertinent to teaching, no better place to gather material for the classroom, no better occasion for tutors to gain insight into their colleagues' intellects, no better chance to tum collegiality into friendship. The same goes for our three annual faculty seminars. I should add that the weekly tutors' meetings for each class, though obligatory and largely concerned with schedules, pedagogy, and problem-solving, often do go over into the more material mode of a study group. To newer tutors they ought to be indispensable. 4. Although the academic phrase about "doing one's own work" is not part of our common diction, a personal, perhaps even secret, project calling for cumulative reflection and finished formulation is invaluable for the drain on a tutor's intellectual substance and for collecting the sion of imposed by the u.-''"'~n~ goes without that long-range and within the Program is our foremost common restorative. 5. The sacred story which the sabbatical is named of rest. Most tutors "''"r.h ... 1h1" that time we are, to take the word "rest" in the sense work that is not and answer should be insinuated into the question, and, more fundamentally, how much knowledge is presupposed in a well-framed question. Everyone will recognize here the Menonic "paradox of inquiry" that is the ultimate problem of philosophy as distinct from metaphysics. (It is meticulously pursued in tutor Stewart Umphrey's book Zetetic Skepticism). Aboriginal as the problem is, it bears quite practically on the seminar. The way tutors' mastery of a text enters into the framof a question (be it at the opening or in the course of the determines of their seminar-leading. If a the clueless, the opening ,,""'"t' ""' the conversation may take off on its own. If a tutor is in possession of a cherished the students will go on discover student's cri "What could he be "is not the least incentive to mental activity. I think most colleagues have theories concerning good seminar questions that lie in between these extremes. They to find an opening that, on the one hand, functions as a genuine question for them (on the hypothesis that they will learn with and from the students), and, on the other, gives a direction that incorporates some interpretation or discovery or observation (because as seminar "leader" they rightly feel obliged to do some leading). I like those middle questions best because they show the of an l1n1'\hhn1<'i~,,,. tutorial to stir up the students' intellects. Such question-asking seems to be an art, careful since it both native invention and accumulated experience. And like any art, it can be, to some effort: Co-leaders ,,,,.,,..,,..,,.,.t. it can am:>roJJrialted from the years. Yet, alis without virtue as teachers, each other what we are and how we do A number of us have, to be sure, lectured and vvritten on the "What is Joe uiv•..W..LiUJ.<C and even The sabbatical is least of all a reward for a span of intense work on small pay; it is the time of preparation for the next stretch of service. In this institution tutors are not asked to give an account of how they spend their well-earned free year. But as it is the school's duty to fulfill its promise of freed time, so it is the tutor's to turn that free time into leisure, for two reasons: to return as a better tutor "and because it seems that happiness is in leisure" (dokei te he eudaimonia en tei schole einai, Nicomachean Ethics 1177 b 4). The Placement and the Advancement Offices can also help tutors find fellowships on their own, and we should, as a matter of policy, be most liberal in granting unpaid leaves of absences. student, in my opinion, should pass the Program without having at least once reflected and written on the question: "What is a (good) question?" For we value the art of asking questions and, to judge from seminar post-mortems, consider ourselves connoisseurs of the intenogative mode. It seems that neither the pointed demand for information nor the bewildered request for some, any, enlightenment is a good question in our sense (though in classes either one is much better than none). To think about what makes questions good, it seems to be necessary to consider how much of the some have a bout with "erotetics," that is, the theory of questions. Perhaps we could start with a year's worth of faculty seminars. home version of Pascal's dispiriting observation concerning the two human kinds, the esprit de geometrie and the de finesse seems to apply to us. We tutors appear to have among us philosophical and aesthetic dispositions, though more of the former than the latter. It seems good to me that there is so much genuine and subtle philosophy among us, but not so good that we do not encourage ourselves and our students enough in what might be called the refinements of noticing. I am not about to raise the question of visual arts again, which we have talked into a dead end for the rest of this century. We need not be dissatisfied with the outcome, though I do wish tutors would now and then spontaneously admit a painting into their tutorials. We have a and gallery lectures, and Santa Fe has a successful visual arts pro gram in the spring semester that we might look at, come the year 2000. I think it made some sense for Annapolis to stick with the liberal arts (which seem to me in principle distinguishable from the fine arts) for the undergraduate program. Now what we do in this mainstay of our �DECEMBER 1993 mission (in my understanding, we read the great authors of the West and study the liberal arts) seems to me to be a subsphere of how we do it (in my view, we approach the texts directly and learn liberal skills for the sake of conducting a shared inquiry). Thus the how is much more expansive than the l'vhat and is applicable to all the world's arts and books. The Graduate Institute seems to be an opportune proving ground for this claim, and both the Eastern books and the visual arts may find fitting places there. Meanwhile there is the fact, commonly remarked, that in seminar, at least, we slight our literary texts - of which there are too few anyhow - by allowing the students to tum them into sets of philosophemes. If the cause of this routine alchemy were a love of wisdom, of delving beneath the surface, we should be gratified, but it is too often simply an awkwardness in dealing with human vaa lack of training in noticing - in short, a blunt, unhoned, and uncultivated sensibility. The result is the opposite of philosophy - facile abstractness. On some occasions, we should make our students stay concrete, make them notice detail, make them treat characters as souls rather than as emblems. It will be uphill work, for volumes cannot convey the neglect the sensibility suffers in the age of "sensitivity." Part of the responsibility in making tutors better at guiding students to an exercise of their sensibility rests with those members of the faculty who consider themselves to have a propensity for literary reading and infmmed seeing. (It is an open secret that they are most effective if they make their case ex parte philosophiae .) We have had, and are having, happy study groups in French poetry (some of us will recall that in the ancient debate preceding the choice of French over Gern1an, French poetry was proposed as the training ground of the sensibility), in prosody, and in aesthetics. For students, we have had successful preceptorials in the visual arts, and lectures by tutors who are not only enthusiasts but also questioners of art (lately, for example, Nina Haigney's "Socratic Mimesis and Vermeer's Head of a Girl"). These activities do a three-fold good. They cultivate a complementary aesthetic learning, they provide a recreation of the spirit, and they go some way toward nullifying Pascal's dismal division. It would be uncandid to claim that we do not have an institutional mode of reading, a latitudinaiian yet delineable mode, with which every tutor will want at some point to come to grips. Here a difficulty comes, so to speak, to our aid: Our way of reading is not to be found as a category in books on hermeneutics or literary theory. It is all our own, and it is richly self-contradictory. Our books ai·e of a stature to support such oppositions. While my list of characteristic features will be new to few of us, my advocacy of it might be totally agreeable to even fewer. We might put a discussion of our mode of reading on the agenda of a not-too-distant faculty meeting. I will sketch out my understanding biiefly and only insofar as bears on our teaching. 1. Directness and Tangency. We ask ourselves and our students to focus on the texts in the first instance, to go at them directly, without mediating introductions, background lectures or commentary. Nonetheless we permit seminars to go off on tangents, to bring in peripheral considerations, and to enter personal experience if it furthers the conversation. We demand conversation that is textually focused and permit conversation that is humanly roving. 2. Authors and Self-Sufficiency. We talk as though we thought that books had authors and that it is the author's thinking that is to be discovered and understood, while claiming that the books are self-sufficient wholes THE REPORTER that have cast loose from their masters and can outlive their time. We inconsistently insist on plumbing the mind of the author and on respecting the free-standing self-sufficiency of the textual logos. 3. Texts and Themes. We suppose that the surface particularities of textual presentation are inextricably involved with the substance of the work, and yet we are finally devoted to abstractable themes and perennial questions. For us the submissive receptivity of textual study and the spontaneous activity of free inquiry, which are surely somehow at odds, are also somehow at one in pedagogical practice. 4. Meaning and Truth. Though we differ from most other colleges in holding the working hypothesis that meaning is established so that truth might be judged, there are always works that seem to call for capturing the concept accurately while foregoing the question of truth. In short, we do not subject all texts, or any text often, to the verity question. We minor the human condition in doing but rarely what we were specifically meant to do. Teaching at St. John's requires juggling, more or less consciously, the requirements of these incongruent ways. V. Lectures and Publishing We do not ask our tutors to publish, either for appointment or reappointment. In this we differ radically from most other institutions of higher education, where one substantial refereed publication a year is a minimal requirement for staying on. The reasons are plain: Since we do not teach the accepted university specialties it is not practically relevant to the task of our tutors that they contribute to their former fields. Again, since we do not teach in the mode of scholarship, that is, through the most recent secondary literature, it does not promote our teaching to do advanced reseai·ch. In universities research is done not only for the advancement of science and learning but also for the intellectual invigoration of the professor. What do our tutors do instead? We have been telling ourselves that students should do more writing. Tutors also should and do write, but in a different mode. The students' writing, except perhaps for the senior essay, is a continuing exercise. Tutors tend, rightly, to write at certain epochs in their lives - when they are about to reach some closure or conclusion, however temporary, in their thinking. The form they most often choose is the lecture. The college gets the good of a careful stretch of thought, coming from one of its own (and tutorial lectures still tend to make for the best question periods), and the tutor gets to be heard -and having hearers for one's words is like supplying water to those compressed little Japanese paper flowers; both expand and bloom. There seems to me no doubt that in view of our endlessly conversational lives, the eventual fixing of thought in writing is almost necessary, and that an expansive moment of public presentation should follow. For these reasons we do not require but only invite newer tutors to lecture. (If they offer to lecture the lecture committee tries to accommodate them as soon as possible.) There are pitfalls here. Lectures and question periods are very revealing of the state of a tutor's intellectual store. Probably a newer tutor would be wise to talk the offering over with friends on the faculty. Eventually a tutor might conceive the duty of working on or even writing a manual. This thankless and absolutely essential teaching task is caught between the Scylla of solitary, personal production not quite geared to the practical needs of a college and the Charybdis of consultative compromise not quite satisfying to anyone. Tutors who do it should insist on clear mandates and respectful reception. Should we write books? There is cer- tainly satisfaction in a product of the mind that has material heft, a satisfaction particularly needful in so elusively productive a profession as we pursue. Yet it is possible to claim that the making of books and the conducting of inquiries are mutually exclusive. Certainly our faculty has a fair contingent of intellects seen less and less often at other schools - people who think all the time and say memorable things, but hardly ever write. I think people should write books only to keep from bursting. Lectures and internal notes remain the formats most germane to us. It seems obvious that a publication requirement would be irrelevant to our sort of teaching, but that most tutors should write, for themselves and for the community. VI. Socratism say ofus that we use the Socratic method. We know better. The Socrates of the Dialogues is a jigged figure, caught in the rigid web of the written text that he eloquently and paradoxically decries in the Phaedrus, and his maker makes us think that his character is in control of the conversation up to its purposed end; we, on the other hand, are alive and rarely in control. Socrates has leisure for long talks and moments of rapt insight; we live scheduled lives and gain our earthbound understanding through extended study. Socrates says: "I was never anyone's teacher" (Apology 33 a); it is undeniable that our profession is teaching, though we are not professional teachers. Socrates never took an obol; we get paid, though not well. Moreover, we know, for we are close to the texts, that the Platonic Socrates has no "method" in the Cartesian sense, no universal analytic approach, but that, though all the dialogues are set works of art, each conversation is a unique way into its subject. And yet somehow this Socrates is our guardian saint or inciting demon, as the case may be- for two reasons, as it seems to me. One is that through failure and perplexity he keeps his faith in the deed of inquiry. The other is that he asks questions, leading questions to be sure, and listens to the answers, out of concern for his fellow-citizens and fondness for the young. I think most of us wish to be that way. I think furthermore that we have room for both modes: the free conversation in which we engage with students as with partners knowing only marginally less, and the pedagogical game in which we lead them to realize what we are already aware of. The latter mode contains an enticingly dangerous possibility: guruism. I think there is nothing very wrong with the gathering attraction worked by strong spirits. It is good for students to experience the shared refulgences of intellectual adoration and good for them to know the pain of disentanglement. In fact, as a convinced Madisonian, I would rather see six such sectarian heros than one on the faculty, especially among young tutors. But in the long run it is probably better for the tutors themselves to return to the less prodigal severities of studious learning. Here is a good reason why a faculty of all ages is desirable. VII. Our Middle Way How should we characterize our way of teaching in classes other than the seminar, especially in the tutorials, which are specifically named after us? I am persuaded that it is both a middle term between various pedagogical extremes and an intersection of human necessity with intellectual choice both a mean and a crux. It is a mean between minimalist guidance and authoritative lecturing, mere solicitation and leading interrogation, untethered speculation and severe technicality. It is also a crossing of the needs of our humanly diverse students (see under "Class PAGE17 Discipline") with our preference for intellectual immediacy. I believe that this latter mode, which entails a kind of inquiry not, to my knowledge, carried on institutionally elsewhere (except perhaps at Thomas Aquinas and Shimer College), is primary and that our pedagogy is derivative. Consequently teachers who take to our way of inquiry- either from the beginning or in time - find teaching exhilarating, while those who are ultimately out of sympathy miscarry. The secret seems to be in knowing how to initiate and direct a searching discussion that is pitched at just the right level to draw in both adept and slow, both prepared and (even) unprepared students, a discussion too deep for brilliant display and too accessible for opting out. The art seems to be in knowing how to make use of the technical learning we require of our students. There is general agreement that the right to speculate has to be continuously earned through close application - through rote learning, translating, demonstrating, paper writing. But the way of inquiry demands that tutors should not hang fire for too long and should not subject the class to excessively prolonged stretches of mere technicality any more than they should tolerate a lot of facile big talk. (It does seem that we should now and then break through our customary benign pretense that everyone is at least trying to talk sense; plain speaking is sometimes bracing to a long-suffering class.) Framing the questions of the middle realm, where the heaven of speculation meets the earth of specificity, calls forth all a tutor's thoughtful ingenuity. It requires seeing for oneself, and inducing students to see for themselves, the large pathos in a small nuance of language (as exemplified in Joe Sachs's lecture on the Antigone, published in the St. John's Review, 1989-90, which abounds with such observations, germinated in the sophomore language tutorial). It requires recognizing a mathematical world pushed past its limits in a mere operation (as in Apollonius's subtraction of greater from smaller areas). It requires apprehending a grand physical theory in one diagram (as in the analysis of Newton's Proposition I). It requires discerning a conceptional gigantomachy in a formalism (as in Leibnitz's and Newton's rival notations for the differential calculus). This kind of tutorial teaching, pitched in a middle range where naive philosophizing takes place on the basis of some first-hand acquaintance with a particular matter, does seem to permit us to carry on as we wantby disciplined conversation - and also with whom we want - with students of very diverse gifts and interests. Conclusion teaching as it is done at St. John's of value to the world's human economy? There is an ignorant saying that those who can, do, and those who can't, teach. I would like to see those doers get unscathed through a month of the kind of teaching our tutors carry on staunchly for decades - teaching that is doing, a packed round of daily activity, activity intensified, moreover, by the fact that it cannot be done (as is much of the world's business) on automatic pilot. We cannot discharge our many scheduled obligations except as an extension of our reflective life, since our students' learning is, we think, quite immediately (if somewhat indeterminately) dependent on the good faith of our questions. I hope and believe that the teaching done at this college is, so to speak, a deed in progress that happens to be productive (albeit unquantifiably so) of real human good The proof I would offer is of the kind logicians call ostensive: a showing of the lives that our alumni, students, and faculty try to live. �DECEMBER 1993 To the Editor: I wiite with concern about the letter published in the September 1993 issue of The Reporter, from Sally Bell. Has the Board of Trustees indeed voted not to adopt an amendment banning disciimination against homosexuals, and if so, is there anything that makes that vote any more or less than it seems-a basic disregard for civil rights? Please reassure me I will not have to follow Ms. Bell in withdrawing my support from the College. Stephen Fineberg, A'64 Professor of Classics, Knox College To the Editor: A fiftieth reunion in 1994? It may be a quiet one. They went innocently enough on that September day in 1940 to sign the college register and later to shoot the cannon in the old tradition. There was a war in Europe, but that was far away and few of the class of '44 thought much about it. Ninety-one freshmen were listed. Jimmy Olds came later. Paul Mellon stayed long enough to get the feel of the "New Program" and has supported it ever since. It was a motley crew. Some were on scholarships from the Maryland counties, young and eager, more knowledgeable about com and tobacco than Plato or Euclid Some had attended other colleges and began again at St. John's, attracted by the growing publicity for the Great Books program. They were properly awed by a little Scotsman in charge of buildings and grounds, who spouted the Meno to them in Greek. They became involved, produced a winning football team, rejuvenated the Collegian, became singers and actors, boxers and scholars. Some found the college was not what they expected. Sixty returned in 1941 to begin their sophomore year. And on a Sunday in December their future was changed forever with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Some scrambled to enlist, some searched around for deferments. Most PAGE18 THE REPORTER waited, registered at their local draft board and waitedsomemore. Studying was hard. Barr and Buchanan, the President and Dean, challenged the student body to put the war and themselves in proper perspective. As the nation stepped up its preparation, so did the college. There were courses in radio and auto maintenance, and on the back campus, military drills began. Within a year from Pearl Harbor, two-thirds of the class of '44 was in service, scattered from the Aleutians to North Africa, Texas to Pacific atolls. Fom did not return. Ed Bligh, Ed Freeburger, Francis "Tallahassee" Lowry, and Bill Price were killed in service. The college continued, despite a shrunken enrollment and persistent pressure from the Navy to take over the campus. Seven of the original freshmen graduated in 1944. The college graduated five seniors in 1945 and four in 1946, including Irwin Tucker, first of the class of '44 to return from service. With peace, others of the class returned, as did those of the other war classes, older now, more mature, with wives, children, and responsibilities. Some lived off campus, many filled the temporary housing erected on the back campus. Their children, evident everywhere, were destined to become the Baby Boomers. Ten of the class graduated in 1947, six more in 1948. Altogether, twenty-four had made it through. A question arose in the years that followed: were they the class of '44 or of '47 or '48? Someone even suggested they should be '44 as of' 47, but that was too stuffy. Now they are simply the class of '44. They had a lot of spiiit when they began. Seventeen graduates are still alive, and forty-nine others, who left early. But fifty years for them is less likely to mark their graduation than their wedding, or the birth of a child, or a beach named Omaha. Perhaps the three classes that were so shattered should heed the words of John Lennon, and Come Together for a joint return, in 1995, for instance. Jake Smedley, A'44 E-Mail All alumni and other members of the St. John's community with electronic mail addresses are invited to contact Owen Goldin (SF'79) at 6145GOLDINO@VMS.CSD.MV.EDU to express interest in continuing the St. John's conversation over E-Mail. He is considering establishing either a mailing list or a bulletin board for Johnnies with E-Mail addresses. Perhaps even an electronic seminar may be attempted. Vincent Dude (A'97) spent last February volunteering at Casa Guatemala, a Guatemalan orphanage for malnouiished, abandoned, and orphaned children that receives no aid from the government, and is run entirely on volunteer efforts and donations. Recently Vincent received a letter from its director describing a flood crisis. "I am counting on this community to pool its resources and make a difference," Vincent writes. He is seeking financial support, clothing, and medical supplies, and invites all to go to Guatemala during Christmas, spring, or summer break to help. "There is no comparison to the feeling you get in providing some of the love these children need so much," he writes. For more information, contact Vincent at extension 302. Taking time out for a year of study in Israel, Sharon Soper (A'95) writes: "It amazes me how much beauty there is in this small country-things I never thought inlaginable. I've seen the beautiful colors, patterns, and shapes of fish and coral in the Red Sea [and] as I swam I was a fish myself. I've experienced the weightless feeling of the Dead Sea. I've hiked through the exotic Arava Desert. I've seen Arabs, very religious Jews, and Muslims. I've been a part of the ancient city of Jerusalem as well as the thriving city of Tel Aviv. I've begun to speak a new language, and I'm here during this time of peace. Shalom." The September Reporter announced the formation of the Tocqueville Society, organized to recognize alumni, friends, and parents who choose to benefit St. John's College through their estates or through charitable trusts, life insurance, and charitable gift annuities. When the Board of Visitors and Governors decided to embark on the Campaign for Our Fourth Century, it recognized that the primary objective must be to increase the endowments of both campuses. The Board determined that a minimum of $16.8 million in additional endowment funds would be required to preserve the undergraduate liberal arts program and to make it accessible to students of all economic backgrounds. Over the years, 90% of all endowment funds have come to the college through bequests or planned gifts. Such funds have historic consequences beyond the daily life of a college. They are permanent, often outliving buildings-i.e. endowments established by piinces, archdukes and kings for Charles University in Prague, Heidelberg in Germany, the Sorbonne in Paris, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the 13th and 14th centuiies still survive in the records and monuments of those institutions. archYou don't have to be a or king to help St. John's College in this way, however. In fact, everyone can take advantage of generous incentives offered by the Internal Revenue Service for these types of gifts. Others have. Here is one of their stoiies: Before her Iola widow of tutor Richard Scofield, established a life income trust in which she named St. John's College the beneficiary, after a lifetime income was paid to two close relatives. Standing as a symbol of the Scofields' love and concern for the continuing life of the college, this bequest, which underwrote a student loan fund, already has enabled scores of students to attend the college and will enable hundreds more to pass through its doors in the years ahead. For information about the Tocqueville Society and about gifts through estates or in trust, call Vice President for Advancement Jeffrey Bishop at the Annapolis campus (410-626-2502) or Vice President for Advancement Jeffrey Morgan at the Santa Fe campus (505-984-6101). ~:Z~I~~:!.!~~k~!!:T~o?L£~~!~w!nia~~a~~ Tolbert's service October 2.) James Tolbert was sui generis. The qualities that went together in him seemed to be made for each other, as though they couldn't ever have been apart. There was the Georgian gentility; the unflagging gallantry with the ladies; the love of teasing, in a gentle mode; the probing, sceptical questions, often unanswerable; the enjoyment of people, places, and stories; his way of making pronouncements, with a little wag of the head. He was committed, deeply so, to the cause of justice, for black people and for all people. He was committed to the cause of good writing and good speaking, and his dislike of superfluity in either was intense. An upperclassman was once overheard advising a freshman not to be put off by Mr. Talbert's witheiing scorn, for, he said, it did not go very deep. Well, it was amalgamated with good manners and an equable temperament, and a settled policy of stepping aside, in situations where altercations would be fruitless. One of Jim Talbert's commitments was to this college and its program. He came here as a Ford Foundation Fellow in 1953, after earning a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas, and serving as chairman of the English Department at the University of Alabama at Florence. In Texas he had met the woman he mariied; not too long ago they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. His love for his wife and daughters and his commitment to this college were at the stable core of his life. The concern for justice and for good writing were more quixotic constituents of his character, but still unwaveringly characteristic. I want to pause over all those years he spent in the Admissions Office. In July, 1955 he received a one-year appointment as Director of Admissions. He remained i..-1 that office, with one-year administrative appointments, till he wrote his last annual report as Director of Admissions in June 1971. Once, after he had become a full-time teaching member of the faculty, in a meeting of the new freshmen with their tutors, Jim introduced himself as having been Director of Admissions for a hundred years. It was sixteen actually, but the job, always tough, was at its toughest then. During the early fifties, the College had shrunk, the freshman enrollment falling to 34in 1952. By 1955 the number had been brought up to 67. Jim in his frrst year took it to 88, and in the following year to 111, and it never fell below 100 again, and most commonly during the sixties hovered around 120 or 130. The Santa Fe college opened in 1964; market analysis would hardly have justified that venture. During the rest of the decade the Director of Admissions here had to assist the Director of Admissions there, while the two of them competed for available students. At the beginning of the following decade it was decided to add a February freshman class. All this time the pressure on the Director of Admissions, from the board, from the president, from the hopes and fears of the whole college community, was enormous. The uncharted future of the college hung in the balance. Jim shouldered the job with that lanky, loose-limbed Georgian grace of his, the acerbic wit and courtly manners that people who knew him will always remember. If his fiiends didn't worry about him, it was because he wouldn't have allowed it. In the final annual report that he wrote while Director of Admissions there was a section with the title: Miscellaneous Activities, Largely Fruitless. He was flooded with suggestions and commands about what he ought to be doing. One of the suggestions, he acknowledged in that report, had paid off: it consisted in writing to students who had visited the college but not applied. He wrote to the 60 such who had visited in the previous year, and some 21 responded with applications: apparently a gentle nudge was what it took to start them writing those essays that the applicationrequired and which for prospective students were always such a hurdle. Jim prided himself on recruiting students who would benefit from the Program; students with - to use his expression - luminous minds. During most of those years, he also taught freshman language. From 1971 onwards, now full-time tutor, he taught junior and senior language, French as well as Greek; also, at least once, freshman mathematics, and of course seminars, too. He was granted one sabbatical leave, for (Continued on page 19) �DECEMBER 1993 PAGE19 THE REPORTER Friends remember James M. Tolbert grateful to Jim Tolbert for inspiring me to try to think clearly, express myself clearly, By NANCY OSIUS and to prize honesty above all else." The warmth, wit and humanity of James Dr. David Krimins, A'63: "In the last Tolbert, tutor at Annapolis from 1955 until his retirement in 1978, and Director of half dozen years or so, I came to know Jim from another perspective-as my patient. Admissions for 16 of those years, returned Interestingly, my impression did not with rare intensity as his longtime colchange at all-except that when I was a leagues, friends and students arose to student, he addressed me as :Mi-. Krimins, speak of him at his memorial service Ocand when I was his physician, he addressed tober 2. me as 'David'-which made it a lot easier His good friend Curtis Wilson, former all around." dean, was the first of eight listed speakers Patience Schenck, A'59: "When I arto evoke Jim Tolbert, who died of heart rived on campus as an 18-year-old in the failure after a long illness on June 23 at age fall of 1955, I had never been away from 79. At President Christopher Nelson's inhome before, never been to Annapolis, vitation, others shared their own memories never met any of my classmates or tutors. before the service concluded. "James Tolbert was sui generis,"began I was walking around feeling kind of lost. All of a sudden, this voice said, Mr. Wilson. "The qualities 'Patience Garretson!' Here is that went together in him this tall, slender man with his seemed to be made for each hand stretching towards me. other, as though they I'd never seen him before, but couldn't ever have been he knew me. It was just a treapart." mendously warm feeling to be Mr. Wilson's remarks recognized when I didn't are reprinted in their enknow anybody." tirety on page 18 and 19. Dr. James Cockey, A'71: "I Tutor Laurence Berns: "I always found him in his chair, remember more than once reading a classic book; usually sitting with [Jim Tolbert] at with a classic piece of music the big table in the coffee Jim Tolbert playing; and always with his shop, especially in the early pipe. He and Jane were always intensely months of the school year. Beginning freshmen walking by would see him and interested in me, and later in my family, stop: their eyes would light up and smile too. He delighted my children with his like meeting an old friend. ':Mi-. Tolbert!' harmonica, his magic tricks, his southern charm, and of course, the aroma of his they'd say and come over to shake his hand. He would in a perfectly natural way pipe. He was a man who delighted in the classics of Western culture, of Georgia light up in response. 'Why, how are you ... ?' always with a first name. When he culture, of marriage and home; and as he asked how things were going they knew he smoked all those good things in his pipe, was truly interested. It was as ifhehad an he shared that delight with us." unbounded reservoir of genuine parental Tutor Wendy Allanbrook: "[As a neofeeling and interest in students." phyte tutor] one place where I specially learned from Jim in those years was in don Eloise Collingwood, A'79: "[Mr. rags, where his quality of considered attenTolbert] was exact, impatient with shoddy tion in speech was always apparent. I rethought, and occasionally merciless if he member in particular one young woman felt you were unprepared and gassing who was very bright but painfully shy. He away to cover up that sorry fact....I would told her among other things that she had a describe him as a joyful man, in part be'luminous rnind'-and she left the room cause he was a man on a mission. His obviously in an altered state, letting go for mission was to persuade people to think a moment of the dreary burden of self-conclearly, and the only way you can think sciousness she was carrying around. clearly is by expressing yourself clearly .. .! Things only grew better for her after that." will never meet his standard, but I am Wilson on Mr. Tolbert for the year 1972-73. He retired in 1979. He cared about students. They were not numbers but souls. He remembered the students he had recruited, remembered those who had been members of his classes. To many of them he was a special friend. They would come back years or decades afterwards, to say hello and tell where they were in their lives. Such is the case with Paul Matsushita, who did the first two years of the program from 1957 to 1959, and later became a leading international lawyer in Japan, and on his frequent visits to this country always looked up the Tolberts. He visited Jim a few days before his death. Such is also the case with Robert Fields of the class of 1966, who with incredible brashness and ingenuity worked his way through a Ph.D. in micrnchemistry at the University of Cambridge, England, supported his family in a scientific equipment business there for nigh onto two decades, then returned to this country as a scientist at the Rockefeller Institute. When visiting the college a few years ago to apply, unsuccessfully as it turned out, for a tutorship, he made a special point of looking up the Tolberts. I am sure there are others here today to whom the friendship and hospitality of the Tolberts have beckoned across the continents and the years. (Continued from page 18) Jim Tolbert had standards, and a violation of good sense or taste would bring from him a rebuke, often oblique, often ironic, usually gentle and teasing. He had a tact about teasing, and knew not to tease those who wouldn't tease well. He was not stingy, either, with praise. He was generous, outgoing, heart-warmingly friendly. A month or so before his death, when he had become a semi-invalid, almost confined to the chair in which he spent so many hours reading, he and I had a telephone conversation about Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety. It is a novel about the friendship of two college English teachers and their wives. The stuffiness and prejudice of the senior professors, and the chances of life, separate them, but the friendship, with its shared commitments and understandings, persists. Jim spoke of his sadness on finishing that book, on having to put it down. He felt as if he had lost friends; Stegner's people were his kind of people, he said. They were indeed. They cared about students; they cared about each other. In the weeks since Jim breathed his last, I have thought often about how wonderful it was thathe was here, all these years, a true gentleman and friend. Would to God, to use a Jim Tolbert phrase, he were still here, so that one could phone him up for a chat about books, and people, and the passing scene. William Athey, A'32: former Board Member William B. Athey, 83, A'32, a member of the college Board of Visitors and Governors from 1954 to 1960 and the recipient of the Alumni Association A ward of Merit in 1971, died October 28 of a pulmonary embolism following surgery at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson, MD. He was 83. A retired insurance broker, :Mi-. Athey was owner of the Hallmark Insurance Co. in Baltimore at the time of his retirement 18 years ago. He made his home in Round Bay, Severna Park, MD, and Fort Lauderdale, FL. BorninBaltimore,:Mi-. Athey was graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute before attending St. John's. Later he received a law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law. At St. John's he was a member of the basketball team and of the national championsrrp lacrosse team. He was also pres- ident of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. During World War II, he served in the Pacific theater with the Marine Corps and was awarded the Bronze medal. Actively interested in the college over many years, Mr. Athey was secretary of the St. John's College Alumni Association and chairman of the alumni annual giving campaign in 1968-69, in addition to his Board of Visitors and Governors service. A member of the Merchants Club, the Center Club and the Mount Washington Club in Baltimore, he was also a vestryman at the Church of the Redeemer. His interests included travel, gardening, birds and wildlife. He is smvived by his wife of more than 50 years, Margaret Elsa Stoffregen Athey, three daughters, Lois E. and Elizabeth L Athey of Washington, D.C, and Susan E. Athey of Ruxton, a brother, Thomas B. Athey of Washington, and five grandchildren Dr. Maurice Klawans, A'22: Dr. Maurice Klawans, A'22, a physician practicing in Annapolis for more than 50 years, died September 28 of cardiac arrest in Sarasota, FL. He retired in 1987 from a practice he had begun in 1931 on Southgate Avenue in Annapolis, a practice that included everything from the common cold to obstetrics and major surgery, with an occasional bit of veterinary medicine thrown in. He made house calls at any time of the day or night, his daughter-in-law said recently, and routinely accepted farm produce in payment for service. Dr. Klawans was born in Annapolis and raised in Baltimore wher~ he was graduated from City College in 1919. A basketball scholarship brought him to St. John's, where he graduated as a pre-medical student in 1922; he received his medical degree from the University of Maryland Medical School in 1927. After an internship at Norfolk General Hospital, he completed a residency in psychiatry at Baltimore City Hospital, and also did residency training at the Baltimore Eye, Nose and Throat Hospital. After several years of practice in New York, he returned to Annapolis to practice. Dr. Klawans' wife Stella Goldman Klawans, whom he married in 1931, died in 1982. He moved to Florida in 1991. Dr. Klawans is survived by a daughter, Janice Gotch of Sarasota, FL, a son, Warren Klawans of Annapolis, six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Frank Leonard, A'63, died September 9 of lung cancer during a trip to Pennsylvania to see his newborn grandchild. He had been ill for several months. "All of us who knew him will feel the loss of one of the most enthusiastic carriers of the spirit of St. John's," said his longtime friend Tom Harvey, A'65. "He was a social catalyst, a raconteur, a man who drew people together. Lots of people cared about him." For many years, Mr. Leonard was a federal employee in Washington, DC, working in disabilities program development, management and funding. Recently, he lived and worked as a management and special events consultant in Columbia, MD, Philadelphia, and Chicago, where he was a resident at the time of his death. While his family was young, they took part each year in Bread and Puppet, a festival in Vermont where the three children learned clown lore and stilt-walking. The study of Chinese calligraphy was an interest to which Mr. Leonard devoted much of his energy in recent years. He and his wife, Allena Dungan Leonard, A'65, were married while they were students at St. John's, and their first child, Tambra, A'85, was born while her mother was an undergraduate. :Mi-. Leonard is survived by his wife, from whom he was separated, by his companion Diana Bamford-Rees, by his three children, Tambra, Ariel, and Corwin, and one granddaughter, Helen Rae Leonard. Deborah Traynor Botjer, a tutor at the Annapolis campus from 1964 to 1975, died October 15 after an extended illness in Prattsburg, NY. She was 58 years old. For several years, Miss Traynor assisted the college in its public relations in addition to her teaching duties. She had received tenure by the time she left St. John's in 1975 to live infreland. She began by working as a maid in a Dublin Hotel but later settled on the Island of Aran. In recent years, she lived in the Finger Lake district of upper New York state. She had many good friends on the St. John's faculty and was in touch with some of them for the rest of her life. According to tutor Elliott Zuckerman, "She was in every respect an original person. Many in the college learned most unexpected things from her, often in matters of mathematics, logic and science. She was very thoughtful about the program and never depended on secondary sources." Miss Traynor received a B.A. degree in· 1956 from Mount Holyoke College and an M.S. from the University of Chicago in 1958. Before joining the St.John's faculty, she worked with the Chicago Educational Television Association for five years. She is survived by her husband Ed Botjer. Memorial contributions may be sent to Southern Tier Hospice, 244 West Water St., Elmira, NY 14901. �1921-1991 " "A Lifetime of Imaging: Margaret Lefranc, an interview By MARY JO MOORE A retrospective of sixty representative oil paintings, etchings, monotypes and drawings by New Mexico artist M~_rgaret Lefranc opened November 7 at the St. John's College Gallery. The show centered around key periods of a 70-year career which has included exposure to German Expressionism in Berlin, cubism, surrealism and abstractionism in Paris, and which culminated in a return to the United States and a definition of her own style. Born in New York, Margaret knew she would be an artist at age 5. She attended the Art Student's League in New York at age 12. In her adolescent years she lived in Berlin, and later in Paris with her family. She was offered a scholarship to Bryn Mawr and had the choice of going there or to Europe with her parents. Since she wanted to be an artist anyway, she decided to join her parents in Paris. Her first major piece, a charcoal drawing done at the age of fourteen in Berlin, was included in the show, as were a number of large oils done at ages 16 and 17. In a recent interview at her studio, Margaret pointed to a large oil, "This is the last self- portrait I did of myself. I wanted to show what happens when you get old; and it's not exactly what you'd call pleasant. Ifs a document," she said of her painting. The particular flavor of her experience is evident in the following statement about her career. "I have lived a long time and in many places. Between the ages of barely 14 to almost 17, I resided in Berlin. There I saw the works of Marc, Kollwitz, Lehmbruck, Heckel, the Bruecke, Klee, Kandinsky to name a few. The great old masters in museums I adored, but it was the modernists who stimulated me profoundly. "From 17 to 25 years of age, I lived in Paris observing the growth of art away from naturalism and impressionism. Every conceivable experimentation in the creative arts was taking place, from cubism, expressionism, surrealism to abstraction, and then some. I studied with the brilliantly gifted Russian refugees from Bolshevism, and, of course, with the original yet supremely logical French, in particular, Andre L'Hote. So much went on with studying, arguing, and drinking of cafe au lait in bistros! But I lived for the excitement of drawing and· painting, as all of us artists did. "Then the ominous shadow of Nazism forced me to leave the successful oe;:~mrung of my career as an artist in Paris. I returned to the the country On her return to the United States from Paris in 1924 she the Guild Art which whom she later became friends. Mrs. Rockefeller owned the and accepted paintings when there was no money for rent. "The gallery was a successful experience," she said. "I got to be quite expert at arranging shows, and was very much liked by the press. Ashille Gorky had his first one-man show in New York, at my gallery. We sold one of his drawings to the collector Kathryn S. Dreier. She was quite a lady and she paid me $7 5 for that drawing of which I got $25 and Gorkey got $50." "I closed the gallery down, and in 1939 I went to see the country of my birth. I got into a dilapidated old car and I traveled throughout the whole of the United States-going from New York down South, down into the Keys, into Louisiana and Texas; and from Texas I went to New Mexico. The scope of my reaction to the enormously vibrant land commanded me to use all of my know ledge at hand. I let emotion flow through pen and brush without the sieve of intellectual analysis and considered self-criticism. "When I got to Santa Fe, I knew instantly that I was going to live here. I knew it. I felt comfortable. I finally said to myself that I would move here as soon as I had $1000 dollars of my own money, and that's precisely what I did," Margaret said. Margaret moved to New Mexico in 1945 with a friend who got a Rockefeller grant to work in San Ildefonso Pueblo near Santa Fe. That was the late author, Alice Marriott. "Alice said to me, don't we team up book?'" do the illustrations l1r::iw11na.;: were featured in five books ~·i~~AA~ two of which won the One Hundred Best . ., sold my sketches," she said. "I had three exhibitions at the Fine which then had a lot." "I an open door ' For centuries there have been artists whose work has run contrary to the grain of popular thought and, in some cases, the content of their work has placed them at odds with the government, the church, or other segments of society. In response, the best of these socially conscious artists have captured essential elements and emotions in their work, giving it timeless appeal. Included among these is Honore Victorin Daumier (1808-1879), the French painter, sculptor, and lithographer, who raised the political and social awareness of the citizens of France in the mid-nineteenth century, and whose work is exhibited in The Artist as Social Commentator: Prints by Honore Daumier, on display at the Mitchell Gallery from January 4- February 27, 1994. The exhibition presents 46 lithographs, shown for the first time as a group, dating from 1849-1860, the time of the Second Republic and the first half of the Second Empire. The exhibit is organized by The Art Gallery of the University of New Hampshire. An opening reception will be held Sunday, January 9, from 3:30- 5 p.m. at the Gallery. A lecture by David Ross Smith, professor of Art History at the University of New Hampshire and Samuel H. Kress, senior fellow at the National Gallery, will be held Wednesday, January 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Conversation Room. And on Tuesday, February 8, at 5:30 p.m. in the Conversation Room, Jane Haslem, owner and director of the Jane Haslem Gallery in Washington,D.C., will discuss the development of political cartoons from Daumier to the present. In the span of four decades, Daumier produced more than 4,000 prints of social and political satire that reached thousands of people, many illiterate, though the illustrated journals, La Caricature and Le Charivari, and several lithographic albums produced for commercial sale. The range in the collection is significant. The 12 prints from 1849 to 1851 were produced under the republic of Louis Napoleon during a period of relative freedom of the press. Through them viewers experience Daumier's direct commentary on French political figures and policies of the period The remaining 34 prints were produced after the reimplementation of censorship laws; although many of them deal with political events, they relate to France's foreign interests rather than events at home. The majority of Daumier's prints from the 1850s have not been given much attention by scholars and are seldom reproduced. The exhibit, therefore, provides the viewer an opportunity to become familiar with a littlekn own period within the artist's lithographic oeuvre. "Self-portrait, 1929," by Margaret Lefranc � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 111111111111111 rnmi~11r11~111111111111 ~1 1 The St. John's 31696 011381983 Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico Volume 20, Issue 1 September 1993 Team B.I.S.H.O.P.-2,100 miles, 23 flat tire by Nancy Osius NM by Darien Large Crossing the finish line in Annapolis, Team 8.1.S.H.O.P. is greeted by a police escort, television cameras and enthusiastic fans. Keith Harvey photo That huge and wonderful sound under the trees is "When the Saints Go Marching In," and the Eldorado Drum and Bugle Corps from Eastport lined up along the McDowell walkway in smart formation is making it. Stretching over the walkway near the College A venue curb is a quaintly spelled welcoming banner ("Sante Fe to Annapolis"), and at the walk's edge and standing on the grass are small expectant knots of people extending all the way to the very large and restless knot shifting and murmuring up by McDowell Hall. High above the steps is artist Nancy Hammond's manysplendored sculptured rainbow over an aluminum bucket tied with a gold ribbon and filled with champagne. And now it is five o'clock on the dot, the drum and bugle corps is sounding a tattoo, and something is happening down at College Avenue. A small motorcade has appeared around the corner from Rowe Blvd, police cars fore I and aft, lights flashing. Between the vehicles, looking a little humanly fragile, blinking a bit at all the uproar, ride five cyclists. Suddenly and unexpectedly, it is a moving moment. After all the foolery and all the fun, after seven states, 2100 miles, and 23 flat tires, sunburned and saddlesore, Team B.I.S.H.O.P. is home. The bell in the cupola begins to toll. When everything subsides a bitthe milling about and the embraces and the congratulations and the contagious exuberance that draws in everybody as the drums and bugles play "My Old Kentucky Home"-there is, of course, a welcoming ceremony. This one has been organized by the Mice Will Play committee, a loose mixture of Friends of St. John's, Caritas members, faculty and staff members, chaired by Annapolis tutor Howard Zeiderman:, A'67, and Caritas dynamo Maryanne Spencer. "Next to your families, no one is I page The Campaign For Our Fourth Century 3 Staff/Faculty Appointments Upcoming Events ..... ,............. Notes 5 6 9 12 Events Graduate •inc~~.. ..-.... .-«:i.c more glad to see these men come home than I. Our college rode on those wheels," Dean Eva Brann tells the crowd, and especially the team members, seated in chairs of honor: Annapolis President Chris Nelson, Annapolis vice president for advancement and team captain Jeff Bishop, Santa Fe vice president for advancement Jeff Morgan, Annapolis athletic director Leo Pickens, and Baltimore writer Bob Gray. (continued on page 2) For the first time, more incoming freshmen will be native New Mexicans than residents from anywhere else. "Last year we had six high school students come to St. John's from within the state. This year the number is up to 18 out of an entering class of 126," said Larry Clendenin, the Admission Director at Santa Fe. That gives New Mexico a representation in the incoming class of almost 15 percent, which puts it ahead of other leaders such as California and Texas. "Practically it makes more sense than anything else," Mr. Clendenin said. "Our local community should be our primary market. They're close, there are fewer barriers to reaching interested high school students, and New Mexico students have higher retention rates because it is easier to stay in school when you're not as far from home." State residents feel more ready to commit to a school that is accessible; and the commitment may be stronger because St. John'.s, being a New Mexico college, is already a part of their hoine. Mr. Clendenin also points out that it allows St. John's to say to all the residents of New Mexico, directly and through our state legislature, "We are serving you." "A lot of non-New Mexico students at St. John's feel strange about the absence of state residents in the student body," he said. Administrators and faculty members feel the same way. (continued on page 2) 14 19 "I hate television. I hate make-up. I don't watch television. I don't own a television," President Agresto said, probably echoing the sentiments of much of the broader St. John's community. Nevertheless, television audiences discovered him this summer seated on stage of "Firing Line," covered with make-up, smiling for the cameras and talking about American education with show host, William F. Buckley, Jr. Joining him in the discussion were Cornel West, Professor of Religion and Director of African American studies at Princeton University and Elizabeth Kennan, president of Mount Holyoke College. The show was aired in two segments and broadcast on major networks in July. Subsequent segments in the same series featured Rhodes Scholar Jeffery Seidman, A'93. �page2 September 1993 The Reporter Team B.I.S.H.O.P. (continued from page 1) Above and left-The new dorms as they neared completion in early August. Now finished, a cluster of five buildings has created an additional 40 beds for undergraduates. A separate cluster houses underten two-bedroom apartments graduate and graduate students. A common building holds two classrooms, a laundry room. The dorms are located to the east, overlooking the campus. for NM students (continued from page 1) Because St. John's has a reputation among some as a bit of an ivory-tower, neglecting New Mexico students in enrollment and retention efforts can add to the sense of isolation from the local community. "It's the right thing to do- to pay attention to one's neighbors," he said. "When we started stepping up our recruitment programs in New Mexico our efforts yielded fruit almost immediately. People said, 'Where have you been?' A lot of graduates are working in New Mexico at schools, in law offices, banks-you name it. We would be foolish not to utilize those resources and give something back to what is, after all, our home state." As part of the admission team's recruitment efforts, Larry criss-crossed the state, talking to students and high school counselors and teachers. The admission office also increased mailings to local high-school students. Although the admission office has increased its presence in one of several states considered to be "primary market", the recruitment approach itself has not changed. Most of the things that make St. John's a good choice for a student in New Mexico are those that attract any other. Even so, the additional factors such as location and, perhaps most importantly these days, financial considerations, are important in anyone's choice of a college. New Mexico students have several additional opportunities for financial aid at St. John's. The Southwest Scholarship program is an institutional grant for incoming freshmen who are residents of New Mexico and the surrounding states. The grant is awarded based upon need and the strength of the student's admission application. The Southwest Scholarship program replaces the self-help portion of the financial aid package-effectively eliminating the need of an educational loan for the recipient. "This scholarship program existed when I was a student, but then faded away," Mr. Clendenin said. "I tried to revive it as a way of saying to New Mexico, 'We're here for you,'." Although still a very small fund, Mr. Clendenin said he is "optimistic that it will grow as a tool that will attract students from our region of the country." There is also the New Mexico Scholars Program, which replaces the loan portion of a student's award as well. This renewable scholarship is for New Mexico residents who have been designated as Scholars based upon such criteria as need, class ranking and standardized test scores. New Mexico Scholars are designated by the New Mexico Department of Education. And finally, the New Mexico Choice Program is a state-funded grant program to help New Mexico residents meet the educational costs of attending one of the three private colleges in the state. Reflecting on the overall admissions picture, Larry said he is excited about this year's incoming class. "This is Santa Fe's largest Freshman class ever. Applications increased 133 over last year. Deposits are up. We are receiving 350 applications each year now." The proclamations come next. Board of Visitors and Governors member Anna E. Greenberg, standing in for Governor William Donald Schaefer, was on the spot in Santa Fe at 5 a.m. July 18 when the team set off, and here she is to welcome them home. Governor Schaefer's citation commends the cyclists for "nurturing the bountiful traditions of St. John's College," and for promoting "unity and goodwill between the two campuses." County Executive Robert Neall's proclamation of congratulations is read by Dr. Robert 0. Biern, president of the Friends of St. John's. Annapolis Mayor Alfred E. Hopkins is here in person to hail the victors. "You gentlemen have exceeded even the croquet players who almost perpetually defeat the U.N. Naval Academy," he tells them, and then he makes them Distinguished Citizens. Laurel wreaths and bronze cyclist medals are placed on or about the heroes by Dean Brann and Mrs. Spencer, tokens from both the ancient and modern worlds, because, as emcee Mr. Zeiderman explains, "at this college we try to discourage faculty and students EVER from coming to a decision on anything." There are laurel baskets, too, for the support crew, Susan Bishop, wife to Jeff, and Joyce Olin, wife to Chris Nelson, with a medal for March Bishop, 7. bicycle trip. As it happened, they did not take him up on it, but one thing led to another, and the idea for Team B.I.S.H.O.P.'s journey came about. It was to be a trip from one campus to the other, beginning at the conclusion of the Board meeting in Santa Fe. The required many months of planning and coordination and was heavily dependent on a support vehicle. Susan Bishop, accompanied by Marchrelieved for a week by Joyce Olindrove the van, and they pulled Team B.I.S.H.O.P.'s chestnuts out of the fire more than once. Men and bjcycles had to be carried over three bridges, including one above the Mississipi churning below at Carruthersville, MO. The sag vehicle also served as a small bicycle repair shop, containing a repair stand, two spare bicycles, tools, extra wheels and a cooler full of beer and Gatorade. But the sag vehicle had its own itinerary: Susan and March took in Disneyland, the Carlsbad Caverns, and Opryland, to touch the highlights, in their own journey of some 10,000 miles. In detailed and factual prose, sometimes lyrical and often stoical, writer Bob Gray sent four dispatches to the Annapolis Capital chronicling Team B.I.S.H.0.P.'s trip: departures at first light, long ascents to high passes, the mesas and deep blue sky and empty miles of New Mexico, eight days of temperatures over 100 degrees, miles and miles of Arkansas rice paddies, Tennessee hill country, strong headwinds, elusive tailwinds, painful knees, crippled bicycles, early to bed. Jeff Bishop says, "We asked ourselves every day, Oh, man! What are we doing? It was agony every day, but then there was ecstasy in the accomplishment we felt." For the last Triumphant Team 8.1.S.H.O.P. holds a photo of Einstein on a days of the trip, bicycle. Lett to right-Leo Pickens, Jeff Morgan, Bob Gray, Chris the team knew Nelson, Jeff Bishop. More photos page 8 something was afoot back in Annapolis. "No, no, you And now ... perhaps a few words CAN'T come at three o'clock Sunday," from the team members? they were scolded over the telephone. "We're heading back to Santa Fe "You told us five o'clock! We are expecttomorrow," says Chris Nelson. ing you at five!" No, that's a joke. To the question It is a well known fact that Team why did they do it, he answers, half in B.I.S.H.O.P. hung around in Edgewater, jest, "We did it for friendship, honor and MD, eating crabs and playing hearts for glory. The friendship was tested, and I an hour or so Sunday afternoon. don't know about the honor and glory. We did it also in the spirit of adventure, Two full weeks have passed. Jeff fulfilling ideas born in our youth." Bishop is sitting at his desk leafing Jeffrey Bishop calls the tumultuous through a December, 1991, issue of welcome "culture shock." They weren't Bicycling magazine. "Have you heard allowed to talk about St. John's the about the PBP?" he inquires. "Paris to entire trip, he says, "and now this!" Brest and back to Paris in 90 hours? Or He calculates that it took each 84, or 80." We examine the article: 3200 cyclist approximately 830,000 pedals to cyclists. 760 miles. We learn about get to Annapolis from Santa Fe. (Later Randonee cycling, the pitting of partici·he has more data: The team consumed pants against a fixed course, with PBP 660,000 calories, including 500 gallons of the oldest one. (The next PBP is in 1995.) Gatorade. Fitter than ever before, they We learn of strict time limits and gained weight!) announced and unannounced checkMr. Zeiderman has the last word. points. We read about brevets, 200, 300, In comments heavy with allusion to 400 and 600 kilometer time trials for the Odysseus' return from Troy, he invites race. We read about "zombie-like riders all present to toast the epic journey and pushing uncertainly through 1200 kilothe men who made it. "We are grateful meters of ceaseless French hills, unable your odyssey took 20 days instead of 20 to steer a straight line or even recognize years," he says. those around them." We look at Jeff for a long time. Legend has it that in an ill-considered "Is Team B.I.S.H.O.P. going to make moment two years ago, teenager Lauren the PBP, Jeff?" Bishop teased her father about his forty"Maybe it will," he replies. something girth. Stung, he countered with "Anyway, I'm going to." a challenge to his daughters for a long �The Reporter September 1993 page3 • • In April, 1993, St. John's College publicly launched The Campaign for Our Fourth Century. The goal of the campaign is to raise $30 million dollars over the next four years. Initiated by the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, the campaign is essential to the financial future of the college. At this time/ more than $19 million has been raised toward the goal. Tocqueville Society honors benefactors The Americans, on the other hand, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of self interest rightly understood: they show with complacency how an enlightened regard for themselves constantly prompts them to assist one another and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the welfare of the state. - Alexis de Tocqueville St. John's College is establishing the Tocqueville Society to honor alumni and friends who assist the college in fulfilling its mission through their financial and estate planning. Since it was founded as King William's School in 1696, St. John's College has benefitted from bequests from friends and alumni who have used their estates to recognize the importance of the college to themselves and to others. These bequests have provided scholarships for students, established library book funds, endowed tutorships, and created funds for tutor renewal and enrichment. To honor those who plan to benefit the college in this way, the Tocqueville Society annually will recognize those who have named St. John's as a beneficiary of an estate, a trust, a life insurance policy, or a life interest in an asset. Some of those who have already benefitted the college through these mechanisms are: Iola Scofield Esther S. Klein John T. Harrison, Sr. Russell (Scappy) Hartle Richard H. Hodgson Henry F. Sturdy Addison Mullikin Amos W.W. Woodcock Julius Rosenberg J. Winfree Smith FordK. Brown John and Roxana Kieffer Charles Kluth Dorsey W. Offutt, Jr. Judge Walter I. Dawkins John and Faith Meem Ruth Duncan Molly Ward Ruby Armstrong Robert Bart Margaret Driscoll Emil Bisttram During 1994 a list will be assembled of alumni and friends who are planning to remember the college through their estates and who wish to be honored in the inaugural year of the Tocqueville Society and every year thereafter. THE ANNUAL FUND The Annual Fund, which provides vital supplementary income to meet the college's day-to-day expenses, will continue during the course of the campaign, and in fact, seek to broaden the base of support for this essential component of the budget. At least $5,000,000 in annual giving will be necessary over the course of the capital campaign. Santa Fe Annual 8% The 1992-93 Annual Fund drive reached a high point in the 30-year history of the Santa Fe campus. With an eight percent increase in gifts over last year, the Annual Fund goal was achieved by raising $531,000. The generosity of alumni, parents of alumni, current parents, and friends of St. John's are the reason for the increasing success of the Annual Fund. Also, a greater dialogue was established with our donors. For example, the student callers who contacted alumni, parents, and friends of the college during the Phonathon, established a personal rapport with many people interested in the college. This proved to be an effective way of identifying people regionally and throughout the country who are interested in helping the college by referring prospective students, placing interns, and helping with job placement for recent graduates. Plus, the Phonathon brought in more than $40,000 for the Annul Fund. Commitments to The Campaign for Our Fourth Century, an increasingly active President's Council, and support of special projects such as the Weigle Memorial and the Southwest Scholarship fund contributed to strength of the fund. As a young campus, the increased giving by alumnir friends of the college and parents of current students was especially encouraging. There was also greater participation by parents of alumni and the college community. "Since the Annual Fund serves as the cornerstone to all of our fundraising activities, I'm pleased to see a continuing increase in support," said, Cary Bowdich, director of the Annual Fund. The resources raised are essential for the college to meet its yearly operating expenses. I especially appreciated the shared commitment by all individuals who participated in the Annual Fund. "I believe the growth demonstrated the loyalty of the alumni to the school. It also reflects the investment made by parents and friends that helps to continue to support vital programs at St. John's." Donations made to the Annual Fund allow St. John's to continue providing one of the finest liberal arts education available today. Annapolisdouble digit • • Increase In support from parents Thanks to the generosity of many people, the 1992-93 Annual Fund in Annapolis was more successful than ever before. Mirroring a growth in alumni involvement in other areasstudent recruitment, placement and career guidance, alumni association activities-alumni giving also has continued its steady increase as more and more alumni commit themselves to continuing interest in and support of St. John's. There seems to be a growing consensus among alumni that there is merit in devoting personal resources to securing the academic program which they shared for current and future generations of students. The collective If you would like to know more about The Campaign for Our Fourth <;::entury or the Tocqueville Society, please contact Jeffrey A. Bishop, Annapolis generosity of Annapolis alumni to the 1992-93 Unified Annual Fund totaled $219,000. The number of alumni who provide leadership support through larger gifts has also increased. In 1988, there were fewer than 30 alumni donors of $1,000 or more. This year there were more than 110. "I think that we are doing a better job of communicating what the college has always had to offer to its community as well as finding new ways to serve our neighbors. In any case, the number of gifts from our friends, as well as the size of those gifts, has increased dramatically in the last five years," reports Annapolis Vice President Jeff Bishop. As recently as 1988-89, Friends of the college and local businesses donated $56, 154 in unrestricted gifts (and $63 ,850 in restricted gifts) to the Annapolis campus. In 1992-93, Friends of the college and local businesses gave St. John's $115,250 in unrestricted gifts (and $96,492 in restricted ones.) Mr. Bishop was quick to point out that much of the success of the fund raising efforts is due to the involvement of local volunteers and the leadership of the board of the local Friends group. If anything, the parental response to the Annual Fund was even greater than that of alumni and friends. 1992-93 saw a continuation of the double-digit increase in the percentage of parents who make gifts to the college. Gilts from parents increased from $54,166 in 1991-92 to $90,358 in 1992-93. Parents have also become increasingly involved and important in helping the Admissions and Placement Offices with their work as well as providing enthusiastic support of programs for parents such as Parents' Weekend. CAMPAIGN HOTLINE vice president for college advancement at (410) 626-2505, or Jeffrey A. Morgan, Santa Fe vice president for college advancement at (505) 982-3691, ext. 211. 1-800-234-3691 �page4 President by Lesli Allison In March, 1993, Santa Fe President John Agresto was in New York City for a press conference to announce the formation of the American Academy for Liberal Education (AALE). The event marked a new round in the on-going national debate about the nature and content of higher education today. Chaired by Mr. Agresto, the new organization hopes to gain accrediting status from the U.S. Department of Education in order to promote highquality liberal arts education. Among the standards AALE intends to promote are the assertion of the importance of teaching over research; having senior faculty members teach introductory and other lower-level courses; and graduation requirements insuring that at least a third of a student's course work be devoted to liberal arts studies. The organization took its start approximately two years ago at a meeting on the Santa Fe campus of 12 liberal arts college presidents. "I was brought into the battle over accreditation two years ago or so when it looked like St. John's College in Annapolis, Thomas Aquinas College and some others that had distinctive curricula might be in trouble with the accrediting societies," Mr. Agresto said. "We discovered that every academic group had an accrediting society to look after it, but we in the liberal arts did not. Engineers, beauty schools, you name it, had some organization to promote their interests, but there was no one to speak up for liberal education, much less traditional liberal education as most of us know it. "We decided we wanted to have an association that spoke up for liberal arts education in the face of trendiness, vocationalism, and in the face of the overwhelming attractiveness of research over teaching. We especially wanted to have an association that would defend colleges in the belief that a) teaching is of prime importance and b) the liberal arts are more than just the humanities, that they include the sciences, mathematics and languages as well." According to Mr. Agresto, the group does not intend to supplant other accrediting organizations. Colleges can be accredited by a multiplicity of accreditors, he said. At the press conference in· New York he told the New York Times that the AALE wants to be "a Good Housekeeping" seal for colleges that The Reporter meet its standards. The membership of the organization reads like a who's who in higher education. Board members include: Herman Badillo; Jacques Barzun; Herman Belz; Chester E. Finn, Jr.; Elizabeth FoxGenovese; Paul R. Gross; John William Harris, Jr.; Deal W. Hudson; Richard D. Lamm; Shelby Steele; Abigail M. Thernstrom; and Edward 0. Wilson. Jeffrey D. Wallin is the executive director. While editorials in several newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, have lauded the goals of the AALE, some people have accused the organization of having conservative, political motives. In the New York Times article one professor is quoted as saying "It sounds like a rear-guard action." Mr. Agresto countered that perception, saying the group has supporters across the political spectrum. "There are some people who want to portray it as a conservative outfit and there are, no doubt, conservative members," he said. "But any close look shows that the liberal arts have partisan support across the whole spectrum. It The newly relocated and expanded bookstore in Santa Fe opened on the first floor of the Peterson Student Center in July. The move to a more visible and accessible location also allowed for wider aisles, handicapped access and more display room. The bookstore also has expanded its hours to include evenings and Saturdays. Annapolis President John Agresto would be a shame to think that to say no one should graduate from a liberal arts college without having learned a language or studied mathematics is a conservative issue." "One reason our position on the issue seems to have a slant in the minds of some people is that we tend to be wary of trendiness and worries about novel and even fringe courses supplanting traditional liberal arts disciplines." Right-Annapolis tutor emerita Beate Ruhm von Oppen September 1993 Annapolis Tutor Emerita Beate Ruhm von Oppen was invited to Berlin in July to give the traditional annual lecture on the eve of the commemorations of the plot that failed to kill Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime on July 20, 1944. About 400 widows, children, grandchildren, friends, and sympathizers were on hand in the State Library for Miss von Oppen's talk, "The Year 1943 and the German Resistance to Hitler." Miss von Oppen, a tutor at the Annapolis campus since 1960, is the translator and editor of Letters to Freya. 1939-45, letters from Helmuth James von Moltke, who was executed in 1945 for his opposition to the Nazis. In November 1989, her German edition won the prestigious German Scholl Prize, an award honoring anti-Nazi student martyrs at the University of Munich. The translation published by Alfred Knopf in 1990 was widely and favorably reviewed in the U.S. In her talk, Ms. von Oppen suggested that 1943, when the British and Americans drove the Germans and Italians from North Africa and the Germans were defeated at Stalingrad, was the crucial year of World War II. These events increased the readiness of many Germans to get rid of Hitler, who had sacrificed the Sixth Army at Stalingrad instead of allowing it to retreat while there was time. This readiness coincided, however, with the Allied demand for "unconditional surrender," a term Roosevelt used with Churchill's agreement at Casablanca. Such a demand was not propitious for the opposition inside Germany. How harmful was it, Miss von Oppen asked, tentatively answering "not very," aside from the "rhetorical vaingloriousness" of the phrase and its psychological repercussions. Moreover, the demand held together the Big Three coalition at a time when the invasion of the continent lay well over a year away in June, 1944. Miss von Oppen described the activities of the German resistance in 1943, including several abortive attempts to assassinate Hitler and equally abortive efforts to come to an agreement with the Allies. She also talked about the resistance of the Munich students known as "The White Rose" and others who helped, at great personal risk and considerable loss of life, those persecuted and endangered by the regime. Her talk on July 19 preceded an annual ceremony on July 20 in the courtyard of what was once the German Army Headquarters on the Bendlerstrasse. Each year mourners place a wreath on the spot where Col. Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, the man who led the plot and nearly succeeded in killing Hitler, was executed, along with three of his closest fellow-conspirators. (Hundreds of people connected with the conspiracy were executed eventually, and thousands of others imprisoned.) The street has been renamed Stauffenbergstrasse. �The Reporter September 1993 STAFF I Karen H. Holland Karen H. Holland has been named director of placement at the Annapolis campus. She replaces Barbara Altman who has accepted a position as head of the newly created D.C. Service Corps. Ms. Holland has served as assistant to the director of placement since 1992. Prior to that she was the college music librarian from 1975-1979, responsible for the evening concert series. Ms. Holland hopes to make the college placement service an even more viable part of the students' college experience. "Ou!' service is special," she explains, "because our students don't fit the typical graduate mode. We tailor our placement program to meet their particular needs. The center will be a clearing house of information on jobs, scholarships and fellowships, awards, and graduate school programs." FACULTY APPOINTMENTS Currently Ms. Holland is redesigning the placement offices to allow more space for students to drop in and discuss life beyond St. Johns, while at the same time reserving an enclave of privacy for individual counseling. In addition to her work at the college, Ms. Holland co-chaired the Annapolis Chorale's Celebration of Christmas benefit concert from 1989-1991, which raised $20,000 each for the Chorale and the Anne Arundel Medical Center. (In 1973 she co-founded the Annapolis Chorale, a community chorus of 120 voices.) She is the founder and president of Swaddlings, Inc., Annapolis, MD., a non-profit organization which collected and distributed used baby clothes and equipment to needy families. During the 1960s, Ms. Holland was an editor for the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, and was an associate director of "Newsroom," WET A, Channel 26 in Washington. Roberta Rusch, who was manager of the college book store at Annapolis from 1984-1988, has returned to her former position. "It's deja vu," she said recently as she settled in among the familiar volumes on a sultry summer day. Ms. Rusch's plans include a column she would like to write for The Gadfly, keeping the college appraised of new lectures and translations of important works available. Ms. Rusch was co-director of athletics at St. John's from 1986-1987. St. John's students and tutors study Eastern classics in Japan by Daniel Flaumenhaft, SF'95 Nine St. John's students and two tutors spent four weeks of summer vacation studying Japanese literary classics and language at Shimotsuke Gakuen University in Kanuma, Japan, the site of the Asian Studies Consortium's Japanese studies programs. The program offered four classes: a seminar, two reading groups (preceptorials), and Japanese Language. The seminars and reading groups were led by Annapolis tutor George Doskow and his wife Minna Doskow, an English professor and former dean at Glassboro State University in New Jersey, and the language instructor was Victor Hawks, of Shimotsuke Gakuen. The seminar discussed diaries of the Heian Court, classical Japanese poetry, and selections from the Lotus Sutra, while the preceptorials concentrated on The Tale of Genji and on modern fiction. All the students took the seminar and a preceptorial, and six took the language course. Students lived in universityowned apatments within walking pages distance of downtown Kanuma, as well as the railway station, and traveled to the university's academic complex outside town by bus. Many students participated in a homestay program or traveled to other parts of Japan on weekends. In addition to being the site of classes, Kanuma, a town of 90,000 located about 60 miles north of Tokyo, provided a base for excursions to Tokyo, Yokohama, and to the mountains and temples of Nikko. The Global Group, an association of local women dedicated to making foreigners feel at home in Japan, organized numerous other activities, including the homestays, but also ranging from a tea ceremony to an azalea festival. The nine students who participated in the program were Heather Calvert (A '96), Paul Frank (SF' 82), Viola Herzberg (SF GI), Gene Handy (SF GI), Andrew Hertzoff (A '93), Christopher Kurfess (A '95), Matt Pryatel (SF '96), and Cathleen Roony ·(A '94). The College expects to offer the same program, with minor curricular changes, next summer. II J Leesa Warren Leesa Warren, an employee of St. John's for 12 years, has been named to a new position of systems administrator on the Annapolis campus, while Christopher D. Denny, A'93, will assume her former position as advancement systems manager. Ms. Warren will oversee the conversion of the college's current overloaded computer system to a new streamlined operation which will link campus offices, eliminating duplicate efforts. Among its features are electronic mail, shared data bases, and desktop publishing. Ms. Warren has held several jobs at the college including advancement records systems manager, assistant for records, and mailing coordinator. Her responsibilities include not only the technical functions of running the computer system, but also coordination of training, upgrading of software programs and assistance to all offices as computer problems occur. Mr. Denny, a computer buff for nearly a decade, will coordinate and upgrade the dozen computer terminals in the advancement office (adding Wordperfect 4 windows, among other features), allowing the department to operate with more efficiency and ease. "My goal is to make the transition before the end of the year financial rush, without skipping a beat," he says. The Advancement Computer Office works closely with the Alumni Office, tracking donors, recording gifts, generating financial reports, and updating mailing lists for art gallery and the Continuing Education/Fine Arts program. Among his various undergraduate jobs, Mr. Denny was a messenger for a law firm in Santa Fe; a member of an Ohio accounting department; and a trail worker for the Maryland Conservation Corps in Garrett County State Forest, Maryland. Naming astronomy and mathematics among his interests, he has recently added the works of Indian, Chinese and Egyptian authors to his reading menu which includes classic literature. Marcia Baldwin has recently begun working as typesetter at the college print shop. She replaces Tina Davidson, who leaves St. John's after 13 years of service, to pursue independent projects. A recent graduate of Baltimore College, Marcia earned an undergraduate degree in English with several courses in graphic arts. For the past five years, she has designed, laid out, and typeset many of the projects for Al Baldwin Trophies, her family's business in Annapolis. Marcia who had several job offers in her field, including teaching at her alma mater, is thrilled she selected St. John's. "The work is what I want to do, creative, fun, and I get a lot of satisfaction when someone says they like the way a piece has turned out, and I know I had a lot to do with it." appointed· Barry E. Goldfarb and Julie A. Reahard will 'join the Santa Fe· faculty this fall. Mr. Goldfarb, most recently an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, has received a regular, firstyear tutor appointment. Ms. Reahard, a manuscripts librarian at the University of Pennsylvania, has received a oneyear, visiting tutor appointment. Mr. Goldfarb received a Ph.D. in classics from Johns Hopkins University in 1985 with a dissertation on "Plato's Gorgias and the Drama of the Philosophical Life." He received an M.A. in classics at the University of Cincinnati, an M. A in social sciences at the University of Chicago and a B.A. in English from Yale University. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of .Southern California and Loyola College in Baltimore. 'Tm looking forward eagerly to joining such an exciting and stimulating community where, we might say, learning is our business, our only business." Ms. Reahard received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Colorado in 1991. Her dissertation was "From an Unknown Center to an Unknowable Boundary: Chaos Theory, Hermeneutics and Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften. "She received her M. A in English literature from the University of Nevada and a B.A. in English literature from Michigan State University. She has been an instructor in the department of English, University of Colorado, a teaching fellow at the University of Nevada and a manuscripts processor /librarian with the University of Pennsylvania Van Pelt Library and the Quaker Collection at Haverford College Library. �September 1993 The Reporter page6 I "One Man's Meter" is the title of Annapolis Tutor Elliott Zuckerman's lecture set for 8:15 p.m. Friday, October 1,1993 in the FSK Auditorium, the first of a series of signal events scheduled for the Annapolis Homecoming Weekend October 1-3. Mr. Zuckerman's public lecture will be drawn from his work as occupant of the NEH-funded chair on Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Thought. An accomplished pianist whose witty and engaging yearly lecture-recitals on Chopin at the college had a devoted following, Mr. Zuckerman has also lectured widely on other composers, especially Wagner, on whom he wrote a book, The First Hundred Years of Wagner's Tristam. A key event in the weekend will be the memoral service for James Tolbert, esteemed tutor and director of admissions at the college, until his retirement in 1979. He died July 28. (See obituary in this issue.) At the Homecoming Banquet Saturday night in Randall Hall, two men will receive the college's highest honors: tutor emeritus and former dean at Annapolis, Edward Sparrow, will be awarded honorary membership in the Alumni Association, while Peter Davies, A '48, will receive the association's highest honor, the Award of Merit. Mr. Sparrow, who joined the faculty in Annapolis in 1957, retired at the end of 1992. He served the Annapolis campus as dean from 1977-1982. For two years from 1964-66, he was acting director of the integrated liberal arts curriculum at St. Mary's College in California. Born in Paris, Mr. Sparrow was graduated from Harvard University in 1951 and received a degree from Harvard law school in 1954. He also holds a master's degree in education from Columbia University. After a lifetime spent in managing relief and humanitarian programs, Mr. Davies retired last spring from a position-held since 1984-as president and CEO of InterAction: the American Council for Voluntary International Action. The group is an association of private international voluntary organizations engaged in relief development, refugee assistance, public policy, environment and population control efforts. From 1976-1984, Mr. Davies was president of Meals for Millions, Freedom from Hunger Foundation. Earlier, he held executive positions for the International Planned Parenthood Federation and for AID missions to Brazil, India and Thailand. A highlight of the annual Alumni Association meeting at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Conversation Room will be a tribute to the late Dr. Richard D. Weigle, president of the college for 31 years from 1949 to 1980. At that meeting, both president Christopher Nelson and Dean Eva Brann will give their annual reports to the association. A runaway hit of last year's reunion was the reprise of Freshman Chorus under the baton of Mr. Zuckerman, an event dreamed up by the reunion committee for the class of 1967. This year, all those who once were freshmen are invited by the 25th reunion committee of the Class of 1968 to the Great Hall to join voice. This time under the baton of tutor Michael Littleton, at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday. Other events planned by the class of 1968 will be a Friday night reception at the home of Brother Robert Smith with a no-host dinner afterwards. On Saturday a luncheon and seminar on Don Quixote Part II will be held at the home of Dorcey Rose. The first ever Homecoming Waltz Party has been arranged by the class of 1983 for Saturday evening in the Great Hall. That class also plans a coffee shop party on Friday night, and a family pimic Saturday noon, in addition to seminars OI\ "The Symposium." Gatherings in the Private Dining Room are planned for returning 50th and 40th reunion alumni. The class of 1943 will have dinner there at 6:30 p.m. Friday, and the class of 1953 will meet there for lunch at noon on Saturday. They also meet for lunch Saturday in McDowell Hall. Special luncheons in McDowell are also planned for Saturday by the classes of 1958 and 1973. The class of 1978, meeting for its 15th reunion, will hold a family picnic on the back campus Saturday noon, followed by a seminar at 2 p.m. led by tutors Wendy Allanbrook and Sam Kutler on selections from Scott Buchanan. Those alumni without class reunion lunches are cordially invited to the noon buffet luncheon in the dining hall. Four seminars are planned for 2 p.m. in McDowell Hall: Oedipus at Colon us, led by tutor Michael Littleton; Plato's Phaedo. tutor to be announced; Thomas Aquinas' Treatise on Law, led by Dean Eva Brann; and a seminar on Martin Heidegger, led by tutor Howard Zeiderman. Graduate Institute alumni will hold an after-seminar reception in the coffee shop at 4 p.m. Besides the Saturday luncheon and banquet at 7:30 p.m., general events for all alumni include the informal dinner with students Friday night at 5:30 p.m., the after-lecture wine and cheese reception in the Chase Stone common room, the no-host cocktail party in the FSK Lobby at 6 p.m. Saturday, and the postbanquet classic rock party in the Boat House with Robert George, A'85, as D. J. The brunch at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at the President's house, 212 Norwood Rd., concludes the weekend activities. Registration in the FSK lobby will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Elliott Zuckerman Tw visitin scholars at Anna olis "Visualizing the Infinitesimal," will be the title of a lecture Friday, Nov. 5, in the FSK Auditorium at Annapolis, by Prof. Barry Mazur, distinguished Harvard mathematician. Along with his wife, writer and fiction editor Gretchen Mazur, Prof. Mazur is a guest under auspices of the Andrew Steiner Visiting Scholar Program, established last year. Prof. Mazur was invited to lecture on "a very advanced mathematical topic made intelligible to everybody," and his Friday lecture is expected to be accessible to a wide audience. Besides the lecture, both of the Mazurs will offer seminars and workshops for faculty and students over several days. Prof. Mazur will meet with a calculus study group Friday and will lead a seminar on Oresme's "Growth of Forms" Saturday. Mrs. Mazur, associate fiction editor -for the Harvard Review, will offer a workshop Saturday afternoon for students wishing to become published writers. The weekend will conclude with a Sunday bmnch reception for all students wanting to talk with either of the visiting scholars. An internationally known mathematician, Prof. Mazur has been on the Harvard faculty for nearly 25 years, also doing mathematical research over these same years at the Institut des Hautes Eludes Scientifiques in Paris. These are his own words about his meteroic progression through under- graduate and graduate schools: "My only degree is a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University. I spent two years as an undergraduate at MIT, one year in Princeton graduate school, and a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton where I met and became friends with Eva Brann. I then spent three years as a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows of Harvard University, and have remained at Harvard ever since." Mrs. Mazur's career has spanned science, art and literature. She received her B.A. and Ph.D. in cellular and developmental biology from Harvard, and was a Harvard post doctoral research associate for five years. She continued her research at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and at Kyushu University in Japan. Mrs. Mazur also studied painting and ceramics for three years at the Boston Museum School. Recently she received an MFA in creative writing at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. The visiting scholar program was established by the family and friends of Andrew Steiner, A '63, who died in 1991 in an automobile accident. More tI:ian $150,000 have been contributed to the memorial, established to bring to the Annapolis campus distinguished visitors in "disparate disciplines." The 1992-93 visiting scholars were Oxford University classicist Jasper Griffin and University of California Biblical scholar Robert Alter. �The Reporter September 1993 page7 LE To the Editor: In the midst of a busy life I confess to having paid scant attention to St. John's in recent years. In addition to earning a living, I'm president of our Unitarian Universalist church; I'm vice chair of our county Democratic committee, and will probably run for public office again; and I work at the county level in 4-H as well as helping our daughter raise sheep and rabbits and learn many other skills. So, I have comfortably assumed that of course St. John's is running along as usual. Maybe St. John's is. But I am outraged and shocked and angered to learn that the Board voted not to adopt an amendment banning discrimination against homosexuals. That is not the St. John's I thought I was supporting all these years. I am certainly willing to read the text of the discussions about this amendment. I will say, however, that I cannot think of any consideration that outweighs the basic civil rights of a significant portion of our population. Shall we next consider whether it's acceptable to discriminate against lefthanded people? Red-haired people? How about people older than 65? I will read the text, but only a very, very strong argument could begin to justify such a vote. This vote takes the side of prejudice, smallmindedness, intolerance, and cowardice. Relevance? I remember when our college took a stand against the Vietnam war. Our resolution changed nothing. 'i'e\ it did matter. Taking a stand in support of individual freedom and freedom of speech always matters. Homosexuals are human beings, as gifted and as flawed as any other section of humanity. No one chooses to be homosexual or heterosexual. If people did choose, their choice should not make them subject to abuse and discrimination any more than their choice of religion should. Freedom to choose one's associates for whatever reason, sexual or otherwise, is basic to this country. My sexual orientation is no one's business; my lesbian and gay friends deserve the same courtesy. I will point out that I am much more likely to suffer sexual harassment from heterosexual men with a misplaced "sense of humor" than I am to suffer it from lesbian associates or co-workers. I feel dreadfully let down. I feel hurt and angry and appalled. Our church supports gay and lesbian rights. Our county Democratic Committee supports gay and lesbian rights. I am thoroughly ashamed that my college does not support gay and lesbian rights. Over the years, I've tried to support St. John's as much as I could, given a meager income; in recent years, I've found it hard to send any money at alL I've also tried to steer students toward St. John's and to be available to speak to counselors and students, although here in Maine not many students go on to college. I have believed in the worth of my education. My withdrawing of my financial and verbal support for St. John's College probably doesn't mean much to the college, since I haven't been able to give a whole lot. But, for what it's worth, that's what I'm doing. Until St. John's College passes a formal resolution, amendment, or whatever statement seems most appropriate, in support of civil rights for people of all sexual orientations, I will not send money or support the college in anyway. With deep regrets, Sally R. Bell SF'74. "Homilia" writing and seminar workshops and overnight excursions into the country/' Susan said. The overall effect was to prepare students for what was to come when their education proper started, and to make them aware of what the school and the people there could offer. Susan began discussing the idea of such a program at St. John's with faculty, students and with the admissions counselors and the assistant dean, and in the fall of 1991 [homilia] was born. "We wanted to explore the fact that so many diverse kinds of people all gravitated to the same school. We wanted to find out why so many different people came to the same place and how people could benefit from their differences in a context that everyone shared." This year the orientation will begin when freshmen arrive on campus on Sunday, August 22. Freshmen will have a couple of days to move into their dorms and to get settled. Then it's off to the countryside! As in previous years, freshmen will have a choice of several two-day excursions. Choices include trips to Lake Heron, a large man-made lake in Northern New Mexico; Brush Ranch in the Pecos Mountains; and for those with extensive camping experience, an alpine hike to Nambe Lake at an elevation of over 10,000 feet. "It's amazing how close a group can become after trudging around in the mud and rain for a few hours," said Mary Ann Modzelewski, an admissions counselor and director of this year's [homilia]. Also scheduled is a camping trip to 1 Welcomes Santa Fe Freshmen by Darien Large From a half-day trip to Bandelier to an all-campus picnic involving students, faculty and staff- pretty good progress for a Freshman Orientation Program that didn't even exist four years ago. The official name of the orientation program is (pronounced "homilia") - a Greek word meaning "a gathering, a being together, a communion". Homilia is designed to bring Freshmen together as a class-to show the benefits of caring for one another and of being a part of a community, before being plunged into the New Program's rigorous academic demands. When Susan Svetich (SF '93) came to St. John's in 1989, there was no orientation program at all. "We had a half-day trip to Bandelier National Monument and an ice-cream social with our parents/ Susan said. Freshmen were plunged into the program with little idea of what to expect and no formal introduction to their fellow students. Since Susan worked in the Admissions Office as a student aide that year, she decided to talk up the idea of a formal freshman orientation program in which freshmen could get acquainted with one another and with their R.A. 's, their future tutors, and their upperclassmen. "The previous school I attended had a five-day orientation that included Abiquiu for freshmen interested in the visual arts. Students will participate in various art projects, following in the footsteps of Georgia O'Keefe who drew inspiration from the area in her own art. And finally, a Community Service trip is planned. Students will help restore San Rafael Church in La Cueva, New Mexico-one of the only Gothic adobe churches in the state! An extensive community service network exists in northern New Mexico to assist in these kinds of projects, and St. John's is an active participant in the New Mexico Community Foundation. For many towns in New Mexico the church is the hub around which community life revolves. All trips will include some form of camping; however, the trips have been designed to provide a range of difficulty for students with differing abilities and interests. Referring to the orientation programs of previous years, Susan remarked, "Everyone was excited about being a part of a learning community from the outset, but really, it takes almost four years to really understand what that means." The orientation program brings freshmen together with others to get them excited about being a part of the community and to glimpse some of the unique possibilities open to them here. That's why upperclassmen and faculty members alike are involved in the orientation. There will even be faculty members leading some of the overnight trips. Upperclassmen here have a great deal more to offer the underclassmen than at many other schools, but there is an inherent division between freshmen and the rest of the students. "We're trying to erase that division as much as possible because the mutual benefits are a vital part of campus life. And all it takes is a hello," Susan said. Since the curriculum is all-required, freshmen and upperclassmen have a common basis for discussion. During the excursions, freshmen will periodically separate into small groups of six or seven, each directed by an orientation leader. Mini-seminars will be conducted as warm-ups for the real thing. As welt orientation groups will discuss such issues as campus safety; the effects of peer pressure, positive and negative; the campus alcohol policy; and just what it's like to be a Johnnie. For freshmen anywhere, the move to college can be scary. Coming to a place like St. John's can be doubly so. The burden of education is shared with students almost equally as with tutors the importance of community cannot be overstated, and individual responsibility is vital. "What we're trying to do is to ease the transition into a closeknit campus," Mary Ann said. Since the campus is so small, each person makes a difference to the health of the school in all its aspects. One person can make a difference between a sense · of openness and trust on one hand, and suspicion and unease on the other. "During my senior dinner in May we all read a list of the students we started school with here as freshmen. I didn't know half of the names people were reciting," Susan said. Part of the goal of the orientation is to make certain people already were acquainted with some of the other members of the campus with whom they would be sharing their stay at St. John's, the people they would be living with and learning with. In addition to easing the transition to life at St. John's, freshmen and their orientation leaders (most of whom are also Resident Assistants in the dormitories, but some of whom are faculty or staff members) will discuss being a part of Santa Fe itself. Living more or less on one's own in any town carries with it its own burdens, dangers and opportunities. Citizenship is a much-discussed concept at St. John's and it is hoped that some of the results of those discussions can be applied to life in the real world. Finally, orientation week will conclude with dinner at the homes of faculty members and an all-campus picnic on Saturday, August 28. Susan stresses the importance of the fact that [homilia] was student-organized, and believes that it must remain to run cooperatively between the administration and 'the students themselves. "It makes so much difference to have students welcoming students here, rather than a purely institutional welcome. Freshmen need to know that the other students are genuinely glad to have them here." Students have continued to be the primary source of energy for the success of the program. So many students have worked to hard to make this a success. It wouldn't be possible without them." Annapolis Dean Eva Brann and President Christopher Nelson admire a framed photographic portrait of an old friend, the late Bob Neidorf, dean at Santa Fe from 1973 -1977 and 1982 -1986, which now hangs in Mellon Hall. Keith Harvey photo 1 �September 1993 The Reporter page8 THE GREAT BICYCLE ODYSSEY Above-In the wee hours before dawn a handful of dedicated supporters gathered in front of the Santa Fe campus to say bon voyage to Team B.!.S.H.O.P. The team hit the long road just before first light. Top right-Jeff Morgan unloading his bike. Annapolis Dean Eva Brann looks on. Right-Bikers depart Santa Fe just before dawn. Far right-Chris Nelson prepares to depart on the 2,300 mile bicycle odyssey. Lesli Allison photos Christopher Nelson Above-Jeffrey Morgan with M;i;irch Bishop, 7 Right- The support team: Joyce Olin, left, and Susan Bishop Keith Harvey photos Jeff Bishop �The Reporter September 1993 Johnnies learn A L UM NU S· of by Daniel Flaumenhaft, SF'95 St. John's students have always read Homer, but this summer a group of eight Annapolis students and residents built their own "hollow ship" in the student wood shop, next to the heating plant. Under the direction of master boatwright Clark Poston, the eight students built a wherry, a narrowhulled 16 1/2 foot rowboat. The wherry, which seats two people, was first built in Eliot, Maine, and used for transportation on the swift-flowing Piscataqua River, which forms the border with New Hampshire. When such boats were first built in the 1850s, all work was done by hand, and although this class did use some power tools, the wherry's curved shape keeps most methods traditional. From a table of measurements, the students drew their own patterns, built a skeleton, and riveted steam-bent, overlapping planks to the frame, in what is known as lap-strake construction. Although Franz Plunder, a sculptor, wood-worker and artist-in-residence, built a number of boats with students in the 1940s, this tradition had long since lapsed, and Mr. Poston, who learned the art of boatbuilding at Massachusetts' Mystic Seaport Museum, views his as "a pioneer class." He expects to continue to offer classes at the college, and this fall he plans to teach a specialized class in lofting, or transferring tables of dimensions into patterns drawn on sheets of plywood. The boat was launched on August 18 at a ceremony at the Magothy River home of Peter Pelham, who subsequently bought it. The proceeds support the college's boating program. Fred Haller, A'92, an admissions counselor at the college, says he learned many things that would have helped him during his four years working in the college boathouse. Fortunately, his successor there, Peter Rispin, A'96, is also taking the class. Mario Bertoncini, a high school auto mechanics teacher from New York who retired to Annapolis, says he has always wanted to learn boat building. He is "amazed," he says, "that, this being a nautical town ... this is the first course [in boat building] that's shown up here." He learned about the class from an ad in the newspaper and plans to take the lofting course as well. Before, he had never been on the campus. Mr. Haller and Mr. Bertoncini agree that the class, which included two Johnnies and six other students, helps to bring area residents together with the college. Several people who previously knew little or nothing about St. John's are now interested in learning more, according to Mr. Haller, who adds that, although some had questioned the appropriateness of such a class, he thinks that it is "one of the best uses that the student wood shop can have, because it is a teaching environment." Right-Boatwright Clark Poston, left, assists student George peterson, right, while Harold Young looks on, in the Piscataqua River wherry boat-building class. Bob Gilbert for The Caoital Far right-Boatwright Clark Poston assists his students while Harold Young, left, and George Peterson, right, look on. Bob Gilbert photos for The Capital page9 PROFILE v by Darien Large What happens to an alumnus whose Senior Essay was entitled Holistic Tonality. an Attempt to Expand Musical Possibilities in the Face of the Third Millennium? Peter McClard, SF '83, lives in New York City. "I have a great day job at a pharmaceutical advertising company," Peter said. "We work on Macintosh Quadra workstations and get to jam to any music we want." But the rest of his time is spent developing and marketing three computer projects of his own. "Hyperchord is is a combination of a computerized musical instrument, and a musical composfrion in its own right," Peter said. "It's sort of composing music through the back door. What I do is give Hyperchord a a set of parameters, most of them graphically based, and it lays down the basis of a more user-created piece of music." As an example, Peter drew a scale on the screen of his computer. "It's just an X, Y graph so far," Peter said. "Then I determine whether it's ascending or descending, what mode it will represent and what scale it will use." First Peter played it as a pentatonic (five-tone) rising scale, then changed it instantly to a twelve-tone descending. "There're lots of other parameters that can be manipulated-rhythm, counterpoints of all the varying types, certain kinds of harmonic shifts, you name it," Peter said. "It works well as a solo instrument, but I find it really comes into its own as a part of a duet. One person inputs musical phrases from a synthesizer keyboard; another pays attention to what the computer is doing and manipulates the output. "There is some similarity to Robert Fripp's music and Frippertronics, but this is more versatile because it can be manipulated real-time. That's why Hyperchord really is a musical instrument unto itself." So far, Peter said he has had modest success in marketing Hyperchord, through his company Holoqramophone, as a software application for the microcomputer market. But he also likes to use it in performances himself. "We do what I call Improvised Symphonies," Peter said. "We play Hyperchord with a keyboard, and usually me on guitar. You get a very large, dense symphonic texture. It's very beautiful, and each performance is different." In 1986 or 1987 (he doesn't remember which), Peter moved to New York City where his brother Michael lives, and soon after began developing his software-music tools. In addition to Hyperchord, Peter has another musical project known as Pixound. "Pixound was developed over the course of four years on an Amiga computer with another computer programmer/ musician here in New York," Peter said. "Basically what it does is to translate visual images into music, again according to user-defined parameters." Pixound can take as input any visual image, from a scanned photograph to a fractal object to an animated video dip. Peter played the Mona Lisa's smile over the telephone (it was beautiful). "There was a woman at Tulane who gave a performance, using Pixound, as part of her doctoral thesis," Peter said. "Sylvia Pengele translated a portion of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion into a visual mandala and then played the mandala a bit at a time." Finally, there is the project that Peter said he is most proud of, a computer I fine arts project that is a collaborative effort between himself and his brother Michael. Its working title is DNA. "DNA uses genetic algorithms to produce variations on a theme of the human face," Peter said. (Genetic algorithms, computerized mathematical formulas that can modify themselves according to very simple laws of "natural selection".) Each element that goes into the computer's drawing of a face is quantified and then randomized within certain preset limits. "For example, I could say, 'Draw a series of faces all within the same family,'" Peter said. " Or, 'Draw a series of faces who appear to be predominantly male and old and hungry.' Or, 'Draw a series of faces in the Cubist style, or painted with this kind of brushstroke'." "DNA was presented in June of '92 at an exhibit called 'The Face Discovered-Uncovered'," Peter said. It was sponsored by the Cartier Foundation of Contemporary Arts and was held at Versailles, France. The five-month exhibit included representative works of such artists as Picasso; and beside th,em all, Peter and Michael's DNA. / "It was fun. We met with the curator of the Pompidou Center there. But what we really need is a big gallery show in New York." Peter and Michael envision individual, unique instantiations of the DNA program, in which the parameters will be burned into a permanent computer circuit and run on solar energy: "It will have a flatpanel display that can be hung on the wall, like a painting," he said. "It will just continue to produce different faces forever, or until the chip burns out. "The art would lie in the parameters that are determined before the unit is created," Peter said. "Each one will be different. I estimate that DNA has drawn about 1,000,000 human faces so far. That's just a small subset of all possible human faces; an insignificant one, really. But I challenge any artist to meet that output." Does Peter like living in New York? "It tires me out. I have a great job, but I get up early in the morning and work on my own projects, then come home at night and work on them some more. Sometimes they're like raging bulls you have to grab by the tail," Peter said. Peter doesn't consider himself a "success" as such. "I think success is an ongoing process," he said. "It has to do with physical health and mental well-being. I'd like material success if it will allow me to keep doing what I love to do; and if that really does happen. someday, then I'll be truly envious of myself." Peter still plays the guitar, solo and with a Hyperchord accompaniment. In fact, Peter was spotted during this summer's Homecoming '93 on the Santa Fe campus, jamming with Carey Stickney and his Pine Tones. "I love St. John's. Some people didn't want to come up to the campus because they thought it had changed so much, or they had bad experiences while they were here. But it opened my mind up to new ideas forever." �The Reporter page 10 San ta Fe Reunion September 1993 C las s 0 f '73 on education and/ or children. Michael Aaron: After five years in Germany, Michael received an MA in German, married, had two sons, migrated to Australia, and works as a payment systems specialist in computerized banking. He still practices Chinese martial arts. Barbara Barbara is married and has two children. Her fourth novel is being published this month (A Heartbeat Away, Wm Morrow & Co.), even as she begins work on yet another. (And they said Johnnies could only talk, and not write.) She is currently living on Long Island, raising two young sons and "an Airedale Terrorist." Galen Breningstall: Galen married Jena Morris and they have five children. After teaching at SJC he received his MD in pediatric neurology, and since 1987 has been practicing medicine in Minneapolis, where he continues to be also occupied with Jewish learning and observance. Bill Blount: Now living in New Orleans and working as a geologist with his wife and daughter, Bill describes his early experience post-SJC as: "after St. John's I was a Navajo medicine man's apprentice, sheep herder, carpenter, waiter and forest fire fighter." Kit Callender: Kit has finished medical school at UMN and is doing her residency in California. Richard Cohen: Richard, a journalist, credits Gary Moody with his profession for it was Gary who introduced him to the blues and it was writing on that that got Richard started as a journalist. Currently, however, he is writing about food and health care, but especially about pizza. He is married with a six year old son and two step sons. Peggy Creighton: Peggy is a (just recently) tenured professor of American History at Bates College in Maine. Married to a physician, she is also the mother of three children. Larry Dutton: Like many Johnnies, Larry is in computers and is living in the Los Angeles area. He pursues Buddhism actively and seriously. Steve Goldman: After a year of working and a year in Germany at the Goethe Institute (with Aaron) Steve finished a degree in Philosophy at Claremont. He is currently Dean and professor of philosophy at West Coast University in Los Angeles. He continues to write and is working on relativism. Members of the class of 1973 at the Reunion Fiesta picnic Robert McClees photo anything about "quasoid-physics" or whatever it was he was working on. he is now finishing up when he begins an internship this summer in Florida. Bob Bob is currently a lawyer with West Texas Legal Services in Wichita Falls, making himself popular with the city by suing them from time to time. He is the father of two daughters. Maria Kwong: Maria is married to an artist and has a daughter. She is working at the Japanese Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Jeff Hockersmith: Jeff, our most outstanding connection to the counter culture in 1973, is currently owner and president of a construction and real estate consulting firm in Santa Fe. Married, he has two children and plays competitive league tennis. Mark Jordan: Mark's name appears from time to time in professional journals in connection with St. Thomas Aquinas. He has just published a translation of the articles on faith, and published an earlier book on Aquinas which grew out of his senior thesis at the college. Steve Kvaal: After leaving St. John's Steve went to Roosevelt University and the University of Minnesota. For fifteen years he taught special education/ early education, and when the inevitable burn out began his interests moved him to pursue graduate work in clinical psychology, which Deirdre Marlowe: Deirdre graduatedc from UC-Berkeley in '78, and after many jobs opened "Magic Messengers" with her husband. Her big interest is in musicals, having written two and working on another. Another gardener, she has two children. Last year she traveled to Brazil with Liz Goldwin. Erin Murphy O'Hara: Erin has spent, she notes, the "past twenty years raising five children of my own and my niece and nephew as well" Erin may well deserve fame for living in a house high above Malibu which may, seriously, have the best view of the Pacific in all southern California. Anne Ray: Anne is the mother of three children and operates a home schooler's enrichment program in Santa Fe. She frequently writes and although she notes that her book still hasn't been published, her name does show up from time to time as the author of articles Eric Since finishing seminary and graduate school Eric has been at Illinois College since 1981 as chaplain and professor of j..'ALuv,,v~,uv and religion. He has time to write, and has just finished the ms. for a fifth book He and his live in Santa Fe as time permits. He has been the coach of his oldest daughter's soccer team. Marcia Greenbaum Wake: Marcia is an architect and sculptor who married a mathematician who has now become a lawyer. Between the demands of job and children they have managed to move from Providence to Milwaukee, to Bangor and Santa Cruz. They are currently living in Maine, having graduated from a trailer to a house they have built themselves on the Presumpscot River. David Weaver: After the usual time of work after college, David took a divinity degree in England and one at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary (where he rediscovered Alex Garkavs, who is, incidentally, an Orthodox priest living .in New York). Currently David is working as an administrator for the Middle East Office of the National Council of Churches. Cheryl Wise: After leaving at the end of freshman year Cheryl adventured for a year before returning to UNM to take a degree in Philosophy and English. This, of course, led to her apprenticing as a saddle maker, a profession she pursues currently in Arizona. Dale Gorczynski, Justice of the Peace-Harris County. After his sophomore year Dale attended Rice University in Houston, Texas and later U. T.'s Public Health Center. He was elected to Houston's City Council in 1979 whereafter he was re-elected seven times before he became a Justice of the Peace. He has written a book on environmental policy and taught a class in ethics at the university of St. Thomas Graduate School of Business in Houston. He is married and has two children: John 11, and Kristen 13. George Graham: George is, as he notes, actually a member of four or five classes at SJC as he has returned several times. He is currently living about a mile behind the campus. He, however, did not say The New Mexico sunset captivates a group of alumni at the Homecoming cocktail reception Lesli Allison photo �The Reporter September 1993 II page 11 Homecoming Alumni Notes San ta Victor and Susan (Gavahan) Austin have two children, Michael, 12, and Emily, 8. Having completed his M.A. (Education) at UNM in '82 and M.Div. at the General Theological Seminary in '85, Victor is now an Episcopal priest "involved in ecumenical work, especially the Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogue and a Task Force of the National Council of Churches on Ecclesiology." Marion Billington obtained an M.A.L.D. in 1980 from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. He has come to rest as an elementary school computer teacher in Virginia, having "been a teacher in El Salvador, Turkey, Indonesia, and India." He and Julia have two children, Jason, 5, and Helena, 3. Fe Reunion public interest law. I now do water law, dividing rivers for the state." Marion Freistadt has a Ph.D. in Molecular Parasitology, from the Rockefeller University and is Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, LSD Medical Center in New Orleans. Randy Fryer is a software guru who will be starting at the College of Osteopathic Medicine this summer. He says he bicycles now, more than he runs. Francis Hartogh has a J.D. from the University of Denver, 1982, and works in Colorado as an attorney in environmental and natural resources law. She and her husband, Michael Browning, have a daughter, Kathryn, 20 months. C lass of , 7 8 Laura Maday has a Certificate with Honors, Graphic Arts Production, Albuquerque TV-I, 1988. She is an Industrial Airbrush Operator and Artist in Albuquerque. She is the illustrator of Kitchen Revolutionary-Crucial Vegetarian Foods, has had several paintings in galleries and shows, does freelance graphics for feminist, environmental, and community organizing groups, and is writing a novel about street life. Mary Jane Peers is a reluctant M.B.A. who works as a Venture Management Analyst for. Hybritech, Inc. in San Diego. Ronald Mawby and his wife, Cathy Clement, have a son, Benjamin, 9 months. He has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Clark University, and is a college teacher at Kentucky State University, Frankfort. Ellen (Smith) Pryor graduated from Rice University in 1978 and from the University of Texas Law School in 1981. She teaches at the UT Law School. She and Will have two children. Lindsay, 4, and Emily, Teresa (Engler) Raizen and Dan have two children, Nathaniel, 6, and Benjamin, 2. She has a J.D. from the University of Chicago, 1982 and lists herself as General Counsel, CKE, Inc. I Homemaker & Mother. Bradford received his Secondary Teaching Certification (Math) and completed two semesters of graduate work in Mathematics at the University of Texas, Austin. He is presently a researcher at Planergy, Inc. in Austin and is looking for a teaching position in the public school system. He and Lynn have a daughter, Anne, 9 months. 1~ Colleen and her husband, Danny Grunfeld, have a son, David, 18 months. Colleen has a J.D. from Loyola Law School and works as an attorney in LA. She loves being a mother. Steven Scott and Stacy have two children, Cameron, 4, and Caroline, 2. He lists his education as none, though he works as an attorney in London. Dave Bruney completed law school at the University of Florida in '81 and returned in '90 for two semesters of philosophy. He is now staff counsel for Nationwide Insurance in the Cainsville, FL regional office. He and Theresa have two boys, Dan, 31/2, and Paul, 6 mos. James Walton and Mindy have two girls, Emily, 7, and Madeleine, 13 months. He has a B.S. in AgriB us in es s Economics, SIU Carbondale, IL. His occupation is "remodeling/ farming." Devendra Contractor has an M.A. in Architecture and is an intern architect in Albuquerque. He is "working as Project Manager for a music facility for UC Santa Cruz." He and Donna have two children, Jaiden, 12, and Tara, 11/2. Leslie (Evenson) Couvillion is taking a year off from her education (AA at Cabrillo College in Liberal Arts), which she picked up again seriously in 1991; she is using the time off to write. A year ago, she was married to Lester Couvillion, and they have a one year old cockatiel named Gretchen. Chris Currin and his wife, Holly Hope, are in Dallas where he works as an insurance agent. Chris is a Certified Financial Planner, College for Financial Planning, Denver, CO. He recently published "Invisible Hand, Fickle Finger," Texas Observer, Aug. 23, 1991, a review of Robert Kuttner's The End of Laissez-Fiare. Robert DiSilverio is a "starving lawyer" in Emeryville, CA. Education: "Some. I read a bit of Plato once. J.D. in 1984." He observes that "life is difficult for the unvirtuous." Martha (Clark) Franks is married to Grant, and has two children, Cindy Dabney, 12 and Leonard Franks, 2. Having received a J.D. from UNM, she "worked for years as a securities lawyer doing merger and takeover work in D.C. I then escaped back to New Mexico and Ben A. and Susan Nonk Porter have two boys, Theo, 13, and_ Colin, 10. They live in Olympia,· WA, where he is an attorney and she is a part-time student and hand bookbinder. Peter Buck toasts to the class of 1978 at the Homecoming Dinner Steve Hills did graduate work in Journalism at the University of Oregon in '80 & '81 and was a Graduate Teaching Fellow in Broadcasting & Telecommunications there in '85 & '86. He was a radio "personality" and program director for 10 years at several Oregon radio stations. (Classen) and Henry celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary on March 10th. She has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and is an Energy Engineer with the Boulder County Public Works Dept. Ellen Lawrence reports that after working as an RN for several years, she is excited about returning to school in the Chicago area. She hopes old pals passing through call. Steven Mackey has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and has his own mechanical engineering firm, Kinetic Research Inc. in Suisun, CA. He and Surinder have two children, Kaura, 4, and Kimo,2. Lesli Allison photo Martha McGinnis got an M.B.A. in Finance from the U. of Kansas and is now Senior Treasury Coordinator for Colonial Pipeline Co. in Atlanta. She has a 2 1 /2 year old daughter, Amelia, and another on the way. Barbara McReynolds has two children, Madeleine Dent, 9, and Matthew Dent, 6. She has a Bachelor's in University Studies and a Master's in Community and Regional Planning, both from UNM. She is a lecturer at the , UNM School of Architecture. Frederick Neill has a B.S. in Biology from the University of California, Riverside, 1987; M.A. Biological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, 1988; and a secondary teaching certificate in science. He works as a research technician in molecular virology at Baylor College of Medicine. Larry Ostrovsky has a J.D. from Lewis & Clark and works as Asst. Director of Federal Relations, State of Alaska, in Washington D.C. Janis White has an M.A. in Mathematics, UNM, 1983, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics, UNM, 1992. She works as a statistician in Albuquerque, and says: "On my better days I think I'm not as much of a jerk as I used to be. On my worst days I think I haven't changed. I guess that means I'm an aware jerk." II �The Reporter page 12 A gathering from the class of 1983 at the Fiesta Picnic Friday night lecturer, Charles Bell The classes of 1968, 1973, 1978 and 1983 returned to Santa Fe this summer for a record-breaking "blast from the past" homecoming. The class of '68 celebrated Santa Fe's first 25th reunion. The overall attendance soared to approximately 250. Homecoming Weekend began on Friday evening with an outdoor barbecue and string band music by Santa Fe tutor Cary Stickney and friends. Charles Bell gave the Friday night lecture, presenting a piece of his "Symbolic History Through Sight and Sound." A coffee shop party, hosted by the class of '83, concluded the evening. On Saturday alumni and their families gathered for a picnic on the soccer field and, later in the day, for the annual meeting of the Alumni Association. The association gave tribute to the late Richard D. Weigle, former longtime president of the college. Speaking for the occasion were Robert Bart, Barbara Leonard and Sally Dunn. (see page 16) Excerpt from the Toast to the Class of 1983 by Leslie Kay Recently I was sitting at a conference in the French Alps defending my St. John's education to another American scientist. He said, "Well, what can you do with that education besides quote the classics?" I could have replied what Amalie's father always said, 'Tll never be bored." Or I could have paraphrased Plato and said, "The unexamined life is not worth living, and reading great books teaches one to lead this kind of life," but he would have been even less inclined to believe me. What I really said was, "Anything." Now, seeing all of you, I think I'd say again, "anything/' not so much because we've entered a whole spectrum of careers, which we have, but rather that we have become human beings, and human beings can become anything. The books and the college have helped us become human. So, I toast the books, the tutors, and the college. And us, I toast our success and our humanity. Saturday afternoon each reunion class participated in a seminar session. The class of '68 read Joseph Conrad's The Shadow Line with tutor Clarence Kramer. The class of '73 read Nora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God with tutor Don Cook. The Class of '78 read Jean Piaget's The Child's Conception of Number with tutor Robert Sachs. The class of '83 read Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" with tutor Ralph Swentzell and Robert Bunker. Graduate Institute alumni and students gathered for a reception with Nancy Buchenauer. On Saturday evening was the Homecoming Dinner /Dance and special awards ceremony. Santa Fe tutor Dean Haggard and college benefactor Charles Robinson were named honorary members of the Alumni Association. Mr Haggard's son, Ben, and Sharon Bishop, spoke on each of their behalves. An award of merit was presented to Mara Robinson, SFGI'83, by Robert Bart, for her dedication to and support of the college. Julia Takahashi, SF74, made a challenge to alumni for a Homecoming 1993 Gift to help renovate the upper commons, which President Agresto answered with a matching commitment. Toasts were given by each of the reunion classes. The wine flowed, the lights dimmed and music by chamber players from the Santa Fe Symphony brought dancers waltzing to the floor. Homecoming weekend concluded on Sunday with a brunch at the home of President John and Catherine Agresto. "It was a surprisingly womb-like experience," one alumnus wrote. "Being surrounded by warmth of good friends, the heady scent of chamisa and pinion with bellies full of green chile and sopapillas-it was a temporary suspension of real life! But amazingly, it used to be real life!" Soccer players at the Fiesta Picnic September 1993 Glenn Ballard makes a toast to the class of '68 and to Homecoming '93. New alumnus, Santa Fe tutor Dean Haggard Members of the class of 1968 enjoy the Homecoming Barbecue. Robert McC!ees and Lesli Allison photos �September 1993 The Reporter page 13 Toast to the by Glenn Ballard, SF'68 We came to Santa Fe in 1964 to be part of an old college making a new start. Planks over wet cement got us to the dorms. Everything was sparkling new-buildings, faces, the Spanish of the workmen, the high desert light. We came here in 1964 when it was still possible to support the war in Vietnam-before Buzz Gray renounced his student deferment, declared himself a conscientious objector and wound up a medic on the battlefield-before Bill .Kircher missed by one getting the three wounds that would have sent him home early. There were 80 some-odd of us from all over. Some of us had served time at other colleges. None of us had a clue about St. John's traditions. (Except perhaps Connie Weigle, and she wasn't talking!) Despite the immense talents of a faculty that included such stalwarts as Corky Kramer, Bill Darkey and Ford K. Brown, they must sometimes have felt uneasy at our combination of naivete and appetite-not unlike other generations, but without student models of propriety or pranks. Our immense hurry to grow up, the urgency lent to all affairs by the war, the absence of old halls and older studentsthat was St. John's for us. We didn't simply join in the life of the college. We forged our lives in conflict with St. John's, deeply skeptical of its commitment to the ideals of its founders, wanting passionately to believe in a higher mission than our own education. The shared experience of that time and that place binds us together. I toast the class of 1968. Above-Toni Wilkinson, SG/'87, and Richard Coblyn at the Homecoming Dinner upon the announcement of their marriage which took place over the Homecoming Weekend. New alumnus Charles Robinson (left) and Mara Robinson, SGI '83, Award of Merit recipient (right) with Alumni association president Sharon Bishop. Returning· Johnnies chart by Lesli Allison Below-A group of Summer Alumni program participants enjoy one of several activities offered throughout the two weeks, a hike on the trip to Ghost Ranch. Lesli Allison photos Above-Julia Takahashi, S'74, gives the first contribution to President Agresto for the Homecoming '93 gift. St. John's alumni got a taste of the East from their alma mater this summer as the first of two Alumni Weeks focused on great works of China, India and Japan. From the Chinese text, Journey to the West to Doctrine of the Middle Way by the Indian Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna, participants pitted their Johnnie skills against texts entirely foreign to them. The result? "It was a first shot, but it was a good first shot," said Santa Fe tutor Dean Haggard. "My impression was that there was no problem addressing the Eastern studies. The seminar was well attended and they were very active in the discussion. I always enjoy doing things with the alumni," Mr. Haggard said. "The people who come back really want to read books and talk to people. They start in from the first minute, as if they had never left the college." Many alumni have been enthusiastic about efforts by the Santa Fe campus to explore Eastern texts through the Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics. According to Mr. Haggard, the Los Angeles Alumni Chapter is in the process of setting up a five seminar sequence on Journey to the West, the same text studied for seminar during Week I of the alumni program. In evaluation forms submitted at the end of the week, virtually every participant requested continued offerings in Eastern studies. "I thought it was a delightful taste of the possibilities of Eastern studies," one alumnus wrote. "The Journey East helped to illuminate my own 'joµrney'," wrote another. "I appreciated having the opportunity to explore some difficult concepts with other Johnnies and felt that the tutors were excellent in guiding us toward greater understanding and opening up new possibilities." Week II of the alumni program centered on the romantic theme of Storms and Shipwrecks. Alumni read Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's The Tempest, Hurston's, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. "This is the first time I've really gone back to school after leaving St. John's. Now, coming back, I'm wiser and older but St. John's prevented me from being proud," said Irwin Hunt, A'50, of the experience. "It was a great feeling for me of nostalgia and, I guess, excitement to realize the St. John's College program is really going along quite well," he said. Along with Mr. Hunt, his wife Joyce also participated in the Alumni Week "I'd love to be shipwrecked at St. John's," she said. "I can't think of any better way to spend a life than in the study of great books and conversation." The Hunts said participating together as a married couple can be a "very dangerous experience." "I don't think the opportunity presents itself very often during a marriage to come out of the marriage and read a great book," Mr. Hunt said. "It's revealing. It reveals a lot about your mate, about what they think and even how they think. However, we weathered the storm and the shipwreck." This was the Hunts' first visitto the Santa Fe campus. Initially, when the campus was first proposed, Mr. Hunt said he was leery of the idea. "Back then I was against it," he said. "I thought to split the college into two parts separated by 2,000 miles would be too difficult and would water down Annapolis, but I've corrected my view. The country is beautiful, certainly different from anything we have in the east. The campus is about the right size. It's still the St. John's family. People are extraordinarily congenial and the food was good." David Krimins, A'63, and the physician for the Annapolis campus, also participated in the second Alumni Week. "It was a really good feeling," he said. "It felt like we sort of picked up where we left off." "There was a surprising degree of participation and concentration. In fact, people were overly conscious of returning to the tutor's opening question, almost too afraid of wandering." �page 14 The Reporter September 1993 ST.JOHN'S COLLEGE September 1993 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS Glenn Ballard, editor - Thomas Geyer A'68 communications committee chair What is the St. John s College community? 1 "Neither human existence nor individual liberty can be sustained for Jong outside the interdependent and overlapping communities to which all of us belong. Nor can any community long survive unless its members dedicate some of their attention, energy, and resources to shared projects." -From the preamble of the Responsive Communitarian Platform. While we are students, we have no question about the existence or nature of the St. John's College Every one of our actions and all of the actions we observe reinforce our individual interdependencies and our contributions to the communal life. As long as we are at the College, we eat and breathe its community, which is based on: *Monday and Thursday night rituals of searching and discovering together. *Late-night rendezvous with fruit flies. *Formal and informal contact with persons whom we respect and admire, even if we don't always agree with them. *Coffee Shop conversations when underlying issues are identified and occasionally resolved. *Frustration and elation of wrestling with Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Wittgenstein, ... *Intense personal relationships of love and hate that only the young can devise. *Challenges and rewards that are given and received among persons with a common goal and shared rituals. In those days, the community is not an abstraction, but an ever-present environment in which we learn and help others as they learn. Every member has unique and private feelings about this all-encompassing community, but its existence cannot be questioned. At some point in our lives, however, each of us leaves the concrete, physical realities of the College to pursue diverse goals and build fresh interdependencies with other individuals and institutions. What happens to the College community then? During our recent Chapters Workshop, the Alumni Association Board discussed this question. We sought to describe the mission of the Association as an institution that supports an extended College community. We talked in terms of a community that extends in space beyond the physical location of the campuses, extends in time beyond our intellectual awakenings, and extends in application beyond the books. In our discussions a question arose: What gives cohesion to the com- munal College entity when it transcends its origins? We believe that this larger community is based on: *Reading closely (good books, Great Books, even the New York Times). *Conversing with other Johnnies, whenever and wherever we encounter them. *Sharing information about the College with prospective students. *Participating in Alumni Association Chapter activities. *Digging into the Alumni Register to find lost friends and acquaintances. *Returning to the campuses to rekindle old friendships and discover new ones during Homecomings, Alumni Institutes, and Association Board meetings. *Contributing funds to sustain the physical plants and human resources that allow others to participate in our community. Alumni Association tribute to Richard Weigle. (/eh to right) Bill Tilles, Robert Bart, Barbara Leonard and Sally Dunn, Sharon Bishop Robert McC!ees photo *Sharing information with other members of the community who seek what we have found in our professional, personal, or technical lives. Excerpts from a tribute: *Reading the Reporter with interest to discern changes in the community and its members, whom we may or may not know. *Gossiping about other members of the community with concern or joy or empathy. *Applying the skills that we learned as members of the St. John's community to solve practical or academic problems that arise in our several communities. *Honoring persons who have made significant contributions to the richness and variety of our communal experience. *Organizing, leading, or participating in seminars with others who have not had the opportunity to participate as students in the St. John's experience. All of these activities allow us to continue to in the life of the College, the lives of individuals with whom we shared the College, and the emotional and intellectual realities that were essential to our own experiences at the College. Such participation does not merely sustain the College it's the College community. Glenda Eoyang, '76 SF Vic Ward, '87 SGI Toni Wilkinson, '87 SGI "Yes, Dick Weigle was committed to the principles upon which the St. John's program is based. He served the program and the college loyally for thirty-one years and devoted his prodigious energy, his innovative skills and his creative talents to insure that the program the two campuses would flourish and endure. He was a most remarkable man!" Barbara Leonard Ill I American education? How has it changed its student-teachers? With this issue, we continue a series of articles written by GI graduates, all career educators. "St. John's should set its sights very and strive from the beginning to produce a program that is distinctive and superior . . . " So wrote Robert Goldwin to Dick Weigle in 1966 regarding the creation of the Graduate Institute, originally called the Teacher Institute. After its initial Summer '67 offering on Politics and Society, the Institute continued its orientation to teachers. The following is from a 1968 Bulletin: "The Institute offers to members of the teaching profession-and others who are qualified-an opportunity to pursue a demanding and comprehensive course in the liberal arts... " What impact has GI had on The decades of the 1960s and 70s was a time of revolutionary change in our culture. Everything was open to question. But as my generation questioned the fundamental assumptions and presuppositions upon which our institutions were built, a r1uge internal void resulted. A vital aspect of development as persons was being overlooked; the need to consider and reflect on these assumptions and presuppositions. Our formal education had not provided us with the tools necessary to dot his kind of work. There had been an almost deliberate repression of reflective inquiry, especially by the schools. The �The Reporter September 1993 result was a continuous restlessness, the awareness of an emptiness that desperately needed to be filled. II II It was in the middle of my own period of restlessness that Martin Drew, a dear friend and respected colleague, introduced me to the St. John's experience. I call it an "experience" because we were asked not simply to "study" but to "do". The best way to study philosophy is to do it. So we were asked to "do" philosophy; to "do" history; to "do" science and mathematics. Martin had spent the summer of 1971 at the Graduate Institute in Santa and ail we heard upon his 1return were reports on his experiences, the friends he had made from around the the books, the dialogues, the tutors. Most of us viewed academic pursuits as a necessity for promotion or career advancement, nothing more. :&:>n·~1nn1 not something to get excited about. So I was his enthusiasm. I applied and attended my first session of the Graduate Institute the summer of 1972. This and the three summers that followed were a major transition point in my development as a person and a professional educator. It was not that I was nrrn1ir~orl with answers to the pressing questions we were all asking in the 60s and 70s, but more penetrating questions and a responsible way of addressing them. This changed view led Martin and me, with the cooperation and assistance of our Principal, Mr. David Bluford, who had also spent a summer at the Graduate Institute, to explore ways we might bring the process to our East Harlem, New York junior high school. We were uneasy about what we had been doing in the name of education. We realized that teachers and students alike had all come out of the same matrix of elementary and secondary education. If we had been miseducated in those earlier grades, then very likely we had come to share many misconceptions that would cause us to botch our later schooling in happy collusion with one another. Thus, the conditions of the times called for a new paradigm. A paradigm that focused on a process leading to thoughtfulness. We had the hunch that our students might profit from such a process just as we had. Was it possible to help students think more skillfully? That students thought as naturally as they talked and breathed we did not doubt. But how to get them to think well? We believed that the St. John's experience offered clues as to the direction we should go. Martin ordered the books we would use for readings. We each took a class and were astounded by the students'. willingness and desire to explore great ideas. This was the beginning of my professional commitment to philosophy for children. Dhilnc,nnl-n1 and Children are natural allies, for both begin in wonder. It was this child-like free play with ideas that so endeared me to the SL John's process. I was allowed to ask the questions I asked as a child, but this time my questions were respected. It was this that Martin, Dave and I hoped to recai;>ture in those East Harlem classrooms.', I s~rengthened my own philosophical and: educational understandings by returning to graduate school to complete a mast~rs degree in Philosophy and a Ph. D. in Philosophy of Education. The evidence drawn from our little experi- ment in East Harlem, and the years of study and observation since then have convinced me that children in pre-college classrooms welcome philosophy enthusiastically. My research and teaching since the St. John's experience has been devoted to preparing teachers to convert their classrooms into "communities of enquiry" by what students are asked to "do" at St. John's. by Paul F. Bitting, Ph. D '75 SGI North Carolina State University Raleigh, N. C. Ill I by Richard 0. Lightburn Friday, July 30, 1993. Tonight is the Annual Summer Picnic and meeting for the Chicago Chapter of the St. John's College Alumni Association. It a beautiful, clear, cool evening, and we are enjoying a pot-luck picnic at the Grant Park Music festival. There is wine, chips and salsa, salads, chicken, cheese, and fruit, brought by Alumni of both campuses and from both undergraduate and graduate programs. To the East is the lake, with sailboats, and the nearly full moon rising. To the North and West stand the towers of Chicago. Overhead we can see (and mercifully not hear) the planes heading in to O'Hare. We are listening to Mozart's Don Giovanniperformed beautifully by the Grant Park Symphony and the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists-although we sometimes hear the bells of the Encyclopedia Britannica building sounding the hours, or the traffic on Lake Shore Drive, and the horns of the excursion boats. It is a perfect metaphor for the Chicago Chapter of the Alumni Association: we are surrounded by the delights of a great city-and we meet for fellowship, for appreciation of the life of the mind and in support of the special place that is St. John's College. The Chicago Chapter is not shut away from the life of the city, but allows its intrusions and even capitalizes on its charms. Structure and finances. Chicago has had an active alumni group in one form or another for more than 15 years - we can claim Chris Nelson as a founder - and we were one of the first to receive a charter from the National Association. Like any other organization, we've had periods of intense activity and lax periods too as active members come and go. There are about 300 alumni and friends on our mailing list (we reach out not just to alumni but to parents and to friends of the College as well). In any given year we probably get about 50 alumni to participate in any one event. but there is a key core group of about i 0 very active alums who drive our activities. Our "catchment area" is fairly broad - as far north as Milwaukee (where we do get some regular attendance). Once we had alumns come to one event-a seminar on Midsummer's Night's Dream led by Gisela Berns from the Annapolis faculty, followed by a performance at the Goodman Theatre-from as far away as Wisconsin and central Indiana. page 15 Except for this summer event, the Chapter has monthly events from Septembe.r to June. In the late summer, we have a planning meeting for our Fall program, for which we solicit ideas from the members. In early December, we hold another planning meeting to work out the program for the Spring. These planning meetings are open to all members, and we take seriously the need to respect peoples interests and suggestions. The Chicago Chapter has relatively modest financial needs-mailing of announcements is handled by the Annapolis campus. Even so, we do have some financial needs-room rental, photocopy of readings, other mailings, working cash for ticket purchases, etc. To cover these needs, in the fall we send a "dues appeal." But our events are open to all, and except when there is a charge for a musical event, without charge. The Chicago nrl"Hllr10 a mix of activitiesintellectual, cultural, and social. seminars, we mix both 'program' and non-'program' readings. While we don't have an explicit formula for any year, we to include at least one reading from an eastern tradition, one "scientific" reading, one Shakespeare reading, and one musical or cultural event. The remaining seminars are balanced between literary and philosophical readings. Every year, we try to bring in two tutors from each campus to lead a seminar or read a lecture, and also to bring in one of the College officers. We typically have our seminars on Sunday afternoons. Our seminars meet downtown, in a seminar room at a school downtown. After the seminar, we usually go out to dinner at a nearpy restaurant, or to Greektown or Chinatown, continue the conversation, and to get to know each other. The Chicago Chapter has tried to take advantage of Chicago's range of activities- The Art Institute, the jazz scene, the Firmilab Accelerator, classical music, its flourishing theatre, the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, the scholars of the University of Chicago, Northwestern, DePaul and Loyola. All of these have been incorporated into our "seminar" series. We have in the past conducted "parallel preceptorials"more structured and more intensive reading sequences. We try to be more than just a "reading group" - reading groups are easily available here in Chicago, and St. John's alumni tend to have a fairly wide rang of interests, and many have no particular interest in "reading groups." Accordingly, we try to organize roughly two purely social events-a holiday party, and a picnic at one of the summer music festivals in Chicago. Support of the College. For the past several years, we have worked with the Santa Fe admissions office to hold a prospective student reception at the home of a local alumns, with chapter members attending. It is always fascinating to see the enthusiasm of the prospective students, and the delight and concern of their parents, as we explain to the one the tangible features of College life to the one group, and the real employability of the St. John's education to the other. to Please call those listed below for information about alumni activities in each area. ALBUQUERQUE: Santa Fe Alumni Director Cindy Jokela (505)982-3691 ANNAPOLIS: Jack Carr (410) 268-3968 AUSTIN: Paul Martin (512) 327-6854 BOSTON: Alvin Aronson (617) 566-6657 BUFFALO/ROCHESTER/ TORONTO: Annapolis Alumni Director Betsy Blume (4 i 0) 626-2531 CHICAGO: Rick Lightburn (312) 552-1461 or (708) 575-3956 (W) Erin Milnes (312) 271-1039 DALLAS/FORT WORTH: Suzanne D. Hustis (214) 340-8442 Jonathan Hustis (214) 340-8442 LOS ANGELES: Julia Takahashi (213) 434-7624 MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL: Glenda Eoyang (612) 783-1405 or 379-3883 (W) NEW YORK: Sylvia Hermanson (212) 463-7392 Peter Burdge Jill Silberman (212) 677-1145 PHILADELPHIA: Jim Schweidel (215) 836-7632 PORTLAND: Dale Mortimer (206) 737-7587 RICHMOND: Maya Hasegawa (804) 355-5095 SACRAMENTO: Arianne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 Helen Feeley (916) 452-1082 ST. LOUIS: Lorin Cuoco (314) 935-5576 or (314) 725-8972 (W) SAN FRANCISCO/ NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Toni Wilkinson (415) 255-2255 (415) 550-1280 (W) or SANTA FE: John Pollak (505) 983-2144 Cindy Jokela (505) 982-3691 SEATILE: Jim Doherty (206) 937-8886 D.C.: Sam Stiles (301) 424-9119 �page 16 The Reporter September 1993 ALUMNUS Julia Takahashi, SF'74 Mary Weigle tells a moving story at the Alumni Association tribute to Richar Weigle. Robert McC/ees photo From a tribute by Robert Bart: If . we on the faculty here and the students, who are fully involved in our common curriculum and in our ways of learning, owe Dick and incalculable debt of gratitude for raising up in the desert halls of learning as worthy of honor and respect as these. " Above--:-Friends at the· Homecoming Barbecue Right-Alumni explore the Tsankawi Ruins during Week I of the Alumni Program. ALUMNI REGISTER CORRECTIONS Suzanne M. Baker AN '92 4034 Beechwood Drive Atlanta, GA 30327 Holly Crampton SF '71 505 Lamar Wichita Falls, TX 76301 Leslie M. Couvillion SF '78 850 Rosedale Avenue Apt. #40 Capitola, CA 95010 Dr. Marion S. Freistadt SF'78 P. 0. Box 53175 New Orleans, LA 70153-3175 Internet address: mfreis@nomvs.lsumc.edu Mary Ellen Lawrence SF '78 620 Ashland Avenue Rivere Forest, IL 60305 (708) 771-9007 Marlene Steinberg SGI' 86 416 North Redfield Court Park Ridge, IL 60068 Margo Hobbs Thompson A '85 1527 West Farwell Avenue, #3A Chicago, IL 60626 Mr. Charles T. Westcott 452 Pinehurst Court Winter Haven, FL 33884 Julia Takahashi SF'74: building community by Lesli Allison In the mid-70s when redevelopment in the Y erba Buena area of San Francisco threatened to displace homeless and elderly people, Julia Takahashi, SF74, provided advocacy for the resident population. At the time, Ms. Takahashi was working with the Community Design Center, one of ten agencies funded by HUD to start a new concept of public service-to provide architectural and planning services to low income people and community groups who might otherwis~ be disenfranchised in planning· and . development processes. As part of the Yerba Buena project, the Community Design Center found ways to graphically represent the various development scenarios being discussed. They took the plans door to door and conducted a poll so residents could voice their input on the decisions. As a result of their efforts, the agency won a Progressive Architecture Award for innovative planning. "It was a very exciting time," she said in a recent interview. "It was the mid-70s and we were very idealistic. I learned a lot about organizing, community development and working in a pro-active way with people." Her work with the Community Design Center signalled the beginning of a professional career in architecture, environmental design and community planning. With a B. A. in environmental design and an M. A. in Urban Design, both from the University of Colorado, her endeavors have included housing projects in Los Angeles, condominiums and resorts in Colorado, design and · development for Chinatown in Los Angeles and even transportation design. Like the Yerba Buena project, much of her work has centered on addressing community needs in the development process. For example, while working for the Los Angeles Redevelopment Agency, Ms. Takahashi created a successful development plan for Chinatown. Prior to her efforts, development plans for the area had met with considerable resistance from the community. Drawing on her experience in PROFILE community planning, Ms. Takahashi took a different approach to the issue. "I ran lots of community meetings, focus groups and worked with consultants" she said. "I really felt my community development background made the difference. The community wanted someone to listen to them." According to Ms. Takahashi, her ability to work with people and communities stems in part from her experience at St. John's. "St. John's was a beginning of that," she said. "By questioning all the time and through dialogue, I learned to work toward a consensus rather than trying to push my own ideas." Today, in private practice, she serves as a consultant on a number of projects and has developed a reputation for what she terms "special needs architecture." Under this heading, she works with groups of people who have special requirements architecturally and in terms of community development. Such projects include child care and senior centers, museum design, supportive living environments, work with arts groups and community planning. A recently completed 110 unit housing project in Los Angeles represents the kind of project for which Ms. Takahashi has earned her reputation. "I worked with a group of Latinas in Los Angeles who had all come from disadvantaged backgrounds and had become successful," she said. "They wanted to do something to help the women of their community." Under a project called "New Economics for Women" the group commissioned Ms. Takahashi to create Casa Loma, a 110 unit housing facility for single parent families. Casa Loma not only provides lowcost housing, but a supportive environment with services such as child care, health nursing, job training and a senior center. While her private practice is successful and she enjoys projects she is currently involved in, Ms. Takahashi said she hopes to move to Santa Fe in the next few years. "Coming back this summer was a wonderful homecoming to the St. John's community," she said. "I realize how important that community is for me, even though I've gone off and done something different. I'm still a philosopher at heart and reading books and talking about them with people is still one of the most enjoyable things in life. It's really something special. We kind of forget that. A lot of people that came back felt the same thing. It's a rejoining of a community that we really never left. It's a very special place and people who are interested in St. John's College are self-selected, which makes it a very special community." �The Reporter September 1993 An interview with: John Van Doren by Bonna Boetig A member of the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors and the Alumni Board, John Van Doren represents associated with St. a College three generations. John arrived as a freshman at the college at the age of 15 and is an alumnus of the class of 1947. His son, Daniel, graduated in 1981, and his father, the late Mark Van Doren, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was a distinguished board member during the New Program's early era. (His late uncle, Carl Van Doren, received a Pulitzer for biography.) Reared between a book-lined old home in New York's Greenwich Village and a 150-acre farm in Cornwall, Connecticut, John grew up overhearing dinner conversations of such guests as Mortimer Adler and Scott Buchanan. Mr. Van Doren received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1952. He taught English and history at Brandeis University, Smith College, and Boston University. He is executive editor of Great Ideas Today, an annual publication of Encyclopaedia Britannica, and a member of the Institute for Philosophical Research. As one of the developers of the Paideia Proposal for education, he recommended a common course of for students beginning at about age five and continuing through high school. they have to be for a seminar tutorial discussion? My hunch is that the music program works best when it combines music and words, such as selections from Bach and operas. The lectures were once thought to be an integral part of the program, one of the inspirations of the New Program; I'm not sure that this is still the case. I have a sense that the lectures have lost the substance and urgency once had. Mortimer Adler used to lecture two-and-a-half hours on Aristotledrove everyone crazy! father would come down and speak of There used to be three or four lectures a year on the liberal arts. Now the lectures tend to be on slighter subjects that make it difficult to justify requiring everyone's time. dean, and president have been persuasive as to what they've been up to. Relations between the board and the college are amicable as far as the program goes. : Where does a St. John's College e ucation fit into education How well does it prepare students for schools, professions, and the challenges they'll meet in adult life? Is the role of the college more or less to national education today than it was 40 years ago? page 17 well its students do in graduate school. Some, indeed, do well. But others have a tough time because they don't think as graduate schools do. At St. John's we have faith in the power of the mind to work questions to find the truth. The way St. John's "unfits" you for the world, the challenges you have to overcome (after are not easy-and shouldn't be. : What is your of the eral arts in American higher education : Some students are never perfectly content in the world after St. : Everyone admires liberal education and says they want to do it, but they don't-the excuses are endless. I don't think St. John's has had much effect on other schools. The Great Books program has had an effect on other schools, so to that extent St. John's has been influential. But the Great Books are not unique to St. John's. What is unique is its delivery system with its tutorials, lectures, and seminars, Scott Buchanan's creation, that is the heart of the college. It's not likely that another bankrupted school in a backwater town would evolve into a St. John's. Yet the college is famous. People admire this college as a cloud coo coo land. They aspire to it, and maybe it has more influence than shows in traditional structures. : In your long service to the college, w at have you enjoyed most? What challenges to you see the college facing in the near future? What hopes do you have for it in the next 100 years? : How did you choose St. ege for your undergraduate education? John Van Doren, A'74 Entering St. John's College for me was easy, unlike many other students who find the path in spite of opposition from others. My father was indirectly involved in the founding of the New Program and was friends with Scott Buchanan. He was also instrumental in the creation of the Great Books program at Columbia, where he and Mortimer Adler taught together in the 1920s, so I grew up with St. John's College as a household word. But when I entered the college at 15, I was far from a sophisticated freshman. : How do you think the evolutionary changes in the college in the past decades-the admission of women, the establishment of a second campus, the beginning of a music program, the easing of attendance requirements at Friday night lectureshave affected the college program? Do you view it as an improvement? ,A: The admission of women to the college may be one of the best things that has happened to it. In fact, I know more women graduates of St. John's than men. I hire them to work for me in Chicago. The second campus created an endlessly different yet interesting spiritual variation of the program. Santa Fe is very much a western schoot although the fundamentals remain the same. In principle I always approved of the music program, although the somewhat specialized aspect of the program is harder to embrace. The question is whether there are ideas in music to talk about. Are they intellectual in a way : How has the New Program affected your life in terms of your career, interests, family? Do you-see the college's imprint on the next generation of Van Dorens? : The whole education has permeated my life-I can't imagine what my life would have been without it. All I say, do, and write is a consequence of that experience. Whatever mind I have is a creation of St. John's. For the past 20 years my job has involved the Great Books. My son is quite loyal to St. John's and my hunch is that he would be quite interested in sending a child there, so it's perfectly possible there may be more Van Dorens at the college. But that's not my business, and I may be wrong. : As a long term board member, would you evaluate the effect the board has had on the continuing experiment? A: As far as I'm aware, the board has had no effect on the program, but has influenced the administration of the college. It created a body that officials had to go to and justify their actions. The board forced the college to explain itself, and to that extent it has been strengthened. In all my years on the board, I never saw a member take a hostile position to any point a dean or tutor made, although some board members have expressed curiosity as to why certain tutors were hired. Generally, the tutors, John's to which I say they damn well shouldn't be. It might be hard for some (St. John's) students to move around in our age; I'm not sure they're ever really comfortable. The attitudes and intellectual habits that are second nature to those educated in other modern schools are in a good way alien to St. John's graduates. Some graduates may feel they're not with-it in contemporary thought, though that may be less true today than when I was a student because some (St. Johnnies) are into the modern world in a way that I don't think I was. Yet I don't have any doubt that whatever distance they feel is a reasonable price to pay for their education. : Where does a St. John's program it into education today? How well does it prepare students for graduate schools, professions, and the challenges they'll meet as adults? Is the role of the college more or less important to national education today than it was 40 years ago? Why? In today's economic climate? A: In the best sense the college is preparing students very well. There are gaps, obviously. The social sciences are not well served, but then I'm not sure they're worth serving. I suspect it might be a hard fit in the hard sciences, medicine. But the larger problem is a fundamental problem: St. John's doesn't fit into other educations. The seriousness with which ideas are discussed is hard to square with other educational standards. While St. John's students ask 'Is what is being said true?,' others simply say, 'Who said it and when did they say it?' The college can be glib about how : What I've enjoyed most have been the associations with the large number of friends of the college, or those sympathetic to it. It's given me a delight in books and belief in my ability to learn what I wanted to learn. The college always has to have a mission, the sense of purpose that it can make a difference in the world. And it creates its own energy to sustain it. The astonishing thing about the college is its vitality. Some people complain that it deals with books written by dead men, but in fact it's very much alive. Still it has to guard against falling into preciousness, a preoccupation with small things. There's a temptation for the college to retreat into itself. The college at best has always had its visions. In the 1930s and 1940s, we hoped St. John's would revolutionize American education. Still later, we imagined the college to be a political force, providing a means of discussion of the post-war world. My vision of the foreseeable future is that it's important for the college to be there. We must provide an example that the world would be poorer without. Fortunately, the college is intellectually secure. But it is more and more at odds with what the world thinks the mind can and ought to be doing. I think the world is wrong, but of course you have to be careful when you say that-when you believe that-lest the world lose interest in you. And we must never cease to be interested in the world, and to care about it, and to learn from it ourselves. We may learn the . wrong things. At the moment the program is heavy with Heget as once it probably made too much of Aquinas. But fashions change, and if the college doesn't stop thinking, it can always right itself. So far it has never stopped thinking. �page 18 The Reporter September 1993 by Nancy Osius Sandy Sawyer is talking about the Graduate Institute program in Annapolis where she is spending her third summer. "We call it reading camp," says this master's degree candidate, physical education teacher, and coach at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D. C. The three other Graduate Institute students at the table laugh appreciatively. All are teachers who have taught at Sidwell Friends between two and seven years: a 20-year teaching veteran of the DC public schools, Santha Farah has been at Sidwell for three years teaching fifth and seventh grade science; Ericka Berry teaches upper school Spanish and English literature; and Liz Hirsch, 10th grade English literature. For the master of arts in liberal arts degree at St. John's, all must complete four out of the five study segments which make up the program: Literature, Politics and Society, Philosophy and Theology, Mathematics and Natural Science, and History. Like the undergraduate program, the Graduate Institute program is based primarily on close reading and discussion of seminal works of the Wa>stern tradition. When the Graduate Institute was established in Santa Fe in 1967 and in Annapolis in 1977, with classes offered only in the summer, the program was aimed primarily at teachers. Nowadays classes are offered fall and spring as well, and students may be active or retired military men and women, lawyers or law students, waitresses and artists, but about half continue to be teachers. The four Sidwell Friends teachers are part of a happy continuing alliance between the Graduate Institute on both campuses and the esteemed Quaker independent school, which counts among its 1000 students the children of thoughtful and sometimes ambitious and powerful Washington parents, including the daughter of the sitting U.S. President and his wife. Described by the teachers as not luxurious in any way-"utilitarian," says one-the Sidwell Friends School, which offers pre-kindergarten to 12th grade, prides itself on a challenging curriculum for a student body culturally, racially and economically diverse. Its students are likely to be very able, with the widest range of college choices. Making this link possible between St. John's and Sidwell Friends is the Stillwater Foundation, established and managed by the Matthews family of Austin, Texas, which mostly underwrites art and education projects and has paid for GI studies for the Sidwell teachers since 1985. At the rate of one a year at either campus, there have been 10 teachers in all. Besides tuition and living costs, the foundation provides each grant holder with a $4,000 stipend-a critical provision for teachers who might otherwise need to supplement their salaries by summer jobs. For the first time this summer, all four Sidwell teachers in different stages of study were to be found on the Annapolis· campus at one time. Jill Wilkinson, a member of the St. Above-Robert D. Williams, right, middle school principal at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, came to Annapolis in August to see two of his teachers receive their masters' degrees at the GI Commencement ceremony: Ericka Berry, second from left, and Santha Farah, third from left. Sandy Sawyer, left, expects to receive her degree next summer. Missing is Lisa Hirsch, who has completed her first year of the program. The Stillwater Foundation of Austin, Texas, sponsors Graduate Keith Harvey photo Institute study for four Sidwell teachers evel)I summer. John's Board of Visitors and Governors since 1981 and the daughter of the founders of the Stillwater Foundation, arranged for foundation support. Her son, Dennis, attended Sidwell-"a fabulous school!" she says-through third grade, before the Wilkinsons moved back from Bethesda to Texas. But it was primarily to bring the St. John's program to the secondary school, she says, that she set up the grants. (At the same time, she set up grants for teachers from St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, which Jill herself attended.) Spurred by a healthy respect for Sidwell Friends and the teachers he had met, John Verdi, director of the Graduate Institute at Annapolis, visited the school last winter. He found "a very good, calmly energetic school dedicated to learning," with students enjoying considerable personal freedom in their daily activity. He was struck by what he saw as concern for others visible everywhere, suggestions of students' larger responsibilities in such reminders as posters requesting food for the hungry and the like. "The excellent Sidwell teachers who have studied in the Graduate Institute have shown themselves to be remarkable students, too, as all good teachers must always be," he says. "Not only have they been deeply affected by their experience here, but they have affected their classmates and tutors at St. John's and their students and colleagues at Sidwell." Most of the teachers have come to the program because their colleagues told them about it, he points out. For teachers accustomed to the relentlessness of classroom and corollary duties in what one calls a "busy, intense" school, "reading camp" is a welcome respite. Santha often prepares her own evening meal, while the others usually eat at the Right Stuff, a vegetarian restaurant on Main St. Several of the teachers jog daily on the bike trail or at the Naval Academy. And they talk, talk, talk-about Aristotle over dinner, or Decartes at the beach. Each revels in the simplicity of her life. "I spent wholly absorbed hours in the dining hall with compass, straightedge, and cold oatmeal . .. forgetting that I was afraid of math and struggling with the concept of infinite numbers of parallel lines that do meet eventually.,, Says Ericka, "Sometimes I can't believe I'm actually getting paid to do this. All I do is read, exercise, eat and sleep." Sandy says with satisfaction, "I run, go to class, and read." "There's really nothing I'd rather be doing," Liz says. "It's uncomplicated. You can focus. During the school year there are so many competing interests, but you can put everything else aside here." Although there are obvious differ- ences between being students at St. John's and being teachers at "busy, intense" Sidwell Friends, the teachers see parallels. Ericka says, "I feel a similarity in the attitude towards learning-that there is something sacred in it." Her 10 years of teaching include five at George Washington University as a t.a. while she earned a master's degree in Spanish Literature. She adds, "and it helps to learn what it is like to be the challenged student." She remembers her GI math and science preceptorial as "horrific." And at Sidwell, she points out, there is an emphasis on bridging the gaps between divisions-on the interconnectedness emphasized at St. John's. Last year, for example, coach Sandy sat in on Ericka's Chaucer classes. The broad reading and tireless discussion at the Graduate.Institute come at a propitious moment for many of the Sidwell teachers, as past SidwellG .I. alumni reveal. In a report to the Stillwater Foundation, one commented: "Most of the schools I attended leeched the life out of the humanities by encouraging early specialization, setting up articificial limits to curricula and encouraging student to examine what the critics thought about works rather than what the students themselves understood. St. John's is different. There anything that interferes with the dialogue between the reader the the great work is eschewed ... " Another wrote: "Every day now I hear or see something that ties right in with our Wittgenstein discussions, and find myself longing to poke a member of the class in the ribs and point it out. I look at the [Wittgenstein] class as being one of the turning points in my own education ... " "I spent wholly absorbed hours in the dining hall with compass, straightedge, and cold oatmeal," another wrote, "forgetting that I was afraid of math and struggling with the concept of infinite numbers of parallel lines that do meet eventually." Besides the personal exhilaration, participants cite other values of their summer's study. Santha, a Quaker and the mother of three children, in her fourth summer and looking forward to her degree in August, says she has gained confidence from the interaction in St. John's classrooms, and now speaks more readily in seminar and everywhere else, especially with her Sidwell parents. She also requires more discussion in her science classes now, she notes. She has special words for the tutors. "Such patience," she extolls. "Somethow they make you feel you have come to discoveries on your own. I've never had such instruction." "I've already started learning new things about teaching strategies," says Liz, a first year GI student studying Philosophy and Theology. A 1988 graduate of Wesleyan University who has been at Sidwell for two years, she comments, "I've grown to think of the role of teacher and student in new ways. I admire the tutors' willpower in not speaking all the time, in remaining silent and letting students make their own discoveries." One of their predecessors addressed the same subject in her report to the foundation: "In my teaching, writing and reading I try to think in terms of opening questions ... [ones] that anticipate open-ended inquiry." Sandy finds the program is useful as she looks beyond her immediate life of the past seven years on Sidwell's athletic fields. "I wanted to open up new doors," she says. �The Reporter September 1993 page 19 I in Santa Fe by Lesli Allison A long time ago in China there were two friends, one who played the harp skillfully and one who listened skillfully. When the one played or sang about a mountain, the other would say: "I can see the mountain before us." to be disclosed. It is then that we leaf intently through our books, bent on finding some clue that will lead us closer. Even what is disturbingly questionable must strike us with wonder for its questions to become vivid. "The one who admires and wonders becomes, in short, more ardent and that special ardor is a precious quality which transfigures and ennobles. It is ardor that marks the center of a person. Who is your hero? If I have no hero that I admire ardently, even though secretly, then there is some central inner vacancy in me. A person without heroes is literally disenchanted, devoid of the inward chant or song which animates the soul. In our time together here we have sought for who might be the trne hero. Santa Fe tutor Peter Pesic addresses master of arts degree recipients. Lesli Allison photo When the one played about water, the listener would exclaim: "Here is the running stream!" But the listener fell sick and died. The first friend cut the strings of his harp and never played again. Since that time the cutting of harp strings has always been a sign of intimate friendship. For the 25th commencement of the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe, tutor and musician-in-residence Peter Pesic spoke of friendship, admiration and the emptiness of modern American life. Addressing 16 recipients of the master of arts degree, Mr. Pesic suggested that the kinds of friendships formed at St. John's are necessary to deepen the life of this country. "It is not only that we have found friends here, brought together by the quest of wisdom/ he said. "Even more, here we have been initiate<) into a special kind of friendship which embraces both ourselves and the books and thoughts we have shared. "I am thinking first of a special kind of admiration which characterizes the beginning both of friendship and of real conversation. Admiration is one of the most valuable qualities we can have, for as we admire something or someone we become better, larger." Mr. Pesic traced the word "admire" to the same root as that of the words "wonder", "mirror" and "smile". "When at last I am struck with even a bit of admiration I want to know more, I am aroused and astonished, even smile a little. Our inward recognition moves our whole countenance to want to speak. It is then that real conversation begins in earnest, suddenly eager to know more fully what had only begun We have searched for whatever might be really admirable, for whatever truths might truly command our acknowledgement and inward assent. "We need that hero and those truths in order to know how to live and to live well. Whatever admiration and ardor we have summoned up may, in turn, bring those heroes and truths to life again, for admiration gives life to what it admires. For all their greatness, the mighty authors of these books we have read depend on us to give their works the ardent life without which they are merely monuments. Perhaps the great authors even look on us with a certain envy, we who have done nothing compared to them, for we now have what they most need, the gift of life, against which the greatest works are only dust." It is through our capacity for admiration and friendship that members of the St. John's College community can "deepen and ennoble the life of the country," he concluded. "At its best, the kind of conversations that we have aspired to here might be the way in which our country's soul might be deepened, for our country is attuned to that which is unpretentious and heartfelt. Even in the greatest inner emptiness of our times there is an unspoken longing for something worthy of admiration. There, in that waiting silence, we are called to bring to life that which is great within us, each in their own way, and to converse with those around us, in the deepest sense of sharing our seeking and our wonder. At the least, if we are attuned to that call for admiration and ardor we will never be poor, we will never lack friends, throughout our lives, and we can cherish every hope that we will fare well." In the past we recognized many sources of authority in the person and society, he told the gathering: natural ability, acquired merit, age, experience, divine right. Today, intellectual acts of by Donna Boetig negation and criticism, and political acts of subversion and terror have underAddressing the 25 graduates of the mined these traditional sources. Graduate Institute at Commencement He proposed that the graduates exercises in Annapolis on August 6, Dr. compare what occurred in their best David E. Johnson, philosophy professor class at the institute with what happens at the United States Naval Academy, in corporations, government agencies, warned that our civilization is in a crisis and in the military. Contrasting the horiof authority, and urged the new masters' zontal structure of the seminar table, degree recipients to use their education around which men and women resolve "to reduce the outrages in our lives." intellectual conflicts by discussion, with Earlier, John Verdi, director of the the vertical, hierarchal structures of Graduate Institute, welcomed the other organizations, he declared that the degree candidates, 15 women and 10 latter brought humanity to the brink of men, representing 12 states and the disaster. He noted that August 6 was the District of Columbia, and their guests, forty-eighth anniversary of the bombing tutors, and students who filled the Great of Hiroshima. .. Hall on a rain-drenched morning. Betsy Authority within the person is reason, Blume, director of Alumni Activities, supported by will and emotion, Dr. awarded prizes to the two students who Johnson suggested; and authority within shared honors for the best tutorial essay, the community is a designated leader, Ellen M. Myers of Newtonville, tutor, dean or director. Massachusetts, who wrote Euclid Book I. "What authority will you have after "The Application of Reductio and this morning's ceremony?" he asked. "I Absurdam," and Katherine Wolff of contend you are authorities ... You have the authority of experience and reason." He exhorted his listeners to apply the intellectual rigor and in terpersona 1 skills acquired in the program to help solve problems with the environment, population, and crime. In concluhe A few years ago when Ensign Alexander Ellermann, right, was a sion, midshipman, his Naval Academy philosophy professor David instructed them Johnson, left, told him about the St. John's program. On August 6, to regard this Prof. Johnson, a visiting GI tutor, delivered the Graduate Institute commencecommencement address, and his former student was one of the ment as the beginning, not graduating class. Keith Harvery photo end, of their education. Ask Cambridge, Massachusetts, who wrote critical questions, read, form weekly "On Aristotelian Self-Love." study groups, he said. "Having completed "Religion has lost its power," said this program you are better prepared to Dr. Johnson, a frequent visiting tutor at use the rest of your life for the benefit of the Graduate Institute since 1987, who us all." taught St. John's undergraduates in 1988-89 in a faculty exchange with the Academy. "Instead of the ten commandments, we have the ten suggestions . . . We have become egoists and relativists. We live in a century in which most cultural disciplines-painting, music, philosophy, theology, literature, physics, psychologyhave repudiated, superseded, or rendered irrelevant much of their tradition." We're fighting a culture war, he declared, struggling over the truth and consequences of evolutionary theory, psychoanalysis, materialism, and feminism. "In the midst of this, our media and politicians are crowing about the triumph of democracy around the globe," a claim At Commencement exercises, he called ambiguous and simplistic. Annapolis Graduate Institute Director "Your St. John's education gives you John Verdi gives official thanks and a the right and the skills to ask and to certificate from the bookstore to student attempt to answer, 'Who or what is an Jill Chodorov, who was the GI Summer authority and how do you recognize activities coordinator. Jill expects to one?' The speaker cautioned, however, receive her GI degree in May, 1994. that the content of the St. John's curKeith Harvey photo riculum does not provide one right answer to questions of morality, social structure, economic system, authority, and religion. �page 20 II 1923 S. Paul Schilling (A) and his wife Mary celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary on June 18. 1935 An article in the Martin Marietta inhouse publication The Eagle lauded Charles 0. "Bucky" Wingate in its "Moment in History Section" last year on his 80th birthday, noting that he was the only living assistant superintendent to have built bombers for the Glenn L. Martin Company (a precursor of Martin Marietta) during World War II. After joining the firm in 1940, Bucky's increasing responsibilities reached a climax in 1957, when he played a key role in marketing the Pershing program, launching his highly successful marketing phase with the huge firm. He retired in 1977. Early on, stamp collecting led him to a friendship with founder Glenn L. Martin, to whom he refers affectionately as "the old man." Over dinner, the two examined each other's stamp collections. "I thought it was very generous of the old man when he told me to help myself to any of his stamps that he had duplicates of," Wingate recalled in the interview. Meanwhile, the immensely wealthy old man was making notations in a notebook. At evening's end, Mr. Martin said, "Thanks for bringing your stamps. I'm glad you found some of mine that interest you. You owe me $31." Bucky paid up and the two became close friends from that day forward. 1937 The Rev. Harold A. Milstead (A) is entering his 54th year of uninterrupted appointment by the bishops to serve as paster of churches in the United Methodist Church, the Baltimore Washington Conference. Robert M. Snibbe (A), president of the Napoleonic Society of America, has been appointed Knight Commander in the Sovereign Greek Order of St. Dennis of Zante, an order of chivalry dating from the 18th century. Initially, the order was a group of Greek Orthodox warriors who fought against the Turks and named themselves after Saint Dionysius, patron saint of Zakynthos (an Ionian island). With its leadership now in the U.S., the order engages in many charitable causes and numbers such diverse present and past members as Mother Teresa and President Bush. 1944 For 30 years a professor of zoology at the University of Rhode Island, Carl S. Hammen (A) retired at the end of the 1993 academic year. His photo appears in the Rhode Island Senior Times as a middle distance runner who has competed in every National Senior Sports Classic since the first one in 1987, amassing a total of seven medals (four gold, two silver, one bronze) in the 800, 1500, and 5000 meter races. Now 69, he is quoted as saying with a smile, "Eventually, I plan to run in the 100-104 age group." Arthur Hyman (A) is distinguished service professor of philosophy and dean at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University in New York. He is also the president of the American Academy for Jewish Research. In the academic year 1991-92, he served as visiting professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of America. September 1993 The Reporter Alumni Notes 1948 Robert B. Nichols (A) continues to work in retirement on a collection of short stories ("a new field to me, having always done non-fiction before"). Napoleon-An Intimate Account of His Years of Supremacy, for which Mr. Nichols supplied most of 511 captions, will have a French edition as well as a second printing for Random House. 1950 Dr. John J. Logue (A) was recently re-elected senior vice president of the World Federalist Association. In testimony before the U.S. Commission on Improving the Effectiveness of the U.N. last October, he urged comprehensive and immediate reform based on specific principles. In conclusion, he urged commission members to come up with a "bold and imaginative plan to restructure and empower the United Nations, and an approriate strategy for selling that plan to the American people and the people of the world." 1958 Maynard D. Swayne (A) writes that he has worked for Westvaco Corp. for 33 years. "I still enjoy coming to St. John's, east and west, to participate in seminars," he writes. 1960 Hildreth Smith Becker (A) is still a buyer for health and holistic books as well as videos for the Heritage Store in Virginia Beach. "It is wonderful to be near the beach, catching glimpses of ·dancing dolphins and experiencing whale watches." 1962 Justina Hildebrand Hayden (A) is now living and travelling in a 32' motorcoach. She left Berkeley, CA, on Election Day '93 with her partner Luci and her Siamese cat Gabriel. Since then they have covered 16 states and 10,000 miles. Temple Porter (A) has been elected as a certified member of the Institute of Management Consultants, which has 2,100 members. Such certification signifies that a consulting practitioner meets the institute's standards of technical competence, experience and ethical conduct. Mr. Porter is vice president of Raleigh Consulting Group, Inc., in Raleigh, NC. He specializes in strategic organizational planning, executive development, and professional placement. After three and a half years of "exhausting amusement," David Schiller (A) has completed a first draft translation from the ancient Chinese of Confucius' Analects. Frustrated with the unreadability of most of the currently available translations, but not knowing any Chinese, he "just plunged into the project, in the usual St. John's style, as a kind of late night crossword puzzle." The resulting manuscript has 20 chapters and over 120 pages of English interpretations of Confucian conversations. Santa Fe Tutor Ralph Swentzell has kindly offered to lend David his computerized version of Chinese characters to help complete the project. 1966 Judy Nillspaugh Anderson, N.D. (A) apologizes to all the people she promised to write to at the 25th reunion. "I do have an excuse, however. My house burned down in May of 1992. It does tend to leave one somewhat disorganized." 1972 Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court Judge Theresa M. Baca (SF) of Albuquerque has been appointed to the Second Judicial District Court by NM Governor Bruce King. Christine Ferrarini Constantine (A) has completed her first year as a law clerk at the New York State Appellate Court. Hank Constantine II (A'70) is now a product marketing manager with Xerox where he is managing the design and marketing of new Xerox copiers. 1973 In a July 25 New York Times interview, David R. Allison (A), curator of the information and society collection at the Smithsonian Institution, was asked by writer Henry Lewis, "Doesn't it seem odd to have a historical collection for the micro-computer industry, which is only 17 years old?" "We collect mainframes and minicomputers as well as microcomuters," Mr. Allison replied. "Several years ago when we first began planning this exhibit, it seemed to us that nothing was changing our world more than information technology. So our goal in this exhibit was to go beyond a focus on inventors and how they thought and what they had done. [We have] the most interactive exhibit at the Smithsonian . . . 20 or 3_0 interactive displays, many of them video related. You can see some of the most important artifacts of the business, including Morse's telegraph and Bell's telephone, but also the first machine the F.B.l. used to turn fingerprints into electronic information, and the Watergate bugs." 1974 Cynthia Ann Mueller (A) is currently enrolled in the nursing school at the Eastern New Mexico UniversityRoswell campus. She will graduate in May, 1994. 1975 After 17 years in New York City, Erica U doff (A) and her 3 1I2 year old son Oliver are moving to "a glorious old house on the town green of Guilford, CT. My graphic design business will move up, too, and I'll try my hand at a Bed and Breakfast." After the recent death of her husband, Kathy Zang (A) moved back in June with her children to Illinois near the spot where she grew up. 1976 Kimo Mackey (A), who lives on Bainbridge Island, WA, is west coast manager of LIPS Subsea, a company specializing in underwater repair, modification and maintenance of propellors and propulsion systems. The firm also responds to emergency needs of ship owners and operators worldwide. 1978 II now a systems analyst with Procter & Gamble and Michael is working towards a doctorate in English at the University of Cincinnati. He taught "World Classics" this summer at the Antioch Weekend College in Yellow Springs, OH. His remarks about "Socratic teaching" were published, along with those of IU professor Mary Burgan's essay, in Teaching Undergraduates, ed. Bruce A. Kimball, 1988. Before graduate school, Michael did corporate paralegal work in Chicago, tutored, taught in private and public schools, as well as "sundry other work" and travel. Mary Ellen Lawrence (SF) reports that after working as an RN for several years, she is excited about returning to school in the Chicago area. She hopes old pals passing through will give her a call. Christopher Olson (A) visited the Annapolis campus in July, boating with classmate and athletic director. Leo Pickens (A) and was pleased to find the bookstore (where he bought a copy of Eva Brann's World of the Imagination) "in the capable hands of Roberta Rusch (A)." 1979 Betty Hussander Berens, (SF), writes from Sedro Woolley, WA: Austin. [SF'70] and I met in California in 1983. On about our third date, we were amazed to discover that we had both attended St. John's in Santa Fe. Austin did freshman year with the class of '70 ("They agreed to give me a D instead of an F if I promised not to come back"), and I graduated in 1979. We got married in 1985. We've often wondered if there are any other married couples who both attended St. John's but didn't know each other there and met completely independently of the college. Small world, huh. Get this: I started a new job two weeks ago with Continuity Publishing, Inc., which publishes New Age Retailer magazine. The owner and publisher is Duane Sweeney. A friend had all of us over for a salmon barbeque yesterday, and Austin and Duane met each other. We started talking about the house we're going to build (a geodesic dome and a pyramid), which led to a discussion of how "the" pyramids were built and the precision fit of the stones. Someone said that that could be accomplished by rubbing the two stones together, and Austin remembered the soapstones from freshman lab. (Do they still do that?) Duane and Austin did the "You went to St. John's? So did I!" routine, and we were all hootin' when we found out Duane and Austin were in the same class! You just never know. Kathryn D. Rominars (A) will be doing her clinical internship at the University of Denver counseling center, "one more step closer to completing my Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Temple University. I'd love to hear from friends. My new address is 214 Monarch Ave., Lewisville, CO 80027. (303) 665-5512." In 1988, Michael Berger (A) married Andrea Turcu, a native of Romania, who escaped to Germany in 1986. They are parents of Alexander David, born last October. Both Andrea and Michael earned masters' degrees at Indiana University in Bloomington, she in computer science, he in English. Andrea is Marie Toler Raney (A) and Jonathan M. Raney (A'89) and their two 4th grade boys Soren and Alexander "are happily adjusting to Oregon," Marie writes. "Jon has hung out a shingle as Criminal Defense/Domestic-Family /V.A. Attorney." Marie is working on her mas- �September 1993 The Reporter page 21 umni Notes ter's degree in architecture while writing software for the Center for Housing Innovations Research Lab at the 1.....,0-rc,1-u of Oregon. 1980 (SF) and Carla (Deicke) u~,_,~~"'~' Dan Grady, announce the of their daughter, Alison Jo Deicke She was born on April 23 at 9:59 p.m., weighing 7 lbs and 1/2 oz and me~as1uu1g 19 1/2 inches. David Whiteside (SF) is operations manger for a Wells Fargo Bank in the Los Angeles area. 1981 Dr. Elizabeth Robertson Stuck (A) successfully defended her thesis and received her Ph.D. in computer science in November, 1992, "which is why I missed the class of '82 reunion." Now she is on a Summit Post-doctoral fellowship at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. and exotics, and reports that she has quite a reptile practice. Martin (SF) taught English proficiency in the King City (CA) high school. "The class was preparation for a required writing exam," he reports. "[My] students' success was not known at press time." Sigurd Ansgar Sorenson (A) graduated from the University of WisconsinMadison Law School in May with honors. In August, he was to begin a two-year stint as law clerk for John T. Elfrin, Federal District Judge in Buffalo, NY. 1985 Laura Rossi-Ortiz (SF) has graduated from the New York Law School with the degree of Juris Doctor. Gina Sorrentino (SF) has just finished her third year at the Matthew Henson Elementary Montessori School in Maryland and her sixth year as a Montessori teacher. Daniel Van Doren (A) has started his own real estate management consulting firm, DVD and Associates, and is planning to teach seminars to owners of small properties in New York City. "Nothing is solid just yet, though." 1982 Mark Mihelic (SF) and Adrienne (SF '87) were married 26th Littleton, Colorado. The two red-heads met at an alumni gathering in Los n.1.11~eJte~. They will continue to live in Santa Monica where Adrienne is workon her Ph.D. in Gerontology at USC and Mark is a scientist at GTE. Correct register (and write!): 1823 19th Apt. 8, Santa Monica, CA 90404. Patti Nogales Ozdemir (A) was awarded her Ph.D. from Stanford mJune. 1983 Martha Rlincewicz Hayden (SF) is a unit coordinator for mental health services at Tampa General Hospital. Married in 1986 to Thomas S. Hayden, she is the mother of Anya, born in 1987, Kasia born in 1988, and Zachary born in 1989. William Hill (A) practices law with Anna L. David (A), who lives in Baltimore with her husband of nearly two years, Richard Gordon, and two Siamese cats, finds life terrific these days. Anna and Richard are both attorneys practicing public interest law. "I'd love to hear from any Johnnies living in or passing through the Baltimore area!" 1986 Jeannine Amont Bennett (A) moved to St. Louis and into a new home this year with husband Jeff Bennett and family. Jeff got out of the Navy right after graduation from the Naval Academy and is now in sales. After teaching English, Jeannine is a homemaker, looking after daughters Kelsey, almost two, and Maridair, three weeks. She would like to hear from friends at 7215 Ravinia Dr., St. Louis, MO 63121. (314) 383-8162. Thomas (Tim) Lotina (A) has enjoyed working with other Johnnies (Les Dethlefson (SF'87) and Michael Silitch (SF'86) at the Colorado Outward Bound School, where he hq.s been for the past three summers. He is currently in his first year of acupuncture school in Portland, Oregon. Steel Hector and Davis in Miami and would love to hear from old friends, and "loves getting visitors." Ann Sieber (A) of Houston is employed as an editor at the Houston Press. 1984 Correction: Wrongly identified as Robert Green (his father's name) in the June issue, Peter S. Green (A) is the foreign correspondent stationed in Prague and covering Eastern Europe for U.S. News and World Report, UPI and The London Sunday Times, as well as for broadcast media. Dana Darby Johnson (A) and her husband Robin have just returned to the States after six years in Wales. "We were sorry to leave good friends and green hillsides, but also eager to return. We are very happy in Santa Fe and would love to hear from other Johnnies." Lori Maness (A) is a veterinarian in Casper, WY, doing mostly small animal Deirdre McGlynn (A) received her M.Ed from George Mason University in May and is now working towards her private pilot's license. Stephanie Rico (A) sends a message to "all those who were mad they weren't invited to the wedding! ... Whoever reported that Stephanie Rico and Todd Peterson (A '87) were married were wrong! We are, however, still living together in D.C." Stephanie will attend Stanford University school of education in the fall on a doctoral fellowship. Todd will begin his flight surgery training in January. "Then [we] will both be out in California for a while!" 1987 Larry S. Davis (SGI) received his MA in philosophy at the University of Texas in May, 1993. He continues his teaching of mathematics at St. Michael's Academy, a college-prep, Catholic high school in Austin, Texas. He will commense work on a master's degree in mathematics at UT in the fall of '93. Joe and Talke Macfarland (A) are the parents of Neil, born July 3. Talke is working on her Ph.D. in linguistics at Northwestern University, and Joe has just been awarded a scholarship to Italy for research on his University of Chicago thesis on Dante's Monarchia. L. Sullivan (A), currently a doctoral candidate in zoology at Duke, was recently in the Brazilian rain forest on a four-month project studying a particular fresh water fish. In June Neetra Doorandish (A) presented her fanciful art and poetry at a private reception in Annapolis. Guests were able to purchase prints and notecards. Picot Floyd (A) married Suzanne Louise Wall January 1, 1992, and lives in Colorado. Rebecca Rornbluh and Andre Wakefield (A'87) were married on July 11. "Congratulations (or money)," writes Andre, "can be sent to Rebecca at 800 West End A venue, NY, NY 10025, or to Andre, c/ o the Department of History, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637." Matthews Multedo (SF) was graduated from Columbia University in May, 1992, with masters' degrees in international affairs and journalism. In the summer after graduation, she visited relatives in Rio de Janeiro. Early this year she moved back to Santa Fe, where she works for a national Spanish language radio syndication service as director of development. "I would love to hear from any old friends or classmates who happen this way. James O'Gara (A) left the White House Drug Policy office with the change of administration md is currently working as a foreign policy advisor at the Drug Enforcement a dministration. "In brief," he writes, "I gave up the Great Books for Great Memos." Michael Paransky (A) has been accepted into the Great Books doctoral program at the University of Dallas, Institute of Philosophic Studies, with a concentration in literature. He is this year's recipient of the Louise Cowan Scholarship as well as of a full tuition scholarship. Mira Skadegard Thorsen (SF) is currently living in Copenhagen and has two daughters, Tess and Tara. She is taking a mothering and business break from graduate work in anthropology and is in the process of starting up a clothing company. Christina Wozny (A), serving with the U.S. Army as a medic, is currently stationed in Germany. 1989 Fielding Dupuy (A) married Constance Louise Hunter in Chestnut Hill July 24 in a ceremony reported in the The New York Times. Constance, a graduate of NYU, is a master's candidate in economic development at Columbia University. Fielding is the campaign manager for Councilman Antonio Pagan, a Democrat in Manhattan. Along with Dahra Latham (A'90), Amanda Dalton Fernandez (A) was mentioned in the spring 1993 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine (called "Life After College") for her off-beat job. Their jobs as a clown (Amanda) and English teacher in Turkey (Dahra) were listed among fantasy jobs alternatives to graduate schools and run-of-themill careers. See 1990 below. Lisa Rallman Hopkins (SF) and her husband Phil wrote that they were expecting a baby in August. John Thompson (A} has been working in a Prague restaurant along with Jam es Ashley (A'92) and Lena Skadega.a.rd (A'91). 1990 Dah:ra Latham (A) (see 1989 above) writes that she is no longer in Turkey but is camping out and teaching remedial reading to troubled kids as an employee of VisionQuest. She can be reached at 1-800-433-4362, ext. 342 (messages only) or with letters directed to her at the East Coast Wagon Train, VisionQuest, P.O. Box 448, Exton, PA 19341. Daniel J. Raffin (A) will be attending the University of Colorado in Boulder in the fall as a graduate assistant in the M.F.A. program. Brian Sullivan (A) continues his work on a doctorate in entomology at the University of Georgia. 1991 Remmer Anderson (AGI) has received an NEH grant to participate in a summer seminar on "The Tragic Voice of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War" at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. Travis Hardaway (A) and Robin Faux (A'93) were married in the Great Hall at Annapolis on Saturday, August 7. Steven R. McNamara (A) writes that he has enjoyed the graduate program in philosophy at Boston College. His summer plans were to travel and study in Germany. Leonard Sponaugle (A) is now finishing his first year at the San Francisco Theological Seminary. In three years, he expects to earn an M.Div. and to be ordained as a Presbyterian minister. "My life is good," he writes. 1992 Douala Arna Dennis (A) spent the past year studying French, Arabic and mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also tutored in English and mathematics. In August, she will enter law school to study international law. A. Danielle Riley (A) and Trip Stallings set July 10 for their wedding date. Both are teachers at the Leslie H. Walton Middle School and live in Albemarle County, Virginia. 1993 Cohle:r (A) and Vanessa Stratton (A) were married in the Great Hall at Annapolis on Saturday, August 7. Ja.mes I \ I \ �page 22 September 1993 The Reporter cordially invites y 0 u t 0 t h e fourth St. John's College is pleased to announce its fourth unnluuL Parents Weekend and annual Santa Fe, October 14-17 An.napolis October 29 - 31, 1993. Please give us the names of interested grandparents and we will send them this invitation as well. Parents and grandparents will experience the college in action by visiting regular classes and participating in a special Parents Seminars on Euclid's definitions, postulates and common notions. This also is an opportunity to have fun with your sons and daughters and meet their friends, tutors and college officers. Santa Fe Schedule of Activities October 14 - 17, 1993 Annapolis Schedule of Activities October 29 - 31, 1993 Thursday, October 14 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Visit evening seminars (listen, but do not speak). notions. Come ten minutes early to the Peterson lobby for classroom locations. All students are encouraged to join in! Friday, October 29, 1993 8:30 a.m. -8:15 p.m. Registration and Hospitality PSKLobby 8:45 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. and 4:45 - 7:45 p.m. Visit the Bookstore (same hours on Friday). 1:00 - 7:00 p.m. Bookstore open. Auditing classes Parents may register to audit classes during the day on Friday. Friday, October 15 Visit daytime classes (listen, but do not speak). 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Reception with college administrators. Junior Common Room (upstairs, Peterson Center). 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Art gallery exhibit. Santa Fe artist Don Furnas, acrylic on canvas and paper (upstairs, Peterson) 5:30p.m. Join students for dinner. Pay $5.80 at the door. Dining Hall (ground floor, Peterson). 8:00-10:00 p.m. Concert, arias and songs. Gordon Getty and three artists. Saturday, October 16 9:00 - 11 :00 a.m. Late Registration (Peterson Lobby). 10:00 a.m. Meeting of Parents Association. Junior Common Room (upstairs, Peterson). All interested parents are welcome. 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Library book sale (Meem Library). ll:OOa.m. Brunch for parents, their students and tutors. Parent-Child Look Alike . Contest. $11.00 per person. Great Hall (upstairs, Peterson). 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Parents Seminars on Euclid's definitions, postulates and common 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Art gallery exhibit. Santa Fe artist Don Furnas, acrylic on canvas and paper (upstairs, Peterson). 5:30p.m. Informal Dinner with students Dining Hall 3:00p.m. Soccer game. St. John's vs. the World College or a city league team (field). 8:15 p.m. President's Welcome to Prents, Lecture by Radoslav Datchev, tutor "The Beginning of All Things" 6:00p.m. Take your student (and a friend or two?) out for a restaurant dinner. Reservations advisable. 7:00p.m. Film Society movie. Free popcorn for parents. Great Hall (upstairs, Peterson). 8:00p.m. Waltz Party. Live band. All kinds of dancing to music which is gentle to the ears. Even non-dancers enjoy this event. The students urge all parents to come to this grand finale event. Dining Hall (Peterson, ground floor). Sunday, October 17 10:00 a.m. Parents Association Advisory Board breakfast (Junior Common Room, upstairs Peterson). 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Art gallery exhibit. Santa Fe artist Don Furnas, acrylic on canvas and paper (upstairs, Peterson) Bookstore closed For further information or the register please call the Parents Program Coordinator at (505) 982-3691 ext. 266. Saturday, October 30 9:00 a.m. - noon Registration and Hospitality, Great Hall, McDowell Hall 10:30a.m. Parent/student seminars McDowell classrooms 12:30 p.m. Buffet Luncheon. FSK Lobby 1:45p.m. Parents' Meeting wit the President and Dean, Conversation Room 3:00p.m. parents' Tutorial on Definitions and Propositions from Euclid's Elements or (Mellon Hall) or A tour of Annapolis or Mitchell Gallery tour and exhibit discussion Prints by the Nabis:Vuillard and his Contemporaries. Dinner We encourage you to take your St. Johnnie to dinner at one of our fine area restaurants. Sunday, October 31, 1993 11:00a.m. President's Brunch Home of the President 212 Norwood Road, Annapolis HOTEL RESERVATIONS The college has reserved blocks of rooms at three hotels in Annapolis: Loews Annapolis Hotel, Marriott Courtyard, and the Holiday Inn. In order to reserve one of these rooms, you need to call the hotel directly and tell the receptionist that you wish to book one of the rooms reserved for St. John's rr.11°: 0 Loews Annapolis Hotel, four blocks from the college. Rooms start at $100 per night. Reservation deadline: September 29. 1-800-847-8882 Marriott Courtyard, Riva Rd., five miles from campus, Rooms start at $90 per night. Reservation deadline: September 29. 1-800-321 -2211 Holiday Inn, Riva Rd., five miles from campus. Rooms start at : $79 per night. Reservation deadline: September 27. 1-410-224-3150. For further information or to register please call the Alumni Office at (410) 626-2531 or (410) 263-2371. �September 1993 The Reporter Eugene Angyal, A'38, of Sequim, WA, died at age 75 on January 29 of a heart attack in Centralia, WA. He was traveling to Coconut Grove, FL, the site of his 1943 wedding to Helen Bartholomew, to celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary. Born in New York, he did graduate study at Cal-Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA, and the Univesity of Oregon. After a career in secondary and college teaching, Mr. Angyal retired in 1982 at Manteca, CA, and moved to Sequim. He was a member of the Dungeness Golf and Country Club. He is survived by his wife in Sequim, two sons, Richard and Charles, and eight grandchildren. A son, John, died in 1987. Kenneth Kern of New York; two brothers: Kevin Kern and wife Tracy of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mitchel! Kem of Santa Fe; maternal grandparents: Mary. and Hy Trachter of Los Angeles, Calif. A funeral service will be conducted at 11:00 am Monday, August 16 at Berardinelli Mortuary. Cremation will follow the services. Arrangements are under the direction of Berardinelli Mortuary, 1399 Luisa Street,9834331. Kneesi, A'36: Washington businessman Donald D. Kneesi, A'36, a retired businessman and a lifelong resident of Washington, DC, died of kidney failure March 7 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, MD. A graduate of the Devitt preparatory school, Mr. Kneesi served in the Navy after his graduation from St. John's. In the early 1940s he founded the Kneesi sporting goods store in Washington and a few years later cofounded the Kneesi & Adler men's clothing store. He retired in the late 1950s. He was a life member of the Columbia Country Club. Survivors include his wife, the former Bertha Walter, a son, Carl, both of Bethesda, and four grandchildren. A daughter, Donna Aird, died in 1991. Alumnus Stephen Benedict, A'47, remembers Mr. Standen as "colorful and a bit eccentric, so it seemed then. Some of us had him for lab and my recollection is that he was as puzzled about the whole thing as we were, but went at it with a kind of manic zest." "Reading of Tony Standen's later accomplishments made me realize this half century later that one's youth probably inhibited the appreciation of what was clearly a special human being," he adds. "I wonder if there are those from the 40s, students and others, who might supplement these words with more specific anecdotes and recollections, including some about his formidable then-wife, Nika, who was then and therafter one of the great authorities on Italian cuisine, author of cookbooks that grace man shelves." (The Reporter invites readers to send such recollections.) Mr. Standen is survived by his wife, the former Lisl Collmers; two sons, Sumner A., of London, and Julian 0., of San Franciso, a siste,r and three grandchildren. Richard B. Davenport Born in Glenridge, New Jersey Richard died in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 12 at the age of 38 of AIDS related complications. He is survived by his life partner and companion, Michael K. Heugly; mother, Dorothy W. Davenport; and sisters Nancy D. Brown, Betsy Hannan, Wendee Taylor, and Judy Valentine. Richard died the way he lived-with dignity, cimpassion, and a sense of humor. His biggest accomplishment was being able to explore an art career after leaving the work force due to AIDS. This was made possible through the help of Visual Aid and the encouragement of loving friends. Richard was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church (Gough & Bush Streets), where services were held Saturday, June 26, 1993 at 2 p.m. He requests that all donations be made to Visual Aid (530 Bush Street, Suite 405, San Francisco, California 94108). 1 SF'89: Stacy Kern-Hill, 35, of Santa Fe, died early Friday, August 13, 1993, following an automobile accident on U.S. 84 near Espanola. Stacy was preceded in death by her mother, Caroll Kern. Stacy was born March 23, 1958 in Long Island, New York, the daughter of Kenneth and Caroll Kern. She attended schools in Long Island and New York, graduating from Parson's School of Design in New York, and attending St. John's College in Santa Fe. Stacy owned and operated LAMAGA, a knit-wear design company, in Santa Fe. She is survived by her father, Anthony Standen, a chemist, science writer and editor, who was a tutor at St. John's College for several years in the mid-1940s, died June 22 in a Sharon, CT, hospital from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was 86. "The Chemist who Deflated Pomposity" was his obituary headline June 25 in The New York Times, which suggested he was best known as the author of Science is a Sacred Cow, published in 1950, a book that remained in print as a paperback for 40 years. "When it first apeared," according to The Times, "[Mr. Standen] drew praise from none other than Albert Einstein, and most reviewers applauded as well." Mr. Standen's point was that scientists, especially teachers of science, tended to have inflated egos, certain of their superior wisdom and virtue. "In reality, he asserted, they are mostly dull and pompous and should be laughed at now and then." Born in Great Britain, he held a degree in chemistry from Oxford University and studied chemical engineering at MIT. He also held an advanced degree in entomology from the University of New Hampshire. Before teaching at St. John's, he worked for a time in private industry as an insect controller in South America. His book Insect Invaders, published in 1943, was an indictment of insects as harmful to humans, animals and crops. Beginning in 1951, Mr. Standen was for 20 years the executive editor of the 22-volume second editfon of the KirkOthmer Eycyclopedia of Chemical Technology until his retirement. After retirement, he was a volunteer teacher in public schools and with a children's center. Tutor Emeritus and former director of admissions James M. Tolbert, 79, a beloved and esteemed figure on the Annapolis campus for more than 25 years, died July 28 of heart failure. A memorial service is planned for 5 p.m. Saturday, October 2, in the Great Hall, during the Homecoming weekend. In poor health in recent years, Mr. Tolbert suffered from emphysema and congestive heart failure. His death, at home in his armchair, was peaceful and sudden. After a private funeral service, the Tolbert family held several open houses for friends and former students, afternoons of loving reminiscence about the courtly and gentle southerner who shepherded a generation of students into St. John's. A tireless defender of good speech and good writing, Mr. Tolbert in 1982 came out of retirement-his "emeritude," he said- to give a Commencement address, "Good English," in which he page23 Colin McKinney Zink was killed on Saturday, August 22, 1993, in a paragliding accident near Ketchum, Idaho, where he lived. He was 33 years old. Colin was an alumnus of St. John's. He attended the Santa Fe campus intermittently from 1986 through 1989. He is survived by his mother, Ellen Zink of _Santa Fe; his father John "Jack" Zink of Tulsa, Oklahoma; brothers Whitney, of Denver, Colorado, Neel and Darton of Tulsa, Oklahoma; and by many many friends all over the world. Memorial services were held in Ketchum, Idaho, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The family requests, in lieu of flowers, that donations be made to the Ketchum Community Library on behalf of Colin M. Zink. Colin was a beloved friend and unforgettable to all who met him. He will be missed. deplored the debasement of language. He concurred with writer George Orwell's thesis that thought and language can corrupt each other, and that shoddy thought and shoddy language are connected with shoddy politics. "The high linguistic crimes committed continuously in Washington reached a peak when political morality reached its lowest point," Mr. Tolbert asserted then, illustrating liberally from the Watergate scandal. At St. John's, he said, where students live intimately with the greatest books and study language with care, English should be competently used, and he produced a list of linguistic offenses to be avoided. For several years, Mr. Tolbert was complying with student and alumni requests for copies of the address. Born in Columbus, GA, he earned his bachelor and master's degrees from Emory University in Atlanta, and his doctorate in English at the University of Texas. Later he was chairman of the English department at the University of Alabama at Florence. During World War II, he served in counter intelligence in the in the Philippines, and after the war, in Japan. As a special intelligence agent, he was also assigned to security at the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, NM. He joined the St. John's faculty in 1953 and was both a tutor and director of admissions _until 1972; he continued as a full time tutor until his retirement in 1979. He is survived by his wife Jane Tolbert; two daughters, Linda Tarnay of New York City and Mary Matheny of Louisville, KY; two grandchildren, Laura and Jason Matheny; and three brothers, John Tolbert of New York City, Arch M. Tolbert of Baton Route, LA, and Stokes H. Tolbert of Tucson, AZ. Memorial contributions may be made to the St. John's College Campaign for the Fourth Century, P.O. Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. �The Reporter page 24 German Expressionism at Mitchell Gallery by Donna Boetig German Expressionism, one of the most important art movements in the 20th century, featuring the works of artists who suffered a disillusioning blow with the onslaught of Hitler and his regime, is on display at the Mitchell Gallery from Wednesday, August 25- Sunday, October 24. "The Eye of the Collector: Ludwig_and Rosy Fischer and the Rise of German Expressionist Art" consists of 37 prints, 12 paintings, and four pieces of sculpture on loan from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition features art created between 1909-1924 that reflects German expressionist artists at the peak of defining themselves as a movement Their style typically uses harshly forms and powerful, often clashing colors, in an expressionistic manner. Between September 1993 1909-1924 these artists worked in groups such as "Die Brucke," and "The Blue Rider," both of which provided the basis for German Expressionism. This purposeful art is evident in their socially conscious works. From Emil Nolde's print, "Young Couple," to Max Beckmann's portrayal of alienation from friends and family in prints "Family Scene," and "The Queen's Bar, Self-Portrait," the works take stock of the human condition with the hope of redemption. Many artists in the mid-1930s left Germany when their art was selected for propaganda exhibits, entitled Degenerate Art, organized by the government. The public degradation by their own government severed the communal bonds of this artistic movement. Fortunately, however, a significant portion of works from this movement survived. Among the three events associated with the exhibit is a discussion of the collection and its origin by Frederick R. Brandt, curator of the 20th century art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, on Wednesday, September 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Conversation Room of Mellon Hall. On Wednesday, October 6, Gail H. Watkins, pajnter and instructor in the Fine Arts Program will lead a discussion of the program in the Mitchell Gallery at 4 p.m. And on Tuesday, October 12, Andrew Robinson, senior curator of prints and drawings, at the National Gallery of Art, will narrate an audio visual presentation "German Expressionist· Prints" in the Conversation Room at 3 p.m. The Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., and Friday evenings from 78 p.m. Otto Dix's print "Americanischer Reitakt (American Riding Act)," 1922, will be on display at the German Expressionist Exhibit at the Mitchell gallery through October 24. From and Rosie Fisher Collection, courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arls, Richmond. by Lesli Allison Symbols of Faith: A Visual Journey to Historic Churches of New Mexico, an exhibit of and pn.ot,Jg1~ai:•ns opened the fall season at the Santa Fe Art Gallery. Photographer Joan Baker and painter Judith Tobin have together compiled a series of images focusing on historic and remote churches as well as objects and symbols which embody both the spirit of place and of faith. "We have attempted to convey, through canvas and camera, the feelings experienced and the objects encountered along the many and varied paths of our search for the simple, eloquent forms created, in earlier times, by the human compulsion to seek communication with its Creator," wrote Judith Tobin in the forward to the book that accompanies the exhibit. The show opened Friday, September 3 and continues through September 27. In October, painter Don Furnas will exhibit acrylic works on paper· and canvas. Mr. Furnas received training at both the Art Institute in Dallas and the McCrady Art School in New Orleans. He has exhibited works in New Mexico, Louisiana and Montana. In November the St. John's College Art Gallery will feature a retrospective of works by New Mexico artist Margaret Lefranc. Ms. Lefranc is a color expres- Painting by Judith Tobin sionist working in oil, graphics and watercolor. In 1948 she received the Fifty Best Books of the Year Illustration Award for her drawings for Maria the Potter of San Ildefonso. Her works have been exhibited in the United States and France, including the New York World's Fair Fine Arts Exhibition in 1939, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Galerie Cardo, the salons d' Automne, des Tuileries, and des Artistes Francais in Paris, and the North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art. Shakespeare in Santa Fe performed "Romeo and Juliet" in the Meem Library courtyard on the Santa Fe campus this summer. More than 8,000 people attended the free outdoor performances during July and August. Lesli Allison photos � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The St. John's Reporter</em> Description An account of the resource College newspaper which started publication in 1974. Continued publication into 2000. 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Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Public Relations Office Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Santa Fe, NM Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf The Reporter https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/f5a13806953add5c1f3e47de8ec8a348.pdf 779b9b1431065dbf55fd7e3cdd47e19f PDF Text Text E Paul Mellon E Calling the $30 million Campaign For Our Fourth Century a "defining moment," Ray Cave, SJC '48, said recently that there could not be a better time for St. John's College to undertake such an endeavor. Mr. Cave is chairman of the campaign, a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, and the former editor of Time magazine. In Annapolis, philantlrropist Paul Mellon's commitment of $2.5 million to the college was announced at a campaign kickoff banquet April 15. Mr. Mellon, who has agreed to be an Honorary Co-Chairman, has given more than $14 million to St. John's since he spent a year here as a student in 1940-1941. One week later, the second Honorary Co-Chairman, Mara Robinson, Santa Fe cultural and civic leader and Graduate Institute alumna, joined other guests at a banquet to launch the campaign in Santa Fe. Along with her husband Charles, she made a $3.1 million dollar commitment to the campaign last year. These are auspicious days for an unprecedented effort by St. Jolm's College. See pages 9, 10, and 11 of this issue for details. Mara Robinson ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 11111111111 llllll~m~~~/@~)!~11111111Ill111111 The St. John's 31696 011381942 Volume 19, 4 Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, June 1993 Eat well. Santa Fe to Annapolis days on napolis to North Beach [where the Bisnh ops have a summer home in New Jersey]. You girls can come along. But if you decide NOT to come, for the rest of my life you don't get to comment any more about the condition of my body." The Bishop girls now vanish from NANCYOSIUS this saga. Enter Team B.I.S.H.O.P., nJuly4, 1991,LaurenBishop, moving towards us at Mach .025, a blur then 15, said to her father, of racing bicycles, muscled lycra legs, "Dad, you don't look so good Giro helmets, faces expressionless bein a bathing suit any more." hind Bolle glasses. This is how it all began. Whoosh. They are gone. We were not there to see the expresBut we are pretty sure we saw W.W., sion on the face of Jeff Bishop, friend the Old Man, Cowboy, Pick, Big Dog, and confidant to the wise and the andT.T. mighty, tireless laborer for the weal of Team B.I.S.H.O.P. is made up of St. John's College as its Annapolis vice Chris ("WW") Nelson, SF'70, president president of advancement, and father to of the Annapolis campus, Jeff ("the old this teenager as well as to equally saucy man") Bishop, Jeffrey ("Cowboy") daughter March, 7. Morgan, vice president of advancement After a few minutes--or was it a few for Santa Fe, Leo ("Pick") Pickens, days or weeks?-he came up with a A '78, athletic director at Annapolis, reply. He told his daughters, "Next sumJamie ("Big Dog") Whalen, A'81, Chimer I'm going to ride a bike from Ancago rowing coach, and Bob ("TT") Gray, a Baltimore writer. We aren't very clear on where the sobriquets "WW" and "Cowboy" and "Big Dog" come from, or what the acronym B.I.S.H.O.P means, and there are evasive maneuvers when we ask, but we do know that fortysomething Jeff Bishop is the old man of the group, four of whom are in their thirties, and that "Pick" is, well, Pick. We sense that each name is a magic salve expected to protect the wearer from the stares of disbelievers, the relentlessness of the southwestern sun, and water from the Soaker Guns of passing motorists. Team B.lS.H.O.P. may need such protection when it takes Two members of Team 8.1.S.H.O.P. an,n::ii,n.,.u~ off from the Santa Fe ident Christo and An1na1:K>l1is (Continued on page 16) President Je .. ,...,.,nr .... ..- 98 at Santa Professor Hazel E. Barnes By LESLI ALLISON Blue skies, bright sun and warm temperatures graced Commencement in Santa Fe this year. Approximately 800 people were in attendance as 78 seniors and 20 graduate students received their diplomas. Santa Fe Tutor Dana Densmore was among those earning a degree. Earlier this year, Ms. Densmore stood an oral examination upon her thesis, "The Cause of Gravity in Newton's Principia," for which she received a Master of Arts in liberal arts. A special mention was given to Ronald Landor for outstanding dedication to the college. Mr. Landor is the father of six Johnnies. His wife, Miriam, also attended St. John's in Santa Fe. In addition, Mr. Landor, himself, has attended the Graduate Institute and other programs of the college both in Santa Fe and Annapolis. The Commencement speaker was Dr. Hazel E. Barnes, distinguished professor of philosophy emeritus at The University of Colorado, Boulder. A graduate of Wilson College and Yale University, Ms. Barnes has been a member of the American Council of Learned Societies, a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, a teacher at colleges and universities including Pierce College in Athens, Greece, Ohio State, Yale and Tulane among others. In 1989 she was named "Woman of the Year in Philosophy" by the American Philosophical Association and she has been America's foremost translator of Jean Paul Sarte. connnw~a on page 132 graduate at Ambassador Smith He1mg stcme 1 By NANCY OSIUS Speaking to those he called the "fortunate few"-the recipients "of what remains of classical education in this country"-former U. S. Ambassador to Kenya and Annapolis Commencement speaker Smith Hempstone sounded a bleak warning to the largest class ever to assemble beside the Liberty Tree to receive degrees. On a breezy, sun-filled day, 106 graduating seniors, 26 Graduate Institute students, and more than 1200 guests were in the audience as Mr. Hempstone, in a wry and witty speech, deplored the debasement of the national culture and suggested that redemption might lie in renewed study of the great works of the past. Never before "has a culture enshrined mediocrity as a national goal, "he said "And if you don't· believe that, watch network television tonight." Citing the "shrill and unconditional demands" of special interest groups, language debasement, violence and self-gratification, he cautioned, "You are about to enter a world that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Nevertheless, civilization "matters," he declared, and a culture based on getting and spending cannot long survive. Mercantile Carthage had "nothing of the mind and spirit to match Rome's imperial vision, and today Carthage is dust." While his own and earlier generations c...:ontiiriue·a on page �PAGE2 JUNE 1993 THE REPORTER CoMMENCEMENT May 6 at (Continued from page one) Harvey photos fought back the Depression and the fascist tyrannies, and fmally sent the Soviet Union into bankruptcy, the threats facing this generation come from within, he said. fu a nation that denies its past, he told the graduates, "those manuscripts you have been illuminating-the manuscripts of your minds-will be the battle plans for the restoration of America's soul. "Committing a page of Homer to memory or wrestling with the knottier passages of Thucydides in all probability will not put an extra dime in your pocket. It will do more than that: it will leave you something approaching a civilized man." Mr. Hempstone was Ambassador to from 1989-1993, after a long career spent principally as a beginning in 1956 with an assignment as foreign correspondent in Africa and Latin America for The Chicago Daily News. From 19651969, he was a foreign correspondent for The Washington Star, and later served as the paper's associate and executive editors. He was editor-in-chief for The Washington Times the following year. He is the author of two books on Africa, two novels, and many magazine articles. A second speaker was Tutor Chaninah Maschler, a member of the Annapolis faculty since 1976, who addressed the graduates in response to a special invitation from them. She retraced for them some of her earliest impressions of a campus that the eye could take in "without strain," a bookstore of ''uncluttered surveyability," a coffee shop filled with readers and overheard c011ve:rsa.uon, Later, as part of a faculty which together with students pursued a program of rare interconnectedness, she had confirmed for her the great advantage, she said, of sharing "one integrated curriculum that cuts across human letters, philosophy, mathematics, science, languages, and music." But the tlnust of her exhortation was not, she said, for St John's graduates to "IJ'"'...................... lives "in nostalgia for things ancient." fustead, she urged, "Pay attention to children-how and what they think and say and do." Noting that St. John's students are already involved in the community as tutors and discussion leaders for children-and that many expect to become teachers-she said, "for most human beings d1sceinu1g what's 1m1Jort:ant mtc~Hc:ctliallv aesthetically" becomes much easier when the "fact of a next generation has entered their imExpressing the hope that the college as alma mater has been a "good enough mother" for its graduates to "do good to" and to "learn" from being with children, Mrs. Maschler concluded with the wish that by being at St. John's, her listeners would emerge better than elsewhere able to determine what facilitates Americans becoming "as good as they can be." President Christopher Nelson, presiding over the ceremony, announced two student commitments to the college: a pledge by the class of 1993 to turn the concrete reflecting pool by the into a garden, and a $1500 from the towards nevi'lv-acarunxt Hall of Records into anew olis campus. ANNAPOLIS ONLY: » » » » » » » » » » » » » » » » Woodrow Wilson Fellow Jide Nzelibe pauses with his parents. Rhodes Scholar: JEFFREY SEIDMAN Goldwater Scholar: DEVIN RUSHING-SCHURR Fulbright grantee: GREGORY RILEY The Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for Graduate Study in the Humanities: JOSEPH WALTER STERLING The John S. Kieffer Award to the student who submitted the best English version of a Greek text PANAYIOTIS PAPPAS The Henry M. Austin Poetry Prize for the best original English poem: STACIE SLOTNICK and PANAYIOTIS PAPPAS The student who submitted the best original music composition: GARTH KLIPPERT The student who submits the best essay on a piece of music: JOHN LEBEC The Bryce Jacobsen Award to the student who submitted the most elegant solution of a geometrical problem: REGINALD DUNN The James R. Mcclintock Award to the student who submitted the most elegant solution to a problem in analytic mathematics: REGINALD DUNN The student who carried out the best laboratory project: MORGAN HOUGH and DANIEL WOOD Alumni Association blazers to the senior man and woman who by their participation, leadership, and sportsmanship have contributed most to the college's athletic program: NICHOLAS GAZZOLO and ERIKA McCONNELL The Caritas Society of St. John's College Award to the senior who has contributed outstanding service to the Greater Annapolis Community: PAMELA STARK and AMALIA URIBE The Elizabeth "Betsy" Marta Smith Award for the best January freshman essay: HEIDI OVERBECK Governor's Citation Recipient for the Advancement of Fitness and Health: BRIAN GOOD Governor's Summer Intern Alternate: WILLIAM BOLAN �THE REPORTER JUNE 1993 3 ANN » » » » » » PAGE3 SANTA FE CLASS OF '93 This is your chance to order copies of your senior class photos in front of pond and/or with cap and gown. Custom color 5x7 prints, $10; additional copies same print, $7. 8x1 O prints, $15; additional copies, $12. Indicate size and photo image; include your mailing address. Make checks to St. John's College. Send to Public Relations, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM 87501-4599. OLIS D SAN FE The Simon Kaplan Memorial and Board of Visitors and Governors Prize for the best senior essay: DEVIN RUSHING-SCHURR(A) and HEIDI ROBERTS(A); Honorable Mention: ANDREW HERTZOFF(A) and JEFFREY SEIDMAN(A). The Richard D. Weigle Prize for the best senior essay: SCOTT CAPEHART (SF) The Senator Millard E. Tydings Memorial Prize for the member of the Senior Class honored for excellence in speaking: SARAH ARD (A); SCOTT CAPEHART (SF) The Walter S. Baird Prize Prize for a senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, nteratur·e. or sciences: VANESSA GAMPONIA ELLERMAN RICHARD SAJA (SF) The best essay: JULIE MARIE MEADOWS (A); WOLFE (SF); ~'"''"""""'"''"'Mention: YVONNE BELANGER(A) CARRIE SAGER TIMOTHY GORDON (SF); Honorable HARRINGTON The best freshman essay: MATTHEW Graduate Institute students who submitted in JOHN FORDE and KATHERINE The best Graduate Institute student receives her diEJ~lorna. Aa-ici.\H'A (Continued from page one) reflects on what it is, it is likely to be full of In her address to the graduates she emself-contradictions, self-deceptions and phasized the need in contemporary society to cast off both the myth of "inevitable progself-frustration-hence self-defeating." Dr. Barnes also stressed a need forradiress" and the myth of "decline and fall." In lieu of these myths or "overbeliefs", she cally new thinking, particularly in the areas called for greater personal responsibility. of economics, ethnic and race relations and "This is the conviction that each of us is, the quality of human life. in fact, free and responsible," she said. "(Y]ou will have tofmdsomesortofnew "Many influential persons today would orreconstructedeconomy ... You will have argue that we are to find a different way of thinking only a set of condiabout ethnic and tioned responses to "A belief in one's own freedom stimuli, or even that [means] that we must ... create racial relations .... none of us is truly a personal value system" In the light of techan individual connological progscious subject, that ress, you will have to work out, carefully and patiently, some instead we are simply disunified reflections sort of plan and legal code to decide literally of the multitude of impressions that come to us from the social milieu. But others of us who will live and who will die ... No century "'h 1i-..i-..r,,,..., 11u feel that while, of course, we are before ours has been asked such questions so urgently. Humanity is called upon to of our own time and each of us is a unique product and that redefine itself. to a significant degree also, we are our own "In conclusion, I think that the myth of product; that is to say, we have actively inevitable progress needs to be replaced internalized what was given us and, in makby the more modest overbelief that people ing it our own, we have brought into the can make the future better than the past if world something new. they honestly try. As for any judgment as "The first logical consequence of a belief to the basic good or evil of humankind, I in one's own freedom is the recognition that like what. .. Thomas Mann, the German we must, each one, in making ourselves, novelist, once said in my presence, 'Poor cxeate a personal value system. Of course, little man. He walks in the gutter with his everyone acts implicitly by some rough sort eyes on the stars. No wonder he limps!"' of value system. But unless one consciously 1 HONORS AND PRIZES: SANTA FE ONLY » » » » » » » » » » The Medal for Academic Excellence: ANDREW FARMER; RONALD SCROGHAM The Robert Neidorf Memorial Scholarship given to a member of the Sophomore Class: SARAH VANDEUSEN; AHMED SIAM The Duane L. Peterson Scholarship given to a member of the Junior Class for academic achievement, constructive membership in the college community and commitment to postgraduate study: KENNETH WOLFE The St. John's College Community Scholarship: Class of 1994: EMILY MACKIL, PAUL SCHMIDT; Class of 1995: JOHN BLOUIN The Thorne Endowment Scholarship for summer study in preparation for medicine: Class of 1993: JOHN O'NEILL; Class of 1994: CORINNE BELSKY; Class of 1995: CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Acknowledgment of excellence for her poem: VALERIE DUFF Acknowledgment of excellence for his essay on mathematics: KENNETH WOLFE Honored for Performance in Athletics: Class of 1993: CLAY O'NEILL For ou1:standi11q Contributions in All Student Activities: Class of 1993: JOANNA CLAIRE DARLING, CAROL LaROQUE, EDWIN DIANA REMPE The Alumni Association Award to the student who has contributed most to the athletic program: BRENDAN O'NEILL Five happy new graduates at Santa Fe �4 1941 Irving S. Lewis (A) was mistakenly placed under the class of 1942 in the March issue of The Reporter. Wrong! 1948 Peter J. Davies (A) retired from InterAction May 1 and will be doing other work, "possibly consulting with the UnitedNations." 1955 "Openings," an exhibition of large drawings by Artist-in-Residence Priscilla BenderShore (A) was held recently at the Ridley Tree Education Center of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. "Mysteries, ambiguities, and discontinuities are explored in these large works on paper. Using the theme of 'openings,' she works with non-referential fragments to examine both implied and real openings," says a center brochure. She is currently preparing for "a very different" exhibit in October in Santa Monica with the muses as a motif. William Morrow & Co. is publishing A Heartbeat Away, the fourth novel of Barbara Rogan (SF) in May. The "love/ghost/hospital story" will be published simultaneously in England, France, and Germany, and movie rights have been sold to MGM. "It is not a Great Book," according to Barbara, "but, I hope, a rather good one. No Greek version is slated as yet, butl hope my fellow alumni, former tutors, and current St. John's inmates will read it in the vernacular." 1977 Lynne Gately (A) has just moved to Londonderry, Vermont, to become a publisher's sales rep. Her territory will be Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and western Massachusetts. 1979 Brother Thomas Casey (SGI) has been appointed principal of St. Raphael Academy in Pawtucket, RI. He begins his term July 1. Carol Colatrella (A) will be moving to a new job in Atlanta soon. 1980 Priscilla Bendercnit}rc,oa1 on paper 1962 Tina B. (A) was recently named associate director of staff for the United University Professions, the union representing the academic and professional faculty of the State University of New York. She had been a labor relations specialist for that union. 1971 George H. Elias, Jr. (A), the father of Ingrid, 12, and Isabelle, 19 months, has been self-employed as a business broker for over six years. He hopes to write "another book about the space program." 1973 Kimi Hasegawa (A) was graduated in January from the entry level master's degree program in physical therapy at Duke University and now works as a physical therapist at the Duke Medical Center. "My husband Steven and six-year-old Korin and I are planning to move back to Vermont this summer." The Op-Ed page of The Baltimore Sun January 27 was the forum for a discussion by Ted Hendricks (A), a doctoral candidate in English at Catholic University, of three Inaugural poems: Robert Frost's "Gift Outright," James Dickey's "The Strength of Fields" (written for Jimmy Carter's Inauguration but delivered at a postceremony party) and Maya Angelou's "On the pulse of Morning." Wrote Mr. Hendricks: "In 1961, Frost could speak with pride of our history as the fulfillment of our destiny. Today, Ms. Angelou looks back on our past with sorrow and urges us to have the courage not to live it again. Dickey's somber poem marks the mid-point in that change of consciouness. His anxious Carter reflects the crisis in our confidence in our destiny. Hopefully, the next four years will show that Dickey's night-walk Carter was heading for Maya Angelou's new day." Elaine Yvette (SF) works as an attorney representing nursing union and lives in Brooklyn with her two young children. Joel K. LaPinta (SF) of Hilo, Hawaii, was recently awarded the Certified Commercial Investment Member designation, a group made up of only 3500 of the 80,000 commercial real estate practitioners nationwide. The CCIMs are professionals who have completed substantial graduate level work in financial analysis, commercial brokerage, market analysis, tax planning, and the like. "Having retired after a brief foray into the world of stand-up comedy," write Sharon McMahon, A'80, "I am currently hiding out in Western Massachusetts, playing with computers by day and studying the 'forgotten' liberal art of Astrology, which I will be happy to discuss with any Johnnies who care to write me." years Prince George's Comnm11titv David Wolf McLean Hospital in clinical psychology this summer. "I would love to hear from old friends." 1981 Hans-Peter Soder (A), Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Nebraska, coordinated a three-day conference, "modernity, postmodemity, and the problem of reception: Nietzsche and the consequences," at the university in April. He was one of 20 speakers (his paper: "How German is the German Mind?: Genius as a Problem in Nietzsche's Fin de Siecle"). There were also musical performances of Nietzsche's lieder, choral and piano works. Michele A. Varracchio (SF) has been appointed justice for a small claims court. She has two children, David, 2, and Melissa, four months. 1982 Joel Weingarten (A) was appointed to the Millburn-Short Hills Township Committee in January, and he will face a general election for his seat in November. 1983 Leslie Bellisario Ingham (A) and Jim Ingham (A '82) announce the birth of their second child, Emmy Noether Ingham, on December 30. Jim is now working at Goddard Space Flight Center, developing software for the Japanese satellite ASCA, while "Leslie is working on her Ph.D. in Rhetoric, mothering and writing." Eric MacKnight (SGI) and Jennifer Lively (AGI'91) are living in Vienna, Austria, with their daughter Rachel, born in September, 1991, "wondering where they will be next year." "Supernova," the latest short story of writer The Reporter is published in June and December by the News and Information Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404, and in September and March by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Box 4599, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Annapolis: Nancy Osius, editor; Donna Boetig, assistant editor; Wye Allanbrook, Betsy Blume, Eva Brann, John Christensen, Benjamin Milner, Brother Robert Smith, and Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board; Tina Davidson, design. Ex-officio member: Thomas Geyer. Santa Fe: Lesli Allison, editor; Patrick Daugherty, design. USPS 018-750 Desiree Zamorano (SF) has been nominated by publisher Pinehurst Press for a collection called "The Pushcart Prize." Along with her sister, Desiree has written a play called "Anaesthesia" which will be produced next year in Los Angeles by the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts. Currently she teaches a bilingual third grade part-time and lives in Pasadena with her husband Barry Rein and daughter Simone, eight months. 1984 Robert Green (A) is a foreign correspondent stationed in Prague and covering Eastern Europe for U.S. News and World Report, United Press International, and the London Sunday Times. He broadcasts frequently on National Public Radio, Mutual Broadcasting and the Christian Science Monitor News programs. In December Dr. Karen Tourian (A) and her husband Rolf Windh moved from Baltimore to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston where he is pursuing postdoctoral work in pharmacology and she is doing rotations to complete her residency in psychiatry. Karen officially graduates in June from Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, while in July she starts a faculty position at UTMB, working in the ou1tpatie11t Anxiety and Mood Disorders program, combining teaching, clinical work and research. "Like most Johnnies I have run across since (Continued on page five) News from some of the first Santa Fe 25th reunion celebrants: Lynn Archer is painting and showing at the Elaine Horwitch Galleries in Santa Fe and Gallery 10 in Scottsdale, while continuing with her landscape gardening work in Santa Fe. The new thrill in her life has been taking up the violin. A very writes that she is a "neverending" student/teacher/writer in California. Glenn Ballard is in Oakland, California, working as a management consultant for major construction m11gl1mn is an attorney in Santa Fe. Donald Booth will not be able to make the reunion as he will be in Jeddah, Saudia Arabia, this summer. Upon his return he hopes to relocate to New Mexico and continue his career in architecture/landscape architecture. After 22 years of active duty, Carl Bostek has decided to stay in the Air Force so that he can accept an assignment at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage, Alaska. Carl, currently a nurse anesthetist in Minot, ND, and his wife, Gail, hope to retire in Alaska. Their 12-year-old son, Orrin, is looking forward to seeing wolves! Phil Chandler is currently director of the Economic, Statistical and Policy Analysis Division of the New Mexico State Land Office in Santa Fe. He also lectures in the General Honors Program at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Greg Congleton works for TVA as a systems thinker and implementor in Knoxville, TN where his wife, Mitzi, is an oil portrait artist. This summer he will be playing Capulet in "Romeo and Juliet" and Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Next fall, "those with quick eyes and good memories" can catch him in bit parts in "I'll Fly Away" or "Heat of the Night." Todd Everett is a freelance writer, mainly reviewing TV for Daily Variety and theater for the Los Angeles Times. He is also involved in various music industry projects. Lee Fischler is a sex therapist in Scottsdale, AZ. A researcher and writer, Richard Flint is currently in the Ph.D. program in history at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, with a special interest in 16th century northern New Spain. He and his wife, Shirley, directed a conference at New Mexico Highlands University last summer w·bic~ dleallt w·ithsonae ,tspc~ccs of the is a newspaper publisher in Morristown, NJ. Goldstein is a cake finisher and decorator, and a graduate student in San Francisco. Mara Graham has a fashion/ interior/graphics design firm called Divine Dezine in Devine, TX. Howen is in administration in Albuquerque. Connie Mann is currently Director of Marketing for The Farrell Group, a management development firm in Winston-Salem, NC. She has an M.L.S. degree from Rutgers. Her husband, Tom, is minister of a liberal United Church of Christ. They have a 13-year-old daughter, Mary Liz. Antigone Phalares is a teacher in Carmichael, CA. Marilynne Scott is a primary grade teacher in Middletown, CT. After 21 years in Connecticut, she and her family will be moving in June to Seattle where her husband, David, has recently begun working at the University of Washington Child Development Mental Retardation Center. Marilynne has 2 daughters, Patience Alexandra Schell, a '92 graduate of UC Berkeley, and Emily, who is 12 years old. Steven Shore is a consultant in Columbia, MD. Lester Strong is a writer/editor in New York City. Rick Wicks writes that "in his former life" he was an accountant/manager for a development consulting firm in Washington, DC, but is now a graduate student in economics in Goteborg, Sweden. He is sorry he won't be able to get back for the reunion. This summer he will "make a break into le.a.ming Swedish." �5 1990 In February and March, Michelle Baker (SF) had three photographs on exhibition at the Maryland Hall in ......u~.,.,,,,....u. William Culley received his in psychology from Duquesne University in 1992 and is a first year Ph.D. student in the Phenomenological Existential Psychology program. He is a teaching assistant and works as an intern at an institute for forensic psychology. "I am still drinking Scotch and smoking Camel cigarettes." 1991 George Mashour (A) has just been awarded a physician-scientist fellowship at Georgetown University School of Medicine. As one of five fellows, he will receive full support for an M.D.-Ph.D. program; his Ph.D. will be in neuroscience. After graduation, he did pre-med work for a year at the University of Michigan where he was a researcher in clinical neuroscience. In 1992-93 he has been a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Hospitals in the department of neurosurgery. 1992 graduation, I still miss my days in college," she writes, "miss reading and the luxury of exploration of ideas. I think I ended up going into psychiatry since it's the field of medicine which deals with what makes people human, and I find it the most intellectually challenging of medical areas." She looks forward to the 10th reunion in 1994. 1985 Brooke Zykan (A) was married last September to Ted Bernstein. 1986 Andrew Joseph Krivak (A) took his first vows as a Jesuit Scholastic in the New York Province Society of Jesus (the Jesuits). He is currently studying in the graduate philosophy program at Fordham University. In 1990, he received an MFA from Columbia University in creative writing. Recently he has been a frequent contributor to AMERICA magazine: "Tales of Brave Ulysses: A" Reflection on AIDS Ministry" (5-30-92), and "Gates of Mystery: the Art of Holy Russia" (2-6-93). Jean-Daniel Truog (AGI) moved to Swampscott, MA, in 1990, where he founded The Cornerstone Institute for Values and Relationships, and sees clients as a life management consultant. In The Swampscott Reporter's May 18 issue, Mr. Truog is quoted as saying that in this pressure filled, disjointed society, "People need to talk to someone who can bring perspective to their struggles." Given the weakening of traditional sources of value-community, church, family-we need to develop new structures to help people make decisions about morals, values and relationships, he says. In 1989-1990, he was awarded the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, based on student evaluations of the seminar on Freud's world view he taught there for four years. He is listed in Who's Who in Theology and Science, Who's Who in American Education and Who's Who in the East. Capt. Hal Williamson, USMC (A) is serving a six month tour as a United Nations observer in the western Sahara, monitoring the cease-fire between the Polisario front and Morocco. 1987 Wayne Anderson (A) and Joy Andrea Larkin (A'88) announce the birth of their child Audrey Joy Anderson Larkin, born April 29 at St. Vincent's Hospital in NYC. Roberta Carnevale (SGI) is in Australia this summer studying and doing research in biology. Tracy Fox Carpenter (A), was married to Hugh in 1990 and gave birth last September to Melissa Margaret. Alexandra Kambouris (A) was graduated summa cum laude from the Detroit College of Law in June, 1992, and is now working as a judicial clerk to Charles L. Levin on the Michigan Supreme Court. She plans to return to school in the fall to study tax law. Martin Sterbal (A) has changed his name to Nick Adams. He is now living in San Francisco. 1988 The Santa Fe Trail By Bicycle, the second guidebook by Elaine Pinkerton-Coleman (SGI) came out in May. Beginning at the end of the trail in Santa Fe, the handbook guides the cyclist through Colorado and Kansas to the trail's origin in New Franklin, Missouri, providing a historical overview as well. Elaine's frrst book, Santa Fe on Foot, has gone through two printings. 1989 Marine Lt. Jeff Kojac (A), formerly the officer in charge of a Marine detachment in Korea, has been deployed to Thailand as officer in charge of a detachment. While he was operations officer in Okinawa, he visited Edith Updike (A '86) and James Kennelly (A '85) in Tokyo. "They are both doing fantastically," he reports. Christopher Lipman (SF) was married to Alison Augusta in January in Santa Fe. Christopher is a senior bond trader for Miller and Schroeder Financial Inc. and Alison is a medical office manager. They live in the San Diego area. Clowning around with Mandy By NANCY osrus "Pure enjoyment-entertainment-is good for the soul." That is the word from Mandy the Clown, aka Amanda Fernandez, A'89, who brought Circus Beyond to the Annapolis campus on Reality Weekend as the last event in the 1992-93 lecture series. The usual Friday Night decorum was missing when the front rows were filled with the very young making the sort of noise you have to make if a magician is fitting you out with a special hat made of balloons. After the dean's introduction came Mandy in motley, a huge floppy hat, a red rubber nose and size 38 shoes. Her "lecture" soon blended into the real thing, a troupe of 21 giving one of the first performances of the first community circus in Maryland. Audience participation is very big in community circus. On the St. John's stage, audience members soon found themselves learning to juggle, or evading juggling missiles as the pros clowned ar01md. When the audience wasn't the show, there were acrobats, fire eaters, trapeze performers, and clowns dancing on stilts, tumbling on a trampoline and juggling, juggling, juggling-two hours of the very sort of stuff Mandy claims is good for the soul. She got the idea in Russia last spring, she says, when she went to visit the Teatre Klownov, one of the best of the numerous community circuses in the country. One day she presented herself to impresario Tereza Durova, asking "to watch." Suddenly she was perfonning-juggling on stilts before a Muscovite audience. This was a real shift from the prestigious Moscow Arts Theater School, revered site of the beginning of Method acting, where she was then studying as an exchange student. At the Arts Theater the education was "very Russian-you kept nodding your head" at the wisdom handed down by the masters, she says. While she felt "deeply indebted" for the experience, the Johnny inside her-used to give and take in the exploration of ideas-rebelled. Mandy, 27, has been a clown for 10 years. Among her talents are stiltwalking, juggling, unicycling, mime, slapstick, dance and magic. In 1982 she attended the Ringling Brothers Clown School, and later worked as a solo entertainer and in productions of Barnum. She entered St. John's in 1985. "I like spectacle," she explains. "St. John's is a wonderful spectacle. You study the Great Books, you meet in the Great Hall, you wear costumes... I had to come here." Since graduation, she has performed at President Clinton's Tim Hanes (A) has been living and studying Spanish in Antigua Guatemala, which he describes as "much like Annapolis, with cobblestone streets, a historic district with colonial houses ... but it is surrounded by volcanos rather than the Bay." He planned to go on a two week retreat at a monastery on the Honduran border before returning to the States to work as a boat pilot for the summer season. Johann Klaassen (SF), a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, has been invited to read his paper "Oedipal Ethics: Taint and Morality" at the Tenth Annual International Social Philosophy Conference in Helsinki in August. See page 19 for ALUMNI REGISTER CORRECTIONS inaugural celebration, at the French Embassy, on WJZ-TV's "Rise and Shine," at the John F. Kennedy Center Open House, at the Preakness Balloon Launch, and inevitably, in Barnum. Home from Russia and inspired by the flourishing circus tradition, last winter she held auditions for the Circus Beyond and collected her troupe. In traditional plays, there is a "wall" separating the audience from the performance on the stage, she comments. Because circus breaks through this "wall" when performers and audience interact, Mandy finds it superior to legitimate theater. There was no wall at St. John's when the Circus Beyond came to town. But there was plenty of what Mandy thinks is the best of rewards, what she calls "involuntary music." That's laughter. Amanda Fernandez in Red Square, 1992 �L E T T E R S Note from the Editor fu response to reader request, we ask our correspondents please to keep their letters to 300 words or less. We will reserve the right to shorten longer letters. The Editors To the Editor: I have received a copy of the Beloit Fiction a student-edited of short stories and other fiction. It seems to me an ideal format for those of our alumni who wish to try publishing their writing. Beloit Fiction Journal Box 11, Beloit College 700 College Street Beloit, WI 53511 Submissions must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. T 0 choice of sexual partners to agree that as a human being, I deserve equal protection under the law. The freedom to pursue the career and family status that will result in my happiness and the realization of my fullest potential both as an individual and as a member of society is my inalienable right. And until such time as ignorance and prejudice no longer deny me my equal rights, laws must be passed to protect the gay and lesbian community against such draconian attitudes. We ask you to stand with us in our appeal for the preservation of our human rights. Judge us not by our sexuality, but rather by our humanity. Oppose publicly and vocally those who would isolate and condemn us on the basis of sex, religion, race, and sexual orientation. We ask you for your support not in seeking special privileges, just equal protection under the law. Sincerely, Christopher Tegeler A'89 Eva T. H. Brann, Dean, Annapolis To the Editor: A battle is taking place nationwide. Not that it did not exist before, but increasingly the eye of the nation is being focused on a human rights movement. The gay and lesbian community is fast becoming a political force, many voices speaking as one in defense of our civil rights. Anti-human rights legislation in the form of discriminatory laws focusing on gays and lesbians is increasing. Laws such as Amendment 2 in Colorado are infringements on human rights no different from those imposed on people for their race, sex, or religious beliefs. A single aspect of a person to the neglect of all others is isolated and used to identify that person. Diversity is condemned, made to seem a threat to the status quo. fu reality, the condemnation is the actual threat. We, the gay and lesbian community, are not a fringe element. Our sexual orientation is not a means by which to identify us, but rather an aspect of our humanity. As consenting adults, we ask for no more than the preservation of our right to pursue happiness. Our sexual orientation does not affect our ability to function in the workplace, the family, or any other area of society. There are those that would say that we are seeking special privileges. All that we ask is that we are not isolated and condemned for our sexual orientation. This unnatural condition of discriminatory practices prevents us as members of society from contributing to our fullest potential. I speak as one who has suffered injustice. Until two years ago, I was a teacher. When the administration discovered that I was gay, they dismissed me on that basis alone. I was told that these two aspects of myself, as educator and a gay man, were paradoxical at best, though they were quite separate and distinct aspects of my life. This is but one isolated case of injustice drawn from my own personal experiences. But one is too many in a country that claims liberty and justice for all. I write this letter as an appeal for social tolerance. One need not agree with my JUNE 1993 THE REPORTER PAGE6 To the Editor: This letter is, I hope, the last in a volley of correspondence between the College and myself on the subject of the recent failure of the Board to pass an amendment that would have banned discrimination against homosexuals. As a somewhat remote member of the St. John's community, I was more than perturbed to hear about this matter from a former classmate, who is a member of the Board. I have read Dean Brann' s discussion before the amendment was voted on; I have read President Nelson's apologia after the fact. Although less I am by no means pacified First, allow me to say that Mr. Nelson is sadly mistaken if he thinks that this is a matter of concern only to gay and lesbian members of the St. John's community. Insofar as it echoes the public debate that is raging in that larger community called our nation, it is a matter of concern to everyone. The issue is whether or not homosexuals are entitled to those same civil rights accorded to ethnic groups, religions, races, etc. The laws which still fail to guarantee full civil liberties to homosexuals will have to be changed. That is the process that is right now occurring, not without increasing opposition from a fanatic fringe of the population. In its failure to enact the amendment, the Board tacitly gave its approval to a form of discrimination that still has statutory legitimacy in many national institutions-the military and the state of Colorado to name two that have enjoyed media attention recently. However the Board might like to skirt the issue with the old "educational relevancy" sleight-ofhand, the outcome of their debate clearly favors a continuation of institutionalized discrimination against homosexuals. This is not a question of legality. Of course the College cannot do more than offer a redundant confirmation of federal law. It is, though, a question of public relations. Not only would the Board have done much in passing the amendment toward lending their moral support to the homosexuals in the St. John's community, but they might have lent their voices of enlightenment to the world at large. As it stands, EDITOR THE SJC information director sets record straight Editor's Note: The following letter originally appeared in the Annapolis Capital. To the Editor: Where does all this nonsense start? St. John's and the Naval Academy's annual croquet match did not begin as the result of a barroom argument in town, as Angela Callahan quoted a middie in your 20 issue. No Naval Academy ever boasted, as a St. John's student said, that "We could beat you at anything." The origins, as reported in the story, are pure fantasy. The croquet matches were begun in 1983 by a particularly gentle St. John's freshman, Kevin Heyburn, of Houston, Tex., who conceived the whole idea as a gesture of friendship and one way to bring students of the two institutions closer together. Writing in the public relations office at the time, I did the first press releases on this event. I quote Mr. Heyburn in The St. John's Reporter as saying after the match that the objective of the tournament had been achieved It enabled students from the two institutions, separated by only a street, to have a good time together getting to know one another. "Everyone had fun," according to Midshipman Mark Hagerott, Oxford1 .. e.Lll whatever their reasoning, whatever the vote, St. John's as an institution seems as tolerant of intolerance as it is parochial in its outlook. That at least is the opinion of this disinterested alumna. Sincerely, Dorie Brodie A'69 s years later To the Editor: In the New Program the student is bombarded with new and powerful ideaswith new ways of looking at things. A good student, according to Buchanan, becomes disturbed and confused and may even become ill emotionally and physically. This process is suffering causing learning, hence education. When I asked Dean Buchanan how long I should expect to be so confused,_ he assured me, "at least as long as you're here." He told me that perhaps I was a better student than my seemingly unperturbed classmates who were doing much better with the classwork. The concept is profound yet simple, and applies, to some degree, to all areas of education. The formula, (bombardment causes disturbance and confusion possibly leading to emotional and physical illness bringing suffering hence learning and education). A student who does not experience this process may be 'missing the boat' at St. John's. Because of this concept Buchanan was viewed by many, especially freshmen, as being a demonic character, indeed an embodiment of the devil. A fellow seminar student described the ancient Greeks as "the most evil men who ever lived." He probably was bound as a Rhodes scholar at the time who served as Navy coach. "The Midshipmen had an opportunity to get together with St. J obnnies, and that was the main thing. Winning or losing, both sides came out on top. There was a festive atmosphere. It was a perfect success." Since first being associated in 1952 in various roles with St. John's, I have observed that, whenever relationships between the two schools come up for discussion, competitiveness and tension areinvariablystressed ,. : schools are alike in that they are for the most part self-contained, and students are separated as much by the intensity of their academic programs as anything else. When students do get together, for seminars or other events, their relationship is amicable and civilized. There will be rivalry when the match is held, and it will be real rivalry, but it will be in the spirit of fun, not an outcome of a crudely conceived, Hollywood-type, sit-com situation. It's regrettable that this story has been perpetuated. Rebecca M. Wilson (Director, News and Information at Annapolis, 1973-1988) disturbed and confused. Those who think they can go tnJJp1ngJly through the New Program and be uns:carnea are either not serious students who do not belong at St. John's or those who can survive disturbance and confusion and graduate. Dean Buchanan wrote to me after my year at St. John's "your generation is increasingly lacking in the fundamental habits the great books must be built on." I'm sure he was including the constipation I had experienced while a freshman. He advised me to "work in a factory and get on top of my music". Thirty years later I earned my B.A. at NYU (Dean's list) and my M.A. at Santa Fe-Grad. Inst. '78. To this day the great books disturb me, but they don't make me ill. fu this alumnus' view, Scott Buchanan was the greatest educator of our time. George Cayley, A'45, SGI'78 Dear Alumni: Do, please, remember that I receive each year several announcements of fairly high positions in education and sometimes requests for St. John's graduates in particular. Ms. Barbara Altman, our Director of Placement, keeps these requests on file. If you are looking for a position, please check with her from time to time. Sincerely, Eva T. H. Brann, Dean, Annapolis �LESLI ALLISON Over the several years Graduate Institute students on both campuses have greater inclusion in the life of the In recent to the St. John's Board of Visitors and Santa Fe Graduate Institute Director Buchenauer concern of the Graduate Institute students in Santa Fe is are less than full members of the St. John's ,..,.,.,...,,..,.,..., ...... i-.., In the Buchenauer listed the G.I. the administration and the students have taken to address the issue. Changes over the past two years in Santa Fe have focused on inclusion in college ceremonies and events, assistance in locating housing and financial aid, tutorial offerings in Greek and French, extended food service and bookstore hours and an exchange of representatives on the undergraduate Student Polity and G.I. Councils. Frank D' Andrea, president of the Santa Fe Graduate Council, said the council has devoted much of its energy to achieving greater unity with the college. "When I first became a member of the council, we had difficulty being taken seriously," he said. "There was this segregation thing happening. So, when I became chair, we wanted to develop programming that invited graduates to mingle with undergraduates." He added that response to increased G.I. participation has been positive on all fronts. "The interaction this semester has been phenomenal, on both sides," he said. "Undergraduates have come up to me and made comments like, 'I didn't even know there were graduate students on campus until this semester."' LESLI ALLISON An inherent and arguably necessary tension has been present within St. John's College since the advent of the New Program in 193 7. It is the tension between education for the sake of education and education as related to "the real world." On the one hand, we often argue that what we do at St. John's has nothing to do with preparing a student for a career. On the other hand, we also claim that our education may, in fact, be the very best preparation for any career. The development of analytical skills, the ability to communicate and cultivation of a respect for diverse viewpoints have proven beneficial in all fields, from science to business. It should come as little surprise, then, to discover that such a tension also is present in the Graduate Institute. In recent discussions with the St John's Board of Visitors and Governors and among G.l students on both crunp1use~s, the role and structure of the Grad.lnslltute has been under consideration. gratduate students on the Santa Fe campus, the focus of discussion has been on PAGE7 THE REPORTER JUNE 1993 two programs. "They don't have the same kind of prosame kind of students," he said. u1n1rlr1r• n with often more serious than urn:ier~atauares. is true don't have the same kind of 1993 GI diploma recipients at Santa Fe are au smiles. Lesli Allison photo While changes are being made in several areas, one of the most difficult challenges for graduate students to overcome is the accusation on the part of some undergraduates and even tutors that the G.I. program is "Great Books Lite." According to the report by Ms. Buchenauer, this issue became heated tl:rree years ago when an undergraduate wrote an anonymous letter to The Moon claiming that graduate students in his preceptorial were uneducated and unprepared for serious discussion. (In Santa Fe, G.ls and undergraduates share preceptorials in the fall semester.) the academic caliber of the program. The question being asked is whether the Graduate Institute should apply more rigorous standards for admission, increase the academic demands on students and require a master's essay. (G.I. students currently are required to write a major paper at the end of each segment. All four papers taken together constitute the equivalent of a traditional master's thesis.) Currently, students seeking admission to the program are required to submit an essay, letters of recommendation and official transcripts. All applicants must have completed a minimum of a B.A. in order to qualify. Applications are judged primarily on the quality of the essay and the letters of recommendation. Since the Graduate Institute often attracts older students, GRE scores are not required and less emphasis is given to grade point average. In her report to the board, Ms. Buchenauer said admission standards over the past several years have been applied more strictly than in the past and students are asked to leave when theirrecords show them not to have academic promise. Proponents of tougher admissions and academic standards cite the need for a more competitive degree in terms of application to doctoral programs. Opponents claim the de- Graduate Institute students in seminar at Santa Fe. Ms. Buchenauer said thatinher observation, the tension between the two student groups may be exaggerated to some degree. "Very few G.ls come up against any opposition from undergraduates. The views of a few may have disproportionately colored the picture." In response to the perception that the G.I. program is "Great Books Lite," Santa Fe Tutor Sean Collins suggested it is a mistake to compare the gree currently is competitive and fear that more strenuous demands would drive off the majority of students. who approach the program as learning for the sake of learning. Opponents also fear the repercussions of a more time intensive program on teachers and other students who work more than half time. A recent survey conducted among students on this topic revealed that the majority of students favor keeping the current program, but adding an optional master's thesis and informal Greek tutorials. Only 13% of students who responded to the survey favored the creation of a second and altogether more rigorous master's program. Of those who do favor a second program, many see the Graduate Insitute as a stepping stone to a higher degree. Frank D 'Andrea, president of the Graduate Institute Council, said he personally does not favor a more intensive program but is aware of the interest among some students. "There's a little bit of concern that there's not enough expected of us," he said. aisag:i:ee. I try to every ounce out of every book I read. sure that's true for everybody. There's also concern from people who want to pursue their doctorate, St. John's carries some but at the same weight in academic circles. are really interested in changing the program dramatthey should have considered that before coming here." Santa Fe Graduate Institute Director Nancy Buchenauer has taken steps, such as the recent survey, to identify specific concerns and possible solutions. "What I have tried to do is find out what in the program the students most wanted," "Great Books Lite is an unfair ru>lr>1<1r.,.,,_ unfair because insofar as it applies, it to all of us. We're all slightly deficient in our to the great books but some acquaintance with them is better than none at all." Regarding the quality of the graduate experience, Ms. Buchenauer said the tutorial is a good place to discover advantages of the graduate program. "I believe the St. John's College faculty thinks that the seminar is the key to our program and the tutorial in the undergraduate program gives us an opportunity to slow down and look at detail. I think it's important to study language. We assume our graduates do that work elsewhere so we use the tutorial as slower paced, more in-depth seminars. I suspect the entire faculty would love to do that with the undergraduates. I think there is a quality of the most important kind in our present graduate program." she said "They seem to want Greek and they seem to want a master's thesis. I'm in the process of writing a proposal to the Instruction Committee that would give an option to write a master's essay." As far as Greek tutorials, Ms. Buchenauer said there has been an optional Greek class offered every semester that she has been director and for many past summers. Unfortunately, the enrollment usually starts high at 15 to 20 participants and drops to two by the end of the term. One solution might be to charge students for the Greek tutorial. "They are getting a major service and a fee might make them more committed," she said "They wouldn't drop out after a tutor had committed a major portion of time to it." In response to the proposal to create a second "all-required" master's program, Ms. Buchenauer said the problems arising from such an endeavor might be greater than the benefits. The proposal originally came about as the result of former Graduate Institute Director TimMiller' s efforts to address these same concerns among students. "The second program was double the number of hours, could be completed in 3 semesters and wouldcostmore,"Ms. Buchenauer said. "This raised some difficulties in terms of ' financial aid were afraid it produce a distinction among students, the star students and the lesser students." U'l..o:>~ <>v.1.uw.vu.., as Mr. D' Andrea suggested, is to address individual students' expectations prior to enrollment rather than to change the program itself. "I think the middle ground lies in the expectations you have when you come to the program in the frrst place," Mr. D' Andrea said. �PAGES JUNE 1 THE We Johnnies entered a room where everyone was standing waiting to be seated, but once again it still was not time to eat. I realized that not only do OPlJOsites attract but also can unite. all stood the prein which, except for those mids guests, the 4,500-person joined together for a show, marching in lines to the sound of drums and band "God Bless America." Once gathered in which houses every front of Bancroft one of them, the music ceased and all the tourists, including us, watched as a few leaders emitted sharp alien commands. The drums sounded again and the mass of middies marched into the building for lunch. Could you see all 400 Johnnies marching in formation to lunch at 12 noon every day? Next we were escorted in. We traveled up the large stairwell, entered the marble entryway, walked across the vast common room, down some stairs, and into the dining hall. a officer delivered the announcements. The middies cheered for two things: One was for a matter of dress; the next was for us. gave a cheer for the St. John's/Naval Academy croquet match to be on the morrow. Alex Vallega, of the St John's croquet team, in tum approached the dium. He began his speech with some tation. He told us later that when he stood there and saw the large mass of middies staring at him, his mind began to wander. He imagined all 4,500 middies charging at him. He wanted to say, "You guys look hungry. I think I'll try this again later." But Vallega didn't say this. After a few moments, he stormed ahead with words about the virtues of the match. Not only do middies go to lunch together; they also eat the same food. "I understand what Pfister means by variety," Michael Camper, senior croquet member, said later. Mike Pfister is the Mar(Continued on page 13) 1 Not content with humbling the Naval Academy team in an earlier match, the Ginger Cover Retirement Community mallet team also took St. John's measure this season with a 2-1 victory May 7 to snag the Generation Gap trophy. The Gray and White team, as they call themselves, was led by Capt. Tom Reed, USN (Ret.) County, and City teams Champagne, strawberries, and great good cheer prevailed May 12 when representatives from state, county, and city matched mallets with a boffo college team and each other for the coveted McGarvey Cup. This 0-kaaay, Al. time it was President Chris Nelson, Vice President for Advancement Jeff Bishop, and Treasurer Bud Billups who strode out on the field to do battle with the politicos. Students were on hand in generous numbers as coaches-two to five with each team-to give tips on the ancient game. Other participants were Del. Mike Busch and Cindy Abbott, state; County Councilpersons Maureen Lamb and Dave Boschert, county; and Mayor Al Hopkins and Alderman John Hammond, city. The most remarkable moment of the af(C ontinued on page 13) Annapolis Mayor Al Hopkins.) Keith Harvey photo s DONNA BOETIG You couldn't swear to it, and most certainly there would be divergent opinions, but St. John's College's eighth victory in its 11th annual croquet match against theN aval Academy on April 24 marked a turning point, albeit subtle, in the Annapolis campus's sole intercollegiate sport. No longer would spectators-students engrossed in novels or philosophical discussions, or regulars from up and down the East Coast who join Annapolitans for this harbinger of spring-be allowed to lose themselves to the ambiance of young women in flowing flocks, the strains of Bach, and of the sweet smells of spring while a very serious sport was occurring. Early on this year's Imperial Wicket Alejandro "Alex" Vallega '93-heralded preseason as the team's "silentpower"-put the croquet's casual observers on warning: this match was serious. And why not? Since the U.S. Croquet Association was founded in 1977, membership has climbed from five clubs to more than 350. University of Massachusetts students earn credit for the sport, and at Yale it is played on astroturf. Previous attempts to transform the quintessential community picnic here into a more official sport included four years ago adopting the U.S. Croquet Association rules. Navy commissioned the services of Yale's croquet coach one year, and for the past few years the Johnnies have also met mallets with members of the city and county council on one afternoon, and with residents of the Ginger Cove retirement community on another. This year The Gadfly published "Croquet: a spectator's guide," a nuts and bolts piece expounding on such rudiments as the colors of balls, and whether they're "dead" or "alive." Copies of these rules were distributed on match day. The best strategy is speeding up the match itself. With three wins out of five needed to claim the Annapolis Cup, "our idea was to throw out our three strongest teams right off the bat," says player Walter Sterling, A'93. "We did it for the crowd because if we could win the first games, the outcome could be determined in 3-4 hours, rather than 5-6." At first an early victory seemed within a mallet's reach. "There were ups and downs on all teams, but it looked like we'd be able (Continued on page 13) Dean Eva Brann Devin Rushing-Schurr, A'93, and Jennifer Rushing-Schurr, A'93, see last match as undergraduates. Keith Harvey �JUNE 1993 PAGE9 THE REPORTER 0 n the eve of its 300th birthday, St. John's College is charting the course for its future. In April, the college publicly launched The Campaign for Our Fourth Century. Over the next four years, the college will seek to raise $30 million. The campaign comes in response to a two year study on both campuses in which long range planning committees assessed the financial needs of the college at approximately $80 million. The figure was pared to $30 million. • l • ion Among the needs identified by the committees, the most critical were stronger endowments for tutors and financial aid, funds for construction and renovation of the physical facilities, annual operating expenditures, and the establishment of a fund for the advancement of liberal education. In July 1991, the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors authorized the campaign and Ray Cave (A' 48) agreed to be chairman. Paul Mellon and Mara Robinson agreed to serve as honorary co-chairs. Between July 1991 and April 1993, the Campaign Management Committee solicited members of the board, the faculty and close friends of the college for the leadership gifts necessary for the success of the campaign. One of the highlights of this early phase was the announcement by Annapolis Dean Eva Brann that the combined faculty of both campuses had pledged $1.7 million to the effort. In April, at public kick-off celebrations in Annapolis and Santa Fe, the college announced more than $15 million toward the $30 million goal. Speaking on behalf of the college in Annapolis were Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer and former senator and U.S. Secretary of Labor, the Honorable William Brock. In Santa Fe, the keynote speaker was Timothy Foote, editorial board member of Smithsonian Magazine. Senator Jeff Bingaman was unable to attend but did forward his remarks for the occasion. In March 1993, the Marylan'.d State Board of Public Works approved St. John's bid to buy the old state Hall of Records. At the Annapolis "kick-off", Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer announced the passage of a $2.9 million State of Maryland Capital Facilities Improvement Matching Grant for renovating the building for use as a new college library. Other major gifts to date include a $2.5 million commitment from Paul Mellon and $3.1 million from Mara and Charles Robinson. With The Campaign for Our Fourth Century now in its public phase, campaign staff and volunteers will begin widespread solicitation of alumni, friends, foundations and corporations. Support from these constituencies is vital to the success of the campaign and the future of the college. Anyone wishing to find out more about The Campaign for Our Fourth Century can contact Jeff Bishop in Annapolis, Jeff Morgan in Santa Fe, or call the Campaign Hotline at 1-800-234-3691. • • • and counting �WHAT THEY SAID Campaign .......................... L ..., ... .. "And so f,,..,,,,,,,,,,,f coni-im1ttir1£ $30 far beyond attempted It is an effort that test us But when we finish, when we are successful for we must be successful - we will have enabled this historic institution to play its proper role for future generations. Tomorrow's students need St. John's, and what it represents. So does American education." Santa Fe President John Agresto: "As everyone knows, it's hard to say whether we're a radical college or a traditional one. Everyone, literally everyone here, is given the tools to think for himself by reading more of the most revolutionary tracts ever written ...Homer, the Bible, Shakespeare, Dante, Darwin, Marx, Madison. It's amazing to think that studying the best works of civilization is, today, a truly radical act." The Honorable Jeff Bingaman: "For nearly 30 years as one of three private institutions in New Mexico, St. John's College has come to hold a position of integral importance in the ongoing educational debate around our country and our state." �OTHER TIIlNGS THEY SAID: President Agresto: "College presidents get to worry. this year? Will federal aid not go up? Do we have enough in financial aid? Will someone on the steps? Why doesn't that student have any clothes on? I had a fu.ll head of brown hair four years ago when I took this job." President Nelson: "We read the oldest books known to antiquity, starting with Genesis, and the youngest author on our program of instruction has been dead for decades. We may even be the oldest institution of any kind in this state, with the possible exception of our good comptroller, Louis L. Goldstein, whom I learned a few months ago had already been elected to his fifth term of public office when Charles Carroll of Carrollton was signing the Declaration of Independence." Timothy Foote: "It was a pleasure a few weeks ago to look at a vuuetm sent along from President Agresto's office read that 'The Will Be Returning to St. John's 'And there they were: Homer and Aeschylus, and Euripides, Herodotus and Thucydides, Plato and 1Jot·1"n1" past Shakespeare and Rousseau (who has 1 "'"' I the last time I was in this gym I was also a but of the dance committee. Believe me, the gym hasn't changed in 45 we were never able to make it look as good as it does right now. St. John's was not coed back then-a - and one of my responsibilities was to convince the aa1muus1:rai:ors of assorted women's colleges that should send bus loads of students to St. dates for our dances. have improved." r"1rir 1 1"1'1"1rna Endowment $16,800,000 (563) • For Tutors and Academic Program e For Students: Financial Aid • For Advancement of Liberal Education 513,600,000 2,200,000 1,000.000 Physical Facilities 58,200,000 (27CJc) • Student ActiYities Center - 5dnta Fe • Hall of Records Building & Woodward Hall 4.700,000 3,500,000 Operating Funds SS,000,000 (17CJc) Total $30,000,000 Keith Harvey and Tony Vinella photos �PAGE12 OU Free Inquiry in the Secondary Classroom By Bruce Kelly Bruce Kelly teaches English at Lake Stevens High School, Lake Stevens, WA (The following excerpts from Mr. Kelly's article, which appeared in the Fall 1992 issue ofthe Washington English Journal, are reprinted with his permission. His story describes the Touchstones Project, a reading and discussion program developed for elementary, middle, and secondary school students, by tutors Geoffrey Comber, Nicholas Maistrellis, and Howard Zeiderman.) A very long time ago I read an essay of Sir Francis Bacon in which he remarks. "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man" (208). Reading and writing we emphasize, but "conference" in the sense Bacon describes is almost impossible to achieve as most classes are presently constituted Each of us can remember the times we might have told students whose talents augur well for success in college that one of its greatest benefits is not necessarily what information a person learns in classes, but what he or she accrues merely as a function of being in a place where intellectual exercise is at a premium. Sadly, only rarely have I witnessed animated discussions in the classroom. Usually, what passes for discussion even in the best of situations is carefully orchestrated ritual directed by the teacher to achieve a certain specific end, and whose rules, though rarely overtly expressed, are implied and easily internalized by the better students. When students do become actively involved, the discussion usually has turned upon some topical issue, e.g., abortion, capital punishment, animal experimentation, etc., in which opinions were adamantine even prior to the exercise, and during which most responses are parroted phrases or hastily erected rebuttals. fu such contexts the issue becomes far less important than the egos involved. Though many teachers think such exchanges are wonderful, I believe they rarely do much good in truly changing opinions or opening up new vistas of inquiry. Most often the result is either anger or a sullen silence on the part of the most brow-beaten party and a black eye for the notion of classroom discussion. Having despaired of ever finding a satisfactory method of implementing functional discussion short of supernaturally changing the entire tax structure of the state and mandating class sizes of twelve, I was one day asked by my vice principal to look over The Touchstones Project, a booklet describing a curriculum developed by Geoffrey Comber, Howard Zeiderman, and Nicholas Maistrellis, three senior tutors at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. I took it and gave her the obligatory and perfunctory "Thank you" with every intention of sending it the way of most other unsolicited "revolutionary" programs whose hype far exceeds their promise. I'm glad I didn't. It is a discussion-based program, but its discussions are decidedly not of the sort characterized above. Nor do the authors of this program betray in their promotional material any of that commonplace educational hucksterism that profits from the latest reductive and philosophically or experimentally untenable notion that educators seem so unreflectively to embrace ("left-brained and right-brained abilities," "learning styles," or my favorite because it rings with such irony, "critical thinking skills," for example). Instead, their goals are much more straightforward, simple, and in some ways, far more subversive and potentially more threatening to the status quo in some classrooms. According to the authors, in their curriculum, "The highest value is placed on the courage to explore one's own beliefs. Exploring one's own beliefs is where one most requires the cooperation of others. To be able to cooperate involves speaking our opinions clearly for all to hear, listening, analyzing, and thinking about problems that do not have complete and simple solutions." phoric. Many better students often find themselves at sea when they discover that playing to the teacher is actually discouraged, that correctness is no longer a real goal (nor is it even possible), that nothing translates directly into a grade and that the parameters of the exercise seem so amorphous. They, for a while, often drop out of discussion. The so-called "poorer" students are not won over immediately either. If they customarily have viewed responding positively in class as a sacrifice of personal integrity or "kissing up," they are not going to relinquish such a view overnight. Sometimes they will say outrageous things to test the teacher's integrity or will converse a bit with a neighbor. Other times, they will not say a word, but sit sullenly by. But, and this is crucial, every student is interested in the proceedings because of their novelty. Moreover, as I will elaborate on later, because the discussions are peer-run, such negative behaviors seem to evaporate much more quickly than anyone has a right to expect them to. The teacher's guide is remarkably candid and thorough about all these reactions and others. It explains the purpose behind each choice of text and offers suggestions for how to conduct the discussions as well as proposes what kinds of expectations one might have for student behavior to date. Changing long-established ideas about "learning," "education/' "reflection," etc., is not easily effected, as we all recognize, and The Touchstones Project makes no claims of being the balm of Gilead What it does offer is incremental improvement for the class as a whole. For example, Zeiderman comments in the guide that "the principal accomplishment of the first six classes [six weeks of Touchstones discussions] was to get students to speak to one another and not to you [the teacher]" (46). The guide goes on to address the problems that a teacher has probably noted to date, among them, silences, side conversations, dominance by a small group of students, dismissive behavior using body language, long personal anecdotes, and so on-pretty much the whole panoply of undesired behaviors as far as productive, inclusive, and efficient discussion is concerned. Consequently, the next seven discussions are organized around helping students "become more aware of how their behaviors play a role in creating a successful discussion" (Zeiderman 48). fu these later discussions students may be involved in having discussions about discussions, or work from more formal seating arrangements, or both. Throughout all these variations, though, the basic format of reading a classic passage and discussing it remains consistent. f/This unwillingness on the part of the program to move too quickly instills in almost all students the basi"c notion that everyone is capable of thinking and learning on his or her own. But what it has done for some in a very short time, I think, has been nothing short of phenomenal. D JUNE 1993 THE REPORTER T his unwillingness on the part of the program to move too quickly instills in almost all students the basic notion that everyone is capable of thinking and learning on his or her own. But what it has done for some in a very short time, I think, has been nothing short of phenomenal. I recall a discussion very early on in my experience with the program in which the students were given a selection from Continuity and Irrational Numbers by Richard Dedekind When I first looked at it, I groaned, "My God, it's about math!" Four of the five previous discussions had involved small stories or myths from which the students were invited to draw inferences-in short, to do something not unlike something they were supposed to do in English class. The teacher's guide had predicted that students' previous attitudes toward math were likely to color their attitudes toward the text and the discussion. At the outset that is exactly what happened: after the initial complaints about the subject matter had been addressed, there ensued long periods of silence (these are, by the way, initially rather awkward and unpleasant for both teachers and students who both have been accustomed to "filled periods"; they are also, however, bound to occur in Touchstones classes and are useful in encouraging students to take responsibility for their own learning and in providing them a quiet moment in which to reflect). fu this case, though, one or two students in each class "discovered" the text and generated a discussion in which members of the class addressed insightfully the relative truth of "mathematical" reality versus the illusory nature of the experiential "reality" most of them unquestioningly had accepted. fu each of the three subsequent times this passage has come up for discussion in my classes, the results have been the same-students have left the classroom with a new appreciation for the subtleties of their experience in the world and have, for all practical purposes, begun to understand what it means to be a thinking person in the truest sense of the world. In short, most students left discussing the discussion. I would hasten to add one additional, but most salient point This discussion in particular, involved almost all students, especially those who were not under normal circumstances willing participants in classroom work In this context, at least, they took charge of their own learning. The texts in Touchstones classes are never to be seen merely as springboards for discussions of certain issues, though the texts are emphasized less strongly in early segments. In order that students learn how to learn in these discussions, the emphasis must remain on coming to some understanding of what was read, or as Comber, Zeiderman, and Maistrellis have said, " ... texts must eventually be employed as texts. If they are used as examples of problems, as cultural enrichment, or merely as ways to explore a concept or theme, then, though certain gains will occur, they will not be the skills that a discussion format can develop" (41). escribed simply (and therefore, inadequately), the Touchstones Project is organized around readings, mostly very short and edited to bring the language closer to the teenage vernacular. Each is selected because it carries in it some essential observation about the world we live in. Because, however, it makes this observation in general terms and without the ready reference to the world the students inhabit, in the early going students search for and despair of finding the kind of immediate topical relevance that other programs strive to provide and that would allow students to feel comfortable and complacent in their interpretations. Weekly, preferably on a previously designated day, students arrive in class, arrange their desks in a circle (though this is varied somewhat on occasion), and are given a text with a one or two page reading and plenty of space for notes. Students do not know what the reading is ahead of time, nor are they encouraged to find out. After the instructor reads the passage, the students read the passage again silently to formulate questions they may have about its meaning, its implications, even its purpose. Usually, these questions are shared and the discussion commences after an opening The Touchstones Discussion Project presently involves approximately question has been ventured by the teacher or 150,000 students of all backgrounds and skill levels in grades 4-12. There a student. The first discussion of the year establishes are project sites in most states including Alaska and Hawaii. the simple and straightforward ground rules This year presentations have been made to students and faculty on both and goals for all subsequent discussions. Stucampuses. Summer workshops for teachers will be held on the Annapolis dents are first asked to discuss which Ground campus June 4 and in Santa Fe July 2. At the Board of Visitors and Rules will be hardest for the group to obey Governors meeting in Annapolis in April, the founders of the project (in my experience, "Giving others your redescribed its goals and methods to the Extended Programs Committee. spect" wins hands down), and which goals The developers of the Touchstones Project are currently working on they would like most for themselves. Here restructuring and reconfiguration of the Middle School mathematics and students are usually quite frank. These rules science curriculum. In addition, this summer a collection of math texts and goals are reiterated as part of subsequent will be published for use in a discussion format by mainstream and discussions. As you might suspect, not all student retalented high school students. sponses to the initial discussions are eu- The Touchstones Discussion Project I n John Hemy, Cardinal Newman's "The Idea of a University," he remarks that school should be a place "in which the intellect may safely range and speculate, sure to find its equal in some antagonistic activity, and its judge in the tribunal of truth" (38). Though such sentiment doesn't conform to the standard rhetoric of contemporary pedagogy, it does conform to the standards I have aspired to. And in fifteen years in public education teaching juniors and seniors of all sorts of ability levels, I have never seen anything work anywhere near as well as The Touchstones Project in the formation of Newman's ideal forum and in actually conveying to all students that knowledge and inquiry can be pursued without a teacher and as its own end. �13 " !" DONNA BOETIG (Continued from page eight) to pull away," Mr. Sterling said. But it wasn't to be. Although the Johnnies won the first two games, the third team composed of 1\1r. Vallega andBruceFrieseke, '93, lost in a surprising upset by the midshipmen. In the meantime, a light rain at 3 p.m. sent half the crowd scurrying to their cars while others erected tarpaulin tents. Twenty minutes later when the sun reappeared, a smaller but keenly attentive audience encircled the most prominent court. A St. John's loss was now possible. On one court, Alfred John Bennett A'93, and Craig Sirkin, A'95, were suffering tactical problems when Craig's ball stopped, wickets ahead of John's. This was particularly exasperating because Navy's balls appeared glued to one another. Craig recalls: "I wasn't playing well, missing shots, and I got stuck at the wicket. To make matters worse, in the middle of our game Michael Camper came over from the next court and told us they were behind." On the other court, the Navy players then took a close game from Tutor Abe Schoener A'82, and Michael Camper A'93. The score was two games each. A BennettSirkin win had become essential. Added to the pressure was the Johnnies' hunger for victory. Although they enjoyed an especially harmonious relationship with the mids this year both before and after the big match-shared luncheons, a Waltz party, and numerous later games-the St John's team in this once-a-year competition felt far more competitive than their opponents. "We get nervous because we have everything on the line," says one player. "They (the mids) take defeat graciously because they don't care if they win or lose." But six hours after the first mallet was tossed out, cheers empted when rookie Sirkin hit the ball through three mallets, bagging victory. Lunch (Continued from page eight) riott food director at St. John's. I believe we all sympa....., ........... P'"'.... At lunch The state vs. city: Alderman Hammond lines it up; Keith Harvey photo Delegate Busch looks on. senior Brian Good can beat 90 percent of your by perseverance and sheer discipline." As a recent recipient of the 14th annual Anne Arundel County Fitness Mr. Good was honored for this belief in others-and by doing so, changing their lives. Mr. Good, a National CollegiateBoxAssociation bronze medal was one of six cited on March 24 by Governor William Donald Schaefer for advancing the fitness and health of those in Anne Arundel County, while earning the respect of his fellow citizens. The award was presented by County Executive Robert R. Neall at a ceremony at the Holiday Inn attended by more than 100 citizens, including master of ceremonies Maryland Delegate Michael Busch and guest speaker former Rep. Tom McMillan, a member of the 1972 Olympic basketball team. Mr. Good has been a dominant force in St. John's College athletics since he arrived on campus. His Homeric Fitness program, based on the principles of physical training and mental development found in Homer's Iliad, is the centerpiece of his work. Three mornings a week at 7 a.m. Mr. Good leads a group of up to 30 students, alumni, and faculty for stretching, conditioning, and strength training. The participants range from beginners to seasoned athletes. His atypical collegiate style, espousing boxing's education for body and soul, attracted the attention of The Washington Post which recently profiled him on the front page of its sports section. The article quotes tutor Kevin Dungey saying, "Brian's found a real connection between what one reads and how one lives." Mr. Dungey notes that Mr. Good continues to work on his final paper even though it already has been graded. "This is what you hope to see in a student, self-motivation. Of course I don't think the paper will ever be done-I think it's his life's work." It's this devotion to task that inspires others. "Mr. Good has a talent for involving the non-athletic or intimidated," says Jerry Januszewski, GI'91, who along with tutor Chester Burke and senior Jeff Seidman nominated Mr. Good for the fitness award, to date shared by nearly a hundred other county residents . Mr. Burke Mr. Good, lmown to " "cares for people friends as with whom he works." He .... ,,i,,,,..,.,.th1 enc~ourai~ed senior croquet member, asked how a vegetarian ate at the Academy. A middie replied that she knew a vegetarian. She said, get by." After our sandwiches, if we wished, we could fill ourselves a bowl of melting ice cream. We now understood the middies had been so excited by the variety of flavors offered the they ate at St. John's. As we sat eating, I realized that despite all the formalities of how we got to lunch and what we ate, "lunch time" itself was actually the same for all of us. We all sat together at our tables with our friends. We relaxed and chatted about the day's events and anything else that came to mind. We laughed And then we all scattered our separate ways. Afterwards we stood around for a moment and joked about exuberance was overshadowed only his. In a fun-filled atmo- progress is the key-not comparisons of natural "Mr. Januszewski "Each member is to his or own limit while feeling of the team." When designed a program for her, rmme:clHl.teJlY offering her drawings of various exercises. With renewed commitment she continued her exercise. In addition to the Homeric Fitness program, Mr. Good designs weight programs for the college community and teaches boxing. He also coaches The Guardians, one of St. John's intramural basketball teams. Last summer Mr. Good conducted informal fitness camps on campus for children from the neighboring housing project. Each Saturday a half dozen or mote still join him in exercise. Praising Mr. Good's motivational skills, Delegate Michael Busch says, "Brian was selected for his energy, enthusiasm, and ability to get others involved with the benefits of being fit" Mr. Good sees it this way: "The secret is helping people challenge themselves; it's all within themselves. I'm pleased to be recognized for doing something I enjoy, but their (the participants') success is the greatest compliment." Before studying at St. John's, Mr. Good, 38, dug ditches, worked in a warehouse alongside a woman who recited classical Greek, poured concrete foundations days and researched transitions from feudalism to capitalism nights. He even enlisted in the Army's 75th Rangers and taught California ghetto kids how to box. To celebrate his graduation, Mr. Good has invited his many friends from throughout the college communityfrom faculty and staff, to the buildings and grounds attendants, to the college dean-to a black tie affair in the Great Hall featuring soul music and a breakfast at dawn. "B. Good" looks forward to a career in coaching, and eventually wants to earn an advanced degree in sports psychology. At St. he leaves his mark. "I can still hear his voice booming over our shoulders as we run " Mr. Januszewski says. " that stride! Love life!"' our different styles of education, aPl:1recaatmg some of the we did not realize we had some of the things we don't. uncorked a bottle of ternoon came early, when Mr. champagne, propelling the cork into a tree and bringing down a squirrel. This is a true story. The squirrel lurched to its feet and wobbled away. Not so the politicians, feisty in victory and defeat. Before the heavens opened up with the season's most ferocious downpour, i:b.e college had defeated the county and the state had defeated the city. �1993 14 r ? "St. John's should set its very and strive from the narunn11nn .....,...,... ,,.,,.. a program that is distinctive wrote Robert ,,£">,,,........,..,,;,,..,.. the ere'""' czuucuc ",..,,....... ""'. ,...,,;,..,,,,,.,,,1., called the of e: Summers 1970-1 In 1970 I came to Santa Fe from New York City. I had never seen a mountain before. Now, after four summers looking at the Sangre de Cristo, I cannot function a day without those mountains influencing the decisions I make. For the past eleven years, I have been the Principal of Linden Middle School 192 in St Albans, Queens, New York. Making the right decisions has always been my greatest worry. Each time that I am confronted with tough decisions, I return to the awesome readings that I muddled through at St. John's, but without classmates here to talk with recourse is to look toward the mounthe answers. When I became the Principal of this school in June of I was faced with many enemies, especially two Assistant Principals who had also applied for my position and who had been assigned to the school years before my coming. I had to overcome strife and confusion, ridicule, and jealousy. Did St. John's College and the readings of Sophocles, Aristotle, Plato and Homer prepare me to face the realities of human behavior with which I was confronted? "Look to the mountains," I thought and considered the first of Descartes' Rules for the Direction of the Mind: "The purpose of our studies should be the direction of the mind toward the production offirm and true judgments concerning all things which come to its attention." I took this Rule and applied it to entering that building which contained 1500 children, 60% English speaking African American and Caribbean American students, 20% French Creole speaking Haitian Americans, 10% Spanish speaking Latinos and 10% of Vietnamese, Cambodian and othf3r Asian descent. I was not familiar with all these areas of culture, and in this case, my readings of I could not everydid not and was under constant dread of making a mistake. The that rattled off those riddles left me as in a state of befuddlement. Yet somehow of Descartes as he states in Rule 1 "... it is not ne<~essa1v for the mind to be confined within any limits. For learning of one truth does not hinder us from another. ... " to look at my limitations and to those resources Martin Drew '74GI late Cou Public Public prudence at U. of Wyoming College of Law 1989-90; judicial clerk, Wyoming Supreme Court, 1987-88; Registrar, Graduate Institute, St. John's College Alumni association, 1986- ; Advisory Board, Land and Water Review, 1987- ; Colorado Bar Assoc. Legal Fee Arbitration Committee, 1989- ; Member, St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, 1991- , Chair, Alumni Relations Committee, 1992- . For his first three-year term: George Forest Bingham '68(S) Albuquerque, NM J.D., University of New Mexico, 1971; U.S. Army, 1964-65; Trial U.S. Equal Employment Commission, 1 Assoc. Gen. Securities Investor Protection 197586; Founder Gallegos Law 1987-90; Sole practitioner, business and commercial law, 1990- ; Arbitrator, New York Stock Exchange, 1992- ; Director, St. John's ColAlumni Association, 1988- , Secretary, 1991- . For her first,.,..,, ,,,.., ....... Anne l. lane Santa Fe, NM B.A. in Political Science, George Washington University, 1966; Civilian Employee Relations, Kirkland Air Force Base, 1968-78; Post-graduate course work toward a Ph.D. in Classical Philosophy, 1985-87, University of New Mexico; Volunteer leader of honors seminars, Albuquerque Public High Schools, 1987-91; Substitute teacher, Bernalillo Public School System, Sandoval County, NM. For his first one-year term: Stewart A. Washburn '53(A) Lakeville, MA Certified Management Consultant and internationally recognized on the management of sales and marketing functions; member of the Institute of Management Consultants, Director 1978-, President, New England Chapter, 1984-87; founder, and Associate Editor, "Journal of Management Consu\t" Board Entrepreneur's Forum of Southeastern Massachusetts. NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN THAT NOMINATIONS MAY BE MADE BY PETITION. The rules governing submission of nominations petition are as follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. Petitions must be signed by at least 50 members of the Alumni Association in good standing. Nominations must be accompanied a biographical sketch of the nominee. The consent of all persons nominated must be obtained. The petition must reach the Director of Alumni Activities NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 1, 1993; c/o St. John's College, P .0. Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. If nominations by petition are received, there will be an election conducted by mail ballot. If there are no such nominations, the nominees listed above will be considered elected. Terms will begin July, 1994. �JUNE 1993 15 THE REPORTER CHAPTER CONTACTS Please call those listed below for information about alumni activities in your area. Thomas Geyer A'68, Communications Committee Chair Glenn Ballard, SF'68, Editor leads the Northern California Alumni Cha~ptc~r on a tour of the Stanford linear Accelerator. CHAPTER PROFILE: Even though we have all shared the St. John's experience and been shaped by it, the environments in which we function as alumni chapters, are highly varied. Our chapter numbers over 500 and covers an area extending 100 miles to the north, east, and south of San Francisco. Many of our members have done graduate work and attended professional schools to enhance highly diversified interests and careers. The Bay Area offers more energy and excitement for the cultural and recreational "to do" list than most of us ever have time to enjoy. Where does an alumni chapter fit in all this, and how can it serve such a diverse and sophisticated group of alumni? Our summer picnic at Stag's Leap Wine Cellars has achieved more-than-local fame. Hosted by the Barbara and Warren Winiarski alumni family the last Sunday in July, the event is marked in red on Bay Area calendars, and attracts vacationers from throughout the country. The waiting list is always filled or overfilled, proving the popularity of this seminar/social event. The steering committee recently used a survey to better understand what members wanted from the chapter. Members listed favorite tutors, suggested readings in both the classics and contemporary issues, and suggested who needed reminding of meetings and who might help to plan them. The survey results guided our scheduling of monthly seminar readings and invitations to tutors. newsletter is almost An alumni board ,-.h~lntt:-.1" president, Mark keeps our membership of all activities. A recent newsletter calendar announced a steering committee meeting, brunch, tutor visit, music study group, and seminars on Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche. Mark Chapter members help the Santa Fe admissions office by attending college fairs or making calls to prospective students. We have hosted new and returning students at an end-of-the-summer pizza and organized a Christmas one year to lifted spirits the Students and parents are welcome at all events. We have provided a valuable service to the College in our work in the Alumni telethons for the Annual Fund, and have kept in touch with one another in the process. The role that the chapter will play in the College's Capital Campaign and the future will be productive to the extent that alumni are informed of and engaged in its vision. The chapter is financially self-supporting, with all funds coming from member contributions solicited once a year. Thus far, we have not had to charge admission for any events. Science and Mathematics: "S&M The chapter's Science and Mathematics Study Group (affectionately known as the S&M Group) giving began meeting in October of 1991 as more time and attention to specific topics was possible in the monthly seminars. Since then, the has held continuous dinner meettheir search for "'ta µa.ef\µma. and the ultiArea pizza". As one would imagine, a sort tends to wax and wane, but attenis between four and six with Stephen minltl"!:lm so111w::::m:::i in Science and Mathe.... 01"'1to1T1t·u::i.1" 1 in argues that "computation is emergas a major new approach to science, supplemont1 ....,... the longstanding methodologies of theory and experiment". The group then read Alan Turing's famous paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" from the October 1950 issue of Mind. ALBUQUERQUE: Santa Fe Alumni Director Cindy Jokela (505) 982-3691 or Michael David at 3447875. ANNAPOLIS: Jack Carr (410) 268-3968. AUSTIN: Beverly Angel (512) 926-7808. BOSTON: Alvin Aronson (617) 566-6657 or 4373186 (W). BUFFALO/ROCHESTER!TORONTO: John White (716) 473-2431 CHICAGO: Rick Lightburn (312) 552-1461 or (708) 575-3956 (W), or Erin Milnes at (312) 271-1039. DALLAS/FORT WORTH: Suzanne Doremus (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis at (214) 340-8442. LOS ANGELES: Julia Takahashi (213) 434-7624. MINNEAPOLIS I ST. PAUL: Glenda Eoyang 783- 1405 or 379-3883 NEW YORK: Sabina Schweidt 2) 645-8903 or 858-5249 or Peter or Jill Silberman at 677-1145. 836-7632. PORTLAND: Dale Mortimer 737-7587. RICHMOND: (804) 355-5095. SACRAMENTO: Arianne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen Feeley at 452-1082. ST. LOUIS: Lorin Cuoco 4) 935-5576 or 7258972 SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Toni Wilkinson 5) 585-4255 or 476-7397 SANTA FE: John Pollak (505) 983-2144 or Jokela at 982-3691 . SEATTLE: John Ross (206) 545-7900. WASHINGTON, D.C.: Sam Stiles (301) 424-9119 or Sharon Garvey (304) 535-2655. WASHINGTON, D.C. NW: Susan Gushue (202) 526-1632 or Jon Church at 832-5851. For the next six the group engaged itself with Roger Penrose's book The Emperor's New Mind. Penrose offers an extended refutation of "the strong interpretation of artificial intelligence", which claims that thinking and consciousness are algorithmic, and hence duplicatable in a machine. And since one big book deserves another site one, the g next took up Hofstadter's Godel, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. GEB, "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll" explores many of tne same questions Penrose asked, but from the point of view of a mathematician who believes intelligent machines to be possible. A desire to understand better Hofstadter's references to Bach's music then inspired a musical interlude with Victor Zuckerkandl's The Sense of Music. After a brief return to Godel, Escher, Bach, the group is now enjoying some "light reading" of sorts in the form of J.E. Gordon's Structures, or Why Things Don't Fall Down. Many of the ideas which gave the study group its impetus grew out of the Symposium on the Computer and the Liberal Arts (one of the Santa Fe summer alumni weeks in 1991) led by Tom Simpson, Ralph Swentzel, and Hans Van Briesan. Alumni here remain involved because of their commitment to the life of the and their desire to nurture that bond and understanding with fellow alumni. Enlightened self-interest is only a part of it-certainly an part, as we strive toward our own evolutions California!). We have a wonderful time do some work in the process. is a model for any alumni chapter, and we are fortunate so often to achieve it. Toni Wilkinson President, Northern California Chapter (415)476-7397 �LESLI ALLISON Ask an upperclassman in Santa Fe about his or her recollections of freshmen chorus and one is likely to hear the kind of answer given by graduating senior William Edelglass, "Jn all honesty, I skipped most of it." According to students and tutors alike, the size of the chorus (in excess of 100 students) has in recent years diminished the quality of the experience. As a result, attendance often was poor and many students did not receive the basic training necessary to embark on the sophomore music tutorial. "It was big and unwieldy," said Santa Fe Tutor and Chorus Director Lawrence Cave. "Too many people were slipping through the cracks and getting to sophomore music without the background. Freshman chorus is designed to give people the basics so everyone comes into sophomore music with some experience." In an effort to correct the problem, freshman chorus in Santa Fe was split for the first time this year. Half of the freshman class takes chorus in the fall semester and the other half in the spring semester. In addition, Mr. Cave also employs student assistants for the sake of more individualized instruction. "We can into small groups and do drill work," he said "It's much more like a tutorial and we're better able to give people help who need it without boring others. We're able to challenge people at their own level." Student Assistant Claire Darling, SF93, said the new approach to the chorus is a significant improvement. "People have approached me, Mr. Cave and Steve Pierson, SF96, one on one with specific questions and have sought clarification on their own. It's been easier to give assignments and deal directly with specific problems, whereas that really was impossible in groups of 120 people. People just don't come forward when they're part of the mob." Team B.I.S.H.O.P. (Continued from page one) Chris Nelson reports on a signal event: inN ovemcampus at 5:30 a.m. Sunday, July 18, on the beginber a contract was presented to team members obligning of a 2,000 mile 21-day journey to Annapolis. ing them to ride 2,000 miles before July, 1993. This Here's the route: On the first day, the team heads contract was introduced casually-practically unobfor Las Vegas, New Mexico. Then the bikers cross trusively-between banquet courses. northern Oklahoma, the southern part of Missouri, It is possible to reconstruct the menu of that northern Tennessee, Virginia, and finally, late, late meal. It began with tapenade with roasted peppers on Sunday, August 8-Annapolis, Maryland. and capers en biscotte, followed by a drop-dead Jeff Bishop's wife, Susan, accompanied by Paella overflowing with sausages, scallops, clams, March, will drive a support vehicle carrying first aid mussels and chicken, and a green salad in vinaiand other supplies and comforts. While they have their own sightseeing itinerary, Susan and March will grette. These courses were accompanied by several bottles of Stag's intercept the cyclists "My fear is that my teammates will bury me Leap Wine Cellars every few days. Cabernet S auvignon In case they are not in Oklahoma. They will leave me under a 1985 SLV. The meal around when they are pile of stones, because they _will just have to concluded with homeneeded, the Skynet Paging System will keep moving across the fields ..." made apple and pumpLeo Pickens kin pies and black summon them fast. coffee. It is understood The cyclists will carry only shirts, shorts, socks, underwear, and water. that evenings of good spirit and good food and good This is the southwestern United States in July, gang. wine are essential preparation for a 2,000 mile bike They will post frequent bulletins to the Annapolis trip. Capital. The last warm-up, on June 5 and 6, took Team Every night Team B.I.S.H.0.P. will stop for the B.l.S.H.0.P. on a 150-mile trip to St. Mary's City. best meal that Slapout, Oklahoma, say, can provide, Besides dining well, there is garbled talk oflifting and select the most promising hostelry around to lay weights, losing weight, running, and the like. down their heads. It's different for everyone, says Jeff Bishop, who "We are not camping," says Jeff Bishop. "We is fit as a fiddle and, at 22 pounds lighter, back to his need comfort. If we have to ride 10 extra miles for a high school weight. four star hotel, we will." Jeffrey Morgan is 27 pounds lighter. "No! This is not a fundraiser!" he says. By mid-May, Clnis Nelson, a veteran of youthful "Some think it is a mid-life crisis, but I'm already cycling and hosteling trips, had completed 2,000 miles. BEYOND my midlife crisis." Leo Pickens plans to start training May 17, the day after Commencement, to be exact, by rowing for two The plan for the trip was well under way last summer by the time Chris Nelson, Leo Pickens, and hours in the morning and bicycling for two hours in Bob Gray-instead of the impudent Bishop daughthe afternoon. ters-cycled with Jeff Bishop to North Beach, NJ, a But he reports, "My fear is thatmy teammates will distance of 180 miles. Later, the team rode to bury me in Oklahoma. They will leave me under a Solomon's Island, Maryland, where Fat Friday arpile of stones, because they will just have to keep ranged for them to flop their bikes among the crabs moving across the fields of Oklahoma." on the good ship Outlaw (piloted by Hog) for a lift Why are you going on this trip, anyway, Leo? over to Hooper Island, where they climbed on their "Why is everyone going, anyway? I'm going bewheels again and rode to Cambridge, Oxford, and cause Jeff asked me to. It's Jeff's vision that is home-200 miles. transporting us all. I'm going in the draft of that." Tutor Lawrence Cave directs the St. John's chorus. Musical knowledge, skills balance program By LESLI ALLISON It seems only appropriate that at the same school where all students are required to study ancient Greek, they also learn to compose a Gregorian Chant and a minuet. While some might question the value of these two particular skills in day to day life, the college maintains that the study of music, like other subjects in the curriculum, is deeply relevant to better understanding the nature of human thought and experience. According to Santa Fe Musician-in-Residence Peter Pesic, the current music program took shape in the early 1980s when Tutor Ralph Swentzell put together a large collection of compositions and theoretical writings which still form the basis of the program. "The emphasis is on studying great works of music and theory of music, both in the ancient and modern traditions," Mr. Pesic said. "We make a systematic effort to deepen our understanding of what music meant to the ancients and then to put it into some enlightened comparison with the modem practice of music." The sophomore music tutorialis the heart of the St. John's music program. The mandatory freshman chorus is designed to give all students the background necessary for the work of the sophomore year. Following the sophomore year, students take seminars on Mozart's Don Giovanni and Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. The sophomore music tutorial consists of reading, discussion and a practicum in which students study music theory and harmony, lea:rn to compose and acquire basic skills on the piano. "It is a very unusual, possibly unique, program," Mr. Pesic said "I think the most interesting thing is the practice of composition. Students begin with Gregorian chants, both the practice and theory, leading to each student composing his or her own Gregorian chant which is sung by the class and discussed in detail, especially trying to understand how it could be made better as a composition and how it follows the models of Gregorian chants they have studied "By doing this the students are in contact with the source of all Western music, and a source which is radically different in many respects than the music that they know." Students go on to study early polyphony and counterpoint, both through important works and the theoretical writings ofZarlino and Vincenzo Galilei, culminating in a study of Monteverdi's opera, Orfeo. "This opera represents for us the transition between the ancient music which is not emotionally expressive, primarily, and the modem music in which moving the passions is the central concern," Mr. Pesic said. Students also study detailed harmony with a manual prepared by Santa Fe Tutor Lawrence Cave, and masterworks such as the Mozart's Magic Flute and Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Jn a practicum introduced by Santa Fe tutor Phil LeCuyer about 10 years ago, student assistants work with members of the sophomore tutorials individually and in small groups to help them learn the rudiments of music, to train their ears, and to help them sing, compose, and learn basic skills on the piano. Graduating senior William Edelglass said the program is very successful from his perspective. "The fact that everybody learns how to listen to music and how to write a Gregorian chant and listen to Mozart is pretty amazing," he said. "I think it's very important for the program to speak to the artistic as well as intellectual aspects of our souls. It provides a balance of the utmost importance." Mr. Cave agreed that the program is an overall success and continues to improve each year. "My sense is its the hardest class at the college if its done right," he said. "As opposed to philosophy where questions are asked, a work of art is more opaque, you have to work to have conversations. It is a very challenging and at times frustrating class for both students and tutors. When it's successful it can be a very exciting program. "There are differences of opinion about what the music program should be. Some people think it should be more philosophical, some people think it should be, in part, fairly technically oriented because that way the questions arise out of the music itself rather than floating on top of the music. I always tell my students you've got to get down and dirty with the notes, only that way can you access the deeper questions about how music affects us." In addition to the structured music program of the college, students also have the opportunity to participate in extra-curricular musical activities. There are two choral groups on campus. The college sponsors a classical music series throughout the year, bringing musicians to campus from around the country and the world Finally, many student bands and musical groups, such as the Collegium Musicum, are active at any given time. �PAGE17 )i , 0 0" •11•1Jl•&•Ellil Library book gift SF class of '92 S.eminar workshops slated for June, July The Santa Fe graduating seniors of 1992 gave $1675 of the funds they raised to the Meem Library for the purchase of senior seminar readings. The fund-raising effort was coordinated by class member Michael Zinanti. The library was notified in January 1993. "We are delighted with the gift," said Santa Fe librarian Inga Waite, SF'87. "I think that over the years, the program books take on an added significance for alumni; they come to symbolize the learning experience we hold in common. A gift of this kind reaffirms that experience, and helps to perpetuate it. Students and tutors will benefit for years to come." Each book purchased under the gift will be marked with a bookplate commemoratthe class of '92. Santa Fe area alumni and teachers are invited to participate in a workshop for anyone who has ever been frustrated, delighted or terrified by the prospect of leading a classroom seminar. Led by Santa Fe alumna Jan Arsenault, the workshop is designed to give teachers of all experience levels an opportunity to explore with their colleagues the fundamentals of leading seminars. The workshop is scheduled to begin June 28 for the four session format and July 9th for the two day intensive. Fee is $125. Enrollment is limited. Jan Arsenault holds an M.A. in counseling psychology and has ten years experience using seminar methods, and has served as a consultant to the Anchorage Public School system. For more information contact Jan Arsenault, 619 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 / (505) 983-2137. Annapolis Dean Eva Brann will be one of six nationally distinguished scholars to take in an NEH-funded study project on ethics in the humanities being conducted this summer at the U.S. Naval Academy. She was selected by the humanities faculty of the Academy. Sixteen Academy faculty members who teach philosophy, English, history, political science, economics, and psychology will take part mthe six week project. DeanBnmn will lead discussion seminars during the week of June 21-25 on such diverse authors ._, 1-1.i.uv.£.oa.. Rousseau, and John as on excerpts from her book Paradoxes of Education in a Republic. She to ethics education across will the science curriculum. Discussions will focus on the Academy's mission to develop misdshipmen morally, and physically, and to graduating officers with potential for future development in mind and character. . John Castro, A'93, will direct three performances of Ibsen's "Ghosts" at 10 p.m. June 25, 8 p.m. Saturday, June 26, Sunday,June27,intheGreatHall The playwright's "ghosts" are not only the consequences of hereditary disease, but the dead conventions and beliefs that stifle life. The cast follows: Jack Daniel, AGI'92, as Pastor Manders; Susannah Anderson as Mrs. Alving; Aaron Finkelstein, A'91, as Oswald Manders; Kathryn Stolzenbach, A'95, as Regina; and John Williams, A'95, as Engstrand. Aaron Lewis, A '94, has received an allexpense $2700 scholarship to study at Georgetown Institute on Political Journalism from June 9-July 24. The program includes lectures by guest speakers from all areas of the media, and two courses, Economics in Public Policy, and Ethics and the Media. Additionally, he will be able to select an internship with one of the following: a television or radio network, a magazine, newspaper or newsletter, a member of Congress, or the public affairs office of a public policy organization or federal government agency. For the second time, St. John's will offer classes in Japanese Classics in Translation in the summer of 1994 at Shimotsuke Gakuen University in Kanuma, Japan, through the Asian Studies Consortium. The program will run for four weeks in June on dates yet to be determined. Approximate costs will be tuition, $835; room, $600; student activity fees (including two field trips), $200; and escorted travel to and from the airport, $75. In addition, students are resonsible for travel to and from Japan, food, books, and incidentals. These costs are subject to slight modification, but should not be significantly different. There will also be an intensive class in Japanese available to students in the program for about$335. Those interested in attending should make reservations by sending a deposit of $500 to Dean Eva Brann, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404 . The deposit will be refundable until March 1, 1994. The Annapolis Company Theater under the direction of Nathan Rosen, A'82, will give eight performances of Macbeth in the Great Hall of McDowell Hall from July 23 to August 1. The performances will be Friday and Saturday night at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets will be $8 general admission, and $6 for students and senior citizens. "The Annapolis Company Theater will electrify its audiences with its proto-Elizabethan production," promises producer-director Rosen, who last summer presented Twelfth Night in the Great Hall to considerable acclaim. Among Mr. Rosen's other credits are Sexual Perversity in Chicago at the Source Theater in Washington, DC, and AMidsummer Night's Dream, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma!, The Three Sisters, and The Dining Room at Thomas Stone High School in Waldorf, MD. Below: Be11iarnin a th1rot1mn1a Caliban, Jean Holmian. The Tempest in Annar>olis. Keith Harvey photos �PAGE18 Reception hosts and Friends of the Mitchell Tom and Kitty Stoner. THE REPORTER The astonishing and galvanizing exhibition "Subject(s): Prints and Multiples by Jonathan Borofsky, 1982-1991" with the artist himself on hand one day to talk about his work, drew the biggest crowd to date for its month-long stay in the four-year-old Mitchell Gallery in Annapolis. Mr. Borofsky's bold, theatrical images and sculptures, with sound, motion, pulsing light, and huge numeralsmarkers of the artist's obsessive counting that after 20 years has taken him past three million-was one of the most exciting uses to date of the gallery space, one critic commented. Mr. Borofsky's gallery talk on March 25 drew not only a wall-to-wall audience of Friends of the Gallery, school children, and other visitors, but also friends and colleagues of the artist, including Sidney Felsen and Joni Weyl, prominent in the Los Angeles and New York art worlds. Mr. Felsen is co-owner of Gemini G.E.L., a print and sculpture workshop in Los Angeles which handles Mr. Borofsky's while Ms. Weyl, his wife, is the owner of Joni Weyl at Gemini G.E.L., a New York gallery that sells Gemini prints and sculpture. The pulsing red light-icon of the artist's heartwith its audible beat, the dream drawings, the Persian mantra, the immense footprint, all are "visual traces of my search," said the artist. That search is for truth and meaning, he said, and his individual consciousness, his singular self and the inexorable march of the numbers, are the vehicles for the search. "I work on the premise," he said, "that we (here a gesture took in his audience) are similar. What is meaningful to me is meaningful to the viewer." An elegant reception, hosted by Friends of the Gallery _ _........ Tom and Kitty Stoner, followed the talk and spilled over from the gallery anteroom to the vastness of the FSK lobby. JUNE 1993 The artist On hand for the and reception were of the artist. From left, Jeremy Strick, associate curator, 20th century art, for the National Gallery of Art; Marla Prather; Joni Weyl, owner of Joni Weyl at Gemini in New York C and her ..... ··~.._~....... Sidney elsen, co-owner Gemini and SCIUlpitur·e u,,,...,..,~..,..,.." in Los The Eye of the Collector: Ludwig and. Rosy Fischer and the Rise of German Expressionist Art September 1-0ctober 24, 1993 During the first two decades of the 20th century, German artists infused their art with humanity and spirituality which had disappeared amid the Industrial Revolution.; their avant garde art became lmown as Expressionism. Ludwig and Rosy Fischer formed a significant collection of Expressionist art created by young, radical painters and sculptors, some of whom were to become the giants of German Expressionism: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde and Max Beckmann. The Artist as Social Commentator: Prints by Honore Daumier January 5-February 28, 1994 In a span of four decades, Honore Daumier produced over 4,000 satirical prints which expressed the ideals of the French Republic during a period of great economic change and political umest. His mature lithographs show an expressive freedom of line and an ability to reveal a great deal with only the essentials of subject and form. Forty-six of these lithographs were donated to the Art Gallery of the University of New Hampshire in 1961; this is the first time they will be shown outside of New England. Prints by the Nabis: VuiUard and his Contemporaries October 30-December 18, 1993 TheNabis, a group of young artists from the Academie Julian in Paris, took their name from the Hebrew word for prophet Their belief that universal truth could be conveyed in expressed in pnntrr1aklmg, for simple Nabis chose n-rri'""."' with unconventional compositions, juxtaposing deep perspective With flat color. Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings March 17-April 27, 1994 Celebrated among the first generation of modern American sculptors, Lachaise is best lmown for his interpretations in bronze of the female figure. These powerful sculptures echo his interest in the figure as a symbol of womanhood. This exhibition of 45 also includes 20 ofLachaise's 1rn1"1u11n r11·!lur1n11~ which offer interest- "The Architect and the Town," a beautifully mounted exhibition tracing the restoration work undertaken in historic Annapolis by architect James Wood Burch, is a tribute to town and man. Sponsored by the Historic Annapolis Foundation, mounted by designer Peter Tasi, with photographs by Marion Warren and text by Mr. Burch's associate, architect Eugene McNulty, the exhibition opened in mid-May at the Mitchell Gallery in Annapolis for a three-week stay. Subsequent showings will be from June 8-September 12 in the Maryland State Archives Building, and from September 170ctober 1 at the Pascal Gallery of the Anne Arundel Community College. Mr. Burch, a graduate of Catholic University and M.I.T., in 1954 Joined other Annapolis citizens alarmed by threats to the historic city posed by new malls, increased automobile traffic, and community acquiescence in the demolition of beautiful, decayold The exhibit is handsome of historic preservation in. ~·~A~.J~&··~· On the St. John's campus, Mr. Burch restored the historic Carroll-Barrister House, transported from its original site at the foot of Main St., and designed its "fraternal twin" next door-the Harrison Health Center, "which subtly recalls, in modern materials, the forms, scale and rhythms of the Carroll House-a delightful urbane composition by a master of his craft," writes Mr. McNulty. Mr. Burch also restored the Chase-Stone dormitory. Documented in the exhibit were such contributions by the architect as the heroic restoration of the Paca House, one of the nation's great Georgian houses, and the restoration and design for commercial use of major buildings in the market area, including the custom house, the market house, and the Harbour House restaurant. Mr. Burch did not like the label "restoration architect"; he "repaired," he said, "over 70 historic buildings." Citing Mr. Burch's success as well in integrating contemporary architecture into a small historic town, Ann '"'"'rv"'t"', .... TITl'•<'1111Pnr Of the Historic is ,,,...,~,..,..., ......... says the ,.,.,,.,.,.,...,.,r., ...... t at a time when a new courthouse ~~.u~·~Ab is to be designed and constructed in Annapolis. �JUNE 1993 THE REPORTER Lauren Jill Roth, SF'85, died in 1990 Lauren Jill Roth, SF'85, died at age 28 on January 31, 1990, after six years of illness. A student at U.C. Santa Cruz before she entered St. John's at Santa Fe, and a part time student at San Francisco State University to the end of her life, Lauren spent three years at St. John's College in between, the final one at Annapolis. She is survived by her parents, Adriane and. Dr. Ronald H. Roth of Millbrae, California, and three sisters, Julianne, Lindsey and Angela. A promising youngster whom her 13-year-oldclassmates once dubbed "most likely to succeed" and "best brain," she was a fine student who graduated cum laude from high school. Lauren was a distance runner since the age of seven, having run from Canada to Mexico at the age of 13 with the Millbrae Lions Track Team. She was an Explorer Scout, cross-country skier, backpacker and cyclist. She played violin with the California Youth Symphony for six years. Lauren was on the Mountain Search and Rescue Team at Santa Fe, and, according to her parents, loved the St. John's curriculum. Neverthless, in her junior year she succumbed to a depression from which she was never again free. She was hospitalized several times. Her death, a suicide, occurred during her last hospitalization. "Our daughter became a legal druggie on prescribed medications," says Mrs. Roth, who saw her daughter's depression deepen after she began treatment Dr. and Mrs. Roth hope to write a book about their daughter's tragedy, believing that what they have learned about drug use and drug side-effects could help prevent such tragedies for others. Because her parents believe that both illicit and prescribed drugs contributed to her illness, they welcome contact from anyone who may be dealing with such issues. Their telephone number is 415-697-6985. Their address is 1346 Millbrae Ave., Millbrae, CA 94030. Benjamin Joseph Henley, onetime acting superintendent of the D.C. Public Schools and an important figure in bringing inner city teachers to the Graduate Institute program in Santa Fe, died in Washington, D.C., November 30, 1992, at age 81. Through the Cafritz Foundation, Mr. Henley was instrumental in making selections for aPJJroxirnately I 0 teachers from Baltimore and Washington chosen yearly in the late 1960s for the graduate program. He made the Commencement address to the GI graduates at Santa Fe one year. Mr. Henley, who retired in 1972 as vice superintendent of the D.C. Public Schools, was later on the faculty of Bowie State College and the Trinity College graduate school. After moving to Washington as a child, Mr. Henley received a B.S. degree in education from Miner Teachers College, a master's degree in public school administration from New York University, and a doctor's degree in public service from the George Washington University School of Education. A volunteer with many community organizations all his adult life, Mr. Henley was vice president of the first Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia, on the boards of the National Capital Day Care Association and the Rosemount Center, and past president of the Advisory Committee of the Washington Urban League. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Adelaide Webb Henley, two sons, Benjamin III and Lyn, a brother, and four grandchildren. executive Emil Gathmann, A'34, Baltimore businessman and civic leader, died of lung cancer January 30 at the age of 81. He was the founder and retired president of Gathmann Industrial Corp., an engineering sales firm. His father, the inventor of the depth charge, owned a munitions in Texas, World War II. the war he organized the first stations in Baltimore gave courses on the U.S. Air Force Fighter Command In 1943, Gathmann served one term in the Maryland House of Delegates. Mr. Gathmann was born in New York City. He attended Massanutten Military Academy in before coming to St. John's. He was the past president of the Paint and Powder Club of Baltimore, the Maryland Society for and the Kappa Alumni Association of Baltimore. A director of the Baltimore County chapter of the American Red Cross, he also belonged Boumi Temple, Palestine Masonic Lodge 189, and the Sons of the American Revolution. Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Gail Wells Gathmann, a son, Jay Neal Gathmann of Baltimore, a daughter, Gail Patricia Becker of Wichita, KS, and three grandchildren. Leslie Johnson, '75 SF Julie Neidorf, '84 SF (H) P.O. Box 4812, Chico CA 95927 (916) 895-8786 (B) Attorney, Butte County Superior Court 1 Court Street, Oroville, CA 95965 (H) 122 Sam Street, Santa Fe NM 87501 (505) 989-4106 Kyung S. Chon, '89 SF (B) Business Relations Analyst EDS Consulting, H1-6B-26, 5400 Legacy Drive Plano TX 75024, (214) 605-5901 (H) add phone: (214) 357-0862 (H) 3-N Royal Park 501 Hwy 54 Bypass, Carboro NC 27510 (H) 433 Calle La Paz Santa Fe NM 87501, (505) 982-9928 David Neid.orf, '80 SF, is also '86 SGI. (B) c/o Anthropology, Brooks Hall, U. of Virginia Charlottesville VA 22903 OMISSIONS Ron Lavelle, '92 SGI (H) 1352 Maez Road, Santa Fe NM 87501 (505) 473-6441 ()BI•lJBRIIDS Karl R. Van Tassel: Longtime Board member Karl R. Van Tassel, 90, an active member of the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College for 12 years beginning in 1966, and a member emeritus beginning in 1983, died April 11 in Lake Forest, Illinois. The former president and chief executive officer of A. B. Dick Co., a Chicago-based manufacturer of office duplicating equipment, he had a career in engineering andmanagement for more than 50 years. A dedicated supporter of higher education, Mr. Van Tassel and his wife established scholarship funds both at St. John's College and at his alma mater, M.I.T., from which he was graduated in 1925. In addition to his generous interest in St. John's and his broad participation in the institutional and alumni affairs of M.I.T., Mr. Van Tassel was a member of the Northwestern University School of Business Advisory Council and a member of the Advisory Committee College of Business of the University of Illinois. "Among his most heartfelt convictions was his dedication to the support of higher education," his widow Evelyn Van Tassel wrote recently to Annapolis President Christopher Nelson, "and his St. John's experiences in promulgating his strong conviction were always very important to him." He served the college, she said, "with great enthusiasm, joy and pride." Mr. Van Tassel worked for General Electric Co. from 1925 to 1956, becoming manager of the GE Control Division in Schenectady, N.Y. He next became general manager of the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, which, along with the Navy and the Atomic Energy Commission, developed the first atomic-powered submarine. He became executive vice president of A. B. Dick in 1961, and retired in 1971. He was brought back in 1976 to lead the firm for three more years. Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Carole Donahue and Katrina V. T. Anderson, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. After her husband's death in January at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Mary Pennington Clark, the widow of James Thaddeus Clark, 84, A'28, found among his papers the 1928 St. John's Commencement Exercises Program in which he had received two awards. One was Professor Stryker's cash award to the best history student. The second award astonished her. In 46 years of marriage, she had never known that her husband had received the gold medal given "to that member of the Senior Class who in the opinion of the faculty had shown the greatest general excellence during his college course." A resident of Chevy Chase, Mr. Clark died of pneumonia, but he had suffered for some years from Alzheimer's disease, denying friends and grandchildren his affection and "the beautiful letters" he delighted in writing, said his wife in her letter to The Reporter. Nevertheless, according to his daughters in a remembrance they composed, "at the end of his despite his tragic illness, he still demonstrated an incredible determination and will to live." In a tribute, his also wrote: "As adults we realize that Daddy was one of the people we will ever know. His was not blind optimism, however. His strength of character and faith in God, coupled with a buoyant outlook, allowed him to transcend life's heartbreak and tragedy. We believe that his love of life stemmed from his fundamental peacefulness about who he was, and about what he had been able to achieve in life, coupled with a selflessness that brought him true happiness in helping others." One of 11 children in a Howard county family, Mr. Clark, his father Louis Thomas Clark, A 1892, and his older brothers Louis Dorsey Clark and Henry Branch Clark, both A'27, were all graduates of St. John's. At college, Mr. Clark received letters and Mary Neidorf, '89 SGI Juliet Lee '85 SF Suzy Maska, '89 SF PAGE19 Miriam Landor, '90 SGI (H) 1221 W. Sherwin Chicago IL 60626, (312) 262-6193 Algerita D. James, '92 SF (H) 114 Sycamore NE, Apt. 10 Albuquerque NM 87106, (505) 247-4927 Marlene F. Steinberg, '86 SGI (H) 416 N. Redfield Court Park Ridge IL 60068, (708) 696-4763 Samuel E. Zolensky, '88 SF (H) 3473 E. Gold Oub Lane Nashville TN 37215 (Register corrections from Annapolis will appear in the September Reporter.) monograms in sports, with lacrosse his favorite. He also was an avid horseman all his life, keeping a horse "Joker" for rides in Rock Creek Park. In 1934, he graduated from Georgetown University law school, from which he also received a master's degree in tax law. In the early to mid-1930s, he was a senatorial legislative assistant and chief clerk of the Senate Education and Labor and the Naval Affairs committees. From 1936 to 1960, he practiced law in Washington and Ellicott City, MD. After two years as assistant reporter of decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court, he joined the House District Committee in 1962, where he became chief clerk before his retirement in 1981. During World War II, he served aboard the carrier Intrepid in the Pacific, receiving a Purple Heart. He retired from the Naval Reserve in 1970 as a commander. He was an elder of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church and a member of the First Church of Ellicott He was a member of the historical societies 1\/n "'.,...,. ·o.nri and Howard and Montgomery counties, the Sons of the American Revoluand the Army-Navy Country Club. Besides his wife, he is survived by four daughters, Molly Branch Clark Ruzicka, Desiree Dorsey Clark Pihl and Lucinda Pennington Clark Cramer; two brothers, five sisters, and nine grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the St. John's Scholarship Fund, c/o St. John's College, Annapolis, MD 21401. Dr. Richard D. Weigle Survivors were incorrectly listed for Dr. Richard D. Weigle, president of St John's College for 31 years until 1980. The correct listing follows: Dr. Weigle is survived by his wife of 50 years, Mary Day Weigle; two daughters, Professor Marta Weigle of Santa Fe, NM, and Constance Weigle Mann of Winston-Salem, NC; one grandchild, Mary Elizabeth Mann; and two sisters, Margaret Weigle Quillian of Lynchburg, VA; and Ruth Weigle Guyton of Jackson, MS. �Summer in Santa Fe will kick off with an unusual start this summer. On June 13 the college will participate in Japan Fest by hosting a performance by 30 Japanese musicians and dancers in the Meem Library Courtyard. The event, co-sponsored by the Sipapu Center and the Museum of International Folk will celebrate relations between Santa Fe and its Japanese sister-city, Tsuyama. Also in June, the bookstore will move to its new home on the first floor of Peterson Student Center. The renovated space will allow for wider aisles, larger display areas and easy public access. Above the college's upper dorms, construction is fully under way on the new dormitories. The project is scheduled for completion in August. Beginning July 3, Shakespeare in Santa Fe will perform Romeo and Juliet under the stars in the Meem Library Courtyard each weekend. During the course of the summer as many as 8,000 people are expected to attend. fu mid-summer, the Santa Fe Summer Alumni Program will run from July 11 - 23. Seminars in the first week will focus on Eastern topics and in the second week on storms and shipwrecks. Homecoming Weekend is July 16 - 18. The St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors and the Alumni Association Board will convene in Santa Fe on the same weekend. For three weeks at the end and in early August, the campus will host the St. John's Summer Classics. This year's registrations· have almost doubled over last year's. of all ages and from all professional backgrounds spend one to three weeks on campus as part of the program. Topics include Dante, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, landscape drawing and .., . u ...u""""""' Homer and opera. Anyone planning to be inSantaFeduring the summer months can contact the Office of Public Relations for more details on these and other summer events on campus. Nearly four years of efforts by the college were successful March 10 in Annapolis when the Maryland Board of Public Works approved sale of the 60-year-old Hall of Records, located within the college boundaries at College Ave. and St. John's Street, for use as a new college library. In the heady month that followed, longheld dreams came true. First the state okayed architectural plans for conversion of the building, and next approved a multimillion dollar grant to help fund renovation costs for both the projected and present libraries. At the March Board of Public Works meeting, the college agreed to pay the state $700,000, and to commit itself to an additional maximum of $150,000 moving and storage costs for state offices now occupying the handsome Georgian Revival structure. The college expects to take occupancy in late 1994. fu April, the Historic District Commission approved the concept design for renovation drawn up by Takoma Park architect Travis Price, SF'71. On April 15 at the Annapolis kickoff banquet for The Campaign for Our Fourth Century, Governor William Donald Schaefer announced approval of a $2.9 million State of Maryland Capital Facilities Improvement grant. With matching funds from the college, the money would be used for conversion of the old archives building, and for transforming the present into JZ;ntduate and faculty offices. President Christopher Nelson praised Governor Schaefer for his support in the long and uncertain process. "We are extraordinarily grateful to the Governor for his sensitivity to our needs," said President Nelson. "Our campus is very small; the prospect of constructing an altogether new building for a library has threatened to close in some of our much needed open space." The purchase of the Hall of Records would insure preservation of the college's architectural integrity, he said, adding, "It will also allow a beautiful building to be used for its highest and best use-as a college library which will be open to the public." Designed to be in harmony with existing college buildings, the Hall of Records sits on land that the college sold to the state in 1934 for $10 and other considerations. It housed the state archives until these were moved to a new office building on Rowe Boulevard in 1985. The new library will have more than 25,000 square feet for library use, allowing the college to increase its 100,000 book collection, and providing much increased space for student and faculty study and reflection. Woodward Hall, the present library, located at King George St. and College is about half the size, with approximately 10,000 square feet. Built in 1900 to serve a student body of just over 200, the now serves a college of twice that size. Costs for work on the two buildings will be approximately million, according to college officials. by the Santa Fe. the mance in the Meem library of Twelfth Night. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The St. John's Reporter</em> Description An account of the resource College newspaper which started publication in 1974. Continued publication into 2000. 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Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available News and Information Office Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Santa Fe, NM Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf The Reporter https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/0657ed884943ca45fd930634cd8a994a.pdf 301bf494c10997627ef677349166ffe2 PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY \l\ l\ \ \l\ \ l ~ ~if~l\l il \[\)~ \1\ \ \1\ 1\ \ \I The St. John 's 31696 011381918 EPORT Volume 19, Issue 3 Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM Another Rhodes! March 1993 St. John's College remembers Richard D. Weigle by Nancy Osius Jeffrey Seidman bound for Oxford Jeffrey Seidman, a 22-year-old senior at St. John's College in Annapolis who plans to teach philosophy at the college level, became the second St. John's student in three years to win a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford University, one of the most prestigious prizes offered in the academic world. Two years ago, Jonathan Skinner, a Santa Fe graduate, was selected for the award. There have been four previous Rhodes Scholars from the college, the most recent, Nancy Coiner, in 1975. Mr. Seidman, one of 32 students across the country to win the scholarship, will spend two years at Oxford studying philosophy, politics and economics for a second bachelor's degree. The scholarship is .awarded on a regional basis .. While Mr. Seidman's family lives in Cleveland, Ohio, he elected to make the application from Maryland, reluctant to have to miss classes while traveling back and forth to the Midwest for the interview process. He was the only Maryland applicant to be named to the award. In his teens a political activist who worked on campaigns and spoke at rallies, he selected St. John's "in order to ground my political activism in thought." His freshman studies of the Greek philosophers were so compelling that he found himself drawn towards the life of an educator. In 1990-91, he took a year off from college to teach English in Czechoslovakia and travel through Eastern Europe, in order, as he says, to learn first hand about communism, capitalism and "the development of a Jeffrey Seidman culture under political and economic stress." That decisive year, in which he shared a flat with a frequently jailed dissident and hitchhiked all over Eastern Europe talking with hundreds of people, tipped the scales away from a political career and towards education. Ideas cannot be divorced from the people who hold them, he believes, and he was increasingly drawn to helping people think for themselves about what it means "to be a good human being and a good citizen." "In this country, at this time" this task is as important as to enact a political agenda, he said. A liberal education based on the reading of primary texts and thoughtful discussion of them, the foundation of his education at St. John's, are the vital instruments to such education, in his view. After his years at Oxford, he intends to return to the United States to get a doctorate in philosophy. (continued on page 16) From the New York Times to Rolling Stone St. John's hits the headlines! by Nancy Osius -INSIDE Reshaping America - page 3 Zibby Mitchell - page 4 The Journey East - page 10 Is God the Cause of Gravity-15 "One day in 1949 Richard D. Weigle drove onto the Annapolis campus, parking his car, as he later remarked, beside the biggest pile of coal he had ever seen." Besides the coal pile, St. John's had a few other things, according to Tutor Emeritus Curtis Wilson: a great books program, a board consisting mostly of old-program alumni "bemoaning the loss of intercollegiate athletics, a feeble financial structure and a dwindling student body." Sunlight streamed through the double-hung Georgian windows of the Great Hall in Annapolis January 30, as Mr. Wilson recalled the threadbare college of 40 years ago which the late Richard D. From the irreverent disquisitions of the Rolling Stone to the stately utterances of the New York Times, St. John's College is in the news. The college is expected to appear in a fall issue of the Rolling Stone as one of five "cutting edge" institutions. Writer Neil Steinberg's verdict? Wait and see. The current media scrutiny got rolling with Ken Ringle's long and laudatory article last May in the Style section of the Washington Post. St. John's may be "politically incorrect" and the "ultimate Santa Fe Home• coming 93! See page 10 Weigle had inherited as president. In front of the rostrum was a room packed with the family members, allies, colleagues, and friends of Dr. Weigle, who had led St. John's College for 31 years, the longest tenure in modern history, had founded its second campus, and had been a pivotal figure in the community affairs of two cities 1,800 miles apart. This was the second of two memorial services-the first had been held the previous week in Santa Fe--for Dr. Weigle, who had died .six weeks earlier on December 14 from the complications of Parkinson's disease. Now Mr. Wilson touched on a dominant theme at both services that the college survived, expanded and flourished, in great part simply (continued on page 2) anachronism," that story conceded, but student talk is more likely to be about Tacitus and Hegel than the latest rock band, and most students go on to graduate school. The story moved far beyond the context of the curriculum debate reverberating through academic corridors for the past five or six years. That debate is central to "Shaken to the Core," however, the title and the theme of the five essays on college curricula that are the centerpiece of (continued on page 16) �page 2 · THE-REPORTER Michelangelo Sneaks into St. John's In the second semester of the senior year, students on the Santa Fe campus now have the opportunity to study closely about twenty of the world's greatest paintings. The visual arts tutorial is slated to begin this spring as a permanent part of the senior year curriculum. According to Tutor Stephen Houser, the program was originated by Tutor Robert Bart in 1988-89 as an extra-curricular study group. It was unofficially introduced into the curriculum the following year as part of the math tutorial. In 1990, the faculty officially agreed to include the visual arts as a part of the program. However, difficulties regarding scheduling resulted in a one-year suspension of the program last year. In the latest revision, the tutorial will borrow time from both the math and language tutorial in the span between senior writing .period and spring break. The discussion segment of the visual arts tutorial will be co-led by tutors of the language and mathematics tutorials. The discussion class will meet three times each week prior to spring break, and resume after with meetings once each week. The tu to rial also includes a practicum which will meet twice each week for a total of 10 sessions. In a statement about the visual arts tutorial/Dean Van Luchene ahd M-r. Houser said "the aim is to acquire cumulative experience in looking at paintings and to become aware of some of the concerns that have engaged the great painters of the past by st. ~ggling to understand the dialogue they have carried on with each other through their art." "The faculty generally feels that it will give us the opportunity to discuss an area of human endeavor and thought that we haven't been discussing in the past," Mr. Houser said. While the music tutorial does approach similar ideas, he added, the presence of a painting is more immediate and accessible. "The painting is present before one, all at once," he said. "Students can jump into it with both feet." As in the seminar, where the great books are studied in roughly chronological order, the paintings in the visual arts tutorial are studied in chronological order beginning with Giotto's frescoes in the Arena Chapel, and Simone Martini's "Annunciation," works by Masaccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Giorgione, Caravaggio, Brueghel, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Cezanne. "Our approach will be the same as in all discussions," Mr. Houser said. "We ask what these artists are communicating about human life and meaning." The practicum will give students hands-on experience with some elements of the grammar of the visual arts. They will explore and attempt to manipulate problems of composition, drawing (draughtsmanship), perspective and color. According to the statement, the practice are not meant as opportunities for selfexpression, but rather as studies and examples of certain kinds of problems faced by visual artists. Openings in Japan for students, alumni Several openings remain for the four-week seminar and study group in Japanese classics to be offered at Shimotsuke Gekuan University next summer in Japan. Annapolis dean Eva Brann announced the study program last spring, inviting interested alumni and students to contact her. Classes will run from May 31 to June 25, with student orientation scheduled for May 27 and departure June 28. In addition to the St. John's seminar, an intensive Japanese language class will be available to students in the program at a cost of $340. The cost of registration, tuition, room and student activities fee is $1690. Other estimated expenses to be assumed by the student are airfare to Japan, food, books, and in-country transportation at about $2,115. Those interested should contact Annapolis tutor George Doskow at the Annapolis campus (410-263-2371) or at home (410-263-0767). Richard D. Weigle continued from front page because-in the words of Annapolis president Christopher Nelson-"Dick Weigle willed it so." The huge coal pile had met an irresistible force, and it presently melted away under the ministrations of the inexhaustible new president with his genius for getting things done. The aging heating plant was replaced, and the great work began. The image lingered, as the succession of speakers drew from legend and experience to flesh out the portrait of a remarkable man. Marsha Sloan joins BVG At their January meeting in Santa Fe, the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors commended the faculty, staff and administration for successful efforts to reduce endowment spending on both campuses. Recent spending cuts have effected virtually every department of the college. Presently, both campuses show balanced budgets with a healthy financial forecast for the remainder of the year. The board also elected new member Marsha Sloan. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Ms. Sloan is a resident of Washington state. She attended the University of Washington with a major in elementary education. She is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Seattle, works in various capacities with the Puget Sounding, is chairman and marketing director of The Seattle Classic Cookbook. She is on the boards of the Seattle Art Museum, the Seattle Repertory Theatre and the Children's Hospital and Medical Center. 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Match.1993 The salvaging of one campus was a major theme of their remarks. In his zeal to defend it and spread its program, Dr. Weigle courted philanthropists and hosted statesmen and picked up discarded paper on the lawn. Equally important was a second theme-the creation of a new campus. An appreciative audience responded to a magazine description of a dauntless Dr. Weigle in 1960, beginning to move with his dream of expanding the college. President Christopher Nelson quoted from Time magazine's account of application pressures on big-name colleges at that time, and their reluctance to expand. An alternative was to start affiliates in distant places. "Last week," the article continued, "St. John's College showed the way. Richard D. Weigle invaded Manhattan to find foundation cash for his venture." "That venture, of course, was the Santa Fe campus," said Mr. Nelson, "[and we] know exactly what it would mean to have an invasion launched by a man with the drive, energy, determination and faith of Dr. Weigle." He pointed out that at one time Dr. Weigle's plans included as many as six St. John's College campuses spread across the country. The success of the venture illustrated different things to different people. To Brother Robert Smith, whose words were read by Tutor Elliott Zuckerman, the new campus showed that "what we do is transportable." What St. John's ''is and does" cannot be convincingly defended in words-it can best be pointed to, he said. The new campus insured St. John's much more nation-al influence than would otherwise have been possible. Dr. Thomas Turner, A '21, was in at the very beginning of the New Mexico dream. In his remarks in Annapolis, he recalled standing one moonlit night overlooking the undeveloped hills of Santa Fe. "That night we were enveloped by Weigle's inspired vision and his determination to make the new campus a reality-a college with two mutually supportive campuses, greater than the sum of its parts." The week before in Santa Fe, Dean Stephen Van Luchene had spoken of the Santa Fe success in heartfelt, but slightly different terms. "We must be grateful to [Dr. Weigle] for nothing less than the very existence of the campus here," he said. He made vivid the huge task one president had in running two campuseslater to be seen as a "human impossibility" and divided between two presidents. "It is hard even to imagine how one man could live both in Santa Fe and Annapolis, shuttling back and forth, often on a weekly basis, constantly mending the bond that unifies our two campuses into a single college." Speaking of Dr Weigle's successes in raising the enormous sums needed for a second campus, Mr. Van Luchene noted that fund raising "is the work of a teacher." Dick was unsurpassed, he said, in conveying his vision of the college and its ideals, and demonstrating "how those ideals could be realized in a living institution." Santa Fe tutor Sally Dunn, SF'71, speaking at the Santa Fe service, also harked back to the early Santa Fe days, and the edge and excitement of those times when at last three full classes (continued on page 14) �March•1993', THE REPCJRTER Jerry Buckley, right, chairman of the Great Issues Series, and his wife Anne welcome David R. Gergen to the Annapolis campus Photo by Keith Harvey Newsman Gergen speaks about reshaping America by Donna Boetig "Bill Clinton has the brains, and he has the vigor, but we do not yet know whether he has the guts" to face some of the nation's toughest problems, said U.S. News and World Report editor and political commentator David R. Gergen, speaking to an audience at St. John's College in Annapolis. "We do not quite know who the real Bill Clinton is." He contrasted a "sloppy" transition by Mr. Clinton with Mr. Bush's decisive actions in Somalia after his election defeat, the bombing of Iraqi targets, and the completion of the START arms treaty. The new president, said Mr. Gergen, has a full plate before him. Budget deficits, educational problems, riots in the streets, and the disintegration of the family are but a few of the challenges Mr. Clinton-and the country-faces. However, Mr. Gergen added that the new president is buoyed by a hopeful people wanting him to succeed-a people who "have always stood up to the challenges when we've had a wolf at the door. "And there's a whole pack ready to attack" if the American people don't get behind their man, according to this commentator for the MacNeil/Lehrer News hour. Speaking to the audience of 500plus at the seventh of the Great Issues Series, "Reshaping America: Whose government is it anyway?" on January 16 at the college, he said the country is now paying the price for its heedless euphoria of the 80s. "[The problems] built up over a long period of time . . . are serious ... and unless we act the roof is going to cave in. "This country will not be transformed by one man alone," he warned. Democracy has turned "into a spectator sport. We can't just leave it to Bill." He urged the audience to reverse the mistrust that led to a dramatic decline in voter turnout in elections. He praised the group assembled before him, many of whom were area politicians. They later broke into seminar groups co-led by faculty members and community leaders to discuss further the issues. He urged them to reflect on the nature of democracy heading into the twenty-first century. The trends of the political process over the past three decades have been discouraging, he noted. "At the very time other nations have been embracing democracy, we seem to have been walking away from it." In 1988, the U.S. ranked 23rd in voter participation among Western democracies, and in 1991, 60 percent of the people polled felt public officials didn't care what they thought. "And who could blame them?" he asked, citing Vietnam and Watergate, deficits and urban riots. "While citizens struggled with unemployment, falling wages, and growing fears of crime, elected officials in Washington seemed to be exploiting their offices ... [with] special banks, living above the law, nighttime increases in salaries, one special perk after another." One bright aspect of the past election was that voter participation was the highest since 1968, Mr. Gergen noted. Interestingly, the turnout among men increased four percent and among women 13 percent. He warned those who care about the future of the Republican party to look at those numbers. "The, Republican party will not come back until it opens its doors more widely and understands and appreciates women." Still, he cautioned, "Bill Clinton received the votes of only 23 percent of the eligible electorate-the smallest percentage since John. Quincy Adams was elected in 1824 in a four-way election. And the Ross Perot of his day was Andrew Jackson who went on to be elected four years later." Some 75 percent of non-registered voters said they didn't register because "they never got around to it," Mr. Gergen remarked. In addressing this problem, Congress may pass the motor voter registration bill. "But should we make voting so easy?" He criticized Americans for emphasizing material values over civic values and took partial responsibility for the trend. As communications director for Ronald Reagan, he helped draft the now famous 1984 campaign slogan, 'Are you better off to'day than you were four years ago?' "Was that the right question to ask?" he mused. "Should we have asked, 'Is the country better off?' But then we might have lost the election." Maybe it's time to ask citizens to give back more to their country, he said, citing Mr. Clinton's notion of a National Service Corps, or Senator Sam Nunn's proposed Universal Citizen Service. page3 Other possible reforms to consider are term limitations for congressmen. Although the issue was on the ballot in only 14 states in 1992, it received more votes cumulatively than Ross Perot did, the speaker said. And how about removing the influence of money from politics? While Congress and the president push campaign finance reforms, taxpayers have to question whether public money should be used for congressional campaigns; should private citizens and special interest groups be allowed to contribute as well? Americans, Mr. Gergen said, are going to have to answer some tough questions. Who, for instance, should the government be serving? Divisions by race and class, already deep in this country, are increasing. An elite class is growing whose daily concerns are far removed from the rest of society. A study showed that Mexican Americans in San Antonio neighborhoods, like many others living from day to day, are more concerned with utility rates, drainage and housing than issues such as police brutality and discrimination. "Bill Clinton is right when he says, 'Diversity in this country is going to be our greatest strength or it's going to be our undoing as a people."' Those with skills are .doing well; those without are finding life hard, Mr. Gergen said. Many Americans oppose a redistribution of income, erroneously assuming that those at the top of the socio-economic ladder are being taxed and those at the bottom are benefiting. But in reality, families that earn below $10,000 receive $5,000 a year in government benefits while those earning $100,000 receive more than $9,000. He argued that if we want a cohesive society, we are going to have to educate and train those who haven't had opportunities. Mr. Clinton proposes that companies take one and a half percent of their payroll to train their employees. Currently, companies are funnelling training dollars principally to the welleducated employee. "The ultimate moral question is to whom is the government accountable?" Mr. Gergen concluded. "Are we living so much for today that we're denying the generations of the future? Are we doing things to our environment that will deny them the kind of beauty we so much enjoy today?" Future programs in the Great Issues Series, sponsored by the Friends of St. John's and the Continuing Education program of the college, will be on religion, education, environment, and art. Other sponsors for the January program were the Nationwide Foundation, UNC., Inc. and ARINC. Welcoming newsman and guest speaker for the Great Issues Series David R. Gergen, right, to the college, are President Christopher Nelson and Pamela McKee, director of Corporate and Foundation Relations for the college. Photo by Keith Harvey �page4 March 199~ THE REPORTER national consulting network for the Council for Advancement and Support of Higher Education. She also worked for the Association of Governing Boards for Universities and Colleges developing fund-raising programs. "What I like about fund raising is that it allows you to make matches, to identify people's interests and passions and match them with programs and services that need support," Ms. Bowdich said. "It's always greatly satisfying when you have a project that needs funding or a student that needs an by Lesli Allison education to find someone who can meet those needs." It is this aspect of fund-raising that The natural question is why somesupplies yet another part of the answer one would leave a successful position as as to why Ms. Bowdich chose St. John's. the director of development at the "I'm looking International Tennis Hall of Fame in the forward to getting first place. The second back to fund raisquestion is why ing for higher education because I've choose St. John's as a always felt it's for replacement. the advancement This is just what Santa Fe's new annual of society," she said. "While I fund director, Cary Bowdich, did two enjoyed working at the Tennis Hall weeks ago when she left New York City of Fame, I missed the educational and the celebrity studcomponent." ded tennis scene and Ms. Bowdich, headed for New who has been in the Mexico. position for just two A simple answer might be that Ms. weeks describes herself as. still Bowdich wanted to Cary Bowdich "green behind the return home. A native ears." Nevertheless, she has already of Albuquerque, her family has resided identified several goals as she as~umes i~ ~ e~ }\1e::<ico_ ?ince 1890. She is the direction of the annual fund. third generation in the line to have been "The annual fund needs to be born here. sustained and increased as the college Ms. Bowdich received her bachelor's tries to better secure its future," she said. degree from the University of New "I also plan to continue educating the Mexico in sports psychology. Graduate public on how important it is to give to work led her on to Purdue University. the college on an annual basis. I hope to After receiving her master's she worked increase the percentage of giving from both at Purdue and the University of each of the classes and to extend our Wisconsin-Stout in continuing education. contact with donors and non-donors. She then returned to Pu~due where she Essentially, I'd like to reach out into the began her career in development. community and involve more people In 1987 she moved on to with St. John's." Washington, D.C. where she started a From the desert to the stars & back again introducing - Cary Bowdich Caritas member Joan Ruch, left chairman of the flower arranging committee, joined college juniors Heather Lewis, center, and Sarah Liversidge in preparing for the Second Annual Flower and Garden Show on March 13 in the FSK lobby at the Annapolis campus. The show, expected to be bigger and better than last year's striking success, again included a "Bloomin Breakfast" with guest speaker Washington Post columnist Jack Eden, and a Friday evening Preview Party with an auction of the fourvolume Dictionary of Gardening by the Royal Horticultural Society. Photo by Keith Harvey Zibby Mitchell, a friend of beauty by Donna Boetig Elizabeth Myers Mitchell, St.· John's College patroness of the arts and benefactor to sundry civic, civil, and humanitarian causes, loved snow. So it seemed fitting that on January 9, 1993-the day which would have been her 86th birthday-as family and friends filled the Great Hall of McDowell to eulogize her, big white fluffy flakes fell from the skies. "The snow is a blessing," remarked her cousin John C. Myers, Jr., glancing out the long windows. "Zibby's here with us." And indeed, if warm sentiments meant anything, the spirit of this woman who was keenly interested in art, music, drama, nature -and St. John's College, was present. Mrs. Mitchell died of complications of heart problems on November 29, 1992. "No one ever reached out with greater kindness or generosity than Zibby," said former president Edwin Delattre, the first of a handful of speakers to recall her decades of devotion to friends and causes she held dear. ""'. -, .-.. ,_ ,-r At first it seemed simple to label the good deeds of this shy, graceful, and always gentle woman by reciting the long list of organizations benefiting from her generosity. "St. John's wouldn't be the college it is today without Zibby," President Christopher Nelson said. "And Zibby will be alive forever in the good she did for the college." Her relationship with St. John's dates back to 1970 when she joined the Board of Visitors and Governors and continued a 60-year family tradition of caring for this tiny college, states away from her birthplace in Ashland, Ohio. (Her brother, the late Philip Myers, a 1938 alumnus of St. John's, had established a scholarship upon his graduation. And the small boxwood garden behind the Carroll-Barrister house bears the name of her late mother, Kate Moore Myers, a longtime college benefactor.) Throughout the years, Mrs. Mitchell contributed to buildings, scholarships, tutorships, general operating funds, and to landscaping of the college. To her, wealth was a means to an end. When she asked Eugene Thaw, A'47, to sell a Cezanne oil portrait for its insured value, Mr. Thaw returned with double the amount from the sale to a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Whatever shall I do with the money?" Mrs. Mitchell lamented. "Give it to St. John's," he replied. "What a marvelous idea," she said, her face aglow. In 1987 she lent her name to the new art gallery she had funded. A self-effacing ~ woman who never sought recognition for her generosity, she admitted she was thrilled with the college's decision to name the gallery after her. "I never wanted to have my name on anything, but this I would like." Art held a special interest for Zibby, as her friends called her. She studied its history at Bennett, a private two-year college at Millbrook, New York, no longer in existence. Although she herself drew and painted, she pooh-poohed the notion of being an artist. Her gracious French country style home on the banks of Meredith Creek outside Annapolis reflected her interest in French paintings. In a 1987.Reporter story, Rebecca Wilson described Mrs. Mitchell's spacious living and dining rooms as "small galleries in themselves with one wall distinguished by a rare 18th century map of Paris commissioned under Louis XV. Books on art abound." In 1939 she married author and yachtsman Careleton Mitchel(' who~ ~l~~~ sail~d wiil1 6;; ~ari~ cruises from the Caribbean to the Baltic, becoming a capable seaman. Mr. Mitchell survives her. Besides St. John's, Mrs.· Mitchell's generous spirit helped many organizations in the state where she had lived since 1947. (She divided her time between Annapolis and Ashland, where she maintained an apartment, and the Swiss chalet-type cottage on a lake just below the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan.) Among them are the Anne Arundel Medical Center, the Wilmer Eye Clinic, the Anne Arundel SPCA, and the Historic Annapolis Foundation. St. Clair Wright, president emeritus of the Historic Annapolis Foundation, said she hesitated to think of what the city would have been like without Mrs. Mitchell. "It's fine to have visions," Mrs. Wright said, "But you have to have someone to share them with." Indeed, Mrs. Mitchell was such a person. One of the founders of Port of Annapolis, a for-profit group that buys and restores historic properties slated for demolition, she was given the Athenian Award, Historic Annapolis' highest honor. Besides Maryland, Mrs. Mitchell never forgot her home state of Ohio. Institutions such as Ashland University, where she was awarded an honorary doctor of humanities degree, and the Trinity Lutheran Church in Ashland, to name a few, benefited from her help. Still, Zibby's greatest gift was not her money, "but her person," (continued on page 19) �THE REPORTER March 1993 Independence, the Articles of Confederation, L E T T E R S Notes T 0 THE EDITOR underground: To the Editor: by James N. Jarvis, M.D., A'75 Assistant Professor-Pediatrics Associate, Clinical Immuno logy!Rheumato logy James N. Jarvis I am writing this in response to two letters that appeared in The Reporter in .1992, one by.Mr. WoolU?ine and its n:ply by ·Mr. Miz~-weil in becelnbe~r. Wlziie.I agree with Mr. Maxwell that the proper venue for discussing AIDS in The Reporter would be an article about an alumnus with AIDSrelated work, it seems to me incredible that no one among the alumnae of the past 20 years could be involved in a newsworthy way with this, the great crisis of our generation. This communication will serve to remedy that lack of "news" by describing my experiences since 1989. I should also mention that I have heard that another St. John's classmate of mine is also heavily-committed to children infected with HIV in the City of New York, and I hope that she will find a way to communicate as well by either challenging or amplifying the story that I will tell here. If you had told me in late 1988 that I would devote a significant portion of my career to pediatric HIV infection, I would have thought that I was a victim of mistaken identity. At that time, I was finishing a research fellowship in immunogenetics at Washington University in St. Louis and intended to continue as a research oriented physician with clinical interests in children with rheumatic/ autoimmune disease. However, through a series of coincidences that I can now only describe as providential, I found myself, in March, 1989, interviewing for a job at Wayne State University School of Medicine/ the Children's Hospital of Michigan, knowing that their primary motivation for adding someone to the Division of Clinical Immunology was the need for another doctor to care for a rapidly growing number of HIV-infected children referred from all over southeastern Michigan. I knew when I leit Detroit that, even though there was nothing particularly rational about the decision and that it might mean significant changes for my career, I would be back. When one of my soon-to-be colleagues asked me how I felt about working with HIV-infected children, I responded, ''I'm looking forward to the challenge," before I couJd stop ~myself. I was offered the job in July, 1989; I moved my family (two children and seven months' pregnant wife) to the Detroit area in late August. There are important aspects of pediatric HIV infection I was already aware of when.I arrived in Detroit. The vast majority of children with HIV infection are infected by their mothers, either in utero or intrapartum. At the time I first arrived in Detroit, intravenous drug abuse was the most common means by which our mothers had been infected (that is now changing, as I will detail further on). Thus, the majority of our infants at that time were born into a milieu of tragic social disruption, disorganization, poverty, and (often) violence. Another important aspect of pediatric HIV infection that had significant emotional impact on the people we dealt with in 1989 was the fact that, although, only 10-30% of infants born to HIV-infected mothers are themselves infected, all infants test positive for HIV by the conventional screening tests. This is because the HIV tests measure antibody to the virus, not the virus itself, and maternal antibody crosses the placenta. Thus, we had no means in 1989 to specifically determine which infants were infected and which ones simply represented children testing "positive" because of passive transfer of maternal antibody. This resulted in an excruciating period of time for our families, wondering whether their infant was afflicted with a deadly disease or whether that smiling, cooling cherub was destined to be the joy that children are meant to be. Through the latter part of 1989, I spent most of my energy getting my research programs started and trying to integrate myself into our division's other important clinical activity, Tobias Maxw·ell's letter in the December, 1992 issue of The Reporter was a welcome call to arms. What should be pointed out, however, is that although attendance was not mandated, something virtually identical to the STOP AIDS meeting he describes took place on the Annapolis campus in the fall semester. John Lynch (A '94) spearheaded efforts inviting a presentation _from HAVEN, a local support organization for people who are HIV+. Thoughtful, sensitive, and unflinchingly honest, the presentation ran along very similar lines to the program suggested by STOP AIDS. While it may seem perverse to say that the presentation was enjoyable, it was; it's fun to get these issues off your chest, it's fun to calm fears stemming from a lack of knowledge, it's fun to lift the doom-and-gloom attitudes that have settled around sex. A similar presentation was also held the preceding Spring semester, and it is hoped (at least by me) that this presentation wiil become a part of every semester; that all St. John's students will avail themselves of this opportunity to discuss in an open and factual environment condoms, lubricants, dental dams and happy, safer sex. Knowledge is power, Robert Drake, AGI'93 To the Editor: Johnnie Math What still rankles most Is the illusion of competence: Students volunteer frantically For the proofs they know, While tutors call on those -Who volunteer! David A. Bolduc A'82 To the Editor: I found the letters from Carol Highsaw, SF '77, Annapolis tutor Leo Raditsa, and the follow up correspondence from others on the subject of the role of history in the program very interesting. I certainly agree that isolating the books on the reading list from their historical context is a major flaw in the St. John's program. Ms. Highsaw seems to be sensitive to the circumstances which caused this breach, but I fail to comprehend why Mr. Raditsa excludes American history from his consideration, particularly since the two colleges include, not only the American documents and volumes that were read in my years, but now the Declaration of Tocqueville, Lincoln, selected Supreme Court decisions, Documents from American Political History, Mark Twain, T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens have all been added. These texts are some of the significant products of a new civilization which I believe Americans should understand as well as the earlier cultures that ' formed the foundations upon which ours was created. But the Great Books of earlier years, along with significant books and documents of our own culture will not lead to such understanding if they are isolated from their historical backgrounds. We do not engage in this dichotomy in the case of Greece and Rome. Why should we do it with respect to later periods, including our own vital American experience? Th_e texts themselves, torn from their historical roots, do not provide the perspective that can be obtained if they are read in the context of the realities of the world from which they emerged. Lincoln's metaphor "the mystic chords of memory," suggests a reflective sense of history. You don't capture this in a moment or in the reading of his first inaugural, despite the fact that the words do have a sense of magic about them. To grasp the real tragedy of that critical period, one has to place this speech in its natural setting, which is indeed the history which produced it. The matrix of historical events casts a long shadow over the texture of the culture we are studying. The subtle and complex interplay of economic, social, political and emotional forces, the creative dialectic of history, if you will, gives shape to the experience and enriches the insights one can obtain from the Great Books of the Western World. A half a century ago now, Walter Lippman wrote a fascinating column about St. John's, .inspired I think by earlier discussions with Scott Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr. He used the literary device of a parable about an ancient organ, created by the masters of that art in a much earlier period which had been donated to a cathedral in Washington. The problem was that the organ was badly in need of repair, and the church elders could not find anyone who knew enough to fix it. Lippman reflected upon the decline of the Republic that had been created by the Founding Fathers over a century and a half earlier, and suggested that the New Program at St. John's might become the instrument for repairing the great erosion which had taken place in our political institutions over that period. He hoped that the graduates of the New Program ·might recover the insights and skills to repair the damage which 150 years have done to the concepts set forth in the Federalist in the same way that the Elders looked for artisans who might repair the broken organ for the cathedral. To graduate stud.ehts after four years of study devoid of a firm grasp of the history of their own society, and generally ignorant of the growth of its social and political institutions is to ignore Lippman's challenge. I was always told at St. John's when I was an early student in the New Program that "you'll pick up that stuff on your own, once you're out of here." I don't think that was very good advice. After some years in graduate school, and many more teaching and writing, I am still (continued on page 17) �page6 THE REPORTER March 1993 Snowing Alaska, St. John's alumni venture north In 1988, between jobs and looking for dialogue, Kevin Holthaus, SF'83, began leading community seminars on classic texts in Anchorage, Alaska. Little did he know the nature of the snowball he had tipped over the hill. Before long he had a general interest. He used material from a Junior Great Books Training Course he had taken, as well as selections from his readings at St. John's. Soon several teachers began participating. Eventually Mr. Holthaus approached the Anchorage School District and obtained graduate credit for recertification for teachers through Alaska Pacific University. The snowball began to accumulate momentum. More teachers began to participate and the seminars were expanded to two eight-week courses meeting two hours each week. Each seminar had approximately 15 participants. "At this point I was really enjoying seminars again and had the advantage of choosing the selections I wanted to study," Mr. Holthaus said. "I found my St. John's education more than adequate to amaze and inspire teachers in the seminar format, from elementary and secondary schools to professors from the universities." In the meantime, several teachers in Alaska had been exposed to Paideia or Great Books Foundation workshops and were eager for assistance in implementing St. John's style seminars. "I found my background could provide much needed follow up work for these teachers, including doing demonstration seminars with their classes, co-leading with them, and tailoring classic curricula in specific disciplines with a variety of student groups," he said. "I was astonished at the eagerness and ability of students in the seminar setting, and at the same time, depre~>sed and aggravated by the public school system which did little to promote thoughtfulness." In 1988 Mr. Holthaus teamed up with teacher Ken Ziegahn of the Stellar Alternative School. Mr. Ziegahn had raised funds to bring Mortimer Adler to Anchorage in 1985 and had since conducted seminar classes on his own. The two formed a non-profit corporation called the Alaska Paideia Project. Joined by Lydia Ossorgin, SF'87, the project worked in the schools doing demonstration seminars, teacher training courses, designing curricula within public schools, parent training, support services and fund raising. The program expanded to Juneau, Homer, Fairbanks and Sitka, providing introductory workshops, inservice training and program development. "Our version of 'Paideia coaching' is similar to a St. John's preceptorial or tutorial on a short selection that requires about a week of close reading together culminating in a more formal seminar," Ossorgin said. "We also put special emphasis on group dynamics and behaviors and attitudes in the coaching sessions." This year the Anchorage School District funded three full-time seminar coordinators including Mr. Ziegahn as project director, Ms. Ossorgin, and Mr. Holthaus. According to Mr. Holthaus, the program currently has two seminar schools within the largest high schools in Anchorage of approximately 130 students each with waiting lists, and several smaller seminar programs in various other schools. Students have voluntarily participated in preceptorials on Euclid, Newton and Buber at lunchtimes, Saturdays and evenings. Mike Strong SF'85, another full time coordinator for the project, in the past two years has exposed every secondary student in Homer to seminars, holds community seminars there, has trained several teachers to run seminar classes of their own, and is heading for other areas in the state. In the past five years, the projects have received funding from ARCO, Exxon, The Alaska Humanities Forum, The Council for Basic Education, The Island Institute and the school districts of Fairbanks, Juneau, Soldotna and Horner. NANA Native Corporation has asked for proposals to start a seminar style school in Kotzebue. St. John's in Santa Fe has also been included in various facets of the work. Santa Fe tutor James Carey has made several visits to conduct workshops and lectures. Alumni Jan Arsenault and Mike Mechau have helped start programs in Anchorage. Alumnus Dorik Mechau has been consulting and raising funds for the project. Tracey W ernet, a former Steller student, now a sophomore at St. John's, worked for the project as a coach in Anchorage for a year between freshman and sophomore years. Santa Fe alumnus Walter Featherly, former president of the Anchorage School Board, has been a strong supporter of the project. And, last summer, the group held workshops for Graduate Institute students in Santa Fe. The latest proposal confronting the project is a national training center in Anchorage for teachers involved in Socratic seminars, and for networking programs in their school districts around the country. "The way we are holding seminars and coaching sessions here in Alaska is very different than National Paideia and much more .akin to St. John's," Mr. Holthaus said. "We are convinced that St. John's alumni have much to offer public school reform." According to Mr. Holthaus there may be job openings related to the projects. Anyone interested in joining the Alaska team can contact Alaska Paideia at Steller School, 2508 Blueberry Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99503 I (907) 2740408, or at the home office at HC02 Box 7687 A Palmer, Alaska, 99645 I (907) 746-6203. If applying for a position, please be sure to include a resume. In the interview of Robert George, A'85, in the December 1992 Reporter, the words attributed to President Bush were actually spoken by President Reagan. The Reporter regrets the error. From poetry to the case against politics, honoring Anastaplo St. John's Board Member Emeritus Mortimer Adler, tutors Gisela and Laurence Berns, Eva Brann, Mera Flaumenhaft, and Gerald Proietti, and alumni Robert Licht, Harry Neumann and John Van Doren have all contributed chapters to a new book, Law and Philosophy: The Practice of Theory: Essays in Honor of George Anastaplo, edited by John A. Murley, Robert L. Stone and William T. Braithwaite (Ohio University Press: Athens, 1992); 2 vols. Mr. Anastaplo, a St. John's lecturer and parent (Helen Scharbach, A'71, George, A'75, Sara, A'77, and Theodora, SF'85), is professor of constitutional law at the Loyola University of the Chicago School of Law, author of The American Moralist: On Law, Ethics. and Government, also by Ohio University Press, 1992; and The Constitution of 1787: A Commentary (The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 1989). The latter, a St. John's friendly commentary, is probably the only commentary on the Constitution containing a section on Constitutional lessons to be drawn from Shakespeare's history plays. The Law and Philosophy volume ranges far and wide with sections on mathematics and natural science, political theory, Constitutional law, American politics, and literature and poetry. Mr. Adler's chapter is on "Six Amendments to the Constitution"; Mrs. Berns wrote "Schiller's Drama: Fulfillment of History and Philosophy in Poetry"; Mr. Berns wrote the Foreword, a dialogue, "Two Old Conservatives Discuss the Anastaplo Case," and "Xenophon's Alcibiades and Pericles on the Question of Law, with Applications to the Polity of the United States"; Dean Brann wrote, "Was Jefferson a Philosopher?"; Mrs. Flaumenhaft wrote, "House Bound or Floating Free: The American Horne in Huckleberry Finn"; Mr. Proietti wrote "The Natural World and the Political World in Thucydides' History"; Mr. Licht contributed a review of Anastaplo's book The Constitution of 1787; Mr. Neumann contributed "Leo Strauss or Nihilism: The Case Against Politics"; and John Van Doren contributed eight poems. �Tutor participates in congress on historian Ferrero, his grandfather Annapolis tutor Leo Raditsa presented a paper on his grandfather, the pre-eminent Italian historian and journalist Guglielmo Ferrero, at a congress held last December in Italy to examine the range of the writer's work. The congress was conducted by the Libera Universita de studi sociali in Rome and the Instituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples. Mr. Raditsa's paper, "Ferrero and Antiquity," the only one presented by an ancient historian, dealt with Ferrero's five-volume history of the end of the Republic Greatness and Decline of Rome. (Ferrero also wrote Ancient Rome and Modern America. President Theodore Roosevelt, an admirer of the writer, owned and studied both books.) Although Ferrero first gained international fame in 1901 at the age of 30 with volume one of the history, participants concentrated' principally on his work in contemporary politics, touching on his four-volume novel, and the publications towards the end of his life on the French Revolution and the Congress of Vienna. There were papers also on Ferrero's stru_ggle with Fascism and his role during the first World War which still leaves its mark on Italian intellectual life, Mr. Raditsa notes. The three-day meeting made plain what the rediscovery of Ferrero meant to "the young of Italy, who are not familiar with their liberal traditions," according to Mr. Raditsa. As an opening speaker, representing his father Bodgan Raditsa, Ferrero's son-in-law who was not well enough to take part, Leo Raditsa spoke of Ferrero's exile in Geneva from 1929 to his death in 1942, on the republication of his books, and on how this congress and one held in 1982 represented the return of Ferrero to his native land. One of only a few Italians writers of international reputation at the time Mussolini came to power in 1922, Ferrero opposed the dictator from the beginning. At that time, Ferrero's weekly articles of political commentary were printed throughout the world. This spring, La Democrazia in Italia, a book suppressed by the Fascists, is being republished because of its relevance to the present Italian crisis. In his remarks, Mr. Raditsa also examined Ferrero's influence as it is reflected in the writing of such political thinkers and policy makers as Walter Lippmann and Henry Kissinger. page 7 THE REPORTER March 1993 II Alumni Notes 1928 Contemporary Nationalism: Intensity and Persistence, Krieger Publishing Co., is the latest study on nationalism by Louis L. Snyder (A), professor emeritus of History at the City University of New York and the recipient of many prizes and awards over a long and distinguished career. The new book is part of the 140-volume Anvil Series of original paperbacks in history, of which Prof. Snyder is general editor. 1935 Richard S. Woodman (A) has been elected president of Central New York Abstract Corporation with headquarters in Utica, NY. He is still practicing law in Waterville, NY. 1937 Robert Snibbe (A) was lauded by the Clearwater Times as the 1983 founder of the Napoleonic Society of America, with a membership of 1400 members worldwide. As a student at SJC, he became interested in Napoleon. "To earn extra money, he signed on with the National Guard, which held classes at the nearby Naval Academy. There he began to study the battle tactics of Robert E. Lee, a student of Napoleon." The interest in Napoleon continued through his career as a commercial real estate agent and book publisher. After retirement, by now an expert in Napoleona, nine years ago he ran ads in Forbes, the New Retmblic, and military history magazines, seeking those of like interests. At the first annual meeting of the group in Montreal, 30 attended. At the most recent meeting in San Francisco, 200 .. "People interested in the Napoleonic Society of America should write to 115 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Clearwater, FL 34616." To The Reporter Mr. Snibble wrote: "Dr. Segal, professor of French 1935-37, would be happy to know that one of his students got so interested in French history-and where it carried him." 1938 Frank Townsend (A) declares that "despite the recession, production is up!" His children gave him five grandchildren in eight months: triplets and twins! 1940 Cecil C. Knighton, Jr., (A) is sending two grandchildren to the University of Chicago-both excellent students. 1941 Gerard J. Martin (A) has been retired for nine years, after 40 years with American Airlines. 1942 Irving S. Lewis (A) has two married daughters. Ernest J. Heinmuller (A) has recently been appointed cochairman of Volunteer Coordination for Talbot County, MD. 1943 Burton Armstrong (A) and his wife recently celebrated their SOth wedding anniversary. 1945 Bill Lieb (A) writes that after 25+ years in the film industry, he will graduate next June from the new Santa Monica College of Design Art and Architecture. Thirteen of his assemblages on music themes are in the permanent collections of Sony Corp., and Columbia and Epic Records. 1948 Peter J. Davies (A), president of InterAction for eight years, will retire May 1. In 1992, he visited Zimbabwe, Zambia, and II South Africa with Mrs. Quayle and U.S. government officials to see the major drought across 10 countries. He was in Somalia with the CEOs of major American private voluntary relief agencies and participated in UN meetings in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with Somali leaders, and in Geneva and New York "Still living in New York at 711 Ladd Rd., Bronx, 10471 and would welcome letters from old classmates." 1959 Amy Carle Jobes (A) was graduated from the School of Theology at the University (_)f the South in May, 1992, with a master of divinity degree. Now in charge of a mission in Arkansas, she hopes to enter the ordination process soon. James Jobes (A'56) .continues to teach philosophy at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN. Dr. L. Wheaton Smith (A) retired recently from IBM Corp. after 30 years. He is doing some consulting and keeping busy with environmental and church interests. 1960 Col. John J. Lane (A) has resigned his position as executive vice president at Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York City to accept the position of chief information officer and associate executive director of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC. 1949 The Rev. John Hilary Hayden (A) continues to do parish work in Manassas, VA. 1951 Don Koontz (A) writes from Colorado of a life filled with children and grandchildren, and this year, many stamp and coin shows and a course in Asian Numismatics. At the end of three two-day stamp shows in October, Don ended up in the hospital at Fort Collins with a minor heart attack and an angioplasty. He has been advised he is doing well, but he is holding off on the shows and is "considering a mail order business instead." Managing the Marketing Functions: tlze Clrnllenge of Customer- Centered Enterprise {McGraw-Hill, 1989) by Stewart A. Washburn (A) became the main selection of the Macmillan Book Club's Executive Program and an alternate selection of other clubs. Mr. Washburn is a founder of the Journal of Management Consulting and currently serves as associate editor and practice development editor for the publication. He is a founding member of the Institute of Management Consultants, the certifying body for the consulting profession, and a member of the commercial panel of the American Arbitration Association. His clients include Fortune 500 firms and others. George Wend (A) won the individual "Signature" award from Westinghouse Electric Corporation for his software development. 1953 Charles Lerner (A) identifies himself as a marketing communicating consultant and reports that his three children-an attorney, a tutor and a store manager-have produced six grandchildren among them. 1954 Nurturing Evolution: The Family as a Social Womb, by the University Press of America in January, is a new book by Richard B. Carter (A). Combining several fields of knowledge "in order more comprehehsi vel y to understand the identity of a human being as a political animal," the author suggests that "the adult nurturing of a newborn, especially during the year after birth, is a true extension of the evolutionary process which controlled the Jevelopment of that baby during the nine months before its birth." Mr . Carter examines the "biologically definite extension of uterine development during that year after birth." 1955 Paul A. Lowdenslager (A) writes from Gunnison, CO: "I flourish, and would like to hear news of my classmates." 1956 Robley Timmins Levy (A) writes that she lost her bid for reelection to a fourth term as Santa Cruz CA Supervisor by 199 votesone-fourth of one %-but she is "rejoicing in reclaiming a private life" and will be doing consulting in the coming year. Kendon (A) and Patricia Townsend Stubbs (A) have a first grandchild, Sarah. 1962 Dianne Stone Bentley (A) is living in Santa Fe. She recently exhibited her art work at the Aura Gallery. Temple Porter (A) and his wife Brenda recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on Italy's Amalfi coast "in whose waters Odysseus encountered the sirens," he writes. Temple, a founding partner of the Raleigh Consulting Group, and Brenda, a technical education marketing specialist with Northern Telecom, have lived in Raleigh NC for over 10 years. They have two daughters, Kim, married and working in mental health services in Winston-Salem, and Kiersten, recently graduated from high school and .an aspiring bass player in heavy metal bands. 1964 William P. Banks (A), a professor at Pomona College, stepped down as department chair after 13 years on the one hand, and, on the other, founded with a colleague a new journal Consciousness and Cognition (which provides "a forum for a natural science approach to the issues of conscious experience, volition, and self'). He continues his research on human attention. 1965 Milo Gibbons (A) of New Castle, DE, is working towards a master's degree in liberal studies. 1966 Constance Baring-Gould (A), along with her two daughters, will be graduating from Westminster College in Utah in May. Constance will receive a second bachelor's degree (in computer science), Jude Merritt will receive a degree in mathematics, and Heather Merritt one in psychology. Margaret Winter (A) and Howard Zeiderman (A'67), tutor at Annapolis, were married in the Great Hall in December. 1967 Judith Schultz Cannon (A) married Bill Burns on March 27, 1992. He works for NASA at Wallops Island, VA. For Howard Zeiderman (A) see 1966 Note. 1968 Elizabeth Dobbs (A) reports from Grinnell, IA, that she just published an article "Literary, Legal, and Last Judgments in The Canterbury Tales" in Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Vol. 14, 1992. Hannah Gillelan, the daughter of Dorcey Wend Rose (A), associate director of Admissions at Annapolis, and Joshua Thomas Gillelan II (A'67), is a freshman at Annapolis. �page 8 II After a year of househusbandhood, writes George W. Partlow (A), he is working in the Office of Management and Budget of the State of Alaska Office of the Governor, managing a Novell LAN, and supporting both PC and mainframe applications. He has three children, Erika, 16, much involved in theatre, cellist Hilary, 13, and Michael, 8, "the entrepreneur." 1969 Joseph Baratta (A) is completing a history of the idea of world federal government. He notes that Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, after leaving St. John's in 1946, led the Foundation for World Government until the mid-1950s. He welcomes more information on that period of their careers. Dr. Mark A. Mandel (A) reports with amusement that in responding to his high school senior daughter Susannah's inquiries, the SJC Admissions office gave her the name and phone number of a local alumnus to answer questions-her father! 1970 Leslie N. Margulis (A) is International Media Director and senior vice president at Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, Inc., Worldwide, the fifth largest advertising agency in the world. He is also on the board of International Advertising Association (IAA). At present he is stationed in New York City, after periods of living abroad and extensive travel. Hank (A) and Christina (A'72) Constantine are living in Rochester, New York. They have two children (boys 16 and 11 years old). Christine is a lawyer clerking for the New York State Appellate Court. Christine received her law degree from the University of Buffalo two years ago. Hank works in product marketing for mid-volume copiers at the Xerox Corpora ti on. He received his MA in political science at Boston College and an MBA from the University of Rochester. 1971 William H. Buell, III, (A), is working as a computer analyst for Guttman's Research Institute in New York City. Diane Palley (A) is living in Cambridge with her 14-year-old son Gabriel. She is an artist who makes Papescuts, a traditional Jewish folk art. She "appreciates my St. John's education every day." 1972 Bradley Arms (A) lives in Safety Harbor, FL, with his wife and twin daughters. He is a senior vice president with CIGNA Corp., operating eight HMOs in the southeast providing health care to 500,000 people. Marcia Brown (A) writes to report that she is currently teaching physics in high school. Last summer she taught English to Russian immigrants. Robin Kowalchuk Burk (A) received her MBA from UNC at Chapel Hill last May and has started a management consulting company. Maj. Roger Burk (A'74) is working on a dissertation in operations research at UNC. Daughter Charity (A'97?) is a junior and first sergeant at Oak Ridge Military Academy and is planning to apply for admission to SJC in the fall. Ray Boedecker (A) is running financial management software installation for federal government agencies with American THE REPORTER Alumni Notes Management Systems, while his wife Anne does part time editorial work at home. Nicholas is a second grader and Nora is four. "It never ceases to astound me how busy two children can keep us, leaving precious little time for Great Books." He reports: "We are putting an addition onto our 67-year-old house and trying to keep up with the leaves." 1973 Barbara Rogan (SF) In May her fourth novel, entitled A Heartbeat Away, will be published by William Morrow & Co. "It's a love/ ghost story: not a Great Book but, I hope, a rather good one. The book will be published simultaneously in England, France and Germany, and movie rights have been sold to MGM. No Greek version is slated as yet, but I hope my fellow alumni, former tutors, and current St. John's inmates will read it in the vernacular. Currently I'm living on Long Island, working on a new novel, teaching writing and in collaboration with my husband, raising two sons and an Airedale." Eric 0. Springsted (SF), chaplain and associate professor of philosophy and religion at Illinois College in Jacksonville IL is the co-editor of Primary Readings in Philosophy for Understanding Theology. The writings address philosophical issues crucial to the understanding of theology and provides responses to those from Plato to the present. Dr. Springsted, who joined the IC faculty in ,1981, received his master of divinity and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton Seminary after graduation from St. John's. After two years of living on the remote Greek Island of Kythera, Robin Chalek Tzannes (A) is back in New York City. On Kythera, she home schooled her children, seeing them through grades 3-4 and 7-8. She also wrote three children's books, the first of which, Professor P11ffe11dorf's Secret Potions was released by Oxford University Press last fall. 1974 Dr. Samuel T. Goldberg (A) is practicing psychoanalysis and general psychiatry in Baltimore and Columbia, MD, and teaching psychiatric residents at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is "most happy," he says, about wife Elaine, a psychiatric social worker, and daughters Emily, 4, and Allison, 18 months. Mike Panter (A) says he is celebrating his 14th year of law practice and moving his office to new quarters. He has been married over eight years and is the father of Becky, 4, and David, one. Deborah Jane Ross (A) and husband Brian Hovis became parents to son James Lowell Hovis in January, 1992. 1975 Marguerite Gilles was born on November 12, 1992, the third child and first daughter of Stephen Gilles (A) and wife Laurie Feldman. Marguerite joins brothers Daniel, 4, and Emmett, 2. Dale Mortimer, M.D. (A) is running a thriving private practice in child and adolescent psychiatry and is also the psychiatrist at Oregon's maximum security prison. Currently in the early stages of forming a Portland Alumni Chapter, he invites calls at 206-737-7587. Adam Wasserman (A) and his wife Gale are the parents of new baby girl Robin, born in August. Stephen Weber (A) teaches at Loyola College in Baltimore. Susan (A'76) and Matthew (A) Debacker are living in the Rochester area and enjoying the companionship of many SJ's alums. Seminars have been great! Matt has an MBA from the University of Rochester and works as a financial analyst for Mobil. Susan completed her MS Ed.. (University of Rochester) and just began teaching third grade. (It's wonderful!) They have four sons and enjoy raising them. 1976 Alan C. Mcvay (SF) recently moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to work as audit director for Vulcan Materials. He writes, "spent the last two years at Ferranti in Lancaster, scene of a $1 billion fraud, illegal arms exports, front companies, CIA, and a host of management problems.Unfortunately, The Firm has already been written. I earned a Certified Fraud Examiner designation, faced down a couple of CEOs of Ferranti owned companies, and spent plenty of late nights with lawyers and documents. This is the twelfth move since leaving St. John's, the fifth house I've owned." 1977 Brad Davidson (A) and Dan Jerrems (A), co-chairs of the Class of '77's 15th Year Reunion, had a great time seeing old faces. ("Actually everybody looked pretty much the same.") They hope for 100% participation at the 20th! Aaron Richard, born last July, joins brother Simon in the household of Stephanie Eiger Robertson (A). 1978 After graduation from Tulane Law School, Susan Scott Hunt (A) practiced law as an assistant district attorney in New Orleans, trying major felony cases and handling appeals. In 1986, in London, she met up again with Nick, her boy friend when she was a 16-year-old boarding school student in the north of England. They married a year later and live in north London with threeyear-old Emily Anne. Nick is a designer and Susan teaches law. After Emily's birth, Susan went back to school to become qualified as a British solicitor, and last summer passed all the exams. She will join a large City of London firm in 18 months, working principally in litigation and property law. "When time permits, Nick and I enjoy getting out of London and hiking around the countryside, fixing up classic cars, and cooking." Clinton Dale Lively (A) and Marta Stellwagen Lively (A) are back in the U.S. in Cranbury NJ after three and a half years in Japan. Randall Rothenberg (A) left The New York Times after six years as an editor, reporter and columnist to return to book writing. His first book under the new regimen is on advertising and American culture and is due out in early 1994, courtesy Alfred A. Knopf. He has been married for seven years to Susan Roy. On the night Bill Clinton was nominated, Randall was with classmate Mark Steitz (A)-Communications and Policy Director for the Democratic National Committee--at the group's celebratory bash. Rick Wicks (SF), packed up his life and possessions to move with wife Ellinor and daughter Linnea, nearly 2, to Goteborg, Sweden, in August-"a great adventure, but hard, too, in some ways." After his work with Unite the Democracies in Washington, he March 1993 II finds this an exciting time to be in Europe with the controversy over the Maastricht treaty and Sweden's pending application to join the EC: "Most Swedes are against it!" They live in the same small third floor apartment Ellinor lived in when Rick met her in 1984. Rick is in a Ph.D. program in economics, taught in English-all required, one course at a time, six to nine hours of lectures per week, plus computer labs, and six hour exams. "The weirdest aspect for me is that no one talks in class: no one asks questions! I'm virtually the only one!" While he is uneasy about such teaching strategy, Rick is thankful, for the tuition-free education offered to a guest in the country. 1979 Dr. Steven M. Holland (A) reports that he and his wife Maryland have two daughters, Jennifer, 3 and a half, and Madeline, one. His wife was expected to take over as director of Pediatric ConsultationLiaison Psychiatry at Hopkins in January, while alumnus Holland is now a senior clinical investigator in the Laboratory of Host Defenses at the NIH where he works on immune defects and therapies for them. 1980 Guy Patrick Jennings (A), who works for the U.S. Department of Justice as a tax attorney, will be a father for the second time in May. Rebecca F. Rose (A) became the mother recently to baby boy Miamon Rose. 1981 Dr. Steven Berkowitz (A) married Dr. Neill Epperson on October 17, 1992. Both are psychiatric residents at Yale University School of Medicine. Thomas E. Dwyer (A), who lives in Ann Arbor, MI, is a buyer for Book Inventory Systems. Married in 1988, he has a 10-yearold stepson. Robyn Jackson (A) transferred last summer from the Washington, DC, office of the National Park Service to the San Francisco office, which oversees the parks in California, Arizona, Hawaii, Guam and Saipan. She is now an historical architect in the division of Park Historic Preservation, responsible for construction and renovation projects in the parks that affect significant historic buildings and sites. Address: 895 31st Ave. No. 7, San Francisco, CA 94121. (415) 387-8737. 1982 Bob McDonough (A) is living, in Rochester, New York, with his wife, Anne Brockway (A'84). and their children, Mary and Timothy. He is a trusts and estates lawyer with a big law firm, and is involved in a local community organization. He was hit by a car, but is better now. Last November Erin Mcvadon Albright (A) and her husband adopted two boys from Mexico, Manuel and Alberto. Leslie Bellisario Ingham (A) and Jam es Ingham (A) of Baltimore report a new home, new baby. Mark Moore-Fuller (A) entered the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University in the fall. Patti Nogales Ozdemir (A) writes: "During the last year there have been important happinesses and unhappinesses in my life. I was married in October of 1991, and my father died, quite unexpectedly, late this �M~rchl993 THE REPORTER Iumni summer. While the former speaks to me of renewal, the latter serves as a reminder of mortality, of the fact that we must not be deluded into believing that our lives and those of people we love are permanent fixture to be taken for granted and even complained about rather than gifts given to us for only a short period." She is working on her dissertation in philosophy of language at Stanford, with two textbooks to write after that. "And then, who knows?" Harry Zolkower (A) and wife Anne are parents of a baby girl Emily Grace born September 22. 1983 David R. Belz (AGI) is a freelance writer in Baltimore who recently won the South Baltimore Learning Center's prize for fiction with his short story "Tidings." Rebeca Calderon (SF), who now lives permanently in Guatemala, has an art gallery there, ARTE INVERSION. She would love to hear from any Johnnies in the art world and those travelling south of the border. Tele: (502-2) 681805. P.O. Box 701-A, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Dr. Mark Gowdy-Jaehnig (A) has received his degree in veterinary medicine and is now practicing in the "rolling hills of western Wisconsin with a rural veterinary practice in Osseo." Wife Christina GowdyJ aehnig (A'84) combines time at home with daughters Alexandra, 7, and Phillipa, 5, and volunteer work at the public library and other projects. "We are buying a farm house with plenty of room for guests if any Johnnies are in the area and would like to stop." Route 3, Box 123, Osseo, WI 54758. After graduating from St. John's Anne Page McClard (SF) "floundered about for several years trying to recover" from the experience. In the fall of 1986 she entered graduate school in anthropology. at Brown University. There she met Ken Anderson, another anthro student, whom she married in June of 1990. For a honeymoon they conducted research in the Azores, Portuguese islands in the North Atlantic. On October 2, 1992, she gave birth to a baby girl, Zoe Page Anderson. She would love to hear from old friends. Her address is 449 South Corona, Denver, Colorado, 80209. Peter McClard (SF) is living in New York City where he is enjoying success in several areas. Aside form working for a Madison Avenue advertising agency doing computer graphics, several years ago he started a software company called Hologramophone, specializing in graphic and music programs. Together with his brother, Michael, he also developed a program called DNA that brings art and technology together. Kimber Paschall Richter (A) of Lecompton, Kansas, is curtently a graduate student in Human Development at the University of Kansas, married to husband Mark, and the mother of two boys, Nicholas, 5, and Loren, 3, who are "busy mastering the art of burping at will. We have a tacky but large home in the country and would love to see fellow alumni from Santa Fe or Annapolis-stop by." For the past six years, Leonard Silberstein (A) has been an independent computer programming consultant whose work .has taken him to Wall SL, Tokyo, ·London, and Frankfurt "as well.as such truly exotic locales asSouth Be.Rd INand1WilkesBarre, PA." 1984 Peter DeAndreis (SF) finished law school at the University of Oregon in May and then passed the Oregon bar exam. He is currently working as a judicial clerk for the state circuit court of Yamhill County. Susan Price (A) has a new job as a technology coordinator for a private elementary school in San Francisco. She expected to finish her master's degree in educational computing in January at the University of San Francisco. Lisa Ross (A) became Lisa Ross-Thedens last June when she married John Thedens, an electrical engineer at Rockwell, International. "As I look for a full time pastorate in the area," she writes, "I am serving as minister to a small rural Presbyterian Church." Her maid of honor was Leslie DeSimone (A) and Todd Reichert (A'85) was the photographer. He took "some great pictures." John C. Wright (A) "has at long last gotten one of his stories published in Isaac Asimov's fiction magazine," reports Jed Arkin (A'85). 1985 Nathaniel Joseph Sheldon was born October 23 to Dale J. Sheldon (A) and Maria Kowalczyk Sheldon (A), who live in Brooklyn, NY. Ruth Johnston Staver (A) is the mother of a third boy, Justin Robert, born in May, who joins David, 3, and Levi, 6. "I work at home teaching Levi and taking care of all · three ... Levi is very accomplished in science and engineering but has to work at learning to read. I am teaching both boys beginning French. I often hear from Beth Koolbeck (A'84)." Both represent Usborne Books, which Ruth uses extensively in her home school. Her husband does laser research for General Electric in Schenectady. "I am busy, if you can call it that, cleaning up a thyroid cancer that is trying to spread to my lymph system. I just had an operation to stop this spread." Ruth was urged to send an Alumni Note by an SJC undergraduate, in one of a series of alumni interviews, who urged her to be bold about not "simultaneously getting a degree in biochemistry or living in France, but just living the examined life in my own home. I think people like me tend not to write in." 1986 Jill R. Fredrickson (SGI) has accepted an adjunct faculty position with Pueblo Community College. Edith Updike (A), working in Tokyo until the end of 1992, was expected to go to Thailand to do refugee work for five months before returning to New York next summer preparatory to entering the Columbia School of Journalism. Seth Evans (A) expects to become a father in March. 1987 Robert Carnevale (SFGI), a research assistant at SUNY Buffalo, is studying the effects of UV-B radiation on plants and zebra mussels. She plans to participate in SUNY' s exchange program at The University of Melbourne, Australia, in the spring. 1988 Linda Clement (A) is going to Africa to work for.nationalizing health c.are for Kenya. Rodrick P. Craven (A) is teachirtg sixth grade mq.th at the YVelsh School of Knqxville whilE' he pursues a .)l1aster's degree in. ma,th education at ~he Univers~ty of Tennessee. page9 tes Jana Maria Giles (A) is currently an instructor of freshman English at the University of New Mexico pursuing an MA in English/Creative Writing. She was recently awarded a fellowship by the University. Erin Milnes (A) reports that she is still working as an editor in Chicago and that she would be happy to see any alumni-new or old to the Chicago area-at the monthly alumni events. Christina Freeman Wozny (A) is now SPC Wozny in the United States Army at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio TX "integrating reason and thumos. And yes, the guardians are educated by means of music and gymnastic, under the names of cadence and PT." Sarah Waters (A) writes: 'Tm really happy-living back in D.C., working for Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine. doing lots of art, and finally getting the hang of serenity." 1989 Conrad Baugh (A) is working for the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences. He also works as an extra at the Washington Opera. Erika Gaffney (A) is working as executive assistant to Victor R. Swenson, executive director of the Vermont Council on the Humanities. Brian Good (A) invites the class of 1989 to a black-tie gala in the Great Hall on Sunday night this May 16th following his graduation from the Annapolis campus. After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School last spring, Ray Gifford (A) has returned to his roots "in the land of Elway and fly-fishing; that is, Denver. Since then, I passed the bar, assumed a mortgage, and have embarked on other appropriate bourgeois pursuits." He is clerking for a federal judge, but expects to take "a lucrative position at a big corporate law firm so that I can begin to unburden myself from the mound of educational debt I have amassed." But "most important," he married Lisa Carlton December 21. "St. John's luminaries in the wedding included 'Ranger' Rick Craven (A), Ben Krauss (A), George Turner (A) and Ty Yancey·(A)." Also present was Joe Hirsch (SF'90), "who thoroughly enjoyed the antenuptial bachelor party [although] the groom was unable to disabuse Mr. Hirsch, the Rousseau of El Paso, of his persistently wrongheaded egalitarian political ideas." Why isn't there an alumni group in Denver, Ray asks. "Am I the only one? Please contact me with any information you might have." Brett Heavner (A) passed the Bar Exam and has started working as a lawyer with the Washington DC firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Bunnan. Elisabeth Anne Leonard (A) is halfway through an MFA. program in fiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She is working on a novel "structured around an idea I got from one of th~ readings in Mr. Townsend's preceptorial on Yeats in 1988." She is also teaching fiction writing and expects to graduate in May, 1994. Soon after that, "I will be marrying Adam Hill, whom I first met when I was in 10th grade and then didn't see for nine years (romance isn't dead,!) I'd like to hear from some of the people I've lost touch with." Address: -700 Ivy,:St., No. 3, Pittsburgh, PA. 15232. Valerie Pawlewicz (A) is in her first year of a master's program in folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Susan Petsone (A) is currently working as managing editor of publications for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation in Alkmaas, Netherlands. Letters/weary travelers welcome. Susan Petrone, Spoosstraat 40, 1815 BK, Alkmaas, Netherlands. 1990 Timothy McNicholl (A) is working towards a Ph.D. in math at George Washington University. Melanie Dawn Mason (A) is editor of Marriott's company-wide benefits newsletter while she works on her master's degree at Johns Hopkins. "In my spare time, I play the blues guitar at local clubs." Jeff Schwartz (A), who was a student at Annapolis in 1986-87, received his B. A. in English and American literature from Porter College at U-C Santa Cruz in 1990, and an M.A. in Popular Culture Studies from Bowling Green State (Ohio) in 1992. His master's thesis was on conspiracy theory as postmodern historiography; he presented a paper on Funkadelic at the 1991 Midwestern Popular Culture Association Conference, and he has an forthcoming article in Popular Music on the oral/written/ electronic nature of rock guitar teaching. His major interest is in applications of literary, film, and critical theory to popular music, and he is currently applying to several doctoral programs for next fall. ''I would be really pleased to hear from any of my former colleagues, and I am interested in other St. John's students working in my field." 11046 Rhoda Way, Culver City, CA 90230. 1991 Ramona Denk (A) writes that she is doing desktop publishing, "paying off those loans, and looking forward to training as a midwife." 1992 After an intensive internship at the Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Suzanne Baker (A) is working as a fashion designer with a dress couturier in Atlanta. Lalena Parkhurst (A) recently undertook a one year Church of the Brethren Volunteer Service assignment with Pesticide Action Network in San Francisco. PAN is a coalition of more than 300 nongovernmental organizations in more than 50 countries working to stop pesticide misuse. Lalena's assignment followed an orientation in Camp Fincastle in Virginia in. which a group of 27 volunteers came together from the U.S. and Europe to study and perform volunteer service in the Roanoke community. Those in the Brethren Volunteer Service work with groups promoting peace and addressing social needs as well as ecological issues. �page 10 THE REPORTER March 1993 Judging from the enthusiastic response thus far we will have record numbers coming back to Santa Fe this summer. Ideas are coming in and plans are forming to make the '93 Homecoming better than ever! The Class of '68. Santa Fe's first 25th reunion class! Committee members: Glenn Ballard, George Bingham, Phil Chandler, Augusta Goldstein, Vida Kazemi, Kieran Manjarrez LeftThe Class of '68 (toast) Left to right. Sam Larcombe, Sansi Girard Coonan, Allison Karslake Lemons and Vida Kazemi make a toast on graduation day. Class of '73 committee: Steve Goldman, Erin Murphy-O'Hara, Robert Briggs, Deirdre Marlowe, Mary Tarail, Eric Springsted, India Williams Class of '78 committee: Martha Franks, Colleen Regan, Dave Bruney, Martha McGinnis, Barbara McReynolds, Mary Jane Peers Class of '83 committee: Mary Mary Feldman, Paula Rustan, Carmel Davis, Ellen Eissler, Anne McClard, Peter McClard, Mark Middlebrook, Sanjay Poovadan, Elizabeth Travis . BelowFirst "Reality" in Santa Fe. Kieran Manjarrez (SF'68) takes a drink while Tevell Scott (SF'69) looks on. The graduating class of 1983. The journey EastSF institute charts course through classics of India and China by Lesli Allison '93 Summer Alumni Program Plans are well underway for the Summer Alumni Program in July '93 in Santa Fe. The first week of classes (July 11-16) will focus on Eastern studies and will· be taught primarily by tutors who are currently teaching in the new Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics. The offerings will be from the literary and speculative traditions of India, China and Japan. The second program week (July 18-23) will be entitled, "Storms and Shipwrecks," and will include a variety of literature which treats this open theme symbolically. Possible selections will range from works by Homer and Shakespeare to Mark Twain and Zora Neale Hurston. Cultural, social and outdoor activities will round out the program week offerings. In September the Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics commenced on the Santa Fe campus with a full enrollment of twenty students. The institute represents the first official investigation into the Eastern tradition on the part of the college. Over the past several years interested members of the faculty conducted study groups to explore Eastern texts and languages, as well as ways of introducing such study into the offerings of the college. The result of their efforts was the creation of the institute in the form of a one-year, non-credit graduate level course of study, separate from the regular college program. In its present state, the institute is conceived as a three year pilot program, funded in large part by a grant from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. If deemed successful, the faculty may decide to expand it into a two-year master's degree program. From its inception, the institute has faced a number of challenges, not the least of which was the recruitment of students for a strenuous non-degree program. The announcement of the grant came in December of 1991, leaving only a few months to publicize the new program. Due in large part to an original five night a week schedule, as well as to a lack of financial aid support, prospects for filling the class looked grim only weeks before the final application deadline. Last minute adjustments to the schedule and the procurement of funding for limited financial aid proved to be the necessary ingredients. By the end of June, the institute boasted a full roster of 21 students. Once around the seminar table, students and faculty faced a whole new set of challenges. For instance, can the St. John's approach even be applied to Eastern works? Are works of the Eastern tradition accessible to students in the West? Tutor David Starr, who is co-leading the seminar for the program with Director Jim Carey, said some difficulties have arisen due to students' lack of familiarity with the cultural context of the works. "It's my experience that the Upanisads and the Vedas, but especially the Upanisads 1 presuppose that the hearer knows a lot of stories that we, of course do not know," he said. "There's a certain cultural background which we're not wont to want to provide from (continued on page 18) 1 �March 1993 THE REPORTER page 11 ohn's of St. P ters erg by Donna Boetig A seemingly chance remark can set in motion unexpected events. Just such a remark was made last year at St. John's College in Annapolis. But its seed was planted earlier an ocean away in Vulcano, Sicily, in June 1990, when Jim Beall, Annapolis tutor, and astrophysicist, was lecturing on supernova explosions at the Vulcano Workshop on Astrophysics. During the conference he fell into conversatiorl with several Russian scientists and presently invited them to visit the United States and lecture at the Na val Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., where he is a senior consultant on space research. Intrigued by the prospect of bringing together for the first time in many years some of the world's experts in astrophysics, Mr. Beall promptly began making arrangements. But because of security concerns at the worldrenowned research center, it took six months to open the doors to them. with the Pulkhovo Observatory." His suggestion and the conversation that ensued, turned into a proposal in which St. John's students would travel to St. Petersburg to study astronomy, and St. Petersburg University students would travel to America to study the origins of democratic politics and society at this college. With those words, the student and faculty exchange between the college in Annapolis and the Pulkhovo Observatory in St. Petersburg, Russia, was born. Its purpose: research and study. The first group ofJohnnies would study in St. Petersburg that summer. Carrying a few small books, Johnnies Sharon Soper, A'95, Lovan Ely, A '93, Paul Morf, A'94, and Muneet Bakshi, A'94, flew to St. Petersburg in August for a month of lectures on modern astronomy and astrophysics at the observatory. Mr. Beall had already arrived. Among the topics were Space Research at the Pulkovo Observatory, picked-up more than a few Russian words. Although Sharon washed her clothes by hand and boiled drinking water on the trip, the inconvenience was a small price to pay for the experience, especially seeing the dazzling Russian skies. Through the lens of a high-powered telescope, sun spots with their dark middles and light feathery edges came alive, while red and blue st.ars flashed brilliantly against the night sky. Back to earth, the students observed first-hand the emergence of the free market economy: Russians barbecuing and selling chickens from push-carts on the streets. "Still there were hints that Americans shouldn't cash in their peace dividend yet," Mr. Beall says. "The Russian people are still so mew hat fatalistic and that seems to work against the habits of mind needed in a republic. There are religious and ethnic hatreds to be worked through in constructing their own government. The Annapolis tutor and astrophysicist Jim Beall greets Johnnies on their arrival in St. Petersburg last August to study astronomy at the Pulkhovo Observatory. The visit is part of a new exchange program in which students from St. Petersburg would come to St. John's to study the origins of democratic politics and society. Students (from left) are David Cherry, A'92, Sharon Soper, A'95, Mr. Beall, Lovan Ely, A'93, Muneet Bakshi, A'94, and Paul Mort, A'94. When these distinguished scientists arrived in the United States they met with their American counterparts at the Naval Research Laboratory, speaking on topics such as "The Evolution of Binary Stars," and "The Results of Soviet Space Missions." With their official duties behind them, Yuri Gnedin, Deputy Director of the Polkhovo Observatory of what was then the Soviet Union, Eugene Sheffer, Deputy Director of The Sternbern Astronomical Institute at Moscow State University, and scientist Vladirir Lipunov came to Annapolis. They were especially interested in visiting St. John's College. "It was love at first sight," Mr. Beall says of the Russians' reactions to the college. They wandered through the library, sampling each book like a delicacy. Yet this was only the beginning. Meeting with College President Christopher Nelson, Dean Eva T. H. Brann and Mr. Beall, Yuri Gneden raised his voice, "I would like to propose we make St. John's College a sister institute Solar Activity and its Influence on the Terrestrial Environment and Celestial Mechanics and Astronomical Ephemerides. Although advanced mathematics challenged the students, with perseverance and their own English texts to fall back on, they kept up. In fact, Paul savored "the chance to go to the National Observatory as a student-as opposed to an MIT graduate expected to know everything." When not in lectures, students peered into telescopes, viewing the heavens through Russian lenses. They enjoyed catching a glimpse of Russian scientists "living their work." And according to Paul, were taken aback by their "very dated technology. I was surprised to see them filling in the data all by hand in these huge log books. If they could have half the computers that St. John's has .... " Meanwhile, the Russians made great efforts to communicate with the Americans. And the Johnnies, like Muneet Bakshi who hails from India, Russian army is trying to keep the peace. Yet it's not clear how much longer the people will tolerate the shortages cif food and basic goods." Mr. Beall believes American students seeing the Russian struggle will reinforce their commitment to capitalism and a free market economy. He hopes that when the Russian students come here it will have a similar effect on them. St. John's is currently seeking funds to bring Russian students here to participate in astronomy studies and seminars in democratic thought. Months later, what returning Johnnies remembered best was the generous spirit of their new friends. "They were very willing to show us not only their work but their post card collection, too," Paul said. Robert Bart Robert Bart lauded by colleagues in birthday publication Friends and colleagues of Robert Bart, SF tutor, are commemorating his 70th birthday in March with a publication of essays written in honor of the occasion or papers or lectures previously published or delivered. Cary Stickney, SF tutor, is editor of the publication, which will feature 24 articles by tutors from Annapolis and Santa Fe, as well as two submissions by alumni. Subjects were the choices of the authors and Stickney states that Mr. Bart's influence can be seen in "quite a few of the works." Robert Bart has been associated with the college for 46 years, since he first began as a tutor in Annapolis in 1946. He earned a B.A. from Harvard and is one of two who has received an M.A. from St. John's based on a paper. A strong supporter of the college, he was part of the small group of individuals who envisioned the Santa Fe campus. He served as dean at Santa Fe from 1977-82 and continues to teach as Tutor Emeritus. Peter Pesic, SF tutor and contributor, sums up the regard in which Mr. Bart is held with his own testimony: "... certain of (Bart's) questions and observations have come to haunt me. I feel greatly enriched by them. His intense dedication and generosity have been a profound influence on me and many others as well. He has an unerring sense for the human center of any question, wonderfully honest and devoid of humbug, that helped encourage me, too, to speak from the heart fearlessly while still pondering whether I might not, after all, be wrong. For me, he has been the Prospero of this island, and I have tried to think about that great enchanterand Mr. Bart-in my own essay. "All of us who contributed to the volume doubtless show something of the way we have been affected by Mr. Bart, as different and independentminded as we are, and something of our affection and gratitude for his interest in us. I am very grateful to Mr. Stickney for organizing this collective volume, for it is deeply appropriate to our college and to Mr. Bart, who is so unseparately joined to it, to feast on such discourse, in questioning and wonderment." The tribute to Robert Bart will be published in late spring and will run about 290 pages in a soft-bound edition. Copies can be purchased after May 15 at either the Santa Fe or Annapolis Bookstores, or ordered by mail from the Santa Fe bookstore only (505) 982-3691 ext. 223). �pag'e 12 March· 1993 · Glenn Ballard, editor - Thbmas Geyer A'68 communications committee chair E Albuquerque A discussion group meets once a month, usually on Sundays. 20 people attended the last meeting. Call Michael David (505) 344-7875 or Diane Bentley 296-6048 to contribute ideas or suggestions. Annapolis March 20: The Spring Dinner. The ~peaker will be Joseph Curran, Attorney General for the State of Maryland. March 27: Eva Brann will lead a seminar on selections from her work, Tlze World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance. April 9: Luncheon. Speakers: Rhodes Scholars Adam Schulman, tutor, and Jeff Seldman, senior. April 24: Eva Brann will lead a seminar on Heidegger's What is ThatPhilosophy? (Ms Brann's translation). May 14: Luncheon presentation on the Touchstones Program. June 19: 2nd Annual Chapter Picnic and Seminars, at the home of President Christopher Nelson. Call Betsy Blume at the Alumni Office, (410) 263-2371. Austin This chapter meets informally on a monthJ;y basis, ~suaJ,Jy 7 tq 9 pm Ol\the 3rd. Thursday of the month, at the Law Offices of Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, & Moody, 6th and Congress. Readings are selected by the hosting members. Call Paul Martin (512) 327- 6854. Baltimore For information about this emerging chapter, call Kim Kern at the Alumni Office, (410) 263-2371. Boston Meetings are held at the home of Alvin Aronson, (617) 566-6657. Buffalo/Rochester/Toronto March 13: Charles Bell, tutor emeritus SF, will present a mixed-media symbolic history, Greece: Tile Tragic Mytlz and Deed. May 8: A meeting will be held at a winery in St. Catherine's. This chapter welcomes the participation of alumni in its wide-ranging locale. Call Cinda Graham (716) 442-6823. Chicago March 7: Charles Bell , tutor emeritus SF, will present a mixed-media symbolic history, Greece: The Tragic Myth and Deed. April 4: Nancy Wallace, SF GI, will lead a seminar on A Tl10usm1d Acres, by Jane Smiley. May: To be determined. June: Wendy Allanbrook will lecture on Don Giovanni, then lead the group downtown to see it performed. Call Pres. Rick Lightburn at (312) 552-1461 or (708) 575-3956 (w), or Program Director Erin Milnes at (312) 2711039. Dallas/Fort Worth This chapter meets about 10 times a year for Sat. evening seminars. Call Suzanne Doremus at (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis (214) 340-8442. Los Angeles Seminars/Reading Grouos March 14: Dante's Inferno, at Sanwa Bank Bldg.,Wilshire & Figueroa. Call host Gene . Heller for access to parking, at (213) 6897609 (wk) or 667-1933. April: Tutor visit expected. May 16th: Hume's Of the Origi11al Contract, at Sanwa Bank Bldg. ($ee ab_Qv_e) Jqn~,U:.Mila,J:\ Kundera's The : Unbearable Lightness of Being, at Meg Sheehan's home, 3228 West Adams, L.A. Call (213) 735-0188. Saturday Night at the Movies The last Saturday of each month a film is viewed and discussed. Call the month's "movie czar" for details: March: Meg Sheehan (213) 735-0188 April: Houston Eubank (310) 449-5747 May: Ellen Harnilton(213) 665-4065 Minneapolis/St. Paul Seminars are held from 3- 5 pm at the University Tech Center. For topics and other details call Glenda Eoyang (612) 7831405 or 379-3883 (wk). New York March 9: Reading group will discuss Kitclze11, by Banana Yoshimoto. Call Garrett Sokoloff (212) 254-6181. March 31: Phonathon at WNET on West 57th St. To be confirmed. April 14: Ed Delattre will lead a seminar at the Princeton Club-topic to be announced. May: Reading Group. Topic forthcoming. June 12: Annual Picnic and seminars at Torn Geyer's hofl'.e in Morristown, NJ. Call Sabine Schweidt Cranmer (212)645-8903 or 858~5249 (wk), or Peter Burdge (516)767-1663 or Jill Silberman (718)636- 4900. Philadelphia Contact Jim Schweidel at (215) 836-7632 or 941- 0555 (wk) to participate and help organize upcoming events. Portland March 8: Admission is free to a staged reading of a new play Fever, by nationally known Portland playwright Sharon Whitney, who will meet with the group afterwards for discussion. Fever is about the meeting and courtship of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson in New Guinea in 1933. Please call Dale Mortimer at (503) 224-4363 (Portland only) or (206) 737-7587 to RSVP and to get directions. March 20: Santa Fe tutor Cary Stickney will lead seminar. Details to follow. Richmond Call Maya Hasegawa at (804) 355-5095 for information regarding area activities. Sacramento Program readings are discussed ·monthly, following the· undergraduate sequence. Inquiries are most welcome; phone Arianne Laidlaw (916) 362-5131 or Helen Hobart 452-1082. St. Louis March 2-3: Charles Bell, tutor emeritus SF, will make three presentations, at the St. Louis Abbey, the Dept. of Classics at Washington U., and the International Writers Center. Call Lorin Cuoco (314) 935-5576 (w) or 725-8972 for details. San Francisco/Northern California Seminars and Tutor Visits March 6: Wendy Allanbrooklecture on Mozart and Musical Representation, with optional dinner following. March 14: Seminar on Part I of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zaratlwstra. April 18: Seminar on Parts 2-4 of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra. May 1: Visit to the Stanford Linear Accelerator and seminar following (reading TBA). May 16: Seminar on Sophocle's Oedipus at Co/onus. June 13: Seminar on Euripedes' E The Bacclzae. July: Stag's Leap Wine Cellars picnic a11d se111i11ars. Date TBA. Call Toni Wilkinson (415) 585-4255 for info. and to receive chapter newsletter. Science & Mathematics Study Group Meetings are held every other Thursday. Current text: Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter. Call Mark Middlebrook at (510) 547-0602. Santa Fe Chapter meets monthly for seminars and other events. John Pollak (505) 983-2144 or alumni director Cindy Jokela at 982-3691. Seattle March 21: Cary Stickney will lead seminar. Alumni Association president Sharon Bishop will attend. Details to follow. Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 Washington D.C. Area March 17: Seminar at Christ Episcopal Church, 107 S. Washington St., on T.S. Eliot's Tile Love Song of/. Alfred Prufrock. March 31: Seminar on Kafka's Stoker April 14: Seminar at 4301 N.Fairfax Drive, on Francis Bacon's Essays "Of Studies" & "Of Friendship". April 28: Seminar on Kipling's Mary Postgate. May 12: Seminar and Pot Luck Dinner, Vienna, VA. Topic forthcoming. May 26: Seminar. Topic forthcoming. June 13: Seminar and Potluck Dinner in Silver Spring. Topic forthcoming. Unless otherwise noted, seminars meet at the D.C. West End Library, 6:30- 8:30 pm. Call Sam Stiles (301) 4249119 or Sharon Garvey (304) 535-2655. Another alumni reading group in the NE Washington area is trying to hold meetings on a regular basis. Alums from Annapolis and other nearby locations are encouraged to attend. Book suggestions and times are welcome-call Susan Gushue (202) 526- 1632. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT NOMINATIONS MAY BE MADE BY PETITION: Rules governing submissions of nominations by petition are as follows: 1) Petitions must be signed by no fewer than thirty (30) members of the association in good standing. 2) Petitions must be prf'sented to the secretary of the Alumni Association prior to the Annual Meeting at which the election is to be held. George Bingham, SF'68, Secretary St. John's College Alumni Ass'n. 1160 Camino de la Cruz Blanca Santa Fe, NM 87501 3)The election will be held at the Alhmni AssociationAnnual Meeting on Saturday~ July 17, 1993~ at 1:00p.m., Meem Library, Santa Fe Campus. 4) The candidates for the directors receiving the highest number of votes for those offices shall be declared elected. ELECTION Election of Directors of the St. John's College Alumni Association In accordance with Article VII, Sections I and II of the By-Laws of the Alumni Association, notice is hereby given that the following alumni have been nominated to serve on the St. John's College Alumni Association Board of Directors: For three year terms as directors, beginning Jan. 1, 1994: Robert Cozzolino '63(A) Annapolis, MD -M.S. in Financial Management, Naval Post Graduate School, 1973; Captain, United States Coast Guard, Retired; Deputy for Reserve Office of Readiness and Reserve, Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington, D.C., 1988-90; Chief of the Reserve Personnel Management Division, Office of Readiness and Reserve, 1985-88; Comptroller, 17th Coast Guard District, Juneau, Alaska, 1978-83; recipient, Coast Guard Meritorious Service Medal; Active Member, Annapolis Chapter, St. John's College Alumni Association. Glenn Ballard, '68(S) Oakland, CA M.A. in Philosophy, University of California at Davis, 1977; M.B.A., Holy Names College, 1985; Owner and Manager, Ballard Management Services, a consulting firm specializing in organizational development for the construction industry, 1987; Lecturer, Construction Engineering and Management Program, Civil Engineering Dept., Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1989; Senior Consultant, Interaction Associates, 1987; Manager, Performance Excellence, Bechtel, 1982-86; Director, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1992-93; Editor, Alumni Association Newsletter, 1993Paula Maynes '77(S) Santa Fe, NM J .D., University of New Mexico, 1984; Attorney, Montgomery and Andrews, Santa Fe, NM 1987-, specializing in employment law litigation; Assistant Attorney General, State of New Mexico, 1984-87; President, Santa Fe Chapter, 1986~88; Treasurer, Santa Fe Chapter, 1988-; Director, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1986Linda Stabler-Talty '76(SGI) New York, NY B.A., Scripps, Claremont, CA; M.A. St. John,s College, 1976; M.E.D., Yale School of Arch~tecture, 1991; multimedia produc:er for non-profit educational agencies; site photographer for American excavation in Sicily; Visual Arts Coordinator, Dept. of Cultural Affairs; New Haven, CT; Urban Planning Consultant for project for Public Spaces, NY, NY 1993- ; Director, .St. John's College Alumni Association, 1980-83, 1986-92; Co-Chair, Alumni for the Liberal Arts Annual Fund Campaign, 1982-83; Editor, Alumni Association newsletter, 1986-92. Jason· Walsh '85(A)Corning, NYM:B:A., Harvard University, 1989; Manager of Corporate Planning, Strategy and Developi,nent, Corning Inc., 1993 Product Line Manager,, Corning Asahi Video Products Co., 1990-93; Business Analyst; 'Corning Asahi Video, 1989-90; Consultant, Arthur D. Little, Inc.; Director, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1990-93. �THE REPORTER,· March 1993 WHAT WE DID WITH THE DUES 1992 Annual Report for the St. John's College Alumni Association Submitted by Sharon Bishop, president and Rick Lightburn, treasurer After speaking at the November meeting of the Annapolis chapter and encouraging payment of association dues, Sharon was asked by a recent graduate, "What do you do with the dues?" A reasonable question, indeed, and one that other alumni may share. INCOME: $54,882 There were four sources of income to the association in 1992: dues, reserves, merchandise sales, and interest/ other. Dues: $29,881 The primary source of funds is alumni who pay dues to the association. In 1992, a total of 1,380 alumni (19%) paid $29,881 in dues. Annual dues were $10 for alumni from class years 1986-91 and $30 for earlier years. Overall, for both campuses, 22% of undergraduate alumni and 13% of Graduate Institute (GI) alumni paid dues. Directory Reserves: $17,500 The second largest source of revenue was $17,500 from association reserves. These funds had been set aside in prior years specifically for publishing the 1992 Alumni Directory. Merchandise Sales: $5,701 In 1992, for the first time, the association sponsored a merchandise pilot project, involving sweaters, rugby and polo shirts imprinted with the St. John's College seal (the books and balance). These sweaters and shirts were sold at the Santa Fe and Annapolis Homecoming weekends and at Parents weekends. Interest and Other Income: $1,800 Interest income on association funds was $1,450. An additional $350 came from personal contributions by association officers to support a special project. EXPENSES: $51,563 A total of $51,563 was expended on a variety of projects and activities, including chapter development, communications, the Alumni Directory, homecomings, senior dinners, portraits and memorials, merchandise, and additions to reserves. Chapter Development: $2,000 Merchandise: $5,944 Receptions and seminars were held in Baltimore, St. Louis, Portland, and Albuquerque. Our chapter development costs included those for renting space and providing refreshments. page13 Unlike most college bookstores, the St. John's Bookstores do not conduct any direct mail marketing to alumni, nor do they stock merchandise specifically targeted to alumni. Further, some alumni have complained that the bookstores' limited hours during Homecoming weekend have made it difficult to purchase what merchandise is available. The merchandise pilot project was initiated in 1992 to try to fill the gap. The project coordinators were Gerald Hoxby, '47 A, and Rick Lightburn, '76SF. Communications: $6,600 The communications expense includes the cost of the association newsletter published in the St. John's Reporter ($2, 100) and the cost of mailings to alumni ($4,500). 1992 Alumni Directory: $17,500 Total cost for the directory was $35,000. The association and the college each paid $17,500. The 1992 Alumni Directory has been provided at no charge to all alumni for whom the college has current addresses, whether or not they are dues-paying members of the association. Homecomings: $8,137 The association supported homecomings on both campuses. Expenses included entertainment, dinners for honored guests and tutors, and additional student aides. In 1992, for the first time, a glass coffee mug imprinted with the college seal and the Homecoming date was presented to each Homecoming dinner attendee as a souvenir. A total of $5,944 was spent purchasing cotton knit sweaters, rugby shirts and polo shirts imprinted with the college seal. The merchandise generated $5,701 in revenue, and approximately 30 shirts remain in inventory. If sold at regular price, the association will make a profit of $1,150. Alumni are interested in purchasing such merchandise. However, the associ-ation is not equipped to be in the sales business. Having tested the waters on this idea, we plan to ask the bookstores to continue the project . St. John's Alumni Association 1992 Budget Report Income: $54,882 Dues $29,881 Directory Reserves 17,500 Merchandise Sales 5,701 Other: $1,017 Other costs included expenses for four board meetings ($900), a treasurer's bond ($87), and miscellaneous administrative expenses ($30). Interest/Other 1,800 Expenses: $54,882 Senior Dinners: $1,315 Additions to Reserves: $6,800 Chapter Development $2,000 ln 1987, the association began a program of Senior Dinners, with funds coming from the college, the association, and the alumni hosts. Association board members invite all members of the senior class to dinner. One or two alumni host six to eight seniors at different, good restaurants. The Santa Fe dinners are held in January; the Annapolis dinners are held in April. Seniors receive information about the association, our chapters and activities, and are encouraged to participate. The dinners provide a bridge between being a student and becoming an alumnus/ a and have become a much-enjoyed tradition of the senior class. A chapter development workshop is held in Santa Fe every two years for chapter presidents or their representatives to share ideas about developing and maintaining active chapters. Association funds are used for administrative expenses and to help offset travel costs for attendees. $1,300 was added to reserves for the 1993 chapter development workshop, and $5,500 was placed in reserves for the 1997 Alumni Directory. Communications 6,600 Portraits and Memorials: $2,000 $1,000 was spent on each campus on portraits and memorials. The focus this year was to obtain professional, archival quality photographs of senior tutors. Vivian Ronay, '65A, has been conducting this project in Annapolis and has produced wonderful photographs of Tom Simpson, Bryce Jacobsen, Howard Fisher, and others. Prizes and Blazers: $750 Each year, the association awards an essay prize to GI graduates at May and August commencements on each campus. Athletic blazers are also awarded to the best 4-year male and female undergraduate athletes in Santa Fe and Annapolis. 1992 Alumni Directory 17,500 Homecomings 8,137 Senior Dinners 1,315 Portraits and Memorials 2,000 Merchandise Purchase 5,944 Prizes and Blazers 750 The association is not completely selfsufficient. T~e college provides significant financial support. Full time directors of alumni activities on each campus provide staff support to the associations board and to individual chapters. The alumni directors largely organize, plan and manage all alumni events, relations, and activities. The college also provides financial support for homecomings, tutor visits to local chapters, mailings, the Alumni Directory, and other admin.istrative expenses. As the college faces increasing financial pressures in the years ahead, it is likely that its support for alumni activities will be reduced. One of our goals is to increase our financial selfsufficiency to compensate for reduced college support and maintain, or even increase, our support for alumni activities. To do this, WE NEED YOUR DUES ! Other 1,017 Additions to Reserves 9,619 (includes reserves for the 1997 alumni Directory and the 1993 Chapter Development Workshop) Surplus/Deficit: $0 �page 14 to become interim president in 1982 after the previous president resigned in the middle of a scandal. Serving 16 months at a token salary, Dr. Weigle brought "stability and respectability" to St. Mary's as he helped it to redirect its energies towards worthwhile goals. At that time, too, he served on the Historic St. Mary's City Commission, where he typically resolved conflicts and brought "dangling issues to closure." Such a civic contribution was emblematic, and as the service in Annapolis ended, longtime friends recalled other community roles Dr. Weigle had filled. He was the one in 1952 who invited community members to attend the first meeting in McDowell Hall to discuss the preservation of historic Annapolis. He was also a member of the original Historic Annapolis board of directors and president of the organization in 1957-58. He served, too, as a member of the Anne Arundel County School Board for 12 years, and its president for five of these; he was chairman of the Association of American Colleges, chair- The smallest clock by Lesli Allison It was the kind of question most likely to occur at St. John's, the kind that emerges when disciplines are integrated rather than divided. Do bacteria function as clocks? If so, just how small can a clock be? This was precisely the train of thought that arose for Santa Fe tutor Peter Pesic during a 1989 senior lab, and it is the focus of a paper that appears this month in the European Journal of Physics. Mr. Pesic, who is musician in residence at Santa Fe, holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Stanford and formerly researched elementary particles at the Stanford Linear Accelerator. Mr. Pesic's investigation began as a result of the so-called "blender experiment" in which bacteria are allowed to reproduce and are then interrupted by being placed in a blender. The longer they are allowed to conjugate at that point, the more of the genetic material they transmit to each other. "During the discussion of the class, I realized the bacteria were acting as little clocks and began to explore the question of how small a clock could be," Mr. Pesic said. "It turned out that the very smallest bacteria, called mycoplasmas, are near the limit of smallness that is allowed by quantum theory." This train of thought led him to contact people around the world to learn more about the topic. "It might be the first time we have an idea of why bacteria might be the size that they are, that they are clocks and the smallest clocks possible," he said. According to Mr. Pesic, it is already well known that biological clocks exist. However, it is not well known as to what extent that process is dependent on what happens within the cells or tissues. "This is an exploration .of what has to happen on the smallest level," he said. The exploration offers a bridge between the fields of biology and physics. On the one hand it requires the study of bacteria and, on the other, touches into the arena of quantum physics and the nature of elementary particles. From this line of inquiry also arise questions regarding the very nature of time and whether time even exists for the smallest of particles. It is to the possibility of this kind of bridge between disciplines that St. John's offers a valuable contribution. "In the senior year students study both clocks and bacteria," Mr. Pesic said. "They read works by Einstein and do these kinds of experiments. It's the kind of thought that would occur at St. John's and possibly not elsewhere because people wouldn't think about those two things together." Once Mr. Pesic launched his investigation, he found support and assistance through a faculty study group on thermodynamics and the chaos theory which was funded by the Alfred Sloan Foundation. Another faculty member, Roger Peterson, who holds a Ph.D. in botany, also provided guidance. March 1993 THE REPORTER Peter Pesic WE WANT TO what you think of the Reporter. Weigle continued from page2 stretched out ahead of her freshman class. Those were days also of financial travail and rumors that the college couldn't meet its faculty payroll. Richard Weigle was at his best when he was able to controvert the rumor on one occasion. It was not true, he said. "He smiled and said he had made a successful phone call that afternoon." "We had the comfort of knowing that Mr. Weigle worked day by day for our sakes, and that it was to us among others that he felt responsible." Now in Annapolis, Dr. Weigle's friends and colleagues were describing him as generous and frugal, open-spirited and wily, adventurous, conscience-driven, and always, tireless. "Kind-hearted, considerate, sympathetic," said Ranlet Lincoln, A '50, remembering his student days and the president who befriended him, helped him find one job and then another and maintained an interest in him and his family for the rest of his life. It was a funloving president that Tutor Emeritus Hugh McGrath evoked, describing Dr. Weigle's pleasure in the annual senior faculty softball game, and his enthusiasm over what the speaker called "infield chatter." He was a man, too, concerned for his faculty. Mr. McGrath remembered with gratitude Dr. Weigle's response to faculty need when he established a tutors' home loan program in 1955. Dean Eva Brann drew attention to Dr. Weigle's inexhaustible energy, his attention to detail, his unfailing fairness, "his fundamental rectitude." "Never was a president less embroiled in personalities and more ready to do justice," she said. Jack Ladd Carr, A'50, presented a signal period in Dr.Weigle's productive retirement-when he found another small liberal arts college to salvage. The college was St. Mary's in Maryland, and Dr. Weigle was invited man of the Maryland Commission on the Capital City, and a member of the boards of many other charitable and civic organizations. Curtis Wilson concluded his remarks with words that carried truth to many in the Annapolis audience: "How can we possibly honor him rightly and enough, we whose lives were totally changed by what he accomplished? Richard Weigle was our chivalrous knight, rallying the angels to our cause ... May the annals record the facts ·aright. And may we not forget." Others on both campuses gave tributes to President Weigle: Tutor William Darkey, Tutor Robert Bart, Tutor Emerita Barbara Leonard, and Annapolis Mayor Alfred A Hopkins. Richard Weigle is survived by his wife of 50 years, Mary Day Weigle, two daughters, Professor Marta Weigle of Santa Fe, NM, and Constance Weigle Mann of Columbia, SC, a granddaughter, Mary Elizabeth Mann, and two sisters, Margaret Weigle Quillian of Lunchburg, VA, and Ruth Weigle Guyton of Jackson, MI. By filling out and returning the following questionnaire, you will help us keep you better informed about St. John's. Are you an Alum Faculty Parent Student Do you read the Reporter on a regular basis? How much of the Reporter do you read? All Friend Yes Staff No Part What sections interest you the most? College news, Alumni notes, Alumni Association News, Letters to the Editor, Features, Other (please comment) What would you like to hear more about? . What would you like to hear less about? Do you have any other suggestions for the Reporter? Please return to Office of Public Relations, St. John's College Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501-4599 �- "'- "" ' j f ~ March 1993 THE REPORTER page 15 Santa Fe Summer Classics filling quickly Is God the cause of gravity? People from all over the registering for the third a Classics in Santa Fe been changed from avoid confusio seminars). Sc August 7, ni during the The by LesliAllison In Principia, he claimed to have left the cause of gravity an open question. But Santa Fe tutor, Dana Densmore, has uncovered evidence within Principia and other documents that Newton had something else in mind. Something like God. Pursuing a line of thought that originated when teaching Newton in junior math classes, Ms. Densmore began to discover aspects of Principia which led her to believe Newton hadn't shown his full hand in the text. Eventually, the investigation became-the focus of a thesis which Ms. Densmore recently defended in front of members of the Santa Fe faculty for a master's degree. According to the catalogue, tutors who have completed two years of teaching at the college may receive a master's degree in liberal arts. They must petition the Instruction Committee and present a thesis on an approved topic which in turn is defended in an oral examination. The quest for the degree, however, was only a secondary consideration for afterno seeing mountai1 and Mrs. pants stay activities a1 two per week. drawing class was seminars this year inclu e landscape art classes and an ext seminar offered in response to the pop larity of last year's, which had a long waiting list. The topics this summer are: first week: Dante's Paradiso and The Prince, by Machiavelli; second week: Shakespeare's The Tempest and Romeo sized that the cause of gravity was mechanical impacts. Some people conclude that was his true belief. She also said others,' not familiar with those writings, assume Newton attributed the cause of gravity to "action at a distance." Ms. Densmore claims, however, that neither may be true. Much of her evidence is found in a close examination of· the use of the Third Law of Motion in Book III of Principia. "In my thesis, I look at the implications of his use of the Third Law in the propositions that derive the principles of universal gravitation. Based on that, I show that he could not have any longer believed it could be mechanical impacts," she said. "I also look at evidence that he did not think it was action at a distance, which leads to some very interesting speculations as to whether he did have an opinion of his own and what that might be." "I find some evidence in the General Scholium and elsewhere that suggests he thought the real cause was the substantial presence of God. Not Ms. Densmore. It was the need to find a context for the idea at hand that prompted the thesis. "It really started with the idea I had for the paper," she said. "It was such an interesting idea to me and it was also substantive. It occurred to me that there ought to be a place for it. And so I made the connection that it could be a thesis for the master's degree." The thesis led Ms. Densmore to research what Newton and thinkers before him, all the way back to Aristotle, had believed the cause of gravity to be. According to Ms. Densmore, Newton himself, in other writings, had hypotho- just his will, but God's substantial presence throughoutspace." Ms. Densmore earned her bachelor's from St. John's College in Annapolis in 1965. After graduating she pursued a career in computers. Whi]e at MIT she worked on contracts for NASA, programming on-board computers for the Apollo project and the Space Shuttle. She later worked within the industry doing product planning for computer manufacturers based on emerging technologies. She moved to Santa Fe and joined the St. John's faculty in 1987. nnd Juliet \which will be performed by Shakespeare in Santa Fe three nights a week on the Meem patio, the company's new home), Journey to the West, a Buddhist allegory, and Landscape Drawing; third week: the Iliad, Landscape Painting and the two opera seminars in which participants will study and attend the Magic Flute, and Xerxes. By the first week in February one third of the available slots for Summer Classics were filled, 45% of which are returnees from 1992. Visitors come from around the country, from Florida to Maine, California to Texas. About one quarter are couples and the remainder close to evenly divided between men and women. Fees are $950, all inclusive, for residents and $650 for commuters. Limited discounts are available. To receive a brochure and registration form for Summer Classics 1993 write the Public Relations Office in Santa Fe or call (505) 982-3691 ext. 288. Tutor Dana Densmore undergoes a formal oral examination upon her thesis in pursuit of the master's degree in liberal arts. �page 16 THE REPORTER New York Times continued from front page Charles Fasanaro Poetry born of war In 1968 Charles Fasanaro interrupted his graduate studies in chemistry to work for Behavior Systems, Inc., training dogs to detect trip wires and land mines. His job took him to Fort Gordon, Georgia, where he taught these methods to the 25th Infantry Division, 60th Infantry Platoon, Scout Dog. Because of his friendships and concern for the men he was working with, he requested to be sent to Vietnam where he served with both Army and Marine units form the DMZ to the Mekong Delta. His experiences there form the subject of his recently published book of poetry, Velocities of Rage (San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, 1993). Currently a tutor on the Santa Fe campus, Dr. Fasanaro earned a master of arts degree in religion at the Iliff School of Theology, and in 1983 a Ph.D. in philosophy in the joint program at the Iliff School of Theology and University of Colorado at Boulder. He has counseled soldiers from Vietnam and lectures on compassion and military ethics. He also is the recipient of several awards. Dr. Fasanaro has been a member of the St. John's faculty since 1991. The following interview with Mr. Fasanaro was conducted by his brother Alan Taylor, who currently is enrolled in the Graduate Institute on the Santa Fe campus. What were the circumstances that took you to Vietnam? While doing graduate study in chemistry, physics, English, literature and music in 1968 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University at Raleigh, I and a few friends were looking for ways to earn a living. A friend's father read that the government was looking for new projects to help with the problem of mines in Vietnam. The usual electronic gadgets for detecting mines had severe limitations, in addition to being much too cumbersome for the jungle. We thought it might be possible to use dogs, trained in classical behavioral techniques, to sit within 2 feet of. the mines. To our surprise, the government said yes to our proposaLAlso to our surpri'se, the method worked, so we found ourselves at one of the more conservative Army bases in the country, Fort Gordon (home of the MP school at that time), in Augusta, Georgia, to train the Army people how to use the dogs. Normally, that would not have been a problem. But, we were hippies, with very long hair and love beads-the whole paraphernalia. We were also pigheaded, so we refused to get haircuts, shave our beards, or take the beads off. You can imagine the reaction when we first appeared on the base. In the beginning, our relations at best, were filled with distrust, hatred, and misunderstanding on both sides. But little by little, trust, companionship and compassion grew, and interestingly enough, we all learned something from each other. The hip people went down originally thinking they understood all of the fine points about the ethics of wars in general and Vietnam in particular, unlike the poor 18-year old enlistees, many from the backwoods of rural America. Actually, the 18-year old enlistees asked such shrewd questions about whether or not we should have a military, and if so, who should make the decisions, that I decided there was merit in both camps. This made life a lot messier than I originally expected, which was very unpleasant because I started questioning whether I was a man of peace or man of war. To help smooth out relations, I started eating lunch with the platoon, and often visited them after work, where we would talk, sometimes until 3 a.m. Toward the end of our training period, we all grew pretty close, so when the time came for them to leave for Vietnam, in 1969, I said I'd go. Some of my friends said they would go as well, as a kind of support group, but on (continued on page 18) The New York Times' January 10 educational supplement. "St. John's Clings to the Classics" is Ruth Bond's lead-off article: "'Dead White European Males,' as authors of the Western Classics have been called, are very much alive on [the Annapolis] campus and on the college's 28-year-old campus in Santa Fe, N.M." Dean Brann is presented as the defender of the New Program ("Ms. Brann has warned that 'external pressure to follow the multicultural trend must be resisted" -Dean Brann does not remember these words, Ed.), while tutor George Doskow is cast in a balancing role "as believ[ing] students can benefit from studying non-Western works." But hold on a minute. On September 22, in the Dallas Morning News, SJC is on the other side of the debate under the banner, "Colleges diversify with multicultural classes." "Last month the Santa Fe campus launched an Asian studies program [in which] graduate students can read the masterpieces of Chinese and Indian literature, including writings about Buddha and by Confucius," comments writer Larry Bleiberg in this article, adding, "School officials said the program is not prompted by the popular push for diversity." In the September I October 1992 issue of Change magazine put out by the American Association for Higher Education, Dean Brann's 1991 "Statement of Educational Policy for a Living Community" is laid out over eight pages gt;nernusly illustrated. with photos of students and faculty. (The Statement was published in the December, 1991, issue of The Reporter.) In "The Seven Most Innovative Colleges We Could Find," a writer in the November issue of Sassy magazine warns its teenaged readers (mostly girls): "If people like Plato, Shakespeare and Swift leave you cold, then don't waste even a minute considering St. John's .. .See, the folks who founded St. John's believe that all of life's great lessons are unfolded in said classes, so your entire education revolves around Another Rhodes! continued from front page As a high school student, he took part in the Telluride Association Summer Program, an enrichment opportunity held at several college locations for gifted high school students. He. was instrumental in having the two St. John's campuses selected as alternate summer sites for the program. In the summer of 1990 Mr. Seidman was one of two college students to serve as a factotum, looking after the recreation and wellbeing of the teenagers at Annapolis. When he takes times away from the demanding reading requirements of his senior year, it is often to read anything and everything else-newspapers, magazines and novels. Or it might be to take part in the "Homeric Training" fitness program, an hour of rigorous jogging, pushups and pullups which begins at the college gym at 7:30 a.m. three times a week. In the summers, he usually takes several backpacking expeditions. March 1993 reading them-in chronological order." Sassy gives a nod to the curriculum debate, when it adds darkly, "If you're interested in gender parity or a multicultural approach, you'll climb the walls here-" In December, the recreation section of The New Mexican featured "The people who may someday save your LIFE. St. John's Search & Rescue ... there in an emergency." The lengthy article describes the 21-year-old search and rescue team, half of whose 100 members are St. John's students. Longtime member of the group Mary Freitas was attracted by community service and wanted to do something "completely out of the intellectual life of the college" when she joined the team in the late 70s as a St. John's student. Present student Sarah Calhoun likes the idea of volunteering and improving her outdoors skills. Tim Hanes, A'92, sits reading outside Campbell Hall on the artsy, screened image cover of a January 13 Educational Opportunities insert in patuxent Publications newspapers distributed to seven Maryland communities. The same rosy hue colors the St. John's profile inside, which moves around the program from Friday night lectures to the Graduate Institute to Executive Seminars projected in Washington and New York. Back in the spring, there were intimations of the media blitz ahead. Paul Greenberg, who writes for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, passed through Santa Fe and "up, up, up to St. John's College-which may be the last redoubt of classical education on the continent ... In the.:bookstore/' he~c:ontinued:, c'lsun-· rounded by more wisdoin than J'U ever be able to ponder, one is no longer in New Mexico but in an even stranger terrain-the past, where they do things differently." In June, in a comprehensive article in the Los Alamos Monitor, writer Kathy Jones describes the college as returning to the classical definition of "well educated" with its broad liberal arts offering. Santa Fe President John Agresto is quoted in a sidebar on the new Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics: "In the end, our primary interest is neither 'the Western mind' nor the 'Eastern mind' but the human mind." A dramatic photo of "Sailing to Byzantium," a 17-inch high bronze male torso on jagged soaring wings appears in the May /June issue of Liberal Education, put out by the Association of American Colleges. The sculptor, Burton Blistein, formerly director of the Mitchell Gallery and Artist-in-Residence at the Annapolis campus, is currently preparing for an exhibition of his work at the gallery next year. In the same issue, the college is profiled under the "Praxis" section as part of its series on the 28 resource institutions for the NEH-funded project Strengthening Humanities Foundations for Teachers. Annapolis tutor Geoffrey Comber explains the college's program and role in producing teachers, concluding with a description of the independent Touchstones Project, a reading and discussion program serving nearly 100,000 students which he and tutors Nicholas Maistrellis and Howard Zeiderman developed. This is more than 15 minutes of fame. Stay tuned. �THE .REPORTER , March 1993- L E T T E R S Letters to the Editor, Notes from the Underground continued from page 5 care of children with rheumatic disease (children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis remain my special interest and, as challenged as I am by HIV infected children and their families, I will always remain, I think, a pediatric rheumatologist first and foremost). This began to change in 1990. By all accounts Vanessa (not her real name) was a remarkable woman. Afflicted by substance abuse, struggling to stay "clean," she was keenly aware of her now-limited time to live and desperately determined to scrape together the emotional and physical resources necessary to make life better for her infant son, Marcus (again, not his real name). Her craving for life, lived vicariously through this beautiful, strong, smiling infant "boy, exceeded even the gnawing hunger for crack cocaine that had dominated every waking hour of her life the previous year. Early in the winter of 1990, we began to see ominous signs: Marcus's lymph nodes were enlarging; and oral fungus infection, common even in healthy infants, proved more tenacious than we would have likedj antibody to the virus, which should have begun to wane, remained disturbingly elevated. By age 6 months, subtle alterations in his immune system could be detected. The day I sat with Vanessa in a small, overheated examining room and told her that we could no longer hold out hope that Marcus would be one of the lucky ones, the day Vanessa's tears fell upon my spotless, starched white coat, the day I held little Marcus, overwhelmed with sorrow for all the children who would never live the dreams their parents held for them, was the day that pediatric AIDS became real to me. In the three years that have passed, I have felt the blessing of working with these children and seeing the oftencourageous struggles of their mothers and families to hold the last tattered fragments of their world together. I have watched others embrace and care for these children in ways that can only be described as miraculous: a well to-do suburban family who shared their home and their lives with a dying child; a foster mother who decided to adopt a one year-old girl after learning that the child was HIV infected; a man who struggles to make a good home for his wife, who was infected by her first husband, and their HIV-infected child. I could fill pages with anecdotes. If I were an even passable writer, any one of them would be revetting and moving. I can only recite them like a catalogue, or a litany. We are learning that the face of AIDS is changing. The fastest growing T 0 segment of the population diagnosed with AIDS at this time is women between the ages of 20 and 30. Most of these women were infected by heterosexual contact, many when they were in their teens. The disease long ago left its association with gay men and, here in Detroit, has moved from the streets, the shooting galleries, the seedy underbelly of urban society and into the living rooms of hardworking blue collar laborers and fashionable suburbanites. Its initial cohabitation with defined "risk groups" has ended, and we and our children are all at risk. I believe that this epidemic will affect our own society as profoundly as the Plague did Athens or the Black Death did Europe. Life after AIDS will be unrecognizable to those of us living in its earliest stages. This dire prediction presupp~ses there will be no widely-available cure or prevention for AIDS any time soon. That is a reasonable and well-founded assumption, but also a very pessimistic view of my own endeavors in the area of AIDS research. Significant portions of my time and effort are now spent in the laboratory, trying to understand this perplexing virus and what it does to human cells. We are captivated by its similarity to autoimmunity, the pathophysiologic process that we believe underlies such diverse diseases as rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes. My world is dominated by test tubes, glass beakers, acrylamide gels, and all the complex hardware of medical research. I am stimulated by the scientific questions, challenged and even exhilarated by the opportunity to learn more about normal cell and molecular biology by observing the effects of this terrifying virus on host cell functions. The university and my department chairman have nurtured that interest, rewarded it, and provided the resources to continue it. It has become the central theme of my career. It would be easy to become wrapped up in this world, the world of hypothesis-testing, observation, and discovery, to the exclusion of all else. My walk down the hall from my office to the laboratory, however, takes me by our patient waiting room. One day, while I am absent-mindedly walking this hall, obsessed with yesterday's work and the work ahead of me today, I pass the waiting room where Marcus and his mother are waiting to see my associate. I am too distracted to notice them and walk briskly toward the laboratory. My thoughts are interrupted by a little voice calling my name. I turn, and Marcus, now three years old, the age of my own son, runs and leaps smiling into my arms. I am no longer distracted, just better-focused. THE page 17 EDITOR trying to make up for that gap in my education. A liberal arts undergraduate education ought not assume that an integral aspect of that education will be mastered after one leaves that institution. You don't close this critical gap, either, by including a few more American authors in the curriculum every now and. then. In my time, I was impressed by the major effort expended on the mathematics tutorials and the laboratory in attempting to develop a coherent approach to the history of science. I hope that almost fifty years later those efforts have succeeded. If, indeed, America is a new civilization, related to but also developed independently of its predecessors, doesn't it also merit substantially more consideration than it has received in the St. John's program? I don't have a satisfactory solution to this problem, but I am concerned that serious attention be paid to it. The success of the first two years with Herodotus, Thucydides and Plutarch, providing context for the study of Greek philosophy, literature and science; and then Plutarch, Tacitus and Gibbon, also filling in much of the background for the Romans, is in sharp contrast with the seminal works read later, where no history weaves the loose ends together to give one a sense of the developing structures and values of the societies in Europe and America. Of course one gains impressions in the novels of Fielding, Austen, Dostoeveski, Tolstoy and Mark Twain, but these authors represent views gained from special experiences. As valuable and rewarding to ones' education as these books are, they do not provide a substitute for the historical perspective which is missing. It is as if no one has thought the whole thing through, and we are left with snap shots of different worlds and various cultures, never being able to raise meaningful questions concerning the vital forces at play, and the direction in which they are moving. There is present in the literature promoting the college a sense of satisfaction that the original concepts of the New Program have succeeded beyond all expectations, and that its present structure is not really open to question. Its founders never accepted such a doctrine, and their successors are not justified in doing so either. Oxford University recognized the modern world when it set degree examinations in the sciences, modern history, politics, philosophy and economics as well as its program of literae humanores. In recent years, students have drifted away from the "Greats" in ever larger numbers, enrolling in other programs by a ratio of greater than 10 to 1. I still believe the fundamental principles of the New Program are valid, and its continued durability and influence are not in question. But if its graduates are to contribute to the redemption of the Republic of the Founding Fathers as Lippman hoped, considerably more attention must be directed to the study of fostory, and particularly to the history of what Henry Adams identified as the Degradation of the Democratic Dogma in their own country. Dr. William M. Goldsmith, A'45, emeritus professor, Brandeis University. �Poetry continued from page 16 East continued from page 10 the day of departure, I was the only one at the airport. secondary sources. But, I've thought at times that we might want to go against the usual St. John's practice of strictly chronological reading so as to read some of the epics first and some of the U panisads interspersed." Mr. Starr cited the notion of sacrifice as the type of thing largely unfamiliar to Western readers, yet necessary to the understanding of some works. "In several of the Vedic hymns, which are fairly short, there's extensive reference to sacrifice," he said. "We tried to talk about it at the time, but it was mostly speculation based on what could be described as Western mythology and folklore, that is to say, our own cultural experience. I think having read some of the epics and some of the stories we'd do a lot better. One really does gain a context." Another question that arises in the study of Eastern works is whether such study requires contemplative practice such as meditation. According to the faculty in the institute, this question also can be asked of the study of certain Western works. "It strikes me in the same way as when we, in the undergraduate program, read the old and new testaments and medieval religious writings without practicing any monastic discipline or ritual," Mr. Starr said. "That's the way we deal with the Eastern things too. And I believe that a certain depth· of knowledgef East or West, requires a kind of contemplative practice which we rightly cannot do in a St. John's classroom, but is worthy to be thought about and discussed. "We're having a very successful time arriving at valuable insight and understanding but that isn't to say that anyone who's primarily seeking enlightenment through practice wouldn't be better off to go somewhere else. Ideally, one would go here and somewhere else." One place in which faculty and students are discovering valuable insights is in the language tutorials. Students in the institute choose between Classical Chinese and Sanskrit. The tutorials continue throughout the year and focus on the translation of key passages in major texts. Ralph Swentzell, who leads the Classical Chinese tutorial, compared the experience with that of teaching Greek in the undergraduate program. "One of the things that's happening is very clear," Mr. Swentzell said. "If you read one translation of the text, the meaning goes in one ear and out the next. As soon as you go look at that passage, you suddenly start seeing resonance all over the place. You see them use the same character in different ways, it sort of has a poetic resonance to it and we immediately come up with nuances of depth, layers of meaning that just didn't come through in the standard translation." Mr. Swentzell described the process as squeezing gold out of lead in the sense that the group collectively can discover considerably more in the text than might be found in a single reading. "It can only happen in a group," he said. "When I'm alone I can never quite get this to happen. I think as a group we always come up with something better than the standard translations. There's Can you talk about the process of writing these poems? While I was in Vietnam, things were intensely difficult. Some of my friends were killed. I walked point many times with the dogs, worked with the Fort Gordon platoon and also with several Marine units, so I got to know quite a few people over there. Whenever something terrible happened which was difficult to handle, I would write down the incident, very sharply. And those writings became Velocities of Rage. The vast majority were written there, while the few reflective pieces were written a short time afterward. I couldn't help compare what my friends back home had said about concepts of friendship, compassion and responsibility to what I experienced there, with the soldiers. That messiness that I spoke of before surfaced again and again as I saw there was a great deal to be learned about conceptions like honor. It did matter that I was very much opposed to the war, I was, and remain, opposed, and it was a horrifying experience. But it would be wrong for me to say nothing good happened there, in the same sense that one could say a family, whose child has polio, has grown closer together. The closeness should be applauded, but that is not to wish polio on the world. I learned this lesson very forcefully at the hands of a Zen master I met once on a trail. He taught me that I had to see everything as it was, the corpse and the flower. It was a violation of truth to ignore one in favor of the other. That turned out to be a pivotal experience for me. If it is ever possible to put an end to war, and prove Plato wrong when he suggested that only the dead have seen the end to war, then I think it will come from an examination of this truth. There seems to be a healing, or a cry for healing, that runs throughout the book, that appears to be answered. Could you speak about that? It is hard to talk about poetry as therapy, a lot has been written already. I think it is a kind of healing for me to have these poems released to the public, and I am hoping that through me, and through these poems, there is healing for others, too. There are several reviews on the book, but the one that I am most proud of is from a Vietnam vet I don't know, who said that he was healed of much of his pain thus far untreated by other means of therapy. I am very proud of that, because that is exactly what I felt these poems were doing for me. I hope they can do that for others. How do you account for that? Possibly those parentheses, and the fact that I was not really a civilian, because I went to Vietnam out of concern for others, because I cared for those guys, and I wasn't in the Army. There is still a perceived distance separating the honest man of war, the good soldier, and honest man of peace, who is opposed to war. The suspicion smolders on both sides because neither one (continued on page 19) always somebody that's found some aspect that deepens the thing, that shows where the translation has missed." Another very successful aspect of the program has been the study of literature. According to both faculty and students, the literature is generally more accessible than the speculative texts. "What's worked best for us in the seminar has been the literature," Mr. Carey said. "The students have done an extraordinary job, and an imaginative job as well, with some of the more difficult speculative texts, but ~ think I will be inclined to give literature a bit more prominence." Despite the difficulties, however, some students in the institute find the philosophical works extremely rewarding. "I think those philosophical seminars are really good for our discipline in the seminar," student Jenny Packard said. "Everybody buckles down and works a little harder. It's good for the group." While she agreed that literature might spark more lively discussion at the outset, she also said she would not want to forgo other material. "I'm a big literature hound but I don't think there's much that we've read so far that I would have wanted to miss." Ms. Packard enrolled in the institute after seeing an announcement in the local papers. She said she has no intention of pursuing a career in Eastern studies or continuing on to graduate school, but simply enrolled in the program for enjoyment. ''I'm very happy with the program," she said. "It's a good bunch of people. One thing about doing Eastern studies, it's all stuff that we have no background for, it just puts you in a good frame of mind to come at it with an open mind and be receptive and try to work together." Another student, Paul Cooley, said Eastern studies has long been of interest to him and that he has considered doing further graduate work. "I thought this would be a good background," he said. "The program has been better than I expected. The group of students is overall really good and we do a pretty good job of discussing _the texts." The general consensus is that the Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics is a successful experiment. For a pilot program, the bumps have been relatively few and the successes many. "I think what we're saying is that the St. John's approach continues to work," Mr. Swentzell said. "Not that it is the only way, but it certainly has a lot going for it in approaching these Eastern works just as it does with the Western works." Director Jim Carey agreed. "There's a certain pleasure just to see the process confirmed. It does work. It's not just crazy. It's a wonderful experience to see it work with these texts that are so unfamiliar to us. These are real St. John's classes, in tone and spirit and sobriety, that you're not going to find anywhere else." The Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics is now accepting applications for the 1993-94 academic year. The deadline for applications is April 15. For more information contact the Institute c/ o St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM 87501-4599 I (505) 988-4361 or (505) 982-3691 ext. 288. Parents! We're working to keep you informed. The Santa Fe parent's newsletter, Apparently Your' s needs your input. By completing and returning the following questionnaire, you can help us keep you informed about issues of specific concern to parents. Do you receive Apparently Yours? Do you read it? Yes Sections Yes No No What information is most important to you? Parents Events Student Activities College News Schedule of Events What interests you? . Faculty I alumni profiles Student profiles General education topics Other~~~~~~~--~~~~~~ What does not interest you? Ideas, Suggestions: Please return to Office of Public Relations, St. John's College Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501-4599 �THE REPORTER~. March 1993 page.19 OBITUARIES II John Clyde Isaacs A'72 Cyril R. Murphy A'36 Cyril R. Murphy, 78, retired lawyer John Clyde Isaacs, 48, a retired and a member of the Board of Visitors attorney with the Labor Department, and Governors in the 1960s, died in died of AIDS January 20 at his home in August of cancer at his home in Arlington, VA Baltimore. Mr. Isaacs retired on disability last Initially an independent practitionyear from the Labor Department's office er of the law, he then joined the staff of of administrative appeals, where he had the federal Office of Price Stabilization, worked since 1989. He had worked also and in 1953, the Baltimore firm of Frank, at the department from 1980-1987, and Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman, from from 1987-89 at the Internal Revenue which he retired in 1979. Service. In World War II as an infantry offiBorn in Atlanta, GA, and raised in cer, he landed with U.S. forces in North Cheshire, CT, he attended Yale Africa, Sicily, Italy and southern France. University before coming to St. John's. He was awarded the Distinguished He received his law c;legree from Service Cross for continuing, although Georgetown University. wounded, to lead his men to take a hill He was a teacher at Sidwell Friends He also received a Bronze School for three years in th,~"'''';i:trs''."o/'k~ served in the U.S. Navy il,'lifhe Vietnam ~·, received the Purple War. l. . . . , he graduated from He is survive~+,·l:t't#f his .,paren~~, ~ 1 Edward and Barb1F Isa21,cs of \:.heshi~e; i! the. Univ:e.r:?~~j:;::i)f altimore law school two brothers, Eq~~rd Isa~<:;s .pf ~ilforki,, ~' a~~~~~,g:~:fi:to pr~q\ice law. Later, he CT, and Richard~~~ · . · · .. J~~light ~QLLF'5es at thf law school. Jed by three <laughCT, and a Wallingford, ~~ Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Zibby Mitchell continued from page4 her cousin, Mr. Myers, explained. President Delattre recalls her being "a friend who listened patiently." Margaret M. Nayden, a personal assistant to the Mitchells, remembers her efficiency, her eye for detail and her strong desire to please. "She evoked the loyalty of her staff," she says. Mrs. Mitchell may be remembered by many as a warm, gracious hostess who frequently entertained St. John's Caritas Society members and opened her elegant home to charitable tours. "I Arthur David Kelso A'45 II David Sachs A'44 Arthur David Kelso, a lawyer and a retired editor with the Bureau of National Affairs, died of cancer at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, in October. His entered St. John's began in 1941, but he left for the war in 1943, serving in the Army Air Force as a bomber pilot stationed in England. He received five awards of the Air Medal. He returned to St. John's for a year in · 1946-47, and was graduated from_ George Washington University where he later received a law degree. After practicing law in Washington from 1957-1960, Mr. Kelso switched to journalism in 1960 and went to work fulltime for the Bureau of National Affairs. Specializing in labor-managemen t issues there, he was managing editor of the bureau's Labor Relations Reporter when he retired in 1985. He was a member of the American Bar Association and the National Press Club. He is survived by three sisters, Marita Murray, Bettie Brennan, and Rosemary Richeson, all of Niceville, FL, and two brothers, Frank Kelso of Columbia and Dr. James Kelso of Des Moines. David Sachs, professor emeritus of philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University, died in November in Baltimore at age 71. A member of the Johns Hopkins faculty for 33 years, Dr. Sachs retired last year and moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, planning to divide his time between that city and Baltimore. He returned to Baltimore when he was diagnosed with lung cancer. In his field, he was known for hi8 work in three areas, philosophy of mind, ethics, and ancient philosophy. His published work included highly influential papers in these essays: "A Fallacy in Plato's Republic," 1963; "Wittengenstein on Emotion," and "In Fairness to Freud," both in 1979; and "How to Distinguish Self-Respect from Self-Esteem," in 1981. He served as the editor of The Philosophical Review from 1964 to 1967, and as chairman of its book review board from 1967-1969. Born in Chicago, he attended St. John's before receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Los Angeles, and earning his master's degree anddoctorate. at Princeton University. Besides Johns Hopkins, he also taught 'at Cornell, Brandeis, Iowa State and Rutgers universities. He is survived by two sisters, Bee Lieberman and Ella Hubschman, both of Sherman Oaks, CA. really love (a home in) the woods," she had said. In summertime, potted pink oleanders bloomed at the doorway; and in the spring her garden was sweet with narcissi. A greenhouse nurtured roses and vegetables. Always she was surrounded by fresh flowers. What impressed Mr. Delattre was how every tree and shrub, under Mrs. Mitchell's care, was lovingly nurtured to a character of its own. But each appeared to have done so on its own volition. He recalled the joy in Mrs. Mitchell's eyes as she watched the young Delattre daughter and her friend splashing in the pool while a fourpound, toy poodle, Gigi, raced around the edges barking with the gusto of a canine ten times its size. Mrs. Mitchell, too, was slight in frame, but full-spirited. When the fire department was installing a new water tank near her home a few years back, she couldn't resist climbing on top of the county's new fire truck, Mrs. Nayden said. A competitive bridge partner and an able backgammon player, Mrs. Mitchell could never enjoy a win without apologizing to her opponents, the speaker added. Perhaps Mr. Myers summed his cousin up best when he described this lover of beauty as beauty herself. "Zibby, you are beautiful," he said, his voice cracking. Poetry continued from page recognizes the other's integrity. The experiences at Fort Gordon and Vietnam opened my eyes. There were reasoned perspectives uniting heart and mind on both sides, and I am hoping that since I walked between and was friends with both of these groups, maybe I can help heal that rift. What's next? Other than teaching, I'm writing a play about these experiences. It will be produced in California sometime in the summer. The play is a pilgrimage back to my self in some ways. Again, I hope that this provides a healing for not just me, but for others as well. �page 20 THE REPORTER March 1993 Variety spices Santa Fe art gallery Jonathan Borofsky, with his exhibition "Subject(s): prints and Multiples by Jonathan Borofsky, 1982-1991," which will be on view at the SJC Mitchell Gallery from March 19 -April 28. humorous, by Donna Boetig Art lovers beware: As you enter the Mitchell Gallery to view "Subjects(s): Pr in ts and Multi pl es by Jona than Borofsky, 19821991," a collection of more than abstract 40 prints and multiple sculptures-on display March 19 through April 28-you are, in fact, entering the mind of a remarkable man. As an eerily pulsating heart light keeps time with Jonathan Borofsky's own heart beat while videos of the artist falling through space catch your eye, you examine the works of an abstract artist who uses various media to stretch images beyond their boundaries of definition. Result? Humor. At the same time, the artist employs an ambiguity that forces you to draw your own interpretations. Highly idiosyncratic and personal, dealing with spiritual and philosophical matters of the age, each piece has an almost incomprehensible and individual meaning to Borofsky himself, yet holds a separate significance for the spectator. Among the most arresting of the signature marks of Borofsky are the Man with a Briefcase, and Hammering Man. The resulting creations are bizarre twodimensional men that seem only partially present. The mundane chap with a briefcase takes on an otherworldly aspect by being located on the ceiling, seeming to fly. A lecture in the Conversation Room to enhance the appreciation of Jonathan Borofsky will given by Jeremy Strick, associate curator of Twentieth Century Art at the National Gallery, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 7. At 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, there will be a discussion in the Gallery on the exhibition. Both events are free. Mr. Borofsky is known for his highly theatrical gallery installations, which often comprise works painted or fabricated in the studio, drawings rendered directly on the gallery walls, and "found objects" spontaneously distributed around the exhibition space. First influenced by conceptual art, Mr. Borofsky began making installations in the mid-1970s and has "shown" them throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan for the past 20 years. Ten years ago, he began to distill these installations into rich and varied prints and multiples. The current exhibition is the first to address the place of prints and multiples in the Borofsky oeuvre. In the late sixties Borofsky began counting, intent upon reaching infinity. He counted for 10 years on sheets of graph paper in various color inks. The result, a 10-foot high stack of numbers, was shown in Borofsky's first exhibition. An innocent humor is apparent in Borofsky's works that makes the viewer puzzle over them, decipher them, and perhaps join in the fun. It is apparent that whatever the interpretation of the work, their conception was autobiographical. Cheryl Derrick, Farm buildings near Chimayo, New Mexico Gallery opening & Reception at St. John's College Art Gallery, Friday, April 2, 1993 from 5:00 -7:00 p.m. Showing through ~pril 28. Above-"Co.mmittee Meeting," a 1940s plaster sculpture portraying three male executive board members of the WPA Project, was recently donated to the Annapolis campus by New York artist Robert Cronbach. Mr. Cronbach, once deeply involved with the WPA Project, said the sculpture "grew out of his feelings ·about the artists of the period." He said he decided to donate the piece, which is on permanent display in the Mitchell Gallery lobby, because he was . particularly impressed with the college program. February's show in the Santa Fe art gallery features Kay Harvey, a wellknown local artist who is showing for the first time in seven years, having shifted her focus away from "the horizon and the pretty colors" of New Mexico to more personal explorations of form, texture, line and color. The colors are still bright and provocative in her strong and impressionistic mixed-media exhibit. Over 150 attended the opening reception for Ms. Harvey on Sunday, January 31. This year's annual student art show during March promises to be lively and interesting. Thirteen students submitted various forms of art. Works include photographs, oils, pastels; chalk, pen and ink and pencil drawings; collages, sculpture, ceramics, a mixed media lifesize self-portrait and decoupage on goose and quail eggs. The show opens with a reception from 3-5 p.m. Sunday, March 7. Cheryl Derrick of El Paso and Santa Fe will show her oil and pastel landscapes throughout April. While she paints outdoors in New Mexico, she does not consider herself a 'Southwest' painter. During the past 25 years her paintings have hung in galleries in Denver, Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston and Santa Fe. Currently her works are exhibited in the nationally-known Linda McAdoo Gallery in Santa Fe. The opening reception is 5-7 p.m., Friday, April 2. A former public school teacher, Kip Gerard of Chapel Hill, North Carolina is now a full-time painter, and the month of May will bring his paintings to Santa Fe. Gerard uses watercolor paints and watercolor crayons, pencils and gouache in works that are sometimes representational where others abstract and expressionist. His work is exhibited in over a dozen southern and northeast galleries. The opening reception for Kip Gerard's show will be 5-7 p.m. Friday, May7. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1~ ~m1r1 1ir1 r1 i1li 111111111111111 3 1696 01138 1892 i Volume 19, Issue 2 Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM December 1992 Dorm funding approved in Santa Fe, construction to begin Design reflects studentwishes By LESLI ALLISON Under the current fast-track plan, site work for the new Santa Fe student dorm may begin as early as this month. Completion of the student housing complex is scheduled for August The project will be funded by a bond issue through the City of Santa Fe. McHugh, Lloyd, Tryk is the architectural finn recently selected on a competitive basis by the Campus Planning Committee. A review of schematics for the building is currently under way by students, faculty and staff. According to a report published in The Moon by Campus Planning Committee Chairman Hans von Breisen, much of the desiderata for the building complex has been workedoutinprioryears.Beginning in 1990 Ms. Lisa Carey, architectural consultant, along with Ms. Kathy Mizrahi, head resident, inquired among students as to what they wanted in new housing. This data was combined with information from a survey of current nationwide trends in campus housing. Last year the Campus Planning Committee reviewed and added to it. Plans call for 60 beds in nine buildings, with each building containing a cluster of suites. Each suite will contain five single bedrooms with a shared living room and bathroom. Four clusters will house ten apartments. Upper suites will have a semi private deck and lower suites will have a semi-private patio. Buildings _'Nill also contain two classrooms and/or commons; a restricted access kitchen; a variety of spaces for relaxation, study and conversation; and a laundry room with vending machines. A tenth building will provide a general common area. The dorms are primarily intended to house undergraduates. Once they are completed, students who want to live on campus will now be able to exercise that option. In past years, due to limited dorm space, percentages of students in the sophomore, junior and senior classes were forced to seek housing off-campus. In an editorial supporting city approval of the bond, the New Mexican newspaper said the new dorms would take some strain off competition for local rentals. The editorial also suggested that approval for the bond would provide a demonstration of support and gratitude for St. John's overall contribution to the city. At this time the only delay in beginning construction of the dorms is the required approval of the plans by more than one dozen separate city agencies. 7 ·" IDll ~ Architectural drawing of new Santa Fe dormitory Board member, alumni, movers & shakers in election Admiral Stockdale former Board member Mark Steitz, A'78 makes DNC policy Bush speaks words of R. George, A'85 By NANCY OSIUS In the final stretch of a marathon cam- By DONNA BOETIG paign effort 14 days before the national election, Mark Steitz, A'78, picks up the telephone in Little Rock for a call from Annapolis. "Your mother says 'hello,"' we tell him. The family greeting is genuine, but relaying it is a transparent ruse-there isn'tmuch time for greetings or anything else in the 18-hour days of the Communications and Policy Director for the Democratic National Committee. A veteran of presidential campaigns and a major player in this one, he says that his current task-mounting a satellite response to the final presidential debate held (Continued on page 18) Listening to President Bush address the Republican National Convention this year, Robert George, A'85, was speechless. In his statement to millions of Americans, Mr. Bush was expressing the sentiments of Mr. George. In fact, his exact words. "As our country now stands at cross roads, there is widespread doubt about our public institutions and profound concern not merely about the economy but about the overall general direction of this great country of ours. As then, people now demand change and sweeping reform. The question we had to ask yesterday is the question we have to ask today. What kind of change can (Continued on page 18) �fu an effort to save money, two Annapolis campus publications will attempt to trim their mailing lists down to a genuine core of readers, viz.: THE REVIEW At present The Review, a publication containing scholarly articles, fiction and poetry provided by a variety of contributors, is sent to all alumni and 3,000 non-alumni. The college now wishes to make sure that the magazine is sent only to those alumni who want to receive it. Those who wish to receive The Review should fill in the prepaid postcard included in the current issue or send a note to Jack Hunt, subscriptions, The Review, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD. 21404. ENERGEJA Energeia, the student-produced literary magazine of fiction, poetry, essays and artwork by both St. John'sfaculty and students, included a coupon in last spring' s issue for use by readers who wanted to continue to receive the magazine. Berfore that, hundreds of alumni andformer faculty members automatically received each new issue. "We wish to limit this number now to those who enjoy the magazine and wish to continue to receive it," says Senior Editor Rachel Blistein. Those who did not fill out a coupon but want to receive Energeia must indicate their interest and provide name and address to Rachel through campus mail or by writing to her immediately at the college address above. Yee article appears in Asian Art issue fu the quincentennial year of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World, an article by Annapolis tutor Cordell Yee helps to set the matter in perspective. "A Cartography of futrospection: Chinese Maps as Other Than European," appears in the Fall, 1992, issue of Asian Art, a quarterly publication of the Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian fustitution. "After all," writes Mr. Yee in an article lavishly illustrated with reproductions of delicately painted early maps, "more than eighty years before Columbus' voyages, Admiral Zheng He began leading expeditions of ships from China through the fudian Ocean to as far as the eastern coast of Africa-this at a time when European ships had yet to round the sou them tip of that continent." The longest of this explorer's voyages was more than 9,600 kilometers each way, about one and one-half times the length of Columbus' trips across the Atlantic. His article raises questions both about the enormous attention given to Columbus' voyages and about the values embodied in early cartography, particularly Chinese, with its political, economic and humanistic implications. The article also suggests that the westernization of non-European mapmaking practices, while an advance in certain respects, was achieved at some cost. Mr. Yee's article serves as a preview of his work on the Chinese section of The History of Cartography, a vast survey of mapmaking which is unfolding at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Yee accepted a job as translator of classical Chinese for the project in 1988, a role that expanded when his observations and theories raised questions about the work of the mainland Chinese scholars hired to do the job. His theories prevailed and have been hailed as "a major beginning in Chinese cartographic historiography." Adam Higuera, son of Annapolis tutors Henry and Marilyn Higuera is the buccaneer In this game, while his small admirer Ma)I(, 2, is the son of tutor Adam Schulman and his wife Beth. Keith Harvey photo Deborah Winans Anawalt, former Director of Financial Aid at the college, assumed the duties of Director of Personnel in October. Ms. Anawalt replaced Alison Pullins who has been named Human Resources Manager of the Johns Hopkins University School of Continuing Studies. fu announcing Ms. Anawalt's new assignment, college Treasurer Fred "Bud" Billups praised "the fine work she has accomplished" in her previous post. As Financial Aid Director since January 1991, Ms. Anawalt was responsible for allocating all federal, state and institutional budgets. She worked closely with the Admissions office, students, applicants and parents on eligibility and financing issues, and computerized all phases of the office. As Director of Personnel, Ms. Anawalt will be in charge of administering salary systems, benefits and policies. "My goal is to be service oriented, to work with the best interest of the employee at heart," she says. Caroline Christensen resumed her duties as Director of Financial Aid after taking a twoyear leave of absence to care for her new son. Director of Personnel Deborah Anawalt Before coming to St. John's, Ms. Anawalt was a system administrator for the Baltimore futernational Culinary College from 1988 to 1990. From 1989 to 1990 she was Director of Financial Planning at the school. Ms. Anawalt earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and personnel from Towson State University. Alumni named to resident positions Three St. John's alumni were recently named to positions as resident assistants on the Annapolis campus, where each now lives. These are Susan Borden, A'88, Director of Residence, Jennifer Hoheisel, AGI '89, resident assistant for Student Activities, and Steven Wedin, A'85, seniorresidentfor Humphreys. Susan is responsible for on-campus housing; as such she is in charge of freshman room assignment, end of the year room drawings, and any "roommate problems." She is also the one chiefly charged with enforcing the campus alcohol policy-a policy which accords with the state law prohibiting drinking for students under age 21. She drops in on most campus parties scheduled for common rooms to check on the general ambiance, she says. Susan lives in the 300-year-old Reverdy Johnson house near Campbell Hall, which gives her "a tough commute" to work, she says. Tough, in truth, is the fact that her radiator heat goes on and off with heat on campus, which means that during vacation-yes, you guessed it. Her digs and duties are perfect for her other life as a freelance writer, she says. She has published articles of general interest in The Annapolitan, The Sunday Sun, and First for Women. She is presently doing contract business writing for a marketing consultant, and for herself, lyrics for guitar maker Paul Reed Smith. Since age 10, she has spelled her name Sus3an, but she let The Reporter off the hook on this one. Jennifer Hoheisel, who was an assistant in the financial aid office at Annapolis in 1988-89 while she was a Graduate Institute student, has returned in a new role as Resident Assistant for Student Activities. At the same time she is a teaching assistant in the philosophy department of Georgetown University and continuing her course work on a Ph.D. in philosophy. Along with her husband Eric, a graduate student commuting to the Eastern Baptist Seminary in Philadelphia, she is living in a Harrison Health Center apartment while she orchestrates student activities. These are chiefly off-campus activities, she says, and students have already had the chance to see performances in the Shakespeare Theater and the Arena Stage in Washington, as well as the Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center. On campus, however, other events are under way. A graduate Student Speakers Forum will bring graduate students from other universities (as well as St. John's) to speak to students on relevant subjects. And as chairman of the Student Life Committeecomposed of tutors, staff, and studentsJennifer coordinates Student Life dinners, which brings campus community members to ~he table in many configurations, on and off campus. Scheduled for February 13 is a big event, a campus-wide Swing Party with a band. Jennifer's life is full, and, with a baby expected next spring, it will be fuller. She is in her second year as a teaching assistant at Georgetown and last summer developed her own bio-ethics course for adult women (aged 28-55) which she taught weekly at Trinity College in Washington. Taking up many issues important to women's lives, she used the "St. John's seminar model," she says, and "the women loved it." A graduate of the College of William and Mary, she worked as financial aid assistant at Hampden-Sydney College and at a succession of admissions posts at Wittenberg University before coming to St. John's the first time. Before returning this year, shew as Residence Hall Director at Trinity as she began her doctoral work. fu addition to his college duties, Steven Werlin is working on his doctoral dissertation on the Pros logion by Anselm under the aegis of Loyola University of Chicago. While he was in Annapolis (he is now at Santa Fe), Tutor James Carey drew Steven's attention to the Pros logion before he read it as a sophomore in the St. John's program. From the beginning, Steven was fascinated by the work, but chose not to write his undergraduate essays on the subject. A Proslogion is a speech to another, in this case, to God-as distinct from a soliloquy, a speech to oneself. fu this short Latin work, the medieval churchman attempts to understand what he thinks he knows about God. After St. John's, Steven spent a year on a Fulbright Fellowship studying philosophy at the Technical University at Braunschweig, Germany, another year reading on his own in Annapolis, and two years working for the Touchstones project in 34 rural high schools in Alabama. �Winfree Smith contributed an on Vieta' s Introduction to the Art, a work fundamental to so1mc>m<)re year; Tutor Chaninah Maschler former tutor Nathan was instrumental in peirsuadJlng MIT press to the Dean Brann "'"'-1-"A'-"H'"' the book as twofold: of the great Platonic forms like as a kind of number, a collection and the of .n.1-•v'-'.........._,,. scr10Hrrsrup," says Dean Brann. The book first hardback the MIT Press. em1gr,atlcm from Ue1rm2111v: pulDWmea in two fascicules of Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik, Chester Burke Keith Harvey photo Emott Zuckerman Keith Harvey photo ' on Leibniz will reinforce other tutors' interBy NANCY osrus ests, and thus will find a way into other Annapolis tutors Chester Burke, A'74, classrooms. Four tutors-Stewart Umand Elliott Zuckerman are the new occuphrey, Kathleen Blits, Jon Lenkowski, and pants of the endowed chairs on Modern Tom May-have leave time for the study Thought and Ancient, Medieval and Renaisgroup and 19 others are sitting in on their sance Thought, established in 1989 with a own time. $500,000 National Endowment for the HuAn accomplished flutist, after graduamanities grant matched with other monies. tion Mr. Burke studied privately first in Now in his second year as holder of the Paris and then at the Conservatoire de Chair on Modern Thought, succeeding Caen where he received the Premier Prix. Howard Fisher, Mr. Burke is "deeply grateHe toured southern ful " for the opportunity France as part of a flute which has given him two and guitar duo before reyears of reduced teaching turning to the U.S. where time to study force, mass he studied at the Univerand energy in the work of sity of Michigan, earning the 17th century "universal a master's degree in perthinker"-scientist, mathformance in 1979. More ematician, linguist and community recitals abroad followed as metaphysician Gottfried well as a teaching semesWilhelm Leibniz. of learning, ter at the University of Mr. Burke's original Colorado. In 1983, Mr. plan was to study the work Burke returned to St. of Galileo, Descartes, and John's as director of laboNewton-as well as ratories, and in 1985, he Leibniz-the principal figstudents, and joined the regular faculty. ures in the first semester of His performance life Junior Lab, a famous tutors learning continues. With his wife challenge to tutors and stuSusan Sauerwind, a harpdents alike along the route with and from ist, he performs with the to a new Program degree. Waverly Woodwinds. The The greatest difficulty for one another." couple also is part of the both students and tutors "is 35-member Baltimore simply being able to read Chamber Orchestra with which they present the very texts at the heart of the unit," he 10-15 concerts a year. says. One of his goals, then, was to find Mr. Zuckerman's occupancy of the corollary essays or short writings to help chair of Ancient Thought began this fall. illuminate these thinkers' work. His teaching release time will allow him After a month or so he found himself to pursue a lifelong interest in prosody, talking to more students about Leibniz than meter, and verse. This interest includes ever before, and he concluded that "it was questions about pitch, stress, accent and Leibniz I wanted to concentrate on." His rhythm in the work of poets in different enthusiasm and interest were highly contalanguages and eras. gious; not coincidentally, several students "We are usually unaware of certain princhose to write junior essays on Leibniz and ciples that govern spoken English," says Mr. one student selected him for her senior Zuckerman, such as the intonations of quesessay. tions. This, along with emphasis, intonation, Much on Mr. Burke's mind these days is and juncture in written prose "is also prosa sense of a genuine community oflearning, ody in a wider sense." tutors learning with and from students, and "My study will be verse-not poetry," he learning with and from one another. He sees says. He is interested in the rhythm of lanthe study groups as a chance for tutors to guage-"not that elusive thing that tells you share what comes out of their classes and to whether it is poetry rather than rhyme." examine together "some of the problems His study group next year will focus on that come from the life of the community." Greek metrics, particularly the hexameter of Leading a study group in his field of Homer and the trimeter of tragic dialogue, interest is one requirement of chairholders. with additional attention to the tragic choTwo years ago Mr. Burke took part in the rus. Another project will be to compile a study group on Aristotle led by tutor Joe handbook for use in all four years of the Sachs, the first occupant of the Chair on language tutorial, one providing an introAncient Thought. It was a "great bit ofluck" duction to the metrical aspects of verse studfor Mr. Burke, he says. Not only does ied in foreign languages, including ancient Leibniz draw heavily on Aristotle, but also Greek and the French alexandrine. He also there was a ready-made group of tutors for plans to study some aspects of the relations discussion of ideas. These events lead Mr. Burke to suppose that his own study group between verse and music. I:~!!~:~:!:ys \:::s:da:u: German journal on the of science. Once he became dean at the college, says Dean Jasha Klein had "a gut feeling against publication," so Miss Brann was obliged to undertake the labor of translation in secret. Presented with the translation, however, "he became quite amenable," she remembers. Others in the St. John's community contributed significantly to the U.S. publication: lection to a symbolic abstraction." Elements of the book's thesis governed the organization of the St. John's mathematics curriculum, she says, "especially the later sophomore and the beginning junior year, which is intended to focus on the revolution of mathematical thought underlying modernity." The book is on sale in the bookstores of both colleges at $9.95. An eight-week tutorial providing an intensive introduction to Ancient Greek will be offered next summer through the Office of Continuing Education on the Annapolis campus. Scheduled for June 21 to August 13, the course will meet Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to one p.m. To be taught by Christine Kalkavage for the second summer, the tutorial is designed for those with little or no previous background in the Greek language who are "seriously interested in learning Attic Greek and are able to commit themselves to an accelerated pace." It will be limited to 14 students. Four to six hours of homework will be expected for each classroom period, and students will be prepared to read Attic prose and poetry by the end of the course. Properly documented, the tutorial may be acceptable to some departments as equivalent to one year's work in ancient Greek. Mrs. Kalk:avage received her master's degree from the Pennsylvania State University and her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University, both in classics. She has taught Latin and Greek at the Johns Hopkins Univesity, the University of Maryland, and the University of Rochester. To apply for the tutorial, address letters of application to ChristineKalkavage, c/o the Graduate Institute, 107 Mellon Hall, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD 21404. Tuition for the tutorial is $800, with a deposit of $150 due by April 1. For further information, call 410-626-2541. New book of Mrs. Klein's sketches As a student living in Else Klein's house during his undergraduate days at St. John's, Steven Werlin,A'85, was delighted with her prose sketches in German, chiefly about pieces of furniture in her house and the memories associated with them. Mrs. Klein was the widow of Dean J asha Klein, and was, along with him, at the center of college social and intellectual life for many years. She died last March. At her memorial service in May, Mr. Wedin read his translation of one of her sketches, "The Dinner Table," to those gathered in the Great Hall. The small essay brought back vividly the era of rioh conversation and bountiful food that characterized Dodo Klein's hospitality in the unforgettable evenings at 101 Market St. To the task he has set himself, he brings rare preparation. As a student at Columbia and Cambridge Universities, he studied English literature with such critics as Lionel Trilling and F.R. Leavis. In the years since, he has brought these insights to bear in preceptorials on the plays and poems of Shakesperare and in language tutorials with close examination of the prose elements in such writers as Hobbes, Austen and Darwin. Although Mr. Zuckerman is a man of broad accomplishment-he is a painter, poet, editor, and crossword puzzle masterhe is perhaps best known as an immensely knowledgable musician, a skilled pianist who also lectures on musical subjects from Chopin and Wagner to Gilbert and Sullivan. Mr. Wedin has now translated the remaining sketches into a small volume to be called The Furniture, a book which will be published in the Annapolis print shop and made available through the college bookstore in time for the holidays. Tutor Beate Ruhm von Oppen, herself a translator from the German of Letters to Freya, has edited the work. (Mr. Werlin, now a Resident Assistant on the Annapolis campus, spent the year 1985-86 on a Fulbright Fellowship in Germany. For more about him, see page 2.) Proceeds of the book, which will be sold at nominal cost, are earmarked for the Caritas Society, an organization of which Dodo Klein was an active member for many years. The group provides money for student emergencies. For a number of years, his virtuoso talks "with musical illustrations at the piano" drew audiences to the college for Sunday Supper with Chopin, an annual Caritas Society fundraiser for student emergencies. He has lectured on a variety of musical subjects before scores of other audiences as well. He is the author of a book on Wagner's Tristan and of various articles on the musical thought of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. The holder of two bachelors' and two masters' degrees from Columbia and Cambridge Universities, he received his Ph.D. from Columbia in modem European cultural and intellectiual history. He taught history at Columbia and lectured in music at the New School for Social Research before coming to St. John's. �PAGE4 THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1992 1942 J. W. Cameron Gray (Joe)(A) started at St. John's as "Rat" Joe Gray and served in the Eighth Air Force as a bombardier. For 37 years he was with the C and P Telephone Co. of Maryland. The father of two children, he moved to his present address at Carolina Beach after the death of his wife of 45 years. Paul T. Beisser writes that he is now retired in the Missouri Ozarks on Table Rock Lake with his wife of 47 years, after service in the Pacific in WWII, 40 years in the produce busi'ness, and raising a family of three boys and three girls. Walton Boswell Childs (A) reports that he is fully retired after a career in the intellectual property field (patents, trademarks and copyright law), most of which was in the Office of Naval Research. He is busy now with gardening and reading, principally such periodicals as Scientific American and the New York Review ofBooks. Three sons and four grandchildren in the area "provide a lot of company." He also enjoys fishing and spending time maintaining a 40' fishing boat built in 1936 with a home port of Spa Creek. "Fishing, anyone?" Lee M. Mace (A) retired in 1977 from the National Environmental Satellite Service of the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, where he was chief of a branch developing techniques for the interpretation of meteorological satellite data and its application to weather analysis and forecasting. He was involved with the space program from the earliest days of the Meteorological Satellite Program. 1946 As co-president of IALANA (International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms), Peter Weiss (A) is leading an effort to obtain an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the legality of the use and threat of use of nuclear weapons under international law. .911umni 'East & West my most thrilling intellectual experiences in recent years," he writes, "was participating in an alumni seminar on The Clouds led by J. Winfree Smith in Boston in 1990." Shortly after getting out of the army in late 1953, George Udel (A) met his wife of 37 years, Joan Erbe, at a Marx Brothers double feature at St. John's. He has been manager and agent ever since for her very successful career as an artist, the part of his own career that has given him "most satisfaction," he writes. Their mode of meeting was significant: he was founder and for 22 years the director for the Baltimore International Film Festival, and for 25 years has been programming and booking films for the Baltimore Film Forum, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Gallery. In addition he has made, written, directed, produced and distributed films, as well as reviewing them. Warren Winiarski (A) is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Stag's Leap Wine Cellar's first harvest and crush of grapes. In 1976, the winery made history for the California wine industry when its 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon was rated higher than some first growth Bordeaux at a Paris Tasting. Warren and Barbara's (Dvorak, A'55) daughters Julia and Kasia are SJC graduates, Julia, SF '92, and Kasia, who is associated with the winery management, A'86. A member of the Board of Visitors and Governors since 1989, Warren had some nice things happen to him at the October Homecoming festivities. Read about them in this Reporter issue. 1957 Jack A. Nadol has been named Acting Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, a component of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs. Mr. Nadol, who received his law degree from the Universituy of Baltimore in 1964, has served in the federal government since 1966. As Acting Director, he will be part of a special assessment effort to identify efficiency and quality enhancements in grant-making and grant-monitoring. went to work for Covington & Burung in Washington where she has been ever since. Her practice is mainly intellectual property law, "with the narrow sideline of trying to get Lloyd's of London insurers to pay environmental claims," she writes. "I married a retired spy in 1977; our daughter Sophia will be 12 in August. We are all in the process of tearing apart an old house in Rockville and hope to live long enough to get it put back together." Hope Zoss Schladen (A), mother of Sarah Schladen (A'95), lives in Dover, DE with her husband, a communications coordinator for DuPont, and eighth grader Ezekiel. She has been director of the Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village since 1986. 1964 1969 David Randolph Jordan (A) has been named director of the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. He writes, "The library is not only a treasure-house of Greek incunables but a unique source for the study of Greek culture in all periods. We would be pleased to have visitors from St. John's." The address: 61 Souidias Street, GR 10676 Athens. Andy Garrison (A) currently has two halfcareers: a psychotherapy practice and parttim e teaching at the Miami School of Interdisciplinary Studies, a residential fouryear liberal arts college. "My St. John's degree leads them to think that I can teach anything, and I have taught (with varying success) courses on the Jurassic extinction, the rise of National Socialism in Weimar Germany, science fiction writing, and an upper-level seminar on the Republic. Maybe I can teach anything." He continues: "St. John's is still the most important educational experience of my life, especially inasmuch as such an education is essentially incomplete and interminable. I regret to say I don't find many students today interested in interminable education, but I'm mostly enjoying the teaching I do." 1967 Judith Penelope Stephenson (A)-aka Judith Donahue-writes from Santa Fe that she specializes in issues of abuse and trauma in her private practice, while her husband Ray is an attorney for the Children's Court. Her two older children, Alexis Donahue, 25, and Arwen Donahue, 23, are adventuring this summer in the Bay Area and Budapest, while her youngest, Jonah, 7, is loving summer camp. Judith Brownstone Sapp (A) graduated from the Duke law school in 1984, and after clerking for Judge Gee on the Fifth Circuit, she 1972 From New Zealand, Harold Anderson sends his address and says he would like to hear from classmates: 29 Mount Royal Avenue, Auckland 1003 New Zealand 64-9-846-9345. 1952 Jae Holzman, who lives in Pacific Palisades, is currently Chief Technologist at Time Warner, and on the side, "back to my old love-music and records. Over the past two decades I have taken a 7-year mid-life sabbatical in Hawaii, returning to the mainland in 1981." Soon after, he became chairman of Panavision until the unit was sold by Time Warner. He is at present unmarried and the father of three children: "Adam is a jazz musician of some renown, having spent four years with Miles Davis and subsequently with Michel Petrucciani, Kenny Garrett, and Chaka Kahn. My daughter Jaclyn is a production assistant in television and my youngest son, Marin, 21, is getting his bachelor's degree in English and theater." In 1988, David E. Napper retired after 31 years with IBM and has been working as a consultant since-his latest assignments with the FDIC in Houston "working on document production in the Milken case." He lives in Rowayton, CT, and spends his leisure time playing tennis in the summer and platform tennis in the winter, with his tennis partner making it to the consolation finals in the National Senior Platform Tennis Championships last year. Harry Neumann (A) published Liberalism (Durham, Carolina Academic Press, 1991) in the series Studies in Statesrrumship, edited by Harry V. Jaffa. Adam A. Pinsker (A) is director of Dance St. Louis, one of the largest dance presenters in the country. He has been married for 26 years to Judy, who is a writer with one book published by Bantam and five Emmys; they have a 14-year-old son Joel. Last winter Adam had dinner with Ted Otteson (A) and his wife in Kansas. Ted teaches English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Walter Schatzberg (A) has been at Clark University since 1966, chairing the Department of Foreign Languages for 10 years, and at present, is a professor of German and Film Studies there. For the past several years, he has been director of the European Studies Center in Luxembourg, sponsor of study abroad programs and international conferences. "One of The Reporter is published in June and December by the ~;~sac~1:~~~.m9~~n2~6'6~eA~~~~~~nM"o ~1~~P~~Ci ~~ 1 September and March by the Public Relations Office, St John's College, Santa Fe, NM 87501. In Annapolis, editor, Nancy Osius, assistant editor, Donna Boetig, design, Tina Davidson. In Santa Fe, editor, Lesli Allison, assistant editor, Barbara Lewis, design, Patrick Daugherty. Advisory board in ~g~:i~~!i:n, ~Xnia~\~aM~~~r~ ~ro~h~~s~o~~~~~it;, ~~~ Elliott Zuckerman, and ex-officio member, Thomas Geyer. USPS018-750 BEVERLY ANGEL, summers '85-'89. Beverly is a high school science teacher in Austin, Texas. MARY BANWART attended St. John's for one year and now teaches philosophy, having received her Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School. MARIA BOLIN (Formerly Marion Jones). Maria was the owner of a janitorial business in her past life, but decided to go into counseling and has nine hours to go for her Master's. DOT BARTWELL, '86-'88. Dot has gone back to teaching high school speech and English, which she was doing before she came to the GI. STEVEN T. BRENNER, '81-'83. Currently a self-employed, freelance court reporter, Steven enjoys being a part-time surrogate father to a nine year-old He likes to play the classical guitar, look at the night sky, and go for long hikes on the railroad tracks. GEORGE CAYLEY, '74-'78. George is currently in real estate and doing some acting on the side. He says that if St. John's had offered a doctoral program he would have pursued further education. SARA CHARLES, '84- '85. Sara lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is a retired teacher. MARGO CHAVEZ-CHARLES, '85'87. Margo is currently an education consultant with the New Mexico Department of Education (modern and classical languages). She spent six months in Italy on a Fulbright grant and also traveled to the former USSR a month before the coup (with the "Forum for US/Soviet Dialogue''). SANCY NASON CHILDS, to 1980. Sancy lives in Australia and is married with two daughters. She is currently a Christian Science practitioner (spiritual healing). She also raises angora goats and beef cattle, and has set up farm holidays in her cottage. She says she has even organized some St. John's-type discussion groups in the valley ~!~~ where she lives. ELAINE COLEMAN (Formerly Pinkerton), '84-'88. Elaine was married in August of 1991 and is currently a writer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Shehasdonesometrekking in Nepal; bicycled the entire Santa Fe Trail; and has taught at the Santa Fe Indian School. After leaving the GI she went on to receiveaB.S.andanM.A.(Englishliterature) from the University of Virginia. JOE T. COXWELL, '84-'87. Married to Patricia B. Coxwell, a current GI student, Joe teaches high school chemistry, physics, and biology, at Eutaw High School in Eutaw, Alabama. After leaving the GI he went on to receive an M.A.T. in Secondary Science Education from Livingston University in 1990. Among other things, Joe has been involved in a DNA Literacy Program, a Marine Science workshop at Dauphin Island Sea Lab, and is a guest astronomy lecturer in the Livingston area. MARY CORNISH, '75-'79. Mary subsequentlyreceivedher Ed.S. from the University of New Mexico in Educational Adminis-tration, and is now a high school principal. WILLIAM B. CRAWFORD, '85-'89. William has been a scuba diver, a coordinator in Special Education, an Assistant Principal, and is currently still in education. He has spent the past two summers in Mexico learning Spanish. LARRY S. DAVIS, '84-' 8 9. Larry writes that he is nearing completion of his Master's in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Last summer he participated in an NEH seminar at Harvard on Aristotle/Science. PAULETTE DOLLINGER, SGI '89-. "I've changed addresses (BrooklynQueens) and jobs (teacher to counselor). I still haven't adopted a Texas accent, I haven't abandoned the Mets, and I'm still a crazy, sick New Yorker. I'm also glad that Kant and I never have to cross paths again." MARY-CHARLOTTE DOMANDI, '89- '91. Since leaving the GI, MaryCharlotte has taken courses in art. WILLIAM WADE DOUGLAS, '68'70/LINDA KAY DOUGLAS, '81-'83. William and Linda are both teachers in Virginia, and also run a conference center. They are involved with Audubon summer camps and recently toured England and Scotland. They have a son, John-David, who was born in Santa Fe in 1982. SUSAN MARTIN DRESSEL, '71-'73. Susan received her Ph.D. after leaving the GI, and works at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. MARK.DULWORTH, '89-'91.Married to Carole Lynn Spiering, Mark lives in Texas and is a fundraising consultant for non-profit organizations. He is a past president of the Houston Food Bank. CHARLES DUNN, '86-'89.Charlesisa teacher in Colorado. REGINALD E. DUNSTAN, '83-'85. Reginald is a retired journalist living in Santa Fe. JESSICA LYN ELKINS, '84-'88. Jessica is the Human Resource Manager for an auto dealer group. She says that after sixteen years of living in Albuquerque, she has made a move within the city which has resulted in an expansion of cultural awareness and appreciation of the diversity of New Mexico living. ANYA DOZIER ENOS, '85-'87. Anya is currently working on her PhD in education at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. She is a teacher in the Gifted and Talented Program at the Santa Fe Indian School. She is part of Tewa Women United, a Native women's group committed to revitalizing positive traditions in the Tewa Pueblos. LAURIE EVANS, '88-'90. In her job as an archaeologist, Laurie has seen many interesting places in her travels around New Mexico. SHEILA FLEMMING, SGI '91-. Sheila teaches English and philosophy at Waltrip High School in Houston. JOHN FORTIN, '77-'79. John went on from St. John's to receive his Master's and Ph.D. from the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Anselm College. �PAGES THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1992 "Even if you know where you want to go, the path there will not be straight," late tutor Al Main told Janet Nelson (A) in her ......., .. """'"as an SJC 1973. Fifteen she reports, after three years as a he11lt.1Jt department sru11ta1nan, two years getting as a banker, three ashlngto1n, DC, books, and living peaceably," and expecting to come to the 20th reunion. He now makes his living at a computer services company explaining to Navy people "how to organize themselves better." Carol Sbuh (A) bought a house and Roger (A'74) and Robin (A) recently came to town so that Robin could attend a conference for starting small businesses, a process she to with her new MBA. his wife Houston, Grant heads a education c011sultrn1g 01~ga111z2tt101tI, The I'm ten to was 23! What's the class of 1972!" Steve DeLuca Mayne of Santa became parents of a daughter Sophia RoseMayne-DeLucaonAug. 1. For the past three years, Matthew Mallory (A) has been in Brussels at the U.S. Embassy at NATO as the U.S. Representative to the NATO budget committee. "It has been a thrilling experience to watch and be part of the development of the New Europe," he writes. The decreasing budget has been a major force in changing the NATO mission, but "battling the Byzantine NATO bureaucracy is tough" with every decision, including every comma change, to be agreed upon by all 16 nations. "Lots of use of my Johnnie seminar skills." He hopes to be in Brussels at least two more years, and wants to see Johnnies, giving "a standing offer of a Brussels dinner to any and all." USM/ILD, PSC 81 Box 63, APO AE 09724. Work 242-5280. Dana (A) earned his doctorate in London in 1986 in church history, and settled in the Washington, DC, area, where he remarried in 1990. He and his wife Robin are "saving towards buying a home, cataloging our live in Geneseo in New York state their two small ...,u................, Justin and Ian (who was un~ex-i::iectborn at home last January, ··r1f•.11v·P.rf'•r1 me and Sgt WhiteofGeneseo'sfinest!").Consulting in Maine last spring, Grant spoke with classmate Dave Gilmore (A). "I can't make the reunion, but I do have a tape of 'Trial by Johnny' which I will play!" he concludes. GENEVAM. neva 1975 Cleveland lawyer Wendy Wills (SF), a member of the Lithuanian-American Bar Association, was one of 50 U.S. lawyers to visit Lithuania recently as advisers to the country's parliament in Vilnius. The parliament's task has been to write a new constitution describing the small Baltic-formerly Soviet-controlled-country as an independent democratic state, a task they hope to complete by the end of the year. Ms. Wills served on a judicial advisory committee, and spent a week travelling the countryside. Her Lithuanian grandparents came to the U.S. at the turn of the century, and Wendy herself has kept strong ties to her ancestral homeland. 1977 Glass (A) received his doctorate in psychology from the Florida Institute ?""''"""'t1"' traveled to Cabo San Lucas, and India. LAURIE SUTTON LA~'L ·~· Laurie attended the UnIVe:rs11tv cisco and was Catholic school ,_,.. ,.... ...,,!-'~.. for 4 1/2 years in Houston. She of Technology and has since settled in Ames, Iowa, where he works at the I.S.U. counseling service as well as conducting a private practice in psychotherapy. He, his fiancee Sue, and her daughter Allyson are living in a country home and enjoying the area "immensely." Early on, Daniel Jerrems (A), who had trained as a physician's assistant, became a peace and environmental activist in his spare time, joining the Chesapeake Energy Alliance and helping to start the Baltimore Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, founding and chairing for five years the Maryland Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze. After" an unsuccessful but very educational" run for the state legislature in 1986, he joined and soon chaired the Baltimore Environmental Center. mors of the geriatric set). He is a Professor Emeritus (medicine) at the University of Southern California. He stays with ongoing research projects. ELI LEVI.N", '90-'92. Eli is an artist and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. THORUNN LONSDALE, '86-'88. Thorunn is a Ph.D. can1Clldlate of ""T~L>r•M"' a docent at Hirshhorn Museum Garden in Washington, D.C. P. GOODMAN, '74-'76. After leaving St. John's, Phyllis was an Associate in Rhetoric at the University of Illinois (Champaign- Urbana). She is a retired high school assistant principal and currently a part-time adjunct professor of English. A recent highlight was having students dedicate a yearbook to her. ALFRED GRANT. After graduating in 1983, Alfred went on to receive a Master of Lit from Edinburgh University, Scotland, and is now busy writing a book about English newspapers during the Revolutionary War (1774-81). He is a retired textile converter. GRETCHEN R. GRAY, '88-'90. Gretchen lists past occupations as mother, wife, student, teacher, and, in fact, currently teaches English and word/vocabulary classes. BETTY ANN GUNTHER, '69- '71. Betty is currently working on a BS in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, while employed as a computer technician at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Before Los Alamos, she was an English teacher for thirteen years at Santa Fe High School. CHRISTIAN HATFIELD, '90-'91. Christian has gone on to law school at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. When he has time, he enjoys rugby and and is now retired and lives in Las Nevada. MIRIAM KALIS. Miriam now has a Master's in Science and has attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is living in Pasadena, California. IDELL KESSELMAN, '73, '75, '76. Idell gained a second Master's degree from ASU in counseling, and presently is Director of Counseling on the humanities faculty at Prescott College in Arizona. She also writes for the Prescott Courier and says that she is very involved with the community in her role as a columnist. DIANA W. KINSEY, '71-'73. Since graduating Diana has been involved in various NEH Summer Institutes and study programs, and has traveled quite a bit. She is currently a humanities and drama teacher, and is a Denver Master Gardener. CLARK LEMONS, '89, '91. Clark is teaching English at Oxford College of Emory University. For some reason, Clark believes in studying at the GI every other year. He'll be back in '93. DONS. LEMONS, '81-82; Summers of '88, '89, '91. Don is a physics professor living in Massachusetts. ALICE LESNICK, '85-'87. Alice says that after leaving St. John's she spent a year in Seattle working in an anarchist collection bookstore, and that part of her 'subsequent "formal" education' was 'a great love affair.' She is the chair of the English Department at The Baldwin School in Philadelphia. NORMAN LEVAN, '71-'74. Norman retired from academia at age sixty- five in 1981, but still practices medicine a couple of days a week (largely limited to skin tu- AJV'U'-'-'VU? Luis went on to receive a Ph.D. in Literature from the of New Mexico. He has retired from the Public School system, but continues to teach in General Honors at UNM. LAURA MCCLURE, '82-'83. Since leaving St. John's, Laura has received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Chicago. She currently is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, '88. John is a freelance illustrator whose interest is climbing. He tells us that he climbed in the Annapurna Range in Nepal last fall, in preparation for the "1993 American Cho Oyo West Ridge Expedition." His subsequent "formal" education has been frostbitten feet! RICHARD MALMGREN, '91. With past occupations including pathologist, sailor, and weaver, Richard is now retired and lives in Annapolis. KEITH MARTINDALE, Summer '83SF, Summer '84A, Spring/Summer '86SF. Keith is a Business Records Consultant and lives in Whittier, California. PAUL K. MINOGUE, '81-'82. In his past life Paul was a beer truck driver, on a baseball grounds crew, a junior high math teacher, a night watchman in a funeral home, and a bartender. He is currently employed as Director of Administration and Finance with the New Mexico Department of Health in Santa Fe. He says his continuing "formal" education has been 'routine and continuing instructions from my father and my son.' (Continued on page 17) In 1989, while looking for recycled paper for the Center's newsletter, it occurred to him that it would make sense to try to make recycled products more available, so he started Atlantic Recycled Paper Company, which markets a wide variety of paper products, including copy, computer, fax paper, paper towels, facial and toilet tissues. Since 1989, he has been chairman of the Baltimore Recycling Coalition (BRC) which has been instrumental in getting Baltimore to institute a city-wide curbside collection program, and which recently got the City Council and mayor to sign a five-year moratorium on building new trash incinerators, in order to give the recycling program a chance. He was chairman of the first Board of Directors of the Maryland Recycler's Coalition, made up of recycling coordinators, government and recycling industries from around the state. BGS Night's Dream. is a continual source of delight and warmth for her dad and me." Former and present city editor at the 100,000), is married to Susan Seeger, court for a news"Other than his r.n111n1·P.n \L"'-""''... v"'"'' 3, and Oliver, seven writes, "Alan's true pride is filled with old fashioned roses and flowers. He had a roosternamed Singer (after theDodgerpitcher, Bill) who slept perched on the back of a chair in his bedroom, and some hens and a collie, but he's temporarily given them up." After graduation, Rick Smith (A) earned a PhD. in physics at U-MD and was married to his wife Susan in 1981. A first post-doctoral fellowship at Livermore, CA, was followed by a second one at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is now in a staff position in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos where he studies ocean dynamics and climate modeling and has fun "playing on the world's largest massively parallel supercomputers." He has also been an avid rock climber. For the past five years, he has lived in the Santa Fe area with his wife and son Nathan, 7, "who is rutIXious to start reading Great Books." "If you're in the area, look me up at 1 Mariposa Rd. in El Dorado, Santa Fe. Telephone: 989-7351. "I'm trying to balance my work life (doing research for federal and state governments at a public policy research/consulting firm) with pursuit of a second master's degree, this one in clinical psychology," writes Marlene F. Strong. She hopes to figure out a way to blend work as a therapist and researcher some day, but now the two parts of her life seem disjointed, she comments. She keeps up with Northern California chapter events and would be happy to hear from classmates who come to Berkeley: "I'm in the phone book." Frances Goodwin Vazquez (A) lives in Edgewood, PA near Pittsburgh, and is the mother of children 3, 2, and five months. (Continued on page 16) �The Meem on the Santa Fe campus has been awarded a grant of $67,438 by the U.S. Department of Education. The grant will provide 60% of the funds necessary for the library to become a compatible and contributing member in state and national library networking activities. The college will provide the re- mainder of funds for the project. All but $9,000 of this will be reallocated from the existing library budget. According to Head Librarian Inga Waite, the grant came after extensive planning and research by library personnel and the college advancement team. Experts were consulted at the State Library's Development Bureau, and the proposal was reviewed and endorsed by the college's administrative officers and the dean's Academic Computing Committee. "We are thankful for all the support that we got from the college and the state during the proposal writing process; it was really a team effort," Waite said "The grant officer in Washington told me that out of 146 proposals, only 16 were funded." The library will link-up with the national OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) bibliographic network through the regional network AMIGOS, the New Mexico education network NEDCOMM (New Mexico Network for Educational Communications), and will join in the sharing of serial holdings through the state CDROM (Compact Disk Read Only Memory) project. In joining the state and national library networks, the Meem Library will both have access and contribute to information and materials throughout the United States. Since the Annapolis campus is a participating OCLC member, the two libraries will be able to share collection information electronically. "Our overall aim is to participate in cooperative library resource sharing for the benefit of the St. John's community and for the benefit of those institutions that do not have access to our unique materials," Waite said "Network access will give our students By DONNA BOETIG With additional reporting by: CLAUDIA SMITH-PORTER, SF '82 Six explorers are lost in a cave. They're cold, hungry, and scared: With each passing hour they face more clearly the prospect of death. Suddenly one offers an alternative to approaching starvation; he proposes they engage in cannibalism. This, he explains, would buy precious time for all to be rescued-except the one who draws the short straw. But is this legal? And, considering the circumstances, what latitude, if any, are they allowed in interpreting the law? Does mercy play a part, too? With furrowed brows and precise phrases, 22 participants pondered this hypothetical situation presented by Barbara Skaug Lauer, SF '76. Ms. Lauer, a special assistant to the Wyoming Public Defender and an adjunct professor of law at the University of Wyoming, was addressing the first discussion session of the Summer Alumni Program, "Law and the Liberal Arts," held July 12-17. The second of such topic-oriented programs-the first being "Computers and the ·Liberal Arts" held last year-offered lawyeralumni the opportunity to reflect upon and discuss fundamental issues of the law which rarely get developed in daily practice. For others it helped integrate the college program with the so-called real world. Although no conclusions were drawn, "The Case of the Spelunking Explorers" evoked rich conversations on how one may liberally interpret the law yet remain within its spirit. It then provided a framework for the week's preceptorials, seminars, and discussions. The case was referred to often to clarify other legal points and to apply philosophical concepts, those centering on relations between the state and individuals, obligations of each to the other, and how the constitution delineates those rights. The idea for "Law and the Liberal Arts" began with a phone call from Annapolis tutor Joseph Cohen, A '56, to Santa Fe tutor Grant Franks, A'77. Speaking later of this conversation, Mr. Cohen commented, "The nature and scope of law and how it touches every and all issues is a leading principle of our lives ... The relation between morality and legality is always a central issue of debate." Agreed on the theme, the two lawyers had little difficulty recruiting discussion leaders from the many alumni in the legal field. Santa Fe tutor James Carey led a preceptorial on Cicero and Stoic natural law. "We discussed the difference between moral and political theories that took natural law-as opposed to prudence-to be the highest standard," he said. "We also talked about the implications of this difference for various theories of foreign policy." Santa Fe tutor Basia Miller, who recently translated Spirit of the Laws, led a preceptorial on Montesquieu. Her students questioned what type of collective personality, or "spirit," people possess who are ruled by different types of government That problem became more difficult when discussing how a people change their collective spirit when they change their ideas about good government. Dennis J. Hutchinson, professor of law at The University of Chicago, delivered the Homecoming lecture, "On Law and the Liberal Arts." Other speakers throughout the week included discussion leaders Robert A. Goldwin, A '50, a resident scholar in constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute and former dean of the Annapolis campus; Peter Weiss, A'46, ofWeiss DawidFrossZelnick & Lehrman, and Christopher B. Nelson, SF'70, president of the Annapolis campus. The week featured an afternoon at the Bandelier National Monument, hiking by the waterfalls to the Rio Grande, cliff explorations, and an evening performance of Strauss' Die Fledermaus at the Santa Fe Opera At week's end, it was obvious that the non-lawyers relished the experience as much as their legal counterparts. One of these, Victor Austin, SF'78, for instance, claimed a deeper understanding of distinctions between the types of law and the ways in which laws touch our lives. Besides moral law, sovereign law and natural law, "one could see a law regulating self-discipline as well," he said. director of Student tivities October 24, 1992 was proclaimed Istvan Fehervary Day by the City of Santa Fe. Mayor Sam Pick bestowed this honor on Mr. Fehervary in recognition of his outstanding enthusiasm and dedication to the art of fencing. Istvan Fehervary began his fencing career in Budapest in 1935 at the age of 10. As a young man Mr. Fehervary was a member of Hungary's modern pentathlon team. In 1969, Istvan brought his fencing knowledge and skill to the Santa Fe campus where he remained as Director of Student Activities until his retirement in 1990. This award recognizes only one of Mr. Fehervary's many contributions to the Santa Fe community and environs. Mr. Fehervary, in addition to introducing hundreds of students to the art of fencing, has formed fencing clubs in Los Alamos, Albuquerque, Roswell and Las Cruces. He has essentially brought fencing to New Mexico. Even after Mr. Fehervary's retirement he continued to instruct fencing to students and members of the Santa Fe community in the St. John's Fencing Club. Mr. Fehervary recently announced that while he is retiring from the St. John's Fencing Club, he will still remain active in fencing, and will continue to join club members on occasion during practice. and faculty the ability to search out and obtain information and materials that are otherwise essentially unattainable. Students and faculty often look for related program readings to enrich and expand their intellectual experience here. Since we have a small collection, we can't always help them. Now they will have access to the collections of an international network of over 10,000 libraries. It's amazing." The Meem library's collection of some 56,000 volumes is especially rich in ancient . and modern classics of European literature, philosophy, science, and mathematics, both in the original language and in translation. St. John's has the most comprehensive collection of philosophy in the state and is the only library in New Mexico that provides full access to Greek and Latin texts and translation tools. Over one thousand new volumes are acquired by the library each year. The Meem Library is open to the 85.5 hours per week during the academic year, and 40 hours per week when the college is not in session. The library is staffed with four full-time librarians and twenty-six quarter-time student assistants. "We are delighted to receive a grant of this kind which will benefit not only St. John's College but also the state of New Mexico and the national library network," said President Agresto. �By LESLI ALLISON Approximately an hour's drive north of the St. John's campus in Santa Fe is the tiny community of Ojo Caliente (named for its mineral hot springs). Like many small villages in Northern New Mexico, it is inhabited largely by descendants of early Spanish settlers and Pueblo Indians. Through the cen~uries, the residents have eked a living by faiming and raising sheep. In recent times, the presence of the hot springs has attracted an increasing number of tourists who come for hot baths, mud baths and massage at a local resort A drive down the center of town reveals at once the collision of past and present Old adobe structures and ruins are interspersed with modem trailers and frame houses. Horses race through riverside pastures. A small general store carries a little of everything. Trucks with giant tires roar down the narrow, winding highway. But perhaps the most striking indication of the passage of time is the presence of two churches, standing aside one another. To the right is the newer church, its walls straight, the stucco intact, the roof sound. It plays an active role in this predominantly Catholic community. To the left, facing the new church at a perpendicular angle, is the original church. Four centuries its adobe walls stand naked and crumbling. The cracked mud, like deeply carved wrinkles, serve as testimony to its age. The bell was long ago removed from the tower. Inside the long, rectangular structure pale light falls through small windows onto a dusty floor. Like older churches in many communities throughout New Mexico, this one reveals decades of neglect. Due to changes in economic and social conditions, decreasing populations and a variety of other factors, the churches which once formed the center of life for so many villages stand largely in ruin. Recognizing the importance and symbolism of these churches for small rural comm unities, the Northern New Mexico Community Foundation, in 1985 initiated a program called "Churches: Symbols of Community." The foundation raises funds and recruits volunteers to help community residents rebuild their churches. Last year, at the initiative of senior Taeko Onishi (SF'92), St. John's students got involved in the effort. This year as many as fifteen students volunteer on alternate Saturdays helping community residents install drainage systems, making ado be bricks, mud plastering, installing roofs, demolishing walls, constructing new ones, and repairing floors and in- Above right, Faith Echele helps remove the old roof of the Santa Cruz Church. Muuv•=i. MackU and Christina Deidler repair a window and at right, Francis Noon and Faith Echele assist in replacing the roof. Lesli Allison photos terior wood-work. Student outreach coordinator Macki! is one of the students helping to rebuild the Santa Cruz church in Ojo Caliente this year. A transfer from the Annapolis campus, her involvement in the churches program began when she saw a sign last year asking for volunteers. • "I've always been interested in that kind of volunteer activity-building and restoring-there's just a real satisfaction in that kind of work," she said. "You get to go out and do this work, to see the progress. You see the smiles on peoples' faces in the small communities, and the hugs and thanks you get. ..it's a wonderful feeling of accomplishment." Student volunteers also gain significant personal and historical insights into the region. "It's a learning process," Mackil said. "Obviously we learn about building and restoration, but we also learn about the history of these buildings. We've been working on a building that's over 400 years old. In the process we learn about the people who came here. We also meet people in these communities we might not otherwise meet. They've lived in a small town their whole lives and they're very concerned with the life of the community and interested in keeping the community together." Macki! pointed out that when communi-· ties such as Oja Caliente are flourishing, the church often forms the center of life. Aside from religious worship, churches are oft~n used for town meetings and social gatherings such as weddings. "We're restoring these things that have just fallen apart through neglect or just plain old age," she said. "But a very sad thfog for them, just from my experience, is they see that as the center of their community beginning to crumble. It's really important to them, and it's the kind of thing you can only experience in a small town. I would venture to say that most of our students don't have an experience like that." In addition to offering new experiences, volunteer projects such as this one allow students to get away from the books for a day, Macki! said. "It's a way of continuing to live your life outside of St. John's. But there are certainly applications. We talk about human nature, about religion and I find myself thinking about those things when I'm working. It's a sort of real life application of things we talk about here. And it's also sort of fun to use the tools that we talk about, we learn the theories behind these tools in lab. It's really exciting." New Staff members named at Santa Fe Patrick Emerson joined the library staff on October 1 as the cataloger/Systems Librarian. He will also supervise daily operations of the Student Computer Center. He and his wife came to Santa Fe from Iowa. In September Christine (Tina) Garcia joined the Treasurer's Office as an accountant. She is a native of Santa Fe and attended the College of Santa Fe where she met her husband Herman. They have two children, Gabriel and Victoria. Ms. Garcia worked with the Office of Cultural Affairs for nine years. Suzanne Kauffman joined the college as an assistant to the director of Placement in October. She does not consider herself a native of anywhere, since she grew up in various places around the world. In 1989, she received her BA in classical languages from U.C. Berkeley and is currently on leave of absence from the Ph.D. program in philosophy at Brown University. She taught and worked at Santa Fe Community College for the past year and says that being at St. John's is like coming home. The college welcomed Victoria Mora as a new member of the faculty in August. This semester she is co-leading in a freshman seminar with Mr. Pesic; she will begin full time in January. Ms. Mora is a native of New Mexico and recently completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Yale. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico. Lisa Vigil joined both the Personnel and Computer Services staff in August She is a native of Santa Fe and previously worked for the state government for 10 years. She and her husband Leonard have two children, Teresa and Brian. The Santa Fe campus Student 0 Tuba Musical Instrument Fund seeks donations of/ for musical instruments for student use. If you have an instrument you would like to donate 0 Trumpet 0 Cello 0 Violin contact Claire Darling, senior, Santa Fe. 0 Bassoon 0 French Horn �The Parents' look-Alike Contest caused a lot of merriment. President John sets of finalists. And what about those false noses? Over 175 parents and grandparents visited their students on October 14-18 for the third annual Parents' Weekend on the Santa Fe campus. Most arrived in time to visit classes on Thursday and Friday, sitting silently as they observed their sons and daughters in action. The weekend opened formally with President Agresto's welcome, followed by a question and answer reception with college administrators on Friday afternoon. Parents were invited to sample a college dinner that evening and to attend Tutor Peter Pesic' s lecture I concert entitled "Children of Orpheus: Dialogue between Ancient and Modern Music," which included musical demonstrations by several students. On Saturday morning, the President's Brunch with the faculty filled the Great Hall to capacity. The traditional Parent-Child Look-Alike Contest winners, the fatherdaughter team of Dr. Henry Mulder and Katherine Mulder, won the prize of a gift certificate to the bookstore. After the brunch parents and students ventured to the Meem Library for a giant Parents' Weekend booksale. Parents, students, faculty members and area residents swarmed over mounds ofbooks and records, often carrying away cartloads of treasures. On Saturday night the dining hall was practically empty as parents took their students and friends out to dinner, many returning to fill the floor of the Waltz Party later that evening. Decorations and refreshments were provided by the students-sparkling lights from a mirrored ball spinning overhead creating just the right mood to accompany the Santa Fe Little Big Band and to make the Viennese Waltzers even dizzier. College staff and tutors commented on how much they enjoyed meeting so many parents, and parents wrote afterward, 'Thank you for doing the weekend and making us feel so welcome! I enjoyed seeing my child filled with excitement and enthusiasm." cation to the point at which painting would become obsolete. "I'd like to destroy the means so only the ends remain," Meadows said "It's almost as though there wouldn't be a need to speak because there would be understood relationships between people." Meadows claims that this end will only be achieved when By LESLI ALLISON human beings better understand themselves. This underFor Mark Meadows, painting is one means among many standing arises through communication. in the ongoing human endeavor to communicate. In fact, "Communication is what it all boils down to," he said. Meadows suggests his ultimate obligation as a painter would A senior on the Santa Fe campus, Meadows will exhibit be to destroy painting altogether by accelerating communi19 recent works in the college art gallery this December in a show entitled "Constructed Figures." An opening reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, December 4. The works included in the exhibit are mixed media, primarily oils and acrylics on canvas with incorporations of graphite, enamel, gauche, ink, sand and bleach. The works are generally figurative yet include some elements of abstraction. "St John's is definitely in these paintings," Meadows said. "I have tried to approach them from a classical basis but I still want some levels of abstraction to be in there just because I think that abstraction aids the communication. I hope that none of these paintings will be ends in themselves." The paintings are primarily square in format and black and white. Meadows said the square format is challenging in terms of composition. The predominance of black and white reveals what he described as a fear of color, yet it also has proven educational in the use of contrast. The blacks themselves are actually composites of black and other colors such as red. In terms of content, the works address a variety of concerns ranging from technology and religion to "Female Figure" In acrylic, oil and chalk by Mark Meadows, SF'93. EX figures" explores understanding St. John's College invites parents and their friends to enjoy a winter weekend in Santa Visit your student, ski, shop, eat and gallery-hop. There is plenty for non-skiers to do too. Schedule Friday, February 19, Reception Saturday, February 20, Santa Fe Ski Basin. Sunday, February 21, Taos Ski Valley P.S New Mexico offers some of the finest skiing in the country! If you would like to join us call: Susan Friedman, Parents Program Coordinator St. John's College 505/982-3691ext.226 The Parents' Weekend Book Sale drew many browsers. sexuality and violence. "The show is called 'Constructed Figures' and a lot of that has to do with how we create a thing (the creative process has to do with destroying and reorganizing)," he said. "We create a thing and then we interact with it. Somehow that adds to our constitution. It's strange that we are so much spiritually, emotionally, intellectually and physically a composite of things our predecessors have created. "This show deals a lot with sentiments, a lot of angry young man sentiments. I don't know if I'd call myself an angry young man, but there are sentiments of frustration, loneliness and disgust, as well as love, joy and exhilaration. It might be like an exhilarated despair. Nietzsche mentions that." Nevertheless, Meadows does not view his works as products of self-expression. Rather, these sentiments arise in the process of painting, not as the focus of the work. "I am simply a conductor," he said. "It's like a faucet hooked up to a big plumbing system." Underlying Meadows' approach to painting is his desire to make a positive contribution to humanity in whatever form seems most appropriate. At present, painting has offered one immediate possibility for achieving this goal. Nevertheless, Meadows, who hopes to earn a living by painting yet prefers not to refer to himself as an contends that any human endeavor, if done with love and consideration for other people, is as valid and worthwhile as any other. "Dialogues go on and those dialogues will take place in such things as fine arts, mathematics and politics, carpentry, cooking, waste disposal, they all seem like levels of communication," Meadows said. Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, Meadows has lived in a number of places throughout the United States.He first enrolled at St. John's in 1988. He also studied at the San Francisco Art Institute for a semester as well as the Bemis Art School in Colorado. He recently was nominated for a Watson Fellowship to study Australian Aboriginal painting. Meadows' works have been exhibited at the San Francisco Ari Institute Gallery, in a private exhibition in San Francisco, at St. John's College and the Pat Abbott Gallery in Colorado Springs. His paintings are included in private collections in the United States and Europe. �DECEMBER 1992 THE REPORTER PAGE9 Scene from all meeting for the The College of Visitors Governors was as a retreat at the Tidewater Easton, on the weekend of October 23-25, with the officers of both campuses and 30 Board members Besides board meetings a presentation on college resources and needs, members were treated to a outing on the Chesapeake Bay and the attractions of the Maryland Eastern Shore. 11-'T'<>•""""'TU Christopher Nelson was unable to attend. an AFS student van Der living Nelson unexpectedly Wednesday,,._,..., ......,..,"".. from what was later described as cardiac arhythmia caused by Hugo's Santa Fe President John .un1ra~1rn and Alumni Association ......'"''"''ri'·"·"? Sharon Bls:hoP. pause memorial service . . . ..,....v....,.... which Erik Nelson, 17. ' all addressed Board member of Texas . attended with the Board. Weekend in Friends of the Mitchell Gallery came in large numbers to the opening reception and festivities for 'The Coming of Age of American Sculpture: The First Decades of the Sculptors Guild, 1930s - 1950s" in September. A record crowd of more than 270 parents attended Parents' Weekend festivities at Oct. 30 Nov. 1. A was tutor-led seminars and children in McDowell Hall left Edwin G. Gr1~en1be1m is stationed Anita Weschler's "Time to Speak." �0 Hofstra. Bernard Jacob rh''""'"''"r" and examination accounts, he argues, is the goal of the art. The usual view of Aristotle as a professorial promof finished doctrines in contrast to the openminded Plato and Socrates is strongly, and in my view correctly, rejected by Jacob. Why Aristotle may have allowed, even encouraged, this view of himself and his work to develop was not explored. At any rate, Jacob's Aristotle along with his teacher Plato is a Socratic. He approves Larry Amhart's (Aristotle on Political Reasoning: a Commentary on the "Rhetoric") observation that in speaking of rhetoric as the antistrophe of dialectic Aristotle suggests that "rhetoric reflects dialectic while moving in the opposite direction." Rhetoric, essentially oriented toward action, seeks that plausibility and conviction required to move men and women to action: its highest goal cognitively is true opinion. Dialectic, on the other hand, actuated by the distinction between knowledge and opinion, tests any and all principles as opinions with a view to knowing what one does not know, with a view to knowing what one's true situation with respect to the fundamental questions is. Jacob argues that Aristotle, like Socrates of the Theaetetus, agrees that our experience and awareness of error points to the possibility of access to errorless understanding. For Aristotle, technically speaking, this means true and perspicuous principles or premisses enjoyed through the activity of intellectual intuition, nous, which can open us up to the natures of things in themselves. To the extent that we know anything nous is somehow operative, but is it ever fully and perfectly operative? Socratic and Aristotelian dialectic, while not dogmatically sceptical (Kant) about the possibility of genuine intellection into things in themselves, calls into question the certainty of any alleged particular instance of genuine insight. Exposing our fundamental insufficiencies, the grounds of true humility, it at the same time points to what true sufficiency might be: awareness of insufficient wisdom would appear to be a necessary condition for the love and serious pursuit of wisdom called philosophy. In a lively question it was contended that Aristotle presents a of his fundamental positions as truths verifiable by careful observation reaLS011m.g, e.g., the differences between continence and moderation of Book VII of the Nicomachean Ethics, the and act underlying his Jacob did justice whole account of the nature both to the seriousness of the questions and his own stated position by replying that he did not doubt that Aristotle that these, among his most reliable and tested opinions, were true and more reliable than all the alternatives but like all opinions were open to and invited further inquiry. Sixty-five years later, two classmates, Elmer Jackson and Bunny Gessner, salute their Alma Mater. 1 and son Samuel NANCYOSIUS The Homecoming Weeken1 3,4 was one of many images: The face of wisdom-Mrs.: audience leaning in to share eac of the journey from St. Peten Europe, a journey that at lengtlJ Kaplan to St. John's College. The soaring voices of the A the Great Hall into the summeIJ members of the Freshman Cb the athletic baton of Elliott Zm the remembered music. As their elders picked at m pagne at the President's house S President Christopher Nelson and his mother Anne, HSF'90, have a word with Jessica children sweeping across the 1 Lennon Seides, A'67, who came from Dublin to Homecoming. distant laggard, a year-old stag1 Coming home. Those who d mates and onetime tutors, wivt friends, some new wives and husbands, a flock of ch honor venerated teachers, the chance to re-engage info the chance to hang around. Gessne Among those who returned were representing the class of '27 in their 65th reunion. Be more than two dozen classmates together for 50th rem1 served as Alumni Association presidents. Other classes gathering for reunions were 1952, 19 Classmates lunched together around seminar tablei with linen and graced by fall chrysanthemums in McD restored and classrooms, or, elbows on spr newspapers, feasted on crabs tennis courts; Ii locked wits with long-ago anatagonists and 2 seminars on Shaw, and Whitman. In the late afternoon the mood shifted, as alumni fro1 Freshman Chorus came from 25th year reunion Howard A'67, and Peggy n: around, and 50 or 60 alumni and college came to sing Bach's Wachet Auf! and music by Mozart am under the direction of Mr. Zuckerman. For many, the hour was the highlight of the weekend. Three great friends of the college were honored at the coming Banquet in Randall Hall Saturday vete and Governors member Jerome LaPides was made while Honorary Alumna Charlotte Fletcher and alu A'52, received Awards of Merit. Good-humored badinage about old rivalries let Ra friend Jerry LaPides, a Naval Academic graduate, be his service to the college. As Dance Committee ch · John's in the 1940's, Mr. Cave scheduled dances for curfew hour, in order, so he claimed, for Johnn midshipmen's dates. Citing Mr. LaPides'efforts on behalf of St. John's, Mr. Cave noted that Mr. LaPides had served on the B since 1972, had served as Board secretary-treasurer carefully overseen the construction of the new library and on time." He exercised, said Mr. Cave, "tough an on the matter of faculty raises in 1989. The citation, which named him an honorary membe expressed gratitude for his "devotion, integrity, and fri~ They were both trailblazers at the formerly all-male c in the spring of 1951, Charlotte Fletcher already installe~ and Barbara Leonard on campus to be interviewed fo assistant dean needed to serve the women studentsexpe The smallest guests hasten across the President's lawn on Sunday. �1 Ten years of Alumni Association service for A'75. 1 d in Annapolis October '1 K.aplan at nearly 99, her :h remembered segment '~burg across strife-tom brought her and Simon ve Verum spilling from rafternoon, as long-ago orus, once more under :;kerrnan, gave voice to I elon and drank chamlunday morning, young awn-in their wake, a ~erer. id this found old class~s and husbands of old iidren, the occasion to :ceful discussion-and and Elmer Jackson, swell Childs gathered ion. All three men had 7, 1972, and 1982. spread owell's ad-out of song Homeran Board of Visitors ' Cave, twit his 'ore honoring him for rman for all-male St. 1 p.m., the Academy es to scoop up the is newest alma mater, )ard most of the time or 14 years, and had t Santa Fe "on budget decisive leadership" : of the class of 1991, mdship." ollege when they met l in the college library · the position of new :;ted in a few months. For banquet guests, Miss Leonard retraced the career of Miss Fletcher, who trained at the Enoch Pratt Library, earned a B.S. degree in library science in 1941 from Columbia University, and later spent two years studying law. Made librarian in 1946, Miss Fletcher oversaw the renovation and rededication of the library and the doubling of its book collection in her years on the job. After her retirement in 1980, she researched and published five articles on the origin of the King William School, precursor to the college, and on the early college itself. In 1990-91, all five articles were brought together in The St. John's Review. But the high point of Charlotte Fletcher's distinguished career, Miss Leonard insisted, was her famous performance with tutors Winfree Smith and Hugh McGraw in "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy," a merry one-act parody of atrocities perpetrated by translators and a favorite college production for many years. Miss Fletcher's Award of Merit citation called attention to her "diligent leadership" in the library and her "contributions to historical scholarship." He arrived at the college 44 years ago along with Warren Winiarski, and now Tom Carnes, fellow member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, traced his classmate's rise to distinction in the winemaking business. Mr. Winiarski was first an academic at the University of Chicago, and, after settling on a career in winemaking, came to produce at Stag's Leap Wine Cellars what critics have hailed as premier Napa Valley wines. The picnic and seminar held yearly at the winery is a highlight of the N orthem California alumni chapter calendar, and often draws alumni from other parts of the country. Mr. Carnes noted also such· Board acc~on1p11snmenrs as the co1mp,re11en:sl\i'e Mr. Winiarski underpossible uses for the the colsome years ago. Mr. Winiarski' s Award of Merit citation noted his "exemplary achievements as a vintner and connoisseur," as well as his "calm intelligence, balanced temperament and personal warmth." Mr. Winiarski's moving reply is reprinted on page 14. At the end of the evening, the tables were turned when Betsy A'75, Director of Alumni Activities at Annapolis, was presented with a certificate of recognition for her 10 years of exemplary service in her role. Citing Betsy's leadership, diligence, and sound judgement, Sharon Bishop, Alumni Association president, ushered in an enormous commemorative cake alight with candles to be set out. Betsy's husband, Michael Blume, A '78, to whom she gave special thanks, joined her at the podium. Mrs. Simon Kaplan and Ste!PhEm W. Bergen, A'45, display the of her husband. photographic By NANCY osrus At the Alumni Association Meeting Saturday mornillg, three members of the college community spoke with eloquence of two legendary St. John's College tutors who left a powerful moral legacy to the institution. Enlarged photographic portraits of the men were presented to the college on behalf of the Association by its president Sharon Bishop, and will hang in room 22, McDowell Hall. Returning alumni filled the Conversation Room as Tutor Emeritus Curtis Wilson rose to speak of his colleague Richard Scofield, who died at 72 in 1969. Then Washington lawyer Stephen Bergen, A'45, and Simon Kaplan's widow, Fanny Kaplan, each spoke of Mr. Kaplan, who died at age 85 in 1979. the day of atonement, and also "a day of remembrance," he continued. To remember Simon Kaplan was to remember "how very rooted he was in his community of faith." Mr. Bergen reviewed the Kaplans 'long journey from their youth in Russia, across a Europe torn by war, and finally to the U.S., where "through their long :friendship with Jacob Klein, [they] were led to St John's." An engaging and challenging seminar leader, Mr. Kaplan made time, too, "to listen to us in our person, to listen for the deeper question behind our opening question, whether in class or out," said his onetime student. Mr. Bergen drew from Mr. Kaplan's memorial service in 1979 what he called "illuminating words" to flesh out the picture of a man of learning whose capacity for friendship, gentleness, and "civilized humaneness" so profoundly affected the college community. One of Mr. Kaplan's students described her teacher at that time: "The reputation that survives such a man can only be pale compared to the impression he made personally. When he sat at the table, his chin in his hands, his whole body intent-it seemed to me I had never seen anyone with so much concentration, so much vitality. The power of his thought gave him another power, not merely to communicate, but to inspire, not merely to make us wonder, but to make us love." A perfect silence filled with awed respect awaited the final speaker, Mrs. Kaplan, soon to be 99 years old, as she seated herself at the head of the great conference table. For over 20 minutes, in a soft voice inflected by her native Russian tongue, without faltering and without notes, as the audience strained forward to hear Mrs. Kaplan retraced events of the long-ago grimage that brought her with her husband at last to Annapolis, where, she said, "found not a new upheaval but a new program." A transcription of Mrs. Kaplan's remarks is on page 14. Earlier, President Christopher Nelson welcomed returning alumni to the annual meeting. In the report on academic matters, Dean Eva Brann declared that in her view "much news" is a sign of "waning life"-at least intellectually. Therefore, she said, prefacing her catalogue of minor changes in program and personnel, "A lot is happening but little is new." Farover20 minutes, withoutf4/terln9 and without notes, Mrs. Mplan retraced event;s "No man have I known have I held more in honor," Said Mr. Wilson of Mr. Scofield, "and words seem thin indeed for recapturing a presence that meant so much." The framed photograph "calls him forth from the shades, as if he were once more present, luminously alert, ready to converse." Describing a vital, swiftly striding man, Mr. Wilson said Mr. Scofield "could make Matthew Arnold's phrase 'sweetness and seem not Victorian and out-of-date but vigorously admonitory." A passionate defender of the rights of others, Mr. Scofield challenged double standards based on gender. On occasion he was the ironic pragmatist, who nrr>U1f1Prl "sharp when it came to practical decisions. He was a wit, who, at the time a salary scale based solely on age and years of service was brought before the faculty, asked, "What is left for old men but avarice and gluttony?" Devoted to the college, Mr. Scofield supported what was central to it-"inculcating the habit of reading good books, the habit of literature; the attempt to improve one's mind." This is the 50th year, began Mr. "since Simon and Fanny Kaplan came to be members of our college." Moreover, the dedication day fell close to Y om Kippur, the most holy day of the Jewish calendar, ofthe long Three Honorees: New alumnus Jerome HA'91, left, and Awards of Merit to Charlotte Fletcher, HA'69, and Waren Winiarski, A'52. �THE REPORTER PAGE12 December 6: Tutor Nancy Buchenauer will lead a seminar on "Sorrow Acre" by Isaac Dinesen at 2:00 p.m. Call Michael David (505) 344-7875 or Diane Bentley 296-6048 to contribute ideas or suggestions. December 11: Delegate John Astle, Maryland General Assembly. January 8: Alumni luncheon with guest speaker Lucille Maurer, Maryland State Treasurer. 12: Alumni luncheon. 27: Saturday seminar on tutor 1mt:i.nh•.:1tt'<=> new book, The Effective RepublicAdministration and Constitution in the Thought of Alexander Hamilton. Alumni luncheons are held on Fridays in the Private Room, 12:00 noon. Telephone Betsy Blume at the Office (410) 263-23 71 for more information about any of the events. December 17: Seminar being planned. This chapter meets informally on a monthly basis, 7 to on the third Thursday of the month of Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, & 6th and Congress. Readings are selected members. Contact Paul Martin (512) schedule and details. January: Seminar being planned. For information about this emerging chapter, call Kim Kern at the Alumni Office (410)263-2371. Meetings are held at the home of Alvin Aronson who can be contacted at (617) 566-6657 for information. I I February 13: Seminar on "Book of Job" and gathering at Bob and Anne McDonough's home, Rochester, 3 p.m.: (716) 436-7393. This chapter welcomes the participation of all alumni in its wide-ranging locale. Call Cinda Graham (716) 442-6823 for details and suggestions. December 12: Annual holiday party at Rick Lightburn's home. Future events are in the planning stages and anyone with ideas is invited to call with suggestions. Contact President Paul Frank at (312) 235-0614 or 464-2573 (wk}, or Program Director Erin Milnes at 271-1039 for additional information. This chapter meets about 1O times a year for Saturday seminars. For locations and other details, call Suzanne Doremus at (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis at (214) 340-8442. DECEMBER 1992 BlllBllllR IBlllJll December 12: Holiday potluck lunch and conversation at Dale Mortimer's home, 1:00 p.m. For further details call Dale Mortimer at (503) 224-4363 (Portland or (206) 737-7587. Mt:1t:1ru1n~ to discuss the program readings are scheduled monthly, and follow the undergraduate Inquiries are most we.rcOJne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen 452-1082. su_1'JaE1st1<Jns about a direction to pursue. Fulks {314) 235-2320 or 846-4907 with your contribution. December 13: Seminar on GWF ..... n°•·.,, duction to Aesthetics, hosted 10: Seminar on ..........r1;..,,...... On the Genealogy Mark Middlebrook. Seminars meet at 2:30 and will continue on of month. The :::>c1,enc~e. the second and Music is finishing Zuckerkandl's 'The Sense of Music" and there are plans to other musical call Mark Middlebrook at (510) 547-0602 for details. Call Toni Wilkinson (415) 5854255 for further information and to contribute to the local newsletter. ··.· 0 December: Holiday event being planned. Telephone John Pollack (505) 983-2144 or Alumni Director Cindy Jokela at 982-3691 for future seminar/social meeting times and places. A Music Study Group is proposing the study ofJ.S. Bach's "The Musical Offering" this winter. Tutorials will meet on the campus beginning in December, on Wednesday evenings for 6 or 7 weeks. There are plans to attend a performance of the work in February. Musical talent and fluency are not required. Call Mary Schruben 473-7898 for information. Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 about upcoming events that are in the works. 'I :·:·: ·... :::• :::: :::::: >;:::;:::::::;: :::.:,::::: ••• ,, .. ,, ~11· :':::::::: .··. <· .·.·.:-:: ::;::::':;::,::: ·.·.. ·.·. -·.· :::: ::: .:•:· :: ::: t< ·. ····,:·.':::·:::;: •::::: ::·::;;,;: :~ <· ·: .,.:,.. i' :::''.::::::::;::::::: ·:::::·: ;:·:: ;.: ;: :::: :,:,: ·::: . . <<· :: :::::: :;: :::···· ;:::: ·.·. ~ <: ·: : J.:]' 1 :: ·:: ) :: :·: .. Any member wishing to join, and/or a group of alumni oriented toward bisexual please contact A'78, Sociology Department, Upsala '-'""'"""~""· Orange, NJ 07019, 924-4161. The nr1nr,.::in 1 purpose of the group is the of ences. This group is open to all rcor1~rr·m::::1~~c: sexual orientation. 434-7624 or Erin at the Alumni Office information and to con- December 13: Seminar the class events. Keith Harvey photo �roc-nn'"'"''° to Mr. John E. Siemens's 1992) to Mr. By MARK NIEDERMIER, A'84 The difficulty in telling the story of my teaching in Harlem is deciding which story to tell. There is the story that reinforces the negative reputation of one of the most famous inner city neighborhoods in the world as a dangerous and threatening environment. There is the story that portrays warm a,nd caring people persevering under the most extreme of circumstances. Both stories would be true. Given that I was once asked in all seriousness whether it was true that teachers in Harlem taught from within metal cages for self-protection, I will not tell the first story - it serves no one to reinforce a negative stereoBut the second story is not quite the one to tell Though true it is also too incomplete, too rosy. In spite of the daily instances of strength and courage, a singular truth remains: far too many lives are steeped with tragedy and wasted. I will do my best to tell a true that does not unduly sacrifice completeness. I arrived at the Children's Storefront School in the fall of 1986. The school at that time had 80 sixth students .;:)l,.l•Uo<;:;.c;,.oy,u crashing ocean waves, singing songs. Instead, what comes to mind is a very non-radiant child. Jaquon went through the summer displaying no visible sign of emotion. Nothing joyous, nothing sad. I once took Jaquon and a few other boys on an overnight camping trip. Ghost stories and marshmallows at night, scrambled eggs over the coals of a smoldering campfire in the morning. No response. That fall at school, however, Jaquon was a changed person, alive, energetic and involved. His mother told me how one morning Jaquon happily announced he was going to make her breakfast, went to the kitchen and for the first time in his life produced scrambled eggs. Something had happened at camp. As school founder Ned O'Gorman wrote, "Teaching is an act of faith in the infinite possibilities inherent in each child." As a teacher, the influence of your actions is not immediately observable and often no,,,c,,,.,.,,. working in the dark and for the best A final One reason that I was hired at the Children's Storefront was that the headmaster was impressed with the St. John's program. More specifically, in addition to my as the school's science teach er, I wou Id also be available for is an act of in northeastern comer Greek. first year possibilities inherent in each child." of Harlem. The eleme too busy for -Ned O/Corman/ Storefront School vated Metro-North but beginning tracks are at one in the fall of 1987 I end of the block and a corner frequented by drug began meeting weekly with three students who had dealers at the other, exactly the stark urban landraised their hands when asked if they would like to scape that has come to be associated with places learn ancient Greek. They loved it. From the first like Harlem and the South Bronx. A tuition-free class spent transliterating their names to eventually private school founded by poet Ned O'Gorman in translating simple sentences about men bringing 1966, the Children's Storefront is an oasis. gifts to the gods, they were clearly engaged, taking As with any beginning teacher in any school, classgreat pride in learning something renowned for its room management was a challenge. It quickly became difficulty. evident that my position as teacher granted me no Where are these three Greek scholars today? authority. The teacher-student relationship was not One is finishing his senior year at an Upper East recognized as such by my pupils. What was respected Side prep school on full scholarship, busy applying was a person to person relationship. Mark-Jerry, Markto colleges. Another is getting by at a local Catholic Regina, but not teacher-student. It was as though high school. The third boy died three years ago with something like Martin Buber's I-Thou was the only a broken pistol in his hand, shot to death. The life recognized way to interact with integrity, nothing lesser he chose to live, or had thrust upon him, defied worthy of consideration. It was not an inherent I-Thou, rational understanding in terms of any long-term but one that had to be earned. After I learned the goals yet has an immediate logic and satisfaction children's names, their parents' and grandparents' that made it all too irresistible for him and for too names, had enough one-on-one conversations that many other children as well. Selling drugs, holding knew I understood them as individuals, then we a gun in one's hand, the thrill of easy money and get down to business in the classroom. new clothes - for a thirteen year-old boy these The at this could go in the direction of things proved more attractive than studying books developing a classroom culture, how it is impossible in a classroom. to conceive of a curriculum independent of one's Five school years and six summers in Harlem students and how the education that takes place in could yield a book more easily than be fit into this a classroom is a two-way street with both the adult essay. Still, the general story is the same. There and the children teaching and learning from one were tragedies, but the hope and courage are what another. Instead, I'll jump to summer vacation. remain vibrant for me. I reflect that in my own life I For most kids, the summer is a time for family might have a bad day, a bad week, even a bad year. vacations and trips to camp, maybe a part-time job. This is tolerable because I know things will improve. But for children in places like Harlem, summer vaBut what would it be like to have had five or ten or cation is not an idyllic taste of freedom. Too often twenty bad years and no expectation that things will their own survival is all the more threatened. This is get better? The individuals I met and worked with in the Children's Storefront ran its own summer Harlem inspire me with their courage. Everyday I camp. Located 110 miles north of NYC in Lyme, came into contact with people who conducted their Connecticut as part of a farm on a large pasture lives with a dignity that most of us lack: the ability adjacent to Nehantic State Forest, it was six weeks and right to say with any certainty that under those of freedom and paradise for 25 children each sumcircumstances we could do the same. mer. It was a primitive setting offering traditional camp activities guided by a commitment to teaching non-violent conflict resolution skills. Mark Niedermier (A '84) is presently head of It would be easy to go on for pages with descripFriends School of Minnesota, a K-sixth grade tions of radiant children, catching fish, running into Quaker elementary school in Minneapolis. to Mr. (March 1 Bolotin's thesis his article "In Defense of the Great Books" that a "lasting and truth" underlies all philosophy and Biblical religion. The first part of Mr. Siemens's letter in defense of Mr. Bolotin's claim for such truth seems to be an attempt to demonstrate, through a priori that the existence of the word or concept truth questions about it necessitate the existence of truth itself, apparently of the lasting and comprehensive variety. One of the problems with this sort of discussion is that Mr. Siemens never says what he means by the word truth and, in fact, seems to give it different meanings in different contexts. If the statements "all men are mortal" or ''two plus two equals four" are what Mr. Siemens or Mr. Bolotin mean by truth, I don't think I or Mr. Goldstein would have the energy to disagree. But these are truisms more than truth (tautologies, really), and I really don't think they're the kinds of fish Mr. Siemens, Mr. Bolotin et al. are trying to fry. However, Mr. Siemens doesn't say what he means by lasting and comprehensive truth or give any examples. "Abortion is murder," perhaps? "America is the greatest country in the history of the world"? "God exists and is white and male"? Mr. Siemens is a tease. All my life I've been searching for certainty and he comes along and assures me that it exists, but then leaves me hanging me what it is. I'm waiting After finishing with truth, Mr. Siemens takes on that cursed decade "the sixties." Mr. Siemens he doesn't doesn't like the sixties, clear which of it he hates the most: the white supremacy and the an illegal war that in 1964 and 1968 but the for of to express tne,ms13lve~s doesn't mention any of these instead caricaturing the entire period with dyspeptic (and lengthy) fulminations about media hype and music and the touchy-feely aspects that no doubt existed at the time. The real content of the sixties was that they were a reawakening from the comatosity and fear of the post-war Eisenhower and McCarthy period in which a woman's place was in the home, a progressive's place was on the blacklist, the CIA's place was overthrowing popularly elected governments in Iran, Guatemala, and Brazil, a Negro knew his place, and female students had eleven p.m. curfews and males didn't. Now of course Mr. Siemens can characterize the sixties rebellion against the post-World War Two era as "intellectual servitude" if he wishes, and the era itself as a time of flowering of the "liberally educated mind," but is that really where St. John's wants to be as an institution? I'm asking this as a serious yu1:::-=>uv1 Throughout history, at least since the educated mind" has very often coexisted with and been supported by, ~~·~~~•...i . . supremacy, colonialism, religious persecution, segregation, lynching, union-busting, antisemitism, and censorship. Look at the college itself. It didn't allow blacks in until some time in the fifties. When I was there in the mid-sixties there were two both male. Where was the liberally educated mind then? Whafs the point of learning how to think if all you think about got and beat down is how to hold on to what others who have less, if instead of leading the way to it a civilization that really takes seriously the supposedly stands for you have to be and screaming, into performing the most amenities, such as allowing women and color (not even to mention their literary other ideological expressions) into your august halls-and then justify your resistance and your and screaming by characterizing them as of "lasting and comprehensive truth"? Sorry. If that's the posture the school wants to adopt, then, in the words of a great thinker named Yogi Berra, white and male but (I'm happy to say) not yet dead-"lnclude me out.u Jonathan Aurthur, A '68 �14 [Mr. Winiarski made these remarks at the Homecoming Banquet on receipt of his Award of Merit.] Members of the Alumni Association and friends, I want to thank you for the honor of this Award of Merit. Yet I wondered for a long time why it was to be given to me. Why was I chosen for an alumni merit award? I want to share with you now that, as a student, many times I thought I should not be at St John's, or should not continue to stay. And yet, even in this turmoil, there continued to be some light, and this was helpful. For example, in my senior year, I didnotdo the mathematics very well. In fact, I did abysmally in mathematics in that year. There was bewilderment and a feeling of letting go. I do not now remember very much of the senior year mathematics. I knew then that I was falling behind It was a whirl of formulae, integrals and differentials, surds and absurds. Assignments were abandoned Classes were not attended. I did not see how I could keep up. I asked myself, "did no one see how hopeless it all is?" Could my tutor not see that I was not there, even when I was there? Someone, however, must have been making allowances for all those inadequacies. Someone must have been taking the measure of something else in me, and overlooking the palpable void of omissions. Someone must have been saying, "Well, yes, but in spite of that darkness there is some light." On a strict accounting, that should not have been. The darkness should have been counted at its full measure. At some point "order" requires that the balance be drawn and that the deficiencies be given their due. At most other schools, this might have been routine and appropriately just. Yet at St. Jobn' s, it seems to me, the balance is accounted in another way. There is something like "an intervention of alternative possibilities" that breaks through the "iron" type of accounting. Like the Olympian gods who seem to cast their weight against the cosmic gods' inevitability. There is now my remembered indebtedness for all this. Whoever it was who made the accounting come out for me, was acting in accordance with something in the spirit of the school. The "on balance in favor" principle, and not the "on balance against" seems to be part of the living endowment of St. John's College. Incidentally, while in these remarks I am certainly speaking about the new program in particular, the reflections are also true about the old as well. This is because of the strong overlap of outstanding faculty from one program to the next. !remember thatnow, andreflect thatitmay be because the curriculum itself is informed by philosophic and not instrumental intentions. Philosophy requires, as much as possible, that one's eyes remain open. I later reflected that the root of the college's "accounting" of its students is perhaps its own open eyes. This was later connected with the thought that what St. John's provides is not so much learning, but the training to be able to learn. What we learned was more like a training in the habits of the soul which are needed for the learning which continues for a lifetime. That training seems to center around how to raise a question and to look at what is implied in the forming of a question. (And also, as we learned last night, in examining the quality of the answers.) We were given the training to respond, in a disciplined way, to the interconnections which every question points towards: Questions lead to answers, but answers also lead towards other questions. Not to be made mute, or not to be engulfed, baffled, and overcome by this interconnectedness appears to require at least three things; the St John's program makes provision for all of these. The first of the three has to do with the practice and exercise of those basic and even primordial arts or disciplines of the mind which inform and organize the way we think about anything. We identified these arts; they were more or less lifted out of our experience and brought to light. They were reflected upon and they were practiced-the classic comparison is what a body or sports trainer does when certain muscles are identified for special exercise and training in order to do well in a particular sport. Those exercises enable the body to do well what the sport requires. The practice of liberal arts enables the mind to do well in its endeavor. The second need is to have some sense of where your question is with respect to other kinds of questions; the questioner needs to know more or less clearly, "where in the world he and his questions are." Without some sense of the whole, of which he and his questions are parts, there is bound to be only a dry and fragmented inquiry, seemingly unnourished by anything beyond itself. It is like a fallen leaf-a severed part, no longer a part of a whole. The St. John's curriculum is always attempting to speak about the wholeness and unity of all questioning and of all learning, attempting to bring that wholeness into the beam of the eye. The third thing might be called the need for a thread oflove. There is an ancient story about a hero whose task it was to slay a terrible. monster. He could only slay the monster by penetrating a labyrinth of unbelievable complexity where the monster lived. Having found his way to the monster and having slain it, his way out of the labyrinth (now unguided by his former but now accomplished purpose) would be subject to a consuming and perhaps, the story suggests, an endless wandering in the labyrinth. But he was spared that outcome. He had been provided a wonderful thread by someone who lOved him, so that he could lay down the thread on his way into the labyrinth, and thus follow it to find his way out. I remember that this story was interpreted by Simon Kaplan, one of our beloved teachers, to be like the experience St. John's students have when confronting the monster of ignorance and the labyrinth of questions which students need to go into, and out of which we must come. We needed a thread. Part of the thread metaphor came about because the St. John's program, more than anything else in education that I know of, focuses on providing the opportunity for the experience of illumination that comes from understanding. Without undergoing that experience, the student cannot himself, from bis own self-originating resources, sustain the love of learning which such an experience provides. That is perhaps the most important element of love which is required. But there is another element which is provided by our living teachers, who are themselves in love with the quest for understanding, and who love that impulse in their students, however well or ill-prepared those students might be in a formal sense. The teachers labor also to provide the thread, because they love their students not only for what they are, but (to help them to be more fully), for what they might become. I want to conclude these remarks by going back to their beginning. Some of you might remember my story as like your own experience at St. John's. You might also reflect, as I have, that without the unique St. John's education, our lives would have been vastly different, and vastly less. Remember, then, to help this island of light in whatever way you can, as it attempts to sustain itself financially. Please join me now in saluting the true recipients of this award-our teachers and their thread of love, our school, and its living endowment. [The following transcription of Mrs. Kaplan's remarks at the dedication of a photographic portrait of her husband was made by her friends Joe and Sandy Cohen from a tape.] You honor today Mr. Kaplan as a man, as a teacher, and as a friend, and I am deeply touched and very, very grateful. Thirteen years ago after the death of Mr. Kaplan, in the memorial service, the friends and the alumni spoke very kindly and very affectionately about Mr. Kaplan, and that was a big source of consolation and support for me, comfort for me, in my grief at the time. Now you honor him again, a sign of giving and loving memory-great, big gift-and I think I don't know anything better than memory, living and loving memory, after living this life. Well, I thank you very, very much and I want to say a few words about the life, our life, on this campus in the first years of the campus. Fifty years ago, almost to the date, we came to Annapolis into this college. The year was 1942, half a century. The time was difficult; the war, the hardship of the war, the anxiety and the uncertainty about future. And we were new. The country was new to us, language new, customs, cultural life. We had quite different background Mr. Kaplan studied philosophy, and graduated from German university in Jena. I studied law, and graduated from Russian university in St. Petersburg. Our student time coincided with the time of first World War and of the beginning of the Russian Revolution. It was deep upheaval-political, social, culturalin our consciousness, almost cosmic. We stayed a few years in the new regime, communist regime in Russia, and left and started our emigrants' life, for more than a decade. We went to Germany, and Germany was at the time new democracy-Weimar Republic. And in short time, few years, Hitler, the Nazis came to power. The terrifying upheaval in Germany, and we could not stay. We left We went to Czechoslovakia. At that time it was new democracy, like now. We stayed there a short time, and thought about some permanent home, permanent stay, and left for Paris. We did not find permanent place there. In some few years again, the second World War started Anew in France big upheaval too. France was defeated, divided. We left Paris really on the eve of the German invasion. Germans came and occupied Paris. We were again travelling, to the unoccupied part of France. And then started journey through Spain, Fascist Spain of Franco, through semi-Fascist country, Portugal. Crossed ocean and landed in New York, and in short time, on this campus, in this College. And found, not a new upheaval, but New Program, program of this College. Now, the Program was message and challenge. Message of, so to say, manifesto of celebration of liberal arts. And the challenge was how to find the ways of rooting this program in education. And the feeling was of big importance of that, of mission, the feeling of kind of devotion to that. And the Program was by no means yet settled; it was in movement, everything. But excitement, involvement was big. Now, the College was small. It was a hard time. It was not clear even about the existence of the College. It bung in the air. And very soon after we came, most of the students left the campus. They were drafted. And I very vividly remember this day when the faculty, the students, the staff, all gathered in Great Hall in McDowell, to say goodbye to these parting students. It was moving, and very sad day. And after that the campus was almost empty. Few dozens of students, young, under the age of the draft And some tutors left to work with government. The College, as I say, was small. But very alive, very, very involved Big excitement. And the center of that excitement was-and all the old students remember-the center of this excitement was the Dean, Mr. Buchanan. He was the eye of this intellectual storm on the campus. He had a very big talent for provocative thinking. He inspired the students .. The students listened, involved. And all over the College were discussions-in classes, in bookstore, in the coffee shop. And I do remember somehow that, in discussions, when Mr. Buchanan would speak, and the students would respond, lively dialogue started And very soon the topic, the point of departure, would be forgotten, and lost far, far away. And, after certain time, Mr. Klein would tum to some student and say, "You meant to say that?" And the student eagerly agreed, but he didn't mean "that." He was in the dark. And Mr. Klein, with bis wonderful, clear, and precise manner of speaking, would return the discussion back on the right path. One could hear lively discussion on the seven liberal arts-the trivium and quadrivium, or more vague talk on scholastic notions of first and second intentions; and Plato's dialogues were the favorite topics. So here the first few years !remember as the years of excitement, very much intellectual involvement, with students feeling certain pride in the Program. They were, maybe the first time, injected by intellectual thoughts. And-I said before that we were new. But it was not completely so. We have the books. Some of the books, certainly, we knewwell. The learning was our way of life. Discussions-Russians love discussion. (My friends know that.) And so, pretty soon new friends, and old friend, dear friend, Mr. Klein, would gather in our home Fridays, after the lecture, late, after 12 o'clock. And sitting around the table, with cup of tea, would converse. And our old experience, and our new experience, and the books, and events in the war, everything would be interwoven in this conversation. And we started pretty soon to feel at home on this campus. We found new spiritual home. And our wandering stopped. Here, on this campus. And now, in reMr. m em b erin g Kaplan and Mr. Scofield-who were very good friends, and I am very happy that it happens in the same day that the College honors both of them-so, in some indirect way, you honor this College, this little campus, this New Program, your alma mater. And I am happy to be present today. And thank you very, very much. �if you will, a small middle Atlantic college, with green lawns stretching away from a gracious and commodious colonial mansion (topped with a cupola), to a yew verge, and on the concrete benches of the quadrangle behind this the disputatious young, determined forefingers holding places in thick paper texts. Imagine, if you will, on this campus a faculty made up of the likes of Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Billie Holliday. "I was delighted to see that we were conservatory," says Dean running a Brann. No, no, no. We all know who the Great Teachers are at St. John's College. In A Method of Scheduling, however, the manual used to assign September classes at Annapolis-otherwise a model of lucidity and sober restraint-the names used in examples are a roster of 20th century jazz musicians. Devin will have his little joke. It was Devin, A'93, a summer assistant in the office since his freshman year, who wrote out the new scl1ted.1llln1g system for Annapolis Registrar Nancy Lewis last winter. Elsewhere, computers, acting on programs which can do the job unchanged for years, scatter students into classrooms across vast campuses. For St. John's, with its one-size-fits-all curriculum, long meetings and short meetings, core groups, a faculty which teaches across the program, student laboratory assistants who must be scheduled for jobs and classes, too, tutors who live in Washington and Baltimore and don't want to teach Monday morning or Thursday afternoon, tutors who have to watch the kids for two hours on Wednesday or be free for a Tuesday morning faculty study group on Leibniz-for such variables as these, Devin and the registrar's office have designed "a giant system of simultaneous equations." "Essentially we have to find a solution to a problem with many, many variables feeding back into it," Devin says. (Not surprisingly, this junior lab assistant, a wizard with numbers-as well as a prose stylist-looks ahead to a doctorate in mathematics "with a view to teaching.") Right now the "equations" are simply •u"''F.-'-'""'' sort out their "how Keith Harvey photo metaphors, and the process laid out is designed to inject heart and brains and judgment into the business of placing classroom, students, and faculty in workable combinations. It shows not only how to avoid scheduling multiple classes simultaneously in the same place, but also how to avoid putting the same tutors and students together too often and thus driving them into a frenzy (this, however, is unstated)-these are a few of the issues. Called by Mrs. Lewis the "A.M./P.M." split, the system is based on laboratories in the morning and tutorials in the afternoon or the reverse for the students in each half of any given class. The manual tells how to do it. It isn't easy. To go back a little way, for many years Assistant Dean Barbara Leonard, working "a from a magic scheme of her own, scheduled every class. When she retired in 1987, Registrar Nancy Lewis inherited the scheduling task. Because Miss Leonard's system was based on a secret and flawless filing system in her head, she naturally couldn't explain it, and Mrs. Lewis had to turn elsewhere for guidance. At Santa Fe, theNeidorf System, namedforlate beloved Dean Robert Neidorf, seemed to do the job well for registrar Diane Trudell, and Mrs. Lewis began to use it. Painful modifications were necessary, however. "Because of all the criteria on this campus, because of all the study groups, and so forth, we had to reinvent the wheel every year," says Mrs. Lewis. For several years they carried on, lamenting each compromise as they followed what like a giant system of simultaneous equations.'' "How to move Mobs: the Orator at Rome" was the title of Jasper Griffin's talk in September at Annapolis. A Fellow and Tutor at Balliol College, Oxford, Mr. Griffin was the first visitor under provisions of the Andrew Steiner Visiting Scholar Program, established to honor the 1963 alumnus who died last year in an automobile accident. J'dl.UU\nc::. Mr. Griffin shows to move mobs." Tutor Walter e::::ti:11irHnn a member of the Vic:itii1M1n Scholar Committee and An111a1>0111s Dean Eva have a word with the visitor. At far chairman of Visiting Scholar program. Keith Harvey photos Devin calls the "somewhat se,.,,,.,,,,..,,,,,, in "When a crisis ocwe made an ad hoc decision." Most often the casualty of scheduling difficulties was the "core group"-3-6 students assigned the same schedule for an academic year. (Besides its scheduling utility, the core group is a nice feature of college life, Devin says. "It is good to have several other people who know exactly what your situation is.") Additionally, the management of multiple variables occasionally resulted in badly unbalanced schedules for some students. Everyone remembers a lot of laughter as well as cries of frustration during the seasonal scheduling tasks. In any case, when Annapolis Tutor Dorothy Guyot walked into the Registrar's office 18 months ago and saw the scheduling chart with its columns of time and space stretching off in two directions, she paused. Mrs. Guyot was "into logic," Devin explains, and she saw the key elements here. She may have said, "Hmmm," before suggesting the A.M./P.M. method, which she had seen in action at another institution. Mrs. Lewis and her assistant were a receptive audience. "It was a point of pride for us to design a schedule that would be pedagogically the best we could have and at the same time, to keep in mind the tutors' special needs," says Mrs. Lewis. After more sessions among Guyot, Lewis, and Rushing, the A.M./P.M. split was agreed upon. In the fall of 1991, the Registrar's office, with the help of handwritten notes and verbal instructions, began to use the system; it was also clear that the whole plan needed to be laid out in some systematic way. When an unexpected source of funds came to Nancy Lewis, she invited Devin to put these notes into manageable order. He agreed to devote time to it over Christmas break, and he did so. In two weeks, he wrote up the manual. Here is some of what is presented in the 43 pages and the eight-page appendix: A list of definitions. (Sample: Classroom-period. Classroom-period is a scheduling unit consisting one classroom and one short period [e.g. a sophomore music tutorial requires four classroom-periods per week]); 21 rules, the first 11 of which "are not violated." (Sample: "Each mathematics and language class has three short meetings per week."); rules 12-21 which, in extremis, MAY be violated. (Sample: "Classes should not be scheduled Friday 2:20."); tools for the massive operation, including tutor slates (aha, the jazz musicians. Pat Metheny is paired with Bix Beiderbecke teaching sophomore seminar); sample cards for individual tutors (Dizzy Gillespie lists as first choice "Wed. free"); track sheets assigning to classes the core groups defined above; track pages, and the esoteria of Complementarity Charts for making sure lab and music assistants get to any other classes at all-a variable that is explored without passion over most of the next nine pages until-whew !-we reach Custom Scheduling, an extremity involving 14 hypothetical figures and a final concession: "If the task of finding a schedule for a certain assistant becomes too monstrous, then it may be possible to allow the assisted class to overlap with one of the assistant's." On the final pages, we find charts with Duke Ellington and Miles Davis and Art Tatum and Keith Jarrett in a perfect crescendo of scholarly activity. A couple of years ago, during the year after Devin had opted out of Florida's New College with its "overwhelming freedom," and before he had stumbled on St John's in the library (while putting together his own Great Books list), he spent a good bit of time on his musical interests, taking private jazz guitar lessons. (Today he studies classical guitar.) Besides music, in that interim year there was pool, a deviant subculture that continues to fascinate Devin, its operation in (Continued on page 18) �THE Ylfumni 'F-ast & West (Continued from page five) 1978 Dear Alumni: Not long ago an alumnus, Dr. Dale Mortimer, who has spent 17 remarkable away from came to visit me. talk, and before had a he said that he wouldn't have to look in if I ......... ,.,._,..,,.. alumni to do just that. He said I repeat invitationinTheReportereveryyear. I'm doing just that: You will be warmly welcomed and your stories will be eagerly heard. Sincerely, Eva T. H. Brann, Annapolis Dean AIDS and The Reporter To the Editor: This is in response to David Woolwine's letter (The Reporter 6/92). As a bisexual man with many gay and bisexual friends, the AIDS epidemic has certainly affected my life to a very large degree. However, having said that, I'm not certain I agree with Mr. Woolwine's position vis-a-vis AIDS and The Reporter. Though I must admit I can't recall ever having seen AIDS discussed or mentioned in The Reporter, I feel that this is largely due to the nature of the paper as a whole. Unless an alumnus was hired in an AIDS-related position and reported it to the Alumni Notes, or an alumnus had done AIDS research that was either newsworthy or of scientific interest to the St. John's Community, I'm not certain how the would be sented within The unless it was part of That is not to say that it shouldn't be. for three years as a volunteer for the Sacramento AIDS both as facilitator for sex raps on the streets, encourage people to attend a The Project has been extrerrielv suc;ce;ssf11Jl in almost city where to lower HIV con.s1d~~rably in both gay and bisexual communities, raising the consciousness of the participants and encouraging active involvement in the fight against AIDS. As the epidemic veers towards the heterosexual population, hopefully Stop AIDS Projects will be developed to address this population as well. A Stop AIDS meeting, (a one time only commitment with no fee involved), offers an opportunity to: 1) clarify your thoughts and feelings about AIDS and the impact of the epidemic in your life, 2) learn how others have adapted to the epidemic and share your experiences for the benefit of others, 3) understand how AIDS is transmitted, 4) share your feelings and concerns about safe and unsafe sex, 5) examine lifestyle changes talcing place-changes in sexual practices, alcohol and drug usage, relationships, and all other areas of life, 6) inform yourself about AIDS prevention activities and opportunities and learn how you might participate in them, 7) state your views about community AIDS prevention needs, 8) commit yourself personally to practicing safe sex and encouraging others to do the same. While I attended St. John's I was happy to see that condoms were being distributed freely at the Health Center as a means of assisting in promoting safer sex; however, that is only a beginning. Positive, healthy sexuality does not develop in a vacuum, it needs both nurturing and validation, a lifetime quest. Dialogue must ensue, frank and explicit discussion must be encouraged, if we are to spread the facts rather than the virus. Sincerely, Tobias Maxwell A'88 Marvin Matthews (SF) has put out a new gospel album with the "same great voice and boundless enthusiasm his friends remember," writes Robert E. DiSilverio, "Can someone get this great talent a Mr. Ertegun?" Address: Marvin Mathews Ministries, PO Box 210064, Bedford, TX 760957064. in the election For news of Mark reports the recent .1."'" at the American Jv11uu. Mozambique, Tim Born (A'76), and herself. Lucy was economic/commercial officer at the Embassy from 1990-92, and the Borns, still there, are with the Agency for International Development. 1979 After graduation, Jeff McEJroy, (SF), got his law degree at UNM Law School and practiced law in various capacities in New Mexico. He helped form the New Mexico AIDS Services, and was its president for a time, and then served as Director of Development for the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center. Currently, he lives with his partner of three years, Enrique Noguera, an architect, and has a solo law practice in Hollywood. The two have renovated four houses and an office. They are also involved in Enrique's family business and spend a portion of each year in Caracas, Venezuela. Jeff is active in working towards gay and lesbian civil rights, working to bring the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference to Los Angeles in November. He, Enrique, and their "delightful dog Pecos" would like to hear from old classmates. 1320 Cherokee Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90028. theory." At present she is working on a curriculum for 5th and 6th graders on "Diversity and Communication,"which will allow inner city and suburban schools, hearing and deaf students to correspond via fax, email, and TDD (telephone devices for the deaf). We even ask, how does the telephone work, and uncover the electromagnetic principles behind it. Thank God lab." She has an eight-year-old in math, was the birth of Francis husband Kenneth son, and Thalia, 7, moved from the Cincinnati Annapolis campus in area and would love to hear from any Johnnies. 454 Foote Ave., Bellevue, KY 41073. Rae (A) has a busy, active law practice specializing in environmental/land-use law and general litigation. "The farm in Virginia is thriving and teeming with cattle, sheep, horses, dogs and Sicilian donkeys. The welcome mat is always out to St. Johnnies." After a few years as a graduate student in applied mathematics at SUNY Stony Brook, Michael Fried (A) decided "not to become a mathematician but a farmer." He came to Israel in 1985, arriving finally in Kibbutz Revivim in the Negev Desert. Although he wanted to pick fruit and plant trees, the "kibbutz really needed amath teacher; thus I became amath teacher." Next year he will begin studies in the history of mathematics at the University of Tel Aviv. "I have a wonderful wife, Yifat, and a wonderful son Matan, 2." amination is his chief occupation" with questions from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. "Interesting to think that it's only 14 years until he may be at St. John's."His baby sister is seven months old. "Leslie Smith (A) and Nathan Rosen got married in the Great Hall and ever after," says Leslie. Some that life include two master's '"""'"'·"~,,...., (Nathan's in theater and Leslie's in education), several foreign (England, Greece, Israel), countless two houses, the School of Leslie heads, and the AncomJ>any Theatre, which Nathan drama and AP. Enseciondlary school. And three children, 8, Al5, "(See the Homecomroundup for some Rosen pictures. Stein (A) and Laura Trent (A'81), who work for the Department of Defense, live in Columbia, Maryland, with threey ear-old Solomon. David writes that Solomon's best friends are Erick Heyssel, son of Tisha McLaughlin Heyssel (A) and Jim Heyssel (A'84), and Daniel Koolbeck, son of Beth Lohe Koolbeck (A'84). David is a mathematical statistician and Laura is a research librarian working towards an MLS at U-MD. "Laura reads from the Torah at our synagogue, while I do the occasional Haftorah and sing in the choir. On the whole I am finding the unexamined life not only worth living, but a whole lot of fun." Lori Lindsay Quievryn (A) moved with her husband to North Carolina in 1988. They "have since fallen into the happy pattern of American life: house, jobs, children." Timmy is two, and the second child was due in late October. Lou is a CPA and Lori has a consulting business (PC programming and troubleshooting) that "gets me out and about." 1980 of Honolulu was maron August 31. The couple "Progress on disCo.mp.aralt1ve Philosophy is she writes. 1982 sources, tor of reference services at Archives. For recreation, she has carnmug11ed novice and level horses in horse throughout the region, sailed extensively, and has caught game fish from "chilly Long Island Sound to the shallow flats of Belize." She begins study towards her MLS next year, and she and her plan to combine riding and fishing packing into Yellowstone on horseback in pursuit of cut throat trout in "pristine streams." Jonathan (A) and Marion Betor Baum(A) are the proud parents of Martha, 4, and Peter, 1. Jon works as a computer/programmer analyst for the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board. Marion is working part-time as a personnel specialist for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. All friends in the area are invited to drop by 10 Lathrop Ave., River Forest, IL 60305; 708-771-2015. Scott Buchanan (A) is finishing a doctorate in marriage and family therapy at Seton Hall University while his wife Kay is finishing a master's degree in the same field at LaSalle University where he has just begun teaching. "Tracking family myths and meanings has proven a challenging dialectic. I can't imagine a better preparation for this work than St. John's," he writes. Chris Butler (A) is in the throes of writing his dissertation in clinical psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit. He is also working in an inner-city psychiatric hospital, mainly with children born crack-addicted. He is counting on Mark and Stephanie Moore Fuller to fill him in on reunion news. "Any other Johnnies in the northern midwest?" he asks.He is atthe Department of Psychology, 71 W. Warren, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI48202. Liz Colmant (A) declares that despite an occasional suit and tie outing to corporate headquarters, most days she dons jeans and digs through the dust in the warehouse of the AT&T Archives. "The collection is greatThomas Watson's notebook on the invention of the telephone, papers of Clinton J. Davisson, the original work that confinned the Big Bang Michael son Matan. title of No Pink 11 years toa union" ceremony 12th anniversary. is a doctoral student in composition at Indiana University; the music department sent one of her pieces to the Midwest Composers Symposium to be held in November at Oberlin. She and her husband Carlos Fernandez are the core of a Latin American music group which recently held a benefit concert for a school project in Cuscatlan, El Salvador. "It would be great to hear from some of you!" 115 Tulip Tree House, Bloomington, IN 47406. After six years of working for Open Door as an outpatient chemical dependency counselor, Therissa Libby (A) decided to move to Santa Fe, which she finds a beautiful, peaceful place. She is doing some counseling, training, writing professional materials, and preparing for graduate school. After graduation, Lucy Oppenheim (A) travelled and worked in restaurants, until she landed at The Publick Enterprise in Annapolis where she got "a liberal arts education in newspapering." Subsequently, freelance writing gradually evolved into freelence editing, which she relies on "to market and bill for me." A member of the peace and anti-nuclear group SANE/Freeze, she is "urging the local chapter to combat racism in ourselves and our community." Lucy and her longtime companion Jim Bradford are involved in the peer counseling program Re-evaluation Co-counseling, and she is a member of the Women's National Book Association. How did the 10 years slip by so fast? asks Cathy Randall (A). Her first five years, she writes, were spent establishing a career in investment banking, first at Legg Mason, and then at Alex Brown, where, since 1991, she has been coordinator of the Philadelphia branch. The second five years were spent maintaining that career after marriage and two kids. "We do try to live the Examined Life, and I can see satisfying results in my four-year-old boy. Ex- Louis and 1983 Jeanne Connors Szebeni (A) is headed for Budapest with her husband Janos, who will be doing research in hematology. Jeanne will be teaching English when she is not tending her son Zoltan, eight months. 1984 David Kidd (A) writes: "Adrian T:ravisan (A) married Anne Lester in a ceremony in the Great Hall on August 8. The readings included excerpts from Plato's Symposium in true Johnnie fashion. They are living in Milan, Italy, and would love to hear from you. Please write or phone: via Cino da Pistoia #9, Milano 20162, ITALY; 011-39-2-6610-3664. 1985 Linda Sullivan (SF) had an award-winning year of scriptwriting, with her southwestern thriller Borderlinewinning competitions sponsored by Writer's Digest, The Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum and the Freelance Screenwriters Forum; it also was a finalist in the America's Best competition and was designated in the top seven percent of applicants for the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship. The screenplay is under consideration by several producers. An environmental video she wrote for a corporate sponsor won a 1991 Bronze Telly Award. Linda lives in Washington, DC, with husband Peter Shea and dog Diva and she is currently writing a screenplay about a serial (Continued on page 17) �THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1992 PAGE17 GI News (Continuedfrompageftve) J21fumni 'East & 'West (Continued from page 16) killer who stalks fledgling lawyers. 1986 Ronald Landor (SGl'85) writes to correct the editor's use of the word "graduate" to describe his eight family members. Three of his family are graduates, while eight of his family are alumni, including himself, or "in the case of my daughter Amiel, a returning senior" to Santa Fe this year. Larry O'Flavahavan (A) was one of 28 successful applicants-out of more than 500-to be selected for the directors' school of the American Film Institute recently. 1987 Julia Mobayed-Dray (A) and her husband Paul, who live in Arnold, MD announce the birth of a son Robert Lewis on August 10. On August 15, Brother Christopher Hanson (SF) made his Solemn Profession as he joined the monastic community of the Abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Louis. 1988 Greg Ferguson (A) writes from London that he is working on his master's degree at King's College there. 1989 Campaign literature for Raymond Diaz Aragon (SF), a Republican candidate for Congress in Colorado District One-presently held by Rep. Patricia Schroeder-announces that he will "contradict the Money Myth" by restraining both campaign receipts and expenditure "well below" $5,000. Brett Heavner (A) was graduated from Duke University law school in May with a J.D. and an L.L.M. in international law. He recently began work as an associate with the Washington, DC firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan. First Lt. Jeff Kojac (A) is currently officer-in-charge of a Marine detachment in Korea after serving as a Squadron Operations officer on Okinawa. He reports having visited Edith Updike (A'86) and James Kennelly (A '89) in Tokyo. "They are both doing outstandingly," he writes. 1990 Kevin Michael Graham and Deirdre Anais Routt (A'91) married August 15 in Trenton, Ohio. Kevin is doing graduate work in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. George Turner is a first-year law student at Boalt Hall of the University of California. 1991 James Maliszewski (A) reports himself alive and well and attending graduate school at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto. "I am very much interested in getting back in touch with my classmates. "His address: Pontificalinstituteof Mediaeval Studies (PlMS), 59 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C4, CANADA. 1992 Mark Parenti (AGI) is organizer and executive director of the school reform group Maryland Save Our Schools. In September the Annapolis-based group launched a statewide campaign for elected school boards. Almost half of the counties in Maryland elect their own school boards and nationwide the number is 93%, according to Mr. Parenti. His group also plans to lobby the state legislature for public school choice, a proposal that would allow parents to send their children to any public school in the county. A graduate of UMBC, Mr. Parenti sees his graduate study at St. John's as preparation for the grassroots organization he has launched that has him speaking to service clubs, PTA groups and community associations. His St. John's reading has given him an idea of the problems and advantages of democracy he says. And, he says, he has learned to "talk and listen." John Povejsil (A) is living in Minneapolis with his wife Sue Campbell where he is a law student at Hamline University and she "has a real life" working for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Joan Becker (AGI) and Thomas Knocke became parents of a beautiful baby girl, Catherine Ann, at 6:07 a.m. October 23. Joan writes that she remembers "with great fondness this summer in Annapolis, spent with so many kind and fun-loving people." D RONALIE A. MOSS, '89-'91. Ronalie is currently a teacher living in Los Alamos, New Mexico. TOM MURPHY, '84-'87. Tom is a Carmelite brother and teaches English at Joliet Catholic Academy. MARY J.NA VRATIL, '67, '68, '70-'71. Mary is doing research in the field of mathematics and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. CORREEN M. NAJJAR, '68-'70. Correen is a retired teacher and has also been a medical technician. She lives in Santa Fe. MARLENE NORDSTROM, '83-'86. Marlene has been a photographer/journalist but is now aMelaleucaMarketing Executive living in Phoenix. LOUIS PAULS, '85-'86. Louis was living in Austin, Texas and working in the film industry, but recently moved to Mexico. JOSEPH S. PLUCHINOTTA, '71- '74. After leaving St. John's, Joseph went on to earn a Ph.D. in Education Administration from the University of New Mexico. He is now Director of Education and Marketing with an organization in Virginia, providing technical assistance and training to American Indian tribes throughout the country. PAT PREIB, '83- '84. Pat is a teacher in Santa Fe. GREGORY H. RHOADES, Summer '88, Spring/Summer '89. Gregory is currently a literature instructor at Comish College of the Arts in Seattle, and is also an active member of that city's alumni chapter. MARA ROBINSON, '82-'83. At one time Mara had a small career as an opera singer and as an opera producer. She now spends most of her time shuttling between Venice and Santa Fe. SANDRA N. ROBINSON, '71, '73, and '74. After St. John's, Sandra went on to receive an M.S. in Library Science from Catholic University of America in 1977, and is now a Library Media Specialist with the D.C. public schools. She is a Past President of the D.C. Association of School Librarians. KATHY RUFFALO, '85, '86, '87, '90. Kathy has attended the University of Illinois and Loyola University for courses in Curriculum and Administration/Supervision. She is currently a teacher. MARGARETINEZSANSOM, '71, '72, '74. After leaving St. John's, Margaret went on to receive an NEH grant at Columbia to study racial and ethnic history of the U.S; took self-esteem training with Jack Canfield; had eight weeks of watercolor, oil painting, drawing, sculpture, and ceramics at Southern Oregon State, Ashland, last summer. Margaret received a "Who's Who in Business Education" award from the State of California in 1991. WILLIAM C. SCHAAB, '84-'86. During the years from 1968-70 William was a special Blue Lake attorney for Taos Pueblo. Since 1970 he has been general counsel. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. MARY E. SCHRUBEN, '83-'88 (variously). In the past Mary has been in concert management and textile restoration. She is currently a Systems Analyst for New Mexico Human Services Department. COLIN SHEPPARD, '86 (Summer-Annapolis/Fall-Santa Fe); '87 (Spring & Summer-Santa Fe). Colin has taught at a community college, worked in a bookstore, and been a research assistant at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Colin is engaged to be married and is currently a graduate student. He has taken graduate courses at the U niversity of Michigan, the University of Virginia, and the University of Florida. JOHNW. SHOMAKER, '81-'84. John received an M.Sc. in Hydrogeology in 1985 from the University of Birmingham (England), and is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program there. He is a consulting hydro geologist. MARY TRACY SIGMAN, '85-'87 (Summers). Mary is a teacher living in Arlington Heights, Illinois. LOUIS SISNEROS, graduated in 1988. After 10 years teaching English at Colombine High School (in a suburb of Denver), Louis will be transferring to a high school in Evergreen, Colorado. He will continue to teach journalism, composition, American Lit, etc. In the summer of '90, he studied Dante's Commedia in an NEH Summer Seminar for Teachers at University of Vermont. In the summer of '91 he acquired a child - his 9-year-old hyperactive(!) nephew. MICHAEL C. SLOTA, '84-'86. Michael has been an officer in the U.S. Air Force and does volunteer work for civic organizations, a credit union, and New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities. He is currently an officer for an electric/gas/water utility. CLAUDIA SMITH-PORTER, SGI '82. Still lives in Santa Fe and is working as a technical writer documenting software. Her education is continued on a daily basis by her 9-year-old daughter. JOHN M. SOMMER, Summer of '87; Calendar year '89. John has retired from the insurance business and is the founder of Vail Valley Institute in Vail, Colorado. LINDA STABLER-TALTY/PETER J. TALTY, '74-'76 +preceptorials; '76- '82 + preceptorials - Linda and Peter are living in New York City. Linda has subsequently received her Master's in Environmental Design from Yale, and Peter has his in Architecture from the University of Virginia. They went for one summer to Sicily to work on an archeological dig and the summer extended into a year. Alexandra was born in 1988. GAIL DONOHUE STOREY, '79-'82. Gail received. an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Houston in 1982, where she currently lives. She is a writer and her novel, The Lord's Motel, will be published in the fall by Persea Books. DAVID R. TRUOG, Summer of '86A, Summer/Fall of '89SF, Spring '90 SF. David tells us that he is currently living in Paris, France, where he is a consultant and software developer, and is thinking about going back to school. MARION MEGAN TYNDALL, '72, '74, '75. Megan spent a month touring England with an Irish cousin whom she found to be quite mad! She is a part-time college English teacher and lives in Annapolis. DEBBIE M. VAN RYN, '87-'88, Sept.May; '88-'89. Debbie is a teacher in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and says that the most challenging class has been 10th grade geometry - trying to teach it true to Euclid while still meeting school requirements! JIM VON RIESEMANN, '89-'90. Jim is currently a graduate student in the MBA program at Emory University. He says he is a "perma- student." JOHN WATKINS, '76-'77, '81-'82. John is a Ph.D. candidate and also a pilot and farmer. He lives in Arkansas. TONI WILKINSON, '83-'87. Toni moved from Santa Fe to San Francisco and works as an Administrator at the University of California. ANN M. YECK, '71-'73, '75, '76. Ann went on a trip to China in 1983, and in 1990 she went to Phoenix to see olympic ice skaters, including Brian Boitano. She has taken classes for teachers at UNM. MARTHA W. YOUNG, '82-'84. Martha earned a Ph.D. even before she came to St. John's. She was an NEH scholar in Ancient Greek at the University of Texas, Austin in 1986, and is now an Associate Professor/ English and ESL Education at UNLV.D �1U11~n'!:IA•f'llCll" of Historic Inns of Asso1cia1te Director of Career & life Anna1oolis tutor Abe Schoener. campus break/ast, business meets academia at Boathouse By DONNA BOETIG On a warm Monday in September, 16 business leaders from the Annapolis area put aside their concerns about dwindling profits and a lackluster economy and came to St. John's College for the First Annual Small Business/Higher Education Breakfast. Representatives from nearly a dozen Maryland colleges-from Towson State to St. Mary's College--conversed with leaders of businesses from high technology to housecleaning. What ensued over breakfast at the Boat House was the promise of a lasting, mutually beneficial relationship between the two groups: opportunities for college students to network and explore careers through internships, co-ops, and part-time work, and for businesses to have access to potential fulltime employees whose skills and competence they know. The seminar, highlighting the mutually advantageous relationship between colleges and the small businesses, was the brainchild of St. John's Placement Director Barbara Altman. Ms. Altman believed that St. John's graduates-articulate, independent thinkers with analytic skills-were "a comfortable fit with small businesses. Our students are capable of assuming a wide variety of responsibilities, such as they'd have working in a small business." And since the majority of job openings are in this sector, she believed the two should get acquainted. Dean Eva T.H. Brann agreed: "There is a natural alliance between small businesses and small colleges," she told the group. "You need people who can do many things and meet all contingencies. We try to teach our students to be ready to learn and do anything ...You rely on personal resourcefulness and inventiveness. We have tried to give our students opportunity to use their imagination and their ingenuity." Even in a college like St. John's where learning takes precedence over career-training, "the recession has created an underlying anxiety among some students," Ms. Altman said. "Graduate school is becoming more competitive and funding has tightened." Seeing the number of small businesses interested in hiring college students boosts their morale. Johnnies have participated in numerous internships, including ones in the state legislature, and in both the state Democratic and Republican parties. Ms. Altman sees more opportunities generated by the business breakfast; it's a matter of spreading the word "Employers give us good feedback," she said "They tell us, 'We love your students.' "The bottom line for businesses is the for the remarkable manual, but for the sturesomrcetulirress, his and uui.u.uuv. Devin is made uneasy such reflectively at his book with its cast of star-studded musicmakers, he notes that there is a whole body of applied mathematics, operations research and linear programming, that could be addressed to such scheduling problems as St. John's. This knowledge lies several years ahead of him, however. At some future date, no doubt, the present manual with its whimiscal charm will be transformed into columns of numbers. George (Continued from page one) Guest speaker Leonard Blackshear. Barbara Altman, Placement Director. ability to call a college one day and have a competent worker the next," she said. Leonard Blackshear, guest speaker and President and Founder of Associated Enterprises, an Annapolis-based telecommunications and business consulting firm, compared a small business to a work of art, and the canvas on which the business artist works is the economy. "While traditional artists seek applause and critical acclaim to tell how well they're doing, the entrepreneur artist keeps score by seeing how much revenue his business generates. "While control of creativity limits the ability of the traditional artist to contribute to our society, excess regulation of business limits that artist from making a contribution to our society which we normally know as jobs, contributions to local community activities, and taxes." Robert A. Nicholls, an official from the federal Small Business Association, said his clients often don't have time for breaking in new employees. Small entrepreneurs are balancing on a see-saw, he explained. Then someone else wants to climb on board. Given this stress, business owners want to hire employees who will fit in quickly. Getting acquainted beforehand serves both parties well. Interested in computers, St. John's sophomore Chad Cranfill, found the morning informative and was impressed by the account of a Johnnie who began as a file clerk and worked himself up to manager. Future lawyer, sophomore Sebastian Ganson, appreciated the seminar because "it's important to know what it is like in the business world today. These men and women showed me that you have the ability to succeed if you try hard enough." the Republican party offer the American people.... " Putting words in the mouth of one the most powerful men in the world is nothing new to this member of the Republican National Committee. In this case, Mr. Bush picked up the passages that Mr. George had written for a reception at the Reagan Library last July. On other occasions, the President has repeated Mr. George's writings on other topics. Still, Mr. George admits to "floating around the Astro-Dome" for a couple days after the President's speech. Since 1988, this Johnnie has been supervising communications between the Republic ans and a very special group of constituents, the Eagles. These supporters, of whom there are several thousand, have contributed $15,000 or more to the campaign and understandably need to be kept informed. It is Mr. George's job, through newsletters, brochures and solicitation letters, to convince these local leaders of their importance to the party. He even oversees such minutia as ensuring that banquet guests receive photos of themselves hobnobbing with senators, cabinet members, and other top-ranking Republicans. With three weeks left to Election Dayand the President down 10 points in the polls-the tempo at the Republican National Committee quickened. For Mr. George there was always one more letter to write. "We're feeling the pressure to get the point across (to the Eagles) as frequently and pointedly as possible that we 're depending on them to get the information out into the communities across the country," he says. "We're riding a wave of emotion. One day things look bleak; then the next morning someone comes in and says, 'Didn't our candidate look good last night?' Obviously we'd rather be ahead than behind, but still Truman came from behind and squeezed out a one-two point victory, and Ford almost pulled it off." A self-described "political junkie," Mr. George admits to having been a Democrat until he began questioning their policies in the 1980s. Sensing his dissatisfaction, a fellow Annapolitan invited him to New Orleans to attend the Republican convention. "At that time certain things were disagreeable to me with the Republican party, but I felt the Republicans offered more room and intellectual freedom to work in." Although Mr. George has resolved any doubts he's had with the party, his close friends remain staunch Democrats. "It makes for some pretty lively discussions," says he. is msuv1::ralble over 3," says Mr. Hired as Research Director the Democratic National Committee in 1988, he two years up files and data in a massive research deto DNC Chairman Ron election of a Democratic Two years ago, Mr. Steitz wasnamedDNCCommunicationsDirector. As such, "I.signed on for Clinton the minute he became the nominee." During the season of primaries, DNC efforts went into high gear. Mr. Steitz was a frequent spokesman as the party platform neared completion, commenting on one occasion that Democrats have "transcended the old left-right divisions with a new synthesis" blending in the platform common sense from both sides of the political spectrum (New York Times, June 26, 1992). In the design and structure of the Democratic Convention, he provided high tech coordination of images and themes-"what gets shown on video on the walls, for example, what the convention should say to people." At the convention's close, jubilant Democrats seemed to think their time was at hand. Next came the Republican convention in Houston, and Mr. Steitz, along with a team of 20 Democratic campaign workers, was there "to help present [the Democratic] case." The Washington Post ("Democrats in Enemy Territory," August 21, 1992) called them "wise-cracking dissidents who have been dispatched here by the Democrats to dispute and deflect nearly every assertion or charge issued from the GOP podium." The team goal was immediate response, says Mr. Steitz, and the blizzard of faxes was so timely that when they had advance texts of speeches, according to Mr. Steitz, "we sometimes got our response out before a speech was delivered." Citing "the level of intolerance and fearmongering," in Houston, Mr. Steitz found the GOP convention frightening, he says. The quick-response strategy was designed to help viewers assess what he calls "an extremist position." Sounding much like his candidate-or maybe the candidate sounds like Mr. Steitz-he says he is "encouraged by the notion that people are ready to move .~or­ ward, and are ready to tum a new page. Before joining the DNC, he was at separate times an issues advisor to both Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, travelling with each on the campaign trail. At age 31, he was in the inner circle of Jackson advisors, identified as the one who persuaded Jackson to reduce his planned 25% cut in defense spending to a more reasonable 10%, and the one who helped move the candidate towards congressionally acceptable revenue-raising strategies (Time, April 11, 1988). Earlier still, armed with a master's degree in economics from Yale, he worked at the Congressional Budget Office, where at age 25 he received the Director's Award for Outstanding Service. Volunteers for Perot Joan Vinson Stallings, AGI'81, a member of the Board of the Friends of St. John's, led the effort in Maryland to put Ross Perot's name on the presidential ballot in November and was later state chairman of the Volunteers for Perot. Mrs. Stallings first met Mr. Perot in 1969 when he was organizing missions to Vietnam to look for missing Americans, including her missing husband, Col. Bobby Vinson, later declared dead. �marketing manager Chauncey Brooks, Jr., A '37, retired marketing manager with TRACOR Inc., an electronics and communications research and development firm, died of heart ailments at the Johns Hopkins medical center in March. Born in Baltimore, Mr. Brooks attended St. John's College and received his degree from the University of Georgia. During World War II, he was awarded the Purple Heart and a residential Unit Citation. After the war, Mr. Brooks was in business in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, before settling in Washington in 1955 to work for Reed Research and the National Small Businessmen's Association. He joined TRACOR in Florida in 1963, and was transferred to the company's Washington office in 1966. He retired in 1976. Since the mid-80' s, he has lived in Queenstown, Maryland. Survivors include his wife Kathleen Vinup Brooks, three children, Frederick V. Brooks of Chicago, Belle Brooks O'Brien of Washington, DC, Chauncey Brooks ill of Annapolis, and seven grandchildren. A. M. Cox: antiques restorer, expert Anthony Macy Cox, 40, A'79, an antiques restorer, died October 1 of an electrical accident which occurred while he was doing restoration work on a guest cottage at a French estate in Argentan, France. He had lived in France for the past 10 years, studying restoration techniques under a master craftsman. He had become an expert in gold leafing as well as restorer of antiques and paintings, a woodworker, and a gardener. Born in Washington, DC, he attended the Sidwell Friends School before coming to St. John's. He is survived by his mother, Joya Bovingdon Cox of McLean, VA, his father Arthur Macy Cox of Washington, two brothers, and a sister. Dr. Cozzolino: former Board member Dr. Eugene N. Cozzolino, 87, A'29, a retired general practitioner and a member of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors from 1972-1975, died in April of heart failure in Naples, Florida. After graduation from St. John's, Dr. Cozzolino attended Harvard Medical School, interning at the Grace/Yale New Haven Hospital. He practiced medicine in New Haven until his retirement in 1982. An avid golfer, be was a club champion in his earlier years. He was a member of state, county, and national medical associations, a Past President of Rotary International, and a member of the West Haven Elks. A graduate under the Old Program, Dr. Cozzolino was a staunch supporter of the New Program and was active in college affairs, establishing the Richard D. Weigle Scholarship fund. He is survived by three sons, Gerard, Robert, A'63, and Peter; three sisters, a brother and four grandchildren. His wife Barbara died in 1986. Memorial contributions may be made to the Richard D. Weigle Scholarship fund at Annapolis. On October 7, Allan Bloom died in Chicago, where he was a Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He wrote on Plato, Rousseau, Shakespeare, Swift and others, and his 1968 translation of the Republic is still popular at St. John's. Bloom never taught here, but he had a personal relationship with the College stretching back many years. He was a student and devoted friend of Leo Strauss, who was here as a Scholar-in-Residence for the two years before his death in 1973. Strauss in turn was an old and close friend of Jocob Klein, a central figure in the life of the College for many years. Bloom lectured here several times in the sixties, and several current and former Tutors were students or friends of his. He was always very much interested in St. John's, because he himself was a fervent exponent of placing great works of philosophy, history and literature at the center of a liberal education. (He also had great respect for our reading of great works in the Mathematics Tutorials and Laboratories.) Furthermore, with his 1987 Closing of the American Mind he became very widely known, and very controversial, for his critique of American higher education and his advocacy of great books. This work influenced the subsequent national debate over both educational standards and "The Canon." It gave support to writers and educators across the country who wanted to lessen the impact of popular culture and political pressures on American universities and to maintain the importance of books considered great by the western tradition. In his book Bloom did not set out either to describe or defend St. John's. Still, for better and for worse, he helped spark an interest among many people in what St. John's tries to accomplish and influenced, to some degree, how people view the College. In view of these connections, perhaps some few words in memoriam will not be inappropriate or without interest, even if they are entirely personal. I did graduate work with him at the University of Toronto in the '70s, and I only wish I could convey how very, very great a teacher he was. Lacking that ability, I will try at least to describe why I think he was the best proponent of great books and of liberal education that I have ever met. Listening to Bloom lecture on Plato, or Tocqueville, or Machiavelli, was an unforgettable experience. He could show how seriously The Prince, for example, had to be taken, because he could show the power of its attack on our most cherished beliefs. Listening to him one realized that "people just aren't like that," or "That's just not the way things are," were not adequate responses to someone as challenging as Machiavelli. Bloom made one see, in a way which was both frightening and exhilarating, how much one had to learn about what the world is really like before one could refute Machiavelli. Bloom made one anxious and eager to know the world, because he showed so brilliantly how hard that was to do and how high the stakes were. He could not have done this if he weren't such a gifted interpreter of texts. He could demonstrate how extrordinarily intelligent an author really was, even if he disagreed with him, because he was so extraordinarily intelligent himself. He had a genius for clarity and a gift for argumentation which awed me time and again. Still, he never called attention to his own intelligence or knowledge. It was always Machiavelli, or Flaubert, or whoever, who was making this stupendous argument or having this stunning insight. Bloom was merely their student. This was absolutely not a pose: his humility in the face of the authors he interpreted was-well, it was positively inspiring. He was the very embodiment of our snappy slogan, "The following teachers will be returning next year: Homer, Plato, Aristotle ... " Thanks to him, I saw the truth in this slogan before I'd ever heard of St. John's. Finally, Bloom appreciated the crucial importance of education for happiness. I think he believed in liberal education more deeply and passionately that anyone else I have ever met, and I think he did so because he loved both friends and students so deeply. Although there were things equally important to him, nothing in the world was more important to him than the highest happiness of students. We who realized this loved him very dearly in return. Henry Higuera Tutor at Annapolis veterinarian, civic leader Dr. George C. Davis, 61, A'53, a prominent veterinarian and civic leader in Union City, Tennessee, died suddenly of a heart attack last December at his home. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, he received his B.A. from St. John's College and took his degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Au burn University in 1956. After a brief period as a regulatory veterinarian for the state of Tennessee, he moved to Union City in 1957 and began a partnership in veterinary medicine which lasted to his death. He was a past president of the Union City Rotary Club, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Union City-Obion County Industrial Board, and was a member of many other civic and professional organizations. He is survived by his wife Alice, two sons, one of them a partner in his veterinary practice, a daughter, a brother, and four grandchildren. Herbert Florestano, 79, A'34, died October 30, 1991, in Indianapolis after a brief illness. A native of Annapolis, Mr. Florestano attended Annapolis High School, received his bachelor's degree from St. John's, and earned his master's and doctor's degrees in microbiology from the University of Maryland. In 1943, he joined the Dow Chemical Company in Indianapolis, where he directed chemotherapeutic research and development for the firm's Pittman-Moore division. Subsequently, he was manager of the scientific services with Dow's research laboratories. He retired in 1977. During his career, he was a teaching fellow at the University of Maryland and a visiting lecturer at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Butler University School of Pharmacy and Marion College in Indianapolis. The author or co-author of many articles, he held patents in the U.S., Great Britain, and South Africa. He was a member of the American Society of Microbiology, the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, and Sigma XI. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is survived by his wife, Myrtle Futch Florestano, a son, Dana J. Florestano, his mother, Amelia Florestano, and two sisters, Theresa Newman and Lola Dawson, all of Annapolis. Ridgely former police commissioner Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ridgely Gaither, 89, A'24, Annapolis police commissioner from 1966 to 1973, died in Annapolis October 26 after a brief illness. Born in Baltimore, he was graduated from St. John's as a military honor graduate and commissioned in the Army in 1924. He was in China in 1937 when the Japanese invaded. In 1939, he graduated from the Command and General Staff College. He also was a graduate of the National War College. In World War II, as a general staff officer in Washington he helped organize paratroop units, and in 1943, he became commandant of the Parachute School at Fort Benning, GA. He was in Germany with the 17th Airborne Division in 1945, and at the war's end, was assistant commander of the 86th infantry division in the Philippines. After the war, he was president of the War Crimes Court in Florence, Italy, and was the American representative to the boundary commission determining the Italian-Yugoslav border. In the Korean War, he commanded an infantry division in combat at the "Punchbowl" and "Heartbreak Ridge" sectors in 1953. Promoted to Lt. General in 1956, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the U.S. Continental Army Command for Reserve Components, the Army National Guard and the Reserve Units. Among his many medals and citations is the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Legion of Merit, and the Italian Cross. He survived two wives, the former Dorothy Bassford and the former Anne Harcourt, and is survived by his third wife, the former Ada Ann Gregory, a daughter, and two grandchildren. C. J. Stine: veteran, insurance agent Carroll J. Stine, A'23, died in June at the V.A. Medical Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He had been a resident of Knoxville, MD, for many years. After graduation from St. John's, he worked for the Monumental Life Insurance Co. A veteran of World War II, he served in the U.S. Army in the European theater. He is survived by two brothers, Millard F. Stine and Ralph E. Stine, one sister, Mildred Stine, and several nieces and nephews. �Applications are now being accepted for the 1993 - 94 session of the Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics in Santa Fe. The institute offers a one-year, graduate level course of study in the classic texts and languages of India and China. As in the undergraduate and graduate programs of the college, classes take the form of seminars, tutorials and preceptorials. Tuition: $1,500 I semester. Limited financial aid may be available. - - For further information write to: - Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501-4599 505/988-4361, Fax 505/ 989-9269 August Paideia cruise The Paideia Institute of Hyde Park invites all memters of the St. John's community to join them on their journey to the inspirational homeland of the Paideia method of education. Come along and discover the roots of Paideia! The trip is scheduled from August 5-13, 1993. Included in the itinerary are: roundtrip transportation to/from Athens, 3 night stay in Athens (at a first class hotel, along with breakfast daily, a welcome dinner, and a one day sightseeing tour of Athens, including the Acropolis); a4 night cruise to the Greek Islands and Turkey (including all meals on-board the ship, on board entertainment, and port taxes; full transfers throughout; all entrance fees, truces and baggage handling. The price per person is $2, 100 (based on double occupancy) and the first deposit is $300 per person due 12.23.92. For further information contact Bon Voyage Travel, 9077 Courtland Avenue, Niles, Illinois (708) 967-8772. By LESLI ALLISON On September 30, the Santa Fe City Council approved an industrial revenue bond issue of 3.3 million dollars for the St. John's College project. The college had already located Sally Mae as a buyer for the bond Because the bond was issued through the city, it is exempt from federal income tax. Of the 3.3 million dollars, 2,850,000 will be used in the construction of student housing. The remainder of the funds are tagged for several projects. Included in these is the relocation and renovation of the college bookstore. Currently located on the basement level of Peterson Student Center, the store is far removed from highly trafficked areas, difficult to locate and too small for the volume of merchandise. In its present location the store is also unable to comply with current accessibility standards. The new location for the bookstore will be on the first floor of the Peterson Student Center where the library was formerly located. Architectural consultant Lisa Carey has drafted a plan for the space. Davis and Associates was selected as the contractor for the work. According to Santa Fe Treasurer Bryan Valentine, the college had initially hoped to begin work on the renovation over Christmas break. This schedule has been delayed due to considerations of handicapped access for the whole Peterson building as well as a question of potentially hazardous materials in the original construction. "What we're looking at is probably to complete this construction in the spring and the earliest we could be into it is at the very end of spring semester," Valentine said Renovation plans call for the removal of a wall to create a large open space. Students can expect to see wider aisles and a better display of merchandise. "Some of that was driven by code requirements," Valentine said "We couldn't build the bookstore where it is now if we were starting over again. But while that may add to the cost, it will also make it look more attractive." Students also can expect a change in bookstore hours, at least initially. "We do plan to try to expand the hours, including weekends," Valentine said. "We are committed to trying that and it will depend on whether the store is used during those hours. If people do not use it during the expanded hours then we will have to adjust them." Another significant project will be the purchase of a new phone system for the college. According to Valentine, the current system is outdated and cannot be expanded. "The technology has changed quite a bit in phones," Valentine said "[Our phone system] is no longer manufactured and it would be expensive to expand the phone use that it could handle. Rather than put money into a dinosaur we think we can get a much better phone service which also would be expandable." The remaining funds from the bond will be used to cover issuance costs, limited office renovations and first year interest on the funds. secures $2 million bond St.John's College in Annapolis has secured a $2 million tax-exempt bond at 6.44 percent interest rate from the Student Loan Marketing Association, or Sallie Mae. The college closed on the 20-year-bond on November 4. According to Annapolis Treasurer Fred "Bud" Billups, of the $2 million, $1.2 million will be used to refinance the college debt. The remaining funds are earmarked for various campus projects and to pay for setting up the bond. The principal project is the $500,000 improvements to Pickney Hall, an 1858 building with Italianate overtones that was once fretted with turrets. Today the building houses both college offices and dormitories. "Last summer about $200,000 was spent to make the building safer," Mr. Billups said. "A sprinkler system was installed throughout the building, and to do this we needed a new water main all around the campus. Smoke detectors were added to every room, and emergency lighting. Fire doors were installed to seal off the stairways. Next summer, the building's electrical system will be improved so everyone can use a hair dryer at once," he said. Also on the agenda is a new computer system for the college that will coordinate most of offices' data bases, allowing them easily to share information. Cost is estimated at about $125,000. Mr. Billups expects it to be on-line by summer. Editor David Gergen GREAT ISSUES: David Gergen to speak Jan. 16 in Annapolis "Politics, Elections, the Presidency, and Promises" will be tile timely subject of Great Issues Forum speaker U.S. News and World Report editor David R. Gergen January 16 at the Annapolis campus. The special Saturday morning event, sponsored by the Friends of St. John's and the Continuing Education office of the college, will follow the format that has brought many hundreds of people to the campus for programs on ethics since 1988. A question and answer session follows a kick-off speaker, with small-group discussions on preassigned corollary reading next, the program concluding in a luncheon for all participants. The cost will be $25. For more information, call 263-2371, ext. 230. The Great Issues forums have brought such speakers to the college as former Attorney General Eliot Richardson, Judge Robert Bork and Arthur Ashe, addressing ethics and politics, journalism, medicine, business, law and athletics. Future Great Issues programs will include Ethics and Religion and Ethics and Education. An Editor at Large for U.S. News, Mr. Gergen also serves as a commentator on television and radio. He teams up Fridays with columnist Mark Shields to analyze events of the week for the "MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour," he makes frequent appearances on Public Radio's" All Things Considered," and on a number of other shows. His journalistic efforts have in recent years won increasing recognition. A survey found him to be one of the 10 most quoted political analysts on American networks, and The London Observer called him "Washington's Leading Insider-Journalist." Gergen-Shields were named "the best television pundits" of the 1988 presidential campaign by the 1988 Political Almanac, and a 1990 survey named the two to a list of the 10 best commentators on American culture and politics. Mr. Gergen worked under three presidents, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, serving as first communications director for the Reagan White House before leaving government to enter journalism in the mid-1980s. In January 1984, he became a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington and at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard That year, he began to write for U.S. News, and in 1985, he was named its editor by publisher Mortimer Zuckerman. the next three years, the made its Issues series is pres1dient of the Friends of St. John's is William Brill. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Public Relations Office Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Santa Fe, NM Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf The Reporter https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/a74419c5738ea6c717206115288376c3.pdf 1b60e9ed34cc06c588fda41c5ac77789 PDF Text Text Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM Volume 19, Issue 1 Five new tutors named at Annapolis Five new tutors, including two from foreign countries, have been named to the Annapolis faculty at St. John's College. They are David Clemenson, Radoslav Datchev from Bulgaria, Robin Kornman, Pablo Lejarraga from Argentina, and Theresa Mackey. An alumnus of Portland State University where he graduated with honors from the "University Scholars Program" in 1980, Mr. Clemenson earned both his master's of science and master's of art degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982 and 1984 respectively. He received his Ph.D from Harvard University in 1991. At Harvard he led two weekly seminars from 1986-91 in the history of science. At M.I.T., from 1988-90, he led discussions on science, technology and society. He also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mr. Clemenson received the Hoopes Faculty Grant for excellence in senior thesis advising at Harvard, the Richard M. Weaver Fellowship, a Harvard Graduate Fellowship, and a National Science Foundation Fellowship in physics. He reads Latin, French, Spanish, Italian and German and knows some ancient Greek. Under gray skies with_ blustery winds and an occasional drizzle, 116 Santa Fe freshmen headed to the hills, mountains and lakes of New Mexico. The exodus, one day after their arrival on campus, signaled the launch of the second annual Freshman Orientation. Designed to prepare students for academic and social life at St. John's, the program combines recreational activities, peer discussion groups and meetings with the dean, faculty and members of the college community. After studying at the University of Sofia for seven years, Radoslov Datchev was awarded an advanced degree in philosophy in 1982. In 1983 he taught philosophy at the same university and was accused of spreading propaganda against the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was dismissed from his post as assistant professor and subsequently supported himself as a laborer. In 1985, he came to the United States and two years later enrolled at Rutgers University to study philosophy. He is now a U.S. citizen. He has published several articles on the Pre-Socratics, Wittgenstein, and other subjects. Robin Kornman is a 1970 alumnus of Indiana University, where he majored in Sla vie Studies and minored in Chinese. He earned his master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Colorado and was awarded his doctorate in the same field from Princeton University in 1992. He was a research fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies at L'Universite de Paris X, Nanterre, studying Asian oral literature from 1991-92. Among his academic honors are a National Defense Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship for eastern (continued on page 2) September 1992 Distinguished Tutors/Alumni to be honored at Annapolis Homecoming By Nancy Osius Two revered tutors whose careers spanned many decades at the college will be honored at the Annapolis Homecoming celebration October 2-4. To be recognized are the late Richard Scofield, who taught at the college from 1927 to a month before his death in 1970; and the late Simon Kaplan, who taught at the college from 1943 to a first retirement in 1959, and then continued to teach during eight one year appointments. Photographic portraits of these men will be dedicated at the annual Alumni Association meeting at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Conversation Room. "As nearly an ideal tutor as the college is ever likely to have" were the words of a citation presented to Mr. Scofield at the time of his retirement. His teaching career, which began in 1927, spanned both Old and New Programs: he was one of a small group of faculty members to remain at the college after 1937, the beginning of Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan's great educational experiment, the institution of a great books curriculum. A Rhodes Scholar and the recipient of AB. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Mr. Scofield had taught English, art, history and humanities before he began teaching across the New Program. He served for a number of years on the Instruction Committee. Selected as "a most typical picture," Mr. Scofield's portrait will show the tutor (CC>nt1rnurea on page 4) Santa Fe tutor Lawrence Cave leads G.I. Commencement procession.-see story page 5. Photo by Lesli Allison Natalie Freeborg huddles in the rain during Freshman Orientation. "The purpose is to let freshmen have a chance to get to know one another before they get into a classroom situation," said Susan Svetich, sophomore and orientation leader. Shortly after their arrival on Sunday, August 23, freshmen and their parents packed the Great Hall for an opening session with Dean Stephen Van Luchene and members of the Instruction Committee. Following welcoming remarks by Dean Van Luchene, freshmen divided into groups with members of the Instruction Committee while parents remained with Dean Van Luchene. Parents and freshmen took the opportunity to ask questions ranging from (continued on page 16) "How to Move Mobs: the Orator at Rome" will be the title of Jasper Griffin's lecture on Friday, September 25, in the FSK Auditorium at Annapolis, the first to be delivered under the Andrew Steiner Visiting Scholar Program. The lecture will culminate several days of seminars offered by the distinguished Oxford University classicist: he will work with students on Homer's Iliad, Book Nine, and corollary reading, and with faculty members on Virgil's Eclogue Ten. Fellow and tutor in classics at Balliol College, Mr. Griffin is the author of a number of books on classical literature and an editor of The Oxford History of the Classical World. The visiting scholar program was established by the family and friends of Andrew Steiner, A '63, who died last year in an automobile accident. More than $150,000 has been contributed to the memorial, established to bring to the Annapolis campus distinguished visitors in "disparate disciplines." The next visiting scholar will be Robert Alter, professor of comparative literature at U-C Berkeley, who will spend January 15-16, 1993, on campus. He will give the Friday Night Lecture on a subject to be announced, and on Saturday will lead a seminar on books of the Old Testament for students and faculty. Among his published books are The Art of Biblical Narrative and The Art of Biblical Poetry. Mr. Alter is spending the academic year as visiting professor in the comparative literature department at Princeton. �2 The St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors convened in Santa Fe July 16 - 18 with 39 members present. One of the highlights of the meeting was Steve Feinberg's opening remarks as the new chairman of the board. Mr. Feinberg began with a quote from Robert Benchley, "The world is divided into two kinds of people. Those who believe the world is divided into two kinds of people, and those who don't." "And I guess we are people who do believe the world is divided into two kinds of people," Mr. Feinberg continued. 'Those who care about this kind of classical, mindchallenging, sometimes mind-boggling education that St. John's offers, based on the liberal but eternal tradition of the great books. And those who don't." Following Mr. Feinberg's address, Deans Eva Brann and Steve Van Luchene presented a special report on the program of the college. The Finance Committee reported that both campuses finished 1991-92 with balanced operating budgets. Discussion during the plenary session focused primarily on amendments 'to the Polity, the constitution of the college, as recommended by the Polity Review Committee which meets for the duration of one year every five years. The most notable changes were an increase in the number of board members to be elected by the Alumni Association, and the codification of the rule that the dean on each campus must now be a tutor with tenure. In the executive session, Kenneth D. Brody was elected to the board. Mr. Brody is a limited partner of Goldman Sachs and a partner of Petrus Partners, an investment firm. Mr. Brody's first formal acquaintance with the college occurred three years ago when he contacted Dean Brann in Annapolis for assistance with a seminar program for Goldman Sachs. Two tutors, Nick Maistrellis and Elliott Zuckerman, volunteered and started the program, which is now led by Mr. Maistrellis, Howard Zeiderman and Brother Robert Smith. The group, which meets 30 times per year, has just completed the third of five scheduled years. Many of the books included in the seminar series are on the St. John's seminar list. Other events during the three day gathering included an orientation for new board members; a board seminar on the Declaration of Independence, The Federalist 10 and the Gettysburg Address; a dinner for board members and invited guests at the home of President and Cathy Agresto, hosted by Mr. Feinberg; and a luncheon talk by James Carey on the Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics. The Reporter is published in June and December by the News and Information Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404 and in September and March by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Box 4599, Santa Fe, NM 87501 . Annapolis - Nancy Osius, editor, Donna Boetig, assistant editor, Wye Allanbrook, Betsy Blume, John Christensen, Benjamin Milner, Brother Robert Smith, and Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. Santa Fe - Lesli Allison, editor, Barbara Lewis, assistant editor, Patrick Daugherty, design. 1992 THE REPORTER new from page studies in Paris in 1991-92, and two IREX Scholarly Exchange Program fellowships for study in the Mongolian People's Republic. From 1985-86 he taught at the University of Colorado, designing a course on Asian Studies. In 1986, he helped found the Marpa Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal, a school to train Tibetan translators. Before coming to St. John's, Mr. Kornman taught comparative literature and religion at Princeton University. He has written numerous articles for scholarly publications. Pablo Lejarraga was awarded a Licenciado en Matematica, U.N.S. in Argentina in 1973. After becoming a permanent resident of the U.S., he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in mathematics from Brandeis University in 1983 and 1985 respectively. Before joining the St. John's faculty, he was an assistant professor of mathematics at Texas Tech University for six years. From 1985-86 he was a visiting scholar in the mathematics department at M.LT. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society and the Union Matematica Argentina. Theresa Mackey graduated cum laude from SUNY Albany with a bachelor's degree in music in 1979, and in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in English from The Johns Hopkins University. She earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Maryland in 1992. Last year she was an adjunct instructor in English at Georgetown University and a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Maryland. She has been a feature writer for Expo Magazine, a columnist for the BaltimoreWashi ngto n Mensa Magazine, and a public relations writer for the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Ms. Mackey is a member of the American Association of University Professors and the American Comparative Literature Association. Eighty nine students attended Santa Fe's 25th Graduate Institute summer session. Photo by Robert McC/ees r In a time of fierce competition among colleges for students, St John's has received a near record number of applications to fill its freshman class on both campuses. The college received a total of 555 applications for the combined 1996 classes, yielding an expected enrollment of approximately 226 freshmen. In Annapolis, Admissions Director John Christensen reported that this is the third best year in the college's history in terms of the total number of applications received. "Given today's fiercely competitive college admissions picture, we're very pleased by the interest shown towards the college," he said. "We're expecting the usual class of 108 freshmen, and we expect their academic profile to be as strong as those for most recent classes. They will represent 30 states and four foreign countriesIndia, Russia, Bulgaria and China." In Santa Fe, Admissions Director Larry Clendenin said the freshman class is as large as ever, with acceptances equal to last year and an increase in the number of deposits. The class profile in Santa Fe looks like this: 55% men, 45% women; 21 % have attended at least one college prior to St. John's, 58% visited the campus prior tc making a deposit, 68% attended public high schools, 19% attended independent (private) schools, 9% attended parochial schools, 5% received an alternative to a high school diploma, 60% will receive some form of financial assistance, 55% will receive St. John's College grants and freshman are coming from 32 states and 2 foreign countries (Canada and Pakistan), with California, Colorado and Texas as the primary feeder states. The breakdown of admissions figures between the two campuses is as follows: completed applications-Santa Fe, 253, Annapolis, 302; acceptances-Santa Fe, 224, Annapolis, 252; expected enrollment-Santa Fe, 116, Annapolis, 106. ANNOUNCEMENTS retreat set A fall retreat for the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors is set for October 23 and 24 at the Tidewater Inn in Easton, a small town on the eastern shore of Maryland that is a mecca for sportsmen and antique lovers. Substituting for the usual fall meeting at the Annapolis campus, the retreat will place board members in new surroundings as they deliberate over current and future college issues. Both the Santa Fe and Annapolis Information Services offices would appreciate our readers' sending us any articles that mention St. John's College, especially those in publications we are unlikely to see. We are not able to use clipping services in times of budgettightening, but we would like to hear about radio and television references to the college, and we would like a record of those that appear in print. Subscribe to Moon! Santa Fe's student paper (now combined with the Obelisk) $15/semester Make checks payable to The Moon Send to: The Moon St. John's College Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501-4599 Admissions Office Santa Fe, New Mexico Admission Counselor/Assistant Director The position requires extensive travel, counseling skills, effective writing and excellent telephone manners. Inquiries from alumni would be welcome. Send letter of application and resume to: Larry Clendenin by October 1, 1992. Expressions of interest have reached the Dean's Office in Annapolis from members of the college community attracted by the chance to study at a Japanese university next summer. What Dean Eva Brann has called "this novel opportunity" is open to students, alumni and friends of the college. At least 15 will be needed for the program to go ahead. Students may spend one or two fourto five-week sessions at a university in Kanuma, 40 minutes north of Tokyo, and may receive transferable credit upon completion of required papers. The estimated cost for each session is $2,000 to $2,500, exclusive of travel. Two St. John's tutors-one each session-are expected to lead seminars on western and Japanese classics. English-speaking Japanese students from Shimotsuke Gakuen University may be auditing the classes. For more information, contact Dean Brann at St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. • I �September 1992 THE REPORTER page3 Annapolis seniors establish gift fund In spite of an uncertain economy, the recent graduates of the Annapolis campus looked beyond their personal plans to further their studies or begin careers, and established what they hope will be a tradition for other classes to follow: the Class of 1992 Endowed Scholarship Fund. "We are honored to know that our newest alumni value their education so much that they wish to help others attend St. John's," said President Christopher B. Nelson. "The Class of 1992 Scholarship Fund is a wonderful example of one class's commitment to the program." Josephine "Gigi" Escalante, A'92, approached Vice-President Jeff Bishop last spring to ask how her class could make a difference in the future of the college. In the past, the college invited parents of the graduates to assist in funding a senior project, usually some type of campus improvement. But this year would be different. "We wanted our own project/ Ms. Escalante explained. "I felt the students should be responsible to their school." Mr. Bishop suggested a projector and visual aids for the auditorium, or additional campus lighting as possible senior projects, but Ms. Escalante was unimpressed. "While those ideas were nice, they could wait," she said. "We wanted a gift that was more urgent, more meaningfut and could go on forever. We wanted to help students who'd be struggling (financially) through school, just like we did.'" With this in mind, she wrote her fellow seniors asking for contributions to begin a permanent endowment with the yearly income used to support a student at St. John's. The open endowment will allow anyone at any time to contribute to the fund; as the endowment increases so will the scholarship. Their goal to establish the scholarship: $10,000 by 1995. To date the class has donated or pledged more than $2,200. Ms. Escalante, now a legal assistant for a Manhattan law firm, is looking forward to the day when the class can name the recipient of the scholarship they began as seniors. President Nelson agrees. "You will see this fund grow. Soon you will be able to welcome those who come to St. John's because of this scholarship as fellow alumni and friends." Here is the Duke Orsino with-so he thinks-his page Caesario at his knee, in the summer production of "Twelfth Night" in the Great Hall in Annapolis. Graduate Institute student Jack Daniel is the Duke, while Sandra Gwynn, a graduate of the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York, is the disguised Viola, who loves the Duke, who loves Olivia-you get the idea. The high-spirited production, which included present and past St. John's students, is the first to be presented by the brand-new Annapolis Company Theater, the happy inspiration of founder, producer and director Nathan Rosen, A '82. Photo by Keith Harvey . More than 10 ,000 people came to the Annapolis campus in the 1991/92 academic year in connection with a highly successful program of activities sponsored or co-sponsored by the Friends of St. John's. Among the events were the continuing Great Issues series, various cultural activities, and completion of an economic impact study. In addition, there was a marked jump in the number of Friends who made financial contributions to the college. In January, writers, sports world figures, and other participants gathered for the Great Issues forum "Ethics and Athletics." Keynote speakers for this sixth in the series of lecture-discussion programs on ethics were tennis star Arthur Ashe and Knight Foundation President Creed Black. Next on the agenda is Ethics and Religion, while spin-off programs are under consideration. An economic impact study conducted by members of the Friends Board of Directors was presented in a brochure "Beyond the Great Books," a document vividly demonstrating the positive results of the college presence in Annapolis. The first Holiday Sing-along, featuring the Hard Travelers and a cookie swap, attracted 450 adults and children for a joyous-and certain to be annual-holiday event. The Sail Picnic jumped in size this year when over 100 students joined 18 Annapolis skippers on their yachts in early May for a sail and picnic on the bay. The Friends continued their support of Mitchell Gallery events and exhibits, as well as joint sponsorship of the Maryland History Lecture-Dinner series and a mid-winter foreign film series. The number of Friends who made contributions to the college rose to 899, compared to 665 in 1990-91 and 480 in 1989-90. Total gifts from the Friends for the year amounted to $332,561. Said William Brill, president of the organization, "All of the events we sponsored drew on the spirit and concept of St. John's and were designed to bring the college closer to the citizens of the city and the county." New writing program introduced to Santa Fe campus By David Finley SF'93 St John's students often have experienced difficulties writing their essays, a situation due in part to the complex nature of the material and the rigorous presentation required of the student for such an enterprise. While the language tutorial and student-tutor conferences have always had writing improvement as an object, they simply do not provide enough writing practice for most students. In answer to this, a comprehensive writing program will be instituted on the Santa Fe campus for the 1992-93 school year. According to Tutor Sean Collins, who will be directing the program with help from fellow Tutors Charles Fasanaro and David Bolotin, the program will focus on freshmen, who will be given "extra help with grammar and style." Space is limited to between fifteen and twenty students. Upperclassmen can enroll if space permits. The program is not entirely new, Mr. Collins said. It's been in existence for a year in the form of one-on-one tutoring sessions between writing assistants and students. In addition, a committee met during 1991 to consider how to help students write more efficiently. The committee consisted of Dean Stephen Van Luchene, Collins, Fasanaro, Bolotin (who was chairman), Sherry Martin, Robert Richardson and Krishnan Venkatesh. After the committee's decision to implement a writing program, Mr. Fasanaro worked closely with student writing assistants last year during his spare time. This year, the formal writing class will more aggressively address the needs of students. For the first month or so, the class will resemble a St. John's tutorial, with extra guidance from the tutors to ensure that students understand the principles of good writing. The course will then become a writing practicum, as the students learn to use the skills they have acquired, particularly in the essays required over the course of the year. Rough drafts will be required for every essay. "We'll give them a headstart on their regular papers," Mr. Collins noted. The new writing program is not simply remedial. Like all classes at St. John's, it is an opportunity for students to experience the liberation learning provides. "We're treating grammar as a liberal art, rather than a convention or task/ Mr. Collins said. "I want to see students exploiting the power and beauty of language." �page4 THE REPORTER September 1992 Homecoming (continued from page 1) about to ask a question, "a little skeptically, already forming in his mind the next question," in the words of Allan Hoffman, A '46. Mr. Hoffman, chairman of the Alumni Association Board's Institutional Relations Committee, which arranges for portraits and memorials, says the recognition of the tutors is part of a program to honor exceptional faculty members. At the time of Simon Kaplan's death in 1979, the late Rev.Winfree Smith called his friend "a living challenge to Christian teaching about original sin." Of his friend, who joined the faculty at about the same time as he himself, Mr. Smith went on to say, "Few people whom I have known have in their lives exhibited as he did such simple goodness, a goodness consistently maintained and unmarred by self-righteousness." It was a judgment with which many hundreds of Simon Kaplan's friends and students would have concurred in assessing a tutor valued for the effect of his moral character on students as well as his teaching. Mr. Kaplan was born in Latvia-then a part of Russia-and educated at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Leningrad before he earned his doctorate at the University of Jena in Germany in 1927. He left Russia permanently in 1923, first for Germany, and then left Germany for France, where he did research at the University of Paris in the 1930's. With Mrs. Kaplan, he fled Paris just before the Nazis occupation, and by 1942, came to St. John's at the invitation of old friend Jasha Klein. At first a scholar-inresidence concerned with Jewish traditions, Mr. Kaplan became a regular member of the faculty in 1943. For more than 35 years he continued teaching his Bible class. Also at the 10:30 a.m. program, President Christopher Nelson and Dean Eva Brann will give annual reports. A second highlight promises to be the re-creation of the 1967 freshman chorus 25 years later, an inspiration of tutor Howard Zeiderman, A'67. Amusement greeted this announcement at the Alumni Association meeting in July as those present recalled with a mixture of chagrin and nostalgia their first attempts at "enthusiastic noise." This time, returning 1967 alumni will reassemble with some eagerness under the baton of Tutor Elliott Zuckerman. Says Mr. Zuckerman, who led legions of freshmen through this musical adventure, "I'm delighted to learn that there are people who remember the chorus fondly." The event, scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Saturday, October 3, in the Great Hall, is open to all. The Homecoming lecture will be "Inventing the Theoretical," by Bernard Jacob, A'54, at 8:15 p.m. Friday in the FSK Auditorium. The recipient of a J.D. degree from the school of law at U-C Berkeley in 1960, Mr. Jacob clerked for late Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas. In 1991, he received a Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in New York City. He has been a professor of law at Hofstra University since 1979. Three distinguished alumni will receive the Alumni Association's Award of Merit at the 7:30 p.m. Homecoming Banquet Saturday in Randall Hall. They are David Rea, A' 49, Warren Winiarski, A'52, and Charlotte Fletcher, A '69 (Honorary). Mr. Rea, a graduate of Yale Law School, is associated with the New York City law firm of Wilkie, Farr and Gallagher, specializing in corporate and securities work. He is a member of the college Board of Visitors and Governors. Mr. Winiarski, also a member of the board, taught at the University of Chicago for 10 years before launching Stag's Leap Wine Cellars in the Napa Valley; his wines have won numerous awards and have been served in such settings as the White House. Miss Fletcher, who retired in 1980 after 36 years as librarian at the college, is the author of five articles on the college's early history which were reprinted last year an issue of The St. John's Review. Special reunion events are planned for seven reunion classes and for the Graduate Institute. While many alumni will join students Friday for an informal supper in Randall Hall, the class of 1942, returning for their 50th reunion, will gather at 5:30 p.m. on the Dining Hall porch for cocktails and for dinner afterwards in the Private Dining Room. On Saturday the class will have lunch at Busch's Chesapeake Inn and cocktails at the home of Chesley Wilson at Holly Beach Farm. Other luncheons are planned for the classes of 1947, 1952, 1967, 1972, and picnics for the classes of 1977 and 1982. The Graduate Institute will have a 4 p.m. afterseminar party in the Fireplace Room at the Coffee Shop. Special seminars are planned for 2 p.m. Saturday as follows: The Tempest, led by Dean Eva Brann for 1967; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, (Walt Whitman), led by Tutors Elliot Zuckerman, Brother Robert, Henry Higuera and Peter Kalkavage for 1982. Seminars to be held at the same time for interested alumni are on The Love Song of]. Alfred Prufrock (Eliot), Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part (Nietzsche), Augustine's Confessions, Book 10, Major Barbara (Shaw), and Aristotle's Ethics, Book I. A 6 p.m. no-host cocktail party will precede the Homecoming banquet Saturday, and the Classic Rock Party will follow it at the Boathouse. The weekend will conclude with the annual brunch at the president's house on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Homecoming registration will last from 5-8 p.rn. Friday in the FSK lobby, and will resume at 9 a.m. Saturday, continuing all day. For more information, call 2632371, ext. 318. L E T T E R To the Editor: In response to David Woolwine's fine letter in the June 1992 Reporter, I do not believe that the College is very interested in what most of its graduates have done - I purposefully do not say "accomplished" - since they graduated, or how the Program has influenced them in the journey of their lives. I too believe that St. John's College is the most wonderful place in the world. But it does not seem to accept our lives as broadening or developing after we leave. Twice now I have experienced book discussions, in Chicago and Cambridge, Mass., which tutors were sent to lead. It became evident that they were quite closed to any opinions or insights which they did not themselves initiate, as not being within the campus doxology. I tried talking about this years ago, with then President Delattre and with Elizabeth Brown, then in the Admissions Office. I am grateful to both of them for their willingness to hear what was being said, and for their unusual sensitivity in responding. Also, a few years ago an alumnus sent out a Summer Olympics In Barcelona, they call it shot put. In Annapolis July 28, they called it the Book Put, and Socrates (GI student Steve van Dresser of Santa Fe) is giving Hobbes the big heave-ho in the GI Summer Olympics. At left is GI student Erika Berry, and at right GI student Joan Becker-who arranged the event and maybe the rare weather, too. Photo by Keith Harvey s T 0 THE E DI T 0 R mailing to all graduates, asking for our suggestions regarding books we thought might either be put on the Reading List or at least shared with others, books which for one reason or another had had a significant impact on our life. I did send in my list, and that was the last heard of the matter. Too bad. It might have been a genuine interaction among graduates, because it would have included our experiences in the world and how we were trying to keep the College alive within ourselves while we married and tried to raise children, worked, traveled, tasted success and disappointment and failure, and just lived. Above all, such sharing would have helped in keeping us focused on what "success" in life truly means. Reading the Reporter it is easy to get confused by what the College considers its "successful" graduates. Anyway, David Woolwine, thank you for your letter, I've thought about these things for a very long time. Edward Bauer, A '54 To the Editor: Thank you for running my request for books (Alumni Notes, March,1992). The response has been splendid. I've written to those folks who have sent booksand the range has been broad: alumni, administration, quasi-alumni, and the parents of current students-but I would like to thank them again more publicly and to encourage those who have thought of contacting me to do so. I've signed on for another year, so I'll be here through June, 1993, at least. Much about the future here is uncertain, but one thing is sure: the gymnazium at Pardubice has the makings of a decent library in English, thanks to the St. John's community. My Czech colleagues are amazed; I'm gratified. Sincerely yours, Grady Harris, A'84 Gymnazium Dasickaul. 53003 Pardubice Czechoslovakia. �September 1992 "Big readers" fi SJC community shared interests By Nancy Osius "Big readers are famous wallflowers," Kenneth Colston, AGI '89, told a smiling audience of 15 Graduate Institute degree candidates and their families and friends at commencement ceremonies August 7 in Annapolis. But at St. John's, he learned, "big readers" find a community of shared interests and powerful communality. As a resident assistant at the college and a Graduate Institute student-and indeed, a resident, for he has lived with his family on the campus for the past six years-he found for the first time that "reading books would bring me closer to my community. For the first time, I would belong to a community." His wise and witty account of his discoveries at St. John's brought its own recognitions to the audience crowded into the Great Hall for the 14th Graduate Institute graduation exercises. A writer who had earned two other master's degrees before he entered the THE REPORTER Graduate Institute, Mr. Colston first heard about the St. John's program in 1982 when he interviewed a young woman for a faculty post at the boarding school where he was teaching. She was very eloquent about the liberal arts education she had received at St. John's, he remembered. The great books are the teachers, she told him then, "and they teach you how to think, and the soul finds community there in conversation." "I didn't belive some of the things she told me," he admits: that tutors taught the whole curriculum, that nighttime seminars spurred discussions that went on to daybreak, but "the hardest thing to imagine was a community of persons all reading the same ancient books. It sounded like one of Italo Calvino's happy fantasies." Her repeated use of the word "community" in her description of the college and her details about its program triggered long-ago-and half-forgotten convictions about education in the speaker's mind. He remembered a seminal essay by John Erskine which suggested that the "best education can be had simply, without the distraction of five-story buildings, of Astro-turfed playing fields, even of high-tech labora(continued on page 15) ng the gift: I By "It is an old custom, already old in Homer's time, to give the departing guest a gift: something very fine and valuable,· which may be handed down to the receiver's descendants, even as it has perhaps already been handed down within the family of the giver, something with a story attached to it." And so began just such a story as Santa Fe Tutor Cary Stickney addressed 22 graduating students from the Graduate Institute, their families and friends at the commencement ceremonies in Santa Fe on August 7. Mr. Stickney likened the educational experience at St. John's to the process of giving and receiving. Both the giver and the receiver commit some aspect of themselves in the exchange, he said. "The acceptance involves making room for the gift, undertaking to honor it as the giver has, to learn and remember its story, and to tell it, promising to give the gift a home. When the act of giving is understood that way, as a single cooperative act, the giver has not given up any mere disconnected object, nor has the receiver taken one away. They have become sharers of something that will last longer than the food or shelter which first helped constitute them as host and guest. I might be bold to say that the host has given a part of himself to be the guest of his guest, and that the departing guest has given a part of himself in his promise to become the host. Is this too remote an image for what has gone on for you during your studies in the Graduate Institute? The gifts are the books, the stories our conversations together," Stickney continued. "Or are the conversations the real gifts, even as the stories that go with the Homeric gifts finally become more valuable than the things that allow the stories to be told?" Mr. Stickney then elaborated on the nature of these gifts, their stories and the process through which they emerge as the central ingredients to a life of learning. The first gift has to do with courage, he said. "In order to really learn in a conversation, or in writing a paper you have to put yourself on the line, it has to matter to you ... .To have practiced a little the courage that goes forward in the face of such fear, and to have seen the gains and survived the losses, maybe even to have begun the habit of such courage is a precious gift we have shared." Another gift derives from the greatness and difficulty of the books. One ought not be daunted by the books, by greatness, but rather should consider oneself a worthy partner in a conversation that has been going on for centuries, Mr. Stickney said. "Whatever we have seen in the books or the conversations that has seemed most worthy to be called great, whatever has most deeply touched us is, by the very fact that we have seen it, available for us as something to live up to. Like Telemachus returning to Ithaca after having visited Nestor and Menelaus and Helen, we may accept the gift of being thought worthy to hear their stories and share their world by speech and action that show it has become our world too." Finally, there is the gift of new beginnings, Mr. Stickney said, drawing an eloquent analogy to Penelope in The Odyssey. "To feel the living presence of what is other, and to be capable of putting oneself at the mercy of that, to do more asking than telling, no matter how much familiarity may intervene to assure us that we already understand, this is the gift of new beginnings, in work, in marriage, in every kind of learning. The unforgettable emblem of that daily, nightly, most noble, and most difficult effort to live in the midst of what may be all too familiar, and yet to keep oneself open to magical new beginnings, almost beyond hope, is Penelope weaving and unweaving her tapestry as the days and nights go by." pages John Verdi, director of The Graduate Institute in Annapolis, speaks with new graduate Uganda-born Nora Bigirwenkya of Silver Spring, MD. Photo by Keith Harvey The whole family was mentioned in speaker Kenneth Cofston's Graduate Institute Commencement address August 7 in Annapolis: here is his wife Helen, A '82, who introduced him to St. John's in the first place, seven-year-old Thalia and two-week-old Logan Francis, asserting himself with a huge yawn. The family has lived on the campus for six years while Mr. Colston worked with student activities. Photo by Keith Harvey above:Tutor Cary Stickney delivers the Commencement address in Santa Fe. below: Twenty two G.I. graduates pause in their celebrations to pose for one last photo. Photos by Lesli Allison �page6 THE REPORTER lumni 1947 Al Poppiti (A) Writing as one from the "first graduating class of the new program," says he is coming to Homecoming. "The enigma of aporia is on his way." He looks forward to exchanging the experiences of the past 50 years, including those of World War II "and our wonderful grandchildren." He and his wife have four. 1948 Peter Davies (A) Flew in May with Mrs. Marilyn Quayle to Zambia, Zumbabwe and South Africa "to see the serious-in fact catastrophic-drought covering all of southern Africa from Kenya to the Cape of Good Hope." He represented private voluntary organizations that are providing goods and other assistance. 1959 In July Paragon House Press published Ethical Argument, the seventh book of Hugh Curtler (A). 1966 Judy Millspaugh Anderson (A) Is head of the Central Medical Section for the state prison system in Pennsylvania which monitors the health care delivery in all the state prisons. "I will be responsible for creating a state-wide uniform quality assurance program in the prison health care departments. It is fascinating and challenging work," she writes. Ian Harris (A) "Alternatives to Violence: the Practice of Peacemaking," a monthly radio talk show by Ian Harris, associate professor of educational policy and community studies at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee, has been selected for broadcast by Radio for Peace International, Costa Rica. RFI, a worldwide shortwave radio station, provides programming on peace and justice topics. Prof. Harris has been producing the program for three years. Richard Fielding (A) Has been appointed director of the Law and Economics Center and research professor at the George Mason University School of Law. Mr. Fielding formerly served as director of the Office of Consumer and Competition Advocacy at the Federal Trade Commission, as well as chief counsel of the Division of Trading and Markets at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. A graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he has taught law at George Washington and Vanderbilt Universities and the University of North Carolina. 1967 Christina Lauth Connell (A) Writes that after two years as director of Development at the Country School in Easton, MD, she is now working full time renovating the 1920' s house that she and husband Dick bought in downtown Easton, a place reminding them of Annapolis 25 years ago. Rebecca Tendler (A) Is in private practice as a clinical psychologist in Philadelphia; she writes and teaches about the psychoanalytic treatment of severe trauma. Her 15-yearold son Seth begins his sophomore year at Germantown Friends School, where he pursues his interests in art and music, Latin and history. The Rev. Dr. Clark Lobenstine (A) Executive director of the Interfaith Conference, was honored for his "positive and selfless contributions to the life of the District of Columbia and its residents" at the banquet for the Masjid Muhammad Pioneer Benefit Team. He was also selected by the Washington Psychiatric Society for one of its annual community service awards, which cited his work in developing the Coalition of Homeless and Housing Organizations. 1970 Wendy Gray (SGI) Is now teaching and directing theatre productions in Maui and neighboring islands for the Maui Academy of Performing Arts. 1972 Barbara Brown Giordano(A) Is at the Rhetoric Department of U-C, Berkeley, working on a dissertation in Renaissance humanism, which concentrates on the common vision of Nicholas of Cusa, Erasmus, and Shakespeare. 1973 Michael Aaron (SF) Since graduating from St. John's he has worked and studied in Germany as a military civil servant for the U. S. Army, received an MA in German language and literature from the University of Virginia, and finally, moved to Australia where he joined the computer industry with IBM. During the past twelve years he has worked for IBM in several capacities, primarily in the banking industry. He writes, "I currently am responsible for the development and marketing of high-speed image technology cheque processing solutions and electronic payment systems solutions." Michael is married to Danuta and they have two sons, Daniel, age seven and David, 20 months. Jeffrey Gordon Angus (SF) Reports that he is director of EUD, Farallon Computing, Inc. and a freelance writer of political and economic commentaries for newspapers ranging from the Shelton-Mason County Journal to The New York Times. He is on the steering committee of Earth Second, and does pro bono computer work through Compumentor. His question for Johnnies: "If normal life is but a shadow of a dream, what is Dan Quayle's life?" John Hawk Fitch (A) One of the artists featured recently in a Cleveland Plain Dealer article was John who teaches in Cleveland area colleges and makes tables and other furniture in his studio. He is quoted as saying he found his niche when he stumbled on a large flat stone in the woods: "As soon as I saw it, I knew I would make a table." He was one of 200 area artists slated to throw open his studio doors for Artists' Open Studio Days, sponsored by NOVA (the New Organization for the Visual Arts). 1973 Kathleen Callender (SF) Is currently completing her residency in Internal Medicine at UCSD in San Diego. This year she completed two abstracts, one of which was presented to the Western Conference of Clinical Investigation in Carmel, California, and will be submitted to the International Journal of Cardiology in the upcoming year. She plans a fellowship in noninvasive cardiology after residency with an emphasis on researching new imaging techniques. September 1992 tes She says San Diego is a stimulating city and on the cutting edge of medical research. "I look forward to reuniting with other St. John's graduates in the San Diego area." Kathleen is currently living in Pacific Beach, close to the ocean, and enjoys exploring the Baha south of the border, "when I have time." 1975 Madeleine Clarke (A) & husband Steven Gray, (A'76) Are the parents of Daniel Gray, two. Steve is a freelance book editor and Madeleine is in the doctoral program in American literature at U-C, Berkeley. Wendy Wills (SF) Is a member of the LithuanianAmerican Bar Association. She, along with about 50 American lawyers, was in Lithuania this past spring helping the newly independent Baltic state write a democratic constitution. Charles Hoffacker (A) Began as rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church June 1 in Port Huron, Michigan. Having spent his college years in Annapolis, he writes, he looks forward to living again in a city with plenty of water nearby. Port Huron is bordered by Lake Huron and the St. Clair River. Peter (A) and Mary Rogers Kniaz (A) Benjamin, 10, Beatrice, 7, and Paul, 4, joined parents Peter and Mary in announcing the birth of Theresa Rose Kniaz, born at home in London on Thursday, June 25. The family expects to return to the U.S. this fall. 1978 Martha McGinnis (SF) Writes that she is no longer married but is the mother of a wonderful daughter Amelia, two. She is still with Colonial Pipeline Co. and would love to hear from old friends at P.O. Box 1855, Atlanta, GA 30326. 1979 Adrian P. Franklin (SGI) Navy petty officer, recently reenlisted for six years while serving at Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Nina E. Patterson (SF) Of Walnut Creek, CA, loves her job as a registered animal health technician for a veterinary dermatology practice. Her "alltime favorite" hobby is dancing, and she takes classes every week in ballroom, countryI western and jitterbug/swing. 1981 Karl Stukenberg (SF) Was honored during graduation at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Mental Health Sciences. A fellow in the School's postdoctoral clinical psychology training program, he plans to pursue a third year of advanced studies in the school. He received his master's degree in 1987 and his doctorate in clinical psychology in 1991, both at Ohio State University. Sabine Schweidt (SF) & Charles Nelson Cranmer were married May 30 in Cold Spring, New York. John Wilson (A) Who is beginning his second year in Duke University's clinical psychology doctoral program, was married August 8 to fellow graduate student Julie Dunsmore, who received her undergraduate degree from Emory University. The wedding took place in the university's chapel. Before entering Duke, John completed 34 undergraduate hours in psychology at the University of Maryland while continuing to work full-time as a legal assistant in the Washington office of Debevoise & Plimpton. One of nine who was accepted from an applicant pool of 300 for that job, John thinks his St. John's education played a role in his acceptance. John and Julie live at 200 Seven Oaks Rd., Apt. 25H, Durham, NC 27704. 1982 Cary Renfro (SF) Was recently elected secretary of the Mid-Williamette chapter of No on Nine (Campaign for a Hate-Free Oregon), a political action committee opposed to Proposition 9. Carey writes, "Proposition 9 will repeal any laws which prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, including Oregon's Hate Crimes law; would require schools to teach that homosexuality is 'abnormal, wrong, unnatural, and perverse'; and effectively mandate discrimination against gays and lesbians by government and business." Anyone who would like to learn more, or to help defeat the initiative can contact Cary or send contributions to: No on Nine/Campaign for a Hate-Free Oregon, P.O. Box 3343, Portland, Oregon, 97208. Diane (Langlois) Stallings (SF) Writes that after leaving St. John's in 1979 after her freshman year she returned home to Phoenix to pursue a career as an RN. Later that summer she married Gary Stallings. The couple spent an adventurous year trekking through the Middle East and Europe and, in later years, visited India, East Africa and China. She currently works in Recovery and Intensive Care at Phoenix St. Luke's Hospital. Son Levi Stallings was born in May 1990. Diane sends best wishes and a call to write and visit. To contact her, write to Gary and Diane Stallings, 1425 Fountain Hills Blvd. No. 1, Fountain Hills, AZ 85268-2734. 1983 Jack Armstrong (SF) Resides in Pennsylvania with his wife, Carmen who is an actress with the People's Light and Theatre Co. They have a son, Michael, who is three and "starting to talk like a Yankee which I find deeply disturbing." Jack writes that he is selling and producing ballots "of all things." Jonathan Gold (A) Finished his M.D. at Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel, and is at present a second year pediatric resident at Soroka Hospital. The area has a diverse population and the hospital treats recent immigrants from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union as well as the growing Bedouin population, he writes. He is married to the former Judy Kurz, a midwife, and "a wonderful and humane lady." They live on a kibbutz and are in touch with Michael Fried (A'83) and his wife Yifat, who live on another kibbutz half an hour away. Michael is a math teacher in a high school, and they have "a Renaissance son of two who is proficient in both Hebrew and English, but his pop has not pressed him enough on the Greek stuff." Peter J. McMenamin (SF) & L. Pilar Wyman (A'86) Are the parents of a second child, Hugh Haynes McMenamin, born July 23 in Annapolis. �1992 1984 Sally Greppin DeKorne (A) & her husband Clayton (A'86) Have two daughters, Cecelia, 4, and Helen, one and a half. Lori J. Maness (SF) Received a doctor of veterinary medicine degree in May from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. Peter Green (A) Sends greetings from Prague where he has been for more than two years as UPI correspondent and U:S. News and World Report stringer. He has travelled all over eastern Europe, including Yugoslavia, the Baltic states, Poland, Bulgaria and Rumania "covering the revolutions, coups, civil wars and nation-building. Very exciting times .. .I've learned passable Czech, and almost enjoy a life without vegetables." On New Year's Eve he saw Claiborne Booker (A) and recently spoke to Bob Vincent (A) "who just got married to Mimi Vincent." His Prague address is Na Florenci 19, 112 86 Prague 1, Czechoslovakia. Tel: (42-2) 232 4651 or 282 3363. Mike (SF) and Mally Strong (SF) And Homer Strong made J emma Strong welcome April 4. She was born at home with half the neighborhood in attendance ...Mike has ordered 100 lbs of halibut so I need to get rid of the chum salmon in our freezer. Any takers: P.O.B. 298 Homer AK99603. Mark Pothier (A) Of San Francisco is the author of "Enlightenment," an article appearing in the summer issue of The New Combat: a Journal of Reason and Resistance, the publisher of which is William Ney (A'82) who lives in New York City. An associate editor is Pierre H. Gagnier (A), who, along with wife Nancy (A), is also of NYC. Daniel Samos (SF) After leaving St. John's in 1982, he received an A.B. in Japanese language studies at the University of IllinoisChampaign in October 1984. He then moved to Japan, where he remained until November 1991. For the past five years he has worked as a translator of modern and classical Japanese texts, chiefly relating to Buddhism. In January of this year, he commenced work toward a master's degree in the department of East Asian languages (classical Japanese lit.) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1985 Elizabeth M. Drew (SF) Was married last year to David Greenfield. They live in a 100-year-old house in Evanston, Illinois, which they share with three cats: Chica, Dirty Chin and Magic. Last November Elizabeth completed her qualifying exams for a Ph. D program in education at The University of Chicago and is now thinking about qualifying paper topics and "dissertation doggerel." In addition, Elizabeth is leading discussion sessions with teachers in three Chicago public "Paideia" schools. (She worked with the Paideia Proposal from 1987-89.) She also works with the Chicago School Mathematics Project in several public schools. Elizabeth said she would love to hear from old pals and is good at responding to letters. Her address is 1115 Oak Avenue, Chicago, IL 60602. 1986 Stephen D. Allred (SF) Graduated from the University of Virginia Law School, where he was on Law Review, in May. He will begin working for a law firm in Charlotte, North Carolina, this fall. He is married to the former Carolyn Lugo and has a one and a half year-old son, Elijah Alejandro Allred. 7 THE REPORTER Dilek Basar Baskaya (SGI) Writes from Ankara, Turkey, that she is the mother of her first child-a daughter Gulce, which means "like a rose." Laureen Sutton-Borgilt (SF) Reports that she is "blissfully married to Brint Borgilt as of 10/89," and that they expect their first child in October. Stephanie Rico (A), married to Todd Peterson (A'87) Is currently working with and teaching science to inner city 7th graders in Washington, DC, as part of a dropout prevention program-"a tough job, but challenging!" Todd recently received his M.D. through the Navy from the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and will be doing his transitional internship at Bethesda, she reports. Jerome Downey (A) & Tamara Wilson Downey (A'87) Had a little boy June 19-Ciaran Jerome Downey. 1988 Marlene Nordstorm (SGI) & Ken Wood (SF'85) Are the parents of Cody, 8, and Dylan, 6. Sheila Monen Virgil (A) & Steve Virgil (A) Will attend graduate school at Case Wes tern Reserve in Cleveland, Sheila in non-profit management and Steve in law school. Writes David Schaller (A), "It was a dark and stormy night and I was working on a paean to my ex-fiance when the doorbell rang (a chilling fact that can only be appreciated by those who know that the bell has never rung before and mayhap never again). Now normally .. .it's one of my countless creditors here with new machines of collection to rip from me this month's overdue and overinterested payment of dead presidents, but this time (thank God and the Great Books) .. .it was the uneasy spirit of lectures given yet unattended come to chide me for the ease with which I was navigating my second year of a master's of education at George Mason University in Virginia." The paean hopelessly interrupted, David set off "to pursue a more happy marital prospect thru a few of the more and definitely as many as possible of the less respectable joints in DC and surroundings." 5001 Walney Rd., Chantilly, VA 22021 Chuck Melson (AGO Was recently selected as director of the Queen Anne's Museum of Eastern Shore Life in Centreville, MD. He is co-author of the book The War That Would Not End, published by the Government Printing Office. Chuck has spent the past six years as a federal historian at the Washington Navy Yard. He lives on Kent Island with his wife Janet, son David and daughter Katie. 1989 Amanda Dalton Fernandez (A) Has recently returned from 14 weeks at the Moscow Art Theater Program School, home of the Stanislavsky method of acting. "Some of the most amazing theatrical training in the world," this graduate of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Clown School in Florida is quoted as saying in an article in the July 30 issue of The Arundel Sun. Among her experiences was the chance to work part-time with an independent professional group called the Theatre Klownov (the Theater of Clowns), which helped her to understand clowning, Russian-style. While interested in this "minimalist" tradition, emphasizing individual character and strange situation, Amanda prefers the complete transformation into a clown, she says, with wig, makeup and big shoes-"bringing out the character through those things." John F. Isham (A) Will begin graduate study this fall in the master's program at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University where he will also be a certificate candidate at the W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union. Mr. Isham has spent the last two years studying the Russian language at Columbia, Indiana, and St. Petersburg universities. During the summer, he has been taking intensive fifth year Russian at Indiana's Summer Workshop in Slavic and Eastern European languages. Jason Jeffers (SF) Is a freelance graphic designer who lives in Northridge, CA. Antoinette McCormick (SF) Left the Navy last December after spending six months on the flight deck of a hospital ship in the Gulf. She is "happy, engaged," and planning travel in Europe. Monique Mooney (A) Has received a teaching assistantship in the Herbst Program for the Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Initially, she will be teaching liberal arts seminars to third and fourth year engineering students while working towards her master's degree in the classics department. Christopher Sullivan (A) The announcement of his graduation from San Jose State University "in 1992" reads as follows: "After what seems like an eternity, Christopher Sullivan has finally actually finished his undergraduate degree. It actually didn't take that long, considering that he studied the literary works and linguistic theories in real time, taking as long to learn them as it took to develop them." The new St. John's College Alumni Register, which will include every alumnus from each campus beginning with the class of 1793insofar as possible-is expected to be out in time for Christmas. And none too soon. The last copies of the last register, published in 1987, ran out about a year and a half ago, acccording to Betsy Blume, A'75, director of alumni activities at Annapolis, who has coordinated the new publication. "People are clamoring for the new registers," she said. The new register will contain over 13,000, names, with addresses for 7,000 of these. A new feature of particular interest will be an occupational index, in addition to crossindexing by class, alphabet and region. Registers have been published every six or seven years since 1954. As a student aide in the alumni office in the 1970's, Betsy remembers the cumbersome filing system needed to keep track of graduates, and the unwieldy task of mailing multiple file cards off to the publisher. Today, she says feelingly, "Computers are great!" The book, which will be distributed free to every alumnus, is being paid for by the Alumni Association, with the assistance of the two campuses. The publisher is the Bernard Harris Publishing Company of White Plains, New York. 1990 Keri Bentz (SF) Has been accepted for graduate studies with Oxford's Modern Languages Department for study under the French sub-faculty. Elaine Reiss Perea (SF) Was married August 10, 1991, to Martin Perea. 1991 Roland Sonnenburg (SF) Has moved to Oregon "with Tilly (his Newfoundland), Kolia (his Anatolian Shepherd), and Vash and Mosashi (his cats)," to attend the Oregon State University at Corvallis in a program leading to veterinary school and a degree in veterinary medicine. 1992 John L. O'Brien (SF) & Ann Elizabeth Dennis (A'91) have been married. 1993 A. Haeworth Robertson (AGI) Is the author of Social Security: What Every Taxpayer Should Know, published in 1992 by the Retirement Policy Institute of Washington, DC, a nonprofit research and education organization devoted to the study of national retirement policy matters. The Printer's Devil: a novela by Charles Reuben SF '79 The Printer's Devil is the story of the intimate friendship between two boys. Set in the wealthy suburbs of the North Shore outside Chicago, the reader takes a magical and humorous journey from an ivory tower high school to the brain-numbing sweatshop of a small town newspaper. Nothing is taboo as Kip and his friend Antonio explore the limits of friendship, sexuality and drugs in a degrading and decaying suburban Shangri-La. The book opens with a dedication from Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, "And yet one word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is Love." Charles Reuben wrote the Printer's Devil when he was 18. He is also the author of Tar Beach & Beyond, a collection of 43 poems. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. To order copies of The Printer's Devil contact: Autumn Press, 1308 Orchard Pl. N.W., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104. �THE REPORTER pages The Classical Greek Theatre Festival of the University of Utah will travel to the Santa Fe campus this September for a lecture and presentation of Aristophanes' comedy The Frogs. James T. Svendsen, associate professor of classics and theatre at the University of Utah will deliver the pre-play orientation lecture on Friday, September 18. The lecture will focus on the cultural, historical, political, and philosophical back-grounds of fifthcentury Athens, exploring such topics as slavery and freedom in Athens at the end of Athenian democracy. As festival program material states, "Disguised as literary criticism with cheap laughs at the expense of both Aeschylus and Euripides, The Frogs is a moral and political polemic ... that ... transcends topicality and fun - and may even have a meaning for our own day." The play will be presented on Sunday afternoon, September 20, by members of the company. A five-page study guide will be available to students in advance of the event. Rising seniors Jennifer Council A'93 and Millard Prud'homme SF'93 spent their summer at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. Ms. Council and Mr. Prud'homme were two of the 41 college students between their junior and senior year who received grants under the Chicago Business Fellows Program. The Business Fellows Program enables outstanding undergraduates from select liberal arts colleges to explore business careers and earn credit towards an MBA at the University of Chicago. Jack Gould, dean of the Graduate School of Business, said "Our purpose is to give students who are pursuing a liberal arts degree an opportunity to examine the study and practice of business." In addition to taking business classes, they participated in weekly management seminars with business leaders and made corporate visits to firms such as McKinsey and Company, Goldman Sachs, and Citibank. Mr. Prud'homme also worked as an intern at Arch Development Corporation. Although they both may reenter Chicago Business any time within three years of their graduation, neither plan to do so immediately. Ms. Council is still considering other options while Mr. Prud'homme plans to wait a year before he pursues a joint degree in Law and Business. Both students considered the program an excellent introduction to the world of business and St. John's a good preparation for the work they did at Chicago. Author Tony Hillerman delivers a lecture in front of Santa Fe's Meem Library. The lecture was sponsored by Bread Loaf School of English and St. John's College. Photo by Lesli Allison oman on faculty lauded i Helen Hill Miller, the first woman to serve on the St. John's College faculty (she taught courses for one semester under the old program in 1940 at Annapolis), received a bouquet on her 93rd birthday July 7. It came in the form of an admiring profile in The Washington Post about "a woman who has been remarkable all her life and there is no reason she should stop now," in the words of Megan Rosenfeld. Mrs. Hill was married to Francis Pickens Hill, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and a member of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors. He was an instrumental figure in bringing the New Program to the college in 1937. The subhead for a 1940 news article announcing the faculty appointment has a flavor nearly forgotten in today's world: "Mrs. Miller, Mother of Two Small Children, to Teach Economics." Her brief St. John's tenure was only one facet of a long career. Mrs. Hill is the author of several books, the most recent published 18 months ago, the first in 1938. Other career credits: she was a reviewer of foreign books for The Saturday Review, a writer for the government-beginning as a "migrant writer" for the Department of Agriculture, and a political correspondent for 10 years for the London-based Economist. Continues Ms. Rosenfeld: "[Mrs. Hill] has a doctorate in political science, can fix machinery and plumbing, learned to cook in her late forties, took a Coast Guard course in sailing in her early eighties, drafted the report of the first Commission on Women for President Kennedy, became a photographer in her late fifties, authored a Methodist hymn, was among the first women admitted to the Cosmos Club, and raised hay and cows and two sons in Northern Virginia." One son was twice attorney general of Virginia; the other is a Presbyterian minister. While Mrs. Hill resists the label of feminist heroine ("she has a hard time seeing that women might actually be deterred by gender-related obstacles placed in their paths"), her career has been highly unusual for a woman of any era. William Tilles, Allan Hoffman, George Bingham, Gerald Hoxby model the new Alumni Association shirts at the President's Alumni brunch. Photo by Lesli Allison September 1992 Kersti Tyson, SF'92, and Frederick Haller, A'92, recently were named admissions counselors for the Annapolis campus. Kersti, who grew up in Taos, New Mexico, and spent her junior year studying at the Annapolis campus, is enjoying her new role speaking to prospective students at high schools and college fairs on the East Coast. She said "selling" St. John's is a cinch because she believes so strongly in it. "St. John's offers a tremendously wellrounded education," she said. "Its curriculum is something I wholeheartedly believe is the best for undergraduates." Kersti is particularly excited about being able to influence students at a time when "they're just starting to discover the choices they have in continuing education." She said she's frequently asked what graduates do with a St. John's education. "They can do almost anything," she said, explaining that the program helps "give them confidence to form ideas and opinions and to express them." Kersti's future plans include graduate school, then a career combining her interests in education and psychology. But for now she's content to view her school from the other side of the desk. "It's inspiring to see the dedication of the administration and faculty to the program, and to be working for the (college) community." When not in her office at the Carroll Barrister House, Kersti is sailing, rowing, or experimenting with a new recipe. Four years ago Fred Haller was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, high school senior "looking for a good school to help me find out what I wanted to do." He came upon St. John's and was "fascinated" by it. "I was an avid reader and the fact that students there discussed books, not just answered questions about them, impressed me," he said. Today Fred is spreading the word, although he's surprised at the name recognition and respect the college already enjoys throughout the country. "A lot of high school students don't understand what college will be like; all the (college) review books say the same things," he said " St. John's is so different that although they read about it, they still want to hear it from me." Although Fred frequently finds himself sitting alongside admissions counselors with grey hair, suspenders, and an intimidating raised eyebrow, he feels his youth makes him more approachable to high school students. He's also pleased to be able to inform them that, for the most part, St. John's students are self-selected; students who choose to pursue the academically rigorous curriculum are usually motivated to succeed. "I don't have to discourage anyone," he said. "The college is willing to let them try." Fred, who enjoys sailboat racing, is looking foward to continuing his studies in political science in a couple of years. �THE REPORTER 1992 By Rolling up his sleeves, James Gosselink (Phineas), A'86, is laying bricks to build shelters in remote communities far from his alma mater in Annapolis. But when he's finished, he's created far more than houses in Bolivia; he's helped a people find hope and a new way of living. James has been an international partner in Habitat for Bolivia since 1988. His first assignment was administrator to the Alto Beni project. "His work was so successful that it was the first international project left in the hands of the locals," said Dick Perry, Habitat's area director for Latin America. From there, James helped develop the project in La Paz, investigating requests for housing and confirming information. Last year, he worked with the Bolivians to take a giant step forward establishing Habitat as a non-governmental organization there. Today he's absorbed with developing low cost housing in South America. Habitat for Humanity International, now in its 16th year, is a cooperative effort between volunteers and prospective homeowners that has resulted in the erection of more than 10,000 houses. Future homeowners are required to help build their own home and then help others build theirs. Bolivia is one of more than 100 sponsored projects in 30 developing countries, including Central and South America, the West Indies, West Africa, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and the Solomon Islands. In addition Habitat has 687 affiliates in the United States, the District of Columbia, Canada and Australia. Its goal for this year is to build 1,800 houses in the United States and 2,700 overseas. But its leaders will tell you Habitat goes far beyond building homes-Habitat builds communities. And James is doing just that. Looking back on his past year in Bolivia, he said, "We have been plagued by a lot of serious difficulties, natural disasters, and death, but through it all we are emerging stronger and with a better sense of our priorities." "In Chayanta (an area isolated even by Bolivian standards) we're looking for ways to work with people who are extremely poor financially and who have been forgotten by the rest of society," James said. "A lot of empowerment is taking place, as in Alto Beni. We're making people recognize that they must work together and helping to show how that's done, as in El Alto. (El Alto is a city with nearly half a million inhabitants. It lies on a cold, exposed plain at 13,500 feet above sea level, although most of the immigrants arrived from the countryside with little experience in construction and no money to pay professionals.) Habicruz is building family-oriented educational super-structures before it lays any bricks." Understandably, the biggest problem in Bolivia is money, he said. Recently Habitat's main office in Americus, Georgia, announced a 75% reduction in funding to the Alto Beni Committee, a project in the low rain forests north of La Paz. James was amazed by the residents' response to the cuts. The committee, composed of homeowners barely able to make a living themselves, unanimously decided to make up the difference in advance house payments. "This not only demonstrates how powerfully committed they are to neighbors who still lack decent housing, but shows that the project has really become theirs, and their responsibility," he said. Although headquarters sent barely enough funding for 30 houses, the group will have completed 40 by the end of the year, he said. Weather continued to threaten Habitat's success, destroying its early spring crops last year. The few crops that were brought to market commanded high prices. Home construction was halted, but those able to make payments on their homes helped those who couldn't, proving once again the people's dedication to Habitat. Most painful for James was the loss of a personal friend and member of the Alto Beni Committee, Luciano Huanca. Luciano died from Chagas Disease, an insidious disease brought on by an insect bite to the homeless man. Currently, James is working on the development of a few small communities in Chayanta, an isolated area with a terrain resembling northern New Mexico. "Most of the area is arid and barren, but fine peaches are grown there and occasionally one comes across a gushing stream surrounded by greenery," he says. "The people (those who haven't left for more lucrative areas) grow wheat, corn, and potatoes and live much as their ancestors have for centuries. Most speak only Quechua. The average income is about $30 per year, and comes mostly from selling an occasional sheep." He explained that water pollution from mines has destroyed the roofing, threatening the houses. "We're hoping to use an ancient Egyptian technology involving parabolic adobe vault roofing to keep the total house cost below $200, which would then be paid over a period of twenty years in a local currency: potatoes," he said. "It would be a great project if the folks decide they can afford it." Donations may be sent to Habitat for Humanity International, phone 231 /7093498, 121 Habitat Street, Americus, Georgia 31709-3498. Please indicate Bolivian project. in Tutor Emeritus Curtis Wilson is among the authors included in a collection of 20 essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences that has newly appeared under the title The Investigation of Difficult Things. Published by Cambridge University Press, the essays were written to honor D. T. Whiteside upon his retirement as professor of history of mathematics and the exact sciences at Cambridge. Mr. Wilson's essay is called "Euler on Action-at-aDistance and Fundamental Equations in Continuum Mechanics." For the fourth consecutive summer, an abbreviated version of the Graduate Institute, designed for teachers of Mortimer Adler's Paideia methods of education, was offered in Santa Fe. Twentyeight teachers enrolled, most of them from Chicago and funded by the MacArthur Foundation and the Chicago Board of Education. Two came to Santa Fe all the way from India just to attend the twoweek program. The Chicago teachers were accompanied by Dr. Robert Brazil, Principal of Chicago's Sullivan High School, who, in 1988, originally designed the two week Paideia program with Timothy Miller, the director of the Graduate Institute at that time. Dr. Brazil's intention was to make the Graduate Institute accessible to Chicago Paideia teachers who could not afford to enroll for the entire eight-week summer session. This summer, for the first time, eighteen other Paideia teachers from around the country joined the program for an intensive week of classes under the auspices of Mr. Dennis Gray's Socratic Seminars. Paideia teachers are implementing the educational ideas of Mortimer Adler in their schools. In the Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto (Macmillan), Adler proposes a single-track, 12-year curriculum with almost no electives and no vocational training. His emphasis on use of the Socratic method to sharpen students' critical thinking is why Paideia teachers are attracted to St. John's-to learn in a school that has more than 50 years of experience in that method. Faculty members were Jack Steadman, 9 Linda Weiner, David Starr, Nancy Buchenauer, Toni Drew, Margaret Kirby, James Carey and Charles Fasanaro. Participants had a choice between two seminars: How to Make a Democracy Work, which included discussion of the Constitution and selected Federalist Papers and Supreme Court Cases; and a second that studied four plays by Shakespeare. Students also enrolled in one of four preceptorials: Natural Right and Natural Law, Embryology, Natural Philosophy, short works of Tolstoy. Graduate Institute Director Nancy Buchenauer said, "The tutors who have taught Paideians all agree that this was one of the most rewarding teaching experiences they have ever had-the students were unmatched in enthusiasm and preparations, and learned greatly from the program." Several hope to return to attend the regular Graduate Institute. Because of the wealth of teachers on campus this summer, two workshops were planned to give the two Paideia groups and the teachers enrolled in the regular Graduate Institute a chance to compare ideas. Four Alaska Paideia teachers and St. John's alumni, Mike Strong, Ken Ziegahn, Lydia Ossorgin and Kevin Holthaus offered a comprehensive workshop about how they have succeeded in incorporating Paideia principles and methodologies in Alaska secondary schools. A second teachers workshop gave other teachers a chance to describe their success in using St. John's methods in their secondary schools and to exchange reading lists they have used in their own classrooms. One student said that the program was "inspirational," and another wrote, "These courses forced me to take a step back in time to walk and reason with the masters." Nick Giacona joined the Santa Fe staff in May as the director of Prospect Management and Research. In the newly created position, Mr. Giacona will assist the development staff in locating and researching prospects for fundraising. Originally from Arizona and the Mojave Desert in California, Mr. Giacona has lived in Los Angeles for the past 17 years. A graduate of UCLA, Mr. Giacona spent nearly 10 years in fundraising at his alma mater. Prior to entering the field of prospect research, Mr. Giacona studied as an actor in Hollywood, including a stint at the Stella Adler Conservatory. He has appeared on stage in Los Angeles as well as in a few movies and commercials. Although he enjoyed his work as an actor, Mr. Giacona said it did not pay the bills. Nick Giacona "I was one of 30,000 unemployed actors in Los Angeles in 1982," he said. "I needed a daytime job and a friend of mine let me know that there was a job open at UCLA in development research. I did have experience in research but it was a different kind of research. I was a psychobiology major at UCLA and I was involved in medical research both at UCLA and USC, so those research skills did prepare me for fundraising. UCLA was an exciting place to be because 1982 was the start of their $373 million campaign." Mr. Giacona's decision to leave UCLA was based largely on his family. "I was looking for a better environment to raise my daughter and son that's on the way," he said. "I'm originally from the desert and I always thought highly of Santa Fe, but I didn't know whether I could make a living here. Then the perfect job opened up for me at the right school, in the right city and at the right time." Accompanying Mr. Giacona on his move to Santa Fe are his wife Keiko, two-yearold daughter Sarah, cat Epi, and a bambino on the way (delivery due date is October 7). �page 10 THE REPORTER September 1992 Reflections o_n a week back at St.. By I have been asked to put into writing some thoughts I may have had on spending a week back at St. John's at the alumni summer seminars. I have turned down the request as many times as I was asked. After spending the year living in Los Angeles, I had just driven across country with my ten year old son, Josh, and, at the moment the phone call came, I was instructing movers where to place boxes on which were written both the rooms for the move to Los Angeles and now for the return here to Woodbridge, Connecticut-with no way to determine which was which without opening every box. Ahead of me were four days of unpacking, and then a rewrite on a project which had to be completed in five days. The deadline for the St. John's article was the end of the week. On the third call, a compromise was reached after the Alumni director had received similar responses from other attendants. Utilizing a sharing-of-the-burden approach, it was agreed that several of us would all jot down brief reflections, which would then be combined into a larger article. The theory, as far as I could tell, was that the fun creative part would be ours, and the hard work theirs. Of course, there is no way I could possibly jot down random reflections without giving them scope and order, so, once again, St. John's has prevailed. Two events over thirty years ago goaded my signing up for the alumni week. The first occurred one evening in 1960 or 1961 when President Weigle met with the students in Key Auditorium to announce that the board had decided to expand St. John's to a second campus. After quelling the uproar about franchising (McDonald's a few blocks away had just passed the one million mark in hamburgers sold, and we foresaw a similar fate with "hamburgers" and "sold" simply being replaced with "Nichomechean Ethics" and "read"), President Weigle asked for input from the students regarding the three potential sites. The first, I believe, was some place that needed little thought to dismiss outright: Oregon comes to mind. The second was Santa Fe. And the third was California. The consensus was that President Weigle probably had never seen a palm tree if he had to ask. When he informed us that Annapolis students would be able to transfer freely between the two campuses, there was a lot of talk in the dorms about surf and catching the big one, as I recall. Now I wanted to see how such a dreadful error in campus selection could have perpetuated itself for so long. The second event came the winter of 1961, following a seminar with Mr. Klein. We were walking down the steps in Campbell Hall. It had been a dreadful seminar, one of those where few of us understood the text, and those who did couldn't understand why the author was on the list. It could have been Plotinus. I was venting my frustration, and then was struck with the unexpected thought that our fumbling helplessly around may have been equally as dreadful an experience for Mr. Klein (and Mr. Zuckerman). Mr. Klein's response was only to remark that a person should attend St. John's once in his college years when he has all that energy, and once when he is fifty, when he has had some life. I made a vow to him to do so. At the start of the alumni program, I would be fifty-one in four weeks, and had to hurry if I were going to keep my promise. Santa Fe has an extraordinary light. I have seen a sky like this only in Nantucket. It is a clear crystralline blue that makes the mountains and the shadows stand out like paper figures in a child's shoebox diorama. The yellows and greens are startling, and the air is crisp. Mornings break with a clarity that would have pleased Homer, and, during the summer, late-afternoon thunderstorms roll over the mountains behind the campus with great bombast, lightning crackling out of the heavy black clouds, the face of Zeus glaring down on the countryside below. It didn't take long to determine why Santa Fe had won out over California. The first impression of the campus itself, as we drove up to the college, was surprise that the architects had managed to convey the same atmosphere to the campus in Santa Fe as in Annapolis. While suggestions of the Indian and Mexican influences are abundant, the architects had maintained the ambience of a cloister where a small group of people congregate to learn: the closeness of the buildings, the main hall with the bell tower, the dorms situated in a way that you can spill out of bed directly into class, the sitting areas outside. Although I was a stranger, I had been here before. (continued on page 16) top: Istvan Fehervary and partner take to the floor at the Santa Fe Homecoming Dinner Dance. above: G.I. Alumni at the Reunion Seminar celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Santa Fe Graduate Institute. right: Erin Murphy O'Hara '73 and Randy Lindner '82 at the Saturday picnic. Photos by Lesli Allison �September 1992 THE REPORTER Twenty years ·-·-· The c1a~;s Dennis Hutchinson, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer of The University of Chicago Law School, delivers the Santa Fe Homecoming Lecture titled Rules and Roles, or the Crisis of Captain Vere. The lecture capped a stimulating and highly successful alumni program week on law and the liberal arts. Mr. Hutchinson focused his talk on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor. In exploring the moral and legal facets of the summary court marshal and subsequent execution of Billy Budd, Hutchinson emphasized the importance of understanding the historical context of the story as well as the character of Captain Vere. "In a world where enlistment can be a euphemism for impressment, where discipline is routinely violent and brutal, and where even cannibalism is sanctioned as long as minimal due process is observed, a mutinous act at sea during war-time while the 'embers of the Nore' are still warm does not make for an epic tale-but for the nature of Captain Vere." Concluding with the statement that "Law is not simply rules; it is a system," Hutchinson left the audience with a quote from Grant Gilmore. "Law reflects but in no sense determines the moral worth of a society. The values of a reasonably just society will reflect themselves in a reasonably just law. The better the society, the less law there will be." This was a graduating class small enough to fit in a VW Bug and still not beat the record. The original class constituted a bunch of dozen and they are scattered all over. The reunion attendees were not great in number, but very much enjoyed their visits. Friday evening in the coffee shop was attended by three classes, and sounded like a Democratic convention: crammed with people, all talking at once, and no two conversations alike. In describing who from our class was there, I will undoubtedly leave someone out. Don't take it personally. Remember, short term memory is the first... what? Peter Vanderlaan and Mary Beth Bliss, still running the Glory Hole Glassworks and other artistic endeavors, were full of interesting observations about Santa Fe and their new baby. Denise Fort, myself, Kevin Snapp and several others gathered outside the east coffee shop door for a couple of hours and visited. Denise is on the faculty of the UNM Law School and is directing a master's degree program in water resources administration. K.B. Wadsworth is now married and selling real estate in Hawaii. Kevin made the trip without his family. He is a lawyer clerking for a judge in Chicago (married to a treasure of a wife, Susan, whom I have met, and has two lovely children). Gerry Buchen and his compassionate (she has to be) wife, Lynne, generously (foolishly) invited our class to their house for brownies (Gerry has three pretty daughters, and the oldest is 19!) and beer, a combination worthy of our college years. Pat Hanson was there with his wife, Cecelia, smiling calmly and beneficently, contemplating some dastardly prank. Steve Denney had traveled from Tulsa with his wife, Alicia, who cheerfully acted like we were normal. Steve looks the same, grins the same, and has that same portending hesitation before saying something wildly absurd with an absolutely straight face. John Kvapil, now an architect in Seattle, and his wife, Kristine, so quiet and thoughtful, came all the way from Seattle to see classmates and tour New Mexico. Steve Moser, now a physician in Hawaii, flew in with his family to see St. John's and his parents who live in page 11 northern New Mexico. Twyla Sue Werstein (Fort) arrived by air with her daughter by Steve De Luca, Amethyst. Twyla is teaching philosophy, morality and Zen kite flying at various col1e ges and universities in Houston. Amethyst, conceived in or about the hallowed portals of St. John's (but no one's talking), is a knockout (speaking strictly chauvinistically), and was a delight to all. Steve, who recently earned a master's in social work in Santa Cruz, could not make it. His wife was due to have a child about the same time as Gerry's fourth beer Friday evening. Seth Cropsey flew in from the Heritage Foundation, where he is busy keeping the world comfy for radical Republicans. Laurie Sherr is living in Santa Fe with her three children, and came for the dinner Saturday evening. Melissa Kaplan Drolet has been living for many years with Ray Drolet on an Indian Reservation in Arizona, where they own and operate a trading post. They have moved to Albuquerque for better schools for their two bright children. Melissa is teaching elementary school, and Ray has returned to college at UNM. I am living in Albuquerque with my wife, Susan Stockstill. She is a partner in the largest law firm in the state. I am the senior partner of the smallest firm in the state--moi. I am sure someone has been skipped, and I'm sorry. It's not the result of an alcoholic haze. Blame it on failing neurons that were never that good to start with. Looking forward to seeing you next time. above: Members of the class of 1982 kick back at the Homecoming picnic. The class had a record 35 enthusiastic attendees over the weekend, with close to 30 at the Reunion Seminar led by Robert Sacks. left: Mark Gocke gives toast to the class of 1982 at Homecoming dinner. bottom left: A future alumna seeks fellow classmates at the Saturday Homecoming Picnic. Photos by Lesli Allison Due to limited space and time we are not able to print all the wonderful comments and articles we received in response to Homecoming. In particular we thank Steve Van Luchene, Charles Bell, Paula Fulks, Claudia Smith Porter, Dixie Lee Nixon, Susan Ferron and Beverly Angel for their contributions. �September 1992 THE REPORTER 12 Linda Stabler-Talty SGl'76, editor - c H ALBUQUERQUE A special fall event is being planned to kick off the revitalization of the chapter. If you have suggestions or questions, contact Santa Fe Alumni Director Cindy Jokela at (505) 9823691 or Michael David at 344-7875. ANNAPOLIS September 11: Hydee Shaller, director of the Mitchell Gallery. October 9: Wayne Gilchrest, Maryland congressman. November 10: Chapter dinner and speech by Lt. Governor Melvin Steinberg. November 13: Sharon Bishop, president Alumni Association. December 11: John Astle, Maryland State Delegate. Alumni luncheons with the above speakers are held on Fridays in the Private Dining Room, 12 :00 noon (unless otherwise noted). Telephone Betsy Blume at the Alumni Office (301) 263-2371 for more information about any upcoming events. AUSTIN September 26: Annual meeting, with elections, luncheon, and seminar, i 2-4 p.m. Joseph Cohen will be leading the seminar, with the topic to be announced. October 9: Seminar on "The Case of the Speluncian Explorers" by Professor Lon Fuller; led by Beverly Angel. This chapter meets informally on a monthly basis, usually the second Friday of each month, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Law Offices of Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, & Moody, 6th and Congress. Readings are selected by the hosting members. Contact Beverly Angel (512) 926-7808 for future schedule and details. A Thomas Geyer A'68 communications committee chair T E CHICAGO September 18-20: A Shakespearean Weekend in Spring Green, WI, jointly sponsored with the Twin Cities Chapter. Featuring the APT production of Much Ado about Nothing, a seminar, dinner, and Frank Lloyd Wright tour. November: Annapolis President Chris Nelson will lead a seminar on a short story. December: Holiday party being planned at Rick Ughtburn's house. Call President Rick Ughtburn at (312) 5521461 (h) or (708) 575-3956 (w), or Program Director Erin Milnes at (312) 271-1039 about any of the chapter activities and locations of meetings. DALLAS/FORT WORTH This chapter meets about 10 times a year for Saturday evening seminars. For additional information contact Suzanne Doremus at (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis at (214) 340-8442. LOS ANGELES September 13: Seminar on Agamemnon, the first play in the Oresteia Trilogy, hosted by Meg Sheehan. October 18: Seminar on the last two plays of the Oresteia Trilogy, hosted by Meg Sheehan. November 15: Seminar on "What the Seasons Brought to the Almanac Maker" by lhara Saikaku in the Anthology of Japanese Literature, hosted by Julia Takahashi. Seminars meet from 3 - 5 p.m. and potluck dinners follow. Call Julia Takahashi or Cindy Jokela in Santa Fe, (505) 982-3691 for further details. BOSTON September 13: Seminar at 3 p.m., to be led by Annapolis Dean Eva Brann on The Pagan Rabbi by Cynthia Ozick, with potluck dinner to follow. Meetings are at the home of Alvin Aronson who can be contacted at (617) 566-6657 for information on this and future chapter events. MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL September 18-20: A Shakespearean Weekend in Spring Green, WI, jointly sponsored with· the Chicago Chapter. Featuring the APT production of Much Ado about Nothing, a seminar, dinner, and Frank Lloyd Wright tour. This chapter meets fairly regularly on the third Sunday of alternate months at the University Technology Center in Minneapolis, 3:00 p.m. Telephone Glenda Eoyang (612) 783-1405 or 3793883 (wk) to contribute your ideas and for more information. BUFFALO/ROCHESTER/TORONTO September i 2: Seminar on excerpts from Rousseau's Emile, to be held in Geneseo, NY at The American House Bed and Breakfast. Hosted by Grant Wiggins. November 14: Seminar in Toronto; organizers Allenna Dugan Leonard and Dan Manfredi. This chapter welcomes the participation of all alumni in its wide-ranging locale. Call John White (716) 473-2431 for details and suggestions. NEW YORK September 30: Reading of Huckleberry Finn, with Assistant Dean Jonathon Tuck. November 5: Seminar with Annapolis tutor Malcolm Wyatt and co-leader Mary Goldstein on Female Sexuality by Freud. November 12: Newly formed reading group to meet at the home of Irwin and Joyce Hunt. Seminars are at the Princeton Club and begin at 7:00 p.m., with dinner preceding at 5:00. Call E v E N Sabine Schweidt (president) (212) 6458903 or 858-5249 (wk), or Peter Burdge (treasurer) or Jill Silberman (secretary) at 677-1145 for readings and other details. PHILADELPHIA October 28: Seminar at the Germantown Cricket Club. Contact Jim Schweidel at (215) 941-0555 (wk) for other information and meeting details. SACRAMENTO Meetings are every month in this 'unofficial' chapter to discuss the program readings, and follow the undergraduate sequence. Inquiries are most welcome; phone Arianne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen Feeley 452-1082. ST. LOUIS Following an organizing seminar and reception in March, this potential chapter group is planning to meet again in September. Contact Paula Fulks at (314) 846-4907. SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA September 13: Answer to Job by C. G. Jung, hosted by Marlene Strong October 11 : Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake, hosted by Maggie Jacobs. November 8: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, hosted by Mark Middlebrook. December 13: Introduction to Aesthetics by G.W.F. Hegel, hosted by Cindy Hobgood. Monthly seminars on the second Sunday of the month are continuing, and begin at 2:30 p.m. with alternating hosts. The science and math study group meets every other Wednesday for dinner and discussion; contact Mark Middlebrook at (510) 547-0602 for details. Call Toni Wilkinson (415) 5854255 or 476-7397 (wk) for further information and to contribute to the local newsletter. SANTA FE Fall seminar being planned. Telephone John Pollak (505) 9832144 or Alumni Director Cindy Jokela at 982-3691 for future seminar/social meeting times and places. Graduate Institute alums are studying variations on the undergraduate music tutorial, and meet once a week. Contact Dick Cowles (505) 986-1814 or Mary Schruben 473-7898 for information. SEATTLE Annual fall dinner being planned. Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 for information about this, and future activities. T s WASHINGTON D.C. AREA Wednesdays: September 16, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary. September 30, Euripides, The Bacchae. October 14, Ivan Turgenev, First Love (available in Penguin classics, $3.95). October 28, D.H. Lawrence, "England, My England" and "The Woman who Rode Away" (both in vol. II, The Complete Short Stories, available in Penguin, $4.95). November 11 , Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo (included in The Philosophy of Nietzsche, Modern Library Giant, and separately in Penguin, $4.95). November 25, Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors (selection, copies to be distributed), and Jacob Klein, "History and the Liberal Arts" (copies of each to be distributed). Seminars meet every other Wednesday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the D. C. West End Library, 24th and L Streets, N.W. Some parking is available in the rear, off L street. All alumni are welcome to attend any of the seminars. No advance notice or registration is required. However, if you have any questions, please call Sam Stiles, (301) 424-9119, or Sharon Garvey, (304) 535-2655. Another alumni reading group holds meetings every other Sunday at 5:00 p.m with readings to be decided. Meetings are in the NE Washington area - alums from Annapolis and other nearby locations are invited to attend. Call Susan Gushue (202) 526-1632 or Jon Church at 832-5851 for details. NEW CHAPTER PORTLAND? Continuing the chapter development efforts, the association and SJC sponsored an alumni seminar and reception for Portland and surrounding area on May 31. Santa Fe tutor Glenn Freitas led a seminar on "Parker's Back" by Flannery O'Connor, followed by a coffee hour and wine social. Plans are being made to continue meeting. Please contact Dale Mortimer at (206) 737-7587 or Cindy Jokela at (505) 982-3691 for more information. OPENINGS We get fairly frequent requests for nominations to higher-level positions in education and allied fields. They usually have to be acted on soon. Barbara Altman keeps them on file in her office. If you are searching, please call her regularly at (4 "10) 626-2501. Eva T. H. Brann, Dean, Annapolis �1992 Dear Editor: I was perplexed by the epistolary missile fired by Mr. Goldstein at tutor David Bolotin in the March, 1992 edition of The St. Johns Reporter. It challenged Mr. Bolotin's thesis that the fundamental "presupposition" of all philosophy and all Biblical religion is that there is a"lasting and comprehensive truth'', by characteri~ing that assertion as dogmatic and therefore not in accordance with "our way" at St. Johns, which, "in it's heart and soul" consists in asking questions. First, a presupposition is no more than what it says it is and that is, merely, a "presupposition". The plain meaning of the word is fundamentally antithetical to the notion of dogmatic adherence to doctrine. Moreover, a presupposition of the sort referred to by Mr. Bolotin is an assumption made necessary by the nature of the enterprise one is undertaking. Thus,for example, when one asks questions, there is implicit in the very asking of the questions a presupposition that truth exists and is, in part at least, ascertainable. Accordingly, a necessary condition for the asking of a question, if it is to be meaningful,is a belief in the real possibility that truth exists. Otherwise, asking questions would be reduced to an ill-fated foray into intellectual pathology. To put the matter in sharpest relief, consider the question, "Does truth exist?" Posing the matter under the formality of a question "presupposes" that the truth exists. But the content of the question places the presupposition so made in doubt. Moreover, if the answer is "no", is this the "truth"? It is therefore apparent that the very posing of this question forces a doomed leap into the paradoxical thickets of selfcontradiction, and points up the necessity for presupposing the existence of truth if even ordinary discourse is to be possible. Even more so is this the case with respect to the disciplines of philosophy and theology, whether Biblical or not, which investigate, and aspire to an understanding of God, man and the world and which, further, must presuppose a comprehensive and abiding truth, whatever, if ascertained, it may in the end turn out to be. In any case, we have no alternative but to make this presupposition if we wish to engage in those weighty ventures. Second, many of the ideas Mr. Bolotin objects to are rooted implicitly in the universal proposition that all truth is relative to time, person or circumstance. Obviously, some matters enter the orbit of truth for a time and then exit when circumstances change. But the assertion that this occurs universally is a claim that logically self-destructs in its very utterance. This is so because the universal assertion itself, in virtue of its logical form, is taken to be true absolutely, but is at the same time denied by what it is that is asserted, namely, the non-existence of unconditional truth. One could perhaps save the situation by reformulating the proposition as follows: All truth is relative except for the proposition that all truth is relative. However, this approach would amount to an unprincipled attempt at logical damage control and would betray a desire to hold to the position at all costs. Socrates and others who had been taught, as Mr. Goldstein puts it, how to think rather than what to think, shot Protagoras down on this one over two thousand years ago. 13 THE REPORTER However logically suicidal such thinking is, it nevertheless catches on every so often and is passed around as on a wave of epidemical contagion. The current thinking in this vein was apparently fashioned during the chaotic sixties in the intellectual boutiques of the day; which, with their predilection for half-baked, designer fabricated social theories, turned out flashy ideas as so many baubles cunningly crafted to dazzle the gilt-covered mentalities of a chorus of campus Menas. And these Menas, gaggling like clattering grackels, with little regard for the refinements of reasoned persuasion, pressed their causes by guilt-manipulation, intimidation, noisy public tantrums, theatrical antics of an outrageous or shocking nature, and even,on occasion, frank criminal behavior-all of this infused with underlying currents of the most selfrighteous and sanctimonious arrogance. as in the case of the well-intentioned Karl Marx and his fanatical implementers. In addition to worshiping at the altar of Feeling, these groups became star struck by the alluring twinkle of abstract ideas, but lacked the discipline to regulate them under the ruling control of the common good, and afflicted with a failure to distinguish between speculative and practical wisdom, those so afflicted were condemned to chase mindlessly after every moonbeam, rainbow and pretty bubble that chanced across their myopic gaze. And, by yielding to those enchantments, they became charmed into an intellectual servitude tha,t is the very opposite of the liberally educated mind; so that, under the witch's spell of this beautiful bondage, they could nothear the shuddering clank. of the prison door that closed their minds sloth and laziness and, as such, deserves no serious and thoughtful response. Indeed, Aristotle teaches, in the Tepics I think, that not every position asserted merits rational argument by way of response. Rather, some deserve chastisement; the prosecution of which is most effectively accomplished, I would maintain, by rollicking volleys of ridicule, sharply aimed and mercilessly discharged. A rhetorical thrashing, to shift the metaphor, may in some cases achieve a salutary effect by awakening the sluggish, self-satisfied mind and by purging it of ideological clutter as preparation for an unprejudiced and undogmatic attempt at cooperative inquiry into the perennial questions that have aroused the wonder and engaged the serious interest of mankind through the ages. We wait still for an Aristophanic master, who, as physician of the soul, will deliver us from our thirty year epidemic and by provoking gales of laughter, thereby restore as a balm to the long-suffering contempory mind a measure of that mental balance and control the ancient Greeks called, as we at St. Johns so well know, by the name of "sophrosune". John E. Siemens Jr. A '56 Editor: At the Alumni Association meeting in July, Association President Sharon Bishop presents the memorial portrait of Santa Fe Dean Robert Neidorf to the college. Photo by Lesli Allison In the developing chaos, they sensed that the objects of their scorn, namely, a complacent population of Ozzies and Harriets, were easy targets; and so the New Age militants broke loose their boistrous deviltry upon them and, like gleeful footpads pounding the pates of feckless innocents,pummeled them with unrelenting abuse, while their bewildered victims, having been vaguely cut off from the anchor of their tradition, could hold on to no position, could therefore command no defense, and cowering under potential accusations of "not being with it", yielded meekly to the rampaging torments of the philosophical swingers and so, by default, handed to them the gift of an easy victory. And all the while troups of mediahyped pop singers chirped applausegenerating strains about "Luh-uv". and "Bru-uhtherhood", terms which gave way eventually to the even more sentimentalized sugar treats now preached about as "caring" and "sensitivity''. Swept into the starry heavens by the music of good intentions, the advocates of self-congratulatory "Luh-uv" and its side-kick "caring" became, and remain, serenely oblivious to the ironic fact that acting uncritically on the discharge of such feelings risks the potential not only for wreaking havoc on a limited scale, as in the case of Don Quixote, but also for setting in motion a sequence of evils and barbarities capable of so piling up as at length to let loose upon the world a scortching IIliad of misery and destruction, behind the vacant dreams of their idealism. And intoxicated by the sweet smell of sentiment, they swooned dizzily about the perfumed air of their confinement to light upon any belief, however slender, so long as it gave off attractive scents of noble feeling. Feelings became paramount and it was counted an attitude of enlightenment to believe, as someone said, that the most important thing about the fact that 2+2=4 is not that it is true, but rather how you "feel" about that fact. To return to my original problem, the source of my perplexity lies, I guess, in the fact that the brief critical considerations I summarized above are so basic and elementary that I am troubled I may have misconceived Mr. Goldstein's position. It may be that he is going no further than to say that the ideas criticized by Mr.Bolotin should be entertained seriously in philosophical and political discourse. But rational response is warranted where the opinion in question is one over which reasonable minds may disagree, i.e., an opinion which raises genuine doubt or controversey. And where positions taken are based fundamentally on emotion or sentiment, transgress the most obvious and elementary canons of logic, are forced on others by manipulation and intimidation, and are insinuated into the sources of public information so as to avoid the burden of rational accountability-where opinion is held and promulgated in such a manner, it is maintained at the expense of reason through intellectual It was Bill Buchanan's ill luck that his letter lamenting the lack of Eastern books in alumni chapter seminars was published in the same issue as an announcement for the Northern California chapter's seminar on Chuang Tzu's Inner Chapters. led by Ralph Swentzel!. Lest this event be thought an aberration, though, our chapter has held three other seminars on Eastern works in the past fifteen months (Mo Tzu's "Universal Love" and "the Will of Heaven", Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. and "an Account of My Hut" by Kama no Chomei and "Prose Poem on the Unreal Dwelling" by Matsuo Basho). It is interesting to note that all but one of these readings were suggested and led by a tutor or president from St. John's: Richard Weigle led the Mo Tzu and Chris Nelson led the two Japanese stories. We also read the Bhagavad Gita several years ago. Finally, I could point out that our science & mathematics study group's current project, Godel Escher. Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter, is woven with a strong thread of Zen Buddhism, but that would be stretching the point. Because of publication deadlines and other factors, not all chapter events make it into The Reporter, and I suspect other alumni chapters have hosted seminars on Eastern works as well. Nonetheless, Mr. Buchanan's fundamental point remains valid. Alumni groups, free from the tyranny of a four-year curriculum, are in a unique position to help remedy our ignorance of the great works of Eastern (and other) civilizations. On the other hand, there are two impediments to holding regular alumni seminars on such works. Unfamiliar tradition First, few of us are familiar enough with the literary, artistic, religious and philosophical traditions of civilizations to select their best works, and it (continued on page 15) �14 THE REPORTER September 1992 of beautiful possibilities." I have spoken to you about Mr. Neidorf, and also about dean Neidorf. Now I would like to invite you to recall with me the laughter in his big eyes. You might agree he was the-quickest-to-laugh-of-men. Had he been raised by Native Americans, this no doubt would have been his name. His eyes were just bursting with laughter, mischief, playfulness; his face was mobile, latent with this chortle, that guffaw, ... God how "Mr. Neidorf. I loved to make him laugh. To watch his face was like watching the rolling waves of Robert Neidorf. the sea. His laugh was always just beneath the surface of each minute, deep, operative Dean Neidorf. and full of fun. The Dean. But you yourselves know that wit and leadership, and even great scholarship, in Neidorf. the end lack value, if they come from one who lacks integrity. And by my standards, Bob." integrity is the measure of a great man, the measure of a great woman. It is integrity that commands respect. Without it, brilliance and wit have but entertainment value; It was in my dorm, the second day into my freshman year 1962, that I first heard without it, leadership will lack longevity, as it will fail to maintain true authority, of Mr. Neidorf. My roommate Joanne Levy returne~ from her first math tutorial. She which is based, as Hannah Arendt says, "on respect, not power." And finally, scholarwas crying. Strangely, she was also determined to study and to learn. Neidorf could ship that lacks integrity is gamey, insignificant in the end; it is scholarship for the sake be brutal. of something besides the question of how to live one's life and becomes instead an In 1963 he was my sophomore seminar tutor. After we'd been reading the Bible instrument to other ends. A life of integrity, on the other hand, requires that the outfor some time and William McKeachie, red-faced, had tried to force us to faith and side of a person is synchronized with his or her insides, that what one says and what Pheme Perkins, also red-faced, was convinced we lacked grace, Mr. Neidorf rose up one does are connected: that one's cells and one's words are all "of a piece." slightly from where he was slouched like a beached whale on his side of the table and I began this talk, as Bob might well have, with stories. These stories about this contributed: "I found God for the FBI." Neidorf could be man we are paying tribute to today began with tales of his irreverent. brutality and irreverence. These were part of Neidorf; he In 1964 he left the college to teach philosophy at SUNY in would not want us to deny it. Perhaps these were like the Binghamton, NY. I left the college at the end of the academic thistles of a rose stem, they served to keep the cowards away. year. For remember, virtue was real and vital to Bob, and courage In 1970 I asked Mr. Neidorf if he would be my senior thewas a virtue he encouraged. And yet the love and laughter sis advisor. We were both at St. John's in Santa Fe. I had breaking forth from his cells were prominent too, so most taken a preceptorial in behaviorism and was eager to trash people approached him, and they did so over and over again. B.F. Skinner as a superficial thinker with destructive powers. I It is fitting therefore that the gift from the Alumni wrote furiously, proudly, eloquently and met with Mr. Association, on behalf of all alumni, should be a photo of that N eidorf in the Coffee Shop at the table in the corner near the rolling face. service door where I handed him my first draft. He took it in But Bob's integrity requires that the "story" not end here. his hand and a short time thereafter he put it down on the It goes on to see him become severely disabled. There are corner of the table and slowly pushed it off the table onto the some people presently at the college who only met this "verfloor. Garbage it was and garbaged it got. sion" of Robert Neidorf. That is one reason I am so grateful to The thinking, reading, digging that I did with his guidthe Alumni Association for every contribution it makes to ance produced a second draft with staying power. Mr. help this community recall it's great roots; its fathers, its Neidorf had invited me to consider what B.F. Skinner needmothers, its master teachers. ed to have done to satisfy and convince me. The attempt to Yet I want to end this tribute where I last saw him, near articulate my standard for what makes an explanation coherhis end. ent led me to Aristotle, to a comparison of Ptolemy and When I walked into the room at St. Joseph's Copernicus, to a new thesis topic and finally, to myself. From Rehabilitation Hospital in Albuquerque to visit my mentor, I this time with this tutor, I learned the lifelong lesson that I can saw Bob, who had undergone brain surgery, in a wheelchair. work hard and well. I needn't tell you that this is no small Beside him was an occupational therapist helping him put thing. together a wooden puzzle of a tractor. Though he did not look up, I smiled at him, that kind of smile that tries hard to I brought the third draft to his home on a Saturday. He was wearing an apron when he greeted me at the door. His mask weeping. I stood close to him, and as I did so, his theraleft arm was wrapped around a ceramic mixing bowl, his pist backed off. Bob turned his head as if to look at me, but "Mr. Neidorf. Robert Neidorf. Dean Neidorf. there was no reaction on his face. After he fit in a piece of the right arm was stirring cake batter. This was the first of many The Dean. Neidorf. Bob." visits in his home. The subject of this one was my thesis, puzzle, he looked at me some more. No reaction. Then, thereafter, as Mary will remember, and David and Julie may or may not be glad to according to some clock I did not perceive, his therapist called for an attendant to hear, we talked mostly about our children, but also about Plato, Philoctetes, our parwheel Bob to his next class. ents, sibs, marriages, colleagues, the drawbacks to hedonism, ... whatever the subI walked alongside his wheelchair. With some degree of self-consciousness and ject, the discussion was always about virtue, about the possibilities of being reverent, despair, I put my hand on his shoulder as the three of us proceeded down the hall to and at bottom the approach was gentle. the elevator. Then, yes! There was a sensation in my hand of energy rippling through My thesis served as evidence that I could work fully, deeply; that I could, as my Bob's shoulder. Without thinking of the driver. I kneeled in front of the moving yogi master teaches, "maintain, stick with the hard spots 'til they even out." As with wheelchair. Bob and I put our arms around each other and I felt him laugh and laugh yoga, I came to know my endurance, my tendency to jump to eloquent but unexamand laugh. ined so-called answers and too, I came to know, thanks to this master teacher, the And thus this strange constellation made up of the hospital attendant, Bob laughbeauty on the other side of effort which reveals my being whole and smooth and celing, and me walking alongside, my feet stepping on what Aristotle calls "nonsubstantial material," rolled on down the hallway to the elevator door where we had a wait. lular. I refer us to this learning experience that Mr. Neidorf guided me through so as to Once there Bob began to concentrate on a sign on the wall. His lips were moving. describe the ways and means of this master teacher, this great-souled man. There His face was scrunched, he was working hard and well. I had seen this face oftentimes. were four particular aspects to his method, each entails wisdom: he perceptively sized Until then I had not realized he could speak, but now I heard his voice haltingly up who he had before him as a student, he knew that the universe holds coherence reading the sign, "In case of fire, use the stairs." He repeated this over and over again, and truth, and he landed on a way to make the two, the student and the universe, each time very slowly, like a first-grader. So here I was with my mentor, my tutor, available to each other, all the while living his own life as a baker, cake-maker. my colleague, my dean, my friend who was in a wheelchair unable to use the stairs in It was likewise masterful, and wise, not to perceive his student as an ego, namely case of fire or desire. as someone who could not tolerate discarding her "brilliant" draft, but rather to have That is not what was important to him that day. That is not where the meaning seen his student as an object of reverence, that is as one who was choosing to see with lay that day. The meaning was in the work. The meaning was in the learning. The light, to wonder long, to suffer and maybe even scream for the sake of getting clear in tragedy that I was feeling was not relevant for him. I am fairly certain that many of thinking and saying. Evidently this is what his own scholarship entailed. His papers, you felt the irony that this man whose "brain muscle," whose genius, whose utter brillectures, and tutorials revealed his own brave and tender relationship to the delicacy liance was so well-developed, should be felled by a brain tumor. But Bob showed me of inquiry. that eleventh day of December in 1987, as I suspect he tried to teach me all along, that As dean he asked questions and made connections that made this campus crackle it is not the brain wherein genius lies. with excitement. His intellectual leadership infiltrated almost every classroom. The That day he was attending to learning to read. He was trying with all his might. atmosphere he created assured us that these questions we ask, this work we do, is He was succeeding. The significance lay not in the instrumentalism of the message, everything: it is beautiful, utterly gripping, and one of the most important things any that is where it could get him in case of fire. The meaning was rather in doing the person can do. In fact, he felt any person could do this work. Students and faculty felt work. That is what I have told you he taught me to do. To the end he was practicing his trust and encouragement, though this sometimes took the form of goading us like what he preached. a gadfly. And yes, he was whole enough to enjoy the power of the office, yes. His Such is a life of integrity, a life of virtue, where one pursues knowledge for its main work though was on the books, on thinking about how to instill faculty and own sake, and recognizes friends. students with reverence for the work; and though I don't know this for sure, I suspect the best part of his workday as dean was when he got to be in class-to teach, to hunt with the students for answers, and as Nietzsche says, to hunt for "a whole wagonload on �September 1992 THE REPORTER page 15 Reflections (continued from page 10) Members of the class of '72 gather for the Homecoming Dinner/Dance. Photo by Lesli Allison Editor (continued from page 13) sometimes can be difficult to gain an intellectual "toe-hold" on an unfamiliar tradition (Zen koans spring to mind). Of course this difficulty is easily surmounted by anyone willing to spend some time reading and thinking. Our seminar with Ralph Swentzel! on Chuang Tzu was one of the most engaging and productive in which I've participated, despite the lack of familiarity with Taoism many of us shared. I would also hope that any alumni fortunate enough to attend the Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics would serve as emissaries to the rest of us when they return. Struggle for participation A more persistent impediment is the age-old challenge of attracting enough alumni to anv chapter event, especially when it lacks the benefit of a "celebrity" from Annapolis or Santa Fe. Even large chapters like ours must struggle to balance worthiness and popularity in selecting readings (our chapter's September seminar on Beckett attracted two people, and thus was dubbed the "Waiting for Waiting for Godot" seminar). It remains an unfortunate fact that a tiny fraction of alumni participate in alumni seminars, unless lured by a favorite tutor or a Stag's Leap Wine Cellars cabernet. It strikes me that the lack of ability or desire to continue our conversations beyond the confines of St. John's College is a far more severe problem than not being introduced to Eastern works during our brief time there. ... a deeper understanding Despite these challenges, I'm persuaded that alumni chapters can continue to play a role in expanding the college's horizon, whether to Eastern works, visual arts, or recent scientific events. As we do so, though, we might heed the goal articulated in the brochure for the Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics: "The aim of the lnstitute ... is not the political goal of 'exposure to diversity' ... but a deeper understanding of the fundamental and enduring questions that are raised by thoughtful human beings wherever an intellectual tradition is established and perpetuated." Mark Middlebrook A'83 Santa Fe tutor James Carey receives the Alumni Association Award of Merit, presented by SF Tutor William Darkey, at the Homecoming dinner. Mr. Carey is an alumnus and former dean of the college, as well as the current director of the new Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics. Photo by Lesli Allison This familiarity was reinforced by the inside of the buildings. It must surely have been a delighted furniture manufacturer who learned that every piece of Annapolis furniture would be duplicated for Santa Fe. I had selected this particular week out of the two because I would be able to have seminars and preceptorials with tutors I had had in Annapolis, Mr. Darkey and Mr. Bell (who, unknown to him, had inadvertently inspired me to become an author when I sat one day in his office in the bell tower and watched him open a package containing eight copies of his newly published novel on the Delta). I would also have the unique experience of having a preceptorial with a tutor who was a former classmate, Mrs. Drew (then Toni Katz). So, I started with vague recollections of a life before, a life when, in our freshman year, we stayed up all night in the coffee shop waiting for John Kennedy to appear at the armory in Hyannis and accept his election victory. It seemed a week ago, and a century ago, if that life had ever happened at all. In the meantime, I had had at least three careers and exactly five children, the oldest of whom had just graduated college, and the youngest of whom was Josh, who had accompanied my wife and me to St. John's, wondering why we would want to go to school if we didn't absolutely have to. Mr. Bell and Mr. Darkey had not changed. Time had truly stood still. Mr. Bell, it became evident, had no fewer opinions and expressed them with no less color than he did in 1960. He had still not forgotten his heritage and the Delta and his pappy figured prominently in his understanding of the Great Books. The life and color he brought to the Oresteia were as refreshing to us as I'm sure they were confounding to others. Mr. Darkey was no less concise and wise than thirty-two years before. I had the same feeling listening to him now as then, that his sentences were worth considering for longer than he allowed between them. And little Toni Katz, with her long red hair, had become Mrs. Drew, with short red hair, a family and husband, but was still the same iconoclastic firebrand, and still smart as hell. She asked the opening question on a paper by Freud on the Electra Complex, "In what way are we 'poorer for a paradox'?" As my palms began to sweat and I stared intently at the book in front of me, daring not to look up and betray my total ignorance, I knew I was back at St. John's. There isn't much to tell about the week that alumni don't already know. Someone had decided that it might be interesting to have a "theme", so for the week we read Freud's papers on the Electra Complex, and then the Electra plays of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus, in addition to it Mr. Levin does the rest of the Oresteia. Like all theme parks, it's a fun notion that you never really have enough time to explore. While time had been provided to "see Santa Fe", since family and profession had prevented my doing any reading before I arrived, almost all my free time was spent doing the readings. Once again, I was turning the last page of a text on the way down the hall to class. Old habits are hard to break The first few seminars were disastrous for me. I had forgotten how to read, and even more so, how to think I found myself saying the same dumb things with the same blinding speed as I had in Annapolis. As usual, the tutors were very patient with me. I have been saved throughout my life by conveying a sense of promise. Slowly, painfully, I found myelf learning how to read and think again. There is nothing I know that can foster this faster for me than hearing a tutor, such as Mr. Darkey, say, "Well, that's one way to interpret it, Mr. Leven, does anyone have another way?" Certain notions began to appear before me which had not made their presence known for a very long time: what it means to give a text a close reading, how words convey meanings, the way that thoughts emerge from an author's efforts, the results that come from writing with care, the value of dialogue, and, of course, that discourse is significant. My wife, Roberta, a non-St. Johnnie, began the week skeptical, a result, I suspect, of many years of hearing St. John's spoken of with the same tone otherwise reserved for religious phenomena and the Boston Red Sox. She began the week inquiring politely of me why so much time and attention was being spent on texts which were somewhat outdated and, perhaps, even erroneous. By the end of the week, she had become at least a partial convert. I recall well the day of transformation. I had gone into town for a few hours while she had headed off to the library to do her reading. When I returned, she ran up to me, waving a sheet of yellow-lined paper. On it she had written a concise and, I thought, quite perceptive refutation of Freud's paper we had discussed that morning. She was outraged at Freud's views, and had decided to respond in writing to the tutor. As I watched her pace back and forth, loudly reading to me the words she had written in a fit of rage at Sigmund Freud, I knew it for certain. She was hooked. The week ended as St. John's did for me many years ago-unresolved. We had just started. On the drive back to Los Angeles, I believe I began to understand for the first time what Mr. Klein no doubt knew I would understand at fifty. More than the books, St. John's is the people. The books serve as a catalyst for wise and thoughtful men and women to lead us to an examination of our lives. Had I been smart enough to realize that at twenty, it would have had no meaning. I had not yet had a life to examine. There was a highlight to my visit. My ten year old son, Josh, spent the days at a local adventure day camp, and would return in time to have dinner in the cafeteria with us. One evening, as we sat eating dinner, a fellow classmate mentioned Euclid. Josh asked who he was, and by the time my answer was finished, we were in the library finding a copy of Euclid's Elements. Josh located it on the shelves, and we went upstairs to a classroom ... Josh ha~ always had a special aptitude for math, and he started putting I:47 'on' the blackboard, figuring it out, step by, step. He finished with a smile of satisfaction spread across his face. Throughout our stay in Santa Fe, he had repeatedly asked me what.was so special aboµt St. John's. I could tell from the light in his eyes as he studied the blackboard. with his demonstration of Euclid 1:47 on it tha.t he knew in a way I never could have _explained. · I wonder whether Mr. Klein knew that this would happen, too. �page 16 THE REPORTER September 1992 Freshmen (continued from page 1) why there are few women authors in the curriculum to grades to the employability of St. John's graduates. After the meetings, participants re-grouped for an ice-cream social. When asked why they chose to attend St. John's over other schools, many freshmen cited the structure and content of the program. Freshman Matt Walker said he was drawn to what he referred to as the liberal aspect of the program. "I get to have a say in what I learn," he said. Natalie Freeborg of Charlottesville, Virginia, said the content and quality of the program attracted her. "The level of education seems to be much higher, added to the fact that the program is totally different from any other I've found," she said. "I love to read and I think the great books are the salvation of the western world." On Monday morning, toting sleeping bags, backpacks and canvas sacks, freshmen along with orientation leaders headed out for three days of camping and recreational activity in some of New Mexico's most spectacular countryside. The more avid hikers turned their weathered boots toward Puerto Nambe. The climb begins at the Santa Fe ski basin and ascends to elevations over 11,000 ft. with surrounding peaks above 12,000 ft. On this particular day, About thirty years ago, a bit more, perhaps, I had a brief conversation with my father. He could remember a time when he was about three and a half. He was taken to visit the home of his grandfather in Biala Podlasca, Poland, some thirty miles from his own home in Brzesc. He spoke of a large house with a small house in back. There was a garden with four pathways leading to a centralwell. To the right was a pigeon loft. He remembered that well because it was there they had once been forced to hide when there was the threat of a pogrom. On the other side was an encampment where the cavalry of the Czar's army was stationed. Last summer I returned to Poland: In some sense I had never been to . Poland, and yet this shaggy thing called "I" which lies partly in dead books and partly in grandfather's tales could return to Poland. I spent the night in Warsaw, and in the morning, together with a friend, a Polish-speaking friend, I took the train to Biala. The station was about a mile from town, and as we walked I spotted a man who seemed about the right age. I turned to my friend and said, "He's the right man. Ask him where the Russian cavalry unit was stationed." The conversation lasted about half an hour as we walked. It was all in Polish, and I didn't understand a word. There were so many hand gestures that I assumed that I had a general understanding of what was being said. I was, of course, totally wrong. When the conversation was over, my friend told me that he had learned that the cavalry camp no longer existed. The neighborhood had been destroyed, and cheap government housing erected on the spot, but still we could go and see the ground on which things had however, the trail was muddy as hikers started out in a downpour of rain. Julia Graham, a senior who helped prepare students for the trip said spirits were high despite the weather. "I thought they were really remarkably cheerful under the circumstances," she said. The largest of the freshmen groups drove two hours to Heron Lake, a large cold water lake in northern New Mexico, where they hoped for enough warm weather to allow for some swimming, windsurfing and other lakeside fun. Those who preferred not to chance foul weather in a tent and sleeping bag ventured into the Georgia O'Keefe landscape for a stay at Ghost Ranch. Once O'Keefe's home, Ghost Ranch has seen the likes of D.H. Lawrence and other famous guests. It is home to one of the largest dinosaur excavations in the world and a living museum on the property serves the dual purpose of saving injured animals as well as educating visitors about New Mexico plant and wildlife. A fourth group of students, accompanied by Associate Director of Admissions Mary Anne Modzelewski and her husband Steve, went to Abiquiu Lake, a warm water reservoir in north central New Mexico. Students on the Abiquiu trip focused on art, with lessons on sketching the surrounding desert landscape in addition to other activities. Orientation leaders, consisting largely of student resident assistants, underwent training prior to orientation. They worked with school counselors to learn to lead peer discussion groups, including talks on difficult subjects such as social pressures, safe sex and alcohol. Leaders also underwent leadership training for a day at the Santa Fe Mountain Center. As of press time, orientation groups were still in the field and the skies still heavily overcast. If nothing else, freshmen will learn the art of staying dry and the beauty of the high desert after a summer rain. Santa Fe freshmen brave foul weather as they head for Heron Lake in northern New Mexico during the 2nd annual Freshman Orientation. Photo by Lesli Allison The one-time Poland home of Robert Sack's great-grandfather. once stood. He also spoke of a Jewish graveyard, and had some vague recollections of a museum. I went to the public housing, wandered around a bit, and watched some children at play. Nothing meant very much. Then we went to the graveyard. It was an empty field surrounded by a fence. The dead were gone and their stones were gone. Some say they were used to build the ovens, some say they were used to pave roads. Some Americans had collected enough money to pay the city to put up a fence and a park. When I was there, a part of the wrought iron fence had been thrown down to make a short cut for passersby, and the field still stood empty. There was no park. We went to the museum. The director said that there had been a mistake. The man I had spoken to was not old enough, and could only remember where the cavalry had been stationed since 1912, but my story went back to 1904. Again I understood nothing of theconversation, but followed my guide. This time we seemed to be in an older part of town. The houses were Russian gingerbread, made of boards notched together as we once built log cabins. I followed somewhat aimlessly, but as we turned a corner, I looked up and saw the street sign with the words "Ulicia Brzesc". I paused for a moment and said to my friend, "I'm lost. My memory is so vague that I don't know whether I'm remembering, or whether this is a story that I'm making up on the spot, but I seem vaguely to remember that a distant cousin once told me of a strange interrelationship. The memory said that one greatgrandfather lived in the city of Brzesc in Biala Russ, while the other greatgrandfather lived in the city of Biala on a street called Brzesc. I think we're here." "Indeed," said my friend, "we are here." Memories that feel as if they came from the inside are also part of my story. We walked for about two blocks, and suddenly the architecture changed. In the middle of the old wooden houses, there was a large, not very attractive factory. The compound which housed the factory was very large, and I could not see the end. "Ah", I said to myself, "that must be the grounds of the old 9th cavalry unit of the Czar's army." Now, there was a small, yellow, gingerbread house next to the factory. I was terribly disappointed. I know the magnification that takes place in childhood memories, but I had hoped for more. Nonetheless, we approached the house and an old man came out. "Oh yes,'' he said. "There is a much larger house on the other side of the compound." We walked and walked. Past the milk company and past the hotel, and there it was, a large house. We walked around back; there was the small house. There was a field of weeds where once the garden must have been, and there were the four pathways leading to a central circle, but there was no well. I later discovered that only a year ago, the well had gone dry, and had to be moved. All of this greatly changed my understanding of language. Actions often are preserved in myth and story, but seeing sounds and old tales pulling themselves into solid buildings is more profoundly at the heart of the things we have been talking about. There was a man of about thirtyfive in the corner shoveling coal. He did not look up. We were there for more than an hour. He did not look up. The women and children came out. A camera is the best way of making a friend. Few are those who do not want their picture taken, though I sometimes admire them all the more for that. Pictures were taken by the door with arms 'round necks, and I asked if I might enter, a front door for her, a crypt ninety years unopened for me. She told me how much, as a child, she had loved that house and how she had always wanted to live in it, and now it was hers. Yes, I too can feel the joy in the old woman's story; it was I who told it to you. And yet I knew that she had known them all, my uncles, my cousins, and perhaps even the old scholar himself, my father's father's father. I also knew that she knew through what events it was that she had come by all that joy. I'm home now, back in Santa Fe. �September 1992 THE REPORTER page 17 G.I. Commencement (continued from page 5) tories and pedigreed faculties," merely by reading the world's finest books and discussing them with serious people. Mr. Colston not only hired the applicant, Helen Conlon, A'82, but also he married her, and presently accompanied her to Annapolis when she became an Admissions representative for the college. He himself worked at the college in a succession of jobs-as director of residence and student activities, and later as GI tutor. College life was fascinating. He discovered a "seamless coherence and communal web," with no distinction between academic and institutional lives. This communality expressed itself in the office, on the playing field, at staff lunchtime seminars. "[T]here were little seminars going on all the time: guerilla seminars, faculty study groups, women's hours, libertarian clubs, instruction committees, Christian fellowships, all pursuing [the] idea of reading and discussing classic texts." When he undertook his own third master's degree at the Graduate Institute, he realized, he said, that it would be his first "full, round and evenly patterned education." While he was prepared to define the kinds of community at St. John'sthat of the canon, "of the best that has been thought and said"; of the tutors, "of seasoned re-readers of that canon"; and the students, "enthusiastic beginners"it was the human whole of this commu-= nity that Mr. Colston emphasized in his dosing anecdote about a massive college hunt for his own lost child. "Now there was nothing in John Erskine's original good idea of education by books to make mere readers-bookwormy four-eyed wallflowers-show collective interest in a lost unlettered academic brat," he said. "I think John Erskine would be slightly surprised to see how deeply and contagiously and naturally communal the practice of his idea turned out." President Christopher Nelson conferred degrees at the ceremony. John Verdi, new director of the Graduate Institute, made the opening remarks. The day was one of unexpected perfection for the reception on the quad after the ceremony, where graduates mingled with faculty and guests. Among those present were Helen Colston, two-week-old Logan Francis, and Thalia Colston, 7, who had been safely asleep in her bed five years ago while the college hunted for her. top left: Graduate Institute Directors Nancy Buchenauer and John Verdi come together for the July board meeting in Santa Fe. top right: Mr. Don Mciver receives his M.A. at the graduate Institute Commencement ceremonies in Santa Fe. Mr. Mciver is a member and former chairman of the SJC Board of Visitors and Governors. He also served as interim president of Annapolis in 1990. above: Annapolis tutor Erik Sageng places the master's degree hood on Joan Becker of Bismarck, ND, while president Christopher Nelson offers his congratulations. left: G I student Sandy Sawyer from Arlington, VA, took part in all the events of the summer olympics at Annapolis and stood on her hands in front of McDowell Hall for good measure. Photo by Keith Harvey �THE REPORTER page 18 The Effective Republic: Administration & Constitution in the Thought of Alexander ..... Al'::llllll"'lll"'lllllllll'\111'"111"'11 Harvey When Thomas Jefferson was Secretary of State and Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury, they once dined together at the home of Jefferson, who later recalled the following exchange: The room being hung around with a collection of the portraits of remarkable men, among them those of Bacon, Newton, and Locke, Hamilton asked me who they were. I told him they were my trinity of the three greatest men the world had ever produced, naming them. He paused for some time: the greatest man, said he, that ever lived, was Julius Caesar. From a man who did so much for the cause of republican government, it is startling to hear such unrestrained praise for the destroyer of the Roman Republic. Perhaps Hamilton wished only to express his respect for an effective man of action in the face of Jefferson's ostentatious partiality to philosophers and scientists. To Jefferson, however, Hamilton's candid praise of Caesar was the mark of one who believed that men cannot be governed without resort to force or corruption. Yet did not Hamilton affirm, on the first page of The Federalist, that the American people will decide, by .their conduct and example, whether mankind is capable of establishing good government from reflection and choice, rather than accident and force? In any event, Hamilton's life and the manner of his death reveal neither affection for Caesarism nor disdain for science. His actions and his writings were consistently those of a man devoted to proving the American experiment in free selfgovernment an enduring success. And his high regard for the theory of statesmanship as well as its practice is indicated by his intention, later in life, to produce a multivolume work, on Baconian lines, investigating the history and science of civil government and its various effects on the freedom and happiness of mankind. Collaborators were to be enlisted to write the historical volumes, from which Hamilton himself would draw conclusions in a comprehensive treatise of political science. Hamilton died before fulfilling this intention, having risked his life defending the young republic from the man he deemed its most dangerous embryo-Caesar, Aaron Burr. Harvey Flaumenhaft's The Effective Republic is effectively the treatise of republican government Hamilton never lived to write. From the thousands of pages of Hamilton's occasional writings addressing the urgent political questions of his day, this book distills the fundamental principles on which his statesmanship rested. Flaumenhaft's method is to use Hamilton's own words as much as possible, conflating, compressing, and rearranging his phrases and sentences, so that the reader may enter directly into Hamilton's thought about the parts of government and their work. The title of the book encapsulates Flaumenhaft's judgment that, for Hamilton, the problem at the core of republicanism was how to combine popular representation (the republican principle) with effective administration (the mark of good government). An effective government requires an energetic executive, yet many adherents to the republican principle have considered a strong executive a vestige of monarchy inconsistent with the genius of republican government. Hamilton was neither a monarchist, as his enemies alleged, nor precisely a republican, but rather a friend of republicanism. That is, while harboring strong hopes for the success of the republican theory, he considered that success as yet deeply problematic. He sought to solve the problem of republicanism by improving the republican form so as to blend, in our constitution, the advantages of a monarchy and a republic. He tried to teach his countrymen that a realistic commitment to popular representation demands a readiness to embrace such limitations on popular representation as are necessary for effective government. Hamilton's critics, mistaking his apprehensions for disloyalty to the republican principle, viewed his efforts in behalf of an energetic executive as subversive of popular liberty. But Hamilton argued that the greater danger to popular liberty lay in the prospect of a republican government so weak and ineffective as to bring about its own swift destruction. Were a Caesar ever to threaten our rights of political equality, he would most likely seize upon republican weakness to allege that popular self-government cannot be good government and must yield to accident and force. It is in this regard that Hamilton, the advocate of executive energy in the Constitution, is indeed Publius, the true friend of the republic and the enemy of Caesarism. The Effective Republic is divided into three parts. The first part articulates Hamilton's conviction that popular representation is the only foundation for good government consistent with enlightened modem principles. Modem enlightenment teaches .that the end of civil society is the security of the people, i.e., their safety and prosperity. Popular liberty is valued as a means to security rather than as an arena for public action or, as we say, participatory democracy. Enlightened modern society is commercial and industrious in contrast to the warlike ferocity of the ancient republics. Equality of human rights follows from the law of nature, coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself. Popular representation, perfected by the partition of governmental powers, frees the people from fear of their government and liberates their productive industry. Liberty alone, however, is no sure road to safety and prosperity; the government must do a great deal to preserve a climate favorable to commerce and progress, above all by assuring for the nations credit, both public and private, an unassailable standing. In the second part Flaumenhaft presents Hamilton's view of eff ective administration as the sine qua non of good government, implicit in the popular principles of modernity yet absent from representative government in its pure form. The republican principle, dedicated to safety from government, must undergo modification with a view to improving the efficacy of government. The improvement consists in the careful apportionment of powers so as to promote unity and duration, the chief requirements of effective administration. Unity means such concentration of power as will permit many wills to act as one. Duration means such stability of power as will permit many actions to be in concert for constant purposes over long periods of time. To attain unity in the U.S. Constitution meant, most urgently, to solve the problem of federal union but also, and more fundamentally, to provide a place for a vigorous and powerful executive. Duration had its preserve not only in the well-constituted executive but also in the Senate, with its longer tenure and its role in appointments and treaty-making. Neither unity nor duration is strictly in harmony with the popular liberty embodied in purely representative government. Their advocacy by Hamilton invited much imputation of monarchic and aristocratic sympathies. The third part of Flaumenhaft's book is about the judiciary, which Hamilton viewed as that part of the government most responsible, in virtue of its independence and impartiality, for preserving the constitutional integrity of the whole. By calling this book a distillation of Hamilton's political principles I have not done justice to the immense editorial difficulties which Flaumenhaft has faced and surmounted with exemplary circumspection. As he notes, Hamilton's writings partake more of decision and advocacy than of theory; they address particular audiences about particular problems at particular moments in our history. Moreover, Hamilton himself understood that persuasive speech must be adapted to its audience, to the point of adopting some of their prejudices and even a little of their nonsense. Considerable discretion is required to disentangle permanent principles from the rhetorical jungle of a life-time of polemical utterances. That discretion is September 1992 especially evident in Flaumenhaft's judicious handling of Hamilton's speech at the convention advocating life tenure for the executive and the senate and an absolute executive veto. Granting that it is a tour de force of theoretical politics or politic theorizing, why should we read a book like this? In Hamilton's own words, It would be vanity to expect to throw much additional light upon a subject which has already exhausted the logic and eloquence of some of the ablest men of our country; yet it often ha pp ens that the same arguments placed in a new attitude and accompanied with illustrations, which may have escaped the ardor of a first research, serve both to fortify and extend conviction. There is not a little irony in the fact that, while Hamilton's political principles have found permanent embodiment in our Constitution and especially in the office of the presidency, Hamilton's arguments are today remarkably out of favor. In the form of our polity Jefferson's republican vision was largely eclipsed by Hamilton's sober federalism; yet present-day political discourse is in style and substance overwhelmingly Jeffersonian. An observer of contemporary discussions of the Constitution might be pardoned for surmising that the Bill of Rights is the jewel in its crown and that the entire purpose of its system of checks and balances is to safeguard citizens from the abuses and invasions of a meddlesome government. Nothing would raise more eyebrows than the suggestion that our Constitution, even as it limits the powers of government, so apportions those powers as to encourage maximum energy and efficacy in their exercise. At a time of frequent laments over administrative deadlock and much inchoate longing for something called leadership, it is salutary to read this masterful exposition of the case for effective republicanism. Mr. Flaumenhaft has been thinking and writing about Hamilton's ideas for many years, since his undergraduate days at the University of Chicago, where he received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D., all in the field of political science. His book is a work of political theory, not history, says Harvey Flaumenhaft, and the central question is this: "What does it take for popular government to be made something a sensible person would favor? Can representative government be made good government?" High praise for the book comes from University of Chicago Professor Leon Kass, "Any serious scholar who wishes to understand the American regime will want to understand the thought of one of its major architects. For years to come, this book will be the major guide to Hamiltom 's thought." With his Hamilton study well launched, Mr. Flaumenhaft has plenty of other projects. He is the founder and series editor of Masterworks of Discovery: Guided Studies of Great Texts in Science, an NEHfunded project which he suggested himself some years ago as a member of an NEH panel. Coordination of the project, assembling the advisory board, writing guidelines, planning volumes and finding authors for the series has occupied much of his time in recent years. He also has written essays, chapters and reviews on other subjects. �THE REPORTER September 1992 RI s Lewise Solomon SGI'87- died suddenly on July 15, 1992. A resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, since 1967, she was born in Cleveland, Ohio, attended high school in Roswell, New Mexico, received her Baccalaureate from Denver University and her master of arts from the Graduate Institute in 1987. Solomon was a teacher as well as an accomplished singer, dancer and actress. Martin Stone Martin Stone, former music librarian for the Santa Fe campus and longtime friend of the college and Santa Fe community, died of AIDS on May 9, 1992, in Palm Springs. Stone was born September 25, 1938, in Long Island and lived in New York and Miami before moving to Santa Fe in 1979. He was music librarian at the college from 1979 to 1983 and director of public relations from 1983 to 1984. He was active as president of the Santa Fe Community Theatre and president of the Santa Fe Theatre Guild. The uniformly high quality of the productions he was associated with as actor, director, or producer earned him the nickname, "Mr. Theatre." Perhaps his best loved role was as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof." Stone is survived by his mother, Rose Stone, a brother, two sisters and his partner of 30 years, Rodger Rodgers. Memorial services were held May 14, 1992, in Palm Springs. page 19 Parents of students at both campuses are cordially invited to join in the fun. For information contact: Parents Weekend Santa Fe - Susan Friedman 505/982-3691 ext. 226 Parents Weekend Annapolis- Betsy Blume 410/263-2371ext.507. Schedule of Events ANNAPOLIS OCTOBER 30 - NOVEMBER 1, 1992 Friday, October 30 8:45 a.m. - 8:15 p.rn. Registration artd Hospitality FSK Lobby Auditing Classes Parents may register to audit classes during the day on Friday 5:30 p.m. Informal dinner with the students Dining Hall 8:15 p.m. President's Welcome to Parents FSK Auditorium Concert by The American Chamber Players Miles Hoffman, Artistic Director Saturday, October 31 9:00 a.m. - noon Registration and Hospitality Great Hall - McDowell Hall 10:30 a.m. Parent/Student Seminars Reading: Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics McDowell Classrooms News of the death of Roger Wicklander, A '64, a year ago from a stomach hemorrhage, announced in the March 1992 Reporter, came to the editors from a number of sources, none of which supplied much biographical information. Recently, we received a copy of the The Bulletin of the American School of Paris containing an extended appreciation of Roger, who had been a teacher there for the past 15 years. We have excerpted the following passages. "[I]nclined to the solitary life; wedded to his computer and Lydie's Cafe; a brilliant problem solver; laconic; scornful of convention; disregarding such constraints as bureaucracy and tirne ... [which] characteristics prompted one of his colleauges to call him 'the ultimate anarchist.' We all saw him as a wizard with computers, who left as a fitting memorial the administrative and schedule program (written entirely by him) known as 'Mr. Chips.' From time to time we saw other facets, such as his class demonstration of how to do the whole Herald Tribune crossword using only the down clues; his deciphering from scratch of the 'Atrecibo' message sent out in one of the space shots ... (comment from one teacher, 'I hope the extra-terrestrials are as smart as R.W.,') and his creative work with stage sets which so inspired many of our students. "The search for Roger's next-of-kin, while posing problems which would have taxed Sherlock Holmes-and which were certainly too much for the American Embassy-also revealed 'other Roger Wicklanders.' In the course of investigations that ranged through India, Pakistan, Singapore, Iran, California, South Carolina, New York, and Wisconsin, we discovered his Indian wife Damayanti, long since seprated but never divorced, located his mother-who had lost touch with him many years ago, and spoke to many people who expressed their deep admiration for him." "... For someone who did not take the trouble to learn French, it was a delightful surprise to find that he spoke Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Farsi. Indeed, during his stay in Isfahan, 1977-79, he translated textbooks from Farsi into English. From his graduation at St. John's College, Annapolis, and arrival at the Rama Krishna Mission Ashram, Narendapur in 1964 to his enforced departure from Isfahan, Iran, in 1979, Roger seems to have swept through various schools in the Indian subcontinent in a blaze of enthusiasm and idealism for education. "... My lasting image of him is of his arrival at [the American School of Paris] in the summer of 1979. He stepped out of a taxi in a thunderstorm, dressed in an immaculate white suit. With [his friend] Lucy Lee Chiles on his arm and an aristocratic bearing, he gave the impression that he had come to buy ASP, not to work there. "Anarchist? Idealist? Aristocrat? Roger, we miss you." 12:30 p.m. Buffet Luncheon FSK Lobby 1:45 p.m. Parents Meeting with the President and Dean Conversation Room Mellon Hall 3:00 p.m. Parent Tutorial on Definitions and Propositions from Euclid's Elements or Tour of Annapolis or Mitchell Art Gallery Viewing and Discussion: Twentieth Century Figurative Images - Work by Picasso, Chagall, Matisse and others Mitchell Art Gallery Dinnertime We encourage you to take your St. Johnnie to dinner at one of our fine area restaurants 8:15 p.m. Film FSK Audiotorium Sunday, November 1 11:00 a.m. President's Brunch for Parents Home of the President 212 Norwood Rd. Inclement weather Location Great Hall SANTA FE OCTOBER 15 - 18, 1992 Thursday, October 15 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Visit evening seminars Friday, October 16 Visit daytime classes 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Welcome and question-and-answer session with college administrators Great Hall 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Reception with college administrators Junior Common Room 6:00p.m. Join students for dinner Dining Hall 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Collegium Musicum. A wide variety of dazzling musical performances by students, followed by refreshments Great Hall :=;atm·a.av October 17 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Late Registration Peterson Lobby 10:00 a.m. - noon President's Brunch for parents, their students and tutors. Parent-Child Look Alike Contest. $10.50 per person Great Hall 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Parents Seminars on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Peterson Lobby for classroom locations 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Meeting of Parents Association Junior Common Room 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Three person exhibit, "The Eye of the Beholder" Art Gallery 6:00p.m. Take your student out for a restaurant dinner. Reservations advisable 7:00 p.m. Film Society movie. Great Hall 8:00p.m. Waltz Party. All kinds of dancing to music which is gentle to the ears. Even non-dancers enjoy this event. The students urge all parents to come to this grand finale event. Dining Hall Sunday, October 18 Free time with your stu,dfll;t 10:00 a.m. -1 :00 p.m. Three person exhibit, "The Eye of the Beholder" Art Gallery �page 20 CD CD ~ g> E THE REPORTER Mitchell Gallery presents: c(;;~ _Q N z r>L:l_e_Ci5 9 ai "The Coming of ~c ~c: Decades of the Sculpture Guild, 1930s -1950s" Conceived at the time of the American Depression, born during a world war, and maturing nearly 50 years later, "The Coming of Age of American Sculpture: The First Decades of the Sculptors Guild, 1930s- 1950s" offers a comprehensive view of the evolution of sculpture from representational to the abstract. The exhibit at the Mitchell Gallery at the Annapolis campus continues through Sunday, October 25. The 28 sculptures feature works of stunning sensuality by such artists as Robert Laurent, Chaim Gross, Vincent Glinsky, and Richmond Barthe. The works include Lily Landis's "Holocaust Memorial," a simple white spectre whose eyes seem to reflect the horrors of war, and Berta Margoulies's The Santa Fe Art Gallery concluded its year-long Artists /Teachers Series in and rolled into summer with a highly successful retrospPctive exhibit by architect and artist John McHugh. Photographer Doug Olson was featured through August with a show titled "A Spirit of the American West." Beginning in September, the New Mexico Sculptors' Guild will be on campus with sculpture exhibited in the exterior Vision of Hope by Daniel Dosamantes Undersea Adventure by Junko 0. Hopkins campus space as well as in the gallery. Twenty six artists will be included in the show. Members of the guild will provide three workshops for students, including stone sculpture, clay modeling and a video-supported presentation titled "Art and Activism." In October, a three-person show, "The Eye of the Beholder," will consist of paintings by artists Susan Kelly, Betty Martin and Bill Murphy. The show explores differing personal perspectives on the same subject matter. The final show of 1992 opens November 1 and will feature paintings by artist Stokley Webster. Webster began painting in 1922 in Paris, France, at the age of ten. Seventeen years later he had his first one-man show at The St.L. O'Toole Gallery in New York. Critics of the day compared his work with that of Sargent. Since that time Stokley's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries nationwide. "Mine Disaster," which creates a somber note evocative of Greek tragedy. The Sculptors Guild from the 1930s through the 1950s was an extraordinarily vital and creative group. Its artists were immersed in Social Realism and Idealism, fostered by the conditions of the Great Depression. During World War II they infused their art with Surrealism and Cubism. Later, they expressed themselves in the sophisticated post-war mechanized world, embracing new tools and techniques. In the late forties and early fifties, sculptors brought forth their ideas in terms of personal metaphors, surrealistic dreams, social commentary and emotions. By the late 50s, Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, and Dorothy Dehner made an impact on the art world by exploring their own personal iconography in startlingly different ways. The guild often provided the only opportunity for artists to bring their September 1992 work to the attention of the public and the acclaim of critics. To the 1990's viewer, the sculptures of this period may appear awkward and tentative. But today's viewer must recall the environment in which they were made: a time of philosophical and artistic transition in American art, when artists, writers and philosophers reevaluated their world view and the values of Wes tern culture. Some works are surprisingly small for their effect-a simplicity suggestive of prehistoric art as in Jose De Creeft's earth mother "Dream of Eve." Yet all explore the nature of reality through sculpture. Sculptor Burton Blistein is providing an accompanying lecture, "Looking at Sculpture," on Tuesday, September 15, at 5 p.m. and on Tuesday, October 6, at 4 p.m. he is leading a discussion on the works themselves. "Billiard Player Construction," 1937, by David Smith, is iron, painted with encaustic, and is displayed in the exhibit showing through October 25th at the Mitchell Gallery in Annapolis, "The Coming of Age of American Sculpture: the First Decades of the Sculptors' Guild, 1930s-1950s." Santa Fe architect and artist John has accepted an invitation to join the St. John's community this semester as artist-in-residence. Mr. McHugh is widely known as the man who built the Santa Fe Opera and other major buildings throughout the state. In addition to his architectural career, Mr. McHugh is an accomplished artist. Santa Fe Tutor Dean Haggard said Mr. McHugh wil~ pursue his own work in the life John McHugh drawing studio of the fine arts building. He also will teach one or two classes to students and faculty of the college. Mr. Haggard said the intent of the newly created artist-in-residence program is to draw on the wide array of artistic talent in the Santa Fe area as a means of enriching the overall life of the college. "The goal is to have an artist working in the studio, on their own work I think that will serve the college community in a very rich way," he said. Initially, the term of appointment will be a single semester in order that the college community can become acquainted with a number of artists in the area. "The first goal is to have someone working there in the studio," Mr. Haggard said. "After this we may find someone we may want to keep long-term or who can contribute to other things in the program such as the senior art segment, but that is a secondary consideration." President Agresto added that Mr. McHugh's life experience, as well as his technical knowledge, will benefit students. "We have a number of students who are particularly interested in the visual arts, especially painting," President Agresto said. "Some are interested in graduate work in art, art-history and architecture and what they need someone to talk to about technique, artistic problems, color, line, form and perspective. The nice thing about Mr. McHugh is the breadth of experience he's had in Santa Fe, and the rest of America, in the world of architecture, painting, watercolors, framemaking and with a number of different media." is � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY l~llif~llillf\illI~IIl\IllIIllIIII IIIIIIllIll II\II If The St. John's 31696 011381850 Volume 18, Issue 4 St John's College is "Politically Incorrect" Post twits, but "alive" "The College of Political Incorrectness" trumpeted a banner headline on the cover of Style, barometer of cultural trends for a national readership at The Washington Post. Its subhead asked, "At St. John's, They Study Dead White Men. So Why Do the Students Seem So Intellectually... Alive?" In the 3500 word article that followed-appearing on May 17, graduation day in Annapolis-staff writer Ken Ringle elicited eloquent testimony from the president, the dean, a succession of students, and others, which, together with his own observations, provides a ringing endorsement of the New Program. "In an era alive with talk of multiculturalis•m. 'technology relevant' education and egalitarian chic, St. John's would seem to be the ultimate anachronism, even an absurdity," he concedes at the outset. The detailed, lively, ranging article controverts such labels. Ringle's examination of student habits and customs, their accommodation to the demands of the program, and their optimistic evaluation of its relevance is presented in a skillful interweaving of many voices. He concludes with these words: "What may be most arresting about St. John's students is their apparent optimilsm about the future, the conviction that... 'there's so much out there': that the world is their oyster. That conviction, once taken for granted on commencement day, has been hard pressed in recent years amid economic uncertainty and media drumbeats about the unmet promises of the American dream. It appears alive and well at St. John's." September Reporter Lesli Allison, Director of Communications at Santa Fe, will edit the September 1992 Reporter, which will be assembled and laid out in Santa Fe. The Reporter will return to Annapolis in December for the second of four annual issues. Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM June 1992 Feinberg named new Board chair "The college's long-term viability takes precedence over all else," said Stephen L. Feinberg, CEO of a diversified holding company in El Paso, Texas, and longtime member of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors, who was elected board chairman at the April meeting. "It is very important to position the college to insure financial viability and stability," he emphasized at the outset of his leadership of a group he has served since 1977. Among the first actions under his direction will be the implementation of a Long Range Planning Committee designed to look at what he called the "needs, resources, hopes and aspirations" of the college, and an Extended Programs Committee charged with seeing how the college can best "impact education and society" outside the two campuses. The Graduate Institutes and the Advancement Offices of both campuses will be invited to recommend ways the college can share its educational philosophy more widely, he said. Mr. Feinberg intends to establish a committee to review needs and priorities of the Annapolis campus physical plant as they relate to safety, deferred maintenance, cost, appearance and comfort. "We would like to enhance our facilities on both campuses as we are able," he said, citing the possibility in the future of a needed gymnasium in the west and an indoor swimming pool in the east A high priority of the new chairman will be insuring the integrity of the program; another will be to keep staff and faculty salaries at an adequate and comfortable level, within the context of a financially stable college. Mr. Feinberg has been president of the Board of Dorsar Industries, Inc., a diversified holding company in El Paso, since 1978, and chairman of the board since 1986. Earlier, he was associated with Dominick & Dominick, Inc., an investment banking firm. He has been and is a director on many corporate boards. His public service activity includes present membership on boards serving the El Paso Community Foundation, the El Paso Cancer Treatment Center, the El Paso Renaissance 400, the El Paso Museum of Art, (Continued on page five) Keith Harvey photo Dr. Richard D. Weigle, president of St. John's celebrates his 80th birthday In the Great Hall at himself. See other pictures, page three. aninar"lln• 11 c from 1949-1980, under a portrait of Keith Harvey photo ACF for Annapolis children at risk spearheaded by College nucleus By DONNA BOETIG Growing up in a privileged environment, Brad Davidson, A'77, never knew what it was like not to be encouraged to succeed, not to have his opinions taken seriously, and to regard a college education as a luxury beyond his wildest imagination. Still, this former Annapolis city councilman and president of Pre-Owned Partnerships, a financial firm in the historic district, is the progenitor of an innovative social program, Children's Foundation (ACF). Less than a year old, ACF is promto make Annapolis a true "Camelot on Bay," not only for the middle class, but for poverty-stricken children too-most of whom have never been on the Chesapeake's sparkling waters. When Brad set out to make the state's more there were alvolunteer in nrn.ce--rn1u these were struggling with limited resources. More had to be done to lead children away from drugs, crime and violent death and to a healthy productive life, he thought. Convening a group of six, including Jeff Bishop, vice president of St John's at Annapolis, and Jeff Franklin, AGI'81, chair of the Annapolis Chamber's Business and Education Committee, the men met several times plotting strategy over platters of lasagna. (Continued on page 13) �1952 Walter (A) is a professor of German at Clark University and director of its European Studies Program in Luxembourg. 1955 Priscilla Husted Grise om (A) of Westerly, Rhode Island, is a full-time faculty member in computer science at the University of New Haven. "A Seasonal Quartet of Poems Set to Music," with words and music by Alexandra Culbertson, (A), was presented April 27 at the Conservatory of Music of the University of the Pacific. The seasons were evoked by two haiku (autumn), a French poem (winter), a German poem (spring), and a Scottish lovesong, (summer). 1959 Examining the framed tearsheets-on the walls of the Mellon Administrative wingfrom The Saturday Review (March 23, 1963), which contains a comprehensive summation of the New Program, Harvey Goldstein (A) paused to admire the picture of good friend Carol Phillips Tilles (A). Bent over his book across the table from her in the photograph was a studious youth, not her husband William Tilles (A), as Harvey has surmised, but Harvey Brown himself! Another pictured is ,Iewellvin-J(Jmes. (A'61). 1960 "Testing 1-2-3: An Insider's Insight on How to Do Well on Bar Exam Essays" by was pubin the issue of Student Lawyer, the publication of the Law Student Division of the American Bar Association. 1963 Mariam Golub Duban (A), who has a master's degree in mathematics from Fordham University, moved to New York where she works as a systems engineer, giving technical support for East Coast and Boston Network Software Associates. 1966 A translation of Sophocles' Theban plays by playwright Timberlake W ertenbaker (A) has been published by Faber in England. Ms. Wertenbaker's current play is "Three Birds Alighting in a Field." 1967 Miles Krassen (A) has been appointed assistant professor of religion and Biblical literature at Smith College. He received his Ph.D in religious studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and elsewhere. 1970 Thomas P. Hoover (SF) announces his certification by the State of California upon graduation from the McKinnon Institute of Massage and Bodywork last November. 1974 Thomas J. Dolan (A) has a new son, Thomas Michael Dolan, born December 31. Paula Cohen (A), the publiq relations director for Newsday, was recently appointed to the New York State Citizens Task Force for Prevention of Child Abuse, chaired by Mrs. Matilda Cuomo. 1975 Christopher Chase, SGI'75, teaches cognitive science at Hampshire College. Dr. John A. White, SGI '75, professor of science technology and society at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and new president of the Buffalo-Toronto-Rochester Alumni Chapter, had an article published in the March 1992 Inquiry, the journal of the Institute for Critical Thinking, called "Dialectic: the Role of Discussion in Education." He writes, "It refers, of course, to the St. John's program." Bob Tzudiker (A) was co-screenwriter for the new Disney film "Newsies," described by a reviewer as "an energetic musical about newsboys in 1899 New York," directed by "Dirty Dancing" choreographer Kenny Ortega. 1977 Ellen Veden (SF) has started a new business, GLOBAL BUSINESS NETWORKS (523 E. 14th St, NY, NY 10009; 212-533-5891), Nancy Osius, ed~or, Donna Boetig, assistant editor; Wye Allanbrook, Betsy Blume, John Christensen, Ben1amin Milner, Brother Robert Smith, and Elliott Zuckerman, advisory _ board. The Reporter is published by the News and information Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. Christopher B. Nelson, president. Published four times a year, in March, June, September and December. Second-class posta_ge paid in Annapolis, MD. USPS 018-750 integrating video with voice and data networks for corporations. Previously, Ellen was the international marketing and sales manager at AT&T. 1978 Robert J. Perry (A) has received tenure at Ohio State University and last year was made associate professor of physics. He has collaborated for the past two years with Nobel Laureate Kenneth Wilson, working on a new method of solving QCD, the fundamental theory of the strong interaction. "Somebody's Wesley Burrell Ihlow, born December 28. Michael Ciba (A) completed work on his Master of Divinity degree at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in December and was ordained to the ministry of the United Church of Christ January 12. He is currently serving in eastern Ohio as pastor of Gustavus Federated Church, built in 1863, and living with his family in a 200-year-old parsonage. His wife Diane Lamoureux Ciba, (A'80), is an independent computer consultant working both in Minneapolis and eastern Ohio. Daugh- 1981 James Christopher Brunner (A) married Indira Chandrasekhar February 22 in Gstaad, Switzerland. They will live at Stauffacherstrasse 141, 8004 Zurich. Indira is the daughter of Professor and Mrs. S. Chandrasekhar of Bangalore, India. 1982 At readers' urging, we present for the first time the alumni notes from both campuses merged, with graduates identified under graduation year and campus initials. A large number of notes from particular reunion classes may warrant special treatment, as below. Send your information for these columns to Jokela, Santa Fe, or Nancy Osius, Annapolis. gotta do it," writes Prof. Perry. Kathy Squillace, his wife, works for a pharmaceutical company. Alexander Jeffrey was born last September. Like his sister Jessica., who started kindergarten last fall, he loves books, "but more because he thinks that they taste good than because he is showing signs of good taste." Prof. Perry looks forward to the Class of '78 reunion: "The need to dance all night is growing." Winfield A. Ihlow (A), is instructor of mathematics at Miami-Dade Community College where he teaches in "a wonderful multicultural environment," with many students from the Caribbean basin or Central America who speak English as a second language. He and Marcia (Burrell) Ihlow are parents of a son, "truly lives up to her name." In 1990, Eliza co-organized an interpretive exhibition titled "Abstracting the Landscape: the Artistry of Landscape Architect A. E. Bye." It's the first exhibition of its kind that interprets the work of a contemporary landscape architect and it will be traveling around the country. "If any Johnnies are interested in gaining insight into the art of landscape architecture, I urge you to see it when it reaches a venue near you." Address: 236 S. Patterson St., State College, PA 16801. ter Rachel, a sixth grader, plays the flute and piano, while fourth grader Daniel enjoys playing the piano and singing. Alumni in eastern Ohio are invited to contact the Cibas at 8850 State Rte 193, Farmdale, OH44417. 1979 Eliza Oberholtzer (A), who, with three colleagues, won the national design competition for a Korean War Veterans' Memorial to be located on the Mall in Washing ton, DC, describes the subsequent events as "a doozy." She continues, "The exhilaration of presenting the design in the White House Rose Garden was great, but I'm afraid it's been downhill since then. Enough said." Daughter Molly Joy, who arrived in 1989, Tracy Litwin (A), who is working as a camera assistant on film and documentary productions, most recently on Indians in Oklahoma where she spent a week at a pow-wow, would love to hear from anyone. 593 Lorimer St., 3L, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Patricia Jean Cook (A) received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University in the spring. Extended notes from the Santa Fe class of 1982 are on page 6. 1983 Son Gabriel was born in 1985 and daughter Rachel in 1988 to Sara Yarnall Sanders and former St. John's tutor David Sanders. David now teaches English at St. John Fischer College in Rochester. Sara taught skiing for a few years and is at present studying organic chemistry. Leith MariaMcMenamin was born on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1990, to Peter J. McMenamin (SF) and L. Pilar (A'86). A second baby is expected in July. They are living and sailing out of Galesville, on the Chesapeake Bay, just south of Annapolis. SANTA FE 1 1984 Here is a sampling of news from the Santa Fe class of'77. They look forward to seeing their classmates (along with the classes of'72 and' 82) as they celebrate their 15th reunion in Santa Fe on July Geraldine Edgell-McDowell (A) earned her Ph.D. in Human Genetics at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. She is currently on a two-year fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. Her husband George McDowell (A) continues "to tend his flock of miscreants as a defense lawyer in Baltimore," she writes. 17-19. Alice Sample Adams is a professional tutor of children ages 3-14 years who is also involved with setting up educational funding for the poor. Mitch Ahoyt comments that he only spent a year at St. John's but has many fond memories of his time there. Sam Atwood is a reporter covering environment for the San Bernardino (California) Sun newspaper. Kim Childs who works as a trial attorney doing malpractice defense work in Denver has daughters 13 and 8, and reports that "life is good." Larry Clendenin, "happily married for 11 years," the father of a girl 10 and a boy 5, has been doing college admission work for 13 years, four at the Santa Fe campus. He loves living in Santa Fe and wishes "it would lose some of its appeal, but that isn't likely." Besides work and family, he is "consumed by fly-fishing and squash." Steve Cornelli stopped farming two and a half years ago; he has just received a master's degree in public affairs and is now a Ph.D candidate in Applied Economics. The father of Joseph, 12, and Zoe, 8, he is currently not married. Lorin Cuoco has been the associate director of the International Writers Center at Washing ton University (St. Louis) where writer William Gass is director, since October, 1990. "I made my debut reading my own poetry last October, none of which, you'll be glad to know, appeared in Au Verso, an obscure college literary magazine, circa 1974." Anne Echeverria received her B.A. in philosophy with honors from the University of Texas, and also did master's work at the University of Denver. She has three children, with a fourth on the way and is "following her bliss-as a ceramicist and sculptor." Walte:r T. Featherly is an attorney in private practice in Anchorage where he was elected to the Anchorage School Board in 1991. "The most exciting program in the public schools here is St. John's style seminars" developed in cooperation with the Santa Fe campus. Walter and his wife Christine are the parents of Winston, 5, and Peter, 3. Dana M. Goode reports: "I finally graduated from Annapolis in 1991." Carol A. Highsaw is an assistant professor in the English Department at SUNY Geneseo, and will come up for tenure in two years. "I have two cats and not enough bookshelves. Hobbies include bird-watching, cross-country skiing, and voting for Democrats. I miss New Mexico, especially during the long grey February days of western New Yorkwinters."Rosalind Hutton has a daughter Hazel Rosalind Betz, born April 30, 1991. Rosalind is currently working as an independent consultant to companies needing technical writing tasks done. Michael R. Jones, an assistant professor of philosophy at Marquette University for six years, has since January, 1992, been associate director of corporate foundation relations in the development office of tlie University of Chicago. His wife Sarah Steele and he have two children, Peter, 6, and Andrew, 4. "Hello friends!" writes Paula Maynes. "We 're still in Santa Fe-we never left. Hope to see you this summer." Paula is practicing law at Montgomery and Andrews and Jeff is an architect in private practice. They have two sons, Hugh, 4, and Guy Patrick, 1. Michele Perrault received her MS and MFCC in 1979 and is now a supervisor with a child protective service, and a college instructor/trainer of foster parents and group home staff. 1985 Norman Ewart (A) is alitigator and natural resources attorney in Roswell, New Mexico with Hinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield & Hensley atone of the fmn's five locations. Other Johnnies practicing with the fmn: Michael Gross, (SF'76), Stephen Crampton, (SF '79), Fred Schwendimann, (SGI '70), and Owen Lopez, friend of the college and former member of the Board of Visitors and Governors. Norman encourages Johnnies to write to him: 310-A South Kentucky, Roswell, NM 88201; 505623-9204. Liza Hyatt (SF) reports that after two years of working as an expressive therapist at a psychiatric hospital, she has begun a new job as psychotherapist at a counseling center for women. She will be using her creative arts therapy training in individual and group counseling sessions for women survivors of sexual abuse, rape, and battering, and for fostering the growth of women in general. On a personal level, she is writing journals, poetry, children's stories, and, as a storyteller, she leads retreats and offers workshops at art schools and churches. In April she led a workshop at the Midwest American Humanistic Psychology Conference. "And I am learning to play the folk harp and pennywhistle." SGI graduate Ronald Landor, a retired librarian who notes that eight of his family are graduates of SJC, is the author of The Education of Everychild, University Press of America, January 1992. The book's main purpose is "to present the view that genuine elementary education is, of necessity, liberal education, as distinct from special, vocational, or professional training, by its relevance to every kind of learning and indeed to every part of life."Annapolis Dean Brann is quoted in the volume and the St. John's program alluded to several times. Jeffrey Wilson, (A), has just completed a "successful and taxing" first year of teaching at Emory University where he is in the doctoral program. He has received a fellowship from (Continued on page 14) �· PAGE3 Annapolis Dean Eva Brann's book, The World of the Sum and Substance, has been signally honored by its recent selection to the annual Choice List of Outstanding Academic Books for 1991. Choice is a monthly academic review published by the Association of College and Research Libraries, the academic arm of the American Library Association. The journal reviews about 20 per cent of the books it receives; from this list, the editors select less than 10 per cent of reviewed titles for the prestigious annual list. "A work of astounding amplitude," said the Choice reviewer initially. "Although there are myriad works on the imagination, there are not any that approach Brann' s book in its encyclopedic and insightful coverage." The book is scheduled to appear in paperback under the Rowman & Littlefield imprimatur this summer. At the University of Dallas in March, Dean Brann used the book as text for a seminar she offered through the Institute of Philosophic Studies. As McDermott Lecturer and Visiting Professor there, she delivered a midweek lecture on the topic "The Derivatives of Reason." During the week, she met with 45 graduate students for two hours daily, opening each session with a short lecture followed by questions and answers. President Nelson named to MD boards Annapolis campus president Christopher Nelson was elected in late May to the executive committees of MICUA (Maryland Independent College and University Association) and of the Independent College Fund of Maryland (ICFM). He was also named secretary of the latter. MICUA, composed of 18 private colleges, is the principal representative before the state government for private higher education. The ICFM is an association of businesses whose purpose is to promote and encourage private education at nine Maryland colleges, including St John's-Goucher, Hood, Johns Hopkins, Loyola, Mount Saint Mary's, Notre Dame, Washington College and Western Maryland Only two college presidents serve on its executive committee. A' The day after Annapolis senior Hannah Stires appeared on the College Championship in "Jeopardy" May 6, the Admissions Office received its first "Jeopardy" call, an inquiry from a viewer intrigued with Hannah's description of her college. Although Hannah and her friends knew how the game ended (it had been taped two months earlier), dozens of students watched the contest, some loudly exhorting her to request the math questions (not Ballet, to which she kept returning), and to "get on that buzzer," which chronic video games players are likely to manipulate better than chronic readers. Clad in a St. John's sweatshirt, Hannah spoke during the introductions about the St. John's program and was commended for her eloquence by the gameshow host. Although Hannah didn't win a game, she did win $1,000 as well as the expense-paid three-day trip to Los Angeles. It all began last summer when she sent in a postcard to signal her interest in being a contestant. The first round was an audition Maruzen College, an innovative liberal arts college with an East-West core curriculum resembling that of St. John's, is projected to open in September 1993, in Antrim, N.H. Annapolis tutor Dorothy Guyot is one of a nucleus of planners for the new college, which she describes as designed to meet needs for citizens and career professionals who are comfortable in both East Asian and Western societies. "The educational goal is to provide students with a liberal arts education in two traditions, the Japanese tradition within its Asian context and the Western tradition," says Mrs. Guyot. Its curriculum will draw on great books in both Asian and Western traditions with a twice-weekly cross-cultural seminar at the center. The college expects to need about 30 faculty members by 1996, including those with doctoral degrees in the humanities, the social sciences, mathematics and the natural sciences. Besides teaching and scholarly credentials, candidates will need a "strong commitment to interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies," Mrs. Guyot points out. She will join the Maruzen faculty full-time in June 1992. The new college expects to attract a selective student body composed of Americans, Japanese and other nationals, with a target student population of 400. Maruzen College began as the idea of the late Japanese economist Hiroshi Haga, who, with educational consultant and publisher Charles Nelson-father of Annapolis campus president Christopher Nelson and a longtime St. John's Board member--drew up the preliminary design for a college. This was presented last October to the New Hampshire Commission on Post-Secondary Education. A core group of faculty will continue the planning process during the 199293 year. Principal funding for the college is to come initially from Maruzen Kensetsu, a large real estate development firm in Tokyo. Students Joined faculty, staff and Board members to honor Richard D. uua 11 1"11•0 on his 80th birthday, celebrated in the Great Hall at Annapolis April 1o. At Dr. Weigle does his duty by the candles, while Mrs. Weigle looks on. Above, Annapolis Treasurer Bud Billups greets the man who served St. John's as president for 31 years, who presided over the admission of women and minorities, and whose vision of a second campus came to dramatic life in Santa Fe. Keith Harvey photos For further information, contact Dr. Thomas L. Benson, Maruzen College, RRl, Box 394, Antrium, NH 03440. on "Jeopardy" in a Washington studio last October, where she survived the first round among 50 students who took a 50-question test on a video screen and played a short simulated game. At other auditions in other cities, hundreds of aspirants were being reduced to the 15 students who would take part in the twoweek championship. By January, Hannah learned that she was one of these. "A little surreal" is how Hannah describes the taping of all the shows in a twoday marathon ~n Los Angeles over Spring Break. although she looked perfectly cool, she "totally stressed out" during her game, she says, and afterwards didn't remember any of the questions she was asked. She does recall ringing in too early at first, an error that loses the contestant valuable seconds before he/she can ring in again. The 20-year-old new graduate will begin work on a master's degree in social work next fall at the University of Maryland. She looks ahead towards the possibility of medical school, but says she would like to go into the profession from the social services angle. Philosopher Mortimer Adler was crowned by Annapolis students in the course of their annual prank at his spring lecture. Here he is greeted by his friend of nearly 50 years, Mrs. Simon Kaplan, a revered figure in her own right as well as widow of the distinguished tutor who died in 1979. Keith Harvey photo Chasnoff, counselor's daughter, wins Oscar Considerable post-Oscar attention' has been paid to filmmaker Debra Chasnoff, whose "Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment," won an Academy Award in March for best documentaries. Ms. Chasnoff concluded her acceptance speech by ''urging something like 1 billion [in the audience] to 'boycott GE,' a platform beyond the fondest imaginings of most activists," said Meg Greenfield in an extended profile of the filmmaker which appeared in the April 23 Style section of The Washington Post. Ms. Chasnoff' s mother is Sue Prosen, a student counselor at the Annapolis campus one day a week and a Johns Hopkins education professor the rest of the time. Ms. Chasnoff, who grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, is a communications consultant for a nonprofit organization in the San Francisco area when she isn't making films. Her powerful documentary indicts GE for failures in providing safe working conditions and in cleaning up nuclear sites. �THE REPORTER PAGE4 To the Editor: Letters from Carol Highsaw and Leo Raditsa take issue with the approach to political history at St.John's. By neglecting the historical context of our books, they say, we limit our understanding of them. I agree, and I remember well how my ignorance of the political changes in England and Europe seemed to hold back my understanding of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. But I question whether the severe limiting of history from the program is an outdated effect of an obsolete philosophical battle, as Highsaw and Raditsa seem to think in holding that historical "reductionism is hardly a threat nowadays." If reductionism is the claim that ideas are essentially conditioned by, and therefore reducible to, their circumstances in time and place, then it seems as alive as ever today in influential movements such as multiculturalism, deconstructionism, and feminist criticism. So the College may have good reason to defend and uphold the opposing position. But we may also go too far, and in guarding against one error we may commit another. We may act as if any concession to the truth that some ideas are influenced by their circumstances is a surrender to the untruth that all ideas are essentially conditioned by them. So history gets avoided almost altogether. Perhaps one way of thinking more moderately about the study of history would be to explore the history of the study of history at the College. At least a few facts indicate a rather more congenial than guarded attitude towards it in the past. The earliest College catalog, for instance, shows more historical texts than are read now, such as Gibbon (see Embers of the World). And some years later, when Jacob Klein was dean, I understand from Robert Bart that a week each year was set aside for the study of the French Revolution. Why such changes? What others have occurred? Have we left behind a more even attitude to the study of history? of my life since leaving St. John's are somehow unimportant. I question if other graduates have felt this way? The "horrible thing" which has occurred in my life, and not just mine but in countless other lives as well, has been the occurrence of the AIDS epidemic-not, thank God, that I myself am HIV positive, but that my whole life as a gay man was so suddenly turned around, made more serious and sad, by the deaths and illness of so many of my closest friends. Over ten years into this crisis and I don't remember one statement in the newsletter (I may be mistaken here-but we are speaking of perceptions, which count for something) about it! But then AIDS is not a St. John's topic, although it has touched and influenced the lives of some of us. This is not a request for "special interest" consideration-it is merely one St. John's graduate asking why the newsletter, with its many listings of job changes, births, marriages, political activities, etc., has not seemed to mention, in ten years, AIDS. I suspect, in part, because graduates touched by the AIDS epidemic do not write in about that. They may not write in about such things because they feel that such things are not welcome in the newsletter. I don't know. I now urge more graduates of St. John's to make known your life experiences in these pages-let the newsletter reflect our lives as graduates fully. Would anyone object to that?-I would be interested in knowing if they do. Finally if it does not take up too much space I would like to reproduce the quotation from Martin Buber's I and Thou which I was reading when I decided to write this letter. "To be sure, many a man who is satisfied with the experience and use of the world of things has raised over or about himself a structure of ideas, in which he finds refuge and repose from the oncome of nothingness. On the threshold he lays aside his inauspicious everyday dress, wraps himself in pure linen, and regales himself with the spectacle of pure being, or of necessary being; but his life has no part of it. To proclaim his ways may even fill him with well-being. "But the mankind of mere It that is imagined, postulated, and propagated by such a man has nothing in common with a living mankind where Thou may truly be spoken. The noblest fiction is a fetish, the loftiest fictitious sentiment is depraved Ideas are no more enthroned above our heads than resident in them; they wander amongst us and accost us. The man who leaves the primary word unspoken is to be pitied; but the man who addresses instead these ideas with an abstraction or a password, as if it were their name, is contemptible." David E. Woolwine, A'78 Daniel Lehrman, A'90 Writer urges alumni to share experiences To the Editor: I have been asking myself why is it that most, if not all, of the comments, news, and debates in the SJC newsletter about reforms, and goings on at the two campuses have left me cold at best, and somehow inarticulately angry at worst. I don't want to be misunderstood-St. John's was, and remains in my experience, one of the most important things to happen in my life. But somehow all this talk of "ideas" and "issues" in the newsletter seems meaningless to me. I question if other graduates of the college feel the same way. Let me tell you why I think this is so for me. My life has moved on, and things have occurred, in one case a "horrible thing"-and since these events, occurrences, "things" are never addressed in the newsletter (for they are "not St. John's things"), I am left feeling unconnected to the debates that do occur and also feeling that the events and occurrences College uniqueness, 'books' defended To the Editor: On education-Scott Buchanan's concept as perceived by George Cayley: Who should become students at St. John's? Only those with a desire to learn. What is education? It is not information. According to the Greeks and to Dean Buchanan, it is suffering. Why these books? Because these books presented to the student, in conjunction, cause the kind of suffering necessary to learning. This suffering is intellectual, emotional and can be physical. Dean Buchanan said that "Ideally, St. Johns's should be a monastery." I doubt that he would approve ofradios, TVs, etc., in dormitories-hardly a monastery! Am I wrong? To my knowledge the Scott Buchanan concept of St. John's is the only legitimate Liberal Arts College/University in the world. We all must strive to preserve its unique character, sans tampering. George Cayley, A'45, AGI'78 JUNE 1992 House), knocked on the door and when it opened paraded inside and through the downstairs rooms as Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie stood on the stair steps waving and wishing us good luck. Shortly thereafter we interrupted the movie on the screen at the To the Editor: Republic Theater on Main Street where Prior to the Army-Navy football game owner Philip Miller was more tolerant of us [last fall] much publicity was given the Naval Academy football rally held in downthan were some of his customers. town Annapolis and it brought back memoAs the line became longer and longer we made our way down to Market Space and ries of my years at St. John's College as then snaked around to enter Francis Street member of the class of 1927. We, too, engaged in memorable pep rallies in old Crabat the top of which we turned to the on State Circle. There a surprise awaited us. As town. My classmates and I arrived at the college our shouting, singing group reached the in the Fall of 1923, the first year the college Circle Playhouse, the fire department, led no longer was a military school. Students by Chief Jesse A. Fisher, turned a fire hose weren't obliged to wear uniforms resemon the line, flattening many of us. Fisher bling those ofWestPointcadets. We arrived later ·said he feared we would march with a new College President, Major Enoch through the Circle Theater as we had done Barton Garey, a St. John's graduate with at the Republic Theater, and he wouldn't whom my late father played football in the tolerate a repetition of the disorder. Powerful water pressure same backfield. Major Garey retained the sent us scurrying to ~-ROTC but students the site of the bonfire on the back of St. wore khaki uniforms only when being John• s campus. There drilled watersoaked freshRidgley Gaither, men and townsmen now aretiredArmy Lt. had to endure a wet General living in Anand cold pep rally denapolis Roads, comspite the warmth of manded our student the bonfire. military unit. He initiIn my era at St. ated us into the toughJohn's, students were ness of his three earlier loved by townspeople years as a full-time to the depth midshipCadet. Gaither put us men are fawned on part-time Army offitoday. Back in the cers-to-be through twenties SJC students were expected to play rugged drills. We were harmless pranks on a machine gun comtownspeople who pany. Major Pirtle, a loved the attention. regular Army officer, When the Army supervised our military activities and graded our marching and ROTC was dropped by SJC, a Naval Reour ability to dismantle machine guns while serve unit was started in its place. St. John's blindfolded. Gaither earned our respect students became midshipmen and they wore though we knew his toughness was a reflecuniforms much like the garb of Naval Acadtion of Pirtle's West Point training. After emy mids. St. John's mids enjoyed freedom graduating Gaither became a regular Army in town at night and some of them engaged lieutenant and distinguished himself in activities that were blamed on Academy mids. Despite the efforts to quiet the waters, throughout his career that included becomof Capt. P.V.H. Weems, USN Rtd., who ing a lieutenant general and head of the 2nd. headed the SJC Naval unit, the Naval U.S. Army. Academy's dislike for having St. John's Reginald "Hobo" Ridgely, son of the midshipmen in the same town caused the college's biology department chief and Sam government to slam the door shut on the SJC Freeney became career Marine generals and native Annapolitan Richard Williams, a naval unit. Capt. Weems was irate to no avail! classmate, served a:s a Marine Colonel. The good Capt. Weems must be rememMajor Garey put the class of 1927 on the hot seat at the college when he told all bered as one of the great men of Annapolis. He headed the Weems System ofNavigation students, at a convocation, that we freshmen that brought aviator Charles Lindbergh here civilians were his favorites. Resentful upfor a week of instruction before his famous perclassmen and especially members of the solo fight across the Atlantic Ocean. sophomore class put freshmen through a year of brutal hazing that made the reputed Weems, a former Tennessee farm boy, was nasty hazing of plebes at the Naval Acadone of the Academy's greatest wrestlers. emy resemble a cake walk. Several members And certainly he was the nation's most faof the class of 1927 required medical attenmous water polo player of all times. In his tion following slatting while running the late forties, Weems wrestled with and could gauntlet at night. We frosh endured many throw the Academy's National Intercolleindignities, and survived with some not so giate heavyweight champion. Captain happy memories. Weems was a fashion plate on the dance St. John's annual football clash with floor in Dahlgren Hall. He derived great joy Johns Hopkins was fought with the fierce from teaching young ladies of Annapolis interest of an Arrny-Navy game. A week how to make a good impression as mid drags before the SJC-JHU game freshmen were at formal Academy dances. sent out into Annapolis to find and collect The USNA and SJC, rivals in sports in anything that would burn. On the eve of the the distant past, became cordial friends in game a bonfire, 20 feet high was set on fire the twenties, and Sunday afternoon dances and a pep rally around it went on for hours. were held quite regularly in the St. John's Before the bonfire (the Academy used one, gymnasium with mids attending in such too, before the service clash) freshmen in numbers that Johnnies were almost unseen pajamas, and often barefoot, led a snake at these happy events. dance through the streets of Annapolis that Annapolis is fortunate to be the home became longer and longer as townspeople of both the Naval Academy and St. John's joined the weaving and shouting line of College where rivalry now exists only in Johnnies. The "dancers" got out of hand but the annual croquet match played under the Police Chief"Will" Curry and his men were Liberty tree, a spot where early settlers tolerant though traffic became blocked and and Indians smoked peace pipes together. some disorder resulted. Freshmen snakeddanced to the Mansion (now Government Elmer M. Jackson, Jr., A '27 Pep rallies, ROTC, hijinks, recalled �JUNE 1992 PAGES THE REPORTER Annapolis yachtsmen treat Johnnies to a mariner's mix: wind, sails, sun The Annapolis yachting community came through in spades for the record number of St. John's students who wanted to go down to the sea in ships on May 3. More than 100 students signed up for the annual Sail Picnic, sponsored for the fourth time by the Friends of St. John's, and chaired by yacht racing champion and Annapolis Yacht Club past Commodore Arnie Gay. Eighteen local yachtsmen, some of them responding to last minute recruiting efforts, got their boats seaworthy for the early season event. When the day came the weatherman dished up the best weather of the series. Some skippers collected their student crews at the college and delivered them to moorings in distant spots in the county, but most students boarded boats from the yacht club docks. At the giant raft in Whitehall Bay in mid-afternoon, students were able to scramble over every boat in the whole flotilla, seeing all the variations. The fleet ranged in size from the small sloop Shady Lady, on which John Dunn, A'92, lived for his senior year anchored in the Severn River, to the regal 56-foot yawl Magic Carpet owned by Jody and Ed Roach. Dozens of students also braved swimming in the stinging cold water before the yachts upped anchors and headed home at day's end. Other participating yachtsmen and their boats were Frank Atwell, A'53,Free Will, Ileana Basil, A '73, Spectacular Toy, Robert Baker,Mistress, Jay and Flo Clarke, Fling, Pat and Alice Drenning, Talisman, Arthur and Pat Edwards, Raffinee, Bob Frey, Phoenix Charles and Audrey Gildea, Windborne, Alan and Vivian Harquail, Insight, Glen Housley, Sweet Agnes, Steve and Anne Jordan, Souffle, Ann and Tom Maxfield, Vixen, Nancy Osius, Sprezzatura, Will Simmons, Synergy, Don and Ann Spier, Veracity, and Elsie Steele, Papa Bear. ended up in the same town together. But they're glad they did Ms. Parton helped ease some of the loneliness and pressure of Midshipman Parton's plebe year. He would visit her dorm room, and watch television or they would get a bite to eat. "She has always kind of taken care of him. She is more sensitive to his needs," Mrs. Parton said. During the Brigade of Midshipmen's march to football games, the Johnnies throw chestnuts at them as a joke. But if Ms. Parton is there, she discourages her friends from throwing anything at her brother, Mrs. Parton said. There's another advantage of having a twin sister go to St. John's. "He's the only midshipman who can wear a St. John's T-shirt and get away with it," said Arthur Parton, their father. Since their childhood in El Paso, Texas, the two have always been different. "When we took their first formal picture at 6-months old, it took 10 shots to get Tony to smile," Mrs. Parton said. "Amy was always smiling." But no matter what were their differences, the twins always stuck together. When they were just beginning to talk, they spoke their own language that only they could understand, Mrs. Parton said. A few years later, their mother heard a loud noise in their room. She ran upstairs, and found young Tony had knocked over the dresser. "The two of them were both hiding in the closet," she said. "Any time we would have any bad storms, Tony would always go to sleep with his sister." One thing they have always had in common was their intelligence. At the end of the second grade, they both came home from school and said they were very bored. "I had a revolt on my hands. They didn't want to go back to school," their mother said. "They told me they were doing kindergarten work." After their parents pressured the local school board, they skipped the third grade and had no trouble adjusting. As teens, they disagreed over normal things, such as use of the family car, but their worst was Ms. Parton's cello playing infringing on Midshipman Parton's study time. There is one more thing they still disagree on. "He hasn't liked any of the guys I've dated," she said. After graduation this spring, Midshipman Parton will attend flight school in Florida and Ms. Parton will pursue a doctorate degree in literature. It may mark the first time that the 21year-old twins would be apart for longer than six weeks. Then again maybe not. "You know I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they both ended up in the same place," Mrs. Parton said. By George N. lundskow - The Capital Twins Tony and Amy Parton stand back-to-back Thursday on Naval Academy grounds. Tony is a senior midshipman at the academy. Amy is a senior at St. John's College. Below, they share a smooch at age 3 in front of their home in El Paso, Texas. Eighteen years later, the two remain just as close, despite their differences. She likes to read, he likes to jump from airplanes (The following article which appeared in the March 7, 1992, of The Capital is reprinted with permission.) By LISA NUCCITELLI Staff Writer There they were, sitting at opposite sides of the table. The liberal St. John's college student and the conservative Naval Academy midshipman were talking and laughing. Wait a minute. You thought these two worlds only collided at the annual croquet match in the spring or by accident at The Little Campus Inn? And you thought the were anything but with the two sides embroiled in debate? These two are different. After they are brother and sister- fraternal twins, two minutes Meet and Tony Parton. She's a senior at St. John's who likes reading novels Tom Wolfe and playing the cello. He's a senior at the Naval Academy who likes jumping out of airplanes and playing tennis. their differences, they're close friends, an accomplishment for two people who attend two of the most diverse schools ever to share the same city. "(He's) more disciplined as far as school goes, and... (is) more organized," Ms. Parton said "Anything that's remotely dangerous, that's what Tony will'do." "She's a lot smarter than I am," he said. "She doesn't have to study as much to get good grades." When at home in Wilton, Conn., they watch movies, but even then their tastes differ. Ms. Parton likes the classic movies~ and Midshipman Parton likes the actionpacked films, like "Top Gun," said their mother, Martha Parton. "She will go along with it, I think, to please him," she said. They swear it's just a coincidence they (Continued from page one) the Child Crisis Center of El Paso, the Bridge Gallery Community Art Center and the National Organization on Disability. Past service includes membership on the El Paso National Conference of Christians and Jews and the United of El Paso. On the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors, he served two six-year sequences, and began his most recent term in 1991. In the past 15 years he has seen what he called "interesting and challenging" issues facing the college, including the evolution from a single presidency for two campuses to two presidents, "which works better. Each campus needs the attention a CEO can give it." He is highly optimistic about the future of the college. "St. John's is in a lot of ways postured better than it ever has been," he pointed out. "People know the college and appreciate its uniqueness. There is not another college like it" �"The Way We Were" ... May, 1982-the Santa Fe class of 1982 SF'82 pdate: Class wends its way through jobs, marriages and metaphysics Celebrating their 10 year reunion, members of the class of 1982 offer a glimpse into their lives. Steve Acciani is a securities broker at Bank of America. He and his wife, Betsy, have two daughters. Bruce Arter, who declares he's "still single, most likely due to too much travel since leaving St. John's in 1980," visits Thailand often. He's studied the language at Arizona State University where he's completing his bachelor's degree in political science. Interests include the U.S. stock market and what other Johnnies are up to. Catherine C. Childs is the director of Volunteer Services for the Boulder Public Library System in Colorado. Tina Clark, a designer of menswear and boyswear, will have her own model soon: she and her fiance, who have traveled all over America, Europe and the Orient, are tying the knot in June. William Day is working on his dissertation in philosophy at Columbia University. He's married to Kate, an associate rector in an Episcopal church in Gladstone, New Jersey. The couple has a son and daughter. William J. (Jay) Friedman, who sugge~ted the seminar on Hegel, is not finished browbeating his former classmates on the subject. Michael Gadberry and Laura (Siebert) Gadberry are parents of Josh, 5. Laura, a registered occupational therapist, is presenting a research paper at the National Conference in March. Michael is a graduate research fellow in Neural Cognition at Pitt, an interdisciplinary program facilitating studies on the mind-brain problem. Mark W. Gocke, chief medical resident at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, says he's "continuing to feel like a nonEuclidean spirit trapped in a Euclidean world, though (as) I think I'm getting closer to that meeting at infinity I look up t_o find I'm just as far away as when I started." Javier Gomez Rodriguez teaches at the Krishnamurti Educational Center in England. Subjects include humanities, philosophy, Spanish and art history. Gabriella Good has been living in London for the past 12 years where she sells ethnic jewelry from arouvd the world She earned a bachelor's degree in estate management, but only stayed with the job three months. "I hated the nine-tofive," says she. Meanwhile, Gabriella sails and is planning a circumnavigation for 1994. William C. Hecht, a nine-year computer graphics programmer, is well into Cal State's external master's (humanities) program. Hobbies include backpacking, kyacking and tai chi. Geoffrey M. Henebry-1983, is a research scientist with Konza Prairie Long Term Ecological Research project at Kansas State University. He earned his master's and doctorate in environmental science from UTD. He's married to the former Ana Braga of Brazil. The couple is expecting their third child in August. James R. Hennessy, who earned his J.D. and master's in urban planning from Columbia University, works in the legal department of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Daniella (Good) Hope studied bookbinding at the London College of Printing, then worked as a bookbinder before marrying in London in 1984. Three years later they moved "Down Under," and became parents of three children. Daniella says she's "now not so hot at binding but an expert with the old diaper pins." Rebecca (Coursey) King married hydrologist Dave King in Missoula, MT in '86. Now living in a remodeled one-room school house in Reno, Rebecca teaches middle school and "really enjoys the kooky ages of 12-14." She's studying for a master's in teaching math. Mark Jude Krinock completed neurosurgery residency in Houston's Baylor College of Medicine and is starting a Spinal Fellowship in Tampa, Florida. He and Karen are celebrating their 10th anniversary, and are parents of two sons. Randy Linder is a doctoral candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown University. He and Debbie are parents of a daughter. They invite you to drop by if you 're in the area. Don McLeod reports spending "nine-plus years in graduate school at Oregon State University (majoring in masochism)." He married in 1990, and is interested in environmental issues and back country recreation. "Come out to Big Oregon Country and visit," he says. Sara Marcy earned her masters in computer science in 1987, and is the Director of Application Development for Primerica Corp. Sara married last year and "they're living happily ever after in Manhattan." Mark "Zonker" Oldknow is a graduate student at UNM studying clinical psychology, and working as a data analyst atNM Division of Mental Health. He asks if we can find the" Aphrodite" bronze, just for old times' sake. Cary Renfro has lived in Santa Fe, Palm Springs and now Oregon. He's produced plays and puppet shows, and has worked as a stage manager. He's also managed the china, crystal, and silver departments in a local store. Single for a year, he lives with his dog and cat and participates in a Great Books reading group-"can't get enough of the G-B." Joe Rising says "hello" to tutors and friends, and thanks all for his fond memories of SJC. Joe's practicing law in a rural community. His varied case load includes criminal defense, family, native American and municipal law. Cynthia L. Rutz worked for several years for Mortimer Adler as coordinator of the Paideia Project, a seminar program for high school and elementary students. Currently she's a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the Committee on Social Thought-a group one-third composed of Johnnies. Mark St. John, who earned a master's degree in education, has taught on an Indian reservation and served as a consultant for national Indian groups. Currently he's teaching a J.F. seminar "enjoying being able to reread all the freshmen readings." Mark is marrying Inga Waite (SF'87)inAugust. Steven Sayre is a managing editor for a legal publisher, Warren, Gorham and Lamont. He's finishing his MBA in Strategic Planning at New York University. Sara E. (Matson) van Wassenaer sends greetings from Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Three days after completing her master's in teaching high school in 1988, Sara married a Dutch man. After teaching ESL and working at Harvard, the couple left for Amsterdam with their infant son. A year later a second son was born. This spring Sara began assisting the marketing manager of an American publishing company. Sara invites anyone visiting Amsterdam to give her a ring for a tour of the city. Colette Walczak is practicing Oriental Medicine-acupuncture and a little pherbology. She's planning an internship in China. Jane Warner is working on her doctorate in clinical psychology at Northwestern University Medical School. Prior to moving to Chicago in 1989, Jane earned her master's in developmental psychology at Columbia University. Imagine a newspaper written entirely in gibberish, or a highway sign composed of foreign characters, an office memo that made no sense at all or mysterious labels on food in the grocery store, a spoken language that was incomprehensible.Now imagine an entire world like this, a place where nothing made sense, but daily life continued on in a routine manner, with routine expectations. This world exists for millions of people in the United States who cannot read or speak English. St. John's students on the Santa Fe campus are currently working with Literacy Volunteers of America (LVOA) to help nonEnglish speaking people learn the basic English skills essential for success in this country. LVOA trains and administers volunteers to teach English as a second language. After training, volunteers enter the field, working in classrooms and one on one with people of all ages. In February and April of this year, a total of 45 St.John's students underwent training. Many of these are now active teaching English as a second language in the Santa Fe community. One of the volunteers is Larry Green, currently in his third semester of the Graduate Institute. "I just wanted to teach English," Green said. "I want to be an educator, so ESL was a very convenient way to be around young people, to choose my own audience. I've chosen first graders, kindergartners and third graders for very specific reasons, because I want to teach first grade." Twice a week, for about two hours each session, Green ventures into local classrooms to work with his pupils. Currently he instructs one first-grader, one kindergartner and two third-grade students. Green said most of his students are actively using English as a first language but need re-enforcement. "Most of them are raised here [in New Mexico], but they go back to Mexico a lot of times. My kindergartner just went back for three weeks. If they haven't been raised [in Mexico] they usually have relatives there." While the children often use English in daily interactions at school, cultural differences can create problems in learning. "They can be shy, and just needing re-enforcement," Green said. "We're almost trying to prevent shyness. They're doing okay at this point, but it's kind of fighting the risk of their falling behind because they just don't have the re-enforcement. So we do basically the same type of work they do every day, it's just another person speaking English with them." In teaching his students, Green relies on different approaches for different ages, particularly for younger pupils. The gap between a first grader and a third grader is far (Continued on page 14) Don Maciver GI student and ESL volunteer �JUNE 1992 The Santa Fe class of At an altitude of more than 7,000 feet, summers in Santa Fe are nothing short of a delight. The high elevation means relatively low humidity and moderate temperatures. Mornings offer crystal blue skies and afternoons are often marked by brief thunderstorms and sensational sunsets. It is little wonder then that the Santa Fe campus is as busy in the summer as it is in the academic year. This summer a plethora of outside groups will visit the campus. Many of these groups are from other colleges and universities, which include Hartnell College, Adams State College, Middlebury College's Breadloaf School of English, Front Range Community College, and Chabot College. Other groups with an intellectual mission include the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe Preparatory School, The Graduate Medicinal Chemistry Conference, and the American Association of Family and ~HE PAGE7 REPORTER 24! See pages 8, 9 for details of Marital Therapists' first annual supervisory workshops for senior therapists. The alumni reunions will take place July 12throughJuly24. Theclassof'72, '77, and '82 will be celebrating their 20th, 15th, and 10th reunions, respectively. In addition, the Graduate Institute will hold its 25th anniversary celebration. Summer Seminars for Adults will enter it's second year July 19th through August 8th. This program draws up to 100 visitors of all ages from around the country to participate in a series of week-long residential seminars. This year's topics range from Shakespeare and Tocqueville to Opera and Landscape Drawing. We will also see an increased number of local residents in the vicinity of the campus due to the opening of a new_ public trail on the north end of the property. Created by the Forest Service in cooperation with St. John's and nearby residents, the trail begins on the St. John's campus and continues several miles through private property and national forest to the summit of Atalaya Mountain. Additional summer activities include lectures, concerts, and watercolor and sculpture exhibits in the college art gallery. Eric Swanson Hand in hand, Jim Farley, SFGI'73, and his son, Daniel Farley, SF'94, crossed the finish line of the 1992 Boston Marathon with a time of three hours and 35 minutes. According to Jim, this placed them in the center of the pack at the finish. He estimated their position at 4400th place. Jim said he doubts there has ever been another father/son Johnnie team to compete in the event. Currently living in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Jim has been competing in marathons, triathalons and Iron Man competitions for more than 11 years. He participated in the New York Marathon in 1982. For Daniel, the Boston Marathon was his first attempt to run more than 12 miles. Jim said the pair stayed together through the entire race. The weather for the event was humid with temperatures in the 70s. Jim said this proved stressful for the participants, many of whom were unable to run the entire distance. Nevertheless, the marathon proved an enjoyable and memorable event for both father and son. "It's an incredible experience to rediscover a love for America," Jim said. As many of you would probably expect from a pair of running Johnnies, the conversation between the two as they neared the finish line was a little unusual. "We were having a heated argument about whether or not Phidippides was a marathonic teleologist," Jim said. RAFT A ,._,L_,,_._,...,,._, KOKOPELLI RAFTING ADVENTURES, INC. ON SUNDAYS JULY 19 & AUGUST 2 ONE-HALF OF ALL PROCEEDS WILL BE DONA TED DIREC1LY TO ST. JOHN'S SEARCH & RESCUE Trip cost:.$75 per person. No expenence necessary Call (505) 986-9078 Participants paused at the overlook on the Santa Fe campus for the opening of the Ata laya Trail on May 1, 1992 �THE REPORTER PAGES JUNE 1992 Santa Fe The 1992 commencement in Santa Fe was "'""''tnn'n intellectual greatness its but a sunny affair. For the second consecutive year the diet of great book graduation was rained out. Hope held out lnnTPT<~1hT of vU.1....,UJ;;V, under 3 p.m., but the would two-week monsoon continued and a so it se crowd estimated at close to 600 peoof one ple squeezed into the Dining Hall and Gibbo1 the balconies of the Fireside Lounge educati and the Art Gallery. havep Despite the difficult conditions, gard 01 spirits remained high among the 90 nevert graduates, faculty, staff, friends and tyrann; family members in attendance. booksi ThespeakerfortheeventwasJoseph have m Epstein, editor of The American accept Sclwlar. Formerly a student of the great high a1 books curriculum at the University of quite al Chicago, Mr. Epstein recounted his comm< own exposures to the works of the to chm Western tradition. "About the books we life." were asked to read at the University of Fim Chicago I never felt anything but exgradua citement I felt pleased-even a little "good high-brows," a c vaingloriously proud-to be reading them. I sensed glishman named Maurie that there was nothing better. I remember loving the A good high-brow is 1 very rhythm of a Platonic dialogue; Aristotle, with his glad of the fact without tl analytic power, blew me away; and not Thuc-y-dites, throats, who, withoutbei but Thucydides did much the same with his intellectual his intellectual or artisti penetration and dramatizing power. "Such an education as mine--and yours-was a aptitudes, does not use th piece of tremendous good luck," he said. "Itis, in our country, "Such an education as mine--and yours-was found only in odd piece of tremendous good luck." pockets of the system. We are, I think, an elite--not a soman: such is the good h! cial elite or even an intellectual elite but rather an elite there are the better for tl of the lucky." us. When there shall be 1 While Mr. Epstein lauded the intellectual tradition at St. John's, he also cautioned graduates of the perils the extinction of our civ of such an education. In so doing he turned to the words being one of them if you of Seneca, a leading exponent of stoicism and adviser to sin against Light, to d to the Emperor Nero. "An obsession with liberal arts false to yourself and to e turns people into pedantic, irritating, tactless, self-satisfied bores, not learning what they need simply because they spend their time learning things they will never need." Mr. Epstein continued in his own words to say, "Too great a piety for the great books can be daunting, can even exert a tyranny from which one must shake free. It seems to me an error to become pious about even great books, viewing them as sacred texts, forgetting that they were written by men and women of flesh and blood and therefore capable of the most serious mental lapses. There is a sense in which, being primary and even foundational, these books are sacred. But this oughtn't to exempt them from being criticized and even from being made fun of." 1 a'l\.n.1111:11111.1111-y senior Jeff Jones has a broad smile for President John Fe ceremony. The Simon Kaplan Memorial and Board of Visitors and Governors Prize for the best senior essay: ANNE SCHUCHMAN (A) and JEFFREY ACKER (A). Honorable Mention: JOHN DUNN (A) The Richard D. Prize for the best senior essay: KARL BROWN JEFFREY TODD FAHRNER The Senator Millard E. Tydings Memorial Prize given to the member of the Senior Class honored for excellence in speaking: MAUREEN HATCH (A), SIOFRA RUCKER (SF) The best essay: JEFFREY SEIDMAN (A), DAVID JENNINGS (A), RODERICK GILMAN (SF) The best sophomore SUSANNA BEISER (A). Honorable Mention: HITZ NATHAN HUMPHREY (A) The best freshman essay: MARA COLLINS (SF), ANGELA JUNK (SF), JANICE THOMPSON The Walter S. Baird Prize for the senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, 11tg:,r!:lt111ra. or sciences: JOHN DUNN (A), ONNIE GRISSOM (SF). Honorable Mention: ALEC BERLIN (SF) Graduate Institute students who submitted distinguished preceptorial essays in 1991-92: JOHN DANIEL (A), ALBERT REED (SF), STEPHANIE SCHLANGER (SF) Business Fellowship: JENNIFER COUNCIL (A), M.E.G. PRUD'HOMME (SF) ANNAPOLIS ONLY: Rotary Foundation Scholar: MICHAEL ZAMPELLA Woodrow Wilson Fellow: JIDE NZELIBE Governor's Summer Intern: WILLIAM MOROCCO The John S. Kieffer Award to the student who submitted the best English version of a Greek text SUSAN BEISER The student who submitted the best original musical composition: DOMINIC CRAPUCHETTES The Henry M. Austin Poetry Prize for the best original English poems: STACIE SLOTNICK and PANAYIOTIS PAPPAS The student who submitted the best English version of a French poem: Honorable Mention: ERICA STANGLAND The student who submitted the best essay on a piece of music: NANCY MARCUS The Bryce Jacobsen Award to the student who submitted the most elegant solution of a geometrical problem: ROBERT MCHALE The James R. McClintock Award to the student who submits the most elegant solution of a problem in analytic mathematics: REGINALD DUNN and DEVIN RUSHING The senior Man and Woman who their participation, leadership, and sportsmanship have contributed most to the College's athletic program: FREDERICK HALLER, JR., DAVID TRIMMER ii, and MAUREEN HATCH The Caritas Society of St. John's College Award to the senior who has contributed service to the Greater Annapolis Community: MARY SPIDLE Charles Vernon Moran Prize to the member of the Senior Class who submitted the best work of visual art to the Art Exhibition: JOHN DUNN National Science Foundation: Honorable Mention: DAVID DIANNE COWAN FE Thomas J. Watson Foundation BRENT CASSITY The Memorial Scholarship to a member of the Sophomore Class: BARTON to a member of the Junior Class for academic momhore-hin in the and commitment to ""''""'""'""''"...,h"'""' for medicine: Class of 1993: Class of 1994: Honored for n11kt~~nrllinn MARY WELLIVER Student Activities: Class of 1992: TAEKO Above right, Santa Fe senior Lisa Homs casts an eye at the s~ Above, Santa Fe Graduate Institute class of 1992 shows commenceme day pleasure. �JUNE 1992 ersonal he also daunted by exposure to elf. "After on an exclus as an undergraduate at the I how impossible it be ever to become a writer; and emed so long as the lower end 's standard was, say, Edward i . . . . In other words ... our on-yours and mine-may repared us to hold in high relly such work as we may well e able to perform. The implicit y of an education in great s that of compelling those who idergone such an education to only a calling in life that is id grand, which can itself be i oppressive as the tyranny that nds one to go for money and >se security above all else in ly, Mr. Epstein advised the ing class of 1992 to become oncept originated by an Enne "who is well educated and sting it down other people's g ashamed of his knowledge, superiority, or his gifts and mas a rod to beat others with, and does not think that because he is a the fortunate possessor of certain rare gifts or talents, he is therefore a better or a more useful gh-brow ...the more of these e nation, the better for all of o more of them, it will mean ization...To be ashamed of happen to be one of them, is ny your birthright, and to be erything else." THE REPORTER tially appear, as Scott Buchanan predicted, "misfits in the universe for the time-being. But eventually, you'll see so much more and be far more prepared than those trained in the little specialties." Directing his attention to the recent riots in Los Angeles, the Senator bemoaned the disintegration of national in the past two decades. "Twentyseven years ago, the riots in I went to Los Angeles and smelled the smoke and saw the burned-out shells of buildings and talked to the people in the DONNA community. A week ago I went back to Los Angeles Speaking to the graduates, guests and college comon the same mission. When will we ever learn?" munity of the Annapolis' college's 200th commenceHe went on to say that not all the rioters were black ment on May 17, U.S. Senator Harris Wofford(D-Pa.) or Hispanic, but all were young. "It's a crisis of the bad made his message very clear: Education is the number education of the young," he said one facing the country Sen. Harris Wofford As a solution he proposed bringing today, and it's up to the graduates "to home the concept of the Peace take your dream, your idea, your viCorp-a program that he helped Sarsion of what could be done about gent Shriver begin in the 1960s-by American education and turn it into asking young Americans to donate a reality. year or more to community service. "Confound the odds," he comVolunteers could fight illiteracy, manded the 7 6 candidates for bachecrime, and the isolation of the elderly. lor of arts degrees and the 25 master's He quickly acknowledged that the degree recipients in a speech entitled idea was not his own, but one es"The Great Books and the Active poused by Scott Buchanan and Duty Citizen." "You went against the Stringfellow Barr when they sent odds, against conventional wisdom workers to Israel and India. And by when you had the courage to come the Civilian Conservation Corps that, here. St. John's has gone against the during the Depression era, engaged odds in American higher educamore than a million young people in tion ... As one who was 47 points transforming parks and forests under down when we began my senate camarmy discipline in residential camps. "They not only paign... I'm counting on you to prevail." transformed the parks, they transformed themselves," Mr. Wofford, who in a surpise upset defeated U.S. he said "It's time we asked (them) again." Attorney General Richard Thornburgh last November Taking his plan a step further, he stressed that the to be the first Democrat elected a Pennsylvania senator disadvantaged shouldn't be the sole recipients of goodsince 1962, has been an adviser to U.S. Presidents, will. Instead, through a universal G.I. Bill of Rights, president of both Old Westbury College in New York doors to colleges would open for every American and Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and an honthrough low-interest loans that would be repaid orary alumnus of St. John's. He graduated from the through income tax, University of Chior public service. cago, and earned J.D. Last, he proposed and LL.B. degrees "Someday the atom ofpower at St. John's is that education should from Howard Univergoing to split and its energy ... will transform permeate all aspects sity and Yale UniverAmerican education." of society, hoping St. sity Law Schools. John• s will become Praising Dean Eva "a real idea in secondBrann's statement on ary education." He envisions young people spending educational policy (reprinted in the Dec. 1991 Resummers challenging their minds in St John's type porter) he continued, "Someday the atom of power at seminars, stretching the limSt. John's is going to split and its energy and light will its of their body in Outward transform American education." Bound programs, and taking In the meantime, there's work to be done. responsibility for this counBy the year 2000 the avtry through outreach proerage American will have grams. In closing, he seven different careers, he challenged the graduates to said. Going out into the take their dream, follow it world, he warned that St. and make it real. John's graduates may ini- by r Nelson and Mrs. Wofford. above, a Ann Marie Sulat shows her mother her graduation diploma; below, President Nelson presents sports to seniors Maureen Hatch and Dave Trimmer. PAGE9 Above, Senior Tutor Edward Sparrow the Commencement procession at Anna1po111s. Brian Cahalan and son Ian tlon on the front lawn. �JUNE 1992 THE REPORTER PAGE10 Anyone interested in organizing or attending events in the Albuquerque area should contact Michael David (505) 344-7875 or Santa Fe Alumni Director, Cindy Jokela at 982-3691. Editor Thomas Communications Committee Chair Alumni luncheons are held on Fridays in the Private Dining Room, 12:00 noon. Telephone Betsy Blume at the Alumni Office (410) 263-23 71 for more information about any upcoming events. June 12: Seminar on Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." This chapter meets informally on a monthly basis, usually the second Friday of each month, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Law Offices of Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, & Moody, 6th and Congress. Readings are selected by the hosting members. Contact Beverly Angel (512} 926-7808 for future schedule and details. Meetings will begin again next fall at the home of Alvin Aronson who can be contacted at (617) 5666657 or 437-3186 (wk) for information on future chapter events. I I July 11: Picnic by the seashore-Lake Erie-at the home of Frank St. Amour's, Dunkirk. This chapter welcomes the participation of all alumni in its wide-ranging locale. Call John White (716) 473-2431 for details and suggestions. This is the view from the new Atalaya Trail overlooking t~e Santa Fe campus. T~e trail begins on the campus and continues to the summit of Atalaya Mountam. For more on the tranl, see page seven. CHICAGO June 21: Seminar on the Montaigne essay "On Physiognomy" led by tutor Brother Robert at 3:30 in the State of Illinois Building; dinner and annual election of officers will follow. Call President Paul Frank at (312) 235-0614 or 464-2573 (wk), or Program Director Erin Milnes at 271-1039 about any of the chapter activities and locations of meetings. DALLAS I FORT WORTH This chapter meets about 10 times a year for Saturday evening seminars. For additional information contact Suzanne Doremus at (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis at (214) 340-8442. LOS ANGELES After two successful reorganizion seminar/events, the revitalized LA chapter is well on its way, with notice of coming events being mailed. Call Julia Takahashi (213) 434-7624 or Cindy Jokela in Santa Fe, (505) 982-3691 with suggestions or questions. PHILADELPHIA To participate in future events contact Jim Schweidel at (215) 836-7632. SACRAMENTO Meetings are every month in this 'unofficial' chapter to discuss the program readings, following the undergraduate sequence. Inquiries are most welcome; phone Arianne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen Feeley 452-1082. dent of Annapolis. Monthly seminars on the second Sunday of the month are continuing, and begin at 2:30 p.m. with alternating hosts. The Science and Math study group meets every other Wednesday; contact Mark Middlebrook at (510) 547-0602 for details. Call Toni Wilkinson (415) 585-4255 or476-7397 (wk) for further information and to contribute to the local newsletter. SANTA FE SAN FRANCISCO I NORTHERN CALIFORNIA June 14: Seminar on Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, hosted by Tom Hoover. July 26: Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Picnic and Seminars, with special guest Chris Nelson, Presi- Telephone John Pollack (505) 983-2144 or Alumni Director Cindy Jokela at 982-3691 for future seminar/social meeting times and places. Graduate Institute alums are studying variations on the undergraduate music tutorial, and meet once a week. Contact Dick Cowles (505) 986-1814 or Mary Schruben 473-7898 for information. Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 for information about future activities. The summer picnic is in the planning stages and he welcomes your participation. I June 28: Seminars on Sophocles' Electra, Euripides' Electra, and Aeschylus' Libation Bearers to be led by tutor Sam Kutler and Joan Bogucki (2:00-4:00). This now-official chapter meets fairly regularly on the third Sunday of alternate months at the University Technology Center in Minneapolis, 3:00 p.m. Telephone Glenda Eoyang (612) 642-9077 or 3793883 (wk) to contribute your ideas and for more information. June I 3: Annual Picnic with tutors Eva Nick Ma.1su·e111s. and Eric Sageng at the home of Tom in Morristown, NJ. Sabine Schweidt (president) (212) 645-8903 or 858-5249 (wk), or Peter Burdge (treasurer) or Jill Silberman (secretary) at 677-1145 for readings and other details. New York Chapter officers J m Silberman, SG 1'91, and Peter Burdge, SF'82, enjoy lunch at Tom Geyer's home in Morristown, NJ. June 10: Joseph Conrad, Secret Sharer''. Seminars meet at the West End Branch of the D.C. Public Library from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. There will be a summer break after the June until September. For further information call Sam Stiles (301) 424-91 or Sharon 535-2655. Another alumni ,.,...,.,r1, ..,,.., eveJY other at 5:00 p.m with to decided. Meetings are in the NE Washington area alums from Annapolis and other nearby locations are invited to attend. Call Susan Gushue (202) 526-1632 or Jon Church at 832-5851 for details. �JUNE 1992 THE REPORTER PAGE 11 Santa Fe Linda Stabler-Talty SGl'76, Editor Thomas Geyer A'68, Communications Committee Chair ELECTION NOTICES: oard of Alumni June 1, 1992 ELECTION NOTICE: Election of Alumni Representatives to the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors In accordance with Article VIJI, Section II of the By-Laws of the St. John's College Alumni Association, notice is hereby given that the following alumni have been nominated by the Alumni Association Board of Directors for election to the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors. For his second three-year term: Jonathan Zavin, A'68, New York, NY J.D. Columbia University, 1973; Military Service, 1970-72; partner, Richards and O'Neil, specializing in commercial litigation, copyright and entertainment law; member, Copyright Society of the United States; President, New York Chapter, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1984-86; St. John's College Alumni Association Board of Directors, 1984-91, Vice-President, 1988-91; Member, St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, 1990-. For his first three-year term: Stewart Greenfield, A'53, Westport, CT Military service, 1953-55; founder of CEO, Oak Investment Partners, 1974-90; Vice-President and General Partner, Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, 1971-74; Director, National Venture Capital Association; Board member, Nature Conservancy; Trustee, Nature Center, Westport, CT. ***** NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN THAT NOMINATIONS MAY BE MADE BY PETITION. The rules governing submission of nominations by petition are as follows: 1. Petitions must be signed by at least 50 members of the Alumni Association in good standing. 2. Nominations must be accompanied by a biographical sketch of the nominee. 3. The consent of all persons nominated must be obtained. 4. The petition must reach the Directors of Alumni Activities NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 1, 1992; c/o St. John's College, P.O. Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. If nominations by petition are received, there will be an election conducted by mail ballot. If there are no such nominations, the nominees listed above will be considered elected. Terms will begin July, 1993. ================================ June 1, 1992 ELECTION NOTICE: Election of Directors of the St. John's College Alumni Association. In accordance the Article VII, Sections I and II of the By-Laws of the Alumni Association, notice is hereby given that the following alumni have been nominated to serve on the St. John's College Alumni Association Board of Directors: For three-year terms as Directors: Gerald Hoxby, P.:47, Cincinnati, OH U.S. Air Force jet fighter pilot, 1951-55; Executive MBA, Xavier University, 1982; President and Chairman of the Board, Dubois Chemicals Pty., Limited, Australia, 1971-77; Vice President, Dubois Institutional Division, 1977-82; Chairman, Regency Construction, Inc., Kentucky, 1978- ; Chairman and Governors and Treasurer, Controlled Communications, Inc., Ohio, 1989-92; past Vice President and member of the Board of Trustees, Turpin Hills Civic Association; past member of the Sydney Grammar School Special Fund Raising Committee, Australia, 1976; Director, Alumni Association, St. John's College, 1989-92. William Tmes, A'59, Washington, D.C. IBM Corporation, 1961-; Manager, Public Safety, Courts and Corrections Public Sector Industry Marketing Staff, 1990- ; Manager of Systems Integration Marketing, State and Local Government, 1987-90; Marketing Manager, Federal Systems Division, 1985-87; Senior Program Administrator for the IBM Information Network, 1982-85; Founder, Tampa, Florida, Library Great Books Program, 1982-85; President, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1970-72; Co-Chair, Washington, D.C. Chapter, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1971-72; Member, St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors, 1992- . Dorine Tepper Real, SF'69, Westport, CA Work themes include education: organizing coop preschool program, aide in Montessori preschool, math reading tutor for independent primary school, aide in special education classrooms, adult literacy tutor; computers: set-up and training of a wordprocessing network for a scientific publications group; and editing; Director, Westport County Water District; active member, Northern California Chapter, St. John's College Alumni Association. Mark Middlebrook, A'83, San Francisco, CA M.S., Engineering Science, University of California at Berkeley; Principal, Daedalus Consulting, specializing in computer consulting for engineering firms, 1988- ; Contributing Editor, CAD alyst, magazine, 1990- ; President, Northern California Chapter, St. John's College Alumni Association, 1988-91; Homecoming Lecturer, St. John's College, Santa Fe, 1991. Darlene McCampbeH, SGl'83, Chicago, IL B.A., English, 1959, University of Michigan; teacher of English, University of Chicago Lab Schools, 1965- ; collaborator, Turning the Soul: Teaching Through Conversation in the High School; active member, Chicago Chapter, St. John's College Alumni Association. ***** NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT NOMINATIONS MAY BE MADE BY PETITION: Rules governing submissions of nominations by petition are as follows: 1. Petitions must be signed by no fewer than thirty (30) members of the Association in good standing. 2. Petitions must be presented to the Secretary of the Alumni Association prior to the Annual Meeting at which the election is to be held. George Bingham, SF'68, Secretary St. John's College Alumni Association P.O. Box 2800 Annapolis, MD 21404 3. The election will be held at the Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 3, 1992, at 10:30 a.m., Conversation Room, Mellon Hall, Annapolis Campus. 4. The candidates for Directors receiving the highest number of votes for those offices shall be declared elected. Office career results In receiving a theoretical liberal arts education, students can learn applicable and marketable skills. In particular, St. John's students hone their faculties of critical thought and analysis as well as their talents for reading, writing and communication. Yet for St. John's students to impress tough potential employers and competitive graduate schools, they must augment their education with experience beyond the Great Books. The link between St. John's and the "real world," the Placement Office on the Santa Fe campus provides Johnnies with the resources for success both before and after graduation. To this end, we have already initiated a Student Employment Program (STEP) on a local level, and are in the initial stages of implementing STEP's national expansion. The local businesses participating in STEP offer students practical part-time, summer, and fulltime work experience. The STEP program also allows us to act as a liaison to the Santa Fe community, and to create mutually rewarding relationships which we can continually maintain and build upon. In addition to STEP, the Placement Office provides students with other active placement resources: 1) resume and cover letter assistance, 2) interview and negotiation counseling, 3) pre-med, pre-law and pre-teaching guidance, 4) Teaching English as a Second Language instruction, 5) up-to-the-minute scholarship, fellowship, and grant information, 6) a brand new career planning library, 7) the establishment of graduate and corporate recruiting programs, 8) a monthly newsletter, and soon, 9) a volunteer outreach program. The Placement Office also monitors student accomplishments worthy of press release, networks with Board members, and develops a wide range of other professional and educational contacts. We are laying this foundation so that new graduates can successfully nail down that first entry level, fulltime position, or that highly competitive spot in graduate school. So what do our research and resources mean to you, the alumni, aside from making you envious? We welcome all alumni to take advantage of our already extensive services, and the services that will become available in the near future. The Placement Office is becoming a clearinghouse of employment information for all Johnnies. We wish to provide equal service to alumni and current students. In the upcoming Alumni Register Survey, we have included basic but crucial questions concerning your current and previous employment and/or graduate study. The results of this important survey will help us establish our first, fully computerized Alumni Network. Your information will not only help us provide current students with more thorough services, but also will help establish a valuable network for all Johnnies who are making contacts, gathering job leads, or just catching up with old friends. We should have this information computerized by October. In conclusion, the ultimate aim of Santa Fe's Placement Office is to ensure the long term success of each St. John's graduate. We also wish to advertise these successes to the outside world. The better known and respected we become in the eyes of employers and other educational institutions, the more good we will have the chance to do. Results! Keep in touch, Donald H. Parker, Director of Placement at Santa Fe Marilla Hazlett, Assistant �PAGE12 JUNE 1992 THE REPORTER SERIES SCORE: 7-3 Johnnies win the Big One By JOHNPOVEJSIL,A '92 The St. John's croquet squad regained its place of honor in this year's annual match with the United States Naval Academy. Avenging last year's rout at the hands of the Midshipmen, the St. John's team quickly dispatched their walled-in neighbors 3-0 in a best of five match. Coolness pervaded the event. Determined to restore the celestial order by reclaiming the croquet title, the Johnnies were all business. Champagne rarely touched the lips of the St. John's "ten"-pursed instead in their pursuit of the "well-struck" shot. This year's victory gives St. John's a 7-3 lead in the series. The imperative of recapturing the title joined with the cool weather and the nation's recession and made for a sedate, leaner event than the past few years of early summer heat, lightheartedness, and national media attention. Even the food was cool this year. Gone were the smoke-blackened students tending slightly out-of-control roast pits issuing forth an endless flow of burgers and sausages. Instead, there was a sensible line-up of cold-cuts, cheese, and lettuce for the crowd's nourishment. Still there was dancing in front of the library, of course, although the waltzes and the Mozart, symbols of bygone splendor, were supplanted by the coolness of Dave Brubeck, and the downright chilliness of Barry Manilow. The fashion show that this event has become was less in evidence than in previous years; those who did dress for the occasion conjured up images of Victorian sturdiness rather than Gatsbyesque frivolity. There was the obligatory "guy in a dress" this year, but even he was wearing earth-tones and his hemline was well below the knee. Members of the St. John's team included Imperial Wicket Eric Traynor, A'92, Brian Baker, A'92, Wes Donehower, A'95, Craig LeFevre, A'92, Panayiotis Pappas, A'93, Benjamin Power, A'93, Abe Schoener, A'82, Walter Sterling, A'93, Bryan Tracey, A'92, and Alex Vallega, A'93. A late afternoon shower ended the event, but only afterthe St. John's team had already won its three games. "Doing lunch" will never be the same for members of the college's croquet team. The day before the fabled match with the United States Naval Academy team in April in Annapolis, the Johnnies accepted the midshipmen's invitation to share a meal, and upon entering King Hall-a building as large as a football field-were greeted by 4,500 uniformed Navy diners. "Imagine how you'd feel (facing that) if you were the only one in a tee-shirt," said St. John's Brian Baker, A'92. Any initial apprehension was short-lived as the St. John's team took their places at long tables each with three First Classmen and six plebes. Actually to the Johnnies the plebes seemed a bit awkward, speaking to one another in hushed tones. The guests, on the other hand, were treated as honorary First Classmen. As St. John's Imperial Wicket Eric Traynor, A'92, recalls, "We were served before the underclassmen, and the plebes even addressed us as 'sir."' In the end, it took the college's Craig LeFevre, A'92, to release these lowest ranking midshipmen from an unnaturally stiff perch on the edge of their chairs. "Carry on," was his simple command. Dining family style, Eric and his crew enjoyed the intimate feeling of passing along the huge buckets of ice cream and gallons of milk-products of the Naval Academy Dairy-that accompanied the stew and rice. The conversation was as diverse as the diners: assignments for the mids, jobs and graduate school for the Johnnies, books read by both. At another table, discussion riveted on the future Naval officers following orders. "What would you do if you are asked to fight an unjust war?" one St. John's studentinquired. Still another group tackled the Virtuti in pratulis (Prowess on the lawns) real meat of the matter: the rules of croquet. Both teams expressed relief that the outside coaching the mids had received for the past two years was absent this season, and the sport was reverting back to its original intent: a time for students from both schools to get to know each other better in the course of friendly competition. A day earlier, the Johnnies had hosted the mids for lunch in Randall Hall. Although there was no gun salute at their arrival, Naval Academy style, the mids appreciated such amenities as a choice of entrees and unlimited helpings. Both teams continued their conversations Friday afternoon at the Ramshead Inn, a West Street pub. Afterwards, they joined in a St. John's tradition. "Do you really waltz?" one midshipman had asked incredulously earlier in the day. He found out for himself that evening. On victory spree, Johnnies win McGarvey, Generation Gap trophies May 1: SJC-2, GingerCove-1 May 12: SJC wins round robin with state, county, and city teams. "A miraculous shot through the penultimate wicket" is the way Leo Pickens described key moment in match by Walter Sterling, A'92. Keith Harvey photo Keith Harvey photos �JUNE 1992 THE REPORTER PAGE13 ACF (Continuedfrompage one) Brainstorming led to the ACF, a two-pronged volunteer effort that would first support existing youth groups, then offer academic, leadership, and community service skills through a special club program. Each participant in the program would be awarded $3,000 upon graduating from school. Short term incentives include camping trips on the South River, concerts at Morgan State College, sporting events and other recreational activities. Before the leaders could begin making a critical difference in the children's lives, they needed funding. They secured a seed grant of $75,000 from the J.M. Kaplan Fund of New York City, and with this initial boost launched what they hope will become a locally-supported program. To begin, ACF presented the leaders of the three youth organizations-the Annapolis All-Stars, the Annapolis Youth Athletic Association and the Planning Action Committee-with one of their toughest challenges: To select from their 200 children 10 of their "best and brightest." "These 30 are not necessarily the smartest kids," Brad explained, "but children who have shown potential by taking an active part in their groups." Next, the group recruited volunteers, men and women from various backgrounds, high school and college students, to share their talents with the children. Under the direction of Roger Reed, an Anne Arundel county school teacher, ACF took off. From the start the children were made to feel special, privileged to be taking part in a program that would open new worlds to them. Meeting weekly, they created a logo, a rising sun, they adopted club colors-red for blood, black for race, and gold for education-and they even drafted their own rules. "What is social tyranny?" asks Amalia Uribe, A'93, to the circle of 15 boys and girls before her. Jaws drop, a hush envelops the conference room in McDowell as the children from ages 7-16 furrow their brows. Although some of these youngsters struggle to make out the printed words, they're enthralled with their new-found thoughts. This is Touchstones, an innovative reading program developed by three St.John's tutors which has become the heart of the academic segment of ACF. The student leaders begin by reading aloud a passage, such as "From About Revenge" by Francis Bacon. The children scan the copy, composing questions. Half-hour discussions that sharpen their ability to listen, to reflect and to articulate their ideas follow. futrigued with topics such as revenge and justice, the children bring their 1990's street smarts to the ageless prose. Besides Amalia, the Johnnies leading the children include David Jennings, A'93, and Lovan Ely, A'93, Maureen Hatch, A'92, and Rebecca Dzamov, A'95-all coached by Touchstones founders Geoffrey Comber, Nick Maistrellis, and Howard Zeiderman. Last Fall, at the first of these hour-long Tuesday evening seminars, pandemonium prevailed. "All the children were speaking at once and no one was listening," one Johnnie notes. "Or they'd engage in two or three private conversations, not sharing with the rest of the group." In the six months since the beginning, the children's listening skills have increased and their confidence has grown as they learn that most questions don't have a right or wrong answer, but rather serve as a springboard for opinions. Take "Karen," 13, for instance. Silent last Fall, she sparkles today, not only responding to questions, but proposing her own. Or consider pragmatic "Michael," 12, who has increasingly impressed his discussion leaders with his incessant probing of the passages' effect upon his life. "fu the end, what matters most to the children," says Maureen Hatch, "is that they are being listened to-whether their point is valid or not." Equally important is the lesson that others' opinions matter, too. Touchstones' influence goes beyond the walls of McDowell. The student's interest in their school subjects has increased, the Johnnies who tutor them point out. "Work in the community to make it better. Take ownership." These are the words of Director Roger Reed to the children. And they have done just that. Some visited the elderly at the Glenwood Senior Center, reading to them, playing Bingo, patiently learning needlepoint-even a burly teenage boy created a sampler. It didn't matter what they did, leaders say; simply being together broke down the barriers of age and race. Other children visited the mentally retarded at the Providence Center, experiencing the joy they can bring to someone who seldom sees a visitor. Still others built bird feeders and joined with members of the Maryland Save Our Stream Federation monitoring friendship with Sharon. Barbara, NANCYOSIUS who has known Sharon since her InNovember 1990, aboutamonth student days, tells her former stuafter a small band of enthusiasts from dent that she is the last person she the class of 1965 had danced and ever would have expected to become talked and eaten their way through a so important. happy Homecoming Weekend, AnBehind Sharon's back, Barbara napolis Alumni Director Betsy is full of praise. "She is highly reBlume received a telephone call. spected both in the Association and "We want to go ahead with our on the Board of Visitors and Gover26th reunion," said Sharon Bishop, A'65, calling from Virginia. "We n ors. She runs the Association have written a letter to be sent." meetings very efficiently and expresses herself clearly and well. As A 26th reunion? Who ever heard co-chairman of the Visiting Comof such a thing? Not Betsy Blume. She knew Sharon, though. Didn'tevmittee a few years ago, she had raperyone? Member of the Board of port with everybody-staff, Visitors and Governors, member of students, associates. People just felt the Alumni Association Board, comat ease." Chris Nelson, who also served panion nonpareil. Still, Betsy wasn 'treally sure they with Sharon on both boards before would follow through, she says. he assumed the presidency at AnSharon Bishop, A'65 "Then they planned this WONDERnapolis, says, "It has been pure pleaFUL reunion." fu the words of a participant: "It was a sure to work with her over the years. She is solid, cheerful, legendary experience." talented, strong, generous and modest. .. all the more reason At one of the many moments of the reunion, some of for the rest of us to toot her horn." which were chronicled in these pages-the moving memoNow here is Sharon Bishop herself, sitting today in the rial service for Jim McClintock, dead in Vietnam long years coffee shop, an imposing woman, forty-something, smiling ago, the renegade plaque honoring him, the Classic Rock but thoughtful, a highly successful management consultant party-Sharon Bishop received the Alumni A ward of Merit. who is co-owner of her own burgeoning firm. What she has At another moment came the announcement that Sharon was on her mind is her new post as Alumni Association head. to be the new Alumni Association president, the first woman "First of all, I want to continue their work," she says of selected for that office. David Dobreer, A' 44, and Harvey Goldstein, A '59. Well. She is speaking of her immediate predecessors whom she A fellow member on both Boards, Barbara Leonard, credits with achieving and maintaining a national association HA'55, assistant dean for 36 years, shares a teasing, bantering (Continued on page 14) Congratulating the first members of the Annapolis Children's foundation (ACF) are students David Jennings, A'93, and Amalia Uribe, A'93, foundation volunteers. Among the 29 children receiving certificates of accomplishment are (from left) Dominique Yolanda Blair, and Karen Hudson. Keith Harvey photo College Creek-learning not only ecology but the rewards of working together for a common goal. At the end of the first school year, it wasn't the group projects that came to mind when Mr. Reed was asked to comment on the success of the fledgling group, but instead the individual moments. To him success was defined as dedication. The dedication of a child who every week rode his bike to the senior center to visit his patient. Or the commitment of another little boy who ran through a thunderstorm not to disappoint the elderly woman who watched out the window for him. Speaking to the children that filled McDowell Hall on a warm evening in May as their parents and mentors looked on, Brad Davidson told them "how proud we are of you." Speaking as if he were talking to his own five-year-old son, Brad encouraged them "to jump in, to grow, flourish and continue to make your friends and family proud of you." Jeff Bishop offered the children a formula for a successful life: "Having people care for you; respect for others, and education." With these thoughts in mind, Brad and his group are already planning next year's expanded program. They're negotiating with a local church for a permanent club house so students will have a place to study and socialize after school. Looking up at his leaders, nine-year-old Aaron Foote says with a smile, "I liked how the people from St. John's College helped us." �THE REPORTER 4 &'West JLir•L>••'"llUI' (Continuedfrompage 13) (Continued from page two) the German Academy Exchange (DAAD) to complete his Kant dissertation in Cologne next year. In Cologne, he will work with Professor Dusen on his dissertation about the way in which the teleological material of the third critique modifies the moral thesis of the second critique. Jeffrey contends thatKanthad already left room for this change in the first critique. 1986 Susan Read, (SGI), a teacher at the Santa Fe Indian School, has been awarded a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to participate in the 1992 program of Summer Seminars for School Teachers. The five-week seminar will be held at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Teachers of grades K-12 from U.S. educational institutions are eligible for the 62 NEH seminars across the country. 1988 After graduation in 1988, John Gibson (SF) worked as a research assistant on nonlinear dynamics (CHAOS) at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe Institute. Last summer, he and several associates joined with researchers from the University of Illinois to form Prediction Company in Santa Fe to conduct computer searches for deterministic dynamics in financial market data. "When we find predictability, we'll play the market," he writes. "Wish usluck!"His paper on the geometry of chaotic attractors reconstructed from time series was recently accepted by Physica D for July publication. In August he will enter graduate school in dynamical systems at Cornell. "In the meantime, I'm attending all the Friday night lectures I can, and all the alumni and community seminars, in anticipation of missing St. John's College dearly." 1989 Mariana Cook, (SGI), married Thomas Kraus this year. Wendy McDonald (SF) has been accepted into the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. 1990 Karl Meyer (A) and Mary Braden (A) will be married July 9 in a small family ceremony in Spirit Lake, Idaho. They are currently living in Chicago, where Karl is pursuing his Ph.D. in the history of science, and Mary is a secretary at Sara Lee Corporation. They invite classmates and other friends to contact them at 5118 S. Kimbark Ave., #lW, Chicago, IL 60615. (312) 324-6860. EDO lately won the MAPP (Musicians, Artists, Poets and Performers) contest in Philadelphia, "allowing us to call ourselves the best unsigned band in Philadelphia," writes Eliot Duhan (A), the band's manager, lead singer and head writer. Also involved in the project are Joe Boucher, (A '89), the band's "handler and spiritual advisor," and Frank Alden (A '93). In the January MAPP magazine, EDO is described as "a band that's nearly impossible to define, a fitting reflection of its frontman, Duhan. They've got chops, all right: it's ... comprised of incredible musicians and one of the best rhythm sections you'll ever see." Other EDO news: the inclusion of two of their songs ("We're EDO" and "Big Surprise") on a compilation titled "How to Kill Frank Sinatra" put out by Eerie Materials of Richmond, VA, the imminent release of a new single ("Our New Single") produced with Blue Lunch Records of Albany, NY, and "the continued availability of several compilations (Live and Studio) from the past year and a half. For more information, write or call Duhan at 1051 Floyd Terrace, Bryn Mawr PA 19010, 215-JARNU-16. Valerie Pawlewicz (A) has organized both a Smithsonian Seminar and a Study Tour for the Smithsonian National Associate Program. Hiking and canoeing are included in "Forever Wild: Exploring the Adirondacks," a seminar July 19-24; in "Great Camps of the Adirondacks," a domestic study tour September 12-19, participants will stay at the Vanderbilt family's Sagamore Lodge. 1993 Vanessa Jose Gamponia (A) was to marry Midshipman 1st class Alexander W. Ellermann in late May after his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy. composed of board members from all over the country. (Before the 1980's, the Alumni Association was a smallish, mostly Annapolis-based organization.) Next, she wants more attention paid to alumni, and alumni issues and alumni as individuals. "A lot of alumni are doing very interesting things and I think it would be valuable to know about that and perhaps to use them as role models." Additionally, she will continue to support chapters and chapter activities, "because that is the place where alumni can 're-experience' a seminar and where they can socialize with fellow alumni. And it is a vehicle for staying in touch with the college as well." Finally, she wants to continue to improve relations between the alumni and the college. "My personal goal," she says, "is to increase the percentage of alumni who give to the college on a regular basis. The college needs to demonstrate support from the alumni as it seeks funds from other sources. The amount any individual gives-$5 or $25-is not so important as the fact that a large percentage gives to the college." While Sharon's recent presidential predecessors have been retired or semi-retired, her own situation is "pretty much nonstop work," 10-12 hours daily, every day. "Sometimes I wake up and I can't tell which day it is." Given so pressured a life, her decision to make room for St. John's invites some explanation: "St. John's is my hobby," she says simply. Association work presents a different set of issues in a life where even tennis is ruled out nowadays as too timeconsuming. Working for St. John's gives her "enormous satisfaction." This satisfying connection began when Sharon at 15 read about the college in the now-defunct Philadelphia Bulletin. She was already, she says, a very serious student, a teenager trying to read Nietzsche on her own, and "convinced that public school was poisoning my mind." "The St. John's education just sounded like the most perfect education anyone could want," she remembers. She wrote for the catalogue and read it cover to cover. She even got her parents to come down in the middle of that scorching summer. They had never gone to college, she says, and then and later it was hard for them to understand her college choice. "They would have been happy if I had just gone on to state teachers' college, and here I wanted to go to this weirdo private school." Her official visit the following year as a prospective student confirmed her choice. Since she wasn't sure she would be accepted, she applied a whole year early ("I just wanted to settle this issue!") There was some confusion, with the result that she was admitted to the college at the end of her junior year in high school. The early-early admission, though unintended, was tempting. Sharon left high school without graduating and entered St. John's two days after her 17th birthday. 1961! a time of great social upheaval for the country and especially for students everywhere. Within months of arrival, Sharon was involved in a civil rights demonstration; one classmate, also 17, was jailed, which was "very frightening to us." She now sees the period of activism, with students engaging in several months of sit-ins to integrate Annapolis restaurants, as a learning experience, a coming of age. "We were all very intense. In those days, we wore a lot ofblack. I hope students are less intense now." She took one year off during college, working at Temple University, "struggling to find myself, trying to decide where I was going, what I was doing." She returned to St. John's, she says, because she persisted in believing that the St. John's education was the most important kind of education one could have. In 1966, she graduated. "Graduation was an enormous achievement, by the way: I was always very anxious about whether I would graduate." Women's options were limited, and the starting point was often secretarial. Sharon says she went into social work because "I wouldn't have to type, and saving the world appealed to me." Two years later when she was in a handsomely funded graduate social work program at Bryn Mawr, she chose research over clinical work, and her career began to reveal itself. She has been evaluating social programs ever since. In 1972, she joined Booz Allen, one of the oldest and largest consulting firms in the world, and remained for 11 years. She worked in the Government Services Group, where she was responsible for both business development and project management, principally for government agencies. In her years with that firm, she managed 55 projects, teams of four to 11 people, conducting organization and management studies as well as program evaluations. A study of the Catholic Relief agencies literally took the team around the world, examining operations in order to see how the agency could consolidate functions and become more efficient. Sharon's venue was east and west Africa, where she stayed three weeks. She left the firm exhausted, she says, and at a time of personal change. In 1984, she married; the marriage has since ended. An independent consultant for a year, she presently entered into discussion with Jerry Croan, who had recently started Caliber Associates of which he was the only employee. They began working together, operating out of their separate houses, then entered into partnership and today own the firm together. "We didn't even have a secretary until 1986," she says smiling. The business has taken off since then, and by last year had over 30 employees. Most of Caliber's work-99% Sharon says-is for the government, from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Defense. The firm is currently conducting studies for both the Air Force and the Navy of how Family Service Centers responded to family needs during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Sharon recently completed a Congressionally-mandated evaluation of four demonstration projects to review and update child support orders for the National Office of Child Support Enforcement; the final report is to be submitted to Congress within the next few months. Caliber Associates has not been seriously affected by the recession, Sharon says. Last year they had a contract backlog of seven million dollars. Now she turns back to her "hobby," which has very special pleasures. One of them is the Washington-area ·prospective student' reception she has given yearly since 1985 atherhomeinReston, Virginia. Some- (Continued from page six) more significant in terms of learning material than that between a ninth-grader and eleventh-grader. As a result, Green meets with each of his age groups ser1ar;1te1.v deal with older close in their them together, but I've graders, kindergartners and second-graders, their body of know ledge, just about the world regardless of what language, is so different. A second grader can tell time and count money and a first grader can't." For Green, the rewards as an ESL instructor are much the same as working with any student. "I'm enjoying the company of the children," he said. "I like to see them learn. And they kind of teach me what it's like to be youthful." Another volunteer in the program is Don Maclver, a current Graduate Institute student and member ofthe St John's Board of Visitors and Governors. Maclver also attended the training in February and has since been active teaching English to children and adults. Initially he and four other St. John's student tutors spent Wednesday evenings working with the children of adults who were enrolled in ESL classes. "We took custody of the children, ranging in age from two years old to twelve years old," Maclver said. "We were a combination of day-care and tutors. The children were mostly Spanish speaking." The project changed "in mid-stream" however as program organizers decided the presence of the children was inhibiting the progress of the adult class. As a result, Maclver and the other St. John's student tutors began to assist in the adult classes. Unlike Green's students who are divided into groups according to age, the adults are grouped according to the level of acquisition. "I was with a basic, beginning class which had ten students," Maclver said. "In some cases these people had not had any schooling in their native language, so they were illiterate, as defined by the ability to speak, read and write, in their native language as well as English. Most have been in this country anywhere from three months to twelve years." The primary difference between teaching children and adults is the attention span, Maclver said. "With children who are very young we had to make the learning process an object of play. In contrast, the adult classes were uniformly remarkable in their eagerness and enthusiasm to learn." Maclver said his interest in teaching English as a second language stems partly from a desire to help others and also from a general interest in language. "I have seen all my life what communication can do for people. When this class was announced it offered me both an opportunity to learn a skill and a kind of volunteerism to apply to help others. Also, I am always interested in language itself." where between 15 and 30 "bright and eager" students and their parents attend. Also, she finds "enjoyable and entertaining" the popular Senior Dinners, hosted annually on each campus by alumni. "These students are our future alumni," she observes. "It is interesting to watch the maturing and development over a period of time." This takes her one step further. "The alumni are not a homogeneous group," she says. "Considering that we've all been through the same program, we are VERY different people--philosophers, entertainers, business people, financiers-very different. "I would like the Alumni Association to be sure it accommodates these differences, encompasses the full diversity of these differences. I want to provide things of interest to the full range of them-seminars, student recruitment, career counseling to existing students. Alumni can be-and areextremely helpful to the college. They make a substantial contribution." �By NANCY OSIUS Longtime friends of Else Klein, who died March 4 at age 89, surely felt they knew her better after the memorial service May 2. She was the widow of Jacob (Jasha) Klein, dean at Annapolis from 1949 to 1958. Her friends called her Dodo. fu the lofty Great Hall where nearly every seat was filled, a dozen of those friends undertook to evoke a remarkable woman in all her multiplicity. The few present to whom she was simply a name and a legend must have emerged from the service with a real sense of Dodo Klein-a wise and witty woman, intimate of prewar European intellectual giants, a supremely gifted hostess. Else Klein eating and drinking. At her table, "Things happened .. People were led to what they knew, to deepen what they thought." "She was my mentor," said Kimi Atwell, a longtime Caritas member, wife of alumnus Frank Atwell, and member of the German conversation group. She remembered Mrs. Klein's contributions to the annual fundraising feasts, the needlecraft shows, the quilting bees, but especially perhaps the conversation about German culture and society in the early days of the century. "An incomparable lady," she said. "Auf wiedersehen." Jonathan Edelman, A '83, spoke as a second generation boarder (his father, Richard, A '51, had also boarded with Mrs. Klein as a student.) "She took me on as a project," Jonathan remembered-calling him for all the years "Boy." She taught him cooking, manners, and how to he told the listeners. "She was my guardian angel." "I was in love with her," he added. Born into a milieu ofNobelPrize winners and great women and men of mathematics and science, Dodo Klein "understood their world and shared their creative leaps of Jonathan Edelman Born Else Tammann in Goettingen, Germany, and married first to law professor Gerhart Husserl, son of the philosopher and founder of phenomenology, Mrs. Klein came to the United States in 1937. After her divorce, in 1950 she married J asha Klein whom she had known since the 1920s in Germany. fu the 25 years that followed, she was along with him atthecenterofSt. John's College life. She was a center of neighborhood life as well, the organizer of such traditions as the 4th of July Market Street Block Party and Parade, Christmas Eve Carolling and Cookies, and House and Garden Easter Egg hunts. In the larger community, she founded the embroidery and needlepoint activities of the "Black Eyed Susan" needlework shop, supported a Naval Academy ladies' stitching and embroidery group for nearly 30 years and held a weekly German conversation circle at her home. She was a vigorous supporter of the Caritas Society from its beginning, initiating the annual Elliott Zuckerman recital-lectures and the Book and Author luncheons. In her preliminary remarks at the memorial service, Dean Eva Brann expressed gratitude for the fabled hospitality and the woman who extended it so generously and so widely; this was an image central to the memories of every speaker who followed. Said Dean Brann, "From that spring day in 1957 when I was, as a prospective tutor, invited to what seemed to me a superlatively elegant lunch graced with swirling silver candelabra and unforgettable conversation to her last valiant days on her feet, I received from her-as did we all-a hospitality so extended, spontaneous and so cozily informal that I almost forgot that it was not mine by right." Brother Robert spoke of the humor and kindness of Dodo, a woman who looked "with never flagging interest at the three-dimensional world" of human relations and moral choices, he said. He spoke of her broad role as hostess-far more than just thought, intellectual intensity and honesty," said her friend and neighbor Louise Raphael. As an almos.t constant dinner companion in the last years, Prof. Raphael praised Dodo's "genius for intimacy and friendship." Steven Wedin, A '85, read aloud Dodo's charming reminiscence, "The Dinner Table," to the audience, touching upon the magical entertainments and the brilliant conversation at 101 Market St. at its peakand after. "My little friends come now," the sketch concluded, "young men and women. Maybe they too will become famous and important, when the table lies with me in the grave. Now they are seated, gladly, I hope, and they eat heaps of vegetables, sal~.ds, a little meat, and mounds of dessert. Dessert: chocolate cream is requested, Charlotte Russe is desired, and baked apples are accepted" Mr. Wedin concluded with his own words on the "other table" in Dodo's house, the kitchen table, where she was also fully at home. ''There," he said, "she would listen with her heart, and could answer with her eyes. She spoke in a deep, rich textured voice which gave words to an imagination built on her long memory and shaped by her clear mind's eye." Mr. Wedin had translated "The Dinner Table" from the German, Tutor Beate Ruhm von Oppen pointed out. "I often had a feeling of pathos, of loss, when I heard [Dodo] speak English. She managed quite nicely, as you all know-but most of you don't know what you missed, the rich, differentiated, subtly inflected, articulate and even wittier Dodo." Dodo bore the deprivation of her native tongue with fortitude, said Miss von Oppen "[and] she embraced her new country, especially our town and her neighborhood wholeheartedly." Anna E. Greenberg, member of the Board of Visitors and Governors and Dodo's companion in Caritas activities, spoke of Mrs. Klein's dignity, integrity and generosity to the community. The phrase 'I think you know' Warren Bird Duckett: state highway official Warren Bird Duckett, A '27, died in April at age 86 of respiratory arrest at the Ginger Cove health care center in Annapolis after a long illness. A member of the State Roads Commission, Mr. Duckett retired as chief of the Bureau of Construction fuspection for the State Highway Administration in 1971 after 47 years of service. He was a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers and the American Association of State Highway Officials, a member of the Southern Maryland Society, the Annapolis Yacht Club, and St. Anne's Episcopal Church. At St. John's he was a letterman in five sports-football, basketball, soccer, track and wrestling. A sports fan all his life, he was a committed outdoorsman, enjoying especially hunting and fishing. He is survived by his wife, Mary Knight Linthicum Duckett, whom he married in 1929, a daughter Katherine Bowie Miller of York, Pa., one son, Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Warren B. Duckett, Jr., a brother, five grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. Roland N. King, 86, A '25, retired manager of the Blackstone Hotel in Washington, died of respiratory arrest March 24 at his home in Annapolis after a brief illness. he lived in Annapolis for many years, and was a member of the St. Born in Barstow, Anne's Episcopal Church, a past president of the Annapolis Rotary and a life member of the Annapolis Yacht Club. He is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth Fischer of Dallas, and Jean Grier and four grandchildren. His wife, Constance Davis King, died in 1969. Frank B. Marshall, 67, A '45, a retired investment banker and a former member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, died of heart failure March 26 at the Anne Arundel Medical Center after a brief illness. Mr. Marshall served in the Army in World War II After graduation from St. John's, Mr. Marshall did graduate work at Johns Hopkins University and Loyola College in Baltimore. He worked for Alex Brown and Sons, fuc., in Annapolis for 23 years until he retired in February 1991. Survivors include his wife Ruth, two daughters, Amy Swan and Sally Wagsland, a sister and five grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the St. John's College Memorial Fund at Annapolis. preceded every suggestion she made, said Mrs. Greenberg, "and then she would proceed to tell us exactly what we didn't but should know and how we should go about it" Tutor Emeritus Douglas Allanbrook traced his friend's background from her childhood in Goettingen as daughter of a noted professor of metallurgy, "her years spanning the waning years of Imperial Germany, and the darkening days of the Weimar Republic" and finally, the "dark emergence of the Nazis." "Her years with Jasha... were the sunlit plateau of her long life," he said. But for the speaker, "the history of this terrifying century is for me inextricably linked with my friendship for this tough and loyal woman." Fellow needlewoman Frances Walker was invited in 1966 by Mrs. Klein to join her in The Black-Eyed Susan, which the women ran together in West Annapolis for a number of years until Jasha Klein's illness. (Dean Klein died in 1978.) With her friend and business partner, and with many others, "she shared her love of stitching like all her gifts, freely and generously," said Mrs. Walker. When Wolfgang Husserl Rosenberg was 14 years old and living rather unhappily in suburban Boston, he pleaded to be allowed to come to stay with his aunt Dodo in Arlington for a year. One of his ambitions was to marry her, if his uncle Gerhart should ever die, he told his family. "But as you all know, Jasha beat me to it." During that year, "the year of Pearl Harbor ... I bloomed," he said "She made people bloom-invariably we became something more. "I never met anyone for whom I had more respect. Her voice, her tone, her gestures, her movements, her expressions, her respect for whoever and whatever she faced and her judgments of when to say what, all were uniquely nonabrasive." The contrasts and paradoxes of Else Klein's nature were Elliott Zuckerman's theme when he arose as the final speaker in the program he had arranged for his treasured friend. "The young lady who had been brought up in a Professor's house full of servants had, in middle age, hired herself out as a domestic, in part just to know what it was like. The woman who knew Husserl and Hilbert and Heidegger opened a neighborhood shop in needlework. The teenager who had been befriended by Lou-Andreas Salome-who was the intimate of Nietzsche and Rilke and the analysand of Freud-was destined to be a woman who, on the other side of the world, would gather her colonial neighborhood together to celebrate the Fourth of July, with patriotic speeches and square dancing ... "She loved speeches, and insisted that there be speeches at every occasion when they might possibly be called for. She would have liked to be here. She liked to be last, and apocalyptic. We miss Dodo as the best and final speaker." In addition to her nephew, Mrs. Klein is survived by her daughter Gay Elizabeth McCollum, who now lives at the Market St address. The complete text of the May 2 memorial service will be printed. �PAGE16 THE REPORTER Brent Cassity, SF'92 Watson fellowship to Brent Cassity to be at a minutes north of Tokyo, seminars on Western andJapaneseclassicsfortwofourorfive-week sessions in the summer of 1993. Other tentative details: English-speaking Japanese students from Shimotsuke Gakuen, the university hosting the consortium of American universities to which St. John's belongs, may be auditing the classes. Students may stay all summer and may get transferrable academic credit for the class by writing substantial papers. The estimated cost for four-five weeks including tuition, room and board-everything but travel-will be about $2,000-2500. "Those who are familiar with Japanese prices will recognize that this is a very modest expense," says Dean Eva Brann in her preliminary announcement: "St. John's in Japan." Dean Brann invites a response from students, alumni, or friends of the college who feel "even a twinge" of interest in what she calls this "novel opportunity." Twelve to 14 participants would insure the project going forward. ldenW:ViIJlg herself as "one who spent two bernm;ed weeks in " Dean Brann says, Otherness, want to Those wishing more information should contact Dean Brann at St. John's "---UJa,.;;i.:.v. Box MD. 21404. Santa Fe senior Brent M. Cassity has been awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for 1992-93. He was among 70 winners of 189 nominees nationwide. The award is made annually to graduating seniors from 53 small liberal arts colleges and universities throughout the United States. Watson Fellowships support a year of independent study, travel, and experience outside the United States for college seniors in the year following graduation. Fellows receive stipends for $13,000. Originally from Greenville, California, Brent proposes to study the way oflife of the gauchos (South America's cowboys) in the Pampas region of Argentina and Uruguay. Studies may also lead him to Chili, Paraguay and Southern Brazil. His interest in the gauchos stems largely from his own upbringing in the ranching industry. "I've worked on cattle ranches in Nevada, Idaho, Oregon and California," he said. "I also broke horses for about six months. So I've been around it all my life." Brent's interest also derives from the fact that gauchos still employ many traditional techniques with cattle and sheep, unlike their counterparts in other areas of the world who have resorted to more contemporary methods. "A lot of strange techniques they have are very primitive, but they work," Brent said. "It's very interesting and unique in that sense." Throughout his stay in the region, Brent will focus much of his study on those methods and tools specific to the gauchos. This research will entail a close study of the gaucho's braided work; i.e., the lay of the braid in headstalls, halters, reins, various saddle paraphernalia, and other gear. He also said he intends to focus on the Gauchos' heritage and social life, as well as changes that have occurred in their culture over the past 150 years. Brent is not unfamiliar with the region into which he will venture next year. After graduating from high school, he spent a year in Uruguay as part of a student exchange program. "I like the people, I speak the language and I have contacts there," he said. "My plan is to immerse myself in probably ten different ranches. I want to get around as much as I can while still getting into the life of whatever ranch I'm staying on." Annapolis students Michael Zampella, A'92, and Jide Nzelibe, A'93, have been awarded major study grants, Mr. Zampella a Rotary Fellowship from the Walter D. Head Foundation for study in Italy, and Mr. Nzelibe a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship for summer study in Public Policy and International Affairs at Berkeley. Michael Zampella, who is from Newfoundland, NJ, will study Italian language and literature as part of the Sarah Lawrence year abroad program. His award is designated for the children of Rotarians; Michael's late father was a member of Rotary International. The grandson of immigrants who ,came to the U.S. near the turn of thecentury,Michael will be returning to his roots when he undertakes his studies and visits relatives still in Italy. His future academic studies are likely to be in philosophy, he says, but "next year is a test." Junior Jide N zelibe will be one of 30 students in an eight-week summer program at the University of California studying international economics and public policy. The chairman of the Student Political Forum at Annapolis, he expects to pursue a career in law and international relations. Born in the U.S. of an American mother and a Nigerian father, Jide spent his first seven years in this country, and his next 12 in Nigeria, where his father was a government official. The family now lives in Three new members were named to the Board of Visitors and Governors at the April board meeting, while four former board members were named to new three-year terms. New board members are Gregory Curtis, a lawyer and foundation executive of Pittsburgh, PA, Patrick Parker, a National Security Affairs professor at the Navy postgraduate school in Monterey, and Warren J. Spector, A '81, a management executive in a New York City investment firm. Mr. Curtis, president of the Laurel Foundation, practiced law in Pittsburgh until 1983, when he became financial advisor to the C.S. May Family Interests, was named president of the Laurel Foundation (established by the May family), and was made president of the Board of Governors of the Laurel Assets Group. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. Mr. Parker, a graduate of Shimer College with a master's degree from the University of Chicago, began teaching at the Navy Postgraduate School in Monterey in 1961, and has JUNE 1992 Michael Zampella, A'92 Keith Harvey photo Hyattsville, MD. Rising senior at Annapolis Devin Rushing has been selected as a Goldwater Scholar, and will receive an award of up to $7 ,000 for such eligible expenses as room and board The award is designed to encourage outstanding undergraduates to pursue careers in mathematics and science and to help alleviate "a critical current and future shortage of scientists and mathematicians." Devin is among 276 winners selected from 1800 nominees. Owen Kelly, also a rising senior, was named a Goldwater Scholar last year.The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was authorized by Congress in 1986 to honor the Senator. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The St. John's Reporter</em> Description An account of the resource College newspaper which started publication in 1974. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf The Reporter https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/769244783220448409dbbdb954bb8094.pdf 7c52f5028486013e568f23fdf014733d PDF Text Text ST JOHN'S COLL1'GE LIBRARY l\\l~\ \ l \l l\~~f~l~i~~f\[\~~l\l~\ \ \\1 1 ~ 31696 011381843 ~~~__::_:..:~~~~~~- Volume 18, Issue 3 Andrew Steiner memorial gifts to fund program The Andrew Steiner Visiting Scholar Program has been established at the Annapolis campus by family and friends to honor the memory of the 1963 alumnus who died last fall in an automobile accident. More than $120,000 have been contributed to the memorial, designed to bring to the Annapolis campus distinguished visitors in "disparate disciplines"-arecognition of the broad and eclectic interests of the alumnus for whom it is named. A lawyer and businessman, Mr. Steiner was a voracious reader and a perennial student, who counted fly fishing and tennis among his numerous interests. At the time.ofhis death, he was the new president of the Philadelphia Alumni Chapter. The visiting scholars will be expected to engage in discussions and workshops with faculty, students, and college community members for a period of up to a week, generally concluding in a Friday Night Lecture. The frrst to be named is Jasper Griffin, a distinguished classicist from Balliol College, Oxford University. He was selected by a faculty committee consisting of Wendy Allanbrook, Pamela Kraus andWalterSterling. During Mr. Griffin's stay, which begins September 22, he is expected to offer workshops-probably in close textual readings from Homer-to the college community, and to conclude with a Friday night lecture September 25. The author of a number of books on classical literature and one with the provocative title Snobs, Mr. Griffin is also editor of The Oxford History ofthe Classical World, published in 1986. "The most dazzling of them all," says (Continued on page 14) The St. John~ Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM March 1992 Robinsons give college $3 .1 million St John's College recently received the largest single gift in its history in the form of a 3.1 million dollar trust established by Mara and Charles Robinson of Santa Fe. The gift, which was announced at the January meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors, will be shared equally between the two campuses. Both presidents expressed gratitude and pleasure at the generosity of the givers, longtime friends of the college. "The college is overwhelmed by the Robinsons' gift," said John Agresto, president of the Santa Fe campus. "By itself, this gift is equal to ten percent of the college's endowment." "This gift will give life to dreams," said Christopher B. Nelson, president of the Annapolis campus. "We are simply stunned by the magnificent expression of the Robinsons' love for St. John's College." The Robinsons have been active in the life of the college since 1982 when Mrs. Robinson enrolled in the Graduate fustitute program at Santa Fe. fu 1983, she received a master's degree in liberal education. From 1984-1990 she served on the Board of Visitors and Governors and has continued to remain active in other ways. "My husband and I believe strongly in the programs and ideals of St. John's, and our support expresses our confidence in its leadership as well as its goals," said Mrs. Robinson. "We hope that future students will profit from its educational program and enjoy as stimulating an intellectual experience as I have through my studies." Trained as a singer in this country and in Italy, Mrs. Robinson performed in operas and recitals until 1965, when she turned her Benefactors Charles and Mara Robinson of Santa Fe, NM. For more pictures and Mrs. Robinson's comment to the Board, see page 7. Lesli Allison photo attention to the cultural and civic activities of the communities in which she lived fu 1964, she founded Opera West in San Francisco, serving as president of the board and as producer. She also served on the Washington Performing Arts Society board at the Kennedy Center. After moving permanently to Santa Fe in 1979, she gave strong support to various cultural activities, serving as a board member for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Chorus of Santa Fe and the Wheelwright Museum. Mr. Robinson's career has spanned industry, government service and investment banking. He was Undersecretary ofState for Economic Affairs in the Ford Administra- tion in 1975, and Deputy Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger in 1976. While at the State Department, Mr. Robinson-was known for his advocacy of productive communications between industrialized and developing countries. He negotiated the Soviet Grain Agreement, headed the U.S. delegation to international economic conferences in Paris and Nairobi, participated in the development of international energy and nuclear proliferation policies, and urged more effective coordination of economic programs among industrialized nations. Mr. Robinson currently serves on the Board of the Brookings Institution and other foundations and corporations. Alumnus runs lively classes for Native American students BY LESLI ALLISON "My young people have to be teachers if they are going to successfully preserve their language, religion and customs to pass on to future generations." -Jeremiah Cronin, SF'87 Keynoters Creed C. Black, president of the Knight Foundation, left, and tennis champion Arthur Ashe, center, have a word with Annapolis President Christopher Nelson before the Ethics and Athletics forum January 26. For more about the sixth Great Issues forum, see pages 8, 9. Keith Harvey photo What does a scholar, versed in P latonic dialogue and the ideas of other "Dead White European Males," know about the needs of American Indian students? How, from a curriculum steeped in the works of mainstream, Western civilization, could any student emerge sensitized to minority needs in education? While the battle over multiculturalism in the schools rages on and accusations run rampant on university campuses, one man has stepped forward and is quietly making progress. With reddish hair, sideburns and a broad grin, Jeremiah Cronin, SF'87, is by all appearances, a white male. Only he is entirely out of context. Cronin is a teacher at the Santa Fe fudian School. His students come from Pueblos and tribes around the country. They are from Taos and San Ildefonso; they are Navajo and Zuni, Picuris and Apache. Cronin himself is descended in part from the Algonquin tribe near Quebec Canada. In his small classroom, where paper mache dinosaurs hang from the ceiling and charts of the food web are interspersed on the walls with photographs of local Pueblos, Cronin is working to revolutionize science education for indigenous peoples. fu 1991, Cronin received the Christa McAuliff educational grant of$34,800. The grant, named after the teacher who died aboard the space shuttle Challenger, is awarded annually by the U.S. Department of Education to one teacher in each state for excellence in education. fu Cronin's case, the grant was awarded in large part·due to his innovative program, Teaching In Pueblo Settings (TIPS). In this program, secondary school students from the Santa Fe fudianSchool travel to Pueblo day schools throughout New Mexico where they teach science lessons to elementary school students. " This program is kind of my pride and joy because there is a lack of American fudian science teachers and I am convinced that the reason for this is that so much of science (Continued on page 13) �PAGE2 THE REPORTER !JL{umni 'E,ast MARCH 1992 !JL{umni 'West 1986 Graduate Institute Alumni Day Seminar Saturday, May 22, 1992 For information, call (410) 626-2531 1972 Thomasmore Bujack has been for some years working with the corporation Heart of Camden, an extraordinary volunteer effort by a group of people-many of them from the Sacred Heart Parish (see Boyce-Miller wedding, 1989 below), and some from other participating parishes. The corporation has bought up dilapidated houses, many near Sacred Heart, and given weekend time to restore them. The houses are then made available at very modest cost to stable inner-city families. The effort is designed to give purpose to those living in a desperately needy, crime-ridden inner city neighborhood. About 53 houses have been salvaged to date. For more about Tom Bujack, see 1989. 1974 Jim Dolan and his wife Nannette report the arrival of Thomas Michael on 30 December, 1991: "Tommy is happy and thriving and we're delighted with him," they report. 1978 Activists Janelle Bloemker Stevenson and John Stevenson, A '76, were only five votes short in their campaign to have the Connecticut House of Delegates override the veto of Independent Governor Lowell Weicker on the issue of a Connecticut state income tax. "When that happens, the first-ever state income tax in Connecticut will become a sorry piece of history," writes Janelle. A huge grassroots protest in the fall Jed to special hearings and a special session to consider repeal. "We encourage people to become engaged in grassroot movements to scale back the size and appetite of government by and for the special interest groups," she urges. 1979 Karen Wachsmuth has her master's degree in conducting and is finishing up her doctoral work from Juilliard. She has just completed an interim teaching position at the University of the Pacific. She was married in 1990 to Jan Wagner, graduate of the Vienna (Austria) School of Music. 1981 When Stephanie Moore-Fuller and Mark Moore-Fuller, A '82, moved to Ann Arbor in April, their next door neighbors noticed the SJC sticker on their car. Surprise! They were Johnnies. too-Elizabeth (Betsy) Percy, and Sarah Harrison, both A'70. Betsy works as a database manager at Wayne State University and Sarah is working on a PhD in history at U-M. TheMoore-Fulleraddress,printedincorrectly in the September Reporter, is 1073 Barton Drive #101, Ann Arbor, Ml 48105, tele. 313-741-9875. (Betsy and Sarah are at#l02.) David Auerbach enjoyed Homecoming last fall, and wishes even more old friends had been there. He has recently moved and can be reached in Jackson, WY 83001, at P.O. Box 2290 or at 307-773-2862, and welcomes letters, calls or visits. 1982 Leslie Lewis has been named a part-time instructor of English at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. She holds a master's degree from the University of Virginia, and is pursuing a PhD in American literanue from Indiana University, where she was an associate instructor for the Afro-American studies and the English departments. Marion and Jonathan Baumgarten announce the birth October 6 of Peter Althauser Nancy Osius, ed~or, Donna Boetig, assistant editor: Wye AUanbrook. Betsy Blume~ John Chrislensen, Benjamin Mil· ~~~.rolher Robert Smit , and Elliott Zuckerman, advisory The R«>orter [s pubtished by the N6ws and inf0<malion Offi?>. St. John's College, B;ox 2800. Annapo&s. MD 21404. Chnslooher 8. Nelson, president. Puctishod four limes a year. in March 1 June September and Deoember. Seoon-ctass postage paia in Annapolis MD. USPS 018-750 • Baumgarten, who joins big sister Martha, 3. Jon is working as a programmer analyst for the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board in Chicago along with John B. Tracey,m, A '83. Marion is working part-time as employee relations specialistfor Health and Human Services. New address: 10 Lathrop Ave., River Forest, IL 60305 Patti Nogales and Steve Ozdemir were married on October 13 in a forest preserve in the Chicago area. The two met on a river trip sponsored by Stanford University, where Steve was in the process of completing a master's degree in artificial intelligence andPatti was beginning a PhD in philosophy. Steve is currently working as a programmer for Bell Labs and Patti is working on her dissertation. 1983 Next summer Lyn Cronin will marry Jim DesMarais, a lawyer at Ropes & Gray in Boston. "He grew up in rural Vermont, which makes his chosen profession tolerable," she writes, adding that as a lawyer herself, she should not perhaps engage in lawyer-bashing, although "it's so tempting." For the past year she has been a staff attorney with Groundwater Technology, Inc. She encourages Johnnies in the Boston area to contact her at (617) 7697600, ext. 332. For her news of brother Jerry see front page story and Alumni West. 1984 After five years of teaching at an alternative elementary-junior high school in Harlem, Mark Niedermier has recently moved to Minneapolis, MN. He is the director of the Friends School of Minnesota, a four-year-old Quaker school of about 50 students. "Duke" Hughes is a vice president of Transamerica Funds, is married and the father of a 20-month old child. Aft.er six years in Baltimore playing with the band Two Legs with John Shock, A'83, Grady Harris realized "that if opportunity had knocked, I had slept through it." He moved to Munich last August, and by January had moved to Pardubice in Czechoslovakia, 100 K. east of Prague, where he is now an English instructor in a local secondary school. He soon discovered that the school has no English language library, "which makes teaching the language difficult." He invites contributions from Johnnies feeling generous who "would like to practice what has been preached at you." Needed are dictionaries, British and American classics, material about the U.S.A. and its larger cities, and books about American government and politics-" All would be appreciated beyond your wildest imagining." His address at least through June is Gymnazium/ Da Sicka uV 530 03 Pardubice/ Czechoslovakia. He would like to hear from friends he has fallen out of touch with; he seems to be promising replies. 1985 Jerry Spires, a criminal defense investigator, married in 1986, and has a three-year-old daughter. He is still singing, and would love to hear from old friends. Call 503-775-8346. David Kidd is working on a PhD in Neurosciences at Johns Hopkins University. Anne Frances McCoy has been called to serve as Associate Pastor at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Butler, Pennsylvania, where she was ordained on January 4. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Owens, parents of Torin Owens, wish to report that their son is making progress, although he will never fully recover from the automobile accident he was in six months after graduation. He suffered serious head injuries and has been incapacitated since that time, confined to a wheelchair. This past year he began speech therapy. His friends may write if they wish, and his parents will read all letters to him. Correspondence should be sent to Torin Owens, c/o Mr. and Mrs. Frank Owens, P.O. Box 391, 122 S. 13th St., Fernandina Beach, FL 32034. (Continued on page 15) 1970 An essay, "The Self is a Moving Target" and a poem, both by David DeBus, who is in private practice as a licensed psychologist in San Diego, were recently published in the book Mirrors ofthe Self, edited by Christene Downing and published by J.P. Tarcher [A'53]. The volume also includes an essay from his wife, Denyse Beaudet, whose own book EncounJering the Monster (Continuum, New York: 1990) her husband helped translate from the French. Dr. DP.Bus also serves as adjunct professor at the California School for Professional Psychology. From 1981-85andin 1990-91, he was clinical director of a therapeutic community for schizophrenia called Hanbleceya. In his private practice, he specializes in creative and spiritually-oriented personalities. He has more or less continued a Great Books education on his own since leaving St. John's, he writes. and it is "a delight to be reciting some Homer in Greek to my four-year-old daughter and introducing her to the Greek alphabet." Santa Fe news gathered by Kristen Baumgardner, A'86: Steve Allred is studying law at U-Va; he and wife Carolyn have a son, Elijah. Sarah Harwell married Dan Fasset in August; they have moved from NYC to Santa Fe. John Mini is a doctor of Chinese medicine; Chris Eavenson is now Killian Melloy and lives in Heidelberg, Gennany, as does Dave Emmert, SF '88. Kristen concludes: "Who I saw in New York City-Rachel Peskin, Michael Sanita, Betsy Williams and Molly Aston on the streets, no less." 1987 Adam Pruzan was recently promoted to lieutenant in the US Navy. After a 30-month tour as Assistant Supply Officer on board the USS Austin, he reported to SEAL Team Four in Norfolk, where he has taken the reins as Supply Officer. While his attempts to spread culture and philosophy to theFleet"fell on deaf ears," he says, "the Navy SEALS are a better breed: we already have half a dozen Great Books Groupies, and there's no end in sight.." Lyn Cronin, A'83, writes that her brother Jeremiah Cronin is engaged to marry Darlene Todechine. Darlene, a member of the Navajo nation, teaches math and science at a school in Chinle,ArizonaFormorenewsofJeny,seepage one. For more news of Lyn, see Alumni East. Class of 1976 These continuing glimpses into the lives of St. John's graduates were compiled by Betsy Davenport for her classmates on the occasion ofthe fifteenth reunion ofthe Santa Fe Class of 1976 on July 20 and were adapted by the editors for this page. Judy Kistler studied Chinese at the Middlebury College Summer Institute from 1981-85 and earned her master's in education from the UniversitY of Connecticut in 1989. Today she's living in Springfield, Missouri, and "doing what I like best"-creating a Macintosh program with interactive video for Southwest Missouri State University. She says SJC "changed my way of thinking, gave me the best and dearest friends, permeates almost every aspect of my life .•. I wonder now and then how different I might be today if I'd gone to Yale." Rick Lighburn of Chicago, Illinois, is vice-president and associate director of the marketing department of DDB Needham Worldwide Marketing Decision Systems. After SJC he earned his MA in mathematics from the University of Colorado, his MBA (in statistics) and his PhD in marketing both from the University of Chicago. Impact of SJC? "The books were of secondary impact, perhaps even tertiary, probably behind the chance to hang out in Santa Fe in the early '70s. You all knew that I was a schmoozer then, and I am a schmoozer now. Is anyone surprised that (A) I'm in advertising, (B) I co-chaired the homecoming reunion, and (C) I'm planning on being there for our 20th?" Rinnie Mclaurin Lind, an educator, homemaker and mother of five in Alameda, California, says that SJC made obvious "the disparity between the Great Books Western civilization academic orientation and the Eastern, Zen-like relativism of the lifestyle and mind-set of most tutors, students and staff." She says Euclid helped her discover that she was not the center of the universe and "apologizes to everyone for acting like I was." Linda Bohlman McKee-married with tlrree children under four-is a registered nurse at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, California. She says SJC helped her think logically and approach problems in that way. She'd love to hear from everyone. Janet Moody is a section leader for the Employee and Organizational Development Group of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her funniest memories are rafting down the Rio Grande with Greg Gillette and Anne Calof. "If you are ever in the Santa Fe area, give us a call," she says. Miriam Marcus-Smith says that "between part-time work (she's a review specialist in Quality Resources at a hospital in Seattle, Washington), two kids, and other activities of everyday life (including a new interest in quilting), I'm still looking for a grad program that's right for me ... specifically the ethics of resource allocation." Her funniest memory is returning to her room late one night freshman year to find tlrree strangers in her bed: a couple and son from the East Coast who decided to "crash" inher dorm room. Leslie Schear, a licensed midwife in Seattle, Washington, has returned to the states after many years in Canada. While north of the border, she earned her master's degree in the classics from the University of Toronto in 1980 and her ABD in the same field from the University five years later. She's married and has a child "in progress." (Editor Betsy Davenport reports that her former classmate speaks "just like a true Canadian . .. saying things like PRO-gress, and aBUWT.") Gregory Winter earned his MD from the University of New Mexico Medical School in 1985, and completed his residency in psychiatry at Northwestern University in 1989. Currently he is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin. His earliest memory of SJC is being invited by Betsy Davenport and Leslie Schear for stew in the common room of the lower dorms. "It was already late in the Fall, I think, because it was cold and we built a blazing fire," he says. Deborah Woody Woodward of North Webster, fudiana, is an environmental project engineer. After attending SJC for one · year, she completed her undergraduate studies at the General Motors Institute. She says additional training in the environmental field has made her very environmentally conscious. She says her SJC learning experience "motivated a need for understanding and investigating life rather than accepting it as shallow." She asks, "Where are the friends I no longer hear from?" �.. PAGE3 THE REPORTER MARCH 1992 "I feel like I'm having a nice discussion with a group of good friends," says Maureen Torgerson. an Asian ceramics specialist at the Smithsonian. "There's no sense of the confrontational. Not any." Make Ashford, owner of McGarvey's Saloon says, "I read a lot, but the seminar bas stimulated me to read things I have always sat around thinking I should know about. Once into the readings, you get kind of hooked." These are some of the 15 students in the Executive Seminar on "Man and Citizen" that meets once a month in McDowell Hall at Annapolis. It is a Tuesday morning early, with maybe a wintry leaden sky outside, wet streets, and spattered automobiles. Class members will move around a little, exchanging a few early morning pleasantries over a cup of coffee before settling down to the 90 minute discussion. Maybe they will be talking about Prince Hal, Falstaff, and the Boar's Head Tavern gang- in addition to the use of kingly power-or maybe about Billy Budd, the hapless foretopman. At one end of the seminar table is Annapolis tutor Benjamin Milner, and usually at the other is Annapolis President Christopher Nelson. The students around the table leafing through their texts are here at 8 a.m. because a day's work, perhaps a very long one, lies ahead, and this is the only time there is. This group of"executives"-besides the ones above there are CEO's, a former U.S. Senator, a physician, a veterinarian, a criminologist, a school headmaster--came together for the first of 10 sessions last October, and they have since read sections from Plato, Sophocles, Aristotle, Shakespeare, and the Bible as part of their forum on "Man and Citizen." They bring to each assignment some of these questions: What are the requirements of citizenship in society? Are there rights which we give up when we join a society? Wbat are the duties of leadership? "The seminars aim to address the fundamental questions of politics through a close reading and discussion of great works of literature and philosophy," says President Nelson. Along with the dean, he decided last fall to push ahead with an idea that bad simmered for several years: setting up St. John's-type seminars that would give business leaders, public servants and others the chance to discuss concepts and issues of continuing importance to thoughtful people. "People aren't interested in arguing a point, but in the point itself. We may not have the answers, but people are genuinely interested in the questions," says Mrs. Torgerson. "The most interesting discussion for me so far was on Genesis-the interpretations were perhaps as varied as the participants themselves," says Mr. Evans. "I have been closely associated with the Naval Academy, but now I feel I'm a part of St John's, too," says Mr. Ashford. That's the students again, doing what Johnnies do. John Verdi named new director of GI Tutor Leo Raditsa is juror, speaker Leaders gather for early morning seminar "The best thing is that the seminar takes me away from thinking abou t my business for a while each month and it lets me think of things more cosmic." This is Phil Evans speaking. He is editor and publisher of The Annapolitan Magazine. EXECUTIVE SEMINARS John Verdi, Assistant Dean at the Annapolis campus from 1988-1991, and a tutor first at Santa Fe and then at Annapolis, has been named Director of the Graduate Institute at Annapolis. He will succeed Malcolm Wyatt, who begins a sabbatical year in the summer. A 1972 graduate in psychology from Fordham University, Mr. Verdi holds a master's and PhD degree, both in psychology, from the University of Southern California. He undertook research in cognitive experimental psychology in the area of moral judgement at the University of California, San Diego, and earned a second master's degree there in 1978. Mr. Verdi taught on the Santa Fe campus from 1975-85, when he transferred to Annapolis. At Santa Fe, he served as a psychologist i n 1981-82, when the regular psychologist was away for a year. He continued to counsel students there until his transfer to Annapolis. Mr. Verdi is married to the former Elea. nor Kurs, daughter of Annapolis tutor Louis Kurs and Alice Kurs, and the Verdis are the parents of a two-year-old daughter. Mr. Verdi and his family have spentthe 1991-92 academic year in Italy. John Verdi Tutor Leo Raditsa was one of three jurors for the prestigious Ingersoll Prizes awarded in Chicago in November. He also delivered a recent lecture in Norfolk, VA, and took part on the Claremont Institute panel. Recipients of the ninth annual awards, each for $20,000 this year, were Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and historian John Lukacs. The awards were made at a black-tie dinner at the Drake Hotel for 300 people, mostly authors and scholars. In January, Mr. Raditsa delivered his lecture "The Transformation of War during the French Revolution: Vattel, Scharnhorst and Clauswi tz," before officers from Naval Special Warfare Group Two in Norfolk, Virginia. This lecture was originally given October 16 in Santa Fe, at the suggestion of former Dean Jim Carey, and at the Annapolis campus the next month. The speaker's thesis was that war and warfare doctrine today are undergoing transformations analogous in many respects to those of the late 18th century. His lecture was delivered to Special Warfare officers, whose responsibilities center around soca 11 ed " Low- Intensity Conflicts"counter-drug, counterterrorism and counterinsurgency. This lecture launched a new Officer Professional Development pr ogram for the Naval Special Warfare Group designed to increase knowledge of history and philosophy among naval officers. At the end of February, Mr. Raditsa was a panelist in a conference at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. "Progress or Return? Beyond Enlightenment," was the topic of the conference, at which five round-table panels discussed morality today. "Education and the Cultivation of Morality" was the topic of Mr. Raditsa 's panel. The late George Balanchine, circa 1953, subject of Francis Mason's biography, with Marla Tallchief at right. Tom Hollyman Book & Author luncheon March 14 features three Maryland writers The annual Book and Author Luncheon, Saturday, March 14, . at the Annapolis campus, will feature three writers with roots in Maryland whose newest works touch on the world of artistic expression. The 11 :30 a.m, luncheon in Randall Hall is sponsored by the Caritas Society, with the assistance of David Grobani, owner of Briarwood Books and Cards. The speakers-a poet, a theater chronicler and a dance critic-are Linda Pastan, Maryland's Poet Laureate, author of a collection of poems, Heroes in Disguise; C. Richard Gillespie, a professor at Towson State University and founder of the theatre program there, author of The James Adams Floating Poet Landa Pastan Theatre; and eminent dance critic and editor Francis Mason, author of I Remember Balanchine. All of the books were published in 1991. Reservations, at $16 per person, should be made for the luncheon by calling 410-263-5306. Mrs. Pastan, of Potomac, will read selections from her newest collection, her eighth book of poetry, which draws upon universal experiences such as family life, the weather, the difficulties of aging, and more complex abstractions of art and history and their influence on our lives. In her poetry, Mrs. Pastan challenges the reader to think and feel more intensely and to see the world in new ways. She has received numerous literary awards and fellowships, including grants from the National Endowment for Prof. the Arts and the Maryland Arts Council. C. Richard Gillespie Filled with historic photographs of the colorful floating theater and the man who created it, Mr. Gillespie's book details the history of the "sbowboat"inspiration for Edna Ferber's novel of that name-which from 1914 to 1941 cruised the waters of the east coast. The water-borne playhouse, an integral part of the repertory theater movement of the early 20th century, brought excitement and entertainment to towns and cities in the Tidewater area, Annapolis among them. Its triumphs and disasters make lively reading. Mr. Gillespie's interest in the theater began in his undergraduate years, and ultimately led to the founding of the theater program at Towson, where he has since taught for over 30 years. The author bas lived along the shores of several of Maryland's rivers, and his love of boats and water combined with his love of theater provided the impetus to research and write his book. Mr. Gillespie has also written several award-winning plays and is an active member of the National Society for the Preservation Tent, Folk, and Repertoire Theatre. Mr. Mason's chronicle of dancer and choreographer George Balanchine has been widely of (Continued on page 13) CROQUET, ANYONE? Coming up very likely on Saturday, April 25-no one is ever very sure, as the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, President Christopher Nelson, and the weathennan all have a vote here-is the annual Clash of the Titans, the TENTH croquet match between St. John's College and the U.S. Naval Academy. Score to date: SJC 6; Navy 3. Are you nearby? Pack your lunch, bundie up your beach chairs, put on your croquet togs, and come. To firm up date, call 410-626-2539. �THE REPORTER PAGE4 Alumnus describes croquet match start To the Editor: Regarding the article "Croquet: Navy . sweeps in ninth match" on page 7 of June's Reporter, I would like to offer some amplification on the "legend" of the annual match's origin. Whenever one comes across an article or television report about the match there is never any mention of the man who got the whole thing rolling, the Father of the Croquet Match. I even made a point one time of asking several of the roving reporters who descend upon the yearly duel to be sure to mention the name of the person responsible for starting the thing, but their stories centered instead on the here-and-now of the match (what folks were wearing and drinking, etc.) and not on its origins. But now that I see that the college's own organ can do no better than offer a creation-story "legend," I feel that it is time to help to set the record straight. Io the face of skepticism and at times even ridicule from some of his classmates (myself included) as to the whole idea, one Kevin Heyburn of the class of 1986, listening to his heart (and to the better advice of other friends and classmates), was the originator of and driving force behind the first Navy vs. St. John's CroquetMatch. Ihavenotseen Kevin since the 1986 graduation in Annapolis, but I think that it's safe to say he must be pleased with the match's continuing success in bringing the Naval Academy and SL John's closer together. Indeed, I think that was really what motivated him to start it in the first place. Thal croquet is now a tool by which the college reaches out to the Annapolis community by means of the matches with Ginger Cove and the City Council is a further testament to Kevin's foresight and reaffirmation of just what a good idea it was that be bad way back when .. . the idea of bridging the gap between "us" and "them." Dan Schoos, A'86 Historical research crucial, says tutor To the Editor: (The following is a reply to a letter in the December 1991, Reporter for Carol Highsaw, SF'77). Your letter on history at St. John's raises important questions. You are right that reductionism is hardly a threat nowadays and that ignorance of historical context makes great works hard to understand in alJ their force and courage. For when you know the time they come out of, then you really know the guts it took to write them-perhaps their most important lesson. Certainly their most important lesson if you desire to bring up students capable of iinitating the tradition they study. But the absence of history at St. John's is much more serious than you say though probably not more serious than you feel. For history, historical research, is the complement of science, science's other half, the other great peculiarly modem enterprise, as Giambattista Vico knew. It distorts science lo teach it the way it is taught at St. John's as if it were the only modem enterprise that counted- with Baudelaire and a few others bellowing in the wings. It distorts it because it takes the eyes out of the mind. And no amount of admiration for Aristotle will make up for that. Besides history is the best critic of philosophy for it shows all the time all the things men do not understand, and sometimes all the life they do not dare to live. It shows the way man actually is, in contrast to what he tells himself he is. The history I mean is ancient and English and French. A man well versed in these can begin to make out the world about him, to have delight in bis eyes as well as sobriety if not dread. The study of history might make it possible for us to begin to understand what we are doing, not a subject much touched on. Leo Raditsa, Annapolis tutor Program praised for Whats and Whys To the Editor: I have not wriUen to bury our aclionic Program; but to praise it. It does not follow that a six-<:redit humanities mini-<:ourse with some of the books we read at St. John's-which course must, by nature, be bound together with some sort of clionic glue lest it fall to pieces-sheds light on a flaw in the Program. FAR FROM IT! I disagree with my esteemed classmate, Carol Highsaw, SF '77 (December, 1991 Letters.) I hold that the practice of the Program is at its best when it exposes the young seeker to the broadest possible sampling of the preserved works of Western civilization, and provides a forum within which the students and tutors come together to grapple with the meaning of those words to our minds today. Two marvelous questions incite my memory and ear: (1) "WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF . .. ?" and (2) "WOULD YOU GIVE AN ACCOUNf OF ...•?" We all heard them many times and we exercised our athletic minds and learned one from the other. We were not bound by historical wires and turnbuckles, we were neither behind. nor above the scenes on chronological catwalks, nor were we sitting in the front row of a lecturer-save Friday evenings. We were bound only by a third great question, "WHY DO YOU SAY THAT?" We asked our Friday evening guests that question relentlessly; but we flogged ourselves and one another with it just as assiduously from Monday morning through Friday afternoon in and outside of class, or simply whenever two or three of us gathered together: we became intellectual peniteotes, and it was not a pretty sight. In enduring an impossibly lengthy and rapid ascent from the walls of Troy to the dams of tbe Tennessee Valley Authority, we failed daily; but we were so much more free to acknowledge failure, and to DO something about it when we walked across that open space under the desert sun and received our diplomas. The Program gave us a menu with which to struggle day by day, and we found ourselves neither in a spectator sport, nor in a drama, but front and center, in the fray. Because of that exposure, and our struggle, we became free enough to go out and discover such historic links and parallels as there are to find. I hold that Liberal Artists, as we know and hold ourselves out to be, are quite able and willing to rejoice in such links and parallels of history as may be found. I hold that, intellectual athletes as we are, we can rejoice that it is no longer our task to hold together all the ideas we were given, as we see there was a. binding principle all along, and Clio becomes a new and special treasure as we mature. I would not want to be responsible for taking away any of the substance and excitement of the Program by advancing clionism in its place. It is sadly pervasive on commercial campuses already, and glues young minds when they ought to be able to SHAKE, RATILE AND ROLL! William A (aclionist?) Malloy, SF'77 MARCH 1992 Policing as though People Matter, by Dorothy Guyot. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. BY HAROLD M. ROBBINS, JR. Annapolis Chief of Police (ChiefRobbins came to Annapolis in 1990from a position as deputy chiefinSt. Petersbur~, FL. He is a 1979 graduale of the University of So1uh Florida with a cum /aude degree m criminal justice; in 1985. he received his M.A. degree there. He tells us that his review of tutor Dorothy Guyot' s book is the first book report he has written since eighJh grade.) "Cheshire Cat" said Alice, "would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,'"' said the cat. "I don't much care where," said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the cat. A simple passage from Alice in Wonderland, but it provides a powerful message to all ex~cutives, that they must provide clear direction and focus to their organizations if they aspire to excellen.ce and desire to provide quality services. To that end, Dorothy Guyot, has made a significant contribution to contemporary policing as she examines the dynamic~ of change within the Troy Bureau of Police, following the selection of George W. O'Connor as Police Commissioner. Her book entitled Policing as though People Matter chronicles O'Connor's efforts to upgrade the Troy Bureau of Pol.ice which had been characterized as a "poorly managed, poorly organized, inefficient police agency" (Cresap, McCormick, and Pagent 1972) into a professional organization capable of providing quality pol.ice services. Much more than a text book, this work should appeal to academics and practitioners alike, as it is well written, logically organized, extensively researched and filled with the personal accounts of police personnel. With the precision of a surgeon, Ms. Guyot places these topical anecdotes in all the right places, holding the reader's interest and all the while reinforcing her views. Considering the contempt and distrust normally displayed by police officers towards "outsiders" and "civilians," most practitioners will be surprised at the substance and number of anecdotes. Therefore, the author is deserving of special recognition for her ability to establish such a high level of credibility and acceptance from the men and women of the Troy Bureau of Police. Ms. Guyot obviously has a great deal of respect for Commissioner O'Connor and his many accomplishments. She also has high hopes for the new breed of police leaders whom she describes as well educated, strong personalities who have clear ideas about where policing is going. She observes that they share a common vision that the fundamental upgrading of police services will result from an increase in cooperation between officers and citizens. However, Ms. Guyot cautions us that in the final analysis, despite all of our grandiose plans for policing, we can not foster this partnership with the community if we fail to properly select, develop and encourage our personnel. Success of new programs, such as community policing and problemoriented policing, will be measured in terms of our ability to attract and retain highly trained, educated and caring individuals who are capable of exercising a great deal of discretion. Io her introduction to the last chapter, Commissioner George O'Connor is quoted from a speech be made to a class of police recruits who graduated in 1984. Perhaps there is no better or more timely advice to those of us committed to quality policing than the last line of the speech when he calls on each of the recruits "to care so deeply for the people you serve that you will feel their sorrow, their pain and their joy." Finally, this book bas an appendix full of tough questions taken from each of the chapters so that we might assess and improve the quality of police services in our own communities. Ms. Guyot's reflections on yesterday's problems in Troy provides those of us in policing with some valuable direction for tomorrow. Eastern works: ignored by alumni To the Editor: This is a brief reply to Thomas Storck, who says "the question is not whether we should ignore the East (hardly) ...." Io fact, when I look at the list of readings alumni groups are engaged in, as printed in each issue of the Reporter, I have never come across the title of an Eastern work. Would there be more interest if students bad been introduced to the East as undergraduates? Of course we "have the rest of our lives to read the books of the East," but who is doing it? I really want to know. Bill Buchanan, A'48 Brann resets course with "reaffirmation" To the Editor: My heartfelt thanks and congratulations to Dean Brann for her elucidation of the essential principles of St John's College [The Reporter: "Dean Brano Reaffirms Our Radical Venture"). I sincerely hope future generations will wisely take counsel of her sixteen points and prevent any attenuation of the Program. St. John's is, simply, the best liberal education anywhere. She has reconfumed and timely re-set the College's historical course, which must also be its courageous future course. Fred Mattis, A'73 Wednesday afternoons with the Bingleys To the Editor: Every death, even that of someone who has lived for almost a century, diminishes us all, and so I was saddened to read in the Reporter of the passing of Elizabeth Bingley, widow of tutor George Bingley. But along with the abstract feeling of sadness for all human mortality came a pleasant glow of remembrance and gratitude for Wednesday afternoons in the Bingley home during the Fall of 1951, reading Faust in German. Mr. Bingley was never one of my tutors and exactly how the invitation came about to read Faust with him and his wife is now forever lost in forgetfulness. I think I must have been in some sense one of the instigators of the enterprise because I do remember putting up an announcement on the bulletin board in the basement of McDowell stating that the reading would be "under the aegis of Mr. Biogley"- to which he objected as being much too grandiose. As I remember it, half a dozen or so students came to the first session, but for several of them, either their German proved inadequate or their interest waned, and after the first couple of weeks the regulars dwindled down to Walter Schatzberg, Frank Polk, and me. I know Walter had German as his first language and I think Frank did too, but both of them had spent most of their school years in the United States. My German was acquired thanks to twenty-six (Continued on page 14) �MARCH 1992 PAGES THE REPORTER At home and abroad-new freedom for Bulgarian students By DONNA BOETIG How has the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and its emerging democracy affected the lives of two St. John's students from Bulgaria? In a word: profoundly. "The mere fact that I'm here is a consequence of that change," says Zdravko Daskalov, a 21 -year-old Febbie from Rousse, a Northern industrial city bordering Romania. Zdravko is interested in accounting and computers and is considering a career as a high school English teacher. In . Bulgaria he has a sister, 16, and a mother, who's an economist, and a father who's a civil engineer. Nedalina Dineva, also 21, concurs. "The greatest advantage that I've seen (since the revolution] is being able to travel abroad." Nedalina, who began her studies here in September, is from Varna, Bulgaria, a Northeastern coastal city. The two are among 15 foreign students at the Annapolis campus from nine countries including Ghana, Nigeria, and Pakistan who . say they feel privileged to be earning a liberal arts education at St. John's that is only a dream in their homeland. (Nine other foreign students, holders of green cards that allow them an indefinite stay in the U.S., are not included in this number.) Currently St. John's is establishing a program with the former Soviet Union in which students from the college will study astronomy and astrophysics at the Pulkhova Observatory in St. Petersburg for a month in the summer. For the Bulgarian students, it hasn't been easy to leave behind the support of family and friends and a country that is in the throes of change. But both feel an obligation to take advantage of the opportunities that their fellow university students helped earn. Nedalina began her first year as a student at the University of Sofia studying by candlelight. (Electricity and water were available at three-hour intervals, she reports.) By year's end, her classmates' protests against communist power and in support of democratic forces had closed the university. "No one was protesting the university program, but rather the issues outside of themselves," There is plenty for Bulgarian students Zdravko Daskalov and Nedalina Dineva to talk about as ~hey pause on the quad Keith Harvey photo at Annapolis. she says. Zdravko recalls, "We had to have permission to read certain books in the library." But his discontent and that of his peers went deeper than the loss of individual freedoms; at times it cut to the bone. Since the early 1980s, iodine pollution from a nearby chemical plant was producing smog so thick that "our eyes burned, we coughed, and there was a weight upon our breasts," be says. By 1987, with the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant fresh on their minds, Bulgarian mothers took to the streets with children in tow, demonstrating against what they considered to be the government's threat upon their very lives. Meanwhile, economic conditions worsened. Growth in Bulgaria's lackluster economy bad fallen to the two percent annual level in the 1980s, and by 1990 her foreign Year of living musically for Wye Allanbrook BY NANCY OSIUS Friends of Wendy Allanbrook have suggested that she arranged her just-completed sabbatical to accord with the bicentennial of Mozart's death. The Annapolis tutor shakes her head at this, while at the same time admitting with a smile that it was all very fortuitous. She would have found it bard if not impossible in an ordinary year to participate in all the Mozart events she was part of this year, she admits. Every major city with cultural pretensions seems to have mounted its tributes to the ill-starred musical genius whose death on December 5, 1791, terminated his final labors on a Mass for the Dead. As a widely-respected music historian, with one much-praised book Rhythmic Ges- ture in Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni behind her, and one book in prog- ress, Mrs. Allanbrook was invited as a major speaker or panelist for many bicentennial events. She has been part of festivals and symposia in London, Lincoln Center, Boston, Washington, DC, Houston, St. Paul, Pittsburgh, Palo Alto, and Hofstra College, and has given invited lectures at Penn State University, the University of Virgina, and Cornell University. Ahead lies an April event at UCLA. There was an early talk on Mozart's piano concertos a couple of years ago in Ann Arbor. Neal Zaslaw, professor of Music at Cornell University, an authority on 17th and 18th century music, and a major player in the multiple bicentennial year activitiesincluding in particular the huge and ambitious New York City tribute-had words both about this process and about Wendy Allanbrook. "There has been simply a frenzy about Mozart in 1991," he commented. On the one band, the great number of events has placed heavy demands on the relatively small body of Mozart scholars, while on the other, the bicentennial has brought these scholars a special opportunity to talk to other musicians and the general public. "Wendy is terrific," he said. "She's a fine musician, very literate, possessing an original point of view and a feminist approach to her studies. She is much admired by all of us. Her book is now in paperback and a lot of people have gone out and bought it." Said fellow musician and fellow Annapolis tutor Elliott Zuckerman, "Wendy combines immense knowledge of the classical style with great sensitivity to the drama and the literary aspects of the operas." Having both levels of appreciation is rare, he said. In the immensely ambitious New York City celebration, which began in January, 1991, and continues through next August, a bicentennial year-and-a-half, the major orchestras, music ensembles, dance, film, and opera companies-even the Public Library-joined forces to present every work that Mozart ever wrote, down to the smallest fragment-835 of these-in a series of more than 500 events. Not everyone approves. Critic Edward Rothstein provided a sweeping and generally testy summation of this staggering project in December in The New York Times. "Too much, too late," said the critic, chiding planners for the "pointless completeness" of the festival. Nevertheless, his evaluation included some words of praise: "The most intriguing insights into the music itself I have found in Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart, an eight-year-old book on the dance forms in ' The marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' by Wye Jamison Allanbrook," the critic said, citing also essays by one other critic. This was a particularly satisfying accolade, Wendy Allanbrook agrees. For her the bicentennial has been "a great year. You (Continued on page 12) debt had skyrocketed to over $10 billion. With myriad problems ranging from the need to renovate an aging industrial base, to coping with worsening energy, food, and consumer goods shortages, to keeping abreast of rapidly unfolding technological developments, Bulgaria and her citizens were challenged mercilessly. Although there bad been shortages in staples since the early 1980s, by decade's end the shelves were empty. People stood in line hours waiting for a food delivery, and when it arrived, there was never enough. The crowd stampeded towards the milk and bread, causing Zdravko to question," Are we people or animals?" Although on the surface the growing number of unsolved economic problems seemed to trigger the downfall of communism, Zdravko believes its decline has deeper roots. He cites, the "wrongness of the philosophy behind communism, [and] its futility, which shouldn't have taken generations to realize." In November, 1990, the students struck a second time. They continued to protest even after the Socialist government resigned, waiting until the government of the new Prime Minister Dimitar Popav was fully functioning. But once in office, the new leaders quickly won the support of the citizens. The results of their reforms were evident everywhere: food appeared on the shelves-<:ostly, but within reason. The lines began to shrink, then disappeared. Newspapers-dozens of them, expressing all types of independent thought-flooded the marketplace. "I now believed that my telephone conversations were no longer being overheard," Nedalina says. "And we could actually make jokes about our government without being afraid-and without whispering." Still more questions were being asked than answered. For instance, decisions about who should rule the television stations. Journalists were, and continue to be, uneasy (Continued on page 13) �PAGE6 THE REPORTER MARCH 1992 Study of Eastern Classics to begin in fall at SF The following interview with Tutor James Carey was conducted by Santa Fe Director ofCommunications Lesli Allison. Q. How did the idea of an Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics originate? A. For some time, certain faculty have been hoping to find a place at the college to read these books and, of e-0urse, every year when .the freshmen come in they want to know why we don't read Eastern books. The answers that were given in the past, the most compelling answers, were that we don't : have room for them and we don't know the languages. But that didn't rule out the possibility of our fmding a place for the study of Eastern works somewhere at the college outside the undergraduate program, or the possibility of our learning the languages. Also, a lot of us thought that St John's College should really be the Great Books school, not just the Great Books of the Western World school. That requires our becoming familiar with intellectual traditions different from our own. It seemed to us that one could not rule out of hand, a priori, that there are great books in the East or even that they might have questions that will be important to us. So, in general, we found the answers of "we don't have room for them at the college" and "we don't know the languages" not sufficiently persuasive. Q. So what can St. John's offer in this regard, given that the college's experience has thus far been with Western books exclusively? A. The faculty has spent a lot of time trying to understand the roots of our own tradition, and as far as I can tell, most Western expositors of the Eastern traditions have not. done that. As a consequence, they use certain Western terms, often of recent vintage, to describe distinctively Eastern concepts. A similar problem can happen, by the way, in just studying the Western tradition when one begins to read, let's say, Homer, and one talks about Achilles having certain kinds of personality problems, or Oedipus having an Oedipus complex, or Odysseus going through a maturation process, or Agamemnon having an inferiority complex. This way of thinking was foreign to Homer. By the same token, we have ways of speaking about things in the West that are foreign to the East. I think that only if someone has really come to terms with the Western tradition, as we do at St. John's, can he be on guard against placing Western constructs on Eastern thought. The other thing, of course, is that St. John's tutors are not specialists; we are at best amateurs, and thus open and willing to speculate broadly. And that's what's needed in looking at these books. So as I said before, I think that, as a consequence of our work here at St. John's, we will be able to offer a program that avoids the extremes of scholarly narrowness and trendy popularization. I really do think that our study of the Western tradition, being as comprehensive as it is, enables us to do better justice to the Eastern traditions. In fact, in general, I've thought the person wanting to begin a study of the Eastern Classics could hardly do better than to start by spending four years at St. Jolm 's College studying the Western tradition, and then going to Eastern studies. Many Westerners want to study Eastern traditions without the foggiest idea of what their own tradition really is all about. As a consequence, they are influenced by the Western tradition without fully realizing it Q. You have said that a liberal education must begin with an understanding of one's own tradition; for most of us at St. John's, that is the Western tradition, but isn't that a life-long project? A. It is, and there is probably no individual who can fully understand the Western tradition, because of its extraordinary com- Tutor and former dean James Carey, center, in consultation with tutors David ·Starr, left, and Nicholas Maistrellis. Vivian Ronay Barry photo piexity and internal diversity. Howe".er, by studying a tradition that is not native to our own, we gain a perspective on our own tradition. In fact, we see what it is that constitutes_.an intellectual tradition as such. We may see-what naturally occurs to the reflective mind wherever it is. Q. Why the Indian and Chinese traditions? Why not Japan as well? And, why limit ourselves to old books? A. To address the question of old books first; we are interested in the origins of these traditions, namely their classics. It happens to be the case that with both China and India the intellectual traditions are sustained, as they are in the West, by some very great early works. And looking at these, with a particular focus, will give us some understanding of the roots of these traditions. Jn that connection, the Japanese intellectual tradition borrows heavily from India and ChinabywayofBuddhism. Wemayendup reading some Japanese works in the preceptorials, but the seminar is already crowded. We are not interested in a survey, but in going to the roots of the two most influential traditions. Q. What are the goals of the language tutorial? A. First of all, it should be clear that every student involved in the program will take either the Chinese tutorial or the Sanskrit tutorial. A student will not take both; so there might be 10 students in the Chinese and 10 in the Sanskrit. The major goal is to enable the students, so far as possible, to become familiar with the elements of the language and be able to translate selected passages, particularly to be able to inspect a text where the translations differ widely. So far as I can tell, the translations of Eastern works differ even more strikingly than translations of, say, Greek or Latin works and so we are at the mercy of the translations unless we can at least look at the original - there's no pretense of achieving mastery of these languages. By the way, the two languages are interesting in themselves in that in Sanskrit, at least more than any language I know, the written word is accommodated to the spoken word And Sanskrit is an lndo-European language so it has some connection with Greek and Latin. Chinese, on the other hand, is an exception to the Aristotelian claim, in his treatise on interpretation, that the written word is a symbol of the spoken word, which is a symbol of the image in the soul, which is some kind of representation of the thing. Chinese characters are representations of things, not sounds, and though there are phonetic elements in the Chinese character, most of the character is non-phonetic. It's not an atteII).pt to capture, for sight, a sound which Sanskrit and Western writing does. So t,he two languages areinteresting in.the way in which they contrast. · Q. What are some of the texts you might be translating? A. Jn the Sanskrit tutorial it will be possible in the second semester to do some translations of the Bhagavad Gita, which is relatively easy Sanskrit, and also from a philosophical treatise by Nagarjuna, the Sanskrit of which is also comparatively accessible. And in the Chinese, selections from the Confucian classics can be translated very early on. I should say that Mr. Swentzell has had preceptorials on Confucius in which, even in the course of the preceptorial, some translation could be done even though it wasn't a language tutorial. Mr. Perry has worked with several of us on the faculty translating Sanskrit texts in the past and it is not an unreasonable goal to think that graduate students, giving a third of their time to it, could gain something very good from the language tutorial. But again, we will not aim at producing Sanskrit or Chinese scholars. Q. Some people say you cannot understand Eastern books without submerging yourself in the meditative practice. What do you have lo say about that? A. That's probably true of at least part of the Eastern tradition. Of course the Eastern tradition is not exclusively meditative and the Western notions of what's going on in the East are largely influenced by contemporary popularizations of certain aspects of Eastern tradition. There are aspects of certain Eastern religious traditions that meditative practice is a part of. It doesn't seem to me that the situation is fundamentally different from what you have in the study of the Bible. I think that the Bible cannot be understood fully apart from the life of prayer. We settle for a partial understanding. By not incorporating meditative practice into our study of Eastern texts, we shall also be settling for a partial, but nonetheless fruitful, understanding. Q. What does the faculty think about this project? A. There is a wide range of opinion as far as I can see. Some faculty are extremely enthusiastic about it and have wanted for years to do something like this at the college. Incidently, among those faculty who are enthusiastic about this program, not all agree as to what form it should take. As far as this program is concerned, most faculty I have talked with seem to think that the project itself is worthwhile, and that by doing it we can, at least, get some sense of whether it is something the college should continue to be engaged in. The Institute for the Study of Eastern Classics will commence in the fall of 1992 on the Santa Fe campus. Enrollment will be limited to 20 students. Undergraduates and those currently enrolled in the Graduate Institute are not eligible to apply. Tuition is $1500/semester. Upon completion of the program, students will be awarded a no11degree certificate. The course of study will include seminars, a sequence ofpreceptorials and a language tutorial in Sanskrit or classical Chinese. All classes will be taught by members of the St. John's faculty. James Carey, a tutor and former dea11 of the college, will be the director. Ralph Swentzel!, a tutor at St. Joh11's since 1966 and the author of a computer-based dictionary of the Chinese language, will teach the Chinese tutorial. Bruce Perry, a tutor with advanced degrees in Classics and in Sanskrit, will tear;h the Sanskrit tutorial. In all, about eight tutors will be teaching in the program. A complete list of these tutors will be published later in the spri11g. The institute is funded in part by a grant from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. For more information contact: James Carey, Director, Institute for the Study ofEastern Classics, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM 87501-4599, (505) 988-4361 "Visionary" design of John Gaw Meem showcased in New York Times article A generously illustrated retrospective of the work of the late St. John's College benefactor John Gaw Meem, Santa Fe architect, appeared on the cover of the Home section of the New York Times January 9. The offer in 1961 by John Gaw Meem and his wife Faith of a 200-acre land parcel-which, with other later gifts of land became the site of the Santa Fe campus-was central in the decision to expand the college to a second campus in New Mexico. (The Santa Fe campus was dedicated in 1964.) The new Faith and John Meem Library, dedicated in November, 1990, is evidence of the Meems' continued generosity. "A 1930s Visionary Who Looked Back and Saw Santa Fe" by writer Patricia Leigh Brown traces Mr. Meem's career from his arrival in the city in 1920 to convalesce from tuberculosis, through nearly 60 years of designing houses and churches, municipal and university buildings-including 30 buildings at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque-that "married the spirit of native pueblo architecture with the necessities of the modern world." "Mr. Meem's imagery-exotic fantasies of life in the Southwest-endures," comments the writer. "Each Meem house is a miniature world: quiet, comforting spaces with flickering fireplaces that keep the tumult of the modern world at bay ... they seem both aged and ageless, appearing to have magically sprouted from the soil." Mr. Meem designed 150 houses in all, in and around Santa Fe. Jn addition, the celebrated architect helped develop the city's first master plan in 1947 that helped protect the character of downtown Santa Fe. As a pr(}servationist, he restored dozens of historic mission churches. �MARCH 1992 THE REPORTER PAGE7 Second year for "Summer Seminars" For the second summer the Santa Fe cam- pus will welcome visitors from around the nation to participate in the St. John's College Summer Seminars for Adults. The program was reviewed in Travel Holiday by travel writer Arthur Frommer as "a cerebral journey catering to the mind and spirit . .. lightyears more interesting than usual summer vacations." Pai1icipants enroll in one seminar each week for one, two or three weeks. Seminars are held from lOa.m. tonooneachmoming. In the afternoons and evenings participants are free to join their peers on planned excursions or launch out on their own to explore Santa Fe and the surrounding region. The majority of participants reside on campus with accommodations and meals included in the t:llition price of $899/week. This summer the program includes a choice of six seminars and one workshop in landscape drawing. The workshop will be led by Martin Garhart, Professor .o f Art at Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio. Professor Garhart has more than 20 years experience in art and art education. Participants will venture into New Mexico's spectacular country-side for hands-on instruction in drawing techniques. Also included in the prograin this year is a seminar on opera. Santa Fe tutors Lawrence Cave and John Cornell will lead participants through discussion of Mozart's Don Giovanni and Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier. Participants will then attend live performances of each opera at the world renowned Santa Fe Opera. SUMMER SEMINARS FOR ADULTS 1992 Week One-July 19 - 25 Dante: Purgatory or Southwest Novels Rudy Anaya: Bless Me Ultima Willa Cather: Death Comes to the Archbishop N. Scott Momaday: The Ancient Child Board membe~s rise to applaud Mara and Charles Robinson whose $3.1 million gift to St. John's College was announced at Board meeting. Leslie Allison It is good to see you again and to meet new members who have joined the board since I "retired." . I treasure the years that I have been associated with St. John's-as student, board member, and friend. I am glad to say that many of you are my friends and I am indeed happy that my dear friend and former dean, Herb London, has joined the St. John's board. I know you will enjoy working with him. When we moved to Santa Fe and I had to leave NYU, Herb urged me to apply to St. John's and wrote a letter of recommendation to the Graduate Institute which evidently opened the doors for me. Here I formed new friendships and found a niche with the help of a wonderful tutor and mentor to many students, Stuart Boyd, and the encouragement of Bob Neidorf when I felt unequal to the task. Though I Mara Robinson's remarks to the Board of Visitors & Governors January 19, 1992 didn't meet my friend Bob Bart till my graduation day, our discovery that we share a passion for Italy forged a very enjoyable bond. Some time later, Stuart Boyd sent a letter to the nominating committee recommending me as a potential board member. I am very happy to say that I enthusiastically support the efforts of our two presidents. I learned to respect Chris Nelson from his hard work on the board and-what's not to like about John Agresto? He brought a new enthusiasm to the difficult job of the Presidency and he and Cathy are delightful members of the Santa Fe community. I am doing my best to lure them to my Venice home for a visit. All of this makes up the background for my husband's and my continuing support of St. John's. We hope our gift will help get the new campaign off to a good start. It is an expression of our love for the college and our confidence that the St. John's cmriculum and learning methods can best help to nurture the minds and characters of the young women and men who will be able to help solve present and future world problems. Many of you have been associated with St. John's for longer that I and know it well. Please keep up your good work and do help the capital campaign as fully as you can. Week Two- July 26 - August 1 De Tocqueville: Democracy in America or Opera Mozart: Don Giovanni Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Week Three-August 2 - 8 Shakespeare: MerchalltofVenice,As You Like It, Twelfth Night or Dostoevski: The Devils or Landscape Drawing Workshop For further information write or call Summer Seminars for Adults-R, St. John's College, Santa Fe NM, 875014599 (505) 982-3691 ext.288. Mara Robinson White House names Ault as trustee Lesli Allison photos J. Burchenal Ault, a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, has been appointed by the White House as a trustee of the Woodrow Wilson Center. An independent fundraising counsel based in Tucson, Arizona, Mr. Ault is a trustee and director of many cultural and financial institutions, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Council for International Understanding. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Columbia University School of Law. Charles Robinson Santa Fe President John Agresto with St. John's supporter Mara Robinson. �PAGES BY NANCY OSIUS While the big mQney practices tarnishing some American college sports programs and the possible solutions to abuses were his primary subject, kick-off speaker Creed C. Black said at the "Ethics and Athletics" symposium January 25 that perhaps his subject should be "sports and the human condition"-given the global appeal of the subject. "Sports tell . us something about ourselves," the wryly amusing, award-winning newspaperman and foundation president told a spirited audience in Annapolis. Mr. Black quoted late Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren's observation that the "sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page, nothing but man's failure." More than 250 people crowded into the Conversation Room for the sixth in the Great Issues Series on Ethics. Small groups, co-led by tutors and figures from the sports world, teachers and coaches, held seminar discussions springing from pre-assigned readings. Tennis champion Arthur Ashe was the closing speaker. Against a broadly human context affirming the value of athletics, Mr. Black drew attention to the "critical national problem" for which the Knight Foundation, which he beads, created a blue ribbon commission two years ago: "The corruption of big-time college athletics in America." Big money revenue sports on college campuses are "out of control," said Mr. Black. The problem centers around about 100 schools in football and 200 in basketball out of 2200 four-year institutions of higher education, he said These are fighting for the big bucks that television and tournaments can·bring. He ruefully denied that " there are just a few bad apples in the barrel," though. Made up of sports figures, educators and political figures, the 22-member Knight Commission last March published its report "Keeping Faith with the Student-Athlete: a New Model for Intercollegiate Athletics." Its findings created an immense public furor and a full-blown institutional, press, and public debate. At fault for the problems were "institutional indifference, presidential neglect and the growing commercialization of sport, combined with the urge to win at all costs," the report determined. At the root of the problems "is a great reversal of ends and means ... Increasingly, the team, the game, the season and the [sports} program,' all intended as expressions of the university's larger purposes-gain ascendency over Marshall K. Steele, Ill. M.D. THE REPORTER the ends that created and nurtured them ... " By recognizing and defining the problems, as well as suggesting solutions, the 22-member commission, made up of politicians, sports figures and educators, hoped to help curb abuses that throw doubt on the whole institution of higher learning, said Mr. Black. Some of those abuses were these: In the 1980s 109 colleges and universities were censured, sanctioned or put on probation by the Na. tional Collegiate Athletic Association. More than half. the Division I universities (the NCAA's top competitive level) were among this number. Nearly a third of present and former professional football players said in a 1989 survey that they bad accepted illegal payments while in college. Among 100 big-time schools, 35 had graduation rates under 20% for their basketball players and 14 had the same rate for their football players. "Somehow s anity must be restored to this bleak scene and values put back into their proper places," said the speaker. The.Commission study proposed a "one plus three model" as a way that academic administrators could take back control of how sports operate at their colleges. The "orie" is "presidential control" and this is (Continued on page 12) MARCH 1992 Above, left: participants engage In lively debate. Above: P.resident Chris Nelson co-leads a discussion. Maryland Congre~ I b~ · Tutor Chester Burke and a livel Keith Harvey . photos Timmy McMullen, Broadneck High School Tutor Joe Cohen Carla Criste, U.S. Naval Academy Joseph J. Mccann, Recreation and Parks Does this look like a Bishop, this trio plan left, The ca.eitafs se,o of St. John s Bill Bnll, �THE REPORTER MARCH 1992 Tennis champion Arthur Ashe PAGE9 Stuart H. Walker, M.D. BY DONNA BOETIG Ethics & Athletics Sixth Great Issues forum gs Knight, Ashe, y debate committee meeting? Along with Vice President for ·Advancement Jeff ed the Ethics and Athletics forum, but maybe at some other time. From ts editor Joe Gross, Great Issues chairman and president of the Friends and Delegate Michael Busch. Arthur Ashe, a Wimbledon and U.S. Open cham- · pion, blasted colleges that entice academically deficient athletes-who have little chance at succeeding in the classroom, let alone graduating-to fill their stadiums and fund their non-revenue sports, and called for a grass roots effort to raise the expectations for athletes, particularly minorities. For the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) in 1984 artificially to lower the standards for all athletes to accommodate black athletes is a slap in the face to all minorities, according to Mr. Ashe, himself holder of a succession of world tennis titles. "Being black myself, I know these kids can do the work. It (academic achievement) has nothing to do with ability. It has to do with motivation." Speaking to the crowd that filled the Conversation Room for the Ethics and Athletics Great Issues Series on January 25, Mr. Ashe demonstrated that the conflict in ethics between academia and athletics can be as clear as the numbers on a score board. "Seventy percent of college basketball teams in Division I, and nearly half of football teams are made-up of minority student-athletes-although less than six percent of the total student body are minorities. "I have personally to believe that these colleges love us as athlete.s, but are indifferent to us academically," he said. Mr. Ashe applauded the NCAA's decision in December to tighten the grade point average ·for high school student athletes wishing to play a varsity sport in a selective college from 2.0 to 2.~.-while increasing core courses from 11 to 13. "A 2.0 GPA isn't too much to ask when the rest of the student body bas a 3.0 or better," he said. "In my estimation, 2.0 is open enroll. ment If you 're willing to admit athletes with a 20, where are your non-athletes with a 2.0? You're singling out athletes to have sub-standard academic preparation." Mr. Ashe, a powerful force both in and out of the tennis world, praised the recent trend of college presi- Adm. William P. Lawrence, USN (Ret.) dents to reassert control over the once separatelyfunded athletic departments, much to the chagrin of some athletic directors. Comparing American education unfavorably with that of the Japanese, Mr. Ashe explained that the 10 percent of American high school athletes who wind up playing college varsity sports mislead the 90 percent who don't. ''My major concern has always been the 90 percent who don't," he said. (Mr. Ashe is the founder of the National Junior Tennis League, a program designed to involve inner-city youths in tennis.) The Japanese educate their children so even those that don't qualify for the limited college seats are still fairly well educated, he said. "What do we do here with a kidblack or white-who knows in ninth grade that all he needs is a 2.0 and a deadly jumpshot to get to college. Four years later, he's not playing college sports, and we have to start all over." This country has an obligation to require academic achievement of all students, he indicated. Although he is reluctant to have the NCAA telling colleges whom they should admit, the alternative, he explains, "was the crass exploitation of minorities-males who umealistically imagine themselves as future NBA or NFL stars making millions of dollars a year. The system allows them to give it a try and succeed at a rate of one.for every 99 failures-and you don't have to study." Inrier city youths aged 12-19 can't motivate themselves, he acknowledged. It has to be a societal effort. High school coaches, athletic associations, and PTAs should emphasize a combination of athletic and academic performance. "It's all a matter of emphasis. If poor school districts can wind up with first-rate athletes, you can use that same organizational ability to motivate them to produce at least second rate scholars. "Athletes must be viewed, admitted, treated and graduated like the rest of their classmates." Peter Schmuck, Baltimore Sun �PAGE 10 THE REPORTER MARCH 1992 CHAPTER EVENTS ALBUQUERQUE Anyone interested in organizing or attendin(! events in the Albuquerque area should contact Michael David at (505) 344-7875 or Santa Fe campus Alumni director Cynthia Jokela at (505) 982-3691. Linda Stabler-Tatty SGl'76, Editor Thomas Geyer A'68, Communications Committee ANNAPOLIS March 20: Alumni luncheon with guest speaker Parris Glendenning March 21: Seminar on Descartes' First and Second Meditations April 10: Alumni luncheon with guest speaker Robert Neall April 4: Chapter dinner, with speaker Lewis Goldstein, Comptroller of the State of Maryland April 2~: Seminar on Chapter 1 of tutor Stewart Umphrey s book on the Meno May 8: Alumni luncheon with guest speaker Lucille Maurer Alumni luncheons are held on Fridays in the Private Dining Room, 12:00 noon. Telephone Betsy Blume at the Alumni Office (301) 263-2371 for more information about any of the events. AUSTIN This chapter meets informally on a monthly basis, usually 7 to 9 p.m. at the Law Offices of Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, & Moody, 6th and Congress. Readings are selected by the hosting members. Contact Beverly Angel (512) 926-7808 for future schedule and details. BOSTON March 8: Seminar on Plato's Euthryphro with Annapolis tutor Ann Martin Meetings are held at the home of Alvin Aronson who can be contacted at (617) 566-6657 or 4373186 (wk) for information on this, and future chapter events. BUFFALO/ROCHESTER/TORONTO February 29: Gathering in Buffalo to decide chapter structure and new officers May 9: Annapolis tutor Malcolm Wya_tt will lead.a seminar, to be followed by a potluck dinner-all in Rochester This chapter welcomes the participation of all alumni in its wide-ranging locale. Call Roberta Carnevale for details and suggestions. CHICAGO March 15: Shakespeare Repertory Theater Performance of Macbeth, with seminar and dinner to follow April 26: Seminar on Isaac Dinesen's "Sorrow Acre" led by Santa Fe tutor Nancy Buchenauer Call President Paul Frank at (312) 235-0614 or 464-2573 (wk), or Program Director Erin Milnes at 271· 1039 about any of the chapter activities and locations of meetings. DALLAS I FORT WORTH This chapter meets about 10 times a year for Saturday evening seminars. For additional information contact Suzanne Doremus at {817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis at (214) 340-8442. PHILADELPHIA April: Seminar being planned To participate in events contact Jim Schweidel at (215) 836-7632. SACRAMENTO Meetings are every month in this 'unofficial' chapter to discuss the program readings, following the undergraduate sequence. Inquiries are most welcome; phone Arianne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen Feeley 452- 1082. SAN FRANCISCO I NORTHERN CALIFORNIA March 14: Seminar on Chuang Tzu, being led by Santa Fe tutor Ralph Swentzel!, with a Chinese dinner to follow Monthly seminars on the second Sunday of the month are continuing with readings by Flannery O'Connor in March, George Eliot in April/May, and Freud in June. The Science and Math study group meets every other Wednesday and is reading The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose; contact Mark Middlebrook at (510) 547-0602 for details. Call Toni Wilkinson (415) 585-4255 or 476-7397 (wk) for information and to contribute to the local newsletter. SANTA FE March 8: President John Agresto will lead a seminar on Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth, part 2 April 12: Seminar on Jacob Klein's essay "The World of Physics and the Natural World" May: Annual social/picnic and discussion of Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselfe d'Avignon" Telephone John Pollack (505) 983-2144 or Alumni Director Cindy Jokela at 982-3691 for future seminar/social meeting times and places. Graduate Institute alums are studying variations on the undergraduate music tutorial, and meet once a week. Contact Dick Cowles (505) 986-1814 or Mary Schruben 473-7898 for information. SEATTLE Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 for information about future activities. WASHINGTON 0.C. AREA March 4: Stephens W. Hawking, A Brief 1-/istory of Time, Ch. 8-11 with Sam Kutler to lead. Seminars meet at the West End Branch of the D.C. Public Library from 6:30- 8:30 p.m. For further information call Sam Stiles (301) 424-9119, or Sharon Garvey (304) 535-2655. ·Another alumni reading group holds meetings every other Sun.day at 5 :00 p.m with readings to be decided. Meetings are in the NE Washington area-alums from Annapolis and other nearby locations are invited to attend. Call Susan Gushue (202) 526-1632 or Jon Church at 832-5851 for details. Alumni committee reaches into community This summer, the SJCAA Continuing Liberal Education Committee reorganized to develop programs to expand the reach of the St. John's Liberal Education format. The Committee, which had been inactive for several y.ears, is chartered to "promote activities which realize the College Polity's definition of Alumni as permanent members of an inquiri~g liberal arts community and ... support these arts m the community at large." The Committee has undertaken several programs for its initial work. First, in conjunction with the Annapolis Dean's Office, we are developing an Alumni-led Seminar for current students to address relevant concerns which are not directly spoken to in the Program curriculum. The initial Seminar project is planned to focus on Writings on Women. The Writings will include selections from Freud, Nietzche, Mill, and Wollstonecraft - nineteenth century authors whose works frame the various thoughts shaping the evolution in the rights of women. A second program the Committee is currently developing addresses how to expand the reach of the St. John's Program through targeting "special interest groups" which have shown strong desires to take part in the Program's style of learning. I". the past individual alumni have developed readings focu~ed on the concerns of the legal and medical profession. Additionally, the College h.a s developed an "executive seminar" program which has been successfully run in Annapolis and Washington, DC. The Liberal Education Committee is now examining the viability of organizing these readings into c~~ric­ ula which can be used across several communities. As well as providing direct educational benefi~, this program would increase general awareness m tl')e community of the St. John's Program. This awareness helps: • the College in student recruitment and developing financial support. • the Alumni develop an increased St. John's career network. A third area which the Committee is looking to facilitate is outreach programs by Alumni into the community and schools, especially in the Santa Fe community. This effort is to raise the visibility of St. John's Alumni in community involvement efforts. All of these efforts are in the formative stages, and the Committee welcomes the help of interested Alumni. Jason Walsh, A'85 LOS ANGELES This chapter is reorganizing, and suggestions or questions are welcome. Call Caroline Allen (213) 392-5253 to contribute. EDITOR'S NOTES . .. MINNEAPOLIS I ST.PAUL This 'unofficial' chapter is organising events and would like your suggestions. Telephone Bruce Lansky (612) 473-5400 to contribute your ideas. NEW YORK April 8: Seminar with Santa Fe tutor Nancy Buchenauer, topic to be announced June: Annual Picnic being planned Call Sabine Schweidt (212) 645-8903 or 8585249 (wk), or Peter Burdge (treasurer) or Jill Silberman (the newly elected secretary) at 677- 1145 for details. ST.LOUIS will be the site of the next Alumni Association chapter organizing seminar and reception. On March 15 at the RitzCarlton, Santa Fe tutor Bruce Venable will lead a seminar beginning at 3:00, with coffee at 2:00 and a reception to follow at 5:00. Invitations will be mailed to all local alums but for more information telephone Paula Fulks at (314) 235-4095. Jason Walsh, A'85 Linda S tabler-Talty photo �THE REPORTER MARCH 1992 Linda Stabler-Tatty SGl'76, Editor Letters from .9llumni To the Editor: I recently came across an article written by St. John's tutor David Bolotin entitled "In Defense of The Great Books" that appeared in the October issue of the as yet unnamed Santa Fe newsletter for parents. I find the thesis of the article less than compelling and suspect that it may have been fueled by considerations that are political rather than philoso ph ica I. Mr. Bolotin claims tha t t he fundamental presupposition of all philosophy and all Biblical religion is that there is "a lasting and comprehensive truth." He goes on to claim that this presupposition is being denied by some "in the name of the view that all 'truth' is merely relative to the historical context of the thinker, and that all historical or cultural or even group perspectives are equally true or valid." Since the alternative to the belief that there is one objective truth is caricatured-no thinking person could easily espouse the proposition that all perspectives are equally true or valid-the author concludes that there can be only a political reason to question the existence of a lasting and comprehensive truth. To argue in this way is to succumb to the temptation to label any criticism whatsoever of the Great Books program "multiculturalism" and "political correctness," where what these labels name is ridiculed. It does not seem to be our way to assert dogmatically that no questions raised about objectivity and subjectivity, about truth and language, truth and thought, can be anything but the sign of "shallow relativism" or the denial of "the possibility of a higher truth than the so-called truths of culture and history." There seem now to be certain questions which are such that the mere raising of them is enough to invite the charge that they have been raised only for the sake of "political correctness." But are we not being exhorted thereby to accept the alternative politically correct position never to question the existence, accessibility, and freedom from history of one "lasting and comprehensive truth"? I believe that any official position taken on behalf of St. John's which claims for the College some exclusive ownership of the truth, or which privileges "Biblical religion," to be clearly antithetical to the entire heart and soul of the Program. Its heart and soul lie in the asking of questions, not in the insistence on certain answers. There is one overriding purpose of the Program and that is to teach young men and women how to think. Notice I said how not what to think. If 1 were a parent reading Mr. Bolotin's article I'm afraid that I would begin to have second and serious thoughts about continuing to support a college that officially held such views. It is my hope that the College can weather this storm over multiculturalism and.political correctness without falling itself into an untruth caused by this kind of 'circle the wagons' mentality. Sincerely yours, Harvey M. Goldstein, A'59 Thomas Geyer A'68, Communications Committee New SF alumni head introduces herself As the new Director of Alumni Activities in Santa Fe, Cindy Jokela brings a wide range of experiences to her new position. We asked her to introduce herself so that you may feel free to contact her with ideas and questions. When I left New Mexico for New Haven, Connecticut, almost nine years ago I had no idea that I was also embarking on a career in university alumni and development. I knew only that I would continue my study in the liberal arts, and that I needed a job-not always the best combination! Hours after my arrival, I found out that a researcher was needed in the Yale development office but that I needed to contact them immediately. Having attended two universities and knowing all that was necessary about these matters, I thought, "Must be child development ... I like kids .. . I'll go for it!" Fortunately, before I called the office, I knew enough about it to realize that children were not involved. I scheduled the interview for that afternoon, sat down to hand-write a resume, struggled to find a suitable dress that was squeezed into the front of the U-Haul trailor, and settled for wearing hirachi sandals as shoes were nowhere to be found. Armed with youthful confidence and enthusiasm (and aided by ignorance!), I went into several interviews which, to my amazement, resulted in a job offer. So began my four years at Yale, where I worked with faculty and administration to locate funding sources for individual projects and university programs, while completing my bachelor's degree there in language and literature. I went on to work for the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt, serving as a liaison between the College and its alumni, assisting with the annual fund, developing new alumni chapters and coordinating events on campus. An interlude in Denmark, where my husband was doing research for his dissertation in philosophy, gave me the opportunity to pursue my interest in the Scandinavian languages and culture, along with assisting the Danish Fulbright Commission in PAGE 11 getting an alumni/development program underway. Given my professional experience and my deep interest in and concern for liberal arts education, I began my work at St. John's with excitement and anticipation. After a month on the job, that excitement and the high hopes I have for what the college and the alumni can achieve have only increased, ·especially after participating in the January alumni board meeting and visiting with many of the key leaders in the Alumni Association. I see a great opportunity to strengthen the mutually beneficial relationship between you, the alumni, and the college. I found a plenary session on career counseling at the recent alumni board meeting to be a fine example of the potential that various members of the college community have to pool their resources to very productive ends. The discussion, which was led by alumnus Allan Hoffman, began with reports by Dean Brann, Dean van Luchene and Don Parker, the Director of Placement in Santa Fe, on the activities of and the challenges faced by the placement offices. A fruitful exchange of ideas on various issues followed, including: the difficulties experienced by St. John's graduates in making the transition to a career path, and how to address them; the need to market the school more actively (and the greater capacity to do so now with staffing in place); and how the alumni can be involved, from serving as role models (and having their successes communicated) and contacting the placement offices about job openings, to taking part in college placement programs and formal and informal networking. Beginning this fall, our database system (based on information from the upcoming survey that you all will return!) will include career information for an alumni network that will greatly enhance communication between alumni, students and the college. I also have enjoye.d the contact with many of you as we discuss programming for alumni chapter meetings and events on campus. Due to the interest and commitment of various alumni, we will be having at least two new chapter events west of the M!ssissippi this spring, in St. Louis and Portland, which I look forward to facilitating and participating in.·And, of course, our 1992 Homecoming and Summer Alumni Program (July 12th - 24th) are looking better than ever! The classes of '72, '77, '82 and Graduate Institute alumni are in the midst of planning their reunions, and brochures soon will be out with more information on a stimulating array of seminars and other social and cultural activities. I hope to see many of you in Santa Fe this summer. And, if you are ever in the Santa Fe area, please feel free to stop by. In any case, I am always a phone call away and would welcome any ideas, suggestions, criticisms or thoughts about the alumni programs or the college. I look forward to working with you. At the re~ent meeting of the Alumni Assoc iation Board In Santa Fe, new Director of Alumni Relations Cindy Jokela (center) explains the Summer Alumni Program plans. Lesll Alllson photo �PAGE12 THE REPORTER Fonner college athletic director Bryce Jacobsen, center, participant Pat Kohlepp, right, and unidentified participant in Athletics forum. ' Keith Harvey photo DID YOU KNOW •That the college will host over 200 athletic competitions inside its own walls at Annapolis this year? •That four St. Johnnies, or 1% of the student body, ran in the last Marine Corps Marathon? · •That 10% of the student body actively participates in the Rowing Club, practicing five days a week between six and eight a.m.? •That the St. John's Fencing Union hosts many tournaments each year, drawing such schools as the Naval Academy, William and Mary, Loyola, Goucher, John's Hopkins, and St. Mary's College? •That the yacht "Sweet Agnes," which won last year's Annapolis Yacht Club's PHRF 1 Frost Bit Series, was crewed exclusively by St. John's students? •That all of this activity is supported by a budget less than some universities spend for athletic tape? The information above was compiled by Leo Pickens, athletic director at Annapolis. Ethics & Athletics (Continued from page eight) directed toward the "th:ree"-academic integrity, financial integrity, and accountability. While, in fact, many major colleges and universities run successful athletic programs that maintain ethical and academic integrity, Mr. Black said, "the challenge now is to develop and win acceptance of realistic reforms that will bring all institutions under their tent." He had considerable good news for his hearers. A major item was that the NCAA Presidents Commission has become "a bulwark of reform," with marked success in making changes regarding the amount of time sports can demand from students, as well as in cutting excessive costs from sports programs. This year, it put through an agenda calling for higher admission standards and stronger requirements regarding progress toward degrees. The long range strategic plan of the Presidents Commission calls for a stronger role for college presidents and for other reforms paralleling those proposed by the commission. The great interest accorded the Knight Commission's report last spring has resulted in the decision to have the commission extend its work for another two years. Mr. Black concluded, "We care not just about. .. the corrupting influence of [this problem] on higher education in America but about its disturbing implications for the larger society." Annapolis President Christopher Nelson welcomed participants, while former basketball star Congressman Tom McMillen -who served on the Knight Commission- introduced Mr. Black. The Great Issues Series is sponsored by the Friends of St. John's College and the Continuing Education office. Programs planned for the future include "Ethics and Religion" and "Ethics and Education." Allan brook (Continued from page five) can't work in a vacuum. You have to talk to people about what you are doing. It was enormousty helpful." In particular, the talks and panels allowed her to try out the things she had been thinking about on other people. One enterprising center of musical research set up panels of experts-about 20 scholars in all, and all good friends-and sold them to music festivals. Mrs. Allanbrook was placed on one panel of three, which was bought by three festivals. She describes with amusement her days on the road as "sort of like a travelling medicine show." Her panel, for example, was included in The Houston Grand Opera's week-long festival with three Mozart Operas and other events. But for the most part, she was invited as an individual scholarly contributor, and she wrote more than nine individual papers to meet her commitments. There have been many moments. At the recent major festival in Washington, D.C., from December 2-5, supported by such institutions as the National Gallery of Art, the Kennedy Center, and the like, English novelist Anthony Burgess was the keynoter. A composer as well as the author of novels noted for their wit, horror, wordplay and enigmas, he spoke on "Mozart and the Wolf Gang." ("Flashy," says Wendy, "but I heard some things in it that I appreciated.") Mrs. Allanbrook spoke on the third day of a succession of concerts, recitals, and performances. One of her favorite experiences was in London in August There she lived in a residence hall at King's College and walked each day to the international symposium in the vast warren of performing balls on the south bank of the nearby Thames. Another was the pleasurable collaboration at the Lincoln Center with her good friend Wendy Hilton, teacher of early dance at the Juilliard School of Music, whose students danced minuets acd gavottes, after which the two Wendys lectured on them. "Expression," principally as it is found in the dances in Mozart's work, is a primary subject for examination by Mrs. Allanbrook. It was a subject that was out of bounds in "the academy" for 100 years. Those musicologists or music historians, as Mrs. Allanbrook prefers to be called, who are writing about it now are in some sense trailblazers. At a given point in the last century, she comments, music was exalted to such a high extent that it was considered very abstract and pure. There was a kind of scholarly distaste for acknowledging that music might have anything to do with "the world" and its untidy passions and feelings. People who wrote about music, therefore, dealt principally with what was "numerable." The key of a piece of music was part of legitimate analysis, but describing the emotional stance was simply not done. "There was a whole side to music for which no one had developed any kind of analytic vocabulary at all until just recently. Musicology's techniques and methods were completely cut off from the responses of the average listener,'' she says. There is a new climate and a new interest in this subject today. Mrs. Allanbrook prefers the word "expressive" to "emotional" because "emotional bas the connotation of getting all excited about something," she says. "Expressive simply means there is some type of human affect or feeling being expressed." Now it is even permissible to write about romantic music, she points out, and some music historians are doing it. Her own goal is to describe what is happening in a piece of music "so that people will feel you have closely caught what they are experiencing. A side effect of that is that performers might learn to perform it better. "To achieve this, she examines the music to see w hat is happening, which often means, she says, that she must try to understand the world in which it was composed. She believes that we have lost certain conventions for expression that Mozart was very familiar with, and she tries to describe these conventions that he "expressed and used and played witl1 and manipulated and that I feel sure his audience responded to." Dance is a jumping off point. The minuet, for example, was danced in a context, "a noble context." In the stately dance, the body is moved in a restrained, even noble way, she points out, not in a ''rollicking, gay way." In her published book, she discusses the whole spectrum of dances, pointing out that even the time signatures chosen for an 18th century composer had an emotional stamp. MARCH 1992 In her new book, she presents arguments about expression for instrumental music, considerably harder to demonstrate than her arguments for opera, where a story is already being told. Before the bicentennial's agreeable interruption, she hoped to finish the new book this year. In the 1990-1991 academic year, supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in the fall and an American Council of Learned Societies grant in the spring, she was out of the classroom. Last fall was a partial sabbatical year. For the spring semester this year she has returned to teaching and has additionally taken Wendy Allanbrook on the duties of Assistant Dean, a role she also filled from 1987-1990. She replaces Deborah RenauL The delay in completing the new book has not been a detour, she says, because each paper she has delivered has its place in the book. She needs to rewrite them all, however, she doesn't want "a collection of essays." The legendary Pete Seeger captivated a full house with an evening of song in the Key Auditorium at Annapolis Februarr. 7. Peppering renditions of such Seeger classics as "If I Had A Hammer" with songs from his youth, colorful, animated stories and jokes, the guitar-strumming, banjo-picking artist brought an audience spanning three generations repeatedly to its feet with aP.plause. By the end of the evening, the concert evolved into a sing-along, with other voices drowning out Mr. Seeger's-an occurrence that pleases him just fine. He has spent nearly 50 years singing at colleges, peace rallies, and civil rights events. Recently, he's become closely associated with environmental issues, co-founding the Clearwater organization, a non-profit group responsible, in part, for cleaning up the Hudson River. Tutor Judy Seeger arranged the visit of her husband's uncle, Pete Seeger. Curt Koehler photo �MARCH 1992 Physics journal publishes Pesic Santa Fe tutor and Musician-in-Residence Peter Pesic has published the first two parts in a series of papers concerning "The Principle of Identicality and the Foundations of Quantum Theory" in the November issue of the American Journal of Physics (vol. 59, pp. 971-979). The papers inquire into the fundamental principles of quantum theory and the role of the indistinguishability of particles as a central part of that theory. Part I concerns the Gibbs paradox in statistical mechanics in relation to the concept of identical particles; Part II recounts some aspects of the early work of Planck and others in which the concept of identical particles was central. Mr. Pesic's work resulted from a faculty study group on quantum theory at Santa Fe in 1986-87 led by Ralph Sweotzell, and continued during a study group in thermodynamics and chaotic systems Jed by Jack Steadman and Mr. Pesic the next year. During the past four years, Mr. Pesic has delivered a nontechnical version of the ideas involved as an informal lecture for seniors. Luncheon (Continuedfrompage three) reviewed and praised. "One cannot imagine a better day•to-day documentary of the man,· Balanchine, over time," wrote dance critic Mindy Aloff last May in The Washington Post Book World. Central to the book are scores of transcripts of interviews Mr. Mason conducted with dancers, collaborators and colleagues, after the death of the great choreographer, as well as many earlier interviews of Balanchine himself. The book is considered the defiill.tive account of a career that brought ballet in America to its present eminence. Mr. Mason- a 1943 graduate of St. John's, by the way- is editor of Ballet Review, a respected publication for performers, reviewers, and other ballet lovers. He has written about dance for more than 30 years. Co-chairpersons for the event are June Thomas and Berry Pidgeon, with Carolyn Shaffer in charge ofreservations. The president of the Caritas Society is Joy Shaver. Bulgarian (Continued from page five) about the current arrangement of a Parliamentary commission overseeing the television stations, according to Zdravko. "The pace of change has picked up so that a day now equals a month before," Zdravko explains. The Bulgarians were at first euphoric with the change. But economic woes quickly brought revelers back to reality. Initially it seemed as if one group of problems were traded for another, according to Zdravko. With the decontrol of prices, inflation soared and interest rates reached 70 percent, he says. (Currently they are about 40 percent.) Prices in general increased tenfold. "A simple bus ticket went from six to 70 pence," says Nedalina. "An average home went from $800 to $10,000," offers Zdravko. Knowing everything would cost more tomorrow, Bulgarians were swept into a buying frenzy-refrigerators, bikes, fur coats- hoarding anything they could get their hands on. "The streets are so filled with merchants selling things that we can hardly walk through," Nedalina adds. "Because there was such a lack of merchandise before, the urge was suppressed. Now people are living to buy." (Although the stores are wellstocked according to Bulgarian standards, Zdravko says there are still only one or two choices of each item, compared to the end- THE REPORTER PAGE13 Cronin (Continued from page one) ex.eludes Native American Indians," Cronin said. "For instance, here's our biology book. I challenge you to find anywhere in here any reference to any sort of indigenous science from anywhere in the world." In the effort to correct the imbalance, Cronin takes his own students into the field where they can provide role models for younger students while gaining experience in teaching. The student teachers must meet grade-point criteria in order to participate. Once accepted in the program, students prepare lesson plans, write contact letters, conduct classes, and pursue follow-up correspondence with the younger students. In each lesson plan, students include Indian perspectives on the material. . In a related venture, Cronin and his students have created a newsletter which is transmitted via electronic mail across the Electronic Native American Network. Students submit articles and correspond directly with schools in other parts of the country concerning science related activities. Cronin's work does not end there however. In another project funded partially by the McAuliff grant, he is working with edu-. caters.from Hopi and North Dakota to develop an interdisciplinary curriculum on computer which is centered around American Indian perspectives. The program is based on an animated narrative of a young boy searching for his Indian identity. His travels take him through the reservations of the western United States. During the course of these travels he introduces a series of interdisciplinary lessons. "For instance, you begin with life in a boarding school and then you talk about Pecos Pueblo and how that went extinct due to viruses and diseases," Cronin said. "Death Comes to the Archbishop is introduced as a literary source. Food-webs and · food-chains, a bird migration activity, all of these things which are related to being along the Rio Grande where many of these Pueblos are located, are included." In a third project, also funded by the grant, Cronin will travel to reservation schools throughout the West in order to observe what is happening in Indian education. The need for change in Native American classrooms is due primarily to the disparity between mainstream and Indian world views, a disparity which often results in conflicting approaches to learning. ''.Here in biology we have a lot of traditional beliefs that conflict with European beliefs," Cronin said. "A snake, for instance, is not to be handled unless you've gone through a four day cleansing ceremony. The frog is not to be touched if you're a tradi- tional Navajo, the road-runner if you're a traditional Hopi. All these different points of view are here. They do a turtle dance up at San Juan, a bunch of these kids are from San Juan. They do a turtle dance and the turtle is something that can't be dissected." In his effort to create change in the Native American classroom, Cronin is, in effect, serving as a bridge between worlds. For those critical of the traditional western canon, Cronin's awareness and attitude may come as a surprise. Educated at St. John's, Cronin issues from the very background which is said to foster racism and insensitivity. It is this canon to which Cronin himself credits much of his awareness. "If somebody were to say that I'm not culturally sensitive to the needs of my students, they would clearly not have understood anything about what I am doing here," Cronin said. "lthink[StJobn'sstudents] are sensitive to the issues of the larger world. In all of that source reading, you have the seeds of so much of what we see today." For example, the AIDS crisis and the public reaction to it can be largely understood through reading a passage on plague in Thucydides or in Camus, The Plague, he said. Similarly, ideas about culture, education or politics which are relevant to contemporary Native American education, are addressed in the Great Books. "A lot of times you can go back and read in Thucydides or you can read in Aristotle, Plato ... somanyoftoday'sissues,"Cronin said. "So I think more than anything else we are given the tools to understand a much bigger picture." Cronin also credits the University of New Mexico Public Schools Teaching Internship Program for many of his innovative ideas. Piloted by St. John's and later adopted by UNM, the program takes college graduates directly into the schools for hands-on expe- rience in the classroom while they gain credit toward certification. less selection in the States.) Impressed with this new plenty, Bulgarians frequently borrow when they don't have the cash, Zdravko says. Families are often drafted for contributions towards major purchases, such as homes and automobiles. Meanwhile crime on Bulgarian streets bas become commonplace. "Police had been accused of being so tight [in their vigilance] that now they loosened up so much they're overlooking looters," says Nedalina. At the same time, Bulgarians no longer have the security of a steady job. Says Nedalina, "Under communism, life was a certainty. The disadvantage was that you couldn't reach really high [in your profession], but you also couldn't fall." Interestingly, Nedalina notes that Bulgarian women have always been on a par with men for equal pay for equal work. In fact, her mother who is a professor of economics at the University of Varna enjoys a higher professional status than her father who is a professor of athletics there, she says. Bulgaria also appears to be more enlightened in terms of child care. For instance, when a baby is born, its mother, father, grandmother or any other relative who chooses to be its caregiver is given a three-year leave of absence from work, Nadalina says. With nearly all Bulgarian mothers working outside the home, their children are forced to become independent and mature earlier than children in the States, she says. On the other hand, she comments that women here seem younger than their counterparts in Bulgaria, and attributes their good fortune to having cars, instead of enduring public transportation and one-stop shopping centers. Through all the upheaval in her native country, Nedalina, who is interested in becoming a teacher and/or translator, is taking solace in her education here. ''Through my studies I'm feeling more confident in myself and my principles to keep me sane when everything else is going wild." The education here has become particularly valued since she's noticed the change in her own university's post-revolutionary system. "Bulgarians used to study for the pleasure of it Now they study out of ambition to be the best-because if they'renot, they won'tfind work. It's become very competitive, with everyone out for himself,'' she says. "Bulgarians are now associating their dreams with Americans' dreams," Zdravko explains. With television shows, movies, and more than 70 percent of the music on radio in English, they're misinterpreting American society. "They see [what they believe to be] the easy life of millionaires, the California villas, the cars." In truth, America has a real work ethic, according fo this student. Work comes first here, and everything else Americans do supports it, he says. For instance, they jog to stay healthy so they can work harder and be more successful. Not all of Westernization is negative, the students stress. Take for example, salutations. "I'm not your Comrade," one Bulgarian reprimands another, when addressed by this oncecustomary term. Instead, Bulgarians are now demanding the more respectful titles-equivalents to our "Miss," "Mr.," or "Mrs." Not only are Americans influencing Bulgarian culture, but that of the British, French, and Germans. "In the end, taking the models of each, Bulgaria will benefit," he concluded. Jeremiah Cronin·and students at the Santa Fe Indian School. �PAGE14 MARCH 1992 THE REPORTER Letters to 'Edi.tor (Co11ti11ued from page four) The playing field at Annapolis has been designated the new landing site for Med~TAR helicopter emergency transportation in and out of the Anne Arundel Medical Center four blocks away. Inside the helicopter are President Chris Nelson, left, with Dele:gate John Astle, who himself flies part time for MedSTAR and was instrumental in arranging the new landing site. Keith Harvey photos months military service inStuttgart and having a Gennan-speaking wife. However for all three of us there was a long step from conversational fluency to being able to deal with the subtleties of Goethe's verse and the vocabulary and syntax of a hundred and fifty years before. In our reading sessions Mr. Bingley did not attempt to teach but he certainly did encourage! I can't ever remember his correcting us, however we mutilated the scansion of a line or however unfeeJ.in1:ly we read. Whenever we stumbled, his gentle smile and his example urged us on. His reading was fluent and sensitive and his Gennan was excellent though clearly, I think, non-native. (Mr. Bingley was a mathematician by training-Walter Schatsberg reminds me that he was very proud of the fact that he had studied in Goettingen, where there were in his time three Nobellaureates.) Mrs. Bingley's German, it seems to me with the playback of memory over the years, was that of someone with a natural talent for languages who had profited from a few semesters of hard work in a good course many years before. She always seemed to know the meaning of what she was reading andher pronunciation was always acceptable but her accent was often a transparent mask that let the slightly Southern cadences of old Maryland speech shine through. I don't think she had ever lived for any length of time in a German-speaking environment. In our Faust sessions there were no assigned roles. Tums to read went clockwise around the room with each of us doing whatever speech, two words or two pages, came up next We all got a chance to be Faust, Mephistopheles, Marguerite; simply getting through a long piece of exposition counted for more than any attempt at characterization , though we all tried. Whenever Mephisto came around to me I sought to get in some of the oiliness I had heard Emil Jannings bring to the part. Throughout, Mrs. Bingley's greatest contribution was her enthusiasm: the clear, somehow girlish, joy in the doing that she brought to every speech. The fact that her German was probably less ready than that of anyone else in the group was undoubtedly all to the good pedagogically. The fact that she could have such obvious jolly fun with the reading undoubtedly made the three of us students loosen up a bit from what at its worst could have seemed to be a rather grim task. The Faust readings started in late September or early October and lasted until just before Christmas. We read every speech and Wilson to speak at U-Cincinnati Tutor Emeritus Curtis Wilson will deliver a talk at a conference on Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems sponsored by the University of Cincinnati's Institute for Dynamics March 25-28. He will speak on "Aspects of the Lunar Theory from Kepler to Clairaut" every stage direction in Part I and by the end of our journey together all of us, the Bingleys (for whom I'm sure it was a new experience too) as well as the three of us students, were much more comfortable with what we were doing. We had all learned something together. So, dear Mr. and Mrs. Bingley, over the years and through the dimensions to eternity, thank you both. Thank you for lhe tea and cookies that followed the reading session, thank you for your hospitality, and most of all, thank you for your gentle example. R. MR. Hall, A'53 Steiner (Continued from page one) Ved Mehta of Griffin, his friend at Balliol, in the November 11 issue of The New Yor· ker. His appreciative portrait of the brilliant undergraduate in the 1950's is coupled with a detailed examination of the rigorous classical grounding which was at the heart of British education in public schools and universities at that time. In addition to winning a succession of scholarships and prizes in the classics at Oxford, Mr. Griffin received top marks in the "Mods" and "Greats" examinations which led to his degree. (Mehta calculates that his friend sat for "no fewer that 7 5 papers, or some two hundred and twentyfive hours of written examinations.") These papers and tests required a breadth of linguistic, textual and metrical knowledge for which students are no longer trained, and for which Griffin had an amazing capacity. The young classicist spent 1960-61 on a fellowship at Harvard, returning at age 26 to Britain and an appointment as Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Balliol, described by Mehta as one of the most important jobs in classics in England. The position was awarded in recognition of his exceptional abilities, even though Jasper Griffin had not yet received his PhD or published a book or an article. P{anned (jiving Planned Gifts are carefully considered contributions by alumni, parents, and friends which take advantage of incentives offered under federal tax codes that result in gifts at the lowest possible cost to the donor. Preparing for caritas' first Rower and Garden Show on March 7, Annapolis potter Ebby Malmgren, center, along with show chairman Maryanne Spencer, left, put finishing touches on an arrangement of carnations, lilies and Oregon holly in one of Mrs. Malmgren's Cone 10 stoneware containers, while patrons chairman Anna E. Greenberg helps, too, in the FSK lobby at Annapolis. To be featured at the show were several exhibitions Including a Japanese garden, displays of original porcelain and stoneware containers and baskets, demonstrations by horticulturists and design artists and other events. Jack Eden, ~arden columnist and radio show talk host, was scheduled to speak at the Bloomin' Breakfast" for benefactors and patrons before the show. Annapolis student in Public TV role Annapolis freshman Karla Manzur of Olney, MD, was featured on a half-hourpublic television program called "You Can Afford College," shown in the state several times in January. A public service program offered yearly and directed principally to parents and their prospective college student children, the half-hour program compared the financial aid packages of different institutions and provided practical assistance with the application process. Karla displayed composure and assurance in her five-minute segment, appearing in lab, malh class, and dining hall, and spoke gracefully of her own college decision, observing that for her, every day confirmed the wisdom of that choice. FOR EXAMPLE: a 70-year-old alunmus owned $10,000 worth of stock purchased for $2,000 and yielding 2.5% in dividends. By contributing those shares to a life-income plan yielding 7 .5%, he tripled his annual income, received a tax deduction of more that $4,900, and avoided a capital gains tax of $2,240. FOR EXAMPLE: a 43-year-old alunmus and his 38-year-old spouse contributed $10,000 to St. John's College. Under an annuity arrangement, the College is to pay them a guaranteed annual annuity of more that $1700 beginning on his 65th birthday and continuing for his and his spouse's life. They also received an immediate income tax charitable deduction of $8,100. This gift was a viable retirement planning option, and a way of making a generous gift to St. John's College. FOR EXAMPLE: Two St. John's grandparents wanted to provide an education fund for their 12-year-old granddaughter and make a gift to the College. Tuey could contribute $100,000 to a trust which will pay their granddaughter $9,000 a year for ten years ($90,000). By stipulating that St John's receive the remaining assets after 10 years, the grandparents earned an immediate income tax charitable deduction of $41,000, resulting in a cost effective way to use the same assets to reach several personal goals. If you would like additional information about these and other imaginative planned giving techniques call either Jeff Bishop, Vice President in Annapolis, or JeffMorgan, Vice President in Santa Fe. Your inquiry will be confidential. �MARCH 1992 Alumni East (Continued from page 2) Maggie Kinser Saiki, formerly Maggie Ellyn Kinser, and her husband Hiromu Saiki (m. 1991) became parents in October of Hannah Jane Saiki. Maggie has been in Japan since 1986, writing both for companies (annual reports and P.R. pieces) and freelance. Her first book, a guide to Japanese citizens' groups (environmental, human rights, recycling, etc.) was to be published early this year; her second book, to be published in mid-1992, is the story ofa design/merchandising finn based in Tokyo that is determined to bring the fine handcrafting of Japan's small iron foundries and other traditional manufacturers to the urban markets." The family recently moved from the "hassle and hustle" of Tokyo to the quiet village of Tota, which means "song of the rice fields. It is a serene place." Hiromu is a performance artist, best known for his stacked-log balance sculptures called "Building Blocks," which have been on exhibit in New York and Poland and all over Japan. Jeffrey Wilson is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta after four busy academic years, which included course work, serving as a teaching assistant, as well as defending his dissertation prospectus, "Implications of the Critique of Judgment for a Kantian Theory of Action." In the Fall, he will teach his first course on Introduction to Philosophy. "The course will borrow the pace, and to some extent the style, of the St. John's tutorial, although the size of the class-50 to 70 students-imposes obvious constraints," he writes.He lives in Inman Park, one of Atlanta's historic neighborhoods, and travels three miles to campus each day by bicycle, "living rather happily and cheaply for four years without a car."In his "scant spare time" he pursues interests in breadmaking and vegetarian cooking, and volunteers occasionally for a local organization which prepares and delivers meals for persons infected with HIV. He invites Johnnies to get in touch: 789 Lake Avenue NE, No. 2, Atlanta, GA 30307. (404) 577-3975. 1986 Christian Ehlers, AGl'86, director of law and marketing for the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, made a surprise presentation to Kurt Masur on the day of Mr. Masur's opening perfonnance in September as inusic director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Before representatives of both orchestras and of the Lincoln Center, Mr. Ehlers presented the new director with an autograph score of an unpublished Mendelssohn Canon in B Minor, composed on July 8, 1844, when Mendelssohn was director of ihe Gewandhaus Orchestra-for which Mr. Masur is also music director. Kristen Baumgardner writes from Oakland, CA, that she works parttirne for LifeSkillsPress, a small publisher, and is building a career as an "underground cartoonistw hich means you can't find my work anywhere. I published three booklets this year, one of which I started at St. John's." A 1988 graduate of Mills College, she is volunteering to do art therapy for fire victims in Oakland elementary schools, and is teaching waltzing to teenagers. Her news and "gossip": Jennifer Flynn married Sandy Israel, A '85, in May, and now they are in Tokyo, where Larry Seidl is also to be found. Jennifer graduated from Carnegie Mellon with an Architecture MFA; Sandy from Georgetown with an MBA See Alumni West 1986 for more news gathered by Kristen. Lyndsay Pilar Wyman married Peter John McMenarnin on November 9 at St. Anne's Church in Annapolis. Geoff Garner and Mary Putnick Garner are the proud parents of daughter Madeline Elizabeth, born September 21-"a delightful combination of brains and beauty," who will be applying for the SJC class of 2014, her father predicts. Geoff graduated last May from the Rutgers School of Law, and passed the Pennsylvania bar exam. The Gamer family will next move to Yokosuka, Japan, where Geoff will practice for three years as an attorney for the Navy. He sends other news: "We are sure missing Bob Vincent, who, with his fiancee Mimi Hoffman, just relocated to Greensboro, N.C." Visiting Bob when Geoff called was Ramsey Larsen, A'85, "looking for a place to hang his stethoscope after his last year at Brown Medical School..We also frequently see Pierre and Nancy Mease Gagnier who are wrapping up their doctorates at Columbia," and also Diana Fa bi Samson and Ed Samson, both attorneys in New York City, THE REPORTER Diana an assistant D.A. Diana and Ed are "the proud owners of 20-something acres of absolutely gorgeous Vermont mountainside." Having communicated with "too many St. John's graduates to list individually, let it suffice to say that all those with whom we speak seem to have found endeavors in which they can be happy and productive." 1987 James Allen is a CPA working for a rnidsize firm in Gaithersburg. He taught science for a year at the St. John's Literary Establishment high school, and is now a member of the Mother of God community, an Ecumenical Christian lay-Fellowship. Amanda Dalton Fernandez is studying at the prestigious Moscow Art Theater School (MATS) for a three-month period from February 6 to May 11 this year. Selected by the National Theater Institute, the 1989 Annapolis graduate, well-known in the area for her performances as "Mandy the Clown," will participate in an intense training program covering acting, voice, movement, directing and playwriting. MATS, one of the world's great drama schools, has accepted only five other U.S. students for this program. A planned PBS documentary of the trip is tentatively titled, "Stanislavsky Revisited." Amanda graduated from the Ringling Clown College in 1982 and performed in two runs of the play "Barnum." Latershe developed a solo clown performance. She has appeared at the Kennedy Cent.er, the French Embassy and area art festivals. PAGE15 OBITUARIES General Josef Sheetz: Class of 1918 Major General Josef Robert Sheetz, a 1918 graduate of St. John's College, died January 28 at the age of 96 in San Antonio, Texas. A veteran of both world wars, General Sheetz entered the regular Army upon graduation from St. John's, after three years in the Maryland National Guard As a guardsman, General Sheetz served in Eagle Pass in 1916 when the U.S. government sent forces into Mexico in an unsuccessful attempt to capture rebel leader Pancho Villa. While stationed in Washington, D.C., in field artillery research and development following World War I, Gen. Sheetz was instrumental in developing howitzers and other weaponry used in World War 11 At the beginning of the second World War, he was chief logistics planner at general headquarters in Washington. and later one of four Americans assigned to the British general staff in the initial planning for the Normandy invasion. Later in the war, General Sheetz was in a command position in the Pacific, and at the end of the war, he was named deputy military governor and civil administrator of South Korea. Jn the early 1950s, after retirement from the Anny, he became superintendent of the Texas Military Institute. His wife, the former Grace Davis, died in 1980 after more than 60 years of marriage. There were no children. His only survivor is a sister, Rachel M. Sheetz of San Antonio. Burial with full military honors was in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. Tench Tilghman, VI: author, former tutor Tench Francis Tilghman, VL a former tutor at St. John's and author of the book The Early History of St. John's College in Annapolis, died in December in Blacksburg, VA., at the age of 87. A tutor at St. John's from 1937 to 1942, Mr. Tilghman published his book on the college in 1984. The book covered the years 1784 to 1941 at the Annapolis campus. BominNorfolk,Mr. Tilghmanmovedto Annapolis in 1925. He was graduated in 1928 from the University of Virginia, where he received his doctorate in 1933. He was a professor of English at Vii~inia Polytechnic Institute and State University for 30 years, also teaching foreign languages there. He was also a newspaper critic and book reviewer, serving as associate editor of "Magill's Quotations in Context." He is the direct descendent of Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman, whose portrait-depicting Generals Washington and Lafayette with Col. Tilghman at the surrender at Yorktown-hangs in the Maryland Statehouse. He is survived by his wife, the former Margaret Rauenscroft Bow man. Roger Wicklander: International School teacher Amanda Dalton Fernandez 1988 Marcus Eubanks will be going to medical school this fall training in trauma medicine. At present he is at Tulane Hospital in information systems. Sheila Monen and Steve Virgil were married last June 28 at St. Cecilia's Cathedral in Omaha. At present they are graduate students at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, St.eve in law and Sheila in nonprofit management. Class of 1988 members at the wedding included Theresa Sullivan, Katie and James O'Gara, Greg Ferguson, Rena Kuntavanish, Ben Krauss, and Lucy Duncan, SF'86. David Paul Gillett and Gillian Elisabeth Schmidt were married November 8 in New York City. Kim Kern married Michael Routh November 21 in Annapolis. Kim is assistant to Alumni Director Betsy Blume on the Annapolis campus. 1989 Impresarios Ty Yancey and George Turner, along with Melissa Kurtz, A'91, affixed their names to an invitation that perhaps went all over the universe-and especially to 1989-90 alumni "who should consider themselves invited"-,..to join in a New Year's Eve Extravaganza planned at Lake Tahoe. It promised snow! friends! food! fun! We await the next chapter. Annapolis Tutor Emeritus Brother Robert Smith was present when George ('~ennes­ see") Moulton married Sandra Jo Merkey December 14, in Nashville at the Cathedral of Incarnation. George's father, a Baptist minis. ter, participated in the ceremony. Derek Mi.Iler and Rachel Boyce, A'90, were married Saturday, January 18 at the Sacred Heart Church in Camden, New Jersey, in a ceremony presided over by Father Michael Doyle, anti-war and anti-poverty activist, whose church offers hope in the midst of almost unparalleled urban blight. Many of those in the parish were on hand for a joyful ceremony and the wedding supper afterwards where Gaelic and Ukrainian toasts and songs brought earlier traditions to the celebrated moment. Rachel's parents, like many others, were drawn by Father Michael to the church he served, commuting from their home in Blackwood. As a teenager at the church, Rachel Boyce learned about St. John's from parishioner T bomasmore Bujack, A'72. Tom, his wife and four children, including 8-month old Roger V. Wicklander, a 1964 graduate of the college, died in August in Paris. A teacher of computer science at the International School in Paris where he had been for the past 15 years, Mr. Wicklander had previously taught at international schools in Iran, Pakistan, and India. He is survived by his wife, Damayanti Gupta Wicklander of Calcutta, India. Joseph, were on hand for the wedding. (See 1972 for more news about Tom.) Time magazine underscored the tragedy of Camden and its bygone industrial prosperity in its January 20 issue, citing Father Michael's 25 years of work there. "An oasis of learning" the article calls his parish school which serves the destitute neighborhood. Marty Gelfand left his position last summer as reserch associate at Clean Water Action in Washington, DC, and, after a trip to Berlin and Paris, started a new job as research director at Safe Energy Communication Council. SECC is a coalition of non-profit environmental and media organizations gathered for the purpose of advocating renewable energy and energy efficiency as alternatives to nuclear power and fossil fuel combustion. candidate in the March 3 Democratic primary. Although Hattcry faces a 13-year incumbent, and it is an uphill battle, "Things look pretty good," says Fielding. As an undergraduate, Fielding worked in the Maryland Democratic Party Headquarters for two years in a job that gradually evolved into major responsibilities for assisting candidates. Dahra Latham is living in Bursa, Turkey, and can be reached c/o Ozel Baran Lisesi/ Oraakca Koyu/ Bursa/fURKlYE, or by telephone at (011-90) 24-100-072. She has a spare room available to SJC folk traveling in Turkey, and would generally like people to look her up if they are in the area. She is teaching English "to small and large children," she writes. Maureen Spectre and Akiba Covitz were married on July 22. They now live in Philadelphia and will both be attending the University of Pennsylvania. From Robert Loftis comes this message: "Robert Loftis wishes to deny all rumors that he is working as a male prostitute in Bangkok." 1991 Fielding Dupuy is campaign manager for Delegate Tom Hattery (D-Frederick), who is deputy majority whip and chairman of the Transportation subcommittee for the Maryland General Assembly-and Congressional First Winfree Smith Memorial Lecture Weddi ng day: Maureen Spectre and Akiba Covitz The Rev. Dr. Philip W. Turner, Dean of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University, spoke on "The Episcopal Church: Identity and Mission" at the first of the J. Winfree Smith Memorial Lectures at St. Anne's Church in Annapolis February 22. The St. Anne's Parish, which Tutor Emeritus and Episcopal priest Winfree Smith served partime during all his years on the St John's faculty, established a trust in his memory for the visiting lecture series. "Winfree enriched and challenged the hearts and minds of St Anne's parishioners for nearly 50 years with the same intellectual vigor and integrity with which he carried out his vocation as a tutor at St John's College," said the parish bulletin. Winfree Smith died January 14, 1991. �PAGE 16 --~-- --- THE REPORTER - --~--- Moore exhibit opens at Mitchell Gallery DATE DUE President Bush nominates Agresto for advisory role John Agresto, president of the Santa Fe campus, has been nominated by President Bush to serve as a member of the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement. He would succeed Max Charles Graeber. Tl;J.e 15-member council advises the President, the Secretary of Education, and the Congress on policies and activities carried out by President John Agresto Morton Broffman photo the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). Mr. Agresto holds a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. He served in the positions of Deputy Chairman and Acting Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1982-89. Two years ago President Bush appointed him to the Indepe~dent Commission on the Arts and prior to that Mr. Agresto taught at the New School, Duke University, Kenyon College and the University of Toronto. " ~=;=,_,gppffi~1 Director of Residence on the Annapolis campus will become available in August. Other openings are also anticipated. Inquiries should be directed to Alison Pullins. Director ofPersonnel, I ~ ,.,,, ~ ~ ~ ~~J l'l..._,.....,,...... MARCH 1992 "Henry Moore: The Last Portfolio," a collection of prints exploring the bond between mother and child, will be on display at the Mitchell Gallery in Annapolis from March 18-April 26. The exhibition, organized by the Council of Creative Projects in New York, consists of a series of 38 etchings by renowned British artist Henry Moore. Moore began work on the series in 1983, drawing on eight years of sketches and studies for inspiration. After his death in 1986, the etchings were published as part of a portfolio of 30 prints and an album of eight Six sculptures related to the exhibition will be displayed, too. The artist's exploration of the mother and child theme in drawings, etchings and sculptures reflect his continuous inquiry into birth, growth, and the nature of creativity. The Gallery will be open Tuesday through Sunday, 12-5 p.m., and additionally 7-8 on Friday evenings. Jn connection with the exhibition, the Gallery is sponsoring several events. An opening reception will be held Sunday, March 22, from4-6 p.m. And on Tuesday, April 7, Dr. Gail Gelburd, director of the Hofstra Museum, will lecture on the exhibit in the Conversation Room in Mellon Hall, from 4:30-6 p.m. Artist-In-Residence Burton Blistein will lead a discussion on the exhibit in the Gallery on Tuesday, April 14 at 4 p.m. Henry Moore once wrote, "The Mother and Child idea is one of my two or three obsessions. The subject itself is eternal, and unending, a small form in relation to a big form, the big form protecting the small one and so on. It is such a rich subject, both humanly and compositionally, that I will always go on using it." "Mother and Child XXVlll," 1983 etching by Henry Moore Among the final projects of this twentieth century master, the exhibit showcases Moore's distinctive style, usually associated with his monumental sculptures, in small intimate works on paper. Funding for the exibition has been provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Members of the Mitchell Gallery. High School Visits survive cuts; 8 AP classes yearly in GI program 8% Tuition hike for SJC in fall In spite of myriad cuts in educational spending in Anne Arundel county, the High School Visit Program at the Annapolis campus remains intact The high school teachers and students participating in the visits-sponsored by the Graduate Institute-thought it was important enough to take it upon themselves to make up for budget deficits. When it became evident this year that the county would no longer fund the.$ 1,600 for buses to transport studen ts from eight county high schools to the campus, the teachers arranged carpools among the students. Currently the county is paying $400 a year to hire substitutes to replace those English teachers who accompany their Advanced Placement English classes to St. John's. If this funding were eliminated, "some six schools have indicated they would provide in-house funds for substitute teachers," said Bonnie Dixon, resource teacher in the county's Gifted and Talented program. "This has to show how much we value it " The day-long St. John's experience for high school juniors began in 1982 with a phone call from Old Mill High School teacher Charles Wilkerson to tutor Benjamin Milner, then director of the college's Graduate Institute. Since then hundreds of high school juniors have participated in a morning tutorial led by a SL John's tutor on Euclid and Lobachevski (or other equally provocative topics), dined in stately Randall Hall under the portraits of British consorts William and Mary, and commented freely on readings such as Metamorphosis during after- At its meeting of January 18, the Board of Visitors and Governors approved a tuition fee of $15,400 for the year 1992-93, an 8% hike over the current year. Room and Board are $2,440 and $2,760 respectively. The new tuition for Graduate Institute students will be $3,045. The Board also voted to raise the amount of money that juniors and seniors are required to borrow before receiving financial aid from the College. While federal regulations permit students to borrow $2,625 in the first two years, and $4,000 in the junior and senior years, the college will still be able to hold the annual cap at or below the federal limit of $2,625 for freshmen and sophomores and $3,350 for juniors and seniors. Approximately 65% of St. John's studentsreceive some sort of financial aid from the college; 50% receive direct SL John's College grants. noon seminars. "The discussions are lively and imaginative, and many of our faculty enjoy leading them," said Malcolm Wyatt, director of the graduate program, whose office administers the Continuing Education classes as well as the high school visits. Selected on a first-come, first-served basis, the 12 county senior high schools vie for one of the eight yearly visits by applying to the Board of Education in the spring for the following year. Teachers from the participating schools then choose from literary selections for the seminars based on the college's Great Books curriculum. The high school students read the selections prior to their visit- but refrain from discussing them. ''We want their opinions to be fresh when they arrive at the college," said Ms. Dixon. Although the program was initially opened to all high school juniors-and many educators share the belief that students of all fovels can benefit from exposure to the St. John's type of!earning-it'snow offered only to students in the Advanced Placement courses. Ms. Dixon explained that the high school students in the high level courses are accustomed to seminars similar to St. John's. "When they get to experience a day at a real live college, they see the relevance of their study. They take their AP background into the college setting." Although some visiting students enroll in St. John's, the goal of the program is not recruitment. John Christensen, director of undergraduate admissions, said that it's one way the college extends itself to the community. "It's our way of serving the students." ~~~~~~~~~~~., ~ 'I' The Annapolis Admissions Office ~ anticipates two entry level positions this coming spring. Approximate starting date is July l, 1992. If you are interested, please send a letter and a resume to: ~ Alison Pullins, ~ ~ * ~ I i Director of Personnel, Annapolis campus. l,..,.._. _ ... . . ..,.,...,.... ~ ~ ~ ~ I ~ ~ II . . I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Son of one St. John's graduate, brother to other graduates, and father of a present student at the college, he took his place as leader of an institution to which he has given much of his time and many of his skills since he left it 21 years ago. Forty-four relatives-including the new president's wife, Joyce Olin, his parents, Charles and Anne Nelson, his children, sister and brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, and a six-day old grandchild-were on hand for the festivities, along with Mr. Nelson's former tutors, new and old colleagues, present students, from the community, the larger academic life, and from the state of This is not to mention friends, new and old, who were there to share with him and with the college what all expected to be a peak moment in the life of each. One of these friends dates back to high school-Garrick Ohlsson, a pianist of world stature, who provided what Dean Eva Brann called "a beautiful moment" with a program of Haydn and Chopin which brought an enthralled audience to its feet. The climax of the evening came when Board of Visitors and Governors chairman Donald J. Maclver, Jr., assisted by Mr. Nelson's son, Tollof, placed the insignia of office, a presidential chain, over Mr. Nelson's head, declaring to general laughter, "You are now in chains." He continued, "You will be free only insofar as you exercise the authority of the office you now hold for the advancement of liberal education and for the benefit of members of this college." As the evening began, a string ensemble heralded the arrival of the line of dignitaries and faculty members, who, sober academic gowns offset by vivid satin hoods, entered the auditorium, passed down the outer aisles, singly ascended the steps, and took their places on the stage. The 18-student Small (Conti~ued on page 10) Dean's statement The Statement of Educational Policy by Eva Brann, Annapolis Dean, is reprinted on pages 14 and 15. New president Christopher Nelson greets inaugural crowd. Keith Harvey photo President, advancement office move to counter Maryland cuts SJC honoree wins in Pa. By DONNA BOETIG When Christopher Nelson took over the reins as president of the Annapolis campus he was "very much impressed with the overall financial health of St. John's College." For 20 years the campus-until the recent renovation of McDowell Hall-had been debt free, a situation he describes as "extremely unusual" for such an institution. Against a background of lingering recession, cuts in federal and state aid to education, rising operating expenses, and a shrinking pool of 18-year-olds, this is indeed good news. (As an aside, Annapolis had its largest enrollment ever this September.) But that's where the celebration ends. State aid to private colleges plummeted 25 percent across the board this year. St. John's lost $108,000 in state appropriations-downfrom $481,000 the year before. Last year's figure had been cut an additional 10% from the state's original budget allocation. And Mr. Nelson warns, "More serious cuts are expected next year." In the meantime, in an attempt to retain as much state fitnding as possible, the president will be impressing upon state legislators, through individual contacts, why the college and private education generally is important to the citizens of Maryland He and others will be approaching leaders of St. John's College Honorary Alumnus Harris Wofford's recent sweep to the senatorial seat from Pennsylvania, defeating former governor and U.S. attorney general Dick Thornburgh (R), has had widespread repercussions on national politics. Considered the litmus test for the vulnerability of the Republican party in the forthcoming national elections, Mr. Wofford's victory set the stage for a contentious 1992 presidential campaign, one that seems brighter for the Democrats than seemed possible weeks before. Mr. Wofford, who was honored by the (Continued on page 16) corporations, foundations, and institutions, encouraging them to consider St. John's for their charitable giving. "Many corporations and foundations now are targeting their donations to primary and secondary public schools where the country has critical needs," says Mr. Nelson, "but colleges need help, too." In additiori, the campus is looking to increase its endowment. From January of this year through September, it rose 11.59 percent, even after all the money was withdrawn under the college's endowment spending policy to support the operating budget-but this is an improvement over recent years. In spite of the downward economy, the commitment of friends to the college remains strong. Private donations from friends of the college rose from $189,238 to $225,823 last year, and gifts from alumni and parents also increased. Buoyed by these figures, Mr. Nelson intends to continue to call upon the generosity of those dedicated to the program and to reach out to increase the number of its new friends. "I want to get to know the people here, our friends and alumni, to learn what they value most about the college and where they want their dollars to go," he says. (Continued on page 16) New typeface for alumni pages A different body text font, Helvetica, will be used for the St. John's College Alumni Association News on pages 1Oand 11 of this issue. (The predominant typeface in this newspaper is Times-Roman.) The new typeface, in addition to a three-column-rather than four-column-format, is used to distinguish the newsletter within The Reporter from regular Reporter pages. Linda Stabler-Talty, SGl'76, and Thomas Geyer, A'68, edit these pages. �2 J?L{umni West .9l£umni 1941 Lewis Alexander recently retired after serving for 30 years as professor of Geography and Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. To alumnifromboth campuses: We welcome your news, andyourclassmates and others like to read about you. If layout or space constraints require us occasionally to hold your item to the next issue, we ask your patience. Ed. 1943 Francis Mason, dance critic, editor of Ballet Review, and editorof the recently-published volume "I Remember Balanchine," reviewed two recent books by and about the late Martha Graham, a pre-eminent dancer and choreographer of this century. His review appeared September 8 on the front page of The New York Times Book Review. Dr. Willard Stern has retired from teaching philosophy after 30 years at Kean College of New Jersey. 1948 Jules Pagano is one of the founding members of the Women's Research and Education Institute Corporate Advisory Board, along with other prominent business people committed to bringing women's issues and research to greater national attention. Mr. Pagano, formerly president of the Saybrook Institute in California, is now vice president of marketing, executive director of the Labor Advisory Board and director of the Washington, D.C. office of the American Income Life Insurance Company. 1949 On July 30, Dana Ann (Chenoweth) Greb and Thomas Delmar Lyne were married atthe Indian Heights Methodist Church in Overland Park, Kansas, where they will be living. They write, "Two of our parents (James Lyne and Maurene Chenoweth) are first cousins, and we have been acquainted over many decades." 1951 After retiring first from the U.S. Marine Corps and a mid-level management post at the Department of Justice, William T. Roberts Il has worked for the Metro-Dade County Police Department in Miami as an instructor and ordnance technician teaching "police recruits how to keep from shooting themselves in the foot with their own gun." For recreation, he sailS his 30' sloop around south Florida waters. He plans to sail to San Salvador Island, East Bahamas in October 1992, for the 500th anniversary of Columbus discovering America-a three week trip. "Anyone from the class of 1951 interested in going, contact me," he writes. 305-592-1735 days, 305-251-5666 evenings. "Share fun, hardships and expenses." Ernie Hankamer reports that after graduation and an Army stint, he studied philosophy and political science in Germany on the GI Bill. He began teaching in 1962 at the University of Maryland European division, and later, also at the University of Munich's Political Science Institute. He completed his doctoral work in 1971. In 1974 he became Area Director for the U-MD in the United Kingdom and Ireland, a position he left in 1990 to return to teaching in Europe and Asia. He is married to Franke Elisabeth Kelch and they are parents of Ben, 27, and Judy, 24. The Hankamers live in England on the edge of greater London at 58, Cornwall Rd., Ruislip Manor, Middlesex HA4 6AN. Tele: INT PREF-44-895-634763. 1953 After almost 35 years as a civil sef'(ant, Ronald L. Simmons retired from the Senior Executive Service "in order to live a more civil life ...My wife and I now travel at our convenience, work with Meals on Wheels and FISH and I'm on the Board of the Susquehanna Symphony and the Susquehanna Museum. Mostly I'm attracted to the counsel of Candide as he said, 'Let us take care of our garden.'" 1955 An exhibition "Water," held in July and August in Santa Monica, CA, at the Frumkin Gallery, included the work of Priscilla Bender-Shore. Nancy Osius, editor, Donna Boetig, assistant editor; Wye Allanbrook, Betsy Blume, John Christensen, Benjamin Milner, Brother Robert Smith, and Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. The Reporter is published by the News and information Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. Christopher B. Nelson, president. Puclished four times a year, in March, June, September and December. Secon1J~~~tg~~~i8aid in Annapolis, MD. 1965 1975 "As I raise two alarming teenagers singlehandedly and preside over a busy Washington, D.C., architecture practice, I am finding time to reflect on those matters which pin down, for example, a Graham Greene character between acceptance and doubt," writes Bruce Preston. He also gets in a little sailing and gardening. Patricia Brady Anderson, a journalism student at Ball State University, plans to move to Los Angeles next May and would love to receive calls or letters from friends. 415 W. Charles St. Apt 1, Muncie, IN 47305. 317-7418453. Scheherazade Friestadt Lewis became a licensed counselor in 1989 and works in a community mental health center doing individual, marriage and family therapy. She lives with her husband, a land surveyor, in rural southwest Missouri. Sandra Gillmeister Karl, who lives in Fayetteville, New York, is director of a school for special needs children. She has completed master's degrees in social work and public administration and is working on a doctorate in education. "I have an antique decorating business also," she writes. Lincoln Castricone reports that he has had three children, several careers and "few opportunities to be a practicing liberal artist for a fee," although he did once have a shingle"practicing liberal artist-by appointment." With a 1986 doctorate in counselling psychology, he now specializes in treating addictive disorders "with a special interest in blending Buddhism practice and psychotherapy." In a lauded classroom "first" at Saint Anselm College Brother Philip Valley, OSB, SGI '75, is teaching a preceptorial on Tocqueville's Democracy in America in French in the Department of Philosophy, the first time a course in a foreign language has been offered at the college outside the Modern Languages Department. 1966 Timberlake We:rtenbaker's newest play Three Birds Alighting on a Field, now playing at the Royal Court Theatre in London, is called "a profound and witty satire on the art market" by a reviewer in the September 29 issue of the London Times Literary Supplement. Unlike such earlier plays as Our Country's Good, which had a New Yorkrun last spring, this play is set in the present, with a gallery of mostly "hideously recognizable caricatures from the contemporary London art scene." A sympathetic central character, Biddy, married to a Greek tycoon, carries "the basic message of the play, a brave one ... that visual art has moral potency." Says the reviewer, "As always with Wertenbaker, one is strongly conscious of the classical influence, the looming myth and legend." 1967 Helen D. Hobart has moved on from community organizing work for global peace and justice to the "smaller, more personal domain of social work and eldercare," she writes, adding a warm invitation to Sacramento area Johnnies to participate in their seminar group. 1968 Dr. A. Gregory McClure is medical director of an occupational medicine practice in southern New Jersey. Elizabeth Dobbs was promoted to full professor last May at Grinnell College-. 1970 John Richard Dean is a tenured profe~or of American Studies at Universite Strasbourg II, as well as adjunct professor of humanities at the Syracuse-France center in Strasbourg. He is working this year with Paul Lowdenschlager, A'55. "Little by little," he writes, "the capital of Europe is becoming a St. John's Alumni Center." 1976 Dr. Brian Lynch just finished three years of working with the homeless, while trying at the same time to build a private family practice. "We need health care reform," he urges, commenting that he helped to teach a mini ethics course at the University of Illinois. "Had along talk with Porn and Rita Collins, A'78, after a long hiatus. They are doing well in Portland." (Continued on page 16) 1981 Gustav Rathe, GI '81, will have his book The Wreck of Barque Stefano (published last year in Western Australia) published in the USA and Canada by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in April 1992. The Assistant Production Manager responsible for publication is Melissa S. Mead, A '71. 1982 Kenneth Kirby and Natasha Okonogi, SF '85, are happy to announce the birth of their second child, a daughter. Wyatt's sister is Ilsa Talaya Kirby, born Mary 25. Kenneth is presently a teaching fellow in the philosophy department at the University of Oregon. 1987 Brother Christopher Hanson, O.S.B., is now a Benedictine monk in simple vows at St. Louis Abbey in St. Louis, MO. After two years as assistant librarian in the prep school, he has begun work on a master's degree in classical languages at Washington University in St. Louis, with the intention of teaching Latin and Greek at the secondary level. He writes, "To my knowledge, seven men from both campuses have entered Catholic religious orders since 1980." 1989 Alison Shapiro is living at Rechou Hagalil 15, Jerusalem 94553 and wants people to visit her when they come to Jerusalem. 1990 Graham Wester Redgrave married Claire Brooke Billups, SF '93, in a Quaker wedding at the Friends Meeting House in Santa Fe on September 2. Claire is preparing to enter nursing school in Santa Fe. Class of 1976 The following glimpses into the lives of St. John's graduates were compiled by Betsy Davenport for her classmates on the occasion of the fifteenth reunion of the Santa Fe Class of 1976 on July 20 and were adapted by the editors for this page. These notes will be continued in the March issue o/The Reporter. John A. a partner in the law firm of Coppler and Aragon of Santa Fe, New Mexico,is married to Annette Chavez Aragon, and is the father of three. His funniest memory? "I took my 11-year-old stepson to our 10-yearreunion. After 10 minutes at the cocktail party he commented: 'Mom, this is a nerd school."' Declaring that his Oregon address is International Secular Atavism, James Lee Baldwin (who identified himself as Jesus Lord Baldwin), regaled his classmates with a Swiftian sendup of Christian fundamentalism and a few other targets, designed to entertain or inflame as the case may be. The details of his life remain a secret, except that he is a poet and a skeptic. Tom Blumenthal, a criminal defense and trial lawyer in Denver, Colorado, describes the impact of St. John's as "something akin to the way in which an overdose of tranquilizers is purported to facilitate real soul searching mind mending; I'm very glad I did it-I'm not sure I'd wish it on anyone (other than my own children)." Tom has two, ages three and one, and is married to Sarah Ann McKittrick. His message? "Go to matinee movies." Christian Burks, who earned his doctorate in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale in 1982, is a group leader for Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Says Christian, "I bet we employ more St. John's alumni than any institution except St. John's College (maybe even more than them?)" His funniest recollection is auto-erotic monologues in classroom discussions. Anne L. Calof of Brookline, Massachusetts, is an assistant professor of biology at the University of Iowa. (Whew, what a commute!) She earned her doctorate in neuroscience from the University of California in 1985. She says she learned "a great deal about biology in the first semester of my sophomore year, which was my last semester at St. John's. That semester actually shaped my desire to become a biologist, and that has never changed." - Pablo Collins of Takoma Park, Maryland, reports that he recently left his job as chief of staff for Congressman Bill Richardson of New Mexico and is awaiting new and greater opportunities, which he says "is another way of saying I am out of work. In the meantime I am busy renovating my house. Unemployment is also giving me a great opportunity to play with my daughter, Nora (aged two), who will be very disappointed when I return to work full time." Mark Cooper, who earned his doctorate in math from the University of Georgia, is an assistant professor at Florida International University. He says St John's gave him some "depth in the perception of the modern world: some breadth in a world where survival means carving out a niche." But most of all he says he's happy to have had the chance to meet the people at SJC and read the books there. He'd like to know where the tutors of 15-20 years ago are now. Betsy Davenport is a psychologist in private practice in Portland, Oregon. She says she learned once and for all at St. John's that she was smart. "I didn't learn to think; I could already think, and what I needed was to synthesize it with feeling ... When I think or talk about St. John's it is invariably about the people and the escapades, not the Program or the education. I have met more interesting people only while doing clinical work with schizophrenics. Others are impressed, however, when I mention my association with SJC." Carol Dockham is an interpreter and inspector with an on-site inspection agency in Washington, D.C. The most prolific of all contributors, according to the editor, is Michael E. Dubetz of Stow, Ohio. Michael wrote-no kidding-13 pages. For the personal stuff, he freely admits to being "tempted to lie here. Suppose I married a southern belle who bore my triplet daughters: Chlorine, Fluorine and Bromine." Continuing education? "Last year I helped proctor the local Mathcounts competition, helped judge Pentathlon and Scrambler events at Western PA and the National Science Olympiad. After two successive PA Science Teachers Association annual conventions, attended a day-long workshop about Project STAR, the Harvard-Smithsonian Project for Science Teaching through its Astronomical Roots." His funniest memory is "Paula Lundy's (Continued on page 17) �THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1991 PAGE3 - "Live Poets' Society" musing, · · 199 Prince George DONNA BOETIG week from October through May a students' poetry. One young man begins to small group of St. John's students gather read his poem aloud. (A few will opt to read downtown at 199PrinceGeorgeStreetatthe another author's work--one who is also in wood-framed Civil War home of the tutor "the throes of his writing.") "There's acerDavid Stephenson and his wife songstress tain tentativeness at the start. The soul is Helen. Inside one student curls up on the bared," Mr. Stephenson says. "Then Victorian love seat, another settles into a begin to flow with the confidence that comes window nook, and a few others sprawl befrom survival." neath the watercolors, oils, and lithographs Critiques of original works are delicate lining the walls of the narrow parlor. They and generous. It seems as if there's a strong, sip cider and nibble eggplant appetizers. unspoken agreement to sandwich disapTh e ir slow motions proval with praise. Mr. belie the intensity of Stephenson explains their purpose. that the group's purHere at this "Live pose is to encourage Poets' Society," these rather than discourage. students are peeling the Some of the suggesonion, so to speak, extions are heeded-as posing themselves the revised versions atthrough their writing to test-while others are their tutor and their shelved. "And that's peers. fine, too." The group now celeFrom the gathering emerges a kaleidobrating its first anniversary began under the scope of styles. Dahra Latham, tutelage of David Stephenson. Last fall this A' 91, who is now tutor invited a few stuteaching English in dents tojoinhimandhis Turkey, last spring wife in forming the quoted from memory "Live Poets' Society." passages from ShakesIn his hands he holds the peare, Dickinson, and evidence of its success: 199 Prince ,_.-·---- St. Keats. Danny Littlea simple soft-covered ton, currently in Boston, recited his own form of poetry-a song book, in brick red, containing 36 original works of eight authors, including himself. A from a Rock group. random sampling of titles: "The Best BirthThis fall, freshman Scarlett Williams is presenting her poetry to the group. Ms. Wilday Present Ever"; "Duckling"; "The Gym In A Time of War"; "The Children of Iiams has been writing poetry for seven Baghdad," and "The Insistent Exaltation of years, recording her thoughts in ajournalthe Ordinary." forhereyesonly.Now, at 199,she'sreading her words aloud, perfecting their rhythm, The purpose of the group is to provide a nurturing environment in which students discovering a new joy. may write. "At the college we study great What these writers discovered was an literature, but we don't often have the empathetic audience. Armed with the experience gained from chance to produce our own," Mr. Stephenreading and discussing these poetic essays, son says. "The thought is that until we experience great poetry it's too early to write the writers feel more confident about showit. .. The spirit of emulation may sometimes ing their work to the larger, more critical inspire, but those who wish to try their hand community. "Too often writers get little reat making something new in spite of the awe sponse to their work," Mr. Stephenson says. felt for our poetic heritage need encourage"Although publication in The Collegian is ment if they are even to begin. The experian incentive, it is secondary to live reading." ence itself is valuable. It affects you as a The Live Poets' Society provides the stuperson, and your understanding of other dentswithaneededreprievefromthehighly poems." intellectual, analytic environment of the college. Echoing the thoughts of the others, one To begin, Mr. Stephenson, the group's senior distributes copies of the student concurs, "It keeps us alive." Albert Toft, a part-time laboratory technician at the Annapolis campus, was recently honored with NASA's Exceptional Service Medal. Mr. Toft, who is a senior physical science technician at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was cited "for more than 25 years of outstanding and innovative applications of optical technology to space astronomy and earth observation from orbiting spacecraft." The medal--one of NASA's highest honors-was awarded to Mr. Toft for contributing to the success of space optical missions for more than 28 years. He has co-authored 25 technical journal publications, three patents, and has mentored younger associates. Among his many achievements is his development ofreflective filters for ultraviolet astronomy; his patented process for the production of star-tracking reticles that are used extensively in guiding unmanned spacecraft, and for his creation of reflective filters for ultraviolet astronomy. Michael Littleton, an Annapolis tutor on sabbatical, spent two weeks in July studying Jungian psychology. Mr. Littleton was one of 14 students, many of whom were practicing analystc;, selected to attend the Third Annual TwoWeek Summer Intensive program at the C.G. Jung Institute in Boston. The tutor has had a long-standing interest in Jungian psychology, having studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich in 1970, and led two preceptorials on the subject here. The summer program provided a broad exposure to Jungian concepts and methods of practice through readings, lectures and discussions. It included such topics as "The Art of Dream Interpretation," "Pictures From The Unconscious," and "Fairy Tale Interpretation." This Fall, Mr. Littleton was a scholar-inresidence at the Andover Newton Theological School. - "Ethics and Athletics" to debate life place sport · American obsession? American fantasy? Fountain of health and fitness? Exemplar of the best in the American spirit? The place of sport in American life and society will be the theme of "Ethics and Athletics," the sixth in the Great Issues Series January 25 on the Annapolis campus. Two distinguished figures from the sports world will keynote the forum: prizewinning newspaper writer and editor Creed C. Black, president of the Knight Foundation, which, beginning in 1989, funded the Knight Commission study of sports in higher education, and Wimbleton and U.S. Open champion Arthur Ashe, who has used his continuing career to promote tennis at every level as well as various philanthropies. Sponsored by the Friends of St. John's and the college's Continuing Education program, the highly successful lecture-discussion series over a three-year period has examined ethics in relation to politics, business, journalism, medicine, and law. Chairman of the event is Friends' president William Brill. In addition to the keynoters, other athletes, professional and amateur, will take part in the program-as well as public fig- Arthur Ashe Eric Stoltzfus has been named the new music librarian of the Annapolis campus. Mr. Stoltzfus joins the College after working as an assistant music librarian at the Catholic University of America Music Library while simultaneously earning his M.A. in Musicology and his M.S.L.S. from the university there. In 1981, he earned his B.A. degree from Goshen College in Indiana. Through an exchange program, he studied in Marburg, Germany, in 1979-80. A cellist with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Stoltzfus plays chamber ensembles with the Camarata Quatro of Washington, and also presents solo recitals. Fletcher, . Lauck . are prize winners Two former members of the St. John's community won prizes at the 1991 Open Juried Water Media Exhibit held at the Quiet Waters Park Visitor Center Gallery. They were former librarian Charlotte Fletcher, who received the Grumbacher award for her depiction of a residential scene, and former artist-in-residence Josephine Thoms Lauck, who was honored for her painting of a cow standing in water. ures, coaches and otherswhen they pair with college tutors to lead seminar groups in discussion of preassigned readings. Registration begins at 9 a.m. in the Francis Creed C. Black Scott Key Auditorium lobby on Saturday, January 25. Advance reservations can be taken by telephone by calling 410-263-2371, ext. 230. During a long career of managing newspapers and writing for them, Creed Black held top editorial and administrative spots onmany of the nation's distinguished newspapers, including The Nashville Tennessean, The Savannah Morning News and Evening Press, The Wilmington Morning News and Evening Journal, and The Chicago Daily News. In 1970, he became vice president and editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he won Pennsylvania's top awards for both editorial and column writing. In 1977, he was named chairman and publisher of the Lexington Herald-Leader Company, and in 1988 he became president of the Knight Foundation. He is a former president of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Southern Newspapers Publishers Association. He has served as a Pulitzer juror six times, and has been honored repeatedly as a journalist. Findings of the Knight Commission, offshoot of the Knight Foundation, created a furor on their release last March with their revelations about colleges' failure to educate their athletes, and the environment that has let this happen. From these findings emerged a platform for reform, based on a primary assertion that college sports exist for the student athletes who participate in them, and that it is the college's duty "to educate all of them." Arthur Ashe has been a powerful force both in and out of the world of tennis. He was among the top five players for a 10 year period, ranking number one in both 1968 and 1975, and winning a succession of world titles besides those at Wimbleton and Forest Hills. He was captain of the Davis team from 1981 to 1985, one of only two 30 years to lead his team to consecutive victories (1981 and 1982) over the Australians. In 1979, ranked eighth in the world, Mr. Ashe suffered a heart attack at the conclusion of a clinic for youngsters in New York City. After quadruple bypass surgery, he officially announced his retirement from competitive tennis. With a degree in business administration · from UCLA, the Richmond, Virginia-born Ashe has been instrumental in founding the Association of Tennis Professionals as well as the National Junior Tennis League, a program designed to involve inner-city youths in tennis. He is also the national spokesman for the Volvo Tennis/Collegiate Series, promoting the sport at the intercollegiate level. Off the court, he has devoted much time to the ATPO's official charity, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and to the United Negro College Fund He was 1981-82chairman of the American Heart Association. He has also been outspoken in his support of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. The day's discussion will not only be devoted to the present place of sport in American life, but also to the appropriate place for it. �PAGE4 In the Cause ofTrue Education; Henry Barnard & Nineteenth-Century School Reform. By Edith Nye MacMullen. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp.xll,378; Bibliography, index, illus., $37.50). To the Editor: I know Leo Raditsa to be a very fine teacher on subjects about which he is know 1edgeable. However I feel I must respond to your piece "Raditsa's March South African trip affinns validity of book on country," (September, 1991). Mr. Raditsa's going to Buthelezi to test whether his new book is "true" or not is rather like asking Ronald Reagan whether he advocates Reaganomics: a positive response is hardly surprising. While no one could object to Mr. Raditsa's plea for a non-violent transfer of power, and while economic sanctions against South Africa are a subject about which intelligent and informed individuals may disagree, no responsible observer could argue that the policy of settlement of the black population in "homelands" is in any way conscionable. Can he truly believe that because he saw a few "well kept" homes in KwaZulu (the most privileged of these rural ghettos), that the resettlement has not been profoundly damaging to the black popul~­ tion? The South African government has progressively created these quasi-independent homelands-islands of rural poverty which create and exacerbate ethnic competition and relegate the majority of the black population to areas where there is little or no economic life-so that it will not have to bear the social and political costs of centuries of white domination. Readers who are interested in realling about how the political economy generated by the segregationist policies of the South African government has affected the lives of blacks in southern Africa are invited to tum to the many books on the subject written by scholars who have lived with blacks in southern Africa and have troubled to learn the local languages. The textbook most frequently used for southern African History courses at the moment is Omer-Cooper's History of Southern Africa, which in addition to a good treatment of the history of apartheid in Chapter 9 contains a useful bibliography. Mr. Raditsa seems to have gone to South Africa to see and hear what he wanted to see and hear. It is hardly surprising, then, that "his eyes confirmed his words." He would do well to stick to Thucydides. BarbaraM. Cooper, A'82 (Leo Raditsa responds to the letter above.) The South African government did not "create" the homelands. Neither did the British, although the British had reservations, patterned consciously on the reservations for Indians in North America. The British resorted to reservations because they realized no primitive peoples could survive in direct contact with Europeans, separated from them by four or five thousand years of facing themselves and the truth-energy unprecedented in human history. I do not argue for the "non-violent transfer of power." For it is one of the many circulating codewords for handing over the country to the African National Congress which is indistinguishable from the South African Communist Party, and in any case, is in no state to govern any country let alone South Africa. The South African govern- ment after making the mistake of releasing Mandela without insisting on his renunciation of violence has driven South Africa into a revolutionary state by negotiating with the SACP (called the ANC in the newspapers) as if it were an equal. That the government may consent to this revolution will not make it any less cruel, to blacks especially. The most crucial fact is that nobody knows whom the ANC represents, something apparent to blacks who can tell intimidation when they see it, and are now looking for white help in their resistance, to the astonishment of whites. But the police are openly saying they can no longer keep order. And the whites, not only the members of the Conservative seem more and more to think As for Thucydides-it was who drew me to South Africa, who me how we fight for our lives with other peoples' blood-and in the instance of South Africa, for the destruction of our lives. Leo Raditsa To the Editor: Back in 1984 I wrote to the Reporter, giving reasons why I thought it was not a good idea to include Eastern books in the St. John's curriculum. My letter elicited two replies, one by Chela Weiler Kleiber and one by Georgia Cushman. Now I notice that the issue is again being discussed in your pages, and again I would like to say something. One assumption which those who favor including Oriental classics in the curriculum seem to make is that if one does not study these works as an undergraduate, one will forever remain ignorant of them. And to show how foolish this is, we are told (correctly) that the world is growing smaller, we can no longer afford to remain insular, etc. This is true, but for a long time (and I am sure most readers will agree with this) I have thought that our college education was supposed to be only the beginning of our liberal education, something that will cease only when we die. So the question is not whether we should ignore the East (hardly), but what is the most appropriate foundation for a lifetime of learning. Prescinding from the question of whether and how a liberal education should embody the pursuit and attainment of truth, it is at least the initiation into a cultural and intellectual tradition. I think that there is real value in our first being initiated into our o\vn tradition. I think that we cannot understand others until we understand ourselves, our institutions, our ideas, the so many une"'xamined things we take for granted and live our lives by every day. Until we see in what ways our present civilization is built upon what came before, andin what ways it is not, how can we understand the relations of our own culture with other cultures? Is it not important to see behind and beyond the image of the West that we get from newspapers and as simply a bloc of nations committed to democracy, freedom and technology? Four years of concentrated study is not too much to devote to that effort. We have the rest of our lives to read the books of the East, and, I hope, reread those of the West too. Thomas Storck, SGI'80 By CHARLOTTE FLETCHER Fresh out of Yale College at age 20, Henry Barnard taught school for three months in rural Pennsylvania. At the end he wrote a friend "the agony is over."He would never teach school again, but he spent a lifetime promoting the teaching profession and inspired many men and women to become good teachers. Having failed as a teacher he travelled for several years. On a train south from Philadelphia to Baltimore he rode in a car with his idol, Henry Clay; in Congress he heard Clay, Webster and Calhoun argue about Nullification. When he travelled in Europe he school systems lfill>res,sed by the Prussian school system educational philosophy. Back home he studied law; then as an advocate for common schools he was elected to the Rhode Island Legislature. He was a Whig reformer who hoped that a national system of common schools free to all boys and girls, attended by rich and poor, with graded, sequential curriculums would save the union. He believed that schools were only as good as their teachers and that children should learn in pleasant schoolhouses. Successively Superintendent of Common Schools in Rhode Island and Connecticut, he furthered his cause through publication of papers on all phases of school administration and lectured at lyceums and institutes and associations for teachers that he organized. Between 1850and1855 he presided over the Connecticut State Normal School that he helped found. But neither then nor later was he a good administrator. He consistently del<:?gated responsibility to his associates, preferring to plan, write, lecture and edit rather than run an institution. As Chancellor of Wisconsin University for two years he was unable to persuade the authorities to approve his plan for a statewide school system under the University. National Education in Europe, a classic work among histories of education that he published in 1854, was praised by critics at home and abroad. In 1862 he published Military Schools and was appointed to the boards of both West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy. When St. John's trustees asked him to head the college at the end of the Civil Was he was a nationally acclaimed educator. Very properly they were pleased when he accepted the formidable task of rebuilding the campus after its occupation by Union troops and of recruiting a faculty and students. But his reception throughout wartorn Maryland where many citizens had been southern sympathizers was not cordial. For a fuller account of Barnard's year and a quarter at St. John's the reader should consult Tench Francis Tilghman's Early History of St. John's College (1983). Tilghman concludes that "probably no one lacking his particular kind of special training and his professional prestige could have managed the job and got, somehow or other eighty-eight students for the first year." (p.114) Barnard had long wanted a national post where he could devise a national school system. So early in 1867 he accepted an appointment to the newly-created post of Commissioner of the U.S. Department of Education. Most of his year and a half as Commissioner he spent at home in Hartford publishing The American Journal ofEducation that he edited between 1855 and 1880. Of his numerous blueprints for various institutions the author suggests that the District of Columbia report written while he was the U.S. Commissioner is his best. He "did not include a liberal arts college or university in his scheme as he had previously.... the fact that Barnard did not attempt to graft a college on to the public school system preferring a technical school, may have been a reflection of the difficulties he had faced in Wisconsin where the goals of the professors at the university were at loggerheads with the teachers at the colleges and the academies; or his recent tenure at St. John's may have reaffirmed his loyalty to the private colleges." (p.273). Edith Nye MacMullen, director of the Teacher Preparation Program and lecturer in history at Yale University, had an enormous collection of Barnard papers as well as the revisionist writings of the past decade to digest and to interpret. She infers that Barnard is almost forgotten today while Horace Mann retains his eminence as a nineteenth century educator. Yale University has renamed Barnard Hall with a street number. (Charlotte Fletcher was the librarian at the Annapolis campus from 1949-1980) Historical context needed for reading To the Editor: In addition to teaching American literature at SUNY Geneseo, I also teach there a two-semester course in humanities that includes a riumber of books that I read at St. John's. An important difference is that we discuss these works in their historical context. I now find St. John's relentless ahistoricism a major flaw in the Program. I cannot imagine, for example, teaching Locke's Second Treatise on Government without any discussion of the Glorious Revolution. Nor can I imagine teaching Marx's Communist Manifesto or Capital without discussing the industrial revolution and conditions in mid-19th century English factories. Freud's Civilization and its Discontents is far more compelling when seen in context, written soon after the horrors of the first world war and with the rise of Hitler and the second world war on the horizon, than when studied as if the circumstances that gave rise to Freud's ideas about human aggression made no difference. In the 1930's, the founders of the new program at St. John's may well have had to counter a reductive form of historicism by focusing on the text itself, rather than on the author's social and cultural setting. (The New Critics in literary studies were embarked on the same project.) However, in 1991 we are no longer battling the sort of historicism that ignores ideas in the text. St. John's seems to me to be at the opposite extreme by pretending that history doesn't exist, except when we read Herodotus or Thucydides. Ifear that St. John's ahistorical (and perhaps anti-historical) approach to reading texts leaves St.John's graduates ignorant of history and unaware of ways in which politics, economics, and culture influence ideas (and vice versa). Are there any tutors who would like to see a historical dimension added to the St. John's program? Is there anyone at the College who favors giving Clio, the muse of history, her due? If so, I would like to hear from you in this forum. Carol A. Highsaw, SF'77 �DECEMBER 1991 THE REPORTER PAGE5 ook n p /icing Annap For her purposes of showing how police departments could improve, the model held. A succession of studies and papers came out of the experiences at Mt Sinai and later from her post as research director of a unit in the Albert Einstein of Medicine. n she is an un'~xi:1ec1ted. Teaching at St. next step after service in these and c01npJL1ca.tea mstltuLtions, but an inner logic The three Guyot children were now of college age, and both were fascinated at their trairrst om1at10n thoughtful adults. Furthermore, KhinKhin, SF'88, was a St. John's spending two years on each campus. These circumstances helped persuade Mrs. Guyot that she wanted to return to teaching liberal arts and particularly to apply to teach at St. John's. Discussion with her husband allowed the idea to solidify-he was willing to move from their home in Leonia, NJ. (He now commutes from Annapolis to his post as professor of public administration at Bernard Baruch College of City University of New York, spending Monday through Wednesday there.) fu the long and thoughtful letter to the dean that accompanied her application, Mrs. Guyot creditedher own undergraduate years at the University of Chicago for her belief that learning is enhanced "when the various branches of know ledge are regarded as limbs of a single tree." Her preeminent reason for wishing to come to St. John's, she said, was a desire to move from asking specialized questions to asking fundamental questions. Now in the first term of her second academic year in Annapolis, Dorothy Guyot says that "teaching at St. John's is even more of a treat than I expected; different parts of the program speak so well to each other." fu a standard university setting, some colleagues, perhaps in separate departments, might be interested in the same things, she notes, but faculty members as a whole move along in narrow often indifferent to the projects of their peers. At St. John's, on the other she is surrounded by colleagues interested in the she has same questions. The study joined, like the current one led by Joe Sachs on Aristotle's Physics and an earlier one on the Republic led by Tutor Robert Williamson, have been highly rewarding. When she wanted to begin reading Sophocles in Greek, there was Elliott Zuckerman' s summer study group onPhiloctetes; her discovery of Dean Jacob Klein's book on Greek mathematics was followed by MariHiguera's study group which used it as a text futroduced last year was the initial "week of common study" designed for new tutors, and such activities, along with the weekly archon meetings and seminar teaching partnerships all help to build "a commuof inquiry," she says. Furthermore, she feels "immense and immediate satisfaction" from seeing students work through difficult ideas. The with Khin Khin teacru~ng Ult'oirth1n11"11 IP "A decent and readable writes Professor Hans Toch of SUNY Al- 1 to conceive of it," he writes. "This is a fascinating and ,.....,·nn1·t<n,t book," declares Jameson W. Doig of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, a leading authority on urban affairs. "[The author's] analysis shows ...how a sensitive, knowledgable, and self-confident police commissioner can revive the morale and effectiveness of a police department worn down by decades of underfunding and weak leadership." The "sensitive and knowledgable police commissioner" was George W. O'Connor, who had taken over leadership of the police department in Troy,NewY ork, in 1973, two years before Dorothy Guyot met him. The double thrust of her book is an argument for what she calls "reasonable standards of quality police service," and a case study of the dramatic improvement in Troy's police department under Mr. O'Connor. Of the circuitous and improbable journey that took her from doctoral research in Burma in 1961-62 to the classrooms of St. John's College in 1990, more later. In between these points of time, as a faculty member in 1970 at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, a school founded to bring liberal arts to police officers, she was fascinated to learn through conversations with her students what a range of people wear the police uniform. She wanted to know more, to see how police service could be improved, and at a colleague's she found herself in Troy,N.Y., a city ofS0,000about130miles up the Hudson River from New York City, where Commissioner O'Connor was well into his drastic overhaul of the police department. Between the years 1975 and 1978, Mrs. drove the route back and forth to court, directing two citizen surveys. inshe continued her scrutiny termittent for nine more years. She soon came to see that a good police department is-or should be--a multip1urpose social agency. The way most are organized, on the other hand, is inappropriate to the nature of police work-the most usual model being the as wrongdoers as "enemies in a war." fu such a arrests are the criterion of good work. But most of the work diagnosis of how the burglar got in, and follows this with recommendations that will contribute to the householder's future safety and feeling of safety. The "hospital model" suggests a long agenda for change: a college education and extensive training for officers, the development of high personal standards and accountability-shared and enforced by peers rather than supervisors, and the inclusion of While the long preoccupation with police services has made way for the more general and seemingly very different preoccupations of a St. John's tutor, the two were scheduled to come together in early N ovember when Mrs. Guyot was to give her first Friday Night Lecture on the subject "Are Police Officers to American Cities as the Auxiliaries are to the Platonic Republic?" A central question in her lecture was whether You can't come into a police department and fire everyone, she points out, but it is reasonable to change way officers relate [and] change expectations about their work. such rewards as higher pay. "The quality of police service in any city rests on what individual officers are doing," Mrs. Guyot says, and much of her book shows the hows and whys of O'Connor's success in Troy. "Mr. O'Connor was teaching me what police work should be as I watched," she says. You can't come into a police department and fire everyone, she out, but it is reasonable to change the way officers relate to citizens, to change their expectations about their work, and to arrange for them to feel more immediate satisfaction on the job. fu the highly traditional, patronage-ridden department, Commissioner O'Connor ,,,,,,,,..n·uprl mvest1gatl011S of citizen complaints against the police. His most significant changes enhanced the responsibility and the satisfaction of the patrol officer. He intr.oduced the one-officer car as a means of increasing officer initiative and discouraging the guy" image proand-to defang the arguto ment that such are too dangerous-allowed to volunteer for this fu Pl'll1rn1n the selection, education and training that Socrates recommends for the guardians and auxiliaries was in some ways right for today's police officers. This connection of seeming disparities only begins to suggest the professional journey Mrs. Guyot has taken since she received her undergraduate degree in political science at University of Chicago in 1957. Graduate work at Yale where she completed a PhD in 1966 after spending 18 months doing field work in Burma with her husband James, himself a political scientist. Her dissertation, "The Political Impact of the Occupation of Burma," examines the political changes in the former British colonial possession after the convulsions of World War II. fu observing and analyzing how political changes permeated a whole society, Mrs. Guyot had found a primary interest-how people construct, work with and change political institutions. The Guyots immersed themselves in Burmese Buddhist culture, dressing in Burmese sarongs and speaking Hu:nm~se; their first child, was born in Burma. Although there was to be of research in southeast presently, it was time was a "she says, when her attention to domestic work to prevent and control serious crimes-acts that threaten life propother services, in the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York to adeliber- as a physician sees an individual who has an illness, makes a diagnosis, and follows it with recommendations, a police officer sees, for example, a burglary victim, makes a matters and place no obstacles in the individuals who want to speak out? To extent do individual officers and the department leaders engage citizens in discussion of how to solve community problems?" functions rm1mn:ant ways, she learned. der1artments, every officer starts at the same and all share a generalists' perspective; in hospitals, specialized division of labor is the rule, from the trained neurosurgeon to the cooks and bedmakers. historic district home in Annai:m11s. Old are enhanced When she joined the in Guyot was concluding her study of policing and beginning her study of Greek Now in her preparation for her first Friday Night Lecture, she is looking at Plato's Republic "for what it might say about police work." �By JULIA WINIARSKI, A'92 It is ten minutes to eight. The bell is ringing, calling you to your first seminarThe Iliad. You are exhausted from travelling, bewildered by your new surroundings, apprehensive about your first college experience, and excited that you are finally here at St. John's. You are away from home for the first time; you know nobody. Now you are expected to speak intelligently and calmly about. .. Achilles. This, or something all-too-similar, has been the experience of most Johnnies. This year in Santa Fe, however, an orientation program eased the transition into life at the college for 116 incoming freshmen. Arriving a week before their first seminar, new students met in small groups with returning students, tutors and staff members who served as orientation leaders. The first concern was to make the freshmen feel welcome in the community, as well as to get them acquainted with each other and with upperclassmen who could answer questions and allay fears. Aside from the usual orientation activities such as campus tours, meetings with staff members and administrators, and introductions to campus activities, freshmen dined with tutors in their homes, held 'practice' seminars and participated in discussions about community life at St. John's fu addition, freshmen were given the select one of three orientation 111rt·n11t'"'"'' camping at Heron Lake; walking tours of Santa Fe and surrounding areas; or and camping in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The largest number of freshmen chose the Heron Lake for sailing, sunning, and swimmimz:. Those students who opted for the tours got a sense of area history and culture. A local architect and friend of the led them through several galleries and museums in Santa Fe; they also toured the Los Alamos Bradbury Science Museum and the cliff-dwellings at Bandelier National Monument. For both groups, there was structured time for discussions about issues the freshmen might face during the upcoming year, as well as free time to finish semi- nar readings, get acquainted, and reflect on their changing lives. Approximately 30 freshmen and eight orientation leaders took to the wilderness for a three-day hike in the Sangre de Cristo mountains. As one of the leaders, I had the opportunity to see first hand a random collection of strangers change into a cooperative and caring group. The grandeur of the mountains was a perfect setting for the growth I witnessed in myself and in the others. During a discussion of a work on integrity by Gaston Rebuffat, a mountain climber, I was impressed by the enthusiasm and thoughtfulness of the freshmen. I felt the introduction to St. John's they had received througll the orientation program would enable them to bring those qualities to their first seminars, and into the years to follow. I wished there had been such a program when I was a freshman. Students come to St. John's to be educated by books and by each other. We grow both intellectually and socially through application to a program centered around the arts of communication: respectful reading of the books, careful expression of our thoughts, and the willingness to hear out and learn from the understanding of others. However, newcomers to St. John's face certain difficulties; the first seminar may be chaotic when at once we are trying to communicate our thoughts and to get to know our classmates. But on a larger scale, the effects of a freshman's arrival here may have farther reaching consequences, and may even set the tone for the entire year: conflicts roc>ffilnaltes, academic and social pressures (and the difficulty of balancing these), and isolation within one's class or within the larger community can make it difficult to appreciate all that St. John's has to offer. Designed to address problems such as these, the orientation program provides port for individuals as they enter into the John's College community. fu the end, by welcoming our freshmen, we will be helping to create a richer and healthier community. Please see "Platonic Bonding," Lesli Allison's account of students' first days aJ the Santa Fe campus, page 17. 1 MARY FREITAS The St. John's College Search and Rescue Team in Santa Fe is off to a busy and successful twenty-first year. With lOOmembers (50 of them students at the College), the team has participated in six missions and two practice missions since the beginning of September. The year began with a practice mission based at the Ski Basin. Founder Herb Kincey ('90HSF) and Tom Lamberth of the Armand Hammer United World Colle~e of the American West devised a complex scenario involving a total of ten subjects at six different "accident" scenes. Teams from United World College in Las Vegas, joined ua.JU..LVll};:,UvJ. ..., ......u ....... .....,,J.U.JL"'-'''"' ......., Taos Search and 36 members of the St. John's Team for the weekend exercise. To have a practice mission so in the fall was an unusual step for the team (the begins with a Lake Peak day year hike), but it proved to be a good choice. Within weeks the Civil Air Patrol discovof a plane crash in the ered the Pecos Wilderness and St. John's SAR was called in to evacuate the deceased Italian pilot and co-pilot. A team was taken by helicopter to one mile from the crash site and spent most of the night moving the bodies to the helicopter landing zone. fu the morning the TV Channel 13 helicopter flew in from Albuquerque and lifted the bodies out of the wilderness so that they would not have to be carried the twelve miles back to the field operations center near Cowles. St. John's SAR also participated in the search for five 12- to 14-year-olds who went on an afternoon hike but were dropped off at the wrong trail. They had matches and some food with them and were found about dawn sitting by a fire they had built. While that search was in progress, another began in the same general area for an overdue hiker. He ended up in the Santa Fe watershed and a St. John's SAR team ran into him at... the Audobon Center on Upper Canyon Road. Only a few weeks later, three members of the Santa Fe Field Team missed a turn on an afternoon mountain run and did not get back with the rest of their team. The young men had no gear or warm clothing except their sweatsuits. They found a sheltered place and used tree boughs to protect themselves until they were found around midnight. St. John's visited United World College for a day of seminars in various search and rescue techniques in October. The day culminated in an evening practice mission involving several different evacuations of (Continued on page 17) Lesli Allison recently was appointed Assistant to the President/Director of Communications on the Santa Fe campus. Ms. Allison holds a B.A. in English/writing from Columbia University. An adventurer at heart, Ms. Allison's work history includes commercial fishing in Alaska, coaching soccer, construction labor, professional photography and business management. Most recently she worked as a free lance writer and art critic for Santa Fe's daily newspaper "The New Mexican". Raised in the mountains of northern New Mexico, Ms. Allison attended high school at Santa Fe Preparatory School which is located near the St. John's College campus. She is long familiar with St. John's College and its role in the Santa Fe community. One of her goals as Assistant to the President/Director of Communications is to improve the relationship between the Lesli Allison college and the local community. Toward this end, she plans to increase the visibility of the college both locally and nationally, identify and encourage outreach programs and events which stand to benefit both the college and the community and highlight the accomplishments of faculty and staff through various media sources. Ms. Allison also intends to improve the quality of publications produced by various departments within the college and, in the process, to strengthen inter-departmental communication and cooperation. "It's a strange thing, being an administrator, a coordinator of public relations," Ms. Allison said. "I'm vastly more at ease on a horse in the wilderness than in an office. On the other hand, I believe the greatest asset we humans possess is the ability to communicate. As I join St. John's College, I hope to facilitate communications between a wide range of people. At the same time, I look forward to furthering my own growth in the context of an environment rich in dialogue and learning." Don Parker recently was appointed Director of Placement on the Santa Fe campus. Mr. Parker is a 1985 graduate of the Santa Fe campus. He received his MBA last year from New York University where he was the president of the Entrepreneurs' Exchange. Since his appointment in September of this year, Mr. Parker implemented several changes designed to reach a greater number of students with a wider range of career planning services. He recently held a brainstorm session with seniors to discuss the needs of St. John's students and the future goals of the Career Planning Office. Fifty percent of the senior class turned out for the meeting. Mr. Parker also held ameeting for students on the topic of fellowships and scholarships. John Cornell, Chairman of the Fellowship Committee, spoke at the event. As a result, a record number of students applied this year for the Watson Don Parker fellowship. fu addition, two students have applied for the Luce fellowship for study in the Far East and three students have applied for the NEH Younger Scholars Program. Additional speakers on campus this year have included Professor Ruth Covnat of the University of New Mexico Law School, and Dr. Deborah Rutherford, a nuclear engineer who works at Los Alamos National Laboratories and is a 1980 graduate of St. John's College. Mr. Parker also plans to provide workshops on teaching English as a second language, and vocational guidance. Among other things, Mr. Parker hopes to increase networking between students and alumni of the college, obtain a laser printer so students can create professionallooking resumes, and hold workshops on resume writing and job interviews. Mr. Parker said he is pleased with the results he has experienced to date in his interactions with students. While many students approach him by stating they have "no idea" what to do with their lives, Mr. Parker has discovered that students actually have a fairly clear conception of their future. "Students really do have focused ideas about what they want to do," he said. "I want to provide the support to assist them in identifying and achieving their goals." Mr. Parker also stressed the fact that students need to start thinking as early as possible about their career in order to establish the widest possible range of options. Mr. Parker was married on October 5 to Pamela Panker, and they honeymooned in Quebec City and Montreal. Cynthia B. Jokela recently was appointed Director of Alumni Activities on the Santa Fe campus. Ms. Jokela holds a bachelor's of liberal studies in language and literature from Yale of New Mexico University. She also attended the University of Minnesota for studies in the liberal arts. Ms. Jokela has more than seven years' experience in university alumni and C1e'l'elop1neim at Yale and Vanderbilt Universities. 1 .,."'"""..... t " ' Ms. Jokela served as Assistant to the Director at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the She also taught English as a second language to international students with the Vanderbilt Center for Orientation Programs in English. "I'm very excited about coming to St. John's after working liberal arts schools for a long time," Ms. Jokela said. "I look forward to bringing that experience to a college which emphasizes the things I feel most important to a liberal arts education. I also look forward to working with the alumni, listening to them, talking to them, so that we can continue to develop alumni programs that are stimulating and that best meet their needs." Ms. Jokela will join St. John's in mid-December after making the move from Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, John Poling, and son, Karlan. They already are well acquainted with New Mexico and have several relatives and friends in the Santa Fe community. �DECEMBER 1991 THE REPORTER PAGE7 October in SF Tue second annual Parent Weekend took place on the Santa Fe campus October 24 27. Parents gathered from around the country and as far away as Alaska and Bangkok for the event. Participation was ten percent higher than last year with 124 parents representing 87 students in attendance. Organized by Parent Coordinator Susan Friedman, the event proved highly successful according to parents, students and administrators. One factor in the overall success was the level of student involvement. "I'm delighted to see the students are becoming increasingly involved in Parent Weekend," Friedman said "Enthusiasm for the weekend was even higher than last year for both the students and their parents. It's very satisfying to organize an event that makes so many people happy." Activities for Parent Weekend began in true St. John's style with an invitation to parents to attend Thursday evening seminars and daytime classes on Friday. The President's Reception took place at the home of John and Catherine Agr-esto on a cool Friday evening under blue October skies. The reception allowed parents the opportunity to meet administrators and relax beyond the immediate campus environment. Parents th.enjoined students for dinner in the College Dining Hall. Later in the evening pianist, tutor and Musician-in-Residence Peter Pesic performed a concert of Mozart's earliest compositions. Parents, students and tutors gathered for brunch on Saturday in the Great Hall. Beyond brunch and conversation, participants were treated to the Parent-Child Look Alike Contest and the Who Came the Furthest Distance Contest (Michael Deppler from Bangkok). In addition, Kathleen Sherman won a lunch with John Agresto for contributing the winning title to the Parent Newsletter. From this date forth, parents shall receive news under the heading "For Whom The Bills Toll." Following the brunch, 66 parents attended the Parent Seminar onPlato 's Republic (Books VI and A small group of parents also met to consider the formation of a Parent Association. Options still are being considered. Later on Saturday, students performed in the dramatic production "Naked Eye," an original work by senior Cobalt Blue. One dormitory also hosted a dinner party for parents while another held a pre-waltz reception. Tue day concluded with the grand Waltz Party. Students dressed to the hilt for the occasion and Dean Stephen Van Luchene appeared in a tuxedo. vm. fi Week nd Gala Lesli Allison photos No events were scheduled for Sunday in order that parents could spend the day with students. The parental response to the entire weekend was very positive. "I hope that the weekend becomes a firm tradition," one parent said "It goes a long way toward integrating students' lives with their families." Parent Weekend President's Reception at home of John and Catherine Agresto (top); Yes, they do, all right: Linda Keenan and Dan Keenan won the Parent/Student Look-Alikes (below); (below left) the Look-Alikes gather for judgment; and (bottom} there was more to say over brunch. �PAGES At top ri father em Day, SF'70, is more interested than Peter, 10 months, in the ga of tutors' portraits by Vivian Ronay Barry, A'65, which have been purchased by the Alumni Association for permanent display. Above, these four friends lived together 60 years ago in the Delta Psi Omega House: from left, Henry Clay Smifh, A'34, Tilghman B. Price, A'33, Roland Bailey, A'35, and John B. O'Donnell, A'35. Below from left, Ellen Minerva, A'80, Nancy Schauber, A'81, and her husband John Simmons, chat with tutor Howard Zeiderman at the Homecoming cocktail party. Keith Harvey photos 1965 Johnnies remember McClintock, and find each other "just the same" James R. McClintock, A '65, died in Vietnam in 1968, the only student or graduate of the college to lose his life in that war. Thirty years from the very month when his college friends first met him, and 26 years after graduation, almost half the class of 1965 gathered to celebrate their friend's life and to work through unresolved grief for his loss. DECEMBER 1991 THE REPORTER Seated on chairs in a circle in the Great Hall, 26 classmates topped each other's stories about Diamond Jim, larger than life, who came out of the Pacific northwestmaybe never having seen a Jewish person or a black person before, one of them thought-to guide them with his math wizardry through Euclid, and to navigate the (Continued on page 19) ANNAPOLIS HOMECOMING: Storytelling ith pictures Greek· invention, says speaker Returning to her alma mater on September 27 to deliver the its Homecoming address, Ellen Davis, A'60, spoke with vivid details of one of the Greeks' most impressive achievements: the art of story-telling · with pictures. Ms. Davis-a professor of art at Queens College of The City University of New York who holds a doctorate from the Institute of Fine Arts-illustrated her speech with slides of the Greek works, in a talk delivered to faculty, alumni, students, and friends of the college who filled FSK Auditorium. The art of depicting stories was developed by early vase painters, she began. These craftsmen and entrepreneurs were, in fact, the first artists in history to sign their work. The vases were sold from storefronts in the Kerameikos, or potters' quarters, to aristocratic and middle-class Athenians, whose own tastes and desires influenced the enterprise. . "During the Dark Ages the earlier tradition of pictorial imagery was lost," she continued, but the art of vase-making went on. fu the succeeding Geometric period, a talented Athenian artist responded to the aristocrats' desire to mark their graves by inventing a funeral scene with rudimentary silhouette figures painted on a large vase The class of 1965 returned in amazing numbers for their 26th reunion. Here they are! Standing, from left, R. Altengarten, E. Weinberger, J. Eisenstein, G. Luckhardt, B. Gilbert, J. White, G. Zollars, L. Castricone, J. Blits, M. Woolsey, B. Preston; - -seated, middle row, S. Bishop, S. Burnett Johnson (in front of Bishop), R. Massell, A. Klingerman Cantlon, V. Ronay, T. Harvey, S. Friestedt, A. Leonard; seated, first row, G. Logerfo Bateman, C. Hilder Massell, S. Smolln, S. Brooks, and D. Katz. Keith Harvey photo that served as a grave monument. fu the seventh century, B.C., the artists learned to be specific, she said. fu the "Blinding of Polyphemus"-the dramatic depiction of the moment when Odysseus drives the stake into the eye of the Cyclops-a brilliant Athenian artist used only slightly expanded figures from the Geometric period to depict an unmistakable myth from Homer. Details from the "Chigi jug" made in Corinth, and the "Nessos Amphora" from Athens illustrate the introduction of inscriptions and attributes to specify particular mythological figures. fu general, "Archaic Greek art is actual," she emphasized, "not symbolic. The attributes are real objects or weapons," she stressed, not merely symbols. Late in the tradition of scenes of physical combat, about 540 B.C, an exceptional Athenian vase painter, Exekias, attempted to introduce inner thought. Ms. Davis said that he invented scenes not documented in literature, such as Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game. Ms. Davis emphasized the independence of the vase painters by the example of Euphronios, a pioneer artist who developed the potential ofred-figurepainting. On the New York krater, a wide-mouthed Classical Greek vase with small handles, Euphronios departed from Homer's account in which Apollo ministers to the body and directs Sleep and Death to transport itto Sarpedon' s home in Lycia for proper burial; instead, he depicted Sleep and Death as winged soldiers who follow Hermes' instructions to remove the body from the battlefield. An earlier depiction on the cup by the same artist illustrntes how he developed this new imagery, she noted. On the cup the the personification of "Thanatos" body of the way had dragged the body of Achilles on an earlier vase Exekias. On the later New York Eu11Jlmoni~os added wings to the soldiers Thanatos and Hypnos and added the image conductor of souls. These into the Classical period, testifying to the importance of Archaic Greek vase in formulating the traditions. By the end of the Archaic period, about 480 B.C., Ms. David continued, Greek vase painting experienced a decline. fu the ensuing Classical period, when Greek sculpture and architecture were in their prime, Greek vase painting was of lesser quality. "Sir John Beazley, surely rightly, attributed the change to important developments in the art of wall painting, that rendered the line drawings of vase painters passe," the speaker concluded "He characterized the end of Archaic vase painting as marking a new era in Greek art when sophistication overtook 'the vigor and freshness of youth."' �THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1991 PAGE9 HOMECOMING: 2 Alumni feted; dead honored NANCYOSIUS Saturday, September 28-a day when summer's haze gave way to the perfect sunny clarity of autumn-was filled with tributes and memories and renewal of acquaintance for those at Homecoming Weekend in Annapolis. The highest accolade the St. John's College Alumni Association is able to bestowits Award of Merit-was to two members of the association at the banquet evening: Sharon Bishop, A '65, and John Oosterhout, A'Sl. The honorees responded with wit, appreciation, and some bemusement to the honor done them. "[When I was a student] no one would have I would have gotten this this with selJt-dt~pn~catmg ...........,.....................,. . .,, she has been an active member of the Board of Visitors and Governors for 12 years and is now mcomm_g ..,.,..,,..,,r1,,...... r of the Alumni Association-the first written. The remarks of .., •..,..,u...,...... who entered the Winfree Smith and other government agencies. Uutgomg Alumni Association president Goldstein read the award citation in Bishop was honored for her service to the Board of Visitors and Governors, her contributions to "the welfare and interests of students and alumni" and for her own "exemplary career." Tutor Sam Kuder, A '54, emphasized Mr. Oosterhout's service as a member for six years of the Board of Visitors and Governors, and his upcoming service on the Alumni Board. Recalling undergraduate days, Mr. Kutler identified his friend as the founder of the Real Olympics-now "debased to Reality Weekend." "How well" Mr. Oosterhout has w\om his SJC education, Mr. Kutler continued, as a member of NASA from its inception to his retirement. Commending his mode~ in general, he said, "He is utterly blind -as to why he was selected for this honor." The citation honoring Mr. Oosterhout expressed gratitude for his "lifelong devotion to, exemplary participation in, and steadfast promotion of the Oollege and its alumni programs," noting as well "the personal ties that he and his family have developed among the extended College community." Also honored at the banquet were the reunion classes and the chairmen who had organized their weekend activities: Henry Robert and Paul Comegys, 50th reunion; Tom Williams and Herman Small, 40th reunion; Faye Polillo, Everett Wilson and Joseph Cohen, 35th reunion; Sharon Bishop, Sophia Brooks, Mike Woolsey, Jan Blits, and Lincoln Castricone, 26th reunion; George Bingham and Richard Fielding, 25th reunion; and Evan Canter, Matt Hartzell, Martin Miller, Noel Blyler, Marion Sharp, Daniel Van Doren, and Ann O'Malley Culotta, 10th reunion. m1ll1t<nru grees," and sensed in him that "it matters what one because one's will affect how one lives and what one does and perhaps the state of one's soul.'' To the task of finding out what best to hold to as the truth, Winfree brought "great patience, clarity, energy, humor and personal wari:nth, and a deep disarming humility." Noting that little has been said since Winfree's death about his Christian faith, Ranlet Lincoln, A'50, suggested that Winfree' s commitment to the Christian gospel was "a central fact in his life, the very foundation of his sense of who he was." Mr. Lincoln examined his friend's life in terms of the cardinal virtues, faith, hope and charity, fmding first that Winfree related to the world and to others "faithfully" in the sense of trustfully. Next, in that "Hope promises that all will be well in the unknown, indeed...unknowable future," said Mr. Lincoln, "Winfree was a hopeful person." Finally, the cognate term for Charity is "caring," the speaker pointed out, and, "[as] I, and I cannot tell how many other beneficiaries of Winfree's caring know, Winfree was a charitable person." Speaking without notes, Marjorie Collingwood Kimble, A'76, cited the long friendship Winfree shared first with the student who became her father, the late Rev. G. Harris Collingwood, A'48, and then with her father's child. Later, she was Winfree's Cumberland Court neighbor as well as a communicant at St. Anne's where he served as assistant priest. Addressing her remarks principally to Winfree' s priesthood, Mrs. Kimble said, "He had an effect he was not aware of." Remembering a succession of Christian and family events, she added, "He was a touchstone, a way to connect back to earlier times. That was his witness to us." Late in the morning, alumni and friends gathered about a new granite headstone resting beside the main walkway near busy Col- These three alumni spoke of their friend, the late memorial service honoring him Saturday mlf11rniinn Marjorie comngwood Kimble, A'76, 'IO;;f;.ic~nl'l1a.n lege Avenue. This was the Memorial to Alumni Who Have Died in the Service of Their Country. "We honor our dead, those alumni who have fought in defense of this republic," said President Nelson at the dedication ceremony, "to remind ourselves that war is terrible, that it temµnates life, that it creates suffering for those who survive it, and that the alternative of peaceful resolution to conflict must always be our first choice of action and reaction to the temptations of war." He thanked those who had worked to place the memorial, in particular Alumni Association president Harvey Goldstein, A'59, Bunny Gessner, A'27, Henry Robert, III, A'41, Allan Hoffman, A'49, Jim Conrad, A'49, John Ross, A'69, and Betsy Blume, A'75. The second speaker, Harvey Goldstein, said, "We are here to remember some of the victims of our warlike nature ... and to say a little prayer that future generations of young men, and yes, now young women, will not be called upon to give up their lives prematurely." m;;(OJIFft&:::1,n "A collection of memories submtted by friends, students and colleagues" is a description of the contents of Memories of Winfree, a slim gray spiral anthology. Put together to honor the late tutor emeritus J. Winfree Smith by his colleagues Douglas Allanbrook and Brother Robert Smith, the anthology contains talks given at Winfree's memorial service in April, other letters and messages from his students and friends, and one personal letter fromhimselfto astudentinresponse to a request for advice. The book is available from the Bookstore for $2.40. �PAGE10 THE REPORTER Inauguration (Continued from page one) Chorus, under the direction of Ernest Green, sang a Vaughan Williams' anthem, "O How Amiable." Dean Brann opened the program by introducing distinguished guests-college friends, as well as dignitaries from city, county, state and national government-and by paying her own affectionate tribute to the new president. "We have already learned to regard him as a faithful defender of the Program of learning which is our reason for existing," she said, "as the hard-working protector of our material well-being, and as a friend to the whole community." Charles H. Trout, the president of Washington College, brought congratulations from St. John's sister institution across the Bay and from the Association of American Colleges. Twitting St. John's for its comparative youth (St. John's was chartered in 1784; Washington College in 1782), he also reminded the audience of the decision of the House of Delegales in 1784 to designate both colleges as one university "by the name of the University of Maryland." Mr. Trout brought appreciative laughter as he described a current rumor "sweeping through Annapolis" that in view of the state budget crisis, "Governor Schaefer is thought to be looking into possibly restoring this arrangement." John Agresto, of the Santa Fe campus, uL1•.,._.•...A• more humor into the proceedings when he stepped forward. He his new colthat the colleague and its own president." Calling lege "had himself one who had "made it for two years so far," he had a few rueful to say about the role of college presidents. The first of his three "rules for survival" was that "No good deed goes you and you will be strongly critiwill do the cized for it. .. Be calm and have a thick skin." Next, more people get in trouble for say than for what they do. "It's a rule I've never followed myself," he added, to considerable laughter. His third maxim, was, that, as in the end "we all get found out, at least, aim high. Don't stand accused of smallness of vision." Finally, "Tell the truth and have fun. In this job, at your position, at this place, telling the truth and having fun go solidly together." Tutor Glenn Freitas, who along with Robert Bart represented Santa Fe faculty members, brought a letter from those colleagues expressing "pleasure and pride" in Mr. Nelson's assuming the presidency\. the first graduate of that campus to do so. Mr. Freitas prefaced the reading of the letter by sharing with the audience a nice conjunction of events: Chris Nelson was in the first language tutorial he ever taught at the college, he said, and now-more than 20 years,. later-"my son Mark is a student of Chris Nelson's." Speaking on behalf of the students, senior Theodore Naff, president of the Student Polity, extended a welcome to the new president that was also a catalogue of expectations, among them the necessity fQr the president to project the college vision and to challenge the students to extend their horizons. He expressed confidence that Mr. Nelson would meet these needs. "As the canon of the western world is stripped away at other universities," said MI. Naff, "what we continue to study here takes on added significance. We need someone to be able to represent us well." Representing former presidents of the College, William M. Dyal, Jr., who served from 1986-1989, spoke "as one who has walked this way before." He charged the new president "to have the honesty to address ignorance, the grace to admit error, the courage to express your views, the vision to describe the future as you see it, the wisdom to seek counsel and the joy to find colleagueship." Mr. Ohlsson's performance, one of two peak moments in the evening, was "superb," said tutor Elliott Zuckerman, "passionate, yet studied; controlled and yet relaxed. You know that he had thought a lot about the pieces, and yet there was no lack of spontaneity." Tutor Bill Pastille praised the revelation of "Haydn's elegant wit" in the SonatainEflatMajor and suggested that MI. Ohlsson played Chopin's scherzo "almost as if he were composing it, it was so rhapsodic." After the installation ceremony, MI. Nelson, wearing the presidential insignia and an enormous smile, turned to tell the audience his thoughts about the moment they were sharing, one he saw to be about renewals, reunion, change and commitment. "The best reunions are occasions for renewals ... of faith, hope and commitment," he said. "I am returning in many ways to my roots." As the leader of a junior seminar-"the best one I recall ever having been a part of'-and a preceptorial, he was able "comfortably" to report, he said, "that the spirit of leaming ... is alive and well at St. John's College." (Continued on page 11) DECEMBER 1991 �DECEMBER 1991 THE REPORTER If you visit new president Chnstoolb.er in his Annapolis office, you have a you. One of the very newest things in a concatenation of newnesses for the recently-inaugurated president is the "Winged Triped Desk," an astonishing and beautiful trapezoid-like desk of dark Wenge wood from the Cameroons which stands in the President's office on three sleek solid copper legs. Alumnus Edward Weinberger, A'65, presented the President's Desk and two "Cubist/Constructivist" tables to the college. The tables are identical except for their wood: the one of English Bog Oak may be seen in the anteroom of the Dean's office, and the other, of Wenge Wood, in the Mitchell Gallery. The 400-lb. desk, with its vellum inlay, is polished to a deep burnished burgundy, and seems poised for take-off, yet remains oddly stable on three legs. Its chaste simplicity invites admiration; it is clearly intended for a "clean-desk" president, which this one is. The two tables, which the designer says "play with a lot of Euclidean themes that will surely be familiar to St. Johnnies" are caseless. Says the designer, "Instead of the panels that usually cover them up, the drawers here do not reside within walls ... but hang exposed from beams under an eave-like roof." Indeed, they appear so geometrically perfect that it would be profane to use them. Ed thinks otherwise. "No, they are meant to be filled," he is reported to have urged. In Annapolis to join his classmates for their remarkable 26th reunion (see page 8 for more about that gathering) and to present the three art works to the college, Ed-who taught for a few years after graduation and then became an investment bank.er-was ready to tell how this all came about. He took up furniture design about four years ago, "a beginner starting from scratch," as he calls himself. The designing grew out of the painting he had begun a year before. The paintings had an insistent "geometric" side to them which he initially of as a "truant d.lsltrac:tmn." but which eventually became a "separate " he says. He is careful, however, to emoh~1si2:e that his furniture is in no way intended to be art: "If the pieces are anything more than furniture," he says, "it is because they are meant to be only or at most furniture." One original purpose, according to the designer, was to try "on a very tangible level, by actual construction," to discover for himself some of the themes of early Modernism, particularly those centered around abstraction. The furniture does have a Modernist look of metal and unadorned wood, Jnaueuratioin (Continued from page 1O) Above, pianist Garrick Ohlsson leaves stage after his performance. students and books remind me daily what we are all about and how much larger are the issues in the classroom than those I face in performing my other duties." During discussion of state budget cuts, his seminar reading was from Descartes' ''Meditations," he said, where Descartes offers his proof for the existence of God, and during the Senate confirmation hearings, the readings were from Hobbes' account of man in a state of nature. "Who said our books were outdated?" he challenged. Certain kinds of change, said the president, are a part of commitment, and "we must still be asking not only how we should teach and in what sequence, what books we should read (because our list remains dynamic), whether our instructional methods are best. .. [but we] should also be asking what the liberal arts are and how they have changed." Citing such changes as introduction of the music PAGE 11 but Ed suggests that something else is going on. Though at first glance these pieces look familiar, they are neither a "ghostly homage or nostalgic return." Rather, they reflect "inquiring forays" or "fresh meanderings" on similar territory. When he undertook the project, Ed had no idea what was involved, he admits-no notion of the skill, cost, time, or attention it would take to make the kind of furniture he envisaged. He was extremely fortunate, he says, to meet a New Hampshire furniture maker, Scott Schmidt, who was, according to Ed, the proverbial right person. Scott's involvement was crucial because, although Ed didn't then know it, his designs placed demands on the cabinet maker of grain direction, joinery, weightbearing, tolerances, etc. that were all but impossible, far beyond even the finest traditional cabinetry. In retrospect, Ed admits that "the inherent ruthlessness" of these designs, their "recalcitrance to be made" would have stopped the whole project had he not met Scott. The desk took about seven months to make; the tables the better part of nine. As much as he likes to talk about the results of his "addiction," Ed says he hopes the pieces will elicit pleasurable discoveries that emerge from day-to-day intimacy with them. There are two other desks, one, the prototype, in Ed's apartment, and the other at the Merrin Galle1y of Antiquities on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Three other tables are in private hands. Ed is in the midst of writing a catalogue which in good St. Johnnie fashion, "will be forthcoming for still awhile longer." It may be called "Euclidean Reflections on Modem Furniture." We hope it will soon become available for readers in the extraordinary drawers that grace each piece. the ''W'inr1.cri he de~;i~u1ed co11ea,e. Above "CubiistJ'Cci•ns1tru1ctivi!:~t· the anteroom of the dean's office. Sandra Cohen tutorial into the curriculum, the continuing discussion on the place of the visual arts, and a week-long special study on the computer offered to alumni in Santa Fe last summer, Mr. Nelson suggested that the college might extend its assistance in current educational crises. It might do this by helping to find "a better way to teach the nation's youth" or, through the college or its graduates, by contributing to discussion in the larger arena on such fundamental issues as the free market economy in the new world order. Emphasizing the need for growth and dynamism, Mr. Nelson asserted that for the ideal college, the "search is its end, complacency its enemy." He concluded his talk by echoing the question asked by New Program architect Scott Buchanan when he returned to the college years after his departure: "How is the search going?" Mr. Nelson suggested that "all of us reflect on -~ what that [question] means in our own education and in the life of St John's." �PAGE12 Thriving •alumni THE REPORTER T. DECEMBER 1991 ALUMNI On October 19, 1991, the occasion of my final Board of Visitors and Governors meeting as President of the Alumni Association, I reported to the Board on the activities and accomplishments of the Association over the past three years. It remains for me only to assure you that I have enjoyed enormously the past three years as President of the Association. I know that I leave you in the good hands of my successor, Sharon Bishop. Good luck and thank you for your wonderful support. Lla,nn111 to the Board of Visitors and Governors members of the Board, I appreciate you have me to speak last shall attend as to Board at president of the St. John's College Association. To begin, I should say what it was that I wished to n<:111"1n.::•n when I took office. The most important item on my agenda was the establishment of an increased sense of among the and student bodies. Santa i-0__ 1J,nn~nr-..11c::· There had been a ... ,,.,.,..,,.,n'hr1n seemed we created three Graduate Institute !J'-'''"'""""-"' our desire for oar11c1oation alumni the Graduate welcome to take their members of the St. John's our amended we re-defined our committees and the way for "h'"'"''"' 0 "' Members now receive committee ltt"'IOr"1'!U ahead of time to think about nrn,l"\lt=!,mC:: Committee now are held to session so that the is called upon to act as a committee of the whole. a result we have seen an increase in alumni oar11c1oatmn in both the activities of the Association and life of the College. The number of alumni paying dues has risen since 1986, generating a three hundred percent increase in funds available to the Association from alumni dues. Increased alumni participation is seen in the establishment in the last three years of four new chapters around the country, in the attendance at the Homecomings on both campuses, and at the enthusiastic reception accorded the alumni summer programs, including this past summer's first special program designed to provide an in-depth look at a particular topic (in this case, the computer and the liberal arts). As for alumni participation in the life of the college, one need only look at the attendance at chapter meetings where the California property question was discussed with the Chairman of this Board. Or, look at the fine response to the first ever opinion poll of Alumni on this same question. Or, look at the number of alumni who attend the receptions for prospective students given around the country, or the number who make themselves available to meet with students and answer their questions about careers. And although I do not have the figures to share with you, look at the increased giving by alumni to the college over the recent years. Finally, increased participation can be seen in the incredible success of one of our most popular projects-the alumni senior dinners on each campus, when members of the Alumni Board of Directors and alumni members of this Board host intimate dinners for seniors at local restaurants. Yes, our Alumni Association is thriving. Three weeks ago, on behalf of the Association, I presented to the Annapolis campus a new War Memorial dedicated to alumni who lost their lives in the service of their country. This represented the culmination of nearly a decade of work by the Alumni Board. An identical plaque will be presented by the Association to the Santa Fe campus in July 1992. Another completed project on which work had taken several years is the Alumni Association brochure, designed to describe the functioning and purpose of the Association. i\lln!'"onuor woman President. to women in our divided between men and women. is therefore that women about half Board of Directors of the I that also can boast o.f other rt1\/Ar~m11=!s--o\i ethnic and cultural ground. This is as it should be. I recall that as a student here some thirty or more years ago, I often heard it said that the admissions policies of tlie were designed to bring a diverse student to campus .. ?~rtainly, we have always the label of. eht1s1m that has seemed to dog us the national media. I can think of few things so dangerous to the continued existence of this unique community of learning than for it to become associated in the eyes of the world with any particular political, religious or ethnic In closing, let me say that my service . Board over the last ten or so years has been particularly satisfying to me. Finally, I think it would be remiss of me if as President of the Alumni Association, I did not mention a most important Alumni event that occurred during my term. An alumnus of the College, elected to this Board by the Alumni Association, has become the first new program alumnus to serve as a President of St. John's College. It is with the greatest pleasure that I extend_ to Chris Nelson, class of 1970 SF, the Association's heartiest congratulations and warmest wishes for success. Thank you for your attention. Harvey M. Goldstein A'59 President, St. John' College Alumni Association The Alumni Association extends congratulations to its first-ever new program alum installed as SJC President, Mr. Christopher Nelson, SF'70. He was sworn in as Annapolis president following inaugural festivities on October 18, and the prospect of his leadership heartens his constituency. In Santa Fe, the Association welcomes Cindy Jokela, new Director of Alumni Relations who will assume her duties in mid-December. Also to be welcomed is Don Parker-an alumnus of Santa Fe in 1985-as new Director of Placement. He is already in his office and looking forward to assisting alumni as well as students. "'n1nr,...,nl'"l!::ITC ,..,..,..,,n!,-,,umon'I' and admission "-"V'""''-1''"'··· shall ......,...,,,,..,..,. '"'n'"'""''"''"''"',."' educational activities and in other " in Annapolis and Santa The New York Chapter of the St. r--"--·~ Alumni Association, or the as it is othermeets for seminars six times a wise awkwardly year and participates annually in a Phonathon in support of the Annual Fund. One of the six seminars may be about College issues such as the development of the California property. The last seminar is held in combination with a picnic or brunch at home of a generous Board member and provides more portunities for socializing than the regular seminars It is amusing to think that good discussions can be planned. Nonetheless, New York has come up with something resembling a formula; short readings plus well-known tutors plus phone-calling to encourage alumni participation equals a successful event. Needless to say, while it is helpful to have a formula as a foundation in planning alumni seminars, it is not always possible to predict a successful event. Nor does the formula allow for such successes as New York's First Annual New Tutor Seminar last year. Certainly Eric Salem was not someone known as a tutor to any but recent graduates, yet the seminar he led on Sophocles' "Women of Trachis" was stimulating and enjoyable. In New a typical seminar is organized in the following way. A tutor, usually from the more proximate Annapolis campus, is invited to lead a seminar on a subject of his choosing, generally from the program. Attendees meet at the Princeton Club in midtown Manhattan for dinner at 5:30 p.m. and then adjourn to a meeting room for the seminar at about 7:00 p.m. The beauty of seminars is that seminar topics have a way of working themselves into other contexts than the ones in which they were originally brought up. For example, our first seminar this year was led by Bob Goldwin, an alumnus and Constitutional scholar. The reading was "A Day in the Life of the First Congress", in which James Madison presents his proposal for what became known as the Bill of Rights. "Why are basic rights so difficult to protect?" asked Mr. Goldwin by way _ _I �THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1991 PAGE13 This chapter meets about 1O times a year for Satur.cu..:1n1n1n seminars. For additional information con496-8571 or Jonathan tact Suzanne Doremus at Hustis at (214) 340-8442. This chapter is reorganizing, and suggestions or questions are welcome. Call Caroline Allen (213) 3925253 to contribute. This 'unofficial' chapter is organising events and would like your suggestions. Telephone Bruce Lansky (612) 473-5400 to contribute your ideas. Editor January 29: Second annual "Meet a New Tutor" seminar with William Pastille. Reading: Freidrich Schiller - "On the Aesthetic Education of Man" February 19: Phonathon to be held at the offices of WNET-TV, Channel 13 Call Sabine Schweidt (212) 645-8903 or 679-6118 (wk), or Peter Burdge at 227-4658 for details. PHILADELPHIA To participate in events contact Jim Schweidel at (215) 836-7632. Meetings are evety month in this 'unofficial' chapter to discuss the program readings, following the undergraduate sequence. Inquiries are most welcome; phone Arianne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen Feeley 452-1082. New Association officers, who wm begin their terms in January, gathered at the President's brunch on Homecoming Weekend in Annapolis. From left they are George Bingham, secretary; Sharon Bishop, president; Rick lightbum, treasurer; and Allan Hoffman, vice-president. Keith Harvey photo of opening the discussion. The talk turned to majority rule in a democracy and the need to protect against "tyranny of the majority'' by securing individual freedoms. Talking about such issues with a group helps test the strength of the reasoning behind whatever conclusions one may arrive at. Events billed as social occasions almost always attract a large number of alumni. At the annual picnic, held this past year at Charles and Anne Nelson's home, two tutors were invited to lead seminars. Tom May and Elliott Zuckerman independently selected the same reading, Ibsen's "The Wild Duck." Chris Nelson, then President-elect of St. John's in Annapolis, was a special guest. After a wonderful buffet lunch prepared by Anne Nelson, the alumni split up into two seminar groups and began their discussions of the reading. It was an altogether pleasant afternoon, containing not just social elements, but elements embodying the intellectual and policy-making aspects of the life of the College community. Another regular Chapter event, coming up next on 19, 1992, is the annual Phonathon. Marylou surnru,nc the Director of the Annual Fund, again secured WNET-TV 13's telethon facilities for us, providing an ideal space in which to make phone calls and raise money. In case anyone was under the impression that it's the same people who turn out in support of the this event gives the lie to that view. In addition some seminar participants, a icant number of alumni we otherwise never see out with the Phonathon. Ms. Symonds coordinates and while alumni Chapter do the all-important phone New York Chapter attempts to offer programs which are diverse and broadly appealing, as well as appropriate for a St. John's alumni group. While seminars, picnics and college-issue socials will continue to be featured in the program mix, a number of possible offerings are under consideration. For example, there is no regular, informal reading group, something which a number of alumni have expressed an interest in. It was suggested that the Chapter sponsor a seminar program for New York-based parents of current students. This is an original and intriguing idea which, if developed, could be of great value to students and their parents in sharing something of the St. John's experience. Perhaps we should take advantage of the cultural richness of New York City by arranging group trips to museums or concerts. The possibilities are endless. CHAPTER EVENTS ALBUQUERQUE December 29: Holiday social gathering at Michael David's home. Call Michael David for further information, (505) 344-7875. ANNAPOLIS December 13: Tutor Henry Higuera who is on the N EH Board will speak about grant proposals and the selection of grantees. January 1O: Maryland Senator Mary Boerges is speaking February 7: Speaker to be announced Alumni luncheons are held on Fridays in the Private Dining Room, 12:00 noon. Telephone Betsy Blume at the Alumni Office (301) 263-2371 for more information. December 13: Das Kapital, Books I and II, by Marx January 10: Possible tutor visit This chapter meets informally on a monthly basis, usually 7 to 9 p.m. at the Law Offices of Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, & Moody, 6th and '~,,1,,nr.occ Readings are selected the hosting members. tact 926-7808 for future schedule and details. Meetings are held at the home of Alvin Aronson who can be contacted at (617) 566-6657 or 437-3186 (wk) for information on future chapter events. I I The next seminar will be held at 1 p.m. February 29 at the home of Bob Covelli. Reading will be announced. This chapter welcomes the participation of all alumni in its wide-ranging locale. Call Roberta Carnevale for details and suggestions. CHICAGO December 14: Annual Holiday Party at Rick lightburn's house Call President Paul Frank at (312) 235-0614 or 464-2573 (wk), or Program Director Erin Milnes at 271-1039 about any of the chapter activities and locations of meetings. December 8: Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell January 12: Orlando by Virginia Woolf A Holiday Party and future readings and activitiesbased on the results of the newsletter survey-are being planned in addition to the scheduled monthly seminars. The Science and Math study group meets on the first Wednesday of the month. Contact Toni Wilkinson (415) 585-4255 or 479-7397 (wk) for information and to contribute to the local newsletter. SANTA FE December 15: Annual Christmas Party with a seminar reading by Isaak Bashevis Singer, Gimpel the Fool Future events include Santa Fe tutors leading seminars on works by Shakespeare, Klein, and Pushkin. There will also be a social I picnic and discussion of Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselle d'Avignon." Telephone John Pollack (505) 983-2144 or Alumni Director Cindy Jokela at 982-3691 for future seminar/social meeting times and places. Graduate Institute alums have organized to study variations on the undergraduate music tutorial, and meet once a week. Contact Dick Cowles (505) 9861814 or Mary Schruben 473-7898 for information. Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 for information about a possible holiday event and future activities. AREA December 4: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet December 11: Lawrence Durrell, Mountolive December 18: James Joyce, Dubliners), followed a holiday and Grill near the library January 8: Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning" and other poems January 15: Durrell, Clea 22: Preamble and Amendments I US Constitution February 5: Stephens W Hawking, A Brief Histoty of Time, Ch. 1-7 with tutor Sam Kutler to lead. February 19: Genesis March 4: Hawking, Ch. 8-11 with Kutler to lead. Seminars meet at the West End Branch of the D.C. Public Libraty from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. For further information call Sam Stiles (301) 424-9119, or Sharon Garvey (304) 535-2655. Another alumni reading group, following a short break, will resume meetings every Thursday at 7:00 p.m with readings to be decided. Meetings are in the NE Washington area - alums from Annapolis and other nearby locations are invited to attend. Call Susan Gushue (202)526-1632 or John Church at 832-5851 for details. �PAGE14 THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1991 D an Brann re ffirm our "radical v ntur Statement of Educational Polity Article IV 1 (c): "Each year the Chairman of the Instruction Committee shall, after consultation with the Instruction Committee on his campus, and after discussion with the Instruction Committee of the College, submit a Statement of Educational Policy and Program to the Faculty as a whole for discussion. The President shall present the Statement, together with an account of the Faculty discussion of it and his response to it, as a report to the Board of Visitors and Governors for its consideration." Since both Stephen van Luchene and I will have been chairs of the Instruction Committee in our first year as deans, our respective statements are appearing in the off-years, a small breach of the Polity which we hope will be overlooked. In this world of troubles it is a positive blessing to be afflicted with the lesser of two possible evils. The two evils that might bring acute harm to our college are internal discord and external pressure. At present we are blessed-apparently, and for the momentinsofar as we are sufficiently of one mind about the Program and its execution for our misgivings and differences to count as tokens of a vigorous communal life. Our basic unanimity is so much the more to be cherished since it is one condition for weathering the fierce trials to which the world is about to subject this tough and fragile little school. To mention only a sampling: Our admissions are threatened by justifiably rising tuitions, the bottoming-out of the high school population, and the competition of richer schools for students whose parents are economically hard pressed. The study of the Western Great Books has become a politicized by-word, and the listing of them in a canon is under academic attack. The balanced evaluation of effort, ability and performance we accord our students has to be defended against the new national mania for mandated quantitative outcomes as~ess­ ment. Our appointments may become vulnerable to statistical "diversity" demands, just when there is an acute shortage of minority academics, while a projected shortfall of college teachers in general will make the modesty of our salaries an issue. We are beset by all sorts of legal liability considerations and by government requirements affecting appointments, student diseipline, alcohol and drug policies, retirement rules. We are driven into all kinds of statistical record-keeping and -publishing. Our budget projections for the coming decade are grim, while public resources for institutional and student aid are being reallocated away from us. Yet, fierce as they are, these external pressures cannot do us much long-term harm, provided we maintain our internal integrity. My original plan, conveyed to the Board last year, was to attempt an account of the relation St. John's might have to the country's present educational emergency, since, it seems to me, this is our moment: Even as our ways are under attack, we have never been needed more and have never'had a more eager, albeit latent, constituency. Meanwhile, however, the heavens have opened and a flood of writing in defense of traditional liberal education has come to our aid It is not always couched in our terms, but enough has been said about Great Books, the role of the West, the Canon, to surfeit the most eager polemical appetite. As things have developed it seems best not to rejoin the academic fray until issues of inherent intellectual substance have reemerged from the debate of the day. Moreover, in the face of the Annapolis campus's forthcoming reaccreditation review, a consensus seems to have developed that on the East coast, at least, our best bet is to take the ground and, refraining from defensiveness, to pres- ent our case persistently, candidly and carefully. Our expectation is that it will prove irresistible on its own grounds. In textbooks on education our sort of program is dubbed "perennialism," and we might as well conduct ourselves accordingly. I thought that, instead, now might be the time for recalling to ourselves certain founding notions not of the Program, which is an intellectual construct, but of the College, which is a living community. By describing us as a "living community," I mean that we are a society of people united by a desire to know, who expect to learn, at least in part, through common inquiry, who are readily accessible to each other at almost all hours for specific advice and reflective conversation, and who participate as faithfully as possible in the scheduled occasions of the College. The founding notions of this community are in need of recollection for two reasons. First, a large proportion of our faculty and our board have joined us recently and may never have heard them. Second, in times of external stress and internal prosperity communities tend to a certain insidious regularization, brought about by innocent small accommodations. We are larger, more extended, more complex, more formally qualified (and also more actually learned) than we ever were. Having much to protect, there is a danger that we may, gradually and unwittingly, recede from the divine madness that is our reason for being and our mark of distinction. The notions I mean to recollect for us are the tenets of a radical pedagogy-radical in compensation for lost time but a stipend for living. It ought to be decent-in particular it ought to provide for the education of tutors' children-but no more. Work and pay are disjunct here. Consequently tutors owe the college their waking time, simply: The college is our vocation and our paychecks are the condition of its exercise. Nevertheless, the Instruction Committee has steadfastly resisted the idea of superabundant teaching assignments (defined as more than the traditional three-thirds), and I persistently defend the notion that an extra load is a definable and compensable quantity: More work, extra pay. I hope we can continue to live in both modes at once-neither reckoning too closely the need of the college, nor imposing on our tutors' generosity or making their existence a hardship. · 2. WE DELIVER NO COMMODITY TO OUR STUDENTS. In the tin-ear jargon of the educational bureaucracy students are now dubbed "users," i.e. consumers. Our students are, instead, participants in learning. Our first criterion for tutorial appointments is, in fact, not the ability to teach but the ability to learn. We do have ample reason to think that our students' education is somehow, in our, the faculty's, hands. Yet though we are perhaps a necessary condition for it (and therefore blame ourselves for its failures), we are far from being sufficient. We are devoted teachers who doubt whether teaching is possible. We do know that fellow learners can help each Having much to protect, there is a danger that we may, gradually and unwittingly, recede from the divine madness that is our reason for being and our mark of distinction. conception but moderated by earth-bound good sense. I learned them in the late fifties, in the heady, halcyon days of my first years, from Jacob Klein, William Darkey, Robert Bart and Winfree Smith. I offer them here in the shape of sixteen negative maxims, negative because they differentiate the ways of this community of learning from normal academic practice. In my heart of hearts I myself, and a sufficient number of my colleagues, believe in them. But a modern college is, we know, not to be maintained wholly from our heart of hearts-perhaps more by the skin of our teeth. The point is to preserve these tenets in principle even while breaching them, on occasion and with deliberation, in practice. (Steadfast action in this two-tiered mode is, I believe, called prudence.) Nevertheless, it is the chief business of the two deans to maintain, as best they can, the pure essence of the school-just as it is the presidents' main task to protect its solid existence. Our common task is, it seems to me, to be sure that the founding faith continues to irradilite the affairs of the college, thereby preserving its essence, while devising the wisest compromises necessary to its continuing existence. To this purpose, mindfulness is everything. 1. WE RECEIVE NO COMPENSATION. In 1957 Winfree Smith began a report of the salary committee with words to this effect: Teaching is not a job but a vocation. The expression of this understanding is the fact that we are not hired but Teaching is invaluable and thus has no measurable value. The money we are given is not a other. Accordingly we judge our students not only on the progress of their self-improvement but on the contribution they make to their colleagues in the class. AU in all our chief pedagogical faith is that knowledge is not an article sold to students but the effect of communal effort. And yet: This education is terrifically expensive. Hard pressed, over extended, debt-ridden parents and students naturally have the sense of wanting something for their money. The students' money worries have to be ours (particularly the deans'), and we have to help all we can. Nevertheless, the disjunction of money and our activity, even though it flies in the face of all our economic instincts, has to be absolute, or we are tainted as tutors, helpers of genuine learning. 3. WE DO NOT PREPARE STUDENTS TO MAKE A LIVING, but we do help them to examine and shape their lives. Our program does not jig students into a career, though it does prepare them to find a calling. Our students know this fact about their school very well-it is the subject of continual affectionate sour-sweet comment. The very efficacy of these four years in shaping our students• future depends on their freedom from practical pressure and specific training-that is, after all, what was originally meant by "liberal" education: non-utilitarian education. Similarly the program itself is effective just insofar as it is only incidentally preparatory-it prescribes studies that are primarily to be done for their own sake, though by reason of their universal scope they serve as the foundation of any worldly activity. Consequently we should be only mildly '' surprised if, while they are with us, our students are occasionally too cavalier about their careers, naively in love with the notion of perpetual contemplation, foolishly contemptuous of the world. These noble follies wear off soon enough, and most of our students scramble themselves into a perfectly respectable niche eventually. That is on the one hand On the other, our alumni are rightly concerned that effective career counseling should not only be available but used. Such counseling (we now instruct our have it) should do two relatively innocent students in the ways of the working world and give concrete graduate school and employment advice.We have to have it both ways. We have to insulate our students from the world for four years and yet launch them into it. 4. WE PRODUCE NO ASSESSABLE OUTCOME. The shaping of a soul is a simply immeasurable event; moreover, it is sometimes not evident until much time has passed. The small step toward serious reflection is more cherished here than the brilliant performance. A single moral resolve taken in consequence of an intellectual insight has for us a worth beyond any score. We attach more value to thoughtfulness than to industry, to transformation than to performance, to understanding than to competence, to inquiry than to research, to heartfelt questions than to brilliant answers. Three decades ago the world needed to hear that good discipline and genuine docility are the students' virtues. Now, when quantitative assessment is to redeem faulty curricula, when retention rates are to reveal the quality of a school, we might well reaffirm our oldest traditions: Learning is a conversion of the soul; some A's are less meritorious than other C's; some ill-written papers contain invaluable thoughts; some students who leave the college after a year take away more than those who depart with a degree. Nevertheless unless the rote learning and the detail work get done, the conversation will become vaporous. Hence we must keep a close eye on daily performances, such as translations, demonstrations, and discussions. Moreover our students (as do even the tutors) need the goads of praise and blame. Hence the don rags, our peculiar form of oral student evaluation by a board of all the students' tutors, are certainly assessments of objective performance, which we must be concerned with reporting accurately. But they are also diagnostic and advisory occasions, when we speak to students not about grades, but about the virtues that are our most legitimate concern, the intellectual virtues: effort in study, care in criticism, µonesty in expression, truthfulness in tho~ght. Implicit in our Program is the hypothesis that good students in our sense will be good human beings in the world's sense. 5. WE ARE NOT AN ACADEMIC INSTITUTION; we are, instead, a community of learning. We are not "academic" in the pejorative sense, insofar as our studies are not intended as a set of academic courses and exercises taken for "credit" and separable from the students' real lives; and our program of learning is not "institutionalized" insofar as the conventions of the college are not allowed to take on a force of their own. We do have a multitude of institutional ways. In fact, the course of the year at the college is more completely determined than the academic schedule of any other school that I know (except perhaps our Annapolis neighbor to the east) by a calendar of enotn::qurre:mtmt:s, joined activities, formalities, procedures, deposited in the offices. files of the deans' and But these ways are not only convenient conventions; they are carefully thought out fur<LU . l l U U H q �15 therances to our real business, and we continually tinker with them to make them more perfectly express our educational purpose. Consequently the deans can be called on by any student-and often are-to give the rationale of any institutional form, a rationale in tune with our claim that this college is a human-scale community devoted to the essence and not the formalisms of learning. 6. WE HAVE NO ADMINISTRATION; there is no layer of functionaries with separate training and interests, ostensibly ancillary to the central purpose of the college, but actually shaping affairs to its own convenience. In the early days the college was largely administered by the teaching faculty and some officers tried their hand at teaching (a custom happily being revived by our teaching presidents). Now that the complexities of institutional existence call for special professional competence and an increased staff, we preserve the old ways as best we can by including the administrators in the faculty; thus they are intimately involved in the communal mission. Of course, the presidents and the deans are tutors by the Polity, and the deans normally come from and revert to the teaching faculty. Consequently no decisions are ever administratively isolated, all are made in the spirit of the Program. This institution is for the sake of the program, not the converse. It is something of a grief to the officers of the school that some of us now sit in a separate office wing. We compensate by keeping no limited office hours; we are simthere as much as possible, and practice avoiding bureaucratic obstruction: "To administer" is Latin for "to serve." ians of learning, at most. From our founding text, the Platonic Meno, we know that the causal relation of teaching and learning is a _ mystery, though, somehow, the presence of a master-learner helps. Consequently, as was said, in making appointments and reappointments, the Instruction Committee looks first not to special competence, academic production, or even pedagogical talent, but to the willingness and the ability to learn. Our hypothesis is that those who learn teach best, since they set the example, have the empathy, and possess the preparation. We have never looked, and never should look, for the normal academic qualifications, such as advanced degrees and scholarly publications. Some of our most respected-and learned-tutors have no doctorate, and some colleagues who have the most to say to us have no published writings. The willingness to complete a major piece of academic research may be evidence of a live intellect-and so may the unwillingness. As it happens, a large part of the faculty does have advanced degrees. But the competence of the faculty within the Program, which is formidable, cannot be gauged by the usual academic standards. We have carearticulated criteria of our own. 8. WE ARE NEITHER INTELLECTUALS NOR SCHOLARS, at least not as tutors. We are not intellectuals in this sense: We do not ourselves to produce and defend intellectual constructs, theories, theses; we value inquiries over formulated outcomes. We are not scholars insofar as we do not expect ourselves to engage in research for advancement-first, because there is no advancement, since we have no title other than tutor and tenure decisions include no publications criterion, and second, because our energies are expected to be absorbed in the diverse and difficult learning required by the Program. The locution "doing our own work" is not heard among us, and our extra-curricular productions win us no kudos. As it happens a fairly large part of the faculty does publish articles and books, big and little. These are received with a decent minimum of polite interest. 9. WE ARE NOT SELECTIVE, at least not in intention. The notion of the "best and the brightest," imposed on students (or tutors) would be simply destructive to our central occasion, the seminar. How can a group, some of whose members aremarked by such a label, talk seriously to each other? Moreover, since we reject standard quantitative criteria, how would we even begin to justify these invidious differentiations? For us desire counts far more than any other qualification, and seriousness more than brilliance. Our chief question in admitting a freshman is: Can this student profit from the Program and be profitable to the class? It is, in fact, a rare tragedy that a person wants to learn here and is unequal to the Program on some re- Unfortunately, in the last decade the claim to be beyond politics is read by the academic world as being just one more insidious power play: The critical tradition of passionate objectivity has a poor press these days in academia. Unhappily, the claim that the philosophical tradition is itself singlemindedly political is incapable of refutation. It belongs to that species of argument which turns every reply into a further proof for the original doctrine. What is left for us is simply to show in practice that the tradition nourishes all conceivable opinions, though some tum out to hold up better than others in reasonable discourse. In the world we are, again unfortunately, sometimes labelled conservative. As John Agresto said to us when he came to Annapolis for his presidential interview: There is nothing intrinsically conservative about On the other hand, we are very sensitive to our students' continually expressed desire to see us socially ... [We] pray for the return of afternoon tea parties. spectable level. Weaker students may, for example, ask the most useful questions. Moreover, our communal style of learning is antithetical to competition-to competition, not to distinction. It is, however, a fact that by the scores (SAT and the like) we appear to the world as a highly selective college, a fact of which we are occasionally forced to take advantage. reading Western Great Books. To the liberals who view us with suspicion we might say that they are in danger of handing liberal education over by default. To the conservatives who want to cooptus we might say that we are, if anything, conservationists, anxious to see no wisdom lost. To the radicals we might say: You don'tbegin to know what radical is; we are the ones who go to the roots. 10. WE ARE NOT A 13. WE ARE NOT OUR STUDENTS' DEMOCRACY; instead we live by a Polity. From the first the faculty has tempered every recourse to numbers with complex constitutional devices. We do nothing important by plebiscite. While we make it possible the conviction of a single objector to force a vote on instructional proposals, we try in the first instance to get by with consensus. At the same time the spirit of collegial participation is strong and no one's advice is ignored. COMPANIONS. Wearedevotedtothemin the mode of teachers; that devotion dictates distance rather than Long before such matters were we looked askance on the too-close involvements of tutors with students that seemed to be countenanced in some other schools. Consequently our warmest friendships often begin after graduation. On the other hand, we are very sensitive to our students' continually expressed desire to see us socially. There are all sorts of difficulties: the faculty's large work load, their family obligations, the need to live out of town, and, not least, an older generation's aversion to the obligatory loud social music. But we try. And pray for the return of afternoon tea parties. 11. WE HAVE NO HIERARCHY. We are the most egalitarian (permanent) academic community to be found in this country. We have no stars, no ranks, no authorities. Where it counts, in the classroom and the other occasions oflearning, everyone's contribution is expected to be open to judgment on the merits. We have gotten into the infelicitous mode of speaking of "senior seminar leaders," but, while we do pair more experienced with less experienced tutors, the two leaders' responsibilities in guiding and evaluating the students are equal. There are very few perquisites that tenured tutors have; those that exist are all concerned with decisions concerning the long-range interests of the college. In the assignments of cla:~ses, just as the freshman year is most carefully staffed, so the development of newer nitors takes precedence over the preferences of tutors with longer service. In short, here all the usual occasions for power are transformed into responsibilities. This aspect of the college has remained of the singularly pure due to the faculty and the understanding of the board. 12. WE ARE INTRINSICALLY NONPOLITICAL. Our mode is radical inquirythe laborious attempt to get to the bottom of things, including human affairs; we take our stand not so much above politics as beneath. We do not pretend to be unable to distinguish between applied politics and political theory, and so our classrooms and conferences have been singularly free from political impositions. Attempts to politicize the space of common learning would incur swift censure. This policy leaves all of us, students and tutors, free to engage in the politics of our choice elsewhere. 14. WE ARE NOT A WRITING BUT A SPEAKING SCHOOL. From the beginning our prevailing and pervasive mode has been conversation. Conversation is the public complement to that original dialogue of the soul with itself that is called thinking. Conversation has the spontaneity, receptivity and responsiveness that is appropriate to common inquiry. Conversation leaves no material trace (permission was never given to tape class discussion) and is therefore the best medium of learning. Spoken follies may most easily flow into oblivion while heard wisdom is most actively recollected. Many of us assent to Socrates' denigration in the Phaedrus of written words as unresponsive to questioning and conducive to forgetfulness. And yet, how can we at the same time, to hold writing in the highest respect, when the very warning against it comes from one of the hundred-odd books on which we base our learning? Moreover, we know that it is by writing that is clarified and honed. Hence all of us take our students' "writing problem " seriously. Their problem is that the fundamentals of correct form and expressive diction are often not attended to before college. Our problem is twopronged: First, though we require students to read good books well, few of them are in original English, so students' memories are not well stocked with good models. Second, we cannot bring ourselves to subvert the great rule of discourse, that language should be significant, by subjecting students to mere writing exercises. In their earnest struggle for substance our students sometimes neglect form, and we, attending to the strength of their thought, often overlook the weakness of their writing. Writing is an urgent problem for us that, try as we will, we can probably never resolve completely. 15. WE ARE NOT AN EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE, or ever were. From the founding, the Program was not conceived as a possible alternative to the main stream, but as the best education-best for every citizen-the originators could devise. Their basic hypothesis was-that-the best preparation for action is contemplation, guided by the reading of the best books known to them. If it seemed eccentric, it was only because university education was out of kilter; if it seemed traditional,it was only because the revival of original reading was misunderstood as antiquarianism. The Program was based on some very fundamental intellectual principles (set out elsewhere) that, while to be continually re-thought, were not regarded as vulnerable to testing by further research or experience. The practical embodiment of these principles in tutorials, laboratories and seminars, on the other hand, is subject to continuous empirical revision. Of course, if none of our founding principles had worked in brute fact, we would eventually have had to give up. Happily, statistics and experience are with us. Our students do well by totally extrinsic standards of achievement. 16. WE HAVE NO METHOD. We do have our communal ways, but they are the opposite of methodical procedures; they are all intended to make a space for the freest, least premise-ridden, least system-driven inquiry possible. The same holds It is a schedule of common studies, not a method of learning. Consequently it is just as misleading to call our ways "the St. John's method" as it is a contradiction in terms to speak of "the Socratic method." They are rather the time-proven customs of a community of learning. So, for instance, once we have explained that a seminar has two leaders, that it begins with a question, that students must have the assigned text in their mind and the book on the table, that address is formal and conversation responsive, that all should participate and support their opinions with argument-when that has been said, all has been said. There is no further method. The rest develops as a living conversation. Of course we all collect our bags of tricks and of private procedures. But for the most part our motions in class are guided by the intellect at work. ****** If we were periodically to nail to the doors of McDowell and Santa Fe Hall these sixteen negative theses, these inhibitions to institutional normalcy, what would we be saying to ourselves and to the country? We would, I think, be delineating a community ever mindful of the paradoxes of institutionalized learning. We would be committing ourselves, against all odds, to maintaining a school whose practices are absorbed, with the least residue, in its intellectual purposes. It is a purely gratuitous blessing that the ways that make us peculiar are also the that make us viable. ourselves the greater is the danger of our receding into the status of a two-hundred year old relic, destined to disappear in the wave of annihilation now threatening to engulf small liberal arts colleges. We are, it seems, in a wonderful position: The more we recur to what we were meant to be, the better are our chances of being at all. Eva T. H. Brann The Dean's statement appears in its entirety in the Reporter courtesy of an anonymous alumnus. �PAGE16 THE REPORTER St John's College T-shirt Collection These T-shirts are designed by artist Nancy Hammond of Hammond Edition, Annapolis, Maryland. The shirts are silkscreened in two colors and are 100% cotton. We hope you these light-hearted looks at life at St. John's College. Proceeds will benefit The Student Activities Fund and The Fund of the Ailtna1po11s campus. about "the numbers of students who are on the (economic) fringes now and would be squeezed out with a rise in tuition." He says he'd like to see any increase in tuition met with a proportionate increase in financial aid · High on the list of funding needs of the carnp.a1gn will be an endowment fund to provide low-interest loans to families, those in the middle income range may need extra spendable cash to send their child to St. John's. Santa Fe, is said to have a interest in the Great Books. St.John's College Annapolis A line is length without breadth -Euclid Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities -Aristotle: SI. John"s College Annapolis St. John's College St. John's College Annapolis Annapolis To Order, call 301-263-2371, x.240 and place your order, or fill out and mail the form below. SIZES Qty. Design 1 M L XL 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total shirts X $_____ each= Postage/handling $ 3. 00 Tax (5% in MD only) _ _ __ lshirt shirts or more $16.00each $14.50 each D MC/Visa Acct.#_ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Signature_ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Exp. 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In addition, 50% cotton, 50% polyester. travel for and staff has been eliminated, funds for professional ae1te11ovrne1at and cut, and tutor salaries frozen. Mr. praises the college commufor its cooperation, and encourages them to continue to reduce ope:I"atmg expenses. "It's the small like out and up phone numbers instead of that add up in a One of Carleton, and Mount where tuition pays 75 of the cost to educate a student, tuition at St. John's pays 62 percent of the costs in Annapolis. While maintaining the lowest faculty-student ratio in the country is not cost-effective, it is crucial to maintaining our program. Still, Mr. Nelson is especially concerned '-' L'""""·.u•. St. was a student at the University of Chicago. There he met Stringfellow Barr, a member of the newly-formed Committee to Form a World Constitution. With the help of his life-long friend, Stephen Benedict, A'47, Mr. Wofford helped Barr create the Foundation for World Government, whose mission was conceived and clarified through a series of seminars with Scott Buchanan. Inspired by one of their readings-Gandhi's autobiography-Mr. Wofford spent a year in India then returned home to earn a law degree at Howard University, the first white student ever to apply, and at Yale. Mr. Wofford was appointed to the staff of President's Eisenhower's Civil Rights Commission and then served as civil rights adviser to Senator John Kennedy in the presidential campaign of 1960. At his urging Mr. Kennedy phoned Coretta King, whose husband at that time was jailed because of an Atlanta sit-in. The call is alleged to have gained Mr. Kennedy decisive support in that election. Mr. Wofford was appointed civil rights adviser to the new president, and later assisted Sargent Shriver in founding the Peace Corps. To get field experience, he spent two years in Ethiopia. On his return, he organized conversations with Mr. Barr and Mr.Buchanan at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. These were published by the Center as Embers of the World, an invaluable resource for those interested in these men's ideas. He was the the first president of Old Westbury College in New York where he tried without success to establish a curriculum modeled after St. John's. From there he became president of Bryn Mawr College, a position he held for eight years. After an interval of practicing law in Philadelphia, Mr. WoffordenteredPennsylvania politics, serving as secretary of Commerce and Industry before entering the pivotal senatorial race. Behind by more than 40 percentage points in that contest six months ago, Mr. Wofford hit hard on the domestic issues facing the economically-pressed state. He pounded away on tax relief for the middle class, national health insurance, and benefits for the jobless. In one of his campaign commercials, Mr. Wofford is pictured in a doctor's office. "When members of Congress get sick, they don't have to come here," he said. can go to the Capitol physician free of charge. can get free physbl ood tests, work, even free time for national and not influenced Mr. Bush to a Asia Australia so he could concentrate blueprmttor the DECEMBER 1991 .9lfumni 'East (Continued from page two) 1978 Tito Coleman, wife Ann Lion and "astoundingly beautiful daughters Sara, 4, and Alison, 2," have lived in the Dominican Republic since 1987 and "find it hard to leave coral reefs, balmy weather and mangos and avocados in the yard in spite of only six hours of electricity a day and a deteriorating socioeconomic system." Tito manages the AIDS prevention program for USAID, Ann does the same for Family Planning, and "so together have monopolized Dominican sexual be,, The couple was earlier in Brazil with "to which a brief interlude in Washington, will most likely return in the event of a " Visitors include Dale and Marta Correspondence is very welcome c/o USAID/Santo Domingo, Washington, DC 20521-3470, FAX #809-687-9067. Teachout, who dropped out of St. John's one semester, has chronicled his case of freshman homesickness and much else in what a reviewer in the Washington Post Book World (October 13) called "a charming new memoir" City Limits: Memories of a. Small-Town Boy. The book, says reviewer Thomas Mallon, "is largely about Teachout's own happy childhood and, at least implicitly, about the way such early happiness may actually be a handicap during the short run of a young adulthood." 1980 Elizabeth Christian Banta, received her master's degree from Boston University in math and has been an actuary for the consulting finn of William and Merce in Seattle for two years. 1981 Joe and BJ. Sisson Roach now have three children, Kate, 9, Molly, 6, and Nicholas, 18 months. Joe just began his seventh year of teaching math and science at Tilton School in Tilton, NH. B.J. works part-time as a proofreader for a book composition company and also writes occasional articles for the opinion page of The Concord Monitor. Kurt Schuler is in his final year of work on a PhD in economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, V k He has been to Lithuania twice within the past year to discuss monetary reform with governmental officials and bankers. After 14 months of travel abroad, mostly in West Africa, Emi Sarah returning to Jerusalem in September where she lives, edits French and English publications for the National Academy of Science, and teaches gymnastics and aerobics. She has also published some essays and works of fiction. Her travel stint in Africa was followed by a three month transatlantic crossing in a 30 foot boat, bringing her to the U.S. last May. No one will be surprised to learn that during the summer she "rafted in Idaho, hiked in Montana, backpacked in Canada, kayaked in Washing ton and relaxed in Oregon," in addition to visiting with her family. Tel Aviv mail address: Geiger/Sasporte, Zamenhof 36, 64353 Tel Aviv, Israel. Tele: 972-3-5281435. In Houston, Anne Culotta has doffed her "lady lawyer suit and pumps in favor of the more casual uniform of the at-home mother, sweatpants and This ensemble goes with the be wearing as contractor on the renovation of our new house ... new to us; however it is older than God." She is assisted her own demolition around us, ducing old friends to it, should any yourselves down this way. Call us at 9476." Several of the party's leading presidential 1982 including Senator Bob of Nebraska and Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas, have already begun stressing Mr. Wofford's themes in their campaign. Leslie Smith Rosen and Nathan Rosen report that Samuel Kasmanoff Rosen was born April 29, joining sisters Marielle and Alyssa. (Continued on page 18) �REPORTER 1991 17 LESLI ALLISON (The following story by Lesli Alison, appointed in October as Director of Communications and Assistant to the President on the Santa Fe campus, appeared in the September 1,1991, edition ofThe New Mexican.) Imagine being transported to a new place where strangers try to engage you in lively, esoteric debate about topics you know little or nothing about. This is not a scene from Alice in Wonderland but from the freshman experience at St. John's College. The new students come from all across the country to experience one of the nation's leading schools in the study of Western thought. By the time they get to the first class, they aheady will have read the first six parts of The Iliad and tasted geometry according to Euclid. The summer reading list, however, does little to prepare the new students for the broader experience of attending a ................,.,r. ing college program in a unique community. Some never have been higher than the top of a building. Many students have never hiked at elevation above 10,000 feet or seen an adobe house. And few ever have participated in the intensive, seminar-style approach to education for which St John'shas distinguished itself. So this year, the college tried to buffer the blow of all the strange, new experiences with its first freshman orientation program. Designed to acquaint students with each other, the surrounding environment andeducation St. John's style, the program brings freshmen to campus a week early for a choice of three exploratory adventures. Participation is mandatory. This year's 116 freshmen had the option of bonding in the water at Heron Lake, in the mountains with an excursion to Puerto Nambe, or on the pavement on walking tours of Santa Fe, Bandelier and Los Alamos. Volunteer orientation leaders, consisting of 25 returning students and several tutors, accompanied the groups. "(The program) was initiated by students, tutors and admissions to provide a more thorough introduction to St. John's and the surrounding region," said Larry Clendenin, admissions director. "It's an opportunity to spend informal time together." About 40 of the students opted for the wilderness experience in the Sangre de Cristos. Riding a bus to the Santa Fe Ski Area, the students did not ponder the greater meanings of their future, but engaged in conversations on subjects ranging from pop singer Madonna to the nature of adobe brick. They aheady had learned one thing about the area-all those asked were impressed by the beauty of the city and environs. A returning student and the orientation leader for the Puerto N ambe venture, Patrick French seemed to understand what the freshmen were coming up against. "The first seminar was very intimidating for me because I didn't know any of my classmates or the tutors very well," he said. "So it made it a slightly 'harsh experience.... Seminars can be pretty intense if you don't know any of your classmates." Part of the difficulty lies in the fact that St. John's offers an approach to education foreign to most students who are fresh out of high school. The curriculum consists primarily of seminar studies in which students read and discuss at length books within the Western philosophical tradition, including math and science. It's more intense than other schools because of the nature of the dialogue and discussion," French said. In volunteering for the orientation program, French said he hoped to ease the transition for incoming students. Class (Continued from page two) shriek on behalf of us all in reaction to Friday lecturer Rosenblatt's description of the short run TV game show Neighbors, in which paired families grovel to tattle on each other for the sake of righteous bucks." Glenda Holladay Eoyang of St. Paul, Minnesota, is president of Excel Instruction, Inc. She credits the college with helping her develop the language and logic skills she uses to run a company, design, develop and present technical training, participate as a responsible member of family and community, consult with clients, and encourage the growth of employees. Erk Freeman, a technical writer in Glendora, California, travels frequently around the west with his wife, an awardwinning photographer and their three children. SJC has taught him that "no human "To drop in straight away into the program without an introduction or orientation can make it difficult. Hopefully, with this program, the students will be more relaxed during that first class." While students in the orientation program got acquainted and familiarized themselves with the area, they also gained a few essential skills that are relevant in the area. Participants in the Puerto Nambe excursion were taught fundamentals of outdoor safety from French and two other members of St. John's Search and Rescue. The team, which consists largely of St.John's students, is responsible for wilderness rescue operations in the Santa Fe area. "We (teach people) how to deal with the elements and the weather, which can change so suddenly in New Mexico. Someone from another area may not be expecting that," French said. "And there's high altitude sickness, which happens easily, and hypothermia. Also basic safety rules-you don't just wander off by yourself or disappear without telling anyone where you're going." As French's group prepared to traverse the spectacular alpine slopes of the Sangre de Cristo mountains for a four-day hike, a larger group of students sailed the cool waters of Heron Lake in the northern part of the state. "They will be spending time relaxing and enjoying the natural surroundings of that area, hiking, and we have some sailboats up there," Clendenin said. "And they'll be endeavor is outside my ability. I'm not 'cowed' by professionals or experts, because I've 'conversed' with the greatest minds of Western Civilization." He asks his classmates to look him up in southern California. Paula (Jean) Fulks of St. Louis, Missouri, a division attorney with the SW Bell Telephone Company, graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1979. "Practicing Iaw, especially in a corporation, is much like the SJC experienceone reads a little, thinks a little, talks it out with colleagues who feel as passionately as I do, and we wait for consensus to emerge. I still remember the college as the place where I grew up, and painful as that always is, the memory still glows with my affection for the people, The setting and the purpose." (Continued from page six) (To be continued in the March 1992 issue of The Reporter.) "injured" hikers. Hunting season has begun in the New Mexico mountains and the team was called to look for a hunter and his son in the Pecos Wilderness above Holy Ghost Campground. They were located in their camper around 5 a.m. by St. John's personnel. They had not told family members back home that they intended to stay an extra night. Most recently, the team was called to look for Ron Hale, former Director of Career Counseling at St. John's. Ron had been cutting wood in the mountains north of Pecos near Dalton Canyon and his truck got stuck on the jeep trail on his way home. He built a fire and spent the night until Patrick French, St. John's Field Operations Leader for the search, and his team found him around noon the following day. meeting in their orientation groups to discuss the upcoming year· as well as have discussions about readings." Those students who elected the walking tours of Santa Fe, Los Alamos Bradbury Science Museum and Bandelier National Monument got an insider's perspective on area history and culture. Local builder and architect John Cheek led students through Santa Fe on Thursday, with visits to such notable sites as the Palace of the Governors, Fenn Gallery and St. Francis Auditorium. Most incoming freshmen had visited Santa Fe only briefly prior to arriving for orientation last week. For most, the choice to attend St. John's was based on the type of education offered by the school. As students prepared their packs for the trek up Winsor Trail to Puerto Nambe, several discussed the rationale behind their choice. David Friebus of Wisconsin came because the St. John's education is just what he was looking for. "I want to read all the books that are on the list and discuss them," he said. "Just the whole way the program is set up is the best way to go about learning, the best way to go about getting a real education. It seemed like the way a lot of universities are set up, you just sit in a lecture hall and get lectured at. And that was never for me. I'd either skip out or fall asleep." Aaili Liikane of Washington, who spent last summerin Santa Fe withherfamily, also made her decision based on the nature of the program. "I really wanted to go because the program's so unique," she said. "Ireallylike the small size and the whole idea of having your own interpretation of what you 're reading. I just think I'm here because I want to say what I think clearly and have confidence in what I'm saying, to be able to interpret things on my own and not always be looking to other people to find the answers." Aysha Massell from California is out to battle society's cruelties. "I hate Western civilization, It's a big problem, I know, because it's all western thought (at St. John's) andlkindofresolved it with myself, because if I want to do something about (Western civilization) then I have to know what I'm talking about." Besides the academic program, the school's location in Santa Fe was a plus for most students. "I love it here," said Joel (Brick) Art of Iowa. "It's absolutely beautiful." In the parking lot of the Santa Fe Ski Area, the students tugged the pack strings tight and gathered in a large circle for introductions and a final safety talk under cloudy skies. Then, with packs loaded, boots on and canteens filled, they set out on the trail, soon to discover that air is a little thinner at 10,000 feet. Whether high elevation makes for clearer thoughts, they will find out over the next four years. �PAGE18 THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1991 !Festive opening Guests delicacies and enjoyed works on display in "Secessionism and Austrian Graphic 1900-1920," the opening exhibit at the Mitchell Gallery in September. added Leslie Mitchell Gallery staff Leslie Zelamsky of Baltimore has recently joined the Mitchell Art Gallery as an exhibits preparator. She replaces Kent Bailey, who is pursuing his career as a sculptor. Ms. Zelamsky, a former exhibits installer for the Bronx Museum of Arts, has handled the work of such artists as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Fernando Botero and others. She also curated and installed exhibitions in the museum's Education Gallery. A painter and sculptor, Ms. Zelamsky installs her own pieces when they are in a show. "I have been very much involv~d in dismantling, packing, shipping and installing art on a personal level." Ms. Zelamsky was awarded a full tuition scholarship to the Cooper Union School of Art wherein 1987 sheeamedherbachelor's degree. She continued her studies on scholarship at the Maryland Institute College of Art; in 1991 she was awarded her masters of fine arts degree there. She also studied in the Parsons School of Design Summer Program. She has been the artist-in-residence at the School 33 Art Center in Baltimore. Last summer Ms. Zelamsky taught in both the "Kids in College" children's program at Anne Arundel Community College, and the Museum of Contemporary Arts, an art program for children based on community outreach, in Baltimore. President Christopher Nelson and his wife honored guests Austrian Minister Otto Ditz "Secessionist" exhibit. December 31, 1991, could mark the end of a one year exemption granted by Congress for special tax treatment for gifts of selected tangible personal property, such as works of art, to organizations like St. John's eollege. Under existing law, a donor may: receive a full fair market value deduction for income tax purposes: • pay no tax on the appreciation in the property given; and • avoid reporting the appreciation for alternative minimum tax calculations. The alternative minimum tax consideration is scheduled to change in 1992. The College is prepared to receive selected gifts of tangible personal property prior to the end of this year. Call the Advancement Office on either campus. Annapolis (410)626-2505; Santa Fe (505)982-3691. 1989 Nathaniel Frederick was born May 24 to Mriioh~m Bechtel and wife Mary Beth. Sister Morgan Elizabeth is almost two. George Turner is selling shoes and is in a management training program at Payless Shoe Store. Ty reports that he is a window installer. 1985 The vivid oil and watercolor landscapes~ from Mexico and southern France by Michael Slakey were shown in the gallery at Willowdreams in Annapolis in June and July. Devon Alexis was born to Maria Kowalczyk Sheldon and Dale Sheldon on March 18, 1991. 1986 Ken Shen of Bethel Park, PA, works as a computer programmer for the Mellon Bank. Christopher L. Stevenson is studying agricultural economics at Cornell. J'Laine Robnolt is married to Andy Fox and is completing anM.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arkansas. 1987 John Thomas Sellers is back from a sevenmonth sojourn in Nigeria as a personal services contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Mariam Nightengale has joined the Peace Corps. After completing training in the Cameroons, she will be located in the Central African Republic as a secondary school math teacher. She would welcome mail c/o Corps de la Paix, B.P. 1080, Bangui, Republique Centrafricaine, Bangui, Africa. 1991 Afterleaving St. John's in 1989, LCPL Russ Dibble joined the United States Marines, and on Dec. 22, 1990, found himself with the First Battalion of Eighth Marines at the Port of Al Jubayl. When the ground war began, it took four days f9r his battalion to get to Kuwait City, 100 miles to tpe north. The cease-fire came on the third or fourth night. His group spent many subsequent weeks near an experimental farm outside Kuwait City, mostly clearing out Iraqi bunkers. Essentially, he said, it was "just one big POW processing," because the Iraqis generally surrendered immediately. At the Iraqi fortifications on the border between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, the Iraqis were waiting with their hands up. In an environment of burning oil fields, and for one period, continuous rain-black with oil soot-"you come to understand what your inner needs are," Russ said, "and what you'll do to fulfill them." The experience "changes your perception about what is important"-and one of the important things was "what to do to keep your body moving." Parent Weekend in November, with 224 and 111 part, was the "biggest ever," according to chairman Betsy ......11u1c;;, director of Alumni Activities. Students at the Saturday luncheon with their parents are, at top, junior Therese Umerlik, with Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Umerlik of Columbia, Maryland, and above, sophomore Darcy Christ, with his father Alex Christ of Ontario, Canada. Class visits and parent seminars were other events. Keith Harvey The students �David Lachterman David Lachterman enrolled at St. John's in 1961. After only a few weeks everyone knew him: if you were in his classes, you could see his quickness and - his extraordinary gift for languages; if you went to the weekend parties, you could see his spectacularly sinuous dancing in the basement of Campbell. He knew all of Chase and Phillips (the Greek text) within a few weeks of his matriculation. fu his junior year he met weekly with Mr. Kaplan to learn German; and two or three years later, his translation of some essays by Max Scheler was published fu other subjects too he had the trick memory of a scholar. He read quickly and remembered everything. At times, this gift of memory worried him. He thought he might be all memory without comprehension, a combination of Talmudic scholar and Meno. Like other people of unusual talent, he was flattered by some and envied by others. He had a hard time seeing his gifts clearly, their extent and their limits. In his senior year he won the essay prize, doing a translation and commentary on Plato's Charmides, the only such work then available in English. But he did not win a Rhodes scholarship, despite coming out for intramural sports. (We were sure that he was beaten out by Bill Bradley, presently a senator from New Jersey.) After his graduation in 1965, he became one of those special St. John's legends, a graduate who almost was membered given "summa" honors. After graduation in 1965, David went to Harvard to study philosophy and classics. He taught at several schools, wrote many articles and gave many lectures. Recently, David had settled in at Penn State. His last work was a book, The Ethics of Geometry which grew out of the work he began at St. John's with Jacob Klein's book, Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origins of Modern Algebra. David's book is very good. He was schoouled to come to Annapolis to talk about it. Some of us planned to organize a reading group on the book. But David cancelled his visit; he had developed a stomach cancer. Despite a long and difficult time in the hospital last winter and despite heart problems (problems that led to by-pass surgery eight or 10 years ago), while in the hospital he still had the look of a high school boy in a play who puts flour on his hair to look like an old man. He was unable to speak for several months and worried that the damage to his voice might be permanent. He wrote notes to visitors; he asked about others' worries and he wrote about Samuel, his son. He finally made it out of the hospital, and he recovered his voice--at least enough to talk on the phone--but he never regained his full strength. He died May 24, 1991. He was 47 years old. John White, A '66, tutor at Annapolis Seminar set- Stanley Rosen and Eva Brann will co-lead a seminar in memory of David Lachterman (1944-1991) at 10 a.m. Saturday, January 11, 1992, in the Conversation Room at Annapolis. The text will be Mr. Lachterman 's article "What is 'The Good' of Plato's Republic?" All members of the community are invited. A reception follows. McClintock (Continued from page 8) shoals of the Chesapeake Bay on a boat he hauled up from the bottom and restored. They talked, too, about the war that galvanized and divided their generation and changed the course of their country. And they speculated on why Jim might have gone to that war, when so many others for so many reasons opted out. They laughed loudly and wept a little, while the time and space that had separated them gradually melted away. A few hours later, a group of them descended on the Boathouse to nail up a small, tasteful and contraband plaque. It read: James R. McClintock, A '65 mathematician teacher boatbuilder Lost in Vietnam in 1968 Remembered by his classmates "Jim was the quintessential American, carved out of the native Oak," said Jethro Eisenstein, now a lawyer from New York City. "A myth had grown up in our minds about him, but together we were able to see him as a complete person, and to share this unresolved loss. It was incredibly powerful, and it brought a kind of closure." Said Jim's roommate Lincoln Castricone, now a practicing psychologist in Cincinnati, "We shared a lot of memories of him and the fun we had then and the love we had for each other. It was very healing." The service for Jim allowed his friends to talk about him and then to move on to other things-"to what's important in life, to our feelings about that time, and about St. John's," said photographer Vivian Ronay. Remembering Jim together was the central event in the three-day period that Jethro Eisenstein called "an out-of-time experience." Extraordinary the weekend surely was, beginning with the fact that while other highlighted reunions were falling in ex- pected five year increments, this one waswait a minute--the 26th, and classmates were returning in astounding numbers. Last year the class of 1965, nine of them, got together on schedule for their 25th reunion andhad such a good time they decided to "do it again next year and get everyone to come." Most important, they had developed some momentum. Jethro Eisenstein remembers receiving three urgent letters from friends about the reunion. Gradually, for those still haunted by the loss of Jim McClintock, planners began to think about having a memorial service for him as the centerpiece. It was the central moment of healing and togetherness, but there were also other moments. The class first assembled Friday night in the storied atrium of the Calvert House, again for lunch Saturday in McDowell Hall, their numbers swollen by now to 46 with the addition of husbands and wives and kids, afterwards for the seminar on "Antigone" led by Curtis Wilson, and at the end of the day for what Sharon Bishop called "the EIDOS of rock and roll," a party that rattled the windows of the Boat House Saturday night. The class of 1965 danced with "the same abandon" of the old days. Conversations went on past midnight, out on the porch and down on the boathouse docks, as friends who hadn't seen-and maybe even spoken to-one another in a quarter of a century had too much to say to call it quits. "People talked the same and danced the same as they did 30 years ago," said Lincoln Castricone. "It was amazing. But we didn't stay up as late as we used to." They stayed up late enough, though. Jethro Eisenstein got back to his hotel, exhilarated, at 2 a.m. "I was incredibly contented," he said "I have never had a day so perfectly rounded." Vivian Ronay's summation: "A legendary experience." OBITUARIES Andrew David Steiner: lawyer, businessman Andrew David Steiner, 49, A'63, an active alumnus of the college and a wellknown Philadelphia businessman, was killed in a traffic accident October 2 while driving to work. The new president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Alumni Association, Mr. Steiner was a man of many interests. He studied philosophy at Temple University and read voraciously. He also played tennis and enjoyed fishing. A 1966 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Mr. Steiner chose not to practice law, but instead, took over management of the Natural Health Products Corps, which manufactures vitamins and owns and operates a chain of vitamin stores, a business started by his father. He also served on the board of several other corporations. The ninth grade class at Germantown Academy where his son, Andrew, Jr., was a student, has made a memorial gift in the Andrew D. Steiner memory of Mr. Steiner and in honor of their classmate. In addition to his son, Mr. Steiner is survived by his wife, Lenore Henly Steiner, a daughter Rebecca, his parents, Raymond and Marion, and a sister. William H. Brubeck: State Department official William H. Brubeck, A '44, a State Department official under President Kennedy, died at his home in Montisi, Italy, on April 25. After graduation from St. John's, Mr. Brubeck took a PhD at Harvard in political theory, taught briefly at Williams College, and then went to Washington to work in the office of Congresswoman Edith Green, and to push for Home Rule for the District of Columbia. He joined the Kennedy campaign in 1960 and was co-director of the campaign's research operation. Subsequently, he became assistant to Chester Bowles in the Department of State, and then executive secretary of the Department under Dean Rusk. He next moved to the White House as a member of McGeorge Bundy's National Security Council staff, with principal responsibilities for Canada and Africa. After Kennedy's death, he joined the Foreign Service and was posted to London, Jordan and Morocco. Back in Washington, he spent several years in the State Department working on the Arab-Israeli problem, and, according to his wife, retained a passionate interest in solving that problem to the end of his life. After retirement in 1978, he worked for several years as assistant editor of Daedalus in Cambridge, MA. Affirming that her husband loved St. John's, Mrs. Brubeck comments that the basic understanding that he gained through its program served him well throughout his life. He was always able, she writes, to absorb material, criticize sources and content, and organize and use new information to expand his picture of the world. "He saw clearly, perhaps too clearly for many, the follies and vanities of the great and felt for the suffering of the poor and weak," she writes. "He worked to get afair presentation of the Palestinian case, which he felt was sadly lacking in the country, and without which this country would be unable to contribute to any lasting solution ofthe Middle East problems." In addition to his wife Lois, Mr. Brubeck is survived by four children, Marcia Ellen Brubeck of Hartford, CT, Kate Brubeck of Berkeley, CA, Meredith Brubeck of Washington, DC, a son Michael, presently in Italy, and a sister, Mrs. James Shelton of Torrance, CA. Robert B. Pool: All-American lacrosse player Robert B. Pool, A'31, an All-American attack man for the St. John's College lacrosse team and a high school and college coach, died at age 82 in Willingboro, NJ, July 22. At St. John's, Mr. Pool played on lacrosse teams that won one national open title and two intercollegiate championships. fu 1931, he was captain of the team which was undefeated in regular play and then won the Lally Cup by defeating an all-star Canadian team. In his subsequent coaching career, he was at Harvard University from 1931-1935, and until World War Il coached at the secondary level in Baltimore. In 1963, he was elected both to the Lacrosse Hall of Fame and the Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame. After war work in industry, he had sales jobs and owned a sporting goods store. He was later a social worker for the state health department. Mr. Pool is survived by his wife, the former Dorothy Cann, a son Robert B. Pool Il, a daughter Nancy Pool Goodwin, a sister, two brothers, two grandchildren and a greatgrandson. Barbara W. McGrath: civic, cultural supporter A memorial service was held November 10 in the Great Hall of McDowell Hall for Barbara Wilder McGrath, wife of Tutor Emeritus Hugh McGrath, who died of cancer October 5 at her home. She was 75. Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Mrs. McGrath grew up in Indiana and attended the University of Chicago and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London where she mether future husband. Married in 1942, the couple moved to Annapolis in 1947 where he joined the College faculty. Mrs. McGrath was a founder the Colonial Players in Annapolis and directed a number of productions at the thriving community theater. She was also active in local politics as an officer in the Reform Democratic Club and the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. She was a longtime member of the Caritas Society of St.John's College, an Annapolis group which raises funds for student emergencies. Memorial contributions may be made to that organization. fu addition to her husband, Mrs. McGrath is survived by two sons, Peter McGrath of Pelham Manor, NY, and Brian McGrath of Canada, one daughter, Barbara McGrath of Philadelphia, five grandchildren, two sisters, and one brother. �"The Old Master Drawings from the Feitelson Collection," a rarely-viewed selection of Old Master Renaissance, Baroque and Mannerist drawings, will be on display at the Mitchell Gallery from Friday, January 17 to Friday, February 28. Organized by the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the selection of 41 works spans the 16th through 19th centuries. Most are Italian in origin, with the exception of three from Northern Europe by Hans Rottenhammer, Anthony van Dyck, and Govaert Flinck. The Feitelson Collection, a group of about 190 works, was amassed over two decades by two well-known Los Angeles painters, Loser and Helen Feitelson. From these works of art, UCSB art professor Alfred Moir, a scholar of 17th century Italian painting and a connoisseur of drawings, selected the art for this exhibition. As Professor Moir points out, the Feitelsons bought perceptively. They acquired drawings that were difficult and even unfashionable, yet always interesting. For example, they purchased 16th century Mannerist drawings before that period was rediscovered by scholars and critics. They bought without regard although many famous artists are represented in both the collection and the works exhibited; outstanding Genoese artist Luca Cambiaso, the great inventor Annibale Carracci, Luca Giordano, and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Cleaning and repairing by well-respected paper conservator Victoria has returned many of these drawings to a level of quality unsuspected before. During the restoration, additional drawings that had been glued to their mounts were discovered on the backs of some sheets. "Old Master Drawings from the Feitelson Collection" is a legacy of exceptional art collecting and restoration. Three new tutors, Bruce H. Ralph Lewis, and Charles N. Fasanaro have been named to the faculty at Santa Fe. Bruce Sawhill, a former consultant to in California, design robotic planning in He has worked for a of mathematical and cornptiter Sawhill has also been a lecturer at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. 1986-87, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Universitat Karlsruhe in West Germany and a scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Munich. A graduate of Stanford University, Mr. Sawhill earned a bachelor of science degree in physics and a bachelor of arts degree in music. Later, he was awarded his doctorate in physics, with emphasis on high· energy particle physics and computational physics from the university. Fluent in languages, the new tutor speaks German, French, Spanish and Italian. Currently his personal interest is using the scattering and lattice field theories of physics to optimize acoustic design of concert halls. H. Ralph Lewis was a longtime employee of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and from 1983-1987 a fellow there and a deputy group leader of their magnetic fusion group. Beginning in 1987, he was an adjunct professor of nuclear engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He has recently also been a visiting professor at universities in England, France, and South Africa. From 1960-63, he taught physics at Princeton University. He was a research associate in theoretical nuclear physics at the University of Heidelberg from 1958-60. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. Charles N. Fasana:ro is a former associate professor at the Center for Creative Philosophies, in Boulder, Colorado. He was a postdoctoral fellow of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, from 1983-83. He has taught courses in phenomenology, Foucault, process thought, philosophy of science, writing and ethics. He has written extensively on 20th century philosophy for textbooks, and is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the American Academy of Religion, and the Institute for Advanced Philosophic Research. Two new tutors, Diane Rennell and Pamela Long, have been named to the at the AE111a1po11s University of Texas at Austin. Cornell University with an AB in 1.1v.1..1.u.......... she attended the American Classical Studies in Athens. She earned her master's degree and doctorate in classical languages and literature at the University of Chicag'o. A self-proclaimed lover of languages, Ms. Rennell has studied Latin, Greek, and Italian. In addition to teaching, Ms. Rennell has been a journalist, writing and editing for a newspaper in Washington state. Recently, she consulted on educational issues for ·a national trade association. She has spent the summer teaching parttime at the Graduate Institute and mountain climbing in the Alpine Wilderness in Washington. Pamela Long graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1965 Cloud of with a BA and in 1969 with a master's degree, both in history. For the next seven she worked in social services, ITI1,Jf':r',~1TI.T in 1971. mation .hwrop1ean University awarded a to Italy. In 1980-81 she had a post-doctoral fellowship at Cornell University and then taught history and the history of science at both Barnard College and St. Mary's College of Maryland. In 1987, she was awarded a National Scieiice Foundation Grant, which she will renew this fall. In the summer of 1989, she had a fellowship to work at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Her work has been published in the Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Technology and Culture. She is the editor of Science and Technology in Medieval Society, published in 1985 by the New York Academy of Sciences. Herbert London, Rjchard Berkowitz on Board of Visitors and Governors Two men, Herbert I. London and Richard E. Berkowitz, were named members of the _Board of Visitors and Governors at its October meeting. Mr. London was the founder in 1972 and is dean of the GallatinDivision of New York University, which was organized to promote the study of great books and classic texts. A 1960 graduate of Columbia University, he received his PhD from New York University where he is a tenured professor of social studies. His work has appeared in many major newspapers and journals, including The New York Times, Commentary, and The Washington Post. His book Myths that Rule America inspired an NBC television series, and he also created a 47-part CBS series called "The American Character." He has been a guest lecturer on many major radio and television news programs and has appeared as co-host on the popular CNN program "Crossfire." Mr. Berkowitz has been for the past year the senior vice president of Institutional Sales at Oppenheimer & Company in Atlanta. For 20 years before that, he was vice president of Institutional Sales at Drexel Burnham Lambert. A graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, he received his law degree from the University of Miami in 1960. He joined Courts & Company after graduation and became a general partner before he left in 1970. Active in the President's Commission on White House Fellowships, he serves as commission member, chairman of the Fundraising Subcommittee and member of the Finance Committee. He has served on a number of other boards and foundations, including the George Bush for President National Finance Committee. 1986) Edwin J. ueJtam:e--me both campuses-is an recognized authority on street gangs, urban crime, and police efforts to curb these. "He is often on the streets nn"'"'"""'' .... "" ers," according to an October 9 article in The Boston Globe. Mr. Delattre, who works with gang members and violent criminals in maximum-securi ty prisons, came to "a chilling understanding" of how he thinks they work, says writer Charles A. Raden. Mr. Delattre says he has never talked to a criminal who denied that he committed the crime, denied that he had a fair trial, denied that the testimony was the truth. But in every case such criminals deny they belong in prison, he says. Why? They insist that in the beginning of time nobody owned anything or had anything. "The only way to get anything was to take it." Supporting his bleak assertions with figures, he noted that 26 per cent of all children in the country are born and raised fatherless, and some of those "are thrown together in large numbers in living conditions so stark most people can't even imagine," he says. The attitudes he describes are not readily reversible, he says. "In some of these youth, the savagery and contempt are so deepseated that the chance for redemptory love and connections are negligible...Y ou don't reverse attitudes like that except by getting there first," he says. A frequent lecturer at the FBI Academy in Washington, Mr. Delattre also makes many appearances at police seminars across the country. He began working with police officers on ethical issues in 1975 as a philosophy professor at the University of Toledo, and his first course of 80 students had grown to 750 18 months later. Lectures and seminars include the ethical convictions of the Founders, move to the Federalist Papers, and then to an examination of those values the officers claim they prize most. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The St. John's Reporter</em> Description An account of the resource College newspaper which started publication in 1974. Continued publication into 2000. 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Nelson, a member of the only family to have three generations attend St. John's College under the new program, will be inducted as its 23rd president in inaugural ceremonies October 18 in Annapolis. ....,,...,..,....,,,,.,.. •.., m;;itnagmtg partner in a Chicago gra~luate of the Santa Fe campus, Mr. Nelson was selected after a pre:s1clentia1 search in a which President stiviti s set for 0 tober 8 nist Garrick Ohlsson. Mr. Ohlsson, a high school classmate of Mr. Nelson's from White New appears reguas both recitalist and orchestral soloist in the great concert halls of the world. his own admission a Mr. certos, but he consid- the first alumni gave us the take part in lab demonstrations by alumni and tutors, discuss questions of mind and machine, and of the computer in the argue about of the liberal arts. emeritus Tom Simpson, A'50, originator of the idea for the Symposium, and its architect, urged that "we OPJDorturntv - maybe even, a to draw together our D&:K~roumaandoureXJJen.en<;e September 1991 phony resulted in Grammy nominations in both 1990 and 1991. After the academic procession, the Small Chorus under the direction of Ernest Green will sing Vaughan Williams' .... u.uvaJu. "O Taste and and Mozart's brief motet, "Ave Verum Dean Eva Brann will ceremony and deliver QTe:ettrn;!. Others to who entered The Julliard School of Music at age he was a Gold Medal winner at the 1970 in VJ.,,,,...,.,..n, an that assured his international stature. More his with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Seattle Sym- Dyal, who served the campus from 1986-1990, and Santa Fe President John Also among the honored guests will be Dr. Richard D. of the Arnaap1011s campus from 1949-1980. The Rev. Charles President for 27 as well as on what we have called 'mathematics'?" The structure resembled that of the St. John's with two evening seminars, afternoon preceptorials, and morning laboratory sessions. Thanks to an almost overwhelming variety of software and readings, we maintained a relentless pace throughout the week, and managed to touch on language, science, music, and philosophy. This grand tour left many participants breathless, and a few of us sleepless, but made for lively conversations, especially during our summary session on the last day. The centerpiece of the Symposium was a well-equipped computer lab comprising four IBM-compatible PC two IJ'"'.l..n... ..,............ ap- anand frequency or period on the computer screen. The apparatus and software together make investigating the effects of different release points, swing lengths, and bob weights simple. This seemed a kinder, gentler version of our experiences with protractor, and ruler at St. John's, but we mused on whether something "civilizing" one's exmight also be lost perience with the pendulum. Next, Mark Middlebrook, A'83, showed several ways of experimenting with the logistic equation, the Mandelbrot set, and cellular automata. Each of these are mathematical phenomena from chaos theory, a new, multi-disciplinary study which attempts to make sense of seemingly random complex data, and which shows how in the ways of the modem on their " Mr. :sunpimn with the assistance strated ways of of The programs sends pulses to an interface which relays the data to a Macintosh computer. Soft- IJV,>H.l.•VU, years of Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana, and a friend of the president-elect, will deliver the invocation. St. Joseph's College, on whose advisory board Mr. Nelson sits, also has a program in the great books which is required of all students. It has been cited for excellence in education by the Carnegie Foundation and by the National Endowment for the Humanities in its widely-heralded report, a Core College Students. a rep1resentaw1e dent and Universities. Chairman of the Board of Visitors will adGovernors Donald J. Maciver his minister the oath of office. Mr. Nelson will deliver his an uncle the benedicMr. Nelson is a senior Street Church in as dean effects can result from James Gleick's CHAOS: u .... ,,.,,..... "'· was our vehicle for exploring chaos, and the lab's computer screens frequently were· aglow with the filigreed margins of the Mandelbrot set or the churning activity of a cellular automaton. Tom Simpson wondered whether the Mandelbrot set be the "new polygons" (fig. 1), and worried about the possible consequences of leaving these seemingly animated cellular automata running unattended. Peter McClard, SF'83 led the first of two sessions on music and the computer. He demonstrated Pixound and Hyperchord, tvvo software programs for Amiga and IB1'/{compatible computers which he develops <..:onmrne·a on page ) �1939 Retired from Bauer Aeros.pa<;e is a member of SCORE, cowiselling yowig people to go into business. His firm, a designer and manufacturer of test equiment and support devices for the aviation market, was formally bought out by the Woodward Governor Company in Frank Bauer's father started Bauer & Company in 1916, and beginning in 1947, Frank himself guided the firm for many years. It became Bauer Aerospace in 1983. 1941 After 15 years of service, Dr. Bill Hatfield retired in December, 1987, from a position as director in the Virginia Health Department, and a week later suffered a stroke, an illness which will keep him from the reunion. After three years in Annapolis as a tutor, he left in 1949, and then embarked on a curcuitous journey: he first spent five in underwater weapons research in a research laboratory; next a in the Department of year at Johns Chemistry; then got an M.D. from the University of Maryland, spent three years in a pediatrics residency, and practiced that specialty for a number of years in Tennessee, Virginia, and and he earned a master's at the of going to the Uepartmtmt. He looks back Tribes he also thinks he is "going native." "Which means I busy, thinning out my collection of old things to make room for my collection of new things." 1953 As a student of the techniques of early wood craftsmen, Lawyer John D. Alexander was the subject of a major profile in the morning Baltimore Sun in March. "He studies, teaches and philosophizes about the techniques of early craftsmen," wrote the interviewer. In July, Mr. Alexander was to offer a class in joinery, the technique of joining two carefully shaped pieces of wood of different thickness with wood pegs, a skill many hwidreds of years old. After studying the technique for almost 10 years, only now did he feel ready to offer the course to others. He has made about 50 postand-rung ladder back chairs in various styles, according to the interview, as well as some stickback Windsor chairs. In 1978, he published a how-to book called Make a Chair From a Tree: an Introduction to Working Green Wood. Mr. Alexander is the son of John Alexan.der A'20. 1965 "Hope to see lots of folks in ~e1Jte1nb~er at Homecoming. We had a time last year and plan to have even more fun this time. Come one, come all," writes Van Arsdale Brooks also reJJ1ortmg rre:snn1an at the Mt. Sinai School this fall. She has spent the last two and a half new and old, and I Tanya, 22, and 24." She happy to communicate with ing a career in medicine, old friends from Santa Fe. Write to her at4703 Beach47th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11224 1976 College ....,.., ..... present .n.1-•1-1'-'ll"-'"" Defender the Wyoming State Public Defender's Office. Since 1989, she has also \.J. . .JJL ill ship from ·"'11rnr111~"' Urr1vers11-:v begin work in Ueprutment ligion. He would like to nies, especially anyone in the -.::""""" 1 '"'"' 1980 Bill Day and Kate Lufkin are associate settled in Gladstone, NJ, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Bill will be teaching in Literature and Humanities, Columbia's Great Books Program beginning in September while he finishes his doctorate. "Nobody brags about St. John's for the ministry (in spite of Winfree Brother Robert)," she writes, "but I'm for education there " are Helen, 4, and in touch with the As.bm101·~es and and heard from Keefe Ja\.01.11.11~. love to hear from friends 1978 before the days of Alcoholics Anomrmcms. Since he retired seven years ago as chairman of Benton & 1984 1971 ..., ..... .., ....,.,.... Benedict, who started and for 10 masters' arts adminisis editor of tration at Columbia Public and the Muse, on FundPUl)l1s1neo this year by W.W. timely book, sponsoirea the American a center for policy studies at Columbia, examines the cornro1ve1v surrounding an NEA exhibit as as the Mapplethorpe exhibit, and assesses "the broad questions [raised] for the 1990s aboutthe often uneasy relations between 201ifen11ment and the arts it supports." In Benedict testified at congressional appropriations hearings in Washington, describing a November 1990 public affairs forum for rer>re~;en1tabves from many venues who underscored the NEA responsibility to protect freedom of artistic expression. 1951 After leaving SJC, Charles E. spent four years in the Air Force, 15 years private industry, and nearly 25 with the Social Security Administration in the· disability, adjudication and policy area at Woodlawn, MD. Now retired, he and his wife live in Towson, MD and enjoy travelling and spending time with their children and grandchildren. "Aging gracefully in Tempe, Arizona, where we have retired from a lifetime of teaching history and philosophy in Nigeria, Iran and Yeman. The sun is warm, the pools are cool and jazz abounds," writes John F. Home, Jr. He is rereading the program "sort of," but he misses the chalk and give and take of classroom discussion. 5631 S. Admiralty Ct., #8, Tempe, AZ 85283. From being a stay-at-home, he has become a gadabout, Howard Herman reports, adding to his itinerary museum-hopping in Tulsa and art gallery hopping in Oklahoma City; after the Red Earth Festival of North American Indian NanrJius, editor, Donna Boetig, assistant editor Wye Allanbroo Bet~y Blume, John Christensen, Beniamin Milner, Brother R rt Snith, and Elliott Zuckerman, adVlsory board. The Reporter ~ P.Ublished by the News and information Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. Christopher B. Nelson, president. Published four times a year, in M~pJ June, September and December. Second-class pos~e paiu in Annapolis, MD. USPS 018-750 He received his PhD in mathematical from Johns He has made many contributions to 1972 Leslie Starr recently won a national audition to become principal oboist of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. 1973 Peter Aronson, M.D., was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Tuberous Sclerosis Association at their annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The organization is dedicated to eliminating the devastating effects of TS, a genetic disorder that affects nearly three quarters of a million people in this country. Dr. Aronson is an assistant professor of dermatology at Wayne State University in Detroit, with a specialty in allergic dermatoses and pigmentary disorders of the skin. He lives in Birmingham, MI, with his wife and four-year-old daughter. 1974 Air Force Major Roger C. Burk is working at the University of North Carolina on a doctorate in operations research, a branch of applied math dealing with mathematically formulating and then solving practical problems from business, public services, military operations, etc. When he receives his degree, he will join the foculty of the Air Force Institute of Technology at Dayton, OH. Robin Kowalchuk Burk is working on an MBA at UNC. Charity Burk, a rising sophomore, "to her bemused parents shows no signs of interest in a St. John's-type education." But for Roger, UNC "feels a lot like St. John's-old brick buildings, brick walks across tree-shaded lawns, squirrels-only it's 20 times larger. My department is small and intimate, however [and] housed in a building as old as Randall but not as well kept up." (Continued on page 11) 23, 1991, issue graamLtes who have not will be Kn«JCKm,g The business world will affirm and reaffum its belief in .......,.,.,. ..,..,,.,. The liberal arts to convince his future errml1Dv<~r or sociology or a bit of math, he can do """"'-...: 11-"''"''" a little honesty on both sides a liberal education may be of inestimable benefit to the its immediate apparent-a doctor is not a better doctor because he has read Homer in the Greek. Such an education may well contribute to an individual's edification during his professional life-but that's really beside the to the en:Lpl,Dyrne11t officer looking at the recent on the other side of the desk. Sensing that it has a hard case to make in the face of the natural skepticism of the business community, liberal education has come up with some ready, but shaky, responses. The first involves "skills." "No, our graduates have not studied or business law or marketing, but they have high intelligence and have developed truly useful skills, skills of thinking, speaking, communicating. Their combination of brains and skills makes them fast learners and universally helpful." This isn't a totally useless argument, but the business community usually needs more than skills. It needs employees with "content" as well. And business and technical programs have been able to attract increasingly impressive students over the years; their graduates have native ability, skills and useful knowledge. The second line of defense for liberal arts graduates is to argue that what they know is useful, even if not technical. That knowledge of literature and English, of philosophy and history, of mathematics and science gives their minds a kind of furnishing that has social and economic utility if properly directed. Through reading and study, the liberally educated candidate may actually know more than others about human nature, its limits, and the achievements of men and their failures. He or she may best be able to grow on the job, to adjust to changes, write more powerfully, see problems and propose solutions more cogently, work independently and not fear to explore the limits of technical expertise. These kinds of things one can learn from studying history, literature or philosophy. It is no surprise that the top executives of the nation's best companies have been, far more often than not, educated in the liberal arts, not a technical field. But caution is in order. If what the liberal arts graduate studied under the guise of a liberal education was nothing more than the latest of fashionable attacks on Western civilization, or if his philosohy and literature courses did not teach him to learn from the world's great thinkers and writers but, rather, to play theoretical games, treating all ideas as "culture-bound" or exressions of authorial prejudices, or if he was taught that all history is really the history of oppression and oppressed groups, then you probably have before you a person who knows less than the most narrowly focused business-school graduate. So much academic garbage 1-''-'A<>VJL.W.A (Continued on page nine) �NANCYOSlliS Christ:opltler B. Nelson and be at the at age 76. The 50th <>nn1uPr<-<>•~r teaching career is now and his memory will be honored in word and deed during Homecoming September 27 to September 29. Tribute will be paid to him at the Alumni Association meeting Saturday morning, and the Homecoming Seminars Saturday afternoon will be dedicated to him. Three of the four seminars will be on papers he has written: "Aristotle's Ethics," "The Teaching of Religion," and "Our American Republic." (The fourth seminar will be on "Exordium" and "Eulogy on Abraham" from Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard.) The Homecoming Lecture at 8: 15 p.m. Friday in the FSK Auditorium honors Peter von Blanckenhagen, a distinguished art historian and Greek and Latin archeologist, who lectured frequently at the College before his death last year. The speaker will be Ellen Davis, A '60, associate professor of art history at Queens College, City University of New York, and her subject is "Story-Telling with Pictures: A Greek Invention." Her generously slide-illustrated lecture will show how Athenian artists of the Archaic Period developed the art of pictorial narration, freely departing from traditional storylines when it suited them. At Saturday Night's Homecoming Banquet in Randall Hall, three members of the College community will be given special recognition. Jerome Lapides of Annapolis and Santa Fe, a longtime member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, will be named to Honorary membership in the College Alumni Association; two alumni, John reunion events are for seven reunion classes and the Graduate Institute. While many alumni will join students before the Night Lecture for an informal 5:30 p.m. supper in Randall the 50th reunivu class of 1941 will hold its banquet that night in the private dining room. Luncheons are planned for the classes of 1951, 1956, 1965, 1966and1981; other alumni are invited to a buffet luncheon in Randall Hall. The traditional Graduate Institute Tea will be held at four p.m. in the Art Gallery foyer. The classes of 1965 and 1966 will co-host a Classic Rock Party in the Boathouse after the banquet Saturday. Members of the class of 1965 will gather Friday at 5:30 p.m. for cocktails and dinner at the Maryland Inn, and at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Great Hall for a memorial service for classmate Jim McClintock. In addition to the general Homecoming seminars, Tutor Emeritus Curtis Wilson will lead a seminar on Antigone for the class of 1965; Tutor John White will lead a seminar on Plato's Meno for the class of 1976, and Tutor Peter Kalkavage will lead a seminar on Shakespeare'sAs You Like It for the class of 1981. The class of 1981 will also hold a Coffee Shop Party after the Friday Night Lecture. The weekend's activities will conclude with a brunch at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at the home of President Nelson. Homecoming registration will last from 5-8 p.m. Friday in the FSK lobby, and will resume at 9 a.m. Saturday, continuing all day. For further information, call 263-2371, ext. 318. illups appointed treasurer Fred H. Billups, Jr., was recently appointed treasurer of the Annapolis campus. Mr. Billups has more than 20 years experience in senior management with both a major energy company and a small for-profit financial organization. The former Wayne, Pennsylvania, resident grew up in Virginia, New Jersey, and Havana, Cuba, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Virginia in 1960. For the next two years, he served as a Navy lieutenant, assigned as an operations officer on a destroyer escort, and later as a liaison officer on a Korean patrol boat. After military duty, he entered the corporate world beginning as a sales representative for the Exxon Company. During the next 13 years, he was promoted to staff and management positions, and finally to manager of Exxon's new East Coast company. The company grew in five years to 250 employees in 10 states with sales of $25 million. From there, he joined The Glenmede Trust Company in Philadelphia as senior vice president and executive director of The Pew Charitable Trusts. During the 11 years of Mr. Billups' management, staff grew from eight to 50 employees and grants increased from $40 million to $139 million. Most recently, he was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Human Service Systems Inc., near Philadelphia. His wife, Bea, is a third-year episcopal seminarian. The couple has son and a daughter, 25 and 24. Mr. Billups enjoys skiing and sailing. mcreasmi;?:IV in ..,...,,,uu.uv, onr1r1,,.,.-. iu summer was onstage to sing the tenor lead in "H.M.S. Pinafore." Until the original tenor fell Green was on the director's podium, for the seventh year leading the Victorian group, which presents a Gilbert and Sullivan production each summer at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. But emergency situations change things. In the crisis, the group's previous director obligingly came out of retirement to take up the baton. Ernest Green's report of the experience is mixed. "I'm not really a singer," he observes. "I was stepped into the role"-as distinct from stepping in-" and I had a very good time. But it's not my thing. I like the directorial end of things." As director, he is full of his newest project for St. John's College, one that blends nicely with his musical leadership of the Small Chorus: a possible production of Henry Purcell's chamber opera Dido and Aeneas. But first things first, and Mr. Green speaks of this prospect with some caution. The very first thing will be a Continuing Education choral workshop open to students and community members beginning September 24. Participants will together read the libretto and score of the opera, first performed in 1689, to examine Purcell's style and approach. The workshop participants could form a core for the short opera (between 50 and 70 minutes long, depending on the use of dance segments), which traces the doomed love affair between the warrior Aeneas, fleeing from Troy, and the Carthaginian queen. The opera offers 10 major singing roles as well as choral slots. Additionally, visiting lecturers will discuss the opera setting, scenic design and costuming, making the workshop appropriate for those interested chiefly in technical details. "It is very exciting to imagine opera returning to the College stage," says Malcolm Wyatt, director of Continuing Education and the Graduate Institute, and an opera fan himself. The inauguration of Mellon Hall in 1958 was celebrated by a production of Monteverdi's Orfeo, he remembers, pointing out also that the Annapolis Opera performed in the Key Auditorium in its early days. "However, this project is esecially wonderful," he adds, "involving as it does both our students and the people from the Annapolis community, and we will benefit enormously." Mr. Green hopes that the workshop will generate interest in the production. If all other elements come together, he sees a late January date for a performance held either in the Great Hall or the FSK Auditorium. A musical visionary who seems to do everything at double pace, Ernest Green is a compact and powerful-looking man of 31, who admits that he recently shaved off his beard because he didn't like the gray patches. Although at one time or another, he has been a trombonist, an actor, a sound and lighting man, teacher and lecturer, of late he has indeed scooped up a satchel full of varied, demanding, and sometimes farflung directorial duties. These take him frequently up and down the highway between Annapolis and Baltimore, to South America numerous times as visiting director in Brasila and Rio de J aniero, and to many musical groups in the greater Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area and sometimes beyond Growing up in the vital musical town of Cleveland, Ernie was a bored and restless student ("a real screwball," he observes) until after-hours Theater School began to display his talents and channel his energy. By college age, he pretty much knew where he was going, and in 1981 he received his bachelor of music degree from the University of Toledo. He went from there to the Peabody Conservatory where he received a master's degree in orchestral conducting and where he continues his doctoral work. Under the aegis of the Annapolis Chorale, he is not only building up the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra as a separate entity with its own performance schedule, but also this past summer he led Summer Sings for chorale members and interested community participants in the Great Hall. Additionally, he has presented workshops in sight-singing and other choral skills for the chorale at an Annapolis church. And he does some private teaching of music fundamentals. Into a closely-scheduled life, he has singled out a September date for his marriage to Molly Moore, who joined the Chorale two years ago and came away with the director. She is a director, too, a new one who heads the admissions office at the Severn School in Severna Park. Dates for the Dido and Aeneas workshop areSeptember24-November 12. Thereisno charge for student or college community participants; a $90 fee for others. For further information about the fall schedule for this or other workshops, or for the community seminars and preceptorials, call 301-2632371, ext. 243. chosen mentor by NEH Treasurer Fred H. Biiiups, Jr. The Annapolis campus has been selected by the Association of American Colleges to serve as one of seven mentor resource institutions in a nationwide project to strengthen elementary and secondary school teachers' understanding of the humanities, President Nelson announced in August. The two-year project, funded under a new grant in the amount of $34,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, will match help from the mentor institutions to 21 planning institutions throughout the country. The project will emphasize the de- velopment of subject mastery and the grounding of reflection on teaching strategies in the study of humanities issues and texts. The other six mentor institutions in the project are Boston University, Brooklyn College-CUNY, Lewis and Clark College, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, University of Dayton and the University of Virginia. Dean Eva Brann and tutor Geoffrey Comber will serve as project leaders for St. John's. �PAGE4 It is an exciting time to be taking in Santa Fe. When I came to the 18 years ago, we were happy just to going year to year; much now is different. enrollment is virtually at capacity; the senior class numbers in the nineties. Our faculty has grown and has become and deeply the program. While our we need, it is much better endowment is not yet where it should be to provide the than in those early years. I would like to take this opportunity to tell you some of what is on my mind as the work of being dean in Santa Fe. In the next five years it will be important for us to continue to strengthen the program and to do what we can to influence the course of liberal education in the rest of American higher education. These two objectives may not be as far apart as they may seem. The best way we have of serving higher education nationally is to do what we do in our undergraduate program as well as it can be done. All that is distinctive about the college springs from our work in the undergraduate program. The Graduate Institute takes its nurture directly from the experience of its faculty in the undergraduate program, as do our peripheral projects with schools and adult learners. The undergraduate program is strong, but we must strive always to improve the quality of teaching and learning at the college. The program will never reach a point where fine tuning is all that is left. The program is not like that. We must work continually to see that both the materials we use and the conversations in our classrooms are as good as they can be. We live at the vital tip of tradition. As we look back over it, the prospect is not exactly what it was fifty years ago. We must not forget that at the very essence of the college as it was left to us by Barr and Buchanan is the obligation never to leave the roots of the deepest questions undisturbed. Tutors are not mere caretakers of the garden of books. It is part and parcel of the life of tutors constantly to question the rightness of what we do, to seek better ways of doing it, to rediscover and reinvent the insights of the books and reforge the links between the traditions of the past and the challenges of the present day. It is one of the great ironies of the program that this radical reexamination of the deepest questions raised by the most important books of our culture may thrive best in the stable environment of our almost wholly prescribed where changes are not made capriciously, but only after long and careful deliberation. While our commitment to our traditional ways, discussing texts in small groups, must remain strong, we cannot ignore the possibilities held the microchip for learning some like the technical of algebra, calculus and grammar, that come by practice. Further, we must admit the world is much smaller than it was in 1937 when the new program was introduced in Annapolis. We must address seriously such questions, for exatmJ>le. as what role Eastern thought will play in the life of the college. The main work of the dean as I see it is to give a sense of direction to the program and to support teaching and learning on our campus. The supportive tissue of the college, the various offices and services, are here solely to provide the students and the faculty with what they need to engage fully with the program and to make their way with it It is quite a lot that we ask new tutors to undertake when they take up their work here. It is very important that we provide the support and counsel that will help them, while remaining diverse and independent in their views, to become part of the unified vision essential to the vitality of the college. Students when they arrive as freshman find a new and strange world at the college. The discipline required to reach the insights the books have to offer is often something students must learn after they have arrived. The newness does not stop here. The challenges and problems of becoming responsible, independent adults fall on them at the same time. We must do all we can to help them through the shoals of beginning adulthood so that they will be able to engage fully in the highest activity the college has to offer them, participation in the life if the mind. Finally, we must not underestimate what St. John's College has to contribute nationally to education. Itis important that we all tell others what we are doing and engage in the national conversation about what college education best serves our national and personal interests. It is important that we hold out a helping hand to those who wish to try out our ways of teaching and learning in other colleges and schools. We must remember, however, that we serve American education most fully simply by being St. John's College at its best. alumnus tion, Miss Fletcher was encouraged to undertake the project particularly by Rebecca Wilson, College director of information services at that time, and tutor dean) Eva College President Richard Brann. In D. gave Miss Fletcher two months' leave of absence for her researches. These ored1ctablv blroa41enled. and soon she of her five articles. Looking back at the project, she comments, "I just found the people so interesting, and I realized what a struggle it was to get schools and colleges founded They experimented in education along the way, and were influenced by Benjamin Franklin's theories, especially the teaching of English as a language." and Fortune there. Son of a missionary and graduate ofYale, Henry Luce transforms the ch:ampicm of communism into a mortal threat to Christianity and capitalism, which he presents as the twin pillars of the U.S.A. His journals seem to lead the drum beaters for the Cold War, building great internal pressures. They pop out in the Bay of Pigs fiasco, then erupt in the Vietnam war, the ultimate disaster into which our leaders were manipulated in pursuit of interests of the European aristocracy. Five essays by Miss Fletcher be reprinted in The Review interested will now be able to read all five articles together, thanks to tutor Elliott Zuckerman, who has gathered them into the current issue of The St. John's Review, which he edits, and to Tina Davidson, who produces The Review in-house on Desktop Publishing. During the 1976 bicentemtlal celebra- To the Editor: I am delighted that Christopher B. Nelson has been elected president of St. John's, Annapolis. His father Charles and I were classmates in 1941-1942. I have long urged that St. John's alumni should be chosen to head the college-for reasons obvious to all. This is a milestone for St. John's.President Nelson makes us all proud, I'm sure. George Cayley, A '45, AGI '78 To the Editor: Life began to seem like a to some of us at the end of World War after our armies came face to face with the Russian armies. Not because they presented any .,....,.., itt.,. ....., threat we couldn't handle, but because our leaders became obsessed with the U.S.S.R and made it into a Archibald MacLeish noted of this obsession in 1949 when he said,"Never in the history of the world was one people so dominated, intellectually and morally, by another as the people of the United States by the people of Russia since 1946. American foreign policy; whatever the Russians did, we did in reverse. American domestic politics were conducted under a kind of upside-down veto; no man could be elected to public office unless he was on record as detesting the Russians, and no proposal could be enacted, from a peace plan at one end to the military budget at the other, unless it could be demonstrated that the Russians did not like it." An exaggeration , of course, but not that far off the mark, unfortunately. The same can be said for the views of those who hold Winston Chuchill responsible for initiating our fixation on the Russians. They identify him as the man who planted the seeds of panic, and Henry Luce as one who cultivated them. In this scenario, Churchill sees the Bolsheviks as evil incarnate. Not only had their philosophers attacked the class system and colonialism, twin pillars of the British empire, worse, their leaders had killed members of the royal family. They had committed the unforgivable sin, and they must be destroyed. This is a mission to which that devoted servant of the Crown dedicates much of his time after World War I and to which he returns relentlessly after World War II. With Franklin Roosevelt dead, Churchill has no Truman under his sounding alarms, perhaps most in his "Iron Curtain" speech in Ful- Stephen R. Van Luchene Dean, Santa Fe One by one, between 1978 and 1989, Charlotte Fletcher's five articles on the early ofSt.John'sCollegeappearedinThe Historical Magazine. In the 2atherimz research for her who retired as librarian at Annm:>olLscampus in 1980 after 36 years of with answers to '-'Vll.I.'!;;~.'"'· She was able to SEPTEMBER 1991 THE REPORTER Be that as it may, the war with Iraq may have marked the end of our collective nightmare. Unlike in Vietnam, our vital interests did appear to be threatened in the Middle East; at our current level of dependence on machinery, there's little room for doubt, unfortunately, that sustained in the flow of oil or elevations in its cost would have catastrophic effects. Many of us who had to wait in long lines at the gasoline pumps in 1973 knew then that the sheiks had us over a barrel. This predicament had been forecast as early as 1952 in "Resources for Freedom," the monumental five-volume report of the Materials policy Commission appointed by President Truman. They warned that by 1975 at the latest, we would be dependent on imports for more than fifty percent of our oil unless we developed alternative energy sources before then, along with new methods for conserving fuels and materials. We placed our bet on nuclear energy; but by 1979, after Three Mile Island and other less publicized events, it looked like we had backed a loser. With no breakthroughs in sight elsewhere in energy research, we seemed fated to remain vulnerable indefinitely. But by early 1991, we were in position to establish a presence in the Middle East, which may guarantee us a steady supply of oil, and at prices not beyond our control, for many years to come. This may buy us more time to ,..,.,,,., ,.,.... alternative energy sources, but it should not diminish interest in new ways of ,,.,.,..,.,h,,; ... ,,. them. At many sites around the universities in this are growing food in ways machines, use fewer and cause less soil depletion than traditional rar1nml,g methods. They are also integrating edible landscaping, solar electricity, and waste recycling in attractive new types of residences that are more economical than conventional housing. Their work is well on its way toward developing building blocks for something genuinely new-plantations without slaves, communities with high level of self sufficiency and leisure time for all. A bumper crop of such settlements might represent the fruition of what our founders had in mind when they championed personal liberty and limited government. Granted, the seeds they planted have produced some institutions of menacing size. But there's still plenty of room in the crevices for new colonies on a more manageable scale. We can hope that as their components mature and attract wider interest, such communities may begin bursting up like popcorn. Elements of the philosophy of the new groups are presented in two books published originally in Australia: "Permaculture One: A Perennial Agriculture for human settlements," by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren (1978), and "Permaculture Two: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture," by Mollison. The authors propose that we design our foodgrowing systems around perennial rather than annuals. This shift of epicenter in agriculture may have consequences as far reaching as those of the shift from Ptolemaic to a Looeimc:an view of the universe. Once es......._,.,... .,u,~. a.jo:',J..1.vu11iu.1i;;;;:i; centered around pe- sources annuals, which and harvesting every year. I suggest that these two books merit consideration as additions to the St. John's list. Not only because they may graduates feel at home sooner, but also because they will expand the list beyond the Western tradition. In view of events of the past half century, we can doubt that this tradition contains the last word. R.O. Davis, A'45 (ex '48) 1775 Lisa Drive Indiana, PA 15701 �THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1991 By NANCY OSIUS While he was finishing his doctoral dissertation on James Joyce at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1988, Annapolis tutor Cordell Yee, then 33, low on funds, needed an outside job. Among his skills was a reading knowledge of classical Chinese, acquired during several years of doctoral studies in the ancient literary language used in China from the 5th century B.C. to the 20th century. Based at Wisconsin was the editorial su1mine11se!ly ainb1.t1011s and poli PAGES Co~dell Yee: scholai<ship of "h1-11'\ches 11 by the National Endowment the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. Editors locutions of the native Chinese contributors. needed someone who could read and from classical Chinese. Even more serious was a of detail in the texts of these contributors: the editors also needed a scholar who could the contributions with his own research, and they needed him/her for a year for or two. Perhaps Cordell Yee was a change from Joycean wordplay and riddles; they offered him the job and he took it. Just three years later, he has become the major contributor to the Chinese section, now scheduled for publication in late 1992; he has spent the summer of 1991 making final revisions. The native Chinese contributors are essentially gone-routed, one might almost say-taking their manuscripts with them (one of them continues to supply photographs, however), and Mr. Yee is left as the sole author of five of the section's eight chapters, a swiftly-created cartographic historian winding up a prodigious task. How did this happen? Approaching maps and texts with an unclouded eye, he had what he called "hunches" early on about what he was seeing. "I didn't know whether I would come up with evidence" for these insights, he admits. But the support he was able to fmd eventually rendered moot the experts' texts. Over the telephone, the voice of one of his bosses, editor Woodward, prepares the listener for scholarly diffidence and restraint. But professor Woodward is not restrained. "Cordell Yee is a remarkable person," he says. "What he did was just amazing. His chapters are brilliant." "Not only is he a very fme scholar, but he works with great efficiency and quickness," editor Harley adds in a later conversation. "What he has written will be regarded as a major beginning in Chinese cartographic historiography." It should be noted that during these same three years, Mr.Yee completed his dissertation, moved to Annapolis, joined the St. John's faculty, and proceded with the challenges oflearning and teaching the New Program curriculum. This was the sequence of events: when the three Chinese scholars, two mainland and one Taiwanese, began submitting their chapters in the mid-1980's, their work was imbued with party line claims for the overriding excellence of any Chinese scientific endeavor-in this case were for early mathematical accuracy in map-making. When he joined the project, Mr. Yee began to look at the often beautiful and delicate maps themselves, and what he saw didn't square with the texts. Weren't many maps, with their pictorial rendering of land contours and architectural features, a great deal like traditional Chinese landscape painting, he wondered? Weren't they perhaps part of a long cultural tradition that brought together beauty and utility in a way that had few western counterparts? Before many months on his job, he his conjectures to Messrs Harley and Woodward. interestHis unsettling-if ing-questions put the editors in a quandary. Unmet deadlines, outraged scholarly sensibilities, offended national pride-no doubt they saw all this ahead when the novice cartographer challenged the establishment. In the ensuing year and a half, the editors negotiated with the Chinese scholars and tried to come up with a stop-gap solution that would satisfy everyone. But eventually outside experts persuaded them they must go with Mr. Yee. Here was the moment of truth. Harley and Woodward had now to throw away several years of work, contracted and paid for, and to begin again. The man who had caused all this trouble had in the meantime moved to Maryland to take up a new career. Now he had new obligations to an old career. Long before he got into map-sleuthing, Cordell Yee had ventured down several investigative byways. Besides his graduate work in English literature (he received his undergraduate degree in the same field from started crystallizing." Copies of the materials he needed were often available in the East Asia collection of the University of Wisconsin or through the interlibrary loan system. He had a standard operating procedure for examining these materials. He would first read the preface to see what the compiler had to say; then he would scan the text, looking in particular for one Chinese character: This character can mean map, picture, or chart. When he saw the character, he always paused "to seeificouldinterpretitas talking about a map." Mr. Yee brought to his map examination his acquaintance with long centuries of Chinese civilization and the immense and complex bureaucratic structure that held it together for 2,000 years, right up to the 20th century. During each dynasty, in every district maps were gathered into gazetteers along with other information, then passed to a next higher level: the highest would be a ~------- "The project pointed out the dangers being too specialized: the experts conceived the field too narrowly." Pomona), and earlier graduate work in classical Chinese, earlier yet he had taken a master's degree in journalism from Berkeley, and at that time had worked for a Chinese-American newspaper, covering Bay Area Chinatown politics. This background of hungry intellectual sampling, along with a mixture of brains, audacity, and intuition, allowed him to move away from the conclusions of the experts to his own views, and to pursue evidence for them. In the solitude of his early days on the project, he was "absolutely on my own," without much guidance. He was given freedom to do whatever he thought was needed most. He could read classical Chinese, true, but now he had to learn a specialized vocabulary for reading Chinese technical works. Soon he was consulting gazetteers, military and mathematical treatises, pamphlets on flood control, traditional Chinese histories, and other government documents. In these publications were maps, problems related to map-making, and descriptions of how one used a map. "I started bombarding myself with all kinds of information," he says, "and things gazetteer for the entire empire which included all the information about geography and history. The governing bureaucracy was notably stable for many centuries, with many civil servants continuing in their offices as new dynasties succeeded old. Most of the Chinese mapmakers worked for the government. Early on, he came to believe that Chinese mapmaking had historically been undertaken with quite different ends in view from simply conveying geographic information. He believed the cartographer's methods were a blend of the humanistic and the mathematical. "My sense is that the people who worked in government weren't just mathematicians or engineers or scientists," he points out. "I think what they would have considered to be a complete person was broader, and it included the fine arts." To become an official and to pass the civil service exam, each candidate had to know some mathematics and practical things, but also classic philosophical texts and poetry and calligraphy. Unlike his contemporaries, the Chinese cartographic historians, Mr. Yee came to believe it was necessary to look beyond the map to its textual accompaniment to see how the two worked together. (The Chinese cartographers felt that if the map required a text to be used, it wasn't a true map.) When he saw the "map character," Mr. Yee began to see a unity between the old maps and texts that accompanied them, paralleling the ideal Chinese painting, which always has a poem affixed to it, the two elements working together. When he found maps that had poems inscribed on them, he felt confident that his hypothesis was right. "This is how I built a case for seeing maps differently," he says. He had a hunch: that mapmakers exrmm1eo tion appropriate to aesthetic and emotional. was a pn;~pairea observer when he came across a passage in a manual on flood control which said that the mapmaker had not to pay attention to surface detail but also to the 1n1•--tPrh11r10 configurations-i.e. he must pe11en~ate surfaces to find a that "That was a nice mately be thought," says Mr.Yee. These intuitive flashes were moments of drama in the long but in his day-today review, the carto grahic historian needed to understand how the mapmaker made his measurements.For example, Pei Xiu, a third century cartographer, was a giant of mapmaking, to whom subsequent cartograhers deferred for many centuries, not bothering to redefine his terms or explain his methods. A modern investigator had to try to determine these methods and duplicate them in order to evaluate his achievement. Mr. Yee did this by looking beyond mapmaking as such to surveying, mathematics, and instrumentation to try to match developments in those areas with Pei Xiu 's claims. It became clear that the ancients had the applied math skills to calculate distancespure Euclid, but Euclidean geometry without the proofs. This mathematical knowledge was not always present on the maps themselves as a scale, but might be found in the text At the same time, it was clear that maps were not predicated on the fact of a spherical globe. In spite of such a map as fig. b. from the 12th century, with the vertical and horizontal lines so eerily similar to latitude and longitude lines, Mr. Yee says they have nothing to do with latitude and longitude. Early Chinese mapmakers either did not know the world was round, or they they kept that knowledge out of their craft; not until the 17th century is such knowledge evident on Chinese maps, and these were copies of European originals. That Chinese mapmakers were not "scientific" trailblazers was something the mainland Chinese cartographic historians would not acknowledge in 1988, and they were not receptive to the beauty and artistry of the old maps, so richly conveying the traditions of an immensely old civilization. (These values accord with those of present day mapmaking everywhere, in which supremely accurate computer-generated maps are a part of what is called "geographic information systems.") Looking back at the unexpected directions his life has taken, Mr. Yee is struck by the paradoxes. "Not to be experienced in the field, to be somewhat innocent and naive, turned out to be an asset. I didn't have preconceptions." His success as an amateur in a field of professionals is particularly resonant as he begins his third year of teaching at the College, which readies its students for their life's work by giving them the broadest possible background "The project pointed out the dangers of being too specialized: the experts conceived the field too narrowly. They couldn't see their tradition whole any more. The project enabled me to see that the best scholarship depends on a broad background." �composer, more dell:i.b~~alte comtvo s1tmn sequences of individual notes and sine waves. Both programs were the lab weird and often wonderful sounds. 1 ~VJmp1osi1um reconvened on on music. Lee showed and talked about CD-ROM versions of Beethoven's Ninth ...:umr•nn,nn second lexicon. accessible to the liberal arts student who has neither time tn ,..,....,,.,t,,.. r•J.. which relies on an immense number of word ideograms, rather than an He used a scanner to of some 9000 ide~::ignmis them in the computer, and then cte~i1el1rinf~ am:>ro::i.ch to classifying them and of the Svrnpo1sium v:u1:i4:;ip~mts nrnm1.1~eu and served as cornvuttat]lom1llv perplexed during the open lab sessions. Alumna Kistler, SF'76, acted the lab well-staffed and the ecnnp1ne11t in order. Santa Fe Lab Director Von Briesen oversaw installation of the rented hardware, donated his week, and smmlited two student lab assistants, Don Labenski and ony": the creation of crnmpintt~r-IJas:ed " and the strange and creator. By the end of the week, questions about artificial intelligence gave way to what seemed a more pressing concern to most of us: what is the of computers at St. John's? Is Ulec01np1llte1riniaee:a a intellectual more Wake especially are crari as Mr. Sir:np~:on mooos;ed. obvious~ his bookJ in tl these em and univ1 want to t1 m even art Tutor Emeritus -Thomas A '50, and Santa Fe Tutor Ralph were the driving spirits behind computer seminar. Of course a one-week alumni SVJmpos1wn mc1v1c:ies neither the time nor the proper people for tas.tuonmlg definitive answers to such far-reaching quandaries. But to fulfill Tom Simpson's charge "to draw tog 1ethc~ our educational background and our experience in the ways of the modern world, to reflect on their relationship." available in •• .,r__ m<•lnr1cv lists wield when How does this and irre:dm;ibilitv ata, reveal Joyce? If Rabelais is right, and if I have Rabelais right, then learning becomes in large part a kind of listing, rather are univers those universes, r1 ..,,,.,.,",,..,..,,,.., which reflect cal and unruly human un mysteries of life, human means of learning, despi ture, complexity, and co~ enumeration is a way of~ �tion. i-.v""""''"'"" from his lecture and an account of the svrnpo1s1um both of his academic career there. Board of Visitors and Governors member Allan Hoffman home. and other classmates. "Some classmates me their affectionate admiration have shared occ~as1.on, as dinner guests moved columns into the Great Hall of u<1..1..1.11..1••'-'•• where a bust of of Greek delica- dinner guests were pre:s1d.ent of the Board of Visitors and Goverof and the new An1Da1po1is 1,.;1:1u..1.~Ju:s, Christopher Nelson. n-rr•t"""'C'.!n-r and vice provost at Stanford a longtime member of the Board of Visitors and Governors of the College and is at present its vice chairman. Mrs. Wirth is the da1llgj]Lter of the late architect John Gaw Meem and his late wife Faith, who contributed a major portion of the land on which the College stands and endowed the new Library named after them. the on of students over the years." The Award of Merit citation apJmltuGLeo Kramer's contributions the School and Marlboro as well as his many years of service the as tutor and dean. President Agresto addressed the Alumni Association on "The State of the Liberal Arts in the U.S. Today" at the group's annual held for the first time on the meeur1g were the officers Sharon Bishop, A '65, president; vice president; George Bingham, SF' 66, secretary; and RichardLightbum, SF'76, treasurer. New directors are Thomas Geyer, A'68; Lolita AGI'80; John Oosterhout, A'51, and A'45. Association members passed an amendment to the that mandated three directors-at-large from the of the Graduate Institute. a mini-Graduate Institute u~~•Jl]:,JlJlovu Summer for teachers of Mortimer Adler's Paideia method of 36 paruc11Jan1cs, A~IP-rn-r1\nn.~""C'.!asmg1e-rr~tcK. with almost no electives and no vocational ......... i::.. His on use of the Socratic method to stude11ts' critical is Paideia teachers are attracted to St John's-to learn in a school that has more than 50 years of experience in that method. Evaluations filled out by the teachers after the program reveal its success. One teacher wrote, "My experience as a student gave me new insights which I will JUUU.. (Continued on page 11) �THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1991 Alumni luncheons will be held on Fridays in the Private Room, 12:00 noon. Guest speakers: Sept.13-Col. Lance Cornine; Oct. I I-Christopher B. Nelson, president, St. John's College. Telephone Betsy Blume at the Alumni (301) 263-2371 for information. AUSTIN September 14: A11nm:i.lrr1ee1:mg tore1ecmm seminar with SF tutor Bob Richardson on a Leo Strauss Ph1Jos:opltly"L'" Potluck dinner will BOSTON Late September: Alumnus Jason Walsh will host a gathering in or near Coming. November 16: Tutor Sam Kutler will lead a seminar in conjunction with a Prospective Student Reception in Rochester. to be catered by the College Admissions Office. Readings will be decided at the September meeting. This chapter welcomes the participation of all alumni in its wide-ranging locale. Call Roberta Carnevale for details and suggestions. Editor's note: I apologize, but the space is simply not cmCA GO Sept 29: Picnic/seminar at home of John Van Doren, Chekhov's "Word#6." Call President Paul Frank at (312) 235-0614 or464-2573 (wk), or Program Director Erin Milnes at (312) 271-1039 about any of the chapter activities and locations of meetings. DALLAS/FORT WORTH This chapter meets about 10 times a year for Saturday evening seminars. For additional information contact Suzanne Doremus at (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis at (214) 340-4102. LOS ANGELES This chapter is reorganizing, and suggestions or questions are welcome. Call Caroline Allen (213) 392-5253 to contribute. MINNEAPOLIS I ST.PAUL This 'unofficial' chapter is organising events and would like your suggestions. Telephone Bruce Lansky (612) 4735400 to contribute your ideas. NEW YORK September 25: Robert Goldwin, alumnus and former SJC Dean, will lead a seminar on "A Day in the Life of the First Congress" at the home of Joyce and Irwin Hunt. November 18: An Evening with Ray Cave, alumnus and former Managing Editor, Time Magazine. Short talk entitled, "Today's Press: Maybe We Should Shoot the Messenger" with reception at the Princeton Club preceding. January 29: Second annual "Meet a New Tutor" seminar with William Pastille on a topic to be announced, at the Princeton Club. Call Sabine Schweidt (212) 645-8903 or 679-6118 (wk), or Peter Burdge 227-4658for more information. PHILADELPIDA To participate in events after the summer break, contact Jim Schweidel at (215) 836-7632. SACRAMENTO Meetings are every month in this unofficial chapter to discuss the program readings.following the undergraduate sequence. Inquiries are most welcome; phpne Arianne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen Feeley 452-1082. SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA September 8: Seminar on Waiting for Godot by Beckett, 2:30 pm at Mark Middlebrook's. October 12: Tutor visit and seminar with Suesue Knight on "The Legend of St Julian Hopitator" by Flaubert and Letters on Cezanne by Rilke, at 7 pm, location to be announced. November 10: Subject and location to be announced Call Toni Wilkinson (415)585-4255 or476-7397 (wk)for information and to contribute to the local newsletter. A survey will be included in the next newsletter for suggested topics and events. To the Editor: At the end of a letter which Bill Buchanan, A' 48 wrote in the June, 1991 issue of The Reporter, the author was quoted as saying, "Should there be any interest, I could follow this up with something more concrete, such as a list of works which might be used" I, also, have prepared a suggested reading list which might be used in a St. John's College program devoted to reading great books of the entire world. My proposal has the advantage of making some time available for the study of the books of the non-Western civilizations without doing too much violence to the existing program. It calls forreading the books of the non-Western civilizations, together with the Bible, in the first year. The rest of the existing St. John's College material would be concentrated-in slightly rearranged form-into the remaining three years of the program. The following is the present distribution of the books: First Year: Greek Books; Second Year: Roman Books, The Bible, The Middle Ages; Third Year: Modem Times; Fourth Year: Modem Times Here is my proposed new St. John's Program: First Year: The Old Testament; Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia, The Oriental Civilizations; Second Year: Ancient Greece and Rome; The New Testament; Third Year: Medieval Period of Western Christendom; Fourth Year: Modem Period of Western Christendom I hope the editor of The Reporter will make available the necessary space to print my suggested reading list, so as to stimulate discussion of my proposal among the alumni. Sincerely, Richard O'Neill, A'78 available in our newsletter.A copy ofthe list can be obtained fromB etsy Blume at the Alumni Office in Annapolis. And, any farther discussion of such proposals is encouraged, with letters printed when possible. To theEditor, I hope you will permit a postscript to my previous letter. I remember St Thomas saying that the argument from authority is the weakest of all arguments, according to Boethius (I am glad he found an authority for his assertion). I am quoting this not as authority-in fact, I am not giving the author's name-but because of the clarity with which he affinns a position which seems to me hard to refute. "There are many honorable exceptions, of course; but the rule even among learned Protestants and Catholics is a certain blandly bumptious provincialism which, if it did not constitute such a grave offense against charity and truth, would be just uproariously funny. A hundred years ago [written in 1943] hardly anything was known of Sanskrit, Pali, or Chinese. The ignorance of European scholars was sufficient reason for their provincialism... most European and American authors of books about religion and metaphysics write as though nobody had ever thought about these subjects, except the Jews, the Greeks, and the Christians of the Mediterranean basin and western Europe. This display of what, in the twentieth century, is an entirely voluntary and deliberate ignorance is not only absurd and discreditable; it is also socially dangerous." Sincerely, Bill Buchanan, A '48 Editor's note: The complete address for responses is, Vivekananda Monastery and Retreat, 6723 122nd Avenue, Ganges, MI 49408. SANTA FE WASIDNGTON D.C. AREA September 8: Seminar with Robert Sachs following a 3 p.m. potluck picnic, at the home of Linda Jemison. Seminar reading is Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History, Chapter 3, "The Origin of the Idea of Natural Right." Some organizational matters about the future schedule will also be discussed at the gathering. Alums have organised to study variations on the undergraduate music tutorial, and are resuming their meetings once a week. They will study the Santa Fe Campus Harmony Manual and Counterpoint. Contact Dick Cowles (505) 9861814 or Mary Schruben 473-7898for information. Telephone JohnPollack(505) 983-2144 or Janet Fennell, Office of Development, at 982-3691 for fature seminar/social meeting times and places. September 11: Lawrence Durrell, Justine September 25: Robert Lowell, selected poems October 9: Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, Part I October 23: Anton Chekhov, "The Darling" and Leo Tolstoy, Criticism on "The Darling" November 6: Albert Einstein, Relativity, Parts Il and ill November 20: Yukio Mishima, "Acts of Worship" December 4: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet December 18: James Joyce, "Araby" (from Dubliners), followed by a holiday party, location to be announced Seminars normally meet every other Wednesday at the WestEndBranchoftheD.C.PublicLibraryfrom6:30-8:30 p.m. For farther iriformation call Sam Stiles (301) 424-9119, or Sharon Garvey (304) 535-2655. Another alumni reading group is meeting every other Thursday at 7 p.m. and currently reading Melville's Billy Budd and assorted criticism. Call Susan Gushue (202) 526-1632 or Jon Church832-5851 for details. SEATTLE Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 for iriformation about events that will follow the Annual Summer Picnic. �THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1991 Nancy Dunning Buchenauer Buchenauer new head Nancy-Dunning Buchenauer was recently appointed Director of the Graduate Institute at the Santa Fe campus. A member of the faculty there since 1980, Ms. Buchenauer says her goals as the Institute's director will be to make it better known to undergraduates and to improve its its students. sense of Otll:i.erpn~1ectsim;lu1de1~xt1lm:mJ;?;thefeasibil­ establishmg a second master's degree program, one which would include Greek and math tutorials. urad11at:mg magna cum laude from Cor1"'''"""...'''t"' with a in in Buch€ma111er earned her master's degree in the same subject there in 1969. In 1980 she was awarded her doctorate in the classics from Brown University, after completing her dissertation on "The Athenians and the Allies in the Deceleian W a:r." She was a teaching assistant both at Brown and Cornell. She is the recipient of several academic awards and honors including the University Fellowship in Classics from Brown, a fellowship from the Department of History at Cornell, and a Ford Foundation Fellowship and Assistantship. She is a member of the American Association of University Women and the League of Women Voters. Mr. David Bolotin, Santa Fe tutor, has been awarded a fellowship from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to work on a study entitled; Political Responsibility in the Presentation of the Inquiry into Nature in Aristotle's Physics. The fellowship, to be awarded over a term of two-and-a half years, will begin in January. "The working hypothesis of my study will strike most contemporary scholars as an odd one, "said Mr. Bolotin. "I believe that Aristotle's sense of political responsibility led him knowingly to accommodate himself to popular opinion in the presentation of his findings, and to do so in important matters and to a significant degree." If Mr. Bolotin's hypotheses about the Physics proves correct, the fields of both natural philosophy and political philosophy would be greatly affected. According to Mr. Bolotin, the idea that Aristotelian philosophy depends entirely on now obsolete principles would be rejected, and the philosophy of the fifth-century B.C. Athenian would thus be demonstrated to have a renewed amJllcab11ini in the modern world. Bolotin will be pmrsurn_g related work under a National Enrlni>XrmP.nt for the Humanities n ... During the tenure of his Bradley and grants, Mr. Bolotin will remain in Santa Fe, though be may travel to other universities for part of his study. Mr. Bolotin received a B.A. in classics from Cornell University in 1966 and a Ph.D. in classics from New York University in 1974. He was a lecturer in classics at Yale University for two years before joining the St. John's faculty in Annapolis in 1974. A tutoratSantaFesince 1982,Mr.Bolotinwas also Visiting Associate Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago between 1986and1988. The author of several articles on classical philosophy and literature, he published a book, Plato's Dialogue on Friendship, in 1979. .LLUVY.:UJLLLJ. "An Oral Exam" (Continuedfrompage two) less than the most narrowly focused business-school graduate. So much academic garbage passes itself off as liberal education these days that all of us have to be careful. So, what should you ask before hiring a liberal arts graduate? Here's a list: >>Can you write clearly and persuasively? Can I know exactly what's on your mind through the medium of a piece of paper and will I take it seriously? »Have you worked in the business world'? I would not put graduates with business-related courses above the ones who worked for a business in the summer. Interest verified by experience is 10 times better than a course in accounting and 50 times better than a course on "~e Image of the Businessman in Modem PAGE9 Above, Academic procession from left, Graduate Institute Director Nancy Buchenauer, former director Timothy Miller, Registrar Diane Trudell, and Dean Stephen Van luchene; below, speaker Timothy Mmer. Robert Mclees photos In an address that extolled the value of human dialogue and the potential of the human spirit, former Santa Fe Graduate Institute Director Timothy Miller said that conversations at St. John's "with their splendid agenda and their excellent intentions," might be the beginning and the promise of a better order. Such conversations ··r,,.mn·u1 us that-together in spirit-we a:re seeking simplicity, integrity and the communion of reason," he said. A tutor at the Santa Fe campus since 1966, Mr. Miller was speaking to 22 degree recipients, and their families and friends at the August 9 Graduate Institute commencement exercises. Nancy Buchenauer, who this summer succeeded Mr. Miller when he concluded his three-year tenure as director, presided over the ceremony, which was held on the placita under a bright sun after weeks of overcast skies. Today's "commonplace," Mr. Miller acknowledged-supporting his contention with illustrations from Nietzsche and modem cinema-is that "the mind is a kingdom of darkness without exit [and that] selfknowledge leads us to hell..." The speaker did not concur. Using Socrates as exemplar, and drawing on an essay by Montaigne, he suggested that St. John's classes "aspire to that lofty Socratic realm of unassuming virtue and habitual attention" that Montaigne describes. Noting the dangers of "plain speaking and spontaneous integrity," (he cited such heroes with these qualities as Antigone, Socrates, Cato, St.Francis and others), he said nevertheless that "the world has its moments of unexpected consolation." Montaigne illustrates one such moment in his description of an incident of extreme personal danger in the French religious wars, where his words and demeanor saved his life. "Even in the midst of a civil war fired by religious zeal," said Mr. Miller, "simple and direct words, an unyielding dignity and the trust inspired by the human face divine may bring a sponstaneous reconciliation between those who, moments before, were enemies-the grace of common humanity recognized." Drama." woirk 001op~~r~1ti~'elJr? Since a good part ofliberal education is very introspective and solitary-and cooperative work on exams and term papers is usually, rightly, frowned on-look for some evidence of sociability. Did the applicant, for example, go through four years notes in lecture classes or did he put himself into the give and take of conversation in small seminar classes? And, though independence is hardly the knows that for someone, with someone, is eJQ:)ectea. sometimes a hard lesson for liberal arts graduates to learn. you need is a ~nitauate If the graduate has been indoctrinated with the notion that the world of business and industry is a species of commercialism or the work of social elements only one above is of no use. Let him stay in the academy. the criminal >>What did you and what did you learn? Not all liberal education is great or even good Did the candidate before you study broadly and widely in major fields covering important topics or was he narrowly trained? A course on rape and rebellion in contemporary poetry is no substitute for a course on Dante or a seminar in calculus. Did he read books? Good books? Did he take these books seriously? Do not be afraid to ask these questions! Finally, see if the applicant's education had an effect on his character. Did four years of college make him thoughtful, inquisitive, brave and serious? Or just haughty, pedantic, smug and vain? Pursue these questions, for they not only will make businesses happier but might even do something to improve liberal education in this country. >>What do you think about this Above, GI uates, from left, front row: Anna McManus, Jeannine Bramwell, Catherine ner, Jill Silberman, and Kathryn Rodriguez; middle row, Michael Hennerty, Mary-Charlotte Domandi, Colleen Lynch, Perrin Cunningham, Sally Keller, Karen Gates; top row, Duane Grobman, Don lemons, David Ware, Sheila Flemming, Joy Jasinek, Lynne Ruttum, and Sidney Stockdate. Missing: Helen Rodriguez and Susan Kovach. Robert Mclees photo �'s de1oicting the role of the communists in South he researched the situation so well that even South when the Zulu In the final days of the Graduate Institute summer nrCJ1ar~:iim. and friends gathered to hear an impromptu mll1si«~alen:sernblle Above are tutor Chester Burke/left, and Graduate Institute a1ri~et(:>r Wyatt. AGI gives diplomas 1 students; speaker tells his John's story Outside, a torrential summer rain pounded the earth, but inside the Great Hall in Annapolis, parents, spouses, and guests gathered cozily August 9 under winking chandeliers to see 14 Graduate Institute students receive their diplomas in the 13th summer commencement at Annapolis. His Commencement topic-the story of his personal adaptation to the St John's way of doing things-was risky, perhaps even "presumptuous," said speaker and Graduate Institute tutor Richard Connaughton, AGI '83. But he presented it, he said, in the belief that he was addressing a concern of many students finding themselves in seminar for the first time-"whether I could temper my desire to speak and be heard so that I could hear others." A veteran English teacher at Downers Grove South High School in Illinois, Mr. Connaughton as a new Graduate Institute student had certain convictions about learning; he felt "great anxiety" that year and subsequently over the matter of speaking and listening, he said. "I understood that listening in some formal way was integral to conversation, but so often speaking seemed to be the measure by which I viewed myself and others." He had to resist a classroom pattern in. which listening had been a means of testing whether he had been heard: if his words were Speaker Richard Connaughton, AGl'83 Keith Harvey photQ repeated, he "knew where [he] stood" But, Mr. Connaughton added, he began to recognize that his speaking was "nothing more than a subtle way of silencing others-of mastering others ...and was a way of hiding so that the class became a zone of safety where I could speak, but never be exposed." Confrontations with himself, usually prompted by a question or a textual moment, revealed to him this use of speech as a means of "hiding, avoiding, concealing." In "personally illuminating" moments fraught with unease, he said, he moved from "the use of my own speaking," to a realization that "my capacity to speak authentically was intimately bound up with authentic listening." He concluded his remarks with thanks to tutors, students, and "most of all the texts," in an eloquent testimonial to discussions as they are conducted at the College. At given moments, "something unique happened.an understanding which was not based siinply on my efforts, but rather on the cooperative efforts of a group of people actually listening and speaking to each other." Mr. Connaughton has taught in the GI summer program four times since his own commencement ceremony in Annapolis eight years ago. He received his undergraduate degree at Michigan State University in 1974. Before going to Downers Grove in 1978, he was for two years a teacher at the American School of Kuwait. Presiding over the ceremony was Graduate Institute Director Malcolm Wyatt. Barbara Altman, AGI'90, Director of Placement at the Annapolis campus, presented the Alumni Association Award to GI students Gerard Januszewski and James Van Dyke for excellence in the classroom and service to the GI community. Master of arts degrees were presented by _ President Christopher Nelson to the following students: J. Christoph Amberger, Robert Kemmer Anderson, Stu art Mac Ph ail Barden, Fletcher James Barnes, ID, Gregory Allen Bradshaw, David Alan Diggs, Dana Michele Goode, Gerard Francis Januszewski, Walter Ernest Kisner, Maureen Michele Mericle, Sarah Palmer Mouton, James Matthew Sawatzki, Andy Kelvin Schuchart, and Bernard E. Wolsky. .. ••v.v. of his own "I have to revise everything," he later confessed. The 500-page volume published in 1989 by the Prince George Street Press is based upon the March, 1982, Senate hearings on "The Role of the Soviet Union, Cuba, and East Germany in Fomenting Terrorism in Southern Africa." Chaired by Senator Jeremiah Denton of the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the hearings were widely covered by print and broadcast journalists, but their conclusions were largely unreported. "The committee findings were practically unknown in the United States and, worse still, in Washington, in the Senate and even in the State Department," Mr. Raditsa wrote in his book's introduction. "None of the three people I talked to on the State Department's South Africa desk had read them-not one of them." But this student of antiquity, who among other topics has explored the writings of Julius Caesar, Augustus' legislation on marriage and against love affairs, and the trial of Socrates, would change that. Today, Prisoners of A Dream: The South African Mirage is read throughout South Africa. In fact, Mr. Buthelezi praised its author, saying Mr. Raditsa "could never imagine what this book means to us." The book, a defense of constitutional change, is influential because it's a westerner's plea for non-violent transfer of power. After spending the first three days visiting with a journalist in Pretoria, a typical Afrikaner city, Mr. Raditsa traveled to more modern Johannesburg, with architecture strikingly similar to Italy's. Upon the request of faculty members from the Rand Afrikaans University, he lectured to top military officials at the Institute of Strategic Studies on the "Relevancy of Thucydides Today." A n~- Tutor Leo Raditsa Keith few days later he spoke to several hundred undergraduates at Witwatersrand, the famous English-speaking university. Mr. Raditsa draws a verbal sketch of Johannesburg as a city cowering in fear: ''The people are really frightened; law and order have collapsed in the last year." While the civil disorder may not be making headlines, it's the central topic of conversation there, especially in university circles. When Mr. Raditsa arrived at his hotel, his hosts warned him not to go out at night Among other acts of terrorism, there had been a recent rash of hijacking cars stopped at red lights. "At first it didn't frighten me," Mr Raditsa says. "Then for awhile it got to me, and after a while I did what I pleased." The city's crime is an emblem of a larger malady afflicting the entire country, one Mr. Raditsa describes as a "pre-revolution" of sorts. "Supposedly the people are negotiating a contract, but the people they're negotiating with don't actually want to take over power," he explains. "The violence in the townships is incredible; when I was there Alexander and Soweto erupted. "Americans are partially responsible for this and they don't want to face it; they backed Mandela to the hilt. .. They think it'll be fine because [PresidentF.W.] de Klerk is talking to [African National Congress leader (Continued on page 11) AGK GreeJk Night "the lbest ever" From the epic feast to the tsatziki dance, to the sonorities of therhapsod and the anti-rhapso~, to playful swipes at the Graduate Institute curriculum, it was Greek Night all the way m Annapolis for more than 80 GI students and guests-"the best ever," veterans ayerred. A whole lamb, complete with a mournful grimace, turned slowly on the spit as t?g~-clad diners filed into Randall Hall where wines and fruit and stuffed grapeleaves and pastits10 and baklava awaited them in bountiful proportions. Dressed in Greek regional costumes, Thebesbom Helen Sfondouris, aided by husband John and their children Lia, Nikos, and Tassos, presided over the feast, and, when the sated revellers arose, o_ver the dancing that follow~d. "Count to 10," urged Lia, as she led the dancers, hand m hand, through the s~metimes befuddling kalamantiano, taped plangencies of the bouzouki and santouri accompanymg them. Presently a gaggle of Graduate Institute actors moved c~nter stage to pres~i:it A:E. Housman's "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy," a treasured in-house Joke to scholars familiar with the enormities perpetrated by certain classical translators. The chorus listened alertly to an actor subsiding to the floor with a series of agonized shrieks, and intoned solemnly, "I thought I heard a sound within the house/ Unlike the voice of one that jumps for joy." And so on. "Honors" were next and there were a lot of them: ducking and feinting was no protection. Sample: Most Likely t~ Carry on a Seminar Discussion by Himself-Jim Barnes;.Most Likely to Turn the Liberal Arts into a Money-making Endeavor-Iay Malarcher; Most Likely to Turn the Title Summa Theologica into a Prime Time Sit-Com-Phil Gochenour. A special award and gift from Graduate Institute Director Malcolm Wyatt went to the c~airman of the rousing evening Maureen Mericle-Most Likely to Start a Dynasty of Camp Drrectors. The ~tar of the evening was Mike Villacrusis, round but nimble, with a haunting voice and measureless aplomb-singer, master of the guitar, parodist and mime. Along with Joan Becker, he launched the Talent Event with "A Loose Translation of the Opening Verses of The Iliad." Homer's words, delivered in Greek by Ms. Becker, alternated with Mr. Villacrusis' irreverences, offered "with apologies to Homer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lewis Carroll and The Rascals." Sample: And as King Agamemnon stood, Apollo's priest, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as he came. Other talented performers targeted Plato, Noel Coward, whodunits and hucksterism as the evening moved to its conclusion. �'s . . . . . . . . . ,. . . . . . . . Louis with paychecks for jobs, proponents argue. The Israeli ambassador to South Africa Svi Gavari spoke passionately to Mr. Raditsa about the U.S. revoking the sanctions, as the Europeans have done. [Since this interview was conducted, President Bush has lifted sanctions. Mr. Raditsa comments, "The lifting of sanctions does not automatically mean the return of capital investment.] Short of this, Americans may wake up one and discover that South Africa, "the sleeping giant," has awakened. The country is as to us as the Persian he says: possess and control sea routes critical to our "''"""t~ 1 ' "South like the Persian means the control of and if it comes upon us as the Persian Gulf crisis it will be too late." "The other side is that the Africans Chicago's wanted to make the Graduate Institute accessible to Chicago Paideia teachers who could not afford to emoll for the entire eight-week summer session. For of the teachers, this summer's session was not only enriching but tempting-"Expect an application for the Graduate Institute from me soon," one teacher said. Most of the participants receive outside funding for their studies. In 1989, 33 teachers attended; in 1990, nine of the 18 participants were funded by the AmericanNational Bank, and Dr. Brazil received for eight others from the Illinois Alliance of Essential Schools. This year, the MacArthur Foundation 30 of the 36 par1t1c11Jan1ts. Plans un- 1976 newspaper puliJlls:hu1g I am semi now, on our mini-farm in Fork, " Her children are Rachel, 14, Aileen, 12, James, 9, Alexander, 8, .......... ,~""''~.... 2, and Sarah, born June 11. She still free-lances and teaches part time. She sends classmates affiliation with five other still consider St. John's intellectual home." 1 • 1<•-rlruFr·•l"""' that he is alive and well died at age 84 of a heart attack following a tennis game in 1989. The retired chairman of the at St. Paul's School in .ua.n.llJ,.1.u.1.•v, he was a much revered teacher who had taught at the school for more than 50 years and continued to be active in its life until his death. He joined the faculty in 1927 and introduced many courses to the curriculum, including geography, contemporary history, and colonial Maryland history, as well as teaching the first advanced placement course offered in history. He also served as assistant headmaster, and as a coach for the tennis team and junior varsity and freshman lacrosse and football teams. He was a member of the track team at St. John's College and earned a master's degree at Johns Hopkins in 1952. He is survived by his wife, the former Helen Gambrill, a son and daughter, three brothers, five sisters and two grandchildren. Joseph Ginter: lawyer H. Joseph Ginter, A'84, died in August at age 28 of meningitis in the Northern Virginia Doctors Hospital. AWashington, D.C., native, at the time of his death Mr. Ginter was an associate of a law firm in Upper Marlboro, Maryland He had formerly been associate counsel to Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. After graduation from St. John's, Mr. Ginter was a summer intern in the office of Sen. Charles McC. Mathias, (D-MD. ), and then a research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute. He was graduated from the University of law school in 1989. He was president of the Prince County Young Democrats and a of the Maryland State Democrats and the un1veTS11tv of Additionally, he was a member of the American Bar As:~oc1at1.on, the State Bar Association, the Fort Washington Democratic Club and l-{..-<inr1nu•· 1 " ' 13 Democratic Club. Harry J. and Rose K. Ginter of Fort Washington, and a sister. teacn1n~. told the land the government gave the Africans was barren a subhuman wasteland. Instead he saw evidence of reforestation. Even within the confines of the the homes were the lawns .................u ......... , and evidence of pride of .., . . .,..,,..,. . ~r .........u.... u•u.......... schools in California. He was also an EMT for a number While he did not attend the for very long, his cornoalillo;n .,.,,.,...,,..,..,t11u found a from his SJC writes. his son Joshua of ......................,.. . and his Mr. Raditsa steeled himself to hatred of the United he found the citizens courteous, even warmhearted. knew I defended them my so weren't to show me how much they disliked Americans." Also to he felt that the blacks there don't hate the whites. .!""1.1.1w:Jlu•uJ;t;,u ,,..~,,.-t-~,,.,,~r1 l'J-yea1r-01ldJtannh<Juse, and, "like most of us, to balance work and because of the of Mandela-who, inmuch of; they're no one shocked at how rigid he is." After three weeks of exploring the country llsl:enmg to its people, Mr. Raditsa satisfied his toughest literary critic, himself. "When South African critics said that I had too positive a view of the country his book], I immediately sensed that I had porthe country correctly. But it is a hard country because what you're told is so different from what you see...you have to trust your eyes." His eyes confirmed his words. Paideia (Continued from page seven) use with my students in seminar." The teachers were not only encouraged in their use of the seminar method, but challenged by some ways that St. John's approaches that method differently. Many remarked that they had never fully realized the importance of the opening question in a seminar. The teachers also enjoyed themselves outside the classroom-talking to colleagues around the dinner table, shopping in Santa Fe, taking a bus tour to Taos, and attending the on-campus Shakespeare-in-the-Park production of Twelfth Night. One teacher wrote, "Indeed, St. John's hills and altitude did take Dr. Brian finished three years of working while trying at the same time to build a private family practice. "We need health care reform," he commenting that he helped to teach a ethics course at the University of Illinois. "Had a long talk with Porn and Rita Collins [A '78] after a long hiatus. They are doing well in Portland." Leslie Graves is living in the country near Spring Green, Wisconsin, with her husband Eric O'Keefe and three children: Sara Key, 12; Kelly, 5; and Colin, 2. Eric has a political consulting firm, which has recently been working for groups supporting terms limits for elected representatives. "We are homeschooling [the children], which in our case means more that we are unschooling them." Ms. Graves has been doing some work for a publishing project, The Collected Works of FA. Hayek. "Eric and I played in two badminton tournaments last year, achieving uniformly laughable results." 1981 Elizabeth ("Buffy") Bowser Affsprung reports that she is the associate pastor of the Newtown Square Presbyterian Church outside of Philadelhia. Her husband Eric is a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and they are expecting their first baby by Valentine's Day, 1992. Dru Schmidt-Perkins lives in Baltimore with her husband and three children (9,5, and 2), "two cats and one and a half dogs." In her spare time she is state director for a national environmental organization Clean Water Ac- in MI, as structure team for the electric project. Her husband Mark Moore-Fuller (nee A '82, is to school. "Our is Barton #101, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, and we would be interested in hearing from other Johnnies in the area." Elizabeth Stuck spent several months in Japan last summer through a program jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Science and Technology Agency of Japan. The program included Japanese language instruction, individual research oportunities, and the chance to observe research being done atJapanese governmental agencies, · universities and private companies, as well as numerous cultural outings. Her husband joined her after the program to tour Japan and Hong Kong for several weeks. In September, she was to return to the University of Minnesota with plans to complete her Ph.Din computer science by June. James Schamus works in NYC as an independent film producer, specializing in low budget and avant garde work. In the past year he has executive produced a film called Poison, co-produced the feature film Thank You and Good Night, with American Playhouse; and produced The Golden Boat by Raul Ruiz. He has a couple of new feature films in post-production and has also been }>roducing short films for PBS and European TV. In addition he's "been trying to keep a foot in academia, completing a doctorate from Berkeley, and taking on an assistant professorship in film theory and history at Columbia University." He lives man Since late worked for a D.C. law firm. 1990 who is living in Mountain View, Calllfom1a, started as an intern and is now managing the office for a graphic design firm, having become the local computer ex"a thought," she says. Along with (above), who started it, she has been in a book discussion group, and the two have plans to organize yet another one. They report that Christine Robertson is living in San Francisco in the guise of a nanny. Hunter Nesbitt, GI, who studied drawing in the SJC studio program and won the Robertson prize at Commencement, has since exhibited in a group show in NYC and at the Wetherholt Galleries in Washington. Richard Rogers, GI graduate, who joined Digital Equipment Corporation in 1975, has been promoted to district sales manager in Charlotte, NC. In his new job he will be responsibile for managing sales units and will lead cross-functional teams to achieve goals. Dick, his wife Barbara, and their daughter Aimee will live in Denver, NC. 1991 Jeaneen McAmis is engaged to Louis Elias. Jeaneen, who has an internship teaching fourth grade at the Key School in Annapolis, will be working with Katherine Haas, A'60. Katherine in turn is married to Ray Haas A '58, who is supervising Louis at the nearby Calverton School, where Louis will be teaching math and science. �Fe Cl> 0 5 With a solo exhibition of both provocative, figurative paintings and works following in the tradition of the great American landscape painters, Martin Garhart will be the first of eight artists/teachers in a special year-long series of exhibitions and public lectures at the Santa Fe campus by visiting artists from colleges around the country. The exhibit of oils and watercolors, entitled "Between Desire and Understanding," was scheduled to open with an artist reception and gallery talk on Sunday, September 8, from 3-5 p.m. in the Art Gallery. Mr. Garhart will deliver a free public lecture, with question-and-answer session, on Wednesday, September 11, at 8 .m. in the Great Hall. His talk, "Art from Life" will address art as a form of thought and idea development, as well as the process in which the individual artist moves beyond a personal to a greater social responsibilto share with society his or her and understanding of life ext>erienc;es. Garhart believes that humankind is between desire and um1erstancti.ng. pa:sSH)mtte. an urnjer·sta.nding is much more intellectual. I believe we are be- tween forces of these two selves," he says in describing his exhibition. "In my smaller works, done from life, painting becomes experience, a giving over of oneself to the place and the moment. My larger paintings, composite images done in the studio, are about human intellect, about how I try to process experience." A painter and printmaker, Mr. Garhart is chairperson of the art department at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. His work appears in many private and public collections, including those of the British Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and the Rocky Mountain National Park. The artist's work has been shown in many group and solo exhibitions throughout the country over the last 20 years and has been reproduced in numerous books and reviews. stay, Garhart will also extrac:unnctllar n"""''""'"'"... for St. workshops, and public lectures by eight artists from colleges around the United States to consider the relationship between the fine and liberal arts. Each of the eight visitors, noted both for their art work and their teaching, will show their work for one month in a solo exhibition during the 1991-92 academic year. These "artists/teachers" will each give gallery talks at their shows' opening receptions, deliver free public lectures on selected topics relating to American contemporary art and education, and give hands-on workshops for St John's students. The "Artists/Teachers" series will connect the College tradition of educational excellence in the liberal arts with the area of the fine arts. With this program, the College aims to foster its students' continued scholthem to artists from 0th.er institul:iorts the nation. The College expects also to foster similar awareness and discussion in the greater Santa Fe cmnrrmnitv The St. John's is located on the second floor of the Peterson Parent Weekend will be held on both campuses this fall-October 24-27 on the Santa Fe campus, and November 1-3 on the Annapolis campus. Parents are invited to attend whichever is convenient, and are further invited to arrive early at both campuses in order to sit in on student classes. There are special parent seminars Saturday on each campus and other events. For further information, call Susan Friedman, (505) 982-3691, ext. 226. in Santa Fe; and Betsy Blume. (301) 263-2371. ext. Annapolis. Art enthusiasts will find themselves immersedin far more than the media when they view an exhibition of one of the most influential movements in modern art "Austrian Drawings, and Waterfrom the Collection of movement in Austria as Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Oskar Kokoschka (18861980), and Egon Schiele (1890-1918)form one of the most important periods of the 20th century art. The movement began in Vienna at the tum of the with a small group of the SANTA NOVEMBER 1-3 October 24-27 Advance registration required. Thursday, October 24, Friday, October 25 Visit seminars and classes Friday, October 25 President's reception- Friday, November 1 9 a.m.-5 p.rrt. 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In bis eighteen years as a tutor in Santa Fe, he has taught nearly every class at every level. This summer he will oversee a program of seminars for high school teachers from around the nation, for which he received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. And, now, Steve Van Luchene is dean of the College. Improving the quality of life on campus, for both students and faculty, is a high priority. "The heart of the college is in the strength of its undergraduate program," he says, "and there's a lot I'd like to see happen." There is, he adds, always more to learn, but he is grateful for his past experience in different capacities at the college, since he will be spared the extra difficulty of "starting cold." Van Luchene believes the job of the dean is to make it easier for all others to be able to perform their work as best possible. "The dean has to be involved in everything and in all events," he says with zeal. He says he's looking forward to working who has taken a very active with Don role in student affairs assistant dean, and June 1991 chos n pr Christopher Nelson, a 42-year-old Chicago lawyer who is a 1970 graduate of the College and a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, was named in April by the Board to be president of the Annapolis campus, ending a two-year search. He will leave the Chicago law firm Kovar Nelson Brittain Sledz & Morris to assume his duties at Annapolis in June. The Chicago firm, of which he has been chairman and managing partner, serves a national client base in the practice oflabor and employment law and employee benefits planning. Mr. Nelson, in becoming the third man to preside over the eastern campus since presidential duties were divided in 1986, is the latest in a list of presidents that stretches back to the College charter in 1784. fo Santa Fe, John Agresto was inaugurated in 1990, as the second president to serve the Santa Fe campus. to have As a member of the only three generations attend the college under the 54-year-old New Program curriculum, Mr. Nelson will bring with him the strength of an extraordinary individual and family association. His father, Charles Nelson, a 1947 graduate of the Annapolis campus, is also a board member. In addition, two of Christopher Nelson's siblings are graduates of the college, and his oldest son Tollof is a sophomore in Santa Fe. His mother, Anne, was made an honorary alumna last year. An even-tempered man of apparently inexhaustible energy and commitment, Mr. Nelson has been an articulate and zealous spokesman for what is widely regarded as the quintessential liberal arts program. He estimates that he has given 30-40 per cent of his frequent 80-hour work weeks to the college or related liberal arts causes for the past five years. While attending St John's was never preached in the family which has so devotedly supported it, Mr. Nelson suggests that the New Program way of doing things, of small group discussion on an immense range Christopher Nelson of subjects from astronomy to quantum mechanics to The Iliad, was introduced very early to the children-described as "voracious readers"-in bis father's and bis own family. "Study of the liberal arts teaches the skills of being," he said. "They are there to provide us with a way of approaching and understanding the world that satisfies our very basic human nature-our need to know, not just to do a particular task. There is joy in such study." How St. John's conducts this study is extra special, he went on. He plans to use his new office "to help the College articulate to the world its idea of a liberal education." The new president will succeed Donald DONNA BOETIG J. Maclver, Jr., who came from his position as executive in a Texas-based energy firm to be interim president at the Annapolis campus for the current academic year. A 19891990 presidential search produced no permanent successor to President William M. Dyal, Jr., who held office from 1986 until his retirement in 1990. The 1990-91 presidential search committee, which has been reviewing candidates since last fall, put Mr. Nelson's name before the board at its regular April quarterly meeting. At the same meeting, Mr. Maclver was elected chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, succeeding A. Scott Kelso of Houston, Texas. Mr. Nelson received his undergraduate degree at the Santa Fe campus after spending three years in Annapolis. After receiving his J.D. degree from the Utah College of Law in 1973, he became part of a large general corporate law firm in Chicago, leavfirm. ing it in 1979 to establish his Since the early 1980's, Nelson has provided pro bono legal counsel to every St. John's College president on each campus. In addition to serving on Board of Visitors and Governors committees, Mr. Nelson has since 1982 been a member of the College's Alumni Association Board, where he has served as treasurer, secretary, and member of many committees. Active in the American Bar Association, he has also devoted considerable time to the promotion of liberal education in the public schools and at another college. Mr. Nelson is married to Joyce Olin, a lawyer with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and is the father of four sons and a married stepdaughter. His youngest sons, 16-year-old twins, will accompany Mr. Nelson and Ms. Olin to Annapolis. Star State sat on a table bedecked with a red cloth. At the country tunes were muffled and the crowd turned its collective The occasion? leader's transition from College president to, in the words of Dean Eva T. H. "a far grander part, as a student of the Graduate Institute, and in a still more exalted role-as a beginning learner of Greek." Mr. Maciver, a former executive for a major energy firm in El Paso, Texas, who was recently elected Chairman of the Board of St. John's, was resplendent in jeans, high boots, and a tan. He mingled of whom were seated on blankets while bales of that others leaned dotted the frisbee field ad]:iceio.t banks of Creek. Mr. Verdi credited the honoree with "He learned to feat-and could were five rer;1res;en1tatives College who would express their sentisome serious-for a man who devoted a year to drr·ectm2 their institution, 12 months in which the College knitted itself more tightly into the fiber of the town, through its invitations to lectures, concerts, plays, and its new Mitchell Art Gallery. "From the start of his tenure, he displayed an almost freshmanesque glee at the prospect of so closely associating with the life of St. John's," John Verdi, assistant dean told the assemblage, some One appendage he would surely retain was his "Texasvision," a term Mr. Verdi used to describe the President's broad view of others. "By nature he seeks to see in others their very best qualities and their highest potentials, and tries to help the rest of us recognize them too," he said. Standing next to a six-foot plywood Yosemite Sam with " Don Maclver " (Continued on page three) �1933 When he moved back to Annapolis several years ago, Tilghman B. Price attended an annual Homecoming weekend, where he picked up a copy of theAlunmiRegister. "I was considerably surprised to find I was listed therein as dead," he writes, although "after I recovered from the shock I was amused." He then wrote to the college to point out the mistake. He was not, however, amused when no correction ever appeared in The Reporter. Thus, with many apologies for the original error as well as for our inadvertent inaction on the matter, we gladly set the record straight at last Francis Mason's book I Remember Balanchine: Recollection.softheBalletMaster by Those Who Knew Him was reviewed in the Washington Post Book World of May 12. Sugthat readers will get the most of this of reminiscences if they read it " Mindy Aloff, dance critic, a better"'"'-"'-"'"' do1curnei1taJrv of the man, ~a1au~•uu~, Described able refresher course in Western Knowled'2e: Past, Present and has been made Book Club. Richard Freis, professor at Millsaps College in Mississippi, received a 1990 teaching award from the American Philological Association for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics. Prof. Preis directed for many years the Heritage Program, an interdisciplinary humanities program for freshmen, which achieved national recognition under his leadership. The citation noted that "Millsaps students flock to the program, often waiting a year or more to gain entrance." A college spokesman said the award recognized a classicist "whose contributions extend beyond the classroom to the college and the community." 1966 Ian Harris, professor of Educational Policy and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has a bi-monthly talk show on public radio station WUWM focusing on problems of violence in the human community and nonviolent ways to address the problems. The two-year-old program is called "Alternatives to Violence: the Practice of Peacemaking" and features interviews with people working on nonviolent alternatives. Topics covered have varied from international peace issues to domestic issues, to local concerns and nonviolent theory. 1970 Arthur H. Luse, Ill, who has taken a year off from the Reform Theological Seminary to which he hopes to return in the fall, is teaching high school in New York this year. 1973 Jan Munroe, who is just starting out on a PhD degree in psychology at the Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, declares that she is "reading Plato occasionally" and is happy as a clam with her life. 1975 Howard Meister, married to Paula Zindler and the father to 11-year-old Caitlin, is an artist living and working in New York City, with one-man shows scheduled for Tokyo in March and Soho in May. He recently took the 3rd level black belt exam in a traditional Japanese form of karate. Psychiatrist Elizabeth Fort Tomlinson is married to Steven Bartels and has two children, Sasha, 4, and Coleman, 2. Over the telephone, Sue Larrison said she was getting ready to have a gallstone "zapped 1968 by laser," and thatshehadreceivedflowers and good wishes from Gretchen Berg and "tremendous support" from G. Kay Bishop and Carolyn Wade Loring, A '77. For a note on Dr. Peter Fox, see Alumni West Notes for 1970. 1977 Maureen Meidt Kneisl and Paul Kneisl are living in Westmont, NJ, with their daughter Megan, 10, and their son Jeffrey, 6. Paul works at General Electric and Maureen is the superintendent of their apartment complex. Ann T. Schwartz is a second year medical student at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Commissioned into the Navy in February,1990, she "loved" boot camp. She starts clinical work in June. Eliza with three in architecture and scape architecture, won the national competition for a Korean War Veterans' morial to be located on the nationa! mall in Washington, DC. She observes, been following that story, it's become The exhilaration of presenting White House Rose Garden was afraid it's been downhill since said." She adds, 1989 is the birth of who lives up to name." In CO··OrJ~an11ze~d an interpretive exhibition titled "Abstracting the Landscape: the of Landscape Architect A E. Bye," the first exhibition of its kind to interpret the work of a contemporary landscape architect, which will be traveling around the country. She urges interested Johnnies to see it and adds, "I'd love to hear from former classmates" at 236 South Patterson St., State College, PA 16801. In a recent letter, Brian Silverman, who is currently in a general practice residency in dentistry, recalls that he "left the college in 1978 after three somewhat stormy years distinguished more by revelry, academic lability, and general notoriety than by any devotion to the books and the balance." Things apparently changed. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from West Chester University in 1979, an MSS degree from the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College, in 1984, and most recently, a DMD degree with honors from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Married in 1984 and divorced in 1990, he has two children, a son, 5, and a daughter, 2. He would like to stimulate some correspondence from old friends and promises replies to any letters. 270 Woodland Ave., Summit, NJ 07901. 1983 Hugh Mappin has earned a second bachelor's degree, this one last year in education at the University of Toronto. He has just had his first experience in teaching first and second graders at the Charles G. Fraser School in Toronto and becomes part of a movement in public education to place more men teachers in the lower grades. "It's sort of embarrassing to be so wanted," Hugh said. He plans to take off the coming year to study linguistics in Europe. He has also been active as a volunteer with Toronto's Central Food Bank which distributes food from industry to individual community food banks for the needy. 1984 James Hyder, who works for the Air and Space Museum, was a contestant recently on Jeopardy, winning on April 8 and losing on April 9. After Mimi Desjardins finished her clerkship with the Washington State Supreme Court last August, she and Tom Pierce moved to Maui, Hawaii, where in April she took a job with the Maui county prosecutor's office. She reports that "Tom is windsurfing almost full time now and becoming quite a pro. We would love to hear from any Johnnies in Hawaii." (Continued on page 14) 1982 Antigone Phalares, presently teaching math and science at an inner city middle school in Sacramento, remembers that her mother, herself an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and a great admirer of Robert Hutchins, first drew her only daughter's attention to St. John's. Her father, a veterinarian by profession and a classical scholar by avocation, attended alumni summer sessions in Santa Fe with Antigone. Both parents are "very close to the college," says Antigone. These two, in their 80' sand 90' s respectively, residents of Queens in New York and still "wonderfully interesting and interested in others," need companionship and conversation, which can be remunerated if appropriate. Call Antigone at 916-974-0259. Adam Farquhar and his wife Angela Dappert-Farquhar, announce the birth of their son Aiken Sebastian Farquhar on January 17. Sarah Henderson, who has been in Canada since 1970, is married to Robert Orr, professor of physics at the University of Toronto, and is herself an administrative assistant at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology there. She has a garden, she adds. 1970 Among participants at a March workshop on the Santa Fe campus which focused on the possibility of developing a three-dimensional volumetric atlas of the human brain were Gerald Peters and his wife Katie Kenney Peters, SGI '71. The two, who hosted the closing reception, are board members of the Santa Fe Neurosciences Institute, which sponsored the workshop along with the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Others taking part were JohnsHopkins neurobiologist Peter Fox, A '75, and Los Alamos group leader Christian Burks, SF'76. 1973 Derick Miller, A '89, reports from Silicon Valley that Jeff Angus held a variety of interesting jobs, includng working for environmental groups and starting an environmental company before he switched fully to the computer world. More recently he has worked as the Seattle bureau chief for Infoworld, a major computer industry publication, and then set up and ran Infoworld's test lab in the Silicon Valley. Now he writes a column in Portable Computing and works for a Macintosh developer. He and Derick meet occasionally for pizza, at which moments Jeff has provided Derick with "solid advice and guidance about career decisions." 1980 Dawn Meredith, Roland O'Neal Professor of Physics at the University of New Hampshire, will publish her research results from collaborative work at the Institut de Physique Nucleaire in Orsay, France, in the summer issue of Annals of Physics. 1983 After two years at St. John's, Rebecca Davis entered Bennington College "for more intense exposure to the arts." After one semester, she joined a traveling marionette company. Five years of involvement with puppetry followed, part of it with Antioch College from which "I eventually got my B.A. .. with a selfdesigned major in Expressive Arts." There were other vocations in Boston and Minneapolis, including two unpublished books, and she has now been in Silicon Valley for almost four years as a headhunter. Married last year to Blake Marr, "we have a home, a collie, two cats, lotsa fish and lotsa happiness." She is working on a master's degree in Arts and Consciousness as well as novel #3 "which might even be saleable." In the meantime, she recruited Derick Miller, A '89, "who put me back in touch with my Alma Mater (thanks, Derick)!" She would like to hear from old friends and can be reached at 43623 Tonica Road, Fremont, CA 94539. 1984 Mike Strong, Mally Mechau Strong, and Homer Valentine Strong, almost three, have happily left Chicago to live in Homer, Alaska. Mike has had a one-year position there as a Paideia teacher trainer leading seminars with teachers and their students, K-12. He is still working on his dissertation, a reconciliation of economic and humanistic conceptions of human behavior, ;'which means that I think about Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, and Richard Posner when I am not doing seminars on Plato, Shakespeare, Lao-tse, and Chief Seattle." Mally is writing poetry and growing a serious garden, and they live in a house with a large geodesic dome and "outrageous views." Homer is "tall, good, and missing his two front teeth." Room for visitors: P.O. 298, Homer, AK99603. 1986 Jill Fredrickson, GI, moved from Washington, DC, to Colorado last year and gave birth to her second daughter, Jenna Blanche, in September. The family lives in an old farmhouse on two and a half acres of land which they liken to Pearl Buck's "good earth." They have four cows, all due to calve this spring, which prompted Jill, in true Johnnie fashion, to prepare for possible emergency veterinary training by reading All Creatures Great and Small. Nancy Osius, editor; Donna Boetig, assistant editor; Wye Allanbroolc, Betsy Blume, John Christensen, Benjamin Mil· ner, Brother Robert Smith, and Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. The Reporter is published by the News and information Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. Donald J. Maciver, president. Published four times a year, in March, June, September December. Second-class postage paktU~P~n al~~ t(g. 01 �THE REPORTER JUNE 1991 wins Watson Aaron Rosenbaum, a 1991 graduate at Annapolis, has been awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for 1991-1992. He is among 75 students from 49 colleges across the country to receive $13,000 stipends for independent foreign study and travel. Mr. Rosenbaum will spend next year in Warsaw, assisting with the modernization of the editorial, design and production systems of the Gaz eta Wyborcza, formerly the underground newspaper for the Solidarity movement and now the largest newspaper in Poland. He expects also to help form computer user groups for those with similar interests, and to help small companies and individuals gain access to an international electronic mail system. In Annapolis, Mr. Rosenbaum was a founder and currently runs the St John's College Computer Society, which administers all student computing programs at the college. The society supports the whole college user community, two comlabs with a total of 17 and Watson winner Aaron Rosenbaum Keith Annapolis. The Watson Fellowship Program is administered through 57 outstanding small vvu..;;.1e:1;;-i'.'.I and universities, which this year nominated 203 finalists. Each St. John's campus has had 16 winners since the inception of the program in 1969. Maclver's departure (Continuedfrompage one) inscribed on its belt buckle, Mr. Maciver made it obvious that he is still smitten with the College. ''No organization fits that sense of community as well as this one," he said. "This is not a unique community, but it is a very special one." He attributed the warm welcome he received from inside and outside the College community to the respect St. John's commands. "Generous," was an adjective repeated by the speakers to describe both Mr. Maciver' s "greatest and most extended pro bono work of his lawyer's life," his year's leadership of the College. In the words of Jeffrey Bishop, Vice President for Advancement: "Don gave it all to us: his time, his interest, his love and his money ...If we had a hundred Don Macivers there would be no need for a Capital Campaign." "For the staff, he has as he loves to say, 'laid the predicate' for fairer compensation," Ms. Brann said. "For the faculty, he has instituted some very felicitous precedents. For the students he has had kindness and unflagging interest." When Mr. Nelson spoke, he added a light touch with a mock heroic ode to his predecessor, Donald": "And so ... His subjects cheered with might and main this glorious year of King Donald's reign. They raised up their glasses, all drank a toast To Donald, King Donald, whom they liked the most." In the end, it may indeed be the students' tribute that will remain closest to Mr. Maclver's heart. Ted Naff, president of the student polity, remembered "first seeing this new face on the sidelines during a soccer game chatting with students. It-wa~-surpris­ ing at first to see our new president taking such an interest in our activities," he said. Their surprise was short-lived, however. Before long they'd see him rowing, playing softball, shooting baskets in his bare feet. This sports enthusiast even donated money to renovate the men's locker room. Soon Mr. Maclver began appearing on the quad, in the coffee shop. The best part was that the new president had more on his mind than oil companies, students quickl* discovered. "He seemed to have a good understanding of what it's like to be a college student," Mr. Naff said. Perhaps what they respected most about this man who came in "at a moment's notice under trying times," was his strong desire to study alongside them. "I can remember seeing Mr. Maciver in one of the question periods getting right in the thick of things and struggling for understanding just like the rest of us," he told the crowd. :Smnming up his thoughts, Mr. Naff said: "He thought us enough to spend the time to get to Maciver says he's like any other student to settle into the dorm at Santa Fe for a year of gralduate study-with one exception. His room has a phone, a hotline to link the College with its Chairman of the Board, himself. But, he promises, little else will divert him from his studies. PAGE3 Tuck becomes assistant dean By NANCY osrus A tutor at the Annapolis campus since 1979, Jonathan Tuck finds "a certain piquancy" in the fact that he will soon be part of the College administration: on July 1, he begins his duties as assistant dean. During the tumultuous years 1965-1969, years of the student revolution, he was on the other side of the ramparts, aggressively protesting the policies of the Columbia University administration as well as U.S. participation in the Vietnam war. In his new role, he will, like Deborah Renaut, also assistant dean, be in charge of all the non-academic aspects of student life, including discipline. Seated today in a College office, an ample, bearded, eminently approachable man of 43, Mr. Tuck, reflecting on his impending new is remembering vividly his own student commitments of 25 years ago. He sees his history of student activism as giving him a with the students at St. who seem to him generally more like his own student contemporaries than like other college students of the nineties. Johnnies have a kind of idealism, he believes, "a kind of ardent engagement in questions" that he thinks is similar to the sixties. They even dress somewhat like the students of his times, he says, and, beginning to smile, "they listen to that music." The parallels continue. Johnnies are not careerist, he thinks, and resist the expectations society has of them "simply to become members of the economy," while many students elsewhere are anxious about their employability. Johnnies are given to asking "very radical questions," he points out, and are suspicious of authority. Some even think coming to the College represents a sacrifice in terms of careers, which Mr. Tuck believes "turns out not to be true." Reluctant because of his small children to take on the demanding assistant dean's job until now, he comments that the recent division of duties, such as the creation of the jobs of director of residence and director of student activities, has made the job more manageable. Praising John Verdi, who is leaving the job, Mr. Tuck observes that as a general policy he hopes simply to continue the work Mr. Verdi has been doing so ably. His most recent conspicuous interaction with students outside the classroom was his January appearance as the sack-drinking voluptuary, Sir John Falstaff, in King Henry W, Part II. There was much cast merriment over the fact that the man about to be entrusted with enforcing the College alcohol policy was the very one in the play extolling the virtues of drinking. More quietly Mr. Tuck has been involved for some time in working with student volunteers. As father to David, 10, and Ben, 7, and husband to Linda, a public school media specialist, he has been much committed to public school education and has been bringing students into Annapolis schools for weekly one-on-one tutoring for two years. He thinks it is particularly good-even "therapeutic"-to have the students in contact with the elementary school pupils, and "good for the little kids, too." For more on student volunteerism, see John Povesjil' s story on page 14. Mr. Tuck has been equally generous with his own volunteer time. During his sabbatiof 1987-88, he gave a weekly poetry class at Georgetown East Elementary School for fifth and sixth graders as a regular part of language arts. In the summer of 1989, he served on a curriculum writing committee for sixth, eighth and tenth graders. During the 1989-90 school year he served as what is known as an English "MOI" (materials of instruction) committee member, Assistant dean Jonathan Tuck Keith Harvey photo going to the county department of education to talk about what texts should be seciond.arv English. This contact with many who are very kniowledlgable and very " whom he was to meet. This year, he is a Citizens Committee at town East His own education was filled with starts conand and he ended up in of John's he calls "dumb luck." A of Columbia Unihe attended Oxford University on a prestigious Kellett and received but he a B. Phil similarities between it and "what we do " as mostly There were other fellowships as well Wilson and Danforth) as he made his way from Britain to Berkeley and a master's degree in English, remaining in the English ae1Jartm1ent at UC until 1978, teaching and a dissertation. However, at the his interests were perversely getting broader and rather than narrower and narrower. He was studying Greek, Latin, and Italian, moving in the direction of comparative literature, and also becoming interested in philosophical issues-indeed, he was increasingly requiring the freedom to range across academic boundaries, a tendency incompatible with the specialization of doctoral programs. Unwilling finally to "be locked in a niche," he threw over the English degree, and left Berkeley to marry Linda and live on the rawly beautiful coast of northern California for a year while he sorted things out. It was there in 1979 that his sister, a dean at SUNY Albany, wrote him about the program in liberal studies she had learned about at St. John's College, because she "thought it sounded like me." As he tells it, he fired off a five-page single-spaced letter, "an intellectual autobiography of sorts," to Dean Edward Sparrow. A spot opened up, he was flown to Annapolis for interviews on Commencement Weekend, and the rest, as they say, is history. �J 4 Two years after incorporating a segment of study in the visual arts into the senior year curriculum, Santa Fe is taking its art program even further. This the Santa Fe campus will host an "Artist/feacher" series-a program that will bring to the college eight American art professors from institutions around the country, noted both for the quality of their work and for their excellence in teaching. The artists will exhibit their work in the campus for one month each and will spend about one week on campus. During these brief residencies, each artist will give a gallery talk at his exhibition opening and will deliver a more comprehensive lecture with a questionand-answer Each will also provide hands-on mstrm::tloinaJ workshOJJS arts studio for students interested in menting first-hand with of drawmu.nnng, and different sessions, leri the teachers, are also for students to view and talk about each other's work. Director of Student Activities Mark St. "said a series of first-rate educators who are also master stu.ri..",A""'~v. l:Snmgmg dio artists to St. John's was an idea of Mr. Agresto's that stemmed from discussions with Martin Garhart, a former colleague of his from Kenyon College in Ohio. Mr. Garhart will lead off the series this September. In exposing students to the ideas, and educational processes of artists from the program is intended to further students' continued scholarship, dialogue and discovery-especially in the areas where academia intersects with artistic A U U ' U . _• .,_._,,AAU, Another major intention of the series is to extend the presence and awareness of the visual arts on campus to the Santa Fe at already the world's third-largest art market. "The artist/teacher series will enhance the many ways that the college reaches out to its community ,_,.,,.,. ...,_vu, concerts, seminars, art exand now, this summer, a free ::Shak1:;sv1eaire festival in the courtof the new Meem Thousands of rovvm;peopJle tourists visit the campus each year to attend the Santa Fe area are additional for artist/teacher series from both local and national sources. Vice President for gan is confident the series will continue to garner from friends and benefactors of the artist/teachers -·~···~A~, the home of local board members. Participants in the series represent a fairly broad cross-section of the United States with respect to geography and media. Diane Katsiaficas, for example, is currently in Thessaloniki, Greece, on a Fulbright Scholarship. There she has been concentrating her efforts on what she calls "metaphorical landscapes"-a mixing of media and techniques, including traditional drawing materials such as oils and pastels and a manipulation of images on computer and copy machines. Western landscape artist Chuck Forsman ... ,,,,,,,...,,tiu showed "Contentious Terrain," an exhibit of paintings at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. The schedule for the series is as follows: September-Martin J. Garhart, Kenyon October-Robert R. MaCollege, lone, Southern Illinois University at November-Chuck Fors- March-John University of M1nnesc1ra; Northwest Col- librarian is to connect "Libraries are places Librarians should be interested in more information about the artist/teacher series should contact Ben Director of Communications, St. John's Santa New l.U.'-·"-l.'-'"• 982-3691. information-it's rm here." The first head librarian of Santa Fe's new LEDA M. SILVER ·~··~·· ...,=have in common? and transferred to Santa Fe as sophomores, were very motivated to make it work. "We the administration over a months. They have been supportive. At the beginning arose because the students were not used to rPr:vrln10 Now it's almost second nature for students to recycle," Selekman relates. It's convenient for students to do so. Plastic bins are installed in all dorms. chained to poles and cannot be removed. In all main buildings, administrative offices, coffee shops-throughout the campus-a total of about 60 bins are available. Marriott food service sets aside all cardboard and tin for this program. Twice each week 15 to 20 people collect the assembled discards and take them to the on Siler Road in Santa ' It's conapnBecl soda scum. It's the gross bottom of the "reveals one worker. The program generates aPJproxu:nate1v a week in That's at the current for paper rate of 1/2 cent per and cardboard. The money is used to purchase more bins and the program. Further efforts at conservation are also shower evident on campus. heads are now installed in all showers. This to pur- Recycling leaders were hamming it up a little on the job recently. From left is Mary Welliver, a menacing Yanni Papadopoulos, Erik Selekman, and Mark Woodard. Robert Mcclees of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, worked on the program a good deal in the beginning. Current freshmen Mark Woodard of Albuquerque, and Keitel Freeman of Austin, Texas, plan to spearhead next year's efforts. So successful has Santa Fe's recycling effort become that it was recognized at the national level. Last year it was chosen as a finalist among hundreds of entries in the National Wildlife Federation Earth Day Contest. After graduation, Selekman will work and study at a summer project related to his obvious interests. He'll help measure the air pollution levels children receive in State College Pennsylvania. The sponsor is Harvard School of Public Health. The recycling program will continue after his departure. "Now it's an official part of the college," he observes with pardonable pride. can all be recycled, program is thanks in of senior Erik Selekman. "Living in New York spirited with the amount of trash. Here in college, with a smaller com- his quest as a freshman in Annapolis. Dave Brown of Colorado, a fellow freshman there, shared his enthusiasm for the When both teers. "We call the the University of Prior to her return to Santa Fe, she was the reference librarian at Juniata ........... u-.·F>"'' small liberal arts school in rnm£Jlilg,ao:n, Waite has some definite for the vancement team to coirrmiut<n- system. "Automation would sim- via cmnputer, access to ~· J across the nation, AA'~ L•J.~ in effect, grow from a collection of volumes to one of 22 million. Also, because of the college's unique nature, other libraries stand to gain as much from sharing the Meem Library collection as St. John's does from networking with others. Waite says likes the library building's design because it engages students not only with books and ideas but also with other students. The classrooms, 24-hour rooms, and xerox room all provide study and conversation space beyond the smoky coffee shop. The central atrium, too, generally finds students draped-books in handover the furniture. Students already have a strong sense that the library is theirs, says Waite. "The staff doesn't have to ask the students to be quiet-they tell us to be quiet!" she laughs. ,_,_..,Jl .... Jl"" A . .•LU ,>JA<JL �JUNE 1991 PAGES THE REPORTER Hans Elzinga is Santa Fe's newest Watson fellowship · Watson fellow Hans Elzinga By JULIA GOLDBERG Hans Elzinga, a member of Santa Fe's class of 1991, has been awarded the Thomas J. Watson Foundation's fellowship grant. This grant consists of a $13,000 stipend for foreign travel and research. Elzinga intends to use the fellowship to develop his interest in public medical services in rural areas. His year will be spent in various rural areas in West Africa. Originally from West Virginia, Elzinga' s interest in both medicine and the dynamic of helping people in small communities has been an ongoing process which contributed to his proposal for the Watson fellowship. With his project, he wants to examine the patient-physician relationship. He hopes to serve in rural hospitals for a long enough period to gather information by becoming part of the community, rather than having a questionnaire for people to fill out. One of Elzinga' s central questions for the year is an ongoing discussion about how patients feel about this very relationship. By examining this relationship, Elzinga hopes to discover the means of breaking down the barriers between doctor and patient, so that patients have the confidence to ask questions. Elzinga's activities at the college have included being a resident assistant, captain of the soccer team and president of the search and rescue team, but his dominant interest in science has determined his short and long-term plans. This interest came into focus for Elzinga during freshman year laboratories. "The cat dissection," he says, "is how I began to envision the field of medicine, where there is room for creativity. When we did the dissection, my partner and I examined every system, including the fetal kitten, took it apart and put it back tog{'.ther. I became aware that science is not a memorization of facts, but an exploration in the same way as philosophy." In his year off from the college, Elzinga completed pre-med classes at Baylor University, where his father is currently a music professor. Last summer Elzinga worked for the Los Alamos National Laboratories on an independent project extracting calmodulin from bovine testes to contribute research toward calcium structures. Elzinga found the work rewarding and was gratified to work in a state-of-the-art lab, but it also helped him to realize that he wanted his pursuit of science and medicine to incorporate working with people and having hands on experience, rather than doing isolated research experiments. Elzinga has been accepted to medical school at the University of Rochester, N.Y. and will defer his acceptance for a year. Like St. John's, Rochester's medical school is small, consisting of 400 people. Elzinga prefers this small environment, but has considered the possibility of spending a year of his residency in a big city to become accustomed to fast-paced emergency medicine. Ultimately, he believes he will settle in a small area where he can work intimately with his patients. One of his goals in West Africa will be to test this interest in family medicine and health care by independent work promoting health awareness, prevention and pre-natal care. Rochester attracted him because of its emphasis on "understanding how a person reacts to their illness and not just treating the particular organ. This has been my experience with physicians, that doctors who dealt with me personally were more effective than those who only cared about my particular illness," he says. Elzinga's position on the search and rescue team has also contributed to his goals in the medical field. One such experience involved a search for a man who had suffered a heart attack while climbing a mountain. After three hours of CPR, the man died. "Witnessing someone's death," he says, "showed me how much I wanted to be in medicine. Rather than coming away from that experience feeling like I didn't want to be involved in that sort of environment, I realized that I did want to be in situations where I was able to help someone as much as I could and know as much as possible and act with certainty." Elzinga approaches his year abroad with no strict agenda. "For me," he says, "receiving the Watson allowed me to do exactly what I wanted to do: have an adventure and a chance to explore possibilities, rather than jump right into things." His year, he feels, may end up differently than he can foresee. Because he considers it an exploration, he does not want to decide beforehand what he will get out of it. Despite whatever changes he may decide about the particular aspects of medicine he wants to pursue, he is certain that medicine is the means of uniting his desire to help people and his love of science, sparked during his freshman year. Elzinga looks forward to the intensity and specificity of medical school. "When I first came to St. John's," he says, "I wanted to study in a general way, but when I came to know what I was interested in, I wanted to study it as completely and intensely as possible. I can't think of anything more exciting than studying medicine and what it is to be alive." Intended for students showing "unusual promise," St. John's students have received Watson Fellowships almost consistently since their establishment in 1969. Past recipients include Steven Moser '71, Jonathan D. Krane '72 and Matthew G. Krane '76. The fellowship has supported projects of many different spectra. Rachel Ankeny Majeske '88 devoted her project to a bio-ethical study of Huntington's Chorea Disease in England, Wales and Ireland, while Joe Evans '90 spent time in Indonesia, Malaysia and Hong Kong studying culinary arts. The Watson grants totalled over $975,000 this year and were awarded to 75 graduating seniors out of 203 finalists from 49 small colleges and universities around the country. A national competition, the Foundation views the grant as "an opportunity for such travel and reflection as a break from formal schooling during which the Fellows may explore a deep interest, test aspirations and abilities, and view their lives and American society with a new perspective." Sears award winner tutor Ralph Swentzel! leads freshmen. Ben Galison photo Swentzel! receives Sears award Santa Fe tutor Ralph Swentzell was selectedfora 1991 Sears-RoebuckFoundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award. Swentzell received the award for his work in developing special computer lexicon software and in preparing several academic manuals. He is one of nearly 700 faculty members being recognized nationally by the SearsRoebuck Foundation for resourcefulness and leadership as an independent college educator. Each award winner receives $1000, and the institution receives a grant ranging from $500 to $1500 depending on student enrollment. Winners are selected by independent committees on each campus. "In a liberal arts college, where the original works of many of the greatest authors are read, the students at St. John's are confronted with a wide range of subjects and ideas," said Swentzell. "To facilitate the understanding of such works, especially in the technical areas of music, mathematics, and laboratory, I have worked on trying to make it easier for the student to enter greater realms of thought. I have developed computer programs to facilitate the reading of Greek and Chinese and have begun working on Sanskrit. This will enable the students to get in touch with the ideas of other peoples in their original languages," he said. "Ralph has long been regarded by students and his peers as a teacher of exemplary talent," said President John Agresto. "We are very pleased to be able to honor his contributions to the college community with the Sears award." This is the second consecutive year that St. John's has participated in the Sears-Roebuck Foundation's Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award Program. Last year's award was presented to Robert Bart for his work in developing the visual arts segment of the senior year curriculum. "We are pleased that the Sears-Roebuck Foundation has maintained its long-standing partnership with independent higher edu cation by continuing this teacher recognition program," said Jeffrey Morgan, Vice-President for College Advancement. The award program is administered nationally by the Stamford, Connecticut-based Foundation for Independent Higher Education (FIHE) and locally by Robert E. Rhodes, executive director of the New Mexico Council of Independent Colleges and Universities. parents' Twelve parents of Santa Fe students met for a luncheon seminar on Tocqueville in Dallas on March 16. Roy and Janis Coffee, parents of Clay, SF '93, hosted the event and Clay and President Agresto led the seminar. Parents who attended were Vicky Stroup, mother of Jewell Stroup, SF'93; Walter Knight, father of Laura Knight, SF'92; Bill and Carolyn Eddleman, parents of Christian Eddleman, SF'93; Ray Hill, father of Amy Hill, SF'94; Robert Oglesby, Jr., father of Adrian Oglesby, SF '93; Sarah Kay Powers, mother of Elizabeth Powers, A '89. Because the seminar met during spring break, Jewell Stroup and Laura Knight were also able to attend with their parents. In addition to sampling a St. John's sem- inar, the afternoon provided an opportunity for parents in the Dallas area to meet each other and President Agresto, Vice President Jeffrey Morgan, and Parent Program Coordinator Susan Friedman. A similar parent seminar took place on February 16 at Stag's Leap Wine Cellars in Napa, California. Both campuses are considering collaborating on planning similar events in the future. Suggestions from parents are welcome and should be addressed to the Santa Fe Parent Program. *** The next Santa Fe event for parents will be the second annual Parent Weekend, October '24-27, 1991. �DONNA BOETIG illuminate the center Inside two men who never laid eyes on each other before are their hearts out. This is the annual National Collegiate Boxing Association Championships, 132-pound weight class, and the shorter, leaner contender is Brian Good-a sophomore at St. John's College in Annapolis. The other is Tony Stanton of Massachusetts. Tony, unbeknownst to Brian-till now-has pro moves. He's an experienced international competitor. In fact, his brother Roger was one of Navy's ace boxers. Tony himself would presently leave the tournament the top competitor of 48 boxers-what's more, he's a southpaw. Brian is a johnny-come-lately to sports. As a youngster, he read history. In high school he expended more energy evading authority than competing in athletics. After graduation, he embarked on a 10year odyssey that included digging ditches, working in a warehouse alongside a woman who knew classical Greek, pouring concrete foundations days and researching the transition from feudalism to capitalism nights, enlisting in the Army's 75th Rangers for an 18-month stint that ended with an ill-fated parachute jump resulting in a dislocated shoulder. He even taught ghetto kids in California how to box. He'd crisscrossed the country by thumb so many times he'd lost count. His initiation to boxing occurred in 1984 when he jumped in a ring in a gym he describes as a dungeon beneath the track stadium at Cal-Berkeley. The next year he• d discover James Joyce, the tum of the century poets, and Joyce Carol Oates. He'd continue his fascination with the past, accumulating endless streams of facts, figures, and theorems. He longed for a methodology, a framework with which to evaluate this knowledge. With this in mind, he enrolled in St. John's to immerse himself in the study of the classics. Last year, at 34, Brian rediscovered boxing with an intensity unknown in his youth and shared his passion with a dozen other St. John's freshmen. The group founded the College's Pugilist Society, emphasizing physical conditioning and basic techniques. For those who looked askance at a boxing club at the College, Brian wrote in the club's literature: ''The art of pugilism, first touted in Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid, has a long tradition." - Brian quickly passed from the ranks of that 87 percent suffer some ofbrainin their no matter the relative sucess of their careers-Brian says it's not an issue with him. In he insists that in the nh1,,.l'tH7"' Brian Good shows how it's done. George Lundskow photo BOXER: Bronze medal for SJC's Good beginner to a standout. His determination and commitment to boxing captured the attention of Navy's Coach Ron Stutzman. Daily Mr. Stutzman along with former Johnnies PeteMaillet(A'89) and Scott Baxter (A '90), would lead Brian through the rigors of sparring, hitting the bags, and running. Brian entered the regionals in March with high hopes and lost a tough 3-2 decision to a midshipman. But, as fate would have it, Navy's contender fractured a knuckle and Brian was called to take his place. Brian is the first Johnnie to go the boxing nationals since the mid-1930's when the College produced a couple of champions. The significance was not lost on the College. Everyone from students, to tutors, to the grounds maintenance team, to the Marriott workers, to Jeffrey Bishop, vice president for Advancement, even President Donald Maciver expressed support. Dean Eva T.H. Brann recalls her conversation with the boxer before he departed for the nationals: "Brian told me when representing the College he felt something akin to patriotism, an exhilaration such as the fighters at Thermopylae or Salamis might have felt," she recalls. "He asked me if I thought one could feel patriotism for one's school. I told him, 'of course, if it was St. John's."' Psychologically prepared, Brian poohpoohed the age factor. He acknowledged having more joint pain than when be was 20, but says he's never been fitter and cites his best running time ever this spring-five miles in 35 minutes--to prove it. "Others (who started boxing earlier) might be burned out by now. I have more will, perception, and a calmness: it's all-encompassing," he says. "It makes me feel like a fuller human being," his words rush, as he searchesgushes is a better word-like a tongue-tied lover overwhelmed with emotion. "It pushes me to the edge... " April 12, round one at the nationals: Tony strikes a strong one-two, right-left, then throws a straight punch to Brian's head. Brian gets one in. Tony dominates. By now, Tony's dancing on his toes; Brian appears flat-footed, but uncowed. Joyce Carol Oates in On Boxing says that after his upset victory against junior welterweight Billy Costello in 1985, the virtually unknown "Lightning" Lonnie Smith told an interviewer that his model for boxing was that of a chess game: "boxing is a game of control, and, as in chess, this control can radiate in circles from the center, or in circles towards the center.... The man who wins is the man who controls the action of the circle." Tony's making circles. "I'd never been hit as hard or as quick," Brian recalls. While the long range chance of being brain-damaged is always there-in fact, one study of professional boxers estimates match, made sure there was more at stake for Chris on this one, am1outgn took two courn::Hr>enmn.s. they swarmed onto the field like gangbusters, dashingly dressed in tennis sweaters and white yachting trousers or anyway in white and bearing gifts as well. "A Johnny for the Johnnies," they chortled, and plunked down an unmistakable, er, um, commode. Everyone took turns striking careless poses upon it, and one member of the Annapolis campus administration, who shall remain nameless here, was These sirens turned the heads of Tutor Abe Schoener and Alex because the St. John's twosome coached the novices With a St. John's win on the darkness descending, the deciding game for the best two of three match was postponed to the following day. There, we are happy to report, the home team triumphed, and the Crushed Adversary Trophy is in the trophy case at City Hall until another day. Ginger Cove: Ten days later at Ginger Cove, the retirement community, dedication ceremonies preceded the St. John's- Ginger Cove match, when the playing field was named for E. Bates McKee, notable yachtsman, civic figure and croquet player who died in December. Mr. McKee had organized the croquet team there and issued the first challenge to the College two years ago. This year they did him proud by winning their first match from St. John's handily: Ginger Cover, 2, St. John's 0. him. Tony's punches accelerate. Brian refuses to fall. Later, his mind won't recall the blows, but his body will. Time out. Sixty seconds to retreat to the corner for water and direction. "Get to work." The coach sounds ticked. "Coach, please don't throw the towel in," Brian begs. "I'm doing fine. I'm learning something; he's taking me to school." Round two. Brian settles down. "I adjusted mentally to the fact that I had to survive," he says. Brian jabs Tony with a one-two. But Tony looks right through him. Sound is altered Motion is surreal. Brian relives the moment: "I'm watching his arm and thinking, 'Wow, look at the alignment in that punch. Look how straight it is coming towards me.' The initial instinct is to run and hide, but real success is in channeling that fear into a ferocious forward motion." Round three. He says: "I take a breath and go for it, straight in. I land an overhand right in his chin, hit him flush in the face, then snap his neck back." The punches continue ... Brian gets a few in, but Tony's still in control. "I push myself, work myself into a frenzy. It's interwoven: the mind, body and spirit." Brian knows his strong point is his aggression; his ability to take pain. He pushes his limit. His reward will be his opponent's admiration. Later, Tony would comment: "But you kept coming on. Your aggression is incredible." A long three minutes end. It's over. Brian survives. "Even though I was getting beat, the referee never stepped in to say, 'you're in trouble."' In the next match, Tony blasts another opponent in 45 seconds; the referee is called in and gives him a count. Although Brian lost his match, he walked away with the bronze medal, third in the nation. The key word is walked. Brian hasn't decided if he's going to continue competitive boxing, but he's already back in the gym sparring. Coach Stutzman contends Brian would make a great coach. Brian smiles, filing the thought for future reference. For now, he's not quite ready to give up center ring. �JUNE 1991 NANCYOSIUS It may have been Navy's day on the field, but it was everyone's day in Annapolis April 29 for basking in the mild spring weather, hanging out with friends, picnicking under the Liberty Tree, and giving occasional attention to the malletmen and women at their arcane activities on the green. Among the 300 onlookers were an assertive film crew, a number of still photographers and other journalists, several dogs, and one goat. The team of Middies did indeed sweep the field, winning three games in a row and thus the match, and for good measure, two more demonstration games that followed. All this was accomplished with efficiency and dispatch, the match itself finished by about 3:30 instead of after dark, as is customary, when the crowd has dispersed and everyone has gone home. A series that started, according to legend, with a challenge in a downtown pub, now stands at 6-3 in St. John's favor. The Annapolis Cup, which is at issue each season, remains safely in neutral territory, at the Little Campus on Maryland Avenue. But the Johnnies had a triumph, too. As the big day dawned, Bill the Goat was to be found tied to the Liberty Tree where he had been brought at 4:30 a.m. Sometimes he contentedly grazed, occasionally eyeing his admirers, and sometimes he petulantly tossed his handsome blue horns. Bill's presence was the consequence of a daring raid on the Naval Academy Dairy Farm, where he was kidnapped from his chainlink enclosure deep inside a pasture filled with interested cows. There were tales of an early morning Navy sortie onto the St. John's campus as well, the raiders intending to spell out "Navy" with Great Hall chairs on the field. But they were driven off by the security guard A CBS film crew was on hand to record Bill's captivity, as well as venerable McDowell, the sweep of playing fields down to the creek, the strolling 19th century ambiance, and moments from the match itself. Later sightings of the film clip, a tempered and even lyrical four-minute summation, came from the West Coast, Tennessee, and other unexpected locations, but the concluding minutes of a golf tournament displaced it locally on the Sunday Night News. As the one o'clock kickoff approached, some students began to spread out tablecloths, while others moved a couch and television set into place under a tree for sybaritic comfort. Viewers queued up at the refreshment arena manned by juniors in aprons making money for upcoming Reality Weekend. Grilling sausages and hamburgers appealed to some, while others, giving themselves to the spirit of the day, moved towards platters of cucumber sandwiches and containers of iced tea. From the base of steps came strains of the baroque mt1~rs1Jer:sed with Big Band music. All at once three games Were nnrlPT\:11~1'1 and the and sounds of this to be with the rnn,gm1ge of croquet. near the allmale Middie team was their coach, ...... ~.• "'LL"• dressed in and turned out, with a winning all meant and what a mystery. Terry Sullivan from Quarterly was in Annapolis for the event, and this year, his bemused chronicle from the magazine's May 1991 issue was passed from hand to hand in the crowd. The Middies, in yachting dress, looked "as if they were heading to liberate THE REPORTER Newport at the tum of the century," he noted then. Now here they were again, natty in navy-blue blazers, white trousers and shoes, and red bow ties. Here, too, were young women in trailing lawn dresses and broad straw hats, students clad in caftans or other ethnic dress, and plenty of examples of what might be called Johnny Informal, baggy trousers and rumpled t-shirts. The most arresting sight was next year's Imperial Wicket, Eric Traynor,'92, an eclectic but courtly figure, with rich wine-colored satin breeches and flowing hair. Ask this year's Imperial Wicket Louis Elias, '91, about his duties and he smiles broadly, even though those duties flowed a long way beyond the College turf and seeped deeply into hours he might have been working for Marriott or even reading for seminar. Croquet is big business these days. Early on there was the meeting at City Hall to coordinate the May 7 match with the City Council, then lunch with representatives of the retirement community, Ginger Cove, to workout details ofTHATmatchonMay 17, various rendezvous with photographers, telephone interviews with the press, and the like. The bonhomie with Navy counterparts meant that the Middies trooped over to Ran- PAGE7 Above left, Eric Traynor, A'92, and next year's Imperial Wicket, at rest. Above, Imperial Wicket Louis Elias, A'91, stands by as Delegate John Astle gets match unde1Way. Keith Harvey photos dall Hall to dine with the Johnnies one day, and the next day the Johnnies crossed the street the other way to have lunch with the 4,300 member Brigade of Midshipmen in Bancroft Hall. "Relaxed" and "friendly" were the words the Johnnies had used ahead of time to describe this contest, and good humor was the mood on the field and on the sidelines. When the match ended early, there were murmurs of regret here and there, but nothing could Middies admire croquet form of Ann Grabhorn, A'91. take the edge off this perfect day. Trussed and protesting ("and," said his kidnappers, "rank!"), Bill had already been driven back to the Dairy Farm. Games number four and five began, and the crowd thinned gradually. A cameraman lay back against the Liberty Tree for a quick nap before the trophy presentation. The slender girl in the broad brimmed hat folded up her tablecloth and put it in her basket. A student lying on the grass with his book open, now closed it. Bob Gilbert photo �8 J l Above right, speaker Wmiam Darkey; directly above, Joseph and Gwendolyn Kaiser, both SF'91 at the Commencement Ball. Below, clockwise left: Dean Jim BENGALISON It thundered at the invocation, evoking nervous titters from the crowd. And then it rained. Hard. For the first time in 24 years of commencement exercises on the Santa Fe campus, the capped-andgowned seniors-moments before being handed their diplomas-made a premature recession into the dining hall, faculty and families in tow, where they were hooded, congratulated, and, finally, graduated. William Darkey, tutor at the college since his own graduation from Annapolis in 1942 and one of the founders of the Santa Fe campus, delivered the commencement address. "Looking back on the really considerable number of such addresses that I have heard in my life, I came to see that it didn't really matter so much what is said as that it be said," Darkey told the amused and appreciative seniors. "An academic commencement is in essence a ritual, and everyone deeply knows this," he continued. "The ritual requires that an elder of the tribe say some words which-perhaps by a willing suspension of disbelief-may be taken as wise about the passage of the current generation of students into fully fledged citizenship in the city, in the Republic." Calling himself and his fellow tutors "loyal sherpa guides," Darkey extended the metaphor of the mountains surrounding the campus as the thresholds of wisdom, knowledge, and truth-liberal education.which the seniors, over four years, had been climbing and exploring. Darkey reminded the members of the class of 1991 that they are "clerks" in Chaucer's sense, professionally charged with the knowledge, care, and transmission of human values, and he urged them to practice the liberal arts in all that they do. He noted further that at the time of his graduation 50 years ago, civilization was "collapsing into unprecedented barbarism." Exhorting this year's graduates to be faithful clerks, Darkey implored, "You will be needed by the world, and you will be tested. The barbarians are not at the gates these days. They are inside. Practice the arts of civility as you go. And it is not a matter of them and us. The new barbarism taints us all." Drawing visible tears to the eyes of many graduates and guests, Darkey closed with Socrates' prayer from the Phaedrus after noting that it seemed particularly associated with the Santa Fe mountains, the campus, and the ritual of graduation: "Beloved Pan and all you other gods of this place, grant to me that I may become beautiful within; and that my outward and my inward person may be at one. May I think the wise man rich, and may I possess such wealth as only a temperate soul may use and endure." DONNABOETI In an intimate addr where he had 17 years young bespectacled tut said, "Now that classe an eye to the future ... th role in making import As he spoke to the masters' degrees, alon College community an the sprawling branches lawn of the Annapo acknowleged his grat speaker, Dean Eva T. ~peaking from his to senior Zoe Beatty " for commencement men and women-mo be interwoven in the f Conceding that eac to tell of the last four know-Mr. Burke is began relating the tale table: with a rush of glance up from his prin faces of his audience, feelings, and thoughts that soon would never He began with fres diversity and sincerity nies expressed in the' likely were not talking Aeschylus, Sophocles, "You brought 18 ye life--expectations, fe that first seminar on As a flutist with the he was particularly hap tutorial, listening to m of describ' harmonies. But he wa the students' listening the score slowly beg Passion. Looking back to j dents conversed about and the center of fore in low melodious ton (on self love): L'amo flatteurs," or.,,,., ....__.,.,,,""' With tongue-in-ch opportunity to becom guage-"and even in by necessity come wi Finally, while con studied in senior labo �J in ~ss to the graduates who sat Chester W. Burke, the )f with a halo of chestnut hair, · are over and it's time to turn ~heart must play an enormous 11t decisions." 3 seniors and 14 recipients of g with other members of the l their guests assembled under of the Liberty Tree on the front lis campus on May 19, he tude to his own graduation [.Brann. leart, the tutor who, according ~as everyone's favorite choice ~aker," recalled "the gigantic iwith the capped-and-gowned n.ents, he says, that will forever 1bric of his memory. l will have his or her own story years at St. John's (he should 1974 Annapolis alumnus) he s from his side of the seminar IVords barely allowing him to ~ed page to see the appreciative ,e crafted images, impressions, ·of lives shared and changed, ~efore, be the same again. man year, praising of the feelings the new Johninitial comments. "You most :tbout the books, Homer, Plato, but about yourselves," he said. more, some less) of remembrances~to 3altimore Chamber Orchestra, py to be able to teach the music 1sic, then "the ... ~ ..,~u·u~ ng the motions of tones and ~ just as excited the µto the divine of words seemed to grasp nusical fullness." The first class on the "he said. "Bach's work and large; i." Fortunately after vacation became keener and a study of i to reveal the structure of the ior mathematics when the stuconttm1JJ.tv the infinite, : in a language of geotd algebra, lVIr. Burke added, lackboards in McDowell Hall fraction of the which pon them." .ge: "One would have to have :t of stone not to be enchanted pensees, and alexane 17th century French writers and verses ... will HA<lct>..ll.u.. , , "he said. Then ~ he recited: "La Rochfucauld 1r_n-rnn·r-p est le plus grand des is the greatest of flatterers. ~k he wished each graduate the e immersed in a lanhe country and natives which l the la.TJ.guage." ~ding that most of the insights atory are nearly a century old, 'Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man."' Breaking his promise not to give advice, he counseled the young scholars to be patient enough to allow the "right" decision to present itself when deciding what to do next. "Don't sell Chester Burke yourselves short for the kind of work you have done here," he said. "Look upon your accomplishments at St. John's with humility and modesty, but at the same time with a great deal of pride." "Spend some time during the next few months recalling to yourselves what you have wondered about, loved, grown angry over, and questioned during your time at St John's. Take notes, write letters, make plans, even though the achievement of such plans may seem possible only in the world of dreams. I suspect that through these musings you will be surprised at the richness and depth of your education... " Upper right, Annapolis president-elect Chris Nelson shares a joke with Nancy Hammond, president of the Friends of St. John's; below, in descending order; bearing the mace, tutor Laurence Berns leads the academic procession; Tequila Brooks receives her diploma; and President Donald J. Maciver, Jr., addresses the Commencement crowd. Keith Harvey photos I COMMENCEMENT HONORS AND PRIZES » A silver medal to the Seniors who have the highest academic standing: HEATHER RUTH PARK (A) and JARRELL ROBINSON (SF) » The Senator Millard E. Tydings Memorial Prize given to the members of the Senior Oass honored for excellence in speaking: CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL NEWMAN (A). E. SUZANNE SMALL (SF) » The members of the Senior Class who have written the best senior essays: JAMES ROBERT LOF11S IV (A), ANGELAELENAMLINKO (A), MARGARET FARLEY (SF) YANNI PAPADOPOULOS (SF), JARREbL ROBINSON (SF) » The members of the Junior Oass who have written the best annual essays: BRIAN COLE (A) JULIA WINIARSKI (SF) » The members of the Sophomore Class who have written the best annual essays: DAVID MITCHELL JENNINGS (A), AMALIABERNICE URIBE (A), DAVID McDONALD (SF). Honorable Mention: MARSAURA SHUKLA (A), RONALD SCHROGHAM (SF) »The members of the Freshman Class who have written the best annual essays: ZENA NAOMI HITZ (A) and THEA AGNEW (SF). Honorable Mention: CURTIS L. DA VIS (A) » The students who submitted the best original musical compositions: RICHARD TRAVIS HARDAWAY (A), BENJAMIN HARGRAVE (SF) » The Henry M. Austin Poetry Prize given to the students who submitted the best original English poems. NO PRIZE (A), NADINE SHEA (SF) »The senior Men and Women who by their participation, leadership, and sportsmanship have contributed most to the athletic program: BRAULIO CARLOS AGNESE (A), JOAN FRANCES ROSS (A), KAREN """'ri....,nu, ERIK SELEKMAN (SF) » The students who submitted distinguished preceptorial essays in 1990-91: ELLEN M. MYERS(A), THOMAS HARRIS (SF) »The Thomas J. Watson Foundation Award given to a Senior for travel abroad: AARON DAVID ROSENBAUM HANS ELZINGA (SF) » Fellowship: ABDUL MALIK .M. GILLANI (A), J. EUZABETH HUEBERT (SF) » The submitted the best English version of a Greek text: NO PRIZE. Honorable Mention: CLARENCE WESLEY ALWAN » The student who submitted the best English version of a French poem: RAMONA SUZANNE DENK » The student who submitted the best essay on a piece of music: RICHARD TRAVIS HARDAWAY » The student who submitted the most elegant solution of a geometrical problem: DEVIN FARRELL RUSHING » The student who carried out the best laboratory project: JOHN MICHAEL CAPPS » The Caritas Society of St. John's College honors the member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the Greater Annapolis Community: SAPNABABU GANDHI » The Charles Vernon Moran Prize to the member of the Senior Gass who submitted the best work of visual art to the Community Art Exhibition: ANNE ELIZABETH LOYER » Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics essay contest winner: CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL NEWMAN » M. Goldwater Scholarship, to an outstanding Sophomore who intends to pursue a career in mathematics or natural sciences: OWEN ANTHONY KELLEY Santa Fe Only: » The Robert Neidorf Memorial to a member of the Sophomore class: RON SCROGHAM » The Duane L. Peterson Scholarship given to a member of the Junior Gass for academic achievement, constructive membershlp in the college community and commitment to post-graduate study: MARY WELLIVER » The St. College Community Scholarship: Class of 1992: MICHELLE GRIEST, WILLIAM HODGE, CHRISTOPHER L/\.BONTE, KAREN (TAEKO) ON1SHI, MARY WELLIVER, Class of 1993: RONALD SCROGHAM » The Thorne Endowment Scholarship for summer study in preparation for medicine: Oass of 1991 HELENE FOLKART, KENNETH GETER, Class of 1993: BARBARA ARNOLD, LEO KELLEY, Class of 1994: MELINDA RANDALL »The Rhodes Scholarship for study at the University of Oxford, England: JONATHAN SKINNER (SF) » The Henry M. Austen Scholarship in recognition of academic achievement and of talent in the writing of poetry: DAVID MCDONALD » The Walter S. Baird Prize given to the senior who has demonstrated achievement in the arts, literature, or science: BENJAMIN HARGRAVE » Honored for Outstanding Perfonnance in Athletics: Class of 1991: CAREY BODENHEIMER, :MICHAEL TAYLOR, Oass of 1992: MAUREEN HATCH, Class of 1993: BRENDAN O'NEILL, Oass of 1994: DOMINIQUE BANGASSER »Honored for Outstanding Contributions in All Student Activities: Class of 1991: WILLIAM MANSFIELD, E. SUZANNE SMALL, Class of 1992: KAREN (fAEKO) ON1SID �PAGE10 THE REPORTER To the Editor: I understand that the College has considered and rejected the inclusion of some Eastern classics in the Program. In particular I have seen a list of reasons Eva Brann has given in opposition to such a step. I am inclined to say, "Good reasons must of force give place to better" (Brutus to Cassius), but I know full well I am in no position to influence the Instruction Committee. However, I think the Alumni Association may be a different matter. The phrase "Hundred Great Books" was preceded by the indefinite, not the definite, article: no clair;n was ever made that the books on the reading list are the only great books ever written, and I note that many Associations discuss books not on that list. Living in the Global Village, it seems isolationist and ethnocentric to confine our know ledge to the wisdom of European thinkers and a few of their American descendants when a rich and older tradition is still very much alive in the East. (I have said that the Eastern tradition is older. There is a strong possibility that there was a good deal of cross-fertilization in the ancient world. For instance, in the Kena Upanishad, which certainly antedates the Phaedrus, we find the parable of the chariot. However, "Who said it first?" does not seem to me a very interesting question.) An excellent statement of the position I would support is found in Bede Griffiths' The Marriage of East and West. Bede Griffiths was a student and friend of C.S. Lewis who became a Benedictine monk. Since 1950 he has been running a Hindu-Christian ashram in South India. If he does not convince you, nothing I could say would; but I might cite a couple of others who agree. Thomas Merton, who usually was ahead of his time, wrote (around 1961): "If the West continues to underestimate and to neglect the spiritual heritage of the East, it may hasten the tragedy that threatens man and his civilizations. If the West can recognize that the contact with Eastern thought can renew our appreciation for our own cultural heritage, a product of the fusion of the J udaeo-Christian religion with the Greco-Roman culture, then it will be easier to defend that culture, not only in Asia but in the West as well." Or from the East, the late Dr. Radhakrishnan, sometime Professor of Comparative Religions at Oxford and the first president of India: "When an old binding culture is being broken, when ethical standards are dissolving, when we are being aroused out of apathy or awakened out of unconsciousness, when there is in the air general foment, inward stirring, cultural crisis, then a high tide of spiritual agitation sweeps over people and we sense on the horizon something novel, something unprecedented, the beginnings of a spiritual renaissance. We are living in a world of freer cultural intercourse and wider world sympathies... The task set to our generation is to reconcile varying ideals of the converging cultural patterns and help them to sustain and support rather than combat and destroy one another. By this process they are transformed from within and the forms that separate them will lose their exclusivist meaning and signify only that unity with their own origins and inspirations. The study of the sacred books of religions other than one's own is essential for speeding up this process. In conjunction with the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, a Parliament of World Religions was held, and it JUNE 1991 Editor Alumni, current students and other alumni need your input! As some of you may know, these are hard times for finding jobs. Some recent newspaper headlines spell out the difficulty: "Degrees and Stacks of Resumes Yield Few Jobs for Class of '91" (NYT, 4/91) "Bad Year for College Graduates" (Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/23/91) "Hiring Outlook Said to Worsen" (NYT, 3/5/91) We in the Career Offices in Annapolis and Santa Fe would like to expand our alumni contacts and improve our networking systems with your help. Alumni looking for jobs or thinking of career changes should certainly contact our offices, but so should those of you in a position to hire, or who have a story to share in our newsletters about the job search, fellowships, professional and academic programs, your job or career field, or how you got where you are today (perhaps the most interesting story of all). You will be amazed at how much impact such information, which may seem obvious or uninteresting to you, can have on the life of students orrecent graduates trying to make their way. Two current situations which may be of interest to St. John's alumni looking for work follow: 1. Opening in the Progam Department of the Business Council for International Understanding, a not-for-profit business association that serves as a liaison between the American international business community and the U.S. and foreign governments. The position is to be filled as soon as possible. Interested alumni should fax a cover letter and resume to Munir Hussein, A '90, Program Officer, at (212) 697-8526, or send them to him at BCIU, 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1620, New York, NY 10170. 2. Paralegal positions are available at Richards & O'Neil. Send cover letter and resume to Jonathan Zavin, A '68, at Richards & O'Neil, 885 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022. If you are interested in being kept abreast of such positions, please call the Career Offices to be put on our mailing lists. In Annapolis, Leigh Comsudis, at (301) 263-2371, ext. 201 (mornings only) will add your name to the mailing list. In Santa Fe, please call Karen Gates at (505) 982-3691, ext. 219. Barbara Altman Director of Career Counseling Annapolis Last issue's article on Chapter Development was written by Betsy Blume, Director for Alumni Relations in Annapolis, and her name was inadvertently omitted. Especially because we are grateful for contributions, the least we can do is give credit where credit is due... apologies for the oversight. A recent newsletter from the Northern California chapter had a concise "gloss" of the two SJC boards, which should be helpful. The following is compliments of Chapter president Mark Middlebrook, who is also helping to organise this summer's Symposium on the Computer and the Liberal Arts during alumni week (July 13-17): "Overall College policy and budget are set by the Board of Visitors and Governors (BVG), which numbers about 60, including roughly 20 alumni. The national Alumni Association has its own board (the Alumni Board), whose most important job is to represent the interests of alumni before the College and B VG, besides helping to continue the life of the College and liberal arts beyond graduation. The Alumni Board also helps plan alumni events like homecomings and the summer alumni weeks in Santa Fe, puts out its own newsletter (now published as part of The Reporter), and publishes the alumni register every five years. Our [Northern California] chapter and a growing list of others act as local affiliates to the national Alumni Association." The Alumni Association Board feels it can and should play a role in helping St. John's graduates in the world beyond.the college. Because of this sentiment, we are inaugurating a new column to introduce employment opportunities and connections that may be made. The timing is opportune, for there are currently two positions available at the Santa Fe Campus which may be of interest and are included below. Please feel welcome to contribute or make use of these resources that have the potential to expand by your pm:ticipa.tion. Joan inaugurated a new period in the history of religions. It was largely a result of this Parliament that comparative religions began to be studied in our universities. The centenary of that Parliament will be observed in various parts of the country. The Dalai Lama is among those who will ..-...-n·t;,...., ....."~= I suggest that the academic year 1992/93 be an aPJ)ropnate one for Alumni Associations to devote to discusof Eastern Classics. Ganges, MI [Mr. Buchanan also writes, "Should there be any interest, I could follow this up with something more concrete, such as a list of works which might be used." - Ed.] Dear Alumni: office sometimes receives requests for nominations of candidates for various academic posts: VIC:e-1:iresidlencie:s. d.1ear1sh1tvs. I would love to make recommendations if I knew what alumni were interested. with your career counselor, Barbara Altman. I the requests on file with her, and I will be glad to write letters of introduction for you. Sincerely, Eva T.H. Brann Dean the reins of maintain the momentum that de\1eicme1d" The Fe campus is solicitnominations encourages all alumni who wish to make a nomination to do so. Call .._.,_,n}':,.au, Vice President for Advancement, 982-3691. Ron �I will be leaving the Career Office at St. John's in Santa Fe at the end of this semester to pursue my own work as consultant to nonprofit organizations. Over the past eight years I have worked with literally hundreds of you as students and as alumni. It has been a privilege to be part of your lives-to watch as you choose and grow into new roles and responsibilities in life, and as you discover what you can do and what life has to offer. SGl'76, Editor ANNAPOLIS PHILADELPHIA Following a break for the summer, monthly luncheons will be held on Fridays in the Private Dining Room, 12:00 noon. Guest speakers and topics will be announced. Telephone Betsy Blume at the Alumni Office (301) 263-2371 for more information. To participate in events after a summer break, contact Jim Schweidel at (215) 836-7632. AUSTIN June 14: Reading to be announced, leader Mike George July 12: "Sorrow Acre" by Isak Dinesen, leader Bev Angel This just-chartered chapter meets informally on a monthly basis, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Law Offices of Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, & Moody, 6th and Congress. Contact Beverly Angel (512) 926-7808 for schedule and details. BOSTON Meetings are held at the home of Alvin Aronson who can be contacted at (617) 566-6657 or 437-3186 (wk) for information on future chapter events. BUFFALO/ROCHESTER/TORONTO This recently official chapter welcomes the participation of all alumni in its wide-ranging locale. Call Roberta Carnevale (716) 632-9236 for details and suggestions. CHICAGO June 23: Seminar with Laura McClure, alumna ©f the Graduate Institute, on Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, ~o4owed by the annual Chapter Meeting and elections. The next meeting will be in August following a summer break. Call Paul Frank at (312) 235-0614 or 464-2573 (wk), or Rick Lightbum at 667-0068 or 861-0200 (wk); or Rachel Ankeny Majeske 281-4582 or 337-4105 (wk) about any of the chapter activities and locations of meetings. SACRAMENTO Meetings are every month in this 'unofficial' chapter to discuss the program readings, following the undergraduate sequence. Inquiries are most welcome; phone Arianne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen Feeley 452-1082. SAN FRANCISCO I NORTHERN CALIFORNIA June 9: Seminar on short stories by Chekhov July 28: Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Annual Picnic and seminars., Reservations required. Special Guests: Dr. &Mrs. Richard D. Weigle. August: Student Send-Off Call Mark Middlebrook (415) 547-0602 for information and to contribute to the local newsletter 1 As Director of Career Planning in Santa Fe, I have tried to function as a bridge between St. John's and other opportunities-to expand the realms of the possible for students and alumni. I've tried to help people gain the conceptual tools and the skills to identify and pursue goals in a manner consistent with the ethical choices and patterns of thought developed while at St. John's. I've also tried to encourage people to assume responsibility for their own career development. Most of us are not simply given job opportunities or clear, easy choices. Finding a path that feels right amid constant ambiguity and change (both within and without) is a process that requires constant wakefulness-both to know oneself and to be able to recognize and seize opportunities as they arise-to find what the Buddhists call one's "right livelihood." I am grateful for the chance to develop friendships with so many of you (which Ihope will continue) and to be a part of St. John's. I am inspired by the photograph of Messrs. Barr and Buchanan, pausing on the steps ofMcQowell Hall, full of creative energy and a sense of purpose about this strange and unconventional educational adventure upon which they have embarked. I hope that St. John's continues to imbue its graduates with this spirit of adventure and personal courage, and that the college continues to foster diversity of opinion and both a sense of discomfort and the will to act when things aren'tright. Ron Hale SANTA FE Graduate Institute alumni have organized to study variations on the undergraduate music tutorial, and meet once a week. Contact Dick Cowles (505) 986-1814 or Mary Schruben 473-7898 for information. Telephone John Pollack (505) 983-2144 or Janet Fennell, Office of Development, at 982-3691 for future seminar/social meeting times and places. SEATTLE Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 for information about the annual summer picnic and other events. WASHINGTON D.C. AREA June 5: Tony Morrison, Sula Seminars will have a summer break until September, but normally meet every other Wednesday at the West End Branch of the D.C. Public Library from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. For further information call Sam Stiles (301) 424-9119, or Sharon Garvey (304) 535-2655. Another alumni reading group has also been started, meeting every Thursday at 7:00 p.m. and reading essays from The Foucault Reader to be followed by "Of Grammatology" by Derrida. Call Susan Gushue (202)526-1632 or John Church 832-5851 for details. DALLAS I FORT WORTH This chapter meets about 10 times a year for Saturday evening seminars. For additional information contact Suzanne Doremus at (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis at (214) 340-4102. ute. your su~rn:esmms. 5400 to contribute your ideas. NEW YORK June 15: Annual Picnic/Seminar at the home of Charles and Anne Nelson. Tutors Tom May and Elliott Zuckerman will lead a seminar on "The Wild Duck" by Henrik Ibsen and the new Annapolis campus president, Chris Nels on, will be a special guest. Call Sabine Schweidt (212) 645-8903 or 679-6118 (wk) for more information. Everyone is invited to attend the Santa Fe Homecoming over the weekend of July 19-21. Highlights Include t with the presentation of charters for new official chapters, a Chapter Workshop, the Homecoming Ba and reunions for the classes of 1976 and 1 1. And, don't forget that Alumni weeks are July 14-19, and 21-26, with seminars, social events, and the Symposium on The Computer and the Liberal Arts. Ben Galison photo �PAGE12 THE REPORTER JUNE 1991 STEWART UMPHREY: Meno Problem By NANCY osrus When Annapolis tutor Stewart Umphrey was 18 or so, he read Plato's Meno for the first time in a humanities course at Reed College in Oregon. The problem that arose then for him "always comes up in one way or another: if you already know what you are looking for you wouldn't be looking for it and if you don't know what it is you are looking for then you don 'teven know where to look. Consequently, inquiry is either completely superfluous or impossible." This is the kind of gristy philosophical conundrum towards which only a certain sort of young man would be attracted. Stewart Umphrey, such a young man, remembers now that there were five or six problems he came across in his reading in his late teens or early 20's that have been with him ever since. "My thoughts have been about these problems more than anything else since that time," he says now. On campus for one of his rare visits during his first sabbatical at St. John's, Mr. Umphrey, now 48, looks to be the man such a youth would grow into, with a bearded visage, an aureole of fine golden graying hair and thoughtful deep blue eyes. (He may resemble a medieval ascetic, but he was for 10 years a skilled amateur boxer, the kind of information that has a way of getting around. He fought about three dozen amateur matches before he gave the sport up once and for all when he returned to the New School for Social Research in 1964.) He took his philosophic questions with him on a stop and start academic journey that had its beginnings in Washington state, where he was born and attended high school. Then it was Reed College, with a concentration in mathematics, then the University of Washington, with a concentration in English literature, and finally his undergraduate peregrinations ended in New York City at the , five in the wings Eva T. H. BRANN Stewart Umphrey, Zetetic Skepticism, Wakefield, N.H.: Longwood Academic, 1990. In what way, Socrates, will you inquire after thatwhi.ch you know not at all what? Having proposed what sort of thing, pray, among the things you don't know, will you inquire after it? Or should you actually encounter it, how will you know that this is the thi.ng you didn't know? Meno in Meno (80d5) Author 3tewart Umphrey He concludes by showing the relationship between the problem he has "been trying to understand," and the problem of understanding Plato's Socrates. Dean Eva Brann found the completed book "brilliant," as she reveals in her review of it on this page, suggesting at the same time that a sort of seminar-question period in the fall, with alumni invited to participate, would be an appropriate way to examine the book. The book is dedicated to Eugen Kullmann, a European philosopher who came from Germany to the U.S. in the 1930's to teach at the New School and who was an immensely important influence on Mr. Umphrey. Part of Professor Kullmann' s impact came from his habit of "thinking out "If you you are looking for you wouldn't be looking for it, if you t know it is you are looking for then you don't even know where New School for Social Research, with a degree in psychology. By the last year, of course, his interest in psychology had receded and his course work was almost wholly in philosophy. There it has stayed. His master's degree and PhD in philosophy followed at the New School, and by 1972 he was an assistant professor at SUNY Geneseo for four years, back to the New School for four years, and then to the University of Oklahoma until 1984, when he came to Annapolis. He brought with him his wife Cathy, a horticulturalist with the Bittersweet Hill Nurseries in Annapolis, and also the manuscript for his book on the Meno Problem. He had decided four years earlier that the only way he could think it through was to write about it, and now he took time for the hard job of revising. St. John's provided the opportunity for conversations with other people, students and tutors, that he found very useful. It took four more years to complete Zetetic Skepticism, the 338-page book published last December by Longwood Academic Press. In Zetetic Skepticism Mr. Umphrey takes his problem to concern not a specific inquiry, but"any sort of inquiry,"henow says. The book begins with the discussion of the Meno, in which "Socrates doesn't solve the problem." In the central chapters, the author clarifies the problem and tries to solve it himself, observing, "I think I succeeded in clarifying it somewhat, but I didn't solve it." loud," Mr. Umphrey recalls. Other significant teachers at the New School for Mr. Umphrey were Dorion Cairns, Aron Gurwitsch and Seth Benardete. As Mr. Umphrey looked ahead during those student years, a very real option for making a living he says now was taking on what he calls "simple work that wouldn't tax me too much so I could spend my time thinking." His decision to teach sprang in part from admired teachers as well as his determination that "thinking together with others was for me indispensable, and colleges provide a better opportunity for that than other places." As a tutor, he now sets himself a double goal, a secondary goal that he calls "a sort of technical preparation for something," and the primary goal, which is "to try to become as wise as one can." For example, freshman language here includes learning ancient Greek, but Mr. Umphrey always tries to see that there are openings for discussions of seminar readings, or of language or the like, "in which we can try to achieve real understanding of something important." But this is not a teaching year, and Mr. Umphrey is working on another book with a working title of Complexity, concerning the part-whole relationship, a problem brought to his attention years ago in his student days by Professor Gurwitsch. Yes, Mr. Umphrey has been thinking through it by himself and with others ever since, and "the time has come to try to write it up." "Zetetic skepticism" is the phrase Stewart Umphrey has coined for the frame of mind that takes Meno's smart stone-walling of Socrates' inquiry not as a paralyzing paradox but as a rousing problem. "Zetetic" comes from zetesis, meaning seeking, search, investigation, inquiry. In this book you will find carefully set out the conditions necessary for an inquiry to be occurring (43 ff.), the conditions pertaining both to its essential nature and to its necessary suppositions. "Skepticism" comes in several shapes. These too are carefully set out, in the fourth chapter (which the author says is the best). The sort of skepticism that accords with the adjective "zetetic" is not a wholesale negativism but a disposition to question the very possibility of philosophic inquiry. You may remember from your Meno readings in the freshman year that the Meno Problem is not Meno' s problem. He wants to forestall rather than question inquiry. "Zetetic skepticism" is, then, the name of the Meno Problem taken seriously. And it must be taken seriously, because it is, on the face of it, "the greatest threat to philosophy in speech or thought" (23). It is, at the same time, a very great spur to these activities. The tensed unity of danger and spur, which gives the book its tonic character, is expressed in the two ways that the terms in the title reflect on each other: "Zetetic skepticism" denotes now a skeptical attitude toward inquiry and again an inquisitive skepticism. To be, in that second sense, open-mindedly and inquisitively skeptical is to find oneself, willy-nilly, in the midst of an inquiry. And, indeed, it is not the human/act, the in-medias-res condition that is in question, but its beginning and its completion. We often find ourselves functioning between these unfixed bounds: It is the problem of overleaping them, in the sense of grounding the context of our questions and justifying the criteria for our answers, that is the preoccupation of the work. Let me, at this point, show my colors: This book by my colleague of seven years is brilliant - not flashy but soberly scintillating. In my present situation I can scarcely commit myself to reading a whole reflective work, unless I sense that it will do me great good. I report to you that this is such a book. The best thing for us would be to a have sort of seminar-question period on it in fall. We will do that and invite the local alumni. It is not, as you will see, feasible here to set out the theses or the main line of argument of Zetetic Skepticism. Let me instead describe the elements of its quality. If you merely leaf through it, you will think thfit this text is relentlessly full of analytic arguments, replete with subscripts and place-holders - that dismal logicistic merry-go-round that leaves the reader logically coerced and psychically unconvinced. Not so. These arguments are entertaining, in the sense of drawing us in and making us wish to stay the course. They are lucid and require the effort not of a grunt-sport but of an aerobic exercise. They seek the reader's genuine assent. Moreover, they are Umphrey' s arguments: The use of the first person is - you will scarcely believe this - a new academic issue (the Self-expressors vs. the Establishment). In this book "I" comes in naturally, because it is the author who is thinking. Sometimes a discursive stretch will end with "I think so" (only to start up again with "But"). Once, right in the middle of the book, the author names himself. Let me quote the passage because it renders well the flavor of this book - subtle, candid, ironic, and of good heart: Surely readers have long wondered what Umphrey thinks he is doing. Have I failed to notice that the drift of my argument is at odds with what I seem to be doing, namely, essaying the Meno-Problem with the intention of figuring it out? No, I do take myself to be conducting an inquiry, and I do grant that I may not be doing so. But how can I go on like this when I have admitted the real questionability of every such proceeding? I do not know, and yet it seems to me that I am too inquisitive ever to be paralyzed by the Meno-Problem (if it is a problem) and too inquisitive ever to ignore it for long. But while this may explain, it does not justify my so proceeding. Is such inquisitiveness justifiable or rational at all? I do not know. One result of dwelling on the Meno-Problem is wonderment about our criteria of rationality. Are they adequate? But what is it to be rational? And what about philosophy? Philosophers, it seems, are both very confident in inquiry and ready to question everything. They seem to have it both ways, to be at once eager and dispassionate, directed and impartial, lively and rational. On reflection, however, this combination seems unrealizable. Philosophers, it seems, are incoherent. One wonders, then, whether their confidence is at bottom a kind of dogmatism, or whether their liveliness is really a kind of restlessness. But what is it to philosophize? As much as any other this question guides my present essay. (158.) Next, the arguments are scrupulously two-sided. The objections to each point made are formulated just as the reader is sensing them. They are those a real opponent might make. Consequently the argument does go round and round, not howeverin a spirit of futility but of vitality. It is not a swamp nor a see-saw, but a stretch of intellectual life. Consider, for example, the author's assertion in the passage above that he does take himself to be conducting an inquiry, and the questioning turns it undergoes in the space of a paragraph. Such suspensions are the evidence of active thought. Still another quality worth noting is the book's inventorying mode. The naming and typing of "philosophical positions" (perhaps a contradiction in terms) can result in a dreary denial of the dialectical life of thought (which dies of "isms") and of the human life of the participants (who do not live as "ists"). Yet there are moments in the argumentative market place when pure positions are the appropriate protagonists. The author is particularly good at reliably surveying, concisely describing and aptly naming the possibilities. The results seem to me very useful. They are also sometimes gleeful. In the middle of the discussion of skepticism ( 136), there is an inventory of observations of a depressive skeptic with counter-suggestions in parentheses - I have longed for ages to see something of that sort done. On the opposite pole from the inventory lies the dialogue. I am a veteran of thirty (Continued on page 13) �13 ' DONNA BOETIG Gerber is a June Annapolis graduate who admits to having his head in the clouds-and by all indications his thoughts will remain heaven-bound for some time to back in St. Louis when as a Joey preferred conducting experihis chemistry set rather than ~~···~,.,·~~ the bases on a ballfield. "The kids fun at me for wanting to be a scien,, the soft-spoken, gentle-mannered student from arts studies of St. John's College, then to a at the Naval Research Laboraon the outskirts of Washington, to the prestigious and most EUREKA (Excellence in Undergraduate Research: Experiment, Knowledge, and Achievement) Fifth National Conference of Undergraduate Research at California Institute of Technology. There last March he presented the project he developed at NRL: "Modeling Interstellar Cirrus Clouds Using Fractal Geometry." Mr. Gerber's program provides scientists with information needed to test and satellites on the ground, rather than to launch them into orbit--conceivably saving lots of money. Encouraged by Annapolis tutor Jim Beall who works in the Space Science Division of NRL, Mr. Gerber applied for and secured a position there last summer. In the beginning, Mr. Gerber updated their computer manuals, modified computer programs to link with the printers, and installed the software on their new computers. Before long, however, his thoughts took flight and settled on the challenge of finding an alternative to the costly method of testing satellites in orbit. "In order that the next generation of infrared satellite telescopes may be programmed to search for specific objects, it is necessary that a database be constructed which will enable the satellite's to recognize and ignore such background features as the earth's surface " he explained. and interstellar cirrus While scientists can easily obtain data about the surface characteristics of our own cannot make new observations clouds without malgnmc:au.on:s, scientists would then be able to test the and software on the SPtmamg money to test "utcomi:>let:ab:tllt:•r and of "unimtia1J11111y " Both are treated in the mode. Here is a taste of the It. Then he couldn't even take the first step for example, the house of Hades. h He couldn't even take the first step away from it. those of real clouds as seen on infrared and analyzed the two: a method called image processing, he mathe···-·~·-·-···' dissected the clouds, comparing corresponding parts of different clouds and the ways in which each cloud changed from one part to another. Throughout, he drew graphs and matching his clouds with the real ones. by trial and error, he discovered a by which a scientist could create a fractal model of any clouds. Since fractals are objects that exhibit related structures across a wide range of spatial scales, this model would provide a hypothetical view of the cloud at a greater m~•<Tnli'lteH~sc<mes. torthr1gtl1t, conSometimes there is 1nc1u11·ers blind to their own web who have pei~su:ad~:d world is our "Invention is the mother of necessity." The identification of ""~,~~T·•~• 001 .., very serious situations," those where we want the truth and nothing but the "You Bet Your " "Kant's " and "Wisdom Pursuit" (234 ff). You can see this book, devoted not to solving the Meno but to saving it. is not easy to nail down. In the end the DfC)bl1em goes existential, that is to say, it turns to the fact of the existence of a parathe midst sis; all its educational devices that: conversations rather than lectures, arts of search rather than fields of research, tutors rather than professors. Hence for us everything evidently depends on the possibility of inquiry, and the Meno is our natural founding and guiding text. Consequently a book that takes its main matter seriously should be taken up seriously by us. There is an ancient scheme (Diogenes Laertius 49) that classifies the Platonic Meno as zetetikos (inquiring), gymnastikos (intellectually exercising), and peirastikos (tentative). Stewart Umphrey's book is nothing if not inquiring; it provides the best mental exercise I've had in a long time; and it is, the Lord kno · tentative. Hence it is not unworthy of being classed with the Meno. Afterthought: Is Zetetic Skepticism finally a form of faith or of doubt? Well, to adapt a figure for thought from William James: Does a bird fly to perch or perch to fly? :Se1otemt>er. the St. John's senior more than 30 models of were seen by the InfraRed Astronomical telescope which was the first telescope to observe them. Mr. Gerber's fractals used elaborate collages of about 250,000 small circles to model those clouds seen by IRAS. In the company of 850 of the most highly able science and math undergraduates from across the at the conference, Mr. Gerber presented his six-page text and a grouping of three photographs showing computer images of simulated clouds and real clouds as seen on infrared telescopes, and an analysis of each. His work will be published in the conference proceedings. A recent study by the Great Lakes Association placed St. John's 47th out of 1,500 American colleges and universities in the percentage of its graduates who earn doctorates in science and mathematics. Mr. Gerber intends to join them. He '11 begin his graduate study in physics at the University of Maryland in September and eventually hopes to teach and do research. But his long term goal is to become an astronaut, a mission specialist for NASA. "When I was told to 'shoot for the stars,"' he says, "I took it quite literally." aei,re11om:~a 1 The National Science Foundation has awarded the Annapolis campus $15,704 to buy a 14" reflector telescope which will be housed in the observatory awaiting completion on top of Mellon Hall. The objective of the project, which was directed by tutor Jim Beall, is to open a long-planned observatory on the campus, one aspect of the larger program to upgrade all the science laboratories at the College. "Astronomical observation is integrated into the entire St. John's curriculum," said Mr. Beall, "and is perhaps one of the most prevalent elements in it. The consequences of observational and theoretical astronomy pervade the readings here in literature as well as in mathematics, in philosophy as well as in physics." Astronomical knowledge was not an incidental part of the lives of the writers studied in the New Program, but fundamental to how they viewed all aspects of the world, he pointed out, adding that the "observatory will serve and stimulate every St. John's student for generations." Included in the original design for Mellon Hall in 1958, the observatory facility was not completed then due to other financial priorities. The structure to support a 22.5 • revolving obvservatory dome was built into the roof of the building at that time, however. Mr. Beall, who holds a PhD in physics, has been a tutor at the College since 1982. He has worked extensively with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics and with the Space Science Division of the Naval Research Laboratory, where he is currently serving during his sabbatical year. �PAGE14 JUNE 1991 THE REPO Alumni East (Continued from page 2) 1985 Wanda Bauchspies has joined the Peace Corps and is headed June 1 to Togo, West Africa to be a secondary education teacher trainer in physics. She would welcome mail c/o the U.S. Peace Corps, P.O. Box 3194, Lome, Togo. 1987 Mary Spidle, A'92, helps a Germantown East Elementary School student discover the wonder of the written word. Keith Harvey photo Johnnies teach youngsters love of books By JOHN POVEJSIL, A'92 Mary Spidle, A'92, has a few hours before her oral exam begins. She wants to reread part of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility so she'll be ready to discuss her annual essay. But right now, she is riding to Georgetown East Elementary School with two other Johnnies, Tim Hanes, A'92, and Jack Gunther, A'92. Every Wednesday, the three help first-graders learn to read and become book-lovers themselves through the First Focus reading program. St. John's student volunteers were involvedin three separate programs in Annapolis schools this year. Tutor Jonathan Tuck arranged for about fifteen Johnnies to with First Focus at Tyler Elementary School and Georgetown East. GI tutor Ken Colston arranged for about twenty Johnnies (including the Dean-a kindergarten to co-lead "Junior Great Books" seminars at St Mary's School in an official partnership with St. John's for kindergarten through eighth grade. Director of Career Counseling Barbara Altman says about eight other students regularly gave school kids extra help at the Annapolis Volunteer Tutorial Center at the Annapolis Middle School. Today, Jack Gunther reads his charge, Marvin, Dr. Seuss's If I Ran the Zoo. Oftentimes, Gunther stops reading in his steady voice to urge Marvin to read for himself. "Marvin hated to read at the beginning of the year, but now instead of me simply reading to him, he will read until he gets stopped on a hard word." Spidle reads a Shel Silberstein book to a young girl named Andrea. Asked what she does when she hits a hard word, Andrea says, "I skip it." Through her volunteer work, has, she says, come to appreciate how difficult teaching is: "It takes a lot of patience." Working with kids is often a new ence for the volunteers. These programs are a good way for them to get important lessons in child psychology and sociology. "The one thing I seem to have accomplished with these kids," says Tim Hanes, a sec:onia-QraoLe math tutor at Georgetown East, "is that I have brought down their so that if they don't get the right answer, they don't run away. If the kids get worried about the right answer, stop tnum11g and start guessing. Then they can't out why their answers are wrong." Tutors like Gunther also realize they are acting as positive role models. "Oftentimes," Gunther says, "the males we work with don't have men in their community telling them that learning and education are important. So they try to match us up with males who might benefit from the extra attention." Mary Robinson, who co-leads her son's seventh-grade "Junior Great Books" seminar at St. Mary's School in Annapolis, also realizes the importance of projecting a positive attitude about the Great Books. She says that adolescents often believe that "Great Books" is really an adult code-word for "boring books." The kids are pleasantly surprised when they discover that although reading and talking about the books is difficult, it is also fun. A Johnny who takes to discussing these books enthusiastically sets a powerful example for these often distracted adolescents. Included in the seventhgrade reading list are works by Kurt Vonnegut, D.H. Lawrence, and Mark Twain. At the Annapolis Volunteer Tutorial Center, the students who helped with tutoring had to be prepared for anything. This Jerry Lee Abrams is enrolled in the Master of International Management program at Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of Intemationl Management in Glendale, Arizona. In January, Marjorie C. Kaplan became Internal Auditor for Greenpeace U.S.A., proving that there are "other things to do with a C.P .A. than help rich people avoid paying their fair share of this country's taxes." There is a novel in progress, she reports, adding that she is thinking of starting a chain letter that would read thus: "Enclosed is the novel-so-far. Please send $10, and then copy this and send it to 10 other people. Do not break the chain. Mrs. X broke the chain and three days later was struck with profound aphasia... " Chris and Sabrina Wald Howell were married October 14, 1989, and going on a honeymoom to New Zealand. They will settle into Santa Rosa, CA afterwards. "We put in our time in Chicago the three years but now we need to vary our moving to a climate where the ,.,.. ,,. ""~r nnu<.·y, as much." Mattson has a new job teaching English at Avon Old Farms School in Connecticut. The Mattsons are ex1pec:tm,g asecorn:t cJllld ~lrmii>w~:kv will be rmisnmg school at the University of Chicago this 1988 Frank GI, who is City Solicitor for Saint New Brunswick, Canada, is writing articles and speaking to groups on world peace and human rights these days. He attributes these interests to the Politics and Society segment of the GI program and hopes to come back one day and take the history segment, remarking that his summers at the Graduate Institute were" a wonderful, wonderful experience." He would like to hear from any Johnnies travelling in his area. His address is 680 Tippett Dr., Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada E2M4Zl. evening program offered special assistance for kids in grades 2-6 in reading, math, and other basic skills. Several Johnnies gave their Tuesday evenings to this weekly tutoring service. Among them were Patrick Cho, A'91 and Paul Brilliant, A'94. The reasons students take time out of their busy schedules to help others are many and varied. Many of the volunteers like Tim Hanes want teaching experience. Jack Gunther says: "I'm paying back for the extra attention I got when I was a kid I had trouble learning to read, and there were people who gave me extra help, so I'm trying to do the same." Spidle said that even when she's busy, especially today, it's not that much time to give up. Two of the more than 80 students who went down to the sea in annual Sail Picnic 5 were Lovan and Sarah iiuoi::irc:!! S rs on 14 yachts an afternoon of cruising and a in ehall Bay. The event is sponsored by the Friends of St. chaired Annapolis yachtsman and racing skipper Arnie 11 ""11'1'£1> �By NANCY OSIUS It was an occasion for loving reminiscence, laughter and sadness as family, friends, colleagues and students shared memories and stories about the late Rev. J. Winfree Smith, who died of a heart attack on January 14. More than 100 people gathered for "In Memoriam: Winfree Smith, 1914-1991" in the FSK Auditorium at Annapolis April 20 to hear eight of Winfree's intimates draw from their memories of long and significant association with a beloved tutor who had been at the College for almost 50 years. Dean Eva Brann opened the convocation reading from a letter sent by one of Winfree's students, Xiayi Huang, from mainland China, who received her Graduate Institute degree in 1989. wrote that of Winfree's death she "still to ask him a lot of yet gone away." The letter conthese words: "Mr. Smith was one of many American models of I have known ... He will live forever in my heart." "Winfree was my oldest wife's as and my ~~"'i'""'~" Santa Fe Tutor William questions concerned with the general relation of the truths revealed by faith to the truths discovered by reason... such questions will remain alive for us as long as there persists the human capacity for a faith other than reason, and as long as the consciousness of this duality generates the desire to know the possible grounds of their unity." Alumnus Francis Mason, A' 43, a former assistant director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, an author and authority on dance, and a tutor just after World War II, remembered that when Winfree first came to the college in 1941, he seemed "a dashingly modest pale young cleric." Mr. Mason and his friends presently found the new tutor to be something more-" a gentle man of learning and wonder and laughter and belief." The two became friends during Mr. Mason's own time as a tutor in the academic year 1946-1947. When President Richard D. Weigle asked Winfree to write the history of the New Program, Mr. Mason reminded his listeners, he was choosing one who had from his undergraduate known Messrs. Barr and Buchanan. "Now," Mr. Mason said, "Winfree has Barr and Buchanan," and many others "who meant so much to " Tutor John White, who entered the Colremembered with the student "a closeness without which allowed Winfree and the students to be Winfree' s." In the first years oftheNew u .... ,....,,..,.,..,..,... recalled, the program's founders, Mr. Barr and Mr. Buchanan, felt that the faculty should include members of different religious persuasions "who could talk intelligently and responsibly about their beliefs in our context." Winfree for a time conducted evening prayer services in the Great Hall at five p.m. each day. He also performed many student marriages, baptisms, Mr. Darkey noted, "and served as a faithful counsellor to generations of students." But the day came when "after much reading, ponderin~ and soul-searching, he decided tha( the quest for Christian salvation and the one for philosophical wisdom were vastly different seekings,"views he put forth in his last Baccalaureate sermon. After that he divided his life into respective duties, serving as an assistant priest in St. Anne's parish, and as a tutor at the college. "It seems to me thatin this paradoxical way," said Mr. Darkey, "he truly did become the chaplain of St. John's College." Tutor Joseph Cohen, A '56, speaking of "my teacher and colleague and... a particular object of my wonder" enlarged on this examination of the relation offaith to reason, a question "central to Winfree's life." Winfree attempted to make sense of the elements and doctrines of Christianity, he said, "while at the same time acknowledging ... that the Christian is obliged to believe certain things that do not make sense because they are not supposed to make sense." These Articles of Faith are held to be beyond the capacity of human reason to understand and must be accepted "as paradoxes and mysteries that reason cannot penetrate and cannot accept." Yet, Mr. Cohen noted, "we all know that Winfree loved teaching and learning in this College whose curriculum is devoted to the cultivation... of the liberal arts, the arts of reason." His reconcilement of these opposites was to Mr. Cohen "the source of my wonder." "By his presence," Mr. Cohen said, "Winfree kept alive in his person that set of one occasion at the end students rowed and sp1asr1ea before themselves Winfree's house where he made them scrambled eggs before he himself set off to soi:momc1res prepare for the enabling exam. When Mr. White was a junior, Winfree agreed to a request that he meet with eight students who wanted to reread Aristotle's Ethics and Politics "to understand both Aristotle and the modern 'refutation."' This Winfree did for the rest of the year. While these things were extra, Mr. White noted, "their importance was enormous and central for our feeling that not only is it right to think that thinking is the highest human activity but also to believe that thought, to begin to try to live that thought.. imagine what it does for a student to have a teacher show that kind of interest." Long before he met Winfree, Tutor Emeritus Brother Robert Smith had heard about him from a classmate of Winfree's at the University of Virginia. "How can Winfree be a priest and at the same time be so enthusiastic about Kierkegaard, who does not even believe in an institutional church?" his friend asked "Heard 50 years later these words make one smile," said Brother Robert, because if anything is certain "it is [Winfree's] loyalty to the quite institutional Episcopalian Church." In 1966-1967, Winfree traded places with Brother Robert, who had been setting up a curriculum similar to that of St. John's at Thomas Aquinas College in California. Instituting the new program was a complicated situation beset with tensions and potential hurt feelings, Brother Robert recalled. However, for years afterward "peoplerecalledin awed tones how Winfree got cooperation from redoubtable opponents ... He accomplished this ... feat by no means other than being himself, thoughtful, gracious and endowed with a sense of humor." Former Dean Curtis Wilson remembers thinking "dear Winfree," when he heard of his friend's death. "Such an unusual person he was: modest, unpresuming, kind, gentle, ever courteous, of unimpeachable integrity, and with a sterling sense of justice." Among Winfree's qualities was a love of language, an enjoyment and relishing of classic formulations, and a fabulous memory. "[Winfree] treated all others as peers. So Roxana Kieffer dead at 93 By REBECCA WILSON Stopping by to see Roxana Kieffer's niece, in from Albuquerque and overseeing the emptying of the house, one was struck by the place itself. How small the rooms looked without that wonderful old furniture, how full of cracks and crumbling places the plaster really was, how totally empty and strange the house had become without Mrs Kieffer. Mrs. Kieffer had loved this Cumberland Court house, roof high in ivy, submerged in greenery. It had become a part of her-1920's kitchen, aged bathroom, creaky furnace and all. The big willow tree in the garden, under which she once gave candlelit dinner parties, was her daily view. When someone gently (and innocently) suggested she might be better off in a smaller, less drafty place, she became indignantly aroused. Untilhediedin 1975, she had resided there with her late husband, John S. Kieffer, former president, dean and tutor at St. John's, and she had no idea of living anywhere else. morning, April 7, Maureen uv""-'•i..,. who had been assisting her in household work, and a fellow senior, Akiba Covitz, pushed open the front door and found Mrs. Kieffer dressed and unconscious on the other side. Five days later, on April 12, she died at Anne Arundel General Hospital of a massive stroke. Roxana White Kieffer should have lived forever. There never was better company. This zesty, feisty, ardently loyal, intellectually stimulating, modest and gracious lady died at 93 with her verbal boots on, intensely interested to the last in the world around her. Her illness occurred where she would have wanted it, in her beloved Cumberland Court home. At a biological age in which many people are shutting down their minds, Mrs. Kieffer's continued to expand. She could talk politics by the hour. Any Congressional hearing or public event found her glued to the tube, avidly following the discussion, ready to forego food and drink if necessary. She read The Washington Post with an eagerness that would have flattered its editors. More recently, she had been engrossed in The Diary of H.L. Mencken, identifying 11 of the people he had mentioned as acquaintances she had known either through her newspaper days or through her husband. Easter Sunday, when she had dinner with her close friends, former St. John's Vice President William Dunham and his wife, Charlotte, it was Iraq that came up for attention-that and other topics in which her marvelous sense of humour surfaced. She had a strong sense of justice and loved people, cats, boxwood and trees, he would speak of members of the St. Anne's parish, or of students, staff, and fellow faculty members at the College with a near-perfect sense of their equality and uniqueness. For those of us who knew him, his influence and his presence will not disappear." Tutor Emeritus Douglas Allanbrook remembered Winfree's wit, irony, and clear view of hypocrisy and self-delusions. No one at the College relishedMoliere's satiric vision, expecially as expressed in Tartuffe, with "more relish, than Winfree, who saw the wit and blackness of the comedy," but also the compassion and fairness of Elmire, "a fount of charity." becoming endlessly indignant if the latter for some reasons not clearly manifest were cut down. She was deeply loyal to the Democratic party, classifying herself as a "yellow dog Democrat." ("If a yellow dog runs on the Democratic ticket, I'll vote for it.'') "She had an incredibly positive outlook on life," her friend, Professor Michael P. Parker of the Naval Academy's English Department, .said of her. And an honest one. "She was completely and totally intellectually honest," Charlotte Dunham said. "She could not dissemble. It was not in her nature at all." In an age when snideness and an edge of rudeness have become fashionable, Mrs. Kieffer preserved through practice a refreshing courtesy and tact. Her sympathy was of the best sort: never muzzy or empty-headed but a understanding of a sharp, sort. She blessed her friends with a listening ear. Less able to go Kieffer managed to summon up on St. Patrick's to attend the wedd11m1 reception of Katrina Zapf, who had assisted her during her four years as a student, and Marshall McMillan, both of the Class of' 90. For Katrina, Mrs. Kieffer was one of the most generous people she knew, always concerned that Katrina's St. John's schooling take over housework. talked a In contradiction to the fixed opinions generally attributed to people in their nineties, Katrina found her al ways open and accepting of other viewpoints. Among her closest friends were Jane and Jim Tolbert, who acted as a surrogate family and who regularly arranged her birthday parties for her. Watching Roxana Kieffer blow out her candles on December 16, one was struck again by the rarity of this extraordinary person. Ninety-three was much too soon. A native of Frederick, Maryland, Mrs. Kieffer attended the Frederick Female Academy, the forerunner of Hood College. After a career as a feature writer for The Hagerstown Herald and The Baltimore Sun, she married John Kieffer in 1929, the year he joined the faculty. His career at St. John's spanned both old and new curricula. In 1984 she was made an honorary member of the St.John's Alumni Association. Surviving is a niece, Dorthy White Morse, of Albuquerque, and two greatnieces. Mr. Kieffer's nephew, C. Eric Crooke, A '54, and his wife, Sarah, A'55, of Silver Spring, MD, remained close to her. Memorial contributions may be made to the John S. Kieffer Scholarship Fund, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. The possessor of a "mighty temper," which he directed especially against those who did not perceive what the College was all about, Winfree would afterwards "be overcome by chagrin. His life was marked by what could be called a rash prudence. There was always a double reason for the anger, something cherished was to be defended, to be preserved." Mr. Allanbrook concluded with these words: "All of us gathered here to celebrate his life and to mourn his departure may be sure that, in his mind at least, as he passed through the valley of the shadow, there was light ahead." �16 1991 ' NANCYOSIUS The Nederlander is a At its April meeting, Donald J. Maclver, Jr., on the Annapolis campus, was chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors. At the same me1mb1ers, Robert J. rea.pp1:)inted after a one-year absence. of the Santa Fe campus, Stephen Van Luchene, was named ex-officio board member. Robert J. Camey, of Houston, Texas, is chairman and founder of Vacation Publications, Inc. Until 1986, he was the chairman of the executive committee of Texas Air Corp., the parent of Continental Airlines. In 1969, he founded Jet Capital Corporation, which controlled Texas Air, and he remained president of that body to 1986. James E. Connor of Santa Fe, a retired consultant and corporate director, was from 1977 to 1989 the managing director of First Boston Corporation in New York City. He has served as secretary to the Cabinet and staff secretary to President Gerald Ford, for the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Secretary of Commerce and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Thomas P. Geyer, A'69, of New Haven, Connecticut, for 20 years a reporter, editor, exe:cutive. was from 1986cer Register. He came to that post after five years as n1·"',"'r1,,. ... t and chief officer of the Puba group of small news- tic tourist class accommodations. Viewers crane towards the stage from contorted angles to see the drama of a band of early convicts and the that humanizes them after civ'ili;rntilon them out. comfort is of little consequence in to see to those Timberlake Wertenbaker's has been .... u•L~ .u.• L..l,,.,.... v ... fillt:SU£J.Uitt.... -"' "''""Los Angeles, and Hartford, Connecticut. The play was selected as best new foreign play by the New York Drama Critics Circle on May 14. Also in May it was nominated for six Tony Awards, to be announced in June: best play, best actor, best actress, best director, and best featured actress (two nominations). On stage is the microcosm of the dispossessed and powerless, the first colony of convicts, men and women, to land in New . South Wales (Australia) at the end of the 18th century after the misery and brutality of a long sea voyage. Their keepers are a contingent of Royal Marines, a variegated section of humanity no better than they should be, while over them is a wise and kindly governor-in-chief. With his encouragement, a young officer decides to present a play-George Farquahar's The Recruiting Officer-using a convict cast. This is a true story, and the convicts' production was the first ever to be presented in Australia. What follows is comic and moving by turns, a powerful emblem and power of the brutalized and mostly illiterate r·n1n,11..-tC' on the of another class and ' other country," he wrote. ""t"1Dllt1c1:ans keep demanding we imprison even more and for longer terms. For our of course." In The New York magazine of May 13, John Simon rued the loss of the arena he found in the Hartford producwhere "the beached skeletal hull of the prison ship became the upward-yearning center of a desolate universe, "but still found the New York fine, observing that the breadth to Broadway." John Beaufort of The Christian Science comic." A dissenting vote came from Mimi Kramer of The New Yorker. Her review ranges in tone from sorrowful ("[the play] proves a sad disappointment") to sneering ("The writing is artsy-dirty ... all in the service of establishing the play' s status as Serious Theater"). Performed in repertory with "The Recruiting Officer" itself at London's Royal Court Theatre, as it was initially, probably gave it "some resonance," she acknowledges. Ms. Wertenbalcer, who was graduated from St. John's in 1966, and who now lives in London, was resident writer at the Court Theater there in 1984-1985. The author and television dramas in addition she has won a number of awards, including the Olivier Play of the Year Award for 1988. Ms. Wertenbaker has also translated a number of dramas, television interview a year commented on the "huedtlCa1t1or1" she had received from the ,.,AJ..:.i~... u- has influenced my work tre1ne11do1uslv Viewers hoping to find particular traces of this education in the play-perhaps a footprint left by the New Program-will not be disappointed. In one scene, the Governorin-Chief encourages the discouraged young director by using a key example, the untutored slave boy from the Meno, whom Socrates directs with his questions to proof of a geometrical theorem. Captain Phillip uses this example to suggest the possibilities of rehabilitation that lie in the younger man's theatrical project. One in our party said, "Aha." nJ<1TrtnrioJht wr~~tcltledlne:~s of their own lives. At the inconclusion of the mance we saw in many in the audience were on their feet to a1J1J'.n1u,u. for the came from most quarters. "The could not be better" said Frank Rich of The New York Times Anma10011s is chairman, president Officer of the Annapolis Banking and Trust Company, a subsidiary of the Mercantile Bankshares Corporation, with which he has been since 1979. From 1964-1979, he was vice president of the Maryland National Bank in Baltimore. He was chairman of the Fund Raising Campaign Committee at the Anne Arundel General Hospital, and a member of the board of the Friends of St. John's. season... [the champions the theater with eloquence and, at its best, does so by example rather than by preaching." In his op-ed column of May 20 in The Times, Russell Balcer used what he called "maybe the most exciting play on Broadway" and its bitterly ironic title to emphasize his thoughts on 20th century crime and punishment in America. "Like England 200 years ago, America is so devoted to the notion of prison as a means of social uplift that we now have more people imprisoned The late Rev. J. Winfree Smith was honored as a winner of a 1990-91 Sears-Roebuck Foundation Te£1china a~~"'.ali''!i:!'hiill"lll Award. Mr. Tom McCartney, mana1::aer pre~se1nte1d the award, one of 700 given .......... u,.. member·s resou1rce:ru111es1s leadership as an independent co11ea1e e4:1uc:atc>r, Acce!ming the award on behalf of his family were his and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lauck, center, while Annapolis president Donald J. Maciver, Jr., right, looked on. The $1000 award was returned to the College by the family for the J. Winfree Smith Scholarship Fund. The College has also received an institutional grant in Mr. Smith's honor, which will be used to fund a study group and workshop on the 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Keith Harvey photo � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The St. John's Reporter</em> Description An account of the resource College newspaper which started publication in 1974. 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Campbell & Co., a fundraising consulting firm based in Chicago with offices in Ohio, Florida, Minnesota, and California, was selected in January by the Capital Planning Committee of the Board of Visitors and Governors to help plan the upcoming capital campaign. The five-year campaign, its monetary goal yet to be set, is expected to begin in 1992. Under Board leadership, a long-range planning and needs assessment was concluded on both campuses last spring. The results of interviews and other research and evaluation have been brought together in a preliminary plan which addresses current and anticipated needs and identifies areas of opportunity for the College. Campbell & Company will provide market research and campaign planning and will assist the College in coordinating a philantlrropic market study. Planning Committee members are chairman Ray Cave, Nicola Caiola, Gerald Cohen, Jim Frame, Jennifer Johnson, Jerry LaPides, OwenLopez, Charles Miller, Chris Nels on and Jill Wilkinson. Hundreds of friends, colleagues and students gathered at St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Annapolis January 11 to mourn the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, 7 6, for nearly 50 years a distinguished and beloved faculty member at the College, who died of a heart attack at his home tlrree days earlier. The Right Reverend Theodore Eastman, bishop of the Diocese of Maryland, presided at the requiem eucharist. A memorial service for the College community is planned for 5 p.m. Saturday, April 20, on campus at a location to be decided. Tutors emeriti Brother Robert Smith and Douglas Allanbrook will be in charge of the service. See page 11 for other details. Mr. Smith, the author of essays and translations on historical, mathematical, and scientific matters, also wrote the book A SearchfortheLiberalCollege,publishedby the St. John's College Press in 1984, which established him as "the institutional memory of the College," in the words of one colleague. The book traced the beginnings of the New Program, based on the great works of the western tradition and instituted in 1937. Architects of this curriculum were Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, first president and dean respectively under the New Program, both of whom had been Mr. Smith's teachers at the University of Virginia. fuvited by them to join the faculty in 1941, he was for all the ensuing years one of an inner circle which continued to protect and shape the curriculum tlrrough change and modification, serving a number of terms on the powerful fustruction Committee. fu (Continued on page 11) At the invitation of the Presidential Search Committee, four candidates for the office of president of the Annapolis campus-two of them alumni-made two-day visits for introductions and interviews on both campuses inJanuary and February. The fustruction Committee, faculty, staff and students at scheduled sessions were able to meet the candidates and determine their views on matters of consequence to the College. The candidates are Thomas Geyer, A' 68, Dennis J. Hutchison, Christopher Nelson, SF '70, and the interim president of the Annapolis campus, Donald J. Maciver, Jr. Mr. Geyer, journalist, executive and teacher, moved in 12 years from a novice reporter to the position of president and chief executive officer of the Ingersoll Publications Company, a national news group that operated 40 newspapers in 15 states. In 1986 he became publisher and CEO of the chain's largest newspaper, The New Haven Register. Immediately involved in the public life of New Haven, he gave his attention principally to schools and educational problems, serving on a special state commission on teaching and integration, backing an inner city magnet school with funds and volunteers, and helping to form an alliance of businessmen to support the schools. He taught several courses at Yale University, and served as a director on many boards. After two years, he was given the· city's "Leader of the Year" award. Mr. Geyer's position with The Register ended last year in a policy disagreement with its new ownership. Mr. Hutchison, a lawyer, has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago School of Law since 1981, and a senior lecturer there since 1990; since 1988 he has been an associate member of the department of history as well. He was graduated from Bowdoin College summa cum laude in 1969 and attended the University of Chicago law school. At Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he received a B.A. in jurisprudence in 1973 and an M.A. in 1977. He was captain of the Oxford vs. Cambridge Moot in 1972, and president of the Oxford University Law Society in 1973. In 1974, he received an LL.M from the University of Texas. He subsequently clerked for Supreme Court Justices Byron White and William 0. Douglas. In addition to his University of Chicago teaching, he has taught law at the American University, Georgetown, and Cornell University law schools. He is the author of many scholarly publications and has a book in progress, The Rhetoric of Law. Mr. Nelson, a member of the college's Board of Visitors and Governors since 1986, is chairman of the Compensation Review committee; he is treasurer of the Alumni Board, on which he has served since 1983. A founder in 1979 of the Chicago law fmn Kovar Nelson Brittain Sledz & Morris, specializing in labor law and employee benefits with a national client base, he is today chairman and managing partner of the firm. He is an active member of the American Bar Association, serving on a number of committees, principally concerned with employee benefits. He devotes other time to public schools and the promotion of liberal education, notably in support activities for St. Joseph's College in Indiana, which has a core curriculum applauded by the NEH. Son of alumnus and fellow Board member Charles Nelson, A'47, Chris Nelson is the brother to two other graduates, and father to Santa Fe sophomore Tollof. A graduate of the University of Utah College of Law in 1973, he was admitted to the Utah bar that year. Mr.Maclver, thefatherofSantaFesenior Kelli, and of Kyle, a freshman at the University of Texas, is a first term member of the Board of Visitors and Governors. He has served on the Board's nominating, visiting, presidential, search, finance and executive committees. Last April he accepted the Board's request that he serve as interim president of the Annapolis campus for the 1990 -1991 school year. (Continued on page 10) Jonathan Skinner: first Rhodes Scholar for Santa Fe campus By BEN GALISON "You have to believe in yourself," says Jonathan Skinner ('91), the first Rhodes Scholar from the Santa Fe campus in its twenty-six years. "I keep saying it over and over; it really is important." Skinner was one of 32 American college seniors this year to receive the Rhodes Scholarship, which provides for a minimum of two years of study at the University of Oxford in England with all expenses paid, including transportation and an annual stipend of about$10,000. A third year of scholarship ·is also possible depending on the program of study selected. According to the Rhodes Scholarship Trust in Claremont, California, the scholarship could be worth between $15,000 and $22,000 annually. Skinner plans to study English language (Continued on page 10) Rhodes Scholar Jonathan Skinner Ben Galison photo �PAGE2 THE REPORTER MARCH 1991 .9L{umni 'West .9L{umni 'East 1977 1954 . The Edwin Mellen Press in Lewiston, NY, has recently published Essays in Philosophical Zoology by Adolph Partmann, translated from the German with an interpretive essay by Richard B. Carter. The essays included were chosen by the author for Mr. Carter to translate after he had spent his sabbatical year in 1973-1974 in Basel working with Mr. Partmann at the Zoological Institute of Basel University. In the years beforePortmann's death in 1982, Mr. Carter visited the author in Bar Harbor, Maine, to discuss points of translation and Carter's own interpretive essay. Mr. Portmann's introductory letter includes the following comment about his translator: "Professor Carter's interest concerns the synthesis and philosophical analysis of biological theory. His own field, the explanation and clarification of the work of Descartes, has led to an enlargement of my own perspective, and constitutes what I judge to be an important contribution to a deeper philosophical penetration of the current problems of biology." Mr. Carter is at present an adjunct professor of political theory at UMBC. 1961 A portrait of the late Martha Goldstein Wyatt was hung in two District Court buildings in Annapolis and Glen BurnieinDecember. The project was organized by the Women's Law Center of Anne Arundel County. 1975 Dr. Katherine Duer LaGuardia, director of the Women's Health Center in New York Hospital and granddaughter to New York City's most famous mayer, was featured in a December 12 New York Times article along with a young Haitian mother who had defied all the odds by keeping her child, holding down two part-time jobs, and receiving a B.A. degree from Hunter College a semester early. At Dr. LaGuardia's urging, the new graduate took on yet another job counselling other frightened pregnant teenagers. "This is a LaGuardia seasoned with her grandfather's spunk," says the article, citing Dr. LaGuardia's successes and frustration in providing asylum for destitute pregnant women. "Caring for the poor used to be the definition of a great and illustrious physician, but I can't get medical colleagues to join in," she told the Times writer. "It's very frightening." 1977 When John and Caroline Christensen, Admissions Director and Financial Aid Director respectively on the Annapolis campus, went to Chile to collect new baby Carlos for adoption in December, they thought they were leaving St. John's College far behind. When they called from Santiago to deliver a message from old Baltimore friends to a couple-the Strabucchis-in the small resort town of Zapallar, they were invited to spend a day at the beach. The Strabucchis' daughter and her five children were also visiting for the day. Strabucchi Montt commented that she had attended a small college in Maryland. This presently led everyone to the truth-a Johnnie in this unexpected place! Says John Christensen, "Caroline and Rodney and I sat with our mouths open." Rodney, married to a Chilean, lives a thousand miles south of the Chilean capital on Chiloe Island. She thinks she may be the only SJC graduate in all of Chile. She sent greetings to old friends, especially Douglas and Wendy Allanbrook. Please submit any news you would like published in this space to Joan Iverson, Director of Alumni Activities in Santa Fe, at 505-982-3691. 1981 Warren J. Spector has been elected to the board of directors of the Bear Sterns Companies Inc. in New York City, where he shares responsibility for the mortgagebacked securities trading department. He joined the firm in 1983 and became a senior managing director in 1988. After graduation from the College. Mr. Spector earned an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. See 1982 Alumni West note about Rachel O'Keefe. 1968 Rick Wicks and his wife, Ellinor Garbring, announce the birth of their first child, Linnea Magdalena Garbring-Wicks on January 25. Rick is now working for the Boston Institute for Developing Economies in Bethesda, MD. 1980 1982 Geoffrey and Mary Jo Daniel Comber, A '82, announce the birth of their son Geoffrey Alexander Daniel on November 8. See 1980 Alumni West note about Mary Jo Daniel Comber. 1984 After graduation, David Walworth continued his education at the University of Texas, while at the same time he was proceeding to build a 26' sailboat in Annapolis. He then sailed his British Atalanta to Maine to study yacht design at the Landing School. "After a year of study, he sailed to Bristol, RI, where he is helping to build maxi-yachts and America Cup contenders," his parents write. Karl Walling writes that his wife Lisa (Nurcombe) completed her master's degree in library scienceinDecember, and is working as a research specialist for a Chicago law finn. "Our daughter Alexandra Grace was born nine months ago, and we are already saving for her St. John's education," he adds. Karl is working at the University of Chicago on his dissertation for the Department of Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought. It is called "The Republican Empire of Alexander Hamilton: War and Liberty in the Theory and Practice of Hamiltonian Politics." Barry Hellman graduated with distinction from the George Washington University School of Medicine in June. He was admitted to the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society and was presented with the William Newberry award for achievement in the field of pathology. He is now a resident in anatomic pathology at Stanford University Hospital, where Joel Benington is in the neurobiology department working on his PhD. Another June GW graduate was Christopher Junker, A'83, who is now an intern at the Washington Hospital Center 1982 Steven J. Bohlin has been named a managing director for Thornburg Management Company, fuc., a Santa Fe-based investment adviser and mutual fund company, which he has been with since 1984. Mr. Bohlin is married to Rachel O'Keefe, A '81. Lorin Cuoco named to post. and an anesthesia resident at the GW Hospital. Thia Keppel Hellman, Barry's wife, is doing her physics doctoral work at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, while son Barry is getting ready for "some serious kindergarten academia." Father Barry remarks that "the so-called pre-medical education is an oxymoron." He hopes to remain in academics and to have a say in admissions policies and in "what and how we teach our medical students." 1987 Sallie Fine is moving back to Cleveland to enroll in a joint master of education/ teacher certification program. 1990 Eliot Duhan and his musicians continue theirrollickingjourney through the the night spots of New York City and Philadelphia. "Want more information?" they inquire. "If so call theEDOhotline215-JARNU-16. We will play anywhere." Nancy Osius, editor; Donna Boetig, assistant editor; Wye Allanbrook, Betsy Blume1 John Christensen, Benjamin Mil- ner, Brother Roeert Smitn, and Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. The Reporter is published by the News and information Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. Donald J. Maciver, president. Publishedfourtimes afuear, in March, June, Septerrber tr~. December. Second-c ass postage paid in Ss~s01~~ Lorin Cuoco, who received a B.A. in mass communications, television and radio from Southern Illinois University in 1978, has been appointed associate director of the new International Writers Center at Washington University in St. Louis. The Center, which opened last October, is designed to be a focal point for writers interested in international issues. Ms. Cuoco is a writer and former operations manager and producer for KWMU radiq at the University ofMissouriSt. Louis. She has filed many stories on the arts for NPR's "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered," and "Performance Today." Rodney Strabucchi Montt, A '77, left, and Annapolis Admissions Director John Christensen share a picnic in Chile. 1986 Mike Ryan married Malissa Kullberg, SF '83, on December 1 in Tesuque, NM. Mike is working for architect Blaine Young in Santa Fe. 1990 Tim Graham wed senior Alexandra Starr, SF '91, on December 29. Kip Castner, SF '90, was best man, and senior Kelli Maciver was a bridesmaid. SIC grateful to Phonathon callers The success of the Alumni Annual Fund owes much to the many volunteers who gave of their time and energy to participate in regional phonathons this year. On behalf of everyone who is concerned with its wellbeing, the College wishes to expresss its appreciation. See page 12 for details of the Annual Fund effort. Among the volunteers: Houston (October 23,24),AnneO'MalleyCulotta,A '81,Margaret Couvillos, A '86, Geneva Fulgham, SGI '90, Gretchen Gray, SGI '90, Matt Hartzell, A '81, Jonathan Mark, A '73; Annapolis (November 8, 9), Gerald Atterbury, A Miriam Callahan-Hean, AGI '87, Jack Ladd A '50, Kathy Dulisse, AGI '88, Katherine Hsu Haas, A '60, Mary Pat Justice, SGI '71, Pamela Kinsley, A '85, S. David Krimins, A '63, Ranlet Lincoln, A '50, Merle Maffei, AGI '86, Jane Pennington, AGI '87,FayePolillo, A '56, Frank Wilson, A '35; San Francisco (November 26, 27, 28), Bob DiSilverio, SF '79, George Elias, A '71, Natasha Fisk, SF '84, Tom Hoover, SF '70, Olivia Jacobs, A '82, Don Kaplan, A '48, Mark Middlebrook, A '83, Anne-Martina Moore, SF '84, Joseph Moore, SF '81, Sue Price A '84, Thomas L. Sigman, A '59, Tony Wilkinson, SF '87, David Scott Williamson, SF '86; New York, (February 6), Larry Feinberg, A '64, MalcolmHandte, A '75, P. Janee Jacobs, A '71, Sabine Schweidt, SF '81, Ellen Veden, SGI '77, Joel Weingarten, A '82. The names of the volunteers for the Chicago phonathon on February 27 were not available at press time. �MARCH 1991 THE REPORTER Schaller, Winans named to posts Annapolis senior Dwayne Rodgers has been granted a New Jersey State Council of the Arts prose fiction fellowship for $7 ,000 to continue work on his novel in progress. He was one of 1700 applicants for awards in prose, poetry, music, and dance, and one of 35 winners. During an academic year off in 19891990, he finished 250 pages of his book and anticipates that another 30 will bring him to the end. He expects to finish and revise the work during the summer. Set in France and New York, the untitled novel is about the problems of "personal, racial, and national identity as far as they are understood or misunderstood by my protagonist, a young black man." These problems are addressed through the dissolution of the protagonist's family-his father's death, his mother's subsequent distraction, and his grandfather's paralyzing disillusionment after his post-World War II migration from Georgia to New York. To all of this, the resilience of his sick grandmother provides a counterbalance. "Oneofthemoreimportantofthenovel's controlling themes is the tension, often absurd, between the utter invisibility and the grotesque visibility of the personal and societal problems the novel considers," says Mr. Rodgers. In the novel, he attempts to work in the stylistic tradition of such writers as James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and James Baldwin. Born in Hillside, N. J., Mr. Rodgers entered St. John's after spending a year at the American College in Paris. At St. John's, he founded and led a repertory company of six student actors in his sophomore and junior years. The group presented Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and four one-act plays, three of which Mr. Rodgers wrote himself. This spring, under the aegis of the King William Players, he will direct Beckett's Waiting/or Godot, to be presented May 3 and4. Award winner Dwayne Rodgers Hydee Schaller of Baltimore has been named the new executive secretary to the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery on the Annapolis campus. Her duties begin immediately. In this position, Ms. Schaller will work with the Gallery's art committee, consisting of faculty members, the President, the Vicepresident for Advancement, and the Dean, to continue bringing a wide variety of art exhibitions to the college community and public. She is replacing Donna Schueler who is leaving for employment on a research project A native of Maryland, Ms. Schaller earned her undergraduate degree in art from the University of New Hampshire in 1985. She worked in the registrar's office of Dartmouth College's Hood Museum of Art from 1989-90. There she helped coordinate the college's art exhibits. From 1987-89, Ms. Schaller performed administrative duties at the Harvard University Museum of Art. Among her assignments was coordinating the field work for an archeological dig in Turkey. An art enthusiast who appreciates a full range of its expression, she also is a physical fitness buff who runs, bikes and cross country skis. Deborah Winans, an Annapolitan for the past 20 years, has been named Director of Financial Aid for the Annapolis campus. In her new position, Ms. Winans will be securing private scholarships for students to supplement their financial aid. She is assuming the role of Caroline Clrristensen who has taken a two-year leave of absence to care for her new infant son from Chile. Ms~. Winans was the director of the Baltimore International Culinary College from 1986-90. She will be earning her undergraduate degree in business administration from Towson State University this spring. Her concentration is in management personnel. Ms. Winans is a member of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Officers, and is a member of the Delaware, D.C. and Maryland Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, serving on its Federal Relations Committee. She enjoys aerobics, gardening and sailing. Tutor Emeritus Douglas Allanbrook was one of six members of a star-studded editorial board for the first revised edition in almost 40 years of the Great Books of the Western World, issued last fall in a climate of continuing public interest. Other editorial board members were Jacques Barzun, provost emeritus of Columbia University; John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of economics, Harvard University; Lord Quinton, former chairman of the British Library in London; and two members who have since died, Norman Cousins, editor and professor of medicine at UCLA, and Heinz R. Pagels, director of the New York Academy of Sciences. The original editorial board included the College's first New Program president, Stringfellow Barr, and dean, Scott Buchanan, as well St. John's board member Mark Van Doren. Editor-in-chief of the revised Great Books edition, which contains 60 volumes (up from the 54 volumes and 74 authors in 1952), is Mortimer Adler. Published by the EncyclopediaBritannica, the books are sold only in sets and by subscription. PAGE3 Public Occasions • 0 Keith Harvey photo Above, Annapolis Vice President for Advancement Jeffrey Bishop, center, holds a check for $20,000 presented to the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery by Anne Arundel County Executive Robert Neall, as County Councilwoman Maureen lamb looks on. Below, at the Beneficial Hodson Trust luncheon in December, Annapolis president Donald J. Maciver, Jr., left, chats with Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury Louis Goldstein, center, and alumnus Thomas B. Turner, M.D., A '21. The Hodson Trust makes a yearly gift to the Annapolis campus and three other Maryland institutions of higher learning. Bottom, at a December reception in the Great Hall, four representatives of major donors to the restoration of McDowell Hall paused for a photograph with President Maciver, second from right. The men are from left, Thomas W. Cleaver, First National Bank of Maryland; Chuck Rishell, Mercantile Bankshares Corp.; and Robert Heme I, Annapolis Banking and Trust. �PAGE4 Three new tutors were named to the Santa Fe campus recently, Bruce Sawhill, H. Ralph Lewis, and Charles N. Fasanaro. Bruce a former consultant to Inc., in California, helped design robotic planning in orbital space. He has worked for a variety of other scHmunc, mathematical and computer firms. Mr. Sawhill has also been a lecturer at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. During 1986-87, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Universitat Karlsruhe in West Germany and a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Munich. A graduate of Stanford University, Mr. Sawhill earned a bachelor of science degree in physics and a bachelor of arts degree in music. Later, he was awarded his doctorate in physics, with emphasis on high energy particle physics and computational physics from the university. Fluent in languages, the new tutor speaks German, French, Spanish and Italian. H. Ralph Lewis was a longtime employee of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and from 1983-1987 a fellow there and a deputy group leader of their magnetic fusion group. Beginning in 1987, he was an adjunct professor of nuclear engineering at Pennsy1vania State University. He has recently also been a visiting professor at universities in England, France, and South Africa. From 1960-63, he taught physics at Princeton University. He was a research associate in theoretical nuclear physics at the University of Heidelberg from 1958-60. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He speaks German, Spanish and French, and has translated works in physics by Wolfgang Pauli from the German for MIT Press. Charles N. Fasanaro is a former associate professor at the Center for Creative Philosophies, in Boulder, Colorado. He was a postdoctoral fellow of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, from 1983-85. He has taught courses in phenomenology, Foucault, process thought, philosophy of science, writing and ethics. He has written extensively on 20th century philosophy for textbooks, and is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the American Academy of Religion, and the Institute for Advanced Philosophic Research. MARCH 1991 THE REPORTER SJC Search and Rescue Team members prepare to search for Dr. Tim Lopez, who was reported missing while skiing. Dr. Lopez, brother of board member Owen Lopez, was found on January 19, 1991. (Photograph© Kitty leaken, used by permission.) scuing after By BEN GALISON and NANCY SOLZMAN When OwenLopez, member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, announced at the meeting in Santa Fe this January that the college volunteer Search and Rescue team had found his "baby brother" Tim, lost while skiing, and that the somewhat embarrassed but very grateful Dr. Tim Lopez had become the team's newest member, the entire board applauded. In the twentieth year of the St. John's College Search and Rescue (SAR) team, enthusiasm is at a high, says Herb Kincey, founding team member, who was awarded honorary membership to the alumni last summer for a generation of work with students on the team. Team membership has the dozen ll'\l!.:111rt1,.•in~!llnt·C11 Wine Cellars in of hosts Warren Barbara wini'.!:!1r~11.ci Beattie, parents of Ronald Beattie, SF'93. Another parent seminar is planned for March 16 in Dallas. Interested parents should contact Susan Friedman, SF parent program coordinator, at {505)982-3691. Susan Friedman photo grown from 14 at its inception to 77 at present ranging in age from 17 to 55, the majority of whom are current students. Led by Mr. Kincey, the team pioneered SAR planning and organization, producing the New Mexico SAR plan for coordinating missions. The plan was adopted by the state legislature and continues to serve as the paradigm for SAR teams and related organizations around the country. It all started in the fall of 1970 when the Red Cross offered an advanced first aid course at the college. The instructor was Herb Kincey, and the course was enormously popular among students and staff. Istvan Fehervary, director of student activities, and Jim Carr, business manager at the college, were especially impressed and realized that the community needed a mountain rescue team. The three men approached then-president Richard Weigle with the unprecedented idea of forming a team composedofbothstudents and townspeople. Mr. Weigle embraced their plan, providing college sponsorship, funds, and facilities for storage and operations. As it came to beinJanuary 1971, the SAR team was an anomaly. It was the first team in New Mexico to a college, it had the youngest rescue members, and it combined college students with local citizens. While many college students at the time were battling campus administrations, Johnnies were working hand-in-hand with theirs in order to a valuable service to the Santa Fe ""''"",...,,,,.,..,,,lh;, The team grew in its and '"''·l'-LJ.R-JAU.......... ~, driven its members' energy and alumni make up a significant percentage of the balance. Still, the team provides students and locals with a special opportunity to work together, and the excellent results of this cooperative effort are remarkable given the team's lack of a rigid structure or hierarchy. Students on the team have standing permission from the Dean to miss classes if so required by a search callout. Lost hikers and skiers, like Dr. Lopez, are responsible for most callouts. The team participates in an average of about 20 missions each year ranging from dramatic technical evacuations and downed aircraft searches to far less glamorous tasks-body searches for those presumed dead by police officials. Today, regular training missions include outdoor survival, woodcraft, hiking and climbing skills, technical rock climbing, specific search and rescue techniques, and extensive pre-hospital medical care. First Responder and Emergency Medical Technician courses are also sponsored, tion with other medical or.12:aruLzat1orts. team maintains some eq1ll1pmemt, including gear for ,.. ........ n-.......... ....u...,ui...,...,, emergencies, and radio communications. With Tn.,..,,,..,,.,.,,,,. Agresto and team this winter put>llsJtlea created a constitution and a seven-member executive committee of students and townspeople to provide governance. In 1973, faced with increasing prestige and popularity in the Santa Fe community, the team adopted a policy requiring St. John's students to comprise at least half of the membership. The quota is currently maintained, Plans are also in year reunion sometime this to Mary Freitas (SF'80), team treasurer. Ms. Freitas would appreciate hearing from anyone who is interested in the reunion or knows the whereabouts of other former SAR team members. She can be reached at (505) 988-5790. W-r\.P,V\.IV distributed to team college personnel, and members of other SAR-related or$l:an:Lza11:1m1s in the state. Those interested -rPt'Pn11n o The should contact �THE REPORTER MARCH 1991 PAGES Santa Fe campus to host free Shakespeare festival The following editorial and cartoon appeared in the Albuquerque Journal North on January 16, 1991. Both are reprinted with permission. Shakespeare in the Park has a new home and, in these days of generally bleak news, that's something to celebrate. The free theater program, which operated forseveralyearsinSantaFe'sAmelia White Park, was dark last summer after neighbors complained about the noise and traffic. Program director Schwartz atte~mp1ted to the Fort Fe will be treated to classic theater. If the productions are anything like past shows,they'U be first-rate. A summer of Shakespeare is much in keeping with the college's focus on the Great Books. fu addition to donating space for the shows, the college also is giving the cornmmv a room to rehearse and has offered and company did well in a home. And St. John's College deserves commendation for its sense of cmnrrrnniitv in giving this wonderful program a second wind. So next summer, a stage will go up outside next to the new Meem for a dozen or more 13 ""',,""'"'" ifomia at Los before ma.tricmliitiIJL!l in Santa Fe in 1986. While a student at St. he helped create a desktop publishenterprise for Macfutosh computers. He was also a counselor in a teen leadership camp organized by Director of Career Planning Ron Hale through a grant from the Luce Foundation. Mr. Marquez brings enormous enthusiasm for the college and its program to the admission staff. His primary objective, he says, is to make a difference by being able to share the St. John's experience with others. By BEN GALISON Shakespeare in the Park has found a new home on the Santa Fe campus. The popular, local, nonprofit theatre group, which staged free outdoor performances in a city park for three consecutive seasons until scheduling difficulties with the City of Santa Fe forced the cancellation of its 1990 season, will revive its program this summer, presenting "Twelfth Night" in the courtyard of the new Faith and John Meem Library. Officials of both the theater group and the college are pleased with the arrangement and are billing the program as Shakespeare in the Park-in Residence at St. John's College. "We are delighted to be able to bring Shakespeare back for the Santa Fe community," said college president John Agresto. "One of the liberal arts traditions is to support and cultivate appreciation for the fine and performing arts. Shakespeare in the Park will be a welcome addition to the academic environment on our campus this summer and to the many free public events that we host. By helping to make an excellent program like this available to Santa Fe's residents and visitors, we put the humanities in the hands of the people and contribute to the cultural richness of the community,"he said. Steven Schwartz, Director of Shakespeare in the Park, looks forward to the 1991 season. "I am excited about the future of Shakespeare in the Park as a result of our alliance with St. John's," he said. "The Meem courtyard is an excellent location for outdoor Shakespeare. Our artistic mission will remain the same: to make great theater available and accessible to a broad audience." Although details for the arrangement are still being worked out, the general agreement has the college providing free performance and rehearsal space for the theater group. Campus officials to be able to handle crowds of 350 per Tickets will be distributed for each of the dozen or and the college, and will continue to operate as a branch project of the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. Mr. Schwartz and Mr Agresto share an optimistic desire for the arrangement to continue beyond this summer. "This is very neighborly for St. Jolm's to do and a wonderful thing for the city," said Santa Fe Mayor Sam Pick. "An activity like Shakespeare in the Park fits in perfectly with what St. John's stands for," he said. Dr. Werner Gundersheimer, Executive Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., a national center for the scholarship and performance of Shakespeare, said, "I can't think of anything more appropriate than the presentation of Shakespeare's plays against the backdrop of a library which preserves their texts and reflects their profound influence on our culture. Bringing Shakespeare to the high desert can only help stimulate appreciation for his work, which was created for live performance and has universal appeal." Dr. Gundersheimer delivered the keynote address at the Meem Library dedication ceremony last November. Shakespeare in the Park was started in 1987 by Mr. Schwartz with the purpose of providing free, high-quality, cultural entertainment for the citizens of New Mexico and of encouraging increased tourism by promoting the summer program on a national level. Over 12,000 people attended "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1989 during the company's last season. Composed entirely of New Mexico performers, craftsmen, artists, technicians, and musicians, Shakespeare in the Park receives most of its funding from foundations and individuals within the state. Mr. Schwartz notes proudly that the company has ended each season in the black, with no outstanding debts. members are excited ful for the continued success at ...,.., ..... . ., ......... "I look forward to our supporters this summer at St. "said Mr. Schwartz. "Don't �NANCYOSIUS Last Eva Brann held in her hands the first volume off the of her third and most ambitious The Sum and Sublan1dscaoe of ole:asuire of it of the the says, a youthful woman with bobbed ......... a. ............... , smiling her famous smile, with its euphoric residue. Now she is offering tea at a tidy, fully fittedout beverage table. "I decided that if I came on that book by accident I would buy it immediately and read it from cover to cover." Receiving the book yesterday was one event in a nexus Ms. Brann sees as auspicious. First, an editor from Rowman and Littlefield, her academic-commercial publisher, called to say that the book was ready, and he would drop off the first copy at the end of the When the telephone rang next, it was Ed Casey, professor of philosophy at Stonybrook, one of the mamuscr1ptreaders and the only other contemporary who has written a fullscale book on the imaginationthe very one to share the author's joy over her comHis imprnrrrunforpulblH~aUlon Then the telephone rang on the other end Hamill of the Caritas Society inviting Ms. Brann to speak at the eighth annual Book and Author Luncheon in March. Yesterday's culminating event came when the author tenderly carried her book to a dinner at Tutor Emeritus Brother Robert Smith's house with some of her best and oldest friends. Tutor Elliott Zuckerman ("he spent a large part of a summer editing the book; he was absolutely wonderful!") was there, and so was immediate neighbor tutor Beate Ruhm von Oppen, herself editor and translator of a recent book, who spent scores of homs reading galley proofs for Ms. Brann. "What a night!" now says the dean. The book is not with her today. The author is "keeping it clean" for a special purpose. Instead, its book jacket of teal and plum-colors she selected-is in her hands, bringing its own delights. "Isn't this beautiful?" she wants to know. "See how the word world is confined to the design frame, and then the word imagination bursts out of the frame." She points out the heavy skies below and the clear sky above, and the counterpoint of "deadpan" block letters. "I wrote the designer a letter," she says, "and everyone was so pleased. They aren't used to authors paying attention to such things." A week from now at the beginning of winter break lies perhaps the consummate pleasme, the purpose for which the first copy is to be saved-presentation to the two people named in the dedication, Barry and Gretchen Mazur. The dean will be making her annual trip to Cambridge to visit these friends, whom she has known since a shared year at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in the 1950's. The three talked overtogethermany of the ideas inthe book, Ms. Brann says, and Barry Mazur, a mathematician at Harvard, helped her to get needed reference works there. Now comes the chief delight. The Mazurs stopped inquiring some time ago about the book, concerned no doubt that there would be difficulties fmding a publisher. Ms. Brann did not disapprise them. "I have never told them that the book had a publisher," she says mischievously. "They have no idea it has been printed, or that it is dedicated them. I can't wait to see their faces." Ideas for the book began to coalesce in the 1970's when "a whole slew of things came together," Ms. Brann remembers. "In texts, imagination an but there is not much about it. I have called it the 'missing mystery,' in that there to be a about it but there isn't. And then there were new studies in cognitive psychology on image formation. And partly, it was that I love fiction, and I'm a great novel reader. And partly it was dreams and the like." Before all these elements found their place in the meticulous design of the book, years of reading and research, and fmally, writing, had to pass. Along the way, the author began to envision a book whose EVA R NN The world of the imagination and the world of 's c~ contents were attractive to the general reader, but office. Born in Genna new author' who has done a book on the imagination." United States in 1941, a which could also serve as a reference book and perhaps a text for a course or seminar. undergraduate years The book's publication may seem to some viewers Ms. Brann began to collect material as a visiting degrees from Yale a postscript to the years of scholarly immersion, bearcheological work in~ professor in Walla Walla, Washington, in 1978-79. cause for many months now the author's life has as an instructor in arc 1984 was the first of fom years principally devoted to moved full speed ahead in another direction. Named Edward Sparrow, she is the project: in 1984-1986, she was visiting honors dean last spring after a protracted selection process, olis cam.pus. scholar at the University of Delaware, with time for she is also the first woman ever to hold the position at "For years I was scar~ her own project; the next year she was on an NEH St John's (in any of its incarnations), although it reflectively. "I had nev~ fellowship, and the final year, 1978-88, she was on annoys her whenever anyone points that out to putting my feet up wi sabbatical. Today the students have already scattered for winmost of my study was ~ 1 The fmal year, "I just sat home and wrote." And ter break; otherwise some of them would probably be was that I didn't know . then there were months and months of revising, three sprawled in the comfortable couch in the dean's antecame in or how one ans'· typed drafts by Carol Cunningham [A '88], more edroom, waiting to take up with her some of their make decisions." iting, another draft, Mr. Zuckerman's ministrations, a innumerable concerns. smile here-"That's when the book became EnBut she adds, "You k That this new life too is powerfully linked to the hard" She has the instru glish"-more changes by the editors. one of the imagination is visible on the walls of Ms. The book, 798 pages long over' exclusive of table of contents and th and index, is divided into five over, "In true St. John's College fashion, Eva doesn't/eel she has to be an substantial sections, each with thing expert on something to read it. She can go straight to the point in the every1 its ingenious variation on the jargon of any possible field and see exactly what the writer is saying Latin root imago. The sections ahead if and how it matters." · are "Philosophy: The Nature of Tb the Imagination," "Psycholthem ogy: The Having of Imagery," onese: "Logic: The Being of Images," "Literature: The cites as exemplars fol Brann's office, which now reveals itself as a gallery Translation of Imagining," and "Depiction: The Theof paintings, drawings, objects d'art and other mewomen who ran excava ater of Imaging." Bibliographies at the end of every 35 years ago when she~ mentoes. "All of these were made for me or given to section cite nearly 1000 references. "They thought only of me or bought by me from friends," she says. "I won't community, from the I Ms. Brann's invaluable colleague Mr. Zuckerman tell you which was which." little thing. They had ve was later to express amazement at the astonishing She provides a running commentary about the range of the book's contents. "In true St. John's thing was done accurate] work and artists as she moves from one piece to the College fashion, Eva doesn't feel she has to be an own first book, Late G next. One friend painted for her a sun-drenched myson something to read it. She can go straight to tery, the Athenian tery on the Mediterranean "so I would have some aegis. point in the jargon of any possible field and see place to wander off to," and another, tutor's wife exactly what the writer is saying and if and how it Declaring that she h Emily Kutler, presented her with an arresting etching matters." of a gnarled sepia-colored willow oak. When Ms. Rowman and Littlefield "found me," says Ms. Brann was on the Greek island of Cythera three after reading preliminary appraisals of the ago, she accompanied artist George Tzannes book, and it was mutual love at first sight. She had unanswered. If someon band of Robin Chalek, A '73) to visit an unexcavated one of her intuitive flashes-such as are examined in me to call back, wants 1 Byzantine castle, and later he painted it as if for her, her book-the first day she went to meet representaits sunken vaults half-visible, a magic place, Ms. I can, preferably that da tives at the publishing house, located in Lanham, "The next thing is th. Brann remembers. Among the treasmes are origami Maryland "I had a feeling something great was going say. Whoever has som~ birds from one student, a pottery vase from a recent to happen." She immediately liked the set-up, and as should have a chance tc graduate, and a container of hard candy, sent anonythe introductions and the tour through the facilities "The third thing is th mously by another student on Mother's Day. continued, Ms. Brann had feelings of growing coma firm notion of what 1 The long and resonant associations with students fort, clearly shared by those she met. "By the end of knowledge must be bel and colleagues suggested by this room were perhaps that if the moment com~ the tour, my guide had begun to introduce me as 'our a bridge to the very center of campus life, the dean's 1 �is not right for what we do.'" her the brilliant scholar is dean. pr<mt-read1ng;s. there are shameon. I meant to .lm.a2ination was a labor agreement that a rerruu·kalJlV mearun2·-lac1en but nonexistent: "pendantry." (I s1gnit:Lca:ntineJlist:ern~ is a topic of she is, she has guidance, of making everyone that his opinion is important." "She does everything instantly and as soon as possible," an old friend echoes smiling. Part of the collective College memory is Ms. Brann' s position as a young tutor in the exalted inner circle which formed about the celebrated Dean Jacob Klein, who steered college intellectual life for many years before his death in 1978. Occupying the dean's office 30 years later, Ms. Brann is willing to acknowledge a powerful mentor. "But I am so different," she says. "I have no element of the guru in me, although guru is the wrongest word here. But he was a great teacher and a great attractor of the young. I can speak reason about great matters, but I don't make magic, and he could make magic." Not his magic perhaps, but her own. She has retained the attractive piquancy of her girlhood, and this is overlaid with the warmth of what she has called her "delayed stint of motherhood." Students fmd the dean very approachable, remarking with surprise on her many oral and written invitations to visit, which a good many accept. In her position, she must enforce unpopular measures on alcohol restriction and the like, but, as onestudentcommentslater, "Idon'tknow of anyone who gets angry at her. She's got to do these things." Another says, "I have gone to her with personal problems, and found her understanding, helpful and insightful." Jl/ege ny, Ms. Brann came to the nd to St. John's in 1957, after ·.Brooklyn College, graduate assics and Greek archeology, ireece, and a year at Stanford beology. Today, along with the senior tutor at the Annap- Now Ms. Brann is standing at the door once more. "I see more people here than I did as a tutor. As a teacher you are supposed to learn and teach-it is a kind of communal work that you do, and by and large you are supposed to be getting something out of it, just as the students are. It is different here. I am supposed to be useful in this job, and my profit"with emphasis on the word my-"is not so much the point." EVA BRANN Eva T. H. Brann, The Sum and Substance, Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991, 810 pages. Mega biblion, mega kakon, "A big book is a big evil." Alumni may recall the sentence by Callimachus in the Greek lesson book we studied from before the manuals came. Malicious people used to translate "A Great Book is a great evil,"but that version has no relevance here. In the years when I wondered whether this book, which had been so long on my mind and so close to my heart, would ever be delivered, I would recline in the place of contemplation (the bathtub) and dream up opening lines for the most satisfying review. One was: "This book as a sheep in wolf's clothing." Now, thanks to the courage of a mid-sized commercial academic press - the bravest and best kind-and the trusting courtesy of the Reporter's editor, I can actualize the imagined event. (The ... ~-·,..,,TO actualization of the scenes of the nn:agunation is, as it the innermost theme of The World of the Imagination.) Before I begin, a word about self-reviewing. The obvious question is: Can I be objective? Well, it helps that the thing, being off my chest, is indeed an object - quite an object, fat but compact, big but handy. The press has done a beautiful job of production. Paper, type and format are agreeable, and the cover is so beauteously significant that I had to write the designer a letter of thanks. The book is a thing, alright, and that helps one gain distance.But seriously, though we are ipso facto unaware of our errors, and discover errata mostly ex post facto, we ought to know our constitutional faults best of anyone. And where pride is sufficient, candor ought not to be too difficult. Anyhow, let me try. Leaving the responsibility of uncovering simple mistakes and the joys of spotting typos to real reviewers, I must say that, although the book where the is less in knowing Since I adhere to precept, I have something to anwer How did the book get to be so long? It was hybris and homage come together. My ambition was to do exhaustive, scholarly honor to the most wonderful fact of the embodied soul: our re-presentational capacity. To us the world appears twice, once as a recalcitrant external reality and again as a malleable inner actuality. It is the book's claim that the world takes shape and acquires meanings when the inner realm is projected onto the outer scene. The book's epigraph is, accordingly, a saying by Victor Hugo: The universe is an appearance corrected by a transparence. How to do justice to so huge a fact? It seemed necessary to try first to give the sum of research in the chief disciplines (philosophy, psychology, logic, visual arts, theology), and then to determine the substance of truth. The flaw in that conception is that of any synoptic effort carried on by an author of limited learning and moderate abilities: occasional thinness. The parts contain stretches that cannot stand up either as orginal research or as deep inquiry. The book is neither fish nor neither specialized monographnorreflective essay. This nervy and not always completely responsible enterprise moreover degenerates at times into mention over meaning: Although the intention is to report in sum various treatments and to give a critique of their substance, some names are dropped into the text for the sake of mere comprehensiveness. My aim was gist, and where I succeeded, the authors I reviewed might well be pleased- are, in fact, as I have heard. But the book is written with a thesis in mind, a deep bias which sometimes skewed my reports and turned succinctness into caricature. The authors so treated, be they at present in heaven, hell or inbetween, have reason for (Continued on page 11) ~of the dean's job," she says ~ sat in an office. I was used hen I did my work-actually fone in the bathtub. The fact anytlring about how the mail wered it, or how one lea.ms to now, it turns out not to be too ction committee to talk things ~ith, and the assistant deans epresident. Efficiency, moreshe found to be "the easiest in the world. At home I keep hing in order. I like to be of things." ~most important necessity in :w job, she feels, is "to put if in a service mode." She · that mode two American tions of the Agora in Athens ras a young graduate student. what they could do for the nost exalted to the meanest ry rigorous standards: everyy andcorrectly."Ms. Brann's wmetric and Protoattic Pot•a, was prepared under their Book and Author luncheon to feature three women The eighth annual Book and Author Luncheon on the Annapolis campus, sponsored by the Caritas Society, will feature as speakers Dean Eva T. H. Brann, tutor Beate Ruhm von Oppen, and Annapolis native Mame Warren, at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 16, in Randall Hall. Ms. Brann completed her comprehensive study of the imagination, The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance, for publication early this year; Ms. Ruhm von Oppen is editor and translator of Letters to Freya, 1939-1945, a prize-winning volume of letters to his wife from a martyred anti-Nazi resister; and Ms. Warren's book, ThenAgain .. Annapolis, 1900-1965, developed from an oral history project which eventually included, besides the book, a dramatic presentation and exhibition drawn from photographs and stories of Annapolis life. Ms. Brann' s book about the imagination, published by Rowman and Littlefield, has already been hailed by scholars, with one calling it "a monumental contribution." She began work on the book a dozen years ago, prompted by the puzzling omission in philosophical literature of discussion about the imagination, by new discoveries in cognitive psychology, and by a lifelong interest in literature and the substance of dreams. She devoted the years 19841988 almost wholly to the project and signed a contract with her academic-commercial publisher in 1989. The ambitious volume that resulted is a synthesis of the major theories about the imagination. It is accessible to the general reader as well as the researcher or teacher. Ms. Brann, a tutor at the college since 1957, was named dean last spring. A graduate of Brooklyn College, she received her PhD from Yale University, and subsequently took part in the Agora excavations in Athens. She was an instructor in archeology at Stanford and amember of theinstitutefor Advanced Study at Princeton before coming to Annapolis. She is the author_of a number of journal articles as well as two other books. Issued first in German, and awarded in Germany the prestigious Scholl Prize, Ms. von Oppen's translation of anti-Nazi resister Helmuth James von Moltke' s letters were published to widespread critical acclaim last spring by Alfred A. Knopf. The book's appearance coincided with growing American interest in the little-known tale of heroic resistance to the Nazis by German patriots who hoped to remove Hitler (Continued on page 10) isn't really thought out what >bis and what goes into doing ;omes up with three precepts. 1 let any communication go ~ wants to talk to me, wants rre to write, I do it as soon as y. ft everyone should have their 1thing wise or unwise to say it. tt very necessary to have ~e college ought to be. That Ind everything, especially so s to say no, you can say 'This Mame Warren Eva Brann Beate Ruhm von Oppen �THE REPORTER PAGES SF offers summer sessions Santa Fe is launching its first non-degree summer program this June. A series of three, sequential, week-long programs of seminars, the project is being spearheaded cooperatively by President John Agresto and Arthur Frommer, noted travel writer and member of the Board of Visitors and Governors. Mr. Frommer recently detailed the summer program in his syndicated column, which is reprinted here. Stretching your mind on sum- mer vacation By ARTHUR FROl\1JvIBR Plato? On a trip to the country? Heidegger, Dante and Homer, on a light-hearted holiday? Friedrich Nietzsche, that gloomy German misanthrope, in July and August? If you've ever looked on summer as a: time for the most trivial cultural pursuitsand don't we all feel that way?-you are in for a major travel surprise. For in the warmest of months, when most vacationers turn to the dumbest of movies and lightest of reading, two distinguished colleges are betting that a profound study of difficult texts will draw hundreds of adult Americans to their respective campuses. The colleges are St. John's ("The Great Books School") in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Colby College, in Waterville, Maine. And what they are offering speaks volumes about the rejection of trivial forms of vacation learning by more and more Americans. Throughout the country in the summertime, a growing industry of adult "learning vacations" has excited the interest of many; but the "learning" in question must often be taken with a grain of salt. Based on the belief that nothing really serious can be studied in the summer, the sponsors of these residential sessions quite typically offer workshops on Congress and lectures on family relations; their seminars deal with nutrition, basket weaving, and preserving the national parks. You attend classes with011t a.dv :anc;e r1eadlin!! and generally go into no greater sufficient vacation lure for a great many vital people. Sensing a lack, St. John's for the first time, and Colby in an expanded version of an earlier program, will be teaching the "Great Books" to adults from around the nation, for one, two or three weeks in the coming summer. St. John's: Perched on a mountainside overlooking a stunning view of Santa Fe, New Mexico-all adobe and earth colorsSt. John's is, together with its sister school in Annapolis, Maryland, a proud and defiant guardian of the Western cultural tradition. Its undergraduate curriculum is largely based on the required study of 100-someodd acknowledged classics over a four-year span, chronologically, beginning with Homer's/Ziad at thedawnofwrittenhistory, and continuing just barely to the 20th century through readings of Heidegger, Einstein and Freud in the senior year. On the way, students learn Greek and Euclidean geometry, attend solemn lectures in philosophy and aesthetics, and argue their conclusions in small, weekly "seminars," each led by two of the college's famed "tutors"who perform a role similar to that of the dons of Oxford and Cambridge. It is these awesome seminars, two hours apiece, six days a week, and each attended by no more than eighteen persons assisted by two "tutors," that St. John's will re-create for adult vacationers in the summer of 1991, in numerous multiples. Each one-week seminar will deal with a single, acknowledged masterpiece of thought-a "Great Book" carefully read and exhaustively discussed. And visitors will attend (and live at St. John's), as they choose, for either one, two, or three weeks, thus reading one, two or three "Great Books." Although the books have been chosen and tentatively scheduled, that schedule(Continued on page 10) MARCH 1991 Computers in the liberal arts highlight SF alumni program By BEN GALISON In an intensive week-long symposium June 14-20, a handful of alumni will be able to join faculty to address-for the first time on either campus-issues surrounding the use of computing technology in the liberal arts. "The Computer and the Liberal Arts," a program of traditional preceptorials, seminars, and laboratory workshops, will be coled by tutor emeritus Thomas Simpson (A'SO) and Santa Fe tutor Ralph Swentzell, both of whom have extensive backgrounds in computer science. Mr. Swentzell has in recent years developed language translation software-a tremendous time-saver-to allow the recognition and lexicon lookup of ancient Greek and Chinese writings that have been optically scanned into a computer. Originally proposed last year by Mr. Simpson and Sam Kutler (A'54), also an Annapolis tutor, the program is designed to allow alumni to apply their experience with and inquiry into the books of the curriculum to the thoughtful exploration of some aspects of the modem world. "It seems appropriate that our alumni would begin, as a group, to attempt to formulate the questions and begin discussions that get to the roots of what these machines are doing to and for our lives," says Mr. Simpson Joan Iverson, Director of Alumni Activities in Santa Fe, is coordinating the program. The theme is deliberately open to a wide range of interpretations, she says. Among the many considerations, she adds, are the questions of what constitutes artificial intelligence, or thinking on the part of a machine, as well as the effects of the machines' use in the practice of the liberal arts. Seminar readings will include The Emperor's New Mind, by Roger Penrose, Discourse on Mind by Descartes, and Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing. Hands-on workshops, with one terminal for each pair of participants, will meet each day to discuss a particular computer program presented _by a participant. Computer facilities are being organized by Hans VonBriesen, Santa Fe tutor and Director of Laboratories, who has advanced the use of computers on campus, most notably with the Millikan experiment in the senior lab. A $1500 gift from an anonymous donor will help to fund the symposium, but participants will have to pay a lab fee. Direct experience with computers is not required. However, because the computer program is so intensive, participants are being urged not to register for any of the other precepts and seminars offered during that week. Other activities during the two-week summer program for alumni will include preceptorials and seminars each week on Nietzsche, Plato, Marx, and Nicholas of Cusa, among others. Field trips are also being planned, and tickets will be available for the Santa Fe Opera. The first week's performance will be Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West;" the second, Strauss' "Die Schweigsame Frau." The classes of '76 and '81 are both planning reunion events. To make suggestiorus or offer help, contact Rick Lightbum ('76) at (312) 667-0068 or Lisa Lashley ('81) at (505) 988-1629. Alumni will soon be receiving brochures with complete information. schools or an honors course. That form of summer " which leaves the intellect unaltered, is no longer a Santa Fe's musician-in-residence Peter Pesic has played-to staitia1n£roc>m--orutv ClroV11n~.-rwo concerts this Vermont. On several occasions in recent years, Mr. Pesic has joined pianist Maya Hoffman and soprano Jeanne Grealish, respectively, in concert at the college. Peter Pesic was educated at Harvard and Stanford, where he studied piano with Naomi Sparrow. A tutor in Santa Fe since 1980 and musician-in-residence since 1984, he also holds a Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics. "Images of Semester at Sea," an exhibition of photographs from around the world by Michael Verbois and Paul Liebhardt of the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California, shown recently in the art gallery at the Santa Fe campus. The exhibition was co-sponsored by the Brooks Institute and Semester at Sea of the University of Pittsburgh and contains photographs of the Semester at Sea experience, in which students study aboard an ocean liner equipped as a floating university campus, traveling to 1O countries in 100 days. �THE REPORTER MARCH 1991 Over the past few years, the Alumni Association has taken em;ourag;mg alumni to form seminar groups cna.pters in their own cities and towns. Such cities as Baltimore, Minneapolis, Richmond, New Haven, Austin, Denver and Philadelphia have all been the sites of seminars andlre<~eptlOJlS that were sponsored and hosted by the Alumni It was decided the Alumni Association Board of Directors to commit resources and energy to encouragformation as part of an overall strategy to encourage the involvement of more alumni in the life of the College. What could be more to the point than to help alumni in various cities across the country to meet, socialize and hold seminars, renewing their affiliation with the College in the context of their present lives? Both campus alumni offices support this program, with the participation of alumni board members and faculty from both campuses. Receptions and seminars are planned by the chapters committee, launched by J onathanZavin, A' 68, and currently chaired by Barbara Lauer, SF '76. Sites for city receptions have been selected on the basis either of the numbers, or because there is already an informal but active alumni group. A location is arranged for the reception, usually at a local hotel; a host from the Alumni Board volunteers, a tutor is asked to lead the seminar, and invitations are sent. Alumni Board hosts are usually directors who have had experience leading their own chapters and can offer valuable advice to the alumni present about getting their own chapters started. One of the two alumni directors also attends since the alumni offices will continue to work with the chapters on their programs over the long term. Connecticut alumni were invited to attend a seminar and reception in downtown New Haven last April at the Quinnipiack Club. After the reception and social hour, tutor Nicholas Maistrellis led the seminar on Kant's "Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View." Former New York chapter president and current vice president of the Alumni Association Jonathan Zavin hosted the event, with assistance from alumni board member Thomas Geyer. The following weekend, Minneapolis alumni gathered at the Nicollet Island Inn for a seminar on Peak's "Chronicles" with tutor David Levine, A '67. Chris Nelson, treasurer of the Alumni Association, SF'70, was the Alumni Association's host. Mr. Nelson had worked with the Chicago chapter for a number of years on seminar programs. The event could certainly not have happened without the valuable assistance of Michael Woolsey, Sue Ferron and Glenda Eoyang. The group meets regularly and is planning to apply for a charter in the near future. The two chapter events held this fall were in Austin, Texas, and Richmond, Virginia. In both places, there had been some seminar events over the last few years, so the alumni board felt that it should encourage what had already begun. In Austin, Beverly Angel, SGI '89, worked with Santa Fe alumni director Joan Iverson to help arrange the reception and seminar at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Alumni discussed · Euripides' "Iphegenia at Aulis," under the guidance of tutor Tim Miller. The reception was hosted by Alumni Association President Harvey Goldstein, A'59, and Mary Goldstein A'58, who is also a director on the alumni board. Last November, the historic Linden Row Hotel was the location of a seminar for Richmond area alumni on Henry James' "The in the " led by tutor Malcolm The Alumni Association was assisted in its arrangeMaya Hasegawa, A'69, with the help of Michael who has seminars before in RichAltlIIlllll ASSOClal:IOillllO:S[, .l.'\.J....,fi.J..4.1.Jl;:,J.UILll.U..U, SF'76, is a former rorP·<;?111P.nt treasurer of the association. The Austin has since charter. Richmond alumni are olallllJmg future seminar events as well. it does not take the Alumni Association alone to create a Alumni in the Buffalo/f oronto area have met for seminars off and on over the years and for a charter on their own, with the of Roberta Linda Stc:.bl er1 Editor PAGE9 Thomas Geyer A'68, Communications Committee Chair ············- ANNAPOLIS March 12: Luncheon March 23: Seminar series on "War, Policy, and Justice" April 6: Chapter dinner April 20: Continuing seminar series on "War, Policy, and Justice" May 10: Luncheon Alumni luncheons are held in the Private Dining Room, 12:00 noon, and guest speakers will be announced. Telephone Betsy Blume at the Alumni Office, (301) 263-2371 for more information. AUSTIN March 16: Seminar on Aristophanes' Lysistrata This just-chartered chapter meets informally on a monthly basis, at different members' homes. Contact Beverly Angel (512) 926-7808for schedule and details. BOSTON March 10: Tutor Robert Bart will lead a seminar on Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge" Meetings are held at the home of Alvin Aronson who can be contacted at (617) 566-6657 or437-3186 (wk) for further information on this, and future chapter events. BUFFALO/ROCHESTER/TORONTO April 13: Viewing of "Henry V" video in Rochester call Bob McDonough, (716) 244-9826 or 232-6500 (wk) for more information. Carnevale, SGI'87. So too has Philadelphia, under the leadership of Jim Schweidel. The chapters committee is considering future sites for receptions and will probably be at Portland this spring. Alumni chapters are an important part of alumni life, and a good opportunity for alumni to stay involved in the life of the College. Chartered chapter presidents become voting members of the alumni board. If we are ever to have an effective network of alumni who can assist the college with student recruitment and assist future alumni with job counseling or make contact in a local area, chapters are crucial. Most of all, however, the chapter events, the seminars, and the opportunity to meet and get to know St Johnnies of both campuses and all generations is the best thing about new chapters and about participating in the chapters that are already established. This recently official chapter welcomes the participation of all alumni in its wide-ranging locale. Call Roberta Carnevale for details and suggestions. CHICAGO March 16: Seminar on Midsummer Night's Dream to be led by Annapolis tutor Gisela Berns and then performance of the same at the Goodman Theater. April 7: A meeting about long-range planning with representatives from the College. May: Event to be announced June 23: Seminar with Laura McClure, alumna of the Graduate Institute, on Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, followed by the annual Chapter Meeting elections. Group rate tickets may be available for the perjormance. Call Paul Frank at (312) 235-0614 or 464-2573 (wk), or RickLightbum at667-0068 or861-0200 (wk), or Rachel Majeske 2814582 or 3374105 (wk) about any of the chapter activities and locations of meetings. DALLAS/FORT WORTH This Chapter meets about 10 times a year for Saturday evening seminars. For additional information contact Suzanne Doremus at (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis at (214) 340-4102. LOS ANGELES This chapter is reorganizing, and suggestions or questions are welcome. Call Caroline Allen (213) 392-5253 to contribute. (Continued on page 10) Workshops scheduled If you are interested in learning more about chapter development, what chapters do, or how to form a chapter or alumni group, please plan to attend the St. John's College Alumni Association Chapter Workshop July 20 and 21 in Santa Fe. The workshop will cover nuts and bolts issues like what the College and the Association can do for chapters, what chapters can do for the College, and how to keep interest in an alumni group alive. The workshop is designed to assist not only existing chapters, but also alumni interested informing a chapter of the alumni association or an informal alumni group. All are welcome to attend. For further information, contact Joan Iverson, Director of Alumni Activities, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM 87501; (505) 982-3691. These four organizers gathered in November for the Richmond Chapter Development Reception at the Linden Row Hotel. From left: Rick Lightbum, SF'76, Association Board host; Maya Hasegawa, A'69; Annapolis tutor Malcolm Wyatt; and Michael Gold, A'61. �PAGE10 Jonathan Skinner (Continued from page one) and literature at Oxford to complement his long-standing interest in creative writing and poetry. He has already published his poems in several local and national journals, and he was involved in bilingual radio broadcasts of regional poetry in Mexico. Skinner has also taken a leadership role in the active student concern on campus over the Persian Gulf war. A native Santa Fean and the son of Santa Fe tutor Elliott Skinner and Linda Hibbs, Skinner is the first New Mexican to receive the Rhodes Scholarship since 1986 and one of only four from the Southwestern region of the United States this year. Of the two finalists chosen from ten candidates by the Albuquerque panel of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, only Skinner was selected for the award. While Skinner is Santa Fe's first Rhodes Scholar, Annapolis has produced a total of four Rhodes Scholars in past years. Two of these, Nancy Coiner ('75) and Stephen Terry (' 48), received the award after the New Program was adopted in 1937. Coiner was among the first group of women ever to receive Rhodes Scholarships-only men had been eligible for the award prior to that year. Despite feeling unqualified for the scholarship and discouraged by the large number of applicants, Skinner decided to apply for the Rhodes-and several other fellowships-because, he says, "I didn't want to spend a year just hanging around and wondering what to do with my life after St. John's. Just applying for the Rhodes was a way to propel myself forward toward what I want to do." He credits his family, friends, and tutors for the support and encouragement he received. Skinner is a strong supporter of the St. John's curriculum. He also stresses the importance of "tuning in" to the contemporary world and thinks that what students do with their time outside of the college is vital. "Worldliness," he maintains, "you have to pursue on your own. Time away from St. John's, during the summer or a year off, can be valuable for catching up with the world and becoming more aware of current affairs-it's a time to apply what we've learned here to the world beyond" During a year off, Skinner studied writing and literature in Boulder at the Naropa Institute and at the University of Colorado, andhe studied Spanish in Mexico for several months. Cecil Rhodes established the Scholarship Trust in his 1902 will for "talented young [people] who should esteem the performance of public duties as their chief aim." Qualities sought in candidates include demonstrated leadership abilities, moral strength of character, proven intellectual excellence, concern and respect for others, and athletic prowess. Still, the Rhodes doesn't make life easy overnight. There is, Skinner says, a "certain mystique" about the scholarship that can lead to dashed hopes and expectations when the scholars come home to the reality of finding a job. Even though his next two years are secure, Skinner is already thinking about life beyond Oxford. Among the options he is considering is teaching, most likely in the area of creative writing. He notes, though, that "there is a tension between creativity and scholarship, so you have to balance teaching with your own interests carefully." As an advocate of physical fitness and especially "pedal power," Skinner enjoys bicycling on the streets and in the mountains of the area. He wishes people would drive less and exercise more. Ultimately, after his European journeys, he would like to return to his home. "Northern New Mexico," he says, is "in my bones." Jonathan Skinner is unassuming and gracious about being a Rhodes Scholar, but he THE REPORTER is full of enthusiasm and passion about the opportunities within reach of St. John's graduates. "There is a lot of money available out there for different things," he says, "you just have to do some work to get it. The payoffs are definitely worth the work you have to do." (Continued from page Raised in Dallas, Texas, Mr. Maciver was a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy for two years in the early 1960's, served four years in the Navy, and then completed his bachelor's and juris doctor degrees at the University of Texas. When he resigned his position last year at the El Paso Natural Gas Company, a major interstate gas pipeline company serving the southwest and western United States, he was senior vice president, general counsel, cotporate secretary, and member of the board of directors. He was responsible for the legal and public affairs of the company, including its federal, state, and local governmental relations, its political action committees, and its corporate and philanthropic foundation gift-giving programs. Mr. Maclver has served on a number of civic and charitable boards in Texas and on the state and national committees and boards of various law and energy organizations. The search committee is expected to make a recommendation at the Board meeting April 19-20. Frommer (Continued from page eight) but not the books-may change. Provisionally, in Week One (June 30 to July 6), participants will opt for a six-day seminar either in Homer's Odyssey or in the existentialist philosophy of Martin Heidegger. In Week Two (July 6 t9 July 13), participants will choose one of two parallel seminars, either in three dialogues of Plato (the Euthyphro, Apology and Crito) or a work of Nietzsche ("The Birth of Tragedy"). In Week Three (July 13 - July 20), participants will again choose between two seminars: one reading and discussing several plays of Shakespeare, the other studying Dante's Inferno. The class on Shakespeare will be enhanced by evening, outdoor, campus performances of several Shakespearean dramas by Santa Fe's semi-professional "Shakespeare in the Park" company, performing the entire time of the summer seminars. The price? Quite remarkable: $899 for one week, $1699 for two weeks, $2399 for three weeks, all-inclusive except for your transportation to and from Santa Fe. Thus, in addition to attending the daily seminars led by two tutors apiece, participants will be housed in student residences on the campus of St. John's, and receive all three meals daily in the student dining hall. Festive arrival and farewell receptions are also included in the charge. Seminars will meet daily for two hours apiece. All other times, participants will either read, sun-bathe, hike or relax, or go touring in the environs of Santa Fe and beyond, which are surely among the great attractions of America: Chimayo, Taos, Los Alamos, Bandelier National Monument, Indian reservations, and the in-city art galleries, museums, shops and historic structures of Santa Fe itself. The weeks of one's stay need not be consecutive or in order; and participants may choose any week or weeks of the three-week schedule. Last summer in Santa Fe, I attended a one-week "test-run" of these vacation seminars, reading and discussing Thucydides• The Peloponnesian War in the course of a seven-day stay. Grouped with fourteen other "students" of all ages (most in their 40s and 50s) around a long table, at one end of which sat the president of St. John's, and his fellow "tutor"-an impressive Greek scholar-at the other end, we pondered and discussed, argued and agonized over, issues relating to the very basis of civil society, as prompted by the tumultuous conflict between Athens and Sparta. It was a remarkable intellectual experience that continues to resound in memory, and yet the week was exhilarating and happy, as we each day emerged from Greece of the fifth century B.C. into the southwestern sunlight, and roamed the mountain scenery of New Mexico by car. Surely we were the first auto-load in history to argue "the Melian dialogue" of Thucydides' classic history on the highway outside Albuquerque! Obviously, as a former summer student at St. John's, who has other associations with the college, I am not the most impartial party. With that declaration of interest, let me say that this is a remarkable vacation opportunity for intellectually-curious people. St. John's catalogue for its summer seminars will be ready by the end of February. To assure your copy, write now to: Summer Seminars, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM 87501-4599. Book and Author Luncheon (Continued from page seven) and share in rebuilding postwar Germany. Von Moltke, educated as a lawyer in England and Germany, and a committed antiN azis from the beginning, became legal adviser to the German intelligence service and the High Command and did what he could to save Jews and other victims. Apprehended and imprisoned, he wrote a series of moving letters to his wife about his ideals and his religious convictions. In 1945, he was executed. Ms. von Oppen, born in Switzerland, educated in Germany, the Netherlands, and Great Britain, and a tutor at St. John's College since 1961, first learned about the Moltke letters while she was researching the connection between religion and Nazism as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1968-1971. The curator of photographs at the Maryland State Archives and a native Annapolitan, Mame Warren was director of "The Annapolis I Remember" oral history project, sponsored by the Maryland Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Participants first gathered oral histories and photographs depicting life in Annapolis during the first part of the century in order to present a dramatization and a traveling exhibit of those times. Last fall the completed exhibit was visible for six weeks in the FSK lobby and the dramatization was given five performances before highly appreciative audiences. A sixth performance is scheduled in FSK for 3 p.m. March 17. The book, published by Time Exposures Limited of Annapolis, gradually evolved as sponsors realized that the old photographs and absorbing interviews deserved a more permanent record The volume suggests that Annapolis began to change from sleepy town to tourist mecca in about 1960, and it documents not only the earlier city, but also the first efforts to preserve the town's colonial heritage, its expansion beyond old boundaries, the beginnings of its yachting industry, and the first thrusts towards integration. Mame Warren, the daughter of noted photographer Marion Warren, is the author of four other books. Tickets are $15 each. Reservations may be made by calling Trudi Barris, 301-2636081, or mailing a check to her at 705-22 Americana Drive, Annapolis, MD 21403, before the Tuesday, March 12, deadline. The Caritas Society provides support to students with financial emergencies and promotes friendship between town and gown. MARCH 1991 (Continuedfrompage nine) MINNEAPOLIS/ST.PAUL 12: Seminar on Melville's Moby Dick This 'unofficial' chapter is organizing events and would like your suggestions. Telephone Bruce Lansky (612) 473-5400 to contribute your ideas. NEW YORK March 20: Seminar with Santa Fe Dean James Carey on Dostoyevsky's Notes From the Underground. Plans are being formulated for a spring picnic-call for details and suggestions. Call Sabine Schweidt (212) 645-8903 or 679-6118 (wk) for more information. PHILADELPHIA Planning for future events will be discussed at an April meeting. To participate and for further information contact Jim Schweidel at (215) 836-7632. SACRAMENTO Meetings are every month in this 'unofficial' chapter to discuss pro gram readings, following the undergraduate sequence. Inquiries are most welcome; phone Arianne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen Feeley 452-1082. SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA March 10: Seminar on Lafcadio' s Adventures by Andre Gide, hosted by Marlene Strong. April 14: Seminar on Temple of the Golden Pavillion by Yukio Mishima, hosted by Miyoko Nishimoto. April 27: Annapolis tutor Nick Maistrellis will give a talk on biology or evolution. 12: Seminar in Borges' readings to be determined. Call Mark Middlebrook (415) 547-0602 for information and to contribute to the local newsletter. SANTA FE Graduate Institute alums have organized to study the undergraduate music tutorial, and meet once a week. Contact (ASAP as they are forging ahead) Dick Cowles (505) 986-1814 or Mary Schruben 473-7898 for Telephone John Pollack (505) 983-2144 or Joan Iverson, Alumni Office 982-3691 for future seminar/social meeting times and places. SEATTLE March 17: Seminar with Barbara Leonard, reading to be decided. Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 for more information about this and other events. WASHINGTON D.C. AREA March 2: Screening and seminar on the film "Blue Velvet" at the National Air and Space Museum March 6: e.e.cummings, selected poems March 20: Santa Fe tutor Bob Bart will lead a seminar on Italo Calvino' s "The Watcher" April 10: Anton Chekhov, "The Peasants" and "The Lady with the Pet Dog" Seminars meet at the West End Branch of the D.C. Public Library from 6:30-8:30 p.m. For further information call Sam Stiles (301) 424-9119, or Sharon Garvey (304) 535-2655. Another alumni reading group has also been started, meeting every Thursday at 7:00 p.m. and reading essays from "The Foucault Reader" to be followed by "Of Grammatology" by Derrida. Call Susan Gushue (202) 526-1632 or John Church 832-5851 for details. �THE REPORTER MARCH 1991 The Rev. J. Winfree Smith Winfree Smith (Continuedfrompage one) 1947, he served as assistant dean at the College, and in 1973, as Acting Dean. He was regarded as the last survivor not only of the Barr-Buchanan era, but also of the first group of American and European scholars attracted to the College by the founders' intellectual vision and energy. He was acknowledged as the most versatile of the Annapolis tutors, teaching across the demanding curriculum-seminar, language, mathematics and laboratory. A favorite of students as well, he was invited by graduating seniors on a several occasions to deliver the commencement address, and his celebrated mint julep party for seniors was always a highlight of the commencement week. Before his death, he was selected to be the recipient of the Sears award, given for teaching excellence. That honor will be awarded posthumously. Upon his retirement in 1984, Mr. Smith accepted a position for two years on the visiting faculty at Thomas Aquinas College in California. Back in Annapolis, he resumed teaching at the College on a part time basis both in the undergraduate and Graduate Institute programs, and remained in continuing demand for alumni and community seminars. Born in Ashland, Virginia, Mr. Smith received his bachelor's and master's degrees in history from the University of Virginia, before receiving a second master's degree in divinity at the Episcopal Seminary in Alexandria in 1938. He then served for several years as rector of a small parish in Ivy, Va., near Charlottesville, at the same time completing work on his doctorate in philosophy at Virginia. While he was never again a fulltime cleric, he joined the staff of St. Anne's Episcopal Church when he came to Annapolis, and for many years celebrated eucharist at early weekday services, as well as leading occasional Sunday services. He was one of the most effective of the links between College and community. He is survived by his brother, Archie Lee Smith of Denver, his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lauck of Annapolis, two nephews and a niece. Winfree Smith: aftermath Late tutor honored with Sears award W. Smith memories to be collected A few days before his death in January, the Rev. Winfree Smith was chosen unanimously by the Instruction Committee on the Annapolis campus to receive the Sears-Roebuck Foundation 1990-91 Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award After his death, this designation became a posthumous award in recognition of his long and distinguished service to the College. Each winning faculty member receives $1,000. The award for Mr. Smith will be presented to his family, repre8ented by Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lauck, at a luncheon ceremony this spring. The College will receive an additional institutional grant, which will be used to fund a lecture and workshop for the Nietzsche study group being led by tutor Benjamin Milner. The College was invited to in the award program in early January. In announcing the award, interim president Donald J. Maciver remarked that at St. John's, "our primary emphasis is on quality teaching with the student as our central focus. We are especially pleased that The Sears-Roe- In addition to the memorial service April 20, further commemoration of the late much-loved tutor Winfree Smith is planned, according to Brother Robert Smith and Douglas Allanbrook, tutors emeriti. Because there is a whole body of Winfree Smith lore out there, the two men are inviting alumni, colleagues and other friends to send them their recollections. A committee will be set up to compile and sort this material for wider distribution in a publication expected also to include some of Winfree Smith's writing. Anyone in possession of little-known writing by Mr. Smith is strongly urged to send this, too. Direct all contributions to the two tutors at the College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. Homecoming Weekend in September will be dedicated to Winfree Smith and will include seminars on his written work. buck Foundation has maintained its longstanding partnership with independent higher education by continuing this teacher recognition program." PAGE 11 OBITUARIES Paul H. White: Army officer, architect Paul H. White, A '18, 92, a retired Army officer and architect who served in both World Wars, died recently at his home in Towson, Maryland, of complications following surgery. He served in the Coast Artillery during the last year of World War I, and during World War II, in the Corps of Engineers in England, France, Belgium, and Germany. After the second war, he helped the State Department dispose of surplus property in Greenland, Newfoundland and Labrador. Between the wars, he studied drafting at the old Maryland Institute and was a teach- ing assistant there ,,before beginning the study of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1924. He worked in architectural offices in Washington and Baltimore until 1935, when he became assistant to the executive director of the American Institute of Architects_in Washington. Born in Roanoke, VA, he was raised in Baltimore and attended City College before emolling in.Sr.Jolin's. He is survived by his wife, the former Pauline Louise Saublens, four nephews and two nieces. Edward W. Heam: United Way official EdwardW.Heam, 73,A'39,aresidentof Ellicott City, MD, died in September of cancer. Born in Baltimore, he emolled in the Army after graduation from St. John's and served in the infantry in North Africa and Italy during World War II. After the war he was aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Charles Saltzman, and later to Gen. Mark Clark on occupation duty in Austria. He served in the Army reserves until 1970, when he retired with the title of lieutenant colonel. From 1967 until retirement in 1982, Mr. Heam worked as assistant campaign director for the United Way. Earlier, he had worked as an account executive with a series of radio stations. Active in the Christ Lutheran Church, he was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a member of the Association of the U.S. Army, and the Retired Officers Association. Mr. Hearns is survived by his wife, the former Eunice Schneider, and a brother, Emmett E. Heam of Los Altos, CA. Commentary 4. Dialogue vs.Dialectic. The tradition of the West has no line of progress-orregress - with respect to the imagination, that crux and interface between two worlds. The tradition is an unconcluded, open conversation rather than a dialectical development; the imagination is its continuing "missing mystery." Our tradition is latently imaginocentric rather than logocentric. As the book is neither quite a work of research nor of reflection, and as its subject is all disciplines and none, so its theses are at once quite unremarkable and - so I believe - immensely grave. My candidly stated effort was what I call "sober romanticism," aredemptionoftheimaginationfrom rationalistic explosion and romantic implosion. I did it by trying always to salvage the obvious, what the trade calls "folk psycho!- . ogy ,"the opinions of normal human beings who are neither intellectuals nor boors. Can a book that so falls between the stools carry its weight in influence? Can a passionately moderate, an elaborately naive approach that's what I mean by a sheep in wolfs clothing - carry its weight in influence? What are the chances that a book so recalcitrantly classical, so determinedly not a trend-setter might be a trend-fighter? Slim. Yet one more fault. The reader of a book whose stated theme is the visual imagination may be irritated at being allowed to be a viewer on only one, inglorious, occasion: In the chapter on mental imagery in cognitive psychology, some laboratory experiments are illustrated by five mean little line drawings (the last of which bears a fortuitous and unredeeming resemblance to Jasha Klein). Though one of the preoccupations of the book is the ''version" of pictures into words (and its reversal), and the book was, in my mind, something like a vast exercise in the art of visualization, readers might nonetheless fmd the absence of illustrations perverse. Lastly: There is a sure way to tell the connoisseurs of non-fiction. They read the Index first There they learn right away who and what inhabits the book. They can tell an author-made index from a computer-generated one as they can tell a mailing list from an honor roll. This index, you will see, was a labor of love. It contains over half a thousand very business-like entries, but you may also fmd ''Unicom," "Mysteries and enigmas," "World, alternative,""Places, Edenic," and "Imagining, open-eyed." The Index is alright (Continued from page seven) indignation. My bias was especially against two kinds of writers, the analytically rational and the allusively romantic, and my fault was to repel the arguments of the former through a rather loose form of sweet reasonableness while subjecting the latter to the very stringencies their anti-rationalism means to escape. The Germans have a word, Treppenwitz, "stair-wit." It betokens the mot juste that comes to mind on the way home. I meant to make my leanings clear, in the Preface, Introduction, Conclusion, and Coda as well as within the six parts I tried to be explicit But I am haunted by formulations I thought of too late and oppressed by the obscurities that came from sheer cowardice. Thus, in the middle of the book I ended the part on the being and logic of images with an untranslated stanza from Canto XVII of the Purgatorio. Iremedy that obfuscation of my intention here: 0, Imaginative power! ... Who moves you when sense presents nothing to you? A light moves you, that takes its shape in heaven, By itself, or by the will that sends it downward. I meant to convey that there is a mystery about the origin of the images of the imagination, which makes a supernal source as thinkable as any other. Let me, furthermore, take this occasion to collect some of the themes and theses of the book in a heap. Both, the formulation of the issues and the choice of sides run headlong counter to most contemporary opinion. l. Moments of Being vs. Dailyness. The imaginative tradition of the West thrives on a pervasive distinction between the festivities of the spirit and the ordinary tenor of existence, the imagination being the natural source of scenarios for each separately and both in their relation. 2. Nonexistence vs. Existence. The thesis of the actuality of the imaginative world requires the acknowledged specific potency of nonexistents, that is to say, of things neither here and now nor there and then. 3. Words' vs. Visions. The same thesis requires the acknowledgment of anirreduciable distinction between non-spatial thought and visual imagination, between temporal words and spatial images, and also of the unresolvable mystery of inner, imaginative space. Of course, it posits the existence of mental imagery. �PAGE12 THE REPORTER St. John's College continues to benefit from alumni participation in its fundraising efforts. By mid-February, alumni from both campuses had responded to the 1990-91 Annual Fund solicitation with gifts, both large and small, to the total of $270,785. This represents 83% of the $325,000 goal for gifts from alumni, and 27% of the total go~l of $1.2 million from all sources in support of the operating budget. Of primary significance is what the gifts allow the College to accomplish, according to Christopher ·B. Nelson, SF '70, national chairman of the Annual Fund campaign. Income from tuition and endowment does not cover the actual costs of operating the College each year; the Annual Fund helps to underwrite the costs of scholarship aid, tutor salaries, programs, equipment, books and maintenance, among other categories. Expressing the hope that alumni gifts will surpass the goal this year as they did last, Mr.Nels on commented, "The alumni giving record for the academic year 1989-90 is a strong reflection of the strength of alumni support for what the school did for us when we were students." In addition to helping with the operating budget, gifts from alumni enhance St. John's ability to attract philanthropic support from other sources, he said. See page 2 for those alumni who gave their time and energy to participate in regional phonathons this year. i G> :s er ! c --- ---- i 0 ...0 u 0 0 ,,,,<C! A member of the Board of Visitors and Governors has anonymously made a challenge donation of $400,000 to the Santa Fe campus, President John Agresto announced at the January Board meeting in Santa Fe. All the money will be used in of tutor salaries. While there is no time on the Santa Fe's-adc;;-~vancement team is bound to raise an equal amount on its own within a "reasonable period," he said. Anexhibitionof75 drawings and a selecMr. Agresto added that while the money tion of woodblock prints by master Japanese could be raised from many different sources, printmaker Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797the donor had hoped that most would come 1861)-the most comprehensive collection from other board members. of the artist's drawings in the United "Naturally, we are extremely grateful, States-will be exhibited at the Elizabeth and we talce this as a very positive indication Myers Mitchell Art Gallery from April 4 of the Board's commitment to the College, through May 1, 1991. especially as proceedings for the capital Hailed as the foremost color-print artist campaign get under way," Mr. Agresto said. of the day, his "Drawing-s-by Utagawa He emphasized, however, that the donor - - Ki.iniyoshi: Sketches for Japanese Prints" hoped that all Board donations in response has been gathered from the vast holdings of to this challenge would be over and above the Rijkmuseum voor Volkenkude (Naannual gifts and not be looked upon as part tional Museum of Ethnology), Leiden, the of the upcoming capital campaign. "Indeed, Netherlands. this will put us in an even stronger position The exhibition was organized and seto begin the campaign," Mr. Agresto said. lected by Rijkmuseum curator of Japanese Board sets tuition, fees for 1991-1992 The Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College in January approved an undergraduate tuition of $14,262, room fee of $2,140, and board fee of $2,556 for the 1991-92 school year. Graduate Institute tuition was set at $2,745 per semester, effective this summer. President Donald Maclver advised the Board that its action was necessary desph:e the Annapolis campus' goal of reducing its non-payroll costs for next year to 90 percent of current levels. He said that the Maryland __ state government fmds itself in a deepening deficit and had cut its current year contributions to private colleges by 10 percent. He advised that even deeper cuts in state funds for the Annapolis campus were expected next year. The Board observed that, despite the new charges, the cost of attending St. John's College next year will still be significantly below the cost of attending many other private liberal colleges. art Matthi Forrer and is traveling in this country under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) through December 1991. UtagawaKuniyoshi was borninEdo, the present-day Tokyo, in 1797. His father, a cloth dryer by trade, taught him as a young boy to apply designs and colorings. At 13, he entered the atelier ofUtagawa Y oyokuni. -- - MARCH 1 After a short apprenticeship there, he was given the artist's name UtagawaKuniyoshi. In the beginning he concentrated on historical themes from the 1820's on, two of which dominate Japanese prints: actors of the popular Kabuki theatre and women. Later, landscapes would be added and depictions of Japanese heroes, his specialty. His prints would form the basis for historical subjects. Critics attributed his success to the dramatic power of his composition. Kuniyoshi preferred to draw women from the past, but also depicted contemporary women in their daily occupations. A cat lover, he incm:porated them into his caricatures, dressing them in human guise to demonstrate the absurdity of situations and pastimes. He himself led a sober life and loathed ostentation. In spite of his accomplishments, he was unfamiliar with the school of Japanese printmalcing known as "ukiyo-e," and because of this, the majority of his drawings have entered Western public and private collections, rather than being preserved in Japan. --~- ~ The College has the opportunity to receive $50,000 in funds to the Annual Fund this year if it receives gifts of at least $1,000 from 350 alumni, parents, and friends from both campuses. Last year the College received gifts of that size from 202 people; this year 55 new donors at that level have responded to the challenge. Gifts may be pledged and can be paid in installments by June 30 to qualify for the matching. For more information, please contact the Advancement Office at either campus. College guide: Johnnies have "edge in life" The National Review College Guide to America's Top 50 Liberal Arts Schools, a highly selective new guide, has this to say about us: "St. John's graduates come away with a B.A. in Liberal Arts, and the ability to think. The latter, more than any diploma from even the most prestigious university and more than any specific lmowledge learned in four years, is what gives St. John's students an edge in life. St. John's students go to the best graduate schools, and are welcomed by America's top corporations, which recognize young men and women able to identify and analyze problems, and create and implement solutions." Featuring an introduction by William F. Buckley, Jr., the recently published guide lists only 50 of nearly 2000 four-year liberal arts colleges. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ~ nr1r1 1 1 1 1f The St. John's 1'H 11111111111111111 3 1696 01138 1686 More than 350 Santa Feans College in the afternoon chill November 10 for an outdoor ceremony to dedicate the new $2.9 million Faith and John Meem The building, completed on time and within is now owned by the Endowment fot the Humanities. Student President Maura (SF '91) stressed the value of the Meem Library as a for students. Vice-President center of for Advancement Jeffrey Morgan recogbe111etact1ors. includ- architect and College President Meem Wirth cut the ribbon across open the campus. Mrs. Wirth is th.e of the late Faith and John Meem and the wife of board member John Wirth. invitation to the dedication ceremony on the which was followed Ethics and Law Judges should apply laws, not legislate, says Bork By DONNA BOETIG In 1879 Connecticut was a Yankee state governed by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants. A product of their strait-laced rule was a law proclaiming sexual intercourse, even between married couples, immoral-unless there was a chance of procreation. In other words, the law banned contraception. "No one cared, obeyed, or enforced Connecticut's law. It wasn't a law but an out-of-date moral admonition that nobody needed. Were those that violated this immoral?" Judge Robert H. Bork asked a capacity audience of judges, lawyers, seminar leaders and guests in the FSK Auditorium in Annapolis on November l 0. The occasion was the fifth of the Great Issues Series, "Ethics and Law," and the Judge, a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court nominee, a circuit judge, lawyer, educator and bestselling was the "Of course not," the Judge to his own question. Connecticut's government felt that way, too, he No were law was to threaten birth control clinics that adverand under the accessory statute could Dr<)Secul:ed for aiding another in commuis1cm of a crime. Morality should set the standard by which (Continued on page 7) our campus, we have a and apto house the books that are at the heart of the St. John's educational mis" he said. The dedication also marked the College's 26th in Santa Fe. Werner Gundersheimer, director of the Folger Shakespeare in Washington, delivered the keynote address. Dr. Gundersheimer focused on the increasingly important role of library science in the face of electronic technology, as libraries change from "storehouses of books" to "multimedia centers for information storage and retrieval." Although his thrust was how very much alive libraries are today, he drew laughs from the crowd with humorous anecdotes about the college tradition of falling asleep in reading rooms over large tomes. Other speakers included Jerome LaPides, Chairman of the Board Library Construction Committee, and Thomas C. Phelps, Assistant tober 26 in what President a "booket the new '-''·'"''"'-uui:;., Kimball vv•._, ...... carts, and trucks as moved volumes in about six is volumes. Built in traditional New Mexico terof the rest of the campus, the houses all of the vollurr1es. including the '-'VlLl.'-''-'uu•u.:). which were different locations. Reading rooms arranged around a central skylit atrium provide space for study and classes. The hand-carved wooden beams which grace the ceilings are the work of local priest Ricardo Russ~ and the gift of builder Stan Davis. The 24,414-squarefoot building is remarkable in its ability to contain one-half of the 460 studentslibraries are generally designed for 10%15% of a given campus population. The Meem Library is located west of the Sternberger-Weis Fine Arts Building and south of the Peterson Student Center on what used to be a gravel parking lot. Con,JU.<:..CJ. (Continued on page 11) �1943 Dr. O.H. an ophthalmologist, has retired after a 37-year career, 32 of which were spent in Salisbury, running his one-man medical practice. In a long and affectionate interview in the Times of Salisbury, Dr. Thompson comments that at about the time he left St. John's, Johns Hopkins was starting to take a few liberal arts students from the College. He was graduated from the medical school there in 1946. 1947 In August Thaw was presented with an honorary doctorate of fine arts. the opening convocation Hartwick College in Oneota, New York. Said President Philip S. about the honoree, "He has earned recognition as the only art dealer who knows more about art than do academicians and the only student of art who knows more about the art business than do art dealers." Mr. Thaw was instrumental in the design of Hartwick' s new museum, which opened this fall. He has served as president of the Art Dealers Association and has been a consultant for many of the premier museums and art collectors of America. Additionally, Mr. Thaw has served as an expert witness for the government in landmark cases involving the valuation of art. 1957 In his new book Bouncing Back: How a Heroic Band of POWs Survived Vietnam, Geoffrey Norman tells readers what was like for a small group in the Vietnam war. A.c<:oramg Yark Times he uses mander Al as his point of reference. Cdr. Stafford was shot down a surface to air missile in 1967, survived, and joined more than 200 other American aviators in North Vietnamese prisons number was eventually over 500), where he remained until 1973. The author's conclusion about the prisoners was that their ingenuity in breaking their isolation off later, in that they did not seem to suffer from lingering emotional problems, surprisingly showed an increase in scores, and were even in quite good health. "The experience, grim as it had been, had not ruined these men." 1961 Perennials for American Gardens, by Nicolas Eckstrom and Ruth Rogers Clausen, published by Random House in 1989, a main selection of the Garden Book Club and an alternate selection of the Book-of-the-Month-Club and the Rodale Book Club, has already sold out its first printing of 45,000 copies, with 20,000 more now available. The book, one of 250 entries, has also won a Garden Writers Association of America 1990 Quill and Trowel Award, and has been much praised by gardening experts. Mr. Eckstrom is a landscape designer/consultant and a director of the Horticultural Society of New York, as well as an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden. Photographic portraits of exceptional people of courage and integrity taken by Mikhail Lemkhim from the Soviet Union and Jock McDonald of Canada, are expected to be shown in the Soviet Union in 1991 through the efforts of Harrison Sheppard, San Francisco lawyer and Nancy Osius, editor; Donna Boetig, assistant editor; Wye Allanbrook, Betsy Blume, John Christensen, Benjamin Milner, J. Winfree Smith, and Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. The Reporter is published by the News and Information Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. Donald J. Maciver, president. Published fourtimes a year, in March, June, September and December. Second-class postage paid at Annapolis, MD. USPS 018-750 artists' representative, who conceived of the project. Called Positive Negatives, the show originally opened on the western campus in 1989, and its powerful presentation of Soviet and American subjects brought it favmable attention in the Leningrad press. It is scheduled to open there in January, under sponsorship of a Russian photography organization. Sheppard was also recently instrumental in arranging a show in San Francisco for a highly talented and innovative Chinese painter, Chongbin Zheng, whose work combines elements of traditional Chinese art and abstract expressionism. When Sheppard met him, according to an article in the San Francisco Examiner, he was isolated and discouraged, but Sheppard's enthusiasm sparked other buyers, and within a few months, Zheng's prospects turned from "bleak to hopeful," and his career moves on apace. 1965 AHenna .1V1.J1.1.1~~au. Leonard writes that she received in Administration from U-MD in 1987 and went to Toronto to work with Stafford Beer in organizational cybernetics. Her most significant project, she writes, was to install a time information system for the new democratic government of President Julio Sanguinetti of Uruguay, who succeeded in his goal of handing his office over to a newly-elected civilian president when his term was over. Since then, Leonard has been doing consulting, workshop presentations on Beer's Viable Model and part-time at York and the 1n1''"'r'"h ofToronto. See SF '85 for news of daughter Tambra Ann. The photographs of Vivian were to be displayed in November at the Middendorf in Washington, D.C., as part of the exhibit "Socialites." 1 1971 In an emphatic opinion piece for the Sunday, August 26, New York Times, Elias charged that NASA, "the proud agency that once bore the nation's hopes in space, has outlived its usefulness." Calling it "an aged and faltering institution whose shortcomings have become embarrassingly evident to all but the most self-interested," the writer suggested that America's real space program is alive and well but is to be found in non-governmental space activities across the country, not in NASA. Our federal program needs the "same policy that has nurtured many other technologies from infancy to vigorous maturity .. experimentation over a broad front, followed by incremental change and sudden bursts of creativity"-a strategy, he said, that gave Americans the "everyday marvels" we take for granted. Mr. Elias is the author of Breakout into Space: Mission for a Generation. 1978 Sharon Sato Kusiak, daughter of Rita Bahus Sato and Mark Kusiak, celebrated her first birthday on her parents' second wedding anniversary, October 8. ("Yes, Mark and I did spend our first anniversary in a birthing room!") Rita recently resigned from her position as Assistant Director for Building Services at the University of Maryland to devote more time to the baby. Rita has also resumed teaching English as a second language at the local community college in Columbia, Maryland. 1979 Kate Kominars received her master's degree in counselor's education from 1969 1976 Dr. Carlton S. Severance, writes that he enjoyed the lengthy class of 1969 profile, and is sending an update. He is now living in the heart of Appalachia in Hyden, as the first and only veterinarian in Leslie County, "scrambling to meet the veterinary needs oflocal dogs, cats, horses, cattle, pigs, goats, and mules. I am happy to report that the horse from Cat Holler is doing well, but I am still concerned about the dog who lives up Hell-fer-Certain Creek." His wife Deanna is the director and CEO of the historic Frontier Nursing Service, which was established in the 1920's to provide nurse-midwife and other health care services to the region. Originally nurses had to ride horseback to the remote creeks and "hollers" where medical services were The "Big House" at nearby Wendover, original clinic and home of founder Mary Breckinridge, will soon have bed-and-breakfast facilities. Overnight stays can be arranged by calling Suzie Hudgins at 606-672-2317. "Plan to stay on a Monday evening and the ever-stimulating conversation at Sherry and Sharing, a weekly gathering of the FNS clan," writes Dr. Severance. Johnnies who are health care providers committed to excellence in rural health care are urged to submit resumes and salary requirements to Mrs. Severance at Frontier Nursing Service, Wendover, KY 41775. Others-alumni or students--who would like to take a break from whatever they are doing now and volunteer some time to the Service, typically six to 12 weeks, should conat the same address, he tact Suzie writes. "Come see us!" he concludes. Idell Kesselman, completed a master of counseling degree from Arizona State University and is now working both as an instructor in humanities and as director of counseling services. ("I am THE counselor," she reports.) Her paper "Grief and Loss: Issues for Abortion Counseling" has been published in the November issue of Omega, Journal of Death and Dying. 1985 "I am looking for Assistant Product Managers andProduct Managers with a few years of business management and marketing experience and/or an MBA in Marketing," writesCarla Tangora Meeske, Director of Marketing at Kenner Products.She received her MBA from Columbia in 1985. Heraddress is at Kenner Products, 1014 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio45205. Tambra Ann Leonard was graduated from Northeastern University Law School in Boston in and called to the Colorado Bar in October. She is a clerk this year for Justice Mary of the Colorado State Supreme Court. 1988 1975 Sheehan writes that she finally has her own office in Westwood, CA, for her private practice in long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She also works at a state hospital with psychotic prisoners ("I am on a female unit with patients whose crimes range from murder to loitering. It's enough to make a political activist of me; if we had a decent structure of health care for all citizens, most of these crimes would never have been committed.") This fall, she planned to give two lectures on loneliness and attachment theory. "There's never enough time--but somehow I still manage to re-read War and Peace every year. I also manage to keep up with good LA friends Gene A'75, and Ellen H~amlltcln, A who live nearby, have three cats, and are still great cooks. Bob A '75, and his wife/writing partner Noni White are around frequently as they make their way into the screenwriting jungle. And my best friend Nancy SF was just quoted on the front page of The New York Times, but I won't A'75, say why. No doubt Paul her good friend and an editor at The Times had something to do with it." was maid of honor, and bridesmaids included classmates Gina and Melania both currently living in northern California. Also attending was classmate Durstin Selfridge, now studying in Cambridge, MA. The couple will live in Chicago where Andrew is an attorney and Rachel is an editorial assistant for Encyclopedia Britannica. Temple University and was certified as an Addictions Counselor in December, 1988. She began the PhD program at Temple in Counseling Psychology in the fall. She would like to hear from other alumni who are therapists/counselors as well as from her friends. Her address is 913 Williams St., Bensalem, PA, 19020. September 15 New York Times. He was chosen King by the males of five tribal councils in an area where his family had ruled for two generations. One of 20 Nigerian kingdoms, Asaba has a population of about a million. The elder Edozien, a physician educated in Great Britain, came to the U.S. in 1967 as a visiting professor at MIT. He has been teaching at Chapel Hill since 1976. Now what does this bode for alumnus Edozien? 1981 Chike Edozien' s father Joseph Edozien, 65, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, will exchange his academic post for a crown. He was to become King of Asaba, a township in Nigeria, in October, according to the 1989 Istvan H'89, director of student activities at Santa Fe for 20 years until his retirement in 1989 when he was named an Honorary Alumnus, has just returned from Hungary, where his book The Long Road to Revolution, published in English by Pro Libertate Publishing in Santa Fe, will soon be published in Hungarian. The book recounts Fehervary 's student resistance work in Hungary under Soviet occupation, his escape to Vienna and his kidnapping there by Soviet police, and his eight years of imprisonment in his own country until the revolution of 1956 allowed him to escape again. 1982 Patricia Cook has been awarded an (Continued on page 14) �3 and Baltimore art with tours and discussions of exhibitions the College's own gallery. tours will include lectures docents, inclet1ende1nt of works of art, "'"~·~·~ discussion led Mr. Blistein. Prior to the students will be offered n r r.. ruii:> additional into and Thomas who will work with executive .... ,.....,,.t"''"'' of the gallery Donna Schueler. t<,x-ornc110 members are Dean Eva Brann, Vice President for Advancement and artist Gail The reorganization has allowed Mr. Blistein students at the Annapolis 1..a.1uut.1."' exi:::iern~noes in all forms of the arts. "The visual arts were part of the liberal "Mr. Blistein arts through the says. "My .,...,..,m,,r" establish that rel:atICmslup. This the Santa Fe campus introduced an eight-weeks visual arts sequence to their curriculum. Under Mr. Blistein's students back East will see original works of art on all-day excursions to Washington, D.C., Also available to the art students will be Mr. on his own sculptures in wax, or bronze in his studio on the second floor of Mellon Hall. Another role of Mr. Blistein's is to supervise the College's Continuing Education workshop program in the visual arts. Classes in painting, sculpture, i.+,,. £1 ....,.,,,,.... ,.,. and pottery are available through<)Ut school year to St. John's students free of as well as most of their ~n ..-.n1>.,.. members may also classes for a nominal fee. As a workshop ms,tructcff, Mr. Blistein combines discussion and analysis of masterpieces of visual arts with practice in sculpting. · While few students will avail themselexhibives of all the tions, and workshops, Mr. Blistein says, .,.,.,,,,.{-,..j(r,..,,,,, of some of the exJJeritences their four years here should sigmt1cantlv increase their of arts. 0 . .u •.., ....... Kc~seil1b<mrn says his work has begun. He'd like to build up the group's so it may continue to purchase computers as needed. "We consishave a back-up of students waiting on (the computers)," he says. About the Johnnies regularly use the Society's computers. In addition, a large number of the students who own their own computers use the Society's laser But even more pressing than acquiring capital is the goal to improve and standardize the instruction students receive in the basic use of the systems. With the establishment of the five positions for computer assistantstwo charged with students, two with keeping the computers operating, and one (Mr. Rosenbaum's) of supervising the assistants-Mr. Rosenbaum envisions an to complete these tasks. this year is to be more focused "Mr. Rosenthe says, and in order to do that he has to focus on the volunteers. "Last year we did a very good job students who wanted to work, but we fell short in student had the basics." He also wants more control over the instruction that the students the when the courses, all the students trained will be workfrom the same baseline of expertise. 01unte:ers will be assigned a specific area of instruction and will classes given by professionals in the computer field. These sessions will instruct them on teaching computer basics. Looking ahead to graduation, Mr. Rosenbaum wants to ensure that the Society will continue to serve the students when he is no longer at its helm. task this year is to build a structure (into the group) that will exist no matter who is here." Annapolis tutor Henry Higuera has been appointed to the citizen advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities, one of seven new members nominated by President Bush. He was confirmed September 27. As a board member, he will be one of 26 private citizens who makes recommendations on policy and applications for funding to NEH chairman Lynne V. Cheney. A graduate of Cornell University, Mr. Higuera received his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Toronto. Before coming to St. John's in 1982, he taught at Dickinson College. Mr. Higuera is currently working on a book about Don Quixote. When St. John's College estabcomputer assistant positions in the otherwise all-volunteer Computer Society at its Annapolis campus, it confirmed to its members that it shared their belief that every student should have access to a computer, and the 1rn,..... ,1°..-i1.,.,,. Aaron Kc~se111b<:mnn. student a drive two years ago (along with Sascha Cocron, A'90) that the, ......,,,,.,..,..,. tion of several members and a dozen dedicated students and is responsible for the 14 state-of-the-art ""'',......,.,. .. +,,.T systems on campus for student use. With the administration's support, the negoitrn1ced a non-exclusive contract Keith Harvey photos Annapolis tutors Howard Fisher and Joe Sachs are the first to hold two tutorships, created by a $500,000 grant from the National Endowment for the contributed funds by avoroxitma:telv $1.0 million has been of the tutorships will be named in memory of Jacob Klein. Mr. Fisher, who is studying century natural Michael Faraday's on and magnetism, holds the chair on modem thought, and Mr. Sachs, who is working on a new translation of Aristotle'sPhysics, the chair on ancient, The medieval and renaissance tutors were selected the Instruction Committee. Their teachimg loads have been reduced to one-third. Mr. Fisher used last year, a sabbatical year and the first year of his tutorship, for reading on his subject. Now in his second he leads a study group on Faraday meets twice a week The group, composed of tutors Chester Michael Dink, Anita Kronsberg, Robert Druecker and Jonathan from Faraday's '-''v1nn•·i...,,,,,,,,,.,.,...t in Electricity, and experiments in u•vu....... Commenting on his remembers that his interest in i:<'""",-1,,., came from a remark made league Thomas scientists use conceptions were constantly undergoing change and development. "The 1J<Uau1~1u of study is not to come up with fixed meanings," says Mr. Fisher. "An exciting thing about is his image of a nature continually reveahng herself, but the revelations are often in tension with one another." Faraday's interests were not confined to anything we now recognize as a branch of science exclusively, he says. His field was "nothing less than the whole." In his writing, Faraday presents himself as an inquirer, says Mr. Fisher, one in the presence of and continually responding to the wonderfully interesting things in nature. When he writes, both the phenomena and his own response to them are equally evident. While people frequently have an idea that science falls within the province of a special group,- and that only those in the group have the right to speak with authority, Mr. Fisher says that Faraday's style of investigation suggests instead that the understanding of nature is basic to having a human intellect. This vision defies the efforts of any group to stake out claim to nature, because ,,,,,,,..,..., 0 ·~"' can have access to the instruthe benefits into nature." The electric eel provides one of "sometimes disturbing visions of natural " according to Mr. Fisher. Late he used the of magnet as a model for the all the natural forces in the universe-"it became his 'school' for looking at the universe"-but earlier in his life, his 'school' was in large part the electric eel. In the Mr. Fisher will give a Wednesday lecture based on Faraday's researches on these eels. terms of the tutorship suggest the second year for the lectureship, but prior scheduling made that 1991, Mr. Fisher will impossible.) In be speaking at Faraday-Babbage Bicentenary in Cambridge, England. The endowed chairs were Dean Tom idea, Mr. Sachs remembers. "Tom tnoiugJ1t it very important for the program for tutors to get some chance in a career here to devote some time to their studies, a comdifferent time of life to do sornethinlg way and not be rushed." enjoying his own time not to be Mr. Sachs was able last summer to translate several sections of the Physics and to do on I was curious about to wasn't sure I would be able to translate the but getting started ve1rsuadt:~d whole me I could do it in a year." "The is often not taken seri" Mr. Sachs observes. "It is on the supto be obsolete and position that sciences got started in the 17th century and made Aristotle did obsolete. But I think there is a m1sur1de:rstan<1mg, because the Physics can make people more thoughtful about anyin the sciences." .. Observing that the existing translations are "infected by the Latin tradition"-i.e. translation of crucial words and phrases from their Latin translations, rather than directly from the original Greek-Mr. Sachs believes he is fortunate that there is "a little bit of another tradition," one that came through Dean Jacob Klein who wanted students to read Aristotle directly and in an original way. "Mr. Klein called tradition sedl1ment:ed,' and suggested that original insights get lost and sink and become sediment. I am certain!y making use of the things "Mr. Sachs says. I learned from Mr. Sachs hopes to make his translation very accessible to his students, and he is having the chance to try out sections of the new translation in a preceptorial. In 199192 he will lead a study group on the Physics, and during the course of the year deliver a lecture on a related subject. �was '-'-"''"'"~~....,.._. members rer>re:ser1t111tg cte1·gntduates. Parents came from 22 difto "We were ,...,,,,~ . . ,.,,,... nout," said Susan gram Coordinator. "We had and had no idea we would attract so many in our first year." parents on ~~·-~i~·~ a parent association. Unanimous in their of the weekend, said would love to have them four times a it were uo:ss1tJle. year, if Most parents treated their students to restaurant dinners on many returned for the film series and the evenm2:. The Santa Fe me~enng vu..uu.•ui;;. Friedman welcomed the introduced Mr. who St. John's program of then discussed career commented after Mr. that he would hire every from the Euclid class he _____ .-~· standard of to very difficult to find who can listen, reason and discuss as well as the St. John's he observed. Uv,o;:,Vl.LUL'U.l J. W. Blagden photos a fireside rec:eptlon in the upper common room hosted the ""'-... hr,,.....,.,.,.,, class. mon notions. A in the beautiful fall sunshine a break before the afternoon each one on Plato's tutor and one volunteer student. Tutors Jack Steadman and Elliott Skinner both led sections with their sons, who are current students. Students were also invited to these classes with their parents. Julie '91 commented that "the parents' classes were lively-it was to exa good pe1ne11ce class-being involved rather than watching." A parent returned an evaluation form saying, "As I think more about it, my mind was really blown the nature of the classes, the methods of exploration, the I, do not know seriousness of what I have been .,...,,.,-r"',.;.,,,.., these 40 years," says Mr. Bell. vn~semea his shows The 40 pro grams, to be will be nr~>cPnJ-P•rl Junior Common Room of Student Center. Admission is is invited. The of series marks the culmination of over 40 years of work for Mr. Bell. Each show uses a carousel of 80 slides, with a 60-minute tape which weaves music, the visual arts, poetry and prose into an historical discourse. Though centered on the western arts, the world-ties of the west are recurrently indicated by cross-cuts through primitive, eastern, and mesa-American cultures where history has confirmed their relevance. The complete series is available on VHS video was instituted in Mr. Bell studied philosophy, and physics, before to English, art and languages as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He taught at Princeton, the University of Chicago, and other centers of higher education before becoming a St. John's tutor in 1956. nrr\rrr<:im black bean casserole were su1JPl1emented crepes and po:acrtea those guests who were wary of hot New Mexican cuisine. A look alike contest was tied Chris and Brian Erick'92. The sen, '93 and Don parents who came the furthest distance Clark were the father of Bob who came from Juneau, Alaswa y of Massachusetts and the mother of Matt Korshin Rachel All winners from received college bookstore certificates. The weekend weather lived up to Santa stand;:rrd and P'are~nts were invited afternoon afternoon in the mountains to see the fall the food service crew, and students, staff and administration the weekend program. "Most of the students who with the but dance didn't even have parents that didn't their enthusiasm in the orn.11n1-!c parents ton, mother of Anne of students on both campuses will be invited to the Santa Fe and the Parent Weekends in the future. The 1991 Santa Fe Parent Weekend is i-,,, ... 1-'°'h'~'"' 1 " scheduled for October 24-27. All suggestions about next s programs are welcomed by Mrs. Friedman. �5 Ben Galison, a 1990 graduate of the Santa Fe campus, has been appointed director of communications and assistant to the president there. Under the direction of Santa Fe's VicePresident for Advancement Jeffrey Morgan, Mr. Galison is responsible for all of the College's public relations including advertising and news media relations, for managing College publications, and workwith the advancement staff. As an assistant to President John Agresto, Mr. Galison serves as a liaison between the President and other department administrators, staff and the public. Mr. Galison brings to his new role an extensive background in writing, photography, production and design-he was a reporter and photo editor for Columbia Daily Spectator of New York City and was a freelance photographer for The Washington Star. His work has appeared in several publications. In addition to his professional credentials, he has insight into the needs of the College as a whole, gleaned from working in nearly every office of St. John's. As a Mr. Galison served as and director of the College's Film for all events was the of the Ben Galison photos u in D BENGALISON Santa Feans turned out in record numbers for this year's free sample of a St. John's College seminar. November 13 saw an unprecedented 230 participants in 16 community seminars, marking a vast increase over last spring' s total of 130 for the semiannual event. Discussions focused on the history, theology, economics, politics, music, and literature of Eastern Europe. Seminars were presented as a part of From Comrade to Citizen, an ongoing public program including lectures and films to address the recent revolutionary events in Eastern European nations. The program, funded in part through a grant from the New Mexico Endowment for the was Codirected David Santa Fe tutor, and Joan Director of Alumni Acmemto St John's educational apwide range of u"'A'"'"'-H"'f'o. teachers, business dents from local schools, and current students from both the nnJ>ia~·.-..~r,r1,,,,,;-,,, pre> gr.ams. The "'...,''"'".,.1:-"r"h' clients, a computer software company, a medical center, and St John's. A 13 cups of coffee a says he's p~u~•~L~L the College has charged a fee in past years, this seminars-with a "u'J".._......... .., .. iv;;;;i0•H-'•·•'-'" L fective way for our H'-'''l"»•VVJ'" who we are and what we do here." Seminars included Chekhov's Uncle Peter led liott Skinner; The law Milosz, led works of five years of academic "'"'"'"O::llP.·nt two of which have '"°'""' ....... h, discussed the fall of Leninism. Dr. Adam Ulam, _._,.,"""-·•VA of the Russian Research Center is scheduled to nrP•QPT'ITPli Society. are Dean Jam es and by the St. John's College Film �Where do we look for original intent? Bo:rk: You start with the words, of course, but then with most you have debates either in the legislatures, or the Constitutional newspaper debates. t<ec1er:alls:t, Alexander Hamilton argues into the Constitution. Does the Bill than the one uur.•ur''''" ac£~evrea Bork: The fact is, the Bill this century, and the other fact is, didn't take it very when it. when he wrote home from the Congress to the governor of tell him what was on, said first that Congress authorized a ug1nmom;;e and the third he mentioned was that which you think are Keith Harvey photos �THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1990 PAGE7 (continued from page 1) "The fallacy that one hears everywhere is that can't legislatate morality. We rarely, if ever, legislate anything but morality." Judge Robert H. Bork, St. John's College Law participants read Goldwin For the Great Issues seminar on Ethics and Law in Annapolis, a chapter, "Of Men and Angels: a Search for Morality in the Constitution," from a new book by Robert Gold win, A '50, was assigned, along with ex tracts from Aquinas' Summa Theologica, as preliminary reading for the 600 participants. The chapter was taken from Mr. Goldwin's new book Why Blacks, Women, and Jews are not mentioned in the Constitution and other Unorthodox Views, which was published in April by the University Press of America, Inc. A former dean at the Annapolis campus, a special assistant to President Ford, and later an adviser to the NATO Ambassador, Mr. Goldwin, a member of the College Board of Visitors and Governors, is at present at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. He recently completed there a 10-year Constitutional bicentennial project: supervision of the publication of 10 volumes of essays on how democracy and capitalism operate within the Constitutional framework. laws are made, he said. Quoting St. Thomas Aquinas, Judge Bork explained that for a law to be moral it must not be contrary to human good-Connecticut's lack of concern for the privacy of the marriage bed or even the health of the woman, violated this principle. Second, Aquinas instructed that a just law is made within the power committed to its maker. "Making the laws is not the judges' job; applying them is. The judges' morality is the morality of process-not the morality of result. If a judge begins to make laws, they will reflect his morality, and not society's. The legislature will not always reflect society's morality, but it is a better probity than a judge's." To emphasize his point, Judge Bork returned to the Connecticut law. In 1965 the Griswold vs. Connecticut case challenged the 1879 state law which made it a criminal offense to use contraceptives. An ancillary law allowed for punishment of anyone who helped another person practice contraception. Two Yale law professors forced the state to fine two doctors under the second law to provide a test case. The first law had been brought to the Supreme Court a few years earlier, but the court had refused to hear the case on the grounds that the plaintiffs could not prove that the law was ever enforced. When the second law was challenged in the Supreme Court, the Court decided to hear the case. Ultimately, the Supreme Court overturned the Connecticut law. This was an error, Mr. Bork said. The law should have been questioned by the legisnot the _Supreme Court. Contrary to society's perception, citizens can, indeed, legislate morality. "The fallacy that one hears everywhere today ... is the statement that you can't legislate morality. That is entirely false. We rarely, if ever, legislate anything but morality," he said. However, when faced with a bad law, a citizen is still bound to obey it. Since the laws are made in a democratic society, moral disagreement with a law cannot be a basis for defying it, or we court anarchy. Instead, he instructed, citizens can ensure just laws not by civil disobedience but by heated discussions that may influence the views of legislators. Judges, too, when faced with what they consider to be a morally unjust law, should be careful of reaching outside the bounds of their Constitutional power to strike it down, lest they provoke another national debate, such as the one begun in 1973 by the Roe Vs. Wade decision on abortion rights. The Constitution is mute on abortion or any sexual matter, leaving it up to the state legislature and the citizens, he said. The task of a judge in a Constitutional democracy is to translate the morality of the American people as dictated through its legislators, not his own morality, Mr. Bork concluded. Therefore, it is a responsibility of the citizens to maintain a high, but attainable, standard of morality. �career of Brother Robert who was named an 1io,.,.,n,.,..,.,,.,,, member of the class of 1990 and of the Alumni Association. The cited Brother Robert's devotion to the liberal arts over as respect for his "life in faith", and "for the that he has bestowed upon numerous colleagues and students." "I have been and to be amongst you." Two members of the class of 1950, Jack w1111~1m11 weregiventhe Award of Merit, the Alumni Association's highest honor. The award is made for exceptional service by the recipient to his college and distinction in his profession. Board of Visitors and Governors member Jonathan Zavin, A who noted Mr. Carr's distinguished and varied career in urban planning and cultural development, pointed out that Mr. Carr had been "all his life a giver." The citation noted "with gratitude," Mr. Carr's exertions on behalf of the College and its alumni. Toasting fellow members of the class of 1950, Mr. Carr noted that the Award of Merit seems to have an "affinity" for the class and predicted that more class members would be honored in years to come. Already, more members of the class of 1950 have received the award than other class. Chris Nelson, SF '70, made the presen- Alumni Association President Ml:ll1rui!:l1u Giolclst~~m, A'59 tation to Mr. Williams, pointing out especially the honoree' s assistance in piamnmg the defense of the lawsuit involving the California and his six three-year of Visitors and Goverterms on nors since 1961. Mr. speaking of alumni, observed, "We seem really to know one another in a very basic, fundamental way. We struggled herewrestled with the same problems, and used the language of the Great Books. We still use that language." Smiling, he ~'Two of my a.m1grn[ers graduated from St John's at Santa Fe, and the others now wish they had." I I .I Award Merit winners at HomE~co1m1'ng ......,.............. ~ and John l. both class Brother Robert brunch crowd moves shares a mc>m1em Class of 1955 member �THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1990 PAGE9 NANCYOSIUS In a powerful show of affection and esteem for Dean Jacob Klein, who died in 1978 but whose influence continues to be felt in the New Program curriculum and among his the St. John's community at Annapolis paid him a series of tributes colleagues and over the Homecoming weekend, September 21-23. These began with words of praise by Santa Fe tutor William Darkey at his Friday night lecture and continued through seminars based on Mr. Klein's essays Saturday afternoon. The highlight came Saturday morning, however, during the annual Alumni Association meeting, when two likenesses of Dean Klein were presented to the College. In the vn~sentatlon, Bernard E. Jacob, A '54, painted an eloq~cnt word picture of an extraordinary man of "passion and wit and generosity." Both the painting by tutor Elliott Zuckerman and an enlarged photograph taken in the 1960's, each a gift to the college, will in McDowell Hall. The complete text of Mr. Jacob's remarks may be found on page 16. The memories of Mr. Klein began with Mr. Darkey' s prefatory remarks to his in which he described his friend as "a member of my personal .. one of those surrogate fathers models whom we discover that we cannot but whom we remember with admiration, and affection." those of us who were and learn here now." some what we have learned and from their teachers and their teachers' which was to be about the liberal arts "because I think that from time to time to do with our teaching," he said that the arts in the broadest sense are the only human reality that can be passed from generation "he prn;tu1ate1C1. to The arts "exist in As the tendency of learning in this age is to fragment itself, it must be the essential concern of the liberal arts to things together again, he said. "One essential impulse in the devising of this college's curriculum was to try to discover ways to put Humpty Dumpty together again. Maybe this is our peculiar task." Taking artistic "making" from Aristotle's definition of art as "a habit of making or doing with the aid of true reason," he turned first to the so-called "useful arts" and a passage from the Odyssey for generous illustration of the "makings and doings" that engage Homer's people and tum the details of life into high poetry. A passage from Book V finds Odysseus languishing on Ogygia, where he had been seven years. Calypso's assistance to the wanderer in his construction of a raft to carry him on home became a paradigm in the lecture. Here was the artistic desire, the purpose, the materials and skills, and finally the construction itself, when "the idea of the instrument is realized in matter at the hand of the workman." The speaker concluded this examination of the useful arts by reaffirming that "actual making always takes place by way of motion." While such useful arts as those that produced Odysseus' raft have an end in themselves, the liberal arts wenton to say, the "arts of the understanding."Understanding"wants to put to12~etJJter" and to the extent that it succeeds, "the central wonder illuminates all of the ,....,,,..,..."'"'"' of the liberal arts, he is to bring us to understanding with which we grasp the relationships between things. Continuing his analogy with construction of the Mr. Darkey observed that and numbers, the materials of the liberal arts are symbols, principally words, but also syntaxes and their all of which must be ordered according to the rules of their grammars, lexicons. The construction itself is an intellectual structure, a multi-dimensional expa11s1cm of sets and "Such structures be poems, de1moinstrat10111s, arguments, proofs, analogies, translations, theories, dialogues, conversations which the structure is not so much built as improvised"), experiments, and the natural sciences, he said. The final step in the "making" of the liberal arts is the motion of the a quality difficult to know, and yet the "sign of each thing's kind oflife and meaning," and the final way we recognize beings for what they are. If the liberal arts are arts of the understanding, "it would seem to follow that understanding is a kind of motion, or that it somehow involves a kind of motion." -'-'-'-'LLU.LLUJl~ to Horner for illustrations of discoveries of relations and of understandings, he noted that in long course of reading, the reader will discover that great works relate unex"he observed in conclusion, "the same can be said mutatis pectedly to one another. mutandis of the astronomers, the philosophers and the mathematicians." At the Alumni Association meeting morning, besides Mr. Jacob, other spi:~akers were President Donald J. Maclver, with his words of greeting, and Dean Eva Brann, who listeners up to date on her first months of activity. She reminisced "for which and term he had a about Mr. Klein's attitude towards distaste. There is now, she no way around the dean's but she was ,. ~,·A~AA·~ hard to put "the in the details." The cmnpJlete may be found on the Alumni pages . ......,_,,,,'"'v·u seminar discussions took of Liberal i-.r1""''i-'r'" gathermgs, with seminars a feature of four of these. More than 30 Graduate Institute 2:athe1red for what has become a new tea the great hall. '""''"",_",_"' was honored on his 25th for ,....,,-.i-.,r.cw talk, candlelit tables and a pause to honor their own, characterized the banquet in Randall Hall Saturday evening, with two members of the class of 1950 receiving the highest honor the Association can bestow, the A ward of Merit These were conferred on Jack Ladd Carr and John Williams. At the same time, Brother Robert Smith, tutor emeritus, was named an Honorary Alumnus. Alumni, families and friends came together for the final event Sunday morning, the President's Brunch, at circular tables on a sunlit lawn by the river. Keith photos �PAGE10 THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1990 I r The dedication of the Meem Santa Fe controversy left open well as whether or not ginia ... n.,u._,...., • Center. President John "''o""''"L" ".,...,..,..,""'""''r1 an evening cookout to celebrate the successful effort. most new for the campus students for safe, comfortable space. Former President Riccards . elected to follow up on a matchmg grant offered to former President Delattre the Mabee Foundation. Terms of the foundation million if we first raised $1.8 million The Advancew ork on this grant while the campus u1aLilnm!l committee reviewed a that were drawn 1964. It was the 1udlge1ne1at one for smokers so not be recirculated into the rest of the Access to the rooms is the vestibule which allows the rest of the ~ ~,u~,a.,_, to be secured at The campus has a pressing need for additional classIt therefore became a programming to accommodate this need in the without compromising our goal of who wish to work in a small group . we do not intend to use the ~~'''~'·".f, for if necessary the 24-hour rooms could be .re>..L•H"-•u,i;;:;,u various as the need to shelf space for up to 90,000 volumes, the need to all of ,.,..,...,,.,. . ,,,11-. .... ,,,. a the and B members John I sador and ment, we will be of Carlos I I space to students. So was this that committee made a commitment to space for 50% of the and nn.rl<'1"01'"<>£1111'lf·p. <Tlf"'ll£1H'OltA IJ'-'1'-"'--HUU'VH, students-carrels, tables, furniture or some combination. The committee consisted of six students-Owen Jones, Lee Sarah Maxwell, '91 and Luke Warren, '92-all of whom worked in their effort to make students' wishes influential on the design of the building. a quest101m::nre which was distributed to the entire student students '"'"'"""'"" 1 breaking preferences for seating, the committee was also able to learn of students' most impor- bookcases to Th the beams in this as well as on tho is a contributim Stan Davis. Wh upholst<~red In all there are areas in the dedicated to reading. On the first floor there are the two afterhours rooms, furnished with tables, chairs, and comfortable, uo11101sterea chairs and sofas; room which is also furnished with upholstered sofas and chairs; the southwest reading room, furnished with study tables and chairs; and a On opening d easily accorr volumes. Shoul1 sary to expand have several op1 �DECEMBER 1990 PAGE 11 THE REPORTER II LISA CAREY make use of a sizeable pe1i.o<ilc:1l storage room the second floor ornom:1te the .._,..,,,., ..... uv was a difficult and controversial issue i-h.-"''"""h'~"~ outside if and as the Ault-Evers l be furnished with hairs. In addition to se, this room can be nt academic events ls or small lectures, HA\;vlJLU~.C> and Wil- natural form and on the space needed for this may have to be used to our book collection. Use of our At present room that holds shelves is the Ault-Evers room. If necessary, bookcases could be built into the other rooms, with the of the two 24-hours decentralized ori~anizational the staff settled on the decentralized This means that clustered toi;[et11er '"""'.,AU'-"'""' themselves at around the first floor which are to the circulation cte~~k/catalcw area, the reference area, and a third adto the...,.~~~~,...,·~~ · room, made this ution. tccommodation for ~d out individual )e distributed the first floor. iy the building will tmodate 86 ,000 l become necesthe collection we lions. The first is to assistance to patrons. Because it is a small c011su;ti11tg of three librarians and one secretary, believe that they can best meet their stated goals by providing staff presence throughout the library. The librarians agreed that the decentralized would not interfere with those professional functions that are distinct from assisting users. ma ~ greatest amount of and visual control was seen as critical. The desk is therefore prnnt11orn;:d as to the person .,,,.,,,,..1r,, . . . ,.,. the greatest poss1lble sufficient protection of books could be achieved. There are portals off of three reading rooms, and a total of eight eiterior doors. An electronic security system with gates at every door became to the conception of the building. Both students and believed that such a system would be less of a nuisance than having bags searched whenever they went out a door-even if it shortmaterials like ...u •• v ...•1:;:.u a determined thief can surmount almost any ornaac~le, the librarians believe that most of our book loss comes from laziness or carelessness rather than deliberate We are convinced that a system will prc>tec~tlcm to the the open character of the While may be a naive n~r·r~.~~ we also intend to do possible to make members of our imme.... or greed happens to have St. John's College on his shelves will return them. Total amnesty will be granted-no fines, no scolding, not even nasty glances. We win (Continued on page (Continued from page 1) struction of a central to Emeritus Richard Weigle in 1964. The Meems were the most notable benefactors In the the Meems a01iate:a most 260 acres that are now the Santa Fe campus, and continued to the College for the next 26 years. Gaw one of the southwest's most vHJl<v~;l_,, died in active in the for 60 years, was serying on the Board at the time of her death in March 1988. �PAGE12 THE REPORTER avu11.oru1..11.;.11J1nv~""'"• A'83 Conventional wisdom holds that alumni events should feature well-seasoned tutors leading seminars on shorter works of literature and ......... ,..,...,,,.,,.,...""' weekends unencumbered holidays. Always the Northern California eager to flout has held tutor-less seminars on tomes like War and Peace and Tom asked tutors to lecture on exr>ec1ted. its members to and bone up on their · 1 ·nv·Au 11 ......,. all caution to the we scheduled with tutor Sam acroamatic . . . ., ............... ;::.. students from our Foundation Euclid for what turned into one of our most memorable and discussions. of his remarks and the Mr. Kutler called the emmuig discussion "The between Ancient and Modem Mathematics." He with an admonition and su~:ge:mo1n from G. a well-known teacher of and writer on of methods and rules of rus1Goverv and invention. "Mathematics is not a soe~taltor you can't learn math (or much watchin2 it But how does one and test"; mathematical from the brows of v-HJ.l.UH./U. mere mortals. The process is an iterative one, an idea guess and test, which stressed with guess and test, guess and test..." True to these two propos:Itlcms, Mr. Kutler presented Reltuk's three concentric circle how we would go about whether we would class it as an ancient or modem theorem. In the figure for the tlle<Jrern, three concentric circles whose radii are in the ratio 1:2:4 are cut to the innermost 11 DECEMBER 1990 Editor circle and terminated at one end by the middle circle and at the other end the outermost circle (see figure). The theorem shows that the line is cut according to the section in extreme and mean ratio) at its mte:rsecticm with the middle circle After a bit of guessing and Kutler' s recollection of a Euclid we ha-i:1pe11ed which suggested the line of a would follow. for another the second Whether Reltuk's theorem is ancient or modem on how one goes about it, either a which reveals the direction the should take and informative discussion continued in small groups an for wine and cheese. As with all successful the AB: AC: : AC: CB in methodical Cartesian fashion. This discussion led us to a consideration of ancient and modem and to authors who rightfully claim to define the line. Mr. Kutler valid for both Euclid (for his and Goedel his between the campuses, on the architecture or a related visual art. Our newsletter comes out about five times per year, and includes information about events, as well as reviews and and ,,_,...,.l.J,...,.,,_..., news. Call Mark Middlebrook at 547-0602 if you need more information. In The Ethics of Geometry, David Lachterman argues on the basis of for Descartes as the father of a distinction about how we view the world and our rel:aticmshin to it. For the ancients, Lachterman says, learning is an opening of oneself to the world and its With Descartes, he says,- we have the beginning whose modus is or ................,i;.,. We do not learn about the world so much as we create or construct it. This distinction raised many for us, especially about whether the differences between ancient and modem mathematics Lachterman Most of us The Elements possess a "'..... "" ...... IA.IL I BARBARA What could be more than serving as a link between the St. John's education and its in the world? That is what occupies me as Director of Career coum;ellnj2;, and indeed it is challenging, and After only three months in I am but I feel I coms1ud.1s, our new aides and I have been office. There are two new additions I might mention as esn1ec1am profitable. One is collection of "community " which stores the thoughts of alumni and others on jobs, internships, fellowships and study programs--both full-time and summer--of interest to other students and alumni. The other is a tutor file, which will grow into a "tutor comer," where we make available information on seminars, for the college, and other career and collegeOne of the main I have established is oer,sonall"i to address each visitor and involve this office with his and to learn from their Feedback career are made ,..,..,.,,""'"''n-. students can discuss ideas in the context of careers, and where students and alumni can be resources to each other. An area I hope to see strengthened is that of communication with alumni. Please stop in if you are in the Annapolis area, or call the office if you are looking for a job, have a job to offer, or simply want to say hello. 1 " Dean Eva Brann chats with Peter at the Graduate lnstitute's September. �13 " Dear Fellow-Alumni: I "fellow-alumni" because you did last year of me one of you. As dean's this one will be after all been dean for fewer than four u•v.......,, of them in the summer. I to say that I mean in the future to to you as much as the substance of the ... v,.....,,.,...,, and whatever you may and say: "roller coaster." So some week soon we will the slope and all be miserable for a while. is the nature of the lives we to the life ~din~ ~ ~~ from the sublime to the the "roller coaster" cte~;cnoucm of college life was the of Mr. standard response to his own condition: ") I can tell you the Instruction Committee is hard at work doing one part of its two most tasks, which are: making and reviewing and ..... ,.,,..rl•• and reviewing the program. you were to read say, Tuesday, our minutes would see the entry 10 " "Resolved to adopt Peter's for the A.rnmm:1.s readings (appended)." "Resolved to adopt nine Kant readings ae-i::1enc1s the character of the fewer there was less obl1ga1t10n.s, and so the dean was-out of account--more 1m1meiJiaice to the life of the In he used to stand at the bottom of the McDowell stairs between classes to see what mood faces as came down. when I was a freshman tutor down the he me into his office to tell me that it was not the mode of this to threaten to learn their .... a,...,..,_A_ with sudden death if Greek verbs--for that is what I had done. There is now, it seems to me, no way around the dean's The art, which I am hard at learning, is to the spirit in the details. One useful mode in learning to be dean is, I have found, to respond to any indications that I've made a mistake with stupefying alacrity. else does Jasha urhl~nl"T" Mostly yet other oovvertul the file of his decanal corres-por1ae1llce n'lr"lOT'":\Til:I reads: I am sure you will enjoy may f!E.!1. be that in the program of find his help useful. ANNAPOUS with him and John's you will PAUL Luncheon dates: December 14: Speaker: Jeff Bishop, Vice President for College Advancement January 11 February 8 March 1 Alumni luncheons are held in the Private Dining Room, 12 :00 noon, and guest speakers will be announced for those not listed. Telephone Betsy Blume at the Alumni Office, (301)263-2371 for more information. AUSTIN This soon-to-be-official chapter meets informally on a monthly basis. Contact Beverly Angel (512)9267808 for schedule and details. December 9: (3:00 p.m.) Lecture "Nietzche, Kaufman, and the Neurophysiologists: Putting It All . . Together," Joseph Parks, Ph.D. Meeting with tutor Tom Simpson 1s being Pianm!o Meetings will be held at the home of Alvin Aronson who can be contacted at (617)566-6657 or 4373186 (wk) for on these and events. December 2: Seminar on Ford Maddox Good Soldier at 3:00 at University Technology Center (contact Mike Woolsy (612)937-2546 for details.) This' unofficial' is organizing events and would like your suggestions. Telephone Joan Bogucki (612)929-8043 to contribute your ideas. NEW YORK January 30: Seminar with Annapolis Dean Eva Brann on "The Counterfeiter" by Yashushi Inoue from the anthology, ..;;.::.::.::::.....;:;:;:.::::...;;:;;;..=,;;= February March 20: with Dean James Carey on Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground Call Sabine Schweidt (212)645-8903 or 6796118 (wk) Planning for events will take place after the holidays. and for further information contact Jim at (215)836-7632. welcomes the Call Roberta Carnevale Jasha over to be haunted never knew the hnilli-ir•n We are much closer to him in u ........ ,u.. Hall. For our offices are in what is often called "the administrative " and J asha insisted that we have no <>firn-in-ioh-•'lt-il"\TI I ask ornen--1t::1e1 .. ,.,,., ...... !">, J• ........... December 2: Kecermcm at John Van Doren' s home in December 15: Annual ---------, Park 13: Jack tutor from Santa on the first book of Euclid's ~~:!!!.2 will lead a College 1HPn1n1~·nr 23: Concert of Bach's ~....:;.;;.;::;=;.;;;..;.;.. at the Rite Cathedral ...;....;;.;.;~-March 16: Seminar on to be led by tutor pe1tormance of the same at the Goodman Theater rate tickets may be available pelformances. Call Paul Frank at (312)235-0614 or 464-2573 (wk), or Rick Lightburn at 667-0068 or 8610200 (wk), or Rachel Majeske 281-4582 or 337-4105 (wk) about the activities. December 14: Seminar on Bach cantata at the home of Jim and Elizabeth Carlisle This chapter meets about 10 times a year for Saturday evening seminars. For additional information contact Suzanne Doremus at (817)496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis at This chapter is reorganizing, and suggestions or questions are welcome. Call Caroline Allen (213) 3925253 to contribute. .J . ._, ~, ... or Joan seminar Winter meeting with Barbara Leonard is and the details are not yet determined. Call John Ross at (206)545-7900 for more information about this and other events. manm~a December 12: T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and "Journey of the Magi"; and W.B. Yeats "A General Introduction to My Work" ~d "The Second Coming" January 9: James Joyce,~~~~:;.:;....;:;;;;;,;;;;..~= as a Young Man January 23: Howard Nemerov, "Runes" (from New and Selected Poems, 1960) Seminars meet at the West End Branch of the D.C. Public Library from 6:30-8:30 p.m. For further information call Sam Stiles (301 )424-9119, or Sharon Garvey (304)535-2655. �PAGE14 DECEMBER 1990 THE REPORTER Psychologist, who had introduced Steve and Anne in 1987. Katherine came from where she had the summer before to Santa- BarCA, to teach at the Cate School. Rachel Valentine Nein came with her husband Charlie and younger son while Jack's brother (Continued from page 11) only thank you for giving other St. John's students, present and future, the opportunity to make use of our books. who has participated in a St. John's seminar understands that it is a vital center in the life of the College. It is a lively, public exchange, united around a common purpose and a common table. The success of a seminar depends on a student's ability to take part in a sustained and meaningful conversation about a book. However, to do this a student must have an initial exchange with a book that is private, focused, and reflective. This part of our activity that is internal and contemplative is as central to the life of the College as is seminar, and it is this way of being with the books that the library is concerned with above all. Just as the seminar is focused around a common table, it is fitting that a building devoted to contemplative activity should exhibit a strong internal focus or center. Our intention was that the building itself should be sited so as to create a second center on campus. The placita to the front campus is surrounded by the Peterson Student Center, the administrative building, Weigle Hall, and two classroom buildings. This is the public center, where most people enter the College proper. The library and the plaza to the front of it create a second, more private center the to the back of campus and is bordered south side of Peterson, the Fine Arts uuuuilH):;, and the open space at the foot of Monte Once a student arrives here and enters the library, the building should lead him away from the public activities of life at the College and inward. Our wish was to build a strong building with a strong momentum inward toward a focal point that was serenely beautiful and which played a symbolic and functional role. We also wanted to make use of one of New Mexico's finest assets-its light-as a principal aesthetic feature of the building, as a symbol of education and functionally, to help illuminate the building. The architects' solution was to design a building that one approaches through a broad, deep-set plaza. As one enters, one passes through a succession of transitional spaces-a vestibule, lobby and catalog area which have the effect of drawing one away from the rest of campus into a qualitatively different kind of space-a large, central atrium that is streaming with soft, indirect, natural light. This is achieved through the use of a Kal-Wal skylight, which is constructed of two sheets of translucent fiberglass and an internal aluminum frame separated by spun glass. The effect of the skylight is rather like a shoji screen. Around the atrium, books, reading rooms, and professiona1 services are organized. In this connection it should be mentioned that after having developed a design with a large, central atrium it seemed obvious to use this space for bookstacks. Doing so would have fulfilled a preference of the librarians to house the complete collection on the first floor. Yet this sensible idea was at odds with our notion of developing a contemplative center as well as with the College's most important understanding of itself. To place bookstacks in a strong central space would have been tantamount to building a tabernacle to the books; it would have effectively claimed that the College venerates the books in themselves. The books that comprise our program of study do not propound a specific, singular doctrine. Rather they challenge and disagree with one another in untidy and wrenching ways. What they hold in common is that they ask the most important questions that thoughtful human beings have asked and provide the most substantial answers to these questions. Together they proclaim a tradition-a tradition that is shared and continued by the College-that it is reason that moves us from opinion to knowledge. While our esteem for these books is unquestioned, to create a sort of tabernacle to them would be on the order of sacrilege to those who know and understand the College. We simply do not venerate shelved books no matter how antiquated or fine their editions, no matter who their author. It is the engagement of the reader and the book that is at the center of the College's understanding of itself. It is fitting therefore that the function of the central atrium is to provide space for readers and to bring light into the building. her fiance Robin VanTine; will be married in also managed to get away from his Brooklyn apartment and Manhattan for the weekend. 1984 11'11'11"11.e!lll' on the western campus, was concert in October. ft0, ........ a.u.cu·u1nn A second important aesthetic goal was that the building should attempt to convey an institutional identity that is not otherwise apparent in the campus architecture-that of a College devoted to the classical tradition of liberal education. We wanted it to be clear as one enters and uses the facility that this library is unique because of its specialized collection, its understanding of the place of contemplation in the life of the College, its acknowledgement of the importance of the reader and its relation to an educational tradition that is classical in origin. While we wanted the building to be compatible with the other buildings on campus and with the regional style of architecture, we also wanted the building to refer to the roots of our program of study. Because territorial architecture is a neoclassical style, it was natural to strengthen the purely classical references in the building. One attempt to do this which constitutes a departure from the rest of campus was to render the columns at the front of the building round rather than square. The architects believe that this speaks directly to classical Greek architecture; others appreciate that it is reminiscent of the columns at the entrance of the library on our sister campus. BUDGET The budget for the project was set at just under $3 million, which was the estimated cost (in 1988 dollars) of building the library designed in 1964. In addition to a 25,780 square foot library we built a 100-space parking lot and the exterior plaza which ties the new library to Peterson Center, the Meem Patio and the Fine Arts Building. Effectively three projects were realized by the funds raised by Edwin Delattre, Jeff Morgan and Michael Riccards. To accomplish this with a small budget, a number of compromises were necessary. We decided upon the general principle that whenever possible we would put our money into architecture-square footage and finish details for priority areas. Those items that could conceivably be put into the building at a later date and that were not essential to its present operation were cut from the building. One exception to this general principle was the removal of a portal intended for the north facade of the building. Because it was a merely decorative feature, its expense could not be justified against other hard choices. Rigorous cost-saving efforts were made throughout the development of the project in order to meet our budget; however, special care was taken to assure that the most serious cuts were items that could be put back into the building at a later date. These include the acoustical partitions intended for the two seminar rooms, the computer system, and the security system. Also, only a portion of the shelving needed to bring the library to full capacity was purchased. Efforts are underway to find monies for these items as soon as possible. From the beginning the project was conceived as an occasion to bring the entire community together, to make an addition to the campus that addresses the specific needs of St. John's students and speaks of our traditions. This library is our own to use, enjoy, and take pride in. The fact that the project will be completed on time and within a budget should be attributed to the skill, close cooperation and patience of the architects and contractors with the planning committee. Participants in the project include Lorn Tryk and David Perrigo of McHugh, Lloyd, Tryk, Architects; Edward Roessler of Stan Davis & Associates, Contractor; Owen Lopez, Jerry LaPides, Mara Robinson and John Wirth, John Agresto, Jeff Morgan, Steve Van Luchene, Jim Benefiel, Tracey Kimball, Katherine Galvin, Florence Goulesque and Lisa Carey; students Owen Jones, Kelly Koepke, Lee Whiting, Ron Kaplan, Sarah Maxwell and Luke Warren; and most notably, Bryan Valentine who monitored the project with scrupulous care and good humor throughout its planning, development, and construction phases. (Lisa Carey, an architect and wife to Dean Jim Carey, was central to the two-year library planning effort and has become an eloquent spokesperson and guide for the completed project.) (Continued from page 2) AAUW Educational Foundation fellowship for 1990-91 for her doctoral work in philosophy at Emory University. Her dissertation title is For getting: An Inquiry through the Platonic Dialogues. Lisa Eckstrom announces her marriage November 4 to Gideon Rosen in Newport News, Virginia. Annastazia Kezar was maid of honor. Lisa is currently working on her dissertation in the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton. Gideon is also a PhD candidate at Princeton and is an at the assistant professor of ''"'".l"'.,.,~ 1 n• of Michigan. Peter a for the UPI and The Times of London in that he is also writing for US News the Times and Le Monde. He was, he says, in Czechoslovakia for a story the the Velvet Revolution and a weekend stay then stretched into 10 months. "As Vaclav Havel and his gang of intellectuals settle the story is dying and I'm a lot more about the economic reform and the changes in society." His current address is Polska 3, 12000 Prague 2, Czechoslovakia, and his current telephone number 011 42 2 27 00 but if that a message 257 332. He has seen a few Johnnies u·~·~ . . Claiborne Booker and BiH who came through (Claiborne is now in business Chicago.) "Last time I was home I saw Diana Fabi married Ed Samson, a very nice guy. I heard from Marie who is in and playing badminton." ·H•fO, 1987 Rebecca writes that in June she married Lt. Paul S. ~·~·~~,...,.-.. , an SH-60B stationed in the by Middle East. She is the Department of Defense at the Naval Air Test Center, where she works as a Human Factors engineer specializing in cockpit information display, including software design, air crew accommodation, and night vision goggle compatible lighting. She is presently assigned to the V-22, SH-60B, and A-12 programs and is involved in developing human factors applications for the Manned Flight Simulator during test and evaluation. She concluded, "Please pass along my name and address to anyone interested in a career in Human Factors or the military." Her address is Star Route 1 Box 324B, Lusby, MD 20657. Katherine Bond reports that she has moved to Old Town Alexandria, where she works at Gadsby's Tavern Museum "doing the kind of curatorial work I've been wanting to do. Eric works at Olsson's books." The museum put on a successful 18th century fair in the market square across from the museum in September. 1983 Anne Braswell married Lt. Cdr. Steve Heldreth, USN, on July 14 in Hendersonville, NC. Anne will continue law practice at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City until late fall, when she will move to Long Beach, CA where Steve's ship is in home port. Several Johnnies made it to the wedding, including Melissa Warren, managing editor of The American CORRECTION The photographer for the of Istvan Fehervary page four of the September Reporter was Robert J.W. Blagden. not �15 r Political figures and other friends and members of the St. on hand in abundance for the opening to and shown for the first time in this area. Mrs. Hirshhorn' s own taste was reflected in her collection of 11n1ograr:ins, and watercolors such artists Lichtenstein and as well as some comic and fanciful works that were tributes from the artists to their and Hirshhom. Keith Harvey photos r A few weeks Mrs. Hirshhom herself-widow of the collector and philanthropist Joseph Hirshhom--came to view the and entertained listeners acq1msltlcm of various creators. Two de ... ~'"'''VALH•fiO'" on paper towels and were Hirshhom on a visit to the artist's studio. was the medium in Ed Ruscha's work at the time of the Vietnam Mrs. was a which she loved. she has a whole room of Albers' work in one of her homes. �16 t (The following remarks were made by Bernard E. Jacob, A' 54, at the annual Alumni Association meeting.) I dedicate two images or likenesses of which you see here. The one is a of Jascha done by Elliott Zuckerman, a friend, companion and student of Jascha's, and the second is a photographic study. Both of them are gifts to the College and will hang in McDowell. In announcing this event the College newspaper quite rightly described Jascha Klein as "distinguished teacher and a man of immense learning." Nevertheless, these phrases have a funerary sound, and the reference to learning also has an ironic aspect. And with that irony, Jascha's face would have crinkled, especially around the eyes, with laughter, while simultaneously a slight pursing of his lips would have expressed silently how impossible language is even though it is among the best things we have. His immense learning was, almost bent and long upon what he regarded as the most important task, that is, to loosen the hold of that learning-or rather the shadow of that learning-on our hearts and minds. For insight gained by investigation and discovery becomes dogma in the telling; and told too often, wears down over time into a trivialized tale form, in which the very words no longer signify, the words lose their meamng. "Sedimentation", Jascha called this deadening process, the term from Husserl. Those alumni who will attend the seminar this afternoon on Jasch a' s elegant paper on "Speech" will know that he stated that "The power of a word has, by its r.•nti"''"'{'\I to lose its revealing character. .. [Al kind of and vague understanding is the necessary result of. . .increasing with and written words. (372) He ctn1rrn-IPrl t can hardly believe that there was such a person as Jascha, that is, a person who was so unpretentiously endowed with passion and wit and generosity. For memory does not live without our effort, and we must avoid Jascha's becoming an antiquarian curiosity as little known or signifying as Humphreys or McDowell are when we mention the buildings named after them. Therefore we who knew him must recall him exactly as he was, or how can we help those who did not to remember this peak among human hills and plains (although he would be the first to say that it is not exactly "exactly" that one knows friends). That is particularly why I am glad that we are today dedicating this photograph and this loving portrait of J as cha, for both can recall him to us oldsters instantly, and by their evocativeness may strike those who have never known him with the assertion that here is a man who lived in a world somehow quite different from their own, about whom, perhaps, there is something new to be learned. Then, too, Jascha Klein was so uniquely a physical vessel whose very stance was dictated by his soul. Feet, body, hands, face, even suit coat cuffs and cigarettes were at the constant call of his expressiveness, it was another way of reaching out to those then near him. His face was almost as mobile as that of Scott Buchanan, and, so, very difficult for camera or pencil to catch. We are lucky that they are differently, but well caught here in these two likenesses. To illustrate this elusiveness of Jascha's name every famous person he ever met remembers first about the young Klein his "tender, soft almost girlish voice" in which he said "clever things about Nietzsche." The remarkable things said, but also the fact of which one never lost sight, that there was this man, this body and this clearly present soul who was saying them. Sometimes some aspect of Jascha could be caught in splendid cartoons or allusions-perhaps that is why a winter's ice statue of Jascha sculpted on the campus and lasting a few days in the late 'fifties meant so much to those who were there at that time. There is a picture of that ice statue, and a number of other splendid photographs of J ascha in the January, 1979 issue of the College. I urge everyone to find a copy and see these too. To return to J ascha and his physical presence, there is a lesson in the co-presence of the personal and the intellectual that Jascha perhaps would not have entirely disowned, for he would not disagree that we love and meet the truth in and through loving and meeting friends, not less in than through, not less through than in. And the list of Jascha's friends was remarkable, and it extended far beyond this College. Indeed Jascha brought these friends to this school year after year during his forty years here. Jascha introduced St. John's to many of his good friends during all those years, and the one that has benefitted the College most has been Else/Dodo Klein, whom I am so honored to call friend. ago, visited Winiarski, an accomplished painter and deeply of attached to Jascha. She showed me two ferent pieces and they are available in the April, 1970 and the 1979 issues of the I think you en1ovao1e if you read them. In the earlier issue ( 1970) Klein even speaks about himself, and that is ,rare and im1portan1t. And what he says goes to his great task of de-sedimentation, that is, of de-construction which he learned from Heidegger, but for better purposes than either Heidegger or ""' 7'T""n'" Heidegger's epigones ever dreamed of. When he was young, Klein said, it was only when with Heidegger's help he began to "understand something written by another man, namely, Aristotle" that he could break out of what he called the vicious circle of self-involvement was sible, but the body ... the I've caught the And so she had. had damn-well reached deep into her soul, with that photo as her madeleine, and literally caught that body and brought it back to make its determined claim against the earth, anchoring Jascha's listener in that moment and in that place to what was being said and thought, and yet, ready to go off. Even H.-G. Gadamer, in his book Philosophical Apprenticeships where he tries to which had been previously his deepest experience. Then he came to understand the greatness of mathematical physics. "It made possible what we call with a strange Latin word science. This science is derived from the classical mode of thinking, but this derivation is also a dilution which blinds our sight. My studies led me to conclude: we have to relearn what the ancients knew; we should still be able to persist in scientific investigations, ... although the science with which we are familiar is also capable of regress and of bringing about a fundamental forgetfulness of the most important things. As a consequence of these studies and this understanding, a question arose: How should people be educated." Like the hero he was, he acted on this question of education. He came to St. John's and he began to educate. And to a large degree what is best in the hearts and minds of many of us here is owing to that spontaneous kindly action of his, and more tangibly for others of you, the remarkable continued vitality of this school is in part owing to that action if his-as the new Dean, Eva Brann, who has done so much to bring some of Jascha's writings into print, will graciously acknowledge. In the end these photographs, this dedication, is to remind us who knew him, and you here who did not, that here was a man who, in our minds, was wonderful both in himself and in what he directed himself and us to. How wonderful? Not more wonderful than in real danger of being t01·gotte11, Hazo's kindness, also words order to meaning on some of them to the likenesses of Jacob Klein we dedicate here Bob Hazo said: "[Jacob Klein] was a very rare and man. To find another like him would take the of the look and look." And so, too, remembering Jascha for a moment, I urge all of you to seek out this Elliott Zuckerman and this~ ....~~~~~,,~,... are in McDowell, a moment look and look and look. reaches levels not at all." In this effort, which is the effort to awake wonder, all of his teaching, and that indeed he thought the only teaching, and for reason it is distinmeant for this remarkable loving recall his vividness; Johnnies, tutors, students, friends of the school who did not know him, and are the second audience. And I am the audience, for what I do today is also my effort in trying not to forget, so that I am combatting the fact that there are times when I her nu!Cl\h~n111 weekend dedicated to his memory. Keith Harvey photo �17 Beate Ruhm Jacob Klein's four discussed at seminars and more-are at the bookstore for in a volume tutors Robert B. Williamson and Elliott Zuckerman and puDmsnc:~a John's Press. California, immersed in the Russian language. "I took classes in Russian for eight hours a day, and then did homework in it for four. When you that much time to something every day you learn fast." After completing his studies, he was assigned to Germany where he translated Russian for three years. Now when he, s not C'THrnri1no- mine he was a game of chess." c01np1etu1g in tournaments and has been an ~~·~~.~.-..-~~ever since. he sml)a.sse~d his mentor in the sport long ago, two still competitively match wits over his father's work in artificial intelligence. Mr. Lank enrolled in St. John's in 1985 but left for financial reasons after his freshman year. He joined the U.S. Air Force and spent his first year in the military at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, he's on the campus hunched over a chess board. On P\H'n11no-" he meets with members of the .,...,...,,'""''"'" c Chess Club at Hardee' s on West Anna1Jol1ts . .K~ea:ssunng1y he invites any interested to show up, there's all levels of sm::ng1m in its 65 members. Is being one of the best a disadvantage when you are searching for a competitor? "There's more to chess than just winning," he says. "Chess players are as being loners because we like to depend on ourselves. But I play chess for the camaraderie too; that's rewarding, also." The clutch of many lives that are best hides from our gaze those lives which bear proper witness to human Earlier ages may have of witnesses, but in this century now dn1w:m2: to its close we have been me~mc)rHLilzmg or even aware existence of such men; indeed our very tends to the notion of a hero. monstrous apparatus state, it has been or to be witness to what is to be cherished in human affairs. Refined methods of torture are which break the will while preserving the intelHF.'~""'"'· Opponents to regimes are classified as common criminals in tions become anonymous, a tide of organized slaughter or surrounded by the slow death of an arctic prison camp. 1.. r1,,,.....,,." "good" men fear to speak or to act because of the ever present fact of reprisals against not only themselves, but against their families, friends~ colleagues, and even nodding acquaintances. Moltke in one of his letters (Berlin, 10 Sept. 1940) speaks of having lunched with a "good" man who is one of many who have lost like a game of their orientation. "It is blind man's bluff: have been turned round and round blindfolded and no know what is left and right, front and back." too often men of the most extraordinary intellect enjoyed and sought the honours bestowed upon them regime which it is painful to imagime they did not detest. This was the unhappy record of Germany's most noted philosopher. Another of the horrors of so many of these states has been the ease with which one remains ignorant of what is actually going on. Persons become numbers and are shipped east, or they are dropped from helicopters over the rivers Platte or Euphrates. No one is informed, nothing is reported, no questions are asked, none need be answered. Nothing need be said. It is against this grey and incessant desolation that the letters of Helmuth von Moltke to his beloved wife Freya stand. They span a period from August 1939 to 1945, when he was executed for treason the regime. In this spiern110 ..__,,,""u""' translation of them are adset out with the proper notes and by a most cogent and inforin which the about the knF•ITn-~~··~n of this modern hero which that he can sense the milieu these '""'"'"h"'"'" are written. Moltke was""'"'""'""' serve was descended who won Bismarck's greatest victories. He had been trained as a both and hngland. His mother's in South travelled in these years as a member of the Foreign Division of the Abwehr to ScanFrance, and and had a view of Germany and the war itself from both inside and outside. The letters attest to never-ending work and attention. As a member of the Abwehr, the German Intelligence Division, he was a legal advisor to the High Command of the Armed Services. (The chief of the Abwehr, Admiral war. were an acute and active center of resistance to the regime.) From this base Moltke was able to exof the Wehrmacht to tend the those who might fall afoul of the SS. In the ,,.,::i,·11Pr r1,::i,,~ of the war he down breaches of international law and all to protect neutrals and of war. The defeat of France marked the zenith of Hitler's course; domestic became mc:reas1ngLy difficult and depression and defeatism were rampant among men of good will. Moltke at this time a together like-minded men to discuss what was to be made of Germany after the debacle of Hitler's defeat. The name of this group (given to it by the Gestapo) was the "Kreisau the name being taken from the Moltke family estate in Silesia where his wife Freya stayed the war and where most of these letters are addressed. Moltke wanted both socialists and churchmen to be represented in this group as he felt this to be essential to the rebuilding of Germany after the war. This group had no part in the of treasonous acts or in the assassination attempt on Hitler's life. Moltke acts of violence, feeling that would affect the actions of the Third Reich. Indeed the immediate cause of his arrest in late 1944 was that he warned an acquaintance that he was about to be picked up: this was, however, sufficient reason for the Gestapo. Moltke' s faith is a continual and deepening thread in these letters. In the very last letters, sent from Tegel prison a few days before his execution, he reports to Freya, with a kind of deep satisfaction, an utterance from one of the tirades of Preisler, the monstrous prosecuting judge. "Only in one respect are we (i.e. the National Socialists) and Christianity alike: we demand the whole man." In this same letter Moltke writes: "Of the whole gang Preisler was the only one who recognized me, and he is the only one who knew why he had to kill me." He then goes on to quote Preisler again: "From whom do you take your orders? from the Beyond or from Adolf Hitler?" Moltke' s trial and execution was for 1-V-'-'-'"""'"'' and, one trusts, for any who obco1uai~e and a in cused of treasonous acts, of as~;assmanon, or of coup d' etats. in the Nazi's eyes, was he on his 4 ,.,,,""""' ',.,""'"" the German edition American version am report both British and a French~~·~·~,.. , are the result of devoted and lucid hard work Oppen. Her English translations are impeccable and her preface a model of proper information and restrained fervor regarding the heart of what the letters reveal. She worked closely with Freya, Moltke' s widow, and their collaboration keeps alive the daily strivings and hard work of a true politician. �18 's ' Anna1JOL1rs who spent the academic year of 1988-89 at the llU4<::snrun "What is it like to to Santa Fe?" an ANGE aerial view say from the illicit McDowell belltower, will show you a scrollwork of streets, a nest of houses, small in area, But most of it is the concord of and rotundas - the Naval the State and the historic churches - that strikes you, the balance of different ... ~.'"'"'H~V· are the hubs round which the like a well-ordered universe. This force even St. where all life revolves around in check among the dormitories. McDowell If this is the of a " where lodestones of and and mansions and how then should I As a yes, but one riveted mountain range and 1 " "'.-'"'''""' man-made strives to match Mt. towering above it. The vastness of the land and with a almost dissolute force. Instead of man ,,....,,,..r,.,.,,,...n,..,, o upon wilderness, the same old story, I felt wildness invade man. I discovered at a ceremony called Zozobra. . . . . ......,~~......,~ FOR FIESTA said the signs posted upon gates; led the way into town for me and other Johnnies. A scent of almond cookies floated the clear ~e1Jte1n1Ji~r ev€~illlm!: the air was colored rose. A about the Plaza, where we congregated, turned into a march a few blocks from downtown; noted for the white cross that on a That I didn't notice the cross - for across the field stood a effigy, Zozobra, Old Man Gloom. I knew I was here to see a virtual but I was little for it Dusk was slow to settle on us, and the darker it grew the closer the crowd pressed. , .. F, ....... u~u rose. Food and beer addressed one another, and merged. line between and mountains faded. It from And then: a slow moaning rose the figure, gradually rising in side to side, arms; great eyes in an ugly mask-face rolled. On the earth's and a defile of white-robed figures. A charge, like raised ledge behind it were the as the effigy writhed shouts prickles our collective and when half the men, women in the were screarmnlg the white robes their torches to Zozobra's hem. I had I was born too late to see the likes Amidst the "Old Man Gloom" was opening and grotesque eyes and mouth, and we the crowd were gaping, The demise of a community's embodied fears and worries took half an hour. Afterinto the night; the streets flowed like arroyos in a wards we staggered out of the flashflood. Our procession was dense and glassy-eyed, in . We purge, a revival, an into a Plaza engulfed in music, blazing with light. After unrivaled festival. Such was my violent introduction to a land of violent Later I would become accustomed to the crosses set on cliffs along the highways, the stories of penitentes, and even, in the tourist the and new-age fanaticism. Meanwhile St. John's immersed me in the Dante, and the St. Matthew's Passion. Six I felt I'd come full circle when, at a monastery, I months after watched a monk light a predawn bonfire to the resurrection of Christ The affirmation of a living mystery in New Mexico, concomitant with the ""'r•nn·mnrP awakened an excitement in me I can still recapture when I Monte Sol, the hill behind St. John's that every once. It was that me to the limits of reason that gave new to my education; it's the force I recognize when I read Wordsworth's "The World Is Too With Us" or ''Tintem - a Romantic sense in boundless nature. What a shock it was to return to ne<)Cl£1ss1lcru solace is to be found in the that in a green shade." Two different two different solitudes, two cities enap1pro1pnare to two visions one that seeks the of God and ..,....rw•n•....-.,......, with man as its measure. To the Editor: My fondest memory of Santa Fe tutor David Jones is his contribution to Santa Fe's very first real Olympics Sophistry Debate. The issue was, Resolved: that nature puts all her eggs in one basket. I believe that David Jones took the affirmative, but, regardless, he took the debate with his summation (derived from carefully consulting the dictionary entries preceding and following key terms in the debate), that Yolk is to Folk as Albumin is to Human. That same twinkle was in his eye during the most serious of seminars and tutorials. His death has meant a great loss to the St. John's community. Augusta Goldstein, SF '68 (Mr. Jones' obituary appeared in the June, 1990, issue of The Reporter-Ed.) To the Editor: Am over here in Saudi Arabia as a Marine officer in the midst of the troubles in the news. The whole situation reminds me of Euclid my last semester in Annapolis, and also a bit like Kant when I was in Santa Fe. Over all, though, I'd say I'm dealing with Section 41 of Beyond Good and Evil as well as Book 3 of The Ethics, and Thucydides!folstoi. St. John's did not train me for leadership in harm's way and living out of a pack in a desert-the Marine Corps did. But St. John's did provide me with an outstanding foundation to deal with anything and everything mentally. (Didn't do anything physically for the students, though-presume Mr. Leo Pickens and Brian Good are changing that.) Best to the students, faculty and staff, Lt. J. S. Kojac, USMC, A '89 BRIAN DICKINSON my assorted re~rrers--u1ev surface from time to time, unbidden-is the fact that I didn't attend St. John's I not have gotten St. John's-what makes it schedule of courses. There is one such "and that's what every student takes. To those who cherish of diversions mc1sque1~aamg serious academic would seem LHU•~L,C~L·~~L After it may be asked, bother with when you can· Basketball Shoe Maintenance and the Sociology of the Grateful Dead? counter to Yet St. John's does very well for itself in academic and this may carry a message for the earnest educators who are to save America's educational system from collapse. The message, no doubt to some, goes like this: seriousness; content. Students at St. John's do all their work, or nearly all, from nnirnmnr men the Greeks. Sophomores take history through the Kenmssamoe, about the 17th and 18th centuries; and seniors the human story more or less up to to be sure, with no soft spots, and at least two the minute. It's a formidable out of every five entering students wash out. But the governing concept-a school O'A1rn111C01'7 O-rll1HTI•'1Pl1 in the classical academic offer of education. this time of hand-wringing about Not for a minute do I suggest that the St. John's ~1-'t'A~·-~u more than a small and fiercely motivated ----L--··--J or so I and its to its task many students as n•c........ ...,L.~~·""· All this the school has carved out a remarkable niche for itself in American stiffening-not relaxing-its to teachea11canon, and has done so ing. If there is a message in this for the eager education " it may be to reinforce the back-to-basics idea in a very big way. No after could be more basic than a handful of students i.ur1tnH1" of Tacitus, Goethe or Newton. Such a method not presents a to teacher and student but . concentrating on landmark texts from across the ages, it students understand therr civilization's past in unusual What is so about the St. John's is that it lays stress on substance by both teacher and and does this curriculum down to its Neither teachers nor students can way through this. Teachers can't get away with from old lectures; stuas well and dents who haven't bothered to read their Machiavelli had head home. I suspect this sorne1nmtg to many American schools There is, after sornernmg of a consensus in the reform movement around a few basic prc>pos1t1.ons, of which relate in some to how St. John's goes about its bwnrn~ss. There seems to be growing support for for and for shrinking the swollen bureaucracies that choke many large urban school systems. There ~eems to be for systems of school for more m and duration. There is more for more teacher autonomy, more teacher au1:nont~f--m<)re teacher more return to what until were scorned as old-fashioned texts. as you can hear in states such as . . ,._ . .,H~•"-&"""~J South New and Arkansas, it is in the state noo-1Jsv·cn01c>gv te;i1~tb100Jc, would never make the at a like St. John's-and there's no reason such fashions have to dominate our schools. Unless I miss the thrust of today's most school U.S. schools is by freeing up tea.cn<~rs--l:ma reform arrangements, the way to kids-to learn solid subjects in an interesting way. This demands, among other things, that schools break out of their inherited curricular str;an11ac1rnrs; that teachers compete for more autonomy and earn honors for and that themselves be drawn more into planning, with their tea.crn~rs, their subjects can be made more enticing. This sense of engagement--of teachers and pupils being drawn into _the very ram for~stcrux of learning about geometry, or the French Revolution, or the can encourage the sort of zest and experimentation that can bring needed sparks to tued classrooms. This kind of zest and adaptability, open to fresh teaching strategies, can make an immense difference. To mean anything, however, this approach demands a solid consensus in favor of substance over froth. On the education front, this is a battle that has yet to be won. will teach at Tutor Emeritus Curtis Wilson will teach a course in the scientific revolution during the spring semester at the University of Toronto. His class for graduate students will be taught at the university's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science. Earlier this fall he delivered a paper before the 22nd annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences, the American Astronomical Society, at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and spoke at a gathering of philosophers and historians of science at the University of Wes tern Ontario in London, Ontario. �19 I club As they like to say, the day belonged to the St.John's College Rowing Club, which won 12 of 13 rowing events, losing only the men's elite four to the Annapolis Rowing Club in the first ever Lianne Ritter Memorial Regatta. But the bright mid-October Sunday belonged to everyone, especially to the scores of students, townspeople, toddlers, teenagers, and a vagrant dog or two who gathered near the boathouse along the south bank of College Creek to watch the rowing competition. At the time of her death in an auto accident in May, Lianne Ritter, rower, student, teacher, friend, and daughter, was working towards a Graduate Institute degree. On this day when her memory was to be honored, her father and stepmother, Toby and Nataly Ritter, her mother Adrienne College president Donald J. MacI v er, Dean Eva Brann, Lianne's friends, and some who never knew her, watched from creekside. Other friends and fellow oarsmen were out on the creek pulling at the long oars. A teacher and crew coach herself, Lianne might have liked the fact that the competitors included area high school students, who, drifting out last year and this in twos and threes to watch the and sometimes recruiting each other, now row in the junior program of the Annapolis Rowing Club. Down at the head of the Creek in the launch Dirty Emma Il was Leo Pickens, College Athletic Director, lining up the shells to start at 15-minute intervals, and somewhat bemused at what he had Just two and a half years about a half dozen students were under instruction of the Rowing Club, which has rented boathouse space from the college for a decade. Today, with three eight-man shells, two four-man shells and a single scull, the rowing program has At the Northern California Alumni Association chapter's annual picnic and meeting at the Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, contributions surpassed the $5,000 goal for the Robert Bowne Davis Memorial Fund set up two years ago. Established to honor Mr. Davis, A '69, a gifted practitioner of the visual arts, especially as architect and exhibition designer, the fund will be the endowment for an annual lecture on the subject of architecture or a related visual art, to be given alternately on each campus. Mr. Davis died in 1987. Harrison Sheppard, A '61, is chairman of the Fund. As a designer for the San Francisco de Young Museum beginning in 1983, Mr. Davis was credited with the presentation of the King Tut, Tiffany, Alexander the Great, Vatican and other immensely successful exhibitions. The Vatican was so pleased with the de Young exhibit that it invited Mr. Davis to design a permanent installation for it, a commission he was unable to accept. In addition to his major interests, Mr. Christopher Bolle: Washington lawyer Lianne Ritter introduced more than 70 students to the sport, and Mr. Pickens was seeing an expanded and competitive program that must have surprised even its author. Moreover, it was, remarkably, coached by a student, junior Fred Haller, and his two assistants, juniors also, Lorie Benning, and Adam Eggers. "When I arrived, the rowing program was like a little seedling sticking its head out of the ground," Leo observes. "The question was should we nurture it or not? One time out on the water in a shell was enough to convince me that rowing was an ideal sport for St. John's." Lianne's regatta was over. The large silver Lianne Ritter trophy had been nTf~i:::P,nte.n by Mr. Ritter to Fred Haller, coach of the victorious Johnnies, and the cup had been carried off to the boathouse where it would be placed in a trophy case. On another fall day, men and women would remember Lianne Ritter and dispute the cup's possession once again. Christopher Bolle, A'79, a Washington lawyer practicing regulatory law in the field of financial services, died suddenly in May of a heart condition. A 1985 graduate of the Catholic University Law School, as a law student he served as clerk at the Home Loan Bank Board. After graduation, he first joined one Washington law firm, and then, in 1987, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, where he helped to develop the firm's practice in the financial services area. At St. John's, Kit was a multi-talented student who was known for his pranks and hi-jinks. At his memorial service in New Hampshire, a family friend spoke of Kit's love for the College, and his response to the Program and the community, adding that "he did not take everything seriously ... and he spent a fair amount of time trying to come up with a sport at which St. John's could defeat the Naval Academy. We do know that during his years at St. John's more than one midshipman fell victim to Kit's pranks and practical jokes." He was polity attorney at the College, a sailor, a movie lover (especi_ally Buckeroo Banzai), an early computer whiz, and among his hobbies was an interest in military history and politics. Kit's computer skills translated into computer game expertise as well as professional activities. Kit was Group Captain Biggies, a name from Monty Python, in "Air Warrior," which can be played by as many as 60 people in a public access network. Kit became legendary in the games, which can go on for weeks at a time, running training classes and taking new players under his wing. Using computers another way, he became of a kind of electronic town meeting, an ongoing discussion group covering military history, government, politics, and the events of the day. After Kit's death, one of his computer friends wrote on the network, "I know I'll still be expecting a reply from C. Bolle on every active topic. He just couldn't resist being the devil's advocate, and everyone who left a long-winded dissertation just knew that something from Biggies was forthcoming." He is survived by his parents, Jocelyn and James, a brother Ned and a sister Susanna, and his fiancee, Maggie. graduate Winifred Ruth Ryan Brown, 69, a retired Washington lawyer who received a Graduate Institute degree in 1982, died of cancer August 26 at Georgetown University Hospital. Mrs. Brown served as a lawyer with the State Department in 1948 and 1949, and for the Civil Aeronautics Board. From 1986-88, she was an independent counsel with the Justice Department. She was an oblate of St. Anselm's Benedictine Abbey, and did volunteer work with hospice groups and with the Legal Counsel for the Elderly. A graduate of Smith College, where she in .L1u"i;::.u0u. also received a master's Mrs. Brown received her law degree from Yale University. She clerked for a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge in New York, where she practiced law before moving to Washington. She is survived by her husband, Emerson M. Brown, a retired Foreign Service officer, a son Christopher, A '75, and a second son and daughter, as well as two grandchildren. officer Davis was also an accomplished photographer, woodworker and sailor. He frequently competed both as skipper and crew in trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic yacht races. Bellringing ceremony "It was exhausting but very moving." These were the words of Annapolis tutor and bellringer Ann Martin who took part in the service of consecration for the National Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Washington at the end of September. After 83 years of construction, the last stone was laid for the edifice Saturday, September 29, and the consecration I Retired Lt. Col. Richard H. Torovsky, 90, a graduate of the class of 1921 and a longtime resident of Annapolis, died in October of respiratory arrest at the Anne Arundel Medical Center. He served in the Army for 22 years at military posts in the U.S. and abroad, and retired in 1944. He is survived by his wife Margaret Kern Torovsky, one daughter, one son, and two granddaughters. Andrew S. Witwer, A '44, died of bone cancer September 22 in New York City. He was 70. An author and playwright, Mr. Witwer graduated from Joliet, Illinois, Township High School in 1940, and in World War II, he served as a navigator with the U.S. Eighth Air Force in England, flying numerous missions over Germany. He was graduated from St. John's in 194 7, and later earned a master of arts degree in creative writing from Columbia University. For the past 40 years, Mr. Witwer had lived and worked in New York City. He is survived by many devoted and loving friends. Those who wish may contribute in his memory to Cancer Care, Inc., 1180 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036 or _write to K.S. Victor, 139 West 19th St., New York, NY 10011. completion of cathedral · September was held on Sunday. "I have been watching the cathedral grow for a very long time," says Ann. "This was the crowning event to a very long process." Ann and her husband Edward also took part in two tower bell peal attempts to mark the occasion-Friday after the Festival Evensong to honor volunteers and workers, and Sunday after the consecration. A successful peal consists of three and a half hours of ringing the 10 bells in over 5,000 different orders without repetition. "We were successful in the Friday night peal," says Ann, "but Sunday was heartbreaking." The musicians rang very well for over two hours, but then, exhausted from ringing almost non-stop since Friday, they gave out, and the peal was not successful. Ten Englishmen who had come over to ring the changes at the dedication of the central tower 25 years ago were back for the ceremonies, joining dozens of American bellringers. Ann has been ringing at the Cathedral since the bells were installed in 1964. �PAGE20 A collection of 75 ceremonial and dance masks, some as far back as the l 700's, will be d.1s101a1vect the exhibition Masks of the at the Elizabeth Mitchell Art Gallery from Saturday, 12-Sunday, February 24. This is the sh<)Wllil!l of the exhibition in the Bal- A cast of 35 tutors and students will appear in the most ambitious ~n:1Ke:spe!an~an production to be mounted at the Annapolis Part mances under .,._,,__,,.,,,.._,,_ William Players. The performances will be held at 8: 15 p.m. in the FSK Auditorium on and January 18and19, and '-:11-.1.-r1-:1u General admission will be the Saturday pe1rt0Jnnam:es. Plans have been nn,rlPT'UM"' The Mitchell Gallery is open through Sunday from 12 noon .........,.,... ,..... p.m., and on Friday from 7-8 lery is closed Monday. Adrm1mcm The masks were made in the tt11naJlay1m regions of Nepal, Bhutan, . . Ladakh, the northeast frontier of India and the of Tibet. hidden in the more remote areas, were not found until the 1950's. While are in their ~ •• ,,._,u.~· ~·'"' .. ~HUV others have been restored . IAU""-'U..lJ• . . .. , monsters, animals masks serve a wide range of social the pure entertheatre to the esoteric craftsmen of ethnic groups.. a of these masks are used for The mood of the dance was intensified ruston:ea, pru11cmanv the noses. actors in a form of meditation would don a mask and in a Pamela McKee, a lawyer and a former Seattle resident who came to the Annapolis area two years ago, has join~d the Advancement Office on the Annapolis campus as director of corporate and foundation relations. In 1989, Ms. McKee founded and served as executive director of EO Resource Council in Annapolis, a support service for charitable organizations. A graduate of Mills College in Califorshe did graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley and the Univerof Washington, and she received her law degree from the University of Puget Sound. In she has been active in the Severn River Association and in the Caritas In 1988, she was elected the board of directors of Historic An- in Ms. McKee is a member of the state bar associations and the federal bar associations of Califorand In Seattle, her civic activities included memb ersh1p on the Seattle School board of trustees and the Arts Planning Lomnms:s101n, "Blake and Newton" will be the topic of a lecture by Elizabeth Sewell, awardwinning poet and novelist, and a professor of literature, on Tuesday, January 22. Born a British citizen in India, Ms. Sewell is a graduate of Cambridge University where she earned her master's degree and doctorate. She is the recipient of several honorary degrees from American universities, and is the author of 13 books of literature and criticism. Mary Bittner Goldstein, a 1958 graduate of the Annapolis campus, a professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, will speak on "Three Renaissance Madonnas: Figures of the Feminine" on Tuesday, February 26. Both lectures begin at 4 p.m. in the Conversation Room in Mellon Hall. York; freshman freshman Joshua "'"'1"mr,...,,.11,,...,.r1. freshman John WarEric Northumberand freshman Ronald the Lord Chief Justice. In comic roles are tutors Malcolm and Peter Kalkavage as Justice Silence and Pistol; freshman Stephen Jablon, Bardolf, and senior Lawrence Saporta, Poins. Assistant director of the production is freshman John De Shazo, and stage manager and set designer is junior Lalena Parkhurst. W ertenbaker coming to area Our Country's Good," the highly acclaimed play by Timberlake Wertenbaker, A '66, which has now been produced on three continents, will be presented by the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., 3-June 23, 1991. Based loosely on Thomas Kenneally's 1987 novel The Playmaker, "Our Country's Good" tells a moving real-life story of how a group of convicts in 19th Australia are changed selves acting in a theatrical production. umtap~:)lls tutor Cordell Yee ,..,...,.,,.,...,.,,,,1""'r1 work last summer on the Chinese section of volume two of The of David Woodof geography at the of Wisconsin-Madison, and professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The volume deals with the traditional cartographies of Islamic and Asian cultures. .. ,..11 1 Committee are from Dean Eva Brann Tutor ~oil"'r.c.r!:ll•·u of the Donna Schueler. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1~ mr1 1 1 mr1 i1~ L 11111111111111111 31696 011381678 In a far-reaching and 1m:a1nnat1ve to both St. John's College campuses meet current commitments and prepare for future needs, one young alumnus is spearheading a bold challenge to friends of the l College and to the wider For the third time since 1987, Warren A '81-this time other alumni and friends-has asked for a response to his own µ1auu~;u tribution. For the first time, his will reach recent St. John's vVJLHUH.UUL challenge is met and if the College is able to increase the percentage of oa1rt1c:1rn1tlcm of parents and friends at all levels, with gifts in size from one dollar to both campuses will be able to address needs essential for St. John's College to remain in the forefront of education." vH<.lUvJHJ",v ......,un, .. F,'-' comes after conversations between Mr. and officials that covered present and future It was that to needs of the ., ..... H.U•'"'"'' Keith Harvey photo DONNA BOETIG through the cracks in the walls at the The year was 1942 and Annapolis was pre-World War II world. After examining a quiet, conservative, segregated town. each patient, Dr. Allen would wash his The Negroes, as they were called back hands several times with cold water atthen, were "kept in their place": a single tempting to compensate for the lack of restaurant, a sole black theatre on Calvert hot water. Street, and public toilets down at the city Black children began school at the dock designated "For Colored Women Stanton Center on Clay street, and if they and Men." The civil rights movement was bucked the odds and made it through the still 20 years away. eighth grade, they graduated to the allDr. Aris T. a young black Anblack Bates High School. ""h'·""'r" "" in the county Meanwhile across town at St. John's a clinic in a College, a white student, William As """''""""'"'hh..,..,. in the ColThere .,..,,,~~~"".-h"'11r1 E. Brown, a black maintenance man in his married with a Mr. swept the floors and dusted the cobwebs from books shelves. On his breaks, he'd auestion Mr. Goldsmith the ideas between their covers. He was ,,,,.UH.JU'"'· restless His lament did not go unheeded. Mr. Goldsmith was a proponent of rights for blacks. He had orc>tested discrimination in sporting events in the nation's capital. In 1942, he led the first (Continued on a e 12) and insufficient all the burden on parents ""'"'"""·" extraordinary steps. The recent successes of the annual fund campaign, which has more than doubled in size in the last five years, and of Mr. Spector's own two successful challenges, each directed to young alumni like "A"""'"·.... suggested the way. What emerged from the conversations was a two-part program, with deadlines in July, 1991, and July, 1992. Alumni, parents and friends will make two $50,000 gifts, each to be earned by the college if donors of gifts of $1,000 or more increase in number to 350 by July, 1991, and to 500 by July, 1992. Expected donors are alumni, parents, friends, faculty, staff and family or personal foundations. Givers of gifts of this size or more rose from 130 to 202 in 19891990. The college emphasizes, however, that gifts of any size will be important to solving the needs identified at both campuses, and that broad participation at all levels from those who know St. John's best, encourages others to give. Commenting on the challenge, Annapolis Vice President for Advancement A. Bishop said, "If this generous 20036. Penelope Nabokov, the 10-year-old girl who was one of the 39 Americans held against their will in Baghdad by Iraqi officials for 11 days in August, is now with her mother, Isabelle Nabokov, at a research center in India. The child is the daughter of Peter Nabokov, A'61, and granddaughter of Santa Fe tutor William Darkey. Penelope was taken off a British Airways jet when it landed in Kuwait while the Iraqi invasion was underway. She was flying from her grandparents' home in France to join her mother, a graduate student in anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley who was doing research in India. She was one of 367 passengers ordered off the plane. (Continued on page JO) �2 1 new at Annapolis: Should you happen to be on the campus, you would give me pleasure by coming to see me in the office. Sometimes I might be busy, but when free I would very much like to hear your news, be it an illuminating failure, an unexpected triumph or just your recent reflections on life. Eva Brann, Dean 1947 Eugene V. Thaw was quoted on page one of the August 16 WashingtonPostwith regard to a cache of 360 master drawings which were about to be returned to a Bremen museum by the Soviet officer who rescued them 45 years ago. The drawings and watercolors by Raphael, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens, Delacroix, Manet, Monet, Degas and Van Gogh, are, along with two small paintings by Durer and Goya, worth "several hundreds of millions of dollars," according to Mr. Thaw, identified as "a specialist in Old Master drawings." The paintings, long stored in the basement of a museum in Moscow, are being returned through the efforts of the former Soviet officer, a retired architect, restorer, and museum director, with the support of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. 1964 "Becoming Attached" by Robert Karen, an article about experiences in infancy that enable children to thrive emotionally, was published in the February, 1990, Atlantic Monthly, with an allusion to the work of Berkeley professor Mary Main. Prof. Main found that the way parents remember and organize their own childhood experiences is a predictor of which attachment group their children will fall into. (These attachment groups were labelled by an earlier researcher as "securely attached," "insecurely attached," and "anxiously attached" to describe infants' response to their mothers.) Prof. Main's research is identified as the first to show intergenerational transmission of secure and insecure attachment and "to attempt to distinguish between adults who have retained the negative legacy of their childhood and those who have worked through it." 1970 Lynn Fisher of Annapolis and Dr. Errol Pomerance of Philadelphia announce "with happiness and Thanksgiving" the June graduations of their son Brian Pomerance and daughter Robin Pomerance from Annapolis High School and the University of California respectively. 1972 "In hopes of stimulating more news from my classmates," Janet Nelson Berggren sent a batch of information about her family and SJC friends. Janet and Ken announce the birth of Julia Anne, who arrived April 3, "a sweet soul much admired by her parents and big brother Charlie, 3." Janet moved to Chicago in 1984 after pursuing banking and public affairs careers in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. After three years as a consultant with a Chicago Nancy Osius, editor; Donna Boetig, assistant editor; Wye Allanbrook, John Christensen, Benjamin Milner, J. Winfree Smith, and Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. The Reporter is published by the News and Information Office, St. John's College, Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404. Donald J. Maciver, president. Publishedfourtimes a year, in March, June, September and December. Second-class postage paid at Annapolis, MD. USPS 018-750 firm specializing in financial public relations and investor relations, she set up her own consulting business at home when Charlie was born. "It's worked out quite well for me and I really enjoy splitting my time between home and work. Ken has been home with a broken leg since January, complicating issues a bit." Visitors in early July were Karen Shavin and Jeff Crabtree, who live in Baltimore with their three children. Nancy Willis Forrester, who lives nearby on Chicago's North Shore stopped by to greet Julia, and last fall came a surprise visit from George Wright. 1978 Work by Robert Levy has appeared twice in Poetry Magazine in recent months, according to an informant. See obituary notice for Eric Wefald on page 15, about whom classmate David Woolwine writes: "Eric was at St. John's for only one year, but nonetheless made a lasting impression on many students and faculty members. My own acquaintance with him was revived at Princeton University where we were both graduate students in the early eighties. There I came to know Eric better and to see him as not only a brilliant and dedicated scholar, but as a principled individual, and as one of the kindest and most considerate people I have ever met. He was exceptional. Among his effects after the accident, was a partly completed translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, this undertaken in the midst of graduate work in artificial intelligence. I and many others miss him and are deeply saddened by his death." 1980 Danielle George Hatfield, scholarship chairman for the Washington Calligraphers' Guild, reports that Eleanor Kurs Verdi was recently one of two recipients of the Alpha A ward, names for which are drawn from 54 beginning level calligraphy students. The award provides money for continued calligraphy training in a program of the student's choice. John Rogers, A '75, designed the certificate to be presented to the winners in September. Danielle herself is a freelance calligrapher, who has recently been doing considerable work for the State Department, and who was to begin in June working fulltime for the Old Town Sign Company in Alexandria. 1981 Ralph Anthony Brasacchio received his medical degree in June from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He plans to begin an internship in internal medicine at Mercy Catholic Medical Center, Darby, PA, to -be followed by a residency in radiation oncology at Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester. Before beginning his medical studies, he received an MS degree from Roswell Park Center Institute, SUNY, Buffalo. Christopher Mark has been named to the faculty of Bloomsburg University in -(Continued on page 14) (The editor invites Santa Fe graduates to bring each other and other Reporter readers up-to-date on alumni news from the western campus.) Phi Beta Kappa), had surgery for a hernia, and turned 30! His plans are to stay in Fredericksburg, and accept a job as a Navy civilian computer scientist at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia. 1977 Peter F. Faulhaber received his M.D. June 9 from the Sfritch School of Medicine of Loyola University in Chicago. 1979 William A. Steadman, in March became associate dean for academic administration at the New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York. He has assumed responsibility for central coordination of an fiscal matters within the dean's office, including developing and monitoring capital and expense budgets for the academic and administrative departments under the dean's office. In his most recent position in the New York City office of management and budget, he served as task force director of the New York City Health and Hospitals corporation. The nephew of Santa Fe tutor Jack Steadman, "Gus" is married to Karol Lawton, SF '80. Gus received his master's degree from the New School for Social Research in New York. Karol received her master's degree in voice from the Aaron Copeland School of Music at SUNY in Queens and is busy with singing engagements around New York, as well as with the couple's three-year-old daughter Elizabeth Jeanne. 1983 Scott Boyd reports that in one eventful week he was graduated from Mary Washington College with a BS degree in computer science (summa cum laude and Class 1984 Trisha Fike completed in June masters' degrees in philosophy and humanities at Stanford University under a fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She will begin film studies in September at the University of Southern California in preparation for a career in screenwriting and directing. 1986 Alex Farnsworth was graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism in May and is off to live in Stockholm. If you are in the area, call him at 08 660 5284. 1988 "I wonder if Toby Barlow is the first member of the class of 1988 (Santa Fe) to make the national news?" writes Anne Slakey, SF '88. Listening to NPR over her morning coffee, she heard that "San Francisco writer Toby Barlow" had taken over the operations of Gargoyle, a respected small literary magazine. A phone call to another classmate, Toby's wife Denise Malone, SF '88, confirmed that Toby will be editing Gargoyle with Denise's help. "I can testify to the beauty, grace and charm of another Barlow/Malone productiontheir first child-but I am awaiting pictures of the latest edition, Carolina Rose," writes Anne. Contributions to Gargoyle are welcome, Denise says. 1 Once again we continue to spotlight the lives of alumni of Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses who celebrated their 20-year reunion last fall. Barbara Mordes Ross of Apopka, Florida, is now a professional actress, married to A. T .& T systems programmer John Ross (not the classmate described below). They share a four bedroom home with a heated pool in Orlando, Florida. After college, Barbara moved to New York City where she owned laundromats, pinball and vending machines and ran a limousine business, and on weekends she played penny poker with her Italian aunts and uncles. She became engaged to a screenwriter, but the relationship ended, and she then moved back to the D.C. area to manage her parents' chain of hypnosis clinics. She married a young folksinger, John Hiatt, traveling with him while he played gigs all across the country, and finally settling in San Francisco. Eventually, they separated. Later at a St. John's alumni gathering in San Franciso she met Gary Moody, a Santa Fe grad. Gary was shoeing horses on a California ranch. The two married, and bought a farm in West Virginia, where Gary created and organized The LostRiver Poetry Workshops. She and Gary separated and soon she met John Ross. The two are living happily. John A. Myers of Grafton, Virginia, attended St. John's for only a year before earning his BA in history from the University of Maryland and an MS in human resources management from Golden Gate University. He then completed twenty years in the Air Force and is now a senior computer programmer/analyst at the Christopher Newport College in Newport News, Virginia. Peter Naumburg of Santa Fe has been selling real estate there for the past 19 years. He has two daughters, Daniela, 14, and Carla, 11, who share his home, and says he has three unsuccessful marriages to his credit. He skis, plays squash, flies planes, and does aerobics to maintain his sense of humor. Previously, he Reynolds of Austin, Texas, married in 1970, and the next year built race cars. entered Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He served an 18-month ministry internship in North Carolina, directing a summer youth camp program and serving as pastor for two small churches. He later was ordained in the Presbyterian Church U.S. and served churches in Corpus Christi and San Antonio. He has a son and a daughter. In 1984 he went to work in records and management for the state comptroller and entered the U. T. graduate school of library and information science. Following graduation, he joined a law firm, directing its library and legal research. In 1986 he remarried. Joe and the former Linda Rose Klar live in Austin, Texas. Dorine Real of Westport, California, has worked in a library, taught computer literacy, been a technical analyst/editor, been involved in commercial fishing, property improvement and throughout it all has retained her love of cats. David Riggs of Ann Arbor, Michigan, taught high school for a year before working with computers, first as an analyst on (Continued on page 14) �PAGE3 REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1990 GREAT ISSUES s "Ethics and Law," fifth in the Great Issues Series on ethics, is scheduled for November 10, on the Annapolis campus. Sponsored by the Friends of St. John's and the Continuing Education office at the College, the successful series has brought hundreds of professionals and concerned citizens to the campus since 1988, when former Attorney General Eliot Richardson was keynoter for "Ethics and Politics" on the eve of the national election. The keynote speaker will be named later this month. Following the established format for these meetings, the program will begin with registration at 9 a.m. in the FSK lobby, the keynote speech at 9:30 a.m. in the auditorium, a question and answer period, and small group discussions on preassigned readings at 11 a.m. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m. in the gymnasium. At the heart of the are small group discussions, this be co-led by members of the legal profession and college tutors. The cost is $25 per person. For further information, call 263-2371, ext. 230. Working with Vice President for Advancement Jeff Bishop and Great Issues Series chairman Bill Brill, is a committee composed of Pat Black, Dr. Robert 0. Biern, Mary Kay Biern, Jerry Buckley, Geoff Comber, Veta Covert, Bill Pastille, Suzanne Pogell, Bill Schreitz, and Joan Vinson Stallings. Nancy Hammond is president of the Friends of St. John's. Besides Ethics and Politics, Great Issues programs have featured Ethics and Journalism, Ethics and Business, and Ethics and Medicine. Barbara Altman given careers p_ost The new director of career planning on the Annapolis campus is Barbara A. Altman, a 1988 graduate of the Graduate Institute. Ms. Altman, who has had extensive experience in public relations, especially in connection with her Spanish language skills, received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and her master's degree in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1987, Ms. Altman had been teaching conversational Spanish at the Anne Arundel Community College, as well as doing free-lance translation and writing. Previously she served as assistant to the Minister of Press for the Mexican Embassy, and as Congressional liaison and administrative assistant to the League of United Latin America in Washington. At the college, she will be helping students and alumni plan careers, apply to graduate programs, and search for jobs. Accolades for Moltke translation At a time of intensifying interest in German anti-Nazi resistance before and during World War II, the English language translation of Helmuth James von Moltke's letters to his wife, Letters to Freya, 1939-1945, is being reviewed and praised in respected publications across the country. The translation and editing of the letters from the German patriot and martyr was the product of more than 20 years of work by Annapolis tutor Beate Ruhm von Oppen, whose study was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Last fall, Ms. von Oppen travelled to Munich to accept the Scholl Prize~stablished to honor anti-Nazi resisters-for the German language edition. In the July 1, 1990, issue of The New York Times, V.R. Berghahn used the letters as a springboard for a telling anecdote about the Moltkes today. He noted that Kreisau, the former estate of von Moltke, was included on the itinerary of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for his· visit to Poland last year, and someone got "the bright idea" of inviting one of von Moltke' s sons to join the Chancellor on the visit. But his mother, the Freya of the letters, "counselled a polite refusal. As she explained, a Moltke would wish to go only if invited by the Polish government": the Moltkes would not want to give the impression that they were infringing on Polish territory. It was, said the reviewer, "a show of sensitivity and integrity that has characterized [her] entire life-and that of her husband until he was executed by the Nazis in 1945." Berghahn concluded his review by noting that Freya von Moltke, who shared the Scholl Prize with Ms. von Oppen, traveled from Vermont to Europe last May to help with a plan to turn the Kreisau estate into a center for the pursuit of peace. Reviews have also appeared in The Washington Post's Book World, The ChristianScienceMonitor, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications. A review of Letters to Freya will appear in the December Reporter. Annapolis president Donald J. Maciver, Jr., speaks at Commencement George Lundskow photo ceremony for Annapolis GI graduates. President cites "prior journey" to Graduate Institute audience By DONNA BOETIG Looking out into the crowd of 11 thinker and author after another-and as graduates, academicians, parents, and philosophers-sifting the truths to be guests that filled the Great Hall on August found in these books from the errors which 10 for the Graduate Institute commenceare also present there. Thus you have both ment at Annapolis, the new college presithe comprehension and judgement, the dent, Donald J. Maciver, was among ability to grasp a statement and to reach a conclusion as to its truth." kindred spirits. He saw adults who had experienced the world, but had returned for Finally, he presented two challenges to the graduates. The first was to continue to a while from the bustle of the marketplace to the serenity of academic life. practice the art of conversation, discussing The 48-year-old lawyer and former books and ideas, carrying out their responTexas natural gas executive recently traded sibilities as citizens, and communicating in their occupations and personal relationthe corporate world for the presidency of the College. Eventually, he plans to earn ships. He urged those who are teachers to use the art of conversation in their classes, his own degree from the Graduate Institute and teach in a public high school. and to supplement the textbooks with Speaking to the nine men and three original documents. "Raise your expectawomen-among them teachers, business extions of your students and they will exceed ecutives,anarchitectandahomemaker-who them," he said. had come from as far away as Austria to study The second challenge was to continue to a graduate curriculum based on a program grow intellectually-deeper by reading begun 53 years ago, he told them that they too and rereading books of the western tradiwere "marked by a prior journey." He quoted tion, and broader by reading great works of former dean ScottB uchanan' s reference to the the Islamic, Indian, Chinese and Japanese "heavy weights of experience" that they pulled traditions. He recommended as a guide to with every word they used in a St. John's semithe latter an article by Professor de Bary of nar. He interjected former president StringfelColumbia University from the 1987 low Barr's thought that weight gives adults volume of The Great Ideas Today. (The who had suffered certain things in life a supeseries is edited by John Van Doren, A' 4 7.). riority in their conversations over those of The following graduates received youngsters. But some adults had declined to master of arts degrees: Eugene Francis suffer, and had closed doors that kids hadn't Baldwin, Karen Hott Barthold, Paul yet closed. Jonathan Hartt, Peter A. Holland, Wilbert "The fact that you are sitting in this V. Kiessling, Jr., Eric Turner MacKnight, ceremony today demonstrates that you N'Omi Smith Orr, James Bristol Rush, have learned how to reopen those doors," Christopher Malcolm Teare, Howard Mr. Maciver declared. "We might call it Thomas Ware III, Stanley Philip Whatley the 'art of conversation.'" and Claire Irene Wilcox. Lianne Ritter, "As you leave this campus, you have who would have been among the changed. You have been in pursuit of truth graduates, was killed in a traffic accident and have been affected by what you have this past spring. found. In the terms of Mortimer Adler, the educator and philosopher who colMalcolm Wyatt, director of the Graduate laborated with Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Barr Institute, presented to James Craig the Alumni on the New Program and still lectures at the Association award for the student outstanding Annapolis campus each year, you have in both excellence in the classroom and service read these books both as scholars--coming to the Graduate Institute community during to understand the thoughts of one great the summer. ' Tutor Beate Ruhm von Oppen Parents' Weekend on the Annapolis campus is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, November 2 and 3. "All parents are cordially invited to attend," said Betsy Blume, Director of Alumni Activities, who added that there will be a full schedule of activities, including seminars and preceptorials for parents led by tutors. Further details for parents will be provided in a brochure to be mailed this month. For information, call (301) 263-2371, ext. 507. �4 "I don't think of writer," says Istvan i-.,,.,. . ,,.,...,,.... , myself as a living witness. these of a changing his book The Road to Revolution, the H,,..,,,/,,,.,/,,,, 1945-56, published last spring, and two other books written in Hungarian and published since 1980 on the same subject are the testimony of this living witness. He wrote most of the book from personal experience, he says. "I met these people I write about in prison. Ifl didn't write about them, nobody would." He spent eight years in political prisons in Hungary, from 1948 to 1956. By his estimate, 700,000 people were imprisoned in Hungary for anticommunist activities between the end of World War II and the 1956 revolution, which brought the nation 10 short days of freedom. "People accept now the fact that during Stalin's time about 100,000 Hungarians died in prison and in concentration camps in the Soviet Union alone. This was a silent holocaust." He has had other roles, the most recent of which was director of student activities on the Santa Fe campus, a position he left after 20 years last spring· in a glow of of Soviet agents, his discovery, capture and brutal abduction, are all the stuff of which spy thrillers are made, and his account conveys the reckless courage and suspense of those real-life moments. What follows is the body of the book, one individual's experience that becomes an emblem for uncountable '"''"'"'"'~"'~ 7"'"'-·"'~ ces of those terrible times. Fehervary was subjected to physical torture, interrogation, the mockery of a trial in a Soviet military court, and an initial sentence to 20 years of hard labor. When he was turned over to the A VO-later the A VH-the Hungarian equivalent of the KGB, he spent months waiting for a second trial, his life characterized by mistreatment, starvation, overwork, beatings and other refinements intended to break the prisoners' resistance. The second trial came on his 24th birthday, a cruel joke, and resulted in a sentence of 15 years at hard labor. In the Stalinist years before 1953, physical abuse of prisoners was encouraged. "Fehervary's ... armed foray all alone into a house full of Soviet agents, his discovery, capture and brutal abduction, are all the stuff of which spy thrillers are made ... " college-wide and community-wide affection. Before that there were still others, as a member of the Hungarian pentathlon team that would be Olympic winners in 1952, an engineering student, a revolutionary, an editor, journalist, and publisher, to mention the happiest of these. But it is his years in prison, the things he saw and the people he knew, that he felt bound to record. Fehervary has a somber story to tell, but the stocky, powerful and smiling figure is not a somber man as he sits today in the comfortable living room of his house on Conejo Drive in Santa Fe, the books of his new venture, Pro Libertate Publishing, spread out on the coffee table. On the one hand an important and poignant record, The Long Road is also a suspense-filled account of clandestine activity, sudden arrest, and split-second escapes. Beginning in 1986, Radio Free Europe broadcast dramatized segments from Fehervary 's two books already published in Hungarian-The Prison World in Hungary and The Soviet World in Hungary-and these tales made him wellknown in the country he had left 30 years before. The author has 30 tapes of those broadcasts. In the past decade, the Hungarian-language books have been cited repeatedly by writers dealing with the postWorld War II years of brutal Soviet repression in Hungary. The two books were adapted and expanded for the new Englishlanguage book. The Long Road begins with those circumstances that perhaps made his ordeal inevitable. At the end of World War II, Hungary, a late and reluctant participant on the Axis side, soon grew to know what occupation by the Soviet armies meant. When Resistance began to be organized by students and others, Istvan, 23 and an engineering student, was involved in it. After his identity was revealed to the police, he was forced to flee to Austria where the Allied powers ruled in uneasy juxtaposition. Working at a greengrocer's in Vienna, Fehervary's description of the "The Irons," the most notorious of the many punishments meted out capriciously to prisoners, is only for the strong of stomach. Three times he was subjected to this punishment, which left some prisoners unable ever to walk again. He spent his years of incarceration at several prisons, each with its grim story of endurance and cruelty. Other eyewitness accounts, including those of women prisoners, and of prisoners in labor camps in the Soviet Union, augment his own. Fehervary asks and answers the rhetorical question: how did prisoners survive the hopelessness and inhumanity of the endless days? His answer lies in the prisoners' hunger for culture and learning, and their willingness to teach one another languages and skills, whatever they knew, including music theory, and sausage making. Using scraps of paper and cloth, toilet tissue and lead-even though the punishment for such "smuggling" could be the short irons-the prisoners wrote poems and short stories and other extraordinary fragments, some of which are included in this book.Stalin's death in 1953 brought about a gradual lessening of prison cruelties, and when Imre Nagy became premier, he denounced police atrocities, and from that time to the revolution of 1956, court sentences became more fair and guards' treatment of prisoners gradually improved. Central to the book is the listing in chapter five of those who were executed or died of mistreatment, 226 documented cases among the thousands who died in Hungary between 1945 and 1956 in this way. No official records exist from that time ofterror, and the names Fehervary presents were collected from the testimony of hundreds of surviving political prisoners. The revolution in October 1956 brought I 0 days of freedom to the nation before the Soviet tanks rolled through the streets of Budapest once more. Fehervary escaped again to Austria, part of the exodus of 200,000 Hungarians there and to Yugos- lavia, this time across the December snow with a small child on his back. years after he had been KIOlna1ooe:a in he was Between that time and this year to an American two children, Krisztina now 27, and 10 years in Vienna on a resistance newspaper and three years as counselor and director of education at It was the International there that St. John's "-'v•n...,;1'!.'-'. Peterson, 1m1n...-r..h" 1n1u ......uui::, .. the offices of another Hunorresrmnae1nce with College .1.'l..n.,11ru1 u Weigle followed, and at length Istvan was sight unseen, and began his 20 happy years in Santa Fe. His Kristy is with him this .,,...,..,...,.,,...,..,.in house in Santa answertelephone calls in the background for publishing house, also located here. who holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a master's degree from the Graduate Institute, has been with her father all the way since he began the new book 16 months ago. A small strong dark-haired figure, with an attractive and alertly intelligent face, she stands beside him now, while her father regards her with affection. "Some parts I wrote in English, with Kristy editing. Some parts she translated," he says. "Sometimes she said something was missing, and I added it." Kristy says, "I tried to make things as English as possible without losing his speech." As a survivor of political imprisonment, Fehervary was invited to return to Hungary for the first time in 33 years in June, 1989, to attend the funeral services of former premier Imre Nagy. Nagy and three others had been executed after the Soviets crushed the Hungarian uprising, and buried secretly. When an informant identified the burial spot, the bodies were removed for a state funeral, and 250,000 Hungarians, testing new liberties, came to do honor to the martyrs. At this signal time, the new Four Four men have joined the faculty on the Santa Fe campus for the 1990-91 academic year. They are James P. Forkin, Danny L. Hawley, Frank R. Hunt, and Gerald P. Proietti. Mr. Forkin, a 1980 graduate of the Santa Fe campus, received both his master of science and master of arts degrees at the University of California, Davis, and his PhD in social thought at the University of Chicago in 1990. His doctoral dissertation was a comparison of the political and philosophical themes in Shakespeare's Tempest and the writings of Machiavelli. Among his scholarships is the Century Fund Scholarship for three years of work at Chicago. Mr. Hawley received a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1968. He has since received two masters' degrees and completed work for a second PhD. The first master's and doctoral degrees, in physics, were awarded by Princeton University; the second master's degree, in religious studies, and a PhD in the history of religions (expected in 1990), are from the University of Virginia. At Virginia, Mr. Hawley taught courses in Hindi and in eastern religious traditions and modem Hindu thought. After serving as a graduate assistant at Princeton, he taught physics from 1972-75 at Carleton College. He coordinated and designed computerized information systems for the division of continuing education at Virginia, and for eight years was an Istvan Fehervary and Pro Libertate Publishing volumes. J.W. Blagden photo government repudiated its description of the 1956 revolutionaries as "hooligans," and "agents from the imperialists." They were patriots, the government now acknowledged. Weeks before this interview, Hungary had held its first free election since World War II, and the results were news around the world. "After 45 years in office, after all the brainwashing and re-writing the books, the communists got about five per cent of the vote," says Istvan thoughtfully. "I wish Gorbachev good health. If he were to die or to be removed, there would be a big question about what will happen in the Soviet Union. But the old Stalinist system won't return again." SF analyst/programmer in the same division. His honors include, among others, membership in Phi Beta Kappa, a three-year National Science Foundation Fellowship at Princeton, and a Hindi Language Training Fellowship in India. A graduate of New York University, Mr. Hunt attended St. John's at Annapolis for two years, winning the sophomore essay He received his master's and doctoral degrees from the Catholic with a dissertation on ._,,.,,,v.. a.<... A lecturer both at Montgomery College in Maryland and at University in Arlington, Virginia, Mr. Hunt has had extensive editorial experience as a freelance editor for presses including Princeton, Cornell, Penn State, Minnesota and Chicago. From 1980-1986, he was a manuscript editor for the Catholic University. Mr. Proietti received his bachelor's degree in applied music from the State University of New York at Fredonia, and his master's degree in classics and his PhD in political science at Boston College. A visiting professor of political science at the University of Dallas for the 19891990 academic year, he has also taught at Boston College, Dalhousie University, SUNY at Otswego and the University of Wisconsin. He has published articles and presented many papers at conferences, particularly on the politics of the classical world. �REPORTER 5 NANCYOSIUS Laws, was made available to readers, little more in a year after the book had French. "The unbelievable " said Basia tutor at Santa Fe, over coffee and donuts last in her second floor office of the Evans Science Building, "is that translated. The Thomas translawork ever done." tion of the 240 years later, there Until now. its publication rer>re:senttrn:g not that unmeasurable investment of hard solitary scholarly of a shared but also the of friends and colleagues. These efforts concluded in an unexpected triwhen the completed manuscript was ..,v •• . ., .. ..., ..... and, last year published, by the prestigious University Press. The new edition is one of a long list of titles of works in the history of political thought projected by the press, and one of the first to appear. Three collaborators share in this " said Basia, giving her own twist to the time-honored cavil, "if we had known how big a project it was we would never have started on it. On the other hand, since it was such a big project, we weren't going to have any competition." Fortified a contract with a university press, the two women began conferring daily in the kitchen of one or the other. Basia continued her translating, and she and Anne both were teaching in the Basic Program ot'Liberal Education for Adults at the University of Chicago; aacnnomw Anne was teaching University. Hours were snatched between such duties, child raising, and the general business of living. "It was important for us to be looking at the work together," Basia said. "We hammered out a lot in those early days." The Spirit of the laws was written in the mid-eighteenth century, and might be expected to reflect the Enlightenment as well as the revolutionary fervor seen in the works of Voltaire and Rousseau, Basia said. Instead, it suggests 17th century concerns and couches them in 17th century language. "When Montesquieu was writing," she commented, "there was perhaps "Nearly years later, there is a new translation at last, a publication representing ... hard and solitary scholarly labor, [and] the comradeship a shared enterprise ... " scholarly triumph, and each is connected in a different way to St John's College. Basia Miller began to teach on the western campus two years ago; the son of her collaborator Anne Cohler is James Cohler, a sophomore at the Annapolis campus; and -Harold Stone, the third member of this trio, __now assistant professor of history at Colgate, is himself a 1971 graduate of the Annapolis campus. The book came out last October. Suddenly and unexpectedly in December, 1989, Anne Cohler, 48, died. "She was a wonderful friend and she loved the book," said Basia Miller of the political science scholar with whom she worked for I 0 years on the project. "That gives a special meaning to the work." It all began in 1979 in Chicago, when Basia, who was doing free-lance translation for the University of Chicago Press, and her friend Anne, who had a PhD from Harvard, decided they wanted to undertake a project together. Anne, who was interested in 18th century intellectual thought in France (she had already written a book on Rousseau), suggested that Montesquieu should be re-translated. His book, nearly a thousand pages long, a treatise on comparative governments, was the product of 20 years of work and thought. Anne Cohler and Harold Stone on Harold's 'UllAritt11nn still time for reform or change. Revolution was not imminent. There was still time to spend 20 years on an enormous volume like this with a strong element of reflection." Montesquieu is chiefly known today because he articulated the concept of the balance of powers, the "identification of ' separate realms which also overlap," Basia said. He had observed the English government and he described how it operated, with a dear separation of the executive, legislative and judicial branches, each with the ability to check the others. Jefferson and Madison both drew on Montesquieu's analysis of the English government. Most remarkable to Basia was the fact that in Book 12, he laid the groundwork for the kind of thinking which materialized in our Bill of Rights. The book reflects Montesquieu's vision about the importance of the individual, she said, which "you see in the way he returns to the particular whether he is talking about the particular facts, the particular country, or the particular person. To me, this is a lot more exciting than the balance of powers. This was a true innovation." A third way in which he left an imprint on American thought was through observations we would today label sociological. While August Comte, 1798-1857, is generally recognized as the father of sociology, Comte looked to Montesquieu again and again for his ideas. In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu offers a typology of government, citing republican, monarchical and despotic, thus departing from the classical philosophers' coupling of monarchy and despotism as one category, since each has a single source of power. Montesquieu was interested not only in the structure of government but also in its internal operation, in the ruling principle or "spirit" which makes a government move, and which he identified as honor in monarchy, virtue in a republic, and fear in despotism. In the first (Continued on page 12) Basia Miller J. W. Blagden photo BOOK REVIEW Subsequent to Montesquieu's reat ook By HARVEY FLAUMENHAFT, tutor at Annapolis Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws, will find here the reasons for its maxims, translated and edited by Anne Cohler, and the consequence will naturally be Basia Miller, and Harold Stone, paper, drawn from them that changes can be proposed only by those who are born $16.95. Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xlvii plus 7 57. fortunate enough to fathom by a stroke of genius the whole of a state's constitution. The books that are regularly read in the ... in an enlightened age, one trembles St. John's Program are often called "the even while doing the greatest goods. One great books." Perhaps it would be better feels the old abuses and sees their correcto refer to them as "some of the best tion, but one also sees the abuses of the books." Montesquieu's Spirit of the laws correction itself. One lets an ill remain if is one of the best books. It used to be one fears something worse; one lets a regularly read in the Program, but it no good remain if one is in doubt about a longer is. Not that St. John's is peculiar better." Not much boldness here, it would in its neglect of this book. Elsewhere also, seem. it is rarely assigned to college students and is rarely read by mature adults who Nor in what he goes on to say: "If I are interested in politics. And yet Moncould make it so that every one had new tesquieu was studied by many of the outreasons for loving his duties, his prince, standing writers and men of affairs of his homeland and his laws and that each early modern times: in England, by could better feel his happiness in his own Blacks tone and Burke; in America, by the country, government, and position, I founders of the United States; and in would consider myself the happiest of France, by the leading thinker who atmortals. If I could make it so that those tacked early modernity in the name of a who command increased their radically modem appreciation of antiqknowledge of what they should prescribe, uity - Rousseau. The establishment of and that those who obey found a new liberalism in the West, as well as the pleasure in obeying, I would consider critique of it both from the left and the myself the happiest of mortals." Even right - all these currents of thought owe worse, it would seem - and yet, what if much to the teaching of Montesquieu. we tried reading those words again, this Why, then, is The Spirit of the laws so time emphasizing the word "new"? little studied now? Montesquieu's Preface asks "that one Much of the reason has to do with the not judge by a moment's reading the difficulty of the book. Not that it contains work of twenty years, that one approve or dense argumentation, phrased in technicondemn the book as a whole and not cal vocabulary, upon a recondite subject. some few sentences. If one wants to seek Quite the contrary. Rather, the book is · the design of the author, one can find it made difficult to understand by the ease only in the design of the work." But of ofunderestimating its difficulty. It is easy course it is the very size and sprawl of the to underestimate because it is a huge and work that make it difficult to find the sprawling mass of fact and comment design of the author, by making it hard to stated in everyday language: it seems to see the design of the work. According to contain no thinking profound enough to the Preface, "Many of the truths will justify spending the time to get through make themselves felt here only when one it. sees the chains connecting them with Profound thought would seem to reothers. The more one reflects on the quire boldness, moreover, but Mondetails, the more one will feel the certaintesquieu himself seems to discourage ty of the principles." And yet he writes in readers eager for some bold thinking. In such a way thanhe reader must also labor the Preface to the book he says: "I do not hard to see connections and thereby get write to censure that which is established some sense of the truths presented by the in any country whatsoever. Each nation (Continued on a e 10) �6 The dangers of individualism in America as seen de and ure~se11r-ciav observers like Robert Bellah and Studs Terkel was the subject of Commencement Robert at Graduate Institute exercises in August in Santa Fe. A former director of the Graduate Institute and a former tutor in Annapolis, Mr. is professor of liberal studies at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, where he also served for nine years as dean. In Annapolis, he was alderman at the time of the historic district legislation. President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle handed out diplomas to 30 new graduates, who included the speaker's wife, Elizabeth Spaeth, and his daughter Caroline. In his speech, Mr. Spaeth said that while individualism "feels as good to the American mind as apple pie feels to the American palate ... in large amounts both can be dangerous to our well-being." A century and a half ago, the "keen observer" Alexis de Toqueville put his finger on the danger, Mr. Spaeth pointed out, when he said that an individualist gladly leaves the greater society to look after itself. "In other words, though individualism grows out of democracy, it makes us forget that we will not have democracy unless we tend to 'the greater society."' Toqueville feared that individualism in the long run could destroy social virtues and "isolate us from one another." If individualism dominated the United States, "Democracy might fail. Somewhere at the end of a very long road, individualism un- checked might take us to u....,., 1."-'u"'"'· Mr. asked the new "Is the education you these received here the kind to combat individualism? The right kind for the future of America? Will you contribute to the liberty of succeeding generations because you have read and discussed the great books of the St. John's program? Will you and the people you influence in the future be part of the posed by American individualism or part of the solution?" He concluded by challenging his audience "to look American individualism in the eye ... to ask yourselves how to combat it. .. to ponder the potential effectiveness of liberal education in the task of America, to make communities-and a national community-out of us individualists." Winner of the Alumni Association prize for academic excellence and contributions to the community was Natalie Dohrmann. Other graduates were Lisa Abeyounis, Dian Belanger, Randall Birnberg, Alexander Sheila Byrd, Lisa Ann Calvelli, Gerald D. Cohen, Charles R. Dunn, Geneva Fulgham, Gretchen R. Gray, Margaret Inbody, Edward Lambert, Geraldine Lewis, Charlene McMurtrie, Christopher Murphy, Michael Quinn, Kathleen Raphael, John H. Rubel, Kathryn Ruffalo, John Sommer, Caroline Spaeth, Elizabeth Spaeth, Donald Stebbins, James von Riesemann, Leanne Ellen Ward, Robin Weiss, Melanie West, and Thomas Whitt. Director of the Graduate Institute is Tim Miller. �SEPTEMBER 1990 THE REPORTER HOME COM I At the Homecoming banquet Saturday, July 21, in Santa Fe, two great friends of the College, Anne Nelson and Herbert Kincey, were made Honorary Alumni, and tutor William Darkey received the Award of Merit. Mary Bittner Goldstein, A'58, made the presentation to Anne Nelson, who, in addition to her own efforts on behalf of the College, is the wife of one member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, Charles Nelson, mother to another, Chris Nelson, and to two other alumni, and grandmother to a member of the Santa Fe class of 1993. Mary McCormick Freitas, A'80, made the presentation to Herbert Kincey, who, as head of the Santa Fe Search and Rescue Team, has worked with a generation of students. John Van Doren, A' 47, presented the Award of Merit to Santa Fe tutor William one of whose many distinctions is that he has taught as a fulltime tutor under the New Program---0n both campuseslonger than any other tutor. Mr. Van Doren' s words about Mr. Darkey may be found on the Alumni Association pages of this issue. of the festivities was the A reunion Saturday of the classes at the new western campus, held at the home of Gerald Peters. Organized by members of the class of 1970, the gathering also included alumni from the classes of 1968, 1969, and 1971. Besides Mr. Peters, members of the steering committee for that event were Carol Tucker, Steven Tucker, Jeff Hockersmith, Hugh Hazelrigg, and Allen Swartzberg. Tutor Emeritus Tom Simpson led the seminar for the other featured reunion, that of the class of 1980. On the committee for that reunion were Mary Freitas, Geri Glover, and Kyle Schultz. At the annual Alumni Association meeting Saturday, President John Agresto reported on the state of the College, James Carey gave the Dean's report, and Lisa Carey, chairman of the library planning committee, gave a presentation on the Faith and John Meem Library, which will be dedicated later this fall. The Goldberg Variations, a concert presented as a continuing part of the Santa Fe Campus' 25th birthday celebration, were also the Homecoming contribution Friday evening of pianist and Musician-inresidence Peter Pesic. The weekend concluded with the President's Brunch morning held in the Junior Common Room. PAGE7 �WALTER SHERLIN rooms similar are ,,...,,..,.,...~,,. ea've:s:dr~DD. you assume the discussion test scores or how to raise children learn to read. of Much the to believe that is .. What schools say it is." to believe that education math and ..,,..,.,.i. ... "' and exercise. If not I was found in the curriculum in my office. If I wasn't I could believe students exhibited education on we tested them. By John Van Doren With an un1de1·gn1dutate from the and with 15 teacher and ad:mrmstrator ed. I was wrong. A different of as~mu1ed that whe '1.:1111'1111'1>11'.r~l:llr·h how to be a at lea.ming. From the outset to be The first of books is Mortimer Adler's How Education is m1nk1ng, cation is !eatm:m~ includes "'""'''"'"•""n tion to Read a As one would expect, much of the focuses on personnel management, law, etc. After the 35 principals in my session had also been to opera, heard the Carolina seen Shakespeares's Love's Labor's Lost set in ington, D.C. in the 1960's, and visited the North Carolina Museum of We had studied, and discussed Adler's seminar teaching. We in seminars on Plato's and , Last Days of Socrates, M~lch1av·eli11's writings, and Emersons "The American Scholar", as wen as several shorter works. I want to describe what I learned. I'm not sure I can do nor describe it well. I'll try. An attitude, not an event I once heard David speak when he was in as anchor of the news. David ..To Americans the news is what I could convey in about 20 co1mn11erc1a1s what were deemed the •mnn rl"'•1"11t world that day. Minions of events. 1 We have been fortunate .., .. St. John's tutors. In a seminar on Charlie ...._,ucaµ.1..u.1 he to be in St. the Science Museum of Minnesota. David a tutor on the Santa Fe caimo1us. discussed Plato's Charmides us in a St. John's Alumni Association,.....,,,...,.,.,,,. .. What's the value of a like PEP? What's the value of a liberal I'm not sure. I used to know and understand most things. I believe all of us whether 12 or 42 - need to have the same skills. We need to synthesize. We need to adapt, adjust, survive contribute. this did not which was that merit of the so ::11r.111P.'vP.«1 was only what he shared with others out of courtesy - which is to say, witho come here this and be recogni I have said when we spoke t what I say now, while all te such are the same, sources to task and the stren have to go If we honor one t it is because of these traits as much as he has in common his An is here with us now, it is because we .. ,... .................. ,. that is to with is principal of the Daniels Middle N.C Consistent with the Newsletter from alumni of author-tradition of a St. :John's ilk. Such extensions ofliberal education are to be commended and recognised, and our alumni life may benefit ac£-:or.rJmlllv. .n.C111c11ll1. ,LI ......... areas, mc1uamg .._,u,u.a~u. I<~oche§;ter em Wisconsin northern Iowa. In addition to our seminars we have considered actvar1ta1le of some of the cultural 001r>ortm111tH~S and St. Paul such as the Institute of t>ec~ornm1~ involved with activities of the sions We are very J:,Ja.1."'•11.u to meet Southeast Fifth meetu1~ will be 3 ::so1pnc>c1e:s· Ajax hear Woolsey's report. interested in becoming involved in our seminars can contact Joan Iverson in Santa Fe or me at 401 S. First Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55401. -Sue Ferron President Agresto (ce~ter) greeting alumn~ (photo by Ben Galison, SF '90) �remarks received ~Home- n I told ntion to 's the , But he t pride 'ed. igether , chers as the re~h they terefore, for what I if Mr. ielebrate what is mt, and takes in ngs, for ; shall I ~lls our e makes we mostly not care ...,•..,.,, ....,.,.u is more to take notice of in creation we and that we must learn as he himself tries, to it with the wonder it deserves. need not remind that "care" in one of its derives from the word for and it must ,,..,,,.,...,.,.,..... that what I am about in who know him know the loves he love. AH within him -at times it seems to be so, and he is almost tremt>Imlg with the force of it. ..,...,....... ....... the n • .,.........u ..,,..,. -:.r,1n 1·rpn with that love-- has to because of him -- so that he is the master of as •.,.,..,,0........ one of the Alumni Association's newest honorary members, is congratulated at as anyone could be. And so we no1meco111un1g banquet by, from Tollof Nelson c111ris>to1Ph4:H Nelson (SF'70) and and his the but of the on he sense, not three g~nerations of St. Johnnies. Galison SF'90) focuses, and which he teaches us to love -- as well as, at times, to since he knows how terrible a world it is, too. And this is his strength, that he is able, like Perseus, to face what is terrible as well as what is beautiful and not be turned to stone by them -- and to show us, as well as he how we may do the same. ANNAPOLIS Call Sabina Schweidt (212) 679-6118 (wk) or 645I win that this which I do not Friday Alumni luncheons are scheduled as follows, 8903 for more information. hesitate to can heroic, given what recognizes -- given with topics and speakers to be announced: PHILADELPHIA rec:og10.iz1es everything, I might say, but itself - is September 14 For information about upcoming fall events in this as a man develops only with effort, and that its October 12 .. unofiical' chapter, call Jim Schweidel at (215) 836management is a work of art. Mr. Darkey is, November 9 7632. an artist - a)iberal artist, cert_ainly - who, having December 14 SACRAMENTO himself from the spells which are cast by the Meetings are in the Randall Private Dining Room. Meetings are other month in this "unofficial" world, has learned to make as much sense of it as Call Betsy Blume at the Alumni Ofiice (301) 263-2371 ctu.mtt~r to discuss nmf!ram n.~aa'lnl!.~S. foilowing the made, and to live with the result. I cannot think for further information. 1ru.ruu·1P... are most we.rco;rne: ~n1VTn1nP more that a teacher can be to or Helen AUSTIN that we can have think of any 1his 'unofiicial' chapter meets informally on a from him that I am sure I for Mr. 1 ,..,.,,. v- u·.,, students when say that as a of nearly monthly basis. To participate, please contact Beverly SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA that he has served us aH in this way, and he Angel (512) 926-7808 for schedule and details. monthly seminars meet at 2:30 on the BOSTON he has long since earned - the respect and following: September 30: Seminar on E.M. Forster's Room devotion with which we him here tonight. 16: 1he Nibelungenlied With a View months not yet planned, call Juan Hovey Meeting will be at the home of Al Aronson at 3:00. 254-1287. Call him at 666-6657 (hm) or 437-3186 for inforMark Middlebrook 547-0602 for more and future ,:,mrW;?i!V n1et~t1IJrf{s. mation on details about UY'vVAU.U.•J5 and other events 0 CHICAGO ~e1ne1n04~r 30: Santa Fe tutor lead a seminar on Lao Tzu's October 28: tutor will lead a seminar on Paul's to Romans" November 18: Santa tutor Cohen will lead and a seminar on William Blake's SEATTLE October: Dinner at the Santa Fe Cafe Call John Ross at 545-7900 for more information about this and other events Call Paul or Rick L1JUltilJW'1l Rachel other details. "Noon DALLAS/FORT WORTH meets about J0 times a year for Saturseminars. For further call Su7) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis zanne Doremus at at 340-4102. This Pvrf•nn10 vey, CURRENT STUDENTS WELCOME MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL ~e1ne1moe1 30: Discussion of NEW YORK October 10: Winetasting at Lovejoy Duryea's November 14: Seminar to be announced Room Nineteen" Branch of the D. C. .,,._,..,Jl-"•H· For further inforor Sharon Gar- at the The local of the St. John's College Alumni and groups welcome current which meet around the uniaer·gntauate and Graduate students at their activities. Alumni are active in the ~rea~ seen in News. you are visiting, or hve m one of these areas, please note the information or contact the Alumni Office on either campus current details. �PAGE10 THE REPORTER Book Review By JOHN POVEJSIL, A'92 The perennial question "What is the value of the SJC experience?" has been answered to some extent by almost 300 alumni/alumnae in various parts of the country. The 12-week pilot phase of the Student/Alumni interviewing Project, a self-study led by Annapolis Vice-President of Advancement Jeff Bishop, got underway this summer. "The opinions of alumni about their experiences at SJC are extremely valuable," says Mr. Bishop. "The information helps in many ways. It will help us determine the need for additional student services like improvements in career counseling or summer internship programs; it can also provide us with thoughts concerning student/tutor interaction. It will also give us an idea of how best to use alumni as a resource for the college. "For those reasons, and others, we want to offer every alumnus/alumna the opportunity to speak in private with our student representatives. We believe this is an effective way to get good, reliable information and at the same time, perhaps the best way to useful information about the college." Maureen A'92, Amanda and I focused our attention on five different geographical areas. Ms. Hatch covered Northern Virand D.C.; Mr. Trimmer Western and Ms. Klein the Pacific coast; and I covered the tlaltuno1re-1 "-'"''"'""Ju" area with a brief stint We interviewed each person for apprc>xnnatelv 45 minutes, a twopart format. The first part focused on biographical and the second part asked for opinions on the merits of the SJC program in both its general purpose and its specific execution. The biographical section turned the question of "what can you do after SJC?" and instead sirnpl y asks what former students have done since leaving SJC. The second part, in which alumni criticism was solicited was similar to a which SJC commissioned in 1952. That study cited the need for "objective estimates of the program's value by those who had it and who could view it detachment to either the or administration. In fact, the 'L-v.u..:o~~co alumni seemed to offer the of critics available. Some of the in this section asked which was the most and least unnA1C1°'>1nt aspects of the SJC experience with both alumni professions and !-''·"""'"''"" Another type of question is the alum sees an SJC education as a distinguishing characteristic and whether non-Johnnies considered it as such. Yet asks if and how One way in which this the 1952 survey is thanhe eleven classes with which oldest alumnus was of the classes were service. The present is every one of the 49 classes since the New was initiated. Some of the interviewed this summer are now in their seventies. addition, this survey will take into account women's since the time of the 1952 survey, there were no women graduates. It is still too early to summarize the results of this summer's pilot phase of the project. Gigi Escalante, A'92, has been compiling the interview reports, and the student group and advancement office staff will meet this fall to put together a preliminary report. The report will include lessons from this summer on both the logistical execution of the project and prescriptions for the future with respect to the content of the questionnaire. According to Mr. Bishop, the report should be ready by the beginning of next year. Over the next four summers, students from both campuses will be employed in the project with a goal of interviewing virtually every alumnus so that the information is as complete and varied as possible. As each area is covered, letters will be sent either by President Agresto or President Maciver informing alumni who the student representative is, and when he or she will be contacting the recipient. The representative will then call to arrange an interview, if possible. The project promises to offer an abundant source of opinions about the SJC experience. Joan Dawson Ruch of Sevema has been named to the new position of assistant director of the Annual Fund. Ms. Ruch Prior to to St. was the assistant to the dean of The College of Arts and Sciences at The American Before that she worked for eight years in government and public relations, a position on the defense and foreign policy section of the personal staff of Senator Samuel Nunn and for three years operated her own legislative and public relations practice. She has an extensive background in both political and nonprofit fundraising, including direct-mail, solicitation, publications and events. Ms. Ruch earned her undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Georgia and her master of arts degree in government from Georgetown University. She was named as one of the 50 "Women of the Year" for 1985 asJ11n(Jtn1n Woman magazine, and named of America, SEPTEMBER 1990 (continuedfrompage5) author. He writes in such a way that the reader must labor hard in reflecting on the significance of details presented in such abundance by the author. In times gone by it was easier for readers to see how very ambitious was the author's design. Montesquieu's Persian Letters had already displayed his capacity for indirect attack in warfare of the spirit. Living under the rule of throne and altar required him to show some delicacy in the conduct of the enterprise of putting that regime in its place among the great alternatives - the modem commercial republic of liberty, and the classical warlike republic of virtue. A generation after his death Montesquieu was eulogized by Marat (later famous as a leader in the French Revolution), who praised his "delicate satire", saying: "he was the first among us to carry the torch of philosophy into legislation, to avenge outraged humanity, to defend its rights, and in a way, to become the legislator of the whole world." A few years later, The Federalist called Montesquieu a great man, justly celebrated as an oracle of fundamental political truth. According to that classic account of the American Constitution, the English constitution was to Montesquieu what Homer has been to the didactic writers on epic poetry - the perfect model or standard for judgment; it was for Montesquieu the very mirror of political liberty. The most penetrating minds among the American founders considered the English form of government, whatever its as the best that had yet existed- the only one that had as yet capable of combinstrength with safety. ~"'3 ~~~ the government of was characterized Montesquieu as disguised as a monarchy. That characterization was part of the preparation for work as a legislator for mankind. It would nonetheless be wrong to characterize The Spirit of the Laws as a kind of Trojan Horse, the designing Montesquieu as cover for revolutionary that would forth to smash thrones and topple altars. The complications present in the work of Montesquieu were intrinsic to his design, rather than being a mere disguise to it from being suppressed by the defenders of the old. regime. Montesquieu's work is difficult because his purpose was complex: he to promote a combina- tion of bold thought, radical ends, and moderate means. Montesquieu was an extraordinary legislator because he sought to be a great teacher. He was not a professional teacher. He was a great landowner, prominent in the judicial system of his province in France. However, he did not publish The Spirit of the Laws in Catholic monarchical France, but did so rather in Protestant republican Geneva. The year was 1748. Two years after that publication in French, the work was translated into English. A year later the work was placed on the Index, and four years after that its author was dead. Since then, there has been no complete scholarly English language edition. That is, not until now. Such an edition has long been needed. Writers like Montesquieu cannot be understood without careful attention to their use of references and their allusions to other writers; but unless the reader is extraordinarily learned in Montesquieu's voluminous sources, the references and allusions are hard to track. Careful and precise labeling has now been provided, with the addition of page numbers of accessible modem editions of the books used by Montesquieu. This will save the careful reader an immense amount of labor. With such help, all that the reader needs to do is read and think. In doing such thinking, the reader of this new edition will not be led astray small changes of the sort that thoughtless translators often forgetting that with careful writers and careful readers small indications can make a big difference in ,,..,r,,,.,."'."''";-,,,...., This edition is ms:trngu1stJ1ect be faithful to the author's his sentence his sequence of subordination, and his use of the same or different words in c11tter1ent interested in interested in the various of ,.,,,...,,"" ..."' ment and the that informs Montesquieu's book that profoundly affected, the thoughts a I "-'L cal figures of the last two and a centuries. The book was very influential that is clear. There are good reasons to believe that it also is profound. Serious students are therefore very much indebted to Stone, to Basia and to the late Anne Cohler for more accessible a book that is now much neglected but is nonetheless one of the best. ULLll:O.. (continued from page 1) While she Nabokov broug11t Mr. plight to hoping that the would keep American officials alert to the child's whereabouts. Her was reported on the front page of The Post on 8. was released to the cushrrabassv on August 11. She was reunited with her parents Paris. 1.m~eric:an California at several books on native studies. San Francisco, he will his wife and in India in October. The will return to the U.S. next June when Mr. Nabokov wil1 begin teaching anthropology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Ben Galison photo �11 ' (The following story by Kay Bird in her School Notebook column is reprinted with permission from the Monday, March 19, 1990, issue o/The New Mexican.) It's called the staff of life. We win our bread every day at work, feed ourselves from our own breadbaskets at dinner. We break bread with friends or, if things aren't going so well, we wait in a breadline. Emma Morton is casting her bread upon the waters. a 22-year-old senior at St. John's bakes bread- the literal, of a number of other volunteers. crusty kind - every week with the The bread- sometimes up to 40 loaves a week - is delivered to St. Elizabeth Shelter and St John's Kitchen. Morton also delivers the bread to five elderly couples. Morton is as interested in the emotional effects of a fresh-baked loaf of bread as she is in the physical satisfaction it provides. "Bread is one of those essential things of life," she said. "There's something about a fresh loaf of bread out of the oven that lifts someone's spirits as much as anything." She refers to her bread as a 'big loaf of happiness.'." After baking for two years in the kitchen at St. John's, Morton decided in September to direct her talents at the community. "I thought of all the money I've spent on coffee and gum and thought 'that would make bread,'" Morton said. Morton's hope that others would follow her financial example proved true and she gets about $15 a week through donations from individuals and from jars she set around campus. "You can made bread from wheat, salt and water and it's delicious," she said. "Private donations allow me to buy the eggs and milk and grains that make it more nutritious." When she first started the baking, she wanted to provide bread for the elderly. The deliveries served the additional purposes of providing food to people who might not be able to afford it and providing company to people who are sometimes forgotten and lonely. "I really enjoy it because you learn so much from them," she said. Like the rising dough, "it got bigger and bigger," and the project was extended, she said. Morton taught herself to bake bread because she used to dream of being a farmer. To be a farmer, she thought, she would have to know how to do three things: build a cabin, farm land, and bake bread. As an afterthought, she also taught herself to knit. Baking bread is far more satisfying than writing a check to a charity. "It's a two-way street," Morton said. "If you're someone who looks around and sees a need, you can either make the choice to feed that need or not. It's not like I slave away and get nothing back, because I do." The project does not have a guaranteed future. Morton graduates this year and is leaving the state. She is hoping another of the volunteers will rise to the occasion and continue the tradition of giving this day their daily bread. The second annual Teen Leadership was held in August on the Santa Fe campus with nearly 60 primarily Hispanic and Native American high school students attending. Designed to develop future leaders who will respond to the unique needs of Northern New Mexico, the participants came from towns, villages and pueblos and from the Navajo reservation for the five-day event. Other participants and staff came from Arizona, Oklahoma, and North Carolina. "This notion that leadership involves service to the community and that virtually anyone can learn the skills and attitudes nec;essary " said Ron Director of the chance to interact with and Anglo leaders and role models from government, business, sciences and the arts. were Rina educator and architectural ae~ag111er the Santa Clara and Annapolis tutor William Pastille published two articles and two translations last year, as well as co-authoring a paper on "Schenker's Deep Motives," a paper delivered in November before the national meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in Austin, Texas. His articles were "Strict Counterpoint tinez, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO. Intense discussions on leadership, structured group exercises to build leadership skills and academic success, and outdoor experiential learning were important parts of the program. Such activities as scaling a 12-foot wall, leading blindfolded young people on a "trust walk" through the woods, and falling backwards onto a sea of outstretched hands of fellow campers, were among the activities designed to create self-confidence and mutual trust. Robert McClees photo October 15 is the day scheduled for the College to take possession of the $2.8 million Faith and John Meem library at Santa Fe. At present the College has a committee planning the task of moving the books from the three existing small libraries into the new one, according to Vice President for Advancement Jeffrey Morgan. "We are excited that as a college we will literally move the books, so cherished at St. John's, ourselves," he says. "We anticipate that the move will take three to four days and that we will be prepared to open the new library in late October or early November." Founders' Day, planned for midNovember, will include dedication of the new library. ' The first annual Fall Parents' Weekend has been scheduled for October 4-7 on the Santa Fe campus, according to recentlynamed Parent Program Coordinator Susan Friedman. Parents' Weekend, said Mrs. Friedman, "is a time for parents to see their sons and daughters in action in the classroom, and to sample St. John's seminars and tutorials." On the agenda are events to meet the president, dean and individual faculty members, and guests will also be invited during the weekend to form a Parents' Association. Parents may arrive on Thursday if they wish to sit in on their sons' and daughters' classes. An opening cocktail party Friday will be highlighted by brief talks by the dean and the president. Other College administrators will also be present. Scheduled for Saturday are two St. John's classes for parents and children, led by tutors and seniors, with breaks for lunch, sports and a tour of the new library. After dinner downtown, the visitors may return for the film series and a waltz party. The president's brunch on Sunday will close the festivities. Mrs. Friedman calls attention to the other New Mexico attractions at that time of year, including the annual Albuquerque hot air balloon festival. "We feel certain that Parents' Weekend will become a popular annual tradition in Santa Fe and that participation will grow each year as the word spreads," Mrs. Friedman observed. "The weekend will express the appreciation of the College for the time, energy and resources parents have devoted to their children and will give parents themselves a chance to sample St. John's curriculum and teaching methods." For further contact Mrs. Friedman at the Graduate Institute. The camp, which has received national ' ~--·--···~··· was developed by the College in cooperation with the National Council of La Raza in Washington. D.C., and with Siete del Norte Community Development Corporation, based in Embudo, New Mexico. The program is supported by grants from the Luce Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the Gannett Foundation. The second program director is Celina Rael de Garcia. and Free Composition" in the music theory journal Theoria, and "Music and Morphology: Goethe's influence on Schenker's Thought" in an anthology entitled Schenker Studies. His translations, both from Heinrich Schenker, were "The Spirit of Musical Technique" in Theoria, and "Johannes Brahms" in the American Brahms Society Newsletter. Susan Friedman, assistant to the director of the Graduate Institute in Santa has been named to head the Parents' Program, according to Jeffrey Morgan, Vice President for College Advancement. Mrs. Friedman will her new res.pons1DllltlE~s by publishing a Parent Handbook and the first fall Parents' w ~~eKen1a, pects to schedule spring parent seminars in key cities, as well as a parent survey and organization of a parent association. On the College staff since 1981, she received a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in 1967, and a Master of Social Work degree from New Mexico Highlands University in 1980. She has also completed 18 credits towards a Graduate Institute degree. Her lawyer husband Daniel received his degree from the Graduate Institute in 1988 and 17-year-old Benjaman Friedman plans to apply for admission to the An- napolis campus for the 1991-92 term. Nicholas, is a student at the Santa Fe Preparatory School. "I look forward to bringing parents more into the life of St. John's to recognize that their involvement and interest in their children's education doesn't stop when go to college," says Mrs. Friedman. "If we are successful in welcoming parents, it's realistic to hope that parents will soon be assisting us in areas such as recruiting and welcoming new students, career guidance, fund raising and legislative relations." Parents of current students or of alumni from either campus are encouraged to contact Mrs. Friedman to discuss their ideas for a Santa Fe parent program. Mrs. Friedman will continue her duties in the Graduate Institute office and has begun teaching ballroom dancing to the College community. �12 presidency of the staff of Anne Arundel General Hospital. Enroute he would reach new milestones for black the first black to the Anne Arundel .....,...._,...., .... U'-'J"' a member of agent interviewed Summerfield E. Brown and and was assured that our seminar was a liberal education course of with no or subversive motives. This must have satisfied the agent because we heard no more from the FBI. it would have been, else could be because Mr. Goldsmith was a white colstudent Afro-Americans its curriculum sutnects a Jim Crow Mr. Glenn said. The seminars continued meeting every week for four years. When Mr. Goldsmith left for the war, the other students including Mr. Nussbaum continued the sessions. Seminar participants would come and go, not all completing the syllabus. But at all times there were a dozen loyalists, among them four Bates High School and two ministers. The effects of the seminars on this core group would be ,, .... .,,,,. .... Mr. a former government would-fifty years later-use the seminar to complete his credit towards his master of divinity degree at the Reformed Episcopal in Lulu Hardesty, the Annapolis elementary school teacher who spoke of desegregated schools, would in 1955 become one of the first to teach in an integrated one. She would continue to teach for more than 40 years in Annapolis public schools. Dr. Allen would rise from his role as the black doctor in the cold water clinic to the doctorate in law Columbia University, a 1-<P.110\JV..:t11n at and a prcites:s01·sh1p at Brandeis where he would establish its American Studies ment. Later, he would write a of The Growth praised three-volume of Presidential edit the of Justice Louis D. Brandeis. "·""~''"'"the 1960 's, he continued to march and picket for civil rights. "Upward " a pre-college program for underprivileged teens that was federally-funded during the Johnson administration. After the war, the college admitted its first black student, a Baltimorean named Martin Dyer, with the strong support of the students. Basia Miller (cont.from pg. 5) eight books, he laid out the framework of terms, and in the remaining 23 books he examined governments of ancient times and his own day to determine how this "spirit" of the laws shaped governmental structure. When the two women began the project, "what impinged on us most," said Basia, "was the consciousness of the language. The curious thing about it is that it is very simple, not stylistically convoluted. French itself has a very small vocabulary, only about a fourth of the number of words in English. "Our idea was to reflect Montesquieu's language as nearly as possible. We wanted to put out a text useful for students. We observed all his paragraph breaks, his sentence divisions. We tried to retain the same sequence of subordination that he had. And we wanted it to be a technical translation so that a person who was interested in a particular passage could read the translation to the point he wanted and then compare it with the French. "We tried to retain the distinctions Montesquieu made for a few hundred technical terms. For one of Montesquieu's terms in French we consistently used a single term in English. By doing this, the reader can tell, for example, when Montesquieu used peine (penalty) and when he used supp/ice (punishment)." The translation was completed in three years. Then came disappointment, regrouping, and revision, when the first publication contract fell through. Sometime earlier, the women had realized they needed another collaborator, someone to work with Montesquieu's voluminous footnotes. Enter Harold Stone. Anne had met Harold through a mutual friend and Harold was interested in the project because of his experience with 18th century bibliography. "Oddly enough, Basia remarked, "Robert Bart, one of Harold's tutors at Annapolis, had suggested years earlier that Harold do further work on Montesquieu." Harold's appearance on the scene was vital for coping with the staggering challenge of Montesquieu's 2,000 footnotes, alluding to 300 works. Montesquieu was one of the first European writers to use footnotes in the modem way, not as ornamentation but to permit confirmation and elaboration. The accuracy of these footnotes had been questioned by Voltaire and others in the 18th century, and "many people believed the criticism," Basia noted, "be.: · cause it was easier than checking for themselves." But recent studies of parts of the bibliography have shown instead that Montesquieu was a careful scholar. Supported in 1983 by an NEH grant, Harold found all but three of the 3,000 references, and showed why Montesquieu inserted them. In keeping with the practice of the time, Nugent had translated only Montesquieu's comments in the footnotes, usually letting references and quotations in Latin stand. Harold translated everything into English, and, in brackets, included page numbers for accessible modem editions. "We feel that the documentation now is usable," said Basia. The final step in the long project was taken by Anne, who wrote the introduction for the volume, in which she portrayed Montesquieu, the noble landowner and man ofletters' in the context of 18th century France. For Basia these days, there are a good many changes. Besides the new book, she has a new doctorate, a degree awarded in 1989 from the University of Chicago's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. And there is the new life in Santa Fe, where she lives with her son Roman Gulati, 15, and the teaching responsibilities at an institution she had long admired. But it was the thick book with its Cambridge blue cover that she was holding now, standing in her office and thinking her own thoughts. Perhaps these were about friendship, perhaps about the long years of scholarship, perhaps about the happy conjunction of circumstances that finally assured publication. Certainly they were about the project, over at last. "It was complete immersion for all of us, I think," she said. "It was a total collaboration. We felt we were engaged in a valuable project, and we knew we were privileged to work on it." ment as state senator. In a medical adviser to the ministration. The late Summerfield E. Brown, the St John's employee remained married to his teacher, until her death. Cathedral then built i since the 1942 Delegates, reveres tr~1nQr.. 1r11:1•'"' Keith Harvey photo Negro seminar (cont.frompg.1J group of Negroes into the Annapolis town meeting held in the College gym. He himself was the product of a mixed marriage of sorts. His parents had unequal educational backgrounds. His father, a Manhattan lawyer-stockbroker, was an alumnus of Yale University and Harvard Law School. His mother was a high school drop-out and a manicurist whom his father met, courted, and married while both worked on Wall Street. Why shouldn't Negroes, and anyone else with the inclination, have a chance to experience the College's New Program, he wondered. Five years earlier, in 1937, the College had broken with the country's accepted educational practices and instituted a new curriculum based on the reading and discussion of the seminal works of the past and present. The Board of Visitors and Governors had then invited two of the architects of the program, Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan at the University of Chicago, to institute it at the Annapolis college. In a gradual process, former faculty had been reoriented, and new faculty recruited, Dr. Richard D. Weigle writes in his Introduction to The St. John's Program (St.John's College Press). The College had had the formidable task of informing its constituency and the public about a program better experienced than explained, the former St. John's president noted. Adding to the challenge was the College's burden of debt, lingering from the Depression. Still, Mr. Goldsmith approached Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Barr suggesting an adult seminar based on the Great Books, to be held in a Negro neighborhood, free for all to attend. The two were enthusiastic and pledged their support. The word spread quickly through the black community. Many were already familiar with the College. But now, through the "Adult Seminar in Cooperation with St. John's College," they, too, would have a chance to experience in a small way the New Program. The first seminar was held at the College Creek Library at the lower end of Clay Street, in the black section of town. About a dozen men and women gathered around the conference table. They had come from all jobs and professions: preachers, teachers, typists, maintenance workers. They shared a desire to make the works of Shakespeare, Plato and Aristotle part of their lives. Included in the 35 required readings were Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Rousseau's The Social Contract, Cervantes' Don Quixote, James Joyce's Ulysses, 10 works of Shakespeare, and the Bible. All of the seminars were led by at least one tutor from the College, such as Thomas Gorman, the Rev. Kyle Smith, then dean, or Dean Scott Buchanan, who were assisted by several students, including Mr. Goldsmith and Eric Nussbaum. The discussions were electrifying. Mr. Goldsmith recalls with a hint of laughter that the leaders had to "sit on some of the participants, especially the ministers, who would tend to take over and begin preaching, if left unchecked." Former Annapolis school teacher Lulu Hardesty remembers the discussions as forward-thinking, and an opportunity to dream. "We were a lively group, all very interested in literature and in the future," she says. "We spoke of the day when, possibly, the public schools would be desegregated." Whatever the topic of the evening, the insights provided by this diverse group were always "intriguing," Mr. Goldsmith says. The seminars later moved to the U.S.O. building at Calvert and Northwest Streets, where the State Office Building now stands. This new site was more convenient for the College tutors and students, and because it was a federal building it was considered neutral territory in the raciallycharged times. Although the seminars provoked little response from the town in general, the movement did not go unnoticed, recalls one participant, the Rev. Gordon G. Glenn. "The seminar was being conducted during the war and post-war period, and there were undertones about St. John's College having communistic tendencies. An FBI �13 1 it On a rare summer in D.C. when the temperature David K. the curator for the "Information Information and a new, permanent exhibition at the National Museum of American fields still one more qui~suton from a reporter. Few exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institutions have evoked such national attention: few have been as ambitious-or controversial. "Information Age" covers a broad chronological span-from the telegraph of the 1830's to the present day, when it seems, the whole world is wired for television, computers, and communications. It is also the first to be the product of pairtrn~rsJtup between the museum and the sector, drawing on the expertise and financial support of the entire industry. Patient, precise is the manner of this St. John's College alumnus, A'73, clarifying a misconception, disputing a criticism, acknowledging a compliment Although it had been a mere two months since the $10 million spectacle premiered, it already was a trailblazer, making museum legend of its own. To begin, consider its goal - for every visitor, regardless of age, sex, race or background, to experience the change information technology has made in man's life the past 150 years. And to explore this subject from both historical and contemporary viewpoints. _ Mr. Allison joined the museum's Division of Computers, Information and Society in 1987. The exhibition was, at that point, still in its embryonic stage. With both master's and doctoral degrees in the David K. Amson in the middle of the nA1rm:::an•~n1 "Information Age" exhibit he masterminded for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. like the Smithsonian. In selecting from the myriad artifacts available, Mr. Allison focused on how each changed society, rather than their own technical worth. For instance, the FBI fingerprint identification leads visitors to think about the role of information technology in criminology, he says. "It raises the question of how a free and democratic society can balance its needs of security and personal privacy in a computerized information age." Other authentic objects include the Morse telegraph, components of Bell's "He guided the efforts of 500 personnel, including a two-ton robot previously employed in a Delaware automobile factory, and two 'Star Wars' movie robots." history of science from Princeton University, and a background as,an historian for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Department of Energy, Mr. Allison was chosen to wrestle this idea into reality. Thirty-something, he had already published extensively on various subjects, including the history of atomic energy and military research and development. Now, he was intrigued by the opportunity to "be bold" in his creation of "Information Age," to move beyond the traditional artifact-and-label display, creating an exhibit where the visitor would experience the technical milestones of man. Armed with a St. John's education that "taught me to be fearless about attacking any subject," he began delineating the boundaries of an exhibition as nebulous as the scope of information itself. Next, he designed the prime 14,000 square foot first floor exhibit. These selfcontained, interactive stations employed more than 700 artifacts and 700 graphics, including mannequins, period settings, environmental scenes, 600 computer components, 10 miles of cable and 78 computers linked to a central network producing a billion instructions per second. He guided the efforts of 500 personnel, including a two-ton robot previously employed in a Delaware automobile factory, and two "Star Wars" movie robots. In addition, he made two movies further depicting the information age. As if this were not enough, he also led a massive fundraising effort. No small feat to complete in 1,550 days. While the hands-on approach of "Information Age" has been the staple of children's museums in the past decade, it was innovative for a landmark institution first telephone, a piece of the first trans-Atlantic cable, the Hollerigh machine used to calculate results of the 1890 census and early personal computers. Visitors touch video screens to question famous inventors, talk over the same telephone wire used by Alexander Graham Bell, and analyze their fingerprints. In the "Control Center," they respond to a 911 emergency call, engage in international currency trading and produce a segment of the evening news--using interactive computers. Throughout the exhibit are multiple examples of nearly every development. "A major point we're trying to make is that technology moves forward," he says. "It's rare that one person has one idea that stands alone. Usually a number of persons are working in the same field." The most obvious change through history is that information seems to be consistently moving faster and faster. As an example, the effect of information processing in business and financial markets (including cash registers, adding machines and digital computers) was to shorten the timeformakingdecisions, thereby increasing the pace and stress of the business day. One display shows technology developing to the point where a transaction in the Tokyo stock market affects the New York exchange a fraction of a second later. "We try to make the point that we don't live in just a media age or a computer age-we live in the Information Age, which combines many technologies," he says. The centerpiece of the exhibit is an atomic-bomb casing, evoking the watershed World War II years when information technology literally exploded. The bomb is there because not only did its development vastly accelerate information technology, both in and out of government, but it's an ironic comment on the exhibit itself. Mr. Allison explains, "In the postwar era, computers and the atomic bomb grew up together. Most of the early money for the development of computers came out of the nuclear weapons program. Over time the information technology based on computers became far more important than the atomic technology. So instead of living in the atomic age, we ended up living in the information age." He hopes visitors will see how technical developments become social developments and understand the interplay between technology and society. "One of the problems we have with technological illiteracy in this country is that people perceive a tremendous gap between understanding something in technical terms and its social implementation. If through this exhibit we can begin to show what the linkage is and how the dialogue works, perhaps we can bridge that gap." The museum joined with corporations, including IBM, to secure $10 million in support. This raised more than a few eyebrows among the public and the press. "It's not something that either the Smithsonian or the corporate world could do by themselves," Mr. Allison explains. "The benefits of that pairtnership are obvious in the exhibition." Mr. Allison denied charges that the private sector, through control of the purse strings, influenced the script of the exhibition. "We used their capabilities, but the choice was ours," he insists. Ironically, he says, the only pressure he felt was exerted by the Iowa Congressional delegation to include the work of one of their own digital computer developers. When he refused, the group vented its frustration to Jack Anderson who made it the subject of one of his syndicated columns. While "Information Age" has generally garnered impressive reviews, a few critics charged that it glosses over the downside of technology, opting instead to entertain and even inspire. One v_isitor queried on the exhibit, was as intrigued by what was left out as by what was included. Surely, it's never going to be complete, or even finished, Mr. Allison acknowledges. In fact, the museum will periodically update the exhibit. If you come away from "Information Age" feeling slightly overwhelmed, but satisfied, Mr. Allison will have succeeded. President Maciver has a word with registrants in Annapolis, while Admissions Director John Christensen is visible behind. Keith Harvey photo �14 THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1990 in Israel and studying Talmud since 1970. He married the former Sarah Guberman of St. Louis in 1975 and the couple has eight children. This year he an English translation of a classic guide to Talmud study, The Ways of Reason by Rabbi Moshe Luzzatto (Feldheim, Inc., 1989). His wife is principal of an elementary girls' school. Hazel Ann Schlueter of New Orleans, and her husband, Larry Schlueter, A '68, are restoring an old house in New Orleans. Their son, graduated at the, ~.....~ 1,,~··u Campus in June, 1990. Larry is a U.S. Customs and for 10 years Hazel math and music in the New Orleans Free School. The Schlueters have an old-time band with Hazel on the mandolin, Charley on bass and Larry on Hazel a country and bluegrass music radio show in New Orleans. like to hear from other musicians out there. Carl Severance of Jefferson Missouri, transferred to University of California/Davis in 1968, received his BS in veterinary sciences in 1971 and his DVM from the US Air Force Veterinary Corps, of which he spent two years in "he reports. He attended graduate school, Turkey. "Alas, I did not visit Troy while and then worked for the City of Dallas Dept. of Health and Human Services from 1983-86. Currently, he's with the Missouri Department of Health, part-time, and is an assistant professor of biology at Westminster College in Missouri. His wife, Deanna, is director of Maternal, Child and Family Health with the Missouri Department of Health. The couple has three children. Sirofchuk of Washington, D.C., has studied in Germany and worked in litigation support, providing computer database services to law firms to aid in the processing of documents in major litigation. She, along with four other St. John's graduates, worked at the National Bureau of Standards on the Alloy Phase Diagram Program, supervising the computer graphics for a reference book of phase diagrams. Maura Sisson (Hess) of Bryans, Road, Maryland, spent 18 years in the federal service. She became a trainer for civil rights investigators at the Department of Labor. She married Richard Hess, bought eight acres, built a home where they commune with nature. Currently she's developing a word processing service. Karen Stagg Simon of Chevy Chase, Maryland, is the manager of the Mystery Bookshop in Bethesda, Maryland. She is married to David Simon, A'68, who practices international law. Karen worked as an editor and book production manager for 15 years. Their son Kell just completed his sophomore year at St. John's in Annapolis and daughter Corinna plans to attend St. John's in Santa Fe in 1991. John H. Strange of Naples, Florida, graduated from Austin Presbyterian Seminary in 1973 and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in Texas. Three years later he earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from McCormick Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. After moving to San Antonio, he divorced and began a private practice of marriage and family therapy. At the same time, he finished a master's degree in marriage and family therapy at Florida Therapy at Florida State University. John remarried, and he and his wife, a school social worker, continue to be involved in marital enrichment programs in churches, building intimacy with peers, and trying to make enough money to pay the mortgage. Lee Tepper of Westport, California, spent the first five years after graduation in San Francisco involved in "work avoidance, drugs, camping, photography, long hair and cats." In 1974, he moved to Westport, California, cut his hair, worked in a library, taught, worked for the state Parks and Recreation, began commercial fishing, and property improvement. Throughout, his interest in cats has remained constant. In 1981, he earned an undergraduate degree in computer science, and five years later taught computer literacy at the College of the Redwoods. From 1987 until 1989, he was a technical analyst/editor, and as of last year "returned to the original San Francisco values." Joe Tooley of Cary, North Carolina, spent his first year after St. John's working in the Model City Program. He then quit his job, moved to Europe and stayed till his money ran out. When he returned to the states, he found himself in North Carolina where he earned both a master's degree and a doctorate in psychology. Today he has a private practice in Raleigh, frequently flying to Washington D.C. for consulting. His work continues to focus on teenagers, a specialty he vows "will make your hair tum grey." Linda Bernstein (Torcaso) of Philadelphia is married to Mark Bernstein and is the mother of three children. She is also a lawyer for Community Legal Services representing indigent clients in civil cases with a specialization in Social Security matters. In 1981, she was appointed an administrative law judge hearing appeals from determinations by the Social Security Administration. Recently, she was appointed Acting Administrative Judge in charge of her office, a position supervising six other judges and supporting personnel for the Philadelphia Office. Benjamin Treuhaft of Berkeley, California, wandered home from Santa Fe at the end of his freshman year, having neglected to read great books. A year later, he left California and hitchhiked to New York to begin training as a piano tuner. By 1972 he was working as a concert tuner for Steinway & Sons where his duties included tuning regularly for Vladimir Horowitz and at Carnegie Hall. Since then, he's been tuning and rebuilding pianos from his basement shop in Berkeley. He's plied his trade in Paris and London, and went to Switzerland in 1986 to restore Liszt's 1840 Erard grand. Today he shares his home with Jungmin Kim, who has read the great books. Steven L. Tucker of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a senior partner in a medium-sized law firm. His wife, Carol Ann Lightner, A '69, is a homemaker and is treasurer of numerous civic organizations. The couple has two children. Larry Turley of St. Helena, California, reports that "wife number two has come ... and gone. Owner Frog's Winery. Trauma specialist at Our Lady of Highway 80 in Fairfield ... " E. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, left St. John's mid-way through sophomore year. He earned his degree in music and mathematics the following year from Drew University. Soon after, he moved to Canada and participated in the experimental college, Rochdale, in Toronto. Although the program was "a disaster," he did meet members of the House of Anansi Press, a fledgling Canadian publishing company, and later became its business manager. His wife, Ann, who is an alumna of the Graduate Institute in Santa became an editor, and later president of the publishing company. The couple eventually divorced. went on to earn his Ph.D. on the reception of psychoanalysis from the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. While a student there, he married Martha Wade and the two now have a son, Alexander, eight. After several years of teaching the history of science, Byron went back to publishing as a science editor for the Academic Press, and later as vice-president of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Canada. Recently he and a partner formed a new publishing company, Wall and Thompson, specializing in university texts. White Wilde of Ojai, California, finished her BA degree at Antioch University Santa Barbara. She was a ballerina with Pacific Ballet in San Francisco, and for the past four years, studied Aikido, a Japanese martial art. Recently, she enrolled in an elementary teacher credential program. Les Wilson of Tohatchi, New Mexico is the owner of Two Grey Hills Trading Company. nrr\rlHf"P.C In July, St. John's College alumni in Buffalo gathered for wine, pizza and fellowship. They a seminar and reception in October. Those interested should call Roberta Carnevale, , for details. Pictured are, from left, Robert Covelli, A '79, Roberta Carnevale, SFGI '87, Bob Sacco, A '84, Frank St. Amour, A '80, and Ky Herreid, A '87. Bloomsburg, PA, as a member of the mathematics and computer science department. 1982 Kristos and Teresa Polk Politi announce "with glee" the birth of their third child, born May 6 in Athens. Sebastian is the new brother to K. Panayiotis, 6, and 0. Edwardos, 4. Besides mothering, Teresa has made a fine art out of cloth diapering and goat cheese making, and has recently published a book on the two subjects entitled How Not to Mix the Muslins. Anyone interested in a copy should send signed blank checks to her at Chora, Naxos, Greece, 84300. 1984 Damon Ellingston earned a master's degree in mathematics from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, alongside fellow Johnnie Janelle Stevenson, A '78. He writes, "I plan to spend the summer in Washington, D.C., earning as much money as I can, then spend a year traveling in Europe, the birthplace of the 'Great Books."' 1986 First Lt. Henry B. Williamson is flying Harriers for a Marine Attack Squadron, and has been selected for captain. In a June 15, 1990, article in The Wall Street Journal about the ambiguous response to U.S. culture of Japanese young people-whether they are living in the U.S. or in Japan-Arseny "Chuk" Besher, who lives and works in Tokyo, is featured. Besher was born in Japan to the children of Russian emigres who fled there from Shanghai after the Communists took over mainland China. He is an official Japanese citizen under a law covering stateless people and therefore, as a Caucasian, has rare status. Speaking only Japanese and Russian, he entered 'high school in San Francisco, and later, St. John's. In the end, he felt "more alienated in America," according to the Journal article and returned to Japan where he works at Grey-Daiko Advertising Inc., an American-affiliated firm in Tokyo. 1988 Tobias Maxwell has just graduated from California State University in Sacramento with his master's degree in science and counseling, (SC). He is working for Triad Family Services as well as with a therapist in private practice for his intern hours towards his California state board exams for an MFCC license. 1989 Second Lt. Jeff Kojac is leading Marines with a Tactical Air Operations Squadron in Saudi Arabia. 1990 EDO, that unforgettable band of musicians, is on the move. "EDO pays its Debts" said a card from Eliot Duhan announcing a July concert in the Big Apple. Next came an announcement that the "All the Young Strangers" tour continues with stops in Albany, Haverford College, Albany, NYC, Philadelphia again, and back to NYC. For a full line ofEDO dates, send a self-addressed envelope to Eliot Duhan c/o Shadow Records, apt 8c, 309 West 104th St., NY, NY 10025 or call Pete Joe, Andy or Joe at 215-527-8476. Mary Braden is currently working in Louisville, KY, as a ballroom dance instructor. She welcomes correspondence: 3006 Hike's Lane, #21, Louisville, KY, 40220. Class (Continued from page 2) NASA scientific satellites, and then in systems software. In 1974, he set up and established computer centers for the Plan and Budget Organization of the Iranian government. After that he spent one year in a Zen Buddhist monastery in and another backpacking in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Later, he settled down to a computer job with Chevron in downtown San Francisco. Currently, he's earning a PhD in Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan. His wife, Dianne, is a student in the same program. John Ross of Seattle, Washington, spent four years in the Coast Guard following graduation. He then worked for several years in public radio. By 1979, he decided Seattle was "home" and had enough of high-commitment low-pay radio. He discovered he could make a decent living as a technical writer and went to work for a telephone equipment manufacturer, while continuing to freelance as a reporter and producer for National Public Radio, the BBC, and Radio New Zealand. In 1980, he was North American Softball Correspondent for Radio Papua New Guinea, telling radio listeners in much of the English-speaking world about the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Since 1987, he's been freelancing full-time as a technical writer, producing radio features, teaching a "Beer Tasting" class, writing magazine articles on anything editors will buy. Rabbi David Sackton of Mobile Post, North Judean Hill, Israel, has been living �15 1 Peter von Blanckenhagen, 1910-1990 By EVA T. H. BRANN The community should know that Peter yielded he would have spared Athens von Blanckenhagen died earlier this year. much grief. He had been a frequent Friday night leeMr. von Blanckenhagen often said that he felt more free to speak his mind, to turer in the earlier days of the present prospeculate as he really wished, here at St. gram, of which he was an affectionately critical friend - critical because he John's. As a result he gave some thought, or I understood him to think, that memorable talks, for example, his Parthenon lecture, in which the gods in the beauty is superior to truth. Professor von Blanckenhagen had to his pediment simply ceased to be statuary. Of scholarly credit many monographs and arcourse it helped that his friend, Jacob tides, in German and in English, on Greek Klein, an appreciative skeptic, was in the and Roman subjects. One fascicule I audience. treasure particularly, The Odyssey Frieze, Those Friday night lectures were contains an ingenious and detailed argumemorable for their delivery as well as for ment about the double-pronged, Grecotheir matter. Mr. von Blanckenhagen, who Rom an, development of Western had the handsome head of a distinguished landscape painting. But I treasure all of the intellectual - deep set eyes, an extraoroffprints he sent me, not least because they dinarily mobile mouth, a Roman nose and came inscribed "Affectionately." One, on a broad brow with swept-back hair, was "The Shield of Alcibiades," bore a sample also a severe hunchback. He would stalk of his elegantly crafted, teasingly intelacross the stage in front of the screen in a ligent poetry. I feel free to quote it, espequite deliberate counterpoint to his adored cially since it bears on the next paragraph: Greek figures; it was an act of brave flam0 moment eternel, quand le grand boyancy. Those were great occasions. seducteur We became friends during 1958-59, nous a montre l 'Amour, en decouvrant when we were both fellows of the Institute son coeur! for Advanced Study at Princeton. On many Le sage a prefere - c 'etait sa trahisonevenings Peter would visit me in my office la vraie Philosophie meme au plus beau and treat me to a heady mixture of aesthetic gan;on. reflection and earthy gossip. Sometimes he Though he was, by any standard, a would regale me, in discreet locutions, learned and careful scholar, he thought of with his homoerotic interests. It all seemed his reputable research at least in part as a quite natural, and he succeeded in startling cloak of respectability to be thrown around me only once, when he revealed, with a his unconventional and exuberant conjeclook of wicked expectancy, that he had in tures. The last lecture I ever heard him give fact been married. in our vicinity - it was at Johns Hopkins I had hoped very much to persuade him, more than a decade ago - began as a meticulous reconstruction, from arold and frail though he was, to return to us. Now it is too late, and I feel sad for myself, chaeological and textual evidence, of the and sorry for the Friday night audiences configuration of the dining couches in that will never see or hear him, or learn to Plato's Symposium, and ended in the claim love the Greeks through him. For he was, that Socrates had been wholly culpable in refusing Alcibiades's advances: Had he against some odds, a magnificent man. Hippocrates Apostle, Translator of Aristotle By LAWREN CE BERNS, Annapolis tutor Hippocrates Apostle, thegreattranslator master's degrees in mathematics from of Aristotle, died of cancer on July 18. He Columbia. He studied at Laval in Canada, was eighty years old. All his translations the University of Chicago, where he first contain useful and extensive commenbecame attracted to Aristotle, and finally taries, commentaries in the clear, earned a master's and doctor's degree in straightforward, down to earth language philosophy from Harvard. His first publithat distinguishes the translations. Rather cation was a book, Aristotle's Philosophy than erudite reviews of scholarly opinion, ofMathematics. In 1948 he began teaching Apostle's comments go directly to mathematics at Grinnell College, Iowa, whatever philosophic, scientific, or lin'" and was Professor Emeritus of Matheguistic problems the text presents. His ammatics and Philosophy at Grinnell when he bition was, if possible, to translate the died. Grinnell can be proud for having whole Aristotelian corpus. He did translate provided a home for this man and his work. and publish the Metaphysics, Physics, My last communication from him was a Nicomachean Ethics, Categories and letter dated April 23rd of this year. He Propositions [On Interpretation], explained that he would not be able to write Posterior Analytics, On the Soul, Politics, "the longer work for scholars" that was to Selected Works, and finally, this year, the follow his student edition of the Poetics. Poetics. He sent me a copy of a work, "Aristotle's He had difficulties finding publishers. Theory of Mathematics as a Science of When his European publisher began to Quantities" which was "intended as a charge between $50 and $70 for his transblueprint for a longer work on the lations, he decided he would have to Philosophy of Mathematics." He knew he publish them himself. "I want students to would not be able to write that longer work buy and read these books," he said. And so, ("I may not reach 1991") and ended his the Peripatetic Press was formed to publish letter by saying "I want St. John's College the translations at prices students could Library to have this copy as I regard your afford. His wife Margaret handled the busicollege as the best in the U.S." ness end, and he, as he put it, was "the official packing boy." Apostle was -a native of Tyrnavos, Greece and came with his family to New York City at the age of 12. In his early days this cook's son often found himself working 80-hour weeks in restaurants and dress factories. He earned his bachelor's and When a newspaper reporter asked him why he devoted so much of his life to helping people understand Aristotle, he replied, "You might ask ... 'Why did Aristotle write his works?'" His general answer was something like this: To help the human race raise itself a little higher. _ _Q ITUARIES _ _ John Alexander: lawyer, alumni leader "He had a great love for St. John's College, and most especially for its president, Dr. Fell, whom he looked upon as a father figure." This was the way Mildred Edelein, widow of John Alexander, Sr., described her late husband's sentiments towards the College he graduated from 70 years before. Mr. Alexander, a beloved alumnus and former president of the Alumni Association, died in April after a brief illness. He was 90. Upon his death, Mrs. Alexander established a trust for the John Alexander Senior Scholarship Fund. Explaining her motivation, she said: "When John entered the College, all he had was $250. He waited on tables in the dining room and worked in the library. Since he was assisted in many ways to complete his education, we felt that by this bequest, he could, in some small measure, express his gratitude and give worthy youngsters assistance with their tuition." A Baltimore lawyer in general practice for 65 years, Mr. Alexander retired last year. A native of Holland Island in Somerset County, he entered St. John's College, but interrupted his studies to join the Marines when World War II began. "He always credited Dr. Fell with encouraging him to come back to the College and graduate with his class," Mrs. Alexander said recently in a telephone interview. Mr. Alexander taught English history at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute while attending the University of Maryland law school, from which he graduated in 1924. He later taught for 25 years at the University of Baltimore Law School. Mr. Alexander served as president of the St. John's College Alumni Association during the 1940's and was "particularly proud of keeping the campus away from the Navy" at a time when it sought to annex the property to the U.S. Naval Academy, Mrs. Alexander recalls. An avid reader and active environmentalist, he enjoyed sailing and power boating, fishing and crabbing at the family's weekend home on Deal Island on the Eastern Shore. Besides his wife of more than 50 years, he is survived by a daughter, Dorothy A. Watson of Framingham Center, Massachusetts; a son, John D. Alexander, Jr., of Baltimore, A '53, and a former member of the Board of Visitors and Governors; a sister, Margaret Alexander of Sykesville; six grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren. Evers: former oard chairman Walter Evers, A '35, visitor emeritus and former chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors of the College, died of lymphoma on May 11 in San Diego, near his winter home on the Pacific shore. Mr. Evers, who served the college "more years than anyone," according to the resolution offered at the July Board Meeting in Santa Fe, also played an instrumental role in the founding of the second campus. As founding president of Walter Evers & Company, management consultants, Mr. Evers headed the Cleveland-based company from 1960-1984. The company advised such clients as CBS, General Electric, Dart Industries, and Olivetti. Survivors include his wife, the former Emlen Davies Grosjean, a son, a daughter, three stepdaughters, five grandchildren and four stepgrandchildren. Lianne Ritter: GI student, teacher A memorial rowing regatta which will pit St. John's College against the Annapolis Rowing Club is planned for October 14 to honor Lianne Ritter, 31, a Graduate Institute student on the Annapolis campus who was killed May 23 in an automobile accident. Ms. Ritter and a friend were in a van carrying boats from Florida when the van was sideswiped by a truck. Both passengers were killed instantly. A teacher at Outward Bound in Maine last fall, Ms. Ritter had attended the Graduate Institute two summers and the spring, 1990, session. She would have received her degree in August. Ms. Ritter was a graduate of Cornell University and a math teacher and crew coach for four years at the Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her colleagues and students expressed affection and appreciation in a memorial article published in a June issue of the school newspaper. A colleague noted that Ms. Ritter would get up at 4:30 to go rowing every morning and then "go home and bake bread before school. She just fit so much into a day. She was always really cheerful and up." Said a student, "She touched everyone she met. She believed in us, and in tum, we believed in ourselves. She will be missed by everyone who knew her." Ms. Ritter is survived by her parents, Toby and Nataly Ritter, two sisters, Victoria and Meridith, and a brother Louis. For further information about the regatta, call Leo Pickens at 263-2371. Eric Huang W efald: NYU professor Eric Huang Wefald, 31, A'78 died in an automobile accident on August 31, 1989, near Bordeaux, France, along with his wife Mary Mansfield and his mother-in-law Margaret Mansfield. Born in Washington, D.C., Eric was graduated from the John F. Kennedy School in Silver Spring at age 15. He attended St. John's College, and was graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University in 1979. He received an M.A. in philosophy at Princeton University, where he was awarded a Danforth Scholar- ship. He was an assistant professor of philosophy at New York University before completing his doctorate in artificial intelligence at the University of California in Berkeley. His wife Mary, who had degrees from Cornell, Oxford, and the University of California, was to begin an assistant professorship in history at Stanford at the time of her death. Eric is survived by his parents, Emile Huang and Harold Ellingson Wefald of Gaithersburg, Maryland, two sisters, and a brother. �PAGE16 THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1 "To Joe is Josef " In its only appearance in the Baltimore"ArtofOur ' For information and to register, call 2632371, ext. 443. Gallery hours are 12 to 5 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. There is no admission charge. Artists in the exhibition have been November4. Six new tutors have been named to the fulltime at the Three men and one woman are for the first time, and two other women have moved from to full time duties. Andre Barbera comes to the college articles on of music as well as several on the of science and on IJVian... ,,. He is the author of a forthcoming The Euclidean Division of the Canon to be the University of Nebraska Press, and the editor of another, Music Theory and its Sources, to be published by the University of Notre Dame Press. A graduate of Wesleyan University, he received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in musicology. He was the recipient of many fellowships and grants, among them a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, a Travel to Collections grant, an NEH Conference Grant, and a Mellon Fellowship to Support Interdisciplinary Studies. Erik Sageng, a graduate of the University of Alaska, received his master of arts degree and PhD from Princeton University in 1989 in the history of mathematics. A recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, the Mellon Fellowin the Humanities, and a Fulbright grant, he spent 1989-90 at the University of Oklahoma on a Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doctoral at the AnEric Salem, a 1977 campus, received his MA and PhD from the of Dallas in '"'"hi •n the Smithsonian Institution Exhibition the exhibit is made tenstein and Ben Shahn. discussions of the exhibit are scheduled for 2 to 3 p.m. October 7 and 21. in monumental collection of modem art is the nucleus of the Hirshhom Museum and ............u._,,_,,u..., Garden in D.C. In a related event, Ben Summerford, ~~'"'"=nnr'~ emeritus in the art of the American the exhibit at 4 p.m. the Conversation Auditorium at the '---V'uvi::::v. The next exhibit will be the C. Law Watkins Memorial Collection of the which includes oa1tnt1mrs. ~'""""'"''~n and tists as Paul Klee and Marc '---UaJ-;;:,au. dates of that exhibit are "'''"'"'"..... J...,, .. December 14. h~-r1 HlV'UL-llL-U on rnnap<)llS dean was a founder of the years at William Darkey's St. John's College exceed those of any other tutor-nearly 20 years on the Annapolis campus before coming to teach in Santa Fe in 1964, where he also served five years as dean. His talk, "Memoranda," will launch the Homecoming weekend festivities in Annapolis September 21-23 at 8: 15 p.m. in the FSK Auditorium. The Saturday activities have been dedicated to another tutor and dean, Jacob Klein, who died in 1978 at the age of79. A distinguished teacher and a man of immense learning, Dean Klein is credited with molding and developing the New Program, and with strengthening the faculty. He taught at Annapolis for 50 years, beginning in 1938, and was dean of the college from 1949-1958. A tribute to Mr. Klein and the unveiling of a photographic portrait of him will be highlights of the 11 a.m. Alumni Association meeting on Saturday in the FSK Conversation Room. The four alumni seminars scheduled for 2 p.m. will each deal with a Mr Klein: "The Problem of Freedom," "The Ideal of a Liberal Education," "On at California State 1~ ,~~,"~" John .. and grants un.•AUI-'"'-"" Research Coungrant, and National Endowment for the Humanities In 1971-73, she 23 months of central resear·ch11n!:Y tribal life. She spent another year in Brazil oral traditional ballads, narratives and pe1:io;rmarn:es her dissertation. Dissertation additional work in arn:>eairea this year as a book, Count of a Ballad pubClaros: lished by Garland. iAUi!Ch1nc Social Thomas program. Mr. Salem was Hillman Foundation ~·~· .,._... Graduate University of Chicago in political science, an MA and PhD from Yale in intema- .........."'.,.,,,,.,..."'and Weaknesses." :uui"~'vL•'-" president Donald J. Maciver and new dean Eva Brann will address the morning meeting. The event-filled weekend will reach its climax at the Homecoming Banquet in the Dining Hall at 7: 30 p.m. Saturday, at which three members of the campus community will be signally honored. Brother Robert Smith, tutor emeritus, will be made an honorary member of the Alumni Association, while two members of the class of 1950, Jack Ladd Carr and John L. Williams, will receive the Association's A ward of Merit. A no-host cocktail party is slated for 6 p.m. in the FSK lobby. While a special banquet for the 50th reunion of the class of 1940 will be held Friday in the Private Dining Room of Randall Hall at5:30p.m., most returning alumni will join students before the Friday Night lecture for an informal dinner at 5 p.m. in the Hall. '"'t~wr1 "'" activities include a class of 1950 cocktail party at 5:30 p.m. in the Boat House, and luncheons for the classes of 1955, and 1970. All who do Seeger. Ms. Seeger received her B.A. from Harvard University and her master's and doc- Science to in the Hall at 12:30 p.m. for the buffet luncheon. The Graduate Institute alumni will hold their traditional tea at 4 p.m. in the Great Hall. In addition to the Jacob Klein seminars for all alumni, several classes have arranged individual seminars. For the class of 1955, Tutors Emeriti Barbara Leonard and Curtis Wilson will lead discussion of "The Wife of Martin Guerre" at the home of Hilyer Gearing Shufeldt, where the class will also have its reunion luncheon. For the class of 1960, Tutor Emeritus Winfree Smith will lead discussion of Plato's Meno in Room McDowell for the class of 1970, tutor Nicholas Maistrellis and Robert Goldwin, A'50, will lead a seminar in room 13, McDowell; for the class of 1980, a seminar, which will meet in room 24, McDowell, is also planned. Homecoming activities will conclude with a brunch at 11 :30 a.m. at the home of President Maciver. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1~m 1 1ir1 r1,1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 The St. John's 3 1696 011381645 Volume 16, Issue 4 Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM June, 1990 I Bart, Davis speak at Commencement exercises Bart cites "islands" in literature for Santa Fe gn uates and friends Tutors Michael Comenetz and Howard Zeiderman place the academic hood on Collins Duodu-Bonsu of Ghana at Annapolis Commencement exercises while the new graduate receives congratulations from President William M. Dyar, Jr., left. Keith Harvey Photo 87 bachelors', 23 masters' degrees given at Annapolis Commencement ceremonies By DONNA BOETIG The tolling of the bell on top of McDowell Hall at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 20, signified the start of the one hundred ninety-eighth commencement in the two hundred ninety-fourth year of St. John's College. For the 87 students receiving bachelors' degrees, and the 23 being awarded their masters' degrees, the march from the confines of the Great Hall to the open spaces of the campus' front lawns signalled the end of one period of intellectual growth and the beginning of another. In step with the Brass Quintet's "Variations on a French Theme;' the procession of academicians and graduates, led by the College's new dean, Eva Brann, wound down the brick paths to the podium under the Liberty Tree. The overcast skies, with their peeks of sunshine, set the backdrop for the commencement address by L.J. Davis. A contributing editor of Harper's magazine, and a regular contributor to The New York Times, Mr. Davis moved from his career as a novelist to that of an award-winning journalist in a irregular path that included detours as an actor and a businessman. In his message to the Ethics 6, 7 ........ 8, 9 ' .... ' .. ' 9 1 graduates, "Welcome to Hard Times:' Mr. Davis presented a witty and sometimes pessimistic picture of today's world. In his short speech, delivered with ironic inflections, Mr. Davis portrayed an uncertain world where "democracy is riddled with pity and doubt, [and] a dictatorship is ruthless and certain ... Over the last fifty years, as the East became first a camel house and then a lunatic asylum with the inmates in charge, America was by turns the arsenal of democracy, then a humming hive of industry and innovation, and finally a vast playpen for the likes of Michael Milken, presided over by an elderly actor with a short attention span, a small fund of knowledge, and an abiding dislike of bad news. "... My message to the class of 1990 is therefore a simple one. Welcome to hard times:' A few moments later, he noted that he intentionally failed to mention racism, the environment, and the creation of a risk-free society, because "if the Sovs are unable to get the warheads safely out of Armenia and Azerbaijan, the issues of racism and the environment will become somewhat irrelevant, and the notion of a risk-free society will become a monstrous joke:' He then presented the down-side of the worldwide victory of capitalism. Just as we begin to celebrate, our partners have to treat us like some Third World country, us for our raw materials and discoveries. He warned the graduates that it was indeed our own on page vVFtH,ltW<OU Tutor Robert Bart drew on Homer, Sophocles, and Shakespeare for his text at Commencement May 20, as he led Santa Fe graduates, members of the college community, parents and friends in a provocative examination of the island as a metaphor for a way of living apart. Fifty-nine students received bachelor's degrees and 12 received master's degrees in the 23rd commencement ceremonies to be held on the southwestern campus. "I want to think with you:' he told his audience, "about how and why Odysseus, Philoctetes and Prospero left their islands and returned from their lives apart from men to take up in their several ways a life shared with others, a life in which they would meet danger, disappointment and worse, but in which they would unquestionably be leaders of men'.' He turned immediately to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason to examine in it the very different way in which the island, "land of truth;' is surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, "the native home of illusion ... and empty hopes:' "Kant wants to persuade us to be safe at home with ourselves:' said Mr. Bart, "in a heated room perhaps, away from the dangers he threatens us with from the sea and whatever may after all lie beyond it:' While what "we can and do cook up for ourselves is all of Nature:' he admitted, "it is a Nature in which wonder is superfluous and miracle is altogether absent'.' Odysseus, on the other hand, despite the enticements of the goddess Calypso, longed for home, and finally ended his island exile to complete his journey (Continued on page 14) Agresto sworn in as SF president· Interim head named at Annapolis Donald J. Maciver of El Paso, Texas, an executive in a major Texas-based energy firm who left the corporate world earlier this year to become a teacher, has been named interim president of the Annapolis campus of St. John's College. Convening in Santa Fe, the Board of Visitors and Governors acted on the nomination of its executive committee in offering the job to Mr. Maciver, father of a student at the western campus and himself a first-term Board member. He has served on the nominating, visiting, campus planning and presidential search committees of the Board. Mr. Maclver's election follows close upon a special meeting in early in which the Board determined to find an interim president to serve after President William M. Dyal's retirement until a permanent president is selected for the Annapolis campus. Mr. Macl ver's interest in education and St. John's College began several years ago when he came across Mortimer Adler's writings on the Paideia Proposal, a reform program for elementary and secondary education. This and subsequent readings about the work of Robert Hutchins at the Unive ... sity of Chicago led him presently to the St. John's program. With his daughter Kelli enrolled as a junior at Santa Fe, he determined last year to resume his formal education and become a teacher. (Continued on page 15) John Agresto, fourth - and second fulltime - president of the Santa Fe campus, was sworn in April 28 at ceremonies attended by friends and academic representatives from all over the country. For details and inaugural pictures, see pages 8, 9. J.W. Blagden Photo Board of Visitors and Governors Chairman Scott Kelso has named the 10111rnvv111u! Board members to continue the Anna11Jolis J. Jr. M. Brownell and Charles H. �-(The following remarks were delivered by Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University from 1974-86, on the occasion of John Agresto's inauguration as fourth president of the Santa Fe campus, April 28, 1990.) It is generally accepted that the sciences and the social sciences, in addition to their intrin- sic intellectual merits, serve useful and practical purposes. The one may provide us with new tools and weapons; the other may, with luck, help us to live with their consequences. It was believed in the past - indeed, there are still some places where it is believed today - that for the humanities their intrinsic intellectual merit is sufficient, and that their study is its own more than adequate reward. Through philosophy and history we may hope to achieve some understanding of man's place in the universe and of his experience in the past; through language and literature we may be able to receive, and be enriched by, the understanding which the great minds of the past have achieved, and the experiences which they have recorded and transmitted for our guidance. In this way, the study of the humanities has, at all times, made an essential contribution to the refinement of the mind, the ennoblement of the soul, and, by these means, the education of the young to take their place, fittingly, in a civilized society. Yet today the humanities have been sadly neglected in many of our schools and universities, and there are some indeed who go beyond passive neglect to active rejection. They have, in recent years, been subject to attack, both from the ignorant or simple minded who despise anything that is not of immediate and visible utility, to the more sophisticated enemies who argue that humanistic studies are not "relevant" - a word that has acquired new and menacing implications in our time. The attack on humanistic studies and the erosion of knowledge have already reached alarming levels. Recent surveys have shown that a large proportion of high-school seniors know little about their own time and their own country, and virtually nothing about other times and places. Yet knowledge of our cultural heritage, and more generally, knowledge of the past, is essential to the health and well-being of human societies. A term that is broadly and generally applied to both the study of the past, and to the making of statements about the past, is history. But this word too has changed its meaning, its content and its purpose, many times. Almost a thousand years ago, the Persian Abu'l-Fazl Bayhaqi, introducing his chronicle of his own time, remarked: These stories may be far from history, where one usually reads that such and such a king sent such and such a general to such and such a war, and that on such and such a day they made war or peace, and that this one defeated that one, or that one this one, and then proceeded somewhere. But I write what is worthy to be recorded. Nowadays, the old fashioned history of kings and battles, or as it is often called, drum and trumpet history, is generally despised. Scholars have added more and more elements to their study - the history of economies and societies, of ideas and discoveries, of mentalities and attitudes, and of the literature in which they are preserved. True, the study of past achievements is in many ways a very unsatisfactory subject - unreliable, changeable, inconsistent, fragmentary, often contradictory. Yet it is precisely for these reasons that it is valuable, in that it accurately reflects the human predicament, and is therefore an essential ingredient of our education, of our perception of ourselves, of our understanding not only of our past but of our present, and of what there may be of our future. The record of the past does not change, but our perception of the record is constantly changing, and every generation reexamines the past in the light of its own concerns and to the extent of its own capabilities. The redefinition of our culture, and of our place in it, derives from three sources, two of them relatively straightforward, the third complex and difficult. The first two are the discovery of new evidence and the development of new techniques of enquiry. In our own day, the advance of archaeological, epigraphical, archival and documentary studies has vastly increased the amount of evidence at our disposal, while the progress of both the linguistic and social sciences has given us new methodologies for the exploitation of this new evidence. A very large part of humanistic and social science research is concerned with these tasks. There is however a third kind of revision, arising not from the opportunities but from the needs - or the passions - of our time. Basically, all research means putting questions, and humanistic research means putting questions to the records of past achievement and trying to find answers there. But the questions which we put to the past are necessarily those suggested to us by our own times and preoccupations, and these differ from generation to generation. It is legitimate and inevitable that this should be so. What is neither legitimate and inevitable is that not only the questions which we put to the past, but also the answers which we find there, should be determined by our present concerns and needs. This can lead, particularly under authoritarian regimes or movements, and even in free societies, under the pressure of fads and fashions, to the falsification of the past, in order to serve some present purpose. Much of what purports to be history at the present time, in the greater part of the world, is of this kind. We live in an age when immense energies are devoted to the falsification of the past, and it is therefore all the more important, in those places where the past can be researched and discussed freely and objectively, to pursue this work to the limit of our abilities. It has been argued that complete objectivity is impossible, since scholars are human beings, with their own loyalties· and biases. This is no doubt true, but does not affect the issue. Any surgeon will admit that complete asepsis is also impossible, but one does not, for that reason, perform surgery in a sewer. There is no need for humanists to write or teach in an intellectual sewer either. In our own time there has been a considerable change in our own perception of the scope and scale and content of humanistic studies. In bygone times, it was considered sufficient if a country, a society, or a community concerned itself with its own culture. In these days, when almost every action or policy has a global dimension, we know better. We also have a broader and deeper idea of what constitutes our own culture. The rapid changes of recent years have forced us - sometimes painfully - to realize that the world is a much more diverse place than we had previously thought. As well as other countries and nations, there are also other cultures and civilizations, separated from us by differences far greater than those of nationality or even of language. In the modern world, we may find ourselves obliged to deal with societies professing different religions, nurtured on different scriptures and classics, different great books; formed by different experiences and cherishing different aspirations. Not a few of our troubles at the present time spring from a failure to recognize or even see these differences, an inability to achieve some understanding of the ways of what were once remote and alien societies. They are now no longer remote, and they should not be alien. (Continued on page 4) (The following remarks were delivered by John Agresto on the occasion of his inauguration as fourth president at Santa Fe, April 28, 1990.) When we think about the place of college education in America, many of us automatically think of liberal education: of students leaving home for four years to read some literature, study some history, learn about languages, study mathematics, or biology, psychology or classics. To think this way is simply an anachronism, simply false. In the last thirty years the number of students in American colleges and universities who can be said to concentrate in the liberal arts, or in some major area of the liberal arts, has fallen astonishingly. The figures are soft, but they look something like this: in the last thirty years the number of students concentrating in the liberal arts has fallen from approximately 60% of the college population to somewhere just around· 1001o. To think of American collegiate education today as liberal education is simply not true: the great bulk of it is technical, vocational, commercial and professional education. Everyone, it would seem, within the academy has the same explanation for the shift away from the liberal arts: students have been captured by materialism and commercialism, students have lost their idealism, students have been seduced by bourgeois American capitalism and .. Wall Street or have simply given in to their narcissistic desire to be rich, selfish, competitive and comfortable. These explanations are, I think, by and large false and deluding. The leaders of American higher education often have the incredibly elastic ability to blame everything and everyone for their woes - everyone, that is, but themselves. So what's wrong with higher education today that has precipitated this monumental decline in liberal education? Plenty. First, it clearly has something to do with the decline of teaching: And while I have no objection to good research and scholarship in the liberal arts, and I know that there are some students who pride themselves on association with the names of great scholars on their campuses, I do think that most students would rather be in the company of a great teacher than on a campus with renowned but unavailable researchers. Second, it has something to do with arrogance and contempt. I mean especially contempt for this country and this civilization. We all have our stories and we've all compiled enough evidence to know that the segment of the academy that almost seems to pride itself on its gloating disdain for general American habits and ways and hopes and loves is not to be found in schools of nursing or pharmacology or electrical engineering or accounting but in the liberal arts. But students, despite what their parents might think, come to college with an instinctive, wholesome and totally proper love of country, of customs, and even of religious values and institutions. And while no one begrudges the academy its role as cultural critic, students do sense that if what they'll be subjected to is politics and ideology masquerading as teaching, or if they see themselves subject to an unremitting attack on Western civilization or on their untutored but seemingly sensible devotion to certain principles and values, well, they'd sooner major in business or finance, thank you all the same. It's a sad situation, for I've seen that the more professors drive away students because of their disdain and contempt for the principles and works of this civilization, the more they blame the character of today's students rather than themselves. Third, the trivialization of the liberal arts has probably driven as many students away as the politicization of the liberal arts. Once we say that there are no great books to read or great ideas to understand or great people to study but that virtually all things are equally instructive, interesting or valuable, the more our students will disbelieve us and rightly walk away. If books and ideas are objects of play rather than substantial, transformative and significant items central and important for life, why bother? Then we've really made the liberal arts irrelevant. And, at the cost of $60,000 or more, students will go elsewhere. Yet, despite the incredible decline in liberal education nationally, we know that there are some places where it not only survives but flourishes. Where you're standing today is a case in point. Applications to this school are as strong as, if not stronger than, ever. There's a new library going up. Voluntary contributions are on the rise. And everyone I meet here senses that this is a place where teaching and learning are alive and healthy, where liberal education still manifestly flourishes. We are hardly perfect, and much of what I have to say may still be in the form of goals rather than solid fact, but I do think this college can be and is a model and a light for higher education generally. Here teaching is taken seriously because learning is taken seriously. Here, in a school without academic departments, where each day the tutors themselves strive to be better and more widely educated, the drive to know, the love of learning and the desire to talk about and teach what we've seen and read is clear. When the faculty here resolves, as it has so recently, that it would rather forego all salary increases than increase the size of classes, you know that teaching is paramount. Second, when one takes the books of the Western tradition as seriously as we do here, simple contempt for the tradition, or of the principles and works of this civilization, are impossible. We simply know too much to be enemies of this culture. We know, to be sure, that one's own is not necessarily the best. But we've seen enough and read enough to know the good when we see it. And we know that as we hold the ideas and works of this tradition up for question and investigation that we also, by that very act, transmit the ideas, works and principles of this tradition forward. We are not embarrassed to be both scholars and critics and bearers of the culture all together. And we trust that we turn out and will continue to turn out graduates who themselves have an attachment to this civilization as well. We trust that we are turning out students who are public servants and producers of public goods and not just carpers and critics. On that score, we also know that knowledge is not necessarily virtue - We know that there can be angels in understanding and devils in conduct. What is left for us to show, however, is that knowledge and virtue, education and public spiritedness, are not incompatible. What we have to show is what is written on the first page of our catalog, something which I think many institutions would be ashamed to reprint each year, though we are not - it goes like this: "Liberal education should seek to develop free and rational men and women committed to the pursuit of knowledge in its fundamental unity, intelligently appreciative of their common cultural heritage and conscious of their social and moral obligations:' If we can do these things with fervor and intelligence St. John's will continue to be what I think it is at present, a light to all colleges, a leader in the meaning of liberal education, and the maker of men and women of whom we and our fellow citizens will be proud. Thank you. �THE REPORTER JUNE 1990 PAGE 3 Renaut and Verdi will lead Annapolis Telluride program Two Annapolis tutors, Assistant Dean John Verdi and Deborah Renaut, who becomes the second assistant dean June 1, will be faculty members this summer for 14 highly able high school students from across the country taking part in the Telluride Association Summer Program, beginning June 25. "Science as Literature, Literature as Science'' is the theme of the six-week Annapolis TASP program, meeting for the first time on a St. John's College campus. Mr. Verdi looks forward to the challenge of working with the students - "both to break their prejudices and to help them learn to read and talk together,' he says. 72 students in all will be meeting at three other locations and different texts each. Two seminars will be held at Cornell -.:inir 1 n.rrc '--'VH•~i:;,'"', .JJJ.u•HVIJ, ~·-£••~··•£..~, and one at Williams '"-''VU-I-··-· freshman year at and ~£·"·-,.,~·-·~program. A former TASPer himhe will serve as one of two "factota:' college students who will look after the intellectual, social and emotional well-being of the group of 16- and 17-year-olds. Since 1954, the Telluride Association has awarded scholarships to high school juniors selected on the basis of PSAT scores (usually in the top one percent), or by being recommended by a teacher or counselor. Such candidates are then invited to apply to the program. Student application essays help to reduce the applicant pool to those with personal and intellectual abilities suitable for the program. Interviews are conducted in March by regional representatives of the Telluride Association, and selections are made by mid-April in an application process that is "more rigorous than most college admissions procedures;' say its sponsors. Not all of the students are Americans. One of the Annapolis participants will be a young woman from India. The summer programs are only one of the projects of the Telluride Association, which, along with Deep Springs College, was founded by Lucien L. Nunn, a pioneer in the development of the electric power industry, who lived originally in Telluride, Colorado. The college and the association have as their stated purpose to seek out and to help develop intellectually a group of young people from different backgrounds who share a commitment to intellectual inquiry and a wish to contribute to society. L V ............. u Foundation in 1983 as part of a concerted effort to replenish college and university faculties with exceptionally able scholars in the decade ahead. Winners were selected from among over 2000 candidates and represent 62 colleges and universities. The Fellows will receive up to $27 ,000, including tuition and fees and a stipend of $11,500, for each of the first two years of graduate work, with a third year of assistance available to those who perform with distinction and are towards ... L Hunter Nesbitt state honoree Hunter M. Nesbitt Hunter M. Nesbitt, a graduate student at St. John's College, was recently named Maryland's NEH/ Reader's Digest Teacher-Scholar for 1990, in recognition of his success in introducing Shakespeare to elementary school children. The Baltimore resident was honored in March at a White House luncheon recognizing the nation's teacher-scholars selected from 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands. The Teacher/Scholar program is administered by the NEH in partnership with a $1.5 million fund established by Reader's Digest founder DeWitt Wallace. This grant, the largest gift ever received by NEH, will cover one-third of the program's costs for three years. A fifth grade teacher at Harman Elementary School in Hanover, Mr. Nesbitt is receiving a year's teaching sabbatical to study Shakespeare in depth. He'll begin by reviewing the playwright's life, then will research what's available on the subject for children. Next he'll study Shakespeare's plays, selecting four or five to edit in a book for children. He'll include in the publication notes and background information helpful to other elementary school teachers. Maynard Mack, a professor of Shakespeare at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Leeds Barron, a Shakespearean scholar at the University of Maryland Baltimore County will assist him. In the meantime, Mr. Nesbitt will con- tinue his studies at the Graduate Institute. "I feel doubly blessed, receiving this grant and being able to study at St. John's:' he said recently. "My studies here have a lot of relevance to my work as a teacher. Being well educated in the humanities has a direct influence on how well I teach. In fact, the St. John's method is as appropriate with children as with any other students. Since attending the Graduate Institute, I've been incorporating the St. John's teaching methods very effectively into my work with children'.' Mr. Nesbitt will be returning to his classroom of fifth graders in September, 1991. A graduate of Emory University with a bachelor's degree in English, he laments the fact that school teachers rarely get the chance to become experts in a field, and it's the children who suffer from their lack of expertise. It all began for Mr. Nesbitt 10 years ago with nail soup. He was reading to his students the old yarn of nail soup wherein a crude recipe of water and nails is embellished with a cornucopia of vegetables and spices. The story reminded him of the three witches from Macbeth, stirring their caldron's nasty brew of "Eye of newt, and toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog~' Two of his students went home that night and asked their parents to help them locate the play with the witch scene. The next day they returned to class with the scene memorized - "Double, double, toil and trouble~" That year, his class performed an edited version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Every other year since, the 10-year-olds have performed that play or Macbeth. His trick is to make it fun. He explains: "It's unfortunate that people turn off on Shakespeare because they get it in high school when they're more skepticaE' But when they're introduced to it early, they giggle at the Bard's 400-yearold jokes, and have no problem grasping the plots and themes. The power struggle in Macbeth - people persuading people to do bad things - is very real to them, he says. "Children love a challenge, and when you challenge them, they'll surprise you everytime;' he promises. Kevin Graham Vince Harriman photo Kevin Graham Mellon Fellow Kevin M. Graham of Trenton, Ohio, a senior at the Annapolis campus, has been named a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, one of 122 students so honored across the nation. He is the first Annapolis student to win the prestigious scholarship, which was set up by The Andrew W. Mellon Vince Harriman photo Annapolis sophomore George M. Dolan is one of 112 college and 60 high school students across the country to be named as an NEH Younger Scholar for 1990. who expects to been ...,,. "'""'"".,.,,,_, into three programs and is awaiting the results of two other applications. His primary interest is epistemology, the science of knowledge in general, he explains, which grew out of the readings in the history of philosophy in the seminar during his undergraduate studies. In Annapolis, he is one of two math assistants who offer tutoring on all the mathematics done at the college. He wrote the proposal which set up the tutoring jobs, new this year. The Mellon Fellowships were instituted in 1983 by the foundation as an effort to counter the trend of the past decade that has seen the country's ablest college graduates turning away from careers in higher education. Selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities from among more than 800 applicants in a nationwide competition, Dolan will receive $2,200 to work with an advisor, who also receives a stipend. Dolan will be advised bytutor Kevin Dungey on a project called "The Physiology of William Harvey: Aristotelian or Mechanistic?" Harvey was a 17th century English physician and anatomist. During the summer, students will be researching projects as diverse as modern Irish literature, the writings of the Puritans, the underground railroad, and the compositions of J.S. Bach. At the end of the nine-week project, each Younger Scholar is expected to submit to the NEH a research paper with a bibliography and a final narrative report. The Younger Scholars program has supported the projects of more than 800 young people since it was instituted in 1984 by the NEH, an independent federal agency that supports education. research, preservation and public programs in the humanities. chosen Annapolis tutor Sam Kutler had a variegated academic itinerary planned for the beginning of the summer which was to take him over a 12-day period to the Pacific northwest, to Canada, and back to Kansas before his return home June 8. His schedule was to be as follows: On May 27 in San Francisco to talk before the Northern California alumni on "The Quarrel Between Ancient and Modern Mathematics"; on May 31 in Victoria, B.C., to address the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics on the subject, "Why Study Ancient Maths"; on June 2 in Seattle to conduct a seminar for the alumni group on Sophocles' "Antigone"; and from June 4 to 7 in North Newton, Kansas, to conduct an eight-session study group with 10 faculty members of Bethel College there on Euclid's Elements, and to give a talk on "Ancient versus Modern Mathematics~' Two students, Akiba Covitz, A'91, and John Povejsil, A'92, have been selected as interns for 1990-91 in the News and Information office at Annapolis. The internships were offered for the first time this year as an opportunity for students interested in journalism to gain experience in writing news and feature stories as well as opinion pieces. They will also do layout. Both students have worked on the weekly student newspaper The Gadfly this year, Mr. Covitz writing a column called Weltanschauung ("world view"), and Mr. Povejsil regular political commentary, usually triggered by Political Forum speakers. Mr. Covitz has also been editor this year of Energeia, a biannual student publication of essays, fiction, and poetry, and a contributing editor to The Collegian, a resurrected student publication that prints an eclectic range of student-faculty writing. �1928 The Encyclopedia of Nationalism, by Louis L. Snyder, was published April 30 by Paragon House, the latest of more than 20 books on the subject of nationalism by the author. According to the publisher, the book "surveys every phase of the origin, development and character of Nationalism from the 18th century to the presene' Entries describe 250 worldwide nationalist movements, theories, proponents, scholars and goals with topics as diverse as Social Darwinism, Grimm's fairy tales and the French Revolution. The discount price of $28 will hold through November I at the publishers' address, 90 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. 10011. 1950 Theodore W. Hendricks has a heartwarming tale of community activism and success to tell. For several years he has been working with Baltimore's Ascension Homes project, under which seven churches in the Govans area of the city, along with health authorities, four community associations and a number of neighborhood sponsors have established three permanent homes for the mentally retarded in residential areas. The project resulted "from a broad community resolve to settle mildly mentally ill among us rather than have them confined to institutions:' Mr. Hendricks writes. Using federal funds, Ascension Homes developed a formula for rallying support that has become a model for other projects in the city. With the help of city health authorities, the seven churches sought the involvement of community improvement associations, and the several years of meetings and hearings and collective effort paid off. 1960 Mary Campbell Gallagher published a piece exploring both sides of the argument on state legislation to require parental consent to teenagers' abortions ("Bill on Parental Consent for Abortions 1971 Two cross-cultural houses designed by Travis Price were featured in the March issue of Metropolitan Home. Price is credited in the biographical notes with creating "zen with zing~' Photographed practicing aikido, Price is described as uninterested in which culture, East or West, originates what. "Deep down, the basis for good design is similar. It has to do with light, clarity and materials expressing themselves:' he is quoted as saying. The notes continue: "Price acknowledges Asian influences in his work but sees them as a means to an end - not foreign transplants~' 1977 William A. Malloy has been named an advisor in the Special Procedures Branch of the IRS Houston District Headquarters where he will be reviewing in- Bernard Lewis (Continued from page 2) Nor, for that matter, should we be alien to them. Between the various countries and cultures that make up this world, the forces of modernization are creating, however much we may resist it, a global community in which we are all in touch with, and dependent on, one another. Even within each country, modernization is destroying the barriers Poses Quandary") in the of The New York Observer. 30 issue 1975 Gershon Ekman and his wife Patricia became the parents of twin girls Laura Caroline Ekman and Sally Eliza Ekman on January 13. The proud big sister is Kate Ekman, aged 2 Yi. 1979 Kate Kominars received a master's degree in Counselor Education from Temple University and was certified as an addictions counselor in December 1988. Now she has been accepted to the PhD program at Temple in counseling psychology for Fall 1990. She would like to hear from other alumni who are therapists/counselors as well as her friends. Her address is 913 Williams St., Bensalem, PA 19020. 1980 Eleanor (Kurs) and John Verdi are delighted with their daughter, Antonia, who was born February 27. Eleanor is taking time off from her artistic endeavors to take care of the baby, but hopes to get back into printmaking this summer after school gets out and John's schedule eases up a bit. 1982 Robert McDonough, a 1989 graduate of Cornell Law School, has recently joined Harter, Secrest & Emery as an associate in the firm's Rochester, N.Y., office. 1983 Deborah R. Sack has moved to San Jose to help open Reader's. Markets, full service bookstores which operate inside of Kmarts. Between 1986 and 1988, she supervised the installation and opening of over 100 RM's up and down the East Coast. She was a district manager in the Orlando, Florida, area for a year, but she is now opening and supervising stores in the Bay Area. 1972 Sister Zoe M. Davis, formerly Prudence in was elected mother superior at a priory in England. Her address is Rev. Mother Zoe M. Davis, 0.S.B., Priory of Our Lady of Peace, Turvey Abbey, Turvey, Bedfordshire, MK 438 DC England. Twenty nuns, ranging in age from their 20's to their 80's, live at the priory, which is connected with an order of Benedictine monks, about six in number, located next door. The two groups worship together. As Sister Zoe, the new mother superior did weaving for liturgical vestments and other art work, she cared for goats on the farm, cooked, and took charge of supplies. 1973 David K. Allison is the curator for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's "largest, most ambitious exhibit ever, a $9.5 million, 14,000 square foot permanent installation called 'The Information Age: People, Information, and TechnologY," according to an article in the Spring/Summer 1990 issue of The American Heritage of Invention and Technology. The exhibit "will attempt to show visitors, in an exciting, entertaining way, how information pervades our lives:' Allison is quoted as saying. The first part of the exhibit, "People, Information and Technology, 1835-1939!' begins with Samuel Morse's telegraph, and presents as separate paths of the evolving age communication and information processing. The next section is "World War II: The Information War, 1940-45:' presenting such innovations as radar and sonar, and the final section traces developments up to the present, from the transistor and high fidelity to the computer revolution and the rise of global information networks. The much praised exhibit is also enlivened by a number of interactive displays, allowing visitors to have their fingerprints scanned by an FBI computer, and to try to handle a 911 emergency call, for example. 1983 formation on its way to bankruptcy trustees and courts from 200 fellow Revenue officers out in the field, and where he will work on special problems with government attorneys. The "field has been interesting;' he reports, "but 10 years is long enough, and I look forward to three years of riding the bus:' His field assignments will spread into four counties with areas as small as eight square miles and as large is 1,000 square miles for the same caseload. "I have worked alone almost exclusivelY,' he writes, except in groups "for seizures. The largest group I had need of was 17, of which five formed an armed escort for the other 12!' Fifteen months of physical therapy was the result of the broadsiding of a government car in which he was riding. He concludes his letter with a query: "Rebecca Davis (SF '76), where are you?" Kristen Baumgardner writes that she is "the graphics and publicity department and the executive vice editor of LifeSkills Press:' She recently provided the cartoon illustrations for The Winning Family: Increasing Self-Esteem in Your Children and Yourself, written by her mother, Dr. Louise Hart, a community psychologist, and published by the press in March. "My personal plans for this yeaf,' she writes, "include getting my opus maestro published, a 28-page comic book on reason and language and feminism and post-modernism that I wrote for my senior thesis, which I ended which previously divided us into neatly segregated communities, each living its own life in its own way, suffering minimal contacts with the outsider. All that is ending, and we must learn to live together. Unfortunately, intercommunication has not kept pace with interaction, and we are still deplorably ignorant of each other's ways and values and aspirations. Ignorance is not the only problem. There are real differences which must be recognized and accepted, real issues which must be confronted and resolved. But even real differences are exacerbated, real problems are aggravated, by ignorance, and a host of difficulties may reasonably be ascribed to ignorance alone. Our education today should be concerned with the development of many cultures, in all their diversity; with the great ideas that inspire them and the texts in which those ideas are enshrined, with the achievements which Amber Eden received her master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri on May 12. 1984 Elizabeth is at present working on her PhD in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech after receiving her bachelor's degree in the same subject from Florida State University in 1988. "My thanks to Spike Venable;' she writes, "who led the tutorial which got me interested in electricity and magnetism:' 1986 WHOMANWARP, a semi-annual literary publication founded by Kelli Ostrom and Gabrielle Fink Keith, was the recipient of the Ann 1)rler award, one of three specially designated grants recently awarded by Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke and the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture. 1988 Karel Bauer was graduated from NYU in 1988 and works as a video film photography editor for the Louisiana Department of Fish and Game, making wildlife and ecology films for PBS. Kim Paffenroth and Marlis Decker Paffenroth, A '86, will soon be moving to South Bend, Indiana, where Kim will begin work on a PhD in the fall on Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity at Notre Dame, under a University Presidential Fellowship. Kim will receive a master of theological studies degree in June, and Marlis will soon complete a master of English and American Literature degree, both at Harvard. See Letters to the Editor for news of Nathan M. Oliver. 1989 Second Lieutenant Jeff Kojac was graduated from the Basic Officer Course, Marine Corps Basic School, Quantico, Virginia, and is currently attending Air Defense Officer Course in 29 Palms, California. up doing at Mills College, not St. John's. It's called The Reason She Left. If anyone has any ideas on getting this unusual piece into intellectual markets, please let me know! It's exciting!" 1986 1989 Tish Wulick Pylman happily announced her recent marriage to Michael Pylman of Clarksburg, California. Upon completion of her secondary level teaching certificate at the University of Washington in December, she will head overseas to Darmstaad, Germany, to join her husband. "I'm looking forward to a two-year 'honeymoon: courtesy of the U.S. Armed Forces:' she writes. "Drop me a note. I'll keep the Santa Fe register up-to-date on my address. My parents' address is c/o Kuhlman, P.O. Box 975, Olalla, WA 98359~' they made possible, and with the common heritage which their followers and successors share. Nancy Osius, editor; Donna Boetig, assistant editor; Wye Allanbrook, John Christensen, Benjamin Milner, J. Winfree Smith, and Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. The Reporter is published by the News and Information Office, St. John's College, Box 1671, Annapolis, MD 21404. William M. Dyal, Jr., president. Published four times a year, in March, June, September and December. Second-class postage paid at Annapolis, MD. USPS 018-/50 �5 II By DONNA BOETIG In the basement of Mellon Hall on a Saturday morning in spring, Albert Toft, a senior researcher at the Goddard Space Center is building "The Rutherford:' an aluminum chamber through which a radioactive. source reaches a detector. Students will use the instrument to demonstrate in the laboratory that the atom is composed primarily of space with a highly concentrated charge in the center. This work order from the director of laboratories, Mark Daly, is routine. What really inspires this optical expert, Mr. Toft, to moonlight here 10 hours a week as a lab technician are the creative assignments. Those opportunities to flex both his mental and manual muscles appear in the form of scribbled requests from tutors stating a theory or principle to be illustrated by instruments crafted from his own hands. A few feet away in the woodworking room, lab technician Otto Friedrich is putting the finishing coat on a customdesigned projector table for the conference room. The two men design and manufacture working models of scientific instruments, from sketches or verbal instructions. Since St. John's students deal with questions considered closed by standard school science, they cannot use equipment whose design is premised upon the resolution of those questions. In fact, many of the experimental devices are unique to the College, or they represent devices which are no longer available commercially, such as the adjustable Apollonious model, so they have to be built entirely from scratch. On other occasions, the two men modify standard equipment, such as the pendulum-timing apparatus used in junior lab. Their designs frequently evolve through repeated cycles of trial and refinement, similar to the procedure in a large research laboratory. Even when stock equipment is available, it is often more economical to make their own rather than pay for features not needed in St. John's basic experiments. time I go into my I'm Otto Friedrich, left, and Albert Toft at work on custom equipment for Keith Harvey photo Program experiments. using something produced by the workshop:' says tutor Howard Fisher. "The equipment we use can't assume the answers to the experiments we're conducting; at the same time, we want to take advantage of modern material. I can't find more than a dozen pieces they haven't modified~' Among the many projects produced by the College laboratory workshops are the motor-driven sun projector on Zeiss Planetarium, the centripetal-force machine, and the galvanometers to measure effect of electric field on magnetic field. In addition, the· craftsmen build replacement parts to repair commercial equipment no longer supported by the manufacturer. Mr. Toffs career has come full circle with his work at the College. He began more than 30 years ago as a metal model maker at the Goddard Space Center, math and science nights at Washington University. Then he was transferred temporarily DONNA BOETIG When James Cardinal Hickey, Archbishop of Washington, appointed Charlotte executive director of Catholic Charities of Washington, last July, it was step for him than for her. "For me it was a job; for him it was a first:' the uu..•u of the Annapolis campus, and former resident counselor there says. Ms. is the first high level administrator of the capital's Catholic Charities who is not a white male cleric. In fact, most of her predecessors were Roman Catholic bishops. "I'm not a pioneer. I didn't apply for the job; they sought me out. I'm a talented, well-trained administrator,' she says matter-of-factly, as if describing a colleague instead of herself. "I have to give them credit for choosing professionalism over tradition:' Being chosen to administer a staff of 225 in 53 sites throughout the metropolitan area and to oversee a $12 million budget is the easy part. Using these resources to shelter the homeless, provide health and legal services to the poor, and aid the city's elderly would be the real challenge, she suggests. On a Saturday afternoon in January, Ms. King has dashed into the FSK lobby, closed her umbrella, and extended her hand to this writer - all within a single breath. She's sandwiching our interview between a morning of paperwork at her Waldorf home, and an afternoon of Alumni Committee meetings at the College. Working 15 hours a day, every day, leaves her little time for relaxing, so when she finally sits, she fidgets, her body begging for motion. "My mind goes blank for an intervieW:' she apologizes. "It would have been better if we had driven around town. I think better when I'm moving~' After graduating from St. John's, Ms. King returned home to New York to work for several private social service agencies, and earned a master's degree in social work from Fordham University in 1964. At the request of then assistant dean Barbara Leonard, she returned to St. John's in 1970, taking over the resident duties of Miss Leonard who was going on sabbatical. Looking back, Miss Leonard says she tapped Charlotte for the job because she remembered her as a good student who was popular with her classmates. ....JL ... to Goddard's optical film lab. He so impressed his superiors with his competence that he remained there. Eventually, he'd develop his own laboratory at the space center and would lead a team of 10 scientists. His research would result in the discovery of a coating to be applied to telescopes all over the world, including the Hubble telescope. Later, his technique for combining electroplating and optical-thin film would be patented, and examples of his work would be displayed at the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, he'd write over two dozen publications on his work. Five years ago he was summoned to Cape Canaveral to troubleshoot a contaminated telescope. Its mirror exploded, raining shards all over the delicate instrument. Mr. Toft deaned the mirror, inspected the instrument, and, based on his observations, sent it into orbit. "I'm the metal-maker who became a scientist;' he says smiling in the middle of the 20-foot-by-30-foot room filled with a dozen pieces of equipment, in- · eluding a lathe for turning objects, a milling machine for crafting unusual configurations and engraving, and an assortment of presses, polishers, cutters, and hole punchers. But through a mutual friend of St. John's President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle, "the College gave me a chance to get back to model-making. Besides making instruments for ancient Greek experiments, his workshop also created the wood pattern for the College seal, and the sun dial whose accuracy has been diminished only by the maturing trees. Mr. Friedrich, a retired federal aircraft mechanic, is quite familiar with the wood plane, the radial arm saw, and the wood lathe with which he shares his room. He began using them years ago when he was a woodworker at Andrews Air Force Base. There he built everything from award plaques to flag stands, to a canvas cot frame with adjustable legs for a child in a body cast. But the project he recalls most vividly is the box he built hastily in the middle of the night for a man waiting to have his leg amputated. Because the patient was a diabetic, he was unable to tolerate anesthesia and had to be conscious for the operation. Mr. Friedrich constructed the wooden form to precise specifications and filled it with ice. The patient's limb was then inserted into the makeshift freezer and the operation proceeded. "Still, we lost him:' Mr. Friedrich says, "but we tried~' Quickly, he changes the subject, describing a six-foot tall 42-inch wide mahogany microscope cabinet he built last year at the College. "It's beautiful;' he says. "I love working with these hands, making things to help the students. This is my joY.' And according to Mr. Daly, the benefits are mutual. "Without the contributions made by these two men, students at St. John's would not have the chance to explore thoroughly the basic onncilou:s of science:' on discovered that her colleagues not students. "Counseling wasn't respected as a at St. John's in those she recalls. "The prevalent feeling was that if students wouldn't get depressed. told the faculty that depression depletes people of all their energy, and students can't concentrate on the Great Books if seriously depressed. "Professional counseling was so needed on the campus. loved counseling young people, and in particular, the very bright Johnnies with all their potential and sensitivity. They were coping with the same pressures as all young people leaving home, discovering their new independence and to an intense academic environment. The tutors are scholars. They deal intellect. Counselors deal With the psyche that Can't be tended tO Or unc;u1;;;1.,1,,uaJHV. Undeterred by her first impressions, Ms. King committed herself to helping the students. Working full days as a social services administrator in Annapolis, she spent her nights developing her own counseling program at the College. Living with her young daughter Rachel (now 26 and working at ABC in Washington) in the dormitory, she grew as close to the students as her own family. Her counseling combined the soft touch of a friend with the firmness of a professional. She asked a lot of the students, but no more than of herself. "She was hard-driving even then:' fellow counselor Brenda Robertson recalls. "She was always doing so many things that riding with her was like being on a roller coaster~ Her hands were always moving on the wheel. You could hardly catch up!' As an extension of her love for reading, she opened a bookstore, ''A Room Of One's Own:' on Main Street. Later, feeling the urge to share the St. John's Program with others, she led discussion groups for women at the (Continued on page 15) Charlotte King J. W. Blagden photo �1990 REPORTER (/ II ~ ~ Portrait absence rued Where are they, those honored gentlemen? Henry Lyons Davis, who became president of St. John's four years after the War of 1812; Hector Humphreys, St. John's first big builder who brought modern science to the campus; Thomas Fell, who distributed quinine to ill students with the ease he tapped out Latin verbs; the fabled Professor Clarence Stryker, whose ashes lie around the Liberty Tree, and Richard Weigle, founder, with some courage, of the second campus at Santa Fe. Where is the benign face of John Kieffer, greatly beloved by students, and that pair of exceptional intellects, Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, whose concern with higher education in this country led to the present program? People might argue about the artistic merits of one of the other of their portraits, but that is not the point. The point is that they represent the single collection of paintings of men to whom St. John's owed much, and that collection, sadly, has been missing from the Great Hall since the work on McDowell was completed. Some of the portraits were placed there some time ago when alumni and others, wishing to memorialize these men, arranged for the paintings as gifts to college. Now they are stashed away. We are told that "the Great Hall looks so nice" just as it is, now that it has been refurbished, that the portraits will not be rehung. Instead, they may be placed in individual classrooms. Not good enough. When visitors or parents are here, when freshmen visit McDowell for the first time, they are unlikely to go traipsing from classroom to classroom in order to view this procession of figures encompassing almost two centuries. And what of our order of priorities? Beautiful as McDowell is, it is not a "decorator house" in which aesthetic values take precedence over St. John's long and rich history. (I, for one, feel that the somewhat cold Great Hall would be more beautiful and warmly attractive with the portraits.) It's all a little odd for a college that does so much to preserve things - a set of writings, a classic dance, the students' own motley and individual assortment of traditions - that this collection seemingly is so easily cast aside. We hope it has been only the distraction of other business that has followed the dedication of McDowell that explains its absence and that the portraits soon will be back in place. Students need and, I think, want to know the college's own history. The men are due the honor they have earned. It's time to bring the portraits back. Sincerely yours, Rebecca Wilson, HA '83 Panama described Greetings from the home of the light infantry. Just thought I'd jot a few things :lown that might be of interest for some :o know about the activities of a SJ C ilumnus. Just before going on Christmas leave '!Ve were all recalled for deployment to >anama- quite a surprise for us, actuLlly. We arrived about 23 hours after the 'irst shots were fired, and left long after twas over; 9 February 90. To give you an idea of the temperature, it was 94 °F and something like 100% humidity when we landed in the late evening. Only two or three people were flipping out a bit while we were flying down there, but the off-loading of wounded at our stopover in Texas shook most of us up a bit. As did the pile of stretchers at our feet, ever growing as we waited to take off again. We weren't too worried though; we hadn't been issued ammunition yet, and they wouldn't drop us into a hot situation with no way to defend ourselves, right? Fortunately, that turned out to be the case. The airport we landed at had been given a thorough going-over by the 82nd and the Rangers shortly before we arrived, so the only shooting was several miles off. No one slept more than about 4 hours in the first 3 days, what with all the moving around and rumored attacks that never caine. The first two weeks were very intense with what might loosely be called attacks going on every three or four days, sometimes more. The PDF guys would refuse to give up, so we would roar in on helicopters around 3 in the morning, move in on the compounds, and then they would give up. Never did my com- Seminar participants weigh health costs, values, gains James Biles, M.D., chief of staff Anne Arundel Medical Center Keith Harvey photo Martin l. Doordan, president Anne Arundel Medical Center Keith Harvey photo By DONNA BOETIG "What do we want in our relationship with our doctor? Do we want a businessman with an eye peeled on the bottom line of our health care costs? Or do we want the consummate healer, armed with the arsenal of modern technology, who will bar nothing to keep us alive?" This was the question posed by St. John's tutor Deborah Renault to seven women and six men at the Ethics and Medicine seminar on April 7. While many of the group members, co-led by Dr. Alan Harquail and Suzanne Verkouw, were medical professionals, doctors and nurses familiar with the face of death, they too discovered that probing this gray area of life is disconcerting. The American Medical Association states that doctors are supposed to save lives. But the situation becomes complicated by the capacity of modern medicine to keep a person technically though not necessarily productively alive. Dr. David Thomasma, director of medical humanities at Loyola Medical Center in Chicago and keynote speaker at St. John's Ethics and Medicine forum, suggested that the breakneck speed with which medical advances have occurred recently, and the cost to administer them, have placed a tremendous responsibility on doctors, patients and their families in deciding whether or not to employ these new techniques. "The business side of medicine is the least important aspect:' said Dr. Albert Roth, "but unfortunately in society here it has become very important and that is tragic. I think socialized medicine in England has been a marvelous thing; there nobody gets neglected no matter how crowded the hospitals get'.' "Should we separate the patient/doctor relationship from societal values that are going to influence and direct it?" Ms. Renaut asked. "The values are different in England than they are here~' According to Gary Evans, "It's our perspective in this country that makes us different (from others), and were unwilling to give up our individual rights for advantages of socialized medicine'.' "You can contract a lot of things, but at what point do you give up individuality?" one asked. "For instance, heart disease is the most pervasive disease and the greatest killer in this country. But do we let the government decide what our diets are going to be? What additives we'll be allowed in foods? Or are we going to run that risk and pay that price?" "It's a complex problem:' Dr. Roth conceded. "We have a bright, but prejudiced society. It's puritannical; we don't want to talk about homosexuality; we don't want to talk about AIDS:' Noting the disparity between economics and humanity, Dr. Harquail cited the example of a dying patient who chose to undergo an experimental treatment although it had only a 20 percent chance of success. "From an economic point of view it's not a good deal for societY,' he said. Most of the participants agreed it would be an arduous task deciding whether they'd want heroic lifesaving measures for themselves. Suzanne Verkouw, a local nurse involved in hospice care and seminar coleader said that "only after you've dealt with someone in a vegetative state can you begin to place yourself, even in a small way, in the situation. Most of us can't imagine ourselves not functional'.' pany fire a shot on any of these assauits, and as the weeks wore on they became less colorful; due to the army spreading out further and further over the country, and, I suppose, the budget guys deciding things were calm enough to cut back on air assaults, we wound up roaring into town in dumptrucks and schoolbusses a few times. We had one half-hour firefight while guarding an airstrip - a few of our guys got rounds within a foot or so of their heads, but presumably none of them got hurt either. I was the company radio operator, meaning I sat with the company commander in the middle of the perimeter. So all I could do was keep higher informed and watch the red tracers (ours) go out and the green tracers (theirs) come in. Rather pretty in its own way, if one can keep the right attitude about it. On this note I sign off: all current students count yourselves blessed - while the Panama invasion was in some ways a welcome diversion from the usual humdrum of training (barring the considerable moral and ethical complications), that sort of thing doesn't happen too often (hopefully), and the military, like a good deal too many real world jobs, is about as intellectually stimulating as a block of cement, which is to say, it can be fascinating, but it takes a lot of specialization and hard work, for which there is almost no time. Au Revoir, Nathan M. Oliver, A '88 A Co. 3/27 Inf. Ft. Ord, CA 93941 A participant then mentioned the ability to reason as a criterion for sustaining life, and asked what other guidelines should be used. "Hearing, speaking, seeing .. ?' Dr. Harquail began. "In that case - what about Helen Keller?" Ms.Renaut retorted. Whose right is it to decide? The individual? The doctor? The family? Or should it be a mutual decision? The leaders and participants volleyed the queries. _ "Thirty years ago only 40 percent of the people died in the hospital; now 80 percent succumb there:' Dr. Harquail added. Families feel that by keeping their family member in a hospital theres hope he'll recover, he explained. Using the labels the keynote speaker had supplied, Marshall McMillan asked if maybe this was the time for a "paternal" physician - on demand - if that's what the patient wants, or the "autonomous" physician, if that's what the family wants. "Years ago, people had a family physician that went through more than one generation with a family, knowing their wishes, so you could say that was paternalistic;' Dr. Harquail recalled. "Now we have a fragmented medical system, where you have HMO's and specialists!' "Like the Jiffy-Lube concept;' added one. The subject switched to living wills, the importance of indivitluals being specific enough in their instructions so that they would be protected from others interpreting their wishes, but general enough to be flexible. Dr. ended the seminar on a lighter note, offering insight to an occasion when he was both a physician and a patient. "The night before I had major surgery, a minister came into my room and began praying;• he said. "Half way through the prayers he realized he was in the wrong room. 'Don't stop: I implored. 'I need all the help I can get~ " �7 By NANCY OSIUS "Acting in the best interests of others by holding their values in trust" is the description of the best possible model of patient care, according to ethicist David Thomasma, as he addressed an appreciative audience of 350 gathered o,n the Annapolis campus April 7 for the Great Issues forum on "Ethics and Medicine:' "Beneficence in Trust:' his name for this physician-patient interaction, is created, he said, by drawing from several other models of medical care to create a new kind of Hippocratic ethic. Dr. Thomasma holds a chair of medical ethics in the Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He has published many books and articles on medical ethics. The speaker's show-and-tell format, New Yorker cartoons projected on a large screen to illustrate scholarly formulations, achieved a winning blend of the pungent and the poignant in his treatment of urgent contemporary medical ethical concerns. Dr. Thomasma labelled the way practitioners view their roles as he spoke to an audience primed with assigned readings taken chiefly from For the Patient's Good, the Restoration of Beneficence in Health Care, which the speaker coauthored. He also provided an illustrative and sometimes widely recognized case history for each model along with the satiric thrusts by artists. , 1AA~~"·~ his other labels for described it as an abandonment of the patient to his own mortality in the case of serious illness. Other models were the Entrepreneurial, the Contract, the Covenant and Negotiation. The Entrepreneurial, a "capitalistic model;' has as its main idea making money on people who are sick, he said. Two illustrations of this mode can be found in a situation in which a hospital woos a physician with incentives, free services, and offices, in order to have him refer patients there, and in which a doctor refers patients to his own lab for tests, often costing them twice as much, studies show. The major losers in these scenarios are the poor, Dr. Thomasma commented. The Contract model, based on a mutuality not present in some other models, is especially relevant to govern the ethics of strangers, the speak-· er said, as in a doctor-patient emergency room situation. Negotiation refers to values to be negotiated between caregivers and patients, and is a tool to be used when, for example, the question of reviving terminal patients is at issue. The Covenant model embodies a religious ideal, suggesting that patient and doctor have a deeper commitment to one another than a contract implies, which Dr. Thomasma that we called "an activity of the share with one another ... a commitment that goes dollars and cents'.' Such a commitment is based on our status as humans with moral to suffer. Dr. ties and the Thomasma cited and named several remarkable who embodied this of commitment. But his chief was reserved for which he called the Beneficence in .. <JJ••f-h.ainf-•" true and model" of health care, a model which all the best from the other physician-patient interactions. The morning address was followed participants meeting in 20 small group seminars led health care professionals and St. John's tutors, with discussion triggered the mailed in advance. Discussions conHall lunch. tinued in Ethics and Medicine was the fourth in a series the Friends of St. John's and the Education office. Ethics and Law is scheduled for with Ethics and .IL"-"'·HF.''vu and Ethics and Education to follow. Patients and Doctors consent. In posture works best in an emergency room or in said the 0µ._ .....,,._,,,. He used as an illustration of ate the incident in Chicago in which a brain-dead child was alive by medical decree despite his until his desperate father unplugged the respirator, held personnel off with a gun, and cradled the child in his arms until the child died. HAtc'•LllU'AV•JA �~O In ~anta Fe And past the and came singly along the black and scarlet gowns mortarboards and h.- "'"'11- 1" some colored medieval neaa;ge::tr pnJte:ct1on from the blazing New Mexican sun. , ........ =these earth-colored de Cristo mountains ,,.,.,,,_ .......c.. , -.u..,.~ ...u .. ..,..,, the and attentive group of seated it, were both part of the enactment of a time-honored the <'<0nm.-,11'1r•.,., of IPe:lrlPt",;,n111n William senior tutor a decline in favor of reseru·cn, the and marshal of the College what he described as "contempt for this ceremonial mace figures from country and this civilization" on the part academics from the state of New of a segment of the academy; and "triv18 other institutions of higher .. .., . . . . . ,_.. u,.,, ialization" of the liberal arts by those who claim that "all things are equally delegates from learned societies, and representatives from the Annapolis interesting or valuable:' campus, formed the slowly moving Nevertheless, there are places where cavalcade which had come on this 28th the liberal arts thrive, he claimed, St. day of April, 1990, to honor John John's College being a primary one, Agresto, soon to be sworn in as the where "everyone I meet . . . senses that fourth president of the St. John's Colthis is a where teaching and learnlege Santa Fe campus. ing are alive and healthy, where liberal At the upper landing, seven men education still manifestly flourishes:' paused before chairs as the rest of the "Here teaching is taken seriously beparade moved by down the steps and cause learning is taken seriouslY,' he said. past the seated guests, many with pro"Here . . . where the drive to know, the grams shielding their eyes from the sun, love of learning and the desire to talk and presently took places facing the about and teach what we've seen and read is deaf.' speakers. On the balcony of the PeterFor the text of Mr. Agresto's son Center, students leaned forward to remarks, see page 2. watch. In the background were the tones of the brass ensemble and another more Mr. Dyal introduced Professor Lewis, eerie sound - distant thunder? No, only the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton the southwestern spring wind crackling through the sound system. University until his retirement in 1986. In an urgent two-part message, Mr. The platform party of this inaugural Lewis suggested that we must continuprocession included the Rev. Father ally both examine the past, and also James D. Cronin, chaplain of the College of Santa Fe, who was presently to broaden our knowledge of other cultures give the invocation; Jam es Carey, dean, in a world of vast diversity. 17 1-1,,,.. .,Th the study of past achievewho was to make the introductions; Scott Kelso, chairman of the Board of ments is in many ways unsatisfactory ··rnnrellal:>le., changeable, inconsistent:' he Visitors and Governors of the College said - its value lies in its reflection of who would swear in the new president; Mr. Agresto himself; President William the human and it is thereM. of the Annapolis campus; fore a crucial ingredient of our educaBernard Lewis, professor emeritus of tion and our perception of ourselves. Near Eastern Studies, Princeton U niver"The record of the past does not who would give the ad,.,.... ~......i;,,..,, but our perception of the record dress; and the Reverend Philip Wainis constantly changing, and every generrector of the Episcopal Church ation reexamines the past in the light of of the Holy Faith, who would pronounce its own concerns;• he said. the benediction. That our preoccupations determine Then the ceremony began, with Sam the questions we put to the past is quite Pick, mayor of Santa Fe, offering a proper, he acknowledged, but dangerous hearty welcome to "the royal city of the when these concerns "determine the Holy Faith of St. Francis of Assisi, the answers we find there~' oldest capital in the United States~' "We live in an age when immense energies are devoted to the falsification In a matter of moments, Mr. Agresto had repeated the oath of office, received of the past:' he declared, and it is of imfrom Mr. Kelso the silver chain of office, mense importance, therefore, to pursue and turned to the podium to address his research and discussion of it freely where well-wishers. we can. His remarks constituted both a warnHe concluded with a powerful assering and an exhortation as he took up the tion of the world's diversity, and the subject he has espoused with such ferneed to deal with profoundly different vor over the years. Citing the fall-off in societies with different religions, classics, a 30-year period in the percentage of colgreat books, experiences and aspirations. lege students concentrating in the liberal Because we are "deplorably ignorant" arts - from 60 per cent down to almost of these differences, our education 10 per cent - he "To think of should be concerned with the developAmerican collegiate education as ment of other cultures in all their diverliberal education is not true. The "with the ideas that inspire great bulk of it is 1-or•hnu•'l them and the texts in which are h1'Tn,,.r1" he said. commercial and prcJte:ss1,on:a1 What has "this monutext of Mr. Lewis's For the mental decline"? His answers were three: -££·•-&n ... , see page 2. IJ.i.QL\.-.D.La, nH''11nio.r 1 r.-i--i-"','" 1 1 "'" ' �Campus bids grateful goodbye to President Dyal, Dean Slakey os:ms NANCY It was a time of affectionate tribute, of speaking thoughts long left unsaid, of Annapolis photos by ore~s1c1en1t: a sunlit table after the laughter and a little sadness, and of preparing for a future at the Annapolis campus without two of its most loved and admired figures, President William M. Dyal,Jr., and Dean Thomas J. More than 400 and members - came while the rain streamed down for an elegant catered set up in the FSK outside. the diners filed into the auditorium for a farewell convocation to honor the two men. Bill as he likes to say, is and stua community who took ating with the class of 1990 - its most in the sit-ins sponsored by CORE honored member - that class he entered the '60's, and a person who accepted with in 1986, and in June he will head unsought and difficult duties when he to Kiawah Island in South Carolina for felt them to be - a man retirement after a distinguished and "without pretension, totally honest, varied career. Tom Slakey, who became committed to the public good, including dean the same year, will begin his sabthe good of this college~' batical in 1990-91 by travelling around Mr. Wilson's most memorable anecEurope on a Europass with his wife dote was a tale of the young Tom Slakey, Marion. He will return as a tutor in the valedictorian of his class at St.Mary's fall of 1991. College in California, who had written Seated at the entrance of the lobby, for his valedictory address a "spirited, smiling her gracious smile and balancrealistic, but not particularly optimistic ing a plate of Caesar and Tortellini or hopeful speech~' This was during the salads and flank steak with some diffiMcCarthy era, and Tom's acknowledgeculty, was Edie Dyal, her arm in a sling. ment of bad times was linked to an exShe had broken it 24 hours earlier in a hortation to his fellow graduates to confall in Charleston, just hours before her tinue to think for themselves. The dean plane was to leave for Baltimore. A detour to the orthopedic surgeon folat St. Mary's raised objections to sublowed, but she was on the plane as stance and tone and asked the graduating senior to modify his words. Tom scheduled. "I wouldn't have missed this~' declined to make changes, the dean gave she said of the farewell luncheon. and the speech was delivered. That Nearby were the Slakeys, Marion with year's commencement speaker happened her first grandchild in her arms, plump to be Mortimer Adler. Mr. Adler began six-month-old Theodore, son of his address by complimenting St. Mary's Michael, A '85, the Slakeys' second son, on having produced a student who could and his French wife Victoria. At give such a speech as Tom's. Any college Marion's side was Anne Slakey, SF '88, who will be in a Johns Hopkins graduthat did so, he said, could be proud of its program. ate program next year. In the auditorium, the faculty "quarOther eloquent words about the tet plus four" - 14 tutor songsters of Messrs Dyal and Slakey were those of the absent Eva Brann, dean-elect, who, in a both genders, under direction of Elliott Zuckerman - was the musical hit of the letter read aloud on the occasion, said day. Wearing trousers, bow ties, susthat her comfort in missing the gathering is that it "might be easier to say in penders (men), straw hats and one morwriting some of the things I feel about tarboard, the group hammed it up with Bill and Tom:' "Aura Lee" and lamented to the "From the first I have felt what everyhonorees: We shall miss you in the one in the community has felt: that Bill has the gift of genuine authority - the spring at Reality kind of unassuming leadership that As you go and do your comes solely from personal and moral thing, transcendentally. Under the direction of freshman Scott stature;' she wrote. "What he did he Capehart, the small chorus brought to seemed to us to do for our sake; what the convocation its full-voiced rendering he said to us, came from his mature of two folk songs arranged by Vaughan wisdom, his natural tact and his great Williams, while the freshman chorus, discernment, unclouded by any ambition except to serve the college'.' directed by tutor Peter Kalkavage, Turning to the Dean, she has seen rounded out the afternoon with a pleas"first of all a near-heroic ... facing up ant Palestrina Motet. to the duties of a particularly burdenPraising "Bill's careful management;' Vice President for Advancement Jeffrey some deanship, quietly and without Bishop noted that in President Dyal's complaints or calls for help. And I saw courage, Tom's readiness to try to get us tenure significant gains had been made, including the raising of more than 10 to do what he thought was necessary for million dollars, the renovation of the the college without an eye to popularity, a readiness I found myself admiring boathouse and the Conversation Room, construction of the new wing of Mellon more and more, even when I disagreed Hall and of the Mitchell Gallery, and the with his proposals:' The day's events were the culmination restoration of McDowell Hall to its of many weeks of planning by an all-star "historic splendor.' Keith Harvey The retiring president had, he said, committee which included registrar and Lewis, Mr. tutors Center "affected the college in the and ...: .....,,,,.,.,..,... , .,.,..,.,,,.,,rl~n"t most way steadiness and peace to the Anna1po11s ..,.UH~/\, Staff Council Carmita Tutor Emeritus and twice-dean Curnres1aem of the ue1egate '"'"'""-'A'>•H· '91. tis Wilson retraced Tom Slakey's career ... ..,. �lum The results of our survey of alumni in the last newsletter were as follows: 1. Do you think St. John's should establish an educational institution in California? Strongly favor: 92 Favor: 35 Don't know: 5 Disfavor: 15 disfavor: 15 2. If the Board of Visitors and Governors establishes a California what programs would you like to see offered? Undergraduate program: 79 Graduate Institute: 86 Other graduate programs in Liberal Arts in which alumni could enroll: 77 Non-degree granting program in Liberal Arts tanks, continuing education, etc.): 67 Other: St. Johns doctoral program (many votes); secondary (grades 9-12) school (several votes), Eastern Studies program (several votes); fine arts, music, artisan studios, graduate language programs, teaching certification; 2 year M.A. in World Cultures; summer vacation programs; alumni retreat programs; Pacific Rim studies; gifted children program; private school for children; retreat facility for corporate in-service training and religous organizations; research center for visiting scholars, along the lines of the National Humanities Research Center; studies of Eastern philosophies, art, women's books, children's books, black books;"a humanities study center would be a good down-the-road second priority and a grant getting possibility" The demographics of the 162 responses were: East Coast (Maine to Florida): 68 California: 24 12 and mountain (TX, CO): 9 Out of country: 2 Central IL, MN): 11 30 res;pons€~S were so ~·"·'""!'">""'·... to as from letters as IJ'-''"""''-'''"'· answers. Due to lack of space, could not be and the editor ap<)IOJ~Ist~s vance for the merciless that was necessary to include what follows. ** cant Hh>U•u~,.'UU system. A California IJ'U:UU.U!J:; of &>V•""'.-'"'"'""'ri indeed John's Linda Stabler-Talty SGI Editor Thomas Geyer A'68, Communications Committee Chair pnuoso1pn1tca1 criticism of co1atemr>0r<ary po1nuca1, ........ .., .. economic, social and then recommendation of solutions to these problems in terms of non-partisan, classical but world-relevant values. This is at once ( l) LESS EXPENSIVE: This plan need perhaps one seminar/administration building, one or two dormitory-type buildings, and a staff brought in on an as-funded basis. (2) MUCH LESS RISKY: If the "think-tank" doesn't work out, the physical plant can easily be converted to the proposed third college campus or other use. (3) POTENTIAL FOR VERY HIGH PROFILE: (Editor's note: The author included participation by alumni, world leaders, prospective students, 'Americans and humans in general,'to develop this potential) David R. Schiller, A '62 u . . ..,, ***** Did the Annapolis site crumble when Santa Fe opened? I suspect there is still no small amount of provincialism at the Annapolis campus and probably in Santa Fe also. Maybe it would be providential that both faculty and students rise to the challenge of movement and change Lloyd H. Byassee, A '60 ** ** St. John's should use the land in California for a ,.. .......,.,, ...... .,.,,. school It would "''°'"''"'r1"' students with a and ,.....,.h,..,,.,. ..... their studies the restrictions inconveniences of most schools. St. school is based ms>cwssl(m and .... the College has seemed to weather the last two decades unusually well, in terms of its financial health, its physical improvements, and its student body profile--undoubtedly better that many or most comparably small liberal arts colleges. In other words, while maintaining the ideals of its educational philosophy, St. John's has made the smart, hardheaded decisions that needed to be made in order to survive and prosper. I am writing to urge the college decision-makers to adopt the traditional hard-headed approach to the excellent afforded by the Monterey court decision--to foHowing criterion in mind above all others: What is best for St. John's?..... The under consideration aooa1ren1uv from of a full-blown course on the resources of the of campuses school could advisors for stuof studies ... a wide this idea are: It would fill an the educational would be flexible be molded to the needs of the college and the ty. and it would allow the St. John's to education to be turned common of our world without Great Books �PAGE 11 JUNE 1990 MENT M ' . . . . . . _·ority say, "The financial integrity of the Annapolis institution should not be placed at risk in any way whatsoever." "Question 2 depends in large part on how Santa Fe enrollment would be affected. Have students there been asked whether a California campus would have been preferred by them over Santa Fe?" "Consider an imaginative visual art program or creative thinking tied in with liberal arts study." St. John's should continue to do what it does well undergraduate education. 'Think tanks' are very difficult to fund unless they pander to a certain ideology. The present graduate institute does what it was set up to do - but I see no need to expand it. Graduate facilities a~e difficult to build up, but there is no reason enough smtable tutors couldn't be found for another colJege cam pus." ··~rs make it as diverse and exciting as possible. I t~mk the Ne.w ~ro~ram needs re-thinking, re-dedicatu:~n and re-v1tahzat10n and believe that something like this may help these processes along. I think we should take the risk." ''Risky. Two campuses are in great need of renovation. AH salaries are low. Fund raisers should devote time and energy to what exists now." .. Housing is very expensive in the Monterey area." .. All graduate programs to be centralized at this property." .. Fort Ord should shut down this year; this would likely have some effect on the housing market in favor of unmarried tutors and married students who wouldn't have to compete with military families for housing. Rents should drop." .. Enrollment has almost tripled since the days of only Annapolis. There is a large untapped enrollment potential and 3 campuses will be a draw." "Once in a lifetime opportunity for St. John's and should not be allowed to expire." ••Don't sit around talking about it - JUST DO IT!" "The undergraduate program should be inaugurated after the other programs are well established." (Many comments are along this line. -ed.) ..An undergraduate program so close to Santa Fe makes no sense. Better would be some form of liberal arts program for younger than college students with unusual potential." .. I prefer to see the College be an institution wholly committed to undergraduate education." "If there is a strong economic slowdown in the next decade, how will this new campus survive?" ''The undergraduate program is well served already but the graduate program needs more emphasis and attention." ''The CA property is a better location than the Santa Fe location, so phase out the latter and move it. There are other advantages which the Board would certainly be aware of." "It's better to let the land revert to the state - St. John's is too big already and California could probably use the money." .. Keep in mind close proximity to one of the nation's wealthiest communities - Carmel/Pebble Beach. Ruth Fenton (heiress to Phillips Petroleum) is a prime mover and shaker and very interested in gifted children's programs (408) 240-2040. Also~ Margaret Owings, widow of architect Nathaniel Owings, may become interested. She has strong ties to Santa Fe as well. Anyone on the Carmel Bach Festival B.O.D. would be wellheeled and influential enough to be a positive friend to a western campus. If you can get this community to support SJC, you'll find it easier to build the Monterey campus than it was to build SF." .. Hasn't getting Sante Fe solvent been hard enough?" ..The CA campus could serve as refuge for tutors, students, staff & alumni having 'difficulties' with the Program and: the C~llege(s), perhaps the home of many preceptonals designed by and for persons in question." "If enroll~ent were to be drained from Santa Fe, perhaps CA is a better place for a second campus and Santa Fe could be the 'alternative' campus concentrating on art, music & programs." .. We are always hearing complaints that we can't cover enou~h variety of ~aterial in depth in 4 years without here 1s an opportumty to offer more with the fundamental programs in 2 "Could it start small and expand only when SF and AN facilities and salaries are satisfied?" ..If the Monterey-Salinas community truly wants a 4 year undergraduate college, and if it is legally permissible to do so, giving the land to people who want to found such an institution independent from St. John's is a worthy idea." ..Just make sure there will be accommodations for visiting alumni!" "The· small size of St. John's is one of its greatest assets." · "The new campus will dilute the quality of admissions and faculty, will over-extend finances, and divert administration from attention to improvements." "Extending the program in CA to include Eastern studies is not a 'pro'. The spirit of the program, the western tradition, should remain the exclusive focus of St. John's. If other disciplines are offered, St. John's becomes just another college." "Eastern Studies Graduate Program - a comparison of the Great Books of east and west, as some have suggested." "I don't think this will drain students or donations from Santa Fe. There are probably many westerners for whom Annapolis is too far away and Santa Fe is too foreign." "SJC program and genius are in undergraduate ed and a 3rd campus for this purpose should be prime goal. But in short term, with GI flourishing in SF, it could be basis of immediate development in CA." ··1 strongly oppose a SJC program toward an eastern philosophy or cultural diversity. Other institutions handle these well, and the rational approach/techniques are not suited to the content." ''Don't undermine the present undergrad institutions. Play to the ever increasing 'PhD ghetto' and other overeducated segments with a menu of graduate programs." "Keep it independent - no brain drain. Use the real ~~~!e to support the school - Harvard does it, so can "I do think that it is spreading resources thin but I would hope for an institute type place where executives et. al. can get away for retreats. Such would be profitable and I prefer that to a third St. John's." "Use it for summer programs." ··rd like to see a program that helps inspire and train better teachers at all levels - something like what the GI was started for in SF. I think a third campus right now would not be healthy for financial security of other campuses." ..As for the pros and cons enumerated on page 10 please note that problems 1-5 would be resolved ove; time if the ~ew campus wa~ competently managed, if it develop~d its own reputation for quality, and if it attracted its own growmg pool of alumni and benefacto!s. ~ see the last item as indicative of an 'ego problem' w1thm th~ ~VG. The Board should be deciding whether this gift can be used for the best interests of the College, not whether fate has created an option which they cannot control. Should we permit issues of control to interfere with growth and success of the College and liberal education?" "I suppo~ an adv~nced study institute focused on strengthemng the bndge between the 'students' of liberal a.rts and .those ':"ho ar~ "student~·. wit_hin speciality subjects which are mcreasmgly requmng mterdisciplinary approaches. St. John's should grab its market." "Let's ride the teacher training bandwagon." "The notion that it would strain faculty by drawing off some for a new· location is balderdash!! You know full well . that there are always scores of highly qualified apphcants each year including many alumni who would need no acculturation time. I fear that most arguments against expansion are based in lazy conservatism." .CHAPTER EVENTS ANNAPOLIS September 14: First fall alumni luncheon, Private Dining Room Randall Hall: Call Betsy Blume at the Alumni Office (301) 2632371 for further information. AUSTIN This 'unofficial' chapter meets informally on a monthly basis. To participate, please contact Beverly Angel (512) 926-7808 for schedule and details. BOSTON June 10: Seminar and Potluck supper with Annapolis tutor Joe Cohen Meeting will be at the home ofAl Aronson. Call him at 666-6657 (hm) or 437-3186 (wk) for information on this, and future Sunday meetings. CHICAGO June 10: Annual Meeting and Seminar on Shakespeare's Tempest,led by Darlene McCampbell, AGI '83. Dinner and election of officers to follow seminar. Call Paul Frank (312) 280-2366 (wk) or 235-0614 (hm), or Rick Lightburn 861-0200 (wk) or 667-0068 (hm), or Rachel Ankeny 337-4105 (wk) or 281-4582 (hm) for location and other details. DALLAS/FORT WORTH This chapter meets about 10 times a year for Saturday evening seminars. For further information call Suzanne Doremus at (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis at (214) 340-4102. LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA June 10: Annual Barbecue and Seminar on the Odyssey, Book 13 - end, at the home of Becky and Lee Zlotoff. Call Jerry Caplin (805) 497-1436 (hm) or 375-1371 (wk) for details. MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL June 10: Seminar on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure This newly forming chapter wiJJ be planning further events. Telephone Joan Bogucki (612) 929-8043 for more information and to contribute your ideas. NEW YORK June 24: Annual Picnic and ~ernm1ars at the home announced. of Peter Weiss. Seminars and tutors to Call Sabina Schweidt (212) 679-6118 (wk) or 6458903 for more information. PHILADELPHIA For information about upcoming tall events in this .. unoffical' chapter, call Jim Schweidel at (215) 8367632. SACRAMENTO Meetings are every other month in this •'unofficial' chapter to discuss the program readings, foJJowing the undergraduate sequence. Inquiries are most welcome· phone Arianne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen Feeley 381-7887 for information. SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA June 16: Santa Fe tutor Peter Pesic will lead a seminar on The Wire of Martin Guerre, by Janet Lewis. July 29: Annual picnic and seminars at the.Winiarski's Stag's Leap Wine Cellars August 25: Send-off party for students before they leave for St.John's Rotating seminars meet at 2:30 on the following: August 19: Song of Roland. Fall readings to be chosen at this meeting, or call Juan Hovey, 254-1287 with suggestions. Call Mark Middlebrook (415) 547-0602 for more details. SANTA FE June 5: Seminar on Anton Webern's Path to the New Music Telephone John Pollack (505) 983-2144 or Joan Iverson, Alumni Office, 263-2371 for meeting times and place. SEATTLE June 2: Seminar on Sophocles' Antigone with Annapolis tutor Sam Kutler. Potluck supper to follow, at the home of Gail Smith. August: Annual picnic being planned Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 for more information about this and other events being planned WASHINGTON D.C. AREA June 13: S. Johnson 'Preface to Shakespeare' Seminars meet at the West End Branch of the D.C Public For further information call Sam Stiles or Deborah (202) 387-4520. �000 By DONNA BOETIG from the College's Imperial Wicket Hinrichs, lulled the audience. The lethargy was A gentle rain christened the eighth annual St. John's College vs. U.S. Naval broken only by an occasional burst of applause for a well-placed shot, and shouts Academy match on Saturday, May 5, at 1 p.m. as Annapolis Mayor Al Hopkins produced in unison by small groups of fans. The smell of sausage grilling, and the struck the first ball onto the field. Spectators, huddled under umbrellas and the sight of clams being shucked by Johnnies raising money for Reality Weekend tickled Liberty Tree, cheered. taste buds. The sausage would be a sell-out, and all that would remain would be But gradually the clouds lifted and the skies lightened so that young women in the plump, charcoal-broiled cheeseburgers. Not so with the colored tee-shirts sportflowing frocks and wide-brimmed picture hats could cast off their sandals and tiping the inscription: "Unfettered Passion-St. John's College Vs. The Naval Academytoe barefoot across the court, delivering champagne to the players. April 29, 1990:' They would be hawked door-to-door the following week, one enterWithin minutes three matches were launched. Still, the crowd persisted on focusprising student predicted. ing its collective eye on the one begun by the Mayor, then led by the College's Imperial Babies cried and crawled over blankets spread on a lawn bearing the blotches of Wicket Fritz Hinrichs and teammate Bryan Tracey. On court the mood was intense: the home team's month of practice. A Baltimore-based writer soaked up the ambiance brows furrowed and bodies angled into seemingly double-jointed postures. For the of the day for a novel she's writing on Annapolis. Johnnies clad in Gatsby-style garb first time referees from the United State Croquet Association officiated, consulting - men in silk suits, slicked-back hair and wire-rimmed glasses; women in slinky, rule books for infractions and omissions off-the-shoulder creations - lounged 83 apparently so mild that even they, the e'iS 1' ~tMG ~ f3 ~ ~beneath an impromptu-canopy dubbed . IS cQ!tSCIC:I~~- A su8S1lll'f.~~~~ ::::::::::::~f"0 ~ experts, needed guidance in handling ,is se.!.!J~E;~°'~ ~ ;.;J;o,iN f>tr. ~~ "shack d'amouf.' 5 6'coH~ them. The players took the cue, asking a:i11~~ JticAJ.. ~SfEllCE D foe,.,~, Reporters and photographers from the permission to smooth a rough blade of #M.. ~-- c;~~NS'Eltl'e~ss~ir~~~~.~ ~-local Capital to the national Gentleearth before swinging a mallet. "Please" ri' "' 11:)1.lSNESS ' -"~~.J -....... {"'\ ' / . 1 ~ 'IJ4t... ati ..c. ~1 -~~ess .. 1' . (( ~ , mans Q uartery quene d th e payers 1or and "thank-you" were prominent. The rt! r..s t~t~G · ~ ~ bon mots, and divided the crowd into Navy even imported a Yale croquet ~.-~. ~ flUo_..---;::::;;---"'i='l ':.,j; C:!> images within their cameras' viewcoach, who for the past two weeks had finders. been attempting to improve the mids' 5-2 In the end, the Johnnies beat the mids record. Now at match time, the lanky I 3-2 and modestly accepted their victory New Englander from the sidelines ana- . ~)~ Uas ~hedySwere pCresented with _th~ official lyzed the Johnnies' well-placed balls, I mte tates roquet Assoc1at1on silver then joined their opponents in verbal ~ victory cup. "I thought the mids had an huddles. Though players insist victory is advantage at first:' Imperial Wicket Hinnever certain till the last mallet is swung, i richs said. "With all the rain, they were comments from spectators throughout ~ on their home turr.' the gentlemanly match implied that the jThe score was secondary, the Johnnies Navy was at best weathering the JohnI ~~ UNAUTHORIZ.f'O ONOFFIC)AL UNSOLu:rrE.D ~fT WHOLI..~ ''uMDERSIAAPABLE conceded, to ~he pleasure of the da~. As 1 nies' successful strategies. _ _ E.1'PLANA110N FOR 'sr. JOHM~ CON.TtNUtNG CROQUET SUCCESS, the crowd ~ispersed and t~e sailors Off court, the mood was hypnotic: began headmg home, promises were strains of Mozart, Bach, Beethove' . The cartoon above which appeared in the May 13, 1990, Anne Arundel County made to meet again, on less competitive Chopin, even Baroque recorder pie .:;s Sun, has been reprinted with permission of artist Robert Snyder. terms. Q· , I · , f 1 .• Mark Shiffman waltzes with before the Keith Harvey photos AARON HOOVER '90 The navigator calls out the depth 23 ..." "Helm areadings: 27, the him out The steersman turns the and frees the boom. The keels over, shudders, and sets off on port tack, the depth readings sounding again as the crew prepares for the next maneuver. Carol Ricketts, co-captain of the Chanticleer, said: "If you're comfortable on a boat, something's wrong!' Her words seemed true, but they were easy to forget during most of the second annual St. John's Sailing Picnic. Carol, her husband Milt, and 13 other local yacht owners took 80 St. John's students out sailing on the Chesapeake on May 10th. The Friends of St. John's sponsored and organized the event under the chairmanship of Alan and Vivian Harquail. Carol, Alan, and the other skippers sailed between the Annapolis Harbor and the Bay Bridge. They rafted their yachts together at Whitehall Bay, one of the Chesapeake's crooked fingers, for ----Melissa Kurtz, '91 lunch. In the words of Fritz Hinrichs the yachts formed "a fourteen-craft St. John's Community Flotilla:' Students their way from boat to boat, chatand each other's desserts. had a chance to steer the He said: "I kept trying to hit other boats but they kept getting out of my Craig LeFevre, passenger on the said: "We put the spinnaker up ... a little America's cup action with the spinnakef.' Angele Zabley, a freshman and novice sailor on the Sprezzatura, said: "We bumped the bottom like three times, but we didn't stick:' Sailing again after lunch, it was hard to imagine sticking anywhere. Sailboats shot across the water in all directions, motorboats skipped over the waves, and low-flying planes buzzed noisily overhead. The wind blew hard and the Raffinee sliced through the water, the Navy dome steadily increasing in height as the yacht approached the harbor. �The highly successful five-year-old Alumni Summer Program will continue this year on the Santa Fe campus with a full schedule of activities for participants as well as three preceptorials and two seminars each week. Week I is July 15 to 20 and Week II is July 22 to 27. The two weeks will flank Homecoming weekend, with activities beginning in late afternoon Friday, July 20, and lasting through brunch on Sunday, July 22. WEEKI Preceptorials: TWilight of the Idols, Friedrich Nietzsche, tutor James Carey, A '67; Orpheus: Monteverdi and Gluck (in conjunction with the Santa Fe Opera production of Orfeo ed Euridice), tutor Peter Pesic; and "The Question Concerning TechnologY,' "Science and Reflection;' "The Turning:' Martin Heidegger, tutor Robert Richardson. Seminars: Passage to India, E. M. Forster, tutors Randy Perazzini and Joan Silver; and Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville, tutors, Georgia Knight and Tim Miller. Week I special events will include a welcoming party for alumni and summer program faculty on Sunday; an optional field trip to Abiquiu, the Ghost Ranch Living Museum and the Echo Amphitheatre at one p.m. Tuesday; the opera performance of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice Wednesday at 7:45 p.m., a special dinner Thursday and a farewell luncheon Friday. WEEK II Preceptorials: Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy, tutor Basia Miller; Antichrist, Friedrich Nietzsche, tutor James Carey, A '67; and "On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Bases of GeometrY,' Bernard Riemann, "The Problem of Space, Ether and the Field of Physics:' Albert Einstein, tutor Peter Pesic. Seminars: Twelfth Night and As You Like It, Shakespeare, tutor Krishnan Venkatesh, and Cary Stickney, A '7 4; and Reading Women: Freud and Three Renaissance Madonnas, tutors George Iannacone, A '82, and Mary Goldstein, A '58. Other Week II events will include the welcoming party Sunday evening, an optional field trip to Puye Cliff Dwellings, with stops at San Ildefonso Pueblo and a visit to Chimayo Tuesday beginning at 12 noon, and the Santa Fe Opera production of Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss at 7:30 p.m., as well as a special alumni dinner and a farewell luncheon. Homecoming festivities will be launched with a barbecue for all at 6 p.m. Friday, July 20, on the Placita, with a concert of the Brandenberg Concertos by Peter Pesic to follow in the Great Hall. Afterwards, the Class of 1980 is hosting a Rock 'n' Roll Party in the coffee shop to which everyone is invited. On Saturday, registration and hospitality beginning at 9 a.m. will be followed by lunch in the dining hall at 11:45 a.m. The Alumni Association Annual Meeting will be held in the faculty meeting room of Weigle Hall at 2 p.m. At 3 p.m., the Homecoming Seminar will be held on Flannery O'Connor's "Everything that Rises Must Converge:' while the class of 1980 will hold its seminar at the same time with tutor Tom Simpson. The classes of 1968-71 will have a reunion party at 3 p.m. at the home of Gerald Peters, '70. At 6 p.m., a cocktail party will be held in the junior common room, with the Homecoming Banquet to follow at 7:30 p.m. in the Great Hall. On Sunday, alumni will gather at the president's home, 1040 Camino San Acacio, for brunch. For further information about the Summer Alumni Program or Homecoming, call the Alumni Office, at 505-982-3691. 2nd August 10-15 leadership camp The second annual Teen Leadership Camp will take place on the Santa Fe campus August 10-15, as part of a three-year program designed to develop leadership abilities in Northern New Mexico high school students. One hundred young people will attend the camp from communities and pueblos from throughout Northern and Western New Mexico. As in last year's camp, most of the participants will be Hispanic and Native American young people. The five-day program includes: • Outdoor experiential learning activities designed to develop selfconfidence and foster team spirit and cooperation. • Discussions on readings and on various styles and kinds of leadership, with an emphasis on traditional forms of leadership in Hispanic and Native American communities. • Informal interactions with leaders from a wide variety of fields, including government and politics, journalism, sports, and the arts. • Simulation games designed to foster a greater awareness of global interdependence. • Setting of individual and group goals with respect to involvement in community service projects. The leadership program was developed by Ron Hale, Director of Career Planning at the Santa Fe campus, in cooperation with Celina Rael de Garcia (Program Coordinator), the Washington-based National Council of La Raza, and Siete del Norte Community Development Corporation of Embudo, New Mexico. The goal of the program is to develop skills and attitudes in New Mexico young people and will e~able them to exercise effective leadership in various fields at the local, state, and national levels. The program is an effort to adapt the best of current practice in leadership development nationally to the unique needs and opportunities found in New Mexico. Major funding for the program has been provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Bicentennial program h~ld on Constitution About 200 people accepted an invitation by the western campus to take part April 3 in a program of Seminars on the Constitution as part of the observance of the 200th anniversary of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. Co-sponsor of the event, offered to the public without charge, was the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution. In his invitation President John Agresto pointed out that ours is the oldest written constitution in th~ world. The Bicentennial is both an occasion for celebration and for thoughtful reflection, he said. He invited the public to read and consider a document or text related to the Constitution and "important to our lives as citizens:' and to discuss it in a small group seminar. Free copies of the assigned texts were available at the College bookstore. Fifteen seminars were offered. (The Long Road to Revolution, The Hungarian Gulag: 1945-1956, by Istvan Fehervary. Cloth, $20; paper, $12.95. Pro Libertate Publishing Co., 1905 Conejo Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87501.) (Mr. Fehervary was Director of Activities at the western campus for 20 years. An interview with him will appear in the September issue of The Reporter.) Review By PIDL LECUYER, tutor, Santa Fe For readers who hoped but never quite believed that the criminal regimes of Eastern Europe would meet their demise, Istvan Fehervary's documentary book The Long road to Revolution renders an illuminating service. It is an account of the hundreds of thousands of Hungarian men and women, even children, who were subjected to official brutality and sadism because they believed in human freedom and dignity even when there was no apparent hope. It was these earliest members of the Hungarian resistance to Soviet oppression who inflicted the first hairline cracks in the communist monolith by their opposition to and then tortured endurance of imported totalitarianism. Over the post-war decade, these hairthin fissures in the legitimacy of communist rule spread out from the centers of suffering, subterranean Hungarian prisons, and pervaded the entire population. For a few brief days in the fall of 1956, the people of Hungary rose in a revolution against the tyranny they faced and forced the Red Army to retreat. Thousands of tanks were dispatched to crush the revolution, but they could do nothing to retrieve or conceal the loss of moral legitimacy that had become patent to people on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Thirty-three years later, even the Berlin wall would crumble. So this is not a book to comfort pragmatists. Mr. Fehervary writes from the perspective of having spent eight years in the Hungarian gulag. His account of his experiences is ungarnished and undiluted. It is not presented to elicit sympathy, but to provide focus and particularity to the scarcely believable contours of 20th century barbarism. Reports from many other survivors are woven into the narrative, not to shock, but to enable us to remember episodes of suffering and courage that cause us to want to recoil into vaguer generalities, not to remember. Deprived of sunlight and fresh air, of sleep, of any connection with the world outside, newly arrested prisoners were interrogated for weeks. "After a short time experiencing prison life, we learned that if we were shown kindness ... if our interrogators were interested in our family or in the conditions of the cells, it meant trouble - they wanted something. . . . By the end, we felt a certain relief when an interrogation began with two or three slaps in the face and the familiar introduction of 'Listen here, shit-heap! " In one of his recollections of the guards' sadism, Mr. Fehervary writes of what' he witnessed every morning throqgh the keyhole of his cell door: "11he black coffee for the prisoners was brought down in a huge cauldron, but /before giving it to us the guards would get their mugs and help themselves to two or three cups. When they were finished witb their 'coffee break: ... they would urinate into the pot 'refilling it~ A few minutes later it was the prisoners turn to have some ..." !One section of the account states: I"Women were kept in over-crowded c61ls and were not allowed to wash regularly, even during menstrual cycles. The questioning sessions were often carried out by female interrogators, who tended to be less hesitant than the men in in.flicting abuse on women. More than a few cases were reported where the AVH J • (Hungarian analogue of KGB) inserted a glass pipe into a woman's vagina and then punched her in the stomach shattering the glass and rendering her childless forever.' There are numerous other methodical atrocities described which were inflicted on these Hungarian men and women who were in prison because of their political views. But there are also accounts of guards who became human through interaction with the prisoners. In one case a prisoner being tormented by a guard burst out: "My father was the same as yours, tilled the land all his life. I was born the same as you, but I did not turn traitor to my heritage and my mother is not ashamed of me. How dare you show your face in your village? Your gang can confiscate all we own or even execute us, but there is one thing you cannot do: cart off the land of our fathers in wheelbarrows!" The guard withdrew, and a few days later he began smuggling food from his home town into the prison for the halfstarved man he had tormented. No one feared him after that. This last story is enormously important in Mr. Fehervary's book. It is emblematic of a truth: even in the darkest recesses of institutionalized evil, a person whose job is to enforce brutal and sadistic orders can recover some degree of decency and some do. The Long Road to Revolution culminates with an unadorned list of names, ages, alleged .crimes, and then dates of execution of 256 men and women whose lives were cut short by their captors. Some of their stories are included in Mr. Fehervary's narrative. The list is haunting. It is a persona list, standing fragilely as it must for hundreds and thousands of names, now unknown, of men, women, and children who shared this terrible fate. It is perhaps the real center of the book. Many of these Hungarian patriots were prison cellmates and friends of the author, and he witnessed many of their executions. He writes: "Fathers and sons wanted to exchange places and die for one another. Elder brothers had to live with the knowledge that they would witness their younger brother's hanging. Mothers spent days and nights outside the prison walls, hoping that their child's pale face might appear in the window of the death cell. ... In spite of the fear, there was virtually not a condemned man or woman among the political prisoners who broke down or compromised themselves to the guards!' Mr. Fehervary wrote this book out of his sense of responsibility to those who were systematically and legally murdered. To tell their story became for him his motive to survive the tortures and deprivations he endured. Two passages in the book, which relates how Mr. Fehervary was first captured in Vienna in 1949 by the Soviets, and how in 1956 he escaped from Hungary, are breathtaking adventures. Th.ken by themselves they might seem material for book length treatment. Here these riveting episodes are but prologue and epilogue to the author's depiction of mortal moral struggle between prisoners and their captors in Stalinist Hungary. We see now that those who resisted Soviet brutality in Hungary did not act and die in vain. We owe them the honor of reading The Long Road to Revolution, a moving remembrance of how they prevailed in their lives and in their deaths. �Noting Philoctetes' change of heart in accepting Ht!rcules' challenge, Mr. Bart expressed puzzlement, but also admiration, asking, "Is this credible? Is it possible in any way for us? I wonder, but also I hope it is~' He concluded with questions about Prospero's departure from his magic island, and especially Prospero's assertation that his every third thought will be his grave. In preparation for his journey, Prospero had already thrown off his magician's robes and dressed for worldly rule. If his other two are of his ,-.<~,,~..,,.-~~and of are his of death "weak and the asked? Mr. Santa Fe graduation (Continued from page one) Tnr'11nnT0 Robert Bart J.W. Blagden photo there. "I know he did well to go back and live among his own, but I am not sure I can give certain reasons;' said Mr. Bart. Philoctetes was prepared to go home in a different spirit. He declines to go to Troy and share in the glory there because he has been betrayed by men and persecuted by the gods. But to go home in Sophocles' play is to go to the place where the wounded hero can continue to nourish resentment. In a surprising turnabout, Hercules is able to persuade Philoctetes instead to go forth to the labors and glory awaiting him. Annapolis graduation immortal are not always congenial to the active life?" Outside the "island" - perhaps the one on which they sat in the placita lay a multiplicity of choice and experience, complicated, perhaps joyous, and never easy, the speaker seemed to be telling his audience of graduates, themselves on the threshold of new lives. His words followed those of welcome by President John Agresto, and the conferring of awards and prizes to the graduates. Mr. Agresto presented Bryan-Paul Frost with a silver medal as the senior with the highest academic record. Other awards and the seniors who received them were the Millard E. "fydings Memorial Prize for excellence in public speaking, Owen Jones; the Richard D. Weigle prize for the best senior essay, Theodoros Theodoropoulus, "Sophocles: Some Bearings"; the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Joseph Evans; and the Walter S. Baird Prize, Benjamin Galison. In addition, college blazers from the Alumni Association for contributions to the Athletic Program were given to Andrew Milenkovitch and Sarah Hartzog, and for Outstanding Contributions in AU Student Activities, an award to Benjamin Galison. Other awards were the ...._,...,_Jl..,"''""v ness Fellows Urri.nr,<:.m M. Macintosh and E. Suzanne and the Alumni Association award Graduate Institute student for distin..,,.....,1-1.._,.., .... ,...... essay, Glen Davis. Acknowledgments of Excellence went to Sarah Maxwell for her junior essay, Andrew Farmer for his freshman essay, and Ronald Scrogham for his First Semester January freshman essay. Additional awards were the Robert N eidorf Memorial Scholarship, sophomore Mary Welliver; the Duane L. Peterson Scholarship, James Newman; the St. John's College Community Scholarship to juniors Julia Goldberg and Katherine M. Macintosh, and sophomores Don Labenski, James Papiano, Mary Welliver and Michael Zinanti; the Thorne Endowment Scholarship for summer premedical study, sophomores Richard Connell and Christopher LaBonte, and freshman Libra Joslyn Moellering; for Outstanding Performance in Athletics, juniors Karen Andrews, Karim Dajani, Michelle Economou, and sophomore James ·Papiano; and for Outstanding Contributions in all Student Activities, juniors Julia Goldberg and Erik Selekman, and sophomore Gregory Brown. Santa Fe senior . receives Joseph Evans, SF '90 has been awarded a fellowship from the Thomas Watson Foundation to arts in mc1on.es1a, sia. The Watson for a year of un.•"'"'"H''"'".ll"'and travel abroad. Mr. Evans the culture and food ......,,..... o:a .... .,."t,nro methods of the countries he will visit, concentrating on foods traditionally prepared for festival occasions and for royalty. Mr. Evans is himself an accomplished chef, having worked as a chef for seven years, including the last two years at the SantaCafe Restaurant in Santa Fe and a two-year apprenticeship at the Riviera Restaurant in Dallas. He is well versed in cooking Asian food. He says that his purposes in going to Asia are to gain a greater understanding of the culture from which this cuisine springs, and to develop the "instinct" in preparing foods from this region. In addition to learning more about Asian foods, Mr. Evans plans to become involved in weaving and the arts, and to make visits to India, Burma, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, and South Africa. (Continued from page one) Speaking to the graduates, he told them they had been given a better chance than their parents, but "we will be with you on your journey. You'll never set the world to rights ... Worlds don't work that way. But you have 1 chance to do something, a slightly better chance. kids:' Welcome Presiding over the commencement exercises, President William M. Dyal, a medal to Kevin Michael ~LH as the senior with the highest academic n...,,,,..,...,..,.,.. '-JL''4L . . l. J. Davis JUNE 1990 THE REPORTER PAGE 14 Keith Harvey photo fault that we find ourselves in such a predicament: "Somebody recently remarked that Iran, Iraq, Libya, and the United States are the only countries on the globe that still think the world owes them a living;' he said. "The fact is, we owed the world too long~' We as a capitalistic society have forgotten how to compete, yet we still believe because we are "good fellows:' that we deserve, somehow, to be "coiled upon our riches like a dragon sleeping in a mountain'.' It's your job, he told the graduates, to convince the nation otherwise. He then laid on their laps their share of "the totally preventable collapse in the thrift and banking systems, and partly brought about by rampant fraud" - a bill for $2,500 apiece. In the end, he said "it could be worse. God only knows, your parents and I were born in a world that was literally on fire, and it continued to smolder and flare for quite a long time~· It took his generation a long time to get it together, he explained, and then "we were blindsided last fall by the latest of history's merry jokes~' Alluding to Eastern Europe's throwing off Communist rule, he said, "After all these years, it was like cocking your shoulder and running with all your might against a _paper door.' Other honors and announced Mr. were the E. Tydings award for excellence in speaking, given to Lisa Liske; best senior essay, offered in memory of Simon Kaplan, Tutor Emeritus, shared by Kevin Graham and Thomas Quigley, honorable mentions, Eric Lavoie and Alexander Cocron; the Kathryn Stevens best junior essay, Colin Bridge, honorable mention, Christopher Newman; the Judge Walter I. Dawkins award for best sophomore essay, Jeffrey Fahrner; the Jacob Klein, Tutor Emeritus, best freshman essay, Kenneth Wolfe, honorable mention, Jason Fields, Jennifer Schurr and Vanessa Stratton; the John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus, award for the best English version of a Greek text, Kenneth Wolfe; best English version of a French poem, Merrill the Henry Austin award for the best original English poem, to Jeffrey Covey; best original musical composition, Travis Hardaway; best essay on a piece of music, Alec Berlin; the Bryce Jacobsen award for the most elegant solution to a geometrical problem, Devin Rushing; the Alun:ni Association's award to a Graduate Institute student for a distinguished preceptorial essay, Donna Schueler; the Alumni Association's award to the senior man and woman who have contributed most to the College's athletic program, Scott Walters and Tamara Wilson; the Caritas Society's award to a senior for outstanding community service, Vicky Sills; The Robertson Prize for achievement in the visual arts, Hunter Nesbitt and Katrina Zapf; the Walter S. Baird Prize for excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences to Axel Christensen; the Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities to Kevin Graham and the Chicago Business Fellowship to George Mashour. At the conclusion of the exercises, new graduates let out a heartfelt cheer and several tossed their mortarboards in the air. Afterwards, the crowd enjoyed strawberries, champagne and other refreshments set up on the front lawn. the Rev. Daniel C. Earlier in the ..._u,... father of senior Kevin . . . LL..,,u.i, L ...U H , >L .... Roberta Austin, a former student at the Annapolis campus and an Annapolis resident, is planning two small group tours in Turkey for fall in collaboration with Golden Horn Tours of Istanbul. These will travel along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts and into the interior to Cappadocia. On-site discussions and informal seminars are expected to be led by an Annapolis tutor for each tour. Ms. Austin and her Istanbul-based partner conducted baccalaureate services for the seniors in FSK Auditorium. Other commencement weekend events included class day exercises in the Great Hall on Saturday, May 19, the facultysenior softball game later that day (the faculty won, 17-5), and the final waltz party of the year. In a farewell to the students, retiring President William M. Dyal said: "All of you have left your names in the historical number of students who have studied here ... I wish you meaningful conversations in the years to come~' will accompany each group. The tours are designed for small groups of people who share an interest in travel and learning, she says. Two tours are scheduled: August 31-September 16, and October 24-November 14. Deposit deadlines for them are July 6 and July 23. For information, contact Ms. Austin at Golden Horn Tours, P.O. Box 207, Annapolis, MD. Telephone (301) 757-8005. Tutor Robert Williamson and his wife Marilyn flank new master's degree recipient Jonathan Joe, whom they met in 1986 on a river trip in China. The Williamsons sponsored Mr. Joe as a Graduate Institute student, and he lived with Caritas Society member Julia Feldman. Keith Harvey phOto �I I David Jones: tutor at Santa Fe David C. Jones, 52, a graduate of the Annapolis campus in 1959, a tutor there for one year, and a tutor at the western campus beginning in 1965, died in the intensive care unit of St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe March 11. At a memorial service in April, his colleagues called attention to what one called "his sublimely rational mind:' and to his devotion to the college. One commented that much of what the Santa Fe campus has become "is thanks to David's ability to fix upon the main point and work through the tedious details until a solution was reached~' "The whole college has benefited directly and in many ways by David's devotion to natural science;' said his good friend tutor Jack Steadman. Noting that for many years David was the one to adjust and readjust the "Ptolemy Stone:' he said, "Every freshman student has used data that has depended on David's painstaking skill with crowbar, carpenter's level, and the shims with which he got the stone into the right position. One time when I was helping him, he fished a dime from his pocket to put under the stone in just the right spot to make the final, precise adjustment. "But I remember David best as a poker player,' he said. "His PhD dissertation had been an application of mathematical game theory to some questions of philosophy, but his favorite application of game theory was playing poker. I remember him best as a solid, calm player with a twinkle in his eye and a chuckle in his voice whether he was winning or losing. When we had a game at his house, which we often did because he was a very gracious host, he always had a big pot of his own red chili stew simmering on the stove for when the game broke up. Then we would all stand around his kitchen in friendship and companionship, eating chili stew. Friendship and companionship; that's how I remember him besC' After his undergraduate work in Annapolis, Mr. Jones received a master of arts degree from the University of Melbourne in Australia and a PhD from the University of Texas. He is survived by his wife, Susan Hebert Jones of Santa Fe, two sons, Kleyton Melbourne Jones of San Francisco and Christopher Joseph Jones of Santa Fe, his . . parents, and two sisters. Memorials may be directed to the new John Gaw and Faith Meem Library Fund, St. John's College, c/o the Advancement Office, 1160 Camino Cmz Blanca, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Carey Jarman: head, Maryland State Police Col. Carey Jarman, A '17, a decorated Army veteran of both world wars who headed the Maryland State Police as superintendent from 1949 to 1957 and again from 1959 to 1967, died at age 94 in March after a long illness. Before his graduation from the College, where he played football, basketball and baseball he enlisted in the Maryland National Guard, serving in a machine gun compan; on the Mexican border. He was promoted directly from corporal to captain. In World War I he served in France. After the war, he attended the Harvard Business School. He worked for a time for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company in Baltimore, and later for the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and the American Liberty League. When the National Guard was called up during World War I, he held staff posts with the rank of colonel in England, France and Germany. His decorations included the Legion of Merit. Before his first appointment as state police superintendent, he was an official of the Veterans Administration in Richmond, and later he was chief of the Army Guard personnel branch in the National Guard Bureau in Washington. His wife of more than 50 years died in 1982. His survivors include a niece and a nephew. Scott Jones: novelist, musician Scott Hilary Jones, SF '75, died in San Francisco on February 11 after a long and debilitating illness. . . Scott had travelled extensively and had lived for several years m Puerto Rico and Central America as well as longer periods of time in Argentina, Paraguay and Chile. He had drawn on these experiences for a novel, Memoirs of a Chimp, and two books of short stories, Sambas and Shopping for Castles. His life was full of music, which he wrote and played on the piano and organ and listened to whenever possible. He was especially fond of Chopin and Bach, but he also enjoyed opera, jazz and contemporary music. In 1989, he completed his pre-medical studies in San Francisco a~d was pre-enrolled in Tulane Medical School when he suffered an AIDS-related seizure last fall and at Christmas contracted flu and later pneumonia. With a friend, J ocelia Phillips, an oncology nurse, he founded Home Care Companions, Inc., in 1987, an educational agency that has conducted numerous AIDS seminars in San Francisco and which is seeking a $10,000 financial base for educational work. Home Care Companions, Inc., is a 501-C3 tax-exempt educational agency guided by a board of directors, nurses and supporting f~iend~. Memorial ~ifts in Scott's honor will be forwarded to Home Care Compamons m San Francisco or to the Shanti Group of Phoenix, Arizona. The address: Bruce and Enid Jones, 1733 E. Mountain View Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85020. This spring, Scott's life was to be celebrated by his family in the Sierra Ancha Wilderness of Arizona where they had camped several times. His ashes were to be scattered in the "Grove of the Ancients:' among the oaks and Ponderosa pines. Scott is survived by his parents, his brothers Chris and Andy, his niece, and his friend Celi Phillips. T. Lansdale Hill: 1st class, New Program T. Lansdale ("Danny'') Hill died on February 6 of pneumonia. His daughter Mary writes that "he was very proud of his association with St. Johi:'s Col~;ge and of having been in the first graduating class of the New Program m 1941. 5) YWCA, modeling them after College seminars. "She always loved to be provocative and posed the greatest questions:' one member recalls. Now at the pinnacle in the social services field, Ms. King looks longingly at her days at St. John's. "My most satisfying job was counseling the St. John's students. I miss the human contact. I liked being part of the campus. I'd love to be a counselor at St. John's again:' Meanwhile, Ms. King wants to use her authority to make a difference - maybe not in the whole world, but in the Washington, DC, area. "I care about international problems, but we have so many right here at home that we have to deal with~' she explains. "For instance, recently I walked into a men's shelter in Montgomery County where there were rows and rows of cots. Hanging above these cots were three-piece suits. These men worked for NIH (National Institutes of Health). Many people think that those in shelters are the down and out of society. That's just not true. These are average people who work every day and still cannot find affordable housing. Should my agency build more shelters? Is that the answer?" she asks. "I think we have to get serious about our domestic problems - rather than foreign concerns. The problem of lack of affordable housing is symptomatic of where society places its values. People are poor because they lack education - not necessarily a St. John's education - but a basic education~' Ms. King is doing some educating of her own, on the job. First, she's raising the consciousness, and maybe a few eyebrows, of those in Catholic Charities about the value of counseling. "You can't simply pray away povertY,' Ms. King, a Catholic herself, says. "It's not enough to feed the poor. Programs to help the needy, as well as a faith commitment, go a long way towards helping women has increased and racism is as strong as ever. She is comforted, however, by the fact. that many Americans no longer complacently accept these aberrations in their lives, but attack them · aggressively. Still, she says, "I look forward to the day when American minorities are more visible and involved at all levels of academic life at St. John's'.' Her greatest frustration? "That's easY,' she says smiling. "That we can't live forever.' And with so much to accomplish, her answer is no surprise. Maclver, interim head (Continued from page one) Donald J. Maciver J. w. Blagden photo Prior to the Board's action, Mr. Maciver had enrolled in the St. John's Graduate Institute. He intends to return to these studies when his service as president is concluded. Thus "broadened and deepened:' he explained recently, he would seek to teach in a public high school, making use of the seminar process and original writings as much as possible. In February of this year, Mr. Maciver left his position as senior vice-president, general counsel, secretary and board member of El Paso Natural Gas Company, where since 1980 he has overseen all legal matters, and since 1986, the public affairs of the company, including its federal, state, and local governmental repeople~' lations. He has testified before CongresMs. King acknowledges that her apsional committees as well as before legispointment may take some getting used lative and executive bodies of Arizona, to by die-hard traditionalists, so she's California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklatreading with soft but steady steps homa, and Texas. towards her goals. She is patient with a "I am excited to be returning to the budget that, similar to those of other beautiful city of Annapolis and honored social service agencies, comes up short to serve St. John's in this new capacitY,' when compared to the need. · Mr. Maclver said. "My management Challenges are nothing new to Ms. style at El Paso was to make sure that King. She's never let being black, being I had excellent people working with me, a woman, and being Catholic stand in satisfy myself that they had access to all the way of what she's wanted to achieve. necessary information, and then to deleSure, she's suffered jabs from her earlier gate decision-making as low as possible. days as a social worker in New York City, I would intend to continue this style on to her position today as a leader in a the Annapolis campus:' powerful religious bureaucracy. "Did I Mr. Maclver is 48 years old. He take up a sword?" she asks rhetorically. attended the U.S. Naval Academy and "When hit in the face, yes, but in my served in the Navy for four years before own way. I do not accept racist or sexist receiving his bachelor of arts and law attitudes, and I confront them in friends degrees from the University of Texas. He and colleagues. My greatest weapon is joined El Paso Natural Gas Company in my sense of ethics, my sense of fairness~' 1971. His wife Sandy and daughter Kyle She believes that despite society's will continue to live in El Paso when Mr. rhetoric in the three decades since she Maclver moves to Annapolis in early was a college student, violence towards June. Aaron Hoover, A '90, gets news grant Aaron Hoover, A '90, has been awarded a $1500 fellowship in Newswriting & Editing for Liberal Arts students by the Poynter Institute of St. Petersburg, Florida. Beginning June 18, he will be one of 16 studerits to spend six weeks in intensive study of basic reporting, newswriting and editing, with emphasis on practical experience. He was selected in a nationwide competition based on academic excellence, skill in writing, and commitment to a journalism career. The course includes instruction by Poynter faculty and visiting speakers from west Florida media, especially the St. Petersburg Times, as well as journalists and academics from all over the country. The Institute helps students find fulltime positions with newspapers, wire services and magazines. Editors often visit the program and interview students for jobs. Mr. Hoover, a writing assistant at the College, has written several stories for The Reporter, including one on the Boat Picnic for this issue. �THE REPORTER PAGE 16 JUNE 1990 Brann named dean at Annapolis Eva Brann, a tutor at St. John's College since 1957 and the author of three books and many scholarly and critical articles, has been named Dean at the Annapolis campus, replacing Thomas Slakey. ~1r. Slakey, who has held the post since 1986, will be on sabbatical in 1990-91 before returning to teach as a tutor. Acting on the recommendation of President William ~. Dyal, Jr., the Board of Visitors and Governors approved ~s. Brann's appointment in special session April 7. A three-member committee of tutors - Sam Kutler, Chester Burke, and ~ichael Dink - had previously interviewed widely members of the campus community to determine its ·wishes about candidates for dean. Interviews were also conducted in Santa Fe. A graduate of Brooklyn College, :\1s. Brann received her master's degree in classics and her PhD in archeology, both from Yale University. Before coming to St. John's, she was an instructor in archeology at Stanford University in 1956-57. In the years since, she has received many academic honors and \·isiting professorships, including the following: member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1958-59; member, U.S. Advisory Commission for International Education and Cultural Affairs, 1975-78; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1976-77; Visiting Professor, Whitman College, 1978-79; Visiting Honors Scholar, University of Delaware, 1984-86; Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1987-88; State Advisory Committee, United States Commission for Civil Rights, 1988 to the present. Her newest book, The World of the Imagination, a synthesis of the major theories about the imagination, is scheduled for publication next fall by Rowman and Littlefield. It has already been lauded by one scholar for its "phenomenal" scholarship and for its potential Eva Brann Vince Harriman photo value to specialists in many fields, and hailed by another as "a monumental contribution to scholarship:' J The job as director of career planning on the Annapolis campus is now open with the resignation of Ellie Dietrich, who has held the position since 1987. Responsibilities of the director include the planning of policies and procedures to help students and alumni plan careers, search for jobs, and apply to graduate programs; establishing a network of potential employers; accommodating the tools of career counseling to the specific character of St. John's students and alumni; providing a large volume of detailed information and guidance about employment and graduate schools; and advising students on how to prepare for qualifying examinations for graduate study. Other responsibilities include maintaining an up-to-date career counseling library of information on graduate schools, fellowships, sources of employment and internships; maintaining a current alumni network referral system; publishing a monthly career newsletter; and coordinating the activities of the Faculty Fellowship Committee. Qualifications include a bachelor's degree, experience - or a commitment to acquire it - in the College program; and computer skills or an aptitude for learning these. Alumni are invited to apply. Learned Societies Fellowship for Sl5,000 will allow Ms. Allanbrook to proceed with work on her book on the 18th century composers, tentatively titled The Nature of Expression in the Chamber Music of Mozart and Haydn. In the fall Wye Allanbrook Keith Harvey photo Wye Jamison Allanbrook, assistant dean and tutor at St. John's College, has been awarded two major study grants to fund a year of continuing study on the nature of expression in the chamber music of Mozart and Haydn. A National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship carrying a stipend of $27 ,500 and an American Council of of 1991, she will continue on leave, completing a sabbatical that began with partial leave this academic year. On June 1 she stepped down from her three-year stint as assistant dean at the Annapolis campus, a position she shared with teaching duties. She will resume fulltime teaching duties on her return from leave and sabbatical. Noting that studies of classic music have centered largely on purely formal matters, Ms. Allanbrook has begun the exploration in her book of the relation between expression and form, with particular attention to how the composers used the music of their world - dances, hunt calls, sacred styles, etc. - to spin out larger-scale musical movements. In the course of preparing a lecture last fall for presentation at the University of Michigan on comic issues in Mozart's piano concertos, Ms. Allanbrook found many echoes of the comic opera in this music. "I became convinced that the comic theatre governs the stance of this music in a rather deep waY,' she observed. "I may not limit the discussion in the book to string quartets and chamber music, but perhaps talk about other genres, operas, concertos, and symphonies, with comedy as a guiding principle of the book:' The shift of focus and the sense of discovery of this permeating element has been exciting, she says. :"vis. Allanbrook began the book as a fellow of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle North Carolina, in the 1986-87 academic year. During the bicentenary year of Mozart's death in 1991, five speaking engagements are already on this Mozart scholar's schedule, including one in England. In April, 1991, she will deliver a plenary address at the national meeting of the American Society for 18th Century Studies in Pittsburgh. She will also take part in the Lincoln Center celebration in May, 1991. A tutor at St. John's since 1969, Ms. Allanbrook did her undergraduate work at Vassar and received her master's degree and PhD from Stanford University in music history. Her book mic Gesture in Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni was named among the best academic books of 1984 by Choice Magazine. Faculty votes 'Yes'' to California property resolutions By NANCY OSIUS In a joint vote, faculty members at Annapolis and Santa Fe endorsed two recommendations recently over appropriate use, if any, of the 800-acre California property willed 20 years ago to the College for educational purposes - a bequest validated by the courts last summer. The faculty vote strongly favored Resolution I, setting up multiple restrictions to govern establishment of a third St. John's campus in California, if it is undertaken, but more narrowly supported Resolution a proposal to proceed with the venture at all. With 115 faculty members on the two campuses participating, the vote for . resolution I was 85 in favor, 19 ~1'->""""'L' and 11 abstentions. The vote for Resoand lution II was 58 in favor, 44 13 abstentions. The joint vote came in response to a Board of Visitors and Governors request last October to the bodies for recommendations on two points - in what possible ways might the College develop a third campus in California, and whether such development should proceed at all. Members of the Joint Faculty Committee on California Property drew up the resolutions in January, and these have been the subject of intermittent discussion at succeeding faculty meetings. In the past, faculty members at each campus have differed markedly on the project, with Santa Fe opinion generally favoring development and Annapolis opinion generally opposing it. Resolution I on conditions of development set forth these that the California start with a Graduate Institute program staffed by experienced faculty, and a center for studies liberal arts for tutors and other academic participants; that an undergraduate program be developed at some later time, but "not until a successful endowment campaign has brought the existing campuses to a state of institutional health"; that the finances of the third campus be kept separate from those of Annapolis and Santa Fe, and that the financing of an initial program in California be undertaken with revenues restricted to that purpose; that special funds be raised for the needed increase in the number of tutors at the existing campuses before any transfer of tutors to California; and that plans for the campus include affordable faculty housing. Resolution II on whether the project should go forward reads in its =~•-·~Q...... "The recommends that the Colwith the planning and the cte,1e1cmrner1t of a third campus of St. "-'V"'-""'"' in California~' Two supplementary resolutions, passed in Annapolis by voice vote, await Santa Fe action. These stipulate, under resolution I, that fund-raising programs for the California property will be "controlled by and coordinated through the Advancement offices of both campuses~' and, under Resolution II, that development of a third campus begin, "provided the terms and conditions as set forth in Resolution I are fulfilled:' Members of the Joint Faculty Committee on California Property are the deans of the two campuses, Thomas Slakey and James Carey, the directors of the Graduate Institutes on both campuses, Malcolm Wyatt and from Annapolis, tutors Thomas ._,.,,.,.,,,'V., and Elliott and from Santa tutors Don Cook and Robert Bart. 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