3 20 118 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/b6bee61f289adad4c21f9adab87a659e.pdf af55743b04673e57540c661ac64fcd16 PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 11111111111111111~~~i1m11mr1im John's 11111111111111111 31696 011381637 Volume 16, Issue 3 Presidential candidates i terviewed The Presidential Search Committee is well along in its review of candidates for the presidency of the Annapolis campus, according to chairman John Van Doren at the January meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors. Last September, President William M. Dyal, resigned from his office, effective 1990. "There has been a lot of interest to said Mr. Van Doren, "and we have candidates:' Declining to be specific about number of he commented that the nine-member comof Board members, mittee members anq the deans of both campuses, has interviewed "a good number of candidates" - about a quarter of the original applicants - in sessions in Chicago, New York, Santa Fe, and Washington. Final candidates will visit both campuses for on-site interviews with individuals and groups. "Our intention is to finish by the date of Bill's departure, although he has assured us that he could remain for a bit if absolutely necessary. In fact, we hope to finish up by the first week in April:' Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM March, 1990 Inauguration of Agresto April 28 As the climax to a year of extended celebration for its 25th birthday, the Santa Fe campus will inaugurate John Agresto as its fourth - and second fulltime - president, on Saturday, April 28. Delivering the inaugural address at 11 a.m. on the Placita, will be Bernard Lewis, a leading authority on the Middle East and the author of many books on the history and politics of the region. Lunch in the Peterson Dining Hall, to which all College alumni are invited, will follow. In keeping with Mr. Agresto's desire to share the inaugural events with each segment of the College and the wider community, special festivities are scheduled over a five-day period for these groups, beginning with a reception for the faculty on Wednesday, April 25, at the Fenn Galleries in the city of Santa Fe. On Thursday, a breakfast for College staff members will be held in the Junior Common Room at 9 a.m., while an after-seminar ice cream social at 10 p.m. is planned for students that evening. The Board of Visitors and Governors has scheduled its spring meeting to coincide with the inauguration, and regular Board committees will meet during the inaugural days, with a celebratory event for the Board slated Friday evening. The Museum of Fine Arts will be the setting Saturday evening for a dinner at which friends from the Santa Fe community will join the new president in celebration. On Sunday, his personal friends will be brunch guests at the President's house. The inaugural events will come to a close on Sunday afternoon when the St. John's Chorus will present its Spring Concert at 3 p.m. in the Great Hall. Inaugural speaker Mr. Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University from 1974 until his retirement in 1986. Born in London, he earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees at the University of London and a diplorne des etudes semitiques from the University of Paris. Besides Princeton, he has taught and lectured at a number of other colleges and universities, including the University of Chicago, the College de France, the Collegio de Mexico, the University of California, Columbia University, and academic institutions in Europe, Asia, and Australia. He has been a U.S. citizen since 1982. A frequent contributor both to scholarly and popular journals as well as the author of over 20 his work has been translated into 19 languages. Among his many honors and awards, Mr. Lewis has been named a member of the American Philosophical Society, the British Academy, and the Turkish Historical Society. He holds five honorary doctoral degrees. Mr. Lewis is currently the director of the Annenberg Research Institute in Philadelphia. sough St. John's College in Annapolis is assisting the Historic Annapolis Foundation, a non-profit preservation group, in locating a site for a museum/education center other than the former Maryland Hall of Records building on the campus that both are vying for. Vice President for College Advancement Jeffrey Bishop said the action is the latest in a series of attempts by St. John's officials to secure use of the Georgian Revival structure on the comer of College Avenue and St. John's St. "We are prepared to accept the building as a gift The former Hall of Records building stands on College property at corner of College Avenue and St. John's Street. Keith Harvey photo (from the state), we are prepared to buy the building or to lease it;' Mr. Bishop is quoted as saying in the January issue of the student publication The Gadfly. "We will go to any extreme to get that building - it is that important to the future of the College'.' Meanwhile, Governor William Donald Schaefer has made no decision about the building's future. There's speculation that the state may be postponing any action in hopes that the College and Historic Annapolis can work out their own agreements. While decision-making would begin with the Governor, the final word will rest with the Board of Public Works if the building is designated for something other than state use, a state official said. A third, and conceivably more comfortable decision for the Governor than deciding between two respected institutions, would be to keep the building for state use. Or at least till the controversy wanes. St. John's and Historic Annapolis, although longtime allies (former St. John's President Richard Weigle was one of the original founders and an early president of the organization, and its first action was moving the CarrollBarrister House from Main St. to the campus) recently butted heads as both tried to convince the Governor that their need and right to the building was prime. Although Mr. Bishop lobbied quietly throughout the year for use of the structure built in 1934, talking with the city, county and state officials, the issue intensified when the College learned in December that the Governor had plans to lease the building to Historic Annapolis. Mr. Bishop then cited the College's need for building space. "The campus as you see it today was built for 250 students. We have 400 undergraduate students now and 100 graduate students:' he said. An architectural study of campus needs determined that over · (Continued on page 12) ...... 3 Reviews ............... 7 8, 9 11 3 On pages 10 and The Alumni Association News, readers are invited to take in an alumni survey on appropriate use of the California property. �PAGE 2 REPORTER 1928 Louis L. Professor Emeritus of the PhD in History at the City University New York, .,.,,.,.,,...,,tuu published two books on the Nazi era: Hitler's Elite, and Hitler's German Enemies. Prof. Snyder's Encyclopedia of Nationalism, representing a lifetime of research on the subject, will be lished in this spring. In the New York Times book review of April 24, 1989, Hitler's Elite is examined partly for its answer to questions about complicity of the German people in Hitler's policies of genocide. The review presents some of Prof. Snyder's telling portraits: Hermann Goering, a "deadly Falstaff"; Ernst Roehm, "bully boy of the streets"; and Julius Streicher, "pornographer and sadist.'' 1941 Gerald J. Martin was elected honorary president of the Association Internationale Des Skal Clubs at the annual congress held in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, last November, the first U.S. Skal member to be so distinguished. The association is an international organization of professionals in the field of world tourism with 485 clubs located in 82 countries. Mr. Martin had served as world president in 1983-84 and presided over the 50th jubilee congress in Paris in 1984. He was formerly employed as Maryland Manager of Passenger Sales for American Airlines in Baltimore. He retired from that post in 1983 after 39 years of service. 1967 WiJliam H. Donahue, a science historian who translated Johannes Kepler's master workAstronomia Nova into English, recently reported in The Journal of the History of Astronomy that Kepler presented false data to bolster acceptance of his theory of how the planets move about the sun. Published in 1609, Kepler's book showed that the planets move in elliptical orbits rather than in circles as Copernicus suggested. Kepler claimed that his insight was confirmed by independent calculations of the planets' positions. When Dr. Donahue redid Kepler's calculations, he found his numbers disagreeing with the great astronomer's, and he finally realized that Kepler's numbers had been generated not by independent calculations, but by calculations based on the theory itself. "He fudged things," said Dr. Donahue, according to a New York Times article of January 22. While pointing out that the fakery is one of the earliest known uses of false data by a giant of modern science, the article also noted that experts were ''nearly unanimous in defending the great astronomer,'' suggesting that methods of investigation and reporting at the start of the scientific revolution were often quite rudimentary. "Kepler was one of the people who invented modern science,'' said one of those questioned. "It's not clear his standards were the same as ours.'' 1975 Malcolm Ridgway Handte, Assistant Vice President and Associate Actuary 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 New 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 018-750 with Skandia America Reinsurance Corin New York City, has been named a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, a group dedicated to the development of professional actuaries and to the advancement of actuarial science as it pertains to casualty, property, and health insurance in the United States and Canada. The Fellowship designation is achieved through successful completion of 10 comprehensive mathematical, statistical, and insurance examinations, sponsored by the society. Mr. Handte received a master of science degree in management science and applied economics operations research from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1980. From 1980 to 1987 he was with the CNA Insurance Companies in Chicago, in programming, actuarial and research positions. Harriet Ann Quesenberry was promoted to Major, USAF (NC), in November. After earning a master's degree in nursing education from UMD. in 1987, she was posted to Wilford Hall, USAF Medical Center, San Antonio, TX. Husband Ali Gord-Noghani, who has a master's degree from Virginia Tech, is automobile traffic operations engineer for the city of San Antonio. 1972 Jonathan chairman of Management Company Entertainment Group is the producer of what New York Times film critic calls the ''sleeper hit of early autumn, Tri-Star's 'Look Who's Talking.' " The comedy with NBC's "Cheers" star Kirstie Alley as a single mother, John Travolta as the taxi driver who befriends her, and a baby named Mikey who expresses his thoughts about everything in the voice of Bruce Willis. His group has "seven films in the can in different stages of postproduction,'' Mr. Krane told the film critic, one of them starring his wife Sally Kellerman. In the coming year, his group hopes to make 10 to 15 films, producing three of them at a studio and financing and distributing the rest. "It's great to have a hit," he said, "but the movie business is really rough. You've got to be vigilant all the time. I'm going to try not to make any mistakes that will put me out of business." 1977 CLASS OF 1980 Don Edwards received a PhD in Classics at Brown University in 1984 where he received the rare honor for a graduate student of being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He has done scholarly work on Oenopides, Euclid, Diodorus, Lucretius, Ptolemy and the ancient commentators on Aristotle. After several years of college teaching, he became a computer programmer whose responsibilities now include program design and the management of a team of five programmers. Now in his third year of in-depth psychoanalysis, he also has the responsibility for three small gardens. He would like to hear from acquaintances, classicists, programmers, analysts/analysands, gardeners, and lesbians and gays among the College alumni, for whom he is the point of contact in a proposed Lesbian/Gay alumni group. His address is 2603 Redcoat Dr., Alexandria, VA 22303. The Santa Fe class of 1980 is busy planning events for its 10th reunion to be held July 20-22. For more information or to volunteer help, please contact Mary McCormick Freitas, (505) 988-5790, or Geri Glover, Box 7614, Boone, NC 28608. ..... .-. .. 'Jlt'lnn 1978 Tom Palmer, editor of Humane Studies Review, published an article, "Classical Liberalism in the Nordic Studies," in the Spring, 1989, issue of The Institute Scholar: A Review of Classical Liberal Scholarship. 1982 1978 Jane Marx recently joined the law firm of Gover, Stetson and Williams in Albuquerque, a firm specializing in native American law. 1982 Rebecca L. King is living in Reno, Nevada, where she is working as a "Middle Math teacher" and enjoying the age group. She is currently working on her master's thesis in writing in math education. She bought an old one-room school in Reno and is busy with remodelling and landscaping. 1983 After receiving her bachelor of science degree in biochemistry and physiology in 1985 in Wellington, New Zealand, Paige Lacy worked for several years, first for the ICI New Zealand's Corporate Research Laboratory as a lab technician, and then in the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research as a Scientific Officer. She has since begun a PhD ....... ,.,..,.,......,.,.... in biomedical research in the r1° ..... ., .. t-.....-.ont- of obstetrics and gynecology at the Wellington School of Medicine. "So far I have been it out in the laboratory with e1ectr1opJtlys:101og11caI measurements of oocytes removed from toad ovaries," she writes. "Oddsounding work, but is very .. "'""".ll.,.,,,.,.,...,. and has produced a lot of interesting results." Recently, she her work at a joint meeting of the Endocrine Society of Australia and the New Zealand Society of Endocrinology, at which meeting she was awarded a $300 prize for the best paper submitted by a New Zealand junior scientist. ''Although this seems a far cry from St. John's ... at the moment I'm enmeshed in Buddhism of the Tibetan strain, which seems to me to be an extraordinarily complete teaching which picks up where Western philosophy drops off.'' 1986 Tom O'Dowd is running for Santa Fe City Council in Southeastside District 2 for the March 6 election. O'Dowd says he will focus on environmental issues and wants city residents to become politically active. He stresses ''the amazing synergistic potential of teamwork.'' 1987 Melissa White and Ron Strauch, SF '85, have a daughter Talaya Strauch White, born August 22. 1988 After spending the 1988-89 year studying in the United Kingdom, Denmark and Greece on a Watson Foundation Fellowship, Rachel A. Ankeny is editorial assistant for John Van Doren, A '47, on Great Ideas Today, an annual published in conjunction with the Great Books of the Western World series. 1989 Days after the Bay Area quake last fall, Cynthia Hobgood sent word not only that she was fine, but also a few choice biographical details. She is technical assistant to a group of engineers who design microwave radio systems for cellular phones, police and fire departments, and radio and television stations. Cynthia is singing with the Stanford University student parish church choir and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Choir. Cynthia checked on fellow alumni, including Joe Moore, SF '80, and his wife Anne-Martine Brilliant, SF'84. Class of 1969 Jeffrey Smith reported on the summer pleasures of European travel with bride Natasha in a postcard to Brother Robert Smith. Some of his vignettes: "We stood above the Club Pernot on Champs Elysees to witness the 'defille' celebrating the French Revolution bicentennial. In Greece we went to Mycenae and Epidaurus where we saw Oedipus Rex one day. In Crete we met some Greek youths who were familiar with Euclid, so we began scratching out theorems in the sand. Soon we had the attention of half the beach, and a dozen children competing to figure out 1,47. But Istanbul was the most impressive, In this issue we continue our highlights of the lives of alumni of both Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses who celebrated their 20 year reunion last fall. Rachel (Hallford) Treiman of Johnson City, NY, worked as a legal librarian, then a technical librarian for SIAC, a computer subsidiary of the New York and the American Stock Exchanges. She then became a document librarian for Royal Globe Insurance - still dealing with huge computer systems. Married, had two children, moved to New York where she and her husband, an attorney, began their own corporation, Lamb's Flight, Ltd. They produce legal journals and auxiliary items. Jeffrey A. Hockersmith of Santa Fe is a systems analyst manager with the state of New Mexico and is president, CEO and chairman of Santa Fe's busiest property inspection/consulting company. Michael J. Hodgett of Albuquerque taught high school math for a year before being drafted into the army. He was assigned to Vietnam, where he typed and filed for nine months. Returning home, he took a job at a bank where he's been for 17 years. Today he's chief financial officer for the New Mexico First Interstate affiliated banks. Philip Holt of Laramie, WY, earned a PhD in classics from Stanford. He taught at several colleges before obtaining a tenure-track position two years ago at the University of Wyoming. Stephen Housewright of Canton, TX, is a librarian in the Humanities Division at the Dallas Public Library. He teaches college English in one of the Texas State Prison units. Martin Kalmar of Baltimore earned his Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He taught mathematics in various Baltimore schools. Since 1985, has been a professor of mathematics at Frederick Community College. Recently, he taught at the Graduate Institute in (Continued on page 12) (Continued on page 13) Leslie Smith Rosen has been appointed head teacher I director of the new Aleph-Bet Jewish Day School in Annapolis. 1984 �MARCH 1990 THE REPORTER PAGE 3 New tutors at Annapolis 1Wo new tutors, William Coleman and Kathleen Blits, have been added to the Annapolis faculty for the spring semester, each teaching one-third time. Mr. Coleman did his undergraduate and graduate work in philosophy at SUNY Buffalo, and graduate work there in computer science, receiving his PhD in 1982. He has done postdoctoral work in mathematics at the Johns Hopkins University. Since 1982 he has been teaching in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He has in addition been director of mathematical and statistical research at the Maryland Institute of Emergency Medical Services Systems, and since 1983 has served in various capacities on the University of Maryland School of Medicine Graduate Faculties. He has taken part in a number of medical research projects. This research has involved the use of mathematics to model physiologic processes and of statistics to investigate the physiology of disease and to develop indicators of the patient's condition and of the effectiveness of therapy. Recently he has been especially interested in using algebraic category theory to develop the syntax and semantics office kiNexis The career Planning office on the Annapolis campus has acquired a unique placement system with unlimited potential for alumni who are in a job search. kiNexus is a computerized candidate information system presented by the College Placement Council (CPC), the St. John's Career Planning Office, and information Kinetics. kiNexus is a powerful, easy to use candidate information service that allows employers to discover the unique qualifications of job candidates across the country. When a candidate registers via an IBM compatible personal computer his computerized resume is added to a nationwide database which is shared by national and local employers. The potential benefits of this service are unlimited. Increased exposure for registrants, an electronic system of registration for the Career Planning Office, and a broadly based pool of information for the employer, are all accomplished at minimal cost. It takes each person about 45 minutes to view a tutorial and answer questions about himself, what he wants to do and when, and what he has to offer. The program is ideal for College alumni because it allows them to enter a personal statement narrative, which can include a career objective, work experience, personal attributes, and personal and academic achievements. To participate, candidates must have access to an IBM compatible computer with at least 512K of memory and two 5.25 " disk drives. Depending on their computers, candidates can purchase either one or two formatted and preprogrammed diskettes from the Career Planning Office for a dollar each. Detailed instructions on how to register using the program will be given at that time. For more information, write to the Career Planning Office in Annapolis or call Ellie Dietrich, (301) 263-2371, ext. 200. of a formal logic of processes. This logic could be used to describe physical or physiological processes, computational processes in distributed computer systems, or cognitive processes in neural networks. Ms. Blits received her PhD in marine biology and biochemistry in December from the University of Delaware, where she also received her master's degree in botany. Her work concerns the genetic and physiological bases of plant tolerance to environmental stress. Her doctoral research on salinity tolerance in marine higher plants examined how molecular and organismal responses are developed and integrated so as to enable marine species to survive saline conditions lethal to most vegetation. Ms. Blits did her undergraduate work at Mt. Holyoke College, majoring in philosophy and classics, and also did graduate work at the New School for Social Research in political philosophy. She has published a number of papers in her field and has made research presentations to scientific groups in Canada and in the U.S. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the "Masters of Discovery" series of Guided Studies in Great Texts in Science. Sun Features College Four St. John's undergraduates smile into the camera off the cover of the February 18, 1990, issue of the Baltimore Sun Sunday magazine, over the cover story title, "Back to the Great Books: St. John's College Finds Itself in Vogue Again~' Inside is a long update of the St. John's story by freelance writer Sue Campbell, wife of John Povejsil, '92, with six more photographs of students, tutors and campus scenes, by photographer Jed Kirschbaum, who spent three days at the College with his camera, attending class part of the time, as did Ms. Campbell. The story provides a highly readable examination of the College's place in the current debate over core studies, its strengths and idiosyncrasies. 1990-91 tuition rises July 1 The cost of attending St. John's College will be 9.6 percent higher beginning July 1, 1990. College Treasurer Robert Harner said it was with "reluctance'' that the Board of Visitors and Governors approved the increase in tuition, room and board. However, even with the hike, the College still is only breaking even financially. Mr. Harner explains: "Every effort is ,being made to control expenditures wherever possible. But as long as the inescapable inflationary spiral continues in compensation, supplies and services, tuition, room and board increases are necessary'.' Tutors' salaries continue to lag far behind those of faculty members at the institutions with which the College compares itself, and costs of maintaining the College's aging facilities continue to rise. Tuition, room and board accounts for only 620Jo of total revenues. The balance of the yearly budget is from endowments (150Jo), state and federal grants (80Jo), gifts and other ancillary activities (15%). Marita Golden 0. B. Hardison, Jr. CARITAS SOCIETY Book and Author luncheon set By REBECCA WILSON 1Wo best-selling writers and the editor of H.L. Mencken's diary will speak at the seventh annual book-and-author luncheon St. John's College's Caritas Society and the Charing Cross Bookshop plan for March 17 in Annapolis. They will be Charles A. Fecher, who has edited the diary of the most ferociously iconoclastic and outspoken of America's social critics; Marita Golden, whose novel Long Distance Life was on The Washington Post's bestseller list for five weeks, and O.B. Hardison, Jr., whose book evaluating the ways in which science and technology shape modern culture currently ranks fifth on the Post's bestseller list. The luncheon will be held at 12 noon in the St. John's Randall Hall. It will be preceded by sherry at 11 a.m. Mencken, who died in 1956, directed that his diaries be sealed until 25 years after his death. From their 2,000 pages of typescript covering the period from 1930 to 1948, Mr. Fecher has selected entries to preserve their full range and color. Like Mencken, a Baltimorean, Mr. Fecher is also the author of Mencken: A Study of His Thought and The Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. He has written articles and reviews for a number of publications that include The Critic, The Catholic World, The Sign, and the Baltimore Sun. On a tenure-track professorship in the distinguished writing program at George Mason University in Northern Virginia, Ms. Golden has written a novel set in her native Washington and drawn from her own adolescence there. With its publication in the fall, Long Distance Life was . acclaimed as one of the four best books of the year by the Post's Jonathan Yardley. Ms. Golden, who holds a master's degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism, lived in Nigeria for four years. Her experiences there formed the basis for Migrations of the Heart. President and founder of the African American Writers Guild, she has taught at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, Roxbury Community College, Emerson College, and George Mason University. She has been a writer-inresidence at the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Ms., Essence, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Mr. Hardison's book, which ranges widely over several fields in addition to science, including history, art, architecture, literature, and music, has described his book as an essay on the way 20th century experience is recreating humanity. Disappearing Through the Skylight is an alternate of both the Book of the Month Club and the Paperback Book Club. A former director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Mr. Hardison is university professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerous works of cultural criticism, including Entering the Maze: Identity and Change in Modern Culture. He is a founding member of the Quark Club, a group of scientists and humanists interested in cultural changes. In 1980 he was the John F. Kennedy visiting lecturer to New Zealand, and in 1983 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire. Price for the luncheon is $15. Reservations may be made by calling 263-3576 or 268-1440. Curtis Wilson edits volume Newly off England's Cambridge University Press is a volume in its series on The General History of Astronomy coedited by Curtis Wilson, St. John's College tutor emeritus. It is the first of two volumes constituting the second part of the encyclopedic work and is entitled Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of ·Astrophysics. Working under the general editor, Michael Hoskin, of Cambridge University, Mr. Wilson assumed editing duties for the two volumes upon the resignation in 1983 of Professor Rene Tuton of the Centre Alexandre Koyre in Paris. Designated as "2A;' this newly published volume, TYcho Brahe to Newton, deals with the history of the descriptive and theoretical astronomy of the solar system, from the late 16th century to the early 18th century. A second volume, "2B:' covering planetary astronomy from Newton to the end of the 19th century, is in the production stage. In addition to the essays contributed by historians from America, England and France, Mr. Wilson has contributed two chapters, "Predictive astronomy in the century after Kepler" and "The Newtonian achievements in astronomy" as well as co-edited a chapter in the section dealing with the impact of the telescope. �Graduate Institute for California Land To The Editor: I was very much struck by Michael Strong's letter regarding a proposal for a St. John's Institute for Advanced Study in the December 1989 Reporter and wish to respond to his remarks with a few ideas of my own. There are two developments now in American higher education which St. John's College is supremely well equipped to address: the growth in graduate, continuing education, and the rapidly expanding interest in interdisciplinary teaching and research. A permanent St. John's Graduate Institute on the Monterey land - built along the lines of the summer Graduate Institute in Santa Fe and Annapolis - would be the right school in the right place at the right time. I, personally, am wary of a St. John's institute which would be devoted primarily to "advanced study". Isn't the first purpose of St. John's the subtle, cooperative art of teaching and learning? What goes on in seminars, tutorials, and preceptorials is a rigorous application of the fundamental principle of American education: the egalitarian distribution of knowledge. Great books are the greatest equalizers. An Institute of Advanced Study on the Monterey land would begin with the premise of a privileged, intellectually and culturally superior elite lording it over the rest- not unlike All Soul's College at Oxford. Wouldn't an Institute of Advanced Study eat away at the heart of what is best about St. John's College? permanent St. John's Graduate stitute in offers bilities for students of kinds. Wild thickets grow in the soul as one gets older. A St. John's education provides access to a higher consciousness. It responds well to people who test thinking against mature experience. It helps people to find their own way through the thickets of life. Teachers, in particular, stand to be refreshed and renewed in the process - and then apply what they've learned when they return to their own jobs. Finally, as for encouraging research and publishable manuscripts, why not regularly invite a distinguished scholar (or scholars) who could live and work in semi-sabbatical fashion on the Monterey campus? Their presence would require two conditions: (i) their research must be interdisciplinary along St. John's lines; (ii) they would give a series of lectures to the college community which come from their work-in-progress. I hope I have contributed to the debate about how best to develop the Monterey land and feel certain that together in the bitter-sweet, compassionate, and seminar-like act of really listening to what the other St. John's person says we can find the best solution. Thank you. John Dean, St. John's G.I. Tutor, Summer 1986 & 1988; Maitre de Conference: Universite Strasbourg IL Alumni chapter proposed for GIL To the Editor: A Lesbian/Gay Alumni Group has been formed. The group is currently investigating the possibility of becoming formalized as a Lesbian/Gay Alumni Association Chapter. To join or inquire, contact Don Edwards, 2603 Redcoat Dr., Alexandria, VA 22303. Don Edwards, A '77 a/o '78 McDowell Hall at St. John's College in Annapolis John Christensen with Charles Bohl, . McDowell Hall at St. John's College in Annapolis, St. John's College Press, 1989. 70 pp. $24.95 hardcover; $17.95 paperback. By THE REV. J. WINFREE SMITH Alumni of St. John's as well as true Annapolitans, should own and read John Christensen's story of a familiar building. The name of the building is the title of the book, McDowell Hall. The book appears most opportunely, just after the complete renovation of the building. It is published by the St. John's College Press and is written with the help of the architect for the renovation, Charles Bohl of the architectural firm of Weller, Fishback, and Bohl. Mr. Christensen became interested in writing the history of McDowell Hall when a member of the St. John's Campus Planning Committee during the recent renovation. He has carefully studied and made use of all the available documents related to the building from the time it was begun as a residence for the colonial governor, during the time it was left unfinished, the time when it was completed, when it well-nigh suffered destruction by fire in 1909, during its reconstruction after the fire, and on down to the present renovation. As masonry and timbers were being exposed, he had an excellent opportunity, which he used to great advantage, to see just what happened as this or that was built, destroyed, or changed. His account is as thorough as it could be, and makes fascinating reading. The book contains forty-eight plates with photographs and drawings which assist the text in telling the story. Readers with an interest in the fine architecture of eighteenth century buildings still to be seen in Annapolis will be able to note the resemblance between McDowell Hall and some other buildings such as the Hammond-Harwood House, the Chase-Lloyd House and the Upton Scott House. All of these have in the middle of the principal facade a projecting wall plane surmounted by a pediment in which there is an oval or circular or semi-circular window. The differences among the buildings, such as particularly the tower and cupola special to McDowell, agreeably modify the sameness of style which, according to Mr. Christensen, comes from the English architect James Gibbs (1682-1754). Readers will also be interested that the original plan for McDowell, when it was intended as a governor's palace, called for only two stories. Later a third was added. There is one omission, perhaps because it has to do with furnishings rather than the building. An alumnus/na returning to Annapolis might want to look for his/her initials carved surreptitiously long ago on a seminar table during a frustrating seminar. By way of reassurance, he is hereby informed that, though the initials are not conspicuously visible because the tables have been refinished, they are still to be seen by one who will take the trouble to crawl under the tables with a flashlight. I suggest bringing the book when one visits the building and consulting it as one looks. of Alan Raditsa was ........""..,,.,. ...states that there are worse evils than racial discrimination. Obviously. Racial discrimination under a constitutional regime, where there is the political freedom to say it is wrong, is better than racial discrimination under a tyranny where there is no such constitutional freedom. The transformation of equality into a passion plus thoughtless legalism plus a good will, i.e., to deceive oneself-are not these the ingredients in the recipe for obfuscation, for the total abandonment of common sense? Think of F.D.R~s infatuation with Stalin (versus Churchill). Did that not arise from his burning hatred of imperialism, as practiced, that is, by countries naive enough to admit that they actually had colonies? Recall, also, how fashionable the term "oneparty state" was for many years. By making the character of constitutional democracy, true and false, that is based on theoretical reflection about its politico-philosophic grounds, the central theme of his book, Raditsa could have brought all his observations about the South African story into sharper focus and in a way that looks practically to the future. His few remarks about constitutionality [p.16], which list such text-book items as an independent judiciary, hardly suffice. And for a book on Southern Africa to conclude with apprehension about the Soviet design on Western Europe is to have been outrun very badly by recent historical events. Within South Africa the atmosphere has eased considerably since the very publication of this book. A \ce}I reason is that the government party finally got its extreme right off its back, which had a veto power for forty years. The government has thus discovered that it can abolish the discriminatory laws, release the old-timers who were in prison, permit anti-apartheid marches and rallies, and - incredible dictu - the country does not fall apart. The franchise question, or the political problem of giving the blacks their proper say in the government, remains, to be sure, the unresolved problem of South Africa, which the government now fully admits. Raditsa, on this score, has some interesting quotations from blacks within South Africa. These are the most impressive part of his book. For his selections really humanize the blacks. They reveal themselves to be not at all faceless, anonymous "victims" but individuals with distinct opinions, thoughts, interests, perplexities, aspirations. They prove to be, in short, human beings who, not surprisingly, think of themselves as having a stake in the broadening as opposed to the overthrow of the constitutional fabric of the country in which they live. When Mandela, Sisulu and the others were arrested in the Rivonia raid in 1963, they faced an ever-increasing number of restrictive laws, justified by rhetoric that denied that blacks were even potential citizens of South Africa. "You will have your civil rights in your homelands!" No one, except the fringe on the extreme right, talks like that anymore. In this crucial respect, the country has changed. And that affects the content of what the blacks, to whose interests any black leader must address himself, think. I know what South Africa was like then, because I was there when they were arrested. 0 ,., on the Denton Hearings, Prince George Street Press, Annapolis, Maryland 1989, 467pp. $25.95. By HOWARD BRITTZ Raditsa was provoked into writing this book by the horror he experienced in reading the hearings of a Senate committee held in March, 1982, on "The Role of the Soviet Union, Cuba, and East ' Germany in Fomenting Terrorism in Southern Africa~' Nine Africans, who had been former members of the A.N.C. or S.W.A.P.O., testified before this committee about the reign of terror in the "camps" maintained by these organizations in Angola, Tanzania, and Zambia, which proved to be gulags from which it was difficult to escape alive. He then saw these hearings unreported by the press and unread or even unknown by the specialists in South African affairs in the State Department. There then occurred in the intervening years the outbreak of unrest in the South African townships, launched by the decision of the A.N.C. in Lusaka "to make the townships ungovernable~' That was followed by the escalation of sentiment for sanctions and disinvestment, agitated for by organizations sympathetic to the A.N.C., into a veritable crusade against South Africa. The A.N.C. could understandably think that it was winning the socalled "armed struggle;' not in South Africa but in Washington. This book is the result of an all too understandable desire to avenge the above facts. Surveying the recent developments in the whole of Southern Africa, which is a lot of ground to cover, Raditsa, to begin with, presents the reader with an encyclopedic expose of the organizations, front and otherwise, involved in the mobilization of the crusade against South Africa, Savimbi, etc. He also elucidates the political morality that has been normalized in the U.S., which designates the most radical opinion, however murderous or even suicidal, of any subjected people as the voice of its only true "spokesmen~' That posture, which was simply lapped up by the mass media, delighted in presenting any black moderate in South Africa, who opposed the policy of turning South Africa into an industrial wasteland, as "collaborating with the apartheid regime~' While I obviously share his revulsion against hypocrisy and self-righteousness, I find the book, nonetheless, flawed as a political guide to the politics of South Africa and even to the matter of how to deal with American opinion about South Africa. To begin with, not surprisingly, he can hardly avoid mentioning the penetration of the A.N.C. by the South African Communist Party. But this whole story is old and well-known, having been fully documented by those very academic specialists on South Africa who advise the State Department. To think that "exposing" what policy makers have known for over thirty years would shame them obviously makes no sense whatsoever. The real question is thus why their hatred of the South African government, which they assumed could never change its policy except by external pressure, could lead them to an indifference about the political mode and consequences of this "pressure~' Yet, to understand that, the overt thrust of Raditsa's polemic is too narrow. It must be broadened by an explanation, the germ of which is actually articulated in his book, but is not given the centrality it deserves. Raditsa quotes with admiration [p.203] a segment of a political speech (Howard Brotz is professor of sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and is the author of The Politics of South Africa, published by the Ox/ord Press.) �5 NANCY OSIUS Under the muted ceiling lights of the ivory-colored Conversation Room off the Francis Scott Key auditorium in Annapolis, the two men sitting side by side at the long conference table do not at once suggest any family relationship. They are simply two among 40 men and women, the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College shapers of College policy, generous purveyors of largesse, stern selectors of College leaders, gathered now for one of their quarterly meetings. Although both of the seated men appear to be tall and sizeable, no striking resemblance otherwise connects Charles Nelson, A '47, editor and publisher of the Croton-Cortlandt (New York) Gazette, and Christopher Nelson, SF '70, senior partner of Kovar Nelson Brittain Sledge & Morris, a Chicago law firm. You might perhaps notice the crisp strawberry-white head of the senior Nelson inclined towards the man next to him - that black-haired one sporting a brigand's mustache. But something will presently intrude on the careful viewer's consciousness a sense, perhaps, of collective purposefulness, visceral or intuitive, a slight positioning of Chris' body, a murmured word from Chuck to his left, a connection established through the space between them. Of course, genuine recognition of what this formidable duo is all about comes only slowly and much later, a gradual apprehension of the breadth and thickness of the efforts father and son have made on behalf of the College. Moreover, the extent of the Nelson connection with the College is only partly visible here today. Two more of Nelson's four children were graduated from the College, Janet Nelson Berggren in 1972, and Ted in 1977. (Colin Nelson, the second son, went to Williams College.) Out in Santa Fe at this very moment, Chris' son Tollof, 20 and a freshman at the College, is the first third-generation member from this or any New Program family, so far as is known, to matriculate at St. John's. Sitting beside his son and among his peers, Charles Nelson, chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors from 1978 to 1983, a member of the Search Committee for the new Annapolis campus president, chairman of the Finance Committee and former chairman of the Governance Committee, has been helping to form College policy since he was first elected to the Board in 1955. Chris was named to the Board by the Alumni Association in 1986. He is chairman of the Compensation Review Committee, a member of the Finance and the Alumni Relations Committees, treasurer of the Alumni Association, chairman of the Annual Fund, and for some time he has provided the college with an inexhaustible supply of free legal advice. Says Annapolis president Bill Dyal, "We couldn't pay Chris for all the legal work he does for us. I talk to him every week~' Of the Nelson tandem, President says, "I can't imagine another father-son team anywhere on any board who operate with more commitment:' Says Burch Ault, a Board member since 1971, whose own father was a Board member before him, "The Nelsons are two of the hardest-working and brightest people on the board. We feel their good influence all over the College's life:' ****** At lunch, Charles Nelson is looking westward in place and backward in time to remember how it all began. He is seated in the Brasserie Swiss, a cozy, crowded restaurant with a faintly Con- I H the Great Books all the way Charles and Chris Nelson tinental noontime ambience, in Ossining, New York. Ossining, home to the maximum-security prison Sing Sing, is adjacent to Croton-on-Hudson, where Charles Nelson has lived for 18 years and has been publisher of the weekly newspaper for the past three. Outside, the December snow is spread thickly on the earth. J. W. Blagden photo seemingly disqualifying physical symptom. All were, of course, inordinately healthy, "full of beans and doing all kinds of crazy things:' as he says forming human pyramids, flirting with the nurses and the like. Presently called before a review board comprised of five medical doctors, Chuck was inexplicably asked to do a "I can't imagine another father-son team anywhere on any board who operate with more commitment." He is talking now about his highschool days in Cicero, Illinois, an old working-class community of Czech, Polish and Italian ethnic groups adjacent to Berwyn, the suburb where the Nelson family lived. His leadership qualities were in full flower already in 1940. Nelson declares smiling that the biggest job he ever had was as president of his high school student body of 7,000 students. On a signal day in 1940, he read an article, "Socrates Crosses the Delaware" by Milton Mayer in Harper's magazine. "I thought St. John's sounded marvelous - like a dream:' he says today. "I thought it was very unlikely I could get into the college and I didn't have any money, but I read the catalogue and that made me think even more that was what I wanted to do~' He had "very clear" weaknesses in his background, he says, in math, science, and foreign languages. "I thought if l went to St. John's they ought to be able to fix that up~' Late in 1940, he applied to the college, and to his astonishment, was not only accepted, but also offered a joh '<i a scholarship. His parents put · · ~-'ti, and he set out for Annapolis, hitchhiking back and forth from Berwyn all four years. The college years were interrupted by the war. On December 8, 1941, Nelson hitchhiked to Washington to see Congress pass the Declaration of and watched President Roosevelt being carried into the capitol building, "the first time I had ever realized he was crippled:' Nelson was 19 and immediately im.:. pelled to enlist in the Air Force. He persuaded his roommate Ted Clark to enlist with him. But, while Ted was whisked off to active duty, Chuck was not called up until March of 1943. "My military service was a joke;' he says, still rueful 50 years later. A calcified pulmonary scar, relic of a bout with pneumonia years before, thrust him into an Army hospital for three or four weeks with a group of 30 17- to 21-year-olds who like himself had revealed some deep knee bend. A deep knee bend? There was no reason he couldn't do a deep knee bend, of course, but here he made a signal error, or so he identifies it, the kind of error he would be making all his life. He asked a question. "I was foolish enough to say to them are you sure you have the right man? 'What is your name?' they asked. Of course it turned out that there was another man named Nelson who had a broken leg, and if I hadn't said anything, I probably would have survived in the Air Force, which was what I wanted most to do. But I just couldn't understand what was going on, so I asked this question and that was my downfall. So they kicked me out:' He spent the war years working for first one defense plant and then a second, and towards the end of the war, he returned to St. John's as a junior. It was now 1944 and College President Stringfellow Barr asked Nelson to come back as his assistant while completing his junior and senior years. By the fall of 1945, many veterans had returned, and his new classmates were as young as 17 and as old as 30-something. Nelson was also invited by Dean Scott Buchanan to teach the Apollonius math to sophomores, an experience he looks back upon with some wonder, questioning his qualifications. But the association with Buchanan is a treasured one. "I probably saw as much of Scott Buchanan as a teacher as anybody who had ever been to the College;' he says. Buchanan had been both his Greek tutor and his seminar leader during his freshman year, and had taken over his Latin section in Nelson's sophomore year when the assigned tutor became ill. Nelson leans forward and puts down his fork. "I received many messages from him that have stayed with me all my life;' he says. "One of them was that the object of our discussions was to entertain ideas, and he made the distinction between entertaining ideas and possessing or owning them. He was interested in speculation. His idea was that when you are young and unformed you shouldn't hesitate to entertain any thought. ~i'He could make you think you were the smartest kid in the world. You came up with some dumb or half-formed idea and he would play with it long enough for you to see that it was absolutely brilliant. In his mind virtually anything you could think of was a statement of possibilities, and he would help you to discover, with his questions, what those possibilities might be'.' Nelson had married Anne Higgins in 1946 a few weeks after she received her Oberlin degree, and after his graduation in 1947, the young couple moved to Chicago where he headed the American Foundation for Political Education for nine years. This position enabled him to put his St. John's experience to work at once, by organizing seminars on world politics and American foreign po~icy, making use of a common set of readings and the seminar method. Also during this period, when Robert Hutchins was president of the University of Chicago, Nelson was appointed Director of the University's basic program of Liberal Education for Adults, constructed on the St. Jonn's model. In 1956, he took his growing famil) to New York. Two years later he startec his own management consulting firm which he managed for 10 years. Then he joined Peat, Marwick and Mitchell to head its higher education consulting practice, remaining there from 1968 until his retirement in 1983. Retirement for Nelson, of course, cannot have looked, smelled or felt much like retirement. At first, he was principally continuing his consulting pra~­ tice, mostly "headhunting" college presidents and chief financial officers. His busy schedule for most of his commuting years in Croton-on-Hudson had ruled out any significant participation in civic affairs. But his first yean of quasi-retirement were also the three: years following the failure of the town and village's weekly newspaper, and no" he had time to notice that no one kne¥ what was going on. In the scenic ok Dutch Hudson River communities m Cortlandt and Croton-on-Hudson, ' scant hour from New York City, de velopers were coming in with substantia proposals for the use of vacant property "I said, 'Somebody ought to start ' newspaper. I didn't know it was going tr be me. I just knew it was needed~' Nelson was intrigued by the possibilities of Desktop Publishing, and he thought that the technological advanceE of the computer might make a differenct in the economics of a newspaper. "I also did a fairish amount of market analysis to see whether there was 2 circulation base and more importantly an advertising base:' he says. conclusion was that there was a reasonContinued on page 1: 1 Santa Fe freshman ToHof Nelson �MARCH 1990 THE REPORTER PAGE 6 (The following story has been reprinted with permission from the January 26, 1990 Pasatiempo, the weekly arts and entertainment magazine of the Santa Fe New Mexican.) CYNTHIA EVANS Each year, Santa Fe comes alive with the Fiesta Celebration, the oldest ongoing celebration in the country. Fiesta reportrays the historic entrada of Don Diego De Vargas, the bold Castilian nobleman who was the hero of the epic resettlement of New Mexico. St. John's College Director of Personnel, Ted Gonzalez, played a key role in September's Celebration, portraying Alcade Mayor, a member of the Fiesta Royalty. The Fiesta Royalty has a full schedule, Gonzalez noted. "We visited over 100 schools, hospitals, and nursing homes, and travelled to various parts of the state representing Santa Fe in community gatherings and fiestas;' he said. Although Gonzalez had to give up his summer weekend camping trips to take part, he called the experience "fantastic~' His involvement in the Fiesta allowed him to share his cultural with and he and to of his refresh his memory on the state. The the ....., ... u,;;.u...,... pre:ser1tuLg to our present generas well as to the United States in "''"'"'"'.. "·.... the contribution which New Mexico made to world The of the resettlement is the true of Santa and the uu1-1cuLa1J''-'n.• u of colorful New Mexico:' of the U.S. is the southwest , ,,.i,Hn_,..,.,...u became an nation when Kearof the West in few parts of the country match the ancient and colorful lore of the area. By RICK ASHLEY For 50 years Santa Fe historian Charles Bell has dedicated his life to the history and music of the world. The energies of this 73-year-old man have created what Bell calls a Symbolic History of Western 'Civilization, spanning the ancient cave paintings of Laschaux to the modern works of Jackson Pollack. For the adventurous, Bell is presenting a six-week series of multi-media slide shows titled Symbolic History Sight and Sound at St. John's College, through February 27. Bell said he once considered writing a five-volume tome of his Symbolic History, but opted instead for a more technological approach where "the voices and images of history can enact their drama:' "I hope that through the visual and \,,AIJ\,,.l.l .... U ..... the world's I;;. as soon as Kodak introduced its Kodachrome slide film to the recogimzmg its 001tenua1 1-'""''.l'.uu;:;;. the scope of his work on the world's art, history and music. Not one to let Bell also has nro1duiced. "The South of my childhood seemed to carry with it a certain imperative that demanded something important from me:' He added with a wry smile, "No literate person from the North or the East would have considered the enormous kind of task I have put upon myself.' Indeed, to date, Bell has completed 137 multi-media slide shows and videos that encompass his Symbolic series. He is presently busy working to complete an additional show that will be titled Now: The Bondage and Freedom of The Now presentation, like the others, stands on its own merits while still very much related to the series as a whole. This final Now show may be both the conclusion and beginning of Bell's bolic because, as he "'""'.,.""'··~,., presentation carries a presence in which are contained all the roots of the and the future:' the vastness and comof Charles Bell's one ask what relevance his work has for us as we embark on the final decade of this millennium. work address the issue of our vH~.<,.UJlF;'-'JL"-''-'- Earth whose habitats transformed into L'-''-'HHVH--'""' Tatiana Masters of Santa Fe, a senior at the Santa Fe campus, was one of nine semifinalists to represent New Mexico in the 1989 Rhodes ...,,.,,u ..., .......... tion. The Rhodes one of the most prestigious academic awards in the pays for expenses and some travel for 32 students either two or three nationwide to years at one of the colleges of Oxford University. Two students were selected in December from the pool of semifinalists to continue to the next level of selection in California. Santa Fe artist Ron who has as lectured at St. John's College of Texas, has well as at the joined the Univer~ furilie~~ demic year as artist-in-residence. The former owner of Hand ...........~DJ.I.AA""· of Santa a customs gnmtlt1cs he has collaborated with artists as Frank Josef ln1•ra.rc•1tu he will create four sets of limited edition schedule open studio time with students and work as guest lecturer and artist. High good humor is the order of the day for Santa Fe's Febbies, its second semester freshman class. Top row from left, Clay Coffee, Christopher Leydon, Sean Connelly, Nick Parsons, David Amezcua; bottom row from left Diane Jones, Andrea Broaddus, Oliver Sherwin, Courtney Taber and Jennifer Redman. ' is broadcast over Channel Santa Fe's public access television chanSaturdays.) nel at 8 both the video and slide forBell mats have their advantages, but he especially appreciates slides because of their resolution and rich color saturation. With an almost child-like from his blue eyes, Bell "" 1·'"'""""'r1rv."''"' that the enthusiasm for his life's work "~'£T'~n+n.r1 down South in the M1ss1:SSll)Pl country. In his hometown of Miss., Bell grew up and went to school with American writers Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. Bell said he was moved by the large mysterious river boats that still moved up and down the Mississippi during the second decade of this century. "The life of the river and the surrounding forests were sources of inspiration for me. They encouraged me to take up whatever held my imagination and make it real:' Bell said he still is inspired by the beauty of trees and enjoys climbing them, claiming tree climbing is good exercise for the arms. It was also in Mississippi that Bell initially developed his philosophy of opposites that would later permeate his Symbolic History. At home, Bell said, he learned to live with and embrace the creative fiery tension of his father, and the tranquil, reflective qualities of his mother. On the surface, at least, these opposing forces are still evident in Bell's home here in Santa Fe. On entering his study, the machinery, paper work, file of slides and videos and bookcases overflowing with hundreds of books and music albums are at once overwhelming. Meanwhile, the rest of his home is elegant and spacious with a much quieter feel to it. When asked what other influences his Southern background may have had on his work, Bell laughed. siders himself a radical which for him means someone who goes to the root of the issues to conserve the Earth. He said he feels committed to dramatize the dangers we face, but insists it must be done with reason. "Our actions may come from feelings;' he said, "but we must also get the facts right:' Jonathan Zavin, A has been named to a first three-year term to the Board of Visitors and Governors by the Alumni Board, replacing John Van Doren, A '4 7. At the same time, the Board named Peter Weiss, A '46, to a second three-year term. The terms will begin in July. Six alumni members, designated by the Alumni Association Board, sit on the Board of Visitors and Governors. Others currently on the Board are Mary Bittner Goldstein, A '58, Barbara Leonard, HA '55, Christopher Nelson, SF '70, and David Rea, A '49. A graduate of Columbia University law school, Mr. Zavin is a partner in Richards and O'Neil, a New York law firm specializing in copyright and entertainment law. A former president of the New York Chapter of the Alumni Association, he has served on the Alumni Association Board of Directors since 1984, and as vice president since 1988. Mr. Weiss, a graduate of Yale law school, is a partner in the law firm of Weiss, Dawid, Fross, Zelnick and Lehrman, P.C. He is co-founder and member of the executive committee of the American Committee on Africa, vice president for the Center for Constitutional Rights, Member, board of Trustees, Institute for Policy Studies, cochairman for the Lawyer's Committee on Nuclear Policy, and a member of the executive committee of the International Center for Peace in the Middle East. �7 Ill F. Society thriving The current 1989-90 season is the biggest yet for the St. John's College Film Society of the Santa Fe campus. With membership at a record high of 40, an increased film budget of nearly $12,000, and attendance at films averaging about 150 students and townspeople (double that of last year), the student-run organization has grown considerably from the low-key one-man operation it was six years ago. The first film night of this semester, a double-feature of American independent filmmaker Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It and Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law sold out the 230-seat Great Hall, marking the first sellout in the film group's history. Formerly a part of the Student Activities Office and losing some $5,000 annually, the Film Society is now an established independent nonprofit organization operating under the auspices of the Dean of the College. Although the Film Society does receive a budget allocation from the College, it has in recent years made money through provocative and well-publicized film programming resulting in increased film attendance. Proceeds have been put back into the organization in the form of a large new screen, improved audio and projection equipment, wide-screen (CinemaScope) projection capabilities, a remodeled projection booth, and the beginnings of a film library. As a relatively large operation with the support of the Dean and the College, the Film Society has been able to offer more varied events this year. In addition to the fourth annual Winter Film Series, which the Dean sponsors, the Society, in conjunction with the College Advancement Office, presented a night of "1964 Revisited" on February 16 to mark the 25th anniversary of the Santa Fe campus. Two hit films from 1964 were screened at that year's movie admission price of 25 cents. Last semester the Society was able to offer free screenings of three films in preparation for a lecture by a noted visiting film professor. Also last semester, the Society brought to the screen films varying from the family favorite It's A Wonderful Life to the controversial Cafe Flesh, including a mixed program of film noir classics, suspense thrillers, comedies, epics, and foreign films - all served up with vintage cartoons or intriguing shorts as cinematic appetizers. Standing behind the Society's commitment to providing quality film entertainment on the big screen for both St. John's students and Santa Feans outside the College community, executive board members Ben Galison, Sue Small, Kelly Koepke, and Jason Spainhower have focused their attention this year on raising the film group's image higher in the public eye. Some 5000 copies of the eyecatching 16-page current schedule were distributed to students, staff, alumni, and members of the College's community mailing list at the start of the film season. Efforts have also been made to ensure that screenings run smoothly to accommodate the crowds. Projection and sound have been trouble-free for all films this year, much to the enjoyment of filmgoers used to glitches in previous years. The Society has received numerous compliments from students, tutors, administration, townspeople, and individuals in the Santa Fe film community. The St. John's College Film Society executive board at Santa Fe pauses among its equipment. From left, Kelly Koepke, operations director, '90; Ben Galison, director, '90; Sue Small, treasurer, '91, and Jason Spainhower, technical director, '90. New tutors named in SF Three new tutors have been added to the Santa Fe faculty for the spring 1990 semester: Sally Dunn, Margaret Anne Kirby, and Bruce M. Perry. Ms. Dunn, a 1971 graduate of the College at Santa Fe, received her master's degree in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, and her PhD in Women's Studies at the Union Graduate School - West, of the Union of Experimenting Colleges and Universities, Cincinnati, in 1979. In 1988-1989, she studied in the Graduate Institute Program in Santa Fe. Between 1974 and 1980, she had taught both in the Women Study Program and also worked in curriculum planning at the University of New Mexico. Other teaching experience included a summer at the University of Wyoming, and teaching at the secondary level. She has spoken widely, principally on aspects of women studies. Margaret Anne Kirby, wife of new Santa Fe tutor Terrance Kirby, received her bachelor's degree in Mathematics, German and Classics at the University of King's College in 1977 with first class honors, and her master's degree in classics at Dalhousie University, both in Canada. She received her M. Litt from Oxford University in 1982, and her PhD from the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. She was the recipient of a succession of prizes and scholarships at every level, including the Governor General's Medal, 1977, and the Commonwealth Scholarship for study at Oxford from 1980-82. From 1983-85, she was a teaching assistant in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Univer- sity of Toronto, and from 1987 to 1989, she was a tutor in the Foundation Year Programme at the University of King's College. Mr. Perry did his undergraduate work and received his master's degree in classics at the University of Texas, and received a PhD in classics at the University of Washington in 1983. In 1989, he was awarded a second doctorate in oriental studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A teaching assistant in the classics at the University of Texas, Mr. Perry subsequently taught Greek, Latin and Sanskrit at the University of Washington, and elementary Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania. The Admissions Office in Santa Fe would like to thank those individual College alumni members who were instrumental in bringing to campus many members of the Class of 1993. Particular thanks go to Santa Fe alumni Steve Acciani, '82, Burch Ault, '83, Will Fischer, '86, Kevin Holthaus, '83, Juan Hovey, '80, Chris Nelson, '70, Toni Karen Nelson, '70, and Randy and Beth Vance, '83, as well as to Annapolis alumni Fred Gautesen, '63, Blake Landor, '69, Bernie Langan, '87, Lawrence Myers, '49, and Lyndsey Wyman:, '86. Other alumni, whose names are not known, are equally responsible for bringing new freshmen to the college, and the Admissions Office wishes to thank them as well. �WELCOME An Unusual Place for Unusual People in an Unusual Age (SJC '64 Commencement Brochure Copy) Weigle Remembers (Remarks on the challenges facing him both his and the College's first year.) On October 10, 1964, the campus of St. John's College in Santa Fe was dedicated. Among the thousand who participated were eighteen college and university presidents, the mayors of Baltimore New Mexico conand Santa Fe, the gressional governors of New Ten ,,,.. ,.,.. ,. , ... , .,.,......... freshmen from tween the two campuses with facility. Enrollment has grown so that the Western campus approximates the 400student size of the Eastern campus. Once again John's College has proven It has self to be an educational feasibility Ford Brown: In seminar after senumtr. then saying: "Mr. what do you IJ'pr·h<!:il'\c the single most famous remark: "Mr. Shore, you know a great many facts, some of which are true~' The wonderful lecture first he had in many years): "Alcibiades, or Great Books Without Tears'.' Referring us to Pascal: "The most important things a man learns are those he learns for and by himself.' Bill In math tutorial, moving charts out of the way lining them up and shoving them from one side of the Santa Fe Hall classroom to the other. Throwing Bug Ridgeway out of class for wearing a headband. Greek class: The first he had ever taught which completed the Tom entire Meno by the end of the year. Curtis Wilson: The best teacher I ever had (freshman lab, sophomore mathematics); I later earned my Ph.D. (History of Science) under his guidance at UC San Diego. Scott Buchanan: Lecturing on "How to Read a Platonic Dialogue:' William R. Owens: Making me (at least) feel that I would never be able to understand a Platonic Dialogue. The whole mystique that grew up around Plato: there is a secret doctrine which is accessible only to the chosen few. Wendy Norins: Dressed in purple and black and smoking a cigar. The first All-College Meeting in the Junior Common Room: Why aren't there any Eastern books on the Program? Highlight of the soccer season: Playing Santa Fe Prep to a draw. Transportation: Our two wonderful old Cadillacs donated by Elsa Blum's dad and driven appropriately (with full knowledge of all shortcuts) by Roy Stegman. Roy Stegman: Founder of the Annual Santa Fe Lilac Festival. The Great Hall: Those wonderfully comfortable chairs. All of us learning to bow and curtsey for the matriculation ceremony. Upper Common Rooms: In the first year the room was beautifully furnished, the floors and fireplaces elegant; in succeeding years, it came increasingly to look like a drunk tank. John's campus Construction student laboratory upper dormitories - reconsiderable u ...........- .........,,,,.......... Extra tutors had ap""''"',,.........,... at Annapolis anticipation of to split the faculty and to man campus in Santa Fe. Significant progress had made in building the collection. In all of this the College was fortunate in having a blueprint of the Annapolis campus to follow. Now, some twenty-five years later, St. John's College in Santa Fe seems firmly established under the presidency of John Agresto. Students and tutors move be- relationship to and of his very reason for ends require cultivation tools liberal arts or as the arts. to think, to student must to to imagine, to experiment, to demonstrate, to communicate, to decide. These are the arts or skills to St. John's College is primarily dedicated on both of its campuses. The success of the western campus depends upon the attainment of this goal. ......... ...,. ...., " · ' "..... Jl........... JL,E,, (Richard D. Weigle was the first president of the Santa Fe Campus, serving 1964-1980.) Dress Regulations: Coats and ties required for dinner; George Granick as the enforcer. (Was it the first year that someone showed up wearing a sport coat, a carrot for a tie, and nothing else?) Visitation Rights: No! men and women were not to be in one another's dorms. The steam tunnels and the walkway roofs came in handy for many. (It was a long drop from the balcony of G dorm.) The major act of civil disobedience: men sitting in just inside the door of G (I think). Santa Fe: Had not yet been discovered. One could still find very inexpensive and beautiful apartments off campus. Esprit de Corps: Socially, we were seniors for four years. There was, inevitably, too much togetherness; by the end of our senior year, we knew each other in many respects too well. I think we could well have used the guidance of upper classes. Still, we worked, played, and studied very hard. I might have changed a few details, but, overall, my time at St. John's as a student set the course of my future interests. A former St. John's tutor, Phil is currently Deputy Director of the Energy Center at the University of Oklahoma. �Agresto marks There's A New Signpost On The Old Pecos Road (Remarks on the challenges facing him this 25th year.) Thanks in part to good leadership and part to good friends, the challenges facing St. John's are no longer as life were twenty-five or even ten years ago. With increased enrollment, the building up of campus and the start of a decent knowing about us is our second major challenge. Our third and last challenge has to do with our potential to be an example of educational excellence in a world that talks incessantly about the crisis in higher education and is totally adrift knowabout In this context to I to develop our ecotrue to ourour then next twenty-five years we will college, students aided not and tutors but perhaps all can "'............. ...,v ...................., u,1...1.v·.1..1. in the teaching there's to do the kind c-tnrhnrn and writing the mind requires. Even ..........., ............. existence is assured, we are ...,_....,UJ....JL.l.F>'-·.... by the fact that those who do of the college do it difficult conditions. beyond these, there are other ..,... u ........,.....""''""' as well. We are, I am conone greatest liberal arts colAmerica. Yet we might well be recognized great colleges (Or, as I heard last week, "if you only have students how can you possibly have such a great basketball team?") Gaining recognition for what we are and explaining and promoting what we do to more people who could profit from '-'.1..1.\o<'-'U.1..l.E:,, 0- From the New Mexican Seldom has a headline given us as much as the "St. John's Picks Santa Fe" banner across the of the front page in ve~;te1rd.a.v's edition. We couldn't that if the situation had been reversed with Santa Fe in the position to choose the colleges instead of St. John's choosing from potential host cities, the words would merely have been switched to read: "Santa Fe Picks St. John's:' Many Santa Feans have wanted such a liberal arts college for years. But even the most optimistic Santa Feans could hardly have hoped to have a college founded here with the of St John's nor one which so fits but called the "Santa Fe Spirit:' into that who called to express his delight at the news it One of our like St. John's:' said he, "and still be Santa Fe:' aptly. "We can have a In many ways the philosophies which have given St. John's its illustrious reputation perfectly match the civic philosophies that give Santa Fe its claim to the title of "City Differene' Both have refused to sacrifice their spirit for the sake of bigness. Both share the same sense of values. Both, we believe, are in their field of being. We could base this editorial on the honor bestowed upon Santa Fe by its selection from among other excellent sites. It was an honor. We could base it upon the economic boon the college will mean for our town. A boon it will be. But it is more important to Santa Fe that St. John's fits so perfectly into this community - valuing as it does what Santa Fe has always valued, like Santa Fe, independent enough to risk being different. St. John's will fit Santa Fe perfectly. We are confident that St. John's will find the reverse is equally true. A great many people deserve the sincere thanks of the community for helping to persuade St. John's that Santa Fe should be its second home. First on the list should be John Gaw Meem, and not merely because of his publicspirited deed in donating an extremely valuable site for the college. Without the years of hard labor devoted by Mr. Meem and others like him on the Old Santa Fe Association, Santa Fe would not have been the sort of city to rate a second glance from the college. Much credit should also go to William Lippincott, who donated both land and a solid week of diligent labor to provide information for the St. John's faculty committee, to Dr. K. Ross Toole and others of the Museum of New Mexico staff, Dr. Daro! K. Froman, Dr. Alvin C. Graves and others of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, John Crosby of the Santa Fe Opera, and to others who helped show the faculty committee this area's enthusiasm. (John Agresto will be inaugurated as president of the Santa Fe Campus April 28.) William Darkey Recalls (Mr. Darkey has been a tutor at St. John's at Santa Fe since 1964) One aspect of the experience that I do recall very clearly and which may be of use if our project of establishing a third campus should come to pass, has to do with unexpected difficulties that were consequent upon sheer newness. Our project was to replicate St John's College in a new place, but it was to be the same college. We were to have, after all, the same Polity, the same President, the same curriculum - surely the point of the whole enterprise. And we had a small faculty, not unlike the one in Annapolis in that it was made up in part of experienced members from Annapolis and in part of promising new recruits who knew of our program and were eager to be a part of it. With all of this, we had a completely new and splendid campus with all the room we needed and more to house our students and teach our classes. The campus itself was spectacularly beautiful. Besides these advantages, we also had the warm and generous friendship, and intelligent interest of the people of Santa Fe, who had invited us to come here and establish our new campus and become a part of the city that they loved. Moreover, the Santa Feans tendered very significant material support to our effort. Nothing, it seemed, was lacking. And indeed nothing was lacking. Except time. We were so very new. When I met my first classes in Santa Fe Hall, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that no one had ever learned anything in these fine new classrooms. What was more, I could feel that my students knew this too. There were not even any upper classmen to talk to, no one to ask what's it like after you've been here for a while? What's a don rag? Where is the movie theatre and how do I get there? What sort of a teacher is the fellow I've got for Math? Endless m1Pstion« ::ihnnt how does this place work? And nobody to answer them. All this newness in the face of statements that St John's is the third oldest college in the country and that the New Program had been tested and developed for more than twenty-five years, and so on. It was confusing. In a sense, I suppose we ought to have expected this, but we can hardly be blamed. Colleges don't often do what we were doing, and certainly none of us had ever been a part of such a project. A new institution is only potential, after all, for it is thought of as existing, if not forever, at least for a long time. But a new old institution is even harder to realize. That is what the "New Program" had been in one sense in 1937, and what the Santa Fe campus now was in a different sense in 1964. One wouldn't have thought that a change merely of place, when all the forms were kept the same would have made so much difference. But it did. �PAGE 10. New Campus in St. John's future? An opportunity or a wrong step? The Board of Visitors and Governors (BVG) must answer this question about the California property bequest at their next meeting in Santa Fe. To address the flurry of opinions, questions and answers surrounding the proposal, the board of St. John's Alumni Association formed an Ad Hoc Committee on the California Property to consider what the association might do. The group decided to poll you, the alumni, and communicate the results to the BVG in April. Because our newsletter appears in the Reporter, it was also decided to dedicate this edition to the California property issue, thereby saving $4,000 in mailing costs. Alumni president Harvey Goldstein has written an open letter to the alumni (see below) in addition to a survey drawn up by the Ad Hoc Committee and then approved at the January meeting by the full board. We encourage you to take a few minutes to complete the questions and return it as soon as possible -- we've already paid the postage! To help you consider your answers, some review: Linda Stabler-Talty SGI '76, Editor Thomas Geyer A'68, Communications Committee Chair TO SAN / FRANCISCO A gift with strings attached Last July, after 20 years oflegal wrangling, St. John's was declared heir to some 800 acres of valuable real estate in Monterey, California. The land had been given to the college nearly 20 years ago by the late Herman, Andrew and Agnes Marks. Their heirs contested the gift. The settlement of the litigation provides that St. John's gets title to the land -- provided it uses the site. The California court stipulated that the college must run an educational program of some sort there by 1997 and invest at least $400,000. (No pup tents for dormitories... ) If the land isn't used, it reverts to the State of California. Some of the Monterey land may be sold to finance the new campus, but any other money must come from outside sources. The operating funds of the present campuses would not be tapped for the Monterey project. A preliminary study has identified at least two areas on the hilly property that could be built upon. Since the settlement of the lawsuit the Board of Visitors and Governors has been deliberating the pros Board wants to hear from alumni before deciding the fate of Monterey and cons of pressing forward with the California project. It has sought the advice of the faculty and asked it to respond by this month to two questions: l) Is it advisable for the college to have a third campus? 2) If so, what kind of academic program might we start with, and what kind might we aim for as a longrange goal? The Board of Visitors and Governors also seek the uuun..u•i:;, of alumni on these questions. Several local alumni chapters have met to consider California. New York, Chicago and San Francisco alumni have invited board members to visit and present the iss~es. The dialogue is sometimes hot, correspondence is proliferating and many uncertainties are being aired. Here we will try briefly to outline both sides of the debate. We've presented the arguments as "pro" and "con" for clarity's sake, but we realize that what one alum sees as an opportunity may seem a liability to another. • ST. JOHN'S 1 N 2 /rn 3 4 5 MILES BIG SUR • A different version of St. John's could be developed here. For example, an independent Graduate Institute, a Humanities Study Center, a Liberal Art "think tank," a Ph.D program, etc. • the program could be extended at the third campus to other books, Eastern studies, fine arts, etc., either as topics for the California site or for inclusion in the or graduate curriculum. • A new institution could provide scholars the opportunity for thought and contemplation, without the pressures of teaching, but among a community of scholars. • The momentum of creating a new institution can encourage the flourishing of the liberal arts in a broader scene. • The college would benefit from an intellectual "renewal" that this satellite campus would provide. • The St. John's program now touches too few . PRO _ . people. It won't work well on large campuses, and the • A California presence will raise the visibility of t~pre$e_nt campuses already are full. Only by operatthe college as a whole and help attract faculty, stu~g at many locations around the country can the proand money. gram have the reach and influence it should have. • A California site would be eligible to apply for certain state and charitable funds earmarked for CaliCON fornia institutions alone. Thus we would open up en• Another campus would drain enrollment and aptirely new sources of money for St. John~ plicants away from Annapolis and, perhaps to an even • The land is a financial asset that the college-should greater degree, Santa Fe. California has been Santa Fe's largest source of admissions. seize as a~ opportunity. • The California site would require a transplanting of experienced St. John's faculty at the outset, perhaps diminishing the quality of the present programs for a time. • Gifts and grants from admirers of the St. John's would have three places to go, putting further ,.,. .... , .... ..,. 11 .... ..,, budgets and endowment • Physical improvements on both campuses are always being postponed for other needs. A new would further' endanger maintenance and long term upkeep of the campuses. • Santa Fe's small endowment may not grow if another western institution is competing for gifts. • The work of administration and governance would increase tremendously because of the complexity of three-way communication. • Tutors' salaries already are 16 to 18 percent below the national median, and the need to keep salaries in line with those of another underfunded campus could worsen the disparity. • Should a donor's gift dictate the future course of the college? - Linda Stabler-Talty, Editor �PAGE 11 · To the membership of the St. John's College Alumni Association: To the Editor: Wayne Iversen, an associate with the firm of Walmy wife Lois and me on a lace Holm tour of the St. John's Canyon site near Monterey comments will be informed by ,,.,,.,,,,,,,.,,.,........ of our relatives, Ross and whom are active in Monterey re1run.smla business and civic affairs. Local interests a four-year St. John's above other alternative uses for common wisdom warns that we "use it or '--"'-'"'-'"''-' The Board of Visitors and Governors is soliciting advice from segments of the College Community with respect to the disposition of the California property. In order that alumni participate in the final decision, the Alumni Association is asking you, its members, to join in the discussion and let your opinions be known. Therefore, if you would take a few moments to complete and return the form printed below no later than April 9th, I will report the results of this survey to the Board of Visitors and Governors. Your opinions will undoubtedly aid the Board in making its decision. Harvey Goldstein, '59A, President St. John's College Alumni Association Please answer the following questions, cut out the form, fold it and mail pre-paid!) 1. Do you think St. John's ..... v,11iv~•""' should establish an educational institution in California? one) Favor ninAW-<':OTH'>TI Don't know 2. If the Board of Visitors and Governors establishes a California •um<l:l•~n•1.u.1•..111 programs(s) would you to offered? Undergraduate r.:ir:::ari1112t'.c. nir.ru'l!r2m Institute near is seen as the ,. ...,..H•.•i:;., of education in on~sug1cms as St. John's '--'V''""i:;.,". ,_,....,,., .... ",..,. about east of the five or six miles west of uu•u ..... "', 800-acre cattle ranch hes in the Toro a major regional folds of the Coastal "rl''""''"""T to the college property and a large res1uenua1 subdivision is across the road. A new to be ae~agr1ea to serve the entrances to aH as well as de'veJopme~nt. The Monterey-Salinas highway is development is in the immefor business research-orientand associated services. else in and another back car: site will be -t..-"'"'"'"'"'"-1-"-t'"""' and normal ache out of the ,,.,,.,,,,.,.,.,..,,..,.,,., in area may be one of the in United States. For example, in November 989, the median cost of a single family house in the City of Monterey was $267,000. But, at the same time, the median cost of a single family house in Salinas was $176,000. For these reasons, the new St. John's campus will probably have to be largely self-contained, whether it turns out to be a graduate institute, a four-year program or something else. While established faculty and staff may be able to find affordable housing in the Monterey-Salinas market, cluster housing will very likely have to be offered on campus, especially for young, untenured tutors and married students. The College should not lose potential faculty and students it wants because of the high cost of housing. The campus will perhaps also have to include a commissary for personal services, groceries and sundries, in addition to the traditional coffee shop and book store. I support the idea of a Monterey campus, but with a caveat. The common wisdom "use it or lose it," which we are legally bound to anyway, should be tempered by another common wisdom about the gift horse. Jack Ladd Carr A'50 (We welcome letters from alumni. Please send them to: Linda Stabler-Talty, 75 Bishop Street, New Haven, CT 06511) New Chapters Forming? A seminar is being planned for the Minneapolis area in April. Call Joan Iverson in the Santa Fe Alumni Office (505) 982-3691 for information. A seminar/social event is being planned for Connecticut, in the New Haven area, also in April or late March. Call Betsy Blume at the Annapolis Alumni Office (301) 263-2371 for information. ANNAPOLIS Winter seminar senes, meets at 9:45 am, PDR Randall: March 24: The 21: Modem Times luncheons continue. Call Blume or Bolte at the Alumni Office 263-2371 for further information. Contact Alvin Aronson (617) 566-6657 (hm) or 4373186 (wk) for information on future Sunday meetings. CHICAGO April 24: George Anastaplo will lead a seminar on Walt Whitman's A Song of Myself from 6:00-8:30. May: A field trip is being planned to the Indiana Dunes June 3: Seminar on Shakespeare's Tempest 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 Jhis chapter meets about JO 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 March 11: Larry and Gisela Berns will present a talk on 'Democracy and Democratic Revolution' A series of seminars on the Odyssey are being planned for the spring. Call Jerry Caplan (805) 497-1436 (hm) or 375-1371 (wk) for details. NEW YOAK March 14: Bob Bart will lead a seminar on Flannery O'Connor's Everything Jhat Rises Must Converge, and dinner will precede the seminar. May: A picnic/seminar is being planned Call Sabina Schweidt (212) 679-6118 (wk) or 6458903 for more information. PHILADELPHIA May 16: Seminar being planned For information about upcoming events in this" unoffical' chapter, call Jim Schweidel at (215) 836-7632. March 29: Seminar on "Genesis", Chapter 1-26; Sam Kutler, tutor. May 16: Seminar; Walter Sterling, tutor. SACRAMENTO other month in this' ·unofficial' readings, the '"ri"'""""""' are most wel'co1ne: or Helen Feeley and Property at May 27: Sam Kutler will lead a seminar on a work to be announced Rotating seminars meet at 2:30 on the following: March 25: Sonnets April 29: Epic of Gilgamesh May 20: Beowolf June 24: Song of Roland Call Mark Middlebrook (415) 547-0602 for more details. SANTA FE March 6: Seminar topic to be announced April 3: Thoreau's Civil Disobedience May ?: Seminar on a piece of art to be announced June 3: Anton Webern's Path to the New Music Telephone John Pollack (505) 983-2144 or Joan Iverson, Alumni Office, 263-23 71 for meeting times and place. SEATTLE June: Seminar with Sam Kutler Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 for more information about this and other events bein~ planned WASHINGTON D.C. AREA March 21: Ecclesiastes April 4: L. Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author April 18: J. Bronowski "The Creative Mind", Science and Human Values, with tutor Curtis Wilson May 2: Heraclitus Fragments , May 16: F. Kafka 'A Hunger Artist' in Jhe Penal Colony May 30: Baudelaire, an essay to be distributed June 13: S. Johnson 'Preface to Shakespeare' Seminars meet at the West End Branch of the D.C Public Library. For further information call Sam Stiles (301) 424-9119 or Deborah Papier (202) 387-4520. �31:::13H 3d\fJ. 1:10 3ld\fJ.8 • ('): c: -i • I : m~ JJ m:• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 31:::13H 010.::l .....................·············-···............................................•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••: 111111 ~~~~~it~: IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STAIES BUSINESS REPLY MAIL FIRST CLASS PERMIT NO. 17 ANNAPOLIS, MD POSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE Harvey Goldstein SJC Alumni Association Office P.O. Box 1671 Annapolis, MD 21401 1 1.1 ••• 11.1 .. 111 •••• 1 11.1 •• 1.1 .. 1 1 1.1 ... m •• •• .. •.. ..................... .?G 9. CUT HERE ~ • ............................................................................ COLLEGIAN ! : ~ . . . . . . . . . Annapolis tutor . . . . . visiting fell ow . . On sabbatical leave this year, Anna.:. . . . . polis tutor Thomas May is a visiting . ............................................................ .. . Annapolis students revive publication In December a group of students on the Annapolis campus revived the college magazine The Collegian, which ended publication in 1980. The second issue of the magazine appeared in February. The Collegian was first established in 1888. Principal figures in the paper's resurrection were Akiba Covitz, '91, who arranged for funds, Tequila Brooks, '91, Rachel Boyce, '90, and Robby Nease, '92. The students undertook the project to augment the other two student publications at the College, the bi-annual formal literary magazine Energeia and the weekly newspaper The Gadfly. According to the editors, The Collegian is intended to provide a forum for less formal essays on the topics discussed in tutorials and seminars, as well as additional space for literary and artistic endeavors, including some not readily classified. Says Ms. Brooks, "The purpose of The Collegian is to be a repository for pieces of writing and artwork. We hope that it will reflect some of what students and tutors are doing in their tutorials and some thoughts on the program not directed towards altering ie' Now acting as unofficial advisor for the magazine, tutor Eva Brann in 1962 suggested that the magazine might publish what she called "Notes" and described as follows: "Here are some examples, the merest suggestion of the kind of thing a Note might be: a theorem, problem, or mathematical comment, a diagram, for instance one of the stranger Ptolemaic orbis, a scheme ... an argument about almost anything~' Monthly publication is paid for by an excess of funds in the budget allotted for Energeia. Layout is done on the Macintosh computers in the Computer room and the library with a desk-top publishing program called Pagemaker. The magazine, which is about five and a half by eight inches in size, is printed at the St. John's College Print Shop. The second volume of WHOMANWARP, a semi-annual art and literary journal, was published in mid-January, a product of the collaboration of Baltimore alumnae, Kelli Ostrom and Gabrielle Fink Keith, both A '86. The magazines's name is derived from an Old English spelling of "woman" and "warp" - the threads of a woven fabric. Born of a women's literary group, the magazine focuses on women's issues and experiences, publishing work by both men and women writers and artists. The publication is intended to be a forum for the exchange of ideas and images of woman, and a vehicle for new voices and visions. WHOMANWARP is on sale in An'napolis at the College bookstore, and also at stores in Baltimore and Washington. It is available for subscription by writing WHOMANWARP, P.O. Box 16138, Baltimore, MD 21218-0338. The deadline for submitting work for Volume III:2 is September 1. The editors welcome work by fellow St. John's graduates and students. At the request of the Board of Visitors and Governors, the Annapolis and Santa Fe faculties have been carrying on separate dialogues over the wisdom ~f developing a third campus on the Cahfornia property, as preparation for a joint recommendation about the property to be submitted to the Board at its April meeting. . . After its January meetmg, the J omt faculty Committee on California Property, with members from both campuses, submitted to each faculty a memorandum for consideration. Each faculty will use the document to prepare its recommendation. Members of the Joint Faculty Committee are the Deans of the two campuses, Thomas Slakey and James C~rey; the Directors of the Graduate Institute at both campuses, Malcolm Wyatt and Timothy Miller; Annapolis tutors Thomas Simpson and Elliott Zuckerman, and Santa Fe tutors Don Cook and David Jones . Hall of Records (Continued from page 1) 18,000 square feet are required for an adequate library. The current library, Woodward Hall, contains less than 11,000 square feet, while the Hall of Records offers over 19,000 usable square feet. Woodward Hall could then be converted to much needed classroom and faculty offices. Mr. Bishop further noted. that it is only common sense for the College to own any building on its property, and in fact, the Paca Carroll House is within about 50 feet of the Hall of Records. The land on which the three-story building sits was deeded to the state for $10 "and other considerations" in 1934 for the Maryland Hall of Records. (The plan was for the head of the College history department to serve as state archivist, with the College having access to the archives.) Mr. Bishop asserts that the "other considerations" include a gentleman's agreement that if the state no longer needs the building, it would be offered to the College. Meanwhile, Joseph Coale, the new head of Historic Annapolis, argues that the old Hall of Records is a public building that was always intended for public use. He says Annapolis is the only state capital city that does not have a center to interpret its history and culture. Mr. Bishop agrees that a museum would serve the city well, but takes exception to locating the facility in an already crowded corner of the campus, where parking now is at a premium. He says there are many more desirable sites. In 1985 the state announced it was moving its archives to a new location on Rowe Boulevard. The former Hall of Records now houses the Appointment Secretary to the Governor and the Maryland, You Are Beautiful Association. fellow of St. Chad's College of Durham University, England. Recently he was invited to discuss his studies in medieval philosophy at a meeting of fellows in the senior common room of the college. Mr. May also is a member of the Durham Choral Society, with which \:\.e sang in a performance of Mendelssoh~'s "Elijah" in Durham Cathedral. He will take part in the society's premiere performance of a newly discovered work of Handel, "Carmelite Vespers:' in the spring. Mr. May with his wife and three young boys are residing in a historic area of Durham, site of the 1364 Battle of Nevill's Cross, in a house on the Gr~at Northern Road, traversed for centunes by the kings and queens of England and Scotland and by such individuals as David Hume and Adam Smith. (Continued from page 2) 1985 Peter Breslin and his jazz ensemble premiered Breslin's new jazz compositions in late July at the Unitarian Church in Santa Fe. Breslin plays both drums and piano. According to an interview, "Breslin's compositions are designed to provide contexts for improvisations and group interaction, which creates a wide range of textures and moods.'' He sets up the basics and "lets the musicians free-lance from there." For the past two years, Breslin has been teaching and geometry to students at the Forge Military Academy outside during the week, and weekends in the ~" 11"'"n-''""'"""'area. 1986 David and Anne were married the St. Thomas More Church in Chapel Hill on July 1. The couple is now in Chicago where both are pursuing degrees at the University of Chicago. 1989 Brigham Blase Bechtel and Mary Beth Bechtel announce the birth of their daughter Morgan Elizabeth Bechtel on January 3. Morgan weighed 8 lbs. 14 oz. "Mom and baby are fine. Blase is a nervous father.'' �DONNA :BOETIG It's 3 a.m. and while most of Annapolis sleeps, a light burns from the computer room at the far end of Pinkney Hall. Inside, a student hunched ov~r a Macintosh computer wiggles a white plastic "mouse" next to the keyboard. In response, an intricate, three-dimensional mathematical equation evolves on the screen. Across the table, a Johnnie rhythmically fingers the computer's keyboard, composing a musical score. At the remaining two computers, students are writing papers, integrating into their manuscripts the graphics of the Greek text, without a glitch in the patter of the keys. This portrait of student study, framed in modern technology, is the pr-Gduct of the new Computer Society on campus. A unique not-for-profit student organization to benefit the College, it has no officers, nor does it hold regular meetings or socials. Instead, the gel that solidifies its membership, is its goal of having computers accessible to every student who wants to use one. The idea for the Society was conceived in 1988 by students Sascha Cocran '90, and Aaron Rosenbaum, '91. They believed that computers could be a valuable learning tool in the St. John's program, and were willing to devote long hours of hard work, with no monetary compensation, to make it a reality. Unlike other colleges that elevate computer study to part of their curriculum, at St. John's computers would serve as a secondary source. "That doesn't alter the quality of conversations on campus, student participation in seminars, nor the depth of the students' writing:' The College did have two older model computers on hand, but these required the students to spend several hours studying manuals in order to use them. These computers often sat idle, smothered under piles of books, papers or candy wrappers. It became clear to Mr. Cocron and Mr. Rosenbaum that newer, A Students Sascha Cocron, '90, left, and Aaron Rosenbaum, '91, work in the computer room at Annapolis with Theorist, an equation graphic program. Other figures on the page are student-drawn illustrations for classwork. Keith Harvey photo With Mr. Dyal's encouragement, Mr. Cocron broadened his investigation to include computer use by students on campus. He mailed the students a questionnaire asking whether they already owned a computer, if they thought a computer would be useful for their work, and if so, would they be interested _ in buying one at a discount. Mr. Cocron received 135 responses to the questionnaire, with 85 people saying they were interested in learning more about obtaining a computer. Mr. Cocron and Mr. Rosenbaum then negotiated the first agreement with Apple Computers. With a non-exclusive contract signed by St. John's Treasurer Robert Harner, they obtained access to Apple Computer's Higher Education Purchasing Plan - a program that provides discounts to colleges and universities for the purchase of Apple computers and related equipment. They then arranged a five-year lease for 10 Macintosh computers, two laser printers and other equipment. (Six computers would be used in the library and four in the computer room and a laser printer for both locations.) 1 Dilnmmb Work= more "user-friendly" models were needed. But they realized that these are expensive, and not all students are able to afford them. They had to find a way to make computers available to the students. In 1988, Mr. Cocron presented President William M. Dyal, Jr. with a "Report to the President on Administrative Computing;• a study on the use of computers in the College administration. A Force· Mass· Distance Dislaocca 10 Work= 1 0 98QS!IL 20g s sec2 As part of the agreement, the society purchased $100,000 worth of computers. With orders for 35 Apple computer systems from students, faculty, and staff, at an average of $3 ,500 a piece, the Society quickly fulfilled its obligation. Today computers are part of college life here: About 90 students have personal computers in their rooms, Mr. Cocron says, and another 150 regularly use those in the computer room. College librarian Kitty Kinzer says the computers have been an asset. "The people using them are quiet and busi,' she says. The library offers computer programs related to class subjects - EscherSketch, MacVoice, Palestrina, Heavenly Mac (astronomy), Turing's World, Venn: A syllogistic logic tutor, Tarski's World, Bertie II (symbolic logic), and Mechanics: Physics Simulations I. A Class of 1969 Still, not everyone at the College is convinced of the value of computers to the St. John's program. Tutor Eva Brann acknowledges their worth in teaching the techniques of subjects, such as algebra, but adds that "at the moment computers have no bearing on the central demand we make on our students - which is to think about important issues with the aid of the Great Books~' Even less enthusiastic about the role computers play in her education is junior Ange Mlinko. She says, "In writing, there's no rapport with a computer and your mind. I use a computer just to revise my written work. For the actual process of writing, it's indispensable to me to take paper and pencil in hand, and go through the physical motion of putting my words down on paper. This gives me time to think~' (Continued from page 2) Annapolis. Beth Kuper lived in Santa Monica for 10 years, holding various jobs, including jeweler, optician, Montessori teacher, customer support representative traveling all over the United States installing computer software and conducting training courses, and editor. For the past nine years, she's lived in the San Francisco Bay area, working as a systems administrator for a law firm. In 1987, she graduated from the University of San Francisco with a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior. Sarah Langdell, the mother of two daughters, 15 and 20, is a doctoral candidate in counseling psychology at UMASS/Amherst and an intern at Berkshire Medical Center - and a devoted skier. Carol Ann (Lightner) Tucker reports jointly with husband Steven that after graduation came law school at the University of Denver, and then a return to Santa Fe. Now there are two children, Patrick, 12, and Bevin, 7, and Carol Ann is busy in civic work while Steve is a senior partner in a medium-sized law firm. Mark Mandel finished his BA at City College of CUNY in linguistics, met and married Rene Szafir, got degrees at Berkeley - his a Ph.D. in linguistics, hers an MA in English, "and Susannah, ours~' In 1980, they returned east to Boston, Jeremy joined them, and in 1983, Mark joined Honeywell (now Bull) as a software engineer, where he still is. Lee McKusick left Santa Fe after his junior year and a don rag in which "irrelevant and unprepared were theme words;' he reports. Admirable efforts to produce the essay followed, but eventually Lee earned a BA in American Studies from Cal State University in Los Angeles, where his "confidence and writing ability blossomed on the daily student newspaper staff.' After an eclectic job history, he is today a computer operator, his wife Jan a lawyer, and their daughter Jessica 1 Y2 years old. Deborah A. Mon migrated to Austin, Texas, after graduation, where she received an MA in English and a JD. After divorce from a "bigger than life consumer lawyer,' she moved to Santa Fe, where she worked as an assistant attorney general, and assistant appellate defender, and currently an attorney with the New Mexico Department of Taxation and Revenue. She is an avid photographer and has exhibited her work. She writes, "I hope that my St. John's education has helped me keep my perspective about the legal profession and the need to work for justice for all, not just the banks and corporations. " �MARCH 1990 THE REPORTER PAGE 14 Hi h S ho I stud nt like St. John's way By AARON HOOVER, '90 "Today we stepped off the bright, yellow modern school bus in the late morning ... right into the same time of day, somewhere between 1800 and 1960;' says one area high school student visiting St. John's College. "Immediately we had to adjust to a new atmosphere and time zone, and later to a new way of thinking~' This high school visitation program offers students a glimpse of college life in general, and St. John's in particular. It's an unfamiliar world, one that unsettles and intrigues. Students do not hesitate to admit their surprise. They write it down, just as did the student who wrote the words above. St. John's has been disquieting students since 1982, when Benjamin Milner, then director of the Graduate Institute, first started the High School Visit Program. This year the College hosted about 160 juniors who visited with their English classes. Just recently, the College hosted students from Broadneck and Andover Senior High Schools. In this program, the students participate in St. John's style classes, eat lunch at the dining hall, and tour the College. The Visitation Program, which began informally, has changed considerably since its inception. A teacher at Old Mill High School, Charles Wilkerson, called Mr. Milner to ask if there was any way his students could get some experience of St. John's. Mr. Milner thought that a visit from local high school students would be "a good thing for the college and a good thing for the kids~' He and Mr. Wilkerson set up a schedule for a visit which included a seminar on one of the books the students were reading and lunch at the college. The seminar and the visit as a whole were, as Mr. Wilkerson puts it, "more of a success than we ever dreamed'.' He and Mr. Milner decided to make a proposal to the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to establish a regular visiting program. The Superintendent of the Board of Education approved the program, and it has endured to this day. The High School Visit Program now includes a tutorial, led, like the seminar, by a St. John's tutor, and a tour of the college, provided by the admissions office. It also introduces high school teachers to St. John's; they sit in on the seminar. Finally, whereas the program was at first available for students from all levels of high school classes, only AP English students can participate in it now. Mr. Milner, who has not been involved with the program for some time, was surprised to hear about this last change. He says that he doubts that only AP students could benefit from the program. He relates that one of his best experiences with the program involved a group of students who were not particularly academic and who did not plan to attend college at all. On seeing the campus these students were, as he put it, "wide-eyed:' In the course of their visit, Mr. Milner says that the students found that "this [being at college] seems really interesting and worthwhile and something I might think about:' In contrast to AP students, who see St. John's as a unique kind of college, these students saw what college itself consists of for the first time. Mr. Milner feels that such an introduction to college in general is as important as an introduction to St. John's style of education. Dianne Sprague, a teacher specialist at the Board of Education's English Language AP Office since 1987, explains that the objectives of the AP program "match the objectives of the St. John's program:' AP classes often have a seminar-like format. As a result, AP students are familiar with the kind of discussion that takes place at St. John's. According to Mr. Wilkerson, as the program's success grew, it became "more and more formaE' "All of a sudden;• he says "rules were made~' Administration of the program fell into the hands of the AP office. "I'm a little bitter about that:' Mr. Wilkerson said. Like Mr. Milner, he feels that students from all levels in high school can benefit from the program. Interestingly, Ms. Sprague shares this feeling. Because of the correspondence between AP classes and St. John's classes, however, she thinks that the program fits particularly well into the AP program. "It is a way in which we support the AP curriculum:' she says. Also, she makes the point that "funding has to come from one office:' What the Visit Program has, since 1982, lost in egalitarianism, it has gained in organization. Mr. Wyatt meets with Ms. Sprague every spring to set up a schedule of visits for the following year. Ms. Sprague presents a selection of possible texts for seminars to Mr. Wyatt which he narrows down to the actual texts that the students will read and discuss. As the time for the visits approaches, Mr. Wyatt asks tutors to lead the seminars and tutorials. Those tutors who agree to lead a seminar generally have a St. John's upperclassman co-lead the seminar with them. varied as those read for tutorials. The students have discussed Dante's Inferno, Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Shakespeare's Othello, as well Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Mr. Wyatt says he stipulates that the students will have read but not discussed the books in order to prevent them from bringing any preconceived notions to their seminars. What are the tutorials and seminars like? Do they resemble the first few classes of freshman year? Do the students enjoy themselves? Do they learn? What, finally, is the over-all feeling about the program? How do the administrators feel? The tutors? The coleaders? To begin to find an answer to these questions, I recently attended a tutorial and seminar led respectively by Ms. Luce and Mr. Kalkavage. The tutorial's subject was Euclid's definitions, common notions, and postulates, and the first four propositions of the Elements. Because I am a student at St. John's, I was most struck by how different, and how similar, this class was to a normal college tutorial. Sometimes the students' behavior and questions were fairly predictable, recalling to me my own introduction to St. John's. They spoke to the tutor instead of to each other, balked at Euclid's definition of a point and line, and were hesitant to demonstrate at the board. Other times, I was surprised at what I saw. In contrast to what usually happens at St. John's, the women spoke significantly more than the men. Also, all of the students had trouble stating the steps to Euclid's proofs explicitly; they wanted to [One] of the highest achievements of the Visit Program is to show that mathematics and literature, too, can be beautiful ... Last year, Mr. Wyatt and Ms. Sprague planned eight visits from a total of nine high schools, seven of which have already taken place. Visiting groups can have as many as 25 or 30 students, and as few as 10 to 15. The students' teachers usually accompany them on the visit. The texts which have been read for the tutorials and seminars range from, for the tutorials, the popular choice of the beginning of Euclid's Elements through a proposition in Apollonius to a comparison of Euclid's postulate 5 with Lobachevski's proposition 16. And they often have as their subject poetry or physics rather than mathematics. Tutors have chosen "The Animals" by Edwin Muir, Huygens' "Motions of Colliding Bodies:' and "Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens, for their tutorials. The texts read for the seminars are as many and sum up his argument with one sentence or with a single reference to his construction. On the whole, though, they were, if a little confused, certainly intrigued by Euclid. Near the end of the class, Ms. Luce suggested that the propositions the students had demonstrated were "prettY,' or "nice~' The students seemed nonplused. The propositions followed logically, but to think of them as a "pretty"? They had clearly never encountered such an idea before. Probably one of the highest achievements of the Visit Program is to show students that mathematics, and literature, too, can be beautiful, can be more than a stumbling block to a high school diploma. The student's seminar on Othello was a little different from the tutorial. Although fewer students spoke, they spoke to each other. And they were willing to challenge the opinions of Mr. Kalkavage and his co-leader, Donna Schueler. The seminar lasted only one hour: the traditional length of the Visit Program seminars. This seemed too short, an impression which nearly everyone involved in the program shares. Although the goal of the High School Visit Program has never been recruitment, students have attended St. John's after participating in a visit. Currently, Barbara Arnold, a graduate of an Anne Arundel County high school, is a freshman at the Santa Fe campus. However, she represents an exception to the rule. John Christensen, Director of Admissions, echoes Mr. Wyatt and Mr. Milner on the nature of the program. He calls it "a way of serving students . . . [a way] the college can do something without burdening them with recruiting~' He makes the point that most universities offer extension programs to the community around them, and that the Visit Program is in some way the St. John's equivalent to these programs. What really matters about the High School Visit Program is how the students feel about it, and what they feel they get out of it. On this subject, their evaluation sheets tell the most, maybe because they do not have to include their names on the evaluation. Nearly every student from a sampling of several groups of evaluations has something positive to say about his or her visits to St. John's. More than that, many offer suggestions on how the program could be changed or improved. One student writes: "My suggestion is to expand lt,Qe program to a larger population - let more students experience this method of learning~' Another remarks: "I think that the trip would be even more effective if conducted in both the junior and senior years'.' A third proposes that "tutorials should be done more often in school systems, from elementary right up to high schooe' All of which would suggest that students do not have difficulties or complaints with St. John's. They have plenty. One says: "I really did not feel I had accomplished anything. Everything was so open ended'.' Echoing his feeling, another writes: "I had the feeling that none of us was saying the right thing in The Stranger session; we were grabbing at straws or silene' More telling than the students' various suggestions and complaints is the fact that every student without exception remarks on the St. John's method of discussion in classes. One particularly eloquent student sums up what is for many the general feeling about such discussion. "When confronted with the opportunity to visit St. John's College for a day to discuss Euclidean Geometry and Billy Budd, I must admit that excitement was not one of the emotions I felt. I could not understand why anyone would want to refute accepted concepts or speak freely about a book that I found impossible to enjoy. However, when the morning tutorial began, and the brain kicked into gear, I could honestly see the purpose. I enjoyed the environment that was encouraged in the two sessions because it took the emphasis off the tutor and placed it onto the students' hands. Egos were left out of the room and everyone was given the chance to propose their own ideas. Ultimately no one was wrong. That, to me, is the only, most positive, means of learning~' �MARCH 1990 As he tells he bought three Macintoshes, a laser printer and a waxer, and, after operating out of his home for a few weeks, rented some office space. Just last summer, Nelson's staff of four fulltimers - an editor, production manager, advertising manager and circulation manager - and several part-timers moved to a second office for more space. A visit after lunch to the two-room office on the main street of Croton village reveals it to be crowded with computers, desks and five pleasant staff members, preoccupied with the weekly deadline hours away. Tomorrow the newspaper will be in subscribers' hands and on newsstands. Nelson surveys this scene with evident satisfaction before introducing his visitor to staff members. "We are still a charity case:' he comments later, "but if we started to make money, which we might do next year, then I would use the money to pay our people a little better. "There doesn't seem to be any doubt that the newspaper is a great public service. I am constantly being surprised by the comments of various people about how important the newspaper is to them. "If we have a hearing of the village board on an important matter, say, the environmental impact of a major development, and 400 people show up, I know it's because they have read about it in the paper. They are informed well enough by our reporting so that they can ask good questions and come to their own conclusions'.' ****** Chris Nelson has just given a major presentation concluding a finance committee workshop before the Board of Visitors and Governors and is at this moment standing in the Conference Room of Weigle Hall on the Santa Fe campus, his sleeves rolled up. Outside is a flawless July day under the immense inverted bowl of a New Mexican sky. Chris has paused, smiling, to consider how he got himself into a spot like this. Nearby, listening with some interest and occasionally inserting a word or two, are his father and his sister Janet. It is axiomatic that a father's example is not invariably emulated by a son or a daughter either. Three Nelson children nevertheless followed Charles Nelson in selecting St. John's College for themselves. "I guess I never had a second, choice:' Chris reflects. "I can't say that the college was pushed on me. I don't think Dad pushed anything on any of us. But I grew up with the books. It is as simple as that. "I read the Iliad in seventh grade because it was a good way to babysit my brothers. I would read a chapter and then I would act it out with a garbage can lid for a shield and a stick for my sword and we had a very comfortable ottoman in the living room that I could comfortably die over many, many times. The River Skamandros regularly ran red with hlood in our livinl! room. "And then, because I wanted to read something serious - I didn't think of the Iliad as serious - my father introduced me to Plato. So I read a few dialogues, the ones that you could enjoy more at a younger age, the Apology, and the Crito. Like his father before him, Chris was student body president in his high school and was active in many other activities as well. Something was missing for Chris, though. As a sophomore, he gathered together a group of like-minded 15 REPORTER .:>Luu.""'1".1.L.:>, ones who seemed their teeth into some real ter. As soon as he brings up of that group, both Nelsons begin to laugh: this is an old joke between them. Chris's assemblage of savvy, intelligent, curious teenagers met for the first time at the house of a friend. That friend's staunchly Democratic father, relishing the sight of these thoughtful youngsters, pirated the boys away to become the nucleus of the Young Democrats. Chris joined the Young Democrats, but he wanted something else - he wanted to talk about serious issues with his friends. He went home and complained to his father: "One of your good friends took my group awaY,' At that point Chuck stepped in, offered to be the leader, and suggested that the seminar group meet at the Nelson house. Asked if any subsequent seminars could ever really replace the memories of that first one, Chris' expression softens and becomes reminiscent, although he doesn't reply. "We read two Robert Frost poems, ones you didn't have to read in advance. One was four lines and one 12, and we could read them right there. The first one we read was We dance around a ring and suppose The secret sits in the middle and knows. "I don't remember any of the answers to the questions, but we sure had a lot of fun with them, and they took us all around the loop. Later we read the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Don Juan in Hell sequence, and other things!' The seminar group continued all year, and it persuaded Chris that there really were people interested in talking about "something with meaning and that was what had been missing in my life~' Before he left to spend his senior high school year in Holland as an AFS student, he applied to St. John's College. He had looked at many college catalogues, he remembers, but "only St. John's had a program that fed that desire of mine to explore ideas through reading, a place where I thought people took their education seriously. That was what led me to the College, a hunger for seminar groups. And I wasn't ever disappointed in four years:' During his third year in Annapolis, Chris married a fellow student and spent his final year in Santa Fe. Tollof, the first of four boys, was born when Chris was a senior. The last three - Gunnar, 16, and the twins, Lars and Eric, 15 - were born within one year, Chris' first year of law practice. Chris' first marriage ended in divorce, and he remarried in 1983. His present wife is an environmental lawyer whose own daughter has just completed her studies at the University of California. In 1973, Chris was graduated from law school at the University of Utah and became an associate in a large general corporate law firm in Chicago. He handled a broad range of work, including tax litigation, environmental issues and nuclear licensing before settling upon labor law, employee relations and employee benefit planning. In 1979, Chris, then a partner, left the firm along with five other lawyers to start a firm specializing in labor law and employee benefits. Chris and his seminar group were now using church rooms and private dwellings for seminar meetings, which averaged 10 a year, and were sometimes led by visiting tutors. His appetite for meaningful exchanges took other forms. At one point a small group met weekly for lunch for a year to read and talk about quantum mechanics and relativity, discussions so interesting that bystanders, including ......,,,,..,i.,. came to sit in on the conversations. Still later Chris and Board member John Van Doren organized a seminar for lawyers. In 1981, the national alumni association was reorganized, the bylaws changed, and the core group expanded to bring in membership across the Chris became a member of the alumni board in 1983, and treasurer of the association two years a position he continues to hold. In 1986, he became an alumni member of the Board of Visitors and Governors. In the early 1980s, Chris began to provide legal assistance to President Edwin Delattre on a number of employee relations problems, including lawsuits, and meeting with the Instruction Committee on tenure procedures and compensation issues. Gradually he had taken on an advisory function he continued to fill during President Michael Riccards' and President Dyal's tenures. Always there were family responsibilities for his quartet of active boys. Chris developed the habit of spreading out his work and starting again after the children went to bed in order to avoid the long evening at the office. "I got into these habits all through law school and the early years because the raising of the children was more than enough for one;' he comments. These habits haven't changed much even as the children have grown older. When he is working for the College or clients he works in his office until somewhere between one-thirty and three in the morning, and gets up at sixfifteen. "Unless I have a client who wants me to get up earlY,' he adds grinning. He encouraged the children in activities as well. "I got them involved in bi- so that later on I cycling and could get them to bicycle and camp away from home'.' Although there were sometimes as many as seven young people in the house, including a visiting AFS student, only Lars and Eric are now at home. "It is quieting down and it feels like vacation time with only a few kids around - kids who can do their laundry and cook for themselves when that's needed. They work now as busboys at a local restaurant, are busy with school and active with drama and sports, and tend to their own homework. To me that's a real break;' says Chris. Like Chris, Tollof spent his senior year in high school as an AFS student abroad - in Brazil. Before making his college decision, Tollof examined a number of small liberal arts colleges, but in the end, it was St. John's. Chris sees change in his own pattern of relating to the College. "In my early years of involvement with the College, my emphasis was on getting something out of the richness of the readings and the discussion groups. But what I think I can contribute most now is in helping with some of the other aspects of College planning. I get a great deal of personal satisfaction from being able to bring various projects to completion that will help the College. So I just tackle a certain number at a time and when I'm done, I go on to the nexe' Fifty years ago, a book-hungry young man created a lot of family anxiety with his perverse selection of a small, odd and distant college in a far away small city, and pointed his thumb East in order to get there. The Nelsons are still doing it. It must be in the genes. OBITUARIES Bingley: widow of tutor Elizabeth G. Bingley, 92, widow of George Bingley, who taught mathematics at the Annapolis campus for many years, died on January 7 in Baltimore after a long illness. Her husband died in 1966. Mrs. Bingley was the sister of Douglas Gordon, who served as president of St. John's from 1931 to 1934, having assumed that office when he was only 29 years old. The former Elizabeth Gordon, she was a Baltimore native, and a graduate of St. Timothy's School and the Penn- sylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She lived for many years in the Mount Vernon Place area of that city. Mrs. Bingley painted portraits and landscapes, including scenes from her extensive travels. She was a member of the Colonial Dames of America, Chapter I, and the Mount Vernon Club. She is survived by a sister, Stanley Gordon Edwards of Oklahoma City, her sister-in-law, Mrs. Douglas Gordon, four nieces and two nephews. Rusteberg: Naval Academy bandsman Albert I. Rusteberg, 81, A '30, of Bradenton, Florida, formerly of Annapolis, died January 14 in Florida after a lengthy illness. Born and reared in Annapolis, Mr. Rusteberg was a member of the Naval Academy Band for 24 years, retiring as a member and historian of the band's alumni association. For 16 years he worked for the Postal Service in Annapolis, moving to Florida in 1978. He was a member of the College Alumni Association and attended chapter luncheon meetings. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Evelyn Hayden Rusteberg, two brothers and a sister. DeLisio: GSA administrator Leonard T. DeLisio, A'38, a retired director of investigations at the General Service Administration and a former special agent of the FBI, died Oct. 18 of cardiac arrest in Virginia. Born in Washington, D.C., Mr. DeLisio received a law degree from Columbus Law School, now a part of Catholic University, after his undergraduate years at St. John's. He was appointed a special agent of the FBI in 1939 and served until 1940 when he joined the Navy. During World War II, he served in the South Pacific and was captain of an LST landing craft. After the war, he worked for the War Assets Administration, the functions of which went to GSA after the war. He received a meritorious Service Award in 1962 while serving as director of compliance at the GSA. He retired in 1972. · His first wife, Lillian DeLisio, died in 1968. Mr. DeLisio is survived by his wife Patricia DeLisio of Fairfax, a son Jeffrey DeLisio of Mountain View, California, and a brother Edward J. DeLisio of Annapolis. ' �PAGE GREAT ISSUES Deborah Schwartz Renaut, a 1968 graduate of the College at Annapolis and a tutor since 1974, has been named one of two Assistant Deans by President on sabWilliam M. Dyal, Jr. batical, she will assume her new duties July 1, replacing Wye who is completing her third year on the job. Originally from Arlington, Virginia, Mrs. Renaut received a master's degree in psycholinguistics from John's Hopkins University in and a master's degree in French and Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1974. She is married to Gilbert Renaut, also a member of the class of 1968, who is an attorney with the U.S. Department of Energy. The Renauts have three children, Jonathan, 11, Elizabeth, 9, and Samuel, 6. The assistant deans advise students seeking class and housing changes, and, working closely with the college psychiatrist and counselling staffs, are a resource for those requiring other sorts of counselling. The position is half-time, requiring the holders to teach three rather than six classes in the academic year. "I am trying not to come to the job with a grand program:' said Ms. Renaut. "I am looking forward to it. It is not the sort of thing I have done, but I am excited about trying out something new. I will be trying to make things run well, and if there are glitches, you just do your best to get things smoothed out again. "I have talked with Wendy and John a lot, and I get humbler and humbler with every incident they relate. I understand from others that in some ways it helps having your own kids. I'm going to learn an awful lot about what lies ahead for my children~' Deborah Renaut Sarita Cargas photo David C. Thomasma, a pre-eminent authority and consultant on medical ethics and the holder of the Chair of Medical Ethics at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, will be keynote speaker at the St. John's College Ethics and Medicine forum on Saturday, April 7, at the FSK Auditorium. The fourth in the Great Issues Series on ethics sponsored by the Friends of St. John's and the Continuing Education office of the College, the program will ask speakers and participants to consider the question "Is there a special medical ethic? Is the doctor-patient relationship a trust, contract or covenant?" Registration will begin at 9 a.m., the keynote speech at 9:30 a.m., followed by questions and answers, and small group discussions on preassigned readings, at 11 a.m. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m. in the gymnasium. The small group discussions will be co-led by college tutors and 25 local health professionals. The cost is $25 per person. For further information, call (301) 263-2371, ext. 230. Since 1985, Dr. Thomasma has held the Father Michael I. English, S.J., Chair of Medical Ethics at the medical school. Since 1981 he has been a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious studies where he began the Medical Humanities Program, of which he is director. Before coming to he taught at the Catholic University, at the.Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tennessee, and at branches of the University of Tennessee. Beginning in the mid-1970's, he has assisted schools, hospitals, medical centers, three degrees in philosophy from the Aquinas Institute of River Forest, Illinois, and a PhD in philosophy in 1972 from the Catholic University in Wash- ington, D.C. The recipient of numerous fellowships, he was a post-doctoral Fellow at the Yale Institute on Human Values in Medicine, an Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Edinburgh, a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Utrecht in the Netherlands, and, since 1986, a Woodrow Wilson National Fellow. The author of 10 books and many articles on ethics and medicine, Dr. Thomasma has given over 400 lectures to professional organizations, has been interviewed many times for newspapers articles and as a guest on television and radio programs. He is editor-in-chief of David C. Thomasma Theoretical Medicine, and serves in hospices, and other institutions in many editorial capacities on four other states to establish programs or courses journals. in medical ethics. As a consultant to the The Great Issues Series began on the Institute on Human Values in Medicine eve of the election in 1988 with a forum at Yale University, he aided in establish- on Ethics and Politics, followed by ing formal programs in medical ethics Ethics and Journalism and Ethics and for Michigan State University, SUNY Business. Ethics and Law is scheduled Buffalo, SUNY Stony Brook, Creighton for November, 1990. University, Ohio Northern University, An advisory committee of health and others. He was also a special con- professionals worked with Vice President sultant to the American Hospital Associfor Advancement and ation hospital ethics commit- Series chairman William Brill on the fortees and ethics planning mat and for the Ethics and and conducting three national confer- Medicine program. are Dr. Robert this time, he was also 0. Biern, Dr. L. Dr. cte velc:>rncng several television series Nicholas Capozzoli, Dr. Alan ...... ,.... ....,uu,H. on ethical issues in medicine. and Dr. David S. Krimins. Nancy HamDr. Thomasma received BS mond is of the Friends of St. in chemistry and German from John's. College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, A diverse selection of exhibits - some shown for the first time in this area, many by world-class artists - will be featured in current and upcoming shows at the College's Mitchell Art Gallery on the Annapolis campus. The Gallery, which opened in September, is located in Mellon Hall. All exhibits are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, and Saturday-Sunday, 12 noon-5 p.m., and Friday, 7 p.m.-8 p.m. "American and British Screenprinters: 1967-1977" features the contemporary medium of screenprinting, an art form whose flat intensity and bold colors made it a favorite of the 1960's and 1970's. The works of Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, Louise Nevelson and others insure a scope reaching from the ridiculous to the intellectual, from the charming to the provocative. The exhibit will be March 18-April 18. The annual community art exhibit, one of the most popular shows of the year, features the recent works of students currently enrolled in the College's continuing education and fine arts program, as well as work from members of the College community. The exhibit is scheduled for April 20-May 10. A Fall show features art from the private collection of Olga Hirshhorn. Many of these works, for the connoisseur as well as the private collector, have never been on public view before. The show constitutes a synopsis of the last 25 years, with the works of such prominent artists as Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Graves and others. The show will be September 22-November 4. Annapolis tutor Elliott Zuckerman's oil self-portrait "Facescape SP 75" received one of four Juror's Choice awards, while four other members of the St. John's community also had their work accepted for the Maryland Federation of Art's Winter Juried Exhibition. Also displayed was the watercolor "Pond Plants VIII:' by Lydia Sparrow, wife of tutor Edward Sparrow; "The Leaning Tred,' a watercolor by Charlotte Fletcher, former librarian; "Light Blue Space:' in mixed media, by Virginia Ochs Clagett of the Caritas Society and community seminars; and "A Love Greater 1 Than the One We See" in pencil, by 1988 alumna Meetra Doorandish. Sixty-two pieces from among 136 entries were selected for the show by juror Christine Neill, an instructor at the Maryland Institute, and a member of the Drawing, Painting and Foundation Departments. Her own work in various media has been shown nationally. The First Annapolis Bank sponsored the exhibit with the assistance of grants by the Annapolis Fine Arts Foundation, the Anne Arundel County Commission on Culture and the Arts, and the Maryland State Arts Council. Annapolis tutors Nicholas Maistrellis, Elliott Zuckerman, and Howard Zeiderman, and tutor emeritus Brother Robert Smith have been leading Sunday afternoon seminars in New York City for a group of professionals meeting weekly at the Harvard Club. The exchange was initiated by Kenneth D. Brody, a partner in Goldman Sachs, a New York investment banking company, who last spring wrote to Dean Thomas Slakey seeking a St. John's tutor to lead a group of bankers, doctors and lawyers wanting to read and talk about worthwhile books. Initially, Mr. Maistrellis and Mr. Zuckerman expressed interest and selected a 12-week sequence of readings taken entirely from the freshman seminar. Mr. Maistrellis taught the first six weeks and Mr. Zuckerman the second. When the sessions extended into the second semester, Mr. Zeiderman and Brother Robert joined the rotation of tutors. "It was a very interesting group:' Mr. Maistrellis commented, "completely non-academic, extremely intelligent, hard-working and responsible. The discussions were both friendly and cooperative and very serious. Perspectives about these books were raised which were quite different from those which normally arise in the undergraduate seminars~' The $150 advance -~ for the 1990-91 academic year is due from a ., students on the second Monday in April-April 9. The deadline applies to both campuses. � 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. Includes primarily historical content.<br /><br />Click on <strong><a title="The St. John's Reporter" href="http://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/browse?collection=35">Items in <em>The St. John's Reporter</em></a></strong> <span>to view and sort all items in the collection.</span> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource St. John's College Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. John's College Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Santa Fe, NM Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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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/d2392519f5be8dc0c4042d2d84339eb2.pdf 8f1e7ed065f736b1cefb2dc5790671e4 PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY l l l l l l l l ~ ~lfl~[l lim1il~l l l l l l l l l The 31696 011381611 st. John's REPORTER Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM Volume 16, Issue 2 December, 1989 DYAL RESIGNS Presidential search begins In the wake of Annapolis President William M. Dyal's resignation in September, a nine-member Presidential Search Committee to seek a new president for the Annapolis campus was named by Board of Visitors and Governors chairman Scott Kelso. Members of the Search Committee are John Van Doren, A '47, of Chicago, chairman; Board members Donald J. Maclver, Jr., of El Paso, Texas; Charles A. Nelson of Croton-on-Hudson, New of New York York; David B. and Joyce Rumsfeld of Chicago; members Elliott Zuckerman of Annapolis and Robert S. Bart of Santa Fe; and and Deans Thomas J. Slakey, Jam es Carey, Santa Fe. Mr. Dyal, tendered his resignation to the Board, effective May 1990, citing the college's need for an ·· cvot",,,., long-term presidency" as it' prepares for a capital campaign in 1992. He noted his own diminished level of next summer to Kiawah Island, South Carolina, where the family has a home. "Bill is loved and admired by virtually everyone hen;' Dean Slakey commented. ''We will be sorry to see him go after such a short time~' Said Jeffrey Bishop, vice president for advancement_ of the Annapolis campus, "Bill has made an enormous impact in the three years he's been here. We will miss him but we know that his decision is best for him at this time:' Since institution of the two-president policy for the college in 1986, the presidency has had an unexpected turnover. Last year, Santa Fe's first president, Michael P. Riccards, resigned, and John Agresto, deputy chairman of the National for the Hu- 0 -.. .,. ... At McDowell ceremonies, the crowd faces coue~;e Avenue to receive the honor salute of the Brigade of Midshipmen. Harvey photo MCDOWELL REDEDICATION 200th birthday for grand lady By DONNA BOETIG Against the blaze of color from the newly fallen leaves on this crisp Saturday in November, McDowell Hall opened to a gathering of members of college community, townsmen, and preservationists assembled on the front lawn of the campus. The occasion was the rededication of the historic landmark. After being isolated from the college community for months by a chain link fence, having endured the tugs and pulls, inside and out, from armies of her facelift was complete. Founders' ......... 7 . . . . . ~. . . . . ,'". . . News . . . . . . . . 8, 9 Mitchell Gallery . . . 10, 11 Homecoming ...... 12, 13 Ethics and Business . . . . 17 Welcoming the group to the rededication of McDowell Hall, College President William M. Dyal, Jr., cut the ribbon to a building whose significance stretches far beyond the boundaries of the campus. (Continued on page 12) to stay on for the next five to seven years. The popular who was operated on a year ago for a tumor, plans to be active in all including the "platform om11a11ng" of the campaign, throughout the current school year. He returned to his desk last January on a modified schedule which he has gradually increased. Mr. Dyal's tenure at Annapolis has been to date a three-year interlude of exceptional harmony, beginning with his inauguration ceremonies and continuing through the ensuing years of friendly interaction between the college and the wider community on many fronts. He made his private decision to leave the job, he said, after the July meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors at Santa Fe. He did so first, he remarked, "for the longterm good of the school:' and second, because he believed that "it is time to graduate~' He will be moving (Continued on page 6) The release in October of the "50 Hours: A Core Curriculum for College Students" the National Endowment for the Humanities was accompanied by much fanfare and press attention, some of which spilled over onto the College. The report is a powerful and persuasive proposal for massive reorganization of the curricula of American colleges and universities. Dean Thomas Slakey and Tutor Leo Raditsa of the Annapolis campus, and College President Emeritus Edwin Delattre are all quoted in the report, where the St. John's curriculum is described in some detail. Several days (Continued on page 6) Construction is underway on the $2.8 million 24,000 square foot Faith and John Meem library on the Santa Fe campus which by the fall of 1990 will begin to look like the architects' rendering above. McHugh, Lloyd and Associates, architects �PAGE 2 DECEMBER 1989 THE REPORTER 1972 1941 Henry M. Robert III has coauthored a new edition of. his grandfather's famous manual of parliamentary procedure, with William J. Evans, a Baltimore attorney. The book will be known as the Scott Foresman Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, 1990 edition. 1955 Priscilla Bender-Shore, artist and professor at Santa Barbara City College, displayed her 30-foot acrylic painting, Stone Frieze: Forms of Time, for two days at the Reynolds Art Gallery of the Westmont College Art Center, Montecito, CA, in July. The painting, divided into three parts, is the result of her six-month stay at the home of Claude Monet in Giverny, France. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., which possesses one of the most extensive corporate collections in the country, has purchased the painting and will put it on permanent display in the conference room of their headquarters in Pleasantville, NY. Bender-Shore was a winner of the Reader's Digest Artists at Giverny Program, established to rekindle the ties that existed between French and American artists during Monet's lifetime. 1964 Biggar Main writes that she was "amused and chagrined" to read about herself in the last Reporter as appearing . in a book she had never read, and regards it as ''just punishment for past failures to report.'' This time she has kindly supplied her own information: she is a professor of biological and developmental psychology at Berkeley where she teaches and does research. The research involves naturalistic, experimental and interview studies of "states of mind with respect to attachment" in adults as well as children. ''There seem to be four primary states of mind with respect to attachment,'' she reports, "which can be assessed in adulthood through verbatim interview transcripts, and in infancy through the infant's response to the parent in mildly stressful situations.'' With the aid of a Guggenheim fellowship, she is now completing a book with Cambridge University Press. 1965 David Lachterman, associate professor of philosophy and Greek at Bryn Mawr College, has published a book called The Ethics of Geometry (Rutledge, New York, 1989), described by a tutor as ''interesting because it is an ambitious book on what is central to modernity, and because it continues in contemporary terms a book by Jacob Klein (Ancient Logistic and the Origins of Algebra), and because it is a reply to Derrida and the deconstructionists on their criticism of philosophy.'' 1968 Lee Reichelderfer Tyner reports that she has a new baby, Elizabeth Frances 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 New 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 018-750 Tyner, born April 26, who joins siblings Michael Frederick, 9, and Rachel Christine, 7. Lee is still working in the General Counsel's office at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Waste Division. 1975 Peter and Mary Rogers Kniaz and children Benjamin, 7, Beatrice, 4, and Paul, 1, will be living in London for the next several years where Peter's job as a geoscience sector leader with British Petroleum has taken them. Peter joined Sohio (now part of BP America) in San Francisco, and in 1982 moved to the Sohio Warrensville laboratory in Cleveland in the computer department. While there, he undertook a nationwide assessment of Sohio's computer utilization and made recommendations to Sohio senior management. He has spent the last four years managing the computer and information systems for BP America's Health, Safety and Environmental Quality Department. ''We would be delighted to receive visitors'' in London, writes Mary, who provides a telephone number, 01-995-8954. 1977 Robin Michelle Streett was married to Miles Gerard Lawlor on March 5, 1988, in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Augusta, Georgia, with her father, David Corbin A '50 officiating. Her husband was recently graduated. from Fordham University's School of Law. The Lawlors live at 99 Clocks Blvd., Massapequa, NY 11758. 1978 Michael Ciba will begin fulltime graduate study this month at the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. He expects to be ordained in the United Church of Christ after completing his master of divinity degree. Diane Lamoureux Ciba, A '80, completed her BA degree in mathematics at the University of Missouri in 1987. She is currently working for a law firm in St. Paul. Rachel, 9, and Daniel, 7, attend a creative arts elementary school in St. Paul. Clinton Dale and Marta Stellwagen Lively and sons Evan and Bryce are moving to Tokyo, where Clinton will continue to work for Bankers Trust Co., for which he is a vice president. They would like to hear from alumni visiting or living in Japan. Their address is Hiroo Vista Homes #101, 9-14 Hiroo 3-Chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150 JAPAN. McConnell Franklin is living in Senegal, West Africa, with her husband Bob and their 27-month-old son, McConnell ("Macky"). The Franklins have lived on Goree Island, 20 minutes by ferry from Dakar, since July, 1988. Bob, a physician and professor at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, is directing a project under a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development and Tulane University, which provides advanced training in Public Health to Senegalese physicians. Amy, who received her master's degree in public health from Tulane in 1985, is completing her doctoral dissertation for a degree in Latin American Studies, also from Tulane. She did her field work in Mexico in the spring of 1987, and began writing her thesis earlier this year. Continued on page 18 Seth Cropsy, formerly Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy, in July was named principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. His particular province is special operations and low intensity conflict, which includes counter-insurgency and counter-intelligence. 1974 Glenn Griffin has been appointed vice · consul in El Salvador, and moved there with his wife Jane in September. Previously, he had been a guitar teacher, economist, a missionary, a campaign manager, a congressional aide, and had obtained degrees in economics, business and theology. He says, "The second year of the St. John's curriculum had great impact in my life, as it opened my mind and heart to the claims of Christ, and resulted in an enduring Christian commitment.'' 1978 David and his wife Teresa just had their first son, Dan. David is in the process of applying to the University of Florida's philosophy department for admission to the doctoral program. 1982 Geoff Henebry writes, "In June we moved to the Flint Hills of Kansas after a harrowing, if fruitful, final semester in Dallas. During this spring, Ana and I produced between us a master's thesis, a doctoral dissertation and a beautiful daughter, Claudia Louise, born May 9. By June 9, Ana, Patrick, Claudia and I had found a dwelling in Manhattan, home of Kansas State University. Here I am using my PhD in environmental sciences to develop mathematical models of the ecological processes that constitute the tallgrass prairie." 1983 Mary Mary Feldman and husband Rick Morris report the arrival of Ronald Alexander Morris on June 16, weighing in at nine and a half pounds. Mary Mary reports that ''no one could have convinced me how wonderful motherhood could be. Despite the sleep deprivation, I'm just delighted with my little boy." Scott Boyd is a student at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Va., expecting to get a degree in computer science in May, 1990. Peter Rossini is currently living in Lanham, MD, where he is testing satellites and building robotic wrists at NASA in Greenbelt. He writes "I'm getting into the philosophy of science excellent in combination with engineering. Will be married (God willing) in August of '89." 1984 Linda Anne Sullivan married Peter John Shea in Washington, D.C., on October 21. Among the bridesmaids were Demi Rasmussen, SF '85. The bride, who currently works as a freelance writer and is employed by Hr Productions, Inc., of Washington, was formerly assistant manager of Mothers Film Stages in New York City. The groom, a graduate of William and received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a staff attorney with the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington. 1985 Donald H. Parker is presently employed as Marketing Coordinator for Howell Management Corporation in Wilton, CT. He is also enrolled in the Stern School of Business MBA program at New York University. 1986 Stephen David Allred is in law school at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He and his wife Carolyn have been living in the Washington, D. C., area where he was a paralegal in the Washington office of a New York law firm for about two years. Class of 1 69 In this issue we continue our highlights of the lives of alumni of both Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses who celebrated their 20 year reunion. Linda Davenport of San Francisco earned an MS in learning disabilities, then worked in private practice doing assessments of learning-disabled children and adults and at the University of California, San Francisco, doing neuropsychological research on cognitive development of dyslexic boys and cognitive changes in normal and pathological aging. She returned to graduate school, and is now finishing an internship in the psychiatry department of a large HMO. Raymond J. Drolet of Shonto, AZ, has managed the Shonto Trading Post, deep in a canyon in the middle of the Navajo Reservation for the past 16 years. He married Melissa Kaplan, also from St. John's. They have a paleontologist, Jedediah Sam, 4, a daughter, Megan Josephine, 2, and a desert tortoise named Bo Didley. Charlotte Fletcher, retired as campus librarian 10 years ago, still borrows books from the College library and says she even finds time to read them. Shirley Flint of Villanueva, NM, continues to work towards self-realization, the joy that it brings and the myriad forms it takes: artist, writer, builder, traveller, historian, researcher, gardener ... Gary Gailun of Rockville, MD, worked as a psychiatric social worker, earned an MA in psychology, graduated from the Unitarian Universalist seminary in Chicago and was ordained a minister. He now ministers to a small church in Gaithersburg, MD, preaching, studying, counseling, leading marches, working with a computer, performing weddings, leading groups, and accounting. Andrew Garrison of Oxford, OH, taught at Key School in Annapolis, earned a PhD in Developmental Psychology at the University of Colorado. Currently divides his work between a small private psychotherapy practice and teaching in Miami's School of Interdisciplinary Studies, a residential liberal arts college. James Morrow Hall of Estancia, NM, served as the city's mayor and was famous for 15 minutes when he got involved with a time capsule scheme that got lots of publicity and made no money. He bought the local weekly paper, the Torrence County Citizen, and assumed the titles of editor, publisher and janitor. �SEPTEMBER 1989 DONNA BOETIG For Jam es an astrophysicist and ri...uu.a1vv•.•" tutor, star-gazing and teachcollege students is as natural in his life as the production of gamma rays is in our galaxies. In fact, according to both activities are supportive and essential to one another. "The balance between research and teaching gives energy and power to both:' he explains, his voice a studied decibel above the heightened level of student conversation in the FSK lobby. Between sips of coffee he recalls last summer's lectures that took him to Sicily, Italy and Germany. First he accepted an invitation from the ·directors for the NA1D Advanced Research Workshop in Sicily to be one of 40 participants - plasma physicists, astrophysicists and astronomers from around the world - to lecture in May. Since 1981 he has worked on the problem of relativistic particle beam propagation. The policy work he and his colleagues have completed thus far shows that energy loss mechanisms in relative particle beams appear to be present in active galaxies and quasars. These beams propagate out of the core of the galaxy and lose energy. In some, they propagate out hundreds and thousands of light years. In others, the beams slow within the core of the galaxy to much less than the speed of light, and become subrelativistic. They move, they emit radio light. Mr. Beall's work was a natural for the conference because the dominant mechanism by which the beams slow is associated with the properties of ionized gas, or plasmas. Following the conference, he explored the Greek ruins in Sicily, savoring its antiquity before returning to the States. A few weeks later, back in Europe, he lectured on the relativistic particle beam in astrophysics at the Institute of Space Astro-Physics in Frascati, Italy, the Institute for Cosmic Physics in Milan and the Institute of Astronomy in Tubingen West Germany. As an astrophysicist, Mr. Beall has lectured in Poland, Italy, West Germany, Spain and the United States. Last year he spoke to the faculty and graduate students at the University of Lodz in Poland. In Garching, West Germany, he has lectured at the European Southern Observatory headquarters and at the Max Planck Institute. He is a frequent contributor to Astrophysical Journal. Between teaching and his travels last summer, he completed the calculations James Beall Keith Harvey photo 3 REPORTER beam propagation distances doing research at the Naval Research Laboratory in D.C. Now, with winter nipping at heels of fall, he's enthusiastic about his dual roles. From 1981-83, before coming to St. John's, Mr. Beall was a Resident Associate for the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council at the Naval Research Laboratory where he worked to determine the variability of both solar and celestial x-ray and gamma-ray sources. Outside the lab, he · conveyed his scientific expertise to students in astronomy courses, such as "Stars and Galaxies:' at the University of Maryland University College. But far more than setting down scientific formulae or stating principles, Mr. Beall fires his students with his thirst for science and the belief that they can make a difference in the field. For some, he provides the unique opportunity of hands-on experience at the worldrenowned Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Throughout the years Mr. Beall has worked with St. John's students at this scientific center. Some, like senior Jintana Chiu have worked as lab assistants, performing experiments, analyzing data, even assembling scientific equipment. Others, like alumni Brad Stewart, A '89, and Bob Demajistre, A '89, began working at the lab while students, then stayed on after graduation to pursue careers in scientific research. Many of the students are apprehensive, in the beginning, about being able ' to meet the challenge of working at the lab. Annapolis senior Sasha Cochran came to the lab with a limited background in computer programming and went on to help develop a program for galaxy cluster modeling. Here's his story: "Being able to work at an internationally recognized laboratory makes it possible for St. John's students with a limited physics background to work hard and prove we can do it. It's difficult at first to get used to the advanced numerical methods physicists were using because we hadn't had them. But Mr. Beall eases our worries by giving us the confidence that we can do it. He believes our initiative will overcome our lack of a technical background. Soon we believe it, too. The work at St. John's is on a very abstract level, and prepares you for this type of thinking?' Senior Jintana Chiu who works as a lab assistant, performing experiments, analyzing data, even assembling scientific equipment agrees that St. John's program prepared her well for the laboratory. "What I don't know I pick up from others when they have time to teach me:' Ms.Chiu says. "I find it hard at first learning from someone's speech, instead of a book. But I figured if I could pick out the important points of what I read, I could do the same with a conversation~' Ms. Chiu's reward for her perseverance is being a member of a team of technicians and physicists, tossing about ideas as freely as frisbees, in the midst of a multitude of projects. Ms. Chiu and the others debunk the myths that St. John's students are disadvantaged in the sciences because they lack a concentration in it. Mr. Beall argues that St. John's does indeed offer a considerable four-year major in the sciences, if you include mathematics. And by beginning with the fundamentals and following through the sequen...........-.,.. 1.,. Beate Ruhm von Oppen, a tutor in Annapolis since 1960, has been awarded the German Scholl Prize for her book Helmuth James von Moltke: an Freya 1939-1945, a collection of wartime letters written by von Moltke to his wife which Ms. von Oppen has edited. The book was published by C.H. Beck, Munich, in 1988. Ms. von Oppen has translated the book for its American edition, which will be published by Alfred Knopf next year. The Scholl Prize, which carries a stipend of 20,000 DM, has been given jointly each year since 1980 by the Association of Bavarian Book Publishers and Retailers and the City of Munich. The prize money will be divided between Ms. von Oppen and von Moltke's widow.· The Scholl Prize was established to honor the memory of Hans and Sophie Stoll, students at the University of Munich and members of the anti-Nazi resistance movement. Ms. von Oppen planned to travel to Germany for the award ceremony on Monday, November 27. Her translation, editing and annotating of the letters, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, has been the project of many years. In 1970, while she was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Ms. von Oppen gave a series of lectures later published as a monograph in 1971 entitled Religion and Resistance to Nazism. Work on that project at the Institute and at the Center for International Affairs led Ms. von Oppen to the subject and letters of Moltke. In 1975, Ms. von Oppen lectured for two consecutive Friday evenings at the College on the Scholls and their friends in a talk she called "Student Rebellion and the Nazis: 'The White Rose' in its Setting~' Both lectures were published in The St. John's Review in the Winter 1984 issue. A later lecture at the college on Moltke himself, entitled "Trial in Berlin:' was published in The College, January 1977. Von Moltke was the founder and leader of the "Kreisau Circle:' opponents of the Nazi regime. The group was named after the Moltke estate where they sometimes met, although most of the group's meetings were in Berlin. It was Beate Ruhm von Oppen _ investigations after the failed plot against Hitler in July, 1944, that led to the discovery of the Kreisau Circle. Moltke had been arrested in January, 1944, and was executed in January, 1945. Ms. von Oppen expressed pleasure at the recognition of the Moltke letters which she describes collectively as "a great human document and an important source on life and death in Nazi Germany and Hitler's Europe. They give evidence:' she said, "on Moltke's efforts to alleviate the sufferings of the victims and to work for a better future~' An international lawyer and legal adviser to the German High Command, Moltke made a trip to neutral Sweden, where he wrote and despatched a detailed account of the affair of the "white Rose" to England, together with a copy of the resisters' last leaflet. Moltke's report aimed at showing that despite all the regimentation, especially of the young, despite the execution of the Scholls and their friends, there were forces in Germany with whom the Allies could and should work. The report and the leaflet reached England, and many thousands of copies of the leaflet were later dropped over Germany by the Royal Air Force. "It seems to me a particularly happy , circumstance:' said Ms. von Oppen, "that Moltke's interest in the brave opposition of those students should be thus reciprocated, so to speak, in a prize instituted in their honor and given to the documentation of Moltke's last years~' tial development of a scientific thought, tight-lipped about the experience:' Years later, Mr. Beall would have a students appreciate the development in daughter, Tura, who would inherit her a way not possible in a conventional program. grandfather's love of photography. Tura is a sophomore at the College. So successful is the concept that almost as many St. John's students go Undeterred by his initial explorations, on to earn doctorates in the sciences as Mr. Beall went on as a child to build rockets. in the humanities, according to the Great This need to explore, to discover, to Lakes Colleges Association for 19511980. dissect his world positioned him well for the challenges that lay ahead. He would A passion for science came early to earn a degree in physics from the UniverMr. Beall. As a young farm boy sity of Colorado, then prepare his disin West Virginia, he was enthralled with sertation on astronomy and astrophysics the stars and what lay beyond. "I spent for his doctorate from the University of a lot of time trying to discover the secrets Maryland. of the universe and failing miserablY,' he Eventually, his probing would lead muses. With an eye cocked to a telehim to the theoretical work which anticscope, it's a wonderful way to pass a day, ipated x-ray emission from a supernova he recalls. "There was a religious eleexplosion, earning him international ment, a real sense of awe, not unlike recognition in his field. listening to a Bach fugue:' "I was simply in the right place at the Still, life was not all heavenly for this right time:' he says, vehemently denying curious child. "One of my most miserathat he is being modest. ble childhood memories was when I disassembled the shutter mechanism of my Mr. Beall will be taking a sabbatical next year to extend his research on acfather's box camera, and of course I tive galaxies and quasars, still trying to didn't get it back together again. My father was a professional photographer, : solve those secrets of the universe that and the camera was his tool. But he was intrigued him long ago. �PAGE 4 THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1989 Annapolis tutor has answers (Eva Brann, senior tutor at Annapolis, nrf•na,rPri. Admissions office in to questions on used by the College.) We are sometimes asked why our program contains so tew works oy women and and none at all from the East. we have considered and as a Here are some ask this three sorts it seems that in mind: 1. They expect, in a general way, that in putting a list of ...,,,.,,,..;,,,,.r1 realau1gs we would make sure to include a fair of the great works produced by all the diverse groups - the civilizations, races, professions - that go to make up humanity; in view of the shrinking of today's world they would hope that we would help our students to a more global understanding. 2. Or, again, they suspect that it is presumptuous of a faculty to establish criteria for a whole school, especially when these criteria turn out to select books written mostly by European and North American authors who are white, male and long dead; they expect us to balance this list with more recent works by women and minority writers. , 3. Finally, they worry that students belonging to these latter groups might have a hard time getting what they need from books not written by, or for, or even much about them; they feel that education should provide an element of support for people with special histories. Here are some responses we as a faculty do agree on - of course within wide limits of difference: 1. It is easiest for us to respond to the first version of the question, which concerns the representation on the Program of greatness in all its diversity, because our answer is so much constrained by practical educational necessity. Consider just the literary works and sacred texts of East and West: what can we do in the four short years we have with our students? We could draw up a list of isolated high points and fill in the context with broad-brushed background lectures - a form of instruction in which we have no faith. Such a spotty survey would be demeaning to the works and unsatisfying to our students. Moreover, we are convinced that the condition of an intelligent respect for other worlds is a thorough assimilation of one's own. So we have chosen to study a sequence of works from the Western tradition. Each work is picked because it is fairly accessible on its own and also because it forms an integral whole with the others. These texts build on and sometimes reflect back on each other; they weave, willy-nilly, that web of refutation and resurrection, of argument and counterargument, sensibility and countersensibility, passion and counterpassion that characterizes our particular legacy: Our tradition develops as a unity of radical oppositions. Moreover, just as this list lends intellectual integrity to the Program, it assures some social coherence to the college community, since we have almost all studies in common. These are features we value highly enough to forego others, though not without regret. 2. In answer to the second version of the question, how we can presume to choose for the whole institution and then to make so restricted a choice, we would say, first, that although our list may not be broad (though it does span almost three millennia and two continents) it is both deep and crucial to our lives. These texts, be they books, music or pictures, contain the roots of understanding for moderns in general and for Americans in particular. What all inhabitants of the globe have in common is the need to come to grips with science, and for that the texts on our Program are indispensable. But these works also speak to us as Americans, particularly since they contain the political principles by which we live together. Moreover, a far truer description than that which represents the hyphenated Americans as outsiders to the Western tradition is that which regards them as charter members of its continual refounding. Thus it is not a mere curiosity that in reestablishing the theory of civil disobedience from in Birmingham, Martin Luther King reached back to Socrates in jail in,~ .... ~ ...,_ or that the present flowering of black literature comes from women who are equally well versed in the Bible and in Baudelaire. Some of their works no doubt, eventually enter our all-too-short list. Of course, we cannot overlook the fact that groups recently emerging are not well represented in the Program. We think of this fact as just that: a mere fact, a brute historical fact. To allow it to govern our choice of readings would be to cut off our nose to spite our face. How would we serve our students curtailing their access to a deep analysis of the present condition? At any rate, time itself will cure the defect. A tradition so long in the making is slow to recognize newcomers, but when we come round we will be paying tribute to the intrinsic excellence of works, not to some exterior pressure. We however, have both formal and informal ways of trying new books. As a part of the we have the preceptorial, small study groups tutors and students can out books not on the seminar list. Furtherin more, students run seminars for which often such works. Moreover, some of us subscribe to the ideal of reading ,,.,,,,,r,rtnn·•nr promising in and the short of it is that as a we could never bring ourselves or even to include works just because they were written by women or because were of burning topical interest. The reason is that we do not think of a great book as representing a group interest, but rather as presenting the sometimes radically independent thought of an individual. In fact, that characteristic is one of our criteria for picking a book. We do recognize that there are many people in the universities who deny that there are such books, who think ,,.,,.~.,,,.,..;..-.-1-u-..r'"' To the Editor: I propose that St. John's build an Institute for Advanced Study. It would offer both the opportunity for St. John's trained individuals to pursue their own research and for them to instruct a small number of graduate-level students. Although eventual accreditation as a Ph.D. granting program would be desirable, it is not a necessary initial condition. This institution would satisfy several needs. First of all, it would provide a retreat for current St. John's faculty to pursue non-program interests in depth. Second, it would provide a graduate setting in which to study a variety of intellectual subjects according to St. John's unique method. Finally, it would allow St. John's scholars the opportunity to produce publishable manuscripts which would thus introduce the St. John's perspective into the academic and intellectual worlds at large. This institution would thus enrich both St. John's, through faculty development, and the world of academia, which hears too little ,from St. John's faculty. Scholars from other institutions would be encouraged to spend time studying at the St. John's Institute for Advanced Study, thus providing an immediate, personal conduit of communication between St. John's and the faculty of other institutions. St. John's College enjoys a quiet but favorable reputation as The School With The Great Books Program. The Great Books as a course of study have been discussed and advocated by a number of prominent individuals at institutions outside of St. John's, including Hutchins at the University of Chicago, Mortimer Adler as head of the Institute of Philosophical Research and now as founder of the Paideia Program, and most recently Allan Bloom in his book, The Closing of the American Mind. Richard Rorty of the University of Virginia, in the course of criticizing Bloom (in The New Republic) advocates the study of the great Books moderation.) Thus the Great Books as a curriculum have, however insufficiently, advocates outside of St. John's. I believe that there are other aspects of the St. John's program which are unknown outside of St. John's College and its alumni. In particular, seminar discussions, based on the in the of the disinterested of the should be introduced to a much number of thinkers and educators is possible with the available St. John's institutions. I have studied at Harvard College, St. John's College, the Claremont Graduate School, and the University of Chicago. Unambiguously, St. John's was the only one of those institutions in which a com- munity of learning was thriving. There are a number of factors which contribute to this fact, most of which are dependent on the uncompromising Great Books curriculum. St. John's attracts an unusual group of individuals who are both morally concerned and intellectually serious. While there are many individuals at many il}stitutions who are interested in learning for learning's sake, St. John's is distinguished by the concentration of such individuals. The combination of an excellent curriculum, no immediate practical value for the degree, the lack of varsity athletics, and the small size, conspireto give St. John's an intellectual intensity and sincerity unmatched by major research universities, and outstanding among small liberal arts colleges. This climate has preserved something which is taken for granted among intelligent people at large, but which is a relative rarity among the mainstream intellectual centers of the United States: belief in reasoned discussion. That is, the belief that reasoned, or rational, discussion can lead to the truth, or Truth, as opposed to merely being a representation of interest or power. This is the precious commodity which St. John's needs to develop and export, this is the national resource which ought to be preserved in at least one center of higher learning in the United States. A belief in reasoned discussion is the foundation of Western Civilization; even the slightest suspicion that it is becoming a lost art ought to encourage us to create a preserve where it might be remembered. While this belief is preserved at the college itself, the college is and must be committed to instructing undergraduates, and secondly Graduate Institute students, in the great Books. The enormous burden of the Program does not allow tutors or the students to study any particular subject or problem in depth. An alternative institution is required where individuals with St. John's extremely broad philosophical education be allowed to focus it on a ular issue. Because of the utilitarian pressures and corrosive beliefs of mainstream it is not sufficient for St. John's tutors and to study these issues in the contest of exi:stintg academic To prevent the of of, .........,,,,,.,., ..... may be in from other institutions. But every host and every guest knows that there is a great difference between being the host and being the guest, and it is time that St. John's, whose many graduates have been guests at many institutions, becomes a host. Michael Strong, SF'85 .......U .. J'">'"''• .., Continued on page 18 �THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1989 RAY CAVE: The view from the top NANCY OSIUS To hear Ray Cave tell it, he wasn't much of a student, he couldn't type, he couldn't learn French ("Bob Bart told me I was the worst French student he ever he couldn't even dance. Moreover, he had entered St. John's unuu.., .........,VAJ' young, on his 15th years later, after flunking his exam, it took all his eloquence to persuade the authorities to let him repeat his junior year - an unheard of liberty at the time. A melancholy tale, this, and one related in Annapolis today with wry good humor by Ray Cave, sitting over coffee in Dimitri's on Main St. His self-deprecating comments notwithstanding, he is a man whose detached and thoughtful expression, trim gray beard and belted trenchcoat suggest he might be a physicist on the international scientific circuit, or a distinguished doctor at a teaching hospital - or a journalist at the very top of his profession. Something must have gone right somewhere. At 25 he was in North Africa for the Baltimore Evening Sun doing a series on the French Foreign Legion, even without French ("A lot of the Legionnaires didn't speak it either"), by 30 he had gone to Sports Illustrated in Manhattan, and was threading his way up the editorial ladder. Before he was 50 he had become managing editor of Time Magazine, the number one editorial position on the most important newsmagazine in the world. In 1987 he was made editorial director for all Time Inc. magazines. " He left Time Inc. on January 1 of this year, and became, as he puts it "a private citizen.'' Since then he has been treating himself to a few of the perks those gruelling and heady years did not permit, such as three trips to Europe, six weeks in Maine, and considerable salmon fishing. His duties as a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors have brought him to town and he is willing to tell us what happened to that 15-year-old who arrived in Annapolis in 1944, "It was during the war, and you were allowed to come in at the end of your sophomore year of high school,'' says Cave. "Stringfellow Barr claimed all you learned in the last two years of high school was how to dance." Coming in young may have improved him intellectually, he concedes smiling, "but it severely damaged me socially.'' At that time, his father was an army officer stationed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. ''I wanted to go to West Point, but my father said that I had to have a college degree first, a rather remarkable idea and an immensely wise one. He said if you were going to make a career of the army, you should have every opportunity to get to the top and a college degree before entering West Point would be a big step. Moreover, the degree should come from a school that would stress the things that West Point wouldn't. He had read about the New Program and was fascinated by it. I was too young to argue, and off I went to St. John's." General Cave also predicted that his son would change his mind about a military career by the time he got his degree, and he was right. Cave perhaps exaggerates the happenstance quality of the career search that followed his graduation in 1949. Six months working as a waiter were followed by six months in the academic world at Wroxeter School on the Severn He didn't know how to type, of course, but he managed to conceal that deficiency from the editor by ''organizing'' during the day and typing up his copy from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. "I was picking up typing faster than they were picking up my deficiencies,'' he says. He worked six days a week as a member of the four-person staff for the next 18 months. "This was a demanding company," he remembers, one that gave him half a day off to get married and the following Monday for his honeymoon. His salary: $29 a week. "I liked journalism from that first day of typing the social news," he says. "Being a reporter was exciting. And it wasn't everybody who knew the goings on in T.B. and Lexington Park." He was 22 when he was hired by the Evening Sun as a police reporter. Drafted, he spent two years in the army's Counter-Intelligence Corps in Japan and Korea. 1958 he was an Evening Sun assistant city editor, with a lot of general assignment reporting in between. ''I was one of the early investigative reporters, I guess, back before it was fashionable.'' Among his favorite assignments was a series on a marvelous chubby little old lady who somehow bilked a Virginia savings and loan of something like three million dollars. Cave spent three months with the Foreign Legion in Algeria in 1955 during the Arab uprising against the French in Algeria and Morocco, moving from Casa- Before he was 50, he had become managing editor Time magazine, the number one editorial position on the most important newsmagazine in River, where he taught manual arts and supervised study hall. ''I had no talent whatsoever for manual arts and I'm doubtful about study hall," he remembers. Launched on another job hunt, he presented himself to the then Evening Capital, as a prospective journalist. The only thing available was delivering ad proofs by bicycle. "I'll take it," said Cave. "I can ride a bicycle." It turned out that the Capital had just bought a weekly newspaper, the Southern Maryland Times, located on Church Circle. Cave was hired, not to bike, but to type the social news mailed in weekly from a dozen small towns in the region. Cave meets Mikhail Gorbachev for an exclusive Time Interview in 1985. blanca to Rabat to a Legion outpost on the Sahara Desert, where the Legionnaires, in their long robes and kepis, looked exactly like figures on a movie set. He denies being anybody special at the Sun. "There were some really talented people around. Bill Manchester, the noted biographer, had the desk next to mine. Russell Baker had, just left the morning paper.'' But he did get assignments, he has to agree. In 1959 came the jump to the truly big time. Cave had been a stringer for Sports Illustrated, one of Time Inc.'s publications, for several years, when in a memorable week, Time offered him PAGE 5 one job and Sports Illustrated two. The long Time Inc. association had begun. He wrote for Sports Illustrated only for three or four years, he says, then turned to editing. "I enjoyed editing more than writing and when I went to SI, I wanted to be an editor, not a writer. Writing is simply too hard. SI was considered to be one of the very best written magazines in the country.'' At the time, SI was about 25 % non-staff wri.tten, and Cave bought all the nonstaff material. In the course of the job, he dealt with some of America's most famous writers. ''There was no name writer that we wouldn't go to. We bought pieces from O'Hara, Dos Passos, Steinbeck. We ran a 50,000 word Hemingway hunting story sometime after he died, something that had never. been published before." In the September 1989 issue of Vogue, writer Jim Harrison (Legends of the Fall and seven other novels) recalls there that SI editors Ray Cave and Pat Ryan sent him tarpon fishing in the Keys and stag hunting in France in the days when he "did journalism." "Some wonderful writers 'did journalism' for us," says Cave. Were the best writers hard to work with? By and large no, says Cave. "Usually they would go along with a reasonable amount of what you suggested, since your goals were the same, the best possible story. But not always. O'Hara, for example, would not let you change a comma. 'Not so much as a comma,' his agent would insist. I concluded O'Hara didn't like editors." In the mid-1970's, Cave and his wife Katherine Mumford Cave of Annapolis were separated and later divorced. There are two grown children from this marriage, John, 35, and Catherine, 30, and one grandchild. In 1976, Cave went to Time as an assistant managing editor. He associates his own appearance on the scene with one of the "peaks and valleys" of the magazine in its competition with Newsweek. "Time's circulation and profitability are always much larger than Newsweek's, but there are times in the public perception and newsstand sales when the newsmagazines close to equal and you don't care that," he comments. "This was such a period. There was a feeling that Time needed to be shaken up one way or the other." In 1977 Cave was named managing a post he held until 1985. In those first days at Cave remembers that he had two main objectives for the magazine: to make it more visually stimulating and to make it more readable. "I knew we could use lots of color news photography to make it look more exciting. I had spent a decade helping do that at SI, which pioneered color (Continued on page 18) -- �THE REPORTER PAGE 6 DECEMBER 1989 Ceremony held From clockwise: In the first Finn W. with the 111'\alf'l!!llt't~'!!:ll Finn W. caso~ers,on reg1atta. it's the men against the women; Padraic Taaffe some onlookers on the beautiful fall Keith Harvey photos (Continued from page one) before the release of "50 Hours:' a CBS News film crew came to the Annapolis campus to interview Dean Slakey and to film a half hour of a senior seminar discussion, brief clips of which were shown on Sunday and Monday, October 8 and 9. In a corollary event, John Agresto, former deputy chairman of the NEH, who is the new president of the Santa Fe campus, in his final act as of the Madison Center hosted a conference October 27-29 called "Restoring American Education~' The Madison Center is a Washington-based think tank. Urgent concern about educational emphasis on the liberal arts was expressed by individual speakers and panel oai11cmants at the conference, attended 180 public officials, students and others. The NEH report, "50 ..,,,..,.,..,,.,.,.....,.concern about the rragrntenrea state curricula" in its noting such statistics as the following: can from 78 percent of the nation's colleges and universities without ever the history of western from 38 percent without course in history at from 45 without taking a course in or English literature, from 77 percent without studying a foreign language, 42 percent without studying mathematics, and from 33 percent without studying natural and physical sciences. Even more disturbing data followed: 25 percent of the nation's college seniors could not place Columbus' voyage within 50 years of its date; 25 percent could not distinguish Churchill's words from Stalin's, or Karl Marx's thoughts from the ideas of the U.S. Constitution, while more than 40 percent did not know when the Civil War occurred. Acknowledging that education aims at more than acquaintance with dates and places, the report suggested that "students who approach the end of their college years without knowing basic landmarks of history and thought are unlikely to have reflected on their meaning~' ''A required course of studies - a core of learning - can insure that students have opportunities to know the literature, philosophy, institutions and art of our own and other cultures courage understanding of m..,,i"lh<:>m,<:>1" and science:' the report states, and then sets forth a suggested 50 hour core divided as follows: 18 hours, cultures and ,.,,,,. ... ,r. .... "" 12 two years of foreign language; six hours, concepts of mathematics; eight hours, foundations of the natural sciences, and six hours, the social sciences and the modern world. In one of several "curriculum profiles" in the report, the St. John's program is described along with those of Thomas Aquinas College in California and Shimer College in Illinois as institutions which have "core programs of such rigor and extent that they define the entire curriculum:' The St. John's junior syllabus is included in this section as well as Dean Slakey's words from his April 1987 Statement of Educational Policy, cited as an 11, " The second of three major fall dedication ceremonies at the Annapolis campus took place October 11 when completion of the Beneficial-Hodson Boathouse brought together a happy crowd of students, faculty and principal benefactors of the project on a sunny Wednesday afternoon. College President William M. Dyal, Jr., presided at the ceremony in the second floor reception area with its many windows overlooking College Creek, an area that has been displaying its versatility since last January as a site for seminars, student activities, luncheon meetings and the like. Facilities on the second floor level include a kitchen and bathrooms. The basin level of the Boathouse has been redesigned for expanqed usage by the Rowing Club and small boat sailors. A lighted walk links the Boathouse with Iglehart Hall, the college gymnasium. Finn MW. Casperson, president of the Hodson Trust and chairman and chief executive officer of the Beneficial Corporation, responded to President expression of thanks for the Trust's generosity. The Hodson along with donors, of needed funding. Mr. ' ..,,cino.-,,,,......, expressed interest in another shell to the program. William M. Simmons, A dividual benefactor of the reminisced about his years at the Mr. Simmons is a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors. Junior Padraic of the St. John's described the rowing program, and then led the visitors to the balcony to view the first annual Finn W. Casperson regatta in the headwaters of College Creek, pitting a men's boat against a women's boat in a handicap race. The men's shell took the first victory. expression of the College's mission: "[It] exists to promote, as best it can, a direct and powerful experience of some truly Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, excellent things, subtle and complex author, editor, lecturer and teacher was arguments, brilliant tales and devices, presented in October with the second annoble speculations~' nual Phi Beta Kappa Associates Award Notes the report: "The teacher as learner is particularly emphasized at St. _) at the annual meeting of the Associates in Boston. John's, where the aim is to have all The Phi Beta Kappa Associates is a faculty members teach in all parts of the group of approximately 600 members of curriculum, from literature to music to the national scholarly honorary society _ mathematics:' who a major source of financial In a discussion of good teaching as support for the Phi. Beta Founcrucial to the success of any curriculum, dation and who are dedicated to nnJmorMr. Raditsa's tribute to the eminent philosopher I.A. Richards, one of his ing the goals of the '°'·..,., ...........""''""u·v.u. Associates seek to recognize for memteachers at Columbia, is quoted in the bership in the group members of Phi introduction to the report. Beta who have demonstrated in At the Madison Center conference, their later lives and careers the intellecMr. Agresto and Dean were on tual promise that them for the opening "What's Worth Oir'<Jnc•...-.1f·-t1ri1n- a Core of Comelection. mon Culture~' Other took such matters as "Upper Crust White Men . . . or, Whither the Study of Western Civilization?", "Liberal Education and Liberal Democraci,' and Mr. Agresto's inauguration ceremony "The Politicization of Education'.' A for the conference was is scheduled for 1990. Allan author of The Closing of Mr. Dyal came to the Annapolis the American Mind. campus after five years as president of AFS, and nine years as president of the Inter-American Foundation, a Congressionally-mandated group which supported economic development in Latin The next issue of the St. John's America and the Caribbean basin. Review, a double issue on the subEarlier he served as a peace Corps ject of Plato's Republic, will be in regional director for countries in the the mail by late January, according Near East, South Asia and North to editor Elliott Zuckerman. Africa. �DECEMBER 1989 THE REPORTER PAGE 7 Fo nders feted "Colleges do not found themselves:' ,..,..,..,,."''"'"'"1" John Agresto's introd.m::to1rv remarks in the program for the fourth annual Founders celebration on the western campus October 6. are and sustau1ea by the imagination, the dediand the charity of men and women. Colleges are made. Thanks to a few extraordinary individuals who gave so much, this one was made extraordinarily well. "Thus;' he went on to say, "it is very fitting and proper that we honor those whose contributlons made it possible for us to celebrate our silver jubilee. Because of their efforts, we can take pride in what we have and look forward with confidence to the future:' On the 25th anniversary year of the western campus, 125 people gathered in the Great Hall of the Peterson Center on the Santa Fe campus to celebrate Founders' Day and to honor the 118 men and women whose names are included on an honor roll of those who gave of their "energies, time, ideas and resources" to establish the campus. Three were selected for special recognition at the banquet: Tutors Robert Bart and William Darkey, and President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle. Robert Bart, who was present to accept his honor, received his undergraduate degree in history and literature from Harvard College, and a master's degree from St. John's in 1957. He transferred from Annapolis to Santa Fe in 1975, and served as dean of the western campus from 1977 to 1982. At the banquet he also accepted his 1989 Sears-Roebuck Foundation "Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award:' one of 700 faculty members so recognized nationally. William Darkey attended St. John's in the early days of the new program, receiving his BA from the College in 1942. He received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1949. He served as a tutor in Annapolis from 1942-46, and again from 1949-1964. In 1964, he transferred to Santa Fe, where he served as dean from 1968 to 1973. Richard Weigle, who did both his undergraduate and graduate work at Yale, worked in the State Department for Far Eastern Affairs before assuming the presidency of the College in 1949. He was president of both campuses from 1964 until his retirement in 1980. Pointing out that while she was not in any way a founder of "this College that I love:' keynote speaker Eva Brann, a tutor at Annapolis, said she welcomed the opportunity to engage in some reflections "about founding and sustaining an institution, and our own in particular.' Ms. Brann observed that since the first founders of the New Program - who did in fact leave when their founding work was done - their successors, Jacob Klein, Bill Darkey and Bob Bart, all deans at crucial times, afterwards went "back to live, so to speak, as citizens, happy and productive, of the institution they led. It means that we are more than a field for even the finest ambition - we are a way of lifC:' she said. Identifying herself as a "wholehearted convert to the cause" [the establishment of the Santa Fe campus], she observed that "[it] has always been my delight that one may cross two-thirds of the country, go from short streets cut off by water to wide vistas encircled by mountains, and find oneself in the same convers? City Councilor Peso Chavez proclaims October 6 as St. John's College Founders' Day in Santa Fe, above left; above, President John Agresto, standing, speaks with Tutor David Bolotin. tion, a conversation so deep and so universal that two-thousand miles is nothing to it!' Comparing the founding of this nation to the founding of the College, Ms. Brann affirmed the importance of the public memory of beginnings, while adding that it is even more important for. such beginnings "to pass into its. daily fabric:' and to become part of its "living present!' Because she likes the "present dailiness of life and particularly of our school:' she has never cared so much Award to Bart Santa Fe tutor Robert Bart was selected as winner of a 1989 SearsRoebuck Foundation's "Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award:' He is one of nearly 700 faculty members being recognized nationally by the Sears-Roebuck Foundation for resourcefulness and leadership as a private college educator. Each award winner receives $1,000, and the institution receives a grant ranging from $500 to $1,500 based on student enrollment. Winners are selected by independent committees on each campus. The program is administered nationally by the Stamford, Connecticut-based Foundation for Independent Higher Education and locally by Robert E. Rhodes, Executive Director, New Mexico Independent College Fund. about being present at the founding, she said. Instead, it "is of ever-fresh interest and concern to me how daily life embodies and revives the moment and the principles of the founding, both in our republic and in our school:' Therefore, she said, those gathered were honoring "the definite time of the beginning by sustaining the foundation in a daily effort, which though going on in time is really, in a way, timeless:' Ms. Brann, who joined the Annapolis faculty in 1957, received her BA and MA from Brooklyn College, and her PhD from Yale University in 1956. She is the author of many published articles, two books, and an upcoming book, The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance, which presents a critical synthesis of major theories about the imagination. President Agresto, above; performers in Desert Voices give after dinner concert, _below. Keynote speaker Tutor Eva Brann, above; and honoree Tutor Robert Bart, above right. J. W. Blagden photos �PAGE 8 St. John's Helps· THE REPORTER I ALUMNI NEWS ST. DECEMBER 1989 ALUMNI By Lynda George, SGI '86 Four summers of study at St. John's have changed my style and philosophy of teaching. Two elements of the teaching process stand out as extremely important for becoming a truly educated person -- and the middle school is a good place to exercise these. One is exposing youth to the study of primary sources. The other is allowing youth to do the work, to analyze, and in tum spend some time teaching and sharing their insights with their peers. I've done both in my classroom in a curriculum unit called "The Federalists Argue for the Adoption of the Constitution." This unit focuses on several Federalist Papers. Although this material might seem quite dry and perhaps too academic for eighth graders, it is in fact both interesting and fun. I simply divide the class into small groups of three of four students. Each group takes on the task of studying one Federalist Paper and then teaching the rest of the class the arguments for and against ratification of the Constitution based on the ideas discussed in their text. Students learn the art of educating In this setting, the teacher becomes the facilitator while the students take on the act or art of educating. Students prepare a presentation or lesson in addition to preparing, administering, and grading a test for their classmates about what they have studied and taught. They love preparing the test, little realizing at the time how much their test reflects the depth of their understanding and knowledge of the material. They also enjoy being responsible to their peers and working in· small groups as they study. Students participate in this project following the study of the Articles of Confederation and before readof the students being the U.S. Constitution. come Anti-Federalists as a result of our work comparing the two documents. They use not only the text the cite evidence based on recent history to support their stand. The Study of U.S. History begins with the reading of the Mayflower Compact Students are always surprised at the positive manner in which King James I is addressed in the document and we ponder possible reasons. To allay anxiety, the students are told that while the reading of documents is difficult, it can be seen as a jigsaw puzzle which we as a group will work on together. Next, we read The Fundamental Orders which is the colonies' and Connecticut's first constitution. Scholars have argued whether or not this document promises and promotes a democracy or a theocracy. Convincing sermons, seminars Thomas Hooker, the Puritan who led a group of English families to Hartford, Connecticut, is said to have preached a sermon encouraging the adoption of The Orders. The sermon is lost; only a quote Hooker used from the Bible remains. Following several seminars on The Orders, students write a "sermon" urging its adoption. Their knowledge of the document, derived with help from the seminars, leads to the development of their arguments and the ten best papers are thenselected to compete for small cash prizes. Local historians and government officials are invited to judge the competition. Although the task of interpretation is difficult, the results of the seminar discussions lead to very diverse and unique papers. The invited guests have been impressedboth by the quality of the student's work and the enthusiasm they show for learning. By the end of the first semester students have read, studied, and discussed five documents allowing them to have a basic understanding and awareness of our government far deeper than most eighth graders. The textbook is rarely used and the students appreciate leaving it in their lockers while we study the "real stuff' in an active participatory manner. Chocolate chip cookies and great ideas As an educator I have come to believe that by the time a student reaches middle school she/he has experienced and observed much of nature and society. Yet most students have done very little thinking about the whys of either of the variables which exist within each. The curriculum project "Seminars and Chocolate Chip Cookies" offers students the opportunity to consider and discuss ideas. A special added feature of these seminars is that parents participate in the discussions. Students and parents read short exerpts from classical philosophical works of primary source material concerning "great ideas." We meet once a month in my home and I bake chocolate chip cookies, hence the title of the project. These seminars are the highlight of my month, for all participants take seriously the listening, • I Second, I would comment on Mr. Pollack's derision of vision (a lower aspect of the soul and therefore not worthy of indulgence) simply thus: our sense of sight is not negotiable; we must take for granted the fact that we use it every day (apologies to Homer, Milton and Helen Keller.) Dear Editor: I am glad the debate has finally arisen over the potential of visual arts in the St. John's curriculum. For me this is an issue of personal importance. The body of conversation that all students have in common make St. John's a very special and desirable place to study, but the peripheral status of visual arts to the program is one reason I did not finish my education there. I left St. John's in my junior year, largely· because I felt there were some important parts of my intellect that were not being legitimately challenged. Later, when I found myself in a vocational art school trying to satisfy those creative urges, I wished desperately for peers with whom I could discuss my questions about art -- in the spirit of philosophical inquiry I had come to know at St. John's. Alas, there were none to be found. And so I feel compelled to respond to John Pollack's letter in the June issue of The Reporter, wherein a somewhat predictable (I thought) argument was made for the status quo, rife with references to the Platonic divisions of the soul. I won't challenge the philosopher's assumptions at this point, but will instead address some of the arguments he made that were not addressed by Sharon Garvey's letter in the same issue. First, I would note that many intellectuals have a "pathetic" opinion of the arts, mainly because they have had not opportunity to learn how to explore the medium noetically. Art is not the solely emotional expression that common knowledge assures it to be; anyone who has ever tried to paint finds it a fundamentally philosophical endeavour: How do I explain reality? What is truth? To commit a line to paper is literally to draw a conclusion. Likewise, a great painting can be read much like any book: What is the author trying to say, and why? Do I agree with his perspective, and why not? An honest inquiry into a painting can be as enriching, as Ms. Garvey explained, as a discussion of any text. In this last paragraph Mr. Pollack uses another sensual metaphor to make his point, deeming informed taste as "pleasant but peripheral." Peripheral, indeed! Mr. Pollack may consider taste an inferior thing to higher aspects of the soul such as discursive reason, but without taste, how are we to savor this thing called life? Or shall we forever dine on visual fast food, so amply provided by the modem media? Even one seminar a year on a painting, or a series of them, would teach us how to converse better about visual things, and give us broader understanding of our world and ourselves. It is my opinion that a selection of drawings, ings, sculptures and buildings should be included the curriculum. St. John's is not solely a great books school; the musical aspects of discourse are well attended to. Likewise, so should the visual be. The inclusion of great works of art would augment every aspect of the program, regardless of which readings would have to be sacrificed. I hope others share this opinion. Respectfully, Kristin Baumgardner, SF86 Annapolis Homecoming 1989 featured the alwayscrowded Saturday night cocktail party. Here Alexandra Mullen A '84, and Diana Fabi A '85 talk with tutor Peter Kalkavage. Besting all the hurricane warnings, the Sunday President's Brunch found Chris Nelson SP70, Jay Gold A '71 and Virginia Little discussing the Homecoming weekend. interpreting, and sharing. Parents listen to their children and vice versa. By the second seminar students begin taking turns preparing the opening question and they take great pride in this. Urban, public school setting for programs When I returned to Hartford in August, 1986 having just completed my fourth and final segment of the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe,~ I was asked to teach social studies in the honors program at T.J.Quirk Middle School. Quirk is an urban school located in the poorest section of the city with a predominately minority-filled student body of some 1300 students. Also included is a smattering of middle income families committed to urban life and integrated public education. What has taken place over the past three years in my '"Vision is common to many animals," he begins his final thesis, "and is not a decisive factor in a good life." I have to agree that we share vision, as we do all our senses, with the beasts, but I must argue that it is a decisive factor in the process of reasoning that binds us together as humans. J A rejection of visual experience per se is simply not reason enough to exclude the giants who have created works meant to be known with the eyes. classroom has made me a much better educator, plus my work continues to be interesting and rewarding. The students have taken a more active part in their education. They enjoy the challenges and work well together; they truly appreciate the opportunity to stretch and explore. Together we are learning to think, discover, and trust our minds as a group working together--thanks to Socrates and the tutors at St. John's. (Ms. George has received grants from the State of Connecticut and Southern New England Telephone in their "Celebration of Excellence" program, as well as an award from the Connecticut Consortium on Law Related Education. She is willing to assist anyone interested in starting a seminar group with parents and their children.) �DECEMBER 1989 PAGE 9 THE REPORTER I AWMNI NEWS Western alumni cheer for a Monterey campus "Jan Doren committee will seek opinion of all alumni on developing new property How to make use of the large tract ofland bequested to St. John's in Monterey, California, is perhaps the most significant issue now facing the college. /fit wants to keep the property, the college is obliged to establish some sort of educational program there within the next few years. Otherwise the real estate will revert to the State of California. 1he Board of Visitors and Governors is now pondering the potential demand for a third campus, whether it can be paid for and what i.ts impact on the two present campuses might be. It will seek advice from both the faculty and alumni. A committee of the Alumni Board, chaired by John Van Doren, has been formed to solicit your opinions. The next Alumni Newsletter will be devoted to a review of the "California" issues. At that time we'll invite you to send us your thoughts for the Board of Visitors and Governors to consider. At January's meeting the Association Board will address whether the Alumni Association should take a position, and if so, how this should be determined. Meanwhile, local chapters are encouraged to discuss the matter and provide comment. The Northern California Chapter already has visited the site. President Mark Middltbrook 's report to the Board appears below: In October, 17 members of the SJC Alumni Association of Northern California Chapter gathered in Monterey County to review the college's property there. I hope this report on our visit will prove useful as the Board begins deliberating about the property, since the report reflects the views of one of the Alumni Association's largest and most active chapters. I also hope the report will encourage involvement of alumni throughout the country in the important decisions ahead. Our gathering heard architect William Holm describe the two alternative master plans his firm has developed. We toured the property, culminating with lunch and wine on the mesa which might be the site of the student dormitories for a future St. John's campus. Tom Carnes also gave us a brief overview of the history of St. John's involvement with the property, and of the terms of the ·recent settlement. It will come as no surprise we unanimously and enthusiastically favor development of the property by the college, although we have different opinions about the educational activity which would best befit the location, at least in the near term. Ideas range from beginning with a traditional Graduate institute to an Eastern or Western studies program with or without Eastern works. We all would like to see a full, thriving undergraduate campus there eventually, but only when it can compliment, and not threaten, the two existing campuses. Our most urgent concern is that the college secure its claim to the property and not squander our many opportunities there because of inaction or timidity. Given the modesty of the initial investment needed to develop the property in accordance with the recent settlement, and the money available and earmarked for that. development, it would be sheer folly not to proceed with some sort of Graduate Institute or other modest program. There will (and should) be debate about what constitutes an appropriate master plan, how best to stage it and on what scale to begin, but let us not use that debate as an excuse for inaction. We agree with Messrs. Goldwin and Kelso that "Now is the time to deliberate," but very soon is the time to act, lest 1997 find us deliberating on the State of California's property. In his letter to 1he Reporter Mr. Goldwin asked quite appropriately what this "good thing" (the property) is good for. We answer that it is good for the college, for its alumni and for California. For the college it offers, at the very least, an opportunity to expand its influence to more teachers and adults who would attend a Graduate Institute in California. Any St. John's presence in California, and especially an undergraduate campus, will benefit the college and its alumni by increasing public awareness of St. John's, A. Scott Kelso SG/'79, center, chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, answers questions about the California property at the New York Chapter's September meeting. More than 70 alumni attended, as well as eight board members. 1he lively discussion W!?S assisted by a tasting of Stag's Leap wines. which awareness is now not nearly so well developed as on the eastern seaboard. And although it is a secondary consideration for the college, a campus here is good for California. As Mr. Goldwin notes, California is no "educational desert." But neither is it a pedagogical paradise. Other educational institutions in Monterey have expressed the need for a good masters' program for teachers, which a Graduate Institute obviously could provide. Further, since Californians tend to stay in the state for their education, it is difficult to believe that St. John's could not attract one hundred additional, capable students beyond those who enter Santa Fe from California each year. Mr. Goldwin's concern that Californians have paid scant attention to the great books program at St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Mary's colleges should be tempered by the realization that, at least at St. Mary's, the great Chapter Events ANNAPOLIS Luncheons are scheduled for: December 8 January 12 February 9 Programs are to be announcea. Call Betsy Blume at the Alumni Oflice (301) 263-2371 for information. BOSTON December: Seminar on Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice led by Alvin Aronson. Plans for following meetings are pending. Contact Alvin Aronson for further information, phone (617) 566-6657 (home)· or 437-3186 (work). CHICAGO December 9: Christmas Party at Rick Lightburn's, BYOB January 4: Scott Kelso will be present to discuss the aims and objectives of the college with respect to the California property February 11: Barbara Leonard will lead a seminar on Ibsen's Enemy of the People For more details call Paul Frank, (312) 280-2366 (work) or 235-0614 (home). For information on the Proust preceptorials call Rachel Ankeny, 337-4105. DALLAS-FORT WORTH 1his chapter meets for Saturday evening seminars about JO times a year. For further information call Suzanne Doremus at (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis (214) 340-4102. If you are interested in forming a new chapter or in becoming more involved in an existing chapter, please contact: Barbara Lauer, Chapters Committee Chair SJC Alumni Association 1163 Frontera Drive, Laramie, WY 82070 (307) 742-4008 NEW YORK January 10: Seminar and tutor to be arranged Marc~ 14: Robert Bart will lead a Flannery O'Connor seminar PHILADELPHIA November 29: Elliot Zuckerman will lead a seminar on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra at the Ger-· ma~town Cricket Club. 6:30 p.m. cocktails, 7: 15 p.m. seminar Call Jim Schweidel at (215) 836-7632 for information about upcoming events in this area. SACRAMENTO M_eetings eve!Y other month to discuss the program rf!admgs, followmg the undergraduate sequence. Inquines are most welcome; phone Arianne Ludlow (9 J6) 362-5131 or Helen Feeley 381-7887 for information. SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Monthly seminars and a spring tutor visit will be planned at the January 8 steering committee meeting. Call Mark Middlebrook (Home: 414-654-5492 Office: 547-0602) , Locations of seminars rotate but meet at 2:30 p.m. Call Mark Middlebrook (415) 530-9643 (home) or 7634277 (work) for information. SANTA FE December: Seminar on Marquez's 1he Erinda Ston·es and social pot-luck January: Seminar on Stephen H~wking's A Brief History of Time Telephone John Pollack (505) 983-2144 or Joan Iverson at 982-3691 for more details. SEATTLE LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CAUFORNIA WE'LL HELP YOU START A CHAPTER books program is a small part of their educational activities, and in fact most of their advertising trumpets evening and weekend business classes. Thus we are confident that a St. John's campus on the California property will succeed and is a good thing for all concerned. What remains is to consider the effects that developing such a campus (on any scale) might have on the other two campuses. As mentioned above, the risks of establishing a California institute seem minuscule, especially given the potential gain, and especially if all the funds required come from money which otherwise will be unavailable to the college (i.e., a lease or sale of the Greenfield property.) The costs and potential conflicts which might result from establishing a full undergraduate campus of course are better judged by the board, faculties and administrations, and no doubt many of the upcoming meetings will address these issues. But establishing a limited college does not inevitably bind us to expanding it to a full college, and such implications should not be used to justify inaction. Finally, with Mr. Goldwin's reminder that "the college has much room for improvement in the quality of what it undertakes to do now" is well taken, we caution against using that truth as a perpetual excuse for not doing anything new. The Santa Fe campus is proof that expansion and improvement can occur simultaneously. In summary, we enthusiastically support development of the California property on whatever scale the board and college deem appropriate. We hope alumni will be included in deliberations· about the educational content of a new campus there. We urge the board to take decisive and timely action to secure the property for the future use of St. John's. Sincerely, Mark Middlebrook President. Northern California Chapter 1his chapter meets during the year for different events. Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 for more information. December 10: Reception with Santa Fe President John Agresto WASHINGTON DC AREA January: Tutor visit being planned February 18: Screening of the movie Spirit of the December 13: Gustave Flaubert's The Simple Heart January 10: Jane Austin's Emma Beehive with discussion following in Pasadena Spring art seminar with artist Priscilla Bender Shore, Seminars meet at 6:30 p.m. at the West End branch A'55 of the D. C Public Library. For further deta11s phone Call Jerry Caplin (805) 497-1436 (home) or 375- Sam Stiles (301) 424-9119 or Deborah Papier (202) 137I (work) for detai~s. 387-4520. �PAGE 10. THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1989 Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery Festive weekend honors benefactors and brings friends NANCY OSIUS From the visiting professor's lively unravelling Friday night of a painter's artistic strategy, through the black tie extravaganza Saturday honoring benefactors and sponsors, to Sunday's steady stream of visitors for the inaugural exhibit, "Image and Word" - the dedication events for the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery brought a heady swir1 of activity to the Annapolis campus on September 15, 16 and 17. "The most sparkling evening I have spent in Annapolis:' said one party-goer of the Saturday night gala honoring Elizabeth Myers Mitchell, whose interest and support made possible the state-ofthe-art gallery named for her. Representatives of corporate sponsors, Mrs. Mitchell's personal friends, and members of the Gallery Committee of the Friends of St. John's made up the list of those who gathered first for cocktails in the gallery anteroom, then for exhibit viewing in the two 14-foot tall exhibition areas, and finally for the five-star dinner in Randall Hall served up by chef Mike Pfister and his student helpers. In between times, although a torrential rain caught half the partygoers in Mellon Hall and half in Randall Hall, good-humored tolerance reigned in each camp, and the groups were presently reunited over dinner. After dinner, College President William M. Dyal, Jr., acting as host, rose to express the College's gratitude for the generosity of its primary benefactor, its corporate friends, and its other Friends. Among those he introduced with words of thanks were Burton Blistein, Gallery director, whose inspiration and labor had produced the inaugural exhibit; Vice President for Advancement Jeffrey Bishop, a key figure both in overseeing construction of the gallery and in dedication arrangements; State Senator Jack Lapides, chairman of the Gallery's fundraising committee, and Mary Felter, chairman of the Gallery's public relations committee. Mr. Dyal ;:tlso introduced members of the Friends of St. John's who had worked for many months on the gallery dedication: Nancy Hammond, president of the organization; John Moore, chairman of the gallery Committee, and Anna E. Greenberg, chairman of special events, who, with the help of the Caritas Society, arranged the reception for Sunday afternoon. Speakers included Board member William Simmons who thanked the corporate donors and Fred Lazarus~ president of the Maryland Institute of Art. Proclamations honoring the new gallery from the Governor, from the County Executive, and the Mayor of Annapolis were read to the guests. Prof. Michael Fried, director of the Humanities Center at the Johns Hopkins University, gave an animated talk Friday night before a capacity crowd on what he called "Courbet's Realism:' He showed several paintings by the preImpressionist painter to support his the- From top, Friends of St. John's board member Marc Herbst and Max, 10 months, attend Sunday open house; Artist-in-Residence Burton Blistein; Caritas President Mary Joy Belknap and Frank Wilson A '35; John Moore, Chairman of the Gallery Committee for the Friends of St. John's; and Board member Roberf Goldwin, A '50, and Santa Fe President John Agresto. ory that Courbet sought realism by bringing the indeed the artist himself, into the picture with the subject, in contrast to predecessors who sought to separate picture and audience. On Sunday afternoon, more than 600 visitors came to the inaugural exhibit, "Image and Word:' and stayed to sample the punch and cookies offered at long tables by hospitable Caritas members. "Image and Word:' a beautiful and ambitious juxtaposition of art works and written words, was the product of Gallery Director Blistein's vision and many months of study, gallery-going, high level negotiations and occasional reversals. It contained 39 paintings, prints and works of sculpture, all loaned by the great museums of Washington and Baltimore - the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Gallery - as well as a single work from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibit, a scholarly complement to the College's program as well as food for eye and soul, was arranged to suggest continuing and shifting contrasts and parallels between visual and written expression. Detailed commentary next to the displays themselves were backed up by a thick catalogue which duplicated these sometimes-hard-to-read labels, and augmented them with an appendix and footnotes. Most Gallery visitors found the show compelling and provocative, and critical assessments were high. Students, too, who attended a special opening on seminar night a week later, expressed their views in two Gadfly articles in the fol. lowing weeks. Wrote Ange Mlinko, '91, of the exhibit, "It takes a long time to see properly. I think one trip to the Gallery is paltry. Many pieces deserve an hour of undivided attention, possibly to sketch, directly or verbally, possibly just to reflect upon . . . It takes some time, and quite a bit of rigor. With that, you may start to see, but after, only after, you are haunted (plagued!) by what you do not'.' Beginning in 1975, under authorization of then Dean Curtis Wilson, the St. John's Art Gallery in a converted laboratory in an corner of second floor Mellon Hall. William Dunat that time vice president for advancement, with his support. Before long, with Burt Blistein as artist-in-residence, the gallery began to have a devoted stream of visitors to its small shows. From such beginnings came the impetus for today's fully secured, environmentally-controlled 2500 square foot display area, capable of exhibiting and protecting, as became clear in September, work of immense importance and value. Tutor Emeritus Wilson's review of "Image and Word" appears on the facing page. The galiery's second show, an exhibition of the work of abstract painter Felrath Hines and abstract sculptor Nick Ward, will continue until December 14. Mr. Blistein calls prospective visitors' attention to the contrast in these artists' work, which is almost pure form, with that of the initial exhibit's emphasis on meaning. Above, Mr. and Mrs. John Astle admire "Allegory", painted by a follower of Titian. �DECEMBER 1989 THE REPORTER Review Keith Harvey photos .. Top: Elizabeth Myers Mitchell sits with friend Peggy Spence before dinner honoring benefactors; middle: President William M. Dyal, Jr., left, speaks with Admiral Robert long (USN Ret.); Congressman Tom McMillen; bottom: Dean Thomas Slakey, left, in conversation with Mary Soria and Paul Pearson. PAGE 11 Initial exhibit praised for thought-provoking plan By CURTIS WILSON "Image and Word", the Mitchell Gallery's inaugural exhibit, was remarkable for the excellence of the works included and its thought-provoking idea and plan. Here a few steps took one from a splendid black-figured Greek vase of 520 B.B. to prints by the Goya, Blake, from a wealthily erotic Titian to the mythic eroticism of of Europa"; from illuminated medieval illustrations of the life of Christ and the Virgin to Rouault's darkly pious De profundia. A 35-page catalogue by Burton Blistein, Artist-in-Residence, who was chiefly responsible for the exhibit, outlined its plan and commented on the individual pieces. In focusing this first exhibit on how visual images can relate to words and selecting pieces out of the span of western art from ancient Greece to the present, Blistein was posing questions: What do the images say that the words cannot? What views of the cosmos and human life do they reflect? In what ways may words help toward seeing and understanding the images? How, -as we move from classical to medieval and from Renaissance to present-day imagemaking, has the relation to message changed? The works were on loan from six institutions: the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Hirshhorn Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art (Washington), and the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore). Funding came from the Anne Arundel County Commission on Culture and the Arts, the City of Annapolis, the Annapolis Fine Arts Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Maryland State Aits Council. The Mitchell Gallery will be primarily a borrower, hence dependent on these and the like institutions c 'd organizations. Their generosity, this first time, has been abundant. For residents of Annapolis and the surrounding communities, the new gallery will make accessible works of visual art that would otherwise require some hours of commuting time merely to get in front of. It will be especially attractive to students and faculty when, as in this first exhibit, the shows are designed thematically and contain works worthy of intensive study. But can or should the gallery's program be given a special "St. John's twist:' befitting a "talking college"? As "Image and Word" variously illustrates, words may be prerequisites to the understanding of a work of visual art, or helpful aids thereto. Daumier's A Literary Discussion in the Second Balcony would lose its raucous irony were the title not there to guide our taking in of the scene. Goya's Out Hunting for Teeth needs the accompanying text: People believe that the teeth of hanged men are very important for sorcery. What a pity that people should believe such nonsense. But the polite regret with which the needed information is conveyed contrasts sharply with the print's concentrated clash of horror, desire, and pitiableness. Works that interpret texts (for instance, the Biblical interpretations of Durer and Rembrandt, Blake's illustrations for Dante's Inferno) demand some knowledge of the text. Where a complex iconography is involved, as in Moderno's Inkstand with Satyrs, we need to be acquainted with the stories the imagery presents. But words can also get in the way of seeing. We verbally categorize and so dismiss, our loquacity condemning us to blindness. Moralizing can pall, and the language of uplift grow stale. I confess that the Turot card "Prudencia'' and the engravings "Virtue Abandoned" and "Virtue Consumed:' from the Mantegna school, impressed me as morally trite. But how wonderful to find beside them the three Durer prints, Knight, Death St. Jerome in his photocopy only); and Melencholia /. Whence the difference in response? In part, at least, from seeing that Durer's knight is a real knight on a real horse, facing with fortitude the spectres of death and the devil; and his Jerome a real saint, peacefully at work in the oblique perspective that forms his cell and the gentle light that pervades it. But the Melencholia I, with its cluttered images of art and science gone astray, is the third print; and one senses that the implied moral problem is one that the artist knew at first hand. These three prints, in juxtaposition, could well be the assignment for a St. John's-style seminar. What they say is not limited in relevance to a particular place and time and world of thought. They rouse us to inquiry. On the twentieth-century pieces in the exhibit, the one this reviewer found most intriguing was Peter Milton'sDaylilies 197 5. Produced by special processes combining photocopying with etching and engraving, the print at first glance may present itself as an elegantly subdued study in shades of gray, black, and white. Another first reaction may be annoyance at the apparent unrelatedness of the rather many images it contains. With further examination it begins to assume the character of a mind-scape, the parts of it separated as though into architecturally distinct spaces, but connected by subtle relations of opposition and contrast. Dominating all, in front of the mantel and near center, is the mediator, light illuminating the right side of his forehead, cut daylilies and a somonolent cat in his lap, the tips of his fingers just reaching over and so violating the frame of the picture. On the anta to the right of the mantel, the 1890's portrait of a girl's face., delicately refined and remote; farther to the right and behind, in a space of its own, the photo of a paralytic child walking on all fours. On the left side of the mantel, a pair of spectacles, and a hand reaching for them; in the account that Milton gives of his sources (appended to Blistein's catalogue), the spectacles are identified as Mondrian's, and now we note that the whole left border of the print consists of Mondrian rectangles. Nearby and above, three ballerinas in the midst of a jete. At the top middle rear of the print a dimly dispersing crowd, with shadows cast upon it. And much, much more. As we learn from Milton's account, there are intended echoes here of Durer's Melencholia /. The print confronts us with an inner discordance that some of us would have to acknowledge as our own. Now it was a friend's questioning that got me to "come to my senses" (Thoreau's phrase) in viewing this print. The along with Milton's account of its genesis would be another good subject for seminar. The Mitchell Gallery will come to be St. John's own as it finds occasion to bring discussion to bear on the inquiry into the meaning of selected works of visual art. A sequence of open seminars could do the trick. Planning them would be no easy task but very worthwhile. �PAGE 12 DECEMBER 1989 THE REPORTER HOMECOMING Bolotin examines complex Odysseus Keith Harvey photos McDowell rededication (Continued from page one) Down College Avenue, the sounds of the U.S. Naval Academy band herald the onset of the brigade - 36 companies, almost 4,500 midshipmen - clad in service dress blues, preparing, "eyes right;' to salute McDowell Hall. For nearly 20 minutes representatives of one American tradition honor another, till all that's heard is the distant beat of the Drum and Bugle Corps. Back on the front steps of McDowell, Charles Bohl, the architect who along with the College Building Committee tended to the myriad details involving the restoration, basked in its results. "A faithful restoration:' he said. Through the small-paned windows, the reflection of the lights from the brass chandelier in the Great Hall danced on the high gloss oak floor. The monotone color scheme, ivory walls with matching trim, dramatized the architectural features of the 200-year-old masterpiece: curving staircases with landings to rest midflight, fireplaces with brick, bearing scars of use, a ceiling that soars in the Great Hall. The goal of the work was not drastically to alter McDowell's original appearance, Mr. Bohl explained. The architects didn't want people to be surprised, or not to recognize the building when they re-entered it. Instead they wanted to polish it, like a fine antique, ever mindful to preserve its patina. Joseph Coale, president of the Historic Annapolis Foundation, praised St. John's commitment to preservation long before it was a popular notion. He cited the long-term kinship the Foundation and the College shared. William Paca, an early governor of Maryland and one of the original subscribers to St. John's, pledged 100 pounds to its beginnings. Mr. Coale commended the College for its contemporary use of historic buildings. "McDowell Hall as Bladen's was an abandoned mansion. Today, it's an· appropriate college he said. He noted that in 1955 St. moved the historic Charles Carroll Barrister house from West Street to the campus, which is used today as one of the College's administrative office buildings. "The most imp6rtant single long-term benefit of the relationship between the College and Historic Annapolis is the leadership of Dr. Richard Weigle as a founding member of the Foundation and its fourth president:' he said. Dr. Weigle is President Emeritus of St. John's. Mr. Coale noted that Historic Annapolis' logo, the Liberty Tree, is the spreading oak on the front lawn of the College. Tom Dawson, owner of Dawson's Gallery in Annapolis, presented President Dyal with an historic etching of McDowell Hall. The 1851 untitled piece by Annapolis artist Edward Seager, the first art professor at the Naval Academy, depicts a pastoral view of McDowell Hall with cows grazing on its front lawns. The Rev. J. Winfree Smith, tutor emeritus, drew a verbal sketch of McDowell Hall in the early 1900's when it was in his words not only "a college building, but THE College building. There was a time when it housed just about everyone and everything. The students slept, two in a bed, on the third floor . . . One of the best things about the recent renovation is that since all the offices have been moved to another building, the rooms in this building are to be used exclusively for seminars and tutorials. The central building now serves the central purpose of the College:' He lauded John McDowell, the first · president of St. John's, for whom McDowell Hall is named, for having an understanding of education not so different from our own vision. "I am constantly asked what St. John's prepares her students for. The answer that she seeks to improve and enlarge their intellectual powers for their own sake would only be bewildering. Or the an- . swer that she seeks to form in those powers intellectual virtues which constitute the soul's excellence and are good in themselves would be equally bewildering. Yet we stick to these fundamental things and we hope that this formation will proceed both inside and outside the classrooms. "This fine building and its renovated rooms can be no more than a proper scene for the intellect to reach both high and deep in the several different ways we try to provide ..." By DONNA BOETIG Odysseus, Homer's intrepid warrior who conquered Troy and returned home 20 years later to battle the suitors pursuing his wife, is a complex character rife with contradictions, said Santa Fe tutor David Bolotin. Speaking to students, faculty, alumni and other guests who filled FSK Auditorium on Homecoming Weekend, Mr. Bolotin portrayed Odysseus as a man who, despite his wiles, lacked the wisdom necessary to be content with his life. He began his lecture, "The Concerns of Odysseus: An Introduction to the OdysseY,' by presenting Odysseus as a man who combined self-concern with concern for others. He rejected the goddess Calypso's offer of immortality if he would marry her, choosing instead mortality with his aging wife. "But his story is· far more than that of a just and pious man restored to his rightful place with the help of the gods:' Mr. Bolotin said. Homer tells us that Odysseus is a sly, intelligent and strong leader. After all, it was Odysseus who succeeded in conquering Troy. An important aspect of Odysseus' intelligence is his skill at deception and disguise, the speaker explained, and cited Odysseus' success in saving his family and his kingdom from Penelope's suitors, by disguising himself as a beggar in his own home. Mr. Bolotin took exception to the accepted interpretation of1he gods as simple defenders of justice. He cited the fate of the Phaeacians, who were severely punished by Poseidon, acting with Zeus' consent, for their generosity in bringing Odysseus home. While Odysseus was unaware of the Phaeacians' fate, he was familiar with the gods' failure to support justice in a timely, consistent and intelligible manner. For instance, he became the object of Poseidon's wrath for having blinded his son the Cyclops, an action that may be justified if defensive violence against a cruel oppressor is ever just. This action contributed to the long delay in Odysseus' homecoming. His. success in reaching home in the face of opposition from the gods disproved in his eyes their omnipotence. Presented with numerous situations of the gods'apparently limited powers, Odysseus concluded that the gods would have been .helpless to prevent his homecoming if his men hadn't opened Aeolus' bag of winds. Odysseus became more independent when he concluded that the gods were not always able, or willing, to defend justice. Mr. Bolotin suggested that with this example, Odysseus' thirst for justice weakened. He became more unscrupulous, neglecting his comrades, even subjecting them to an increased risk of death in order to lessen the risk to himself. Mr. Bolotin called attention to Odysseus' behavior at the land of the Lastrygonians. Arriving in their country, he allowed the vast majority of his ships to anchor in the harbor, he sent out scouts from among their crews, meanwhile leaving his own vessel at a safe distance. As a result, when the Lastrygonian king unexpectedly killed one of the scouts, and the other two fled towards the ships, Odysseus and his crew were able to escape safely while the Lastrygonians slaughtered the men in the harbor. Odysseus' selfishness is further evidenced in his relationship with his wife and family, the lecturer said. The chieftain was unfaithful to Penelope, even to the extent of wavering in his desire to return to her. He remained with the goddess Circe for a year and didn't resume his journey home until his comrades begged him to return. Later, he was happy for a time to remain with Calypso. Mr. Bolotin wondered whether Odysseus longed primarily to return home or rather to preserve his own life, "a life that need not be lived, at least not entirely, at home~' Still, contradictions exist as to why a man supposedly so selfish would turn down immortality with a goddess in favor of life and death with an aging wife. Odysseus acted out of a sense of what he owed his comrades in justice. For even before he left Calypso, Odysseus was far from being simply or consistently selfish. When nearly half of his men failed to return from Circe's house, he insisted on returning to try to rescue them, and even increased his danger by going alone. While Odysseus would at times put his men at additional risk to protect himself, there were also occasions when he did just the opposite. Mr. Bolotin pointed to Odysseus' anger against Penelope's suitors as another sign of his longing for justice. When Odysseus renounced for the last time Calypso's offer of immortality and left her island, he assured himself that he was fundamentally a just man. This action convinced him that he was willing to sacrifice eternal life and he thought that he deserved as a result to be cared for by the gods. In the end, readers have to ask whether Odysseus would truly be content with his life at home. In the final scene he is so taken with the heat of the battle against the relatives of the defeated suitors that he failed to heed Athena's call to stop pursuing his victory over them, and almost lost the chance to be at peace with his kingdom. It took a thunderbolt from Zeus and a threat from Athena for him to act sensibly. As a result, we wonder whether Odysseus the warrior would ever become fully reconciled to the life of peace and prosperity that was ahead of him at home. What Odysseus needed was wisdom, that is "the attainment of one's own lifa' This is actually what he was seeking all along, Mr. Bolotin concluded. "This attainment of one's own life is the core, I think, of what Homer means by wisdom, and the desire for such wisdom was Odysseus' ultimate desire~' "SadlY,' according to Mr. Bolotin, "Odysseus failed at home and elsewhere in life to attain this wisdom:' and would continue to fail despite his evident concern for his own life, and even in a sense, because of it. For the shallowness of his concern for justice, or the ease with which he persuaded himself that he was fundamentally just, closed him off from access to true self-knowledge, and all the more from the attainment of his true life. contrast, Homer, who was wise, seeks to nourish the concern for justice in us his listeners, most massively by focusing his or his Muse's story, not on Odysseus' travels, but on his edifying punishment of the suitors. By encouraging our concern for justice, as he addresses the questions about justice that Odysseus' story necessarily raises, Homer points the way toward the life of wisdom that even Odysseus failed to attain:' �DECEMBER 1989 THE REPORTER PAGE 13 IN NANCY OSIUS Hurricane Hugo subsided into a bright and windy Saturday on Annapolis Homecoming Weekend in late September, with high tides all along the Severn. Despite ominous weather forecasts, nearly 275 alumni gathered as planned for talk, talk, talk. Sometimes, the voices were diminuendo, but mostly they were crescendo. From time to time there was a courteous or expectant pause by the gathered alumni. One of these was during the Homecoming Banquet in Randall Hall Saturday Night when one of their number, Mary Bittner Goldstein, A '58, received a signal tribute, the first Award of Merit to go to a woman graduate. Another was when tutor Eva Brann and College president William M. Dyal, Jr., were made honorary alumni at the banquet. Jonathan Zavin, A '68, presented Mrs. Goldstein with her Award, noting that it is the "highest this association can bestoW.' The award is given for "outstanding success in one's chosen career, service to the St. John's Community or service to a larger community in which we all live;' he remarked, adding, "Mary is a deserving recipient on all three grounds!' A member of the faculty of the City University of New York Graduate Center and a recognized authority on the works of Roland Barthes, Mrs. Goldstein's new book Ecstasies of Roland Barthes has been much praised. She herself has presented papers on philosophy, humor, ethics and aesthetics to scholarly audiences all over the world. A co-founder of the New York Chapter of the Alumni Association, she has been an active member and officer of that chapter since its founding. Ms. Goldstein used the occasion to "break the silence surrounding [the] barrier of gendet,' by speaking of women who had made a difference in her life. The first of these was a teacher and a nun, who gave her challenging tasks to do and finally encouraged her to go to St. John's. The second was former assistant dean Barbara Leonard, "the woman who kept me here:' and the third was another woman tutor, Iola Scofield, who directed her towards the enabling advanced degrees. Mr. Zavin also presented an honorary alumni membership to Eva Brann, senior tutor at Annapolis after 30 years on the Annapolis faculty, praising her particularly for the respect she had shown for students and their ideas. Said Mr. Zavin, "Eva has been a tutor in the best sense of the word; she has gently and always with good humor led many of us through the difficulties of the Great Books. She has always shown respect for her students and their ideas. There is no more fitting person to be an alumna of this college than Eva Brann!' "We all know that 'honorary' has two meanings:' said Ms. Brann in reply. "It means that an honor is bestowed, and I do indeed feel honored to have been made an alumna. But 'honorary' also means 'Not quite for real! Well, I've been here 32 years, which is the equivalent of being in my senior year the eighth time round. And since I've learned whatever little I know at St. John's in those years, perhaps I'm an alumna for real after all. So I want to express my pleasure and Clockwise, beginning upper left: Tutor Eva Brann at pre-banquet cocktail party; Allan Hoffman, left, and Jim Conrad, both of the Class of '49, regard, perhaps with nostalgia, a blown-up photo of the Allan and Jim of 40 years ago; Marion Slakey, wife of the Annapolis Dean, and Harvey Goldstein, president of the Alumni Association, chat at the banquet; at the luncheon for the Class of '49, Margot Hamm, wife of Peter, A '49, has a word with Mrs. Simon Kaplan, widow of the venerated tutor; Jane d'Agnese Coles, A '74, and Tina Saddy Bell, A '75, do some catching up with Ed Raspa, A '74; and Susan Bishop, left, wife of Vice President for Advancement Jeffrey, and Edith Dyal, wife of President and new Honorary Alumnus William mingle with alumni before the banquet. Keith Harvey photos president had made an emergency trip to Kiawah Island to assess damage to the couple's home, which had lain in the path of the hurricane. (Mr. Dyal later reported that the house suffered only relatively minor damage.) Heartfelt praise marked Board member John Van Doren's words about the president, who will leave his post at the end of the academic year. Crediting Mr. Dyal with "an act of rescue'' at a time of dissension and despair when he assumed the presidency in 1986, an act carried out "without visible heroics, or indeed personal claims of any kind:' Mr. Van Doren also noted that part of Mr. Dyal's genius is "to make those who work for him, and with him, to want to do it, and to get out of their way as they proceed!' He lauded, too, Mr. Dyal's efforts to connect the college with the larger world, when he spoke at the college and elsewhere on the arms race, population problems, world hunger and other matters. Among the many weekend alumni gatherings was the long-planned 40th reunion luncheon of the class of 1949, which was celebrated in the renovated boathouse. Placed on easels about the room were blown-up photographs of the young men of 40 years ago at work and at play. At lunchtime ceremonies, these photographs were auctioned off for the College's benefit with hoots and laughter, as the class attempted and succeeded in its efforts to bring its reunion gift above the $30,000 mark. Also at lunch, the class presented eight awards to many of its members. Those present to receive them were Jonathan Brooks, Peter Davies, Allan Hoffman and honorary class member Richard D. Weigle, who also spoke to the group about the California property bequest. Honored in absentia were David Rea, Ray Cave, Clarence Kramer, and Peter Weiss. Mr. Hoffman and Jonathan Brooks formed the steering committee for the gathering. Other milestone reunions -and their chairmen or steering committee members were the Class of 1939, Ed Roache, Ed Boyle, Ed Hearn, and Les Medford; Class of 1954, Sam Kutler and Bernard Jacob; Class of 1959, Barbara Stowe Tower and Harvey Goldstein; Class of 1964, Eric Lutker; Class of 1969, John Ross and Maya Hasegawa; Class of 1974, Anne Horton Marino; Class of 1979, Kathy Buck and Susan Gushue; Class of 1984, Lenny Brown Perens and Peter Green; and the Graduate Institute reunion, Joan Vinson Stallings, Merle _ Maffei and Mary Pat Justice. The weekend concluded with a festive Sunday morning brunch, featuring toddlers and infants and their elders in the Francis Scott Key lobby. And it ended with talk, talk, talk. A Member of The Independent College Fund of Maryland �THE REPORTER PAGE 14 DECEMBER 1989 Long road to publication for Raditsa's book NANCY OSIUS For Annapolis tutor Leo Raditsa, writing and publishing his book Prisoners of a Dream: The South African Mirage, was a filled with discovery, misadventure, a1s:1Hus101rlment, and finally, a level of i"r •m .., 11 The book, by the Prince George Street Press and for $25.95 a copy, uses little known testimony from some 1982 Senate hearings coupled with broad reading and research into historical and contemporary events in South Africa to re-assess the political situation there. Mr. Raditsa's research brought him to positions running counter to prevailing political wisdom, "in which you had first of all to heap abuse on the South African government:' he remarks in the introduction to his book. On the basis of his findings, he declined to do that. Locating a publisher willing to put out a book taking an unpopular position on this emotion-laden issue involved a long and arduous search, a search ending finally at Leo Raditsa's own doorstep on Prince George St. The search taught its own lessons, some of them disillusioning. Mr. Raditsa learned that there is an enormous difference between British and American publishers: from the American rejections between 40 and 50 - it was clear that only four publishing houses had given the book a genuine reading, while the British publishing responses were thoughtfully evaluative. Especially because the book was on a taboo subject, he believes that "unless you are recom-mended, you can't get near [the publishers]. Credentials don't count two cents. You can't get a hearing:' He has the credentials. A graduate of Harvard College, he received his master's degree and doctorate from Columbia University, and he taught at New York University, before coming to St. John's College in 1973. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he founded i.e, The Cambridge Review, and at the College he was the founder and editor for four years of The St. John's Review. He is the author of a previous book, Some Sense About Wilhelm Reich, and many published articles. One of these, "On Sustenance: Teaching, and Learning from, the Great Works:' published in the spring 1989 issue of Academic Questions, was quoted by NEH chairman Lynne V. Cheney in her much-discussed report 50 Hours: a Core Curriculum for College Students, published in October. A number of reviewers have already evaluated Prisoners of a Dream, and 11 other reviews lie ahead. Herbert London, dean of the Gallatin division of New York University, writing for The New said that in the book "one York has the puzzle parts of Southern Africa assembled so artfully that for the first time in my memory a clear of the region is possible. This is any measure a remarkable achievement:' book is not alive """"'.,.,....,.,,....rtu publishes Admiral W. C. Mott, writing for Intelligence Report, a journal of the American Bar Association, suggests that if someone wants to know about the political complexities that face South Africa, "he has picked the right volume:' particularly directing readers to the meat of the book in chapter five, the Denton hearings. At presstime, the first international notice of the book came from Neue Zurcher Zeitung of Zurich, an influential Swiss publication. Writer Jurg Dedial cited what he called above all "western authorities' complicity in ignoring the revelations of the Denton hearings~' Mr. Raditsa invested $12,000 of his own money in the publication, and 1,500 copies have already been sold to two groups, Accuracy in Media and the Conservative Book Group, as well as other copies to individual buyers. At the end of November, a major advertisement was scheduled to appear in The New York Times. There is much to be satisfied about in all this for the tutor, who took the controversial book from a 40-page article to 500 printed pages, and now says, "Big projects start out small. If I had started out wanting to write a book on South Africa, I'd still be taking notes~' What he had intended to write was an article commissioned by Commentary on the 1982 hearings conducted by former Sen. Jeremiah Denton, R-Ala. These were titled, "The Role of the Soviet Union, Cuba and East Germany in Fomenting Terrorism in Southern Africa'.' Editors at Commentary questioned testimony of the witnesses at the hearing and returned the article. "If you don't believe personal testimony, you have no information about totalitarian regimes:' Mr. Raditsa comments. "There is no public information'.' Four or five months of work followed and the result was a 120-page article, which Mr. Raditsa sent to 20-30 pub- Tutors, alumni represented in Ideas The 1989 volume of Great Ideas, a yearly publication accompanying The Great Books of the Western World, includes an essay by Tutor Emeritus Thomas Simpson,and by alumnus George Anastaplo, A '75. Editor-in-chief of the volume is Mortimer Adler, and executive editor, John Van Doren, A '47. Editorial assistant for the 1989 volume was Elisabeth Drew, SF '85, who has since been succeeded by Rachel A. Ankeny, SF '88. Mr. Simpson's article is "The New Pythagoreans II: the Scientists of Life and the World Food Problem~· Mr. Anastaplo' s article is the latest in a series on the Koran. The Great Ideas volumes were begun in 1961 by Mr. Adler and Robert Hutchins with the purpose of focusing the wisdom of the Great Books on contemporary events and issues. Published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., the books are sold by subscription to Great Books owners and can be purchased separately through the customer service division of Britannica. Each issue contains essays on the arts and sciences, reconsiderations of the Great Books and reprints of other worthwhile books and essays. Past contributors have included Tutors Emeriti Curtis Wilson and Douglas Allanbrook, Tutors William Darkey and Joe Sachs, and others connected to the college such as Douglas Buchanan, A '43, Charles Van Doren, A '46, and former tutor Leon Kass. Among those whose work has appeared in the volumes are Francis Crick, Stephen Hawking, Saul Bellow, Mark Van Doren, Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, Clifton Fadiman, and S.I. Chandrasekhar. lishers in the U.S. and Great Britain. Brian Crozier, a leading British political writer, was instrumental in having the book accepted by the Sherwood Press in 1986. But there had been major changes in Africa by this time, and Mr. Crozier wanted the book Raditsa was he remembers, and now he spent another year in examitlation of these fresh events, bringing the Jook up to 500 pages of typescript, 1Vhich he resubmitted in the fall of 1987. At this point the editor of the Sherwood Press (not Mr. Crozier) committed suicide, and in the six months following, the press collapsed altogether. Now Mr. Raditsa was once more sending the thickening manuscript to every major American publisher. He had decided that he would spend six months in this quest and then he would publish it himself. In June, 1988, he made the decision to publish. However, things continued to happen on the troubled African continent, and furthermore, three new books on the area had come out, books too important to be ignored, all with information that needed to be incorporated in the fourth and final draft. By the end of 1988, too, crucial negotiations between the South Africans, Cubans and Angolans, with the U.S. acting as broker, had transformed the situation once again. By February, 1989, Mr. Raditsa had brought in the information from the new books and the new events, and his book was 900 typed pages long. Two of Mr. Raditsa's former students, Carole Cunningham and Janet Orlin, had offered their assistance, Carole as typist, and the trio began to get bids for the project. "I couldn't have managed without them;' says Mr. Raditsa. Eventually, print was set by Bookcrafters, and the composition was done by Coghill. Looking back on the events of the last several years, Mr. Raditsa regards his decision to publish as the turning point, for he now feels that "publishing is as important as writing, not merely ancillarY.' He adds, "When you get out of the begging racket, people respect that. I learned if you take the initiative, people will help you. If you are willing to take responsibility for your work, people will support you. The outside world was impressed that I would spend my own money.' Mr. Raditsa says, "A book is not alive until somebody publishes it~' Prisoners of a Dream will be reviewed in the March issue of the Reporter. William Donahue delivers paper William Donahue, A '67, delivered a paper at the annual national meeting of the History of Science Society in Gainesville, Fla., during a session devoted to the German astronomer, Johannes Kepler. Curtis Wilson, tutor emeritus, served as a commentator for the session. Mr. Donahue's paper was entitled "Planetary Physics and the Oval from the Leningrad Manuscripts~· A former member of the Santa Fe faculty and now an independent scholar in Santa Fe, Mr. Donahue is the author of a landmark translation of Kepler's Astronomia Nova, soon to be published by Cambridge University Press. Another alumnus attending the HSS meeting was Mark Smith, A '67, now an associate professor in history at the University of Missouri at Columbia. He is currently concerned with ancient, medieval and early modern theories of vision. A record-breaking phonathon for the 1989-90 Unified Annual Fund was held October 23 in New York City under the direction of the Advancement Offices of both campuses. Callers secured for more money and enlisted more alumni than ever before in a area that included New Jersey, New York and New Pledged of $12,072 came from 158 """'·u..._..,.... , compared to 1988 totals of $8,517 from 140 responders. In charge of the event were Jeffrey Morgan, Vice President for Advancement in Santa Fe, Joan Iverson, Director of Alumni Relations, Santa Fe, and Marylou Symonds, Director of the Annual Fund, Annapolis. Held in the Williams Club, the phonathon began with a buffet dinner and training session, followed by calls from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Volunteers included alumni from both the graduate and undergraduate programs at both campuses, as well as an Annapolis parent. The group responded with good humor to the frustrations of occasional failure by the telephone system, the consequence of other phonathons being conducted in the same place for Swarthmore and Exeter. Every volunteer received at-shirt as a memento of the occasion. The shirts read: To Do Is To Be Socrates To Be Is To Do Plato Do Be Do Be Do Sinatra In addition, prizes were awarded to the volunteers who raised the most money. Allan Hoffman, A '49, won first prize, followed by George Levine, A '44. Special awards went to Bill Salter, A '79, and Ellen Veden, SOI '77, for their work with people who had not previously made gifts to the college. The Annapolis and Santa Fe Advancement offices planned separate phonathons in their respective cities and a joint phonathon in Chicago in November. Candidates sought for OTA grants The Office of Tuchnology Assessment (OTA) is seeking outstanding candidates from academia, business and industry, and the public sector for its Congressional Fellowship Program. Up to six Fellows will be selected for a one-year appointment in Washington, D.C., beginning in September, 1990. The program provides an opportunity for individuals of proven ability to gain a · better understanding of science and technology issues facing Congress and the ways in which Congress establishes national policy related to these issues. OTA provides Congressional committees with objective analyses of the emerging, difficult, and often highly technical issues of the late 20th century, involving science and technology, helping Congress to resolve uncertainties and conflicting claims, and to consider alternative policy options. Further information and application forms may be obtained by writing to Congressional Fellowships, Personnel Office, Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States, Washington, DC 20510-8025. Applications and letters of reference must be postmarked by January 31, 1990. �DECEMBER 1989 THE REPORTER New tutors meets Some 350 members (from college and universities in the U.S., Canada and of the National Society Great for and Experiential Education (NSIEE) met in Santa Fe in October. The mission of the Association is to foster the effective use of experience as an part of education. "Learning does take place out of the classroom - through internships, field programs, cooperative education and more;' noted Ron Hale, Director of Career Planning at Santa Fe. Under Mr. Hale's direction, the College launched an internship program with 18 local business and organizations, and was instrumental in bringing the NSIEE Conference to Santa Fe this year. In addition to formal sessions, conference workshops supported the idea of "out of classroom" learning with community field activities to Los Alamos, Bandelier and self-directed exploration around Santa Fe. Local speakers included Rina Swentzell, Santa Clara Pueblo, Environmental Designer and Jacob A. Perea, Deputy Group Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratories. At a recent meeting, the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's -..-vu""l''" announced the tenure of Santa Fe tutor Janet A. .J..J..._,u.1<.u..,i Ms. a St. John's tutor of seven years, spent 1982-85 at the Annacampus, and has been at the Santa Fe campus for the last four years. She received her B.A. from Yale University in 197 4 and was awarded the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University in 1976 and 1980. M.:;. Dougherty received a French Government Fellowship for doctoral research at the Institute of International Education in Paris and Bordeaux. She is currently a reviewer for the Jacob Javits Fellowship for graduate fellowships. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation of Flint, Michigan, has announced a grant of $31,350 to the Santa Fe campus for partial support of its Youth Leadership Development Program. The program is a three-year effort to develop community-oriented leadership ability among primarily Hispanic and Indian young people in Northern New Mexico. The leadership program began this ' past summer with a five-day Teen Leadership Camp in June on the St. John's campus. Sixty New Mexico high school students participated in a variety of activities designed to develop skills and attitudes that will help them become leaders. The program included challenging outdoor activities, group leadership training, and interactions with prominent Hispanic and Native American leaders including District Judge Petra Maes and author/activist Russell Means. Maes and Means both work for the improvement of American society while maintaining strong ties to their families and communities. The grant from the Mott Foundation will supplement funds received from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Gannett Foundation for the Youth Leadership Program. The program will include two additional camps, with midyear follow-up activities scheduled as well. A one-day program is scheduled for December 9 at St. with talks by New Mexico State ComCamille Flores of and Lori Weahke the Land Institute. The Youth Leadership Program was developed by Ron Hale, Director of Career Planning at St. John's, and is Five new tutors, one woman and four men, have been added to the Santa Fe faculty for the 1989-90 academic year. They are as follows: Toni Katz Drew, a 1970 graduate of Santa Fe, received her master's degree in anthropology from the University of New Mexico. Most recently a freelance editor and archivist, she taught earlier at St. John's, as a teaching intern from 1970-72, at the Graduate Institute in 1978, and as a tutor in 1985. Sidney Keith received his undergraduate degree in classics from Yale University, and his master's degree and PhD from the University of Toronto, where he wrote his dissertation on Herodotus. In addition, he has a law degree from the University of Chicago. Torrance Kirby received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Dalhousie University, and his D. Phil from Oxford University in modern history, having written his dissertation on Richard Hooker. Telegar Satish received his bachelor's degree in philosophy and political science from the University of Mysore, India, his master's degree in philosophy from the University of Delhi, and his PhD from the University of with a dissertation on Wittgenstein. Krishnan Venkatesh received his bachelor's and master's degrees with first class honors from Cambridge lJniversitv He has been teaching for the past three years in the of Shanxi University in China. directed by Celina Rael de Garcia of El Valle, New Mexico. For information contact Ron Hale at (505) 982-3691, extension 219. PAGE 15 Iverson named After six years at the Annapolis campus, both as student and as assistant to Alumni Director Betsy Blume, Joan Iverson has "transferred" to the Santa Fe campus as the new Alumni Director. She is in the midst of planning reunions and Homecoming events and telephone campaigns, while searching for lost alumni. "Next year's Homecoming will be more informal - a kind of alumni 'reality weekend: and family participation will be urged;' she says. "I hope this will encourage more of the younger alumni to attend:' She has left East Coast attire behind, opting for a new pair of snakeskin boots and a bit of turquoise. She and daughter Jessica, age four, do a lot of hiking in the woods around Pecos and swim when weather permits. Joan occasionally plays soccer on the St. John's student team. The fact that Santa Fe night life closes down at 10:30 p.m. Joan considers cruel and unusual punishment. Joan's friends on both campuses send best wishes to her in her new position. president of St. Edwin J. John's College from 1980-86, has written a manual called Character and Cops: Ethics in which was to be published this month by the American EnInstitute. In his the author ,,..,.,,..,,,,.,...,""" the ethical standards that apply to police commands and to individual officers in pursuit of their duties. The success of law enforcement agencies, he argues, is critical to the liberty and safety of our society. Last summer in Santa Fe, Dean James Carey and a group of tutors gathered to read selections from some of the great works of Eastern tradition, the Rig Veda, Upanishads, and Ramayana. The group, composed of Mr. Carey, Dean Haggard, Peter Pesic, Dana Densmore, William Kerr and Elliot Skinner, gathered twice weekly to study Sanskrit in classes led Allyn an Indologist living for the summer in Santa Fe. Miner, who has a doctor's degree in musicology, concenon sitar performance, is completing a second doctorate in Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania. These tutors to continue their study of Santhe academic year. IJAU.•U.U .., .... Dr. Stephen J. Forman, A '70, has been named to the City of Hope Gallery of Medical and Scientific Achievement, the highest honor to be bestowed by the medical center. Director of the Department of Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantion since 1987, he becomes the 24th member of this gallery honoring distinguished physicians and scientists serving the City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute. New Mexico Governor Garrey Carruthers led a recent discussion on a text by Machiavelli with ninth students at Capital High School in Santa Fe. In September, the school implemented the Touchstones Project, created in 1984 by St. John's tutors Geoffrey Comber, Howard Zeiderman, and Nicholas Maistrems, which now has participants across the nation. Gov. Carruthers, taking his text from Touchstones, Vol. I, was also promoting his own educational program, "Re: learning." �THE REPORTER PAGE 16 DECEMBER 1989 TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER Global successes for alumna Accolades from around the globe are being showered on "Our Country's Good:' a play about Australian convicts, and on its author, playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, A'66. In September, the play opened to critical acclaim at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. The Critics' Voices section on page one of Time Magazine's October 23 issue called attention to the west coast performance of the·"acerbic, anti-military play named London's best last season:' which is also being staged by the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto. Ms. Wertenbaker, winner of the 1988 Olivier Award and an acknowledged rising star of British theater, in addition is the only living playwright with two plays running simultaneously in London's West End. Her most recent play, "For the Love of a Nightingale:' based on Greek myth, is being performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbicon Center. "Our Country's Good:' is back at the Royal Court for a second run after a tour of Australia during that country's bicentennial. The play was an enormous popular and critical success in Australia, according to an interview in September on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition~' The play is based loosely on Australian writer Thomas Keneally's 1987 novel The Playmaker, and is a true story of the first European play performed in Australia by convicts at a military settlement in Sidney in 1889. Michael Billington, theater critic for the Guardian Newspaper called the play "extraordinarily moving, because it's about the therapeutic value of playmaking and the collective enthusiasm it engenders and the liberating quality it has. It's about a group of people who are thieves and cutthroats - generally regarded as a bad lot - who find dignity and self-esteem in putting on a play. A great triumphant shout on behalf of theater itself.' In the radio interview, Ms. Wertenbaker, who grew up in France as a girl and now lives in north London, commented on the "humanistic education" she had received at St. John's. "It's probably the last humanistic education that exists:' she said. "It has influenced my work tremendouslY.' The play was developed over six months at the Royal Court Theater where Ms. Wertenbaker was resident writer. The artistic director, Max Stafford-Clark, used a British theater technique called the "joint stock" method, a technique that places the writer in a workshop with the actors and director. In what would now be called research and development, the themes of the play are extensively researched by the actors, who arrive at the first rehearsal thoroughly prepared for the play. The Academic Common Market is helping students from 14 states including under the Southern Regional Educational Board to cut the costs of and f3~ ~._.U.L"' study at out-of-state institutions. Participating students will pay in-state tuition while studying out of state. The two requirements are that students produce legal evidence of residency in their home state, and that they are accepted into a program to which their state has made arrangements .... The field research took actors, director and writer Wertenbaker to a grim high-security Victorian prison called Wormwood Scrubs to see long-term prisoners present a play. "It clinched the play for all of us:' said Wertenbaker. "We knew we were onto something. The excitement of these prisoners - their talent and their commitment were what I had been trying to write about and we just knew that somehow we had hit something that was accurate. The director told us about the whole process, how difficult it was and yet how devoted they were. The actors all arrived on the first day of rehearsal knowing all their lines, by heart, word Above are Ethics and Business co-leaders Robert Libson of the left, and Leonard Blackshear of Associated Below is Ronald C. first National Bank of M~rv•~:anri perfect~' sv11m~u Harvey and Harvey photographers A letter to the playwright from Joe White, lead actor in that prison play, is used in the program for "Our Country's Good~' White, who faces another 10 years in jail, wrote, "Prison is about failure normally and how we are reminded of it each day of every year. Drama and self-expression is one of the only real weapons against the hopelessness of these places~' • Donna Schueler, a 1989 alumna of the St. John's College Graduate Institute, has recently been appointed assistant director of the Mitchell Art Gallery. In her newly created fulltime position, Ms. Schueler will assist Director Burton Blistein in scheduling exhibits, conducting museum tours for the College and the community, and initiating programs to introduce school children to art through the Mitchell Gallery. Ms. Schueler studied art history as an undergraduate at the University of Maryland. Later, she received a grant from the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C., to examine, first-hand, the masters' works in Italy, and to bring back to the states the richness of the Italian culture. But it was here, at the Graduate Institute, that she was influenced the most. "It was very enriching to be able to study a work and ferret out what the author meant . . . to be completely engaged with him in his work. To seek meaning~' With this same sense of enthusiasm she looks to the Gallery's future: "The Gallery should be a place of conversation where viewers can see a work and isolate aspects common to any painting or sculpture of a particular period. I want to look at the art here as a visual text, and delve into the similarities and differences between it and a written text'.' She sees the visual arts as an extension of the College program here. "Although it's not part of the Program, I'd say it it's a limb of it - an important limb:' to send its students. A list of programs in many disciplines at scores of institutions is availOffice of the able at the Career to the Annapolis campus or by Southern Regional Education 592 Tenth Georgia, 30318-5790. Other participating states are AlaGeorgia, .._,...., ............ "'-3'• Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. The Annapolis campus has the lowest default rate on federal student loans among 66 institutions in Maryland, about half that of the next lowest institution, the University of Maryland at Baltimore. St. John's default rate was 2.1 %, while the University's rate was 3.9% Of the 10 colleges with the lowest default rates, nine were private colleges. These figures come from a state-by-state listing of student default rates on federal student loans compiled by the Department of Education for the 1986 fiscal year. Financial aid programs at the Annapolis campus provide aid to approximately 50% of the student body, according to Caroline Christensen, director of financial aid. Awards are made in a package of loans and part-time student employment on the basis of need, she said. "I am pleased about the recent report:' she commented, noting that "the commitment of our alumni to repay their loans is the major factor in our low default rates~' The default rate also indicates that the college's institutional policies and procedures are successful in helping students be responsible borrowers, she said. "It is important to realize, however, that defaults do not necessarily occur from negligence on the part of students:' she went on to say. "Borrowers from low income families clearly have more difficulty paying back their loans because they cannot count on help from the family when short on moneY,' In addition, she said, many defaults also occur because students' loan accounts are so complicated that borrowers do not know where to send their payments. When alumni come to her office for assistance, it "frequently takes several long distance telephone calls to establish who the lender is and how much is due~' She expressed the hope that the current focus on the national default rate would lead to better tices on the part of gmren1m1ent .:nu~._,,_ •• loan lenders. Said President William M. "Of course, we hope that there would be no defaults, but nevertheless we are 1 r1° •ah-tar1 that most of our alumni take responsibility so seriously. Obviously we are ahead of the game:' he said. Member of The Independent College Fund of Maryland Board elects new members 1\vo new members were elected to the Board of Visitors and Governors at the group's October meeting in Annapolis. Named were William Barclay Allen of Claremont, California, and Jennifer Underwood Johnson of Jacksonville, Florida. Professor Allen teaches political philosophy, American government and jurisprudence at the Harvey Mudd College in Claremont and is a recent chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, to which he was named as a member in 1987. In 1986, Prof. Allen was a candidate for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate from California. Earlier, he was an assistant professor of government at the American University in Washington, D.C., and he has also served as a visiting tutor at the Santa Fe campus in the Graduate Institute. Mr. Allen has spoken widely on Constitutional matters, and has published many scholarly on the Federalist papers. Mrs. a onetime student at the Boston Museum of Fine has of the arts in been a strong Jacksonville. She has been a past board member of the Arts which gave her an award for her om:stamamg contribution to the arts, and is a member of the boards of the Jacksonthe ville Art Florida Theatre, and the Harbor Branch Foundation. She is a director of the River Foundation, the South Branch Foundation, and the Jennifer U. Johnson Charitable Foundation. Mrs. Johnson is the mother of Jason Gregg, SF '86. �DECEMBER 1989 keynote address THE REPORTER Chris Poindexter, luncheon soieal<er Ill nd Busi SS IC Great Issues speakers stress obligations, risks By DONNA BOETIG In 1982 when 1)rlenol capsules tainted with cyanide were discovered in Chicago, the telephone lines to Johnson and Johnson's Chief Executive Officer Jim Burke were immediately jammed with incoming calls so no one could get through. Still - without a word from their boss - the company's employees around the world simultaneously began a $100,000 million recall of the product. "They knew what they believed;' said Gary Edwards, executive director of the Ethics Resource Center, a non-profit, Washington area based group that seeks to strengthen public trust in business, government and education by understanding how it is lost. Mr. Edwards was .speaking to nearly 400 participants at St. John's College for "Ethics and Business:' the third in St. John's College Great Issues forums, on November 4. A year before the crisis, he continued, Johnson and Johnson managers worldwide spent 12 months in meetings updating the company's credo. The four paragraphs of belief made it clear that the company's first obligation was to the people who used their products. "Ethics demanded from Johnson and Johnson a lot more than the law re-quired;' Mr. Edwards said. "It demanded a sense of obligation to others, not just to themselves!' In today's corporate environment of mergers and take-overs, people have to be aware of judgments "so they make the decisions on the hard ones and have the courage to get the easy ones right when the pressure is on. Good people have acted unethically when they've believed the boss expected them to do whatever was necessary to get the job done~' What can be done to create a moral environment in companies? Company leaders can begin by setting realistic performance goals for the people who work for them, with appropriate incentive revvards_ Mr. Edwards said. Case in Five years ago in a manager with IJ ... ,_, ..... ~.... control quotas to meet goals that discounted employee absenteeism and breakdowns looked aside as parts passed down the assembly line. There'd be back-up systems if any parts were faulty, he reasoned. GM hadn't meant for it to happen. But, indeed, it created the atmosphere that prompted it, Mr. Edwards said. When the manager's trans.!LA'-"'U.F,«.U, LJlVH gressions were discovered, he was demoted and transferred out of Flint. It took him three years to work his way back up. Along with setting realistic job performance goals, company leaders at every level of organization can set and live by clear standards of conduct applicable to everyday behavior. These standards that balance corporate values with business objectives must be communicated to the employees. According to a 1980 survey by the Ethics Resource Center of the Fortune 500 companies and 150 of the top nonindustrial companies, 73 percent have a written code of ethics. Over half of these were written post-Watergate. Next, the companies have to monitor their employees' standard of conduct, and finally offer them a safety value. "No one likes or wants to be a whistleblowef,' Mr. Edwards says. To meet this need, some companies, such as IBM, have "skip-level reporting" where employees occasionally report to their boss's supervisor, allowing them someone else to seek counsel from if they need it. Others, six percent of the major companies, have an ethics ombudsman to help employees with decisions. A vast majority of employees seek help for their own ethical quagmires, rather than reporting the eye-brow raising behavior of others. Most important, companies must maintain an on-going commitment to ethics in the workplace. "Ethics is like quality: When you don't work on it, you lose it~' "Ethical behavior of any group has to start with management;' reaffirmed Christian Poindexter, vice chairman of the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, to guests at lunch in Iglehart Hall. The senior management must conduct itself with integrity, and must be perceived to do so, he said, emphasizing I that "the fundamental gut issue is · fairness~' a number of issues under what he called .. ,,,,..~ 1 •~r1 Mr Poindexter ......~.+ ... ,~ 0 r1 with the "Who Noting that Baltimore Gas and Elecin tric believes in something back to the community it serves, he said that the stockholders who pay for this, also benefit when the corporation contributes money,leadership, and employees' time to community projects, for a corporation, particularly a public utility, is "only as strong as the community it serves:' Taking up the issue of "acid rain~' he pointed out that Congress is likely soon to require additional controls. "We think that the principle of the 'polluter pays: is appropriate here:' he said, "and should continue to apply'.' Other companies, "less careful" than his own, would like to establish a central fund to spread the cost among everyone, he said. Should utilities be the only ones to pay for controls or should everyone who emits sulphur dioxide or nitrogen oxide· be made to contribute? He answered his question: "Whoever is part of the problem ought to be part of the solution~' On the local level, rates are going to be increased as a result of installing additional environmental controls, he said. Should poor customers receive a subsidy to offset increases, he asked, and if so, who should pay for it, "our ratepayers, or all of Maryland taxpayers?" The ethics of this matter and others, he declared, rests not in the final decision, but "in the process of balancing interests and responsibilities as equitably as possible:' The Great Issues series is sponsored by the Friends of St. John's under the presidency of Nancy Hammond. William Brill is chairman of the series itself. Future programs will be Ethics and Medicine, spring, 1990; Ethics and Law, Fall, 1990; Ethics and Religion,. Spring, 1991, and Ethics and Education, Fall, 1991. Harvey and Harvey photographers A transcript of Mr. Edwards' speech is available through the Advancement Office. Call 263-2371, ext. 230. PAGE 17 �18 (Continued from page 5) n.ews photography at weekly magazmes." In addition, the magazine "was probably trying to cram too much information into too little space. I felt the of prose could be ,.,....., ....... r,.. ,~.r1 The magazine's appearance dramatically, as it began to use color photography prominently ........ ~ ...... ~ther noteworthy things in those years mcluded Time's publication of the first exclusive interviews that Leonid Brezhnev and later Mikhail Gorbachev ever gave to American journalists. Under his direction, Time won a number of awards, including the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1985. ADWEEK named Cave the "Hottest Editor of the Year" in 1983. There were, of course, the meetings with people of influence from all over the world, including assorted presidents, prime ministers, and potentates. For example, ''We would always have all the presidential candidates in for a lunch or dinner during the primaries," recalls Cave. "I remember well how nervous Ronald Reagan was at a 1980 lunch in the board room in the Time-Life Building, where an intimidating portrait of Harry Luce stares down at the guests of honor. This was at the start of Reagan's national campaign. It had been rel?orted often that Reagan was very naive about international affairs, and I had hoped that Time's editors would ease him into such subjects with a gracious question or two that would make him comfortable and that he could handle with felicity. I'm sitting next to him and I notice he has this smile and this charm and everything, but underneath the table he is wringing his hands like this." Cave demonstrates. "Then the first question gets asked and it's a real zinger about the Middle East. Our editors hadn't felt there was any reason to fool around.'' How did Mr. Reagan handle the question? "Poorly." On the telephone a few days later, Roger Rosenblatt, speaking from New York City, expressed pleasure at the chance to talk about Ray Cave, who had been his managing editor at Time for six of the eight years Rosenblatt was a senior writer there. (Rosenblatt, an essayist on the McNeil-Lehrer news hour, had, at the time of this conversation, only recently left his post as editor of U.S. News and World Report.) ''Ray Cave was certainly the finest editor I've ever seen, and one of the finest persons I've ever known," said Rosenblatt, adding that Cave was the best ''writer's editor'' imaginable. It was then Time's custom to cover reporting and writing in two sectors, with the correspondents providing the material and the writers providing the prose, Rosenblatt explained. While Cave is given primary credit for changing the magazine's look, Rosenblatt felt his editorial contribution was easily as important. ''He was always encouraging, always probing - and maybe most important, he gave us our head." Rosenblatt cited his own experience early on the job as a prime illustration. At that time, he suggested doing a story about children around the globe who had grown up only in an atmosphere of war, a story he proposed both to research and to write, taking three months to do so. He was a newcomer, his proposal ran counter to the magazine's custom, and there was no guarantee of success, as he well knew. As Rosenblatt told it, Cave thought for a few moments and then said, "Do ..,LU..Uf''"' .... '' with those two words setting in motion profound changes in style and editorial policy. Months later, when the Time issue containing "Children of '' an essay of length, was actually rolling off the presses in Asia, Rosenblatt had to request of Cave a 12th hour change in order to a child informant who be Rosenblatt remembered that Cave, faced with the prospect of a huge additional cost for an uncertain result, said once more, "Do it." But today we are in Dimitri's, far from the corridors of power. With St. John's College just up the street, Cave turns the discussion to matters close at hand. "I am an immense advocate of the St. John's program. There's no doubt in my mind that the education I got here however much of it I got in the eyes of my tutors - enabled me to succeed at what I did in journalism. I think St. John's is uniquely valuable for journalists or indeed for anybody whose basic business is asking questions, evaluating the society in which we live, and trying to explain that society to its citizens. ''One of the most exciting words in the English language is 'curiosity,' and I think that above all the St. John's education incites curiosity. Once you get the habit of being curious, you never lose it. Writers and journalists must always be curious. It's what they do for a living. I also think St. John's impresses upon you at an age when you can still learn it, that you must always listen carefully to somebody else's point of view. Those hours of seminars make you understand that the other person just may be right. I've read that St. John's students can be a little arrogant at times, too proud of the program. Perhaps. But that only happens when they forget the real lessons of the great books and of a liberal education." What is Cave doing now? He has his own media consulting business, he may well write a book about today's journalism, and perhaps one about Time Inc. He does not sound like a man in a rush. ''Running a news magazine was very hard," he comments. "I've been in high-level journalism for a lot of years, very intensely for the last 15. I wouldn't have missed a minute of it. But it has been physically and mentally fatiguing. I don't mind slowing down for a few days." Yet old habits die hard. This is the week of the earthquake in California, and multiple images of the Marina fire and the broken bridge are on every television set. Ray Cave has been talking about television news and newsmagazines, insisting that television helps sell magazines because it "essentially whets readers' appetites." Speaking now, his face takes on a look of abstraction. "I'd much rather have a cover story that TV has played big for days. That story will sell marvelously well. People want to read about things they have seen.'' His mind is on San Francisco. He says, "I'd love to be editing Time this week.'' Alumni East (Continued from page 2) "While his parents work," she writes, "Macky, the only blond haired blueeyed child on the island, is turning into a most noble and delightful savage. If anyone is in the area, please come for a visit. When you get off the ferry, just ask for Macky.'' David Woolwine joined the department of sociology at Hamilton College in Clinton, N. Y., on August 1. (Continued page 4) that all books are almost totally conditioned by their authors' sex or race or social But we continue to believe that a thinking human penetrate these circumstances. At any rate, we find that works amJro.actLed in this open up to us and to our students. That faith fits in with the fact that this college is - in certain aspects - a deeply democratic place. It is democratic in to combine individualism of inquiry with of endeavor, in encouraging a kind of learning without recourse to professional expertise or authority, in providing for the sort of seminar discussion in which each member participates on an equal footing and the most diverse opinions get a respectful hearing. So it is precisely to protect this egalitarian spirit that we look for works which take hold of us all as human beings, which engage our feelings and our reason and are yet distant enough from topical turmoil to keep the discussion civil and thoughtful. One might say that we are compelled by our democratic format to keep the Program gender- and color- and issue-blind. 3. But that doesn't mean that we don't recognize the problems raised by these principles in practical application: We know that we must come to grips with the question ~ow the female half of our student population or the increasing number of Asian and black students fare here, what they find that may speak to them specifically. Here we do differ a good deal in our individual concerns. One underlying assumption for those who feel the problem - not all do - is that the life of individual human beings is so largely informed by their sex and their race and ~Y past injustices done on those accounts that their education must pay attention to these facts. Others, while not denying the importance of being a woman or being non-white, worry about the dangers of fostering too resentful a sensitivity or too narrow a perspective of human affairs. It is an open question within the community which is sure to be much discussed in the immediate future. What we can say is that our books are not the worst background for deepening the conversation. Another supposition, more directly relevant to the Program, is that works which are not written by or about or for certain groups, women, for example, have less to say to them. This is a tricky problem, particularly since students' receptivity depends in part on the attitudes that are encouraged. Yet there might well be some spontaneous recoil when, for instance, a young woman meets as the first hero in her reading here Homer's Achilles. She might indeed have trouble identifying with him, and she might see his fatal self-regard as a typically male flaw. But then, such a woman in her more martial moods might have no difficulty at all empathizing with his blazing fury. Or, again, she might decide that neither alienation nor empathy is the point, but human sympathy. Similarly, it seems somehow evident that no man can write of a woman's lot from the inside. And yet, men have convincingly delineated female characters, from charmingly complex girls, like Homer's Nausikaa and Tolstoy's Natasha to royally terrific women like Aeschylus' Clytemnestra and Virgil's Dido. These grand portraits may be as illuminating even to a woman - or a man - as might be a tract by a woman on the condition of women. It should be mentioned that there are in fact several great women novelists on the Program: Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Flannery O'Connor. Some of them, read blind, would probably not be distinguishable as female. Others, Jane Austen for example, add the most digestible and salutary kind of diversity, diversity of experience. It would not do her proper honor to say that she brings a woman's views to the world at large; she claims rather to bring a human view to the small and largely female world to which she so expertly introduces us. Nonetheless, it would be ostrich-like to deny that this particular time the program requires of some students something extra by way of stretching their imagination and widening their thinking. It requires of the men that they take female figures with all the high seriousness ancient and modern authors have accorded them. It requires of women that they raise to a human level texts not apparently written for them. The reward for that sort of effort has always been an added distinction. 1979 J amelia Saied reports that after six years in Alaska, she has been busy for the past two years pursuing a master's degree at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration. She now has a new job as assistant vice president, management advisory services, of Super 8 Motels in Aberdeen, SD. 1982 Marco who is beginning his final year of law school at the University of San Francisco, reports that Random House will reissue his late father's books, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and The Revolt of the Cockroach People. Hunter Thompson has written the introduction, Marco an afterward. His father's letters, papers, files, important in the growing field of Chicano/Hispanic/ethnic literature, are now part of the permanent Oscar Zeta Acosta Collection at the library of the, University of California· at Santa Barbara in the Chicano Studies division. Negotiations are also in progress with major film companies for the rights to Cockroach. 1984 Mark Niedermier and David Bucknell are director and assistant director respectively of an admirable and thriving summer camp in Lyme, Connecticut, that serves Children's Storefront pupils, Harlem children victimized by poverty and crime. Children's Storefront, which serves grades one-8, was begun in 1966 and is privately supported, mainly by foundations. Located in one of the worst sections of New York City, it now includes several buildings, and provides its 100 pupils with small classes, comprehensive services, community involvement and a committed staff. Niedermeyer is a teacher at the school, as is the owner of the Lyme Farm, another teacher who has opened her property to the students for years. 1986 First Lt. Hal Williamson, USMC, received his wings as a Naval aviator in August and is now stationed at the Marine air base in Cherry Point, NC, where he will fly the A V-8B Harrier II. �DECEMBER 1989 Friends remember Ossorgin By DONNA BOETIG Speaking to more than 100 members of the college community assembled in the FSK Auditorium on Homecoming Saturday for the memorial service for Michael Ossorgin, the beloved Santa Fe and Annapolis tutor who died August 27, tutor Michael Littleton recalls their first meeting: "I was sitting in the coffee shop and struck up a conversation with him, something about law. I probably said something that was unfortunately stated, or possibly frivolous. Whatever. I received a rebuke. I can't remember the words, but I'll never forget the l.ook ... If I thought there was something funny in my remark, he did not. It made me consider if there were more serious things to spend my time on~' Yet Michael Ossorgin, a man with a sense of sobriety, was also playful, childlike, wonderfully engaging. Mr. Littleton continues: "Meeting with the Annapolis Instruction Committee we talked about everything, the Bible, Genesis. Michael was willing to let each person find his relationship to the story. Naturally, we found our way to discussing 'Shine On Harvest Moon~ To my imagination, he was playing the piano, taking the minimally interesting tune and isolating the appearance of the tri-tone and harmony and following the voice, leading the dissonant intervals down as the chords would move. On the same occasion, I see him belting out the chorus of Porgy and Bess 'Oh Lord, I'm On My Mr. Ossorgin was complex. Friends and colleagues groped for the anecdote that would typify his life and the influence he had. Stymied, they resorted to what Annapolis tutor Eva Brann describes as a "an umbrella of memories~' From their words, and from their tears, emerge flashes of personality, images of a man who defies labels. The physical description is easy. "A stocky frame, bluish eyes, a shock of silver gray hair, cheekbones and nose of which the best descriptive word is Russian:' says Ms. Brann. "People would sometimes tell one or the other of us that we were alike;' recalls Tutor Emeritus Curtis Wilson. "Indeed, we both had white hair and blue eyes. But intellectually there was a deep difference:' he says of his good friend. "Michael was contemplative, and I in my learning was acquisitive~' Mr. Ossorgin's intellectual prowess as a young tutor impressed Dean Jacob Klein so that when Brother Robert Smith asked to meet with some new tutors to discuss how they were adapting, Mr. Klein responded without hesitation: "See Ossorgin~' It was the response of a Dean "whose spirits lifted when he found someone capable of doing the program as it should be done and who was depressed when others fell shore' Years later when Mr. Ossorgin was told of the incident, rather than basking in the Dean's high praise of tapping him alone, he thought of those left aside. His attitude was: "There is a place for everyone (here) and no one is excluded~' A few years later, Brother Robert called upon Mr. Ossorgin to help him establish a program similar to St. John's in a larger college in California. When Mr. Ossorgin arrived he encountered an enthusiastic group of students and a divided faculty, following something known as "the program~' He helped the two groups discover basic truths through conversation, the type in which the par- PAGE 19 THE REPORTER ticipants paid close attention to what others were saying. "When he left, the faculty began to cohere around an activity that was very important to their lives . . . Many are still at it 27 years later,' Brother Robert says. Mr. Ossorgin's tutorials were testimony to his gift for good conversation. Ms. Brann remembers his sophomore mathematics tutorial in Annapolis: "He was enticing, encouraging, and dignified. The tutorial would unroll with a clear purpose and in a reflective case. People would demonstrate long proposals and with a few words Michael would clarify the demonstration and make the proceedings significane' Mr. Wilson adds: "Michael's kind of analysis in music, in other arts, and in philosophical discussion didn't depend on luck or perfervid research. It entailed patient thoughtfulness and attunement:' During the memorial service, a choir of St. John's students and tutors, directed by Annapolis tutor Peter Kalkavage, presented Bach chorales from "The Saint Matthew Passion;' the "Babylon Psalm:' in its Russian version, and "Everlasting MemorY.' The diversity of the musical strains typified his life. In addition to being a tutor, Mr. Ossorgin had been a World War II prisoner in Germany, a Russian Orthodox priest, a conductor of a choir of Indian and native children in Sitka, a translator of the liturgical music of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Rimski-Korsakov, and a retiree devoted to making the Russian liturgical music, banned from the Soviet Union, available to the West. He was also a husband to Penny, a father to three children, and a friend to very many, including Mr. Wilson. "I was drawn to him ... our rapport was immediate and unfathomable ... He was always interested in people, sympathetic if they were troubled, appreciative of their qualities and efforts~' "He transformed the lives of others on a grand scale;' Dr. Peter Hamill, an Annapolis physician, praises his creativity, intelligence, intuitiveness and imagination, along with his profound sense of adventure. Tutor Laurence Berns tells several anecdotes to illustrate his praise for Mr. Ossorgin as a teacher. At one time, Mr., Berns sat in on a preceptorial on Dostoevski, presided over by Mr. Ossorgin. It was composed of shy and silent students. I\.1r. Ossorgin reluctantly took over discussion of the Russian author in a series of brief lectures. Mr. Berns praises "the clarity, depth and thoroughness of the impromptu lectures which were the most interesting commentary on Dostoevski I've every heard~' In the summer of 1966, Mr. Berns remembers, he had the task of selecting the literature and poetry segment for the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe. He came up with a "smorgasbord" of literary selections which he presented to Mr. Ossorgin for comment. Several days later, Mr. Ossorgin invited him to lunch without explaining why and in a memorable session he proposed an alternative curriculum based principally on the Iliad and the Odyssey, suggesting persuasively to Mr. Berns that all human life could be understood in terms of the two epics. Ever since, Mr. Berns says, the study of the Iliad and the Odyssey has been the core of the very successful literary section of the Graduate Institute program. Duodu-Bonsu in summer program Collins Duodu-Bonsu, a liberal arts major selected by St. John's College, has completed study as a University of Chicago Business Fellow. Duodu-Bonsu had been the recipient of a full-tuition scholarship to the program. The CBF program, sponsored by the University's Graduate School of Business, enables outstanding juniors from select liberal arts colleges and universities to earn credit towards the School's MBA degree during the summer. "Our purpose is to give students who are pursuing the liberal arts and social sciences an opportunity to see what the study and practice of business is all about:' says Kevin Martin, dean of students at the GSB. Martin notes that fellows enter the mainstream of MBA activity, competing successfully with students who participate in the regular MBA program. In addition, they attend weekly management seminars with business leaders and career-planning professionals who discuss both issues facing the business world and careers in business. Students also visit corporations where they learn how American companies function in a world economy. I Blair Blair Kinsman, an internationally recognized authority on ocean surface waves, who taught at the Annapolis campus from 1947-51, died of cancer November 2 at his home in Riva, MD. Mr. Kinsman received his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and his master's and doctoral degrees in oceanography from the Johns Hopkins University. After several years of teaching at preparatory schools, and the teaching years at St. John's, he accepted in 1951 a position as research assistant at the Chesapeake Bay Institute of Johns Hopkins, where he in various capacities for 20 years. Later he was professor of oceanography at the University of Delaware and coordinator of The Rhode River Program at the Smithsonian -Jnstitutions' Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies. He held visiting professorships at the Naval Academy, the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City, and the Marine Sciences Research Center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Lewis Kinsman, who worked in the Information Services office at the Annapolis campus for four years until 1988, and a daughter, Elizabeth Blair Kinsman. A memorial service was to be held November 25. Memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice of Anne Arundel Medical Center, Franklin and Cathedral Sts., Annapolis, MD 21401. Henry F. Wegner, 85, A '26, died on July l after a brief illness. For many years, Mr. Wegner and his wife Barbara Fout Wegner owned and operated a dogbreeding and boarding kennel in Carroll County. Mr. Wegner was an avid golfer and a devoted alumnus of the College. After his wife died in 1973, Mr. Wegner retired from his business. He is survived by his niece Ellen Wegner, as well as by his niece-in-law Mrs. Williard C. Osbourn, several great-nieces and a great-nephew. Eric Selfridge: graduate student Eric Selfridge, SF '85, died of lymphoma on September 1, 1988, in Redwoocl_City, CA., at the age of 23. Eric, who had married classmate Lora Keenan in February of that year, was enrolled on a fellowship for the 1988-89 school year in a joint JD/MBA program at the University of California in Berkeley. Those who wish to contact Lora KeenanSelfridge may do so care of Robert McClees, SF '86, assistant director of student activities at Santa Fe. Contributions in Eric's name may be made to the American Cancer Society. Zimmerman: Charles R. Zimmerman, A '29, a former member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, died in Sarasota, Florida, on August 7 at the age of 83. Born in Baltimore, he attended Severn School in Severna Park before coming to St. John's. He was manager of Standard Pipe Sales and director of the Houston Natural Gas Corp. Mr. Zimmerman served on the Board of the College for two terms, from 1958 to 1962. In Sarasota, Mr. Zimmerman was a member of the Bird Key Yacht Club and the Mission Valley Golf and Country Club. He and his wife established for the College the Charles R. and Nancy Zimmerman '28 Alumni Endowment. Mrs. Zimmerman died in 1981. Survivors include several nieces, nephews, and cousins. In August, Mr. Ossorgin's daughter wrote to the Wilsons saying that her father, knowing that he had weeks, or days to live, would spend them not dying, but living. Mrs. Simon Kaplan praises Mr. Ossorgin's "inner wisdom for life and death:' concluding with two Russian words meaning: "Eternal memory, eternal memorY.' �PAGE 20 THE REPORTER 1 "'Tis the Season~' a festive holiday gathering, will be held in the stately and gracious Great Hall of the restored McDowell once a colonial governor's mansion, on December 16. A medley of activities has been planned a committee chaired Mary Joy of the Friends of St. John's. The afternoon of tours, music and carolling, holiday and refreshments will continue from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. There will be a of per person for visitors. Annapolis citizens and members of the college community will be presenting readings appropriate to the season as follows: Keren Dement at 11 a.m., Tutor Emeritus Hugh McGrath at one p.m., the Rev. Pierce Middleton at 3 p.m., and Steven Newsome at 5 p.m. Tutor Michael Littleton will play carols and other holiday music on the piano from 11:30 to 12:30 a.m., while children of the Angus Violin Studio of Crownsville will perform at 2 p.m. and the Newe Renaissance Voyces at 3:30 p.m. Mrs. Belknap will be assisted by members of the Friends and of the Caritas Society, of which she is president. Committee members are Anna E. Greenberg, Margot Hamill, Cora Mason, Maryanne Spencer, Martha Breed, and Leonie Gately. John McDowell first SJC president John McDowell, first president of St. John's College, for whom 200-year old McDowell Hall is named, was born of Scots-Irish parents in 1750 in Pennsylvania frontier territory, and as a child lived intermittently within a stockade for protection from rampaging Indians. Twice the family's log house was burned to the ground by Indians during outbreaks of the French and Indian Wars. This and other facts may be found in an essay entitled "John McDowell, Federalist: President of St. John's College!' by Charlotte Fletcher, retired St. John's librarian, which appears in the Fall 1989 issue of the Maryland Historical Magazine. , The second of 12 children Of John and Mary Maxwell McDowell, John McDowell grew up on a farm in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. From ages five to 12, he lived with his family at times within a stockade around a Presbyterian meeting place called White Church. "Reading and lessons learned in church, field and crossroads rounded out McDowell's education;' writes Miss Fletcher. He also learned from working in the fields, for "surveying was a school in mathematics for many colonial youths:' He learned principles of economics in the township of Marks, where farmers, millers and hunters, who lived in a subsistence economy without money, bartered their grain, flour and skins for manufactured goods. McDowell's former teacher John King, pastor of White Church, en,.,.,.,.,, ........"'"'" McDowell to enter the College of assured the authorities of the young man's competence, and helped with arrangements for McDowell to tutor other students in exchange for tuition b<Jard. When the young man entered the college in 1768, he was the first from the frontier to be admitted. After the ...,""''"""""""''"""'''"" McDowell served as a came he was invited to read law and prepare for the bar in Cambridge, Maryland, where he also conducted a school, and later established a lucrative law practice and made many friends. In the meantime, the King William's School and the newly chartered St. John's College had merged in Annapolis, and in the spring of 1789, the trustees of the college had resources enough to appoint two profes sors and to open the college, while they searched in England for a distinguished Anglican clergyman to name college president. McDowell was offered the professorship of mathematics. One of the inducements to come to Annapolis McDowell cites in a letter to his father is the satisfaction of being near his friends, a group of in- Good neighbors from across the street give an honor salute, the first ever, to 200-year-old McDowell Hall on the occasion of its re-dedication. Harvey photo fluential young Maryland Federalists, most of whom later held high position in the state and nation. One year later, McDowell, a dark horse among the candidates, was named first president of the college. For a decade the college flourished, Miss Fletcher writes, enrolling students from all over Maryland and many from out of state. In 1791, George Washington visited the campus. Nevertheless, the House of Delegates voted to withdraw all appropriations from Maryland's two colleges in 1793 (the other was Washington College), which legislators said educated the sons of the rich at the expense of the less well-to-do. Until 1806 the Senate was able to block successive attempts of this sort by the House, but in that year, the full Assembly voted to withdraw all college funds and McDowell resigned the presidency to become third provost of the University of Pennsylvania. Plagued by ill health, he resigned as provost in 1810. In 1812, the St. John's trustees, encouraged by new appropriations, invited McDowell to return as president of the college, an invitation he accepted when it was offered again in 1815. These were times of discouragement, which caused McDowell to write: "I always considered the revival of St. John's from its miserable ruins, as an experiment, the success of which was very doubtful:' The assembly had done nothing for the college, but even the citizens and trustees, "who are so deeply interested in the success of the .._,..., .......,/'",..,. have been very deficient in their exertions to promote it:' Both McDowell and the and in 1817 the board in tentatively closed the college. McDowell died on December 1820. The college had reopened in 1818, and its had come to its aid. the end of the 1820's, Francis Scott and Robert H. Goldsborough had organized an effective alumni society. "In his wdtes Miss Fletcher in conclusion, "McDowell, the Federalist, was a pundit to many and a scholar of national stature. He was a student of the liberal arts and of public affairs until his death~' For the tercentenary celebration of the founding of Anne Arundel County in 1948, Miss Fletcher's aunt lent the college a series of McDowell letters to display in the Great -Hall. Miss Fletcher's interest in these letters triggered her long research project into early college history. One arresting detail led to another, and, she remembers, "I realized I had to cut the thing down into pieces~' Between the beginning of the search and the publication of her latest article, four other papers about the early days intervened, as she followed clues that took her from the Maryland Historical Society, to the University of Pennsylvania archives, to the Library of Congress. The first was "1784: the Year St. John's College was named:' published in 1974 in the Maryland Historical Magazine as were three subsequent articles: "King William's School and the College of William and "King William's School Plans to Become a College" (1985), and Williams' School Survives the Revolution" McDowell's first term was a signal time in the College's fortunes, and the man who presided over them is being honored in a new age both through the building that bears his name and through such researches as the recent essay. "The first 15 years of the College's history were the Golden Years:' says Miss Fletcher. DECEMBER 1989 McDowell book by Christensen Last year when the Campus Planning Committee was discussing the restoration of McDowell Hall, John Christensen, Director of Admissions at Annapolis, discovered that although he and other members had a general idea of the long history of the campus landmark, they still tended to think of it as the old hall, one of two classroom buildings, which also housed academic offices and a coffee shop. As the meetings progressed, and Mr. Christensen continued to discuss the restoration with the project's architect Charles Bohl, he came to appreciate the building's architectural elements and the modifications made during the years. ''The more we talked about what we hoped to preserve and gain in the renovation, the more we became intrigued by how McDowell had been shaped and used in the past:' Mr. Christensen recalls. "We thought what we learned should be recorded and shared with others. So I decided to undertake the project:' Published this fall by the St. John's College Press, McDowell Hall at St. John's College in Annapolis 1742-1989 is a 70-page narrative account of McDowell's history that includes documentary record, written and graphic, to appeal to the general reader. The high gloss text is illustrated with numerous historic photos and drawings. It is the only overview of the entire history. intention was not to produce an exhaustive architectural of McDowell but instead to teU the story of a building that began as a governor's mansion almost 250 years ago and was first occupied nearly a century later by St. John's Colleg~' he says. An architectural buff for years, Mr. Christensen soon realized that to tell McDowell's story he would have to first dig for what information was available and then wait patiently, until McDowell herself, like a grand dame warming to a visitor, was ready to reveal her past, slowly and selectively. Last spring, as one wall then another was removed, evidence was provided to determine the original floor plan. Mr. Christensen began the timeconsuming task of hunting through the files in the Maryland State Archives, searching for the earliest depictions of the building. He located several. Other historic photos and prints were secured from the College yearbooks and other records, as well as from a collection by the Annapolis architects Weller, Fishback, and Bohl. With the visual and written evidence in hand, Mr. Christensen spent endless hours with Mr. Bohl examining the early descriptions and photographs of McDowell, and comparing them with the structural evidence of the building as the restoration continued. "Without Mr. Bohl's expertise and guidance, I could not have written the account of McDowell's first and second construction in the 18th century, nor that of reconstruction following the 1909 fire that nearly destroyed it:' he says. With his first book completed, Mr. Christensen says he's accomplished what he set out to, and has no intention of beginning another now. McDowell Hall At St. John's College 1742-1989 is available through the St. John's College book store for $24.99 hardcover and $17 .99 in paperback. � 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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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf The Reporter https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/56991fbd6234d797adb7f261b7dee706.pdf 3881aeacc1249940e4852986fe03b586 PDF Text Text ST JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1111111111 \I lll~~iillll\l\@[[li~I\ The St. John's 111111111\1\l\I 31696 01137163_!1_ - -- I Volume 16, Issue 1 Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM September, 1989 on BY NANCY OSIUS In a series of rulings handed down July 13, Superior .Court of California Judge John Anton validated the claim of St. John's College to 800 acres of valuable California property on the MontereySalinas Highway near the California coastline and gave the college four extra years to construct an educational facility on it. The property was deeded nearly 20 years ago to the college by Herman, Andrew and Agnes Marks. The judicial ruling brought to an abrupt end a court case for which the jury had been selected, and also ended, pending appeal, four years of jockeying that pitted the college both against the Marks heirs, who were the plaintiffs, and the state of California. The state will be the beneficiary if the college fails to plans to use the land for purposes by its new 1997 deadline. In the California suit filed in 1984, the Marks heirs charged that the college had exercised undue influence over the elderly Marks siblings, that Herman Marks was mentally incompetent in his later years, and also that the college had been guilty of misrepresention of its intentions. President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle, whose efforts were instrumental in bring. ing the Santa Fe campus into being, had in 1960 visited areas in California as well as New Mexico, examining the possibility of both sites for a western campus. Although Santa Fe was selected for the new campus, Dr. Weigle's visit led to an initial gift to the college from the Marks family of 20 acres of California land. In 1973, the family gave the college another gift of 760 acres next to Toro Canyon, about 10 miles east of Monterey. See for on the court settlement and its impliications written Mr. Kelso and Board member Robert A '50. In 1980, the family gave the college 400 more acres of income-producing property, known as the Greenfield property, to help pay the taxes on the Toro property and to produce income for the future college. Herman Marks, the - last of the siblings, died in 1982. Since 1984, the adversaries repeatedly tried to reach an out-of-court settlement. These attempts continued after the case came to trial July 10. Following a full day of testimony by Dr. Weigle, the litigants on July 12 reached accord on a settlement proposal, an agreement that entailed swapping some Marks heirs' land adjacent to the college Toro Canyon property for some of the Greenfield incomeproducing property, in what was designed as a tax-free exchange of like properties, as well as a cash payment by the college to the heirs. Specifically, the settlement proposal required the Marks' heirs to release all claims against the college in exchange for the following: a swap of 57 acres they possess at Toro Canyon for 115 acres of college-owned Greenfield property, the total value of each parcel estimated at $463,440; the college to pay the estate an additional $187,095 immediately; and the college to take on mortgages for the 57 acres to the approximate amount of $174,465, making the total consideration to be paid by the college $825,000. No funds to implement the agreement will come from the operating budget of either campus. On July 12, the court made a series of rulings binding on the state of California, extending to 1997 the deadline for construction of facilities by the college, requiring that $400,000, adjusted for in- Continued on page 15 Continued on page 14 j IV I Dies in I I Monterey County, California I I C;) advancement plan Tutor Emeritus Michael Ossorgin, , who has taught on both the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses, died August 27 at his home in Santa Fe. Ill with acute leukemia since May, Mr. Ossorgin would have been 70 on December 29. One of St. John's most loved tutors and a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, Mr. Ossorgin joined the Annapolis faculty in 1956 and later transferred to the Santa Fe campus in 1966. MONTEREY BAY I Continued on page 13 Resounding approval was given by assembled members at the July Board of Visitors and Governors meeting to a comprehensive Advancement Plan which set forth a long range strategy to help guide the college in its broad decisions for the next 10 years. Presented by the two Vice Presidents for Advancement, Jeffrey Bishop of Annapolis and Jeffrey Morgan of Santa Fe, the plan was organized into sequential steps designed to identify the needs of the college that must be satisfied in order "for St. John's not only to do better what it already does, but also to position iself for future opportunities:' according to Mr. Bishop. Undoubtedly, coming out of the process will be the identification of needs that can be satisfied only with a he said. "We major investment of predict that a major fund-raising campaign will be launched within the next three years~' The long-range exercise outlined before the Board involve that body, the entire college community, alumni, and parents and friends of the college. The first step to be taken will be a Needs 'Inventory, an identification of needs through interviews and other means, an assessment of the importance of each in an overall scheme, and finally, a list of priorities. A strategic plan will emerge from this inventory that outlines what means can be satisfied in what way over what time period. For example, Mr. Bishop said, in an evaluation of faculty needs, the enquiry ;)' f To San Francisco I flation, be invested by that date in buildings for the facility, and allowing the college to sell the income-producing Greenfield property to raise funds. Subject to approval by the College Board of Visitors and Governors, college attorney Nancy Tostevin of the Monterey and San Jose firm of Hoge, Fenton, Jones and Appel, accepted the court's provisions and the earlier settlement proposal. The Board, meeting on the Santa Fe campus, gave its approval to the settlement on July 14. Dr. Weigle, entering the meeting room shortly afterwards, received a standing ovation. Thomas M. Carnes, Board member and San Francisco attorney who had acted as liaison between the college and the law firm, said the settlement allows the college to "put aside the uncertainties of �1921 1972 1973 Cited as a "link to the hospital's legendary founding physicians:' Dr. Thomas B. Turner, associated with the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions for 62 years, and dean of the medical school from 1957-1968, received a handsome accolade in a prominent story in the Baltimore Sunday Sun on June 4. On the occasion of the Johns Hopkins medical facility's celebration of its lOOth birthday, Dr. Turner is quoted as saying, "I've known virtually anyone of any prominence at all that's ever been connected with the Hopkins medical institution~' He added, "It's just a matter of age. But most of them have been my friends~' As Dean Emeritus, he still comes to his office every day. "Retirement is an idea he once toyed with and discarded:' comments the interviewer. Matthew T. Mallory has moved to Brussels to take the position of U.S. Representative to the NATO Military Budget Committee. He will be happy to see any classmates who are in Brussels and can be reached with the U.S. Mission to NATO at USNATO Box 63, APO New York, NY 09667-5382. Eric 0. Springsted, president of the American Weil Society, presided over the group's annual meeting in Santa Fe in April. The topic was Simone Weil's ideas about education. The conference included a seminar of St. John's students on "School Studies~' Apparently, the society was so much impressed with the seminar that it decided to have seminar session in future meetings. Several alumni from various classes are attempting to organize a Gay and Lesbian chapter to the Alumni Association. Please contact David Woolwine, Hamilton College Sociology Department, Clinton, NY 13323. 1938 Louis Bachman, Jr., is assistant director of purchasing services for the city of Palo Alto, CA. He and his wife have two daughters, three granddaughters, and three grandsons. ATTENTION, MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1939 AND THE "GALWPING GOOSE EGGS"! Homecoming is our big chance to get together, see one another and reminisce about the "Galloping Goose Eggs." President Dyal will join us for the Friday night dinner, hosted by the college. 1964 Mary Biggar Main, widow of tutor Al Main, who has been receiving considerable recognition as a psychologist for her studies of children, is quoted (on p. 99) in the best-seller Solitude: A Return to the Self, by British psychiatrist Anthony Storr. 1967 Ian Harris, University of WisconsinMilwaukee associate professor, Community Education, has written a book Peace Education that the publisher, McFarland and Co., Inc., describes as a "tool for teachers, churchleaders, community activists and concerned citizens interested in using educational strategies to create a peaceful world:' The book is suggested for use in college-level peace studies courses by elementary and secondary teachers, church leaders and commumty activists. In addition, he is one of two editors of a work published by Greenwood Press, Inc., of Westport, Conn., called Experiential Education for Community Development. The book contains 20 essays illustrating teaching strategies that can be incorporated into community-based practicums and internships. The book provides useful techniques for community problemsolving and ways in which groups can learn to work together more effectively. 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 New 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 018-750 1975 Eugene Kelly has been promoted to art director at Campbell-Mithun-Esty in Minneapolis. He joined the agency in 1985. 1974 Sculptor Patrick Simpson recently held a one-man show in the Sena Galleries East in Santa Fe, presenting once more his sculpture of boats. "Most of Simpson's boat sculptures are bronze castings, with two of cast aluminum and three major pieces which strikingly juxtapose bronze with wood:' writes Santa Fe tutor Bill Darkey in a review of the show. "Simpson's work reveals in the gesture of every line and surface his love of boats, and his awareness of the equal mysteries of their making and of their life both on the water and in the human imagination. It displays too his deep Class of 1969 In the next few issues we will be reporting the news of alumni members of both Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses who are celebrating their 20 year reunion. Avron Alberts of Cambridge, MA, is a Unitarian Universalist minister. He lost 140 pounds through a food addiction program, and is now working for Harvard Divinity School. Meredith Anthony of New York City earned an MA from Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She writes Hitchcock-style thriller films and produces industrial film projects (to pay the rent). Her short film, Ladykiller, won several awards and played at many film festivals in the U.S. and abroad. Joseph Preston Baratta of Cambridge, MA, lived in Israel, traveled to Europe where he worked as a technical writer in the computer industry, then returned to the states and became involved in the anti-war movement. He earned a PhD from Boston University, writing a history of the World Federalist movement. He taught at the college level, and recently worked as a United Nations representative of the World Association of World Federalists. James F. Bartram of Petaluma, CA, studied instrument building at the University Without Walls program at Roger Williams College in Bristol, RI, crafting a copy of a 17th century Italian harpsichord for his senior thesis. He then produced 400 recorders over the next 10 years in New England. Next, he worked as a microcomputer systems consultant and eventually began designing and programming software applications. He wrote a graphics editing program that's still being sold. Mark Bernstein of Philadelphia, PA, practiced law privately until he was appointed to the Bench of Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County in 1987. He has been active in several civic- activities including the U.S. Service Academy Selection Committee for the Second Congressional District, Philadelphia Lawyers Against Apartheid, and the Sudden Infant Death Resource Center Advisory Council. Dorie Brodie Baker of New Haven, CT, is married and the mother of four. She hit a home run in a baseball game in Aix-en-Provence, nursed her daughter in the Roman Coliseum in Aries, wrote a novel and read all of Ulysses. Diana G. Browning of Titusville, PA, earned an MAT in English from Johns Hopkins, earned an MA in Greek from Case Western Reserve University, and a PhD in Classics from Princeton. She's now teaching Classics and English at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville. Robert J. Chassell of Stockbridge, MA, is working as corporate treasurer for the Free Software Foundation, a small nonprofit organization that creates and distributes freely-distributable software. He's also a commercial, instrument rated flight instructor, and just bought a small airplane. Daniel Cleavinger of Espanola, NM, is a lawyer specializing in personal injury cases. He's interested in eastern religion, particularly Siddha Yoga and in transpersonal psychology. Jeff Cothran of Houston, TX, lived in a Christian commune, started an electrical contracting business, and bought a very old house in the woods five minutes from downtown. He sings in the church choir and volunteers with AIDS victims. Jamie Cromartie of Pomona, NJ, earned his PhD in ecology from Cornell University. He was director of the Stockton Center for Environmental Research and was an Environmental Protection Agency fellow and a Congressional Science Fellow in Washington, DC. He is now an associate professor of environmental studies at Stockton State College in New Jersey. Mariam Cohen, M.D., of Scottsdale, AZ, began as a medical writer and decided if she could write about it she could do it. She started a graduate program in psychology, detoured briefly into obstetrics, and ended up in psychiatry. Dr. Cohen has a private practice in Phoenix, and is mid-way in training in psychoanalysis. Dennis D'Asar of New Baltimore, NY, plays the guitar and writes his own songs. He and his wife, Sallie Perry, who is the New York State Coordinator for the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, are raising golden retrievers and restoring a Victorian house. feeling for the nature and integrity of the sculptor's materials and craft. In this show we see fine intelligence, imagination and craftsmanship at work together.' 1975 Jonathan M. Teague of Muir Beach, CA, married Kristin Shannon on May 19. 1980 Stephen Crampton has been appointed an associate at the Santa Fe office of the Albuquerque law firm of Poole, Tinnin, and Martin. 1983 After three and a half years of study, Eugene H. Adam left Columbia University in May with a BA, after majoring in Greek and Latin, to which the "still strong influence of my one year at St. John's" had directed him, he said. "Columbia, for its part, led me to do some work in linguistics, and a little dabbling in symbolic logid.' On hand to help him celebrate were Stephen Kennedy and Tina Clark, SF '82. (Stephen is working on a computer program for financial analysis in Dallas, "and also rushing to finish a string quartet by Halloween~') Eugene Adam has relocated to Berkeley, CA, where he works for a San Francisco law firm and tries "to think of many reasons not to take the LSAT.' 1984 David Fayon Gross and Catherine Gross (David is a lawyer in San Francisco and Kate does free-lance work for book publishers) have two children ages 7 and 4. Wendy T. Hamwell resides in Mesilla, New Mexico, and is still the owner and operator of a restaurant in Las Curces. She is applying to art school, she has one dog, four cats and loves visitors. 1985 Michael D. Strong and Mally (Mechau) Strong, (SF '84) are living in Chicago where Michael is beginning a dissertation on ethics and economic theory. Mally works part-time for the U. of C Lab. school. Homer Valentine Strong was born on 6/25/88 and is doing well! Mary Scott Wallace, in Annapolis on a recent trip, reported that she is physics editor of the University of Chicago Press. 1986 Kevin Heyburn is entering his second year as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya where he teaches math in a rural high school located in the foothills of Mt. Kenya. Although he lacks both electricity and running water, he writes that he is ''very happy with my life here. I love the beauty of the surrounding countryside, enjoy the friendship of my Kenyan neighbors and fellow Peace Corps volunteers, and I have learned a lot about African traditions and culture." He recommends the Peace Corps experience to anyone at St. John's, including members of the faculty and staff. 1987 Dan Grossberg and Jeanie Redus proudly announce the birth of their son Nemo on April 6. According to Jeanie, the three of them are avoiding employment and plotting their escape from Oakland, CA, to an organic farm. Robin Eileen (Davis) Miller is married to classmate Marshall Allan Miller and they are living in Merced, California. Their first child, Hillary Owen Miller, was born September 21, 1988. �1989 "Ethics and Business:' the third in the Great Issues series on ethics, will be held ,..,_,,~r1.-.u morning, November 4, on the campus, Following the format which brought participants in unprecedented numbers to the campus in November, 1988, and last April for forums on "Ethics and Politics" and "Ethics and J oumalism;' the November meeting will again bring the best aspects of the college seminar approach to a wide audience. Registration will begin in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium at 9 a.m. with a 45-minute keynote speech following at 9:30 in the auditorium. A question period will be held before a refreshments break at 10:40 a.m. From 11 a.m. to 12:30, participants will meet for seminar discussions to be co-led by members of the business community and college tutors. A second speaker will address guests during the luncheon period, which begins at 12:30 p.m. Both speakers will be named later this month. The series, which brought former 1 llAJLUU.IJV,L.Lu DONNA BOETIG Students returning to St. John's College in Annapolis this fall will again be greeted with temporary arrangements in class schedules and campus life, but with the promise that when their campus landmark, McDowell Hall, is returned to them, they will feel, within its walls, the warmth of an old friend. "Anyone who's been familiar with McDowell before it was renovated, will, when it's finished, sense its freshness and cleanliness, but will quickly feel right at home in it;' said Alan Weller of Weller, Fishback, and Bohl, the Annapolis architectural firm that is overseeing the project. With this in mind, as the building's interior was dissected piece-by-piece, project architect Charles Bohl listened to each board, brick and nail speak of McDowell's history of grandeur. Built as the official mansion of Thomas Bladen, colonial governor of Maryland, it was an ambitious building that reof Annapolis and flected the of Mr. Bohl said. the As the summer construction continues. On the third floor, new oak laid and walls are being slate boards have been cleaned and hung, and new steels ones the absence of available slate) have been added in some rooms. New steel frame floor structures supporting the oak have been installed on the second and third floors. Over the faculty lounge 1740 floor structure will be exposed. The 1790-1810 flooring directly above remains, but it will not be visible. The railing around the third floor balcony has been refinished and reinforced. The staircase on the east side has been rebuilt with new treads and risers and the remaining parts refinished. Both the old and the new blend. The obscure wire glass windows above the first floor PAGE 3 Attorney General Elliot Richardson to the campus last fall, and Fred and Barnes of The New Richard Harwood of The Washington Post to the spring is hosted by the Friends of St. John's and the Continuing Education program of the college. William Brill is chairman of the Great Issues series and Nancy Hammond is president of the Friends. Arrangements for the series are made by the Advancement Office, under Vice President for Advancement Jeffrey Bishop. Individuals, businesses and corporations have provided sponsorship for previous programs. A number of parents are expected to be participants in November, since Parents' Weekend this year falls on November 4-5. Future Great Issues programs are "Ethics and Medicine" next spring, followed by "Ethics and LaW,' "Ethics and Religion:' and "Ethics and Education:' For further information, call 263-2371, ext. 230. landing, part of the character of the McDowell, will stay. The third floor walls, thinner than those below, provide further evidence that this part of the structure was added later. Also, eight-by-10 inch sill plates were discovered on the ceiling of the second floor. These, typical of the older masonry construction, are believed to have been there since the 1790's. McDowell's baths are refurbished and about a fourth of the kitchen is new. The chimneys, more fragile than the architects expected, were badly weathered and their masonry needed reappointing and their interior relining. Because of safety concerns, there will be only one working fireplace in the lounge on the ground floor. The other fireplaces' openings and trim will be retained but their flues sealed. The Great Hall, which in 17 44 was divided evenly from front to back into Annapolis tutor Pamela A. Kraus recently received a $27,500 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes. Ms. Kraus will use the one year leave of absence from St. John's to complete research on Descartes' philosophy of human nature that will combine the conflicting interpretations of his philosophy on the nature of humanity. ~-''There are- -two interpretations of his philosophy, one in which Descartes drew a distinction between body and soul and another where there is a real union of the two," Ms. Kraus says. "It's hard to mesh but I think I've found a way to bridge the gap. " She began to consider her topic after presenting a paper on Descartes last year in San Jose, California. Ms. Kraus plans to spend many of her at the of Congress, a few from her Washington, D.C. home that she shares with her husband, Richard a philosophy professor at Catholic She may even travel to Paris to perform research at the Bibliotheque Nationale, the French national library. "Writing is often slow and can be painful," she says. "But from it I can learn expressions of my own thoughts that I never would have uncovered by speaking. For instance, most recently I was working on a paper for a conference and I saw in the thesis more consequences than I realized before." Though Ms. Kraus does not plan to lecture specifically on her research when she returns to St. John's, she says her future students will profit indirectly from her endowment. ''Anytime a tutor deepens his thoughts on a subject his students benefit. My year will, hopefully, allow me to better help my students articulate their thoughts and respond to their needs," she says. Ms. Kraus is particularly grateful for the grant because it will allow her more time to read. "I love to read good writing, important works, not just Descartes. That's why I'm a teacher." Ms. Kraus who has been a tutor at the college for four years, received her doctorate from Catholic University of America. two rooms, will remain intact. Originally, the room on the back, or the water side, was a two-story space, with a gallery around the second floor. The Great Hall's front room was a single story with another room above it. Floor framing, still intact under an existing stair hall, revealed an original staircase from the first floor to the basement in the east stair hall. Under the west porch on the basement level, an early window or door was uncovered. A new staircase in the Great Hall, in addition to the staircase on the East side, will meet fire codes and allow the fire escape on the outside to be removed. Trenches have been dug across the front campus for the installation of the underground fire protection sprinkler system and a new storm drain. A new concealed air conditioning system will be provided, along with a complete electrical system that will improve lighting. With the addition of a chair lift from the ground floor to the Great Hall, the first floor will be accessible to the handicapped. "Despite two fires, it's amazing how much original material has survived:' Mr. Bohl said. Many of the early timbers and floor boards in the northwest corners of the first and second floors have remained. Long-ago insulation, consisting of dust, wood chips, and "junk material:' placed between the ceiling and the floor to isolate noise, remains. A breakdown follows: The class of 1985 had the largest increase in donors: from 6 to 43. • The class of 1987 had the largest increase in dollars: from $327 to $3,577.50. The class of 1984 had the largest number of donors: 47. ~ The class of 1988 had 29 contributors. The class of 1989 had 16 contributors. Including the class of 1981 and Mr. Spector's gifts, the entire decade of the 80's gave a total of $42,021.91, not including corporate matching gifts. In his previous challenge, Mr. Spector had specified that if 50 of his 1981 classmates would give a total of $5,000, he would contribute $10,000 to the college. The class increased their giving from 22 donors to 54, and from $2;250 to $5,075. Warren Spector Pamela A. Kraus Keith Harvey photo Descartes - ' Warren Spector, A has followed his successful 1987 alumni giving challenge to his 1981 classmates with an even more dramatic challenge to the rest of the young alumni of the decade of the 80's. In his most recent effort to extend donor participation and to provide longterm dividends to the college, Mr. Spector offered to make a gift to the college of $10,000 if 250 of these alumni contributed to the 1989-90 Annual Fund. He also offered $10,000 if their contributions totalled $20,000. As a point of reference, in 1987-88, 129 donors in these classes had contributed $6,564. 77. At the end of the 1988-89 fiscal year, 319 alumni from the classes of 1980 and 1982-89 had given $20,062.91. �THE REPORTER PAGE 4 (The following ''dialogue'' between Board of Visitors and Governors Chairman Scoot Kelso and Co-chairman, California Commitee, Robert Gold.win, A '50, is intended to raise and examine some of the issues about the acquisition of the California property that will be on the minds of many members of the college community.) SCOTT KELSO: Our third campus possibility With the settlement of our land ownership lawsuit in Monterey County, California, gaining court approval on July 14, 1989, a long-standing dispute between the heirs of Herman, Andrew and Agnes Marks (the Krygers) and St. John's College finally ended. This very satisfactory conclusion offers for the first time a practical possibility that the College will be able to open a Monterey campus in the 1990's. Herman Marks, along with his brother and sister, donated the largest part of this disputed property to St. John's in 1973 to become its West Coast campus. President Emeritus Weigle received the gift. This ending of one chapter and beginning of another seems to me an appropriate moment to try to put both the opportunity presented and the likely effort required to take advantage of it into a fresh perspective of sorts. To reopen the study process under these now changed circumstances, the Board and Faculty California Property Committees will meet together from 1:15-3:30 p.m. on Friday, October 20, 1989, in the Conversation Room of Mellon Hall on the Annapolis campus. Following this meeting there will be an open meeting for all board and faculty members from 3:30-5:00 p.m. This court approved settlement significantly revises our Monterey campus site possibilities. Before the settlement, St. John's owned 400 acres of farmland adjoining the Kryger farm south of Salinas, California, and 760 acres of Toro Area hill country fronting on the Monterey- Salinas highway adjacent to the Krygers' 57. 9-acre homestead. As part of the settlement, we exchanged 115.8 acres of our farmland for the Kryger homestead. The exceptional importance to us of this exchange is that the 57. 9 Toro Area acres we obtained fill out our narrow frontage on the Monterey-Salinas highway in such a way that we now have an excellent potential lower campus site at the highway entrance to this property in addition to a beautiful upper site about a mile into the hills on these Toro Area acres, each site being adequate for facilities for 400 students. Besides this, we now have a right to lease either of these sites to any other educational institution of our choosing, and the improved frontage gives us a much more practical roadway route from the highway entrance past the lower site to the upper site. It may also now be practical to develop faculty housing along this winding road. To appreciate properly the rarity of our situation one must understand how little of California's vastness can be developed. Terrain, geological and soil conditions, the availability of water and setasides are extremely restrictive. From a conservationist viewpoint, much or most of this is almost surely desirable. The upshot for us, though, is that we now find ourselves in possession of a very scarce asset: a beautiful college campus site, already properly zoned, nicely dimensioned since our property exchange with the Krygers, and located in one of the most dynamic areas of the world. The excitement that has attended our settlement of this lawsuit stems in large measure from the exceptionally inviting attributes of the state of California and our remaining adequate financial strength that allows us to continue seriously considering the opportunity. Let me comment briefly on the latter first: After the settlement, we were left with an 818-acre Monterey campus containing two small college building sites and have available for its promotion and development $1.4 million in net farmland and cash assets which can be used only for these purposes. California is a dynamic state significantly different from all others. With 28 million inhabitants, it is the most populous in the nation, still burgeoning, extremely productive and exceptionally wealthy. Its gross state product exceeds the gross national product of all but six nations. Our area of primary interest, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, is roughly the equivalent of Philadelphia to Raleigh, N .C. It is difficult for me to imagine a more promising place for us to be. Also, I believe that within a very few years a Monterey campus will have more applicants for enrollment than Santa Fe has now and considerably less competition involving acceptance than Annapolis has ever had. There is no scarcity of people, no Ivy League and only one Stanford along the California Pacific Coast. Another factor in my personal optimism concerning the success of a California campus is the fact that the court granted us four additional years, until January, 1997, to provide the necessary facilities for a campus. This means that we can take a very deliberate approach to planning and fund raising including, if we choose, establishing a policy from the outset that a certain percentage of the money required must be pledged or in hand before we commit contractually to construction. Such a deliberate approach might include a timetable somewhat as follows: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) By April, 1990: Approve an architectural master plan. During 1990, 1991 and 1992: Raise preliminary funds. By January, 1991: Decide on an educational plan to be implemented by the fall of 1995. By January, 1993: Award construction contracts. During 1993, 1994 and 1995: Raise final funds. This schedule, if adopted, would provide our faculty with fifteen months, from October, 1989, until January, 1991, to develop an educational plan and more than four additional years to complete its implementation, per (3) above. It would also allow us to plan our fund raising in two stages, preliminary and final, per (2) and (5) above, over a period of six years. The preliminary stage of fund raising, 1990-1992, might quite reasonably be restricted to the pursuit of very large gifts in California, say, those of seven and eight figures, those extremely few that actually determine how far and how fast we can progress thereafter. The goal here would be to approach only California-based foundations and individual Californians identified as possessing eight and nine figure fortunes. The final stage of fund raising, 1993-1995, would then be devoted to a vigorous public campaign aimed at gifts of all sizes. The success we achieve during this first three-year stage of fund raising from the largest donors will probably bring in half or more of all the money we can expect to receive during the entire six-year period, 1990-1995. Clearly this should enable us to settle by December, 1992 before letting any construction contracts all remaining questions about what to build first, how far actually to go in constructing a number of campus buildings and how much to put into endowment. I will speculate now that we will eventually choose a total goal of approximately $50 million for the entire college project, half to build and start a campus and half for endowment. Achieving such a goal would put the new Monterey campus on just ·about the same footing that Annapolis is now. The large size of this goal pretty well dictates the strategy required for a preliminary, three-year campaign. We can hardly afford to pursue donors - foundations, corporations or individuals that are not in a net worth position to give us at least $1 million during this state of our fund raising. Of greatest importance, we need to find those very few, anchor benefactors during the first year or so each of whom can give us several million dollars, because these people and the size of their gifts have a decisive influence on all who follow. To guide or manage this preliminary campaign, I suspect we will eventually decide to seek out a professionally prestigious public relations and fund raising group already well known in California, perhaps one that has previously worked for Stanford, U.S.C. or one of the Claremont group. Also I can imagine that some organization like "The Committee To Bring St. John's College To Californi~" will soon be established by a number of the prominent leaders in Monterey County, SEPTEMBER 1989 possibly this year but almost certainly by mid-1990, designed to grow quickly into a statewide St. John's support group made up of a great many other of the wealthiest and most influential people in California. Behind this speculation is my conviction that raising this much money has to become a Californians' project for California. Certainly some of us on the Board of Visitors and Governors will help them get started, and we will definitely retain the right to approv.e or disapprove all written materials to be sent out describing St. John's College, just as we will almost certainly choose and pay for the services of the professional fund raising firm brought in to manage the effort. Even so, I am satisfied that a goal of $50 million will never be reached unless we are able to hand over, in 1990 or very early 1991, the basic responsibility for the preliminary campaign to a committed group of "movers" and "shakers" from California. Only major California philanthropists can marshal and persuade a large number of their peers to join in such an effort. '~ .. we now find ourselves in possession of a very scarce asset: a beautiful college campus site, already properly wned, nicely dimensioned . . . and located in one of the most dynamic areas of the world.'' I believe that our own fund raising efforts for Monterey after 1990 - considering 1990 as a startup year - can be restricted to rather modest contact and monitoring work carried out by members of the Board California Property Committee along with the two vice chairs of our board and myself, with only some occasional speechmaking at their choosing by our two presidents. Furthermore, I am not concerned that this project might divert some gifts from a few of our board members, because we can make it clear to all of our members from the outset that we do not want this to happen - that this preliminary campaign has to become the Californians' project. Nor am I worried that this endeavor will divert board energies in any significant way; on the contrary, I think the excitement of becoming a "national" college, taking our uniqueness and its greatness west to California, will galvanize energies, not dissipate them. To me this is not a zero sum game. With all of this, though, we have to face and consider very carefully the timing of the joint fund raising campaign planned for Annapolis and Santa Fe. Our advancement offices just started in July the crucial two-year preparatory period that almost always precedes the announcement of a public campaign, a period during which the campaign staff normally expects to raise 33 %-40% of their total goal from a comparatively small number of most loyal backers. It is imperative that we do nothing in California to harm or detract from this initiative. I believe that we can avoid any significant conflict between our preliminary campaign in California in 1990, 1991 and 1992, and the two-year pre-campaign build-up for Annapolis and Santa Fe set for July, 1989-July, 1991, even though these overlap in their duration. First, we can decide to restrict fund raising activities for Monterey to California itself. Second, Annapolis and Santa Fe can reserve the exclusive right to contact California donors and prospects from whom they have received gifts or to whom they have submitted written proposals during the last five years. Third, we can establish a three person screening subcommittee of board members to go over prospect lists of both fund raising efforts in order to prevent duplication. There is, however, probably an even more telling point to be made here. Even if we had the most vigorous preliminary campaign effort imaginable going on in California and the most aggressive campaign ever contemplated by St. John's already started in Annapolis and Santa Fe, I am pretty confident that their paths would not cross more than a dozen times a year in California and even on these infrequent occasions our three-person subcommittee would be able to make a deciding call. What's more, we already deal very effectively with inter-campus competition in fund raising. Just last year Vice Presidents for Advancement Bishop and Morgan worked out a data bank sharing arrangement, and I have not heard ofa single instance of conflict about fund raising since. I think we now have very competent and cooperative advancement staffs. However, in order to prevent even the appearance of any conflict of interest, I suspect that these staffs should have nothing to do with fund raising for Monterey. Our real, hard-core problem in fund raising has little to do with intercollegiate and even less with inter-campus competition, in my opinion. It is simply that we are hardly known. Now that we have a ripe situation in California to talk about and sufficient money in the bank (money committed exclusively to Monterey) to get our message out properly - in good taste and with professional help - I think we finally have a chance to tell the St. John's story in a far bolder and more deliberate way. There is no reason that I know of now not to reach out to several thousand new potential major donors and a great many more potential liberal arts college applicants in California over the next three years, talking always primarily about the lasting benefits of our Great Books education. I believe this new broad contact possibility can contribute powerfully to our being able to go into California successfully with a third campus. Fortunately, we also have an additional measure of security now - since the court allowed us a four-year extension of time - making it possible for us to tailor all of our construction commitments to a portion of the money actually already raised (including pledged) at the particular times of deciding. It seems to me this will let our California Property Committees plan thoroughly and boldly while remaining financially conservative, realizing that by the end of the three-year preliminary fund raising period every dollar spent on contact should be returned to us multiplied. In this attempt to forge a beginning perspective, I have speculated generally and primarily on matters of promotion and finance, properly leaving for others who are qualified and our appropriate committees the more difficult tasks of specific planning and educational policy making. Still, I believe the timetable I have proposed makes it possible for both efforts to progress together quite deliberately. In summary, for reasons I have already given, I think this Monterey campus possibility is not only a rare and marvelous one but also a safe one. Furthermore, I think Robert Hutchins, Scott Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr would heartily approve of this. ROBERT GOLDWIN: Now it is time to deliberate The California property has been on the agenda of meetings of the Board of Visitors and Governors for more than a decade. Throughout that time there has always been a sense of uneasiness, expressed again and again by one Board member or another, about the consequences if we should succeed in acquiring the property. The uneasiness stemmed from the uncertainty of the answer to one paramount question: If we get the property, what will we do with it? On the one hand, it was said that it was an unusually valuable asset, ''worth millions of dollars," that the College could not afford to pass up; on the other hand, it could not be sold, it could only be developed at considerable cost to the College. Under the terms of the will, the property could be retained only if it were used as the site of some sort of "St. John's style" educational project. In short, throughout the decade and more of the struggle to acquire the property, there was always a sense that it was a ''good thing,'' but it was not always clear what this ''good thing'' was good for. In the discussions, there were those who expressed the hope that the court might allow the College, at some time in the future, to sell all or some of the property, in exchange for some minimal compliance with the literal terms of the will, perhaps one small building to house some educational activity, either by St. John's or some other educational organization, for instance a language institute. At other times it was suggested that the activity could be a graduate institute or a center for advanced study of the liberal arts. Infrequently it was suggested that the property be used to establish a third undergraduate campus. But without fail, at every Board meeting, whenever some new step had to be taken by vote of the Board to further the legal efforts to acquire the property, it was stated in unequivocal terms, that the Board was not committing itself to anything. All we were doing, we told ourselves, was Continued on page 6 �THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1989 PAGE 5 Stag Leap Wine Cellars Underneath A jug of a By NANCY osms There might be better circumstances for holding a seminar than sitting with an open book under the overhanging branches of spreading live oak trees of a Napa Valley winery, a poem of Robinson Jeffers spread out before you, an empty glass of California Chardonnay at your side, along with perhaps, a few crumbs of sour dough bread and some crumpled luncheon papers. If there are better circumstances, they may be just a few yards away in one or another of the rooms of the winery office building where some people are talking about Huckleberry Finn with Santa Fe President John Agresto, or the room next to it where yet others are examining Chaos, Making a New Science with Michael David, SF '88, and Mark Middlebrook, A '83. Alumni participants have been responding each July for four or five years to these idyllic circumstances, returning yearly in ever-growing numbers, like migratory birds, to the sun-drenched valley, while the rest of us watch from a yearning distance and summon up imagined scenes like the one above. Says Middlebrook, president of the Alumni Association of Northern California, "It is something we look forward to all year long. We have about 80 people coming this year. We actually had tutors putting in surreptitious requests to be invited." Little wonder. The host at these proceedings, Warren Winiarski, A '52, was reflecting recently on the phenomenon of the Stag's Leap picnic and seminar. "Although it only lasts one afternoon, the discussion provides material for thinking that goes on long afterward. It's stimulating, of course, and refreshing," he commented. As its newest member, he was attending the Board of Visitors and Governors summer meeting on the Santa °Fe campus. An academic man turned vintner is unexpected enough, but further, to have attained a position of eminence almost immediately in the explosion of new wines and wineries of the 1970's - everybody likes this scenario, but how in the world did it happen? Winiarski, tranquil and unhurried over lunch in the noisy Peterson Center dining room, was willing to retrace some of these steps. The first of them was surely the extraordinary decision to leave the University of Chicago, where he had taught for 10 years in the Basic Program of the University College. He was studying at the time on the Committee on Social Thought, an interdepartmental group that bridged the gap between many disciplines. Other teachers who taught in the Basic Program were fellow alumnus Robert Goldwin, A '50, George Anastaplo, father of four St. John's graduates, and the redoubtable Allan Bloom of The Closing of the American Mind. As Winiarski described it, he and his wife Barbara, A '55, parents at that time of two children (Kasia, A '84, and Stephen) were thinking of a family enterprise. At one point they visited the Rio Grande Valley and thought about growing apples. But it was to be California and grape growing. "Given all the circumstances, and quite a lot of uncertainty at the other end, I regard the decision as one of imprudence," he admitted, smiling. The year was 1964. There were only about 10 wineries in the Napa Valley and 8,000 acres under cultivation. Neither Winiarski nor anyone else anticipated the phenomenal growth in the industry that 25 Warren Winiarski years later would bring the number of wineries to about 200 and the acreage under cultivation to 30,000. In the beginning was a period of "voluntary indentured servitude" for Winiarski as he submitted to a period of apprenticeship, first in a very small winery, and then in the Robert Mondavi winery in its beginning stages. ''All the time I was reading and taking short courses, two or three day seminars, making observations, directing questions at people doing farming and grape-growing. "St. John's was very important to that. You see, this was very technical material and I didn't have a technical or scientific background as such. But I was always interested in plants. I was interested in the biology that was in the reading at St. John's and in the lab work. The St. John's training made it possible for me to acquire the scientific and practical discipline more or less on my own." Here he emphasized a key observation. "I had the notion early that California was adjacent to that which had produced the admired Cabernet grape. The first crop was harvested in 1972; the first commercial crop in 1973. By this time, there were major indicators of the huge burst of growth in the wine industry that lay just ahead. When Warren and Barbara Winiarski decided that a winery would "fit into the program:' there were plenty of people to come forward as investors. It was built in 1973, the year of the vineyard's first major harvest. Wine Cellars after a prominent geographic al feature, a nearby rocky promontory. The philosopher welled up in Winiarski at unexpected moments, as when he recounted his early perception of the California wine scene and what he called the styling of the wine. "Some of the efforts to render these grapes struck me as inappropriate. 'Rendering' is the whole process of transferring grapes to wine, what you do with skins and "The St. John's training made it possible for me to acquire the scientific and practical discipline more or less on my own." not making the best use of the grapegrowing environment. There was a potential that was not being fully explored, or being brought to mature completion. During his apprenticeship period, he conducted what he called "regional investigations," tasting wines from different areas in order to determine regional identities before these flavors and qualities were lost in the blends. ''What makes a wine what it is? The soil obviously, soil and climate together, and the grape variety makes a difference and the man makes the difference. I call it the three G's: the grapes, the ground and the guy." One day he tasted a wine made by one of the growers of the Cabernet Sauvignon grape, which immediately struck him "as fulfilling all the potential for this grape variety in the Napa Valley." . It was a culminating moment, a modern day rendering of Joseph Smith's utterance at the site for Salt Lake City: "This is the place." The year was 1969. Winiarski's accumulated experience and skills had already brought him a reputation. Within the year, he was able to establish a limited partnership which purchased 50 acres of the land juice; there are certain things you do to them and certain things you don't do. The sphere of 'more' or 'less' is very important. You know, it is like tightening a musical instrument: you tum too much and it's wrong, and you turn too little and it's wrong. There is a place where it is just right, and it seemed to me in these early renderings they were too little or too much. The wine people were going too far. They had exceeded the mean. So my idea was to bring back an element of moderation or harmony or balance." His success in achieving his sought-for moderation and restraint came very early and it brought him international attention. In 1976, Steven Spurrier, a transplanted Briton who owned one of the most respected wine shops in Paris, arranged there a blind tasting of California cabernet sauvignons and top bordeaux chateaux wines. The 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars cabernet sauvignon placed first, ahead of some of the most famous French wines in the world. The story was broadcast to winelovers everywhere. "California defeated all Gaul," said Time magazine. That spectacular success has been followed by many others, including in 1982 another Steven Spurrier-sponsored series of wine-tastings which pitted the 1978 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Lot 2 against a variety of French and California wines. The Stag's Leap Wine Cellars wines were first each time. The most recent honor came last June when a Texas hotel magnate paid $55,000 for an 18-liter bottle of the 1985 Cask 23 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon and two future Cask 23 releases. Cask 23 is a designation reserved for vintages of exceptional merit by the wine cellars. The bid, which came at the Ninth Annual Napa Valley Wine Auction, was the highest price ever paid at a charity wine auction in this country. The Stag's Leap Wine Cellars wine has been served to the most powerful diners on earth. In 1985 and 1987, the wine was on the menu in Geneva at one summit conference and in the White House at another. The modesty and restraint Winiarski counsels for wine-making are good words to characterize the man himself. The awards and the international attention were one highlight of his wine-making career, but now he wanted to talk about another, a trip in October, 1988, to an ancient center of agriculture along the tributaries of the Indus River in the remote Hunza Valley in Pakistan. Under United States Department of Agriculture sponsorship, a team of five persons, including three horticultural experts (one financed by the winery), Winiarski himself, and a Pakistani official, made the trip. What the group sought in this ancient · growing area were older generic forms of plant food, ones in danger of being erased. It was USDA policy to preserve this genetic material in agricultural depositories. His interest was primarily practical, Winiarski explained. ''All our grapes are grown on root stock. These stocks have been chosen for resistance to plant pest, but also for vigor. We know that the next great advance for California winemaking will not be in the winery but will be in the vineyard, and so we - so to speak- start sort of at the bottom. What root stocks will contribute to the best wine? We are thinking that less vigorous root stocks may make better wine. "Our trip was for the purpose of collecting root stock material and observing the particular combinations they have in this remote area," he said, noting that as an Islamic area where there was no winemaking, wine grapes had not been selected out. "We wanted to get back to a more primordial form." But Winiarski had a second reason, one with inherent drama. "We wanted to find if possible some of the earlier material that belongs to the wild forms of vitis vinifera. We don't know whether we found it, and of course we have to make some further investigation. We have some material now in quarantine that will be coming back to Davis for further study. that we could make the wine that Noah made." It was time to conclude. Julia, SF '92, with her father's pleasant features remarkably rearranged into a pretty 23-year-old's face, had come to check on times for supper and the opera which lay ahead. At the beginning of lunch Winiarski had shared a rather surprising bit of semantic lore. In Polish, "Winiarski" means "son of the winemaker.'' What did he make of that, he was now asked. He shrugged, with only the barest hint of fatalism. "Curious, isn't it?" he said. �SEPTEMBER 1989 THE REPORTER PAGE 6 pus. It's been fun, and I look forward to continuing to work with you in other ways. Sincerely, Ronald F. Hale Director of Career Planning Santa Fe Waltz tradition To the Editor: We've recently concluded the Homecoming and Alumni Summer Seminars program for 1989, which, by all accounts that I've heard, was a highly enjoyable experience for virtually everyone involved (including me). I would like to acknowledge in a public way the contributions of a number of people, without whom the summer program could not have been the success that it was: Teri Lane Ennis, who single-handedly put together a complicated but glitchfree registration system and was a cheerful and indispensable help in all aspects of the program; Marsha Drennon, who was always there with wisdom based on her long years at St. John's and with her unerring sense of what works at social events; Betsy Blume, who never tired of giving straightforward, useful advice and answers to my endless questions; Irwin and Maya Hoffman, warm and gracious hosts of the successful Homecoming Brunch; Don Keith, Manager of the Marriott Corporation's food service at the Santa Fe campus - he and his staff outdid themselves this year with tasty food elegantly served; Si Gormley and Barbara Lewis, Conference Center staff, and Housing Director Kathy Mizrahi, who handled logistical matters with care, patience, and good humor; Allan Hoffman, who was there at every step with helpful advice and suggestions on behalf of the Alumni Association Board; These people, along with other faculty, staff, alumni, and students, gave a gratifying demonstration of what can happen when people work together in a spirit of good will toward a common goal. I'd also like to thank Harvey Goldstein, President of the Alumni Association, and all the alumni who provided me with support, advice and assistance during my year as interim Director of Alumni Activities on the Santa Fe cam- To the Editor: I have never read Zelda Fitzgerald's "Save Me the Waltz" or any like novel, so this is a history as best I can recall of the rise of the Waltz tradition at McDowell Hall. At the 25th Homecoming reunion of my class of 1962, I asked a classmate, David Benfield, if he knew who the beautiful girl was that he dated in our sophomore year and about how we had waltzed at the first party of 1959. "Oh, Sarah--Sarah Pratt," he said and with his sinister wolfish grin. "You took her from me at the Waltz Party." David told everything and nothing. But for me, the 25 years fall away and I pictured the long red hair and the great smile of Sarah Pratt as we whirled and whirled around McDowell Hall. We danced so fast, and with our hearts pounding, whirled past ole David time and again. I had known the waltz was a fast dance, but with her we seemed to fly right off the ground! The charm and grace of the Merry Widow Waltz still goes on in my mind as I write this. Yet it is only a long lost memory of a wonderful dance. I believe that Lenka Victorisz and Marie Fleisburg, both from Europe, were the inspiration for (the waltz party), but I claim credit as an opera buff for playing the ME~trc,polltlm broadcasts on Saturdays from a front window on the third floor of Pinkney. Fledermouse was a favorite then, and many pieces by Strauss or Berlioz would float across campus while I did laundry or read. I think McDowell Hall was just inviting us because there was really no place to have a big party but there. We "sort of' had an 18th century group with John Miller and Susy Miller, and Johan Benson, Barry Fisher, and Jim Forrester, who just loved to watch John draw elaborate 18th century castles and bring heavy antique furniture catalogues to dinners. But when we tried our Waltz Party in the winter, it didn't go off. I think it was near Christmas Break. Then we heard of Jerry Brenning or Tina Kaplan, I'm not sure, but they had a big sound system, and at about Eastertime in 1959, the first big Waltz occurred. George Kunkle and little Abigail and Sarah Pratt tried to show us the way to polka without crashing into people. We had lots of drinks (non-alcoholic!). We rolled up the walkway carpet and opened all the doors. Every chair was dutifully put back. I think Robert Bart and Malcolm Wyatt were cutting a fine figure. I know that Dean Wilson and Hugh McGrath danced as did we all. I am sorry that I cannot chronicle the people as Homer did his ships, but it was a marvelous success - a sort of bap- · tism of McDowell for St. John's women, and we all enjoyed every minute of it. Except David never forget that I had stolen his girl for three or four dances. Neil Potash, A '62 John Robson, a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors beginning in 1972, and chairman in 1983, has been ,,,.,.,,...A,-nt-~·r1 by the President as Secretary of the Treasury. A lawyer who in '-''-'''-""''""v Washington, , between 1958 and he subsequently became executive vicepresident and chief operating officer of G. D. Searle & Co. in Skokie, Illinois. Among the federal jobs he has held were Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board from 1975-1977 and Deputy of Transportation in 1968-69. In he worked on the White House staff, dealing specifically with economic problems. Continued from page 4 trying to move to a situation in which we could begin to think about whether we wanted to undertake some new educational activity. The understanding was that if the court would remove the legal obstacles, then the Board would deliberate. ''In short, now we ought to begin what we have not thus far done. We have not had one discussion in the Board about what our educational use of the property should be, if any." In short, now we ought to begin what we have not thus far done. We have not had one discussion in the Board about what our educational use of the property should be, if any. No committee of the Board has studied the question. All of the discussions have been about real estate and legal problems. Now we are finished with those and it is time to turn to consideration of educational matters. We did not take the legal questions as a matter of course requiring no deliberation; we should not take the educational questions as settled. We cannot allow the acquisition of a piece of real estate to determine for us what we do as an educational community; we do not allow any other kind of donor to dictate to us. We should not go ahead to establish a third campus just because we have acquired land suitable for one. We must ask ourselves some hard questions: do we want to start an undergraduate college, a graduate institute, an institute for advanced study of the liberal arts, some other kind of liberal arts innovation, or nothing at all? The last is one that should be considered seriously because there are those who contend that the College has much room for improvement in the quality of what it attempts to do now, and that expansion will have the effect of postponing indefinitely efforts to improve on what we are already committed to. Scott Kelso is more confident than I and other Board members that fundraising for a new California campus will not interfere or compete with the major fundraising campaign about to be launched for the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses. He also has a different assessment of the supply of good higher education in California; in addition to Stanford there is the California Institute of Technology, the University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, the Claremont Colleges, and many others. Granted that none of them is St. John's College; still it is a mistake to think that California is some sort of educational desert thirsting for the relief only we can provide. Two Roman Catholic institutions have developed undergraduate programs based on the St. John's curriculum; Californians have paid scant attention to them. But the greatest difficulty with Mr. Kelso's "very deliberate approach" is the absence in his schedule for time to deliberate before committing ourselves to architectural planning and fundraising. The need for deliberation is clear. Consider the first simple step, building the teaching faculty for a third campus. To start a freshman year would require at least a dozen tutors, assuming six seminars, and at least double that number the following year (not to mention a president, a dean, a treasurer, an admissions director, etc., etc.). Supposing those tutors will come from the two existing campuses, it is clear that expensive steps will have to be taken several years in advance, to appoint dozens of extra tutors in Santa Fe and Annapolis so that we have a teaching faculty capable of teaching the Program on all three campuses. A faculty growth plan would have to be deve- loped, funded, and implemented. We would also have to consider the possible consequences for the present campuses; we cannot build a competent faculty in California by depleting the faculties in Annapolis and Santa Fe. And where will the funds for these dozens of extra tutors come from? Has the Board discussed this problem, or anything like it? The answer is no, and that is only one of scores of tasks that would have to be thought through by the faculty and by the Board before deciding that we want to start a new campus. For these many reasons, I propose that the schedule set forth by the Chairman be revised by inserting one item at the head of it: From October 1989 to April 1991, the faculty and the Board, including all relevant committees, deliberate on this question: What, if anything, should we do with the new property in California? The rest of the Chairman's schedule can be revised by simply adding one or two years to all of his dates, which would still enable us, it we should decide to go ahead, to meet the court's deadline of 1997. That, in my opinion, and in the opinion of many members of the Board who have spoken to me, would be more truly "a very deliberate approach to planning" our use of the California property. MR. KELSO'S REPLY: I agree fully with the title and principal thrust of Bob Goldwin's perspective paper: Now It Is Time to Deliberate. He brings up four matters, though, that call for response: (a) I cannot imagine how the Board could have more fully complied with the understandings Mr. Goldwin mentions in his fifth paragraph, other than by denying an intent to do something of an educational nature with the property if conditions for doing so became practical, which, of course, it was never asked to do and almost certainly would never have done. The short of this long matter is that nobody, advocate or opponent, could properly propose anything until the lawsuit was resolved because we could not know what opportunity or threat we might be embracing or discarding. For the first time, now, we can deliberate about a focused situation. It really is time now to deliberate. (b) I am entirely content to leave to our appropriate committees the issues of the possible threat of fund raising in California to our other campuses and the seriousness of competition for students on the West Coast, two issues about which I am more optimistic than Mr. Goldwin. (c) Mr. Goldwin's most serious difficulty with my perspective piece, however, apparently has to do with the schedule I have shown. What becomes clear in studying this timetable is that, during 1990, activities (1) and (2) on my schedule begin before activity (3) - which I equate to the preliminary deliberating period he advocates - has been completed. Also, he is proposing an 18 month period for such deliberating where I have allowed 15. I am not concerned about this overlap in 1990 because there is nothing about (1) and (2) that might happen next year that cannot be reversed if plans developed in (3) so require. Furthermore, deliberating about (3) may be influenced by (1), so they should better proceed concurrently. Concerning (2), I cannot imagine how it would help us to delay this, because our success here so influences everything else we do. (d) Concerning the major task of faculty buildup to open a third campus, I have no qualms about making the expense of this endeavor Monterey's burden. If we cannot raise the required money in California to do what properly has to be done, I would favor scaling plans back to fit the finances. �THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1989 PAGE 7 A member of the class of 10 tries out her footing while an approving J.W Blagden, Jr. photo mother looks on. Dean James Carey has a word with new president John Agresto at Santa Fe meeting. J. W Blagden, Jr. photos Homecoming events attract alumni Dr. Irwin Hoffman and wife Maya greet guests at their Santa Fe home. Ron Hale photo By NANCY OSIUS At the culmination of a weekend of Homecoming activities in Santa Fe, former Ambassador to Canada Adolph Schmidt was given the Award of Merit at the Saturday night banquet July 15, while four other longtime friends of the college were named honorary members of the Alumni Association. These four were Harriet Higgins, a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors since l'J77, J. I. Staley, a member of the Board since 1967, Istvan Fehervary, Director of Student Activities on the Santa Fe campus since 1969, and Santa Fe tutor emeritus Stuart Boyd. Ms. Higgins, Mr. Staley and Mr. Fehervary were able to be present and to accept their honorary memberships. Ambassador Schmidt, a graduate of Princeton University with a Harvard MBA, and an honorary member of the St. John's College class of 1987, was associated with the Mellon National Bank and affiliated organizations for over 40 years. In his remarks about the Award of Merit winner, Harvey Goldstein, A '59, president of the Alumni Association, noted that it was Ambassador Schmidt, who, upon reading in 1940 a Life Magazine account of the St. John's program, was so much attracted by it that he travelled out to Annapolis to visit then President Stringfellow Barr and to attend a seminar and a tutorial. Mr. Schmidt told his friend and colleague Paul Mellon that he was thinking of taking a year off to study at the college. A week later, according to President Emeritus Richard Weigle's account in his Recollections of a College President, "Mellon telephoned Schmidt to say that he had a obtained a copy of the Life article. He said that Schmidt had work to do and should remain in Pittsburgh. Mellon himself had made up his mind to enroll in St. John's." Ambassador Schmidt has made distinguished contributions to his city of Pittsburgh, to the state of Pennsylvania and to the nation, serving on planning and development as well as cultural committees and boards. In addition to his service as Ambassador to Canada from 1969-l'J74, Mr. Schmidt was a wartime Army officer who served on the Allied Control Commission in Berlin after the war, and was later an official delegate to the 1959 Atlantic Congress in London and to the Atlantic Convention of NA1D nations in Paris in 1962. A Board member emeritus, he served on the Board of Visitors and Governors for many years, including twice as its chairman. He was instrumental in helping to establish the Adolph W. Schmidt endowed tutorship that rotates between Annapolis and Santa Fe to be used primarily for the study of politics, economics and monetary theory. Mr. Schmidt, who could not be present, sent a message of thanks which Mr. Goldstein read to the guests. Harriet Higgins, vice president and portfolio manager at the U.S. Trust Co., was introduced to St. John's by her father, Turley Higgins, who headed the Beneficial-Hodson Trust. A graduate of Wheaton College and the University of Georgia, she is at present vice chairman of the Board. (Continued on page 14) New President Agresto pauses in conversation with President Emeritus J.W Blagden, Jr. photo Richard C Weigle and Mrs. Weigle. Three new honorary alumni of the college pose with the president of the Alumni Association, Harvey GoldJ.W Blagden, Jr. photo stein, left. They are Harriet Higgins, I.I. Staley, and Istvan Fehervary, far right. Joan Iverson, new Director ofAlumni Activities at Santa Fe, greets Board Chairman Scott Kelso at the Homecoming Banquet.J.W J. W. Blagden, Jr. photo �THE REPORTER PAGES n B ing a from theories about men, tends to be but seems not to Books a.re different for women Consider women's works in which excluded. Women and men read and discuss and but it would not be wide of the mark to say that read different books or read them in different ways. read books about themselves, women read books about men, about those capable of the highest moral virtues and the moral law, about those fitted by nature to mastery. And men read the books as themselves. How does a woman read them? As a man. Gender informs and complicates both the reading and the writing of texts: in supposing practical wisdom and the categorical imperative to be within her reach, for example, a woman reads herself as a man. And when she reads Aristotle's and Kant's words about women, a woman is apt to think that they are not talking about her. She is not a woman if that is what women are. Familiar strategies of reading turn on the notion that reading is saying silently to oneself the authors' words, and when the author is a man and says "we," the woman reader leaves her gender aside and says "we" too. Shot out by the authors' language There are different strategies of reading, however, and they tend to engender different stories of nature. One can take what an author says about the sexes to be as important for the whole of his thought as what he says about anything else. One can read as a woman, confronting the fact that Aristotle and Kant are talking they say. Their language about her and that this is shuts her out. Excluded from the from of the ...... , .,.... ,..l'n is what mn... i1tu eluded be the operation of the feminine in language? feminine works where words charm and seduce, bewitch and fascinate other words and where, finally, compels in users not reason but "by a secret with which she makes our passion inclined to favorable to her." Aristotle's female is the of in material words in thrall not to of a stuff from words that mean, but to material words. How one out what was to remain hidden? The that Socrates handles the about the the hint of an answer. He neither !:iit"'ll:nn•m1.o.rlaa::i.~ that he the storied of Ath- """"''-............, ento turn evades the accusers' om~st1lon:s. yue~mcms couched in the of Athens are answered the different man who asked to be as a str;ami~er: for the first time in a court of I am quite a stranger to the language of the place; and therefore I would have you regard me as if I were really a stranger." (Apology) A stranger to the language, he will speak the tongue native to another place, not to Athens. Two languages, then, one a mirror of the other, and in the mirror world that is the Apology everything changes into its opposite and back again. Reversal rules. Socrates corrupts and benefits the young; the state inflicts the greatest evil upon Socrates and harms him not at all. Listening but remaining elsewhere In effecting a profound dislocation between the languages, in playing with mimesis, Socrates enacts the dislocation that occurs when one reads as a woman the ".11 If the great conversation is to be a lifetime pursuit for each St. Johnny, a well organized cadre of alumni in the same city may be the only way to keep the dialectic alive. Nine local alumni chapters are active now, but their leaders fret that their odds of surviving St. Johnnies' apathy and shyness aren't wonderfully great. Building more and stronger chapters was the topic last month when the presidents of nine local chapters met in Santa Fe with the Alumni Association board. They seemed to agree, hearteningly, that devotion to the holy rites of seminar is the attraction that brings almost all successful alumni gatherings together. Devotion to the grape is perhaps a weaker draw for alumni than for undergraduates, while elegant food, an indulgence to which undergraduates typically are unaccustomed, is a greater attraction for the mature, at least on the coasts. "'New York alums want elegance," said Lovejoy Duryea, president of the l 00-strong New York City area chapter. "Dinner at the Princeton Club and coffee and petit fours in the seminar rooms. People complain if anything's left out." The luxuries draw older alumni but Mrs. Duryea younger alumni worries that the costs are seminar rooms with away. Dinners cost $30 each coffee and sweets are $10 a person. The New York ,-.hr,,,....."t~•r has she At"\l(~pn,TPC'. even live in or near Manhattan. At the modest end of the spectrum, pot luck dinners Is Excluded from free to find her own way to should she take the place in the snaaov~s natural of reason in its n .. ~l.r>r1.r>o:1 those who claim women of understanding? But the voice that her in shadow not hers. Should she claim the sun, claim the right to reason, claim to be a patriarch? But she is not a patriarch, she can at best imitate one. And here lies a way to cheat, trick, evade, avoid mastery by the master's language: the woman like an actor says words that are not hers. Speaking the only languages there are, the ones she was born into, she nonetheless remains elsewhere. The trickery is necessary because if she speaks a tongue that is utterly new she cannot be heard and if she speaks the father tongue she complies with its exclusion of her. "To play with mimesis is ... to 'bring out' by an effect of playful repetition what was to remain hidden: the recovery of a possible operation of the feminine in language. It is also to unveil the fact that if women mime so well they are not simply reabsorbed in this function. They also remain elsewhere" -- Luce Irigaray (Emphases added.) dream: "I am like a slave sleep, a he fears wake pleasant illusions to retain longer ... I feel as though I were suddenly thrown into water, being so disconcerted that I can neither plant my feet on the bottom nor swim on the surface." (Meditations) He finds it difficult but not impossible to refuse to inherit the beliefs of his time, and the purity and strength of his desire for a set of beliefs not vulnerable to time, works to allay the difficulty of refusing. We can win the game of remapping concepts Because it is difficult to refuse to inherit the language into which they were born, to ref use its accents, its emphases, because it is difficult to negotiate the necessary awkwardness that disables one who balances one foot on the conceptual map and the other in its margins, women may find it difficult to locate themselves on the map. But it is not impossible to negotiate the awkwardness. The purity and strength of their desire to be something in their own right enables them to Seattle: John Ross Philadelphia: Jim Schweidel play the deadly serious game of conceptual remapping,_ deadly because victory in the game spells defeat for the maps by which we steer and because once we begin to play we can neither trust the maps we have nor stop the game. -- Mary Bittner Goldstein, A'58 April 1989 (Professor Goldstein teaches philosophy at Brooklyn College.) �PAGE9 THE REPORTER How to get 70 St. Johnnies in one place ALUMNI Maybe it's because the air and temperature and the light in the Napa Valley nearly match the atmosphere of the Argive Plain, though rows of grapevines take the place of olive groves, that St. Johnnies seem to recluster most willingly in the of San Francisco. Or wine is the secret. of a New Science, led by Mr. Middlebrook and Michael David; Gorgias, led by Ms Blume~ Habits of the Heart, led by George Elias, and "Roan Stallion" and "Poetry," led by Laird Durley. staff also led tours. rest of the year the """r'"""" .."' both seminar and which President tend to draw He be- Whatever the reason, the San Francisco alumni cn::mt<~r the most active dent Mark concedes that San f rancisco: Mark Middlebrook To , Attract Alumni in Alvin Aronson's apartment are the rule in Boston. Aronson has five seminars a year for as few as three or as many as 25 alumni. The Boston group has no dues or fees. "It would be the end of our association," Aronson says. All agreed that big wheels from either campus, especially fondly remembered tutors, are the best draw. "Barbara Leonard did Lives of a Cell and that was very successful," Aronson said. "She has a big following." The college alumni office will arrange tutor visits for alumni groups anywhere in the country. The Los Angeles chapter varies its activities with field trips, movies and musicals. A dozen members toured the Getty Museum this year with a curator, and Annapolis tutor Elliot Zuckerman visited to play and discuss works for the piano. For some reason the Los Angeles chapter seems to attract only older Annapolis alumi -- and few young or Santa Fe grads -- according to President Jerrold Caplin. Most successful chapters have a core of half a dozen members who things going. Often they're alumni dose in age from same campus, and the test of their success is whether can involve other alumni who aren't members of social The essential to member of area ~·~ .... ,.. , · or make events. among the either to be om~an~ny that eventualhave no strong at an. strong who went on to be a who now also serves as reuffe5;entat:1ve to Board of Visitors and Governors) others " said Mrs. "I had to rebuild the core group in New York. Mrs. Duryea herself is an activist who personally · calls lists of members to urge good attendance at events. She also hosts events on behalf of the college, such as receptions for prospective students and parents each year. Chris Nelson, treasurer of the Alumni Association, presented an updated manual on how to form a legal not-for-profit local alumni chapter. The manual describes the services available from St. John's and provides all the forms needed for IRS applications. Plea to AU There is nothing more worthless than used and unwanted computer hardware -- unless you are the college. Any or all pieces are welcomed by both students and the administration, and compatibility with existing system isn't necessary. If you donate your old equipment it is fully deductible as a charitable gift and would be put to good use immediately. Thank you in advance. draw. Warren iarski edition of the of the most wineries, Stag's Leap, which has been the site of several annual gettogethers of the San Francisco chapter. This year's outing drew 70 people. Besides the spectacular scenery and libations the San Franciscans provided themselves with several other key ingredients of a successful St. John's outing: a good variety of seminar readings, a big wheel or two from the campuses (in this case, Santa Fe's new president, John Agresto and Annapolis Alumni Director Betsy Blume) and an enticing newsletter to get the word around. The readings were 1he Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, led by President Agresto, Chaos, Making The seminar schedule reflects the tastes and interests the group that meets . .. Six to twelve people meet monthly," Middlebrook reports. "We tend to read a lot of novels and we've had good success with long readings." The San Francisco seminars have tackled Tom Jones, War and Peace and Ann Karenina and managed to finish them despite the wisdom in some chapters that short readings are essential. He notes - too that new ideas have to have a sponsor willing to push them through to execution. The chapter's annual $1,000 budget is raised by voluntary contributions, and the cost of mailing its newsletter to all 450 St. Johnnies known to be in the area is borne by St. John's. Robert Thompson, '45, inspects Stag leap' s develo~ ing grape crop. Chapt ANNAPOLIS Luncheons are scheduled for: September 8 October 13 November 10 t'r<Jf!t.an1s are to be announced. Call Betsy Blume at Office (301) 263-2371 for information. BOSTON Fall: Santa Fe President John Agresto will visit October: Seminar on Merchant of Venice, led by Alvin Aronson Contact Alvin Aronson of Visitors and Governors and other New York area board members. October 7: Reception for prospective students and parents at the home of Lovejoy Duryea, 3 to 5 p.m. October 30: Phonathon November 15: Seminar PHILADELPHIA CaJJ Jim Schweidel at tion about ........~n ...,..,,,,.,,,.,. 836-7632 for informa- this area. SACRAMENTO reaalllJ!S. IOJJOWlnll other month to discuss the nrr1ar,;;im the ~t:c.1ut;1u.:t:. un.rfPrr·nr<iOrfU'JJ"tP 7) 566-6657 seminar at 4:30 on home of John Doren October 8: John Agresto to lead a seminar on De- mocracy in America November 5: Annapolis tutor Joe Cohen will lead a seminar on Griswold vs. Connecticut, 1965 For more details call Paul Frank, (312) 280-2366 (work) or 235-0614 (home). For information on the Proust preceptorials call Rachel Ankeny, 337-4105. DALLAS-FORT WORTH 1his chapter meets for Saturday evening seminars about JO times a year. For further information call Suzanne Doremus at (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis (214) 340-4102. LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA October: John Agresto will visit for a reception and other activities Call Jerry Caplin (805) 497-1436 (home) or 3751371 (work) for details. NEW YORK September 27: Wine tasting reception of Stag Leap's wines at the home of Lovejoy Duryea. The California property will be discussed with both college presidents, William Dyal from Annapolis and John Agresto from Santa Fe, as well as Scott Kelso, chairman of the Board Fall: tutor visit will be ,,. .....,,,..,,.. ,,.,... ~e1ptem1)er 24: Seminar on stoy's Karenina October 22: Seminar on Joyce's The Dead Locations of seminars rotate but meet at 2:30 p.m. Call Mark Middlebrook (415) 530-9643 (home) or 7634277 (work) for information. SANTA FE September: Planning meeting for the year's readings and election of officers Telephone John Pollack (505) 983-2144 or Joan Iverson at 982-3691 for more details. SEATTLE 1his chapter meets during the year for different events. Call John Ross at (206) 545-7900 for more information. WASHINGTON DC AREA September 6: James, The Ambassadors September 20: The Koran, sura 1,4,54 October 4: Conrad, Typhoon October 18: Larkin, selected poems November I: Euripides, Medea Seminars meet at 6:30 p.m. at the West End branch of the D.C Public Library. For further details phone Sam Stiles (301) 424-9119 or Deborah Papier (202) 387-4520. �PAGE 10 THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1989 was it like to spend a week or two at the Alumni Summer program in Santa Fe, we wondered recently. The best way to find out seemed to be to let someone tell us. Providentially, we think you will concur, we happened on Mariam Cohen, who agreed to keep a diary which she called "How I Spent My Summer Vacation." It follows.) A '69 This is the fourth year that my husband and I have spent one week in July - our major vacation - with the Alumni in Santa Fe. Sometimes it is ~AA··~~H to explain to friends in Phoenix what I do when I go to Santa Fe. The ex01anat10n that seems to work is that I go to a resort for people who would rather read a book than play tennis. The Alumni Program is a combination of summer camp and resort. Barry and I are experienced enough at doing this to know what to bring - including sheets to fit the beds in the dormitories. This year The Reporter has asked me to provide a journal of the week. Each year we've chosen one of the two weeks offered on the basis of who is leading classes in what. The tutors who participate and what they choose as readings seems to be entirely arbitrary and sometimes surprising. In past years I have read parts of the Iliad, Plato, George Eliot, Nietzche, Aquinas - and others. I've gotten to know tutors who have started since I graduated and I've seen people I knew as a student. Last year Mr. Carey led a preceptorial on St. Aquinas. The year before that Mr. Bart led one on George Eliot's Middlemarch. I remembered some of reading Aquinas when I was a sophomore, but I had never been introduced to Eliot. That's part of the fun of the Alumni weeks. This year Barry and I selected a preceptorial with Barbara Leonard on essays by Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell); she calls the topic Man the Endangered and Endangering Species. I will also try a preceptorial with Charles Bell on some poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge. If I choose to read poetry, I would rarely choose Romantics, so I am not sure I will find it interesting. These groups meet three times during the week and will probably have about ten or twelve participants. The seminar that will meet twice is on Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Last year Barry chose a preceptorial on some of Joyce's short stories. I've never attempted Joyce before, and I'm not sure what I will make of it. I read the book the week before we left Phoenix. Barry claims the week is supposed to be vacation, so he will only go to Leonard's preceptorial and the Joyce seminar even though the fee entitles each of us to two preceptorials. The Alumni Week is not only reading and sitting in classrooms talking. It is also people and Santa Fe. Each year Barry and I have found someone else - a single or a couple - to talk with, spend evenings with eating dinners in various Santa Fe restaurants, and go on shopping expeditions with in and around Santa Fe. Some of these are people I knew in a former life when I was a student. Most of them are new. Some of them we manage to maintain a connection with when we're all away from Santa Fe, in our regular lives. The week, however, has always had a magical atmosphere, and often the ordinariness of life back home for all of us separates us from the companions we find for the enchanted week. I am a graduate of the Annapolis campus, but since I settled in Phoenix nine years ago, I've adopted the Santa Fe campus as a sort of second home. It's only when I talk with people who spent their entire four years here that I feel like an outsider. Barry explains when he introduces himself here that he married into the St. John's community but had at least an acceptable education at Yale. The alumni and alumnae who come back to Santa Fe for their own reasons include other graduates of the Program from both Annapolis and Santa Fe, graduates of the Graduate Institute, and a sprinkling of people who attended for some time and then went on other ways. Some people stay for both weeks, most for only one. Somehow each year that we've come, this diversity has managed to create for the time at least a ghost of the intellectual fermentation that a year-long seminar group experienced when I was a student. There are problems with seminar groups that meet only twice, but somehow we always manage. Cleverly, the Alumni Office at Santa Fe arranges that the weekend between the two weeks of Alumni Seminars is the Santa Fe campus' Homecoming Weekend. This is the twentieth anniversary of my class and I have chosen the second week of the two offered, so my vacation starts with a range of activities. Saturday is Alumni Association meetings - most of which I avoid and a seminar. The reading is Ibsen's Hedda Gabbier, which I read on the plane from Phoenix. Carey Stickney - a tutor and alumnus - and Georgina Knight lead. The spontaneity of a seminar of people most of whom have hardly met manages to produce an interesting discussion. Many of the group begin with an idea of Hedda as a reflection of the social limitations on a woman of her age. We end with a tentative consensus that her poverty of soul reflects an evil and an ennui that most resembles a male villain, Iago, and reveals itself in her utter lack of creativity. The rest of Saturday and Sunday is most1y spent eating. There's a buffet breakfast, a buffet luncheon and a banquet. For the last couple of years Barry and I have left the banquet before the speeches to sneak off to a cafe downtown where we can listen to bits of Broadway musicals sung by waiters and waitresses who are actors and actresses at other times. This Saturday evening we find ourselves at the table next to a former classmate of mine and his friend, so we have conversation between acts and along with dessert and wine. Sunday there is an outdoor luncheon and more conversation. A small group of us discuss seriously the implications of the act of one woman's son in refusing in the second grade to complete some small piece of elementary school busy work. One year at this luncheon Charles Bell illustrated an episode from his childhood by swinging across the yard from tree limb to tree limb. After the luncheon Barry and I go off with the couple who were classmates of mine to a crafts fair at the San Ildefonso pueblo. Our dining room boobuelf is accumulating quite a collection of Pueblo pottery that we've gotten at this crafts fair. Sunday evening the four of us pick up a fifth - one of my classmates I've maintained a constant albeit tenuous relationship with for twenty years - for another dinner. We drive off looking for one restaurant that he ate at several years ago and end up somewhere else when no one can find the intended restaurant. Eating is a major activity in Santa Fe. There are too many good places to eat. I will struggle this week to keep from gaining weight by assiduously taking two hikes each day from the College down Camino de Cruz Blanca to Camino del Monte Sol. When I was a student in Annapolis I griped about climbing three flights to my room in Campbell Hall; a room in the upper dormitories means each trip back for a book is a project to be contemplated and planned Robert H. Leibman photo BOOK REVIEW Alumna records Indian culture By JONATHAN MARK, A '73 About a dozen years ago, Dr. Mary Jane Young took an interest in southwest Indian linguistics and astronomical practices. From her initial field work with the Zuni Indians of western New Mexico came a unique relationship and a trust. And subsequently, an invitation from them to study their rock art. As the Zunis explained, the study would create an understanding and appreciation which would lead to preservation. The product of Dr. Young's study is her first book, Signs From The Ancestors: Zuni Cultural Symbolism and Perceptions of Rock Art. Rather than being dry technical reading, the work is accessible to a wide variety of readers for several reasons. Interjections of Mary Jane's personal experiences in the field work provide anecdotal as well as empirical material. The stylized symbols in illustrations throughout the book remind one of the current popularity of southwestern motifs and mysticism. for in advance. Already I'm noticing that I'm not terribly winded when I arrive back at the upper dorms from my morning hike, and I realize that the reward of faithfully doing one's exercise is to have to do more of it. Drat! I'm not the only walker each morning; I exchange slightly breathless greetings with other alumni and people who seem to be attending other meetings going on on campus at the same time: One day, I promise, I will get a guidebook and try to identify the wildflowers that grow along the street. Each morning, I cut past the playing field on my way back up stairs, and several times I walk past a small brown rabbit, calmly grazing in the grass. He barely gives me a glance and doesn't even seem to think of running away. Maybe he knows I wouldn't have the wind to give him any sort of chase. One of these years I'm going to find guide books and look up the names of the wildflowers and the birds that I see on these hikes. Monday: This is the longest day on the schedule - two preceptorials and a seminar. Ms Leonard seems smaller and more frail than when she was the terrifying watcher of the women's dorms in Annapolis. She is also friendlier. Not unusually there is some confusion about what the readings were to be, so some of the group has read all the essays, most have not. We wander from Thomas and his concern about individuality and man's being a so cial animal, maybe a little like the ants and termites to questions of the ethics of letting elderly people decide when their lives are devoid of meaning. Someone insists that By chapters, the text and illustrations progess from archeological sites, images and descriptions, to symbolism and cosmology, to Zuni cultural meaning and function. There is even a surprising discovery about certain types of "vandalism". While doubtless intriguing to the"New Age" reader, this book offers as much depth as those who seek can understand. A depth which should even satisfy the critical academic reader. This is a skilled and professional monograph. Those who study western philosophy can expect to find the enlightenment that a cross-cultural point of reference can bring. Dr. Young's book was shipped early this year by the University of New Mexico Press. It is part of the New Series of Publications of The American Folklore Society. Available in cloth at $24. 95 from the University of New Mexico Press, 220 Journalism Bldg., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131. 503 of all royalties will go to the Zuni tribe. "the mind controls the body," and two of the group reply with instances of depression and hopelessness corrected with dessicated thyroid and antidepressant medications. I didn't know Charles Bell when I was an undergraduate. He was one of the mythical tutors who left to start the Santa Fe faculty the year I started. A few years ago, I participated in an alumni seminar on Milton that he led. I am skeptical thatWordworth and Coleridge will be the focus of a repeat of the former wondrousness centered on Milton. On our way to the pueblo on Sunday, we took turns - except for the driver - reading Wordsworth aloud, and I was not impressed. Today Bell focused our attention on only two of Coleridge's conversational poems and on the, tension between Coleridge's almost pagan pantheism and Christianity. On Wednesday, I will have to choose between the second session of the preceptorial and going with Barry to explore Los Alamos, and I am still undecided. The Joyce seminar is crowded; I count twenty participants and the two tutors, two younger faculty members. Some of group have read the whole book, some only a part. We start with a question about what makes Joyce's young man an artist, wander through questions of what is beautiful and whether it matters whether some of the experiences Joyce attributes to Stephen Daedelus actually happened or not. After the seminar Barry muses that a group of (Continued on page 15) �SEPTEMBER 1989 THE REPORTER PAGE 11 Graduate Institute awards 13 degrees to candidates By DONNA BOETIG "... I plead with you. When you return to your respective work places take the essence of the St. John's experience with you. Something from the Great Books program will form the ethical foundation for your approach to a complex problem. By doing so, you may well avert future crises in your profession~' This is Joyce addressing the 13 graduates, and their guests, at the commencement exercises of the Graduate Institute in Annapolis on August 11. Ms. a 1985 alumna of the Graduate and human resources manager at the Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, deals daily with the shortage of health care professionals in Anne Arundel County. She said her St. John's experience has empowered her to meet this challenge. She told the graduates, eight men and five women among them bankers, business persons, college administrators, editors, engineers, lawyers, marketing specialists, and teachers - that they too have the to go out into their spheres of in- DONNA BOETIG At the reception in the BeneficialHodson Boathouse following the Graduate Institute commencement exercises, Nancy Mitchell Ash is a stand-out among the other gralauates, tutors and their guests. At first glance, you suspect it's her floral sundress and peach picture hat prcm11ne11t in the gray, drizzly Or it's the way she munches the finger quiches, sii: s fruit punch, smiles, laughs and chats simultaneously. But once you hear her speak, you fully understand the words of Malcolm Wyatt, Graduate Institute Director, explaining how this Californian was chosen to be the recipient of this new prize. The award, presented by the Alumni Association of St. John's College, honors the graduate from the Annapolis campus who is most outstanding for excellence in the classroom and for service to the Graduate Institute community. "Picking Nancy was easY,' Mr. Wyatt says. "She's outstanding; her energy, her imagination and her enthusiasm~' There was simply no contest this year, he insists. Now, in the future, if there is no one student who shines above the rest, the graduate program may have to institute a ballot method of selection. But it wasn't necessary this year. What did Ms. Ash do? "It wasn't one particular contribution;' Mr. Wyatt continues. "It was a succession~' For starters, Ms. Ash, a Christa McAuliff Fellow, received a year's sabbatical from her high school teaching assignment in Susanville, California, to come to St. John's. Soon after settling into her apartment in Eastport, she began exploring historic Annapolis on foot. She loved its rich architecture and found herself particularly captivated with its gardens. "I've always loved gardens and when I saw the one at the William Paca House I wondered what wealthy man was so luckY,' When she discovered the garden was not the property of one resident, but instead was to be appreciated by everyone, she set out to fluence - their homes, communities, and work places - ~nd improve conditions there. To be specific, she honed in on the health care dilemma: "In Book Ash, award winner insure that others, especially children, would have a chance to enjoy it, as well as the other historical features of Annapolis. For 14 months, Ms. Ash served as a volunteer guide conducting walking tours of Annapolis. She also worked closely with Lucy Coggin, a horticulturist at the William Paca Gardens, to begin a program that would introduce elementary school children to the enjoyment of the garden. On campus, she organized the poetry group among her classmates, continuing a tradition that began three years ago here. She was also a principal figure in the new GI intramural sports program. Meanwhile, she continued to be an excellent student. Tutor Beate Ruhm Von Oppen sums up her scholarship this way: "Nancy has a head and a heart. She speaks concisely, and she listens, too. She has held us together - and we have been a very diverse group~' Still, it's Ms. Ash who insists she's received more than she's given from her experience at St. John's. "Before I came here, I had taught for 21 years and I was tired of being a teacher. I'm not tired anymore. What did I learn at St. John's? If you're not a student, you're not a teacher.' And Ms. Ash is definitely a student. I of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle speaks about praise accorded to happiness: 'The grounds upon which we bestow praise on anything evidently are its quality and the relation in which it stands to other things: How does health care attract a multitude of talented, bright young men and women to its ranks when we do not praise it or extol it as giving happiness? Instead our nation's media appears to have a love affair with those who command the most money for the least academic effort. Is it any wonder we are now faced with tremendous shortages in health care? "Aristotle went on to say, 'Praise is proper to virtue or excellence, because it is excellence that makes men capable at performing noble deeds: What message are we sending our young people? Certainly not to take care of the sick, to work long hours or to listen with a caring heart. Sadly, society has told them they will be praised for finding a job that will give the most money, in the shortest amount of time with the least effort. Society presents as 'good' not what one does but what one gets. "The shortsightedness relegated those professions which are chiefly held by women and minorities to be of less monetary value. As women and minorities gain acceptance in male dominated professions opened to them, they abandon traditional roles in health care. DONNA BOETIG "When I tell people I'm doing mathematics, they insist they could never do , that~' says Annapolis tutor Samuel S. Kutler, with a sigh. "Mathematics is not a discipline to be feared, but a pleasure not to be deprived of,' he adds emphatically. "The very word, mathematics, comes from the Greek 'mathema: meaning 'learnable~ " Still, there's a gap between what mathematics is and what people perceive it to be. It's this gap that Mr. Kutler hopes to bridge with the creation of "Computer World of Euclidean Geometry,'' a software program that he and two St. John's students, senior Tom Ginter and junior Heather Park, are designing. "We want to teach people not to think of geometry as an austere discipline, but an inviting one," he says. For the "non-mathematical student," it will offer a new appreciation of geometry, while the more mathematically inclined will be able to use it as a springboard to trying out new things. The program will be aimed at middle and junior high school students, all high school and college students, teachers at these levels, as well as adults who want to improve their skills. Faced with this formidable challenge, Mr. Kutler (who prior to teaching at St. John's was a mathematician on the senior staff of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory) and the students began familiarizing themselves with the computer they would be working with. Through the Educational Development program of The Potomac Edison Company, they trained for two weeks on the Mac II computer the Company is lending them for the project. After the computer training, the trio began exploring the possibilities the computer program offered - always keeping in mind its potential to expand in the future. Mr. Kutler explains: ''We hope to pique the curiosity of users about all aspects of The injustices perpetuated on these groups have wrought havoc for us all. There is no one to care for the infirm. "In a St. John's seminar, I learned that justice in one sense is not merely an individual ethic but a societal one. Any time society fails to act justly towards a particular group, the repercussions may not be immediately evident. The health care shortages were forged long ago on the anvil of inequality with the fire of ignorance, fear and hate~' Prior to being a health care professional, Ms. Phillip high school English. When she introduced "the St. John's way" into her classroom teaching, she saw her so-called low-ability students transformed into confident learners, full of self-dignity who respected the ideas of others. A few years later, working as coordinator and trainer of hospice volunteers, Ms. Phillip was confronted by a dying young mother who asked her if there was life after death. "I knew from Phaedo that she was not asking me to give answers to her questions but to sit awhile and explore:' Ms. Phillip said, recalling the moment. "This allowed her to come to grips with her life and her death. Again I was the pupil. We talked for many hours. Through our dialogues, I would like to think the emotional pain was eased. I know I was richer for the ex1Jer1enlce. The credit goes to St. John's'.' Euclidean geometry, suggest ways to learn more, propose alternate proofs of interesting theorems, provide figures, propose challenging problems with hints about how to solve them. Furthermore, neither the history of the subject, nor its philosophic aspects will be ignored. The user will have the option ofturning to Euclid, or to more modern methods of dealing with geometrical problems." What's especially attractive about the program is its ability to be customized to the student: "It will always be up to the users to explore geometry in the ways that suit them," he says. Although the group hesitates to set a firm time frame for developing the program, they're aiming to have its initial parts of the program ready for September. These parts will be refined later, and the program should be ready for use in two-and-a-half years. This Fall they will begin testing the program on one class of Baltimore public school students. The insights gleaned from the students as they actually use the program will help its creators to improve it so that in the end it actually does achieve its goals. Ms. Parks is already confident of the students' reactions: "They'll like the program because it'll be an interactive text. If a student's confused by a Geometry problem, he doesn't have to wait for a teacher to help. Instead, the student can receive instant assistance from the computer. For instance, it can provide immediate definition of a proof.' "Not only will the program be fast;' Mr. Ginter adds, "but also it will sometimes be more comprehensive than a teacher could be. It will provide more proofs, and make them easier to grasp by use of colof.' "Perhaps people who were not excited about geometry will get excited about it through this medium:' �PAGE THE REPORTER The following address was delivered by tutor Thomas Simpson at the 197th Commencement exercises on May 21, 1989, in Annapolis. He called it "Exit Interview: the Second Fifty years of the New Program at St. John's College." By THOMAS SIMPSON The as The New Program at St. John's College - that enterprise which was launched upon the world with so much well-deserved fanfare in 1937 - is now, we note, a little more than fifty years old. Is it a contradiction to speak of something more than fifty years as being "new"? thesis will be that here is a case in which it is not: newness belongs to the Program to such an extent that it will always be in the design stage. How do you know St. John's College when you see it? The safe and easy answer is, of course, the Program: the books and all the ancillary techniques we have evolved for reading them together are the College - and that answer, so far as it goes, is very true. The program is a gem, artfully faceted and now bound to itself with a diamond-like rigidity. Arbitrary as it must have been in many aspects of its inception, it now defies alteration, and cuts its initials into all our souls. My view however is rather to affirm that the New Program at St. John's is not so much a thing, which could be thus made and completed, as a project. To put it in one way, which I borrow from the past, let us say that the project of the College is that of research into the liberal arts: research, more specifically, designed to recover the tradition of the liberal arts in the modem world. There might be many plausible objections to that formulation, more or less fundamental, such as that there are no specifically "liberal arts," or that there never was a well-formed tradition of the liberal arts worth trying to rehabilitate. People who believe this prefer to talk of the College in terms of the Great Books and the curriculum, and to formulate our task quite differently. They may conclude that any research is long since finished. But I say that there are real categories of arts, arts of freedom in ways we can go on to explore, and that they have a strong, resilient tradition, worthy to form the focus of our efforts at St. John's. The present Program, I want to say, embodies our best understanding at the moment of what these liberal arts are, and how they can be taught. All this poses an important question just now, because if I am right, it is some foundation in the liberal arts which we hope you are taking with you as you· graduate today. These are the arts which free us to find as best we can our human way in the world. They surely do not make life easier, but they made it richer, and endow us with certain powers: to make articulate to ourselves what it means to be human . . . what it may someday mean to be more fully so. Speaking of the New Program and the liberal arts in this way, we come close I think to a certain Secret of St. John's College. For tiny and in some sense radically, almost deliberately incompetent as we are, we do sit on a secret of great importance, which the world at this moment urgently needs. The Secret of St. John's: It is the mode of our work together as a community of learning, and of our approach to the books which is the secret of all our success: the rediscovery of the art of conversation. What I call our research into the liberal arts has led us to reconstruct the art of conversation in the modern world. That might seem a small thing to do, and a rather obvious thing to say - but that innocent art of "conversation" is fraught with consequence. We are perhaps the only respectable college left in the United States at which noboby studies the great books. Elsewhere, they are taken as important objects: it is required to know their dates and places, the circumstances of the authors, their principal doctrines, and above all, the essential reasons why they are wrong. »e have learned instead to converse with them - and we have found that when we do that, they - and thought itself - spring to life in an altogether new way. We take the authors as friends, reject in our innocence all boundaries of places and times, and enter into a conversation of the fifth century B.C. as if it had been going on without interruption from then till now. And equally, we don't "study" the arts: we work at them, to use them. We don't want to know Greek: what we want to know is how to read, and speak and think ... in English! Greek, we hope, will help us. But should we not call these arts, simply the arts of reason? Surely we should - but now in the degraded and essentially miserable sense of what is called purely "objective" reason, which took over in the name of "science" at the point at which the sciences turned into calculative and predictive enterprises - as exercises in logical deduction from hypotheses which are tentative and contingent. Wonderful and amazing as the accomas we were still learning only a few days ago in plishments of modern science are the genetics laboratory - they still occupy only one portion of what belongs to human reason in a far larger sense. Reason in its interesting sense is not the art of proving things or knowing as we say now "scientifically," but the ways of wit and imagination, of irony, comedy and tragedy, the subtle ways of verse and myth and symbol, of all the verbal, visual and musical arts by which we as Hegel says, become self-conscious, and thereby, free. It is in this largest sense that the liberal arts are the arts of human freedom: the intelligent arts of conscious humanity. Our conversation is thus in principle universal, and St. John's, a school for people as people. The only valid reason for coming to St. John's is that you want to be somebody. It helps to be able to read and do algebra, but all these things are ancillary. St. John's is the best place to learn to read and compute - that is, to learn the arts of the trivium and the quadrivium. I'm giving you the populist version of the idea of the college, which I think I owe to Scott Buchanan, who of course as an educator has always been widely suspect. He is said to have said that "Everyone who is going to vote should go to St. John's" - and he would not have been thinking of restricting the polling lists. He would have seen the great human conversation as the founding myth of the Republic. On the Death of Reason The reason that the College has so much work to do, and such a special task, is that the modern world is dead set against conversation. Virtually every field you might want to talk about is pre-empted by the experts, so at most we can only talk on the edges of serious matters: either you are an expert, in which case it's the only thing you can talk about or it's the last thing you want to talk about, or you aren't, and it's clear you couldn't have anything interesting to say. SEPTEMBER 1989 I referred earlier to a distinction between the sense of the liberal arts as the arts of reason, on the one hand, and what is called objective reason, which is reason in a much more restricted and less interesting sense, on the other. The conversation died when knowledge became objective: it's almost as simple as that. The criteria of truth became in some sense "external", and discussion thereby became derivative. People in other places, where they study these matters, credit this to something they call the "Scientific Revolution"; we here are more likely to speak of Newton, Galileo or Descartes. It is generally thought of as the victory of human reason over mythologies, vague and disputable intuitions, and at the root of it all, final causes. Actually, it was the revolt of logic against dialectic - a revolt, let us say, of the second part of Plato's divided line against the top; but really, of reasoning over reason. It is widely celebrated as the victory of it is the death of reason. What is called modern science is supposed to have taught us the folly and hopelessness of reasoning from final causes or the good. Truth is said to be revealed in the laboratory and not in human conversation. Another way yet to say this is to speak of the victory of quantity over quality - of "order" understood as quantitative relation, over laws subservient to and ordered toward meaningful purpose. It has alternately and been nurtured a society centered and even democraon quantity, in which the success of polity is measured cy has been degraded to mean the right to make money in one's own way. It is the eclipse is that there is no knowledge of reason in a totality of cynicism. Its founding to discover how cold and dark that regime of value. We are only beginning, as a of quantity, in the guise of money and force, threatens to become. We begin to see what is at stake, in calling our project the effort to recover the art of conversation in the modern world. The New Program at St. John's must have been conceived as a revolt in tum against this iron rule of the modern sciences, against the icy grip of quantitative orders, the Glacial Age in which reason had been seized. The Program at St. John's was designed to include enough of the laboratory and the quantitative sciences to get a grip on them, to make it possible to question them. It has certainly turned out that they are questionable; there is no need to yield to their pretensions. The sciences try to be reductive, but when pressed, they fail. They would like to be materialistic, but they do not at all know any more what matter is; they would like to be mechanical, but they do not know what a machine is; they would like to be deterministic, but at the bottom of it all, no one can any longer point to a simple cause which yields a simple effect. To talk about modern science, we need to draw all we can from even the oldest traditions, from Heraclitus and Parmenides, and there is no reason not to add, from Aristotle, Sophocles or the Timaeus. Perpetrating a Mythology This seems to be a good point at which to perpetrate a mythology. I have no idea whether what I am about to report has any grounding in historical fact, but I feel that when a myth is so evidently needed, the burden falls on those who doubt. Let us call this the Myth of the Triune College. In the beginning, the College was conceived to have three parts. One was the undergraduate program. Another was the adult program. And the third, which was to be the centerpiece, was the Committee on the Liberal Arts. The work of the Committee on the Liberal Arts was to be that research project, the recovery of the tradition of the liberal arts in the modern world. This would be the primary work of the faculty; the two teaching programs were to be corollaries of it, putting its findings to the test of practice. In that sense it was thought of as a continuing experiment. Scott Buchanan was heard to say, long after he had left the College, that its error had been that it "pegged the experiment at the first hypothesis." It was said in response, though not in his hearing, that the sad thing about Buchanan was that he never understood how good the College was. It seems likely that both statements are true. [The Program is inherently tentative, and the research ongoing, because the liberal arts inherently belong to history and cannot be stationary. That is true because mankind is still only at the threshold of finding out what it may be, to be human. We engage today in barbarities, such as those we still call "war" - equally barbaric and beneath our dignity whether we call it hot, cold, or covert. It would not take a prophet to foresee that the time will come when such idiocy will seem as remote as cannibalism, to which it is morally equivalent. We have not begun to learn to use our reason to think beyond our noses about problems such as those of the oceans or the atmosphere, which do not factor into the petty competitive interests so lauded among us. We are being eaten by our own atmosphere, we are choking our Bay and our highways and poisoning our fields and our waters; history will soon enough teach us to use our minds in new ways. These are, interestingly, not problems which we can solve by plugging the liberal arts in their conventional forms into new applications. It is because we stick so unimaginatively to the arts in their traditional guises that we think the problems are unsolvable.] The Next Fifty Years at St. John's As we have pointed out, the New Program is a little over fifty years old, and it seems to me not a bad idea twice every century to stop to get our bearings. The dedication of our community to serious conversation entails in our principle certain responsibilities, and marks out an ideal project which I would like to describe as the task of the College for the second fifty years of the New Program. Let me try to do this very briefly by characterizing this task in three waves, each more overwhelming than the one before. First Uiive: Enlargement of the Base of Common Learning It is important that we not regard our common learning as coextensive with the teaching program. The Undergraduate Program is the invaluable foundation of our community, but to meet our intellectual responsibility, we must make sure that the Program is contained in a frame of wider, and perhaps ever-widening common studies. We have developed many devices for this, but it is important to take a major step further as an institution, and establish new means to incorporate this larger learning, through methods of reporting back and common study. All this means time, and time means money: like any institutional function, this needs formal recognition and systematic funding. To give a name, merely as a placeholder for this new institutional function, let me call it the St. John's Center for the Study of the Liberal Arts. Second Uizve: Enlarging the Membership in the Conversation It perhaps goes without saying, that insofar as we can extend the membership in our conversation without jeopardizing the enterprise, we want to do so. My own theory is that there is no upper limit to the number of campuses St. John's should have, or the number of people who should attend them. It is primarily a matter of getting in touch (Continued on facing page) �SEPTEMBER 1989 Paideia Program Courses offered By TIM MILLER St. John's tutors offered a special program of seminars and tutorials in Santa Fe, July 17-29, for teachers of the Paideia Program. Thirty-three teachers from Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Washington, DC, enrolled in the special session. Twelve teachers, including principal Robert Brazil, came from Chicago's Sullivan High School. Chicago's Goldblatt School sent 13 teachers, including principal Lillian Nash. PAGE 13 THE REPORTER In addition to having their own classes, for which they read Aristotle's Ethics, the Oresteia of Aeschylus, Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Darwin's Origin of Species, the Paideia teachers also visited regular classes of the Graduate Institute. The History segment was the most popular choice of Santa Fe graduate students enrolled in the summer session. Thirty-nine students were enrolled in two history seminars and three tutorials. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded St. John's College $106,549 for twenty Colorado teachers of social sciences and history to study history during the 1989 summer session. Without this special incentive it seems probable that graduate students would have chosen the five area segments offered in approximately equal numbers. Perspectives (continued from facing page) with the right students, who are everywhere, and managing a process of orderly growth. This is especially true of the Graduate Institute, which is in principle more portable and more readily extensible than the rest of the College. All this entails certain headaches for admissions people and the fund-raising branch, but the central limitation is on the growth of our community of learning: how fast can we prepare new members? This is a breeding operation which like everything else takes money and time. I argue only that it should be a central concern in planning for the Second Fifty Years. When we speak of enlarging the membership in the conversation, we arrive at the moment to address the Alumni, as I find myself faced with a sizeable number of people who used to be students, but in a few minutes will find themselves in that new category. I remember hearing one of the founders of the New Program, Stringfellow Barr, telling a group of your predecessors that the one thing which all St. Johnnies know is that they have not had an education. All the College has done, at best, is to equip you to go out and get one. But if this is true and the process is working, something important is happening which it is essential to take into account. When the New Program was launched upon the world, it by definition didn't have any alumni. Now, after fifty years, we have what is roughly speaking a full pipeline: a very large number of alumni who we seriously maintain have gone into what is called the world as students of its businesses, and of every art of human relationship and development. The preponderance of the College has shifted to the alumni: in a sense which I propose we should take much more- seriously than we have, the alumni are the real College, the College in the world. So we have, in the second fifty years, another new task: a further problem of institutional containment, that of finding ways to incorporate the alumni far more effectively in the work of the institution. To this end, and to acknowledge that the alumni now constitute a full fourth element in what must be the updated mythology of the College, I propose that the time has come for something like a Dean of Alumni. Third llilve: Taking the World as our Heritage Now for the Third Wave, and the greatest: How big is the "world" which the College in principle serves? Perhaps of all the shifts in thought and society which mark the interval between the founding of the New Program before World War II and the present, nothing weighs more than transformation of our perception of the "world" and the responsibilities membership in it entails. In 1937, it was possible to imagine that our task in forming a community of learning was confined to the reacquisition of our western literature, what we could think of as our heritage. At the same time, however, Stringfellow Barr was taking leadership in urging a sense of responsibility to a much larger world community; his own invocation was, in a provocative document, "Let's Join the Human Race." It is becoming evident that the task of liberal education cannot be confined to a single tradition: in some sense which we cannot yet quite grasp, the whole world must now have a single heritage. We are all inescapably citizens of this one small planet we belong inevitably now to one human community. We have to solve immense civic problems together; and that can only mean, that we must work to found our common citizenship on grounds of a new common learning. We need to begin to learn other languages, other literatures, other arts, other viewpoints towards the arts which may or may not relate readily to our notions of what it is to be "free". This is research work for the faculty - and now I want to hasten to add, the alumni - which needs to be given institutional form, with the other works of that placeholder, the Center for the Study of the Liberal Arts. Conclusion: The College as Metaphor Even I can see that I have permitted myself to speak of an agenda far beyond anything the College has in view at the moment, and perhaps, more than it would ever want to undertake. Let me remind you I am looking ahead fifty years, not at something to be done overnight. Overnight, all we should do is define the task and make a modest start. But I have spoken, I presume, of the institution in principle: and in this sense, the College may be more valuable to us as metaphor than as fact. By the "College", I mean the house of the liberal arts: and that house, though it is deeply associated for us with our two campuses, is really everywhere that the arts are being pursued. Other persons and other institutions will pick up the functions we do not; you yourselves will be taking, many of you, these concerns with you into the world in ways which cannot be anticipated, and everywhere you do that, you will be the College I have been speaking of. I have hoped that some of your work may be incorporated into that of this institution, but some of it will be very simple and altogether private, and some will be happily located elsewhere. What matters to us most is that the liberal arts thrive. We should remind ourselves that on the whole the world does not encourage them, and the effort to enstate them, since it aims at liberation, is revolutionary work in most of the world today. We wish you well, and remind you that whether literally or metaphorically, you cannot altogether be leaving the College behind. 25th Birthday Santa Fe's celebratory year The series of special events scheduled on the Santa Fe campus for its 25th anniversary celebration began with new president John Agresto's Convocation address on August 25. The celebratory year will reach a climax with the festivities for his inauguration - ceremony, dinner and Inaugural Ball - the weekend of next April 27-28. A preliminary list of other activities has been released on the Santa Fe campus. Mortimer J. Adler will give the Anniversary Lecture at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall on Friday, November 3. Mr. Adler, who now heads the Institute for Philosophical Research in Chicago, is the last survivor of the group of men who were architects of the New Program in 1937. A series of special concerts, to which the public is invited, will begin on Sunday, September 17, at 3 p.m. in the Great Hall with Lawrence Cave at the Harpsichord playing toccatas in d and g by Bach, and Handel's Suite in d. Other scheduled 25th anniversary concerts follow. They are in the Great Hall unless otherwise indicated, and are free and open to the public. • 8 p.m. Friday, September 29. A dual piano performance will be given by Maya Hoffman and Peter Pesic featuring works by Brahms, Stravinsky, Schubert and Rachmaninoff. • 9 p.m. Friday, October 6. The Desert Voices will perform for the Fourth Annual Founders' Day Celebration in a concert planned as a special thank-you to the Santa Fe community and the college's many benefactors who share the college commitment to liberal education. • 3 p.m. Sunday, October 29. Peter Pesic, pianist, will present a program including the music of Brahms, Berg, Schonberg, Webern, and Bach. • 8 p.m. Friday, November 10. The Colorado Quartet, with Julie Rosenfeld, violin; Deborah Redding, violin; Francesca Martin, viola; Diane Chaplin, cello, will present a program with the music of Haydn, Bartok and Beethoven. • 3 p.m. Sunday, November 19. Peggy Abbott and Patricia Williams, pianists, will present music by Barber, Brahms, and Poulenc. • 3 p.m. Sunday, January 14, 1990. June de Toth, pianist, will play Liszt's "Sonetto di Petrarca" and "Dante Sonata," Bartok's "Piano Pieces," and Ballard's "City of Silver, City of Fire." • 8 p.m. Friday, February 2, in the St. Francis Cathedral: "Sequentia" (Ensemble for medieval music). • 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 28. The Amaranth Trio (Paul Manaster, violin; Karen Roebuck, 'cello; Nancy Harper, piano) will perform Beethoven's "Kakadu" Variations; Villa-Lobos: Second Trio, and Mendelssohn, Trio ind. • 3 p.m. Sunday, April 1. Nancy Harper, pianist, will perform music inspired by the dance, including Bach's French Suite in G, Brahms' Waltzes, Op. 39, and dances by Chopin, Szymanowski, Stravinsky and Milhaud. • 8 p.m. Friday, April 6. Jeanne Grealish, mezzo-soprano, and Peter Pesic, pianist, will present an evening of songs. • 8 p.m. Friday, April 13. Peter Pesic, pianist, will play Beethoven's piano sonatas. • 8 p.m. Friday, April 20. Jeanne Grealish, mezzo-soprano, Peter Pesic, pianist, and other artists will present an evening of vocal chamber music. Other events have been scheduled for the anniversary year. On Saturday, December 10, the children of Santa Fe will be invited for "Music, Magic & Merriment!" Admission is free and refreshments will be served. Beginning in February, a Film Festival will celebrate the anniversary by presenting outstanding films of 1964, including "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn, and "Tennessee Williams' "The Night of the Iguana," with Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner. Conference set for October St. John's College in Santa Fe will host the 18th annual national conference of the National Society for Internships and Experiential Education (NS IEE), October 25-28, 1989. The conference, which will be held in four downtown Santa Fe hotels, is expected to draw up to 400 participants, representing colleges and universities from throughout the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom. Ron Hale, Director of Career Planning and Alumni Activities in Santa Fe, is a member of NSIEE and was instrumental in bringing the conference to Santa Fe and is a member of the conference planning committee, which is chaired by Jane Permaul, Director of Field Studies at UCLA. Ellie Dietrich, Director of Career Planning at the Annapolis campus, is also an NSIEE member. The theme of the conference is "Experiential Education: Meeting the Challenges of Diversity". Conference sessions and field visits will draw heavily upon the rich, multicultural environment of Northern New Mexico, with educational trips planned to Bandelier National Monument, Taos and Chimayo, Ghost Ranch Conference Center in Abiquiu, and several Indian pueblos. Each of these visits will include a one-day service project, since many of the conference attendees are involved in organizing student community service programs on their campuses. (The Career Office in Santa Fe has emphasized volunteer community service opportunities for students during the past year.) The NSIEE conference will include a reception to be held at St. John's. For additional information, contact Ron Hale, Director of Career Planning , Santa Fe. Board endorses plan Continued from page 1 litigation" and to move ahead. "Most important:' he said, "we got the cooperation of the plaintiff in dealing with the state.' Thomas Carnes Mr. Carnes and Board member Burchenal Ault of Santa Fe had acted as cochairmen of the California Property Committee for the Board. The exchange of properties, enlarging the Toro Canyon site, will give the college two "superb alternative building sites:' according to John Williams, prominent California businessman and former college Board member who has worked closely with the college through the years of litigation. �THE REPORTER Board endorses (Cont. from page 1) might go beyond salary requirements to a need for more secretarial support, copying machines, faculty office space, or even subsidized housing. Satisfaction of these or other needs might be achieved by "imaginative financing:' or, in the case of housing, by the of a dwelling that could be divided The second necessary step on:~lm1in1arv rmaa-·raismtg ~.~~~~•~~ is to re1:aW)mm11Js with known conparents, friends, stituents, i.e. and the college community, in order for them to become knowledgeable about the needs and the plans and to have confidence in the ability of St. John's to manage its resources and outline its future. The third key step in the process is to increase dramatically Annual Fund giving by alumni, parents and friends. The Annual Fund provides the money to meet current commitments and needs, some of which cannot wait to be satisfied through a campaign. A major goal here, said Mr. Bishop, is to encourage 500 alumni to consider contributing $1000 a year, and to achieve 50'participation in giving among all alumni over the next three years. Achievement of these goals, for instance, would produce sufficient revenues to take a significant first step in raising tutor salaries, a need which is foremost in the minds of the Board of Visitors and Governors. Already in is a long-range planning and development committee on each campus prepared to orchestrate the process envisioned. Board members Owen Lopez and William Simmons will chair these committees at Santa Fe and Annapolis respectively. In a recent letter directed to members of the campus community, Annapolis president William M. Dyal, Jr., pointed out that the "investigations and deliberations of the committees will involve every aspect of the College, and [they] will seek the participation of tutors, associates, staff and students, among others, and our campus planning committee~' "I know everyone will cooperate with the committees:' he said, "and respond to their questions with our usual candor, honesty, and thoughtfulness~' Homecoming (Cont. from page 7) Her shrewd advice brought a dramatic increase in value to the endowment funds of both campuses: the Annapolis campus changed investment managers and saw its endowment double in less than five years, while the Santa Fe endowment was invested in high yield bonds, ending a pattern of yearly deficits. Although Ms. Higgins is soon to retire from the board to move to London, Mr. Goldstein expressed the hope that "making her an alumna will help us keep her invaluable advice flowing." Credited with being one of the "four or five people who literally kept the Santa Fe campus alive in the 1970's," J.I. Staley, Texas philanthropist, was described as "a modest :nan who prefers not to be recognized for the contributions he makes to any cause, but is always there to help when help is needed." Mr. Staley, who has served both as chairman and vice-chairman of the board, maintains a ranch in New Mexico. Described by Mr. Goldstein as "a lover of the arts and of education," Mr. Staley sits on many boards both in Santa Fe and in Witchita Falls, Texas, including the Santa Fe Institute and the Santa Fe Opera Association Board. Tutor Emeritus Stuart Boyd, retired last June and at present teaching English literature at a girls' school in Nagasaki, was described by Mr. Goldstein as "one of the most beloved of tutors [whose] psychiatric skills kept many students out of desperate straits." Trained as a psychologist, Mr. Boyd nevertheless "pitched into the program with an omnivorous appetite for the books." He was also an admired writer and painter with a visual memory both of the Scottish coastline of his youth and of Central Europe where he was imprisoned by the Germans during World War II, places he evoked in his journals and paintings. In his introduction of Istvan Fehervary, Board member Chris Nelson observed that the honoree is "universally alive, yet very scholarly," and that he "may have more student admirers than any other member of this community." An Olympic winner in fencing in his native Hungary, Mr. Fehervary later led his Santa Fe students to fencing championships, and was responsible, said Mr. Nelson, for most of the important student activities on the Santa Fe campus. Jailed during the Hungarian uprising in 1956, he later escaped and still later wrote a book about his experiences which was widely read in Europe. For the first time since that escape, he will be returning to Hungary this summer. Among the events which highlighted the weekend were Friday evening's two-piano performance presented by Maya Hoffman and Musician-in-Residence Peter Pesic. The evening's program included compositions by Stravinsky, Schubert, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff. Played with power and feeling, the program drew immense enthusiasm from an audience crowded into the Great Hall. Ms. Hoffman, a resident of Santa Fe since 1983, has presented frequent solo recitals on New York concert stages as well as appearing as a soloist with several orchestras, including the Boston and the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestras. She has performed in London, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Switzerland, and, since moving to Santa Fe, in a number of cities throughout New Mexico. Mr. Pesic, a tutor at the college since 1980 and Musician-in-Residence since 1984, has often been heard both in chamber music and as a soloist. In 1987, he played the complete Schubert piano sonatas at the college and at Harvard University. This season, Mr. Pesic gave an all-Beethoven concert at Harvard. On Sunday morning, about 90 people attended the champagne brunch in the arroyo behind the home of Dr. Irwin Hoffman and his pianist wife. A member of the Board, Dr. Hoffman recently chaired the presidential search committee. Guests sat at long tables covered with checkered table cloths under the cherry, pear and apricot trees while an alumni country music group performed nearby. Guests strolling about the beautiful property found much to interest them. A Kiva, designed like the main house by St. John's benefactor, the late architect John Gaw Meem, centers the terraced garden, and contains books and works of arts, especially the compelling primitive figures of sculptor Roxanne Swentzell, daughter of tutor Ralph Swentzell, who is gaining wide recognition for her work. In 1923, Mr. Meem combined an original main house with a stable to make a striking dwelling of Pueblo Revival style for an earlier owner. The Hoffmans' restoration, begun in the late 1970's, has created a house filled with bright color and an extensive collection of regional artwork. Notable are the central patio, the 40-foot covered portal, the handsome vigas or beams in the major rooms, and the thick walls and judicious use of blinds which keep the house cool despite summer heat. The planning committees will follow a four-step process in order to create a long range strategic and financial plan; collecting data; assessing considering the financial impact and financial alternatives of the needs; and providing a creative strategy for addressing them. Each campus committee will be divided into four subcommittees covering the following areas: academic and administrative support, and facilities. College representatives will be assigned to each of these subcommittees to assist with the investigations. Finally, at an appropriate point, alumni, parents and friends will be invited to help in the deliberative process and to help devise a comprehensive long-range strategic plan. Annapolis tutor William Pastille has published two articles in the journal Theoria in the past year, the first a translation, The Spirit of Musical Technique by Heinrich Schenker, and the second, Strict Counterpoint and Free Composition. In April, together with Prof. Allen Cadwallader of Oberlin, he gave a lecture, "Schenker's Deep Motives: Aspects of Form and Design:' Additionally, he served on a program committee for the national convention of the Society of Music Theory, held last fall in Baltimore. Curtis Wilson, retired Annapolis tutor, took part in a summer meeting on rational mechanics and analysis organized in honor of Clifford professor of rational mechanics at Johns Hopkins University, who celebrates his seventieth birthday this year. Held in Pisa, Italy, the five-day conference drew international participation. Mr. Wilson spoke on "Newton and Euler on Optics, Planetary Motion, and the Ether.' The meetings were supported by the University of Pisa as well as by Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. After two years as Assistant Director of Admissions at the Annapolis campus, Sallie Fine, A '87, has accepted a job in Chicago as coordinator of the Paideia Scholars' Program. The program is run by the Institution for Philosophical Research, headed by Mortimer Adler. Her primary responsibility will be to coordinate and co-lead seminars with inner city high school freshmen. Hers is a brand new position, extending a previous program offered for pupils in kindergarten through eighth grade. The new program is funded by the American National Bank. Sallie's new address will be at the Institute, 101 E. Ontario, Suite 300, Chicago, Ill., 60611. ' Rabbi Michael Kramer, spiritual leader of the Temple Solel in Bowie, MD, will teach "Literature of the Holocaust" in a weekly class beginning September 12 on the Annapolis campus. The class, which will meet at 3:45 p.m. Tuesdays, is one of 168 across the United States and Canada offered by the Jewish Chautauqua Society, the educational arm of the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods. It will be underwritten by the G. Eisenberg Fund. The course will begin with the roots of 19th century anti-s-emitism and conclude with theological insights into the Holocaust. Before coming to Bowie, Rabbi Kramer served as rabbi at Temple Sholom of Florial Park, New York, where he was president of the Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council and vice-president of the Long Island Association of Reform Rabbis. He is a 1973 graduate of the Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion in New York. The Annapolis campus has recently appointed five new tutors to one year positions on its teaching staff. The appointments made by President William M. Dyal, Jr., will become effective July l. Among the new tutors are Baltimore resident Catherine Haigney. Ms. Haigney who earned both her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in English from the University of Virginia, recently completed her doctoral dissertation on Chaucer's dream-vision poetry and the philosophy of William of Ockham. She also attended Institut d'Etudes Europeennes and Sorbonne University in Paris. She has taught at Goucher College and Vanderbilt University. Lila F.L. Luce of Birmingham, Alabama, received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy, with a minor in mathematics and linguistics, from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. "What Numbers Could Be: An argument that arithmetical truths are laws of nature" was the title of her dissertation. Ms. Luce was an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a visiting professor at the University of Arizona. Abraham Schoener of Ontario, Canada, a 1982 St. John's alumnus, earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto where he also, later, taught. He studied Greek at City University of New York. His dissertation is on the concept of "war" in Heraclitus. Adam L. Schulman of Cambridge, Massachusetts earned his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in the history of science from Harvard University, with a dissertation on ''Quantum and Aristotelian Physics: A rethinking of certain problems of modern sta111dr>ou1t of Aristotle's a B. A. in chemistry from the Chicago and a second B. A. in physics and philosophy from Oxford University. Mr. Schulman has taught at Harvard University. Cordell D.K. Yee of Madison, Wisconsin earned his Ph.D. in English, with a minor in classics, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Between Word and World: Language and Representation in Joyce," is the subject of his dissertation. He has done extensive work in ancient Chinese. Mr. Yee has been a researcher for the History of Cartography Project with the geography department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as a teaching assistant there. �article outlines Educational Leadership, an influential educational journal with 110,000 subscribers, solicited and published last March an article on the Touchstones Project, from Annapolis tutors Geoffrey Comber, Howard Zeiderman and Nicholas Maistrellis. The three men, who together devised the project which brings many hundreds of middle and high school students in various settings together for weekly discussion sessions, collaborated on the article, "The Touchstone Project: Discussion Classes for Students of All Abilities." In 1981, the tutors began to consider whether the St. John's discussion format might be valuable for younger more diverse students. Several years of selection, editillg, translating and trying out texts with students resulted in Touchstones, Volumes, I, II and Ill to meet the particular needs of groups of varying experience. Three phases for the 40-minute sessions are outlined. The first, prompted by short noncontemporary readings not requiring previous preparation, is devoted "to the creation of a true discussion group where students listen and speak with one another," in exchanges not mediated by a teacher. In phase two, the students undertake increas- Alumni Summer Continued from page 10 St. Johnnies ought to respond to Joyce's description of loneliness and alienation; after all most of us were probably the different ones wherever we started from before we got to St. John's. Tonight will be a quiet one. Reading, starting this journal. Tomorrow only one preceptorial is scheduled - not one I'm taking. Peter Pesic is leading a preceptorial on two Japanese novels that meets for its first session Tuesday. Also the weekly tour is scheduled. Each year a van load has gone off to see local sights. I've gone with the group to see cliff dwellings, a ruined mission site, and other interesting places. I've learned a lot about the history of northern New Mexico. The bunch tomorrow will go off on a tour of the high road to Taos. This is a repeat of last year's tour. Ten or so of us in a van with an alumnus who lives in the area went through Chimayo and Santuario on the high road to Taos, the Taos pueblo and the Rio Grande gorge. Our guide had no fixed idea of what we were going to do, so we improvised as we went along; we all got somewhat giddy and arrived back rather late. I hope those who are going tomorrow have as good a time as we did. I'm not going. Instead I have a job interview in Albuquerque; I'm trying to set myself up for a year-round relationship with the Santa Fe campus. Tuesday - Today's schedule is light, only the one preceptorial meeting. Those who aren't going on the van tour drift off to a variety of things. I have a couple of hours after breakfast before I have to drive to Albuquerque, so I have gone on a walking, shopping expedition in Santa Fe. Two hours of wandering through shops and galleries. A pair of earrings on a table in the plaza go well with the interviewing dress. I also stop by the Loretto Chapel. Each time I've come to Santa Fe, for any reason, I go to look at the "miraculous staircase." I'm not sure why an unsupported spiral staircase with a legendary past fascinates me but it does. The interview in Albuquerque goes well enough; no position right now but sometime in the future a good chance. Over the last couple of years coming here I've noticed that a fair number of alumni have done what I'm planning moved into the area and settled in. After dinner I spent a couple of hours sitting iri the coffee shop. It's fun trying to guess ingly textual discussion of noncontemporary readings, and in phase three, students with three or four years of experience in the program begin to discuss "the tensions and conflicts that divide them from one another," using a variety of contemporary texts. Since 1984 when the program was first implemented with mainstream students in Hartford, Connecticut, it has been brought to a widening group of participants, particularly in inner city schools in Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Pilot projects have been launched in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Santa Fe, Seattle, and elsewhere. For students who regularly participate in discussion, "the major change occurs in their disposition to learn," the writers report. For lower performing students, a text and classroom activity frequently become less alien to their interests, while for higher performing students, the discussions can lead to "greater thoughtfulness about what they are learning and less reticence to acknowledge mistakes and confusions." Both sets of students become "less adversarial'' toward teachers and each other. The project is run by CZM Associates Inc. what different people wandering through are at the College for. Graduate Institute people tend to be older than the "February freshmen." A woman who identifies herself as an English teacher is sitting at a table reading Kant and proclaiming that she has to write a paper on it and she doesn't understand a word of it. Two others at another table are reading Tacitus. There seems to be a sort of time warp operating. People who look just like my classmates twenty years ago keep wandering through, but they haven't aged. Wednesday - Barry, who is a history buff, wants to see Los Alamos so I skip Mr. Bell's second preceptorial meeting to go with him. Los Alamos is about an hour from Santa Fe. It must have been a horrendous trip when the town was first settled by the Manhattan Project and the roads weren't really paved. Now it looks rather like an ordinary small town with a large laboratory, except that it is in a strange location for a small town, on top of a mesa with nothing else around. Bandelier National Monument is not far from Los Alamos; last year Barry and I drove over there with a companion and her son. It is an ancient cliff dwelling site; with a guide you can even climb into the small rooms. Deer and snakes have right of way on the paths there, however. Wednesday evening the Alumni Office has made reservations for ten of us (or twelve, the count keeps changing) at the Pink Adobe, a restaurant that is celebrating its 45th anniversary under the same management. Abbie Hoffman is also rumored to have worked there when he was living underground in Santa Fe. The food is excellent, conversation flows, and a rainstorm blows through town complete with thunder and lightning while we eat. Two of our dinner companions leave early because they have tickets to the Santa Fe Opera that evening. Thursday - Miss Leonard's preceptorial meets again; this time the group seems more cohesive and sticks more to the task of trying to deal with her questions about what Lewis Thomas is trying to say. The seminar group meets for its second time but with fewer people. I have to conclude that James Joyce is difficult for a group that is only meeting twice. Thursday evening Barry and I take our companions out to the cafe for dinner and music. With our dinners we drink wine from vineyards owned by St. John's graduates. Molly Radford Ward: prominent physician Molly Radford Ward, a principal benefactor of the Santa Fe campus, died in Santa Fe on June 12 at the age of 84. She was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1905. Mrs. Ward studied at Mount Holyoke College and received her BS degree from the University of Chicago. She supported herself through medical school and received her medical degree in 1935. Although she came to New Mexico on what was intended merely to be a vacation, she met and married William Martin, and resettled in Santa Fe, her home for the rest of her life. She was one of the first women doctors in the city. After her husband went to war in 1942, she responded to a shortage of medical personnel by taking on the task of managing several clinics as well as the responsibility of being the only anesthesiologist in Santa Fe during the war. She was the first woman president of the Santa Fe County Medical Society, and later became the director of the Gerontology Division of the New Mexico State Department of Health. After her husband's death in 1950, Dr. Ward wrote and published a book about his life. In 1960, she married Capt. C. 0. Ward (USN-Ret.), who died in 1986. Yerkes: priest on horseback Rev. Fred Yerkes, Jr., A '32, a legendary priest who reached his remote southern congregations by horseback, rail or boat, died at his home in Jacksonville, Florida, on January 25 at 78. Although he was nudged to retire at 72, he continued to care for his parishioners. During his career, Rev. Yerkes served more than 26 churches, most of them mission churches that he was instrumental in founding. His congregations, primarily in Florida, were accessible only by horse- back, rail or boat. Horace Davis, a writer for The New lbrk Times regional newspaper group describes Rev. Yerkes as "the ultimate unselfish dreamer... He left behind a trail of scout troops, libraries and nursery schools." He is survived by a sister, a brother and several nieces and nephews. After graduating from St. John's, Rev. Yerkes completed his studies at the University of the South, and at the University of London. Ossorgin dies in New Mexico Continued from page 1 He retired in the spring of 1986 to devote much of his time to making great Russian liturgical music, banned from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik revolution, available to the West. His retirement also made possible periodic visits to Alaska, where he had served as a priest, to lead the Alaska Heritage A Cappella Choir in Anchorage, an outgrowth of a school choir he originally led at Mount Edgecombe. Born in Istanbul, when his parents were fleeing Russia during the revolution, Mr. Ossorgin grew up in the Russian community in Paris of a musical family. His father was choral director at the Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, and his mother, Countess Mouravioss, a pianist, played four hands with Rachmaninoff. Educated at the Conservatoire Russe a Paris, headed then by Glazunov Cherepnin, he majored in Russian liturgical music. Then he received a degree in theology from the Institute de Theologie Orthodox in Paris, where he taught music for two years. During World War II he was imprisoned for a year and a half by the Germans. Mr. Ossorgin then became a priest, joining St. Michael's Cathedral in Sitka. During his period there the mixed choir of Indian and native children he conducted sang the music of Bach and Brahms at such a level of ex- cellence that they were invited annually to tour Southeastern Alaska. He joined St. John's at the encouragement of a St. John's alumnus, Dr. Peter V. V. Hamill, now of Annapolis and a physician at the time at the Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Mt. Edgecombe. In Santa Fe as a priest, Mr. Ossorgin conducted services for members of the Russian Orthodox faith at a chapel built at his home. Mr. Ossorgin has translated into English words written for the liturgical music of Tschaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Rimski-Korsakov, music sung at the Synodal Choir in Moscow and by the Imperial Chapel Choir in St. Petersburg that he considered as great as their secular music. What he has achieved so far, according to Nicholas Spasski, president of the Archives of Russian Liturgical Music in Paris, who has heard tapes of his music, is "colossal." Mr. Ossorgin leaves his wife, Penny, three children, Lydia Santillanes, Michael Ossorgin VII, and Nicholas, all of Santa Fe, and seven grandchildren. Burial will be at News Kepe Monastery in New York State. Instead of flowers, the family requests that memorial gifts be made to the Michael Ossorgin Memorial Fund, Sunwest Bank, 1234 St. Michael's Drive, Santa Fe, N.M., 87501. Messages may be addressed to the Ossorgin home at 855 El Caminita, Santa Fe., N.M., 87501. Friday - For the last session, Miss Leonard has supplied copies of a lecture given by Leon Kass at Annapolis several years ago, on the idea of teleology in Darwin. The group speculates on what it will take to keep Man as a whole from destroying the planet; will we have to evolve into another step of soul, somehow become conscious of our individual selves as cells in a large organism? After lunch I go back to Mr. Bell's preceptorial. According to a friend, he expounded for over two hours on Tuesday on Coleridge's "Kubla Khan." This time he recites Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey." When I read the poem I thought it was wordy and unclear. Mr. Bell makes it sensible. If I should some day have all the time to read anything I wanted, maybe Romantic poetry would be included. It is such a contrast, however, between the Nature that Wordsworth and Coleridge worshipped - flowing waters and lush trees - and the sparse desert around Santa Fe. We exchange addresses with people in Miss Leonard's preceptorial and say goodbye to the couple we've spent most of the week with. Friday afternoon Barry and I are driving down to my uncle's home in Belen, and we're going back to Phoenix on Saturday. �PAGE 16 SEPTEMBER 1989 THE REPORTER (]) (.) :: 0 c 0 -ro (]) §~ o= Return of the Prodigal Son, etching Rembrandt van Rijn. loaned by National of Art. Illuminated manuscript leaf. loaned the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Thirty-seven significant works of art, loaned by the major art galleries of Washington and Baltimore and by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, will be shown at the premier exhibit, "Image and Word," when the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery opens Sunday, September 16, on the college campus in Annapolis. The art, dating from the 6th century B.C. to the present, has been assembled to explore the relationship of visual to written expression and to show how each in its language attempts to convey ideas. Works by such masters as Rembrandt van Rijn, Titian, William Hogarth, Albrecht Durer, Georges Roualt, and Wassily Kandinsky will be displayed. The exhibit will have oil paintings, lithographs, etchings, engravings, and woodcuts. A bronze inkstand from 16th century and illuminated manuscript leaves from 15th century England are among the works by unknown artists to be shown. Four major galleries from the Baltimore-Washington area have generously loaned work from their collections to help launch the dedication ceremonies and the opening exhibit of the new state-of-the-art museum. These are the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, and the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has loaned the exhibit a single work, Virtus Deserta, an engraving from the school of Andrea Mantegna, as the companion piece to another Renaissance work from the same school, Virtus Combusta: an Allegory of Virtue, being loaned by the National Gallery of Art. The two works have seldom appeared together. A series of related events has been planned for the dedication weekend of September 15-17, beginning with the Friday night lecture on "Courbet's Realism" by Michael Fried of Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Fried, a distinguished theorist both in literature and in art, has been since 1982 director of the Humanities Center of The Johns Hopkins University. He has written a number of papers on the French Impressionist Courbet and currently has a book in progress on this painter. The weekend's highlight is expected to be a reception from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sixth century B.C. amphora by Antimenes loaned by the Walters Art • ............ .. £~8 David Bolotin, an authority on Greek thought and literature and a tutor at the Santa Fe campus, will speak on "The Concern of Odysseus: An Introduction to the Odyssey," as St. John's in Annapolis celebrates Homecoming on September 22-24. In a lecture free and open to the public, the scholar will speak on Friday, September 22 at 8:15 p.m. in the FSK Auditorium on campus. "Through my lecture, I hope to discover if in Homer's view, and in the view of truth, Odysseus is a model human being," he says. Mr. Bolotin, who was at the Annapolis campus from 1974 to 1981, earned his undergraduate degree in Classics from Cornell University, and his doctorate in the same subject from New York University. He was a lecturer in Classics at Yale University from 1971to73, and was a visiting associate professor in social thought at the University of Chicago from 1986-88. Mr. Bolotin has been a tutor at St. John's western campus since 1982. The event-filled weekend is expected to attract more than 300 alumni from all over the country, says Betsy Blume, director of college alumni activities. Individual reunion activities are being planned for class reunions spanning 50 years, from the class of 1939 to the class of 1979. This is the second year that the alumni of St. John's Annapolis Graduate Institute will participate in the fall homecoming, instead of having their own in March, making the fall weekend a college-wide affair. A highlight of Homecoming is the inaugural exhibit of the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery, "Image and Word." The exhibit, which is designed to explore the relationship of visual to written expression, will include works by Rembrandt, Durer, Hogarth, and others on loan from the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn, the Walters Gallery, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. The gallery will be open to the public on Friday, September 22 from 1-5 p.m. and from 7-8:15 p.m., and on Saturday, September 23 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Other activities include a class of 1979 rock and roll party in the coffee shop on Friday night, an alumni/student soccer gam.e on An1nas:>oliisPresident Wimam M. Dyal, Jr., chats with Elizabeth Mitchell in the gallery bearing her name which wm be dedicated this month. Keith Harvey photo the back campus on Saturday afternoon, and a party in the college's new boat house on the edge of College Creek later that evening. The Honorary Alumni awards will be presented to William M. Dyal, president of the Annapolis campus since 1986, and Eva T.H. Brann, a tutor there for 32 years. The Award of Merit will be presented to Mary Goldstein, an alumna of the college and a member of the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors. The annual business meeting of the Alumni Association will be held on Saturday, September 23 at 10:30 a.m. in the Conversation Room of the FKS Auditorium. The weekend will end with the president's brunch at the Annapolis home of college president William M. Dyal. September 17, for civic leaders, members of the college community and others. A formal dinner is planned for Saturday night to honor Mrs. Carleton Mitchell of Annapolis, a longtime friend to the college and principal benefactor to the gallery, and other corporate and foundation sponsors. It will be held in the college dining room. Other groups and individuals who will be honored Saturday evening for their port include the Abell Foundation, the liam G. Baker, Jr., Memorial Fund, the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, the Booth Ferris Foundation, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland, the Jacob and Annita France Foundation, the Hodson and the Marion I. and Henry J. Knott Foundation. the Kresge Foundation, the Maryland National Bank, the Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Company, the Noxell Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Presser Foundation, the State t of Maryland, and the USF&G Foundation. Individual supporters, besides Mrs. Mitchell, are Peter A. Benoliel of Philadelphia, Virginia Clark Clarkson of New York City, Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, Mara Robinson of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Dr. Thomas B. Turner of Baltimore, John Van Doren of Chicago and Karl R. Van Tassel, also of Chicago. At the dinner, special acknowledgement will be made of the groups whose support made the inaugural exhibit possible - the Annapolis Fine Arts Foundation, the City of Annapolis, the Anne Arundel County Commission on Culture and the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Annapolis tutor Stewart Umphrey's book Zetetic Skepticism will be published this month by Longwood Academic. The book's point of departure is Meno's skeptical challenge (in Plato's Meno) to the presumption that inquiry, even successful inquiry, is possible. Mr. Umphrey shows how Socrates' response is not adequate, and then he tries "to understand, if not finally resolve, the Meno-Problem:' he says. In an article "The MeinongianAntimeinongian Dispute Reviewed:' Mr. Umphrey attempts to adjudicate the dispute between those who deny and those who affirm that every object exists. 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The New based Great Books of western 1earmng, 1937. as that of recoverliberal in those arts, he told "free us to find as we can our human way in the world:' The secret of citizens are "victimized" and ..ccma:monecl" without it by an image of the world imposed them through advertisements, cinema, newspapers and radio. .uep1cmr1g a situation in which "freedom Of the market is the supreme laW,' he declared that human nature also has its rights which should not be violated. He called for the exercise of "individual res.ponSllDl!Llt)l wherever an individual is to public whether in politics, in education or in literature:' He exi:1ressea urMl.<>r•>hu man conversation~' Such a "truth" has led us to a society not quality, and centered on "even has been degraded to mean the to make money in one's own way. It the eclipse of reason in a of ~'"""'''".,.,..,,,, "We begin to see what is at stake:' he St. said, "in calling our John's] the effort to recover the art of conversation in the modern world'.' In his agenda for the future of the New he envisaged what he called "the St. John's Center for the Keith Harvey photo • of the Liberal Arts:' This en"the first wave:' would enlarge ..........,.,.,...,, . . . new means the College's responto learning beyond the teaching Continued on page 16 Court and Constitutional .u~·mc>cn1cv and has been editor and contributor to other as well as the author of numerous articles for newspapers, and chairNational for the .u.uuuu.•u ... ~. has been named as the seore~sldent of the Santa Fe campus, five-month search a Board of Vicommittee of the sitors and A Scott of the made the announcement followa Board in Santa Fe on March 18. Mr. will succeed Michael P. first of the western campus, who tendered his nation from the college last fall. under whose presidency the San- The successful candidate's the and the student instruction of the Santa Fe campus, as well as the search said Hoffman. In Mr. of Madison said. ..:ar, ..a l - n r u "A man, chairman of about the pn;~s10Lenr-e1ect "1->r"" between be added cultural l"A1m.-,0'1'11hr•n America and the "immense em~rg1les-­ released the greater freedom in the of consciousness Soviet bloc. A will be invasion of books and theater from the think tank founded 11. He ended on a note of Walt Whitman's words about a of letters and of future in which artistic expression ...will be a main re- William i-l!<>•..,,,.,,,,1-t that he would commit six months to the new venture if St. John's offered the post. As a consequence, not assume his college duties until he author of The Fall. "'"' 1 Continued on page 14 �Class Listen up! If you ever spent ANY time with the class of 1949, this means you! We are planning a big 40th reunion during Homecoming Weekend, September 22-24. Join us! If you have suggestions, please call Jack Brooks (216) 321-1879 or Alan Hoffman, (516) 239-5368. 1962 decoration of buildings. It embraces what happens whenever human thought or action makes order and meaning of random space: naming spaces, designating sacred parts of 'wilderness; clearing village areas and garden plots, claiming food-gathering areas, planning and constructing buildings, and arranging the spaces that surround and connect them~' The book's broad geographical setting, stretching from northern Mexico to the Arctic and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is matched by a broad historic scope reaching back from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the time before the European invasion. Nabokov has taught in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley and is the author of other books about native American culture. Neil Potash remembers his digs at no. 9 St. John's Street shared with Ned Green and John W. now a physician, and especially the wooden desk cabinet with exceptionally shallow drawers created by Dr. Poundstone. Student Poundstone used to reach into the drawers and withdraw with a consummate grace the answers to every question, Mr. Potash remembers. At graduation, Mr. Potash himself fell heir to the magic cabinet and he has it still. "But I still couldn't use it the way he did;' he rues, apparently thinking that the St. John's education should have provided the answers or at least the questions. In the meantime, the cabinet sits where it has always sat, on his desk, the repository of memories, and sometimes a few stamps. 1969 Escher and her husband, Dr. Steven Rush, announce the birth of their daughter, Emily Escher Rush, on December 22, 1988. Peggy is writing her dissertation in comparative literature at New York University. The dissertation concerns the figure of the trickster as it appears in certain French and Italian novellas of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Through some sleight of hand of her own, she says she is forging a link between the trickster figure and the rhetorical tradition of Greece, Rome and beyond. Peggy teaches at John Jay College/City University of New York in the English Department. Working with Claudio Guillen of Harvard, Peggy edited one of the three volumes of the Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association: Comparative Poetics/Poetiques Comparees. She also published articles on world literature for the latest edition of the encyclopedia, The Reader's Adviser, and on contemporary writer and visual artist, Roberta Allen, for the journal Women Artists' News. Peter Nabokov's and Robert Easton's book Native American Architecture, was named the April selection of the History Book Club. In their introduction to the book, Nabokov and Easton explain: "In our view, the term 'architecture' refers to more than just the design and 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 New and Information Office, St. John's College, Box 1671, Annapolis, MD 21404. William M. Dyal, Jr., president. Published lour times a year, in March, June, September and December. Second-class postage paid at Annapolis, MD USPS 018-750 1972 The June, 1988, issue of Commentary contained a short story about "St. Thomas College in Virginia:' with a Great Books curriculum, a thinly-disguised rendering of you-know-where, by Rachel stepdaughter of ComDeeter mentary editor Norman Podhoretz, daughter of Midge Deeter, and wife of State Department officer for Latin American Affairs Elliot Abrams. 1982 Leslie Smith Rosen and Nathan Rosen have recently returned to Maryland after exploring Greece with eight of their high school students. Leslie earned her M.A. degree in Jewish studies and education from American University. The couple has two daughters, Marielle and Alyssa. 1985 Elizabeth Kartiganer has launched a business to sell computer software packages to fundraisers. Elizabeth married Michael Wagner last September and the couple lives in Manhattan. 1972 1980 Bm Blount was married in July, 1988, to Anne Vautrain on a riverboat in New Orleans, where Bill works as a exploration geologist for Mobil. Anne studies accounting for the University of New Orleans. Bill's address is 1101 N. Atlanta, Metairie, LA 70003. Charles Reuben writes that pursuing a career in printing after graduation, he worked first for the Santa Fe Reporter for three years and then for the Albuquerque where he is currently employed. Recently he published a book of poems, Tar Beach and Beyond, to which Sheri R. SF '77, and Laura SF '78, contributed drawon fine paper ings, and which is and perfectly bound'.' For copies, at $6 each including postage, write to Autumn Press, 1308 Orchard Place, Albuquerque, NM 87104. Laura Judith Davidson of South Deerfield, MA writes "John Gianvito and I were married in Arizona on the 1988 Summer Solstice. John is a independent filmmaker who also teaches film making. We have settled for a while in the wilds of western Massachusetts'.' 1975 "In the years since I was tossed out of the college:' writes Robert "I turned my hand at various forms of manual labor such as construction, truck driving and restaurant work~' A course in electronics, and a few years repairing stereos all followed, as he continued his study of music with a private teacher. Presently he was majoring in music at Norfolk State College, and again at the University of Maryland, during which time, "I began to perform in my first bands~· In the late 70's, he became increasingly involved with computers, finally becoming systems programmer for a prominent software development company. At the same time, he formed Come Out Swinging, an award-winning avant garde jazz band which produced the album, "Light/Warm PM:' Today he has his own "very small company which sells systems software to banks, insurance companies and the like. I wear a nice suit as a disguise and offer good products to whoever chooses to listen. I also play in a semi-pro band known as the Katzenjammers which operates out of Washington, DC. I am 34, in love but not married, and successful in a small and growing waf.' He thanks St. John's for being a landmark in his life, citing the most important thing he learned there was the idea "that I can teach myself anything I care to learn, without the need for pedantrf.' Robert can be reached at 8505 Wedderburn Lane, Vienna, VA 22180, or at 703/698-0317 (an unlisted number). He would especially like to hear from David Shapiro, Adrian Rosen, Kit CaHendar and Jeff Hockersmith. 1988 Michael McShane will be studying comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania, as a William Penn Fellow. "St. John's Colleg~' by Barbara Goyette, A '73, in the June issue of the Chesapeake provides a complete, informative and highly readable history of the college as well as a sympathetic portrait of St. John's and its programs today. "The ages-old campus ... forms a link with the past while at the same time serving as a center of modern culture:' writes Ms. Goyette. Careful historical tracing of the earliest institution is enlivened with portraits of later key figures in college annals. The writer recounts the history of financial troubles, culminating in the 1930's, which at led to the New Program and the college as it is today. Even longtime college observers are likely to learn from this handsome tribute. The article is enhanced by the splendid photographs of Bob Grieser. 1976 Idell Kesselman expected to be in Baltimore in mid-April to give a paper at the National Conference for the Association of Death Education and Counseling. Her subject was grief as an issue for abortion counseling. Raquel Bech now resides in Chicago; she received her 1982, from DePaul College of Law and is now practicing antitrust corporate law. She married Larry Woods Martin on August 2, 1986. Paula J. Fulks is an attorney with Southwestern Bell Telephone. She is married and has two children--Jessica, 5 years old, and James, born December 27, 1988. 1977 Kistler is a graduate student in Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. 1981 Pattie a student at the University of New Mexico law school, serves two days a week as a Colorado county judge, although she won't finish law school until May or take the bar until July, according to an April 22 interview in the Albuquerque Journal. This unusual arrangement occurred when the previous judge stepped down, and Swift, one of five applicants, was named by Colorado Governor Roy Romer to the post. Rural Costilla County is a Class D judicial area, which means that judges don't have to be lawyers. They must have a high school diploma, however, and be a resident of the county. Pattie Swift and her husband live in the village of Jaroso, where they harvest wildflower and native grass seeds from their 200-acre farm. 1982 Hnuu~~Y Paul Wronski is living in Milwaukee, WI where he just completed an M.A. at Marquette University. For his thesis, he wrote on Book X of the Republic. He is currently heading a small group home for mentally ill adults. Bruce Arter, who left St. John's in 1980, has spent seven of the past nine years travelling around the world, visiting 52 countries in Europe, the__Middle East, Africa and "tl).e inevitable Asia~' To support his _travels, he worked as a hotel manager in Athens, a Kibbutz volunteer in Israel, a tour guide in Kenya, a film actor in Hong Kong, and English teacher in Bangkok and Taiwan. "Amongst the diseases I contracted;' he writes, "were malaria in Uganda, intestinal worms in Thailand and hepatitis in China~' Among the St. John's contacts abroad were meeting "Reid Ki1112~~blllry's (SF '80) neighbors on a train Leslie Westmoreland's (SF '79) Corps co-worker in a hotel in Sudan, and Matt Solomon (SF '82) himself on the steps of Damascus Gate in Jerusalem'.' Bruce is now to enter Arizona State University in the Fall to complete his bachelor's degree in political science. 1979 1983 M~11r11"1 " L. Schaefer is living in Manhatten and writes that she will be going to Paris for the month of July to celebrate the bicentennial of the French Revolution. Heidi Carol Wernett writes from the University of Florida in Gainesville and has just returned from her second trip to Japan. Elizabeth Travis is ,.,. ... .,.,,..... -tau for Northrop Corporation as an Industrial Engineering specializing in Contract in Manhattan Proposals. She is Beach, CA where she writes "Surf's Up!" Feldman is living in San Jose, CA and was married on February 29, 1988, to Richard B. Morris. They expect their first child in early June. �3 DONNA BOETIG St. John's College in was awarded in March a $65,057 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a to exaliberal mine the role of music arts curriculum. The college will contrib$20,687 needed to ute the meet the -~r"or•i-' The one-year beginning in Auwill ''be a wonderful ,.,..,.,.,....,.,.. . .+.,,n,,h, for us to step back from the demic demands and discover how to make the study of music as a liberal art more accessible to the non-musician and more into the mainstream conversation about fundamental humanity,'' says Michael Littleton, tutor and study director. The study is expected to benefit not only the college in Annapolis, but also the entire educational community. The grant will allow eight St. John's tutors, Wendy Allanbrook, Marilyn Higuera, David Stephenson, and John Verdi in the fall semester, and Peter Kalkavage, Nick Maistrellis, William Pastille and Elliott Zuckerman in the spring semester, release from one-third of their teaching schedules to assist Mr. Littleton in preparing for the study and discussion groups. Other faculty members are expected to join the group, along with six consultants in various areas of expertise, including J. V. Field, curator at The London Museum and NANCY OSIUS "I enjoy working with older students,'' says Malcolm Wyatt, recently named director of the Graduate Institute and head of the campus's continuing education program in Annapolis. "A great deal is at stake for them. They have a kind of seriousness, opinions about a lot of things that come from ..........~u·1::> choices. not to embrace theoretical Kingsly Price, professor of education at Johns Hopkins University. The group will proceed with a seminar type of discussion and direct confrontation of primary sources: masterworks of music, classical papers of music theory or related matters, and works of Auand others. It will gustine, reflect upon of the onieermg work of Victor the years of the St. John's music to program. "The study is shed some light on the strengths and weaknesses of our presently existing program and to yield a more coherent understanding of the contribution music can make to a curriculum such as ours,'' Mr. Littleton says. "St. John's believes an intelligent, critical awareness of music is of vital importance for the understanding of our world and of the traditions which shape our deepest convictions of who and what we are," he adds. In seeking this, the College has had to depart from the traditional approaches to music education and to look for a new approach directed towards the special needs of the student who is not content merely to appreciate but who wants to understand what moves him in the musical experience, Mr. Littleton says. Given the opportunity this grant will provide, St. John's hopes to develop new perspectives in music with implications reaching well beyond the St. John's undergraduate program. "one of my more urgent reasons for ac- -cepting the job is to get an office and to get bookshelves." Malcolm Wyatt, briefcase open before him, is answering questions this day in someone else's office. He is one of the many itinerant scholars around campus this spring, vietims of the office shortage chiefly created by the McDowell restoration. The spacious Graduate Institute offices do indeed have conspicuous attractions. Mr. Wyatt will be putting a lot of books on those bookshelves, books reflecting a range of interests broad even in this college "The demands of the program leave not connectlittle time for ed some structural way with classwork. regret " he notes He has years. students work very make An innovative music program at St. John's College in Santa Fe has helped the less musically adept tutors and students there to produce and understand music, integrating it into their daily conversations on campus. In 1983, St. John's western campus began the music For an hour each week, about students gather with a tutor for a hands-on experience in singing and playing the The practicum, aes1grn~d specifically for those not already musically proficient, touches about 80 percent of the students, says John Verdi, assistant dean at St. John's in Annapolis, and formerly a tutor at Santa Fe. "The structure of the classwork at Santa Fe, beginning with the Gregorian Chant, is a leveler for all participants;' Mr. Verdi says. "Everyone, no matter how much music he knows, begins at the same place. A tutor in Santa Fe need not know harmony or modem music before beginning to teach the practicum. The tutor will be asking the same questions as his students regarding, for instance, music and religion, or the relationship of notation to interpretation~' The Annapolis music program leads its students to discussions of harmony earlier than in Santa Fe, where considerably more time is spent on Chant and Renaissance music, Mr. Verdi says. In addition, the Santa Fe program encourages student singing. "If you produce your own music singing, you may truly understand it better,• Mr. Verdi says. Flaumenhaft Tutor Harvey Flaumenhaft was a speaker recently at the Southeast Regional Meeting of the Holmes Group, a group interested in the reform of teacher education which is composed of deans and faculty members in colleges of education and in the arts and sciences at universities with colleges of education or departments of education. The subject of the meeting was the education and the Mr. talk was r..-n·,-,.,,.,,,., to Education and Natural Science'.' Recent papers Mr. Flaumenhaft include "Americanism Abroad" Melissa Kurtz photo Robert A. Hamer, formerly of Philadelphia, was recently appointed new treasurer of the Annapolis campus. Mr. Harner is a CPA with a broad background in all areas of finance. He succeeds Jeri Rhodes, the college's first woman treasurer. Prior to coming to St. John's, Mr. Hamer was chief financial officer at the Germantown Hospital and Medical Center in Philadelphia, where he supervised 60 employees and was responsible for a $60 million annual operating budget. He obtained his initial financial experience as audit manager for Coopers and Lybrand, one of the country's leading accounting firms. Mr. Harner joins St. John's in the midst of its long-range campus development: the completion of Mellon Hall, the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery and the renovation of the McDowell Hall and the Boathouse. Mr. Harner sees as the college's primary financial challenge securing the resources to improve faculty salaries which rank below those at other small liberal arts colleges. In adthe must continue to imorc)Ve its historic buildthe and seek sources of for financial aid. Mr. Harner sees similarities between his role as a financial officer a health care institution and his '"'"'"'''" treasurer.. "Germantown i~.._,..,,_,.,~.... Medical Center was a ..,,.,.,,~,.,_n, so I was involved in a iea,cn:mg In both situations we ,..,.,."'"-1° excellence care for 1-'"H""'H~" and education for our 1 0 ' " A Now he has a stack of books he wants to read''"''''"'"'" Times. A '61, a in the Anne Arundel District Court, died of cancer in the Fall of 1987. She had practiced law in lis before being appointed to the bench by Governor Hughes in 1983. Mr Wyatt Lll..UUUL''-" Melissa Kurtz photo Robert Harner Continued on page 13 in a on Liberty and the Nature Man in Dante's Divine Comedy',' in February at Boston University. The conference was sponsored by the Liberty Fund. ..... ,,,.,.ht'1n•".>nt After AB from Franklin and Marshall Mr. Harner went on to receive MBA Industrial Administration from U.S. Air Force Institute of Technolhis numerous prcness11orn:u ....AAAU"'•~·~uu, he has served as National National Association of Director of Accountants, as well as the A~~'"JU'·U~A Financial Association and as Chairman of the Financial Committee of both the Delaware tal Council and the of µ,,., .. nc,uh1'Jln1<> Mr. Hamer, and his Janet, have a daughter and two grandchildren. The couple enjoys attending the symphony and being active in their various volunteer groups. �4 To the Editor: I am shocked, disappointed and outraged to discover that Leland Giovannelli has not been rehired as a Tutor for the upcoming academic year. Leland is the absolute last person that St. John's College can afford to lose. As a 1988 SJC think I speak for if not all students who know Leland I exmy amazement that one of the/best at St. John's has been let without any from the student or alumni. Such an,,.,....,".,,..,,,,,..,+ suggests that either .::iv•H'-'lHH.•s and is behind or that ab,...,,.,,,,~,... ,. at all went into the decision. I you to reconsider such an unwarrantable decision the very ask that you co1mp iet e1y revamp and make the and tenure to prevent such disastrous and results. Leland Giovannelli is an "-"-"''u'J'"' both She is also encouraging. Leland combines and with the the anom:ation of both to the world in order to provide a full picture to her students. It has been said, as a "criticism" of Leland's teaching that she cares for her students' lives more than she cares for the "Great Books~' This is in fact a compliment, and acknowledgement of Leland's value at St. John's, not a criticism. Because Leland does not stop at the formal physical boundaries of the classroom with either the "Great Books" or her stuSt. John's has decided to her along with her students, present and past, and in fact punish the College as a whole. What Leland that you somehow have twisted to become objectmnalJle, is to follow the of the very founders of St. John's as we know is the interit. What is most action of diverse ideas and ,,.,.... ..,,,..,.,.,,.,",... of diverse of a common book that su}~gests ideas and the were the focus we would read them lSO.laUOil, SUJJPJerr1en,trnlg this exr>enern:e with critical evalua"Great tions of the same texts Thinkers:' We all know that some of the best discussions come about when one of value at stake in the has ms.cuss11on: otherwise the has no reference and hence no meanLeland's concern for her students of ... ~.. furthers the valuable and rich ..... ~.~nr ·--~~n•i-, "Great Books:• If the person who most in the classroom of Aristotle's Ethics is the person least able to the same to her or his life outside the classroom, St. John's has and failed miserably. Do not failure by Leland Even if you not agree with Leland's approach, you must acknowledge her 1 HALVU'•'-L'UC<..UA_J u 1 value and importance at a school like St. John's that prides itself as one of the last bastions of the furtherance of the Liberal Arts. The St. John's I attended, supported and hope to continue to support, is a school that values ideas and approaches for their power, their truth, and their diversity. If Leland rocks the boat, the solution is not to get rid of her because she is an agitator, but instead to reexamine the boat as a whole. To do otherwise smacks of totalitarianism and elitism that is both frightening and to free St. John's does not exist in a vacuum, devoid of books and in the past. St. a vibrant and one way this life manifests itdifference and like self is Leland. to all appearances, St. John's does not Socrates and Aristotles destined to live their lives in is a test of St. John's to look to its and see what to their lives as ,.,,....,~,.,.,.,..,, while people suffer and have real needs just outside those Red-Brick walls? I have found such questions difficult, but up to now I have been able to justify St. John's and reading the "Great Books" through lessons I learned with Tutors like Leland Giovannelli. What I bring to my study of the Law is not abstract and ethereal, but instead is concrete and real. The "Great Books" and the ideas I've gained from those books have real meaning for me, not the least of which is the necessity that they be applied to the real world around me. Ideas do not live through thought alone but also through action, and this is something Leland brings to St. John's College and her students' lives and their reading of the "Great Books:' St. John's College and the reading of the "Great Books" fails without great Tutors like Leland Giovannelli. Please do not accept this failure. Sincerely, Vivian Strache March I was (Dean Slakey has provided The w ""'"··-r with his reply to Ms. Strache.) Dear Vivian, I am sorry that you are outraged by our decision not to reappoint Ms. Leland Giovannelli. Unquestionably much that you say in Leland's favor is true. Also we did have a considerable amount of input from students, especially at the point when we reviewed the decision, and we did consider it carefully. Decisions like this are never easy and will never be obviously right. I would only ask that you not attribute differences of opinion to malice on our part, nor to benighted views of the world and of education which none of us hold. Sincerely,. Thomas J. Slakey Dean Continued on next page 01 0 .. 1989 not show their and is in oppohave failed. sition to the active world that surrounds it when the only use for philosophic peois within the Ivory Tower, or as it may be, within Red-Brick Buildings. As a woman I am particularly disappointed and saddened that yet another strong, intelligent, and talented woman is not being recruited by St. John's College but instead is being eliminated. I suspect that more than Leland's ideas and approach motivate the decision not to rehire her since the College in the past, and currently, not only has encouraged men with the same ideas and approach, but in fact given such men tenure. I am not the first, nor will I be the last to out that one cannot read the "Great Books" as white when the world sur-~.,·~"'··~~ is more than half of color at least half f emales. There is no excuse for the handful of tenured women Tutors or for the ,..,... ...,.....,. 110 +"" dearth of Tutors of color. will not even address the ludicrous offensive exrnaiiatiton offered for the situation ~ don't exist and color who are for to do so '-ff...,......... ..... "" • • ,., .... process, I am asked to defend my St. John's College education. Common questions are, what use does philosophy have for weren't you just living with your head in the clouds for four years?, and isn't it naive to sit around discussing Truth and Beauty "burn out" that often occurs in ae1Jartm"enta11 universities can be here. where ~.., ..._...,,.,,,.""' the same and the whole range of ~"'"'·'"'H'lHF, can be a whole and is distinctive because of its our form core of St. John's curriculum. those notions virulent attack those - great books and western civilization - are under " for who should know better in the academic world. (I do not say "outside school businessmen and I think that nr1... n1Pm with either books or Western .,.,,.r....,,..,,,.... + of the has trouble with each of these two ideas. I've and heard it said that an an·orclac:n at St. John's is narrow, that it is "political," and that it lacks r1"''""""c"t" The truth about such notions is, simply, that they are wrong. When 77 .., ...... ,,, ..... ~ of college students nationwide can gradate without exposure to even one semester of a foreign language, when nearly one-half of every undergraduate class in AmeriContinued on next page �suite of rooms, which overlooks the bloom of McPherson Square in northwest Washington, is carpeted, lit with subtle mdlirectlcJn, and appears to be very, very empty. No place, however, can be very empty when it is occupied by John Agresto, who has the energy and presence of a small crowd of people, and who is at this moment drawing his visitor's attention to the Washington framed perfectly out southwest window of his here is Agresto five scant weeks into one ore,sidt~nUal job as head of Madison Center, a brand-new think while in the he will take up another set of duties when he becomes the second fulltime president of the Santa Fe campus. "Yes, I need interaction and I don't get much of it here. At the most there are secretary, the recepfour of us now, and the manager, besides me. I have to be fund-raiser, president, idea man, individual brainstormer, the person who puts the projects all on paper and do this all before I leave for Santa Fe'.' "-''-''.ll.O&JlUlUL ....... - from PAGE 5 REPORTER JUNE 1989 "I can't imagine taking a vacation this year,• he admits. "I can't imagine taking a WEEKEND this yeaf.' Now he is sitting on a comfortable couch, a vigorous man of 43 whose double-time speech bears the trace of a Brooklyn who laughs readily, often at himself, and who a month or so back accepted two jobs - one after the other - each of which might make a lesser person falter. "Energy's cheap;' he comments. ..,.,,.~'"" 4" ...... ca can receive a bachelors degree and never once read any prose or poetry, ancient or the real diversity of this college gets into some perspective. we are told that a curriculum built around great books is narrow and parti.............. ,,, ......... , as we might be told, it is "conservative." the charge of "conservatism" is true, not in partisan sense. I, for one, would surely argue that part of our of our as teachers and scholars is to be "conservatives'' of a sort. I think we have an obligation to be the preservers and transmitters of to bear the with all its art and science and ideas and images, from generation to generation. Teachers are, more than anyone besides parents, necessarily bearers of culture. If, for any reason, they fail at this task, we as a people, precious little that will the works of culture and civilization alive. When books are lost, they tend to be lost forever. But the of what we do - and the proof not of its conservative nature but of its and even radical nature - is in the books and the civilization we Dante and Spinoza, here carry forward. To stand up for reading Plato and Freud and Marx and Nietzsche, is not to do a conservative act as the world understands conservatism, but to do a radical act. Parac10.x:ic2LHY the Western of great books we preserve a tradition of penetratdiverse truly radical college, the college not fully in step with its is the one that asks its students to read Plato and rather than the latest professional this year's tract, or last year's best seller. Sorry to say, I have seen far too many places which, using "diversity" as a rhetorical weapon, seem all too often to wind up giving their students not illumination enJl1gJ1tenrr1en.t, not "diversity," but the latest in or their ~~ .... ,,.. . . , agenda. The least most conservative act is to live in present, and to read only those books that of our devotion to both the West and to its books is, I first and foremost,. because of this tradition's intrinsic and fundamental diversity. books - books and authors who disagree so and so pa:ssH)mltellY on the most and these books students will see what it means to be to be to think for themselves. Through the fierce diversity found in these books we work to liberate students from the limitations of the present, from the of their own preformed opinions, from the limitations of society's current fetishes and prejudices, and from the cage of their professors' political preferences. Rather than possess our students' minds, St. John's - foremost among colleges - gives them the ability to possess their minds for themselves. Perhaps, indeed, the most distinctive about St. John's is that it, of all the colleges I know, has managed to conserve the best, the greatest that civilization has to offer, and by doing that simple thing, has promoted a pluralism of thought and a diversity of mind unequalled anywhere else. Those who closely follow the college's fortunes already knmyJiow a nice person like this ended (I) in two places at once, so to speak: he accepted the presidency of the Madison Center with the understanding that if the St. John's search committee invited he would stay to get the new think tank and then head for Santa Fe. John Agresto's most recent post was that of chairman of the National Endowment for the "where we gave away he says with a sigh. "Here I have to get money and that's always harder than giving it awaY.' The Madison Center is indeed in its infancy. It was conceived last fall by William Bennett, Secretary of Education in the Reagan Cabinet, and Allan Bloom, who created a storm of controversy with his book The Closing of the American Mind. The two received a grant from the Bradley Foundation, and the center came into being in "They wanted to see what they could do about around liberal education - turning around in the sense that the kinds of things St. John's does educaare less and less valued in says Mr. Agresto. "So this was to be a place where great books could be reassessed, revalued, repromoted, where western civilization could be (seen) as a for perfectly fine and that took seriously the classical traditional content of the liberal education and stood up for it'.' Then President Bush named Mr. Bennett his "drug czar,• Allan Bloom became increasingly involved with other commitments, and Mr. Agresto himself became the choice of the western campus. But heading the Madison Center is what John Agresto is doing now and he likes tQ talk about it. "The Madison Center will be by and large a program for graduate and undergraduate students, although there will be a precollegiate component:' For example, he envisages D.C. teachers offered courses on a range of subjects. College teachers and undergraduates will first be offered summer programs where can take basic liberal arts courses from outstanding teachers, and, as he sees the center also will be putting together seminars for journalists, on Congressmen and others on the individual topics ranging from Greek drama through Constitutional development. The center will differ from a more typical think. tank in that there will be no "visiting scholars:' remaining for a year or more and working on books and articles. Mr. Agresto is looking ahead now, he says, to next summer, with the aim of making programs institutionally-based, "rather than on me:' What about St. John's College? "My responsibility is the college better threefold: to more widely respected, and to make it richer. All these are very do-able is simply superb and The I it gain recognition and respect simply being better known and I think the climate in America now is absolutely for a place like St. John's~· He draws a breath. He has said this but he seems to mean it every time. There is a man as well as this public one. We examine two full bookcases, which include shelves of philosophic works modern (one), political science and legal books (three), American history (three), "assorted junk" (one). "I am one of those very weird people who likes to spend his time reading. I read almost everything except mysteries and books about sports:' What he also likes to do is to fish for trout, which he looks forward to doing in New Mexico. He also likes to free and looks forward to the na that in the southwest. He has 80 pages of a cookbook on disk which he is calling How to Cook Like a a celebration of the food he grew up with as a child in Brooklyn'. This seems to be a slowmoving;project in a life with little time for lobking back. ("My [Brooklyn] neighborhood is impossible to live in now. It is a burned out shell:') His wife Catherine, whom he met when she was a freshman and he a sophomore at Boston College and whom he -married when he )Yas 22, likes to cook, too, and "she wiU read the murder mysteries. But she won't go fishing'.' Now we-are looking at photographs of two sunny-haired daughters, and Mr. speculates about the changes in store for them, 16-year-old a student at Holton Arms, and M~!gnan. a student at Visitation. While are not enthusiastic about friends and "they are he says, and of curious and interested about what this be like!' "Nobody looks forward to a move, but I told Meghan that to make her feel better about the move, I would get her a dog~' He is incredulous. "A dog! What was I thinking of? It will be like another child~' But the subject of books is with us again. It is not surprising to learn that Mr. Agresto, who sleeps four to six hours a night don't like to get up, but I do it"), does most of his reading and writ. ing late at night. "I don't believe in leaving books pure and untouched. I have pencil marks in all the margins. Right now I'm reading a history book of the Christian Church from the year 100 to the year 600. I just reviewed the Oxford English Dictionary for the Christian Science Monitor. Yes, that came out last week'.' The holder of a PhD from Cornell, he has done a great deal of speaking, and he has written several books and articles for journals and press, presumably all late at He has a few axioms he follows and here is one: "I only write short not long books, and I only write short memos, not long memos, and I don't like READING long memos, short memos~' he says. Goodbyes are at hand when Mr. Agresto comments, rather surprisingly, "Your readers should call me, if need to. I return all telephone calls. I never learned in Washington not to return telephone calls~' He adds smiling, "I don't want to feel I'm missing anything'.' ,..i. ....... ,.,,..,.,,, ... ,,. vocabulary appears to be a correlation between my Chinese and English conservation of language. friends think that the same ratio holds for the speed one travels around here and the number of donkeys on the road at any given I'd love to hear from any Johnaddress is Assistant Training Manager, Jing Guang Centre, 5A Yong An Xi Li, 3/F Jianguomenwai Beijing, China 100022. Melissa Muir, A '86 �DONNA BOETIG Peering through a window in the St. John's College shop in Annapolis, manager Chris Colby spied the local police scouring the campus. Surely, he thought, the two detectives would never suspect a rather reticent type, of hoisting the $3 ,000 brass 1-''-'A..... u,.......... from Mellon Hall. Still, his breathing Qu1tck1em~d and his eyes, fixed on began to burn. The footprints in the mudearth, had begun to track them from exit of Mellon across the to the and now to the very where he stood. What as a benevolent March 9-the of the lum Mr. u Cr\rl•i"hTHl" turn. it lay, cable coiled round it like a dead snake. Unfortunately, the ransom note ar- · rived too late. The pendulum had already been reported as stolen to the police. "I've walked by that piece several times a day for 10 years. I'm fascinated by '' Mr. Colby explained to Dean Slakey. ''It's a piece of knowledge of the world. To have it not working seemed a shame.'' Dean smiled. He understood. '"'''"nrlllln·m remained in and while many students rallied behind its cause, a few decried its takas "an act of vandalism." In an open letter to the counstudents and staff in the "Jean Foucault" demanded that either to my demands circumstantial ''Come he as he and the other clothes officer escorted Mr. to the dean's office. a party to 6, for the first to find .... ,,..., .... ,,,.., instrument. Ms. who affected" said she too had been the sold tickets on campus. A earmarked for donations to the cause, was in the assistant dean's office. At the the competition to be the super sleuth was fierce. The student team of Erica McConnell, Mike Noone, Gigi Escalante and Maureen cracked the code after 90 minutes of contemplation. The pendulum was found. The event had raised enough capital to begin repairing it. St. John's director of laboratories, Mark Daly, and lab technidan Armstrong, assisted by tutor James . -Beall, are going to install a circuit on the pendulum's floor that will drive the pendulum from below, instead of from above. This will make adjustments to the instrument easier. "Once it's working again, it will have to be protected, and operated occasionally, rather than attempting to keep it working continually," Mr. Daly says. "It's a very delicate piece." Susan Bishop photo Most student crew members had a chance to handle the helm, to in winches, and to raise and douse sails, as well as to get some tips about wind source and sail set. "A wonderful time!" said many students, while others expressed the that there would be another Sailing Picnic next year. In addition to Alan and Vivian Harquail in Insight, the skippers and yachts which took part in the outing are the folskippering Sinn lowing: Frank Fein (owned by Xavier McGeady); Fritz and Joanne Corey, Bob and Dottie Robert C. Frey, and Peter Geis, Others were ether and makclear the universal and eternal will be melted down into nautical knick-knacks and n~·nPrUTP10-h1t1: In four clues to its location were released. The last instructed: to the Lnesa.pe;1Ke then ,,,..,.,""''"'"'ri cart before it to Mr. office in the basement of FSK Auditotacked a ranson note, cmno ose:d of letters with typeon Dean faces cut from Thomas door. ''Dear '' the note read. "I have taken the pendulum weight. It will be polished and hid safely in Annapolis, Your St. John's Community will receive clues. If don't find it I'll give it back in May. fun.'' Despite several past attempts to the pendulum, a of the building since it was built in 1952, the instrument had never worked properly. Cost to repair it would be minimal, the group theorized, since a few members of the college community had offered their expertise. What would be costly, however, would be the plexiglas guard needed to protect the device once it was fixed. The pendulum has always been a temptation to students. A few weeks earlier, one swung on the cable, breaking it, and sending the 300-pound ball to the bottom of its 10-foot pit where "'"''"'u.a.ua afternoon that had small boats for shelter and seasoned sailors suited up in foul weather gear, guided 13 yachts between 30 feet in length overall under power into the dock basin to collect nearly 80 St. John's students for a sailing outing on the Chesapeake Bay. Sponsored by the Friends of St. John's under leadership of Dr. and Mrs. Alan Harquail, the first time longplanned sailing outing was squeezed in between the heavy rains of a wet spring, and proceeded according to plan despite 20 knot winds and two boat breakdowns. The students, most of them novices, were as as their skippers. Bundled in varying degrees against the cold, they boarded their preassigned yachts at Fawcett's Marine Supplies in the early afternoon of May 7. Lunches for 120 people supplied by Middleton's Tavern were loaded aboard with them. All the yachts headed for the Some sailed up towards the Bay Bridge to watch the multi-hulled competition going on and most presently raftOne yacht coned up in Whitehall past Sandy tinued above the Point towards while another steamed home and herded its crew into a warm house for and a movie. 1 Susan Bishop photo s Dean Thomas Slakey and tutor Eva Brann have been invited to assume faculty roles for a 10-day master class offered to high school teachers on the contributions of James Madison and his contemporaries to the Constitution. Sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the program will focus on a study of The Federalist Papers and will support the preparation of a curriculum materials package for 11th and 12th grade high school Anterican history and civics courses. The class will be held at Montpelier, Virginia, the home of President Madison, from June 21 to 30. The National Trust is restoring the house, and the visiting faculty will stay there. The Trust seeks to use historic sites in educational programs. The program will include morning sessions on The Federalist Papers, talks most evenings by visiting lecturers, and visits to James Monroe's and Thomas Jefferson's nearby homes. �7 THE REPORTER olann:mg new strategies. Dean Thomas the young~' The young men a Mad Hatter's wore long or a sarong, dogs on the grass, toddlers struck out on their own, stuMonday's seminar dents leafed cards. A few peoAnd a lot of people cn::impagne, or beer, or maybe sodas. Saturday's heavy rain had postponed this event one day, but on ing, the gray clouds the sun came out, and on the field in An.. u .. ..,..,.u..,, St. John's was the big croquet here. one. We are Never you mind the Naval Academy's vaunted prowess on the playing fields in a score of athletic endeavors; once more met their masters on the green turf under the Liberty Tree. For the fifth time in seven years, and by a score of the Johnnies the middies. The marathon match ended about o'clock, when, at the conclusion of the final closely-fought game, Ty Yancey drove his ball through the wicket, hit teammate Anthony Nyberg's ball into the stake, and then tapped his own ball into the stake, into victory and into the annals of sports immortality. Overstatement'? Not if you were there. die-hards, standing on the sidelines, and for once understanding that something was up, erupted into a cheer. Brother Robert Smith was on hand even in the deepening dusk to do the honors. Acknowledging that the match was "the most important event in AntodaY,' he declared himself happy and proud to present the Annapolis Cup the the victors. The languorous afternoon had its charms and moments, as strains from Vivaldi and Beethoven, and presently the mellow music of the 40's, came drifting across the lawn. Some of these moments were even on the field. moment in game of St. Georc1e Turner is action while V!:llrU'"''°'" look on as do of lmno1ri<!:lll Wicket and Keith Harvey photo The initial two games found Fritz Jim Fallon and David Dillard and dispatchplaying in the north ing their foes in a mere three hours or so, in a contest they led all the way. In the middle field, the Johnnies Christine Barber, Brad Fischer and Dave McNeill - ran into early trouble. The middies ganged up on Barber and were "harassing hef,' said one observer darkly. In any event, Barber, a waif-like figure _._ ... U.U.A"' ..... " ' in a baggie t-shirt, spent more than two hours getting through wicket number three, what with having her ball - which was "dead~' and could only become "live" if she went through the wicket driven to the outer reaches again and again by the middies' balls. "It was frustrating and it was boring~' she agreed later. Once during the five and a half hour game, she was to be seen lying flat on her back in the middle of the field, Eventually on the south court the middies were all "staked out;' the was the match was tied at and the new game underway on the north court became decisive. On that court, as the shadows ened, the lead was changing back and forth. At about 7:30 p.m., two crucial turns came for the Johnnies. "We ended it uu•~AA.~A . . said George Turner several later. "They couldn't get to stop us:' In what may have been the match's who had cleared Lii" ""''II his over the wicket and into which would him extra strokes. Nyberg ex1Jlamed this to the crowd, and then - mirabile dictu - Turner it. At>ol11m:e. Turner was now set up for a succession of shots in which he drove his ball drove two middies' balls down the into strategic for his partners' delectation, and the final ball back home to the Very nearly. "The middies seemed said Turner later. Three plays later, the Johnnies were in position for the last two wickets and the stake. In nine or 10 shots in a row, Turner gained extra strokes by "peeling" teammates Nyberg and Yancey (taking them through the wicket). Continued on page 13 u. ..... ," ..... AA., Fullinwider, a resident of the community, as the ''chairman of Annapolis croquet,'' because some years ago she had given the college its first croquet set, thus triggering the mighty rivalries to follow. The second game, which began at 3:15 p.m., matched retired General Marvin Demler and Peggy Collett of Ginger Cove against Ty Yancey and Alex Kincannon for the college. The Johnnies rallied for this one, and now the score was 1-1. The final game began at 4 p.m. Cries of "Well struck!" rent the as the team leaders off against one another: Mr. McKee and T. u,,.,,..,,.,.,,,......,, ... Jones versus Hinrichs and Brad Fischer. a last minute shot Mr. McKee the final the St. John's team the course, and saved the posta final match score of two games to Yes, they gave them a real scare. On 7 in the first game of the first ever between the Ginger Cove Life Care Community croquet team and the St. John's College croquet team, the retirement community's first pair dispatched the college pair in one scant hour. About 200 people live in the handsome Ginger Cove community, which was opened last summer south of Annapolis to residents who meet a minimum age of 62. Were the Johnnies, flushed with victory over the Naval a week before - its fifth such in seven years -suffering from hubris? This was no match played under the Tree, cheered on home field rooters; this and Cove uauµ•...,u. Were the Johnnies about to handed a humiliation? Read on. After Bates 1v.1. ...,..1."-""'""· tendered the ...u ....... u"''"' retirement ,.,,,...~.,....,,,...,.. i-., ble H .. thinking Keith Harvey photo ages," he had Now wisdom ascendant. The roy Snowdon and Morrill had defeated Johnnies Elizabeth and Jim Fallon. The score was one to nothing. About 80 people, some dressed in white trousers and straw . . . ~.~.,.~-~~ some huddled in fur coats al',c:uu.::"11. the wind and and most themselves on hot watched the in~~ .... ~-·~4 match. in an of pleas:imt1·ies before the real work of the Mr. McKee had introduced members of both teams, while Fritz new Wicket for the the hosts with watercolor prints of McDowell Hall, signed by the St. John's competitors. Mr. McKee also introduced Adelaide couldn't more both after one, and later in the Mr. Hinrichs' and .., .. .,~~ .. osmosis.'' McKee was also ahead to the next match and ua.11\.1.ui::. talk of a croquet in the editorial pages of the local newspaper. "We are expecting a couple of more challengers now," he said. "We understand that there is one coming from [retirement community] Heritage Harbor.'' �8 s NANCY OSIUS to I know strive to maintain the ethics as see and succeed a lot more than KeJ'JU01llC, mation, City of Annapolis. fail'.' He was April 1 in Annapolis before an audience of more than 400 people from the college community and the at large at the second of the Great Issues Series on ethics sponsored the Friends of St. John's and the office of education. In a amusing with allusions to the of the Mr. Barnes cited a succession of ethical choices newsgathering journalists must make. First on his list was the danger of "becoming a prisoner of your sources. You rely on them. Their assessments become your assessments:' At worst, a reporter can become his source's "stooge, his attack dog, a vehicle for his trial balloon~' Or he might become his source's protector. "The general rule;' Mr. Barnes said, "is that those who are helpful to reporters get more favorable coverage. It is just inevitabla' Barnes himself felt this trade-off "served the public" and was a small price to pay for all the information made available. Secretary of State Jim Baker has been a beneficiary of this situation, he suggested, because "he's likable, he takes reporters seriously, he's accessible, informative, he's truthful, and you don't get all these qualities in many people~' As a consequence, the press didn't go after Baker when it became clear he was as secretary World loans was found own substantial stock in the Chemical Bank of New a reporters called this "an apparent conflict of "There was about it. It was a conflict declared Mr. Barnes. Another choice to be made said the "1-1'-· ...fi'-"·· nalists be liberal, an1:i-estao1umnaerLt, bly cynical and very served. Such reporters tell what to think but what to he said. Signals sent by the press are that waste at the Pentagon is more than waste at other departments of government, that protests at the South African embassy are more important than anti-abortion protests, and the like. Other ethical pitfalls are journalistic hype - the tendency to inflate a story, the problems of honest corrections of errors, and "acting" - simulated sympathy, an almost universal strategy recently attacked by reporter Janet Malcolm in a much-discussed two-part New Yorker article. He touched briefly on "pack journal- the final hazard on his list, which he described as, for all the nalists as the once, and " .... ,..,.. ,..,"'.. basicalof peer the ethical choices to be made and the pitfalls to be "we have here in the United States the freest and best journalism of anywhere in the world:' he said in conclusion. The forum is the second of seven programs on ethics planned at the coUege during the next three years. Elliot Richardson was keynoter for the inaugural "Ethics and Politics" program on the eve of the election last November, and "Ethics and Business" is scheduled for November 4, 1989. �PAGE 9 puious:nu1g costs were pr<Jh1b1t1ve1y cin~ulfltlo1n was low. The 11 ·t-"''"n~n1 a newspaper was short and trans1wry; were born and died in more than the 18th and 19th centuries. the revolutt1onm~y years and into the "''""'"'""r\Pr<> ..,,.,...,,,..,~,.., sub- sidies by order to exist. These took the form of an infuto go1verinment sion of direct to DONNABOETIG Politicians turned journalists bring economic and political agendas into the newsroom that have no place in serving American democracy, said Washington Post Ombudsman Richard Harwood. "They threaten the integrity and credibility of the newspaper... They train and trim the news ... Let's get them off our payroll:' he declared. Mr. Harwood, a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post who now writes a column and critiques the paper, was the luncheon speaker at the Ethics and Journalism Forum held at the Annapolis campus on April I. Mr. Harwood began his lecture with an overview of the newspaper evolution in America and its economic dependence on the political system for survival, and concluded by coming full circle to show lJl\,;!.LlVJlA<.U nomically maepe:na~ent, Pulitzer it way: "If a ne'ivsoam!r is to be a real service to the it must have a big circulation. First, because its news must reach the number of people, and second circulation means and cirn1<>r111:•n1n means money and money means independence:' But it wasn't until the Industrial Revo:... lution made the production of mass circulation newspapers possible that this would happen. Rapid communication and transportation systems helped bond a large, literate population and forge a democratic market society accessible to entrepreneurs interested in creating economically viable newspapers. Publishers' lust for political news gave way to readers' desires for human interest. During the past 40 years, family dynasty-controlled newspapers were replaced by corporate enterprises. "At the control of the news and editorial has into the hands of ,,._,,,.,.,....,, 1u·+"" Mr. Harwood said. Now that in the~~'"'""''"' of what William Randolf Hearst as "the greatest force in civilization under a go1.rernmlent:' we're tossing it aside for of r-.oloh1•ihir_i,-,,11r1n-:>l1"m must stop playing Mr. Harwood insisted. "We're not so short on intellectual or talent that we need to recruit nl"\lt1"1'~l'llrl< to do our work. We welcome into our ranks - at high levels and the least refugees and them media celebrities~' It's sheer he said, to believe these political have valuable insights that are worth the toll take on ethical He denounced former government such as commentator Pat Buchanan and Kissinger as members of a of politicians-turned-journalists. Their group includes, among others, the publisher of The Los Angeles Times, three hlgn-nmk:mg editors on The New York Times. "You have one ticket. You can leave journalism and go into politics, but you don't have a round trip!' Pat Meisol, The Morning Sun. �PAGE THE REPORTER ANNAPOLIS BOSION uo1co1nrn1f! events which are 566-6657 for inCHICAGO _11-J'rPr"Pv"\tnr 1 <:11 on Proust's Swann in Love elections the For DALLAS/FT. WORTH This meets seminars about 10 times a year. For call Suzanne Doremus at 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis 340-4102. WS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA June 25-Joe Cohen will lead a seminar on Montaigne's, "On the Education of followed by the annual barbecue. Babysitting will be provided. f"'mrunNrn,P the June Call there will be a recess (805) 497-1436 for 'At".111r.l:'rn111:'1. NEW YORK Meetings begin again in the fall, with the summer off to the imponderables." For further information contact Lovejoy Durea (212) 73 7-3 721. PHILADELPHIA Call Jim Schweidel at (215) 836-7632 for information about events in this area. SACRAMEN10 Meetings are every other month to discuss the Program readings which follow the undergraduate sequence. are most welcome; phone Arianne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen Feeley 381-7887 for inSAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA June 4-Seminar on Madame June 25-Seminar on Madame 30-Annual Stag's Wine and seminars at 11:30 with Santa Fe President John r ...... L""'''U' as guest. An of 4 or 5 seminars will be available. 27-Seminar on Anna Ka•re111na. :::setJte1nb1er 24-Seminar on Anna second half Locations seminars rotate but meet at 2:30 pm. Call Mark Middlebrook 530-9643 or 763-4277 ALVIN A!72 There is a vague notion about that St. John's graduates do not do well in the business world - in the professions and in yes, but not in business. Peter Fairbanks, A '73, like many other St. Johnnies before has that balloon. who has in San Francisco for the years, is currently the director of the Montgomery small 1910 Gothic located in a ·""'''''"'''""' in the shadow of the Transamerica The gallery specializes in 19th and 20th particularly century American and works of the French Impressionists from 1860 to 1930. Currently featured are the works of 1865-1937. In the past, works by Picasso and ToulouseLautrec were to be found there as well as by such American artists as Chase and Albert Bierstadt. On a recent visit, my wife Zelda and I saw no paintings selling for less than $20,000. Who says St. Johnnies are not successful in the business world? Peter's success is especially sweet when you consider the hard time he had getting going. Not so long ago, he was sole occupant and caretaker of an island off the Massachusetts coast with 450 sheep, six cows, 23 chickens, 32 ducks and three swans. Later still, as a freshman at Bard College, with the draft moving closer, he declared himself a conscientious objector, and did his alternative service working for programs run by the Harvard School of Psychiatry and at a mental hospital. At night, he studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. At the mental hospital he met his future Cenita, a beautiful Swedish girl from Visby on the island of Gotland, who was also working at the hospital as an aide. When he started over in college as a freshman at St. John's in Annapolis, Cenita him. and Anders, the couple has two 9. At the college, Peter ran the RAM film Club for three years, bringing the classic American and European films to the college on Saturday In the fall of 1972, Peter and I collaborated on a program '-'-'F•"'ua ... a, bringing the famous Greek actor, Titos Vandis, down from New York. Vandis had in Broadway musicals as well as in the film ''Never on with Melina Mercouri. At St. John's, in a double bill with the Titos read in Greek from the Greek trageand directed students in a short scene from trata" in with a student cast. One of the students later said that the event was the greatest learn,,..., ...,,,. .. ,,,. ... ,.,,, he had at St. John's. St. Johnnies will remember Peter around An- napolis in his bubble top car. Today he drives a Saab around the hills of San Francisco. writLegend has it that Peter's senior essay at ten on the symbolic relationship between man and horse in the early classical period as represented in the frieze of the Parthenon, was rejected two days before the due date. In 48 hours, staying up almost the whole stretch, Peter wrote another essay on "Being and Becoming:' which was accepted. After St. John's, Peter ended up in an executive train- ing program at Sotheby's, and after a year with the fabled firm in London, he became head of the Impressionist for an auction house in Palm Beach. Next, he founded and spent three at the William years with the he Doyle Galleries in New York City, and in joined Butterfield and Butterfield Auctioneers in San Francisco as senior vice and head of the Santa SANTA FE June "On 15-Selected W. Art of Discussion" Auden poems at 7:30 pm at the campus. There me,etuu! in late to elect ,,..,..,.,,..,,,,~,, next year. 983-2144 or Ron Hale 982-3691 more details. SEATTLE WASHINGION D.C./METROPOLITAN AREA June June "An Essay on Man" Seminars meet 6:30 pm at the West End branch the D.C Public There will be a summer break and the meetings will resume in September. For further details phone Sam Stiles (301) 424-9119 or Deborah Papier (202) 387-4520. modern art. He comments, the art that surfaces at aucthe art in the is rather than chance. choose what represent. do more research and select finest available. houses San I saw from the Franciso there was out here on the We_st Coast for that was not ty satisfied:' the under Peter's ,.,,.,.,,.,,""" one of the pn:errnm~nt western U.S. A visit to the at 250 Sutter Street is a must for any St. Johnnie living in the San Francisco Bay area or passing through. Peter will take you on a personal tour. HV '"'"'"'"· I"> ....,, .. ..., ..... ..,"' �to name Mr. Pollack's worry "there may even be a dialogue about a painting ...there can be no diais beside the The with a up to as can the conifers or a can Beethoven sonata. Conversely, the densest text in the world cannot participate with you in a uu::i•AVk§'-"'"' because a book is finally static, a fact acknowledged in the College catalogue. of music and that of literature provide inThe teresting points of comparison for any proposed study of painting at St. John's. The sophomore music course goes far beyond the science of acoustics, wherein resides music's mathematical character. In fact, with the the simple ratios of the advent of equal intervals are compromised to allow for greater complexity in musical expression. It is the nature and means of that expression that the sophomores seek to understand. Music theory provides an important key to understanding, but the score is never a substitute for the music itself. The students must strive to increase their aural sensibilities in order fully to appreciate a musical composition. It is surprising that Mr. Pollack voices no objection to music, since it appeals to our faculty of hearing, which we share with many animals. •+~.,~+.,,.-~ on the other is made up of words, yet it differs from many other collections of words studied at St. John's - hence the category "literature~' which is freely recognized by the College. Someone other than the originator might be able to give a better account of a philosophical argument without altering its sense, but the same cannot be said of the content of a novel or a poem. For good the content is meshed with the form. A ,....,,.,.,.."',n~-•·" ~··~of a poem may prove enormously in its mysteries, but the poem can contain them. The essay is not a rer>lac:en1enlt. In certain ways a poem. There is a vibrant between its intimate focus and formal structure. 1 ~T~- 0 "T"""' many poems revolve around a vivid image - - · - • .. - - r i up in an almost fashion. As does La1.1v.:JALA•..1a, 4 /' To the Editor: The question was raised by Sharon Garvey in the December Alumni News whether or not there can be a sustained discussion about a painting. With respect, the question is a red herring. We should expect a sustained and intelligent discussion about even a cartoon from those who are initiates of that peculiar mode of inquiry sometimes practiced in the traditional St. John's College seminar. Rather, among the more pertinent questions are 1) does the difference in the manner of our intercourse with texts and paintings make a difference? and 2) can the College with impunity or even with benefit take time and effort away from what must be the primary mission of any responsible institution offering a liberal, i.e., emancipating, education, to nurture and refine speech and discursive reason? Through the medium of speech or a text we may inof another and receive a response in the same were made. It coin, as it were, with which the could be said that speech and text symbolize matter which is the content of souls, and our intercourse via these symbols informs and reforms us. In its highest form this intercourse is dialogue. One can have a dialogue with a human being or a text. the medium of a text one can ask Plato a question if all goes and dissimulation a text is a bol of an aspect of another soul which is our addresses. There can be a discussion about a there may even be a about ~~ .... T, ... ,..... but there can be no a ~''"'"''"'' .... r1 in the coin with which we In this respect are dumb. This is not to say that we cannot be affected but our and never noetic. In this intercourse is are like other imitations which to a lower aspect of souL Without that this sketch of a thesis satisfies the I hasten to the next which con- resoons1ble exercise of son. In turn, via honed faculties we am~stl1ons of the best life and for the "'""'"ra.-.r111.-.n which may reveal the foundation of our common life and enhance our chances of whatever is commensurate with the human condition. Were it not for these unique and cardinal -~~-~n.. +.,,n this College or any other school would be unnecessary, for then we would be just another animal, cities would be nothing other than corrals, instinct and imitation would suffice for education, and excellence would be measured by survival through progeny. Vision is common to many animals and is not a decisive factor in a good life; if it were we might fear for such as Homer and Milton. Speech and discursive reason, on the other hand, are the medium of human community and therefore govern whatever happiness accrues to us via that association. This College can do little better than to devote itself to refining and exercising our decisively human faculties on the matter of great books and could risk doing worse by diluting its resources in the pleasant but peripheral matter of informing our taste. With respect, John Carroll Pollack, SGl '80 'To the Edifor: I can think of some obstacle to the inclusion of art in the St. John's Program, but the fear of "neglecting speech and reason" is not one of them. Mr. Pollack is fishing for a red herring by setting up a straw man. His characterizations of both souls and paintings are far too slight. Both Mr. Pollack and Mr. Arne (who addressed this topic in the previous issue of the Alumni News) reject, in principle, the study of the visual arts at St. John's in favor of the existing program. For the purposes of their arguments they ignore a large portion of that program. It is disingenuous to present the St. John's Program of Studies as consistent with the understanding to the medieval scholars who delineated the trivium and quadrivium, the books and balance logo notwithstanding. The College's treatment of philosophy, modern science, theology and music as a fine art requires more consideration. When the students are asked to do original proofs; to draw conclusions from laboratory experiments; to analyze a musical composition; to reflect on a group of psalms or to discuss a play, they must exercise an array of faculties that cannot begin to be captured term "discursive reason:' That faculty is only one of the many mental skills and attitudes fostered at St. John's and held to be necessary for true inand intuition tellectual Without without ·~..,~~, ......... without wonder must meet is to of care and then try to latmrat()rv me:ennl!. the students are extJected and defend the systems have ae,1e1cmea. use words to do even the and had no words for them. All U.U.''"''-''"-.u segment on observational the freshmen are encmirai>:?:ed to ask not of texts or each but also of those parts of the natural world which are to see and which betwill direct obter to understand. Their servation and their observation will lead to of the u .. r,,.,,....._...,... Much of what we do for each other when we engage Luou.vi::.u'"' is to out. Sometimes it is the in an argument, but it can also be the economy of a mathematical demonstration, the cant ambiguity in a line of poetry, a pun, a moral dilemma. It might even be a telling gesture in a painting. s 15, 1989 will mark an historic event in the life of the Alumni Association: a meeting of the membership to vote on proposed amendments to the Association's Bylaws. The event is historic in that it is the first general meeting of the Association to be held on our western campus. It comes during Homecoming weekend in Santa Fe and between the two weeks of the summer alumni program. I hope that everyone will participate; if not in person then by proxy ballot that will be mailed to you. Harvey Goldstein, A '59 '"'"''ULJLU.F, ~ ~ilie ilie proper to one of our senses, it also and illusion. As is true of both music ua,, ..,,r·.,,,. art creates its own context in which the content is wedded to the form. The viewer is "".1.uu......,_......,,.,....._ to uncover a web of relatlcJm>hlt)S ed the and to hold that AHA'VA.1.JlAU~AVH before her mind's eye even while the colors impn1ge her retina. can be that end. St. John's has described its as twofold: to teach students how to think well and to do this them confront the landmarks of Western civilization. In this way, and inthe•u..-.rln~nr That the is modes of but also with the ,:n._, ...,...,u_ ... ..., of can be seen in the fierce battles ,...,...,.,,..._,....,.,,.r1 changes in the readlist. One studies Euclid not to one's but also to gain access to the gepowers of ometrical objects. In one comes to marvel and ingenuity of Euclid's at the presentation of those objects. The visual arts should be considered from this perspective. I have already tried to suggest the ways in which an examination of a painting stretches the intellect. As objects of contemplation, how do the painted masterpieces of our tradition compare with Apollonius' Conic Sections or Shakespeare's King Lear or Bach's The St. Matthew Passion? How significantly would the ongoing conversation at St. John's be enriched by the inclusion of certain artworks? How important is it for the students to be able to approach such works within a community of learning? These are some of the questions I would like to see addressed as this discussion continues. I am not interested in lobbying for the motion that the Program should be altered to incorporated the study of painting; I am interested in seeing that the subject be explored. Respectfully, Sharon Garvey, SGI '78 0 ,,,,,,U-A ..,.UAVAJ �PAGE 12 THE REPORTER JUNE 1989 Third Summer RON HALE Alumni Summer '89 is a two-week program of seminars, and social activities for St. John's to take place 9-22 on the Santa Fe campus. Santa Fe's Alumni Homecoming Weekend will be held in between the two seminar program weeks, on 14, 15 and 16. Alumni of both St. John's campuses are invited to in Homecoming festivities and to attend one or both weeks of alumni classes. Homecoming Weekend this year will feature a number of special events. On Friday there will be an outdoor barbecue, followed by a Homecoming Concert with pianists Mya Hoffman and Peter Pesic, and a late-night rock and roll party. Saturday's activities will include reunion luncheons for the classes of and a special meeting of the ..... n-•.u•v._, ... ..,Jl.J.,, ..... of the Alumni Association; a ttome:co1mu1g Seminar on Ibsens' Hedda Gabler tutors Georgia Knight and Cary A '75; and a gala Homecoming and Awards Ceremony. On Sunday there will be a champagne brunch at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Irwin Hoffman. He is a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors. John Agresto, president-elect of St. John's College in Santa Fe, will speak to alumni at the Saturday afternoon special meeting, which has been called for the purpose of ratifying the Alumni Association's new by-laws. Mr. Agresto will also attend other Homecoming events. The Alumni Summer Seminar Program will feature seminars on works by Turgenev and Joyce. Classes scheduled are: WEEK I (July SEMINAR: Turgenev, Fathers & Soil. Tutors: James Carey N.67 and Miller PRECEPIORIALS: B~ad & Wine. Tutor: Charles Bell SF'83 Axelrod: The Evolution of Cooperation. Tutor: Hans von Briesen The Sermons of Meister Eckhart. Tutor: Dana Densmore N.65 WEEK II (July 17-22) SEMINAR: Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Tutors: Janet Dougherty and Perazzini PRECEPfORIALS: "Man: An Endangered and Endangering Species" (Essays by Lewis Thomas, Leon Kass, and others). Tutor: Barbara Leonard N.55 Coleridge, Conversational Poems, and selected poems by Wordsworth. Tutor: Charles Bell SF'83 KawaltJata. Snow Country, Beauty & Sadness. Tutor: Peter Pesic Other of the two-week program will be special Wednesday-night dinners each week at Santa Fe's Pink Adobe Restaurant, tours to Taos and Chimayo with Gerry Zollars, N.64, Symbolic History presentations by Tutor Emeritus Charles Bell, and a reading on 12 of Shalom Aleichem by Alvin Aronson N.52. NOTE: Any alumni who play musical instruments are urged to bring them for a planned old-time jam session. For additional information or reservations, call Ron Hale or Teri Ennis at the Alumni/Career Planning Office on the Santa Fe campus, (505) 982-3691, extension 219. Schwoebel, soprano, Ms. Grealish, mezzo-soprano, Thomas tenor, Richard Schwoebel, bass, Frank Bowen, l'\r..rnt·hu cello, and Jane Snow, George and Mr. Pesic, pianists. A special presentation was Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas with the St. John's College Chorus and Orchestra and student soloists. JLIIUJ.A..,LL• A 14-foot blue ed recently near entrance the Valdes Center, a Santa Fe economic deoff Cerrillos Road in memory of William J. director of for the Santa Fe campus for some years, and at the time of his 1988, executive direcdeath in tor of Santa Fe Economic .._,,., •..,•. Inc. His Barbara Hooten, was on hand for the formal dedication. VIJAU\., ... L, In the Friday evening lectures on the Santa Fe campus were replaced four recitals and an operatic performance. According to Musician-in-Residence Peter Pesic, presenting the festival came at the suggestion of Dean James Carey, and the goal was. to present a rich and varied series of programs. presentMr. Pesic himself, a ed the first of the concerts, an evening of French songs, in conjunction with Jeanne Crealish, mezzo-soprano. Two weeks later he presented a recital of works by Beethoven Other programs offered were an evenof classical Indian ragas Miner, sitarist, and an evening of vocal chamber music featuring Jennifer The Offices of Career Planning on both the Santa Fe and Annapolis campuses now have compatible computer systems, as a result of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors. The Santa Fe Office acquired its IBM computer system in 1987, and the Anoffice received its ..,v,,uu•u .. .., .... system in the Fall of 1988. This enable the two offices to share a variety of data bases and computer programs. The two Career Offices now share a custom-designed program for tracking alumni career information, in order to .... ......... r.,,,. valuable career information and guidance for current students and for other alumni. The Offices are also investigating several career development software packages for use in counseling with students and alumni. For additional information, contact Ron Hale, Director of Career Planning and Alumni Activities in Santa Fe, or Ellie Dietrich, Director of Career Planning in Annapolis. The Santa Fe Conference Center is booked solid the month of August with a groups and events which will bring more than 3,500 guest to the campus this summer. "Our third summer season will bring to Santa Fe programs from the University of Oklahoma, Colorado College, the University of Alberta, and the Santa Fe Institute Summer School:' said Director "Si" Gormley recently, "as well as professional meetings in book marbling, writing, physics, computer systems and teacher training~' The following are highlights of summer events: Student/Teacher Conferences: • Governor Carruther's Office Interns-hand picked college students for in state government. Youth Development, Jnc.-a nonorganization sponsoring workshops for youths at risk with uv1~"'H'"'""-A for A'-'"''-''-'A.:IAUJJ• • Youth Lec:ld.ershJLP sored by St. John's ..._,v•u.1;;;1:;1; a grant from the Luce u ..... ,...... ,~ .............. conference for Northern New Mexican high school students. • Celebrate Youth-Sponsored by La Nueva a youth festival to promote a better self image through the arts. • Santa Fe Public Schools are offering a teacher training program funded by the Matsushita Foundation. • The New Mexico State Department of Education is hosting its third annual Leadership Institute for teacher training. • The American Federation of Teachers is holding its Southwest Annual · Regional Conference • The American School Counselor Association is hosting a National Conference for high school counselors • The College Southwest Region is holding its third annual high school counselor training program. The University of Oklahoma is offering five different course weeks at St. RON HALE In 100 high school sophomores and juniors from Northern New Mexico will come to the Santa Fe campus for a five-day intensive camp experience skills. The designed to foster young people will come from HI!spamc villages and Indian pueblos between Santa Fe and the Colorado border. The program is an attempt to adapt recently-developed leadership techniques from the worlds of corporate training and outdoor education to the special needs of Hispanic and Indian young people in Northern New Mexico. The students will ......... iety of games and group activities ae~ngr1ea demonstrate how groups function and how evolves. There will be outdoor "ropes course" activities to develop self-confidence and group cohesiveness, based on Outward --~, training approaches. Students will also discuss the nature of leadership as practiced in the Native American, Hispanic, and mainstream Western European traditions. A major portion of the program will be devoted to presentations by, and !JA!.J, ........... U j ' ,F .. . ,. . . . . . . . . . . ,,. AJV•.u ..... Theatre. Science Conferences: • The Santa Fe Institute is offering "Physics of Information" and Complex Systems Summer School-both for postdoctoral students. Lectures by renowned scientists. • Colorado College of Archaelogy is heading out to La Cienaga for a dig. • The Department of Health Physics Conference-an International conference on nuclear waste and its effect on the environment. • International Association of Volcanology and of the Earth's Interior-scientists from around the world. Sponsored by the of University of Rhode Island. • Los Alamos National Laboirati)ry Nuclear Conference. The Arts: • Skylight Conversations-Tour of studios and lectures for credit, U. Mass. • Santa Fe Writers Conference-Third annual conference for writers with ing authors of national Pr<)m.m~mc:e. • International Book Marblers Conference. • Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival-housing for the Bolivian musicians with performances. • Berklee College of Music-Boston Contemporary music summer school with world renowned teachers-2nd year. • Southwest Cultural Tours with groups from Regis College, Denver; (Colorado) Adams and Front Colleges; University of Alberta. For further information, please contact Barbara Lewis at 982-3691 ext. 286. interactions accomplished leaders from various career fields, government and ism, business, the arts. Central to the program is the notion of authentic leader·srup ice to one's is seen not influencimg other peobut as resoona:mg to human and soneeds in ways that enhance the of life for The leaders have been to with the .......,,...,,,...,......, (many of whom are u .... .....u..........,.. , have been selected because """""'.._,.,,,...., that ideal. nrr"1'1"'Jlm is being umolemente:d St. John's cooperation with the National Council of La a national coalition of organizations, and Siete del Norte J ment based in bnno1Lia~o. NM. for the is from the Luce New York City. Coordinating the program are Ron Director of Career uu •. uu.,•;; and Alumni Activities at the Santa Fe and Celina de Garcia, former Director of Conference Services at the Pecos River Ranch Learning Center in San Ysidro, New Mexico. .l.Jl..ll.,"IJ ...... "-''U'.ll.1.U ............... �REBECCA WILSON Two summers ago Linda Jane Clement, participating in the YMCA Intern Abroad Program, somewhat stunned officials of the Metropolitan Washington YMCA by putting into place, in Kenya's impoverished Indangalasia subdivision, the beginning of a community health program. The International Program Committee of the Metropolitan Washington YMCA found the results impressive for a summer intern, and, after listening to the details of her experience, gave their blessings in effect to Linda's undertaking a similar Y-sponsored health program for the whole of Kenya. Negotiations with the African Alliance of YMCAs has already begun to pioneer similar health care programs throughout all of Africa's YMCAs - from Egypt to South Africa and from Sierra Leone to Linda continues to plan for a career in this field with a single-minded intensity, undeterred by the fact that she returned from East Africa ill with falciparium, a form of malignant malaria that kills an estimated milli4n persons a year. Despite being hospitalized in Washington after the disease grew progressively worse, Linda, who left St. John's half-way through her was able to complete her ~"'•·~~.... •~·~ Catholic University and received her bachelor's al studies. "When I got to irniaruuitla!na: said of her summer exr>er1ence. there were no qualified rne1chc:a1 rn;;:rscJnnel, no supplies, no em1ioment.I 1 ning water, no electricity, no telephone, no transportation, except for a bicycle~' After assessing the situation, common sense told her to work with what was available. In an area of U,000 people, she met with the elders of each of its 15 villages and discussed their needs with them. What resulted were health committees for each village. Volunteers from each village were trained as community health workers. Each CHW, as were called, visited two homesteads a day and reported back to the committee each week. "It seemed sensible that we work with what we had in developing an education program whereby we could lower the extremely high morbidity and mortality rates:· she said of her training meetings. "I focused on mobilizing the human potential of the entire community, the greatest resource of alE' Some of the work to be accomplished proved almost primitively basic. It included such simple matters as finding was, of course, one drawback. No money. Untc:W;coun:tgect, this former St. John's student laid for a or;;;u•lH.<:..uu•uu., the Foundation for World Health and to finance the A year ago last March the orga111z2tt10,n was the time issue of The IVn•nA••-fnr it will have a sufficient of the half-million dollar em11sa.i!es to be on her way Contiillu.e:d from page 7) There was a final desperate attempt by the middies to rally before the game and the match ended with Yancey's final stroke. all this in from the sidelines in afternoon was noted yachtsman Bates veteran of 16 transatlantic and Bermuda races. Mr. McKee ~-had earlier the Johnnies to yet another croquet a .... u ....H,,ul';"' he tendered on behalf of the Cove Life Care off a retirement of 62 years. mitted. For what in THAT game, elsewhere in these the me:morable ..... .., ................... . ., ....", stuin a coloful dents me:1arLge, an ancient and beloved tree, open books the grass. "It reminds me of a Maurice Prendergast said wife of tutor Edward Sparrow, who had left her easel on her front porch across College Avenue to watch the skirmish from a closer spot. "I have thought that every year. Everything reminds me of his people on the Boston Common - the munization~' In communicating with natives, Linda made use of a translator to facilitate her own Swahili, which she has refined sin~e returning to the USA; her final eighfhours of college credit were in intensive Swahili at Howard University's African Studies Department. Before returning to Washington, Linda sequestered herself-in Nairobi for the final contribution of her summer: a grant proposal to the African Medical Research Foundation. "AMREF loved what I did:' she said. "The proposal was accepted and in June the first check came through~' The check was for $7,000, a beginning but not enough fully to implement the program. who now has the professional of a fund raiser on the West her best to raise additional in area, even while she and soul together with a holds at the Banana in ~-·~A-.-~~ to meet her own basic needs phase.' She tenuous is tireless. "Where do you get your ener.,., .... .,.,, . . . ~~~ will ask her. We need to focus to take ~~n·~~~n• and thr(DUQ[h can. I believe Health Services of the Kenya a new Health Care ................ i., ....... will emerge which will other member nations to emucommunity-based ,..,...,.m,,..." health care programs:' in is Jane cares another summer she went to India to assist in the treatment of on the streets of Calcutta and in the ...........uis•..uu. Home for Destitutes of the Missionaries of of Mother Teresa. Croquet out which homestead had a dish rack for use after washing dishes on the ground, where chickens could walk all over them. "The main emphasis of the program;' Linda said, "is to foster community initiative to help people-help themselves through primitive health care measures in sanitation, proper nutrition and im- the figures, the trees and grass:' Presently she went back across the street to take up her own paintbrush. Co1nti11me:d from page 3) continues to live in the same comfortable three-story frame house at the foot of Franklin St. where he has lived for more than 20 An amateur he hopes his new duties leave time for the chamber musAt present, he with ic he .:n.u.u.... J~.1.""· a cellist and a flutist. "I'm 1"'"'· 1,.,.,,.,,,, forward to resummg afternoons of music Doskow on when he returns," he says . ...... u.vo..ai:;.,u not a concert-goer, he notes, he is a confirmed.,.,..."',....... ,,... ~.no.- ""'"~+,.,,,., as well as occasional excurBaltimore. sions to the opera As he examines the of the Graduate 1 ~~·+;,..,..... ~ in recent years and the resom1s1connected with it soon to be is as rested as he is to be in the near rereturned from a restorative vacation in with his late wife's sister and ......, ... ~.~.-. cation home in a ranean coast near Granada. He has a long and association the retreat, originally owned by his mother and aunt. "Granada is a very 1.-.t ....."'"t1.-.n he comments, "and I have enjoyed ex-ploring the countryside and tl~e moun- tain villages. I have friends there as well.'' A member of the St. John's College faculty since 1958, Mr. Wyatt received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Virginia, where he was also an instructor from 1955-58. In 1953-54 he held a Fulbright Fellowship to one critic. sion. Hargr:ave ing with record commercial distribution of the record in this country and abroad. He plans to study at the Sorbonne beginning in the Fall. for study in mathematics at the University of Nancy in France. Between 1984-88, Mr. Wyatt served as assistant dean at the College. He has taught in the Graduate Institute both at Santa Fe and Annapolis as well as in the community seminars. �Faith Meem, 87, along with her late husband John Gaw Meem, a .......,....... ,, ...., benefactor of the College in Santa Fe, died March 23 at her home in Santa Fe. ftnirlmiVm'P is a tribute and a recollection by Richard D. President Emeritus College, who knew both husband and many years. MCHUGH, LLOYD AND ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS BY RICHARD D. WEIGLE MARCH, 19119 From the very beginning Faith and John Meem were among the ardent supporters of St. John's College in Santa Fe. Well do I recall the initial luncheon in the Meem dining room on my first visit to Santa Fe. In response to a question put to me as to how much land and what kind of land we would need, were the venture to decide on Santa Fe as its site, I outlined the requirements. Then John Meem stated with characteristic humility and generosity: "Well, Mrs. Meem and I have a little land just over the hill here, and we would be glad to give that to St. John's College, if you should decide to come to Santa Fe:' A fortnight later a faculty exploratory committee visited Santa Fe and the three California sites. Again the Meems entertained for luncheon, this time to introduce the faculty committee to important citizens of the city. The unanimous Annapolis seniors Bringham "Blase" Bechtel and Theodore Powell Merz joined more than 300 university students from throughout the world and numerous distinguished foreign affairs spokesconference, men, at an held 17-20 at the U.S. Naval "-""" ...... "''· ...... .J· The group to disto cuss "Alliances in Turmoil? ·n'>nn-11no World'.' recommendation that Santa Fe be chosen by the Board as the location for the second St. John's was in large measure a result of the quiet confidence that John and Faith inspired. Once the decision was reached on February 22, 1961, Faith and John contributed in many ways to the success of the new College. Although John had retired from his architectural firm, he gave of himself unstintingly to study and perfect plans for the new buildings. Over the years Faith and John made the largest individual gifts to St. John's annual fund-raising drives. At the first College commencement in 1964 ~both were recognized as Founding Benefactors of the new College. After four terms on the Board of Visitors and Governors, John was elected an honorary member in 1974. Following John's death, Faith herself was elected to the St. John's Board in January of 1984. Her term expired in 1986, but she was elected for another three years. Her son-in-law John Wirth, of the faculty at Stanford University, was elected in July of 1987. Married to the Meems' daughter, Nancy, he will have the responsibility of carrying on the family heritage. Faith had attended a Board meeting in Santa Fe just the Saturday before her death. She was active to the end, and made the final gift to complete the funding of the new library on the western campus. Appropriately, this building will bear the names of Faith and John Meem. Faith Meem was one of the lahusdies of Santa Fe. She shared band's love of the ambience of the city, and did a great deal to preserve the city and its architecture for future generations. One admirer has said that Faith Meem was always a part of the solution of problems, as exemplified by her role in establishing the Santa Fe Maternal and Child Health Center, as well as by the many organizations on whose boards she served. Several years ago she was honored by being named a Santa Fe Living Treasure. In May of this year she was to receive an award from the AntiDefamation League of B'nai Brith. St. John's College and the City of Santa Fe have lost a real friend in the death of this beautiful human being. NATO alliance. First, it's the only Islamic country in the alliance. Then in spite of having the second largest population, and the second largest military force, it has the lowest per capita income-$1,000 per person. Even in a country with an extremely low cost of living this is still next to impossible to live on. Though Mr. Merz first felt a disadvantage conversing with delegates, most of whom were political science or international affairs majors, he soon was more comfortable than other participants with the format of discussions that were similar to St. John's. In addition to the roundtable discussions, there were several includthe West German ambassador to the U.S., former of Defense Robert and the Assistant -..:,,r•.,.,,... ,., ..., ~,, •."....,.'"""and Canadian Af- publishes science studies The culmination of many honors for his work was the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Honors and prizes awarded to students at the commencement ceremony Senior with were the following: highest academic record, Lawrence Smith; Robert Neidorf Memorial Scholarship, sophomore Jarrell Robinson; Duane L. Peterson Scholarship, Christopher Johnson; St. John's College Community Scholarships, juniors Reid Tatiana Hayhow, Danilo Masters, and Helene Senator Millard E. Tydings Memorial Walter Thorne Endowment McDonald and Thomas Corral and Kenneth Richard D. for best senior essays, Lael Gold and honorable mention for his senior essay, Curtis Business Fellows F. Thomas Walter S. Baird shared and Eran Williams. of Excellence went to Rebecca Ashe and Aaron Fishman for essays; Evans for freshman essay; David MacDonald for his m"J• 1·h,,,m.,,,h,~':i Sarah Maxwell A collection of nine studies by an Annapolis historian of science, Curtis Wilson, has been published by London's Variorum Reprints. Originally appearing between 1968 and 1987, the studies by the former St. John's College tutor center on work of men important in the development of modern astronomy: Johannes Kepler, Jeremiah Horrocks, and Isaac Newton. The book sells for 32 British 0011nals. Variorum has informed Mr. the first month of oublH;atilon that Each student was u.""''""'"'''-' that would one entire conference. Its nucleus was series of five roundtable discussions that followed a St. John's """'"'"""'',.. lution. collection of poems, ,_,,n,,-,,wo,7° on Frozen Mr. Milosz to the catasnr.ninn'"..- school of Polish poets, whose .. ,..,n"'""" often foreshadowed Second World War. He lived out the war years where wrote, edited and as a and another from Mechanicsville Colin New several ....-.1r1"'"''"'m"'" a few local and school I played the devil's advocate for Turkey so well that the other participants ended-up hating Turkey as a countrY,' Mr. Bechtel says. "Turkey has an unusual position in the congres:s10na11eg1slc:Ltlo~n informer Sen. J. William Fulthe program is "to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries:' .UJ.yHAV'-'A Mr. Milosz was and nnlhlHOh&>>rl The a classic of the life of the artist under Communism. In he joined the Berkeley faculty. He published scholarly works as well as novels and received the Prix Litteraire European for his book La Prix du Pouvoir. .......... ;-,..., ..... For '"""1r011"r:onr11..-.o student awards were to senior Jeannine and sophomores Jam es Reid Newman and E. Suzanne Small. Blazers were given by the alumni association to seniors Walter Alexander, Vincent Pruden and Eran Williams for participation,_leadership and sportsmanship in the athletic program. �DONNA BOETIG "I don't know what my life would have been like without bell ringing;' says Ann G. a tutor at St. John's Annapolis campus. "I guess you could say it's kind of a compulsion: I've got to ring. When you ring, there's a union of your physical and mental state. You weigh 120 pounds, and here's this bell weighing 2,000 pounds and you're tellit what to do:' bell ringing is very much like dancing; if you go wrong, they go wrong. And if you're right, you get better and better and these wonderful notes peal out:' As a member of the Washington Ringing Society, Mrs. Martin makes wonderful notes peal out every Sunday at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and on special occasions, such as weddings and Christmas. As a sophomore at the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., Mrs. Martin became intrigued with the 600 to 3,000 pound bells being installed in the Cathedral Bell Tower. So when Englishman Fred Price agreed to introduce the British skill to the States in exchange for room and board, Mrs. Martin seized the chance. 1Wo years later, when an English composition she wrote on bell ringing was published in Ringing World, England's official bell ringers' journal, she became a phenomenon. "A young, female ringer was very rare at that time;' she says. Consequently, as a result of the article she received many letters. One arriving six months later was from an Edward Martin, an Englishman who learned ringing in his village church when his voice cracked and he was sent from the choir to the bell tower. Years later, she would travel to England, they'd meet and evenmarry. In spite of the fact that Paul Revere was a bell ringer, no one in Washington, D.C., twenty years ago knew how to ring a bell, Mrs. Martin recalls. Change ringing developed in England in the 17th century. Today, as then, every village had its bell tower. Here in North America and Canada, only 25 such towers exist. The bells, usually made of a combination of brass and tin, must be able to turn full circle. Unfortunately, many towers in America are not strong enough to support that full swing. The discovery that a bell rang best when it rang full circle led to change ringing. The trick was to stop the bell from ringing once it began. To accomplish this, it had to be balanced with its Ann Martin with handbells A BELL AT REST Wheel; C, Stay; D, Slider; Guda1eor1s and Bearings; H, mouth up, so it could ring full circle, stop, then ring full circle the opposite way. This is not as simple as it sounds: These are no jingle bells. A bell weighing 600 to 3,000 pounds must be rung slowly, limiting the ability to alter its pace. You can, however, take a set of six to 12 bells, tune them to a major scale and ring them in different orders: thus the name "change ringing~' The method is one person per bell. The person pulls on a rope connected to the wheel which is connected to the bell. Every time the bell is pulled, it goes off balance and swings mouth up, rights itself then swings to a mouth up position the opposite way. Six ringers each with a rope attached to a bell ring one at a time down the scale, always according to ~ pattern or tune. The conductor cries out: "Begin your patterns:' and the ringers alter their positions in an orderly fashion, so as not to repeat a pattern, always ending in the position they began. Bell changing is a slow, tedious process that can require up to a year of practice to learn first how to control the bells, then play the simplest pattern. "It's sort of like an art, and sort of like a sport:' Mrs. Martin says. "First you have to control the bell so as not to hit it too hard and break it, or if you don't hit it hard enough it won't get up to·· the balance point and will ring wildly.. The rope has to be tight or else it'll go around your neck or arm. The rule is, if your feet leave the ground - let go. Once you lose control of the bell you can be seriously injured'.' After you learn to control the bell then you have to practice ringing with others. "It's something you can't learn by yourself any more than you could learn to square dance by yourself.' In the beginning, you ring down the scale until you're able to fit your with others, learning the patterns together. The easiest is "The Plain which begins and ends with the pattern. 1-2-3-4-5-6, one being the smallest bell, and six the largest. As you advance in bell changing skills, a "dodge" is introduced, which slightly complicates the pattern. The pattern begins like the "Plain Hunt~' but suddenly takes a step back called a "dodge!' It ends the same, but it takes longer to get there. As you proceed, you learn more advanced patterns. Clapper While learning, students considerately silence their bells so as not to prejudice an audience against bell ringing. This is accomplished by inserting a board in the bell so the clapper doesn't swing. However, a small hammer attached to the bell allows the student to hear a ping. Students celebrate their "coming out;' by removing the silencing board, and "going public" for all ears to hear. One major achievement for a bell changer is to ring a full peal - that is, all the ways a number of bells can be rung without repeating a pattern. For instance, six bells can be rung in 720 variations; seven bells can make 5,040 changes - and then to have the peal published in Ringing World. But to have the peal published it must be "true:' with no repeats in the pattern. If you ring a row twice, the peal must be rejected, and a retraction printed in the magazine. While ringing a peal is physically challenging, since a seven bell peal takes about three hours to complete, bell changers as young as eight have been known to achieve it. "Bell changing actually has nothing to do with music;' Mrs. Martin says "You have to have a good sense of rhythm and be able to count to six - frontwards and backwards. No matter what you do you can't get the bell to strike a wrong note, so people like it because they're mathematicians; they like to play with numbers:' Meanwhile, bell changing, which was introduced in our country in the 18th century and lay dormant for the next hundred years, enjoyed a resurgence of interest in the 20th century. comparison, bell changing has never wanted in popularity in England.) "When I started bell ringing bells years ago, we were isolated. There were rumors there were other bell ringers somewhere in North American and I met a but most were expatriate Then the whole guild, the North American Guild of Change Ringers consisted of 70 ringers. Today there's 250'.' For the occasions when a bell tower may be out of reach, or simply for the challenge of ringing other than tower bells, Mrs. Martin carries handbells. While lacking the impact of the several pounders, they do provide an outlet for her desire to bring something beautiful out of a metal form. The Historical Manuscripts and Archives Department of the University of Maryland College Park Libraries has recently acquired and made available for research a collection of letters written to John McDowell of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, first principal of St. John's College in The majority of the letters were written between 1811and1818 and are from Charles Goldsborough of Cambridge, Goldsborough was a state senator (1791-1795 and U.S. Congressman from the 8th district of Maryland (1804-1817), and governor of Maryland (1818-1819). John McDowell was both his mentor and friend. The letters are largely a discussion of personal life and family affairs. Notable exceptions are references to Goldsborough' s anti-war feelings in the letters of 1812 and references to the democratization of Maryland and Goldsborough's disinclination to run for governor in the letter of 1816 and 1818. The collection is available for research in the Maryland Room of the McKeldin Library at the University of Maryland at College Park. For more information regarding this and other collections available for research, contact Lauren R. Brown, Curator of Historical Manuscripts and University Historical Manuscripts and Archives .£?epartment, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011, (301) 454-2318. S t r e e t - - - - - - - - Apt./Box _ __ C i t y - - - - - State _ _ Zip _ __ I would like to order _ _ print(s) of the new St. John's limited edition silkscreen poster at $150.00 per poster. Quanity _ _ _ @ $150.00 = Total $ _ __ For Maryland orders, add 5% sales tax Include $4.00 to cover shipping TOTAL$ _ __ Method of Payment: _ _ check enclosed _ _ VISA Card Number _ _ MC Expiration Date Signature For Gift Order, send to: Name _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Street - - - - - - - - Apt./Box _ __ C i t y - - - - - State _ _ Zip _ __ Send to: ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE Advancement Office P.O. Box 1671 Annapolis, MD 21404 �PAGE THE CJ) 0 else takes money but which should be a central concern next 50 years. attention to New Program non-existent 50 years ago, he called for new ways to them more into the work of the for in a sense, he "the alumni are the real the college in the world~' Suggesting that the tween the founding of the New and is the change in our perception of the world and our resoons1bilities in it, Mr. Simpson wave "taking the world as our ..,.,,,. ...,i-,,.,,.,,,,,,,, "It is becoming evident that the task of liberal education cannot be confined to a single he said. "We beinevitably now to one human comwe must work to found our common citizenship on of a new common learning'.' "We need to begin to learn other lanother other arts, other toward the arts'.' audience that he was 50 years, and not propos"' "''i- h• n 0 to be done Mr. -..:ni.-. .... ,,,.,..,.., suggests that what can be done is to define the task and make a start Sunbefore Commencement exon the Santa Fe '-'a.uu.J•u.::i. The decision to the new after the southwest benefactors was announced at me1etmtg of the Board of Vistors and Governors John vicechairman and son-in-law to the Meems. Mr. John Gaw of the Southwest's most Or<)m1rn~m and his wife Faith gave the 280 acres that now constitute the Santa Fe campus, in the 1960's. Mr. Meem was elected to the Board in Deand was instrumental in dei11elc:m1nll the college's master He 1983. Mrs. who was in the community for 60 years, was serving on the Board at the time of her death in March at age 87. An obituary of Mrs. Meem appears on page 14. President Michael hosting the event, called the "the first family of St. John's~' Local students and the media were on hand for the 11 a.m. JU .... demic standing. Other honors and announced Mr. were the Millard E. award for excellence in .,1-1,~a.11.J.uji:;. by Diana Klatte and .._,u·"'"''U'-'LU u'.:;1vJLc:u1i::. best senior essay, Walter honorable mentions Webb and program, Jeanne 1Julvoum1. Nathaniel the Caritas award for outstandservice to the ty, Amanda The Robertson Prize for achievement in the studio arts, Douala the Chicago Business Collins Duoduthe Truman for a interested in Zoe alternate. In an unusual ceremony, Jeffrey Kojac was commissioned Second Lieutenant in ,. ....... uu,,A, be as as "the house of the liberal arts, and that is associated for us with our two campuses, is that the arts are t'resmmg over the commencement exercises, President William M. presented a silver medal to Joseph Scott as the senior with the highest aca- on President Emeritus of the Richard who was instrumental toumdmg the second campus, Kenec;ncms on the vc:l.Ulj-IU.::l ,.,,.,,,.,..,,.,, .. u · U.S. Nick Salaon behalf of citizens of the Santa Fe President Michael Riccards on "The Role of The two-story will feature a on a central atrium and brick tan-colored stucco exterior. It provide shelf space for study rooms, and several showcase reading rooms. The library will stand on what is now a gravel parking lot south of the Peterson Student Center and west of the Sternberger-Weis Music and Fine Arts u ... •.ui;o,. The construction of a centralized has been a dream of the campus for nearly 25 years. At present, the college stores about 54,000 volumes r:U.UA<OLIJ'U•H.:> poem, nal musical Rocca. Most elegant solution of a ... ,,.r, ......."'tr; cal Simon Bone; most elegant ""''""'"""'""'' to to Marsha Dn~nnon. --1~-.~~,_,,_ ment for the college. _ Other contributions to include a $1 million gift from the J. E. and L. E. Mabee Foundation of .lVU.'l.lJ.auu. $525,000 from members of the Board of Visitors and $150,000 from and $325,000 from friends of the college. the United States Marine Lieutenant Mr. son. At the conclusion of the new grnLOUlaH~s fot out a heartfelt cheer and their mortarboards in the Afthe great crowd moved towards the chi::i.m1oa~me and other refreshments that were set on the uu,u ...u.au.J;:.n.. and back campus Earlier in the David .LJ'-'VUUA~ minister of the First Unitarian ,,,_,u ....... "'u and ... commencement address are the Annapolis campus bookstore and it will be published in the September Yoi"lnr·to.- � 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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Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 16 pages Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context vol 15 issue 4 June 1989 Title A name given to the resource The St. John's Reporter, Volume 15 Issue 4 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989-06 Description An account of the resource Volume 15, Issue 4 of The St. John's Reporter. Published in June 1989. 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/e3073477f28d97d852181065295b387e.pdf 12450a6539800f299fc743554d36d991 PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 111111111111111~m~~111~1r11~ 11111111111111111 The St. John's 31696 011371~~~--_c I Volume 15, Issue 3 Annapolis, Md. and Santa Fe, N.M. Santa Fe March, 19891 8% both campuses resge t By NANCY OSIUS London without Big Ben? Paris without the Eiffel Tower? St. John's College without its favorite Annapolis pub, that spot where banality and profundity have joined together in a mighty humming bonhomie for 65 years? The news, spreading quietly but relentlessly, at length appears on the front page of the local paper. The Little Campus on Maryland Avenue in Annapolis is up for sale. Yes, several tutors agree dolefully, the place has been for sale for several months. The restaurant and bar, inextricably connected with college life in the memory of Johnnies everywhere, is on the block for $550,000. One recent wintry morning, Evangelos Nichols - known as Angy to his friends - hospitable and courteous but looking a little weary, leads his visitor into the warmly lit pinepanelled interior of the Maryland Avenue restaurant. While he readily admits that after a long career in the business, he is ready to do somet~i~g else, he is still prepared today to remm1sce about the landmark and its patrons. This morning he settled by his mother, Anna, in a booth whose seat though cushioned, was surely molded by generations of student flanks. Theodore Nichols, father and husband to these two, opened the Little Campus at its present location in 1931. In the preceding years, the family had owned two restaurants at nearby loca- tions. Ted Nichols and his son George, two men of fabled stature in the restaurant's chronicles, died within a month of one another in 1978. Since then, Angy, the younger brother, with the help of his wife Mary Ellen, his mother, a devoted staff of regulars and shifting crews of others including many Johnnies, has been the proprietor. Anna, fresh-faced and white-haired, is clipping "specials" to the daily menu as we speak. She began to help out in the restaurant - doing "everything," her son says - during the war when employees were scarce, and she continued until last August when a heart attack ended the self-imposed schedule. ("I didn't do everything," Anna denies. "I refused to wash dishes.") Emigrating from Greece to Maine when she was nine years old, she moved to Annapolis with her new husband, also Greek-born, in 1925, and the family association with Johnnies and middies, too, began. Family members have a fund of stories of those old days when student pranks and police run-ins were part of the script. "The street belonged to the Navy and the St. Johnnies in those days," Mrs. Nichols remembers. "Daddy had a lot of good friends among those students," she says and prodded, begins to test and try some well-remembered and some half-for- (Continued on Page 12) By DONNA BOETIG In response to the rising costs necessary to maintain the standard of education at St. John's College, the Board of Visitors and Governors has, after much deliberation, approved a tuition and room and board increase of eight percent for the 1989-90 school year. Even with the higher tuition, college costs here will still be appreciably less than at comparable, tigious, private four-year institutions. Beginning in September, a year's education at St. John's will cost $ l 5,876 (tuition, $ l l,880, room, $1,836, and board, $2,160), up from this year's $14,700. In comparison, this year students at Barnard paid about $19,000 for tuition and room and board, while students at Amherst College paid almost $18,000. In fact, from fall 1986 to fall St. John's tuition will have increased percent, compared to an average increase of 28 percent at comparable colleges. Across the state and nation, costs are rising well beyond the rate inflation. Tuition at the of Maryland's flagship A $250,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation of Troy, Michigan, should bring to fruition the Santa Fe campus's longtime dream of a central library. Already in hand is $2.4 million of the $2. 8 million needed for construction of the facility. The college must raise the additional $400,000 April 15. "We feel very that the money needed will be raised by the April deadline," vice president for advancement on Fe campus, said recently. "We have some significant foundation and individual prospects and we will be working to confirm these commitments in time for a late spring groundbreaking ceremony." The Kresge Foundation, an independent private foundation created the personal gifts of Sebastian S. Kresge, makes grants toward projects involving construction or renovation of facilities to institutions, many of them of higher learning. In addition to the contributions to the $1,000,000 gift from the J. Mabee Foundation of Texas· $525,000 from members of the St. John'~ Board of Visitors and Governors; $150,000 from corporations, and $325,000 from friends of the college. The library campaign has been initiated and moved forward during the presidency of Michael P. Mr. Morgan noted. "According to our plans, the fund drive will be completed during his tenure,", he said. The architectural firm of McHugh, Lloyd and Associates has been named to design the building. A detailed report drawn up and completed in December by the Library Steering Committee spells out site considerations, the project timetable, design principles, book and automation needs, and other requirements. This is expected to be a primary resource for the architects. "Because St. John's is unique and idiosyncratic, we wanted to convey to the architects what it is that is most important to us," said Mr. Morgan. "We decided that the best way to communicate these ideas to the architects would be to undertake an exhaustive survey of our own campus. The end result is a library program document to guide the architect that has the ownership of our entire campus community, including students, faculty, staff and Board." "Finally," he added, "we felt that the best way to control costs was to describe in detail what we wanted so that we would not be presented with large unexpected additional cost decisions." The 24,000 square foot library, which will be located southwest of the Peterson Student Center on what is presently a parking lot, will replace three small libraries in the Peterson Center, the Fine Arts Building, and Weigle Hall, which together contain the present collection of 53,000 volumes. Primary goals expressed by the steering committee are to have a building designed which is compatible with its scenic and historic environment, and one which reflects the particular mission and charac- Two distinguished Washington newsmen, Fred Barnes, senior editor of The· New Republic, and Richard Harwood, ombudsman for The Washington Post, will be keynote speaker and luncheon speaker respectively for the Great Issues forum, "Ethics and Journalism," to be held April 1 at St. John's College in ,Annapolis. The second in a series of seven projected forums on ethics, "Ethics and Journalism" follows the highly successful inaugural symposium, "Ethics and Politics," held at the campus last fall. Elliot Richardson, former Attorney General and Ambassador to Great Britain, delivered the major address before a capacity crowd of political, college, and community figures. Journalists from all the media will take part in the April forum by co-leading se inar discussions with St. John's tutors (Continued on p. 13) (Continued on p. 13) Newsmen for ethics �MARCH 1989 THE REPORTER 2 1921 1958 Dr. Thomas B. Turner, dean emeritus of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and member emeritus of the Board of Visitors and Governors, was quoted recently in The Washington Post as an American expert on the effect of alcohol on heart disease. Dr. Turner said contrary to a controversial new British report challenging the popular belief that drinking alcohol in moderation reduces the chance of dying from heart disease, there is, indeed, persuasive evidence that this type of drinking protects the heart. This belief is supported by more than a -dozen medical studies. Mary Bittner Wiseman and Harvey Goldstein have announced their marriage on Monday, January 9, in Miami. Mary is a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors while Harvey is president of the college alumni association. Mary is now Mrs. Goldstein legally and professionally, but remains Dr. Wiseman in her work as professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is also the author of The Ecstasies of Roland Bart hes which she describes as "a book on literary criticism and the postisms": post-modernism and post-struc- 1968 Thomas G. Keens, GI, has received a research grant for $150,000 to study causes of the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS, or crib death), from the National Center for the Prevention of SIDS in Baltimore. Dr. Keens is studying the hypothesis that many SIDS victims die because they cannot respond appropriately to a short breathing pause, which occurs in all babies, during sleep. Dr. Keens is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine and Associate Division Head at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles. He is married to Susan (Keffala) Keens and has two children, Jenny (8 years) and Peter (5 years). Anne C. Harlan is a librarian with the Pittsburgh public school system. M:::arilunno Scott is a reading consultant school in East Lyme, Connecticut. 1969 John D. Goodwin is now a Career Agent with Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance, the twelfth largest mutual insurer in the United States. John is based in Santa Fe. is living in Los Alamos, NM, where she serves as Humanities Division Head for the Los Alamos of the of New Mexico. ~~-·~·~,~in 1987fromthe University Francisco with a B.S. in organizational behavior. , 1970 Toni Nelson is teaching humanities to low-income children (7th grade) on Albuquerque's far west side. Susheila l. Horwitz is still a member of Madonna House, a Catholic lay apostolate. 1972 5tEml"1en De Luca is self-employed in private vocational rehabilitation with Shapiro, Westman and Lund of Campbell, California. Stephen graduated with an M.S. in counseling in May, I 988. 1973 Eli.zal:>e1:h l:iiOl<Jw11n lives in Pittsburgh, 1956 A cluster of cameramen were on hand when Pasquale Polillo, former television executive and broadcast journalist who has his own Philadelphia-based consulting firm, Catalyst Plus, married Dr. Kristine Soly on Valentine's Day under the Liberty Tree. (See photo.) Dr. Soly, a 1970 graduate of the Medical College of Virginia, is a cardiologist in Chestnut Hill, PA. Carroll George, chief deputy of the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County, used Pat's tribute to the college in the marriage ceremony with these words: "This place has special significance for Pasquale ... In those four years, which he believes remain the most important of his life, he was awakened to the scope and potential of life through contact and involvement with both the teachers of the Great Books program and tutors who were his mentors ... It is to honor these associations and what flowed from them that this place was chosen." The ceremony was featured at the conclusion of the six o'clock news. Witness to the ceremony were Tutor Sam Kutler and Facilities Coordinator Jeannette Hoffman. 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 lhe News and Information Office, St. John's College, Box 1671, Annapolis, MD 21404. William M. Dyal, Jr., president. Published lour limes a year, in March, June, September and December. Second-class postage paid at Annapolis, MD. . USPS 018-750 turalism. Professor Wiseman interprets the French philosopher's experiments as "efforts to reposition the human subject with respect to language and to time in order to let the subject escape from the language of a particular culture and the present time." The book was published in January by Routledge of London and New York. 1961 John Pekkanen, former bureau chief for Life, a senior writer for the Washingtonian, and now a roving editor at Reader '.s Digest, has just published a new book, M.D.: Doctors Talk Ahout Themselves with Delacorte Press. Speaking anonymously, the doctors interviewed for this book describe pressures and fears, doubts, guilt and grief. Talkshow host Larry King commented, "I know of no layman who knows more about medicine than John Pekkanen and this book deals with what doctors never tell their patients and what they never tell each other." The book is a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club Alternate Selection. Harrison Sheppard and his wife June will lead what they call a "leisurely exploration of some of the sacred sites of Greece associated with the classical and early Christian periods," a tour including both mainland and island Greece, beginning June 18. Participants may join the tour for 15 days, returning July 2, or for 22 days, returning July 9, which will include a third week in northern Greece. While the tour will be ecumenical, the third week may conclude with three days of spiritual retreat for men at the Holy Mountain of Mount Athos and for women at the (Continued on Page 14) of Financial Inc. Waterloo, Ontraion has begun a two-year Mennonite Central Committee assignment where she is working as a refugee concerns coordinator. She received a master's degree in adult education from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Galen N. Breningstall is married to alumna Jena Morris (1973) and they now have five children, Jeremy 13, David 10, Nehama 6, Yussi 4 and Elisha who was born on June 23, 1988. 1974 B. Weathers of Santa Clara, CA, is no longer teaching junior school in West Texas and is now a software engineer in Silicon: Valley. Christina l. Pierce is currently enrolled in a master's program in art history at the University of Oregon. Robert Haynes is an Instructor of English at Georgia Southern College Ginger Boyle is a lawyer in Seattle and in her spare time teaches transformational movement classes. 1975 Eric Scigliano is now senior editor of the Seattle Weekly. He does freelance publication in 7he Nation, Mother Jones, Washington Post, Newsweek, Outside, Present Tense, and Family Circle. Margaret M. Sheegan has recently received her PhD in clinical psychology and plans to open a private psychoanalytic practice. She also wants to do some research. Mark Habrel was this year named the Marketing Director for Loyola University Press in Chicago. Alice Ericsson recently married "a handsome cameraman" and spent a month in China. Marion Doylen Cox has retired from teaching English and is currently enrolled in a liberal arts program at Mills College. She also enjoys drawing classes at UC Berkeley. Christopher H. Chase is living in San Diego, California and received his doctorate in neurosciences from the University . of California-San Diego this year. The Reporter invites contributions' from all alumni to the notes on these pages. Please direct such information about you or your alumni friends to Nancy Osius, The Reporter, St. John's· College, Box 1671, Annapolis, MD 21404. 1976 Loma Clymer is attending graduate school in English at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Idell Kesselman of Prescott, Arizona expects to finish her second master's degree this summer at Arizona State University. Loma Clymer is currently in graduate school at the University of California at Santa Barbara studying English. was married this August and is living in ParHe is currently leading "Seminars Professionals" at the West Humanities Center. Carol finished her PhD in English at University in the summer of 1988. She began as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at S UNY-Geneseo this fall. Geneseo has a required humanities course for all students, a two-semester sequence that she will begin teaching in the spring semester of 1989. She feels that her background at St.John's College has prepared her well to teach in the Humanities program there. 1977 Walter T. m resides in where he a partner in a married with two children. married on to celebrate the occasion. 1s her first makes year working at Atari Games, coin-operated video arcade games. She is the technical writer for them. Ava Clinkscales lives in Albuquerque with her husband, Kevin Kargacin, and their two children. 1978 James K. Walton has recently been teaching skiing in the Swiss alps. Jim then traveled around the world visiting nine countries and states. Ben A. Porter has nothing stellar to report, but the last correspondence never made it to press two years ago. This year it did! 1979 Brother Thomas Casey, FSC has assumed the position of Principal at La Salle Military Academy, Oakdale, New York. Robert T. Ray is working for the Virginia Water Control Board as an Environmental Programs Analyst. He has a 1112 year old son named Cullen. Marty Dobyns awoke one morning to find himself out of a job. The food manufacturer he had been working for went out of business. "I knew what she had done wrong, and I thought I could do better," Marty recalls. That was three years ago. Today Marty is the owner of Santa Fe Ole, a food manufacturing-wholesale company that stocks grocery and gourmet food stores nation-wide. Beginning with only two items, a pear and pinon chutney, and a sweet-hot mustard, he has increased his product line to 14, and is planning to continue to expand. 1980 Carla Deicke has just returned from a year studying in Kyoto, Japan. She is now working on a Ph.D. in comparative (Asian-Western) philosophy at the University of Hawaii. She says she is very glad to be back in the United States because she found Japan a difficult place in which to live. (Continued on Page 15) �, s describes HIV as a "family of viruses," and AIDS as a spectrum of diseases. HIV 1 and HIV 2 are the two known of A11r~-c:~us1r1Q uses. An may also exist in further information about it he come in 1989. mc>lec;ul<lI g1~neuc1st before , Information for the database comes, look at the, and researchers doing viral during summers in the France, Sweden, the staff of the and it goes to 40-50 countries Genetic Data Bank, or "Genincluding 1,000 people and " at the Los Alamos National mostly investigators, clinicians, i-.,._ •• "t-'"r" in New where early schools and bio-technology companies. information about the virus was being colThe World Health Organization also collaborates with the project in obtaining lected. It didn't take long for Myers to realize that the behavior of the AIDS HIV samples from around the world. But virus, its complexity, and the quantity of samples are not easy to get, according to raw data being reported combined to proMr. Myers. "We are pretty sure that the incidence of duce more information than the database system at GenBank was intended to track. AIDS is being underreported by Third . Easy Entertaining with Marlene SorosAdditionally, Mr. Myers persuaded the World countries, and maybe by the ky is the latest of five cookbooks written AIDS program of the National Institutes Soviets, too," said Myers. "Some counby Ms. Sorosky, the bestselling writer and of Health to fund a program of molecular , tries in Africa have begun doing their own 1ively commentator who will bring her epidemiology to collect information from investigation and stopped cooperating with credo "Entertaining is back!" to the sixth around the world about the virus. The U.S. scientists. It is very difficult now to annual Book and Author Luncheon, Human Retrovirus and AIDS Database get samples from Africa." scheduled for ll:30a.m. Saturday, March was created as a computerized clearingEarly cooperation by health officials in 18, in the lobby of the Francis Scott Key house for molecular research pertaining Zaire created the probably false impresauditorium at the Annapolis campus. to the genetics and immunology of the sion that the virus originated there, and With his new book The Dark Side of AIDS virus. An international research the window on progress of the disease in the Universe, James Trefil, professor of resource, the information is provided free Africa is now largely closed. There is physics at George Mason University in to aid researchers in the development of speculation that the incidence of AIDS is Fairfax, Virginia, earned an accolade from vaccines, treatment strategies, and the very high in East Africa, and that the Rift the New York Times as a writer who "surunderstanding of the pathology, genetics, Valley may be an epicenter for the virus. passed almost all other scientists writing and evolution of HIV, the designation for Lack of cooperation and sketchy informa-, about science for the public." the family of viruses now known to protion, however, make that speculation These two authors will form the panel unverifiable at this time. duce AIDS. for the luncheon, which is sponsored by "Our job is to track and analyze the In the absence of any immediate hope virus and to inform those who are develfor a successful vaccine, lifestyle changes : the Caritas Society and Charing Cross Bookshop. oping vaccines and drugs what we 're up and public health measures continue to Hailing from Los Angeles, where she against," says Mr. Myers. represent the best hope for preventing the was a syndicated columnist for the Los Early in his analysis of the virus, Mr. disease. Angeles Times, owned her own cooking Myers noted the astonishing rapidity with A survey of college students was underschool and cookware shop and hosted a which it mutates. Today he calculates that taken recently by the Center for Disease talk radio show, Ms. Sorosky recently the AIDS virus is altering its genetic code Control (CDC), according to Mr. Myers. moved to Baltimore. She writes for the Its full report is due in the next six }Jy at least 1. 5% per year, much faster than Baltimore Sun and appeared regularly on Jany known infectious agent, including the months, but preliminary information the cooking segments of W J Z- TV's talk suggests a 0. 3% incidence - a distressinfluenza virus. "This rate is already so great as to presingly high figure, says Myers - in a , show "Afternoon." She has written on cooking for many ent a formidable challenge to our efforts screening of 40,000 students. That comnational magazines, including Better at surveillance . . . and vaccine developputes to 120 out of 40,000 students. Homes and Gardens and Woman '.s Dav, ment," he says. In 1986, when Mr. Myers' project began, and often appears on television programs, "When we began two years ago, most the U.S. government was just beginning to people could not believe this virus could mobilize its research efforts directed at Over the past three years, he has pres-· this modern day scourge. AIDS research mutate at the rates we had calculated. ented papers on the tracking of the AIDS Now that phenomenon of variation is at NIH was in its infancy. According to virus group to audiences in Stockholm, accepted. We were the earliest to find it Mr. Myers the NIH budget devoted to Paris, Washington, D.C., and Los Af!geand it was a struggle in the beginning to be AIDS research currently is over $200 milles. He has testified before Congressional heard." lion a year. His project will be renewed in health subcommittees, before the World By way of comparison, Mr. Myers cites 1990 for five more years. Health Organization and the Office of mutation behavior of other viruses. He Mr. Myers did his undergraduate work Science and Technical Policy. notes that the polio virus, for example, is at the University of Colorado, his docHis wife, Lynda Myers, Director of the stable by comparison: "Vaccines made 20 toral work at the medical center of that Graduate Institute in Santa Fe, is on sabor 30 years ago are still usable today." university, and his postdoctoral work at batical this year and is living in Silver Flu vaccines are changed every I 0 years Yale. or so to keep up with the relatively rapid mutation of that virus. The mutation rate of the AIDS virus, however, is so extreme that it is likely that By NEALE WARD by the time a conventional vaccine is deveJohn's graduates from both Santa Fe and loped it would already be ineffective Randy Linder, SF '82, and Jeff LawAnnapolis have found their way to the lab against the altered virus. "AIDS requries rence, SF '84, are Graduate Research as G RAs and as employees of the prestia new approach to vaccine strategy," he Assistants (GRA) assisting Gerald Myers gious complex. in the Human Retrovirus and AIDS Datasaid. Christian Burks, SF '76, has been at Moreover, mutation is going on in base project at Los Alamos. Mr. Linder, GenBank for 7 years and is its project every patient. "No two individual AIDS who was the first St. John's GRA at Genleader. Bank, subsequently earned a graduate patients carry identical viruses. Each carGenBank, properly known as the ries a 'swarm' of viruses. One patient has degree at Cornell and has returned to Los Genetic Sequence Data Bank, is the been found to harbor at least 58 different Alamos to assist in compiling, analyzing national library of genetic sequences. versions of the virus." Not all forms of the evolution of the virus, and preparing the The first genetic sequence was deter, information for publication. virus are infectious, he reports. mined by investigators in the mid-60s. In The range of viruses could result in Sun Micro Systems, Inc., an American the next I 0 years only a few were analyzed AIDS victims beginning to exhibit a wider computer company, recently announced a and there was no need for a computerized gift of computer equipment, valued at range of symptoms, Mr. Myers suggests. system to record them. $45,000, to be used on the project in Los It appears that different viral types can Then the amount of data began qouproduce different forms of the disease. Alamos now, adding speed and versatilbling annually. By the mid-seventies, with ity, but which will ultimately move to St. Whether that accounts for the different exponential growth, the data was in need progress of the disease in any given number John's Santa Fe campus. State of the art of management. "work stations," which operate on the of victims is unknown, however. Mr. ln 1982, NIH awarded the contract for UNIX system, are expected to be reloMyers says it is too complicated at present GenBank to the laboratory at Los Alacated in two or three years. to disentangle the pathogenesis of the mos. The charter calls for a computer dataAt St. John's, the powerful system is virus from the particular physiology and base of all published DNA and RNA expected to be useful to faculty for research, sequences and related bibliographic and treatment of the patient. Two kinds of projections about the administrative activities, and in math and biological information. course of the disease remain discourag- lab tutorials. Mr. Burks says that there are usually IO Messrs. Linder and Lawrence are by no ingly constant: from the time of infection to 15 St. Johnnies at any given time workto symptoms of full blown disease is about means the only St. Johnnies "on the hill" ing as G RAs in Los Alamos. Why are so 7 to 8 years. From the time of diagnosis to as the Los Alamos Laboratory, located in many graduates of a "great books" college the time of death is approximately two, the Jemez mountains about 30 miles from in demand and interested in working at Santa Fe, is called by locals. Many St. one of the highest of high tech laboratoyears. NEALE WARD Gerald Myers, a tutor in Santa Fe since 1974, was a leave of absence in 1987 to to track the sequences of a new and undocumented virus respons1D1e for AIDS Immune c r 1 . t i including "Good Morning, America" and "Hour Magazine." In striking contrast to the day-to-day concerns of a cookbook writer, Mr. Trefil, in his branch of physics - the field of elementary particles - grapples with the age-old questions of the cosmos. What is the ultimate nature of matter? How did the world begin?_ At George Mason, Mr. Trefil is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Physics. He is also a fellow of the American Physical Society, and an officer and founding member of the Society for Scientific Exploration. he is the author of two physics textbooks and more than a hundred articles for professional journals. Funds raised by the Caritas Society are used to meet emergency financial needs of St. John's students. Barry Burrows, owner of the Charing Cross Bookshop, has made arrangements for the authors' participation and will preside at the luncheon. . Chairman of the event is Margot Hamill. President of the Caritas Society is Mary Joy Belknap. The luncheon cost will be $I 5 each. Reservations, which will be limited, may be made by calling Marion Borsodi at 263-3576, or the Charing Cross Bookshop, 268-1440. A check assures a reservation. Spring with her husband. Asked to comment on her husband's research and contribution to medical knowledge in the AIDS crisis, Mrs. Myers puts his work and his priorities in broadest perspective. 'The work that he is doing right now, while very technical scientifically," she says, "nonetheless seems to need to reflect the commitment to liberal studies and human concerns that he nurtured at the college over many years." I 1 ries in the nation? "What we're looking for - we find in St: Johnnies. That is, people who are very bnght, people who are ready to specialize. We need people capable of abstraction, careful reading and with analytical skills," says Mr. Burks. Gerald Myers suggests that while St. John's students may be less scholastically prepared for this specialized scientific work, they are better learners. In tum, experience as G RAs at GenBank strengthens applications to graduate schools. Many G RAs go on to graduate or medical school. The GRA program is construed as an educational program for graduates who are planning to go to graduate school in science, engineering, math, or medicine. Positions are granted on a year by year basis with the expectation that a tour of duty will be no longer than two years. However, two G RAs have remained as staff members of GenBank. St. John's graduates currently employed at GenBank are Mike Cinkosky, SF '84, collaborator, and James Hayden, SF '86. Current G RAs working at GenBank include David Emmert, William Fischer, Melinda King, and Annapolis student Bernard Longan. �PAGE4 MARCH 1989 THE REPORTER to the St. John's Community the details of a.) how and why he came to become involved with Mr. Bereano, b.) the amount of monies Bereano and other "sponsors" contributed, c.) what if any promises were made by the parties, d.) why public interest lobbyists were snubbed, e.) and what further SJC-Bereano joint ventures are being planned? Yours truly, Noelle Burke, AGI '82 1 . l To The Editor: The last issue of the St. John's Reporter gave favorable front page coverage to the appearance of Elliot Richardson at the .. Ethics and Politics" forum held at St. John's on November 5, but it missed telling the real story. Your banner headline should have read: SJC AND TOBACCO INDUSTRY LOBBYIST CO-SPONSOR "ETHICS" IN POLITICS" PROGRAM Annapolis' Highest Paid Lobbyist, Under Attack from Legislative Ethics Committee, Scores PR Coup: SJC Grants Bereano "Public Official" Status Many people who arrived for the program on November 5, were shocked to discover that the "Ethics and Politics" program was co-sponsored by the law firm of Bruce Bereano, Arinc and a savings and loan. Mr. Bereano is ~n Annapolis lobbyist who represents a number of clients including the Tobacco Institute, th_e Md. Assn. of Tobacco and Candy Distnbutors, and several clients opposed to the banning of pesticides. Arinc is a defense contractor. Mr. Bereano, who made $642,000 last year for his lobbying of the Maryland General Assembly's 90 day legislative session, is well known in Annapolis. The Washington Post reports: "Among the array of lobbying tools Bereano employed on behalf of his clients were gifts of cigars, chocolates and flowers to lawmakers as well as tickets to baseball, hockey, so~cer ~nd basketball games. Bereano also buys tickets to lawmakers' fundraising events" (Post 6/ 4/ 86). He also is known for his lavish parties, such as the $14,000 dance and reception he threw last year for legislators _on behalf of his client, the nursing home mdustry (ibid. 6/ 2/ 88). During the same '~8 Session, Bereano was vigorously · opposmg attempts by nursing home patients' representatives and the Md. Bar Association to ban unconscionable clauses from nursing home contracts. Some legisla~~rs have been persistently and vocally cntlcal of Mr. Bereano 's modus operandi. Senator. Julian Lapides (D-Baltimore), Co-Chairman of the Legislative Ethics Committee sums up the ethical objection: "I have problems with Bruce's method of operation. Because what I think he does is curry favor with politicians and then parlays that favor to his own personal gain" (ibid. 8 / 14/ 86). And in a January 15, 1989 Evening Capital article "master of schmooze" Bereano is characterized by Senator Lapides as "a leech on the system." In addition to displaying the Bereano's cosponsorship in large letters on its front page, the printed program actually listed Mr. Bereano as a "public official" and best?wed on him the honor of being a semmar co-leader. He was the only person who held neither an elected nor appointed office who was listed as a "public official". . Lobbyists are not "Public Officials" even in l\;iaryland ! On_ November 5, Acting President (and Vice President For AdV&i1ccment) Jeffrey Bishop adamantly defended Bereano 's right to be called a "public official"to outraged alumna Ellen Luff ('61). Over a month later Mr. Bishop recanted and admitted it was "incorrect" to call a lobbyist a "public official". But in a letter to Ms. Luff, Bishop continued to defend having the tobacco and pesticide industry lobbyist as a sponsor and seminar l~ader by saying that different points of view should be represented. Very significantly though, Common Cause, a nonprofit public interest group in the forefront of lobbying for ethics legislation both in Maryland and nationally, was not asked to co-sponsor or help plan the program, nor was it asked to provide a seminar leader, nor of course, were Comn:ion Cause lobbyists listed as "public officials". No lobbyists for public interest groups were included in the program. Not content with the prominent announcement of his sponsorship on the printed program, the seminar organizers made sure that all who attended became aware that Bereano enjoyed the favor and approval of St. John's. Prior to the introduction of Elliot Richardson, Mr. Bereano was introduced and commended to the audience, and all assembled were invited to pay tribute with their grateful applause. Mr. Bishop and the "Friends of St. John's" plan a whole series of "Ethics and ... " programs. I anxiously await the announcement of who will sponsor these programs. Will The National Enquirer be a sponsor for "Ethics in Journalism" if it makes an appropriate contribution? Will Geraldo Rivera and Morton Downey earn the right, by contributing to the college, to be sponsors and seminar leaders and given "official" status? American University's reputation suffered after it named a building after arms dealer Adnan Khassogi. Harvard, on the other hand, refused an Ivan Boeski's contribution which was conditioned on its aligning Boeski's name with Harvard's, even though at the time Boeski was at the pinnacle of his success and no criminal action was yet threatened. Some academic institutions will do anything for money, some have standards or ethics. What, if any, ethical standards do St. John's and the "Friends of St. John's" have? The "Ethics and ... " series plans.to end, after 5 more programs, with a "Ethics and Education" seminar in Fall 1991. This program should be advanced to the Fall of 1989. The program should allow students alumni, and the administration to partici~ pate in a dialogue concerning the practice of selling of sponsorships (=endorsements) and legitimation ceremonies to embattled special interest groups who are shopping for PR opportunities to appear accepted by respected academic institutions. The "Ethics in Education" seminar should be structured so as to stimulate an examination of the ethicality of aligning an academic institution with one set of affluent special interests while avoiding inclusion of critical public interest groups. In addition, Mr. Bishop should reveal To The Editor: Is ol SJC with it or what? A tobacco lobbyist leads a forum on Ethics and Politics. And see Future Fora are planned. Can we expect Ed Meese for the Ethics and Law Do in 1990? dare we hope for guest appearances by un-indicted Co-conspirator? John Maloney, A '59 or so P.S. A few years after Sam Rayburn retired as Speaker of the House, the House saw fit to form an Ethics Committee. Some rising young network star trekked out to Texas to get Mr. Sam's reaction. "Mr. Rayburn, the House of Representatives has formed an Ethics Committee, what do you think?" Mr. Sam said, "Did they find any?" a I have been thinking about your concerns about Mr. Bruce Bereano 's involvement with the Ethics and Politics seminar and wanted to follow up on our conversation. First, I want to thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. It is important for the College to review its activities and to be alert to what we represent as well as to what we present. 1 fully agree that we were incorrect to list Mr. Bereano as a "public official" in the program. He is not an elected representati:ve, and we should not have represented him as such. I apologize for this mistake and am sorry to have offended you. However, I cannot agree that it was incorrect to have Mr. Bereano participate in the seminar as a "guest leader." As a matter of fact, we hoped for greater participation from lobbyists - six were invited to take an active role, but only Mr. Bereano accepted. l think that a discussion of Ethics and Politics in 20th Century America that does not include the role and perspective of lobbyists is narrow and' incomplete. Whether or not we think that lobbyists should play a role in the legislative process, whether or not we like the role they play, whether or not we approve of any specific positions they take, the fact remains that lobbyists do affect political and legislative decisions. To ignore their existence, especially in the context of "Ethics and Politics," is like ignoring the existence of insurance companies in a discussion of the costs of medical care. Lobbyists bring a special perspective to the discussions of ethics and politics which improves our understanding of the issues we face. As you well know, at St. John's we welcome a diversity of opinions believing that they add to the richness of our conversation and the fullness of our understanding. We are not afraid to listen to speakers on both sides of "hot" topics - pro-life and pro-choice, pro-gun control and antigun control, pro-Marx and anti-Marx and we also are not afraid to listen to all sorts of different kinds of people. We followed this principle in organizing the Ethics and Politics seminar. We did not, for example, invite only those politicians who voted certain ways on certain issues or who represented one political party. It would have been contrary to our principles to have even sought such information. Instead, we sought a broad spectrum of ideas and individuals, earnestly believing that such diversity would enrich the experience of us all. I think that, on the whole, we suc~eeded, with the exception of our having hsted Mr. Bereano incorrectly in the program, for which l do apologize. I hope you agree and that you enjoyed the day. Sincerely, Jeffrey A. Bishop Vice President for Advancement To The Editor: It is my duty to add my own plaintive plea to Ms. Aydt's and Mr. McCollaum's concerning the College's problem with the Witter Bynner house. Louis Mumford, in his epic book, The in quotes and comments on Dicaearchus the 1st century BC: 'The road to Athens is a "' 1 "'"""""'~ between cultivated way. is and water. The streets are nothing miserable old the houses mean with a few better ones amongst them. On his first arrival a stranger would believe that this is the Athens of he has heard so much.' (Italics mine) "The best one can say of the "'"'"''"'·""' situation in Athens is that the the rich and poor were side that except perhaps in size inner furnishings, were scarcely distinguishable: in the 5th century, noble poverty was more esteemed than ignoble riches, and honours and family repute more than private wealth." It is in this manner that to a continued dialogue suggesting that John's has lost sight of its primary function, especially in regards to being the rec;1p1er1t of the use of such a site as the · Witter Bynner house. While it obviously is to no one's interest to make empty obeisances of dead to and on sites that have lost their numenosity and meaning, I would suggest that it is also to no one's interest to turn numenosity into mere Marxist-capitalist cash-value and worse into that mode of getting wealth that is "most unnatural," as Aristotle so felicitously put it. The College, as I see it, was given the use of this facility, but I do not think that it was given to the College for use as a species of speculative real estate development usury. The College, as its Santa Fe campus, to this day lacks certain kinds of structures necessary to house its functions. As Ms. Aydt so correctly points out, if Witter Bynner house is sold, there's no way we could construct any amount of non-numenous simple square-footage of shelter equal to that which is already possest in the Witter Bynner house and gardens, much less attempt by means of simple monetary expenditure to try to replace that which is special and unique about this property apart from its cashvalue as a shelter or speculative commodity. When it goes, it will be gone; and the College community will forever be the less. But even if we were to set ourselves the goal of replacing it, given the College's general incapacity to understand and articulate right-brain functions, it might well take 50 to l 00 years, if ever. This all is not to deny that there are indeed problemsfor the College in administering and using this property, real world problems that may actually be insuperable as far as the well-running of the College is concerned. However, it would seem all those who have actually experienced the use of Witter Bynner house are in favour of keeping and using it, for it has allowed them to fulfill their experience of St. John's in unforgettable ways, not found in the "regular" physical environment provided by the school. But it seems that administrators think there are problems. If those problems are insuperable, then it seems to me that, following Mr. McCollaum's argument, it is their (our) duty to see that the property is disposed of in a responsible manner and that effort be expended to make sure that this unique historical and cultural resource be allowed to pass into the hands of those who can preserve and use its unique qualities. Ms. Aydt touches again on another very important point when she points out that there will never be enough money at St. John's. In Bk. 1, Ch. IO of The Politics, Aristotle says to this point, "Hence some persons are led to believe that getting wealth is the object of household management ... The whole origin of this disposition in men is that they are intent upon living only, and not upon living well (itali~s mine) ... Those who do aim at a good Me seek the means of obtaining bodily pleasures, and since the enjoyment of these appears to depend on property, they are absorbed in getting wealth . . . The (Continued on Page 13) �s candidates for the n l"l~Cl 11 PtH'U the Santa Fe campus have themselves since November to dential Search Committee under chair....... ,,.,,,uv of Irwin Hoffman of Santa Fe. Hum1rl-l-<Plhn1<1ru, tWO Candidates visited campuses, they engaged in extensive dialogue with administrative, staff and student groups and individuals, while a third had visited the Santa Fe campus only. candidates were five present tutors, alumni of the college, four or present members of the Board of and Governors, six women, nine candidates with presidential experience, seven with the academic rank of dean or higher, and nine candidates identified from the 1986 search for two pn~s1clelltts. Ac:cormme: to Dr. ary criteria which the rants must meet are these: commitment to the liberal arts and the St. John's nr,,,,,,. ..,"" accept.arn~e of the n m The Board of Visitors Governors of the welcomed three new members to its in Santa Fe on 27 and 28. Elected at the last international and corporate Born in Mr. wife and A"''"'"''"~~ ~""'-"'""'' in Geneva and New ua 'Ll)';lH'-'l Sarah last from St. in His career in international fiincluded creation of internation'-'"''"'"''u"' houses in the Bahamas and in Rome, a stint as Financial with World Bank in Caiola earned a Masters of Rome. in Law at the is President and Chief Executive officer of Criterion the Houston holding for Criterion Investment Criterion Funds Investments. Mr. Miller and his wife Beth are also residents of Santa Fe, property in 1987. in c1v1c in Texas, Mr. Miller is a Trustee of the Houston Ballet Foundation, Houston Museum of Natural and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Houston Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Miller rPf''"'ntiu the Governor's Task Force on Busmess and Jobs Creation. He also served as Chairman of the Texas State Pension Review Board which has for all funds Texas. Lucine G. Murchison of Dallas has a record of service. She is Director of the a member of the Texas State member of several ing Santa Fe t"'leuri~1c>g11ca1 Ford's Theater in VValsnm12~rn1n, Museum of Fine Scouts of America. �MARCH 1989 THE REPORTER PAGE& NEH funds Maxwell study for "Masters of Discovery" Annapolis tutor Thomas Simpson is teaching only one section of the senior laboratory this year, but he will be spending most of his time seeking to make accessible to the general reader the thought of James Clerk 19th century scientist - one of the last, Mr. Simpson to whom the term "natural philo<:1n;n.-,.,...,,.,"'1-,, than our may remember Maxwell, Mr. as the author of the elec- the recogniinteractions of rec1011ent of a ..v-r•v.v·vv ,~,,,~,"~' 1-<nlinu1rnP1nt for the one of 73 research uu.•H'-'-""'"" to share $6.3 in outand matching grants awarded last summer across the country. Mr. Simpson's activity is part of a series, Masters of Discovery: Guided Studies of Great Texts in Science, for which tutor Harvey Flaumenhaft is senior editor. The series, undertaken in 1986 on an initial NEH grant, is aimed in its entirety at the non-specialist. Mr. Simpson will focus his attention on three classic papers in which Maxwell's concept of the electromagnetic field took form. These papers, "On Faraday's Lines of Force," "On Physical Lines of Force" and "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field," will be brought together into one volume with notes and commentary. According to Mr. Simpson, the special interest of these papers is in tracing the stages of development of Maxwell's thought - the "successive strategies he used in shaping the concept of the field." "In the course of these papers," Mr. Simpson continues, "Maxwell uses what he calls 'physical analogy' to reveal formal likenesses among physical systems which are in themselves, seemingly, completely disparate - as between heat and electric charge on the one hand, or fluid flow, nr•'l>1Pf'tC mechanical strain and magnetic attraction on the other. This rhetorical strategy enables Maxwell to go as far as possible in thought, without premature commitement to a physical hypothesis." In first of three papers, evidently Mr. believes, under the Michael for whom formal mathematics was a closed book, "Maxwell the or the course of the three the of to the as it to as an "emerging sur" As an intellectual adventure, Mr. ::'>irnp~;on claims, "Maxwell's odyssey has lost none of its interest through the passage of time, while its significance at the foundation of modern physics can only gain as we see increasingly its implications for our own time." enhaft The Masters of Discovery project came to life in 1985, tutor Harvey Flaumenhaft remembers, when he was sitting on a panel for the Humanities, Science and Technology, a subdivision of the NEH. "It seemed a natural," he recalls, "to pro~ote the reading of classic texts in science." He was thinking of educated people, such people as expect to read the plays of Shakespeare, but don't read the work of the great scientists, "perhaps for a good reason," he admitted. There is first the difficulties of the texts, and second, the common belief that the scientific work of the past has been superseded by that of the present. ropose Mr. Flaumenhaft felt that instead of taking present day scientific terms and premises for granted, educated people need to see these terms and premises as the outcome of a process of thought. He suggeted, he says today, that the NEH might support the writing of "guidebooks" to help bring people into contact with the writings of some major scientific thinkers of the past. The NEH concurred, and awarded the Annapolis tutor a grant to establish a series of such guidebooks in 1986-87. For the years 1987-88 and 1988-89, he has been on one-third teaching time in order to write two of what he calls s n on core cu Anmu::>o11s Tutors Thomas K. su1np!mn of Discovery" project. um Annapolis Dean Thomas Slakey took part in two conferences last fall which have been focused upon a core curriculum, a set of courses students take without choice, and its place within a sometimes broader educational scheme. Mr. Slakey spoke on "Teaching by Discussion: Teachers as Learners" as one of four panel participants at a day-long conference at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, in October. The thrust of his paper was that, within core curricula, faculty members teach across departmental lines, rather than stick to individual specialties. "I explained, as I have in talks for three or four years, how that tactic is used here and how it works," Dean Slakey said. At Iona College, students in the Schools of Arts and Science and Business must complete a 54-credit core curriculum. The four colleges represented in the morning session who outlined their approaches to core education ranged from Brown University with a rather open curriculum, through an increasingly structured program at Iona and Brooklyn, to St. John's no-elective program. "Canon(s) and Culture: from Quadrivium to Trivia?"was the name of the twoday November colloquium-at Concordia University in the Province of Quebec. Mr. Slakey presented a paper called "A Great Books Canon: the Extreme Form" as part of a panel discussion called "The Notion of a Canon: Definition and Interpretation." Concordia is a provincial university founded by combining two English-language colleges in Quebec - Loyola College and George Williams College. Within the university, the Liberal Arts College combines a core curriculum of 42 credits with an honors program in a departmental discipline. Most participants were from Canadian universities. A series of fall phonathons for the 198889 Annual Fund was significant not only for the money raised for St. John's, but also for the enthusiasm and comraderie shared by the alumni, students, and friends who gathered to work on them. "Those people who are willing to donate their time and make telephone calls make an enormous contribution to everyone who is interested in the college," noted Jeff Bishop, Vice President for College Advancement in Annapolis. "It is not a job that everyone is willing to undertake nor is it something for which everyone has a talent, and all of us owe these generous volunteers a debt of gratitude. Calls are made not just to seek money, but also to share news of the College with alumni and friends and to update our records on significant facts in our alumni 's lives." On November 14, alumni and parents from Annapolis and Santa Fe met at the Williams Club in New York City to call alumni from both campuses who live in the New York, New England, Pennsylvania area. After dinner and a brief training session, the 17 volunteers spent two hours making phone calls. During that time, they received 140 pledges of support for the Annual Fund and raised $8,517. Allan Hoffman, A '49, coordinated the event_ Volunteers included: Adele K. Alper, mother of Eleanor Hamburger, '88; Julia Beckman, mother of Andrew Beckman, A '87, and Charles Beckman, A '90; Megan Beaumont A '68; Donald A. Booth, A '68; B. Meredith Burke, A '67; Larry Feinberg, A '64; Allan Hoffman, A '49; Maria C. Ironside, SF '80; P. Janee Jacobs, A '71; Ken Lenigan, A GI '88; George Levine, A '44; Paul Martin, SF '80; William G. Salter, A '79; Sabine Schweidt, SF '81; John Schiavo, A '82; Joel Weingarten, A '82; and Jonathan Zavin, A '68. The phone campaigns in Santa Fe of Santa Fe alumni began the same month and will continue until all of the alumni for whom there are phone numbers are called. In three nights of calling 448 calls were attempted, 130 pledges received, and $11,493 raised. Volunteers include: Andrea Adams, SF '92; Lisa Bendall, SF '91; Alfonso Kalinauskis, SF '89; Chris Lippman, SF '89; Joasia Lujan, SF '91; Kate Mcintosh, SF '91; and John Reeder, SF GI '88. The Friends Committee is in the process of calling 175 donors and prospective donors in the Santa Fe Area. The chairpersons of the Santa Fe Friends campaign are David A. Ater, former Board member, and Owen M. Lopez, current Board member. Committee members include: David Barker, James Carey, Peso Chavez, Stephan Flance, C. T. Herman, John A. Martin, Nathaniel Otis Owings, Ruth Penneycook, Roger Peterson, Ramson Reynolds, Joe Schepps, Abe Silver, Jr., Eleanor H. Steinert, and Robert P. Turner. Ex officio members of the Committee are: Harrylon Egolf, Gladys Herman, Daniel T. Kelly, Jr., Carolyn Mercer, Hope Ritchie, Mara Robinson, and Carol Ann Tucker. Jeff Morgan, Vice President for College Advancement in Santa Fe observed, "The support of friends, alumni, and students is crucial to the success of every Annual Fund Campaign. I never cease to be amazed with the energy and enthusiasm the volunteers bring to the phonathons. The support of students this year has been overwhelming and quite successful. Phonathon evenings are filled with warm conversations and good-natured competition." The Annapolis alumni phonathons were held on November 28, 29, and 30. During those three nights the alumni and student volunteers secured 312 pledges totalling $21,674. Old friendships were re-established ("No, I am not dead,"), and news of new marriages, births, children, and grandchildren exchanged. The volunteers included: Paul Anderson, A '87; Gerald Atterbury, A '46; Miriam L. CallahanHeane, A '87; Jack Ladd Carr, A '50; 11 ook project "exemplary" volumes for the series. These are a Guidebook on Classical Geometry and Its Trans/ormation, presenting work by Euclid, Apollonius and Descartes, and Classical Astronomy and Its Transformation, with discussion of Ptolemy and Copernicus. The NEH grant and the series are separate operations, Mr. Flaumenhaft points out. While Mr. Simpson has been funded for his work on Maxwell's theories, Tutor Emeritus Curtis Wilson is writing a volume on Newton and Gravitation without Endowment support. The subjects of other volumes now projected include Kepler on the planets and Newton on light. n Joseph Cohen, A '56; Paul R. Comegys, A '42; William F. Cone, A '67; Christina L. Connell, A '67; Jennifer Claire Darling, A '92; Kathy Dulisse, A GI '88; Leland Giovannelli, A '78; Katherine Hsu Haas, A '60; Robert C. Heeney, A GI, '82; Mary Pat Justice, SF GI, '71; Christopher A. King, A '75; Ranlet Lincoln, A '50; Merle Maffei, A GI, '86; Cyril R. Murphy, Jr., A '36; Faye C. Polillo, A '56; Rosamond H. Rice, A GI '81; Henry M. Robert Ill, A '41; Daniel Schoos, A '86; Ken-wha Kenneth Shew, A '86; Steven Shore, SF '68; James F. Tindall, A '39; Frank K. Wilson, A '35; and Rebecca Wilson, HA '83. In early December, the Annapolis Friends group conducted the first in its series of phonathons. The volunteer callers were Mary Joy Belknap, Robert Mary Kay Biern, John Christensen, Virginia Ochs Claggett, Alan Harquail, John Moore, Nancy Osius, and Marilyn Williamson. The series of phonathons in Santa Fe will continue and Annapolis plans several evenings of calling in the Spring. "The Annual Fund is essential to the operations of St. John's," Marylou Symmonds, director of the fund in Annapolis commented. "Income from tuition and endowment is insufficient to cover the annual expense of operating the college, and gifts to the Annual Fund are what allows St. John's to balance its budget without compromising its programs or standards," she pointed out. "Gifts to the fund benefit every aspect of the college's operations." Is Annapolis Vice President for Advancement Jeffrey Bishop gave a two-day seminar recently in Atlanta for station managers and development directors of mid-Atlantic national public radio stations. His subject was fundraising in the 1990s. �PAGE7 THE REPORTER MARCH 1989 On the road II cl c SS I am with how l direct the class. I do some lecturing, but not nearly so much as I thought. The graduate students expect to aren't expecting a lecture, take part; object to my holding weekends, she has with and their young son -",,"',,..-"'"'son Cuppy. ~,.,,~~--~ to find time on these weekends to work on her book in in the chamber music of the (Haydn and She on the book in 1986-87 when was a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle North Carolina. At that time she undertook her preliminary research and drafted a long introduction, one which "sets the stage for the analyses I am going to do." She will be taking a partial sabbatical in the academic year of 1989-90, with no teaching duties, but continuing to serve as assistant dean. She hopes to bring the book close to completion then. Mrs. Allanbrook is the author of Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni, ' a book selected as among the best academic books of 1984. ·~~·~ ..~ ... course in and Her over-enrolled class of coincidenall women, doesn't reflect the gender of graduate students in the department, she comments. All but three class members are graduate students, and all expect to take part in discussions. She invariably spends the hour-long commuting flight Thursday in study. "I'm enjoying the kind of preparation I do," says Mrs. Allan brook. "I have more time to spend on details. It is fun for a change to teach a class where l know students will also have taken time to look at things as intensively. "Of course, I'm inexperienced in this kind of teaching. l 'm not sure how pleased r Recent St. John's graduates or graduatseniors are being sought for a classroom in Cartagena, Colombia. Annapolis graduates are now spending the academic year in Cartagena as part of a program which Annapolis tutor Robert Druecker has guided for two summers. Mr. Druecker's teacher training sessions have been'~t the invitation of the director ofteaching in the girls' division of the Gimnasio Cartagena de lndias, a private school for pre-school through high school level students. Sarah Waters, A '88, has been teaching English at the Gimnasio since September and working with the teachers who are teaching great books there. In January, she was joined by Sus3an Borden and Michael Crawford, also A '88. Fifty-five teachers attended Mr. Druecker's training session last summer on how to generate a discussion I 0 or 20 minutes long in any class, science, social studies, language. He used texts in these disciplines as a jumping off point. Representing two schools in Cartagena and one in Bogota, most of the teachers had attended the initial sessions a year before, although a few came for the first time. Teachers from all three schools were using throughout the 1987-88 school year the strategies introduced the summer of 1987. Last summer the teachers practiced asking opening questions, practiced leading discussions, and refined skills. "Now they are at a point," Mr. Druecker commented, "where the next step should be more study rather than more training." Sou1e hope to continue their studies at the Graduate lnstitute, he said. "Shouldn't students leave the classroom knowing the truth?" was a question Mr. Druecker was sometimes asked. It became one of his primary objectives to persuade such teachers that "it is ultimately more risky to have students repeat 'right' answers which they do not really believe than to encourage them to express their deepest concerns and beliefs and work with these in the discussion." Mr. Druecker had the special ntisfaction of observing for a week the classes in grades one to eleven at the Gimnasio. All were discussing the Ring of Gyges passage from Plato's Repuhlic, and "almost all were really exciting discussions with a high level of engrossed participation." "The last class I'll never forget," says Mr. Druecker. "The eighth graders talked for an hour. As always, I met afterwards with the teacher to give her my observations. Discussion among the children continued." He pauses for a satisfying moment. "It was still going 40 minutes later." Tutors, alumni represented in book The St.John's community is generously represented in the 1988 edition of The Great Ideas Today, an annual publication of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., under editor Mortimer J. Adler and executive editor John Van Doren, A '47. "The theme of this year's issue is change," the preface declares, "is how some part of our experience and how we think about it is different now from what it was." The series itself is set up to demonstrate that the tradition of the Great Books continues in modern life and is evident in much of what is being said and done today. Under the first of four sections of the current volume, "Current Developments in the Arts and Sciences," is "Twentieth Century Music" by Annapolis Tutor Emeritus Douglas Allanbrook. "The New Pythagoreans: Reflections on the idea of Science in our Time," by Annapolis tutor Thomas K. Simpson is included under the section, "Reconsiderations of Great Books and Ideas." Under "Special Features" is Annapolis tutor Joe Sachs' essay "God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob," and an essay by George Anastaplo, A '75, "In re Allan Bloom: a Respectful Dissent." Mr. Adler himself has two essays included in the volume. Career directors head to meeting Ellie Lotz Dietrich, Director of Career Planning in Annapolis, and Ron Hale, Director of Career Planning at the Santa Fe campus, have both received invitations to the Seventh Annual Skylark Conference, an invitational meeting of career professionals held near Raleigh, North Carolina. Skylark was started by a small group of people representing larger universities. The founding group included Howard Figler, Director of Career Placement at the University of Texas, and author of the well-known book, PA TH: A Career Exploration Workbook for the Liheral Arts Graduate and numerous other books. NEH f t s St. John's College in Annapolis will to be named for 1990-92, and the second receive a challenge grant for $500,000 to -for 1991-93. endow two tutorships, one on ancient, St. John's was one of seven colleges and medieval and renaissance thought, and nine universities to receive awards this one on modern thought, a spokesman for week. In addition, a number of libraries, the National Endowment for the Humani- museums and other cultural centers ties has announced. received grants from the NEH. St. John's is the only college in Maryland and one of 35 educational and cultural institutions across the country to share in the $15. 5 million in challenge grants awarded this week by the NEH, an independent federal agency supporting research and scholarship. The college itself must raise $2,000,000 in the next four years to qualify for the funds. Over 60 of the bold and colorful silksThe award is a highly gratifying one creen prints of the Annapolis campus which recognizes "the critical importance created by artist Nancy Hammond have of the faculty to fulfill the unique mission been sold since the limited edition poster of the St. John's program, "said St. John's was offered to the public before Christmas. Limited to 150 signed and numbered College Dean Thomas Slakey. The college's program, based on study of 130 prints, the work presents a scene framed great works in the western tradition, by McDowell Hall and the Liberty Tree requires faculty members to teach across with a bold and simple Pinkney Hall visthe curriculum. in areas often far from ible behind. The 13-color print emphastheir fields of scholarly expertise. izes sunlight, shadow, silhouette and Endowment of the chairs will permit unexpected color. 5;t. Johns College is in tutors to pursue individual lines of inquiry Palacio typeface, with Annapolis lettered and to study in areas where they have not underneath in Helvetica light. President of a re-organized Friends of yet taught, according to Dean Slakey. In addition, it will "guarantee a flow of fresh St. John's, a group which sponsored the thought into the entire St. John's com- highly successful Ethics and Politics munity as well as into the larger commun- forum, and which has reached out into the ity of scholars," he said. community with a group of other attracTutors designated will hold chairs for a tive projects, Mrs. Hammond owns period of two years. During the first year, Hammond Editions, 418 Sixth St., Annathey will be released from two thirds of polis, which publishes and distributes her their teaching for private study. During prints. The winner of the Maryland State the second year, the release time will con- Poster contest in 1980, Mrs. Hammond is tinue and those designated will lead study perhaps best known for her memorable groups for other tutors, will be encour- sailing and tidewater posters, which may. aged to publish the results of their studies, be found in collections in this country and and will be required to give a lecture or abroad. Mrs. Hammond's work has been exhiseries of lectures in the Friday evening lecture series of the college. bited at galleries in Baltimore, WashingThe college is committed to raising ton and New York, as well as at the Balti$75,000 by July, 1989, in order to qualify more Museum of Art. Further information about the posters for initial money for the grant, and a total of $2,000,000 by the summer of 1992 for a may be obtained by calling the Advancefour-to-one ratio of private to federal ment office at the Annapolis campus, monies. The first ch~ir holder is expected (301) 263-2371, ext. 230. Bold campus prints continue available �PAGES MARCH 1989 THE REPORTER One Community for the Liberal Arts The fallowing report to the Board of Visitors and Governors was presented on October 22, 1988 by David Dobreer on behalf of the Alumni Association. It has been my privilege to serve as President of the Alumni Association of St. John's College for the past six years and I am pleased to be given the opportunity to address this Board concerning the structure, purposes, and works of the Alumni Association, as well as its relation to the College. To begin, it should be noted that Alumni are designated in the Polity as an integral part of the College community and the Alumni Association is recognized by the Polity as ... "the formal means by which alumni participate in the life of the college." Under its Articles of Incorporation, its By-laws, and its Statement of Principles and Aims, the Association has been established for the continuing association of alumni with one another and having a paramount desire to serve, preserve, and advance the best interests of St. John's College as one community of and for liberal education. Development and Organization The Alumni Association was first formed by Francis Scott Key and three other alumni in 1827 and is, as far as we know, the fifth oldest alumni association in the United States. In 1981, reflecting changes that had taken place in the College including the development of a second campus in the West, steps were taken to restructure the Association with the formation of a Board of Directors. This consisted of representatives from all over the country. The Association applied for and received its tax-exempt status as an independent, not-for-profit educational institua status that it continues to enjoy today. Its status is thus independent of the not-for-profit status granted to St. John's College. Membership in the Association is open to all alumni deriving from the undergraduate programs and the Graduate Institutes of both campuses plus honorary alumni drawn from among the faculty, administration, and friends of the on both campuses and from all parts of the country. one-third of the College's alumni are active, duespaying members of the Association. The Association has an Executive Committee and on its the general memBoard twelve directors elected at of the Association, plus one representative from chartered chapters throughout the United States, rer>re:ser1ta1t1v~:::s two student representatives, and officers from the two campuses. It meets four times a year concurrently with the Board of Visitors and Governors in January, April and July, and at the Homecoming in September. Thus, there are two annually on each v<.UHL/Uc~. Common of College Association With respect to the relationship between the Association and the College: the two organizations, being distinct entities, each has responsibility for its own governance. The Association's Charter and By-Laws make explicit its manner of governance, just as the Charter and the Polity of the College do the same for the College itself. Despite their independence, the two entities share common purposes: that the alumni should participate in the life of the College; that they should hold positions on the Board of Visitors and Governors; that the College should serve the on-going intellectual lives of its alumni; and that alumni should participate in the recruiting of students and in helping to provide career opportunities for students after they complete their work at St. John's. Both organizations are committed to the financial and educational well-being of the College. Just as the College is a single united corporation with two campuses widely separated geographically, so the alumni of both campuses and of all the separate chapters are members of a single association. The Alumni Association helps to bring unity to the College just as do the common Board of Visitors and Governors, the single faculty, and the single student body. This relationship has been acknowledged in correspondence between the College and the Association through the offices of their Presidents. The two entities maintain close lines of communications between their respective officers and boards, so that no conflicts should arise between the activities and projects of the two. Just as this Board has an Alumni Relations Committee, so our Alumni Association Board has an Institutional Relations Committee, whose task is to work closely with the College and this Board to achieve their common purposes and to avoid any conflicts in programs. In addition, the Association Board has five other standing committees, namely: Continuing Liberal Education, Fund Raising, Communications, and Student Recruitment, which are designed to work in cooperation with similarly oriented committees of the Board of Visitors and Governors. Accomplishments and Assistance What then has the Alumni Association accomplished in the last six years? The Association co-sponsored with the College the publication of a complete, detailed alumni register. It has undertaken to provide financial support and assistance to all chapters throughout the United States in their activities to hold seminars, social events, lecture series, art tours, and trips for other educational purposes. It has actively assisted in the formation of eleven chapters and is now working in some capacity to form several additional chapters in other parts of the country. John Van Doren's Continuing Education Committee has been responsible for organized lawyers' seminars in Chicago and San Francisco and seminars for medical people in Evanston and Los Angeles. Through Harrison Sheppard's efforts, the Association has provided books and support to the Delancey Street Foundation as well as alumni to serve as teachers in the Delancey Street educational programs. It has sponsored more than a hundred and twenty honors seminars in high schools throughout the country. It has assisted the recruitment officers of the College in presenting book awards to honors students in a number of high schools in the United States. It has helped the admissions officers in sponsoring gatherings in the homes of alumni in several cities throughout the country to assist in recruiting high school students. The Association has conducted tours for alumni and friends of the College to Greece and China through the work of Carolyn Leeuenburgh. Bernard Jacob and others have helped to establish and finance portraits of Richard Weigle, Stringfellow Barr, Scott Buchanan, John Keiffer, Ford K. · Brown, and Winfree Smith. There are also projects pending, including refurbishing of the Alumni War Memorial on the front campus at Annapolis, renovation of the boat house, and a Jacob Klein Memorial. photo Keith Harvey Most recently, the Association has established the St. John's College Alumni Association Scholarship Fund as part of the Corporate Endowment Fund of the College. While the Fund is growing in size through earnings and additional gifts from the Association, the Association has begun awarding scholarships to the children of alumni on each campus in equal amounts, based on financial need, all in coordination with the appropriate officers of the College. Chapter Activities With regard to chapter activities: The eleven chapters of the Alumni Association vary in size from a handful in Seattle and Dallas to over a hundred members in New York. Active chapters have regular monthly or bimonthly meetings - some even biweekly, some quarterly or semiannually. At some of the chapters seminars are the order of the day. Dinners, socializing, or lectures form the heart of other programs. At some, the chapters have tutors or other representatives from the campuses come to join them or speak to them or lead seminars. In other chapters, chapter members coordinate and run all of their own activities autonomously. Some chapters raise money and finance their activities locally. Others operate without funding. Some hold their meetings in homes of alumni, and others in rented " The alumni association has assisted of eleven and is now working in some capacity to several additional chapters other parts the " facilities, halls, and clubs. Literally, many hundreds of alumni have attended alumni functions at the various chapters. These chapters form the heart and foundation of the alumni organization. To encourage and support these chapter activities and to give some help to the core groups of volunteers, leaders and organizers of chapter activities, the national Association ST. ~ sponsored its first chapter workshop two summers ago and helped to finance the attendance of all chapter Presidents at that meeting. The Association intends to continue doing this on a biannual basis, if interest remains. This should help to ' tie the chapters closely to the national Association as well as bring the alumni back to the College, which is the desire of us all. The Permanent Part of the College l would like to turn now from this description of facts and figures and organizational structures to a more philosophical discussion of relationships and the purposes within the College in keeping with the tenor of the three presentations by Miss Brann, Mr. Comenetz, and Mr. Sparrow, which preceded this report today. Perhaps this will add another element or perspective to the picture that they have drawn of the College. The preamble of the Polity of St. John's College states in part: "Education is the making of men [and women] out of children by bringing them into the world of inherited customs, intellectual traditions and inherited ties. Institutions of learning are set up for this purpose. Beyond this, they should also seek to develop the moral and intellectual powers of men [and women] to enable them to fulfill best their freely chosen tasks and thus to take their own responsible part in shaping the future. St. John's College is a community of learning committed to holding these ends constantly in sight and to seeking the best means of attaining them." To state this more succinctly, one might reasonably say, that the essential purpose of St. John's College is to produce liberally educated alumni. The Polity further states in Article 1(2): "The College consists of the The Board of Visitors and Governors, the Faculty, the the Graduate the and other members who may be Alumni, and the named from time to the Board of Visitors and Governors." Before we impute any special significance to the order of ' listing above, we should note Article of the which states: "Alumni shall be life-Jong members of College, since St. John's College is a community not limited by geographical location or fixed periods of time." It should be observed that the Polity does not the epithet "life-long" to the members of any other segment of the College community. This concept is enlarged upon and illuminated in a talk delivered in 1980 by Eva Brann titled: "The Permanent Part of the College", in which after pointing out that the being in space of each of the other parts of the College was limited to a greater or lesser degree, she stated ... "Alumni, on the other hand, are alumni for good. By the College Polity, all students, once matriculated, become alumni of the College, whether they leave with or without a degree, and no one can retire or "terminate" them. All other membership in the College is by choice; that of the Alumni alone has in it something analogous to being by nature." She then goes on to discuss "the after life of a student from its most specific to its widest aspect" -which is, of course, the life-Jong relationship of an alumnus or alumna to the College. Participation and Revitalization Finally, the role of the alumni organization is indicated in the Polity, Article Xlll(2), which states: "The Alumni Association is the formal means by which alumni participate in the life of the College. Through election of alumni members of the Board of Visitors and Governors, alumni share in the direction of that life. In these and other ways, alumni shall be given the opportunity to serve the College." Which is to say, to continue their liberal education life-long through St. John's College. For amplification of these ideas, I would recommend a paper entitled "The Alumni and the Governance of the College" delivered in 1981 by Charles Nelson. Let me say in closing: the revitalization of the Alumni Association and the achievement of a proper symbiotic relationship between the College and Alumni is the result of the dedication and devotion of the members of the Alumni Association Board, who have given unstintingly of their time, energy, and money to the Alumni Association and the College and, in many cases, serving concurrently on both Boards. And finally, let me add that none of this would have been possible without the direct support and encouragement we received from Ed Delattre, Bill Dyal, Jeff Bishop, and Jeff Morgan, the help of the Deans, and the faculty in general on both campuses in particular, Bob Bart and Joe Cohen, who have served as faculty representatives on the Alumni Board, and above all, I must express my personal appreciation and the appreciation of the Alumni Association for the sympathetic support and assistance given us by individual members of this Board and its chairmen during the past six years, including Charles Nelson, John Robson, Jim Frame, and Scott Kelso. Indeed, credit must go to the entire College community. Thank you. - Dr. David Dobreer, A '44 �MARCH 1989 ALUMNI As OCIATION 1 Representing St. John's to acquaintances outside the College often provokes a certain confusion: to resort to "liberal arts college" may only produce the misunderstanding that I refer to an arts institute, i.e. a school of fine art. In such a case my interlocutor has been misled by the reference to "art" and disregarded the specific difference - a common confusion nowadays. The liberal/fine arts distinction, of course, goes back a long way and has its basis in the books read in the freshman year. There, notably in Plato and Aristotle, "liberal" is opposed to "slavish," a distinction which betrays its political roots. Later it will become "de-politicized" (at least on the surface) and reappear disguised as "intellectual" and "manual," the arts of the most articulate parts of the soul and body, the mind and hand. Later still, some of the latter such as sculpture and painting will be dubbed "fine" as the arts of the beautiful, distinct from the true. Now even if the liberal and fine arts seem as distinguishable as soul and body, might not someone argue for a Carte. Keatsian) of tangency? And then not this common ground have implications for a curriculum which tried to maintain a strict liberal arts regimen? In our case an affirmative answer might require us to invite works of fine art into the seminar room as appropriate subjects of discussion as great "books" in some metaphorical sense. Of course these questions are not just idle, as this spring the Santa Fe alumni will experiment with this possibility and take a fine painting of an acknowledged master as our "book"for a seminar. In addition, this kind of thing has been on for some time at Thus it has become a matter of some urgency to the rationale for such a practice. First let us not forget that St. John's is not only distinctive by virtue of our liberal arts status (which we nominally share with many colleges), but perhaps unique in our interrogative - not to say inquisitory - approach to books. We take some pride in questioning matters the rest of the world considers long since settled. As the late Dean of Santa Fe was fond of saying to those in other institutions," You have the answers; we have the questions." We question our books incessantly and they repay our efforts and thereby justify their status as "great," by never failing to give us an answer which provokes yet another, and we hope, a deeper question. How then shall we question our beautiful new "book," the painting? It is a thing of beauty surely, but as such imperiously mute. Our books need the eye to see the text in order to read, but the painting needs only to be seen. Unlike books and scores which "speak for themselves," using the eye only incidentally in order to be heard, there is no "text," no speech in the painting (for then it would admit of translation). However much it is a feast for the eye, the ear is famished. The painting resembles Nietzsche's cow: to our questioning it just looks back, unable to answer because she forgot the question. At most these beautiful things silently "call" us as Plato's playful analysis of kalon maintains, suggesting by his false etymology a deep truth. Such a call, however, can never be an answer to our question. It is scarcely a question of "faith" but a matter of fact that Johnnies find it all too easy to talk "about" anything: we exhibit certain symptoms of the "Athenian disease" of verbosity. But beauty does not issue its call to elicit chatter but rather to gain our attention. In this case l would prescribe a measure of restraint, to reverse our tendency and confine our attention to that of appreciative silence. To true beauty there is nothing to add. The respectful, if artificial, hush of the museum is usually broken only by those of assured sophistication. A description of appreciation as contemplation is apt. To add "silent"to the term is gratuitous. Nor do I suggest that naivete will suffice. To be sure, one's powers of observation may be enhanced by training and experience. Aristotle, for example, recommends the practice of drawing as an aid to the refinement of one's judgment of beauty. In any case, it does not seem that the seminar room is the most suitable place for the appreciation of fine art. It might PAGE9 THE REPORTER Chapter Events ANNAPOLIS PHILADELPHIA March 3 - Luncheon April 14 - Luncheon May 12 - Luncheon - Speaker will be Harvey Goldstein, President of the Alumni Association. Special three-part series "Talking about Works of Art," led by Curtis Wilson, Burt Blistein, and Winfree Smith, held on Saturdays February 18, March 18, and April 15. Luncheon topics and speakers to be announced. They are held in the Private Dining Room, Randall Hall, SJC, at noon. Call the Alumni Office for further information, (301) 263-2371. March 9 - Seminar May l l - Seminar Topics and tutors to be announced. All meetings will be at the Germantown Cricket Club. For details call Jim Schweidel at (215) 836-7632. SACRAMENTO Meetings are every other month to discuss The Program readings which follow the undergraduate sequence. Inquiries are welcome; phone Arianne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen Feeley 381-7887. SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOSTON Sunday, April 2 - Seminar (reading and tutor to be announced). Special guest -Alumni Association President Harvey Goldstein CHICAGO A seminar series on the subject of "time and change" is held monthly on Saturdays or Sundays. Call Cindy Rutz (312) 975-3593 hm, 337-4102 wk.Jar information and other acllvltles being planned. DALLAS/FT. WORTH This chapter meets for ,\"aturday evening seminars ahout 10 times a year. For further information call Suzanne Doremus at (817) 496-8571 or Jonathan Hustis (214) 340-4102. March 5 - Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet March 12-Jack Steadman lecture on "Determinism and some developments in Modern Physics" April 2 - Tom Jones, the first half May 7 - Tom Jones, the second half May 21 - Annual Sausalito Potluck, 2:00 p.m. Locations of seminars rotate, but meet at 2:30 p.m. Call Mark Middlebrook, (415) 530-9643 hm, or 834-4164 for more information. SANTA FE March 1 - Sallust, The Catiline Conspiracy " April 5 - Plato, The Seventh Letter May - Robert Bart will lead a discussion on selected paintings. Location and time for this seminar and potluck to be announced. All seminars are held at 7:30 p.m. in Room 105, ,)anta Fe Hall, SJC. Call John Pollack (505) 983-2144 or Ron Hale 982-3691 for details. SEATTLE CALIFORNIA March 5 - Seminar, Descartes' Meditations April 2- Museum tour May 7 Seminar: Freud, The Ego and the Id For more details.call Ed Raspa (213) 223-9934 or David Dobreer, 283-6315. NEW YORK March 8 - Seminar led by Tutor John Verdi on Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle May 13- Party and seminar on Rembrandt's etchings at Peter Weiss's house. Seminars meet at the Princeton Club at 7 p.m., unless noted otherwise. Call Lovejoy Duryea (212) 737-3721 for further information. rather be the stuff fit for guidance of a preceptor, someone intimate with the work who had some experience and training in giving voice to purely visual objects. After all, there are a certain few who, by their special sensitivity to these mute objects, can speak for them to the rest of us who are dumbfounded. Alternately, we might take Aristotle's suggestion seriously and remove such activity to the tutorial in order to develop the requisite skills of appreciation. Questions that come to mind when addressing a painting are, on the whole, technical in nature. Such concerns are only incidentally appropriate to a seminar. It is true that questions of grammar and rhetorical form may arise in the seminar room, but this is hardly the place to parse a novel. Technical concerns should perhaps be removed to the laboratory. To these considerations, one might add certain other qualms of a more circumstantial import. For example, we at least in principle like to think primary access to texts is important, eschewing secondary sources and tending to be suspicious of translations and interpretations. But in the . case of works of art, we must be, in the main, satisfied with reproductions and secondary materials of some sort in the absence of the original. Only a fortunate few will have seen this original, and, if my experience with just a few such works is any indication, any reproduction must only disappoint in relation to its prototype. These questions and even the one with which we began are but facets of a larger concern. The larger - and perhaps largest questions we may raise with respect to St. John's future - is why and how should the New Program be sustained? A quick perusal of the last Reporter will show at least a half dozen appeals from virtually every quarter of the College community pleading a variety of causes unified by the single presumption that our curriculum be changed. This sort of thing is of course to be expected in an ethos of progress rife with the crosscurrents of popular culture, political activism, and sheer faddishness. But, if we are to respond rightly, we should heed the philosopher who said, "The only way to make progress in education is to return to the past." Our past began with a period during which the New This Chapter meets during the year for different events. Call Kathleen Flynn (206) 328-1482 or John Ross 545-7900 for more information. WASHINGTON D.C./METROPOLITAN AREA March 8 - Dostoevsky, White Nights March 22 - J. S. Mill, On Liberty April 5 - I. Calvino, The Argentine Ant April 26 - Erasmus, In Praise of Folly May IO - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan lllych May 12 - Cocktail Party and Reception (location to be ~nnounced). Special guest - Harvey Goldstein, President of the Alumni Association May 24 - J. Gardner, The Art of Fiction, Part I Seminars meet at 6:30 at the West End branch ofthe D. C. Public Library. For further details phone Sam Stiles (301) 424-9119 or Deborah Papier (202)387-4520 Program went through many changes: it did not spring from the minds of our "Founding Fathers" full grown but took some time to mature and settle. During this period, the curriculum was under the keen scrutiny of a philosophic competence of a high order so that over the first twenty years the New Program emerged as a genuine synopsis into what is now its present form. This is the true basis of whatever common vision we may sustain. It was sheer good fortune that they so well provided for the College during those formative years and we may hope, but not expect, to have access to such philosophic acumen again. Failing the advent of such a blessing I suggest that the College has no alternative but to sustain its faith in its founding, vigilantly guarding the New Program without resorting to sheer dogmatic tenacity on the one hand or topical obsequiousness on the other. In this way we may maintain our philosophic endowment (which is likely not to be renewable) without squandering it to appease the misguided appeals of those among us who are impetuous, demoralized, or merely bored. - Bob Arne, SGI '83 By way of an apology for the masthead on the preceding Alumni newsletter, I draw your attention to this issue with its hooks and balances logo. This logo which began to he used at the inception of the present Program will continue to head the Association '.s pages. Following some discussion at the January Alumni Association Board meeting, it was decided to schedule a discussion on the By-Laws Revision during Homecoming in Santa Fe, the weekend of July 14. The Board has used its power to call this special meeting which addresses matters of importance to all alumni. The revisions to the document which governs our polity deserve your attention and I encourage all interested alumni to attend. - Linda Stabler-Talty, SGI '76 Editor, SJC Alumni Newsletter �THE REPORTER PAGE10 I s NANCY OSIUS Not so very long ago, two attractive and Chinese students, located in mainland had achieved education degrees, could with and held '"'"-'~"''"'"'' even enviable jobs. also, like a lot clever young had 10rit2n1gs to see Such wishes sometimes come true, but and more selstiH among the millions of a nation returned to with the this is no fairy for life in U.S. as elsewhere is filled with gritty realities as well as multihued it is at least a chronicle of fortuitous circumstances and wishes fulfilled, and Annapolis campus has been both ot:11e11cl<HV and benefactor in these happy events. The two students, Huang and Jonathan Joe, in only met each other for the first time in January, before Xiayi, who had received her Graduate Institute moved on, and while Jonathan, just was earlier the story, of course, with the to China taken tutor Williamson and his wife in December, 1986. / the course of arranged travel, the Williamsons were in the port city of where a young English lanto meet them at was station. three had lunch before Xiayi delivered them to for the next leg of their journey. the three were to meet again on the Williamsons' return leg of their j oumey. Mrs. Williamson remembers the meetwell. "Xiayi was very friendly and outand she seemed concerned about our welfare as tourists in China. There was something open and refreshing about her attitude. We were very much impressed· with her command of English and also with the desire she expressed to study in the U.S." Thirty-one-year-old Xiayi, holder of a degree from Zhongshan University in Canton, married and the mother of a small daughter, held a prestigious job as a guide with the China International Travel Service, and she had long been interested in U .S.-based studies. "My aim was not St. John's," says Xiayi now. "I didn't know about it at all." But she became very much interested in the Williamsons' description of the Graduate Institute program, and the Williamsons were interested in this exceptionally selfcontained and articulate young woman. Soon after they returned home, the Annapolis couple had offered themselves as sponsors. Sponsorship entails making a commitment to support the student in an emergency and to provide funds for personal expenses, clothing and the like, and the Williamsons were prepared to do this. At the same time, they asked their good friends, fell ow tutor Ed Sparrow and his wife Lydia, occupants of a rambling house across the street from the college and themselves the parents of eight children, if they could offer Xiayi room and board during her stay. The Sparrows agreed. So it all came to be, and in August of 1987, Xiayi arrived. We met Xiayi on the last day of her Annapolis stay, her degree achieved, her to the future as well as to the past. 15 months in Annapolis had been full ones. Besides her own course of study, in the 1988 spring and fall sessions, she taught classes in calligraphy, a 4,000-yearold art comprised of bold and often exquisite brush strokes. Her studies had brought her new perspectives. The books she read "are the basic thought of western society, and they helped me to understand western society better than before. It was very important for me." The seminar and discussion method, a new experience, "really puts you in the book. You are part of the class and you r.-. • l r r• .-.r1 MARCH 1989 t t have to you have to understand," us. "You have to bring own ideas and your understanding of text in order to to talk. Not Xiayi emerged with a strong contact at Notre Dame. This semester she will be teaching calligraphy there as well as assisting another professor with an Asian Studies class. In the meantime, her husband Guonong Liu has also come to this country, and expects to receive a master's degree in August from Johnson and Wells College in Providence. What comes next? "We don't know anything about our futures yet," she says serenely. *** When we meet him, Jonathan Joe, an exceptionally pleasant and animated 23year-old, has been in the United States for five days. While he may be suffering from some combination of jet lag and culture shock, it doesn't show on his face this day. He is already settled in cozily with Julia Feldman, a member of the Caritas Society, who is providing him with a home on Avenue this year. Mrs. Feldman, like Sparrows, was recruited by the Williamsons. She says of her lodger, "I find him to be delightful. He eats everything. He is an appreciative person. He says to me, 'You sound just like my 1986-1988. mother.' I've had boys, so I know about Ah, yes, back to the who them. After meeting Jonathan, my son on their 1986 tour of China happened to said, 'Mama, I think you've got a winner.'" be on a river cruise from Kweilin to Jonathan himself is coping with myriad shuo with Jonathan nearby guiding new impressions. friendly Canadian tourists. The westerners He tells us, "The biggest difference that and their guides fell into conversation. I see is that in China there are so many Five hours are a long time, long at people in our crowded streets. When I got least to change a young man's life. the here, there were so few people. l had to end of the trip, the Williamsons had a find my way around, and it was hard to , second young person they wanted to find anyone to ask the way. And there are sponsor. so many cars!" Jonathan is in the beginning of the Jonathan is a graduate of the Kwangsi study of western writers whose words, Normal University, which generally pre- translated into their own have pares students for teaching careers: 95 per challenged readers for cent of his fellow graduates will be assigned "It is difficult for me," he says. "There by the government as teachers. His father are so many new words. l have to consult a so many times." He is,.~,,~,"~" and mother are teachers of science and English respectively, and the modest five hours a on the he tells us, remuneration in this profession made them and he is very at the end suggest that Jonathan try something else. But at the beginning of the new The something else was the employ- ture, Xiayi's experience and counsel are ment as a guide with the Chinese Youth helpful. Jonathan smiles. "l feel more conTravel Service, where he worked from fident seeing her," he says. ~I ns (Continued from p. 1) comes from its operating budget. ParticuPark will increase eight percent next fall, larly costly is the maintenance of the hiswhile its night school will jump 25 percent. toric buildings on the Annapolis campus. Financial analysts attribute the trend to Unable to be funded in this budget, but the colleges' need to catch-up financially projected for the future, is a new dormifor the 1970s, when colleges bore the tory and the renovation of Pinkney Hall. burden of tuition increases well below the Historically, a St. John's education, then-rampant inflation rates. based on small group discussions with a After reviewing the history of tuition student-tutor ratio of 8-to- l, is expensive increases at St. John's, and forecasting its to maintain. The actual cost of educating future expenses, Harriet Higgins, vice a student here for one year is $20,000. The chairman of the Board of Visitors and difference between tuition and the real Governors and chairman of the College cost is made up through college endowFinance Committee, recommended the ments and loans. Tuition pays a little tuition increase to the Board at its Janu- · more than half of the college's total ary meeting in Santa Fe. The decision, she income. Endowments, grants and investemphasized, was made after thorough ments supplied the difference. examination of every aspect of the colIn addition, as college costs rise at St. lege's financial picture. John's so does the need for increased Jeffrey Bishop, vice president for colfinancial aid so, within the college's lege advancement, reiterated that St. resources, no qualified student is denied John's was raising its tuition for one reaan education here. About half of St. son only - to meet its expenses after all John's students receive some type of other resources have been consumed. financial assistance. Top priority of the budget is the need to The Annapolis budget for the coming bring "the incredibly low faculty salaries year of $8 million will include $ l million to parity with similar institutions," he for financial aid, while Santa Fe's $7 miladded. Tutors here earn 85 percent of the lion budget will also include$ l million for median salary of faculty members at other student assistance. schools. They start at $23,000, with the The college plans to address its finanaverage salary here being $32,200. cial needs through a five-year plan calling "People who teach here put economic for increased fundraising, the seeking of considerations second," said faculty major endowments, and increases in the member Jim Beall, chairman of the Tutor annual fund, Mr. Bishop explained. Compensation Committee for the AnnaStill, St. John's is concerned about the polis campus. "And that's the way it middle income family, and the possibility should be, but when a young faculty of pricing an education here out of its member can't afford to live in Annapolis reach, he said. Though some students or to meet modest living standards, then were upset by what they termed an unexit's problematic. And we have been at this pected $ l ,000 tuition increase, student point for some time now." polity president, Munir Hussein, said he A similar economic situatiori exists at had not heard of any students planning to Santa Fe, where property values, too, are leave St. John's. high, said Jeffrey D. Morgan, vice presiIn fact, student applications here have dent for college advancement there. increased six percent yearly for the past While building projects and renovaseven years, according to John Christions at both campuses are financed tensen, director of admissions. At Santa through gifts or low interest government Fe, applications are up an average of nine loans - for instance, construction on a percent a year for the past four years, Mr. $2.8 million library at the Santa Fe camMorgan reports. Mr. Christensen attribpus to begin in June is being financed utes the growing interest in St. John's to through fundraising - campus upkeep the national focus on liberal arts. Nation- r ally, private college enrollments have remained steady, with about 23 percent of all students attending private institutions, according to Julianne Still Thrift, executive vice president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Interestingly, the appreciation of education here is reflected, to some degree, across the country. A poll commissioned by The Council for Advancement and Support of Education in October revealed that "students and parents seem ready to pay almost any price for a quality education." More to the point, less than half the students polled said they considered college costs crucial in selecting a college. Increasing numbers of students and their families are viewing the cost of a college education as a long-term investment with dividends not only in increased earning potential, but even more important, in a fuller appreciation of life. More than ever, they're willing to secure loans, seek financial aid, and work part-time to attain an education. Donald M. Stewart, president of the College Board, said in the Chronicle of Higher Education: "Proper family financial planning and financial aid can put higher education within the reach of almost any qualified student." vance de due An advance deposit of $·150 is due on both campuses from returning sophomores, juniors, and seniors by April IO. Students who do not make this deadline will have their names removed from the class roster for the 1988-89 academic year, according to Annapolis Registrar Nancy Lewis, who urged that students make these arrangements well in advance. Students planning to transfer from one campus to the other must also meet the April deadline. Treasurers at each campus will refund the deposit in the case of withdrawal due to ill health, academic dismissal or failure to enable. It will not be carried over for students deciding to take a year off. �MARCH 19-89 PAGE 11 THE REPORTER Santa Fe alumna travels the world with inspection team By NANCY OSIUS Carol Dockham, SF '76, has been to Russia and eastern Europe nine times in the past six months, but she has never before been to the Annapolis campus or even to the city. Sitting in a 9uiet office during the holiday season, clad in the khaki trousers and shirt that are standard garb for her jour,. neys to the far side of the earth, she has just walked about the campus and beyond it to the hub of Annapolis. The campus itself is almost empty, but. Carol has made her on-site inspection here with the same keen attention she has brought to the other on-site inspection excursions half a globe away, or to the silvery voices of a )'m1th choir at Novodevichy convent, or to the comfortable chatter of recipe exchanging in a Ukrainian kitchen at Samy. When she isn't in Belorussia or the Ukraine, she is in Reston, Virginia, these days, a reluctant commuter looking with some wistfulness at the attractions of nearby Annapolis and most especially of a loved alma mater. But the alma mater is relatively incidental this particular day, when the subject is her work as an interpreter for the On-Site Inspection Agency, created to implement the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed in December, 1987, by President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev. The treaty provides for the elimination by both the U.S. and the into the Orthodox church when she lived in England in 1984. One key activity ("sort of my hobby") . combines both her spiritual and temporal commitments, the Orthodox church and her interest in translation. She is translating in her spare time the letters of Theophan the Recluse, an ecclesiastic the last who was canonized this · past June by Moscow Patriarchal Church. Carol came across his letters of advice to a woman who moved to Moscow the proand because ju~ in for the first too!" The letters will Epiphany un•p;.,«•L"""' losophicaljournal .., .... u"'"""'""' cisco. Earlier, Carol had translated an article for the same magazine on the Holy Trinity written by San Francisco Archbishop John Maximovich. Her work for the inspection agency is principally oral interpretation, which is quite different from written translation. "It is something I am still learning and we all are still learning. There aren't many U.S.S.R. of short and medium range U.S. schools that teach interpretation." 300-3400 miles - ground-launched nu"Oral interpretation doesn't necessarily clear missiles, and of support systems mean word-for-word translation," she says. associated with such missiles. Carol's own 'That's where St. John's liberal education can help. You have to have a broad backfirst person narration may be found elsewhere on this page. ground upon which to draw. Interpreting is not just a matter of someone speaking "The treaty is unique," Carol explains, and you spitting it back word for word." "not only because it is the first treaty to She reemphasized, 'You have to know the stipulate the destruction of an entire class context." of weapons, but because it provides for the monitoring of the actual process by When she is not on an inspection tour, representatives of each country." her chief professional activity is compiling She had a proverb for this, one proa dictionary of technical terms. She vided by President Reagan at the time of explains the process for collecting her the signing. "Doveryai, no proveryai ": · glossary terms. She points to an object, perhaps the turntable of a launch stand. trust but verify. ·•you ask first a Russian-speaker what it St. John's, however is not so far from her mind as she considers this ancient is, then you ask the English-speaking injunction. technical expert what THAT is. It's going to be a 'living dictionary.' Modern lan"At St. John's Greek and French were guages, technology and its terminology my favorite subjects. I was interested in change rapidly!" She is also collecting translating even then." After graduation, she spent a year at the Defense Language terms for other sections of the glossary, for example, a glossary of domestic terms, Institute at Monterey in 1978, another perhaps for clothes dryer, clothespin or stretch in 1982, and taught there for three the like. One of her ways for collecting years beginning in 1984 until she joined these terms is through the housekeeping the inspection team last June. staff at whatever facility is housing the A crucial event in these years was her team. She is usually chosen as intermedecision to join the Eastern Orthodox diary for the various housekeeping probChurch, the culmination of an interest lems that spring up to discomfit the Amerthat also began in her undergraduate ican visitors. "The Soviets were especially days. "Philosophic studies led me in that concerned by our first encounter with direction," she says now. "Reading the Russian winter, and turned the heat up great books and sharing the ideas - the fairly high in our quarters. Russians love community of great minds led me to the to overheat buildings in winter. I asked communion of saints." She was received r CAROL DOCKHAM I began working as an interpreter for the On-Site Inspection Agency in june, 1988, when the treaty was ratified by the Senate and the Supreme Soviet. l have since made eight separate trips to the U.S.S.R., and one to the German Democratic Republic. I made my first trip to the U.S.S. R. in early July, which is when the "base-line" period of inspections began. The Treaty provides for five separate kinds of inspections, and the "base-line" inspections served as the first stage of the entire process: each side "verified" the data the other side provided. In other words, we counted missiles and missile support equipment. U.S. inspection teams had 60 days to cover more than 130 Soviet bases in the U.S.S. R., German Democratic Republic, and Czechoslovakia (Soviet teams travelled to U.S. sites in the United States, Great Britain, Italy, West Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium during the same period). It was very hectic at times; l spent most of the summer visiting bases in Belorussia and the Ukraine. The Soviets provide accommodations and travel arrangements while we are "in-country": my favorite ride thus far was on a helicopter over the Ukrainian countryside one morning. The Soviets have proved to be marvellous hosts (the U.S. likewise accommodates and provides travel arrangements for , Soviet inspection teams when they visit a U.S. facility). The "base-line period" ended in August, and we are now into what I consider the "meat" of the Treaty, the elimination inspections. This is where teams of inspectors monitor the actual process of destruction of missiles; elimination inspections will continue for three years. There are various methods for destroying missiles: they may be blown up, cut up, crushed or launched (minus the nuclear warheads, of course!) An elimination inspection may last only a few days, or it may be almost a month in length. Inspections aren't all work and no play, of course. In our spare time, we play games such as volleyball and basketball with our hosts (both against them, and on mixed teams). They tried to teach us how to play "gorodki ~', an ancient Russian game, and we reciprocated by trying to teach them how to play baseball and American football. We also get to play tourist sometimes; every time our inspector group goes through Moscow, we try to see something different. We've been to Red Square numerous times, and to the Kremlin, Gor'ky Park, NovoDevichy Cemetery and Convent, and lately to the newly-opened Danilov monastery. On Halloween, we were in Leipzig. Our East German hosts were eager to show the city off to us: they .t took us to Auerbachs Keller, which is reputed to have been the haunt of Dr. Faustus, and where Goethe is said to have received his inspiration for Faust. We also visited the St. Thomas Cathedral, where 'J. S. Bach worked for 27 years and is in fact entombed. On our latest inspection (November 1988), we were at a site near Minsk, the capital of Belorussia. Our hosts drove us into Minsk on weekends, and arranged different excursions. Most memorable was the trip to the War Museum, which honors the sacrifices made by the citizens of Belorussia during World War II, and the trip to Minsk Cathedral, which was jammed with thousands of people, including numerous newly-baptized babies who received their first communion. As for my official duties, during the course of a day I may find myself interpreting a ceremonial speech, getting involved in a technical discussion (I've had to educate myself in missile terminology in English as well as Russian over the past 6 months), and then telling my fellow inspectors what is for supper. People-topeople diplomacy is an important part of this job, and one of the unexpected boons for me has been the opportunity of going back into the kitchens of the various places where we have stayed, and getting acquainted with their staffs; from them I have learned a little of the cuisine of Rus- them to turn it down a bit." She smiles when she remembers the rich discussions, bursting with new words for her glossary, that spring from these queries . These interchanges are possible all over the Soviet Union because, she explains, "Russian is the franca of the Soviet Union. It is in schools in all 15 In each nationality ·---·,..,~·~,..,·~. There are over 100 different in the U.S. S. R. The Great Russians make of the entire and brother Slavs, accounting for another 25%. Their ""'"·""""""'''" ~losely related to m ian was as being a language - as opposed to a mere of Russian - only 50 or 60 years ago." The Belorussian language was described by one Soviet wag (a Russian, no to Carol as "what might happen if you a drunken Russian trying to speak Ukrainian." The spoken Russian language is surprisingly uniform, Carol says, for a vast country. Carol attributes this relative uniformity to the fact that "Russian teachers have always been very strict and demanding. This means that from Moscow, in the west, to Khabarovsk - 11 time zones, almost half the world away! - there is a certain uniformity in spoken Russian, more uniformity than you would find in English speech in the United Kingdom." Yes, the team finds itself in distant and somewhat forbidding places. Besides the sports and tourist activities Carol describes in her own account, U.S. team members go hiking and catch up on their reading. "Everybody reads. Often rather trashy books," she says apologetically. "I have to admit it - I'm reading Tom Clancy [Search for Red October, etc.] , Just about everybody is. Now the Soviets want to read it!" Russians are puzzled sometimes by the sight of the foreign visitors taking afterdinner strolls. But the exercise is more than an American oddity; it is essential, Carol explains. The Russians are so generously insistent that "you cannot get away from a Russian table without eating everything in sight. When you are faced with this, you start worrying about disaster." This brings her to a crux of the experiences of recent months, the warmth of those distant people, isolated and separated from the west by barriers erected decades - even centuries - ago. "Once you get to know the Russians, they are very warm. If you touch their hearts, you don't find a warmer people." r sia, Belorussia and the Ukraine. I make a pretty mean borsch now. Carol Dockham, Sf '76 �"At St. John's, cr,.,,.,.rn,,,0 " of what I was a can't l share remembers the ferment of the oldtime sports rivalries before the New one St. Johns-Johns match, with bonfires and mr,,,,.,,tt.,,n: pre-game excite"Late at she remembers, a buildthis and fire were summoned. The firemen turned the hoses on the students and made arrests, as she remembers, the Johns men got The next the touch with Ted turned at the county and donuts. The remembers that he bailed the roisterers out. tales of his one a number students - neither nor his mother can remember how - were short the needed money to it home for the Christmas Ted Nichols made a deal with them. lend the money," he told the studer1ts, back every month. me, all me, my sum was $600 as she recalls it, a very considerable amount. All of the their debts month 2r2Lduate:d still is how Jeremiah SF '87, describes his decision to become a teacher. Brett SF '85, sees his role as a teacher as a continuation of that student. Both are teachers at Pecos School in the largely mountain community of Pecos, Mexico, 25 miles northeast of Santa Fe. Both are of the University of New Santa Fe Public Schools Teacher Intern teacher education program arts ates that was developed jointly John's in Santa Fe. The Teacher Intern Proto attract talented liberal to classroom most teacher preparation programs, which involve over a year of academic work and a brief stint of student the Lv<1l'-l!.HAJ'S, bar. was under "It was a real in-town bar. A St. John's bar, but also much more of a ........... .., . .,. hood bar. When you tended bar, you were on old town who came in St. went in the back waited on." i t h A n n h several tutors have accused and thus and the town is "in Charlie ''s oral came he had two summers of New and receive a second and full New Mexico certification at the or the secondary level. The now in its fourth to St. John's ~~·~~-·~~of who has to do so, schools or Cronin and the proindeed. infectious wanted to come The number of students who have come in to talk about old times with Ted and his sons and seems to calculation. On this both scour their brains another student, tavern who one he was to be married. ........ .,,.,,,,.,,,,ri him to don shoes on wedand those same patrons took a so the student could bride a On a later mn• .-n·11no attractive wife the name of the shoeless .... ~''""""'''"" man: Glenn achieved fame " he comments, "the the Anna50 and real '--''-"AH~JU" r,,.•.,.n>c&>untp.,-1 Tutor also manages to relate concerns, such as nuclear and chemical warand evolutionist-creationist debate. Mr. Cronin feels that it is tant to introduce students to issues communicate values "kids can't from a rock concert or a VCR". who grew up in a small town in Massachusetts, feels at home in Pecos, where he attends and coaches at school. Brett also fills a number of roles; his load includes three mathematics advanced in the restaurant here break after her ham Ladies ---..'-''""'"""'' ish sec:onaa1 admission to and is for respo11ses. ,...,.,.,...,,,,_.,.to ,,. .. ,,,...,,,,,~ match between This event comic contrast and ac<:::ornoan1ed irreverence. the way, been the winner four out an enormous cup on heroic names inLittle Camsays business his on weekends from since 1957. "I still yes, he agrees, scores of Johnnies been on the over the On the back of a menu, to list names - "Just the ones can remember" - of those who have tended bar at the restaurant. There was Dennis Sherman (A walls were uncovered and booths were '""'"'m'''"" details students now, I don't want to There's small scale clubhouse." Julie with some of John's strong features remodeled into a pretty 18-year-old's face, appears at the table, and her father smiles at her. She is work- Charlie Jones' voice is wistful over the u::1eonone as he remembers those times: "I about going back and ............. bar some day. Those were great, great years." i-, �MARCH 1989 r urgery, fe a NANCYOSIUS On a wintry January day, accompanied his Barbara Jones, Annapolis Dyal emerged from his car on the campus for the first time in three months. Longtime library custodian Robert Wells immediately came tb his boss and his arm about him. were tears in eyes. I'm so glad to see you," he said. you, Mr. Dyal," he said, and again, "God bless you." That affectionate welcome has been rer>eated in many forms as Bill Dyal, who 12 hours of brain surgery in October, eases back into his presidential duties. "Everyone has been so helpful and so thoughtful, from the building and grounds crew to the dean," Bill remarks a few weeks later. "The students have been wonderful, welcoming me back. The everyone. And especially Barglances to the outer office where she is sitting. "I feel very lucky." Bill pauses. "Fortunate is a better term than lucky." The extended surgical procedure, performed by Dr. Arthur Kobrine in the George Washington Hospital, removed a large benign tumor on the right side of the brain stem. Dr. Kobrine is the surgeon who cared for Jim Brady, press secretary to President Reagan, when Mr. Brady was shot during a presidential assassination attempt in 1981. Since his own surgery, Bill has been left with some physical problems that he is working to overcome. Regardful of his bookish audience, Bill smilingly describes his present stage of recovery in terms of form and content. "The right side of the brain is the automatic side, that affects speech and eating, muscles and nerves. It doesn't affect content. The content is as good as ever. Ifs the semmar on co:nmrm€!~d PAGE13 THE REPORTER from p. 1) on preassigned readings. The program will begin at 9:30 a.m. with registration in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium lobby. Mr. Barnes' lecture, followed by a question and answer period, is scheduled for IO-I I a.m., with 90 minute seminar discussions beginning at 11 :20 a.m. Mr. Harwood will be speaker at a light luncheon served in the college gymnasium at 12:50 p.m. The fee for the program is $20. For reservations and reading materials, call 263-2371, ext. 230. Mr. Barnes has a regular column known as "White House Watch" in The New Republic, and he also writes about politics and the media. Once known as a liberal magazine, The New Republic now presents an eclectic viewpoint, with Mr. Barnes providing a conservative voice. In addition to his magazine editorship, Mr. Barnes is a nationally known television political commentator who appears as a panelist on "The McLaughlin Group" and "Crossfire." Along with Morton Kondracke of the New Republic, he engages in a weekly debate on the Independent News Network called "Op-Ed." He is a regular host on the weekly Voice of America show, "Issues in the News." He has appeared on "Nightline," "Today," "Good Morning, America," "Meet the Press," "Face the Nation," and the "McNeil-Lehrer Newshour." In 1984, Mr. Barnes was selected to take part in the first of the nationally televised presidential election debates between President Reagan and Walter Mondale. More than l 00 journalists had been vetoed by the two political campaigns in the selection process. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Mr. Barnes was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1977-78. His articles have appeared in many magazines, including the Readers Digest, Policy Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and both the Sunday Telegraph and .)·unday Times of London. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, Mr. Harwood came to the Post in 1966 form that is messed up." Bill's sense of humor is intact, but his sense of balance is off. He walks with a cane, and has fallen twice, hitting his head each time, and he bears the marks on this day. Putting the cane aside, as he wants to do, won't come right away. More disturbing to him is the paralysis of the right side of his face, which doctors expect to be temporary, but which interferes to some extent with his speech, and with his eating. Bill has gained back IO pounds of the 30 he lost after surgery. He is bothered, too, by a shortened attention span since the surgery. "I still don't have the capacity to read that I ought to," Bill muses, "but that gets better day by day." Nevertheless, a week after his return, he was travelling to Santa Fe for the January meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors. Before the 45 members who had assembled from around the country, Bill stood to prolonged applause, praising the colleagues who had carried on in his absence, and pointing out to his listeners that he was back to work and that he was the same man. "I went to Santa Fe to remind them that I was alive and well," he says now, "and I think that's important for them to see. It was stupid, but it's wise." Now he is amused. "Wisely stupid," he repeats. Edith Dyal, a commuting wife who is working on her doctorate in education at Columbia University in New York City and who is presently teaching music at the College of Charleston, was with her husband during the hospital stay. In November, family members accompanied Bill to the family home on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, 22 miles from Charleston, to recover. Very soon, Bill was insisting that Edie resume her teaching both at the college and with private students. a ling "/ cky" This has been a marriage of shared goals and purposes, and Bill is determined that his wife continue to meet her deadlines. "You can only do this [be if you have been married happily for as long as we have, 39 years on May 6," Bill says. Edie comes home every couple of week. ends and talks to her husband every day on the telephone. Two of his three married daughters live nearby. Over the previous weekend, one daughter, a nurse, accompanied by her physician husband, was with her father. Bill's adopted son Don Sams accompanied him on the trip to New Mexico. "I'm lucky to have a good family," Bill says. Bill continues to think about what he has already called his good luck, and it soon becomes clear what he means. Initially, there was the close brush with death. "About the third or fourth day after the surgery, they didn't think l would live. The family gathered just in case. I wasn't aware of anything. I didn't know I was in the ICU for IO days. I didn't know I was in the hospital for a month." His clear recollections begin when he arrived at Kiawah in November. Still on the subject of his good fortune, he comments, "l couldn't do this many places. I couldn't be gone this long without its being very noticeable, and it was not as noticeable as it might have been. Mainly because of Tom [Dean Slakey] and Jeff [Vice President for Advancement Bishop] especially, but everybody has been wonderful. Not just to me, but doing tf1eir job. "People don't need someone to stare over their shoulders and tell them to do it this way or do it that way," he continues. "They don't need a president who is a dictator. They need a president who is a presence. On the campus and in the community. That's the main reason I came rnal from the Louisville Courier-Journal. He had a number of assignments, including national politics and public affairs reporting, correspondent in Vietnam, national editor, assistant managing editor for national news, and deputy managing editor. He has co-authored and contributed to a number of books, including Lyndon, a biographical essay on the late President Johnson; Of the Press, By the Press, For the Press (And Others, Too), a collection of essays on journalism; Fall of a President, the story of Richard Nixon's political demise, and other volumes on a range of public events and figures. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1955-56, and the first Carnegie Fellow in Journalism at Columbia in 1965-66. Upon retirement in 1988, he was immediately appointed to a second term as ombudsman, in which capacity he critiques the newspaper and writes a weekly column. The Great Issues series is sponsored by the Friends of St. John's College jointly with the office of Continuing Education. (Continued from p. 4) quality of courage, for example, is not intended to make wealth, but to inspire confidence, neither is the aim of the general's or the physician's art; but the one aims at victory and the other at health. Nevertheless, some men turn every quality or art into a means of getting wealth; this they conceive to the end ... " There is something intangible, inexpressible and intuitive about living well. But the quality oflife that may be and has been lived in the environment of Witter . Bynner house is a quality that cannot be found in the motel-like dorms of the western campus. And it is my contention, obviously, that this quality not be turned to the art of getting wealth, but become the object of expending wealth, so that not only the bodily pleasure of being there, but the psychological and spiritual benefits of living there not be lost to future generations of St. Johnnies; but, moreover, if it be truly impossible for us to keep it, that we ensure its special qualities go to those who can. Sincerely, Tom Hoover, SF '71 mg back. To try to be that." Finally, he cites what he calls "rediscoveries about human beings and a lot of discoveries about A lot of things I took for granted." chides himself for imoat1enc1e. for trying to "move too fast. people come out better in the process of rediscovery, and he gestures at a bulging box of "hundreds and hundreds and hundreds" of cards expressing good wishes, all of which he now has read. Bill is on a modified schedule these days, coming in the morning and in early afternoon to take a nap. "I rest the afternoon. l run out of steam." He does some physical therapy, using electrodes to stimulate his facial muscles and nerves and using a rowing machine to strengthen the right side of his body. Sometimes his thoughts drift to the multi pie interests that have shaped his life. Membership on the International Com-· mission on Central American Recovery, a privately funded group implementing'. Costa Rican President Arias' Peace has been one significant contribution has made to the wider community during his college presidency. His participation has brought his 20 years of Latin Amercan experience to problems of this troubled region. The Commission held its third meeting in Washington in November, right after the Presidential election. Its final meeting, with the broad social and economic recommendations expected to spring from it, was to be held in Guatemala in mid-February. Bill Dyal would not be there. How did he feel about that? "A little sad," Bill says. Back on the job, positive, forward looking, "feeling lucky" - Bill Dyal is all these after his ordeal. And sometimes a little sad. II give re Santa Fe tutor Charles Bell will give an illustrated slide lecture from his series "Symbolic History" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, in the Conversation Room of the Francis Scott Key lobby in Annapolis. Mr. Bell's lectures combine visual and verbal art works with a background of great music to show the evolution of western civilization. His Annapolis lecture is part of a onemonth itinerary which includes stops in Jackson and Greenville, Mississippi, at the University of Georgia, the University of Virginia, and in Baltimore, New York, and Vermont. Mr. Bell, poet, author, lecturer, has prepared 40 slide shows from his collection of 30,000 slides of great art works combined with poetry, prose and music. He uses the compression of three art forms into direct and powerful statements about artists and their works. In some ways reminiscent of Kenneth· Clark's television series on "Civilization," Mr. Bell conceived his lecture series in 1938, long before television. In 1940, he began amassing the slides that are at the heart of his project. libra I (Continued from p. 1) ter of the college. A 90,000 volume limit has been set for the· size of the collection. Because library needs may change, the committee suggests that provisions for future expansion be incorporated into the building design. Library seating for 50% of the student body, about 220 graduates and undergraduates, is another objective. Work tables, study carrels, lounge seating and comfortable chairs would be provided to meet these needs. At present, there is very limited library seating. Student preferences contributed in particular to recommendations for study areas. A main reading room, "the largest and finest" of the rooms, big enough to accommodate twice yearly board meetings of 60 people seated around tables, is envisaged by the report. Four other rooms would function both as reading and seminar rooms and fulfill ancillary roles as well. An automation system that can handle basic circulation transactions and cataloguing procedures will be a key to technological change. Mr. Morgan anticipates that the library will be open by August, l 990. Members of the Library Steering Committee are Lisa Carey of the Graduate Institute, student Owen Jones, Board of Visitors and Governors member Owen Lopez, College Treasurer Bryan Valentine, and tutor Stephen Van Luchene. The steering committee worked in conj unction with the Campus Planning committee, whose members are, in addition to Mr. Van Luchene, tutors Sean Collins, Dean Haggard, David Jones, and Elliott Skinner. s Soviet magazine Assistant Dean John Verdi's keen eye lit on something unexpected in the September issue of Soviet Life, an English language magazine to which he subscribes. A fresh-faced teenaged girl in Lithuania is wearing a t-shirt on which can be made out the familiar seal with its balanced scales and petals of open books. Under the script word "College" is the seal, without the encircling Latin inscription, and under that, "St. Jons (sic) College" - a salute from the garment factories catering to the huge demand by European youth for U.S. college insignia. Soviet Life is published by the Soviet Embassy for distribution in the U.S., while under the bilateral agreement, America is published in the Soviet Union. �PAGE14 JEFFREY Vice President for the College, the College has been the'"'"''""' . . '"><''"" friends who have taken a last opportunity to recognize 1min.Ar-t<>•"H'"' of the College to themselves and others. have funded scholarships, .........,..., ..., .......... book funds at the and What motivates an individual to name St. John's as a of one's estate can be debated, but it is clear that pure altruism ranks When one's .... ~ ..... ~. an alumnus or friend should know that there are Some of the giving the methods .......""'''"'"' s112;mJt1c:mt lifetime tax enable one to ac~::orn0Jt1sn other uuuu•-"u There are four basic transfers of assets to the College: A Through a someone may a desire to assist St. John's College after death. Sometimes this will take the form amount or percentage of the estate, other times the residual after other obligations are satisfied. Many have chosen to name St. John's a contingent beneficiary if all family members and loved ones predecease the donor. In those cases, at least St. John's, rather than state or federal government, benefits from an estate. Bequests to St. John's are also fully deductible for federal estate tax purposes. A life income gift allows one to transfer assets to St. John's or to an authorized form of charitable trust, and to retain a lifetime income for oneself or others. Significant tax incentives can be earned by the donor for there is no immediate tax on the appreciation* in the asset transferred, and the donor is allowed an immediate charitable deduction for a portion of the value of the assets donated. The donors also have the satisfaction of knowing they have done something significant for St. John's College. For example, Sally and Sam Alumni (ages 70) transfer $25,000 of IBM stock (they paid $10,000for it) to a charitable remainder annuity trust paying them 6% income (negotiable) per year (or "' .... ·'"'"'J .... $1,500) for life. Sally and Sam pay no tax on the charitable deduction for federal income tax expectancy). A deferred gift nr1-.m"'"' to . earna on life into a deferred The alumnus is a deduction of ,....,,....,.."",.,.,..,+.""' in the asset transferred. Estate in Individuals also their residences rest of lives. to St. John's and retain the right to live in the house for earns the donor a charitable deduction for a of the value of the home. a convenient way for an individual to make a shelter income from taxes, and not at all disrupt financial plans. There are manv variations and technical requirements on these and other giving techniques, all ofwhich require consultation between a donor and legal and financi~l advisors. There are also many ways of using life insurance either separately or m conjunction with the above techniques which have attractive features for the donors. St. John's is happy to participate with friends and alumni who wish to find the most economical way to make a gift to the College. For further information contact Jeff Bishop at 301-263-2371, ext. 501. *The unrealized appreciation in an asset donated to charitable organizations is now a tax preference item in calculating alternative minimum tax. (Continued from P. 2) science honor society and was a Mayor's Commission for Recovery and Developancient Vlatadon Monastery in ThessaloFellow. ment in Central America, sponsored by niki. A third alternative for tourgoers is to · 1976 Senator Terry Sanford (D-N.C.). pursue special activities .in and around ArthurW. Young, and Lyn 1984 A '83, who are working together at the Thessaloniki. Departures are from New William K. Hill is practicing business York and San Francisco, and arrange- firm Hutchins & Wheeler, Counsellors at and international law with the firm of Law, in Boston, sent to Tutor Emeritus ments are being made by Unique Tours, Steel, Hector and Davis in Miami, FlorCurtis Wilson a problem of Greek transla- ida. He earned his law degree from Yale, 2020 Pioneer Ct. Suite 14, San Mateo, CA tion which appeared in the Boston Globe, 94403. then clerked for a year for United States Mr. Sheppard's review of I. F. Stone's to show him that despite the time spent District Court Judge William Hoeveler in book The Trial of Socrates, appeared in trying lawsuits, they were still prepared to Miami, prior to joining the firm. His goal "exercis[e] the gray matter on matters of now is to become a trial lawyer. the Hellenic Journal. genuine significance (just as we did at the 1987 1968 College)." Michael Gerstmann is living in Albu-. Steve Anderton and his family were the querque and is doing research on rheuma1977 subjects of a feature story, "The WonderHodge Wasson is pursuing his Ph.D.' toid arthritis. ful Andertons," in the January 1989 issue in psychology at the University of Minneof McCall's magazine. Mr. Anderton, sota. He earned his master's degree in Attention '49ers I who was paralyzed from the chest down counseling and has a private practice as a from a Viet Nam War injury, and his wife, (That's everyone who matriculated counselor. He is married and has three Cindy, who was left quadriplegic after sufwith, graduated with, or in any way children under the age of five, which he fering from polio as a child, are raising spent time with, the class of 1949): says is "usual chaos." His wife operates a two lively children in their Maryland We're planning a big 40th reunion for small day care business. home. Living in Millington, 30 miles the class during Homecoming Week1979 south of the Mason-Dixon line, in a house end, September 22-24, 1989. Mark From this day forth, Liza Pennpacker built on a parcel of Chester riverfront your calendar and plan to join us for shall be known as Eliza P. Oberholtzer. property, Mr. Anderton writes for literary the festivities. We'll be sending you "It's true enough," she says. "The first magazines, while Mrs. Anderton works information regarding hotels and part-time as a secretary and leads her own name I changed based on preference, the activities soon. If you have any sugsecond based on my recent marriage to a Girl Scout troop. Gretchen, nine, and gestions, please call Jack Brooks fellow named Bill Oberholtzer." One Milton, a year old, are, according to all (216) 331-1879 or Alan Hoffman, more change: Eliza's home number is 814reports, model children who just happen (516) 239-5638. 237-4579, and her office number is to have two parents in wheelchairs. Mr. 814-863-2377. Anderton studied for two years at St. Besides continuing to teach landscape John's before transferring "simply for a architecture at Penn State, Ms. Oberchange" to Washington College in Chesholtzer is now writing a column on design tertown. Later, he earned his master's for the local paper, and serves as assistant degree in classical literature from the Unidirector of the Institute for Arts and versity at Champaign-Urbana. Cindy Humanitistic Studies at Penn State. holds a master's degree in Russian Litera"It's a tiny enclave devoted to that pheIn January, the Annapolis chapter of ture from New York University. nomenon called 'faculty development' the alumni association decided to dedicate strictly for those in arts and humanities 1972 chapter funds, which had been partially - which are so often overwhelmed by the After a lengthy and distinguished career used for the Parran Room, toward the big guys (like business and engineering) at as a great dog, " a repurchase of a new compact disc player for state universities like ours. I feel I'm doing nowned canine on the Annapolis campus the Music Library. The impetus for this my part - or my best - in the name of in his early years, passed away in his Balproject came from Frank Atwell, chapter timore home December 13 at the age of liberalizing academia here." member and former President of the 17. "Hieronymous" is survived by his 1982 Alumni Association, who talked with Marion and Jon proudly owner, Leslie Starr ('72), her husband, Tina Davidson about the needs the Music announce the birth of first child, a Joe, and five cats. Library might have to update its collecdaughter, Martha Speuer Baumgarten, 1974 tion of compact discs. Aware of the revowho was born October 29. Mr. BaumNelson previously law clerk to lutionary impact of compact discs on the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court garten is working as a computer prorecording industry, Mr. Atwell felt that grammer analyst for the U.S. Railroad Sandra Day O'Connor, has been named the Music Library might need to begin associate counsel to the President. Retirement Board and Mrs. Baumgarten collecting recordings on compact discs. Carol V. Calhoun has been admitted as is on leave from her position as a personAn additional $100 was collected at the a partner to the law firm of Morgan, nel specialist with the U.S. Department of luncheon and Tina Davidson, the ColLabor. Lewis, and Bockius. Formerly she was an . lege's music librarian, will be able to make E. Gumert has earned her bacheassociate in the firm's Washington D.C. the purchase this spring. A one dollar surmusic in composition degree, graoffice. Ms. Calhoun is a member of the lor charge will be added to the price of the firm's tax section, practicing primarily in duating magna cum laude, from Catholic chapter's monthly luncheon in order to the employee benefits law field. Ms. CalUniversity. She is now studying for her maintain a fund for the purchase of comhoun obtained her law degree in 1980 master's of music program at Indiana pact discs. University in Bloomington. Between stufrom Georgetown University Law Center, Tina Davidson, who attended the lunwhere she was associate editor of "The dies, she has been recording, transcribing, cheon in order to receive the chapter's gift, Tax Lawyer." She attended St. John's and notating American folk songs for a said she was very grateful for the chapter's book to be published by the USIA, which College from l 970-72, and earned her concern, especially since her current undergraduate degree in 1976 from the will be used to teach English in foreign budget is used largely to replace worn-out Johns Hopkins University, where she was countries. She has also performed in duo records rather than to increase the scope selected for the Pi Sigma Alpha political at a dinner honoring the International of the library's collection. Annapolis alumni present The second of three seminars on "Talking About Works of Art," a thoughtful exploration by the faculty of the proper place for the graphic arts in the curriculum, will be presented on Saturday, March 18, by the Annapolis Chapter of the Alumni Association. A faculty study group has examined theories about, and experimented with, various methods of serious talk about particular art works. The Saturday sessions begin with coffee and registration at 9:30 a.m. in the Key Auditorium on the college campus. There is a $10 fee for the series. "Mondrian's 'Diamond Painting in Red, Yellow and Blue,'" will be presented by Burt Blistein, artist-in-residence at the March meeting. A seminar discussion will follow. "Can We Talk About Works of Art, and, If So, How?" will be the topic discussed at the final seminar Saturday, April 15. Tutor emeritus Curtis Wilson, who conducted the first session, and Mr. Blistein will join the Rev. Winfree Smith, tutor emeritus, and Hugh McGrath, tutor emeritus, in leading all three sessions. New CD player for music 1 Our Country s Good, the adaptation of Australian writer Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker ( 1988), by Timberlake Wertenbaker, A '66, is playing at the Royal Court Theater in London to considerable acclaim. In Keneally's novel, men and women convicts in Australia's distant penal colony rehearse for a performance of a Restoration Comedy, The Recruiting Officer. In- its September 23-29 issue, Times Literary Supplement reviewer David Nokes had this to say: "In adapting Thomas Keneally's intricate and disturbing novel, [Wertenbaker] has singled out the central highly coloured thread of the convicts' rehearsals for a production of The Recruiting Officer, leaving aside most of Keneally's darker tones of nightmares, hangings and demonaic possession. In theatrical terms, this bold act of selectivity is both intelligent and justified: it results in a drama whose comic virtuosity provides a most enjoyable evening's entertainment." The play is produced as a companionpiece to English dramatist George Farquhar's play The Recruiting Officer itself, "thereby presenting us with two versions of Farquhar's comedy, the cooked and the raw," Nokes remarks. �PAGE 15 THE REPORTER MARCH 1989 Pro;ect spurs creative designs (Continued from P. 2) Nancy Jene Cline Wright of Richmond, VA is teaching kindergarten in Petersburg, VA, where she hopes to be tenured thisyear. William B. Day is married to Katherline B. Lufkin (A '76) and they have an 18-month old daughter, Helena Johanna. William recently completed his M.A. in philosophy from Columbia University, and this year is a visiting scholar at Harvard. Kathie (Talley) Goff is teaching computer lab courses at Cotton Creek Elementary School in Colorado, and finds herself "modeling the St. John's methods of dialogue and seminar discussions with all levels of students." Kathie is a graduate of the St. John's/University of New Mexico/ Santa Fe Public Schools - Teacher Intern Program. 1981 Bryan Andrew Zimmer is currently working as a software engineer for an airline reservation system, System One Corporation, a subsidiary of Texas Air, in San Francisco. His current project is developing methods of linking unlike computers to each other. 1982 Linder is presently working in AIDS at Los Alamos National Laboratory and applying to graduate school to get a Ph.D. in ecology and evobiology. is living in Miami Beach where he is doing his internship in internal medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Tine Catharina Clark is living in Bedford, New York and works in Manhattan '-''"''"""1'""'""' menswear for GIT ANO. Genova is married to q;,;11i::•ni'11on leach and they live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Kelly is an associate at Curran, Sturges and Tepper, P.C Mc:1tU1e\1V C. is living in Salem, MA, where he recently completed his second M.A. in Society and Literature at Harvard. He is currently teaching at a School - The Waring MA. and Natasha SF '85, announce the birth of Wyatt Aubrey 23, 1988. Geoffrey and his wife are expecting their child in May at about the same time that he will receive a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Texas at Dallas. Katherine Heines is married to James Maldonado (SF '77). Katie is working on a doctorate in philosophy through Catholic University and is teaching at Marquette. Jim is developing software systems for courts, and they are expecting their first child in June. Paul K. Minoque serves as Director of Finance and Administration for New Mexico Health and Environment Department. He was appointed in 1987 by Governor Carruthers. 1983 laura McClure is about to defend her dissertation proposal in the Classics Department at the University of Chicago. She is also teaching a Great Books-style curriculum in the Basic Program (University of Chicago Continuing Education). Laura writes that she recently married and is very happy. Richard Morehouse is a student at The Yale School of Organization and Management. Would love to hear from any Johnnies. Laurie Sutton Hienz: is currently the principal of St. Charles Borromeo School in Houston, Texas and is working on her M.A. in administration at the University of San Francisco. 1984 Bruce E. Johnson is currently living in Goleta, California, where he is attending UCSB on a Mellon fellowship studying for a master's degree in philosophy. 1985 Susan Scott tells us that she has just begun work on a Ph.D. in English literature at the University of Oregon at Eugene. Liza Hyatt is residing in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she is an intern in a special school for the learning disabled. She is also working on an Individualized M.A. in Psychology of Language. Susan W. Read is teaching English at the Santa Fe Indian School and enjoys skiing and horseback riding in her spare time. . Charles Lancaster Roberts is living in Washington, D.C. where he is working for a law firm and completing his master's degree in Library Science and wondering "what's next?" Dennis W. Roberts of Albuquerque, NM, just completed a term as Chairman of the Association Section of Public Relations Society of America. Laura Rossi has left the radio business to apply for law school while working for a private attorney in New York City. 1986 Jill Fredrickson had her first child this year and named her Alexa. Jill is presently working at an institute for the deaf and hearing impaired in Silver Spring, Maryland. E. Duncan is residing in San where she is working as a Teacher's Assistant at a Montessori school. She plans on entering a teacher certification program next Barbara A. i;;:iin,in.ci,rtc teaches learning disabled students at Hernandez ElemenSchool in Medanales, New Mexico. AIE~xc:mc:lerFarnsworth has been traveling for the past two years, first as a crew member on the Presidential yacht, Sequoia, and then touring the Western U.S. on a bicycle. While bicycling, Mr. Farnsworth produced bi-weekly radio programs for the Voice of America. He plans to attend journalism school in the Fall. 1987 r"l-ti1rictn1,..h•::>r K. Watson is currently a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Adrienne writes from lhe Tibetan Plateau of the that she is irrigating turnip fields at a nunnery and grinding apricot seeds to make lamp oil for monks. She was a recipient of a Watson fellowship for the 1987-88 yvar. Wanzer is working at a hydroelectric dam in "the flood-defunct mill village" of Mechanicsville, Connecticut, performing a variety of tasks and "enjoying the fruit,s of the river". Joe T. Coxwell is living in Livingston, AL, where he creates acrylic astronomical art/science fiction illustration. Elizabeth Breckinridge resides in Brooklyn, N. Y., where she is working in Children's Book Publishing at Random House/ Knopf. Charlotte L. Glover is working at the Santa Fe Indian School teaching 9th grade reading. She is currently being trained to take students into the wilderness. 1988 Michael David is studying education at California State University at Hayward and working at a halfway house and at the Delancey Street program in the Bay Area. Felicity Ladd is living in Putney, Vermont, working at a private psychiatric hospital, and planning to attend nursing school soon. 1989 Patrick Francis Crinnon lives in Dallas and will graduate from the University of Dallas as an English major. Pesic in concert Santa Fe tutor and musician-in-residence Peter Pesic will give a concert of Beethoven piano sonatas in the junior common room of the John Winthrop House at Harvard University on Sunday, March 5, at 3 p.m. Admission is free. He will play Opus 2, No. l; Opus 81A, and Opus 106 ("Hammerklavier")_ Last year, Mr. Pesic played the complete Schubert piano sonatas at Harvard. By CINDY EVANS When, during the early summer of 1988, Dr. Anthony Alofsin, professor of architecture, University of Texas, Austin, visited the Santa Fe campus, he became enamored both of the campus and the program. He returned later to the campus and met with admissions counselor Bill Murray to discuss the proposed endeavor, namely a project for his architectural students of designing a "new" St. John's campus. This fictional campus would be located approximately 40 miles southeast of Santa Fe, in the northern New Mexican village of Ribera, on 200acres ofland Dr. Alofsin himself owned. Dr. Alofsin 's fictional premise to his fourth and fifth year students was that the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's had determined the present southwestern site of the campus to be so valuable that it would be financially judicious to sell it and move the school to its new location in Ribera. With this in mind, the students visited both the campus, investigating the curriculum, buildings and student life, and the proposed alternate site. After completing their "rounds," the students returned home with a common goal. Their objective was to create an architectural environment which would blend the awe-inspiring natural setting of Ribera with the very ambitious study of the Great Books. In mid-December, Mr. Murray was invited to Austin for the formal presentation and judging of plans. Among the jurors was the dean of the school of architecture. Mr. Murray himself participated in the evaluations and reviewed every project. "I was astonished. The plans were remarkable." The students themselves, he said, demonstrated "real caring" for the program as they made their designs. "They incorporated so many things we just take for granted, like meditation space, because in Santa Fe it is so easy to get to the hills and mountains." Some designers would take an area, perhaps a mesa, and "put a gazebo-like structure on it, allowing students to go up and he quiet there. The results he viewed ranged from a rigid pyramid design to a sunburst style. All of the students took advantage of the site and the famed New Mexican light in their design of unpretentious schemes that did not destroy the best parts of the natural setting. "The separation of schooling and living is ambiguous. To live is to think and to think is to live," noted student John Tran. The central element of his scheme was the Great Hall where academic functions are linked with living functions. "So often we see college campuses as established communities physically turned inward and never reaching outward," said Student Philip A. Jabour. "Colleges are, supposedly, teaching students to think more broadly and to reach out to understand, analyze, and use all of their acquired knowledge. It seems appropriate then to develop an architecture for this type of community." His design resembled the sun with its bursting rays of light reaching outward, but always deriving from the same neutral point. The Student Center, which houses the dining hall and the Great Hall in his scheme, serves as this neutral point for large assemblages to small clusters of individuals. This gathering space of students and faculty acts to reinforce the notion of an inwardly and outwardly foe-. using community. Perhaps the most ambitious design was rendered by Dan Cheetam, who proposed the idea of a "linear street-scape .scheme that defines space, procession and hierarchy through movement, while also following the natural form and principles of the site." This concept would allow for "street-dialogue, "which Mr. Cheetam felt appropriate to the St. John's concept that education is based upon conversation and discussion. Organizationally, the campus evolves metamorphically from the physical characteristics of a pitch, and physically from an amphitheatre in tte center. This sound symbol of the oral tradition generates the campus on four different scales including site scale, campus scale, building scale, and room scale. Each room has a large sculptural light cannon illuminating the stage for the oral performance in the room. A small channel of water running from the last room emphasizes the search for the source of knowledge as the source of this water is not revealed to one until the senior year in the senior oral room - where the highest level of achievement is recognized. Mr. Murray hopes that the students will visit the college in the spring to exhibit their designs for viewing and comment. Perhaps one of them will be chosen to design a future St. John's campus. rado a ers "History and the Idea of will be the theme of a special program for Colorado secondary teachers this summer at St. John's in Santa Fe. The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring the program with a grant of $106,549. The announcement was made recently by Timothy Miller, Director of the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe. Twenty Colorado teachers of social studies and history, grades 8-12, will receive fellowships for the history institute. Teachers selected will receive cash stipends of $2,000, plus room and board and tuition waivers. The history program will include discussion of works by Thucydides, Tacitus, Plutarch, and Tocqueville. Vico's theory of historical cycles and Hegel's theory of historical progress will also be addressed. Applications for the fellowships are due April I. For further information write or call the Graduate Institute, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM 87501-4599, tel. (505) 982-3691, extension 226. NEH fellows who successfully complete the history program will receive nine semester hours of graduate credit which count toward a Master's degree at St. John's or may be transferred elsewhere. Alumni semmars set for Santa Fe The annual Alumni Summer Seminars program will be held at the Santa Fe campus from July 9 through July 21, with Santa Fe's Alumni Homecoming scheduled for July 15 and 16. A faculty committee in Santa Fe has been planning the program of seminars and preceptorials for alumni of both campuses, led by tutors from both Santa Fe and Annapolis. The summer program will also include a variety of social and recreational activities that take advantage of the unique offerings found in Santa Fe, such as the Santa Fe Opera and other events. The St. John's College Alumni Association has also scheduled a special meeting for the Homecoming weekend, for the purpose of ratifying proposed changes in its by-laws. Alumni will also have an opportunity to meet and talk with the newly-appointed President of the Santa Fe campus. Detailed descriptions of the Alumni Summer Seminars and Homecoming will be mailed by April lst. For additional information, contact Ron Hale, Director 1f Career Planning and Alumni Acitivi. ~s at the Santa Fe campus. �PAGE16 MARCH 1989 THE REPORTER DONNA BOETIG Once the heart of St. John's College's Annapolis campus, this winter McDowell Hall is isolated from the college community by a chain link fence. It is accessible only to construction workers donning hard hats, who poke and prod at its mellowed moldings, their forms visible by the sunshine slivering through a boarded window. Perhaps by habit, curiosity or affection for McDowell Hall, students en route to library or seminar, glance up acknowledging its presence. Some have left scribbled notes, such as, "Do not feed the construction workers," as if to reaffirm their possession of it. In January, the college awarded a $1,858, 768 million contract to Henry Brothers, Construction, Inc., of Baltimore, for the renovation and restoration of McDowell Hall. Henry Brothers recently completed the renovation of the Shaw House on State Circle. The college had received four bids on the multi-faceted project, with the Baltimore company the ' low bidder. The architectural face-lift is being financed through the U.S. Department of Education College Facilities Program for the full amount at 5.5 percent interest for 30 years. Now, at the preliminary stages of its face-lift, when more energy is spent pulling apart, rather than putting back, hardly an inch of its 25,000 square-feet is left untouched by tools, there's a glimpse, for those with an imaginative eye, into its future splendor. And, indeed, a few surprises along the way. Perhaps the most dramatic change, so far, is the removal of the partition separating the dean's former office from the west corridor. Now, in place of a modestlysized room is an elegant 23-by-32-foot space anchored by a central fireplace flanked by large windows. The 1910 moldings surrounding the room are now exposed, along with a mantle of the same vintage. Behind this, in the former assistant dean's office, is an expanse of I 8th cen- Four principals in the art to admire the high gloss of the /parquetry floor as the neared completion. From left is Advancement Jeffrey Bishop, members of the committee Bobbie DeMatteis and James Cheevers, and college artist-in-residence Burton Blistein. Keith Harvey photo re A group of arts-minded citizens and area artists recently held an initial meeting as the Gallery Committee for the Friends of St. John's, an advisory and support group for the new Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery, completed in March on the Annapolis campus. The college community itself has been invited to take part in the gallery's first event, a community art exhibit planned for April. This is a traditional exhibit in which faculty, staff, students and family members as well as college workshop participants may submit works in all media. The special features of the new gallery, climate controlled and fully secured, will be demonstrated for the first time in the month-long show. This preview event will precede the formal dedication and inaugural exhibition, "Image and Word," now scheduled for the fall. Members of the Gallery Committee will help the college to establish a start-up program of activities, and will assist in promotional and fund-raising efforts for the new structure. Committee members are Ms. Phyliss Bachand, Mrs. Mary Joy Belknap, Dr. and Mrs. Robert 0. Biern, Mrs. Richard Borden, Ms. Ellen Bungay, Mr. James Cheevers, Mrs. William G. Carter, Mrs. T. Manning Clagett, Ms. Bobbie DeMatteis, Ms. Karen Dement, Ms. Mary Felter, and Ms. Anna Greenberg. Others are Mrs. Nancy Hammond, the Hon. Julian Lapides, Ms. Esther Levy, Mrs. Elizabeth Malmgren, the Honorable Pauline Menes, Ms. Carolyn Middleton, Paul Pearson, Ms. Leone LaBrot Simmons, Mrs. John J. Spencer, Mrs. Hugh Wallis, and Ms. Gail Watkins. Named for Mrs. Carleton Mitchell, a longtime friend, board member and benefactor of the college whose gift made the gallery possible, the gallery is located at the eastern end of the new wing of Mellon Hall, and immediately adjacent to the Francis Scott Key lobby. The "walk-through," the final check of mechanical systems and interior detail between contractor and college officials, marked official completion of the new Mellon wing and art gallery, a two million dollar project. "Other than the Naval Academy Museum, the Mitchell Gallery will be the only gallery in the area with the ability to attract museum quality exhibitions, by virtue of its sophisticated climate control and security systems," according to Jeffrey Bishop, vice president for advancement, and college supervisor of the project. gallery "The college is excited about the potential the gallery holds for the college and for the citizens of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County," he said. Inside the 'gallery, two sets of curtains, one light-diffusing and one light-blocking, are already in place for each of four thermopane windows stretching 14 feet from floor to ceiling. A stained ash parquetry floor is mounted in a limestone grid. The walls are sailcloth painted off-white stretched over plywood layers to provide a nailing surface for exhibits. Fully controlled incandescent lighting is in place. Besides the large exhibition area, the gallery contains a windowless room for light-sensitive exhibits and an office for the artist-in-residence. The National Gallery, the Walters Art Gallery, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Gallery have made preliminary agreements to lend items from their collections for "Image and Word," the major exhibit which will open the gallery in the fall. "The show will deal with ways in which -the visual arts convey meaning and the differences and similarities between visual and verbal modes of expression," according to Burton Blistein, artist-in-residence at the college. tury, heavy timber framing visible in the ceiling, an 18th century hearth that apparently had been covered by wood flooring with the advent of radiators. The renovation of the Great Hall reveals a row of light sockets in the base of its balcony. Until now, these too, had been hidden by molding. Still another discovery is prior existence of a stairway from the first floor to the basement. With the plaster removed from the East Hall ceiling, you can look up from the basement and see evidence of a stairwell in the l 790's floor framing. "It's exciting to see much of what we had conjectured about the design and construction of McDowell Hall to be true," says Charles H. Bohl, the project's architect. "Our hunches have been confirmed by the removal of certain plaster. Every day we learn so much more about the building. It's as if before we were peeking at the building through a small hole; now, with walls and floors opened, it's all revealed." While McDowell Hall is unusable, campus life has shifted into mobile units, the new of Mellon and the lobby of the Scott Auditorium. Class schedules are and this year's freshman class e111mrna1ted as well as community seminars and preceptorials for second semester. The former coffee shop in the basement of McDowell Hall, rich with its enclaves conducive to conversation, contrasts sharply with its substitute: the massive, sunlit, ficus tree-filled Francis Scott Key lobby. Still students continue to sprawl or sit Indian-style, read, black coffee and speak softly with tutors. Machines have filled the void left the loss of the coffee shop food service. The temporary classroom named tutor Ann Martin, "The "The " and "The been wen both tutors students. lacking the ambiance of the functional mobile untils have been warmed in by the wellbroken-in seminar that seem to consume the space. Zeroing-in on the expressions of a tutor and students engrossed in thought and conversation reaffirms one tutor's comment that "the Great Books can be taught anywhere." The mailroom, previously located in McDowell's basement, and now temporarily situated in "The Clouds," is, as always, the hub for student communication. An assortment of announcements fills a wall, including one for auditions for Woody Allen's one act play, "God," the sale of a black and white TV, and the availability of scholarships. Students still look longingly into their mail slots, and linger for a comment or two with a classmate, but without the soft easy chairs and inviting couches near the former mailroom, the stay is shortened. Meanwhile, sailors and landlubbers alike anxiously await the completion of the boathouse this spring. Soon, its upper floor will be the site for poetry readings, coffee houses, and student gatherings. The college is seeking the donation of comfortable, casual furniture for it. The details, such as its security system and fire alarms, are being finished at the Francis Scott Key Art Gallery in preparation for its preview exhibit in spring. Its formal dedication and exhibit is being planned for fall. In spite of the changes construction has brought to the campus, the really important aspects of St. John's remain constant. The bell on top of McDowell still peals, as if to confirm this. With its 30 new freshmen for the winter semester, the enrollment at the Santa Fe campus has increased to 397 students, the largest in its 25-year history. Of the enrollees, 12 per cent come from New Mexico, 30 per cent from the southwestern United States, and others from Maine to California as well as West Germany and Canada. � 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/8b7c1ef4de539d9b82826b6195aae067.pdf c2103e995402255eb6db1067b86a6362 PDF Text Text ST JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY ~1 1 1 1 1 1 1 li~l~ f1f l1i1 ~ ll111if11f The St. John's 11111111111111111 3 itE Volume 15, Issue 2 Annapolis, Md. and Santa Fe, N.M. December 1988 The Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College has announced with deep regret that it has accepted the resignation of Michael P. Riccards as president of the Santa Fe campus, effective June 30, 1989. The basis for Mr. Riccards' arose from differing views rapidity of change in college Board expressed its great appreciation to Mr. Riccards for his willingness to direct the new library campaign to a successful conclusion and for his continued efforts to raise funds for annual expenses and endowment. The Board also expressed its congratulations and appreciation to Mr. Riccards for his outstanding success in involving the college in the life of Santa Fe and the larger southwestern community. According to Board chairman Scott Kelso, the college has taken real and dramatic strides forward under Mr. Riccards' leadership. "All members of the St. John's Community -alumni, faculty and members of the Board of Visitors and Governors are encouraged and invited to make recommendations for a new president of St. John's College in Santa Fe," said Board Chairman Scott Kelso this month in Santa Fe. ln an attempted departure from the past practice of hiring a professional executive search firm, the Board's Presidential Search Committee is initially enlisting full participation and assistance from the community in compiling a roster of candidates. The Presidential Search Committee, according to the Charter and Polity of the college, is comprised of five members of the Board, at least one of whom is an alumnus, the deans of the colleges, and one tutor from each campus selected from among themselves. Board member Dr. Irwin Hoffman has been appointed chairman of the committee. Other committee members are Dean Anthony James Carey of Santa Fe, Dean Thomas J. Slakey of Annapolis, tutor Dean R. Haggard of Santa Fe, tutor Michael Comenetz of Annapolis, and Board members John Van Doren of Chicago, alumnus, Miss M. Brownell Anderson of Washington, D.C., Rollin King of Dallas, Texas, and Owen Lopez of Santa Fe. "Please write to Dr. Hoffman, chairman (c/o St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM 87501) with your recommendation of people for consideration by the committee. Include your reasons for your recommendation and all pertinent information such as addresses and telephone numbers," said Mr. Kelso. Board Chairman Scott Kelso Keith Harvey photo NANCYOSIUS Calling the political figure one of the "most vilified of minorities," former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, keynote speaker for the Great Issues forum "Ethics and Politics," told 500 people gathered in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium at Annapolis that the officeholder's most fundamental obligation "is to level with his fellow citizens." Introduced by William Brill, chairman of the Great Issues forum, Mr. Richardson was called "a man who had his ethics tested on the field of battle, a man who had the courage and the conviction to defy the king President Nixon." In October, 1973, Mr. Richardson resigned his post as Attorney General rather than obey President Nixon's injunction to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, then investigating the Watergate break-in. Speaking four days before the national election, Mr. Richardson opened his talk by expressing surprise at the number of citizens prepared to turn their attention to such a concern on a fall day, and ended it by asserting that "we the people must insist on the value of dialogue." Mr. Richardson received a standing ovation from an audience composed of political figures, general citizens, teachers, students and tutors, one which brought together members of different age, gender, racial and religious groups. Appreciative laughter and applause often interrupted his hour-long address. Affirming the value and necessity of citizen participation in government, Mr. Richardson examined implications of the term "we the people" in the U.S. Constitution, at 200 years of age the world's oldest. The phrase suggests that "we must feel we have a voice in shaping policies that affect the lives of ourselves and our families. From this it follows that other people are also valued. They count as much as you or I." Citing his own career as a crime fighter ("my stock in trade"), especially in the office of the attorney general of Massachusetts, Mr. Richardson directed his audience's attention instead to the ethical ambiguities that face holders of public office. In a series of hypothetical situations, he cited first the gun control advocate who allows himself to be guided entirely by public polls and conceals his true view from voters. Next is the gun control advocate who levels with voters about his views, but declares he would if elected do their bidding. He moved to the increasingly murky problem of the candidate who accepts a $5,000 gift from a lobbyist, while at the same time saying, "I don't owe the lobbyist anything. l vote the way I think." Mr. Richardson asked, "Is that ethical?" And finally came three cases in which interested parties are voting on matters affecting their own economic status: an oil and gas shareholder who votes on oil and gas issues, a farmer-legislator voting on farm matters and an oil and gas shareholder on a commission regulating his (Continued on p. 16) Mr. Dyal recovers Annapolis President William M. Dyal, Jr., is expected soon to leave the hospital after surgery for a brain tumor on October 20. The extensive operation was performed at the George Washington Hospital in Washington, D.C., and was completely successful, according to doctors. The prognosis is excellent, they said, and Mr. Dyal is expected to have a full recovery. The president will travel to Kiawah Island in South Carolina, where he has a family home, to continue his recovery there. �DECEMBER 1988 THE REPORTER PAGE2 1939 E. Leslie Medford, Dean of Admissions at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, retired in July, 1988, after 27 years' service with the University of the Pacific, the last 14 of which he served in this capacity. During Commencement exercises in May, he was awarded The Order of the Pacific, the highest award that the university grants its faculty and staff. Last spring, he was awarded the 1988 Outstanding Service Award from the Western Association of College Admissions Counselors at its annual meeting in San Diego. Mr. Medford 's retirement this year was his second. In 1961, at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, he retired from the Marine Corps after 21 years' service. 1944 Vernon E. Derr was selected as one of six Senior Executive Service Fellows honorees named by the Office of Personnel Management for their achievements. The award winners will embark on "unique developmental assignments to improve their capacity to contribute to public service." Mr. Derr, at present director of Environmental Research Laboratories at the Department of Commerce, will study cloud radiation and climate problems at the Universities of Colorado and California. Selection for participation in the SES program was based on the significance of the nominee's contributions to the development of his staff and the strength of the proposed assignment. The citation naming the participants concluded with these words: "We are here today to reward these outstanding executives for their contributions to the development of our most important resource people." Laurence R. Josephs retired last academic year as an English professor from Skidmore College in New York. He has earned a reputation as a remarkable teacher and a fine literary critic, and a very promising poet. After completing undergraduate work at St. John's and at New York University, he earned his graduate degree at Columbia University, before pursuing a teaching career at City College of the City University of New York and a career in advertising. Since 1963, he has taught at Skidmore. His productivity as a poet has been considerable - his collections of poetry include Cold Water Morning, Six Elegies, and The Skidmore Poems: A Retrospective, published in 1975 when Mr. Josephs delivered the Edwin M. Moseley Faculty Research Lecture. The annual selection to deliver the Mosely Lecture is the highest honor accorded a faculty member by his or her colleagues. In addition, his poems have appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including The New Yorker. 1961 Harrison and Nicolas Nabokov reached summit of Mr. Shasta in California (14, 162feet) on September 4 after a three-day climb. It was Nabokov's first mountain climbing expedition and the second time Mr. Sheppard has reached the summit of Mt. Shasta. 1964 David Jordan has just joined the Classics Department at UCLA and would like to meet others from St. John's in that area. 1968 Gilbert who was last year elected chairman the Annapolis Historic District Commission, has been recently appointed Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. 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 018-750 1969 Susan Roberts Price writes, "After getting my master's in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and a teaching credential in math at U .C. Berkeley, I finally have a real job! I'm teaching math at San Francisco University High School and have moved to San Francisco, too. Yay!" Sarah Hobart Homeyer received a master's degree in theology (Biblical studies) from the University of Notre Dame August 5 in the presence of her husband Charlie, her parents and his parents, "24 years after the B.A." as she reports in a recent letter. "What I have learned is that there's much more to learn (including relearning Greek). At present she is leadinE" classes on the Bible in her parish and the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan. Charles E. Maurer and his wife, Daphne, have recently published the book, The World of the Newborn. The book, which has earned the 1988 A ward of Excellence in the Media of the American Psychological Association, attempts to build a coherent picture of the newborn infant's sensorium, to show what his world looks like, feels like, tastes like, sounds like to a nervous system newly emerged from the womb. Mr. Maurer, a science writer, and Mrs. Maurer, a psychology professor at McMaster University in Ontario, argue that the womb is far from the peaceful haven we imagine, the womb can be "boomy, bumpy, unsettling and foul tasting." They begin their book within the womb, then go on to follow the newborn baby throughout the upheaval of birth, and then to consider, one by one, the newborn infant's ways of experiencing the world. According to The New York Times review by Perri Klass, "The World of the Newhorn is an honest and successful attempt to lead the lay reader through a field where psychology, medicine and the neurosciences all offer pieces of information. There are specific sections of advice to parents and these are both reassuring and humane." 1970 An article by Edward M. Macierowski appeared in the January issue of The Thomist. The title is "Does God have a Quiddity According to Avicenna?" 1974 Edward Myers and Faith Allison Woody were married May 21 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dr. John Rees, A '74, served as best man. Mr. Myers' sister, Abigail Myers, A '62, and Wesley Uemura, A '74, also attended the wedding. Mr. Myers works in the field of commercial litigation and bankruptcy. His wife is a nanny, a ·water colorist, and a brood mare breeder. "We anticipate a life of love and irrelevancy, since we met on Halloween in full costume," he says. 1975 Chris King reports that he and his wife Amy Oosterhout, A '82, became parents of Harry Austin King in August. Harry is named after Annapolis tutor Harry Golding, "because he was a man whom I continued to respect and admire in the years after I left St. John's. Since both of Harry King's parents and two of his grandparents, John D. Oosterhout, A '51 and Barbara Kiebler Brunner, A '55, are St. John's graduates, it did not seem appropriate to give our first child a name without a St. John's connection." Before the birth of Harry, Amy had gone into business for herself as a title abstractor. She plans to continue parttime. Chris has been appointed adjunct professor by the University of Baltimore School of Law, and will be teaching the basics of legal writing and advocacy law while he continues to work fulltime as attorney in a small law firm in Essex, Maryland. 1978 Kari Jenson Levy is acting in the offBroadway hit show, "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom." The show has been running for three years at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York City. Eleanor Webber has received her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is currently employed as assistant professor of psychology at Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee. 1979 Brian Zenone still lives in New York City, and has been studying viola. He's been playing in the orchestra for Les Miserables on Broadway. ~ina 1980 SF '80, and Ben Goldstein, SF '79, report visiting Jen~ings and_his wife Laura, both attorneys, m San Diego. Packy and his wife are thinking of moving to Albuquerque, and would appreciate receiving information on the employment outlook for lawyers there. Their address is: 4461 Valeta St. Apt. B, San Diego, CA 92107. Kyle Schultz and her husband Dub Saunders are proud parents of a daughter Kirstin, born to them in May this year. They live in Santa Fe. Barbara Abata is a personal computer specialist for Morgan Stanley in New York and has been working 70-80 hours per week in her air-conditioned building largely to get relief from our sweltering New York summer. Marie Wielga is a lawyer living in Denver. His wife, Julie Neitz Wielga, has just begun medical school. She had been. coaching homeless, pregnant women and 1 decided that for women to have more say in medicine, there need to be more women in the medical hierarchy. Read Davie Burkhalter's report below. 1981 David Burkhalter, A '80, reports on the September wedding of Mike Coss, a first lieutenant in the Army's Rangers. Mike will be living in the Seattle-Takoma area. "Class of '81 was well-represented at the wedding: even Peter Gilbert took time away from his dissertation to attend." David himself is now a lieutenant in the Navy studying Spanish at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, in preparation for a two-year assignment in Argentina. He was married last December to Sophie Baledent of Paris. Randy White was his best man. Anne Mary Kates and Benjamin Carlton Kershaw Smith were married September 5, 1988, in Washington, D.C. 1982 For Oosterhout's news, see 1975. 1985 Herrick joined the following graduation and was sent to Swaziland to teach math. After three months of training in southern Africa, she headed for the classroom. "l enjoyed teaching, once l got the basic idea," she says." It is creative, not too repetitive, and you are your own boss in the classroom." In November, 1987, she married fellow Peace Corps volunteer, Wayne Herrick. "It was Friday the 13th and we couldn't resist," she says. "Wayne said we should have put in our rings, 'Friday the 13th, Part One.' We got married at a sort of justice of the peace, running next door to the Peace Corps Office for our witnesses. All we had to do was to promise to stay together until we die. Then the justice of the peace, in an aside, told us that today may be sunshine, but someday there will be rain, and even though we've promised to stay together until death, not to murder each other. We assured him we wouldn't." Wayne's job offer of associate director for vocational training in Swaziland has brought the two back to the States. The couple is now in Washington, D.C., working in the area of overseas training. 1972 Hal Cornelius has joined Western Temporary Services, a firm based in Walnut Creek, California, as Vice President and Director of Marketing. 1973 Jim Farley is teaching at Los Alamos (NM) Middle School. Jim reports that he recently led a seminar for district administrators on Oedipus Rex. He also recently participated in an "Iron Man Triathalon" in Lake Tahoe, consisting of a 2-mile swim, a 100-mile bicycle race, and an 18. 6mile run. He completed the race in 14\/i hours. 1976 Judy Kistler has entered graduate school at the University of Connecticut, after spending seven years as a teacher at the Forman School, also in Connecticut. A. T. Michael MacDonald of New York City married Ellen Zachos of Manchester, N.H., in October. Mr. MacDonald is a record producer and owner of Sudden Street Productions in New York, and his bride is a singer and stage actress. 1978 Ben and Suzan Monk Porter are living in Olympia, Washington, where Ben has been working as an Assistant Regional Counsel and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney with the Federal Department of Health and Human Services. The Porters have two sons, Theo (born in 1980) and Colin (born in 1983). See Vance Morgan's news under 1988. 1979 Don Schwimmer is temporarily living in Austin, TX until January. He is doing contract work for IBM on some exciting artificial intelligence projects. For news of Ben Goldstein and Gina Ironside, see Alumni East. 1984 Lisa Powers Bland is enrolled in the Master's program in education at the University of California, Berkeley. 1986 Elizabeth Barnet has returned from spending six months doing construction with two cooperatives in Nicaragua. Liz is now living on Tomales Bay in California. Elizabeth Mechau reports: "To those who noticed an announcement (in the Reporter) of marriage between Daniel Gertner and Elizabeth Mechau: (I) his name is Gartner, and (2) the marriage has not taken place yet." 1988 Jeanne DePretoro, GI, was married recently to Vance Morgan, SF '78. They are living in Milwaukee with his two children. Dan is a Management Trainee with Lowe's Companies, Inc., learning the building supply and hardware business. our Megan Anne Beaumont, Luther Blackiston, Donald Booth, Sarah Braddock Fisher, Vicki Davis Cone, Eva Fass Sherman, Lee Fischler, Joshua Gillelan, Ezra Harris, Amy Hummel, Bart Lee, Ann Morin Levine, Jinna Maclaurin, Susanne Martin, Steve Morse, Kerry Nemovicher, Lee Reichelderfer Tyner, Deborah Schwartz Renaut, Gilbert Renaut, David Roberts, Dorcey Wend Rose, Joe Sachs, Nancy Scott, Scott Seegers, Steve Shore, David Simon, Tom Webb, Rick Wicks, David Wigutoff, and Jonathan Zavin. And we '11 be back for the 25th. Y'all come! �r DONNA BOETIG Eisenhower was not a man for all seasons. Neither were most other United States In accordto his David cian of the turmoil and µvuu'"'u' ~~'"'"'"~" David ,__,,,,...,,,,,___. The author 1943-45, a as a about it. a curiosity which I hope inevitably the reader in." Mr. Eisenhower's urge to write about his grandfather took root in 1966, when as a freshman at Amherst College he decided recent history alone was inadequate to provide an understanding of the challenges facing the country during those turbulent times. The following year, while attending Richard Nixon's demonstrationmarred Inauguration, David Eisenhower felt "the mission to find the truth somewhere between the superficial good times of the 1950s and the superficially hard times of the late 1960s and early 1970s." Yet it wasn't until 1975, after working as a. sportswriter and later earning his degree from George Washington Law School, that the concerns of his book came into focus. It was not nine months after President Richard Nixon had resigned, six months after the fall of Saigon, and the country was in the throes of a major reassessment, he recalls. It questioned the very institution of the presidency; it asked whether a country could be truly democratic and a great world power, and pondered if the "bigness" of business, corporations and government had suffocated the elements that distinguished the American way of life. Against this backdrop David Eisenhower began submerging himself in the life of General Eisenhower. "To answer the question of perspective, how a grandson can write about his grandfather, I would step into his shoes and re-experience the story through his eyes," he said. "I had known him for 21 years, had worked for him (when you visit the Gettysburg Farm, notice the fences; I painted them five times) and l had spent a great deal of time in the presence of Dwight Eisenhower and his contemporaries. It was second nature, the sense of what he valued." To understand the values of this age group, you have to know that those born between 1890-1900 witnessed incomparable quantitative change in their lives, he explained. A two-fold expansion in the world population, the entrance of the age of television, space and computers and advances in medical technology, blurring the line between life and death. "These were thoughtful men. People who knew the precarious line between modern civilization and breakdown," he said. Mr. Eisenhower supplemented his "sixth sense" of this group of Americans, of which his grandfather was a member, with hard facts gleaned through months of research into diaries, maps and magazine articles. He followed the daily accounting of the war in old newspapers. Originally intending to write a book on his grandfather's retirement, he was reluc(Continued on p. 12) Keith Harvey photo David Eisenhower at turning point ing assisting the general manager of the By DONNA BOETIG In a nervous gesture he clears his throat Washington Senators Baseball Club (now . again and the words flow - quickly, the Texas Rangers), working as a sursoftly, at times indistinguishably. "I am . veyor, reporting for the Philadelphia Bulletin and being a Washington D.C. law reevaluating where I've been and where I'm going. I've had some time off the last clerk, he has achieved a longtime goal: couple of years to travel, to think of my becoming a writer. goals. You go through a similar process For the past decade, he and wife, Julie, when you're a member of a political famhave discovered that through the printed ily and that family leaves public life." word they not only are able to explain the This is David Eisenhower speaking. He, intricacies of their backgrounds to the public but, even more important, underlike many other baby boomers, is experiencing the mid-life crisis. However, when stand it more clearly themselves. you 're the grandson of one president, and Eisenhower at War: 1943-45, the first of the son-in-law of another, hitting 40 can a trilogy on his grandfather's life, chronihave far more interesting implications cling Ike's 19-month tenure as supreme than thinning hair. commander of the Allied Expeditionary David Eisenhower to many is still the Force, was nominated in 1986 for a lanky figure squarely associated with Pulitzer Prize. While David researched Watergate; the clean-cut, all-American his book, Julie worked on a personal guy who stood vigilantly beside his wife, accounting of her mother's life, Pat Nixon~· Julie Nixon, as she defended her father, The Untold Story. The two are now colthe embattled President during the height laborating on 1968, a book about Viet of his Administration's problems. This Nam, which David says will put him in image of eternal adolescence is the price touch with his feelings on this controverhe may have paid for his famous name sial part of modern history. The book is until now. . scheduled to be published by Random Today, Mr. Eisenhower is all grown up. House in late 1989. After working at an array of jobs includBoth discovered their writing careers to be compatible with raising their children: Jennie, 9, Alex, 7, and Melanie, 3, at their suburban ranch home in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. While Mr. Eisenhower's book won glowing reviews from almost all, a few readers lamented that nowhere within its 1,000 pages was a glimpse of the intimacy shared between the biographer and his subject. Mr. Eisenhower says he doesn't retreat from the relationship issue and says he will be offering such in forthcoming volumes. For now, he suggests that he's not certain there was anything special about his relationship with his grandfather. "I look back at him as a teacher, somebody who took the time out; I was the only grandson so I think he indulged me in some matters. He made a special effort to teach me certain things as a boy that he thought were important: fishing, hunting, riding, working on a farm. As a child, I knew him very well." President Eisenhower had the time to get eyeball-to-eyeball with his young grandson despite the unrelenting demands of his office "by being a Reagan-type pres(Continued on p. 12) Nancy Hammond creates St . John's p "nt Nancy Hammond, a prize-winning Annapolis painter who recently originated a highly successful series of silkscreen prints of the Chesapeake Bay region, has created a limited edition silkscreen print of the St. John's College Annapolis campus. The striking rendering depicted in the 26Yz inch by 35Yz inch design moves from the Liberty Tree to McDowell Hall. Thin lime-yellow streaks of sun highlight the loden green campus lawn. The dome of McDowell Hall is a bright chrome yellow and the Pinkney Hall windows are silhouetted in white. A brilliant blue sky provides the backlighting for the trees. The scene is both bold and simple in the artist's characteristic style, with dense bright colors, umber, brick red, teal blue. After winning the Maryland State pos- ter competition in 1980, Mrs. Hammond began her silkscreen series of sailing and tidewater scenes, which are to be found in collections both here and abroad. As a sailor herself and a keen observer of almost everything, the artist uses subject matter she knows well. Her studio near Spa Creek in Eastport is the site of continuing projects in two other media besides prints - large painting in layers and drawings of human faces in series. Mrs. Hammond's work has been exhibited at galleries in Washington, Baltimore and New York, as well as at the Baltimore Museum of Art. A native of upstate New York, she spent ·her summers on Murray Isle on the St. Lawrence River and winters in Skaneateles, in the Finger Lakes District. She majored in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. A longtime admirer of the college, Mrs. Hammond was recently elected president of the Friends of St. John's. Her sister, Sarah Robinson Mara, was a St. John's graduate in the class of 1962. Mrs. Hammond owns Hammond Editions, 418 Sixth St., Annapolis, which publishes and distributes her limited edition silkscreen prints. The St. John's posters, which will sell for $150 each, will be available before the holidays. The edition is limited to 150 prints and is numQered and signed by the artist. A flyer with an order blank will be mailed before the holidays, or the prints may be purchased through the St. John's College Bookstore, or through the Advancement Office, Box 1671, Annapolis, MD 21404. �THE REPORTER PAGE4 Presi Dyal responds e c allen What follows is Annapolis President Dyals response to a letter from Jonathan Adams, A '82, published in the September Reporter, on the matter of minority recruitment. Dear Mr. Adams: Thank you very much for your thoughtful letter of July 6 and for the enclosed letter to the editor of lhe Reporter. l have shared your letter with the Dean and Director of Admissions and discussed it with the editor of lhe Reporter. Needless to say, we are all thinking seriously about the issue of minority recruitment and participation, and your ideas add to that discussion. I thought it might be of interest to you at this point to be aware of some of the things that are ongoing. First of all, I am enclosing for your information John Christensen's report to the Board on minority recruitment activities. As you can see, a great deal has been happening and is planned for the future. We are already seeing some follow-on from the Touchstones Project in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and we expect more of the same from the beginning program in Baltimore, as well as rural Alabama. You should also be aware that alumni in New York City have been very involved this past year in a seminar program including teacher training in several predominantly black high schools. In addition this past year, we had several interesting lectures - one by Houston Baker, a black professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and another by Rex Nettleford from Jamaica. In addition, George Doskow led a preceptorial on black literature which included such writers as Frederick Douglas, Ralph Ellison, and Langston Hugh es. There is much more on all fronts to be done, but at least the consciousness has been raised here, and we are all concerned about greatly increasing minority participation at St. John's. I assure you it remains a priority. Sincerely, William M. Dyal, Jr. President To The Editor: I continue to be amazed by the arrogant ignorance displayed by the St. John's community (faculty, staff, students and alumni) in its discussion of college matters. The ignorance l speak of is an ignorance of the intellectual trends which grip the rest of American society in thrall. This ignorance is most unforgivable in the case of alumni, who ought to know that in their position, somewhat removed from the insular atmosphere of the college campus, their contribution to discussions of college matters ought to seek to provide some perspective on the above mentioned trends. I was most offended hy the recent discussion of minority recruitment at St. John's. Rather than act freely to analyze the current in American culture which judges all institutions on the basis of an affirmative action litmus test, St. John's print organ reflects a situation in which a myopic view with regard to minority recruitment reigns over St. John's. In earlier issues of lhe Reporter it was made clear that no one at St. John's understood why women were under-represented in the St. John's student body. An ignorance of contemporary feminist ideology explains this puzzlement. While women are in the majority at other small private liberal arts colleges in America, St. John's is different. A quite significant school of present day feminist thought holds that the history of western civilization and its literature is a history of the oppression of women. The notion is founded upon a desperate ignorance of Western civilization in general, and its literature in particular, but the view is widely held, and though the young women who hold this view would no doubt benefit from the freedom from this slavish notion with which a St. John's education might provide them, these very same women are the most likely not to apply to St. John's; since, instead of seeing "Great Books," they see "texts of oppression." To remedy the paucity of female students at St. John's the whole of this feminist doctrine must be assailed. With necessary changes the same argument can be applied to the underrepresention of blacks at St. John's, n. b. the joint assault upon what we, the extended St. John's community, would call "Great Books" - which assault was launched at Stanford University recently. Our "Great Books" became what an unholy alliance of minorities and women called "those books written by White Males." Until this attitude is reversed St. John's should not expect to successfully end racial and sex-based anomalies among the current student body population at St. John's. Furthermore, and I must insist that my discussion of this point must be viewed as a passionately held personal expression of my own opinion based on my own experience at St. John's, DO NOT FORGET HISPANICS. Although l experienced no overt discrimination based on my own Hispanic background, I do not doubt that certain tutors and administrators at St. John's would have been more generous in their treatment of me if they had had some familiarity with the content of Hispanic culture, not just stereotypes. In this regard consider that only ONE BOOK from the Hispanic pantheon ofliterature is included on the St. John's list of readings. And while it may be appropriate to actively recruit blacks and address their concerns at Annapolis, since blacks are the predominant minority in that geographic area, it is at least as important to deal generously with Hispanics at Santa Fe, mutatis mutandis. Finally, let me make it clear, that although I never expected this diatribe to go on for so long, I appreciate your patience in reading this far, and should you choose to publish this Jetter, please include the list below, with which I became familiar when l was a graduate student in the Institute of Latin American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin: Spanish Literature Poema def Cid .......... by Juan Ruiz Libro de Buen Amor ........ Juan Ruiz El Conde Lucanor ... Don Juan Manuel La Celestina ....... Fernando de Rojas Lazarillo de Tormes. . Guzman de Alfarache ......... Aleman Los Suenos ................. Quevedo Fuenteovejuna .......... Lope de Vega El Bur/odor de Sevilla .. Tirso de Molina La Vida es .\ueno ............ Calderon Rimas; Leyendas ............. Becquer Fortunate Y Jacinta . . . . . . . . . . Galdos La Regenia ................... Clarin hes Nave/as Ejemplares Yun Prologo .......................... Unamuno La Rehe!lion de Las Masas ..... Ortega Bodas de Sangre ........ Garcia Lorca Spanish American Literature Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de Nueva Espana . . . . . . . Bernal Diaz Comentarios Rea/es . ... Inca Garcilasco La Araucana .................. Ercilla Some poems hy .\·or Juana Inez de la Cruz Facundo ................ Sarmiento Martin Fierro ............. Hernandez Cantos de Vida Y Esperanza .... Dario Los de Ahajo ................. Azuela Residencia en la Tierra ........ Neruda Ficciones ..................... Borges Cien Anos de Soledad. Garcia Marquez This is a "Fundamental List" at UTAustin for graduate students of Hispanic Literature in the Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, incompletely transcribed by me, but useful should any tutors deign to seriously consider expanding the reading list and including significant works by Hispanic authors. Sincerely, David L. Humphreys, A '85 To The Editor: On the eve of the fall equinox, 1988, Witter Bynner's ghost rose again in the form of a question posed by (Ms?) Deborah Aydt in another letter to the editor. What's going on? It was with a familiar feeling of dismay that I read it, and once again I find myself called to the old ground's defense. I, along with a small group of undergraduates, lived at Witter Bynner for a few years in the late '70s. During the entire tenure, the house was constantly embroiled in conflict with the administration's wishes. The "white elephant" was an elephant even before then, though it was never white more of a pink which must have provoked conservative seats of ruling powers. Yes, I have my own tales to relate about the lively spirits which inhabited the house, and their confrontations with others who conducted their business up the trail. I have often thought how unfortunate it was that the house was not owned by another name, say Robert Frost. Perhaps then the house would have been made a museum from the beginning, Jest any lesser mortals soil the space which had been owned by Mr. Frost. It was given away by a lesser light, a mistake, given the nature of man and institution. For what is received as a gift is seldom valued as that for which labor is expended. Those condominiums mean more and are worth more to the contemporary St. John's community than Witter Bynner because there are those still living there who planted the germ and watched the complex grow to fulfillment. St. John's of Santa Fe earned its condomiums; it did not earn Witter Bynner. And though the property has historical associations by virtue of its very location, one must not be overly naive about what history implies at St. John's. One must not be merely historic - one must be excellent. While I lived at the house, I once drew an analogy paraphrased in terms of classical ratio. As St. John's is to American education, so is Witter Bynner to St. John's society. The members of the household were all involved in its internal affairs, though some to a lesser degree than others. The rest of the student body had a greater or lesser awareness of its existence. Some had no inkling of its existence at all. Some considered it an enclave of snobs. The administration was painfully aware of its existence, which it exerted its efforts to terminate - by peaceful, legal, and preferably private means, of course. The city of Santa Fe was DECEMBER 1988 aware of its existence at intervals which coincided with celebrations which emanated from its grounds. It was a small society inside a larger, and its inhabitants breathed its influence as ideas in the texts of Plato and Aristotle. Who could think a poet's spirit could wish young spirits would inhabit his old abode? What use would it be? l don't know. I do know I composed my first poem at 27 years of age at a desk with a book open to a translation of a Greek text in the room where Witter Bynner is reputed to have died. So what? None of these things have anything to do with the institution's contemporary economic realities. They are only personal, emotional reactions to what I perceive to be the culmination of an effort years old. And the end saddens me, much as I was saddened to leave St. John's. I am gone now, and so is the community at the house of which l was a part. Soon, if not already, that, too, will exist in the realm of form. I console myself by remembering the yin/yang symbol set in the wall of the small patio on the south side of the house. In every situation resides the kernel of its opposite. In a way, I hope Witter Bynner is sold cheap to someone who will value it. Then l hope Witter Bynner's poetry is "found," and the college will pursue an opportunity to repurchase dear what it will find worthy to preserve of its own history. Perhaps then some considerable objective value will be attached to the property. Sincerely, Allen Dean McCollaum, SF '79 ro The Editor: l am writing with some exciting nev\ s about three alumni who re-united la:-.t year more than I 0 years after being in school together at St. John's. Last summer, while on vacation in California. my husband, Ben Goldstein, .\I-" '79, and l coincidentally had the opportunity to watch our old friend Steve Warshawer, A '78, compete in the Western States JOO - a JOO mile trail run acros~ the Sierras. As it turned out, we got to do more than watch. We became Steve's surport crew for the gruelling 106 degree race in which he had a heartbreaking second place finish after being mistakenly Jed oJ l the windy trail just after dark at about the 90-mile mark. As Steve's crew, we really had our hands full just getting by car and by loot from checkpoint to checkpoint at 10-20 mile intervals throughout the day. Ourjoh included supplying all the clothes, shoe-.;. food, beverages, first-aid and lighting Steve would need to do his best over the course of the day which begins at 5 a.111. in Squaw Valley. We were really psyched that Steve did so well for himself among ct crowd of over 400 top-notch ultramarathoners. Suffice it to say that our enthusiasm a~ support crew and Steve's achievement as an elite ultramarathoner has since Jed us to three more I00 mile trail runs with Steve. After another outstanding second place finish in last summer's Leadville Trail I 00 in the Colorado Rockies. in which Steve was featured on an NBC Sports World TV special, Steve went back this year on August 20 to an astounding victory at Leadville, setting a new course record of 18:04 for I00 miles of rugged mountain trails and 12,600 foot passe-.. We've found crewing for Steve to he d unique experience: we have nicknamed ourselves, along with my sister Helen. the "Ultramarathon International Ellicromanagement Consultants, Ltd." since we\ e taken over such things as buying and cooking race food, instructing Ste\ e\ pacers, and making sure Steve hring.~ socks that are in one piece for the race. Ben even came out of semi-retirement from sports to pace Steve on an 8-mile mountain climb in this year's Leadville 100 after Steve's scheduled pacer failed to appear. Warshawer recently moved hack to N.M. He is running his business, Marathon Telemarketing, from Albuquerque. Ben works in Manhattan at City University Graduate Center. He is a computer systems programmer. After all these years. he finally ad mi ts that he's a nerd. "Gina" Ironside, SF '80 �5 Is t ever but a comon Constitution as it was addition of the Bill of before There is a lot to think about Constitution without the amendments. of the books of Mr. Gold- NANCYOSIUS his office at the American Institute for Public Research above 17th Street the heart the nation's Robert Gold win, counsellor to think tank resident sage, Constitutional expert, l 950 of St. John's and its from to 1973, smiles when he makes his confession. "l 'm black of the " he says. "I am to UU'VAH•'-'''VH member Governors or ferences met at were attended scholars from Chief Justice of and The was svrnrn1s1;3L Mr. accustomed to a that the world is an moves about and converses in muted tones closed doors, about the vexations and tions that beset the republic. Despite his little joke about himself visa-vis St. John's, Mr. Goldwin isn't feeling like smiling very much on this late summer day, his first back in the office fter a bout with pneumonia - a clear indignity for someone who claims that he has almost "never been sick." Glasses of water and lozenges get him through this interview, originally scheduled to mark the expected conclusion of the Constitution project in December. But the decade of Constitutional study is receding altogether at this moment, as Mr. Goldwin pauses to consider the practical utility of studying by the seminar method, and his own role in extending the concept. Just now on his immediate calendar is a trip to the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho, where a group will assemble under the aegis of the Executive Council on Foreign Diplomats. American corporate executives and foreign diplomats posted in the United States will take part in a program where outdoor activity will be followed by discussion of articles on international trade, Third World debt and the like. Mr. Goldwin himself will train discussion leaders for the seminar, limited to a maximum of 30 participants. The seminar is led by a business executive and a diplomat. 'Tm sort of the coach," he explains. "But the seminar works its magic: they start out talking about relations of rich and poor nations; they end up asking, 'What is injustice?' " As it happens, he helps to arrange a variety of sessions with high-powered participants, always incorporating the idea that reading and discussing has continuing and expanding value for adults with wide responsibilities. Diplomats from other countries and American corporate executives might go on a white water raft trip together, for example, doing their own cooking and sharing the rigors of the wilderness. Some of these participants will be from cultures in which they have never before been responsible for serving themselves in this At the end of such an says Goldwin, come the and discussion. The participants will all be "on an equal basis, and to discuss the readings as individuals rather than as representatives of their country or company." Consideration of these seminars in which he is involved, nearly 40 years after he discovered and chose the St. John's program for himself, leads Mr. Goldwin to the broad issue here: Robert Goldwin AEI photo Although typically faculty members at the "There are very few programs that host institutions are a little aloof as the ·attempt education of people who have seminar gets underway, he comments, reached the highest levels of responsibility." usually they, too, begin to contribute to He observes that in the armed forces the discussion. there is intensive education available at But now he is prepared to turn away every level up through colonel. "But there from these satisfying though somewhat is no Generals' education," says Mr. peripheral activities to the central thrust Gold win, "and this is true, too, in industry." of the most recent decade of his life, his "The assumption is that when you get to post as director of Constitutional studies the top, you don't need education. Also, at the AEI. there are two daunting questions: who is Under Mr. Gold win 's direction, the to teach them? What will they be asked to AEI will soon complete publication of IO study?" volumes of essays on how democracy and Mr. Goldwin leans back in his chair capitalism operate within the Constitubefore answering his own questions. "l tional framework. Outstanding spokeshave found that an adaptation of the men express a spectrum of opinions on seminar process gives us the answer. Get such questions as How Democratic ls the them to teach each other, and get them to Constitution, and How Federal ls the study the very best writings you can find. Constitution? - two of the titles and Of course, you must find authors who other issues that arose at the time of the disagree. Experts disagree less on the facts nation's founding and persist today. than on the meaning of the facts. SeminDiverse viewpoints were solicited, and ars can concentrate on the questions about "There people what the facts mean. But the problem is not the facts, but how to interpret the facts. "We use the seminar to enable these leaders to teach each other. I explain that this is a program that dares to teach people thought to be unteachable. "We put together the highest level of political education programs for people at the highest level. We have the best faculty. Themselves. Assembling a of that sort would be impossible. we lure them with the rafting adventure." As a consultant for the Executive Council for Foreign Mr. Goldwin arranges still in collaboration with universities, for example, a conference on agribusiness, and world food problems at Purdue, and on arms control and national security with Stanford. The university supplies the briefings and lectures; the consulting group provides the seminars. attempt highest levels of of If diverse viewpoints have been presented. "It is impossible to read these [books] passively," says Mr. Goldwin. "Each essay is a persuasive argument and they all disagree. The reader must make a decision." The books are designed for use in undergraduate and graduate study and some have already been through several printings. "Before these books, it was quite difficult to give a course on the Constitution," Mr. Gold win comments. "Most focused not on the Constitution, but on Court cases. The distinction of these books is that they the emphasis on the Constitution as the framework of our national life in its political, social and economic aspects rather than the " " he continues, "people think first the Bill of Rights. St. John's students can understand the problems inherent in doing this, for they read the Federalist papers, the finest analysis of the constitution 1s no an accurate account a nation is constituted." Under such circumstances, he sees it as a mistake for the creators of such documents to use advisers for very technical With the conclusion of the ""'n~+,+ .. ti on 's bicentennial project this year, Mr. Gold win 's role as director also ends. What, then, comes next? He seems pleased as he considers this question. "On the basis of what I've learned, 1 have an idea for a book on the writing and legislating of the Bill of Rights. At present books on this subject bear titles like 'birth' of the Bill of Rights or 'roots' of the Bill of Rights, but it wasn't born and it didn't grow. It was the result of a legislative process." The Institute, he comments, encouraged him to think about this project, and proposals are out for grants to make it possible. "Nineteen ninety-one will mark· the bicentennial of the ratification of the first I 0 amendments. They were proposed and debated in the First Congress; 12 amendments were passed and send out for ratification in 1789. Ten were ratified by the requisite number of states in 1791. "One more bicentennial," says Mr. Goldwin with a sigh. His voice is by now the merest whisper. The water pitcher is empty. We are later to learn from him that the Idaho conference had to make do with a substitute 'coach,' while Mr. Goldwin returned both to home and to bed. Nevertheless, we press on heartlessly, seeking a concluding anecdote from that 'chapter of his life when he was an habitue of the White House, running small seminars -yes! -for President Ford and others at the very center of power. As an advisor to NATO in 1974, he had worked with Donald Rumsfeld, NA TO ambassador, and close associate of Gerald Ford. When Mr. Ford became President and Mr. Rumsfeld his White House chief of staff, the latter recommended Mr. Goldwin as special consultant to the president, his title for the next two years. When Mr. Goldwin first arrived, the press called him "the President's intellectual" or "White House intellectual-inresidence." Mr. Goldwin, however, disliked that title, especially because Ford had "about seven ex-professors in the Cabinet, Kissinger, Schlesinger, Levi and so on." But the effort to get the press to call him something else was futile. at a conference Now he smiles. One of The New York Times printed the list of participants, with identifying titles. Robert Gold win 's name was of course among them. Opposite his name was his designation: "so-called intellectual." �6 Board of Visitors and Governors' chairin Santa Fe last July.) Hn'»'1"'"11'»'1'''Y"7 nw'l1u:1,u!1 Dr. Dobreer, President President Emeritus those honored ·~'""'"··fellow alumni: I would like to talk sometimes have cons1aera101e uuu,,,ua Without grasping the second I claim of administration. Outside UHH'-''-'"''"'" our obsessions and our never suspect, ~ .. ~ ........~. respectively. We all see this college somewhat differently depending upon our histories of contacts and principal concerns. Ten years ago when I was in the Graduate Institute, my view of St. John's in Santa Fe was different from what it is today. Then it was formed primarily by my steadily growing admiration for the Graduate Institute curriculum and by some delightful relationships with tutors and about 20 or 30 fellow students. l was obviously captivated by the uniqueness of the program. But I did not then fully recognize the extraordinary power of your special pedagogical approach, and I had little idea at all about the key bias for exhaustive consultation that characterizes your Polity. Furthermore, I could not then appreciate the beautiful bonding that resides within your core community or know about the perennial fragility of your finances. Now I understand that protecting the Program underlies all else. That is why such' great authority is vested in the Faculty Instruction Committee, and why it is always the case that every change in the Program is an agonizing experience. Tutors have debated the pros and cons of including the best of the great Western writings for 50 years now, attempting to select the most valuable and relevant books and passages for a four-year undergraduate education. There are always more worthy candidates for this august list than can possibly be included. But as tutor Eva Brann so consistently asks, "If you want us to include your particular choice in our canon, what do you propose we remove to give it a place?" In my judgment this ongoing tortuous process of selection, rejection, and retention has worked surprisingly well. Change does take place, but gradually so. As an alumnus I can only thank the many unsung heroes and heroines of all past and present instruction committees for their diligence. They have made the many key · selections for the rest of us that we could never properly make for ourselves. They have actually established a broadly accepted Western intellectual standard, and they continue to function for us as a quality control team. These committed tutors deserve our greatest admiration and respect. Unless you understand the importance the faculty attaches to protecting this extraordinary program, I contend you will never really be able to understand what's going on at St. John's. Think of it this way. Only as a coincidental consequence of a terrible economic depression and the boldness of two of Robert Hutchins' disciples, Scott Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr, was such a remarkable educational experiment ever attempted in the first place. There have been times since then, especially in the early days, when this great experiment was imperilled. Consider, too, that fifty years later there are still very few institutions like us, and none entirely so. Then remember long and carefully the distressed state of departmentalized-specialized higher education in this country and abroad. What I'm saying is that this marvelous experiment in education - one of man's most important preoccupations - probably could not be started today. We are a rare breed, the panda of institutional education, a constantly endangered species. Please don't misunderstand me. I am not claiming that St. John's has any final answers to offer concerning the stimulation or nurturing of nobility or wisdom, or even final answers to the most effective way of teaching the liberal arts, or for that matter, any final answers to anything. But we have become expert in one approach to achieving the examined life that is worth living, and this approach appears to me to be alive and working well in Annapolis and Santa Fe for our modest population of less than 1000 undergraduate and graduate students. I see us as custodians and conservators of a precious societal asset. Protecting this jewel becomes, then, a sacred resolve for many within the St. John's community, even for some of us serving on the Board of Visitors and Governors, are for the most part men and women of affairs rather than letters. Still, the basic responsibility inevitably falls to the faculty. To tutors, this is a life's calling. They have taken the risk of becoming master generalists a world of specialists. They have committed themselves in an extraordinary way. Thus we must recognize in their zeal to protect the Program, the co:mrm1s10n of the committed. is St. John's Polity demands exhaustive consultation. This is why it is deliberately ambiguous concerning executive authority. This is there really is method in our seeming madness of governance. wish to understand St. John's College, you must first grasp the reality that protecting the Program along with its special pedagogical approach underlies practically every position the tutors take. When one does comprehend this obsession, many seemingly strange things about this college finally fall into place. Tonight I also want to talk about a second way of looking at St. John's College. I want you to imagine with me that we are the presidents of the two campuses. Let's speculate what their ex officio existential concerns must be, that is, what they probably think about after the honors of office have faded a bit and many of the delights of relating to stimulating people have quieted. They live with the painful knowledge that these tutors who preside over this precious undergraduate liberal arts program of study are paid on average slightly more than 90% of the average of a peer group we use for comparison in other four-year liberal arts colleges. In the words of one of our board members who was elected by the alumni and who also happens to be on our Compensation Review Committee, 'This is obscene!" Suppose with me further that our presidents' natural reactions to this constant problem are much like ours might be, "Raise more money," "Cut other costs." Let's take the latter alternative first. There is no fat that I know of in the of either campus. Both administrations have comparatively small staffs and it is easy to determine what each person does. Our costs are not out of line. We turn then to "Raise more money." Here is where I think we have a ""f'.."H''"''-'"' lack of understanding. It's not hard, of course, to where President set his priorities. With just enough endowment income and Annual Fund revenues coming in to pay the operating expenses, he has set about raising to renovate some of Annapolis' historical and marvelous, but crumbling, old Nor is it difficult to follow where President Riccards has placed his emphasis. far less endowment income he has been forced to concentrate on a larger Annual Fund goal that will allow him to balance his budget while trying to keep up with Annapolis' raises. He is also firmly committed to building a library. With this kind of constant pressure, presidents, like other mortals, begin to dream dreams. Oh, how marvelous it would be to double or triple our endowment income so that we might more nearly reach our salary goals and balance our budgets at the same time. If only we had a large number of new prospects for major endowment gifts. Clearly this is our core problem: Our endowments are too small. My task tonight, though, is not to bemoan but to explain. I have said that this second perspective of St. John's - this view from the Presidents' offices - contains a dilemma, a perplexing problem. On the one hand, everybody involved with St. John's finances agrees we need to carry out a major endowment campaign, like doubling or tripling what we have now. On the other hand, there are certain formulas used in professional fund-raising that tell us we cannot do this. And these formulas must be respected. They tell us from experience that we can raise in endowment giving over some period of time, say three years, only some predictable multiples of what our alumni and board members give annually. Quite frankly, this is a very sobering exercise in multiplication for those of us attempting to lead St. John's College. We Johnnies simply do not measure up in our percentage who participate or in our average annual gift. Unfortunately, we know that most of the great foundations that make major endowment grants to liberal arts colleges in the U.S. will almost certainly base their support on our internal support. This constitutes our ongoing dilemma. So what shall we do? Let me say first what I'm satisfied we should not do. I do not think we should press harder those loyal alumni, board members, faculty members and dear friends who have been so generous to us in the past. In my judgment, it is time now for us to become far more aggressive and methodical in the cultivation of a large number of new friends: individuals whose gifts will increase our crucial internal base. We have just recently become a bit more aggressive in this pursuit. We finally have on board two experienced Vice Presidents for Advancement who are fully professional in fund raising - and we have a Board of Visitors and Governors more committed to raising money than any I have ever known before. I am convinced that we are on the move, but let me also say something about strategy. We hope to approach a major endowment campaign in 1990 from two angles, the first conventional, the second perhaps not so conventional. Regarding the conventional, we will simply follow the book. This means doing research on our college community: our alumni, our board, and our friends. We expect to discover a lot of success stories we hadn't heard about, how the rest of us are doing now, and what it takes to motivate us. However, we are also going to investigate the not-so-conventional. The Executive Committee has authorized me to search for expertise in how best to market St. John's uniqueness, that is, boldly but in good taste. We are going to look for professional help in how to communicate to a broader audience the great story that we constitute. Our theory is that we may be involved now in a national sea change of attitude toward higher education in general and liberal arts education in particular. We believe that what St. John's has been doing and perfecting over these many years is an idea whose time has finally come to be more fashionable -if you'll pardon such a description. I know all too well that Johnnies never want to be considered fashionable. Those of us who are the hucksters and money changers of St. John's College - we men and women of affairs - are more willing to be thought fashionable. We are determined to find a way to strike a more responsive chord among the philanthropists of America. Wouldn't it be exciting to be at the right place at the right time with the right message about the Great Books? Wouldn't it be stimulating to see St. John's emerge from poverty after being philosophically correct all along and sticking to its convictions? We look around and see the huge endowment funds of other great colleges and wonder, have we not captured such loyalty?" I'm not sure there is a satisfactory reason. I can tell you_,with assurance, though, is that we ate determined now to look for some previously unthought of ways to put St. John's on the major donor map. In conclusion let me come back to the hard realities and back to us: alumni and board. l would fail you if l did not remind you again very bluntly that any new institutional benefactors will scrutinize our alumni and board giving as the best indicators of our belief in ourselves. If we can show a dramatic increase in our Annual Fund this year and next, we can prove to the big donor foundations that internally we are fully committed and serious. Just remember, what we give these next two years may be leveraged 20 to one, or even better, in our planned Endowment Campaign. I want to urge all Alumni to make these next two Annual Funds the most important in our history. Again, this is not meant to pump up those who are already loyal. Rather, my message is for the St. John's silent majority, if again, you'll pardon the expression and for the Alumni Association to adopt new initiatives to reach these inactive ones. We must have a higher participation rate. Really to impress the major foundations, we need to boost participation by 40-50%, and total giving by 30-40%. If we do this, and if we also tap a new, national mindset disturbed about the quality and methodology of higher education, we can put St. John's alongside the best in endowment per student and solve our long-standing dilemma. �DECEMBER 1988 PAGE7 THE REPORTl;R T. This issue of the Alumni Association Newsletter begins a new policy with its inclusion in the College Reporter. The Alumni Board decided that the wider Reporter audience and unified mailing will benefit alumni and thereby encourage more interest and participation. As Editor I would like to know what you think about our newsletter in general and this new format in particular. Your responses are welcomed. - Linda Stabler-Talty, SGI '76 Editor, SJC Alumni Association Newsletter CHICAGO ANNAPOLIS Luncheons are held on the second Friday of the month in the Private Dining Room, Randall Hall, SJC, at noon. Call the Alumni Office for further information, (301) 263-2371. BOSTON November 17 - President Michael . Riccards will lead a seminar on The Prince by Machiavelli, from 7-9. December - A Christmas Party is scheduled. Call Cindy Rutz (312) 975-3593 hm, 337-4012 wk.Jar information and future seminars heing planned. DALLAS/FT. WORTH This chapter meets for Saturday evening seminars about JO times a year. For further information call Suzanne Doremus at (817) 496-85 71 or Jonathan Hust is (214) 340-4102. as Enthusiasm for the introduction of the visual arts into the St. John's Program has prompted some experimentation and much discussion to which I will blithely add a few observations of my own, being careful to steer clear of the rocks on which all must founder, i.e., what, if anything, in the Program should be dropped to make room for this new study? Had Odysseus confronted that peril, Penelope would be a widow. It is the assumption of our culture that certain works of art are among our greatest treasures because they are signs of the particular richness and complexity of the culture, besides which they are beautiful and thought-provoking artifacts worthy of contemplation. The seminar, which has proved invaluable in helping students justly to consider the landmarks of our civilization in other disciplines, will not disappoint us with respect to the visual arts. That a painting can be the subject of a sustained discussion is no longer in question. I have participated in preceptorials, alumni seminars, and faculty study groups where that very thing has happened, often to the surprise and delight of all involved. Most people have never sat and studied a painting for any length of time -for lack of faith. You have to believe that there is a lot to discover in a serious painting and that you are capable of discovering it without assistance from (or despite assistance from) a museum docent. Let's say we have gathered together a small group of people possessed of such faith. They are seated around a marvelous painting. How do they make a beginning and what special benefit can they hope to derive from their effort? I will assume that all members of the group have done the homework, that is, spent time beforehand in the presence of the artwork familiarizing themselves with every inch of the painting; trying to figure out how and in what stages the pigment got from the palette onto the canvas; and watching their own reactions to the painting in order to determine how the artist has controlled their visual/mental experience. Now they need an opening question. That question should be one that helps them get at the particularity of the painting-why this image ofa bowl of oranges is not the same as another image of a bowl of oranges. It should draw their attention to the formal and material characteristics of the image, such as color, contrast, light source, composition, perspective, application of paint, etc., and require the group to acknowledge and delineate the relationships between as many facets of the painting as possible. The more fully they explore these characteristics and the whole complex issue of abstraction the better equipped they are to discover the purpose or attitude of the artis.t and, hence, the sense of the painting. To draw parallels with activities more familiar to the students and alumni of St. John's - imagine trying to understand a short story without addressing the voice and viewpoint of the narrator, or trying to analyze a poem with no reference to rhythm, rhyme, or word placement. The study of painting enlarges the discussion surrounding the relationship of form to content, a discussion that arises in all of the classes at St. John's, but perhaps most explicitly in the study of music and lyric poetry. While becoming more sensitive to the nuances of the painted image, the members of our hypothetical seminar can hope to increase their overall visual acuity and their awareness of the whole process of seeing. They will learn the rudiments of a universal language that has become increasingly important in a world replete with images. Finally, our seminar participants will have made the acquaintance of a great work of art, the continuing contemplation of which is a very real and deepening joy (at least for most people - at the recent Gauguin exhibit in Washington, D.C., I observed a woman weeping as she gazed upon these masterpieces). You will probably have noticed that in sketching the goals and effects of an art discussion, l dealt with it as an isolated event. That is because I have in mind the practice initiated by Annapolis several years ago of rarely inserting a painting into the list of works considered by the seminar. In that format it is difficult to make astute comparisons of the few paintings introduced at wide intervals, or to judge of any interplay between them and works of literature or philosophical treastises. Now if space were ever made for a semester or year long course This summer at Santa Fe the Board met as it does each year in the course of Homecoming events. The directors talked with Jeff Morgan, newly appointed Vice President for College Advancement at Santa Fe, who will supervise the Alumni Office. Ron Hale will be responsible for the Office of Alumni Activities. Mr. Morgan was reminded that, unlike many alumni associations, ours is a corporation independent both legally and financially of the College, with which it works cooperatively and from which it receives a number of contributed services. It was called to his attention also that, as the College has two campuses but is one institution, the Alumni are one body representing both campuses and belonging to neither exclusively. In further business, the Board's Ad Hoc Committee on Student Representation said in response to student requests, that the Board has no authority to arrange for student representation to the Board of Visitors and Governors but it would recommend that additional tutors and student representatives be put on the Alumni Board. This proposal was referred to the By-Laws Committee for consideration. In other business it was announced Mary Lou '",,.,f"''i" that the Unified Annual Alumni Fund Goal for this year, beginning in October, will be $275,000 - $26,000 more than was raised last year. Chairmen for the drive will be David Rea A '49, and Matt Krane SF '76. It was also agreed by the Board that a brochure explaining the character and function of the Alumni Association would be useful. Proposed copy and a layout design will be presented to the Alumni Board at its January meeting in Santa Fe. At the annual meeting of the Association held in Annapolis the following day, directors of the Association were elected as follows: Harvey Goldstein, A '59, President; Jonathan Zavin, A '68, Vice President; Christopher Nelson, SF '70, Treasurer; and John Van Doren, A '47, Secretary. In addition, the following directors were elected: Mary Bittner Wiseman, A '58 (second term), Charlotte King, A '59, (first term), Everett Wilson, A '56 (first term), and Thomas Geyer, A '68 (first term), with all terms scheduled to run through 1991. Also at this meeting, an amendment to the By-Laws which had been duly proposed prior to the meeting was passed by the Alumni to the effect that no director of the Association may be elected for more than two consecutive 3-year terms. The feature of the meeting, apart from this business, was a commentary by Curtis Wilson on certain paintings that were reproduced by slides. His purpose was to indicate how such works might be discussed in a fine arts tutorial, were such a class to be added to the Program. We use the subjunctive because no decision to that effect has yet been made by the faculty, Mr. Wilson being only the head of a faculty study group delegated to look into the question. President Dyal addressed the meeting also, and assured the members that on-going and scheduled renovations to the Annapolis campus will be done on schedule. - John Van Doren, A '47 Secretary, SJC Alumni Association of study (here I am drifting dangerously close to the rocky shoals), many other issues could be raised. Artists could be seen to influence and respond to one another as do the philosophers. Readings from art theory or the philosophy of aesthetics might complement the examination of many artworks. Students would have a chance to consider the extent to which the paintings of a particular period resonate with the scientific discoveries and philosophical concerns of the same period. They might also engage in some studio work of their own, thereby gaining a better appreciation of technique. Some of these goals have already been achieved piecemeal in preceptorials and extracurricular activities, and the story might end there unless St. John's adds a fifth year to its curriculum or establishes specialized Masters degrees. For the moment I will content myself with a personal testimony: the intelligent consideration of a great painting is very exciting and enriching, and a seminar is an excellent means of bringing that about. - Sharon Garvey, SFGI '78 Sharon Garvey is a former tutor and present freelance artist. LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA December 11 - Christmas Party January 8 - Seminar: Aquinas, Treatise on Man February 4 - Concert/ Lecture For more details call Ed Raspa (213) 223-9934 or David Dohreer, 283-6315. NEW YORK January 11 -- Seminar led by Tutor Michael Ossorgin on Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan llich March 8 - Seminar led by Tutor John Verdi on Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle Seminars meet at the Princeton Club at 7p.m. Call Lovejoy Duryea (212) 737-3721 for further information. PHILADELPHIA December I - Seminar, topic to be announced This meeting will he at the Germantown Cricket Club. For details call Jim Schweidel at (215) 836-7632. SACRAMENTO Meetings every other month to discuss The Program readings, following the undergraduate sequence. Inquiries are welcomed. Phone Arianne Ludlow (916) 362-5131 or Helen Feeley 381-7887. SACRAMENTO/ NORTHERN CALIFORNIA November 20 - Seminar on Gabriel Marquez's A Death Foretold. January 8 - Seminar on Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale." Locations of seminars rotate, but meet at 2:30 p.m. Call Mark Middlebrook, (415) 530-9643 hm, or 834-4164 for more information. SANTA FE December 7 -Goldsmith, lhe Vicar of Wakefield (pl us social/ pot luck) January 4 - Dinesen, Babette s Feast February I - Pericles, The Funeral Oration; Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address; Churchill, to be announced All meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. in Room 105, Santa Fe Half, SJC. Call Ron Hale (505) 982-3691 for details. SEATTLE This Chapter meets during the year for different events. Call Kathleen Flynn (206) 328-4237 for more information. WASHINGTON D.C./ METROPOLITAN AREA November 30 - Baudelaire (poem distributed) December 14-A. N. Whiteford, Aims of Education and Other Essays, Chapters l-3 January 11 - Mr. Robinson, Housekeeping January 25 - Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians · Seminars meet at 6:30 at the West End branch of the D. C. Public Library. For further details phone Sam Stiles (301) 424-9119. �PAGES THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1988 Elliot Richardson had called for dialogue, and dialogue was the major fare at Annapolis in the forum "Ethics and Politics" as small groups assembled in classrooms and laboratories in Mellon and McDowell Halls. In 26 different groups, 18-year-olds in blue jeans mixed with gray heads in professional attire first to engage in discourse on the preassigned readings, and to move from that beginning off in multiple directions. Political figures teamed up with college tutors to guide these groups. Each discussion took its own turn. One group discussed Oliver North, another rued the loss of personal contact with elected officials, still another tried to offer ethical precepts to formulate policy. St. John's students were confident contributors to some discussions and subdued listeners in others. Six other forums on ethics are planned over the next three years, beginning with Ethics and Journalism on April 1, 1989. Later programs will examine ethics in relation to business, medicine, law, religion and education. 0011t1ca1 figures sit together for Mr. Richardson's address. From left, State Sen. Julian Lapides, Annapolis a1c1er1me•n Hopkins and Irving Mager, and chairman, Anne Arundel County Council, Virginia Clagett. From _top, former U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Holt, tutor Thomas May and County Councilwoman Maureen Lamb. Top ngh1, state Senator Gerald Winegrad, with Congressman Thomas McMillen below him. Mr. Richardson brings audience to their feet, middle p Walter Sterling meets in McDowell, bottom photo. �DECEMBER 1988 Keith Harvey photos THE REPORTER Above, Tutor Deborah Renaut and County Executive James 0. lighthizer co-lead one discussion group; below, Vice President for Advancement Jeffrey Bishop briefs participants. Under the direction of Jeffrey Bishop, vice president for advancement, the Great Issues Series was conceived by the Friends of St. John's, whose chairman is Nancy Hammond, and the college office of Continuing Education. Sponsors of this program were ARINC, Bereano and Resnick, P.A., Annapolis Federal Savings Bank, Nationwide Insurance, Tyson P. Bennett, Giant Food, Inc., and the Sylmar Corp. Political officials who took part in the forum were the following: Bruce Bereano, Virginia Clagett, Leo Green, Barbara Hoffman, Paula C. Hollinger, Marjorie Holt, Alfred Hopkins, Edward Kasemeyer, Frank X. Kelly, Frank Komenda, Julian Lapides, James Lighthizer, Maureen Lamb, Irving Mager, Frederick Malkus, Lucille Maurer, Thomas McMillen, Pauline Menes, Ellen Moyer, Betty B. Nelson, Edward Papenfuse, Ida G. Ruben. Elizabeth Smith, Carl Snowden, Barbara Steckel, Gerald tutors who co-led seminars were the follow. ing: James Beall, Laurence Berns, Nicholas Capozzoli, Joseph Cohen, Kenneth Colston, Geoffrey Comber, Jeffrey Franklin, Henry Higuera, Alan Hornstein, David Johnson, Peter Kalkavage, Martin Kalmar, C. Ranlet Lincoln, Michael Littleton, Chaninah Maschlcr, Thomas May, Athanasios Moulakis, William Pastille, Carl Rubino, Beate Ruhm von Oppen, Brother Robert Smith, J. Winfree Smith, Walter Sterling, David Townsend, Malcolm Wyatt. Brad Davidson, A '77, took a tutor's role. Overheard at the "Ethics and Politics" forum: Political participant: "I didn't teach; I learned." Only-at-St.-John 's: ''I'd forgotten how important it is to read Aristotle in Greek." Participant: "Elliot Richardson for President!" Participant: "Elliot Richardson for tutor!" Tutor participant: "We had a very absorbing discussion with almost everyone contributing. There was a kind of natural balance." hoto, while a small seminar under the direction of tutor PAGE9 Alderman Carl Snowden, left, Friends of St John's Hammond, center, and tutor William Pastille. �DECEMBER 1988 THE REPORTER PAGE10 rit r r I r More than 200 alumni guests gathered in Annapolis in late September for the Homecoming banquet in Inglehart Hall. The chief business of the evening was to honor the meritorious and this was dispatched with rare accord. The changing of the guard was among the moving moments of the after-dinner ceremony as David Dobreer, A '44, having served six years as president of the alumni association, handed over the gavel to Harvey Goldstein, A '59. Dr. Dobreer was in turn presented with a certificate bearing words of praise and gratitude from the Alumni Association Board of Directors. Fellow alumnus and Board member Allan Hoffman spoke with admiration and affection of his friend, citing in particular Dr. Dobreer's work as a "strong ·proponent of the view that St. John's has one alumni body, united by the common experience of the St. John's program." He praised, too, Dr. Dobreer's long service as an alumnus, as president of the Los Angeles Alumni Chapter, as a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, and as president of the Alumni Association, paying particular attention to Dr. Dobreer's crucial role in the reorganization and expansion of the alumni group in 1982 to give it a more national character. Other highlights of the evening were the presentation by Dr. Dobreer of Awards of Merit to two alumni, Tarcher, A and to '53, and John Van Tutor Emeritus Curtis '83H, as well as honorary memberships in the alumni association to Elizabeth Mitchell and posthumously to After graduation from college, a stint in the of world traveland a time as a television Tarcher found his vocation uv."""' .. '"'"· movmg the ranks rising to upper management. After founding his own West Coast publishing house, J. P. Tarcher, Inc., he became "hugely successful," Dr. Dobreer said, "as a small, somewhat idiosyncratic publisher." For a time, this house was a subsidiary of Houghton-Mifflin, but presently they were "amicably divorced" with the senior house retaining custody of several highly successful Tarcher books - The Aquarian Conspiracy by Marilyn Ferguson, and Drawing on the Right Side ofthe Brain by Betty Edwards. The award noted that Mr. Tarcher had been called ''the quintessential California publisher," an appellation he "bears with pride." His wife, entertainer Shari Lewis, accompanied her husband to the campus, which he had not visited for some years. Curtis Wilson, dean at the Annapolis campus from 1958-62 and again from 1973-77, retired last spring, a figure of close to universal veneration in the college community. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union and other international boards and groups, and has published widely, particularly on 17th century astronomy. His dissertation, William Heytesbury: Medieval Logic and the Rise of Mathematical Physics, has been followed by various articles, especially on Kepler and Newton. The final Award of Merit was given to John Van Doren, A '47 member of a distinguished family long associated with the Ned Lathrop accepts award for his late wife. college. Mr. Van Doren's father, the late poet Mark Van Doren, was a board member and occasional lecturer during the New Program's early years; his son, Daniel, was graduated from St. John's in 1981. Currently the executive editor of Great Ideas Today, published by the Encyclopedia Britannica, he is a member of the Institute for Philosophical Research, and serves on both the Alumni Board and the Board of Visitors and Governors. He helped to develop the Paideia project, both contributing to the handbooks and providing in-service sessions with participating schools. He continues to lead Great Books seminars for the Encyclopedia Britannica and other groups. One alumna remarked of him, "He is one of the best examples of an alumnus who has stayed involved in the college and the sort of activities the college promotes." Ned Lathrop, A '38, accepted the first honorary alumni membership for his wife Kitty, who died last spring. As manager of the bookstore in the early days of the New Program, she would sit at the typewriter, "pounding out dictations of the translations of Copernicus and Kepler, the Almagest, and the Conics," Dr. Dobreer fondly recalled. "Back then," the citation commented, "students were always around her. She seemed the most beautiful, amiable woman in the world, always smiling, always solicitous of the students' welfare. Many of us remember bookstore ... as a very special gathering place ... l can almost see her, with that beautiful smile. And I know she will be missed." Elizabeth Mitchell joined the Board of Visitors and Governors in 1970, and is currently a Visitor Emerita. "As a benefactor herself, there's hardly that hasn't benefitan aspect of the ted from association and ·-···~~ ... ., "one board member said. She herself has contributed to buildings, scholarships, tutorships, general operating funds and landscaping." Her most recent benefaction to the college, the new art gallery on the Annapolis campus, has been named in her honor. At top, President William M. Dyal, Jr. talks with Award of Merit winner John Van Doren. Below, entertainer Shari lewis has a word with her husband, Tarcher, Award of Merit winner. 'Serene "Our lives, for better or worse, are inextricably tied to the place and to the cities in which we live and work, and in which we die. It is difficult to conceive of certain men apart from their home towns or cities. Socrates is a prime example ... Most partings are not ostensibly political, though it is a thesis of this lecture that such a relation is of necessity political," said Douglas Allan brook, tutor emeritus, in the opening remarks of his lecture, "The Most Serene Republic." The Friday evening lecture was one of the highlights of the annual Homecoming weekend September 23-25. It was enjoyed by a full audience at the Key Auditorium at the Annapolis campus. In his lecture, Mr. Allanbrook praised Venice - at one time one of the most powerful states in Europe-as the most humane place to live. "Surely, any place that has existed for over a thousand years without civil unrest is always the best place to work and play," he said. He spoke of the seeming paradoxes in the nature of Venice. On one hand, it is intimate with self-contained neighborhoods, yet at the same time it is international in scope. Its political dichotomy is even more interesting: ruled conservatively by a constitution spelling out a strict line of order, yet at the same time governed humanely with safeguards protecting the humblest man in the state - the worker. Ironically, Americans secured such safeguards only with the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mr. Allanbrook said. The closeness between a man and his city meant traditionally that exile was a punishment akin to death, he continued, citing as examples Dante in Ravenna, Jeremiah in Babylon, and the countless poor Englishmen transported to the dreary shores of Botany Bay by their fellow islanders. Certain few cities and states have nurtured not only their own sons but have been cities of refuge for foreigners and refugees from less felicitous realms -America as well as Venice. Most of us think of a city merely as a place to live, to work, thrive and eventually die, all linked to our fellow men by institutions, he said. Some cities have a date, a birth, and a founder: note Washington, D.C. by its founding fathers. Still others cities have their origins shrouded in the mists of the past, such as Mexico City being founded by a blood-hungry sky god. Venice was not so much founded as accreted, Mr. Allanbrook said. Its foundations of commerce and sea power were already present. It also had salt, a highly desirable product. Venetians tied their boats to the front doors of their houses built on mud banks. (All of Venice is built on wooden piles sunk into the sand and water, some of them over 1,000 years old.) When considering the definition of a "city," Mr. Allanbrook looked to the wisdom of Socrates. To qualify, a city must have an active market place, foreign commerce, some luxury, and a military force to protect it. Here the real history of Venice differs from Socrates' definition. It has no separate class of guardians, its defenders are its sailors, its merchants, its ordinary citizens. Generally Venice's uniqueness is attributed to its being built on piles in a waste of shifting sand banks, undistinguished little islands scarcely more than two or three feet above water level. To understand its political uniqueness, he said, "we must state that there was never any military class: Its guardians were its workers." The market place, foreign trade, the navy, the feeding of the city were all parts of one functioning unit. The Venetian arsenal was the original industrial-military complex, ublic': Veni manufacturing ships for both commerce and war. It was tightly and prudently administered by the highest officers of the republic, all civilians, Mr. Allan brook said. Like the entire city, the basilica of St. Mark's is unique not only in its architecture but its political status: It was the private chapel of the Duke, the Doge of Venioe, an elected official with less power than the president of our republic. The Doge's palace, adjacent to St. Mark's, is one of the most beautiful of all the world's seats of government. Venice is considered to have existed as an independent entity for 1,000 years, from roughly 790 to 1798, according to the speaker. Within this span, there are three periods of 400 years each: the first from 600 to the year 1,000 when the city consolidated itself as a city and ceased being merely a group of people or tribe possessing certain customs and habits. "The year 1000, however, is more than a convenient round figure," he said. In that year the Doge, Pietor Orseolo, proudly sailed down the Dalmation Coast of the Adriatic, asserting the hegemony of Venice over all the towns of that region and receiving their cooperation. In the period from 1,000 to 1,400 the Venetians grew in power and splendor, becoming the wealthiest city in Europe with a commercial empire that extended from southern Russia through the Mediterranean and on up to Southhampton in England. "In 1205 together with the noble Christian thugs of the Fourth Crusade, their Doge led the battle that conquered Constantinople itself and Venice could claim dominion over three-fifths of the Roman Empire. From 1400 to 1797 when Napoleon ended their existence as a sovereign state, they lost most of their commercial foreign empire and shifted their attention to what they called the "terra firma," ruling over a large portion of Northern Italy from the foothills of the Alps to the gates of Milan. In the 17th century, Venice was the largest center of industry and manufacturing in Europe. According to Mr. Allanbrook, humanists would describe Venice's constitution to be composed of three types of rule: rule by one - the Doge; rule by a few the Senate; rule by many - the Great Council. In the pyramid of Venice's government, we find the Great Council on the bottom, supporting everything, he sajd. Next is the Senate, then the Forty, next the ducal advisors and finally the Doge, the chairman. Add to this the Council of Ten, "originally an ad-hoc committee created in a moment of domestic stress," that worked so well it became a regular part of the government. The ultimate authority of the state Jay in the hands of the Great Council. These members could vote on candidates as well as initiate nominations for most of the manifold offices of the city. "During all of its history, Venice was viewed with envy by states far and near," Mr. Allanbrook said. "Its stability and magnificence were anathema to the pride __ _ and political thinking of popes, princes and emperors." In closing, Mr. Allan brook quoted a Jetter from Sagredo to his cl~se friend, Galileo, written after Galileo had left Venice to return to his home in Florence. Sagredo write: "Where will you be able to find liberty and the right to rule your own life as in Venice?" Then concluding his letter with the highest praise to be given to a republic, namely that in such a city a man is free, a citizen of a place that is greater than any city. "But here (Venice) you command those who command and govern others, and you had only to serve yourself, as if you were the ruler of the universe." �I A presentation on the subject "What Might a Visual Arts Tutorial be Doing at St. John's?" was Tutor Emeritus Curtis Wilson's contribution to the continuing dialogue about incorporating a visual arts program into the Annapolis curriculum. Mr. Wilson addressed an audience in Annapolis at the annual meeting of the Alumni Association in September. Mr. Wilson began by citing the words of two other tutors on the same subject. He noted that tutor Eva Brann in her recent lecture on the liberal arts, the first of the Night lectures in Annapolis, suggested there is "no well laid out, agreed-upon discipline for gaining skill in looking at works of visual arts" as areason to oppose introduction of visual arts into the curriculum. his Homecoming lecture of a year ago, Tutor Emeritus Douglas Allan brook expressed concern that a visual arts program would turn into a cultural history course, Mr. Wilson said. While agreeing that cultural history as such did not belong in the St. John's program, Mr. Wilson distinguished between a study of the dynamic elements of a work of art and a study of cultural history. He acknowledged that "history plays some role in the things we construct - we are historically conditioned," but urged that a study of visual arts should seek "not just historical fact, but truth of some sort." "By learning about dynamic elements we learn to see better. l also suspect that this kind of learning may be important philosophically," he suggested. To support his thesis, he showed an eclectic series of slides on works of twodimensional art. Works by Renaissance masters and moderns - paintings, etchings and line drawings - allowed Mr. Wilson to examine the artist's ·choices of light and dark, balance and assymetry, the "lines of force" that reveal such truth. r e Harvey Goldstein, A '59, of Coral Gables, Florida, is clearly a man of strong commitments. To its good fortune, St. John's College is one of these. Coming in as president of the college alumni association in late September, Mr. Goldstein is quite prepared to articulate what he hopes to do for the next three years. The theme of unity dominates his words as he sits within sound of alumni revelry at the Homecoming brunch in the adjacent FSK lobby. Outside rain falls on the stark and handsome shell that will presently become the new art gallery. "If I can accomplish the following, I will feel I have done a good job. If I can convince everyone - especially alumni that there is a unity of this school, a unity of purpose, a commonality of interests between Annapolis and Santa Fe, [then] the campuses [can be] virtually interchangeable." Mr. Goldstein is slender, youthful looking, intense, and focused unreservedly on this vision as he speaks. He goes on, "There is little difference between the two campuses - the mountains versus the Bay, the sunsets versus the Naval Academy. What differences there are are enhancing rather than divisive. think the entire board has that view." "It is a much easier view to get if you have the opportunity to visit the other campus. At Santa Fe it is very clear to me that it is, in the same school." While his own student years were spent in Annapolis, participation in the Santa Fe summer alumni program for the first time "eight or nine years" ago, and two similar summer sessions there since then, made solid his affection for the western campus as well. He also spent a summer term in Annapolis. He smiles as he remembers the pleasures of that first return to school, of "living in the dorm, of eating in the dining hall, discussing great books with other Tutor Emeritus Curtis Wilson ac1ce1::>ts Dobreer looks on. A painting and an etching by Rembrandt, created 20 years apart, each show Abraham's arm lifted to sacrifice Isaac, while at the same time suggesting a changed perception by the artist. The two works might provide some assistance to sophomores in their efforts to interpret the story in Genesis, Mr. Wilson pointed out. Leon Battista Alberti wrote down the theory of linear perspective in 1435, and the sculptor Donatello demonstrated his mastery of it in his bas-relief the "Feast of Herod" in the same year, Mr. Wilson told his audience. From Leonardo to Greco, those who knew and employed this theory thought of themselves as "liberal artists." The theory was of enormous importance, Mr. Wilson declared, in the scientific work and thought of Galileo, Kepler and Descartes. With two slides of a 19th century pho- I Keith Harvey photo tograph and a subsequent painting by Cezanne, Mr. Wilson showed the painter moving from mathematical to psychological truth as he tried, with overlapping planes of color, to capture the way objects emerge in experience. Recent psychological discoveries verify that "two constantly moving eyes are taking in a divergent picture of what there is," a theory the painter's work anticipates. In his final remarks, Mr. Wilson recalled Scott Buchanan's words in 1941 when he said that the fine arts had declared their independence of the liberal arts and that "it was the job of the college to reassimilate them." Mr. Wilson added, "I think that the divorce of art and science just won't do." Today," he said, "a physicist like Murray-Gellmann, author of the quark theory, makes his decisions between the- , , alums, students and tutors." His first visit to Santa Fe coincided in time with a groundswell of alumni activity, of turning the association into a more active, more national organization, Mr. Goldstein notes. By 1982, he was a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, a position he held until 1988. In 1983, he became a member of the Alumni Board of Directors. He is willing on this day to go back to first beginnings, when, as a high school student in Pennsylvania, he chose St. John's because of the promise of "an education rather than a training ground. l frankly didn't believe such a place could exist. I found a college here in every sense of the word, a collegial atmosphere. [The college] preserved absolutely the ideal I situation for study, learning and growing. It produced everything it had promised." A degree from Yale Law School followed in 1962, a three year stint in Army Intelligence between 1963-66, and finally 22 years of practice as a trial lawyer. He retired from Goldstein Professional Association a year ago, commenting that after the years of practice, "I wanted to do something else. What it is, remains to be seen." His principal clients during those working years were plaintiffs in medical malpractice suits. An explosion of large verdicts in Florida suits corresponded with his own years of practice. He authored the Attorney's Handbook 'to Videotape Deposition published in 1976, and served on various civic committees as well as the Harvey Goldstein, new Alumni Association President ories on the basis of a "criterion of beauty.•• "Natural science is not really self sufficient, but presupposes a primordial substratum from which the everyday world that we live in emerges and on the basis of which science is also constructed." He concluded, "As knowers, we need to explore that primordial substratum. It may be difficult to do, but l think the way to do it is to use great works of art." This autumn, Mr. Wilson is the leader of a faculty study group set up by the· Instruction Committee to examine ways of approaching the study of the visual arts. Other appointed members are tutors Wye Allanbrook, Joseph Cohen, Robert Druecker, and Louis Kurs, artist-in-residence Burton Blistein and painting instructor Gail Watkins. Also partricipating are Eva Brann, Thomas May, and J. Winfree Smith. Keith Harvey photo I Business Counsel of the Democratic National Committee in I 984. Divorced, Mr. Goldstein has two grown daughters. one of whom has attended the Santa Fe summer session. Earlier this morning, he has presided over his first board meeting in a seminar room in McDowell Hall. There, with longtime alumni intimates, he has used banter tinged with irony to implement a first project, finding appropriate standing committees under which to place the proliferating ad hoc committees. Later, he resists the term "streamlining" for this activity. "This is not a question of streamlining, but assuring that the gets done," he insists. "As part of my job in the next year, I want to promote communication between the governing board and the membership at large." He wants to examine what sorts of things the membership can do for the college, and the college for the membership. He cites what he considers the "most telling" document about the re1.at1,on:sh1p between the alumni and the school College polity description of the alumni as "permanent members of the college community." He continues very seriously: "It is extremely important for both school and alumni to realize this. The college and the alumni are inextricably tied together. Those who have gone through the program together have had the same or similar teachers, have read close to the same books, have asked the same sort of questions, had the same sort of thoughts. So we have a rather unique community." Now he is thinking again of that loved vision, a unified St. John's, just incidentally located in two remarkable settings, three-qua~ters of a continent apart. "I hope every one of our alumni will have the chance to visit the other campus. If they do, they will see that St. John's truly lives at each campus." �12 Three singers of exceptional talent and "'"'"'"'u"" p.rin,,,.,-,.,.,,.r1 winners in the audience ~An~ 11 ,,n1 P.~thevocalcomJJet1t1on ballot from a field of seven each of whom sang two arias in two different · Grant of uunuuv• s r Eisenhower to seek White he said. ~"~'~'~ 0 = of Eisenhower's Admimstration, Eisenhower stated, was to solve the disillusionment in the aftermath of World War "The on Amereconom1c measured H was the moral recovhave to be measured in first term But Pulitzer Prize. In his lecture, Mr. Eisenhower the strained relationships and various wartime figures se1ec1ted his grandfather to play major roles in history of that period. Unlike generals George Marshall or Douglas MacArthur, General Eisenhower was not seasoned by World War I, his grandson said. However, this was not necessarily a disadvantage, since the first and second World Wars were in many ways not comparable. Eisenhower at War: 1943-45 opens with the Teheran Conference. The year is 1943 and Britain and the United States are asking for the Soviet's support to invade Northern Europe. At stake was the threat of Fascism and the question of how the United States would use its newly-won world power. Mr. Eisenhower defended the United States' decision to honor an agreement splitting up occupied Germany into zones, explaining that the Soviets would have believed the United States had fought the whole war to get them, had our country backed down. Interestingly, Mr. Eisenhower says his grandfather would never have entered politics had it not been for Senator Joseph McCarthy. The senator criticized the United States' actions at the end of the war in Europe, saying: "America was all powerful then. How do you explain the fact that we lost Eastern Europe?" It was to keep the Republican Party from becoming a revisionist party on World War II that Keith Harvey photo 1t was in l 956 that his Chief among them were Soviets. think he became very almost alarmist ... He to toward the end of his had done with the hower said. t ident," gation. He was not a nine-to-five president; it was a little more than that, but he found time for things. lt was his philosophy of life. "I felt very much as a young boy that I was a project (of his). I enjoyed that and appreciated it." With the publication of Ike's memoirs after World War II, Ike became a wealthy man, allowing himself the luxury to maintain the Gettysburg farm so David and his sisters, city dwellers, could experience life in the country. Though the President never outwardly favored his sole grandson over the girls, David says from an early age he sensed a special interest. "l was his namesake," he says. Yet as a teenager working summers on his grandfather's farm, David learned quickly how little the family name would get him around there. "I was treated like any hired hand," he says, still proud that he could complain with the rest of them about Ike's relentless demands for results and his occasional impatience. "Five million people here and in Europe (who worked under Eisenhower's orders) knew something about that," he says. Yet it was this very drive to accomplish the near impossible that endeared the president to his grandson, and millions of others he led. "I came to appreciate the leadership that [doesn't let you ask] others to do what you're unable or unwilling to do yourself," he explains. "He achieved a lot in his lfe. He was a worker who worked hard until the end of his life. And because he did all these things he could ask this of others. That's the key to why he was a good leader in Europe." Despite their closeness, David says that had Ike been alive today, David would not have allowed him to read his book before publication. "That's something you don't do, or you might not have a book. I'd be surprised [if he disagreed with it]. Particularly on the war, maybe even more so than the presidency, I feel I read him like a book." With David Eisenhower's background so tightly intertwined with politics, it would seem natural to feel a pull toward the challenge. As a youngster spending his last night in the White House at the end of Ike's second term, he scrib- St. John's College is offering an exciting opportunity to support the school while saving on this beautiful full-color book on Annapolis. Kevin Fleming's stunning color photography featured in the recent Naticmal Geographic article on Annapolis has been expanded into a beautiful new book from Portfolio Press, Ltd. This magnificent 144-page large format volume captures the unique spirit and essence of the city. 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Seeing them through their early years is very important to us. Politics tend to involve a sacrifice for the family. And up here in Pennsylvania we have Republicans in every level in the state and there's not a huge demand for new Republican office-holders: In fact, there's no demand at all. Which is very fine with us; there's lots of good reasons not to [seek office] now." l will seek someday. I don't know if l 'm going to get into politics For me, I don't know if it's going to work out. At the minimum, would like to make it possible for future Eisenhowers - my children and my sister's children to consider politics; that l made that contribution." �tude DONNA BOETIG Tall, tanned and clad in tattered jeans, St. John's senior Jonathan Raney, here for the third time to complete his undergraduate education at the Annapolis campus, says he '11 earn his degree - this time. Yet, as he speaks, there's no hint of remorse, nor regret regarding the indirect course his college career has taken. In fact, if anything, for Mr. Raney the detours were as much a part of his education as the readings, lectures and seminars. Mr. Raney, like most of the students who leave St.John's and later return, says he's glad for the broadening experience he received outside of college, and thinks he brings back with him a greater appreciation for the education here. Ironically, though their lives as more mature students may be complicated because of family or financial concerns, their own visions of what they want in their education are clearer, making their lives as students here more directed. Mr. Raney began at St. John's in Annapolis in 1970, and followed a traditional path until the end of his first semester Junior year when he headed for the West Coast. There he worked on an oceanographic research vessel and eventually learned on-the-job custom yacht building. "I conducted myself in the usual ways of young men with poor judgement," he joshes. But by the Fall of 1976, "something indefinable" about St. John's beckoned to him. He returned, completed his junior year, and began his senior year, but left again after the first week. "There was just too much else to do," he says. "I just didn't want to study." And one of those things was learning first-hand custom yacht-building, a field in which he worked until last year when he fell from a boat, injuring his back. "l 'm definitely here for the degree this time," he says assertively. "I want to practice law and eventually become a divorce mediator." Returning to school at 36, with a bright, active six-year-old in tow and other financial considerations, is a challenge Mr. Raney meets squarely. "At a place like this, your studies would take a beating if you were working too, so I'm doing this on borrowed money-like Columbus. In some ways I take school less seriously now, but work harder. One should take pleasure in one's education or else you're doing something wrong. Maybe before, I was intellectually lazy. I'm enjoying school more than ever, now that I've arrested the adolescence that runs in my family. 'Tll definitely be here Graduation Day - and I won't be in the audience." Mr. Raney will be one of the minority of college students who "stop-out" - in other words take a leave from studies to Jonathan and sonEric PAGE13 THE REPORTER DECEMBER 1988 e el i st di s pursue other activity and then return and actually earn a degree. According to Dennis Carroll, spokesman for the National Center for Educational Statistics, of the 38 percent of the students who began a four-year college education and left before completing it, only nine percent eventually graduated. Of the students who did return to continue their college education, only 39 percent earned an undergraduate degree. These numbers were gleaned from a study of 3. 3 million students, in four-year public and private colleges, between l 980 and 1986. While the odds are against a student dropping out and then returning to earn a degree, more students seem to be following this pattern. Between 1972 and 1980 (the latest information available from the National Center for Educatinal Statistics), the numbers of students enrolling in post-secondary education increased, while the numbers of those graduating decreased. While only a small number of St.John's students leave and return, each one is handled on an individual basis. Their reasons for leaving vary as much as their personalities. Everything from needing a break from intense studying, to pursuing a passion, such as art or music that simply can't wait, to the realities of needing to work to earn tuition. Harold Anderson "I don't stand in their way. It's their decision,"says Dean Thomas Slakey. "For some it works well. A student in good academic standing is always welcomed back." In fact, according to Laurence Berns, a tutor at St. John's in Annapolis for 28 years, returning students "are more interesting when we discuss ethical and political affairs because life experience has made them more skeptical about finesounding schemes. They're more open to discussing prime wisdom in books. Our younger students can be terrific on theoretic questions, but in general, there's no substitute for " Ii c I ns The Ambassador to the United States from the People's Republic of China has accepted an invitation to speak to the Politcal Forum at the Annapolis campus. His acceptance capped the recent successes of . Martin Gelfand, A '89, and Jonathan Ying, A '90, who have arranged a lively and sometimes confrontational series of _lectures for the election year calendar. Jamie Kennelly Jamie Kennelly sought that experience in a smorgasbord of jobs that eventually led him to Japan. Beginning at St. John's in Annapolis in September, 1981, he left mid-way through senior year. "I just wasn't happy here anymore," he says simply. "I was tired of studying." Mr. Kennelly worked as a paralegal, then tended bar at "Dublin's," a waterhole in Washington, D.C. "l made lots of money and friends," he recalls. After that, he headed for Japan with two St. Johnnies. There he taught English to Japanese business executives, an extremely lucrative venture, he says. And although he was enjoying the Japanese culture, he returned to St. John's, explaining, "This place gets into your blood, you just never forget it. It has a major influence on you. In a covert way, you're always looking beyond the surface, people without it [a St. John's education] question less. [Finishing here] was one thing I had set out to do and never completed. It haunted me. It was part of my life I wanted to complete. "I have a tremendous respect for this place, more so now than ever before. It's really a luxury being here. People here study to learn - others study to get jobs. I'm more serious now, it's less fun and games. I would recommend to anyone that he or she doesn't leave. I'm happy to be back here. It's hard for me academically, but it's always been hard. A degree from this place is definitely a plus." Senior Harold Anderson, who began at St. John's 20 years ago, then left at the end of his junior year, says he's always been doing things related to the college. A musician, composer and piano tuner, Mr. Anderson performed a seri,es of duet concerts in New Zealand on bass and violin. He has spent most of the intervening time in New York City as a musician. There he met his wife, Jennifer, a native of New Zealand, and the two moved there in 1984, where he taught a series of courses on the nature of musical sound, structure, practical electronic music at Otago Polytechnic. "I could have finished college then," Mr. Anderson says of his first time at St. John's. "I didn't feel I was getting as much out of it as I had wanted. I was always so music oriented that I was distracted by wanting music. "Why am I back? I decided to get back into the academic mainstream. I've been into the deeper nature of music, and now the things I'd be doing at St. John's I'd be doing anyway. It suits my disposition. I'm getting more than a degree: l 'm getting security in the academic world. There's more security there than in the world of the working musician. My goal is to teach at the university level. It's much easier for me now to concentrate: l 'm not distracted. I came here for one reason, to get a more mature perspective on the Great Books. Returning students report no acceptance problems among their younger classmates. In fact, one former student, Ira Weiss, a lawyer and retired vicepresident of a Manhattan bank, was extremely popular with the students here when he returned as a senior. "I spent all of my life thinking about 'how'; now I want to think about 'why,'" he had said. "The students here are wonderful with anyone who is serious about learning," Tutor Berns says. Ambassador Han Xu initially agreed to speak in December. Since his acceptance, a conflict has arisen and the Ambassador is now expected to lecture after Christmas. The event will be open to the public without charge. Ambassador Han has served in his ambassadorial capacity in the United States since 1985. He also served in Washington from 1973-79 as deputy head of the People's Republic of China Liaison Office. In 1964-65, he was Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in the USSR. Among the public positions he has held in China were the following: from 1982-1985, he was vice-minister of foreign affairs, and in 1982, an alternate member of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee. From 1979 to 1982, he was director of the American and Oceanian Affairs Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the Protocol Department of that ministry, he was named a member in 1959, deputy director in 1969, and director from 1972-73. Each speaker in the series has been invited to have dinner with the students before the lecture, to address a larger group for about an hour, usually in the FSK conversation room, and finally to take part in a question and answer period. In mid-September, Maryland Sen. Gerald Winegrad, D-Annapolis, gave the initial talk, "Ecological Armageddon and the Democratic Process," before a responsive audience that remained until 11 p.m. to hear what it means to be politically involved in environmental matters. "Right afterwards," Mr. Gelfand remarked, "a recycling project got underway in the residence halls." The "Presidential Series" of the Political Forum, alternate addresses by partisan figures, got underway with an address in September by Republican Jane Plank on behalf of the Bush candidacy. She was for eight years mayor of Kensington, Maryland, and is a recent Reagan appointee as liaison between the State Department and local governments in the area of U.S. foreign policy. Alan Keyes, Republican challenger for the U.S. Senate seat held by Paul Sarbanes, offered himself as a speaker for a special Sunday night gathering in October. He blasted the "benign tyranny" of governmental assistance for the poor, and suggested that it created dependency among communities across the nation. He advocated reducing governmental activity, and returning power to localities and families. U.S. Congressman Tom McMillen, DFourth District, was running late when he addressed the group in October in a talk he began by repudiating what he called the widespread "me-first" attitude, while favoring emphasis on the collective energies of the nation. He dubbed the "laissez faire" economic policies of the present administration as "truly outdated." Robert W. Love, Jr., history professor at the Naval Academy, was to speak on "Defense Policies for the 1990s" on Wednesday, November 9. Prof. Love is completing eight years of work on a history of the U.S. Navy, which will be published next year. The lid is still on negotiations for the second semester by these enterprising young men, but by now, no one will be too much surprised if the parade of distinguished visitors continues. �The address, delivered President Santa friends: It is responsibility to welcome you here at third Convocation over which it has been my pleasure to In those two years, we all have an outpouring of concern about Such a concern is not a new happening in this nation. Since the Puritans established free public schools in Massachusetts to contain the influence of the "Great Deceiver, Americans have embraced a faith in the power and the effects of enlightenment and But and 11nn1c•rc1 t " ' " have been warned that colleges have abandoned God and betrayed man; that have fallen under the spell of value relativists or under the purview of relifundamentalists. One of the finest universities in the United States has in a long debate over its core and ended up dropping nine of the sixteen Great Masters from its required reading list in order to make room for a more heterogeneous group of writers. Outside the faculty meetings, where that was being discussed, we have told that some students chanted. hey, ho, ho, Western Civilization must go!" It is not my place to criticize any other college's faculty meetings. l am prudent enough to rarely comment on our own! But the outcome of those deliberations at Stanford University has been cited so many times in contrast to the St. John's College program, that I cannot help but address the very issues that have been raised, again and again by both sober and more excitable educators and commentators. We have been chastized that Western thought is too narrow and too ethnocentric to command any more the energies of many of those interested in undergraduate education. If we are being told that Jane Eyre and Hobbes must compete with the Tale of Gengi and Confucius, then that is one challenge. But if we are being told that undergraduate education should really return to the preoccupations of the late 60's and offer young students an ill-defined smorgasbord of courses that reflects the interests and ideologies of their instructors, then that is another response. It is true that the Great Books and the Great Masters represent a narrow selection of two millennia of Western Civilization. Many other cultures - cultures in Africa and South America, in the Middle East and in the Orient - are neglected, but many of those remarkable regimes and empires have left us little in the way of a legacy either in writing or in art. Cortez said that the Aztec cities were more splendid than Venice, but we shall never know. Even from our own classical heritage we have so little. Sophocles wrote over I 00 plays, the modern world knows only seven. Aristotle's thoughts have been passed down to us partially through his students' notes. Who among us would have his reputation based on our students' lecture notes? The heritage of Western Civilization is a very thin veneer - fragile and worn in places - and certainly not a canon of inspired works or a corpus of totally unadulterated literature. I do find it meaningful, though, that many of those Westerners who have come to study and know best non-Western thought, do so not as a way of repudiating their past, but as a part of a maturation process that builds on what they know. We are told that Dante, for example, must be moved out of the required curriculum to make way for more ethnic studies literature. It was my unique honor when I was a young assistant professor to be invited to participate in the launching of a fine ethnic studies journal done by a great language teacher of uncommon vision and deep humanity. If he had been told, however, that his beloved Dante or Mon- or Homer had to be sacrificed in the process, he would have recoiled in horror. He knew no such conflict and loved the masters as he explored the curious and the more contemporary aspects of modern culture. Those who are so facile in dismissing these masters show an ignorance of what T. S. Eliot has called the importance of tradition in the creative process. No area of this nation is so with autonomous and out ethnic traditions as New Mexico. read the beautiful Angelico Chavez in his and not hear the cadences of Cervantes? Who can read Scott brilliant Indian narrative House and not see the influences Faulkner? And who can read Toni Morrison's epic of black resilience titled Beloved and not see Penelope called by a different name, Sethe. But if one has not met Don Quixote, puzzled through A hsalom, Ahsalom, or imagined the plight of the wife of Odysseus, how can these allusions be seen or appreciated? Those who ask us to choose between Dante and Toni Morrison understand neither his importance to our heritage nor the formative influences on her art. We at St. John's have chosen one form of pedagogy and education. There are surely other legitimate expressions of liberal learning that are valuable. We have one set of authors that we believe work well in our integrated non-elective curriculum. But surely there are authors we should not have excluded, and others whom perhaps we could just as easily pass over more lightly than we do. But what I perceive is happening is not a friendly debate over authors as much as a misdirected attack on Western culture itself. A reverence for the few Great Masters is seen as an endorsement of the imperialism of ideas, as a reaffirmation of the domination of white males in a world increasingly dubious about the value Europe and We are as a people too ·ignorant of our past and of the past of others, and too blind to our future. We are too uneducated, even those of us trained and tenured in the major universities. We speak poorly and hear even less. The ideas we communicate - the common dialogues of our times - revolve around sports, superficial politics, a thin popular culture, and weari. some accounts of something called sonal "That is the common and listen the ' I President's Convocations. Those students and for a season or for a year. out compensatory active recruitment of students, and board and new and creative ideas to link this a of between those who love u''''"'t'"''"'°' , .... ,.,.,,,"'"'' and those who have discovered the mysteries and wealth of the East. There are no Marco Polos these The division is between those who outside of it, between those who love the fruits of and those whose is so that with the "res then let us even more welcome diverse to learn from us, and we to learn them. We we above all the virtues and reason, then let those charms know no limits. We say that St. John's wishes to create men and women out children, then let us the ments to educate a new leaders across race and also be sensitive that students share other values and a vague sense of soever about the ethnic and that come to St. let us venture a and stark observaJohn's to be not a part of ~n tion about those who wish to chant in the and m forum that Western social relations, but a full partner in our ... L.~c·~" must go. We have heard those basic mission - education and education chants in 400 A.O. outside way. gates of Rome and in inside Gertwo some of this many. We have heard it in forms .,,.,,,,...,,,r,....,r"' have abandoned over and over again, from many sources the structure and in and in many tongues. In our own time, the that time such education remained here, disciples of decadence, the advocates of alive and well. Now they have come to the cult of violence, the friends of liberatdiscover, as new, what on this campus is ing nihilism ended up giving up still more classical and clear-minded. For nearly a gruesome tyrannies. When these tears in decade our society and many of our colthe fabric of Western civilization have leges have often forgotten the legitimate ·appeared, what have we found? Have we demands of a heterogeneous population. seen come forth more humane and sensiLet us here at St. John's, under no comtive movements, or have we just seen the pulsion and without endless legalistic same old barbarians clothed in different formulae, open up our doors and our costumes? No one born in this century community to positive, aggressive assistshould have any doubt about the trouance. Let us make this overture, not as a bling record of our times and what assaults fad but as a commitment, not as a comon Western values have in the end yielded. promise but as a culmination of over 50 It is our sad history that the party of the years of dedicated excellence, the pursuit of which is our best hallmark. The commitment to the Great Books and the Great Masters is not as is so frequently said, an elitist prescription. Hon"The commitment to the Great Books and the Great Masters is not est access is a democratic ally, for it opens up the finest ideas, the best minds, the as is so frequently said, an elitist prescription. Honest access is a noblest and most powerful sentiments to democratic ally, for it opens up the finest ideas, the best minds, those willing to persevere in their study. For us to offer anything less to these stuthe noblest and most powerful sentiments to those willing to dents would constitute the greatest persevere in their study." betrayal, a betrayal of them and of our better selves. To those who want to know what we expect to come of such an education and such an experiment, we can best recall right clings so tightly to the past that it America represent. Socrates' admonition: cannot survive into the future, and it is the One can be somewhat sensitive to those "Whom then do I call educated? ... chronic experience of that same record First, those who manage well the cirfeelings. Aristotle - "the master of them that the party of the left kills the possi bilicumstances which they encounter day that know," as he was called - was by day, and who possess a judgement ties of progressive reform by demanding defending slavery one hundred years after which is accurate in meeting occasions complete utopias. Euripides condemned it. The great Aristoas they arise and rarely misses the But on a more modest and contained tle once called a wife "the poor man's q expedient course of action; next those level, the outside debate over Western culbeast of burden." Is it any wonder that who are decent and honourable in ture should propel us gladly into an interAristotle may not be treated today as a their intercourse with all with whom nal discussion about our assumptions, man in the forefront of liberal social conthey associate, tolerating easily and pedagogy and lifestyle here at St. John's. cerns? Some may think that Plato's views good-naturedly what is unpleasant Last semester, I called for a concerted and on democracy, Augustine's thought on or offensive in others and being thempositive campaign to recruit and retain the role of women, and Hobbes'views on selves as agreeable and reasonable to minority students, to reexamine our priorcivil liberties are not conducive to the their associates as it is possible to be; ities and our attitudes so as to express in creation of sensitive and enlightened furthermore, those who hold their meaningful ways a sense of genuine hospiundergraduates. Would it not be better to pleasures always under control and . tality to new ideas and to new peoples. It is challenge students' limitations and expose are not unfairly overcome by their not enough to say that we are here, come them instead to personal commentaries misfortunes, bearing up under them to St. John's, if you will. Colleges can be which show the consequence of racial disbravely and in a manner worthy of our intimidating institutions, especially to crimination, the domestic bondage of common nature; finally, and most those who are the first, often, in their famiwomen in all eras, and the awesome fate of important of all, those who are not lies to have graduated from high school. a world now able to destroy all of human spoiled by successes and do not desert There is nothing worse than being a their true selves and become arrogant, life in a l 5-minute war? but hold their ground steadfastly as stranger in one's own land, in one's own This alternative plea concerning underintelligent men, not rejoicing in the neighborhood, or in one's own school. graduate education poses, I believe, a false good things that have come to them Equal opportunity means little where the dichotomy. The basic problem facing all through chance rather than in those conditions of birth, the caliber of schools, educators is not the establishment or which through their own nature and the expectations of families are so disparrefo:i:m of a Great Books curriculum, but intelligence are theirs from birth." ate. It is as unfair as it is predictable that whether there can be any curriculum at Let that be the quiet response to the those who start ahead, finish ahead. Since all. The basic condition facing all citizens we cannot equalize all those conditions, chant about Western civilization, and let is that learning in this nation is too disthen we must on our part seek to put into that wisdom be one of the bridges that jointed, education is too limited, and the links people of decent sentiment and deep place wise compensatory efforts. public culture is too fragmented. The Those efforts, and much more, must reason across- time, across generations condition we are dealing with is not cast accentuate our commitments. Those poli- and, yes, across cultures as they celebrate within the terms of Aristotle versus Concies will not succeed if they are just the their common humanity. fucius, or the Renaissance versus the HrUl..oHAl.vU �DECEMBER 1988 PAGE.15 THE REPORTER Class of '21 Student killed on cross-country trip More than 50 people, students, tutors, and others, gathered in the Great Hall in Annapolis at the end of September to say goodbye to friend and classmate Andrew Pausley, 20, who died in South Carolina September 8. Only a few weeks into a bicycle trip that was to take him down to Key West, across the continent and back again, the St. John's student was struck and killed by a truck on a rural road. Andrew, who would have been a junior, was taking off the· academic year for the long-planned adventure. Music, poetry, scripture, but especially loving reminiscence were what Andrew's friends brought to the memorial gathering. Only two days earlier, 12friends from the Annapolis campus and one from Santa Fe had travelled to Cleveland for the funeral service there. At the service in Annapolis, friends shed tears and also shared laughter as they created through phrases and anecdotes the picture of one of their own. Andrew's interest in set design and stage lighting had found an outlet as technical director for the King William Players. He had worked on the stage crew at the Magic Theater in Annapolis and also at the Arena Stage in Washington. He played three instruments, the piano, cello, and the saxophone. He was a tireless cyclist. His friends spoke ot some otthese things, but especially they remembered that he had found time for all his friends. They remembered that he was tolerant, goodhumored, prankish - and comforting. One friend was amazed by "how much [Andrew] felt for people he didn't even know but that he just felt had to be spoken Carnes, A memorial service was conducted over the Homecoming weekend at St. Anne's Church, Annapolis, for 24-year-old Ann Haskins Carnes, A '84, who died along with her children, Sarah, 5, and Andrew, 2, in an automobile accident August 13 in Independence, Missouri. Mrs. Carnes was stopped at a toll booth in the early morning en route to Denver to visit her parents when her automobile was struck and destroyed by a motor home driven by a drunken driver. The driver has been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide. The Rev. J. Winfree Smith, longtime friend of both Mrs. Carnes and her husband David, A '83, conducted the early morning service attended by her husband, friends of the young couple, and members of the college community. Christopher Junker, A '83, Abraham Schemer, A '82, Marie Coughlin, A '73, all spoke at the service about their friend. Meg Kimble, A '76, read from the Bible. Remembering later what those gathered had said about Ann, Ms. Coughlin was struck by the common themes. She said, "All of us who knew Ann - as neighbor, co-worker, student, friend, sister, daughter, wife and mother - seem to have echoed each other. We described her as a remarkably intelligent person, who was musical and creative, a really good writer, a voracious reader, and a fiercely loyal friend. "There is lots more to be said about her, and the fact that there is so much we knew and loved about someone so young shows that she gave herself fully to life. Her joys, her disappointments, her anger, her ambitions, her love, everything she shared with us all, are the final testimony about her: she seized the spirit God gave her, and she did not waste it. Having been her friend, I '.Vill carry a part of her spirit within me now." Born November 11, 1964, in Caspar, Wyoming, Mrs. Carnes entered St. John's College in the fall of 1980, and left the college when she married in the spring of 1982. She and her family had lived most recently in Independence where her husband practiced law. Mrs. Carnes pursued various hobbies and activities as a young wife and mother. She sang in a local magi- for." Another said, "I got a lot of comfort from him. I wish that I could give it back." Andrew was "amazingly huggable," said a third. A final student may have spoken for every listener with his unstated question. Andrew, he said "was gifted with everything that would have made for a long and happy life." A few days after the service, Richard Smith, Andrew's sophomore roommate, and Chris Gillen spoke over coffee, with Andrew, as always these days, on their minds. Richard thinks he himself may have put the idea of a cross-country trip in Andrew's mind. Anyway, it "was a dream of his ever since freshman year." At St. John's, Richard commented, a lot of people tend o children die cal show, was an herb gardener, a genealogist and a "natural student," according to her mother, who added that Ann's children were her primary interest. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Carnes is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Haskins of Denver, and three sisters, Mary, Patricia, and Antonia Nelson. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Mary's Church in Independence, Missouri. Carnegie Fund internships for seniors, graduates The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an educational organization which conducts programs of research, discussion, publication, and education in international relations and U.S. foreign policy, is offering eight internship opportunities to students who are interested in careers in international affairs. The internship is an intensive six-month working experience in Washington, D.C. and pays a salary of $1,300 per month. Interns are assigned to Fore;gn Policy magazine, which is published by the Endowment, to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Project or the Office of the Secretary. The first internships begin June 1, 1989; others start throughout the year. Applicants must either be graduating seniors or students who have completed their Bachelor's degree within the past academic year. No one will be considered who has started graduate studies. All applicants must be nominated by their college or university. Because the program is highly competitive, nominees should be of highest academic quality and should have done substantial course work in some area of international politics or economics. If you are interested in being considered a nominee, please submit a resume outlining relevant education and experience along with a letter explaining your career plans to the Career Planning Office, P.O. Box 1671, Annapolis, MD, 21404. The deadline for submitting your application credentials is Friday, December 30. Luther Tall to sit and talk about such things, "but Andrew wanted to go out and learn for himself and experience it first hand, a Luther S. Tall, a 1921 graduate of St. really admirable thing. I have so much John's, a class he once described as the respect for him." "best" the college ever had, and a member Andrew was in Annapolis all summer, of the Board of Governors and Visitors at working at a job, training and getting the time the 1\Jew Program was introready. Medical school lay ahead, he hoped, duced, died September 22 in Baltimore and this was the opportunity. His parents after a long illness. He was 88 years old. had supported his decision to take a year A retired Baltimore account executive off. of WMAR-FM, Mr. Tall had earlier On the appointed Clay, he came to say served as treasurer of Payne and Merrill, goodbye to his friend. Richard remembers Inc., and after it was bought out by WilAndrew's words." Tm out of here, Rich. liam H. Lohmeyer, Inc., as vice-president We'll room together when I get back. It of that firm. will be really awesome.' " Richard adds, In 1951, he paid tribute to his fabled "He didn't really say goodbye." class in a Baltimore Sun magazine interIn August, reports came back from view, describing life at a military school, Andrew via postcard, joshing and deleta- as the college then was, and paying tribute ble to Richard, lyrical to another recipient. to those who went on to distinguished A friend received this message a few careers in military and government serdays after Andrew's death: vice, journalism, academic life and busi"l am sitting on top of a jumbled ness. pile of limestone ... in the middle of In the interview, he evoked the friendly Shenandoah National Park. If I rivalry with the Naval Academy across the stand up, l can see the Blue Ridge street, and the relative freedom the St. Mts rolling away to the North. West John's cadets enjoyed vis-a-vis the midof me is the south fork of the Sheshipmen. nandoah R. The sun is bright and As a student at St. John's, he was a clear, the wind is pure as crystal, and member of the football and baseball all I can hear is rustling leaves and a squads, advertising manager of the college couple [of] flies. Riding up here . magazine, a member of both the Minstrel (4000'), I saw deer everywhere, and Mandolin clubs, and captain of hawks soaring over the hazy valley, Company "A." a black timber rattler sunning itself Later, as an alumnus, Mr. Tall served in the grass, wildflowers and trees, the college in many ways, incuding helpclouds and sunsets, rocks and ing to reorganize the Alumni Association mountains older than all of manin the 1930s, and serving as its president kind ... No earth-shaking insights between 1933-36. into the meaning of life yet, but I'm In a Reporter interview of 1977, Mr. having a wonderful time." Tall remembered the key days in l 937 when negotiations were underway between a board committee of heavily mortgaged St'. John's and Strin.gfellow Barr -and Scott Buchanan. The two men were ready to put the curriculum into a small college Mary Dickey Smith, 91, widow of the with a long tradition. Mr. Tall recalled Chicago President late Rev. William Kyle Smith, a tutor at Robert Hutchins' words: "If I could put the Annapolis campus, died October 24in [the curriculum] in the University of ChiRichmond, Va., where she had lived for cago, I would blow my brains out in happithe past nine years. ness, but it can't be done in a lq.rge univerShe is survived by one son, Dr. William sity." The board then agreed that StringK. Smith, Jr., of Richmond, and five fellow Barr and Scott Buchanan should grandchildren. come to Annapolis. For his contributions, Mr. Tall received the Alumni Award of Merit in 1970 for distinguished service to the college. He was a sponsor of the Fund for the '80s and a member of the Deferred Giving Committee. St. John's College President Emeritus The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. of Richard Weigle recently reminisced about New York has awarded a three-year grant of $50,000 to St. John's College in Santa the longtime college supporter: "No one Fe to support a Hispanic and Indian did more to shape the St. John's Alumni Leadership Development Program for high Association, of which he was president. When the New Program came to St. school students in Northern New Mexico. In making the award, President Henry John's, Ludie was a strong advocate of Luce Ill stated, "We recognize this as an change under Winkie Barr. "I can only echo the sentiments of especially innovative use of St. John's resources in providing leadership training WMAR-FM, of which he was account executive from I 968 on. The station said for the young people of the region." The program will consist of three annual that he was 'loyal to his class, and even conferences to take place on the St. John's more Joyal to his college.' " Mr. Tall's wife of many years, Caroline campus beginning in June, 1989. It will provide an opportunity for Hispanic and Lewis Tall, died in 1970. He is survived by Indian students to interact with Hispanic a daughter, Caroline Tall Maddox, three and Indian leaders from a variety of fields, grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. including government, literature, fine arts, films, health and science. The college is taking the lead in organizing and implementing the program, with Two Bible study groups are meeting substantial involvement from the National this fall on the Annapolis campus under Council of American Indians and the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos will also the direction of a Jewish rabbi and an Episcopal minister. be consulted on the program. The Rabbi Robert G. Klensin, leader of the Temple Beth Sholem in Arnold, Maryland, will lead a study group throughout the academic year titled "Reading in Rabbinic Literature." A similar study group has met at St. John's for the past four years under sponsorship of the JewMr. Mortimer Adler will be lecturish Chautauqua Society, the educational ing on Friday, April 21, according to arm of the National Federation of Temple Annapolis Dean Thomas Slakey. His Brotherhoods. topic will be "Great Books, DemoThe Reverend Mark Gatza, assistant cracy, and Truth." pastor at St. Anne's Episcopal Church in The lecture previously· scheduled Annapolis, is leading a group discussing for the April date will be moved to the important literary and theological themes fall calendar. of the New Testament and other texts. Mary Smith dies Three year grant given Santa Fe Adler speak �PAGE 16 DECEMBER 1988 THE REPORTER Construction noises dimmer now By DONNA BOETIG Q) (.) ;;::: 0 c 0 ~ Q) E Q) 01 o= >.- 0 ..o.fo I.... (Continued from industry. A voiding easy answers as Ire examined each issue, Mr. Richardson concluded that the fundamental obligation of the officeholder is "to level" with his fell ow citizens about his position. While expressing on the one hand symwith the gun control advocate who to anti-gun control constituent views while at the same time affirming his differopinion, Mr. Richardson also quoted the words of 18th century statesman Edmund Burke, who declared that he would be elected for his to make his own mind on an not to on the side Mr. Richardson rued the automatic assumption that a "conflict of interest" is "inherently bad," remarking that moral upnght people will usually lean over backwards with respect to private interests." Noting that the "Ethics in Government Act" of 1976 began to be called the "No Ethics in Government Act," Mr. Richardson commented that such a "cynical assumption about public office" comes very close to saying "the bastards can't be trusted." "Once you helieve that," he cautioned his listeners, "you have confessed that the very foundation [of] self-government doesn't exist." We have to be careful about that," he said. "We are pretty close to the point where cynicism is inherent." Commenting on the "most intense pressure" to which candidates for president are subjected, he noted that any group that can affect as much as one-half of one percent of the vote can be crucial. "Imagine what it is like for a presidential candidate to be looking at the polls." He himself lost a Massachusetts senatorial election in 1984, he said, because he talked too much about fiscal policy. "Richardson wants to raise taxes," his opponent charged. "What has been happening," said Mr. Richardson, referring to election results, "is a function of the sheer complexity and multiplication of the messages that seek to capture our attention." While acknowledging the enormous speedup in transmission of information, he found the term "information age" nonsensical, because "the technocrats haven't ~done a thing to speed up our oral communication, to improve our reading speed, and they have done nothing whatsoever to increase our powers of comprehension. The volume of information we can react to has not increased at all." To appreciative laughter, he said, "This can be read as a plug for the Great Books; the others are irrelevant." Singling out what he called "Class I" issues, he invited listeners to reflect on why HM O's are in trouble, their position The hustle-bustle of building - the intrusion of hammers into our thoughts - that was so prominent last summer has been muffled this fall by a blanketing of leaves and the flurry of students at St. John's Annapolis campus. While construction here now seems to be a footnote to the full text of campus life, its continuing progress is evident daily. With the general building plan progressing as scheduled, there have been, as expected in a construction plan of this magnitude, a few minor alterations. For instance, some modifications from the initial plans on the renovations to the Boathouse were necessary to stay within the budget. (A contract for $255,000 was awarded in October to Ruskey and Company, Builders of Baltimore, Maryland.) The changes include the elimination of a gazebo beside the Boathouse. The boat storage area and first floor will be renovated; however, the second floor will have structural renovations but will not be fin- on the MX, acid rain, programs for drug users, another carrier task force, bilingual education - "a list so long even welleducated citizens like you tend to feel it is too much." These circumstances are made to order for candidates who deal in "visions, goals and values," not issues. President Reagan, he said, is a master of dealing with the "upper level, above the issues (here he was interrupted by laughter and applause) which is the real explanation of the so-called Teflon Presidency." "What will win a campaign at this level of value is to dive down through the issues and the back-up detail to what caH the anecdotal and selected statistical That's the kind of speech we process leads to the 'sound bite. "But to blame the candidates or the media is "to misconceive the problem," he said. "What else are they to do?" Since most of us cannot take the time to determine the lengthy reasons for a candidate's position on health care or cost containment, what it comes down to, he told the audience, is the "value of dialogue." "We the people have to insist on the value of dialogue, on a process that creates that kind of communication between the candidate and ourselves. "While it may be too late - it IS too late for 1988, maybe we can start something here that will inform the presidential campaign of 1992." ''I hope so," he concluded, as the began. As part of a continuing program provided by the alumni office, five tutors from the Annapolis campus have accepted invitations from alumni chapter groups to speak or to lead discussions in five states this Fall. The Rev. J. Winfree Smith, Tutor Emeritus, led off with his trip in September to meet with the alumni of northern California. His talk on "History" was followed by a lively discussion, he reports. In October tutor Thomas Simpson travelled to Chicago, while tutor Walter Sterling met with alumni in Philadelphia. Tutor and Assistant Dean John Verdi was scheduled to visit the Minneapolis group and Brother Robert Smith, Tutor Emeritus, the New York City group, both in November. ln addition to these events, tutor Elliott Zuckerman was slated to give a concert on February 4 in Los Angeles. Betsy Blume, director of alumni activities, commented that those chapters requesting a visit by a tutor receive such visitors every year. ished for use. In addition, the first floor with a glass enclosed porch will have two restrooms and an area with a refrigerator and stove, which because of fire code requirements, will be limited to the heating, not cooking, of food. Pole lights will be placed along a concrete walkway from the end of the gym parking lot to the campus-side of the Boathouse entrance; exterior lighting will be around the Boathouse. The administrative and faculty offices in the new wing of Mellon Hall were occupied at the end of August. Completion of the new entrance and lobby to Mellon Hall, leading to the Francis Scott Key Lobby and auditorium, to the art gallery, or to the offices, is expected December l. The dedication and premier exhibit of the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery is planned for early February. Hilte Associates, General Contractors of Hunt Valley, are the contractors for the Mellon Hall Project. Its architect is Charles H. Bohl, AIA, of Weller, Fishback and Bohl, Annapolis. The pos1t10n of treasurer at the Annapolis campus remains open. "We hope to be able to make an announcement by the end of the year," according to Vice President for Advancement Jeffrey Bishop. The opening occurred in July when treasurer Jeri Rhodes left after five years of service to the college. Her duties have been divided this fall among President Dyal until his illness, Mr. Bishop, Director of Development Janice Buys, and others. The renovation of McDowell Hall is requiring special attention because it is an historic landmark with the Historic District of Annapolis. Plans, documents and detailed specifications had to be reviewed and approved by the Historic District Commission of Annapolis, the Maryland Historical Trust, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the Department of Education. City and county officials had to verify code requirements and issue building permits. Mr. Bohl is serving as architect. Bids were expected to be received at the end of November and a contract awarded by mid-December. Renovation and restoration work is to begin January l and is expected to be completed in August 1989. McDowell Hall will be closed December 15 . During the renovation and restoration of McDowell Hall, three temporary mobile units of three rooms each will be placed on the west side (toward College Creek) of Mellon Hall, near the planetarium. These units will provide eight classrooms and one room for the college post office. Chairs and seminar tables from McDowell classrooms will be placed in the temporary classrooms. In the meantime, the Francis Scott lobby will serve as the coffee shop during McDowell's facelift. The lobby will be equipped with multi-purpose food and drink machines by Marriott Food Service, which provides the usual room service at the college. Additionally, there will be a snack and coffee machine in Randall Hall for non-meal-hour use. Due to the closing of McDowell Hall and the use of temporary facilities in that period, no January freshmen class is being admitted for the 1988-89 academic year. A larger number of freshmen than usual were admitted in September. Board member emerita Elizabeth Board member Robert center, and Barbara reception. Keith Harvey photo New art gallery "Image and Word" will be the theme of the premier exhibit of the new Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery at St. John's Annapolis campus. The works of art which will be on loan from various major museums in the Baltimore-Washington area will demonstrate the various ways in which meaning is communicated in visual arts, says Burton Blistein, gallery director and artist-in-residence at St. John's Annapolis campus. The exhibit and dedication of the new gallery is scheduled for early February. The gallery, easily accessible in the eastern end of the new wing of Mellon Hall, will make art viewing a more integral part of the college and community life. Construction of the 1,600 square-foot gallery, with its 14-foot ceilings, is progressing on schedule with exterior work due to be finished early December. interior finishing work is expected to be completed in the weeks before the dedication. A gallery Advisory Committee was recently formed to help guide the college in acquiring and displaying museum quality art that reinforces the program at St. John's, says Jeffrey Bishop, vice president for college advancement. Members of the new committee include Sydney Freeburg, recently retired chief curator of the National Gallery of Art, Robert Bergman, director of the Walters Art Gallery, and Fred Lazarus, president of the Maryland Institute of Art. The new gallery is being named for Mrs. Carleton Mitchell of Annapolis, a longtime benefactor of St. John's and a visitor emerita of the Board of Visitors and Governors. � 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/b144b104f2c43756a8b9fd267be351b2.pdf 0652b89e966799df719230902b316f11 PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY \lll~~mli~rn\~1Ill\1111II111111 11111 \\\\Ill\ 3 1696 01138 1413 's St. IVolume 15, Issue 1 Annapolis, Md. and Santa Fe, N.M. . September 19881 Construction on target in Annapolis M-cDowell to empty r I L ol , . LI __ U by Donna Boetig CllH_/ ..... ,.JA!l [j" .0 11"·""" -~ l _=i ~e,v Al)1v11r-J1<;,TfZAT1ve 0FF1Gl:'S I' I q ~~·_..,._,_...._,_..,,_,__.--'~-- I I I '1 I/ I '1 r I! I, u Weller, Fishback & A record number of students applied this year to both the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses for the St. John's College class of 1992. According to Admissions Director John M. Christensen, applications have risen by 22 percent over a year itself a record year. Larry Clendenin, Fe's Admissions Director, reports a 29 percent increase in freshman applica196 compared to l 52. tions from last ,.,,.,,r,.._,F,,..,,,..,t.,,i., 140 freshmen will enter in Annapolis in September, up from usual 108, but the increase reflects an administrative decision, not the surge of applications. For more than 20 there has been a small January but the renovation of McDowell will create a classroom shortage and schedule changes that preclude this. the college has a waiting list students, none of whom has yet made it onto the regular roster. "No one was prepared for this," Mr. Christensen commented, observing that during the last week of April and the first half of the office was deluged with deposits for places in the class and calls from college counselors and students still wanting to apply. The Freshman class at Santa Fe will be about I 08 students, bringing total enrollment on the campus to about 400 students. This is the first year the Santa Fe campus has filled its fall class without drawing from the Annapolis waiting list. Its January class will have 30 students: fifteen from the Annapolis waiting list and 15 from its own, Mr. Clendenin said. "The mood on campus here is one of excitement," Santa Fe's Director of Admissions says, "yet the enrollment picture presents another whole area of concern. We don't want to reduce the quality of education by growing too large." Both campuses have always kept a cap on enrollment in order to maintain the personal attention available only through the small faculty-student ratio. St. John's College is not alone in enjoying increased popularity with prospective students. The more selective private colleges and universities have experienced an increase in applications as part of an overall trend, Mr. Christensen pointed out, although paradoxically, the traditional college bound population is (Continued on p. l l) Architects, David Eisenhower will lecture at the Annapolis campus on October 2.1 on his new book Eisenhower at War: 1943-45. The biographer and grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower has chronicled his grandfather's 19-month tenure as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in his 1~000 page work. Conceived in 1974, the first of three volumes shows the boldness of General Eisenhower's decision to launch the Allied invasion on June 6, 1944, and his controversial decision not to march on Berlin in the spring of 1945. The lecture will begin at 8: 15 p.m. in Auditorium. A question period delves into issues raised the lecture will follow in the conversation room. As with all Friday lectures, the to the public. event is Ponnamperuma, professor of Dr. chemistry and director of the Laboratory of Chemical Evolution at the University of Maryland, College Park, will speak on "The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe" on September 9. · (Continued on p. 10) As carpenters unload the llmestone for the floor of Mellon Hall's new art gallery, and engineers install the mechanical system in the boat house, St. John's Annapolis campus prepares to face the most dramatic effect of its multi-faceted construction plan: the temporary closing of its cornerstone, McDowell Hall. The 245-year-old building will be renovated and restored during the second semester of this school year. The campus construction has progressed on schedule throughout the scorchingly hot summer. The Graduate Institute offices, formerly housed in Pinkney, have moved to the planetarium end of Mellon Hall. mid-August, the offices of the president, the deans, and the registrar were to be moved to the new wing of Mellon Hall. The Art Gallery should be completed by December 1, with its dedication and being planned for February, process for the boat house construction to with contracts the work early Bids will be <>r-''"'"t"'ri for the renovation and restoraMcDowell Hall in with TIP<~n+i~t•n•~~in andconmid-December. The to be ready for .occu"f"rnP>vn n1"'r 1989. pancy As the workmen task of ... and the work goes on �PAGE2 THE REPORTER 11 i 1938 John C. won two bronze medals in the YMCA swim meet held in Cincinnati in May. 1942 Doris K. Parran, widow of Tom Parran, who served both as Alumni Director and Director of Publications on the college campus, was one of the winners in a statewide Senior Citizens Creative Writing Contest held in Maryland in May. Writing on the theme, "Why Maryland ls Beautiful to Me," Mrs. Parran recalled her girlhood in East Baltimore. She described the horse-drawn ca~~fiiled with vegetables. the ice wa!!ons and coal being poured down chutes into the basement of her row house. Mrs. Parran now lives in Queenstown. 1951 As a director, Richard Edelman is "hot" in Florida, where he recently directed three plays for the Florida Repertory Theater in West Palm Beach and another for the city's Theater Club. Driving through Annapolis en route to his home in New York, Richard was to have the rewarding experience of seeing a production he directed in Munich, Sand, appear as part of the International Festival of Arts. The latter is a collaboration of actors, puppeteers, and musicians. His son, Jonathan Edelman, A '83, also in the theater, is free lancing as a gaffer in New York. 1953 Jeremy Tarcher(who collects arcana, has just published Howard Rheingold's volume, lhey Have a Wordfor Jt:A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases, under the imprimatur Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc. After reading about the Trojan horse on the Annapolis campus in the June Reporter, he asks us, "By the way, do you know the name of the Trojan horse? Very few people do, and I ain't telling." Anybody know it? 1961 Harrison Sheppard is conducting guided visits in October to the sacred sites in Greece. The trips provide visits to the Acropolis and Parthenon in Athens. the site of the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi, and the island of Patmos - site of St. John's Revelation - in honor of the 900th anniversary of the founding in Patmos of the Monastery of St. John. . Harrison is a lawyer and writer who is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Law Society. He has taught classical literature to secondary school students and adults at a number of educational institutions. His writings focus on the contributions made by Hellenic culture to American culture and he is a regular contributor to the Hellenic Journal. 1962 Twenty-five years ago Neil Potash used to take Kant's Critique up into the branches of a certain tree on College Creek to grapple with it through the late afternoon hours. "I also read half of a Jane Austen novel up there," he recalls fondly. Last June at the Maryland Wine Festival, twenty-five years older, father of two, and fortified by "four or five glasses of wine," Neil set out to locate his tree. "I walked across a brand new bridge" and Eureka! there it was, now grown too "huge" to climb, but filling the observer with triumph and nostalgia. 1965 Rosanne {Sandy) Stone's Ktahmet, will be published by Daw Books in 1990. Her second The Sword in the Sea, is scheduled for publication in 1991. Osius, editor; Donna Boelig, assistant The Reporter is published by the Public Relations Office, St John's College, Anna'polis, MD 21404. William M. Dyal, Jr., president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second-class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS 018-750 1966 Anderson, Anderson, Jr., on December 19, announces that through the union, she acquired four stepchildren. Dr. Anderson was promoted to Medical Director of Philadelphia State Hospital in January, and also has had a poem published in "New American Poetry Anthology." 1968 Thomas P. Geyer is editor and chief executive officer of the New Haven Register in Connecticut. He was elected last spring to the Alumni Association board and in his new position, is looking forward to visiting St. John's regularly. 1975 Nancy Lee Coiner, a doctoral candidate in comparative literature, has received a Charlotte W. Newcombe doctoral dissertation fellowship for 1988, awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. She will receive a $10,000 stipend. The award allows a year of uninterrupted research and writing by students whose dissertations concern ethical or religious values as they relate to important social, historical, or literary issues. Ted Blanton, an attorney, is running for Congress from North Carolina. He graduated from Georgetown Law School in 1981, and then worked for the U.S. Senate staff. He and his wife, Mary Rutherford Blanton, are partners in the law firm, Crowell, Porter, Blanton and Blanton in Salisbury, North Carolina. The couple has four children. 1976 John F. Bukacekworks as a JapaneseEnglish technical translator and interpreter. He is the Administrator of the Japanese Language Division of the American Translators Association. Kate Lufkin Day reports that she and husband Bill, SF '84, the parents of active, pretty little Helen, now one, are moving to Cambridge so that Bill can study philosophy with Stanley Cavell at Harvard. Kate herself will receive a Master of Divinity degree next May and be ordained in the Episcopal Church in June. Melissa Sedliss A '73 is Helen's pediatrician and "a better doctor nobody ever had," Kate writes. 1978 Mark Steitz, a former economist for congressional affairs, has been employed as a policy and economic advisor for candidates Jesse Jackson and Gary Hart. He resides in Washington, D.C. 1980 Steven R. Edwards received his PhD in mathematics last spring from the University of Virginia and is now teaching at Indiana State in Terre Haute. 1981 Dr. Pamela Sklar appeared in the Evening Magazine television show last May as part of a series of scientific reports on the five senses. Dr. Sklar presented the scientific facts regarding the sense of smell. She received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1985; she was awarded her PhD from there in May, and began a psychiatric residency at Columbia University in July. 1982 E. Gumert has graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in composition from Catholic University. In January, she plans to enter a master's program in music at Indiana University. In the meantime, she has been recording, transcribing, and notating American folk songs for a book to be published by the USIA, which is to be used in teaching English in foreign countries. Ms. Gumert recently performed at a dinner honoring the International Commission for Recovery and Development in Central America, sponsored by Senator Terry Sanford (D-N.C.). s Alison Bluitt Pullins has been appointed Director of Personnel for St. John's College Annapolis. In this position, Ms. Pullins is responsible for all areas of employee development, including hiring, benefits, administration, and policy and procedure development. Ms. Pullins brings to her directorship an extensive background in counseling and training in family and health-related areas; in consulting and organizing social service and health agencies, and in the curriculum development for community service professionals. She also has extensive writing skills and is a dynamic public speaker. She has been active in the Planned Parenthood organization in four states, including Maryland. She has served as staff recruiter, education director, community educator, volunteer coordinator and training specialist. The Crofton resident graduated cum laude from the University of Detroit, with a bachelor of science degree in psychology. She earned a master of science degree in community service education from Cor- Alison Pullins nell University. She was inducted into the Omicron Nu National Honor Society in 1977, and was awarded the National Merit Scholarship Commendation in 1970. She was recently appointed to the Adult Literacy Advisory Board for Anne Arundel County by County Executive 0. James Lighthizer. She is also a member of ASP A, American Society for Personnel Administration, and CUPA, College and University Personnel Association. Warren Spector initiates fund-matching alumni drive "It doesn't matter how you count the donors, or add up the gifts, by ·every standard, the special project of the class of 1981 was successful," said Annapolis Vice President of Advancement Jeffrey A. Bishop, after the recent conclusion of the successful fund raising campagn by the class. The project came into being last year when Warren Spector, A '8 l, had lunch in New York City with Annapolis president William M. Dyal, Jr. Mr. Spector had a proposal to make: he wished to make a special gift to the college and he wanted it to leverage funds from other alums. The plan that emerged was that Mr. Spector would contribute $10,000 if at least 50% of the Annapolis class of 1981 would contribute a total of $5,000 by June 30, 1988. Over the last three years, an average of 22 donors from the same class had given an average of less than $2,000 in total gifts. Special letters and telephone calls elicited gifts from classmates, parents of classmates, and friends. At year's end, these were the results: 54 gifts in hand totalling $5,075 4 pledges totalling 105 5 gifts from parents of Class of 1981, totalling 7,850 l gift from friend/ client of Class of 1981, totalling 500 Challenge IO 000 Total gifts given and/ or solicited by the Class of 1981: $23,530 Mr. Spector, a resident of New York City, earned his MBA degree in finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School _of Business in 1983. He is a senior managing director for Dear, Stearns and Co., brokerage firm in Manhattan. "St. John's College is grateful to the 1985 Martin Marklin is teaching high school mathematics for the second year at Londonderry High School in Londonderry, N.H. The Marklin Candle Co, a candledesign company which Marty began three years ago, is up and running with production sites in St. Louis and Nashua, N.H. 1988 Sarah Waters was to begin teaching Spanish in a Catholic Girls' School in Cartegena, Colombia, in July. According to her father, Sarah's language work is in preparation for introducing her students to the great books when that becomes possible. Cartegena is a 350-year-old city, a major gold trading route of the conquistadors. class for its enthusiastic response, and in particular, to Mr. Spector who encouraged us to explore uncharted territory," said Mr. Bishop. Casting aside the excuses about young alumni not having either the means· or the inclination to give, the Class of 1981 has established a benchmark to which others may wish to aspire. New tutors 1n Annapolis Two new tutors, Carl A. Rubino, formerly associate professor of classics at the University of Texas, and Athanasios Moulakis, most recently visiting professor of political science at the University of California in San Diego, have been added to the Annapolis faculty for the academic year 1988-89. Mr. Rubino received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Fordham University and his PhD in classics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He held teaching positions at Bellarmine College and Le Moyne College, both in New York state, before joining the University of Texas faculty in 1971. At Texas, Mr. Rubino taught undergraduate and graduate courses in all aspects of classical languages and literature as well as in comparative and modern literature. He has acted as writer, editor and reviewer for many scholarly publications, and has delivered papers on both classical and contemporary literature at university settings in the U.S., Canada and several European countries. Mr. Moulakis was born in Athens and received his early education there. He pursued his university studies in Germany and France, receiving his PhD in the philosophy department at the RuhrUniversity in Bochum, West Germany, in 1969. He taught at German universities and was a visiting scholar at the Sorbonne before spending a year as lecturer in political philosophy and political thought at the London School of Economics in 1976-77. Beginning in 1979, Mr. Moulakis spent seven years as professor of political science at the European University Institute, founded by the EEC for scholars from member nations, in Florence, Italy. He headed the department of political and social sciences there from 1984-86. In addition to the classical languages, Mr. Moulakis speaks five modern European languages, and he has published scholarly papers in several of these. �SEPTEMBER 1988 THE REPORTER s f r Jeri Rhodes, first woman treasurer in St. John's College history, left the Annapolis campus in July for a job as chief financial officer for Dow, Lohnes and Albertson, a large Washington, D.C., law firm. Expressions of praise for her capability and commitment and regret at her departure came from every segment of the college community. "The college owes Mrs. Rhodes a very large debt for her service and loyalty of five years," said President William M. Dyal, Jr., of his treasurer, one of only two women in the Maryland independent college system to hold the post. "She was here during a difficult time of transition to a two-president system, and I give her large credit for providing stability to the college 'during that time. She has been a professional to the hilt - managing the business, financial and construction sides of the college operations." Jeffrey Bishop, vice president in charge of advancement, called Mrs. Rhodes "a true professional of high integrity, and someone to whom the college is especially thankful." Asked about a successor to the post, Mr. Bishop commented, "Recognizing the incredible range of duties under the treasurer's authority, the college will be looking first at redefining the scope of the job before advertising it." Mrs. Rhodes herself cited family responsibilities as the primary motive for her decision to take a new job only minutes from her Kensington, Md., home. She is married and the mother of two school-aged boys. Selected in 1983 from a field of 35 candidates, of whom she was the only woman, the 37-year-old treasurer came to St. John's from a position as supervisor of leasing and debt accounting for the Marriott Corporation in Washington. She had previously been a college financial officer for the College of the Desert at Palm Desert, California. Now, five years later as she prepared to leave, Mrs. Rhodes admitted to mixed feelings. "The most difficult aspect is that I have left a lot undone. But I realize that being the person I am, as long as I stay, there will always be projects. There will never be a time to say, 'It's done now.'" There was abundant reason for satisfaction as she looked back at efforts which streamlined the college operations dramatically, from the switchboard to the gymnasium, from budget operations to campus security. Mrs. Rhodes put it modestly: "think I made it possible for people to get the things done that they needed to do." Perhaps the most astonishing change was the automation of the college. "When I arrived," Mrs. Rhodes remembered, "two or three functions were computerized - payroll, checkwriting, and the general ledger." Today almost every office has a personal computer, with a centralized computer system for the registrar, admissions and the business office, with potential for expanding to an integrated system for other offices. "We have spent about $200,000 in the past five years upgrading this equipment," Mrs. Rhodes remarked. She remembered with special satisfaction "bringing the telephone system into the 20th Century." "When I came, we had a rotary dial telephone system with 99 extensions, and Dolores Smith had to make EVERY call outside the college. We installed the system and immediately we had 250 extensions, and now we have outgrown even that in three years. "The old telephone board was so historic it was put in the archives. It was the only one the telephone company had. Our repair man said it was the only one he worked on_'~ Her very first project was to standardize personnel policies and to institute a salary PAGE3 s fir range covering all staff positions. The new position of director of personnel was created at that time, and a new handbook issued which covered changes and procedures. The building and renovation program that is gradually and subtly changing interior and exterior perspectives was already in the works, Mrs. Rhodes notes. Under her leadership, planned changes such as the renovation of the women's locker . room went ahead. Mrs. Rhodes laughingly recalled that in 1950, replacing the backboards for the basketball court was labelled "urgent." Thirty-five years later, it was completed. Other accomplishments have included tightening the security system by adding personnel with new competence and increasing training for everybody, and supplying the men with radio-telephones so that anyone in need who is near a telephone can reach them. Mrs. Rhodes voiced satisfaction about the accounting procedures. "The auditors can breeze right through," she said. She was equally pleased by the procedures instituted for bills. "We have made these procedures simple so that people will comply with them. If they aren't easy, people won't comply," she said. She identified the Mellon hall construction as "the project of my life. My first meeting on campus was over that project. I'll be long gone by the time it is finished." "I have learned an incredible amount from these experiences," she said. "How you deal with architects, the rigamarole necessary· for the approval of plans, the amount of paper it takes." "I am leaving McDowell about halfway through the planning stage," she continued, "and the boathouse ready to be built. That will start in September, with completion December 31. But we'll get it done." Through the multiple projects and changes, Mrs. Rhodes noted, she always had a master plan in her head. But the college, too, desperately needs a master plan, she believes. "That is a priority the president has, and I think it is important for the future of the college." Admitting she was not prepared for the range and dimensions of the job five years ago, Mrs. Rhodes commented: "I just did it. I went to workshops. I called treasurers of other colleges. I visited them to see their operations." An old college, steeped in the past, absorbed with timeless values, contented with the old way of doing things - this is what Jeri Rhodes found five years ago. St. John's special character won't be profoundly altered by the people who come and go within its precincts, perhaps, but now and then someone will come along who makes it possible for people to get the things done they need to do, and Jeri Rhodes, by making everything function better, was a singular addition to those ranks. With five years of significant accomplishment behind her, Jeri Rhodes, first woman treasurer at Annapolis, smiles her goodbye to the job. Melissa Kurtz photo National Geographic College oral featured "I may look fierce, but I was actually feeling concern about following the argument for the critique of Martin Luther's theology," said tutor emeritus Curtis Wilson, explaining the intense expression on his fac~ in a photo appearing in National Geographic magazine's August issue. The full-page photo, part of a 28-page article titled "Annapolis: Camelot on the Bay," captures the senior oral examination of Ian Webb, class of 1987. In the college library, under the gaze of King William III and facing the camera, is Mr. Wilson. To his right, cupping her chin with her hand, is tutor Leland Giovannelli. Mr. Webb has his back to the photographer. Dr. Nicholas Capozzoli, the third member of the committee, did not appear in the photograph. Mr. Wilson recalls the photo session as being a non-event. He says he was so much absorbed in the hour-long conversation with Mr. Webb he hardly noticed Kevin Fleming, a contract photographer for National Geographic, capturing the unique experience on film for millions of readers world-wide. Ms. Giovannelli remembers Mr. Fleming, an Epping Forest resident, obtaining permission to photograph the oral exam. But once the third committee member and the student entered, and the door was closed behind him, Mr. Fleming, working unobtrusively, became part of the moment too. Mr. Fleming had spent days at St. John's, exploring through his camera lens its croquet match, the Spring Fling, three waltz parties, and the senior oral. He recalls capturing the senior oral shot that appears in National Geographic magazine: "It was a very formal occasion. Everyone seemed in a serious mood. I had been all around the campus, (then I settled back) into the corner of the room. My intent in taking the photo was to show a bit of character of St. John's - how it differs from other colleges. I think the photo does that. I would have liked it if the editors (of National Geographic magazine) had selected one of the waltz party, too - I think that's an important par,t of St. John's, too - but they liked the senior oral one. I've received a lot of compliments on it." Members of the St. John's community will soon be able to purchase, at a special price, the pictorial presentation of the home of St. John's College, and Maryland's capital, Annapolis. This nine-by-twelve inch, J44page book of photographs by Nation~l Geog~aphic photographer.il Kevm Flemmg, shows intimate views of the city not usually seen from its sidewalks. A four-page spread of photographs featuring St. John's College includes two views of the waltz party. One depicts two couples sitting out a dance while a woman whirls by. The other shot taken from the Great Hall's balcony has its chandelier casting a soft glow on the waltzing couples below. A third photo shows the venerable McDowell Hall at sunrise majestically rising out of the darkened foreground. Finally, another shot of the senior oral is slightly different from the one appearing in National Geographic magazine's August issue. Here the student's pressure is shown by the movement of his head, and a spectator is introduced into this student's important moment. Annapolis contains a foreword by St. Clair Wright, chairman emeritus of Historic Annapolis Inc., and a descriptive text by Patricia Kohlhepp. Study tours planned by artist-in-residence, 3 faculty members, for cultural centers in France, Renaissance Italy, classical Greece The great medieval cathedrals of France will be the focus of a visual art study tour scheduled for the summer of 1989, the first of a three-tour cycle to centers of western culture planned by a group from St. John's College, Annapolis. The month-long trip, using a combina- · ..tion of reading, looking, and discussing, will be especially geared to St. John's students and graduates, and to the graduates of the Graduate Institute. Three tutors, Robert Druecker, Paul Antal, and Thomas May, and the artistin-residence, Burton Blistein, are planning the tours. The college itself is not a sponsor. Two tutorials and one seminar weekly, supplementary reading, and discussion before the original art work itself is the planned program for the visit, which will undertake studies of Renaissance Italy and classical Greece in succeeding years. Mr. Blistein explained that the reading will be secondary for this principally visual experience. "The art works will be for us the equivalents of the great book," he said. The emphasis will be on the process of discovery achieved through discussion, not on lectures, he said. St. John's faculty members will lead all discussions. The trip next summer will include the cathedrals of Vezeley, Autun, Bourges, Chartres, Reims, and Rouen, as well as relevant museums and the medieval sections of these cities, and will include extra days in Paris. "There will be plenty of time to explore each town and a lot of time in Paris," according to Mr. Blistein. Each stop will be for two to three days, the first for a tour and orientation, and others for study. The cost per person is expected to be between $2200 and $2800, depending on the number of participants. This fee will include transportation, lodging and some meals. While the trips to the three countries together will trace the flowering of western art, each visit will be self-contained and can be booked separately. For additional information and application forms, contact Mr. Blistein at St. John's College, Annapolis, MD· 21401. Inquiries should be made by Nov. 1. �4 t. ,t by When Anne, 24, and Bill Slakey, 21, ascended the plaza steps in the bright sunshine to accept their diplomas last May in Santa Fe, Tom Slakey, Annapolis dean, and Marion Slakey were on hand to see these last two of their four children receive the St. John's degree. Michael Slakey, 26, A '85, had driven up from San Miguel de Allende for the occasion. Only Tom Slakey, 28, SF '81, Peace Corps volunteer in' Mali, was missing. Tom Slakey looks back on that day with quiet bemusement. "No, I never expected it. But I've been very pleased that all the children chose to go to St. John's. I don't really know why. I've never pushed them. Many faculty children don't make this choice. Perhaps it is partly because we've moved around so much." "They all share something, and that's a gain," he continQes. "Actually, I've gotten to know students generally better through my children. That's been a gain, too." Sibling combinations at St. John's are not unusual. At least six such combinations were to be found last year in Annapolis, and three in Santa Fe. There is nevertheless a singularity about the Slakey foursome, some of whom initially resisted the St. John's experience, two of whom took judicious time out, and three of whom did a certain amount of transferring back and forth between the campuses. And yet, against the odds, a certain pleasing completeness was achieved last May when graduation exercises closed a family chapter. The three younger Slakey children share family traits. Articulate, thoughtful, somewhat diffident, they maintain a friendly reserve in the presence of an outsider. The boys have heads of unclipped curls. Anne is intensely blonde, with a smile of rare sweetness. All have the kind of glowing, healthy good looks that tempt the viewer into generalities about St. John's students - or any students impossible to support. They banter with one another affectionately. There is a flash of inside jokes. Somebody lights a cigarette. Young Tom, bearded and bespectacled, smiles out from a photograph set against a tawny African background. And yet, against the odds, a certain pleasing completeness was achieved last May when graduation exercises closed a family chapter. But now Bill has come to campus himself, good-naturedly willing to talk about the decision that insured the family pattern. "I thought of St. John's as a back-up school," he admits, "until I started getting ready to fill out applications. I was thinking about a lot of small liberal arts colleges and I suddenly thought, 'What's the use if this is where I want to go?' Actually I never did apply anywhere else." After three years in Santa Fe and one in Annapolis, he remembers the big decisions as being whether or when to transfer between campuses, but never whether to transfer out of the college. "I find the contrast hard to make between campuses," he says. "It is sort of a chche to say that Annapolis is closer together geographically and socially and Santa Fe has more space geographically and socially. You can spend a lot of time by yourself there if you want to." Bill himself, admittedly "a kind of jock," especially enjoyed the intramurals at Santa Fe where Istvan Fehervary ("a GREAT guy") adapted the sports program to what the students wanted to do, providing Bill with a high quality of soccer. He declares that he never thought about academic specialization until the last year or so when "I started to push towards literature." Before that, there was "so much to do." He adds wistfully, "I had SUCH a great time." Bill Slakey But presently he realized that all his preceptorials were lit-oriented. His senior essay, "A Sense of Fear," was on Joyce's Portrait of the Artist and Plato's Phaedrus, "a pretty weird combination, but it was well received." He looks ahead reflectively. "Perhaps I'll go to grad school, probably in English literature. I know almost nothing about the current scene in literature. I want to know what the trends are. I've heard it's a trendy game. I want to make sure it's a worthwhile avenue of study." Immediately ahead as he speaks is a summer in Vermont, travel in New England, ''a year off" -at least from school, a time to consider. As Bill gets up to leave, he notes that Anne won the graduation award for the best senior essay. ''She won't tell you about that," he observes. True to his prediction, Anne does not talk about her academic. honors when she arrives a few days later with a reluctant Michael in tow. Michael goes next door to greet old friends as Anne speaks. Decisive in her student years, she comments, was her choice to remain behind when her family left Cambridge University after the academic year of 1980-81. Dean Slakey, on sabbatical, had been working on Thomas Aquinas' Summa there, and he had taken his wife and two younger children with him. Anne decided to take the A-levels, the advanced examination for university-bound British students, which meant staying for her senior year of high school in Britain. She looks back on this decision somewhat ruefully. "Nothing in my background of taking multiple choice tests and short answer tests prepared me for that," she remarks. The test consists of six hours of essays on three chosen fields, in Anne's case, English, history and theater arts. Anne passed the test, an unusual accomplishment for a U.S.-schooled student, but "l wish l had worked much harder," she says. The effort was considerable in any case, and she elected to postpone college for a year, a year she spent selling toys, she remembers. She was to interrupt her education one more time, after her sophomore year, at which point she considered transferring to other schools. "The math suddenly becomes much harder," she notes, pointing out that her British secondary schooling omitted expected math courses. Even less attractive to her was what she called "moving away from metaphysics" to the study of Descartes and Kant. "I enjoyed the earlier philosophers more than the later ones," she says. One tutor she remembers described the junior-senior reading experience as "having certainty instead of truth," not a congenial trade-off for Anne, but 'Tm not going to be glib about it," and declines to say more. She didn't transfer, however, and says with quiet satisfaction, "I made it through and became very much interested in the lab. That was a pleasure." Anne's immediate plans are to work at the St. John's library in Annapolis, a considered choice for one thinking about graduate work in history and believing ''you need to know your way around a library." Is an academic future likely? I Michael and Anne Slakey relax in Annapolis. Missing is young Tom, with the Peace Corps in Africa. Melissa Kurtz photo "Hmmmm ... maybe." artist." Michael, who has drifted in, wears a That is not the last word, for Michael green t-shirt with cut-off arms and the thinks anyone can be an artist, and, in label "Snug Harbour Farm" across his fact, "Mother is becoming an artist," says chest. He, too, remembers the shaping Anne. Indeed, Marion visited Michael in experience of the Cambridge interlude. San Miguel last spring, and she, too, has He was already out of high school, taking watercolors which record that time, pleasa year off. ing but muted renditions of the same "I didn't think I would go to college," he scenes that Michael has painted. Looking . recalls. He had been restless about being from one painting to the other, she told the "way the world works" in high exclaims with pleasure, "See what he does school, and "I had no reason to assume with colors!' college would be different." But the threeTom, the first graduate, is both absent month visit to England and long hours of and present. On the porch table lie Tom's reading during a cold wet winter perrecent letters and photos of sun-baked suaded him. African fields. "Some strange collegiate spirit must Five years as a computer software engihave seeped in," he smiles. neer at Westinghouse are now behind him Michael's St. John's years were divided as he begins his Peace Corps stint at between the two campuses - a year and a Sevare in Mali, formerly French West half at Santa Fe, two and a half at AnnaAfrica. polis. "I managed to switch back and forth "I admire him for taking that change of as often as possible," he notes. "For me, · direction," Bill has said. Admiration is the place was a little too small, but I didn't clear in the faces of all. Dean and Mrs. want to be somewhere else." He doubled Slakey hope to visit their son at Christthe student population with his strategy. mastime. Bill's break from studies had been sports. In the meantime, there are the letters. Michael's was art. His high school pasTom spent three months of orientationsion had been music; now this shifted. The called "Stage" - with other volunteers college hobby presently became the serious before making his two year commitment vocation, and he has painted with increasin May. ing skill and seriousness since graduation. Tom, who also speaks German and A year of painting in Annapolis and a year Spanish, passed his French proficiency of painting in New Mexico have been foltest without difficulty. To do so, "you lowed by a year in Mexico itself, a time must be able to speak impromptu on a just concluded as this interview takes theoretical or philosophical subject, to place. speak abstractly, something like that," In the late afternoon of summer on the Tom wrote. "Perhaps the St. John's expeSlakey front porch near Spa Creek, rience made that easy. I only hope that my Michael brings out one by one the colors endurance and adaptability are equal to of Mexico. These are watercolors, and my language ability, or at least equal to presently pen and ink over watercolor, the difficulties which face me." He will be and finally several lithographs. teaching mathematics. A garden in deepening dusk has a bright He added, "I learned some greetings in splash of poinsettia in the foreground; Peul and Dogon, or one of the 60 Dogon here shadowed arches rise over multilanguages anyway." colored patio bricks; an old man with his Tom was already admiring the happy wares spread out in front of him sits on a part of African life. "There is artistry in stoop behind Michael's house; windows small things here. No opportunity for are deeply recessed in stuccoed exteriors beauty or laughter is missed." beneath tiled roofs; everywhere in public After his assignment to Sevare, Tom and private scenes are the extraordinary wrote: "It is the one place in Mali where all mauves, oranges, electric greens and bright the cultures can be found: Arab, Berber, turquoises of the sky, the foliage, and Tamashek, Bozo, Bobo, Massi, Malinke, presently the sea. Sarakile, Songrai, Dogon, Bambara and Now comes the west coast of Mexico, Peul, in ascending order of importance. the surf coming in at San Blas against a "It's right near the fascinating Dogon wet sky, and - surprise! - a fisherman cliff-dweller towns. It's the second closest drawing in his net. Here is an empty room, site to Timbuktu." every window missing, in the once elegant Something has been completed in this beachfront hotel where Michael lived in St. John's family, but far more is incommoldering splendor. "The presidential plete in the pattern of four young lives. suite," Michael comments. Most of the big questions, if we could "I went to Mexico for the adventure " identify them, probably remain unanswered. he says. "The atmosphere, the beautif~l Perhaps a few things can be said to lie at buildings, the history and culture - these the quiet center of these expanding lives: are just right for the artist." abiding affections for family and friends, He is guarded about the time just receptiveness to new as well as old expeahead. Smiling, eye on Anne: "Maybe I'll riences and visions, and shared recognibe a history professor." tion of some truths and values that tranAnne, laughing: "I certainly won't be an scend all of these. �SEPTEMBER 1988 THE REPORTER PAGES I t I by Donna Boetig "When you're at the starting dock there's a lot of tension - anything can go wrong in the boat," says Andrea Rush, a sophomore from Mechanicsville, Pennsylvania, and member of St. John's College Rowing Club. "A rudder can break or an oar can catch water. With an experienced crew accidents are minimized, but with a novice crew there's a strong possibility something will happen." Despite the odds stacked against St. John's Rowing Club when they competed July 30 - they ·were an untested crew rowing an unfamiliar boat - they shone when they met with rowers from other regional schools and organizations in the Charm City Sprints, sponsored by the Baltimore Rowing Club. The St. John's Crew, organized and coached by Roger Frazier of the Annapolis Rowing Club, placed first in the novice 4 with cox'n event and second in the novice 8 event. The fledgling St. John's by rowers from the Club's prep program meter races, all of which were co-ed. singles for St. John's and Lianne Ritter, a summer graduate student, finished first among the women competitors, and Wick Keating took fourth among the men. "I expected the kids to do well, but considering they were in a totally different boat, their performance was remarkable," Mr. Frazier says. The crew had been used to rowing to a port-stroke boat. But in the competition, they were given a lighter, starboard-stroke boat by the Baltimore Rowing Club that required they make a complete change in their crew order. "In one season to be able to teach kids· to row well enough to win is an achievement." Joining St. John's Rowing Club in March, Ms. Rush brought with her an athletic background of recreational swimming and biking, and "a non-competitive nature." "It was kind of scary/' she says of the initial competition. "It's a tough sport, not because of physical strength - rowing is mostly leg drive -you need a strong back and stamina which you can work up to. But it requires a lot of training. It's a skill you have to learn. Rowing is not a natural movement. It's always a challenge." by members of the ARC prep program, rest after their second Cho, Andrew Schwartz and George Mashour. Glen Stubbe photo Now, with a victory to savor, Ms. Rush They taught them to row, and when they the Northeastern University crew, expects agrees sweaty palms are a small fee for bought a new boat for their club, gave the strong performances this season from orientation into a sport that provides both one they replaced to them. Meanwhile, returning rowers Patrick Cho, Padraic physical and mental dividends. "Rowing another neighbor, the U.S. Naval AcadTaffe, Andrew Schwartz, George Mashis a whole different type of thought proemy, under the guiding eye of its rowing our, and Andrea Rush. cess. It's an antithesis to school; that's why coach Rick Clothier, loaned the team its Rowing requires a student to make a I like it," she explains. training barges, offered the use of its commitment, Ms. Rush says. And at a Others mention the camaraderie the indoor rowing machines during the winter school where students put their studies sport develops in the crew: it's nine workfirst, that commitment is not always easy months, and made available one of its shells. ing together as one. to make. The St. John's Rowing Club began in While not all club members were interearnest in September 1987 when 15 stuested in racing, Mr. Frazier promised dents, mostly freshmen, decided they those who did want competition that he Laurence Berns is wanted to row. Few of the students had would take them to a regatta. previous experience. (There had been a Last November competing in their first a or of articles rowing club the year before but it never regatta against much more experienced generated sufficient enthusiasm.) crews, the students came in fifth out of The Annapolis Rowing Club which had seven entries. Tutor Laurence Berns, a member of the rented the use of the college boat house The St. John's crew, although losing its Annapolis faculty since 1960, was one of took the St. Johnnies on as their own. stroke and captain, J. Robert Klinger, to seven leading scholars in the humanities to contribute to a publication, "Foundations of American Citizenship," intended to strengthen the teaching of American citizenship in the nation's schools. The handbook, containing course syllabi for teacher training institutions, enthink about courages students to and discuss original documents Plato, de Tocqueville, Thomas Jefferson and others. Mr. Berns has also contributed to several other scholarly endeavors in recent months. He was a member of a Liberty Fund "Socratic Seminar" on "Aristotle and Modern Liberty" in the early spring at the University of Texas. Another participant was Professor Alfred Geier A '54 of the University of Rochester's classics department. In the late spring he took part in another Liberty Fund Colloquium on the "Ratifying Conventions" for the U.S. Constitution. "This was especially timely," Mr. Berns noted, "since l had just given a preceptorial on Madison's Notes of Debates on the Federal Constitution of 1787." Additionally, he has contributed a chapter entitled "Aristotle and the Moderns on Freedom and Equality" to the volume The Crisis of Liberal Democracy: a Straussian edtied by Kenneth L. and Walter Soffer, Corrected Edition publishS UNY ed in 1988. Leo Strauss, philosopher, was the Scott Buchanan Distinguished Scholar in Residence in Annapolis during the with novice four with cox'n celebrates first final years of his life. Patrick Cho to throw cox'n P::11·tri.r•1c �PAGES SEPTEMBER 1 THE REPORTER New York Times by MICHAEL NORMAN Reprinted from The New York Times Mino p zczp tion addressed by alu1nnus To the Editor: I am responding to the front page article in the June issue of the Reporter, regarding the enrollment of black students at St. John's College. In particular, I would like to address two points that were made in the article, namely: l) It is inappropriate to consider the enrollment. of "Black" students because we should ignore the aspect of race when selecting and reviewing a student body. 2) "St. John's program does not lend itself well to any type of campaign." I believe these views are misguided and detrimental to the health of the College. According to the first argument, St. John's should be interested in one's intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn, rather than skin color or racial background. Therefore, it is inappropriate to discuss skin color when considering the composition of an academic community. The above line of thought ignores the fact that past actions on the part of our academic leaders have deliberately and effectively isolated a segment of our community solely on the basis of skin color. It refuses to admit that a more integrated society is needed, despite the volumes of statistics which show the continued impoverishment and exclusion of the minority community. At St. John's College, minority participation falls far short of what is desirable Although some steps have been taken to increase this participation, these efforts will fail unless they are accompanied by a greater commitment than that reflected in the above statement of President Dyal regarding campaigns. I suspect that the aversion to "campaign" is partly semantic, but it also reveals a disinclination to devote the necessary resources to the issue of minority participation. Consider the fact that fundraising and recruitment drives are common, without accompanying disclaimers of their status as "campaigns." The issue is not the role of "campaigns" versus the "right kind of consciousness". Instead, the issue is the degree of determination to be found in the College commun ity. The "natural process" referred to in the article is an inadequate degree of determination. Over the ten years since I matriculated at St. John's, no meaningful progress has taken place in the level of minority participation within the College community. In addition to the efforts already taking place, l would like to offer a few initiatives which could assist the College in progressing toward a more inclusive and therefore enriched academic community. First, tutors could more regularly include the writings of minority authors in preceptorials, all-college seminars and publication of The St. John's Review. Second, issues of concern that are expressed by the Black community could be chosen as lecture topics. As an example, I am sure that a basic understanding of Black leadership in the history of the United States would be very valuable to the community. Third, St. John's could organize an exchange of lectures with a Black College. This would introduce Black professors to the College as well as provide an exhange of ideas. In addition, I am sure that other ways of forging relationships with the Black academic community exist, and could be easily pursued. Finally, in addition to the recruitment efforts stated in the article, our alumni representatives could be asked to represent St. John's at predominantly Black high schools. This would require a special "initiative" on the part of the Admission Office, but would not require considerable expense. President Dyal stated that we must be "aggressively open to minority participation in all phases of college life." I urge that we closely examine the ways in which this commitment may be realized, rather than search for a reason to compromise. Jonathan Adams, '82 To the Editor: l was saddened to read that the senior oral is to be cut. Not that my oral was so great, we got caught up on one point in one book -which was disappointing. But rereading those books was a very satisfying summing up of my years at St. John's. At the time I wished we had more time to discuss those readings, they meant so much more the second time around. l understand the reasons for cutting the senior oral. Perhaps, though, some time could be found for rereading - perhaps the last eight seminars could be dedicated to the eight best readings in the program. The seniors themselves could decide which readings to include; each student submitting their favorite eight in writing. (If it was decided by discussion, the discussion itself would probably take more than eight seminars.) I think that would be a nice way to end up the program. Sincerely, Rachel Barrett, SF '87 To the Editor: Thank you for nipping an unfounded and unintentionally propagated rumor in the bud. The only basis for my hypothesis that some people at St. John's during the thirties were concerned that the teaching of history might have led to sympathy for fascism was my own reading of Mr. Riccards' interpretation of Mr. Klein's concerns. l may well have read more into his words than he intended to say. Of course, there were intelligent and educated people in places other than St. John's who were seduced into sympathy for fascism and stalinism by historical arguments. I think it is a sign of the appropriateness of the program and the college itself that we can read and appreciate Darwin, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche without falling under the sway of narrow and negative political or social interpretations of them. It is of some concern to me, however, that one can be educated at St. John's and come away with no clear idea of the evil and misery that such interpretations have visited on the world. Sincerely, Steve Corneli, SF '77 SANTA FE, N.M. There are no lectures, no tests, no classes per se. There are only the immortals - Plato and Aristotle, St. Augustine and Montaigne, Spinoza, Swift, Melville, Moliere, more than 130 of The Great Books, as they are called at St. John's College, in what is still, after 50 academic seasons, an experiment in the liberal arts. At two campuses, one in Annapolis, Md., and one here at the foot of hillocks covered with pi non pines and junipers, a small corps of 350 under-graduates and their tutors spend four years in reading and dialogue, a direct encounter with two millenniums of literature, science, history, philosophy, mathematics and music. There are no textbooks, no collections of critical essays, no interpretive tracts. There is only the original work approached fresh. Lately there has been great debate on college campuses about the fate of liberal arts. Conservatives like William J. Bennett, the secretary of education, have complained repeatedly about the absence of the classics in college curriculums. The great books program here at St. John's has its critics, of course. There are those who hold that the Hellenic genius of the Republic cannot be appreciated or even understood without at least a passing survey of the earlier Aegean and Minoan cultures. And there are those who wonder, friends of the college among them, how the Nicomachean Ethics read in Greek prepares someone for a modern world. The answer is a conundrum: for as it turns out, such a classical education, one in which utility has no place, prepares some students brilliantly and some not at all. If they are as pointed and ambitious as Rachel Ankeny, 20 years old, of Dearborn, Mich., they learn to think clearly and to understand completely any point of view, no matter how much they disagree with it. Miss Ankeny plans to get a graduate degree in public health and a law degree, which will lead to a career in bio-medical ethics. Studying the ancients, particularly Euclid, she says, has prepared her well to deal with the questions raised by medical technology. "Euclid's taught me to be thorough and about simplicity in a way and that bears on everything," she said. 'Tve also been thinking about language, thinking about how we think and howwe talk. When you can bring that down from a philosophical level to everyday life, that can be very important, but usefulness is not emphasized here." It is only natural to think about utility here in a place of intellect ion where one is equipped to go into the world with only the ability to think. And, after encountering John Gibson, 23, of Omaha, one might even suggest that this kind of an education can spoil a mind for anything else. "After St. John's, I think I'd like to stay doing these same sorts of things," he said, "but I'm having difficulty finding a way in which to do that." In other words, he wants to be a scholar? "That's true, "he said, "but I"m not going to graduate school because I'm having trouble finding something that's not too technical. I used to study physics but it was not very intellectually satisfying." In other words, he wants to be a professional thinker? "Yeah, but it might just be a fancy of mine." • To be sure, this is a seductive life. It is so seductive in fact, so insulating, that, faced with leaving it, a certain period of mourning occurs. "The thing I'll really miss," said Dave Emmett, 25, of Evergreen, Colo., "is picking up Dostoyevsky, or just constantly moving through all of this elegant, beautiful, intellectual stutt, always using my mind, learning all the time. I'm afraid I'm going to end up dropping that and end up being a cog in somebody's machine." A classical education has been a costly affair for Mr. Emmett. He might go to law school and when he is done, his undergraduate and law school loans will probably add up to more than $50,000. He sees something ironic and cruel in that long-term debt: "This education is supposed to liberate you, make you a free man, but it does just the opposite." Perhaps in the end it is wrong to look for utility in the classics. "Ideas," Socrates tells Glaucon in Plato's greatest Dialogue, The Republic, "are known, not seen." Thus, it might be enough to hear someone like Rachel Schroeder, 22, of Gills Ferry, Conn., say: "What I'll carry out of here is that when you're faced with the incomprehensible, you push and push and push until a little glimmer of light appears. And when you're faced with someone who you disagree with, you push and push and push to understand him so you can treat him fairly." To the Editor: Historic Witter Bynner House, at the corner of Old Santa Fe Trail and East Buena Vista, apparently is being offered for sale by the Karen Walker Realty Co. I am curious about this transaction, because it was our pleasure to reside in Witter Bynner House when I was affiliated with St. John's College. I was told at the time that Witter Bynner Trust gave use of the house to St. John's with the understanding that it would be maintained by the college and that it would be used to benefit the college community. During my family's residency, we took the opportunity to read Mr. Bynner's poetry and translations. My children loved to explore his house and grounds, and made interesting discoveries there: oriental inscriptions, a hidden butler's pantry, an overgrown zen garden, etc. The house also had a reputation for harboring "lively spirits," and generations of Johnnies, tutors and resident staff have interesting tales to relate in that regard. I frequently heard administrators of St. John's call the house a "white elephant"; several, though by no means all, expressed a desire to unload the place and "cash in," if l may be somewhat crude; and frustrations were expressed about the inflexibility of the Bynner Trust in insisting that the house be used physically, and not as a liquid asset. It was always the feeling of residents that the Hynner House was not a white elephant; it was an untended elephant that would have been a magnificent faciltiy for the college and the Great Books program had it been properly maintained. The money required to provide initial renovation for the plate would indeed have been a goodly sum; but a bargain, compared to the cost of erecting new facilities. One cannot say "comparable" facilities, because this is a one-of-a-kind property. D.H. Lawrence, Mary Austin, Mabel Dodge Luhan and many other distinguished member of the literati drifted in and out of the house; its history is colorful and singular. In a city that has a mania for preserving history, sometime·s to excess, one wonders at the proposed commercial (Continued on p. 7) �SEPTEMBER 1988 r·THE REPORTER PAGE7 enjoyed it." Mr. Johnson brings to his teaching career a powerful commitment to service. The son of a Lutheran minister, he is now deeply involved in St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Annapolis as a member of the Vestry, and is a participant on -many committees. He is vestry steward of the parish's outreach programs. The Johnsons are the parents of two sons, Bengt, a sophomore at Amherst, and Timothy, a junior at the Key School. A longtime community activist herself, Mrs. Johnson has been a public health nurse at the Unversity of Maryland, at Baltimore, and is past president of the Maryland Nurses' Association. Tutor Robert Williamson, left, and USNA Prof. David Johnson will be teaching each other's classes. Melissa Kurtz photo New harmony between Navy, St. John's as Johnson, Williamson swap classes by Nancy Osius They have sometimes looked at each other with darkest suspicion - the clipped, spruce midshipmen, with shoulders back and shoes so polished they carry a reflection, and the eased-off St. John's students, hair tangled, stance languourous, and perhaps an impudent earring in the ear, no matter what the sex. David Johnson, professor of philosophy at the U.S. Naval Academy, remembers that when he arrived in town back in 1971 and the Vietnam War was still on, antipathies were especially acute. "Students in the two schools thought of each other in stereotypes. The middies thought of the St. Johnnies as drug-crazed hippies; the Johnnies thought of the mids as goosestepping Fascists." Things have changed since then. The war is over, women are in uniform at the Academy, and while the Johnnies are still a wayward, tousled group, there is even an intercollegiate sports match between the institutions each spring, as everyone knows, when the two groups square off for the annual croquet match. And that's not all. This year for the first time, there will be a faculty exchange, when Prof. Johnson trades a one-third courseload with St. John's tutor Robert Williamson, who has been at St. John's since 1960. Visiting tutor Johnson will teach the freshman seminar for the year at the college, and Mr. Williamson a course of Introduction to Philosophy in the Fall and Ethics in the Spring at the Academy. For Mr. Johnson, the exchange will be an extension of an experience he has already begun as visiting tutor in the Graduate Institute the past two summers. "I have always been interested in St. John's," says Mr. Johnson, whose pleasant, bearded countenance suggests he will fit perfectly into the St. John's faculty line-up. He remembers meeting the late college president and dean John S. Kieffer when he came to Annapolis l 7 years ago, and sitting in on Mr. Kieffer's seminars. "My wife~nd I came to the college for films, lectures and for intellectual stimulation generally," he says. The iqitial St. John's teaching opportunity came through a Renaissance music group that began to gather locally four years ago. Mr. Johnson and his wife Lynada were pianists; Thomas May, director of the Graduate Institute, a flautist. The men became friends, and presently Tom May suggested that David Johnson apply to teach in the graduate program, which accepts a small number of visiting faculty members. Leading a seminar last summer on Philosophy and Theology with tutor Jon Lenkowski, Mr. Johnson recalls as "a very pleasant and rewarding experience." This summer he is leading a seminar on Politics and Society with Mr. May as well Mr. Johnson recalls that there has been a push for years for more contact between the two institutions, with occasional joint seminars involving 10 St. John's students and I 0 midshipmen, and a leader from either faculty. These are one-shot deals, two hours on a Sunday afternoon, perhaps. "Students in the two schools though~ of .each other in stereotypes. The middies thought of the St. Johnnies as drug-crazed hippies; the Johnnies thought of the mids as goose-stepping Fascists." as conducting his own tutorial in Philosophy and Theology. "I find the students very stimulating," he comments. "What I enjoy is the seminar approach, more than lecturing. I hear a lot of divergent points of view. It sheds more light on the text to hear what various people have to say." Mr. Johnson notes with interest the contrast between these graduate students and the Naval Academy undergraduates that the summer teaching provides, and he will be seeing further contrasts when he teaches St. John's undergraduates for the first time in the Fall. At the Academy, he lectures more, "although I try to run my classes with a Socratic approach. My courses are all electives, and midshipmen who elect to take the course are usually talkative and receptive." This year, both Dean Thomas Slakey of St. John's and Dean Karl Lamb of the Academy are in hearty agreement over the more ambitious teacher exchange. Mr. Williamson, heading off for Hawaii on vacation, was not prepared to comment just yet on the unknown waters of Academy academics, not ever having taught there, as he reminded us. Assured that we would return for his evaluation a few months from now, he nodded pleasantly, and, we hope, with assent. From the beginning, Mr. Johnson urged his midshipmen to come across the street to St. John's for the Friday night lectures, when the subject was relevant. "Sometimes they stayed for discussion after the lecture," he remembers. "Even though they were self-conscious about their uniforms and haircuts, they usually (Continued from p. 6) disposition of this truly historic property. My questions are: Who succeeded in breaking the resolve of the member of the Witter Bynner trust? How has Karen Walker come to represent the property and who, besides Walker, stands to profit from this sale? Has St. John's given up its interest, then, in the house? Or does the college hope to profit by unloading it? And why is the property being touted as "suitable for an art gallery"? - the last thing Santa Fe needs, or Mr. Bynner would have wanted. His intention that the college would enjoy a literal use of the house was clear and straightforward. Finally, should the Bynner Foundation and St. John's argue the overriding benefit of the home's sale to the college's most excellent program, I should like to offer the following thought: there will never be "enough" money at St. John's (though one sincerely hoped the Los Miradores condominiums would have reselved any real fiscal needs there, in an era of prudent management), but that institution - above all institutions in the city could be expected to treasure the living history of Witter Bynner House, and to honor Mr. Bynner's expressed intentions for its use. What's going on? Sincerely, Deborah Aydt SGI '83 To {he Editor: Thank you for printing an obituary of my fraternity brother, Jeff Fields in the On a warm summer afternoon, Mr. Johnson's Graduate Institute tutorial meets high up under the roof of venerable McDowell Hall. The group, which has been meeting for about a week, already have the familiarity of friends. Peers all, they forego Christian names in this scholarly setting. Ages appear to range from the early twenties, or younger, to the late sixties, or older, and gender is evenly divided, seven men, seven women. The assigned reading for today is from Aristotle's Metaphysics. Mr. Johnson has warned the visitor that discussion may be hard going today after the congenial dramatic quality of Plato's Meno the week before. He launches the tutorial with the redoubtable question, "What does it mean to do metaphysics?" This group settles back with an audible and contented sigh. What indeed? Presently someone hazards, "To search for wisdom," and the discussion is underway. At St. John's, the tutorial springs from the close reading and careful criticism of short textual material. For this day, students have read about five pages, and now they are here to grapple with them. One student, bringing up a bon mot from last week's discussion, smilingly refers to "cocksure ignorance and thoughtful uncertainty," and the class joins him in knowing laughter. The exchanges are low-keyed and generally respectful, despite an occasional sharp rejoinder: "I don't think that's what he said at all!" Another student presently acknowledges "a terrible misreading, but part of me doesn't want to let it go." At least three translatons from the Greek are being used, and a careful examination of pronoun and antecedent and textual comparison of several translated words finally yields a measure of agreement. Looking at his watch one hour and fifteen minutes later, Mr. Johnson concludes the session with an allusion to his initial question: "I think that Aristotle would say what we've done from the beginning of this class is to go beyond the physics." Yes, he seems to like it, the change from a sterner sort of academic posture to this egalitarian interaction. And across the street, in the Fall, along with such midshipmen as elect to "do metaphysics,·: Mr. Williamson, too, will be readying himself for new and perhaps bracing experiences. Reporter. Much more could, and should have been written. He served in the National Guard company in Crisfield and in Annapolis, and had a record of 17 years ser.t" vice in the Maryland National Guard before he enlisted in the Marine Corps in March or April, 1932. That probably was the reason that the new National Guard Armory in Crisfield was named in his honor. He was an excellent student and played on St. John's teams in football, basketball and lacross. His roommate one year was Thomas Van Claggett, 1930, a descendent of Maryland's first Anglican bishop. I remember seeing a photograph of (Continued on p. 10) �ES THE REPORTER n t Jae Holzman, founder of Elektra Records, Tom Carnes, a San Francisco attorney, and Charles Bell, novelist, cultural historian and Santa Fe tutor emeritus, received the St. John's Alumni Association Award of Merit at the Santa Fe Homecoming Banquet in July. Honorary Membership in the Association was bestowed on philanthropist Clementine Peterson, film actress Greer Garson Fogelson, and Santa Fe tutor Samuel E. Brown at the same event. Presentations ~ere made by David Dobreer, soon to retire from his two-term presidency of the Alumni Association. In his presentation to Jae Holzman, Dr. Dobreer quoted the honoree's own memories of his days at the College: "Down at St. John's College, Annapo. I was fiddling around with '"''-''J''-"""" equipment and trying to read books. I was still fiddling around had only read 75 when the College told me to take a vacation. took a made a recording of the of John a Greenwich Villager, Elektra Records had its early '-''"'F~"'""l'I".''" After Elektra became firmly Mr. Holzman created the Nonesuch label, making available to the public innovative, inexpensive classical recordings. He later became part of Warner Communications, and was instrumental in bringing the firm into the home video and cable fields. He has been chairman of Panavision since 1982. Mr. Holzman has been a major contributor to the Santa Fe campus, especially in his donation of the SternbergerWeis Music and Fine Arts Center on that campus. Mr. Carnes, on the Board of Visitors and Governors almost continuously since 1979, chairs the California Property Committee, and is a member of the Executive Committee. He was instrumental in forming the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Alumni Association, and his wife is an honorary alumna of the College. He has been called "the voice of legal counsel on the Board." Graduating from St. John's in 1952, he attended law school at the University of Michigan. He is the senior partner of his firm, and specializes in civil litigation. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Carnes is on the adjunct faculty of the Golden Gate School of Law and has lectured at the Hastings School of University of and the National Advocacy Institute. Charles Bell received his undergraduate from the University of Virginia in and his subsequent as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. taught at various including Iowa State College, Princeton and the University of Chicago before becoming a tutor at St. John's in 1956. The range of his activity covers the philosophy of science, politics, cultural history, and literary scholarship, as well as two novels and two books of poetry. His Symbolic History, a series of tapes and slides, is the product of his effort, as he describes it, "to make a serious study of multi-media history, and epic and drama of the human spirit, at the highest level, on a par_ with enduring poetic or philosophic creat10n." Mrs. Peterson, a Baltimore civic figure, served on the Board of Visitors and Governors almost continuously from 1963 to 1974, and before that, her late husband was a Board member. Vivid evidence of the couple's benefactions is the Peterson Student Center as well as the Duane Peterson Charitable Fund Endowment. Among her other philanthropic and civic activities has been her service as Commissioner on the Baltimore Planning Commission, as Chairman of the Baltimore Nutrition committee, as President of the Baltimore Area Girl Scout Council and leadership in numerous other organi~ Ron Hale Eighty-four alumni from both St. John's campuses were on hand for Homecoming '88 in Santa. Fe in July. Two seminar groups on Saturday afternoon discussed Shakespeare's King Lear with tutors Jack Steadman, Georgia (Susu) Knight, Cary Stickney, and Jack Lincoln. These were followed by a reception, the Homecoming Banquet, and a dance. Reunion classes for this year's Homecoming were the classes of 1978, 1973, and l 968. (The l 968 class was the first to graduate from the Santa Fe campus.) Scheduled immediately before and after the Homecoming f es ti vi ties were the annual Summer Seminars for alumni which this year attracted 37 participant~ plus spouses and friends. Seminars and preceptorials were led by tutors James Carey, Jack Lincoln, Cary Stickney, Georgia Jack Steadman, and Ralph A major highlight of both weeks was a tour of Northern New Mexico, led by Gerry Zollars, A '65. The tour included stops at Chimayo, Taos, Taos Pueblo, and the Rio Grande Gorge. C IC by Ron Hale Several graduate fellowship programs are available for which recent St. John's alumni are eligible to apply. Detailed information on any of these programs may be obtained by calling or writing Ellie Dietrich, Director of Career Planning in Annapolis, or Ron Hale, Director of Career Planning in Santa Fe. The programs open to alumni are: •The Luce Scholars Program for graduates under the age of 30 from selected colleges (St. John's is one of them) to spend a year-long internship in Asia. • The Rhodes .5cholarships are for two years of study at Oxford University for college graduates under the age of 24. • The Marshall Scholarships are for college graduates under age 26 to study for two years at any university in the United Kingdom. •The Fulhright Grants support college graduates (with no age restrictions) in a year of study abroad. The Rotary Foundation Scholarships are for college graduates to support a year of study abroad, in countries in which Rotary Clubs are located. Application is made through a local Rotary Club by Oct. I. The Mellon Fellowships are generous grants that support graduate studies at American institutions in preparation for careers of teaching and scholarship in the humanities. All of these programs have application deadlines in early fall. Anyone interested in these or other fellowship opportunities should contact either St. John's Office of Career Planning as soon as possible. zations. Her nephew, Duane L. Peterson, accepted the award in his aunt's absence. Mrs. Fogelson, a graduate of the University of London, is best known for her long stage and screen career, which included an Academy Award for her portrayal of Mrs. Miniver, and seven other Award nominations. She has also won numerous awards for both her philanthropic and professional activities, including honorary doctorates from various universities. She is an adjunct professor at two of them. She and her late husband, Col. E. E. Fogelson, were significant contributors to the planning and inception of· the western campus, a contribution espe- An inaugural gift of $2500 was presented to Annapolis President William M. Dyal, Jr., last summer hy the Alumni Association of Northern California as the first step in its $25,000 endowment fund campaign honoring the memory of the late Robert A '69. The presentation took place at a picnic at the Napa Valley vineyard Stag's Leap, an event hosted by owners Warren, A '52, and Barbara Winiarski, A '55. The California group hopes to meet its goal in a two-year period ending July 30, l 990. The fund will help support an annual exhibition of works of art alternately at each campus of the college. To honor Mr. Davis, the gift will be structured to encourage "special attention to the architecture and design of the annual exhibition" according to George H. Elias, Jr., A '71, president of the alumni group. Harrison Sheppard, A '61, will chair the drive with the assistance of Laird Durley, SF '78. Mr. Davis, a San Francisco designer . and architect, died of a brain infection April 9. He had been on the staff of the de Young Museum in San Francisco since 1953, and was widely admired as a museum exhibition designer, helping to present such shows as King Tut, Alexander the Great and other exhibits. After receiving his degree from St: ~ John's, Mr. Davis took his architectural training at the Southern California lnsti- tute of Architecture. He was also an accomplished photographer, woodworker and yachtsman. The memorial fund will be administered by a committee on each campus, with members appointed by the academic dean and including the artist in residence. Ron Hale, currently Director of Career Planning on the Santa Fe campus, has been named Director of Alumni Activities there. Mr. Hale will be responsible for all college programs and activities related to alumni, excluding fundraising and solicitation. He will also continue in his present position in Career Services. The Alumni Activities Director position in Santa Fe has traditionally been a part-time job,, usually combined with other functions in the College Advancement Office. In recent years Mr. Hale has worked increasingly ·with alumni in providing career-related services. A goal in combining these two offices is to offer a broader range of activities and services to alumni. cially evident in the pool and garden, cor:tributed to the memory of Nina Garson, Mrs. Fogelson 's mother. Accepting the Award in her absence was former College President Richard D. Weigle. In acceding to Sam Brown's request that his presentation be kept "short and sweet," Dr. Dobreer cited the "sweet" part as the tutor's strong influence on his students, and for giving them "an unforgettable sense of language, with good, bad and indifferent." Brown began his college work at Harvard, and received his undergraduate degree at Black Mountain College and his PhD at Indiana University in 1962. He Alumni wishing to contact the Santa Fe Alumni Activities/ Career Office may reach Ron Hale at (505) 982-3691. He is particularly anxious to hear from Alumni' with suggestions regarding ways in which the college and its alumni can be of service to one another. began his St. John's teaching career on the Annapolis campus in 1958, and shifted to Santa Fe in 1965. In his words of praise for an admired teacher, one former student commented, "Sam was one of those who took it as a vocation to ask thought-provoking questions, stand back, and let students figure things out." All of the honorees, or their surrogates, expressed their affection for St. John's, and their to have been a part of its community. As Mrs. Peterson wrote, in a letter of thanks, "St. John's, particularly the Santa Fe campus, will forever occupy a unique place in my heart." �9 f William Culley, of Chatham, N.Y., a junior, is the recipient of the ~illi~m Zeckendorf Scholarship awarded annually on the Santa Fe campus. With ham are his benefactors, William Zeckendorf, Jr., and his wife, Nancy, at their Santa Fe residence. Jane Hill photo At GI ceremony, Marquis addresses Santa Fe grads by Tim Miller Lucian Marquis, guest tutor and professor of political studies at Pitzer College, delivered the address at the twentieth summer commencement of the Graduate Institute in Liberal Education in Santa Fe. President Michael R. Riccards presented diplomas for the Master of Arts degree to 16 students from nine states, Canada and England. Mr. Marquis, a friend of tutor emeritus Samuel Brown since they met as fellow students at Black Mountain College, first taught in the Graduate Institute in 1972. This summer, his eighth at the college, he co-led a literature seminar and offered a highly regarded preceptorial on Tocqueville's Democracy in America. In his address, Marquis shared his sense of the college: ... what holds us to St. John's is not only the intellectual and, I hope, emotional intensity of the program, of the seminars, tutorials, and preceptorials and the conversations that go beyond the classroom, but also and most profoundly, the spirit of place and the sense of time. The first four weeks seemed almost endless while the last four have been 'uncannily fugitive and fleet.' Our memories of these summers at St. John's College will shimmer and echo with the spirit of the place, the genius loci, with what Lawrence called 'the aerial electricity of the summer sky,' with memories of books read, of discussions and conversations, and of our fellow students and tutors. In closing Mr. Marquis read from Cavafy's poem entitled "Ithaca": And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not defrauded you . With the great wisdom you have gained, with so much experience, you must surely have understood by then what Ithaca means. 1971 violin lessons in Fairbanks, AK. Christopher lee has published a 1982 highly-acclaimed first novel, I look Mark "Zonker" Oldknow has been Divine. admitted to University of New Mexico's 1976 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology Program. Miriam Marcus-Smith has completed 1983 her B.A. in 1987 in Health Economics and Randall and Beth Vance have a new Ethics from Antioch - Seattle. She is an daughter, Miranda Rose, born April 22, RN, working "in the health insurance end 1988. of things". She and her husband Ralph Peter Mossoui is a design engineer have lived in Seattle for eight years now. (mechanical) at NASA/Goddard and They have a son, Nathaniel Isaac Smith, wouldn't mind hearing from some DC who was born August 30, 1987. . area Johnnies. Ms. Judy Kistler is beginning a PhD 1984 program at University of Connecticut in Mally Mechau and Michael Strong educational psychology. have a new son, Homer Valentine Strong, Linda Stabler-Talty, SG I, and Peter born June 25, 1988. Mike is working on Talty, SGI '82, had a daughter, Alexanhis dissertation at the University of Chidra Christine, born July 23. cago's committee on social thought. 1977 James H. Gillam is president of the 1985 Oregon Chimney . Sweeps Association, Kelly Cook, daughter of Santa Fe Inc. tutor Don Cook, has been appointed to 1978 serve as the personal massage therapist for Michael Theriault has a new son JosPrincess Nore, granddaughter of the late quin Docite Theriault born November 14, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. She plans to 1987. stay in Saudi Arabia for at least a year, Marion Billington is teaching compuaccording to a recent story in the Santa Fe ter science at a British Mission School, New Mexican. Woodstock ~chooi in the Himalaya 1987 Mountains. He is married to a woman Adam Pruzan has received his comfrom Maryland whom he met in Turkey. piission as an officer in the U.S. Navy and Their first child, Jason, was born Thanksis at the Navy supply Course School in giving day: Athens, GA. Adam reports experiencing 1979 "severe culture shock" moving from St. Martha Billington Reaves is teaching John's to the Navy. SI A keynote address by a nationallyknown speaker on the eve of the election will highlight a forum on "Ethics and Politics", the first in a three-year series of public discourses on ethics to be offered by the college in Annapolis. The speaker will be named later this month. The initial program in the Great Issues series is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. to one p.m. Saturday, November 5, and despite its national timeliness, will be nonpartisan in emphasis. An optional luncheon at one p.m. will allow participants to continue discussion of issues raised. In the first as well as subsequent forums, registration at 9:30 a.m. and the opt::.ning address at 10 a.m. will be followed immediately by a question period. Ninety-minute small-group discussions will begin at 11 :30 a.m. Sponsors of the series are the Friends of St. John's and the Continuing Education services of the college. Program participants will be able to prepare with three short readings to be mailed to them in advance. These will be drawn from a list including Aristotle's Politics and poetics, Machiavelli's The f r s Prince and The Discourses, J .S. Mill's Representative Government and the Federalist Paper No. 57. Five Saturday programs are also planned, each with a thematic lecture by a distinguished speaker followed by readings from the St. John's Great Books list to be discussed in seminar. These programs will be Ethics and Journalism, spring, 1989; Ethics and Business, Fall, 1989; Ethics and Medicine, Spring, 1990; Ethics and Law, Fall, 1990;· Ethics and Religion Spring, 1991. Persons interested in the Nov. 5 forum may call the Office of Advancement at the college. According to Jeffrey Bishop, vice president for Advancement, registration will be limited to 200 people. The cost per person will b·e moderate with an additional charge for those interested in the luncheon discussion. The 25-member steering committee of the Friends of St. John's is led by president Nancy Hammond, an Annapolis artist, with Dr. William Brill of Annapolis as chairman of the Great Issues series. Readin_g selections have been made by tutor William Pastille working with Jack Ladd Carr, A '50, of the Friends ~roup. Commission moves forward on Central American help Access to democracy for disenfranchised groups such as women and native populations were among the goals of a preliminary report his committee presented to the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development in Stockholm last summer, according to St. John's College President William M. Dyal, Jr., on his return. "Women make up 40 per cent of the Central American agricultural laborers in the area," he commented, but have very limited access to any of the resources of the five nations in that troubled region. In its report to the commission, the committee specifically targets women and other groups as beneficiaries of efforts to broaden minimum wage laws, to remove land-owning and property restrictions, to pass new laws assuring equal pay for equal work, and other measures. Protection of the legal rights and security of indigenous populations - i.e. Indians, or workers' trade unions and their leaders, and of church groups and grassroots organizations were also among a series of objectives set out in the report of the committee Mr. Dyal heads with Daniel Oduber, former president of Costa Rica. The committee's specific mandate is to increase economic and social development of the region through broad popular participation. The report was one of five presented to the 45-member commission, a non-political, privately-funded group formed early this year against the background of Arias' Central American Peace Plan. The commission's overall purpose is to conduct a thorough analysis of the development needs and priorities of the area and to draft a comprehensive plan for equitable development of the region. Over the Stockholm weekend, the IO committee co-chairmen worked with an editorial group to do a draft of recommendations for presentation at the fullweek meeting slated to begin in Washington next Nov. 17. Mr. Dyal commented that the postU. S. election date was carefully chosen so that the commission can present findings to the new President that may help shape U.S. policy. As to present U.S. policy, Mr. Dyal said that the U.S. "works unilaterally, and that has got to change, whether Bush or Dukakis is president." Before that time, some commissioners will go to Japan to talk to representatives of that country's government as a major potential funder for the Third World. The biggest problem in the Central American region, as Mr. Dyal identifies it, is "turning swords into plowshares." He sees solutions beginning with disarmament and continuing with redirection of the money flow away from military purposes. "Finally," he said, "we need demobilization, the movement of armed men back into productive employment." On the hopeful side is the fact that, as he puts it, "a lot of the infrastructure is already in place" to implement proposed solutions. "For example, the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights exists right now, and it and other groups need money and other help to become effectual." For any solution, "We need broad cooperation, both from the left and right, from Nicaragua, leftist and Communist, to Honduras, for most purposes primarily a military base for the Contras." The commission's final meeting will be held Feb. l in Guatemala when the group . will present its full report to the presidents of the,five Central American nations. With that event following previous meetin_gs in Europe, the U.S. and Asia, Mr. Dyal feels "we will have all bases covered," in his expression of cautious optimism. The St. John's president brings both fluency in the Spanish language and 20 years of leadership and experience in Latin American affairs to his commission activities. Donna Boetig iven PR iob Donna E. Boetig has been added as writer and editor to the News and Information Services department of St. John's College in Annapolis. She succeeds Dorothy Kinsman, who is retiring. A local freelance writer and editor for Gould Electronics, Inc., in Glen Burnie, Ms. Boetig has reported for several newspapers, including the Union Leader in New Hampshire and the Anne Arundel County Sun. Her articles have been published in several national magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Family Circle and Catholic Digest. She earned a BA degree in journalism from The College of White Plains of Pace University, and studied a semester at Wroxton College in Oxfordshire, England. She has been a member of Sigma Delta Chi, Society of Professional Journalists; The New England Federation of Press Women; and was chosen for Who Who in U.S. Writers and Editors. s �PAGE10 II I THE REPORTER I s t cmnmued from p. 1) The author of over 300 publications related to chemical evolution and the origin of life, he has written and edited IO books on the subject, including the. Origins of Life. _Dr. Pon~amperuma was appointed science advisor to the oresident nf "ri Lanka (Ceylon), and is directC!~ <?! !~~ Institute of Fundamental Studies Sri' Lanka, and director of the Arthur darke Centre _for Modern Technologies, also located m Sri Lanka. He was awarded the !"l"ati~nal Aeronautics and Space Admin1strat10n 's "Sustained Superior Performance" award. Bruce M. Metzger, professor of the New_ Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, and author or editor of more than 25 books and numerous articles, will exp~or_e the quest~on of how the early Chnstians determmed which books belonged in the New Testament, and what became of the gospels and epistles that were't selected. He will also discuss whether the list of New Testament books is open to additions and subtractions. Mr. Metzger received his Ph.D. in classics from Princeton University and is a member of the board of directors of the Af!1erican Bible Society. He is the general editor of the Reader's Digest Condensed Bible and chairperson of the Revised Standard Bible Committee. He will speak Nov. 11. Other lectures will include "Music: The Representative Liberal Art," by tutors Wye Allanbrook and Eva Brann on September 2. • "Chinese Landscape Painting," by Dr. S~erman Lee of Chapel Hill, North Carohna on September 16. • "The Most Serene Republic," by tutor Douglas Allanbrook on September 23. • ""Hegel's Reading of Antigone," by tutor Patricia Locke on September 30. • "The Relation Between Philosophy and Religion," by tutor Laurence Berns on October 28. • "Democracy and Capitalism: Jefferson's Hope, Tocqueville's Fear," by Samuel Bowles of the University of Massachu·setts on November 18. • "Antigone: All-Resourceful/ Resourceless," by tutor Joe Sachs on December 2. ~etU!t4 (Continued from p. 3) him, then regimental commander, in the amphibious attack on Ulithi in 1944 - in a front page report in the Honolulu Advertiser, when I was a patient in the Army's 147th General Hospital. He was proud to have been raised in Crisfield and kept himself always in first class physical condition. He had a good sense of humor but was highly critical of ~lovenly appearance, lax class attendance, neglect of studies and assignments. He was a charter member of Sigma Tau Omega fraternity and served on the Inter fraternity Conference. And he insisted in "doing it the hard way'', if that was prescribed by college rules or military regulations. Thank you for taking time to read these remarks. For further recollections of Jeff Fields, two other fraternity brothers are E. Irving Smith '33, and James G. Mc1 Curry, who was in the Class of 1932, both living. Respectfully, Robert G. Woodman, 1932 Col. Desantis: Realtor, veteran Retired Marine Col. Frank C. "Funk" Desantis, '85, A '27, of Cohasset, Mass., died May 27 at his home after a lengthy illness. Born in Portsmouth, Va., Col. Desantis attended the Naval Academy for one year, and earned a degree from St. John's College, where he was captain of the football team in 1926. He served for 20 years in the Marine Corps, and was with the 5th Marine Division at Iwo Jima during World War II. SEPTEMBER 1988 Ii s s ces 31 The Caritas Society of St. John's College and the An!1apolis Opera Company are co-sponsonng the first Maryland Opera_ Vocal C~mpetition. Followed by a reception, the fmal competition is scheduled for October 16 at 3 p.m. in the Key Auditorium. Maryland residents or students at Maryland institutions between the ages of ~O ai:d 30 _are eligible to compete. Eight f ~nahsts will be chosen to perform in the fmal competition. The audience will cast ballots to select winners of three prizes: first place, $500; second place, $300; and third place, $200. . <;ost of tickets is $12. 50, with proceeds div1~ed. between the two sponsoring orgamzat1ons. HS teachers at Santa Fe by Tim Miller A group of teachers in the International Baccalaureate program at Chicago's Lincoln Park High School were students on the Santa Fe campus for the week of July 25-29, attending special classes taught by Dean James Carey and tutors Glenn Freitas and Robert Sacks. They also visited regular classes of the Graduate Institute. The special classes, organized on the theme "'Order and Justice: Natural, Human and Divine," considered Book II of Aristotle's Physics, Plato's Gorgias and Job. One member of the group reported that the curriculum seemed to catch the ~ntere~t of teachers of various disciplines, mcludmg math, science and history. Their instructors reported that the Lincoln Park teachers were excellent students, "as good as any group of teachers I've worked with at St. John's," one commented. The teachers in turn found their tutors gifted, inspiring and friendly. Several reported that the week at St. J o~n 's. ~as rewarding, challenging, and rev1tahzmg. Several also commented on their renewed conviction that the classics are a strong support for all issues today. One said, "I will use Plato and Aristotle to inspire my students to seek truth and justice." Another teacher said, "I will encourage more cl<:tssroom dialogue among my students with each other." Several said that they already used the seminar method but were encouraged to emphasize "teaching through questioning" even more. Lincoln Park High School, with an ei:rollment of 1500 students, has a highly diverse student body, drawn from a district including public housing as well as a Gold Coast. It is also a magnet school with one-.third of_ th_e students coming from outside the distnct. The special program was arranged through the initiative of Dr. Margaret M. Harrigan, Associate Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools. Navy honors Schatzberg, AG/ _Paul Schatzbe_rg AG l '82 recently rethe Melville Award, the highest technical honor bestowed on scientists and engineers at the David Taylor Research Center in Annapolis. He was recognized for his competence as manager of the Center's Shipboard Environmental Protection Exploratory Development Block Program. Schatzberg, of Annapolis, was also commended for his role in overcoming barriers to the widespread use of antifouling paint. He established an international network of scientists and naval engineers to _develop strategies for using the special pamt. ceive~ by Rebecca Wilson St. John's eighteenth president, Richard D. Weigle, has performed an immeasure~ble ser~ice for college history in putting mto wntten form an account of his 31 years at St. John's Annapolis campus. Serving as a companion volume for his earlier book on Santa Fe, Mr. Weigle's new book, The Recollections of a St. John's President, 1949-1980, traces the development of the eastern campus from the time he arrived here in 1949 at the age of 37, when he was within ten years of the age of many students returning as World War II veterans, to his retirement in 1980. Outdone only by Thomas Fell, with his century-spanning, 43-year tenure, Mr. Weigle has been St. John's second longest serving president. _ M~. _weigle's recollections are objective m spmt and provide a straight forward account, full of hard facts and figures·, and lightened by more than one good anecdote. Unlike so many memoirs of this g_enre, his memoirs are free of any ego t1sm whatsoever. The nearest he allows himself to a pat on his own back comes in the afterword when he puts a total to the amount he raised during his time here. "Over the 31 years, as detailed in the appendix, gifts, grants and bequests to the college on its two campuses, exceeded a grand total of $41-million." · The Annapolis endowment, which stood at $225,500 in 1949, had a market value of $13-million by the time he left. The figures represent an impressive accomplishment on Mr. Weigle's part and an achievement of which he can justly be proud. AS EVIDENCED by the shabby state of some campus buildings and the modest salary scale for its tutors, St. John's in Annapolis is far from being a wealthy campus. But Santa Fe, where problems have been much more acute, can take heart from this account in knowing that the Annapolis campus, with a remarkable degree of success during the Weigle era, also overcame problems of weak enrollment ( 1_25 in 1953), of low salaries ($3,000$8,000 m 1955), severe budgetary worries, and an excessively high attrition. Largely because of its financial condition, St. John's had lost its accreditation by 1949. In many ways during Mr. Weigle's stewardship, the Annapolis campus underwent a dramatic shift on its institutional spectrum, moving from weakness to health and stability. -Mr. Weigle touches briefly on the Santa Fe campus, leaving that story for the most part to his earlier book, The Colonization of a College. Rather, in chapters divided into five-year segments, he writes of mat~ers ranging from curriculum changes to mvestment policies. . As S~. John's biggest builder, he reports m detail on new construction on campus and on such events as the overnight move of the Charles Carroll Barrister House to St. John's along with what has proven to be the far sighted acquisition of the president's house, a mere $55,000 back in the fifties. MR. WEIGLE appears particularly proud of the way the campus handled the turbulence of the sixties, applauding students and tutors for their· "sane and rational behavior." "'°Most of the students were gravely concerned over the war in Southeast Asia and over the crisis at Kent State University. Yet they expressed their dissent from national policy in what they considered to be proper and appropriate means. At Annapolis the Friday night lecture was postponed; in its place there were two speakers, one for and the other against American policy. Students took pains to let the spe~kers know that applause was meant for both speakers. . "On Saturday, there were extra classes on Vietnam and the general problem of dissent. The regular schedule of classes was not interfered with. Letters and visits to congressmen were undertaken by many. Then, too, there was a 24-hour vigil around Church Circle in Annapolis to ars as nt answer questions of citizens about the position of students at the college." I'm glad he included some of his anecdotes, including the one about how he and Mrs. Roosevelt ran red lights between National Airport and Annapolis before dinner with the senior class_ "Dinner was a real pleasure for Mrs. Roosevelt had an uncanny a~ility to continue an interrupted conversatnon as though nothing had happened," he said of her. f\.:1rs. Roosevelt spent the night with the We1gles. The next day the Weigles discovered that the maid had carefully emptied waste baskets of all mementoes to take home to her children. Despite the Navy's efforts before Mr. \\'.'eigle's arrival to take over St. John's, with one plan to bulldoze the buildings and make the campus an athletic field, Mr. Weigle maintained a cordial relationship with the school across the street. He included a couple of Navy ~tories. The first concerned a plan by two St. Johnnies to ring the general bell at the Naval Academy in the middle of the night. "The officer-of-the-day discovered the pair in Bancroft Hall and gave chase. When the two clambered over the Navy wall, one of the miscreants lost a shoe. As they were walking back to the college, the one-shoed student was advised by his fellow to shed the other shoe in order to avoid the eye of the law. He reached down, took off the shoe, and threw it into a nearby yard. Unhappily, a policeman observed this strange action, and the pair were questioned and delivered into custody." The other occurred during the superintendency of Charles Melson when Mr. Weigle arrived one day for a 9 a.m. math tu tori.al to discover the two-star flag of the supenntendent on the St. John's flagpole. The halyard had snagged, and weather made it impossible to send someone up the pole to retrieve the flag. Matters became worse when a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel arrived to see what could be done, and a St. John's secretary kept addressing him as lieutenant. "W~en conditions did not improve by the third day, l called my friend Arthur Ellington, mayor of Annapolis, and asked to borrow the Water Witch, the Fire Department's hook-and-ladder truck. "THE BIG VEHICLE came up the front walk and went to the side of McDowell Hall. There it extended its ladder. A fireman climbed up and, tc:> t}le cheers of the students, retrieved the flag. We never did find out the persons responsible for the incident - whether midshipmen or Johnnies." As an invaluable resource for the college, The Recollections of a St. John's President, 1949-1980 also bears witness to Mr. Weigle's devotion to the college in matters other than just fund-raising. During the 25th anniversary of his presidency, he wrote: "Tomorrow, as yesterday and today, St. John's College is needed in this country - as a gadfly, £!i_a leaven, and as a model in the educational world. But more than that, the nation needs citizens who can distinguish right from wrong and truth from propaganda, who can relate the_ li.fe of the mind to the arena of daily act~vity, ~nd _who are prepared to accept their obhgations and responsibilities. I hope that St. John's College will continue to devote all its energies to the liberal education of such young men and women." In writing his recollections, Mr. Weigle 's task was facilitated by his own annual reports, invaluable summaries in themselves in recording for posterity the life of a college. Published by the St. John's Press, the book has been made possible by the support of a long-time college benefactor, Paul Mellon, A '44, who has known Mr. Weigle since their Yale days. Copies may be ordered through the St. John's Bookstore for $10 each, with a one dollar charge for handling. Books may also be purchased at the Charing Cross Bookstore. �SEPTEMBER 1988 PAGE 11 THE REPORTER r s Lontunm~a from p. 1) "We want to prepare a schedule for the fall term which will facilitate and work into the second semester," College Registrar Nancy Lewis said. Besides the need to relocate McDowell's ten classrooms into mobile units, or "Port-0-Johnnies," to move its four offices into the new wing of Mellon Hall, and to compact its coffee shop into Key Lobby, and transform the upstairs of the boat house into a student activity center, McDowell's renovation will affect the heart of St. John's life: its seminars. The January freshman class this year will be eliminated as well as the community seminars and preceptorials for second semester. Class schedules will be altered in order to make better use of existing space throughout campus. Rearranging physical space, however, is only one aspect of the renovation. Dealing with the personal emotions that are conjured up by the loss, even a temporary one, of a campus landmark as meaningful as McDowell, can be delicate. . "A building [project] is a lot more than architecture and construction," Jeri Rhodes, former College Treasurer, said. "McDowell Hall is central to campus life. Some of the faculty have been opposed to the move to mobile classrooms. Sure, The Program can be taught anywhere, but there's something special about having it there." "There's nothing that can be done about the [need for] mobile classrooms," said Tutor Elliott Zuckerman. "However, I've always been of the opinion that to study, all you need is a group of students, some quiet, and a book. I hope it holds true in the future. "I am particularly glad the Great Hall will remain intact. It's a perfect place for small concerts and informal lectures, and it's wonderful for waltz parties." While McDowell will be unavailable for use, student activity will not slacken. In fact, according to Ms. Wye Allanbrook, assistant dean and tutor, more student activities are being planned both on and off campus for the coming years. Besides the faculty, students too are ambivalent about the effects of McDowell's renovation. "Curiously, it's been said, that it's the students who are the most conservative group on campus; they want the college to be kept the way they left it," Ms. Rhodes explains. For George "Tennessee" Moulton, Annapolis, '89, McDowell's renovation comes at an inopportune time in his college career. "I'm really disappointed they're shutting down that wonderful building for my graduation. It'll be the first time my parents will be here and they won't be able to see it." Alison Packwood, '89, an incoming transfer student from Santa Fe, wants to squeeze in "one or two waltz parties before construction takes over." Meanwhile, the sense of the building · itself on campus has heightened. "I've been looking at McDowell with my head cocked," says Leland Giovannelli, alumna tutor and member of the Campus Planning Committee. "People walk by and wonder what I'm looking at. The architect made us aware of all the interesting aspects of the building." For instance, the 18th century building technique of using sawdust between floors as a sound insulator is evidenced in the ceiling of the Faculty Common Room. Although this method was used in all the flooring of McDowell, the others did not survive the fire of 1909. A ceiling in the Senior Common Room in the basement will reveal the unusual eighteenth century framing technique of using 12-inch-by-12-inch beams. McDowell's octagonal cupola will be remodeled as a seminar room. Currently, the 21-by-21 foot space serves as tutors' offices. While there will be no major architectural innovations to change McDowell's Georgian design, details arise that cause the Campus Planning Committee to pause. "We have tried to anticipate the feelings of Doe·s building above look vaguely familiar? By Rebecca Wilson Does the building above look just vaguely familiar? If it does, that is the way McDowell Hall might have looked had original plans for its wings gone forward. The drawing came to light during discussions of the need for more office and classroom space in McDowell when it was discovered that wings twice had been proposed for McDowell. (There are no plans afoot for the college to add wings; this information comes as a historic footnote.) Plans for the building were brought from Scotland by Simon Duff, who no doubt either acquired them directly or had been influenced by the Scottish born architect, James Gibbs. Begun in 1742, the building was intended as a home for colonial Governor Thomas Bladen. "The original design was to have had wings - united by a colonnade of p'illars on each side," according to the late Morris L. Radoff, a former state archivist. In his book, Buildings of the State of Maryland at Annapoli$, Dr. Rad off said that unfortunately a controversy between the Governor and Council and House of Delegates brought construction to an end. By June 4, 1747, a General Assembly. Committee described the partially built structure as having taken on the appearance of a Gothic ruin. It soon became known as Bladen 's Folly. After the Revolution, when St. John's was chartered, the college was granted the use of the house. "The board wished to erect wings in an effort to enlarge the our alumni," Ms. Giovannelli said. "While we want to remember those who were here in the past 50 years, we don't want to shortchange those that will come in the next 50." For instance, the long seminar tables built for the New Program when it began 50 years ago have become shoddy over time. Some edges are rough and there's even a plank or two loose. Still, refinishing them would have sanded away the initials, names and other etchings depicting the history of the students. Instead, these relics will be thoroughly cleaned and tightened, said the project's architect, Charles H. Bohl, of Weller, Fishback & Bohl, an Annapolis architectural firm. More difficult than maintaining memories in tables, has been the installation of new mechanical, electrical and sprinkler systems in the building, while leaving its historical value intact_ A still greater challenge to its renovators is anticipating McDowell's use into its third century. Throughout its history, McDowell has been the heart of St. John's campus. Until 1837, it was its sole building, used both for classroom and dormitory_ One of the ways the public has come to know St. John's has been through its community seminars and preceptorials housed in McDowell. More recently, with the advent of the Graduate lnstitute's year-round program, McDowell was seldom unoccupied. When not being used for seminars, its crannies frequently provide an enclave for students wishing to study. "The renovation has forced the college to make a commitment to a building" that Thomas Jefferson admired, Ms. Giovannelli says. Designed in 1742 as a mansion for Governor Thomas Bladen, it quickly proved too extravagant a project to complete and within a few years it became dilapidated_ It wasn't until St. John's was chartered in 1784, and the building was given to the college by the state of Maryland, that the Hoard of Visitors and Governors proceeded with plans to repair it. A contract was awarded to Joseph Clark, who was designing the State House at the time_ By 1789 two rooms of the old building were building, and the contract for the new plans and the repair of the old building was awarded to Joseph Clark, who was at that time engaged in finishing th~ State House." Unfortunately, Dr. Rad off said pledges made several years earlier were difficult to collect, and work had to be suspended altogether. "It was not until l 789 that two rooms in the old building were made ready for classes~ the wings were never built - and the school opened with a procession on November 11." In 1792 the board was still petitioning the General Assembly for funds with which to finish the building. According to F. Thomas O'Brien, Jr., McDowell is an "important vestige of the Gibbsian prototype in the United States." The drawing shown here is from Gibbs' book of I 728, A Book of Architecture, Containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments. It contains several variations of this building and several variations of styles of wings, including one with columns. By comparison McDowell is larger. Not counting the basement, it has three floors as againt two and nine rather than seven windows across its long sides. Otherwise, the resemblance is remarkable_ Gibbs, who lived from 1683 to 1774, was one of the most influential architects of his time. He is most famous as the architect of St. Martin's in the Fields Church and St. Mary-leStrand in London. ready for classes, but it would be severaf years later before it would be completed. By the beginning of the 19th Century, McDowell began to resemble its present form: A Great Hall with a group of small rooms for classes and administrative purposes on either side. It continued to be the center of college life until the Civil War when it served as headquarters of the Union Army Medical Corps. After the war it was restored, only to be gutted by fire in 1909. With only its walls intact, it was again rebuilt. Today as the venerable building waits 0 . . once again for the carpenters' tools to prod and poke at its interior, Dean Thomas Slakey is confident of its results. "The building will be closer to its original design after this renovation," he said. He points to a temporary partition in his firstfloor office which will be removed when the room is restored to a classroom similar to those on the second floor. As the renovation progresses on the building where Francis Scott Key and George Washington's step-grandson were educated, McDowell Hall will certainly capture national attention as it becomes a showpiece of history_ A.dmissions up both campuses (Continued from p. 1) declmmg. A steady decrease of high school graduates over the next four years will dip to a 12 percent general decline by 1992, according to a projection by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Mr. Christensen suggested there may be several rearnns for the application glut, none of them fully satisfactory. The first of these is an "application overlap," students applying to six or eight colleges who formerly would have applied to three or four. Any given college, he observed, could expect to lose a significant number of accepted students_ "But," he added, "no one seems to be losing students after the deposit." "A second explanation may be that the private colleges and universities, anticipatmg the dechne, have used marketing and research strategies to get a higher percentage of a declining population to apply," he said. Finally, he suggested that St. John's in particular may be benefitting from a revival of interest in the liberal arts college -"a kind of backlash from the vocational emphasis of a decade ago." Mr. Clendenin attributes, in part, Santa Fe's record number of applications to the campus' increased marketing in primary areas and its increased emphasis on campus visits for students. The situation on both St. John's cam- . puses is apparently a continuation of last year's pattern of college applications, identified as a "weird year" by the Chronical of Higher Education in an article last June which noted that a few colleges experienced a surge of up to 60 percent. Russian chemist writes to Dean A New York Times article about the St. John's Great Books program has brought a hand-lettered message of inquiry to the college from an assistant professor of chemistry in the distant Soviet city of Voronezh. Dr. Vladimir S. Makarov cites the 1986 article by Robert Kanigel republished in Russian in America under the name "Great Masterpieces - the Foundation of Education." Dr. Makarov explains that he was interested in the article because "for the fast five years I've been lecturing the students of the chemical department on the History of Culture." The idea of studying the "main masterpieces" is "very fruitful," he suggests, because his department is searching for new ways of educating students. Annapolis Dean Thomas J. Slakey has sent this faraway colleague a list of texts and publishers as well as a college catalogue. �12 EPORTER Ho II The annual Homecoming weekend September 23-25 will be highlighted this year by a presentation Saturday given by tutor emeritus Curtis Wilson, and the Friday evening lecture given by tutor emeritus Douglas Allanbrook. For the first time, the Graduate Institute alumni will hold their reunion within the general Homecoming format. Seminars, luncheons, high teas, campus tours, and a rock and roll party, along with the traditional Saturday night Homecoming banquet, are other events planned for the three-day gathering. A Saturday event of particular interest will be the presentation by Mr. Wilson on "What Might a Visual Arts Tutorial Be Doing at St. John's?" slated for 1'0:30 a.m. in the Conversation Room of the Francis Scott Key auditorium. The recently retired tutor and former dean has been named the Adolph W. Schmidt tutor to head a study beginning a u. .... a c Q. w a: w :c ..... s es iI ' this month on the feasibility of introducing a visual arts tutorial into the program. His presentation will be part of the Alumni Association Annual Meeting at which directors and officers will be elected. For the first time this year, the Graduate Institute will be taking part in Homecoming activities when they gather for a high tea on Saturday afternoon. While members of the class of 1938 will begin their 50th reunion weekend with a dinner Friday in the private dining room, most alumni members will launch the weekend festivities by joining students for an informal dinner at 5 p.m. in the dining room, followed by the Friday evening lecture at 8:15 p.m. Mr. Allanbrook, musician, composer and retired tutor·, will speak on "The Most Serene Republic" in the Francis Scott Key auditorium. A wine and cheese reception will follow his talk. Formal registration begins at 9 a.m. Saturday in the hospitality center at McDowell Hall, and will continue all day. Dr. Richard D. Weigle will be available during the morning to autograph copies of his new book, Recollections of a St. John's President - 1949-1980. From nine to 10 a.m. Saturday, alumni are invited to attend a career planning Session in Room 211 McDowell Hall, with directors of career planning on the two campuses, Ellie Dietrich and Ron Hale, presiding. Other events geared toward alumni generally include a buffet luncheon Saturday, followed by seminars on readings from George Bernard Shaw and Friedrich Nietzsche. The Homecoming Banquet at 7:30 p.m. in the gym will be highlighted by awards to outstanding alumni members and other college supporters. Special class events follow: Tenth reunion, Class of 1978: After lecture Friday, Rock and Roll party, coffee shop, open to all; Saturday luncheon, 12 noon, Great Hall, followed by seminars on Shakespeare and Montaigne at 2 p.m. Chairmen are Michael Blume and Leland Giovanelli. Fifteenth Reunion, Class of 1973: Seminar "On Self-Respect," 2 p.m. Saturday, led by tutor Eva Brann will be held in Room 31, McDowell Hall. Chairmen are Robert Thomas and J. Morrow Otis. Thirty-fifth Reunion, Class of 1953: luncheon, 12 noon Saturday in the Baldwin Room. Frank Atwell and Frank Warhurst are on the steering committee. Fiftieth Reunion, Class of 1938: dinner, 5:30 p.m. Friday, private room; tour of St. John's R. Cresap Kit:cnm£~s are on the The weekend will conclude with the President's brunch at 11 a.m. the home of President and Mrs. Muuu:~1 for Graduate Institute commencement ceremonies. George N. lundskow photo t Twenty-two graduates of the St. John's Graduate Institute class of 1988, their families and guests listened. attentively as commencement speaker, Terri Brooks, a journalist and alumna of the class of 1986, praised the of St. John's education to her role as a journalist. "If had my way, every editor and every news ducer in this would be attend seminars at Ms. Brooks, and a columnist, ,.,,.,..,,,... .. t,,..editor for the Chicago editor for theNew York Times, at the tenth commencement of the ,...,,.., ..,..,,.,..,~ campus of the Graduate Institute, 11. The program in Santa Fe in 1967. Thomas J. director of the Graduate Institute, the and J. congratulated the Slakey, dean, the of President Wilham M. Dyal, Jr., conferred the degrees. Speaking to a capacity audience that flowed beyond the walls of the Great Hall to the campus lawns, she decried journal- ti t ism as a very fast business in which yesterday's news is history: "Journalists have no respect for social perspective, but everyday we in journalism deal with ethical issues involving human life, the right to privacy, the role of the press in a demo- I cracy, issues like censorship, social responsibility, the difference between being truthful and fair. These are issues you have dealt with everyday reading the Great Books at St. John's. These are not ivory tower issues." She said she has integrated intb her life the messages contained in the Great changing herself forever. "Everything I have read here I have found useful in my work and my personal life; everything was relevant. I have become a much more informed and sensitive journalist with more and a much longer timeline ever before. And St. John's has certainly made me a better teacher." each book she She werit on to had read at St. to "an old family photograph from a treasu(ed album. At St. John's we tend to develop real relationships with our books; we feel strongly about. our personal relationship with the books; the complex, most difficult books were often the most rewarding." Finally, she heralded St. John's as "one of the few remaining bastions against cultural poverty." Eva who describes herself smilas "the senior tutor at St. returns this fall to active after a absence. Curtis Wilson gave up that June. Miss Brann has been at since 1957. "I went away for refreshment of the spirit and I came back " she comments about the of which were spent at Delaware as a Visiting Honors ·-"'-••v•,a• One of the four was a sabbatical year, last Miss Brann was the recipient of a from the NaHumanities. tional Endowment for This was awarded to her in order to allow her to her work entitled The World of the Sum and Substance. The book completed, Miss Brann will be back in the classroom. will be nice to see the faces of real students " she said. Those receiving master of arts include: Roseanna M. Mark ... , ....."~"Hugh seph Kathleen Charles Baber A•"·'-''"''-''u'"" Emily Rita lvtaniaciMacDonald, Elizabeth 0. Malmgren, Ronald K. Matthews, Patricia Harden Metzger, Rohert A. 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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/ee82ced60ff5701efb19401584302dc1.pdf ea888c97cf3e3a88ca70801bd79ec6c9 PDF Text Text ume 14, Issue 5 June, 198 Annapolis, Md. and Santa Fe, N. 1 Amid a flurry of mortarboard tossing Naval Academy style, 98 seniors and eight master's degree recipients received their diplomas in the Annapolis campus's traditional ceremonies under the Liberty Tree. They did so after hearing an address in which retiring tutor Curtis Wilson said that St. John's 51-year-old program is not a finished affair. Held in bright sunshine, with President William M. Dyal, Jr., presiding, commencement saw the awarding of the silver medal to the senior with the highest academic to Andrew Sloniewsky, of Charleston, And in a rare highlight for such an event, the exercises were marked the magnificent voice of Sherrill Keith Harvey photo SJC struggles with problem of recruiting more blacks During the 1987-88 academic year, seven per cent of the enrollment on the Annapolis campus represented minorities. Of that number, two percent were black students. There has never been a black tutor although the faculty has long wanted one. In recent years the college has acquired two black secretaries and this year, for the first time, the campus named a black woman to an administrative post - Alison Pullens, the new personnel director. The college also has a black foreman on its maintenance crew - Joe Spriggs. The numbers are low, and the college does not like them that way. But how to capture more of the 12 per cent of the American population that is black is a question for which the administration and four black students who were interviewed have no quick answers. It is a problem that S!. John's shares Reporter gets new editor Nancy W. Osius will become editor of The Reporter and director of news and information services on the Annapolis campus July 1. A free lance writer and English teacher at nearby Severn School, she succeeds Rebecca Wilson, who is retiring. Honored as the Outstanding Teacher in I986 by Severn students, Mrs. Osius is a former yachting columnist for The Baltimore Evening Sun. Articles by her have appeared in all three Sunpapers, the Annapolis Capital, Yachting magazine, and in other publications. In addition, she directed a publicity ·campaign for the Annapolis Fine Arts Festival at a time when it drew 50,000 people. She also has assisted in handling (Continued on P. 11) with other private, independent colleges and universities. One national study ofthe percentage of black students enrolled in fifty colleges in 1986-87 ranged from a top 9 per cent at Wesleyan University to l per cent at such distinguished institutions as Kenyon and Reed. St. John's awards all financial aid on the basis of need and, unlike some institutions, provides no program of special financial incentives for minority students. The college also offers nothing "black" within its curriculum. "That would be a kind of an insult," Collins Duodu-Bonsu, a rising junior, here from Ghana, believes. FOR A NUMBER of years now, the question of how to increase the proportion of minority students is something with which the college, particularly the Admissions Office, has been struggling. "There is the right kind of consciousness about it in the college," President William M. Dyal, Jr., said. Despite the small numbers of blacks, seven last semester, St. John's has, by contrast, made history in advancing race relationships. In 1948 the college broke an unwritten segregation policy and enrolled a 17-yearold Baltimore youth, Martin A. Dyer. Four years later he became the first black to be graduated at a previous all-white college or university in Maryland. Mr. Dyer, himself, has said that St. John's may be the first, previously segregated college in the county to change its policy voluntarily during the 1940s. There was no outside pressure to bring integration about at St. John's. At other colleges there were court cases. Today the college, equally voluntarily, wants to expand the enrollment of blacks. "I'm very concerned that we not only be passively open but aggressively open to (Continued on P. 7) star, whose sang UH,l.H_,,_V!AA~UU!v'U hymn, "Let Break Bread Together." His daughter, Erin Milnes, of New York City, received another top prize for the class, that for the best senior essay. In his address to students, whom he said had climbed a "veritable Everest of books," Mr. Wilson characterized St. John's curriculum as unfinishable after recalling the lectures of the late Jacob Klein, a major figure at St. John's during the 1950s. One of the meanings of those lectures rested on the recognition that everything is connected with everything, Mr. Wilson said. "From the fartherest reaches of the cosmos to the depths of the human psyche, nothing is simply isolatable, so as to be fully understandable by itselfalone. Hence to know myself, I must know everything. The quest for self-knowledge is thus inherently incompletable." In the last thirty years, Mr. Wilson noted, St. John's non-elective program has not changed in its essentials and that some things the college now does better. "As to what could be improved, I have ideas, and so do some of my colleagues, but our ideas are not all the same. But the main point I have been making is that the program here is an unfinishable affair." In framing a homily to the class, Mr. Wilson said students "must now add what Descartes called the great book of the world." "For four years you have been discussing works of literature and philosophy, writing essays, analyzing plays and poems and arguments. "These exercises have developed in you a number of skills that should be prized: the habit of listening carefully, of being auentive to a question and seeking out its Sparrow to lead Oxford seminars Former Annapolis Dean Edward Sparrow will serve as a seminar leader this summer at a conference, "The Christian and the Contemporary University," to be held July 3-16 at Oxford University's St. Hilda's College. The conference, which will draw a number of distinguished scholars, will be sponsored by the C. S. Lewis Society of Oxford and the Kilns Association. Mr. Sparrow will lead seven seminars dealing with philosophical and theological works. sharp edge; the habit of readiness to enter into another person's thoughts, and to assume a new intellectual posture in response to new,facts or ideas. Here and there, by bits and pieces, these habits should prove transferable from one context to another. "For God's sake, don't as one graduate put it on a resume a years ago, that at St. John's you learned to think. These hyperboles will harm There is no point in merely strangers with out strangeness. Graduates nostalgic for St. conversations can have them better, in new. when you have more homework." "You must find your own points of vantage and from both the comfort and the of pedagogical After been stretched in so must begin to assess reassess your own redefined center be, and where your powers can u:imt1muH~C1 on P. Gro visual arts After three years in which groups of interested tutors on a voluntary basis have explored the visual arts at St. John's, the Annapolis campus is taking a formal step and naming a faculty study group to pursue this inquiry. Dean Thomas Slakey said that Tutor Emeritus Curtis Wilson had been named the Adolph W. Schmidt Tutor to head a study that will begin in September. Mr. Wilson was among the six members of the ad hoc committee which earlier this spring recommended that a visual arts tutorial be introduced into the program and that some sort of official status be . given toward a study which could prepare its way. The proposal was discussed briefly at one faculty meeting, but no official action taken. Granted released time to participate will be tutors Wendy Allanbrook, Joseph Cohen, Robert Druecker and Louis Kurs. They will bejoined by Artist-in-Residence. Burton Blistein and by Gail Watkins, a painter who also has served, during Mr. Blistein's absence, as artist-in-residence. Meanwhile, in Santa Fe, Tutor Robert S. Bart has been asked to conduct a parallel study. In another matter relating to art at St. John's, the Annapolis campus held two days of talks in April to discuss the new Elizabeth Myers Mitchell art gallery now under construction, both from the standpoint of its role at St. John's and its design. Serving as constultants were Eugene Thaw, A '47, president of the PollockKrasner Foundation, who participated in arranging the meeting, Professor Sydney J. Freedberg, curator at the National Gallery of Art, and Dr. Sherman Lee, former director of the Cleveland Museum. Joining these men were members of the (Continued on P. 8) �THE REPORTER PAGE2 1961 S. Richard Freis received this year's ...., ..~ ... •!"."""'''"''"' Professor Award at Mill~u'u"'"'"'' ..... ~,..,..., ...., ... Miss. Chosen and..,, ........ ""' nrr'1roeoeor.r of classics and .........,.&v" dean Mr. Freis as "first and*~-~~~~· who cares, who under., ............. ,,. and encouragement to the task 1 "'""11"11'"11''""' "Letters Freis for him as "a scholar of exc;epuonal breadth and depth, an exemplary colleague, a caring teaching, and greatly skilled educator and a man of unshakeable decency." Under Mr. Freis' leadership, the Millsaps Heritage Program has received national recognition. This year he is focusing his attention on the interpretation of ancient texts, a field in which he has published several articles. After leaving St. John's, Mr. Freis received master's and doctoral degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. 1968 Amy Hummel has been appointed librarian and publications coordinator for the National Asphalt Pavement Association in Riverdale, Md. Ms. Hummel holds a bachelor's degree in economics, a master's degree in library science from the University of Maryland and a postgraduate certificate from Catho!ic U.niversity, with emphasis in catalog-: umg, references services and management. ~n addition to several years as a cataloger m government and university libraries, she has worked for several national trade associations. A resident of Silver Spring, Md., she most recently worked as an edi-. torial assistant at the joint headquarters of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association and the National Aggregates Association. 1974 Margaret Frame Lipton has been elected to membership in Sigma Theta Tau, international honor society of nursing. Membership is awarded to bachelor's and master's students who achieve high scholastic averages and to graduates of the college programs who achieve excellence in nursing leadership roles. The daughter of James H. Frame, '50, Mrs. Lipton is a resident of Katonah, N.Y. 1976 Ted Burke - Lt. Edward T. Burke -a raconteur's gift to the Navy with some wonderful stories to tell, dropped in to see friends in Annapolis earlier this spring. For the past three years Ted has been a staff officer at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Belgium. He is returning to the Norfolk, Va., area in August and after a few months of refresher training and requalification, he will be on another open tour, flying off aircraft carriers in interesting parts of the world for the next three years. His time in Europe has been professionally rewarding and a great deal of fun with travel to almost every country in western Europe, from Norway to Turkey. "It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it," Ted commented. 1977 Cornelia Miller brings us up to date on her life in Bujumbura, Burundi, where she's in her second tour as a Foreign Service economic officer: "This is a small, densely populated country which survives on exports of its excellent coffee. I live in a villa overlooking Lake Tanganyika and the mountains of Zaire beyond. The climate is as close to perfect as you can get. The temperature is nearly a constant 75 degrees, though it does cool off a little at night. Imported Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence Berns, Betsy Blume, John Christensen, Benjamin Milner, Howard Zeiderman, Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. The Reporter is published by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Anna. polis, MD 21404. William M. Dyal, Jr., president. Published five times a year, in February, June, September and November. Secondclass postage paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS_ 018-750 goods are expensive, but that's a small price to pay for all the wonderful points of life here. I have even joined the landed gentry, so to speak, since I bought a horse. I have a good time trotting along the circumference of the course, the beach . course there are ua''"'"'-'''" valence of AIDS one of all the other careless or .. _ ... welcome to visit me enjoy of the above pleasant aspects of Bujumbura. I am sorry to have missed my l 0th reunion, but it was too far to come. Please encourage any of my classmates who might read this to write, or visit - it's a short haul from Nairobi. Her address: Department of State Bumjumbura, Washington, D.C. 205202100. 1978 News professional and personal from Rita Bahus Sato includes her promotion to manager of building services for the University of Maryland's Department of Residential Facilities. She oversees approximately 130staffmembersand has 12 supervisors-managers reporting to her. Rita also is engaged to be married to Mark Kusiak, an electrical engineer at UNISYS. They plan a fall wedding. She also is assisting in planning the tenth reunion of the Class of 1978 this fall. Sabrina Patrone was to graduate May 21 from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. She considers herself "extremely fortunate to land a residency training program in diagnostic radiology at Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, starting in July ... If you 're ever in Birmingham, look me up. I may be under my husband's name, James. V. Gallagher." 1984 John and Kathy Ogg ins Ertle were in town for this year's croquet match in which John refereed. John, who received his law degree from the Cleveland Marshall Law School in 1987, is now an associate with the Cleveland law firm of John Duffy. Kathy is a librarian with the Akron Summit County Main Library, answering a wide variety of questions in the scientific and technical division of the reference library. She received her master's degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in May, 1986, and she and John were married the following month. Joyce R. Phillip, GI, has been appointed affirmative action manager for Anne Arundel General Hospital and Medical Center in Annapolis. She has been coordinator of hospice volunteers for the hospital since 1986. In her new role, Ms. Phillip will receive and investigate complaints of alleged discrimination and monitor the hospital's affirmative action plan. A graduate of Bowie State College, Ms. Phillip served on the Anne Arundel County Human Relations Commission and was a trustee of the Maryland State Board of Universities and Colleges. 1987 Heather Peterson writes, "I felt quite cocky reading in The Reporter this month (April) that I am contracted to an association management group 'to design file systems for all financial and subject files for three managed companies.' It sounds much more interesting than what I am actually doing, which is being unemployed until I can get an editorial job in New York City. Katharine Bond lived in my Annapolis house last summer, which may explain why I have been credited with her old job. I forgive you (or Ellie Dietrich) for the error, as long as I don't open The Reporter I0 years from now to discover that I'm engaged to Katharine's fiance." JUNE 1988 r.or . . 30 in SF art Show Thirty artists representing students, faculty and administrators participated this spring in the Santa Fe campus community art show in the Peterson Student Center. Included were photography, painting, stained glass, pottery, drawing and multimedia works. Approximately a hundred persons attended the opening reception. Priscilla Bender-Shore poses before her frieze. Priscilla Bender-Shore national fellowship in art Priscilla Bender-Shore, A '55, is in residence in the gardens of Claude Monet 40 miles southwest of Paris as one of three American artists chosen in a national competition to live and work for six months in Giverny. A mem her of the first class of women to be admitted to St. John's, Mrs. BenderShore left April 25 to begin painting at the home of the impressionist artist. Amid gardens Monet created and made famous in his painting, she will reside in a newly renovated building which contains a large working studio that she shares with the other two artists. She will live in a fully furnished studio apartment on the ground level below and will have the use of a car. Mrs. Bender-Shore and two other fellowship winners were chosen from among 650 applicants. Each received awards of $10,000. Their residency is funded jointly by Reader's Digest of Pleasantville, N. Y., and its French subsidiary in Paris. At the end of their six-month stay, the artists will each submit works for exhibition in Paris and New York'.. Sharing the honor with Mrs. Bender-Shore are Ora Lerman, of New York, and John Swihart, of Santa Monica, Calif. The search was conducted by the College Art Association, which oversaw the competition. A CAA jury reviewed the slides and proposals and selected six finalists, who were then asked to send original work to be judged by an international jury. The fellowships also provide round-trip airfare for each artist and for an adult companion. Mr. Bender-Shore's husband, Merle Shore, '54, will join her during the latter part of her stay. He recently retired following a career in providing a full program of art services at The Villege Frame Jones' history is club choice The latest volume from the pen of historian Archer Jones, '47, is described in Kirkus Reviews as "a masterful 2,500-year overview of the operational aspects of land-based warfare in the West ... An altogether splendid synthesis." A History Book Club selection for February, the book is entitled The Art of War in the Western World and is published by the University of Illinois Press. Edward M. Coffman, professor of history at the University of WisconsinMadison, writes of the book, "A reader of military history will find [it] useful if he wants facts and figures about Marlborough's campaigns or those of Caesar or indeed many others over the long sweep from the ancient Greeks to the IsraeliEgyptian War of 1973 ... "The strength of this rich, analytical study lies in the author's going beyond the incidents of any one war to draw their appropriate relationship with those of wars throughout history. Mr. Jones, professor emeritus of history at North Dakota State University, has written several histories of the Civil War. After attending St. John's from 1943 to 1946, he graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1949. He has a doctorate in history from the University of Virginia. in Santa Barbara. In submitting her work, Mrs. BenderShore chose a 40-foot "Water Frieze " part of which she had shown in Annapolis at homecoming three years ago. Reflecting her work with the human figure, a preoccupation since 1968, the frieze depicts women in numerous positions in or near a constant stream of water - standing, bathing, resting, swooning - with colors progressing across the panel from light to dark, suggesting a passage of time. Each figure appears isolated from the other. Mrs. Bender-Shore is a graduate of · Cooper Union School of Art, New York . City, and completed two years of art studies in advanced standing at the Yale School of Art-before coming to St. John's · in 1951, when the college was opened to women. After moving to California, she completed a master's degree in fine arts in 1965 at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she was a teaching assistant. · From 1973 to 1975 she served as chairman of the Department of Drawing and Painting and as assistant dean of the Santa Barbara Art Institute, a school which closed because of financial difficulties. In 1971 she began teaching on a parttime basis in Santa Barbara City College's Art Department, principally figure drawing and figure and portrait painting. Her work has been shown throughout the country, including at the Orlando Gallery in Sherman Oaks, Calif., the Bakersfield Museum of Art in Bakersfield, Calif., and the Houston Museum School of Fine Art in Houston, Tex. SF homecoming seminars set Two weeks of summer seminars will precede and follow the Santa Fe Homecoming July 15-17. On July 16, president Michael Riccards and tutor Jack Steadman will lead the Homecoming seminar on King Lear. Dr. David Dobreer, '44, will be the host for the banquet and dance that evening. Beginning July 10, week-long seminars are scheduled on A River Runs Through It by Norman ~fac­ Lean, Carey Stickney and James Carey, tutors; and "Standing by Words" and "Home Economics" by Wendell Berry, Jack Lincoln and Ralph Swentzell, tutors. Subjects and tutors for the preceptorials are "Melville Short Stories," Jack Lincoln;· "Summa Theologica Part I: Thomas Aquinas," James Carey; and "James Joyce: Two Selections from The Dubliners," Georgia Knight. . The seminar for the week beginning July 17 will be on F. W. Schelling's Of Human Freedom, with Carey Stickney and Robert Richardson as tutors. The preceptorials on the works by Wendell Berry and James Joyce will be repeated. In addition, Jack Steadman will be the tutor for a preceptorial on Plato's Symposium. �Scott Kelso becomes new chairman of board A. Scott Kelso, of Houston, is the new chairman of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors. Elected at the spring meeting of the board in Annapolis, he succeeds James H. Frame, A '50, of New York City, who is taking mandatory leave from the board after completing two three-year terms. Mr. Kelso, a Houston businessman, is owner of Kelso Investors. He holds a master's degree from St. John's, earned in 1979 at St. John's Santa Fe campus. Named as vice-chairmen were Harriet Higgins, of New York City, and John Wirth, of Santa Fe and Atherton, Calif. Miss Higgins, who has been serving as chairman of the board's finance committee, is vice president of the U.S. Trust Company in New York. Dr. Wirth teac.hes at Stanford University, where he specializes in Latin American studies. Jerome Lapides, of Annapolis and Santa Fe, will continue as secretary. The board also elected for their second terms Ray Cave, of New York City; Thomas M. Carnes, of San Francisco; Owen M. Lopez, of Santa Fe; Charles A. Nelson, of Croton-on-H uds~n, N. Y.; Elspeth Davies Rostow, of Austin, Tex., and J. I. Staley, of Santa Fe and Wichita Falls, Tex. John H. Dendahl and Irwin Hoffman, both of Santa Fe, who have been off the board for a one-year period, were re-elected. Named as a new member was Gerald Peters, of Santa Fe. The Peters Corporation, which he heads, includes commercial real estate in downtown Santa Fe and the Gerald Peters Gallery. With a new branch in Dallas, the gallery is the largest outside New York in the United States. Marylou ·symonds is new director Marylou H. Symonds will become director of the Annapolis campus's annual fund on July 1, Vice-President Jeffrey A. Bishop has announced. She comes to St. John's from Key School, a private Annapolis school, where she has been serving concurrently as director of admissions and of development. As director of development, she has directed all fund raising campaigns, written grant proposals and trained volunteer workers. In connection with this office, she also has overseen Key's alumni program. In her capacity as Key's director of admission, Mrs. Symonds recruited students and worked in the area of public relations and advertising. A graduate of Duke University with a master's in history from the University of Florida, Mrs. Symonds previously has served as an independent study coordinator and English teacher at Melbourne High School in Melbourne, Fla. She is a member of Phi Alpha Theta, honorary history organization. She will succeed Donna Romoser, who will leave to pursue fund raising activities elsewhere. Allan brook joins Great ooks Tutor Emeritus Douglas Allanbrook has been elected to the editorial board of the Great Books of the Western World a Chicago-based institution affiliated w{th the Encyclopedia Britannica and devoted to making selections of western civilization's major contributions to the written word. In addition, Mr. Allanbrook is the auth_or of an article on twentieth century music scheduled to appear this fall in the Encyclopedia Britannica's Great Ideas Today yearbook. As a composer, Mr. Allanbrook heard his Seventh Symphony - "Music from the Country" - performed in April by the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra in Geneva, Ill. Leo Pickens is athletic director From banking to athletic director? If that seems puzzling, remember that Bryce Jacobsen, one of St. John's all-time great athletic directors, went from farming to the playing fields of St. John's. "A lot of people probably won't understand," Leo Pickens, A '78, who has been named director of the Annapolis campus's intramural program, said. "I've wanted this job since I was a senior in college. This is my rightful job. Banking was a sort of aberration." The campus's "Outstanding Athlete" of 1976 will take over the athletic position on July 1, Dean Thomas Slakey has announced. He will succeed Michael Dink, who has divided his energies between that and teaching for the past year. Mr. Pickens will devote full-time to the directorship, including women's sports. Eileen Marion, who was named to serve as assistant director of athletics for a year while the college conducted an intensive search for the right director, left once final games were played last month. A Baltimore resident, Mr. Pickens is employed by one of Maryland National _ Bank's community banking groups. Since December 1985, he has been responsible for the administration of the commercial loan portfolio for twelve branches in Baltimore, Howard and Carroll Counties. Previously, he has served as manager of a discount brokerage office for Maryland National and as assistant to the executive vice-president. He completed a year-long management training program in 1983-84. At St. John's, Mr. Pickens served as captain of his team in 1976-77. He was a member of St. John's soccer team in Santa Fe in 1977. At Mr. Jacobsen's request, he refereed games. Following his graduation, he returned from time to time to continue playing with his team. Currently, Mr. Pickens stays in shape with a steady regime of jogging, yoga, squash, tennis, softball, and golf. Like Kenneth Colston, the campus's director of residence, Mr. Pickens is also a writer on the side. His play, The Dialect of Martyrdom, was produced by Diverse Works, a non-profit Baltimore arts organization, at Center Stage. He has written short stories and non-fiction published by various magazines and newspapers in the Baltimore area from 1979 to the present. Roberta Rusch leaving bookstore Robert Rusch, A '78, bookstore manager since 1984, will leave St. John's in August to begin graduate work in mass communication theory, a relatively young field dealing with the media and society. She has been awarded a regent's fellowship toward an inter-departmental doctorate in communication at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, a program closely tied to the university's Institute for Social Research. • During Ms. Rusch 's first two years at St. John's, she also served on a part-time basis as director of women's athletics. She became the first woman athletic director in college history in 1986. Ms. Rusch shared the duties of the latter position with tutor Michael Dink, but because of a technicality in the coJlege polity, only one person may hold the title, and it was given to Ms. Rusch. Last spring she resigned from the position with the recommendation that the college employ a full-time, professional director. At. St. John's, Ms. Rusch has been successful in transforming the bookstore into an efficient auxiliary service for St. John's. During her time here, bookstore sales have doubled. Lynda Myers is with her successor, Timothy Miller, the new Graduate Institute director. Michael Morris photo Miller heading graduate program Santa Fe picks vice-president Timothy Miller, a tutor on the Santa Fe campus since 1967, is the new director of that campus's Graduate Institute. He succeeds Lynda Myers, who will begin a sabbatical in July. Mr. Miller has just completed a threeyear term as assistant dean. "Many of our undergraduates have studied at other colleges and are as old as our younger graduate students," Mr. Miller said. "I have taught extensively in both the undergraduate and graduate programs and have always enjoyed my association with the mature students who are typical of the Graduate Institute. They bring a wealth of personal experience to their reading and discussion that enlivens classes. "In particular, I have found it rewarding to discuss works of political theory and literature with Graduate Institute students." Mr. Miller holds a doctorate in music from Indiana University and a master's degree from Yale University. He was awarded his bachelor's degree in English literature magna cum laude from Harvard College. In addition to his assistant deanship, Mr. Miller is serving in his fourth, threeyear term as a member of the Instruction Committee. In past years he has been chairman of both the Campus Planning Committee and the Tutor Compensation Committee. Phaiakian feast (Continued from P. 12) Seed and pulp the tomatoes. Dice the tomatoes and cook them until their skins wrinkle and they become pastelike. Flavor with one teaspoonful of basil. Add the yellow and red pepper at the end. These should also be sauteed but remain firm. Mix the vegetables. Add one tablespoon of tomato paste. Meanwhile, put all the remaining juices over a high heat and reduce to save the vegetable flavor. Pour a sufficient amount of this reduction over the vegetables but not so much as to make them water. Heat briefly either in the oven or on top of the stove. Ratatouille may be made a day in advance with no loss of flavor. SPANOKOPITA To make the Spanokopita, the Greek spinach pie, use a cup and a half of feta cheese and three small eggs per pound of spinach, "a fair amount" of sauteed onions, and season with oregano, fen el, rosemary, and basil. Cook the spinach and press all excess water from it. Add the other ingredients. Line a buttered pan with six to eight layers of filo and cover the spinach filling with another six to eight layers of filo. Make sure that each layer of filo is brushed with melted butter or margerine. Bake for 45 minutes at 375 degree heat. Jeffrey D. Morgan, vice-president for development ~t Nazareth College in Kalamazoo, Mich., has been named vicepresident for advancement on the Santa Fe campus. Mr. Morgan previously served from 1982-84 as director of corporate and foundation relations at Muskingum College in New Concord, 0., from which he received a degree in history in 1978. Earlier, in 1980-82, he was assistant director of development there. While he was at Nazareth, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education awarded him a gold medal in 1986 for alumni relations improvements. He was responsible for increasing alumni giving by 74 per cent. . Mr. Morgan holds a master's degree in history from Ohio University. gives talks President William M. Dyal, Jr., has given three recent talks. He gave the commencement address last month at the William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., where he was awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters. He earlier spoke in Baltimore at the annual initiation of members of the McDonogh School Chapter of the Cum Laude Society and this spring at a dinner meeting devoted to liberal arts at the Johns Hopkins Medical School. Do you have this equipment? The Annapolis campus is seeking several pieces of equipment. If you have one of these items and would like to contribute it to the college, St. John's would be forever in your debt. Donors wishing to do so are requested to be in touch with Vice President Jeffrey A. Bishop. Items needed are: For the Career Planning Office80286 Compaq Deskpro or other IBM compatible computer with the following specifications: 640K, l.2M hard disc, 360Kdiskdrive, DOS3.3. Also, letter quality dot matrix printer, Word Perfect (word processing software), and color monitor and adapter. For the Computer Room in Mellon Hall, used by students and faculty - Two IBM PC, XT or AT computers or their clones. · For the News and Information Services Office - Two display writers and desk top technology equip-' ment. �4 DOROTHY KINSMAN Far ahead in two games played simultaneously, St. John's College appeared certain to shut out the U.S. Naval Academy 2 to 0 in their sixth annual croquet tournament April 24. The Johnnies won the tournament, but only after defeating the mids in a tie-breaking third game. Almost every play of the game the Naval Academy won was preceded by a lengthy conference. Players on both teams, St. John's referee Kate O'Malley, A '83, and. Lt. Comdr. Mark Harper, the Academy's officer representative, joined in strategy discussions that extended the game to well over four hours. St. John's new imperial wicket, Turner, a junior from Edwardsville, was the first to· complete the course and become a "rover," helping his teammates and his balls out of bounds. Mr. ball went through a however, he was officially out of the At this Academy players applied pressure to the Johnnies by roqueting (striking) their balls and disrupting their carefully laid plans. To the amazement of those who remained.to see the game completed, the midshipmen squeaked through to victory. Also on the St. John's team were two seniors, David Schaller of Fairfax, Va., and Rama Madhu of Rochester, N.Y. On' the other court, St. John's had scored an easy victory, and the third game was well underway. If an award for Most V~luable Player were made, Frederick Hinrichs, of Escondido,. Cal., would certainly be a nominee. A St. John's sophomore, he was the first player on either side to tomplete the course. In the most spectacular play of the afternoon,_Mt. Hinrichs slammed his ball two-tbirdS the length of the court. It hit ao.mber ball along the way, and, as the /--crowd gasped and applauded, went cleanly through the next to last wicket. "I WAS VERY surprised," he said. "I made a lot of shots I didn't expect to make." Mr. Hinrichs' teammate, Jean Campbell, of Alexandria, Va., soon followed him to the final post while the mids were struggling to reach the halfway mark. A frustrated midshipman, First Classman Steve Kim, of Cherry Hill, N.J., commented, "What I want to know is why they always get my ball, just as I'm ready to make a wicket." Although the mids did their best to keep the remaining St. John's player away from the post, Pamela Halkett, McLean, Va., senior, continued to limp through the course. Her leg was in a soft cast as a result of a pulled ligament. Retiring Imperial Wicket Robert DeMajistre, Westchester, Pa., senior, and Navy's captain, Mark Butler, also a senior from Litchfield, Ariz., got their chance to play in the final game. Mr. DeMajistre's teammates were William (Brad) Fischer, Hamden, Conn.,junior, and Wayne Anderson, Redwood ValCal., senior. addition to Miss O'Malley, two vetereturned as referees - KathA '86, and John Ertle, who wicket in 1984, the year he tournament to mstlt11tH)ns closer toE!etlher At least one who believes that the mission has smcce:eaea. .. So we lost," said First Classman Matt Caldwell of Portland, Ore., "but I've had a "'i..., .... ~,.,~ Caldwell is on team, whch ranks among opponents. In contrast to the and stressful croquet tournament for for relaxation and fun. As the shadows and a wind picked up, most of the spectators left, including State Senator Gerald Winegrad of Anne Arundel County. He Pam Halkett her leg in a soft cast sights along her mallet as Frederick Hinrichs, center, surveys t~e court. ' - was to have presented the trophy, the Annapolis Cup, to the w~nning team, but was unable to stay because of a previous commitment. Senator Winegrad picked an ideal substitute however in the person of Martin Gelfa~d of Cle~eland who has worked on his staff as a stude~t intern. Mr. Gel- ' · - fand was a first class petty officer in the Navy before coming to St. John's as a freshman in January 1986. "I always did have trouble reading his writing," Mr. Gelfand muttered as he deciphered Mr. Winegrad's handwritten remarks. The senator's tongue-in-cheek message Keith Harvey photo was that, since midshipmen receive full scholarships, he w~s "pushing for a full croquet scholarship for a St. John's student." "I look forward to a renewal of the St. John's College-Naval Academy football games," he added, "and may the best team win." . .. And gets Navy's goat besides St. John's got Navy's goat both literally and figuratively. Wearing an orange St. John's T-shirt around its neck, the goatnapped Academy's mascot, Bill XXllI, watched placidly from a goat pen improvised under the Liberty Tree, impervious to the fact that Johnnies were defeating the Midshipmen at croquet. St. John's had succeeded where Army had failed. Army has always tried to steal the goat before Army-Navy games. St. John's students did it this way. At l a.m. the Friday before the Sunday tournament, Benjamin Krauss, a senior from Evergreen, Colo., as part of a special task force of five students, went to the Naval Academy's dairy farm in Gambrills and whisked Bill away. "There was no one around," Mr. Krauss said. "We had gone there a week before to check the place out." They cut through the padlock of a high wire fence topped with barbed wire to get to Bill. After reportedly leaving President William M. Dyal's card behind and replacing the padlock with a new one, including keys, they loaded Bill into the back seat of a small 1963 Volvo and hustled him away, down West Street, to a student's garage. At Sunday's tournament Middies scoffed at the notion that this goat was their mascot. Ignoring the blue and gold paint on his horns, they suggested the need for hoofprints to verify the fact. Students took good care of Bill. They fed him goat food purchased at a local pet store. They bought horse shampoo and horse conditioner and washed and combed Bill's angora locks. "NA VY DOESN'T keep its goat very clean, we noticed. It has a skin condition," Ray Gifford, rising senior, observed. "We've taken very good care of it and fed it very nutritious food." Still, despite the shampoo, one bystander, noting Bill's muddy underside, thought he wasn't in the spic and span spotless order one ordinarily expects of the U.S. Navy. "It looks more like a St. John's goat than a Navy goat," she decided. Small fry at the game added to Bill's nutrition. time the tourna.: ment was over and Bill returned to the Navy, his stomach had been well stuffed with popcorn. It was a good day for Bill that concluded with a great walk down Maryland Avenue, through the main gate, where the Marine gaurds welcomed him back with a laugh, and on to the halls of Bancroft Hall. Bill must have recognized it as home; he relieved himself then and there on the spot. A stiff breeze was blowing as the match got underway shortly after l p.m. President William M. Dyal, Jr., knocked out the first ceremonial ball for St. John's, and Mrs. Eliot H. Bryant, team sponsor, performed the function for the Navy. Dogs and small children wandered in the sunshine among picnic cloths spread on the grass by students and townspeople. One group among the several hundred present, suggesting a scene from an impressionist painting, dined on asparagus spears, French bread and grapes served on delicately flowered bone china. In the same mode, four St. John's freshmen were demurely attired in long full cotton skirts over petticoats. Their picture hats were purchased for the occasion by Rachel Frey, of Franklin, Tenn. The women obviously had a hard time keeping their hats from blowing away. team was crisply As usual, the turned out in black pants and bow ties and ~~,~~.,... ,..,white shirts and shoes. Officially their is known as dress Baker." "Italian waiter "according to a St. John's student. HIS HAIR CUT Mohawk John's team member David wore a black and a Robert chester, Pa., outfit. The message on a T-shirt worn a Scott a Montreal senior, set the mood for tus Says Relax. In contrast to the baroque music of past (Continued on P. 9) �JUNE 1988 THE REPORTER PAGES Review has new rmat The spring issue of The St. John's Review is out with a new look - small, compact, the traditional size of such literary magazines. The six-by-nine inch format is the principal change under the new editorship of Annapolis tutor Elliott Zuckerman, who is succeeding Walter Sterling as editor. That and the fact that copies will no longer be dated by month or season. Rather than dating each issue, Mr. Zuckerman will number the three issues he plans to produce each year simply one, two and three. They will come out, and Mr. Zuckerman intends to be fairly strict about it, in the spring, late summer and winter. "Apart from the visual difference, I think of The Review as continuing a good magazine rather than engaging in any innovation," Mr. Zuckerman said. Mr. Zuckerman 's plan is to continue publishing articles and lectures of interest to the greater St. John's community. He hopes to include good fiction. His first issue already has published part of a novel by Kenneth Colston, the Annapolis campus's director of residence. Articles will range from the so-called scholary articles with footnote citations to informal essays presenting thoughtful views. As indicated by correspondence to The Review office, Mr. Zuckerman said that interest in the magazine is ranging well beyond the two campuses, something which becomes particularly apparent at universities with which the alumni are associated. HIS MAILBOX is open to submissions. "I welcome contributions as long as people will face rejections," he stated his policy. Mr. Zuckerman, who will serve as his own managing editor and oversee all steps involved in The Review's production, cut his editorial teeth on The Columbia Review during his student days in New York. One of two editors with whom he served has gone on to become editor of The New Yorker and the other to win a Pulitzer · prize for translations. As he begins work this summer on his August issue, Mr. Zuckerman will take time to engage in the "only vice" he says he possesses other than smoking: working crossword 1..1ue.L1'-"'· spectacularly, he has just . won for the second time the British Spectator's Crossword Puzzle (Number 850). It's a to complete this notoriously difficult it's more of a trick to get it flown to England fast enough to be considered for the day of the competition judging. The Spectator's are topical in nature, · · and the particular subject for the puzzle he won - guns - is not on the top of Mr. Zuckerman's interest list, or even something of which he knows a lot. All he said he needed was a copy of Chambers' 20th Century Dictionary. He likes the British puzzles because they include puns, anagrams, allusions, word play. Every clue is of interest. (The puzzle he won made something of a point that "snug" is guns spelled backwards.) On the down side, once you've learned to enjoy British crosswords, Mr. Zuckerman said American crossword puzzles are boring by contrast. The diagramless ones in The New York Times.are the only ones he enjoys. MR. ZUCKERMAN began doing British crossword puzzles as a student at Clare College, Cambridge University. "When I was an undergraduate, I was puzzled by them - utterly annoyed and baffled," he said. · No longer frustrated, he has had a lot of practice, particularly in the last 15 years. What will he do with the 20 pounds he has won? Plow them back into The Spectator's subscription cost. That's one way to assure that its crossword puzzles will keep coming and that he will have a few more good wins yet. Back to The Review. Free of charge to alumni, the magazine is $12 a year by subscription. Copies, including back issues, are on sale in the bookstore for $4. President Dyal poses with winners of the Parents' Weekend look-alike contest, Page Edgerton, of Virginia Beach, and rising senior Daedre Cullen. The contest was settled by applause at the heavily attended reception at the president's house. Keith Harvey photo Winfree Smith, Hugh McGrath and Charlotte Fletcher, from left, take a bow as President Dyal applauds following their Parents' Weekend performance of A.E. Housman's Fragment of a Greek Tragedy. Keith Harvey photo Kenneth Paradis wins Truman scholarship Kenneth A. Paradis, St. John's College sophomore, has been awarded a Harry S. Truman Scholarship for his final two years at St. John's and his first two years of graduate work. Established as an official federal memorial to the thirty-third president of the United States, the Truman scholarships are awarded nationally to students with an outstanding potential for leadership in public service. Mr. Paradis, who plans to attend law school after leaving St. John's, is preparing for a career as a public defender and as an elected legislator. A Rockville, Md., resident, Mr. Paradis already has gained some political experience by serving this semester as an intern for Delegate Francis Santagelo, of Prince Georges County, and by working for Governor Pierre Dupont during his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. He also is a member of the Young Republicans. This summer, following a four-and-ahalf-week program at Oxford University, he hopes to spend some time working for Rep. Connie Morello 's campaign in Montgomery County. At Oxford Mr. Paradis will take courses in international business and economics and in British history and politics. A graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School, Mr. Paradis has written for the St. John's student newsaper, The Gadfly, and the student literary magazine, Energeia. The latter has just published a freshman paper which brought him a second prize: "A Discussion of the Evolution of Justice in the Oresteia." His sophomore essay, which the St. John's program requires, is entitled "Faith and Law and Their Roles in Mankind's Freedom." In addition, Mr. Paradis is a drummer with The Stylish, St. John 'sjazz band. He also plays basketball on campus. In his application for his Truman Fellowship, Mr. Paradis expressed concern for the necessity to provide for a balance of powers within the national government reflecting the original intent of the writers of the Constitution, particularly with regard to war-making powers. By circumventing Congress, he argued that the executive branch has taken liberties that enable presidents to ignore Congress and to deploy troops without its members'. coµsent. "'Police actions 'fought for reasons not agreed upon stain the palate of the American people and smear the ink of our Constitution," he said. "... The War Powers Act of 1973 impoverishes Congress and allows for unconstitutional actions. Although it endeavored to include Congres"sional deliberation, it has made that deliberation ineffective. Once troops are deployed and shots are fired, how effective is reconsideration 60 days later? "Although it stipulates that the Presi- ~ent advise Congress before taking action, it allows for the deployment of troops before consent in a crisis. The definition of crisis has been false aggrandized." �A tu or responds to President Riccards by EVA T.H. BRANN Tutor, Annapolis Campus I would like to respond to President Riccards' article on history at this college under two headings. The lesser of these concerns Jacob Klein's role in the absence of history from our program. I take Mr. Riccards to be echoing Allan Bloom's thesis in the Closing of the American Mind that the European emigres introduced certain notions into the American universities which, because they had more to do with these people's background and fears than with the good of American education, ended up by corrupting it. This is not the place to argue that - probably partially true - claim. I rather want to point out that Mr. Klein never belonged among the intellectuals in question, certainly not insofar as they undertook to Europeanize American intellectual life. His essence was immediacy, and he loved his American students not from a superior distance, as malleable disciples, but close up, as rambunctious young spirits. His sensibilities were in one major respect American: He had a sense that there was some philosophy, or if you like, the ability "to think for oneself," in everyone. Hence he thought that the St. John's Program was specifically right for every citizen of this republic. Being thus rooted in this, quintessentially American, college, he was as remote from any "Decline of the West" syndrome as anyone I have ever met among those who lived through the Nazi period. What he didn't like was the current nonsense of the stuffy fifties, which consisted partly of making hash of every text by insistent attention to something else than what it happened actually to say. Mr. Riccards is right in crediting Mr. Klein with providing the principled underpinnings of the program, but he never imposed these on the community: Anyone might live and think here, with or without believing oc even knowing them. Among these was, to be sure, a sophisticated suspicion of history as an explanatory principle. This debate ought indeed to be kept alive. Chief among its terms was "sedimentation," which betokens the understanding that, as certain fundamental ideas of the western tradition gained currency, their original spring and life got buried under layers of elaboration and remoteness which historians are, by a professional deformation, unable to reverse. Mr. Klein learned this from Husserl, but he himself engaged in a corrective exercise, namely a conceptual history of number, Greek Mathematics and the Origin of Algebra, an anti-historicist history that has become increasingly influential. Nothing is more tricky than to develop properly the influences that go into the thinking of a thoughtful man, so that it is understandable that Mr. Riccards' intimations, appreciative though they are, should lack the accuracy of verifiable intellectual history. The greater issue, my second heading, is the actual reasoning behind the omission of history from the program. It has two aspects: The first is the Barr-Buchanan legacy. From its inception it was decided to organize the program according to the liberal arts and the major texts (i.e., the Great Books) of our tradition, rather than by disciplines and fields of research. A chief reason for this plan was to avoid departments, specialization and electives. This is not the place to review the enormous legacy of debate about this choice, with which those charged with guiding the program should, of course, familiarize themselves. The point here is that it is generally agreed that history is indeed a discipline rather / than a liberal art in the strict sense (namely an elementary intellectual skill); it is a field for scholarly investigafion which presupposes a liberal education. Hence, to bring history into the program would entail not its m~dification but its deconstruction. St. John's would then be a new school with all the academic appurtenances of the other 3000 institutions of higher education. If, on the other hand, the desired effect is only that we should add to the number of historical texts we now read, then a list of such books, together with a list of the books they are to replace, could be presented to the faculty and the Instruction Committee. Admittedly this process is slow, since it involves actually studying the books to be introduced, but it is rational. It is, incidentally, this process, and no attempt to "seal off" the program, which is behind the fact that the faculty has always been charged with guiding alterations. The board, who volunteer their time to govern the college, are men and women of affairs; they simply cannot devote themselves to the continuous daily study that coherent curriculum change requires. But for the faculty, it is a part both of their life and their living to maintain the intellectual . foundations of the college, as it is a part of the president' s to insure its material basis. The second aspect of the absence of history has to do with a particular dogmatic use of it: the idea that what people think is not, finally, up to them, but is a deterministic effect of their personal and historical situation - and that this situation is objectively definable. When the great texts were accepted as the center of the program, this dogma, the dogma of historicism, had to be proscribed: Our one strict rule is that texts, like people, must be treated with respect; respect demands that we do them the courtesy of supposing that they say what they say not because of the authors' situation, sex, race, or country of origin, but because they have come to think that what they say is true. It is only after having for some years read and listened in this eminently anti-historicist way that students gain the right to conclude that some, or even all, writers and speakers might, after all, be in the gr!p of their parentage and their time. Then they are ready to try their hand at "background" history; the time for this, as well as to read history for pleasure or general edification, is the rest of their lives. Caroline Christensen on board Caroline Christensen, financial aid director at the Annapolis campus, has been elected to the nine-member board of the American Adoption Agency in Washington. The agency, which is primarily concerned with the adoption of South Ameri- can children and more recently with children of India, is the one through which Mrs. Christensen and her husband, John, adopted twin Chilean girls in December 1986. Persons interested in becoming adoptive parents may· be in touch with her. Riccards' statement gives rise to seyeral questions To the Editor: It was refreshing to read President Riccards' thoughts about the exclusion of an historical perspective from the St. John's program. During my years at St. John's I always felt as though there were a well hidden agenda which excluded history for some purpose which no one either cared to or was able to explain fully. The lack of an historical overview of the times and cultures which gave rise to the works included in the program was, while curious, not too disturbing because it seems to complement well the direct encounters with those works that the St. John's education depended on. Mr. Riccards' ideas give rise to several questions. First of all, if the main purpose of excluding or limiting the role of history at St. John's is, historically, to defuse a tendency towards historicism such as that which plagued Europe in the years following Nietszche and Marx, where in the body of the college would that tendency. threaten to develop? My recollection is that the students are too overwhelmed with material to develop any kind of absolute or all-encompassing world view for more than a short time. The faculty, on the other hand, has the length and breadth of exposure to come up with various feelings, ideas, or theories about the tendencies and meaning of the western tradition. And in fact, during my years as a student at St. John's, I was exposed by tutors to several dogmatically held historicisms, not least of which was the notion that the St. John's education is . highly appropriate, valuable, and good for young men and women who live in a world determined to some degree by its intellectual tradition. A conviction similar to this is probably necessary to the existence of an institution such as St. John's, whether it is, in the end, true or not. The second question relates to this latter dogma so widely held by faculty and administration at St. John's. Mr. Ricc;ards challenges this dogma, and rightly so I believe, when he implies that the college does a less than perfect job of imparting virtue to its students. He suggests that opening the window to the teaching of history would improve the effectiveness of the education offered at St. John's. The lack of an explanation of how the inclusion of history would have the desired result in effect begs the question: What would the effects of an historical perspective be on St. John's? It has been my experience that students are influenced not only by the books they read and discuss, but also by the tutors they read and discuss the books with. It is a fairly elemental assessment of an education to see what people who have been immersed in it for a long period of time are like. One might think that the effect of the program on the tutors would be a major avenue by which the program influences the students. Perhaps it was from a similar perspective that the .development of a faculty sympathetic to Nazism was feared in the early years of the New Program. Perhaps a similar threat could be posed by a de facto sort of historicism-bydefault that would encourage a panglossian view of the college to dominate the Richard Fielding has new position Richard F. Fielding, A '66, has been appointed director of the Federal Trade Commission's newly established Office of Consumer and Competition Advocacy. The office coordinates the efforts of several FTC bureaus to identify and respond to opportunities for applying the agency's expertise to issues concerning government intervention in the marketplace. Following graduation from St. John's, Mr. Fielding, 42, received master's and law degrees from the University of Chicago. He served as chief counsel of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Division of Trading and Markets and clerked for a justice of the lllinois Supreme Court. In addition to engaging in private practice, Mr. Fielding has been a member of the law faculty of Hofstra, George Washington and Vanderbilt Universities and the University of North Carolina. Most recently he traded stock index futures and options at the New York Futures Exchange. Senior wins Baird Sheila Monen, Omaha, Neb., senior, has received the Baird Prize for her performance on the flute. Given annually to seniors on both the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses of St. John's, the prize is for students who have "demonstrated achievement in the arts, literature or sciences." Also, in the Annapolis contest, Jennifer Lapham, of Rochester, N. Y., received honorable mention for her pottery exhibit in the college art gallery last fall. The prize of $500 is granted through the Walter S. Baird Endowment. The late Mr. Baird was graduated from St. John's in 1930. faculty in the face of a changing society. And, just perhaps, the college is proof against these disturbing trends, not because of inclusions or exclusions in the program; but because it is based on free inquiry in an atmosphere of tolerance and respect. The "mechanism and automatism of our political practices" and their relation to the thinking and working of the college do indeed call for a thorough and broad examination. Sincerely, Steve Corneli, SF '77 Plainfield, Wisc. Editor's Note: There are so many rum- ~ ors and erroneous legends afloat about St. John's that it's impossible to catch them all, but Mr. Corneli 's letter. contains one statement - that during the early years of the New Program there was fear of a faculty sympathetic to Nazism - that is so far off the mark that we cannot in good conscience leave it uncorrected. According to St. John's historian Winfree Smith, who was here during the forties, there is · no basis for such an impression. �7 tening to ourpredecessors to understand ourselves To the Editor: Let me begin by saying that I agree with _,) President Riccards about the desirability of including more works of history in the St. John's program (Reporter, April 1988). I strongly support the faculty's recent decision to add a history segment in the Graduate Institute, and I would like to find room, if possible, for more works of history on the undergraduate seminar list as well. I cannot agree, however, with the manner in which Mr. Riccards argued for his suggestion. In the first place, he attributes the relatively small role of history in the program, not to Barr and Buchanan, but to the influence of Jacob Klein, whose essay entitled "History and the Liberal Arts" is the special object of his criticism. "Why," he asks, "does history merit such special exclusion, especially in a program begun by Barr and Buchanan, men who wrote and loved history?" Yet the earliest Announcement of the New Program (Announcements/or 1937-38), written by Buchanan before Klein even joined the faculty, makes no reference to any need to supplement the traditional liberal arts, and the tradition of the great books, with the study of history. Nor do any other of the early catalogues speak of such a need. Moreover, if Mr. Riccards had asked someone who knew Barr and Buchanan, he would have learned that they agreed with Klein in opposing the introduction of history, as such, into the program. Winfree Smith, for instance, reports that Barr, who was indeed a historian himself, once defended the program's deemphasis on history by saying, "When you can't understand something, you write its history." Not only does Mr. Riccards erroneously suggest that the college's founders were not of one mind on the question of history in the program, but he dismissed Klein's arguments about history without even attempting a response. Instead, he claims that Klein thought what he did as a result of his experience as a European emigre. These emigres, he asserts, "were witnesses as once-assured truths were swept away in the currents of skepticism, nihilism, relativism, and cultural decadence." They lived through "the decline in confidence of the western tradition and of the role of reason in human affairs," sentiments that "for nearly four hundred years" had been "the 'noble lie' of European thought." In Mr. Riccards' view, Mr. Klein's attitude toward history was his reaction to this shattering experience of his youth. It was his attempt to defend the older emphasis on "absolutes, questions of value and right living" against the nihilism that the study of history seemed to promote. But how does Mr. Riccards know what Mr. Klein's experiences were in Europe and in America? And above all, how can he know the truest causes of Klein's attitude unless he first considers whether his arguments are true or false? For if they were true, and if they remain true today, perhaps the main reason Klein argued as he did was that he saw that truth. Klein's chief conclusion, in his essay, is his opposition to those who "recommend that we take into account the proper 'historical background' whenever we read and discuss a book" (Lectures and Essays, p. 137). Buchanan also, in his first Announcement of the New Program, implicitly rejects any such search for historical influences by focusing only on the obvious influence that the earlier great books have exercised on subsequent ones, and which justifies reading the books in chronological order. "It turns out that the best commentary on a great book is another great book" (Announcements for 1937-38, p. 10). Those who look further for the historical backgrounds of books, says Klein, presume to know "the general culture in which the ideas expressed or propounded and above all, the competing claims of the in these books are rooted and from which political community (Lectures and Essays, they derive their strength and intelligibilp. 166 ff.). ity." But in fact they tend to surround the Had Mr. Riccards looked for Klein's books with a "pseudo-historical horizon of almost mythical quality" (Lectures and own words, rather than being content Essays, p. 137). And is this not precisely with a "historical" reconstruction of his presumed thought, he might have been what Mr. Riccards has done in regard to able to consider the merits of Klein's opinKlein's essay, with his assumption that he ion on this important question, and he understands the experience of European might even have come to reconsider his emigres, and that this experience explains own position. For while general apathy is Klein's attitude to history? Would it not surely a distressing state of affairs, it could have been wiser and more just at least to not be the great enemy in higher education discuss Klein's assertions and his arguunless educators were clear about the cenments before "explaining" them as the tral matter: namely, the proper goal or result of his personal history? goals toward which our energies should be Let me give just one additional example of the weaknesses of Mr. Riccards' histor- directed. For the most part, however, this is not ical approach. the case, no more than it was when the "Today," he writes, "the great enemy is New Program was first established. And not nihilism, but general apathy. And the the peculiar challenge to St. John's remains peculiar challenge to St. John's how to what it has always been, what Messrs. link the great questions of morality and Barr, Buchanan, and Klein understood it virtue, on which our students are so verto be from the beginning, to help free our bal, with the everyday life of students ... " I disregard here that Mr. Riccards fails students' minds from the shackles of unreto consider the college's emphasis on liter- flective prejudice so they can begin to ature, as distinct from philosophy or think for themselves about the most important questions and thus live lives theology, as part of a deliberate effort to meet the concerns he expresses. But he that are truly their own. Moreover, since one of the most wideevidently believes that the main threats to higher education vary from generation to spread prejudices of our time is that even generation, and that while Klein may have the greatest books, and even those whose been right to worry most about nih.ilism in authors explicitly assert the contrary, must his time, this is no longer our chief con- be understood in terms of their historical cern. But as a matter of fact, Klein never context, it remains an important aspect of said that nihilism was the great enemy in the college's task to challenge that prejudice. I do look forward to the history seghigher education, although he did indeed ment in the Graduate Institute - as a say that " 'relativity of value' becomes inevitably the concomitant of the histori- place where we can think about history more explicitly and more fully than we cal perspective" (Lectures and Essays, p. have done. But I also hope that Mr. Ric135). In his essay "The Idea of Liberal Educa- . cards, as he comes to know the college better, will acquire a deeper appreciation tion," Klein states quite clearly what he regarded as the chief obstacles to higher of our·effort,to understand what we read education, first, the institutional, and on its own terms, rather than in terms of therefore somewhat routine, character of its presumed historical context. Sincerely, the learning situation, second, the danger David Bolotin of "sedimentation, fossilization, or petriTutor, Santa Fe fication of our [inherited] knowledge," is At St. John's, a book is read on its own terms To the Editor: Mr. Riccards' article in the April issue seems to me valuable in two ways. It helps the reader understand what historicism is, not indeed by explaining it but by displaying it; and it forces each reader to think anew about the relation between history and the St. John's program. I wish to share a few thoughts on these topics. In what sense is history absent from the program? Histories are read, in seminars on Herodotus, Thucydides, and Tacitus. Books are read that raise the question of history as the medium in which the eternal unfolds: the Aeneid, the Bible, and Hegel's Phenomenology. Authors such as Rousseau, Marx, and Nietzsche are read, who deny the possibility of any understanding that is not historical. Biography, "one of the greatest of all classical pedagogical devices," is surely not "outside the pale" when one finds within the program the Lives of Plutarch, as well as such autobiographical books as Augustine's Confessions, Descartes' Discourse on Method, and Montaigne's Essays. Shakespeare and Tolstoy convey one imaginatively into the midst of events described by historians. And the living and breathing American past confronts us in the Federalist, Lincoln's speeches, and an array of Supreme Court decisions. The foregoing is a rough and rapid classification. I have made no effort to inspect the reading list to make it complete. It is at least incomplete in lacking one unclassifiable book that is all about our character as historical beings, the Philosophical Fragments of Kierkegaard. What category of book is excluded from the program? ls there any book that is utterly unlike all those listed? Are there books of equal or greater merit that are missing from the program? If so, they should be proposed without delay. But Mr. Riccards does not speak of history in the form of books which practise it or reflect on it, but of history as a discipline. That is what the college is said to "eliminate," "exclude," and even "ban." But the program does not offer anything to us as a discipline. We do not study geometry, for example, but a few splendid books by Euclid, Apollonius, Descartes, and Lobachevsky. Where manuals are resorted to, it is for the sake of subordinate aids, not to convey a discipline. And the four major parts of the program are not subject matters but four kinds of activity. What, after all, is a discipline? I take the word in this context to mean an area of professional competence, such as those carried on, preserved, and transmitted by university departments. Francis Bacon· divided knowledge into fields, the cultivation of each being a trained discipline. It is easy to find writings of Scott Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr about the harm done to students by departmental education. I am aware of nothing written by either that suggests they wanted something historical in the program and didn't put it there, or that they put something historical in it which was later taken out. Without any appeal to evidence, the claim that the originators of the program wanted it historical in some unspecified way is loose talk. The implication that they wanted it to contain "history as a discipline" is not credible. But if history in so many forms is plainly present in the program, while history as a discipline is plainly incompatible with the very conception of a unitary program, what is absent? In the lecture which is the putative subject of Mr. Riccards' article, Jacob Klein calls the missing element "historical awareness." Every fresh- man arrives with a vague notion thatthere is something called "Greek thought," but within the program finds only the thinking of certain Greek poets, philosophers, historians, and mathematicians, who seem to disagree with one another in all sorts of ways. Is there some residue of shared understanding they all possess? The St. John's student is free to think about that question because he has been allowed to read each author out of that author's own books, without any forcef ed, ready-made scheme of interpretation masquerading as historical background. Such schemata as may be brought into a seminar rarely survive the encounter with common sense in the simplest give-andtake of discussion. The demand to place an author in his historical context means that he cannot be read until he has first been interpreted. The deepest assumption of the St. John's program is that we do not understand ourselves very well until we have listened to our intellectual predecessors. The attitude called "historicism" is exactly the reverse, the assumption that none of our predecessors can understand themselves as well as we can. The last three paragraphs of Mr. Klein's lecture on History and the Liberal Arts discuss that assumption. I will not quote them. I hope each of you will read or re-read them. Like almost everything Mr. Klein wrote, those paragraphs glow with an unpretentious clarity. You can read them without knowing where or when he grew up, without speculating about what he might have feared, and without accusing him of hidden motives.You can, if you wish, just think about what he said. Sincerely, Joe Sachs Tutor, Annapolis campus George Elias urges space exploration "The conditions that have bound life to this planet for eons are changing forever, and the civilization we have started to think of as global is becoming extraterrestrial." So states George H. Elias, Jr., A '71, in arguing that the United States pursue an ambitious space program. The quotation . is from a book-in-progress, Breakout Into Space, to be published next year to William Morrow & Co. Mr. Elias is the subject of an article in the magazine, San Francisco, by Harrison · J. Sheppard, A '61. Breakout Into Space describes how an ambitious U.S. space program will increase humanity's chance of avoiding extinction, allow the country to make a unique contribution to man's development as a space- faring creature, and help the United States to preserve its liberties and democratic tradition, the article says. "Elias argues that we 'live on the verge of a new heroic age in which great prizes may be won and great dangers will have to be avoided.' " According to the article, Mr. Elias believes that his education at St. John's prepared him to consider large ideas, and to dream dreams that are visions of things to come. A business broker in San Francisco, Mr. Elias has an MBA degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He is an advisor to JP Aerospace in Sacramento, a satellite services company. Mr. Sheppard is an attorney with the Federal Trade Com·mission in San Francisco. �PAGES Study is four th on art (Oimti.nm~d JUNE 1988 THE REPORTER from P. I) ad hoc Committee on the Visual Arts, that met during the 1987-88 year, along with. representatives of the Instruction Committee and the Campus Planning Committee. Also present was Architect Charles Bohl. As one result, President William M. Dyal, Jr., who presided, said a few cha~ges are being made in the gallery des1g~, principally changes that WitNesult m improved exhibit space, increased storage space and that will assure i':lc!eased ove~­ sight and security for exhibits. In addition, it was agreed that library-size display cases will be included. The .nature of exhibits was thoroughly discussed. Discussions also focused on the merits of a seminar versus a tutorial approach in considering the visual arts in the curriculum. All agreed on the importance of a first-rate collection of slides and reproductions. The absence of visual arts, originally intended to be included by the New Program founders, has been questioned. repeatedly during the fifty years of the program. As early as 1940-41, the catalogue stated: "The fine arts contain the most imposing set of disciplines that have established themselves and survived in the modern world by claiming independence from the liberal arts. It is one of our aims to recover and reintegrate them with the liberal arts. "We are therefore providing for them outside the curriculum and planning to reassimilate them by stages, first by including music in the curriculum ... We hope that by this and other stages to follow, intellectual light will be transmitted to the fine arts and that they may make their reflected light available to all the classics." While the college has had an active extra-curricular program of studio art available for years to during the few years there has been increasing on the of some members of it formally within gesture, which some critics view as one seminar on oa:mtmg was added to the smJh(>miore "'"'"'"""' 1985. Individual .....,,,...,. ... tr,ri~ offered in art. of seven tutors, who -------- ......... uu,'"'' submitted to for visual arts the Signing that proposal 011.:o.t1;..au, Mr. Druecker, Pamela Locke, Thomas and Mr. Slakey. the fall of 1986 the in preparing to YWCA Jeri Rhodes The YWCA of Annapolis and Anne Arundel county will present an award to St. John's College treasurer Jeri Rhodes on June 9 as part of its TWIN program. An acronym for Tribute to Women and Industry, TWIN honors outstanding women who have made significant contributions to their companies in managerial and executive positions. Mrs. Rhodes was nominated by St. John's for modernizing accounting functions by moving them from manual to automated systems, for revising personnel policies and procedures so that they could be standardized internally, and for helping to institute a new program of restoration and renovation of facilities. She is one of approximately 30 women to be chosen for the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County YWCA's TWIN awards. The presentation will be made at a dinner June 9 at the Annapolis Radisson Hotel. There are over 120 TWIN programs nationwide. uden Vicky Sills, a West Palm Beach,_ Fla. sophomore, says she gets an emotional high from helping people. . Describing herself as a "do-er," Miss Sills was one of 22 St. John's students who covered the graffiti on a city-owned bu~ld­ ing in Baltimore with bright yellow pa_mt. They refurbished the Car~oll P~rk_ Field House, a maintenance service bmldmg off Washington Boulevard, as part of t~e Hunger Cleanup project sponsored. m April by the National Student Campaign Against Hunger. . . . ,, "It looked nice. We did a mce JOb, commented Miss Sills, a 20-year-old with shoulder length blonde hair and brown eyes. She heads the fund raising comx:nittee for the organization's Baltimore region. Students from eight other Maryland colleges spruced up various areas of the city as part of the project. Last year 4,000 students representing 119 colleges throughout the country took part in Hunger Cleanup. At St. John's, Jeffrey Smith, a North Weymouth, Mass., senior, recruited _fellow students for the cleanup. He is a member and Miss Sills is president of the college chapter of Circle K, _a st~dent organization sponsored by K1wams International. Last fall Circle K arranged for 30 St. John's students to join hundreds of local residents in constructing a public playground on Green Street in Annapolis. The students, including Miss Sills and Mr. Smith, shoveled gravel, did carpentry work and operated power tools. "It makes me smile to walk by there and know the children are happy," Miss Sills said. In addition to taking responsibility for the campus blood drive, Circle K members are teaching adults to read. The Anne consider the proposal, asked that it be reviewed first by an ad hoc committee that would include one Instruction Committee member. Volunteering to serve were Mr. Blistein, from the Ms. Locke and Mr. tutors signing the original proposal, ryis. Higuera, from the Instruction 'L<v'uuua•'"''"'· and Mr. Elliott Zuckerman, as an faculty member. The following spring, however, in the opposition, the proponents face dropped the of instituting a program in l 987 in order to work on a stronger curriculum. the past year another CommitArts was organized and met tee on on a weekly basis until March. It had the self-assigned task of drawing up a plan ~or a visual arts tutorial that could conceivably be instituted at S~. Joh~'s. Along with Mr. Wilson, its members included Mr. Blistein, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. May, Mr. Milner and J. Winfree Smith. Faculty members are divided on the question, particularly in Annapolis where some opponents fear the intro?uc~ion of visual arts into the program will displace subject matter they consider more important. Presidents and deans on both campuses are known to favor some type of program but want ~ fu_ller explor~tion of the issueyefore takmg it once agam to the faculty./ . Dean Slakey said the study group this fall is not focused on the issue of curriculum, and whether any curriculum proposal will emerge next year has yet to be . determined. Dr. Lee, the consultant on the gallery, will return to St. John's to lecture September 16 on Chinese landscape painting as part of the annual art lectures made possible by Mr. Thaw. Baby Kalkavage is here_ Matthew Robert Kalkavage had reached 13 pounds by press time. The son of Annapolis tutor Peter Kalkavage, young Matthew was born March 7 in Rochester, where his mother, Christine, has been teaching classics at the University. of Rochester. His father returns to teachmg here this summer after two years away on sabbatical and leave. a Arundel County Board of Education is using seven students in night classes for Project Literacy U.S. Miss Sills expects to engage more students in the project next year. She also plans to resume a Junior Great Books program which Circle K conducted a couple of years ago in a local elementary school. Miss Sills' interest in community service dates back to her high school years. As a member of Faith in Action at Pinecrest School in Fort Lauderdale, she helped with a Thanksgiving food drive, a clothing drive and Toys for Tots. In her senior year, she coordinated programs for the Girls Service Club. Although her plans are not she is> considering a career in volunteer recruitment. "I love community " she said. Mr. Smith attributes his motivation for community service to his religion. "I feel that charity is a very important part of being a Christian," he said. "Fo_r me personally, that's the greatest motivator." In high school, Mr. Smith established a Student Teacher Organization to Prevent Nuclear which lectures and slide programs for the .,.u._. ..... .,. He has to Harvard School in Hope Cultural Center in Pa~m D~sert, Cal. lam also the director's assistant man upcoming production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly in Redlands, Cal., ~uly 9. In real life I manage a department m one 1973 of the major department store chains here. Sister Sharon Cross, O.P. has helped Please print my new address ... so my to merge two high schools in Vallejo, Cal. classmates may contact me if they wish." to form coeducational St. Patrick-St. The address is 2800 E. Tahquitz McCalVincent High School. As principal, she lum Way #TI/, Palm Springs, CA 92262. coordinated the physical move from St. 1983 Vincent's High School to the new school, Michael S. Keilty is finishing his second where she is currently vice principal. year of law school at ~he _University of 1976 Denver. His son, BenJamm, was born Idell Kesselman took a sabbatical last May 6, 1987. year and enrolled ~n a master of ~oun~el­ . 1984 ing program at Anzona ?tate Umversity. Lori Maness is a counselor a_t a resiShe is back at Embry-Riddle as an asso- dential treatment center for disturbed ciate professor in literature ~n~ compo~i­ adolescents in Laramie, Wyo., and is aption and engaged in a counseling mtemsh1p. plying to veterinary school. 1977 9185 Paul Grace Maynes and her husband Nicholas Ossorgin and his wife Mary (Jeff McFall) had their first child, a son, are the parents of a son, Nicholas _Ni~o­ Hugh Stanton McFall, born January lO. laievitch born February 16 and we1ghmg Lorin Cuoco is an arts editor for the in at six' pounds, 14Yi ounces. "He is so National Public Radio member station in beautiful healthy and such a good baby. St. Louis, Mo. We have' new meaning in our lives and such happiness~ we are truly blessed," they 1979 Steven Marshall Kirby and Cathe- write. 1986 rine Sue Graves, '80, were married on February 29 in San Francisco. \ Cilek Basar is teaching _Engl~sh ~t 1980 Middle East Technical Umvers1ty ~n Reid Kingsbury is an associate in the Ankara. He married Tuncay Baskaya ~n firm of Golling, Walter, Gawthrop, Januaq•·;--She is an assistant prof~sso~ m Sacramento and is planning a trip to the the math department at the same umvers1ty. Hal Neith is working in a toothpaste Southwest this fall. factory, Viapont, Inc., in Ft. Collins, 1982 Cary Renfro writes, ··1 have recently Colo. 1989 stage managed Robert Bowser's ~roduc­ Patrick F. Crinnion is majoring in tion of Puccini's opera, La FanCiulla de/ English at the University of Dallas. West, at the McCallum Theatre in the Bob 1966 Susheila L. Horowitz is a member of Madonna House lay apostolate, a Catholic Community based in Canada. �usness Co.nti111m~d from P. 1) minority participation in all phases of college life," President William M. Dyal, Jr., said. Short of mounting a campaign, something Mr. Dyal thinks is not suitable for St. John's, the direction the aggressive part should take has become more difficult. ( In any case, a more natural process for recruitment is preferable, Mr. Dyal believes, in which prospective students hear about St. John's through word of mouth, through Admissions Office procedures already in place, or through such institutions as the Graduate Institute, or an elementary and high school program originated by three St. John's tutors called Touchstones. HE BELIEVES as the result of such contacts more black students will matriculate. "That doesn't happen overnight," he added. "When it happens, it happens in the best way possible because it happens naturally." The dean is concerned to get a black tutor, he pointed out, and the Board of Visitors and Governors has been actively seeking a black for its membership. In neither case, Mr. Dyal said, do they want to appoint token blacks. Rather, they seek men and women who in themselves will be righ_t for the college. "The board's Nominating Committee is concerned and working on it," he continued. "There's the right kind of consciousness about it in the college. It's alive, on ·people's minds, but it's not a campaign. St. John's does not lend itself well to any sort of campaign." "St. John's would welcome blacks to the faculty," Dean Thomas Slakey said. "Of course there is no question about it." Mr. Slakey said one problem in attracting possible candidates to the faculty is that other, wealthier colleges can make talented blacks offers beyond St. John's reach. Since St. John's tutors are paid on a fixed salary according to a fixed formula, it cannot make special offers and never recruits on that basis. Mr. Slakey also cited another difficulty. "Statistically, a large proportion of blacks receive their Ph.D. 'sin social studies and in education. Very few receive their degrees in the humanities or the exact sciences. That's where our faculty has to come from." ADMISSIONS Director John Christensen, who has been working actively to recruit more black undergraduates, seeks to enroll them in a number of ways. One is through a special mailing targeted to minority students whose intended college majors indicate a potential interest in the college's program. Students in this category also are identified on the basis of SAT scores. They are recruited through a college mailing to 100,000 students screened through the College Entrance Examining Board. A special mailing goes to 500 to 600 students classified as gifted minority by a Boston-based organization - A Better Chance - that assists those students in secondary public and private schools across the country. · In addition, Mr. Christensen or a member of his office participate in college fairs up and down the East Coast in areas where blacks have demonstrated the greatest interest, in such metropolitan areas as .. ,, ..............., .. .,u., Washington, and New York. St. John's graduates are believed to go up the career ladder more than most college graduates, because of the transfer skills of learn here, the curstudents for spegraduate. happens ..,v.11>;;;1::::>;;;.:. where stum philoor some other area of the ................ with 32 credit hours of them, the at some isntitutions, actually emerge with more versatile academic backgrounds. that provide greater opportunities and choices. Still, for the career· or vocationally .minded black family of modest financial means, the program may be one they view as a luxury. Black students think otherwise. "If I didn't think so, I wouldn't be here," Dale Phillips, 24, of nearby Silver Spring, a member of this year's graduating class, said. In one way, he sees the situation as a Catch-22 problem in which sheer numbers alone pose a stumbling block. There are few black students here, and black prospective students don't always see them. They hesitate to enroll. The more black students increase in number and become visible, Mr. Phillips believes, the more likely it will be for blacks to come. "Before entering I made it a point to speak with Robert George," Mr. Phillips said of a 1985 black graduate. "We had a ,,....,,.,..~,.~.,., . . does long discussion about the pros and cons of being a black student at St. John's. It was important to get his perspective, for him to me to come here." AS a Febbie after a year at Hofstra University and another at the University of Maryland, Mr. Phillips said he has never had problems developing friends at St. John's, especially among his small mid-winter class which became particularly close-knit, but at the same time he confessed to feeling "very alone" at times and wishing there were more black students here, much, perhaps, as a white student in an overwhelmingly black institution might appreciate seeing more white faces. "I also feel that all students at St. John's could benefit from learning and hearing the opinions of students who come from other than a white, middle class background," he said. Like other black students, he expressed the wish that there were more black mentors, including a tutor, to serve as a role . model. This spring Mr. Phillips was one of four members of the graduating class who wrote their essays on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, read in a preceptorial on black literature taught by George Doskow. After a year working with his father's management consulting firm in Silver Spring, Mr. Phillips plans to do graduate work in public policy. Mr. Phillips already has won some significant recognition during his underclass days. That has included a summer Sloan Foundation Fellowship to study public policy at the University of Washington in Seattle and an Allard Lowenstein Fellowship. The latter, offered by Americans for Democratic Action, provided valuable experience the summer before his junior year. He spent it as an intern working for Congressman Mickey Leland, then chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, a position that enabled him to become familiar with issues facing black America. A senior resident in Humphreys, he also has refereed games for St. John's athletic program. "ST. JOHN'S HAS an important legacy as being the first private college in Maryland to admit a black student," he said. "It is sad that this aspect of the college has not been able to be more fully developed." Mr. Duodu-Bonsu has not found that race has raised problems for him in comhere directly from Africa. reserve however, encountered a kind among members of the college communwhich he believes is of a as a whole: for the United a coldness on the of Americans comto the of whom he ae:;;cr1b(;~S as very, very "It's a to answer, he said when he was asked what could be done to any increase enrollment. "I can't to more blacks. see black to blacks. The type program John's offers should invite those who are interested." A quota system he believes is not suit- 9 , able for St. John's while a special campaign might result in students coming here who later would become frustrated with the program. He is particularly pleased by the financial aid arrangement made on his behalf. An occasional writer for The Gadfly and soccer player with the Guardians, Mr. Duodu-Bonsu has already done his own personal recruiting. A friend from Ghana - an engineer - who has just acquired a master's degree at the University of Texas, will be a Graduate Institute student this summer in Annapolis. RHONDADA TCHER, 24, is co-editor of Energeia, the student literary magazine, and a laboratory assistant. She found her arrival here to be eased by her transition to a predominantly white community at the University of Pennsylvania, where she had a double major in the school of t Jules Pagano, A '48, is the new president of Saybrook Institute, a graduate school and research center in San Francisco that offers master's and doctoral degrees in humanistic psychology and in human science. A former chairman of New York State's Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, to any sort engineering and the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. She had gone to study engineering and finance "because I wanted to make money quickly." At Pennsylvania, Miss Datcher became involved with student government and social and political concerns. Midway through her junior year, she decided she needed time to think things out, to ask questions about justice and ethics. Meanwhile, she had met a 1982 graduate, David Bucknell, at a summer program for the gifted and talented students at St. Mary's College of Maryland where both were counselors. After reading the St. John's catalogue, Miss Datcher decided she should come here. Encouraging her was her older sister, who has her doctorate in economics and who is teaching at Tufts University. "Why don't you go and read," her sister said in effect. "I wasn't able to do nearly as much of that as I would have liked. It's important to go read philosophy and literature. You can always make money later." So with some financial help from her sister and the support of her parents and after a year and a half working and reading, she transferred. DURING THAT TIME she read novels "like crazy" and took a preceptorial offered by James Carey, now Santa Fe dean, on Dostoevsky. One of the nice things about being in such a small place as St. John's, Miss Datcher believes, is that most of the time students tend not to think of her solely as a black in class, but, after listening to her over a period of time, to judge her according to her own merits. There are times, however, when she thinks students can be insensitive, occasions when, just because she's black, they automatically ask her how she likes the music of Grace Jones, a black singer known for her risque songs; it's an approach which Miss Datcher said can be inappropriate - even offensive. Miss Datcher believes her time at St. John's has been "well spent" although, without going into the matter, she is not completely uncritical of the program. She believes a heavy recruitment program would not be at all helpful. "When one picks up the catalogue, one sees either the picture of some nutsy place or else the place that one has always envisioned," she said. "Either you want to come here, or you don't." Like Mr. she also favors a more absorbing and as the black middle class grows in the United States, more and more blacks will be able to consider St. John's. On the grounds that such distinctions should not be Miss Datcher rather startled the the of 1987 when she a the National Science Foundation to students. THE of the principles we study in class here and that St. John's attempts to instill." She said she felt "betrayed by St. John's, the very school Mr. Pagano has a background in educational and public policy administration. As president of the Massachusetts Board of Regional Community Colleges in Boston, Mr. Pagano helped establish in Massachusetts the first state-wide program to train public service employees in social welfare and. the College of the Air, credit earning programs delivered by television. He also successfully recruited the first black and woman presidents of community colleges iff the state. A former vice-president of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., Mr. Pagano studied at the University of London on a senior Fulbright Fellowship and at the Brookings Institute in Washington. He received his doctorate in public administration from Nova University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. At present Mr. Pagano is chairman of the North American Regional Committee of the Association of World Education and a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Association for Higher Education and the American Society for Public Administration. He is a charter member of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. Mr. Pagano previously served as director of the Peace Corps' Division of University Relations and Training, which formulates policies for educating volunteers for overseas service, and as executive director of the Adult Education Association. He was also chairman of the board Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities. 's goat Conti111m~d from P. 4) years, the loudspeaker emitted big band swingGoodman, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Ellington. Although applause greeted outstanding shots, there was less organized cheering this year. On the spur of the moment, five Johnnies came up with this tribute to imperial wicket-elect George Turner, Edwardsville, Ill.; junior: "Georgie Porgie, croquet guy, "Hit the ball and made them cry. "When the Mids came out to play, "George blew them all away." For members of both teams, the ended on a festive note. Lt. Cmdr. the officer ... ,. ..... ,,"'"''"* all the to his a party. to be rec:o2:m2'.ed where had a student within my own to those same distinctions." Another interviewed for this wrote later to ask to be excluded. made this " he wrote, " ... on the basis of my come to St. John's as a student and not a black student. I do not think that pursuing, at all propagating the appellation of 'black student,' is conducive to the attitude that I have attempted to cultivate throughout my formal education." �e cal Sill ' ints in exerci (Continued from P. l) and what you can discover." He added he wished St. John's had paid more attention to "heuristic" - a word derived from the Greek work for "to discover." "How do you go about making discovery?" he asked. "There are no very particular rules. In general you neelf to be asking a question, focusing on it, wrestling with it. You have to have the bravura to suppose that the parts of the answer can come together for you. You have to have faith in your powers. The evidence for there being something we could call unconscious thinking seems to me very strong. A manifold of processes must go into the recognition of a face of any other gestalt, but it seems to come instantaneously. So with the 'Aha.' experience of discovery." From a book about Chinese brush-andink painting, he said, he had found some precepts that are eminently applicable to discovering: "Follow tradition in basic design. "For powerful brushwork, there must be ch 'i or spirit. The brush should be handled with spontaneity. "Be original, even to the point of eccentricity, but without disregarding the Ii of things (Ii means principles or laws or essences.) "Learn from the masters but avoid their faults.'" Honors and prizes announced by Mr. Dyal were: Honorable mention, best senior essay, John Bertram, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Michael McShane, Lincoln, Neb.; honorable mention,junioressay, Sean La Rocca, New Orleans, La.; best sophomore essay, David Daniel Walter, Cambridge, Mass., with honorable mention to Graham Harman, Mt. Vernon, Ia., and Alexander Augustine Lo, Ontario, Canada; best freshman essay, Michelle Nicoll, Wilmington, Del.; Excellence in speaking, Janet Hayes, San Antonio, Tex.~ best English version of a Greek text, David Johnson, Syracuse, N. Y.; best English version of a French draws wide· SHERRILL MILNES ... Opera singer poem, Jeanne Duvoisin, New Brunswick, N .J.: best original English poem, Jessica Lamb, Concord, Vt.; best original musical composition, Mr. La Rocca; best essay on a piece of music, Jeffrey Smith, North Weymouth, Mass.; most elegant solution of a mathematical problem, Collins Duodu-Bonsu, Ghana, and Robert Anne Faux, West Chester, Pa., Problem I, and Kim Paffenroth, Annapolis, Problem II; Senior man and woman who by their participation, leadership and sportsmanship have contributed most to the college's athletic program, Eleanor Hamburger, Montclair, N.J., and Daniel Hoh, Woodbury, N .J .; senior who has contributed most to the Greater Annapolis Community, Meetra Lee Doorandish, Crownsville; Baird Prize for excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences, Sheila Anne Monen, Omaha, Neb., with Jennifer Lapham, honorable mention; Chicago Business Fellowship, Sara Catania, Chicago junior; Dow Newspaper Fund Scholarship, Raymond Gifford, Arvarda, Col., and Truman Scholarship, Kenneth Paradis, Rockville, Md. The ceremony was followed by a strawberry and champagne reception on the opposite lawn of the front campus. As family members and other guests gathered for commencement, they watched the Blue Angels fly in formation as the Academy's Commissioning Week got underway. study group re in SW Jacobsen stars as hospital aide Colleges and universities from all parts of the Southwest have expressed interest in a model faculty development study group held on the Santa Fe campus this Bryce Jacobsen never stays out of the year. news long. There he is in the Annapolis The study group which has been supCapital, pointing to two stripes on the ported by a $24,688 grant from the Fund smock he is wearing as a member of the for the Improvement of Post-Secondary ~nne Arundel General Hospital AuxilEducation (FlPSE), links interdiscipliniary. ary faculty study with curricular review. . The Annapolis campus' retired athletic ··I ne value to us ot such a study group is director received them for putting in 713 great," says Lynda Myers, project cohours of volunteer service in his first year director. "But the need for cross-discipwith the auxiliary. When the auxiliary linary exchange and for coherent curricufound he had taught mathematics, it conlar review is even more acute at many sidered that sufficient qualification to put other schools, especially those· with a him behind the cash register of its snack departmentalized faculty. When we pubbar. licized the FIPSE study group, many of When it discovered he could type, he our neighbors turned to St. John's to learn became the auxiliary's first male secrehow we achieve a 'community of learntary. More recently, since last fall, he has ing'." been putting in 15 hours a week in the Since September, ten to twelve tutors rental service for television and teleand two visitors have participated in weekphones which the hospital provides. ly study group meetings focused on the Roman and Florentme Palazzi, and the idea of order in early astronomy and in composition of large works of high ReRenaissance art. Former Santa Fe dean naissance painting. Robert Bart has been study group leader. One of the goals of group discussions Mr. Bart, who describes himself as an was to consider the relationship of the "amateur" rather than an expert, has been "fine arts" to the "Ii beral arts" as they are studying both astronomy and Italian art studied at St. John's. Faculty participatfor over 40 years. ing in this study group have apparently During the fall, study group-conversafound, with guidance from Mr. Bart, that tions focused on the ideas of beauty and it is as possible to talk significantly about' order (kosmos) implicit in astronomical a painting as about a system of the world. accounts from Plato and Artistotle to Dean James Carey, who has attended Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo. study group meetings regularly, says that Readings emphasized underlying princithe study group's experience has made ples of order rather than mathematical him more eager than ever for the faculty to details. · consider ways in which the fine arts can be During the second semester, the group incorporated into the college's regular studied works of Italian Renaissance art, _including the. facades of a number of academic programs. Ca111pus o lists vary A comparison of reading lists for the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses indicates that the Santa Fe campus reads three novels not part of seminars in the East. While the list is much the same for the two campuses, there are some differences, principally in the area of fiction. Santa Fe students read Fielding's Tom Jones, which was on the original l 937 list, Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, and, as a Jane Austen choice, Persuasion, never read here. The Annapolis campus alternates between Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma. On at least one occasion students have read Sense and Sensibility. Among plays read in Santa Fe and not in Annapolis are Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Sophocles' Ajax, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Aristophanes' Assembly of Women. One short story read there and not here is Flannery O'Connor's "The Artificial Nigger," making Flannery O'Connor the most contemporary writer read at St. John's. While the Annapolis campus has dropped Kafka temporarily in favor of Goethe's Faust this year, students in Santa Fe read "The Penal Colony." That cam_Jus continues to read Joyce's "The Dead," a story dropped in the East in favor of Joyce's novel, A Portrait ofthe Artist as a Young Man. Annapolis students read Melville's Billy Budd. Santa Fe pairs the book with his novella, Benito Cereno. In connectwn with the reading of the Federalist Papers, Santa Fe seniors read Madison's "Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention." Verdi's Otelia is part of Santa Fe's senior year; students discuss Wagner's Tristan und Isolde here. Among readings in philosophy, Annapolis students read Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals instead of his Critique of Practical Reason. There are minor differences in selections excerpted from such major works as St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica and differences may exist with regard to the amount of time devoted to a single writer. But during the 24 years Santa Fe has existed as a second campus, the lists, while flexible in nature, remain, from the standpoint of St. John's basic books, the same. Dean Thomas Slakey said no formalized steps have ever been taken to make them identical. r An endowment fund established as a memorial to the late William W. O'Grady, Jr., will provide grants to St. John's students who have unexpected or emergency financial needs. Mr. O'Grady was on the St. John's faculty from 1970 until his death January 6, 1986. He taught on the Annapolis campus except for the period from 1980-83, when he was at Santa Fe. Income from the endowment, approved by a resolution passed at the April 30 meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors, will be divided equally between the two campuses. Grants will be administered by the Financial Aid offices. To be considered for a grant, a student must submit a brief written application and meet these criteria: The student must have achieved at least sophomore status, be on financial aid, have a sincere commitment to the St. John's program and have financial needs not fully met through other sources. The final balance is approximately $8,000. According to the resolution, "Bill O'Grady aided from his personal resources many students at times when his help made it possible for them to stay in college. He knew his students, their concerns, their needs. He cared and shared quietly and without any accompanying burden of indebtedness." Alumna to guide 14-day China tour The Great Wall, the terracotta warriors at Xian and the Forbidden City in Beijing are among the highlights of a 14-day tour of China to be led by a student in ·the Annapolis Graduate Institute. Leader of .the tour, which will depart August 12 from Dulles International Airport near Washington, will be Xiayi Huang, a former tour interpreter for China International Travel Services' Guangzhou Branch. The tour also includes Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. A cruise on the Li River is scheduled during a stay in Guilin. The price, $2,750, covers round trip transportation to China and within the country, meals and accomomodations. Further information may be obtained by contacting Miss Huang between June 19 and July I at 53 College Avenue, Annapolis, Md. 21401. She may be reached by phone from 9 a.m. to noon and from 7 p.m. to IO p.m. at (30 l) 263-9351. Santa Fe students Katherine Schott, left, and Rebecca Ashe enjoy a conversation on the wooden bench presented the Santa Fe campus by the Graduate lnstitute's Class ·of 1987. Located next to a small aspen stand just above the visitor parking area, the bench is an ideal location for observing views or meeting friends. Michael Morris photo �JUNE 1988 PAGE 11 THE REPORTER Faculty does it again! l . l pan, a solid presence in familblue sweater. The students loved it. There were a number of highlights, including the don scene in which the tutors sing to "A Fortress Is Our God" "The is St. John's" while a defensive Jason words to the music of "Ain't . " "Ain't misbehavin'. Soon I'll have so1meth1ng say ... Just cause I'm not muddled or betud1ctle1ct. Higuera's frenetic portrayal of Jason lent itself particularly well to one of the cleverest songs in the show in which he demonstrates Newton's Proposition 69. Lending her nice soprano voice to the role, Tiona Davidson made a charming Suzy while Roberta Rusch, as her friend, rollicked along with a particular rapport with the audience. Bill Pastille was effective in playing Jason's friend in a straight, understated way. The "Razzle Dazzle" chorus line dazzled. The Instruction Committee scene brought things to a marvelous climax. The scene also incorporated what has become a tradition for faculty musicals. Hugh McGrath's solo, "The Road to Mandelay," was such a success the first time that no musical can be staged without it. An accomplished actor with a booming voice, Mr. McGrath is in a class by himself. ~ ~Special mention should be made of the large panels which served to distinguish the King William Room, Sin bad 's Saloon, the coffee shop, and Room 21. They were executed almost at the last minute with style ailtd a splendid sense of design by Lydia Sarrow. Eddy Sparrow, also an experienced actor, who joined the cast the final week, warmed up the stage in his dual roles as waiter and tutors. Others taking part and appearing as saloon patrons and students were Marilyn My lander, who also was a waitress and Suzy's friend, Jeff Bishop, Vicki Cone, Kate Irvine, Nancy Lewis, Ann Martin and Suzanne Peake. Besides Mr. Sparrow a11d Mr. Wilson, tutors in the musical were Wendy Allanbrook, George Doskow, Chaninah Maschler, Tom May, Ben Milner, Brother Robert Smith, and the Rev. J. Winfree Smith. The musical was a great success. "You guys were really fun," one student told a tutor the following week. They were. The show was one of the brightest, best things that could happen in any spring. The faculty should keep these musicals coming. "Come to Compromise Street ... Leave the books; you need some balance." Abandoning their books during the harried season and adding a little zany to their lives was did Weekend what the third of the 1980s ,,.,.,..,,n ...n"'""" Street." This time the book and very witty words for the songs were written by Carolyn Loring, A '77, a seminar leader during the past semester. The original music was composed by the tutor whose generous spirit and talent have made all three shows possible - Michael Littleton. (What a world of good things the college owes Michael Littleton!) He wrote the title song, a love ballad and music for the finale as well as provided the piano accompaniment. Other music came from composers ranging from Cole Porter to "Fats" Waller. The show was directed by Malcolm ·Wyatt, a minor hit himself as he took his curtain bow suavely attired Hollywoodstyle in dark glasses and white ascot. Elliott Zuckerman lent his considerable directing gifts to extracting music from a willing and volunteer cast that gave up lunchtime to practice. As the musical's Cecil B. DeMille, Curtis Wilson, as producer, nudged things along from the concept of the show's idea to the thunderous applause at the end. More a straight story and less satirical than the previous two shows, this year's musical revolved arond a love story of two Johnnies - Suzy and Jason played by Tina Davidson and Henry Higuera. Without knowing they are both St. John's students, they fall in love, Jason so deeply he is unable to study. When they discover who each other is, Suzy rescues Jason from academic banishment by helping him with his math. With her aid, Jason performs so brilliantly that he stuns tutor and classmates alike. As the musical moves toward its climax, the triumphant tutors join in congratulating themselves on their splendid way of teaching in music set to "The Continental": "Liberal thinking, marvelous program, It's so impressive:· our way of teaching." All ends well as the Reality torch is raised, and the arrival of Reality's Miss Sophrasyne is signaled. In a surprise appearance, refired Assistant Dean Barbara Leonard, on campus for a visit from Oberlin, marched forward center stage in Robert Perry receives top $500,000 award from NSF Robert J. Perry, A '78, assistant professor of physics at Ohio State University in Columl;ms, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. The Award provides up to $500,000 over a five-year period. After leaving St. John's, Mr. Perry received a doctorate at the University of Maryland, completing a thesis in 1984 on nuclear theory in which he concentrated his paper on the application of field theory to simple quark models. He had been advised on entering the university to take courses at the sophomore and junior level. "Fortunately two other Johnnies had broken ground at Maryland, and one of them, Rick Smith, A '77, told me to ignore this advice and jump to the senior level courses," Mr. Perry writes. "As a result, I took only five senior level undergraduate courses and was able to finish the first year of graduate courses my second year at Maryland, winning the Ralph D. Meyer's award for outstanding first year graduate study in 1980." Mr. Perry took a postdoctoral research position at the Service de Physique Theorique in Saclay, France, moving to Paris with his wife, Kathleen Squillance, in Sep-\ tember 1984. While he enjoyed his work on quark models and had an opportunity to interact with some of the best physicists in the world, Mr. Perry said his explora- 1 ti on of Paris and trips around Europe were far more memorable - "one of the best times of our lives." In September, 1985, the Perrys moved to Seattle where he had accepted a second postdoctoral position at the University of Washington, which has one of the top nuclear theory groups in the country. Most of his research was spent in quantum hydrodynamics. "The work was fun, but the most significant occurence in Seattle was the birth of our daughter, Jessica Lynn Perry (SF 2007), on November 13, 1985." His appointment in Ohio came in August a year ago. "Kathy got a job as a senior clinical research associate with a pharmaceutical company, and we began to adjust to having no mountains or water around," he said. "My reserach here has slowed slightly because of the added duties of teaching, but it has always seemed as if there were ten times as many ideas to explore as time available." In December, 1987, he received a research grant from the NSF to cover a ' summer salary. ' Of his new $500,000 grant, Mr. Perry said that it will be used for the equipment needed by his nuclear theory group as well as to support personnel at the graduate student and post doctoral research associate level. 1 Kathryn Strange (Kitty) Lathrop, 73, died in her sleep May 3 at her home in In 1937, Mrs. the office of her went to work in the late Miriam u ........... ,,, ...,,..,,..,j-,..,r at St. John's for many years. JlUAAV'""·'""' year, Mrs. took over of the St. ·bookstore, a she held until 1945. Mrs. Lathrop recently was named an honorar·v alumna of St. John's for her service to the college and its ... ,... .......,.. ..... d u A native of Mrs. ~HU...,., l!ra,d.uate of More studied at the Johns tto1pKms She was a member St. Anne's Church and had been active in many civic endeavors. In addition to her she is survived She was married June 18, to former tutor and athletic director Edward F. (Ned) Lathrop, '38. Word has been received that Robert Alan Branch, SF '85, was killed in an automobile accident August 9, 1986. He had been living in Guthrie, Okla. No further details are available. General Fields: Served in NA TO Lt. Gen. Lewis J. Fields, USMC, '31, died March 5 in Fairfax, Va., at the age of 78 of heart, lung and kidney ailments. At services for the general, the United. States Marine Band, which sent a representative to Annapolis especially to pick up the St. John's alma mater, played "St. John's Forever." During World War II, Gen. Fields served in the Guadalcanal campaign and elsewhere in the Pacific, according to the Washington Post. In the postwar years, he. had assignments at various posts in this country, including Quantico and Norfolk. He served with NA TO and the Supreme Allied Command in the Atlantic. Later he served in Korea and Paris and was in Washington as Marine Corps liaison officer to the vice chief of Naval Operations. · Director of personnel for the Marine Corps from 1962 to 1965, General Fields commanded the First Marine Division in Vietnam. In 1968 he became commander of the Marine Development and Education Command at Quantico. Military decorations included two awards of t,lle Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star. A resident of Fairfax and a native of the Eastern Shore, Fields is survived by his wife, two daughters, two stepdaughters, two sisters, two brothers, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Jesse Clark: EPA administrator Jesse Monroe Clark, Jr., A '54, died January 28 at his home in Maddox, Md. He was 61. A graduate of Emory University, Mr. Clark served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946. From 1960 to 1980, he was an administrator in the Departments of Health, Education and Welfare; Housing and Urban Development, and Interior. He also worked for the Environmental Protection ~gency. Among the survivors is a daughter, Amy C. Clark, A '78, of Chapel Hill, N. C. Other survivors include his wife, another daughter, a son, and two sisters. Thomas Hutchins: Headed farm bureau Thomas Reid Hutchins, '28, died April 7 in Port Orange, Fla. A resident of Prince Frederick, Md., he was 82. After leaving St. John's, Mr. Hutchins became a pilot for Curtis Aircraft Co. and flew for several years before returning to the home farm in Calvert County, Md. He was president of the Calvert County Farm Bureau, vice president of the Maryland State Farm Bureau and executive secretary of the Maryland State Tobacco Authority until retiring in 1975. Other offices held_ were president of Mutual Fire Insurance Co. in Calvert County and president of the county's Historical Society. A former member of the Calvert County Board of Supervisors, he was on the board of governors for the Calvert County Marine Museum. Survivors include his wife, a son, and two stepchildren. William Mason: Sales Manager William T. Mason, '35, died of respiratory arrest April 23 in Anne Arundel General Hospital, Annapolis, after a lengthy illness. A longtime resident of Annapolis, he was 75. Mr. Mason retired in l 979 as sales manager of Annapolis Utilities, Inc. He was a member of Eastport United Methodist Church and past chancellor of the Friendship Lodge of the Knights of Pythias. Surviving are his wife, three daughters, three sons, 14 grandchildren and IO great-grandchildren. Nancy Osius to become· editor Wye Allanbrook (Continued from P. 1) to give talks publicity and in preparing a newsletter for the Hospital Auxiliary of the Anne Arundel General Hospital and Medical Center. As an adjunct professor, she taught English from 1974 to 1978 at Anne Arundel Community College. At Severn, where Mrs .. Osius has been a teacher since 1978, she has· taught honors and advanced placement courses, serving as a consultant for the College Board for · four years and conducting workshops for advanced placement teachers in New York City, Wilmington, Pittsburgh and other locations. Mrs. Osius holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland respectively, and she has done further graduate work at St. Andrew's University in Scotland on a Rotary International Fellowship. Assistant Dean Wye Allanbrook is scheduled for lectlltes at Cornell and Princeton Universities as well as at a national meeting of the American Musicological Society this summer and fall. At Cornell she will be guest lecturer at a summer seminar on Mozart operas to be held July 22-25 under sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will chair a panel on Haydn studies· at a meeting of the American Musicological Society October l in Baltimore. On October 24 she will lecture at Princeton before the Italian Studies Colloquiem on the topic, "Mozart's Happy Endings: The 'Convention' of the lie to fine in Italian opera huffa." Earlier in April, she lectured at Allegheny College on the topic, "Don Giovanni: The Seducer as .cipher." �The Class of l 988's spectacular Trojan horse, produced as part of this year's had a short and happy life before the mighty animal could away for a secret military Originally, lacking Troy, students had hoped to get the paper stallion beyond the Naval Academy walls just before th.is year's croquet game, but heavy winds put an end to their 18-foot-high creation. Dominating the quad soon after its surprise appearance, the 300-pound horse of heroic dimensions had been constructed in the heating plant garage within a single weekend. Monday night seminars were interrupted by seniors in Greek dress, and a based upon The Odyssey and written Ben Krauss, of Evergreen, Colo., followed in the Auditorium. The horse appeared under cover of darkness. John Lavery, of McLean, Va., and Greg Ferguson, of Potomac, had constructed its wooden frame on Saturmolding and shaping its lines with RACHEL ANKENY Wales and Ireland. Miss Ankeny was one of 75 students from 48 colleges chosen to receive stipends of $13,000 to support a year of independent study and travel abroad. A resident of Dearborn, Mich., Miss Ankeny intends to obtain a law degree and master's in public health in order to pursue a career in health law. Her decision to study Huntington's Chorea, also known as Woody Guthrie's Disease, stems from an interest in genetics and recent advances in medicine which hold both moral and legal implications. "St. John's College, with its emphasis on morals and ethics," she said, "has led me to recognize the need for research and treatment in several neglected areas within the field of medicine. Huntington's, for instance, puts severe pressure on the family of the person affected. "I hope my studies in clinics and health facilities in Great Britain, where this disease is most prevalent, will form a foundation for my future graduate work." Altogether the Santa Fe campus has had 16 Watsons·since 1971. lied paper mache 2 a.m . . morning and then finished the beast that evening. Mr. Lavery . ferguson had found the head the hardest part to attach. The paper mache crew discovered the belly the most difficult to make stick. Getting that to stay in place was difficult enough without venturing to add the trap door that the Greeks had provided for their wooden animal. Monday students applied two gallons of white paint. Sarah Waters, of Washington, spray painted the black hooves and added shading. The horse was completed with a tail and mane made up of old bed linens torn up and spray painted. Students carried the horse from the garage to the quad and wired it in place. There was some thought about where to put it once the prank was officially concluded, but it was too big to get safely through the doors of any college building and, instead, after succumbing to high winds, went off to the happy meadows where all former Trojan horses go. During its presence, everyone applauded the model as a great success. "Those students are marvelous," Joe Spriggs, grounds crew foreman, com. mented admiringly. "They can do anything - anything." Scholars' program The Santa Fe campus will reinstitute its Southwest Scholars Program in the 198889 academic year. Originally established by the Board of Visitors and Governors in the 1970s, the program is designed to attract students from the Southwest, particularly high Instead of having their usual March achieving minority students. homecoming, alumni of the Annapolis . Each scholarship, valued at $2,500Graduate Institute will participate in the $5,000, will be available for up to a period regular homecoming September 23-25. of four years. Funds are awarded on the basis of Approximately 60 master's program alumni are expected, a figure that will financial need, academic promise and push the number attending the annual community involvement. Admissions banquet well beyond the capacity of the essays also are considered. Scholarship winners judged to have no college dining room. As a result, Betsy Blume, director of alumni activities, said financial need will be awarded low interest the homecoming banquet, which last year loans and, whenever possible, non-college, drew 215 persons, will be held in the gym-. work-study jobs. For further information, call the Admissions Office. nasium this year. Fall homecoming to draw GI group The students' Trojan horse was big enough to walk under . Capital photo Phaiakian feast attracts 450 At 5:30 a.m. on a cold April morning following this year's senior prank, the Annapolis campus was silent and sleeping. as Christopher Lynch, Minneapolis senior, hunkered down in his jacket under a canopy behind McDowell, trying to keep himself warm. Before him, over a bed of charcoal, a whole lamb took its first spin on a rotary spit. Michael Crawford, the senior class's talented chef, still going strong after a sleepless night of cooking, had the marinade ready: olive oil, Balsamic vinegar, rosemary, a little garlic, salt and pepper. Mr. Lynch's assignment was to stay awake and ladle it on. The lamb was a centerpiece for the midday Greek feast. Cold weather discouraged the afternoon games for the prank, based upon lhe Odyssey, but it produced two Olympian sized things: a giant Trojan horse and a feast that drew 450 students, faculty, and staff members. This was a meal any Phaiakian could herald as a triumph. Mr. Crawford supervised the preparation of all the food with the exception of the baklava, which the pastry cook for St. John's food service had made. He began at 8:30 p.m. Monday and cooked straight through the night and morning, concluding at 12:45 p.m. the following noon when the doors of Randall Hall were opened. Student assistance, whicb increased to 20 just before serving time, was as low as two during the "graveyard shift." Between 4:30 and 6:30 a.m. Mr. Crawford found himself working at a critical pace with Susan Borden, Merion, Pa., senior, inlaying down the filo dough for the spinach pies. Since filo dries out in 30 seconds, she kept a brush loaded with butter moving at a brisk pace. IN ADDITION to the roasted lamb and the Spanokopita - the spinach pies - there were 13 legs of lamb, ratatouille, white beans, 801oaves of garlic bread, and the baklava. Mr. Crawford, who had prepared parties for up to 60 persons, has been cooking since his mother first let him use a stove. As a student here, he has gained practical experience as the pantry cook at Northwoods, considered by some the best restaurant in town. Eventually he would like to study Italian regional cooking for two years, become a chef, and then write about food. Like the best cooks, Mr. Crawford calculates measurements by instincts. Here are two of the recipes he used and the proportions he thinks best. You may want to adjust them to your own tastes, but his bring wonderful results. RATATOUILLE The important thing in cooking ratatouille is to cook the vegatables separately and to keep them from becoming soggy. Because it is a Mediterranean dish, Mr. Crawford sautes them in equal proportions of Virgin olive oil and vegetable oil. As the vegetables are cooked, he drains them and sets aside all the liquids. The vegetables: two eggplants, two zuchinni, two green pepper, three onions, six tomatoes, and a yellow and/ or red pepper. To prepare the eggplant, slice and salt on both sides. Place in a collander for 30 minutes to sweat. Then cut the egg plant in one-inch pieces and saute with zucchini over low heat. Saute equal amounts of onion and green pepper over low heat for about 25 minutes until they are wilted. Do not brown. The onion should be translucent. Cook with spices: a half-teaspoon each of thyme, oregano and marjoram. (Continued on P. 3) --------="""""'---------------~-~..=----~~~=.:o..."'----~-------- ----~------- � 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/c10ab24d98d356bae0f80e7d2dae4723.pdf 335e68aaad5cd7fd9471f6f6669f59bd PDF Text Text . ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY I~\ 1111i1mm11~f1 \1'~1~ 11\~IIllI~\\Ill The IIII IllII -:t_. 31696 011381363 c St~ John's ------------- 1 \ \ \ t Comm t. cement John Verdi has been named one of two assistant deans for the Annapolis campus, President William M. Dyal, Jr., has announced. He will assume duties July 1. Mr. Verdi will succeed Malcolm Wyatt, who is completing a fourth year in that position and who will return to full-time teaching. A native of New York City, Mr. Verdi· has been a tutor since 1975, first on the Santa Fe campus and since 1985 on the Annapolis campus. He is a graduate in psychology from Fordham University and holds a master's and doctorate, both in philosophy, earned in 1974 and 1975 at the University of Southern California. In addition, Mr. Verdi has completed research in cognitive experimental psychology in the area of moral judgement at the University of California at San Diego. He received a master's degree from UCSD in psychology in 1978. Mr. Verdi served St. John's Santa Fe (Continued on P. 9) C~'mmencement at 2 p.m. May 22 will asstlme an added significance this year, concll;lding, as it does, a year in which St. John's has marked the fiftieth year of the Ne~ Program. Representing the forty-seventh class of its kind to graduate, students will receive their degrees under the Liberty Tree and the personal congratulations of friends and family members at a reception afterwards on the quad. Should weather (Continued on P. 7) Peter Arnott here Peter Arnott, whose one-man performances have become a regular and smashingly successful part of St. John's Reality Weekend, the weekend of parties and games with which students celebrate spring, will make his eighth appearance on the Annapolis campus on May 13. His marionette theater will enact Euripides' Alcestis at 8: 15 p.m. in the Key (Continued on P. 7) Robert Neidorf dies in Santa Fe Faculty musical The 1980s will go down as a great decade in show business for the faculty and staff. Eight years ago, in 1980, they produced "Perils Before Swine," a remake of the old student musical, "Perils of St. John's," originally written by Jeremy Leven, A '64. Four years ago the faculty (Continued on P. 7) Parents' Weekend An old, much missed theatrical troupe is coming out of retirement Parents' Weekend to stage A. E. Houseman's satire on Greek Drama, "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy," which for many years was a traditional part of St. John's Christmas parties. Former librarian Charlotte Fletcher and tutors emeriti Hugh McGrath and Winfree Smith will stage their brief playlet during the reception for parents (Continued on P. 7) Croguet match The sixth annual St. John's-Navy croquet match is scheduled for I p.m. . April 24. It will be St. John's year to even the score, which now stands at Navy, three wins, St. John's, two. Robert De Majistre, Westchester, Pa., senior, imperial wicket again this year, is lining up players. (Continued on P. 7) Board meeting The Board of Visitors and Governors will hold its spring meeting at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 30, on the Annapolis campus. Also meeting that weekend will be the Alumni Association Board. Among the business awaiting the association will be meetings of the By-Laws Committee, looking toward major revisions in the by-laws, and a meeting of the Nominating Committee that is expected to result in changes in election procedures. John Verdi, tutor and psychologist, has a new assignment. Greg Ferguson photo Brighter sp_ace Boat House work underway Instead of waiting until all the money is in to complete its renovation at a single time, the Annapolis campus is proceeding step by step to remodel the boathouse. Jeri Rhodes, college treasurer, said that she hoped work would be sufficiently advanced by the 1989 spring semester so that the boathouse's upstairs room can be used for student parties and other activities. The coffee shop, normally used for such purposes, will be shut for that semester while renovation work is underway in McDowell. Already completed are new guard rails on the second story porch and new exterior staircases. A completely new divided staircase has been built on the southwest side of the building with one case leading to an exit from the second floor and the other to the porch . In addition, new weathertight flooring has been added to the porch. But a number of projects remain. The college plans to expand the second floor room by about eight feet by extending it into the porch area where a glass wall will be built. The thought is to provide a larger, brighter enclosed space that would command a generous view of College Creek. A third of· the porch will remain as open area. Windows in the room will be enlarged by lowering them ten inches to increase natural lighting. The work on both the windows and wall are scheduled for summer. In addition, the second floor is scheduled for a new floor and two new restrooms and two shower and dressing rooms. Downstairs, where college boats are stored, another restroom will be built. Plans prepared by the architect, Paul B. Pavlovich, of Washington, call for new food and beverage storage and preparation areas. Outside, on the interior campus side, an octagon shaped gazebo would be constructed as a place suitable for entertaining and ceremonial purposes. To be built with an elevated platform, it could be hung with lights, pendants and banners when occasions warrant. An additional boat storage space would be provided below its deck. Robert Allen Neidorf, who twice served as dean of the Santa Fe campus, died February 3 at St. Vincent's Hospital following a lengthy illness. He was 57. With the exception of a two-year period from 1964-67 when he taught philosophy at the State University of New York at Binghamton, Mr. Neidorf had been with St. John's since 1962. He had taught first on the Annapolis campus for a two year period and then, following his time with S UNY? joined t~ western campus in 1967. There he served as dean for two terms: from 1973-77 and from 1982-86. He also was director of the Graduate Institute from 1970 to 1973. Mr. Neidorf earned his bachelor's and master's degree in 1951 and 1955 at the University of Chicago and his doctorate in (Continued on P. 11) After St. Johns, a return to roots Ben Barney at work on the reservation by BYRON SCHNEIDER Patterning a symbol holy to his people, the life of Ben Barney has come full-circle. For Mr. Barney, SF '70, director of the Rock Point (Ariz.) Community School, the circle started in the early '60s with 2,000 other Navajo students at a boarding school in Utah run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Many would say that the school's location, a sizeable distance from the Navajo 's Reservation in Arizona, was no accident. It is widely held that BIA policy during this period was designed to quietly weaken, as much as protect, the people under its charge. Ben Barney began to quietly fight back. At the boarding school, Mr. Barney became a member of the student council and was invited to give a speech at a conference in Chinle, Ariz. "I wanted to give a portion of the speech in Navajo," Mr. Barney said in a recent interview, "because Navajo was outlawed by the BIA. That became a big issue with me: my language is my language, and you can't do things to me because I speak it. So I ended my speech in Navajo and placed third in the competition." That speech gained the attention of Charles Minton, of Santa Fe, an attorney working with the Taos and Pueblo Indians, and a number of other southwestern tribes. "Somehow Minton came across the speech and wrote to me and said 'Hey, who are you? You 're saying some interesting things.' So I started writing to him, and over the years we wrote back and forth." Minton was instrumental in getting Mr: Barney to the Colorado Rocky Mountain School, a preparatory high school in Car(Continued on P. 8) �PAGE2 THE REPORTER APRIL 1988 is judge hiladelph 1944 The School of Philosophy of the Catholic Univeristy of Ameica and the University Press honored Arthur January 27 in Washington on his anniversary as university professor of philosophy, Yeshiva: University. He was presented with a festschrift, "A Straight Path, Studies in Medieval Philosophy and Culture, Essays in Honor of Arthur Hyman." Following the presentation, Mr. Hyman spoke on "Maimonides and Aquinas on Rationality and Law." Another member of the class of '44 to be honored in January was Vernon E. Derr, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Environmental Research Laboratories. He is one of 58 career federal workers to receive 1987 Presidential Rank Awards. In presenting the awards January 5 in Washington, President Reagan described the recipients as "top quality professionals." Mr. Derr has headed NOAA's research laboratories since 1983. 1961 Michael Ham and Linda McConnell, lab partners in their junior year, were married January 4 in Santa Cruz, Calif., where they reside. In attendance were Michael's three children, Cecilia, Greta, and Ethan, and Linda's daµghter, Adeline. Linda works as a psychiatric nurse at the VA hospital in Palo Alto, and Michael is a product managerforCTB/McGraw-Hill in Monterey. The two got in touch again, after not seeing each other for more than 20 years, as a serendipitous result of the 25th reunion of their class. Both elected to keep their original surnames. Michael is a former director of admissions at the college. 1965 Marta has been named to the Board of Trustees of the Congressional American Folklife Center, an ao1001,nune1nt made through the office of president of the U.S. Senate. Marta is head of the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she is professor of English and anthropology. She commutes to the university from Santa Fe, where she lives at 1127 Old Santa Fe Trail. 1981 Hans-Peter Soder is spending a year in Germany on a fellowship from Cornell, where he is in the German Department, according to word received from Janet Durholz, '82. She is in the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell. "He told me he'd be willing to help out any Johnnies interested in spending time in German universities - i.e., get information on programs, application forms and so forth as well as provide advice." His address is Jakob Kaiser Str. 16, App. 304, 4800 Bielefeld I, West Germany. 1985 Christopher Brown, who has completed his master's in classics at the University of Virginia, is now working toward a doctorate in classics there. He also is teaching an undergraduate section in Latin at the university. 1987 By the end of January, Ellie Dietrich, director of career planning on the Annapolis campus, had heard from 50 percent of the graduates of last year's senior class. In response to a survey about what members of the Class of 1987 are doing, she found that 35 percent are employed, 43 percent are enrolled in graduate school,. and another 22 percent are working but applying to graduate school or involved in a job search. Altogether she mailed 65 questionnaires. Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence Berns, Betsy Blume, John Christensen, Benjamin Milner, Howard Zeiderman, Elliott Zucker• man, advisory board. The Reporter is published by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD 21404. William M. Dyal, Jr., president Published four times a year, in February, • June, September and November. Secondclass postage paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS 018-750 In no particular order, this is how some of the first alumni responded: James Allen is living in Gaithersburg, Md., and teaching physical and environmental science at Prospect Hall High School in Frederick. Catherine Irvine and Paul Anderson are both with the college. Catherine can be found in the library as reader services and circulation librarian, and Paul is with the Admissions Office as admissions representative for alumni activities. His work involves planning recruitment activities with alumni. In addition, Paul is residential associate. John Shaughnessy, of Westport, Ct., is a marketing assistant specializing in college humanities textbooks for Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Stephen Jackson is a field representative with Prentice-Hall Publisher. Mark Krause is learning about basic operations of a winery, assisting at Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, which is owned by alumni Barbara, A '55, and Warren, A '52, Winiarski. This means selling experience at the small Napa Valley, Calif., winery as . well as such aspects of the winery's work as moving, filtering, bottling wines, crushing grapes, handling barrels, etc. Todd Peterson is in Cambridge, Mass., working as a research assistant at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Ray Wakefield is a ranch hand learning erosion control and maintenance techniques at the Santa Fe ranch of Charles Miller. Susan King is interning with the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis and planning to enter the Vniversity of Maryland in the fall. She will study history and library science. Teaching sixth and seventh grade English and science at Oaklawn Academy, Edgerton, is Alan Haffa. He hopes to begin studies comparative literature this fall at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Miriam is doing all sorts of things Repertory Theatre in Chicago: serving as business manager, stage manager, light board operator and grant writer. "Odd jobs are my specialty. I will soon be a substitute teacher in Chicago public school system. Theater is great, but it doesn't pay the rent." Heather Peterson is living in Annapolis, has been with the Spence Group, an association management group, for which she was contracted to design file systems for all financial and subject files for three managed companies. David Heimann is attending the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. His course work is with the Latin American Studies Department. Hak-Man Chang is enrolled in Harvard's East Asian Studies program, where he is studying Chinese philosophy. Daniel Caldwell, of Lawrence, Kans., is in a graduate program of physics at the University of Maryland which he intends to complete in 1992. John Sullivan, of Alexandria, is in a doctoral program in zoology at Duke University. Enrolled in a master's program in philosophy at the University of Massachusetts/ Amherst, where he is taking additional work in classics (ancient Greek) and in German is Paul Emmart As a volunteer, he is engaged in an English as a second language program, training mainly Cambodian refugees. Christopher Howell is at the Centre International d'Etudes Francaises at the Universite Lyon, France. He writes: "I am currently working as a volunteer at the 'Foyer UCJC' of Lyon, France. Although the Union Chretienne de Jeunes Gens is the French version of the American YMCA, the organization has more in common with what the U.S. YCMA was like before jogging came into style, and there was such thing as a weight machine. "Here in Lyon it is also referred to as a 'Foyer de Jeunes Travailleurs,' or, in other words, a dormitory for young workers. It is interesting working and living with (Continued on P. 11) Mark I. Bernstein, A '69, a veteran litigation attorney, has begun a ten-year term as judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia. Last year he was appointed by the Governor to complete an unexpired term. Sworn in as judge in April, he won both the Democratic and Republican nomination for that office the following month, and was elected in November for a full 10-year term beginning January 4. His wife, Linda Torcaso Bernstein, A '69, is administrative law judge for the Social Security administration. Judge Bernstein began his judgeship last year on April 27 while presiding over several non-jury criminal trials to help begin the process of relieving the backlog of criminal cases in the Philadelphia court system. He had been involved in litigation for more than ten years in Philadelphia, most recently as a partner with the Philadelphia based law firm of Hunt & Fineman, P.C. Prior to joining that firm, Judge Bernstein was an associate with Martin Heller for four years and a public defender for the Public Defender's Association of Philadelphia for two years. Judge Bernstein's civic activities include membership on the U.S. Service Academy Selection Committee of the Second Congressional District, on the Affirmative Action Committee of the Democratic State Committee, on Philadelphians for Recy-' cling, on the advisory council for the Sudden Infant Death Resource Center, and on the executive committee of Philadelphia Lawyers Against Apartheid. He also has held the chairmanship of the board of directors of Inc., and the vice-chairmanship of board of directors of the West Mt. · and served as Democratic the 27th Ward. Accompanied by his wife, Mark Bernstein is sworn in as judge. After graduating from St. John's, Judge Bernstein received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He also served for six years in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. The Bernsteins are the children: 10, .JIVC>vµ.u, 2. s Miami attorney Harvey Goldstein, A '59, has been nominated to succeed Dr. David Dobreer, A '44, as president of the St. John's Alumni Association. An Alhambra, Calif., physician, Dr. Dobreer is completing his second three-year term. At its January meeting, the nominating committee also proposed Jonathan Zavin as vice-president and nominated Bernard Jacob and Chris Nelson to continue as secretary and treasurer, respectively. Election is scheduled for the annual business meeting in September. Nominated as directors of the board are John Van Doren and Wiseman, who continue, and Charlotte King, Everett Wilson and Thomas Geyer as new members. Mr. Nelson and Mrs. Wiseman were nominated for second terms on the Board of Visitors and Governors. Until he formally is elected president, Mr. Goldstein is replacing Jean FitzSimon, who recently resigned, as the association's executive vice-president. Thaw views O'Keefe's work Recently in Santa Fe to lecture on the work of Jackson Pollock, Eugene Thaw, A '47, has completed a year-long appraisal of the 250 works of Georgia O'Keefe. "I looked at every picture in the warehouse and prepared lists. I placed a value on each work, then reviewed the list with photographs to refine it. I physically saw each painting. His $20-million estimate was based on the market value and the quality and condition of each work. .. you start with a range and then grade the work within the range," he said. "In the case of O'Keefe, I had known her work for 40 years. The first major sale I made as an art dealer was five of her paintings in 1950. I knew her work, but I was not deeply involved with it." Although he spends most of his time in New York, Mr. Thaw recently purchased a house in Tesuque near Santa Fe. Mr. Thaw now administers the largest private foundations ever established exclusively to aid visual artists. Upon the death of Jackson Pollock, he urged his widow, the artist Lee Krasner, who died in 1984, to establish the ·Pollock-Krasner Foundation. With assets at more than $25-million, the foundation administers grants for "worthy and needy artists" of recognized merit who need financial help to carry on their creative work. The former St. John's board member edited a four-volume catalogue of the works of Jackson Pollock published by Yale University Press in 1978. In an interview with The Albuquerque Journal, Mr. Thaw reported that Pollock studied with Thomas Hart Benton in New York in the 1930s, a time when he "could draw in the Renaissance fashion if he wanted." The Journal writes: "Pollock's work, Thaw said, is marked by rhythm, focus, vitality and energy . Because of this, even though Pollock's drip technique was ridiculed, his work is nearly impossible to forge. The fourth volume of Thaw's books includes examples of Pollock forgeries. "Thaw, and many other critics, consider Pollock not only a major 20th century artist but a crucial link in the history of modernism in art because of his use of the surface of the canvas and because of the surreal elements in his art. "'The activity in Pollock's work is on the surface. The art expresses itself on the flat, without depth. You are not looking through a window as in Renaissance art. " 'The other great theme in modernism is a surrealism, an angst. The psychology of modernism is marked by the common search for the self, both individually and mankind's primordial, racial archtypical images.'" �APRIL 1988 THE REPORTER PAGE3 Off-campus activities expanding in East Annapolis students are going places and doing things - hiking along the Potomac, skiing, hearing an opera and visiting a noted Pennsylvania art gallery. The Student Committee on Instruction will sponsor a bus trip to Baltimore's Lyric Opera House for a performance of Verdi's La Traviata April 16. In the first activity it has sponsored, a new Outdoor Club had 20 students hiking and climbing the rocks along the Potomac River at Great Falls. Plans are underway for a bike trip this spring between Oxford and St. Michael's on the Eastern Shore as well as a trip to fossil hunt and hike at Calvert Cliffs in Southern Maryland. Next year Anne Boynton, Bethesda freshman, and Rick Craven, Wilmington, Del., junior, the club leaders, are hoping students will bring sufficient equipment back with them in order that they can go camping in Virginia's Shenandoah or Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. With the help of Kenneth Colston, director of residence, the Assistant Deans Office this year also has been active in conducting regular bus trips to the Washington Mall, where students may explore the Smithsonian museums or visit other places in Washington before return·· ing to Annapolis in early evening. In addition, that office arranged for a successful, late winter ski trip to Ski Liberty near Gettysburg. In February, Artist-in-Residence Burton Blistein took a group of students to see the superb collection of a thousand paintings maintained by the Barnes Foundationat Merion, Pa., near Phil~delphia. Students' voice to be bzgger Annapolis students are going to play a larger role in the campus's decision-making process. After a number of discussions with representatives of the student body, President William M. Dyal, Jr., is asking that the president of the Delegate Council be present on an ex-officio basis at the bimonthly Administrative Council meetings. In addition, a student is to be named to the Library Committee. When issues of policy and general information are under review, they are to sit in on meetings of the Admissions and Financial Aid Committees. Mr. Dyal said students also will be chosen annually to contribute to decisionmaking in areas where committees do not exist, such as health and scheduling. Two students will continue as members of the Campus Planning Committee, and Fees to total $14, 700 in fall St. John's students will pay $I 4, 700 to attend the college next year. Annapolis treasurer Jeri Rhodes announced that fees were increased by 712 per cent by the Board of Visitors and Governors at its recent meeting in Santa Fe. Tuition will experience the largest increase, going up $800. Room and board will grow by $125 and $100, respectively. Fees, compared with those for the present academic year, will be: Tuition, $11,000, from $10,200; room, $1,700, from $1,575, and board, $2,000, from $1,900. Altogether this year's fees total $13,675. They will be the same for both campuses. In addition, tuition for January freshmen in Santa Fe was set at $5,500 the first semester and $4,400 the second semester or $9,900 altogether. (Because of renovation work on McDowell, the Annapolis campus will not enter a January class.) Graduate Institute fees were set at $235 a credit hour. Room and board will be $50 a week each for the summer of 1988. Data needed Roberta Rusch, manager of the bookstore, is writing a book on the history of McDowell Hall and has a request for members of the St. John's community: "I would appreciate hearing from alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the college with tales to tell. "Classes, pranks, lectures, waltz parties, rock parties, paper conferences, stolen portraits, all-nighters, breaking into the bell tower, hurling yourself at the dean's knees and begging for mercy. What do you remember? Also, serious historical facts about the building that you have first-hand information about. "Photographs and original art work are most welcome. I will return your originals and give grateful credit in the text." Material may be sent to Ms. Rusch at the St. John's Bookstore, PO Box 1671, Annapolis, MD 21404. the student body will contin.ue to be represented at meetings of the Board of Visitors and Governors. Nominees for these positions are to be selected through the Delegate Council with final selection by the faculty or administration. Cave career session Santa Fe students considering careers in journalism had an opportunity at a recent career planning session to gain practical advice from a nationally known editor, Ray Cave, A '48. The editorial director of Time, Inc., described journalistic skills as those of a craft. Like plumbing, "You can learn it." "The most important skill a journalist must develop is the ability to see," he said. "You must be able to observe the world around you. Only then can you learn to put what you have seen on paper." His advice: "Learn to ask meaningful questions, then learn to listen to the answers. Learn that the other person may be right, and learn that even if the other person is wrong, he has a reason to hold that opinion." As far as incentives for journalistic careers go, Mr. Cave listed fame and money as the worst stimuli, a sense of public service as the best. GI adding segments In a move designed to ease scheduling problems, the Annapolis Graduate Institute will offer two segments of its program each academic term beginning next fall. Once offered only in the summer, the Annapolis Institute was put on a yearround basis in 1986, making it possible for many students to use the fall and spring terms to continue studies begun in the summer. As interest in the program has grown, Institute Director Thomas May said there has been increased demand for the limited number of spaces available. "Beyond this, our current students are locked into an inflexible two-year sequence," he pointed out. "(Year one: Politics and Society segment, fall; Literature, spring; year two: Philosophy and Theology, fall; Mathematics and Natural Science, spring.) "It becomes difficult for local students who take only part of a segment during one of the academic terms to complete the other classes required for that segment as soon as they might. "This inflexibility weighs even more heavily on out-of-state students who take up residence here and need to complete their degrees in a very limited time." In reporting to the faculty, Mr. May informed its members that when the Institute attains its maximum size of two segments for each academic term, it will need the equivalent of two and two-third's tutor a term. "It is important to note that at present requests from our tutors for teaching stations in the year-round Institute exceed the number of stations available." John Cornell rehearses the St. John's College Choir. Concert • lS Michael Morris photo 'wond er f u l' event by CONRAD BAUGH SF '89 "Small Chorus" is the name usually applied to an extra-curricular choral group to distinguish it from Freshman Chorus. Bigger and better and no longer deserving to be called "small," the chorus of more than fifty voices has been renamed the St. John's College Choir. Recently, in a beautiful and moving Saturday evening concert, the choir performed Faure 's Requiem before a packed audience in Santa Fe's principal performance center, the St. Francis Auditorium of the Museum of Fine Arts. Soloists were Myra Andrews, San Francisco senior, soprano, and David Dillard, New Castle, Del., junior, baritone. Tutor John Cornell conducted. The Requiem was preceded by Brahms' last compositions, the two organ preludes on "O Welt, ich muss dich lassen," nearly flawlesly performed by Lawrence Cave, also of the faculty. Mr. Cave played the solo organ accompaniment for the Requiem. Although its name has changed, the ensemble still retains the spirit of the Small Chorus. The students and its three tutors did not audition to take part. Rather, dedication and a love for singing were the only requirements. "We had allowed ourselves less than two months to prepare this work in order that it be done by spring break and before the most taxing part of the school year that follows," Mr. Cornell said of its tight rehearsal schedule that included, besides Sunday rehearsals, sectional and extra rehearsals during the week. Responding to its exceptional effort, the choir performed as if inspired by Faure's elevating harmonies. Enthusiasm ran high. "This must be by far the best choral group St. John's has ever assembled," Ursula Kovacek, Vienna, Austria, sophomore said. "It's certainly the best one I've seen," added Beth Heinberg, Wilmington, N.C., junior. Mr. Cornell and Mr. Cave had considered performing the Requiem after sensing the promise of the Small Chorus during the first semester. In addition to the Faure, the chorus last December, along with the St. John's College Orchestra, gave two performances of Haydn's Mass in Honor of Saint Nicolai, one in the Great Hall and another in nearby Cristo Rey Church. David Dillard has been singing since he was 14 with a number of musical groups. "The main thing that I wanted to convey was the feeling and the message of what I was singing," he said following his strong performance. "They are just as important as the sound." Although Miss Andrews has been a soloist for more than ten years, she was concerned about some difficulties her solo presented and the possible effects of a recent illness. Nevertheless, she delivered a fine, almost spell-binding performance. "I think that it's really great that we've all worked so hard," Miss Andrews said. "It's already difficult for a school like St. John's to do something like this. Mr. Cornell and Mr. Cave should be appreciated fordoingallthisworkontheirownfree time ... I would just like to say, 'Thanks a lot, guys!'" . Thank you, Mr. Cornell and Mr. Cave, for providing us with a wonderful experience. Board names three members St. John's has named three new members, all from the Southwest, to its Board of Visitors and Governors. They are Bruce King, of Santa Fe, former governor of New Mexico; Frank V. Ortiz, of Albuquerque, N.M., former ambassador to Guatemala, Peru and Argentina, and Donald James Maciver, Jr., of El Paso, Tex., senior vice-president of the El Paso Natural Gas Company. They were elected at a meeting of the board at St. John's Santa Fe campus. Mr. King served as governor of New Mexico from 1971-74 and from 1979-82. He is a former vice-chairman of the New Mexico Democratic party. He is now a Santa Fe rancher and livestock feeder. A career Foreign Service officer, Mr. Ortiz in 1975 was deputy executive secretary of State under Henry Kissinger. A native of Santa Fe, he is diplomat-inresidence at the Univerity of New Mexico. In addition to his vice-presidency, Mr. Maciver is general counsel and secretary of the El Paso Natural Gas Company, with which he has been associated since 1971. He is a graduate of both the Naval Academy and the University of Texas. Peter Pesic gives concert at Harvard When Santa Fe tutor Peter Pesic gave a series of four concerts at Harvard, students in an introductory music course were required to attend and review his performance. "I found this somehow delightfully funny," he said, "because when I was a student 20 years ago there, I could scarcely have imagined that some day students would be required to write papers on my concerts." Mr. Pesic, musician-in-residence on the Santa Fe campus, is a 1969 graduate of Harvard. One of the students, Alec Beckett, had this to say about Mr. Pesic's performance of a Schubert Sonata: "One of the most impressive aspects of Pesic's playing was his ability to understand and express which aspects in the texture are important. More than simply keeping the melody line separated from the accompaniment, Pesic also brought attention to lines or moving parts which were to soon grow into a new or developing section." After the final concert, Margaret Mertz, SF '83, of the Music Department at Harvard: Mara Schiffren and Brett Goldberg, on behalf of the Winthrop House Music Society, sponsor of the series. While in Cambridge, Mr. Pesic saw several Johnnies now studying at Harvard: Mara Schiffren and Brett Goldberg, both SF '82, and Chris Sturr, '89. �PAGE4 THE REPORTER APRIL 1988 Interim report recommends n w art tut rial The fallowing is an interim report of a Committee on Visual Arts which has been conducting weekly meetings on the Annapolis campus on the possibility ofan art tutorial. Because of space, we are unable to reproduce Section B, dealing with the actual planning of the tutorial. That section proposes that the tutorial would include discussion of a series of great works that are "unquestionably worthy of exploration" and could include museum trips, practica in drawing, use of colors, sculpting, etc., and an account of"elements "in art. Should an art tutorial be approved, however, the content of the tutorial would be determined by further study. The "ad hoc committee on the visual arts" is a self-appointed committee of six members (their names appear below), with the self-assigned task of drawing up a plan for a visual-arts tutorial that could conceivably be instituted at St. John's. The committee has been meeting once a week during the present year. The following report gives (A) our reasons for believing that a visual-arts tutorial is appropriate to St. John's; (B) a description of what we have done thus far towards drawing up a plan for such a tutorial; (C) a recommendation as to the continuation and completion of this work. A. The committee believes that the St. John's program should include a study of works of visual art. Its reasonings on this question may be outlined as follows. l. We note first that the exclusion of the visual arts from the program has, from the beginning, constituted an issue and a problem. At its annual meeting with incoming freshmen, the Instruction Committee is usually asked about it. Alumni and Board members ask why the faculty fails to address the question. To say that there isn't enough time for the visual arts is no answer, unless it can be argued in a principled way that what is included by preference is indeed preferable. 2. The fact that music is included among the seven liberal arts of medieval tradition, while the visual arts are not, is irrelevant to the issue before us. Macrobius in putting together that medieval list took over the quadrivium of Pythagorean tradition: four mathematical sciences said to constitute the avenue to '"the science of the truth in things". The music of that list was the science of relative quantity. With such a science the St. John's music tutorial deals but minimally; with the tonal music that emerged out of 12thcentury polyphony, of which Macro bi us knew nothing, it is maximally concerned. Meanwhile, the arts called liberal by Macrobius are not the only ones sonamed in antiquity. Aristotle, Pliny, and Galen included painting among the liberal arts; architecture was a liberal art to Varro and Vitruvius. More generally, "liberal art" was taken in antiquity to mean an art of understanding appropriate to a free human being. The question should be whether the visual arts fit that description. 3. When the music tutorial and chorus were introduced inthe early 1950s, one of the justifying arguments was that humans have always sung, that the making of music is an activity characteristically human. Just as plausibly we can cite the beautiful and evocative cave paintings of paleolithic times as evidence that humans, asJar back as the available evidence goes, have been drawn powerfully to the making of visual artifacts. The absorption of children in drawing may be adduced as further evidence. 4. Victor Zuckerkandl, in the Foreword to his Sound and Symbol, claims for music a special status~ The world of everyday things has been constructed, he says, by the sense of sight. It is a world of objects: '"things that confront us, are directed toward us, close in on us." Only in music, he states, "is the frame of the visible world broken through." Music is thus "a window through which we can look out from our world." Without arguing in detail against the ontology of Sound and Symbol, we would urge that the world of everyday that Ad hoc groups list reasons "closes in upon us," and out from which, in his view, music provides "a window," is not the creation of vision alone; it is above all a construction of language and habit. In moving about the world we use a succession of visual and other cues; in lives largely controlled by idea and impulse, we seldom stop to take in visually the scene that lies before us. There is such a thing as learning to look; it requires thoughtful attention. Moreover, the visual is not 'just another topic"; along with the auditory, it is a major human avenue of access to such knowing as is possible for us. Hans Jonas, in his essay on "The Nobility of Sight," marshals arguments for saying that it is the major avenue. (We would not endorse his claim that the visual is free of perceptual 'forces.') 5. Visual art has been intellectually important in the development of western thought, and it can be intellectually important still, revealing truths about our world that would not be accessible in another way. The dispassionateness with which Vermeer renders the light in a room, the vision of human dignity that somehow emerges from Rembrandt's portrayals of the human face: are these not unique statements, for which no words could substitute? A Chinese brush-and-ink painting of an old stump giving forth shoots and blossoms in spring can spark a long meditation on the nature of things. In the maturation of great visual artists like Titian and Rembrandt there is a development as astounding as that in Beethoven's music; in the one as in the· other, something is being discovered that calls out to be insofar as may be possible - understood. One of the odd omissions from the St. John's program is its failure to take account of the role of vanishing-point perspective in the coming-to-be of the Cartesian revolution. The evidence may be briefly indicated. De Santillana has argued (in "The Role of Art in the Scientific Renaissance", Critical Problems in. the History of Science, ed. M. Clagett, 33-65) that Galileo's view of the universe as a book written in the language of mathematics had roots in the science of linear perspective as developed by Florentine painters from Alberti and Brunelleschi to his own day. In Kepler the connection is quite specific: it was by an application of the camera obscura, toy offspring of the theory of linear perspective, that Kepler was led to the first quasi-correct understanding of the formation of retinal images. The importance of that discovery for Descartes was immense: from it he learned how to banish soul from the spatial world, and so proceeded to argue that the latter was in essence mathematically describable. If the Cartesian conception of the world emerged from a development in the visual arts, and if it is important to find "windows" and "doors" leading out from the world so construed, the study of the work of visual artists may be particularly helpful. Vanishing-point perspective, rigorously followed, puts a hole in a painting, a feature that the artists have had to struggle to get round. A study of how Cezanne produces a yisual space that carries the viewer's eye mto the depths and then back again, would be apropos. A Velasquez or a Monet has a vision of the world from which we can learn. Great visual artists are, in their unique way, ontologists. 6. According to the St. John's catalogue, the liberal arts have a relation to social and moral obligations, to citizenship. As social animals one of the things we do is to order the space around us. We do this either in a way that uplifts the spirit, or in a contrary way. With a view to whatever role any of us may have in the ordering of civic space, it is appropriate for students to engage in exercises that train the eye and the mind to discern different kinds of visual order and disorder, wholeness and fragmentation, beauty and ugliness. 7. As the program now stands, it is chiefly in the music and sophomore and senior language tutorials that we undertake to think about artistic wholes: works that depend on the way in which certain elements (tones, meters and rhythms, rimes and assonances and alliterations, for instance) have been selected and placed into relation with one another, in the achieving of an effect or a meaning. riate ( 1) to seek some kind of official status for the undertaking, and (2) to seek funding that would provide release-time for some of those engaged in the continuation of the work. The best thing would be a faculty study-group devoted to the planning and testing, either next year or the following year. Some work could also go forward during the summer(s ). It should be noted that the obtaining of good slides and reproductions is no small part of the job, and may have to play a considerable role in the choosing of works. In any case, The visual represents a major human avenue of access to knowledge Problems of an analogous sort arise in the visual arts, but they do this in a unique way. A work of visual art is a whole all the parts of which are simultaneously present; it is already once-and-for-all per/armed. In the immediacy of its presence, the structure of the work is uniquely accessible to exploration. We urge that the burden and challenge of introducing students to part-whole analyses - to the precision that they can achieve, and the light they can shed - be shared between music, poetry, and the visual arts. The study of all three, we predict, will thereby be enhanced. C. Recommendation. Given the magnitude of the task we find ourselves embarked on, it seems approp- we recommend that the College commit itself to the project that the committee has attempted to define, so that a grant can be sought for the pursuit of the work. Without such commitment and without the time and cash a grant could afford, we doubt that the task can be satisfactorily carried out. And in that case the question the College ought to be posing to itself will remain unaddressed. The ad hoc Committee on the Visual Arts Burton Blistein Thomas May Benjamin Milner J. Winfree Smith Gail Watkins Curtis Wilson Let S hear it for New Jersey! Roberta Rusch, A '78, figures that all the New Jersey people at St. John's have a lot in common they should exploit. That idea struck her after finding out where members of the college community had spent their Christmas holidays when her conversations went something like this: "You from Jersey. I'm from Jersey." And so the idea that it was time for St. John's to give New Jersey its due came to the college bookstore manager "like an epiphany." With tutor Howard Zeiderman, who originally hails from Peterson, she arranged for those fortunate members of the college community who had lived in the Garden State to celebrate their heritage together at dinner. Tables in the private dining room were named for famous New Jersey residents - Walt Whitman, Joyce Kilmer, Grover Cleveland, Vince Lombard and Molly Pitcher - people dignified by the ultimate honor of having rest stops along the New Jersey turnpike named for them. While records were played of Frank Sinatra (Hoboken) singing such oldies as "I've Got You Under My Skin," party-:goers stood around talking about what was good about the state. Erika Hoffman and Staci Bolton agreed the thing they liked best about New Jersey is that it is close to New York City. Besides, it has White Castles. Someone said New Jersey was one of those basic things, like your mother. It's where home is; you have to love it. Mr. Zeiderman's connections indicated practical concerns. He returns every four years to renew his license. People were honest, too. "I once lived in New Jersey three months," Christine Malinowski, A '83, bookstore assistant, confessed. "They were the worst three months in my life. I met a lot of strange characters. But I survived, and I came to St. John's, and things got better." Generally, there was a lot of enthusiasm. "Here's to Weehawken!" shouted one student at toast time. "How about the shore when it's not polluted?" queried another. "I love it when it's polluted," exclaimed another Jersey loyalist. Both Erin Milnes, who brought sea shells from the shore, and Ms. Rusch sang New Jersey state songs almost no one had ever heard, songs containing a lot of "rah rah" and "my Garden State . .. I want to live and die in dear old Jersey." Remembering Joyce, there were scattered efforts to sing ••Trees." Before dinner Ms. Rusch had juice circulated on a 1964 New Jersey tercentenary tray bought in a curio shop in Indiana and carrying an inscription on its back indicating New Jersey's infinite capacity to expand: "The state is very scenic, containing mountains, valleys, lowlands, many lakes and rivers and the Atlantic Ocean." In spare moments, guests had an opportunity to look over the turnpike newsletter, which Ele Hamburger had supplied, with its good news that "Exact Toll Lane Successful" and "Sir Stork Pays Pike a Visit." There were discoveries and recognitions at dinner, too. In cheer leading fashion, Donna Strow demonstrated a cheer for Peddie School. 'Did you go to Peddie?" asked Benjamin Hargrove, recognizing a rival institution. "I went to Blair Academy." As diners awaited the main course, Ms. Rusch distributed crayons and outlines of New Jersey and invited everyone to find the Indian in New Jersey, something they learned to do about the third grade. "Who knows the name of the New Jersey Indian tribe?" she asked. "Lenni Lenape," several former star third graders replied. The art work produced a variety of Indians. (Hint: the nose points left.) One person found the pope in New Jersey; another uncovered the possibilities of Nefertiti. (No prizes; this was the educational part of the evening.) At the end there were a number of New Jersey stories. John Silver recalled at age 12 being apprehended by a policewoman with a nightstick when he was returning home on his bike with a gallon of milk. The disgruntled officer, who had assumed it was beer, then reprimanded him for riding on the wrong side of the street. Ele Hamburger, who had helped plan the dinner, described Englewood's 12item limitation on items that could be dumped at any one time into the city dump. Her family fed the dump to the limit and then returned several hours later with more things only to be told they could not unload them. They took the items home again and put them by the side of the road so the garbage men could pick them up and take them back to the dump. As the party broke up in time for the Friday night lecture, students were still talking about the state that gave America Ho-Ho-Kus and Mahwah. "That was the year," one student was overheard saying, "when half the people in New Jersey moved to Houston ... " �Riccards questi stance on history by MICHAEL P. RICCARDS President, Santa Fe Campus The St. John's community, and higher education in general, is fortunate in having had published a collection of Jacob Klein's essays and lectures done caringly by Robert Williamson and Elliott Zuckerman. No essay should generate more interest and attention than his critique on the study of history, both because of its impact on the program and as a chapter in Klein's intellectual development. That the study of history as a discipline is absent from the program is frequently cited as an explicit choice and a tacit blessing by those who view Klein as the authority for such a departure. Klein in his lecture cites several reasons for that neglect. In doing so though, he makes history historicism and holds up to attack a portrait of history that is more characteristic of nineteenth century German scholarship than of twentieth century colleges in the United States. Following his logic, one could be equally burdened down with the decline of philosophy, the diffusion of literature, or the frivolous excesses of any area of knowledge, and consequently eliminate some or all of them from any curriculum. Why does then history merit such special exclusion, especially in a program begun by Barr and Buchanan, men who wrote and loved history? Klein's major objection to history was not its intellectual pitfalls or the misuses of history in modern education. His banning of history, like Plato's exile of poets, had a much narrower and more intense purpose. Klein and other European emigre's judged the American experience in part by their concern over the decline of the West, the disintegration of the old nation-states on the Continent, and what they represented. They saw once powerful empires ended, and new most troubling ideologies, like Marxism and Nazism, springing up. They were witnesses as once-assured truths were swept away in the currents of skepticism, nihilism, relativism, and cultural decadence. Their formative years, usually the 1920s and 1930s, were marked by a growth of a body of philosophical and popular work that celebrated the end of absolute truth, common moral values, and the tenuous link of natural law, natural rights, and the physical sciences. A new corpus of wisdom was embodied in the social sciences led by anthropology and psychology - which aimed to prove that values were relative, and that moral restraint was a product of neurosis, rather than revelation or reason. Klein's great task at St. John's was not just to refocus the Buchanan Program, but to preserve it, to encapsulate it, to protect it from its originators and its enemies real or imagined. He went to great lengths to seal the program off from the Board of Visitors and Governors and the President, and the Polity even today reflects that attitude. But he also worked diligently at sealing it off from the intellectual onslaughts of post-war America. By excluding history and the questions it poses, Klein sought to ensure that the program would deal with absolutes, questions of value, and right living. History comes dangerously close to anthropology, to cultural rather than universal knowledge, to the particular rather than the universal. To preserve his approach, he was willing to give up the depth and richness that goes with the historical approach. To protect students, and perhaps younger tutors, he turned history into the historicism of his German youth, and left outside the pale one of the greatest of all classical pedagogical devices, biography. The assault on history is thus not simply the result of that discipline's apparent weakness. One of the terrible tolls of the two great world wars that Klein and other emigre's lived through was the decline in confidence of the western tradition and of the role of reason in human affairs. For nearly four hundred years, those sentiments had been the "noble lie" of European thought, the engine that drove industrialization, nationalism, and, most importantly, the gospel of progress. The St. John's Program is itself a product of historical events. Mainly it was a reaction against the elective system of Charles Eliot at Harvard, a reaction that moved through Columbia University and the University of Chicago until it found a home as an experiment in a nearly bankrupt college in Maryland. But the upheavals in academia were minor compared to the cataclysms that rocked Europe and affected America. No major institutions here or on the Continent were safe from the intellectual shocks and traumatic social changes of the war and post-war world. Today the great enemy in higher education is not nihilism, but general apathy. And the particular challenge to St. John's is how to link the great questions of morality and virtue, on which our students are so verbal, with the everyday life of students, their behavior on dates, their awareness as citizens, and their maturity in dealing with common problems and daily concerns. Klein's defenses may have been appropriate responses in his time. But after a terrible and frightening storm, there comes a time to push back the shutters and open up the windows to let in the sunlight. And as we welcome a new dialogue, a good guide is Jacob Klein himself: "Once again ... we should examine our assumptions, try to discover at what point our thinking and willing enter the mechanism and automatism of our political practices or are subjugated by them. Once again, we have to face the immense task of education which such an exploration entails. Once again we have to picture ourselves in a cave, perhaps a deeper and vaster one than our forefathers ever imagined. The freedom we enjoy has perhaps created more chains and chains of a novel nature that hold us down. Once again we have to try to disentangle ourselves. We might fail in this enterprise, of course. But in failing we would still be exerting our freedom." Curriculum talks draw dean Dean Thomas Slakey participated in two curriculum discussions at colleges in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Last month he spoke on "Teaching by Discussion" at the Mid-Atlantic Confer- ence on College Teaching and Classroom Research at Salisbury State College. Earlier, in February, he participated in an all-day workshop which the Alvernia College in Redding, Pa., conducted on its core curriculum. Discussing the books on the St. John's list is a family affair for the Doorandishes. Dariush is pictured with his sisters, Mandanau, left, and Meetra. Greg Ferguson photo Siblings continue life together here at St. Johns When Dariush, Meetra and Mandanau "to think things out." Doorandish of Crownsville, Md., get All three students say they would not together, the conversation often focuses want to attend any other college. They on ideas expressed in the great books they agree, however, that they would like to are reading as students at St. John's. discuss the reading assignments more out"I usually like to get into the discussions side the classroom. myself," says their father, Dr. Dariush "Many of the students don't take Doorandish, a general surgeon with an advantage of this opportunity beyond the office in Glen Burnie. seminars," Mandanau observed. "They An Iranian, Dr. Doorandish is married should want to discuss the books." to an American X-ray technician he met As they talk about their unusual backwhen both were employed at South Bal- ground and interests, the Doorandish timore Hospital. After the birth of Dari- siblings laugh affectionately, interrupt and ush, 21, and Meetra, 20, they went to Iran, prompt each other. where he practiced medicine. SeventeenMeetra, the most reserved, has accepted year-old Mandanau was born there. a teaching position in Kenya through The family decided to return to the Uni- Harvard's World Teach Program. After ted States "because of the unsympathetic graduating in May, she will begin training climate under the new regime in Iran," Dr. in August. She became aware of the pro- · Doorandish said. His wife and children gram when she happened to pick up a moved to Towson, Md., in 1977, and he brochure about it on the floor in the St. joined them in 1979. A year ago, the Doo- John's Coffee Shop. Meetra already has randishes moved to Crownsville. acquired teaching experience by tutoring Meetra, a senior, said that while she was high school students in algebra and a student at Dulaney High School in Tow- trigonometry. son, she discussed St. John's with her guiWhen time allows, Meetra enjoys ballet dance counselor. "I was told that I dancing and drawing. Dariush plays the wouldn't like it, that it was too philoso- guitar, and Mandanau is interested in the phical. That made me decide I wanted to drama. All three like to write. come here." In addition to the Doorandishes, three Her brother Dariush enrolled in Febru- other sets of siblings are currently enrolled ary 1984 and is a junior. He previously at St. John's. They are Erika and Matthew attended St. Paul's School and Boys' · Gaffney of Silver Spring, Karin and Amy Latin in Baltimore. Johns of Falls Church, Va., and Michael Mandanau, a freshman, lives on cam- and James McShane of Lincoln, Neb. pus while the other two commute from Crownsville. After considering a number of colleges, Dr. Doorandish was impressed by St. The Santa Fe Admissions Office John's small classes. With an enrollment is seeking an admissions counselor. of 400, the college has a student to faculty The 12-month position entails the ratio of eight to one. recruitment of students, travel and He also believes that the St. John's proworking with alumni. Interested algram, based on reading and discussing the umni are advised to write Admisgreat books of western civilization, presions Director Larry Clendenin at pares its graduates for the "outside world" the college. because they are encouraged to reason, Position open �PAGE6 Tutors teach poetry, art zn elementaries THE REPORTER APRIL 1988 Paul Antal, naturalist, translator Alliance Francaise presents new play in New York "You have to be very flexible, ready for anything." Thomas May, St. John's tutor, has found this attitude necessary when discussing art with elementary school children. Mr. May and another tutor, Jonathan Tuck, are volunteers in the Annapolis schools where their sons are enrolled as first graders. On sabbatical this year, Mr. Tuck is introducing students at Georgetown East Elementary to the poetry of Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings and Dylan Thomas. When Tom May showed the third graders in his art seminar at Germantown Elementary a print of Raphael Santi 's "St. George and the Dragon," they exclaimed, ..A Transformer!" As the father of a six-year-old, Mr. May knew that the youngsters had identified St. George with the heavily armored robots on a popular children's TV program . ..Transformers," who can change themselves into cars, tanks and trucks, are always good guys. "It was perfectly appropriate," Mr. May commented. "The message of the painting, the triumph of good over evil, was reinforced for the kids by associating St. George with a character on a 20th century TV program." Mr. May was in for another surprise when he presented Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" to fifth graders. "Why do you suppose the artist painted the stars this way?" he asked. "Because he cut off his ear and sent it to his girlfriend," a child replied. This revelation about Van Gogh's personal life caused such a sensation that discussion of the painting was momentarily Let other people enjoy their white Christmases. Paul Antal likes his green and south of Lake Okeechobee in the Florida Everglades. There, this amateur naturalist, who once discovered wild poinsettias growing outside his motel room in Niger, sketches plant life and compiles notebooks and oianes of what he observed in the Everglades' tropical and marshy wilderness. Years ago he abandoned the camera. "Drawing is much more satisfying," he explained. "You can look and count and see proportions." The year before Mr. Antal joined St. John's as a tutor, when he was still serving as a translator in Washington, he spent mornings holed up in the Library of Congress reading everything he could put his hands on about what America was like when it was discovered - what the first people here had to say about this country when it lay in a pristine state before them. Both the Everglades and his love of the land have become a passion for him. Pessimistically, Mr. Antal predicts that the original America will disappear entirely. But all this is to throw you off. Being an amateur naturalist is one of the unexpected things about Paul Antal and not the role for which he is establishing a reputation. HE IS ACHIEVING that as a translator, turning French plays and poetry into English after completing one really hefty job. That was the translation of the correspondence between the 17th century French philosopher and scientist, Rene Descartes, and the only woman Mr. Antal said Descartes ever loved: Elizabeth of Bohemia. His collection of letters that continues until the death of Descartes in l 650 in Stockholm is yet to be published. Anthony they forgot about Van Gogh's unfortunate idiosyncracies, they got Kenny, the Oxford don, who also has excited about the painting itself," Mr. worked on Descartes letters, in effect and recalled. "They were bursting with with some cynicism wished Mr. Antal ideas." good luck. Some people in this world may For the most part, "the paintings police be interested in Descartes, but Mr. Kenthe discussions," he said. 'The children ny's perception is that publishing companquickly spot remarks that are unrelated to ies really don't think Descartes' love letthe work." ters will sell. In fact Mr. May believes that talking It's different, however, with the plays about paintings is "a wonderful way for and poetry Mr. Antal has translated; both children to begin to realize what it means have been published. to focus carefully and intensely on one Last month he was in New York City thing." when his translation of a new play by the Mr. May's classes are part of a program French playwright Michel Vinaver, to introduce all the students at German- Neighbors. was presented at the French town to works of art. He attributes his Institute of the Alliance Francaise. decision to volunteer to "a gentle nudge It was the third of Mr. Vinaver's plays from my wife to do something for the and the fourth French language drama school." Pamela May, a member of the this St. John's tutor has made accessible Citizens Advisory Committee at German- to American audiences. town, also conducts art seminars at the A French literature and humanities school. professor at Reed College from 1968-74 Jonathan Tuck's wife, Linda, was a and a former Fulbright Fellow, Mr. Antal volunteer last year in the library at George- became a translator almost by chance. town East, attended by their 7-year-old That was while he was teaching French son, David. She is now the school's full- and Italian at the University of Minnesotime librarian. ta's Twin Cities Campus between 1975-79. "I wanted to do something for the He had admired Mr. Vinaver's writing school during my sabbatical," Mr. Tuck for some time and, wanting something his said. "I believe in public schools." students might translate, asked the French Conducting discussions of poetry for playwright if he had anything he could third, fifth and sixth graders is "in keeping send on. Mr. Vinaver, who himself is with the training I've had," he said. "Poe- something of an off-beat dramatist not try is something I love." connected with the usual French literary He gives the children copies of a poem circles (he is a former vice-president for to read as an assignment. Then the poem European sales for Gillett in France) sent is read aloud in class two or three times his Dissident - Goes Without Saying. before the discussion. The poems chosen, . MR. ANTAL'Sstudents produced their Mr. Tuck emphasizes, are written for version, and Mr. Antal his own. Later he adults, not children. translated another 12-scene play of Vina- . In addition to talking about poetry, the ver's, Nina, Its Different. pupils occasionally are asked to write and First produced as a unit in France, as memorize poems. chamber theater, the two plays are marked ''I've learned a lot about kids that· age," by an international style of new realism, Mr. Tuck said, adding that this is his first what the French call "theatre quotidien." experience teaching on the elementary They are published in Drama Contemporlevel. ary, which appeared two years ago as the While Mr. May leads art discussions on first collection of contemporary French call, Mr. Tuck teaches regularly twice a plays in more than a decade. week at Georgetown East. He points out After Dissident was read by the Ubu that when he returns to full time teaching Repertory Theater in New York, the pubat St. John's in the fall, he won't be able to lication house connected with that theater, continue this schedule. which was looking for plays by young "I'm sorry I won't be able to go on with playwrights, commissioned him to transit," he said. late Jean-Luc Lagarce's play, Madame Greg Ferguson photo Knipper '.s Journey to Eastern Prussia. It was published in 1985. Recognition of the Antal- Vinaver collaboration came when both men were invited to the 1984 summer festival of the Yale Drama Department's Eugene O'Neil Theater. That festival involved a play a night for a two-week period with playwrights, directors, translators and others in attendance. Mr. Antal also has translated a little poetry, including the poetry of Louise Labe and that of a poet who is part of the St. John's program - Francis Ponge. He also has published a couple of his own poems, what he calls "works of ingenuity of technical interest." One of them was the result of his translating work with the International Monetary Fund. That was a poem based upon French economic jargon. In a language he describes as being between English and French and using French economic expressions suggestive of the fall, he wrote of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The French speak of a tax shelter as a "fiscal paradise" and use the term "economic serpent" in tracking currencies. Mr. Antal stitched such expressions together for his poem, "Taux d'enter," published in The World's Word in Washington. While Mr. Antal was working with the IMF, he also did freelance work translating legal documents for patent attorneys, a job fortunately facilitated by his own mechanical sense. "I assure you it is the dullest work I can contemplate," he fairly groaned at the memory. "It's not well paid, and it's taxing." One aspect of this work that served to concentrate his mind was a requirement to sign a legal document averring the accuracy of his translation. "That puts a certain edge on translation," he said. What is required to make a good translation? his junior language students frequently ask him, thinking particularly about whether a faithful translation can be compatible with a creative one. Mr. Antal's answer is to strive for as faithful and beautiful a translation as possible. "One can make another thing that is more beautiful, but that isn't a translation." Around Annapolis, Mr. Antal can be identified as a somewhat continental figure astride a motorcycle, a means of transportation he has chosen since 1961. He wears a black leather jacket that he mockingly refers to as a "gentleman's Parisian motorcyling coat." With a helmet over his sandy hair, he is, as he dodges traffic, fearful "all the time." His state of mind has its good results. "That's why I'm alive." Last year, vacationing in Europe, he cycled 2,000 miles, 1,500 of them in France where, he reported, "the camping is fabulous." He made a quick, 500-mile run into Spain in 36 hours to see a friend. Which is not bad for someone who considers himself a "lazy hiker" and a "lazy camper." Born in Taylor, Pa., of Slovakian parents who spoke Slovak at home, particularly when they did not want their children to understand their discussion, Mr. Antal became interested in French in high school. Perhaps as a form of retaliation against being shut out of conversations, he and his closest friend developed a secret language that no one else could understand. Now it's the other way around. Instead of making French a secret language, he is busy, in spare moments away from teaching, in translating French, in revealing meanings rather than in hiding them. For those in the theater, it is a clarification that is giving contemporary French drama greater viability in America today. In addition, as time permits, he is at work on another project he is keeping under cover for the moment. Later, he hopes he can put something together about the Everglades and early America, something that may serve to help conserve what remains of the original nature of both. Meanwhile, the McDowell bell rings, and it's class time - time for freshman mathematics. But that is an entirely different subject. �APRIL 1988 THE REPORTER .PAGE 7 Commencement (Continued from P. 1) be inclement, the exercises will be in the Key Auditorium and the reception in Randall. Tutor Michael Littleton will be in charge of baccalaureate at IO a.m. Sunday. Retiring tutor Curtis Wilson will be commencement speaker. In contrast to the nme New Program students who received diplomas in the first graduating class of 1941, ninetyeight seniors will graduate this year. An additional 58 will graduate on the Santa Fe campus in exercises there May 15. In addition, I 7 graduate students in Santa Fe and at least six in Annapolis will receive their master's degrees. Almost as important as commencement for some seniors are the hour-long examinations on their senior essays underway this month in the library. Because there are 98 altogether, the examinations will contiunue into the first week in May. They are open to the public. Schedules may be found in the library or in the basement of McDowell. --------- \ J\ Faculty musical (Continued from P. 1) staged another full-length musical comedy, "Pumping Irony" in which David Guaspari was the writer-director, song-and-dance man. As far as anyone knows, they were the first two faculty musicals since St. John's was chartered in 1784. At the request of students, this spring the faculty will be producing its third musical, "Compromise Street," named for a well known street in town. It is scheduled for Reality Weekend's Saturday night variety show May 14 in the Key Auditorium. Time is to be announced. Michael Littleton has written the music, and the lyrics and book are by Carolyn Wade Loring, A '77, who is pinch-hitting as a tutor this semester and co-leading a freshman seminar with Mr. Littleton. Elliott Zuckerman once more will be musical director while Malcolm Wyatt will co-direct. Mr. Littleton, who even before he was officially employed here in 1960, was being drafted by students to write music ("I'm a Red Hot Tomato from Campbell Hall"), composed the original music for "Pumping Irony" and new numbers for "Perils Before Swine." It is Mrs. Loring's year to turn out lyrics. At Johns Hopkins, where she is at work on a doctorate dealing with Kant, her lyrics, "The Lament of the Logically Lost," along with others, was a big hit at the Philosophy Department's annual Christmas party. "Compromise Street" is expected to be shorter than musicals of the past. If this year's pattern holds true to others, rehearsal time will be compressed into a comparatively short, intense period of noonday activity. As this story is written, during spring break, casting is yet to begin. Peter Arnott here (Continued from P. 1) Auditorium. A native of England, Mr. Arnott is a professor of drama at Tufts University, who makes his own marionettes, performs all the roles, and writes his own translations of Greek plays. He believes his 18-inch high marionettes appear to audiences in today's theaters on the same scale as the actors did when the plays originally were produced before audiences of 15,000. The performance will be free and open to the public. Because of the nature of the plays, performances are not considered suitable for children under 12. This year Mr. Arnott will appear under auspices of the Maryland Humanities Council. Croquet match (Continued from P. 1) As croquet season gets underway, students, not necessarily those who will be playing, have been whacking balls around on front campus since late February. What's happening on the other side of King George Street isn't known: a well kept Navy secret. For pleasant days on College Creek, the boat house will add a gazebo. Some $125,000 has been raised toward the $250,000 renovation. self-study Evaluatio visit An evaluation team from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools will visit the Santa Fe campus in November in connection with the campus's decennial accreditation. ln preparation for the visit, a self-study is underway. To launch it, the faculty discussed the college's 1937-38 and 1940-41 catalogues at a seminar in September. Also held have been seminars on the laboratory program, the seminar, itself, the role of the tutor, the music program and on Jacob Klein's essay, "The Idea of Liberal Education." The steering committee in charge includes Timothy Miller, chairman; Ronald Hale, coordinator; David Jones, Roger Peterson, Robert Richardson, Dean James Carey, and a former member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, Dr. Irwin Hoffman. Parents' Weekend (Continued from P. 1) at the president's house on May 7. The cast performed together for more than 30 years, holdmg students enrapt. Mr. Smith was part of the original cast of the I940s when the play was introduced at St. John's by the late Bernard Peebles and his wife, Cary. When the Peebles left, they were replaced by Miss Fletcher and Mr. McGrath. Mr. Smith will appear as Alcmaeon, Mr. McGrath as the Chorus, and Miss Fletcher as Eriphyle: "Her whom of all the gods/ More provident than kind/ Provided with four hoofs, two horns, one tail/ A gift not asked for/ and sent forth to learn/ The unfamiliar science/ Of how to chew the cud!" Students whose parents are here for Parents Weekend are invited to accompany their parents to the reception. They also are invited to enter themselves in St. John's first look-alike contest to be held during the reception. The parent and off-spring bearing the closest resemblance to each other - a decision to be made by the parents themselves each will receive bookstore gift certificates. The Houseman play is not intended to take away from the major production of the King William Players that weekend - Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well. It will be staged at 8: 15 p.m. Friday and 8 p.m. Saturday in the Key Auditorium with Pamela Halkett as director. Among the principal characters: Rosalind, Sheila Monen; Orlando, Graham Alumni survey be An alumni survey on careers this year will have several added dimensions. Ron Hale, Santa Fe's director of career counseling, said alumni also will be asked about the long-term impact of a St. John's education on their lives. In the West, replies will be incorporated into Santa Fe's reaccreditation self-study program. A third section will query former stu-· dents about possible alumni activities.', The Santa Fe Alumni Office is exploring new ways to serve alumni and welcomes ideas. The survey will be in the mail along with announcements of Santa Fe's homecoming and the Summer Alumni Weeks. Mr. Hale urges that alumni complete the surveys and return them. Boston alumni plan reception honoring President William M. Dyal, Jr., will be honored at a reception by alumni in the Boston area on April 17. It will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. at the home of Alan Aronson, 1731 Beacon St., Number 307, Brookline. Recently Mr. Dyal and Vice- President Jeffrey Bishop met with a group of parents, alumni and friends in the Florida area. At a reception at the Bankers Club in Miami, the two Annapolis officials were able to exchange views with Floridians on the state of the college. Harvey Goldstein, A '59, of Coral Gables, a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors and of the Alumni Association board, served as host. Another reception for Mr. Dyal and Mr. Bishop was held March 25 for alumni in the Philadelphia area at the home of Andrew Steiner in Ambler. Gift is big, but · will get larger Fran Mitchell, A '87, has given St. John's an unusual gift - a $100, 000 insurance policy naming the college as owner and beneficiary. "I see this as a wa_y to maximize my contribution with a minimum outlay," Ms. Mitchell commented. As the owner of the Wellington Financial Group, a Silver Spring, Md., firm, Ms. Mitchell specializes in insurance and tax planning. She explained that the premium for 1987 on the New York Life Insurance Company policy was $400. Her total outlay will be $4,000. Because the college owns the policy, the premiums are tax deductible. "The college can use the cash value of the policy at any time, .. Ms. Mitchell said. "It's like a bank account." Fran Mitchell left St. John's after her freshman year "for financial reasons" and worked as a medical researcher for the Washington Hospital Center. Attending college at night, she received a degree in finance from the University of Maryland. Ms. Mitchell regards her gifts as "a permanent thank you to the college. I love St. John's. I always hoped to go back." A resident of Beltsville, Md., she enjoys sailing and oil painting. Ms. Mitchell sees this method of giving as being an attractive alternative for other young alumni of St. John's who may feel that their modest resources limit their Redgrave; Celia, Valerie Pawlewicz; Oliver, Lyon Jemison; Touchstone, Casey Carter; Audrey, Jennifer Johnston; Phebe, Suzanna Bauer, and Silvius, Shum McShane. ability to make a gift of which they can be proud. Jeffrey Bishop, vice president for college advancement, agrees. "We must be mindful," he said, "of the many financial demands placed on our alumni and use the incentives offered by the Internal Revenue Service in conjunction with new financial instruments to help alumni structure their gifts." St. John's offers many other techniques for giving. Some enable individuals to retain income from assets donated (unitrusts, annunity trusts and gift annunities ), some give away the income but retain the assets (charitable lead trusts), and others are gifts of residence, whereby the donor retains the right to live in the residence for life. Planned correctly, Mr. Bishop said, these giving techniques can benefit St. John's College while satisfying the donor's financial and estate planning needs. Mr. Bishop would be happy to answer questions about gifts of insurance, such as Fran Mitchell provided, or other methods of giving. Dyal gets doctorate President William M. Dyal, Jr., will receive an honorary doctorate in human letters May 15 during commencement exercises at William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo. In another honor, he was named alumnus of the year of Baylor University, his alma mater, a selection announced by Omicron Delta Kappa, national leadership honor society. �THE (Continued from P. 1) bondale, Col., for his senior years and then to St. John's in the fall of 1966. "He was more or less the cross-cultural contact for me," Mr. Barney recalls. "He urged that it was important for me to study close to home country and at a small university." In addition to Minton, Mr. Barney was fortunate to have a mentor in his own father, now 82 years old, who was educated in Kansas shortly after the tum of the century. "It is unusual that my father should have had that type of education," says Mr. Barney, whose father and mother are still traditional Navajo ranchers. "Most Navajos his age didn't go to schools. They don't speak English. They don't read or write. Some people of his generation were forced to go to school, but they have forgotten what they learned. My father continued learning; to this day he reads a lot. He's an individualist. "My parents don't have electricity, running water, the 'modem conveniences;' yet they've forced us kids to surround ourselves with typewriters and computers." IT WAS IN Carbondale that Mr. Barney's horizons began to expand. He spent two weeks in conjunction with a professor of anthropology from the University of Connecticut translating the prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales into Navajo. A life sparming two worlds was well under way. "As a teenager I moved away from Navajo into an American public system of education," Mr. Barney said. "What is this English, history, mathematics that I'm going through? It doesn't make any sense to me. St. John's was a chance to study these questions in depth." Before corning to St. John's, Mr. Barney had spent only two years with students who were not Navajo - people not immersed in the Navajo language, culture, and religion. It wasn't an easy transition. "Other students studied and prepared in their own language," notes Mr. Barney. "English was a second language for me. At the same time, I had a fascination for discovering what this American language and culture was all about. In some ways it was hard to fully understand what was going on in the program because it was very structured and very full, a very demanding program in so many different ' Ba areas. "I didn't have a good sense of how St. John's differed from the concentration on specific subjects found at most other universities. None of the people I knew had gone to a university or college except for one cousin in the family, so I didn't really have a sense of it all. "During my freshman year I became very intense. I would go off on tangents. In my sohpornore year I became very philosophical. Lots of people were feeling torn apart. The country as a whole was going through a wobbly time. But by my junior year, I was starting to become very close to a few of the tutors, especially Michael Ossorgin and Stuart Boyd. It was nice to have that closeness and individual attention." AFTER GRADUATING from St. John's, Mr. Barney went to San Francisco to study medicine at the University of California Medical School, dropping it all about a year later to become a full-time dance student with the San Francisco Dance Theatre. "I was very widely spread," Mr. Barney comments about that period, and it came to a crisis in 1971. "I had spent a lot of time with Ossorgin, studying Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov. And there was this theme there of going home as the only thing that matters, which came to the surface in San Francisco. I made a very conscious decision: I am returning back to my people. I am tired of going through all these experiences - of going through St. John's, of going to the University of California Medical School, of living in San Francisco in the midst of all this wildness and upheaval. And it appears now that I have to go home, to return back to the Navajo people. "I knew that I was returning with a whole set of beliefs, that I was carrying baggage back over here," Mr. Barney says. "I spent one year doing absolutely nothing except almost weeping day and night, going through my dance workouts, going through that very painful period of putting aside myself and any possibility of ever doing a performance again - I put that to death as such." Much of the following twelve years, Mr. Barney explains, were spent readjusting to the Navajo language and culture, becoming part of the community again, becoming part of something that had become so foreign. "THAT ISN'T yet fully concluded," he observed. "Some Navajos say to me, 'Oh, you 're part white, you 're American. You side with non-Navajos rather than with Navajos. Your religion isn't Navajo, you're Christian. Your basic beliefs aren't Navajo.' You go through it and I don't think you ever really conclude that process. So I've always said to other Navajo students that it's easier to go away and stay away. There are problems and adjustments if you leave the language, culture, and religion. But it's ten times harder to come back and readjust. It takes so much longer and is much more painful." After returning to the reservation, Mr. Barney taught liberal arts courses at the Navajo Community College, and then came to Rock Point after it was "taken over" by the local board intent on establishing a bilingual program that embraced the Navajo language. Rock Point is still unique among Navajo schools for its extensive use of Navajo in its educational program, and it is often treated with opposition both within and without the reservation. "It is not a policy of the BIA or the federal government since the '60s to eradicate the language and culture and religion of the Navajos," Mr. Barney comments. "It is not an outright policy of a huge number of missionaries and churches to eradicate the culture or religion. Before that it was very much the policy of the BIA and the federal government that you will terminate their culture, that you will terminate their language. Because that experience ended only a little over 20 years ago, a large number of the people who thought that and developed that and worked under that kind of thinking are still around." Mr. Barney describes rn uch of the resistance to a Navajo-controlled, bilingual system of education as "a passive wave" subtle and hidden. He uses the BIA boarding school in Utah as an example. "Concentrating 2,000 students miles away from our families, our culture, our values, our beliefs, tearing us away from our own culture and language, was something that was officially encouraged by the federal government, and there are still schools that are like that. "THE PUBLIC SCHOOL system, the Baltimore begins 'Touchstones' program Through the reading and discussion of brief works in the liberal arts, seventh and eighth graders can learn skills which could change their lives. This assumptions forms the basis of "Touchstones," a pilot project introduced in January in two Baltimore middle schools, Falstaff and Northeast. The program was designed and is separately run by three Annapolis faculty members - Geoffrey Comber, Howard Zeiderman and Nicholas Maistrellis. They received funding to implement the program in Baltimore through the Abell Foundation and Choice, a Citicorp company. The grants provide for teacher training in the discussion method of education, and for two fellowships for teachers from each school to the Graduate Institute at St. John's College. The Institute's program, leading to a master's degree, is based on the St. John's undergraduate curriculum. dents with different backgrounds and experiences benefits the classes by encouraging respect for the opinions of others. At Falstaff and Northeast Middle Schools, all seventh and eighth graders will be enrolled in Touchstone classes meeting once a week for 30 to 40 minutes. Intended to be self-sufficient after two years, Touchstones was introduced first in 1985 in schools in Hartford and Pittsburgh and is now used throughout the Pittsburgh school system. In addition, three schools in Philadelphia and schools in nine rural counties in Alabama have adopted the program. Mr. Comber hopes to incorporate a system to evaluate the program at the two Baltimore schools in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University School of Education. Touchstones may motivate students to pursue their education at small liberal arts colleges. Applications to St. John's have increased among minority students where it is in effect. In Touchstones classes, teachers give up The goals of the Touchstones program, · the role of authority. Students serve as according to the three tutors, include discussion leaders, making sure that parteaching students these skills: to explore ticipants are responsible to the texts and their beliefs and think for themselves, to to each other. express their opinions clearly, to cooperEveryone is on an equal footing, and ate with people of different backgrounds, there are no right or wrong answers to the to change their perceptions of their roles questions posed. Students assume responin society, to cope efficiently with the sibility for their own ideas. technological world, and finally, to teach Touchstones is divided into three themselves. "volumes." The first consists of 50 readThe tutors stress that Touchstones is ings from which the teacher can choose. effective regardless of a student's backAmong the authors represented are Horner, ground or academic achievement. In fact, Hegel, Plato, Aristotle, William James, George Eliot and Pascal. they believe that the participation _of stu~ The 33 texts in Volume II are more complex, and the emphais is on the student's thinking through and understanding ideas he or she does not hold, in effect teaching oneself. In Volume III, contemporary and nonconternporary texts on the same subject are compared. Students write papers identifying, first, the author's stance on the subject, and then their own views on the issue. Contemporary authors read include Martin Luther King, Virginia Wolfe, Gandhi, Freud and Heisenberg, writing on Einstein's theories. Just put it down to friendliness Fund raisers at St. John's College would like to give one St. John's College tutor, who must remain anonymous, a hug. The other morning a long-time Annapolis resident telephoned Vice President Jeffrey A. Bishop to inform him that he was pledging $5,000 to the college. During the course of his conversation he said he not only had been impressed by St. John's over the years but by the niceness of his next-door neighbor, a St. John's tutor. Mr. Bishop has thanked both: the Annapolis resident for the gift he has pledged, his good neighbor for his niceness. Presented several choices by the college, the donor is in the process of deciding where best to apply his gift to St. John's. federal school system here on the reservation has a lot of questions about the use of the Navajo language. Three years ago our tribal government developed an official education policy stating that Navajo history, culture, and language should be included in some form in schools that have a majority of Navajo students. This is very controversial. It is only within the past five years that the official language of the tribe has been declared as Navajo. "Once that was announced by the tribal leadership, everybody waited to see how the federal government would react. We expected the federal government to pull our treaties and start rescinding the money off of various programs. We have a lot of trouble getting federal money or support for the Navajo language portion of our program. "Some administrators on the reservation think that they are being ordered to hire only Navajo speakers in the schools, and people who don't know the language feel threatened because they don't want to lose their jobs. Some of these people are very outspokenly against it. "They are a second generation of Navajo that has gone thorugh that terminating, eradicating, brain-washing system. So there are a lot of Navajo who are now saying that English is the language that we should teach the kids, not Navajo." Yet Mr. Barney is quick to point out that this conflict should not be confused with disintegration. "I think as you 're going through a change in culture and language, there are always these sorts of questions and factions, and that it is extremely complex. Nevertheless, this is the tribe where a majority of the people speak the language. This is the tribe whose culture is very strong. This is the tribe who has members with degrees in computer science, whom you can point to and say are successful, and yet about whom you can also say that they are Navajo. "We are no longer the tribe that is completely 'primitive' or 'uneducated' or 'unsophisticated' or untraveled and nonaggressive and passive, and whose language and culture and religion are on their way out. We don't quite classify as the 'fading red man.' We don't quite fit that mold anymore." A culture, like a man, can come fullcircle. Sports program underway in SF by BOBBY McCLEES - Assistant Director Sports are alive and well in Santa Fe. Skiing, soccer, ping-pong, fencing, and basketball have broadened the education of many students. With snow on the slopes, the Student Activities Office has made regular trips to Taos and the Santa Fe basins. Students have checked out skis, poles, and boots from the substantial supply of equipment. With the discount lift prices, skiing at St. John's is an affordable sport. The college soccer players simply do not want to stop playing. They began by having a tremendous fall season. They went virtually undefeated and won the St. John's College Invitational Soccer Tournament. Now for the second year they are playing indoors with a league in Albuquerque. The annual ping-pong tournament is nearing completion. With 22 participants, the tournament is again a success. Fencing remains the unique sport with a broad appeal to students. St. John's fared particularly well in the Fall Invitational Tournament. Sue Small, John Ange, and Will Fisher all placed first in women's foil, men's foil, and men's epe'e, respectively. St. John's basketball has moved from an intramural sport to a competitive team. In its first season, the team has won half its games. Also, St. John's is hosting its first Annual Basketball Tournament. Thus basketball completes a fine line-up of sport options. �APRIL 1988 THE REPORTER PAGE9 Marilyn Mylander cal1n ter offull service health progra1n If Marilyn Mylander had her way, she would work herself out of her campus job. "I would hope students would make good, intelligent decisions about their own health care," she described her ambition. This may happen several millennia down the way with some super species of young people evolve. For the present she is continuing to carry out her assignment. Marilyn Mylander is a dandy sort of nurse-director of college health services, as her formal title goes, managing the Annapolis campus's health services for a student body of 400, sending runny-nosed students to bed when colds strike, shepherding them off to the hospital when a leg breaks on the soccer field, and generally helping them to evaluate the degree of their own illness. At St. John's handsome Harrison Health Center - the envy of other college nurses in Maryland - she pulls together a fivemember staff that includes the n_ew college physician - St. John's alumnus David Krimins, A '63-and two part-time counselors, Brenda Robertson and Charlotte King, A '59. College psychiatrist Sigmund Amitin, who checks in periodically at the college, sees students off campus. A resident nurse, Mary Elizabeth Alexander, with an apartment at the Health Center, handles calls at night and is on call summer months. Marilyn Mylander belongs to that species of humanity that appears to be a contradiction in terms: a low-keyed redhead. She operates in an aura of calm efficiency that begins, perhaps significantly, across the Chesapeake Bay bridge in the big skyed, broad expanse of Maryand's Eastern Shore, countryside a little reminiscent of her native Iowa. UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES her associates envy, she lives on what is a rarity for Eastern Seaboard academia, a 90acre farm. Her husband, Charles Mylander, a Naval Academy mathematics professor, has his own St. John's connections, of which Marilyn is the fourth. His grandfather, Walter C. Mylander, graduated in 1900 from St. John's and also was awarded a master's degree by the college. His father, also Walter C. My lander, was graduated in 1932 and at one time was a member of the St. John's board. Professor Mylander's late mother, Virginia Mylander, with considerable charm and knowledgeability, before her retirement, ran the St. John's bookstore. Then came Marilyn, whom he met through the Unitarian Church's singles club on a May evening in 1977. Marriage the second for both of them - followed in November. The farm, with the Bay Bridge faintly visible at a distance, is mostly tenanted out. It is central to their lives. They have two horses, and a pet raccoon visits their backporch nightly. Charles keeps a kitchen garden. There's a swimming pool and a small plane runway which Charles's father had constructed so he could fly to a downtown Baltimore airport and practice law in the city. Water birds abound - swan, grey heron, ducks and geese. They've been thrilled to see bald eagles. And now, Mrs. My lander noted, the Eastern Shore rabbit and squirrel population is about to drop. Verdi (Continued from P. 1) campus as a psychologist in 1981-82 when Stuart Boyd, its psychologist, was away for a year. He continued to counsel students until transferring to the Annapolis campus. Mr. Verdi was married last May to Eleanor Kurs, daughter of St. John's tutor Louis Kurs and Alice Kurs. They reside_ on Fairfax Road. St. John's employs two assistant deans. For men who have filled this role, the position traditionally is a revolving one, held only for several years. Wye Allanbrook is the other assistant dean. "We looked outside the window this morning and spotted a fox," she said. "It's the first one we have seen in four or five years." As a special treat to visit in this urban age, the farm also has become familiar to St. John's seniors. For years the Mylanders' party for the graduating class has been traditional, a party symbolic of the Marylanders'full participation within St. John's life. IT IS AN involvement that has included attending St. John's classes and earning a master's degree in 1979 when Mrs. My lander was a member of a class of three graduates, the first to receive degrees under the Annapolis campus's Graduate Institute. She and Professor My lander are regular attendees at Friday night lectures. She has sung and danced in two faculty musicals. Her multi-sided involvement with the college has given Mrs. Mylander what Dr. Amitin says is "a very good feeling of what people go through at St. John's." "I've been really impressed over the years with the sincerity of her interest in students," he said. "She has very good contacts with them." Impressive, too, he said, is the way in which Mrs. Mylander has kept up with trends in collegiate medicine, including her concern with preventive medicine. After 12 years in medical and surgical nursing in the Chicago area, Wisconsin and Kansas, Marilyn Kyle, as she was known in those days, joined St. John's in 1974, bringing with her her seven-year-old son, Erik, by her previous marriage. During her years with the college she has found that St. John's tends to be a healthy place with no more illnesses, she believes, than exist at other institutions. Exceptional times she has learned to expect: the two weeks after schools begin in the fall and in January. That's when students return from parts of the United States after vacations to infect other students with one of the 200 different strains of the common cold germs the medical world says exist. "THE INFIRMARY has two double rooms and four beds," she said. "They haven't been filled for years." Emphasis on a particular illness may change from time to time. "Beginning in the 1980s, there was a big scare about herpes for which there is no cure," she said. "Then AIDS came in, and we don't hear about herpes anymore. AIDS is very frightening." As far as she knows, the campus has not had a case of this dreaded disease to date. In attempting to educate students on all its dangers, she has tried a number of tactics, including a workshop last year, one poorly attended. Instead, she depends heavily upon information she has distributed for the past four years when school opens. This year she used a piece prepared by American University, treating both the social behavioral and physiological aspects of AIDS, including the importance of students making intelligent choices in social decisions. In addition, the student handbook for the first time this year contains a statement on AIDS. Late this winter students were advised of a new program of anonymous testing and counseling sponsored by the state. Mrs. Mylander is disappointed about one problem in health that hasn't changed during her 14 years here. "Students still smoke just as much as they ever did," she said. "I am kind of appalled at that." A log Mrs. Mylander maintains for the year reveals the usual . run of student illnesses. They include such health problems as skin difficulties - rashes, acne, exema, unusual lumps and bumps, mostly caused by trauma, upper respiratory infections, gastro-intestinal upsets, and so on. There are, of course, the usual bad throats. One new service the college has just begun to offer is a 10-minute, $2 test to diagnose strep throat, a test that Mrs. Mylander describes as highly accurate. Marilyn Mylander relaxes in her office. MRS. MYLANDER has the responsibility of excusing students from class because of illness. During the 1986-87 year there were 912 excused absences. In performing this task, she depends heavily upon the honor system. "There are two schools in Maryland that require class attendance, both in Annapolis," Mrs. My lander said. The other in the Naval Academy. Last year 780 women and 862 men paid the Harrison Health Center visits. Some 275 were seen by the then college phsyician, Dr. William C. Kinzer, who recently resigned to give his full time energies to his medical practice, including his duties as chief of medical services at Anne Arundel General Hospital. Last year Dr. Amitin treated 12 students while the two counselors saw 48 students. Mrs. Mylander listed these classifications for reasons for visits: Eye-ear-nose, 32; upper respiratory infection, 539; dermatological, 172; skeletal-mulscular, 158; medical, 517; gynecological, 39; genital-urinary, 32; allergy, 41, and nine cases of psychiatric intervention. Three students were hospitalized during the year and 14 taken to the Anne Arundel Emergency room. MRS. MYLAND ER cooperates with the Red Cross in blood drives here, which are sponsored by Circle K. "They do a spectacular job," she said of students, who contribute most of the blood given in the three drives held here annually. Last year 262 units were collected. A native of Charles City, Ia., Mrs. Mylander graduated in 1961 from the St. Joseph Mercy School of Nursing in Mason City (the model for River City for "Music Man") and completed her bachelor of nursing degree at the University of Maryland in 1974. It was at the university that she met former St. John's nurse Julia Rugg, then headed for a doctorate, and learned about the St. John's opening. Mrs. Mylander holds the admiration of Dr. Kinzer as a well-trained and caring nurse, who keeps up with new developments in nursing, particularly as they affect the college-aged population. "She has a very warm approach to her work and a strong sense of responsibility." Dr. Kinzer is not the only one who regards her highly. Mrs. Mylander works closely with the assistant dean's offict(, which is responsible for student welfare. "The assistant dean's office has gotten enormous help from Mrs. My lander, and we consult her frequently on many issues concerning the students' welfare," Assistant Dean Malcolm Wyatt said. "She has done a wonderful job." Greg Ferguson photo Wye Allanbrook's essay judged b_est Wye Allanbrook, assistant dean at St. John's College, has been awarded an $150 prize for the best essay read at the Midwest American Society for 18th Century Studies Conference in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October. A music historian, Mrs. Allanbrook wrote on "Words and Music in Music Without Words: Some Thoughts on Mozart's Chamber Music." A longer form of the paper will appear in the forthcoming issue of The St. John's Review under the title, " 'Ear-Tickling Nonsense': A New Context for Musical Expression in Mozart's 'Haydn'Quartets." Robert Spaeth is author of article Robert L. Spaeth, former tutor and assistant dean on the Annapolis campus, is the author of an article, "Individualism vs. Liberal Arts Education," that appears in the March issue of The World and /. Mr. Spaeth is now dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at St. John's University in Minnesota. In his article, he endorses Robert Hutchins' prescription for an educational community "as a guide for rejecting individualism in favor of forming an intellectual community out of the individualists that now make up the faculty of a liberal arts college." Campus video Students who are thinking about attending the Santa Fe campus, along with their parents, soon will be able to view the campus in their own living rooms. A video, created by Jonathan Krane, SF '72, president and chief executive officers of Blake Edwards Entertainment, soon will be mailed to students and shown at admission receptions around the country. It is especially targeted at students who have not visited the college. The 20-minute video was produced by David Frame, A '85. "It is a first-rate production, "says AdmissiQns Director Larry Clenden, "and at the same time will allow prospective students to hear faculty and current students evaluate the academic program. Visually, it offers a good look at the campus and Santa Fe." �THE REPORTER PAGE10 Looking at St. John's through a kaleidoscope by PATRICIA HARDEN METZGER GI'88 My experience in the graduate program at St. John's College, which began the summer of 1984, has been like that of a child presented with a kaleidoscope. At the slightest turn of that marvelous instrument, I have delighted in discovering something new in its endless variety of designs, hues, and forms. At St. John's, I was permitted a certain naivete. No longer bound by the expected parroting of memorized data and no longer pressured by the grade point average, I could respond to my needs alone, with the natural curiosity and spontaneity of a child. I peered through the glass at the shifting array of colors and patterns. I saw as I'd not been able to see as an undergraduate working toward a degree so I might change careers. Now, not only could I see through the glass more clearly; what I saw was illuminated by the light within myself. At the touch of my fingertips appeared the brilliance of Aristotle, the forms of Plato, the opinions of Kant, Descartes, and Hume, the insight of Lucretius, the awareness of Tocqueville, the methods of Weber, the meditations of St. Augustine, the warmth of Dostoyevsky, the power of Emerson, the elements of Euclid, and the enlightening views of others, ad infinitum. I welcomed the one-on-one communication with the authors and the opportunity to respond thoughtfully to their ideas. But soon I realized the essence of the St. John's program is not the solitary reading and self-interpretation of "great books." Mortimer Adler stressed this sentiment at the golden anniversary of the great books' program when he spoke of the decisive significance of discussing the texts. My kaleidoscope was to be shared. The focus on discourse - sharing ideas, arguing for or against a particular view, thinking aloud, and raising questions - is essential to learning and understanding. At St. John's, no question is irrelevant; however, failing to ask questions is a mistake. Questions enlighten the discussion. If I withheld my kaleidoscope from the light, how could I see the converging patterns of thought? Discourse is the key to learning. At this college, no one lectures onerously; instead, ideas are expressed and disc\.,\ssed openly. I could either solidify or reject my own ideas based on the intellectual communication that transpired during each class. At times, I was astounded by someone else's perception. We had, after all, read the same text. Where the devil, I thought, did he come up with such a preposterous idea? Often I had to rethink my thoughts. And too, I had to overcome my own inadequacies, suppress my ego, and speak my mind. Bonding occurs from the moment you enroll. I wasn't simply a student; I was an active participant in an educational institution where tutors and students converse and learn together. I developed many intimate intellectual relationships because of the opportunity to examine someone else's thinking and exchange ideas. Each alumni gathering re-emphasizes the strength of this bond and the love of learning between St. Johnnies. I have many thoughts to rethink and many to savor. Here, gaze into my kaleidoscope for a moment: In Dostoyevsky's, The Brothers Karamazov, I heard Alyosha explaining to his brother/van that not only must he love the beauty in life, butthat hemustlearn to accept ifs dark side as well: the negative counterparts of beauty, good, truth, love, justice, and faith. In Euclid's The Elements, I was confronted with the Pythagorean theorem and delighted in knowing I was ready and willing to demonstrate this theorem before the class. In Emerson's essay, "Self-Reliance," I listened when he wisely counseled: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. " What I envision changes me. I discover anew myself, others, and life itself. It is a never-ending exploration of the gems of knowledge, interminglings of past and present that shift before my eyes, a time to think, study, challenge, feel, dream, remember, and share in a learning community. . I confess I've become a bit of a snob from being affiliated with an institution that promotes a free-spirited quest for intellectual growth. Nevertheless, this hybristic attitude has been tempered by a deeper sense of how insignificant I am in the whole scheme of life. My humility stems from reading the thoughts of great thinkers and recognizing that, by comparison, I don't know much. I have many beautiful things to remember. The best of these memories, like childhood memories, will continue to spring forth and please me. I'll remember the varied flowers forming the patchwork beds about the campus ahd the host of individuals who are an integral part of the college. I'll be amused when I recall the haunting eyes of King William that followed me as I crossed the book-lined room. I'll always love the paths of brick winding through the campus, the bed of roses lined with short shocks of greenery, and the ancient Liberty Tree. And I'll remember the festive Greek and Santa Fe dinner parties, summer nights on the quad, and conversing about seminar readings long after class was over. Years hence, I'll recall sliding my hand over the smooth banister of old McDowell Hall, and walking up the worn steps to classrooms on the second and third floor, and sitting at the large rectangular wooden tables, and being startled by the loose plank accidentally pushed forward by a student across the table from me. I'll remember the concession made to tolerate the summer heat beci:iuse conversing was more important than the comfort afforded by the noisy air conditioner. And I'll remember classmates graduating in McDowell's Great Hall. I look forward to my own graduation this August, the solemn march of tutors and students in gowns of orange and black, from Pinkney to McDowell, up the front steps into the Great Hall where many a convocation has been held and many a commencement celebrated. Some things will abide forever: the soft summer breeze that steals across campus from the Chesapeake Bay toward College Creek, sultry summer days and sudden showers that catch students unaware, the campus guards' protective strolls, the engaging conversations of tutors and students. St. John's focus on learning never changes, but the institution itself is endowed with the power to change. Classes begin and end. The bells toll and each generation moves on. APRIL 1988 St. John's on the way to marking the 300th year of its founding On February 28, l 786, when nine men were seated as original trustees, instead of making the site of the new college the first business, it considered a proposition from the rector and visitors of the Annapolis School, as King William's School in the post-Revolutionary era had become known. (A committeee from the school had asked that the two trustees they were entitled to elect be sworn in as visitors in time to vote on the location. Later balloting showed that seven of the original nine trustees favored Annapolis.) The proposition which the board as a whole reviewed is "An Act of Assembly for Consolidating the funds of King William's School with the funds of St: John's College." "King William's and St. John's could profit from each other's assets," Miss Fletcher explained. "King William's had long wanted to grow into a college, and St.John's, like all other American colleges, realized that it had to be founded upon a grammar school. But it was prudent for King William's, obliged as it was to conduct a school for Annapolis youths, to require some indication that the college would settle in Annapolis before parting with its In 1761 Carroll offered a bill recomproperty." mending a lottery to raise money to renoThe state, on its part, had offered four vate what was then an abandoned goveracres of ground on which the unfinished nor's mansion, now McDowell Hall, as a governor's mansion stood if the college college building. He also suggested "one settled in Annapolis. representative of each county ... be named Further protection of King William's a visitor with those at present of King interests were included in the 1786 Act of William's School." That measure failed. Consolidation. Aware of repeated efforts to found a Miss Fletcher writes: college, Governor Robert Eden told the assembly in 1769 that he wanted "a well "It proposed a split of the King Willfounded Provision for a more liberal instiiam's corporation into two parts: one part to become St. John's College on 1 March tute of Youths to be established." 1786, the other part to operate the Anna"Two years later the lower house appolis School, until the college opened. proved a means to finance one," Miss "If the terms under which King WillFletcher wrote. "Since no new college iam's conveyed its funds_and property to laws were introduced, one may presume St. John's College should be violated, that the general provisions of Carroll's bill then the Rector and Visitors of Annapolis of 6 May 1761 prevailed. They were the School could sue to retrieve the funds and following: property, and the governor and council of "One college, reconstruytion of the govMaryland were instructed to reconstitute ernor's mansion in Annapolis as a college the King William's board, which would building, dissolution of King William's resume its trust 'to fulfill the intentions of School and transfer of its funds upon the the founders and benefactors of the said opening of a college, and a college governschool, in advancing the interests of piety ing board composed of the 'present' King and learning.' " William's School trustees plus one repreBesides the public endowment of 1, 750 sentative from each county." pounds per annum from the state, supporOn December 21, 1773, Governor Eden ters had pledged 12,000 pounds toward affixed his signature and the "Great Seal the new college, of which Miss Fletcher with wax appendant" upon an act for the emission of bills of credit to finance a . said King William's School was to conMaryland college. Optimistic backers ex- tribute at least a fourth. She concluded: pected a college to be founded within a " ... The college had no life until the two few years. Unfortunately, the Assembly in 1780 corporations merged~ no business was conducted until the St. John's board had confiscated the $42,666.67 raised through accepted the terms submitted by the King this measure to pay "for a just war." Miss William's board and those contained in Fletcher wrote: the 'Act of Consolidation.' "In the same year legislators passed a law to regulate ordinaries, effective for "Of the two institutions, King William's seven years, empowering the state to colwas the viable one in 1786, the flourishing preparatory school ready to grow into a lect license fees and impose fines for college. Furthermore, it was imbued with breach of law. (A restatement of this law an almost century-old determination to in 1784 would give this revenue by charter survive. By necessity and by design, St. to St. John's forever.) John's College built upon King William's In that year the charter for a college on School." the Western Shore was finally written. Competing with Annapolis for the site was Upper Marlboro in Prince Georges County. Like other subscribers, King William's School was allowed one trustee of its choice for each 1,000 pounds it pledged to the The Santa Fe campus has received a new college. Unlike the other subscribers, $140,278 grant from the National EnMiss Fletcher pointed out, the school did dowment for the Humanities to support not make its pledge until it could negotiate two Teachers Institutes at the college. The the terms of its conveyance with the St. grant will provide fellowships for 15 ColoJohn's board, as one corporation to anrado secondary school social sciences other. teachers in the summer of I 988. In the summer of 1987 this grant provided fellowships for 15 Colorado language arts teachers. John Dendahl, former chairman of the Institute fellows in 1988 will receive Board of Visitors and Governors, has room, board, a $1,600 stipend and a tuibeen named to the cabinet position office tion waiver for an eight-week course of of secretary of economic development and study focusing on classic writings in polittourism by New Mexican Governor Garical theory. The curriculum will include rey Carruthers. works by Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Shortly before his appointment, Mr. Rousseau, Marx and the Founding Dendahl resigned as president of the BanFathers. quest/First National Bank of Santa Fe. A reminder. In eight more years St. John's will have another anniversary to celebrate: the 300th anniversary of the founding of King William's School. King William's School , which dates to 1696, is the preparatory school out of which St. John's grew. Counted from that date, St. John's is the third oldest college in the United States, exceeded only by Harvard and the College of William and Mary. As a college, St. John's was chartered in 1784. "By necessity and by design," the link between the school and college is a very real one, not just a matter of tradition or legend, according to St. John's historian Charlotte Fletcher, who has traced in detail the history of King William's School in articles published in the Maryland Historical Magazine. In her last article, "King William's School Survives the Revolution," Miss Fletcher said that among the bills to found a new college proposed before the Revolution was one by Charles Carroll the Barrister. He was a trustee of King William's school,. whose house, moved from Main Street to St. John's in 1955, now houses the Admissions and Advancement Offices Colorado grants to aid teachers Dendahl in cabinet �APRIL 1988 PAGE 11 THE REPORTER Obituaries 1966 Susheila L. Horwitz is a member of Madonna House lay apostolate, a Catholic Community based in Canada. 1968 R• .,.,..•.,.'2•""' has moved back and is practicing commercial to Santa litigation with the Gallegos Law firm. Amson Karslake Lemons is married and has two little boys, Nathan, 5, and Micak, 3. Vida Kazema is a practicing psychologist in a mental health clinic in the Boston suburbs. She has a 6Yi-year-old son. Deborah Rodman is a computer programmer after a year's postgraduate conversion course at the University of Kent. Rick Wicks has realized a life-long dream. He recently started a political newsletter, World Democracy News. Constance Weigle is the director of marketing for Time and Life Management. Her husband is a minister in Winston-Salem, and they have a daughter in the second grade. 1969 Daniel Cleavinger is married to Marie Markesteyn, a photographer and owner of Sundancer Photo Studio. Martin French is the chief registrar of the Tennessee State Museum. John H. Strange just received his fourth graduate degree, a doctorate in marriage and family therapy. 1979 William Wade Douglas, GI, has been named Marine Scientistj"Bay Team" Teacher by the College of William and Mary. 1 1972 Bill Blount's name was mispelled in the February issue of The Reporter. Our apologies to Bill. 1973 Sue Terrell Khazein is a full time elementary teacher in an international school and managing director of a computer a duaghter, Marborn March 28, 1987. Fauneil is working with Dean Robert Spaeth, former director of the Graduate Institute, Santa Fe, as executive editor of College Teaching. 1974 Randal and Martha Mackey Pendleton have moved back to Colorado after living for a year in Palo Alto, Cal. They previously lived in County Clare, Republic of Ireland, for two years. Patrick Simpson held a one-man show of his recent sculpture at Jansen Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, February 5 to April 1. Sandra Robinson, GI, has just completed her 20th year in education. She spent eight years as a school library media · specialist. 1975 Darrold K. Smith is a vocational rehabilitation state counselor working with the deaf and hearing impaired. 1976 Elizabeth Cochran is working for Ci ti Corp Information Systems. Pablo Collins is legislative director to Congressman Bill Richardson (D-NM). Phillis Hoffman Herman has a daughter, Amy Elizabeth, born July 28. Glenda Holiday Eoyang has established her own business, Excel Instruction Inc. Idell Kesselman has enrolled in a master of counseling program at Arizona State University. Judy Kistler is developing an information base in the new Hyper Card program for the Macintosh Computer. She is interested in doing a time line that would span the St. John's curriculum. Miriam Marcus-Smith had her first child, Nathaniel Isaac, on August 30. Michael MacDonald is working with computers and recently visited with July Kistler and Elizabeth Cochran. 1977 Donna Gordon is director of a birth center. She has delivered 200 babies since 1985. 1978 Stephen M. Hammel received his doctorate in applied mathematics from the University of Arizona in 1986. Katherine Culp Wisniewski, (also GI '84), is married to a sea captain. She is teaching English to speakers of other languages. 1979 N. Dalton has passed the exam in August and works as a law clerk at the Hawii Intermediate Court of Appeals. He plans to move back to the mainland in August. Theodore Merwin has a son, Theodore Robert, born December 2. Merilyn Schaefer is a full professor in the Art and Advertising Design Department of New York Technical College in Brooklyn. 1980 Stanley H. Harbison, GI, has a son, Jonathan, 3. Stanley is an investment analyst in the oil industry. Robert Scott Murray is studying Japanese and plans to return to Japan this year. Robert is serving as a minister at a small Episcopal church in Visalia, Cal. 1981 Stephanie Moore Fuller is working towards a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford. C. Dory Hanson is managing editor of KCBS Radio in San Francisco. Karl Stukenberg is writing a dissertation on the effects of stress on people who care for patients with Alzheimer's Disease. Tom Slakey, Jr., has joined the Peace Corps and is in Mali, West Africa. After three months of training, he will teach mathematics in French at a lycee in an as yet undetermined location. Stephen, SF '82, and Elizabeth Mills Acciana are the proud parents of Emma Miriam Acciani, born January 14. "We would love to hear from our friends, Jon Van Beckum and Jim SF '83," they write. The Acciani 's address is 801 Adams, 5B, Albany, CA 94706; telephone, 528-2243. 1982 Mark Gocke is Thailand. He graduate ~,,.,..,,,.,..,,+,...,., ... Medical School in May. has received a master's plant ecology. He is currently working on an AIDS database at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Javier G. Rodriquez is a graduate student in the Modem Language Department at Texas A&M University. Mark St. John is teaching fourth grade at the lsleta Pueblo elementary school near Albuquerque. 1983 Jack Armstrong and his wife, Carmen Khan, are expecting a baby in August. Jack is a lobbyist in Washington. Laura Roxanne Seagraves is a fulltime artist, working in theater, storytelling, writing, and clay sculpture. Linda Kay Douglas, GI, teaches advanced mathematics and calculus and is in charge of the gifted and talented program for Middlesex High School, Urbanna, Va. 1984 laura McClure is working on her dissertation proposal on classics at the University of Chicago, where she has been a student for the past four years. 1985 Elizabeth Drew is working with John Van Doren, A '41, and the Encyclopedia Britannica as well as with the Paideia Proposal in Chicago. Terri Katherine Luckett is pursuing a master's degree in international relations. She is engaged to be married. William A. Rohrbacktraveled to Kenya for six weeks in 1986 and to Alaska in September. 1986 Gwen Cheatham, GI, is instructional coordinator of the B. T. Washington High School Center for the Humanities in College Park, Ga. Lucy Duncan is a cataloguer for the Brick Row Book Shop in San Francisco. She plans to return to school to earn her teaching certificate. James Lewis is working as a paralegal in San Francisco. He recently traveled to Spain and Morocco. Barbara Robert, GI, writes that she is Bob Neidorf dies in Santa Fe (Continued from P. 1) philosophy from Yale University in 1959. Before coming to St. John's he had taught at Bucknell University from 1959 to 1962. He was the author of a book on logic, Deductive Forms, published in 1969, as well as author of a number of articles and lectures. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1955, he was a member of the American Association of University Profes so rs and of the United States and New Mexico Chess Federation. In 1981 and 1985 he was the New Mexico Class A chess champion. Mr. Neidorf was a recipient of the St. John's College Alumni Association Award of Merit and was made an honorary member of the association in 1983. He had undergone surgery for a brain tumor in April 1983. After leaving the deanship in 1986, he went on sabbatical leave. This year failing health made it impossible for him to continue teaching. Surviving are his wife, Mary; son, David, SF '81, and daughter, Julie, SF '84, all of Santa Fe. Speaking at a memorial service in his honor at the college were Robert Bart, Nancy Buchenauer, James Carey, William Darkey, Istvan Fehervary, Glen Freitas, Frank· Pagano, Robert Sacks, Elliott Skinner and Stephen Van Luchene, all of the Santa Fe faculty. Samuel Kutler represented the Annapolis faculty and Sally Dunn and Charles Webber, the alumni. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Scholarship Fund, St. John's College, 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe, N.M. 87501. William Hooton: President's assistant William Hooton, who served as assistant to President Richard D. Weigle on the Santa Fe campus from 1962 to 1967, died in late January. He was 66. Mr. Hooton had been admitted to St. Vincent Hospital with pneumonia but decided to undergo an operation he had planned. Further details were not known. Mr. Hooton also served as treasurer in 1964andacquired the Robert Hunt.House for the college in 1966. At the time of his death he was executive director of the Santa Fe Economic Development, Inc. One of the originators of the Santa Fe Prep School, Mr. Hooton also started the Compound restaurant in Santa Fe. He is survived by his wife, Barbara. Robert McCeney: Prominent physician Dr. Robert S. McCeney, A '24, of Laurel, Md., a general practitioner who delivered nearly 6,000 babies, died February 20 after an illness of several months. He was 82. Dr. McCeney, who continued to make house calls in his retirement, was a founder of both the Prince Georges General Hospital and the Greater Laurel-Beltsville Hospital. He headed the staffs of both as well as served on their boards. For many years he was track physician at the Laurel and Bowie race tracks. Brought up in Laurel, Dr. McCeney completed his residency at Garfield Hospital in Washington. He is surved by his wife, two sons and four grandchildren. Thomas F. Johnson, Sr., '30, of Berlin, Md., was killed in an automobile accident February l in Delaware. His wife, Agnes, died two days later of injuries received in the crash. Mr. Johnson, 78, represented Maryland's First District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 through 1962. He also served as a state senator. He is survived by three children. (Continued from P. 2) · those my own age who, for one reason or another, have found themselves without much money and in many cases without a job. "At the same time I am attending classes at the University of Lyon II, or the school of language for foreigners. Having not experienced any French classes besides those at St. John's, I was not especially prepared for speaking the everyday French language, but I have caught on quick. The French language is just about as screwy as · the English language! I have been keeping· myself busy with all of this and expect to return to the states this summer - or maybe not." Chase Harrison is in Ann Arbor, Mich., studying history at the University of Michigan. Koko Ives is living in Takoma Park, Md., and a fulltime law student at Catholic University. Aleksandre Wolska's reply indicates she is attending graduate school but does not say where .. She is living in Owings Mills, Md. Tracy fox, who is residing in Glen Mills, Pa., hopes to finish a master's degree in journalism at Temple University in the spring or summer of 1989. teaching 7th and 8th grade science, social studies, and English to learning disabled students. 1987 Rachel Langsam is living in Los Angeles and working as an assistant to Jonathan Krane, SF '71. George Martin Lewallen is in his first year at Hastings Law School. He married Valerie Diana Huaco on May 16. Robin Davis Miller and Marshall Miller married recently and are living in Oakland, Cal. Frank Williams, GI, is working on his doctorate in early modem European history at Emory University. Mary McGlynn is serving as a psychiatric technician at the Northern Virginia Mutual Health Institute in Falls Church, Va. She also is a part-time student in elementary edvcation at George Mason University and applying for a teaching internship program through the University of New Mexico. Jay W. Powers is teaching science to grades six through eight at Our Lady of . Mercy School at Potomac, Md., where he hopes to teach the entire curriculum. After school he tutors a fifth grader with learning difficulties. Michael Smith is serving as store manager for Hudson Trail Outfitters, Ltd., at its Columbia (Md.) Mall store. Assisting Asian graduate students with a variety of things is Kee Frick, who is associated with San Francisco's Asia Foundation. She is an education and training assistant aiding students here on U.S. government grants. R. Stephen Hulburt is assistant to the editor.,.in-chief of trade books put out by the New American Library - Plume, Meridian, Mentor and Signet Classic books .. He is living in New York. Kateri Clement writes from Harrington Park, N .J.: "I am doing this and that until June when I am leaving to teach physics in Niger, Africa, with the Peace Corps. A two-year assignment." �PAGE12 APRIL 1988 THE REPORTER Exporting SJC to high_schoo1 SHARON BALL Communications Coordinator Alltn.n(11ue1rqw1e Public Schools Campus to get grove of trees Trees, representing each of Maryland's 23 counties and the City of Baltiomore, will be planted at St. John's College and dedicated in ceremonies planned for I p.m. April 22. They are being contributed to the college by each of the county's Forest Conservancy District Boards, according to Terry Clark, chief of resource management for the Forest, Park and Wildlife Service of the Department of Natural Resources, which is assisting in the event. The grove will be planted along King George Street near the boathouse and French Monument. the five or six varieties which the trees will include are the sycamore, oak and loblolly pine. The planting will be part of the 40th anniversary of the State Tree Farm Committee, which is sponsored by the American Forest Council. The Maryland Forest Association also is cooperating. In addition to St. John's President William M. Dyal, Jr., Mr. Clark said that invitations will be extended to the mayor and governor. William Cheesman, of Pocomoke, is chairman of the Maryland Tree Farm Committee. Student poet is in contest Beth Cross, Effingham, Kans., senior, will go to Mt. Holyoke College April 2224 to participate in the Glascock International Poetry Competition. An old and prestigious competition, the Glascock is held annually. Five colleges, which change each year, are invited to take part. Altogether 15 students on the Annapolis campus submitted poetry which Jonathan Tuck, a member of the St. John's selection committee, described as ..of very high quality." For a group of poems she submitted, the St. John's committee, which included tutors James Beall and Henry Higuera, selected Miss Cross. Miss Cross will participate in a public reading on Friday night. Saturday judges will announce first and second prizes and read some of their poetry. They will be Mona Van Duyn, Dana Gioia and Michael S. Harper, widely anthologized poets. Bell work gets grant The Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe has received an $8,000 grant from the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities for its project, "Symbolic History." The grant will enable the center to transfer to video tape eight of the nationally acclaimed slide and tape history of ideas programs of Charles Bell, rece,ntly retired St. John's tutor. Dee Foster, district language arts coordinator, and Lewise Solomon, a former teacher who is a graduate of the St John's College Graduate Institute, met one evening almost a year ago at a social event. They had what Lewise calls a "lively discussion" about the value of class discussion and the seminar approach to learning. And out of that lively discussion grew the Resource Seminar Program for the district's honors English classes. St. John's isn't your usual institution of higher learning. It has no majors nor departments. What it does have is what school offr. cials call a "community of learning." Accepting a maximum of 400 students, the school offers seminars to its students on the Great Books. Hence, no textbooks; only original sources. The seminars are moderated by tutors, who are what we would normally think of as professors - except that they don't profess: They encourage the exchange of ideas. What faculty members and graduates of St. John's have done this year is to export their seminar method of learning to honors English students in APS. A St. John's tutor or graduate with a master's degree conducts seminars with honors English students on a particular work such as Hamlet, Medea, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Moby Dick, Billy Budd, or Thoreau's Walden. The students must have read and completed classroom work on a title, according to Dean James Carey, who, along with follege President Michael Riccards, has served as a tutor in the APS classes. "The seminar begins when the tutor poses a question that the students do not know about in advance," he says. "This technique encourages spontaneity and a spirit of joint effort. "The students are challenged by seeing other minds hard at work and by experiencing their own minds actively engaged in the struggle to find an answer," he continues. "Such efforts are sometimes intense, but because of the nature of the question, a conclusive answer is rarely possible. Besides, the goal is not so much to find an answer, but rather to pursue an answer -to explore many possibilities." Reaction to the program from all participants has been excellent. "This has been the most enriching, exciting, and beneficial experience my students have had, says Frances Sanchez, ninthgrade honors teacher at Albuquerque High, whose students participated in a seminar on Romeo and Juliet. "It was a really challenging and exciting experience," says Camilla Santistevan, a student in Frances's class. And the St. John's people are equally excited and complimentary. "The students [I've dealt with] have been superb," says Stuart Boyd, a tutor. "They were indeed very well prepared, deeply interested, eager, responsive, open to questions, and willing and eager to talk not only about the work itself, but also about aspects of what it could mean in their own relationships with adults. "And they weren't simply talking to me, but to each other." "All the groups have taught me something," Lewise says. "I've learned new ways of looking at each work we've been examining." So far this year, the St. John's people have participated in J8 seminars and have 22 more scheduled. In addition to Lewise, other St. John's volunteers include graduates Anne Lane, Lynn Elkins, Jane Evans, Marsha Napolin, and Marlene Nordstrum. St. John's tutors include Mr. Riccards, Mr. Carey, Lisa Carey, and Stuart Boyd. Lewise Solomon is at left, Anne Lane at right. Program brings some surprises by BYRON SCHNEIDER Anne Lane and Lewise Solomon are two people with one purpose: to bring St. John's "off the hill" and into the high school classrooms of the Albuquerque Public Schools. Anne, a doctoral student in classical philosophy at the University of New Mexico, tutors the spring seminar in mathematics for the Graduate Institute in Albuquerque alongside tutor Roger Peterson; Lewise works in the area of speech and language disabilities and adult literacy. Both are former Graduate Institute students and residents of Albuquerque since 1968. But each came to St. _John's in her own way. "I grew up in Washington, D.C., and had wanted to go to St. John's in Annapolis as an undergraduate more than 20 years ago," Anne s~ys, "but it wasn't practical at the time. When the Graduate Institute was offered in Albuquerque in 1982, I could afford it and got to do as a 'middleaged' person what I wanted to do as a teenager - a fortuitous thing for me." In contrast, Lewise remarks that "I had not even heard of St. John's. I think had I known of the college when I was in high school, it would have been very tempting for me to do my undergraduate work there." After putting in time together as Gls five years ago, Lewise and Anne decided to team up again in January 1987 to bring the St. John's-type seminars to English honors students in Albuquerque high schools. "We have sometimes been surprised at what students reveal about themselves," notes Anne. "Some of what we hear really _concerns us. An example might be when we did Medea. We had students remark to us that parents today don't care any more for their children than Jason and Medea did, and that parents are perfectly willing, in a sense, to kill their children. I thought that, coming from 15-year-old students, this was a very sad thing to hear. "We had the experience," she further recalls, "of one high-school student doing Hamlet with tears in her eyes says, 'You people don't seem to understand what it is to have someone you love ask you to do something that's wrong.' Those things surprised us." The point is not that students have the opportunity to come to class to discuss their personal problems with l 9 other people, Lewise explains, but that, in discussing the situation in Medea or in Hamlet, they acquire insight into human thought, behavior, and experience. Anne and Lewise both say that they are encouraged by the capacity of the students with whom they come into contact during the seminars. And although it was not the original intent of their program to draw attention to St. John's itself, the recruiting potential of their work has not been Jost on the school. A careful watch is being kept on whether there is an increase in the number of applicants to the college from the Albuquerque area, and arrangements are underway whereby students who have been involved in the public school seminars can come up to St. John's to participate in campus seminars for a.day. And what would these two tutor-ambassadors say the college has to recommend for itself? Anne reflects on her own experience in the Graduate Institute. "In attending St. John's one learns that sometimes it is possible to do something that might seem impossible. There is a kind of survival that you learn in going through the program. To read Hegel or Kant cold, without any context but the work itself; to struggle with those words to the point of wanting to bash your head against something in frustration, and then to finally understand it on some level, you start seeing that even a project such as this with the public schools can be worked out. It's a lesson in struggle and triumph. "I've become so comfortable with being troubled," Anne continues, laughing. "I almost prefer that state of mind. We grow up so determined to 'have the answer, have the answer,' and now I'm so suspicious of the answer. Now everything I read, with perhaps the exception of product labels, troubles me. "I used to worry when I first began the St. John's program that in doing it I might lose my convictions," Anne said. "But I found instead that it was a process of becoming comfortable with disagreements. I wasn't sure, though, that an examined life might not result in paralysis of some kind. And I think for some scholars this happens. They are willing to take extraordinary mental risks, but take no living risks at all." "Perhaps the corollary to 'The unexamined life is not worth living' is that 'The unlived life is not worth examining,' " asserts Lewise, with a certain spark dancing in the corner of her eye. On the other hand, Anne counters, "Maybe what we do with the high school students is to encourage them to take lots of mental risks and fewer risks with their lives." It is clear that the students are getting a lot out of it. What about the program's organizers? "We never take a seminar into the classroom without discussing it first," Anne says. "Sometimes Lewise and I argue over the phone for an hour and a half because we don't always have the same perspective. In fact, sometimes I think I enjoy that part the most." Lewise agrees. "It's not every friend who can call you up at midnight and say, 'l just got another idea about Hamlet!'" � 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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The market itself declined by 25 percent. The actual yield for the period, which included the income earned in the calculation. was less - 3. l per cent. Jeri Rhodes, treasurer. said the were based on income and realized the of ~ill rs. on October were 30. 7 per Dr. Charles W. Kinzer. college physician for 8 years, resigned at the beginning of the January semester to devote h imsel[ to his full-time medical Dean David Wtth a . 1% By December 31. the three money managing firms employed by the Annapolis campus had placed 12.5 per cent in cash, on1t1m.1ea on P. 11) Hugh Downs has accomlished somemost of us would never be able to has read the books, isolation, Mortimer Adler's "read-anddisucss. read-and-discuss" admonition because there was no way to discuss them seminar fashion. He has read them around a Arizona wilderness. in cities the middle of the when he was wakeful with insomnia, alone, whenever he has had an or late. "A friend showed me the list in 944, and I thought it was a neat idea, the co-anchor of ABC's 20 program said of the St. John's great books list, now marking its fiftieth year. "I said can't go to the college, but at least can read the books. and I was appalled at how few I had read seven. So on December I0. ! 944- he can February, 1 This December the sealed the opening of its ilreplace in McDowell Hall's coffee shop. The chimney, crumbling and in need of relining, stands symollc of problems afflicting this venerable central building on campus that Thomas Jefferson admired so Drainage problems threaten foundations. Support beams under the first floor sag. There are important fire and safety concerns to be addressed as well as questions about how well McDowell is serving the handicapped. result, a year from now, in January McDowell is planning to go on the first, semesrer-long sabbatical in its 245year history. It to return from a comprehensive renovation program restored and refreshed. To finance the work, President William M. Jr., has announced that St. been awarded a new $2,500,000, loan the U.S. of Education at a low 5Y2 per cent mterest rate. He that the work will be narnre, and McDowell will remam as it is. There will be no architectural innovations to the nature of its classic, RENOVATION WILL year in order for St. John<'s to the new administrative of Hall. scheduled to be ready use next fall. Offices now in Mellon will be transferred to the wing, and, as part of McDowell's I 988 program, those offices, with a few cosmetic changes, will be converted to four classrooms. In protecting the architectural integrity of the building, the good news is that an elevator, originally thought a re4uirement under laws for the handicapped, will not be required. Howard Fisher, chairman of the Campus Planning Committee, said that the U.S. Department of Education has in- formed St. John's it does not require IOO per cent accessibility of all facilities. and because of the nature and age of add one. An elevator has been op1po~;ed the National Historic Trust. Instead, Charles Bohl. of the firm of Weller. Fishback & Bohl, architect. told the Annapolis Chapter at its January meeting that an enclosed chair lift will be added from the basement to the first floor so that handicapped persons can have no problem in getting to the Great Hall or to any of the classrooms on the first floor. (In recent years St. John's has completed an extensive and costly program of adding ramps and other facilities so that no student need be turned away for reasons of handicap.) To meet fire safety regulations. students will have egress by two staircases. A new staircase will be constructed on the St. John's Street side of the and the one wilt be and to extend downward to the basement. Both staircases will go to the attic. In order not to interfere th:: room at the basement level, tht new staircase, however, will be built between the first floor and attic. From the attic, Mr. Bohl said a mentary staircase will be tc the cupola, which he described as a "fabulous room.'' The attic, itself, with its barnlike space, is not inhabitable, according to Mr. Bohl. Natural lighting there is vided through small bull's eye windows. In addition, a fire sprinkler system will be installed throughout the building, lighting will be redone, ceilings replaced . and a central air system provided to· both heat and air condition the building. The fire escape will be removed. No additional restroom facilities will be constructed in the building with those in Lont11nm':d on P. 11) in between. later Mr. Downs decided books. That was in December, l 974, after he had been at the Center for the of Democratic Institutions al. pro- 9) �/ PAGE2 FEBRUARY 1988 THE REPORTER 1938 1977 R. Cresap Davis, professor emeritas at Ken Kimble can finish building his Frederick Community College and a house without threat of being displaced. A retired Annapolis lawyer, has been retwo-year controversy has been resolved in elected chairman of the Maryland HuMr. Kimble's favor over whether he could manities Council. Has has been on the build at 3 Cumberland Court, Annapolis, council since 198 l. next to the historic home and garden of 1962 William Paca, a signer of the Declaration John Franklin executive direcof Independence. Historic Annapolis Inc. tor of the Stan Hywet Hall Foundation, claimed the house was closer to the Paca administers the 70-acre estate built by the wall than city rear-yard setbacks permit. founder of Goodyear Tire and Rubber After the Circuit Court upheld that concompany in Akron. The estate is open to tention, Mr. Kimble was granted a varthe public and is on the National Register iance by the Annapolis Board of Appeals. of Historic Sites. In October the Circuit Court upheld the 1966 board's right to issue the variance. Ian M. Harris is living in Milwaukee. "I Both Mr. and Mrs. Kimble are members have just become a Quaker, and last fall I of Historic Annapolis. hosted a national conference, 'Peace StuEllen L. H_amilton sends this report on dies at the Crossroads.' My daughter, Jesher recent activities: sie Washburne-Harris and stepson, Paul · "I am happy to report that I just Spellman, have both started high school received my BFA in painting and drawing this fall," he writes. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which I attended on a merit 1968 Donald A. Booth has started his own scholarship. During school I worked part architectural practice in New York, "with time for a law firm. I am continuing to do projects as far away as Maine and Annaso while I prepare for the school's fellowpolis ... Occasionally l get to a meeting of ship competition, which takes place next the New Ybrk alumni, and I would welMay. So far, I have not tried to show too come hearing from any classmates in the much, but a self-portrait drawing that I area, whether or not they have any did was selected to be in the annual juried requirements for architectural, landscapstudent show this past May. ing or interior design services." His address "Gene Heller, A '75, and I married in is 1.72 Washington P·ark, Brooklyn, NY May 1984 and moved to Chicago shortly thereafter. Gene is a writer and runs a 11205: 1970 freelance indexing business. David Cicia received a doctorate in "l recommend SAIC highly to anyone education from the University of Massaconsidering studying painting. Besides chusetts in September. The title of his disregular studio classes, the school offers a sertation was "The Practice of Freedom: year course that is rather like a 'St. John's' Plato's Dialectic as a Practical Experienof painting materials and techniques. tial Method of Radical Transformational Students start off the course with the older Moral Education." processes, such as encaustic and egg tem1972 pera, moving on to the development of oil Theophus Harold Smith has joined painting and finally to the contemporary the faculty of the Department of Religion, explosion of painting materials. The course Emory University, Atlanta. was developed by a well-known Chicago He received a doctorate in the philopainter who felt his education had not sophy of religion last year from the Gradgiven him this training, so he invented it. uate Theological Seminary in Berkeley. It is a fascinating way to study, both for After leaving St. John's, Mr. Smith painters and for art historians who are attended Virginia Episcopal Seminary in willing to muck about with paint. Alexandria. He was on the faculty of "Before going back to school, I worked Whitney Young College in Frankfort, at the Bureau of National Affairs in · for four years. Washington, a private information sera black scholar, Dr. Smith has convice publisher. There I worked as a writer centrated on the philosophical foundaand editor, developing two new publications of black theology, paying particular tions dealing with environmental issues. attention to Afro-Christian spirituality During that time, I studied drawing and and the figural use of Biblical narrative in design at the Corcoran School of Art." black American religious traditions," an 1978 article in the Atlanta Daily World states. Christopher R. A '78, is work"He joins the religion department at Emory ing for the Citibank in Cleveland, 0., after with a co-interest in Jewish-Christian diamoving there from Argentina in November. logue and in interdisciplinary connections His new address is 3320 Kenmore Rd .. between theology and recent theories of Shaker Heights, OH 44122. Chris will be narrative." happy to hear from Johnnies living in the 1975 Cleveland area. Gretchen writes that she "has 1982 completed two 'assemblage' short books No1aa1es of Flagstaff Ariz., is the of poetry-cum-philosophical commentary principal author of Appleworks for titled Politics and Religion and OhservaTeachers. "The book is intended for tions on the Feeling of the .\uhlime and classes (college) which teach teachers how the Ridiculous." She continues to write to use computers in the classroom but can and is working on a book treating also be used bv individuals ... wrote the work of William Butler Yeats to be book in five m'onths - beginning to final titled The .\ong 7hat Would Be Dance, copy while working full time and taking "first to manifest in the form of several two classes. And it was the hardest thing I articles." She will exhibit works from a have ever done. think it's a good book. watercolor series, "The Persian Minial 've worked with a lot of beginning comtures," in a in Hanover, Vt. Gretputer users, and l tried to gear it to them, chen's address is Box 539, ~orwich, correct their mistakes before they make VT 05055. them.'' The publisher is Franklin Beedle, Kniaz of 4521 Campus Drive, #327, Irvine, CA Shaker announce the arri92715-9877. val of Kniaz on October 23. Writing in October, Patti says that she The Kniazes have two other children, lives near the San Francisco Peaks (alt. Banjamin, 6, and Beatrice, 2. 12,000 feet) and plans to ride up on her mountain bike as far as she can get before it starts snowing, "which should be soon. Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence Berns, Then l will switch to cross country skis." Betsy Blume, John Christensen, Benjamin Milner, Howard Zeiderman, Elliott Zucker1983 . man, advisory board. Molly M. has been apThe Reporter is published by the Public pointed director research and special Relations Office, St. John's College, Annaprojects, Office of Institutional AdvanceMD 21404. William M. Dyal, Jr., presiment, the University of Maryland at BalPublished lour times a year, in February, timore. She sends word that Rachel Val·June, September and November. Secondentine Neill passed her bar exam in the class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. fall. USPS 018- 750 (Continued on P. 8) Aronson to give reading s r1es of iche Alvin Aronson, A '72, is carving out a new career for himself, and St. Johnnies in the Boston and Annapolis areas are beneficiaries. Last fall he presented a program of "dramatic readings" of stories by Shalom Aleichem for the Boston Alumni Chapter. Twenty-one attended, and "the discussion afterwards was marvelous," he writes. He will repeat the program May lat 3 p.m. in the Great Hall for the Annapolis St. John's community. Employed in the Office of Alumni Relations ~t Northeastern University, Mr. Aronson has read the stories at Hillel Houses and nursing homes and before Hadassah groups in New England. Last fall his program was a part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at Northeastern. Mr. Aronson reads the three stories on which the musical, "Fiddler on the Roof," is based: "Tevye Wins a Fortune," "The Younger Generation" and "The Clock that Struck Thirteen." "Not only do they have a lot of depth but are very humorous besides," helsaid. Alvin Aronson first became interested in acting, playwriting, and directing when he was a senior at Boston Latin School. While in the Army and stationed in Tokyo, Japan, he wrote the scripts for three musical plays that were produced in the Ernie Pyle Theatre (now the Takarazuka Opera House). THE SETTINGS were all done by Kisaku Ito, who later designed the films, "Rashomon" and "Gates of Hell." He also handled publicity for that theater for a year. From there, Mr. Aronson came to St. John's, where he was a student from 1948 to 1950. From 1952-55, Mr. Aronson was a member of the Circle in the Square, the famous off Broadway theater in New York. He did the sound, played walk-ons, changed scenery and ushered for Tennessee Williams' "Summer and Smoke" that featured Geraldine Page, "American Gothic," that featured Jason Robards and Jean Stapleton, and Truman Capote's "The Grass Harp," in which Mr. Aronson and George Segal both played small parts. In "Summer and Smoke," Mr. Aronson played Dusty, the waiter, in the Moonlake Casino scene. He also understudied the role of the poet, Vernon, and played the role one day with Geraldine Page. George Segal did some scenes from Mr. Aronson 'splay, "The Pocket Watch," for Lee Strasberg's acting class. The play, about three generations of a Jewish famran 725 performances off-Broadway in l 966-68. Geraldine Page also performed in Mr. Aronson's play, "The Enormous Lie," which was performed at the Actors Studio in l 962. In the supporting cast were Jerry Orbach ("42nd St."), Robert Loggia ("The Jagged Edge") and Doris Roberts ("Rem- ington Steele"). The play was not a sue· cess, but Geraldine Page gave a brilliant performance in it. IN 1963-64, Alvin was an assistant to Alan Jay Lerner for the Broadway musi·cal, "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever." When Mr. Lerner produced a birthday party for President John F. Kennedy at the Waldorf Astoria in the spring of l 965, Mr. Aronson was one of the stage managers for that event. Mr. Aronson assisted Jimmy Durante, Carol Channing, Leslie Uggams, Ed Sullivan, Eddie Fisher, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Preston and Peter Lawford to their places. Mr. Aronson-returned to the Annapolis campus in 1970, where he completed his college degree and served as playwrightproducer in residence. During that period he produced eight classic plays. Mr. Aronson is still writing plays. For the past 11 years, he has been married to his wife, Zelda, who is a geriatric social worker. St. Johnnies interested in booking appearances by Mr. Aronson may call him at home at (617) 566-6657. His address is 1731 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146. r Warren Winiarski, A '52, produces a wine of such classic quality that he likes to compare it in character with the classics at St. John's. It is the Cabernet Sauvignon, which made a somewhat spectacular appearance at the Reagan-Gorbachev state dinner in Washington in December. The wine was Stag's Leap Wine Cellars' 1978 SLY Cabernet Sauvignon, Lot 2. The SL V refers to the vineyard in California's Napa Valley where the Winiarskis grow this particular grape, an outstanding area for the quality of fruit plant, earth and sun combine to produce. Their Cabernet Sauvignon, which The New York Times mentioned in reporting the menu, also was served at the Geneva Summit. The year before Queen Elizabeth's clerk of the royal cellar had selected Stag's Leap 's Cabernet Sauvignon when the Queen entertained President and Mrs. Reagan aboard her yacht in San Fran- cisco. That was the occasion of the Reagans' thirty-first wedding anniversary. At the Reagan-Gorbachev state dinner, three cases were served to 126 guests. The wine was flown in about two weeks beforehand in order, Mr. Winiarski said, that it might have "an opportunity to compose itself again." Stag's Leap may not make it to the next summit in Moscow, but the winery possibly will not be without its influence in Russia. A short time ago the Winiarskis developed a good will exchange program with a winery near Telavi in the Black Sea area of Georgia, where some of Russia's best wines are produced. Mr. Winiarski hopes to exchange people and information. The Winiarskis' daughter~ Kasia, A '84, is the newest family member to enter their winery business in Napa. She.now is associated with the firm in a public relations capacity. �I For reasons for which the administration has found no satisfactory explanation, men continue to outnumber women at St. John's College. This year, 57 percent, or 222, students are men and 43 per cent, or 170, are women. Although not always so markedly divided, the proportions are characteristic of enrollment figures for past years. Both Dean Thomas Slakey and John Christensen, admissions director, said they were unable to explain the reason why St. John's appears to attract more men than women. The numbers go against the pattern for Maryland's independent colleges as a whole, where the overall percentage for 14 such institutions is reported at 55.2 percent women, according to the Maryland Independent College and University Association. Probably the preponderance of Maryland colleges traditionally female, which include Goucher, Notre Dame and Hood, explains the reason why state-wide figures remain heavily weighted toward women. The proportions for those three institutions respectively are 94.9 percent, 89. 7 percent and 79.4 percent women. MICUA said that among the private institutions with the smallest proportion of women, the Capitol College in Laurel ranks first. There the program is centered on electronic engineering, and women represent only 8.6 per cent of the student body. Next comes Johns Hopkins University, with 42.6 percent women, followed by St. John's. St. John's enrollment is kept deliberately small. While it may exceed the figure, particularly in January when it admits a small freshman class, St. John's customarily caps registration at 400. A statistical study prepared by the Registrar's Office reports the total number of students for the fall semester at 392. Of that number, 26, or 7 percent, are minority students. They include 6 (2 percent) black students, one on a student visa; 7 (2 percent) Hispanic students, and 13 (3 percent) Asian students, one on a student visa. The number of Caucasian students stands at 366 (93 percent). St. John's has 13 students (3 percent) who reside in foreign countries. (Because of the amount of reading and class discussion, foreign students who lack fluency in t English face a particular hurdle in enrolling.) Foreign countries are represented this way: Australia, l; Austria, I; Canada, 5; Costa Rica, I; Ghana, I; India, I; Korea, I; Turkey, I, and West Germany, l. Twenty percent, or 77, students are from Maryland. The breakdown for other areas: New England, 47 ( 12 percent); MidAtlantic, 191 ( 49 percent); South, 39 (IO Statistics similar for both campuses A total of 217 freshmen enrolled last fall on the two St. John's campuses. Information provided by directors of admission at Annapolis and Santa Fe reveals that the characteristics of the Class of 1992 are much the same for both campuses. Of the 114 freshmen in Annapolis, 59 are men and 55 are women. The total of 103 at Santa Fe includes 53 men and 50 women. John Christensen, director of admissions, supplied this additional information about the Annapolis freshmen: states represented, 29; countries represented, 5; previously attended college, 23; recipients of financial aid, 43 percent. Fifty-one percent graduated in the first fifth of their high school classes. (Not included are 17 students for whom class rank was not available.) The freshmen ranged in age from 17 to 33. Freshmen enrolled on the Santa Fe campus come from 27 states and one foreign country, according to Lawrence H. Clendenin, director of admissions. Thirtyseven previously attended college, 58 percent receive financial aid, and 42 percent were in the first fifth of their graduating classes. The age range was from 16 to 29. percent); Southwest, 19 (5 percent; MidWest, 51 ( 13 percent; West, 34 (9 percent), and others, 11 (3 percent). Average student age is 20 although St. John's has a number at either end of the age spectrum, including seven (2 percent), who are over 30, and 83, or 21 percent, who are between the ages of l 6-18. Most, however, some 54 percent, or 213, are between 19-21. Another 87, 22 percent, are between 22-26, and 4, or I percent, between 26-30. SJC has high school progra111 Seniors described as "avid readers" and "creative thinkers" who are enrolled at seven Anne Arundel County high schools are learning first hand how St. John's College's great books program works. In all, Thomas May, director of continuing education, said that 138 students, participants in the Gifted and Talented/ Advanced Program at their schools, will spend a day at St. John's during the 198788 academic year. A typical day's program includes a tutorial on Euclid's Elements in the morning and a seminar on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House in the afternoon. St. John's tutors conduct both sessions, with a college student serving as co-leader of the seminar. This is the sixth year the college has cooperated with the Anne Arundel County Board of Education in arranging the visits. For the first time, a Prince George's County school, Central High in Capital Heights, also will send a group. Diane Sprague, language arts specialist for Anne Arundel's Gifted and Talented/ Advanced Program, described the visits as "a terrific experience" for the seniors. They have an opportunity to "question and talk about important pieces of literature in the setting St. John's provides," she said. "They leave the seminars with a million more questions they want to ask and are in a state of disquietude because nothing is fully resolved." Par en ' Weekend is May 6Parents' Weekend is about to undergo a change in timing. This academic year it will stick to the May 6- 7 dates originally set, but at the request of a number of parents, Parents' Weekend will occur next year in the fall. Vice-President Jeffrey Bishop has announced the date for October 28. The change was one idea that came out of a new Parents' Committee, which met to offer ideas on a range of activities in Annapolis. The group included Mrs. Julia Beckman, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund S. Boynton, Mrs. Richard Cannava, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carroll Carter, Dr. Roger C. Duvoisin, Stanley M. Hunt and Dr. and Mrs. Donlin M. Long. One suggestion will be implemented in May. In addition to the Saturday seminars, held at I0 a.m., there will be second discussions in the afternoon based upon student tutorials. The student co-chairmen. Karen Harper, Phoenix. Ariz .. junior, and Simon McNabb, Cohasset, Mass., senior, are considering readings. Invitations, with their selections, will be in the mail in early spring. President Riccards and Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield exchange quips after Senator Hatfield's speech. Sen. Hatfield college speaker By MELISSA ADAMS Reprinted with permission of The New Mexican Reluctance to challenge authority is the greatest danger this country faces, a U.S. senator told a crowd of about l 75 at St. John's College in a Friday night lecture. "A citizenry that is eaten away by the cancers of ignorance and apathy will be eaten away during our greatest hour of need and that hour is approaching," said Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore, the secondranking Republican in the U.S. Senate. In his speech, "Citizenship in a Mass Democracy," Hatfield warned that an unconcerned public threatens the most important words carved out in the Constitution: "We the people." 'The people must therefore tell government what to do and not visa versa," he said. "We have reached a mass society that is moving dangerously close to a two-class society - the educated and uneducated. The fewer questions asked, the greater the possibility of a two-class society." Hatfield pointed out that some 70 million voters in the United States cannot read the Constitution, much less understand it. "We must learn how to think and think creatively so government is not the master but the servant of the people," he said. Senator Hatfield said government, big unions and big business have become power brokers and are drifting farther and farther away from the people. "Ideas and questions represent the real fuel for a democracy. They are the dynamics," he said. The senator, who is a sponsor of the Peace Tax Fund bill to allow withholding of military taxes, said national defense re4uires internal programs and a thinking public, not "megatons" of hardware. He said the only president in recent history who has grasped that concept was Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who saw building an interstate highway system, education, power and water systems as the basis of a national defense program. Senator Hatfield spoke at St. John's as part of the school's 50 year anniversary of its Great Books Program. Ca111pus receives grant for Mellon The Annapolis campus has received a grant of $189,410. 74 from the BeneficialHodson Trust, of Wilmington, Del. The sum was presented at a luncheon meeting attended by President William M. Dyal, Jr., and presidents of three other Maryland institutions that also received grants. Presented by Finn M. W. Caspersen, trust chairman, they were Hood and Washington Colleges and Johns Hopkins University. President Dyal said the money will go toward the $4. 5-million program for renovation and expansion of Mellon Hall, including the new wing under construction. "Over the years, St. John's has received $2. 5-million in grants from the BeneficialHodson Trust which has benefitted several aspects of the college and its surrounding campus," Mr. Dyal said. "These grants have helped us to enrich the academic program and to support the facultv, and St. John's is a better institution b~cause of that." In addition, Mr. Dyal said that the college has received $25,000 from the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company for Mellon and another $25,000 is pledged for 1988. articles William Pastille, a second year tutor on the Annapolis campus, is the author of two recently published articles: a review of Hellmut Federhofer's Heinrich S'chenker, published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and "Schenker's Brahms," which appeared in the Newslet- ter of the American Brahms Societr. He also has addressed two national conferences of musical professional societies. Hespokeon "Schenkercontra Wagner" at a meeting of the American Musicological Society in New Orleans in mid-October and on "The Development of the Ursatzin Schenker's Published Works" before the Society for Music Theory at its November 5-8 meeting in Rochester, N. Y. �THE REPORTER PAGE4 zng n DOROTHY KINSMAN In January 1984, after completing the first semester of her junior year, Beth Cross walked away from St. John's. She kept right on walking - in Scotland, England, France, Germany, Finland, and over the border into the Soviet Union. Now Miss Cross is back on the Annapolis campus, her convictions reinforced by her experiences of walking for peace and working in shelters for the homeless. She is a senior, having finished her junior year in Santa Fe. Miss Cross, whose hometown is Effingham, Kans., believes that people have a responsibility to be aware of what their concerns are and to act on these concerns. "The common experience in every country was aparthy," she said of her journey. "This came about when people copmared themselves to the issues and saw themselves as so small and the issues as so big. [The gap] was just incommensurate to them." She described a four-hour conversation with the president of the Soviet Peace Committee, a government agency, who formerly was a general in the Soviet Army. While Miss Cross tried to convince him of the importance of one-on-one connections in changing lives, he insisted that only the masses can bring about political change. To illustrate his point, the Russian cited the Aesop fable in which a farmer asks his sons to break a bundle of sticks.They are unable to do so, but when he unties the bundle, they could break the sticks one at a time. Miss Cross countered by observing that the sticks could not be broken if they were interwoven as a result of individual effort. Miss Cross was heartened by her awareness that the Russian people have "a very different criterion for the significance of their actions. They don't believe it's important to be able to demonstrate." Instead, to express their opposition to the government, they rely on "small acts of defiance," such as redistributing goods according to their own standards. They fail on purpose to meet production standards. "This is a political response which brings about change," she said. "They have become very astute as to what they can and cannot get away with." Miss Cross first walked for peace while a student at St. John's. The Annapolis Friends Meeting, which she attends, asked her in the fall of 1983 to arrange for interested Johnnies to meet with participants FEBRUARY 1988 lO l Boo u A naturalist, an expert on gardening, and an historian will be speakers at the annual book-and-author luncheon the Caritas Society of St. John's and the Charing Cross- Bookshop will sponsor March 12 at the college. Proceeds will go to the society's scholarship fund. Elaine G. Breslaw. professor of history at Morgan State University, has edited Dr. Alexander Hamilton's minutes of an important social and cultural club of colonial Maryland. ll1e Records of the Tuesday Cluh- of Annapolis, 1745-46 is being published by the University of Illinois Press. Tom Horton, a Baltimore Sun reporter currently on leave, is the author of Bur Countr_i~. a collection of essays published by Johns Hopkins Press. Currently he is managing an environmental education center on Smith Island for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Carole Ottesen, of Potomac, Md., is the author of Jhe New American Garden. put out by McMillan, and a second book, Gardening with Str!e. written with Peter King and Graham- Rose of The London Times and scheduled to appear shortly. Taking reservations for the luncheon, scheduled for 12 noon with sherry at 11 :30, are Marion Borsodi, 263-3576, and Marion Slakey, 263-6961. in a walk which originated in Bangor. Wash. "With no backpack and no walking shoes, l found myself on the other side of the Bridge," -she said, ref erring to her urge to join the walk. "I would catch up with them on their way to New York and do my homework on the way back to Annapolis." Returning to the United States from Europe at the end of September 1984, Miss Cross joined a walk, also originating in Bangor, from South Bend, lnd ..~ ui Washington, D.C. She remained in Washington until May 1985, working at a shelter for the homeless operated by the Community for Creative Nonviolence. "I did a lot of dumpstering (the collection of surplus food from warehouses) "It was therapeutic," she said. "We could save tomatoes and oranges. It's not as easy to save people addicted to alcohol and drugs .. , Miss Cross believes that homelessness is "a graphic depiction of the alienation" suffered in all segments of our society. "It's unfair to look upon the homeless with contempt." She donned her hiking shoes again in the spring of 1986 to walk from Leavenworth, Kans., to Omaha as a participant in the Heartland Peace Pilgrimage, a walk which connected with the Great Peace March. For the next seven months, she worked at two shelters in Davenport, Iowa, greeting the homeless and discussing their problems with them. These shelters for homeless families and homeless men are operated by the Catholic Worker, founded Dorothy Day. Of her decision to return to St. John's, she says, "Seeing the desperation of some people, realized that I needed to take care of myself. I felt this was the thing I wa~ supposed to be doing." If Miss Cross receives the Watson Fellowship for which she has applied, next year she will be studying the situation of the homeless - the "squatters" - in London. Her proposal also includes an examination of changes in Denmark's public health system. 1968 Marilynne Wills Scott writes to correct her listing in the Alumni Register: I have not changed my name to Dr. Maxine Moore, nor do I live in North Carolina." Mrs. Scott and her husband, David, were married in 1978 and live in Middletown, Conn. "I received both my master's degree in elementary education and my sixth year diploma from the University of Connecticut, and I am presently a reading consultant at Flanders Elementary School in East Lyme." Mrs. Scott's elder daughter, Sasha, lives with her father, Donald Schell, SF '68, in San Francisco and is a senior at Convent of the Sacred Heart. "My younger daughter, Emily, is a pianist, loves Brownies and has just started ... to read chapter books," Mrs. Scott writes. "My husband is a development psychologist at Yale-New Haven Hospital." has applied to Ohio State Graduate School to study computer science. At last report, David Freedman was with the Foreign Language Department, Xinjiang University, Crumgi, China, and expected to be back in the United States by the end of 1987. produces videotapes, tram television documentaries to educational and instructional programs for corporations. In November David ran his first marathon, the New York Marathon, and beat his predicted time by five minutes. He writes that he was thinking all the way of William Milner and Peter Brush, SF '81, "the Santa Fe cronies who helped start it all." 1984 Natasha Walter Fisk, whose husband is Peter B. W. Fisk, is proposal coordinator for Kaplan/ McLaughlin/ and Diaz architectural firm. Katherine Goldsmith received a Master of Arts degree in speech language pathology last year from Northwestern University. On September 12, she married Phillip Rome, whom she met in Alaska. Bill Bount is employed by Mobil m New Orleans. 1973 Kip Smith reports that he is studying for his doctorate in management science and artificial intelligence. He is living in St. Paul, Minn. Victor and Susan Gavahan, (SF '76) Austin, are with Zion Episcopal Parish. Their son, Michael, is in second grade, and they have a three-year-old daughter, Emily. 1972 1976 David is employed \Vestinghouse in as a techni_rnd engineer. He graduated from the ion"'s Hopkins last year and 1977 In November Dale M. Gorczynski was re-elected to the Houston City Council by 80. 8 percent of the vote for his district, writes William A. Malloy, SF '76, also of Houston. Mr. Gorczynski has served on the council for eight years. A graduate of Rice University, Mr. Gorczynski has a master's degree from the University of Texas School of Public Health. He received an Env!fonmental Leadership Award from the ~ierra Club and was selected as Conservationist of the Year in 1984 by the Houston Sportsman's club. 1978 1979 David Wald has lived in New York for the past eight years. He and Betsy Ressler (Yale '82), a private therapist, were married in l 986. They were introduced by A '77. David recently formed his own company, which 1981 Martha "Pat" Storck, SF G l, died July 31. She is survived by her husband, Thomas Storck, SF GI '80, of Greenbelt, Md. 1982 Adam Farquhar and Angela Dappert were married October 23 in Kitzingen, Germany. Joshua McDavid is in his final year at the University of North Carolina Medical School. He intends to practice psychiatry. Sara Matson is enrolled in the master's in education program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and is specializing in teaching English in secondary schools. She plans to move to the Netherlands in a year and a half. 1983 Morton Bain and her husband, Geof, have a four-year-old <laugher. Nancy plans to do graduate work in expressive therapy. M~11rn:::ar•=-• Elaine French is attending the School of Massage and will graduate 1985 On his way to both a graduate degree and fatherhood is Nicholas Ossorgin, SF '85, who was married last May 24 to Mary Ann Sullima, of Santa Fe. The traditional Russian Orthodox ceremony was performed at the Church of the Holy Dormition by his father, the Rev. Michael Ossorgin VI, tutor emeritus. Fatherhood will come first; the baby is expected next month. Meanwhile, Nickie is a graduate student at the University of New Mexico in its hospital administration program. He and Mary, who look a wedding trip to the Virgin Islands, are residing in Santa Fe. 1986 Elizabeth Mechau is attending Columbia University. Her husband, Daniel Gertner, is a gra-duate student in architecture. 1988 Melanie Yeats and Arthur SF '90. were married November 14 in Santa Fe. �1 Lee Hirst. SGI '73,. of Albuquerque, journeyed to Australia in December and returned a world champion. In Melbourne, he won the 400 meter event for the 64-69 age group in the international track and field competition. Australians came in second and third, and Americans placed fourth, fifth and sixth. A public relations executive. Mr. Hirst came close to setting a world record for the 400 meter when he won the national championship last year in Eugene, Ore. He holds these additional titles: 1987 Texas state 200M and 400M; l 985, l 986, 1987 Mexico state champion, runner's pentathlon; New Mexico champion. regular pentathlon. Although Mr. Hirst has been training for master's competition only since 1986, he has been competing in track since his teens. While in high school in New Jersey, he was state champion in the 880M and ranked second nationally in the 440M. Before volunteering for active duty in World War ll, he was on a track scholarship at Indiana University. Ranked number one in the country, the track team was coached by Billy Hays, track and field Olympic coach during the 1936 Olympics. "I was inthe era of training for the 1944 Olympics, and _Indiana had the top team," Mr. Hirst said. The Olympics for that year were cancelled, however, because of the war. "Hundreds of athletes dropped any dreams of the Olympics and concentrated on the war." [n 1946, he rejoined the Indiana team, but his priority was to finish college. Mr. Hirst didn't .start competing in master's track and field meets until two years ago, when.he entered the New Mexico Runner's Pentathlon and finished first in his age group. Mr. Hirst has played rugby with the Albuquerque Rugby Club and the Santa Fe Rugby Club for 15 years. A New Mexico resident for 17 years, Mr. Hirst and his wife, Marie, own The Hirst Company, a public relations firm with offices in Albuquerque and New York. Clients include E. F. Hutton, Intel, the Maloof Companies and Plains Electric. For Mr. Hirst, the meet in Melbourne was an opportunity to represent the United States in an international event, an experience so many athletes his age missed during World War ll. In fact, many of his competitors there would have competed in a 1944 Olympics. By providing a wide variety of activities, both competitive and non-:competitive, Santa Fe's Student Activities Organization is finding the ideal means for achieving the balance between physical and mental activity. De-emphasizing the competitive factor so frequently found in intermural sports. it~fFrs, among other programs, fencmg, · skiing and the martial arts. In Santa Fe it is not uncommon to find men and women on the same field at the same time. The fierce competition which occurs in fencing and ultimate frisbee can rival that of any football game. The opportunity to play with members of the opposite sex can overcome inhibitions enabling shy people to become bolder and to meet people they would never dare approach at the average coffee shop party. The SAO encourages students to recognize their potential in fields which they previously had not explored. Joasia Lujan, '91, was challenged by a fine arts instructor and realized "I never knew I had potential for doing life drawings. I was surprised to see I could animate my sketches." Peter Dwyer, '86, was graduated from Annapolis but is a Santa Fe resident. "I had so much fun skiing in Santa Fe my junior year that when I graduated I had to come back," he said. "The SAO had trips to the ski basin and Taos which made it possible for me to get back into skiing even though I did not have much money. The snow was excellent and the lift lines practically nonexistent, unlike similar areas in Colorado." Director Istvan Fehevary is the reason that the organization has become such a success. Since his arrival which nearly coincided with the organization of the Santa Fe campus 25 years ago, he has been responsible for a three-court tennis facility, an intercollegiate soccer team, an 18-year fencing rivalry with the U.S. Air Force Academy and the St. John's College Search and Rescue Team. In addition, he has generated schoolwide enthusiasm for such events as the "Octoberfest," a harvest moon celebration in the wilderness and the annual Fasching Ball. Sponseller, of Ocean Ctaarnc,io1ns1n10 in Eugene, Ore. Mr. Hirst won the 400-meter championship in the age group, beating Sponseller, who was the world record holder in that event. Santa Fe senior Ann Slakey talks with visitors from Japanese educators visit A tour of the campus, tutorial sit-ins, and tea with student and tutor members of the Committee on Instruction rounded out a full afternoon of St. John's activities for lO visiting Japanese educators. Eight teachers and two principals from the Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya, Japan, arrived as participants in a nine-day tour of Santa Fe schools. For the past I8years, Nagoya, fourth largest city in Japan, has sent teams of public school teachers to study school systems in we.stern nati?I?S. The itinerary for this group included v1s1ts to an elementary school, junior high, high school, vocational school and both the Santa Fe Community College and St. John's. In addition to observing classes, the visitors discussed common problems shared among educators. Their spectrum of interests ranged from curriculum development and continuing education to counseling and discipline. The group was welcomed by Timothy Miller, dSsistant dean, and individuals attended a class in math, language, or senior laboratory. Elaine Reiss, '90, ·guided its members on a campus tour. Tea was served for our guests in the senior common room. Watt Alexander, '89, student member of the Committee on Instruction, said: "My impression of Japan has been of a country emphasizing its industrial and technological potential. To see an interest from Japanese educators in the kind of program exemplified by St. John's may signify that country's re-examination of its own heritage and its own tradition. In the context of education, l find that be to a very positive idea." Institute honors Peter Weiss The Institute for Policy Studies has honored Peter Weiss, A '46, with a Colloquium on Law and Justice at the Carnegie Conference Center in Washington. From 1974 to 1986, Mr. Weiss was chairman of the Institute's Board of Trustees. The 18 speakers who participated in the colloquium included former U.S. senator and presidential candidate George McGovern. A dinner in Mr. Weiss's honor followed. A trademark lawyer in New York, Mr. Weiss is a member of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors. His comments on a Supreme Court decision concerning the use of the word, "Olympics," were the subject of the lead article in the Talk of the Town section of The New Yorker. Mr. Weiss was an informal consultant for the defendant in a case in which the United States Olympic Committee sought to enjoin San Francisco Arts and Athletics, Inc., from using the name "Gay Olympics" in promoting an event ultimately called the "Gay Games." The court gave the U.S. 0. C. exclusive domain for the purposes of public identification and promotion over the word, "Olympics." "We wanted to talk to [Mr. Weiss] because of a lingering feeling we had that there was something extremely peculiar about removing a general, ancient, and indeed, religious word from our language and 'awarding' it, even if only for certain purposes, to some committee," the article says. "The people on the side of the Olympics claimed that their right to use the word was protected under the First Amendment. Thev also accused the U. 0. C. of acting. discriminately since the word can be used to promote such events as the Special Olympics, the K-9 Olympics and the Senior Olympics. "It's preposterous - a genuine howler of an error," the New Yorker quotes Mr. Weiss as saying. " ' The U. S. 0. C. got its power over the word directly from Con- gress, so obviously the action the U. S. 0. C. takes with regard to this socalled trademark is the equivalent of state action. It's also pretty obvious that the U. S. 0. C. has acted in a discriminatory way .. .' " Asked what sort of precedent the decision might set, Mr. Weiss replied, "Terrible ... Say the Association of International Marathons went to Congress and pointed out that many marathons in the country were bringing in people from all over the world and a lot of money, and that the whole thing needed to be regulated ... and they asked for trademark rights to the word 'marathon.' It would be a very similar set of circumstances and a perfectly logical development. If Congress passed such a law and the President signed it, that would mean that the association could dole out the word to whatever events it deemed worthy and withhold it from those it felt were undeserving. "In essence, Congress actually sold a word to the Olympic Committee, because way back in 1978 the committee said that the government would end up losing money if they-the committee-.couldn't regulate the term. And it's the only instance I know of where the government has given a private party exclusive rights over a single, descriptive word." faculty The Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education has awarded the Santa Fe campus a $24,688 grant to conduct an interdisciplinary faculty group on the between the fine arts and the sciences Renaissance. St. John's expects its faculty members to teach widely throughout the program regardless of specialization. The college said the Renaissance study group will help new St. John's faculty to adjust to these special demands and to provide senior faculty members with intellectual stimulation and renewal. �THE REPORTER PAGES David Weinstein, 26, is no stockbroker. He's a Renaissance broker.. this, he means someone who tries to the great ideas of the past into the " Like those of Aristotle Nietzche. Aristotle: Man is by nature curious. Nietzche: The world's in a constant state of change~ Weinstein: "You put those two concepts together, and you get man's neverending search for knowledge and how to apply it." That, he says, is what he's doing. "Every account is like a new puzzle. It's tremendously challenging to work with individuals and help them get where they're going financially," he says. Professionally, he got where he's a roundabout route. His odyssey a high school exchange student in followed four Books the u,,,,,,,~~., curriculum at St. John's College in AnnaMd., then earning a master's UJLH•~·"'"""-'ll at the of Public Affairs. the philosophers at St. John's to think, he says. And it's this he values most. While deciding on a career, he for a short while with his parents m Toledo, sold insurance door-to-door, and wrote poetry with themes of love and beauty. "Then I got into a broken down car and drove to Florida." Arriving in Deerfield Beach in the winter of I 985, he apprenticed for a friend as a stockbroker, and after two years with a local firm, recently opened the Boca Raton office of the New York-based G. K. Scott Investment Bankers, where he's the man'ager. But he's no less interested in the literary and philosophical. Being well rounded, he says, is what gives him an edge. Learning to think, as he did at St. John's, is the key not only to wise investhe says, but to solving problems such as and terrorism. He thinks a liberal arts education does this best, and he s Benedict, A '47, director of the administration at che School of the A.rts, for investors. If he has time, he will resume the se,ries this fall. ln his Wimbledon Villas at Town home in Boca Raton. he looks more like a stockbroker than the except few on top. He's llll!.J'-'-"a u dressed a gray Studio Lomo suit, gray and blue print Georgio Armani tie, pale pink tailored shirt and stylish black shoes. And his black and white decor is sleek and contemporary, with an Oriental flair. But he's no YUPPIE. He makes this clear. He's like Nietzsche, he says, in that he believes thinking the greatest thoughts and feeling the deepest passions are what , make life worthwhile. "For me, music (bagpipes to Beethoven) and art (Raphael to Michelangelo) give me an area where I can feel the deeper passions, and economics and the brokerage industry give me the opportunto think about many different things." favorite leisure time pursuits include and deep (an manages to tie the two together. 1 "If we can understand what steps need 'to b,e taken to begin to solve these problems, we also know where to invest our money," he says. "There might be a handful of small high risk companies working on a cure for AIDS. If we could own a portfolio of those well chosen securities, we can capitalize on an industry breakthrough when it occurs. staying current through reading speaking to people in the industry, I can stay current." During his apprenticeship, he worked as a room service waiter at the Boca Raton Hotel and Club, putting aside the trays to start a book discussionHe needed intellectual stimulation, he says, and he wanted to some intellectual culture to the city. l 986, he the series for ciub members and guests, in which discussed books as diverse as '·'The his horizons. Also, Until then, he was involved in football, gymnastics. The chance to train with world class table tennis players was an added incentive for him to go to Japan. But the trip nudged him more toward the intellectual sphere, which he thinks is sadly neglected. People don't read anymore and watch too much television, he complains. As a result, he says Americans are being surpassed educationally by the Japanese and Europeans. But he's optimistic. That is, if the liberal arts education gains favor, which he aims to promote both as a stockbroker and lecturer. In fact, he'd like to put the Great Books curriculum into the nation's high schools. Having a democracy is impossible unless people learn to think, without which America will be a land of technological robots and self-perpetuating bureaucracies, he says. we can get places fast, but if we're not careful, we're going to forget where we want to go.'' Weinstein seems in no of losing his In five or l 0 years, still like to be a ( stockbroker, ln his 50s and 60s, he wants to teach at St.John's or John's type Butac some also like to get elected to is ultimate for worid 1Jeace, to of beam); that trans- year more ihan rwo Nas for and a quarter milliontheater seats New York. A member of the TDF, a board director since the term as dent in being Columbia former Dean Chapin, he was director of the Project in the Arts for the National Endowment for the Arts and for 5 years was staff associate at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, sponsoring, among other arts projects, programs in support of minority and community initiatives. Mr. Benedict is the author of many reports and articles on aspects of arts management. ln the middle of the 1950s, the Eisenhower Administration, he was a assistant at the House. FEBRUARY 1988 tutor Doskow is up•~•HJ•U.,.., part of this year a close readof some eastern vvorks with a view to considering whether it is practical to include any in the St. John's reading list. The former dean has been selected to participate in an Institute on Masterworks of Asian Literature that began its monthly sessions on October 16. With his travel to New York funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Mr. Doskow will be the classics of lndia, China and be interested in readers list. H rative, from the Gossamer Dian" ihe Pillow Book, and lhe sions uf Nijo. Modern works will include Indian stories and short novels of Premchand, Narayan and Desai, Lu Xun and modern Chinese leteters, and Japanese novels and stories by Tanizaki, Enchi, Abe, Mishima and Kawabata. selection~ covery and Development. Convening in San Jose, Costa Rica, the new commission is attempting to develop plans by the end of 1988 that can be feasibly implemented within a three to five year period. Active in Latin America since 1953, Mr. Dyal was named to a new working committee, one of five into which the commission is divided with a view to their reporting back at a second meeting in June. "We hope to bring .in some strong recommendations as a first stage in addressing issues," he said. His own will be a group for which he sees a "'"'JV!.l'-"'"1':. to the macroeconomic issues, believes the commission has to listen to the voices of Central America's the of whom are poor, than it to the economists and academicians of North and Central America to declare what the issues of economic and social reform are. The commission, which is non-governmental and supported means, is not involved in the peace process, leaving that to individual governments, although its members can voice their concerns. Members, however, recognize that unless there is peace, there is not much opportunto effect changes. Dyal is hopeful for the peace plan that brought a Nobel Prize to Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. "I think that the fact that five presidents have signed it is a miracle," he said. "There is a lot of hope riding on this plan. think it is for real. It will be tough to iron out all the angles." With the exception of Costa Rica, which has no standing army and more teachers than policemen, he said Central America has come "essentially through a decade of war, terrorism and violence." Mr. out that Honduras the Sandinistas. There is war in which suffers from massive inflation and where the economy is decimated. Guatemala, now and Costa Rica, both debts and El Salvador have never reform., in tent cities. So have to the United States that San Francisco has become the second largest El Salvador Other problems need to be The population rate has to be tackled. Central needs to reestablish its common market which fell apart after it was established two decades ago. "No one country is strong enough to stand on its own feet," Mr. Dyal believes. One hopeful step he advocates would be the of common at as many as institutions. As a followMr. said conare to a Central America Parliament, not so much to eaco country, but to them. �THE REPORTER FEBRUARY 1988 been assist PAGE7 over his shoulder to see if Simon is around his door, he reason to do so. John's the the 22-year-old senior has the student body for two semesters, one term longer than most in that position. He chose not to run for the January term in order to work on his senior essay. Instead, he will be co-arch on with James O'Gara of the Political Forum. Mr. McNabb is president of the King William Players and, what he likes best, captain of the Green Waves, a duty that results in his playing in every campus sport from football to soccer. He cochaired last spring's Parents' Weekend and will do so again this year. He is campus coordinator for Michael Dukakis's Santa Fe freshman, is the a from Associates, local contractors. L,UJ'..~.J~v lists history as his favorite enjoys writing, and keeps up on current issues. He is a skilled plastic modeler and has a special interest in aviation and space history. Allen Mikaelian, another freshman, was awarded the First Interstate Bank scholarship. Lu,i.;,u"'"'"'' hearing about Mr. McNabb ever since, after at this great books college, he walked up to a totally unknown Virginia Madsen, the starlet recently rated as one of the most beautiful women in the world, and asked her to attend the Croquet Ball with him_ Throw away your picture of a shy, freshman. WAS AFTER the campus premiere of Creator. the movie written by St. John's alumnus Jeremy Leven. Miss Madsen immediately agreed to accept his invitation so Mr. McNabb walked her back to the Maryland Inn so she could get into more comfortable clothes. (He left the dance about :30; she stayed until about 3:30.) Last spring, Simon McNabb was at St. John's annual croquet match with Navy, dressed in red "hot pants" over a red sweat suit and occupying, in a sprawl, a sort of throne at the sidelines one croquet court with a retinue of students clustered around his feet, happy and afire for the cause of St. John's despite the fact that there had been a teeny bit of trouble the Greg ferguson photc1 he said, attributing the increase in part to an unusually active freshman class. One project the governing Delegate Council has concentrated its attention on is the boat house and the lack of repairs to boats there. An appeal to the college president brought more funds. In alL the Delegate Council oversees a $I 0,000 budget distributed among camThis fall the council Cl.ubs KWP, ('cmmittee, move of has ployment that has brought Massachusetts much attention. As a volunteer, he also worked on behalf of Governor Dukakis's Democratic primary election, licking stamps, filling information packets, stuffing envelopes and placing an occasional phone call to Iowa. Mr. McNabb is interested in government. His senior essay will be about Budd and, like a major freshman paper, will center on such questions as how best to serve when flicts with one's own oversee no man costume room from tne base- nent of Mellon to mom. ~vVhen room the new Martinez, Santa Fe "''"''""""~·-~~to receive the schoSunwest Bank, Santa Fe. In two Texas residents have received scholarships from the Houston Endowment. These recipients are Jimmy McConnell, Temple, Tex., senior, and Packwood, Austin, junior. St. John's scholarships are monitored the Financial Aid office of the college. 10 sit property room also is to be set up behind Bechtel were given a letter of and were dismissed. That incident never indicate that as president of St. Student Polity Mr. McNabb has been deeply concerned with making St. John's own student court system work more effectively. His freshman year the court recommended the expulsion of a student; the administration backed it up. But generwith rare exceptions, the problem has been for a student to come forward as an a violation of a result of all the back stage conslruction, Mr. McNabb said the expect to $500 for new canvas to replace that somehow have been lost during the renovation work at Key. An Eagle Scout, Mr. McNabb acted in many plays at Xaverian Brothers Higher School in Cohasset, where he graduated in 198 land where he also served as assistant editor of the school paper and editor of the book. JOHN'S he has as the Bernard Leonce and Lena, took !he oarls Sexton, the lad, and a Lordi~ Much Ado huut another IS in new laboratory equipment thanks to a grant from the Surdna dation, of New York Altogether, Mark director of laboratories, estimates that it will require $155,000 in new equipment to bring St. John's laboratory equipment up to date. Items acquired so far range widely from ~complete speed of used �To The Editor: Writers lament deat of R. Catesby Taliaferro To The Editor: The death of~· Catesby Taliaferro this summer leaves only a few of the faculty and founders of St. John's College. Those who recall Catesby Taliaferro in the years before he left S.t. John's to teach mathematics and meteorology to servicemen in the Second World War remember a dedicated scholar who brought a joy of learning to his students and a devotion to precision of thought in language, mathematics and philosophy. He was a classical scholar whose growing interest in mathematics at St. John's expanded to become an interest and skill in modern mathematics. His catholic interests led him into a wide range of intellectual adventures that were a challenge to his students endeavoring to follow his facile mind. His bachelor pad was almost always open, and many students arrived after midnight and talked till dawn. His thought was so imaginative it seemed to be poetical but always anchored in logic. He returned for a year after the war, but it was an unhappy occasion for him. He could not accept some judgements of the faculty allowing students to ignore parts of the program in which they were less interested. Although : the faculty later required a completion of the program, the bitterness of the debate caused Taliaferro to leave St. John's College. He taught at Notre Dame for many y.ears, and we occasionally heard great praise of his teaching from his students w~ encountered. He found the discipline of Notre Dame suited his style of teaching. . Those of us Who knew and partook of his warmth, strength and imagination regret his passing and will miss him. He and St. John's were not totally suited to each other, but there. was much mutual nourishment. . Sincerely, Vernon E. Derr, '44 Boulder·, Col. Howard L. Sorenson, '44 Milwaukee, Wisc. Verne Schwab, '45 Clarksville, Md. Louis Clark remembe SjC as it was 60 yea.rs ago To the Editor: Elmer Jackson's account in the Reporter, November 1987, of extracurricular activities at St. John's College reminded me of perhap·s half-forgotten events and people of 60 years ago. Jack and I were in the class of 1927. In this period, Enoch B. Garey was president of St. John's. Under him the college acquired and used the HammondHarwood House and the Brice House. The St. John's R.O.T.C. was rated well among colleges; and the first N.R.O.T.C. unit in the country was started at St. John's under Commander Weems. Brother James Thaddeus Clark ( 1928) was enrolled in the latter. His unit sailed on summer cruises with the Naval Academy. President· Garey had obtained a good faculty who enlivened the academic program even before the fine "Hundred Books" curriculum; inter alia, such names as philosopher Alex Meiklejohn, Clarence Stryker, Felix Morley, Oxford, Ford Brown, Rhodes scholar, Colin Mackall, University of Paris, George Bingley, the Sorbonne, and James M. Cain as instructors. Several people who had been at the Naval Academy filled the dean and librarian billets. Intercollegiate football, basketball, track, baseball, tennis and lacrosse were scheduled. Governor Ritchie spoke to one football rally before the traditional game with Johns Hopkins. The track team practiced with the Naval Academy. The French Monument had only recently been dedicated to our allies in the Revolution. The June balls were ambi- tious affairs in the gym, and quite a few Naval Academy friends attended. Soon after 1927, Annapolis had an historic festival, with the citizens in colonial costumes, Governor Ritchie being driven about town in a coach with horses, and President Coolidge reviewing colonial militia from the front porch of McDowell Hall. . · The literary societies flourished in our early years at St. John's. Elmer Jackson was in the Philomathean, and I and brother Henry Branch ·in the Philokalian. The scholarly Dr. Thomas Fell spanned the years as president between my father, Louis Thomas Clark's, graduation in 1892 and our matriculation in 1923. As a personal note, I might add that my father was a member of the Board of Governors fo( some years. All in all, we in the class of l 927 had a stimulating college ·experience. Louis Dorsey Clark, 1927 Brooklandville, Md .. n n To The Editor: I used the new Alumni of. World Democracr News, a newsletter which I am co-editing, to members of the classes with which I shared the campuses while at St. John's. (l attended both). It has come to my attention that the. College considers this an inappropriate and prohibited use of the Alumni Register. I was not aware of this prohibition, and apologize for inad- On r~ading "This prank was a great one!" in the November issue of the Reporter, I felt the need to confess. I cannot go to my grave without revealing the true story of Mr. Adler's "alarm clock" incident of 48 years ago. l was a member of the class of '43, the third class to enter under the New Program. At that time Dean Buchanan had decreed that a part of our classroom schedule was to be a formal lecture held on Friday nights, and all students had to attend. believe we had assigned seats in the Great Hall and were under the impression that attendance was taken. At least as a lowly freshman I was under that impression. The lecture was to last an hour or an hour and a half and was to be followed by a question and answer period. The dean had a justification for the role of the formal lecture in the college experience as he had for the seminar, the tutorial. and the labs. Mr. Adler was to give a number of lee- tures the academic year of 1939-40. The first one he talked well beyond the allotted time. I decided that Mr. Adler should be reminded that he was breaking the rules and giving himself special privileges. At his next lecture I set the alarm clocks on the balcony of the Great Hall. As reported in your article, Mr. Adler continue to talk after the alarms However, at his following lecture, at allotted time, he reminded himself puh!iclr that his time was up. I believe that he reminded himself for future lectures. To paraphrase a well known adage, some pranks are paved with good intentions. Almost half a century later, my curiosity is aroused to find out whether any of my classmates were also involved in this "alarming incident." Sincerely, Dr. H. Willard Stern, '43 Edison, N.J. Correcting our error on Dr. Ergin's gender To The Editor, Joyfully l receive your Reporter issue, looking for news of the great crew that wended its way through the Graduate Institute, my summers of '78-82, and regretfully was greeted with an awful blooper re Dr. Seckin Ergin. Seckin, alas, is a female, and I had the pleasure of visiting her this summer after nine years of corresponding. Seckin came that summer in '79, we became friends, and have communicated halfway around the world, both going through emotional draining crises that made us stronger and tougher - even though we would prefer to have · been catered to and taken care of. So, at her insistence, and armed with my last big income tax refund before child number five goes off to college I hope I can afford next year, I wrote to her last March to say yes, I'm on my way. So l met Seckin again at the Izmir Airport to which one can fly from Athens only on a Tuesday and not on time, and spent a fascinating three weeks living with her in her city apartment and at her beach place. I travelled to places just dots on a map, climbed over the ruins of Ephesus, sat on the snowy rocks of Pammukale, took piles of slide, and will be more than · happy to show up at the Editor's office and show to Mr. (Geoffrey) Comber and you pictures of a hard"'working, grossly underpaid professor who lives in a country where women are but dirt beneath the feet of men. She gets a lower salary than her husband, publishes and travels to conferences whenever she can, .and works much, much harder than any college pro-· fessor in America. · I plan to visit her again next summer to continue our friendship, and, especially to take part in the dig at Klaros mentioned only to me in Thucydides' Peloponngjan War in 431 B.C. There is a whole a-dventure there to narrate about walking across the golden field of a farm at sunset, the deeply tanned farmer speaking to Seckin and her husband, Ishtan, and leading me down a ravine, up a gully, over rocks and dried parched land to - mirahile dictu.' -the knee of an ancient colossal statue c c it. The newsletter offered free on a continuing basis to anyone who expresses an interest in receiving it. intention was to solicit ideas and facilitate debate on the great political issues of the age. apologize to anyone who was offended by receiving it. Sincerely, Rick Wicks., '68 Washington, DC. protruding from the ground - the cheek bone and sightless eyes of a marble pitted statue - a wellspring still gurgling underground, -and the incredible stillness of a Turkish sunset on a golden field with peasant women in flowered cotton pantaloons bending over, tying the wheat into sheaves -this is Klaros today. A farmer's field. Yes, Dr. Ergin is talented, hard working, and a modern woman. She was blessed with progressive parents who gave her an unusual name when she was born at the outset of World War IL it means "our treasure, our jewel." She cannot be promoted to full professor even though she has met the qualifications for five years because she is a) female b) female c) refuses to go to the farther eastern colleges to teach because her parents are in their eighties and she and her husband do their shopping and care for them. I hope to go back to see her next summer on a more frugal visit because I do want to help at the dig, and I do want to take her husband and herself to a wonderful resort for two weeks. Because he is dying of cancer, .smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, and she knows life will be . tougher when he goes. As a modern Moslem woman, one must walk a difficult line between tradition and progress. Sincerely, Trudy Koch, '82 AGI Silver Spring, Md. (Continued from P. 2) 1984 Joe Ginter of Fort Washington, Md., was re-elected president of the Young Democrats of Maryland by a landslide vote at the organization's convention in November. A third year law student at the University of Maryland School of Law,. Joe is former president of the Young Democrats of the University of Maryland at Baltimore and former secretary of the Young Democrats of Prince George's county. Last year he was on the executive board of the Democratic Central Committee. Before entering law school, Mr. Ginter worked in Washington as a research assistant on Middle Eastern at St. John's, he was an intern i;i, both U.S. Senate and the House of Delegates. The recipient of a House of Delegates Scholarship, was named a Maryland Distinguished Scholar in 1980 and an Asper Fellow in 1986. Lisa G. Ross received her Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in June_:= �PAGE9 THE REPORTER FEBRUARY 1988 And 20 / 20 co-ancho by REBECCA WILSON Editor, The Reporter "If a tree falls in a forest and if the newspaper doesn't write about it, does the tree really exist?" the little boy asked his n~paper reading father in The New Yorker cartoon. For those of us who lament the passing of much unrecorded history, we would probably reply, "I think not." To write is to preserve, one reason The Reporter was begun in February 1974 as a kind of four-page letter home to parents, alumni a.nd friends. Some time later the Santa. Fe campus asked if it could piggy-back some of the news of the western campus in this publication. Since then we ha.ve carried Santa Fe news, a proportion dependent in part upon who is staffing the public relations office at the moment. In reporting the life a.nd times of St. John's College, we ha.ve been a.ble to send you only chips and splinters from the barest tip of the iceberg. There is so much news, such a wealth of material contained within the college's 30 Annapolis acres, that it is easy to see why Jane Austen was able to set her novels within a small English parish. As the late Jasha. Klein used to say, "Someone should write a book," referring also, perhaps, to some of the stories which The Reporter could never carry the college's endless accounting of character and circumstance. Some da.y someone will, and what a book that will be! I've filled this public relations job twice, once for a four-year period in the late fifties and early sixties, working on a much more limited scale at home. ($2 for each single page story; $5 for stories two pages or longer; $2.50, as I recall, an hour.) In 1973, when an emergency arose and St. John's lost a public relations person, the late Tom Parran asked me to take over. Now, after 15 years in the editor's chair, I will hand in my pencil, so to speak, and retire, if not precisely to sail with Curtis back to Byzantium, at least to visit modernday Istanbul and tramp through the fields of Troy. Retirement will be welcome. Among the blessings: no more 6 a.m. alarm clocks. No more picking up The Reporter and discovering that I have called Sena.tor Sarba.nes George when I very well know his first name is Paul or suffering something like shock when I read the pa.per in cold type a.nd wonder how I possibly could ha.ve used that syntax or shaped that sentence. Over the yea.rs I have found there a.re two humbling experiences: motherhood and editing a paper, modest though it may be. Generally, serving as public relations director here on the Annapolis campus has been a. wonderful job. I believe in wha.t I write about; I have never knowingly written an untrue sentence about the college. It's been a pleasure to serve a.n institution that undertakes a program of its high and courageous seriousness, to have worked with a number of brilliant tutors and with staff members of unusual devotion, and to see the college stabilize and expand during the almost crushingly demanding tenure of President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle. It's also been a complete pleasure to watch the campus enter a new, harmonious period under its remarkably gifted new president, Bill Dyal, and able Dean Thomas Slakey. The college is fortunate in having an experienced vice-president, Jeff Bishop, who holds the respect of the faculty. Reinforced by Jeri Rhodes, the college treasurer, Tom May, Graduate Institute director, and Assistant Deans Wendy Allenbrook and Malcolm Wyatt, the Annapolis administration as a whole. taken collectively and ignoring fine individual performances in the past, has never been in such solid good shape. Inevitably, from year to year, St. John's changes. On the Annapolis campus I've watched some of the giants among St. John's tutors depart: John Kieffer, Jacob Klein, Richard Scofield, Simon Kaplan, Ford K. Brown, Hugh McGrath, Winfree -Smith, Douglas Allanbrook, and, in very special classes by themselves, Barbara Leonard and Bryce Jacobsen. I've also seen the arrival of new and talented tutors, some untenured, and twinkling, so to speak, as future stars in St. John's firmament. Each year is different. The loss of a tutor or two, the introduction of~ new administrative figure, and St. John's chemistry changes, in some instances radically. The college is not a perfect place. Perhaps with a nod to Platonic forms, someone once mentioned that the idea of St. John's was better than St. John's itself. "But isn't that always the case?" Peter Kellogg-Smith, A' 45, observed when I passed that comment along to him. Of course it is. Some years are better than others. During my 15 years on the Annapolis campus, I have seen the college pass through one comparatively short, happily ended period that can only be described as neurotic. There has been a certain amount of muddling through (a condition I'm half-inclined to respect since that is how most of us lead our lives.) But there is less muddling today. The Board of Visitors and Governors, upon whose responsibility the good health of the college ultimately rests, with the election of Bill Dyal, has put the Anna.polis campus on a new course. And a word about Bill Dyal: He is not simply a nice, diplomatic guy with a big smile. He is an extremely smart, inclusive, astute, born leader, who is leading, a.nd who has learned that you don't need to be in an adversarial position to lead. With is the big preposition in his life; he knows how to work with people. The lessons of reason St. John's teaches, he understands. It's a good time to leave. As I retire, St. John's, from the standpoint of publicity, is in the paradoxical position of being both famous and yet unknown to millions. Its fame is among the educated, people who have a way of finding out about things, but it is unknown to a great many people we would like to know about St. John's. This brings up the frustrating aspect of this profession. Point 1. Although St. John's has received some very favorable national publicity, with few exceptions, the American press is not doing a good job covering higher education. Point 2. Public relations people alone cannot solve the problem. Point 3. This condition threatens higher education. Take the case of our inauguration, an event occurring at a nationally known school and, by virtue of his position, affecting a first citizen of Annapolis. The Annapolis daily placed the advance story on page 11 of its s0-calied Busi(Continued on P. (Continued from P. 1) Santa Barbara. By the time he was one of the center's visiting fellows Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, the program's first president and dean, who had been with the center. were gone, but Robert Hutchins, the late president of the University of Chicago and one-time St. John's board HUGH DOWNS chairman, was there for satisfying discussions on the role of education. "I'M VERY much in tune with Hutchins' views on education," Mr. Downs said. "Education is a system that liberates. It's not training." Determined to read the books Mr. Downs was. When he couldn't find a copy of Nicomachus's Introduction to Arithmetic, formerly on the list, and the Chicago Public Library wouldn't permit its copy to be checked out, he kept returning to the library until he had completed this first work on the elementary theory and properties of numbers written nearly 2,000 years ago. In reading the St. John's list, Mr. Downs has experienced some surprises and some disappointments. "l dreaded reading Livy's History of Rome, but it was fascinating," he said of one surprise about another book dropped from the seminar. As for a disappointment, he confessed to have centered on Calvin's Institutes of Christion Religion. When this theological work was on the list, students read only two sections comprising about a hundred pages in all, one devoted to the knowledge of God and the other to Calvin's views of civil government. Mr. Downs could not have known that and bravely started to tackle ail four tomes. He finished the first and ended up, not precisely grinding his teeth, for he is not the teeth-grinding sort, but perhaps not well impressed by Calvin's theology. "Cslvin was so vengeful and narrow, so much in conflict with Christ's teaching," Mr. Downs summarized his reaction. OF ALL THE BOOKS on the list, unexpectedly Mr. Downs' favorite reading proved to be the 1905 paper, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies," in which Einstein delineated the principles of his special theory of relativity. One reason Mr. Downs said that it was so was that he had done a good deal of ancillary reading, including the writings of James Jeans and Arthur Stanley Eddington. In addition, Mr. Downs' keen interest in Einstein had been reinforced by a course in astrophysics at Columbia University. His favorite novel was Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, also off the list today. "I have never read a novel since as powerfully or as skillfully constructed." Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus helped change his life. Both men were stoics. From them Mr. Downs, who previously had been convinced that philosohpy had to begin at an advanced level, at the "high rung" of the ladder, found that it can be experienced at the low rung of the ladder, as a first step in which you take matters into your own power. He remembers the change in himself. Running for trains in Chicago, Mr. Downs used to get an ulcerous feeling that people were in the way slowing him up. From l these philosophers he gained an "enormous liberation" in dealing with conditions beyond his control. He also learned not to hate. "l learned from them that one really hates only what one fears," he said. "If you are liberated from fear, you don't hate. A lot of people don't realize tLat. It's a very powerful argument. and by George, it can be done." THE CLOSEST TIME he has come to hate, Mr. Downs went on, was during the Nixon years when he thought the country would be ruined by Watergate. That whole business left him feeling a "little bit unstoic." Mr. Downs described the importance of attitude, which the Stoics stressed. "Daniel Boone, in his eighties, was interviewed by a reporter who asked him his reaction about being lost in the wilderness. "'I was never lost,'" Mr. Downs quoted Boone as saying. "'Once I was uncertain about my location for four days.'" And that, Mr. Downs said, is a thought for people who feel lost in the big city. For anyone wishing to undertake the reading of the St. John's list independently, Mr. Downs, who said he learned the hard way, suggests that the reader remain rigorously within the chronological order in which the list had been prepared. He suggests setting a goal by establishing the number of pages to be read; if one must miss a day or two, to catch up by reading a few extra pages. "Don't get more than three days behind because then you will become discouraged." Mr. Downs says he reads anytime he is able to do so, morning or night. "I love to eat by myself and read." Driving cattle during a nine-day horseback ride in Northern Arizona's Mazatzal Wilderness, he surprised fellow campers by reading a book around the campfire. It was Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. (He might have surprised a few Johnnies, too.) One of his companions reminded him of something similar out of the American past: Cowboys also were known to carry copies of Shakespeare in their pockets. Of rereading Mr. Downs is much in favor. "My mother first read me Hucklehern Finn," he said. "Since then, I have reread it twice. It's like reading three different books." Like his work on 20 1 20, Mr. Downs' interest in reading reflects that of a generalist. Chuckling, he recalled Alexander Woollcott's remark that he "was interested in everything except incest and folk dancing." One suggestion he has for St. John's is a brief volume carrying short biographies about the writers on the list. The telephone interview with Mr. Downs was arranged through President William M. Dyal, Jr., who is serving as a member of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF, of which Mr. Downs is chairman. Athletic director souglit in East The Annapolis campus is seeking a full-time director of athletics to, handle its intramural program in team and individual sports. The college is seeking a director with organization and communication skills experienced in officiating at such sports as touch football and soccer and who is certified in first aid and CPR. A bachelor's or master's degree in physical education or recreation is desirable as well as two years' experience at a supervisory level in intramural or recreational sports. Depending upon qualifications, salary for the nine-month position will run from $18,000 to $22,255. Interested persons may send letters and resumes to Director of Personnel, St. John's College, PO Box 1671, Annapolis, MD 21404. �0 Elizabeth and Richard Malmgren had retired and spent. a couple of six-month periods sailing in the Caribbean when one day they came across a quotation by Annie Dillard that turned their lives in a new direction. In her book, Vving hy Fiction, Annie Dillard had written, "You can, in short, lead the life-of the mind which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth." The statement came with particular force at a time in which Ebby Malmgren already had decided that so much sailing was a "big waste intellectually." Nudged on, they considered the next step. "We decided St. John's was the best place to go," Mrs. Malmgren said. And so, in the summer of 1984, this Saefern couple enrolled in the college's Graduate Institute. Coincidentally enough, during Dr. Malmgren 's first semester here, he discovered that Aristotle was saying exactly what the author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek had written a little more than 2,000 years later. As one of several couples who had participated in the Graduate Institute program during the 11 years it has existed, Mrs. Malmgren will be the first to graduate. By profession a potter, who hikes around the campus with a neatly done-up pony tail and a pair of keen eyes that don't miss much, she will receive her master's in August. A degree in hand, however, is not expected to mean an exit from the campus. "I could go on taking preceptorials indefinitely," she said. BOTH THE MALMGRENSare among a special group of students the Graduate Institute continually attracts the kind who not for a moment require another degree. Dr. Malmgren earned his medical degree in 1945 from the Cornell Medical School. She holds a bachelor's in hospital diatetics from Iowa State University. ("The reasons for that career choice have never been quite clear to me." She has been a potter since the sixties.) A good ti me to go (Continued from P. 9) ness Section. It covered the inauguration on Sunday with a couple of stories, but put them way back on page 1, Section D - its Arundel Report. Lead story streaming across page 1 that day: "Child Abuse Haunts Her as Family Talks," a story complete with quotes from the teenager in this tawdry incest case. In making an initial enquiry about what coverage to expect, an editor there informed me, "St. John's is just made up of a lot of outsiders, or so some people here say." In case you wonder who they are, they're the students. Although it staffs an Annapolis office, the Washington Post ignored the inauguration story completely. Forgetting the possibility of coverage Saturday morning for this Friday night event, you look in Sunday's Metro section where you might expect an inaugural story. Its lead: "Friends Paint Columbia Murder Suspect as Gentle Spirit." Three people at the Post had advance releases on the inauguration. The Baltimore Sun did a splendid job of centering in on this comparatively rare event with a couple of stories in its fine new zone issue, The Arundel Sun, circulated in Anne Arundel County. The inauguration of a college president, however, is a state-wide story, and something should have run in its Maryland section that goes to all readers. Because the Sun is one of the papers that is an exception to the rule -it does make a conscientious effort to cover higher education in Maryland - it can be forgiven even though I might argue about this particular news judgement. Somehow it all seemed symbolic. A significant story ignored; a story shunted into the fourth setion; a devaluated story relegated to a county rather than state section. How loudly do we scream? It's difficult. The papers have all the marbles. And how effective is personal outrage with people with whom you work all the time? One can just imagine their laughing it off. "Oh Becky just wants to have St. John's in the paper every day." You betcha. Or twice a week, or twice a month, or twice a year. Depending. Crime in higher education, of course, interests. The once valid Len Bias story became one of the most boringly, tediously overwritten stories I have ever had the misfortune to come across over a morning coffee cup. Such mastication shows a want of imagination among poverty stricken minds. Where are the other stories? If the American press did half as good a job covering education as it does crime, American colleges and universities could rest happily. Although the number of college graduates has risen, the proportion of space education receives has declined in the 30 years since I began in journalism. In those early days, for instance, The Washington Post carried a column on higher education. Today it carries one on magazines and devotes Lord knows how much space to food, but unless there is a rapist on a rampage at Georgetown University, the higher education story, particularly for private schools, is fairly rare. When it comes to casseroles vs. curriculum, the Thursday tuna specialty has it all over education. We think newspapers are missing a bet. A great many newspaper readers hold bachelor's degrees. Not only do people want to read about their alma maters, but they want to read about the schools attended by their spouse, father, mother, son, friend, etc. The fact that two books on education made The New York Times best selling list last year shows that the interest is here. It's not just desirable, however, to know what's going on elsewhere; it is crucial. To say that no democracy can exist without an educated electorate is a commonplace, but a serious reporting on higher education and its issues is absent. What are the reasons? A growing anti-intellectualism (I don't believe that), the fact that, outside its cost, the national leadership doesn't appear to give a damn (I do believe that), apathy, even on the part of the colleges themselves. Given the present trivialization of its importance, when the time comes for an accounting of the happy-golucky economics of the present decade, higher education will be getting a very short end of the stick. A couple of years ago I asked an editor of the local paper why it persisted in covering our commencement with only a photo and cutlines. (We got our first story last year.) He astonished me by saying "No one ever complained about it." Well, perhaps, complaints are what are in order. If anything is to be done, it will not depend upon what my talented sidekick Dorothy Kinsman and I do here in this office. It will be up to you and you and you out there in the real world, beyond St. John's-land, to sound those complaints and to insist that editors devote more space to stories, not only about St. John's but to education everywhere. I can guarantee you my yet unnamed successor alone won't be much more than a straw in the wind. As for me, I'll be out of the good fight, poking around somewhere in the 14th century. The clock, bless its relentless little heart, will be silent at 6 a.m. Good luck! Neither transferred credits into the A former scientific director for the Graduate Institute, as is permissible, a National Bladder Cancer Project, a federstep under certain circumstances that can ally funded satellite of the National Cancer eliminate a segment. "It would have been Institute, Dr. Malmgren retired in 1978 as cheating myself," Mrs. Malmgren, who professor of pathology and head of the thrived on each new class, feels. Cytopathology Service of George WashWhat else do they like about their Instiington University's Medical School. For tute experience: the group dynamics and most of his career he had directed the interchanges that come in these discussion NC l's Cytopathology Service in Bethesda. classes, sharing thoughts with like-minded With no reason to hurry, he has decided people, the "sheere pleasure of the people to take the program more slowly than his whose concerns parallel your own," the wife, two classes at a time, in order to cross-fertilization of the writers themselves "savor" the readings and to absorb the in approaching questions from several books more slowly. points of view. One of the persons who would not be The Malmgrens are one of several cousurprised by their undertaking would be ples who have enrolled in the Graduate Ebby Malmgren's mother. As a baby, Institute. Among others: Leon and Melinda Ebby's first complete phrase was "What is McDonald, Canadians now living in it?" It is a question that continues to be Arlington, Va.; Sharon and Mark Bowwith her six decades later. man, of Spokane, Wash., both teachers, "I suppose it is the idea of knowing, and Merle Maffei, Annapolis attorney, learning, thinking about things I care and his wife, Barbara. about," she explained her devotion to the THEY ARE NOT the only people program. enthusiastic about the program as it preBoth agreed there is a remarkable curpares to conclude its second, year-long rency in the ideas they explore at St. program. After hearing reports from both John's. Such questions as how we govern, the Annapolis and Santa Fe directors, the what constitutes society, issues raised by Board of Visitors and Governors, at its the Constitution's bicentennial are "by no autumn meeting, passed a resolution means old questions," they believe. affirming the board's support and asking "I guess I can't think of anything that is that the Institute be strengthened as much current that isn't discussed in the proas is economically feasible. gram," Mrs. Malmgren said. "The name Part of that strengthening must lie in changes, but the story - the drama - is additional space, according to Annapolis the same, and I think when we talk about Director Thomas May. With applications truth, virtue and justice, we think about up and only a couple of full-time spaces what they mean in 1988." still left for next fall's term, the lack of "IT ALL FOCUSES ON how we shall classroom space has become a problem, live our lives as individuals and collectively as a society," Dr. Malmgren said of not one likely to be solved until four new classrooms are readied in McDowell, the readings. something expected by the fall of 1989. As a compensation for the part of his At that time, Mr. May said he would education he felt neglected, Dr. Malmgren like to begin offering two segments in each said his St. John's classes in that sense academic term, instead of one, as is now represent something new. "But when I think, just to rephrase what Eb by said, of the case for the fall and spring sessions. Four are being offered during the summer. the relationship of these important thoughts Despite the fact that there is relatively through the ages and how they reflect on little publicity about the institute and no our current thinking, in that sense they are advertising, by January l the number of not new." new applications had increased over that St. John's divides its master's program time last year. Mr. May said it is his into four segments: Literature, Politics impression that the quality of applications and Society, Mathematics and Natural also has improved. Like St. John's underScience, and Philosophy and Theology. graduates, these older students appear With the exception of a segment in history given earlier, they have not taken any of self-selected. "I'm impressed by the way the applithem together, and in the history segment cants appear to know what the Graduate they were put in different classes. In comInstitute is about, what it demands, and paring notes then, Dr. Malmgren observed that they are consciously choosing it over h.ow similar, yet how different, their expeother master's programs," he said. nences were. Ten new tutors join St. Johns A total of I 0 new tutors - three at Annapolis and seven at Santa Fe - have joined the St. John's faculty this year. Those teaching at Annapolis are: Kevin Robert Dungey: B.A. (psychology and English) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972; Ph.D. (Thesis: "Christian Hermeneutic Styles"), Stanford University, l 980. Assistant professor, University of Maryland; visiting professor, The Johns Hopkins University. David E. Irvine: B.S., 1971, and M.S., I 973, (aeronautical and astronautical engineering) Purdue University; M.A., 1977, and Ph.D., 1983, (geophysical fluid dynamics) The Johns Hopkins University. Senior staff oceanographer, Space Department, Applied Physics laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University; teaching assistant, The Johns Hopkins Univeristy. Ann G. Martin: B.A. (German) Oberlin College, 1969; M.A. (German) Oxford University, l 97 I; Ph.D. (medieval German) University of Massachusetts, 1979; M.Phil. (English studies) Oxford University, 198 l. Assistant professor, Purdue University. The new tutors at Santa Fe are: Thomas Scally: B.A., Champlain Regional College, St. Foy, Quebec, 1974; M.A., St. Mary's College, Moraga, Cal., 1975; Ph.D. (philosophy) Boston College, l 974. Taught at'lnstitute for Social Theory, York University, Toronto, and in Perugia, Italy. Jeffrey Goodman: B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1968; M.F.A., Stanford University, 1978; Ph.D. (English), Stanford University, 1981. Fullbright lecturer, Universitae Omar Bongo, Gabon, Central Africa; writer-in-residence (arts and humanities), Western New Mexico University. Thomas H. Stokes, Jr.: B.A. (English), Davidson College, 1970; Sorbonne Diplome annual, 1971; M.A. (French), University of Texas, 1974; Ph.D. candidate in progress, University of Arizona. Instructor in French: Cumberland College; Stuttgart, Germany; Grenoble, France. Two years in Peace Corps, Zaire. Alan Webber: B.A. (philosophy), University of California, Irvine, 1974; Ph.D. (comparative cultures), Universit~~f California, Irvine, 1985. Taught Greek and Chinese at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, Cal. Lawrence Cave: B.A. (music) Oberlin College, 1981: M.A., 1984, and Ph.D., 1986, Harvard University. Teaching assistant, Harvard University; also organist and choir master. Dana Densmore: B.A., St. John's College, Annapolis, 1965. Additional study, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Sean Collins: B.A., Thomas Aquinus College, 1979; M.A., 1982, and Ph.D., l 987, Universite Laval, Quebec. Co-director of the Science Laboratory at Thomas Aquinus College; Charge de Ceour at Laval; co-editor of the manual for "Princlpies del la Logique." �PAGE 11 THE REPORTER FEBRUARY 1988 Obituaries Martha Wyatt: District Court Judge Martha Goldstein Wyatt, A '61, the first woman to be named a judge in Anne Arundel County, died of cancer December 14 at her Annapolis home. After taking a six month leave last year, she had returned to work, hearing cases on the Monday prior to Thanksgiving, her final day on the bench. Judge Wyatt was 47. "She made an heroic effort to continue," Chief District Court Judge Robert Sweeney said. "But even her rare brand of courage wasn't enough." The wife of Assistant Dean Malcolm Wyatt, she was praised as "the best of the brightest" by her friend, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Kathleen Friedman, at a memorial service so packed that guests stood throughout it in the central aisle of t!i*~r~Hall. Judge Friedman said she:_ possessecf all the qualities of a judge: justice, truth, logic, a disposition toward ~mercy, and courage. "In l l years she accomplished what most people don't accomplish between 25 and 65," Paula J. Peters, an Annapolis attorney, said. Tributes also came from a personal friend of many years, Minna Doskow of Glassboro (~1 ) State College, from a former law partner, Alan Legum, who praised her as a judge's model, and from Judge Thomas A. Rhymer, a former member of the House of Delegates, with whom she worked on legislative matters. The Annapolis Capital bannered Judge Wyatt's death on page one, and The Arundel Sun made it its lead story. An editorial in The Publick Enterprise praised her for her contributions to people oriented issues, and The Capital, in another editor- ial, called her a "remarkable" judge who "earned the respect of colleagues for blending legal judgment with compassion and understanding." A 1976 graduate of the University of Maryland Law School, Judge Wyatt, before becoming judge, worked in the state's Attorney General's office and for two city law firms. She also had been active as a legislative lobbyist, co-founding the Woman's Law Center of Anne Arundel County, an advocacy group battling for women's rights and calling attention to the greater need for protection of battered spouses and rape victims. She was involved in the revision of the state's rape laws, the enactment of the Protection from Domestic Violence Act, and the addition of child abuse as grounds for divorce. Until Judge Wyatt was appointed to the bench, she served as chairman of the Maryland Commission .of the Women's Alliance of Maryland. "My other colleagues are all men, and I don't think any of us would have had the guts that lady had," District Court Administrative Judge Thomas Curley said. "She had a thirst for justice tempered with compassion. She was a woman of limitless patience. She won the respect of all who came to know her." In addition to her husband. Judge Wyatt was survived by three grown children, Ruth, Rachel and Malcolm, and by a sister, Judith Joseph, A '64, of Philadelphia. Memorial contributions may be made to the YWCA Woman's Center, 167 Duke of Gloucester St., Annapolis, Md. 2140 l. liege k A delegation from the Chinese Ministry of Education. making a visit to St. John's, paused to ask why the flag was at half-mast. 1t was to honor the college's carpenter, Frank Reese, who died in his sleep in early morning November 25. He was 5 l. Held in high esteem by the college community, with which he was popular, Mr. Reese was known for his bright smile, ready manner and fine work. He was devoted to St. John's. After suffering a heart attack complicated by pneumonia, St. John's was the first place to which he returned, once he was able to leave home, rpenter to make a round of office visits a few days before his death. A native Annapolitan, Mr. Reese attended Annapolis High School before serving in the Air Force from 1954 to 1958. He was employed by the Bayside Cabinet Company in Annapolis for l 9 years before joining St. John's in 1978. He liked cabinet finishing work best. In addition to carpentry, he fashioned keys in his carpenter's shop in the heating plant, averaging a lost key replacement a day during the school year. an John Logan, a nationally recognized who taught at St. John's from 1947to I, died November 6 in San Francisco. He was 64. Mr. Logan, who had published numerous books of poetry and prose, founded and was co-editor of the magazine Choice in the l 960s. He had served as poetry several national magazines. The Nation. In 1985 he moved from Buffalo. N. Y., professor at the of York. had taught English for r l 2 years at Notre Dame, during which time he also taught at the downtown center of the University of Chicago and was director of the Poetry Seminar. Mr. Logan received a Guggenheim Fellowship in l 979 and a Creative Writing Fellowship for poetry from the National Endow~ent for the Arts in l 98 l. "He was considered one of the superb lyrical poets of his generation," his publisher, A. Poulin, Jr., said. Surviving are six sons and three daughters. a E. Parfitt Johnston, A '68, died of cancer at her home in Lynn, Mass., on October 2 She was 41. After attending St. John's, she was a student at the Harrow Technical College in London and just before her death had been studying at the Massachusetts Colof Art. 7-year karate student and holder of a third degree black belt from the Japan · Karate Association, she was well known to karate students throughout the United States and Great Britain. She was ranked among the lop three finalists in the Inter- n national Shotokan Karate Federation Championship each year between 1975-80. Mrs. Johnston became the individual women's champion and captain of the winning team in 1979 in Phoenix, Ariz. "She fought a courageous battle," her husband, David Johnston. wrote. "and those who remember her would like to know, I'm sure, that she kept her sense of humor and love of literature to the end. (She had lost her sight - it was a brain cancer -and I read aloud to her for hours every day and night; her last words were a question a bout the poetry l 'd been reading.)" IS: Anne Schmidt Lewis, A '70, died September 29 at Kibbutz Ketura, Israel. "She succumbed to leukemia after fighting the disease for a full year," her sister, Mala Falkof, writes from Israel. "Anne left many good friends among alumni and faculty members of St.John's." Surviving are two <laughers, Sarah Elisabeth, 9, and Abigail Katherine, 7, both of Kibbutz Ketura. Advancement Office student aides on the Santa Fe campus prepare mailings for the annual fund solicitation. left to right are Conrad Baugh, '89; Alfonso Kalinauska, '89, and Elain Reiss, '90. .McDowell to add staircase (Continued from P. 1) the basement continuing to serve McDowell. While the Great Hall balcony appears secure. a routine check will be made to determine how well ~tis holding up since it was rebuilt after a 1909 fire destroyed a large part of McDowell's interior. Interestingly, Mr. Bohl pointed out during his talk that one characteristic of McDowell - its "moat" - is not original to the building. So far research has been unable to determii:ie when it was dug, but it may have been done at the time when the college felt it would be helpful to have windows at the basement level. Under terms of the loan, college treasurer Jeri Rhodes said that only the academic areas of the building will be affected by the renovation. There are no plans to improve basement facilities. By renovating McDowell, college officials said four new classrooms will be gained, the building will provide a safe and comfortable environment suited to the quality of the academic program, and McDowell Hall will continue to be utilized well into its third century. Begun in 1742 and originally intended to have wings, McDowell is a James Gibbs style building which was designated for use as a college by the Maryland Assembly as far back as the 1760s. In 1789, when the college finally opened, McDowell was used for classrooms and to house faculty and students. During the college's early era, the dining room was in the basement. t Former President Edwin J. Delattre is the author of a new book to be published in May, "Education and the Public Trust." A Bradley Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in.Washington, Mr. Delattre has subtitled his book, "The Imperatives for Common Purposes." It is being put out in paperback by the UniverPress of America. his book, written as a college text, Mr. Delattre makes the case that Americans have placed their trust in particular schools, colleges an.d universities rather than in an abstract concept of American education. · He believes these institutions are obliged to bear that trust faithfully and serve the interests of both individual students and the nation. A major emphasis of his book is that, because any institution's performance depends almost entir_ely upon the quality of its personnel, institutions of learning must establish standards of both discipline and performance for administrators and teachers. To uphold these standards, Mr. Delattre said they must constantly invest their resources for the improvement of academic life for teachers, students and administrators. 's A donation by St. John's to the new Santa Fe Main Public Library has been a DIANE SJONE BENTLEY memory of Charles who die~ 8, We are not Greats, hut we cry out the footsteps of the great. In their integrity we found our franchise. Hoit· laid they out their lives to us gave pause; Some set a course to pace the hrilliance Extending, preserving, translation, the intimate uncovering. Jhey are wise who do this in the wisdom of what may show fit for doing, And we are others ,\pelled to try on singularity, Not for ourselves, Not onlyfor ourselves, But witnessing the light while treading umhral way. Fol'. there have heen construed within our fives two heacons, Ti,i'O Saint Johns. Both vital he, And how much more outstandingly conveyed Jhisjewel, life Jhan when so apposite mortal stars converge? recognized by a handsome southwest style ceramic tile permanently mounted on the Benefactor's Gallery wall in the main stairwell of the award-winning building. Some 500 of these eight inch long tiles represent contributions by an individual, business or organization to the financial support of the library, one of Santa Fe's most utilized public institutions. With the election process completed, Barbara Leonard, former assistant dean on the Annapolis campus· and an honorary members of the Class of" 1955, will become a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors in July. Beginning a second term then will be David Rea, A '49. The Alumni Association board nominated both last summer. t 49. 7 per cent in rn bonds. St. John's relies upon its endowment for income to cover operating costs. The drop will not have an immediate effect on this year's budget or for that for the fiscal year beginning July I, Mrs. Rhodes said. The decrease in market value will be felt in the longer run if the losse~ are realized through sales. �the sport Oxfo~d compete on would be neat, first chance to try John's had 1986-87 academic was not much of a turnout, said. The the winter months. to see this interest down the nver, commented the head coach, Rick Clothier. "We want to as we can of our brothers and sisters on the water." Mr. Frazier, who rowed for Princeton in 1960, said, "Some the John's students wanted to do and have been an "" '''-''-LlU'!!U.L'-'' of the room since the Mr. both taught in China before World I and served there during the war. Not much is known about the portraits, which Mr. Weigle originally acquired as over-sized scrolls, One of the visitors believes that the figures belong to the Chang dynasty. The hangings and the smallness of St. John's were two of the aspects of the college that impressed this delegation from the Chinese Ministry of Education in a visit to St. John's sponsored by the AFS lntercultural Programs. Katherine Haas, A '60, whose Chinese is fluent enough to permit her to converse with the visitors, said the was almost incredulous about the 400 students ("Not 1er said. four-man shell in the quan m Mr. Frazier said. They competed much more experienced crews from c-0lleges with strenuous programs. Where rowing is. emphasized as an intercollegiate sport. crews practice long hours every day during the season. The Johnnies row only two afternoons a week. Coming in fifth out· of seven entries, the St. John's students were "right in the thick of things. I was excited for them," Mr. Frazier said. · When the A RC which maintains three shells, bought a new boat, the club gave the one it replaced to the students. "We will continue to roll over our shells to the college as we acquire new ones," Mr. Fraz- rowers club members are "recreational He said and some completely provides. Listing benefits, Mr. Klinger mentioned exercise and the opportunity for a break in the academic pressures the students face. · Mr. Klinger hopes the club can acquire some small used boats. "One- and twoman shells are really valuable." It's often hard to get enough people to row the larger boats, which require a cockswain in addition to either a four-man or eightman crew. "It would be nice if people could just go when they want to," he said. "I won't say whether racing or recreational rowing is more important. We will tailor the club to what the members want to do." M Dates have been announced for Santa Fe's two summer alumni programs and for homecoming vveekend. rhe first alumni week will be July 10-15 and the second July 17-22. Homecoming will be sandwiched in between from July 15-17. Summer programs will include receptions, free transportation to town, a mid-week mixer, and a farewell buffet luncheon. rickets for the Chamber Music Festival and opera will be included in pre-registration packets. Brochures will be mailed April l. Registration date will be June 15. For further information, contact Marsha Drennon on the Santa Fe campus. tion is not taken very to an oral examination on a number of texts selected from list don't exam has served. students best.." Dean Thomas said. in resoonse to a me~bers that the s·enior oral the form of the senior oral was changed so that it no longer became a qualifying examination for entry into the woman, Chen affairs officers. Others chiefs of educa- a new form approved then and to be tried for a three-year from l 98587, each senior took the m '"'"vv."''"' the of the examination from the listed texts ln sentauve and a St. daugnter. was graduated Committee c1tecl advanced 1n the memoers. reason:; by sory rereading of several of b::-ioks on the As a most senio,-s and the year with an expenence which least aspects of program are manifested. "THIS HARDLY sets the for the rest of the year. Also, students are aware that can get with this sort of preparation without ting themselves in danger of not enabled seems to promote an attitude that what the says need not be taken too seriously. "Whereas other oral the college flow ing conversation tions) or an extended (examinations in which studems are examined on paper which have written), the senior examination 1s part of no to fit to the reliance in view of the fact that students work the summer that the seniors must read War and Peace for their first seminars, we do not think that they can fairly be required to spend the amount of time which would be necessary to prepare for the senior it is considered to be for seniors to reread the books on the senior examination readlist . it would seem to us to be to fit these readinto the program of the nine-month academic year '' � 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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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1111111111111111~~~~rn1n1n 1111111111 ~1 1 1 3 1696 01138 1348 ·1n 5 ·-years books change, but core Fifty years ago, when its New was founded, the college its first list of great books - books whose enduring and influential nature have helped shape western civilization. In the fifty years since the list has changed as books have been altogether or been removed ternpor;:i.nlv Gone from the first , of Latin writers Horace. Balzac's Father Stendahl's Red and the Black, Flaubert's Madame have as have the nov- els of Thackeray and Zola. Students no longer romp their way through Fielding's Tom Jones or debate the merits of the Charter of the United Nations. In all, over the past fifty years, an estimated 70 or more works have been introduced and disappeared, sometimes to emerge again. Gibbon was dropped a number of years ago over the heated protest of one faculty member. Calvin was last read ;'1 1974-75. BUT A REMARKABLE core of books remain that St. John's believes is unlikely to change as the college looks forward to another half century. They are such books as the Bible or such works as those represented by Plato, Aristotle, Dante, Virgil, Shakespeare; and Milton. Homer's Iliad began the list iQ. l 937; it heads it again in .1987, as it has dOf{\ in each of the intervenmg years. · While the list is subject to annual review, there are some things you can bet will never change," according to the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, a tutor emeritus and his- torian of the New writers have been added who could not have been included in 1937 before their had been more fully seasoned, writers like novelist William Faulkner or, in the poet Wallace Stevens. (Classic affecting the development and the natural sciences also are read at St. John's in classes devoted Among all the classic works read the Contil!lue~ on P. 4) The St. John's Annapolis, said. "for the Inlree-Vl~af nP1r1n.rl·<•nrlPrl 30, 986, St. second, an average return of 28.24 cent. This · the completion in the new wing of Mellon Hall. "Zibby Mitchell is respected by the St. John's community for her great generosity and her personal modesty," Mr. Dyal said. "Her latest gift to the college is the funding for our new art gallery. I am grateful to her and especially pleased we have convinced her to let us name the gallery for her." In a resolution expressing its respect and affection for Mrs. Mitchell and adopted at the July meeting of the board, trustees recognized "the many years of her personal involvement, service and numerous benefactions to St. John's College affecting every area of !ife on both the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses. Members voiced "genuine appreciation for her most recent gift of funds for the new art gallery." Artist-in-residence Burton Blistein hailed the construction of the new, cenlocated gallery as a major advancement in art for SL John's College. "The and students are deeply for Elizabeth Myers Mitchell " Mr. Blistein said. "The new enable us to meet more stringent environmental criteria for exhibits and bring art of a high quality both to St. John's and the Annapolis community. The will occupy the eastern end of a new wing which will be built parallel to the walkway leading from the quadrangle steps to the planetarium. A spacious room with high ceilings, slightly larger (Continued on P. 11) DR. ERNEST L BOYER A new series of guides for great texts in science, including mathematics, designed to bring "humanists to scientific learning and scientists to humanistic learning," is being produced under a program headed by an Annapolis tutor. The guidebooks are being written for the non-specialist who hesitates to undertake the reading of original and works in science, according to Flaumenhaft, the senior editor, who tiated the "Masters of Discovery" series. also will be written with-a particular approach in mind. Under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanitites, Mr. Flaumenhaft hopes to bridge the distinction between the "humanities" and "science, which he said recently has come to be taken for n-r•'.l n1tPrt Mr. Flaumenhaft's grant of $65,662 was the largest of any awarded the NEH in in new grants for education, and research one-third teaching schedule this year and next to oversee the series and write, Mr. Flaumenhaft himself will be responsible for two initial, volumes dealing with geometry. "The faculties in many schools for (Continued on P. 9) �1987 THE REPORTER PAGE2 1969 years ago and sing at various jazz clubs From James F. Bartram, who is living (called 'live houses' in Japan,)" she writes in Newburyport, Mass., comes this update: of herself. "After graduating from the University "This is my main 'calling' in life, I feel, Without Walls at Roger Williams College although I have also started a natural food in l 972, I ran my own business making and c;ke business which is expanding renaissance recorders, first in Rhode Island slowly. I have also written a natural foods and later in New Hampshire. cookbook (in Japanese) which I hope to "Five years ago I started a move toward have published this year. There is not a career in cornputer_science and am now a much awareness about eating naturally or software engineer at Xyvision, Inc., in healthily in Japan, and I am trying to get Wakefield, Mass., where I have written the work out to the general public. graphics software and am now specializ"Anyone corning to or passing through ing in user interfaces. Xyvision produces Japan should give me a call, and I would computer-aided publishing systems. be glad to do anything to introduce them 'Tm still very actively involved in musto Japanese culture and society." ic making, mostly early music." Her address: Chateau Le Ebisu #303, 1975 Ebisu-Minami l-20-4, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Gershon Ekman writes that he and his 150, Japan. wife Patricia were "overjoyed by the birth 1980 of our first child," Katya Jean, who arrived Bonnie Hoffman Adams has received June 22. a call to Atonement Lutheran Church and "Patricia is vice president of a subsiwill be ordained a pastor this month. Her diary of Citicorp in Westchester County. I husband, Jonathan Adams, '82, is a am vice president and associate counsel at research analyst for the Pennsylvania Chase Manhattan Bank in lower ManhatEconomy League. He recently received a tan ... where I specialize in real estate lendmaster's degree in public policy from the ing. In the past four years we have traveled Wharton School of the University of Pennto Great Britain, the Outer Hebrides issylvania. They are living in Philadelphia. lands, FrStnce, Switzerland, Italy and "Need response from good friends of Monaco." The Ekmans also visited the Margaret Goin ... Urgent ... I will furnish Soviet Union as part of a lawyers' exchange further information as needed," writes program and took a trip last year to Israel. Jacobs, '79. Olivia's address is P. Nancy M. P. has been appointed 0. Box 273152, Houston, Texas 77377assistant professor the Department of 3152. Social and Administrative Medicine, 1981 School of Medicine, University of North Joseph who teaches physics Carolina at Chapel Hill. and mathematics at Tilton School in New "My official designation is lawyer/ et hiHampshire, received a Mac Morran Felcist; my work is teaching about legal and lowship for the past summer. He used. the moral issues in health care to medical stugrant, established in honor of a retired dents and clinicians ... I would be happy to headmaster of the school, to develop be in touch with any alumni who sha!l.e my experiments and exercises for use in his 1 interests." physics classes. Nancy's address is Department of Social l 982 Administrative Medicine, University o\ Christopher King and Amy OosterNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, Box 3,\ hour, '82 were married May 9. Wing D 208 H, Chapel Hill, N. C. 27514. \ 1983 . l 977 \ New address for Russell S. Titus, Jr.: Mark S. Gruber and Jody Neshei~ \2020 Wilder Avenue, Honolu~u, Gruber '77, announce the birth of their ·~awa11 96822. Formerly a mathematics first chiid, Paul Reid Gruber, on March eacher at Mid-Pacific lPstitute in Ho~o22. l lu, Russell now works as a karate inMark is a felony division attorney with st~uctor for the Japan International Karthe Public Defender's Office in the 20th at~ Center in Wahiawa. Judicial Circuit. Jody is a part-time grad~aula l. Johnson Swayne, GI, paruate student in rehabilitation counseling ticiRated last summer in the seventh anat the University of South Florida. nual Monticello-Stratford Hall Summer "Having lost track of a lot of friends Semi ar for teachers. She teaches at Bradfrorn our classes, we hoped some might dock iddle School, Cumberland, ~d. see this note and get in touch," they write. Mrs Swayne was chose~ .for the s~rn1~ar "We may be visited at our new home, 2443 throug a highly cornpet1t1ve application Ivy Avenue, Fort Myers, Fla., 33907, at process. Thirty teachers from 24 st~tes any time. Late fall is nice, and our pool is and Ber uda were selected. The seminar heated." was con~cted at Monticello, Thomas Gretchen Berg writes from Norwich, Jefferson's home near Charlottesville, Va., Vt., that her first poetry bo?k ~~nuscript, and Strat 9rd . Hall, the Lee ancestral Ghosts and Trespassers. 1s finished and home overlQoking the P?tornac. It. cornthat she is several sections into her second, bined "hands-on" learning expenences Amazements and Amusements. with lectures~y more than two dozen hisGretchen 's artistic media include oils, torians, arch eologists, curators and horwatercolor, pastel, pencil, charcoal, chalk ticulturists. and ink. Among her works are sculptures, John Steve~son of Middletown, Conn., textiles, clothing, collages ~nd rnontage.s. has left his po~ition as e?itor of Hospital She is preparing for her third art show in News to devot'le more time t.o fr~elance the area. writing and phbtography. His '"Yife, the While "scouting grants," Gretchen is a former Janelle Bloemker, '78, cornplevolunteer at a local science museum. "Four ted her first year,~ a graduate student at years of lab and math have 'taken,'" she Wesleyan Univer ·ity and plans to consays. tinue her studies t ere. He also sends n~_: of John Bukacek, 1979 Writing for addresses of alumni in the '76, who is living in ~hicago and working Tokyo area, Miyoko Porter Nishimoto as a translator and\technical writer for thinks the more Johnnies who can get Japanese companies. ~ohn Bukacek would together in Tokyo "the merrier." "If all like to hear from Gerrv Poissonnier, '77. goes well, we may even launch the Tokyo 198£\ branch of the Alumni Association." Navy Ensign Harolp P. Peterson Ill "I married Yasuaki Nishimoto three recently made a port visit to Mombasa, Kenya, aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kittv Hawk. At two wildlife sanctuaries, Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence Berns, Arnboseli Park and Tsavo Preserve, he Betsy Blume, John Christensen, Benjamin had the opportunity to view African wildMilner, Howard Zeiderman, Elliott Zucker. man, advisory board. life in its natural habitat. The Reporter is published by the Public 1985 Relations Office, St. John's College, AnnaMartin Marklin has accepted a position polis, MD 21404. William M. Dyal, Jr., presias a mathematics teacher at Londonderry dent. Published four times a year, in February, High School in New Hampshire. After ·June, September and November. Secondaccepting the position, he received word class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. that his application to the ~aster's ProUSPS 018-750 - (Continued on P~ 8) .".'--! \ Ba I Robert Neidorf, former dean at Santa Fe, received a standing ovation following the announcement of his selection for the Alumni Association's Award of Merit. Association President David Dobreer, A '44, presented the award at the homecoming banquet July 18 in the Great Hall of the Peterson Student Center, Santa Fe. Also receiving Awards of Merit were tutors Robert Bart and Robert Sacks. John Dendahl, former chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, was enrolled as an honorary member of the Alumni Association. Honorary membership also was extended to Peggy Elrington, retired resident nurse, and Mr. and Mrs. Stan Nordstrum, retired senior residents. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Mr. Neidorf joined the St. John's faculy in Annapolis in 1962. In 1964 he left to design and teach courses at the State University of New York at Binghampton. Realizing that the inspiration for his work came from St. John's, he returned to teach on the Santa Fe campus. Mr. Neidorf was dean from l 973 to 1977 and again in 1982, serving until illness required that he step down. He was quoted as saying that "studying and teaching here have been a fulfillment beyond what I imagined possible." A colleague said of him, "He was one of the best minds on the faculty, and it was reassuring to have him in the dean's office. He was considered in his judgement, objective, fair, hard-working and a comfortable friend to many of his peers." Mr. Bart was chosen to receive the Award of Merit two years ago. Since he was in Italy at the time, presentation was delayed until this year. A tutor since 1946, Mr. Bart began teaching on the Santa Fe campus in 1975 and was dean from 1977 to 1982. Mr. Bart "was one of the most passionate tutors, a good and civilized man who paid enormous attention to the details about the center of the Program, not mere lip service. He was a devoted teacher always willing to stand up and be counted for his students," Dr. Dobreer quoted a colleague as saying. Robert Sacks was described as having "a kingly manner and a gift for gesture. He speaks in faculty meetings with a conviction born of caring. He has touched numerous individuals, both among the students and the faculty. When he is gone, he is missed, for his deep concern and the wonderful example of his passionate engagement with the program." Mr. Sacks graduated from St. John's cum laude in l 954 and joined the faculty in 1961. His association.with the Santa Fe campus dates from l 969. Mr. Dendahl was the first treasurer and business manager at St. John's, Santa Fe. He left to fill a number of executive positions and currently is president of the First National Bank of Santa Fe. Chairman of the board during the critical period when the two new presidents were selected, Mr. Dendahl "is verv important to the future of the college as he was important to its past," Mr. Dobreer said. "John's loyalty to the college is vivid and has inspired much vigorous action on its behalf over the vears." Of the Norlstrums, an alumna was quoted as saying, "They were always there, always willing to help. It was like having your parents around ... Stan always had a kind word for everyone. Sis dished out Tender Loving Care to students, along with milk and cookies.,. After operating a farm in Iowa. Stan Nordstrum began working for the college in 1965 and soon was appointed superintendent of buildings and grounds. The Nordstrums were ~e111or re,.1dents for 12 years, retiring in '079. Mrs. Elrington was the :r1rst resident nurse on the Sanra Fe campus and served in that capacity from 964 w 985 Born in China. •he daughte·· 'lf a British diplomat, she studied nursing 1n England. Trained as a mid-wife, Mrs. Elrington became a frontier nurse rn Kentucky, attending the sick and delivering babies. She continued to practice as a midwife for local Indians while at St. John's. "She was extremely proper,' Mr. Dobreer said, "and could sometimes seem too much so to students who failed to understand her background, but her strictness and efficiency generally went to benefit others, as when she collected $60 worth of aluminum cans in a drive to help buy a child a bike." An alumna described Mrs. Elrington as "disciplined with grace. She projects a feeling of reliability." Bentley settlement favorable An out-of-court settlement has been reached between the New Mexico State Highway Department and the family of Charles Bentley, A '62, who sustained permanent brain damage in a two-car accident in January 1983 on Santa Fe's Agua Fria Road. The family will receive $223,000 in damages, reported to be more than 20 times the amount originally sought from the highway department. The founder and formal principal of the Santa Fe Community School, Mr. Bentley was heading west on Agua Fria when his 1969 Volkswagen bus was struck headon by a car driven by Bernadette Brooks. Since then, alumni, faculty, and friends have helped contribute to his medical care. A lawsuit on his behalf said that Bentley "is unable to speak, feed, walk, clothe, or otherwise take care of himself." A "small" settlement was reached with Ms. Brooks, but the amount was not disclosed. Mr. Bentley's withdrawal from an active life "diminishes every Santa Fean," a Santa Fe newspaper wrote when the extent of his injuries became known. "Charles Bentley was involved in mankind and was a rare source of life and love." From Ed Nagel, of Santa Fe, one final note: "Charlev remains housed at La Residencia in- very poor condition: so much so that it is expected Charley's body will die within a year's time. You may want to visit and say 'goodbye.'" Lyndsey Wyman nat f el w Lyndsey Pilar Wyman, A '86, of Washington, has received a National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Fellowship. . The fellowship will provide her with a three-year grant for study toward a doctorate in applied mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. The grant covers tuition and living costs. Miss Wyman expects to enter a relatively new field: mathematical politics, which provides modeling for problem solving of political issues. Beginning in January, she will be teaching in Berkeley's undergraduate mathematics program. During the past year, Miss Wyman has been living in Madrid and traveling in Asia. One consequence of her grant was that the NSF last spring made available to St. John's, as the college of an award recipient, its Incentives for Excellence Prize. It was divided between a then junior and sophomore, Catherine Kuntavanish and Estela Roustan. �3 1 ' ' t I St. John's patroness of the arts hves ma house in the woods, and on this particular day, when the roads of St. Margaret's were brushed with the orange of wild lilies and the blue of ragged-Robins, with all the richness of a Bonnard landscape, Mrs. Carleton Mitchell was relaxing on the sofa in her library, attempting to calm her toy poodle, Gigi, and considering what she had just done for St. John's College. When it is completed next year, smack in the middle bf the campus and making a new statement about art at St. John's, the gallery she has funded will bear the name the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery. "l 'm very pleased, delighted, and thrilled about this," Mrs. Mitchell said of the college's decision to name it in her honor. 'Tve never wanted to have my name on anything, but this l would like." Art is a natural interest, and fine art is something she lives with in the French country style house she built in l 969 on Meredith Creek. Her living and dining rooms are like small galleries in themselves with one wall distinguished by a rare I 8th century map of Paris commissioned under Louis XV. Books on art abound. A light and airy seaside painting through which one can feel the winds of France freshen hangs in her dining room. "We were once in France, driving in that area, and suddenly one day there it was, very muc;:h like what we had seen," she explained her acquisition. ZIBBY MITCHELL, as her friends call her, has been interested in art since she was a girl and attended Bennett, a private, two-year college for women at Millbrook, N.Y., no longer in existence. "I studied the history of art, which inspired my interest in painting and which is why we have a few good paintings," she A group of tutors will be at work this year attempting to refine and strengthen a proposed art tutorial curriculum. The committee was organized as the result of a major educational initiative last year to add a weekly tutorial in the visual arts during the sophomore year. Originally the proposal had been hrought to then Dean George Doskow in the spring of 1986 by a group that included Burton Blistein, Robert Druecker, Pamela Kraus, Patricia Locke, Thomas \fay, Benjamin Milner, and Thomas Slakey. Last fall, the Instruction Committee asked that the proposal be reviewed by an ad hoc committee that included Mr. Blistein, Ms. Locke, and Mr. Milner, from among the tutors signing the original proposal; Marilyn Higuera, from the Instruction Committee, and Elliott Zuckerman, as an additional member. Neither the Annapolis Instruction Committee nor the joint Instruction Committee reached a decision. At a faculty meeting in the spring, Mr. Doskow recommended that the tutorials begin on a voluntary basis as the music tutorial first had been introduced at St. John's. Before that is done, however, a group of tutors decided that more work was required on the proposed art tutorial curriculum. Members of that group will include Mr. Bhstein, Ms. Locke, Mr. May, Mr. Milner, Winfree Smith, Curtis Wilson, and, from the college's extracurricular studio art program, Gail Watkins, a painter who has served in Mr. Blistein 's absence as an artist-in-residence. said. Years ago she did a little bit of painting and drawing, herself, "but I'm too lazy to follow through." A member emerita of St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors, Mrs. Mitchell has been actively involved in St. John's affairs since first joining the board in 1970. She is one of three members of the Myers family from whose acts of philanthropy the college has benefitted. Her brother, Philip, took two years at Williams and then decided, for reasons Mrs. Mitchell has never been able to discover, to transfer to St. John's. "He was here the first year of the New Program," she noted. Following his graduation in l 938, he contributed $ I0,000 to endow a scholarship. Tragically, before he could enter the University of Virginia, where he planned to study law, he was killed in an automobile accident in Michigan. Mrs. Mitchell's mother, Kate Moore Myers, continued to give generously to St. John's, and it is after her that the small boxwood garden behind the Carroll-Barrister House was named in l 984. A resident of Ashland, Ohio, where Mrs. Mitchell was born, Mrs. Myers lived from 1880 to 1957. Active in civic and cultural life and known for her humanitarian acts, she was keenly interested in music, art, and drama. A women's dormitory at Ashland College, for which she was a trustee, was named for her. She was a dedicated gardener in her own lifetime, serving as president of the Garden Club of Ohio. The miniature iris students see growing there in the spring are descendents of seeds which Mrs. Myers brought back from England in l 928 and which resulted in iris for both her own and Mrs. Mitchell's garden at St. Margaret's. As a benefactor of St. John's, Mrs. Mitchell herself has contributed to buildings, scholarships, tutorships, general operating funds, and to landscaping. Her philanthropy also has extended to numerous Annapolis and Ashland enterprises, but the gallery will mark the first to which she has been to her name. "There's that hasn't ~~'"Y•""'~ ciation and of New York Mrs. Carleton Mitchell and photo by Keith Harvey of Visitors and Governors, said. "She has many long standing friends on the board who see her in Annapolis and who remain devoted to her." Mrs. Mitchell makes evident her belief in St. John's. "I highly approve of it," she said, adding that she did not feel it was for everyone. "I like the way of teaching in small groups, in developing people's ability to speak and getting young people to express themselves." Mrs. Mitchell and her husband, noted yachtsman Carleton Mitchell, came to the Annapolis area in 1947, living at first just "one creek over" from Meredith Creek. During World War ll, Mr. Mitchell, who had always wanted to go to sea, was assigned by the Navy to a public relations post in Washington. The Mitchells grew to have sailing friends in Annapolis, then fairly isolated from Washington, and Mr. Mitchell realized there could be some good boating here. Since coming to this area, Mrs. Mitchell has divided her time between St. Margaret's and Ashland, where she maintains an apartment, and the Swiss chalet type cottage her grandfather built in the late 1890s on an inland lake just below the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan. Her grandfather, Philip Andrew Myers, manufactured the Myers pump, the family business which was sold a few years ago. Mrs. Mitchell was there eight weeks last summer and three weeks this summer. "It's quite nice," she said. "The old families keep coming back." She goes back all the time to Ashland, where she went to high school and where she has second cousins. She had just returned from there the preceding Saturday where she had attended the fiftieth anniversary of one set of cousins. This spring Ashland College, a long-time family interest, awarded her an honorary doctorate A somewhat among her who want to their collective arms around her and pro- tect her, a gentle woman for whom an elegant house in the woods provides just the right setting. She is also warm and hospitable, entertaining board members on a number of occasions. For the last two years she delighted members of St. John's Caritas Society, of which she is a member, by having a spring luncheon at her house for them. "A lovely, gracious person, very generous in her support of the Caritas Society," Hamill, who has just completed a term as the society's president, said. The house, designed by Walter Durham, of Ardmore, Pa., an authority on classic French architecture, and the grounds are a reflection of her interest in French paintings and architecture, another way in which she surrounds herself with works of art. Both are. "l really love the woods," Mrs. Mitchell said of the reason she chose its location. "I didn't want a lot of lawn. l didn't plan to build a house this big. It's too ridiculous to have a house this size." Outside in the summer, potted pink oleanders radiate at the doorway; in the spring, the garden is sweet with ~narcissi. For the most part, in the usual sense, there are no formal gardens - a green house · takes care of roses and vegetables - but rather her home is a green and tranquil retreat in the Maryland countryside. Past an avenue of European plane trees and the courtyard, there are tall trees sheltering dogwood, holly, rhododendron, and fern. Between the levels on which the house and the enclosed swimming pool are sited, the grounds sweep downward to an almost Japanese swath oflemon-colored day lilies. The style, however, is not consciously Japanese. "It isn't any " Mrs. Mitchell said. Instead of grass, the are mulched, a practice that a sense of and order. Roland Harner, whose also gardened for Mrs. Mitchell, takes care of the place. As we walk to the In the fiscal year that ended July l, the Annapolis campus recorded more gifts from private sources than in any year since l 979-80. Most of the fund-raising for the Annapolis campus took place after October I, when President William M. Dyal, Jr., assumed full-time duties. Efforts moved forward with the arrival in April of Jeffrey Bishop as the new vice-president for advancement. said that the As a result, President Annapolis campus is more doubling the amount it hopes to raise during the present academic year. The goal has been set at $2,345,000, a figure he and Mr. Bishop believe is "doable." Foundations represented the largest category of giving in l 986-87, contributing $498,909, a figure linked to fund raising efforts on behalf of Mellon Hall. There were major increases in the sum contributed by alumni, which jumped from $153,256 to $341,989. Contributions from the college community also increased from $4,384 to $17,956. For parents, it went from$ l 7, 128 to $28, 186. Other sums: Corporations, $90, 680; friends, $48, 724, and Independent College Fund of Maryland, $44,295. Altogether, the Annapolis campus raised $127,000 more duirng the 1986-87 year than it did in 1985-86. "That is because Bill Dyal is here, and he is so effective," Mr. Bishop said. "Most of the credit should go to him." to give talk St. John's College President William M. Dyal, Jr., will be one of three speakers at a symposium later this month entitled "Feeding the World - Economic, Environmental and Ethical Issues." It will be held at Hampden-Sydney Col30-0ctober l with stulege dents attendance. Mr. issues. Economic Dr. Wilham and environmental issues of Dr. Calvin Wisconsin. �PAGE4 SEPTEMBER 1987 THE REPORTER (Continued from P. 1) most recent is the 1960 paper of Francois (The chronological, four-year list as it Jacob and Jacques Monod dealing with originally appeared in the fall of 1937) the synthesis of proteins.) Homer: Iliad and Odyssey Generally, within the twice weekly great Aeschylus: Oresteia books seminars, the college has tended Herodotus: History over the past fifty years to trim the Sophocles: Oedipus Rex number of readings, enabling students to Hippocrates: Selections read fewer books but to read them more Euripides: Medea and Electra carefully. Thucydides: History of the PeloponExcluding poets, there are, in all classes nesian Wars - seminars, language, mathematics and Old Testament laboratory sciences - about 130 writings, Aristophanes: Frogs, Clouds, Birds including the U.S. Constitution, Supreme Aristarchus: On the Distance of the Court decisions, the plays of Moliere and Sun and Moon Racine, papers of Einstein, Bohr's study Aristoxenus: Harmony of the spectrum of hydrogen. Readings Plato: Meno, Republic, Sophist encompass literature, philosophy, history, Aristotle: Organon and Poetica politics, theology, the social sciences, Archimedes: Works mathematics and science. Euclid: Elements ONE REASON THE seminar list is Apollonius: Conics shorter than the original one in 1937 is Lucian: True History that some writers, such as Faraday and Plutarch: Lives Poincare, read in the first senior year of Lucretius: On the Nature of Things the New Program, were reassigned to Nicomachus: Introduction to Arithmathematics and science classes. Faraday metic remains; Poincare is gone. Ptolemy: Almagest Probably the largest culling of the list Virgil: Aeneid came with the institution of preceptorials Strabo: Geography in 1960. As close as anything to an elective Livy: History of Rome St. John's possesses, preceptorials are Cicero: DeOfficiis small classes involving an intensive study Horace: Ars Poetica of a book or subject that replace seminars Ovid: Metamorphoses for _eight week periods in the junior and Quintilian: Institutes semor year. Marcus Aurelius: To Himself As a result, 32 seminars were deleted, a New Testament number that cut a big chunk from the Galon: On the Natural Faculties reading list. Since that was done, although Plotinus: Enneads changes do occur from year to year, the Augustine: De Musica and De Magistro list has become much more stabilized. Song of Roland In recent years, probably the largest Volsunge Saga number of changes is centered in works of Bonaventura: On the Reduction of the fiction for seniors. Arts to Theology "It's not absolutely clear what fiction Thomas: Summa Theologica should have a place in the senior list," Mr. Roger Bacon: Opus Maius Slakey said, "and we thought some variaChaucer: Canterbury Tales tion could be allowed." Leonardo: Note-books Customarily new titles are suggested by Erasmus: Colloquies individual tutors to the Instruction ComRabelais: Gargantua mittee, which acts on all academic matters Copernicus: De Revolutionibus at St. John's and which considers the proMachiavelli: The Prince posed changes each spring at the end of Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart the school year. Gilbert: On the Magnet This coming academic year seniors for Kepler: Epitome of Astronomy the first time will read James Joyce's A Galileo: Two New Sciences Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It Descartes: Geometry will replace Joyce's The Dead, introduced Francis Bacon: Novum Organum five years ago. Hobbes: Leviathan "MY OWN VIEW is that A Portrait of Montaigne: Essays the Artist as a Young Man is an extremely Cervantes: D::m Quixote important novel, not just in style but in Shakespeare: Hamlet, King Lear content," Mr. Slakey said. "It argues the Calvin: Institutes primacy of the artist over the priest and Grotius: The Law of War and Peace philosopher, which is a characteristically Corneille: Le Gid modern view of the artist and poet." Racine: Phedre Conrad's Heart of Darkness, also introMoliere: Tartuffe duced five years ago, and Kafka's A Spinoza: Ethics Hunger Artist and Josephine the Singer Milton: Paradise Lost have been dropped for the 1987-88 year. Leibniz: Mathematical Papers Instead, seniors will read a book that may Newton: Principia not have been on the Annapolis campus's Boyle: Skeptical Chymist list since the 1940s although it is on the Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws almost identical list for St. John's Santa Swift: Gulliver's Travels Fe campus. It is Goethe's Faust, regarded Locke: Essay Concerning Human Unas the great epic work in the German landerstanding guage. Students will read a translation of Voltaire: Candide the first part. Fielding: Tom Jones One thing that has characterized the list Rousseau: Social Contract is the disappearance and reappearance of Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations the same book, sometimes as a preceptorHume: Treatise on Human Nature ial topic, as has been Thomas Mann's Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the RoDeath in Venice. After an absence of two man Empire years, Rabelais's Gargantua was returned Constitution of the United States last year upon the urging of two tutors. Federalist Papers Mohy Dick, first introduced in the late Kant: Critique of Pure Reason 40s, was reinstated in 1973-74 after an Goethe: Faust absence of a decade in which students read Hegel: Science of Logic Melville's Billv Budd and Benito Cereno. Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Mohy Dick has since been put back on the Idea shelf, and this year students will read Billy Coleridge: Biographia Literaria Budd. Some books survive only one year, Bantham: Principles of Morals and of as was the case of Ford Madox Ford's The Legislation Good Soldier. Malthus: Essays on the Principles of The addition of a new piece of writing Population comes as a problem because of the Mill: System of Logic constraints of time, which severely limit Marx: Capital the number of books, some very difficult, Balzac: Pere Goriot which students can read during their four (Continued on P. 5) years at St. John's. Because of special dif- ficulties, no eastern books are found on the list although an occasional preceptorial may deal with them. (Some might argue that the Bible is actually an eastern book.) There are more than enough books dealing with western civilization. SEVERAL YEARS ago St. John's tutors contributed to a list of 150 great books that could be added were not the time of undergraduate education comparatively brief. Their suggestions ranged from the speeches of Winston Churchill to Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle to Geor_ge Eliot's Middlemarch to John C. Calhoun's Disquisitions on Government. The present St. John's list represents a single skimming of the cream. Some practical considerations determine the present selections, including accessibility of material to undergraduates and the sheer length of an individual work. One tutor, Elliott Zuckerman, once suggested that a particularly long Charles Dickens novel, Bleak House, which he believes merits a place among great books, be included, but on the grounds that that novel requires a vacation in which to read it, decided not to push the idea. Partly for that reason, Jane Austen, the only woman read (Emily Dickinson is read in language tutorials), was selected because her novels, Pride and Prejudice and Emma, read in alternate years, are shorter than Middlemarch, which some critics believe is equally fine. The longest book read at St. John's is Tolstoy's War and Peace, first on the list for seniors after summer vacation. The St. John's great book list is set up chronologically, in part because the writers themselves are responding to what has been written before them. Students and faculty members attempt to read each book on its own terms rather than within a historic context, a practice which forces them to grapple seriously with what each writer says and to avoid considering his thinking as determined exclusively and understandably only in relation to the time in which he lived. AT ST. JOHN'S a writer is never dismissed with the statement, "That's just the way people thought in those days." The questions likely to come up in discussion. around the seminar table are those that mankind has written and thought about over long periods of time. Among them are the fundamental questions that man has to face today and at all times. The distribution of the books over the four years is significant. The books read in the first two years were written during a period of 2,000 years. Those read in the last two years, which are almost twice in number, were written during a period of 300 years. One result of the order of the readings is that graduates leave St. John's with a fairly strong grasp of what the thinkers of the West have contributed to the discussion of man's most continuing questions. It was the late Scott Buchanan, cofounder with Stringfellow Barr of the New Program, who in an August 1937 supplement to the St. John's catalogue first put forth the five criteria for a "great book." In his history, A Search for the Liheral College, Mr. Smith writes: "(l) It is a book that has been read by the largest number of persons. (By this he did not mean a book that might appear on a current best-seller list, but rather a book like the Bible or some of Shakespeare's plays that have, over the centuries, had more readers than other books, and that have 'stood the test of time.') "(2) It is a book that has the greatest number of alternative, independent, and consistent interpretations. (He did not mean a simply ambiguous book. 'A really ambiguous book,' he said, 'has no meaning or interpretation.' Dante's Comedy and Newton's Principia were given as examples of books with multiple interpretations.) "(3) It raises the persistent unansweraLontinm~d on P. 5) FR Homer: Iliad, Odyssey Plato: Meno, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus, Gorgias, Symposium Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound Sophocles: Oedipus Rex,. Oedipus at Co/onus, Antigone, Philoctetes Plutarch: Lives of Lycurgus, Solon Herodotus: History* Aristophanes: Clouds Thucydides: Peloponnesian War Lucretius: On the Nature of Things Aristotle: Physics, Metaphysics,* Poetics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics* Euripides: Hippolytus, The Bacchae SOPHOMORE YEAR Virgil: Aeneid Tacitus: Annals* Epictetus: Manual, Discourse Aristotle: De Anima Plotinus: Enneads* Bible Augustine: Confessions Anselm: Proslogium: On Behalf of the Fool Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae * Dante: Divine Comedy Chaucer: Canterbury Tales* Shakespeare: As You Like It, Richard II, Henry IV: Part I, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest Rabelais: Gargantua Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses on Livy* Bacon: NovumOrganum* Luther: Commentary on Galatians, The Freedom of a Christian, Secular Authority Montaigne: Essays* Descartes: Discourse on Method J R Cervantes: Don Quixote Pascal: Pen sees* Descartes: Meditations Milton: Paradise Lost Hobbes: Leviathan* Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise Locke: Second Treatise of Government Leibniz: Monadology, Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence, Discourse on Metaphysics Hume: Treatise of Human Nature* Kant: Critique of Pure Reason,* Foundations of Metaphysics of Morals Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma (alternating years) Swift: Gulliver's Travels Rousseau: Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, The Social Contract Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations* Melville: Billy Budd Declaration of Independence Articles of Confederation Madison, Hamilton and Jay: The Federalist Papers* U.S. Constitution Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn SENIOR YEAR Tolstoi: War and Peace Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit,* Logic* Goethe: Faust, Part I Marx: Capital,* Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Faulkner: The Bear Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil,* Thus Spake Zarathustra * Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments Dostoevski: The Brothers Karamazov Tocqueville: Democracy in America Lincoln: Selected Speeches Supreme Court: Selected Decisions William James: Psychology, a Briefer Course Freud: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Continm~d on P. 5) �SEPTEMBER 1987 Barz11n on books l Contemporary society has an intense need for a body of common knowledge and common references, critic Jacques Barzun said in a lecture in which he decried mechanical devices that supposedly bring mankind together: television, the telephone, the press, computers. They perform their work m a manner that is "anything but nourishing to the spirit," he said, contrasting them with what the believes to be the extraordinary means of communication provided by classic works. Classics appeal to a "common cultural continuity, half expressed, half implied. They form an allusion to a "brief, common bond which, unfortunately, grows weaker and thinner all the time." In a Friday lecture marking homecoming weekend in Santa Fe and marking the New Program's 50th anniversary, the noted cultural historian and biographer defined a classic as a book with "potential" and "thickness." By "thickness," he told a capacity audience in Santa Fe's Great Hall, he did not mean size but the density of its discourse. Professor Barzun said a classic has the potential to "recast the world into a new shape." It is able to project a story or theme that "at first fits an existing situation but then transcends ... and serves more than its original purpose." He described a classic as being a link with the past that assists the reader to live in a world extending well beyond his own suburban perspective. Classic stories, he said, possess "vast stores of vicarious experiences" and an infinite capacity to enlarge vision. Their persistent scrutiny and sensitivity to what is not said but implied - the "patient meditation after strange encounters" they evoke - enhance the reader's power to judge life situations and human character. Good books, Professor Barzun believes, "foster a detachment that makes for serenity and possibly for greater decency." Contending that a study of the classics should be a regular part of daily life and should be thought of as necessary as food, shelter or clothing, Professor Barzun expressed doubt that a curriculum should be totally composed of an education in the classics. But he acknowledged that to enlarge on that topic in a setting such as St. John's would be rather "ungracious and would also take too much time." He praised St. John's as a place where "students and the classics are collected for PAGES THE REPORTER J/ie 193 'rec as he world' (Continued from P. 4) Thackeray: Henry Esmond Dickens: David Copperfield Flaubert: Madame Bovary Dostoevski: Crime and Punishment Tolstoi: War and Peace Zola: Experimental Novel Ibsen: A Doll's House Dalton: A New System of Chemical Philosophy Clifford: The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences Fourier: Mathematical Analysis of Heat Faraday: Experimental Research into Electricity Peacock: Algebra Lobachevski: Theory of Parallels Darwin: Origin of Species Mendel: Papers Bernard: Introduction to Experimental Medicine Gaitan: Enquiries into the Human Mind and its Faculties Joule: Scientific Papers Gauss: Mathematical Papers Galois: Mathematical Papers Boole: Laws of Thought Hamilton: QuaterniOns Riemann: The Hypotheses of Geometry Cantor: Transfinite Numbers Virchow: Cellular Pathology Poincare: Science and Hypothesis Hilbert: Foundations of Geometry James: Principles of Psychology Freud: Papers on Hysteria Russell and Whitehead: Principia Mathematica Vebeln and Young: Projective Geometry Jacques Barzun lectures at Santa Fe. barriers between ideas, no jargon, no prea single purpose free of floating temptavailing theory or method. There are books tions that pervade a universe, where ... and there are readers." relevance is often confused with immeProfessor Barzun was introduced by diacy." board member Vincent Carrozza, of DalReminding his audience that the ultilas, Tex. He is scheduled to speak again mate use of the classics is "pleasure," Pronext summer on the Santa Fe campus, fessor Barzun called for "not more courses when St. John's and the Columbia Union the humanities, but in the humanities, versity Alumni Association co-host a taught by humanists." He emphasized seminar for chief executive officers. that "in the humanist mode there are no JM 1987 Five standards for a classic (Continued from P. 4) ble questions. (He cited as such questions those about 'number and measurement, matter and form, ultimate substance, tragedy, and God). "( 4) It must be a work of fine art. (By this he meant that it has an immediate intelligibility because of its beauty in the sense of 'order, elegance, and effulgence of form'). "(5) It must be a masterpiece of the liberal arts. "If one were to apply these criteria to each of the books in the list that accompanied Buchanan's statement," Mr. Smith observed, "one would surely find that very J.i4t (Continued from P. 4) few meet all of them. But it can be said that every book on the list meets one or more of them." Ever since the Renaissance, Mr. Smith writes, people have drawn up lists of great b?oks. Thomas Jefferson drew up one for his nephew, which includes a number on the present list. Buchanan referred to only two lists antecedent to that for St. John's. One was prepared by Sir John Lubbock for the Workers and Mechanics Institute in Eng!and and published in the Daily Telegraph m August 2; 1895. The other was introduced at Columbia for its general honors course by John Erskine. MATHEMATICS AND SCIE;:NCE Euclid: Elements Apollonius: Conics Archimedes: On the Lever, On Floating Bodies Ptolemy: Almagest Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres* Viete: Introduction to the Analytic Art Galileo: Two New Sciences* Kepler: Selections from the EpitOTT!(' of Copernican Astronomy* Harvey: Motion of the Heart and BloocJ Descartes: Geometry* Newton: Principia* Lavoisier: Elements of Chemistry Lobachevski: Theory of Parallels* Darwin: On the Origin of Species* Mendel: Experiments on Plant Hybridization Maxwell: Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism* Einstein: On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, A Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Conversion of Light Thompson: Cathode Rays Millikan: The Electron Rutherford: The Scattering of Alpha and Beta Particles by Matter, The Structure of the A tom Bohr: On the Spectrum of Hydrogen Schroedinger: Wave Mechanics Heisenberg: The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory* Essays, lectures or extracts by Torricelli, Boyle, Fahrenheit, Joseph Black, Brooke Taylor, Dalton, Gay-Lussac, Wollaston, Avogadro, Thomas Young, Faraday, Minkowski, Davisson, Driesch, Boveri, Weismann, Dedekind, Jacob, Monod, Watson, Crick. E far At Read and discussed in the language tutorials are either The Misanthrope or Tartuffe of Moliere and Racine's Phaedre. Poets are too numerous to list in full but among them are Donne, Marvell, Blake, Milton, Shakespeare, Keats, Wordsworth, Yc;Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Steven::: *Read in part �s ace bia of the Dyals. Following the ceremony will . be held in both the and Great Hall. Dr. Boyer's address will be entitled "Making the Connections." In addition to as president of the for the Advancement he is a senior fellow at the Wilson School at Princeton He also is an education columnist London Times. Foundaserved as the United States commissioner of education, a $12-billion federal A new ceremonial mace intended to last for centuries is being made for the ina uguration of President Dyal on October 23. It has been designed by the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, tutor emeritus, whose gift to the college has made the mace possible. Mr. Smith will serve as marshal for the inaugural procession and carry the mace on this first ceremonial occasion in which it is put to use. The mace will have silver work executed by Judson Martin, Annapolis goldsmith, who also made the presidential chain incorporated into the inaugural ceremony for the first time when Edwin J. Delattre took office in 1980. On either side of the head will be both the 1784 seal and the New Program emblem. The staff will be and fashioned William B. Schreitz, who also benches for the Kate the Carroll-Barrister The mace will be carried in convocations the St. John's year., at commencements, and at other ceremonial events. I. John McDowell, 1790- 807 2. Bethel Judd, 1807-1812 3. John McDowell, 1812-1820 4. Henry Lyon Davis, 1820- I 82 l 5. William Rafferty, l 824-1830 6. Hector Humphreys, 1831-1857 7. Cleland Kinloch Nelson, 1857186 l (The college was closed for five years during the Civil War) 8. Henry Barnard, 1866-1867 9. James Clark Welling, 1867-1870 10. James Mercer Garnett, 1870-1880 11. John McDowell Leavitt, l 8801884 12. William Hersey Hopkins, 18841886 13. Thomas Fell, 1886-1923 14. Enoch Barton Garey, 1923-1929 (The college was without a president for two years) 15. Douglas Huntly Gordon, 19311934 16. Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, 1934-1937 17. Stringfellow Barr, 193 7-1946 8. John Spangler 1947-1949 19. Richard Daniel 1949980 20. Edwin J. Delattre, 1980-1986 21A. William M. 1986- Anmapons, is members elected to the Board Visitors and Governors at its summer meeting in Santa Fe. elected Charles Watts. former president of ,..,,.,,p.·".r" who had served as a board member 1976-79; John D. Wirth, a member of the Stanford University in Santa Fe, and . of Bethesda, Md., attornev and former chief Int;rnal Revenue Service. 1 the headed Others win include David Townsend, John's tutor, who will lecture on "Love and Death in the Aeneid," 1 Michael Comenetz, St. John's tutor, will on J,,Jewton and the of mathe- __,__,,.,·"'"" students. 0., he holds a doc.,,t" of Southern 1.......,,,.,• be one of a serof the begin ovemmg lecture <llnnn1Prc-oi1·u John's served as ...... .,__, ...... ,, IntercultuPrior to that, l 97 l to 1980, was founding president of the Inter-American Foundation in Va., and from 1969 to 1971 Peace Corps regional director for North Africa, the Near East, and South Asia. Earlier, in May, Michael Riccards was inaugurated as president of the Santa Fe campus. Both Mr. Dyal and Mr. Riccards joined St. John's in July, 1986, after the board decided that St. John's could best be administered by having a president for each campus, rather than one president for both, as had been done since planning for the western campus began in 1961. Chairing a committee planning the inauguration and 50th anniversary events is Dean Slakey. Other members include Douglas Allanbrook, Betsy Blume, Kathryn Kinzer, Benjamin Milner, John Van Doren, and Becky Wilson. will tance, and Decides To Preside, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Chicago. His talk is scheduled for September 5. In addition, he will chair a panel October 16- I 7 at a conference on "Constitutional1sm m America" at the University of Dallas. Last month he served as a master teacher at a three-day faculty development seminar on Jefferson and Marx held at the Colorado field camp of Phillips University in Enid, Okla. Earlier, in May, he delivered a lecture, "The Effective Republic: Hamilton's case for the Constitution," as part of a series on "Federalists, Anti-Federalists, and the Debate To Ratify the Constitution," held at Anne Arundel Community College. He also has served as a member of a National Endowment for the Humanities panel. lish, and a former ,.,.,.,,.,,.,.. ,,...,t' Foundation been a business and ecluc<ltH)n<ll consultant various universities. He served as ........,'"'...._i,..,u dent from to 1976. A native New Mc~x1cai1, at the School Stanford u n1versn,v t:1cu.uv Studies American Studies. President Michael for coordithe annual fund drive, and acting as the college liaison for state government funding. She will work closely with the advancement staff. Mrs. Drennon is married and has two children. She the Mrs. director of financial director of financial and director of advancemec.t. In her new she will have responsibilities for alumni, community activities and other projects for St. John's, Mr. Clendenin received a master's in literature from the of Denver and a certificate in the same and He as associate dean of admissions at the of Denver from 1980 to as director of admissions at Prescott College from l 979-80, as admissions counselor at the American University from 1978-79, and as director of conference programs for the Travel Program for Foreign Diplomats from l 977- 78. An active athlete who plays tennis and basketball ("but not croquet, although l did spend a year on the Annapolis campus"), Mr. Clendenin is also a fly-fishing buff. With him to Santa Fe come two young children and his wife, a native Southwesterner who hopes to a doctorate in counseling and establish counseling services in Santa Fe. Mrs. Holmes, who assumed her duties in mid-June, considers herself a Santa Fean, with and sional ties within ~r,~=ri" she was assistant vIC:e-1Jre:s1of Santa r!P\/Pllrll"\Prl mcarV<>T1nn and four years as relations officer. a bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont and a master's in lish literature from the University of souri, her background also includes graduate study at the University of Vienna, high school teaching experience, and posts within both state and federal governments. She has had volunteer and board responsibilities with such organizations as the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Indian Market, and the Historic Santa Fe Foundation. Politics of Brazilian "received the 1971 book in chief counsel of He also for r'!anonai Council on He has the American Bar As:socmt1lon man of the Board of He is a fell ow of the American Bar Association and a member of the American Law lnst1n1te. He has lectured at numerous tax institutes, those at George Washington University, University, University of Chicago and University o( Texas. He is chairman of the American College of Tax Counselors. �taught third grade at the Kentucky School for the Blind in Louisville until their oldest daughter, now Kathy Schwab and living in Chicago, was born. Then came 20 years in which her major responsibility lay in the care and education of the children. Kathy was only six months old when they went to Costa Rica where both of the Dyals attended a language school for a year preparatory to mission work. From Costa Rica, they were sent to Guatemala, where Mr. Dyal was president of a small theological seminary, where she taught music. In Guatemala she also served as a missionary. After Guatemala, the Dyals spent three years in Costa Rica and another year in Argentina before they moved to Richmond to enable Mr. Dyal to work with the Baptist Foreign Mission Board personnel. Their next move was to Nashville, Tenn., where Mr. Dyal was active in the church's Christian ethics and the civil movement. HE WAS in Nashville, Bill an old friend of Mr. Dyal and then deputy director of the Peace Corps, asked him to do an evaluation of Peace work in Venezuela. The result of his was an invitation to go to Columto direct the 800 volunteers of the there. resettled in Alexandria, as director of the Africa, the Near Asia and during his time of the Inter-Ameri- tends to demolish southern women - that and charming and graall ends there. he said, leaning back in uu.u"·''"h about it, in the Presiat John's College. "But intellect and a soul and a brain." Edith Dyal is "a velvet " She is "the most discihave known in my life." should know since he has had 40 years in which to observe known her since they were two from the South, line to sign up for class at Baylor Univer- was Charleston, S.C. im1m:h1::e1 a career there. not satisfied with two from Columbia Univermaster of arts gained in 1984 a master of education i 985, she is on the way to a another Columbia, this one Carolina city where the uniis located. She hopes courses alhn1st1ed in New York will enable her co1mi:11e1'.e her course work next ~ummer. will begin her dissertation. this spring president of the '-'·'._...,., ..,,of the National Music Edith Dyal is an nn'"''""'"'\T with the Department of the College of Charleston, where she teaches group piano classes. a consultant for the lnternaTeaching Foundation, which standards of teaching and the comprehensive musito music study deveRobert Pace at Columbia that capacity, she teaches ,-,,.,,,",.,"r~· drawn from the Charles- photo by Keith Harvey Initially, the children were afraid the Dyals would miss each other too much for a divided residence to succeed. Now decided "it's sort of neat." respect what Edie is her." said. "We're all very As many times as possible Mrs. is by her husband's side for such oeicas.1011s as homecoming or the Board of Visitors and Governors' meetings or, more recently, to help entertain St. John's summer freshmen - its Febbies a at their home in Wardour. Mrs. Dyal missed the Santa Fe in order to be on birth of the fourth boy, Mark born to their ter, Deborah Hinkle, ...._,.,,..,,.,""_ field, Va. summer, the first time in years the President's House had been Until on~s1dlents named for the Fe campuses, the both campuses There are a few drawbacks. Mrs. Dyal regrets being forced to miss certain events she would like to attend at St. John's. And it takes longer to grow to know St. John's people, whom she finds very friendly. "l 'm excited to be at this school," she said. "Bill's excited. St. John's is a wonderful school." On occasions when Mr. Dyal, a genially expansive host, entertains alone, he uses the college food service. So far the system seems to work. Mrs. Dyal has been playing the piano since she was given lessons as a sixth birthday present in El Dorado, the Arkansas oil town where she went to high school and expanded her music by playing for the school chorus and singing in church Her first teacher, with whom she maintains a ~ 0 ,· 0 ~•"· gave her a copy of her first comwritten at six about a there was a move to Manhattan 1;,vhere he headed the American Field Service lntercultural Programs before coming to John's. One challenge this time was for to develop a life of her own frequently long absences. With all moving, there was barely time to think music, let alone cart around a piano. For a 20-year-period, it remained, with the exception of piano lessons for her chidren and a few others, quiescent. Now music has become a central interest for Edith Dyal, one that she balances with her own family life and her role as a college president's wife. Back to her eyes. One aspect of the Dyals' marriage that reflects an unexpected quality in Mr. Dyal is that he buys many of her clothes. "Bill bought this dress when he was in Hong Kong," she said of a dress that had succeeded in turning her eyes green. "He's always able to fit me perfectly. ln fact, he buys more of my clothes than I do." His interest lies in an aesthetic turn of mind. When time permits. Mr. Dyal also has done oil painting, including two seascapes. It's a gift their daughter, Deby, has inherited. Having someone you can trust to buy a good share of your wardrobe is the answer to a busy teacher's dream. For Edith Dyal, it's a special benefit as she leads her life in Annapolis as a president' wife and in Charleston as a music teacher. Lonti:nm~CI second in Charles1986 when the search was H",. ",,.,.,, for a new president for rUHUHJlJll::l CampUS. this if Bill had not .... ,,.,,...,r"'-1"""" " Mrs. Dyal said, had to think about the doctorate a more, fearing, perhaps, for the extra pressure that study inevitably will incur. Mrs.. anticipates the prospect she is a highly organized person. Cencame back were married the at her home vacationed in to corner tickets and ·~Les Folies. ") That came after Mrs. Dyal spent two weeks at the International piano Workshop at the University of Exeter south of London. Mr. Dyal flew over to join her a third week. 11 ..,uw•i::.'-'u church in El ~,;<~.~~ Meanwhile that year both had begun work on their master's. Mrs. Dyal began study at Southwestern TheologSeminary at Fort Worth, Tex., in church music and religious education. Mr. Dyal began a three-year master's degree in theology at Southern Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky. After they were married, while Mr. Dyal continued his studies, Mrs. Dyal from P. 3) for seven Great toes. Mrs. tucks this of snub-nosed fluff under her safe from unexpected is scheduled for the trip to ""'~"",...,.~··· A young looking ten or more younger, Mitchell will be o~f month to England on the Queen Ehzabeth H with her friend, Margaret Nayden, of Annapolis, and with friends from New York. They will rent a car and tour England. Then she will return to join with St. John's in awaiting the completion .of the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery-a major event for both St. John's and the woman who has made it possible. �PAGES THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1987 One SJ aim: technologists with moral ca acity Hons van Bnesen, director of laboratories in Santa Fe, is the primary writer for the following statement, to which other members of the Santa Fe campus contributed. Science and mathematics take up almost one half of the four-year undergraduate curriculum of St. John's College. We at St. John's believe that the libaral arts without science not only ignore the most powerful intellectual movement of the modern world but are politically impotent in the face of technological expertise. And science, devoid of liberal education, could not be an endeavor of free inquiry. Rather, by taking its first principles for granted, science risks degenerating into an exercise of mere technological power that is morally and intellectually blind. Socially and politically, the status of science in our society often appears to be that of a cult because most laymen and many technologists are ignorant of what science really is. It is important that intelligent laymen, wherever and whenever possible, be introduced to science as a discipline of free inquiry and an art of investigation, rather than as the mistaken stereotype of science as an edifice of facts giving rise to conceptual manipulation and technological power. St. John's College is committed to a four-year study of mathematics and a threeyear study of science as an integral part of an intense, liberal arts program centered around seminal writings of western civilization. The laboratory and mathematics curricula are specifically not devoted to training technical specialists but are required of each and every student. The curricula include material found usually in courses designed for mathematics and science majors only. so'"me examples are: Analytic geometry and calculus; a study of electricity and magnetism culminating in Maxwell's equations using vector calculus; original papers by Bohr, Schroedinger, Einstein, Heisenberg, and others in a study of atomic physics; a reading of papers in genetics and molecular biology with experiments in becterial genetics; a study of Einstein's special theory of relativity using Einstein's 1905 paper; and a study of Lobachevsky's "The-Jry of Parallels" and its non-Euclidean geometry. When these subjects are discussed in class, a premium is placed upon student participation under the guidance of the faculty. In ma~;1"°'matics, students are responsible for the presentation of proofs and demonstrations. In the laboratory classes, every effort is made to bring to the bench or demonstration table the phenomena under study. Emphasis is on insight and understanding rather than the formalized experimental procedures characteristic of undergraduate laboratories. IN ADDITION, early writings are also studied, inc1uding among others: Euclid, Apollonius, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Harvey, and Lavoisier. These works are examples of the intellectual heritage upon which modern scientific thinking is grounded. By looking at science and mathematics through the eyes of some of its pioneers, we can free ourselves from the blinding effects of powerful convention and unquestioning familiarity and see more clearly the science of our own time. The study of science and mathematics together with literature, language, and philosophy is more able than specialization to develop imagination because it encourages synthesis in thought, the shaping of analogy, and the discovery of latent parallels in what are now separated disciplines. It is more able to provide men and women with the ability to understand the potentialities and the limitations of the particular paradigms in which they are operating. The "two cultures" of science and humanities arise from our cultural failure to see and teach that science, rightly understood, is a most human endeavor. The college aims to help its students become citizens who are capable of asking meaningful questions in technical areas, managers who are capable of understanding their own technical specialists, technologists with moral capacity, and men and women with both competence and culture. These are obvious needs of a free society whose economic and social base is increasingly technological. St. John's graduates have proven their ability to learn difficult subjects across the range of human knowledge. St. John's ranks twenty-seventh among 1,500 undergraduate institutions with respect to the number of Ph.D.' s earned by alumni in relation to the number of B.A.' s granted. Graduates of St. John's have distingushed themselves in a wide range of careers, including all levels of teaching (21 %), business (20%), law (10%), arts (8.5%), science and engineering (7%), health professions (6.5%), computer science (6.4%), writing and publishing (5%), and other fields. Obviously, then, those who have chosen technical careers have found no serious problem in further training or specialization. Those who choose careers that lead to leadership positions in business or government have developed their capability to learn whatever is necessary during their professional life. These students and these citizens have an uncommon foundation of a broadlybased, demanding, undergraduate educational experience that includes mathematics and science as an integral part of its curriculum. (Continued from P. 2) gram ot the Harvard Graduate School of Education had been approved. "l am requesting of Harvard a one-year deferment of my entrance into graduate school," he writes. 1986 Marine 2nd Lt. B. Williamson is on duty with the Force Service Support Group, Camp Lejeune, N. C. At the Marine Corps' Basic School in Quantico, Va., he was prepared for assignment to the Fleet Marine Force and given the responsibility of a rifle platoon commander. 1987 From Paul Anderson, the campus's new admissions representative for alumni activities, comes word that classmate Al Maki-Haffa and his Arlene, are the parents of a boy, Benjamin, born June 24. Their latest address is 314 S. Main, Deerfield, Mich .. 53531. ~eep !lot, ~ear readers. This is not to illustrate still one more student in deep fman_c1al _d1stres~. ~aul Argodale, Alexandria senior, was merely caught wearing his favorite Jeans by photographer Keith Harvey. It's the well ventilated look in 1987-88 fashions. 1979 1970 William H. Doleman is working on his Owen Goldin and his wife Pat Kilroe doctorate in archaeolQ_gy at the University of New Mexico. His dissertation is on the Tularose Basin (White Sands Missile Range). and their year-old son Woody are moving this month from Austin, Texas, to Milwaukee, Wis. Havingjust received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Texas, Owen is assistant professor of philosophy at Marquette University. Pat is teaching English while working on her dissertation for a doctorate in Romance languages. 1974 Ceila Yerger David and her husband Andy are practicing law in Chicago. They have two children, Cassie, 6, and Peter, 3. David Wallace and his wife Peggy are the proprietors of a toy store in Soho, N.Y., called The Enchanted Forest. 1975 Maxwell manages Old Clinton Road Farm in Westbrook, Conn., according to word received from John Stevenson, A '83. He quotes her as saying that "this is an attempt to preserve and restore a bit of history on the rapidly developing shoreline area of Connecticut." 1977 As coordinator of alternative education, Littleton Irby, GI, helped to initiate a program to keep potential high school drop-outs in school. Project UNITE (Using New Ideas To Educate) was adopted by Lawrence High School in New York State in 1981. The program is completely voluntary. The maximum class size is 13, enabling teachers to identify learning problems more readily and give effective help where needed. "Due to the complexity and constant effort, time, dedication and care that is involved, the coordinator of the program must possess unique qualities that enable him to make UNITE the rich and growing program that it is "a clipping states. Mr. Irby received his undergraduate degree from Johnson C. Smith University in North Carolina and his master of science degree in education from New York University. 1980 Celia Hazzard, GI, retired recently from the :\Tew York City Board of Education. 1981 Jill Cowley has moved to the Denver area to take a position as landscape architect with the National Park Service. Martha Billington toured China with the Arctic Chamber Orchestra of Fairbanks, Alaska. "They are a volunteer orchestra and were well received," she writes, adding that she loves her work of teaching violin to private pupils. Martha's address is 736 7th, Fairbanks, AK 9970 I. Vincent Bianco is in the restaurant management business in San Diego. Ann 1982 Duran received her bache- lor's degree from Colorado College in 1983. Currently enrolled in the Chicago of Massage Therapy, she spent a year as a personal care attendant for a disabled woman who studied in Great Britain under a Watson Fellowship. .;;cu°'YT!rou H4=~f'Hlllnl'Y annOUilCed the birth Alexander, born 26. Geoffrey requests information concerning job openings for an ecological modeler. 1987 G. Martin Lewallen is attending Hastings College of Law. �THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1987 s lltion slate for s St. John's and the Maryland Hall of Records wills ponsor a morning of seminar discussions October I 0 as part of the observance of the U.S. Constitution's Bicentennial. More than 200 state leaders will be invited. Participants will meet in the Great Hall at 9:45 a.m. for a welcome by President William M. Dyal, Jr., and then disperse to classrooms for discussions to be jointly led by St. John's tutors and state leaders. President Dyal will be the speaker at luncheon afterwards in the private dining room. The sessions are carrying the support of Governor William Donald Schaefer, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., Delegate R. Clayton Mitchell, Jr., speaker of the House, and Chief Judge Robert C. Murphy of the Maryland Court of Appeals. Readings to be discussed will include the Constitution, the Federalist Paper Number 10, and extracts of articles by Luther Martin protesting the adoption of the Constitution and published in 1788 in The Maryland Journal and Baltimore seminars leade Advertiser. Martin had attended the Constitutional Convention as a delegate from Maryland. The planning committee includes Delegate Pauline H. Menes, of College Park, Edward C. Papenfuse, state archivist, and Gregory A. Stiverson, assistant state archivist all of whom will be seminar leaders: P;esident Dyal, Vice-President Jeffrey A. Bishop, Dean Thomas J. Slakey, Jack Ladd Carr, A '50, and Rebecca Wilson, director of news and information. Two are consultants Annapolis tutors Mera Flaumenhaft and Tom Simpson served as consultants at a two-week workshop at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from June 8-19. The university is developing a four-year honors program. Mrs. Flaumenhaft and Mr. Simpson led classes for participating faculty and took part in planning sessions about curriculum and teaching methods. Masters of Discovery {Continued from P. 1) undergraduates are ... seeking to institute and improve courses and programs based upon the discussion of primary sources," Mr. Flaumenhaft said, in explaining the need for the "Masters of Discovery" guides. "In such courses and programs as pres. ently conducted, texts like 'The Republic,' 'Hamlet,' and 'The Social Contract' are often studied but rarely texts like Euclid's 'Elements,' Copernicus' 'Revolutions,' and Newtons' 'Principia.' "MANY TEACHERS who offer such courses, or participate in such programs, are aware that there is something wrong with the omission. Serious students of ancient Greek political philosophy, for example, or of 17th century French literature, cannot fail to be aware that an understanding of the texts they study depends upon an understanding of what human beings have thought about what happens in the sky." The idea for the guides was first advanced by Mr. Flaumenhaft a little over a year and a half ago when the NEH convened a panel to give advice concerning programs worthy of support in the area of humanities, science and technology. After listening to him and reviewing his proposal, the Endowment decided it would be good to promote the establishment of such a series and asked Mr. Flaumenhaft to take charge. During the past academic year, he held an NEH planning grant to produce guidelines, organize a board and begin seeking a publisher. In addition to the writers he already has found, the Endowment has issued a request for proposals for the writing of more such guidebooks. The series, however, will not be restricted simply to the manuscripts produced under the endowment grants. In giving the project a green light, the Endowment also approved Mr. Flaumenhaft 's application for a two-year grant to write a guidebook on classical astronomy, with texts selected from the writings of Ptolemy and Copernicus, and on classical geometry and its transformation. The latter will deal with writings of Euclid, Apollonius and Descartes. Among the series writers will be William Donahue, a historian of science now residing in Santa Fe, on Kepler on the planets; Dennis Sepper, philosophy professor at the University of Dallas, on Newton's optics, and Curtis Wilson, St. John's tutor, on Newton. A member of the "Masters of Discovery" board, Mr. Wilson also will serve as cor{sultant for Mr. Flaumenhaft's volume. IN HIS case for "Guided Studies of Great Texts," as the "Masters of Discovery" series is subtitled, Mr. Fl au- menhaft wrote: "This series, like other studies in the humanities, has the purpose of helping us to be more thoughtful about what makes us human. Its distinctive part within this purpose is to promote the study of scientific texts as part of the humanities . "To be thoughtful, we should read the record of the thinking that has shaped the world around us and still shapes our minds as well. In this record of the process that has shaped the terminology we employ, the premises we presuppose, and the methods we apply, scientific thinking has a central or a fundamental place. "But nowadays the record is not much read at all. This is partly because the past is often thought to be passe, especially in science. An opinion on this matter is mere prejudice unless it rests upon a study of classic texts in science. These are little read, however, except by a very. few specialists." Mr. Flaumenhaft said the books are intended "to illuminate questions whose importance or even existence could otherwise too easily escape attention." "The readers of these volumes will be better equipped to think about what a fact or a theory is, better able to say what they want when they ask 'what is that?' and 'why?'" The volumes also will be intended to be read by themselves, without requiring readers to have recourse to works on the thinkers' lives and times - "without a shelf of other books at hand," as Mr. Flaumenhaft put it. IN MANY WAYS, the series will reflect the way such texts are read at St. John's. "The peculiarity of St. John's lies in thinking you should read Euclid, Copernicus, and Newton as you should read Plato," Mr. Flaumenhaft observed. "The subject incorporates much of the experience of several generations of students and tutors and embodies much of the spirit o.f the way things are done at St. John's." Part of what makes such reading possible at St. John's, he said, is the college's oral traditiOJl:. in which people who have read ·original sm1rc!;s talk together about their reading. ~ A political scientist by training, Mr. Flaumenhaft has taught science and mathematics at St. John's, as all tutors are expected to do under its non-elective program. As a non-specialist, he has learned to come to grips with the substance of such texts as the "Masters of Discovery" series plans. "Had I not become a tutor, I would never have initiated or been asked to initiate a project of this sort," he noted. PAGE9 ra1s r o the Editor: Mortimer Adler at St. John's! It was almost like being in seminar again. The students were impressive. (Was I ever that -.harp'?) At the beginning they seemed a bit ,·eluctant to challenge him. and, since he is one of ou1 lounding fathers, that is understandable. And maybe they were a bit intimidated by the film crew. But as the "eminar went on the\ were less and less willing to allt'W him to dominate the discussion and force his opinion on them. rhose students made me proud to he an alumnus. I really wanted to join the discu:-,:-,ion and take exception with Mr. Adler on several points --- most especially hi:- opinion that the proper role of goYernment is not only to ensure equal economic opportunity, but, apparently, to guarantee economic equality. I'm not sure he really meant to go that far. and he did seem willing to draw some limits when he was challenged by one of the students. I wish more of that part of the seminar had been hroadcast. He also seemed to take the position that taxation never infringe-, on the rights of the taxed. I would argue that point strongly. I agree that I have a responsibility to contribute to the general wellare. but those who are recipie'lh nf m~ . 1 intributions have a respons1h1l11~ to le-."en their dependence on others a:- rapid!~ d' 110:-,:-,ible. rlw:-,c who do not tr\' to heir• . hemsehc" mfringe on the rig.lit of all L~1xpay­ e1' -\bo there has been rnm·i·· public anguish (especially during pul111cal (ampaigns). ahout the plight of the "family farmer'". but l do not believe that it is the rnk of the government (We the People ... ), .u preserve the particular way of life of 1 Tutor John Verdi ponders a seminars. At left is Paul activities. any given group by providing unending d nd e\ er mcreasing subsidies. In his discussion with Bill Moyers, Mr. ·\dkr deplored the failing of the citizenry tu fulfill their duties to their government. He cited the poor voting record as an example. But he did not point out that while the Constitution defines the duties <111d responsibilities of the state, it imposes no obligations on its citizens. John Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you. ask rather what you can do for your countn." Few have taken his words to heart; more need to. Rome reyuired six years service of its citizens. We could do worse, we have. On a personal note, I would like to announce that I have completed requirements for the degree of master of science in physiology from the Medical College of Virgina/ Virg111ia Commonwealth University. and received my degree in August. In the meantime, I am leaving for Wilford Hall Medical Center. San \ntonio, rexas, where I will begin teaching anesthesia. Sincerely, C. Carl Bostek, SF '68 Major, USAF Tutor speaks abroa.d James Beall, Annapolis tutor and astrophysicist, gave two lectures abroad in July. , He lectured at the European Space Agency's International Ultraviolet Explorer Control Center near Madrid on "Variability in Active Galaxies"and at the Institute for Astrophysics at Tenerife in the Canary Islands on "X-Ray Emission from Supernovae." Mr. Beall was granted tenure last spring. �. r1 r 1 by Bob Lqmpee, '35 The Boston Yankee stepped off the SB&A trolley at Annapolis, feeling homesick, and carrying modest luggage, made his way to the campus at St. John's College. It was a sunny day in September, 1931. In the blur of signing up for classes, he remembers the radiant smile and soft voice of Miriam Strange, college registrar. Settling in his tiny dormitory room over the dining hall, he met his room-mate, also homesick. The required preliminary exams produced both bad news and good new: somehow Winchester High School hadn't prepared him properly in algebra, so he had to take a make-up course; but he did pass the English anticipatory test, and was soon invited to join the wayward and "egg-head" fraternity, Delta Psi Omega. Soon, in the classrooms, he began to meet the Four Aces. There was Ford K. Brown, who taught English literary history. Dapper, tweedy, rotund and sporting a mustache, Brown provided each class a sea of little blue-covered note-books, issued at each class. We were required to draw a county map of England and label each county correctly. But soon we got down to England's literary drama ... and if, by chance, a football playing student went to sleep, Brown would shout, "Mr.-, you may have two minutes. Tell us all you know about English literature!" There was Nathan Comfort Starr, who taught English literature. Starr was the quiet one who dressed comfortably in grey and blue flannels. We showed up in class with homework assignments written in the little blue notebooks, folded and crammed into our back trouser pockets. Starr would carefully unfold each book, smooth out the wrinkles, .and read each one aloud as if quoting scripture from a church pulpit. There was Richard Scofield, who taught art and architectural design. He was thin and ascetic, with delicate hands and a soft voice. We met in a larqe room off the balcony of McDowell Hall. I was his only student, and he was all mine for a full semester. The hours with Scofield raced by, and I was driven, during a vacation break, to hitch-hike to Chicago for the big World's Fair and study the residential architecture exhibit to do a paper. He gave me an "A," one of the few in a lifetime. Finally, there was Leonard Doughty, Lt. Cdr., U.S. Navy, who was on the faculty at the nearby Naval Academy. Looking handsome in his blue uniform, he was once a member of the U.S. Olympic fencing team. I got to know him because he had a very pretty daughter. As editor of the "St. John's Collegian," I conned him into coaching a St. John's fencing team. The first night we assembled, half the St. John's student body showed up and after practicing the lunge, hardly a soul could walk. Later that year, however, I won third place in the Maryland Epee Championships. Today, more than a half century later, the homesick Yankee looks back at the quality of college education. The subject is now open warfare and everyone claims the answer. In a recent Time (April 13, 1987), Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind is reviewed. Bloom claims that colleges have replaced liberal arts core studies with a "democracy of disciplines that offer no distinctive visage to the young person" and denies "the power of reason to preserve the common good." So what's new? St. John's in the th~rties was a poor man's copy of the Harvard type elective liberal arts program. This was followed by the introduction of the "Great Books" program. But the big news was the emerging educational ideal of the MBA degree, leading to three-piece suits and imported cars. This was accomplished simply by using math to pre-determine the sacred goal of something called "The Bottom Line." It wasn't until recently that this concept was exploded by a couple of management consulting types who stumbled on a great truth in their In Search of Excellence, that people are more important than bar graphs. Thinking back about my Four Aces, I knew this all the time. Ford K. Brown gave me the gift of history as reflected in a bookcase wall of history books. Although my special interest is Naval history, the interest also ties in actively with my present role as calligrapher, a field rich in history. Nathan Comfort Starr gave me the gift of the language arts, which has brought me joy and the ability to communicate in a 35 year career as a newspaper marketing executive. Further, Starr also opened up the world of music. As I tune in PBS this afternoon to watch Bernstein doing the Brahms Second, I remember the countless Sunday afternoons in Nathan and Nina Starr's dining room with other grateful St. John's students, when Nathan hand-cranked an ancient RCA victrola to play the three Bs. Richard Scofield gave me the gift of art and architectural design. Today I giggle when I read about a Japanese insurance firm paying forty million bucks for one of Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers." I learned to appreciate Van Gogh and Gaugin and Seurat, et al, in his class. What's more, Scofield lent me a Matisse print for my room at the fraternity house. And he was also responsible for a life-time interest in good architectural design, beginning with Annapolis' Hammond-Harwood House. Lt. Cdr. Doughty (later Commodore), though an "outsider" at St. John's, still is an ace in my life. A few years after graduation I joined the Navy and served with him on a WWII technical mission to the SW Pacific, and later as his aide on the invasion of Sicily and the establishment of the Na val Operating Base, Palermo. Doughty gave me a rare insight into an imperfect warring world, which desperately needs the "power of reason to pursue the common good." So: hats off to Professor Bloom, Secretary of Education William Bennett, and all the others, in their gropings for improvement of quality in college education. If you ask the homesick kid from Boston, it has something to do with eye-ball to eye-ball contact with dedicated teachers who care to share. Eastern Washt he Annapolis President William M. Dyal, Jr., has been appointed to serve on a new International Commission on Central American Development and Recovery. Senator Terry Sanford (D-N.C.), who invited him to become a member, said the commission is being set up to produce a strategy that will bring Central America the economic prosperity "that comes with peace and democracy." fhe commission will be associated with Duke University's Center for International Development Research and will be supported by a task force which will analyze all previous economic planning for Central America to make new recommendations to the commission. The commission will include l 5 membe1 ·rirese!1ting Central America. Besides Treasurer (Continued from P. 1) sities. Because the NACUBO assigns code numbers to institutions and does not list them by name, there was no way of knowing which college or university outranked St. John's in its performance. The findings are for St. John's Annapolis campus only since the Santa Fe campus does not participate in the study. On July I, 1986, St. John's endowment stood at $20, 792,830, a figure representing an increase of almost $8 million in two years, a jump reflecting, in addition to the growth in investments, other factors. Mrs. Rhodes attributed the increase in large part to two things: "responsible fiscal management" on the part of the Board of Visitors and Governors and to a market in which soaring stocks shot upward by 35 to 40 per cent. During the 1985-86 year some $1,850, 000 was added in gifts. The largest included a $500,000 gift establishing a tutorship in honor of Adolph W. Schmidt, a visitor emeritus, and a gift of $750,000 making possible the Iola and Richard Scofield Memorial Loan Fund. Others averaged about $300,000. Mrs. Rhodes cited two separate steps taken by the Finance Committee of the board that she said played a critical part in the endowment's dramatic jump. One was a decision taken in 1983 by members, who felt that the endowment earnings were actually larger than the campus required, and it was imprudent to spend all of them. With an eye to protect St. John's against any severe fiscal crisis in the future, the President Dyal, those named so far fr<?m the United States include Arthur Levitt, chairman of the board of the American Stock Exchange, 1·1)rmer Deputy Under Secretary of State La 'A'I 1.'nce Eagle burger; former Assistant Secreta1·, 1)f State \/iron Vaky; Dr. Richard Feinbe1 t'. vice-president of the Overseas Develop11Icnt Council, and Dr. Albert Fishlow, oft he U niversity of California at Berkeley. Mr. Dyal, who speaks flue1._ Spanish, has been active in Central American affairs, particularly as president from 197 l to 1980 of the Inter-American Foundation, an organization created by Congress to support innovative social and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Earlier, he had served as director of the Peace Corps in Colombia from 1967 to 1969. its board adopted a policy which established a base figure of $859,000 as the amount that could be spent from the endowment within a single year. The remainder was to be folded back into the endowment and permitted to grow. The base figure has been permitted to increase by 6V2 per cent each year. During the l 986-87 fiscal year, the Annapolis campus spent $1,086,000 of its endowment. Then, with a view to the quality of investments, the board decided to change managers and selected three firms. They were Manning and Napier, of Rochester, N.Y.; Harris and Associates, of Chicago, Ill., and Shufro, Rose and Ehrman, of New York, N.Y. In 1983-84 the Annapolis campus had employed the Texas firm of Fayez Sarofin and Company but decided not to continue its services. Sarofin continues to handle investments for Santa Fe. Mrs. Rhodes credited former board chairman, John H. Dendahl, Charles A. Nelson, vice-chairman, and Harriet Higgins, chairman of the board's Finance Committee, for the roles they had played in helping assure the larger endowment. Currently, by the end of the fiscal year on July I, the Annapolis endowment had reached $21,369,580. Despite its growth, Pre~ident Dyal estimated last fall that milli·ons more are needed in endowment money to meet St.John's needs, including $20-million in student aid, $6.5-million for the Graduate Institute, and $10million to permit the college to institute a planned first level increase in faculty salaries. s Eileen G. Marion, of Davidsonville, Md., will serve as assistant director of athletics on the Annapolis campus next year, Dean Thomas Slakey has announced. She will assist Michael Oink, who will devote a third of his teaching schedule to serving as athletic director. Mrs. Marion, who has taught physical education in Anne Arundel County public schools, holds a limited appointment that will end in May. During the academic year the campus will conduct a search for a new director to head St. John's program of intra-mural sports. Last year Roberta Rusch, bookstore manager, serving on a part-time basis, coled the program with Mr. Oink although she held the actual title of athletic director. Late last spring she concluded her service with a recommendation that the college empioy a full-time, professional director. In order to provide time for a thorough search, the college decided to name an assistant on a basis. A newly tenured tutor, Mr. not to be a candidate for athletic director since he scheduled for a sabbatical in 1988-89. Mrs. Marion holds a bachelor's education from West and a master's in cation from Morgan State University. In addition to referee experience, she has coached tennis and handball and taught cardio-pulminary resuscitation and first aid. TV By July, the number of viewers writing for transcripts of the St. John's segment of the television series, "Bill Moyers: In Search of the Constitution," totaled 365. The program filmed at St. John's and shown this spring featured Mortimer Adler in a lecture here and in a seminar with 13 students. Altogether, the series received requests for a total of 2,500 transcripts. Photographs of the Class of 1987 are available in the Alumni Office. Interested order to the should be made out to St. John's Please enclose your address. �el s ·s s udent is a s by DOROTHY KINSMAN When Lisa Liske was 12 years old, she made up her mind to become a cello soloist. As a result, the 22-vear-old St. John's Colleg~ freshman has· done "some very odd things at very odd times." For example, as a high school sophomore in Kent. Ohio. Miss Liske attended classes onl\ one da\ everv two weeks in l)rder to practice c~llo fi;e hours a day. She arranged to turn in all her homework and take her exams. When the school insisted on regular attendance the following year. Miss Liske dropped out. with her mother's permiss10n. at the age of 16. She moved to Warren, Ohio, and rented an apartment on her own to be near her cello teacher. She completed high school through correspondence courses. A few years ago, Miss Liske traveled around the United States lecturing and taping interviews with well-known musicians who had studied or performed with the noted cellist, the late Emanuel Feuermann. She was one of the organizers of the Feuermann Memorial Societv. Since enrolling at St. John's i~ February, Miss Liske continues her career as a cello teacher and performer. 'Tm not getting as much sleep as l used to." she confesses. "I just have to buckle down and do these things. If I'm disciplined. l can get enough done." Although small of stature, Miss Liske possesses an arresting presence. The first thing one notices is her hair. Light bown with a tinge of red. it falls to her knees. She r.as wide blue eyes etnd a clear, direct manner of speaking. as though she had edited out all the fuzziness of thought and self-consciousness before L)pening her mouth. Summing up her attitude toward her music, Miss Liske says that she and a folk musician with whom she frequently performs "have come to feel that it is a gift to each of us, something we have to be good stewards of, and that is deeply linked to our spiritual lives." The two women, both Quakers, have committed themselves to spending one Sunday morning a month visiting and playing for all the 35 Quaker meetings in Maryland. Virginia, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia which make up the Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Miss Liske studied with two teachers at the Juilliard School of Music in l\ew York ~nd att~nded the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore part time. With their emphasis on competition. she found the conservatories "not nurturing of musicianship,. After employment as a cellist in the Maryland Symphony, based in Hagerstown. Miss Liske was hired as an instructor for the District of Columbia Youth . re 1n r R. Cates by Taliaferro, who came to St. John's 50 years ago as a tutor in the first year of the New Program, died July 13 at Rocky Hill, N.J., where he had retired 15 years ago. He was 80. His death is the last o\ those faculty members who taught here in_1937. Mr. Taliaferro had been swimming in a neighbor's pool when he apparently weakened and ceased swimming. He was pulled from the pool, and his pulse revived, but he failed to regain consciousness and died later at a local hospital. A native of New York, Mr. Taliaferro .\as graduated in 1928 from the University of Virginia and then obtained a dip/umme / 1hilosofie from the University of Paris in 1932. In 1936 he received a doctorate from the University of Virginia. A student at Virginia of both Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, the program's first president and dean. he served in 1936-37 as a junior member with the Committee on the Liberal Arts at the Uni- PAGE 11 THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1987 Orche~tra. She was offered training in the Suzuki method of teach;ng stringed instruments to very young children. "Learnin~ about this method·changed my own attitude for the better," she says. "It _opened .up this amazintg thing about takmg part mother people's opening up to life." "On Tuesdays," Miss Liske continued, "l go directly from Euclid to Washington." She teaches in the District two days a week. In all she has 12 pupils, ages four to 16, three of whom come to Annapolis for lessons. A freelance cellist, Miss Liske performs at receptions. weddings and dinners as a soloist or with an ensemble. She is employed through a contractor. "I play music I've never seen before with people l don't know." She much prefers playing regularly with the same group, an experience she had at Peabody. Miss Liske traces her enrollment at St. John's to a sense that "it was time to do something else. "l 'm very wary of formal education," she says. "l wanted an education more th.m l wanted a degree. ! started looking around for a school that would offer me a_n education as \'/ell as a degree. The first time I came here, I knew this was the place I was looking for." I aw s egrees The Graduate Institute m Annapolis awarded 21 master's degrees in commencement exercises August 13 in which one of crsity of Chicago. where he also was an its graduates, Dr. Nicholas Capozzoli, ,1ss1stant professor. Annapolis neurologist and St. John's tutor, The following year, Mr. Taliaferro acdelivered the commencement address. companied them to St. John's where he The ceremony was held in the Great remained until 1943. From 1943-44 he was Hall with Thomas May, Graduate Instiassistant professor of meteorology at Hamtute director, presiding. President Dyal 1Jtc:m College and then joined Portsmouth presented the diplomas. _Pnory, a Benedictine Preparatory School Among the recipients were another m Portsmouth, R. l. physician, Annapolis psychiatrist Arthur He left there to join the faculty of the Warwick, who has completed the proUniversity of Notre Dame at South Bend gram in liberal arts patterned after St. Ind., where he taught from 1952-72 and John's undergraduate curriculum. was an associate professor of mathematTwo recipients were from foreign counics. At some point during his career, he tries: He Yixian, from Sichuan, China, and returned to St. John's to teach for a year. Mr. Taliaferro translated Ptolemy's Leo MacDonald from Ontario, Canada. The ceremony also marked the concluAlmagest and the first three books of Apolsion of the first year in which the ten-yearlonius' Conics. old program was on a year-round sche'iun iwd h\ his sister. Can Peebles dule. Previously, it was conducted only lived. Mr. I"ali~ferro wa~ with wlrnrn during the summer months. huried in Hollywood Cemetery in RichReceiving degrees were: 11ond. Memorial 12:ifts ma\ he made to the Ka~hleen Alberter, Johnstown, Pa.: 1{ocky Hill First Aid anct' Rescue Squad. Debbie BelL Philadelphia: Kevin BuckRocky HilL N.J. OX553. ley, Glen Burnie: Francis T. Cafarelli. Notre Dame, Ind.: Anna Cohen Philadelphia: Clare Merkle Fisher, Baltimore: W. Robert Howell, Jacksonville, Fla: year following graduation from the MasSusan Ince, Laguna Hills, Calif.: Sandra sachusetts Institute of Technology. S. Kern, Andalusia, Pa.: "More important than any complex_ Kathryn Kinzer, Annapolis: Florence equations or computer programs he himLeh~, New York, N.Y.: Kimberly Long, self developed were the young engineers Baltimore: John McKim, West River; and scientists he trained, encouraged, even Robert Moliterno, Houston, Tex; Jane cajoled towards excellence and profesPennington, Laurel: Randolph St. John, sional pride," the Vineyard Ga::ette states. !r., Camp Hill, Pa.: Sarah Steel, WashMr. Novak is survived by his wife, three ington Grove, Md., and John Monroe Wack, Jr., Bethesda. children, a brother and a sister. he Richard Novak: Engineer Richard A. Novak, '43, known internationally for his contributions to the science of the internal aerodynamics of aircraft engines, died April 9 at the age of 68. He was a resident of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. An engineer, Mr. Novak was employed primarily by the General Electric Company and Pratt and Whitney. He also operated his own consulting firm. Mr. Novak attended St. John's for a Ernest Cornbrooks: Physician New family duo There is nothing exceptional in husband-wife pairs among St. John's faculty members. Now the Annapolis campus i-s acquiring something new in familial relationships: its first father-in-law and sonin-law combination. John Verdi was married May 30 to Eleanor Kurs, A '80, daughter of Louis Kurs. in a ceremony at the college. Mr. Ku rs has been a tutor since 1964 and Mr. Verdi, who formerly taught in Santa Fe, has been at St. John's since 1975. Until her marriage. Mrs. Verdi was serving as an art director for a New York publishing firm. The Verd is are residing at 1966 Fairfax Road in Annapolis. Dr. Ernest J. Cornbrooks Jr., '31, who practiced gynecology in Baltimore for 47 years, died June 27 in Baltimore after a short illness. He was 78. At St. John's Dr. Corn brooks played on championship lacrosse teams in 1930 and 1931. He was team captain in 1930 an_d a member of the World Championship Lacrosse Team in 193 l. A 1935 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, he was associat~ professor of gynecology at the University of Maryland from 1954 until his retirement. During World War II, he served as a commander in the Navy in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. Survivors include his wife. two daughters, and six grandchildren. Three join campus Three members of the Class of l 987 have been named to positions on the Annapolis campus. . Paul ~nderson has been appointed assistant director of admissions for alumni activities, succeeding Helen Colston A '82 who will begin work toward a ~aster·~ degree in mathematics at the University of Maryland. He also will serve as resident associate. Sallie Fine has been named admissions representative, succeeding Jeremy A. Lauer, A '86, who has been made assistant director of admissions. Catherine Irvine is the new daytime reader services librarian. She succeeds J~ffrey Wilson, A '85, who begins work this fall toward a doctorate in philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta. ew gallery t be central (Continued from P. 1) than St. John's Great Hall, it will be immediately adjacent to a new entrance to the Key Auditorium and Mellon Hall. As one enters, the gallery will be on the right and the auditorium and lobby on the left. ln contrast to the out-of-the-way, converted laboratory room on the second floor of Mellon Hall, which has served as a somewhat primitive gallery for the past l l_ years, the Elizabeth Mitchell Art Gallery will be easily accessible, and visits there a~e expec.ted to increase markedly, especially dunng the hour it is open preceding St. John's customary Friday lecture. The gallery will form the centerpiece of a complex of related rooms. Adjacent to it will be a windowless room which will enable St. John's to exhi?it material such as old prints or f~bnc that are sensitive to natural daylight. Should the college wish, Mr. Blistein said two exhibits could be run simultaneously. Measuring -l 8 by 24 feet in size, that room also can be used for art preceptor1als and to show art slides. There also will be an office for Mr. Blistein, who oversees the gallery. that is expected to serve as a focal point for all art activities on campus. An_other room will be built for the preparation, storage and construction of exhibits. "T_he location of the gallery represents a vast improvement," Mr. Blistein said. "ITS ENVIRONMENTAL controls as they affect humidity, lighting, and security will be much superior, and it will enable the college to mount shows that we couldn't even talk about in the past because we were unable to meet the criteria of the lending organizations. "The gallery will be much more flexible in terms of internal space. As com pared to the_ rigid accordian shape of the old gallery, which was built around laboratory benches, we will have complete flexibility." ln addition to these rooms a new secured room is being prepared in the basement of Mellon, with temperature and humidity controls, where contributions of art to the college can be received. It also will serve as an archival area. Plans developed by Charles H. Bohl of the Annapolis architectural firm of Weller Fishback & Bohl call for the gallery t~ have 14-foot-high ceilings. The room will be designed with full length windows that form the four corners. providing open bays for natural light and for open views of the campus. ~ r. Boh.l said the gallery will be e_qmpped with_ museum quality tracking lighting that will offer maximum flexibility. Controlling the lighting will be two types of curtains which will slide into concealed pockets, one a light diffusing scrim and the second a curtain making possible total black-outs. Altogether the gallery will measure 34 by 47 feet and contain l,600 square feet. Dyal on board President William M. Dyal, Jr., has been named to the Board of Visitors of the University of Pittsburgh for a three-year term. ln addition, St. John's Annapolis president, who for the past two years has been a member of the board of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF, has been elected to its executive committee. Mike takes a tumble Harold Michaelis may appear to have a little less concern for himself than he does for the security of the Annapolis campus. Chief Michaelis is alive and well and back walking the campus after falling two stories June l while he was reroofing his house in Crownsville. He had been working in t~e rain, trying to get the job done, when slippery shingles caused his tumble. His fall resulted in six broken ribs on his right side and a punctured lung. �PAGE 12 THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1987 Alumni to cele rate 5 original group, Well before 1937 Mortimer Adler had become involved in the thinking that led to St. John's College's New Program. His own role would appear crucial in its formulation. It was from Mr. Adler, along with Philip N. Youtz, that the program's first dean, Scott Buchanan, "got the idea of using great books, discussed in seminar fashion, as a means for liberating the soul from prejudices and ill-conceived opinions," according to J. Winfree Smith's history of the New Program. During the 1920s in New York, Mr. Adler joined with Buchanan and Richard McKeon, then at Columbia, to hold conversations about the liberal arts as they had been practiced in the Middle Their was not to what had understood but to use "the forms the universities and filcontext of modern generations of a family whose lives have been bound closely to St. John's during the fifty-year period, is in charge of alumni observances of the anniversary. Homecoming seminars also will be related to the anniversary with alumni reading selections from Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, J. S. Mill, R. M. Hutchins, and Montaigne. (One correction in The Repuhlic readings as announced in the homecoming invitation. The assignment is Book 5 [472 "We are inquiring into the nature of absolute justice" ... ] Through 7 [535 to the end]). Class reunions also will span a period of fifty years, ranging from the l 0th reunion to the 60th reunion. These will include: Tenth Reunion: Class of '77, after lecture rock Coffee open to luncheon, hall; Ed Sixtieth Reunion: Class of '27 luncheon, 12 noon Saturday, home of chairman, Elmer Jackson, 219 Claude St. Other events on Saturday will include the annual meeting of the Alumni Association at 10:30 a.m. in the Conversation Room, a buffet luncheon as 12:30 p.m., and the alumni-student soccer classic at 4 p.m. Following the homecoming banquet there will be an "at home" at IO p.m. in the Great Hall. The president's brunch at 11 a.m. Sunday at the home of President and Mrs. Dyal will conclude the weekend. His lecture Auditorium will in its series of concerts scheduled for the 1987-88 season" Mr. Zuckerman will gram at 7:30 performance Rockville. A Mr. Zuckerman well known for his authoritative volume on Wagner and as a mt1s1c:oH)g1si: When Robert Frost wrote, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall," he thought he was speaking for all of us. But he didn't know Frederico Vigil. Vigil is in love with walls - and the bigger the better. To him they don't suggest boundary or confinement, but challenge and possibility. Drawn to art as a sixth-grader, Mr. Vigil has been drawing and painting (mostly in acrylics) all his life, and his painting of the burning of Zozobra was chosen for the poster that celebrated l 982's Fiesta de Santa Fe. But it was a 1984 fellowship from the Santa Fe College of the Arts that revealed to him his true vocation, when he went to California to study with two apprentices of a master of the ancient art of fresco Diego Rivera. "Since then," Mr. Vigil said in a recent interview, 'Tve been having a passionate experience with fresco." During these three years, that passion has proved remarkably fruitful in gracing the lives of New Mexicans. a cocktail hour v'"'~"''uu•L<J<. Great HalL Van Doren, A '47, part of three Van Doren, and Allan Hoffman, committee. Fiftieth Reunion· Class of '37, cocktails and room, 5:30 p.m. Friday; chairman. Because right now he's in love with another wall - it's in the Student Union at St. John's College - and he's itching to get back there for one more look, to get back to work. It's the only thing he can think about, talk about now: and it's not hard to see it's a consuming passion. Mr. Vigil's most recent commission found its root some months ago. Michael Riccards, when he was inaugurated as president, said that he thought the college should "come down from the mountaintop" and develop a more active relationship with the three great cultures of our community. Mr. Vigil read that article and, he says, "l thought, what better way to communicate with all peoples here, and draw them closer together, than through art? At St. John's they study the classics, and fresco is classic, an ancient art that goes back to the Greeks and the Egyptians." He wrote to Mr. Riccards and, after some correspondence, they met to discuss Mr. Vigil's ideas for the l 9-by-7 foot fresco, a dynamic design that represents the genesis and union of Hispanic, native American and Anglo cultures. Their fusion, symbolically and graphically, by the sign for the DNA molecule, is Vigil's innovative conception. President Riccards said this week that he finds Mr. Vigil's design "marvelous, artistically and imaginatively. I think we're lucky to have an artist of this talent to capture for us the great traditions of the Southwest." AS DELICATE AS is the one art, and as sturdy and enduring the other, Japanese sumi-ink painting and fresco share a common element in their demands on the artist. Sumi painters must know with perfect certainty where their loaded brush will move before touching it to the highly absorbent rice paper that registers. irrevocably, the lightest touch. The luxury of oil painters to correct their mistakes is denied them. The same is true for fresco artists, who work, section by section, on a wet wall that drinks in the pure pigment they must Mr. Vigil's first fresco commission came from his alma mater, St. Michael's High School, where an 18-by-9 foot wall portrays St. Michael's conquest of Lucifer. A later work of his there features St. John the and a history of the Christian Brothers. Other Vigil frescos, most of them with religious or historical themes, may be seen at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in La Joya and Espanola and, here in Santa Fe, in the chapel at Ae Pi (Airport Road) and the meditation room at the College of Santa Fe, where he earned his bachelor's BUT MR. an intense man is persuaded only with difficulty to talk about his finished work, or about the dozens of powerful canvases stacked against and hanging on the walls of his studio, a Canyon Road adobe where he and his seven brothers and sisters grew up. Frederico Virgil works on his Peterson Hall fresco. rhe asociation board also nominated David Rea, A '49, for a second three-year term. Nominations are to the association's election process. use. In addition, speed is smce each prepared section of wall must be painted before it begins to or the impression will be lost. The painstaking process of fresco begins with the meticulous lime-plastering of the wall: five coats of plaster 11;4 to 3 inches think are applied, with a five to ten day wait for drying after each coat. Mr. Vigil gratefully acknowledges the volunteered help, in this patient labor, of his old friend and St. Michael's classmate, C. A. Tsosie, who's presently at work restoring the church at Picuris. He attributes his own skill in plastering to the many hours he's spent helping family and friends build their New Mexico adobes. The wall at St. John's is ready now for the eight to 12 hour days - from before dawn till late afternoon - Vigil will spend executing his fresco. The design has been blocked out, panel by panel, from cartoons drawn in his studio, and this week he's ready to paint. Students at St. John's have been watching with fascination his work-in-progress. Ar.d doubtless, many more will be gathering to see this more dramatic phase, when color and form are laid on and images begin to unfold. IN KEEPING WITH his and President Riccards' conviction that the fresco, in addition to expressing the of our cultures, should be an active drawing us together, Mr. will welcome quiet observers, whose he may call upon, while he's at work. "There's always more from fusing than from Mr. Vigil says. And, "!J'-·'-'""'"l"of a woman giving will the center of the fresco, and of the molecule that unites all the elements of his design, he affirms that "We all share one genetic makeup; we all come from the same place. That's an part of what I want to say." Gazing at the St. John's unmistakable humility and ~ .. L·~·i-"n"J"' Vigil says, 'Tm just happy every that I'm able to be doing what rm doing. It's a happiness that's infectious. Come and see for yourself. � 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 1 1 1 1 1 1 !1 ~nr1r1 1 1 r1 f1'1i 1111111111111111 3 1696 01138 1322 TE EPO Volume Issue 5 June 1987 Md" and Santa Fe,, New Program reaching SOth year Muse t1ite · Slakey o 'be r 1 ""'·""""'""'the SL John's College class Leonard called man "'the µ,;:i.;1 «.:>AL'-' 0!J earth, and a bad paras1te at because he destrovs those on which he must deoend. dean and tutor spoke on mterc1ep1ende1!1CV of all living organ~ isms at commencement exercises under Tree on the Annapolis campus. of c by DOROTHY KINSMAN Jubilant teammates hoisted First Classman Rob Calhoun of ElDorado, Ark.; on their shoulders April 26 at 6:30 p.m. He had just completed the final stroke of the third and final game of the 1987 St. John's-Naval Academy croquet tournament in the shadow of the Liberty Tree. Despite their defeat, Johnnies can take heart from the fact that they lead Navy three to two over the five years the tournament has been played. And while all but two members of the Navy team were commissioned this year, the entire St. John's contingent will be back, thirsting for reveng~ in 1988. Shortly after I p.m., Mrs. Eliot Bryant of Washington, sponsor of the Academy team, and Bryce Jacobsen, former St. John's athletic director and tutor emeritus, knocked out the first balls. Two (Continued on P. 4) "Has not the time come for admit his . working with nature, cease bemg a Miss Leonard asked. become a offiPresident William M. at his first c.ommenccment since Jresident of St. John's last year, conferred bachelor or arts degrees on 64 graduates. In addition, five received master of arts degrees from che Graduate Institute of Liberal Education. The silver medal, awarded by the Board of Visitors and Governors for top academic honors, went to Ray Andre Wakefield of Minneapolis, Minn. The prize for the best senior essay was shared by Catherine Mary Irvine of Pine, Ariz., and fohn Paul Sullivan of Alexandria, Va. Chosen by the class as their commencement speaker, Miss Leonard pointed out that man's view of his relationship to the world around him has changed. Nevertheless he "still considers himself to be superior to the other organisms and frequently acts as though they do not exist or are placed on earth for him to do with as he pleases. Man, the individual, certainly thinks of himself as an independent, selfcontained entity. But is he? "Lewis Thomas refers to man as bieng 'embedded in nature.' Man is never actually alone," Miss Leonard continued. "He is surrounded by and inhabited by countless microorganisms. Microorganisms are everywhere - in the air, in the water, in (Continued on P. 9) The Annapolis campus will reconstruct the music suite of Mellon Han as part of an extensive program of summer renovation that wilt begin four months before the college breaks ground for Mellon's new wing. Biggest partof the work will be to ..flip" the two music tutorial rooms from the St. John's Street side of the building to the quieter, inner campus side. They will occupy the site of the present music library and music practice rooms. Jeri Rhodes, treasurer, said a larger music library will be built in the area of the former classrooms where a harpsicho,rd practice room and two other practice rooms also will be built. · In addition, two new practice rooms will be constructed in the basement of lvkUon to supplernent those on the first floor and the one recently constructed behind the stage of the Key Auditorium. A £rouo of new rnoms was carved out stage in work be1rnn last thost: who will William and a~robic groups. The will gain new costume storspace and a sel · ln addition. \vill have a new set of from stage to rnoms. Kn the past reached rid or On new wooden floors will be for another behind stage room which will be used for dance and aerobic classes. Because of the construction work both in the area of the music rooms and in that of a new elevator at the western end of Mellon, Mrs. Rhodes said that the second floor of Mellon will be sealed off this summer. The elevator will be instaHed between two restrooms near the pendulum pit, not to assist uauun.. ac~~''"'" (Continued on P, 5) For St. John's College, next fail will mark a major landmark, The New Program, which introduced a ulum considered revolutionary by some in 1937, is no longer new but reaching' a mature, richly experienced fifty years. There will be celebrations on campus that will include the inauguration of President William M. Dyal, Jr., while all over America alumni this spring have begun reading some of the seminal writings important in the program's founding. The New Program is described by Dean Thomas J. Slakey as unique to St. John's, and to a few colleges which have to some extent followed its lead, in its complete destruction of the departmental model and the use of great books to reorganize the curriculum. ''Teaching by discussion in small classes is not unique to St. John's, but a ,,sion in which students look to an and to each other, rather than primanly to the teacher, is, alas, aH too rare in schools :mvwhere and at any level," the dean of SL Annapolis campus believes. Since 1937, the program has stabilized and grown stronger, expanded to a second campus in Santa Fe, admitted women, Contim11>ci Orll P, ieave from the Annapolis campus at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, Allanbrook will return to the college mid-summer as assistant dean. President William M. Dyal, announced the SL John's tutor ceed Barbara Leonard, who leaves after serving as assistant dean for 36 years. In assuming that position, she will be from her scholarly work in music of the year to student life at St. John's. Wyatt will continue as St. John's other assistant dean. (Continued on p. 7) .. l St. College, This year marks the 300th year of the publication of Newton's Principia, the great, revolutionary work that probably did more than any other to set modern physics on its way. Not many copies of this formidable and difficult tome are sold, according to a New York Times article that estimates the number at less than 700 each year. · If that is so, St. John's College must be responsible for a substantial proportion of that figure. More than WO students on St. John's Annapolis campus were introduced to the Principia this year as part of the junior mathematics and laboratory program, and more volumes were sold to the 60 juniors on the Santa Fe campus. "Newton was the first to propose and substantiate a mathematical theory as applying to all matter in the universe," St. John's College tutor Curtis Wilson ex- l ? $ 's where plained the reason this work is included in St. John's all-required curriculum. "Before Newton's time, a number of mechanical theories had been proposedtheories attempting to account for the phenomena in terms of matter in motion - but none having exact mathematical consequences. Newton's theory of universal gravitation had the-Oistinction of implying exact mathematical results that could be derived and tested." Mr. Wison, who has led a faculty study group on Newton and who will be lecturing ori Newton at Cambridge University this summer during a conference celebrating the Principia '.s tercentenary, said that not all the 626-page book is read at St. John's. Rather, the parts St. John's students read are those that have been most influ(Continued on P. 10) �R 1928 Louis l. Snyder has been inducted into the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame and presented with its "Michael" award, sponsored by the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Author of 60 books, Mr. emeritus professor of history at versity of New York and general the Anvil series of original naoerbacks in the field of a previously all-white college or university in Maryland. 1961 Martha Wyatt, first woman appointed to a judgeship in Anne Arundel County, was honored by the Women's Alliance of Maryland at the Gallery of Stars fundraiser in ApriL She was among five outstanding state recognized for their contributions to women and women's services pro- 1938 m From R. . of Md., comes a nice Commission for Women for visitors to the Great Hall who may from l to 1984. She a1so was co1 themselves hard to determine the founder of lhe Women's Law Center of ,r1~·,,t 1 t" of some the portraits hanging Anne Arundel and served as its there. nno·«1ni:>n r from 1978 to 1981 Mr. Davis has sent President Dyal a The alliance cited her as a champion of brass name plate for the portrait of his the rights of women, the poor, the disadgreat-grandfather, the Rev. John McDow~ vantaged, and the handicapped. Among ell Leavitt, who was president between the legislation in which she has been 1880 and 1884. It has been affixed to the involved are the state's rape laws, the portrait by George M. Steels. enactment of the Protection from DomesMr. Davis also sent a reminder of still tic Violence Act, and the addition of child one more celebration for St. John's. The abuse as a ground for divorce. 200th anniversary of the actual start of Martha is the wife of Assistant Dean classes will occur on November 11, 1989. Malcolm Wyatt. Three years ago the college marked the Harrison Sheppard was on the pro200th anniversary of its Charter of 1784. gram for a symposium and retreat sponAround .the corner in 1996 awaits the sored last month by the Hellenic Law 300th anniversary of the college as it dates . Society of Northern California. An attorfrom King William's School. ney with the Federal Trade Commission, 1948 Mr. Sheppard participated in a panel disMore details about the Distinguished cussion on "The Hellenic Roots of the Executive Service A ward mentioned in United States Constitution." He is a forthe February story The Reporter carried mer member of the St. John's College about Vernon E. Derr, director of the Board of Visitors and Governors. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad1964 ministration's Environmental Research David Jordan, who is now teaching at Laboratories since 1983. the University of Virginia, recently spoke Given annually by the Senior Execubefore the Richmond Society of the Artives Association/ Professional Develop-· chaeological Institute of America. His ment League, the award recognizes career topic: ''Voodoo Dolls and Curse-tablets in executives in federal services. Classical Athens." During Vernon's leadership, ERL has An expert on superstitions and magic of developed numerous research programs ancient Greece, Dr. Jordan is editing for including major climate studies involving publications the curse-tablets the Greeks both dynamics of the oceans and chemical dropped into wells and tombs, the closest charges in the atmosphere. The Senior places they could find to the underground, Executives Association is composed of in their efforts to wreak vengeance. 7,000 present and former executives who manage federal agencies or bureaus. 1967 1952. David A. C. Moore and his wife, ChrisMartin Dyer was away from his desk tiane, of Denver announce the birth of and engaged in the pleasures of gardening Cornelia Wingfield Moore on September 28. David is director of HMO Colorado, when we caught him the other evening. To and Mrs. Moore an attorney with the bring you up to date: Martin is living in State Attorney General's Office. Baltimore where he is an active community leader .and attorney for the Medicare The Rev. Clark Robenstine has reand Medicade programs. ceived the Myrtle Wreath Award from the Greater Washington Area Chapter of HaHe is on the board for Young Audiendassah for his ''continued efforts and ces of Maryland, which raises money for commitment to the Washington communconcerts in public schools. He formerly served on the advisory board of the Uniity through his leadership of the Interfaith Conference." Mr. Robenstine is executive versity of Maryland, Baltimore campus, director of the conference. and has been a member of the Advisory The award is given annually to four Committee of Baltimore's City Planning persons for major ·contributions in the and Housing Administration. Currently, he is very active with the Windsor Hill fields of education, the arts, medicine, literature, journalism or social welfare. A Neighbors, a neighborhood association reception following presentation of Mr. whch is attempting to prevent the closing down of public schools in its area. Robenstine's award was held at the Embassy of Israel. His daughter, Jennifer, has completed her junior year at Harvard, where she is 1975 studying architecture. ("I tried to get her Christopher H. Hoving is an associate editor for the legal editing firm of Pike to come to St. John's, but she wanted a school in a large, urban area.") His wife and Fischer in Bethesda, Md., and is anteaches at Calvert Hall, a private school xious to hear from Johnnies in the Washingfor boys. ton area. Footnote to this entry: Martin made Following graduation from law school in 1978, Chris wor~d for law firms in history for St. John's 35 years ago when he became the first black to be graduated at Ohio and Minneapolis. The ABA Journal St. John's and the first to be at published two articles Mr. Hoving last on the "baby doe" the Supreme Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence nnP:'.llr::lTl<'P in the Journal led Bems, Betsy Blume, John Christensen, to his being to review a book for Howard Zeiderman, Elliott Zuckerman, Trial and to write a of a new trea~ri1ll'i~1~1'11 board. tise related to health law. Reporter is published "In a ri:>~.f'.::i1rrn and An1ruir>«llli!1i. MD se<;u<ms of law students 1n11.1Pr•cnu Law School in Va." classes are and do not conflict with his duties as a editor. Annapolis, Md. is _ USPS 018-750 P. Alumni President David Dobreer chats with Harriet Visitors and Governors durina a break at the board's Minnin~ Keith Harvey photo Workshop for chap The Alumni Association Board of Directors has scheduled a four-hour workshop for all chapter presidents beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 18, in Santa Fe. Focus will be on what chapters are doing and how they can improve their programs along with information to assist new presidents. The workshop will be open to all interested alumni. Plans outlined by Christopher Nelson, SF '70, call for a welcome by association President David Dobreer, A '44, and a series of remarks by board members. During the afternoon participants wilJ be acquainted with documents relating to the charter, bylaws, tax exempt status of chapters, with what the national organization is doing to support chapters, with chapter activities as presidents report on their most successful and least successful events, with alumni communications, continuing education, and with alumni activities at a secondary school level. Betsy Blume, A '75, director of alumni activities, will describe what services chapters can expect from their offices. SJAA to offers The St. John's College Alumni Association is establishing two $500 scholarships - one for each campus - that will be awarded during the 1.987-88 academic year. The association board voted at its April meeting in Annapolis to allocate $5,000 for the purpose with the association augmenting that sum by annual contributions. Action was taken on the motion of olarsh · Christopher Nelson, SF '70, association treasurer, who recommended that the scholarships be eventuallv increased to $1,000 if income fund makes that possible. Scholarships are to be awarded on the basis of need. A committee Nelson is to decide awards prior to the 19 meeting of the association board in Santa Fe. writes o Donah You can't tell a book by its cover. If you should happen to spot the paperback, Devotion, by Daniel Westerley on a bookstore rack labeled ''Horror;" you could be misled on two counts. First, Daniel Westerley is actually Bairj Donabedian, A '75. And he categorizes his first published novel not as a horror story but as a "romantic melodrama." "I would say the book has elements of the supernatural, but there is no terror," he says. "There's more an element of wonder." · . .,h · - '"' , Mr.. Donabedian attributes the'dassification "9fhis'n'qvel,p!1bli:shed by Pocket Books, fo the popularity of die hbrror genre and adds that some dealers are marketing it as "general fiction." Although Devotion is his first novel to be published, Mr. Donabedian has writ- . z ten two others, "unpublished and deservedly so." Now well into his next novel, Mr. Donabedian is winding up requirements for a doctorate in business administration at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He plans to teach that subject on the graduate level. . After graduating from St. John's, Mr. Donabedfan worked for two publishers, Dell and Bantam, "doingjust about everything" including story editing. When asked for advice for beginning fiction writers, Mr. Donabedian mentions "dramatic construction." "See scenes as drama," he explains, "and describe them. Find something intense to put down." He likens learning to write to learning to play the clarinet. It takes about five years to acquire the technique. . . z rs Fourteen St.John's alumni, principally · one career were grouped with an alumnus in their field of interest. members of the Alumni Association seniors to some: of the best resjoined two members of the town were Mr. Nelson, Sharon of Visitors and Governors, were David hosts in at a series of dinners for members the senior class that their described as "'marvelous.,. acc1ua.mt them with matters as well as to introduce them to alumni themselves, the son, dinners represented still idea of vin. SF who was able The dinners were assistance of Sallie effect several the senior, and the meeting of the Alumm Association Hostess. Similar dinners are In a of instances the dinners served as career sessions as planned next January when the Alumni Santa Fe. students who had interest in Association board meets �D~ft~. J t Brigham Bechtel, 25, Annapolis sophomore, has been awarded a $28,000 schothe Harrv S. Truman Scholara Truman he will receive $7,000 during both his junior and senior year at St. John's College and a similar amount for his first two years of graduate school. Selected from among 252 semi_-finaiists, BRIGHAM Mr. Bechtel was among I05 students to receive the scholarship. Altogether 1, 149 were nominated by colleges and universities. The Truman scholarships, made on the basis of merit, go to young people planning graduate studies leading to careers in government. Mr. Bechtel plans to obtain a master's degree from Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mr. Bechtel is a graduate of Old Mill Senior High School, where he played football and was active in student government, acting in a liaison capacity between the regional student government organization and the Board of Education. fallowing his graduation from high school, he served for five years with the Navy, leaving with the rank of second class petty officer. During his service he graduated from the Defense Language Institute at Monterey, Calif., and became a Russian interpreter. He served one year in Turkey and aboard three submarines and six surface ships. A Naval Academy alumnus, deeply interested in the classics, whom Mr. Bechtel met in Turkey, persuaded him that St. John's was the right school for him to attend. At St. John's, Mr. Bechtel has been founder and head of St. John's Friendship Club, an organization devoted to furthering friendship with the Naval Academy. He will be married to Mary Elizabeth Holm, of Edgewater, a kindergarten teacher. Charles Bell tapes Nine of Charles G. Bell's Symbolic History series are available on VHS video tapes for $75 each. Available are: Nature: the Perception Field; Greece: The Tragic Myth and Deed; The Search for Rome; Ars Nova: 14th Century; 1500: Explosive Balance; Michelangelo: Storm Center; Faust: Creative War of Spirits; Face and Landscape: A Resume, and Atomic Age. In another form, all the shows may be acquired as slides accompanied by cassette tapes. The cost is $150 or $125 when four or more are purchased. Most involve 80 slides. Interested persons may write Mr. Bell, a member of the Santa f e faculty, at 1260 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, N.M. 87501, or telephone him at (505) 983-6035. Reprinted from The New Mexican Michael P. Riccards officially became president of St. John's College at Santa Fe in a ceremony combining the traditions of New Mexico's tri-cultural heritage and the pomp of academia. In a deliberate procession opening and closing the outdoor ceremony, blackrobed college representatives and tutors stood out against the threatenim~ dark skies May 2as they marched the stone steps leading to where Riccards was sworn in. Also participating in the procession were the Members of the Fiesta Council, clad in traditional Spanish costumes, and the Eagle Dancers from San Juan Pueblo. One of the highlights of the ceremony · came when the dancers performed the Eagle Dance as a blessing to St. John's and the college community. · Saturday's celebration was designed not only for the college, but also for the community. "New Mexico is a state of great beauty and powerful technology, but it is also a state of grinding poverty," Riccards said. "There is too much of that, too longlasting, too scarring." Colleges cannot be a substitute for what Riccards called "the successes of the family, the neighborhood, the republic." Nor can they be "a substitute for common action," Riccards said. "Universities are not surrogates for other institutions. From you, children should learn values and truths." It was a day of congratulations for Riccards, including a letter from President Ronald Reagan, read by Lt. Gov. Jack Stahl. The president congratulated St. John's for the leadership it has shown in the renewal of liberal arts education in the United States. Mayor Sam Pick also congratulated Riccards, reading a proclamation that declared May 2 as "President Michael P. Riccards Day" in Santa Fe. The proclamation outlined Riccards' experience, which includes a doctorate in political science from Rutgers University in New Jersey, service as provost at Hunter College in New York City and a stint as Michael Riccards, right, is sworn in as president by Board Chairman James Frame. Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. "I'm getting impressed reading this," Pick said, stopping in mid-sentence as he read the proclamation. "I know this is a great day in your life and in the life of St. John's College." James H. frame, chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, ad min- 16 students help in public school program As volunteers, 16 Annapolis students take time from their reading of great books, on which their curriculum is based, to conduct seminars on. Junior Great Books for elementary school children. The St. Johnnies go to West Annapolis Elementary School one day a week. Some of the students tutor children individually while others lead discussions of books the youngsters have been assigned to read. ln all, 120 children benefit from the program. Charles Magnum, Silver Spring, Md., freshman, is student coordinator. "I love it," he says. "It's trying at times. Kids are kids, but I've always looked up to my teachers. I'm putting myself in their place, learning what it's like to be a teacher .... Teaching, he adds, is "one of many things I'm looking into" as a career. Initiated two years ago, the program is a project of the St. John's Circle K Club, sponsored by Kiwanis International. The organization also conducts blood drives and participated in a walkathon to raise money for cystic fibrosis research,. Mr. Magrium plans to continue the program with West Annapolis next year and possibly to extend it to other schools. Kathleen Cooper of the West Annapolis P.-T. A is volunteer coor:dinator for the program, and Barbara San Gabino is principal of the school. In addition to Mr. Magnum, the following St. John's freshmen are participating: Susan Kruger, Middleton, Mass; Henry Castner, Annapolis; John Obenauer, Gib- 3 sonburg, Ohio; Karl Meyer, Cincinnati, Ohio; Richard Smith, Tonawanda, N. Y.; Johanna Wilson, Quantico, Va.; Vicky Sills, West Palm Beach, Fla.; Christopher Gillen, Hutisford, Wis.; Andrew Pausley, Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Alexandra Edelglass, Suffern, N. Y.; Nancy Person, Bedford, Mass.; Sara Larson, Kingston, Wash.; Ben Scheidel, Mankato, N.M.; and Stephanie Daw, Santa Fe, N.M. A senior, Deirdre McGlynn of Fairfax, Va., also takes part. Miss Sills is president of the St. John's Circle K Club. Campus adopting early semester The Annapolis campus has adopted a new academic schedule that will make it possible to end its first semester before Christmas. In moving to an "early semester" system, it will be adopting a college year similar to that for the Santa Fe campus. It will be one that will facilitate transfers be tween the two campuses as well as make i easier for students to transfer the seconc semester to other schools. In addition to being more practical to administer, college officials believe the academic program will make more effective use of the two weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas .. St. John's will open before Labor Day on those days when Labor Day arrives after September 4. istered the oath of office to Riccards and presented him with a President's Medallion cast at the Institute for American Indian Arts. The celebration continued into the afternoon with a lunch, more dancing by San Juan Pueblo Dancers and performances by Alma de Santa Fe and Ruben Romero. Bolotin dividing teaching time by JIMMY McCONNELL, SF '88 Santa Fe tutor David. Bolotin will divide his time in an unusual way during the coming academic year. He will leave Santa Fe on Tuesdays for the University of Chicago to return home on Thursdays. At Chicago, his two titles will be visitin~ professor at the John M. Olin Center for the Study of the Theory and Practice of Democracy and visiting associate professor of the Committee on Social Thought. · Mr. Bolotin will teach the Odyssey, lhe Republic, and Sir Thomas More's Utopia. He anticipates his classes will be like preceptorials. "I'm looking forward to teaching books I like at a pace I like." He expects around 20 students, and the course may tend toward either discussion or to lecture, depending upon the students. "Quite a few Johnnies attend the Committee on Social Thought," Mr. Bolotin added, "but the memory of the great books days at the University of Chicago is dimming." Mr. Bolotin was asked to teach in Chicago by Allan Bloom, Santa Fe's May commencement speaker. He will be on leave from St. John's. Dean Slakey gives talk St: Jnhn 's College Dean Thomas J. Slakey spoke recently at the Whitney Young College of Kentucky State University at Frankfort. Mr. Slakey was on leave from St. John's to serve for two-and-a-half years a:s the first dean of the college, founded m 1983 with a two-year program modeled after St. John's curriculum. �4 THE REPORTER JUNE 1987 ' by DOROTHY KINSMAN President William M. Dyal, Jr., summed uo his impressions of his first St. Academy croquet tourna26 as "a refreshing athletic e with real in of fun rather than in an atmos"'"'""'""'"'' bribery and "I admire the Johnnies willingness to tackle something ljke this at a critical time in the academic year," he added, referring to the usual spring pressures. The day, made to be enjoyed, dawned crystal clear and breezy after a spell of cloudy, rainy weather. New leaves and freshly mown grass sparkled in the sunlight. Although temperatures remained in the 60s, several women students were inspired to don bathing suits. The Academy team arrived in "yachting dress Baker": service dress blue jackets, crisp white summer pants and black evening ties. In contrast, the Johnnies, both spectators and players, were clad in an assortment of eye-catching attire. Polity President Simon McNabb's black felt hat was adorned with orange and black feathers. Over a red sweatsuit, the Cohasset, Mass., junior wore red, orange and black "hot pants" patterned with a flame design and an orange T-shirt inscribed "I did it." The message apparently referred to an expedition to the Academy Yard in the early hours before the tournament. He and Brigham Bechtel of Millersville, Md., a sophomore and six-year Navy veteran, "tarred and feathered" a statue of Bill I, the goat who was the Academy's first mascot. Although they used a water-based black paint rather than real tar, the students report that they were charged with defacing government property and are to appear in court September 8. Contestant Anthony Nyberg, sophomore, wore a T-shirt similar to Mr. McNabb's with black shorts, a straw hat and a single white glove. Referee Bryce Jacobsen, former athletic director, was his usual natty self in a straw hat, white pants, and blue and white striped shirt with white collar. From his trademark collection of wild ties, he selected a pleasantly reserved, if still bow tie for this occasion. The outfits soliciting the most "oohs" and "aahs" were worn by seven-monthold twins Sarita and Maria Christensen. Their mother, Financial Aid Director Caroline Christensen, made just in time for the matching white T-shirts marked and "Go St. John's" Admissions Director John Christensen was on hand to take his turns pushing his double stroller. young member of the college comrnumt:y the afternoon was 13-month-okl Bishop, daughter of Vice President and Mrs. Jeffrey Bishop. The next her picture appeared in lhe Baltimore In addition to representatives of area media, a photographer and reporter from Sports Illustrated covered the event. A National Geographic photographer was busily shooting pictures to submit for an article about Annapolis. Impromptu cheers occasionally drowned out the Vivaldi concerti emanating from· the St. John's stereo set. Some samples: "Two, four, six, eight! Now we 're going to contemplate." "Old Navy we will throttle, Because we've read more Aristotle!" "We don't speak Latin! We don't know Greek! Our poems don't rhyme, And we like to drive ships!" .. Aristotle, Socrates, who are they? Airplanes, submarines and croquet!" Cries of "Well struck!" rang out following particularly skillful shots by Navy players. . "Cut their budget!" countered the Johnnies. To top off the long afternoon, Annapolis Mayor Dennis Callahan presented the ornate Annapolis Cup to the Academy team. The cup is permanently on display at the Little Campus Restaurant, which donated the trophy in 1983. "There's good news and good news," the mayor told the dwindling crowd. He pointed out that while Navy won, St. John's-still leads the series. The mayor is understandably partisan. His son, Shaun, now stationed in Norfolk, was captain of the Midshipmen's team in 1984 and 1985, the only other year the Academy won. Arms entwined, the victorious teammates sang a barbershop style rendition of "The Navy Blue and Gold." Then, with handsh;;ikes all around, they gave three re~o1,mding cheers for St. John's. ). · Lontinued from P. I) games got underway simultaneously. with three players on each team. had Two and a half hours later, defeated St. John's in one court, the college was well on its way to victory in the other. In fact, when the third St. John's player hit the final post, several Mids were stuck less than halfway around the court. The winning team consisted of Rama Madhu, Rochester, N. Y., junior; and Anthony Nyberg, East Lansing, Mich., and George Turner, Edw,ardsviUe, Ill., both sophomores. Cheers 1 rang out for Mr. Turner as he piled up 17 plays in two turns. Concerning the tie-breaking third game, Mr. Jacobsen commented, "We were hurt by the fact that one of our players got considerably behind. This is always difficult because the players can't play off each other. That's a critical part of the stategy. Navy stayed together more." Imperial Wicket Robert 4e Majistri, Westchester, Pa., junior, added that confusion about how many players would compete in the final game may have thrown the Johnnies somewhat off guard. Although teams of three players each were scheduled for the first two games, Johnnies were under the impression that two-member teams would play the third game. Navy, on the other hand, brought three players for each game, all of whom wanted to play. At the last minute, St. John's recruited Jean Campbell, junior, of Alexandria, Rama Madhu estimates the distance while, above, the Navy is ready for victorious play. Keith Harvey photos Va., who had. not planned to participate. "She played very well," observed Mr. Jacobsen. Asked about rules and regulations governing the 'event, he replied, "Nothing is written down. It's all based on tradition and memory, and they can play tricks." Mr. Jacobsen served as referee along with Kathleen Kelley, '86, of Washington, John Ertle, '83, of Cleveland, and David Kidd, '85, of Fallston, Md. Miss Kelley and Mr. Ertle, former Imperial Wickets, were honored at a waltz party the night before. In addition to those mentioned, the St. John's Players were Pam Halkett, McLean, Va., and Jana Giles, Sandia Park, N.M., juniors; and Dave Dillard, New Castle, Del., and Brad Fisher, Hamden, Conn., sophomores. For Navy, co-captains were Bill Weber, Decatur, Ga., and John Bissa, Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., both first classmen. Other members of Academy teams were · First Classmen Jim Hibbler, Union City, Tenn.; Bruce Shuttleworth, Sevema Park, Md.; Steven Sisney, Irving, Tex.; Walter Sechreist, Birmingham, Ala.; and Second Classmen Jeff Muller, Crofton, Md., and Stephen Kim, Cherry Hill, N.J. �THE REPORTER JUNE 1987 Page 5 the first eight m nt s by WILLIAM M. DYAL, JR. President, Annapolis Campus Lore says the first eight months in any position is honeymoon time. All I can say is that innocence has hopefully been converted into learning. I have found my beginning time at St. John's to be both revealing and challenging. Before I become totally · old hat, and while many still call me the "new president," I will risk some observations. I really enjoy the students. I find them creative, dedicated (albeit rather intense), they fit no mold, they are indeed individuals. I worry a bit about the introspective nature of many of them and yet I am overwhelmed by their sense ot discipline and study. I am impressed that St. John's provides genuine encounter for our students. In meeting with alumni around the country, I have discovered this tends to be a lifelong learning encounter. In a similar fashion, I have genuinely enjoyed getting to know the faculty. In spite of their diversity of age, experience, and outlook, I find a remarkable camaraderie. I appreciate that they can neither be labeled conservative nor liberal. They do not fit into pigeonholes I like the fact that they love teaching and have a holistic approach to learning. Occasionally, I think they become too wrapped up in St. John's, reducing their involvement with the larger world. I find the associates and staff to be professionals who believe in their jobs, in the institution, and in the students we serve. Frankly, the College I find to be elegant but a bit shabby. I recognize some of this to be the result of too much neglect of the physical plant over th~ long years. I hope we can remedy this with some building and renovation, while maintaining our primary emphasis on people and program rather than on bricks and mortar. The physical environment, after all, is the means to an end. I recognize that the College and the larger world is respected but with a certain mystique. Mystique is not all bad because it can be intriguing, but where misconceptions about us exist, we need to correct them. The challenges ahead of us clearly are: (1) to share what we have learned these past 50 years with the broader field of higher education; (2) to continue to attract the kind of students and faculty who belong at St. John's; (3) to build bridges to the regional community and beyond; and (4) to upgrade our physical environment and increase our endowment These challenges should keep us all busy for the coming years. Perhaps it is needless to add, I am happy to be here. ~etU't4 to, ~ &tiittn ter To The Editor, I managed to get back to school for the Croquet Match; what I saw there saddened me. l don't mean our losing; rather the whole attitude with which the players approached the game. · When I played (the first two years) our approach to it was: "Free drinks for the players? Sure I'll play!" We got on to the team just to have a little too much to drink, joke with the mids, and play some croquet in the sun. From what l saw at this year's match, however, the emphasis seems to have moved away from having fun and towards winning. Not one of the players was drinking, few even seemed to be laughing and joking. I also noticed that this year few midshipmen showed up to watch. The ones I talked to the years I played said that they attended not for the croquet but because they could drink and carry on freely on private property. Maybe somebody needs to talk to the Academy to figure out some way to get them back. The Fool cheered excellently, but with no taunts coming back at him he lacked inspiration to reach the heights of Foolishness. So, in a nutshell, l think somebody has to make a conscious effort to take the emphasis off winning - it is only croquet, after all - and put it back where it belongs, on having fun. Sincerely, Adrian Trevisan '84 Editors Note: We wondered about the absence ofthe Navy, too, and asked about it. Academy officials assure us that it was on~v because this years tournament came during their exam week. The Middies were hitting the books. We talked to afew in civilian dress. Cambridge, i To the Editor: Re the statement in the April issue, p. 8 ("When women entered in '51) that Nancy Coiner Banjamin, A '71, was the· only Johnny ever to rec~ive a Rhodes Scholarship, am I not right that William Percy Maddox, '21, once held that distinction? I met him when we were both on the faculty at Princeton, and he was quite active in 'Jo n1 alumni affairs then. Incidentally, visiting St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1976, I learned that its students are called "Johnnions." Respectfully, Henry S. Shryock, Jr. '32 Thank you, Mr. Shryock, for calling this to our attention. elp in recruitment Alumni are serving as first hand sources of information for students planning to enter St. John's College. Pat Preib, admissiops counselor for the Santa Fe campus, said that cards containing the names and phone numbers of alumni are sent with every catalogue the Admissions Office mails to communities where alumni have volunteered to help. Altogether, she informed the Alumni Association board at its April IJleeting, there were 58 contacts between alumni and prospective students between July and March for next fall's freshman class of 105. This represents 7 per cent of the number of .catalogues sent to areas with alumni representatives. She indicated that alumni attempted twice the number of contacts but were unable to reach students. Noting that there was a lot more activity than has been formally registered, she said she has found the help extended by alumni "quite impressive-." The Annapolis campus has a similar . program, Helen Colston, assistant director of Admissions for alumni activities, said. Annapolis figures for alumni representatives customarily are compiled in July. Music .librarian Tina Davison packs up the first of 6,000 records to be stored over the summer in the infirmary. Upward to 5,000 scores are stashed away in a Mellon classroom while the library is rebuilt. Greg Ferguson photo Mel/.on program underway (Continued from' P. I) a step that will improve lighting. The . persons but to carry school supplies from room set aside for archival storage will be the basement to the second floor. replaced with a new environmentally conRailings at the pendulum pit will be trolled room, and there will be a similar replaced to meet stricter safety code regu- room for art storage. lations that have gone into effect since the Two other summer projects will involve Key-Mellon complex was built in 1958. a new $80,000 roof over the Conversation A major project, Mrs. Rhodes said, will Room, first phase of a reroofing job for be the replacement of all windows in MelKey and Mellon expected to cost altolon with thermal, double-paned glass, a gether $300,000. In addition, the college step that will help control loss of energy as will relocate its big utility pipe leading well as provide a better buffer against from the heating plant to upper campus. street noises. The work, to be done by the Now running underground in the site of Spear Window and Glass firm of Balti- Mellon's new wing, it will be replaced with more, will cost $288,000. a larger $130,000 line placed out of the Before they are installed, in the first way of the new wing. cleaning of its kind, the external louvers The Saga food service is planning some will be washed with an acid composition work of its own this summer in the coffee to rid them of dirt accumulated over the shop. It plans to rebuild the food preparapast 30 years. Mrs. Rhodes said that col- tion area, where new kitchen equipment lege is investigating the possibility of regu- will be installed. The counter will be lar professional cleaning. rebuilt to extend a foot farther into the Besides the new practice rooms in the room. basement, Mrs. Rhodes said that all conGround will be broken this fall for the crete walls in the college's storage area will new wing for Mellon to house administrabe removed and replaced by steel fencing, . tive and faculty offices. Introducing the Board Publisher, attorney elected Among the Board of Visitors and Governors' new members are Reg Murphy, president and publisher of The Baltimore Sun, and Peter Weiss, A '46, New York attorney. Elected at the April meeting, Mr. Murphy was editor and publisher of the San Francisco Examiner from I 975 until 1981, when he joined the Sun. From 1961 to 1965, he served as a political reporter and editor of The Atlanta Constitution. He was editor of that paper from 1968 until 1975. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1959, Mr. Murphy's newspaper career began as a sports writer in Macon:, Ga. He is extraordinarily active in business, educational and professional functions. In addition, he has co-authored the book, The Southern Strategy, and has lectured at more than 200 colleges and universities. Chairman of the University of Maryland's Board of Visitors, Mr. Murphy also served on a number of boards, including the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Loyola College, the Baltimore Urban League, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Maryland-Delaware-District ·of Columbia Press Association. He will join the board at its October meeting. · · Assuming board membership next month at the summer meeting in Santa Fe will be Mr. Weiss, who was elected to the board by the Alumni Association to fill one of the places on the board reserved for alumni. A partner in the New York City law firm of Weiss, Dawid, Fross, Zelnick and Lehrman, Mr. Weiss received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1952. He is co-founder and former president of the American Committee on Africa; vice-president, Center for Constitutional Rights; trustee, Institute for Policy Studies; co-chair, Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, and an executive member of the International Center for Peace in the Middle East. Mr. Weiss is leader of a great books seminar in Riverdale, N.Y., and belongs to the New York Chapter of the Alumni Association. �t Elliott Zuckerman has just won a first for his poetry. Wendy Allanbrook, author of a highly cited book, returns in the fall after a year spent writing in North Carolina. Eva Brann and Beate Ruhm von Oppen will be on leave next fall writing. Elizabeth Blettner, free from teaching duties this year, will be away until January completing a book on Plato and Kant. A prolific writer, Leo Raditsa next fall will publish in London a new book, Prisoners of a Dream: Ihe South African His 1978 book on Wilhelm Reich, Some Sense About Reich, will appear in German. On two-thirds schedule for the past several years to write and edit, Curtis Wilson has two new articles out this year and will be in Cambridge, England, this summer in connection with editing duties for a history sponsored by the International As. tronomical Union. Flaumenhaft has written one book on Alexander Hamilton and has co1mt)1e1led the draft of a second l A book Gisela Berns Schiller came off the of North Carolina Press in 1985. He.n1a.m1n "Hobbes on in Political are otheis. or a significant While there is no publish-or-perish policy at St. John's and utterly no pressure to produce, a remarkably high percentage of tutors on the Annapolis campus are writing. Turning out a book or an article is not something accomplished easily in teaching at St. John's. The structure- of the program provides little breathing space, Dean Thomas Slakey points out. Unlike many universities and colleges elsewhere, St. John's schedules its faculty without regard to what other institutions would consider an important part of their careers. The teaching load at St. John's is heavy. With seminar occupying two evenings a week, a·1ecture a third, and preparation the two other week nights, writing becomes for many who are teaching fulltime an impossibility. To write, tutors must depend upon grants or sabbaticals or, if they can swing it financially, leave without pay. Or they may work as Laurence Berns does, on summer vacations, at 2 o'clock in the momirnz. when spare moments presMr_ Berns, who is coma translation of Aristotle's Politjoining St. John's in 1960 has been one of its most productive writers. His card catalogue in the St. John's lireveals 30 titles of lectures or articles. "The benefits from the same way do," Mr. Berns said. "It forces a certain clarification of one's number of tutors have lhe St. Johns Review lhe College. Excludin2 tures and other essays in magazines as well as papers delivered, but not published, at conferences, their writings published off-campus represent a wide span of interests. Allanbrook, a fellow at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, N.C., is the author of Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni, ' named among the Best Academic Books of 1984 by Choice magazine. This year she has been working on a project on the question of expression in chamber music of the Classic period that of Haydn and Mozart - in some lished ways an extension of her work on expression in opera. In recognition of her work, she has just been made a consulting editor for musicology for a three-year period for the journal, Eighteenth-Century Studies. On leave during the present school year to write, Eva Brann is already deep at work on a new book for which she has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. It will enable her to continue work next year on an interpretive survey of the subject of imagination. In. 1979 Miss Brann published a book, Paradoxes of Education in a Republic, put out by the University of Chicago Press. An archaeologist by training, she also is the author of a scholarly study, Late Geometric and Protoattic Pottery, dealing with the 7th and 8th century potsherds of Athens' Agora. In addition, Miss Brann has translated from the German, Greek Mathematical and the of Algebra, writSt. John's late Dean Jacob Klein the Massachusetts Jacob indicates the direction in which I hope to work when the Moltke project is finished: the relationship oflanguage and music," Miss von Oppen said_ Trained in ancient history, Leo Raditsa has published major studies on Julius Caesar, Augustus's marriage legislation, the Macedonian wars, Tertullian and the physical appearance of women, the Peloponnesian War, the trial of Socrates, and Roman law and Roman history. They have appeared in such journals abroad as the Atheneum, Aufstieg und Niedergang der Roemischen Welt, and Cambridge of Iran. He also writes ori contemporary including psychoanalysis, and he has written criticism of contemporary writings, such as his essay on Paul Goodman in lhe Iowa Review and his essay on Meyer Liben in Midstream. and Modern Democracy, a publication edited by former Dean Robert Goldwin_ A third tutor writing in the history of science, Robert Williamson, is the author of an article, "Logical Economy in Einstein's 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.' " It appeared in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Douglas Allan brook, whose writing customarily is of another sort - composing music -also has contributed an article to lhe Great Ideas Today: "The Inefficacy of the Good: On Reading Thucydides." Two couples who are teaching at St. John's - the Flaumenhafts and the Berns - are all publishing. Mr. Flaumenhaft received a National Endowment for the Humanities Bicentennial Fellowship to a book entitled The Effective : Administration and Constitution in the Thouf(ht 1968. She is the of Madison which Public Kesearcn, includin2 among New ,_,.,,-,p,,1111<;:t sent to more than 2,000 newsthe bicentennial of the Ccmstmllh1:Jn, and of the for a record on the Declaration of cut the 1~1igm:m;gaJ!e-1._,onant ...... ~ .. ,I-'~"' .. ._.~"·"-""' she has written an extensive of Plato's that appeared in Ag on: of Classical Studies of the University of California as well as the introduction to the Larson translation of The Republic (Crofts Classics). She has published articles in such journals as Liberal Education, Interpretation, the International Education and .Cultural Exchange, the Independent Journal for Philosophy, and the Journal of Philosophy for Children. Both she and Mr. Berns contributed chapters to a book, Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, and American Constitutionalism, put out by the University of Dallas Press. Miss Ruhm von Oppen is engaged in completing the German and English editions of the letters of Helmuth James von Moltke, a leading op.Ponent of the Nazi regime in wartime Germany. The German . edition is due to be published next spring by C.H_ Beck, of Munich. A review by Miss von Oppen of a book about von Moltke appeared in 7he New York Times in the early 70s_ Writing on a wide range of topics, from history and politics to language, literature and music, Miss von Oppen's political indude "The End of the Ade:. in The World " that She is the translator of the MeKonrad Adenauer, published in bn)ac1caLst, "The Life of a LanLamma2e and Literature in in The Lissame year her article on "Two German Writers of the .,.,...,_,.,...,,,...,r1 in The Massachusetts Review. of the between the Nazis and culminated with her occ::ur>at11on Moltke resulted in an and Christians" in World in a monograph based on a Princeton lecture series, Religion and Resistance to Nazism, and in contributions to such books as The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust; The Holocaust: Ideology, .Bureaucracy, and Genocide, and Human Responses to the Holocaust. She will be represented in New York University's forthcoming book, 7he Other Victims. One other article relating to war-time Germany, a report on the German trial of a neo-Nazi, was written in 1976. "One St. John's publication, 'Bach's Waywith Words,' in Essays in Honor of view on the book, John's board member James S. Stockdale and Stockdale. ,.,,,..,,,..,,,,,,.,,in The New York Tribune, for Raditsa was a rej;!ular columthe . whose ideas "have exercised enormous, unacknowledged influence in the United States," will appear in German translation, Nexus Verlag, in the next months. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he founded i.e., The Cambridge Review, an important "little magazine" of the fifties. He formerly edited lhe St. Johns Review. Taking unpaid leave of absence with some regularity to do his own work, Mr. Raditsa, a sometimes controversial figure on campus, has raised the question of whether the college should provide time for tutors to complete scholarly work within the normal school year. Curtis Wilson's work on the beginnings of modern science led to his appointment as editor of the second volume of The General History ofAstronomy, which will I be published by Cambridge University. He is responsible for a volume dealing with the solar system and celestial mechanics from the late 16th century until a 1860. In addition, he is a member of the internationally ·board of the Arthe of Exact Science. Last month the the History "On Sciences this year UH'"'""' Euler on Precession of the Eo uinoxes and the Mechanics of Bodies." The author of Medieval and the Rise matical published by the Univerof Wisconsin Mr. Wilson has ten on His articles and reviews have appeared in Isis, Dictionary Biography, Centau<;;;riPntifi,., American, and the Great Ideas annual. Another writer in the field of science is Thomas K. Simpson, A is the author of a major article on Clerk Maxwell that appeared in the 1986 volume of The Great Ideas Today. Mr. Simpson is the author of another article on Maxwell, "Maxwell and the Direct Experimental Test of his Electromagnetic Theory," that has appeared in Isis. He also is the author of a contribution, "Liberal Scholarship and the College Teacher," printed in Higher Education ten- �A member of the St. John's smce Mrs. AHanbrook is an active member St. John's community. She has been a member of the Faculty Instruction Committee and has chaired the Campus Planning Committee, which oversees planning as it relates to campus buildings. During her year at the NH C's Research Triangle Park, she has been engaged in the question of expression in chamber music of the period of Haydn and Mozart. The author of a book examining gesture in two of Mozart's operas that was selected among the Best Academic Books of 1984 by Choice magazine, Mrs. Allanbrook recently was elected a member of the Council of the American Musicological Society, for a three-year term, and has been made a consulting editor for musicology for the journal, Eighteenth-Century studies, also for a tbree-year term. Her pas.t year has included lectures as well as an appearance on a radio program, "Soundings," devoted to music and expression and aired from the NHC. Her lectures have included "Mozart's Happy Endings: A New Look at the Convention of the 'Lieto Fine.,, given both at the NHC and before the mid western meetof the American for 18th CenStudies at Northwestern has lectured on "The '--''"""""'"'"'-""'~'"' as Don Bates Colle!!e. .ewiston gram in Ontario. Another lecture, "Exiri Classic Chamber at the Hill. Vassar n.uarnJ1vv .... earned her master's a~d doctorate degrees from Stanford University in 1965 and 1974. From 1964 to 1965 she held a Woodrow Wilson Fellowshin_ Before joining the St. John's faculty 1969, she had served as a teaching assistant in music at Stanford University for a two-year period. ",-"'""''r."' Writing (Continued from P. 6) An astrophysicist, Mr. Beall is the author of a long list of scientific articles that have appeared principally in the Astrophysical Journal and in the published papers of conferences where he has spoken, both in this country and abroad. His poetry has been published in The Hollins Critic, Pods, and The Calvert Review. Chaninah Maschler has translated and written articles of her own. Her translation of Gotthold Lessing's Ernst and Falk, Dialogues for Freemasons, appeared in Interpretation, and she is the translator of Jean Piaget's book, Structuralism. Her article on Aristotle's plura1ism appeared in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and her commentary on Genesis in grant to work on a with Gutierrez's connection tion With a draft vVl,U!J''"''"'"'• hopes to the article before se1nrember. Comber, Three tutors Nicholas MaistreHis and Howard ZeidTouchen.nan - edited an seconstones, for use in element~HV discussion classes. Pamela Kraus has list for The Journal written on the Studies Schoolman. Mr. Slakey wrote "Aristotle on Sense Perception" for lhe Philosophical Review and Mr.. Starr "The Sixth Sophist" for the Philosophical Forum. Reviews have been written by Peter Kalkavage for the Review of Metaphysics, by Jonathan Tuck for University Publishing, and by Stewart Umphrey for the Independent Journal of Philosophy. Conclusions? Probably none. Some of The Annapolis campus's new Conversation Room provided the location for the April board meeting. Caught in one of its moments are, from left, the new Board Chairman James Frame, President Dyal, former Chairman John H. Dendahl, and President Riccards. Keith Harvey photos_ • Jim Frame is new board chairman With James Frame, A '50, as its new chairman, the Board of Visitors and Governors has elected to its membership a Baltimore publisher and three new members from the West. Elected at the April meeting was Reg Murphy, president and publisher of The BaWmore Sun, who willjoin the board at its October meeting. New members from the West include two alumni: Al Grant, SFGI '83, a retired · executive who is a doctoral candidate at the of and Hollywood Jonathan of Los Edchief officer of M<1m1ge:m1::nt Entertainment. The third new western member is Rollin of Dallas and Santa Fe, founder president of Southwest Airlines ......... 5 .,.l"; director of Russell Assoc;ialces, of Dallas. Mr. Frame, who has been vice-chairman of the has long active in board affairs. Last ient of the Alumni Association SL John's ablest tutors responsible for superior lectures have never written a word for off-campus Ten now a different combination of result in greater or less writing. present, however, perhaps it said that while St. John's has always been considered a "talking school," a significant number of tutors are writing in single instances, or sporadically, or with a sustained productivity that is adding another dimension - writing -to faculty life. Merit, he has chaired the Presidential Search Committee and, earlier, a special study of the administrative organization of the college. A New York resident who heads his own firm and who is spending much of his time in Paris, Mr. Frame has pledged himself to spend much of his time serving St. John's He succeeds John H. Dendahl, of Santa Fe, who, under board bylaws, is completing his term of membership on the board. During the meeting Mr. , Dendahl was oresented a gavel "with gratitude" by St. two - William M. Dyal, Riccards, JOINING MR. FRAME as vice-chairman will be Vincent A. Carrozza, of Dallas and Santa who has been serving as chairman of the board's Committee, and Charles A. '47, Croton-on-Hudson, former board chairman and more rece"ti., chairman of the Finance Committee. Re-elected to the board were three former members: Robert A. Goldwin, A '50, a former dean of the Annapolis campus and now a ~enior fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Jerome of Annapolis and Santa Fe, chairman of the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Maryland, who becomes board secretary, and Hope Ritchie, of Santa Fe. Present members re-elected for another three-year term were Ernest Angelo, Jr., of Midland, Tex.; Sharon Bishop Dailey, A '65, of Reston, Va.; Harriet Higgins, of New York City and Sautee, Ga.; Stephen L. Feinberg, of El Paso, Tex., and Mara Robinson, of Santa Fe. Earlier, alumni re-elected John Van Doren, A '47, Chicago editor, for a second term on the board, and elected Peter Weiss, A '46, New York attorney, as a new member. Their three-year terms begin in July. The board also elected three members to its executive committee, which is made up of the four board officers, presidents and deans of the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses, and four members-at-large. Chosen as members-at-large were Miss Higgins, David B. Rea, A '49, of New York City, and Thomas M. Carnes, A '52, of San Francisco. Afourth member is vet to be chosen. · Todd Masilon, of Sylmar,- Calif., who graduated this year on the Annap9lis campus, has received the Baird Prize. The $500 award, given annually to a senior on each campus, is endowed by the late Dr. Walter S. Baird, '30, throu2h the Commonwealth Charitable Recipients are chosen for demonstrating achievement in the arts, literature or sciences. Mr. Masilon plays the lute, violin, recorder and harpsichord. During the 1983-84 academic year, Mr. Masilon · studied performance of early music at the University of California. He plans to teach high school, continue with his music as a hobby and eventually ge-ran advanced degree in music. While at St. John's, Mr. Masilon played in a chamber orchestra accompanying the small chorus and was assistant to tutors who teach the music tutorial. --~-- �Page 8 THE REPORTER JUNE 1987 1970 Linnah Neidel, Mechanicsburg, Pa., Febbie, splashes down a wetway in this year's highly successful Reality Weekend. Keith Harvey photo ranks feature Elvis and Alice by JIMMY McCONNELL, SF '88 When Plato conceived the Philosopher King in The Republic, odds are he was not thinking of Elvis Presley. If not, the Santa Fe juniors would have disappointed him when they had their pran.k on March 3031. Students were led from seminar to go on a tour of Graceland, where they could see such prize momentos as Elvis' Blue Suede Baby Shoes. Later, in the Great Hall, they saw the life story of their Philosopher King of Rock-n-Roll. Elvis was religious, so his story was narrated by a Southern Baptist preacher. It was all true, because, as the preacher said, "TV evangelists don't lie." Everything was true, from Elvis' "humble beginnings as a prospective," through his singing seminars, his stint on the Dating Game with Socrates and Dante, to the Tragic End - Elvis' overdose on Sweet Tarts. The·next day, the king returned for a hula hoop contest in his honor. The winners accompanied Elvis on a tour of his kingdom in Stuart Boyd's 1964 baby blue Buick convertible. Normally, juniors are not allowed to interrupt seminar. Bue due to circumstances of "a grave and confidential nature," the prank couldn't be held on the day it was scheduled. As consolation, Dean James Cary allowed juniors to have an Tutor·s music has premiere A new composition by Annapolis tutor Douglas Allanbrook had its first performance in April in the Chicago area. Entitled "Moon Songs," it was commissioned by the Children's Chorus of Glex Ellyn and the New Philharmonic Orches· tra. Written as one piece, it consists of songs set to the words of Wordsworth, Shelley and Ben Jonson. They were performed under the direction of Harold Bauer, A '55, at the College of Du page in Glen Ellyn. While he was in Chicago, Mr. Allanbrook also was interviewed by the good music station, WNIB, which presented a program of his music. New releases of Mr. Allanbrook include a recording of his Twelve Preludes for All Seasons by Composers Recording, Inc., of New York City, and a recording by Crystal Records, a West Coast firm, of his Commencement Exercises and his Night and Morning Music. · exclusively senior privilege. As for the seniors, their prank occurred on April 20-21. The theme was "Alice in Wonderland." Alice was played by bearded senior Mit Wanzer, who took Carroll's absurdities one step further. A wooden slide was provided in lieu of a hole through which students could enter Wonderland, but many declined to use it. Seniors capped off the events with a giant chess game which had live chess pieces on the quad. 1987 will go down in SF history as the year with two student pranks. Cave gets new Time position Ray Cave, A '48, has been named editorial director of Time, Inc., a position described as •'the second highest" in its editorial management. Mr. Cave, 57, who is a former managing editor of Time magazine, moves into his new position after serving for the past two years as corporate editor of Time. His appointment came with changes in top editorial offices as Henry Anatole Grunwald prepares to step down in December as Time's editor-in-chief. Mr. Cave joined Time in 1959, first as a writer for Sports Illustrated and then rising in its· ranks to become its executive editor in 1974. Subsequently he joined Time in 1976 as assistant managing editor in 1976. The following year he became managing editor. He is a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors. A member of the board's last Presidential Search Committee, he is the new chairman of the board's Nominating Committee. Adler writes new book Mortimer J. Adler, member emeritus of St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors, is the author of a new book, We Hold These Truths. It is subtitled Understanding the Ideas and Ideals of the Constitution. With the foreword by Harry A. Blackmun, associate justice of the Supreme Courtf the book is described by the MacMillan Publishing Company as the "only truly philosophical book written for the laymen about the United States Constitution." Mr. Adler is chairman of the Board of Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica,·. director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, Tom Hoover is serving as the secretary-treasurer for the steering committee of the Santa Fe chapter of alumni. He . lives in Sausalito, Calif. Kitty Teipel Morel reports; "I received a Ph.D. in math in 1980, then moved to Saudi Arabia and worked for ARAMCO, the Arabian oil company, for three years. "After that I moved to Bahrain, a small island east of Saudi Arabia, in the Persian Gulf. There, three other associates and 1 started the Middle East subsidiary of a· leading CAD (computer graphics) company, where l was a manager of computer software support and training. "During this time l had a chance to visit several Middle Eastern countries, and also had the opportunity to travel to such places as Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Greece, England, France, Holland, and Cyprus. Toward the end of the six years I was overseas, I lived in Turkey for three months - a truly fascinating place. "I have lived in Atlanta, Ga., since July, 1985, where I am working for Bellsouth Services. I would love to hear from other alumni and old friends. 1975 Sandra Bell Colt is living with her husband, Harry, and her son, Ian, on the Zuni Indian Reservation in Zuni, N.M. Sandra is a nurse and her husband is a physician at the hospital there. They have been in Zuni for three years and they love it there. "The country is remote and beautiful, and we enjoy living in a different culture." Tom and Moors Cabot Myers live in Hamilton, N. Y. "Tom is still in computer science, but he has switched from research emphasis (University of Delaware) to teaching and li.beral arts emphasis (Colgate University in Hamiton, N. Y.). Moors is ·•at home with Toby (11), Emma (6), Paul (2), Peter (1) and is looking forward to a little more time spent with adults in another couple of years." 1976 "Gerhardt Quast has (finally) graduated from college in December '86. l now have a degree in recreation with an ephasis in therapeutic recreation. I've sent in my paperwork and expect to soon be a certified therapeutic recreation specialist. After leaving St. John's in 1975, I worked, joined the navy, returned to school at San Diego State Univ., moved to Washington before I finished at SDS U, and finished up at Western Washington University. What a long, strange trip it's been ... "If anyone wants to write me now, that'd be fun. Oh yeah, I moved here to Austin to participate in a five month dance workshop. I'm some sort of dancer, too." Gerhardt can be reached at 706 "A" Josephine Street, Austin, TX 78704. 1978 Sheri Anderson is a student again at Moorhead State University in Fargo, N.D., working on a bacherlor's degree in mathematics and preparing to take the first actuarial exam. "MSU is thirty times the size of St. John's College, but as a math major, I'm in the minority which means small classes and accessible faculty, but to call them 'Doctor' or 'Professor' is very different." James Walton just returned from Saas Fee, Switzerland, where he taught skiing to English speaking children. After tending to some farm business, he is planning to go west to look for another job as a ski instructor. 1979 Robert DiSilverio is in Berkeley working and trying to stay out of trouble. He saw Alan Cook in January when he was en route to Japan. Robert asks, "Are circles really divine?" 1980 Susan E. Herdur is working in theatre, both on stage and in office in San Diego, Calif. She is hoping to move to Los Angeles this year. 1982 Rebecca Coursey King married a geologist in 1986 and- moved from Mo.1tana to the gold-bearing Mother Lode region in California. Steven Bohlin, SF '82, and Rachel O'Keefe, A '82, were married December 27 in Washington, D.C. The couple now resides in Santa Fe. Susan Wykstra Hamilton manages a dude ranch in Southern Colorado. She has a boy, Douglas, born in July. Joel Seton is completing his master of environmental studies at Yale. He hopes to split his time between.mountain farmsteading and management consulting for social change organizations. Matthew Charles Fontis is completing a master of arts degree in social thought and literature at Harvard University. 1984 Art Rubino has just returned to Santa Fe after two years of business activities in London. 1985 Liza Hyatt is developing her own course in the field of art therapy and in the coming year will be looking into a number of places of employment and schools with this in mind. Linda Sul,livan is living in Manhattan and getting to know the production business by managing a film studio and writing. "Bright lights, big city, little sleep, lots of fun (and hard work)!" Elizabeth Drew was accepted into the St. John's-UNM internship program in 1985. She taught sixth grade inthe Santa Fe public schools for one year. She later taught four and five year olds in a private schoo1 in Santa Fe before being offered the position of assistant editor to John Van Doren with Encyclopedia Brittanica's yearbook, The Great Ideas Today. She also works with the Paideia Project in Chicago. · 1986 Marlene Nordstrom is living in Albuquerque with her two sons, Cody, born in July 1984, and Dylan David, born last September. Brooks 1st woman here The first woman to study at St. John's was not a member of the class of 1955, the first officially to enroll women students. Ruth Curry Brooks, who later became the Federal Trade Commission's first female administrative judge, studied Latin and mathematics at St. John's during World War I. Her story is told by Bernard Gessner, '27, whose mother and Mrs. Brooks were first cousins: After graduating from Annapolis High School, Mrs. Btooks received a teaching certificate from Towson State Normal School and taught at Annapolis Elementary. When the United States entered World War l, Mrs. Brooks took a clerical job in Washington. She commuted by train from Annapolis to ·the Federal Trade Commission. Finding that she could not advance without a law degree, she applied for admission to George Washington School of Law. She was admitted on condition that she obtain certain credits she lacked. Thomas Fell, president of St. John's, agreed to let her fulfill the requirements by studying at the college. "But she was not allowed in the classroom," Mr. Gessner said. "They thought the presence of a woman would disturb the cadets." Instead Mrs. Brooks met one on one with her professors and was certified as being qualified in math and Latin. Mrs. Brooks wrote a letter to the class of 1955 on the occasion of their 25th reunion relating her experience. She died several years ago at the age of 88. Mr. Gessner related her story at a recent dinner meeting of the Annapolis Alumni Chapter. �THE REPORTER JUNE 1987 SS S Page 9 s Lo1nt1mt1ed from P. the soil, on our bodies and ms1ae our bodies and even inside our cells." biologist with master's and doctoral from the of Rochester, Leonard was St. first full-time member, She came to the roughly 500 bacteria are found in each human Miss Leonard said that most are and essential to such processes of food and the of She Harold Morowitz's observation each human being is "an ecologial system in all the biological meaning implied by that term ... " "A large number of these microorganisms are free living," Miss Leonard said. "Others are found in association with other organisms. These associations range from a communal one where forms live together without harming each other, but rather one member benefits from the association and the other remains unaffected, Others live in a very close symbiotic relationship which is mutually advantageous to aU the organisms concerned. "And finally, there is the parasitic relationship where one organism lives at the expense of another organism. This relationship can be harmful and even fatal to the host organism." Miss Leonard referred to the book Microcosmos by Margules and Sagan, who write that "in their alliance with animals and plants, which could not live without them, the earth's bacteria form a complete planetary regulatory system, one that has ... the general result of keeping the world habitable." "Man is very adept at upsetting this balance of nature," she continued. "He intentionally or unintentionally kills off plant and animal species, pollutes the air, disrupts the upper atmosphere and poisons the soil and water. "He burns up and wastes our natural resources, and he produces far more wastes than he can handle. Witness the slmper for Barbara Leonard were, from President Emeritus and Mrs. Richard 'Break of Dawn' and its odyssey of the York's 'wretched rebarge load of fuse.' "He is completely dependent on microorganisms for food and his well-being. He cannot even claim that his DNA is his own." According to Aristotle, Miss Leonard said, man, when perfected, is '"the best of all animals; but he cannot become perfect on his own. He needs the support of a polis (city or state) to do this ... "During your stay at St. John's, you have been involved in many conversations. In these you have depended upon your classmates for insights other than your own and for criticism of your arguments ... "In your life outside the classroom, you have given each other encouragement, consolation and moral support. You have cooperated with each other to make your years here a productive and rewarding experience. You indeed have been leading a symbiotic existence. "Now you are leaving the familiar environment for a new one, and you will find new dependencies. Build wisely on these new dependencies. You will, without a doubt, have to experiment with new ways to d.o so ... "May you always be considerate of others, continue to be thoughtful and cooperative, and always give the plants and President Dyal escorts Barbara Leonard. Nancy lewis, college registrat, and Dean Thomas Slakey are behind them. Keith Harvey photo 'wee beasties' the respect they deserve; with their help you can fulfill,your hopes; without it you can do nothing." In addition to recipients of the silver medal and the prize for the best essay, the following graduates received awards: Daniel S. Caldwell, Millard E. Tydings prize for excellence in public speaking; Jerry Lee Abrams, honorable mention for best senior essay; Robert De Majistre, Jr., best junior essay; Toedor J. Holmberg, best sophomore essay, with Janet Ruth Orlin, honorable mention; Rachel T. Boyce, best freshman essay, with John C. Obenauer and Kenneth J. Paradis, honorable mention; Mr. Holmberg, best English version of a Greek text; Elisabeth A. Leonard and Mark Van De Walle, Jr., best original English poem; Jeffery L. Schwartz, honorable mention for best original musical composition; Todd Masilon, best essay on a piece of music; Bradley V. Stuart, most elegant solution of a mathematical problem, with Collins Duod u-Bonsu, honorable mention. A '80, Benjamin Milne-r, Michael Marilyn Mylander'pholo SJC gives Barbara star billing Even from far away distances, you will be able to find Barbara Hopkins Leonard after she retires July l. You can seek her in the starry firmament, right there at the waistline of the Constellation Andromeda. As an earthling, the 70-year-old retiring assistant dean will be living in Oberlin, 0., but faculty and staff have arranged to have a star named for her as a bright and shining reminder of the 36 years she has taught and cared for hundreds of St. John's students. As one of her farewell gifts at a collegewide picnic supper that drew more than 500 persons, Miss Leonard was given a Christian Baudat, West New certificate prepared by the International York, N.J., senior, who had comStar Registry notifying her that a heretopleted three and a half years on the fore numbered star had been named for Santa Fe campus, transferred to her. Annapolis in January but left school The technical information that is caralmost immediately afterwards. m ried in the registry's vault in Switzerland with a congenital circulatory disease that permits Barbara Leonard fans to which had kept him out of school locate her: Andromeda RA, 0 hours, 48 last year, he was able to complete a minutes, 38 seconds; declination, 38 desenior paper based upon Dostoyevgrees and one minute. Star maps accomsky's The Possessed and returned panying the certificate help Miss Leonard long enough to take his oral. His to pinpoint her star. paper was judged fine enough to be In addition, the faculty and staff preamong those submitted for the sensented her with a VCR marked by a ior essay prize. He died in plaque showing her dates of service, 1951at the age of 23. 87. Students gave her a class ring for the she was made an honorary alumna the Class of 1955. And the Maroon blazers were awarded to Anbell was rung 36 times in recogmtlon drew W. Beckman and Talke Breuer for her 36 years with the the most to the Anita Norton tutor and a former swut:m, the also "certificate from the tation from me governor contribution to countless Games, in which Miss few balls from the softball for the Dean Thomas sang under the direc-' deans, Samuel Kutler and di Nucci, and students and by Michael Dink of the o .. """';,--1,,.,,.,t Simon McNabb Death claims senior stern. Speaking at Sunday's baccalaureate service was Michael Littleton. The Small Chorus sang works of Bach and Mozart. Marilyn Higuera, pianist, played the processional and recessional. Reality Weekend was one of the best ordered in the memory of the administration. With Gillian Schmidt in general charge, students who were active in its planning included Vivian Strache and David Gillett, food; Bernard Masters, financing; Casey Carter, beverages; Jennifer Lapham, decorations; Eleanor Hamburger, games, and Ben Krauss, variety show. Decorations featured a pinata in the shape of a bird with a wing spread of five Earlier, at the April meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors, Miss Leonard was honored with a resolution members adopted for her. The Caritas Society, for which she served as college liaison for many years, at its meeting presented her with a Safari-style vest for her birding expeditions. The Alumni Association also asked her to speak at its spring dinner, when she was praised in numerous toasts. "It is very hard to imagine St. John's College without Barbara Leonard," Dean Slakey said at the campus-wide party in her honor. feet. Among the games were Spartan madball, a Ptolemy hula hoop race, epicycle race, egg twister, great books toss, hermaphrodite race, and a Trojan war. �J THE I (Continued from P. 1) introduced a master's program, and become part of America's education establishment as a highly respected alternative within higher education. &UT HOW FAITHFUL has the college been to the program founded by the first president and dean, Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan? Mr. Slakey attempted to answer the question in the annual Statement of Educational Policy, which is prepared on alternate years by the deans of the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses. In the beginning, he writes, Buchanan d~vised a four-fold class structure based upon the great books seminar, mathematics and language tutorials, and the laboratory. "This structure," Mr. Slakey believes, "has proved remarkably stable over fifty years although there have been numerous changes in detail and two major changes. "The first major change was the introduction of a music tutorial into the curriculum in 1948, which resulted in a fifth class being added to the four of the sophomore year. Much later, in 1977, laboratory was removed from the sophomore year, restoring the four-fold structure but reducing laboratory from four years to· three." The second major change was the introduction of "preceptorials" in 1960. These small classes, devoted to an intensive study of a text or topic, represent an eight-week break in the seminar schedule during the junior and senior years. Combining students from both years, the preceptorials add what Mr. Slakey describes as an elective element in the program. "Both students and tutors had felt the need for a more focused study than was possible with the long readings and rapid pace of seminar, and the preceptorial was a response to that need," he explained. "While its adoption was controversial, it is now widely regarded as a valuable addition." THE GREATEST change in the relation among the four different classes, he Lecture decline In his Statement of Education Policy, Mr. Slakey touched upon one continuing concern of his: the decline in the importance ofthe Friday lecture, considered a formal part of the curriculum, and the question period that follows. In the 1941 catalogue, lectures are listed at least once a week, sometimes twice. During the early 60s, there was an effort made to check attendance by a system of sign-up sheets, Mr. Slakey recalled. "I believe lectures and question periods then played a much larger role in the life of the college than they do now," he commented. "It is well known that many students and some tutors now rarely attend either lectures or question periods." said, has occurred between seminar and laboratory. Originally scientific classics were read in the seminar with the laboratory designed partly as a support to the seminar readings and partly as prnviding a different dimension to .learning. Mr. Slakey continued: "The name 'laboratory' was meant to suggest work with materials and instrument's, and there was a special focus on measuring instruments. Laboratory exercises were not organized into long sequences approximating semester length, but with a few exercises on one topic, then a few on another topic, and so on. There was an emphasis on biology, especially in its relation to medicine. "As it has developed, the laboratory is much more independent of the seminar, with readings assigned for d~scussion at ' 're bigger, attrition wn Important changes that have occurred in St. John's student body since 1937 include the entry of women in 1951 and a growth in size. "In many of the early years the New Program did not have more than 100 students," Mr. Slakey observed. "When I first came to the college in l 959, there were 257 students. The freshman class of 113 with which l entered graduated only 39 students in 1963. Entering freshman classes constituted nearly half the student body, with very heavy attrition through the four years." As a consequence, among upper classmen at least, every tutor was somewhat acquainted with every student, whether or not he had taught the student in class. The college now should be thought of having 700 students: 400 in Annapolis, the number to which it restricts its size, and 300 in Santa Fe. (Applications are up by lO per cent for next fall's freshman class.) There is a constant transfer back and forth between the campuses. Attrition has been "drastically reduced," and the three upper classes have tended to stabilize at somewhere between 80 and 100. "One unfortunate consequence is that there are now students not even known by sight to some tutors and even vice versa," Dean Slakey said. "With the growth of the student body and the faculty, there is probably less involvement of the average tutor in the life of students outside classes." laboratory meetings and with a conse- crease in the number of short essays writquent r,eduction in actual laboratory exer- ten for the language tutor, Mr. Slakey pointed out. The "annual essay" has concises. "The material is organized into long tinued as it was and as a major piece of sequences: eight weeks on the devlopment writing on some subject of the student's of the atomic theory and the periodic choice that is submitted at the end of each 16 weeks on electricity and magnet- year. Perhaps the most stable part of the New and so on: The emphasis has shifted from biology to physics. There has been a Program has been the mathematics tutorstrenuous effort over many years, still ial, Mr. Slakey believes. "Two thirds oLthe freshman year is only partially successful, to reach toward at least the most fundamental 20th cen- devoted to Euclid, and one third to the tury developments, quantum mechanics, beginnings of Ptolemaic astronomy. The molecular biology, and, in the mathemat- sophomore year completes the Ptolemaic theory of the planets and its redesign by ics tutorial, the theory of relativity." Except for the time deleted for precep- Copernicus, followed by a study of the torials and the removal of scientific clas- transition from ancient to modern mathsics, the twice weekly great books semin- ematics in the treatment of the conic sections, first by Apollonius and then by ars remain essentially unchanged. ONLY A FEW authors are read now Descartes. "The junior year adds the elements of that were not on the original list although calculus and continues the focus on asa number have been dropped. ..The list of great books in the l 941 tronomy in Newton's Principia. The sencatalogue includes 120 authors. Of these, ior year adds non-Euclidean geometry 39 are authors of mathematical and scien- and Einstein's theory of relativity. The tific works, many of which are still read in one element not present from the beginthe mathematics tutorial or the labora- ning is the relativity sequence." . The non-departmental character of the tory. ..Of the remaining 8 l authors, 51 are teaching is intact, Mr. Slakey said. Tutors still read, including two read in the lan- teach widely throughout the program. "All tutors work their way through the guage tutorial rather than in seminar. While there have been many deletions and four years of seminars and do at least additions over fifty yeras, and there are freshman mathematics and freshman lasome small differences between Annapo- boratory, and most do more though junlis and Santa Fe, there are . .. only 11 ior and senior mathematics an<l laboraauthors not listed in the 1941 catalogue: tory are obstacles for some. MOST TUTORS work their way St. Anselm, Luther, Jane Austen, de Tocqueville, Kierkegaard, Mark Twain, Niet- through all the language tutorials, includzsche, Conrad, Kafka, Joyce, and Faulk- ing those tutors who did not know Greek when they joined the faculty." ner." The music tutorial is an obstacle for Dean Slakey said the language tutorial has gone through an important change. many tutors and is probably the only eleAt the beginning a different foreign lan- ment of the program which a majority of . guage was studied each year: Greek, the faculty do not teach. With regard to teaching, Mr. Slakey Latin, German and French. Latin was suspects there is a real difference from the dropped in 1948 and German in 1962. ..At present Greek begins in the fresh- early years . "When Barr and Buchanan each visited man year with the acquisition of the rudiments of the language followed by the the new Santa Fe campus in 1964-65, durreading of Plato. In the first semester of ing its first year, each made the same the sophomore year a major poet is read, remark, 'The faculty is too competent.' "Whether they had discussed the ma~Jer usually Sophocles, Euripides, or Homer. "The second semester is devoted partly with each other l don't know, but I think I to a sequence on logic, done in English, understand what they meant. There has and partly to English lyric poetry, usually grown up a knowledge of some of the focused on the 17th century, Shakespeare, difficult authors - Ptolemy, Newton, Plato, Hegel - which could not possibly Donne, Marvell, etc." Rudiments of French begin in the jun- have existed when the New Program ior year followed by the reading of Pascal, began. "Many tutors now have spent their Racine and Moliere. In the first semester of the senior year, French lyric poetry, mature lives at the college, teaching over including that of Baudelaire and Valery, is its whole range, but still teaching the same read. The second semester is devoted to seminar or the s.ame tutorial five, six, English lyric poetry usually focused on the seven times." While much has been learned, Mr. Slanear 20th and 20th century poets: Emily Dickinson, Hopkins, Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, key posed the possibility that the tutor will assume a kind of authority among his colWallace Stevens, Frost, etc. "DESPITE THE great change in its leagues and before his students. Another danger he sees is that of content, I believe the thrust of the language tutorial is essentially what it was: ''inertia." "All of us on the faculty have at great the use of foreign language not for purposes of gaining fluency but almost exact- cost struggled through a variety of unfaly the opposite, to force attention to miliar materials. What we best know in details of expression too easily unnoticed common is the curriculum we already have. It is always extremely difficult to in one's native language." One consequence of the reduction to dislodge any element of that curriculum in two foreign languages has been an in- favor of anything different. We must acknowledge that the St. John's program involves a number of very particular choices, choices not obviously the only ones following from the fundamental ples. "ON THE OTHER hand, we must also recognize, as was done in our recent selfstudy for Middle States that 'we cannot ... do every and a certain amount of may be necessary in our attempt tain a kind of education that able anywhere else.'" The college continues to attract interest and admiration from excellent students, from excellent applicants for the faculty, and from the public at large, Mr. Slakey concluded. "While many students and many high school counselors consider the program beyoµd the reach of any but the most brilliant, the college continues to open its doors to those students who are willing to try and who can reasonably expect some measure of success. "While many students and their parents fear an education which provides no direct entry into a career, the college continues tO draw these willing to take a change. The students, the faculty, the supporting staff, the alumni, and the board form a group of people remarkable for their dedication. That is perhaps the best commentary on what was begun in Annapolis fifty years ago and now looks to the future in Annapolis and Santa Fe." .. . 1a (Continued from P. 1) ential. Juniors read altogether about 90 pages from Newton's first 17 propositions that show, among other results, that a body moving in a conic section with the center of force at a focus is subject to an inverse square law of force. Students _also read Section 11, which deals with the three-body problem or the problem of the perturbations to which the motion of a body like the moon is subject, owing to the attractions of other bodies such as, in the moon's case, the sun as well as the earth. From Book Ill of the Principia, students read the first seven or eight propositions in which universal gravitation is established. They also read, in section one, the definitions and laws of motion and exploreNewton's lemmas, which provide the mathematical tools used in deducing the propositions. Despite the Principia s crucial importance in the development of modem physics, Mr. Wilson noted parenthetically that many parts of the book are actually badly organized. The second book dealing with the motion of bodies through resisting media, he said, breaks much new ground but also is largely in error. St. John's College will take note of the Principia tercentenary next fall when a member of the faculty, Michael Comenetz, will lecture on Newton and the place of mathematics and physics in the college's curriculum. The lecture also will be part of a series of four given in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the new curriculum St. John's introduced in 1937. Mr. Wilson's lecture at Cambridge will be entitled "Newton and the Problem of Perturbations." It will be given at a conference June 29-July 4 organized by Stephen Hawking, physicist with Cambridge's Department of Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics, and by the university's Trinity College, where Newton was a fellow. Newton's Principia was written originally in Latin, but St. John's students read Andrew Moue's 1729 English translation as revised by Cajori in 1929. It is published in paperback in two volumes by the University of California Press at Berkeley. Accounting for the sale of a number of the other 700 are Thomas Aquinas College and St. Mary's College, both in California, which have curricula modeled after St. John's and which, like St. John's, make the Principia required reading. �11 • thanks Hodson. Trl1st r s gifts over years The Annapolis campus took occasion this spring to extend formal thanks to the Beneficial Corporation and the Hodson Trust for the more than $2.3 million they have contributed to the college and at the same time the Hodson Trust's educational constultant to meet eight of the students their to the college have assisted. Gordon lunched son Trust's student and building programs." The annual Beneficial-Hodson gifts generally have been unrestricted, but more recently they have been used for scholarship aid and for Mellon Hall and to establish the Beneficial Hodson Endowment for Teaching Exceflence. The latter has made possible two study programs for St. John's tutors under the college's program of faculty development. A study group on atomic physics, which is taught during the senior year at St. John's, was led by Nicholas Mais trellis, a St. John's tutor, for three tutors released the fall semester from other classes to academic year, a on Isaac Newton was Curtis Wilson with unors on a released time basis"and an nine tutors part. Over the past years, the Beneficial-Hodson Trust has contributed more than $30 million to St. John's, Washington, and Hood Colleges and to Johns Hopkins University. JI'/~ (Continued from P. 2) Chris' wife, Marilyn, remained in Minneapolis with his stepdaughter and will join him in June. He is looking forward to seeing his classmate, James Jarvis, this month while Jim is in Washington for a conference. Chris' address is 4975 Hillbrook Lane N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016. You cancall him at (202) 364-2439 (home) or (301) 654-6262 (work). Jim and Karen Jarvis announce the birth of Katherine Duncan Jarvis on March 26. The Jarvises have another Elizabeth. in rheumatology at the of Medipercent of my research, a new and very exc1tmg for me," he writes, "and hope to be two-three more years before going on my own to find an academic job." 1976 John Stev.enson writes from Middletown, Conn., that in addition to being editor of the Connecticut edition of Hospital News, he works primarily as a private contractor for a number of firms, mostly as a writer and photographer. Before moving from Baltimore to Connecticut in order that his wife, Janelle, '78, could do graduate work in mathematics at Wesleyan University (she. has just .completed her first year), he was producer of WFBR radio's Alan Christian Show for two years and also worked with syndicated columnists Donald Lambro and M. Stanton Evans as a journalist in the U.S. Congress. . "We would like to invite any former St. Johnnies visiting the area to drop by and see us," writes John. Their address is 215 Pine St., Middletown, CT 06457. 1979 Lisa Simeone accompanied the Baltimore Symphony on a Trade and Cultural Mission to Europe from May 1 to May 17. She is an announcer for the Johns Hopkins University radio station,_ W JH U-FM. While traveling in Italy and Germany with the Simeone served as a news reporter, se1n.d'.1mg stories on the concerts ,.,~ri ;~+ 0 ~.,; 0 ·~ the members. 1982 ""..,,,.,.,..,,, has as assistant director of admissions for alumni will pursue a mathematics at the while PmnJrrnP~ .. Washington University. Andy is an actor with the Source Theatre in Washington. 1984 Marie Benedict is working for the Office of Development and External Affairs at Teachers College, the School of Education for Columbia University. "I was hired to assist in the fund-raising campaign," she writes. "In other words, I do just about anything. I'm certainly learning a lot about fund-raising." Pointing out that she will receive free tuition, Miss Benedict plans to enroll in a graduate program at TeachersCollege in the summer or fall. She plays tournament badminton as a member of the Columbia Club team. Sharing an apartment in New York with Marie is Amy Bianco, SF '86, who works 'in a bookstore in Brooklyn. Mark Pothier who has been serving as secretary to the director of career counseling, will move to San Francisco in August. Before he goes, he will spend a month as an administrative aide at the St. Mary's Center for Critical and Creative Thinking, a program for gifted and talented youngsters from 11 to 13 in Maryland's St. Mary's City. He previous~y was a couns1.lor there. 1985 Jeffrey Wilson has been awarded a four-year fellowship for graduate study leading to a doctorate in philosophy at Emory University, Atlanta. Mr. Wilson, who will begin his studies at Emory in September, has been reader services librarian in the- Annapolis library library for the past two years. 4 C. Todd Reichart has gradu..c:..c.~~-,_,_ ~ 1.nterrdgatdr course'atFort Students were taught the 'techniques and methodology of conducting tactical interrogations. While at St. John's, Todd was a photographer for The Reporter. 1986 Kevin whose inspiration led to the start the St. John's-Naval Academy croquet games five years ago, has be-t?n teaching since his graduation from the Santa Fe campus at the West Oak Psychiatric Hospjtal in Houston, the largest adolescent center in Texas. _,...,.,,.._,..,"''"the school was established disturbed youngsters students 1987 - . ...... ,,~; 7 ~~;~~~ in VienLots of Ro e B. Robert B. Davis, A '69, San Francisco designer and architect, died of a brain infection April 9. He was 40 years old. His "deft creative touch helped make public triumphs of the de Young Museum's King Tut, Tiffany, Alexander the Great, Vatican and many other exhibits," according to the San Francisco Examiner. Mr. Davis had been on the staff of the de Museum since-1963. Born in Ore., served in the Peace and a half years after from John's.. He received his architectural trainat the Southern California Institute of vue,aui:; Bernard A . died unexpectedly March 8 at his home in New York City. He served on the St. John's College Board of Visitors and Governors from 1968 through 1974 and from l 975 through 1981. A resolution passed at the April meeting stated that the board "learned with sadness" of Mr. Fleischmann 's death and that his "unfailing interest, generosity, and devoted service are warmly remembered and deeply appreciated." An internationally regarded scholar in the field of comparative literature, Mr. Fleischmann was 58. He was professor of_ English and comparative literature at - s avis "Although his artistic celebrity came as a museum exhibition designer, Mr. Davis had always intended to resume his architectural practice. Designing exhibits was 'almost a parallel sidetrack to architecture ... But it is not my life's work,' "the obituary quotes him as saying. An accomplished photographer, woodworker and sailor, Mr. Davis frequent] both as skipper and crew, in and trans-Atlantic sailing Montclair State College, former dean of its School of Humanities and an adjunct faculty member at the New York University. Previously he was chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at ~he University of Massachusetts. His publications include "Lucretius and English Literature, 1680-1740." Mr. Fleischmann was general editor of The Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. He held master's and doctoral degrees from the University of North Carolina. Survivors include his mother, Gertrude Fleishmann of Vienna, Austria, and a sister, Ruth Fleischmann Weiner, of Seattle. William 'Dinty' Mo re William Hanson "Dinty" Moore HI, St. John's lacrosse coach in the 1920s, died recently in Boynton Beach, Fla., at the age of 86. Mr. Moore was assistant to the president of St. John's before his appointment as lacrosse coach in 1926. ''In his nine years at St. John's, he won four national championships, and in 1930 his team was one of two to defeat the Oxford-Cambridge team from England," an obituary in the Baltimore Sun states. From 1936 to 1958, Mr. Moore was lacrosse coach at the U.S. Naval Academy. He led the midshipmen to six national lacrosse championships and one international championship. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University, he founded the Lacrosse News as part of a plan to popularize lacrosse throughout the country. Mr. Moore served as president of the <>rul·rn~ College for Women in Lutherfrom 1928 to l 952. t Appropriately for a St. Johnny, Larry Mr. Jones gained experience in restoraJones, A '81, enjoys his works because it tion while a student at St. John's. Embrings together so many disciplines. ployed by Charles E. Berliner, A '70, an Mr. Johnes' Ellicott City, Md., firm, Annapolis contractor, Larry works on the Intarsia (the word refers to decorative greenhouse at Paca Gardens, the Victualdesigns produced by inlaid wood), special- ing Warehouse at the foot of Main Street izes in restoring historic homes. and the Hammond Harwood House. Articles about Mr: Jones' current proBefore coming to St. John's, Mr. Jones ject, Gunston Hall in Lorton, Va., have served in the Marine Corps and was a appeared in The Washington Post and commercial fisherman in Casco Bay, The New York Times. Completed in 1755, Maine. Gunston was th~ home of George Mason, Larry's address is 768 Oella Avenue, planter, statesman and author of the Vir- Ellicott City, Md. 21043. ginia Declaration of Rights, on which the Constitution's Bill of Rights is based. The most eye-catching feature of the front hall, or "passage," as pictured in the Washington Post Horne Section, is the color of the walls _:__:,a striking Prussian Annapolis students who pay their tuiblue accentuated by sparkling white wood- tion for the 1987-88 academic year in work. According to Mr. Jones, a "tre- advance will be able to eliminate one step mendous amount of research" went into in the registration process in September. restoration of the passage. Dates for registration are September 2 for In keeping with techniques of the peri- freshman and seniors and September 3 for od, the walls first were covered with white sophomores and juniors. "laid" paper, similar to textured statioRegistrar Nancy Lewis explains the nery. Unavailable in rolls, the paper came change in the procedure. In the past, stuin 20 by 30 foot sheets. Blue paint was dents had to stand in line in the Business "made from scratch" to duplicate that · Office to pick up their Treasurer's Cards originally used in the house and applied before registering. This year cards of those over the .who have pre-paid will be sent directly to The medallions beneath the cor- the registrar, who will notify the director William Buckland., of residence that fees have been Students will not be issued keys to their rooms until their fees. The different for will freshmen. Those who their which will include the at the Admissions Office in McDowell Hall. and The new Treasurer's Card will show the enormous rare breakdown offees into tuition, room and "he said. board. New registration change drops step �M fl) ,, d.) II.. 'O «I ;:: c 0 J/t. '.A I :II © ....i ]? .::>o ~~· ::I :::l ...; c ..- :0:0.....,,c~ 0.. 0.. U) ta <( c;'IJ relier Sch· T Al KE BREUER thought it would be exciting to live in Talke who graduates this year from St. John's. Recipient of a Graduate Scholarship, she will have a chance to do so beginning in the structure, and language of France at the Sorbonne Center for the Study of French Civilization. Her scholarship covers room, board and tmtion. This will be a return to Paris for Miss Breuer. whose home Cedar Iowa. She studied French at the Sorbonne for six weeks last summer. While in France, Miss Breuer will have as advisor a member of a local Rotary club. She will speak at meetings of her sponsoring club and at other Rotary clubs in the country. Then when she returns to the States, she will report on her experiences at meetings of American Rotary clubs. Her poise and enthusiasm make Talke Breuer seem well suited for the role she describes as "an ambassador for Rotary International." Of her plans for the future, she says, "I wouldn't mind staying in Paris for a while" after the year is over. Eventually she hopes to work as an editor and translator for a university publishing company. Born in Germany, Miss Breuer has lived in the United States since 1978, when her family moved to Iowa. In addition to German, French and English, she speaks ·Spanish. She was an American Field Service exchange student to Bolivia while in high school. by TONI WILKINSON Diana Palmer and Adrienne Pixiev. SF '87, have been awarded Watson Fellowships to support a year of independent study and travel abroad. These two seniors were among 80 students from 45 colleges chosen by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation from i 78 finalists. Fifteen Watson Fellowships have been awarded to students from the Santa Fe campus of St. John's since t 971. Foundation officials say that the fellows have the opportunity to "explore . with thoroughness a particular interest, test their aspirations and abilities, view their lives and American society in greater perspective and develop a more informed sense of international concern." Both Miss Palmer and Miss Pixley plan to work in studies related to the field of medicine, a long-standing and deep commitment they share in common even though their focus will be quite different. Miss Palmer will study the history of alchemy in Spain and Majorca, allowing some time for travel in Germany to study Goethe's work in color theory, the basis of her senior essay. Her interest in alchemy comes from her belief that science is removed from people's lives and should involve philosophy and mysticism to teach things about the soul. "The study of the world and of the self " says Miss Palmer. are the same focuses on ·bein a and non-isolated way but is very scientific." .'-"'L'•u1.. , 6 from a very poor area m the St John's planetanum campus to Michac:1 Va. Mr. Smith grew up as a self-described "fix-it guy." Planetarium proponents can him a '"can-do" "Mike got us motivated, according to Mark Daly, director of laboratories, who was responsible for a large part of getting· the olanetarium [O operate again. "I say, This is just a piece of and he would say, ''No, we've got to get to work.'" In recent years the planetarium had fallen into disuse when equipment there, made in the 1940s, ceased to be replaced. Pnor to that, patchwork repairs on elechad kept it going, but, abandoned uarkened, the planetarium had been relegated to a campus storage center. In February of l 986 Mr. Smith climbed over some old chairs and couches and appraised the situation. "I looked at the biggest clump of messy, dirty wiring and decided it should come out." He was a student inspired. Despite appearances, the planetarium, he was convinced, could be made to work. Undertaking its reconstruction in an unheated buiding, he spent an estimated 20 hours taking out most of the "ugly" existing electricity and meanwhile called for help. Aid appeared in the shape of Mr. Daly and Roy Armstrong, technical director of laboratories. Supporting the three of them was tutor James Beall, an astrophysicist by training. Mr. Daly, who took it from there, discovered that old style bulbs, which originally lit the planetarium, were no longer made. He purchased new up-to-date fittings and sockets. He also wrote to Spitz Space Systems, Inc., the firm that had made the equipment, and asked for the planetarium's original blueprint. Then, working in his spare time, he took the planetarium apart and cleaned understanding of healing of the spirit into a medical career. She plans to return to work with people of her own Hispanic cultural background in the hopes of helping to blend the old lJVays of devout Catholicism and the Kurandera (faith healer) with the advances of modern technology through an of the spiritual relatedness of the world and self. Miss a career rr1edicine with._..,,.,,.,,""'"'' Much of the care she prolonging rather than hte-sustammJ:;. Her plans to elderly in China to see the old Contuc1an for the elderly applied their care. She of :>tudents was IJegmmng to work · Jim Beall came in to do some fine ,.,...,,... ,,.," such advice as «That star is too it" or "That star isn l the should be blue." deaned, and this year, used once oeg1ruung pu-.a,,.mu classes to teach students sun and planets. Now that it revitalized good insofar limitations. Mr. Beall is anxious to tor that would enable students in the southern hemisphere the independent motions of the planets, something not presently possible. "That would cost two gym floors," he figured the cost. Mr. Daly came up with a more specific figure - $250,000. Next year Janet Hayes, a rising San Antonio, Tex., senior, will have responsibilities for the planetarium as student aide for astronomy. The planetarium will be working again, thanks to the co~lective effort of Messers Armstrong, Beall, Daly and Smith-and.with a particular bow to Mr. Smith for his persistence. The deciswn on out of a me ... uu,t; mten:stt:a students according to nn.n..-•i·u "It was more than we could afford from our supplies budget," Mr. Dink said. A change in the budgeting proce.ss, however, channeled to a special fund the locker fees and money received from renting the gym and playing fields to outsiders. Since student referees and scorekeepers are no longer paid from the fund, a substantial amount was left to purchase special equipment. A new squat rack, which requires that the user push weights up from underneath, was donated by Jason Ungar, a freshman from Valley Stream, N. Y. Charlie Wallace, superintendent of the physical plant, assisted by plumber Sid Phipps, welded racks for the weights and dumbells to give the room a neater look. Mr. Oink agrees with Mr. Lavery that the room itself needs improvements - a new floor, better ventilation and repair of a leaky radiatoJ. Meanwhile the Weight Room, open during regular gym hours, is used "fairly regularly," Mr. Oink says, by faculty and both male and famale students. Tutor has grant Annapolis tutor Eva Brann has been awarded a grant to complete study on the imagination during the next acad.emic year. She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. On leave this year and already at work on the project, Miss Brann 's book-length study will be an interpretive survey of the subject of imagination as it concerns philosophy, psychology, logic, literature, the visual arts, theology and the affective life. _,__ ~-~·~~--~~~~~~- � 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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April 1987 I • Riccards' inauguratio n1 May 2 aster plan t e ra f r Ii is reti Commencement Day May 24 the McDowell bell will ring not only for a graduating senior class but for Barbara Leonard, whose departure from St. John's Collc;ge is eminent, too. After 36 years and more than half her life at the college, St. John's first, full-time woman faculty member will take her legendary, trail blazing self back to Oberlin, Ohio; a pair of field glasses for birding by her side and a long vision into the future to preoccupy her. She is not St. John's first woman faculty member, as is commonly thought. She was preceded by Helen Hill Miller, a distinguished journalist who taught economics briefly and on a part-time basis after 1937 during the curriculum changeover. But Miss Leonard is the first fulltime woman faculty member at St. John's, and her arrival here in 19 51 meant the coming, after 255 years, of women to St. John's. · Commencement Day she is expected to look back, to reminisce about those years. She was the first choice of seniors to be their speaker at exercises under the Liberty Tree, an occasion that adds to welleamed honors extended to her over the years. To deliver the speech, she will return to Annapolis early Sunday from Oberlin, where the 50th anniversary of her own college class is scheduled the night before. She has been on the planning committee working on that event for three years. it will be a memorable final year for Miss Leonard. THIS WINTER, AT a concert on her 70th birthday December 5, there was a college-wide party when the Continuum Chamber Sin-gers of Washington played "Happy Birthday" instead of an encore. Having never missed a concert, Miss Leonard was certain to be present for the standing ovation she received as Tina Davidson, with a cake alight with candles, advanced from the far side of the Key Auditorium. Afterwards, Mrs. Davidson had arranged for five big sheet cakes to be served in the Key foyer. Close friends, Marilyn and Charles Mylander, who annually give a party for the senior class at their Eastern Shore farm, made it the occasion for a second birthday party. The Caritas Society, for which she (See Assistant Dean, P. 8) The Annapolis campus is undertaking a major master plan looking toward establishing long-term building priorities.· Newly begun at the request of President William M. Dyal, Jr., the study has been spurred in part by two pressing needs: those for additional housing for students and for increased library space. Howard Fisher, chairman of the Campus Planning Committee, said that the comprehensive study will consider what functions St. John's now has on campus and where they may best be located. With interviews of key personnel already underway on campus, the plan, he said, is expected to include "virtually anything you mention," from the location of the coffee shop to the question of what type of new dormitories would best serve St. John's. In order to locate future construction correctly, Mr. Fisher said the study will take into consideration walkways, heating and telephone lines, and traffic patterns. A professional firm will be named to assist the committee in its planning. Mr. Dyal emphasized the need for an overview for planning purposes before proceeding with other projects once St. John's has completed work on the KeyMellon complex, including the construction of the new wing. "WHATEVER we build in the next few years should serve us for the next century," he said. The need for more dormitory space was described as "very acute" in a letter recently mailed by Kenneth Colston, director of residence, to college officials. St. John's added 28 additional spaces when the Paca-Carroll wing was built and that dormitory remodeled in 198 l, but they were quickly absorbed, particularly as the nature of down-town Annapolis continues to change. The Historic District, in which St. John's is located, is now one of the most (See Need for, P. 7) Festivities set for two days Michael P. Riccards will be inaugurated as president of the Santa Fe campus May ~ in two days of events celebrating the culture and ethnic diversity of the region. "The inauguration is being designed to include the participation of many of St. John's neighbors, the people that give Santa Fe its special character and are so important to the college," Marsha Drennon, project coordinator for the celebration, said. "It's also meant to be a festive occasion that the Santa Fe communitv as a whole can enjoy. It's time for St. John's to show and share our traditions with the outside world and to share in the rich traditions of our neighbors." Festivities will begin Friday, May l, with a performance by the Laurentian String Quartet at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall. It will be preceded by a reception for President and Mrs. Riccards. · On Saturday the inaugural procession will begin at 10:45 a.m. from the Peterson Student Center and will include guests invited from 600 colleges and universities. Santa Fe's own Fiesta Council will lead the procession accompanied by the Santa Fe band. Representatives from the Indian Pueblos, the Board of Visitors and Governors, the faculty, alumni and students with delegates from the governor's and mayor's offices will be seated on the platform. (See Events, P. 5) II sl t r ya The inauguration of Annapolis president William M. Dyal, Jr., will take place October 23, the evening before the fall meeting of the Board of Vistiors and Governors. Speaking will be Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and senior fellow of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. The inauguration will culminate a four weeks celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the New Program. (See Dyal ceremony, P. 4) Students to be on fl_ublic TV 'The best,' Moyers hails seminar The Saturday morning televised seminar with Mortimer Adler and St. Johns students couldn't have pleased Bill Moyers more, even in comparison with those he had filmed with business executives at Aspen, Colo., conferences. - "This was my ninth program with Mortimer Adler and the best," Mr. Moyers acclaimed the seminar, planned as one of a series he is doing for National Public Television this spring. .. The students outshone the executives in Aspen. They did their homework; they read the text, and they held Mortimer's considerable feet to the fire of scepticism and interrogation. It's going to be a wonderful contribution to the series." At press time, it was still undecided when the St. John's program will be shown. "We're shooting for April 16," reported Mr. Moyers's secretary, who cautioned the college community to check their newspaper listings. The St. John's seminar is expected to be the first- of the series, "In Search of the Constitution," being sponsored this spring by public television stations WNET in New York and by WTVS in Detroit and to be shown nationally. Besides the seminar on the Constitution, the St. John's program will include some of Mr. Adler's annual lecture here and a conversation the 87-year-old philosopher and long-time St. John's friend has with Mr. Moyers in the library's King William Room. The 13 students who participated in the seminar had an opportunity to meet Mr. Adler and Mr. Moyers, who is executive editor of Public Affairs Television, at dinner Friday at the home of President William M. Dyal, Jr. Mr. Moyers, mixing easily with students and other guests, is an old friend of Mr. Dyal, who was responsible for bringing him here. WITH TWO CAMERAS recording Mr. Adler's lecture, Public Television brought in literally tons of equipment, brilliantly illuminating the stage and Conversation Room with lights as bright as 2,000 watts. Clearly no home movie wai being made. Besides Mr. Moyers, the staff (See The prank, P. 4) �! IJ Page2 April 1987 ~~Eaa 1930 Edwin and Bess Dwyer moved in August to Blue Bell, Pa. ''Ed has space for roses and Bess for her piano, books and an occasional grandchild;" they write. Soon after arriving in their new home, they took a one-week cruise to Bermuda. Ed celebrated his 80th birthday in September. "We have reached that time of life where we do not count our age, we count our blessings!" they write. "Among the latter, of course, are our many friends and relatives around the world." 1933 David Campbell Ninde died August 22 in a·hospital near Atkinson, N.H. He transferred to St. John's from Amherst College in 1930 and was a member of the . Alpha Kappa Pi fraternity. A tax specialist, Mr. Ninde enjoyed boating. He is survived by a son and a daughter. 1949 Allan A, and Sheldon Boilen A '58, will be co-leaders of seminars on the complete works of Plato at the Peninsula Public Librarv. Island, is a member Bart is quoted as saying. "Now Uncle Sam has· to foot the bill for what its errant child has done." Finally, in a letter to Smithsonian mag:. azine about the Domesday book, Mr. Bart has this to say about its significance: "The judgment day from which the book's title derives was the day on which the property ownerships noted in the book were decided, as well as recorded. The officers of the king who rode circuit to compile the information also judged any disputes, of which there were many. Their appearance at each place was its judgment day. "We derive all our legal notions about the importance of record from the Domesday Book, our first record and the first time the King of England went on the record for posterity." 1970 Edward M. Macierowski, A, was guest curator of an exhibit on "Aristotelian Science in the Dibner Library" at the National Museum of American History from Januarv 2 to March 25. 1972 group. 1968 on her thesis in education at DalMrs. Cox writes that of community. As a ".:heme," families were moved in 1960s from where Mrs. Cox lives onCape Breton Island to a county seat 100 miles away. She considers education to be "more than the number of vears in school and test scores on achievei'nent tests." Some of the old people she met are "so 'cultured' even though they couldn't read or write. They had such a wealth of music and story and song in their heads and hearts." In various places, in various ways, Bartholomew lee's name has been in the news. Insight quoted him in a piece entitled "Misdirected Mail," an article in which attorneys for tax shelter investors and tax protestors are reported to say that mail to and from their clients is misdirected to the Internal Revenue Service and opened by that agency. Bart, who is a San Francisco attorney, savs the drafts of a client's tax returns opened and stamped by City, Mo. Forbes magazine quoted him in a story about convicted swindler Michael Helwho vanished into the federal witne~s protection program, a state that left him free, according to civil fraud suits, to go on a scamming rampage for more than a year in cases involving thrift institutions. "The U.S. created a person who could, in fact if not intention, cause significant damage to a federally insured institution," Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence Bems, Betsy Blume, John Christensen, Howard Zeiderman, Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. The Reporter is published by the Public Relations Office, St John's College, Annapolis, MD 21404. William M. Dyal, Jr., president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second-class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS 018-750 a:i:iw111u~ after a year m t'ans, where Russ continues to work as a consultant. They have settled in Katonah, l'i.Y., while Margaret studies· for her master of scinece degree inn ursing at Pace Universitv. "Russ is worki~g on his second computer book while puttering towards a master of theology degree at Westminster Theological Seminary," Margaret writes. They have three children, ages 9, 6, and 2, "and four computers!" · 1975 An article by Tina Saddy A, entitled "What Hath Woman Wrought" will appear in the Winter 1987 issue of the Human Life Review. According to Tina, the article discusses the evils caused by the over-zealous egalitarianism of the feminist movement. Her other sales include a book review for the National Catholic Register. Residents of Northvale, N.J., Tina and her husband, Paul, a softwear engineer, have four children. 1976 studies at of West Florida, Pensacola. "I hope to finish eventually a B. S. in humani" he writes. For the past 10 years, he has worked as a television installer and draftsman and in an architectural office. He also was a bandsman in the Army. 1977 Tom and Ann have a son, John Thomas born March 17, 1986. "Tom received tenure in 1986 at the University of Louisville. His field is American literature, mainly contemporary," she writes. "I am enjoying my work in early childhood education tremendously ... I coordinate a voluntary accreditation program for day care centers, train day care personnel, act as a consultant to day cares, do (Continued on Page H) extreme regu- go home every single night and " he reports. He also regularly wins prizes for his poetry. His newest is the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, awarded for a previously unpublished book of poems in a nationwide competition. It went for his volume, Whistle Maker, which The Anhinga Press in Tallahassee, Fla., has just published. In addition, he has received two prizes of the Poetry Society of America: the 1983 Gordon Barber Award, which he won for a 36-line poem about a fish, "Kuli Loach," and the 1984 Celia Wagner Award for a poem under 100 lines, given him for "Kappa," a poem based on Japanese mythology. Last year his chap book, The Glitter Bait, was chosen from among 300 manuscripts under 40 pages to receive the Massachusetts Arts-Wayland Foundation Artist Wreath's Award. . His poetry also has begun to appear regularly in such m·agazines as Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Boulevard, Yankee and Christian 5;'cience Monitor. After leaving St. Mr. Levy went on to Oxford where he received a second bachelor's degree in in 1980. Since then he has had a ofjobs in publishing. A year ago he an editor for United Features in New York the way he has held fellowships arid the MacDowell Colwife, Kari Jenson, A '78, a former president of the King William Players, is appearing with several regional theaters in the New York area, including the Whole Theater Company in Mountclair, N.J. Mr. Levy's poetry has been praised for being "aslosh with passion and curiosity and restlessness." David Kirby has written that" 'The Sports Pages' may be the best poem ever written on the average American male's asinine, unquenchable desire to slap a ball into the left-field bleachers." Edward Hirsch writes: "Robert J. Levy's poems glitter with wonder and amazement of world. The act of act of enchantment. his poems shimmer with the life of the mind entangling itself with a recalcitrant world. "He has a fine eye for the neglected and overlooked, the otherwise lost and forgotten. He is also an insightful observer of our daily human weathers, especially charting the-_dense fogs, sunlit rains and changing winds of romantic love." I Moshe (Mel) Kline, A '66, reports on a "significant St. John's presence in Israel and in Jerusalem in particular." He lists 24 Johnnies living in that country. A recent lecture by Steve11-,Harvey, A '70, drew no less than five other Johnnies: Bob Sacks, A '54; Yehoshua (Jeff) Friedman, A '70; Nancy Goldwin Harvev. A '67; Deena Brodkin Kline, A '67, Kline. together once a A dozen Johnnies month in Jerusalem a seminar. In addition, two national alumni picnics are scheduled this year. · members of the St. John's comwho olan to be in Israel at any time are more than welcome to our activities either the Klines or the writes. His address is Metzerav Jerusalem, 02-816311. Steven address is 152/ 3 Even Shmuel, Ramot Jerusalem, 02-867177. Other alumni in Israel are Brett Goldberg, SF '82; Bonnie Linder, A '82; Oded Ben-Yosef, A '84; David SF '67; David Sockton, SF '69; Mara Shiffren, SF '82; Jerome Cantor, A '47; Josh Senyak, SF '84; Miles Krassen, A '67; Yossi Gilboa (Joel Greenberg), A '62; Raphael Ben-Yosef (Ralph C. Finkel), A '48; Alexandrea Dane Dor-ner, SF '69; and Daniel Sohn, A '7 I. Graduate Institute alumni in Israel listed by Mr. Kline are Joseph Aminoff, SF '82; Lee Arnold, A '83; Ibrahim M. Mahoud Shaban, SF '81; Sara Cohen, SF '80, and Itzak Roeh, A '79. �April 1987 Page~ THE REPORTER With.eye to the sky, Derr is top scientist by DOROTHY KINSMAN Many scientists focus. narrowly on a single field. Vernon A. Derr's vision, however, must encompass the entire geophysical environment. Mr. Derr, A '48, is director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 10 Environmental Research Laboratories, responsible for much of the research on which improvements in the agency's weather forecasts are based. The laboratories are unique in their holistic approach to understanding man's effect on the environment, Mr. Derr said. Their integrated program of fundamental research includes studies of the oceans and inland waters, the lower and upper atmosphere and the space environment. With headquarters in Boulder, the laboratories are in Maryland, Florida, New Jersey, Michigan, Washington and Oklahoma, as well as in Colorado. Mr. Derr vi~its each at least once a year. He also oversees six cooperative institutes on university campuses across the country. In all, the laboratories and institutes employ approximately 1,200 Small wonder that Mr. Derr found it necessary to resign from the St. John's Alumni Board in 1985 because of the pressure of time. Durine: his two years as the nominating committee. A REGULAR PARTICIPANT in Santa Fe's alumni activities, Mr. Derr to organize alumni events in the Denver area. Discussing his work, Mr. Derr pomted out, "NOAA's mission is not only to provide the weather forecasts you see on TV or in the newspapers." The agency also is required to forecast climate changes. H relies on a network of observatories, including those in Point Barrow, Alaska; Mauna Loa, Hawaii; American Samoa and the South Pole. e In these locations, he says, the atmosphere is pristine. Base line data collected is compared with that from other areas to determine the effect of man's activities. Humans are most.certainly responsible, he believes, for recent .increases disco- VERNON DERR vered in the atmospheric concentrations of several gases: methane, nitro,gen oxide, freon,' and tropospheric ozone. Mr. Derr is concerned that, like carbon dioxide, these gases are contributing to the so-called "greenhouse effect" The only way to solve the problems potentially caused by carbon dioxide is to cut back on the use of fossil fuels, he observed. "This would have a staggering effect on the economy of the earth, in the fields of both industry.and business, and a major and profound effect on man's activities." Constantly striving to make its forecasts more accurate, NOAA has grown more skillful in predicting short term weather phenomena such as tornadoes and other severe storms. Mr. Derr attrib- t I JIMMY MCCONNELL SF '88 Michael P. Riccards, Santa Fe's new wants the students to get to him. He is more accessible than most college presidents regularly holding open office hours. Students are encouraged to come talk to him about anything from the quality campus life to their papers. They may make appointments for these hours, which occur every few weeks. Students are important to him. Over the Thanksgiving holidays, Mr. Riccards was sympathetic to the students who couldn't go home on this family occasion. He rented a large color TV and VCR for the college for the weekend. Mr. Riccards and his family had a candlelit Thanksgiving dinner with the students in the dining hall. "If I had known there were this few people," Mr. Riccards said about the twenty students, "we could have invited everyone out to our house. Actually, it's the college's house, so it's your house more than ours." Such gestures might not ordinarily mean anything other than a political ploy, but Mr. Riccards gives indications of being serious about working for the students rather than with them. Besides the open office hours (something uncommon even in schools as small as ours), Mr. Riccards helps expose important college guests to the students directly. When New Mexico Governor Garrey Carruthers came to St. John's in January · to speak to New Mexican college and University presidents on "Education in New Mexico," Mr. Riccards appointed a student to be his liaison. Mr. Carruthers asked the student many questions about St. John's and was "quite impressed" with the curriculum. Most presidents would appoint an administrative staff representative to escort such an important guest. Mr. Riccards helped Dean James Carey to bring together a weekly political forum t (his Ph.D. from Rutgers is m political science) and held the first discussion himself on the subject of the presidency. Recently he was elected to the National Advisory Council for the Center for the Study of the Presidency, which deals with defense policy and national security. Mr. Riccards' book, A Republic If You Can Keep It: The Foundations of the American Presidency 1700-1800, will be published in June. One of the major guest speakers in this forum was John Ehrlichman, the former Nixon administration counsel and assistant to the president for domestic affairs, who lives and writes in Santa Fe. Mr. Ehrlichman spoke to about 250 students and Santa Fe residents about the November election results arid the impact of those results on the 1988 elections. Mr. Ricards also plans a visit of Sen. Mark Hatfield, of Oregon, to the Santa Fe campus in the next few months. Mr. Riccards invited several students and tutors to be guests of the college at a dinner for Ehrlichman. "That kind of thing wouldn't have happened before," commented a staff member. "Students just would not have been invited." The dinner discussion was lively, and Mr. Ehrlichman appeared to enjoy the opportunity to talk openly and informally with the students. Mr. Riccards' inauguration on May 2 will be a celebration of the local arts and culture of the Santa Fe area involving students from St. John's as well as students from the Santa Fe High School, the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and New Mexico School for the Deaf. He plans to give a seminar on Machiavelli's The Prince for the Albuquerque Alumni Chapter in May. His commitment as an educator and his special interest in the presidency as an administrator make him well-suited to be the Santa Fe campus' first resident president. utes this to the use of satellites ana Doppler radar, which detects the speed as well as the locations of weather disturbances. In his own research, Mr. Derr takes the long view. He is measuring and developing theories concerning the storage of sol:!P heat in the upper l 00 meters of the Pacific Ocean, research applicable to predicting how climates will fluctuate over periods of several years. "WHEN IT'S VERY cloudy, less heat is stored. When it's less cloudy, more heat is stored," he said. The heat, released slowly, drives the wind and rain. A change in the amount of cloudiness results in weather changes throughout the Pacific Basin. Mr. Derr is particularly interested in the causes and effects of the storm system, El Nino, which occurs every three or four years. Influencing wind structure, atmospheric pressure and rainfall patterns across the Pacific Basin, El Nino affects the weather not only in the Pacific but also in North and South America. Mr. Derr adds that his administrative duties limit severely the time he can board NOAA 's ships and aircraft and pursue his own research. Under Mr. Derr's direction, the develfield of artificial intelligence has applied innovatively to the problems of weather and climate forecasting. "Artifical intelligence will not rep lace the forecaster," -he said, "but will assist him to handle and to understand the massive amounts of data now available." Mr. Derr currentl){\ is pursuing a long term goal of utilizing artificial intelligence in scientific researc*t provide new, radically different me .ods for complex investigations. After graduating f\om St. John's, Mr. Derr received a docto~ate in physics from the Johns Hookins University. He was an and mathematics at t Hopkins, a professor in the graduate physics program at Rollins College~ Winter Park, Fla., and principal scientist at Martin Marietta, Orlando, before joining the Environmental Research Laboratories in 1967. Mr. Derr was appointed director of the laboratories in 1983. He also is an adjunct professor in the electrical engineering department at the University of Colorado. On September 24, 1984, Mr. Derr delivered the Cochran lecture on the St. John's Santa Fe campus. Established and funded by the widow of Edward Born Cochran, '44, the lectures, preferably in the field of science, are given on the two campuses in alternate years. Speaking on "Prophecy and Prediction," he compared the methods of prophecy in Greece to those of modern oracles utilizing scientific methods. IN NOVEMBER MR. Derr and Thomas Byrnes, SF '71, demonstrated for principals of elementary and junior high schools in the Denver area the use of the seminar as a teaching technique for younger children. They will continue to lead additional seminars. Mr. Derr was presented with the Senior Executives Association's Distinguished Executive Service Award in January in Washington. An avid tennis player, Mr. Derr last year was a semi-finalist in the Men's Doubles Ladder Championship of the Boulder Tennis Association. He enjoys hiking and skiing when time permits. He also plays the flute and has assembled a collection of primitive flutes over the years. Mr. Derr and his wife, Mary, live in Boulder. Parents of a grown son and three grown daughters, they have one grandchild, David Vernon Derr, who lives with his parents in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. David wants to be a scientist when he @ nHfat Through the effo/ts of a sophomore from Takoma P3_r_k/,Md., St. John's is the starting point otayear-long tour of works by a sculptor and graphic artist who can trace his artistic lineage directly to. Auguste Rodin. The student is Fielding Dupuy, grandson of the artist, Arnold Geissbuhler. Born in Dellemont, Switzerland in 1897, Geissbuhler studied in Paris with Antoine Bourdelle, a student of Rodin and manager of his studio. In turn, Geissbuhler became Bourdelle's assistant. Consisting of 45 sculptures, drawings and wall hangings, the show at St. John's runs to April 27. Mr. Dupuy, 21, explains how the exhibit came about. Upon hearing that Mr. Geissbuhler, who lives in Dennis, Mass., was donating all his work to the new Cape Cod Museum of Fine Art, Mr. Dupuy urged the artist to schedule some shows. "My grandfather is a very retiring person" who does not like to take the initiative in arranging exhibits, Mr. Dupuy said. "He said nobody wanted to look at his work. I said I'd gethim some exhibits." Mr. Dupuy put together a portfolio and showed it to Burton Blistein, St. John's artist-in-residence. Recognizing the sculptor's merit, Mr. Blistein agreed to schedule the exhibit. While in Europe last summer, Mr. Dupuy used the portfolio in persuading galleries in Switzerland and other countries to display the pieces. "The work speaks for itself. l was just the one who got people to look at it," Mr. Dupuy said. But that was only the beginning. Almost singlehandedly,· Mr. Dupuy has worked out the itinerary of the tour, handled the publicity and arranged for the printing of invitations, announcements and a 20-page catalogue, which he assembled. In addition, he planned the opening reception, which he hopes the Swiss ambassador and cultural attache will attend. Mr. Dupuy's faith in his grandfather's genius is supported by an article in Cape Arts. Describing Geissbuhler's gift to the museum as a "major world-class collection," Paul Giambarba writes, "Arnold Geissbuhler has been, for the most part overlooked. Reticent by nature, he is not comfortable in the artist-as-promoter role that has contributed to make s.o many lesser talents highly visible ... "Until recently he thought nobody cared very much about his work. He did not receive recognition for his art, or his important role in the transfer of realistic academic sculpture to contemporary abstract." Tutor at conference Annapolis tutor Beate Ruhm von Oppen was a concluding speaker at a conference, "The Other Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis," in Washington in February. Held under the aegis of the State Department, the conference was sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Miss von Oppen, who has made a study of the German resistance movement, was asked to summarize talks delivered by earlier speakers. Wilson Tufts speaker Annapolis tutor Curtis Wilson will speak at Tufts University April 24 as one of a series by historians of science lecturing there as part of the tercentenary of Newton's "Principia." · His talk will be entitled "Remarks on Celestial Mechanics from Newton to Laplace." The series - "The Newtonian Revolution" - will attract speakers from Tufts, Harvard, the Universities of Chicago, Indiana and Pittsburgh and the City University of New York. �The ceremoney will be in the Auditorium. fanning the event and at the same time as a committee for the "",..,,...,,,,,, ....~,n·u is a group chaired bv Dean Thomas J. Other members include tutors Allanbrook and Hen1am1n Van A '47, representing the alum- II (Continued from P. I) included three lighting men, an engineer, a sound man, an editor, and a make-up man. Wayne Ewing, the producer-director, doubled as o.ne of the three cameramen. Because the usual seminar table arrangement simply would not work in television, carpenters built an entirely new, elevated, horse-shoe shaped table in the Conversation Room. By 11 Friday night were still hammering away. period was transferred to the Great Hall. Shorter than usual to Mi-. Adler to return to Washington and to be back 9 a.m., it was preceded informal remarks by Mr. Moyers, who what he projected for other of the series. It will include interwith Court justices and with three who taken their cases to Court. expected to be on camera is the Because of the Dean Thomas the-senior class, which traone on Mr. to omit in the lecture this Adler noted this appreciatively he his talk. He also had a gracious comment about pranks of the past, which are known to range on a scale of quality all the way up and all the way down: "Some are quite marvelous, and others are pretty good." Mr. Adler thanked the seniors for this concession and assured juniors that next year "the gates are wide open." ·The juniors, however, couldn't wait. Midway through the lecture, Thomas Burke, of Annapolis, in red baseball hat, walked acros~ the stage with a flat package in his hand. which he propped up before the podium. On its back was written, "Affectionately, the Junior Class." stopping, Mr. Adler fished into for a $ l 0 bill. The juniors made on that one. The pizza they had hrmrnht cost $8.50. was in good taste, and it tasted good," commented Marcus t.ubanks of Valencia, Pa., one of the juniors who ran to the stage after the lecture to consume it. "I CLAIM responsibility-just foreknowledge and approval," commented Gerald McNabb, Cohasset, · to whom the prank was attributed. Pizza played a part in Saturday's events. It took some time for the seminar to get underway. The three cameras had to be calibrated for color, arid the crew fussed around with positioning the students, a little concerned that only four of the 13 participants were women. They were Christine Freeman, Rachel Duel, Amanda Dalton and Katia-Elena Sinis. The crew wanted some sort of balance in the seating. By the time the somewhat delayed seminar was over at I: 15 p.m., it was too late for students to go to the dining hall. At the proper moment, someone hinted that pizza might be welcome, and Mr. Moyers quickly volunteered to treat. Seven of the students trooped over to the private dinroom to have pizza with crew members, who were exhausted by their intensive work. Students provided the bever- on their senior papers, they also wanted to put in extra time on the Constitution. He, too, was impressed by Mr. Adler. "He knows an incredible amount." come to Miss Freeman said when "But Mr. said we weren't ted to come up with the answers. He wanted us to make the issues clear." For the most part, Mr. Moyers out of the picture. Occasionally, something came up of particular interest and on an issue with which he was especially concerned, he would pass a note asking a student to continue to stick with the point under discussion. Other seminar participants included Mr. Eubanks, picot Floyd, Matthew Szweda, Patrick Ching, Steven Dean and E\;I ward Komora. was very festive afterwards," Steven Browns Mills_ N.J., junior, said. issues u1::;\:u::,::;c:u cal 1mp1J1cat10r1s off as well as anr would have done_ "It was very, very Like other participating men, Mr. Verdi was spruced up in jacket and tie., "I NEVER DRESS like this for a seminar," he joked as he awaited his turn to be made up in the music office. Frank Rogers, a free lance make-up artist, had Mr. Adler and the students perch one-byone on a high stool he brought in for the evening. The results were subtle; no one could tell anyone was wearing tinted powder. Generally, students agreed that the Saturday morning discussion wasn't a seminar in the usual St. John's sense. The exigencies of the programming probably could not make that possible. "I really enjoyed the exercise," Mr. McNabb commented. "Mr. Adler was very pleasant, and I was very impressed by him. He has a very good sense of humor. There were no lulls. Mr. Adler ran the seminar and if a student didn't respond, would ask someone directly to something. A lot of the credit goes to Adler for keeping the pace up." he added, when some of the students felt nervous, they were "crac"and Mr. Adler joined right in. the seniors, engaged in completing their annual essays due on Sunday night, the seminar came at a bad time. Andrew Wakefield, Minneapolis, Minn., senior, noted that none of the three seniors had any sleep the before. Busy working photos by Keith Harvey �. Page 5 THE REPORTER I left, and Mortimer Adler before the filming u~yd11. Keith Harvey photo t t [/ Television brought an almost euphoric air of excitement the Friday night when Mortimer Adler spoke at St. John's, almost the significance of what he had to say, but did, after deliver a lecture on the Constitution, and he made some serious during the evening. While the writers of the Constitution were concerned with liberty, Mr. Adler said human equality was an idea on which the founders could not agree in 1787. was abolished 80 years after the 'onstitution was adopted. It is only within the last 50 that true democracy, an extension of voting represented rights, came to this country. The writers of the Constitution also were "blind" to the existence of economic in promoting the general . Adler said. It was left to their 19th and 20th century descendants to recognize this. co1..ui:;1m1uu of economic rights did not occur until the 20th century, and that ,..,,,,Ac•n•t 1 r.n was not implemented lation - and then only the third decade of this <'<>ntm·u the qwe:sti:on said when the atomic world then. "We c.;:n 't wait that to think_ There are too many ..,,-AklPmC mankind energy, the environment -problems he believes to be greater than that of nuclear threat IN HIS LECTURE, Mr. Adler out that the first attempts to ideals of justice and freedom were made in the Bill of Other stages of progress came about gradually, moving the federal in the direction of political demowere represented by the 13th, 15th, 19th and 24th amendments. we consider the establishment s Toni Wilkinson, director of community events and public information, is assuming still one more area of responsibility in Santa Fe. She will be in charge of alumni events, assuming the duties of Mary Sue Laurel, former coordinator of alumni activities, who has left St. John's to complete her master's degree. Ms. Wilkinson joined the college in late l 984,"coming here from the Santa Fe Opera's development office. She initially served as director of the annual fund and as acting director of alumni activities. At the May 17 commencement she will receive her master's degree from the Graduate Institute. "There are many advantages," Ms. Wilkinson says, "to wearing several hats and to grasping an overall view of the 'external' activities and relationships of the college. of justice, which certainly involves the equal treatment of equals, we are con:fronted with one of the great defects in the 18th century Constitution," he said. "Liberty, not equality, was foremost in the minds of the Founding Fathers. may not have forgotten the one clearly self-evident truth proclaimed in the Declaration was the equality of all human beings by virtue of their common But the self-evidence of .that not overcome the strong prejuagainst equality rampant at the time." A second defect in the Constitution, he said, affected the promotion of the general welfare. "The general welfare, as a distinct ponent in the public common good, must be conceived as the economic welfare of the country as a whole and of its individuals. When the statesmen of the 18th century thought about unalienable human rights, they had political rights in mind." A third defect, he believes, lay in the way the founders viewed "the unalienable right to liberty." "Unalienable rights can be secured only by safeguarding them through the enforcement of civil either through the provision of the Constitution itself or through legislative enactments." THE STATEMENT of political contained in the Declaration of Independence is much broader and more nrn+n. .. .-.rl than to be found in the m preamble or in articles and amendments, Mr. Adler said. He voiced great respect for the Preamble. "The words of the Preamble, echoing in part the language of the Declaration, breathe spirit into the rest of the Constitution. To ignore the Preamble is to disregard the ideals of the Constitution and the fundamental ideas and over-arching principles that it derives from the Declaration." s t "I will now be able to serve the wideranging alumni community as well as the communities of Santa Fe and New Mexico. St. John's offers far more than is contained in the classroom, and it is a welcome challenge to make the events and services offered as effective an outreach as they can be." Primary alumni work will remain in Annapolis with Betsy Blume, director of alumni activities. Ms. Wilkinson said coordination between the two offices will help ensure smooth-running programs in the alumni chapters around the country, the alumni summer program and Santa Fe homecoming in mid-July. Ms. Laurel is writing a thesis on the New Mexico paintings of Marsden Hartley, the 20th century American painter, under a master's of art history program offered by Tufts University. Three St. John's tutors - Geoffrey Comber, Nicholas Maistrellis and Howard Zeiderman - have developed a program for students from the seventh through the twelfth grades which is being tried out in a number of public schools. There is no formal connection with St. John's. The three faculty members consider the program tailored to the needs of the younger students and not an attempt to duplicate parts of the St. John's curriculum. What the program has in common with St. John's is an emphasis on discussion within the classroom. Participating are one school in Philadelphia, five in Pittsburgh, two in Hartford, Conn., and a group of lOO teachers from 20 schools in Alabama. Altogether about 5,000 students are involved. Designed for all students, it is focusing primarily on mainstream students in both inner city and rural schools. As part of the program, the tutors have compiled an anthology of readings, Touchstones, designed for these discussion classes. Mr. Comber said the three tutors became involved in this special project two years ago through teachers with whom they were working in the Graduate Institute. The teachers had informed them that, partly as a result of national reports of the 1970s critical of the failure in this country to teach skills in mathematics, science and language, schools had begun to place a on learning specific facts and along with test taking. The teachers found some consequences they considered disturbing. Tests and evaluation procedures were seen becoming ends in themselves. Some students were becoming bored and dropping out. Other students were in class. among themIN tutors agreed that concrete selves, skills needed to be taught. "But we asked ourselves two ques" Mr. Zeiderman said. •;First, whether there were other skills of a different kind needed for thriving in the modern world? Second, what could be done to the successes of American educaand yet also be a step toward remedyits shortcomings?" we thought about these issues, we realized thatthe two questions were really the same. Since the educational system itself is part of the technological world, the additional and supplementary skills might weH be what was also needed to enable students to flourish in the school system." Convinced of the importance of discussion as a means of learning the skills of teaching oneself and of cooperating with others, the three arrived at the conclusion that by introducing discussion classes into the regular curriculum, the skills developed there would spread into traditional classes. These discussion classes would require both teachers and students to change their traditional roles. "We wanted to make it possible for both students and teachers to think about and, in some cases, even break through the roles they had been living in school," Mr. Maistrellis said. "The so-called 'gifted' students needed to become more reflective about their skills and abilities and more respectful of students whose talents weren't as readily testable. "Other students needed to experience an activity in school which they considered serious, in which they could participate, and where their contributions would be respect~d. And finally, the teachers themselves had to learn to utilize their teaching strengths in a context where they were not authorities." The book, TQuchstones, which they have compiled, consists of short readings which can be read in class in a few minutes. It is intended for students of all abili- ties, ranging from the talented and gifted to those- with learning difficulti.es. Texts sometimes are read aloud so tha1 students who cannot read are not excluded. The second important feature of the program is the training of teachers to lead discussions. Mr. Comber said this customarily is done by means of summer workshops and follow-up visits for observation of classes. "We have found that teachers who are successful in normal classes are successful as discussion leaders after the training," Mr. Comber said. "In fact, they become capable of training their fellow-teachers as discussion leaders. We try to limit our own presence since it is important that teachers become independent of us and are able to rely on their own abilities. On the whole, teachers have been able to do this." The three tutors look upon what they are doing as to what teachers achieve. have obfuncserved in schools where the tions is that these schools to become more unified as teachers find one another's support and work across departmental lines. their part, find have common about. "We hear students are d1sappomted when the hell rings," Mr. Comber said. often continue about the text in the corridors and cafeteria. According to the teachers, few classes evoke that behavior. In burgh, where they are in their second year, the teachers are requesting that more time be devoted to the discussion classes. ceremonv. Students from the of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe have been asked to the medallion for the the ceremstudents of the New Mexico the Deaf have been asked to sign portions of the ,--,,,-,,n-1r.r"' The afternoon will be a of local artists ranging from Ortiz's Mariachi the dancers from the San Juan Pueblo, Flamenco .., .......... , .. 6 , formance by the Alma de Santa merly the Santa Fe Ballet Folklorica, and classical Spanish At 4 p.m., President and will welcome the college community to their home for an informal reception_ The Saturday evening inaugural concert performance of the St. John's Orchestra and Chorus will be a special tribute to honor President and Mrs. Riccards. Peter Pesic, tutor and musician-inresidence, has announced the performance of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy for piano, chorus, vocal soloists and orchestra with Mrs. Robert Neidorf conducting and sophomore William Davison as pianist. Invitations have been sent to more than 5,000 friends in the community, alumni, and political and educationalinstitutions across the country. President Riccards is the first president to devote full-time duties to the Santa Fe campus. Since it was founded in 1964, before he joined the college on July 1, the college has been administered by a president who divided his time between Annapolis and Santa Fe. His wish for the inaugural weekend celebrating the wealth of local art and culture is that it will serve as a -"rededication to the future of the American West and its courageous and hopeful people_" �® Katharine Bond runs up the steps of McDowell Hall, lithe, surefooted, confident, thinking such thoughts as If only the Italian mails could get themselves together, she might be11:1ble to formally apply to the International University of Art in Florence where she wants to study museum science. Or about Parents' Weekend, which she will co-chair in May. Or in what pocket of her coat she has absent-mindedly stashed away her dining hall meal card. The door swings open, and she settles herself into her language tutorial. Students are reading Baudelaire. Katharine Bond is about to graduate from St. John's, an event which will bring a minor concern. Where will she find someone with whom to waltz once she leaves St. John's? For Katharine, is forever. All of this sounds that at 22 Katharine is nr rrnypr students, more mature than most, and she has a sense of humor that compares with the best. , There also is a major difference. As a young woman who· can go for months without looking at herself in the mirror, she is legally blind. Four years ago she had to count those McDowell steps and memorize the number. Now they have become second nature. In her senior year Katharine is at ease with her blindness and mak.es other people feel comfortable in discussing it. "At first it was hard to know what to tell and how to tell it," she said. "Now I know it's an interesting part of my personality, just like what my sex is and where I grew up and that I like art and I like museums. It's something I'm not uncomfortable with any more." she believes that perhaps as a result of her visual limitations, Katharine has a different perspective and "can think in patterns no one else can. It's very disconcerting to be with her in class." Rather, she compares Katharine's blindness to something like being left-handed. "I don't think about it except when it comes up." The college community thinks of Katharine as an interesting student, fully absorbed into the life of the college, and possessing what a former language tutor, Gisela Berns, says "represents a balance between analytical and imaginative powers that' is very wonderful." She has trained her memory in an incredible way to retain everything," Mrs. Berns said. "Her intelligence, her sharpness of mind, the richness of her imagination are fine, she is in class, she cPr•Q"'""'to others with a nice, cuts through nonsense. ""<!"'"'"' as a whole person is very mature and sensible. She is of her class. "She's never used her "Assistant Dean Barbara commented. "She's never capitalized on it or asked for special favors. She has been a very good student and a very good member of the college community." Besides co-chairing this year's Parents' Weekend, Katharine has been a member of the students' Council for three of her four years; currently she is the delegate for East Pinkney. Several years ago she helped lead a student study group on fairy tales. She has been a student representative on the St. John's Alumni Association Board, a member of the Film Club and stage managed a dance performance. HER FRESHMAN year Katharine did all her reading herself, but since there is a vast amount of it at St. John's and she says BORN WITH CONGENITAL catshe reads a bit slowly, Katharine decided aracts, Katharine underwent surgery a:t her sophomore year, when she wanted to age two and has a distance vision of be more rigorous about her studies, that 20/ 400. That is sufficient for her to read she would use a reader. with a book held closely to her right eye This year it is Eric Lavoie, Barrington, either outdoors, with lots of daylight, or N.Y.~ junior, who may spend four to ten by lamps for which she routinely substihours a week reading anything from semtutes 100 watt bulbs with 200. After dark inar assignments to movie subtitles. at night she can't see. At the end of her freshman year, KathaThat's why she has never taken a "year rine experienced an astonishing revoluabroad" at St. John's Santa Fe campus. "I tion in her life when she learned about a would have to learn a whole new campus monocular device . to give people with and city." poor vision better vision. How does a sutdent cope under the "I decided right then that by hook or circumstances? crook I would find one such device and see "You concentrate," Katharine exif it could help me," she said. plained, "You rely on much intent listenAnd that has turned out to be a remarking to what is said. You do a lot of quesable story in itself, one she has partially tioning to make things clear, and you get recorded in a journal she kept at the time. lost a lot." Accompanied by her parents, she went to She depends upon senses other than a low vision center in Birmingham and sight. She can tell something about the found the device, which she calls her telesize of a room when she enters it by the air scope. Held in place by a head band, it is currents. An inner radar system built into attached to one lens of her glasses and her own physiology tells when she is passresembles a jeweler's glass. ing an object. Her sense of smell helps. "I put it on with a jolt," she wrote. "The Bright - she came here as a full Nafirst thing I saw through the telescope was tional Merit Scholar (verbal score, 760, an adjustable white desk lamp sitting on a math, 660) - she has found that the hardplastic orange school desk with the lamp's est part of the program for her at St. thin white cord weaving in and about itself John's has been the laboratory program. from desk top to chair to floor. All of this "I cried a whole lot over the lab demonwas at the far end of the long examining strations," she recalled one series offrusroom, yet so clear in color and outline that trations. "I'd have to ask, 'Did the experI sat amazed and could only put part of it iment work or not? Will someone please into words for everyone who was waiting say what happened! One time a demon-· for my .reaction. stration wouldn't work because I couldn't "I looked at the colored clutter on the see the ball or string." desk, and now there were bottles with Now she draws all the laboratory experwords and boxes with tapes and magnifiiments to make sure she understands ers with papers and pens and caps." them. (As part of the career she hopes to At home she spent hours walking around pursue in museum science, she also is the house, soaking in hundreds of details learning to draw in a general way, taking - patterns on the wallpaper, patterns on lessons as free moments make it possible the carpets - "laughing delightedly to from artist-in-residence Burton Blistein.) myself." She remembers watching the television weather reports, avidly reading ANOTHER DIFFICULTY: h's not always possible to recognize someone. the humidity, barometric pressure and "Some students thought I was cold and temperature statistics. unfriendly, and that hurt - awfully," she Back at St. John's, she discovered she said. could see the blackboard if she sat close. Mostly, students don't think about "In Greek or math it freed me from the Katharine in terms of difficulties. constant, intense feeling of 'catch-this-orThat's true of her close friend Heather you 're-lost-for-the-rest-of-the-class.' I Peterson, Greenbelt, Md., senior, although could see tutors and other students. To my 1 surprise I could match names with people. I could watch whoever spoke in class and watch other people watching them." She caught up with the world of small objects; dust on the dining hall windows (it thrilled her), dew, fizz bubbles, feet of birds, not to speak of campus roses and her first new moon. "I never knew bark could be light brown and dark brown and grey all on one tree. I never knew the roughness of bark was distinct with elegant grooves running the whole length of the trunk." ONE UNEXPECTED reaction was the feeling of spying on students when, for the first time, she noticed students looking bored or asleep in class or twiddlmg their pencils. "It made me miserable." Then consolation came just as unexpectedly from students in whom she had confided. "Why Katharine, we've been watching you twiddle your pencil for years," they told her. She learned that this, too, can be.J2art of being a student and not to pay partrcular attention to it. Born into an academic family, Katharine was brought up by her parents in Montgomery, Ala., as a "mainstream child." "My parents never think of me as handicapped," she said. "They don't think blindness is particularly int~resting or use-~ful or is to be something to be talked about." Teased "miserably" in elementary school, she went from there to a happier life in a private high school - Montgomery Academy - where she won awards on the debate team, took second place in a national young playwrights' competition, · received awards for excellence in English and Latin and was active in high school theater as a director, stage manager and actor. As a child her parents used to take her to museums a great deal. She first became interested in museums in thinking about ways labels might become accessible to the visually impaired. What evolved was a deep interest in the whole field of museum work. During her summer vacations, she persuaded one museum after another to let her help. At 14 she divided her time between serving as a tour guide for the Alabama State Archives and History and serving as an intern at the Tumbling Waters Museum of Flags in Montgomery. At the latter she got hands-on experience with everything from catalogues, to sales, to exhibit research and design, to helping put up a tent on the fair grounds. She received a certificate of commendation for her work. AT 15 SHE assisted the registrar at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. There she helped take a written inventory, cleaned and inspected decorative art collections and made acid-free storage containers. She learned to ship and pack paintings as well as to inspect paintings when they arrived to make certain they had not been damaged before arrival. In the summer of 1982 she was the principal role player for the North Hull Historic District in Montgomery. Besides training others, she portrayed an 1820 pioneer woman and developed educational material for elementary children. As a member of the American Association of Museums, she attended its convention in New York in June 1986. Her interest in art has been furthered by her participation in weekend trips St. John's conducts to Washington and Baltimore art galleries. Her senior essay will be based upon Schiller's art theory and 20th century art. After St. John's she wants to understand the work of the educator in different museum settings. "From mY. non-stand'\~d v~sion history and my studies, I want to umt.e what I've learned and create an interdepartmental training course on perception awareness ·for museum professions," she says of her ambition to become an independent perception consultant. Meanwhile, there is St. John's to finish: the public examination on her senior oral, the senior prank, the May cotillion, commencement itself. Katharine will be in the midst of it all. Class of '68 call: Photos, anyone? From Bartholomew Lee, A '68, comes this request: "I write on behalf of the Prelimiriary Ad Hoc Class-of-1968 Twenty Year Reunion Committee (PAHCTYRUC). "We seek college-related photographs, sketches, movies, sound recordings, letters, diaries, etc., from anyone on campus (Annapolis) in 1968. "We propose to make a videotape for showing and distribution at the Presumptive and Prospective Twenty Year Reunion of the Class of 1968, when and if. I will return any such material to any readers." It's important this material be accompanied with identifications. Mr. Lee's address is 327 Filbert Steps, San Francisco, Calif. 94133. �Mary L. Anderson has been playing team sports most of her 21 years. In June this Tampa, Fla., senior will go to Ireland to learn three more: hurling, camogie and gaelic football. Hurling, she explained, is a lacrosselike game that has been played nearly 4,000 years whereas camogie - the women's version of hurling - and gaelic football have been popular in their present form for only a century or more. To make this special study, she has been awarded a $1,500 "mini-Watson" grant. The award will be a one-time only -grant made possible by small, left-over monies that have accrued in the account on the Annapolis campus under the national Watson Fellowship program for independent study and travel abroad. Marianne Braun, director of career counseling, said St. John's had received u"·""'·v" from the Watson foundation to administer this sum in the way the colbelieved best. As a result; Committee and her office dea "mini-Watson" similar to the will leave in June when and gaelic football seasons begin return to this country after the finals are held. in Dublin in September. Before she goes, she will add still one more team sport to those she knows. This spring she plans to play rugby with a women's club team based at the University of Maryland. MISS ANDERSON, who is interested in the psychology of sports, has had much experience of her own in both individual and team sports. She began playing softball at seven as a member of the Roy Haunes Leaguerettes, named after the sponsoring playground in Tampa. Altogether she has played it 14 years besides coaching one summer at Tampa's Forest Hills Playground. As a member of St. John's Amazon team, she was instrumental this year in persuading the men's football teams to include women their intramural program. Touch is played here. This year approximately 15 women played, usually two to a nri~rson """"'"o• team. The long list of sports_ with which she has been involved is impressive. In 1980 she played soccer - her "best" sport - on the first girls' team ever at Tampa's Chamberlain High School. She has been engaged in tennis and competitive swimming at the Carrollwood Village Club in Tampa, competitive gymnastics for two years during her years at Adams Junior High School in Tampa, volleyball for nine years in college and high school. She captained her high school efforts in cross country and track during the four years she was involved in that program, she has played basketball for four years, and she has been a racquetball player for seven. Part of the fascination of going to Ireland will be to examine the difference in attitude toward there. I SPORTS are less of a are here," she observed. "Most team sports are recreation, which is to me since I plan to be either or coaching them most of my life. As part of one of the first generations of women to be active in team sports, she has some interesting things to observe about women. Most of them in this country tend toward individual sports, she believes: a~robics, weight lifting, bicycling or joggmg. "Though I would not deny the importance of these with respect to the health of the body, they seem to me to be lacking one of the most important benefits of sports: the interaction of teammates." At some point in the future, she hopes to seriously involve herself in the psychology of sports. "It has been hypothesized," she observed, "that women have not been as successful in business as men because they have lacked team sports and the training in aggressiveness combined with competition and working together that team sports provide." Miss Anderson said she personally does not know whether this is true, but it will be one of the questions, among others, she may be investigating in the future. No room for books Need for housing 'acute' (Continued from P. 1) costly in the area with houses, which might have sold for $18,000 25 years ago, now selling for $200,000 or more. Apart~ ments within walking distance have reflected a corresponding jump in rents. "Students who normally would prefer to live off campus are returning," Mr. Colston said. "The price of apartments is going up faster than the price of our rooms." Unlike many colleges and universities, Director of Admissions John Christensen said St. John's guarantees both its September and January freshmen housing on campus. It is the upperclassmen who for the most part take the brunt of the situation. During the school year, the housing situation noticeably worsened. While-it was bad last fall, when as late as October one person was residing in the infirmary, Mr. Colston said the situation has become "very acute" with the arrival of January freshmen. In his letter to college officials, Mr. Colston wrote: "AT PRESENT, we have beds on campus for only 75 per cent of the students, which means that we depend on 25 per cent of them to volunteer to live off campus. (This semester, the numbers are 415 enrolled, 297 on campus, 7 l per cent on campus, l vacancy.) "In the past the squeeze has always been tight at the beginning of the semester, but somehow enough volunteers - although I suspect a fair number of these volunteers might have just as easily been called con- scripts - emerged to save us from grave overcrowding. "This year, however, the housing crunch has been very acute ... The crunch is even worse this semester. We have only one vacancy (in a young man's room) five weeks after the beginning of the semester whereas at a similar moment last semester we had five vacancies. "One young lady has just not been admitted to a room, and another is desperate to fine one, depending now not on the infirmary but on her friends on-andoff campus. In fact, I know that at the beginning of this semester, one student was so desperate that she lived for a few days in a common room." MEANWHILE, ST. John's librarian Kathryn Kinzer has informed the faculty that the library is in urgent need of additional space. She pointed out that the volume count is 80,000, but that the actual number of titles is a little less than 47,000, a figure she believes inadequate for an institution of the caliber of St. John's. Recently, the Baltimore architectural firm of Chowilkes Benn, which has worked on a number of libraries, completed a feasibility study of Woodward Hall to help determine how its space problems can best be solved. The firm came up with a variety of proposals, including one for a side-by-side building connected to the present library by a common walk-way and another for an extension that would wrap around the present building. The proposals have been taken to the Faculty Library and Campus Development Committees for their consideration. Sean Smith, out of Regency.dress. Greg Ferguson photo Waltzing Regency style (Continued from P. 12) future George IV was Regent for his mad father, had been adapted or newly choreographed for gentler society. COUNTRY DANCING is "longways" dancing, with two lines of couples facing one another in a "whole set." If the whole set is "proper," the ladies will be all on one side and the gentlemen all on the other, although there are "improper" dances. Mr. Smith said that two notable dancing manuals have survived that show us the evolution of country dancing into its early 19th century form and that have been important sources in the reconstruction of the old dances and in the composition of new ones. The English Country Dancing Master, attributed to John Playford, was so popular that it went through nearly a score of editions in the 17th and 18th centuries and contained some 900 dances and tunes (many of which were later orchestrated by composers like Purcell while new country dances were composed by Mozart and others). Thomas Wilson published notes that bring us up to the Regency period and show country dancing's evolution into a polished aristocratic pastime. There are some directions in the manuals that are . not entirely clear to modern students, according to Mr. Smith. "Today, nobody writes a book on how to walk. Likewise, nobody bothered to describe 'siding' back then: everybody knew how to side right and side left." Most recently, John Hertz of Los Angeles, a friend of Mr. Smith, has written The Tenor. of Terpsichore, in which he describes the country dances and waltzes . that he has reconstructed or newly choreographed in the Regency fashion. This booklet provides the repertoire of 17 waltzes .and country dances, of widely varying levels of difficulty, that Mr. Smith began introducing to the college in February. Before the school year is over, he hopes to hold a Regency ball at St. John's. Mr. Smith, who had done only a little dancing before then, has been Regency dancing ever since he attended a 1980 science fiction convention in Los Angeles at age 18. Strangely enough he explained, Regency dancing occurs very frequently at science fiction conventions, at least on the West Coast. "WE HAVEN'T QUITE been able to . figure out that connection yet other than they are both somewhat anachronistic," he said. Regency dancing has grown out of a Los Angeles organization called the Friends of the English Regency, which Mr. Smith cautioned has no pretensions to great historical or academic scholarship (although he did say that Mr. Hertz, the choreographer, is the one man he has known outside of the college who should definitely be a tutor at St. John's). He said the primary purpose of the Friends, which originated as a group of devotees of the novels of Jane Austen and the modern novelist Georgette Heyer, is to have fun. It was here that Mr. Smith learned to dance and to teach dance (and is still learning, he says) from Mr. Hertz and from Marty Massaglia, also of Los Angeles. There is a chapter in San Francisco and an affiliated group in Albuquerque called the Georgian Society, whose so_ciety Mr. Smith enjoyed during his freshman and sophomore years in Santa Fe. Having attended the University of California at Berkeley as well as at Los Angeles before coming to St. John's, he went back to the San Francisco area over spring break for the Annual Assembly of the Friends of the English Regency. At the Grand Ball that highlighted the Assembly, he wore Regency clothes that d'istinguished what he describes as "the last days of male sartorial splendor before Beau Brummell's followers took the fun out of male fashion with all that dreary black and white." · -----· Made by Mr. H-ertz's wife, Mary Jane, Mr. Smith's clothes feature a double breasted jacket of dark green wool cut straight away in front, with tails and brass buttons. He wears it with a waistcoat of cream colored paisley silk, a white shirt with ruffled front and high, pointed collar, and a white neckcloth, which he elaborately pleats and ties and accents with an amethyst stickpin. His pants are knee-high breeches of tan gabardine which he wears with white hose and black pumps. Wigs, Mr. Smith noted, were worn only for the most formal occasions during the Regency. Now that he is back at St. John's, he is resuming his classes. After all there is going to be a Regency Ball, and students should learn how to waltz - properly. �Page~ April 1987 Cl t (Continued from P. l) league, Marianne Braun, believes is a has served as a college liaison for many remarkable ability "to inspire trust and years, will honor her at luncheon April 9. confidence." Some time this spring the faculty will have "A real pussycat,;, one student, initially a big farewell party. afraid of her, described her. "A real pisAcclaimed an honorary member of the tol," remarked an alumna. Class of 1955 at its 25th reunion amid At 70, blue eyes alight under a set of deafening applause, she will be principal ivory bangs, she unquestionably has the speaker at the Annapolis Chapter's spring · most winsome smile on campus. It will be dinner on March 28. missed. Then, early this summer, before July 1, rlorn in Oberlin of parents who were on she will clean out her office. The overthe Oberlin College faculty, Miss Leonard stuffed chair in wl}ich she receives stubegan her role as a trail-blazer and bardents is crowded with cardboard boxes rier-breaker when she was only a little way overflowing with books and papers. There out of the cradle. "I started in the third are mementoes to be dispatched, includgrade, when I was a catcher on the boys' ing a ceramic panda and the foil-covered softball team." helmet she wore as lo in the faculty musiSPRINGTIME, SHE is still on the cal, "Pumping Irony." softball field. As a member of the Fury There will be her apartment over the team, she played first base last spring. Harrison Health Center to empty. Miss When hockey was included in team Leonard is St. John's only faculty member sports, she was a goalee, and she also once in years to live on campus. (The late Wilplayed a lot of volleyball. Five or so years liam Kyle Smith, also an assistant dean, ago, with Bryce Jacobsen, she won the and his wife lived at one time in the Chanpingpong doubles. cellor Johnson House.) With a doctorate from the University of MISS LEONARD'S successor has not Rochester, Miss Leonard came to St. been named. To replace a long-time origiJohn's from Smith, where she had been an nal, whom students have loved and hailed instructor since 1945. _ as "Mom" on one recent "I still remember the drive from the air~ will not be easy for the port (after my first plane ride) to Annapo"This' place is a magnet for unforgettalis along what is now Route 2. It was a new ble characters," observed an anonymous dual highway with woods on both sides admirer, who said she was "reeling in a and no buildings. I at the Brice swamp of compliments" for Miss LeoHouse. Charlotte (former librarnard. ian) was my hostess. Miss Leou-ard is part of a group of oneof-a-kind, richly individual types "Jacob Klein was dean, and l was interJacobsen, Charlotte Fletcher, Wmtree viewed him and by four members of the McGrath - whose Instruction Committee: John Kieffer, Wilture is changing the face of St. liam Smith, Winfree Smith and Bill Able successors will come, everyone Darkey, all of whom talked a great deal agrees, but not another Barbara Leo~ard. about the college and appeared to forget Sometimes gruff and barking in manto interview me ... Before I left to return to but benign, "the same alumna President (Richard given to seeing what is funny offered me the position, I accepin a or Miss Leonard is ted." fast in repartee and a quick quip The decision to admit women had resulfrom others. ted in a mass protest meeting of the then She is also and wise in what all-male student The second she has to and committee she was here, Mr. who was meetings, one those other 1csistant dean at the time, left for a rare persons know precisely how sabbatical, and she found herself counselmuch to say and when to keep her mouth rnen students. shut. She can keep a confidence, she have been other "firsts" for Miss a colhas kent manv. She possesses Leonard. were not attracted to St. John's its rigid curriculum. must have enrolled in the hope of meeting m1as111p,m(~r Barbara this was a common perception the re.ason 24 women chose to enter St. John's in 1951, the first year female students were admitted. Concerns most frequently expressed by students who came to her office that first vear centered on rules of residence:food in the dining hall, pets in the dorms and parking spaces. Complaints have not changed. Problems still most often mentioned are related to rules of residence, food in the dining hall, pets in the dorms and parking spaces, Miss Leonard points out. In l 951 students deeply resented a 2 a.m. curfew for freshmen and a prohibition on visiting dormitory rooms of students of the opposite sex on other than authorized occasions, she continued .. l~efore the year was out, the Student Polity had abolished the curfew and ruled that men and women could visit each others' rooms if a chaperone was present. "There were some who abused the spirit and letter of the rules ... abuse such as standing in the doorway to talk and not having a third person present but leaving the door open," Miss Leonard recalled. Nine of the first 24 women to enroll graduated from St. John's. Six had attended college previously. As freshmen they ranged in age from 16 to 46. Three were wives of St. John's students when they en-. rolled, and eventually half were married to Johnnies. Among the careers pursued the 24 were nursing, counseling, computer programming, painting, teaching at a universitv and historical research. From the first, women have been active in college's extracurricular activities. Those in the class of 1955 lost no time in joining the William Players, the Cotillion the Graphic Arts and Boat Clubs, choral groups and quartet. One was a member of executive committee of the Student Polity, and another formed a Modern Dance Club. "It took just I l years for the women to take over and run everything," observed Miss Leonard, referring to what she called the "Matriarchal Class." Female members headed the Student Polity and King William Players, edited the literary magazine and .held positions of leadership in most other campus organizations. Through the years, women students have captured many prestigious awards. As recipients of Watson Fellowships, they outnumber men. They also have received Luce, Fulbright, Rotary, Truman and Danforth Fellowships. The only Johnny ever to receive a Rhodes Scholarship is Nancy Coiner-Benjamin, '75. She was one of 13 females awarded a Rhodes in the first year when women were eligible to compete for the coveted scholarship to Oxford University. Barbara Leonard cradles Maria, left, and Sarita Christensen, twins of John and Caroline Christensen "I was the first woman teaching assison the men's campus at the University of Rochester, thanks to World War II," she recalled. Later, in 1962-63, she was the first woman to speak to a math colloquium of graduate students and math teachers from five colleges in India. That occurred during her year as a Fulbright lecturer and honorary professor of zoology at Lady Doak College and nearby American Col~ant MISS LEONARD is proud of the talk because she learned most of the math on which she lectured as a teacher at St. John's. She remembers her first social event: a champagne party given by the contractor for the new heating plant. "Koogle Hall was standing where Campbell is with the housing for married students further behind on back campus," she said. "The tennis courts were where was." A major party for Miss Leonard was given on her 25th year with the college. The bells rang 25 and 200 gathered for an outdoor party t11a1rn.. rnt, her for her contribution to the college. She was presented silver candlesticks and an engraved silver tray. Some thirn:rn have not changed over her decades on campus. "It's wonderful to work with her after been her student, Leland Giova'78, a faculty member said. "She kids me as much now as she did then! She has a 1neat rapport with the students know that, under all that l\.1u1..uue,, she cares about them." A traveler on South America, Miss Leonard will reside with her a retired executive secretary of the Oberlin Shansi Memorial With Hugh McGrath as Socrates and J. Winfree Smith as Erixymachus, the Alumni Office and King William Players have co-sponsored a reading of Plato's dia:.. logue, "The Symposium." A blizzard kept the audience small in the newly renovated Conversatio.n Room, being used for the first time for a production of this sort. The reading was originated by Alvin Aronson, A '72, who, as the narrator, was here from Boston to introduce the evening and who has praised Michael David Blume, A '78, for "a marvelous job" in directing the production. Mr. Blume also was cast as Aristophanes and Phaedrus. "The Symposium" records several banquet eulogies of eros -desirous love - in an effort by its participants to find the highest manifestation of love. Socrates is seen in opposition to Alcibiades, whose part was read by Akron, Ohio, sophomore John Isham and who is depicted as having sold his spiritual birthright for the pleasures of the world. Others in the production included Mark Shiffman as Agathon, Charles Ran- Admissions Director John Christensen and Caroline Christensen, director of financial aid, have become They have adopted Maria and born September The Christensens to Chili in December to bring the infants home. Maria and Sarita are becoming involved in St. John's life early. They are the youngest members of the Amazon team, their mother's. ing royal blue sweaters marked they have attended at least one basketball game. In assuming her role as a mother, Mrs. Christensen is now working two a week. Mrs. Denise Boulanger, a former director of financial aid and director at Rutledge College, Fayetteville, has been named assistant director of financial aid. "''"£.LL.VU, for her retirement are wide open. is impossible to overestimate Barbara Leonard's service to the " Dean Thomas said. the in 1951 with the first freshman women, and she has lived on campus ever smce as a counselor and friend of most of us, the college is discussions, and students discussions. "The college has been that for Barbara, too, but it has also been other dimensions o; student life. No one can take her but we must not neglect what she cherished." dles as Pausanias and Sarita Cargas as Diotima. For the most part, the Walter Hamilton translation was used, with Mr. Randles reading from the Michael Joyce translation and Mr. Smith from the Benjamin Jowett translation. President of the Boston Alumni Chapter, Mr. Aronson is the author of two off-Broadway plays. As a student at St. John's, he directed Shakespeare's Henry JV, Part I, and Aristophanes' The Clouds. Now with the Office of Alumni Relations at Northeastern University, Boston, Mr. Aronson currently is presenting a one-man show based upon some of the short stories and other writings of Sholom Aleichem, whose work became the resource for Fiddler on the Roof He has given the show in temples in the Boston area, Boston University and Northeastern University's Hillel Houses. Sometime next fall he will be performing at the Hillel House of George Washington University in Washington, when he plans a show at St. John's. In addition, he . hopes to do a production at the Graduate Institute this summer in Santa Fe. �crosse. "To the very end, we were very compeutive" with such lacrosse powers as the r~;"=-~;,., of Marvland and the Johns ::::inni\iriPr,s:::::111·v next year. Greg Ferguson photo time he misses athletics, is during HomecomWeekend. of fraternities "caused as much fuss and turmoil as the decision on intercollegiate athletics, Mr. ~~ .. "~~ observed. The three fraternities cessful <> n\/UlhPrP were housed on campus in college-owned As buildings. Scofield, "The brothers were living ident John quite well and no more than those in the dorms. said the fraternities Books. could no longer occupy college _ former In effect that abolished the fraternit who was associated fraternities course at most and New or rent their own houses." "'\1..mauy he was a senior when the New view of these Mr. ..,_,,~rn~ was initiated. Rather than start said he can over as a he graduated under dents and particularly many the Old Program in l 938 and joined the as incensed as they could be. I guess many faculty the following fall as tutor and · remain so to this day." director of athletics. On the other hand, many Johnnies of . Mr. Lathrop pointed Qut that familiarthe period, including Mr. Lathrop, are ity with the Great Books reading mate"extremely proud of the college." rial is not the same as familiarity with the He left St. John's during the 1940-41 books as teaching material. President academic year to go on active duty with Stringfellow Barr and dean Scott Buchathe Navy. Returning as a tutor in the fall nan 'worked out ingenious ways to train of 1945, he retained his reserve commisthe faculty. They knew what they wan'iiion and retired from the navy with the ted." Through demonstration, they rank of captain in 1965. showed the tutors how to implement the Mr. Lathrop and his wife Kitty moved 1""/ew Program. that year to Bethesda, Md., where Ned FOR MANY ASSOCIATED with the joined the faculty of Landon School, a college, abolishment of intercollegiate athboys' prep school. The late headmaster, letics and fraternities was almost as disPaul L. Banfield, graduated from St. turbing as the radical change in the curJohn's in 1923 and was "a good friend of riculum, Mr. Lathrop said. the college," Mr. Lathrop said. Mr. Banfelt sad and disappointed" when field served on the Board of Visitors and dropped intercollegiate sports. Governors from 1937 to 195 and again Despite the fact that he was athletic direcfrom 1954 to 1960. tor and haq been a star athlete during his , In l 974, Mr. Lathrop retired from his student days, Mr. Lathrop was in accord teaching position at Landon, and the with the decision to abolish intercollegiate Lathrops returned to Annapolis. They football. have lived there ever since, and Mr. Lath·'Mr. Barr and Mr. Buchanan felt the rop is active in the Annapolis Alumni situation had out of hand for a Association. he said. With an enrollschool that He continues to teach. One ment of 200, St. John's week, he tutors elementarv school outmatched" bv such opponents dren who read below Conducted sored bv St. Anne's cp1scopa1 Lnun.:n. "has been as t t an extremely pretty girl who is a kind of older sister to the entire student body." That's how The Saturday Evening Post described Kitty Lathrop while she was in charge of the St. John's Bookstore. And there she is, on page 23 of the October 14, 1944, issue of the magazine -surrounded by students and books, blonde hair braided in a coronet around her head. The photograph illustrates an article about St. John's entitled "College with an Idea." "I loved that job. I really did. The bookstore was a warm, pleasant place," Mrs. said recently. "The boys felt that talk to me, tell me things." and Mrs. Ned Lathrop's Annapolis apartment overlooking Back Creek also is pleasant place. Obvio"n 1• program appeared in Life magazine in 1940, "we were deluged with orders from people who wanted copies of the books," she said. The weeks before school opened in the fall was always a hectic time for Lathrop. "We had to put together reading for the whole year by classes and have them ready." She remembers feeling "pushed up against the wall" piles of books. The entire set for the freshman year cost $50. In those of the Great Depression, most were strapped for money. Mrs. Lathrop would sell them as many books as could afford at a often a volume. She the a student 0 ~~=~r 0 rl and asked for entire set. about his financial status, she asked, "Are you sure you can afford to soend all that r'>T".O.(")f-1,,..,, ....... of the bookstore at a salary of $60 a month. At that time the bookstore was in the basement of McDowell Hall where the mail room is now. The store is currently in the basement of Humphllleys. Mrs. Lathrop's most vivid memories of the period are not of selling books but of producing books. Many of those selected for the reading list were not available. English translations of others simply did not exist. She remembers sitting at a typewriter pounding out tutor Charles Wallace's dictation of translations of works by Copernicus and Kepler. And she also typed the first English translations of sections of Ptolemy's Almagest and Apollonius' Conics while tutor R. Catesby Taliaferro dictated. THIS WAS IN THE days before the invention of the copying machines that we take so much for granted. Using Mrs. 's typed masters, students out hundreds of pages on a uu.,wuu11 "We had a big table and would put all these sheets of paper on it. Then after we assembled the books, we would take them over to the Evening For five cents would put cardboard covers on them." When a major story on the St. John's an affirmative she asked his name "Paul Mellon." 1.ccordinll to millionaire oh1la11thro1J1st that she was the doubts about what he could afford. A ..,...,.,duate of Yale, Mr. Mellon was a spestudent at St. John's for almost a year before leaving for wartime service. Mrs. Lathrop stocked a table in the bookstore with recent publications, primarily for the faculty and their wives. Especially Mrs. Stringfellow Barr. "SHE WAS A GREAT reader," Mrs. Lathrop said of the president's wife. "On Monday mornings at 8:45 - you could almost set your watch - she would call and ask whether I had looked over the Sunday New York Times Book Review. 'No,' I would say. Mr. Barr just brought it in.' "Then she'd tell me what books she wanted ordered. Her bill at the bookstore was absolutely fabulous. Mr. Barr would get mad because I always ordered everything she wanted. But she had discriminating taste." Mrs. Lathrop left her job in the bookstore in 1945 when her first child was and born. She returned within a the birth retired permanently in 1947 of the Lathrops' second child. They have one grandchild. For Ned and Kitty Lathrop, the anniof the New Program has an added will celebrate their ;.,=-nn_.. on June 8, Eugene V. Thaw, A '47, administers the private foundation ever estabexclusively to aid visual artists. An article in The Washington Post tells how Mr. Thaw, described by a colleague as ..the most successful art dealer in the world," urged the widow of Jackson Pollock to set up the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. With assets valued at more than $25 million, the foundation has given away more than $1 million in the past couple of years. The grants go to "worthy and needy artists" of recognized merit who need financial help to carry on their creative work. killed in an automobile accident in 1956, left his estate, including his works, to his artist w'ife, Lee Krasner. She died in 1984and her will named Mr. Thaw and her attorney as her executors. It also gave them final authority over who gets grants from her foundation and how much they get. Mr. Thaw has one more extraordinar the article says: "As a dealer and Pollock scholar, he is charged with overseeing sales of the work~ and Krasner that constitute two-thirds of the foundation's assets. Jo Ann Lewis, author of the article, describes Thaw as "a shy man with a warm smile. He sports a trim mustache, graying reddish hair and the look and cut of an English country gentleman. ·in fact, his goal since his recent 'retirement' has been to spend more time at his farm in Upstate New York. But ongoing commitments often keep him at the art-filled, intimately scaled Park A venue mansionette that has also served as his place of business for decades. "There, among the masterpieces and mahogany, the drawings by Mantegna and Matisse, great collectors like Paul Mellon and Norton Simon and officials from the Getty, Metropolitan and dozens of other major museums have felt altogether at home making multimillion-dollar art deals well out of the public eye .... "Thaw may be rich," the article says, "but he is also generous." The dozens of master drawings that cover the walls of his town house have all been -~~:n~...i to New York's Morgan �THE REPORTER Page 10 April 1987 of arts/ master of business administration rently living on an island just off Portland, joint program in international relations Maine, but are going to India in October and business at the University of Chicago. 1987. She hopes to graduate in December 1987. Debra Ann Rutherford completed her Liz Travis is an integration engineer for master's degree in nuclear engineering. Nor~hrop Advanced Systems Division in April of this year. She is now working for Los Alamos Southern California. National Laboratory and living in AlbuBarbara Stewart lives in Mount Dora, Stephen Whalen is living in KenneFla., and is a staff writer for the Orlando querque. bunkport, Maine. He is enrolled at The Sentinel's Sunday magazine. She received After graduation Robert Bienenfeld a master's degree in journalism from Colbegan work as a contract employee at · Landing School were he is learning wooden boat building. umbia University in 1983. Before that she American Honda Motor Co. as a compuUnyong Kim just received her master's _ter systems analyst. Three years ago he worked at Oxford University Press in degree in psychology from the Naropa was hired to manage the company's parts New York and was assistant director for Institute in Boulder. She is temporarily Rocky Mountain Dharma Center in Colinventory for the U.S. He is now transferteaching kindergarten . through third ring to Japan for a year or two where he orado, a Tibetan Buddhist contemplative grade in an alternative public school, will continue to work for Honda, learning center. Tanglewood Open Living School in Lakemanagement techniques, operational enWendy I. Wills graduated from Marwood, Coto. · vironment and, he hopes, some Japanese. shall Law School in Cleveland, Ohio. She 1985 is practicing public sector law for the city 1981 Elizabeth Faulhaber is living in Santa Josh Rappaport, living in Santa Fe, is of Cleveland. Fe. She is working for Spirit and plans to working toward certification to teach secLeslie Johnson is living in El Centro, start art school in the fall of 1987 at the Calif., and is a lawyer representing Cenondary level social studies in the public Art Institute of Chicago. schools through the University of New tral American refugees in asylum hearings Susan Woolf Schulte is teaching secnear the Mexican border. Mexico internship program. He received ond grade in Albuquerque. She is cona master's degree in journalism from the 1976 University of Missouri and worked as a . ducting seminars on fairy tales with her Linda Bohlmann McKee has one class and is teaching puppetry at the newspaper reporter for three years before daughter, Rachel Anne, born November Community College. deciding to enter teaching. 29, 1986. She and her husband David are Gina Sorrentino is in Portland, Ore., W. Geoffrey Rommel and his wife are . both registered nurses. She works in the studying to become a Montessori teacher. living in San Francisco. went to newborn intensive care unit at Kaiser She olans to finish her_ training early in Hospital in Oakland, Calif. last summer and R::an1n~ Crater Guadiana is in PanCollins and his wife Paula reC:&:11Hrinn.::. is living in Burlingame, bought a house in Takoma Park, Beach, Fla. She is with a business consulttowards her master's degree in education house needs a lot of work which and certification as a secondary level they enjoy doing in their spare time. Pablo uummJ Parker is employed in the createacher of English and mathematics. says he has "developed a home tive department of a large New York remodeling business in the past year but Chuck Nowland is at the University of advertising agency, N.W. Ayer. He also is Texas in Austin working towar~ doctoto return to my real interest, attending classes at The School of Visual rate in English. He is also conducting Arts in New York. humanities seminars for teachers in 1977 Eric and Demi Rasdistrict. "I hope to encourage others to Lorin Cuoco is working in public radio mussen are living. in Los Altos Hills, in St. Louis, Mo. He reports on art, books attend St John's Graduate Institute,'~ he Calif. Eric is in his first year at Stanford occasionally, events of national inMedical School, and Demi is working terest for National Public Radio in WashMichele Varricchio is living in Allenwith the Stanford University Hospital town, Pa. She will begin her judicial clerkGenetic Counseling Center while completVeden is director of marketing ship soon and is looking for a position in ing her prerequisites for a master's degree and sales for WNET-TV in New York public interest law. and license in genetic counseling at the , D. Berlow is living in WashCity. She is doing video production and University of California at Berkeley. ington. He is writing fiction and is doing satellite video conferencing for corporate 1986 clients worldwide. book searches and research at local used James Mikkelson is completing his Lauren Keir Baillard is in Santa Fe bookstores and the Library of Congress. language requirements for his doctorate working as customer service manager for Thomas M. Donnelly received his law at the Graduate Theological Union, Unidegree from Loyola University in ChiWoodworker's Supply in Albuquerque. versity of California at Berkeley. He is The company just recently made Inc. cago. He is clerking for an Illinois Appelteaching English and philosophy at magazine's list of the 500 fastest growing late Court Judge. Northwest Nazarene College. companies. 1982 Barbara A.. Roberts is living in Cor1978 Sara Matson is working at Harvard rales, N.M. She is an elementary special University. She is planning to enroll next Joe Bernard is attending the school of education teacher in Los Lunas public architecture at Pratt Institute in New year in the creative writing program at schools. York. He will spend spring of l 987 studyBoston University, or to get a master's Jessica Phoebe lee is in Boulder takin Rome. degree in education in order to teach Enging a year off from studying while working rederick H. Neill is living in Greeley, lish in the Netherlands. as a graphic artist. She plans to enroll in Colo. He is working on a secondary teachGeoff married Ana Braga of art school in the fall of 1987. ing certificate and a master's in biological Rio de Janeiro on December 25, 1985. Duncan took classes as an altersciences at the University of Northern They are expecting their first child in nate in the University of New MexicoColorado. May. He is currently studying for a doctoSanta Fe Public Schools Intern Program Michael is in San Francisco. rate in environmental sciences at the Unifollowing graduation. She has moved to He has been married to Diana Dair for versity of Texas at Dallas. San Francisco to work in a gallery, but . five years. While earning his living as a Donald B. Dennis has been living in hopes to return to the Intern Program structural ironworker, he has begun to England for the last four years. He was next summer. publish short stories in literary magazines teaching secondary English but now is with some regularity. qualifying as a junior high school teacher. He was married last year and has a baby 1979 Henry R. and Mary Classen Horsey, daughter, Jennifer Ann MacGregor Den'78, just moved to the D.C. area after nis. living in the west for 10 years. Mary has Brad D. Hall is a rookie trial attorney received a second bachelor's degree in living in Albuquerque. Graydon A. Tunstall, Jr., vice president mechanical engineering ( l 984) and is energy 1983 for advancement in Santa Fe, lectured systems engineer at Georgetown University. Margaret Mertz is working toward a recently at the University of Paris-SorHenry received a doctorate in civil engindoctorate in music at Harvard University. bonne in connection with a book he is eering in May 1986. He is employed as a She soon will begin her dissertation on completing. consultant with Camp, Dresser and Mc Kee 20th century aesthetics and philosophy of In The Command Conspiracy: The Easdeveloping knowledge-based systems for music. tern Front in 1914, Mr. Tunstall presents the EPA. Mark Dayton is living in Ross, Calif. a viewpoint unlike those of other histori1980 He is working for China Business Assoans as he ties together diplomatic and miliElizabeth Pollard Jenny is living in ciates, Inc., a company which exports tary strategy in Austria-Hungary, GerRockville, Md., and is half way through high-tech products to the People's Repubmany and Russia from 1871 into the first requirements for a master's in graphic lic of China. months of World War I. design and photography at American UniLaurie Sutton Hienzand her husband, Until now Austro-Hungarian historical versity in Washington. She married AlMichael F. Hienz, are living in Houston, material on the period has come from bert Jenny in 1984 and has a 5 year-old Tex. Laurie is principal of St. Charles members of the officer corps who had son, George, who is learning to read. Borromeo School in Houston. fought in the war rather than from diploNancy Jene Cline Wright lives in John Hartnett is in Vista, Calif. He is mats and historians. Since the end of Richmond, Va., and enjoys teaching finishing his tour as an officer in the U.S. World War I, historians have accepted the kindergarten in Petersburg. Marine Corps. Later this year, he is plan"factual" interpretations of these officers Joseph K. Woodard is in Claremont, ning to take a job in Minneapolis with a who "wrote to defend the honor and Calif., completing his doctorate in govsmall high-tech company in computer integrity of the Old Imperial Army of ernment at Claremont Graduate School. aided manufacturing. He and his wife, Conrad von Hotzendorf," according to He spent the previous two years teaching Norie, have a daughter, Sarah. _ Mr. Tunstall. in the liberal studies program at Brock Amalie Schuck is in Baltimore where He found documents in Vienna's War University in Canada. He and his wife she is an investment analyst. She says she Archives that indicate that as early as l 919 Kathy are expecting their first child in has an office with a view and a balcony private manuscripts by leading generals reminiscent of D-dorm.. · May. pointed out that much of the official verMerrill B. Turner married Nancy 1984 sion was fantasy. Bartman on October 25. They are curBarbara Carye is enrolled in a master ,4~1fJea 1968 Deborah l. Rodman has left social work in London and is working on a oneyear post-graduate diploma course in computer science at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Vida Kazemi, of Cambridge, Mass., is a psychologist at an outpatient clinic in a Boston suburb. She has a five-year old son who is in kindergarten. Donald Booth is living in Brooklyn, N. Y. He graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design in .1979 with a master's degree in architecture and is working in the New York-Connecticut area. Ellin Barret is in Canyon, Colo., where she is a systems engineer for IBM. Her 2Yi year-old daughter and the rebuilding of her home are keeping her busy. 1969 Frank McGuire is in Cundiyo, N.M. For the past 31;2 years he has been producing and selling sculpture throughout the U.S. 1970 Susheila Horwitz has been a mem her of Madonna House Lay Apostolate (Cath- . for the past 13 years: She is working in its s'oup kitchen in Regina, Saskatchewan. 1972 and his wife and 3Yi yearreturned to Seattle, "f-''"'""'F. three years in Stoney, Australia. there John was an associate director of a large architecture/ planning firm. Glenn Gladfelder and Dale Graves were married in 1982 and are living in Helena, Mont. Glenn is writing full-time and has just completed his first book. Dale is a counselor at a residential treatment facility for emotionally-disturbed children. They are buildmg a house in the country and have just adopted a daughter, KariJenaeGladfelder, born June 1, 1986, in Korea. 1973 Peter Kovatis and Chrysa Wikstrom recently moved back to Santa Fe after living in Austin, Tex., for 12 years. Peter took up woodworking six years ago, and are now operating thelf own handmade furniture and custom cabinetry business in Santa Fe - Hands On Enter- prises. 1974 Ymelda Martinez-Allison is living in Alexandria, Va., and is an artist and art teacher. She has two children, Camilla, 5, and Gabriel, 2Y2. Her husband is David K. Allison, A '73. Roberta Fa1ulh1a11:>er··Ra1za·rv has been living in Paris since 1974. She married and has two children. She has a master of fine arts degree in painting and is working on a master's in communications at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She is still painting intensively and doing printmaking as well. Virginia S. Newlin is in West Chester, Pa. Except for her dissertation, she has completed work for her doctorate at Temple University. She is now teaching and writing a book. Paul Garrett is in Conway, S.C., where he is teaching history and economics. He is also writing editorials for a local newspaper and is lead tenor in an orchestra. He has a 7 year-old son, Stephen. He deeply misses St. John's and is still pouting because Eva Brann told him to stick with the saxophone when he told her he wanted to become well-read and appear intelligent. Joseph Pluchinotta lives in Annandale, Va. In 1986 he was awarded a doctoral degree from the University of New Mexico in higher educational administration. He has accepted the position of executive director of a local business college. 1975 Thomas A. Larsen, Jr. is in Princess Anne, Md. He married Colleen Donovan in June, 1985. They have one child, Coleman Brae Larsen, born November 15. He is self-employed as a touring bandleader /musician. His second album, entitled "Lookin' For Trouble, "will be released in Graydon Tunstall lectures in Paris �Aprit 1987. THE REPORTER Craftsman aids SF campus by JIMMY MCCONNELL SF '88 "Plywood changed the world more than the atom bomb," says native American Santa Fe craftsman Ron Robles who, at the behest of President Michael Riccards, is donating his time and skill to the Santa Fe campus to enhance the original landscaping design. "Plywood brought in the mass production of carpentry products. With that we gained an attitude of 'I want you through by Christmas.' We're losing craftsmanship and patience, and therefore quality. We're losing it all in the rush." l met Mr. Robles as he was trimming trees around the reflecting pool, not just pointing out where to cut, but cutting himself. Barbara Riccards, the president's wife, was sweeping up juniper .needles. l asked Robles if I could talk ·to him. He checked his Mickey Mouse watch and said he could spare the time. He then began to explain to me what he was doing, not iust the but the reasons, he calls basic~kno"' 1 =~ ting, costumes, textiles and jewelry along with his teaching. He doesn't teach classes. He teaches an approach to living which he feels we've lost. His skill has been acquired by practice of his craft never acquired in a conventional classroom. "One of the reasons I never wanted to donate my time to St. John's before is because everyone here talked and· no one wanted to get their hands dirty," says Mr. Robles. His hands-on experience with such masters as AcademyAward Winner Edith Head and Jose Greco has helped him to form his craft. He has designed. gardens for William Randolph Hearst, Jr., Robert Cummings and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Mr Robles is a proponent of practical knowledge. He believes we should fuse both intellectual and practical knowledge. He said, "If you are on an intellectual level, you're at the mercy of the craftsman. We need for practical knowledge to reindependent of the social call liberal arts is life, I've learned about order. Santa Fe's most successfol commercial an and serves a national cliemele with his versatile desi1m acumen for pain- (Umunm~d from P. 2) some grant writing and am currently developing an abuse prevention program for young children." Ann would "love to hear from other Johnnies." Her address: 2018 Woodbourne Ave., Louisville, Ky. 40205. Sara Anastaplo, A, will receive her medical degree in June from the University of Chicago. She will begin her residency in otolarynogology at the University of Iowa shortly thereafter. 1978 Eric P. (Tito) Coleman sends warm regards to those who might be interested and announces his marriage to Ann Lion. Tito and Ann returned from Brazil in September. They worked there on USAID contracts as development consultants in research and public health. Now at 2903 Pine Spring Road, Falls Va. they would welcome hearing from old 1980 A '80, is back in Annapolis, this time as an administrative for the of Fiscal Ser-. vices. Since graduating she's done a lot, beginning with a year and a half with the Peace Corps on the Ivory Coast. In 198182 she helped open the Crown Bookstore here in town. Next she earned a master's in public management in 1984 at the Peter Crown School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland. While she was there, she held a Fulbright research grant which enabled her to do research on health and nutrition during two months in Sri Lanka in 1983. From March 1985 to November 1986, she served as the Southern Maryland economic development specialist for the TriCounty Council for Southern Maryland, leaving that position to join the Department of Fiscal Services. Her sister, Didrikke, A '80, is heading for Kenya with the Associated Press. After two years writing for the AP in Alabama, she has been serving for the past two years on its foreign desk in New York. She leaves this month for Nairobi. Cathy Sims A, has changed careers. Formerly a newspaper reporter, she now works in land-use planning and policy as a consultant researcher. Cathy is living in Stuart, Florida. Peter A, presented a multiimage slide show, "Whitewater of the Wild West," on the Annapolis campus in February. · Peter and his wife, Betsy Brown, are founders and operators of River Odysseys West (ROW). With headquarters in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, ROW conducts and raft trips on the Snake, Salmon, Lochsa and other rivers. Peter guided trips on western nvers for the past IO years. RO W's outings vary from one to seven days. A five-day trip combines a float on the Lochsa with horseback In ROW organizes cruises the and Adriatic Seas aboard a 70foot motor sailor. "Whether 6 or 86, we have a trip for you," brochure states. Adventurous Johnnies can obtain details by writing to Peter at P. 0. Box 579, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814; or calling (208) 7650841. 1981 A, is working on his doctorate in at the University of Virginia while teaching part time at the National Business College in Charlottesville. 1982 Michael A, is living and working at the Himalayan Institute of Glenview, just outside of Chicago. "I am very happy with my numerous duties," he writes. C. Dya., is speaker at celebration Annapolis President William M. Dyal, Jr., was the principal speaker when the town of Columbia celebrated the twentieth year of its founding on March 22. . Mr. Dyal spoke at dinner in the Kittamaqundi Room of the Rouse Company. The occasion was being sponsored by the Columbia Forum. Potash writes his m.emories NEIL POTASH has jotled down memories of his years at St. John's - from l 958 to 1962 - to share with other alumni. The event which impressed him most during his freshman year was the arrival on south campus of a helicopter bearing President Dwight D. Eisenhower, speaker at the dedication of the Key Auditorium and Mellon Hall. "We must have had 300 people on that stage and 500 in the audience," he recalls. He shot baskets every day with athletic director Bryce Jacobsen. Then Mr. Jacobsen would don his tutor's hat. "He would set me Clown in his barber chair and go over the Euclidian theorems." Neil recalls Christian-Judaic doctrines under the trees with former tutor Edward would listen oa.w:11u ·Page 11 Career director leaving SJC Marianne Braun, A '58, is resigning as director of career planning for the Annapolis campus July 1 and is transferring to Santa Fe. It will not, however, be to join the.staff on the western campus. Lured by the Land of Enchantment, she and her husband, Hank, (Henry D., A '59), who have made a number of visits to Santa Fe, will build a home on a lot they have bought in Sun Mountain Estates, and they plan to retire there. Mr. Braun is eligible for retirement after 27 years in state positions. At present he is regional supervisor of juvenile services for Anne Arundel County. After livirnz on Thompson Street in three other St. John's Mrs. Braun said she felt reassured to find that two Santa Fe facfamilies will be among her Hv•i;,•,,vv• John's its Career Office in to work on in the senior vear. come to his office , he would lock the door out his and we did differential that I had to know in order work and to see Einstein's waves in the labs." AFTER A fond memory is of "an amazing The Gadfly, four years ago she instituted a Christmas party" which took place in . successful newsletter that appears monthNeil's sophomore year. "The students and ly and advises students of job opportunifaculty had a 'Man's Salvation from the ties, internships, and fellowship deadlines. Consequential Burden of Original Sin Working with the Faculty Fellowhship Dance Line,' in which Robert Bart, Ford Committee, now headed by Sam Kutler, K. Brown, and others danced." she has been responsible for the work of In his final year, Neil. and his classcoordinating all fellowships, including mates, "trying to be blase' seniors," took announcing them, scheduling interviews, to skipping Friday night lectures and arranging for off-campus visitors, and going to the movies ... "but soon the dean drafting letters. had a check-in slip to sign, which ended Besides innumerable fellowships for the practice." graduate study, during her period stuAs a souvenir of his years at St. John's, · dents have received Fulbrights, Watsons Neil treasures a scarf given to him by Sara and Trumans as well as Rotary FellowHobart, '64, (Mrs. Charles Homyer), who ships and Young Scholar Awards offered knitted one for each of the men in No. 5. by the National Endowment for the "Mine was so long it reached the Humanities. ground, but I wore it for years and probaRecently her office assumed responsibly will drag it out again this winter," Neil bility for one project initiated by the writes. Committee on Student Instruction. To After leaving St. John's, Neil got a masmake the Graduate Records Exam less ter's in history and economics from the intimidating, she has arranged for a oneUniversity o(Maryland. He taught hisday preparatory class taught by a Univertory for lO years at Harford (Md.) Comof Maryland faculty member. munity College and is now a records manaddition, Mrs. Braun has devised an agement specialist at the Maryland State expanded program of alumni networkinn Records Center, Jessup. regularly arranging for representatives alumni in a variety of careers to talk with They include registering people for and alumni. She has involved members of the teaching hatha yoga to the handicapped, Board of Visitors and Governors in a simarranging for doctors to give lectures, ilar program. "running several clients a week on bioSHE added a computer in feedback, working .in the holistic clinic which to program alumni, their employand running the bookstore." ment and their graduate school, informaMichael asks anyone interested to contfon which will be quickly accessible to tact him at 1505 Greenwood Road, Gleninterested students and alumni. view, IL 60025, where he will be for at During the year Mrs. Braun customarleast the next four '"'""""· ily sees 88 per cent of the senior class on Scott A, and Laura Binone occasion or another. Large numbers der, a graduate student at the University of under-classmen also have consulted her of Virginia, were married March 7 in Fairregarding internships, summer jobs and fax, Va. Employed by Broadcasting Magtheir own plans for graduate school and azine in Washington, .Scott writes on the careers. buying and selling of videos and radio and Alumni interested in applying for the television cable systems. position of career counseling director are James W. DeMartini, A, received a advised to apply to the Annapolis Permaster's degree in linguistics last year sonnel Office. Now a 30-hour-a-week pofrom New York University and is writing sition, it will expand to a full 35-hour "a philosophical novel of my own concepworking schedule. tion." �'w "" ..J will of outstanding throughout the country enrolled this summer at a special program designed for them at the University of '-ll.11.a.~v Graduate School of Business. As a Business Fellow, Mr. will receive a full-tuition scholaran academic quarter of study toward a master's degree in business administration. The McLean, Va .. mmor was recom- JOHN LAVERY mended for the program by the Faculty Fellowship Committee. The qualifications Chicago is seeking for the 45 students who will be enrolled: "juniors with exceptional academic, leadership and communication skills, a strong commitment to ethical conduct, and the ability to relate to others in a positive and productive manner." Mr. Lavery, who would like eventually to establish an international trade firm in either Asia or the Middle East, plans to study international finance and business management. Of his own first business venture "small in scale but successful and rewarding" - Mr. Lavery said it grew out of a program begun during his junior year in high school when he was apprenticed after school and weekends to a local cabinet maker and carpenter. Following his graduation from high school, Mr. Lavery attended the Virginia Polytechnic Institute with an intended major of economics but decided to leave. In 1979-81 he was employed by Burger's Cabinet Shop in Herndon as a cabinet maker as well as a carpenter by a local contractor during his off hours. A Truman Scholarship nominee, the 26-year-old junior has been an active participant in St. John's extra-curricular activities. In honor of the fiftieth of the New Program to be celebrated next fall, one week of the alumni summer program in Santa Fe will be marked by readings which have played a significant part in liberal education. Delivering the homecoming lecture the Friday of that week will be the distinguished writer and critic, Jacques Barzun. He will speak July 17 on "Of What Use the Classics." Mr. Barzun will speak at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall following an outdoor banquet at 5:30 p.m. to which members of the Board of Visitors and Governors, who will be meeting in Santa Fe that weekend, will be invited . The homecoming 'program for Saturday, July 18, will continue to focus on the 50th anniversary through alumni seminars at 2 p.m. They wilf be devoted to excerpts of John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University. The homecoming banquet will be held at 7:30 p.m. that evening in the Great Hall with Dr. David Dobreer, A Alumni Association president, presiding. Two seminars - "The Mind in the and "On as a Woman" - are scheduled for the anniversary celebration week 12" l 7. In "On Liberal · Ed uca ti on," devoted to readings by Scott Buchanan, Jacob Klein and Thomas K. Simpson. The will be '43, bv Mr. led William A. Simpson, A '50, both tutors, and by Van Doren, A '47, executive editor of Great Ideas who is chairing the alumni 's part in fiftieth anniversary. The seminar, "The Mind in the Mak" will include selections from Plato's Republic and Descartes's Discourse on Method. It will be led by Mr. and Mr. :'}m11Json. The "Reading as a Woman," will be led by Bittner A '58, associate professor of philosophy at the Graduate School of the City University of New York and at Brooklyn College. Her co-leader is yet to be announced. Readings will include Aristotle's Poetics and Kant's On the Sublime and the Beautiful. Other tutorials will be offered that week in George Eliot's Middlemarch, by tutor Robert Bart, MA A '57, and on Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics by Santa Fe Dean James Carey, A '67. Week II of the summer program will be July 19-24. Preceptorials to be offered will include "On Selected Paintings by Caravaggio," by Mr. Bart, the short stories of Eudora Welty by Georgia Knight, and readings from Abraham Lincoln by Sam Brown. A seminar based on Walt Whitman's Songs of Myself will be led by tutors Stuart Boyd and Mr. Brown. The Annapolis Alumni Office is han. dling registration. I i gt Somewhere on the sidelines, Beau Brummell, that fashionable trend-setter of England's Regency period, must be rubbing his hands in delight, and Jane Austen is smiling. Ah, very good. Now they are doing it the right way -waltzing, that is. St. John's students have been whirling their way around McDowell's 18th century Great Hall since 1959, when Viennese waltzing became a regular part of the college's social scene. Freshmen are taught to waltz. Waltz parties are held every three weeks. This spring, however, a new refinement is being added. Students are learning to waltz Regency style. Their instructor is a Santa Monica, California, junior, Sean Smith, who is holding weekly lessons in the style of social dancing that flourished among England's aristocracy in the first decades of the 19th century. This is the kind of dancing that occupies an important place in the· lives of Jane Keith Harney Under the of the heaviest snow Annapolitans can remember in many a lom! dav. the Libertv Tree in ten years. "It has held up under hurricanes and high winds, but a snow load of this sort can be devastating to trees," Dan Helgerman, manager of Bartlett Tree Experts, which takes care of the Liberty Tree, said. Branches were down all over the campus after the February 22 Sunday night snowfall. The Y-shaped branch broke off close to the trunk, where Mr. Helgerman said there is a natural weakness in any tree. At that tearing point, the part ripped away was almost five feet tall. This month, Bartlett Tree Experts will clean the tree, taking particular care that the soft sections don't sponge up water, and then treat it for insect damage. In sturdy if spare limbed condition, the Liberty Tree is not. expected to experience long-term damage. wa was detected at the Mr. have identified some branches, now m their which encouraging to grow to those that perish. "The tree will outlive us all," he said with calm confidence. As for the wood, it will be seasoned and then go to the sculpture classes of artist-in-residence Burton Blistein, who has a number of wood carvers eager to make use of the wood from this historic, pre-Revolutionary tulip poplar. To help preserve the Liberty Tree, branches periodically are thinned. Until April, 1975, the tree measured 96 feet tall and had a total spread of 76 feet. In a storm that spring, the winds opened a six-foot-long crack in the upper branch and widened it as much as four inches. A number of branches were removed to lighten the top, and the crack, filJed with pliable mastic, was secured on either side bv six bolts. .. te Austen's characters and that the author herself obviously enjoyed. "It is slower, gentler," Mr. Smith explained. Regency dancing embodies that rare combination of ease and elegance that characterized its period." Viennese waltzing involves a long first step followed by two short steps, Mr. Smith explained. In Regency waltzing, steps are more even. "THE WALTZ MUSIC BY Haydn, the early Beethoven, and their contemporar- . ies is more gently lyrical than the heavily accented waltzes of Tschaikovsky and the Viennese waltz kings," Mr. Smith said. While Regency dancers pivot around each other with a certain abandon that was not entirely approved by all in Regency society, they engage in none of the dipping, swooping and dancing on tiptoe that can make Viennese waltzing an athletically, breath-taking wild rush down the hall and back. Partners remain on a single, even level. I The most notable 'characteristic of Regency waltzing, however, is the executing of figures, according to Mr. Smith. These are sequences of movements that supplement the familiar closed waltz. Some of these figures include the open .waltz, in which couples hold inside hands and do not spin around but rather waltz forward in the circle of couples around the ballroom, turning away from and then towards each other as they go. In promenades, couples hold inside hands and process in stately fashion around the circle, taking one step per measure of waltz music. Windows call for openings made by the gentleman's arms through which he turns the lady. In addition tq teaching students, faculty, staff and friends these waltzes, Mr: Smith is introducing them to Regency country dances, dances that had medieval folk origins but which, by the time the (See Waltzing, P. 7) � 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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Scheduled to move to Mellon are the offices of the president, dean, assistant deans and registrar. Their present offices in McDowell will become classrooms. Design for the new administrative offices is expected to be completed early this month by the Annapolis architectural firm of Weller, Fishback & Bohl working with college officials. Detailed plans and specifications will begin immediately thereafter. The wing also will include a new art gallery that will be far more accessible than the I I-year-old gallery located m a converted laboratory on Mellon's second floor. Originally, the wing was to have housed classrooms, but a mid-winter decision by the Faculty Planning Committee, which received faculty approval, has resulted in a new plan in which the four offices will be located in Mellon. While having the advantage of provid- ing offices specifically designed for their purposes, the new plan will permit partitions to be removed in the big, high ceilinged rooms in McDowell so they may become seminar and tutorial classrooms, for which they are seen as particularly suited. The addition of four classrooms will help meet a severe shortage of classroom space on campus. "The rooms in McDowell are inadequate for the needs of the administrative offices," Jeri Rhodes, college treasurer, explained. SHE SAID THE president's. office for years has suffered particularly from lack of a reception room. Visitors frequently have used the Great Hall while waiting. In addition, secretaries for all the offices have performed their duties amid disruptive traffic patterns not conducive to efficient work. Among the other drawbacks Mrs. Rhodes cited are inadequate space in the registrar's office for files and lack of space in the assistant deans' office for their student aides as well as an abser1ce of ventilation for the assistant deans' secretary. The dean's office also is facing problems of another sort: a floor sagging under the (See Former McDowell, P. 7) ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1~mr1~r1 1if1ifll1illllllllllllllll : ~----------- st. John,s The 3 1696 01138 1272 ---~--~---- REP O Volume 13, Issue 3 c TE Annapolis, Md. and Santa Fe, N.M. f February 1987 needs by 1992 Presiden apprise boa In separate Statements looking forward to the next tive years and prepared for the Board of Visitors and Governors, the presidents of both the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses cited pressing financial needs. In Santa Fe , ! I Producer Johnathan D. Krane, SF '72, sits between Mrs. Michael Riccards, left, and his actress Sally Kellerman. At right is President Riccards. .. a Ill I .. I St. John's is acqumng new vicepresidents for advancement for each of its Film producer Jonathan D. Krane, SF campuses. '72, sometime this spring will be on the Named at last month's meeting of the western cam pus to make a short IO-to- I 5 Board of Visitors and Governors, they are minute film about St. John's to be used in Jeffrey A. Bishop, a consultant for the promotion for admissions and for potenPhiladelphia firm of Snelling, Kolb and tial donors to the college. Kuhnle, Inc., for Annapolis, and Graydon There is a reason for this act of generA. Tunstall, director of development and osity and loyalty. external relations at Montclair (N.J.) "My St. John's education is more rele- - State College, for Santa Fe. Mr. Bishop will assume duties April I. vant to the real world than a law school Mr. Tunstall assumed responsibilities education in an league school," he immediately following his appointment. expressed it in part to students during a recent career counseling presentation in Mr. Bishop served as director of develSanta Fe. · opment at the University of Pennsylvania He was accompanied by his wife, actress School of Medicine and Hospital from Sally Kellerman, who will do the voice- 1980-81. He was responsible for its annual over for the St. John's film. The script will fund, patient gift program, capital program and foundation and corporate relabe provided by the college. tions. During that time the school re(See Krane, P. 6) ceived $22-million. From 1977-80 he was director of life income trusts for the University of Pennsylvania and from 1974-77 director of development for the university's School of Saturday, May 2, has been set as the Veterinary Medicine. date for the inauguration of President Known for his extensive knowledge in Michael Riccards. The ceremony will be planned giving, he has written and spoken held at 11 a.m. on the Santa Fe campus. frequently on that and on other aspects of Inaugural events call for a reception and fund raising. concert on Friday evening and for a festiMORE RECENTLY, since 1982, Mr. val of the arts on Saturday afternoon featuring the Santa Fe .Ballet and Folklor.;. Bishop has been engaged in institutional ica. The inauguration of Annapolis Presi- advancement pcogram evaluation. In that dent Dyal is being planned for next capacity he has advised numerous universities, colleges, independent schools, pubOctober. Inauguration set In Annapolis President Michael Riccards cited three serious building needs for the Santa Fe campus in outlining overall funding goals of $21,880,000 for the five year period. Among them is $I I-million for endowed scholarship support. "With undergraduate tuition, room, and board costing over $13,000 a year, some two-thirds of the students are receiving financial aid," Mr. Riccards said. "Many students require a substantial subsidy beyond what their families can reasonably contribute." In addition, he said the Graduate lnstitute's cost of education has risen dramati(See College, Page 4) It will be "imperative" for the Annapolis campus to increase its endowment, President William M. Jr., has informed the board. f In his financial needs plan looking to 1992, Mr. Dyal cited three major areas where funding is required: financial aid, the Graduate Institute, and faculty development and salaries. At the same time, he advised the board that neglect of the Annapolis campus, long viewed as affluent as compared with the 23-year-old Santa Fe campus, could (See College, Page 4) - resi e t lie radio and conservation organizations on fund raising and other aspects of development. ln an unusual twist of his appointment at St. John's, he first became acquainted with the campus in a consulting capacity. In October President William M. Dyal asked him to conduct a management audit (See New Veeps, P. 9) St. John's will hold the size of the increase in fees to five per cent next year, the smallest proportionate jump in a number of years. "At a time of rising costs when many colleges need to increase their fees substantially, St. John's is very happy to cap its fees at no more than five per cent," Annapolis President William M. Dyal, Jr., said. Tuition will move from its present $9, 720 to $10,200 in the 1987-88 academic year. Room will go up $75 from $1,500 to $1,575 and board $100 from $1,800 to $1, 900. Altogether student fees will be $13,675 as opposed to the present$ l 3,200. Mr. Dyal said increases approved by the Board of Visitors and Governors at its February meeting in Santa Fe, will go toward meeting general budgetary needs at St. John's. They will be identical for both campuses. ye feat ,,, .. Twelve St. John's students have been selected to participate in a seminar with Mortimer Adler to be filmed on campus February 14 and shown on national public television. The seminar will be part of a series on the Constitution planned by Bill Moyers, BILL MOYERS executive editor of Public Affairs Television. The series is scheduled to begin in April. With participation by St. John's arranged by President William M. Dyal, Jr., an old friend of Mr. Moyers, the series will be presented by public television stations WNET in New York and by WTVS in Detroit and will be shown throughout the country. (See Adler Seminar, P. 6) �J FEBRUARY 1987 2 Eaat 1929 While at St. John's, Everett R. Amos .composed an improvisation on a tune he 1 had played on the piano as a child and called the piece "The St. John's Rag." He writes that he was interviewed on a radio station recently and played the rag as part of the broadcast. Mr. Amos notes that his two favorite teachers at St. John's were Richard Schofield and Ted Hatfield. Having retired two years ago at the age.of 83, Mr. Amos and his wife spend their winters in Mexico and their summers in Indiana. He offers to send a copy of the "St. John's Rag" to anyone interested. Address: Meguil de Cervantes Saavedra 28, #4, Guadalajara 6, Jalisco, Mexico. 44100. 1937 Robert M. Snibbe will lead members of the Napoleonic Society of America on a studytourofFranceand Italy in June. He is founder and managing director of the society, with headquarters in Bellefair, Florida. Over 250 members attended the annual three-day conference of the society last fall in Washington, D. C. 1944 Vernon Derr and Thomas Byrnes, SF 71, both of Boulder, Colo., were coleaders of a demonstration seminar for 22 principals of elementary and junior high schools in Denver. The principals are interested in using the seminar as a technique for teaching younger children. "The Meno provided the basis for a vigorous and challenging discussion of the Socratic method," Mr. Derr reports. 1950 Ranlet Lincoln is now assistant to the president of the tJniversity of Maryland. In introducing him at a recently Annapolis Alumni Chapter, Jack Ladd Carr, his classmate, brought members up to date: "Ranny's varied career has included service with the United States Foreign Service and the U.S. Information Agency, a year working in the Admissions Office of St. John's College, experience in the public television and public relations business, a three-year period as assistant director of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. In 1963 he went to the University of Chicago and stayed for almost 20 years. During most of that time he served concurrently as dean of extension (continuing education), as associate professor of humanities, and as the host for 12 years of a daily half-hour talk program on ABC television in"Chicago. "He returned to the Washington area in 1982 to become director of development at the Washington Cathedral and, since October 19'85, has been assistant to the president of the University of Maryland. "Ranny and Claire (they were married in 1947 at the end of his freshman year at St. John's) returned to live in Annapolis just this past summer in an apartment at Shearwater overlooking Spa Creek. "Ranny says that he likes to think that many of the varied things he has done may be seen as one kind or another of tea'ching, sometimes formally with college freshmen or adult students in a classroom, sometimes on his television program, sometimes organizing conferences and workshops. And the passion for teaching, he believes, is attributable to St. John's, which has thus shaped his whole life in important ways. " _ 1958 Michael Ham has joined the California Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence Berns, Betsy Blume, John Christensen, Howard Zeiderman, Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. The Reporter is published by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD 21404. William M. Dyal, Jr., president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second-class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS 018-750 Test Bureau/McGraw-Hill as data processing product manager. "I was working as an independent, and I still have a few things to wrap up," Mr. Ham writes from Santa Cruz, Calif. "I wrote a software package called 'Connections' that will be published b)Electronic Arts in early 1987, and I have been writing a column for Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software tools. The column appears every three months, with the inaugural column in the July 1986 issue. I have had a number of other articles published in Computer Language, PC World, and Fourth Dimensions. "Besides the program for EA, I wrote and continue to update a continuing medical education program used by otolaryngologists. The American College Testing Program, Inc. (my sometime employer) develops the content of patient-of-themonth problems, and I put the content in an interactive computer format. "My son Ethan (now 17) is living with me and completing his senior year at Santa Cruz High School. He plans a major in medieval history, with his undergraduate work at UC, Santa Cruz. "His older sister, Greta, is completing her senior year at Millsaps University in Jackson, Miss., and is contemplating a career as a Unitarian-Universalist minister. And her older sister, Cecilia, is vice president of the U.S. Student Association in Washington, where she lobbies, organizes, speechifies, and in general fights the good fight for higher education." Of the Class of 1956's 30-year "delightful" reunion, Mr. Ham observed: "It was clear that style is more enduring than substance. Everyone seemed to have the same laugh, the same gestures, the same stance and look. But everyone was more mellow and relaxed and loving. Altogether a great weekend. People should set their calendars around the reunion." 1959 Four alumni sang last summer at Westminster Abbey in London. All members of the St. Andrew's' Episcopal Church Choir of College Park, they were Richard and Lorna Cahall, '59, Jeanne Harrison,'73, and Craig Mooring, '65. 1961 After serving as co-chairman for a year, Harrison Sheppard, A '61, has been appointed chairman of the Program Committee and elected to the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Law Society at its annual meeting in San Francisco. The Hellenic Law Society is a professional association of philheHenic lawyers devoted in part to "the preservation of law as an instrument of justice within our democratic system of free inquiry. The society's first annual symposium will be held in May on ''The Hellenic Idea of Justice and the Hellenic Roots of the U.S. Constitution." Keynote speaker will be George Anastaplo, father of St. John's alumni and an occasional St. John's lecturer. 1970 "British Naval Geography in World War II" by Edward M. Macierowski, A, has been published in Bulletin No. 140 of the Special Libraries Association's Geography and Map Division. His sequel, "British Naval Geography in World War I," will be published this year. 1971 Thomas N., A '71, and Lois Eckler Day, A '77, are living in Sterling, Va. Thomas has an MBA degree from Marymount University of Virginia, with emphasis on marketing and finance, and is employed by Boeing Computer Services "doing software configuration management." Thomas writes that he has been playing soccer and that he and Lois, who are active in the local church, have two children, Christopher, 7, and Jennifer, 4. · 1972 Leslie Starr recently won an audition to become second oboist of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. A resid~nt of Baltimore, she also is co-principal oboist of (Continued on P. 11) Simpson writes on Maxwe Annapolis tutor Thomas K. Simpson, A '50, is the author of a major article on James Clerk Maxwell that appears in the Encyclopaedia Britannica's 1986 volume of lhe Great Ideas Today. It is an examination of Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, which Mr. Simpson hails as a "great work of literature and no less beautiful for the perplexities it incorporates." He postulates that the modern world has given up on Maxwell's efforts to "wed Thought to Fact" and to see science as a human activity. The article is entitled "Maxwell's Treatise and the Restoration of the Cosmos." The yearbook also carries an article by Mortimer J. Adler, a visitor emeritus of the Board of Visitors and Governors: "The Idea of Dialectic: Two Approaches to the Authors of the Great Books." It does not mention the St. John's list but rather refers to Britannica's Great Books of the Western World. The Great Ideas Today writes of Mr. Simpson: "Thomas K. Simpson has had a lifelong interest in the relationship between the sciences and the humanities. He is a senior it s tutor at St. John's College, a school with a program that combines both disciplines, and has carried major responsibility for development of the physics laboratory program there .. In addition, he has served as a consultant for the Museum of History and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution, where he researched items in the collection and wrote a guidebook to the exhibits of the Division of Electricity, and also for the Franklin Institute, where he helped evaluate the role of a technological museum in contemporary society. "He studied electrical engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute during 1944-45 and took his B.A. from St. John's in 1950, with military service in between at the Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland. Subsequently he earned an M.S. (1955) from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in the history of science and technology in 1968 from Johns Hopkins, where his doctoral thesis was a 1iterarycritical study of Maxwell's Treatise. "He has written several pieces for scholarly publications, including articles on Maxwell for Isis and the Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science. " i t David Allison, A '73, last month assumed duties as curator of computer information and society at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. Mr. Allison joins the Smithsonian after working for almost a year at the Department of Energy, which he joined last February to work on the history of nuclear energy from 1960 to 1974. He will assist with the organization of a .. A Navy historian for eight years, he was new exhibit on the information revolution made the first historian of the Naval that will be centered on the computer but Research Laboratory in Anacostia, where not limited to it. The exhibit is expected to he served from 1977 to 1981, and then was open in ] 989-.1990. In addition, Mr. Allihistorian of Navy laboratories, which inson will be writing a book on the informa- ;cluded eight laboratories, from 1981 to tion revolution. 1985. . 1ves a ry Kathryn Kinzer, librariaµ,_ said that they include "a marvelous ·collection" of 256 German books from Edward F. Bauer, A '53, of Milford, N.H., a particularly fortuitous gift since the library is in the midst of upgrading its German section. His brother, Harold Bauer, A '55, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., contributed 37 books, most of them program books. Books regularly come to the library from faculty members and friends. More recently a number have been given by Graduate Institute students. St. John's ~ 1 boa.rd mernbe.r, R<1.y Cp.ve,A.'48, of New York City, has given the library tapes of two Shakespearean plays. Mrs. Kinzer said what the St. John's library does not retain for its permanent collection it sells, with proceeds u_sed for the purchase of new books. Additions to the library 'also come through memorial gifts. One established in memory of the late William KyleSmith, former assistant dean, was used to acquire a BBC production of Richard II. Cresap Davis chairing M C R. Cresap Davis, A '38, professor emeritus of Frederick (Md.) Community College, assumed duties last month as chairman of the Maryland Humanities Council. A former visiting professor of law at Mount Saint Mary's College and a resident of Smithsburg, Md., Mr. Davis has served as legal counsel for the council Slakey~ since 198 J and for the past year as vicechairman. Mr. Davis is a graduate of the University of Maryland Law School with an LLM. from Georgetown University. For many years he practiced law in Annapolis. He is a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association. Dyal to attend meet Thomas J. Slakey, dean of the Annapolis campus, will make a presentation next month at the 1987 National Conference on the Freshman Year Experience which both he and President William M. Dyal, Jr., will attend. They will be among representatives of 3,000 colleges from this country, Canada, Alumni getting to _know Dyal Annapolis President William M. Dyal, Jr., is getting to know alumni in the East and West In December, alumni in the San Francisco area had an opportunity to meet him at a reception at the Montgomery Gallery. Last month he enlarged his acquaintance with New York members when he and Sam Ku tier led a seminar at the Princeton Club on Sophocles' Antigone. Great Britain and Egypt who will attend the meeting at the University of South Carolina in Columbia February 21-25. Dean James Carey of the Santa Fe campus represented St. John's at a similar meeting at the University of California, Irvine, Jan. 29-Feb. 2. Eastern opening The Annapolis Admissions Office is seeking an admissions representative for alumni activities. Primary responsibilities include coordination of all alumni recruitment programs, travel to secondary schools, campus interviews, and record-keeping. The pos.ition is available May J. For further information, write to Director of Personnel, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD 21404. �REPORTER PAGE3 e ca it t If King William has a particular askance, down-the-nose view from his portrait in the Annapolis campus'library, there may be a reason. Before him stands Stephen Hulbert, Cleveland, Ohio, senior, scantily clad in boxer shorts, posing in St. John's most formal room for what turned out to be the campus' hottest selling item of its Christmas season: a calendar, "The Men of St. John's." With a cover reminding purchasers of the college motto, "I make free men out of boys by means of books and a balance," this spoof of male beefcake shows just how free St. John's men can be in photographs lasting from January to December. One of them is the student who thought up the idea as a fund raiser for this spring's Reality Weekend, a weekend of parties and mock olympic games held each year. Antic-eyed, Benjamin Krauss, Evergreen, Colo.,junior, in sweat pants cut off at the knees, black shoes and black calfhigh socks, strikes a "Mr. Atlas" pose before a mural decorating the laboratory's pendulum pit. Mark Shiffman, Annapolis sophomore, lounges across the switchboard table in a checked sports shirt casually half on and half off a bare shoulder. Jeff Kojack, Los Angeles, Calif., sophomore, poses nobly in front of the planetarium, oblivious of the rim of white underwear rising above low slung jeans; and R.C. Madhu, Rochester, N.Y., junior, attired only in dress bow tie and boxer shorts, cigarette in hand, strikes a debonaire pose before a problem of Apollonius on a McDowell blackboard. THE PHOTOGRAPHS were taken by Greg F~rguson, who was assisted by Casey Carter in the St. John's dark room. They all stay within gentlemanly bounds. "This is something you can show your grandmother," correctly remarks Mr. Carter. Surprisingly, the printshop, showing a caution not guessed at, hesitated to print the calendar until it received a go-ahead from the assistant dean's office. Malcolm Wyatt gave it. Better still, once it was printed the calendar won the equivalent of the Presidential Seal of Good Housekeeping. "Endorsed by William M. Dyal, Jr.," Mr. Dyal dashed off his stamp of approval on the cover of one. Benjamin Krauss thought up the idea. R.C. Madhu is September's man. 1r I "" As for the reaction of the St. John's women to the Men of St. John's, it was one of extreme loyalty. "The men have manners, intellect and, as you can see from the calendar, they are incredibly attractive," Rachel Duel was quoted as saying in the Annapolis Capital. St. John's community members clamored to have photographs while local stories brought a barrage of requests to the bookstore from townspeople. Listed on the back of the calendar as sharing the management and concept honors with Mr. Krauss is John Bertram. Both represent the Asleep at the Wheel of Fortune Productions. Mr. Krauss, who bears the official title of Polity Fool in St. John's student body organization, a role which calls for him to provide levity at its meetings, said he had the idea for such a calendar last year, but it failed to get off the ground. When Mr. Bertram asked earlier this year what they could do to make a lot of money quickly, he brought up the calendar again. Some 150 copies, each selling for $5, appeared late last year. Mr. Krauss estimates that the project probably will net $500. WILL THERE 8E a follow-up calendar involving women? Mr. Krauss couldn't be more emphatic in saying there was no way he could be persuaded to produce · one. "I would never ever take any responsibility for a calendar of women," he declared. "It's a touchy topic. Any pictures of scantily clad women, and m~ople would keep charging exploitation right and left, and I don't want to be known as an exploiter." Obviously, at St. John's, twelve men have no objection. Among others who found the idea worthwhile are Andrew Wakefield in a music room, Scott Vineberg with bow-and-arrow near the French Monument, Tom Barlow in a Humphreys restroom ("We like the tile," Mr. Krauss explained), Vincent Pruden striking a fencer's pose in the art gallery, Matt Krawic at the boat house, John Lavery in the gym's weight lifting room, and John Pronko in the Conversation Room. The only regret Mr. Krauss has is that they failed to-get a St. John's man at the Liberty Tree. I t se Stephen Hulbert assumes King William's hand-on-waist pose. photos by Greg Ferguson Flaumenhaft writes on Washingto Annapolis tutor Harvey Flaumenhaft has participated in two meetings sponsored by the Liberty Fund. The tirst was a symposium at Mount Vernon on "George Washington as Founder" for which he contributed one of the background papers, a monograph- length piece entitled "Presiding in the New Republic: George Washington's Contribution to the Establishment of the Executive Power Under the United States Constitution." In addition. he participated in a Liberty Fund colloquium in Dallas on "John Milton and the Concept of Liberty." Annapolis President William M. Jr., was among a select group of !00 pre~­ idcnts of colleges and universities from throughout the country who attended a colloquium at Harvard University sponsored by Harvard and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Entitled "A Colloquium on College: The Undergraduate Experience in America," the program included talks by Carnegie President Ernest Boyer; Harvard President Derek Bok, and Georgetown University President Timothy Healy. In one presentation by Sheldon Rothblatt, chairman of the History Department at the University of California at Berkeley, St. John's was cited as one "breakaway" college which had succeeded in holding to its program. Mr. Rothblatt made the point, however, that a diversified curriculum, is "one of the ways in which a democratic society both guarantees access to higher education for its citizenry and allows for individual expression." "I am therefore concluding that the American system of higher education is not the result of historical accident so that it is full of survivals and anomalies, but that it is a remarkable complex institutional response to the conditions of the society that created it." r ti g a Faculty and students are getting together for sit-down dinners in the private dining room before Friday lectures this semester. This is one undertaking of the campus' new Commitee on the Quality of Student Life. Among other activities it is seeking ways to make it possible for faculty and students to grow to know one another bette!· on an informal, relaxed basis at a time convenient for everyone. Altogether about 25 students and five or six faculty members will be invited each Friday. Spouses of faculty and students also are invited. By the end of the semester, the committee hopes all students will have been able to attend. Newly appointed by President William M. Dyal, Jr., the committee is headed by tutor Leland Giovanelli and includes Mr. Dyal and Assistant Dean Barbara Leonard as ex officio members, Nicholas Capozzoli and Michael Oink, from the faculty, and Celeste DiNucci, Charles Schlueter and Steven Virgil, from the student body. �I i IIi Sa ta Fe_, scholarship Jennifer Lapham applies practiced hands to clay. Greg Ferguson photo With Jennifer as teacher~ potting wheels are spinning "Why are there so many late papers?" one tutor bemoaned their tardy state at a faculty meeting last year. "Because they are all making pots," another facuJty member commented under her breath. If that is the reason, the credit (or blame, as you see it) can go to Jennifer Lapham, 20-year-old Rochester, N.Y., junior, who has given new life to the ceramics studio. Potters' wheels are spinning at a pace unknown in years. Although there are Saturday classes provided under St. John's continuing education, program, Miss Lapham has the ·advantage of being in the studio when the students need her, which can be at all sorts of odd times of the day and evening. She can be found helping students individually or in twos and threes. "That will dry out before seminar, and you can trim it after seminar and decorate it tomorrow," she shepherds along Steven Williamson, Medfield, Mass., sophomore, with one of the Greek style pieces which he likes to make. Pots, in various stages of production, line the walls in the small ceramics studio in Mellon. A kiln stands nearby. Miss Lapham knows how it is done. A ·potter of professional capability, she already is selling her own pieces at Karinya Design and Annapolis Pottery here in Annapolis. BORN INTO A household with a mother engaged in a variety of art forms - painting, drawing, jewelry making, sewing - art is in her blood. She is the daughter of Miriam Lapham, whose superb paintings in encaustic shown at the college last fall resulted in the sale of four pieces. The commission the art ,gallery earned will go toward a second, larger kiln for St. John's. In a nice family turn of events, Miss Lapham will be among students who will benefit. As an artist within her own right, Miss Lapham made it possible for St. John's extra-curricular program in studio art to be offered for the first time last summer to Febbies and Graduate Institute students. She taught two classes. Last fall she instructed a Saturday class of mostly St. John's students, encouraging them to experience what it means to work with clay - to hand-build, to fashion closed and open forms on the wheel, to decorate by painting and glazing and to develop a sense of textures. "I want them to work with clay in a way that is not frustrating," she said. Last year she devoted about 20 hours a week to working in the studio, a fairly large number, she said in recalling the "hub-bub" of January and February. This junior year she has cut her time back to 10 hours to keep up with the aca-. demic program, which she does very well. If others turn in late papers because they are sequestered in the studio, she has never been known to do so. This year her program has included a preceptorial on Wittgenstein. From it, Miss Lapham has gained an understanding of parallels between language and art, with language defining certain limits for words even as clay has its own limits. Miss Lapham believes there is no separation between art and other academic subjects. "ART IS INHERENTLY tied to academics," she said. "It forms a bond with them and is not divisive or represents a separation at all. They feed off one another. Where l want to go with art has a lot to do with what I study here." Miss Lapham originally began her art studies in pottery about the age of 8 and continued them until 13. As the only child who showed up the first day at a Saturday's children's co-op in Rochester, she was guaranteed a great deal of attention from a teacher, who became like an older sister. Between her freshman and sophomore years at St. John's she returned to her for further instruction. For a couple of months she was ap(See Lapham P. 9) (Continued from P. 1) lead to severe problems. "While the general health of the Annapolis campus is good, we can no longer overlook nor postpone human and brick and mortar needs," he warned members at last month's meeting in Santa Fe. " ... The prevailing notion that 'the Annapolis campus will take care of itself' will ultimately lead us to severe problems. There seems to be a perception that Annapolis is 'affluent,' which is not borne out in the annual struggle to find a balanced budget." Calling attention to board support, which has been heavily weighted toward Santa Fe since the conception of the western campus in 1961, Mr. Dyal said that board giving for operating purposes for the 10-year period from 1977-86 totaled $2,386,073 for Santa Fe as compared to $420,062 for Annapolis. "During the same period, the endowment in Santa Fe grew from $1.3-million to $8.2-million in gifts (512 per cent), whereas the endowment in Annapolis grew, through gifts, from $8. 7-million to $11.9-million (37 per cent)," he pointed out. IN THE PERIOD from 196 l to l 977, board gifts to Santa Fe totaled approximately $8-million as compared to $500,000 for Annapolis. "These figures dramatically demonstrate the building of the college in Santa Fe but also must be seen as need to focus on the future of Annapolis, as well as Santa Fe," he pointed out. In outlining endowment needs, Mr. Dyal also presented a five-year operating budget project that anticipates that tuition increases will be limited to five per cent each year. Altogether, excluding the building program, educational and general expenditures are expech~d to jump from $6,603,283 for the current academic year to more than-$ l 0-million in 1991-92. The college anticipates that faculty salaries will increase by 10 pe.r cent for two years and 13 per cent in the next three, for academic support to increase by 9 per cent in the first year and I 0 per cent the fol!owing years, for student services by 7 per cent the first year and I 0 per cent thereafter, institutional support by 5 per cent the first year and IO per cent thereafter, and buildings and grounds by 5 per cent. TURNING to endowment needs, Mr. Dyal pointed out that the Annapolis campus has relied on increases in tuition revenue to cover the additional costs of operation. The loss of federal funding for grants and the considerable increases in tuition have been covered by unfunded aid, he said. At current rates, the Annapolis campus can be expected to provide over $ !million out of the operating budget for aid by 1991. "An endowment of $20-million would assure that we can meet our commitment to offering the program to students without regard to financial status;" he said. With regard to the Graduate Institute, Mr. Dyal estimated that an endowment of $6. 5-million would allow the institute to operate without continued reliance on tuition increases or other college revenues. Faculty salaries now constitute 30 per cent of the operating budget. He recommended an initial endowment of $10million to provide for the first level of increases being requested by the Tutor Compensation Committee. In discussing capital projects, for which Mr. Dyal foresees a total cost of $13, 750,000, Mr. Dyal pointed out that work remaining on Mellon Hall will cost $3.5-million, of which $1.5-million is in hand. A $300,000 improvement program for the boathouse thus far has raised only (Continued from P. 1) cally in recent years. "It is now nearly $4,000 per semester, which without financial aid would be prohibitively expensive for many students and especially for the school teachers the institute was designed to serve. The colIege 's financial aid program needs permanent funding. To cut it back would seriously limit the diversity of the student body." With regard to building needs, Mr. Riccards said the campus lacks a unified library with adequate stack space and study space for students. The library now occupies three rooms in three different buildings. A second need he said is a recreation building. The extra-curricular sports program, in which 75 per cent of the students participate, operates out of three small rooms in the basement of the science building. "There is a demonstrated need for a gymnasium building with space for basket ball, volleyball, racquetball, handball and squash as well as an exercise room," Mr. Riccards explained. A third facility needed is an auditorium. At present Santa Fe's Great Hall is the only room available for all-college lectures, films, student dramatic productions and concerts of music or dance, waltz parties and fencing tournaments. In addition to its college use, Mr. Riccards said the auditorium could enhance community relations through its use by local organizations. His paper set forth funding goals, which were developed in consultation with the dean, faculty, staff and students. They are: Endowed scholarship support,$ I I-million to generate $I-million yearly for undergraduate stipends and $100,000 for graduate stipends. • Library building, $3-million • Recreation building, $2-million • Auditorium and general purpose facility, $2-million • Faculty development endowment, $180,000 • Endowed tutorship (four), $2-million • Lecture endowment to provide $ l 0, 000 a year for guest lectures, $100,000 • Arts program endowment, to provide funding for musician-in-residence, student drama and music production, and fine arts, $I-million • Improvements in dormitories and common rooms, $250,000 • Restoration of Witter-Bynner House to provide faculty and staff housing, $250,000 • Renovation for the president's house, $100,000 is $50,000. Mr. Dyal said $150,000 required to complete a master plan for the campus. The president sketched out a number of future capital needs for projects he said are yet to be studied and approved by the Faculty Planning Committee. The projects and their costs will include: • Roads, utilities, walks, parking lots, landscaping over the years l 987-90, $500,000 •Additions and improvements to classrooms between 1988-92, $1,250,000 • Renovations and additions to dormitories between 1988-1990, $2-million •A new building to house the Graduate Institute, student and faculty offices, and an expansion of the library, which Mr. Dyal said is ''imperative to begin" by 1990, $7-million • A gymnasium addition by 1992, · $3-million �5 • by JIMMY MCCONNELL SF '88 "My interest is in calling people's attention to a very critical problem, one we'll all have to face sooner or iater," Santa Fe tutor Gerald Myers says about the growing threat of AIDS. Mr. Myers is familiar with the problem and its growth. For over four years, during summers and his sabbatical, he has been a consulting molecular geneticist for the National Laboratory of Genetic Sequences, or "GenBank," in Los Alamos, N.M. He has studied various genetic (nucleic acid sequences, from human globin gene sequences to viral gene sequences.) According to Mr. Myers, a gene sequence can be understood in terms of a sequence of chemical elements of bases in strings. These strings are constituted of groups of three bases called codons. There are four different bases,· any three of which can combine to form a codon. The AIDS virus astonished Myers because the number of sequences piled up rapidly; the AIDS virus mutates quickly. "One of the reasons discovery of a cure will not be easy is that the AIDS virus mutates about ten million times faster than normal human genes, which is about ten times as fast as othe-r viruses of this type," Mr. Myers said. . SINCE THE VIRUS mutates so rapidly, data was accumulating faster than it could be analyzed. Mr. Myers recommended to the National Institutes of Health that a separate data base be set up solely as a resource of AIDS viral sequences. "Gen Bank" is not specifically funded to compile and analyze AIDS virus information, and it was unlikely that individual labs could deal with the magnitude of data. According to Myers' proposal, an international data bank devoted solely to AIDS sequences would allow information to be more readily analyzed and understood. The funding for this project has been granted, and Mr. Myers began three years leave of absence. from St. John's beginning last month to head it. The goal of this project is to collect as much AIDS sequence information as possible, analyze it with computer programs, and distribute it to the research centers around the world. Mr. Myers will be working with prominent AIDS researchers Flossie WongStaal and Arnold Rabson, both at NIH. "About half my time will be spent here and half in Heidelberg, West Germany, ·where the European library of gene sequences is." (Myers has also worked at GenBank Student Forum program active President William M. Dyal, Jr., who has been active on campus with the Student Political Forum, was one of its speakers this fall. Along with Steve,Yetter, vice-president of the inter-American Foundation, he participated in a program devoted to grass roots movements in Central America. With a full program of speakers underway, the Forum more recently has included talks by two students. Seung Joon Ahn, Seoul, Korea, sophomore, who lived in South Korea for many years, spoke on "The Effect of U.S. Policy on the Democratic Movement in South Korea," and Jason Bockman, Branford, Ct., senior, discussed what he observed in South Africa during his recent visit there. Speaking last month was. Mankekolo Mahlangu-Ngcobo, formerly of Soweto, South Africa, a health educator, who has been held in solitary confinement by the South African government. Her talk was entitled "Apartheid's Effect on Blacks: A Personal Story." Still another speaker last month was Stephen Boyan, author of a number of books on Watergate and the American presidency. His topic: "The Imperial Presidency Before Watergate and After." • t I go I I numbers. This trend will be more noticeable among college students and military people largely because of the mobility and sexual activity characteristic of both groups. At present, about one in 300 people are thought to be infected, a rate which doubles about every eleven months. Mr. Myers estimates that if you know 300 people, chances are you know a carrier. This does not mean that the person will die, or even that he has AIDS. It means he "harbors" the virus. The overwhelming evidence is that AIDS can only be transmitted through an exchange of blood or whole cells. Of nearly 30,000 cases there is no record of anyone in the same household with an AIDS patient becoming infected, even when toothbrushes were shared.· If you know someone who tests positive for the virus, Mr. Myers said, you are in no danger. Casual transmission Of AIDS seems impossible. Some carriers have had the virus in their blood cells for five or six years and haven't displayed any symptoms. No one dies from AIDS, but from diseases such as pneumonia because of the compromise of the immune system. "There are the myths that AIDS is easily acquired thr-ough sexual contact, but without transferrence of blood or cells, it is difficult, if not impossible, to get," Mr. Myers explained. He cautions that conclusions are tentative because not enough is known yet about the AIDS virus. He can foresee no cure in this century. r ce Santa Fe tutor Gerald Myers expresses his concern about the growing threat of AIDS. with former Johnnies Randall Linder, SF recognize it as a known threat and by '82; Leslie Kay, SF '83; Michael Cinactively attacking the "helper" cells which kowski, SF '84; Eric Rassmussen, SF '85 are crucial to the action of the body's and Christian Burks, SF '76.) defense system. He attended the International ConferNo one knows how the virus manages ence on AIDS in Paris last June and will to mutate so quickly; the sequencing of be attending International Conferences in genetic variants of AIDS virus will conWashington and Stockholm. tinue for some time. "AIDS IS A problem that will chal"You could easily spend two billion dollenge us to do work we haven't been doing lars developing a vaccine and have it be - work in honest widespread education obsolete by the time it got tested," Mr. of our youth, in ethics, and in dealing with Myers said. "There is no sense in producrunaway medical costs," Mr. Myers said. ing a vaccine on a large scale before you "And really, right now, all we can do is know what you~re dealing with, so educaeducate. There's a misconception that tion is really our only short-range hope." we're not putting enough money in AIDS MR. MYERS IS concerned with this research. It's not clear that more research problem because "there is a real danger of money would do more good for now. putting our heads in the sand. People need These days, quite a few physicians are to recognize certain likelihoods." reading The Plague by Camus." Among these: The problem won't reMr. Myers went on to explain that his main localized, either geographically or in work will help achieve three critical goals terms of sexual preference. AIDS is movof AIDS research: ing into the female population, Mr. Myers 1) Developing a vaccine to prevent warned. Women are now only about three infection by the virus. years behind men in terms of infected 2) Developing drug therapy for the afflicted to slow the progress of the disease in those displaying symptoms. 3) Developing a cure that will remove the virus from infected individuals. , The Peace Corps, which once was closeThis last problem is more difficult than ly associated with many of the nation's one might think since a virus is not a "bug" colleges and universities, has found over like a bacterium; rather, the virus actually the last 15 years that relationship eroded integrates itself into human chromosomes. to the point where colleges are little more "Viruses are not pathogens simply but than recruiting grounds for the Peace · virtual human genes that can put on a Corps. It wants to do something about it. protein coat, go out into the world and To that end, it has asked Annapolis invade someone else," Myers speculated. President William M: Dyal, Jr., to join a "In nature's view, this may be powerful 'group of 18 presidents of institutions of and desirable means of human gene ex)ligher education to advise the Peace Corps change." on directions the agency should pursue The AIDS virus is especially insidious iand how colleges can best involve thembecause it attacks the immune system in .selves in this effort. two ways: by rapidly changing its protein President Donald Kennedy of Stanford coat so that the immune system cannot University and Loret M. Ruppe, director .. 1 Internationally oriented meetings drew President William M. Dyal, Jr., in January. Mr. Dyal co-hosted with Representative Dante Fascel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a reception January 12 observing the tenth anniversary of the Development Group for Alternative Policies, an organization concerned with third world development planning. Mr. Dyal is a member of GA P's advisory board. The reception was held in the Rayburn Building in Washington. ' On January 14 he attended a meeting of the board of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF, of which he also is a member, at the committee headquarters in Manhattan. Tutor translates Lessing work Chaninah Maschler, Annapolis tutor, is the author of a translation of Ernst and Falk, Dialogues for Freemasons, by Gotthold Lessing, said to be the first German dramatist of lasting importance The translation appears in interpretation, a journal of political philosophy. In her introduction, Mrs. Maschler expresses the belief that Freemasonry, a counter order to the Society of Jesus, is another name for the international society of men of letters which sought to carry out Bacon's program of establishing "the kingdom of man." Dyal to advise on Peace Corps of the Peace Corps, have asked him to attend a meeting at Stanford March 16-17. ·, Among the presidents who will be participating will be those of Harvard, Antioch, Georgetown, Wisconsin and Brown universities. Other colleges sending their ·presidents will include Paine, Hunter, Tougaloo, Mt. Holyoke and Berry. Mr. Dyal will be in a position to extend advice grounded in practical experience. Before joining St. John's, he had served from 1969 to 1971 as the regional director of the Peace Corps for North Africa, the Near East and South Asia. From 1967 to 1969 he was Peace Corps director for Colombia, South America. �6 by JOHN VAN DOREN A member of the Board of Visitors and Governors and Alumni Board John Van Doren represents a family associated with St. John's through three generations. He is a graduate of the Class of 1947; his son, Daniel, was graduated in 19[}1, and his father, the late poet Mark Van Doren, was a disfjnguished board member during the New Program's early era. Mr. Van Doren is chafring the alumn/s part of the 50th anniversary of the New Program to be celebrated next fall. Now executive editor of Great Ideas Today, he recalls what it was like to be at Sf John's during the forties. The beginnings of what was called the New Program at St. John's have been ably described by Winfree Smith in his history of the college. Those first years have come to be regarded as a kind of Golden Age, and I believe they really were something of the sort, although I missed them myself, having arrived as ~ freshman on campus, at the age of fifteen, only in 1943. By then, much of the faculty which had been assembled, and nearly all of the students, had gone off to war, and the president and the dean were left with the hard task of keeping the program going absent the resources they had counted on for the purpose. Both men were still very much campus presences at that time, although I do not think they had much heart left for what they had started. Whether we knew how much they had contributed to what we were doing, I am not sure. It Vv "'IS Mr. Buchanan, in particular, who had really conceived the program in its essential form and practise - the first including the mathematical and scientific studies which had long since been dropped from liberal arts courses elsewhere, the latter comprising the mix of seminars, tutorials, laboratories, and formal lectures which is even today the program's most distinctive feature. But we hardly grasped the import of this, being able to imagine no other environment Mr. Barr was more the public figure, who by then had largely ceased to teach. The rudest of men on occ:asion - he liked to say that in Virginia, a gentleman never insulted anyone wL 1out intending to - he was also, at other times, altogethe~ charming, with a sense of r. anners and style which the college very much needed: . some of its conventions, as iL the greeting of the freshmen at their first convocation, or standing UFJ at the entrance ,,f the Friday night lecturer, still recall the ritual aspect of the man. He was a fine story-teller, too, and a great wit, whose high, delighted giggle was as characteristic.as was Mr. Buchanan's soft, nearly silent laugh, which we knew well and rather feared. Of the lecturers who had come often during the program's early days, some still came when the pressures of war-time permitted. Among them were Mark Van Doren, who could hold the entire College quiet for two hours while he showed it how to read poems, and Mortimer Adler, who heard rebellion when he took the same amount.of time for philosophical matters. Mr. Adler was, nevertheless, himself an important figure in the program, as we partly recognized, wh.ose lectures still evoked memorable questioning from the dean, Mr. Klein, Mr. Gorman, and others of that day. The college owed its selection. of theological works - Augustine and Aquinas, in particular - to him, and also, what is harder now to realize, the example in his reading of difficult texts, notably Aristotle, which would otherwise have been beyond the program's reach. Among other formal lectures in those days were a number, given mostly by members of the faculty, on one or another of the liberal arts, which it was thought important to discover, so far as possible, in the books we were reading, and to apply in the way we read them. This seemed to them a good idea, which I do not think should have been given up. On the other hand, some things, as the laboratory, seem now to be better done. At least I hope no one feels he bewilderment I felt during my first exercise in mechanics, which I would not hav 3 got through without the help of the young laboratory assistant, himself just graduats.i from the program, whose name was William A Darkey. In many ways, certainly, the college is a better school now than it was then. The faculty is better, the students are better, the campus - both campuses - are better arranged and cared for. No doubt there has been some loss - of a certain excitement, a kind of ate, a bit of chutzpah - which went with what seems now to have been the freshness of the early world. But this strikes me as a fair enough trade, for the most part I should like myself to be a learner in the college now, if I were capable of learning anything much any more, and I take pleasure in the fact that" as a member of both the 'Board of Visitors and Governors and the Alumni Board I can do something to help the enterprise along. 1 • I (Continued from P. I) The public television crew also will record Mr. Adler's Friday lecture, "The Two Bicentennials," to be given at 8: 15 p.m. February 13 in the Key Auditorium. Mr. Adler, an internationally known philosopher, is a visitor emeritus of St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors. He has been associated with the New Program since it began fifty years ago in September and has lectured here almost annually since then. In planning to film the seminar, Mr. Moyers asked for a maximum of 12 students and expressed a preference for juniors and seniors. Some 35 students volunteered, and from them Dean Thomas Slakey named a group that includes Patrick t Ching, Amanda Dalton, Steven Dean, Marcus Eubanks, David Figueroa, Picot Floyd, Christina Freeman, Gerald McNabb, Katia-Elena Sinis, Matthew Szweda, Steven Virgil and Andre Wakefield. Selected as alternatives were Edward Komara and Kim Paffenroth. Under discussion wifl be Parts Two and Three of Mr. Adler's book, We Hold These Truths, along with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Mr. Moyers, who now heads his own firm, until recently was senior news analyst for CBS Evening News. In broadcast journalism since 197J, he has been the recipient of numerous awards, including 10 Emmys. At a party given by the Egolfs are, left to right, Daniel T. and Jeanne Kelly and Linda and Dick Jemison. Krane to do SJC "de (Continued from_ P. 1) Mr. Krane is president of Blake Edwards Entertainment and president and chief executive officer of his own firm, Management Company Entertainment. He has produced such films as "Trail of the Pink Panther," "Mickey and Maude," "Curse of the Pink Panther," and "The Man Who Loved Women." Mr. Krane also has taught film-making at the University of California at Los Angeles and for five years was a practicing attorney in Los Angeles specializing in international finance and tax planning as well as in entertainment ~a'w. A Watson Fellow upon his graduation from St. John's, he is a 1976 graduate of the Yale University Law School. "It was through international law that I met people in the movie business and found them articulate and thoughtful about things in life," Mr. Krane said. HE HAD anticipated that his career presentation p_c the college would focus principally on his career as an attorney and was surprised to find students concentrating their questions on his career in films. · His own experience confirms the difference in the interest of the two careers. "As a lawyer, the people I started to meet were very narrow minded and boring but very smart and analytical ... not particularly well-educated. The education I received here at St. John's is more important in terms of my accomplishments than being a lawyer both in terms of how to think and the things you think about." He credits St. John's for helping him gain analytical skills in mathematics and College~ in literature and believes both contributed to his rapid success in the entertainment industry. Asked what books more influenced him, Mr. Krane answered, The Repuhhc and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. That brought a moment of silence from the otherwise vocal and enthusiastic group. Mr. Krane was asked if he believed his degree from Yale was influential in helping him to attract people in the Hollywood mainstream. He turned to Miss Kellerman for the answer, and she replied, "No, l just thought he was cute." Board members had an opportunity to meet Miss Kellerman and Mr. Krane at a cocktail party at the home of Marylou and Bill Egolf, long-time. supporters of the Santa Fe campus. Mrs. Egolf has served as chairman of the local St. John's sustaining campaign and contributed generously to the scholarship fund. Guests included Owen Lopez and his wife, Vicki, Mara Robinson, Irwin Hoffman and his wife, Maya, Board Chairman John H. Dendahl, Daniel T. Kelley, Jr., and his wife, Jeanne, Graduate Institute alumna Linda Jemison and her husband, Dick, as well as Barbara a·nd Mike Riccards, the new Santa Fe campus president, and his wife. During his campus visit, Mr. Krane met individually with students to answer career questions. Recently he was elected to the Alumni Association Board. The promotional video Mr. Krane will film will be made available to high schools and sent to prospective students for the purpose of describing the college, its curriculum and its Santa Fe setting. USNA seminars begin The second of three monthly seminars on imperialism which the Annapolis campus and Naval Academy students are planning together will be held at 7 p.m. February 11 at the Academy. 1t will be a discussion of Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness. Twenty midshipmen, including those nominated for Rhodes and Marshall f ellowships, and twenty Johnnies have signed up for the seminars. The first, held last month, was based on the Melian dialogue of Thucydides. It deals with an ultimatum issued in 416 B.C. by Athens to Melos to join its alliance or die. Brigham Bechtel, St. John's sophomore, who is help mg arrange the two hour discussions, said the final one will be The Wretched of the Earth, written by the controversial writer Franz Fanon during the Algerian war for independence. Professor Richard P. Abels, associate professor of history, and Lt. Col. Larry Mazzeno of the Academy are coordinating the seminars and helping lead them. Among the St. John's leaders is Dean Thomas Slakey. The seminars are divided into two groups each time they meet. Held from time to time in past years, the seminars this year are sponsored by the St. John's-Naval Academy Mutual Admiration Society. Receptions will follow each discussion. avel thu with auth ri The Annapolis campus' new president has a new gavel that may possess more authority than most. _ It is one made from wood salvaged during the renovation of Washington's Octagon House, the house where James Madison lived in 1814-15 while the White House, burned by the British during the War of 1812, was being restored. The gavel was presented President William M. Dyal, Jr., by the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, tutor emeritus. It had been fashione~1 by Alexander Major, a cousin of Mr. Smith's mother. "I calculate it has an unusual amount of power and authority," Mr. Dyal told faculty members as he flourished the gavel at a recent faculty meeting. He was obviously pleased with the gift - and the thought. �.,,.. Nicholas promised real Italian food. The subject was a seminar party at his home in Severna Park. Would anyone want to bring musical instruments? he asked the 14 sophomores around the seminar table. He had a piano. Then, with an Old Testament spread before him, this St. John's College tutor launched into the opening question of the Monday night seminar, inviting students to examine a brief passage in Isaiah, in which the Lord speaks of what would happen to his people after they are restored from captivitiy. Were we being invited to look at the covenant between God and his people in a different way? It might be any Monday night seminar, but in Mellon's Room 146, the bearded and avuncular seminar co-leader is a faculty member that at St. John's, in the most literal sense of the word, is extraordinary. He is an Annapolis neurologist, who decided four years ago, not so much to have a second career as to absorb another one, to pursue, as far as his careers are concerned, two lives. Most days at 7:30 a.m. he can be found, white-coated, making his rounds at Anne . Arundel General Hospital. Three times a week, the 43-year-old Annapolis physician exchanges his medical practice, with all its computerized technology, for a blackboard in McDowell Hall and an afternoon class in freshman mathematics. HIS CLASS TURNS back two millenia to Euclid's theories of ratios and Ptolemy's "hypotheses" designed "to save the appearances" of regular circular motions in the heavens - two mathematicians on the long path leading to his own instructors at New York University's Medical School, where he became a doctor of medicine in 1968. Late evenings, following seminars that ordinarily end at IO p.m., he may linger to talk with students as late as 11 p.m. This year, as one of two leaders of a sophomore seminar, Dr. Capozzoli will help guide sophomores through readings that, in addition to the Bible and other readings, include Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne and Shakespeare. For St. John's tutors, that's a hefty two- thirds load. It is a Leaching program Dr. three segments. Capozzoli finds manageable, despite the The other thing that happened was that hundreds of pages of reading class prepain organizing .the hospital's Medical rations involve, partly because he is one of Ethics Committee, which he chairs, Dr. those fully organized people who can Capozzoli invited Mr. Comber to serve as schedule life in a way that makes such a a lay member. career division possible. (THERE HA VE BEEN other St. John'sThat may not mean his beeper won't medical connections. Dr: Charles W. call him from a Saturday morning faculty Kinzer, college physician and the hospimeeting. But it does mean he is meticutal's head of internal medicine, has particlously careful that there will never be a ipated in a number of St. John's continuconflict between his academic and mediing education classes. Dr. Richard A. cal worlds. "With two physician partners, Malmgren, of Sarfern, retired patholoI never need to try to be in two places at gist, has begun work toward his master's the same time," he said. in liberal education. Dr. David S. KrimNot only did he find himself deeply mins, a St. John's alumnus, is a specialist engrossed in the program, but he became in pulmonary medicine in Annapolis.) concerned with bringing something of Dr. Capozzoli taught for three succesSt. John's seminar method to Annapolis sive summers in the Graduate Institute medical circles where ethical issues, as they do everywhere in medicine, surface · beginning in 1983. In January of last year he was named to the undergraduate proevery day. ~ram and began teaching freshman semAS A RESlJL T, several years ago he mar. organized a series of seminars at the hos"He is very intelligent and has been very pital with Geoffrey Comber, St. John's successful in teaching in the Institute, and tutor and former director of the Graduate I thought he'd be good with students," Institute, as co-leader. George Doskow, dean at the time of his With 15 to· 20 doctors attending fairly appointment, said. regularly, the physicians did a number of Already he has become involved in colreadings: a comparison of the Hippolege life. This fall President William M. · cratic oath with those of Nightingale and Dyal, Jr., named him to a new committee Maimonides; a short story by Tillie Olsen conc~rned with the quality of student life. about the effects of aging and illness on a OutJoing in manner, Dr. Capozzoli is married couple; writings of Dr. Leon an accessible teacher with whom students Kass, former tutor now at the University feel comfortable. of Chicago, who writes on medical ethical "He is an extremely sensitive partner in questions, and readings concerning biothe way he listens closely to what students genetic engineering and suicide. are saying," Tom May, his seminar coLater, the group decided to branch out leader, has found. "He is very dynamic and hold discussions not related to mediand intense in the way he puts questions to cine. Among their subject matter were the the seminar, and I think students find that Declaration of Independence and four infectious." seminars on the evolution of Albert EinWith a long standing interest in the stein's physics. humanities, Dr. Capozzoli credits St. A couple of things have happened as the John's with enriching his medical career. result of those hospital discussions. The seminars piqued the interest of two "IT HELPS PUT life in perspective physicians: Dr. Rodney Brimhall, Annafrom the standpoint ofunderstanding somepolis internist and cardiologist, and Dr. thing about our nature and our respons ·Arthur Warwick, Annapolis psychiatrist. bilities to ourselves and society," he said. Along with his practice, Dr. Brimhall In leading his strenuous life, Dr. now is a full-time student in the Graduate Capozzoli helps preserve his good health Institute, spending every odd moment of by playing racquet ball three times a week, the day reading for its Politics and Society this time with an entirely different group Segment. Dr. Warwick has completed of people; no doctors, no tutors. On those NICHOLAS CAPPOZZOll occasions he may feel himself tired as he walks into t.he seminar door - an experience not unknown to tutors - he finds that the discussions generally are so stimulating that he feels revitalized, recharged, as the evening progresses. He reserves weekend time for his family. It includes two children, Jennifer, l 7, and Christopher, 13. His wife, Kathryn,is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist who has a private c:f)'ractice in psychotherapy with medically ill patients and their families. Together, they took part in the grass roots effort several years ago that led to a hospice at the hospital, a program for which Dr. Capozzoli served as medical director for six years. In addition to now chairing the Medical Ethics Committee at the hospital, he is chairman of the professional advisory-committee of the State Multiple Sclerosis Society. Out of his dual career has grown an appreciation of the men and women he has known in medicine and in teaching. "I respect my colleagues in both professions," Dr. Capozzoli said. "I'm veryimpressed with the professionalism of the physicians and tutors I've known. Physicians represent a very dedicated profession and similarly tutors do here at St. John's. They do a remarkable job." Tutors and doctors can return the compliment. · Former McDowell offices to become classrooms (Continued from P. l) weight of files and other furnishings. There was some question of the desirability of moving the president's and dean's offices away from the 254-year-old McDowell, which dominates the front campus and around which other college buildings have been located. However, the gains to be realized "by moving the college's center of gravity a little bit closer to the creek," as one faculty member expressed it, appear to outweigh any benefits to be gained by remaining in McDowell. With the Campbell Hall parking lot close by, the Mellon wing is expected to be easily accessible to visitors. Because the work of the four McDowell offices is so interrelated, Mrs. Rhodes said their locations are being treated as a single unit. None of the other campus offices will be moved to Mellon. They will remain disbursed in other campus buildings. The new wing represents part of Phase II of the extensive renovation and enlargement of the Mellon-Key complex which began with the remodeling of the Conversation Room. ALSO TO BE included in Mellon's new extension will be 12 small offices for tutors, whose need for on-campus offices has increased as residential patterns have changed, with some tutors commuting as far away as Baltimore and Washington. In answer to a number of requests, all will be single occupancy offices. At present the college has 11 faculty offices, either double or triple occupancy, and also uses McDowell's bell tower for a tutor's office. While it is still too early to say when the construction of the Mellon wing will begin, other work for this second phase of construction is scheduled to begin this summer. That will include the move of the music classrooms, which the principal architect, Charles H. Bohl, said will be "flipped" across the hall to the inner side of the campus, away from the noise of St. John's Street, and occupy space that now houses the music library and practice rooms. The present er.amped music library and five practice rooms will be shifted to the street side. Doubled in size, the library of records and scores will have a new listening room that can be used for classroom purposes. In addition, Howard Fisher, chairman of the Faculty Planning Committee, which assists in establishing building priorities, said that the windows in the laboratory rooms will be replaced, and louvers permanently removed. To be installed will be double glazed windows thermally and acoustically designed to improve sound isolation and heating control. Operable, they will be constructed to open and close. '"With the new exterior windows, we won't feel as much as if we were in a subwa y," Mr. Fisher said with reference to street noises. (They include those of the Governor.'s helicopter, which lands on a building top across the street.) AN ELEVA TOR TO assist handicapped students also will be added nea1 the pendulum pit. In addition, a new burgundy rose house curtain, matching the seats, was to be installed by the end of last month in the Key Auditorium, which has been repainted. These improvements are in good time for President Dyal's inauguration in October. Work on the music and laboratory rooms and on Key will begin this summer. The wing will be added on the inner campus side of Mellon, running from the western end to the Conversation Room. The effect will be to create a completely enclosed patio style area within Key and Mellon. As a secured space, Mr. Fisher hopes it will be usable in numerous imaginative ways - for small concerts, theatrical productions and parties. The new classroom space that will be released in McDowell will ease an acute shortage on campus. With the construction of new galley' another room will be gained when the former gallery returns to its original purpose as a laboratory room. For the most part, this conversion work will be simply done by the removal of temporary partitions. The new art gallery will be much more central to the life of the college. As the only secured art gallery in Anne Arundel County, it has become an important local center for exhibitions other nearby galleries are unable to hang. While security will be strengthened with an improved electronics system, Mr. Bohl and the committee also will pay primary attention to lighting. a "Our aim is to attract high quality exhibits," Mr. Fisher said. "The barrier in the past has been due to insufficient secur- ity and to light control. Many exhibitions want 100 per cent artifical light. If we want those exhibitions, we have to have that capability. Our aim is to have as much flexibility as possible." IN SEEKING IT, windows will be arranged so that they may be fully shaded for shows in which the absence of natural light is a prerequisite for their availability. Off the art gallery will be a small office and room in which Burton Blistein, artistin-residence, said he will want to keep books relating to exhibits on display and where art slides may be shown. He anticipates its use for art preceptorials. The new work is part of a total program for Key and Mellon that Mrs. Rhodes estimates at $3,800,000. Mr. Fisher pointed out that, in interviewing architects interested in working on Mellon, the Faculty Planning Committee said they were constantly amused that Mellon was referred to as a "new building." Dedicated in 1958 in ceremonies attended by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the modern low building designed by the internationally known architect Richard Neutra, unlike McDowell or Randall, has not aged well. Much deferred maintenance h.as rendered it shabby. Mrs. Rhodes said the first two construction phases, which include the new Conversation Room, work in the Key Auditorium, and the new wing, will cost altogether just under two million. The final phase, involving new heating, cooling, and ventilating systems for the existing Mellon, would add $1,800,000. �I e -r Ii I t i It's 5: 15 p.m., and outside the winter twilight is darkening the campus. Inside, under the portrait of the late Ford K. Brown, umbrellas shake out, and the tutorial hunkers down. McDowell's plain, worn Room 22 is cozily mellow as the conversation plunges into the subject at hand: Hobbes' Leviathan. For the first time, the students are exploring the question of whether duties of the sovereign, as Hobbes has defined him, can only be enforced by God and whether his subjects can have no part at all. Someone wants to know if the sovereign follows the model of God, would God face the same responsibilities to people that the sovereign must fulfill? · St. John's tutor Howard Fisher guides the discussion. Around the table are a physician, a potter, a painter and carpen- h I union The Annapolis Graduate Institute's annual reunion will be held Saturday, March 2L Persons planning to attend should contact the GI Office as soon as possible. The traditional schedule of classes and social events will be held. ter, a public services librarian, an English teacher and artist, a young Canadian, a para-legal assistant, a nursing consultant, a college administrator, and a teacher from China. They are taking part in the first segment to be offered as part of the Annapolis Campus's new year-round graduate program leading to a master's degree. Classes scheduled two days a week are devoted to politics and society. While St. John's SantaFe campus for some time has had a Graduate Institute that functions throughout the academic year, it is only this year, as St. John's marks the 49th year of its New Program, that the IO-year-old Graduate Institute in Annapolis has expanded its summer program to include year-round classes. A shortage of classroom space keeps the enrollment down to 33, but oddly enough, Thomas May, Institute director, reports that among the area institutions offering master's studies in liberal arts, St. John's program is as large, or larger, in terms of student numbers. For the fall semester there were 18 fulltime students and eight part-time. Interest is running high. Seminars and preceptorials for the segment in literature that began in January had waiting lists. By Thanksgiving there were only two places remaining in the tutorials. Students already are applying for next September. The list of tutors seeking to teach in the program also is overflowing. Also running high is enthusiasm among students, partly because they, more than undergraduates, know what they've got. "It's the rich cream of education - not skim milk, not rust water, not half-andhalf, but cream" is the appraisal of Lt. Commander Joseph Barry, who works with the Naval Security Branch at the Pentagon and who makes the 80-mile round trip to take part in the "best discussions I ever had in my life." The Institute, he declares, has become the single most important source for improving his life. "Every chance I get at the Pentagon I sing the praises of St. John's," Commander Barry said. He believes the Navy needs officers who have read the classics, who can think-, and who can understand the heritage they are being asked to defend. Unlike the summer schedule, when classes begin at 3 p.m. and are held Monday through Thursday, the Graduate Institute winter-spring sessions have been arranged s . I on as practical and considerate a basis as possible for participants who s1rhuUaneously hold down full-time positions. Classes meet only twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays. MODELED ON THE undergraduate· program, tutorials begin at 5: 15 p.m. and continue until 6:30 p.m. There is an hour for dinner followed by great books seminars from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Mondays and pre·ceptorials - in-depth discussions of one writer or a topic - from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Thursdays. The effect this fall has been to shift the Graduate Institute demographics away from one reflecting a high proportion of teachers to one in which participants represent a broad cross-section of an American community. "The thing that delights me most, in having the program run on a year-round basis, is thaCfhe class profile is one of increasing diversity of students," Mr. May said_ "That diversity can only enhance the life blood of the program: the give-andtake of discussions, the perspectives seen from different vantage points, the varying convictions and experiences each person brings to class discussion." This fall Mr. May has concentrated part of his efforts to bringing the Institute into the full life of the college. Some ways have been small but important. "Pinkney residents have very generously permitted the Graduate Institute to use their Common Room between 4:30 and 5: 15 and, more importantly, between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays." A battery of mailboxes, an important symboL has been installed in 'the GI office in Pinkney, and students are receiving both college mailings and invitations to as many events at the college as seem useful. DESPITE THE cooperation of the local press and other efforts to publicize. the program, some are known to complain that "the Graduate Institute is the best kept secret in Annapolis." College officials jok~ that the Institute may be doing better in China than locally. Two students who heard about the Grad.:. uate Institute in separate ways in China -YiSian (Grace) He and Dexiang Li enrolled, and a dozen or so inquiries, some related to them and others not, have come to the Institute. Ms. He is taking the spring session in SantaFe. Participants are more likely to hear about the program through word of mouth or as did Leo and Melinda MacDonald, of Ottaway, Canada: by stumbling across the reference to it when he was in Washington thumbing his way ,through some catalogues. When Mr. MacDonald found that St. John's, a college in which he had long been "fascinated," offered a master's degree, Mr. MacDonald reacted immediately. "I got on the phone as soon as I could and asked if the Institute could still take me," Mr. ·MacDonald said. He first learned about St. John's through a book by Mortimer Adler. Mr. MacDonald joined the Institute last summer, and this fall, his wife.Melinda, like him a graduate of Carleton University in Canada, became a student. "St. John's represents the comprehensive education I have sought since l first understood what an education would entail," this 28-year-old son of a former cabinet member under Pierre Trudeau said. His St. John's education represents his "second highest goal." . "My second highest goal is get as strong and broadly based an education as possible," he said. "My first goal is to do something good with it." Annapolis Capital photo f rt In St. John's biggest dusting of two years, 22 student aides have been vacuuming the library's books - all 83,000 of them. Kathryn Kinzer, librarian, explained that the biennial dusting is done with a new vacuum especialiy designed for libraries that is worn either on the back or carried on a trolley. Aside from plain old household dust, students were in search of "red-rot" from old leather covers or AMONG STUDENTS from Annapolis is Dr. Rodney Brimhall, an internist and cardiologist, who fits his studies into his full time practice by virtue of havirig an '.'extremely understanding wife and extremely understanding partners," It is costing Dr. Brimhall almost every spare moment to keep up with the program - every free 30 minutes he finds he reads - but he is doing it for various reasons. "Number one, l thoroughly enjoy it," he said. "The program is almost recreational since it's so different from what I do as a rule ... The thing that really has impressed me about participating is that I'm allowed to think and say anything, and l 'm never ridiculed and put down. I may be questioned, but always in a sincere manner." Jacquelin Hildebrand, prominently associated with art organizations in town and a pottery teacher at Maryland Hall, is attempting to hold back on her art commissions while she has been devoting herself to de Tocqueville and the Federalist Papers. What impresses her is the manner in which information and ideas are shared as well as the different backgrounds and breadth of ages participants represent. Robert Pelrine is vice-president of the Maryland Institute of Pastoral Counseling with degrees in psychology and theology. "It's a marvelous opportunity to broaden my background and education," he said. " .... After a full day of clinical work, I may feel drained. But I leave St. John's consistently very stimulated by discussion and rapport with others." (One personal coincidence he has uncovered is that his aunt may have taught Leo MacDonald's aunt in a one-room school in Canada.) '\ the grit representing the slow decomposition of library books over the years. Ordinarily it requires two~ months of the aides' part-time assistance to complete the dusting. There is a fr~nge benefit for students customarily denied St. John's library visitors. With the vac-pack on their backs, it is possible to fulfill what for some may be~ secret wish. It's their opportunity to make a noise in the library. A perennial scholar who is enrolled is the Rev. Francis Cafarelli, assistant vicepresident for student affairs at the University of Notre Dame. When he completes the St. John's program, it will be his fifth master's degree. Here he is discussing some books he has read years ago but reading them with a new perspective. "I think l 'm really here to refresh my mind," he said. "It's a chance to renew intellectuat tools, to go over some of the questions one has gone over before, to see them in a different light, and to, see how other people have worked their way through the books." As the spring semester gets underway, Mr. May believes the year-round program is progressing smoothly. The expressed enthusiasm on the part of students, he noted, indicates "that great expectations are being fulfilled." "The most important thing now is that the institute is here in Annapolis the full year around," Mr. May said. "I can't imagine anything better than to be here when the whole college is in session or anything better for the college than to have the institute here as a vital presence." Thomas Slakey is core consultant Annapolis Dean Thomas J. Slakey spoke on "Values in Higher Education" at a workshop for faculty members of the University of Baltimore. Mr. Slakey served as a consultant on the university's new core curriculum. The workshop was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. �1987 C. Carl Bostek, USAF, brings us up to date: "After three years of enlisted service in the Army, I entered the University of Texas System School of Nursing at Houston and was awarded my BSN in May, 1975. I returned to active service with the Armv in October. I attended the U.S. Armv School of Anesthesiology for Nurses from 1977-79 and passed my national boards. becoming a certified registered nurse anesthetist, in July, 1979. "In 1982 I transferred to the Air Force and am now assigned to ti-'.c; Medical School of Virginia, Richmond, where I am pursuing a master's degree in physiology. Upon completion of my thesis (June 1987), I will be assigned to Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, as a member of the anesthesia faculty at Wilford Hall Medical Center. "My address, until 15June 1987, is 1003 Parham Rd., Richmond, VA 23229. I would be delighted to hear from any of my classmates. especially anyone in contact with Amy Woods." 1973 William Blount is currently a geologist with Mobil Oil in Houston. He received a B.S .. from the University of New Mexico and an M.S. from Texas A & M in geology. Peter Meadow recently wrote to say he has enjoyed reading the mini-biographies in The Reporter and that he was inspired to write his own. "I left Santa Fe, Aristotle in hand, and did graduate work (philosophy, of course) at the University of Texas. Professional philosophy, as Socrates and Mr. Neidorf had warned, was of little consequence so I left for the golden shores of California. There I ended up studying and practicing yoga for four years until the material demands of a growing family forced me to consider work. "I chose chiropractic work and am now, quite happily, in practice in Connecticut. Along the way my wife, Mira, and I had two boys, John, 6 and Daniel. 3." 1974 Lester S. Silver has a private medical practice 50 miles north of New York City. Lester was married in December of 1984 and lives in Brewster, N. Y. 1975 Michael R. Jones writes to make an addend um to his November alumni. notes. He says that he did not single-handedly give birth to his son, Peter. He.also credits his wife, Sarah L. Steele, for such an accomplishment. They live in Mundelein, lll. Michael is teaching philosophy at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisc., and Sarah is a manager in the nutrition products division of Baxter Travenol Laboratories. Michael would love to hear from old friends in the area. 1976 Gregory Winter is doing a residency in psychiatry at Northwestern University in Chicago. He and his wife, Julie, have a son, Conrad, age 3 months. They live in Evanston, Ill. 1980 Elizabeth Church is living on the eastern point of North America in St. John's, Newfoundland, "where I watch the icebergs float by and work on my Ph.D. in child psychology." Elizabeth is married. Gina Ironside and Ben Goldstein, SF '79, were married on September 13 in Gina's hometown, Devon, Pa. Many of the guests were St. John's alumni. The wedding party included groomsman, Brian Zenone, A '81, and bridesmaid, Kyle Schultz, SF '80. Also in attendance were Matt Soloman, SF '82, Danny and Teresa Raizen, SF '79 / 80 and SF '77 /78, Tina andMichael Ossorgin, SF '80 and SF '79, Steve Crampton SF '79 / 80 and his wife, Shelley, Barbara Obata, SF '80/81 and Bob Tangora, SF '79. Gina and Ben took their honeymoon in the tristate area of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, visiting the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone. Gina says she is still employed by GTE in the corporate marketing de- partment for telephone operations. Ben is looking for a job in artificial intelligence. He recently met with Henry Horsey, SF '79 at an artificial intelligence conference in Philadelphia. Ben would be very interested in hearing from other St. Johnnies involved in that field, and information regarding companies involved in research in artificial intelligence. 1982 Pattie Pratt Swift was married to Dean Swift in June of 1985. For two years she worked with her husband in rural southern Colorado in his native seed business. She invites anyone passing by that area (40 miles north of Taos, N.M.) especially in June to see their wildflower fields which are in full bloom that time of year. Meanwhile, Pattie is busy attending law school at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She commutes between Jaroso (the town where they live in Colorado) and Albuquerque on weekends. Happily she reports, all the stories she has heard as a student are true: St. John's is a very good preparation for the study of law. She intends to practice law in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado when she graduates. She also indicated that she'd like to attend homecoming this summer. Gail Watkins)' work featured The Capital Hilton in Washington has acquired six large paintings of Gail Watkins, painting instructor in St. John's studio art program. Purchased as part of the renovation celebrated with a reception last month, the paintings include two five-by-eight feet paintings for the hotel's lounge and lobby and four others placed in the stairwells. They were commissioned by the firm of Hughes Design Associates, which has been buying Mrs. Watkins'work for years. Mrs. Watkins, who is teaching a figure painting class at St. John's, has been ari art instructor with the Annapolis campus since I 977, During the 1985-86 academic year, when Burton Blistein was on leave, she served as artist-in-residence. Mrs. Watkins has shown on the West Coast, in New York, Baltimore, Richmond, Washington and in Italy. Her work has been exhibited in the Corcoran, the Baltimore Museum, the Delaware Museum ,and the Seattle Museum. Lapham (Continued from P. 4) prent1ce to a teacher who was working toward a master's degree in fine arts, but pottery generally faded into the background during her high school years when she was playing soccer, studying ballet and involving herself in a variety of interests. But she always knew she would return to art, and one February day in 1985 she stopped by the St. John's studio and decided it was time to get her hands back into clay. Since she was the only student able to use the kiln and familiar with pottery techniques, she was the person able to answer questions. By last spring, a sizeable number ot students were com mg to her for her assistance. "Jennifer has done a wonderful, bangup job," Burton Blistein, artist-in-residence noted of her contribution. Currently Miss Lapham is feeling a strong need to study pottery rather than to teach. ''I've outgrown my own work, and I find there is a whole lot I need to be doing to expand my knowledge and abilities," she said. "An artist always has to be moving .•~t's no longer art when you reach an end. That time may come this summer. Meanwhile, for the remainder of the year, Miss Lapham is continuing as a valuable assistant in the studio, helping students turn clay into beautiful objects. JEFFREY BISHOP GRAYDON A. TUNSTALL, JR. New veeps to take off ice (Continued from P. 1) of the campus' advancement effort that would evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. "Mr. Bishop was chosen to do the study because of his wide experience with colleges and universities," President William M. Dyal, Jr., told the board in recommending him as vice-president. "We were all impressed by his immediate grasp of our situation and of our potential. His report is a blueprint for action. "Almost jokingly, I inquired if he would be interested in moving to Annapolis. This query has led to six weeks of thought and conversation on both parts and finally brought us to the happy mutual conclusion that this is a good fit." Mr. Bishop is a 1969 graduate in economics of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and is certified financial planner of the College for Financial Planning. HE IS 39, MARRIED, and has two children. His wife, Susan, is a widely recognized veterinarian who plans to bring her animal clinic here. Mr. Tunstall has been involved in development work at the University of Maryland, Indiana University, Purdue University and Montclair State College in the New Jersey State System. "Over the past decade, Mr. Tunstall, working with very small staffs, has generated at least $I-million each year," President Michael P. Riccards said. "He has a strong background in deferred giving. public relations, alumni affairs and cultivation. He has been a lecturer on television in the New York Metropolitan area on wills and trusts and been a consultant to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare." In addition, Mr. Tunstall,· who holds a doctorate in history, has been awarded a grant from the American Council for Learned Societies and has published a volume on World War I and the Eastern front. Part of the research was given at a conference at Sorbonne University in Paris. Mr. Tunstall has been director of development and external relations at Montclair since 1980. THERE HE worked with professional fund raising and marketing firms in preparation for a capital campaign, secured the largest bequest in the state college system, created the first endowed chair in the system, increased by five fold the holdings in the Montclair State College Foundation, and served as liaison to the state legislature and agencies as well as being active in community affairs and corporate relations. He also was active in philanthropic work. From 1977-80 he was director of sponsored research and development at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne and from 1976-77 director of development at the Indiana Institute of Technology. Prior to that he had been Title II l coordinator with the Research and Grants Office at the University of Maryland's Eastern Shore campus. A graduate of Dickinson College, he holds his master's and doctorate in modern European history from Rutgers University, where he also has been an instructor and teaching assistant. From 1971-74 he taught at Monmouth College, West Long Branch, N.J. Annapolis alumni to hold SOth anniversary seminars As part of the 50th anni\ersary of the l\ew Program next fall. the Annapolis Alumni Chapter will begin a series of discussions of seminal writings dating back to the program\ early years. Jack Ladd Carr. A ·so. who is chairing chapter activities, said the discussions are scheduled for the first Saturdavs of March. April and May. They will be held at IO a.m. in the private dining room. Alumni in the area. including those in Washington and Baltimore. will be in\·ited to participate. Mr. Carr will notify them by mail of reading selections. which will be a\ailable through the Annapolis Alumni Office. Participants will be invited to linger through lunch if they like. Drawn from a list originally proposed by John Yan Doren. A '47. national chairman for the alumni's 50th anniversarv celebration. the selections will include the. 1940-41 catalogue. papers by Scott Buchanan, Jacob Klein and Alexander Meiklejohn. small books by Robert Hutchins and Mark Van Doren, and lhomas K. Simpson's 1984 commencement address in Santa Fe. !"he Annapolis committee includes a stuJent. Christine Freeman. Silver Spring. Md .. junior. Frank Atwell, Bernard Gessner, Peter Kellogg-Smith. Ranlet Lincoln. Henry Robert. alumni director Betsy Blume. and three honorarv alumni: Charlotte Fletcher. James r~)Jbert and Rebecca .Wilson. Mary Alexander 1s new nurse Mary Elizabeth (Dee) Alexander has been appointed resident nurse on the Annapolis campus. Residing in an apartment above the Harrison Health Center on campus, she will assist the director of college health services, Marilyn Mylander. Ms. Alexander will continue as a staff registered nurse in the Ambulatory Surgery Unit at . Anne Arundel General Hospital. At St. John's, she is on call during the night hours. Ms. Alexander succeeds Angela Fraw· ley Trivane, who resigned when she was married in September. �FEBRUARY 1 PAGE10 I To the Editor: In 1815 Britain withdrew from the trade triangle formed by its first trading manufactured goods for slaves in Africa and then trading these slaves for raw materials in the New World because it judged the practice of slavery to be morally unacceptable. This practice was sufficiently profitable to inspire its investors to argue that "business is business" and not moral tendance, but they did not win the day. In the 18th century Alexander Hamilton argued against the inclusion of a Bill of Rights in the Constitution of the new nation on the grounds that the rights in question were not denied and their specific inclusion would result in endless litigation that would inhibit the conduct of the government. It has; but most would agree that since respect for the dignity of human beings is central to the conception of government on which the Constitution is based, a dignity which consists precisely in people's being bearers of rights, and since the Bill enables legitimate as well as illegitimate claims of violations of right to be pressed, human dignity has been better served than it would have been had Hamilton prevailed. The same sorts of arguments were heard at the October meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors during discussion of a proposed policy relative to the receipt, use, and investment of endowment funds; namely, the sole responsibility of the board with respect to endowment funds is to invest them with the intention of maximizing financial return (morality is not our business). And this is as it should be, the arguments continued, for were the board to allow anr other than financial consideration to weigh, it would commit itself to having to consider virtually every other than financial consideration that any member of the college community might choose to raise. (Some claims are illegitimate and time wasting, therefore all may be). Some voices were heard · to say that it is riot proper for the board to, do more than to try to maximize return,_ others that it is under no necessity to do any more than this to fulfill its fiduciary responsibility and, moreover, since doing more would court the twin dangers of pressure's being brought to bear on the board, to use entrusted funds to express personal preferences and suits being brought by donors whose funds were misused to express such preferences, wisdom dictates that none but financial considerations be given weight. THERE WERE STILL other voices, however, and because they might not sound through the decisions taken by the board, I would like to say what may be heard in them. The first decision was to accept the recommendation of the Finance Committee that "the Board of Visitors and Governors recognizes the authority of the Finance Committee under the polity to hear any appeal affecting the propriety of the college's portfolio." The strength of the recommendation in the eyes of those who think that there are extreme cases in which the responsibilities of stewardship are not exhausted by investing for maximum return is that it does not rule out moral considerations being given weight. Its strength in the eyes of those who hold that moral considerations are never relevant is that it does not require that they figure in the committee's deliberations, no matter how strong may be the sentiment of the college community that they should figure. In a word, it says little. Its having been acted on at all is the response of the board to a proposal put before it by the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association. The alumni proposal, in turn, responds to the invitation by the chair of the Finance Committee to the St. John's community to speak to the issue of whether it might ever be appropriate to ask the board to allow questions about the morality of practices intrinsic to the institutions in which it holds securities to be raised in its deliberations about said securities. The decision to accept the motiion of the Finance Committee is only half of the story; the other and more complex half has to do with the second of the board's decisions, namely, to reject the alumni proposal. It is here that the otherness of the other voices is important and should be heard: some members of the board rejected the proposal because in giving relevance to the other than financial circumstances; it was thought to encourage violation of the so-called prudent man rule; others, however, rejected this particular proposal but not the principle motivat~ng it. The proposal that came before the board was a version of the original a.lumni proposal, but a version with a crucial change the effect of which was utterly to undermine the intention of the original. In order to allow ethical factors to enter the board's deliberations and at the same time ruling out the possibility of individ ua1 members of the college comm unity claiming relevance for their particular ethical preferences or their conception of the social good, the original proposal sought to limit the relevant factors that could require the deliberate sacrifice of financial advantage to those that are wholly inconsistent with the purposes of the college. It allowed that "the trustees may consider issues pertinent to the college's general purposes in all of its financial dealings" so that, for example, if between two investments that can reasonably be expected to produce equal financial advantage, one better advances the purposes of the college than the other, the trustees may choose that one. If, however, two investments are such that one can reasonably be expected to produce a smaller financial advantage than the other and yet is "wholly inconsistent with the purposes of the college" as the other is not, then the trustees may sacrifice the financial advantage rather than inconsistentlv to use the college's funds to support p~actices, the uni- versalization of which would render the college incapable ofachieving its purpose. THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL is stunning in its use of the Kantian categorical imperative to specify the conditions under which what Benjamin DeMott called the "fiduciary imperative" may be overridden. Kant's genius lay in his articulating the moral law as a requirement of rationality: the moral law would be descriptive of the behavior of a wholly rational creature, but it is prescriptive for human beings whose reason is beset by desires. This law, Kant says, is categorical. For we are subject to it by virtue of being rational beings, not by virtue of our having this or that desire: we can conceive of our not having a particular desire but not of our not having the capacity to be rational. To see ourselves as rational is to see ourselves as one among many, different from our fellows in the particular configuration and intensity of our desires but not in that wherein our dignity lies: in our ability to be consistent, to treat like cases alike, to see that an action is right just in case it would be possible for anyone to perform it, just in case it is possible to conceive a world in which everyone does perform it. For example, can it be right for me to make a lying promise when I stand to benefit from doing so? No, Kant says, there could not be a world in which lying promises were routinely made for the exquisitely simple reason that lying promises are not promises. What has this to do with the Alumni Board's proposed statement of investment policy? Although the following argument was not made by those who framed the original proposal, it is, I submit, the best case than can be made for it. The argument can be shown to be faithful to Kant, even though this is not the place to show how it derives from his conception of the only thing in the world that is good without qualification as the will that is moved by the very idea of law itself, not by its content or by any end that the law might have been designed to serve. About contents and ends there can be disagreement as there cannot be about the logical interdependence of the concepts of rationality, la.w, universality, and consistency. The Kantian interpretation of the proposal permits responsible investors even to consider making a deliberate financial sacrifice only in extreme cases, namely, those in which the trustees judge that the policies or practices of a particular corporation are hased on a principled and syste- matic failure to respect the dignity of a class of persons. THE J US TIFICA TION for taking such factors into account when setting investment policies and voting proxies rests on the stewardship responsibilities which attend ownership of endowment securities and on the primafacie obligation to conduct fiduciary activities in a way compatible with the reason for the existence ofthe entrusted institution. The first is a matter 'We ought to be governed by what we know.' of taking responsihility for certain consequences of the policies and practices of the corporations in which the college has invested, the second a matter of being consistent. Taking responsibility for the consequences of actions and consistency together constitute principles of rational behavior: they are the moral factors that may be taken into account in decisions made by the Visitors and Governors about the selection and retention of endowment securities, the exercise of shareholder rights, and possible divestment. The first principle is general and does not by itself specify a course of action, for the consequences in question must be evaluated. The second principle provides a necessary condition for evaluation: consequences of the policies and practices of corporations are unacceptable to the trustees of the college when they are incompatible with the avowed purposes of the college. For example, the policy of apartheid in force in South Africa is incompatible with the intention of the college to" provide "the proper conditions to enable [members of the college community] to fulfill their freely chosen tasks" if it is acknowledged that the members of the community are entitled to the opportunity to fulfill their chosen tasks by virtue of being human beings, not by virtue of happening to belong within the St. John's College community. Since it is in principle possible for anyone who meets certain already formulated requirements to become a. member of the community - no one is excluded only because she is black or she is Jewish, there is nothing called "being part of St. John's College" that confers entitlement to conditions in which chosen tasks may be performed. INDEED, GIVEN the physical, economic, and political constraints that circumscribe this entitlement to conditions in which some measure of one's choices may be realized, the entitlement turns out to be largely negative: one may not be prohibited from doing what one wills simply because by an accident of history one is, say, Black or Jewish. Whatever is essential to being human, being White or Protestant is no more essential than is being Black or Jewish, even though the history of the West has seen more of the former than of the latter in positions of . influence. This same history has seen those who occupy the seats of power conduct themselves in line with Kant' imperative by foregoing the enormous profit produced by the slave trade and by burdening themselves with hearing appeals some of which are illegitimate. The alumni proposal ran afoul of the Finance Committee in specifying that the only non-financial factors that may be relevant to the committee's deliberations involve activities of a corporation in which the college is invested that are wholly inconsistent with the purposes of the college; for the committee changed the selected words to: will inhibjt the college in accomplishing its purposes. Since the rest of the world may be in chains and the college not be inhibited in realizing its purposes so long only as its members are not enslaved, the revised version gives weight to virtually no nonfinancial factors. The Alumni Board's insistence on reference to the college's purposes grew out of its concern to rule out individuals urging their particular ethical preferences or conceptions of the social good. A more limited proposal can be made, of course, one that singles out corporations based in the United States that do business in South Arica. The reasons for targeting South Africa are two: the first is that since apartheid is based on a principled failure to respect the dignity of a c1ass of people, it constitutes what the Yale Corporation describes as an intolerahle assault on human decencv and violates Kant's third formulation of the moral imperative: Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end. A SECOND REASON for limiting a proposal to South Africa is that the world's eyes are on it and willingly to invest in companies that do business there without so much as exercising shareholder rights to encourage such corporations in which one may be invested to accept the Sullivan Principles, compliance with which should begin to improve the lives of Black South Africans, is to be at best morally blind to the predicament o.f the black population and at worst complicit with the policy of the white government. There is much that goes on in the world that is · morally repugnant, it is said, and those who manage the funds of others cannot and should not use their positions of trust to right the wrongs of the wor.ld. Fair enough. But it is not here being suggested that trustees ought to be governed in their investment activities by a Kantian imperative to invest only in those institutions whose practices one can will as universal laws of nature, with the implication that the trustee is obligated first of all to find out what the practices are. What is being suggested, however, is that when we do know what are the practices of companies doing business in South Africa and when we know that we cannot will such practices as universal laws because we cannot will a world in which the will is impotent, as is that of the Black South African, we ought then to be governed by what we know. Deliberately to close our eyes to what we know to be the case is different from failing to apprise ourselves of what we do not know, and the refusal to assume responsibility for the support of business in South Africa is strangely at odds with the college's claim to make out of children free men and women. Mary Bittner Wiseman, A '58 Member, Board of Visitors and Governors 7793 seal is real one The Reporter was incorrect when it identified the books and balance emblem of the St. John's program as a seal. The official college seal is the one adopted in l 793 that continues to appear on diplomas and on transcripts. The books and balance emblem, adopted during the early days of the New Program, is used extensively in college publications, including the catalogue. Our thanks to William J. Klug, '31, of Naples, Fla., for helping clarify the poinL �FEBRUARY 1987 THE REPORTER PAGE 11 Shore urges policy guidelines on portfolio To the Editor: I read with great interest the three letters on divestiture in the November issue, because I think the subject is definitely worthy of being put on the agenda for discussion, and that the college ought to establish and follow specific policy guidelines. As to the three letters themselves, first Mr. Burk is, I believe, correct in describing at least some of the current pressures for divestiture on American campuses as a political fad. Undoubtedly many universities, and perhaps several corporations as well, have opted for divestiture more as a way of silencing key constituencies than after a reasoned examination of the policy and its implications. I disagree with Mr. Burk, however, in dismissing the entire divestiture movement as a political fad. That an individual, race, nation, or social class may have acquiesced for generations or even centuries to injustice hardly obliges it to continue to do so now or in the future. Similarly the fact that many advocates of a policy or course of action may be moved more by emotion than by reason tells us absolutely nothing about the logic of their cause. Mr. Gleicher is, in my opinion, totally correct in condemning the South African system in the strongest possible terms. What I am unconvinced of, however, is exactly what makes its system uniqely evil. The Soviet Union has systematically discriminated against several of its nationalities and currently wages a genocidal war in Afghanistan. The People's Republic of China has brutally subjugated the Tibetan people and has followed a policy of compulsory abortion, at least among its Han majority group. Democ~atic India. has not, rig,orously Alumni trips . . receive praise ' ' To the Editor: I want to take this opportunity to express our appreciation to the Alumni Association for refunding the appropriate sum to us for the canceled Italian tour. We were cognizant of the difficulties entailed and admire the diligence and perseverence of Carolyn Banks-Leeuwen burgh in pursuing the reimbursements, thus upholding the honor of St. John's College in the process. You may recall that we were fellow travellers to Greece three years ago on the first St. John's Tour. At the time we were delighted with that entire trip. Since then we have had occasion to travel on other package tours, and the St. John's tour stands out as exemplary. Not only were the accommodations equally good to those of the non-affiliated tours, but the fellowship among the members of the St.John's group was unequalled on other tours. In addition, the special attention paid to historical and cultural events and landmarks by Emilia surpassed the educational focus offered by other tour directors. We can only hope that the significant members of the St. John's family will not be deterred from offering trips in the future by the unfortunate events which precluded the Italian tour. The personal attention Carolyn devoted to the planning and execu.:. tion of that Greek tour has never been duplicated in our travels with other groups. In retrospect, it was precisely that personal touch which created the feeling of spending two educational and thoroughly delightful weeks of a shared travel experience with good friends rather than with mere acquaintances. We commend the Alumni Association of St. John's College for your important role in sponsoring and supporting this endeavor and we wish you every success in continuing this important tradition, of which you can be justly and deservedly proud. Sincerely yours. George & Lois Bonnell enforced its laws against discrimination against the har~jans ('untouchables') <md is currently witnessing a legally unchecked epidemic of burning young wives to death for their dowries. Democratic Japan has, either by law or social custom, systematically discriminated against its ainu, harakumin, Korean, and even habakusha (atomic bomb victim) minorities. I therefore disagree with Mr. Burk that we can rely on the personal level alone at St. John's in forming rational policy guidelines on the divestment question. I think the issues are sufficiently complex to warrant serious study. I also think that such study should be broadened to include whether domestic corporate behavior (or government behavior, in the case of purchasing and selling government securities) is a legitimate concern for the college, both in its investment and in its purchasing policies. For example, should the college's portfolio include shares of the A.H. Robins Company, themaker of the Dalkon shield? Should campus vending machines carry Chap Stick, another Robins product, albeit one unconnected with any known health hazard. Should the investment portfolio include shares in tobacco or snuff manufacturers? Should the food service company be allowed to serve Jello on campus (Jello is manufactured by Philip Morris' General Foods subsidiary). Or should the Board of Visitors and Governors disregard all ethical considerations College stance is 'unworthy' To the Editor: Whetter we at St. John's choose to divest our stocks according to the Sullivan principles is a moral decision that may now have little effect on the horror in South Africa. But we should not, in deciding, underestimate the depth of this horror. Millions of black people are being uprooted without redress and imprisoned in massive "camps." One "camp" of 250,000 that my wife, Kathleen, visited is enclosed in barbed wire and patrolled by white men with machine guns. Those kept inside have no clean water and no satisfactory way to dispose of human waste. They cannot leave. They have one clinic the size of an American suburban garage. There are acres of fresh graves of infants. Bishop Tutu, the Rev. Naudi, _Winnie Mandel and the Rev. Boezak have asked Americans to divest. They think it will make a helpful difference. We have the privilege to speculate whether what they ask is really best for them. I think it is unworthy of the College to think that in this situation we know better. Sincerely, David Townsend Tutor, Annapolis Faculty Hughey's work in new center The first National Park Service interpretive center in the country to be comprised solely of the works of art executed and donated by one artist - Kirk Hughey, SFGI '79 - has opened in Salinas, N.M. Mr. Hughey, who lives in Santa Fe, was commissioned in 1984 by the National Park Service for this major undertaking depicting his impressions of the Spanish occupation of the populous jurisdiction of the Salinas in the 17th century. Well known in the Southwest, Hughey has had exhibits, group shows and more than 40 one-man shows at galleries and museums in Amsterdam, Geneva, New York, Taos, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles, Scottsdale and Santa Fe. His work has been collected in private and public collections, including those of Robert Redford and HRH Princess Anne of Great Britain. completely, aiming only for the highest return on its invesment portfolio and the finest quality in relation to price in its purchasing policies? As for the third letter, Mr. Kahn asks for a knowledge of the facts and "reasonable predictive awareness of the conse. quences of whatever decision might occur." That is, I think, the easiest issue. The St. John's investment portfolio is simply too small to influence the behavior of the Republic of South Africa or that of any large American corporation. The threat by St. John's to sell all shares of companies doing business in South Africa is not (Continued from P:2) the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and continues to be a frequent substitute with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She played second oboe there for five months this fall. Some of the concerts Leslie played with the BSO were broadcast nationally this fall and winter as part of a series produced by Baltimore's new public radio station, WJHU, with Lisa Simeone, A '79, as commentator. 1974 Thomas J. Dolan, A, and Nannette Vozzella were married August 8, 1986. Nannette, who holds master's degrees from Salem State College and Lesley College, is a Peabody School teacher. They are living in Melrose, Mass. 1975 Annette Tullier Staubs, A, announces the birth of a son, Peter, on June l 0, 1986. Her husband, Charles, is an osteopathic medical student who plans to practice family medicine on the Eastern Shore of -Maryland. After receiving a master's degree in theology, Annette taught religion in high school and then worked in a parish. She writes that she now is "at home" with Peter and hopes to have more children. Malcolm Ridgway Handte, A, a statistical analyst with CNA Insurance companies, Chicago, has been named as associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society. The organization is dedicated to the development of professional actuaries and to the advancement of actuarial science as it pertains to casualty, property and health msurance. Malcolm has a Master of Arts degree in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Science degree in management science and applied economics/ operations research from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Janis, live in Chicago. Peter and Mary Rogers Kniaz are living in Shaker Heights, 0. Peter is working for Sohio Corporation, and Mary is at home looking .after their children, Benjamin, 5, and Beatrice. a toddler. Christopher R. Olson attended the alumni seminar in Santa Fe last summer. "I still live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with my wife Marcela and new son, Conrad Reese, born on October 30. I was assigned to the World Corporation Group managing accounts of multinational companies here in Citibank's third most profitable branch." 1976 Marjorie Collingwood Kimble and Kenneth Kimble, '77, are the parents of a baby girl, Elizabeth Collingwood Kimble, born November 26 and described by her proud father as a "beautiful, healthy baby with lots of dark hair." Meanwhile, the Kimbles are the center of Annapolis' most newsworthy court case. It involves the right of the Kimbles to build a house in Cumberland Court, over the wall from the William Paca Gardens, which the city had given them. Seven months into construction they likely to cause P. W. Botha to fly hat in hand to Annapolis and Santa Fe, with a promise of mending his government's ways. In the final analysis, the issues are purely ethical. But that is no reason for avoiding the forming of specific policy guidelines .. It is, I believe, all the more reason why the College should no longer avoid its duty of arriving at a fair, logical, and consistent policy about the use of the College's investment (and purchasing) dollars. Sincerely yours, Steven Shore SF '68 were forced to cover their work with plastic after Historic Annapolis won a court case in which it argued that the house would be built too close to the property line. The Kimbles are responding by following both courses open to them. They have filed with the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, which has a slow calendar and may not get to the case this year; and last month they sought another variance from the Board of Appeals of the City of Annapolis. The board's answer should be forthcoming this month. · "Running up against Historic Annapolis is a worse fate than runµing up against the federal government,•;' the Annapolis Capital editorialized in imploring Historic Annapolis and the Kimbles to reach a compromise. "We hope that Historic Annapolis' leaders will yield to practical wisdom rather than argue their irretractable point that aesthetic considerations are more important than a_man 's right to his property." 1979 It was a student conductor's dream: one of five students selected to conduct a part of the St. Matthew's Passion in Stifts Kirche, Stuttgart's largest church, so crowded people were standing in the aisle, with an audience sufficiently familiar with the music that many were mouthing the words. Since graduating, St. John's gifted Karen Wachsmuth has gone on to receive a second bachelor's degree in conducting at the Hartt School of Music in West Harford, Ct., and a master's degree in choral conducting at the Julliard School, where she held a graduate assistantship. , Last year she was invited to the International Backakademie in Stuttgart where her masters classes included study with the internationally known Bach specialist, Helmuth Rilling. It was there she was one of five students chosen to conduct the St. Matthew's Passion. The year in Germany, which coincided with Bach's tricentennial, was marvelous, she reports. In addition to her study, she had the privilege of singing with professional choirs as well as touring Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Israel. Last year she also served as director of the Senior Choruses at the USDAN Center for the Performing Arts in Melville, Long Island. A year earlier she had served as assistant conductor of the Bronx Choral· Society. Now free lancing in New York, Miss Wachsmuth at St. John's was the founder and director of a superb a cappella voc~l chamber group, Octet Plus One. 1983 Ted Zenzinger, A, is teaching philosophy at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. The university's western civilization program resembles the St. John's program, he writes. "It has a list of great 6ooks and small group discussions ... It is only one year in duration, and tutorial meets only once per week for 50 minutes. Not surprisingly the readings are selected excerpts." �' ' • o I a Gi a> c .c «I u en Cl) .... ----"IJ at om ere Cl) I ' b ~ f) ~ c ~ L • ' • I ' I :i:;--~ ~ ...;-C;:. Q_Q_UJ<(N - I- t After an absence of two years, Rabelais is returning to the reading list in Annapolis. from the sophomore year in by some faculty members that his does not- result in good Rabelais is being welcomed back at the urging of two faculty members, Brother Robert Smitf. and Jonathan Tuck. )rnnnPd by DOROTHY KINSMAN In making certain that American high school students know about St. John's, admissions director John Christensen leaves little to chance. But how do young people in other countries learn about St. John's? Judging from the stories of three freshmen from Sweden, Ghana and Austria, the answer is, "By chance." The three joined students on the Annapolis campus this fallfrom Korea, India, Israel, Denmark, Canada and Venezuela, as well as from most of the 50 states_ Although an American citizen, Danilo Marrone considers Stockholm his "permanent home." Born there to a Swedish mother and an American father, he has lived in the United Ststes for only about nine months of his 18 years. On the basis of his background and perspective, Mr. Marrone could be described as a citizen of the world. He has lived in Santiago, Chile; Islamabad, Pakistan; and Vienna, Austria, as well as in Sweden. And he has traveled in Nepal, China, India, Japan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Yugoslavia and most of the European countries. His family now lives in Singapore. Tall and slender with dark curly hair and easy good manners, Mr. Marrone remarks, "I guess I'm an adaptable person. Wherever I go, it's home. Basically l believe you should live where you live." The Marrone familv's life stvle sugg~sts Rabelais, in Mr. Tuck's mind, is "funnTwain." In a letter to the Faculty Instruction Committee arguing the case for Rabelais' mock heroic novel, he added, "We need to be reminded that it is possible to be deeply funny and deeply serious at the same time." Mr. Tuck claimed it was particularly important that works of the 15th and 16th century humanists be read at St. John's because they represent "a group with which we have much in common." "Like them we feel a great excitement in the rediscovery of the wisdom of antiquity, and we treat the ancients both as authorities and as contemporaries," he wrote. "Like them we are disposed to see a continuity in human experience and to be optimistic about the moral and civic value of reading old books personally and passionately." Mr. Tuck also had a response to those who contend that St. John's students never have good conversations about Rabelais. "I doubt that this is strictly true, but even if it is, the case is not prejudged. If ease of conversation were our only principle in choosing our seminar readings, there are many other books, and parts of books, that we would have to consider giving up .... Seen in one way, the difficulty we find in talking about Rabelais is evidence that we ought to be reading him." To make room for Rabelais, the Chaucer readings are being regrouped into three, rather than four, evenings. Among the Chaucer readings, "The Pardoner's Tale" is -being dropped and "The Clerk's Tale" and "The Franklyn's Tale" are being added. Although slow in changing, with a core of books likely to remain there, St. John's list of 130 or so writings is subject to continuous review on the part of faculty members, and writings from time to time either disappear or are added to the list. Occasionally, as in the case of Rabelais, one may be dropped and later returned. rone, a high school teacher of physics, mathematics and chemistry who simply likes to live in different parts of the world. Comes the inevitable question, "How did vou haooen to wind up at St. John's?" is anxious for his three sons to attend college in the United States. (Danilo 'solder brother is a_ senior at Dartmouth College, and his kid brother is still in high school in Singapore.) The elder Marrone became acquainted with Michael Mechau, A '59, and was intrigued by his description of the St. John's curriculum. Father and son, both of whom love to read, decided that St. John's was precisely the right place for Danilo. Does it meet his expectations? "Very much so. Right now I feel very,happy." Mr. Marrone's roommate, Collins 22, of Accra, Ghana, also is convinced that when he picked St. John's he "made the right choice." Vivacious and outgoing, Mr. DuodoBonsu has a determined sense of purpose_ His ambition is to become an economist and work on the international level to further his country's interests. While attending high school, Mr. DuodoBonsu worked during vacations. His jobs were arranged by an organization which coordinated the volunteer work of students from a number of schools in Ghana. Mr. Duodo-Bonsu attended to the needs of patients and cleaned in a hospital. He showed farmers how to cultivate their land and market their crops. He taught mathematics and geography to elementary school children. "There's a shortage of teachers in Ghana," he pointed out, adding that while high schools close for vacation in the summer, elementary schools remain open. ALL OF THIS WORK was done as a volunteer, "not for money." Mr. Duodo-Bonsu learned about St. John's through his high school guidance counselor, who first heard of the college through a chance encounter. At a conference in London on economic development, the counselor met two St. John's graduates. The counselor, impressed with their perception of Afri- Greg Fe1·gu:son ca 's economic problems and ability to express their concerns, passed .his enthusiasm for the St. John's concept along to Mr. Duodo-Bonsu. Although economics is his principal interest, the breadth of the St. John's program appealed to Mr. Duodo-Bonsu. "I like to explore other areas," he says. Ursula Kqvacek, 21, also appears to have arrived in Annapolis as the result of a chance encounter. Or series of encounters. Miss Kovacek of Vienna, Austria, a wilwoman with short brown hair her hands as well as with voice. She is tri-lirn.mal (English, French, German), as is Marrone (English, Swedish, :')pan1sn "Do you want the long story or the short story? she asks. The long story begins with Miss Kovacek 's acceptance of a job as an au paire girl in London following her graduation from high school in Vienna in I 983. She studied English at a district college while caring for two children. Six months later she took a similar position in Paris, where she received a diploma in French after completing a course offered by the Alliance Francaise. Miss Kovacek, who likes to ski, swim and sing in choral groups, then enrolled in a course at the University of Vienna for the training of interpreters and translators. "I DIDN'T LIKE it," she says flatly. "AB it was, was listen, think, talk. I was interested in philosophy, theology and psychology." But she found that the university's method of teaching these. courses didn't appeal to her either. Sitting in a large, crowded auditorium scribbling notes on lectures, she longed to "get beneath the surface." In Venice for a weekend, she met a couple from Eastern Shore who were traveling with a grouo of Ursula accepted the job and arrived in this country in September 985. "I thought it would be a good chance to see the United States," she remarked. The children's grandmother happened to observe Miss Kovacek reading St. Augustine's Confessions_ Leader of a great books seminar in Easton, the grandmother was familiar with St. John's and told Ursula about the college. "It was like a bolt of lightning," Miss Kovacek said. The small classes, the reading, the discussion - it sounded exactly like what she was looking for. And even though her story includes a succession of chance encounters, Ursula Kqvacek believes that "very little is left to chance." Instead, she is convinced that fate brought her to St. John's, and that St. John's is_where she belongs. I Elliott Zuckerman, St. John's College tutor, has been named editor of The St. Johns Review. His selection for a four-year term was announced by Dean Thomas Slakey, who together with the Faculty Instruction Committee oversees the periodical devoted to commentary and literary matter. Mr. Zuckerman assumed duties as the magazine's editor in January, succeeding Walter Sterling, editor for the past four years. A poet whose poems appear regularly in 1he Review, Mr. Zuckerman served his junior year as an undergraduate as managing editor of Columbia College's Review. In 1951-52~ during his senior year, he co-edited The Review. A member of the faculty since 1961, Mr. Zuckerman holds a master's degree and doctorate from Columbia University and a second bachelor's and master's degree from Cambridge University, where he was a Kell~tt Fellow at Clare College. He is the author of a book, The First Hundred Years of Wagner Tristan. At s r John's he has served as director of the Santa Fe Graduate Institute and as acting dean. He is a painter. As a pianist of performing caliber, he has given occasional concerts, played for countless student waltz parties, and conducted study groups in music for the college's continuing education program_ Before coming to St. John's, he was a Duryea Fellow in modern European history at Columbia, where he also taught history, and a lecturer in history and music at the New School for Social Research in New York. Mr. Zuckerman will produce his first issue of lhe St. Johns Rev-iew next summer. Meanwhile, Mr. Sterling, who will continue teaching at the college, will edit at least three more issues. An issue devoted to the writings of the late William O'Grady, tutor who died last January at the age of 40, is scheduled in March followed by another issue with essays in honor of O'Grady. He plans one additional magazine before leaving his editorship. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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November 1986 ) BVG adopts brief policy on finance Among tutors and former librarians back for the Class of 1961's reunion honoring them were, letfio right, back row, Thomas K. Simpson, Edward G. Sparrow, Jane Tolbert, Thomas Slakey, William A. Darkey, Hugh McGrath, William Williamson and Laurence Berns; second row, James Tolbert with John Bremer directly behind him, Charles Bell, Douglas Allanbrook, Michael Ossorgin and Harvey Poe; second row from front, President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle, Samuel Brown, Curtis Wilson, Robert Bart and Bryce Jacobsen; front row, the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, Eva Brann, Barbara Leonard, Fanny Kaplan, Charlotte fletcher and Seate Ruhm von Oppen. Greg Ferguson photo Attrition shows dramatic drop A decade-by-decade study has shown a dramatic improvement in attrition on the Annapolis campus since 1941 when the first class of New Program students was graduated. Last year it dropped to 27 per cent. Nancy Lewis, registrar, said that for the first two decades of the New Program, from 1941 through 1960, attrition stood .at 65 percent. It declined to 59.65 per cent in 1961-70 and backed down to 50.85 per cent in 1971-80. During the 1980s it has continued to fall, dipping to its lowest point of 25 per cent in 1984. Thus for the present decade the overall attrition rate is 37!/z per cent. Although the wartime years wiped out enrollments. taking 90 per cent of three classes away from campus and distorting attrition for the mid-forties, attrition actually increased by a fraction~ two-tenths of a per cent -- during the 1950s, considered by some alumni as the golden age of the college. The figures were 65.0and 65.2 per cent for those decades. At St. John's attrition is used to mean any student who leaves for any reason, including those who transfer to Santa Fe, those who drop out for a year with a view to returning, those St. John's asks to (See Attrition drops, P. 8) Inauguration 30 years later What happened to one class by DOROTHY KINSMAN The 14 classmates seemed reluctant to let each other go, as though they were aware of how few in the world could comprehend the reality and the legacy of having been in that place at that time with those people. Following their reunion luncheon during homecoming, the Class of l 956 unanimously agreed to skip a scheduled seminar on Plato's "The Symposium" and continue their own personal seminar. Moyers to film program here Bill D. Moyers, television news analyst, w.ill be on campus in February filming a one-hour program for a series he is preparing on the Constitution for public television. Mr. Moyers will be filming Mr. Adler's February 13 lecture, which will deal with great ideas behind the Constitution, and the next day, on Saturday, a conversation a group of students will have with Mr. Adler. The series, planned in connection with the 200th anniversary of the Constitution, will be shown on television beginning in April. Details were worked out through President William M. Dyal, Jr., an old friend of Mr. Moyers. The St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors has adopted a sentence-long policy statement on investments recognizing the authority of the board's Finance Committee, under the college Polity, to hear any appeal affecting investments in the college portfolio. In doing so, board members rejected a proposal growing out of an Alumni Association study that would have set up a more elaborate mechanism to consider investments of the college's endowment fund. The simpler policy was adopted overwhelmingly by members on. motion of Thomas M. Carnes, A '52, of San Francisco. The board did so after months of discussion within the college community of the question of how, if it chose to do so, the college should divest itself of funds of firrns doing business with South Africa or for other political, sociaL and nonfinancial reasons. A number of members voting for the brief statement are known to be sympathetic to the plight of black South Africans: but they felt the mechanical compli(See Board, P. 9) As their classmates listened enthralled, the alumni summed up triumphs and failures, marriages and divorces, hopes and disappointments over the 30 years since they left St. John's. For some the exchange lasted until 4 the next morning. They swapped reports about absent members they had seen over the years. ("He was, as we all are, very much the same.") They paused for a moment of silence to remember the Rev. James Donald Libby, '56, who died in January of 1981. They ·talked about their children. Five of the 14 had at least one child who had attended St. John's. Many confessed that after ~receiving their diplomas under the Liberty Tree they had no clear-cut idea of what to do next. It was like standing on _a diving board and facing a plunge into an unknown body of water, one alumnus remarked. So what did they do.? Traveled, joined the military, practiced law, became counselors, therapists and consultants, ran for public office a.nd went into the burgeoning fields of television and space exploration. . They taught at all levels from elementary to graduate school. In fact, almbstall (See Talking, P. 4) plans begi St. John's has two new presidents to inaugurate, and· both are planning celebratory occasions in which to stage them. They told the October meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors a little about what they are visualizing. Michael Riccards is planning to hold his inauguration in May and would like to turn it into a celebration of Santa Fe - its arts, its ethnic diversity - "what is loosely called a fiesta." He hopes to welcome people in town back up the hill. William Dyal will hold his inauguration in connection with the 50th anniversary of the New Program scheduled next fall. Under plans now being developed, he said the Annapolis campus will kick off the anniversary with homecommg September 25-26. Mortimer Adler, the last surviving member of the New Program's founding committee, will be on hand for the Friday lecture. Then will come a series of four Friday night lectures in October. not necessarily about the college, but in celebration of the program. Mr. Dyal, who began full-time duites on October 2, would like his inauguration to occur the Saturday afternoon of the October 24 board meeting. Why wait a year before being inaugurated? "I'll have to be here for a year to know whether I'm going to make it," he joked. �• I 1935 Roland J. Bailey is being a good neighbor since he retired as an accountant with the University of Chicago hospitals and clinics. He is doing accounting work on a part-time basis for neighborhood associations. With a love for England dating back to his student days when he was an English major studying with the late Ford K. Brown, he and his wife spend four to six weeks each year in England. 1958 Raymond Haas and his wife, Katherine Hsu Haas, '60, are teaching at the Key School in Annapolis. They own a house in North Dakota, where, according to Kathy, they spend their summers "playing cowboys and Indians." The Haases have three daughters, a lawyer for Legal Aid services, a doctoral candidate in ornithology at Cornell University, and a rock musician. i96I Mary Lou Ryce has been an attorney for the past three years in Jackson, Miss., and is married to Frank Borst, a business management consultant. With a 1977 law degree from the University of Iowa, she previously worked in legal services for the elderly at Mt. Pleasant, la. Sarah Robinson Mara is at work on a degree in accountancy at Queens U niversity, Kingston, Ontario. A prime reason for her move there was that her husband, a former Denver plastic and reconstructive surgeon, gave up a successful practice when his liability insurance reached $95,000 a year, making it no longer feasible for him to practice in the United States. What is needed, Dr. Mara believes, is a reform in tort law through legislation. John Kohl, who has been teaching at Shimer College in Waukegan, Ill., is visiting fellow at St. Thomas More Institute at Fort Worth, Tex., a teaching institute which is planning a college with a program influenced by St. John's. 1968 Gilbert Renaut has been named for a three-year term on the Annapolis Historic District Commission. One of five members, Gilbert is assistant solicitor for the Economic Regulatory Administration of the Department of Energy. 1975 After several years of practicing law with large firms and recruiting legal executives, K.C. Victor has opened a legal placement service in New York ... I would welcome the opportunity to place other Johnnie lawyers, .. she says. "The firms and corporations with which I work are primarily located in New York City." Her address: K.C. Victor Legal Placement, 575_ Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022. (212) 605-0313. 1978 Scott A. Arcand and Diana Antonellio were married April 12 in Fayetteville, Rebecca Wiison, editor; Laurence Berns, Betsy Blume, John Christenaen, Howard Zeldennan, EllloH Zuckerman, &dvisory board. / The Reporter Is published by the Public Relations Office, St. John's Col .. tege, Annapolis, MD 21404. Wiiiiam M. Dyal, Jr., presldent. Published five times a year, in Feb~ ruary, April, June, September and November. Second-cla11 postage paid at Annapolis, Md. . USP.S 01I-750 e t n1• erse f N .C. Andrew White, '81, was their sole usher. After a honeymoon in Virginia, Scott and Diana are living in Fayetteville, near Fort Bragg, where he is assigned to the When the Hubbard space telescope is U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special launched two years from now, astronWarfare Center. Their address is P.O. omers will be able to see to the outskirts of Box 70492, Fort Bragg, NC 28307. the universe, 17 billion light years away. Winfield lhlow was married in June to They will be able to determine whether Marcia Burrell, a graduate of Syracuse the nearest stars have planets and probe Unive.rsity. Winfield graduated from Indthe nature of the quasars, those brightest iana University, Bloomington, in 1985. of all objects in the universe. They expect They are both employed in the Office of to learn more about black holes, the dense Special Programs, State University Colremains of supernova from whose powerlege, at Oswego, New York. ful gravitational grasp nothing appears to Janelle Bloemker Stevenson began escape. Astronomers will begin to meastudies this fall for a master's degree in sure stars. mathematics at Wesleyan University in Bryant Cruse, A '73, a Lockheed MisMiddletown, Conn. siles and Space research specialist at the . 1979 Goddard Space Flight Center, predicts Edward J. Burgess and Angelina the space telescope will have an impact Kline Burgess, '83, proudly announce comparable to Galileo's telescope of 1610. the birth of Genevieve Celeste on August Free from the interference of the earth's 27. They are living in New Carrollton, atmosphere, high .in its orbit 600 kiloMd. meters above the earth, the telescope will 1980 expand the observable universe 350 times. Joseph P. Berg was an official partici"With his telescope, Galileo could see pant in the 1986 International Congress of 600,000 light years away," Mr. Cruse told Mathematicians held in August at Berkea luncheon meeting of the Annapolis ley. "Should any St. John's students, staff Chapter of St. John's College's Alumni or alumni wish a first-person report about Association. the congress, I would. be happy to com"The best ground-based telescope, such ply, "he writes. Joe's address is Box 92841, as the one at Palomar, is able to see 23 to Milwaukee, WI 53202. 24 million light years. With the space tele1981 scope, we will be able to see seven times Anne O'MaHey was married in Novfurther and about 350 times more of the em ber l 985 to Ken Culotta, a fellow gradobservable universe. Needless to say astuate of the University of Texas Law ronomers are very excited about it." School. He is an associate with the HousThe telescope's extremely accurate ton law firm of Baker and Botts, while pointing capacity - seven one-thouAnne is in-house counsel for American sandth 's of an arc..second - has· been desGeneral Corporation, ..a huge insurancecribed as so precise it is like detecting a based financial corporation." candle flame in Sydney, Australia. They are building a house, she writes, Mr. Cruse said that, if the theory of an and "occasionally find time to read a expanding universe is correct, astronGreat Book even! Coincidentally both my omers will be able to penetrate to the edge boss and Ken's are rabid St. John's fans, of the universe to the time of the big bang so I've held forth on the wonders of and creation itself. the .... program on more than one occaThe space telescope was to have been sion." lifted into orbit on October 27, but the Arin and Ken are in touch with Matt U.S. shuttle Challenger's disaster last Hartzell, '81, also a Houston attorney. January aborted plans. Assembled and 1984 tested, it is in storage for two years at Barry H. Hellman, Jr., and his wife, Sunnyvale, Calif. Cynthia Keppel, have a son, Barry HarMeanwhile, Mr. Cruse, who is one of a vey Hellman Ill, born August 28. group of engineers perfecting its on-board Barry writes that he is in his first year at George Washington University Medical School. Christopher Junker, '83, is a classmate. Thia is taking one class a week at American Uiwiersity and will begin a full schedule in the spring. She has been awarded a St. John's students spend four years in full scholarship plus stipend to study high Annapolis and should have more sailing energy physics. experience than that just provided by Col"An additional note of thanks to Mr. lege Creek and the Severn. They should Berns and Mr. Zuckerman," Barry writes. get to knQw the East Coast's fabled Ches"Without their help as tutors, I would not apeake, members of the Annapolis Alumbe able to find such delight in medical ni Chapter decided last spring. school itself. So many of my peers seem to As a consequence, two experienced sai·view it as a necessary evil on their way to lors, Peter Kellogg-Smith and Frank Atbeing physicians that the complaint bewell together with two sailing friends of comes commonplace. They do not see the Mr. Kellogg-Smith took about 20 studelight in the learning process as I do." dents to sea one Saturday in October. 1985 Among them was Dexiang Li, who had Ruth Johnston Staver, and her husarrived a short time before from China for band, Randy, announce the birth of Levi study at the Graduate Institute. Daniel on August 2. Randy is an engineer Ned Lathrope, a former St. John's at Lawrence Livermore National Laboraathletic director, was in charge of the four tory, specializing in laser research and boats. Despite a drizzly day, he reported development. students enjoyed themselves, and the allAfter leaving St. John's, Ruth took a day outing was hailed as an event worth ..crash course in Russian and studied •1anrepeating. What's next? Participating stuguages and linguistics' at Penn State," she dents are to meet and decide what their second Chesapeake venture should be. (Continued on P.U) Bryant Cruse speaks on space telescope Chapter takes students to sea data systems, said the delay is permitting time to improve the ground system for the telescope's first flight. Information gathered by the telescope will be sent to the data ground station at White Sands, N.M., and then to Goddard, where the data will be shipped to astronomers working at the new Space Telescope Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University. They will oversee the operation of the satellite and ensure that scientific objectives are accomplished. The institute will be operated by a consortium of universities - American Universities for Reasearch in Astronomy like a regular observatory, Mr. Cruse said. Proposals for the telecope 's first programs are pouring in. "Obviously there are a lot of people standing in line to get their observations in," Mrs. Cruse continued. While there has been much discussion, no one is saying what the first observations will be. Since astronomy has become so specialized, Mr. Cruse said astronomers do not see any single project as the most important. All of them are being carefully reviewed for their significance and feasibility. For their contribution to the construction of the space telescope, several European countries are scheduled to receive 15 per cent of the observation time. After serving as a Navy flyer for seven years following his graduation from St. John's, Mr. Cruse joined the Westinghouse Space Division as an engineer and simultaneously began studies toward a master's degree in space technology from the Johns Hopkins Engineering School. He received the degree in 1984. In 1983 he joined Goddard. There he has been engaged in analyzing the plan for the operation and design of the space telescope and for the last two years pioneering in the use of artificial intelligence techniques in the space craft's ground system. Gessner heads chapter. Bernard Gessner, A '27, has been elected president of the Annapolis Home Chapter of the Alumni Association. He succeeds Peter Kellogg-Smith, A '43, who· becomes vice-president. Henry M. Robert, Ill. A '41, is treasurer. 50th anniversary ideas are sought Homecoming next September 2527 will center on the program's 50th anniversary. Members of the Alumni Association's board discussed ideas last month for the alumni's part in the celebration. John Van Doren, A '47, of Chicago, who is chairing the alumni program, would like to receive any ideas alumni may have. They should be sent to him at Room 300, IOJ E. Ontario St., Chicago, IL 60611. Members of his committee. include Mary Bittner Wiseman, Har:vey Goldstein, Carolyn Leeuwenburgh. and the alumni director and coordinator from the Annapoilis and Santa Fe campuses, Betsy Blume and Mary Sue Laurel. �NOVEMBER 1986 TH REPO 3 At 25th reunion Class f 1 h o ut rs thei A quarter of an hour is not much time in which to distill a quarter of a century of appreciation for gifts given, Harrison Sheppard told faculty, past and present, who had been invited to the. Class of l 961 's 25th anniversary. Class members had gathered to do this at homecoming, to honor in a little longer time the faculty who had taught them. to share anecdotes about their time here . to reminisce and become reacquainted, and then to present to the college a scroll containing the names of teachers of their era. "If something is going to happen once ;md for all, as, indeed, going to college :1appens to us once and for all, how marvelously fortunate for us that these teachers were our teachers," Theodore Barnes Stinchecum, who made the handsome framed scroll, said. He and Mr. Sheppard were among the planning committee that had sperit a year making the event the success it was. The scroll will be hung in the coffee shop. Taking prominent roles in the Class of '61 homecoming luncheon.were, from "We have chosen this place because the left, Harrison Sheppard, Martha Wyatt and Theodore Stinchicum. · coffee shop was, in the days of our attendGreg Ferguson photo ance at the college, the closest thing we Among the writers· no longer read are With Judge Martha .Goldstein Wyatt had on campus to our agora," Mr. ShepVico, Berkeley, Gibbon and Voltaire presiding, the program in.duded anecpard explained. "Even the bookstore was adjacent to it. · dotes related by Mr. Sheppard, M.r. Stin- ·along with Milton's "Samson Agonistes." checum, Victor Schwartz, Armin Ben- . The.single most important innovation in "It was then the site of some of the most the program has been the introduction of diner, Michael Ham, Stephen. Morrow vividly remembered and earnestly. felt the preceptorial, in which a single work and Paul Rosenberg. incidents of lea ming among students and can be studied more fully and in.greater Two of them have worked their way faculty for members of our class." leisure. into the fabric of St. John's life. One desThe luncheon in the Great Hall drew 23 In reading the names of tutors who have cribed. the late Ford K. Brown's view of tutors, three librarians, and a former presdied during the past 25 years, Mr. Stinthe program: ''.It's a very good thin-g for ident, all of whom had been here between checum paid particular tribute Jacob September 1957 and June 196 I. · tutors, and we are experimenting on its Klein, dean the year the class matricu.: Five came from Santa Fe. Flown here· effects with students." Another was Mr. lated. The class reunion coincides with the by five members of the reunion committee . Wilson's remark to the effect that· to do publication of Mr. Klein's lectures by the things once at St. John's is to establish a were Robert Bart, who also had delivered St. John's Press. tradition. the Friday evening lecture; William A. Mr. Stin.checum said he has a small From tutor Elliott Zuckerman, class Darkey, Charles G. Bell, Michael Ossorphoto of Mr. Klein. over his desk, hung members he~rd about changes the progin and Samuel Brown. there with a photograph of Bonhoeffer ~ram that have occurred since 196L Before luncheon, faculty members had and a drawing of Kierkegaard. . The laboratory program is taught in their own informal reunion in front of "And-it always seems what Mr. Klein is McDowell, where they posed for a photo- three rather than. four years. With the reminding me to do is .make the attempt: graph. Inside the Great Hall, the lun- exception of the freshman chorus, ~usic 'Peiro' (try), he seems to be saying, 'Peiro.' cheon, elegant in. detail, was both gala and · is now taught entirely in the sophomore We are fortunate in these times, when year. The coUege is considering the possiwarm in its sentiment. feliCity approaches zero, to· have Mr. "It's a lovely thing that you have done," . bility of a tutorial in. the visual arts. The Klein's published lectures." college now teaches two years of Greek Curtis Wilson, deanfrom 1958-61, who The list of deceased tutors includes, had been asked· to extend the welcome, and two of French with "French literature along with Mr. Klein, Mr. Brown. Richsaid byway of expressing the thanks of the · something ofan. antidote to German philosophy." · ard Scofield, John Spangler Kieffer, Wilfaculty ... It's simply marvelous." 1 to in liam Kyle Smith, Simon Kaplan, Victor Zuckerkandl, Iola Scofield, Henry Grattan, John Price. Donald Rogers and Alvin. Main. The occasion concluded with a toast to the faculty from Mr. Sheppard. ..We can never measure the magnitude of our debts to you. nor their multitude .... Acknowledging your many gifts to · us, with the faith that you helped to con- _ firm in us, with the hope that we may yet grow in self-knowledge; with the love that gives philosophy its name, with immeasurable gratitude, we, the members of the Class of l 961, salute you. the members of the faculty, who served St. John's when we were privileged to be among the students of our polity." Toasted individually was tutor emeritus J. Winfree Smith as the senior tutor with a direct link to the founding of the New Program almost 50 years ago. It was proposed by Harvey Poe, a former tutor and now an attorney in Washington. One former tutor sent a message that arrived too late to be relayed at the luncheon. "Those two years were the richest of my life," Paul Priest, of Horsforth, Leeds, England, wrote of his time here. "Annually I lecture on the Meno to hundreds of education students, who are · amazed to hear, if they do hear, that its opening question generates, organizes and judges their entire curriculum." . 1 ~. • The luncheon was attended by 51 alum- .~.r..,. ni and their spouses and 41 faculty members and their spouses. Class members took home with them a booklet containing biog.raphies they had written. about themselves, the first· such publication under the New Program. Most were accompanied by reflections on what the college had meant to them. It was a project headed by Michael Ham. In planning the event, Stephen D. Morrow had been responsible for discovering a number of ··1ost" members. of the class, principally through classmates and after spending almost·one wh.ole Sunday on the phone. Alex.a Nadosy Ulich· made the arrangements for the luncheon. itself. Also active in planning the. reunion were Nana May Dealy,· Samuel Freis, Darrell Henry, Sheela Shah Lampietti, John Pekkanen, Paul Rosenberg, Mr. ·Schwartz and David Shapiro. Sarah Crooke's prize-winning pie go~~ to the nationals Sarah Covington Crooke, A '55, will be in Nashville, Tenn., November 5 participating in a national contest to find the pie. . Sarah's own Maryland ·Strawberry Cream Pie came in first this summer in a competition sponsored by Crisco and Famt4r Circle magazine. all-Am~rican Food editors were canvassed early this year on their choices of pies typical of each state in the nation. For Maryland, editors suggested strawberry, and Sarah had a pie with a recipe that evolved. lt:incorporated one suggestion froma little boy, one of six children next door, that she include a cream basis. (Family members prefer her birthday pies to birthday cakes.) Now Sarah !s pie will compete with such pastries as the shoo fly pie from Pennsylvania, the maple cream pie from Vermont, and beef pie from the Midwest. · '.Pie-::making comes easily for this membe'r~of St. :John'sfirsrclassofwomen'.'The' morning of the annual bazaar sponsored by the Church of Our Saviour in Silver Spring, Md., Sarah appears at 6a.m, and by I0:30, as the.bazaar gets underway, has . 60 pumpkin pies baked for dinner that evening. Eventually she hopes to open a tea room specializing in pies. Sarah is the mother oftwo sons, John, 16, and Edward, 14, and wife of Eric Crooke, A '54, a mathematician-computer analyst with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Labora.tory. For the pasttwo years she has taught a class in. computer science at Catholic University, but primarily, she says, .. I want to get into pies." If you want to put her recipe on file until strawberry season next spring, here it is: MARYLAND STRAWBERRY CREAM PIE Crust: I cup all-purpose flour 'h teaspoon salt . . . Y4'cup Crisco shbrienh1g··,, · ,-. · Y4 cup butter flavor. di$c~,',~~~.f;ten.ing · .. 2 tablespoons cold water · · Fruit glaze: · .'h cup raspberries 'h cup sugar Dash of salt 'h cup water 2 tablespoons cornstarch l'h teaspoons lemon juice Non~airy whipped topping Cream filling: 'h box instant vaniila pudding Y4 cup plus I tablespoon milk 'h cup sour cream I pint strawberries, deaned. with stems removed. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Combine flour and salt in a mixing bowl. Cut in Crisco with pastry blender or use your fingers to ·mix until uniform. Sprinkle with water, ·I tablespoon at a time; loss lightly with a fork. Work dough into firm ball. On·flo.llie<J·bdart!t~~•i>m~ugh into circle, I .inch larger than inverted 9-inch pie pan. Gently lift dough into pan; trim 'l2 in.ch beyond edge of pie pan. Fold edges· . under and flute. Bake pie shell at 425 degrees for IO minutes or until crust is golden brown. · For fruit glaze, combine. raspberries, ·sugar, salt, and 114 cup water in saucepan. Bring to boil. In separate bowl, mix corn.starch and Y4 cup water. Add to boiling mixture; cook until clear. Stir well; remove from heat. Use a wire strain.er to remove raspberry seeds from glaze. Stir in lemon juice. ·Let mixture cool to room temperature. For cream filling, combine instant pudding and milk; mix with fork. Add sour cream. Stir well and spoon into cooled pie shell. Slice strawberries in half and place on top of cream base. Spoon fruit glaze · onto strawberries. Spoon a 2:- to 3-:in.ch doll up of whipped topping onto center of · Garnish .with -strawberry and · �PAGE4 Talking THE REPORTER 't · 4 in the 111orning___ (Continued from P. 1) of the class had taught at some time during the 30 years. They took courses. More than half had attended graduate school, and several still were pursuing advanced degrees. "I became a professional student," said Louis Sault, who explained that he had worked part time to support himself. Approaching marriage at the age of 38, he needed a full time job and chose teaching. By then, Mr. Sault, who left St. John's after his sophomore year, had amassed so many credits that by adding a required course, he was granted a degree from Clark University, Worchester, Mass. He also has a master's degree, "for money reasons.'' Mr. Sault now teaches and "creates courses" at East Bridgeport High School in Massachusetts. The University of Chicago attracted Joseph Cohen, Joseph Jay Wase and Dale. Cummings. Roommates at Chicago. Mr. Cohen and Mr. Wase later earned law degrees and were admitted to the bar. After finding it impossible to combine practicing law and teaching at St. John's, Mr. Cohen chose to do the latter and is a tutor on the Annapo:.. lis campus. He added, "I passed the torch on to my wife." Sandra Cohen is assistant attorney general of Maryland. Jay Wase also is married to an attorney. Ann Turnbull, who attended the reunion. Both specialize in domestic law. Like many of his classmates, Mr. Wase tried a number of careers before settling on his current profession. In fact he worked at 27 different occupations, including_ managing a male vocalist. He is now with the Baltimore firm of Wase, Lyons and Fed lock. Mt. Cummings, who with Robley Timmins Levy organized the reunion, also pursued several unrelated careers. "I've spent the time since leaving St. John's recovering from it," he quipped.· For a year after graduation, he stayed on at the college as athletic director. Other occupations included tracking- satellites for the Smithsonian Institution in Peru. In an about-face, he taught at an elementary school in a ghetto of Pasadena, Calif. Claiming to have "started over at 50," Mr. Cummings is a therapist in private practice in Westwood, Calif. He and his wife, Sitah, have two young children. Another class member who participated in the space program is George Sauer. Following a hitch in the Navy, he was employed by IBM and a-ssigned to the NASA tracking station in Bermuda. · A programmer with Project Mercury, he was acquainted with such legendary figures as Alan Shepherd and Gus Grissom. In 1979 he became manager of technical support to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service. Recently elected to the Republican Central Committee of Montgomery County (Md.), Mr. Sauer, at the time of the reunion. was a candidate for the Montgomery County Council. (Elsewhere in this issue of The Reporter, Robley Timmins Levy recounts her experiences as a member of the Santa Cruz (Calif.) Board of Supervisors.) Unlike Mr. Sauer, Thomas Jefferson (Jeff) Greenwell remained in the field of space exploration. After serving in the Army and teaching math, he accepted a position at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Beltsville, Md, He has been th.ere ever sin,'1e. "It's always been an interesting plqce t.'1 work," he aommented. NOVEMBER 1986 F gets music collections An aerospace engineer, Mr. Sauer is integrative test manager for satellite systems. What librarian James Benefiel des..: 25 cartons· of musical scores and other Meanwhile Pasquale (Pat) Polillo was cribes as "two magnificent collections of items. Also included are 18 framed photo· pursuing a career in television. He preoperatic and classical instrumental and graphs of contemporary musicans and a viously had served in the Army Countervocal music" have been presented the handwritten letter t0 Mr. Gant from his intelligence Corps in Germany and taught Santa Fe library by Edgar Daniels and teacher, the famed French composer and at a day school in Pennsylvania. - . William Gant. l"hey contain more than conductor, Nadia Boulanger. Learning the trade, as he put it, at W J Z2,600 records, 300 books and hundreds of The special strength of the collection is Baltimore and KDKA-Pittsburgh, Mr. musical scores and other material. 20th century keybo<ird literature and rePoliHo held executive positions at televi••1n addition to the support which the cordings, but Mr. Gant "is a man of broad sion stations in Philadelphia, New York, presence of such material will give to the and deep musical culture as well as an -Boston, and Atlanta. In San Francisco, he academic and scholarly community of the outstanding performer and distinguished was vice president and general manager of college," Mr. Benefiel said, "it affords the station KPIX(TV). teacher of piano," Mr. MilJer said. community of Santa Fe, where opera has 'The collection reflects his general musMr. Polillo, who lives in Philadelphia, becom.e so important to the cultural and icianship as well as his special interest in left television to become a consultant to artistic life, an opportunity to broaden its the piano and chamber music repertories." businessmen~ "The dreams out-there are in appreciation." The recordings were collected by Mr. the business world,"' he observed. Edgar Daniels is an actor who made his Gant as exemplary performances which Diana Barry Cartier also was involved Broadway debut in 1957 in "A NewGirl in he used in his own teachings. While at in television. With a modest disclaimer Town." His career· includes performances Yale, Mr. Gant was a colleague of Ellsabout her accomplishments, she described on stage, television and radi0: in producher work as an editor of business and eduworth Grumman, whose private collections ranging from Cyrano de·Bergerac to cational films, including the popular TV tion also resides in the Santa Fe campus' Othello, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Music Library. show, "Mr. ·wizard." She now teaches Young and the Restless. He played a nonThe new gift means that the library now economics at Bridgewater State College in singing role in the Santa Fe Opera's 1982 Massachusetts. owns six special collections of music, performance of Die Fledermaus by Jomaterial believed by Mr. Benefiel to be Another '56 alumna who currently hann Strauss and became familiar with St. unique in the Rocky Mountain area. teaches is Faye Councell Polillo. she is on John's College as a Santa Fe area resident. Each of the new collections will ·be the faculty of the Key School, Annapolis. The collection includes more than I, 900 indexed by composer, title, artist and subJanet Beamer Jump, of_ Westminster, recordings, almost entirely of classical Md., is a home and hospital teacher for ject. Staff members hope that the material music with a major concentration in the the Carroll County (Md.) Board of Edwill be available for patrons to use ~n the field of opera. Music Library by the end of the year. uation. In addition, she works as a politiNicholas Potter, a locaJ book dealer, cal consultant, advising candidates during who appraised Mr. Daniel's gift to ·the the final weeks of their campaigns. Leslie Allanbrook has library, described it as a "'tremendous colJump, A '84, accompanied her mother to lection, representing years of accumulanew record out the reunion. Tutor emeritus Douglas Allan~ Like Pat Polillo, Leo Simms served in - tion and containing the solid foundation for a vocal record library." brook has a new record out. "New the Army in Germany. After an intensive William Gant is a retired professor of Music for the Annapolis ,Brass course in Russian, he monitored Russian music who has. taught at the Yale UniverQuintet," just issued by' Crystal air traffic. It was during this period that sity School ofMusic and the University of - Records, carries Mr. Allanbrook's the U-2 piloted by Gary Powers was shot Kansas. Gant is a long-time friend of tutor "Commencement Exercises,'' comdown, and Mr. Simms vividly described Timothy Miller, and his knowledge of the his unit's reaction to the incident. missioned in 1984 for the 200th college's dedication to the Ii beral arts led anniversary of the St. John's CharHe is now director of human resources him to decide that St. John's can best ter, and his "Night and Morning at Avco Research Laboratory, which spemake his material available to the public. Music."· The record may be purcializes in laser physics, magneto hydroThe Gant collection includes more than chased from the St. John's bookdynamics and director energy. Mr. Simms 750 recordings, 300 book titles and about store for $9. 98 plus $1 for handling: and his wife, Regina, who attended the reunion, live in Chelmsford, Mass. Having previously worked at a private cribed his ..cultural shock" upon enrolling son who got through St. John's College, university in Anchorage, Dorik Mechau is at St. John's as one of the few black of whom I'm very proud." a consultant dealing primarily with educastudents. Although his work schedule prevented tion and Alaskan native affairs. He lives In telling his rapt audience how meanPaul A. Whittenburg from attending his on "a small non-subsistence farm in ingful the experience was to himself and reunion lunch.eon, he took part in most of Oregon, scraping out a living from time to his family, he also talked about takin-g the other activities scheduled for the Class time by doing odd jobs" and says he's care of his father during his final illness. of '56. Mr. Whittenburg, who lives in "looking for something worthwhile to Shortly before his death, the elder Mr. Annapolis is on the sales force of the Sears d o. " Wilson remarked to a visitor, "That's my Roebuck store at Landover Mall. Two of· Mr. Mechau's four children attended St. John's in Santa Fe. After graduation. Jenefer Ellingston, was employed briefly by a lobbyist in Washington. She set out for Europe, where she hitchhiked for two years. ("I met only one other lone female.") Mother of two sons, Ms. Ellingston has· done graduate work at New York University and tne University of Cincinnati and has spent considerable time and energy as an activist, "fighting my country's mistaken notions" of what its obligations should be. Ms. Ellingston currently works for a "politically congenial" political science professor at Georgetown University. Most of Everett Wilson's life has been spent helping people. As a social worker at Crownsville (Md.) State Hospital, he counseled patients with "very severe mental problems." Later he became Anne Arundel County's first equa1 opportunity officer and now is deputy director of the Jay Wase, A '56, and his wife, Ann Turnbull, both Baltimore attorneys, listen as Maryland Drug Abuse Administration. Mr. Wase's classmates summarize their careers at their 30th reunion luncheon. Mr:_ Wilson, who grew up on the EastGreg Ferguson photo ern "S'hore of Maryland, eloquently des- �----- ---- ~ NOVEMBER 1986 SF THE REPORTER /comes Paideia teachers During the past three years, 44 Chicago teachers and administrators have attended the Santa Fe Graduate Institute in preparation for their part in the Chicago public school system's experiment with a challenging new curriculum modeled upon Mortimer Adler's Paideia Proposal, an educational manifesto published in 1982 based upon discussions held by a group of major figures in education. In both the Paideia Proposal and the sequels he has published, Mr. Adler proposes three fundamental kinds of learning for our schools. "Socratic question," or teaching by discussion, is not stressed in most schools. Mr. Adler believes it is the most important of the three in its emphasis on helping students think about important issues which have no pre-packaged answer. Because of St. John's commitment to the Socratic method and the study of original works, the Chicago Board of Education selected Santa Fe's Graduate Institute 's program in which to familiarize teachers with this method of education. The other two methods, ..didactic teaching" or teaching by lecturing, and "coaching,·· or teaching by practice sessions, as in ·learning math and languages, are two methods of learning well-established in public schools. "The St. John's progam has strengthened my reasoning abilities and helped me to be more expressive in group discus- ~ sinns," one Chicago teacher said. · .. I feel. I have learned to be a better : listener, which.is important for true com-: munication," another teacher added. "'I also have benefited from evaluating ideas which may have differed from my own." Last summer, two -Chicago teachers, .. Walter Porges and Marlene Steinberg,~ received their master's degrees. · The Chicago fellowship .program was _ funded for three years by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Chicago Board of Education, the Joyce Foundation, G.D. Searle & Company, and Gaylord and James Donnelley.· The grant provided support for 30 teachers and administrators from four Chicago Paideia Pilot schools to attend the Institute. The success of the initial program at St. John's and in the Chicago • schools and the enthusiasm of its participants led to the expansion of the program to include teachers from ten ··socratic Seminar Satellite Schools." A recent $43,800 grant from the Joyce Foundation will enable the program to continue for another two years, through the summer of 1988, so more Chicago students can complete their master's. The success of the Chicago program led last summer to attendance at the Institute by eleven Cincinnati Paideia teachers, who introduced the program at a pilot school this fall. Fellowships were provided by the Cincinnati Board of Education for teachers in the seventh through ninth grades. Receptions set for students Fall receptions for prospective students and their parents are underway with alumni serving as hosts. Helen Colston, assistant director of admissions for alumni activities, said that two were held in October, one in Boston at the home of Ginger S. Kenney, '61, and the other in New York at the home of David Rea, '49. Her Annapolis office also has arranged for these receptions: November 2, Philadelphia. Edward Mullinix. '45; November 8, Chicago, John Van Doren, '47; November 15, Miami, Harvey Goldstein, '59; and January IO, Washington, Sharon Bishop Dailey, '65. · . in Santa Fe, admissions counselor Pat Preib said that receptions will be held November 15 at the ·home of Jonathan H ustis, A '75, in Dallas .and in Los Angeles November 22 at the home of Jeremy Tarcher, A '53. In addition, a reception will be held at the San Francisco Yacht Club on November 23. The Los Angeles and Dallas receptions are new this year. The receptions provide an opportunity for high school students, who are considering St. John's, and their parents to meet alumni and representatives of the facu'Ity and to question them about the college. PAGES NY Times has article on SJC St. John's College has made The New York Times Sunday magazine section. An article on the college, which the faculty viewed as excellent, appeared in the September 21 issue. Written by Robert Kanigel, a Baltimore writer, the story appeared under the heading, "Where Great Books Are the Teachers - For 50 years, St. John's College has been an island of idealism ... The story featured a large photograph of George Doskow. "Perhaps, in its purity and its constancy, SL John's is limited to a role as a sort of Platonic ideal -what Harris Wofford. former president of Bryn Mawr College, once called ·a challenge and a test to the rest of liberal education,"' Mr. Kanigel concluded. · "Perhaps it's illusory to expect it to leave any _greater imprint on an America whose people. de Tocqueville wrote in 1835. lead lives 'so practical, so confused, so excited, so active, that little time remains for them for thought.' " A letter in the Times magaz.ine section from Carol Colatrella. A '79. of Albany. · N. Y., questioned Mr. Kanigel's conclusion that St. John's, by providing a "la-b.:. oratory. -rather than a model," has influenced no more than a handful of acadeniic institutions. "Many° ah.imni become teachers,. arid they br-ing their St.John's education iitto their classrooms. As a doctoral candictak in comPa.rative literature at Rutgers-U.ni-versity, J.ha':'e found that students in my literature ·and composfrion classes ha-ve valued -the opportunify"-to discuss the readingsJ cannot duplicate the settil}g of a St. Jobn's seminar with its opening question. bµt' I can provoke students to thjnk when th~y hear a question that seeks~n~o­ particular answer but elicits many." · ~ · C~mmunity s~minar(~. St. John's will offer free· seminars f rnm I to 2:30 p.m. November 22 in McDowell Hall. They will be followed by a wine and cheese reception in the Great Hall frem 2:45 to 4 p.m. The readings will be: 171e Birds. Aristophanes: Wife of Bmh. Chaucer: A Hunger Artist. Kafka. and A Midsummer Night:\· Dream, Shakespeare. Registration deadline, November 7. To register, call 263-2371, Ext. 503. Grou_p views art tutorial A committee of five faculty members has begun a study of a proposal to add an art tutorial during the sophomore year. Members will review a plan that grew out of another ad hoc faculty committee which met last year. It proposed an art tutorial that would meet once a week. Considering the feasibility of such a class and reviewing a proposed syllabus are Burton Blistein, artist-in-residence, and tutors Marilyn Higuera, Patricia Locke, Benjamin Milner and Elliott Zuckerman. Their conclusions will be forwarded to the Instruction Committee. Astor fellows number 43 Alice Lesnick is the last in a long series of Santa Fe Graduate Institute -students who have received fellowship -support. from the Vincent Astor Foundation over the last 16 years .. In 1971 the Vincent Astor Foundation gave the first ofa series of awards totaling more than $280,000. to the -Santa Fe Graduate Institute to provide followship assistance to New York inner chy teachers. The Astor Foundation and college intended to heJp New York's under~privil­ eged children and enrich the education of their teachers. Although Astor Fellows origina1ly were· awarded full fellowships for four summers, in recent years several partial fellowships also have been awarded .on a summer-to-summer basis to assist a larger number of New York teachers. · Since Yvonne Davis,. '73, and Martin Drew, '74, accepted the first fellowships, 43 Astor Fellows have attended the Institute, and 31 have received their master's degrees. When Ms. Lesnick graduates in May, she will be the thirty-second. Ms. Lesnick received her bachelor's degree from Yale University 1984 and taught third grade at the Lennox School in New York City for two years. She is eager to return to teaching in New York after she leaves St. John's. "I am learning a great deal by my tutors' example, especially with regard to listening closely and responding to students· comments with warmth as well as rigor," Ms. Lesnick said. "I look forward to the chance to go home to New York and share what l have learned." Vincent Astor established the foundation in 1948 "for the alleviatioi1 of human misery." The foundation established institutions which the portunities, enrich the lives. and the vitality of New York tion. Ms. Lesnick speaks for all 43 Astor Fellows when she says "the Astor Feilowsh has eased the ch«.illenge of financing my education greatly and has balanced the financial sacrifice that teaching requires.'' in II is , at the Class of '36's reunion are, left to first B. Gray, Peace Ill and Ralph M. Schley. Behind them are Colonel w11111!!!l1m Robert Miller, Edward Heise, George Wingate, Gilbert Crandall, John Blakistone, James P. class member. ~--- Rrnril~v Greg Ferguson photo r Annapolis tutor James Beall beSocfore the Washington iety at a meeting last month at Washington's Cosmos Club. His topic was "Active Gallaxies, Quasars and Black Holes." Mr. Beall is listed in the 1986-87 edition of Who's Who in the World. -~ ._.! �PAGE6 THE REPORTER NOVEMBER 1986 Robley Levy in world of practical politics by DOROTHY KINSMAN "I'm a politician. I like to think that's not a dirty word." Robley Timmins Levy, A '56, chairman of the Santa Cruz County (Calif.) Board of Supervisors, describes her job as fascinating, anxiety producing, exhilarating. "It's like being in a novel," she added. Or the theater "of the absurd." Now in her second term on the board, Mrs. Levy says that when she was at St. John's she had only the faintest notion that practical politics existed. She was living in Washington before the District had home rule or a vote on national affairs. "Nevertheless, when I look back on my years at St John's, I have to recognize that I had a predelection for politics even then, ifin the abstract," she recalls. "Three out of four of my annual papers were on matters political - 'The City States in Homer and Aristotle.' 'Revolution in Locke and Hobbes,' and my senior paper on the U.S. Constitution. "St. John's focus on analysis and articulation and the seminars' training in making the case and speaking well certainly was a fine base to start from." At her 30th reunion during homecoming, Mrs. Levy told her classmates that when she left St. John's, she felt unprepared to do anything. She got a job waiting tables in the CatskiJls and worked briefly as a technical writer in New York. Following travel in Europe, she married Frederick Levy, now an English instructor at Cabrillo College, Aptos, California. They have three children, aged 26, 25 and 23. While they were growing up, Mrs. Levy was content to be a housewife. Meanwhile she was taking on volunteer and appointive positions which added up to an impressive resume. Those she found most satisfying were ROBLEY TIMMINS LEVY organizing and serving as first president of the Santa Cruz County League of Women Voters and appointment by Governor Brown to the California Regional Coastal Commission. In addition, she served on the county's Transportation Policy Commission, Single City Study Committee and Planning Commission and chaired the Citizens Revenue Sharing Advisory ' Committee. Much of this experience is relevant to Santa Cruz County's most significant issues, fiscal concerns and land use. "Since Proposition 13 passed in Calfornia in 1978 (destroying local government's ability to tax in order to deliver services) Santa Cruz County, like all counties in California, has been living in an economic world of scarcity,'" she points out. .. We do not have the resources to adequately provide needed services." Land use issues "are the center around which politics in Santa Cruz rise and fall," she. continued. "We have a strong environment.al majority on the board that reflects the community's concern about coastal protection, agricultural land use preservation, resource preservation, the maintenance of open space and neighborhood protection." Occasionally fiscal and land use concerns clash. And Mrs. Levy frequently finds herself having to cast the swing vote. A recent example centers on a proposal to build a hotel on the coast. The accompanying development included a performing arts center with three theaters, to be turned over to a community foundation, and three playing fields. "The project would guarantee more than $1 million annually for the county, construct major needed transportation improvement and provide a $500,000 annual subsidy for the performing arts facility," she explained. "The decision to be made required balancing environmental protection and the co .mty's need for revenue, as well as protecting the adjacent neighborhoods. "Because the issue was in my district and because the passions were intense, reflected in jam packed public hearings, and because my supporters were divided on these issues, it was an enormously difficult decision." Concluding that the project was environmentally sound and that the balance of benefits favored the communty, Mrs. Levy cast her deciding vote in favor of the construction. ••1 demanded some 17 tough conditions" in addition to those recommended by the staff, she said. They substantially reduced the density of the development and provided that more than 90 percent of the property ~remain in open space. They also called for an additional playing field, lighting for the local high school football field and redesigning of the performing arts facility. Mrs. Levy sees her vote on this issue as having ..the potential for significant political effect, which will become dear when I run for reelection in 1988." Not all of Mrs. Levy's duties have such far reaching consequences. Working 50 to 60 hours a week, she attends events "ranging from cow pie throwing contests at the County Fair to the ceremonial laying on of hands on varied occasions, serving on boards of other governmental agencies and testifying on behalf of the county before state legislative committees." Even Mrs. Levy's private life is public. When buying groceries, she rarely is able to leave the store without fielding questions on county affairs, dealing with the problems of her constituents and listening to expressions of outrage or delight over the board's decisions. Obviously relishing her many-faceted role, she said, .. It is certainly my hope that among the students at St. John's College today there are those who are fascinated by the theories of politics and that a number of them will find the work world . of pracitcal politics just as inviting, enter-~ taining and rewarding as I do." Dyal is honored Annapolis President William M. Dyal, Jr., was guest of honor along with the new president of the University of Baltimore, Dr. Michael Hooker, at·a reception given by Johns Hopkins University President St~ven MuHer last month on the Homewood Campus in Baltimore~ The reception in the Nichols House drew Maryland educational leaders, including presidents of other institutions of higher learning and members of the State Board for. Higher Education. Jacob Klein book contains lectures, essays Jucoh A.'/ein. Lectures and Essavs. edited hy Rohen B. Williamson am(E/liou Zul'kerman (Annapolis: St. John:.,. College Press. 1985). $22.50 at St. John:,· hook.stores plus$/ for handing. The editors of this collection of lectures and essays tell us that Mr. Klein first presented all but two of them as lectures and later prepared most of them for publication "either for a periodical or a collection of essays or as a mimeograph to be circulated among interested students." They could not, unfortunately, include the many annual lectures for which Mr. Klein has left only ..terse notes." The following lectures, eleven in number, were first delivered at St. John's College: "History and the Liberal Arts," "The Problem and the Art of Writing," "Aristotle, an Introduction," "Leibniz, an Introduction," ••on the Nature of Nature," ..The Myth of Virgil's Aeneid," "On Precision," ..About Plato's Philebus," "Plato's Ion," "Speech, Its Strength and Its Weaknesses," and "Plato's Phaedo." To these should be added "The Copernican Revolution," a text pieced together by Leo Raditsa, with some additional editing by J. Winfree Smith, from transcriptions and tapes of Mr. Klein's yearly talks on that subject. Four published lectures were first deli- vered elsewhere: •The Problem of Freedom," "The Idea of Liberal Education," "On Dante's Mount of Purgation," and ..On Liberal Education." Four early lectures were not prepared for publication. "The World of Physics and the Natural World" has been transcribed, translated fr'<>m the German and completed by David Lachterman. The following pieces are published in their unrevised form: "On a Sixteenth Century Algebraist," ''The Concept of Number in Greek Mathematics and Philosophy," and .. Modern Rationalism." Two pieces, not delivered as lectures, remain: ••Phenomenology and the History of Science" and ..A Note on Plato's Parmenides." Jacob Klein needs no introduction to most members of the St. John's community of students. which he led and guided during many formative years. They were lucky enough to see him plain and to have him stop and speak to them. Our more recent members may have glimpsed him unwittingly in freshman discussions of Plato's Meno whenever the talk follows the tradition of reading that he founded. Jn this collection of his writings, they and all other readers have the opportunity to meet or remember him, clothed in speech, "in his habit as he lived." They will be moved or moved over again by the opening words of his lecture entitled ..About Plato's Philehus." ..To speak about a Platonic dialogue, about a Platonic dialogue, means to do violence to it. A sense of guilt will, there-· fore, be a continuous source of pain within me while I am speaking. But I cannot resist the temptation to shed some light - some moonlight, as it were - on the Philebus. I hope you will forgive me I cannot - for sounding extremely pedantic, for speaking much longer than I should, and for making it sometimes very difficult for you to follow." It would be an impertinence to attempt to descant on the particular merits of these unique writings. It is a safe prophecy that if they are read they will be reread. They shed a cool but warming radiance - riot always as of ..moonlight" - upon all readers who have struggled to see Aristotle and Leibniz as they are, who have wondered at and about the Iliad. theAeneid, and Dante's Purgatorio, and who have tried, to speak in more general terms, to reflect adequately on what it means to be a thinking, reading, writing and reckoning being. In his lecture entitled "The Problem and the Art of Writing," Mr. Klein meditates upon the meaning of Homer's phrase, "winged words," and decides that "winged" does not indicate a "soaring or lofty quality" in words. "The image seems rather to imply that words, after escaping the fence (or barrier) of the teeth, as Homer puts it, are guided swiftly, and therefore surely, to their destination, the ears and the soul and the understanding of the addressee.•• Written speech, however, whether visibly set down or laid up in memory, is prepared in advance for an audience more general than that of the spontaneous spoken word, which flies between a speaker and his addressee. It may lack wings ...The problem of writing, then, is: How to give wings to written words so that they reach their destination, the soul and the understanding of men?" To possess the art of writing is "to know how to compose and to articulate words so as to give them wings." When Mr. Klein wrote those words he was certainly thinking of Plato, Homer and other high masters of know-how and not of Aristotle or himself. In a comparatively modest way, these papers show his sure possessidn of their art. The editors of this handsome book (the first publication of the reorganized St. John's College Press) have carried out an admirable work of natural piety and love. They and their collaborators have earned the gratitude of all Mr. Klein's students, past, present and to come, wherever they may be found. They will surely have the especial thanks of those who have long laid up in soul and understanding his winged words. bv HUGH MCGRATH - Tutor Emeritus I I 'i i ·I �~---- NOVEMBER 1986 PAGE7 THE REPORTER The light touch of the Polity Fool The question is, would it work in international relations? What if the State Department had its fool and the Politburo theirs, and the fools told a few jokes and kept summit meetings lightened up with a number of well-placed witticisms? Would everyone relax a bit more and chances for peace be brighter? Consider the way the St. John's College Delegate Council conducts its business. Not too many years ago, no one knows just how, the student government system decided it should have a Polity Fool. (The Polity is another name for the student body.) "The role of the Fool is to facilitate light heartedness," Stephen Virgil, Brown's Mills, N .J., junior, and Polity president, explained what would appear on its surface as a mere bit of whimsey. "The Delegate Council meetings are better to be taken in a light hearted manner." This fall he has appointed Ben Krauss, 20-year-old actor, playwright and junior from Evergreen, Colo, to fulfiJI the function of the Polity's court jester. ..Will someone recognize the Fool?" is the usual way he is invited to speak at the weekly council meetings in McDowell's Room 21. · . Mr. Krauss has two regular new fimctions. one which he thought up himself. (Since he promises to be an active fool, those duties aren't expected to be the end to it.) Just as the Delegate Council dispenses with old and new business, he has his agenda. · "What can be more natural than to tell an old joke and a new joke?" he asked. Each week, as part of the Polity business, he tells the 20 members or so present two jokes, a story everyone has heard, or should have heard, and a new one, often a riddle he has written. Sample St. John's joke: .. How many oflast year's freshmen does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer. ·Two. One to screw in the light bulb and the other to be on absence probatiqn." Sample non-St. John's joke: " Ben Krauss, left, poses with Polity President Stephen Virgil. .. What is the part in Roman restaurants called that is reserved for the emperor? Answer. The Caesarian section.,. His other assignment is to purchase the Polity Snack, for which $25 is provided for the year in its budget. (Mr. Virgil has lobbied for circus peanuts and fruit loops; others want pizza. With a weighty eye to his budget, Mr. Krauss attempts to plan wisely.) Blue-eyed and just a shade on the safe side of roly-poly, Mr. Krauss takes his fool's duties seriously. like Mr. Virgil, he thinks it's important to have such a jester at Delegate Council meetings. .. People are pretty jovial at the beginning of the year," he observed ... By the middle of the year things tend to look grayer and more depressing. My job is to be cheery and to elevate people's spirits so they will be glad to be at the meeting.•• Mr. Krauss was the obvious choice, most people, who know him for his wit and his sociable, energetic nature, agree. It's a logical thing to happen to a student who, by way of an introduction to Paul Argodale, Alexandria, Va., junior, executed a cartwheel. In the dining room, he has students roaring with laughter over his humor, including his spontaneous take-offs of television commercials. Mr. Argodale, who is now treasurer, is The St. John's College library has acamong members who think it makes a cessioned its I 00,000th book, marking the difference to have a Polity Fool to remind occasion with a celebratory party organthem not to take council matters or themized by a student aide, Simon McNabb, selves too seriously. Cohasset, Mass., junior. .. He helps bring us all back to earth," Mr. McNabb, who numbers the books Mr. Argodale said. •Having a fool keeps as they are added to the library, enscribed things from getting too serious - too the number in a volume contributed by nasty. The fool serves as a reminder that Edward F. Bauer, A '53, of Milford, N.H. there's a humorous side to what's going It was a collection of the comedies of on." Friedrich Durrenmatt, German playwright. Furthermore, since Mr. Krauss is free to speak only when he is recognized, Mr. To emphasize the significance of the Argodale said his participation is not occasion, there was a small party in the library lobby involving pumpkin bread · disruptive. How the notion of a Polity Fool came and mulled cider, treats normally forbidinto being is not clear. Peter Gilbert, A den there. Among those present were Mr. '81, now working on a doctorate in patrisMcNabb and other students, librarian tics at Catholic University, was Polity Kathryn Kinzer, former librarians CharFool his senior year, succeeding Vik Matlotte Fletcher arid Fanny Kaplan, tutors thew Sien, of San Jose, Calif., who transJon Tuck and Sam Kutler for the library's Library Committee, and library custodian ferred to Santa Fe and was graduated Robert Wells. from there in 1983. Mr. Gilbert, who has completed an Mrs. Kinzer said that the figure does additional bachelor's degree from Pemnot mean the college has 100,000 books broke College, Oxford, said he may have because thousands of worn out volumes been chosen for the role because he played have been discarded since the library began the accessioning system many years the fool the previous yea:r i11: ;1s Yqu Like ago. This year the libr~ry collection totals , It. He wrote a Gadfly column entitled '"Polity Fool,'' but his official tunction, more than 83,000 volumes. Library adds 100,000th book Greg Ferguson photo however, was "to provide merriment." Last year Lisa O'Brien, of Rockville, Md., who graduated in May, filled the position. Mr. Virgil selected Mr. Krauss as Polity Fool because he was impressed by the plays he writes. When they are put on, Mr. Krauss customarily announces at dinner that there win be a play after seminar. The skits have been staged for audiences ranging from 20 to 100 in the Humphreys Common Room. ··They are very short, about five minutes, really quick, and flow right past you," he describes them ... If I get inspired with something funny or interesting, words just fly from my fingertips. They are all short because I'm never inspired for longer periods." His longest play, Ben's Play: Elizaheth, ran 15 minutes and had a cast of 12. It was a satire on Shakespeare in which all 12 characters are married to one another by the end of the play. Mr. Krauss has no auditions but, rather, selects his cast from among students whose faces and personalities he lil(es and because they promise to add spontaneity to his plays. ··A lot of my stars couldn't act, but they did very well," he noted. Mr. Krauss himself appeared as Dogberry in Much Ado Ahout Nothing and last year, when he was on St. John's Santa Fe campus, he took multiple roles in Dylan. Thomas' Under Millkwood. He acted in high school, where he also was president of the Yo- Yo Club: Meanwhile, he likes his present role as Polity Fool. Now that the Delegate Council has a person who is really active, it may take the remainder of the year to know whether a fool can exert a benign influence and set an example, in his own small way, for global politics. Mr. Krauss has his own ideas. "The fools are always the smartest persons in Shakespeare. They always know more than anyone else. It's the rationalfoolish dichotomy, as a St. Johnny would say." Berns gives paper St. John's tutor Laurence Berns delivered a paper, "How To Read Baconian Aphorisms," at a meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington. Death claims Miss Strange Miriam Strange, one of St. John's most greatly beloved figures, who served the college for more than five deades, died October 16 in an Annapolis nursing home. She was employed at St. John's until a few days after her seventy-ninth birthday when she suffered a broken hip. Her fragile bone structure made mending difficult, and. she was left immobile. More recently she had become blind. "A dear lady," in the words of one college associate, Miss Strange was known for an almost infallible memory, which remained excellent until her death at age 85. Alumni held her in high regard and made her an honorary Alumni Association member. When she retired as college registrar after 41 years in that position to become St. John's first archivist, the association chose her for its award of merit. Presented amid a standing and thunderous ovation, it read: ..As registrar and counselor for five presidents, ten deans, and legions of students, she has served the college with a distinction the more remarkable for her ability to greet each by name." Altogether, she was to serve under 13 deans. In 1937, when the New Program was instituted, Miss Strange doubled as secretary to Dean Scott Buchanan. "She did everything, .. the late Simon Kaplan is quoted as saying of the right hand service she extended Buchanan. In recognition of her dedication to the college, she was awarded an honorary master's of arts degree by St. John's in 1960. A summa cum laude graduate of Western Maryland, she also attended John's Hopkins and taught English for five years at Annapolis High School. She was the author of an unpublished textbook . Gifts in her memcfry may be made to the St. John's scholarship fund through the St. John's Advancement Office. Santa Fe has newest chapter Santa Fe is home to the eleventh and newest Alumni Association chapter. With Paula Maynes, SF '79, as president, and Cullen Hallmark, SF '80, as vice-president, the chapter was approved at the September meeting of the association board in Annapolis. Earlier in the month the petition for a charter was signed by alumni at a picnic and seminar at the home of Dr. Irwin Hoffman, member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, when Santa Fe President Michael Riccards led a seminar on the Federalist papers. Next seminar is scheduled for November 19. It will be Freud's Moses and Monotheism and will be led by tutor Stuart Boyd. As part of the chapter's community projects, three Santa Fe alumni are serving as volunteer teachers at Delancey Street, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center located at San Juan Pueblo. They include Martha Dabney, '78, Cullen Hallmark. '80, and Howard Passell, '81, who began classes by teaching the first book of Euclid. For more information about chapter activities, please call or write Ms. Maynes, 655 W. San Francisco St., Santa Fe, N.M. 87501, 983-3215, or St. John's Alumni Office, 982-369 L Ext. 287. �THE REPORTER PAGES im w w Attr· · n C(JJ!JJti Three on divestiture Policy seen as not needed To the Editor: I was bemused to find so much of the September Reporter devoted to St. John's investment policy. Two long articles and a letter discussed the issue. Am I wrong in thinking that interest in political issues of this sort is untraditional at St. John's? I attended from l 970 to 1974, but remember very little interest in Vietnam or Watergate. The issue is presented in general terms, as the need to ensure that college investments are not ..inconsistent with college purposes.·· However, it is obvious that the real question is whether St. John's should impose sanctions on South Africa. The South African government was no better when I was a student, but investments there then caused no comment. What has changed? Only the popularity ofthe issue, as far as I can see. Americans regard political exclusion on the basis of race as particularly odious, but there is exclusion on _the basis of party in the Soviet Union, on the.basis of tribe in Uganda, and on the basis of'cronyship in Chile. ls the current Seal not SJC's original one \' interest in South Africa anything but a To the Editor: political fad? It was very disturbing to me to read I agree with Mr. Pex that it would be your article in the September issue enimmoral to use the endowment to build titled "A bronze seal for St. John's "telldeath camps, but nothing of the sort is ing of Mr. Cook's work to convert a manbeing done. We own stock in companies hole cover into a work of art and picturing that do some business in South Africa. Mr: Cook and a pattern of the proposed What percentage of .their business? Do manhole cover in front of McDowell Hall. they advance or hinder the political sysThe pattern which he exhibited is not the tem? Or do they have no effect on it? Do St. John's College seal but one which until they aid the system's victims, or not? now has always been referred to as the Answers to the.se questions are not clear, "New Program" seal. and without them there is no moral imI asked Or. Weigle at the recent homeperative to divest.. coming in Annapolis about the origin of I do not understand why it should be the "New Program" seal and he said that it necessary to write a "policy" to cover this -had not originated during his time, as I issue. We don't need a policy to tell us not had thought, but that he had inherited it to do immoral things. If the question is fromthe Barr-Buchanan era. not one of duty but rather of prudence or appropriateness, those who feel strongly The article is especially disturbing as it can use letters or visits to persuade the jndicated that a long time employee, Mr. decisionmakers. St. John's is small enough Cook, and the reporter for the St. Johns to do things on a personal level, and I like Reporter who wrote the article both clasit that way. · sified it as the St. John's College seal. . Sincerely yours, ·However, this. is quite understandable Roger C. Burk, A '74 since it probably resulted from the conCulver_City, Colo. tinued use of the ..New Program" seal until now it is used exclusively on all college stationf!ry, and· the mugs, paper weights and other souveniers available in the bookstore, to the exclusion of the The-problem for St. J.ohn·s is to estab~ authentic and historic seal of St. John's lish an administrative .(governmental) structure by which such decisions can be . Coliege. made ( J> without pressure from partisan I suggest that an article correcting your· interests·(2) with a sufficient .and approparticle on Mr. Cook's reproduction is defriate knowledge of the facts and (3) with a initely in order. Perhaps it can also counreasonable predictive awareness of the ter the impression that the modern St. consequences of whatever decision might Johnnie has that this is the St. John's seal occur. ·so he or she will not be shocked when the The problem is not · limited to St. St. John's College seal is used on his or her ·John's. butthe college, in an effort link ~ipl~ma. . _ its decision inexorably with its. unique I believe Mr. Cook's project to be very educational mission, may hesitate a11d worthwhile if the true seal of St. John's is miss the opportunity or find itself unable used but I question if $1800.00 which to decide. An expeditious and successful might otherwise be usedfor educational conclusion would not o'rily enhance its moral stature but bind(it more closely in _ purposes should be used. 'I believe a special fund should be collected for this purthe public mind to other institutions socpose and offer to contribute to such a ially sensitive and concerned. fund. · Sincerely yours, Please notify the Faculty Planning Journet Kahn, A '42 Committee of this error so that the proChicago, Ill. ject can be pu' on hold until the pattern is corrected. I am a great believer in the "New Program" to the extent that l steered my two sons to attend St. John's and to continue position, I was reminded of my own to support it, but l do not believe we school days, the height of the Vietnam should abandon our great heritage. War, during which the St. John's comSincerely, munity was equally quiescent, embittering William J. Klug, Jr., '31 many of us at the time. I felt a sense of deja Cranbury, N.J. vu hearing Mr. Nelson's hollow call for further study of general principles via community-wide discussion of The Books; Editor's Note: For 50 years St. putting off any decision until some unJohn's has employed two seals. The oldspecified future date. est, with its Masonic dates to In the meanwhile, to our shame, St. 1793 and was used for first class of John's will continue to be counted graduates. The books-and-balances seal amongst those schools who have not was adopted the early days of the spoken out against the South African New Program. appear in official coltyranny. This is the point that the St. lege documents. John's community consistently fails to fronted with such fundamental human come to terms with; when an issue of such injustice, then they do not help us to magnitude as the South African question achieve freedom, but. to the contrary, is upon us, there no longer is the luxury of make of us abject slaves. asking 'great questions.' To not take a Sincerely, stand is itself to take a stand. If the books David Gleicher, );F '7 l we purport to venerate at St. John's do no Long Island, NY more than bind us to them when con., letter protests lack of qction To the Editor: An o'Verblown :estimate of a spe.cific professional goal's· relation to morat dec;ision appears to· characterize the intense concern for an explicitly formulated policy of educational purpose as the pr.econ· ditionfor voting upon divestiture ( Repor- . ler,-September, 1986). · · No essentialquality or characteristic of the St. John ·s curriculum points· with metaphysical necessity to such a decision, for or against. Any educational institution dedicated to prepare man to search for truth, any medical institution dedicated to free him from disease. any industrial institution dedicated to essential improvements· in· his material well-being, regardless of the specific manner or product through which it may accomplish its goal, has already the standard of purpose by which it can judge its investment decisions. We may not be able to To the Editor: Attending the homecoming banquet in Santa Fe this summer - as part of the fifteenth reunion of my class - I was extremely disturbed to hear Chris Nelson announce that the Alumni Association was not recommending that the St. John's Board of Trustees divest its stock in companies doing business in South Africa. I subsequently learned that neither the faculty and administration of St. John's, nor the current student body, have petitioned the Board to divest. As colleges and universities across the country declare, through divestiture, their moral outrage at the racial oppression, political exclusion and economic exploitation of millions of black South Africans at the hands of a tiny, militarily powerful minority of whites, it is indeed sad that the St. John's community lacks the wherewithal to act with the same courage and dignity. Listening to Mr. Nelson defend his BER 1986 to ecide drops (Continued from P.I) leave, and those who depart voluntarily. Although there are theories, college officials can reach no clear reason for the decline in the number of students leaving the college. MRS. LEWIS BELIEVES that the present generation of students is taking a more conservative attitude toward its education. She said cost of attending St. John's, which has been climbing annually, tends to preclude the luxury of taking a year off. Marked by a new seriousness, many students, who are planning for careers or to go on to graduate school immediately following graduation seek to complete their education within the traditional four years. Mrs. Lewis also believes St. John's "self-selection" process may be worRing better and students arriving here also may be better informed about what they are getting into. But Admissions Director John Christensen. who said he had no idea why the drop is occurring, points out that basically his office is using the same admissions material which St. John's has sent prospective students since the early 1970s. Admissions standards.have not changed. ••1t must b.e something we are doing internally to keep students here. The -lower attrition represents a real commitment on their .part to the college." Annapolis tutor Curtis Wilson was dean when attrition reached a post-war high of 74.5 per cent in 1960. ''I think it's a complicated question," he said. "In the 1950s, the enrollment was way down and was gradually coming up. . In 1957 there were only 12 graduating seniors. We were very aware of the claustrophobia of the . place. Students were tired of one another, and people thought of getting away, of going any place. "The principle at the time was not to go · beyond an enrollment of 325. Later on (former dean) Bob Goldwin articulated the principle of having three senior seminars, and there had to be enough freshmen to get to that number, and that proved helpful. ,.. The presence of Santa Fe has played an enormous role. Students are able to go and find a different environment and different friends. Previously they were going away just to go away." Adherence to the smallness principle resulted in President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle's being hung in effigy on one occasion after he proposed an enrollment of 400 for the Annapolis campus, a figure it regularly exceeds every January with the arrival of the winter freshman class. fhe need to keep St. John's as a small community of learning also was one reason St John's decided to "colonize" and open a second campus in 1964 in Santa Fe. Attrition figures for the decade are: 198 L 48 per cent; I 38 1:S per cent; l 983, 44 per cent; l 984, 25 per cent: l 985, 43 per cent, and l 986, 27 per cent reads the list U.\A reports in a "Bio" that Hugh the 20/ 20 co-anchor, "'has read through the 14 l volumes on the St. John's College list of great books. It took him l3 years. Hugh's favorite novel was a book formerly on the program: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. "h has such exuberance. I measure all novels against it." �NOVEMBER 1986 THE REPORTER PAGE9 Board policy is brief (Continued from P. l) cations of setting up another body, which would include representatives of board, faculty, alumni and students, would be a move that would result in litigation, be restrictive and lack flexibility. Arguing that it would lead to a new set of standards' and result in a whole new bureaucracy, John E. Robson, of Atlanta, Ga., went so far as to say that it would make service on the Finance Committee by a board member "hazardous duty." Earlier the one-sentence policy had heen approved by a vote of 7-0 in the Finance Committee. The committee's chairman,_ Charles A. Nelson, A '47, of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y;, an advocate of a more extensive policy, was unable to attend. Elspeth Rostow, of Austin, Tex., summed up board action as representing a means of "disentangling ends and means" - an opposition to certain mechanical practices. What the board goals are, she said, could be reached in a concensus around the table. There. was no discussion on goals, however. The conversation on divestment · procedures, which came during the latter part. of the meeti11g, when other matters were still scheduled, ended discussion, at least for the moment. While the policy recognizing the Finance Committee as the proper place in which to appeal any investment still permits future action, Annapolis President William M. Dyal expressed the belief that the whole issue was a "'moot'" one after action by Congress on sanctions and decisions by major American companies which, he said, are withdrawing. their businesses·in domino fashion from 'South Africa. Declaring that "we abhor what's going on there," he told the board th~t St. John's, to have been effective, should have taken action two years ago. Chase Harrison, Annapolis student representative to the board, presented peti.'.. tions asking the boa.rd to consider college investments in South Africa. It Was signed by l61 students in Santa Fe and 133 in Annapolis. He said there had . been a "great deal of concern" over the issue. In answer to a question from board Chairman John H. Dendahl as to why there had been so little apparent student~ interest, Mr. Harrison said a meeting last year in Annapolis was the most heavily attended of all but one of those of the · Student Political Forum. Later he said 80 students had attended, more than any since Admiral James Stockdale, Stanford, Calif., board member, had addressed students. Activities held for ch1/dren Kevin Heyburn, SF '86, and two undergraduates, Rachel. Pesk.in and Melinda King, supervised 12 college.community. children this past ·summer in a series of exciting daily activities which focused on the history and culture of New Mexico. There were f.requent trips to. modern and ancient Indian pueblos,· museums~ the opera, and places of historic interest. Tutor Alan Marwine took the group of children on.a geological and archaeological field trip, and others in the colJ¢ge . community also shar:ed their· talents. · · Kevin Holthaus, the assistant director of student activities, presented . a Tai Kwon Do demonstration and showed one of the campers how to smash a board on her first try. Myra Andrews, an undergraduate, gave a middle eastern dance demonstration, and Marcia Maltz, a Graduate Institute student, spent several sessions with the group helping with bead work and other arts and crafts. Susan Friedman, assistant to the director of the Graduate Institute, donated a private tour in The Roadrunner, a motorized surrey (with fringe on top), complete with guide. A similar service has been offered almost every summer in Santa Fe since l 972. Although originally conceived to provide' sµpervision for the young childlike reflectioons in water, the gym's new surface mirrors light from the winren of Graduate Institute students~ it also dows. Keith Harvey photo has proved popular for the children of the college's faculty and staff. · Coi:icluding the summer was a talent show and party for children and their parents. New floor shines up gym Wilson in colloquium Annapolis tutor Curtis Wilson, on leave this semester at the Center for Advanced Study at Princeton, took part in a colloquium at the University of Indiana sponsored by its Astronomy Department and History and Philos"ophy of Science Department. He spoke on "Aspects of Celestial Mechanics, 1747 to 1787: The Geometrical and the Algebraic." John Oosterhout, A '51, and his Lani, werc;nmiong alumn] President and Mrs. William Dyal met at the home~oming brunch. Greg Fergus.on photo An almost unbelievably gleaming new gym floor. with a face shining likea May graduate, was put into use for the first time at I p.m. September 30. Bryce Jacobsen, until July athletic director, threw out the first basketball which Andrew Beckman, a notorious basketball . cager on campus. shot into the basket in the floor's first historic moments of play. "I don't think he is ever going to class aga~n." remarked athletic director Roberta Rusch of this member of the Spartans' team. She gave a brief speech thanking Mr. Jacobsen, treasurer Jeri Rhodes. and Charles Wallace, superintendent of buildings and grounds, for the $85.000 floor and told students to forget their stu· dies and enjoy themselves. And that they were doing. A new floor'? It is a piece of art. rather like a work in cloisonne. Running like enamel across its golden maple floorboards are the red stripes for the volley ball court. black for the badminton. and white for basketball. A new three-point line, the gym's first, curves toward the basket ball net. The floor's periphery and restraining circle are in blue. To complete the fine effects, Mr. Wallace had window covers and doors painted the same blue shade along with the attractive new radiator covers. The floor was almost too gorgeous to step on. Never fear. Thanks to modern technology. Mr. Wallace said its mirror~ like surface has a shield consisting of two coats of polyurethane. "We should never get down to the colors." he said. He promises they will go on gleaming for years to come. Hyder to giv·e museum talk James Hyder, A '84, will present the monthly sky lecture in the National Air and Space Museum's Albert Einstein's Planetarium at 9:30 a.m. January 3. His, lecture at the Smithsonian museum, "Save the Phenomena! Ptolemy's View of the Universe," will describe the Ptolemaic world system and its philosophical underpinnings. "I wish to extend my thanks to the designer of last year's Reality T-shirt for the inspiration for my title," Mr. Hyder said. Mr. Hyder is box office manager at the theater and planetarium. His position involves supervising a staff of I 2 cashiers and overseeing the movement of nearly two million visits a year through the box office and theater. He writes: "In the next twelve months I will be developing an advanced computer network for ticketing and office automation for the theater. In addition to these regular duties, I continue to present 'Noontime with the Stars' lectures one or twice a month in the planetarium." �10 involved in a new series of large bent or hinged panels of glass which are sand blasted with imagery from the rural farming village in which they live. Peter has a new series of blown and cut glass forms in muted colors. He divides his time between glass and co-ordinating all the volunteer 1968 His writing has appeared in The Washfire departments in Santa Fe County .. Donald A. Booth, SF, is living in ington Post, "fhe Washington· Month~r. Michael Garwood, SF, is really enjoyBrooklyn and working as an architect for PC World, 1he St. Louis Post-Dispatch, ing studying furniture restoration at West the Philip Johnson firm in New York Popular Computing and The Seaule Dean College in Chicester. England. In City. He also freelances. Times. He also has hosted a twice-weekly 1987-88, he will apprentice with a restorer 1969 radio program on computers which conin Europe or the US Daniell. Cleavinger, SF, is involved centrates on the social effects of compuAlan McVay, SF, is working as finanin Siddha Yoga and is practicing law in ters and their uses in homes and small cial manager for Borg Warner Chemicals Espanola, N.M. business. Jeff is politically active and in Ottawa, Ill. He also is teaching managWendy Watson, SF, is living in Despends his spare time raising money for erial finance for the Lewis University troit, Mich., with her spouse, Kirk CheyOXI;AM's TOOLS FOR PEACE proMBA extension. Alan has helped develop fitz, SF '68. Wendy received a master's gram. This charity replaces farm implea new organization called Artsbridge, degree in ceramics and sculpture and then ments stolen from Central American peawhich seeks to strengthen the region's culworked eight years as an arttherapist with sants by the governments of Guatamala tural institutions, assist its artists, and emotionally disturbed children .. She also and El Salvador and the "Contra" rebels. develop new uses of the arts, museums . has spent three. years as a staff organizer Galen N. BreningstaH, SF, is living in libraries and historical traditions. for the Detroit Area Nuclear Weapons Pennsylvania where he is assistant profesDenise Waxman, SF, received her law Freeze Campaign. She is an organizer and sor of pediatric rieutology at Temple Unifundraiser for the Detroit Recreation Deversity and staffattending physician at St. degree in 1980 from New York University School of Law. Afterwards. she spent a partment. Kirk is president and editor of Christopher's Hospital for Children. He year working on the Navajo Reservation Metropolitan Detroit Magazine. Their and his wife; Jena Morris, SF '74, have at DOV A Legal Services. She returned to latest combined effort is a daughter, Amy four children. · Julia. New York City and began a marriage to Maria Kwong, SF, says that her big Jeff Stein and a career with the New York 1970 news is the birth of her first child, a daughState Public Service Commission, where Helen C. SFGl, is assistter, Hana Nell Van Der Steur, on June 29. ant principal of Langley Junior High They live in Los Angeles. Her husband, · she supervises the informal hearing unit. School in Washington. Gary, is a graphic designer and artist 1977 1971 working on mechanical art pieces. Maria Tom Conroy, SF, has been studying book and library conservation from 198 l Dennis Plummer, SF, after receiving works in a photo studio, styling, photohis M.D. from the University of New graphing, and managing. Maria writes of to the present. He was a student at the Mexico, moved to Amarillo, Texas, and University of California at Berkeley libother alumni children: "Gary (McGinstarted family practice residency in 1977. nis) Wolfe, SF '73, and Naomi Nagano· rary school from 198 l to 1985. He also has While· living in this·. "hotbed of the Prohad a son, Jesse Aiji Benjamin Wolfe on ·been a student at Capricornus School of testant work ethic," he met the youngest . June 8. (He.is our daughter's second couBookbinding and Restoration from l 98 l to the present. He is living in Berkeley, head nurse Nort_hwestTexas HospitaJ has. sin) and Bob Hampton, SF '73, and Toni ever had and married her in 1978. The two Calif. Aston l;tad a daughter, Kaitlin Maria ofthem are taking a course on computers Hampton; on January 24." Steve Corneli, SF, is married to .guarantee the~ stay one step ahead of Dierdre Marlow, SF, with her husband Lynne Canchester, SF '7 l. The two of owns and manages a bicycle courier serthem have been farming for nine seasons their daughter, Ca~sandra, born in 1980. Ruppenthal, SF, is a co-author in Plainfield, Wisc., while also raising vice in Baltimore. The service is called their children, Joseph and Zoe. S,teve and of The New Laurel's Kitchen. It is the Magic Messengers. She spent the majority Lynne are interested in hearing from any tenth. anniversary edition of the. classic · of the 1984 year on a bicycle traveling in other Johnnies who are farmers, and for the South Pacific and South East Asia. . vegetarian cookbook, Laurel's Kitchen. that matter they would liketo hear from Brian wrote the nutrition section of the She also collaborates on mµsicals with her new edition, published cm September i 5. husband, one of which was produced in any old friends. Steve also is seek~ng use·August in Pennsylvania. 1972 ful and interesting wintertime alternatives · . Juan. Hovey, SF, lives· in Orinda, to his predominately summertime work. 1974 Calif., where he is in the process of foundMary Anna Elliot, SF, lives in Alton, Paul f. Bitting, SFGl, completed his ing a monthly magazine called Wesi Coast Ph.D. in philosophy of education at the Ill., where she and her husband, John Underwriter, The magazine is geared for Vidakovich, just had their first child, Joel University of North Carolina at Chapel life insurance and financial planning proHill. He is doing research and teaching at Robin, ·born June 23. Her roommate at . the Unviersity of Houston. fessionals in northern California .. St. John's in 1973-74, Teresa Engler 1975 Raizen; SF '77, has had her.first child as • Laurel Sherr, SF, who graduated under ,the name of Susco, married Doug well, on June ·10. Ann Claassen, SF, has worked for the ·Sherr~ SF '72, ·in Switzerland in 1973. past ten years in water resources and Stephanie Forrest, SF, married Fred They traveled to the middle east and hazardous waste. She is attending law Carey in 1983. She received a Ph.D. in Europe, and then settled In Santa ·Fe school at the Univers.i~y of New Mexico. computer science from the University of where they started a family of three sons, a Judith Sharlin, SF, is getting her Michigan in 1985. She is living in San business in picture framing and built a Ph.D. in nutrition at Tufts University Francisco and working in the Silicon Valhouse. Laurel just completed course work. uncier a U.S. Department of Agriculture ley. In response to the aiumni office call fellowship. She is l!neJauthor and illustra- · for news, Stephanie writes, "Shackleton, to· get her teaching certificate in biology and plans to teach in the Santa Fe area. tor of a cookb6Wk and nutrition guide the dog, died fall.of 1985 (age IOY:! years), Doug passed away in 1979. and we are still grieving.~· . called The Romantic Vegetarian. The 1973 book was· published in 1984 and won a Carol A. Highsaw, SF, is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at .Jeffrey Angus, SF, lives in Seattle and . 1984 health book award. works as a production foreman making· Princeton University. She hopes to finish Brother Philip J .. Valley, SFGI, is her dissertation by the end of next sumtec.hnical manuals for micro-computer . headmaster of Woodside Priory School, products. Previously, he was a technical Portola Valley, Calif. mer. In her spare time she is active in Pax writer at a firm called Microsoft, where he ·Wendy I. Wms, SF. recently joined the .Christi, the international Catholic peace wrote manuals on the BASIC programmovement, as well as bird-watching, raclaw department of the City of Cleveland . ming language. . Janet M. Works, SF,. is living in St. quet sports and theatre. She reports that He was graduated from Antioch Col- . Louis, where she is teaching secondary she attended the '76 alumni reunion in lege in Ohio in 1974 with two B.A.'s, one English in St. Louis Public School. She is . Santa Fe this year and confesses that she in environmental planning and another in preparing two recitals to be broadcast on had a blast. anthropology .. After working for the U.S. KFUO-FM radio this fall. In September, Rosalind Hutton, SF, moved to Senate as a legislative staffer for four Janet sang the St. Louis Premier perforChangsha, Hunan, People's .Republic of years, he was a small business consultant, China, to teach English at Hunari Univermance of John La Montoine's song cycle, a systems analyst and computer pro"Five Sonnets of Shakespeare." sity in 1982. She and her husband regrammer; the manager of a hippieRaquel Rose Bech, SF, has announmained in China until 1984. Leaving interstate-bus-service, an environmental ced her.marriage to Larry Woods Martin, China they took the Trans-Mongolian 9onsultant to the Enforcement Division of SF '80. The ceremony took place August 2 Express to Moscow and spent four weeks the U. S~ Environmental Protection at Saint Teresa Church in Chicago. in the Soviet Union and Romania .. Agency, the baseball and horse,.racing Afterwards, they went to Turkey apd Mary Beth Bliss, SF, lives in La Ciewriter for an alternative Seattle weekly . nega, .N.M., with her'· husbfod, Peter 1 l,',.,.ind.. .iq\ls,.aw~ wor~ad t". , i·-t·Jr:::r.l;~ ~~:·,~"c~ -,., M,v -t._ LT:i"'t)r.1 .-;;i,_,., _-. thei;;~.pn\a *":"ii" newspaper, a:nd' a freelance Writer. VarlderJJUi'rl;' SF~12: ~atf'"Bell'f' IS"' '.f85. Tney starte traveung agam to NOVEMBER 1986 E REPORTER through Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungary, France and Great Britain until they ran out of money in November 1985 and returned to the United States. She is living in Los Altos Hills, Calif, 40 miles south of San Francisco, where she is working as an editorial assistant for a small publishing company which publishes a daily newsletter called the "Space Daily." The newsletter is for people in the outer space business, either privately or governmentally. The same company also publishes another newsletter called "Space Calendar" for anyone interested in keeping up with what's going on in and about outer space. Michael R. Jones, SF, announces the birth of his first child, Peter Kenneth Jones, born April 24. Lydia Ossorgin, SF. and herhusband, Ray Santillanes, have four beautiful blonde, brown-eyed children. She is teaching after participating in Santa Fe in the University of New Mexico-Santa Fe Public Schools teaching internship program. Her husband needs to meet student teaching requirements before being acertified elementary teacher. "We know! We can start our own school!" David Pex, SF, no longer has a 30-mile · commute to work but can ride his bike, instead. His new home has an acre of land and trees in Corvallis, Ore. 1978 David Bruney, SF, recently started working as a correctional counselor in Gainesville, Fla., after having practiced law for five years. He promises a good meal to any alumni who pay him a visit.. Barbara Kiefer George, SF, has worked as a riding instructor for six years in Pennsylvania. She really would like to · hear from old friends from St. John's. She . lives .in East Brookfield, Mass. Ben A. Porter, SF, is an assistant regional attorney for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Seattle, Wash. Spouse Susan Porterj SF '78, works at home' with· Theo (6Yi) and Colin (3) and for the Board of Olympia Waldorf. ·James K. Walton, SF, is still working on his family's grain farm in McClure, Bl., and finally has all of the equipment paid for. It has been a tough year of farming, but ski vacations make it tolerable. He hit Utah and good ol' New Mexico last ski season and will ski in the German Alps this winter. 1978 In Annapolis on a business trip East, . Steven H. Mackey, SF, brought us up to date on family news. Steven, who has received a second bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obisbo, is a manufacturing engineering manager for Bausch & Lomb in San Francisco; Recently he rode a bicycle in the Iron Horse Triathalon, and he also spends time sailing, back packing, rock climbing, and wind surfing. James (Kimo), A '76, is. general manager of the Seattle Division of Lips Propeller, which manufactures propellers for large ships~ including Naval ships. He and his wife, Sheri, have two children; Maggie and Alden. Martha Mackey Pendleton, SF '74, and her husband, Randy, SF '74, have been living in Ireland for two years wher:e, as a chemical engineer, he has set up the computer control process for plant operations for the Syntex Corporation. In addition to caring for their two children, Walker and Laurel, Martha istaking time for q!l .P~inti~g .. Withi11.the next few '· 1 (Coritinrued'on P~H)' . �E REPORTER PAGE 11 i or11tim1ed from P. writes. She earned a bachelor of philosophy degree, "and once again I had no major... I finished my last semester by correspondence from California and wrote a thesis in historical linguistics which led to co-authoring a paper with my advisor...! also ran a math tutoring business at home last year. 'Tll be glad to hear-from anyone who would write." Her address is 591 Maple Street, Livermore, CA 94550. . 1986 From Chuk Beshner, in Japan on a Watson, .comes a postcard of what appears to be warriors riding in pomp and dressed in traditional Japanese attire. Chuk, who spent his early years in Japan, writes: "Japan isn't quite how I remembered it. I arrived to find myself in the midst of a civil war (as you can see on this card). The high-rise buildings, the bullet trains, and even European clothes have disappeared. "I found Maggie Kinser, '85, who has been here since January, living in a traditional Japanese paper house. She is doing free lance journalism for various English magazines. We make a good team traveling through Japan and conducting our individual research ... Please tell everyone not to believe what they hear in the news about Japan. High-tech is gone, except for the tennis shoes." For er faculty member dies '1~ (Continued from P. 10) months they will be moving to Palo Alto, Calif., where Syntex's corporate headquarters is located. Susan Mackey Shifler, A '71, is a physician in general practice in Vienna, Va. Her husband, Marc, is engaged in one of those hugh-hush jobs you can't talk about, "sans weapon," according to Steven, and they have two children, David and Elizabeth. 1979 Elizabeth Donsbach, SF, is working on her master's degree in history at the University of Texas, Austin. She also is volunteering time for the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Ted Merwin, SF, and wife, Leslie Sixfin, are expecting their first child in October. Ted is a sales representative for Tandy Radio Shack computers. 1980 Nancy Cline, SF, was married July 12 to John Wright. They reside in Richmond, Va. William Day, SF, is living in New York City with his wife, Katherine Lufkin, A '76. Bill is a second year graduate student in philosophy at Columbia University. Kate is a second year student in general theology seminary. They spend money on their two cats and piano payments. They both attended the September homecoming in Annapolis. Reid Kingsbury, SF, was graduated from McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, Calif., in May. He is studying for the bar exam. Edward Larkin, SFGI, completed his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in May and is teaching in the German Department at the University of New Hampshire. Martha McGinnis, SF, has purchased an old home in Atlanta, Ga., where she has been working for the past three years. She will be married in April. She welcomes any news and visits from Johnnies. Kyle Ann Schulti, SF, was graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law in May 1985, and successfully. completed the New Mexico State Bar Exams a few months later. After a short stint in private practice, she accepted appointment as law clerk for Justice Stowers of the New Mexico Supreme Court. 1981 . Charles and Tanya Harrison, SF, are living in Chicago with their three children. Charles is in his second year of law school and on the Dean's list and in the Moot Court Society. Tanya is r:eturning to school in the fall at UCI and graduating in a year with a BA in early childhood educcation - she plans a master's in play therapy. Lisa Lashley, SF, had a baby boy named Alex Wan Amberg on August IO. He is beautiful, healthy, strong and stubborn. She lives in Tesuque, N.M. Carla Meeske, SF, is living in Cincinnati, 0., where she is working as a marketing manager for Kenner toys in the boys' toys division. In the few hours she is not in the office she is racing bicycles. She reports that life in Cincinnati is great, with beautiful countryside, cheap rent, good friends and all those toys. Edward Neal, SF, after spending two years at St. John's, played double bass at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for one year. Afterward he did paramedic training at Stanford and worked for ambulance services in San Francisco and Reno until going to Reed College where he was graduated in 1984. He is in his third year bf University of New Mexico Medical School. 1982 Matthew Charles Fontis, SFGI, was graduated from the Santa Fe Graduate Institute and spent one year of graduate study in philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is completing an M.A. in political philosophy at Harvard University. Matthew is still looking for the exit from the cave. Adam Farquhar, SF, is starting his third year of a Ph.D. progam in computer science at University of Texas at Austin. He is doing research in artificial intelligence. Michael R. Gadberry, SF, is a graduate teaching assistant working on an M.A. in theoretical methematics at the University of Oklahoma. His wife, laura Seibert, SF '82, is doing well as a protrait artist. They had their first child, Joshua. on October 3. Randy Under, SF, is working for the Department of Entomology at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. He just returned to the U.S. after five months of research in the Andes of Peru and is nearly readjusted to this land of excess. With a bit of luck, he will be returning to Peru in a year to begin his Ph.D. research on the ecological consequences of releasing genetically engineered potatoes into the environment. Miriam Huaco Komaromy, SF. is starting her second year of medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. Sara Marcy, SF. just moved to West' • - ' ' ~ f > e ' ' ' , ' " t , Paul Allen, Jr., who taught at St. John's from 1929 to 1939, died July 23 in Montclair, N.J., at the age of 88. Retiring in 1974 as professor of chemistry at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, Mr. Allen was asked to return to the classroom, his daughter, Margaret S. Allen of Upper Montclair, reports. He continued to teach until 1983. At St. John's, Mr. Allen was assistant professor of chemistry. Following the death of Captain Douglas Howard in 1936, Mr. Allen was appointed acting dean and served in that .capacity until Scott Buchanan was appointed dean in 1937. After leaving St. John's, Mr. Allen taught chemistry at Lynchburg (Va.) College until he joined the faculty of Stevens Institute in 1942. He served ,two terms as associate dean of graduate studies at Stevens. "As an early proponent of graduate education, he was instrumental in setting up the Ph.D. program there, and the first Ph.D. dissertation in the department was carried out under his supervision," Miss Allen writes. Mr. Allen had bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard and an honorary degree from Stevens Institute. In addition to his daiughter, he is survived by a son. Dr. Paul Allen III. His wife, the former Margaret Snowden Stanley, died in 1983. ·Note: !he Reporter is grateful to William B. Welling, Jr., '39. for informing us of the death of his close friend, Mr. Allen. fhe Annapolis campus' first all night volleyball game was a ''smashing success," according to director of athletics Roberta Rusch, whose brain child the event was. Altogether 50 players took part in countless games which began one Friday night last month at 11 :05 p.m. Activity peaked between midnight and I a.m. when 30 to 35 players were on hand. Between I :30 and 2 players began to drift away, leaving a hard core of men. Stephanie Daw, Santa Fe, N.M., freshman, was the last woman to drop out, dormitory-bound at 3 a.m. "By 5 a.m., playing got a little punchy," Ms. Rusch said. "Players were not playing with their previous reckless abandon." To decide whether to continue, the sleepy-heads challenged the wide-awakes with the decision determined by who won the.game. The sleepy-heads won, and students dispersed. A hardy and loyal bunch, some of the men were back to play in a Saturday afternoon soccer game. Ms. Rusch, just as hardy, also was on hand to referee a men's soccer and women's basketball games. Planned as something new to do by way of a late Friday night activity in the gym, the all-night game may be repeated later in the year. "A lot of people hope we'll do it again," Ms. Rusch said. · Surviving to the end of play were Joe Boucher, Dari Doorandish, Patrick Ching, Garfield Goodrum, Brenda'n Heffernan, Dan Hoh, Doug Rushlau, David Schaller, Brad Stuart and Ty Yancey. Book sale raises $380 chester and is sharing an apartment with Tina Clark, SF '82. Tina is going to F.l.T. The Annapolis library has raised $380 in New York City, and Sara is finishing - in the rooftop sale of surplus books it her master's in computer science. The two conducts each year for the benefit of the of them work and play and hope to be rich St. John's community. and famous some day. Their new address Old copies often cheaper to replace 1s 127 Depeyster ,L\venue, North Tarrythan to rebind and weeded off the library town, N. Y. 10591. shelves went for less than the cost of a Dan Polzer, SF, is a student with the candybar along with books contributed to Legion of Christ. He has been studying in the library and considered unsuitable for Spain the past year and will be there its collection. Dog-eared Loebs were a another year. favorite among students who ignored Helen Young, SF, married an Eng- · fraying spines and took them off as barlishman, Matthew Evans, and professiongains. ally divides her time between her own Students and faculty found themselves small lab business (testing-plants for virfilling paperbags with 25 cent hardbacks us) and doing organic chemistry at Corand IO cent paperbacks. A select group of nell University, where her husband is a hardbacks was tagged at $1. Prices, which landscape architecture student. have remained unchanged since the early 1983 sixties, were so low that one student left Richard Morehouse, SF. is working with four full cardboard boxes. Total for General Motors Electronic Data Sysexpenditure: $17. terns as a systems engineer. He misses the Mrs. Kinzer said proceeds from the sale rarified air of New Mexico and the erudite will be placed in the library's restricted people of St. John's. book fund. In Memoriam 1915 John L. DeMarco 1920 Howard A. Kinhart 1921 Wilmot D. Brown, Earl R. Keller and Elwood E. Schafer 1922 Robert W. Brown 1923 James A. Ridout 1924 John T. Tarantino J926 William D. Hines and John L. Lutz 1928 Carlton D. Roe 1930 William C. Vestal 1931 J.W.T. Armacost and Stephen :Wolanske 1932 1934 1935 1942 1947 1950 1951 1955 1958 1963 1966 Emslie N. Gault Noble J. Russell F. Marion Powell, II Thomas Parran, Jr. I.. Wendell Marine and Tristan Campbell Joseph L. Nadler John J. Coffey George G. Boyce James Baldwin, Jr. Donna Parmelee Bryant Robert B. Axtman �PAGE 12 .THE REPORTER NOVEMBER 1986 Alumni honor Frame, Tolberts Dyal addresses ~I overflow crowd .. ::;;· CQ .z::. u fl) Cl.II ! ,,., - ___ 'Tl is seeking members Although alumni are increasing in numbers, there has been a slight drop in the number of Alumni Association members. Noting a decline from I, 180 in 1985 to l, l 43 in 1986, association board members decided to do something about it at their September meeting. Altggether. for the two campuses. there are 6. JOO alumni on the mailing list. "I'm not sure we've worked very hard on membership," President David Dobreer commented ... Perhaps it's time we did." To see what can be done, he named a committee chaired by Michael David Blume that includes William Salter and Bart Lee. Dr. Dobreer will serve exofficio. Two other new committees appointed will look into the feasibility of the association providing as a service to alumni various kinds of insurance and a master card. Named to the insurance committee were Allan Hoffman, Jules Pagano and Frank Marshall. The master card committee ·includes Mr. Lee and Harold Morgan. In other business, mem.bers elected to its board Jonathan Zavin, of New York~ Jonathan Krane, of Los Angeles; Barbara Skaug Lauer, of Laramee, Wyo., and Linda Stabler-Talty, a 1976 SF alumnus, who is resettling in this country after time abroad. Members decided to devote the April Saturday afternoon meeting to a workshop for presidents of the 11 alumni chapters. Betsy Blume, alumni director. in Annapolis, and Chrstopher Nelson, treasurer, wiUmake a special effort to recruit leaders for this event. Bart is recovering RPbert Bart, Santa Fe tutor and former dean, is on leave from his teaching. recovering at his home from the triple bypass operation he underwent October l O. Mail may be addr~sed to hirrt in care of St. John's College, 1160 Camino_ de la Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe, N.M., 8750J,..4599. Over the weekend someone asked the Annapolis campus' new president. William M. Dyal, Jr., if he was planning to transform the college. "I said absolutely not," Mr. Dyal, who assumed full time duties October l, told an overflow crowd at the college's homecoming banquet. "I have come to confirm the college." Mr. Dyal addressed 182 former students, faculty members and their spouses in the . college dining. room, so crowded that guests were seated in its booth area. Another 30 had to be turned away. His talk was a highlight of the evening in which tutor emeritus James M. Tolbert and his wife. Jane Tolbert, a former college librarian, were made honorary members of the Alumni Association, one of the association's highest honors. In addition, James Frame, of New York City, a 1950 graduate who headed St. John's recent Presidential Search Committee and father of six who attended the college. was presented the Alumni Association's Annual Award of Merit. The awards were made by Dr. David Dobreer. of Los Angeles, association president. Mr. Dyal, who spoke briefly at the.end of the dinner, talked about his goals at SL John's. "As a new president, I am committed to the characteristics of leadership attributed to John Gardner." he said of the former secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. " ... It is my hope to become an enabler and a facilitator to make it possible for others to do their best and to fully appreciate this community of learning," he said. Mr. Dyal outlined his other goals. He said he hopes to participate in the setting of St. John's agenda. in identifying its ~oals an_d c<?nc~ptualizin~~~ion. in building the mstHuuon - physrtally and programmatically - and in seeking a workable unity among all parts of the institution. "With our many constituencies, understanding, communication, mediation and resolution of conflict are tremendously important." he continued. Finally, he said, he hopes to participate in the renewal ohhe institution. "Even this occasion is a time of renewal, of bringing the past into 1perspective for future commitment." The dinner was not only an occasion to meet Mr. Dyal but to be introduced to his wife as well. Like a number of St. John's couples. they will have a commuting marriage. She has begun duties as an adjunct professor of music in the School of Fine Arts at the College of Charleston under a schedule that will permit her long weekends in Annapolis. A former admissions director responsible for getting many of the alumni present at the banquet into St.John's, Mr. Tolbert is now retired and doing free lance editing. He was praised for his intense respect for correct English. · . Mrs. Tolbert is a former college librarian who left St. John's to obtain a master's degree in psychiatric social work; More receQtly she retired from the Linwood .Children's Center in Ellicott City and is · Work.ing on a part-time basis for the UpjohrfHome He<:tlth Service. Attending the homecoming reception in the Great Hall are the Alumni Association's newest honorary members, Jane and Jim Tolbert. Sant~ Fe tutor William A. Darkey is in the center. Greg Ferguson photo In citing Mr. Frame's contribution, _the Liberal Arts drive for a couple of both professionally and to the college, Dr. years. Dobreer read a telegram from Board Because the Dyals were in the throes of Chairman John H. Dendahl, of Santa Fe. moving to Annapolis, the champagne who wrote, "You have set a brilliant brunch, traditionally held at the presiexample of devotion and service to the dent's home, was given instead at Toad college." Hall, the home of Richard and Ellen Now head of his own software consultFielding at Arundel-on-the-Bay. This ing firm, Mr. Frame is vice-chairman of year held in honor of the Dyals, the occathe Board of Visitors and Governors. He sion gave the president and. his wife an has been chairman of the board's Annapoopportunity to mingle with alumni reprelis campus' planning, executive, finance, senting a wide range of decades as some nominating, retirement, and polity com140 guests brunched at picnic tables at the mittees. He also chaired the Parents for water's_edge ... Everyone"s learning the piano The Annapolis campus is borrowing an idea from Santa Fe's music program and trying it out on an experimental basis this year. It is the "MusiC Practicum" under which all sophomores unfamiliar with keyboard music are being coached in small groups by the campus' four new student music assistants. The point is not to make students proficient as pianists but to strengthen their reading, understanding and discussion of music, according to John Verdi, St. John's tutor. Mr. Verdi transferred to the Annapolis campus two years ago and persuaded the Instruction Committee last spring that the Music Practicum is an idea worth attempting, at least on a trial basis. Attendance is now mandatory for the approximately 75 per cent of the sophomore class who have had no experience with piano. Mr. Verdi explained that the piano was chosen, rather than another instrument, because it involves two staves. An instrument like the violin lacks the bass. While students are not expected to become· pianists in the usual sense of the word, they will be expected by the year's end to reach a level at w~ich they can play simple pieces by Bartok. Student assistants, who are being overseen by Mr. Verdi, include three seniors~ Celeste DiNucci, of Portland, Ore., Alexandra Wolska, of Baltii;nore, and Todd Masilon, of Sylmar, Calif. - and a sophomore. Nancy Heiriherg, of Wilmington, instruction all but Miss Di Nucci sit in on regular music tutorials and serve as pianists for tutors who themselves do not play the piano. Miss DiNucci, whose background is in music theory and voice, said she is attempting to familiarize the students with tone recognition and production, to help them with time signatures and rhythmic notations, and to enable· them to sustain the reading of a score. Douglas AHanbrook, music archon. said he thinks the Music Practicum represents a "'very good idea." "l think we have to see how it works for a year," he said. It will be reviewed at the end of the year. The Santa Fe campus has had a Music Practicum for four years. Mr. Verdi said that in Santa Fe, music tutorials meet for an hour and a half three times a week. In addition, practica and chorus run for between an hour and 90 minutes each once a week. There is no music the freshman year. In Annapolis, freshmen meet weekly for freshmen -chorus. Sophomore classes in Annapolis meet three times a week for an hour and ten minutes each time. The practicum will add an extra 45 minutes. May with civic group !ho.mas May. director-of the Annapolis Graduate Institute, has been named to Baltimore's A.O. Emmart Prize Committee. The prize is given annually for the best piece of writing in the humanities to N.c. appear in a ·Maryland publication. Tutor Each of them teaches groups of three to five students who meet .at different times , emeritus Hugh McGrath is serving as a thrdughouMhe Io addition to their judge. week. � 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/47d69404ae675c5e3eaf0b1761a4ebe9.pdf 49eb91a8975b814814898a896a6eb979 PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY IIII IIllIllIIIll IWl~l~IWillll~Il ~ 31696 011381231 The St. John's 11111111111 ~------------ lvolume 13, Issue 1 Annapolis, Md. and Santa Fe, N.M. September-1986] • B I I • ·1 St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors wiff consider two forms action with regard to its investment at its October 25 meeting. One course will be to consider a carefully constructed draft of a the way for any member of community to ask that the particular stock if the feels ownership would be inconsistent with college purposes. The policy, which would lege to address concerns cial ones, would be proposed mechanism for and handling such requests. Board members also would be informed of what anticipate the consequences be. I Now that St. John's has successfully "corralled" two new presidents, to use Board Chairman John Dendal 's phrase, their will be held late next of two major events being 1987. William M. Dyal, Jr., Annapolis president, said the other would be a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of St. John's New Program. It will have its principal . . J ins ce observance in the fall. Both Mr. Dyal and Santa Fe President Michael Riccards took cognizance of this coming milestone in St. John's history in remarks introducing them to the St. John's community in Santa Fe. As a matter of fact, Mr. Dyal heralded the western campus' art auction to benefit Santa Fe's scholarship fund as a forerunning event and invited_ the 240 guests pres(See Inaugurations P. 9) r Former President Edwin J. Delattre work September I at the Ethics and Policy Center, a non-profit foundation in Washington. As the center's first Bradley Distinguished Fellow in Applied Ethics, Mr. Delattre will have a contract for one year although he may be asked to stay for a or third year. Mr. Delattre will write on ethics as they apply to education and law enforcement problems. The center's goal is to relate the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to domestic or foreign issues through writings and conferences. The Delattres, who have Delattr.e P. 1 0 . el s if I 'I The Graduate lnstitute's master's degree recipients were full of smiles. So was William M. Dyal, Jr., who was making his public debut on the Annapolis campus. In his first official duties, the campus' genial new president,. William M. Dyal, Jr., not only presided in ceremonies August 14 for the 22 members of the graduating class but spoke as well. It was commencement day for them. h was also, Mr. Dyal quite literally noted, a commencement day for him. "l look forward to joining this community of learning." · son, Christooher ca go. combination on Nelson, who has headed the ftmmm sociation's divestment assumed a board seat at the meeun~. The Mr. Nelson, has been a consultant in matters of education and who now heads his own executive search firm. ure-ed the board to adoot a St. John's not change its present investment policy, and that also would be accompanied by a statement of the perceived consequences. Charles A. Nelson, A '45, chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors Finance Committee, said the policy is intended not only to cover the cent of investments St.John's owns in African connected holdings but to be applied on a case-by-case basis to other issues. As an example of such concerns, he said St. John's might reach a decision to purchase land adjoining a campus at a sacrifice of investment return if the intended use of that land was a manufacturing firm polluting the college environment. Reporting at its July meeting in Santa Fe, Mr. Nelson said the Finance Committee was not recommending full or partial divestment of its South African stock but rather a proposal put forward by Alumni Association board calling for the consideration of investments on a broader case-by-case basis_ PRAISING THE alumni proposal as one that is '"very much in the right direction," Mr. Nelson said the Finance Com- tee debates ciation of ties and "--''-"'"'~'"'"'· "The issue alive over the """"h"'' he said. "We have no We have to have an answer. .. It embarrassment to say we have thou!!ht it and done nothing Mr. Nelson said the sufficient procedure to members to challenge investment in a way that not be confrontational within the college. Another member of the Alumni Association's eight-member divestment comalso present for her first meeting as a trustee - Mary Bittner Wiseman, A '58 - pointed out that the proposed policy puts the burden on the complainant to show that a stock is inconsistent with the purposes of the college. OBJECTIONS TO adopting a new polwere voiced by several board memBoard could P. 7) lo g' i 11 i a I dinner at the home of Dean and Mrs. Besides drawing family and friends, the Thomas Slakey. occasion attracted new president-watchers Along the way Mr. Dyal enlarged his from St. John's faculty and staff. among college com..Marvelous," said tutor Elliott Zuckmunity members at the reception followerman of his talk after hearing it from the ing commencement and by such means as balcony of the Great Hall. .. l thought it coming down the steps of Mcwas wonderful," was the appraisal of Joe · to introduce himself to college Carr, English teacher at Woodberry Fornurse Marilyn Mylander, Nurse-director est School, Orange, Va., an Institute stuof health services, and tutor Curtis Wilson. dent, who asked for a copy of his speech. With a ready smile and an open, easy, The Graduate Institute exercises highcomfortable manner, this people-oriented, lighted Mr. Dyal's first full day which internationally-minded president with a began with a meeting with college treasurer Jeri Rhodes and co~cluded with (See .Dyal P. 4) �PAGE2 1941 T. Lansdale (Danny) Hill, A, has received the American Advertising Federation's Silver Medal Award ''in recognition of outstanding contributions to advertising and in furthering the industry's standards, creative excellence and responsibility in areas of social concern." Mr. Hill is with Darien, Russell, Hill & Dahl, an advertising and public relations firm with offices in San Jose and Fresno, Cal. 1947 John Van Doren, A, and Mortimer Adler, board member emeritus, took part in a recent program in Chicago which drew 175 teachers, principals, and superintendents engaged in implementing elements. of the Paideia educational program, a program that seeks the same quality of education for all. Using Sophocles' Antigone and Aristotle's Politics as examples, they made two presentations on how to prepare seminar questions. 1954 Blakely Littleton Mechau, A, and Michael K. Mechau, A '59, of Palisade, Colo., are the proud grandparents of Ian James Sanford, born in May. The baby's parents are the Mechaus' son, Christopher Sanford, and his wife, Amy. Blakely was honored by the FAA as the teacher of the winner of the agency's National Essay Contest. She writes, "Mike is looking for a career change from probation to teaching" and asks for information about job openings. 1958 Bittner A, delivered a paper on the Crito - "To Silence the Flutes" - at a meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature in July at the University of Warwick in England. An associate professor of philosophy at the Graduate School of the City University of New York and at Brooklyn College, she has been on leave since January to complete a book on Roland Barthes, the French critic who died in 1980. In July Mrs. Wiseman began a three-year term on the Board of Visitors and Governors. 1963 After graduating from Stanford University, Eric M. Kennell, A, received an M.D. degree in 1967 from the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. His father, Melvin Kennell, reports that Eric is suffering from muscular dystrophy. His address is Dr. Eric M. Kennell, 46 Georgetown Road, Lindenwold, NJ 08021. 1965 Grace Bateman, A, is with the Washington law firm of Seyforth, Shaw, et. al. Her husband, Worth, is an economic consultant. They live in Georgetown with their children, Sarah, 12; Elizabeth, lO; Matthew, 4; and Patrick, 2. She writes that they continue to enjoy the "land of pleasant living" at their weekend Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence Berns, Betsy Blume, John Christensen, Howard Zeiderman, Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. The Reporter is published by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD 21404. William M. Dyal, Jr., president Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second-class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS 018-750 home in St. Michael's, Md. 1966 Ian M. Harris, A, of Milwaukee, Wis., presented a paper on peace education programs at the l l th meeting of the International Peace Research Association recently in England. He writes that his classmate, Albert Mark Smith Ill, A, ..has had a distinguished academic career." Author of a book on Galileo, Mark will be at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton next year under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He then will go to the University of Missouri as an associate professor. Mark has a doctorate in the history of science from the University of Wisconsin and taught previously at the University of California, Riverside. " . 1968 A son, Christopher, was born February 17 to Bartholomew lee, A, and his wife Sondra. The Lees are living in San Francisco. Ellin Barret, SF, has been working for lBM since 1972 and currently is in the systems engineering support division. She has a daughter, Jamie Riley, born in August 1984. A resident of Canyon, Cal., she writes that she is remodeling a house. Frederick lewis (Rick) Wicks, SF, was married in Anchorage, Alaska, on June 6 to Ellinor Garbring of Goteborg, Sweden, whom he met in 1984 in Bangladesh. They plan a Zen Buddhist marriage ceremony in September. On October I, Rick and Ellinor will move from Anchorage to Washington, where he will be employed by the Association to Unite the Democracies. The association promotes the formation of a federal union of the industrial democracies. Open to all countries the union would reduce the perceived need for nuclear weapons and would form the nucleus of a world government, Rick writes. 1969 Elizabeth A. SFG I, is head of the Humanities Division of the Los Alamos Branch of the University of New Mexico. She also directs a re-entry program for women in science. Recently Ms. Aiello was recognized by Governor Anaya as one of 30 outstanding New Mexico women. Lorna Sterling SFGI, requests information about job opportunities for experienced English teachers. Her address is 832- 73rd Street, Downers Grove, IL 60516. Telephones: (312) 971-1945 (home) and (312) 825-0400, Ext. 325 (work). 1970 In 1984, Don SF, was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. As Father Juvenal Merriell, he is novice-master at the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, "a small, but growing religious community in Toronto," where he teaches theology and works in the parish. Father Merriell has a Ph.D. degree in religious studies from the University of Toronto. Toni K~uen (T.K.) Thomas Nelson, SF, is working toward a master's degree in multi-cultural teacher education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 1971 Catherine Waters Carroll, SF, is living in Lake Oswego, Ore., and practicing law in Portland. Mary Pat Justice Comber, SFGI, and her husband, Geoffrey Comber, a tutor on (Continued on P. 10) At Santa Fe's homecoming were, top, Gussie Goldstein, SF '68, and Dave Esdale, SF '71; middle, President and Mrs. Dyal, left, with President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle and. alumni coordinator Mary Sue laurel, SF '79, and, bottom, President Riccards with board member Irwin Hoffman, host at Francisco Benitez photos Sunday's brunch. �1 PAGE3 • II I St. John's midsummer homecoming banquet had something of everything. including its own success. In a room warm with good will, St. John's two presidents - William M. Dyal, Jr., of Annapolis, and Michael Riccards, of Santa Fe - were introduced along with the college's new first ladies while the two new deans, who with the presidents will make up St. John's new leadership team, applauded. Michael Ossorgin, who retired June 30 after 30 years at St. John's to devote himself to Russian Orthodox music, was awarded an honorary membership in the Alumni Association. It was presented him by association President David Dobreer, A '44, who presided. There was a serious talk dealing with social, moral, and political questions of college investments by Christopher Nelson, SF '70, who has chaired the Alumni Association's Divestment Committee. More on that later. Members of Santa Fe's classes of 1971 and l 976, seated at tables reserved for them, caught up with each other's news as they dined on a Spanish dinner of enchiladas and biscochitos. And Barbara Lauer, SF '76, took the podium in the Great Hall long enough for a score of toasts to be offered including one by President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle, who gave SL John's traditional toast to the Republic. There were others. Among them, John Van Doren, A '47, toasted the new presidents and Mr. Weigle; Allan Hoffman, A '49, toasted Mary Sue Laurel, alumni activities coordinator in the West, and Betsy Blume, alumni director in the East, for their "remarkable achievements," and Charles A. Nelson, A '45, retiring dean Robert Neidorf, who was present, as a ''magnificent tutor." DR. DOBREER concluded the evening with a simple toast, "To us." Selfcongratulations appeared well in order. After altogether vanishing one year for lack of attendance, the homecoming on the western campus was revived in 1985 when the usual autumn timing was scuttled in favor of a summer event. "Last year was tremendously successful," Dr. Dobreer told the more than one hundred persons present. "This year our attendance has doubled." As one way of thanking her for her role in its success, M's. Laurel was presented a i g twice a Michael Ossorgin, the Alumni Association's newest honorary member, talks with Don Stillwell, Sf ·11. Behind them are Ben Haggard, SF '79, left, and Tom Rushton, Sf 71. Francisco Benitez photo gift - a belt-by Glenda Eoyang, SF '76. lege. The proper foundation for any analyln his talk. Chris Nelson, a Chicago sis of the divestment issue rests upon an attorney who had taken part that morning understanding of what is in the best interin his first Board of Visitm-s and Goverest of the college. nors meetin& underscored a premise he "The trustees' responsibility is to prosaid that is rarely mentioned in other coltect and preserve the college and to do all lege and university social investment polithat is in its best interest. The trustees are cies: The college's trustees' responsibility also bound by all applicable law which is to the college. governs this aspect of their responsibility. Arguing that education helps develop a This generally means that the trustees are sense of morality. Mr. Nelson believes bound by the college's own governing that whether or not St. John's subscribes instruments - the charter and the Polity. to the view that morals can or should be "However these college purposes may taught at the questions are faced be stated, they nevertheless provide a very daily students and faculty alike, and significant limitation on the trustees' duty the does olav a role in helping to make money. Making money is not the develoo their sense college's purpose." Now the college is faced with the quesHe noted statements. in the preamble to tion of how one ought to respond to St. John's that institutions oflearndemands that the trustees consider nonaeve1ov the moral and financial issues in managing their investof men and women. ments and to what extent, if at all, finan""St. is concerned with the unity cial return should be sacrificed. of knowled2e. an underntandinl! of the "As long as these questions are consimen and women, and dered in light of furthering the college's moral foundations on which the .conown purposes, it seems to me that the duct of men·s and women's lives can be trustees are acting properly and responsibased." bly, even if they should differ on the parTHEN HE WENT ON to say that the ticular application of this principle," Mr. tn1St«:es' re:sp1on:s.11J1l1t:y is to the colNelson sa.id. At homecoming Dyal to address alumni Sept. 27 The Annapolis homecoming September 27 will be highlighted by a banquet talk by President William M. Dyal, Jr., and by a reunion of the Class of 1961 honoring tutors who taught on the Annapolis campus during the class' era. Mr. Dyal will address alumni and their guests at dinner at 7:30 p.m. in the dining hall following a cocktail party at 6 p.m. in the Key lobby. Delivering the Friday lecture win be former Santa Fe Dean Robert Bart, one of the Santa Fe tutors the Class of l 961 is flying here for the occasion. He will speak at 8: 15 p.m. in the Auditorium on "The Miraculous Moonlight: Flannery O'Connor's story, The Artificial Nigger." The occasion is expected to mark the first use of the redesigned Conversation Room. Parties afterwards include a wine and in Chase-Stone and the rock ·n roll party in the coffee The Afumm Associatmn 's annual meetis scheduled for IO a.m. in the ConverRoom. to see the historic area immediately surrounding St. John's. there will be a tour with Wa.m. in front is set for 3:30 p.m. on back campus. Because President and Mrs. Dyal will be beginning their residency in Annapolis at homecoming, the annual homecoming champagne brunch will be held this year at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fielding rather than at the President's House. The brunch is scheduled for Toad Hall, the Fieldings' residence on Arundel-onthe-Bay, at l I a.m. The Class of '61 will hold its reunion Plans for the reunion of the Class of luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in McDowell's 1961 are being made by a committee headGreat Hall. that time it will honor ed by Harrison Sheppard. Other members tutors who were here in I96 l, are: S. Richard Freis, Michael W. Ham, indudinJ? retired tutors and tho~e now Alexa Nadosy Illich, Sheela Shah LamFe. pietti, Stephen D. Morrow, John R. PekFor other luncheon will be · kanen, Victor Schwartz, David Shapiro, served at 12:30 p.m. in the dining room. Ted Stinchecum, and the Honorable MarThe annual alumni-student soccer classic tha Wyatt. He continued: "Relative to South Africa, some will argue that the college's principal purpose is to educate and to train the mind, not to engage in politics, that apartheid has nothing to do with the college and that such investments are therefore proper. "OTHERS WILL argue that the college owes the students an example of moral rectitude, that the college cannot fulfill its mission of helping to develop the moral powers of its students when it is itself promoting institutions which are benefitting at the expense of other human beings' liberty. "Solne may argue that inyestment in such companies is equivalent to an investment in a policy promoting slavery which is antithetical to the principle that the security of our world rests with free men and women in mind, spirit and body, the education and development of whom is a proper purpose of the college. "Others will say it is 'evil,' which is simply antithetical to the college's 'good' purposes, and that we should not be tainted with the name of making money from ill-reputed sources. Under all these arguments, the focus will be on the college's purpose and mission." Mr. Nelson advised alumni that a sacrifice of only one-half of one per cent in the investment of a $30-million endowment would cost the college $150,000 each year. "Think what can be done with the $150,000 or what sacrifices the college would have to make to cover that loss. "I would therefore be very cautious in permitting any intentional sacrifice for other than the college's express purposes. The question is really what those purposes are. I do not mean to suggest by these remarks that the college's purposes would not allow the board to consider moral issues. "To the contrary, I believe I have suggested here that one can make the case effectively that we, at this college, cannot avoid facing the moral foundations for our decision or the moral lessons we learn by our actions .., Preceding dinner there was a reception in the Art Gallery where the first annual St. John's alumni art show was hung. Those exhibiting included Rachel Barrett, Michele F. Beinder, Mary Beth Bliss, Shirley Flint, Christopher R. Garwood, Michele L. Grant, Benjamin R. Haggard, Wendy Hamwell, Kathleen A. O'Neill, Boyd C. Pratt, Oriana Rodman, Peter VanderLaan, and Ida K. Graver. New Washington Chapter farmed Johnnies in the Washington area are invited to join the newly formed Washington Area Chapter of the St. John's Alumni Association. The chapter grew out of a seminar that has been meeting every other week for the past six years at Washington's West End Library. Deborah Papier, A '72, president of the chapter, says that there are more than 500 St. John's alumni in the Washington metropolitan area. Anyone interested in joining may call Ms. Papier after 5 p.m. at (202) 3874520. Her mailing address is 160 l 18th Street, N.W., Apt. 607, Washington, D.C. 20009. �SEPTEMBER 1986 THE REPORTER PAGE4 do o t i I The following talk is excerpted from one originally delivered to seniors at Class Day in May in Annapolis. by HOWARD ZEIDERMAN, A '67 Annapolis Tutor I'd like to talk about a problem which will face you for the rest of your lives. It's faced me since I graduated, and I've dealt with it with only partial success. The question is simple. How do you speak with people who have not attended St. John's? Descartes is not only a central figure in the program and in our world; he also plays a prominent role in our St. John's publicity. For better or worse, we took from him the expression, "the great conversation." I don't know if you consider the conversation of the last few years to have been great. That isn't our concern here this morning. However, using Descartes' expression, we can restate our question. How does one live in a world where conversation is very rare and which, when it occurs, appears not-at-all great? During four undergraduate years at St. John's I was encouraged to think and talk about many things. Unfortunately I thought and talked about them within a specific language. That language contains words like "Plato," "Milton," "Kant," "Einstein." I had developed, as you have developed, a skill of talking with others who had read 130 texts. I had very little skill in talking with people who did not know this language or even scorned it. There are two facile responses to this difficult concern. One is despair. The other is arrogance. The first response is the refusal to speak until everyone learns the appropriate vocabulary. You can well imagine that this will occur on the other side of Judgement Day .. The other alternative is just as extreme. It is to spend one's time only with those who speak the same language. This approach is equally unsatisfactory. It simply avoids the issue. There is a third possibility which at first looks more promising and should also be mentioned. In this case, one speaks about Plato and Homer, Kant, and Joyce inside, to oneself, and constantly translates for others. However, this effort is an endless burden. It is more appropriate as a story by Kafka than as a way to live our lives. The only route which seems acceptable is one which, in a different world, was explored by Prince Hal. Hal spoke with each in his own language. Like the Apostles following Pentecost, we must translate not our words but rather ourselves. Translating ourselves involves unlearning some of what we have learned. I don't suggest that one forget Kant, Descartes, Plato, and Homer. That attempt would be a sentimental extravagance which would be silly even if r~alizable. Instead, one must slightly change one's focus on those texts and on those shimmering names. One must disentangle how they were instruments for us from the purpose which was served by them. Through four years, our purpose, I believe, was to enable each of us to becqme thoughtful individually and cooperatively about the most serious concerns. The texts we read and discuss here are invaluable in helping us toward that goal. These texts are important because they are both thoughtful and yet also distant and dead. We, here, must make the effort to bring them to life. Plato and Shakespeare cannot create a conversation. They are part of a conversation only if we have the courage to re-animate them and the generosity to let them speak in their own voices. I mention courage and generosity rather than intelligence. It takes courage to hold oneself in abeyance. It requires generosity to speak forth someone else's concerns. These are the skills we practice here and which we take with us when we leave. In having chosen to pursue your education here rather than elsewhere, you have developed these very rare skills. To accomplish that, you have had to sacrifice. much of what seems essential to others. The most serious sacrifice is the study of history. History is important to me, and yet I agree with our practice. Nothing makes serious thoughtful discussion of a text more difficult than the incursion of an historical fact. It requires inord_inate - almost inhuman - restraint to introduce the circumstances of a text's history and not become dismissive of the author's difference from us. It is in fact this very difference between us and a text which can make visible for the first time who arid what we are. We don't study history for the very reason that others do study it: to become more discerning about the present. The present which you have discerned is now where you must live. In it, you will find no common texts. If there is to be anything in common in this world, it is something we all must make together. One way of making something in common is engaging in conversation. Conversation is not something one has or possesses. Instead, it is something one does. And in the fragmented world beyond College A venue, nothing will block conversation more than speaking our local dialect of Pla:o, Homer, and Kant. Rather, we must have the courage to translate ourselves by taking a step towards others. We must have the trust that they will respond, and, like Prince Hal, we must have the generosity to speak to each in his own language. William M. is with two other members the Annapolis administrative Thomas May, left, who becomes Institute September 1, and Dean Thomas J. Slakey. Keith Harvey photo I .. s r1 (Continued from P. I) reputation as a highly skilled administrator had reached his own conclusion by the end of his first day at St. John's. "I feel as if I belong," he confided that evening to Mrs. Dyal. The next mnorning, at a meeting with representatives of the Washington and Annapolis press, he said he couldn't explain the feeling, but it was as simple as that. The press conference gave Mr. Dyal, who is scheduled for a full week of work on campus the first of September, an opportunity to outline what he sees as some of his objectives, objectives he will carry out with a certain amount of modesty. "I don't expect to put a Bill Dyal stamp on the college," he said. "The college itself has out-distanced, out-performed many human beings." What he does hope to accomplish is to realize a sense of humanity in terms of internal relationships, personalizing St. John's relationship to the community at large so the college will not seem "so strange, so different, so removed," and to help enable St. John's to provide the "bully platform" in liberal education for which he believes it qualified. Mr. Dyal said St. John's also has financial needs which will become his concern. Among them will be the need to seek funds for cap.ta! improvements, for scholarship money, and for faculty salaries. Qf necessity l will have to be a fund raiser," he said. ••you know the definition of a college president: a person who lives in a big house and begs." Mr. Dyal also hopes to establish a presence for St. John's in Annapolis, Washington, and Baltimore. . Until July I president of the American Field Service, Mr. Dyal stressed in his interview the need. within the public and private sectors for liberally educated leaders familiar with great ideas and able to look at life in the broadest sense, the lack of which he believes is felt in the highest level of government today. ••1 have been tremendously concerned with the failure of Americans to understand other people across national and cultural lines and, within this country, across the cultural and historic lines that divide us," he said. His enthusiasm for St. John's evoked one enquiry as to whether he expected to 04 ri riti work for it with the same missionary spirit that characterized what he called his ••earlier incarnation," the period that followed his studies at Southern Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky. Although separated from that era, Mr. Dyal said to it he owed his commitment to social justice and his strong belief in human relationships. "l tend to become very involved and committed to whatever I am "he said. "l think this will be true St. John's. I can't be a bystander or caretaker." Asked what he considered his management style to be, Mr. Dyal said he is a firm believer in team management. Borrowing a phrase from In Search of Excellence, "MBWA" ("Management by Walking About"), he said he sees no substitute for interaction of human beings. He likes to think of himself as a facilitator. In his Graduate Institute talk, Mr. Dyal, quoting him first in Spanish, spoke of a favorite philosopher: "My own pilgrimage has been inspired by the words of the Spanish philosopher Antonio Machado, 'Traveler there is no path; paths are made by walking.' "In a time dominated by rapid packaging, instant satellite communication, book digests, and superficial human relations, the depth and breadth of the search for truth and meaning was never more important. When the educational process is simply packaged and marketed, the end result is artificial and only an inch deep. "True, as the new president of St. John's, I celebrate the 'walking,' the path finding through the deep forests and over the high mountains of the great ideas of all times." The Graduate Institute itself received his strong endorsement. "The Institute has the opportunity to reach teachers, business, and government professionals and community leaders to make available the dynamic encounter with the great ideas of the ages. St. John's can thus be the place of renewal for many men and women of many walks of life." He chaJlenged graduates to consider for themselves what Jacques Maritain called reordered priorities: "Of quality over quantity, of work over money, of the human over the technological, of wisdom over science, of common service over greed." �• I Old gym floor boards may look like the sort of debris most people would haul away to the city dump. Bryce Jacobsen, who has spent considerable time running around on gym boards refereeing games as St. John's former athletic director, thinks otherwise. He rather savors the maple boards ~ old varnish, splinters, and all. And he thinks a number of former St. John's athletes will agree with him. As the boards were being ripped up early this summer to make way for new flooring, Mr. Jacobsen salvaged a truckload and took the pieces home to his carpenter's workshop. Several students had told him they, too, would like some of the pieces. Inspiration - what you might call the athlete's pressed rose syndrome struck. What resulted are polished plaques containing a bronze plate bearing the legend: "This maple plaque is made of pieces from the old gym floor at St. John's College 1905-1986." Measuring eight by ten inches, each of the keepsakes required four boards and four hours to complete. The front of each plaque is sanded and polished to reveal the original, light toned maple, and Mr. Jacobsen has burned on a miniature basketball court motif. The back is in the pristine state as students knew the floor. Some preserve the faded markings of courts of yesteryear. As a form of nostalgia, Mr. Jacobsen plans to have them on hand to sell to former St. John's students at homecoming in September. Proceeds are scheduled to go into a new mathematics prize endowment fund which students are establishing in Mr. Jacobsen's name. The 81-year-old boards mark the end of the original floor for Iglehart Hall, the gym's official name. In recent years the floor became badly warped partly because More than 260 people attended the Santa Fe campus' first art auction benefit which raised about $75,000 for the college's scholarship fund. These funds have been added to the Santa Fe campus endowment, and the money earned will be available for student financial aid. During the auction, which was held on July 18, Rupert Fennell of Sotheby's of New York and Beverly Hills, sold 66 items of paintings, silver, Indian artifacts and rare wine which had been donated to the Santa Fe campus in the last 22 years. Mr. Fennell volunteered his time and services. In addition, 145 items were sold in a silent auction the same evening. Some 31 members of the Board of Visitors and Governors and 48 alumni attended the event which also featured songs by Metropolitan and Santa Fe Opera star Maralyn Niska. One person purchased more than $32,000 worth of sale items; the largest single price paid for one item was $ I0,000. A number of paintings and other items were not sold because the bidding did not reach the predeterminied reserve price. there has never been a proper drainage system under the floor. When workmen pulled up the old flooring, they discovered the concrete subfloor had begun to crumble and disintegrate. This summer they are installing drainage tiles covered by four inches of gravel. The new maple floor is being constructed with brackets inset into the wood for volleyball and badminton nets. College treasurer Jeri Rhodes, who said the project would cost $85,000, said the floor is being laid by Harrison Wood Floor Company of Baltimore. The Annapolis firm of Harvey Tolliver is doing the concrete work. The project is scheduled for completion by September 1. Alumni wishing to order plaques may do so through the Alumni Office. Cost is $50 plus $2 for handling. • • I ' I • I Polishing silver for Santa Fe's midsummer art auction are Vice-President Dale Leonard, acting treasurer, board Chairman John Dendahl, Dean James Carey, President Michael Riccards, and board member Owen Lopez. Bicenten ial lect re~ Robert Gold win, A '50, resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, will lecture at 8: 15 p.m. September 12 as part of the college's observance of the 200th anniversarey of the Annapolis Convention. A former dean, Mr. Goldwin heads AEI's Constitutional studies. His lecture, "Bicentennial Thoughts," will be in the Key Auditorium. As part of the celebration, the Maryland Office for the Bicentennial will stage an 18th Century Fair on campus September 14 with costumed crafts people, musicians, entertainers, and soapbox orators to provide entertainment and handson experi~nce with crafts, games, and i other activities of Constitutional era Maryland. The Annapolis Convention was the first multi-state meeting held to discuss deficiencies in the Articles of Confederation. It led to a call to revise the confederation government to make it "adequate to the exigencies of the Union." Tutor's poem appears St. John's College tutor Paul Antal is the author of a poem in English that appears in the spring-summer 1986 edition of World's Word, published by International Expression of the Arts in Washington. The poem is entitled "Communique." Weigle book is valuable one for college by CHARLOTTE FLETCHER Richard D. Weigle. The Colonization ofa College: the Beginning and Early History of St. John's College in Santa Fe (Printed at the St. John's College Print Shop, n.d.) 209 p. with index and illus. St. John's Bookstore cost, $4, plus $1 for mailing. During his thirty years as president of St. John's College, east and west, Richard D. Weigle's greatest satisfaction came from "building an excited and committed faculty" - committed, i.e., to the unique liberal arts program that has sustained the College since 1939. It is clear to readers of The Colonization ofa College that no one was more committed than he. "Because St. John's has alv:ays sought to spread its philosophy of education and methods of teaching in the academic world," he presented a plan to the college board in 1961, suggesting that the college establish "six small colleges (like St. John's) strategically placed over the country ... similar enough to permit the transfer of students (and faculty) from one college to another." The faculty, like the board, supported his proposal. A faculty committee was named to choose a site from among 30 that were offered from locations around the nation. Two major considerations influenced their choice: the "desirability of a pleasant climate and the necessity of a community enthusiastically disposed toward St. John's College educational philosophy." Santa Fe won. As it turned out, to build one other St. John's while maintaining the original was a herculean task. But the success of this single college vindicates Weigle's "colonization" concept. The observance of St. John's Charter Bicentennial year ( 1984-1985) aroused some interest in the founding and early history of the College in Maryland, and in another educator the Rev. William Smith, who conceived, chartered, financed and built Washington College on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1782. And who two years later, in 1784, while serving as president of Washington College, pushed a charter for St. John's through the Legislature, and on to fulfillment. A century later Smith's role was overlooked by centennial historians who singled out four signers of the Declaration of Independence to honor as founders from a long list of subscribers. The principal founder and other subscribers have been neglected until recently. Having this very complete record of its early years. St. John's College in Santa. Fe will, be better informed when its centennial rolls around. This college history is especially valuable for having been written by its prime mover, Richard D. Weigle. It is both a history and an archive, but in no sense an autobiography, although on several occasions the author reveals himself, such as when he speaks of his "elation" when Paul Mellon before Christmas, 1970, proffered an unrestricted gift of $I-million to be divided between the two campuses. "It gave the College a new lease on life and restored any spirits that might have begun to waver" (his and others). Elsewhere he confesses that he found site planning,. fund raising, architectural planning, and building construction "high adventure." Mellon's gift was preceded by one from Clementine Peterson to repay in part a $2-million loan from the Annapolis endowment. (Mellon had not approved of this loan to Santa Fe.) In the same fiscal year the senior class raised a sum of $4,957 to diminish "the principal owed the Annapolis endowment" and "in a small way to express our thanks to Annapolis for helping this campus to come about." The Colonization of a College is a near complete record of how a new college began to function after 1961 according to a curriculum and a polity emanating from its parent campus. It will be appreciated by educators contemplating colonization, college history buffs, and those persons who participated in the Santa Fe venture between 196 land 1974. Mr. Weigle names individuals, corporations, foundations and the Federal Housing and Home Agency, who gave or lent money to finance the undertaking. Appendices list those who served on the Santa Fe faculty, administrative, and clerical staff as well as the freshmen who entered in October 1964 and the trustees between 196 l and 1974. Support of a special kind came from his wife, Mary, whose intuition led her to a phone to receive a call when Robert McKinney first suggested that the college settle in Santa Fe, and from John Gaw Meem and his wife, Faith, who gave generously in many ways, in money, land, and moral support. It is unfortunate that the book is not presented with a proper title page giving place of publication, publisher, and date on its face, and that on its verso there is no copyright date, Library of Congress classification and number, and ISBN number. This data is useful in all retrieval systems. It is valuable to catalogers, booksellers, and re~earchers. �e PAGE& -'' THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1986 oC_fjj,//U. fJJ the C/JJJJJ'll Pex urges social direction for SJC investments To the Editor: This is in response to the articles that appeared in the June issue of The Reporter regarding financial investment and social policy. I am in full agreement with Mr. Goldsmith's observations. Further01ore, I feel no one, be it individual or corporation, can escape being responsible for the use to which their investment funds are put. Money supports justice or injustice, and we have ownership for what our money does. Additionally, it is possible to tie the use of your money to your conscience without suffering financially. There are several options open. First, Mr. Nelson claims that the cost of keeping up with the daily disposition of $28 million is prohibitive. This is not necessarily so. Investment objectives can include some social considerations. Some money-management firms, such as Franklin Research and Development Corporation of Boston, specialize in advising and managing investments in a socially responsible manner consistent with preservation of principal and competitive rates of returns. A small amount of effort on the College's part can at least provide a direction of policy. It may be true that it is not possible to ensure that all financial transactions undertaken are consistent with this policy, but it would at least provide a statement of this institution's principles, as well as provide the impetus to change the momentum of the College's money power. Some may question the appropriateness of an institution making social statement with its money. I reply that such social statements are unavoidable. Any action, even the choice of inaction, is a statement and a rendering of opinion. Institutions are the power of corporations, and to blithely ignore the actions of the caretaker of our power-qua-money is irresponsible. Holding shares is a tacit approval of a company's policies, and shareholders have the responsibility to express approval or disapproval of those _ policies. Mr. Goldsmith states that St. John's College does not vote its proxies. I feel this is a severe abrogation of responsibility. If institutions were to vote their proxies, they could change the course of American corporations, and make corporations more responsive to the sentiments of their shareholders. In my own experience, l work for and hold shares in HewlettPackard, manufacturer of measurement Jlte ~ wottd The Reporter likes to use everypossihle leuer that comes its way. We'd like to call a halt, however, on letters surrounding the McGovern issue. The Annapolis campus has a highly qualified and refreshing president in Mr. Dyal, and it seems a Iiale unfair lo him, at a time when faculty and staffarejoining others in extending Mr. Dyal a warm welcome, to continue them in this line. May Messers Hampton and ."1.hore have the final word. Writer questions Lund's letter To the Editor: At the risk of entering into what may be a tempest in a teapot, I feel compelled to comment on the letter in the June Reporter from Mr. Nelson Lund, A, '74, regarding the non-appointment of George_ McGovern as co-president of the College. Regardless of Mr. Lund's own opinion as to whether Senator McGovern would have been a good choice, I would have thought that he could have couched his comments in more rational terms. Unexplained, conclusory ·statements such as those Mr. Lund employed (i.e., McGovern's appointment would have been an "embarrassment"; McGovern's qualifications for the job being .. none too evident from the public record"; "many alumni would be pained by a forced association with the bizarre view of liberalism that he represents") are the soul of sophistry. How would such an appointment have been an "embarassment," and to whom besides Mr. Lund? What qualifications for the presidents's position exist that Senator McGovern did not meet? How many alumni would be ..pained" by McGovern's appointment? Finally, whar is "bizarre" a bout the view of Ii beralism that McGovern represents - if, indeed, he represents a particular ..view''? Contrary to what often passes nowadays for "conservative" thought, we all still retain the right to our opinions; but we also owe it to our auditors or readers, particularly in the context of an exchange in the pages of a publicati_on of St. John's Col!ege, to at least attempt a coherent .... explanation of such opinions. This Mr. Lund's Jetter failed to do, relying instead on the rhetoric typical of Readers Digest. For an instructive contrast, I'd suggest the article by William M. Goldsmith, '48, in the same issue, which expresses opinions, to be sure, but also provides some reasoning behind them. Bob Hampton Attorney at Law SF '73 Witchita Falls, Texas Shore disagrees also with Lund To the Editor: I strongly disagree with Nelson Lund's views about Senator McGovern's not having been selected to serve as college President. I feel that his selection would have been a wise alternative to the colorless academic apparatchiks he competed against. The Senator is both a national figure, with the best educational background of any past or present American presidential candidate, and a man with proven fundraising skills. Also his personal views continue to provide a welcome relief from the virulent neo-fascism that is currently all the rage in this country. Sincerely yours, Steven Shore SF '68 Columbia, rvtd. and computational instruments. Last year, a shareholder was able to get a South Africa measure put on the ballot (HP has a small sales office in Johannesberg). HP directors and officers own about 30% of the shares, with another 20% held by small investors. This leaves about 50% of the company owned by institutional investors. These· institutions, by remaining silent on this matter, assured that the board of directors' recommendation of a "no" vote was successful. Institutions possess a collective clout, which is used both by exercising it and by remaining silent. · I fully agree with Mr. Goldsmith that the broadest possible framework within the college community should be developed in order to define exactly what its policies should be in regard to its investments. One should not take the lack of expressed student interest as approval of St. John's investment policy. As Mr. Goldsmith implied, there is a degree of insularity on the campuses. This is not totally undesired, as it reflects the intensity which the students and faculty devote to their studies. But once graduated, I feel that students should apply what they have learned to their role as members of the larger community. This is why one finds that it is the alumni that express the most concern with the College's policies. Now, one may ask why I work for a corporation doing business with South Africa, if 1 want to be sociaJly responsible. First, by subscribing to the Sullivan principles, HP does work to actively support integration within its sphere of influence (i.e., the workplace). Also, I do vote my proxy, and with my meager ownership, try to work from within to change the corporation's directions and policy. -The state of Oregon, where I live, has had to face similar problems with its investment strategy. A suit was fought all the way to the State Supreme Court, with the final opinion in favor of the state's Jack of moral concern. This opinion was based on the "prudent man" hypothesis, by which the trustees of the state's funds are required to act as the average prudent man would. This begs the question of where this prudent man is and what investment choices he would make. In my prudent opinion, a company with a major investment in South Africa, and which does not promote social change by subscribing to the Sullivan principles, is not a good investment. As that poor country sinks inexorably into an anarchy of its own devising, political and financial realities will overtake all posturing statements of ..significant financial advantage". In the proposed policy, it is stated that an endowment security should not be selected or retained for the primary purpose of expressing approval of a company's activities, or place the coJlege in a position to contest a company's activities. First, it is possible to have some social directions in one's investment portfolio without sacrificing significant financial advantage. Those companies doing business in South Africa without subscribing to the Sullivan principles do not provide a "significant financial advantage." Second, it is impossible not to own stock and not either contest or approve the company's activities. While I agree that this should,notbe the overriding primary concern, the nature of the company's activities can not be totally ignored. To pose a ridiculous example, if Hitler were selling stock to fund the construction of death camps, I doubt that St. John's (or even the prudent man) woJJld invest, even if it did provide a 30 per cent return (a significant financial advantage). Seldom will the financial world provide investment alternatives with such clear and compelling moral choices. The world is not black and white in its choices, but at least we should make a statement on where we stand in in the grey fog between. Sincerely Yours, David Pex, SF '77 5477 East Ridge St. S. Salem, Oregon 97306 Dick Weigle '2nd to none~ To the Editor: As an active member of the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College for 20 years and a member emeritus ever since, I was happy to read Dr. Richard Weigle's letter to you. I can bear witness to every statement he made. When Dr. Weigle became president of old St. John's College, its finances were in dangerous condition with virtually no endowment fund, and its prestige·. was running low. The Naval Academy was making every effort to take over its land. I am proud to say that my late husband, Senator Millard E. Tydings, prevented that. The prestige of President Weigle and his distinguished father helped to correct these difficulties, and St. John's, Anna po, lis, soon had a fine endowment from the Mellon Foundation and other friends. When he had achieved this for the Annapolis campus, Dr. Weigle conceived the innovative idea of colonizing St. John's fine concept of education, and St. John's College, Santa Fe, came into being, not· without many problems and headaches which President Weigle and his board managed to surmount.- It is not easy to raise millions of dollars. Dr. Weigle appointed many distinguished men and women to the board of St. John's College who met all difficulties and raised the money. To name only a few of these great benefactors: Mr. Paul Mellon, Dr. Thomas Turner, the Hon. Adolph Schmidt, Mrs. Duane Peterson, Mrs. Margaret Driscoll, Mr. and Mrs. John Meem, who gave the land for St. John's, Santa Fe, Mr. J. I Staley, Mr. Thomas Evans, Mrs. Carleton Mitchell, Mrs. Louise Trigg, and many others who contributed so much to the college as well as the many fine members of the faculty. Dr. Weigle rescued old St. John's, Annapolis, created St. John's College, Santa Fe, and made them the great institutions of learning they are today. 1 was privileged to be of some help to him and to see it done in his service to St. John's College. Richard Weigle is second to none. With best wishes, Sincerely, Eleanor D. Tydings Ditzen Washington. D.C. ~ �SEPTEMBER 1986 Have you heard? We've got a great new president To the Editor: As a resident of Annapolis, I thought I should take the opportunity to congratulate the Board of Visitors and Governors on their choice of Bill Dyal as the new President of St. John's College. Like many Annapolitans, I consider St. John's one of our most important community resources, if not our "crown jewel." As a smalJ town, we have more than most: the Naval Academy, choice of excellent churches and schools, and the state capital. But St. John's is always there to remind all of us that one of the more important intellectual undertakings of our society is taking place. Gently juxtaposed next to the disciplined rigor of the Naval Academy, its rolling lawns and soft-red brick buildings are a steady reminder that there is a quiet but intense concentration on the great ideas that build civilization and culture. It has the fragrance of open minds in search of truth, and the sweet scent of curious, open intelligence at work. St. John's importance goes beyond the student body and faculty and the emphasis on the humanities; it is important to the entire community as a symbol of learning and the search for excellence. I have followed with interest some of the controversy surrounding Bill Dyal's appointment and am amused that a college that prides itself on openness of thought should appear to be closed in its initial response to someone about whom they know so little. Having had the good fortune of knowing and working with Bill over the past 20 years, I am secure in my conviction that he will bring to St. John's what he has brought to all of the other institutions that have been enhanced by his presence. You may find it interesting that the St. John's board repeated what occurred when Bill was chosen as the first president of the Inter-American Foundation in 1970. Many prestigious, high-profile national candidates aggressively competed for the job but were all dumbfounded when Bill was chosen. Why? Dante Fascell, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Brad Morse, then the Congressman from Massachusetts and currently the president of the United Nations Development Program, and many others felt that Bill Dyal had that rare combination of intelligence, energy and vision to carry out one of the Let's keep word alumni To the Editor: With regard to the question of finding a gender neutral name for the Alumni Association, I can give one alumna's firm opinion that we should always speak of alumni! l have two reasons: first, that you can only conform so far to the fashionable attitudes and speech and, second, that (although I'm not sure) l would think the masculine plural stood for mixed groups, as it does in French. N'est-ce pas? Or was the whole question of changing the word a joke? Ruth Johnston Staver, A '85 591 Maple Street Liverm~i:e~ Calif. 94550 PAGE·7 . THE REPORTER most unique experiments our nation has ever undertaken in the hemisphere. The Congress wanted an institution built on establishing a partnership with Latin Americans and Caribbeans that was based on dignity and respect, one that reached deeply into the societies and dealt directly with the poor, the intellectual community, universities and civic organizations. In a city where many new institutions never get off the ground, or where their demise is hastened by the change in administration, Bill Dyal built an institution that endures and flourishes. And he built one that on a daily basis is engaged in some of the Great Ideas of our times. When Bill moved to the Ford Foundation and then on to the American Field Service (AFS), he continued his work of bringing understanding and cooperation around the world. These institutions were able to grow in their ability to carry out their programs because of his leadership and vision. Bill's ability to reach out and establish the AFS teacher exchange program with China is one of the remarkable stories of our times. Our media robs us of the knowledge that men like Bill Dyal continue to work on a daily basis for the universal truths that guide St. John's. He has been carrying out in the rough and tumble world in which we and the majority .of the world's population live what the students and faculty of St. John's study in the quiet of their academic community. I suspect there is a need to bring those two worlds into closer understanding. Leonard Bernstein came close to one of those truths when he commented, "The source of aU creativity is diversity.,, Bill is not your typical college president, but I've never assumed that St. John's is your run · of the mill college. There is a network of students, intellectuals, university presidents, civic, trade union, and peasant leaders throughout the world that resonate together in their expression of friendship and gratitude for the support and understanding they have received from Bill Dyal. And they would all join me, as I hope all of those from the· city, faculty and s.tudent body who cherish St. John's will join me in congratulating the Board on their choice. Sincerely yours, Stephen G. Vetter Vice-President of Programs Inter-American Foundation Library featured A color photograph of the Annapolis library appears on the July-August issue of Choice magazine, the nationally distributed reviewing magazine which goes to colleges and universities. For some reason, the photograph is reversed with the big sycamore appearing on the left instead of the right of the building. Librarian Kathryn Kinzer had another way of knowing. "I can tell by the rot," she joked about the dry rot appearing at the base of one of the columns. A Choice staff member dashed hopes for quick repair. .. You would be surprised at the number of libraries that hope they will be fixed up by getting their pictures on the cover of Choice." Otherwise, the library looks great. Honor Roll Addendum The Advancement Office in Annapolis has been notified of the following who were omitted or incorrectly identified in the" l 984-85 Hon or Roll of Donors" (for gifts received in the period of July I, 1984-June 30, 1985). Warren C. Bomhardt '42 Member, King William Associates T. Lansdale Hill '41 Member, Francis Scott Key Donors William G. Spohn, Jr., '44 Member, St. John's Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Warren Winiarski Members, St. John's Sponsors (Warren P. Winiarski '52) (Barbara Dvorak Winiarski '55) Corrected class identification: Graduate Institute-Annapolis '82 Paul Finney Graduate Institute-Annapolis '82 Margit Sawdey Paul Schatzberg Graduate lnstitute-Annap'?lis '82 Name misspelled: Arthur W. Dowell, Jr., '39 Board cou Id act in October (O:mtinued from P. 1) bers. While praising the proposed policy as modest and intelligent, Seth Cropsey, SF '72, argued that the college already possesses the authority requisite for handling questions of investment. John E. Robson, a former board chairman, also cited the need for the college to have the highest degree of flexibility possible in handling its investments. Referring to his own experience in the Federal government, Mr. Robson warned Peti~ion urges apartheid action A petition circulated on the Santa Fe campus asks that St. John's take steps to bring economic pressure to help end apartheid in South Africa. Signed this summer by 66alumni, faculty, staff members, and others, the petition urges .. those responsible for the governance of the college to take responsible and appropriate steps in their management of the college's investments to add to the economic pressure that seeks an end to apartheid in South Africa." The petition protests South Africa's ..cruel methods" of enforcing apartheid as something "recognized everywhere as an offense against humanity." the board that once one begins writing rules and regulations, regulatory agencies find they may frequently lead to unanticipated ends. Before a mechanism is put in place, he advised members, it is necessary to consider its legal implications and where it may lead. The proposal that the board consider both adopting a policy and not having one and considering the implications of· both alternatives came from Elspeth D. Rostow, professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, who said she had sat in on a number of discussions of divestments. The proposal put forth by the Nelsons "major and minor," she said, provided the "first intelligent" option of which she knew. As a model for action, she said it would be "most usefuJ." The alumni statement takes into consideration the purpose of the college as an institution of higher education. WHILE IT STA TES that the "primary fiduciary responsibility of the college's trustees in investing and managing the college endowment securities is to maximize the financial returns on those resources," it begins with a statement adapted from the College Polity describing St. John's role as an institution of higher ]earning. In his remarks, amplified in an address at the Santa Fe homecoming dinner that evening, Christopher Nelson spoke of the question of St. John's moral responsibil- ity in such situations. "Our obligation as a college is not to make money but to provide an education," he declared. He said the proposed policy would set in place procedures whereby questions of investment may be judged against a standard expressed in its mission of education. In his opening comments, Charles Nelson said that unlike other institutions of higher learning, which have had to react quickly under pressure to resolve disp,1tes, St. John's has been free of disruptiou and violence and, in examining the issue, " 11as looked coolly in the leisure provided by a rational community.,, Michael David, Santa Fe student representative to the board, said at the conclusion of the discussion that St. John's position on investments will be an issue for incoming students. Alumni write, New Republic Five members of Annapolis' Class of 1979 have shot off a letter to The New Republic saying, on the basis of its June 9 story on St. John's College and Brown University, ••something has gone terribly, terribly wrong at St. John's since we left." They were asking, in effect, where has all the partying gone? With others here, they felt the Philip Weiss story, while in some ways flattering, had given a distorted and unrealistic protrayal of student life and attitudes in Annapolis. The article trashed Brown University. Signing the letter as "The Girls Who Loved To Dance," as they were called during their student days, were Marjorie Alli,. son, of Denver; Kathy Buck, of Norfolk, Va.; Marjorie Hutter, of Washington; Liz Leatherwood, of Fort Worth, Tex., and Lisa Simeone, of Baltimore. Mr. Weiss did find the seminar ··exciting." "The argument was over whether Kant thought a person has free will to obey the moral imperatives he arrives at intelleetually. AH but a couple of the 18 students participated. The cmwersation was wideranging and almost always serious. At times it was hard to believe that 20-yearolds were speaking with the clarity and force of these students about philosophical issues." Thaw writes review Eugene Thaw, A '47, is the author of a highly laudatory review of two books by John Reward, Studies in Impressionism and Studies in Post-Impressionism, that appears in the June 30 issue of Tiw New Republic. �8 t "A [)it ofa hassle" is the way Dr. Arthur Warwick, of Annapolis, describes balancing his practice in psychiatry with fulltime attendance at the Graduate Institute. Nevertheless, in his third summer of a master's program modeled upon the college's nationally known undergraduate program, Dr. Warwick had no intention of withdrawing from the Annapolis program that has attracted, among its 80 stuq,ents, 19 persons with advanced degrees. Dr. Warwick was brought into the program by his friend, Dr. Nicholas Capozzoli, Annapolis neurologist, an institute graduate who last winter was named as a part-time tutor at St. John's. Enrolled also was a second doctor, retired pathologist, Dr. Richard Malmgren, who, with his wife, Elizabeth, a potter, constituted the only husband-wife team at the Graduate Institute this year. Both he and Dr. Warwick were in their third summer of work and engaged in the Mathematics and Science Segment, tackreadings as disparate as those in ArisDarwin, Freud, and Lobachevski. Besides two physicians, Geoffrey Comber, Graduate Institute director, said there were 12 enrolled with master's degrees, two with doctorates, and three with law degrees. About half of the students who attended the Graduate Institute - some 42 - were teachers instructing youngsters from kindergarten through twelfth grades. Another four taught at a college level, and there were two paralegals and one nurse. Others were following varied careers; among them were a fingerprint technician,. speech clinician, and a cryptologic mathematician. The youngest person enrolled was a l 9year-old rising Amherst College ,sophomore, David Truog, who had received special permission to attend the institute with his father, Dean Truog; of Cambridge, Mass. Here for his first time, David Truog plans to return and hopes to complete his St. John's master's degree one summer after he graduates from Amherst. A profile shows more than half the students came from Maryland and Pennsylvania. Others came from throughout the United States with one each from Canada, China, and Germany. St. John's master's program, which this month will expand into a year-round program, leads to a degree in liberal education. One teacher here with a doctorate, Hugh Black, who teaches at a top ranked high school in the high tech center of Huntsville, Ala., reported his experience in adapting the St. John's method to an advanced level class in government that included 24 National Merit Scholars. One of the scholars, who has gone on to Yale, told him that it was the most rewarding experience of his education. Dr. Black received his doctorate from Vanderbilt University in 1981. His interest in St. John's stems in part from the books of Mortimer Adler, a member emeritus of the Board of Visitors and Governors. I t The Annapolis campus' security force means business when it comes to illegally parked cars in the college's overcrowded parking lots. Chief Harold Michaelis said that in the year that ended July l campus police issued 386 warnings and handed out 83 $IO fines. In addition, they towed away 36 cars. The great majority of the towed cars were vehicles lacking the St. John's bumper stickers enabling them to park at the campus. College community members who have received three warnings that they have parked illegally also are subject to towing as well. Under the college system, before they take final action, police take all towing recommendations to the assistant deans and college treasurer. In some cases involving students, a reprimand may suffice. Faculty and staff members are not exempt from fines. ..A car's a car," Chief Michaelis said. "It doesn't matter who it belongs to. We try to be as even handed as possible. Rules have to apply equally." Fines are paid at the Security Office. Cars go to Winegardner's Auto Care at 20 Lee Street where they can be retrieved for $45. Laboratory technician John Cook shows off his model for the St John's seal. Jerry Abrams photo A bronze seal for St. Johns St. John's 87-year-old John Cook is· attempting to convert a manhole cover into a work of art. The Annapolis campus' laboratory technician has made a wooden model of the St. John's seal for the manhole at the foot of the quad steps behind McDowell. It would replace a piece of plywood now in place. A retired marine pattern maker and foundry supervisor with the Naval Academy's Engineering Department, Mr. Cook has worked at St. John's on a parttime basis for the past 28 years helping build laboratory equipment. He thought up the notion of a bronze James Beall lectures abroad * Attending the 15 year reunion luncheon of the Class of '71 at Santa Fe's homecomi9g wer;e, from leO •. Dem Stillwell.• David G.leich.er, a.nd Toro Rush.ton. Two Annapolis tutors, Howard Fisher and Chester Burke, will devote a third of their teaching duties during the fall semester to a review of the college's laboratory program, including the manuals. One of the tutors will complete the results of their findings during the second semester. No major changes are anticipated, but rather they will attempt to make better what the college already is doing. In addition, under the college's faculty development program, Nicholas Maistrellis will lead a study group devoted to the senior laboratory program for tutors who are either actively teaching in. it or who wish to do so. They will include Mr. Dos. kow, Henry, Higuera,,and,Jo,e,Sachs. seal as the second such replica he has executed. A six-foot copy of the Naval Academy's seal which he designed is now in place near the academy's Tecumseh. Still to be cast in bronze, the St. John's project is awaiting approval of the Faculty Planning Committee. Cost is expected to be about $1,800. Making beautiful things is not new in Mr. Cook's life. He did the model work for the large columns outside the Baltimore Art Museum's new wing and much of the design for the stone work inside. His Freedom Head, which he carved in mahogany for a sailing vessel, is now exhibited at St. Michael's, Md., and featured on one of that town's postcards. Study to begin of laboratory Annapolis tutor )ames Beall, an astrophysicist, lectured in May in Vukano,. Italy at a symposium devoted to high energy and ultra-high energy phenomena in accretion disks. The conference was sponsored by the Institute for Astrophysical Specialties of Frascati. Mr. Beall spoke on "The Propagation of Relativistic Particle Beams from Accretion Disks." In late July he was at the University of. Lodz in Poland to lecture on variability i1,1 . active galaxies and to collaborate with other scientists in a study of the production of gamma rays in active galaxies. Mr. Heall also lectured this summer at the International Ultraviolet Explorer Headquarters in Madrid and at the Institute for Cosmic Physics in Milan. �Institute has Chinese student tion was over, she was permitted to return to Chongqing, and she took a position as an accountant with the Transportation Cooperation Office. Then came an opportunity to complete her education at the Educational Institute of Chongqing. After her graduation, the institute invited her to return as a teacher. "I'm very happy about things at St. John's. People are very well educated, very friendly, very helpful, from director (Geoffrey Comber, institute director) to workers. Everyone gives me a very good impression and makes me happy to study here." In addition to learning, Ms. He also is teaching Chinese and calligraphy twice a week. During thefall semester she will be living at the home of friends of the college, Captain and Mrs. Robert Hunt. Swiftly, deftly, almost before the visitor's door was shut, He Yixian had brought cups of Chinese tea (lnd honeyed almonds to her desk from the miniature culinary unit she had established in her dormitory closet. Later came the poem she wrote on June 28, soon after entering St. John's College's Graduate Institute. It is called "A Stranger l Arn From China." A stranger lam from China, With love for knowledge I stay here, Kindness can be found everywhere In tutors, classmates, staff members, and director, World friendship from human virtue is dear. St. Johns with unique characteristics l admire, Classes are so alive with fresh discovery there, So free and open with profound understanding the atmosphere, So absorbing the teaching and the best of our civilizations literature. I'll return with intelligence extended and extending to the future. Grace He, to use the English name she ~ has adopted, first heard about the Graduate Institute in China at Sichuan University, w.here she was studying at the time. An American woman lecturing on education in this country mentioned the college. Much intriguedd, Ms. He in 1985 located a St. John's catalogue in the Peking city library. "Since then I have been dreaming of participating in your program," she wrote in her application to the Graduate Institute. NOW WITH HER summer's work completed, she will continue her studies here this fall and in January transfer to Santa Fe for a semester on that campus. The books in the Literature Segment in which she has been engaged are not all new. "When l was young, before the Cultural Revolution, I read Homer in Chinese," this 35-year-old teacher of English said. And her first acquaintance with Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare and Milton also was gained in China. .. Yet I found it very different here," she said ...We have very lively discussions. I can learn a lot more. The tutors are very competent and talented. My classmates are very active and helpful. We share our views. Often we discuss books after class. Discussions are open and very frank, and very deep." Ms. He is here on a tuition scholarship from the institute, and other costs are being covered by an American sponsor, .. Uncle Hal" Osgood, of Washington, who as a young man, became friends with Grace's father. Educated for eight years in London during the 1930s her father, Hoh Chih Chun, was one of six top officers serving under General (Vinegar) Joe Stilwell in China during World War H. Her father's· friendship with Mr. Osgood was interrupted and only re-established in 1981. .. He worked for my father and sa.id he would always remember my father's kindness,'' she said of her sponsor. Ms. He has won the admiration of fellow stud~nts ~nd tutors including that of PAGE9 THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER 1986 HE YIXIAN her semmar leader, Gisela Berns, who praised her courage. "SHE REALLY has been remarkable," Mrs. Berns said. "She was very timid at first because there is a big difference in how one behaves in classrooms in China and in America especially at St. John's." But Mrs. Berns said Ms. He very quickly caught on to the point of what St. John's wanted and became an active seminar participant. "She does it with determination and grace and politeness," Mrs. Berns said. "She's just very admirable. She reads very carefully and thinks deeply and interweaves examples of her own life and~liter­ ature of China in a way that is instructive and that everyone wants to hear. She is very quick and very intelligent." Ms. He's· St. John's experience has meant a major adjustment in habits. Her education was interrupted by the Cultural RevolutiOn. She had ·just completed her middle school education when she and her sister were removed to the countryside 500 miles from home and worked with peasants on farms. Because her sister was musically talented and Grace a good dancer, they joined a troupe which performed Chinese folk dances and ballet. "During the Cultural Revolution intellectuals suffered a lot, including my parents," she said. "Young people did not study. My parents liked to study. Butthey suffered and had no freedom during those cflaotic years." . Later came four years of teaching Chinese, English, music, chemistry, and physics at a middle school. When the revolu- r ne J nat a as r fi I s Jonathan D. Krane, SF '72, has produced four films which will be released . during 1986. They include A Fine Mess, starring Howie Mandel and Ted Danson; Thats Life, starring Jack Lemon, Julie Andrews, and Sally Kellerman; ·Blind Date, starring Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger, and Public Enemies, starring John Travolta and Whoopi Goldberg. Mr. Krane is president and chief executive officer of his own proctuction and management company, Management Company Entertainment. He manages some 45 writers, directors, and actors, including John Travolta, Howie Mandel, Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews, Neal Israel, Sally Kellerman, Marilu Henner, Sandra Bernhard, and Carol Kane. Mr. Krane has produced other feature films and films for television including Micki and Maude and several Pink Panther films. Prior to entering the. entertainment industry, Mr·. Krane, who holds a degree from Yale Law School, was an attorney. Slakey at workshop Annapolis Dean Thomas J. Slakey will in a faculty workshop on interdisciplinary studies at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., September 11. It is expected to incorporate discussion of a lecture on liberal education by the late Jacob Klein, former dean. Also invited to participate are faculty members from Wellesley and Bradley Colleges. partic~pate Tutor named to fellowship Annapolis tutor Wye Allanbrook has· been awarded a $30,000 grant as a fellow of the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, N.C. for the 198687 academic year. · On leave from the college, she will be writing on expression in instrumental music of the classic period. She will commute weekends to Annapolis, where her husband, Douglas Allanbrook, will continue to teach at St. John's on a one-third basis. Mrs. Allanbrook is the author of Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' which was brought out in paperback this spring by the University of Chicago Press. Earlier this year sh~ delivered a paper before the Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on the topic, "Mozart's Happy Endings: A New Look at the 'Convention' of the 'Lieto ·Fine."' erliner (Continued from P. 12) days, had to be extremely precise. "The single most valuable thing I got out of St. John's was Euclidean geometry. A solid knowledge of geometry is terrific in the building trade." And, he affirmed, with special emphasis, "Building is geometry." The other influences of St. John's education were more indirect for this history and biography buff. "They affected my interests and broadened them, especially my reading. education affected my recreational life. think I enjoy life more because I had a St. John's education." The ability to analyze a situation and then articulate issues, something St. John's students learn, became important in working with his customers, contractors, and his own workmen. After four years at St. John's, Mr. Berliner is looking forward to more St. John's education. He hopes to enroll in the Graduate Institute when it begins a year-round program this fall. This year, during the question periods that follow lectures, when he sits on one of the new upholstered chairs, his feet solidly on a flat floor, he can forget about clutching the sides of the chairs to keep from sliding off. He can also look at the room with an expert's eye and say, ••There was a lot of detail involved in this room. That was a hell of a lot of work." Inaugurations to be next spring (Continued from P.1) ent at the Hilton to participate with ..all jubilation appropriate for the occasion." St. John's active Alumni Association board already is giving thoughts to the curriculum's fiftieth anniversary. Alumni have named John Van Doren, A' 47, as chairman. In a bouyant, up-beat mood, St. John's began its new era of twin presidencies in July with opportunities to meet the presidents during the Santa Fe homecoming banquet, at meetings of the Boards of Visitors and Governors and Alumni Association, and at the art.auction. .. Mike hit the ground running on the 25th of June," Mr. Dendahl informed the board ... Since then I've had from the staff unsolicited but nicely phrased reports about what a super reception he has had and how delighted they are to be working with him. That comes to the board as great news." In order to wind up his work with the American Field Service International/ lntercultural Program, Mr. Dyal will delay beginning his residency in Annapolis until homecoming later this month. But during the summer months, at his desk in New York, he already was at work on St. John's matters and in regular telephone communication with the college. Besides his three-day visit in August at the time of the Graduate Institute com..: mencement, he will preside at the convocation of the college on September 4 and at the first faculty meeting September 2. Both gracious men in their remarks to one another and to the St. John's community, they appear determined to make the new administration system replacing a single president succeed. Anet they were hard at their efforts in Santa Fe. ''I've seen more of Bill than my wife and kids during the last two days," Mr. Riccards told trustees of their first on-campus meetings. In expressing his gratitude and appreciation to the board for his presidency, Mr. Dyal noted that the two presidents don't think or look alike but spoke of their unity through diversity just as it is expressed in other parts of the college community. "We both want this historic moment to really work,·· he assured ·members...We are both committed to it - pledged to it.,. �10 Lonti1rnH~ from P. 2) campus, plan five months travel while he is on sabbatical. They India, Sri Lanka, Engand several European countries. 1972 the six years to the day, l left the Attorney's Office in Albuquerque am now a principal in a start-up biotec:hnol<>gy firm called Rho Med," writes Slusher, SF. "We are develapplication technology for using monoclonal antibodies for cancer detection and treatment. I also do some teachand practice law in my spare time." Galen N. Breningstall, SF, is assistant professor of pediatrics and neuat Temple University and attending staff physician at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. He and his wife, Jena Morris Breningstall, SF '74, are in Philadelphia with their children, 10: David, 7; Nehama, 3; and Lieb, I. Jena works part time as a JL§·~·u.,.... ~ Robert M. Hampton, SF, is a lawyer for West Texas Legal Services and the Texas Civil liberties Union. Bob, his wife Toni~ and their baby, Kaitlin Maria, born in Janu.arv_ live in Witchita Falls, Tex. 1974 SF. reports that his M1:ch11ga1n-tJ~as~:a company, Applegate Insulation Systems, has opened a manufacin Phoenix. A resident of WilTerry has a son born in No"·ember 1984. f\aPOH<a, A, is now registrar and professor of Polish studies at St. Orchard Lake, Mich. His annotated translation of Stanislaw WysJhe Wedding, considered one of finest of symbolist drama, will this year by Ardis in Ann A~>plegat4ai, Arbor. ua1pri1ne Greene Kapolka, A is a lieutenanc in the U.S. Navy and cu1rrenuys1.ationed in Newport awaiting a transfer to Michigan. The Ka polkas have two Andrzej and Basia, ages 6 and 8. 1975 Robin Elisabeth Date!, SF. and her husband, Dennis Dingemans, announce the birth of Theodore Robert Dingemans 28. to teach a geography the second summer session at the of California-Davis and return this fall to lier part-time research appointment in environmental design. "In i continue my research on in the American Southin 1920sand 1930s,"shewrites. ""and serve as a trustee for the California Preservation Foundation." Miriam SFGI. would like to know about any alumni seminars meeting in the Los Santa Monica area. She attended summer program of the AmeriC'Jn Academy of Dramatic Arts, 76~ Pasadena campus. Miriam's address is c/o 1280 North Hill Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91104. Her telephone number is (818) 791-0822. 1976 Paula Fulks. SF, practices law for Corporation. She and her husband, Lawrence Vander Haan, have a three-year-old daughter, Jessica Nicol.e. They are living in St. Louis. SF, and The wedding of Pablo Paula Connelly on May 25 in the Church of St. Thomas Aquinas Washi.ngton, was an occasion for a number of Johnnies to get together. According to Richard SF, who works for an aavert1smg agency in Chicago, those attending included John Pilcher, SF, a lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers, and his wife, Suzanne; and Barbara Skaug Lauer, SF, and her husband, Ted. "Barbara is finishing up her second year of clerking for the Wyoming Supreme Court and is looking forward to next year when Ted will be on sabbatical from the Law School of the' University of Wyoming," Rick writes. "Mary Cason Rosen, SF, brought along pictures of her new daughter, Quillan Rosen, born March 23. Mary and her husband, Bill Rosen, both work in New York, she for American Express, he in publishing." Also at the wedding was Irene Marcuse, SF '75, who attends Columbia University. "Pablo is working on a variety of real estate rehabilitation ventures," Rick reports. The Collinses are living in Washington after a honeymoon in the Bahamas. Margaret Donsbach, SF, reports that on February I she married Blair Csuti, a zoologist who is writing a manual on the selection and design of nature preserves for Stanford University Center for Conservation Biology. Margaret works for "the unique and fascinating Museum of Modern Mythology, the world's only museum of advertising characters," in San Francisco. On exhibit are the Jolly Green Giant, Speedy Alka-Seltzer "and lots more of your old favorites.... l serve as their director of development and also edit the membership newsletter." Anyone interested in learning more about the museum can write to her, c/ o Museum of Modern Mythology, 693 Mission Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94105. "l 'm a psychotherapist both in private practice and in a clinic, working on my doctorate, doing a lot of running and generally feeling busy, alive and well," writes Betsy Davenport, SF, who has lived in Portland, Ore., for nearly eight years. Glenda Holladay Eoyang, SF, writes instructional materials and computer documentation. "l 'm considering starting my own company to do the same," she reports from St. Paul, Minn., "but do it better and more profitably." Miriam Marcus Smith, SF, expects to receive a B.A. degree in September with a major in health care economics and ethics, a self-designed, integrative study. A registered nurse .. Miriam hopes to find employment in health analysis policy planning or biomedical ethics "and will probably end up in grad school in a couple of years." She lives in Bothell, Wash. William A. Malloy, SF, is a revenue officer at the U.S. Department of Treasury (Internal Revenue Service) in Houston, Tex. He also serves as director of President Ronald Reagan greets Cdr. Elmer M. Jackson, Jr., A '27, former president of the Alumni Association, in a White House ceremony honoring him for his patriotic endeavors as national trustee and immediate past president of the Maryland Society, Sons of the American Revolution, and for his newspaper editorials. Mrs. Jackson and Congresswoman Marjorie Holt also were present. -white House photo acolytes at ~t. Anthony the Great Orthodox Church in Houston. 1977 1 Cornelia Miller,A, has surfaced in Korea and soon will be on the way to eastern Africa. She writes: "I am a consular officer in Seoul, which is no treat, to say the least; we are extremely busy with the push of 40million Koreans toward the U.S. I suppose the Philippines is worse, or Mexico, but this is cold comfort. However, the food is great, the people friendly, and the countryside very lovely indeed so life on the whole is just fine. "Come January 1987 I'm headed to Bujumbur, the capital of Burundi, as an economics officer. It should be less sleepy than it sounds. l think I'll travel a lot to see what's happening out in the bush (if anything) ... Just learned that Wm Owen, A, is also in the Foreign Service! I hope he'll let me know sometime where he is so I can write." Mary Cernicek, SFG l, is a training specialist in management/ communication at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She sends news of her children: Molly, a senior at Berkeley; Ann, a junior at Colorado College; and David, a senior in high school. "Both girls are varsity soccer players - both have played in the NCAA Final Four." "I own Native American Trading Co., a gallery of fine southwest and native American art located across from the Denver Art Museum. Clients include Ralph Lauren and George Lucas," Robin ~id­ del, SF, reports. She lives in Evergreen, Colo. Michael R. Jones, SF, is assistant professor of philosophy at Marquette University. Michael and his wife, Sarah, had their first child, Peter Kenneth, on April 24. They are living in Mundelein, Ill. "I was ordained and graduated with a Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1982," Janet HellnerBurris, SF, writes from Minneapolis, where she ·is associate pastor of the First Christian Church. "All Johnnies are welcome!" Janet and her husband live at 3133 40th Avenue Sou~h, Minneapolis, MN ·' 55406.Telephone: (612) 722-4045 (home), (612) 870-1868. 1978 David Walter Nelson, SF, is an engineering technician with a San Jose company, working with hybrid integrated circuits. Marion Billington, SF, and Julia Inscoe were married in 1984 when both were teaching in Turkey. They now teach at an international school in Surabaya, Indonesia. .. I opened Four Star Fiction and Video last year," David D. Smith, SF, writes from Madison, Wis. "The store specializes in foreign and classic videos and has one of the largest selections of fiction in the U.S." Theodore H. Merwin, SFGI, married Leslie Sixfin, a pianist, on Janurary 4. He has an eight-year-old stepdaughter. A resident of Staten Island, N.Y., Theodore manages a Radio Shack computer center in Manhattan. At the Denver School for Gifted and Creative Children, Karen Gasser, SFG I, is "setting up a class on classical (Greek, Shakespeare, etc.) plays and r~aywrights for 9 to 14-year-olds. Can yl>u suggest people, institutions, etc., who I could contact for good tips for bringing such material to this age group?" She adds that she is singing with Opera Colorado and the Denver Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Karen's address is 430 South Newland Street, Lakewood, CO 80226. 1979 Daniel J., SF, and Teresa Raizen proudly announce the birth of Nathaniel Isaac Raizen on June 10. They live in Watertown, Mass. Another birth announcement comes from Richard P. Kempa, SF, of Tucson. He and his wife, Fern, had a daughter, Claire Atalaya, on July 22. Rick is completing an MF A degree in creative writing at the University of Arizona, where he teaches. Marjorie Hutter, A, has been awarded a two-year fellowship to the University of (Continued on P. 11) �SEPTEMBER 1986 PAGE 11 THE REPORTER Massachusetts to pursue a master's degree 79831. in public administration and policy. She 1982 says, "The program director is familiar From Albuquerque comes news of with"St. John's and is pleased to be enrolSte~1hen leach, SF, and ·his wife, Kelly Genova, SF. He is working toward a ling one of its graduates." master's degree in philosophy at the UniLisa Simeone, A, who has been with versity of New Mexico. "It's not particuWET A in Washington just shy of two years, has joined a new listener supporter larly riveting," he comments. "Otherwise things roll on in the typical, inexorable station broadcasting from Johns Hopkins fashion." University. Kelly is clerking for the Chief Judge of Lisa will be a radio announcer for FM88-WJHU which went on the air the New Mexico Court of Appeals. "I am beginning my third year in the August 25. She had been commuting to Ph.D. program in computer sciences at Baltimore. Haoov to be working again in Baltimore, she writes: the Unviersity of Texas, Austin," reports 'Tll be on from 8 a.m. to I p.rn. MonAdam Farquhar, SF. "My studies have centered on mechanical learning and artiday through Friday live, Sunday evenings ficial intelligence." from 7 to 8 on tape (a vocal music proJavier Gomez Rodriguez, SF, is a gram), and I'll be the host for the 13-week Baltimore Symphony Orches.tra series ·legal assistant for Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliff in San Francisco. His wife, Kathproduced by W JH U and broadcast nationally beginning in October. This great · erine, died in December 1983. Francis Frode Ostberg (Steen}, SF, station, and I walk to boot! Quite a and Cassandra Jake Keller of California change from the daily drive to Arlington. were married on April 11. They are living Maybe· I'll send my car off the nearest in Norway. cliff. .. " "I am doing a master's in computer Kimberly K. Boon, SF, of Breckenscience; doing corporate training for IBM ridge, Colo., is coordinator of senior serpersonnel on the P.C.; and trying to vices for the Summit County Department decide whether or not to get a Ph.D. in of Human Services. After receiving a mascognitive studies next," Sara Marcy, SF, ter's degree in political science, she began writes from Spring Valley, N. Y. a PH.D. program but "decided to put it on Catharina (Tina) Clark, SF, will begin hold for a while." studying at the Fashion Institute of TechAnker Anthony lerret, SF, is a sysnology in the fall. tems programmer with Eastern Airlines in "Just got back from two years in Africa Miami. After receiving a BSEE degree last winter," William (Bill) Sorensen, from Kansas State University, he served in SF, reports. He expected to be at Columthe Peace Corps in St. Vincent, West bia University Teachers College in August. Indies, from 1981 to 1984. Joshua McDavid, SF, is in his third Margaret (Maggie} Rude Duensing, year of medical school at the University of SF, would like to hear from St. John's North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He and his alumni. She was married last September wife have one child, Kai. and is practicing law in the area of civil litigation. Address: 4141 Floral Place, St. 1983 Louis, MO 63110. Telephones: (314) 776A. Joe Rising, SF, is owner-operator 1910 (home) and (314) 231-3332 (work). of Shanti Camp, "an environmental edu1980 cation center with a focus on community Stephen Crampton, SF, and Shelley relationships and peaceful alternatives to Ann Paxton of Midland, Texas, were modern day social/environmental probmarried December 28, 1985, and are living lems." He is living in Pine City, N.M. in Pioneer, Tenn. Steve is a lawyer with Kate A, who joined the St. the firm of Baker, Worthington, Crassley, John's admissions staff following her graStansberry and Woolf. duation, has resigned in order to begin Anne Dutton, A, was married in Decwork August 28 on a master's degree in ember oflast year to Steven Lazrove. "My English literature at Columbia University. husband, whom I met here in Japan, and l She has been serving as assistant director are both practicing Zen under Yamada, of admissions. Ko-un and plan to be here for several Justin SF, plays in the band, more years until we finish our formal "Neon Zia," in Santa Fe with Johnnies training," she writes. Their address is 1-7Kathleen Campbell, SF '73, and Tim10 Yuligahama, Kamakura, Japan 248. othy SF '85. In addition, he is Cullen SF, has been prac"doing experimental music" with the ticing law in Santa for the past two Hologramaphone Performance Ensemble, years. He also teaches Euclid to students which also includes Peter SF, at the Delancey Street halfway house with and Nelson SF '85. Justin adds Martha Clark Dabney, SF '78. that he is a volunteer at the Talaraya CenCullen was married May I 0 to the ter and is studying native farming techformer Jane Bergquist, an illustrator of niques. greeting cards. Cathy Berry, A, completed Goucher College's Post Baccalaureate Premedical 1981 Program in May. "After teaching 12th grade English and Sister Barbara Medina, SFG I, enterthe humanities for nine years, I've been ed Benet Hill Priory, Colorado Springs in doing secondary curriculum work for the August 1983, and took her first vows in past two," writes Marilynn SFG I, August 1985. She is teaching social studies who is living in Indio, Cal. Her son is and physical education at Emerson Junior attending the U.S. Naval Academy. High School. Aimee Robson Morris, SF, is studyJoel Block, A, graduated from Iowa ing law at the University of San Diego. State University in l 985 and has com"Joe (Morris, SF '80) got his M.F.A. in pleted his first year of medical school at drama and is getting into TV/ film enginthe University of Iowa. eering production. Owen Goldin, SF '79, Patricia (Trisha) Bennett Fike, SF, and Pat Kilgore just had a beautiful baby has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon boy named Woody," Aimee reports. The Fellowship in the Humanities. She will Morrises, who live in San Diego, also enter Stanford University this fall to begin have a child. work on her doctorate in philosophy. lance Forsythe, SF, is working on his .. I am working as a full time storytellermaster's thesis at Sul Ross University, writer-artist and part time waitressAlpine, Texas, and expects to graduate teacher," Roxanne Seagraves, SF, renext summer. He would like to hear from ports from Currboro, N .C. "My reperJohnnies who are in the field of geology. toire is primarily original mat~~ial coupled His address: P.O. Box 444, Alpine, TX with an eclectic collection ot folk tales. I am currently booking a fall tour on the east coast and am considering a west coast trip in the spring of 1987." 1984 George from the University of Maryland School of Law in May and began work with the Anne Arundel County Public Defender's Office in August. His wife, the former Geraldine Edgell, A, is working for a degree in biochemistry at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Last summer she was awarded a March of Dimes Fellowship to work in the Human Genetics Department of the University of Maryland Hospital. "I am currently serving as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, working in financial management," John C. Hartnett, SF, writes from Vista, Cal. "I have a lovely wife and a beautiful daughter, Sarah, who at six months of age is already beginning her St.John's entrance essays." 1985 Martin (Marty} Marklin, A, who studied the acoustics of organs in West Germany under a Watson Fellowship, wrote last summer from Austria that he was on his way to Hungary. "I am traveling with bicycle through Europe. Until now I have traveled 3,000 kilometers and am about half way finished." Kelly Cowling, SF, is living in Ben Lomond, Cal., with her husband and daughter, Sine. "I'm just finishing the first of a series of classes that will earn me my pre-school teaching credential; I can hardly wait to teach again." she says. w;.:m;:icE~. SF, is an editorial assistant to the editor, acquiring books in the sciences at the University of Chicago Press. "It's a fascinating position from which to view the machinations and intrigue of the glamorous, exciting world of scholarly publishing .... seriously, it's a fun job, the books are interesting, and I'm learning a lot," she reports. Kenneth Martin, A, who remained in Annapolis to continue his studies with Douglas Allanbrook, this fall begins work toward a master's degree in music with a concentration in composition at the University of Maryland. While here, he served as part-time secretary to the director of career counseling. 1986 Andrew A, is joining Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire as a mathematics teacher and football and lacrosse coach. Andy, who loves to ski, reports that this private, 270-student co-educational school is located in ski country on the Vermont line. With an endowment of $7-million, Kimball Union, he said, is "just fantastic." lt has an observatory with a moving dome and an indoor swimming pool and ice skating rink. All students perform campus jobs whether they are on financial aid or not. It took one minute for Andy's court case on charges of assault and battery of a policeman to be dropped in Circuit Court July 16. On an errand while serving as a student aide for the President's Office, Andy, who had no identification on him at the time, was picked up by the police because his clothing matched a description of that of an escaped Crownsville Hospital patient. Charges that he had struck an officer in Hack's were contradicted by an eyewitness. The district attorney recommended to the judge that the case be dropped, and the judge, who took one minute to look over the file, simply smiled after absorbing its contents and agreed. Andy celebrated over lunch at the LC. with his good friend, retired St. John's secretary Isabelle Simpson. I/[ t (Continued from P. 12) The walls will be covered with acoustically designed, fiber glass panels covered with an oatmeal colored, linen-like fabric. In contrast to the abrasive orange colors of the old Conversation Room, the colors will be quiet. The floor will be black and brown terrazzo in the table area, and there will be dark green carpeting in the gallery. Chairs also will be dark green. The white cornice will contrast with mahogany of a light, warm shade on the gallery rail and the cornice's supporting pillars. All the planning has been done with a view of the room's folfilling its role as a center where real conversation can take place. To make it a room where students and faculty will want to linger, most, if not all, the chairs will have arms. (Where to position one's own arms had always been a major and awkward preoccupation of . those occupying the former seats.) In softening the room and making it more inviting, the college hopes to encourage attendance at the Friday question periods. IN ADDITION TO the Conversation Room, work has gone on during the summer months behind stage as part of the first phase of an extensive renovation program being planned for the KeyMellon complex. Once again much of it has been directed at improving acoustics. To help direct sounds to the audience, a new wall has been built at the back of the Key stage and, instead of the curtained area to the stage's left and right, these spaces also have been walled over. New rooms have been roughed in behind stage, including a small room on the right side for storage and another at the left where the college's piano and harpsichord will be kept. A new dance room has been added behind stage. Where the barn-size sliding doors are located, there is a new, large, rectangular room the size of a small auditorium. It will be used for stage storage. There is also a new small vestibule at the Campbell Parking lot entrance. The rooms are all in primitive condition, and more money must be raised before they can be finished. Oddly enough, while the effect is illusionary the seemingly acres of space that have always existed behind stage appear with the new construction even more spacious. Coming as they do to a crowded campus, the additional rooms, although not fully usable, are like a bonanza. The dance floor itself will house a new overhead air conditioning and heating system, which will be suspended from the - ceiling and lead to the auditorium. Overall costs are set at about $600,000. Building is by the Berliner Construction Company headed by Charles Berliner, A '70. Delattre (Continued from P. l) continued in residence during the summer months at the President's House, will move to Fairfax. John Burkett, former assistant to the president, has joined the Foundation for Improvement in Post Secondary Education in Washington. Ruth Pilsbury, who had worked for Mr. Delattre in Concord, Mass., prior to his coming to St. John's, has left the Santa Fe campus, where she was assistant to the president, to join him in Washington. �12 I duties September 1, Comber, GI director for the past three years, who will go on sabbatical. .<=>rH«r''"' master's nrr.ore> m first time program. to summer months. 197 l graduate of Loyola College, Mr. hol.ds a master's degree from Fordham University, where he also has comwork toward a doctorate. Before coming to St. John's he taught philosophy at Loyola and Goucher Colleges. Mr. Mav will continue to teach on a in St. John's undergrad uate program. Liberty Tree girth adds almost a yard Visiting school children are fond of holding hands and encircling the Liberty Tree to show how big it is. It takes one more child now than it did one hundred years ago. The Liberty Tree has thickened by 2 feet I inches durmg the past century, Maryland state foresters have found. This summer, on July 30. they measured it officially, repeating a ceremony performed lOOyearsagototheday. Total girth of the campus' tulip poplar was found to be 32 feet 3 inches. a waistline in which St. John's can take pride. With Assistant Dean Malcom Wyatt and Mayor Dennis Callahan participating, the ceremony drew state, county and city people who are concerned with the environmental importance of trees. Once the national champion tulip poplar in the United States, a claim now held by a tree in Bedford, Va., the Liberty Tree relinquished that title with the loss of a major limb. sqme.year~ ago. ' The Auditorium's bete noire disappeared truckloads of rubble this summer. A completely reconstructed Conversation Room is in place. With upholstered armchairs for comfort and a buffered wall to shut out noise from the lobby, the room will be ready for use by the time alumni return to the campus for homecoming later this month. They will find no resemblance to old, hard-lined, Conversation Room of past years. Rather, the new Conversation softened and acoustically enhanced, is expected to be one of the most comfortable and attractive centers on campus For practical purposes directly to education here, even more than for aesthetic reasons, the 28-year-old room was rebuilt this summer. Architects were directed to give acoustics first attention. In the past have been a like those associated with a movie-made spaceship. Now every word should be audible, ending years of frustration in which questions asked during post-lecture discussions have been swallowed up in the echoing, metallic spaces between a sloping floor and vaulting ceiling. For its essential nature, imagine a new room centered under a skylight, is a huge mahogany table surrounded several rows of chairs. Around the table is a raised oval "galtwo steps and from the table area a half and hand railing. Defining the lated wall. to the Room is on either side of it. At the other end, new glass doors additional li_ght and an exit to the patio. The ceiling of the area has been lowered, and the ceiling of the horseshoe shaped gallery is slightly lower still in a way that helps distinguish it from the table area. The Conversation Room is shorter by eight feet. In order to isolate it from the lobby. a new corridor has been carved out of that end of the room. It will be aligned directly with the present hallway leading past the big glass doors of the Key-Mellon patio. On the inner campus side, looking toward the gym, the hallway will have a new outdoor entrance where people using the Conversation Room may enter if they wish rather than go through the lobby. The table itself will be 24 feet long and 6 feet wide and made up of three center, six-foot square segments with two semicircular tables at the ends. The pieces may be recombined to make up a smaller formation or the table can be removed completely for such occasions as theater-inthe-round productions. "The room has been engineered acoustically for the speaking voice," according to Charles H. Bohl, of the· Annapolis architectural firm of Weller, Fishback and Bohl, which has worked closely with the Faculty Planning Committee in redesigning the space. HE HAS ATTEMPTED to provide an intimacy which committee members were eager to attain. To do that, the number of seats located around the table and on the gallery has been reduced to 129 with standing room in the gallery for between 20 and 30 persons. The old Conversation Room sat 160. (See Rebuilt P. 11) ' • consults with Fred D. Fishback, It never occurred to him 16 years ago when Charlie A '70, was a senior at St. John's, not to pitch forward off one of those and butter-slippery chairs in the Conversation Room, that one he would be the room. "It crossed mind that it needed " he never ,,.,..,,,,,,,,,,, off so it is with perhaps more than usual satisfaction that his Annapolis Berliner Construction Company, has been at work during the hot days of summer ·ebuilding the room in a manner unrecognizable from its original form. It might be pointed out that it was not the old school tie that got Mr. Berliner the contract for the St. John's project, which will cost together with back-stage work an expected $600,000, including architects' fees. His was the lowest of three bids for the job. It was the college's pleasure to give it to him knowing he is an excellent builder and successful alumnus. "Charlie Berliner is the best builder in town," Jack Ladd Carr, A '50, former president of the Alumni Association, told The Reporter. "You ought to do a story about him." Mr. Berliner says he owes that reputation to "doing 'em well." In 1972, two years out of St. John's, he decided to establish his firm here. His brother, Ben, '71, who was a Febbie a year at Santa Fe and a student in Annapolis his sophomore year, joined him in 1978. Ben had graduated with a teaching degree from Castleton State College in Vermont and was at work on a master's degree in geology at the University of Massachusetts when he decided to join Charlie. As vice-president he manages the office work while Charlie, as president, oversees the field work. They have a crew of 24. and they generally handle projects for under a million dollars. A NUMBER OF their contracts have been for historic buildings in town. Currently the firm is completing repairs at the Paca House. The company held the first contract for the exterior work on Reynold's Tavern, did the work at the First National Bank at . 18 We,st Street, built_ a miniatu~e replica of a carpenter's at the foot Point in the old Park on West and constructed handsome condominiums at 21 George Steet where the Coach rvrf. Berliner hobbyist and as a Then, he married his also a Bronwen sucK111ev of Baltimore, carpentry became the means of supporting a family, a family that his sophomore year when their son, olas, was born. Nicholas, now 18, who has been part of the Berliner work force for five summers, is entering Vassar College this fall. After leaving St. John's, Mr. Berliner joined the old Trumpy's boat yard. to learn the cabinet trade, and was six months before the business folded. While he knew carpentry, as a contractor undertaking his own business, Mr. Berliner said he learned other aspects of his work - plumbing, electricity, etc. -as he went along, demonstrating, incidentally, as the saying goes that a "St. Johnnie can do anything.·· At St. John's, as work on the Conversation Room winds up, Mr. Berliner drops in twice a day, any time between 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., as he has done during the summer months, to see how work is progressing and to confer with architects and his crew. The latter may range from two to eight men. PART OF THE work he has done himself. The design for the new Conversation Room calls for a horseshoe shaped inner wall. This is a structure known as a stepped soffit or stepped bulkhead. "I got involved because I wanted to do it," Mr. Berliner said. "It's easier to build than to d.raw." The mathematics of this skeleton frameworking, which he completed in what for the layman seems an amazingly fast two (See Berliner P. 9) . � 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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I "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance." Aristotle And art, notjust for art's sake, will gain more than inward significance July 18 when the Santa Fe campus and Southwest art dealers stage a gala benefit for scholarship funds in the Hilton Hotel's Mesa Ballroom. With music by Metropolitan singer Maralin Santa Fe's art auction will begin with a viewing and a cocktail buffet at 6 p.m. and willprovide the first major occasion to introduce St. John's two new presidents - Michael Riccards and William M. Dyal,Jr.-tofriendsandalumni gathered from throughout the country. The art auction will feature deaccessioned paintings, Indian art, silver, and books that have been donated to the auction P. 4) radiates one smile as tutor BenKeith Harvey photo JC graduates reco Johnsen wins· Silver Medal Thirty-six seniors received their bachelor's degrees and 14 Graduate Institute their master's degrees in Santa Fe's 18th commencement exercise May 18 in which N. David Mermin, professor of physics at Cornell University, gave the commencement address. Senior Bruce Johnsen received the silver medal offered by the Board of Visitors and Governors for the highest academic record. He also has received a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship. Other awards:' Marshall Miller, the Duane L. Peterson Scholarship for academic achievement, constructive membership in the college community, and commitment to postgraduate study; Jerry Cronin, Martin Lewallen, and Karen Delahunty, the St. John's Community Scholarships: Hampton O'Neill, the Senator Millard (See Santa Fe P. 9) ss ln its first televised commencement, the Annapolis campus awarded 99 degrees the largest number since the New Pro. gram was founded in l 937 - as mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot told students that society cannot prosper without ex'." perts with strong competencies. At the same time, he said they should not be boxed in isolation into their fields. "The questions of doing, of knowing, of feeling by one's hands and eyes, of remembering what has gone before us, are not separate enterprises," he said. "They are all part of one simple web." On hand to make .commencement a centerpiece for its May 29 Nightline program was a crew from ABC television. Climaxing a weekend that also included the President's Dinner, Class Day exercises and baccalaureate, the commencement saw Frank Durgin, of Belmont, Mass., win the silver medal awarded by the Board of Visitors and Governors for top academic honors. Clayton DeKorne, of Annapolis, received the prize for the best senior essay. With Edwin J. Delattre conferring degrees for the last time as president of St. John's, the exercises were concluded with (See Seniors hear P. 9) or gift St. John's College has received a $1million grant from the State of Maryland for the renovation of the Annapolis campus's Mellon-Key complex. In an act passed by the l 986 General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Harry Hughes on May 13, the Maryland Board of Public Works is authorized to set up the St. John's College Loan of 1986 through the sale of general obligation bonds, (See College to raise P. 3) James Carey and Thomas J. Slakey are the new deans of the Santa Fe and Annapolis camouses. to Santa he received a from the New School for Soc-ial Research in I 973. This spring he was briefly acting dean in Santa Fe and has been serving as a senior resident for dormitories. A member of the Instruction Committee and former member of the Annapolis IC, he led a faculty study group on the work of Martin Heidegger during the past academic year. Mr. Carey said his central concerns will be instructional matters, the quality oflife for students, faculty development, and the development of a close working relationship with support offices reporting to the dean. "Faculty development is a central concern of mine, and this involves continuing to make strong initial appointments and attending the needs and concerns of tu(See Carey P. 5) New presidents get together St. John's two new presidents are getting to know each other, preparing for their first appearances together next month on the Santa Fe campus, and planning their moves to their presidential homes. By last month they had met on at least three occasions. What's important is that the two men who will institute St. John's two-president system July I like each other. "He's a very warm, down-to-earth, practical sort of guy," William M. Dyal, Jr., said of his Santa Fe counterpart following their luncheon together May 6 at New York's Bibliotheque restaurant. "Our conversations have been very fruitful," Michael Riccards said of Mr. Dyal. "The college is lucky to have him as one of the presidents, and I look forward to a very amiable relationship." Mr. Riccards and his family, which includes three young children, will move to the President's House in Santa Fe around June 23. With July l as his first working day, Mr. Riccards already is in the process of laying plans for a summer of work in fund raising. Mr. Dyal has requested that his arrival be delayed in Annapolis to permit the completion of a global search for his successor, the new president of the American Field Service. He hopes the new president will be selected by August 19. Mr. Dyal will put in his first appearance as president in Annapolis August 14when he both speaks and presides at the nineyea!'old Graduate Institute commencement, the first St. John's president to do (See New presidents P. 5) �Page 2 . ·JUNE 1986 THE REPORTER S summer whirl is 1928 Louis L. Snyder, A, received an author's citation at the Nineteenth Annual New Jersey Writers Conference in March. Awarded by the Alumni Association of the New Jersey Institute of rechnology, the citation was in recognition of Mr. Snyder's book, Diploma(\' in Iron: 7he Life of Herhert van Bismark. Mr. Snyder, author of 60 books, is emeritus professor of history at the City University of New York. He is general editor of the 123volume Anvil series of original paperbacks on history. 1945 George Cayley, A, is running for election to the Pinellas County School Board in Florida. Primary elections will be held in September, with a general election November 4. Mr. Cayley's campaign literature describes him as a "compassionate, progressive, responsible, conservative Republican," who has made his· home in Pinellas County since 1955. Mr. Cayley received a master's degree from the Graduate Institute at Santa Fe in 1978. "I am managing a staff of 25 engineers, a task for which my seminary training (MDiv, '83) is surprisingly relevant," she writes. I'm still interested in hermeneutics and psycholinguistics, but doctoral work is on hold for now." Mrs. Burk and her husband, Captain Roger C. Burk (See Alumni Notes, 1974) live in Culver City, Cal. Seth Cropsey, SF, deputy undersecretary of the Navy for policy, was honored earlier this year at a "gala reception" in Albuquerque, according the March issue of Sea Power. The event was part of a week-long celebration by the New Mexico council of the Navy League in observance of the 210th birthday of the U.S. Navy. From Albuquerque mayor Harry C. Kinney, Mr. Cropsey received the key to the city and a commission as "admiral of the Rio Grande Navy." Carol Shuh, A, completed her teaching appointment at the Universal American School in Kuwait in the spring. She has accepted an offer from the U.S. Department of State to begin training as. a consular officer in September and is moving to Washington, D.C. 1949 1974 Nine years ago, Allan Hoffman, A, and Roger C. Burk, A, writes, '"I graduated a librarian at the Peninsula Public Lib- from the Air Force Institute of Technolrary, Lawrenc~, J\J.X., orgai;iized a course, ogy in December with an M.S. in space "Learning from ihe Past." It.covered all· ,operations. My, specialty was ,aperations the readings on the St. John's list. research and astrodynamics; my thesis After meeting every Tuesday for two was 'l\1inimum Impulse Orbital Evasive hours over the years, 22 students finally Maneuvers.' I am still a captain and now will complete the course in June, accord- am assigned as a staff officer at the Air ing to the .\.outh Shore Record. President Force Space Division, Los Angeles Air Delattre, who served as guest leader at one Force Station. "Captain Burk's wife, Robof the sessions, presented the students in, A '72, adds that Roger was awarded with certificates of achievement at "pre- the two most prestigious prizes on graduamature" graduation exercises in March. tion from AFIT, "the first time both prizes All of the students are over 40, and most were awarded to the same person!" are retired and past 60. 1975 Asked whether he was ready to offer the Dr. James M. Jarvis, A, of St. Louis, course again, Mr. Hoffman is quoted as Mo., has been elected to fellowship in the saying, "'I'm entitled to a rest." And after American Academy of Pediatrics. The his rest? He wouldn't say." Academy is the Pan-American association of physicians certified in the care.of ·1966 infanfs, children and young adults, with Michael D. Weaver, A, writes from 29,000 members in the United States. Cincinnati that he has become active in Canada and Latin America. To <.J.Ualify as the field of mental health and received a state-wide award for his work. Now mar- a fellow, a pediatrician must have certification as a fully-qualified specialist in the ried to the former Arlene Schmidt, he has field, a process requiring a minimum of been accepted at the University of Cincinfive years of post medical school expernati School of Social Work to obtain a ience. master's degree in social work. 1981 Mr. Weaver reports that Stephen JohnJoshua Lee Rappaport, A, is a courtson, A '65, is doing a study of folk masks house reporter for the Amarillo (Texas) and has been photographing folk masks at Glvhe-News, a dailv with a circulation of festivals all over the world. He also writes 85,000. He received a master's degree in "that Robert Axtman. A '66. has died of journalism from the University of Mispneumonia. souri School of Journalism in December 1972 1984. "If you drive through (Amarillo), be Robin Kowakhuck Burk, A. has been sure to drop by and say hello," he writes. promoted to director of engineering at 1983 Proprietary Software Systems of Santa With his feet on the ground as a WashMonica. Cal.. a company which produces ington actor, Andrew White played the language tools for aerospace software part of Homer in this spring's well redevelopment. · viewed satire. Persephone. staged by the Source Theater Company in the Jarry Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence Theater near 14th and T Streets. The Berns, Betsy Blume, Jon Lenkowski, comedy. which Mr. White describes as a Howard Zeiderman, Eliott Zuckerman, kind of senior prank, has Homer's blindadvisory board. ness presented only as a bit of PR. In a The Reporter is published by tne second production expected to run well 1 Public Relations Office, St. John's into June. he is playing the wounded cap. College, Annapolis, MD. 21404. Edwin tain and the porter in the company's pro. J. Delattre, president. duction of MacBeth. Published five times a year, in Feb1983 ruary, April, June, September and NovJoyce A. Howell. AG I. received the ember; Second-class postage paid at degree of Juris Doctor from Rutgers UniAnnapolis, Md. versity School of Law in May, Are~ident .. ' USPS 018-750 i (Continued on P. I 0) ' I to The Santa Fe campus will be brimming with excitement this summer when the Summer Alumni Program takes place July 13-18. Immediately following the first week will be the St. John's College Art Benefit on Friday evening, July 18, which kicks off homecoming weekend July 18-20. The second week of the Summer Alumni Program wiJI begin at the close of homecoming and continue through July 25. Mary Sue Laurel, SF '79, coordinator of alumni activities at Santa Fe, explained that publicity efforts . for the Summer Alumni Program have been expanded by upgrading the program brochure, by targeting such groups as former participants for extra mailings, and by informing New Mexico alumni who can easily participate in one or more classes. "Also, we've expanded the homecoming program to include official JO and 15 year reunions for the classes of 1976 and 197 J respectively, the alumni art show, and the college art benefit, and these should draw even more alumni to Santa Fe. "I encourage anyone interested in registering for the Summer Alumni Program and homecoming to do so as soon as possible since space in classes and dormitories most likely will fill up early." Three preceptorials and one seminar will be offered each week of the Summer Alumni Program. Preceptorials to be offered· the ·fi¥st week-win be: · Iphigenia in Taurus, Euripides and lphigenie, Goethe; "The War Requiem," Wilfred Owen" and "The War Requiem," Benjamin Britten; 7he Leopard, Guiseppe di Lampadusa. The seminar will be 7he Spoils of Poynton, Henry James. Tutors for the program are: Dean Jim Carey, A '67, Stuart Boyd, Jack Lincoln. A '74, Cary Stickney, A '75, and Peter Pesic. Also planned that week are a threehour visitto the Bandelier National Mon- Davies takes new presidency ·Peter J. Davies, A '48, has a new position. He is president and chief executive officer of the American Council for Voluntary International Action: InterAction, with headquarters in New York. Inter Action is a coalition of more than IOO private voluntary organizations,; Before accepting his present position in October 1984, Mr. Davies was president of the Meals for Millions/ Freedom from Hunger Foundation. He previously worked on a fertilizer program in India, was director of the Rural Development Program in Thailand, and was director of the Food for Peace Program in Brazil. For four years. he was program' director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region, traveling throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. . Following graduation from St. John's, Mr. Davies received a master's degree from Harvard University's Graduate School of Public Administration, now known as the Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Davies and his wife Phyllis, who is counsel to the Tax Commission of the City of New York. have two sons. He reJp:orts that he is an avid sailor and races hi:s 1boat on his few free weekends. ad ument and a performance by the Santa Fe Opera. , The second week's -Prcceptorials will be: '"Areopagitica" and other political writings of John Milton;. Ajax and Philoctetes; Sophocles; the lliad, Homer. The seminar will be Geneology of Morals; Nietzsche. Tutors for the progra~ will be: Charles Bell, S '83H, Cary Stickney, A '75, Michael Oink, A '75, Nancy Buchenauer, and Martin Cohen. Extra.curricular activities will include a field trip to the Puye Cliff Dwellings, a chamber music performance and a performance by the British American Theater. Room, board and full tuition for one. week is $200. Full tuition (without room and board) is $75. The alumni art show which begins June 28 will be open throughout the two weeks of alumni activities in July through July ·25. Alumni from around the country will be exhibiting their work in a variety of mediums: paintings, sculpture and tapestry. Additional homecoming events will include the Friday Night Party in the coffee shop on July 18 at 10 p.m. hosted by the Class of '76. Class members, Michael Gross and Judy Kistler, are the organizers of the rock and roll party .. On Saturday afternoon, July 19, there will be the traditional. homecoming seminar. George .. Bernard Shaw's. ••Major Barbara" wiU,be t.he s·ubject··of the seminar. The Class of '76 will hold a special seminar on Plato's Meno led by tutor Glen Freitas. Following the seminars there will be a softball game with participants from the entire college community playing with alumni. Evening events will include the popular cocktail party in the art gallery and the banquet featuring Mexican specialties. David Dobreer, A '44, president of the Alumni Association, will be master of ceremonies, Chris Nelson, SF '70, will be the speaker, and Barbara (Skaug) Lauer, SF '76, will be toastmaster. At least IOO alumni from around the country are expected to attend. The closing event for the weekend will be the champagne brunch on Sunday. For further information, please contact the Santa Fe or Annapolis alumni offices. Homecoming hotel rooms The Annapolis Alumni Office has reserved blocs of rooms for homecoming September 26-28 in the following hotels: The nearby Annapolis Hotel on West Street, $85 single, $95 double, (301) 263-7777; the Historic Inns of Annapolis (Maryland Inn, Robert Johnson House), prices to be quoted, (301) 263-2641; the Annapolis Hilton, $59-$230, reserve only through the Alumni. Office, (301) 263-2371, and the Ramada Inn, about five miles from the campus, $79, (30 I) 266-313 I. ' To reserve rooms, please inform the hotel that you will attend the St. John's homecoming. For information on other hotels or bed and breakfast accommodations, please call Joan Iverson in the Alumni Office. �JUNE 1986 Pre-payment plan to go into effect Adopting a procedure being put into practice at other American institutions of higher learning, St. John's College will institute a prepaid tuition plan this fall which will permit families to pay two, three, or four years of tuition in a lump sum at the current tuition rate. An incoming student would pay $38,880 in August for the four years of education. The plan does not cover fees for room and board. Proposed by Caroline Christensen, director of financial aid on the Annapolis campus, the plan was approved for both campuses at a meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors at its April meeting in Annapolis. Charles A. Nelson, A '45, chairman of the board's Finance Committee, urged that the prepayment system be adopted on a trial basis with the program to be reviewed at the end of a year. Should a student discontinue education at St. John's, Mr. Nelson said the tuition would be reimbursed. Those dropping out for several years would re-enter the college at the new tuition rate. In announcing deta.ils for the plan, Mrs. Christensen said there would be a number of benefits to parents. Among them: •Tuition would be frozen at the current ~·rate: 1 exerirpt1ln7g'' rtie' fnmHy from future increases. • If the prepayment is financed, the interest payments are tax deductible. •The lump sum payment increases the parents' cash flow in future years. • It lessens a students's concern about finances to have the tuition paid through the senior year. While the plan will be offered at both campuses, there will be an added attraction for parents of students attending the Annapolis campus. In the East they may participate in the Maryland Supplemental Loan Authority, and payment can be financed by cash or through that authority. ··we have had a much smaller demand than anticipated for Supplemental Loans, leaving us with $561,400 in funding which may only be used through August, 1987," she said. Because the . Maryland Supplemental Loan funds will be only available for use in 1986-87' sh.¢ said this would be an ideal time to see if a St. John's Tuition Stabilization Plan is a project worth developing on both campus~s. "We have art 'opportunity to test this program for a xear at virtually no cost to. the college," Mrs. Christensen pointed out. "It also represents an effort by the college to help parents who are not served by traditional need-based financial aid programs." · To qualify for the Tuition Stabilization Plan, the full tuition payment must be received by August 29. If the.prepayment is financed through the Maryland Education Loan program, the loan must be ready for disbursement by August 29. Cost for each }'ear of tuition is $9, 720. Prepayment amounts for 1986-87 will be: Class of 1990, entering freshm~n. $38, 880: Class of 1989, sophomores in 198687, $29, 160, and Class of 1988, juniors in 1986-87, $19,440. College officials emphasized that it is impossible to determine how many fami.lies t,1NillJ<tl~~ ~d¥,qnt~ge .of th.e pJan. THE REPORTER Page 3 College views investment policy St. John's will decide in July what its next step will be in the formation of a policy with regard to investments by companies doing business with South Africa. 'There is a fair chance the board may have a rec~mmendation in July, but that depends on whether the Finance Committee can reach a conclusion," Charles A. Nelson, A '45, the board's Finance Cornmittee chairman, said. The committee will have in hand a recommended Statement of Investment Policy which the Alumni Association's. Board approved at its April meeting in Annapolis. It proposes that trustees ..may . consider issues pertinent to the college's general purposes in all of its financial dealings." . The statement was approved at a Saturday afternoon meeting of the Alumni Board and then immediately hand-carried to Mr. Nelson for a seminar-style discussion by a small group that included repre- · sentatives of the student body, faculty, Alumni Association, and college board. No formal action was taken. Outside the Finance Committee, which initiated action on the question, the issue · CO'/lege {0 razse another m1·111·on (Continued from P. I) The act calls for the $I-million to be matched by St. John's by June I, 1988. According to Vice President Charles E. Dunn, St. John's now has about half of the total amount needed for ·the· MellonKey project. In all, it will entail $2Vimillion in new renovations and a classroom addition and another half-million for a new Mellon-Key maintenance endowment. The first phase of the renovation, to begin in April, calls for the remodeling of the Key Auditorium'sConversation Room and some work in the auditorium, primarily to improve acoustics. Cost of this work is set at $300,000, of which $150,000 has been contributed from the Pew Memorial Trust. Another $150,000 was provided in state money. left from a 1977 bonding bill involving other construction on campus;. In setting up an ~ndbwment for the maintenance of Mellon and Key, the college has applied $100,000 of a $183,000 gift from the Beneficial-Hodson Trust. Jeri Rhodes, Treasurer, says it will apply the remainder toward the renovation and new addition. Mrs. Rhodes hopes that the college will begin design and construction for a classroom addition and general renovation next year. The Faculty Planning Committee has developed a program of all the things-that need to be. changed, but she said as yet there has been no detailed architectural planning. Mellon houses laboratorv and music classrooms, the music library, and tutors' offices as well as the St. John's Art Gallery. Plans call for a new gallery to be built as part of the classroom wing. of South African investments has drawn relatively small response from members of the St. John's community during the year it has been under discussion. It has been the subject of discussion by New York alumni. "An appeal posted on both campuses that the faculty and students submit to the chairman of the Finance Committee either individually or in concert their opinions did not result in a single reply," Mr. Nelson said. IN JANUARY, Mr. Nelson received two petitions, one signed by 11 students and the other by 20, with some overlap among the names, asking, in effect, to be informed of what St. John's investment policy is and whether it is in accord with the ideals of the college. Christopher Nelson, SF '70, chairman of the Alumni Association's Investment Committee, said he felt its proposed policy statement, which he believes is a ••broad, workable plan," represents "a· huge step forward, .. permitting members of the college community to act collectively or individually in making recornmendations to the board. In the Alumni Association's own fridayafternoonworkshop,Mr.Nelsonoutlined some of the questio11:s that surfaced among Investment Committee members. Should the college have a policy to guide its finances and should it incorporate social, political~ or moral concerns? Should the policy be restricted to concerns doing business with South Africa? fs,~t the college's duty to maximize the returns of its investments or, when it is repugnant to the morals of an institution, is it inconsistent to consider issues over and above the return? If you had such a policy, would you exclude South African companies already taking affirmative action? The precise number of St. John's associated firms doing business with South Africa, estimated at more than 300, changes almost on a daily basis as the college's money management firms redirect investments. ..THE: AMOUNT of time, energy, and money needed to monitor the investments at every point would be a major job," Mr. Nelson said, adding that to keep up with the daily disposition of the two campuses' combined endowment of $28-million could be, "prohibitive." The Alumni Association's proposed Statement of Investment Policy makes· these five points: I. The college is an institution of higher education, the purposes of which are the instruction, i.rnprovernent and education of its students and other members of the college community, and the provision of the proper conditions to enable such persons to fulfill their freely chosen tasks. 2. The college receives such gifts as it shall judge are consistent with these purposes and with its program of in~tru( ti on. . 3. The primary tiduc.:iary responsibility of the college's trustPes in investing and managing the college endowment securities is to maximize the financial return of those resources, taking into account the amount of risk appropriate for college investment policy. 4. The trustees may consider issues pertinent to the college, general purposes in all of its financial dealing, including, but not fimited to, their acceptance of gifts, their investment activities, and their voting of proxies. THEY MAY NOT, however, deliberately sacrifice a significant financial advantage unless they find, pursuant to due deliberation under procedures established herein, that the activity involved is wholly inconsistent with such purposes or that a similar advantage may be obtained through available ~lterna.~ive gifts, investments, or voting of proxies'. . . . . 5. An endowment security should not be selected or retained. for the primary purpose of thereby encouraging or expressing approval of a company's activities, or, alternatively, for the primary purpose of placing the college in a position to contest a company's activities. The alumni board asked that the college board set procedures for considering the issues it deems appropriate, but that the procedures allow for the input of the college community "to the greatest feasible extent." In event a committee is focmed to make recommendations to the college board, the alumni board asked that it be represented. Members of the Investment Committee besides Christopher Nels.on, included the association's executive vice-president, Jean Fitzsimon, A '73, Martha Dabney, SF '78, Jules Pagano, A '48. Mary Bittner Wiseman. A '58, John Van Doren, A '47, Harvey Goldstein, A '59, and Santa Fe student representative Michael David. Dutch educator to visit :";t .. Johns Peter De Rooij. member of the faculty of the University of Limburg at Maastricht, Holland, will be on the Annapolis campus June 16. Dean George Doskow said his university is an innovative institution, working . without departments and through a program of problem solving. Mr. De Rooij is interested in learning more about 1St. John's as a college wi.thout departments. Edwin J. Delattre, center, who is leaving St, John's after six years in the presidency, chats with tutors Elliott Zuckerman, right, and Brother Robert 'Smith at a party given for him in the Dol!sey Gardens. As a going away gift, tt-e :: c~eniog:£afliMlp'1ito. college presented him with a <;lock, la'3Zl!IU!'.cA'• • �I Page4 THE REPORTER 7~ JUNE 1986 Gala art auction set for SF What Bryce Will Do with Al I ·That Ti me (Continued from P. l) college over the last 21 years, according to Mara Robinson, SFGI '83, who is serving with John H. Dendahl, chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, as cochairman. Art to be auctioned will include prints by BRYCE JACOBSEN Retiring Director of Athletics It has been a rewarding 32 years that I have spent at St. John's, four as a student and 28 as tutor and director of athletics. There is not space enough or time enough to reminisce about all those years. Rather, I will address the years ahead, my retirement. People keep asking me, "What will you do with all the free hours at your disposal?" I shall try to answer this question. Fourteen years ago I built a large, two-story addition to our house, the upper story becoming a new, commodious kitchen, and the lower one a new, commodious garage. Over the last two yea~ I have converted most of the garage to a woodworking shop. I have been building simple pieces of furniture and smaller items such as wooden lamps and birdhouses. I derive much pleasure from turning rough lumber into something that is attractive and useful. So I will be spending a good deal of time in my shop, making things. It is probable that I may want to sell some of these items in the future. We shall see. When I was a mere lad, I got heavily into the collecting of postage stamps, following my father's footsteps. Eventually I inherited his large collection and have added greatly to it. In recent years I have been buying old U.S. collections. My idea is to accumulate a working inventory of stamps so that I can start to sell them. If I do this, it will all be done from the happy confines of my study, by mail. I won't be opening a store. It takes much time to identify and organize the stamps from an old collection. I have beeri doing this already, in my spare time. I will expand this whole enterprise. I derive much satisfaction from doing this sort of thing. I hope to have time enough to read many more books than I have been able to in my working years. Last summer, as a sort of pre-retirement project, I read all tbe works of Herman Melville. No matter what your religious or political leanings, it is hard to simply ignore a book like Billy Budd. I hope to find time to engage in other such readings. I am tempted to write a book on the sorry, scandalous state of high school and collegiate athletics. There certainly exists a wealth of material to use in such a book. Many good writers are already engaged in this enterprise. Their once lonely and lowly voices have become a veritable crescendo of justifiable outrage. It hardly seems necessary to add to this outpouring of righteous indignation. So I am tempted but probably won't do this. After graduating from St. John's, I spent 16 years as a farmer and a carpenter before returning to work for the college. My wife Phebe recently has inherited a farm that has been passed down through her family. The thought of "returning to the land" has great ai:>peal to me. At present this is not feasible. However, I find myself more and more drawn to this. I am increasingly involved in the general planning and operation of the farm. I will probably find time to assist now and then with the farm work and the maintenance of the buildings. To take what is very good farm land and to make it better is something that really appeals to me. In recent years Phebe has been growing roses, more and more each year. This spring we seem to have roses everywhere. Naturally, I have been involved to a certain extent in all this. There are some disappointments in growing roses, but these are counterbalanced by some spectacular successes. So add roses to the list of things that I will be spending more time on. One could do worse. I hope 1o have more time to exercise. It is not so easy to accomplish this, when you are constantly importuned in the gym to do this, fix that, discuss this, plan that, ·referee this, umpire that, etc. Oftentimes exercise is the last thing that I get to do in the gym. Consequently it is frequently not done at all. I hope to be ab]e to again play certain sports, and not have to officiate. That would be nice, for a change. According to the rules that I devised, I will become a lifetime member of the Guardian team. Maybe they will let me play B-team volleyball or ·right field in softball. When I was in high school, I used to spend several hours a day in taking long walks, primarily with the purpose of observing birds. My parents sometimes gently hinted that I should walk less and study more. They were probably right. But still, all . those hours of "solitude'' in the company of nature taught me important lessons about myself and about my relationship to other creatures and the natural world. In my retirement, I hope to walk, and observe, a little more than I have been able to since leaving high school. When I was a student at SJC. I spent a weekend hiking the Appalachian Trail with a friend. Since then, in my busy life, I have never set foot on it. I would like to do so again, this time with some leisure... perhaps starting in New England, as the' leaves tum in the fall, following their turning southward, day by day, ending in Georgia many, many weeks later. I'd like that Trouble is, I may not have time to do it! Finally. there is the problem of an outside water faucet on our house. It has a slow leak. 1 have been me~ning to fix it for years. I am going to work on this problem, early in my retirement... It is high up on my list of things to do. MARALIN NISKA ..... Benefit Singer by Gustave Baumann, photographs of Laura Gilpin, limited edition· books by Carl Sandburg, a pair of Spanish colonial doors, art books from the Emil Bisttram collection, Acoma and Zuni pots, and six bottles of I 975 Chateau Mouton Rothschild. Mrs. Robinson said no works of art will be sold that have been given with donor restrictions. · · · Honorary chairman of the event is Mrs. Faith Meem, SF '85H, who, like Mrs. Robinson, is a member of the board. ITEMS RANGING from $25 to $15,000 will be sold either through an audible auction, which will be conducted by Rupert Fennell, West Coast director of Sotheby's, Beverly Hills, or through a silent auction, in which bidders write their bid on a sheet of paper with the winner being the last one to write his or her bid within a specified time. The silent auction will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. and the main auction from 8 to JO p.m. At 7:30 p.m. Maralin Niska will sing a group .of songs and arias accompanied by Marilyn Beebe, pianist. Miss Niska has sung in Europe, Israel, Japan, Mexico, and in South America as well as in this country, including numerous performances in the New York City and Santa Fe Operas. Mrs. Robinson said proceeds from the two auctions will be designated for scholarship endowment with the income earned directed to students in need of financial aid. Proceeds from ticket sales will be used for financial aid for the 1986-87 school year. Among the many individuals who are donating art work, services, volunteer time, and resources are: St. John's tutor Stuart Boyd and his wife, Nancy Boyd; Irwin Hoffman, A '85H and his wife, Maya Hoffman; Jon H. Hunner, SF '74 (Art Handlers, Santa Fe); Linda Jemison, SFGI '83 (Dick Jemison Art Studio, Santa Fe); Harold Morgan, SF '68; Warren P. Winiarski, A '55, and Barbara Winiarski, A '55 (Stag's Leap Vineyards); and Santa Fe art galleries that include Dewey Galleries, Linda Durham Gallery, Vic Hansen Gallery, and Munson Gallery. TWO PRICES have been established: $50 for board members and friends, of which $30 is tax-deductible, and $20 for alumni, students, faculty, staff, and associates, which is not tax-deductible. Theme for thE' eveni'rig' wiit'be"' i.A:rt' Words from the Wise." Mrs. Robinson had some of her own on the importance of the fund raiser as a way of raising scholarship money. "As an alumna and member of the Board of Visitors .and Governors, I know the importance of increasing our scholarship funds to help students deal with rising tuition expenses. As a former fund drive chairman, I also know how difficult it is to raise funds for college expenses. "I urge everyone to reserve July J8 for this important event." SJC has first Mellon fellow For the first time, St. John's College has a winner of the prestigious Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities. Awarded to students with outstanding promise as college and university teachers, the fellowship has been given to Bruce Johnsen, a 1986 Santa Fe graduate from Temple, Pa. Mr. Johnson was among 1,566 candidates nominated by faculties of the institutions they attended. In all, 123 finalists were named from 67 colleges and universities. Established four years ago by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the fellowship is renewable for two years of study. In addition, the award covers cost of dissertation fees and further summer study at another institution if that is required. BRUCE JOHNSEN Under the selection procedure, each applicant submits a plan of study which is tematic knowledge in mathematics and evaluated together with the student's aca- physics. After two to three years of academic demic record and a personal interview. The most important factor is demonstra- study, Mr. Johnsen will teach college level courses and complete his doctorate. He tion by the student of outstanding future anticipates his program of study will repromise as a teacher. quire six years. Mr. Johnsen will ,pursue a combined Mr. Johnson also was a finalist in the program in philosophy. mathematics, and. Rhodes Scholarship competition. He is physics. His special emphasis will be upon the son of Richard and Annette Johnsen, epistemology and cognitive theory and of Temple, Pa. metaphysics and the development of sys- �THE REPORTER JUNE 1986 New, presidents are on.the way (Continued from P. l) so, according to Geoffrey Comber, director of the master's program. Mr. Dyal will return September 2-4 for the first faculty, meeting of the 1986-87 academic year and for the freshman convocation, in which the president traditionally addres~es the entering class. Then he will fly to China for his final trip for AFS, He has been the prime mover for AFS' teacher exchange program and China's Ministry of Education has requested him for talks there on how the program may best be continued. His residency in Annapolis will begin with homecoming September 26. · Meanwhile, both will attend their first meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors in Santa Fe July 18-19 when the time and manner of their installations are expected to be discussed. As a team, they will appear at the art benefit the Santa Fe campus is planning July 18. The two presidents met for the first time in April at a session with board Chairman John H. Dendahl and Charles A. Nelson, chairman of the board's Finance Committee. Held just prior to the April board meeting in Annapolis, this meeting was devoted to the budgets for the two campuses. In early May they established rapport at their luncheon meeting. Mr. Dyal said their conversation centered in part on the importance of their first year under St. John's two-president system. It replaces the single divided presidency in effect since the Santa Fe campus was founded in 1964. "We discussed the importance of preserving harmony and working together with the two deans in keeping the college on a major, single track," Mr. Dyal said. Later, on May 15, the two met for a working session with the vice-presidents for advancement: Charles E. Dunn, from Annapolis, and Dale Levy, from Santa Fe. One interesting aspect of Mr. Dyal's presidency is that he and his wife, Edith, plan a commuting marriage. A pianist with two master's degrees from Columbia, she has accepted a part-time position as adjunct professor of music in the School of Fine Arts at the College of Charleston. She will be in Annapolis for major occasions. After marking their 36th wedding anniversary, Mr. Dyal commented that he thought his marriage could bear this arrangement. The Dyals will represent part of an increasingly new pattern in academic life. At :least six couples on the Annapolis campus will maintain two residences next fall in order for both spouses to pursue separate careers. Annapolis tutor Curtis Wilson will deliver a paper in Germany at the symposium, '"Reviewing the Cosmos: 1540 to 1680," that wiU be sponsored by the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttal June 30-July 2.' · An historian of science, Mr. Wilson will speak on "Origi'ns and Consequences of the Lunar Theory of Jeremiah Ho frocks." From Germany, Mr. Wilson will fly to Cambridge University to consult with editors of The General History of Astronomy, for which he is editing the second volume. ; !' 'I ' Carey, Slakey to be new deans Doskos and Neidorf leaving deanship (Continued from P. l} tors," Mr. Carey said. ••1t also involves welcoming back into the life of the college THOMAS SlAKEY tutors who, for one reason or another, have drifted to the periphery." With regard to incoming President Michael Riccards, Mr. Carey said, "It should go without saying that the success of my deanship will depend largeiy on developing a collegial working relationship with Mr. Riccards. I look forward to this and also to cultivating good relations with the Board of Visitors and Governors." An experienced administrator, Mr. Slakey first joined St. John's Annapolis campus in 1959 but has been on leave ~rom the college on two separate occas10ns. The first was to serve as vice-president for academic affairs from 1971 to 1974 at St. Mary's College, Moraga, Calif., his alma mater, where he also was an associate professor of philosophy from l 974 to 1976. More recently, he took a two-year leave in 1983 to be dean and to develop a new program in liberal studies at Kentucky State University, Frankfurt, modeled after the St. John's curriculum. The father of two St. John's graduates and of two others who are completing their degrees, Mr. Slakey has served on both St. John's Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses. When the western campus opened in 1964, he taught there prior to going to St. Mary's. In 1972 he rejoined the Annapolis faculty. Born February 6, 1930, in Chico, Calif., Mr. Slakey grew up in Sacramento. He was graduated magna cum laude in 1952 from St. Mary's with a major in English literature. In 1953 he completed a master's degree in philosophy at the Universite Laval in Quebec. From 1953-55,duringthe Korean War, he served in the Army. Afterwards, from 1955 to 1959, he studied at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University, working with Norman Malcolm, a pupil of Wittgenstein, and completing a critical analysis of Aristotle's writings on sense perception and thinking. He received his doctorate in 1960. Mr. Slakey has taught widely throughout the St. John's curriculum including in its great books seminars and in its language, mathematics, and laboratory classes. Dean for the past two years, Mr. Doskow has decided to relinquish the deanship in order to have weekends free to join his wife, Minna Doskow. In March M's Caritas awards $8,300 to JO An illness or death in the family, a parent's sudden loss of employment, an accident - such unforeseen catastrophies can make it impossible for a student to remain in college. At St. John's College, the Caritas Society provides assistance for students facing a financial crisis, enabling them to continue their education when funds from other sources are not available. A total of $8,300 has been awarded to IO students this academic year from the Rosalie Blaul Scholarship Fund, named for a founding member of Caritas. With the total averaging $5,054 over the past lO years, this year's amount is the highest since the society was formed in 1969. Although recipients remain anonymous, a senior has given permission for his letter of thanks be quoted: to Wilson to give paper~in Germany Page 5 "Instead of worrying about an expected shortfall in financing my St. John's education, I can contemplate the meanings of love and freedom in War and Peace. Some day I will have it in my power to help a student the way you have helped me. On that day I will think of you and say again, 'God bless you."' Money for the grants comes from dues paid by the society;s, LOO members and from fund raisers such as the book and author luncheon held in March. In addition to financial aid to students, Caritas' objectives are: to bring together ·the St. John's and Annapolis communities in order to achieve a better mutual understanding and appreciation of the J ; I college and to provide an opportunity for a significant exchange between the communities. Caritas holds monthly luncheon meetings during the academic year. Officers were installed at the May 8 meeting in the Helen Avalynne Tawes Garden of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. They include Mrs. Peter V. V. Hamill, who has been re-elected president. Persons interested in joining Caritas may call Mrs. Eleanor Faithorn, membership chairman, at 263-7590. Doskow, formerly acting dean of the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts at the University of Baltimore, became dean of JAMES CAREY arts and sciences at Glassboro (N.J .) State College. The Doskows will maintain two residences. History Club picks Archer Jones book Archer Jones, A '47, is a co-author of Whv the South Lost the Civil War, recently p-ublished by the University of Georgia Press. Mr. Archer and fell ow historians Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway and William N. Still, Jr., advance the theory that the South lacked the will to win, that weak Confederate nationalism and the strength of a peculiar brand of evangelical Protestantism sapped the South's ability to continue a war that was not yet lost on the field. The book has been chosen as a main selection of the History Book Club. After attending St. John's from 1943 to 1946, Mr. Archer was a warded a bachelor of arts degree from Hampden-Sydney College in 1949. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia in 1958. Now living in Virginia, Mr. Archer is professor emeritus of history and former dean at North Dakota State University. Jones becomes Schmidtprogram," Mr. Jones tutor inar readings in the Santa Fe tutor David Jones, A '59, is the first faculty member to. hold the Adolph W. Schmidt Endowed Tutorship. The gift establishing the endowed tutorship was made last fall by an anonymous donor in honor of the Honorable Adolph W. Schmidt, who almost continuously since 1950 has been a member of the Board of Vistiors and Governors and now is a member emeritus. The endowment is part of St. John's Corporate Endowment. The tutorship provides that a tutor be named on either campus to lead a faculty seminar on issues of importance to the program. The weekly seminars to be led by Mr. Jones will center on fundamental political writings chiefly taken from the curricu1um. ..Tutors rarely have the opportunity to talk among themselves regarding the sem- said. "This study group will allow them to acquaint themselves with the readings in a more systematic way." Writings will include Aristotle's Politics, Hobbes' Leviathan, Locke's Second Treatise of Government, Rousseau's Social Contract plus the Federalist Papers, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Supreme Court cases. Mr. Jones also plans to read Montesquieu, not read for many years in the program. Mr. Jones taught on the Annapolis campus in 1964-65 and joined the Santa Fe campus in 1965. He also served as director of the Graduate Institute, Santa Fe, from l 973-75 and from 1978-80. Mr. Jones received his undergraduate degree from St. John's in 1959, a master's at the UQivdsity of Melbourne in 1962, and.a doctorate from the University of Texas in 19~4. �E PORTE J E1 GP 1 • Bryce Jacobsen is bequeathing his famous barber's chair to St. John's College as a "memento of office" - that of director of athletics - but, as he retires, he will be taking with him another piece of college furnishing. "What is larger than a breadbox but smaller than a gym?" asked an anagram promising Mr. Jacobsen a present "to satisfy your whim." It was presented in lieu of the real thing at a garden party marking his 28 years with the college. Mr. Jacobsen's whim turned out to be several tons of steel in the shape of a safe nearly seven feet tall that has occupied the registrar's office as long as college officials can remember. When Nancy Lewis, college registrar, announced several years ago that she wanted to get rid of the safe, Mr. Jacobsen cast a covetous eye in its direction. It became his own at the party given by the faculty and staff. The party also honored George who is returning to teaching after two years as dean. The safe now holds faculty and board minutes, which Mrs. Lewis said will be stored in smaller, fire-proof files. The pre1937 grade sheets the safe contains will be transferred to St. John's archival corner at the Maryland Hall of Records. One of the most loved facultv members at St. John's, Mr. Jacobsen "is retiring amid speeches of praise. In expressing the appreciation of the faculty at Mr. Jacobsen's last faculty meeting, incoming Dean Thomas Slakey cited him for establishing "one of the most outstanding athletic programs" in the United States, a tribute which brought sustained applause. In a toast at the party in the Dorsey Gardens, an old friend, John White, assistant athletic director for half a dozen years or so, spoke of Mr. Jacobsen's role in devising an athletic program that would help build a sense. of community at the college. Inter-collegiate athletics and fraternities had been dropped when St. John's adopted its present curriculum. "To get rid of.. .. annoying remnants (of clique-ishness), we needed, of all things, an athletic program - but no one saw this very clearly at the time, except perhaps Bryce, who was both a New Program alumnus and an athlete. The devising of this new program also took a kind of intelligence and imagination. "But our athletic program, despite any amount of ingenuity in its devising, would not have succeeded without another virtue: character, the force of Bryce's personality and presence. "He refereed games without anger (he once penalized a team 15 yards for 'j uvenile frustration'), and he could not be intimidated (something students often tried). Referring to the athletic program as representing a "completion" of the New Program, Mr. White said he had heard students say, and he had said it himself as a student, "My classes have been going so badly that I would have withdrawn if it hadn't been for the athletic program." Mr.. White said students get to see, close up, an adult - someone with the human virtue of "character." "And that's what helps them through rough times," he remarked of Mr. Jacobsen's leadership. An Apollonius expert who has spent half his time as a tutor teaching ma'thematics, Mr. Jacobsen's role as a tutor won him a gift of the senior class. At the conclusion of the Peter Arnott puppet production during Reality Weekend, Daniel Schoos, Wayne, Pa., senior, went to the stage to announce that ::;eniors are establishing an endowment for the prize offered freshmen and sophomores in mathematics. It will be named for him. Altogether class members are seeking to raise $5,000. The faculty party in the Dorsey Gardens also brought other gifts. They included a maroon blazer with pocket insignia like those awarded each year to the senior man and woman who have contributed most to the college's athletic program. There were tools and from Matthew White, John White's seven-year-old son, a tie rack to hold part of Mr. Jacobsen's considerable collection of atrocious ties. With former Dean Samuel Kutler presiding, the presentations were made by Mr. Jacobsen's successors, Michael Dink and Roberta Rusch. Mr. Doskow was given an engraved tray, two glasses, and a bottle of Harvey's Newell. and photo by Greg Ferguson Bristol Cream chosen in part to celebrate the additional time he will have with his wife, Dean Minna Doskow, of Glassboro (N .J.) State College. Warm words for Mr. Doskow were offered in a toast by Malcolm Wyatt, assistant dean: "George entered the dean's office in a time of troubles, when the college was torn by painful divisions. If now many of those divisions have healed, this has been due in major part to George's prudence and tact." It is a tact that Mr. Wyatt said rests on other qualities: efficiency, command of detail, promptness in acting, sensitivity to and respect for students, and imagination. "The result in him is fairness, justice toward the varied people and issues with which he has had to deal. George has been able to disagree - even reprove - without attacking anyone's self-respect. He Bryce leaves SJC his own gifts Steve Holdberg, Jr., left, and John Richmond, Jr., are the student waiters at Santa Fe's Junior Prank Day. At left is John Sullivan. 'filllllllllli'-· Mr. Jacobsen is not only receiving gifts but leaving two of his own for the college. A skilled carpenter, he fashioned a foothigh cone of white pine to illustrate four shapes in which Apollonius says a cone can be cut: a circle, an ellipse, a parabola, and a hyperbola. Earlier, Mr. Jacobsen constructed an illustration of the Pythagorean Theorem. It is a four foot square inlaid with white pine, walnut, mahogany, and ebony. The work now hangs in the Dean's Office. The cone will be avaifable to tutors and students during the academic year in the Dean's Office and during the summer, in the bookstore. has a simplicity and equanimity that are as rare as they are admirable." In receiving the promise of a future safe, Mr. Jacobsen told party-goers, "There will be a lot of things I'll want to put into it." Mrs. Lewis has it all thought out. "He can put his stamps in here," she said one day this week in opening it up to display the way it was built. "Some of his precious tools can go here and his ties in this drawer. It has space for all the things he is interested in." .., ... ,.,... ,...,...ra needs Club uipment The Photography Club is seeking to expand its equipment as it prepares to give lessons next year which will stress composition, exposure, development, and the printing of individual negatives. "We feel that this is best accomplished when a·student c~n begin with one visual concept and then follow it through," Jerry Abrams, a club member, said. "Large format cameras (4" by 5''), with their capacity for image control and their use of individual negatives, are ideal for our purposes. We therefore are asking for help in assembling this equipment. "If you have any lights, light meters, or large format equipment you would be willing either to donate or to sell at a reasonable price, please contact me this summer in Annapolis. Financial contributions, of course, also are welcome, and all contributions either of equipment or money are currently tax deductions." · �THE REPORTER J l ANDREW KRIVAK Andrew Krivak, A '86, has received the Walter S. Baird prize for achievement in the arts, literature, or the sciences. The Dallas, Pa., alumnus received a $500 prize for his poetry. The award, named for a 1930 graduate, is given annually by the Walter S. Baird Endowment. Mr. Krivak has been writing poetry since his freshman year at St. John's and has been published in the student magazine, Energeia. He plans to continue to write and possibly enroll in a graduate writing program in the future. ques11on er To the Editor: In the April issue of The Reporter, the problem was raised concerning the masculine "i" in the word "alumni." Excuse me for raising an additional problem, but should we perhaps alternate a seminar with an ovinar? Sincerely, Keith Martindale SFGI '86 Writer is glad it isn't rn To the Editor: Since Mr. Douglas Buchanan has seen a need to complain publicly about the college's "unadventurous" decision not to hire George McGovern as president, I must say that it is good to be spared such an embarrassment. Apart from the question of Mr. McGovern's qualifications for the job, which are none too evident from his public record, I am confident that many alumni would be pained by a forced association with the bizarre view of liberalism that he represents. Nelson Lund, A '74 Dallas, Tex. We warmly welcome letters to 1he Reporter, which should include your name, home address, and telephone number. Because of space constraints, we reserve the right to shorten all submissions. Thev mav be addressed to Jhe Reporter, St. John's College, PO -Box 1671, Annapolis, MD 21404. cost o ls the price of tuition at St. John's College too high? Not by comparison with a select group of 33 institutions known as the Sloan colleges, a group of exceptionally qualified institutions chosen by the Sloan Foundation of which St. John's is one. The cost of providing St. John's education in actuality is much higher, Charles A. Nelson, A '45, chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors Finance Committee, informed a board workshop during the April meeting. At the same time St. John's tuition next year will fall under the 1985-86 median by more than $1,000. During the year just ended, Annapolis spent $14,947 and Santa Fe $16,856 for educational and general expenditures for each full time student. Next year the college expects to spend $15,972 in Annapolis and $17,008 in Santa Fe. This compares with the last available median figure of $10,974 that for 1984. Ranked by instructional expenditures alone for each student, Annapolis spent $5,223 in 1985-86 and will spend $5,499 next year. In Santa Fe, the figure this year was $5, 144; for l 986-87 it will be $5,386. "By comparison, in 1984, the median was $3,873," Mr. Nelson said. "Our instructional costs are substantially higher for choice institutions and way higher than those for the average college. We pay less but cost more. The basic reason is our ratio of 8Y2 students for one tutor. The average good college has a ratio of 12 students to one faculty member, the ordinary college of l 6 to I." Among 33 colleges in the Sloan group, Annapolis and Santa Fe tied at 29th place this year with $8,500 for tuition as compared with Bucknell University's median of $9,865. Mr. Nelson emphasized that St. John's considers it extremely important to maintain the ratio of tutors and students. To do so, he said it will be necessary to increase the college's major sources of revenue: tuition, endowment, and annual gift~. In twin productions, the King William Players successfully presented Midsummer Night's Dream and Shaw's Don Juan in Hell this spring. Cast as the mechanicals are, left to right, Peter Kalkavage, Flute; John White, Snout; Jon Bottom; Hugh McGrath, Quince, and Malcolm Wyatt, Starveling. In Don Juan, staged at the planetarium, are, from left, Anna Webb as Donna Ana, Simon McNabb as the devil, and John Shaughnessy as the commandant. •' Keith Harvey photos Colston joins college staff Kenneth Colston, a former teac·her of English and French, is St. John's College's new resident life coordinator, Dean George Doskow has announced. Working in association with the assistant deans' office, Mr. Colston has student responsibilities in connection with dormitory placements and food services and also with some counseling. His part-time duties will be expanded to full time later in the summer. Mr. Colston and his wife, Helen, A '82, the college's alumni liaison, with their daughter, Thalia, will reside in the college's Chancellor Johnson House. The 18th century house currently is being used as a small dormitory. Mr. Colston has had dormitory resp?n- sibilities at the Lysee Francois Premiere at Le Havre, a secondary boarding school, and at the Thomas Jefferson School at St. Louis, Mo., where he taught English and French and lived on campus for four years. In 1985 he taught English during the fall semester at Anne Arundel Community College. A 1978 graduate of Northern Kentucky University, he earned a master's degree in English and comparative literature at Columbia University in 1981. He completed a second master's in writing in 1985 at Johns Hopkins, where he also taught. Mr.. Colston is in the midst of readying his first novel, 1he Liherty Renaissance, for publication. · �THE REPORTER Page 8 _,,~,- Michael Morris photo Boosters Club" claimed credit for hanging on the library wall a banner proclaiming, "The best weapon is an education." Miss Kelley, a senior from Mechanicsville, Md., had her own cheering section -her mother, a brother, two sisters and a six-month-old nephew. "The only reason Daniel (another brother) isn't here is that he had to work," commented James Kelley. Except for the baby, they all play croquet. On the other hand, Imperial Wicket Elect de Majistre had never played the game until IO days before the tournament. Asked about next year's teams, he replied, ''I'll just go out a week or so before the tournament and see who wants to join me." As the afternoon wore on, students from the college and the Academy could be heard comparing notes on how mathematics and science are taught at their respective schools. Obviously the tournam~.nt is fulfilling its purpose: to promote a better relationship between the two institutions. IN ADDITION TO Midshipman Hughes, the Navy teams consisted of First Classmen Glen Stafford, Cherry Hill, N.J.; Kirt Kranker, Louisville, Colo.- St. John's and the Naval Academy! Having a good tii;ne at.the Croquet Tournament was what it was all about as these three demonsirate. Fro~ ,left ~re Anthony Nyberg, East Lansing, Mich., freshman; Gerald McNabb, Cohasset, Mass., sophomore, and Third Classman Donnie Van Gilder. • , 1 'i William (Brad) Fisher, sophomore, douses First Classman Harry Hughes, center, lord God and Wicket of the Naval Academy croquet team. Johnnies and Mids pose together after the tournament. T~9mbs up for , .(' i keteers triumph for third time St. John's by DOROTHY KINSMAN "Hey, hey, arete! "Hey, hey, Mr. J!" Johnnies cheered for virtue and athletic director Bryce Jacobsen April 20 as he swung his mallet in the final play of the 1986 St. John's-Naval Academy croquet tournament. The plunk of Mr. .J's ball against the post proclaimed a 2-to- i victory for the college. · Last year the Mids defeated the Johnnies for the first and only time in the four years the tournament has been played on the front campus. · As the official opener of the event, Barbara Leonard, assistant dean, knocked a ball through the first two wickets. St. John's took the first game while the second was still in progress on another court. The final game was well u·nderway on the first court when First Classman Harry Hughes, of Richfield, Conn., Lord God and King Wicket, led his team to victory in Game No. 2. For the first two games, teams consisted of three players each. The tie-breaker was streamlined by cutting the number to two each. According to St. John's Imperial Wicket Katie Kelley, Mr. Jacobsen's partner in Game 3, the objective was to save time. Even so, the tournament lasted almost four hours. For both the Academy and St. John's, croquet is more a game of strategy than of skill. ALMOST EVERY STROKE was proceeded by an intense discussion: Should the player try for the next wicket, come to the aid of a teammate, or slam an opponent's ball out of the court? Once a decision was reached, the players took their time in sighting along mallets. Next year's Imperial Wicket, sophbmore Robert de Majistre, of Westchester, Pa., frequently stretched out full length on the grass to calculate the angle of a shot. Players seemed unperturbed by an occasional frisbee skimming across the court, or a dog wandering over to sniff a ball. Dan Schoos, Wayne (Pa.) senior, added a touch of class as he glided around serving champagne from a silver tray. Despite the chilly wind, most of the St. John's players wore splashily colored shorts. The Mids were turned out nattily in black pants, black bow ties and white shirts. The crisp blues of the Brigade rooters also contrasted sharply with the individualistic garb of the St. John's cheering section. The boisterous "'Self-Appointed JUNE 1986 " _, , Marilyn Mylander pho~o, Paul Costello, Millbrae, Calif.; Brian Skimmons, Surf City, N.J.; Mike Walls, Bowie; and Tom Smith, Topeka, Kans.; and Second Classman Bill Weber, Decatur, Ga. Commander J.D, Buttinger is sponsor. For St. John's the players were Ken Shen, Ann Arbor, Mich.; David Lowther, Glen Ellyn, Ill.; and Miss Kelley, seniors; Lyndsey Wyman, Annapolis, and Mark Manry, Bay Minette, Ala.; juniors; Brad Fisher, New Haven, Conn.; and Mr. de Majistre; sophomores; and Mr. Jacobsen. Former Imperial Wicket John Ertle of Cleveland, A '84, and Kate O'Malley, A '83, were referees. The event was heavily covered by the Washingt()_nL 13-<!ltirrnn~.~ and Annapolis press. ·· · ·· · ·· · ·· Navy lends hand to SJ prank In case you haven't heard about it, there was a group of St. John's students at the Naval Academy-Johns Hopkins lacrosse game banded together as "Johnnies for Middies" and cheering Navy on to victory. They are part ofa new St. John's-Naval Academy Friendship Committee, according to Annapolis freshman Brigham Bechtel. A former Navy man himself, born in Room 9 of the academy's old hospital, Mr. Bechtel helped conduct the 3 a.m. foray in which the Johnnies covered the academy's famed statue of Tecumseh with water soluble orange and black colors. That happened the day Navy and St. John's held their fourth a.nnual croquet tournament with, as it turns out, Navy's full permission. "In these post-Libyan days, we thought it best to see that no extreme security measures were taken," the 24-year-old Johnny said, in advising such:precautions. the Johnnies arranged an appointment with Captain Al Korietzni, deputy commandant of midshipmen, who not only said in effect, "Be our guests," but invited the group for Friday lunch with the mid1 ' shipmen. Besides Mr. Bechsel~ the students who called upon him included Brad Fischer, Simon McNabb, Antl:wny Nyberg, James Mattingly, and Alfonso Kalinauskas. ''I KNEW WHEN we saw he had submarine dolphins 'on: his uniform that we were going to be fine," Mr. Bechtel said. "All commanding officers of submarines have great senses of ~minor. He was the perfect man to talk to. He really deserves something special for inviting us over for lu9s:J:t ap~ talking tq us. He made the whole event (the croquet tournament) a little nicer." In early morning, wearing khaki clot.hes with their faces blackened, the students paddled over in two canoes from the St. John's boat house carrying rollers and paint in the school colors. Altogether, they were seen by about six Middies. One of them questioned Mr. McNabb, who claimed to be a Middie but got into difficulties when the Mid demanded his "alpha number." Mr. McNabb's trademark pigtail also might have been a problem. Two of the Mids cheered them .on. "They loved it," Mr. Bechtel said. "TQey thought it was great and told us, 'It's about time you guys did something."' ·. , Left behind at St. John's in their has.te was an orange T-shirt with the college seal on front that said "They did it" on the back. It was intended for Tecumse9 1 Later, at the tournament, students pre~­ ented it to Midshipman First Class Haq:.y Hughes, who captained the Navy team~. Those in the prank wore identical T-shifts with "l did it" on the back. ., The son of a retired senior chief machinist mate, Mr. Bechtel said that an aqa.., demy graduate, William Gravell, his commanding officer in a remote Turkish station, was enthusiastic about the classics and "inspired me to come to St. John's." Although the two schools have had seminars together and from time to time Middies attend St. John's lectures, movies, and dances, Mr. Bechtel is convinced the St. John's-Navy Friendship Committee can expand activities. Besides attending their athletic events, he mentioned the possibility that students, ~- ( 'J } .)·} .-t 'f <: �JUNE 1986 THE REPORTER Seniors hear Mandelbrot (Continued from P. 1) the commissioning into the Marine Corps of Henry Williamson, of Annapolis. Mr. Williamson's father, tutor Robert Williamson, served as marshal for the procession of gowned faculty, seniors, and platform guests as they moved from -McDowell to the Liberty Tree. Dr. Mandelbrot, whose I I-year-old rev. olutiortary studies into the geometry of indefinite forms have made him internationally known, was the senior class's choice for speaker. In his address, he advised graduates that ideas can come cheaply, but the exploration of ideas - the ability to develop one organized body of thinking - is much harder. And in citing the need for a base in a single field of endeavor, he emphasized that that base must not be · staked out too narrowly. The Harvard University professor described the experiences of three scientists who used strengths in other fields to make it possible for them to accomplish their goals. One of them was D'Arcy Thompson, biologist, physicist, and classicist, whose life, he said, represented "one very unified entity." Another was a personal friend, D. Carleton Gajudusek, the 1976 Nobel prize winner, whose investigation of slow viruses in the highlands of New Guinea was conducted, he said, with stamina and great curiosity, in an uncertain job situation and under hostile conditions. Gajudusek's work, Dr. Mandelbrot said, represented a combination of daringness and carefulness. "To be daring is not enough, .. he pointed out. ''Many people gamble because it is amusing. The difficulty is in implementing, in tying things together." Important ideas also are very few, he observed. What is difficult to explore are consequences, to move from one idea to a well organized endeavor. "One cannot just innovate. That doesn't happen. One must put together ideas into an organized whole." Of his own geometry, he said the problems it posed had been fleetingly glimpsed by people in the past. What had made his work possible is the use ofthe computer to draw abstract, mathematical, quick representations of the world around us - of mountains, clouds, and trees'. Prizes, in addition to the silver medal and for the best senior essay, were awarded the following: Rebecca Ann Schug, the Duane L. Peterson prize of $1,250 to a junior for high academic achievement; Rhonda Datcher, Alexandra Edelgalass, Daniel Touey, $1,000 awards of the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr., Memorial Foundation for scholarship; Daniel Stamper Caldwell, James Goddard, Robert Ingham, and Catherine Irvine, $1,250 Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation scholarships; Fawn Trigg, the Joan Yvonne Ronay $1,000 scholarship; Edith Updike, the Johnnies for mids (Continued from P. 8) interested in setting up a radio station at St. John's, could learn from the academy's own broadcasting experience, and that a number of Johnnies would be interested in amending the Navy's seminars and lectures o~ modern physics and engineering. .. We can do a lot of things together,•• he summed up possibilities. $100 Senator Millard E. Tydings scholarship for excellence in speaking; Renee Bergland and Lawrence Seidl, II, honorable mention for senior essays; Patrick Touey, best sophomore essay, with Eric Lavoie, Arexander Magocski, and Fawn Trigg, honorable mention; Christopher Sturr, best freshman essay, with Laurie Cooper, honorable mention; Claudia Probst, best original English poem; Paul Stevens, best essay on a piece of music; Bradley Stuart, Problem I division, most elegant solution to a mathematical problem, and Garfield Goodrum, Jr., and Ty Yancey, best laboratory projects. Alejandra Farias, John Newell, and Nancy Townsend received blazers offered by the Alumni Association for their participation, leadership, and sportsmanship in the athletic program. This year no prize was offered for a junior essay, for Greek and French translations, or for a musical composition. Canon A. Pierce Middleton delivered the invocation and benediction. Class Day exercises included speeches by tutors and students as well as musical offerings. In a talk turning on the question of how to speak to people who have not attended St. John's, Howard Zeiderman spoke of the need for generosity in speaking to each person in his own language. Douglas Allan brook, in a talk dedicated to the late tutor, William O'Grady, expressed the belief that poets and philosophers are the best help in a world in which technology and human baseness has posed mankind on the brink of universal destruction. In speaking on memories, Edward Ingham, of Charlottesville, Va., pointed out that he did not want St. John's to be the decisive event in his life and suggested it. was time for the seniors to leave: "Let's book." Teresa Pausic, McKeesport, Pa., spoke on the transition from a college where students are accustomed to learn from one another to a world in which students will be meeting individual challenges alone. John Newell, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Daniel Schoos, Wayne, Pa., presented a humorous sketch featuring the selection of books for a re-established St. John's after the "first nuclear jello factory meltdown." Music was provided by David Lowther, guitarist and vocalist, and by the Jazz Workshop, which performed a composition by David Vermette, of Norwell, Mass., dedicated to his late father. Performers included Roger Burton, Annapolis; Ed Weiss, St. Petersburg, Pa.; Paul Stevens, Adelphi, Md., and Ted Ingham, Charlottesville, Va. This year's senior prank was based upon an Exod.us theme with Mr. Lowther and Katie Kelley, of Mechanicsville, Md., in charge. Seminars were interrupted by Israelites and Egyptians. Skits followed. Walking infootsteps of 10,000 Greeks Frank Williams, who has spent previous summers at the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe and Annapolis, will go about his classical studies the hard way this summer. Using Xenophon's Anahasisas a guide, he plans to spend June through December following the route of the I0,000 Greeks who went on foot through Turkey, Anatolia. and Armenia. His travels will pace his own Anahasis. Visitors elect two to board Two Annapolitans, Anna Greenberg and William Simmons, have been elected to the Board of Visitors and Governors. Active in St. John's support groups, Mrs. Greenberg served as chairman of the Friends of St. John's Campaign in Annapolis in 1983-84 and as president of the college's Caritas Society in 1978-79. Currently she is vice-president of the Annapolis Sm phony Orchestra, a director of the Brandeis University National Women's Commission, and a member of the 21st Century Club. She has served as an officer in Hadassah and the American Association of University Women. Mr. Simmons previously served on the St. John's board from 1974 to 1980. A former president of the Alumni Association, he is an Annapolis businessman who, until it was sold recently, was vicepresident and co-owner of Fawcett Boat Supplies, Inc. He will continue his association with Fawcett's for another year. Mr. Simmons has been a director for the past eight years of Farmers National Bank and chairman of its Audit Committee. Another Navy SJC marriage Erica Chaney King, A '74, has an addendum to the April story on St. John's-Naval Academy marriages. The wedding count should be four, not three as reported then. She writes: "I am a graduate of St. John's, Annapolis, Class of '74. My husband, Gregory King, is a graduate of the Naval Academy, Class of 1974. We met during our school days and were married on 27 November 1976." Now serving as the disbursing officer of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif., Major Chaney and her husband will be moving next month to Quantico, Va., where she will enter the Marine Corps' Command and Staff College in August. Mr. King, a Marine officer until last summer, is simultaneously a farrier and a graduate student at the University of Southern California's systems management program. Sadi Koylan dies Sadi Koylan, '48, poet, writer, translator and broadcaster for the Voice of America, died of lung cancer February 14 at his home in East Hampton, New York. He was 67. Born in Istanbul, Mr. Koylan came to America at the age of 17 with his uncle, Munir Ertegun, Turkish ambassador to the United States and father of Ahmet Ertegun, '44. Mr. Koylan had attended schools in France, Switzerland and England. In addition to St. John's, he attended the Catholic University in Washington. From 1949 to 1972, Mr. Koylan broadcast news of the world to Turkey over the Voice of America. As a poet and playwright, he often gave dramatic readings of his own and others' works. He translated into Turkish many poems, including works ofT.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, and Arthur Rimbaud. Quoted in the East Hampton Star, his close friend, William Goldsmith, '48, praised Mr. Koylan for his ••unique qualities of warmth and understanding .. and ..the brilliant wit and irony that he brought to his life and his poetry." Mr. Koylan is survived by his wife and a daughter. Page9· Santa Fe lists prize winners (Continued from P~ I) E. Tydings Memorial Prize for excellence in public speaking; Joy Kaplan and Melissa King, the Thorne Endowment Scholarships for summer study in preparation for medicine; Michael Mason, the Henry M. Austin Scholarship in recognition of academic achievement and for talent in writing poetry; Michael David and Lisa Woods, the Exxon Foundation and Henry Luce Foundation Scholarships for summer study in preparation for engineering. Essay awards were granted to the following: Senior Harold Neth, "Forward to Death;" senior Sean Greenwood, "In the Shadow of the Negative Self (honorable mention);"junior John Sullivan, "Grounding the 'Ought': The Moral Philosophy of Kant, Hume, and Aristotle;"sophomores, Bryan Frost, "Of the Troubles of Becoming a God," and L. Jeffrey Smith, ..The Voice of Christ Heard; the Affirmation of a Savior's Cry;"freshmen, Benjamin Galison, "To Hell and Back: Travelling in the OdysseyofHomer,"and Theodoros Theodoropoulos, "An Analysis of the Figure of Nicias in the Peloponnesian War." Additional awards were given for translations of Greek and Spanish texts into English and for an original sonnet as fol1ows: sophomores, David Johnson, Michael Mason and Marlene Stutzman for their translations, and junior Robin Davis for her sonnet, "Begging For Silence," (The Henry M. Austin Poetry Prize). The Alumni Award, given to two seniors who, by their participation, leadership and sportsmanship, have contributed most to the athletic program at the college, is offered by the Alumni Association. Jamie Hayden and Michael Ryan each received college blazers in recognition of their accomplishments. The awards of plaques for athletics and other student activities were made as follows: Senior Will Fischer and sophomore Eran Williams were recognized for outstanding performance in athletics; for outstanding contributions in all student activities, seniors Curran Engel and Thomas O'Dowd and junior Nancy Solzman; and the athletes of the year were freshman Pamela Lee Jeffcoat and senior Daniel Gartner. Leslie Medford wins award E. Leslie Medford, Jr., A '39, dean of admissions at the University of the Pacific, has been named as recipient of the Exemplar Award given annually by the Western Region of the College Board. The award acknowledges "outstanding professional achievement" and is presented annually to an individual "who has made exemplary contributions which enhance the aims and professional activities of concern to the College Board." The College Board is an. organization of high school and college administrators concerned with financial aid, advance placement, and curriculum design to bet-' ter prepare high school students for col'.". lege. • Mr. Medford joined the University of the Pacific admission office staff in 1962 and was named dean of admissions in 1974. �Page10 THE REPORTER DiNucci gets NEH award Writer considers SJ's social policy Celeste M. Di Nucci, Annapolis junior, is one of 100 high school and college students nationwide to receive a 1986 Younger Scholars Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The award will enable Miss Di Nucci to work full time for nine weeks this summer on a project entitled, "Parallels in Linguistic and Political Necessities in Hobbes' Leviathan." Of the $2,200 award, $400 is alloted for hrr project advisor, tutor Chaninah Maschler. Through the Younger Scholars Awards, the NEH commemorates the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution. The objective, according to the Endowment, is "to encourage renewed scholarly interest in and public reflection on the history, principles, and foundations of constitutional government. .. Before enrolling at St. John's, Miss DiNucci, 24, attended Wellesley College and took classes at colleges in Portland. She plans to make a "detailed and comprehensive study of Hobbes' theories of language and meaning as set forth in Le\ ia1lwn in order to better understand his political theories in the same treatise, especially his ideas.of .the gene.ration and · preservation of the commonwealth ... The St. John's program, she writes, "has become. for me, an extended and extensive exploration of my responsibilities as a user of language. 1 ;'/~ 1totu (Continued from P. 2) • • • 1 . •• • ol M.u lton, N.J., Ms. Howell wi ites, "You may rememb~r that I started law school two weeks. alter I gr~duated fro!11 th_e Graduate Institute! I be~1_n a clerkship with the_ H_o_n. L. Anthony Gibso~. Ch<.111 cery ~1v1~ion. Nev:'. Jersey Supertor Court. 111 September. 1984 Damon Ellingston. A, has been accepted by the Astronomy Department of ,, Connecticut Wesleyan University. where he will begin work this fall on a master's degree. "In the meantime." he writes. "I've bought a new motorcycle and hope to ride this summer to Santa Fe and points west. "Last 1y, 1 recen ti y atten d ed th e mar· 1· Th" K d H nagc o 1a eppe 1an 8 arry e11 man, b h '84s" ot · . . . From Adnan Trevisan, A, comes this news· .. · . . . About two weeks atter gra_duation 1 d1slocated>my shoulder and ~his delayed my entry mto the Army until 7 October 1985. I did basic trainin r lnfantr AIT ·· . . g. . Y anq,Airb_orne ~~hool. at Ft. Bennmg,_Ga.,. but a m.mor 111.iury prevented 111 ~ trom completing the. Ranger lndoc~nna~ion Program and going to my battalion. 'Tm now a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N.C.. Should anyone want to send me a birthday card. my address is: Pfc. Adrian Trevisan,iA'to:· 1/508 Ahn. Inf.. Ft. Bragg. - J~LG. 28307•510(}." ·· ' · JUNE 1986 by WILLIAM MICHAEL GOLDSMITH, '48 Emeritus Associate Professor of American Studies, Brandeis University Students on both campuses recently drew up petitions raising the questions of whether St. John ·s investment policies are in accord with the college's ••ideals" and educational ''purposes.·· These petitions led to a meeting of alumni in New York City attended by the president and chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board of Visitors and Governors. I thought as l listened to the report of the Finance Committee chairman that if Scott Buchanan were alive today. he would jump into the fray immediately. The issue of investing institutional funds in corporations with extensive holdings in countries which violate basic human rights certainly has been a significant issue on every leading campus in the country. l think Scott would have challenged St. John's as to why it took so long even to consider this question. Is it simply a matter of indifference to the board as to how and where the college's capital resources are invested as long as such investments show a reasonable return of income? Do students have any right to inquire into such policies? Does the same question also apply to alumni? Student concern with college policies beyond the campus is not a new problem at St. John's. It is not clear whether Francis Scott Key had anxieties of this nature in the 18th century, but as students in the early 1940s. we were faced with several major social and political problems which we attempted to thrash out responsibly as would-be liberal artists. During my freshman year, the news of Pearl Harbor came to us as we gathered for one of Catesby Taliaferro's extra seminars on the Meno. IN THE WEEKS that followed, in long discussions we attempted to explore what obligation as citizens we had to our country, considering that we were privileged to be experiencing such a unique and valuable education. Did we owe it to the survival of freedom to continue in school as long as we could? Many of our teachers supported this position. Others argued, for the same reasons, that we should be the first to go. Ultimately, we made our individual decisions based upon our best understanding and the options available to us. Some enlisted immediately; others joined delayed programs that would train us as officers. and some declared themselves as conscientious objectors. What is impor- in desegregating the St. John's student body by recruiting a qualified bfack student who applied and was enrolled. We initiated a seminar for black members of the community and. opened up our athletic facilities on weekends for young blacks who didn't have any other place to play softball. We even tried to desegregate the local chapter of the American Veterans Committee. What is important for me about these experiences is that we cared very deeply about these issues, and we tried our damndest, even as students. to do something about the problems we all faced. What concerns me about this question of the college's investment policy is not only that it took so long to surface hut what that implies ahout the general envir,.. onment ofthe community. Has St. John's wnt is that we rook the prohlem seriously. We rried to think it through as we imaginedfree men would decide such (tn issue. The great books were not an escape from reality but rather a forceful reminder of a dimension of reality and, I should . add. morality that most of us had never before encountered · We were faced with another problem as students. In the 1940s, Annapolis was a . . Jim Crow town. every bit as segregated as Biloxi, Miss. Until our time, no blacks had ever attended the regular Annapolis .. . . . 1own ~eetmg. wluch was held m our gymnasium. One of the proudest moments in my life was the evening we led a group of black citizens into the meeting and desegregated it 12 years before the Brown decisions of 1954. As s_tu~ent~ from outside Maryland, we were lm~1ted .m what we coul? do to end segregation m our community .. but _we constantly pre~sured the admma~tr~tlon ·Hl:t.ak~ more vigorous steps to ehm1nate , th1~ bhgllt on our campus. We succeetled J become the kind of ivory tower where such problems are so far from its consciousness that they are really never in focus? IS IT A MATTER of indifference where the college invests its growing capital resources and of no concern whether or not its profits are derived from slave labor in Africa or even California? And should it be overlooked that it has never voted its proxies in any of the corporations in which it owns stock and consequently has absolutely no influence in determining their policies? Last year many of us were disturbed at the proposal to appoint two presidents. I raise the question of governance, of the decision-making structure of our community. because it goes to the heart of the even larger issue which is implicit in the problem of the. college's investment policy. When Scott Buchanan left St. John's in the late 1940s, he devoted the next two decades to ,exploring critical problems of law and politics he considered vital to the sur,vival of a civilized society: Much of his thinking and writing was concerned withr the evolution of the corporation and the many complex problems it had spawned in our times. HE BEGAN TO reflect whether indeed there was an adequate body of law which took into consideration the far flung influence of the corporation. Since colonial days, when Massachusetts Bay and Virginia were founded by two British corporations, much that happened in this country and beyond it had been fostered by the growth of corporations. These colony corporations were followed by other corporate entities created to advance education, religion, commerce, charity, the affairs of municipalities and. more recently, the performance of public service on~an' inter-municipality and interstate basis. There is little in our developing society that has not been affected· by the corporate structure, including the arts, the sciences, technology, and now even the exploration of space. We cannot brush our teeth, read the papers, travel, communicate by letter or phone, tum on a light switch. even pay our. taxes, without touching the corporation at some crtitical point': What perplexed Buchanan is that he saw in the allpervasiveness of the corporation in our everyday lives the source of the "withering of consent" in the society at large. For him. the corporation had pre-empted the freedom of the individual, or at least recast that freedom, in a new and unchartered realm. J) tflhe'i''withering of consent" gradually has distorted the vision.of the enlighteneli Republic of free men created by the Founding Fathers. The society they envisioned was one in which free men would govern, uninhibited by intervening institutions, whic\1 would compromise their franchise. But it hasn't worked out that way. IF I AM RIGHT, Scott Buchanan's vision ofthe Republic of free men was one in which a new body of law prescribed the complex rights and obligations of the many contrasting types of corporations in American society and also the rights and obligations of their very different levels of members, whether they are administrators, stockholders. production line workers or even faculty and alumni of an educational institution. No one in this new Republic would be entirely disenfranchised, but there obviously would be varied and perhaps quite .complex levels of participation. When individuals lose control of their lives, or the potential for such control, their interest declines, their values and attitudes regress, and society (despite the existence of government) reverts to a Hobbesian state of nature where life is "nasty, brutish and short." Buchanan thought that he could restore our noble Republic only by making the invisible power of the corporations responsible to a framework of law. lsn 't it ironic that the college that Scott Buchanan transformed into a new and exciting m?del "i~f ·~~IJ~9r;~Nt,1Jt_~~ fd~c~­ tlon could ignore for so 1ong his s1gmf1cant thinking on the corporation. · The college is a chartered corporation which is experiencing something of its own ..withering of consent, .. if my eyes and ears don't deceive me. I~ al.so is struggling to discover its proper rol~ in a universe of corporations for which there are no prescribed rules of conduct or law. But the great books should be the best guide under such circumstances. When Scott came back to Annapolis in 1948 to address my commencement, he proposed that law and politics ought to become the central focus of the curriculum. He did not mean by this, as some later have misread his suggestion, that the great books ought to be replaced by a new list devoted exclusively to law and p,0litics. This is not what he had in mind. THE IMAGINATIVE and philosophical range of his intelkct would certainly preclude such a change. But he was drncerned that St. John's was drifting toward a kind of aimless classicism which he and other founding fathers (Adler, Barr, Hutchins, and Van Doren) abhorred, anC:l1 he thought this drift could be arrested 1by giving the New ·Program a clearer focus and direction. Clearly Buchanan's proposal was not heeded. Some of our publications suggest that we have become a graduate Department of Classics. I hope not. There is need for such specialization and advanced study. but there is a greater need fot a college whose objective is to make free men from books and balances. · Free men ought to be aware of what is necessary to protect their liberty in a world which at times seems determined to obliterate it. Perhaps the college can begin to consider Scott Buchanan's proposal by examining the problems involved in its investment policies and its Polity in the broadest possible framework. If it can get over those fairly low hurdles. it may begin to rediscover its soul. Freedom tends to be a contagious ide<l. I I �Pag~ THE REPORTER ·11 Former [!_resident s Douglas Huntly Gordon, Jr., president of St. John's from 1931 to 1934, died of heart failure March 24at his home in Baltimore. He was 83. Mr. Gordon was "an aristocratic art and book collector and Harvard-educated lawyer who almost single-handedly succeeded in preserving Mount Vernon Place as the architectural heart of Balitmore," according to the Baltimore 5)un. He was chosen unanimously as president of St. John's when he was not yet 30 years old. Stephanie Rico warms up for aerobics. Keith Harvey photo Aerobics at SJC Rico receives Fulbright Stephanie Rico can do some remarkable things: fold herselfup like a book, for instance, head down against her ankles, upper body in touch paralleling lower . body, her waist, a limber hinge. , For the disbelieving, she has demonstrated this three days a week in the aerobics class she initiated two years ago at St. John's College. . There's anuther side of her. She also is a highly intelligent student, capable of writing a major senior paper on Nietzsche and quantum theory and capable also of winning a Fulbright Full Grant which will take her to Tubingen University in West Germany the first of September. · There she will study the philosophy of the German education system, focusing on the question of why children there are educated in as rigorous a way as they are. I'm interested in education," this 22year-old Cupertino, Calif., graduating senior said. "My mother, a professor at San Jose University, sparked this interest, as well as my experience in the public school system. I don't understand why the American system is so bad." Miss Rico hopes to gain a fuller insight into why German students are as motivated as they are and more willing to study than their American counterparts. And .she hopes to look at the country's testing , program and the <balance between academic demands and extra-curricular activities as well as to find out why Germany has not adopted a community college system with its second chance, academic opportunities. Although she attended Monta Vista High School in San Jose in what.is consi. dered one of the best public school districts in California, Miss Rico said that, like most of her classmates, she disliked it. . She found her junior year as an exchange student in Germany, in which she spent plany more hours doing homework, more . satisfying. It was a year she compared ·favorably with St. John's, one in which . ~he also became more fluent in German. · " But even as she prepares for serious study, Miss Rico is counting on sqving time to join a women's soccer league in Germany. Soccer was a game which she played a great deal of this year at St. John's, a luxury considering her aerobics teaching program. Aerobics have formed a new and important aspect of St. John's extracurricular program, not only for students -- - - -- ---~-~-----~ but for the handful of faculty members, who have been willing to perspire to her taped rock music as they kick, stretch, straddle, hop, bend, and groan their way through an hour-long, dance-style exercise program. "When I was 17, I couldn't reach more than this," she encouraged students, hands dangling at the lower part of her calves. It's not only muscles Miss Rico has learned to stretch; she has learned to stretch time as well. With all the blood and oxygen coursing around in her veins, she has reduced the number of hours of sleep she needs to six. As a student at St. John's, she retired at I a.m. and arose at 7 - refreshed .. "Aerobics helps my concentration immensely," Miss Rico said of her own experience ...As a student you sit a lot. You sit to study, to go to classes, to eat, to talk. Aerobics gives me a physically energetic outlook. It relaxes me, calms me down, and enables me to read. I get tired but not fidgety." Classes, held earlier behind stage, more . recently in the boat house, have drawn a goodly sprinkling. of men among the women as well as faculty members, who range up· to 65 years of age. For the latter, there's been some hugging of the back lines to be less conspicuous, but in actual fact, no one really has time to watch anyone else. They're all too busy lifting their knees and keeping up with the Cars' "Shake It Up" or the Pretenders' "Back on the Chain Gang." "That's a little like .you feel," according to tutor Tom May, describing for some, what may be the more masochistic moments of the class. If there is any difference, Miss Rico believes most of the men have more stamina than women. As the result of the way their bodies are engineered, the women may be better cqordinated and more flexible in stretching and kicking. During the 1984-85 college year Miss Rico taught aerobics five days a week. Wanting to take part in the St. John's sports program, h9wever, she deci'ded to reduce her schedule this year. With her successor in place - Estela Roustan, rising Chicago, Ill., sophomore - Miss Rico leaves her own particular legacy to the college; strong hearts, better muscles, and a new addition to the;;aJthletic program. In a tribute to Mr. Gordon, President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle said, "It was my privilege to know him as a friend for more than three decades." Having read recently the minutes ofthe Board of Visitors and Governors for the Gordon presidency, Mr. Weigle pointed out that Mr. Gordon faced two problems. The first had to do with money. Confronted with the need to pay off a large mortgage and notes to banks, Mr. Gordon reduced the mortgage and paid off one note by using $ l 00,000 from the endowment fund. The sum was replaced by putting in the fund mortgages on the Hammond-Harwood House and Brice House, both of which. the coq~ge owned. "Mr. Gordon succeeded in operating the affairs of the college with a budget close to being balanced," Mr. Weigle said. The second problem was related to the Hammond-Harwood House. Disagreement arose as to whether the curator for the house and its furniture, on loan from Yale University, should report to the Board of Visitors and Governors or to Mr. Gordon. When the issue was resolved in Mr. Gordon's favor, the curator resigned. ''I do not know the factors that led the board to terminate Mr. Gordon's tenure in February of 1934," Mr. Weigle continued. "He had supporters and opponents within the faculty, the staff and the board. I do know that the final vote to let him go was eight to four and that at least two members of the board resigned as a result of that decision. "Time has a way of healing old wounds. It was therefore possible for me to re- enlist Mr. Gordon's interest in St. John's ... I succeeded in having him elected as an honorary member of the Board of Visitors and Governors. "He became a respected participant in official St. John's functions, and much was done to restore the reputation of this talented man for the period that he served St. John's College." Mr. Gordon served two terms in the House of Delegates, taking a stand against civil marriage ceremonies and legalized lotteries . In 1957, the French government awarded him the Palmes Academiques in recognition of distinguished service in the field of scholarship. In 1959, the French ambassador to the United States gave him the Legion of Honor for his promotion of French culture. Mr. Gordon's sister, Elizabeth Gordon Bingley, is the widow of George A. Bingley, who was on the faculty of St. John's for more than 30 years. Mr. Gordon's other survivors include his wife, Winifred Claude Gordon, another sister and several nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grand' nephews. • 1es Douglas Gordon may be remembered best for one fall evening in 1932 when he placed himself bodily between the guns of a six-member police force and students and emerged a hero. "I think he may have saved a lot of lives because they were not fooling," James Leslie, '34, told the Annapolis Home Chapter at a luncheon meeting in April. "It was a very brave act." Events climaxed a rowdy evening centered around the annual Johns HopkinsSt. John's football game. Johnnies had gone to Baltimore to paint its red brick buildings with "SJC" in orange and black. The Hopkins men came down to retaliate. "We were truly ready, waiting for them a mile up the Old Annapolis Boulevard," Mr. Leslie recalled. "After a nice masculine time beating each other up at the comer of College Avenue and St. John's Street, we won the battle, and they left." While he said about a hundred Johnnies were "socializing••, afterwa~rds, tlie city fire department arrived and started hosing the students down. The students became "somewhat angered." Besides taking control of the fire engine and causing the firemen to flee up the street to State Circle, they also used the firemen's axes to cut up the hoses. ~ "The students were col& and wet and shivering and were going back to their rooms when the police arrived in a large touring car," Mr. Leslie went on. "The police chief read the riot act to us while the five deputies pointed their shotguns at us." Arriving on the scene, as the police arrived, was Douglas Gordon. "Douglas do rd on was six feet, six inches tall and the most.Harvardish looking man you ever saw. He was 30 and the youngest president of a college in the United States at the time. He stepped in front of the student body, and told the police, 'You are on private property. If you shoot, , you will be guilty of murder. and I will so charge you.' "He was a lawyer and a very good lawyer. You could hear the click of the hammers going back into the guns as the police dropped their guns into the touring car. The police chief wrapped up the act. and told the driver to get out." Watson winners (Continued from P. 12) collections in London, Paris, Dresden, Vienna, Turin, Madrid, and Toledo. IN ADDITION, he hopes to gain understanding in the fine points of swordsmanship through Britain's medieval combat societies and fencing masters. In Toledo, he will observe the techniques of swordsmithing. Dating his interest from childhood, Mr. Fischer has practiced the art of war gaming with a medieval emphasis for seven years and studied fencing for .six years, · four.at St. John's. He also is concerned with the history of the Roman empire ~nd its effec;:ts upon 'western civilization. �12 en "' ... "'C Q) "C ,«I year-round program. Yi-xian He. who teaches in a normal school in Sichuan Province. said she learned about .the Graduate Institute in l 982 from an unidentified American. She much impressed." said she was "Since then I been dreaming of participating in your program, studying actively, extensively. and efficiently under the guidance of your good tutors," she wrote Geoffrey Comber. director. in her letter or application. Ouring the eight-week summer program. she will reside on campus. Mrs. He. who calls herself "Grace," is being sponsored by a Washingtonian who met her parents during World War I I. Altogether approximately 90 students are scheduled to do work this summer in the master's program modeled after St. John's undergraduate curriculum. Beginning in September, for the first time, classes will continue throughout the academic year:. . "Instead of being packed in eight weeks, as classes are during the summer, they will be stretched over a 16-week period," Mr. . Comber said. · Classes will meet on Mondays and Thursdays. The fall session will be devoted to the Politics and Society Segment and the spring to the Literature Segment. Tutorials are scheduled tentatively to begin at 5 p.m. with seminars and preceptorials to be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. This schedule will allow about an hour and quarter for dinner. By attending summer sessions. Mr. Comber said the year-round program will enable a student to complete a master's degree within a 15-month period. He said that the fall segment will be kept small. No more than 20 students will be accepted. Classes will be held in the library. The Graduate Institute also will be marked by another first in Annapolis. This summer all four program segments will be offered. the first time this has been done. Four St. Johns College students - two from each campus ·· are the 70 chosen nationally to be Thomas Watson Fellows during the coming year. Each will receive $10,000 to post-graduate year of their own nr-\11<:1no overseas. In Annapolis, the winners will both go to the Orient. Arseny Besher, of San Francisco. will seek to learn more about the attitudes that underlie Japanese foreign policy and more of that nation's history, society, and economy, particularly in relationship to this country and Russia. Roger Burton, of Annapolis, will go to China to study T'ai Chi, which he describes as "perhaps the most accessible route for the investigation into ... ancient Chinese way of thinking available to the non-native Chinese." The Santa Fe winners are two Californians. Will Fisher, of Mill Valley, will study the evolution of the Roman short sword, and Laureen Sutton, of Bodega, who already has studied childbirth, will gain first hand knowledge of the traditional childbirth techniques in Indonesia. "Chuk" Asher, who spent his first two years on the Santa Fe campus, stands at the center of three cultures. He is a Japanese citizen born of Russian parents who spoke only rudimentary English in 1976 when he moved to the United States. ESPECIALLY concerned with the relationship of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan, he is planning a career in international relations, an ambition so strong he describes it as "having taken on the nature of a calling." His plans call for him to cross the Japan Sea and to ride the Trans-Siberian railway to Moscow for a three-month stay in Rus- · sia. Because of his Japanese citizenship, he believes he may gain greater access to Russian institutions than might otherwise be possible. His agenda calls for him to visit the Universities of Moscow and Leningrad and the Pushkin Institute. CHUK BESHER "It is idealistic and perhaps impossible, but I would like to seek ways for these nations to cooperate for the benefit, not only to themselves, but also to the world community," he said. Mr. Burton, who already has studied Chinese at Middlebury, hopes eventually to enter into the field of Sino-American relations as a political and financial negotiator. Primarily, he is concerned with the philosophical history of T'ai Chi, which he describes as the most widely practiced sport in the world. "I am committed to the question, 'What is the way?' and to T'ai Chi as a vehicle for asking and coming to some possible understanding of it for myself," he wrote in his Watson proposal. " ... I am interested in creating or discovering a context in which I can study and come to understand Chinese traditional thought and its relationship to a growing and changing modern China." HIS ITINERARY calls for him to begin in Taipei, the capitol of Taiwan, to proceed to Hong Kong, and then to travel to Beijing, the capitol of the People's Republic of China, to leamthe state syn- ROBERT BURTON thesized form of T'ai Chi. According to Miss Sutton, many hospitals in Indonesia are in transition between modern techniques and traditional ones . ln rural areas midwifery is still the most common practice. Village women called "Dukuns" as~ist women during their pregnancy and childbirth. Labor and birth itself is attended by many women as a festive affair with the only male present the father-to-be. Miss Sutton has studied child birth, including the Lamaze birth methods, talked to doctors and midwives, and coached during childbirth. With a background in massage techniques, she said that in Indonesia massage is used during seven months to make the woman's body supple in preparation for giving birth and to establish the proper positioning of the fetus in the womb. Upon her return, she hopes to become an obstetrician or study nursing and nurse-midwifery. Mr. Fischer will attempt to locate and study swords from the fourth through the twelfth centuries in national and private (Continued on P. 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As the 21st president of its Annapolis campus, the Board of Visitors and Gov- · emors has gone outside the academic world to choose William M. Dyal, Jr., a 57-year-old humanitarian who has worked actively on behalf of international understanding, civil rights, and third world nations. As Santa Fe's first, full-time president, it has named Michael P. Riccards, 41, an historian, who has held administrative positions at Hunter College and the University of Massachusetts and has a substantial fund-raising record: When they assume duties July I, they will initiate a new system in which each campus will be headed by its own president. Since Santa Fe was founded in l 964, two presidents, Richard D. Weigle and Edwin J. Delattre, have divided the office · between the two locations. The two men were selected from among five candidates for both campuses, a group that included former U.S. Senator George McGovern, a 1972 presidential nominee. Although Mr. McGovern was the leading candidate of the Annapolis faculty, staff, and most members of the Presidential Search Committee, the board at a nearly six-hour-long meeting March 9 at Dallas Airport chose Mr. Dyal. · Board Chairman John H. Dendahl, of Extr.a space - April fg~ yal and Riccard vern loses bid WILLIAM M. DYAL, JR. Santa Fe, said members were impressed with the qualifications of Mr. McGovern and Mr. Dyal, who were both candidates for only the Annapoilis campus. "There were no objections per se to Mr. McGovern," he said, "but after long discussion, we were persuaded by the creden- MICHAEL RICCARDS tials and qualifications of Bill Dyal." Mr. Dendahl listed among them his "supebrb fund-raising track record," his "admirable administrative skills," and his "significant commitment'; to liberal arts. "I think we have a great president," he said. "l was hugely impressed by him You won'tfind it on campus moment of the vertical space available in The Annapolis campus is bursting at the seams. Suddenly, after years of grow- his McDowell Hall office, where the ceiling awareness, everyone is talking about ing soars to 13 feet. "Lay it on its side, and you'd have more space," Miss Leonard it. There isn't sufficient space: for student quipped. THEY AREN'T concerned, however, housing, for classrooms, for offices, for library books, for music records, for gym-: Gym to get floor nasium courts, for parking - even for The gymnasium floor, badly stuffing envelopes. warped as the result of a drainage Newest alert has come from librarian problem, will be replaced over the Kathryn Kinzer, who has advised the summer months. faculty that a new library may be necesJeri Rhodes, college treasurer, sary if the book collection is to continue at· said that a new drainage system will its present rate. be installed that will prevent water Charles E. Dunn, vice-president for adfrom collecting under the flooring vancement, who now heads that office's as it now does. Both the drainage fund-raising efforts, managed not to indisystem and new floor will be concate too much dismay when he heard of structed by the college maintenance the possibility of still another project. He staff at an estimated cost of is concentrating his present efforts on . $100,000. finding funds to complete the renovation of the Key-Mellon complex, a project that about their own offices. They are over the fact that student residential space is at a includes a new classroom wing. . premium, a situation exacerbated by risA pressing need is residential space. "The campus is now a tenth of a decimal ing rental costs in town where a fourth of point of 100 per cent occupancy," Mal- the student body in past years has chosen colm Wyatt pointed out as he and Barbara to live. The trend is for more and more Leonard discussed the dormitory situation. students to return to campus. It has spaces In considering a campus as densely for 297. Altogether 404 are enrolled. The last time the campus added dormipacked as a Hegelian paragraph, the two assist.ant deans thought fancifully for a tory space was in l 981, when a new wing ------ when he was in Santa Fe. He was marvelous. He's a very bright guy and, given a college like St. John's, he'll be able to do great things." At the request of one of the candidates for the Santa Fe campus, the selection of the western president was delayed a week and announced following a telephone ballot that ended March 17. "With the election of Mr. Riccards, we complete an excellent team to lead the college though the rest of the eighties into the nineties," Mr. Dendahl said of the 41year-old scholar. He praised Mr. Riccards'excellent academic background and administrative experience as well as the congenial personalities of both men. "l have the greatest ·confidence this team will work well for the college," he said. Their selection climaxed an extensive national search headed by James H. Frame, '50, of New York City, who maintained a frequently tight flying schedule between business obligations in Paris and this country in order to attend Search Comnmittee meetings. The search was praised by college community members as exemplary and received high marks for the caliber of the five candidates. Each was interviewed by faculty, staff, and students at both colleges. In an unusual move, their names were made public only during the week of (See Presidents, P. 9) Deans also to be picked to Paca-Carroll was opened. It mcreased the number of spaces by 29. The fact that they were quickly absorbed in a student St. John's will be gaining not only two body where enrollment is stabilized helps new presidents but two new deans as underscore the back-to-campus movement. It used to be, Mr. Wyatt pointed out, . well with the beginning of the next academic year. that Annapolis' Historic District, in which Both George Doskow, in Annapolis, St. John's is located, was "genteel s·eedy." and Robert Neidorf, in Santa Fe, are leavThere were apartments to be found. In the ing on July 1. last half-dozen or so years, as places are Mr. Doskow, dean for the past two refurbished, rents have doubled to years, is resigning to make possible a new amounts more than most students can living arrangement. His wife, Minna afford. Doskow, formerly acting dean of the Yale "Rentals are drying up," Mr. Wyatt Gordon College of Liberal Arts at the noted. The day will come when we will be University of Baltimore, last month beconverting our common rooms." came the dean of arts and sciences at With town costs likely to continue to go Glassboro (N.J.) State College. higher, college treasurer Jeri Rhodes beLike three other facuhy members on the lieves that St. John's should begin to think in terms of housing 90, rather than 75 . Annapolis campus, theirs will be a commuting marriage in which Mr. Doskow percent of its student body. wishes to omit the weekend and summer It is not only places to sleep that sturesponsibilities inherent in the dean's dents require, but places for them to cook position. as well, college officials are finding. Appointed 'by President Delattre inWhereas most students don't save much terim dean in 1984 to succeed Samual by renting, many students believe they can Kutler, Mr. Doskow became dean through realize major savings by buying and prethe regular Polity process in 1985. He will paring their own food. In seeking their return to the teaching faculty in the fall. own cooking facilities, there also is a new Mr. Neidorf is concluding the fourth facto.r not prevalent 20 years ago: a (See .Deans, P. 9) (See Housing, P. 8) �Page 2 · Mrll 1986 THE.RE~ORTER I 1 ' 1928 1974 A new Swedish edition of Concise HisCapt. Roger C. Burk, A, has completed torr of World War 11, 1939-1945, has been the Air Force Institute of Technology publised by Tidens Verlag of Stockholm. (AFIT) program and received a master's The author is Louis L. Snyder, of Prindegree in space operations. Located at ceton, N.J. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 1955 AFIT provides accredited graduate level Priscma Shore's "Water Frieze," shown resident education for selected Air Force with great success during her art show at members in the sciences, engineering, last fall's homecoming, has gone on extechnology, management and related hibit in New York. Presented as a fourfields. part cycle, it was shown February 21976 March 23 in P. S. I. the art gallery of the Paintings by Joel Klein, A, and SF, will Arts and Urban Resources, Inc., a Long be exhibited in the spring at the Spring Island center for contemporary art. "The -Street Space Gallery in the Soho Section opening was grand," Priscy writes. "Hunof New York. A resident of the Hasidic dreds of people. Bernard (A '54)and Phylsection of Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, Mr. lis Jacob were there." Klein also has exhibited at the Brooklyn 1950 Museum. He, his wife Rachel and their Charlotte King A, has joined the staff of daughter, Elisha, plan to move to Jerusathe college's Harrison Health Center as a lem this year. counselor. Working part time, she is 1978 available for consultation in the evenings From Rachel Roberts Barrett, SF '78, and on weekends. and David Barrett, SF '79, comes this Charlotte is director of social services word: for Charles County, Md. Her duties in"Dave and I will have been married six clude managing federal and state proyears this October. We have two daughtgrams for public assistance and protective ers, Fiona, 4, and Vanessa, 2. Dave makes services. Before accepting this position, furniture. He has his own small business she operated a private counseling service with one part-time and two full-time emin Annapolis. From 1970 to l 974, she was ployees. I am mostly a housewife, but I resident student counselor at St. John's. keep plugging away at art. l try to take a 1961 class each semester. I have sold a few John C. Jr., A, is dean of Shimer watercolors and done some illustrating, College, Waukegan, Ill. He also teaches which makes me keep at it. Greek, philosophy and theology at the Victor Lee Austin, SF, was ordained as college. an Episcopal priest by Bishop Richard 1963 Mitchell Trelease. Jr., in Zion Episcopal John R. Pekkanen, A, has a new book Church. Wappingers Falls, N. Y. out. Published by Little, Brown. it is 1979 entitled Donor: How One Girl's Death Gary Edwards, SF, has been working in Gove Life Fa Others. The book is a a large private physician's office in Washbehind-the-scenes account of the transington, D.C. He sends his regards. plantation of organs obtained from a l 7Last fall Marty Dobyns, SF, started a year-old accident victim who is profood manufacturing company called nounced brain dead to waiting patients. Jn Santa-Fe Ole'. The company specializes in a Washington PosT review, the book is four products: pinon pear chutney, sweet praised for providing, through its "abhot mustard, red chile jam, and green chi le sorbing, almost novelistic style," an un- - jam. For inquiries. contact Marty at P.O. derstanding of the medical advancement Box 2433. Santa Fe, N.M. 87504. organ transplants represent. 1980 1973 Paul Martin, SF, is a financial consulIn the newsletter of the Montgomery tant with Merrill Lynch in New York. He Gallery, San Francisco. of which he is also is an intelligence officer in the U.S. director, Peter M. Fairbanks, A, writes: Naval Reserve. In his spare time, he paints " ... The single most important event to and works as a fashion photographer and change the art business in the last decade video producer.. His paintings have been is undoubtedly the emergence of the Uniexhibited in New York and Texas: ted States into the center of the art world. Mr. Martin gives his address for "anyJn the past ten years the art and antique one interested in getting in touch": 255 business in America has grown from an East 10th Street, Apt. 6C, New York, New estimated $200-million to well over, $2York. 10009. Telephones: 212-614-0647 billion. The center of the business has (home) and 800-334-3448, Ext. 7929 moved from Britain to America ... " (office). Recent exhibiti"ons at the Montgomery John C. Moynihan, A, and his wife Gallery include "P<1intings of the AmeriMarita have joyfully announced the birth can West and Recent Acquisitions," of their daughter. Brynn, on January 11 in "Marine Paintings of the 19th and 20th Hoboken. N.J. ··1 am happily married and Centuries and Maritime Artifacts" and a father and would like to hear from "Henri Lebasque - a Retrospective." anvone who remembers me," writes John, whose address is 1205 Bloomfield St., Hoboken. N.J. 07030; his phone, (201) Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence , 653-2195. Berns, Betsy Blume, Jon Lenkowski, 1981 Howard Zeiderman, Eliott Zuckerman, Elizabeth Scali Pease, A, has received a advisory board. master of science degree in French literaThe Reporter is published by the ture,·· with a minor in linguistics, from Public Relations Office, St. John's Georgetown University. College, Annapolis, MD. 21404. Edwin She hopes to begin work on her doctoJ. Delattre, president. rate this fall at L 'Universite' Paris Vil, Published five times a year, in Febwhere she will specialize in literary critiruary, April, June, September and Novcism, poetics and semiology, the contemember. Second-class postage paid at porary novel and the works of Marguerite Annapolis, Md. Duras ... I would be pleased to hear from USPS 018-750 (Continued on P. II) \ 4 ,J i' Summ'er Alumni Program, homecoming set for July Homecoming in July will be set like a gem-laden nugget between twd weeks of Summer Alumni Programs. Participants for the first week, July 13-18, will be invited to remain for homecoming, July 18-20, and those attending the program from July 20-25 to arrive early in order to take part. Early plans for homecoming call for a major art auction for the benefit of the Scholarship Endowment at Santa Fe with items ranging in value from $25 to $26,000 on sale. It will be held in the Hilton Hotel's ballroom. Co-chairing this event will be John Dendahl, chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, and Mara Robinson, '83 SFGI. Faith Meem, '85 SFH, will be honorary chairman. On the agenda for Friday will be a Class of 1976 party, to which everyone is invited. Saturday's schedule will include lunch, homecoming seminars, softball game, cocktail party, and homeco.ming banquet. A champagne brunch is scheduled for Sunday. Continuing through July 27 will be the first annual Alumni Artists' Show. Besides the Class of 1976; special reunion events are scheduled by the Class of 1971 and the Graduate Institute Class of 1976. Faculty members for the Summer Alumni Program beginning July 13 will include Jim Carey, A '67, Stuart Boyd, and Jack Lincoln, A '74. Cary Stickney, A '75, and Peter Pesic will lead a seminar based upon Henry James' The Spoils of Povnton. Also planned that week are a three-hour visit to the Bandelier National Monument and a performance by the Santa Fe opera. Tutors for the second week, July 20-25, will be Mr. Stickney, Michael Dink, A '75, and Charles Bell. Nancy Buchenauer and Martin Cohen will lead a seminar on Neitzsche's Genealogy of Morals. The second we~k will include a field trip to the Pu ye Cliff Dwellings, a chamber music performance, and a performance by the British American Theater Group at the College ' Dean Mcfalls, SF '78, has walked many miles for peace. In 1982 he set out 'ftotn his home in Bangor, Wash., on a 6,500-mile trek, the Bethlehem Peace Pilgrimage, which terminated in Jesus' birthplace. Two years later, he walked from Scotland to Finland with participants in the World Peace Walk. "Once (they) reached the border of the USSR and were unsuccessful entering as a group," he writes, "several of us entered individually for different tours to different cities. This got me started on Soviet travels - three trips, two weeks each, the latter two with the Seattle Peace Chorus and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. I've also spent much time throughout Europe." When he wrote earlier this year, Dean was working in a nursing home in, Seattle. "I plan to join the Jesuits next August," he reports. "And to write a book!" In all his journeys, Dean talked with residents of the countries and visited them in their homes. He quotes from a conversation with a member of the Soviet Peace Committee in Moscow who described the USSR during the years of detente: "Sure, there were still the stories about Vietnam and 'Western Imperialism,' but we were also given a positive picture of Americans. Finally, everyone was realizing that your people are human beings just like us - not waiting to destroy the world, but people who liked, worked and celebrated as we do," the Russian told Mr. Mc Falls. "But suddenly everything began to close back up again ... ," he continued. "Now there is more tension in our country because the state of affairs· is getting worse. However, we are feeling generally optimistic because, with Gorbachev, many things are changing ... "Unfortunately, your people seem to feel that they can be protected with this 'space defense.' Your country is richer, and can afford to waste money this way, t but we cannot. Individuals in our country cannot profit from the arms race as can yours." s Eugene V. Thaw, '47, "lives for painting and drawing and has clearly had his pick, on not too oppressively grand a scale, of what has changed hands in the last twenty or thirty years." So writes Rosamond Bernier in an article, "Finely Drawn," in the March 1986 issue of House and Garden. Mr. Thaw and his wife, Clare, of New York City have "formed a ~<;:>llection of drawings, reinforced here and there with paintings and objects, that is in every sense private," the article says. "It is cherished, lived with, looked at, and talked to the way plants are talked to by great gardeners." Ms. Bernier describes Mr. Thaw as "one of the most distinguished private (art) dealers of the second half of this century ... As of a little while ago, he claims to have retired, but people have trouble believing that." . "Drawing is the true test of a collector," she writes, and points out that a "notably disparate group of people" once owned drawings which are now on the walls of the Thaws' townhouse. Former owners include Queen Christina of Sweden, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Ruskin and Gertrude Stein. Mr. Thaw bought his first important drawing, a Paul Gauguin monotype, in 1955. The Thaws now own works by Goya, Ingres, Delacroix, Degas, Ce'zanne, Daumier, Fragonard, Picasso, Van Gogh and Rembrandt. The collection, in due time, will be given away, Ms. Bernier writes. It will go to The Pierpont Morgan Library in New York~-~ J �April 1986 "THE REP'OR.TER Putting 6,000 ti An 18-year-old freshman from Billings, Mont., had just the· right background for · the job. Hired in the fall as a library technician at the Annapolis Field Office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alfonso Kalinauskas is the first St. John's student to be employed off campus through the Federal College Work/Study Program In high school, Mr. Kalinauskas took a course in data processing and worked in the school library. Although "not a computer wizard," he owns a personal computer and covered music and entertainment for his school newspaper, which is completely computerized. Now for 10 hours a week, Mr. Kalinauskas is applying his knowledge of data processing to imposing order on a technical library consisting of 6,000 publications that hardly anyone reads. The material has been shelved according to the order in which it arrived rather than being categorized and cross catalogued, Mr. Kalinauskas said. Trying to find information on a specific subject is so time consuming that the biologists simply give up. Mr. Kalinauskas catalogues a library. HE IS READING graduate level texts in library science as he develops alterna- percent of the student's salary. The college currently employs app'roxtive computerized reference systems for the library. After Mr. Kalinauskas in- imately 125 students on campus through dexes the material according to the system the CWS program, Mrs. Christensen said. chosen, the library will be easy to use and She hopes to develop more off-campus can be shared with the public and other jobs to give students varied work experience. government agencies. Mr. Kalinauskas'supervisor, Fred Sea-MR. SEA VEY SAID he was impressed vey, explamed that the Annapolis Field favorably with all six St. John's students Office's budget does not provide for a full- he interviewed for the job at his agency. time librarian. The agency, however, can The program has been so successful employ a person for the p·osition part time that the Annapolis Field'· Office has reunder contract, the fish and wildlife bio- · ceived approval to hire two more logist said. Johnnies under the same work/ study He conceived ·the idea of hiring a St. program. John's student as a result of his own Mr. Kalinauskas submitted a 20-page employment under the College Work/ report assessing the structure of the ~hidy Program (CWS) while a student at library and how its operation could be Suffolk University, Boston. improved. His recommendations are The objective of CWS is to increase job being implemented. opportunities that give students worthThe employment of Mr. Kalinauskas while experience while helping them to "is working out beyond my expectations, .. meet their college expenses, according to Mr. Seavey commented ...He fits in perCaroline Christensen, director of finan- fectly and is easy to work with." cial aid. They may be employed on or off The arrangement seems to be working campus at non-profit private, state or fedout just as well for Mr. Kalinauskas. It eral agencies. Federal funds provide 80 leaves him time to study ("the whole point in order Page3 Alumni name two to oard Mary Bittner-Wiseman, A '58, and Christopher Bruce Nelson, SF '70, are the Alumni Association's new members ot the Board of Visitors and Governors. They were nominated at last July's meeting of the association's board for two alumni posts on the BVA. Their threef~ar terms begin July 1. . Since no nominations by petitions of a third candidate have been received smce mid- summer, Betsy Blume, Annapolis ·alumni director, said that, according to the alumni by-laws, the two members are . considered elected. ·~ '., Mrs. Wiseman is professor of philosophy ·at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. With a master's degree from Harvard and a doctorate from Columbia University, both in philosophy, she is the author of articles that have appeared in such journals as Ethics, Philosophy and Literature, The American Philosophical Quarterly, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. She is a trustee of the Greg Ferguson photo American Society of Aesthetics. of being here"), to participate in athletics, A founder of the Brooklyn College and to write for the college newspaper. alumni seminars on the great books, she Does he want to make library science also helped found the New York St. John's seminar group in 1972. from 1981 his career? "I haven't really decided," Mr. Kalito 1983 she was vice-president of the New nauskas replied. Pointing out that he York Chapter and is a member of the Alumni Association Board. worked in· Washington last summer as a Mr. Nelson is a partner in the Chicago page for the House of Representatives, he law firm of Kovar, Nelson, and Brittain, developed a taste for politics and a "defiwhich specializes in labor relations law. nite leaning" towards a career in government. With a doctor of jurisprudence degree from the University of Utah Law School earned in 1973, Mr. Nelson served the GI to begin university pr~sident as a research assistant in assessing legislation in 1972-73 and Summer sessions of the Graduate organized and directed the university's Institute begin June 22 in Santa Fe legal services program, which involved at and June 23 in Annapolis. The various times 20 to 40 people. eight-week master's program will Four years ago he began teaching a include all four of its segments in course in labor and employee relations at Santa Fe: Literature, Politics and the Management Development Center at Society, Mathematics and Science, Aurora University. As an attorney, he has and Philosophy and Theology. ln served as counsel to a few private . Annapolis, the first three segments institutions of higher education. He has will be offered. for more informawritten on labor law and employee tion, write the Graduate Institute on . benefits and is a member of the American either campus. Bar Association. A fiye for acad mies, and the Bunn Hop is in St. John's College retained its top academic rating in the third edition of Edward B. Fiske's Selective Guide to Colleges, but, reflecting perhaps some of the congestion on the Annapolis campus, dropped down one point in the quality of life category. This gives it 12 rather than the 13 symbols it enjoyed in the first two editions. Originally St. John's was one of l I schools in the country rating that number. On a scale of I to 5, it rates five stars for academics, four dots for quality of life, and continues to rank. three telephone symbols for social life. According to the directory, ..A rating of three telephones suggests a typical college social life." The catalogue, edited by.The New York Times education editor, does not attempt to evaluate soci'al life or quality of life separately for the two campuses. The academic program is virtually identical for Annapolis and Santa fe. · In Maryland. the only other institution ranking five stars for academics is Johns Hopkins, which altogether garnered 11 symbols. With four in each category, Goucher was the only other college with 12. Hood earned IO and the University of Maryland and St. Mary's College of Maryland each received 9. The University of New Mexico rated 8 symbols. Text for the St. John's entry remains essentially the same, beginning with the observation that .. St. John's .... is a haven for extraordinary people who can't resign themselves to the diversions of the average American college experience. It is a school that caters exclusively to serious students whose single goal is to read, write, and philosophize every waking hour of the day." Well, perhaps not every waking hour. There is, after all, despite the rating of 3 for social life, much partying at the college, perhaps of a more imaginative and more open sort than at most colleges. St. Johnnies not only study hard; they play hard. The nice part. according to Brooke Zykan, admissions· representative and residential associate, ·is that exclusive of individual birthday parties and that sort of thing, parties are for everybody. "You don't find that at any other college,'' she said. "They're too big." Among them, on the Annapolis campus, are the Senior Prank, which she describes as a 24-hour long surprise party for the entire college community, and Reality, which can be thought of as a weekendlong party with emphasis on mock olympic games. There are the Halloween Costume Ball, Midwinter Ball, Spring Cotillion, and Parents' Weekend Waltz Party in addition to other waltz and swing parties about every six weeks. (footnote on waltz parties: The bunny hop is in; 150 students were doing it at the Midwinter Ball.) There are regular weekend rock parties, and parties in which student bands perform for dancing. Also scheduled are seminar and tutorial parties, including the party that traditionally accompanies the freshman seminar on Plato's Symposium. There are the Seducers and Corrupters parties for incoming freshmen, the Coffee Houses, Cabarets. Saturday Night pubs, Black and White Parties (everyone dresses accordingly), late afternoon "fire ciders" around the coffee shop fireplace, dean's party for seniors the night senior essays are due, the assistant deans' big Christmas party and their night-before Thanksgiving party, receptions at art show openings and following concerts and an occasional midweek lecture, boathouse parties, and countless, spontaneous parties. This year the Junior Class lessened chances of the mid-winter doldrums by staging a supper party for its members with tutors and their wives at the President's House. And, of course, there's the junior-senior cocktail party, the formal dinner the president gives for the graduating class, and the reception after commencement for s~niors and family members at the President's House. It may be odd that more are needed to give the college a 4 on that scale. but then, St. John's philosophically speaking, doesn't consider this the greatest issue on its agenda. If this rates a 3, we 11 stop there. There isn't time for any more. �4 t. Janette Hradecky is teaching at Salazar Elementarv School. For her, teaching was on her own excitement INEZ Rl'.SSELL New Mexican Staff 'Tve been interested in learning' Front-line training can be tough. myself," she said. "l was But for 15 SL John's College graduates, so excited about learning that I training on the front lines has provided to make it exciting for other the opportunity to take their liberal arts education and use it in the Santa Fe public said without the special certificaschools 3S teachers. tion process, she would not have become a The intern program is completing its teacher. first year, a cooperative effort of St. "I would not have done it," she said. "I John's College, the t; niversity of New , would have had to go to normal classes for Mexico and Santa Fe public schools. It two years. I wouldn't have liked it. Th~t's offered people with bachelor's degrees a why I chose to go to a school like St. way to become teachers without going John's." back to school for two years of education The intense summer training - in the courses. psychology of learning, curriculum and "We are not trying to replace tradi- other education-related subjects - pretional teacher education," said Mary pared the students for that first step in the Cornish, one of two Santa Fe teachers classroom. she said. supervising the interns. "We're justtrying "The first day scared me," she said. "But to provide an avenue for non-traditional after that, I felt pretty much prepared." candidates, people who have bachelor's The program has been evaluated by the degrees, to become teachers." state Department of Education and Already, the program has gained notice UNM. Cornish said. Both agencies are nationwide. Cornish and fellow teacher pleased with the results. coordinator Leslie Nordby are in Atlanta Important in the evaluations were until Wednesday for a national conven- whether the process is a viable alternative to certification and whether instructional The program for teachers, which standards were maintained, said state evaluator Dr. Gerry Dizinno. carries a paid internship in Santa Fe "We are convinced that although this is schools, will continue in 1986-87. Ron Hale, career counselor, asks an alternate route to certification, the that applications be in his office by standards in no way were being relaxed," Apfil 18. he said. "The level of instruction provided by these interns was quite adequate for the ti on of the Association of Teacher Edustudents of Santa Fe." cators to discuss the Santa Fe intern On evaluations, the teacher-students all program. earned above-average or average marks in The program began in controversy. different areas of competency, Nordby Parenls were concerned that students said. Those grades came as compared to would be taught by inadequately trained veteran teachers, not first-year instrucpersonnel. Oth_er teachers expressed tors. worry .that teacher certification standards One reason for the success of the prowere being weakened. gram, Cornish said, is the active help of Before the !nterns stepped in the dassclassroom teachers. rooms, though, they underwent extensive .. The teaching profession wants to be training through summer courses at self-regulating," Cornish said. "The only UNM. Interns were placed two in a classway we can do this is to allow veteran room and supervised closely by Cornish teachers to help train new professionals." and Nordby. One dropped out, leaving 15 Or, as Nordby said: "We can become to finish the program. the architects of our profession. Many Through the year, they have had to times, teachers who are first-year teachers attend workshops on Saturday for further don't have as much feedback as they lessons in how to teach. More classes are would like. In my experience, I turned to scheduled next summer. veteran teachers. In this program, the "One of the strongest criticisms came veteran teachers are provided from the from teacher organizations about placing beginning." non-certified teachers in the classroom," Funds for the program came from Nordby said. "But based on the iranmoney already budgeted to staff the eight scriptsin the summer, they received provi- classrooms used. sionalcertification. They were not uncer··Any money spent on the program was tified." already there," she said. ------ For clas.ses of '40 and earlier In the first program of its kind, the Annapolis Alumni Office is planning a long weekend June 18-22 for classes of 1940 and earlier. The reunion-style Elder Hostel Program will include a party with alumni from the Baltimore and Annapolis Alumni Chapters, a cruise on the Severn, and an evening at the Annapolis Fine Arts Festival at City Dock. Alumni director Betsy Blume said also planned are talks on the early years of St. John's by two St. John's historians - Charlotte Fletcher and Canon A. Pierce Middleton - and a talk by Historic Annapolis on the preservation of the city. There will be a walking tour of Annapolis. Among several small classes will be one led by James Beall; St. John's tutor and astrophysicist, on astronomy that will deal with black holes, quasars, and galaxies. Participants will be housed in the Chase-Stone Dormitory. Invitations will be in the mail this month. Toppo tends to a student's injured finger as one of his less(New Mexican/Leslie Tallant photo) Dr. Keith Auger of UNM, director of teacher training, came up with the funding process. The money was pooled, and each student given a stipend. The leftover funds were used to pay Nordby's and Cornish's salaries. Both women said they feel the program could provide an important avenue of finding quality teachers as predicted shortages become realities. "Because of the impending shortages of certified personnel," Nordby said, "certain districts are allowing people to enter teaching without certification. In many cases, people do not have the support, the pre-service and in-service training these interns had." In practice, Nordby said, the program "was a university model for alternative certification. The public schools simply provided the classrooms." Whether the program continues is still undecided, the women said. The Santa Fe School Board won't make that decision until March 4. .. Whether the program continues," Nordby said, "we feel very fortunate to have been a part of it. l will be a stronger teacher because of it." Post features Ahmet Ertegun "The long halls leading to Ahmet Ertegun 's office are lined with gold and platinum albums, but the office itself is spared that brashness. What dominates is the music: a long row of unplated (and therefore playable) records, piles of demo tapes with dreams attached, pictures of artists, pictures from artists, the occasional awards plaque and a stereo system c~pable of blasting out the sounds that define Atlantic Records' past, present and future." In a lengthy article in The Washington Posl, Richard ·Harrington is describing the office of the chairman of the board of Atlantic Records. He traces the career of Ahmet Ertegun '44, and his influence on American music. ··over four decades," Mr. Harrington writes, "he has transformed this once-tiny rhythm and blues label into a major link in the conglomerate chain known as Warner/ Elektra/ Atlantic ... Atlantic is having its best year ever for sales volume. W /E/ A will do close to $600 million worth of business, with Atlantic probably accounting for a third of that. "Ertegun," the article says, "is the quintessential CEO. He and his wife Mica, a well-known decorator, are fixtures at the ritziest social events and parties on several continents. Ertegun is a lender of Russian Constructivist and American abstract paintings to some of the world's most prestigious museums, a one-time president of the New York Cosmos soccer team, a multimillionaire mover and shaker." BORN IN ISTANBUL, Mr. Ertegun left when he was two and lived in Bern, Geneva, Paris and London, where his father served as Turkish ambassador. Mr. Ertegun dates his interest in jazz to. his hearing, at the age of 9 or 10, a performance of Cab Calloway's orchestra at the London Palladium. The Erteguns came to Washington in 1934 when Ahmet's father was appointed ambassador to the United States, "an immensely popular and powerful figure." Ahmet Ertegun says that if his father had lived (he died in 1944), he would have pushed his two sons to return to Turkey and go into civil service. "My brother and l decided to stay in America because we wanted to live in America, and we chose the business that we love because we loved American music," the article quotes him as saying. By that time, Ahmet Ertegun and his brother, Nesuhi, were inveterate collectors of jazz records. Eventually they amassed 25,000 bJues and jazz records, catalogued and indexed, with personnel written on jacket sleeves. When they left the embassy, they had to sell most of the records. After his father's death, Mr. Ertegun remained at Georgetown University and studied philosophy. "But I loved the music," he said, "and l knew many ohhe musicians and singers personally, so I thought it would be really fun to make some records." THEARTICLEquotes Mr. Ertegunas saying, "Our aim is to, in a dignified manner, recognize the people who created the music which has become the most popular music of all time in the world ... Rock 'n' roll is a form of music which has been vilified and looked down on; however it's a very vibrant and important American music." The article states, "You can't help feeling that, without Atlantic, the music might have been vibrant, but it wouldn't have been the same." an �/ Page 5 THE REPORTER April 1986 St. Johnny to aid India's poor Students hear Jae Holzman Even if her arm may be growing sore from a long series of inoculations, everything is coming together for Linda Jane Clement's summer of service amid India's poor. She is learning to tie saris. (Someone has lined up something called a "tailored sari" for her.) A foreign service officer has offered her her apartment when she first arrives. Lady Ann Petrie, who spent five years making a documentary of Mother Teresa, is providing introductions. And an Indian Embassy press officer is attempting to line up a cost-free flight. To care for the sick amid the squalor of Calcutta's slums may not be the vacation the average college student covets, especially if you are 23 and beautiful and might be playing the party circuit. For this Concord, Calif., sophomore, it is not only what she wants but what she looks upon as a privilege. She is counting the weeks until May 26 when she flies to India to join Mother Teresa, .whose care of India's poor won her a Nobel Prize. After being with Mother Teresa for two weeks, she will spend a month at the leprosy center at Orissa, south of Calcutta, and additional time at one of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity homes in the Calcutta area. It will all be volunteer work. "For a long ti roe I have felt drawn to work with you and your sisters, helping to love and nurture our fellow human beings who are in great need," Miss Clement wrote Mother Tere~a in seeking permission to come. There is a particular reason Miss Clement is anxious for this experience. Eventually, after obtaining a medical degree, arid· · she wants to devote herself to the poor of • the ability to be comfortable in mys- America. tery - to realize that it is ok not to know. "My real dream is to establish inner city "In business, says Mr. Holzman, ~'you health care stations, .. she said. can't wait for all the answers. You have to "I hope to learn how you cope with the just go ahead. Had I done the prudent tragedy of severe poverty so that I may thing, as my family suggested, I never learn how to render aid to the poor in the would have started Elekfra records ... inner cities here in the United States," she Mr Holzman has signed and guided had written Mother Teresa. sµch famous artists as Judy Collins, Harry REMARKABLY, she will take with Chapin, The Doors, and Carly Simon. He her eight years of medical experience of created the Nonesuch record label to ful- one kind or another, principally gained in full his desire t.o create a low cost, high California, experience that she believes quality label df lesser known classical will protect her from what can be the music. traumatic shock of India's poverty. As chairman of Panavision, he was "It's all in your attitude," she believes, instrumental in the design of a new system her blue eyes level and convinced. of narrow gauge cinematography. He was 1feel blessed to have been given such a instrumental in securing an agreement on strong love for people. It's a very wonderan industry-wide standard for the com- ful and special feeling to help others pact disk while he was at Pioneer Elec- achieve.health and happiness. When pain. tronics. As chief technologist for Warner suffering, and tragedy seem overwhelmCommunications, he developed the Qube ing, I find comfort in concentrating on the interactive cable system. beauty of the patient. To be able to overlook the unpleasantness of a situation is He advised students to remember that essential." working and business are games to be In working with patients - in cancer played and enjoyed, but not taken too wards, emergency rooms, and with geriatseriously. But to do that, he says "you've rics patients - part of her care meant got to be there fully, to see where the fun is holding hands and extending comfort. ··1 and go for it." He reminded his listeners that there are no limits out ther~ and · received such energy from them," she said. Clearly Miss Clement has the physical admonished them not to do anything they stamina; at one period in her life she arose do not want to do. They should expect to try all kinds of at 3:45 a.m. three times a week to practice figure skating, and she has mastered Engjobs until they find something they really lish equestrianship. She couples that and like. Most of all he reminded them not to her love for people with a passion for be too hard on themselves, to forgive medicine. themselves when they make mistakes and .. I worked 12 days straight for four not to get discouraged. ··oon 't get thrown years,·· she said of her hopital experience, off by errors. In business you always have to course-correct." As the founder of delighting in its intensity. "Sometimes I would work three different shifts. The Elektra Records says, business is - rock hospital would let me sleep in the physiand roll. "Money is not the issue in business," the founder of Elektra Records told an audience on the Santa Fe campus in a discussion of careers in the business world. Jae Holzman, A '52, founded Elektra Records with $600 in 1950 when he was a student at the Annapolis campus. He sold the company 20 years later for $I 0 million. "If you handle your business with honesty and commitment, the money will follow," he said. The real reason to be in business, he believes, is because you love the process - because it is fun. Mr. Holzman told his audience of mostly students that the purpose of his talk was to be a "midwife" between his experience and their possibilities. He used words like "magic" to describe what can happen when commitment to a project is married to integrity and described some of his most creative business moments, which frequently take place in the shower, as recapturing "my ability to be innocent." He summed up his insights on what it takes to be successful in business with four aphorisms: • People want to play • Pretend you 're right and move ahead • Commitment plus integrity is unstopable, • Your work serves your life. Mr Holzman said the three most important things he took away from his time at St. John's were: · •A respect for and comfort with the use of Language - the ability to use words clearly and with some panache~ • An ability to look at and analyze a situation about which you know nothing, 0 Linda Clement wm spend three months in India. cians' quarters outside the delivery room. I thought l had died and gone to heaven ... During the odd free day from St. John's she assists college physician Charles Wib~ liam Kinzer - ""a wonderful teacher" learning still more. Before she leaves for India, Miss Clement is undergoing some personal medicine herself. She ticked off the nine shots she is acquiring- those for yellow fever, meningitis. malaria, cholera, tetanus, typhoid, typhus, bubonic plague, and gamma globulin. Along with her immunized body, she plans to take a camera, a dictaphone, paper, and a pen. "With lots of· prayers, concentration, and the support of my friends, I hope to publish a book on my experiences and use the proceeds to tound a pnuanthrop1c organization I've been planning for four years,•• she said. "lam anticipating that 48 doctors in California with whom I have worked will help me in my efforts by pledging donations ... Noting that the dictionary defines her own name when it is spelled with a little "c" as "merciful," she plans to cal lit The Clement Foundation. To help finance her trip, Miss Clement will have a $1,500 loan. the maximum possible, from the college's Richard and Iola Scofield Scholarship Fund. To meet all of her costs, she has filed petitions with 16 philanthropic organizations. The press officer at the Indian Embassy - Shiv Shankar Mukherjee - with whom she has made friends, also is attempting to find sources. By way of practical pointers, she has had extended conversations with Mary Collins. of Annapolis, who also has worked with Mother Teresa. and with Mary's mother, Mrs. Helen Collins, both of whom have warmly supported her. AFTER LEAVING the Annapolis campus, Miss Clemnent hopes to attend Harvard· Medical School. Along with a medical degree -she is particularly intl!rested in the biopsychosocial approach to medicine - she plans to obtain a joint master's degree in public policy and medicine offered by Harvard and the J.F. Kennedy School of Government and earn a specialty in health care administration. Certified as an emergency medical technician at age 17. she has worked in California at Highland Generai Hospital (Greg Ferguson photo) at Oakland, at Kaiser Hospital in Walnut Creek, at St. Joseph's Hospital at -Stockton, the Moffitt Hospital in San Francisco, and Mt. Diablo Hospital at Concord. She acquired her first stethoscope at age two and has wanted to be a doctor since early on in her life. The signs were all there: a fifth grade research paper on the human respiratory system, independent study on rheumatological etiology as a high school sophomore, candy striper days in high school, years of volunteer work, hands-on employment as assistant to physicians in her late teen ages. Getting to Calcutta will be done in much the same way she came to St. John's - through sheer determination. When her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clement, of Concord, Calif., informed her they could not possibly afford to send her to a small, private college, Mi£s Clement worked for four years, earning not enough to cover the costs but to make a start toward paying them. . .. I genuinely believe if you aspire to achieve something, you can through persistence and a good honest heart, .. she said. Now Miss Clement will see what her own "good honest heart" can achieve in India. Gisela Berns is ~author of book Annapolis tutor Gisela Berns is the author of a new book, Greek Antiquity in Schiller s ·Wallenstein: just published by the University of North Carolina Press. Appearing as part of the press 's Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literature series, the book is an exploration of the poetic function of Greek archetypes in Schiller's Wallenstein. Mrs. Berns claims Homer's. Iliad and Euripides's Iphigenia in Aulis as the archetypal sources for Schiller's historical drama about the Thirty Years' War. Mrs. Berns holds a doctorate in classics and philosophy from the University of Heidelberg and taught at Rosary College, River Forest, Ill., beforejoining . the .~t .., ·John's faculty in 1967. �Page6 THE REPORTER --ln/U 1986 J,,.dilJU fJJ. Weigle raises a number ofpoints To the Editor: For the benefit of your readers, I think that 1 should place in perspective certain of the statements appearing in the November issue of The Reporter about the departure of Edwin Delattre from the presidency of St. John's College. Jn so doing I have no wish to detract from any of the legitimate accomplishments of his short, six-year tenure. My purpose is to set the record straight at several points. The chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors lauds Mr. Delattre for involving its members.in matters beyond finance, so that they "address the full scope of their trusteeship." Mr. Delattre states that in past decades board members were involved almost exclusively with budgeting, fund-raising, banking, and oversight of the endowment funds. In the same vein, John Robson, previous chairman of the board, commends the president for interaction among the board members and the teaching faculty on the academic program. These two board officers have apparently not read the minutes of previous meetings. Had they done so, they would have learned that I initiated two-day board meetings in the 1960's and devoted Friday afternoon sessions to academic matters. Furthermore, the members of the faculty and the seniors always met with the board on these occasions. An excellent opportunity was thereby provided for board members, tutors, and students to come to know each other and to learn to respect each other's opinions. BOARD MEMBERS spent time discussing and coming to a better understanding of admissions, attrition and retention, the problems inherent in having two campuses and a bipartite community, and the curriculum. One afternoon was devoted to a seminar on portions of Piato 's Repuhlic. Reports of accreditation teams were considered at length. Totally involved boards under the successive chairmanships of William Lydgate, Bromwell Ault, Walter Evers '35, Margaret Driscoll, J. I. Staley, Thomas Turner '21, and David Ginsburg addressed all matters having to do with the college, not simply financial ones. As president I thought that it was my responsibility to challenge them in this fashion. On occasions the board named committees of its members to address particular problems. lrecall one such instance when an ad /ron:ommitteewas named under the chairmanship of Louis Rader to work on the underenrollment of the Santa Fe campus. The committee was to work closelywith . the Instruction Committee of the faculty. It failed to convince tutors that a modern language should be substituted for Greek, that the amount of mathematics in the program should be reduced, and that more independent work should be introduced into the curriculum. The committee was successful, however, in having the catalogue rewritten in a more attractive manner. I do not understand what Mr. Delattre means when he states that "The authority and responsibility of khe president. the deans, the Instruction Committee, and the faculty are clear. Traditions of accountability for the educational work of the college - traceable to the time of the founders of St. John's prescribed liberal arts curriculum in IUUJ ,41:; have1nbeen re- stored ... They were never lost. has increased by 50 percent since 1980. My concern is an administrative and Jacob Klein was an extremely capable financial one. The first question is dean, fully conscious of his responsibihty whether the enlarged st.aff is functioning and of his accountability in the academic work of the College. Among others who more efficiently than before. The second question is whether St. John's College can later ably handled this task were Curtis Wilson, Robert Goldwin, '50, Edward afford what must be an added cost of at least $200,000. It should be noted that if Sparrow, William Darkey, '42, Robert correspondingly more gifts are not generBart, and Robert Neidorf. ated, the cost of the added personnel, Perhaps I should note that Stringfellow spread over 400 students, comes to $500 Barr and Scott Buchanan were never able per student, a significant sum when .one · to get the faculty to agree upon a polity, or considers the college's high rate of tuition constitution. The adoption of a polity was for the coming year. acccomplished in the first year of my In conclusion, I object to the implicaadministration, and the document has tion that the college was in a parlous state been subject to mandatory quinquennial prior to the coming of Mr. Delattre. John review and amendment ever since. The Robson lists many areas that he claims polity clearly sets forth the functions and have been marked by "major improverelationships of the various segments of the St. John's community - the board, ments," admissions, alumni relations, financial systems, career counselling, and the faculty, the president, the deans, the Instruction Committee, the staff, the stuinvolvement of the Board in curricular matters." Some areas may be better than dents, and the alumni. Barr and Buchanan certainly deserve they were in my day. I hope that that is the credit for instituting the present curricucase. But to imply, as was done in a newslum at the college, but' they foolishly paper article several months ago, that Mr. abandoned the institution in 1946 when Delattre "inherited a financially troubled they thought that the future here in Annacollege that had only the minimal support Rolis could never be secure. of its alumni" and that he was leaving after ending .the "college's financial woes" is IT IS GOOD THAT a large endowsimply not borne out by the facts. The ment has now been reserved for faculty record of my presidency speaks for itself. study purposes. Accreditation teams were Sincerely yours, always concerned that new tutors were Richard D. Weigle plunged into teaching with little opportunity to assimilate the St. John's pro:.. President Emeritus President, l 949- J980 gram and the skills necessary to teach in it. I recall that a grant of nearly $700,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1973 enabled the college to undertake a number of projects which limited budgets had precluded. Mr. Delattre knows that we part company in the board's decision to have two presidents for St. John's College, one for To the Editor: the Annapolis campus and one for the · Thank you for printing the article on Santa fe campus. He cites various benemy musical involvements in the last issue fits that he envisions from the dual arof the St. John's Reporter. At the risk of rangement, "larger e~gagement in· a sounding petty or pedantic, I would like to greater civic presence, and more contact correct some quotations that were erbetween the president and Alumni Assoroneously attributed to me. ciation." He may be right. My great fear is I was quoted as characterizing Bluethat the board's decision will lead to a split grass music as "folksy." To call a musical between the two branches Of the college. If genre "folksy" is to rob it of its dignity and there is disagreement between the presipower. I like Bluegrass or genuine country dents, who will settle the matter? Will the music (as opposed to much of the ersatz board and its chairman be put in a judicafluff that comes out of Nashville) because tory ·position, certainly not one of their at its best it is a direct.and unselfconscious responsibilities'? Who will speak for St. expression of universal human concerns. John's College? Will the presidents take The article stated that I find Bluegrass turns? How will prospects for gifts be "an interesting contrast to the intellectual divided up and assigned? There are many pressure at St. John's." I'm not sure what problems, and one can only hope that the "intellectual pressure" is, but I don't think arrangement will succeed. . we have it here. What I said was that it is As for myself, I shall certainly be availimportant to me to maintain a healthy able to counsel with and assist both presibalance between predominantly cerebral dents, if they request such help. I want to kinds of activity (as exemplified by the assure the board. the faculty, the staff, and academic program at St. John's) and the the students ~that I shall work wholeheartmore visceral responses to life's concerns edly for the welfare of the college under that can be found .in Bluegrass and counthe two:president format. try music. LET ME EXPRESS one other concern Nor is music a "hobby"to me. Ive never - student fees of over $13.000 for next liked the word hohhv; I think its use trivyear.· Mr. Delattre gives "genuine assuializes whatever acti.vity it is intended to rance" lo everyone that ~'there is no waste describe. Life's pursuits cannot and in its spending policies and that its priorishould not be neatly divided into the vocaties of financial support for students, for tional and the avocational, with the primfaculty and staff, ano for the excellence of ary distinguishing characteristic (and imits educatio.n program are entirely clear.'' I plicit measure of worth) being rehave no access to financial statements or muneration. reports, so I have no means of determinRon Hale ing the correctness of this assurance. Santa Fe I do notice that the administrative staff CareerCounseling Director of the ·on the Annapolis campus About the story on xon Hale Writer regrets McGovern's loss To the Editor Just a brief note to say how distrubed I was today at the news that ..the new St. John's" College is so conservative and unadventurous that you an turned down George McGovern, who applied for the presidency of the college. He'd make a }!ood, liberal, masculine type of president Douglas Buchanan, M.D., A '43 1 Lacy St. North Andover,.MA 01845 Nancy King's ~b ok appears A book on which she has been working for many years has just been published by Oxford University Press, according to Nancy M.P. King. A '75, an attorney who is now associated with the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. The authors are Dr. Ruth Faden, of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and Dr. Tom Beauchamp, of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, "in collaboration" with Ms. King. The Book, A History and Theory of Informed Consent, is a conceptual ana historical examination of informed consent and autonomy in medical treatment and medical and scientific research. "It was extremely rewarding to write, and I hope it will be rewarding for readers as well," she writes. Ms. King also is coordinator of a symposium, "The Physician as Captain of the Ship: A Critical Reappraisal," an interdisciplinary phiJosophy and medicine symposium to be held in Chapel Hill May 15-17. She believes it will address issues of considerable interest to many Johnnies. Interested persons may write or call her at the Department of Social and Administrative Medicine, Box 3, Wing D, 208H, UNC. School of. Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, or call (919) 962-1136. Does SJCAA have sexist title? With its masculine "i," is the St. John's Alumni Association a sexist title? The question came up at a faculty meeting recently when the faculty decided to substitute feminine and masculine pronoun forms in the Polity for the traditionally inclusive masculine .pronoun. "What do you do with the Alumni Asso~iation?" one faculty member in favor of retaining the masculine form asked. Later during the meeting, in re- . gard to another matter, Laurence Berns referred teasingly to "alumnum," the singular moninative neuter form. The plural of that: alumna~ identical with the feminine singular. In trouble again. Ideas, anyone? �April 1986 Page7 THE REPO·RTER ?_flU(!ediJJU AMov able Feast Renauts build own 18th century house by JANE EVANS MA, SFGI'84 Tijeras, N.M. The assembled "sondry folk" were as varied as Chaucer's pilgrims: a bartender, a dean emeritus of nursing, journalists, graduate students, an engineer, homemakers, real estate agents, a humanities professor, secretaries, an actress, teachers, and a building contractor. Ages ranged from mid-twenties to the "golden" years. The hum of conversation subsided to one voice and then to a lingering silence. Would a simple question -four little words - scuttle the venture before it began? · After what seemed ages of sober reflection, possibilities were tentatively voiced. Gradually, the adventurers steadied the vessel. Tutor Jack Steadman' s question "What is a city?" launched St. John's Graduate Institute in Albuquerque, producing ripples of eager responses from us. We embarked on a fascinating, scarifying, often hilarious occasionally bumptious, odyssey through distance and time and that lovely, autumn evening in 1982. During the j.ourney, we would be joined by others, including a singer, an administrator, computer specialists, writers, a doctor, an industry lobbyist, lawyers and a psychiatrist. Jack and Tutor Stuart Boyd were to be our co-pilots during the first segment of our trip, and Stuart stayed ~n board to steer us through the first two years with a different co-leader each succeeding term. The decision to experiment in Albuquerque had overcome substantial skepticism. Primary misgivings concerned maintaining standards and academic discipline away from the campus atmosphere, the strain on hard-pressed college resources, a student body composed of mostly working people with limited time, and the long commute for the tutors of six hours each week. However, many felt that such an effort would fulfill the college's public service role to the community at large. "The conception of the College's mission as originally established in 1937 included adult education and participation in the .ongoing inquiry of the forms that the liberal arts take in the modern world," says Tutor Tom Simpson. Tutor Tom Harris thinks that trial of such programs is "more important now that more older students are returning to college and we should expand as much as the college can a'fford. 1' . . . Stuart is "all in favor of new ventures," and Jack contends that "wherever you gather 15-20 interested people around a table (or facsimile thereof), the program works." But many, like Tutor Roger Peterson "worried on occasion about diluting the quality of the St. John's degree' so "I was torn between the degree and the service." "You can't make any comparison with the undergraduate program", says Stuart, because the "purposes are not the same." The resolution of the conflicts may be that. "different, not lesser, standards for adult students with broad experience and knowledge must be established," says Tom Simpson. How did we, students and tutors, survive the difficult, long journey so far from the safe harbor of the Santa Fe campus? It was due to "the morale, cohesiveness, willingness to help one another, and sense of being a colony on trial," says Stuart. Jack cited "good students and good arrangements" with the Albuquerque Academy, and he "thoroughly enjoyed commuting with Stuart." Tom Harris noted that the students were "appreciative , worked together, and felt responsibility" towards the program. Roger found that "the older students have something-special to 0ffer to tutors, and I gained new friends." Probably the retreat to a local pub after class didn't hurt, either. That was our chance to rehash a disputed point or to continue a lively discussion or to talk about baseball. As our cruise progressed, we easily found excuses to celebrate together - last seminar meeting wine and cheese, the women's weekly (sometimes) luncheon, end of term potlucks, a Charles Bell slide show, an extravagant nuptial festivity for Stuart.. I had wanted to enroll at St. John's for a long time, but family and job priorities made it impossible for me to commute or to spend an entire summer in Santa Fe. Joinrng the cruise at Albuquerqqe gave me the chance to sample choice treats from the ship's banquet. ·· Few were untouched by the adventure. Roger had not been "sure the St. John's experience could be done off-campus," but he "found the level as high as any class I have been in, and Floved it.." Craig Chionio said it changed his life, and he switched careers. Tom Harris "was even more enthusiastic afterward.." Pragmatic, romantic, Stuart, claims it is · "one of the most heart-warming experiences I've ever had in teaching." Martha Young, who teaches literature classes at the university, so impressed with the , St. John's method that she hopes ''to introduce a Paideia program into the Albuquerque schools." Jack dis~overed "neat people." Tutor Jim Carey was surprised and pleased to find a· "St. John's community" in Albuquerque when he moved from Annapolis for our last term. Tom Simpson notes that the "community has now organized an alumni group with monthly seminars and helped establish the first 8-week community seminar in Albuquerque." As for 1)1e, I w9nt to celel;>r<;'l.te the festivals all over again. is 1 The Renauts' replica of an 18th century house. by DOROTHY KINSMAN to burn, I will encase the outside in brick." Annapolis is famous nationwide as a He added that an 18th century dwelling in treasure trove of J8th century buildings. southern Anne Arundel County provides Although the three-story ho.use at the a precedent for '':fancying up., a frame corner of Monticello and Granada Ave- house by covering it with brick . nues appears to date from the 1700s, it The Maryland Historical Trust, Hisactually was constructed in the 1980s. toric St. Mary's City and the Colonial Gilbert and Debora.h Renaut, both A Williamsburg Foundation provided infor'68, de.cided to build a replica of an 18th mation on how to duplicate masonry century dwelling when they were unable techniques of the period in the constructo find a house to meet the needs of their tion of the two chimneys. growiQg family in the neighborhood In the 18th century, Mr. Renaut said, where they had lived for almost IO years. Jines in mortar were scribed along a board Mr. Renaut is an attorney with the U.S. to make them as straight as possible. Department of Energy; Mrs. Renaut is an Some restorers in Maryland have the misAnnapolis tutor. taken idea that "squiggly lines" in the With no previous knowledge of archi- mortar make a structure look more auth., tectural history, Mr. .Renaut set out to entic, he pointed out. learn all he could about the building mateHis research revealed that mortar origrials and methods of 200 years ago. He inally used in 18th century dwellings was read books on Maryland architecture, much lighter in color than the grayish suband, determined not to build a "hokey" stance commonly used in restorations. coloni~l, traveled around the state in"it looks almost like butter," Mr. specting structures of the period. Renaut said of the mortar he had preAfter designing a house based on his pared for his house. research, he contracted with a builder, In the order for bricks he placed with a Robert .Sherman of Freeland, Md., to Hagerstown firm, Mr. Renaut specified make his vision a reality. that the headers of several be coated with Mr. and Mrs. Renaut and their childgray-blue glaze. They form diamond pattren, ages 7, 5 and 2, moved into their new erns on the chimnevs. house last May. Included in the approxiGlazing was a na"tural result of the promately 3,000 square feet of floor space are cess used in making bricks 200 years ago. six bedrooms (providing space for home In each batch some became so hot that the offices and a guest room) and four and a sand melted and glazed the headers. half baths, some of which are only "People would take a brick wall and put ..roughed in." .. . . their initials and date on it in glazed A bulging loose-leaf binder is testament brick," Mr. Renaut .said. of Mr. Renaut's pursuit of authenticity. It The Renauts were assisted by Historic is crammed with photocopied book and Annapolis in planning their interior. . magazine articles on colonial architecture For information on colors for the inteand correspondence with experts on the rior, the Renauts consulted authorities at subject. · Mount Clare Mansion, Baltimore, where Many of the letters are critiques of the ' the most up-to-date analysis of the origispecifications . and plans Mr.~ Renaut nal paint was recently completed, But Mr. worked out for his house. The design and Mrs. Renaut" did not care for the incorporates features of three . Talbot ·colors found at Mount Clare. When they County houses he especially liked. cover their primed walls, they will exShingles, a warm buff in color and more change authenticity for personal taste. typical of New England than of MaryNo nails were used to join the oak joists land, cover the Renaut house. Mr. Renaut in the floor or in the 10-foot high ceilings. would have preferred brick.or clapboard, Types of joints common in the 1700s and but financial constraints dictated his employed in the Renaut house are dovechoice. tail, mortise and tenon and "half lap" (fitClapboard would have to be painted ting square pegs into square holes). every three or four years "at astronomical Upstairs the beams will remain exposl.~vt1r have mo.n~}l , cost, .. he remarked,. ~· ! :·u �Page 8 Housing crunch crowds college (Continued from P.l) greater sophistication and awareness among students of nutritional standards, including special diets. Many want to prepare their own meals. BECAUSE OF THESE concerns, both Miss Leonard and Mr. Wyatt believe that more valuable than adding dormitory rooms alone, including the always desireable singles, is the need to provide residential areas with kitchens. Miss Leonard explained that there are kitchens in Campbell, Humphries, and Reverdy Johnson, but these are designed for group use, such as parties, rather than for multiple use. What Mrs. Rhodes would like to see constructed are I0 to 12 townhouses along the King George side of lower campus. She envisages units which have three or four bedrooms, a living room, and a kitchen and altogether housing from 40 to 50 students. "These,''. she cautioned, ,"are way down the line." Classroom space is in short supply. "Ifs so tight that certain hours every classroom on campus is in use," Dean George Doskow said. That occurs at 11 a.rn. every Tuesday and Thursday, according to Miss Leonard, who does the scheduling. Last semester a junior seminar was held in the private dining room. One January freshman seminar, which met briefly in the library, is now meeting in the basement of McDowell. Occasionally. laboratory rooms, cavernous in nature, are used. For seminar purposes they are generally seen as cold and unsatisfactory without the right sort of lighting. Present plans call for a new wing to be added to Mellon which would add three rooms and a new art gallery. The present art gallery, located in a converted laboratory, would be freed to return to its original purpose. With these additions, Miss Leonard believes the college would have the number of rooms it needs. Before construction can go ahead, however, there has to be money in the bank. IN THE MllSIC library. Tina Davidson. music librarian. said an area double its present size is required to handle both the number of records and the heavy traffic now there. .. We 're using every square inch of shelving we have, .. she said. noting that it will be impossible to shelve several hundred gift records. "'I want my own desk,·· she ad9ed. At present she shares it on a communal basis with student aides. A larger library and more music practice rooms. another need, are incorporated in the Mellon plan; The campus has immfficient office space. Last year. as the fund raisi~g staff expanded. both the Alumni and Information Services Office, which falls under the umbrella of the Advancement Office, were moved away from the Carroll Barrister House. Alumni to the basement of Randall and Information Services to East Pinkney. Mr. Dunn hopes at some point all the offices can come back together under one roof so they can function as an integral opera.ion. The President's Office has no reception room for visitors and lacks adequate space for his secretary and her files. More recently. Ann Smith, the new secretary. redesigned the narrow office to take advantage of as much vertical space as possible. Jt now has the compactness usually associated with a pullrnan car. April 1986 THE REPORTER At mid-year the Treasurer's Office played musical chairs to get an additional desk into its central office, a move which also enabled the office to redirect traffic and for the office to operate more efficiently. In doing so, it was able to empty out a former computer room for more storage and to provide space for auditors. "There's no room to spread out on campus," Mrs. Rhodes said. ··we don't have an adequate mailing room to handle large mailings." . THE CONGESTED office of the registrar's secretary, which has been the brunt of some of the heaviest and most distracting traffic on campus, met with some relief when a xerox machine, which served a large portion of the college, was moved to the basement of Randall and was replaced by another with limited use within the building. Plans to enlarge the gym, a project discussed for decades now, await. funding. Renovation of the boathouse, providing for greater and year-round use, is only partially funded. In the college's Buildings and Grounds Department, Charles Wallace, superintendent of the physical plant, reports being "squeezed more and more all the time." The carpentry shop is particularly short on space. Janitorial supplies and repaired furniture are now being stored in Mellon. Chris Colby, printshop manager, said that while the printshop is adequate in size from the standpoint of housing equipment, the storage situation there is critical. Buying paper in bulk is much cheapeL than in small amounts, but finding a place to stash it away requires a trick or two. There is a continuing and much discussed need for more parking space on campus. "Ifs all a matter of money.'' Mrs. Rhodes summed up the reason why the college is doing nothing now to expand the number of parking slots. The Faculty Planning Committee has worked hard over past months in concentrating its efforts on the Key Auditorium and Conversation Room as well as planning for the second phase of the Mellon renovation. Wendy Allanbrook. chairman. said the committee already is addressing the problem of space for offices. Next are questions of the library and dormitories. The committee. she said. will need to talk to aU sorts of people about problems that surround them. Dale Levy new vice-president Dale Levy has been named vicepresident for college advancement for the Santa Fe campus. Mr. Levy, who joineg St. John's last June. as chief advancement officer, is responsible for fund raising, alumni, and public relations. He received his new title at January's meeting of the Board of Vis- itors and Governors. Robert Peters is Santa Fe's new accountant, succeeding Mary Lou Neel, who retired December 31. Diane Trudell, a previous registrar and financial aid director, has rejoined the college as registrar. Albuquerque Chapter Elizabeth Baca, SFGI '85, is president of the Alumni Association's ninth and newest chapter, that for Albuquerque. Graduate Institute and holding monthly seminars. Other officers include Jane Evans, SFGI '84, secretary, and Rick Nathanson, SFG l '85, Joseph Pluchinotti, SFG I '74, and Lynn Elkins, SFG I '85, board members. Alumni wishing to participate should reach M's. Baca at Rt. 2, Box 795, Los Lunas, N. M. 8703 l or by calling her daytimes at (505) 277-2457. Chartered at the association's January board meeting, the chapter is planning to host a. party for students of the Albuquerque Graduate Institute next month and to hold a picnic this summer. It also is assisting in recruitment and publicity efforts for the Albuquerque Stu group in Russian Seven members of the St. John's community are gathering once a week in the Rare Books Room of the library to translate works by Pushkin and Chekhov. They take turns reading the text aloud in Russian and translating. Having read poems by Pushkin last semester, the group now is translating Chekhov's The Cherrr Orchard. ..The purpose is to study Russian literature rather than to study Russian," according Michael Cornenetz, the tutor who initiated the sessions. Three members of the Pushkinskii Kruzhok (The Pushkin Circle), as Mr. Comenetz calls the group, learned Russian as children. Mrs .. Simon Kaplan, widow of a St. John's faculty member, is a native of Russia. Arseny Besher, a senior from San Francisco, grew up in Japan of Russian parentage. For Aleksandra Wolska, a Baltimore junior, the study of Russian was compulsory in the schools of her native Poland. In addition to Mr. Comenetz, others in the group are tutor Robert Druecker; Craig Nordin, sophomore from Alexandria, Va.; and Christine Freeman, sophomore from Washi~~ton,, D.C. Tutors in Great Ideas Today St. John's tutors are making contributions to Great Ideas Today, the annual supplement of the Great Books of the Western World series published by Encyclopaedia Brittanica. The 1985 issue contains articles by Douglas Allanbrook and Curtis Wilson. Mr. Allanbrook's article was entitled "The Inefficacy of the Good: On Reading Thucydides" and Mr. Wilson's, ..Newton's Path to the Principia ... The l 986 volume will carry an essay on Maxwell's "Matter and Motion" by Torn Simpson. William Darkey and Scott Des:.. jardins, A '47, were contributors to the 1984 issue. Great Ideas Today was founded in 1961 as a supplement to the 54-volume great books series begun by Robert Hutchins, former St. John's board member, and Mortimer Adler, a visitor emeritus. It is edited by John Van Doren, '47, a present board member. Correction In the Perspectives column by Laurence Berns, there were two typos. The omission of a hyphen between the words "truth" and "seeking" changed the meaning of the phrase, "truth-seeking understanding." In addition, the word should have been "more," rather that "most," when Mr. Berns wrote: "Polemics (the more natural mode of much practical discourse) ... .'.' ;e~~1 Program for adults draws St. John's Competition Number Six was for the title and opening sentences (in English translation and no more than ten lines) of a Platonic dialogue that never reached us. 'There were three commendable entries. but none, in Easy's opinion, quite prize-winning. The opening of Aesthetus (discovered by Jim Collins and Barbara Grant) seemed more Gnomic than Platonic; and when David Carew uncovered The Philol·opher. he had clearly come upon an ancient pastiche compiled by an Academic epigone. Philip Holt's Xenophon (..strange talk") was witty, consisting entirely of the translation of particles. Aristotle rightly dismissed it, as Holt tells us, as ..all style, no substance." But the contest rule did stipulate that the fragment be ..of subtly mimetic significance ... and after long thought. Easy decided that pure style isn't mimetic. Let's continue Competition Number Six as Competition Number Seven. Deadline: May I. Thanks to the discoverers mentioned above. who are invited fo search further in their Attics. Other readers are reminded that book tokens await the inspired parodist. E~ Geoffrey Comber, director of the Graduate Institute in Annapolis, represented St. John's at a three-day meeting devoted to Exemplary Programs in the Hurnanitities for Adults and held at the University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by Johns Ho.pkins University and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the meeting brought together representatives of I0 colleges and universities to advise institutions wishing to establish quality programs in the humanities for adult students. Besides St. John's, John's Hopkins, and UC, Berkeley, the other advisory institutions included the University of Oklahoma, Harvard, Georgetown, Duke, and Washington Universities, the Orange Coast Community College, and Brooklyn College. �THE REPORTER April 1986 Presidents to initiate new system (Continued from P. 1) merly known as the American Field Service, Mr. Dyal oversees a $35-million organization involving 71 nations and an exchange program for secondary students and for teachers, mostly·of language. Born May 13, 1928, in Austin, Tex., Mr. Dyal received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Baylor University in l 949 and his master's of theology degree from Southern Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., in 1953. Mr. Dyal said his academic experience has largely been related to his nine years as a visiting fellow of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Foundation. This has meant living and lecturing for a week at a time at such colleges as Bates, Lake Forest, Occidental, Mills, Oxford, and Davidson. He has conducted classes on international, political, and ethical issues. Once he is established in Annapolis, he would like to participate in one seminar a year. Mr. Dyal spent the first nine years of his career from 1953-62 in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Argentina, performing administrative and educational work for the Baptist Foreign Missions Board. From 1963-66 he was director of the Baptist Church's Christian Life Commission in Nashville, Tenn. Beginning in 1962 and continuing to 1967, he was especially active in the Civil Rights movement, doing a great deal of writing, speaking, preparation of legislation, and participating in marches in Nashville, Washington, and other cities. This was a church-related program of non-violent action funded by Marshall Field and the Teconic Foundations. It was conducted during the time of Martin Luther King and of bombings in the South. · From 1967 to 1969 he directed the largest Peace Corps program in South America - that for Colombia - where, working closely with Colombia's president, Carlos Lleras, he helped set up countrywide, education television network offering university classes and instruction in such subjects as rural agricultural and small business. For his leadership, he received the Santander Gold Medal in 1968, the country's highest award for contributions to education and culture. He is the only foreigner to receive it. "They had to change the law to give it to me," he laughed. From 1969 to 1971 he became Peace Corps regional director for North Africa, the Near East, and South Asia. Mr. Dyal served from 1971 to 1980 as founding president of the Inter-American Foundation in Rosslyn, VA., under the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. This is an organization created by Congress that he started "from scratch" which at that time provided $30-million in social and economic funding for non.:governmental services in the Caribbean and all of Latin America. As a result of his IAf work, he was requested by the Ford Foundation presidentto spend a year with it as a consultant on its entire international program. Mr. Dyal is the author of a book, It~, Worth Your Life, a bestseller during the 60s and now out of print. Mr. Dyal described it as a book "very much of the moment" directed at young people and encouraging them to get involved in the social and political issues of the time. Mr. Dyal is married to the former Edith Colvin, of El Dorado, Ark., a pianist and teacher of piano teachers, who has just completed two new master's degrees at a Columbia. They have three married daughters, all living in Virginia, and three grandchildren, 6, 2, and 4 months. Riccards .... A native of Hillside, N.J., Mr:Riccards was graduated in history in 1966 from Rutgers University, where he earned two master's degrees and in 1970 a doctorate in political science. He was a Fulbright Fellow and visiting senior lecturer at Seikei University School of Law, Tsuda College, and the Japanese Defense Academy in 1973. In the summer of 1974 he served as a Henry L Huntington Library Research Fellow at San Marino, Calif., and in 1976-77 as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at Princeton Unviersity. For a brief while, in 1976, he was a participant in the State Department's Scholar-Diplomat program. Mr. Riccards has been professor of political science at Hunter College from 1982 until the present. For one year of that time, from 1982-83, he served as provost and vice-president for academic affairs. In that capacity, he oversaw the full range of the institution's seven undergraduate and graduate schools, a program that involves nearly 1,000 faculty members and 17,000 students. His duties included personnel, budgeting, academic planning, and resource allocation. Previously, for five years from 1977-82, he was dean of arts and sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. As dean, he headed a college that comprised about three-fourths of the faculty at the university and which has 23 departments, a large student services unit, and I l interdisciplinary programs. During.two years of that time, when there was no provost, Mr. Riccards performed some of the duties assigned to the provost. At Boston, he inaugurated doctoral programs, a minority pre-medial program, a public arts festival, and a special liberal arts program (PACE) which was designed for labor union members 'and others. After joining the Department of Political Science at ~he SUNY College in Buf- falo in 1970, he served as department chairman from 1974-76. As a university senator there, he headed an Academic Planning Committee that wrote a report that reorganized the academic and administrative structures. He ·also was involved in legislative liaison at the state level. Mr. Riccards has been special assistant to the chancellor of the Department of Higher Eduation, Trenton, in 1969-70. His books include A Repuhlic If You For two schools, its 3rd wedding St. John's and the Naval Academy will have something to celebrate this summer: the third marriage in two decades. Jeannine Amont, West Caldwell, N.J., senior, will marry First Classman Jeff Bennett, of Woodlake, Calif., July 26 in the Naval Academy Chapel. The first wedding on record here took place when Nancy Heywood Clark, A '62, married Bruce William Albert, NA '61, on June 9, 1961. The second was that of Can Keep It: '/he Foundations of the Sharon Bishop and Bili Dailey, who, American Presidencr, 1700-1800, The unknown to each othe1· at the time, were Making of 1he Ame;·ican Citizenry: An members of their respective Classes of Introduction to Political Socialization, 1965. They were married April 20, 1984. and the yet-to-be-published '/he UncerMiss Amont and ivtidshipman Bennett tain Consul: '/he Presidenn' in American became acquainted at St. John's Winter History. He was co-editor ·of Reflections Ball during their junior year. on American Political Thought: From The Alberts, who have three children, Past to Present. now reside in ·Claremont, Calif. In addition, he has written a half-dozen "At the present time Bruce is a systems plays, one of which, Alexander, won a engineer for Hughes Aircraft, and I work prize with a California press. Most have in a physics laboratory and teach physhistoric themes. ics," Mrs. Albert brings that couple up to His other publications include an exdate. tensive list of articles and essays, and he "I am also working on a master's degree has been the author of a number of in mathematics at California Polytechnic reports; University, Pomona. Since I am doing so Mr. Riccards' record of public service much lam not able to take more than one includes serving as a consultant to various class a quarter so I expect to receive my candidates for governor and Congress in degree in Jun.e, 1987. Massachusetts, New York, and New Jer.. Bruce and l have played bridge as sey from 1962 to 1982. partners since we were both in college and He was elected to the Warrant Commitcontinue to do so. We play duplicate tee of Sharon, Mass., in 1980-82; it is the bridge. We have both gained the rank of main agency of Sharon's town meeting life master." form of government. He also has served as Mrs. Dailey is now a member of the a member of the Citizens Legislative SemBoard of Visitors and Governors. She is inars, Massachusetts State Senate, as senior vice-president in a new partnership, vice-president of a social service agency Caliber and Associates, an Oakton, Va., dealing with crisis intervention, as a Sal- . consulting firm. vat ion Army board member of the MontA history major at the Academy, Mr. clair Area chapter, as a consultant to the Dailey retired from the Navy last July and Temporary Commission on the Powers of is now a third year law student at AmeriState and Local Government in New York can University in addition to serving as a a~d _the New Jersey Civil Service Comcontract administrator with an Alexanm1ss1on. dria, Va., defense engineering firm. Mr. Riccards' wife, Barbara, is assistant director for educational programming for the Whole Theater, an equity theater in Upper Mount Clair, N.J. They have three children: Patrick, 13, Catherine, 9, and AbigaiL 5. Santa Fe tutor Charles Bell has just completed the last eight shows in his altogether 38 audio-visual presentations at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa restricting the size of the library is the Fe. worst of the three alternatives. Concerned Grouped together under the title "The that the other two decisions require so Human Arts: A Symbolic History," they much time and money that it seems necesrepresent a continuation of a life's work in sary to begin to think about them now, she which Mr. Bell synthesizes music, poetry, has requested that a feasibility study be painting, architecture, history and philoundertaken as soon as possible. sophy around a single topic. Mrs. Kinzer said that during the last Of one show in the new series, Walker academic year the Ii brary began doing the Percy, the writer says: ''20th Century most obvious things to use available space Melt, the only one of Charles Bell's Sight to the best advantage. and Sound shows I've seen, is a moving experience. It is an extraordinary syntheDeans to be picked sis of the 20th century, with all its tragedy, (Continued from P.l) madness, death and greatness - while year of a five-year term stipulated for the managing at the same time to be a work of dean. It is the second four-year period in art in its own right." which he has served in that capacity. PreThe new series also includes: viously he was dean from 1973-:-77. Face and Landscape, a Resume of Man On sabbatical, he will write and travel and World, 1000 to 1900; 19th Century: during the coming year. The Loaded Dream, Romantic and RealNames of their successors are expected ist, Svmholist and Socialist; 1890: Avant to be put forward by the president at the Garde Break, Impressionism to the AhApril 19 meeting of the Board of Visitors stracl, Rimbaud, etc.; 1914: Crisis of the and Governors. Consulting with the presAbstract, Through World War I; Between ident on choices are committees made up Wars, 20th Century; 20th Century: World· of Jon Lenkowski, Michael Littleton, and Melt; Atomic Age: Frontiers New and Curtis Wilson, in Annapolis, and Robert Lost, and Now: The Bondage and FreeBart, Nancy Buchenauer, and Phil Ledom of l-li11:t...nn.i cuyer, in Santa Fe. · Library·running out of space The Annapolis library is expected to run out of space within six years. Some time in the next ten, its collection will outgrow the library completely. Pressed by such problems, librarian Kathryn Kinzer has asked for a study to consider what can be done with the present building, which underwent expansion in 1968, or whether an entirely new building is necessary. "At the end of 1984-85, the library holdings stood at 76,500 volumes, excluding microfilms and scores, "she informed the faculty in a written report. "We estimate that when all shelves are installed, the library can contain 83,856 volumes. The Amencan Library Association considers the minimum standard for small college libraries to be 85,000 volumes. .. It should be noted that although we have 76,500volumes, we have only 44,000 titles." Mrs. Kinzer said there are three possibilities: Restrict the size of its collection, build an extension or annex to the present building, or begin plans for a new library building. · said she bel1eved For many ..''"""'"'"" Page9 Bell completes new shows �; , ,. . 't II 11 THE REPORTER Page 10 April 1986 Is to much comp titian hurting croquet? Kathleen Kelley is.the first of her sex to bear the title: Imperial Wicket of the St. John's College Croquet club. She is not Her Imperial Wickette or Imperial Wicketness or any of that genderized nonsense but, by the royal fiat of last year's Imperial Wicket Steven Werlin, now in Germany on a Fulbright, carries the club's mighty title as it was originated, one that empowers her to lead St. John's nine-member team in the fourth tournament with the U.S. Naval Academy. April 20 has been set as the tentative date when this 23-year-old Mechanicsville, Md., senior fields her team against Navy's, headed by First Classman Harry Hughes, of Ridgefield, Conn. As the date advances, Miss Kelley has some conflicting views. She would like to win. But she doesn't like the sharply competitive nature the game has assumed in a three-year period in which there has been two successive wins for the Johnnies and one last year for the Naval Academy. The same objection to competition was voiced last vear when Mr. Werlin, rebelling against what he saw as its excessiveness, tried to change attitudes by choosing the Johnnies' team members with some casualness. After all the tournament was originated to further friendly relationships between the 400-student, great books college and the 4,600-midshipmen Brigade. It's intended to be a social event as well. Why be so deadly serious? Miss Kelley shares these concerns. "The whole idea is to have a good time," she said. Still, as long as she is playing, she would like to win. So how will she handle this apparent conflict? For one thing, she plans to bring forward two of last year's players - Ken Shen, Ann Arbor, Mich., senior, and Andrew Beckman, New York.junior - and then select the best six players she can identify, possibly through a couple of tournaments on campus. She will be playing for her fourth year Imperial Wicket Katie Kelley wields a mallet as a scepter. (Greg Ferguson photo) with two of her family members, both Naval Academy librarians, there to watch. While the tournament is underway, she hopes everyone, players and spectators alike, can have a good time and not be too concerned with who_.winds up with the tournament's big Annapolis Cup. Two other events are planned to emphasize the fun part: a second Croquet Waltz Party and, as a first for St. John's, a party given by the college after the tournament for all the participants providing it can be funded. Practice for the Johnnies is just barely underway. (There's some rumor that the Middies practice indoors, which may not be all that helpful considering the bumpy nature of the St. John's courts where roots from its Liberty Tree deflect well aimed .. balls and an occasional confused squirrel has to be chased away.) Slight and surely St. John's prettiest Imperial Wicket to date, Miss Kelley has been playing neighborly games of croquet since she was five. "1 le.arned when I was little at my grandfather's farm in Warsaw, N.Y. l remember ·when the mallet came up to here," she said, indicating eye level. St. Jo.hn 's Imperial Wicket tends to take a detached view of the game ...Every way l look at it, I think, Lord, this is a r.eally silly game. l can't believe people take it seriously." It's been a new experience to play before an audience. "It's amazing to play a game and have people clap - unnerving in a way." Croquet is not the only major extracurricular activity for Miss Kelley this year. She also is one of two students in charge of the senior prank, a fairly elaborate program of games and parties that begins the night before, usually with skits in the Key Auditorium. She is a student representative on the Faculty Campus Planning Committee, which is concerned with the campus' physical development, and she supervises the students who serve on the switchboard, 15, in all, including substitutes. In addition, Miss Kelley is taking an off-campus class offered by the Alliance Francaise to sharpen her skills in French, an interest whetted by a year in Paris where she wants to return. A 1979 graduate of Chopticon High School in Morgenza, Md., she studied two years at Montgomery College before enrolling in St. John's as a freshman. Before corning here she also worked at Chestnut Lodge Psychiatric Hospital in Rockville. Miss Kelley is looking forward to graduation in May, after which, with no specific graduate school plans in mind, she is considering random classes in jazz, calculus, physics, and more French. Meanwhile, she will be pursuing her Imperial Wicket thoughts. Along with Wittgenstein and Hegel, she also will be doing a lot of thinking about spring croquet and the tournament. Class of '71 to meet Santa Fe's Class of 1971 will hold its 15-year reunion atJ1om~oroing.,in Santa Fe on July 18-20. If you are a part of that class and have not received a mailing regarding this event, please inform Mary Sue Laurel, S '79, .at the Santa Fe alumni office. ·· · Reunion committee members are Jonathan Brewer, Amanda Fowler Stimson, Laura Kelly Thompson, and Donald Whitfield. ·Weigle writes new history Santa Fe plan won approval 25 years ago The Santa Fe campus is marking an anniversary this year. Twenty-five years ago, on February 22, 1961, the Board of Visitors and Governors voted to establish a second campus in New Mexico. The history of the Western campus is recorded in a newly published book by Richard D. Weigle, president emeritus, 1he Coloni::ation ofa College: 1he Beginnings and Early Hhilory of .";·1. Johns College in Santa Fe. ··creation of a second campus in the Southwest was a bold and imaginative venture for a small Maryland college dedicated to a distinctive philosophy of liberal education:· Mr. Weigle writes in the preface. The decision to proceed with the venture, he said in recalling its anniversary, was based in part on a desire ..to demonstrate that colonization was an alternative to bigness in American colleges. We hoped that other institutions would follow our example and that education in this country would benefit from the establishment of other small liberal arts colleges designed to serve the best interest of students.·· ··Four sites were under consideration when the board met in Annapolis: Monterey, Claremont, and Riverside in California and Santa Fe in New Mexico," Mr. Weigle recalled. 'The board had received full briefing on all four sites in advance of the meeting but discussed the matter fully before accepting the recommendation of the faculty and the president that Santa Fe be chosen." A difference in time zones between Maryland and New Mexico made it possible for Santa Fe's New Mexican to carry the story that evening under a banner headline: ''St. John's Picks Santa Fe." Land had been offered by John Gaw Meem, retired architect. and his wife, and this proved to be the site upon which the western campus was constructed. Mr. Weigle continued: "On the day after the decision was reported~ the New Mexican ran a superb editorial under the headline, 'The Feeling Is Mutual.· The editorial stated that St. John's would fit Santa Fe perfectly ... Three-and-a-half years later, on October I. 1964. 84 students enrolled. "This period was filled with planning for the new campus and with the construction of initial buildings, a classroom building, a laboratory, a student center with dining hall; and dormitories," Mr. Weigle said. "A faculty had to be assembled drawn in part from experienced tutors and in part from newly appointed tutors. Funds to build the new campus had to be raised by gift or by loan. At the end of the first decade, $2 l. 5-million had been expended, approx.imatley half of which had been received in gifts from board members and ·others.•• In the 12 chapters of his book, Mr. Weigle covers such topics as the search for a second campus, the choice of Santa Fe, and the planning and construction of the campus. He also discusses fund raising, the recruitment of students, accreditation, and the training of a faculty. Appendices list members of the Board of Visitors and Governors and the faculty and staff on the Santa Fe campus between 1961and1974. A rosteroJfreshmenentering in October 1964 and a financial summary fonhe period from 1961 to 1974also are included. In a foreword, Dr. Thomas B Turner, '2 l, former chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, wrote: ..To a unique degree St. John's College in Santa Fe was the handiwork of Richard Weigle .... Many persons participated in making St. John's in Santa Fe what it is; yet it was the restless, driving energy of Weigle that was ever present." Dr. Turner calls the book "an absorbing story in which success, frustrations, triumphs, and disappointments amidst a vast amount of hard work are described by one who was closest to it all.•• Designed and composed by Fishergate Publishing Company, Annapolis, the book was printed by the St. John's College print · shop. lhe Colonization of a College is available in hardback from the St. John's bookstores on both campuses and will be autographed by Mr. Weigle upon request. The cost is $4 plus a $1 shipping charge for mail orders. Subventions made the modest price possible, Mr. Weigle said, and proceeds will go to the two branches of the college. �Page 11 THE REPORTER O'biiuaries We dell ri. e: h I. Wendell Marine, 58, died of cancer February 8 in Aiken, S.C." He was a hydrogeologist and senior research associate for the Du Pont Company's Savannah River Paint. A native of Washington, D.C., Mr. Marine enrolled at St. John's in l 941 at the age of 16 after completing his sophomore year in high school. He attended the college for two years and left to serve in the Navy for a year. He then returned to high school and received his diploma. · Retiring Provost J. Burchenal Ault receives a silver tray at a dinner in his honor attended by 150 persons in Santa Fe's Great Hall. With him are Walter Evers, center, former member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, and John Dendahl, chairman. Returning to Annapolis in f947, Mr. from St. John's in 1949. He spent the summer of 1951 maping an a,rea of the North Slope in Alaska. Mr. Marine, who has a doctorate m geology from the University of Utah, was assigned in l 96 l to conduct studies related to the disposal of radioactive wastes at the U.S. Geological Survey's Savannah River site. He received a certificate from the Atomic Energy Commission for his "invaluable service" to the waste disposal program. In 1971 he joined Du Pont as a research Marine~graduated Cohen. writes on admissions The Admissions Office on St. John's College's Annapolis campus receives 7,000 inquiries to mee.t its freshman class goal of 105 students. The Santa Fe campus generates 6,000 inquiries to fill its freshman class of 90, writes Richard L. Cohen, SF '73. Mr. Cohen is on the staff of Admissions Marketing. Report, published in San Francisco, and in the January 1986 issue he has two articles related to St. John's. Describing the recruitment program, he gives this breakdown of how the students admitted first heard about the college: I0% from teachers, most of whom had attended the Graduate Institute; 25%, friends and relatives; 10%, alumni; and 45%, direct mailing. The mailing goes to 100,000 prospective students who have a minimum combined score of 1050 on the College Entrance Examination Boards. The second article by Mr. Cohen is about Kentucky State University's Whitney M. Young, Jr., College of Leadership Studies. Students at the Frankfort, Ky., institution complete a modified form of the St. John's program during their first two years, after which they can take courses in the mH of the university. St. John's tutor Thomas J. Slakey was asked to oversee the start of Whitney Young in 1983. Although the college has had difficulty attracting students, it continues to offer the Great Books curriculum. Mr. Slakey attributes the low enroll- Mr. Marine set out on a six-month journey across the country, hitch-hiking and working along the away at a variety of jobs. In San Francisco, he joined John Wakefield, '46, and worked on a barge, painted houses and hung awnings. ment (27 freshmen this year) partly to inadequate staffing, the article says. Now back on the Annapolis campus, Mr. Slakey firmly believes that the Great Books program "could easily be integrated into the average state university and used as a marketing tool to attract top students," Mr. Cohen writes. i II (Continued from P. 7) ed, but Mr. Renaut considers exposed beams too informal for the downstairs rooms. I was under the impression that we could cover them by nailing wallboard to the joists. But they are not level enough," he said, "and there is too much spread between them. I'll have to get a carpenter to put two-by-four studs up there to hang walfboard from. That wasn't anywhere in the budget." Mr. Renaut cites this miscalculation as an example of his remark, "For every good story, there are two or three dreadful ones, reflections· of my naivete' or stupidity ... Still he has no regrets about his undertaking. Asked about the cost of his house, Mr. Renaut replied, "I have never had the nerve to total it up." His estimate is approximately $60 a square foot. "For custom housing around here, that isn't bad." Jamie S. Whalen, '81, of Toronto, come details of the death of David Shapiro, SF '75, who was killed in the crash of his glider last June 19. Mr. Shapiro, who was a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an employee of Cambridge Instruments, was 30. Mr. Whalen writes: "I worked with David on gliders in Germany in 1981 and on an experimental airplane in Mississippi in l 982. In both cases David was responsible for my being hired by the airplane manufacturer and for overseeing my initial training. He enabled me to pursue a dream of flight which l initially hoped to realize with the aid of a Watson fellowship. "I first learned about David's work in aviation in the 'Alumni Notes' of The Reporter when I was preparing my Watson proposal for flying gliders in Germany and studying the history of German aviation. I wrote to him for advice and, when I learned I had not received a Watson, for a job. He responded with both advice and a job. He wanted to help a fellow Johnnie, who was interested in flying. For this he should be recognized as an outstanding reds of men and women every night. alumnus .... Upstairs, the staff live in dilapidated hall.. David's life .. .is a lesson to St. ·John's ways with small bedrooms and very little students on the value of their education. David succeeded in his work as a sailplane privacy ... Her wild laughs still shake the walls." builder and repairman not only because Pvt. 1st Class Charles Todd Reichart, he loved the craft, but also because he A, has completed basic training at Fort looked at things a. bit differently than Leonard Wood, Mo. Congratulations to most engineers and laborers. What apour former Reporter photographer! peared to most other builders as an ordinary wing was to him an almost perfect Martin Marklin, A, in Germany on a - geometric surface. Making it perfect, realWatson studying organ building, bega·n izing geometry in the physical world, was his practicum with the Oberlinger Organ his passion. Euclid and Apollonius were Company southwest of Mainz in Nov- old friends of his." ember. He has just discovered that in Soaring magazine paid this tribute: earlier times there was a Maddin organ "On June 19, 1985, David Shapiro was Company in Southern Germany and will killed while flying his Ventus in the Regstudy there this spring. ion I Contest at Sugarbush, Vt. "'~ (Continued from P. 2) other St. Johnnies from my class who are pursuing similar studies or who may be in France next fall," she writes. Mrs. Pease's address: 6097-# 12 Majors Lane, Columbia, Md. 21045. Phones: (301) 992-7886 and (202) 659-5025. 1985 Dean McFalls, SF '78, reports that he met Beth Cross, A, in Scotland in 1984, when both were participating in the World Peace Walk. Last year he renewed his acquaintance with Beth in Washington, D.C. "She was living in very tough conditions with the Community for Creative Non-Violence," Dean writes. "Downstairs, the shelter they run houses hund- f ~ I J ! ·I eol i associate and was promoted to semor associate in 1980. An. editorial in the Aiken Standard quotes co-workers as saying that Mr. Marine significantly advanced the state of knowledge of the hydrogeology of the Savannah River Plant site and played a key role in develping an understanding of how waste material moves through the earth. The editorial calls Mr. Marine "a scholar in the classical sense. He could instruct and inspire not only the younger scientists with whom he was associated, but he had the patience and perception to explain technical subjects to laymen." As an associate professor, Mr. Marine taught geology part time for many years at the University of South Carolina Aiken campus. The I. Wendell Marine Scholarship in Geology has been established at the university in his memory. According to his widow, the former Helen Landsman, "his years at St. John's shaped his entire life. He never lost the sense of curiosity and wonderment - and instilled it in his family." Last year Mr. and Mrs. Marine partici- ·· pated in the St. John's Alumni tour of China, Mrs. Marine says that he enjoyed learning the status of geological science in that country, Other survivors include two daughters, two sons and a sister. c s "In his sadly shortened life, David had already given more to the sport of soaring than most of us can imagine. But he had just started to hit his stride. So much more was to come. "David was introduced to soaring at the World Championships in Waikerie, Australia in 1974. This was the start of a lifelong commitment which took him to Schempp-Hirth in Germany, where he worked for three and a half years. "During his time at Schempp, David became deeply involved in the development of Klaus Holighaus' famed Ventus and Nimbus 3 sailplanes. His area of work involved the molds for these ships, which set new standards for aerodynamics and performance. "It was at Schempp that David rebuilt a damaged Ventus, which became his own 'Whisky Tango.' This was the same ship that was flown to two U.S. Nationals wins later. "After returning to the USA, David found his way to Boston, to study aeronautical engineering at MIT. He also took up a position at Cambridge Aero, first handling sales of Schempp sailplanes, later. working on the development of inhouse computer systems, and on the development of new sailplane instrumentation. But there was much more to David than sailplanes. This was a truly versatile man, able to competently turn his hand to precision mold building, to computer systems, to carpentry, or to instrument design. The quality that struck you most was his open mind, and his willingness to turn·his hand to almost· anything that needed doing. "For those who wish to, donations may be sent to the David J. Shapiro Fund, c/o Winifred McDonough, Associate Recording Secretary, Bldg 4-113, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139." I Ill ii' �Page 12 Stengren Ralph Stengren, St. John's College senior, has been awarded a 1986-87 Rotary Foundation Graduate Scholarship to study politics at Jawaharlal Nehru Uniu:i UJ - -"""~ 'i I W :.:=:=o coo .D..D-,C-<:t ::J ::J....; April 1986 THE REPORTER c ,.- Q.. 0.. (/) <( C\J RALPH STENGREN Although St. John's does not require Scholastic Aptitude Test results for admission purposes, it scores fourth among 30 institutions of higher in the Washington-Maryland-Virginia area, for combined SAT scores. In an article in the February issue of The Washingtonian magazine, St. John's heads the list of four "highly competitive" area institutions for SAT scores. St. John's students average a combined score of 1,230 - 630 for verbal score and 600 for math. The college follows the "most competitive," a group of three that includes Johns Hopkins ( 1,239), Georgetown University (1,261), and the Naval Academy (l.239). (The Naval Academy rates a high 665 in math, 574 for verbal scores.) In the "highly competitive" group with St. John's are the University of Virginia ( 1,2 IO), College of William and Mary (1,200), and Washington and lee University (LI 70). The next category, '"very competitive," includes such schools are George Washington University and Catholic University, seven institutions altogether ranging from average combined scores of l,090 to 1,035. The "competitive category," in which 13 are listed, includes such schools as American University, Western Maryland College, and Howard University, with combined scores ranging from 1,043 to 810. The ·final three were for three '"less competitive" colleges in which only two scores were given - 822 and 793. Figures were drawn from Barron's 1985 Profiles of American Colleges, which classifies more than 1,500 schools by level of admissions competitiveness. of which the SA r measurement is one. St. John's is among 63 schools Barron's lists nationally as "highly competitive." The St. John's Admissions Office does not require SA Ts from entering freshmen, but prospective students may send them in if they would like to be considered. Frequently the college receives scores when they are attached to secondary school reports. versity in New Delhi. The award covers all expenses for a year's study and may be renewed for an additional year. Looking to a career planned in international relations, Mr. Stengren chose India's premiere school in political and international studies as a change from western Europe, where he has received his introduction to international affairs at an embassy level. He served as a State intern at the American embassy Helsinki last summer. The previous summer he had been awarded an internship in Copenhagen but was unable to fill it because of delays in his security clearance. Earlier, before coming to St. John's and after graduating as valedictorian from Sacred Heart Academy in Mt. Pleasant, Mich., he had been an exchange student at a Danish high school. The son of George Stengren, a Swedish professor of philosophy at Central Michigan University, Mr. Stengren originally lived in Denmark at age 4 when his father went there to study Kierkegaard. Mr. Stengren can speak Danish and can understand and read Swedish and Norwegian. Now he intends to learn some Hindi. In applying for a Rotary grant, he said he chose India because he wanted to learn more about the East. He sees India's way of thinking and approach to the guiding principle of life as differing from those of the West. Along with modern Indian thought and history, he plans to study Indian mysticism and religion as factors of pubic life. Active in student affairs at St. John's, Mr. Stengren was a member of the Student Delegate Council and the Student Committee on instruction during his sophomore year. During his junior year, which he spent on St. John's Santa Fe .campus, he was a student representative to the Board of Visitors and Governors. Currently he is a senior resident for Campbell Hall, a ~ollege dormitory. As a special interest, he plays the cello. Rusch is first wo t . di Although she will share her duties equally with St. John's tutor Michael Oink, Roberta Rusch, A '78, will become the first woman athletic director at St. .John's in its 202 years as a college, heading a program that involves twice as many men as women. Originally, both Miss Rusch and Mr. Oink were to share the title of directors of athletics when they succeed Bryce Jacobsen, tutor and athletic director since 1958. He retires July I. Because of a technicality in the college Polity - its constitution - however, she will get the title. In St. John's administrative structure, the director of athletics is known as· an ~'associate," one of several middle-level administrative officials associated with the teaching faculty. The Board Polity Review Committee, currently engaged in its quinquennial review, is recommending that the number of associates not be increased until after the two incoming presidents assume office and re-evaluate the whole question of faculty composition. This means there cannot be two directors of athletics. As a tutor, Mr. Dink already is a faculty member. Between themselves, they agreed, therefore, that she should have the formal title but that they would share duties as equally as possible. \it11011,gt1 Miss Rusch will referee most of the women's games and Mr. Dink most of the men's, each will have responsibilities for some men's and women's games. Miss Rusch has been manager of the bookstore since 1983 and is being released from a third of her duties there to be director of athletics. A member of the Furies' team, she was named director of the women's athletic program in 1984. A 1975 graduate of the Annapolis campus, Mr. Dink was a tutor on the Santa Fe campus from 1980 to 1984, when he returned east. He is a member of. the Guardians' team and since his return has been assisting Mr. Jacobsen in refereeing . Mr. Dink will rec·eive his doctorate in philosophy from Catholic University in May. Lisa Mariani, admissions counselor in the Santa Fe Admissions Office, and James Carey, tutor, were married February 7 at Christo Ray Roman Catholic Church in Santa Fe. Mrs. Carey also is enrolled in the Graduate institute. Mr. Carey became an Annpolis tutor in 1979. In January 1984 he Jomed the Santa Fe faculty. Crocus, croci, croco, crocum, croco. We wonder if the Romans ever conjugated crocus ... As we write during spring break, they are splashing their way up McDowell's central walk, reminding us that April, far from being the cruelest month, promises good things to come: softball on back campus, robins in the holly, flowers in the tulip tree, new presidents in the offing. In spring's calendar: croquet tournament, tentatively April 20; Parents'Weekend, May 2-3; Reality Weekend, May 16-17; commencement, May 25, not to speak of 98 hour-long oral examinations for the senior class which registrar Nancy Lewis says is a record number here. Spring, beautiful as only a Maryland spring can be, jam-packed as only a St. John's spring can manage, marks the end of school May 23. Lecture in Canada Annapolis tutor Mera Flaumenhaft has delivered a lecture on Greek tragedy at Brock University, St. Catharine's, Ontario. In a talk sponsored by the Liberal Studies Program, she spoke on "Looking Together in Athens: The Dionysian Tragedy and Festival." With Bryce Jacobsen's symbolically empty barber chair are Roberta Rusch and Michael Oink. (Greg Ferguson 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. Continued publication into 2000. 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Why not have the Besides Mr. O'Toole, cast members also premiere of the film as a benefit for St. include Mariel Hemingway, whose uncle, John's? Gregory Hemingway, son of novelist Er"The producer agreed, and Ivan thought nest Hemingway, attended St. John's in it was a wonderful idea, and so did Peter.'' 1949-50. Ivan is Czech-born director Ivan Passer, Others are Vincent Spano, Virginia Peter is Peter O'Toole, and the producer is Madsen, David Ogden Stiers, who played Stephen J. Friedman. And they were all Winchester on the teievision series, Mash, that were necessary, along with Mr. Leven, · and John Dehner. who wrote the script based upon his 1980 What cast members will be able to book; to decide that the King's Road pro-- attend is not expected to be known definduction of Creator would have its pre- . itely until shortly before the premiere, but miere at 8 p.m. April 20 at St. John's Leven said to date those who have said they will be present, barring professional nrAwniere in the Key Auditorium, a conlficts, will be Spano, Miss Madsen and student organizations, will be Stiers. He and Mr. Passer also will be a champagne reception at 7 attending. p.m. for film goers, and the film will be Tickets for St. John's students only will. followed in tum by a discussion in the be $7.50 and for St. John's faculty only, Conversation Room in which Mr. Leven, $25. Tickets for the general public will be Mr. Passer, and some members of the cast $50. Mr. Leven's desire to hold the premiere here is in part based upon gratitude. "My intellectual existence I owe entirely to St. John's," he explained. In a telephone interview, he talked about the need for returning to the college. "Jasha Klein (the late Dean Klein) used to say you should come to St. John's three times: once after high school, once in your thirties, and again when you got to be his age, about 50 or 60. I've only done it once. Along with everyone else, I always wanted to take two years off and come back." Mr: Leven did return fleetingly, five years ago when he came down for the faculty version of his original, then 16year-old, highly successful undergraduate musical, lhe Perils of St. Johns. This time, it will be to see his film. Creator is a sort of zaney, sex-laden comedy in (See Leven P. JEREMY LEVEN • 49 .. Pan:tdi:so. Mr. Gandolf! It's Paradiso, not " The of calling St. John's 19 lO gymnasium such a thing. But then Ray Gandolf was coming in from the multimillion dollar world of olympic-sized, glossy gymnasiums to do a story for ABC's Evening News that anchorman Peter Jennings called "The other St. John's - a different approach to athletics." While the camera zeroed momentarily in on a copy of De Anima on a gym bench, Mr. Gandolf attempted to explain St. John's intramural athletic program. The gym, he was saying, was "a setting out of Dante's Purgatory but filled with a spirit Aristotle would have understood." St. John's captured two minutes and l 5 seconds of the evening news February 27, cut down from the originally scheduled two minutes and 36 seconds. That, in tum, had been extracted from more than four hours of filming. Mr. Gandolf and producer Ed Friedman had remained over night to get it all. A glorious, P. 4) Education continues to be the profession favored by the largest percentage of St. John's alumni. Results of the 1984-85 alumni survey reveal that 20. 9 per cent of former students are either teachers or administrators: 10.6 per cent at a post-secondary level and IO. 3 per cent in elementary and Just a fraction under 80 per cent of St. John's alumni attend graduate or professional school, the l 98485 alumni career survey reveals. Ronald Hale, director of career planning in Santa Fe, said that this is an "extremely high figure, even for selective liberal arts colleges." The 79.88 per cent figure reached ·in a computerized study covering I, 716 alumni is the most precise of any in a series of career surveys St. John's has conducted over several decades. In previous years St. John's has estimated only two-thirds of its alumni took additional work after receiving bachelor's degrees. secondary schools. (See Business. P. t Ever wonder what those people gliding metal detectors over the campus find? Thomas C. Kenney has uncovered Civil War mini-balls, coins, jewelry, keys, locks, buttons, souvenier pieces, knives, .dog tags, spoons and junk, junk, junk. In fact, during the eight months this Cape St. Clair treasure-hunter was ferreting out hidden objects on the campus, he estimates he extracted 10 pounds of trash a weekend, mostly bottle caps and pull-tabs from beverage containers. Occasionally he has uncovered an old piece of a hatchet or a chunk of iron he couldn't identify. To Mr. K.ennev St. John's owes the removal of about 150 pounds of subsurface junk between last April, when he began his search, and November, when he ended it, perhaps not unexpectedly for someone who, after all, is in the environmental business. He is the foreman of the Environmental Control Shop at the Naval Academy. But of more importance are the objects of worth Mr. Kenney did harvest in this metalic crop of three centuries. Part of his findings have gone on display in the college library. Aided by sons Thomas Joseph, l 8, and James Michael, 16, Mr. K.ennev has as(See Finding, P. 5) 1 (For related stories, see pages 8 and 9.) The St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors, which approved in principle a president for each campus at its January meeting, will take final action on the presidency issue April 20 when it votes on enabling amendments for the college Polity. Should there be less than the two-thirds vote required for Polity changes, the college will continue with its present one-president system. If the board adopts the Polity changes, Chairman John E. Robson has indicated that the board would put into place machinery to proceed with the necessary presidential search. Despite assurances that St. John's will continue under a single board and that the twopresident system would be reviewed in five years, the proposed change has met with opposition from many faculty members, particularly on the Santa Fe campus, which fears that two presidents will result in a _split in the college. In ·Annapolis, the faculty is more_ evenly divided. Little more than half would prefer to continue with a single president while little less than half are either in favor of two presidents or have abstained from voting one way or the other. But the Annapolis faculty has Santa Fe tutors, who have sought to majority faculty view outlined at the April meeting. Former Annapolis Dean Edward G. Sparrow will make a formal presentation. The board's meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. in the Kine; William Room of the Library. THE MOST part, the Polity changes to be acted upon are editorial and modest in nature,.spelling out appropriate language for two presidents. They were reviewed by the Task Force on Governance, chaired by James Frame, '50, at a meeting last month in New York attended by the Faculty Committee on Governance. Meanwhile, Dr. David Dobreer, , Alumni Association president and Task Force member, Mr. Delattre, and other college officials have participated in alumni chapter discussions held on governance in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Annapolis. In Annapolis last month, Mr. Delattre, in pointing out that the college president must be away from a campus 65 percent of the time, informed alumni that the issue of one or two presidents has been a problem of long standing. Board studies in 1968 and 1978 recommended that the two president system be adopted, but the board decided to continue with one president, primarily because of constraints in the financial situation of Santa Fe. "Now, nearly seven years later, once again a major Task Force study has resulted in strong recommendations for two presidents, and I concur most heart(See P. IO) After winning wicket, St. John's Croquet Club is expected to face tough competition from a more experienced Navy when the school across the street meets the college in their third annual croquet match April 21. Game time at the Liberty Tree will be 2 p.m. Imperial Wicket Steven Werlin, Lexington, Mass., senior, will be captaining the St. Johnnies; and Midshipman Shaun Callahan, who led last year's sharpened Academy team, will head Navy's mallet men. Three teams of three players each will seek victory in at least two of the three games. Who 11 win this year? "I don't know," Imperial Wicket Werlin -said ... I'd say we're going to have a good and the midshiomen. too. �·1'966 by SOCRATES Arriving at St John 'srecently was a big . · . · · . at that firm until' becoming an Kant readers, take.heart. Ther~ can be Cr~ap Davis, an attorney and vice-· poster from Loyola College in Baltimore tor on the Georgetown Law Journal: I announcing that Phebe Perkins was to· .rewards at the end, especially if you're chairman of the. Maryland Humanities graduated ,magna cum laude in, 1982. s.peak at its March 7 program devoted to going into law .. · .. . ·. · Council,· has been named a visiting proSheepishly,-l must admit that I am,one of · · .. For someone who has had to fumble fessor of business faw at Mount St. Mary's women in the church. . those. rare'· creatures who enjoyed Now professor of. theo.logy at..Boston · · hopelessly through The of Pure . College. . ·. school. case on the books can be truly . Mr. ,Davis, who has taught at ·several College, De l'erkins recently was asked to "I' that my c.ollege education had advise the committee of bishops which is !errifying, ~· reports. Rebecca Brown, SF community colleges, is presiderli of the on~oared me very well and had even given preparing a pastoral letter on women. Jn 76, who will become the second St. John's board of directors oJ the Ocean World me something of an edge over many of Institute and a member of the American ·addition to numerous articles on the New· · graduate to begin ~lerking for a Supreme classmates who · were more hesitant to Testament, Dr. Perkins also has written· Court justice this.summer. The daughter , Ar.bit ration Associat'ion•s panel of· arb.i~ approach: difficult with a critical . ab~ut women's role in the church, primar. trators and the Cresap Society. · . 1943 ily the New Testament as a refsomeone who has had to fumble erence. Peter president of the hopelessly through lhe Annapolis Alum·ni Chapter and an Reason, no case on the books can rie'riced sailor, has been given what After law scho.ol, I was a law considers the chance of a lifetime. the ·. 1982-83. term to Peter will fly to London Apri1.2for a Snottswood W. Robinson, who is month on the British Isles and then be part of the U.S. Court of Appeals of a five-man crew aboard a 38-foot Conof Columbia Circuit. tessa sloop which will sail from. Southc!erkJn~. I have been an <iH nrnPu ampton back to the United· States, arrivof ing in Annapolis aboutJune 10-15. Own""""'"'.-.ment. It i; a small office ed by a friend, · patent atadvice to the heads of Carl Love, the will stop at . agencies r'egarding the powthe Azores and in Bermuda ers and constraints applicable to the exrea.chiing; home. his month ecutive branch . statutes and the friends .Constitution, of color on to travel in· ·make considerations. It is a true of.the central walk. Wales. the SF 1968 · 1946 From Mimi Roberts and wall comes this ..Anika Sara Roberts having\ had the nm"lr.rtnnitu on December 1984. She is wonderful. two judges and we are in heaven. This is the life." us up to date:· argued corporate · SF 1974 that.St. John's case of Brown v. and """'"•1t<:>m1iu years responsible for my first job which held segregationfo the Prior to when a partner in a small law firm in to be unconstitutional. provides a was· director of corporate in~mrance at ashington happened to see my resume "In addition to these experiences, I am ing including pubhshmg Norton Simon, Inc. Most r-ecentlu and wanted to find out what a live 'Great very happy · in my. marriage to David Their second book is a volume of light · director of corporate insurance Books' graduate was really like. crea- . Zolensky, a classmate at Georgetown, . Star. . verse on subjects philosophical, called ted a paralegal position for me on the who is now an attorney at the firm ·of The Vice of Verses. Interested readers can After attending,St. John's, Mr. Sinkey· strength of my alma mater. Covington & Burling in Washington. We contact Sally at 77-12 35th Ave., Jackson was graduated from Rutgers University · "I soon became interested in studying have a wonderful, if harried, life together Heights, N.Y. ll372. and completed post-graduate studies in law and was accepted at Gemgetown. ln • with · our cat, Marc;el, and our dog, also reports that daughter Katherthe fields of finance and insurance. He and Phoebe."· · ine, now nearly two, is doing well and ·a Jaw school, I continued to work part-time his wife, Diana, reside in Haworth, N.J. great delight to parents~ grandparents, , 1961 Ellen Luff is one of six compla,inants aunts, and uncles, being· the only grandchild yet on both sides of the family. who filed in the US District Co'urt in 1979 . Washington a lawsuit calling for the outPaula Johnson Swayne, Graduate InOne of the fun parts in doing a fu.ndlawing of nuclear weapons. stitute '83, has been named "Outstanding ·. Ellen earned a law degree at the Univer- raiser for Washington Television Station . Educator of the Year in Maryland." sity of Baltimore and is practicing in the · WTOP lies with an occasional interview A sixth grade teacher at Braddock with a television star. Devotees of "The Annapolis area. She says she left her heart Middle School, Cumberland,· Md., she is in San Francisco when she moved east in ·Jewel in the Crown," who tuned infor the l 983. Especi~Uy missed are the seminars conclusion of the series, saw Lisa Sim- the recipient of the Maryland State Con- · eone, formerly with Baltimore's good , gress of Pa.rents ·and Teachers·' Golden held by the Bay Arira Alumni (:hapter. music station WBJC, interview two of its Apple Award. Mrs. Swayne was selected There are some 300 St. Johnnies in the San Francisco area, she says, including a. stars, Geraldine James and Chi;trles Dance, . from candidates nomjnated by local PTAs. The award is not given every year who play Sarah Layton and Guy Parron. number of lawyers. and does not necessarily go to a teacher. . 1979 Active in the holistic health movement, · An editorial in the Cumherland NewsNew York alumni, please throw your Ellen is learning the skill· of thera-peutic Times says that Mrs. Swayne rightly massage. She reports that her brother, large net· to Danie) T. Brandon. He is earned her title by applying her philoWillard Luff. '56, is a systems analyst in living and working in Manhattan and sophy of involving students in their studwould like to be in touch. His address is Saudi ~rabia. In accepting the award in Annapolis 21 ·Jones Street #8, New N.Y. last fall, she said, "Many people foel we're 10014. Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence here to pour information-facts int0 ·the 1984 Bems, Blume, Jon Lenkowski, students. I believe it is our mission as eduFrom Frederick B. Wynn~ Jr., comes Thomas Howard Zeiderman, cators to provide an enthusiastic, positive · PAULA SWAYNE word that he was commissioned a second Elfott Zuckerman, advisory board. hearing on the coal industry during t~e· · and relevant atmosphere for learning. The lie~tenant in the Irifantry on February 22. The. Reporter is published by the knowledge is already within the child. AU General Assembly session. , "l shall remain at Ft. Benning, Ga.:, for Public Relations Office, St; John's we do Is help them become aware of what Mrs. Swayne received a National Enseveral more months although my College; Annapoiis, Md. 21404. is .already .within them by making them dowment for the- Humanities Fellowship· thoughts are often of.St. John's," he writes Edwin l Delattre, president. · believe in themselves." to the Graduate Institute. Agraduate of nostalgically. · · . Published five times 'a year, Every year Mrs. Swayne takes he'r pu- · Ursuline College, Louisville, Ky., she has We are endebted to a January survey by Febru~ry, April, June, September pils on a trip toAnnapolis or Washington, . a master's degree from Frostberg State Marianne Braun, director ot career counand November. Second-class postrelating the itinerary to their curriculum. College. seling. · for the following information ~ge paid. at Annapolis, Md. ' For example, when they were studying She and her husband, Maynard (Sam) about these members of the.Class of 1984: USPS 018-750. · coal,~ she had, them attend a legislative. Swayne. '58, live in Bloomington,· Md. (Continued on P. H) . · 1938 my Swayne is I I ·i ·, 1 in _J �~ -~-·--- THE REPORTER APRIL 1985 r A special destiny: saving lost Russian m The break in the early morning silence of Santa Fe surprises. It's the first sound of morning. In .the bedroom, Michael Ossorgin sings a single musical phrase, introspectively, as ifhe were testing it. If Mr .. Ossorgin sings even before he emerges from bed, he has something besides.his own joyful nature that causes him to break 'into· song at a time lesser men await theirfirst cup of coffee before breaking silence. It is perhaps that this Russian Orthodox priest has a special destiny, a certain urgency in his musical life, even this early in the day, for he is the keeper of a lost reservoir of liturgical music -two centuries of it --'-' which .has been stilled by the Russian revolution and become almost inaccessible to western ears. Twenty hours a week, when he is not teaching at the college or conducting services at the tiny chapel built at his home on El Caminito, ·Mr; Ossorgin is taking some of the greatest church music of an times and seeking to make it available to the West. music which dates from the birth of Bortnianski in 175 l to the death of Grechaninov in 1956. "In this century we have come to know Russian icons and other Russian visual art, but we have riot discovered the music, which is what holds all aspects of Russian religious and cultural life together," Mr. Ossorgin, who was educated in music and theology in Russian community in Paris, said. "AFTER REVOLUTION, the music wasn't sung in Russia because of the regime. Today the best western choirs don't understand the language. Where. the Russian Orthodox churches exist, there is often a lack of local music resources." As a result, while the secular works of such composers as Tschaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Rimski-Korsakov are constantly performed, ·their liturgical music, which Mr. Ossorgin believes is just as , beautiful, has been virtually lost. This was the music which every great Russian com". poser was employed to compose and con. duct and which was sung at the Synodal Choir in Moscow and by the Imperial Chapel choir in St. Pertersburg. "Unlike the western church, in which choral music is accompanied by organ and other instruments, the Russians developed the art of a cappella, singing without accompaniment, to a level of excellence not known in the West." he said. "It has meant an incredibly original, orchestral distribution of the human voice." Much of it is written in eight parts. But before this frequently very difficult music can be sting by western singers, Mr. Ossorgin says the words must· be translated. Otherwise, he believes, for singers to struggle simultaneously with such a difficult language as Russian is to deprive them of a freedom to sing with an intensity and meaning the music requires. . "This kind of music is so great it has to spring from the deeper inner sources gf the singers," he said. "Therefore,.it has to come from the mother tongue: They must understand what they are singing . ., AND THIS CONVICTION has led him first to translate what he describes as "magnificent examples of great Byzantine and Slavonic poetry unknown in the West." Since the voices don't sing the same word at the same time but tend to re-echo words and phrases, the wording often is complex. "Nothing in the score is altered.•• What this altogether modest man would like to do for Russian liturgical music is something like what Mendelssohn did for Bach, whose music was unknown for a hundred years before Mendelssohn popularized it. What he has achieved so far, according to Nicholas Spasski, president of the Archives of Russian Liturgical Music in Paris, who has heard tapes of his music, is "colossal." If Soviet Russia laid down its liturgical music baton in 1917, Michael Ossorgin has it firmly in his grasp. Last October, at the annual convention of the Alaska Federation of Natives, an audience of 5,000 persons heard him conduct the music as part of a concert celebrating both Alaska's silver anniversary as a state and the bicentennial of the Russian Heritage in Alaska. Alaska is the only state which has deep Russian roots that are still alive. And for the story of this major musical event in Alaska, one must go back virtually to the beginning of this 64-year-old tutor's life. Born in Istanbul as his parents fled Russia, Mr. Ossorgin was brought up in the first wave of Russian emigres in Paris. "I grew up in a fairy tale atmosphere ~the blooming of a culture," he said. "There were musicians and composers, representing the first generation of Rimski-Korsikofrs students, and professors, all eager to preserve the best of Russian culture." · · HIS FATHER, MICHAEL Ossor; a (Mr. Ossorgin 's grandson is Michael Ossorgin · VIII), was choral director at the Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris. His mother, Countess Mouravioss, a pianist, played four hands with Rachmaninoff. Educated at the Conservatorie Russe a Paris, headed then by Glazunov Cherepnin, he majored .in Russian liturgical music. Then he received a degree in theology from the lnstitut de TheoJogie Orthodox . in Paris, where he t~ught music two years. In 1947 Mr. Ossorgin found himself, after a year and a half of imprisonment by the Germans during World War II, as a priest, with a great black beard, at St. Michael's Cathedral in Sitka. Stories of Alaska had intrigued him since he was 17. One of the first things he did was to organize a Boys Glee Club among orthodox students attending Mt. Edgecumbe High School, a school for Alaska natives across the bay from Sitka. (There was always the question of whether the 0 on their sweaters stood for Orthodox or Ossorgin.) When Don Foster, director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, heard the Glee Club sing, he offered Mr. Ossorgin a concurrent position as a music teacher at the high school. There Mr. Ossorgin organized still other choirs. His mixed choir of Indian and native children sang the music of Bach and Brahms at such a level of excellence that they were invited annually to tour Southeastern Alaska. · The choir was heard regularly over the radio. One day in 1949 the captain of a freighter floundering in the Gulf of Alaska turned on his radio to pick up a Juneau station and, as his crew knelt, heard with comfort the singing of Kedrov's "The Lord's Prayer" under Mr. Ossorgin. Mr. Ossorgin later received a letter from the captain describing how the music helped sustain the crew during the storm. and to i, Ii Page 3 ic Michael Ossorgin at work at his save the sinking ship. Mr. Ossorgin joined St. John's Annapolis faculty in 1956, coming here at the FROM 1947 UNTIL 1956when he left suggestion of an alumnus, Dr. Peter V. V. with his American wife, Penny, to join St. John's faculty in Annapolis, he became a Hamill, '49, a physician at that time at the legend in himself. "Those of us who know Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Mt. Edgecumbe, whose friendship with Mr. OsFather Ossorgin adore him," a former stud~nt, Gilbert Truit, commented on an sorgin grew during their musical Friday Alaska radio program last summer. evenings together. St. John's is really the place you belong, he persuaded him. Later, So in 1982, when Mt. Edgecumbe School had its reunion. the word went out in 1965, Mr. Ossorginjoined the Santa Fe faculty. to bring Father Ossorgin. Naturally the Mr. Ossorgin is one year from retirestudents did, and naturally there was ment although St. John's faculty members music when he came, music so satisfying and with so much potential that there may teach full or part-time to age 70. The simply had to be more. temptation is to retire so he can spend all his efforts, perhaps with a grant, in foragTo make it possible, Mr. Ossorgin applied for three successive years for grants to ing through private collections he knows fund summer choirs beginning that year to exist in London, Paris, and Munich, to bring together all this music that a Revoand continuing through the 1984 Silver lution has succeeded in burying ten fathJubilee. Support came from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, the National oms deep in musical oblivion. Endowment for the Arts, the Alaska Hu"I'm guarding a musical treasure that manities Forum, and the National Enthe world is ready for and has no access dowment for the Humantities. to," observes this foremost authority on With an infusion in 1983 of singers from Russian liturgical music in this part of the the Episcopal Diocese and from the proWest. fessional choirs in Anchorage, the choir of He means to make the access possible . 36 voices last summer represented a crosssection of Alaskans - accountants, computer programmers, geologists. In preparation for the singing of native .. music, Mr. Ossorgin taught Tlinget and white man to sing Aleut and white man and Aleut to sing Tlinget. (He, himself, had been made an honorDavid Whiteside, SF '80, who has studary member of the Tlinget in 1949 when he ied voice since his graduation with Metwas given the name, Katlayekh, "All is ropolitan Opera soprano Maralin Niska, well with the world." It was a good choice. has been engaged as an apprentice artist Thirty-five years later, the strong and kind by the Santa Fe Opera for its 1985 season. face of this blue-eyed, white-thatched In selecting the Santa Fe Opera, Mr. teacher radiates cheerful serenity.) Whiteside, a tenor, turned down an invitaDURING THE WINTER months, in tion for the l 985 summer season of the order that rehearsals might get under way, American Institute of Musical Studies in Mr. Ossorgin mailed to his assistant direcGraz, Austia, for which he also has successfully auditioned. tor individual parts, sometimes following up original translations with second and Recently he was featured in the Musica third versions. "My choir was very pade Camera en El Santuario de Guadatient," he said of the changes they reloupe Chamber Concert Series. For the ceived. . past three years he has been heard in reci"I have to keep the quality of the tal, light opera and local opera in the translation high," Mr. Ossorgin explained. Santa Fe and Albuquerque area. I keep translating the words to myself until He lives in Albuquerque, where he has I .can hear all of it within myself, and I studied music at the University of New work to a point where I am fully satisfied. Mexico. Following his summer internI let it continue until it stops on its own." ship, he hopes to move to Santa Fe. Of the forty liturgical works he has Mr. Whiteside will be happy to discuss translated, some 15 were sung in concerts music and related matters with interested in Anchorage and Sitka last year and students or alumni if they wish. His addincluded two American premieres of Chesress is 308 Morningside Drive, SE, Apt. nokov (1877-1944), "Let Ali Mortal 203d, Albuquerque, N.M. 87108; he can Flesh" and his own favorite, ..The Angel's be reached at (505) 268-5509 or 883-2500, Second Greeting." Ext. 292. iteside is opera singer �Page4 APRIL 1985 THE REPORTER A glorious 2.15 minutes (Continued from P. l) On screen before their evening news and commercialization of sports, to see a audience of minions were the Druids and refreshing clip by ABC about a small colthe Guardians in a furious game of bas- lege with access to a fine academic proketball and the Furies and the Maenads gram but which doesn't overlook physical slamming volleyballs across the net at one fitness and is engaged in sports on an another. appropriate level is unique. I'm sure the ''They play just as hard, if not as wen, as impact hasn't been felt, but it takes a bit ·the Big East or Big Ten, but winni,1g isn't · for 50 states and all of the people in them the only thing," Mr. Gandolf said of to react." students. Mr; Peace said another Baltimore alum":' MR. GANDOLF apparently was iin- nus, Luther S. Tall, '21, had called to tell pressed with the college's small athletic him that the program was on. ''He was budget, up by $200 this year, according to ready to get out of the nursing home he athletic director Bryce Jacobsen, the star was so 'elated.•• of the show. By way of illustration the ABC's discovery of St. John's was acci.camera picked up a donkey's ear of an old dental. It had become interested after cardboard box loaded with softball gear. reading a story entitled ••Good Sports at The athletic program really knows how St. John's" in the January 8 issue of to practice frugality·. . American Way that Mr. Friedman had ..The college had that box when l was p!cked up in flight. here," Cathy Berry. '83, of the library "I NEVER KNEW there was a school staff, commented several days later after like this or a program like this or a man showing a tape. made by nurse Marilyn like you," he told· Mr. Jacobsen in teleMylander on the library's big television phoning to request that he and Mr. Gan:. set. A crowd of cheering students, who dolfmight come .. . missed the original program, sat around The American Way story by Michael J. recognizing each other and called for still Weiss begins: another re-run. · ..In this era of college sports as big busiThe Gandolf-Friedman team spent ness and coaches who gulp Maalox for hours with Mr. Jacobsen, both interview- breakfast, Bryce Jacobsen follows a difing him and filming an hour of his math ferent game plan. As athletic director of class. (Mr. Friedman really liked the gym. tiny (400 students) St John's College in ''Atrocious! .. he commented about any· Annapolis, Md., Jacobsen runs perhaps · thought that it would ever be changed. "I the most unaggressive collegiate sports think it should be left the way it is.") program in America. His annual budget For his interview, Mr. Jacobsen wore a totals $4,000. Major sports include table conservative white shirt and a ..nice color- \ennis and badminton and the college ful tie, one with a greenish background gynmasium hasn lseen a bleacher since its with a yellow and blue pattern in a ran- construction in 190S." dom way." . The article not only resulted in the tele"THEY ASKED ME A lot of hard vision show buf evoked a letter from questions," Mr. Jacobsen said of his hour- Mark C. Burns, officiating assistant for long interview. · In recalling the event in the coffee shop, he wore a brand new addition to his atrocious tie collection: a white tie with pink and green ..balls" that Jerry Cronin, West Brookfield, Mass., sophomore had given For the first time in Baltimore, the St. him that morning to wear with his red John ts Graduate Institute in Liberal Edushirt. cation will offer a program leading to a wrhey wanted to know why the intra- master of arts degree. Geoffrey Comber, mural program was better than it is at director, ·announced that the classes will most colleges and if and when I retire, how , begin September 9. would I look back and how would I assess The program previously was available it, and they wanted to know why I refereed only on the Annapolis and Santa Fe camall the games. I told them I had a horror of puses and in Albuquerque. becoming an armchair athletic director. Meeting in a Baltimore high school vet That's not my way of doing things ... to be designated, those enrolled will auend Students weren't the only persons proud sessions from 5 to 6: 15 p.m. and from 7:30 about St. John's moments on television. to 9:30 p.m. on Mcmdays and Thursdays. Some of its earlier graduates were, too~ After 16 weeks of classes, they will have ..It made the other St. John's look terr- completed the ..Literature" segment of ible, .. Charles F. Peace, Ill,· '36, of Balti- the four-part program. more, said in congratulating Mr. JacobThe .. Philosophy and Theology" segsen and suggesting he get his own tele- ment will be offered during the same evenvision series. ing hours beginning January 20. ..Amid all the big athletics, big names Mr. Comber said two St. John's tutors will conduct the classes. Deadline for enrollment, limited to 20 ~DAO'fUA~ students, is July I. St. John's graduates and others holding acceptable undergraduate degrees are eli"'.' gible to apply. In order to receive a master's degree, at Competition Nuptber Two asks least half the work must be completed as you to write a publisher's blurb for an eight-week resident at either the Annathe first publication of one of the polis or Santa Fe campus. books read at the college. One or Pointing out that the segments do not two paragraphs, please. have to be taken in any set order, Mr. Reatlers are reminded that the Comber outlined a schedule for completresults of Competition Number ing au four in the 15 months beginning in One will appear in the next issue June of this year and ending in August of 7he Reporier; 1986. Students could finish t;me segment on campus this summer; two in Baltimore were: Some of the players Aicliimed irom left, David Stahl, GldonDatan, Aris Somis, Chandran Madhu, and Joe Anthony. Todd Reichart photo the National FootbaU League, who wanted to let Mr. Jacobsen 'IC now how much he enjoyed St. John's approach to athletics. He wrote: "I found your handling of sports at St. John's to be both sensible and refreshing. So many colleges and universities overlook the athletic participation of mosl of their studentsto emphasize the abilities of a few. Your approach to getting everyone involved in sports win pay dividends for the students in the years to come. "I was thoroughly impressed with your sports program. It's my hope that someday I might find a .colleg~ where I could run a sports program similar to yours." Institute to open in Baltimore .· "~ 112 during the evenings beginning in September, and the final segment on campus in the summer of 1986. Students receive nine credit hours of graduate course work per segment. As many as nine hours of acceptable graduate work may be trans!erred from other institutions. The· Graduate Institute program is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and approved for teacher recertification by the New Mexico and Maryland State Boards of Education. About half of those enrolled in the Graduate Institute are teachers. They also include a cross section of professio.nal people and others seeking cultural enrichment. In addition, a few homemakers reentering the work force enroll. Application forms and further information may be obtained by calling (30 l) 2632371, Ext. 241, or by writing to the Graduate Institute in Liberal Education, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 214041671. Parents to see 'Much Ado' The King William Players will present Shakespeare•s Much Ado About Nothing during Parents' Weekend April 26-27 with two performances scheduled for the Key Auditorium. The first will be at 8 p.m. Saturday and tbe second at 3 p.m. Sunday. The play will be directed by Coldwell Daniel, Memphis, Tenn., senior. who has made a. special study of the comedy in connection with his senior thesis. Members of the cast will be: Don Pedro, Chris Stokes; Don John, Jim Goddard; Claudio, John Fitzmaurice; Benedick, George Scott; Leonato, David Lowther; Antonio, . David Kidd; Balthasar, Todd Masilon; Conrade, Steven Singer; Borachio, Stuart Sobozynski; · Dogberry, Ben Krauss~ Verges, David Schaller; watchmen,· Chris .Brow.n, Breu Suprenant, and Aris Somis; sexton, boy, and lor, Simon McNabb; messenger, David McNeil; Hero, Lisa Rose; Beatrice, Kate O'Malley; Margaret, Edith Updike, and Ursula, Aliza Gold. Understudies will be Alex Hue.mer, Peter Breslin. and Erika Wilson. Delattre heads group President Delattre has1been named chairman of the Maryland State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Linda Chavez, staff director, has announced. Mr. Delattre has been appointed for a two-year term and will serve withou.t compen~tion. �~-~----~·•c APRIL t985 ·~~---~ THE REPOffTER Page·~·. Two weeks in West, one in East are set for alumni· There will be three weeks of summer alumni programs this year, one in Annapolis and two in Santa Fe. The first will be held on the eastern campus June 23..:28. On the program: Seminars on Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, led by Mera Flaumenhaft and' Anita Kronsberg, and preceptorials · that will include one onmedical ethicsand ·technology, by Howard Zeiderman, another lhe romantic .poetry of Wordsworth, Keats, and Coleridge, led by John Christensen; a third on Book I of Aristotle's Ethics and Kant's Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals, led. by Samuel Kutler, '54, and a· fourth deyoted · · Agood . ·Alumniattendingeventsin Santa · Fe between July_ l2=July 30 may receive TWA's supe:rsaver rates to Albuquerque under an arrangement worked out with Dittman Tours World Travel Bureau. ·To make arrangements. call toU free (800) · 533-2012 outside Minnesota or (800) 642-3860 within -Minnesota ' and identify yourselfas an alumnus. The bureau wm book the reservations and. forward th.e tickets. to Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, led by Wye J. Allanbrook.. , . Also planned . is . a performance of _Beaumarchais's Marriage of Figaro at the Folger Shakespeare Theater on June 26. The Santa Fe ptogram for the first week, July 14-19.,wiU feature seminars on Melville's Billy Budd and' Benito Cereno,. ied ·by Jack Lincoln, '74, and Katherine. Mulford. Preceptorials will include those devoted to Marcuse's One Dimensional Man, ledby Thomas Simpson, '50; essays by Montaigne and others, led by Cary· Stickney, '75, aRd Scott Buchanan's ·Poetry and Mathematics, led by Sam Brown. Mr .. Stickney and Georgia Knight will be seminar. leaders .for the Chaucerian seminar that will mark the second Alumni Week, July 21-28. to be reaq will bethe .. Wife of Bath's Tale ... and "Clerk's Tale;"· Preceptorials include one on Yeats' poetry, led by Charles Bell; a second on John Fowles' The Ebony Tower, led by Mr. Lincoln. and a third, led by Miss Knight, in which three tales of Flaubert wiU be read and discussed. · Costs both Annapolis and Santa Fe will be $75 for non-resident participants, $250 for tuition, room, and board, and · $115 for non-participati'ng residents or children over three. yea.rs of age; Freshmen Gerald of (.;01ru11sse!1, Fairfax~ Va .• examine some of the 1u·1uc:a1F-tl:l Todd Reichart photo ·· the (Contin·ued from·P. I) caUed a halt to such earthly probings late sembled artifacts that rangdrom the last fall: But the haul was a good one, and .est dated pieces found at S. John's - a· Mr. Kenney has selected some. of the Connecticut copper of 1788 and a large pieces fpr display at the college. cent piece of l 803, to a fairly contemOne small case. is devoted to jewelry, .porary cigarette: lighter. · including earrings and a Mickey Mouse Mostofthe Civil War artifacts he locatring. ed were six inches deep. The oldest objects From the Civil War there are mini-balls. genera:tly,were buried under dght inches . ·and nine Civil War eagle buttons, found iri · of sod. the· same hole. There is a St. JOhn 's cap. · "It's hard to find a place as productive insignia dating back to the college's days .and untouched as St. John's," he said. as a military -school and Naval Academy · Kenney and his sons began their ·buttons. A single hole unearthed 29 pistol · search in the area close to the tennis courts · bullets, .which Mr. Kenney believes are. and worked a sweep up back-campus to . probably of 20th century orig.in .. Rand;:~Jl Hall. They· also scoured front · ·Besides Indian head pennies which-went . campus .in.ch .by inch, but much of the ''We're catalysf~"f'l Charles -E. .Dunn, data processing system which comes with out in 1909 when Lincoln pennies came in, St. ·John's vice-president, explained the back-campus still remains virgin territory the new computerized tedm~logy the colhe has discovered numerous coins. Among for such searching. role of. St. John's newly organized Adlege recently obtained. MissT~rello also them are Koosevelt dimes, a two-cent· vancement office. ..We. try to make it serves other offices at the college. For reasons of its own, the college piece 'of 1864, and coins bearing their happen." Mr, Dunn, himself, will concentrate on · familiar names: Walking Liberty half dolHeading an office 1 that also 9versees major·gifts and deferr<?d giving; He will be lars, Standing Liberty quarters, a Barber working ~loseiy with President Edwin J. alumni and information services.~St John's . quarterof 1915,aBarberdimeof 1914,a · · · . new vice-president was attempting to explain .Delattre. Seated Liberty Quarter of 1877, a Seated · how'his office sees itself in its fund raising "I· look upon you as the chief fund Libe.rty dime of 1891, and a large Canacapacity. raiser,": Mr.- Dunn told Mr. Delattre in dfan one.:.Cent; piece of 1903. The request in last month•s Reporter . There has 'been some reorganization assuming his position last fall. "I look · There are commemorative pieces indica,;, for copies of an article about St. John's by since the first ohhe year in the third area . upon myself as chief catalyst ... ' F. ·Scott Fitzgerald in CQllege Humor ' ting people have' gone places and seen with which Mr. Dunn is associated Before coming to St. John's, Miss Buys things. Among them are those for the brought two responses. ·It turns <;mt. the development. . worked in similar capacities at a number Paris Exposition of 1889, a QueenVictoarticle in the August 1932 issue is not by . Janice Buys, former director of develof other colleges, including Bloomfield, Fitzgerald, unless, writes Alan F.. · Pike, ·. ria piece for l 854, and a Victor Emmanuel opment· at Mount St. Mary's College, Wilson, Chambersburg, Hamilton, and "Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was writing · W centesimi piece of 1863. Emmittsburg, Md., has been named to that Skidmore. · One antique tube which withstood the under the nom de plume 'Victor Weyposition he_re. In January ·she succeeded For four· years, she. was director of bright.'" weathering of decades was labeled N.S. Ann-Cruse, '76, who has opened her own public relations and development for the Jenkins' Germicidal Denture Cream. Toy Our thanks to Mr. Pike, '37, of Dayindependent development services office American Association of University sh0vels appeared along with penknives tona Beach Shores, Fla., and to Lawrence Women's Education Foundation. She in Annapolis .. L Carpenter, '32, of St. Petersburg; and a copy of the Maryland State seal. A e:eneralist in fund raising, she will · is a graduate of Randolph-Macon Many of the pieces the Kenneys cleaned for sending copies. in the area of corporate Woman's College in Lynchburg. up; others were left in the .rusty state in Having attended three institutions· in arid foundatitm gifts, which represents 40 Mrs. was a student which they found them. "the great centers of learning... in lhe teempercent of those John's from to 1962. cities far Mr. with his Julia Kleeb Ruw111a11. enrolled in the weekend program at sons, isa member of the 1.:.<1.1H1;1u0uu1 ed to the Mundelein Colle2:e and Treasure .Club and the T1ufo.-ufonrl director facts Recoverv have respons10llltH~s each she has reFor at home in held an identical oos1t1on to Chicago on Devel9pment will in reorga~izes .Mr. Article research. another new p0s1uon, is K.eHy, a · data processor at University, where she was 2raduated with a bachelor's in Harold "Mike" Michaelis, a member of It will be her job the Annapolis security force for the past to terret out prospective donors eight years,· has been named chief of corporations, foundations; and security to succeed William Savoy, who duals. ·died December 20 following a stroke. Working with her will be Leesa Torello, Retired from the Army befote joining the formerly the-college's mailing coordina- · college, Chief Michaelis· will have as. his tdt; who has been promoted to assistant assistant K. Adams. ,.Mervin D. for records and will handle JooW.is lile of his heart out." The article should, in Mr. words, help "some of the 'old guard' (to) remember with fondness our era and even the New Program people may ,~lt~t,. f?~d. ·~ ',; ~· ' . copper a 1793 copper chain cent, which was the first American cent, of w.hich only 36,000 were issued, another large 1798 cen.t, a button from the War of 1812 depicting a cannon and lO little cannon balls and. the word, "Corps," 1898 Barber half dollar, and what is thought to : be 'a Civil War belt buckle of a Union an : �Page& Humphreys b Wl The Rev. Hector Humphreys was born in 1797, 13 years after the charter establishing St. John's was adopted, and became the first major builder ofthe college. When he came to St. John's in 183 l from what is now Trinity College, where he had been a professor· of ancient languages, there was only "the old college building" - McDowell Hall. He raised the $11,000 that resulted in the construction of "the boarding house," built in l 835, and named for him eight months after his death in 1857 at a time when three other buildings begun during his administration were going up, buildings St. John's historian Tench Tilghman suggests Humphreys may not have lived to see completed: Chase-Stone, PacaCarroll and Pinkney. As important as the buildings were, this energetic Episcopal clergyman from New England also brought education reform, including an expansion of the sciences, to the college. What was St. John's like when he arrived? Purely local in character from the standpoint of both students and board, St. Johns had 27 boys in the preparatory school it operated at the time and 39 in the college division, according to college librarian Kathryn Kinzer. "The minutes record that neither boys nor masters came to class on time," she told an audience attending a Tea and History talk given in connection with the year-long celebration of the Bicentennial of the St. John's Charter of 1784. SINCE MARYLAND had dropped all its support in 1805, college finances were precarious. The level of Greek and- Latin taught at college level was that offered in grammar school a generation earlier. Science was not as good as it had been in McDowell's day. Students were compelled to participate in military classes with drills twice each day. The administration of the college was so fully in the hands of the board that the principal, as the president was called, had to go to the board for permission to buy firewood. Older college records are missing, but Mrs. Kinzer told her audience in the library's King William Room that records assume a very modern tone with Humphreys' presidencey. . "There were problems with ra,ising money, admissions, financial aid, leaking buildings, and making the world aware of the existence of St. John's." Within a week after taking office, Humphreys made public his plans for the college. At the same time, Mrs. Kinzer said the board seems to have been very willing to have him take control. One of his first acts was to change the title of professor of civil engineering and military tactics to professor of mathematics and civil engineering. The military program was made voluntary so that it did not compete with class preparation time. "It can be safely assumed that after the arrival of ~is starchy New Englander, neither professors nor boys were late to class, but it took even Humphreys 20 years to quell the misbehavior," Mrs. · Kinzer pointed out. ..DRUNKENESS, EVEN among the ...._. THE REPORTl:R APRIL 1985 At homecoming . . s When Merle Shore, '54, answered the telephone of his Santa Barbara shop, The Village Frame, and was told it was the Western White House, his reaction was something to the effect, "Oh cut it out. I've got more things to do than to have you guys string me along." Well, of course, it was someone from the ranch calling, and so there was a top level project for Merle, who operates one of the best West Coast framing establishments in the business, one which has pio.neered in conservation techniques and one.in which a clerk may look up and find someone like Richard Widmark across the counter. He was minding the store while his wife, Priscilla Bender Shore, a member of St. John's first class of women, paid a visit to Annapolis to begin early planning for a show of her work which will be held during homecoming September 27-29 in the college art gallery. Priscilla has become a successful West Coast artist. On her visit to St. John's she came directly from Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., where she had been one of two artists participating in a seminar, .. Women and 20th Century Art." A show of her work at Wheaton in 1978 was so favorably reviewed by. The Boston Globe that the college keeps a collection of her work in a slide archive and regularly updates it. One Wheaton student was doing a research paper on her work. Since 1968 Priscilla has been very involved with the human figure. One work, a long frieze of women in two panels, each 18 by 120 inches, brought considerable favorable comment when it went on exhibit in Bakersfield, Calif. IN THE PANELS, women are seen in numerous positions in a continuous stream of water - lolling, standing, bathing, resting, swooning - separated aqd apart from each other despite their closeness, some partly submerged, some figures ambiguous in their relationship to _life and death. Colors, progressing across the panel from light to dark, suggest a passage of time. The women are powerfully delineated, alone - mysterious. From this frieze, Priscilla has extracted individual sections for larger paintings. Classmates will remember Priscilla for the stage sets she did as a student here, including those for Venus Observed and King John, and for the portraits she painted of faculty members and students. During her student years, she also took time to do illustrations of Cherokee Indians for the Ford travel magazine. Since 1967 she has exhibited regularly in California with her latest show one that opened in December at the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Los Angeles in which she joined other artists in "Works in Paper." She opeas another in April at the Orlando Gallery, also in Los Angeles. A partial list of shows for 1984 included the l 984 juried competition at the Contemporary Arts Forum held at the University of California at Santa Barbara and younger boys, was common. There were fights with knives, pistols drawn on fell ow students, an apprentice from town was caned, a professor was struck in the classroom. There was going to Baltimore, after having been forbidden, and coming home drunk, even attending public .balls and bowling alleys." Mrs. Kinzer said much was made of the ''pure atmosphere of Annapolis" in advertisements for students. "But once a boy was committed to the college, he was warned about the vile atmosphere downtown." Humphreys' administration was marked by a number of achievements. The curriculum was strengthened. Badly prepared classes were not permitted to pass. Textbooks came into greater use. There were many public lectures, and l~ctures and demonstrations were expanded in the sciences as well as in political economy and fine arts. Vacations found Humphreys in Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia and back home in Connecticut buying books and chemicals and tracking down science apparatus. After suffering badly from leaks in the cupola of what is now McDowell, the library was moved from the octagon to the new college building and was furnished with a ••riice table" for board meetings. "Probably Humphreys' greatest personal interest at the college was the expansion of the science courses," Mrs. Kinzer said. ..Throughout his administra!ion there are requests for equipment and laboratory space." He persuaded the board to purchase a Professor Ducatel's minerology collection to expand its own local samples. Mrs. Kinzer said his interest in science tended to be practical; he thought its study gave people the means to make better lives for themselves. THE FACULTY ITSELF varied from three to five professors and, in hard times, Humphreys himself took up most of the slack; geology and mineralogy were his favorite topics to teach. At the beginning of his tenure, Humphreys also initiated a division in the preparatory school between those preparing for college and those who were not. ln the end, after his 26-year presidency which ended with his death, Mrs. Kinzer quoted him as saying, .. l arn getting heartily tired ... of my position here." Mrs. Kinzer said Humphreys had four children, including a son who died young, another, an alumnus, who died when he was about 27, and two daughters who were married on the same day to midshipmen who fought on opposite sides during the Civil War. The son who fought for the North was killed, "presumably not by his brother-in-law." On his mother's side he was related to John Brown. Mrs. Kinzer became interested in Humphreys one summer when she attempted to arrange his papers ,for archival purposes. juried by Paul Schemmel, an exhibit at Santa Barbara's Olympic Village, another in June at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bakersfield, Calif., a show, juried by Lucy Lippard, in July in Los Angeles marking the tenth anniversary of the Women's Building, and the"Many Voices/ Many Visions" show at California State University at LosAngeles. PRISCILLA ALREADY had graduated from the Cooper Union school of art ·and completed two years of work in advanced standing at Yale, primarily to fill in some educational gaps, when she married in April of 1951 and enrolled as a scholarship student in St. John's first class of women that fall. Because she decided to take a year off after her freshman year, she received her bachelor's degree in 1956. Once settled in California following graduation, she began work on her master's of fine arts in 1965 at the University of California at Santa Barbara when both children were seven. The Shores had adopted a son, Evan, more recently out of the Navy and now working and attending college part time, and five months later had given birth to their daughter, Ann, a ballet dancer recently home after dancing with the Bat Dor Dance Company in Jsrael for three years. Dividing her time between painting and . child care, Priscilla discovered, on the way to the MFA, that she was the only member of her graduating class in studio art able to complete on time a written thesis. Writing a serious work on scholarship on the human silhouette, "The Human Sil... houette: Seurat/Munch: Diebenkom /Bacon," Priscilla said it was her St. John's years of paper writing that made this distinction possible. She also attributes to her St. John's years, a time when nobody was talking much about art here, her ability to talk about it, something again some artists find difficult. From 1973 to 1975 she served as chairman of the Department of Drawing and Painting and as assistant dean of the Santa Barbara Art Institute, a school forced to fold when it fell into financial straits. In l 971 she also began teaching on a part-time basis in Santa Barbara City College's Art Department, principally figure drawing and figure and portrait painting. ,_ ~ WHILE HER CLASSES were enormous with students on the waiting list, she decided last year for complicated reasons relating to City College's salary procedures, to teach only in the summer time and then on a full-time basis. In 1975 she served as coordinatormoderator of arts and lecture series for the Santa Barbara Art Institute and the same year in a similar position for a series at the Santa Barbara Community Center, "Cross Currents in Visual Arts." In addition, as a serious painter, she needed more time in her studio, the same reason the Shores decided to close their Santa Barbara gallery, which had operated from 1977 to 1982. "I was too extended," Priscilla commented. "I couldn't keep up with my own work. l mounted 24 shows in five years." Having decided. to become an artist at age 13, she felt it was time to concentrate on her paintings rather than others. Alumni will see some of the results of that decision in late September. _ _J �----- APRIL 1985 ------- THE REPOR1ER Students aid school program by DOROTHY KINSMAN ..Actually, there's amazingly little difference." David C. Lowther was comparing the Junior Great Books discussions he leads for pupils at West Annapolis Elementary School with the seminars he attends at St. John's College. A senior from Lees burg, Va., Mr. Lowther is one of nine Johnnies taking part in the Adopt-a-School project of the college's Circle K Club, sponsored by Kiwanis International. Five conduct junior great books seminars, while the other four tutor children in reading, mathematics and composition. The program got underway in February to the apparent benefit of all concerned -50 children and their teachers, the St. Johnnies and the principal, Barbara San Gabino. "It seemed like a natural," she said of the arrangement for St. John's students to serve as tutors. ..Inaddition to giving us more hands on the the program gives our students a chance to work with young people who are motivated to learning." She added that the Johnnies serve as models for the youngsters. Several of the volunteers plan teaching careers. "THIS GIVES THEM a feel for it without entering a teachers' college," points out Steven Dean, president of Circle who is "leaning towards a career in education." He is- a freshman from Annandale, Va. · Planning to apply for a teaching position. in .a private secondary school, Mr. Lowther.said of his w~rk at West Annapolis, "It will look good on my resume ... And it's just a lot of fun. I had cold feet at first. I didn't know how successful I would be. But these kids are dynamite - very refreshing to work with." The children, he observed as he continued the comparison with his classmates, "are not as inclined to get metaphysical. They make strange analogies, but so do the St. Johnnies. "They are just as inventive. They have just as many points of view." Comments by the· nine 8-to-11-yearolds in a seminar conducted by Mr. Dean bear out Mr. Lowther's remarks. Clad in jeans or corduroys topped by sweatshirts and T-shirts, they discussed "Fresh" a story by Phillipa Pearce. Mr. Dean: "Is it ever all right to take a live animal out of its natural environ- Usa O'Brien, '86, of Rockville, Md., works with Brandon Wycherley at West Annapolis Elementary. She is one of nine students taking part in the Circle K Club's Adopt-a-School program. Todd Reichart photo ment?" "I try to get across that there are very "If it's for a zoo." few cases when an answer is wrong. They "If it's scientific." are so used to looking to the teacher for an "NO!" EXCLAIMS A tow-head, answer. The first thing I told them was bouncing up and down in his chair. that I wasn't going to give them answers. I "Would you want someone to take you want them to learn that everything isn't all out of your natural environment and cut black and white. There is a gray area." you up?" AL THOUGH THE children selected by their teachers to participate must be His indignation sparks a hot debate on the ethical considerations of vivisection. able to read at a certain level, Mrs. San Steered back to Mr. Dean's original Gabino does not classify them as ..gifted and talented." Instead, she considers the question, the children offered these replies: seminars an "enrichment program for "When it's dangerous to people." pupils who have most of their basic skills." "If it's on your property." The children read from volumes supp..NO!" another youngster blurts out. lied by the Great Books Foundation of "You don't own the ground just because Chicago. Among the authors represented it's your property. The ground is everyare Hans Christian Andersen, Nathaniel one's environment." Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Anton ChekLike their counterparts in St. John's hov, Langston Hughes and Ray Bradseminars, some of the children are loquacious; a few are silent. All, however, bury. appear wrapped up in the discourse. Relating how the college became in"l'm surprised at how much they enjoy volved, Mrs. San Gabino said she read school," remarked Anne Marie Litwiller, that President Reagan was encouraging Wooster, Ohio, who plans to teach after organizations to "adopt a school" by graduation next year. She values the opsupplying volunteers or financial assisportunity to gain experience. tance. Among the objectives of the seminars, After attempts to interest local business Miss Litwiller lists improving the childorganizations were unsuccessful, Cynthia ren 's ability to communicate and to think Wycherley, vice president of the PTA, asked St. John's President Edwin J. Deinterpretively. Mr. Dean mentions another objective lattre whether the college would "adopt" of the seminars: West Annapolis Elementary. He agreed, and the newly formed Circle K Club assumed the responsibility as its, .first project. SONJA LECUONA, Painted Post, N.Y., senior, coordinated the project and the two engineering schools to study at St. recruited volunteers. She also serves as a John's. They may. enroll either in the tutor. Graduate Institute in Liberal Education Fifty-four students expressed an interor as undergraduate freshmen. The exest, but the program got underway too change students will be accepted at both late in the school year to schedule classes campuses. for all of them. J. Burchenal Ault, former Santa Fe 'Tm hoping we can really get it off the provost, said the purpose of the program ground at the beginning of the school year is to make "engineers philosophers and next fall," Mrs. San Gabino said. Use of philosophers engineers." Assisting him in additional volunteers will enable more developing the exchange are Graduate children to participate in the great books Institute directors Geoffrey Comber, Andiscussions. napolis, and Stephen Va~ Luchene, Santa F~ . . Other students currently taking part are Renee DuRand, '85, Mr. Airy, Md.; Lisa When the program gets underway this O'Brien, '86, Rockville, Md.; Steven Wersummer, Mr. Hale expects about four St. lin, '85, Lexington, Mass.; Joshua RichJohn's students to take part and four or mond, '87, Highland Park, Ill.; and Jofive from Clarkson to study at the Gradu anne Fowler, '88, St. Louis, Mo. ate Institute A head start for engineers St. John's students who plan to go into engineering will be able to get a head start in their careers through an exchange program funded by two foundations, according to Ronald F. Hale, director of career planning in Santa Fe. Grants of $40,000 from the Exxon Education Foundation and $30,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation will enable the students to take engineering courses during the summer ateither ClarksonCoilege of Technology, Potsdam, N.Y., or the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. Mr. Hale said this would cut the time needed for them to get a bachelor's degree in engineering after graduation from St. John's. In addition, the grants will make it possible for recent graduates or studel}ts at Page7 Position open · San Applications are being accepted for the position of director of alumni activities and information services for the Santa Fe campus. Responsibilities include planning and directing alumni activities, coordinating alumni activities on the Santa Fe campus with the director of alumni activities on the Annapolis campus, and working with the national Alumni Association and some alumni chapters. In addition, the incumbent will be responsible for information services at Santa Fe and will work closely with the Santa Fe assistant for community relations. Requirements for this entry level position are a bachelor's de·gree, strong initiative, the ability to relate well to all constitutencies of the college community and the general public, and an interest in acquiring journalistic skills. A recent St. John's graduate is desirable. Compensation will be commensurate with experience. The college's benefit package includes a retirement program; health, life and disability insurance, and one month's vacation. The director will be an associate member of the faculty. Starting date is July 1, or sooner, if possible. Applicants are asked to send current resumes and the names and telephone numbers of three references to Director of Personnel, St John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501. rs Lorna Cahall The Universitv of Marvland University College has awarded its Teaching Excellence Award to Lorna Borsodi Cahall, '59. Quoted in the February issue of the college's publication, New Dimensions, Mrs. Cahall says the St. John's program was the most important influence on her career. The student who nominated Mrs. Cahall called her "an exceptional and outstanding teacher and human being .. .I can state categorically and without hesitation that she is the finest teacher· I ever had." Mrs. Cahall blends history, music, art, philosophy, and economics in her courses in the humanities and describes how they are integrated in any given historical age. "l think," she says, "humanities should be the backbone of everybody's education. Of course, people n~ed career training, but they should distinguish that from self-enrichment with studies that enable them to become more aware and able · members qf humanity." Since-joining the college's faculty in 1971, she has taught humanities to more than l,OOOstudents, many of whom return to her classes semester after semester. For the past five years, she has concentrated on teaching 20th century art, literature, and film. She has developed a course, "Understanding Movies," and is writing a book this spring on the symbols and patterns in war movies. A state-ranked tennis player, Mrs. Cahall lives in Beltsville with her husband, Richard S. Cahall, '59, a systems analyst for IBM. �·Page8 THE REPORTER APRIL 19tts.· ·. A ·hat-if look t directions for St. John's Mr. Nelson is aformer chairman . of the Board of Visitors and Governors, who has participated in three studies or how the st John's campuses may best be governed. An advisor to the· current Task Force on· Governance, Mr. Nelson heads his own ~onsulting firm specializing · in questions of higher education. He delivered this paper exploring din~c­ tions for St. John's at the Jam.1afy board meeting in.Santa Fe. by CHARLES A. NELSON,. '45 My assignment here th.is morning is a limited one. The main current organiza. tional question -- whether this one college with two ,campuses should now decide in favor of two presidents or one -has been · ably addressed by my colleagues on ~his platmform, I am invited h~re as a former '.member of this Board to discuss a .. What· if' question: Jf the college should decide .· on two presidents, then would it inevitably follow that the two c,ampuses wou_ld CHARLES NELSON . eventually. separate, becoming two wholly distinct corporate entities? And secondly, decision-making could evolve which · not prejudging the first question, if that would, provide ,guidance for future leadshould happen, . would that be bad or ers, and the pattern of two presidents one college could go on indefinitely. . . good? The fouith possibility, but notthe.mev- · As· 1 unders_t!lnd it, no one .is, proposing .that this Bao rd decide now in favor of two itable one, is that under two presidents the separate- and independent colleges., The pattems of life and learning on the two. reason we are addressing these "'What ir' campuses would be.gin to diverge and in questions· today is that there are some time this would lead to separation into among us - trustees, tutors, associates, two distinct corporate entities, each indestaff - who believe that the two-president pendent with its own funds, it_s own boar~, solution would inevitably lead to two president, faculty and, conceivably, curnindependent colleges and, this being seen culum. This fourth possib_ility 1eads us then -to by them as clearly undesirable, oppose the proposed solution to the immediate prob- the second question which 1 have been lem because of its fong-term implications. ask~dto address: Would such an outcome Now, as to the.first question: If the col- be bad or good? No one can say for sure. lege should decide on two presidents; then .of course. But l think it is not unreasona- . would it inevitably foll.ow that the two bie to suppose that such an outcome campuses would eventually·separate, be-. would be good a~d there is no necessity · coming two wholly distinct corporate en:.. that it should be bad. What do I mean-by "good" or "bad" in tities? On the contrary, there would be, i believe, very powerful foi;ces at work. in this case? l refer. of course. to the effects of both the board a'nd the faculty in opposi- such a change on the program, the curri_c. tion to such a move, especiaJly because of. ulum. Organization structures ~nd corpo-: concerns:about faculty exchange and stu- rate devices are only a means to an end. In our case. unlike that of many other instident transfers. , tutions, we are not co.nfused about our I see at least four possible outcomes of a purposes. We do not have our eyes on the trial of the two-president approach. One Rose Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, or the Sugar possibility is that th~ two presidents.create Bowl We also know that it is not our or exacerbate problems of rivalry and conflict which the board reluctantly con- . purpose to engage in other activities which are the perfectly legitimate funccludes are inherent in the situation. In that tions of the universities - professional case a return to one president, with all the training and research: So we know that kriown difficulties, might very well be the what matters for St. John's is whether consequence. liberal education as we understand it (I suspe·ct; however, that if rivalry and wou.ld be nurtured or not by such a conflict over prospective donors or prosseparation. pective students were the cause of the difIt seems to me that it does not necessarficulty, this· might indicate· deep-seated follow that if some divergences in curproblems of scarcity of funds or freshmen develop, that would inevitably be which no organizational arraqgement can bad. Our.commitment, after all, does not. be expected to solve.) ·· . , depend upon whether Melville's A second possibility is that conflicts Dick is struck from the list or Jane arise ·in which the board. judges that the Austen's Pride Prejudice is added. We problem is with the appointed individuals already see some slight divergences in the and is not inherent in the situation. In that and Santa Fe. case orie 0r both of the presidents would · requirements of They might grow a bit wider; who is to say have to be replaced, and another attempt that such a development is the road to made. A third possibility is that by a combina- .ruin? l can imagine a situation in wn1ch a tion of luck and good judgement the colgreat debate might arise between two lege selects two presidents who work well independent faculties over the elements of together; and to weigh the scaJes in that a liberal education in which not only direction,'the critetia for ·selection of the Santa Fe and Annapolis, but. all liberal two presidents should include" an assessarts colleges, would be the beneficiaries: ment of their ability and predisposition to The result could be that the differences, cooperate. Given such leadership, 'instead of:being comcromised.'.would be;· terns 'Ciloperation · · traditions · -· displayed in separate resolutions of these differences.by the two faculth~s. These dif·.. ferences might emerge in the laboratory· progr.am, where we have always had problems,.or in the language program, or in the attention given to the fine arts. , Is liberal eduation in this country better served by compromising such differences or by displaying them? Unless we are to ·assume that the curriculum is pretty weU set for all time, under what conditions is it .more likely that constructive change will . come about? Wl:len the Santa. Fe campus opened, it . was essential that the Annapolis faculty exercise a commanding influence over developments in Santa Fe. That it did. But now we have·a mature, seasoned faculty in Santa Fe. I do not-see that our common convictions are any more at risk if the Santa Fe faculty. were free to establish its own course than they were when the Annapolis· faculty fo.r 27 years, from the founding of the new program in l 937 to the opening ofahe Santa Fe campus in 1964, had no other check upon its delib- · erations. In addition, there would continu·e to exist powerfulincentivestopreservemost features in common. The two faculties would surely want to preserve the opportunity for faculty exchanges and for student transfers; In fact. the more I reflect upon the issue the more apparent it seems to me. that there. is nothing Inevitable about the.progress from two presidents to two independent colleges -,... and for precisely this reason: . That many board members .and tutors would continue: to believe that faculty exchanges and student · ·transfers are best protected by. a single corporate entity, and they would be.pre· pared to sacrifice such advantages as sep· .aration might appear to offer in order to better safeguard these priyileges. · . The report from the. Santa Fe Faculty · Committee in 1978 - a distinguished · group consisting of Mr. Darkey, Mr. Haggard, Mr. Jones, Mr.. Neidorf, and Mr·. Simpson - urged the board riqt, t9 make a structural change while the college was undergoing the transition from Mr. Weigle to the new president, and . con~ .. eluded, "If a change of structure is to be made, would it not seem prudent to 'have the advice of the new president on the matter?" We now have that advice, and we should not ignore it. I trust my position is clear. I. am not advocating that we should now establish two independent colleges, each devoted . separately to. the St. John's ideal. I am saying only that ·the two-president solution wo.uld not lead inevitably or even probably to two indepe·ndent institutions, but: if it did such a prospect itself should not be seen as inimical to our convictions about the means and ends of liberal education. .Bay.·area has attorneys group Harrison Sheppard, '61, an attorney for the Federai Trade Commission, has formed a ·second study group for attorneys in ·the San Francisco area. Conducted under the auspices of the Alumni Association's Continuing Education Committee, Jt is a companion to ·a similar .group already underway in Chic~go. · Among the readings h.ave been Clar., ence Darrow's djs~u~s1()6, of the. ed1ica1 .dilemmas of practidrt~f law and Pfafofs Crito. Alumni participating, besides .Mr. Sheppard, are Tom· Carnes, '52, and Grant Franks and Michael St. James, both of •77. Other members are attorneys from the Bay area. ' ., ,~ Chicago views governance . by DAN ·and TERESA RAISEN lege, raised the point that the-faculty's role· Mr R~izen, SF· '79~ is president of the · in governance should· be reconsidered in Chicago Alumni Chapter. Mrs. Raizen is light of the fact that the board has become of 1978. a Santa Fe much more active and the president's role In February ·President Delattre met is being changed. ' with Chicago a,lumni to discuss the issue Specifically, he proposed that the faculty . . of having a president for each campus. · · of each campus have the power of a vote Also present was Robson, chairman ofno-confidence in its president. He stated of the Board of Visitors and Governors. that if a faculty had this authority, it Alumni expressed concern over· the would .speak more responsibly regarding ·continued unity of the college. The possimatters ofgovernance than faculties generally do.· · of divergence of policy was seen in the areas of the academic program, tuition President Delattre that the and fees, financial liamentary analogy was not applicable to In resoonse, the and chairSt. John's College and that it was hard to the greatest threat to has imagine how the faculty could have more disparity of financial resources ·of a vbice in governance than it ) that this has. Robson stated that he would not been They chairman of the board of a college whose also assured alumni that. the ·board will had the power Of a vote of no-connot let the .two campuses drift fidence. accident but will ensure the Several persons in that the .f;,,r,.,lhr';. college. in governance This led to an expression of concern addressed and evaluated. · alumni that in resolving matters of differresponded that this issue ence and divergence, the board would would be considered in the upcoming assume authority over matters inappro- polity review. · Besides alumni, attending the meeting priate to the board. The president and the chairman responded the board had· were several friends of the college. Among alumni was John Van Doren, a member of . authority in these matters and that, in both the Board of the Alumni Association fact, it already was acting in these areas. The example of admissions and the Board of Visitors and Governors. specifically·cited and e~1:na1tne1a. The meetin2 was. soonsored by �. THE REPORTER APRIL 1985 California discussion helps inform I I President Edwin J. Delattre and Dr. David Dobreer, Alumni Association president and a member of the Task Force on Governance, met in March with members of the Southern California Chapter to discuss the college· governance issue. "Points for and against two presidents were clearly expressed and discussed, and questions on both sides fielded and answerc~d directly by both the president and Dave Dobreer," Rebecca Zlotoff, chapter president, reported of the meeting at the home of Jeremy Tarcber in Beverly Hills. "Everybody felt much better informed as the result of the meeting.•• Tutors in iou.rnal . Two St. John's tutors, Laurence Berns and Robert Sacks, are contributors to a .recent issue of the publication, Interpretation: a Journal of Political Philosophy. Laurence Berns has written an article entitled ..Spiritedness in Ethics and Politics: a Study in Aristotelian Psychology" and Mr~ Sacks "The Lion and the Ass: a Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Chapters 44-SO).... 'p~tity review set The St. John's Polity, subject to a review· every five years, will be. open to . revisions under an examination scheduled to take place during the 1985-86 academic year. Faculty of both campuses have elected a committee to make the quinquennial review that includes Michael Comenetz, Edward Sparrow, and C11rtis Wilson, of Annapolis, and David Bolotin, Dean Haggard, and Jack Steadman, of Santa Fe. Page9 When St. John's was a hospital The Civil War darkened St. John's. The iments that encamped for longer periods It was not until January, 1864, that the college was troubled· at the outset by a generally were established elsewhere in board asked permission to use the City weak and financially troubled administrathe city or on the outskirts of the town." Hall for a grammar schol. Once classes tion. During the .war it was literally subBesides serving as a staging area for moved in August, 1863, they probably sumed as part of the Union military instalnewly arrived prisoners, she said that long were located for a time in a local church. lation - mostly as a hospital - until the before the wounded from Gettysburg Mrs. Jacobsen believes that the college late fall of 186Swhen the college buildi~gs were brought to Annapolis in mid-July, held on as long as possible to McDowell must have been "purified." . 1863, the college had been designated since it was there that the library and phys"But it took years for the grounds to Hospital No. 2, or an adjunct to Hospital ical apparratus of the laboratory was obscure the scars ofthe thousands ofsoldNo. I located at the Naval Academy. stored. iers who trampled upon it," senior archiMrs. Jacobsen quoted its medical direcvist Phebe Jacobsen of the Maryland Hall tor, Thomas MacParlin, as saying faciliof Records pointed out. ties contained "several thousand beds, "Even today those with metal detectors receiving sick and wounded from battle-· pick up hundreds of Civil War artifacts fields, and paroled prisoners from Richscattered just below the surface of the amond and Andersonville ... ·former College Green Barracks." BEFORE THE war began, in J860, the In a tea and history talk in the King college was headed by the Rev. C.K. NelWilliam Room, Mrs. Jacobsen spoke of son, who in a report to the board sketched the college's shaky condition. "A most valuable addtition to the St. John's ultimate crisis of the mid-19th century, setting it.in a more extensive disThere were only 83 students, of which Mozart literature, ·novel in approach, cussion of the transformation of Anna48 were paying: 39 ranked at a collegiate finely organized, and beautifully written polis, with its population of 5,000, into a level; 44 were preparatory students. Nel- by an author in full command." · union city. · son was due $1, 100 for unpaid salary. the So begins a review of Wye Jamison · "With Annapolis a critical point in roof of the new building needed painting, . Allanbrook's recently published book, moving northern troops toward Washand a large amount of college green was Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: Le Nozzedi ington, it is not surprising that the military without a night watchman. · Figaro and Don Giovanni. presence in the city quickly transformed Hopes for a large sum of money from Writing in the September 1984 issue of the town, .. Mrs. Jacobsen said. the legislature were dashed during Nel-· Choice, a magazine distributed to librar"FURTHERMORE, the now vacated son's period. After three years· as princi- ians, C. Isaac of Austin College calls the Naval Academy offered a ready-made pal, as the president .was called, he re- St. John's Annapolis tutor's descriptions federal installation that quickly filled with signed. According to the faculty. he had of characters and scenes ..wonderfully men and materiel. The crucia·l and intertold the janitor and some of the boys that illuminating.•• . He says that ..they should be essential esting role played by St. John's College the school should be closed immediately. · was due to its large and vacant grounds Classes, however, for some youths con- ·reading for singers, stage directors, and and buildings, its proximity to the Acatinued until August, 1861, when the term conductors of the operas" and adds that demy, and to a weak and divided faculty officially ended. the book h~s many riches for anyone and small student body that could easily "h is uncertain whether all the teachers seriou~ly interested in the subtlety of be relocated elsewhere." remained for the full period, however, and Mozart's music. . · The initial use made of the college David Stewart, in October of '62, reA longer and equally laudatory review grounds, however, is not clear, Mrs. Jaeminded the board that he was the only Ol)e of Mrs. Allanbrook's work appears in the obsen said. for a.time.to continue the •drudgery' of the Fall 1984 issue of Claremont Review of· "Many troops were bivouacked on the grammar school students," Mrs. Jacob- Books. Martin D. Yaffee describes her campus or at the academy when passing sen said. analysis of the two operas as ~penetrating through town, and it was also used for A Kent News.issue of August 19, 1861. and insightful. .. some troops stationed permanently in . said the board had practically broken up Published by the University of Chicago. Annapolis. As a rule, however, St. John's the college and left the grammar school in Press, the book was reviewed by Tutor ·was a staging area, where troops remained the hands of secessionists. Of its· 12 "at- Beate Ruhm von Oppen in the September ~nly briefly before being moved on. Regtenders," only four were solidly un~~ra. 1984 issue of The Reporter. Governance Allanbrook book brings high praise • lS topic of New York Chapter one point read a draft letter the two facul- presidential shu1~Uing would persist. marize the reasons for two presidents. He Additionally, he said that it would be ties were working on which expressed in With 60 persons present representing a noted that the lack of continuous resid.;. detail their opposition. Among the rea- difficult for the board to be more active spectrum that included alumni, faculty, ency, along with other burdens, prevents sons given were the possibility that the than it is now. finally, he said the board board members, and parents, the New the president from becoming a true mem• two presidents would compete for resour- would seek to find presidential candidates York Chapter of the Alumni Association her of either campus community, making ces before t~e board, the possibility that . who would largely agree. Should they fremet last month at the Princeton Club fora it imposible for him to adequately disthey would press for differing policies in quently disagree, he said the board would seminar on governance led by David charge his polity responsibilities to oversuch areas as admission and financial aid, take steps to improve the situation. Dobreer, '44, Alumni Association presi- see and coordinate the various aspects of Towards the end of the seminar, alumni and the possibility that a president at dent and member of the Governance Task. the college's operations. FOR EXAMPLE, he said it is imposSanta Fe would prefer to secure his own tended to focus on the danger of taking Force, and President Delattre. domain to such a degree that. eventually . this step over faculty objections. John The reading was comprised of materials sible to attend many faculty and Instructhe two campuses woud become two sep- Van Doren, '47, an alumni representative presented at the Board of Visitors and tion Committee meetings. Similarly, the on the board, thought the board had an arate colleges. Governors January meeting as well as president cannot know personally many James frame, board vice-chairman, obligation to delay relevant Polity amendearlier reports and memoranda bearing of the persons he. must recommend to the said he believed these concerns to be ments until it had persuaded the faculty. on the question of whether each campus board for faculty appointment or tenure. In addition, President Delattre noted that · unfounded. Nevertheless, several alumni Other alumni, however, thought the should have its own president. persisted in querying Mr. Robson and board had a right to act unless the faculty Dr. Dobreer opened the seminar by many opportunities to be more closely President Delattre on the possible admin- persuaded· it otherwise. Allan Hoffman, asking how a change to two presidents involved with regional friends and beneistrative confusion arising from having to '49, another alumni representative on the might affect the program. After a brief factors of the college were missed by a throw all top-level disagreements to the board, reported that various board and discussion on whether the program should single president. John Robson, board chairman, sugbe ..preserved" or ..developed," alumni board, its committees, and especially its faculty committees had been discussing chairman. Mr. Delattre was asked if it the proposal since 1968. turned to the two college deans and four gested that fears of disunity are exagwould not be preferable to have the presiDiscussion, begun at dinner at the other tutors present, to ask about their gerated. He said the board would condent reside on one campus and the pro- Princeton Club, became more formal durmisgivings. The conclusion was that, under tinue to ensure that financial policies pervost on the other. ing the seminar and spilled over aftercurrent instructional arrangements, a mitting student transfers between camHE REPLIED that something like it wards into a cocktail party sponsored by change would have no direct bearing on puses are continued. In addition, the Joint had been tried, unsuccessfully, and said it the chapter. Although there had been no the program. Rather, they expressed the. Instruction Committee would continue to was necessary that someone with full final resolution, all agreed that it had been fear of a majority of faculty members of ensure that the program would not beauthority be present in continuous resi- useful to have such broad participation in the dis unifying effects of the plan. ·· come wildly diverg~nt on either' campus. President Delattre was' asked td;furi'AJ.: . Nancy B\.K:henader,,a Santa f'e, tutor, at dence at each~ camp~s or else' excessive a discu.ssion of so important a, matter. by BETSY BLUME •so, �Page 10 On gh st and by ROBERT L. GOLDBERG, '50 You can go home again. On Sunday, this past June 10, I arrived in Annapolis for a week of seminars and preceptoriais. l had not thought much about the impend. ing experience before my arrival except that l was in need of intellectual enrichment, and thdirst alumni week ever held · on the Annapolis campus seemed a perfect opportunity for me. I checked into my room in Chase-Stone and completed all of those routines one doe·s when checking in to a conference center. Safely ensconced, l went for a leisurely walk on campus. And suddenly they began to appear. The ghosts, I mean. Some of these ghosts had faces and some. of them only voices, wisps of conversations. They accompanied me wherever l walked on c_ampus. They were ghosts of another time ~ my remembrances of things past. They were nice ghosts, but they filled me with sadness. Now I was walking to the basement of McDowell, where the old coffee shop used to be. My tutors and my friends argued on after seminar. l heard the clattering of coffee cups and I saw Leroy laughing and carrying on bantering conversatipns with his favorites. .I wandered into the old bookstore adjoining the coffee shop and saw the usual shelves of tempting but forbidden morsels. When could I ever read them? I climbed the stairs of McDowell Hall watching my younger self running ahead of me to ring the bell for the next class. And I sat in one of the seminar rooms alone and felt empty and strange and out of place. I DO NOT think I have ever had an experience quite like this before. So joyous and so sad; so bitter-sweet. The perplexing thing was why after so many years away - nine times more than those spent on campus -why should those four brief years mean so much to me? In May of last year I was 60, and my St. John's experience began in 1946. Less than 7 percent of my life was spent in Annapolis, and yet in my life there has been no sustained. experience to match those four years for .intensity and vividness. I was back on campus, not for the first time but the first time in a long time. This time it was much different. l knew I would be there for a brief concentrated period emons· was not a living part of me. I did not belong on this campus, and yet I did. My impulse was to flee, to break away from the place which even today means so much to me; which I had loved so much and which had frustrated me so much. I knew I had changed, and hence St.John's could not be the same place. l who had known every limb on the Liberty Tree during those four years saw that nature had mortally wounded her. What god had dared defy a natural law? I found myself resentful of every change. Chase-Stone had been turned around. Campbell Hall? Where did it come from? Why was it needed? The Health Center and administration building! Interlopers into my old world. The college switchboard. - what was wrong with the rear of the first floor of McDowell? These small changes were as upsetting as those ghosts of years gone by. I found myself resentful even of the globe lights which illuminated the path down the front campus. THOSE VOICES of my longtime forgotten friends and the smells of the campus in the Spring, and the way it used to be, all came back to me. Even now I can feel them as l write about my week at St. John's. Walking into town provided no relief from my somber mood. Annapolis, too, was the same, sort of. Yes, it was small still and "charming" still and, yes, the Hammond-Harwood House stood there still in all of its grandeur. But Carvel Hall, what had they done with it? Paca House, indeed! A preserved landmark, not a living bustling, noisy, splendid hotel. And what had happened to Read's? The place l could always "Run Right To?" And, heavens, they had closed the movie theaters! What could they have been thinking about? Didn't they know that the Capitol Robert L. Goldberg is director of Theater (is that the right name?) presentlibrary services at William Paterson ing the best cowboy movies this side of the College in New Jersey. After leaving Hudson was the place for renewal on a St. John's, he received a master's in Saturday afternoon? Scott, himself, so history at Georgetown University some claimed, had gained his most peneand a doctorate in library service at trating insights there. Rutgers University. He has taught It was Sunday and the town was buzzjunior high school, served as managing and the bars were open and filled with ing ~ditor of a publishing company, - people. In my time on a Sunday most as vice-president of a consulting everything was dosed; a walk to town was firm, as dean of administration at a a rather uninteresting interlude between college, and as faculty member at chapters. Rutgers. He joined William PatAnd where were my tut.ors? Where had terson College in 1975. they gone? Their place was here, just as and that for that short hour or two on they had been .. I saw them all as they had Sunday I was alone; I saw no other person been and felt the loss. on camJ'us. What happened I think was And suddenly it all washed away. The that I became suddenly conscious of lived ghosts went their ways, and I saw the life never to be relived and opportunities campus and Annapolis through today's missed: unlived life never to be known. eyes and the present and the past left off My mortality confronted me. This warring. I was free to enjoy the existential place was somehow a part of me, and yet it exp~rience. And that experience was be- About Goldberg APRIL 1985 THE REPORTER J ing there in seminar again. Reading and discussing books has not been a forgotten activity since l 950. But it is different at St. John's. All of us who came together for the first Annapolis Alumni seminar despite our diverse backgrounds, ages, graduation times (I in the late 40's, others in the mid-50's, some in the 70's and still others in the early 80's) all of us knew the same rules. We talked with one another, not at one another, invariably with good humor and often in hardnosed exchanges. Usually we argued on point and built upon comments made by others. All of us from the youngest to the oldest still seemed to be residing in that state between ignorance and knowlege, the resting place of the daemons. We knew and we did not know. Plato's Symposium rs;:inforced that experience for me. In that dialogue Socrates recalls a conversation with his teacher, Diotima. She asks him whether he believes that anything not beautiful is necessarily ugly. Yes, he says, and she asks if he also believes that anything that is not wisdom is ignorance? Don't you know, she asks, that there is a middle ground, a halfway mark between wisdom and ignorance? Right opinion, true convictions can only stand in for understanding buthe who has right opinion is truly ignorant. One does not love wisdom if he is wise. He only loves those things which he does not possess. And so the conversations· that week went the way they always have gone: earnest people living in that middle ground between wisdom and ignorance, trying through dialectic to reach the truth. And that's why I found it so gratifying to talk with St. Johnnies again about the Symposium for I am destined forever to remain in love with what is good and will always desire to possess the good. And though I can never possess it, the quest brings me closer. In this middle ground I am like a curve approaching but never reaching the axis. And on my asymptotic curve 1 reach out to touch the axis but never succeed. There is a joy in trying to reach that goal. The St. John's week reminds me again of the need to focus on "the getting there" rather than on "the arrival". For one may never "arrive", and if all of his efforts are directed toward that arrival, he may never fully appreciate the smell of the flowers and flight of the birds along the way. My stretching to touch the axis keeps me in good company for I can claim kinship with the daemons who are destined to love the beautiful, the wise, the good. Names sought for memorial The Alumni Association plans to update the memorial on the front cam- pus which lists alumni who perished in World War I. To be added are names of those men and women who died while serving in the armed forces or were missing in action and presumed dead during World War H (1939-1945), the Korean War (195Q-53), and the Vietnamese War. James W. Conrad, '49, Henry M. Robert IH, '41, and Bernard F. Gessner, '27, are working on the project. The association asks that names be sent to Elii.abeth Blume, director of alumni activities, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md. 21401. Business is close to top (Continued from P. I) Business and management occupations claim 13. 5 per cent, up sharply from sixth place in l 978 but occupying the same, second place position it did in the 1981 survey. Law rated third, as it did in 1981, with the survey revealing I 0. 2 per cent in that profession, as compared with ·13 per cent in 1981 and 12 per cent in 1978. Altogether 1, 716, or 37 per cent, of the 4,500 alumni participated in the survey. Other most favored fields in order of preference: The arts, 8. 5 per cent; computer science, 6.4 per cent; medicine and allied health fields, 6.4 per cent; science, 4.2 per cent; writing, 3 per cent; theology and religion, 2.9 per cent; banking and finance, 2.9 per cent, and engineering, 2. 9 per cent. Polity changes await board (Continued from P. l) ily,•• Mr. Delattre told dinner guests in the private dining room. In reassuring alumni that two presidents would not result in a separation of the campuses into two colleges, he said the unity of the college lies within its program and within the exchange and transfer of facuJty and students. ..NO ONE WOULD be willingto relinquish that," he declared ...No president at risk to his head would be indifferent to that. It would be educationally, tradition: ally, and politically destructive." He cited fears that the board would become engaged in inappropriate or dangerous action and predicted that, in actual fact, two presidents, supported by the faculty and professional staffs, would be going to the board less frequently than is now done. ' Mr. Delattre pointed out that, as president, he sometimes seeks the counsel pf individual board members because of their experience and expertise but that the board clearly does not expect or attempt· to be the administration of the college. He said he thought two presidents would enjoy the same sort of instructive working relationship with the board and its members. Helping weld the two campuses together, Mr. Delattre continued, are such committees as the Joint Instruction Committee and the Faculty Salary Committee. He has recommended that faculty representatives to the board attend meetings on the other campus and that each associate spend at least a week a year on the opposite campus. "It would be a fairly substantial line in the budget," he said, "but we would be foolish not to do it." In discussing the increased financial· stability of Santa Fe, Mr. Delattre pointed out that the endowment there had climbed from $1.8-million in 1980to $7.5million today. During that period, the Annapolis endowment, has gone from $10 to $14-million. "Each campus has reached a position of strength," he said. "Each campus should have a president to take advantage of opportunities before it and to see that the responsibilities of the president within the college are fulfilled. It is no longr wise to deprive a campus of what only a president in residence can give." �I I I I I THE REPORTER -· IL 1985 . . . (Continued ·fr~m P. 2) · ·To The Editor: ad hominem invective. Neverthele~s, since . Benedict is teaching tenth gl".ade · ·editorial assistant; _ . Unless. I miss some large, latent ambi- t.he matter here goes beyond the niceties of biology and computer science at St. , Michael Kes~lerwill enroll in Columbia guity, the·acerbicl.etter to the Editor con- "t.olerance," l~t me make one or two things· ·Mary's High School~ Enis Bowe~mhs University's masters of business admi'nis-· ceming .the reported reaction to Mr. lF. mo.re along these lines. perfectly clear. teaching children with learning disabili'- .tr~tion program in the faU;.Annastasia K. Stone.'s. le<;ture hails, from Mr. George · . . lrecoil at some of Mr. Stone's Platonic · ties at the Ratner Montessori School in · Kesar is a counselor-teach~r at the Sonia. Cleveland·; Steven Brower is on a ·Shankman Orthogenic School of the Uni- . Schioss,.GI '73, of Princeton, N.J., a new opinions and a(his professed atheism. ·1 . era. of diatribe at St. John's. . trust, h~wever, that the warm reception . kibbutz in Israel and planning to study versity of Chicago and taking work in the Mr. Schloss may be among the first to accorded him l:Jy the St. John's Commun- . · Hebrew; David Bucknell is a reacher and· university's Educational Psychology De. cast large s.tones ·so uncharitably at. a ity reflected some confidence in its ability adviser in curriculum development at the partment; Montessori Middle School in Cleveland; · Susan Lor.dis a computer programmer . speaker, but his fear that other members· to. heaf heresy from a human (not god-. of our community did not dissent from the lik.e} hero of public affairs who has a viva., Dana Uarby is aneditori~l assistant for with -the. Social Security Headquarters in· speaker:'s: views should be allayed. It was cious and particular lovy of learning,.· Georgetown University. Hospital's medi- · Bal~imo.re~ Pedro Martinez.:Fraga entered cal ·journal, Contemporary Obstetrics; Columbia University's Law School in the , niy own stro.ng dissent frnm those views without subverting its c::iwn passi,on for which assisted in bringing I.F. Stone to honest inquiry. Leslie Ann Desimone is taking graduate ·. fall of 1985; John McShanea1so began his the college.. · Mr. Stone has, moreover, battled for work in. geology at ·Boston University; law studies last fall, at Harvard Univer.Rude name-calling, however .augustly democracy a:nd freedom (as he~ being .Mimi DesJardins is doing paralegal work sity; Nancy. Mease is employed by Sa loinspired, is seldom helpful to dispassion- unabJe perfectly to recol.lect the Truth in Santa Fe; is employ- men Brothers Inv:estlJlents in New York; ed as editor of Commerce House· . Alexandra E. Mullen is doing work in . ate inquiry. In mitigation.of Mr. Schloss' about these ideas, sees them), using words manner, it could be said that l.F. Stone . and reason, characteristic of the man, as . . in Ediso·n, N.J.; English. and comparative literature at might noi · to the Thersitean epithet, his weapons (Cf. Aristode.'s Rhetoric, I, in France, plans to study Columbia University; Thomas Nieder... provided at it reflected an apprecia- i: 12-14). His purposes are frankly politithis mier is . a' teacher of learniniz disabled tion of the events of 1776, a Tocquevilljan cal. He may be wrong-headed abcmt some Elliru!st1mi is a programmer adults. at the understanding of human beings on this very important matters; but he is lovable, .._............"Corporation in Alex- . ;... D ,.,.,.1.r.,;n.. i,nto the messages of · admirable, and right in some others. , . another .alumnus in Address. Lacking Mr.· Schloss' certainties,. I can the Clevelandfew mortals for whom more can be claimed after a long life of thought and labors. He is, of cou,rse, no Cicero. am no radical. Mr. Schloss is not tern.,. perate, or wrong and gentleman or no. Gqd sity's Sheonard. '61 sophy counselor and Chicago's Sonia School; Merle critical inquiry ..To that end, persons ·with To the.Editor: I k~ow that I was not alone in finding views different from our own should be ranean; Harold H11id1n George Schloss's letter concerning I.F. welcomed, 'and especially those, hke Mr. engaged in study with the· University more stock broke.rage Stone's lecture at the coll.ege, printed in Stone, willing and able. to express· their ~hica20 ~ommittee on Social Thought; James is serving as box office the last issue of the Reporter, to be unforopinions with energy, wit and intelligence. is a technician at Duke . manager for National Air and Space givably rude. l am embarrased that it Mr. Schloss is surprised thatMr. Stone Museum at the Smithsonian; Leslie Jump University's Medical Center and will beshould have been printed in this pub)ica-:(whom Schloss numbers among the 'T.heris a pre-law advisor at the University of gin her medical studies in the fall; tion, which may give the impression that sites brigade") was generously received at Maryland, Baltimore Campus, where she · Wilson is attending Tulane University message has been approved by the co)St.·John's. Would Schloss have preferred also is doing graduate work in political" Law School, and Frederick Banks Wynn, Schloss 's letter· is not only offensive that. Stone have been beaten' with a stick is employ- Jr., is in the Army's Officers' Candidate · science; Ann Marie towards someone who, after all, was the for uttering heresies against Platonic ed by the ~ederal Judicial as an SchooL guest of the college, but also appears to. dogma? Schloss's.letter makes no attempt betray a misunderstanding of what the to address Mr. Stone's views of Plato and college is about. · · Socrates and contains about as little rea.:., Mr. Schloss seems to think that Mr. soned discourse as Odysseus· used on Stone's opinions concerning Plato and Thersites. It simpty unleashes a blast of, The Student Committee on Instruction gees from Poland, spoke on "Internal Socrat~s should be unwelcome at St. tasteless a:d hominem invective. Such writthis year will leave the college two innova- : Emigration: The Symbolism of Polish John's. Why? St. John's teaches no ..or.: . ing, and not the college's reception of Mr. tive programs. Poetry." A musicial), Peter Breslin, Beththodox line,. on Platonic philosophy~ critStone, does disservice to what Schloss One is a series of "guerilla seminars" . lehem, Pa., senior, selected the music of (they sneak up on you, according to Anne Cecil Taylor to discuss. Brooke Zykan, · icism of Socrates should not be counted as · terms .. St. John's image of its own inblasphemy. To the contrary, the college tegrity." . McCoy, Pittsburgh, Pa., senior), and the Lancaster, Pa., senior, spoke on "Censors should tolerate all opinions (of Socrates Yours very truly, other is a series of widely ranging Tuesday in the Classroom," and Joe Houseal, St. and of any other subject), and teach stuGrant Franks, '77 evening lectures by students. · Joseph, Mich., senior,. on "Ballet and dents to accept. those that be_st withstand The seminars have dealt with such readBooks: Dance as a Temporal· Art." ings as Plato's Ion, the Communist ManiTalks in the Great Hall have drawn . festo, Alice-in- Wonderland, Solzhenitaudiences of 40 to persons. . zyn 's Harvard commencement address, "Students have enjoyed them very much," arid see the development of" its own Dear Johnnies, "The World Split Apart," and an essay by . Miss McCoy said: "i\·e gotten notl)ing tongue. Not today or next year, but over· we are all now satisfied with the the modem French philqsopher Michel but good comments." new verse.t.o the old tune. h's true l revthe next 500 or 5;000. It will bejdiomatic Foucault, "What is an Authorr' The SCI. hopes they will continue next. ersed or altered the syntactical idiom in. and removed from . the ·other mother year. Those for the remainder of the year will · tongues. We will then have our own ~rue constructing the original. Yet mark: The include Aristop~anes The Frogs, April 7; language, and not merely an accent:· Our sense came t~rough; you knew what was My Dirmerwith Andrew, April 21; Plato's meant. It was not sense that was objeclanguage Jacks. a non-gender, singuJar Seventh Letter, April 30; Sappho's poems, tionable or vague, rather the play with personal pronoun. Must it always? Mine May 5, and Tao te Ching. by Lao Tzu, Faculty members Gisela and . Laurence grammar. "How can that be done? lt is not was an effort to provide one, or rather, the May 2L · Berns will teach classes July 21-27 at the use of the form commonly taken by the Among the student speakers for the Clea.ring, the Ellison Bay, Wis.~ adult. correct." No, but look how far the ..error" Tuesday series. have been Cbuk Besher~ school which offers classes in a rural set- . slipped unnoticed, and we are educated . citizens. of.our country wh.en they wish to have.one. Poetry allows lapses, .and sense menand women. Amongthestieetpeople San\ Francisco junior, a Japanese citizen. ·ting of log and stone buildings overloo-kis .paramount. That version which l sub.:. it. made perfect sense and no correction. and the son of Russian parents, who· ing Green Bay. Our. language changes, and the change mitted preserved the sense and intent of learned to .speak English in, his teens in Mrs. Berns will teach a class in Schilslips upon us unawares. · the assignment, within the language;of our . . preparation for a move to· America in · · ler's Don Carlos, which the German poet day, .our American· vernacular. So goes Which brings me to my point. America, 1976. Hediscussedhisexperiencegrowing .. wrote between the.American and Fren~h my apology. I remain· in growing and searching for her own up in different cultures. · Revolutions, and, Mr. Be ms a class on vision, her self-created· place in humaniSincere~y yours, Aleksandra Wolska, Glen Burnie soph..Abraham Lincoln and. the Spirit. of Stephen R. DeLuca, '72 ty's evolution, will cast her moorings a: bit omore, whose family were political. refu-. American P<?litics,." , · Studen · mo to · tongue �-THE REPORTER en en CD .... :2 Mr. John A. Mellin 142 Sherwood Forest Annapolis, MD 21405 (/) O> c (\) . 0 ='"CJ .s·.;::;82 (1j u Ci) - _(J) ~o: c ~(jj (.)-§ .<:Q 0 0..'1" i)=Q--o~~ :=i:J~C~ 0.. CL UJ <( C\J The Santa Fe campus is preparing to have its first summer homecoming. A change from the customary fall event, it will be held July 19-21 at a time when both the Board of Visitors and Governors and the Alumni Association Board also will be holding summer meetings in Santa Fe. Betsy director of alumni activities on the eastern campus, who has been organizing the event, said the summer timing is an experiment, an effort to take advantage of summer vacation plans of alumni. If attendance proves excessively small, she said other plans will be made for furture homecomings. Scheduled for Friday, July 19, is a lecture, "Brains," by Dean Robert Neidorf at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall. It will be preceded by a barbeque buffet at 5:30 p.m. and after the question period, will be followed by a party in the coffee shop. Registration will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday and from 9 to 12 noon Saturday in the lobby of the Peterson Student Center. Saturday morning will be left open for visits to museums, shops, galleries, and restaurants. Following luncheon at 12 noon, there will be a seminar at 2 p.m .based upon William James' Variety of Religious Experience. Parts to be read will include his "Conclusions" - Lecture 20 - and •'Postscripts." Wiqe and aperitifs will follow on the Greer Garson patio for alumni, faculty, and members of the Board of Visitors and Governors, with the homecoming dinner at 7:30 p.m. in the Junior Common Room. Featuring Mexican specialties, it will have David Dobreer, '44, Alumni Association president, as master of ceremonies and Sarha Fe tutor Thomas Simpson, '50, as speaker. A waltz and swing party will follow at 9:30 p.m. Activities will conclude with the Presi-· dent's Champagne Brunch at l l a.m. at the Presidentis Home. (Continu'ed from P. l) which O'Toole is cast as· a Dr. Harry of a new method effectively used to save Wolper, a Nobel laureate scientist atthe life of comatose patients, including tempting to clone his long deceased first Red Sox player Tony Conigliaro, who had been in a coma two months. Although wife, Lucy, in a laboratory tube in his backyard yvhile Mariel Hemingway pi,ays it may strike some film goers as medical the 19-year-old nymphomaniac who- falls fantasy, Mr. Leven says, astounding as it in love with him. is, it is a clinically sound form of treatBeautifully photographed in Califorment. nia, it's also about the creation of life, Originally, the movie was to be proabout man playing God, with O'Toole irkduced by Lorimar, ·but after two disasing his more conventional colleagues by trous films, that company decided to cease df"n=.nAi'lg to know about '"the big piemaking feature films. Mr. Leven and Mr. one scene, charmingly aloft a Friedman had begun early talks on Satan is close to heaven as he can man- when Mr. Passer asked to see Creator, [)Ok: talks about God with his liked it, and since the script was fully finaduate student, Boris, wonderished, said, in effect, why not go with this ed Vincent one. OT - just a The actual making of Creator took a he big picture - but there, sizeable period of time in which Mr. and while this movie is first of all one of Leven was spending a week a month away entertainment and secondly one of ideas, from his family in Los Angeles and at one Mr. Leven hopes it will be some of the . point rented a house in Bel Air and moved ideas that will be rather than ' there. ' was up at 5:30 technical aspects of film durthe urnua"", at 6, and the discussion that which Doskow will be could run to 14. After work was d~ne at 7 lead the discussion, in which Mr. hopes some of the, nrinrin::i the "dailies" were scheduled - what to be called "rushes" - the last bit of nected with the available, and then dinner at 8 have back2rounds in the i.;1a:s:s1l::s. Mr. Passer to plan the next who grew up in that busines~could be 1auiJ;:,ua.):'.1;:. and has read in and German, Dante in Italian. Mr. Leven describes O'Toole as "extremely well read." Mr. Leven sees Creator as the first of trilogy based upon God, the Devil, ·and Christ. The second will be a film based upon evil psychotherapy for which he completed the first draft of the screen play in 1982. It is based upon his second novel, Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J. S. P. S., published in 1982. Should a film version be made of his next Sugarmans God, he would like to direct it. THREE YEARS AGO Mr. Leven, who his career as a clinical psychologist, took six months off to work on his first movie. He has been at Yale University as a fellow and researcher of child behavior and brain chemistry. Mr. Leven knows he wants to go back some day. but before he does, he wants to complete a Broadway musical, Lorentz, based upon four musicians who gather to play their last string quartet and who turn out to be well known figures in hsit(Hy. He also hopes to direct a youth oriented film on contemporary youth. The film has been changed somewhat from the book. In the book, Boris and Harry exist in imaginary worlds, outside one another. There is the question flf whether Boris is writing Harry or Harry, Boris. In the movie, they exist in the same Newer faculty members on the Annapoworld; Harry is the mentor, and Boris is lis campus are scheduled to take part in a his young, worshiping graduate assistant. faculty development program that gets ln the book, Barbara Spencer, Boris' underway next fall. young love, dies. In the film she lives, a Dean George Doskow said the Benefisurvival some critics have questioned. But cial Hodson Endowment for Teaching Mr. Leven said she does this as the result Excellence fund, which will generate $21,500 during the 1985-86 academic year, will permit about three junior faculty members to take released time and audit mathematics and laboratory classes Annapolis tutor Nicholas Maistrellis as well as attend a faculty study group on will give a lecture and lead a discussion of Newton led by tutor Curtis Wilson. · Descartes' Discourse on Method at 2 p.m. In addition, college funds will make it Sunday, April 14, for the Southern Calipossible for another three or four tufors, fornia Chapter. Members will meet at the not necessarily at a junior teaching level, home of Dr. David Dobreer, 1924 Westto muticioate in the studv group. mont Drive, Alhambra. APRIL 1985 St. John's will publish a comprehensive biographical reference volume for alumni with distribution scheduled for next January, Betsy Blume, director of alumni activities, has announced. The directory, the first since l 98 L will include the name, occupation, and home address, and business and home telephone numbers of alumni of both the eastern and western campuses. In preparation for it, a questionnaire in and returned to the puommer "It is extremely important m order to make the directory as complete as possible for all former students to complete return these forms as soon as they receive them," Mrs. Blume said. "We would much appreciate the cooperation of alumni in this project." The directory will include a geographic index. lt is being funded jointly by the college and Alumni Association and is being prepared by Carleton Graphics, PO Box 4427, South Bend, Ind. � 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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Issue 3 id ard • 1 . tes ' vzsz William W. whose presence, as one tutor obseved, has naa so much to do with the soul of the college, died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack in the early morning of January 6. He would have been 41 on February 13. A tutor for 15 years, he was eulogized during a memorial service by his associates for his passion for learning and teaching, for his concern for the wisdom of the heart, for his insights into the St. John's books, and for the care he gave students. One of St. John's most greatly loved tutors, he was buried on a bright January day in St. Anne's Cemetery, a few feet from the grave of the late dean and tutor Jacob Klein. Streams of faculty and stuReaders who have received letters from Mr. O'Grady consider suitable for a possible memorial collection are to send to Joe Sachs at the ... vmn;:1;:;•c. of a bucket that tells these illF11iil"lll'C:: absolute space are, from left, ......,.u..., .. l-IAim2ru·' and Michael Smith. l'\IAl'lltnS ~,l'\ft"IO.C.fli'ti ...Hf'll dents, shocked by his death that occured the day after college reopened, moved silently from St. Anne's Church, where the funeral service was held, to the brief graveside rites. Later that day there was a memorial service in the Key Auditorium. . The mourners included his wife of less than a year, the former Josephine Goodwin, '84; his brother, Terrence O'Grady, of Green Bay, Wisc., and among his many friends, his close friend and fellow tutor, Joe Sachs. Among the pallbearers were tutors Nicholas Maistrellis and Howard Zeiderman, who had helped plan his wed(See O'Grady's P. 3) The Board 'of Visitors and Governors 1s March 9 as the time for a · meeting to decide which of five .. .,, ... .,,.,,.,will be selected as of its "''"'<!"'~"'"and Santa Fe camnuses. candidates are known on a weekly basis to the community as they visit both campuses, the board's Search Committee decided not to make a preliminary general release of names on its long awaited "short list." James H. Frame, A '50, of New York City, Search Committee chairman; said the Search Committee and board's Executive Committee decided to take the precaution in order to protect the privacy of the four men and one woman on the list, all of whom are employed. "Our extremely tight security was the unanimous decision to proceed this way," he told a full board meeting at its January 18 session in Santa Fe. It was reached the day before at a joint evening meeting of the two committees. Two-day campus visits began January 20 and will continue until February 28. Each candidate, with or without a spouse, as he or she chooses, is to visit both campuses where the nominee will meet with the and students. After their impressions are gathered the Search Committee will meet March 3 in Chicago to decide upon its final recommendations. At the March 9 board meeting in Dallas, which will precede its regular April meeting, it will put forward a nominee for each campus, which the full board may either vote up or down. No procedures have been worked out should one or both candidates be unacceptable. But Mr. Frame suggested the board is not expected to be faced with that problem. "We all feel any two of the five finalists (See Search Draws P. 4) Achievements hailed t St. John's science program remains a remarkable achievement, well beyond that other liberal arts colleges require, accordto Dean George Doskow, but the colis not leaving it at that. strengths and weaknesses of what he described as "the most oroblematic part" of the St. John's curricMr. Doskow said that while the laboratories are better in most ways than they were several years ago, there still remains more to be done. President Edwin J. Delattre has asked that before the end of the year the dean present him with a set of recommendations so that the college m<.:1.y allocate (See Lab on P. 6) s Something rather surprising happens to St. John's College students who go on to graduate work. Almost as many of them get doctorates in the sciences as in the humanities: 4.4 per cent as against 4. 9 per cent, according to a study conducted by the Great Lakes Colleges Association for the 30-year period between 1951 and 1980. The sizeable proportion in the humanities is expected. For St. John's, the figure for science is stunning, especially in this highly technological age which customarily demands an undergraduate concentration in a specialized area. Altogether IO. 9 cent of the alumni Science D. P. 7) 1 In the view of Annapolis tutor Leo Raditsa,' the importance of the accomplishments of Edwin J. Delattre's six-year presidency will show its significance during the next ten years. In the opinion of John E. Robson, of Chicago, former chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, his presidency has represented a period of "significant positive change and progress for the college." On June 30 Ed Delattre leaves the presidency he has divided between the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses, clearing the way. for two new presidents. Mr. Robson believes that in addition to 1 putting the Santa Fe campus on solid . financial footing, generally augmenting the college endowments, and workiug for the adoption of the two-president system, Mr. Delattre's tenure has been a time of major improvements in a number of areas. Among them he lists alumni relations, admissions, faculty development, student financial assistance programs, financial systems, career counselling, and interaction among the board and the teaching faculty on the academic program. "My experience is that significant insti- Robson lauds P. 8) �THE 2 1943 Martin Andrews is president of Long Island Studios, USA, that represents a merger of his company with that of an associate 's and becomes the largest producer and distributor of films about Long Island. Their offerings include films that have won two Academy Award nominations, three prizes for the Best American Travel Film of the Year, and a Grand Award for the Best Industrial Film of the Year. Long Island Studios is located in North Babylon, N.Y. Martin and his wife Jean spend every weekend at their shoreside place in Southold, "a marvelous hideaway amidst a splendid setting as we both love beaches and water-watching. A Greek community has appeared some miles to the east of us, and we think that Long Island Sound reminds them of the Aegean." 1948 Cave has left his position as managing editor of Time magazine to become corporate editor of Time, Inc., its secondhighest editorial post, a move seen as putting him first in line for editor-in-chief of all Time, Inc., magazines. Henry A. Grunwald, who now holds that title, retires two years hence. "But Time, Inc., frequently moves top executives around lo give them experience in various roles, and it isn't assumed that Mr. Cave eventually will be named to the top post," The Wall Street Journal wrote in considering possibilities. "A Time spokesman said it is 'way too early' to speculate who will get Mr. Grunwald's job, though he acknowledges 'of course ( Messers Cave and Jason Mc Manus, Time's new managing editor) are among the candidates." 1950 .Jack Ladd Carr,'50. has been promoted to the position of assistant director of the Division of Cultural Affairs in Mary. land's Department of Economic and Community Development. Formerly the department's cultural administrator, Jack will bring increased resources to the continuing oversight of the administrative affairs for the Maryland State Arts CounCil, Historic St. Mary's City, Commission on Afro-American History and Culture, the Commission on Indian Affairs, and the Maryland Ethnic Heritage Commission. 1961 Harrison Sheppard, A, has just joined the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Suicide Prevention Center. In past years, he has been a volunteer counselor on the center's emergency telephone and has now moved into a trusteeship. ,- 1968 Linda Sampey, A, has been promoted to senior systems engineer, GTE Data Sewices, Inc., St. Petersburg, Fla. Linda has been with GTEDS since 1980 ...In her new position, she will provide the expertise in the continuing development and imRebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence · ·Berns, Betsy Blume, Jon Lenkowski, ,Howard Zeiderman, Eliott Zuckerman, advisory board. , The Reporter is published by the ·Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD. 21404. Edwin J. Delettre, president. "Published five times a year, In February, April, June, September and November. Second-class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS 018-750 plementation of the Executive Work Station utilizing technology to incorporate the graphics, and end-user activities," an announcement from GTE Data Services states. 1970 Edward M. Maderowski, A, is serving as chairman of the Instruction Committee of the Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Board of Education in Washington. 1972 The University Press of America has published a book by Theodore A. Young, SFGI'72 entitled Completing Berkeley's Project: Classical vs. Modern Philosophy. The book discusses Berkeley's defense of the classical moral philosophy of virtue. Ted is a professor of philosophy at Grand Valley State College, Allendale, Mich. 1973 Donnel O'Flynn, A, was awarded a master of divinity degree from Virginia. Theological Seminary last summer. Following ordination as a deacon, he was appointed curate of Christ Episcopal Church, New Haven, Conn. His wife, Janet Christhilf O'Flynn, '74, A, wrote last fall that Donnel anticipated being ordained to the priesthood. Before moving to New Haven, Janet, an occupational therapist, worked with children with learning disabilities for Arlington (Va.) County schools. She is taking a year off to stay home with a new daughter, Kathleen Chase O'Flynn, born last July 13. The O'Flynns also have a three-yearold son. 1975 Brother Philip J. Valley OSB, SFGI '75, received his doctorate in English education and humanities last June from New York University. His dissertation title: "The Relationship Between Critical Flexibility and Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts." Brother Philip, who is headmaster of Woodside Priory School in Portola Valley, Calif., was previously associate professor of humanities and director of the Liberal Studies Program based upon great books at St. Anselm Colli:ge, Manchester, N.H. A recent article of his, "Phaedrus and the Essence of Love," appeared in the October. issue of Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal. It was based upon a preceptorial paper written at St. John's during the summer of 1975. 1977 Marlene Strong Franksis the co-author of a book, Gender Justice, newly published by the University of Chicago Press. Written with David L. Kirp and Mark G. Yudoff, the book argues that our government is setting gender policies through policies not ostensibly concerned with gender, from tax codes to health benefits. Marlene is a policy analyst completing her doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley. Russell Dahlburg, A, and his wife, Jill Potkalitsky Dahlburg, A, '78, are pursuin·g parallel careers in physics. Both received their Ph.D. degrees last May from the College of William and Mary, Williams burg, Va. Both are employed as research physicists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Laboratory for Computational Physics in Washington. "We'd enjoy hearing from any other St. John's grads who live in our area," Jill writes. Their address is 1202 S. Washington Street, #516, Alexandria, Va. 22314. 1978 Winfield A. lhlow, A, is in one of those (Continued on P. II) ~~ s Harrison Sheppard, A '61, has found a way of conveying beauty, order, and discipline iQtO the lives of eight students at the Delaney Street Foundation, a San Franciso rehabilitation program for exdrug addicts. He is teaching them Books I and U of Euclid's Elements. Students became so excited after completing Book l last semester that they are tackling Book H whiie a second-class In Book I is underway. Books were provided by John Van Doren, A '47, chairman of the Alumni Association's Continuing Liberal Education Committee, and by David Dobreer, A '42, association president, on behalf of the association itself. Northern California Alumni Chapter members not only passed a resolution commending Mr. Sheppard but offered their help. They gave the foundation's library an annotated set of the Elements as well as a copy of Tobias Danzig's book Number. Contributing to these gifts were Grant s Franks, Bob Davis, Aµgusta Goldstein, George Elias, Robert Di Silverio, and Santa Fe's admission~ dir,e-c;tor,_ lyliu;sha Drennon. ·The Delancy Street Foundation, which has had a remarkable success rak. w:as founded in 1971 by John Maher, an exconvict and former junkie. There is a colony in Espagnola, N.M., and facilities in New York and Los Angeles. A self-help program designed fofocrease self-respect and a sense of:tesponsibility~ it has a structured and disciplined approach: Residents must put in eight hours of work, attend classes and group meetings, and dress for -dinner. Some graduates remain as staff members, providing examples to newer residents. ..Teaching has been an avocation ot mine for 20 years," Mr. Sheppard said. "These experiences have provided many gratifying moments. None of them, however, has approached by any order of magnitude the satisfaction of working with Delancy Street students." Alumni Italy-bound May 31 During the 1986 Alumni Association Tour, Johnnies will tread ground familiar to them through their readings in the great books. A tour of Italy is scheduled for May 31-June 16. After an overnight fl.ight to Rome, the group will board a plane June l for Palermo, according to Carolyn BanksLeeuwenburgh, '55, tour coordinator. A five-day stay on the island of Sicily will include visits to ancient Doric temples and Greek theaters. Two nights will be spent in Syracuse, where Archimedes lived and Plato taught. While sightseeing in the Syracuse area, the tourists will visit the remains of Neapolis, the Roman amphitheater, and the cave called "Dionysius 's Ear." They will see the Fountain of Arethusa on Ortygia Island, celebrated in song by the poets Pindar and Virgil. The overnight trip to the mainland will be aboard a steamer from Palermo to Naples. For the next 10 days, the group will have an opportunity to viewsorne ofthe most tamous paintmgs, sculptures and buildings in the world. In ,fact, the itinerary reads like a "must see" list for Italy: Naples, ~Sorrento, Assisi, Florence; Venice, Siena, and, of course, Rome. Three days are scheduled.JorJhe "Eternal City," with guided tours of the, Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, the S,i~tine Chapel, and museums in Vatican: City. The trip will conclude at aJeisurely pace in the Italian Lake .District.,, .where. two nights will be spent in the fash.ionable resort of Stresa. The tour is subject to cancellation if insufficient interest is expressed' by· February 28. A brochure containing details and booking forms mav be obtained from Mrs. Leeuwen burgh, 294 Jefferson Road, Princeton, N .J. 08540. I I ; " ~ �Page 3 THE REPORTER November 1985 's deat (Continued from P. 1) ding reception last May 31. Dean George Doskow, who had co-led a freshman seminar with Bill O'Grady in 1970, spoke of his passion for learning and understanding. "To him, learning was notthe acquisition of knowledge but the expansion of a soul, and he worked tirelessly .to try to make it happen," he said. "He had endless time to spend with students, one on one, whether they were in his classes or not, and he would talk with them not only about their books and studies but about them. He cared about each and every student he knew, and he tried to gi:ve each student what that student needed. He really listened when others spoke. "I remember his being able to recount what some student had said in a seminar months before, so long before that I could scarcely remember what books we had been reading, and to recount it in almost the .exact words the student had used. Partly, of course, that was a function of his remarkable memory. "But it was even more a function of his caring, of his always trying to understand not only what was said, but, more importantly, what it meant to the person saying it, and his way of putting the various things a student had said over the course of time into a composite picture of that student. "And, unlike most of us, he did that over and over, year after year, sometimes to a state near exhaustion." Former Dean Curtis Wilson said that Mr. O'Grady's sense of the suffering of others was combined with a remarkable acuity of discernment and intellectual force. "The dominant quality was the concern with the wisdom of the heart, a wisdom that . he sought with moral intensity as much in everyday relations as in the study of Homer or Sophocles or Nietzsche .... His presence was inevitably a demand, a kindly but insistent demand, that the human heart be taken· into account." He, too, spoke ofthe time Mr. O'Grady gave to students. . "l remember how during his first and only sabbatical year he was to be seen, at the oddest hours, in the coffee shop, paired in earnest conversation with one senior after,another over senior essays." Former Dean Edward Sparrow - also spoke of Mr. O'Grady's awareness of the depth and meaning of the human heart, tutor Marilyn Higuera of his glimpses of the possibilities of the heart. In remarks reflecting student opinion, Sharon Garvey, a former tutor, quoted a student of Mr. O'Grady, Paula Rustan, · SF '83, reading an excerpt from her Mellon Foundation proposal: "I remember hearing this tutor speak for the very first time. I was standing with a group of sophomores like myself. After a few moments, I realized as I looked upon the faces of my classmates that we were all feeling the same thing; we were simply awestruck. "At first we believed it was what he said; every word seemed extraordinarily thoughtful, and his way of speaking was very beautiful. It wasn't until mul '.1 later that I came to understand the true ca l'Se of our astonishment that day. This tutor wa~ moved by the most beautiful and the most sad things, anci above all, he was willing to share· his deepest thoughts and feelings _SJ Mack heading ann fund s ·ncomparably be r' The following remarks were delivered by Joe Sachs, fellow tutor and dose friend of William W. O'Grady, Jr., on January 8 at a memorial service for Mr. O'Grady. I will never have a better friend, and the college will never have a better tutor. Everything important I know about bow to be a tutor I learned from Bill, and I think I am not alone. He knew, first of all, that the proper work of the human intellect is to affirm, and that of its otherwork of criticising, questioning, and negating is not'in the service of affirmation, it is a waste of time. He knew, too, that everything worth studying is bigger than we are, so that the life of every good student is an almost daily battle with discouragement. That was why he never made demands on students, or on anyone but himself. All he did was offer each of us all he had give, all the time. He knew everything there was to know about giving. No man ever accumulated fewer possessions in forty years. He just couldn't see the point in ha\.'.ing anything, except to give it away. He had a car for a little while when I first knew him, until he thought of someone he could give it to. And his was a marriage of true minds. Almost the first thing Joey did after· they were married was give away her car. She has a wisdom we older friends of Bill didn't have. She didn't try to change him by one iota. But he changed us. To name some obvious ways: when Bill came to the college we did not read the Brothers Karamazov or the Philoctetes. We read The Divine Comedy in three seminars, and the sophomores had five classes to try, or pretend, to prepare. The program is incomparably better because he was here and was such a fighter. I can tell you that he didn't like to fight. It cost him more misery to win a fight than to avoid it, but he couldn't help fighting when someone else had no other champion. He never compromised because he was never fighting for principles, just for people. Bill's first year in the college, the dean had the good sense to tell him that St_ John's wanted him to stay for the rest of his life, if he could find some livable way of being here. I think we all know he never did. There was not a day for him when St. John's was not an agony of too many needs to answer. But his eyes were open, and this agony was an inseparable part of his happiness. He was here a long time before he decided finally to commit his life to St. John's_ He saw that choice with complete clarity the day Mr. Klein was buried, in the spot where he too now lies. What was worthy of that good life was worthy also of Bill's. Bill loved Mr. Klein's insistence that Socrates meant just what he said in the Republic, that the love of wisdom and the love of learning are the same. There is truth. If we are learning, we are learning it, and that is our way of having it. Bill read the same books over and over and over, with an intensity that never lessened. Just a week ago he told me that he now had the Iliad pretty well by heart. The best books never fail us, no matter how often we fail them. The twenty-second psalm begins: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me." But it is followed by the twenty-third, ..The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." Bill knew that there was no way to the twenty-third except through the twenty-second. And he loved a little meditation of C.S. Lewis on the death of Charles Williams. Let me appropriate its last sentence. When the idea of Bill O'Grady and the idea of death had met, it was the idea of death that had to change. John Duncan Mack, '48, of Ringoes, N.J., is serving as chairman of the St. John's College Annual Fund, Charles E. Dunn, vice-president of college announcement, has announced. The 1985-86 campaign is conducted among.Board members, alumni, parerit~, to about these things with us. "Because of this, we thought him fearless. His trust in us made us love him, and we wanted more than anything else to match his gift of sincerity with a gift of our own. So we tried very hard to be like him. We, too, tried to speak from the heart. "We recognized his love for the books, and we, too, wanted to love the books. Attempts to pattern ourselves after this tutor led us to consider the books more carefully than ever before and likewise to give greater weight to our own infant feelings and thoughts. We tried to love him by loving the things he loved best; and, as it should be, we ended up loving those things, the books, in and for themselves." Tributes also were paid by Mr. Sachs, by Frank Durgin, Belmont, Mass., senior, and by tutor Michael Littleton. Another faculty member, Michael Oink, closed the service by reading an excerpt from a favorite book of Mr. O'Grady's, Diary of a Village Priest. GI tuition is going up Tuition for the Graduate Institute will be i~creased on both campuses to $600 a class or$ l ,800 for a full segment in 1986, a 19 per cent jump over present fees. Room, at $340, and board, at $400, will remain the same. The increase has been approved by the Board of Visitors and Governors in line with a policy to bring . the contribution rate toward tuition for St. John's undergraduate and graduate programs into confRffPi~~"';'i~q each other. In Santa Fe, a memorial service was held January 15 in which President Delattre read a resolution la.ter presented to the Board of Visitors and Governores. Speaking were tutors Phillip LeCuyer, Martin Cohen, Cary Stickney, Nancy Buchenauer, and Robert Bart. Two faculty members, Peter Pesic and Timothy Miller, played two preludes from Bach's "Orgelbuchlein." i.~ flJ JOHN DUNCAN MACK friends, foundations, corporations, and the college community. Mr Mack has been president of Carter Products Division of Carter-Wallace, Inc., since 1976. During the seventies he also served as senior vice-president for marketing for the Milton Bradley Company, as president for consumer products and vice-president for corporate marketing for Bowmar, Inc., and as president of Appliance Development Corporation, and group vicepresident of the Gillette Company. With a master's degree in business administration earned with distinction at Harvard in 1950, he served from l 958197 l with Clairol, Inc., beginning as advertising manager and concluding this association as executive vice-president. Earlier he had served from 1952-58 in a series of capacities with Proctor and Gamble Company. He began his career in 1950 as a salesman with the Welch Grape Juice Company. tite &Jao~ Writer questions 'head start' Editor: I am encouraged by your September '85 article on the new engineering exchange program: Every technical field would benefit from more broadly educated people. It seems a little odd that more St. John's students don't pursue science and engineering related studies, since, lawyers,' politicians,' and philosopher-kings' claims notwithstanding, our world's prime movers are scientists and engineers. I question however, the .. head start" which this exchange program purports to offer St. John's students who want to pursue engineering. I am presently working through four semester··long upper division courses in preparation for graduate study in c1v1I engineering at Berkeley. A master's degree takes one or two years, depending on which ,i.(li,ti¥1sl one .is after.. Thu~ •.. with modest fortifications in calculus, a few undergraduate courses in a specific engineering field, and a year or two of graduate study (which most certainly would be more edifying than two years of undergraduate engineering classes), a St. John's student could come away with a master's degree. -~ The prerequisites for graduate study in engineering will vary from field to field. In general. the requirements will depend on how much of the undergraduate course work is approximated by Sl. John's mathematics and lab tutorials and on how hungry a school is for graduate students in a given field. I'd be happy to share my research into the experience in "engineering after St. John's" with anyone who cares. Write me at 491 Staten Avenue #l l, Oakland, Calif. 94610. 1'1~.r~,M!~4l.sbrook, '83 �Y~no 4 Search draws 230 persons Key work s art next month The Annapolis campus will begin its sation can be lost in the Conversation long awaited improvements to the Key Room's dead spots. Auditorium and Conversation Room in As a result, the present sloping floor March. will be raised to the level of the lob by, and (Continued from P. l) With bids scheduled to be let this the ceiling will be lowered and made flat. would be very fine presidents," he assured month, the $300,000 renovation project The room's centerpiece will be a masthe heavily attended meeting. will represent the first phase of a compresive new oval table built in four segments All told, St. John's has received 230 hensive renovation of the Key-Mellon - two squares and two semi-circles application for the two presidencies, al- complex that ultimately will include a new part of which can be recombined, if that is wing and art gallery. most all of them. Mr. Frame said, of a desirable, for a smaller formation. As a serious nature. Primary emphasis in both the auditofull table, it will seat 25. Of these 40 - then 26 - were selected rium and Conversation Room will be Emphasizing what Mrs. Allanbrook for. careful review. ·After ..agonizingly" · upon improving acoustics and in converthopes will prove a more intimate and decidirig on those with whom -they would ing the somewhat harshly designed room warmer character of the room, seating win wantto meet •. the committee selected 13. be reduced from the present J60 seats to a At this point, Mr. Frame said, two nomifigure approaching 120 with standing Grant goes to Mellon nees, both St. John's alumni, decided to space for another 20to 30 persons around dfop out. leaving altogether 11 persons to the room's periphery. To make chairs as be_ invited for the two-hour interviews St. )ohn 's wil appl~ the $18,3~ 195 comfortable as possible, the present ones with the committee. it has received from Hie Beneficialwill be replaced by upholstered chairs. Conversations began in November and H odson Trust in December tp MelWith the exteption •of those. around the lon Hall. concluded January 4. AU were held .at the table, the chairs will have arms. Princeton Club in New York City. Of that sum,$ I 00,000wiU be used New heating, cooling, and electrical to set up a maintenance endowment The decision on the final five, none of systems wilJ be installed. whom are St. John's alumni, came Janfor the building. The remainder will Acoustics also will be improved in the be used for the second phase of the uary 5. Not all of them have designated auditorium. To replace the noisy heating remodeling of Mellon. the campus where they would like to serve and cooling systems, now hidden in the but would accept either campus. ceiling, new systems wiB be removed to Among the sources from which candiinto an inviting and pleasant place where the back stage and roof. dates' names came, Mr. Frame said, were voices pitched at ordinary levels can be A major improvement in the auditorthose in response to advertisements in The · ium will be the installation of a new hard heard. New York Times, The Chronicle of HigflPlans prepared by the Annapolis archiwall back of the stage and the replacement er Education, a letter sent to all alumni, tectural firm of Weller, Fishback and of the two curtains on the outer side of the n©minations from the board and alumni, Bohl cafl for the Conversation Room to stage also with haq:l walls to reflect sound and from files of the consulting firm of the be completely gutted and redesigned. · from the stage. A gypsum board ceiling committee's executive search firm, HeidWhile the room will be used for other will be added for the same purpose. rick & Struggles, Inc., of Chicago. purposes, Wendy Allanbrook, chairman In addition, a hanging shell that will Interviews centered on the broad quesof the Faculty Planning Committee, track across the stage will be built. Mr. tions posed in the advertisements: which has been advising on the renova-:Bohl said the shell will be adjusted to proThe candidates' understanding of libtion, said the committee decided early in vide for a variety of arrangements for eral arts as taught at St. John's, fund raisthe design stage to make changes that large and small musical performances. ing and administrative experience, collewould enhance the role for which the IN PLANNING for the auditorium, giality, and their views of the responsibilroo·m originally was intended: as the place Mr. Bohl consulted the theatrical firm of ities of the St. John's presidents in the for the question periods which follow the Roger Morgan Studio, Inc., of New York community, the state, and the nation. Friday lectures, a formal part' of the City. The procedure not to disclose the names curriculum. There are long-term plans for work of the finalists differs from the last presIts uses as a meeting room or small behind stage, including the construction idential search at St. John's, when they theater-in-the-round were considered of a dance rehearsal room, a new set and were all made public by February I , 1980. only secondarily. Mr. Frame emphasized, however, the The conversation Room will be someneed to protect the candidates, all of what reduced in size when eight feet are whom he said have "good, bona fide whittled off the lobby side for a new halljobs." He said it also is a protection way. It will be linked at one end with the recommended by its consulting firm. present corridor extending by the buildDinners for them are being arranged ing's inner courtyard and will be marked the evening before interviewing. In Santa at the other by a new exterior door openFe, Mara Robinson, a Search Committee ing onto the campus. member, is in charge. That entrance, in turn , will be conThe new presidents will initiate a twonected to the upper campus by a new president system approved in January eight-foot-wide, diagonal walkway lead1985 for St. John's, replacing the single, ing to the quad. Construction of the new di\'idcd presidency which has been in hallway will provide a buffer area between effecft since the Santa Fe campus was the Conversation Room and lobby. With founded in 1964. They will take office July a new traffic pattern established, it will I, replacing a single president, Edwin J. make it possible for the lobby to function Delattre. independently, almost as a room, for In another presidential search devel- other simultaneous events. opment, the Alumni Association's board, CHARLES H. BOHL, the architect, also meeting in Santa Fe, agreed to re- has worked with the acoustics firm of quest a change in the college Polity which Klepper, Marshall and King Associates, would permit one of rts board members to of White Plains, N. Y., in efforts to solve he' included in future search committees. sound problems so bad that much Conver- prop room, a costume shop, and a room. for the storage of a piano, but these must await future funding. Work behind stage also will include the construction of new steps linking the stage area directly with the present dressing rooms located at a lower level. The lobby also is scheduled for changes. St. John's Advancement Office currently is conducting a campaign for funds for the second phase of constructidn: · Scheduled for completion in June, the spring project will be financed by $150,000 from the Pew Memorial Trust given the college in April 1985 and by $150,000 in .State money left from a 1977 bonding bill for other construction on campus. ·Johnnies ',·G·kE· scores high. , c' ~~ .. -< , St. John ·s College alumni cQntinpe to score substantially higher thiln the natjonal average in their Grad'ua.te R,ecord Exams and for the La·w School· Admissions Test. Marianne Braun, directpr of career counseling, said that for 'the threejear period from 1983 through , 1985 afoQi;ni scored 41.5 per cent higlier in the verbal section of the G REs. Their'-stotes '1av:.:, eraged 664 compared with the national average of 472. · · : ,. For the analytical section, scores' were 634, or 32 per cent higher . than 'tqe national average of 505. Alumni averaged 604 for the quantitative section, f4.1 per cent higher than the national mean of 538. A study of 73 St. John's graduates who took th.e Law School Admissions Test between September 1980a..nd August 1985 reveals their average score total~d 37.1. Marianne Braun said the figure is 22 per cent above the 30.5 nati'onal averag~. Group to plan reunion of '61 graduates Plans for the 25th reunion of the Class of 1961 will be laid by a newly formed steering committee the weekend of April 18'..19 in Annapolis. Members include Harrison Sheppard, Francisco; Ted Stinchecum, New Victor Schwartz. b·~~-·_,,,,~··'!I"'~~~~~-'·•~.,..-~..._~--~ . Martha Goldstein Wyatt, Annapolis. The committee plans to honor faculty members who taught in Annapolis from 195761. Other class members who would like to assist will be welcome at the April meeting. r:C!' Tutor Phil Lecuyer makes a fist to locate Halley's Comet. Students, Michael Silitch and Denise Malone were among 150 persons who joined in ttte search one cold winter's night on Santa Fe's soccer field. photo by James O'Gara �THE REPORTER November 1985 Page 5 7-fM(ledi!I~ . Is th re St. J n's wa ? • The following is a shortened version of a piece written by Laurence Berns at the Instruction Committee's request to begin a faculty meeting discussion. Do we, as "the Great Books College," study the books to learn what they contain? Are these subject matters to be learned or, on the :contrary, do we read the books simply to provide occasions for good conversation, for intellectural c6rhtnunion? . .. . '. . ' Most of us adh~re to views 'sbinewhere between thesf3: ~~dr~r:nes. We believe . we ought to study the best bopksthat qm be read by underg;raduate students by the best authors -:-Jhe bEj3stt~~ch~rs. We pursue studies,:thatiraise the most fon~aMentc;i_l,a~q central,que?~ions 1 that most effectively libe11ate us from narrowne~s, "pettiness, and prejudice.yet intellectual independence is our goal, rt1,i}SOn our. ultimate authority . .:Th~re seteJl!.f?JJQ)be a tension between our tutelage to the great th.inkers and our strivings for intellectual independence, our awareness that na.one e,an ·"see" or. u~derst€1ndfonan;yone else. Do w~·resdlve the prohlems'wtl~n we thin~ the . grei:ttesrthinkers' thoughts (if possible) "on our own"? w~ don't understand therp, at least, 'til 'we understand them on our own. (In ourdasses students teach th~..tJJS~lyes as.th~y teach one another! But "our ownness," by itself, autonomy, au~~!~~c!ty:(~elf-i~-~ess',, irf tp~\~eme~~ary meaning) is ;hardly distingui~h~ble . ' ·. from idiosyncrasy. The value of our own would seem to depend on what it is '' · ' that we rp\1ke Qul~wn .. , . , · . · · · : Follow'ingJhe argument, reason, ~'the only recognized authority," is not cherished primarily because we here like it, want to become .skillful at it, and aim to base otir community life tipotl it; we cherish it primarily 'as: an indispensable means·of attivihcfat truth. The primary meaning seems to be discursive reason (fogical tonsistency based on intellectual intuition?); but we devote much effort to understanding the differences and relations between discursive and mathematical (and experimental) reason, and to the reasonable discussion of the most ptominentaltemative to reason - revelation. Our goal requires special kind of civility. At this "talking college,'' where · "the seminar is the h~art of the .program," we make special efforts to listen to one another and to have an atmosphere that makes it as comfortable as possible for everyone to articulate and share with others what we have in and on our minds. Polemics (the most natural mode of much practical discourse), but not disagreement, are discouraged: Effective foquiry requires strenuous exercise of critical powers. In tutorials and laboratories we try to find the right balance between the acquisition of competence and discussion. We favor discussion, but require whatever competence is needed to make discussion meaningful. Our clases thrive on the mutual criticism of one another's ideas. Is there a tension between our efforts to promote a confidence-building comfortable conversational atmosphere and the critical activity truth-seeking inquiry requires? Is there any danger, in the elevation of our special civility and community, with its very powerful charms, to an end in itself? Do we properly prepare those whose habits we form for four years to cope with life outside St. John's? We aim, I believe, at preparing them to improve that life. At most institutions the study of Plato begins with the Apology and the Crito, underlining the political context within which Socrates' inquiries take place. We begin with the Meno. But devoted as we are to the freedom of inquiry which our beginning with the Meno implies, does not St. John's rely on political conditions that make such inquiry possible? There are, certainly, many political orders where our kind of freedom of inquiry would not be permitted. Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Adler used to argue that a Great Books education is education for leadership. In a democracy all men are leaders. In our democracy, therefore, Great Books education is all for men. (Hobbes, on the other hand, suggests that democracy is really .an aristocracy of orators). In practice neither Hutchins' University of · Chicago, nor St. John's have ceased to set standards for admission. In practice the question of capacities cannot be ignored. St. John's, however, has always made room for a rather wide variety of capacities in its students. If the intellectual excellence we try to foster does not automatically or universally promote practical, that is moral and civic, virtues as well, some moderation in the pursuit of our primary goal is called for. The presence in our curriculum of Aristophanes' Clouds, Plato's Apology, and other readings, not to speak of the Bible, attests to our recognition of the problem. The intellectual virtue most prominent in St. John's practice, I believe, is the virtue of exposing the humble and not-humble foundations underlying our most imposing scientific, philosophic, and literary edifices. We especially prize discourse that can translate complicated scientific, philosophic and literary language into straightforward, clear, precise, down-to-earth terms, the terms, if possible, of ordinary discourse. We regard such translations not as mere popularizing but as contributions to depth of understanding. Our goals are ambitious; our successes are rarely unmixed with failures. The nobility of truth seeking \understanding, however, unites and rallies us, tutors and students, in a fellowship that thusfar l"i<ls risen above all petty obstacles. . '{ ,, . , 1 a ·t Seniqrs Lisa ~ose, Sh~r'11an.Qaks, Calif., an.d Roger Lowe •.Natchitoches, l,.a., follow t~e re~ding o~ ~~~ Repi.1,bpc. · ·· · Photo by,Gr~g Ferg~$on 1 Plato' ._, lit a single seating .· · by PAUL ARGODALE, '88 When Sir Edmund Hillary was. asked why any man would want to climb Mt. Everest, his famous reply was "because it's there." On the Annapolis campus a summit of similar magnificence was conquered when a dozen students, each reading in turn without interruption, embarked on a 12hour odyssey through .Plato's Republic. When asked why undertake such a marathon reading, the two organizers, Joan B.ogucki, Brooklyn Center, Minn.,junior, and Jim Goddard, Scituate, Mass., senior, offer no match for Hillary's deadpan. ••1t has been argued that this was written to be read aloud," Mr. Goddard noted. "This is a complete work," Miss Bogucki added. "You would read it at one sitting for the same reason you would listen to Bach's St. Matthew's Passion at one sitting." Plato's ,Republic is just one of 130 or so great books that make up the core of the St. John's curriculum. When the Republic is read in freshman seminar, it is broken into five segments. For Mr. Goddard, this poses some problems of continuity. "This work is a whole, and just how Plato keeps this entirely one is best appreciated in one reading ... .I was so surprised at how well this work hangs together, how it flows ... Leonard interim treasurer in SF Anthony C. Leonard, Albuquerque management consultant, has been named interim treasurer at the Santa Fe campus. He succeeds Emery C. Jennings, who retired December 31. Appointment of a treasurer on a permanent basis is expected to await the selection of the new president for the Santa Fe campus. Mr. Leonard, who heads his own consulting firm, has had 25 years of business experience in general management, finance, marketing, and production and in high level staff positions in planning, corporate development, and corporate communications. A graduate of the Phillips Academy, he earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1959 and received his master's degree with distinction in 1966 at the Harvarq Graduate School of Business Administration. As for .th~ p~rticipant,s: they ~enerally echoed the views of the two organ~zers. "I found it very enjoyable and very helpful," Dallas, Tex., sophomore Alex.ander Magocsi said, adding that "it gave me a new perspective on the reading." It is difficul,t to ascertain exactly. why,a: · continuous reading would have such a dramatic effect. "Perhaps it is an unconscious appreciation of the ratios, similar to what occurs in music," ventured Mr. Goddard. This is the second such reading of the Republic. Two years ago a reading was conducted by former St. John's tutor John Bremer. now director of the Institute of Philosophy at Myrtle Beach, S.C., a reading which ended at 11 :45 p.m. It was one that inspired Miss Bogucki and Mr. G?ddard to repeat the reading. Similarly, this one ended just short of midnight. About 12 or 15 stalwarts stayed for the duration of the reading, with anywhere from 20 to 25 students dropping in at var~ous points in the day. "The energetic visitors who dropped in to read during the later books were well loved by the full timers," Mr. Goddard observed. . l ~ Education board appoints Delattre President Edwin J. Delattre has been appointed to the 15-member board of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. He was named for a three-year term by Secretary of Education William J. Bennett. The fund exists within the Department of Education to distribute grants to educational institutions on the basis of merit. Members include educators along with representatives of other professions. If you. hove art work, come and exhibit The first annual alumni art show will be held in July in conjunction with the Santa Fe homecoming. The Santa Fe Alumni Office is accepting slides for review. Interested persons should send them to Mary Sue Laurel, Alumni Office, St. John's College, 1160 Camino de la Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe, N.M .. 87501. ....... �Page 6 THE REPORTER b 'r ar (Continued from P. 1) . funds for the restudy ot the laboratory next year. In a report prepared for the Board of Visitors and Governors, Mr. Doskow said the present difficulty does not lie in determining what subject matter is to be covered. ··we have a consensus, and a reasonable one, on that, though there are things we would like to do more fully," he said. Rather, he believes, the major difficulty lies in finding the most effective means of presenting material in a way which will be accessible to students, many of whom would not be taking advanced mathematics or science were they students elsewhere. ··in addition, they must be teachable by our faculty, few of whom have advanced training in these areas," Mr. Doskow said. These are not difficulties new to the col1ege, Mr. Doskow pointed out, and there have been real improvements over the last few years. .. lhe lab program is significantly stronger, and we have a clear sense of what needs to be done next" At St. John's, he said, students read primary texts and examine phenomena conscientiously and well. .. WE TRY TO GET at the often unstated assumptions underlying these materials and examine the implications that follow from them. As a colleague once half-facetiously put it to me, 'We do metaphysics in every class.'" Mr. Doskow described the content of the three year program. Our freshman lab in Annapolis falls into three parts: Biology (anatomy, animal behavior, and embryology), physics (consideration of such basic concepts as measure, weight, density, pressure, and temperature), and chemistry (the development of atomic theory with a concentration on Lavoisier)." The current freshman biology program came in 1976-77 when the college moved from four to three years of lab and has undergone a number of major revisions. "We now have a series of readings we are, for the most part, happy with, and the demonstrations and experiments have been much improved. We have some good new equipment which enables us to have better experiments and demonstrations, and the freshman lab is in good shape ... " A general outline of the first semester of the junior lab includes kinematics, dynamics, and optics. Major changes have been a "significant' revision ofthe manual two years ago and development of several new experiments. The faculty is developing better experiments for force. . Of the latter half of the junior year, he observed: "The second semester, electricity and magnfaism works fairly well but could be better. The manual could use reworking, and we depend mostly on demonstrations, We need more experiments to give students a better feel for what can easily become a very abstract study. Someone should be given released time in the near future to work on these things." Mr. Doskow explained that the senior lab falls into two distinct parts. "The first semester returns to some of the questions raised during the freshman chemistry and takes a 20th century look at the development of modern atomic and quantum theory. "THE SECOND DEALS with questions raised by modern biology (Darwin, genetic theory, and microbiology). This year we are working with a newly revised -·---- ·-------·------~......_ ' November • ' Here are some of the documents read here Representing landmarks in the development of science, these documents are among those read at SLJohn's either in their entirety or in part: On the Revolutions of the Heaven~1· Spheres, in which Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) puts forth his heliocentric theory of the planets Epitome of Copernican Astronomy by Johann Kepler (1571-1630), first astronomer to introduce physics into the skies On the Motion of the Heart and Blood (1578-1657) by William Harvey, English physician who discovered the circulation of the blood Le Monde by Rene Descartes ( 1596-1650), described as the first modern mathematician who initiated the modern attempt to account for natural phenomena in terms of matter in motion and laws of nature Principia of Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), in which his principle of universal gravitation provided an explanation both of falling bodies and of the motion of planets, comets, and other heavenly bodies Elements of Chemistry by Lavoisier ( J742- J794), who developed to a large extent the modem concept of element Origin of .';pecies by Charl~s Darwin (1809-1882), in which he describes .natural selection as a result of the struggle for existence Experiments on Plant Hyhridization by Gregor Mendel ( 1822-J 884), who discovered that units of heredity are transmitted unaltered to offspring and their transmis. sion obeys simple statistical Jaws Cathode Rays by J.J. Thomson (1856-1940), in which he showed in 1897 that the electrical charge conveyed in cathode rays is associated with mass and that ratio of charge to mass is constant Jhe Eleuron by Robert Andrews Millikan (1868-1953), who established the idea that electric charge comes in discrete units Jhe .\·cauering of Alpha and Bera Particles hy Matter and the Slructure of the Atom by Ernest Rutherford ( 1871-1937), which argues that the mass iri an atom must be concentrated in a tiny nucleus On rhe Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and A Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Conversion of Light by Albert Einstein (J 879-1955), in which he introduces the principles of the special theory of relativity and accounts for the quantitative studies of the photoelectric effect · Experimental Research in Electricity by Michael Faraday (1791-1867), a collection of experiments showing, among many other results, that a given element has a fixed amount of electricity associated with it On the Spectrum of Hydrogen by Niels Bohr ( 1885-1962), in which he accounts for the discrete spectral lines of light emitted by excited atoms Wave Mechanics by Erwin Schroedinger ( 1887-1961 ), in which he arrives at an equation that implies there are "matter waves" The Physirnl Principles of the Quantum Jheory by Werner Heisenberg (19011976), which introduces the uncertainty principle version of the first semester manual, The work remains very difficult, particularly toward the end of the semester, perhaps too difficult, and we will have to see how the revision works." Students now have better equipment with which to work, but there are difficulties. in attempting to meet them, Mr. Doskow said the college is working to make the manuals as accessible as possible and to provide mathematical help as it is needed. He added that assistance might come by having the labs open for many hours during the week so that students can come in at leisure to familiarize themselves with equipment, to redo some experiments, and, in general to begin to feel more competent in the laboratory. "The second semester lab remains very difficult, some of the papers ·we use are highly technical, and we do not yet have, good experiments to go with all the readings," Mr. Doskow said. "Again, work is being done at present to help, but it will not be completed this year." Mr. Doskow summed up his overview: "In general, then, I can say that. the labs are better in most ways than they were several years ago. The equipment is better, the manuals are under annual review and several have been revised, some experiments have been improved and some new ones devised, tutors who have never done the advanced labs before have moved into them, and the spirit is on the whole good. ••More needs to be done. We still need significant work on improving and adding experiments, particularly in the junior and senior years. Some manuals still have to be worked on, and students have to be given days to feel more secure at bench work. In addition, we should make a special effort to bring still more tutors into the labs, particularly the senior labs which are most alien to most of us. "TO THIS END, I hope next year to have an experienced tutor give a class for tutors in the material of the first semester senior lab with released time for a number of the participants. I would then hope to follow that in the following year with a similar arrangement for the senior bio- 11 e Oceanography is her field With a doctorate in atmospheric sciences from Oregon State University earned in 1984, Mary L. Batteen, '73, is teaching in the Department of Oceanography at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. "I work with and teach former Nava] MARY BATTEEN Academy graduates," she writes. "They are most amazed to hear that I wentto St. John's and am in the science fielO." M's. Batteen came to St. John's because of her interest in oceanography. "When I saw that St.' John's offered four years of science and math, l thought at the time that it would be a great preparation for a graduate career in oceanography. I also was interested in everything else (from creative writing to classics) so the St. John's· program really appealed to me." Originally, in high school, she had been interested in becoming a biological oceanographer. During her senior year, when she discovered she had top grades in phys(See Batteen on P. 10) logy. It is important to bring tutors into that part of the curriculu~ and the material is of suffienct difficulty that I do not think it likely to be achieved by the usual independent study and auditing. " .. .I would just conclude by reiterating what I suggested at the beginning. With its faults and with the recurrent problems we have with the lab, it remains a remarkable achievement, well beyond, as far as l know, what any other liberal arts college requires of its students. We know it is a long way from ideal, but we also know that what we have is fundamentally sound and able to be improved in systematic and seeabJe ways." Holding on to the answers "I want to undertand the world." An ambitiously sweeping statement, perhaps, but that's what Gabrielle Fink, Fairfax, Va., senior, remembers writing on her admissions application four years ago as one reason she chose for coming to St. John's. "Just studying at SL John's - philosophy, history, literature - has given me a world view," she said. Now heading for graduate work in paleontology - a field she also thinks of in terms of a "world science" - Miss Fink was wary of first attending a college where she would just learn the technical aspects of a science. She is appreciative of the philosophical foundations of science she finds at St. John's. "I don't think I could just memorize," she said. "If I don't understand a subject conceptually, from all angles, it evaporates. I want to hold on to the answers." Miss Fink, who is also co-editor of the student publication, Energeia, said she was awakened to the philosophical underpinnings in her freshman year through the study of biology_ "l was impressed by biology, especially embryology, where we begin thinking about life and the forces that are at work in it. Part ot what we do at St. John's is to try to understand those forc.~s tf\'\t are alive in the world." ________ ________ ___________________________ ___________ ......, ............._ i _..... ~---~..-... �November 1985 Page 7 THE REPORTE Science Ph.D. ati surprisingly h ·gh (Continued from P. 1) earn doctorates. St. John's ranks very high - fifth among 1,500 institutions of higher learning - in the percentage who complete doctorates in the humanities and shortly under the top 47 institutions for the percentage of the Ph.D.'s in the sciences. It placed 27th among the 1,500 schools for doctorates in all fields. The study is for Ph.D.'s only and, because of the period covered by the survey, excludesthe 22-year-old Santa Fe campus. It also did not take into account Johnnies who complete medical degrees, many of whom have told faculty members they wanted a degree in liberal arts before entering medicine. Withouta careful study, there is no way oftelling whether students who eventually receiv~ their doctorates in science already were scientifically motivated when they came here b.r whether something in their St. John's.education spurred them on. What is known· is that there are students like Nancy Townsend, Mystic, Conn., senior, or H.elen Conlon Colston, '82, who selected St. John's because they wanted a liberal educaticmthat does include mathematics and science. The program founders would approve. As St. John's tutor Sam K.utler points out, the belief that science can be taught in a liberal way runs deep here. MISS TOWNSEND thought it was important should she enter a field such as economics. Mrs. Colston, now Admissions Office alumni liaison and a new mother, has long term plans for advanced work in mathematics. But for a college centered in great books, which prospective students repeatedly say during the admissions process they want to attend because they like to read, the proportion of Ph.D.'s in science says something about the laboratory program - the part of the program most subject to change - that is both surprising and positive: Under St. John's non-elective program, no student escapes mathematics or laboratory. St. John's since 1937 has always required four years of mathematics and, since l 976-77, three, rather than four, years of the laboratory sciences. Much of the science comes in the reenactment of classical experiments or in And here are some of the experiments Here are some of the classical experiments St. John's students perform: By using lead and tin, the re-enactment of the crown problem of Archimedes (287-212 B.C.), in which he weighed metals in air and water to discover if gold and silver had been adulterated The detection of differences in the pressure of the atmosphere at different altitudes as first done by Blaise Pascal (1623-62), performed at St. John's in McDowell's Bell Tower and at sea level on College Creek The 1662experiment of Robert Boyle demonstrating that pressure and volume of gas are inversely proportional · Sir Isaac Newton's experiment on the impact of the pendulum, verifying the conservation of momentum and, for elastic bodies, the conservation of relative motion, as reported in his Principia of 1687 The calibration of a thermometer in the manner of Fahrenheit, introduced in 17 I 2 The experiments on sound waves first performed in 17 I 5 by Brook Taylor The law of Joseph Louis Gay-Lusac (1778-1850) showing that when gases combine chemically their volumes have to one another small, whole number ratios The Law of Definite Proportion of Joseph Louis Proust, who showed in J806 that materials combine chemically in definite proportion by weight The 1819 experiment of the Danish scientist, Hans Christian Oersted, to show the magnetic field. of an electric current . Andrew-Marie Ampere's 1822 experiment on the attraction and repulsion of electrical currents A demonstration to determine the shape of the field and the influence of one magnetic field on another as performed by Michael Faraday (1791-1867) Faraday's 1831 experiment on the magnetic induction of a current The determination of the ratio of the electromagnetic and the electrostatic unit of charge, which proves to be equal to the speed of light, first determined by Weber and Kohlrausch in I 856 and crucial to Maxwell's theory that Jight is an electro-magnetic disturbance Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's production of electro-magnetic waves reported in 1887 J.J. Thomson's determination in 1897 of the charge to mass ratio of an electron The oil drop experiment of Robert Millikan ( 1868-1953) determining the charge of the electron Ernst Rutherford's experiment of 191 l on alpha particles showing that the majority of the atom's weight is concentrated in an extremely small volume called a nucleus Neils Borh 's explanation of 1913 of the spectrum of hydrogen The development of the sea urchin from fertilization through the pluteus larva stage as first studied by Hans Dries ch (l 867-1941) Classical bacterial recombination experiments and enzyme induction experiments similar to those done in 195<}:..60 by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod the reading of landmark papers representing revolutionary concepts in physics, biology, and chemisty. Jim Beall, a newcomer to the faculty not too long removed from his own undergraduate studies and a tutor whose interest in teaching at St. John's was piqued by the laboratory program, argues that St. John's offers, if you include the mathematics, a four-year major in the sciences. (A St. John's alumnus, Christian- · Burks, SF '76, who obtained his doctorate in_molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale, translated his transcript into a math major with minor in physics.) "It depends on how you count," Mr. Beall said. 'The study of Euclid and Ptolemy really in some sense falls into science. The senior math tutorial deals with Eins~ein 's theory of special relativity. You really do get four years of sciences if you _count the math." "A lot of undergraduate curricula do the same things over and over again with each successive year looking at the subject in more detail," he said. "We don't repeat because we attempt to treat the subjects well the first time." TRAINED AS AN astrophysicist, Mr. Beall believes the way the program starts with fundamentals and follows through the sequential development of a scientific thought is compelling. It is a sequence similar to that of the chronological development of the reading list and involves. a process he compared to reading Aristotle first in order properly to understand Aquinas and St. Augustine. He believes that students can (See Laboratory P. JO) Math brought student back It was St. John's mathematics program that impelled Gillian Nassau, A '85, to return to the college after she left midway through her junior year. "I can't begin to express how much the. math program has helped me· and continues to," she writes from the University of FJorida, where she has a teaching assistantship in philosophy. "It is a great tool for philosophy (in my opinion a necessary tool!) .. .I have just completed a paper on mathematics in the Kantian system and found myself reconsidering the Lobachevski and Einstein I learned last year. This coming semester l will be teaching logic. Though I have little. formal training in logic (just what I received my sophomore year), my four years of undergraduate math convinced the head of the department to allow me to teach it. "I had never liked math before college and resented having to take it for three years in high school. (I went to Stuyvesant, a special math high school in New York City). I was poor at math, having no memory for operations and rules and was eager to get it behind me. But once immersed in mathematical theory at St. John's, l fell in love with math (mind's most productivce child). I have always felt that l could never have gotten the mathematical trainihng I received from St. John's anywhere else." • hat it was like to be getting a Ph. D. 1n science Christian Burks, SF '76, who in 1982 began a three-year stint as a post-doctoral fellow with the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been named to a permanent staff member position there. "My work here centers on support of GenBank, the national DNA sequence database," Mr. Burks reports. "We have a contract with the National Institutes of Health to expand and maintain its computer data base. I also do research in the area of applying pattern recognition algorithms to the task of searching the DNA database for patterns that may correlate with the functions of the sequences." The work at LANL has involved a major shift from the kind of work he did as a graduate student at Los Alamos, where he was an experimentalist specializsing in the structure of lipid molecules. His present work makes him a computer programmer and database manager focusing on th~ structure of nucleic acid molecules. A laboratory assistant for three years at St. John's and chief of the lab assistants his last year, Mr. Burks went on to get his doctorate at Yale University. What were his problems in entering without an undergraduate major in molecular biology? He describes his experience: "I graduated from St. John's in 1976 and that same year entered the Ph. D. program at Yale University in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. "My first year I was directed to take only undergraduate level courses in an effort to cram an undergraduate major in molecular biology into one year. THIS WAS AN extremely unpleasant experience because they were all very difficult courses and further were structured on the 'sit in the. lecture, take notes, cram for exams' style of learning, which l had little or no experience with or inclination for. .y'-'/!UPl~X:C\J~. I s~rvive_d!h'!~year. Itook and passed the master's level exams about six months after the other members of my class and then began working on my Ph.D. project with my advisor. "My thesis, entitled 'Structuraland enzymological studies on cholesteryl ester phases: implications for atherosclerosis,' used X-ray and neutron diffraction as well and enzymological assays to address the question of whether the structure and state of cholesteryl esters had a bearing on their role in the development of heart diseases." Mr. Burks graduated five years later. Only one student who had entered the program at the same time graduated before him so, although he was quite far behind his classmates initially, he had in effect caught up by the end. "This is due in large part to the fact that most of the effort in getting a Ph.D. is spent on becoming expert in a very narrow subfield and doing (successfully) experiments pertinent to the subfield," he said. "This depends on one's general bent and analytical skills, willingness to devote time to the project, and luck much more than it depends on previous education." MR. BURKS BELIEVES molecular biology is one of the most, if not the most, exciting and important areas of science today, with broad practical value to and implications for society as well as parochial value to biologists. "In this light, I view it as unfortunate that St. John's reduced the biology segment of the lab program to one-half year." He notes that the GenBank database project has employed four of St. John's alumni. '.'Two have gone on to graduate school in the biological sciences (at Berkeley and Cornell), one, gone now, is planning on entering medical school next year, and , one is still with us. .. In addition, Gerry Myers (St. John's tutor) has worked as a consultant with our group for several years. A number of other St. John's alumni have worked at LANL in groups other than mine." �11..1'4'.'.lll""ft 8 THE REPORTER Nn\vAmnAr @I (Continued from P. 1) tutional change and progress do not occur without some roiling of the waters," Mr. Robson said. "That, too, was present. "And in our media-sensitive age, style frequently overcomes substance - at least in short-term assessments. But in the long term, substance is what counts, and the college i's i substantially better off today, in a host of ways, than it was when ' Ed Delattre assumed office. He· deserves the· college communit.y's gratitude and &"" \ admiration for a job very well done." ·\ JOHN H; DENDAHL, of Santa Fe, J. DELATTRE board .chairman; points to another area:· admissions and financial aid programs that of the more fully involved board. insure that students from all economic In past decades, he said, the involve- backgrounds will have every opportunity ment of members was limited almost at St. John's." exclusively to the college's financial On education leadership, Mr. Delattre; affairs: budgeting, fund raising, banking, obse~ved: •.· · •· . . . . .... and endowment- oversight "Ttteauthohty andre'sponsibility'oftJre "Ed has insisted, correctly in my view, president, the deans, the Instruction Comthat the frustees' ,responsibilities go far mittee,, and the faculty are clear. Ttadibeyond finances;, He !has begun,' or res- , tionsofaccountabiiityfor the educational toted, as the case may be,'a tradition at St. work of the college - traceable to. the· John's w,herein trustees are apprrroriately timerof the founders of SL John's 'pi'einvolved with all thatthe college is in addiscribed liberal arts curriculum in· 193'7 tion to the paying of its bills. have been restored. .. In saying that, I mean no disrespect for "IT IS ESPECIALLY good that there past· boards, a great many of whose mem- is now regular and forthright communicabers have done much more than I for this tion between the faculty and the board. I wonderful institution. I want simply to think that these strides are very much in express admiration for a president who keeping with what Stringfellow Barr and possessed the S.elf-confidence literally to Scott Buchanan envisioned for St. John's compel his trustees to address the· foll.. nearly half a century ago." scope of their trusteeship." · He cited the establishmentof permanent, restricted endowments to allow opThese are some of the accomplishments Mr. Delattre can cite forthe five and a half port unity for faculty study, The college years he has been here: now has $850,000 reserved for this purThe Annapolis endowment is up from 'J>Ose with further money pledged. $9.4-million to $18-million. "In the case of tutors, St. John's already The Santa Fe Endowment has increased has the best sabbatical program in existfrom $1.8-million to nearly $9-million; ence. With the new endowments faculty A joint endowment for both campuses members are being released from a porof $700,000 in funds has been secured tion of their teaching to study together, to since 1982. audit classes, to be advanced learners in Annual operating gifts totaling $6- the liberal arts. million have been raised since J980. ''The commitment (to this program) Annapolis remains free of plant debt must be sustained if the newer tutors are and has secured $550,000 in recent gifts to learn their way through the program for renovation of educational and recreaand to learn from senior tutors." tional facilities. An advocate of the two-president sysTHE SANTA FE'S PLANT debt has tern, Mr. Delattre listed among the benebeen reduced from $2.5-million to $800,000. fits to be derived the presidents' lar~er "St. John's, thanks to the Board of Visengagement in the intellectual life of the itors and Governors' conscientious sercollege, more companionship with stuvice, enjoys thorough responsible prodents, a greater civic presence, and more cedures and policies of financial planning, contact between the president and Alumni . financial control, and financial investAssociation. ment," Mr. Delattre pointed out. "I have thought all along that when the "I can give genuine assurance to stucollege went to two presidents, they should dents and their families and to benefactors come as equals, just as the campuses are that there is no waste in its spending poliequals," Mr. Delattre said. cies and that its priorities of financial sup-· What are St. John's principal needs? port for students, for faculty and staff, "St. John's is like. all colleges and uniand for the excellence of its education versities in that it bears a public trust to program are entirely clear." provide the finest education it can en~ He said the number of alumni contribuvision," Mr. Delattre said. tors has increased from 19 to 38 per cent. "'In my judgement, it is the strongest In praising what he sees as the essentially and most durable liberal arts program educational work of the Alumni Associaestablished in America in this century, tion, Mr. Delattre said that ••alumni give and its mission is to make this program of their resources, but most important, just as good as it can be made for the sake they give of themselves. They truly are of students now and yet to come. permanent members of the college.'' "It is interesting that excellence in eduAt homecoming in October, Mr. Delatcation is just like liberty in society; it can tre and his wife, Alice, were made honorbe achieved only by eternal vigilance and ary alumni members. resolve. Of course, there will be an equally In addition to the expansion of the proimportant need to secure the financial fessional staff and programs in financial . resources necessary to serve the country development and in alumni and public for a third century as St. John's has served it for the past two centuries. relations, Mr. Delattre is impressed by the fact that the college has uniform admis"Further expansion of endowment is sions and financial aid policies for the two imperative." campuses. He praised the personnel as WHAT MR. DELA TTRE has enjoyed ..highly able and dedicated" and said the most during his St. John's years has been ..... 1 ' his work with students, with the board and alumni, and with many of his colleagues. He is disappointed that he was able to teach in the St. John's program only during one year, the year he resided in Santa Fe, when he .w,as one of a threemember tutors' seminar team. Of those things he has learned a.t St. John's, Mr. Delattre.noted several thc;tt he would like to take w1t'h him in his future work. . ' · "As you know~ Id~ not think St: John's is unique:·;heo~serye~. "Itseems to s~and for many of the ideals good teachers everywhere stand for. That the faculty have the authority for the educational program is a decidedly important matter because the faculty can .work as a: whole.· r would like to see other colleges and universities achieve mtich1more in this direction. "The most important thing about the program is its i;tttention to great books," . he went on: • , ' ' . .. . .. "Every student in sl;hoof add college· ' ought to study gmit-' b<;ioks anq ·.learn sound habits (Jf reading~ listenillg, speaking and writing: I certainly intend to continue to advocate that view not only in institutions I serve but as it bears on all of formal education.•• A third matter Mr. Delattre learned to be of importance is the dedicated service of the board. "St. John's has a.remarkable board that truly visits and governs. I will seek wher';' ever I work to encourage boards to serve as this one does. There is no other means to responsible government and deli berate, wise policy." · ·· · IT IS STILL TOO early to say where he will go in the future. But Mr. Delattre said he will continue to write as a philosopher on education, ethics, and political theory with emphasis on faithfulness to the public trust by educational institutions and law enforcement agencies. Since coming to St. John's, he has taught regularly several times a year at the FBI Academy's National Executive Institute, which brings police chiefs and commissioners from all over the world. "My work with them is a very important part of my intellectual life and of my life as a citizen," he said. "My professional hope is to continue to contribute to the quality of educational opportunities for' young peopkand adults in this country. In my view, aspiration and shared sense of responsibility among students and teachers are more important then any specific curriculum, and I will continue to focus my efforts on the encouragement and sustenance of serious aspiration. '"My view has always been that the mission of American education - public and private -is education ofthe public. In the balance of my career, as in my career so far, I will do my besf to serve the public, for the present and the future." In his departure, praise came from two members of the Annapolis faculty. "Ed Delattre is a very clear-headed, most articulate man who was faced at St. John's with the urgent task of firming up the college's financial support organization," a senior tutor, Laurence Berns, said. "But no small part of his heart is in teaching itself. We never came to understand one another as well as we might have in the problem of teaching ... "He has understood both the administrative anded ucational troubles of the college, which is the only test of a true appreciation of their strengths, and has set the basis for solving some of them,.. Leo Raditsa commented. "I've never seen him without learning something of importance." DEAN GEORGE DOSKOW spoke of the many important contributions to the ongoing well-being of St. John's. "He. was instrumental in preserving and furthering the financial stability of the college, and, as importantly, he always did so with a.n eye to academjc e~cellence and the well-being of stud~nts, staff, and f{lculty. "He ~never lost sighJ of whaHhe 'college . exists for;and never'.put .financial ahd fis- · cal concerns over intelJectual ones. He thought it particularly important 1: that staff be treated well .and worked ·hard to . establi~h consistent and reasanable1 prac-.. tices.; , : ( ,:1·, "·· .y : "tte opened up th<e :financiaL workings· · of the, ca;Uege by esta.b-Ii~hing dt~ financial. sub-committee on : e~ch:. campus which. brought together facultyand.admirustr.ation.J to, <jevelop~bud.gets,aml oversee the finances of the campus.es,,ThecoHege·has changed dur.ing his pr~idency'. arid is a, stronger and solider.institutiort.tbanitwas when he assumed histasks. ' r ·~we all owe h,im_ a debt .of gratitude:"· - Lane assuine·s .· .Justice (post . :-· : ,, . ) ,- Following a distinguished career'in the U.S. Air Force, John J. Larie, A '60, recently was appointed deputy 'assistant attorney general forthe tt:s:-Depattment of Justice. As head of the department's Office of Information Technology, Mt. Lane is_ responsible for programs, budgets, and the operation of telecommunications ~nd computer facilities. , .. ' Mr. Lane entered the Air Force in l 962. Decorated six times, he was honored as Air Force Project Manager ofthe Year in 1967 and Air Force CominunicationElectronics Office of tpe Year in.1974. When he retired from the military in 1984 with the rank of colonel, Mr. Lane was director of information systems for the Department of Defense. He continued in that capacity as a member of the Senior Executive Service until November 1985, when he was awarded· the Secretary of Defense's Civilian Meritorious Service Medal. Mr. Lane enrolled in the night program at Georgetown University Law Cent_er ,in 1980. He served as a Law Journal ~itor and graduated cumlaudein May 1984. October of that year, he was admitted to the Virginia Bar. ' . Mr. Lane and his wife, Marie, live in Great Falls, Va., where they are "enjoying the rabbits and groundhogs while attempting to keep a small orchard productive." In Two attend workshop Two St. John's faculty members are taking part in workshops sponsored by Maryland's Coppin State College and entitled ••Renaissance Man: Humanism and Science." Janet Dougherty will speak.on "Marx-· ian Man: Class Dissolved" .on March 30. In October, Pamela Kraus delivered a paper, "Cartesian Science: The Birth of Subjectivity." In addition, a 1954. alumnus, Richard Carter, now teaching philosophy and political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus, participated in the Cartesian workshop . �Fees going to $13,020 St. John's will increase costs of tuition, room, and board to $13.020 in the 1986-87 academic year. . The figure, which was approved by the Board of Visitors and Governors at its Jan. I 8 meeting in Santa Fe, represents a 9.9 per cent jump. Board members approved the higher costs upon the recommendation of Charles A. Nelson, of Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y., chairman of. the board's Finance Committee. . Earlier~ students and parents had been advised that the increas.e was likely by · President Edwin J,. Delattre. In a letter to them, he said that during the past three years, over-all .annual increases have been made. at slightly' more than 7 per cent, "and we win continue this cou·rse as fully ' 1 as resources.permit.~'• ML· Nelson presented a series of tuition · figutes' for· the cune.nt year for the socalled SJoan group of select private colleges into which Si John's falls, many of which already charge more than nine and ten thousand d<>Hats .for tuition as opposed to St. John's present $8,850; In ~espo,n~~.tf) <;i~~s,tioning, Jeri Rhodes, Annapolis ::tt~suter, said St. John's charges students for board what its food service, '.iSaga •.,charges the college, and must pass' oh·· ~nt ''Saga increases to stud,ents. That fee w~U go up by $100. 4' r~fffri~gi, to. the, $200 increase for ro:o.m...sb.~fstr~~~~_f).,tl;l~,need to keep abreast of 'dOrmitQry upkeep rather than paying substantial costs at a future date. Board Cl)a~u1ian. John H. Dendahl, of Santa Fe, noted that there' alr~ady is a backlog of defer'recr'doqnitory work on both campuse,s. · ,. : . . . · • "While the proposed increases are large, it is important ,to note that we have been able' to limit ou'r price (tuition and fees) to about 60 per cent ofthe cost of education - tb,e amount we spend per student," Mr. · " · Delat1tre said. "The national average for price at libera,l fldS coliegesjsjri ~xcess of 70 per cent. · Significant ir}C:reases in endowment, bot~ by ne.W, gifts and by .m~rket appreciation, have enabled us to sustain this lower level of price." . ' ' . . ' ' Tuiti.on .at St. :.J:ohn 's will go from its present $8,K50 tq $9, 720, a 9. 8 per cent increase; room from $1,300 to $1,500, a 15.4 per cent increase, and board from 17qg t,6 $'~.:~o~,_ a_ ,5.9 per cent increase. Figures are ~qeqt1P,ajj for both campuses. MCPelaJir.e,,elllP,hasized the need to co~tiri4~ ~t,:,Jo.hn~s ~mall class sizes and to improve faculty and staff compensation. He, al~o.said the in~rease in the dormitory ch~rge fefleet~. t~~~c.ollege 's "commitment to'Crlharice the. mai.ntenance and furnishing( of rh~~e facilities." $! Class of '76 sets ·Sar1tci Fe 1 reunion · S~qta f~;~ Class! of 1976 will hold its I 0:-',i~ar~ -~eti'~·i~·n a(homecoming in Santa Fe July 1s-20. · lfyou'are'part ofthat class and have not rece.ived a ,qiaili9g regarding this event, ple~/ie. iI;lf9!IV, ~cir~ Sue Laurel at the Santa Fe alumm office. Reunion C:ommittee members are Barbara'."Liifrer· •. Richard Light burn, Pabfo Cq!Jih,~~. aI1d Glenda HollidayEoy~n,g.J'.or Sl)ggestions and comments, pleas~ reach'ihem or the Santa Fe alumni office. ·' ! , ,,·,: 1 · bluegrass music on ~ As career counselor for the Santa Fe campus, Ron Hale should know. He takes his work as guitarist for a prize-winning bluegrass band seriously, but he doesn't ~4/,~ Competition Number Six is for the title and opening sentences (in English translation) of a Platonic dialogue that was never handed down to us. No more than ten lines, please, but of course, they must be of subtly mimetic significance. Since there were no entries for Competition Number Five, generous book credits await the winners of Number Six. Deadline: March 1. £441# ACT council elects Drennon secretary Ron Hale performs with his band. Marsha Drennon, direc•or of ~mis­ sions and financial aid in Santa has, been elected to. )~~rve as secretary ~f the New Mexico American Co Hege T ~sting Council fQr 1985-.86. · · The council includes post secondary institutions, groups, and agencies withi.n the stat_e was well as secondary schools. fe. recommend it for a ~areer. "N1,1sic is really a hard way to make a living," he sajd, .. You have to love it. It's rough," To him bluegrass is a hobby. He has served as president ofthe Southwest Pickers, an organization which promotes bluegrass and folk music throughout the Uncle Remus comes to Santa Fe Charles Bell thought Uncle Remus' example was good enough. ' "UncJe Remus never had· a chair 1so I '11 just stand up," the' Sanfa· Fe 'tutor said as he began a new story hour on the western campus. Coordinated by Jan Eldridge, the program is presenting readings by tutors, a Santa Fe author, and local story tellers. "We've decided to offer a new type of event to Santa Fe because we think it's important for children to participate in the pleasure of story telling and to experience its enjoyment," M's Eldridge said. "Since reading is an important part of the St. John's curriculum, it is appropriate to carry on our traditiion with children. Also, this gives the community a good opportunity to spend time with family and friends at the college." Mr. Bell's reading brought parents as well as children and a number of Johnnies, including two dressed as clowns. Mr. Bell prefaced his readiing with an explanation of why he chose stories from Uncle Remus despite their having been condemned as racist during the 1960s. "People are leery of any piece from this period," he said. "This is a pity. If we deny t.he value of these folk tales from Georgia, Africa, and other places, we may as well stop singing the blues or work songs. We can't deny there was a time when people had slaves." Tutor Stuart Boyd claimed to be Jim Hawkins, the narrator of Treasure Island, in the second story hour in which he was assisted by students and a live parrot. Mr. Boyd's feet and chest were bare, a bright red scar ran along his cheek, and a gold earring gleamed like the short scimitar at his feet. Students dressed as pirates punctuated Mr. Boyd's reading with "Arr, Cap'n Boyd" and by grave assents at the word "rum." At the· mention of Captain Flint, Long John Silver's parrot,. Mr. Boyd would nod at Big Red, a macaw loaned by Pete's Pet Shop. Reading with a touch of the brogue of hi~~ 1tix~r~gmi~~d ~,Mr., B:~~~1 p~c~(u~e .h~, . state, and regularly does a solo gospel performance at the New Mexico State Penitentiary. Mr. Hale performs with the Lonesome Moonlight Ramblers, whose members live in an area spread over 130 miles, making it a long distance to come to play or rehearse. Other members are Roy McAdams, mandolin; Tosh McGilivray, stand-up bass, and Tom Siebel, fiddle. Various people play banjo depending on where the Ramblers perform. Mr. Hale started playing with the' Ramblers, when' they were house band at "a real rough bar," the Golden Inn in Golden, N.M., which eventually burned down. After they literally were fired from there, members won the prestigious Santa Fe banjo and pickers contest. Although he had been exposed to country music as a child, Mr. Hale began listen-· ing seriously to bluegrass when he heard Bill Monroe in concert at Swarthmore College. He makes a distinction between country music and bluegrass. "Bluegrass is basically unamplified country music, and it's more folksy." He finds the bluegrass "electrifying, .. He also appreciates, it because its big names belong to people whom he finds completely unselfconscious and unpretentious, stars like Bill Monroe, Ricky Skaggs, and Doug Dillard. In addition to his Southwest Pickers presidencey, Mr. Hale serves as judge of the Santa Fe banjo and pickers contest, and he and his family are college residents. The Ramblers have given several performances .at the college in which Steve Houser, a tutor, has joined them on guitar although he is not a regular member. The group likes to play at St. John's because their music is well received .. "I find bluegrass an interesting contrast to the intellectual pressure at St. John's," Mr. Hale said. "The students probably like us for that reason. Either that or because we all have so much fun." College takes part in Play of Daniel Students, alumni, tutors, and friends Timothy Wanzer, Concord, Mass., jungave two performances of the Play of ior, came to story hour as a pirate. Daniel at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe in December. Originally comhad only an hour, condensed the story and posed by medieval monks, the play has filled in details from memory. Afterwards, been performed by the Vienna Opera refreshments were served that included Company and the New York Pro Musica marlin spike punch, hard tack cookies, Society. and a bit of Ben Gunn 's beloved cheese. It relates the life of the prophet Daniel A professional story teller, Linda Levy under two kings, Belshazzer and Darius, finished the fall semester series with ..Winof Babylon, and includes the tale of the ter Tales," stories representing more than lion's den. Peter Pe sic, musician-in2,000 years of oral tradition. residence, served as the director of the A story from Ireland described why it is chorus, and Mary Neidorf directed the important to have a story tucked away in play. Mrs. Neidorf's children's choir one's mind for those times when it's served- as the queen's procession. needed. A 2,000-year-old gypsy legend set Costumes and scenery were used only, in Egypt explained how the robin got its to the extent that it accented the setting . . red breast, the nightingale its song, and · The play was performed in Latin. why the fir tree is evergreen. A I ,000-year-old story from Norway explained how the sea became salt, and the story from Appalachia was a group St. John's College tutor Laurence Berns'' participation story set in a winter swamp. was a participant in a January 9 program "Not only is story telling a way of passdealing with the U.S. Constitution and ing on human traditions," Mrs. Levy said, held at the College of Liberal Arts, Roch- ' "but story telling is also a way to pass on ester Institute of Technology, Rochester; human values and develop empathy and N.Y. other human qualities in childre.n." He took part in a discussion, "The This month Mary Neidorf will. read from A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh," Goetz Affair: Lawful Defense and the and in April Santa Fe author Aileen Paul · Constitution," which also featured former attorney general Ramsey Clark and will read "Cooking Without a Stove" and George Anastaplo, professor of law at conduet a copking workshop for children Loyola University ofChi~a;-1~0. and, !!<Jul ts, in c ;) ~ip,in~ .hCJ:ll.. ,th~ · J' '.JiU ['.;l!J.'.,) ko!:J l fdi I - :;> ' . • . II) '•' J d Berns in program L ' . . I " L 0 �-~llf'"llO 10 1985 PO ..... (Continued from P. 7) appreciate the development in a way not possible in a conventional program. "That's why we turn out such good people, especially in physics, with a pretty good success rate," he said. Mr. Beall noted that Johnnies who go on to graduate school report having to work hard. "But that's true of students who graduate from other places," he said. "If a university's graduate program is worth its salt, you have to work hard." He believes that St. John's classroom procedures prepare one better for graduate education than most places. "In many ways the program at St. John's is reminiscent of graduate education at the level of dissertation: a lot of interaction among students and faculty, a lot of discussion." Nicholas Maistrellis, a tutor closely identified with the laboratory since coming here in 1967, believes it is possible that students might get excited here in the way they would not at another institution. "The wav we do lab makes it look as if it is something not so different from other activities we require that involve the imagination," he said. "And we don't make the humanities/science distinction. We don't divide our people into scientific and nonscientific types and that makes it possible for them to reassess what their interests really are." At a high school level, students tend to divide very early, to select a major when they are very young. he said, adding that it's hard for them to explore other alternatives or to discover they may have powers relating to science they did not know they possessed. ALSO THE FACT that our classes are structured to confront and overcome their fears of math and science helps," he said. Mr. Maistrellis is convinced that taking the usual college course is not very much like doing scientific work. "When you take a course, you are responsible for a body of material re la ting to a known discipline whereas when you work in science, you don't really need to knowthe whole body. You need to know how certain elements relate to the work you are doing. What students learn at St. John's is a collection of very general and fundamental things. These things are learned in laboratory and in math tutorials, · and they're the things that require the least technical ability to understand and also are the things that make it possible for them to talk about science." Disconcerting for some students are th.e conclusions reached in one experiment that may be displaced by those in another. •'The material presented in the laboratory program - classic papers and texts as well as experiments - can lead to wide ranging discussion as to principles, methods, and possible implications," Curtis Wilson, a faculty member believes. ..Students become aware of the conflicting ideas that, at different times, have guided scientific research; for instance, the wholism of Driesch and the mechanism of Roux in embryology. the Newtonian-style action-at-a-distance of Ampere and the field theory of Faraday in electromagnetism. "Science, too, they may learn, involves traditions that at certain critical junctures may have to be transformed, as in the coming to be of Einstein's relativity theory and the quantum.theory of Bohr, Heisenberg, and Schroedinger." In a way. St. John's laboratory program poses questions which have their parallels in the ''big questions .. of the seminar program. And while classes embody the history of science , the program also poses questions which can be of paramount interest in the readings of St. John's great books. "A lot of philosophical questions raised in the 17th century are intertwined with the emergence of modern science," Mr. Wilson said. "THESE QUESTIONS are interesting to students because they involve them in a conflict of ideas; for instance, between the ideas of Aristotle and those of Descartes. "In the junior year, Descartes, Pascal, Hobbes and Kant were all men who commented on the scientific revolution and for whom the revolution was a major part of their philosophical background. The laboratory work is very relevant." Assistant Dean Malcolm Wyatt believes that the same thoughtfulness that has gone into the rest of the curriculum goes into the laboratory program. "The part I know best represents a very considerable improvement in the coherence of the work_and a vast improvement in the organization of experiments that makes them important and meaningful," he said. .. In the past, the experiments were frequently ambitious and lacked the equipment and design to achieve very much. Now they not only do not discourage students but are a source of satisfaction." Mr. Wyatt believes a major improvement came in I983 with .the appointment of a director of laboratories, a position originally held by Chester Burke, '74, now a full-time tutor, and this year by Mark Daly. For the first time, he said, the college has someone to think about the design and appropriate equipment for experiments, to train laboratory assistants, and to help clarify problems for tutors. The part of the program Mr. Wyatt principally teaches is the second semester of the junior year and the first part of the senior - the work in electricity and magnetism leading to early quantum theory a program he .finds covers a ·"very intelligent and excititng" sequence that follows a historical pattern. While he said St. John's gets a lot of admissions applications that say "I love to read" and fail to mention physics, Mr. Wyatt suspects that there niay have been a lot of students who have discovered' the excitement of the sciences here. Chester Burke, '74, who believes the laboratory program is being better done than when he was a student, like Assistant Dean Barbara Leonard and several others, regrets the dropping of the fourth year of science in 1976-77, a decision made to ease the curriculum load for sophomores. "I would never be against thinking of a meaningful or significant way of reinstituting the missing year," he said. . St. John's students don't get a lot of technical details, he pointed out. Instead, they are exposed to a large number of different things in one class which may tease their curiosity. The Program content falls into piace this way: Freshman year, observational biology and studies of matter and measurement, leading to the atomic theory of chemistry; Junior year. topics in physics - mechanics, optics, heat, electricity, magnetism; senior year, quantum physics, genetics, evolution, molecular biology. In the junior and senior years, great books seminar discussions reflect the science and mathematical program. Miss Townsend spoke about the relationship of the lab to the rest of the program. "I think it would be terrible in seminars to study physics, it could only be Miss and tutorials if we didn't have science to (Eva) Brann's junior math class. The lab help teach us how to approach problems. certainly gave me a humility and a true It certainly helps you think clearly." appreciation of the difficulties of physics, NOT SURPRISINGLY ,St. John's but only in the math class, both junior and turns out a fair share of alumni who go on senior math, do you get to see the true for doctorates in the history of science formal beauty of physics. - alumni like David Allison, A '73, of "OF COURSE, this statement must be Alexandria, Va., now a Naval historian, seen in the light of my choice of fields. I who found the reading of classical treaam a theoretical and not an experimental tises from an historic perspective "exphysicist. So the lab program does give a tremely enjoyable." His interest led to a good sense of the guesswork in all good 1980 doctorate from .Princeton. research, and a feel for how science Going on for a doctorate in science after moves. This, in turn, provides a much St. John's frequently means taking addihealthier attitude than that engendered by tional undergraduate classes. the assimilation of the polished results of Dr. JoAnn Murray, A '70, a physicist many hundreds of years of intensive from the Metallurgy Division, National study." Bureau of Standards, who delivered the Mr. Ingham feels that the St. John's Coc.hrane Memorial Lecture last fall, program in no way prepares for the mathetook a full year of science, beginning with matical complexities of graduate study in some junior level classes, and delayed her physics. qualifying examination a year before "Going from St. John's to Hopkins, beginning her Ph.D. perhaps I alone could understand the In some ways, she believes the laboraplight of the foreign student newly arrived tory classes at St. John's are superior to in America. Like them, I was suddenly more conventional classes elsewhere beimmersed in a language of which I had the cause the experiments, designed "from most meager knowledge. When I received scratch;" have more of the real flavor of a homework assignment, I would often what science is like than the "more have to go two or three texts back from canned" experiments most undergraduour course text in order to understand ates experience. the questions, to say nothing of producChristian Burks, SF '76, now with the ing their solutions. Los Alamos National Laboratory, also 'This isn't really a criticism, since there spent a year cramming to put an underis no way for the program to rectify this graduate major in molecular biology into and retain its identity. Rather, it is a warnone year before beginning his doctorate at ing to others following my path: either Yale, take a year or two off and prepare or "Did St. John's lab program prepare prepare to spend the most horrible year or me for graduate work in molecular bioltwo you can imagine. Exhilarating, yes, ogy?" he asked. but in the way a ride on a most terrific "In a technical sense, not at all, In a conceptual sense, I would say that molec- . roller coaster is, which is not to everyone's taste. ular biology was less foreign to me than it ••Atso, and this might be rectifiable, St. would have been otherwise; but there was still a wide conceptual gap I had to bridge· John's provides no experience a subject which is the reason for being of many once I got into graduate school. science courses in other schools, namely "In the sense of developing and honing problem solving. We don't really have to analytical skills and the ability to read take a formalism, geometry, mechanics, well, I would say the lab program was a calculus ... and use it to produce answers. big help, but no more so than all the other This takes a bag of tricks which can only courses at St. John's." Although she was interested in basic be filled by much practice, This was one of biology before coming to St. John's F. the worst drawbacks I had coming here. Kay Huebner, A '64, now with the Wister For in most beginning graduate courses, Institute of Anatomy a.nd Biology in Phithe real learning is .in the .weekly homeladelphia, said the exact field in which she work assignments and at first I simply had ended up, molecular genetics, was chosen no .idea of how to approach the concrete partially because of her laboratory experproblems we were given." iments at St. John's. Oink to get his doctorate She remembers '"very fondly" her fruit fly genetics experiment but what was most Annapolis tutor Michael Dink, A '75, decisive was the laboratory course in will receive his doctorate in philos~phy in which students read and discussed all the May from Catholic University. Scientific American articles on the solving In December he passed his final examiof the genetic code. She was impressed by nation on his thesis, "A Commentary on the beauty and simplicity of the system. Plato's Sophist," an almost line-by..line In a way, she .said she was pushed into commentary which attempts to clarifythe science because of St. John's and because meaning of the text. In 1978 he received she wanted to escape all the uncertainties his master's from Catholic University with which "we all discover during our St. a thesis on Plato's Phaedo. While pursuJohn's education." ing his doctoral studies, he was a univer"St. John's, which was one of the major sity teaching assistant from 1978-80. He formative influences in my life, taught me joined the Santa Fe faculty in 1980 and the what we do not and perhaps cannot know, Annapolis faculty in 1984. and I think it taught me that basic scientific exploration and experiments, in phys(Continued from P. 6) ics, chemistry, astronomy, and biology, is ics and math, she decided, at the suggesan endeavor in which we can begin to tion of a friend, that she apply as a graduapproach truth and knowledge, or the ate student in physical oceanography. closest approach that man is capable of. ··1 ended up going to Old· Dominion Also, the work is very exciting and a lot of University in 1974 and obtaining a masfun - like the fruit fly experiments.•• ter's degree in ·physical oceanography in Jim Ingham, a silver medalist in the 1976. I then worked as a research assistant Annapolis Class of 1982, who is working in the School ofOceanography at Oregon on his ·doctorate in physics, at Johns Hopkins, also advises a year or two of State University and went on cruises to Peru and Panama." undergraduate work, writes of his exThen, becoming int~rested in the ocean's perience: role in climate, Ms. Baueen obtained her "The lab program certainly piqued my doctorate in atmospheric scien~es ~t Orecuriosity about physics. However, if any gon State. class contributed directly to my decision in Batteen �November 1985 (Continued from P. 2) rare positions of "having a great time doing exactly what I want to." And what he wants to do sounds all very worthwhile. He writes: "I received my master's of arts degree in mathematics from Indiana University in May, 1985. I concentrated my studies in real and complex analysis and in topology. I spent the spring and summer looking for teaching positions, and I was hired by the Office of Special Programs at the SUNY College at Oswego, N.Y. "I am teaching classes for academically disadvantaged students and working with a wonderfully dedicated staff of teachers and counselors. This past fall I made a presentation to the S UNY Brockport Conference on the topic of 'Non-traditional Students and Mathematics' with Dr. Joe Garafalo, of SUNY Buffalo. All in all, I am having a great time doing exactly what l want to." Frederick H. SF, is teachingjunior and senior high math and science at a Christian school in Grand Junction, Colo. classmate and friend, Dean from Seattle to New York across Europe to Bethlehem in a peace · pilgrimage and recently has been in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in an effort to talk of peace." McConnell, AGI'84, has announced the marriage of her daughter, Amy, A '78, to Dr. Robert Remington Franklin. The wedding took place at the First Presbyterian Church in Taos, N.M. David, SF 78, and Suzanne, SF '79, Doremus announce the birth of their , , second child, Helen Louise Doremus, on August 8. The Santa Fe Alumni Office has heard from Ross Robertson, SF '78. He is a credit analyst in Fort Worth, Tex., and was recently married. From Porn and Rita Collins comes word that Porn is a. second year family practice resident in Portland, Ore., with one more year to go and Rita last summer began her master's-program in deaf education. She will be ready to begin teaching by fall. .. Portland has worked out well for both of us," she writes. "There are good medi-. cal training facilities for Porn and two residential schools nearby for my student teaching this year. l think more than anything else since my St. John's days working with tlw deaf kids has made me appreciate langµage and communication. I still h:iveri 't figured out the answers, but I'm · very hopeful."' . . . .;· . .1980 Ctmck.~euben, SF, known to many as "the Printer's Oevil,"is now a journeyman . , printer: :R.ecently :he was elected into the · lriternational Typographical Union which dalms fo be "the oldest and most democratic labor o~ganization in the world." He is working-if{ the composing room of The Albuquerque Journal. ··.··;Paul Martin~ SF '80, had an exhibition - 1 oLpaintings and collages at the Latin American,Workshop in New York City last,October. He does art in his spare time. -- Paul works at Merrill Lynch as a financial consuJt.anL '1981 ·Betsy ·Mills; SF '81, was married in January·to Stephen Acciani, SF '82. Fauneil J. Rinn, SGI '81, is the new editoi: of San Jose Studies, San Jose.state ,University's journal of general and scho-larly interest covering the humanities, arts, sciences and business. Pattie. Ann Pratt, A, was married last THE REPORTE June. She is now Pattie Ann Swift and is living in Jarosa, Colo. 1982 Bonnie Linder is studying consumer protection at the Jerusalem branch of the Empire State College and hopes to complete her law degree at Hebrew University. Because of the high inflation rate and what she sees as a general lack of consciousness in Israel in the area of individual rights, she reports there is much to be done in that country before its consumers "get what they deserve for their money." Bonnie enjoys showing visitors around Hebron and invites all visiting St. Johnnies to be in touch with her. Her address is Kiryat Arbeh, Hebron, 90100, Israel. She sends news of Jeff Friedman, '70, who is residing in Samaria on the West Bank, is married, and has four children. He· works as computer programmer for the Israeli government and heads the Noah Institute, an educational project concerned with providing the non-Jewish world with information a.bout the universal values of Judaism. He also welcomes Johnnies visiting Israel. His address is: Yehoshua Friedman, Kochav Hashacher, D.N., Beker, Jericho, 90967. Work phone, 698425; home, 941965. Helen Conlon Colston, A, and her writer husband, Kenneth Colston, are the parents of a daughter, Thalia, born November 6 and weighing in at seven pounds, five ounces. Thalia is named for one of the three graces in Greek mythology and one of the nine muses - the muse of comedy. After her maternity leave, Helen last month returned to the Annaplis campus where she is the Admissions Office's alumni liaison. 1983 CORRECTION: We're sorry for errors in the last issue made in the alumni note for Malissa Kullberg. Her first name and the language institute where she studies -Dante Alighieri - were misspelled. Miriam Huaco, A, was married December 21 to Michael Komoromy. He is described as a "wonderful molecular biologist" who has just finished two years of post-doctoral work at the University of California at Los Angeles. He will be working with a genetic engineering company in San Francisco while she continues her first year of medical school at UCSF. 1984 Second Lt. Frederick B. Wynn, Jr., A, has received a parachutist badge after completing a three-week airborne course at the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. His second week there Fred received practical training by jumping from 34-foot to 250-foot towers. The final week, he made five static-line jumps, including one night jump . Kristen Hoffman Stowers, SF '84, is working as a consultant with Parson's Engineering firm in Santa Fe. She was married last August to Santa Fean Charles Stowers. Tom Larsen, SF '75, learned his blues via recordings from the best of them. Then he went on to develop an original rockblues style that is uniquely his own. His Torn Larsen Band "Generates enough raw energy to light up the whole East Coast, which is where they spend most of their time," according to a review of the band's first album, "All the Way live," in Guitar Player. an internationally distributed trade publication. The band is actually a trio. It consists of a bass player, a drummer and Torn guitarist, vocalist, harpist, mouth organist, business manager and booking agent. Although performing primarilY' in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, the group-, which "shoots for" 15 to 20 gigs a month, also plays in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts. Tom grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. "When everyone else was into rock and roll and psychedelic, I was into folk," he recalled in an interview for the magazine Guitar World. "And in all the folk movements, there were older black (blues) guys .... " Teaching himself to play the guitar and harmonica, he was influenced by Leadbelly, Bill Broonzy, Mississippi John Hurt, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. "Their music," he said, "made the rest of folk sound limp." "A lot of white guys would sit down and learn the old stuff," Larsen told Donna Morgan, a reporter for State News. "l never had the patience to do that. I'd say, Well, that's a great tune, but I'd do it this way. So I'd use other people's stuff as a basis and add my own ideas ... My music is still real bluesy, but we try to keep things danceable and put on a good show." "More than a natural musician, Larsen is a natural showman," Ms. Morgan writes. "During a performance, wearing his all-black trade-mark threads - leather pants belted with a silver chain, boots and shirt - Larsen strides through clubs playing to individuals, venturing outside to amaze passersby, generating an uproar with his antics." His band performs primarily on college campuses and in community halls. While attending St. John's, Tom played in Santa Fe and Prescott, Ariz. He received a degree in music from Salisbury State College in 1978 and has been supporting himself through his music ever since. His address is Larsen Productions, Route I, Box 312, Princess Anne, Maryland 21853. Page 11 TOM LARSEN Resident coordinator job is available Since the announcement for an opening for a resident life and facilities coordinator for the Annapolis campus appeared in The Reporter, the college has decided to divide the job. It now seeks a year-round resident life coordinator, who will be responsible for dormitory occupancy and for the board program. The job will involve such matters as room assignments and inspection, room changes and furniture moving, and working with the Delegate Council. Responsibilities for board include working with the food service, coordinating work study students in the dining hall, and handling complaints. A St. John's degree is preferred. With a range of $11,650 to $16,300. salary will depend upon qualifications and experience. To apply, write Norrie Loomis, director of personnel at St. John's. Tutors at U. of Dallas Two faculty members recently visited the University of Dallas in connection with a review of its core curriculum sponsored by t.he National Endowment of the Humanities. Thomas J. Slakey gave two talks, one to students and one to faculty, as well as participated in several small meetings. Students there read many of the St. John's authors but in courses organized departmentally. Mr. Slakey urged that faculty members experiment by teaching across departmental lines, a proposal which he said evoked "some, though by no means unanimous, interest." In January Eva Brann led a series of faculty seminars considering the intellectual connections found in works either read or proposed for the university's core courses. Chapter Chairmen Peter Kellogg-Smith, president of the alurnni's Annapolis Home Chapter, has announced names of a number of committee chairmen. They are: Planning and feasibility, Frank Atwell; bed and breakfast, Cecily Sharp Whitehill; speakers, Gil Crandall; home chapter volunteers, Bernard Gessner; war monuments, Henry Robert; Tom Parran, Junior and Senior~ Memorial. Frank Atwell: Chesapeake Bay boating, Ned Lathrop; social, Betsy Blume; telephone, Frank Wilson. Emery Jennings, right, chats with John Martin, assistant director of adm1s.sions, at a retirement party honoring Mr. Jennings and Mary Lou Neel, accountant, both of the Santa Fe campus. �) = e " i:l i) iJ cn<N t St. John's College is among approximately 20 liberal arts colleges that have been selected to participate in a new program of the lJ n iversity of Chicago's GradSc hool of Business. Under the program, St. John's nominate two students for summer following their junior year to take two or three courses and a management seminar. Tuition is covered. If the student decides on graduate studies, admission to Chicago's School of Business is guaranteed. Students are advised to apply early to George Doskow or Marianne director of career counseling, to permit St. John's to meet an April 15 deadline for its nominations. A University of Texas professor and a Washington journalist have been elected to the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College. They are Elspeth Davies Rostow, of Austin, Tex., and Michael Andrew Scully, of Washington. Former dean of the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, Mrs. Rostow is currently professor of government there. She has taught at Cambridge, Georgetown, and American Universities and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, she has served on numerous government commissions as well as the board of trustees of Sarah Lawrence and Barnard Colleges, the Overseas Education Fund, and the College Board. Mr. Scully is the founding editor of /his World magazine, a tri-4uarterly journal of religion and public affairs. author of a quarterly column for .Vationu/ Nevie1i·, he served as assistant managing editor and editor of lhe Puhlic lnreres1 from 1977-81. A former legislative assistant to Con-· necticut's Senator Lowell Weicker, he also has written for Harper:~. Fortune. !he Wall .\freer Journal. and The Washington Posr. series poss1b!e under what promto be a program of in-service study is bringing a new academic dimension to the college this year. The program comes as the result of new endowment funds esrJec11all for such study as recommended by President Edwin J. Delattre and approved the Board of Visitors and Governors in 1984. program calls for tutors to be released from a portion of their teaching responsibilities to participate in study groups, audit classes, visit other colleges with strengths that might be of use to St. John's, and to review curricular questions. Since it was approved, funds have come from a number of sources. The Beneficial-Hodson Trust has contributed $332,094 for the Annapolis campus, the board has restricted $335,000 of the Santa Fe endowment realized from the Zeckendorf condominium project for faculty study, and the new $500,000 Adolph W. Schmidt Tutorship, which frees its holder from one-third teaching to lead a study group has been added. Mr. Delattre said the Hewlett and Mellon Foundations have made challenge grants to both campuses ··~ $60,000 to Santa Fe, $90,000 to Annapolis - for presidential discretionary endowments which may be used to support faculty study. These endowments are to be matched with $180,000 and $270,000 respectively from contributors. Altogether, when all the challenge money has been raised, these endowments total $I, 767,000. · If the program continues to mature, Mr. Delattre said St. John's will be able to support a faculty than otherwise possible and to reduce the student-faculty ratio by making a new tutorial appointment possible for every three tutors released from a third of their teaching duties. and St. by degger our providing opportumt1es during the tutors who regular school year for tutors to work Sacks, Jack Stead1man. together on books and ideas of importRoger Peterson, and ance, or potential importance, to the proIts members are deu.-.tm~ gram Mr. Delattre said. intimate connection "This is the means by which the experand in opposition to the_philosophy tise and wisdom of senior tutors can be ti on with which St: John's is most fa1uma1 accessible to their newer colleagues and by - that of Plato, Aristotle, which new tutors can become qualified to cartes, Kant, Hegel, and others. teach parts of the program that are othern.ir~L•',J-'l,,,l'..JU FROM A third of their wise new to them. teaching duties in Annapolis "Of course, we normally also support pate in the Newton study group were · these studies with annual funds, such as a Michael Dink, Robert Druecker, Benrecent contribution from the Alfred Sloan jamin Milner, David and Jon Foundation, from the of St. Tuck. John's, but it is imperative to have endowThis core group has been joined by ment restricted to this purpose so that the other interested faculty members. Dealing activity will continue even in years when with the background of Newton's Princino operating funds are available for it." pia, it includes a study of documents NewCurrent faculty study groups represent ton either read or wrote between I 664 and the first use of the new endowments. 1684 when he began work on the PrinIn Santa Fe, two year-long study groups cipia. are underway. Ralph Swentzsell, a tutor In Santa Fe, only the leaders are given who has had extensive experience in the released time. laboratory program, is leading a study In addition to those financially supgroup entitled "Exploring the Implicaported study groups, the Annapolis camtions of Quantum Mechanics Theories," pus continues a ·Wednesday afternoon and James· Carey a study group based faculty study group which has been coupon Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. ordinated by Howard Zeiderman. OrganIn Annapolis, Curtis Wilson, St. John's ized five years ago on an informal basis, it tutor and a recognized authority on Newinitially was devoted to the of Huston, was released last fall from a third of serl, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein and his teachinir time to lead a semester-long, more recently has been devoted to shorter, on Newton. widely ranging topics including a number of paintings. group are Hans von Briesen, Jr., director of laboratories, and Peter D. Pesic, tutor and musician-in residence. n IS At its meetings this group is aimed toward understanding the issues Santa Fe tutor David raised Einstein against the completeleave this semester teachinl! ness of quantum mechanics (the Einsteinsity of Chicago. He is a course m Podolsky-Rosen paper), leading to "Bell's Thucydides during the quarter and theorem." Some of the interpretation as one in Plato's Phaedo the spring formulated by the primary founders, such quarter at the university's M. Olin as Born, Bohr, Heisenberg, DeBroghe, Center and the Committee Social Bohn and Schroedin!!er are being exThought. __ D � 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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