4 20 118 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/c65bb88cb42ebb688daf4d3cca2a0140.pdf 31b3c01dafa8ba0a7ee1ca6445e2af48 PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY llll1111II ~lil~l\il\~li\~[\ \(~1 1\IllII~\IIIIII The St. John's 31696 011381173 -------~-- I Volume 12, Issue 2 . Annapolis, Md. andSantaFe,-NJ.A--:--~ 1985HI $500,000 gift honors Schmidt Scholarships to be.named for Robson A new gift of$500,000 made by an anonymous donor will enable St. John's to establish an endowed tutorship honoring Adolph W. Schmidt, of Ligonier, Pa., President Edwin J. Delattre has announced. The gift was made available to Mr. Schmidt on his 80th birthday with the right to designate the money to any philanthropic institution or organization with which he has been associated. A member-emeritus of the Board of Visitors and Governors, Mr. Schmidt chose St. John's, with which he has been closely associated since 1940 and on whose board he has served almost continuously since l 950, both as a regular member and in his present emeritus capacity. President Delattre said the gift making possible the Adolph W. Schmidt tutorship will be used in part for faculty study groups and will become part of the St. John's Corporate endov, ment, which benefits both St. John's campuses in Annapolis and in Santa Fe. "Ambassador Schmidt has had an interest of long standing in continued faculty study in areas of importance to the St. John's program." President Delattre said. Two new endowed scholarship funds awarded by G.D. Searle and Company to · St. John's in Annapolis and in Santa Fe will enable the college to provide scholin honor of John E. Robson, chairman of St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors from l 983 until l 985. President Edwin J. Delattre said the scholarships have been made possible by a of$150,000fromthe Skokie, Ill., firm. was evenly divided between the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses with to each and with each endowment named for the company · Mr. Robson retired as this after two successrm·ee--ve<u terms on board. He is sabbatical in accordance with the St. John's Mr. Robson's service as a board member with his election in 1972. He is a 1952 graduate with a law degree from Harvard. Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board from 197 5 to 1977 the Ford -1\d.mrmstrat1on, he was in 1968 as under secretary - now secretary - of transportation. He had served several months as interim administrator in the Federal Urban Mass tion Administration. In 1969 he returned to the of law. Robson. P. 9) ·- 4) . l C. Jennings, who as treasurer has helped guide the Santa Fe campus through precarious times to an era of financial stability, will retire on December 31after13 years with St. John's. His successor has not been appointed. Combining what was then the position of business manager with that of treasurer, Mr. Jennings took office in May 1973 when the Santa Fe budget stood at $1,900,000. It is now just under $6miHion. His tenure also covered a period when there has been a dramatic increase in the campus's endowment, from $253,000 to more than $8-million in terms of market value. Mr. Jenning's retirement plans, partly determined by the sale of his Santa Fe condominium, calls for him and his wife of 33 years, Jean, a former teacher, to move to Littleton, Col., outside Denver. His time at St. John's marked the lengthiest single term of his 30-year career in education. He had spent seven years' ( 1966- 73) as vice-president and dean of administration at Arapahoe Community Collee:e in Littleton and Ten years (1956(See Jennings, P. 5) Nqvember With the nephew, unveiled the of the late John S. Kieffer is artist Priscilla Shore, '55, and his '54, and John Kieffer Crooke, who by Gregory Ferguson e dedicate p For a text of Curtis Wilson's talk, see page 4. The Great Hall, where portraits of paintings of St. John's presidents are mostly hung, has gained a new painting, that of John S Kieffer, president from 1947 to 1949. Alumni, who raised a fund for the project from some 150 contributors representing among them four-and-a-half decades of St.John's students, dedicated the portrait of the long-time St. John's dean and teacher whom former dean Curtis Wilson described as ..one of the giants in the earth, who helped see this program through its birthpangs, and to preserve it in its integrity through troublous times." His widow, Roxana Kieffer, present for the occasion, received a standing ovation. The painting was unveiled at homecoming . during the Alumni Associationl's annual meeting by Mr. Kieffer's nephew, C. Eric Crooke, '54, of Silver Spring, Md., and by Mr. Crooke's son, John Kieffer Crooke. On hand for the unveiling was the painter, Priscilla Shore, '55, of Santa Barbara, Calif., a member of the first class of women, whose first year at St. John's had included a seminar with Mr. Kieffer. Praising Mr. Kieffer as a man who had given new meaning to the word, "gentleman and scholar," association President David Dobreer, '44 another former student, spoke briefly in.substituting for Bernard Jacob, '54, chairman of the association's Portraits and Memorials Committee, who at the last minute was pre(See Kieffer was: P. 3) . With more than 220 nominees from which to choose, the Presidential Search Committee expects this month to complete its "short list" of 12 to 15 candidates. Working carefully and so corifidentially that it is verifying none of the names of the principal candidates, the committee hopes to interview candidates in December and then, from th'!t group, select the finalists for the presidencies of the two campuses. Campus interviews are scheduled. for January. In a report read for him at the October meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors, James Frame, '50, Search Committee chairman, said the search is moving according to schedule and committee members are "quite satisfied" by the quality of candidates. The committee, which met just prior to the board meeting, is known to be exercising extreme care in reaching its decision. In some instances, it is seeking additional information from candidates. The presidents are being selected to replace Edwin J. Delattre next July l. Earlier in the year the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors voted to end the 21-year-old practice of having a single president serve both campuses. 4 �IP Page 2 THE REPORTER ··?t~ 1941 Henry M. Robert Ill, A, received the the magazine's September 5 issue. The new corporate editor of Time, Inc., Ray flew to the Kremlin for the interview, the first face-to-face interview with, western journalists for the general secretary of the Communist Party. Despite the rigorous demands of his position, Ray is taking time to serve on the Search Committee for St. John's two new presidents. rmbh:she:d in l 876 and is used by 80 percent of all organizations. 1948 Ray Cave, A, was one of a group of five from Time who participated in the muchreferred-to cover article on Gorbachev in the magazine's September 5 issue. The new corporate editor of Time, Inc., Ray flew to the Kremlin for the interview, the first face-to-face interview with western journalists for the general secretary of the Co~munist Party. Despite the.rigourous demands of his position, Ray is taking time to serve on the Search Committee for St. John's two new presidents. 1950 People who use video display terminals rarely blink while lboking at the screen, but '"there is absolutely no evidence that using a computer has any damaging effect on vision," The 'Washington Post quotes Myron L. A, as saying. "It's just one of those things." Myron is professor of ophthalmology and biomedical engineering at Duke University. 1952 Adam A, has left his native city of New York for St. Louis, where he is director of Dance St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, he is "a great fan of St. Louis' cultural offerings," especially Opera Theatre. "We're crazy about St. Louis, .. Adam is quoted as saying. "People here enjoy life and each other. That's just not so in other cities." . 1955 Barbara Brunner Kiebler, A, is yvith Symonds and Oosterhout law firm in Lanham, Md., working primarily in real estate law. She was recently back from Geneva, where she accompanied her husband, John, a member of the U.S. delegation to the World Administrative Radio Conference. He works, in a partly diplomatic, partly scientific role, with the U.S. Space Agency to help establish the frequency of satellites used in space. 1960 Mary Gallagher, A; who was in law practice in Washington until the spring of 1983, has made a switch in careers. She is now an account executive with the brokerage firm of Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., in San Diego, Calif. 1974 Showing up at the Alumni Association board meeting, on his first visit to the campus, was a future member of St. John's Class of 2006 - Jesse Evan Zlot- ofL Rebecca Wiison, editor; Laurence Berns, Blume, Jon Lenkowski, Howard Zeiderman, Eliott Zu~ckE!ml&n, advisory board. The Reporter Is published by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD. 21404. Edwin J. Delattre, president. PubHshed five times a year, In February, April, June, September and November. Second-cla11 postage paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS 011-750 tingly in a red, white, and blue baseball suit. He weighed five pounds, 15 ounces at birth, but by the board meeting his weight had climbed to a hefty 12 pounds. Jesse's appraisal of the meeting: not terribly interesting. He slept through most of it while his mother, who is president of the Los Angeles Chapter, paid attention to business. 1975 With a doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, Tom is se1ying as a clinical psychologist with offices i·n down-. town San Diego and in nearby Encinitas. He is specializing in marriage counseling, teenagers, cocain use, and testing. Remember when, as a matter of principle, John Rogers, A, absolutely refused to work more than a few hours a day? Those days are gone forever. John arrived at homecoming after three hours of sleep the night before. His calligraphy business, Pen Ultimate, has become so demanding that a week of five hour nights isn't unusual, and ••a full night's sleep is a luxury undreamt of, no pun intended." With such clients as the American Association for Clinical Chemistry and the Society of Landscape Architects, he is barraged by officials rushing off to Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and Atlanta and all wanting finely done lettering completed in a hurry. John has reached the point when he is subcontracting his work. Marion Doylen, SFGI, married Edwin Cox on August 23 in Denver, Colo. 1976 Michael Herman and Huffman SFG I, wish to announce the birth of Joseph Benjamin on April 8. William A. Mallory, SF, is employed as a revenue officer in the Houston I RS office. In a case that became something of a cause celebre in Annapolis, Meg and Ken Kimble, A, have won the right to construct a home In Cumberland Court. After months of delay, the Annapolis Historic District Commission approved their application to build the house next to the gardens of the Paca House. The house had been fought by Historic Annapolis, which found that it would be.detrimental to the house and its gardens. With neighborly good will Mr. Kimble, himself a member of Historic Annapolis, made a number of compromises. The much discussed opposition of HA was particularly puzzling in that it had approved the remodeling, also at a wall site overlooking the gardens, of the old King George Motel. What resulted were condominiums in a building estimated to be three times as large as the proposed Kimble house. Among those testifying for Mr. Kimble was the architect for the condominiums and President Emeritus Richard E. Weigle, former Historic Annapolis president. J977 Richard, D. Smith, A, recently received his doctorate in nuclear physics at University of Maryland and is working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in California. 1979 Marjoi"ie Allison, A. who has been with the Denver Symphony Orchestra, has joined the Denver firm of CompuShor as a sales representative. 1979 Margaret A. Rude, SF, became an associate at the law firm of Shepherd, Sandberg and Phoenix on June I. J981 Steven Berkowitz, A, is a student at the (Continued on P. 11) J> November 1985 Warshawer is country's 'toughest' ultra-runner Ultrarunner Steven Warshawer, '78, polished off a 100-mile course non-stop on June 9 to break another record. He completed the Old Dominion Ultra-run in Virginia in 17 hours and 11 minutes, 39 minutes sooner than his nearest competitor. Mr. Warshawer, 27, the subject of a full-page interview Lisa Kreiger in the September 15 issue of The Washington Post. Thirteen years ago, she writes, there was not one ultrarunner in the country .. Athletes thought runs of 50 and IOO miles were impossible ...But as veterans of the conventional 26. 2 marathons began to seek new challenges, the sport has surged in popularity." In his past 10 ultraruns, Steve has won seven times, placed second once and third twice. He has broken seven records and has emerged, according to the article, as "perhaps the country's toughest ultrarunner." Steve traces his running career to his student days. In Annapolis he ran with Leo Pickens, '78, around the Naval Academy yard and with Kimo (James Clyde) Mackey, '76. "'He's the one who got me going," Steve told The Reporter. "If it had't been for him, I probably never would have started." During his junior year in Santa Fe, Steve ran with Randy Fryer, SF '78. He told Ms. Kreiger that in Santa Fe, "I'd go right up in the mountains and disappear and I'd end up on top of some peak looking out over the city. That's what really got me running, the beauty of the places I could run. The good places to run ·are spiritual...! used to see wild animals all the time. You'd go running through a herd of deer, and they'd stand there and watch you run by." A strict vegetarian, Steve has been in the field of telemarketing for seven years. In Santa Fe, he marketed natural foods for a cooperatively owned retail and , wholesale corporation. · Following a stint of marketing solar heating products, he began developing techniques for the automation of telemarketing processes. In 1981 he started his own company. He represents developers of telemarketing hardware and software nationwide in the distribution of their products overseas. STEVE WARSHAWER On the run •... Chandler aiding Gertnan progratn Philip Chandler, SF 1968, a tutor from 1976 to 1980, left in September for West· Germany where he will be assisting. the German space program, primarily in its relationship with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and with the European Space Agency. His· appointment is for a th'ree-year period. Mr. Chandler has been serving as a senior analyst with the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment in Washington for the past four years during which time he spent a semester helping . launch a St. John's type program at Kentucky State University in Frankfurt. Since leaving St. John's, he also worked for a short time with a consulting firm in energy in Annandale, Va., and with the Mitre Corporation in Asbury Park, N.J. His address is: Dr. Philip P. Chandler, II, Program Analyst, Space Station Program, DFVLR, Linder Hohe, D-5000 Koln 90, Federal Republic of Germany. 1 Alumni delay memorial proiect The Alumni Association will investigate further before proceeding with a plan to refurbish the campus's World, War I memorial by adding to it the names of St. John's students who lost their lives during. World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars. The monument, located on the central walkway, was given to the college by the Class of 1921. HenryM. Robert, IH, '41,memberofa special committee looking into the project, informed the association board the cost of its refurbishing would exceed $12,000. Before going ahead, the board directed the committee to consult with_ proper college officials, including the Campus Planning Committee. One problem: finding the names of the men who died in these 20th century wars. �I THE REPORTER November 1985 Page 3 rogra re· can Greetings, To all alumni of St. Collee:e. to all supporters of liberal ect1Lic~1.tu)n: The Liberal Studies Program at Brock University is now entering its third This is the first attempt to estabusn an integrated, four-year Great Gooks program in Canada; and the has met with some problems. There are dithcu1t1es arising from the simple fact attempting to establish this ~rf~~r~ in a large, Hn1vPr<:11·v m dition tional there is but to work within ~~··~,_.~~ ·~~""'''""~~~ In the lure of :>µ'..... ":uu.cu11uu still very strong dents; anxiety concerning future employment has resulted in some reluctance to consider such an education. Nevertheless, ,the program is alive, and we soon to see it flourishing. l am writing to make two requests. ·First, if any of you· know of Canadian students who are seeking a liberal education, and who are unaware that such a program now exists in Canada, please inform them of our existence. · Second, we are having some difficulty in. establishing a Liberal Studie's Reading Room; all books purchased by the university must be stacked within the university library. We are hoping to furnish our reading room with at least one copy of all the seminar books, but we cannot purthem ourselves. any of you have copies of seminar texts, we would receive them. In return, ncr<:>t;tnrlP a copy of OUf hrn.r-hnrP · to such Mathie Chairman, Liberal Studies Brock University St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A 1 Thanking you for your indulgence, l remain yours truly, Joseph Woodard, SF GI '80 Albert Kapikian, who was at St. John's from 1979 to 1981, recently received a letter from Bishop Papken Varjabedian: "Your journal - what a pleasant surShowering in 'Ice House': prise! It is an Armenian journal, not only for the Armenians of Greater Washingafter someone was best ton, but it is interesting for all American Armenians. To the Editor: l have no documents here to prove it, "I commend you for your bold project The squib in the September issue about but I did some historical sketches in The · and wish success with all my heart." At 23 the "lee House" interested me. I have Collegian at that time, and I seem to Albert Kapikian is the founder and editor reached the time of life when memory rememberthat the "Ice House"was added of The Armenian Capital Journal, a semiplays tricks, but I remember taking show- when inside plumbing was introduced monthly newspaper aimed at both Washers there in the twenties and thirties. In and, I believe, about the beginning of Dr. ington's 5,000 Armenians, "who are trying winter one usually tried to shower after Fen·s presidencey. to get things done," and Armenians who someone else, when the hot water had We had no "security''. at.that time that I - live across the nation. ·warmed the atmosphere. Late Saturday can remember aside from the proctor who 'A l 985 graduate in journalism of the night was good because continuous use was a senior Student Council representaUniversity of Maryland, Mr. Kapikian had made it quite comfortable. tive. · put out his first issue in April to fill what There may have been other showers in Thank you for The Reporter, which l he saw as a void in the District's Armenian· the lavatories - the first floor under the always find interesting, and praying God's community. Other such papers exist in east staircase and on the second and third blessing upon St. John's and each of you, I New York and in California, but none toward the front of the building from the am., there. · east. stair.case. The hall bedrooms at the The need has become more evident ·Faithfully· yours, 'other end were the only ..singles.. which I since the capitol's population has grown The Rev. Fred G. Yerkes, '32 managed to have in my junior and senior as Armenians have fled more recently to 1719 King St. years. I think we all showered in the "Ice the United States from Lebanon and Iran, Jacksonville, FL 32204 House." the two countries to which many immigrated when one to two-million Armenians died in the first major genocide of this century. ..Who remembers the Armenians?" scoffed Hitler, in the midst of the (Continued from P.1) by a proposal to move both the program genocide of the Jews. · vented from attending. and the coUege away from Annapolis. , Albert Kapikian does. He's halfDr. Dobreer stressed Mr. Kieffer's im"John, with many others, was commitportance particularly as a central figure in Armenian. His 8~year-old grandfather, the transition leading to the New Program ted to keeping both the college and the 'Zareh, is a pillar in the Armenian com. in 1937. Mr. Kieffer had joined St. John·s program in Annapolis, If the outcome of fliunity in Flushing, N. Y., and practically . as an instructor in classical_languages in t~e dispute, had been different, would we , runs the Armenian cathedral in New 1929-30 and, as an ardent supporter of the ·.be meeting on this campus today? York. Once voted Armenian man of the New Program, had become a tutor in year, he supplies Albert with almost daily ..Another land mark decision was reach1939. tips on stories he might pursue. ed in the fall of 1948. St. John's admitted "Truly he was a key figure in maintain- the first black student in its history, MarAlbert's own father came to Washington to work at the National Institutes of ing that- continuity which permits pro- tfo Dyer, of ~altimore." gress, especially in the two years that he Health. In expressing he-r thanks to alumni, served as president of this institution, dur~ Mr. Kapikian represents virtually a Mrs. Kieffer also said: "A word about the ing that difficult period after (Stringfelone-man staff. About 60 per cent of the committee's foresight in selecting Priscilla low) Barr and (Scott) Buchanan's depar3,500 readers to whom he mails live in the Shore, an artist who, as one of our own, Washington area and the remainder elseture," he said. k~ew her subject well. You and she togethIn expressing her appreciation, Mrs. where. A recent issuetlfthis well".'designed er have made the presence of John Kieffer Kieffer also spoke of his presidency. 12-page tabloid shows artic;les devoted to felt again in McDowell Hall." "From the safe distance of l 985, it is Turkish terror, to Reagan speech writer "And, you have made today one of the hard to recall how crucial the situation KenKhachigian, to the relaxed attitude of was in 1946-47," she said ...The historic happiest of the 20,214 mostly happy days the Armenians who make up 90 per cent that I have been at St. John's." identity of St. John's had been threatened of Soviet Yerevan, to Armenian poetry, Kieffer was central figure SJ music, and literature. It included one short story. Since it started earlier this year, Mr. Kapikian has been interviewed on the Voice of America. ces ofpersonnel Norrie Loomis in Annapolis and Carol Schneider in Santa Fe will handle all matters of personnel, with the exception of . payroll, for the 156 employees on the eastern campus and the I IO employees in Santa 'Fe. They will report directly to the president. Currently seeking to establish unifying as well as clear and equitable policies for both campuses, the two directors assume duties reflecting complex personnel matters that have developed over the past 30 years in burgeoning and frequently chang. ing state and federal regulations. In addition, they will be concerned with policies r~lating to insurance, benefits, hiring, firing, and retirement procedures, job descriptions. staff salary plans, and complaints and problems. Both will be available to answer questions and to serve as liaisons between the staff and supervisors. They will help update staff handbooks, serve on grievance committees, and keep record systems up to date. In addition, they will attempt to keep abreast of laws and regulations that may change overnight. · · "These laws affect equal employment opportunity, the wage and hour act, age discrimination, workmen's compensation, and unemployment as well as regulations .of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the Labor Department," Mrs. Loomis said. Both directors are members of the College and University Personnel Association, which helps keep such information current. In Santa Fe M's Schneider is spending some time working on faculty retirement, a new concern since there have been no faculty retirements th us far on the 21year-o ld campus. �Annapolis tutor Curtis Wilson at P'n:s1clent, Mrs. Kieffer, fellow alumni: John Kieffer in April 1948, on my first visit to the college: I from New York to talk with Jacob Klein the dissertation as~;1g11ed me at Columbia University. A friend said to me: "And ask for a job." And so I and that was what brought me President's Office in McDowell. remark that John Kieffer made to me that do remember with co1mi:,1e1:e a1st1mctm:ss. and hesitate to tell you what it was. More memorable word was his simple I remember his as he his auiet. di1mified. unhurried manner, and his ..........,.,..,,.,.his way of "Yes," in supportive sort of way. I knew about classicist or his devotion to this I knew anogeuier honest one. That will. to n rr.rl " " " ' in his study~ and it. m€!nt1011ed the vividly remembered remark, I guess I have to tell you At the end of the interview John Kieffer said, in reference to my college, that it would make a man of me. On many subsequent occasmns. when the going got tough, I would remember that prediction, UJ4'•r>l1IPTllnO what1 it meant .. learhed more\about.who John Kiefferi\was. Among other \ a great Ht>~ral, a th~ughtful liberal, who belie'ved that liberalism connected with the practice of the liberal arts. As pl~mr1ed and fostered a series of Sunday evening speakers on 001Jt1ca1 topics. He believed that active participation in one's political coimnmrnt-v was important some time early in the 50s, John Kieffer surprised me in his way of ,..,.-.......,...,,..,..;..,.,,.,.Aristotle's notion of the good man. The goodness of Aristotle's required a community of peers or fellow-citizens whose needed and listened to. Human goodness was a way of being in a c01:nnm11u1tv - and such fulfillment as one could hope for was the of the community. l suppose this surprised me because somehow, like so many young people, I had been thinking of goodness as a ~nrnr•~Prl me, too, that he combined his interest in the Platonic dialogues in William James. He was not fond of making the quarrel of (Omtim.H~ from P. 1) Tutors who are named to occupy the W. Schmidt Tutorship will be r""'"°""n ~~one third of their duties to lead members everywhere. A tutorship in his name for the college as a whole and named to the tutorship m accoraance with the educational needs and of the two campuses," he said, ··and the work of the study groups will study in areas of importance to the John's program." OVER TIME, THE study will include political.economic, and monetary theory. In addition to separate endowments for each of the two campuses, the St. John's board in 1971 established a third endowment - its Corporate Endowment - to serve both campuses. The Board of Visitors and Governors distributes incomes the at its discretion. gift will increase its Mr. Delaure produdn~ assets from $200,000 per cent. expansmn of the Corporate Enintended to serve the unity of fulfillment as one college," f\aomn :SchmuU has been one of the in the maturation of St. John's 1-".-•.,,ar!:itm .. he said. '"His to St.John'sjp Annapolis and Santa Fe sets a sta'ndard for'hoa~d ADOLPH W. SCHMIDT emphasizing continued learning ,and study by faculty is in the highest' trnditioh the ancients and the moderns more of a quarrel than it had to be. He knew that this world was not the static place Plato imagined it tO be, and that evolutionary change had to be taken into account, and he saw the pragmatism of William James as embodying the alteration that Platonism 11::eeded-to · submitto. think the finest statement of what John Kieffer took to be the !lnnr1"\n1·1!l1~P aim for human the last lecture he gave at the College, in autumn of 1968. It in the College magazine for April 1969, which of a sculpture of Socrates on the front cover. I commend it to title of the lecture is taken from James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan "A World I Never Made." AU of us, John Kieffer were born into a world we never made. And the lesson he draws from Farrell's you can. withou't half did not make the act even when we claim to be toward the end of the is an activ1t" the conditions under which we under rather than is natural to us. Though we did not make the into which we came. tells us that we are makers; that by our living we make the world partly new; that if we attain wisdom, we may even make our part of the world a little better. This, he says in conclusion, is a small and finite hope, but it is at least genuine. 1 ' John Kieffer lived in accordance with those remarks. His devotion to this coHege was immeasurable. After being president, he was director of adult educ:ahion. director of the European seminar, director of the summer freshman program, dean for seven years. Earlier he had been assistant dean. He taught in aH phases of the program, laboratory, language, mathematics as well as seminar. With all that, he was a classical scholar to his fingertips. Honesty there meant precision and care, and as scholar he was meticulously precise, but never a mere technician. His book on Galen's logic, written in the late '50's, shows those qualities. I can hever think of John Kieffer in a merely detached, impersonal way, he has had so much to do with my own life. It was in an adult seminar of which he was leader and I, at his invitation, co-leader, in the summer of 1952, that I first met and argued with the woman whom I immediately decided I must to persuade to be my wife. Our first son was named John, in the hope that honestv and 1wodness of his namesake might descend upon as l think it for me a valued counseHor. With Becky aild with with him the before he died. When heard the words that came to me were, An oak of a man has fallen. on, Each of us and Kieffer, I would never tried to deny or obscure that fact. But there are also things to preserve and to remember;· He was one of the giants in the Earth who helped see this program through itso birthpangs, and to preserve it in its integrity throui:;h troublous times. It will .be good to have a portrait to help us remember. of St: John's, How very grateful all of us are." , In 1976, at a dinner launching a campaign for $25-million for St. John's, Mr. Schmidt said that after his then 36 years of involvement at St. John's his appraisal was "that St. John's is the finest undergraduate liberal arts program in the United States today - barring none. I only wish it had been available at my university . when I was an undergraduate." His association dates to a Life magazine story about the college in February, 1940, one which led to a meetin_g with Stringfellow Barr, first president of the New Pro· gram. A FORMER ST. John's board chairman, Mr. Schmidt served as ambassador to Canada from 1969 to 1974. Described by The Pittshurg Press as one of the key men in ~he Pittsburgh's postwar redevelopment, Mr. Schmidt has served as governor and vice-president of T. Mellon & Sons, president and trustee of the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, trustee of the Old Dominion F oundation, and a trustee of the Carnegie Institute in u.~•~h .. n·,h He is a graduate of Princeton University and of the Harvard Graduate School of Business administration. He also has studied at the Universities of Dijon, ' lin, and Paris. · ·· · ' ' ; :1 Since 1949, Mr. Schmidt has worked extensively to develop greater political unity between the democracies surrounding the North Atlantic. He served as an official United States delegate to the Atlantic Congress held in London in 1959 and by appointment of the speaker of the House to the Atlantic Convention of NATO nations in Paris in 1962. As an outgrowth of his Atlantic interests, Mr. Schmidt has been for many years interested in critical population issues. He helped organize the World Population Emergency campaign at Princeton in 1960, the Population Crisis Committee in Washington in 1965, and after his return from Canada in 1974, the Env~ronmental Fund. During World War II, he served from captain to lieutenant colonel in the Army, assigned to OSS in Africa and Europe and on the Allied Control Commission in Berlin. Mr. Schmidt was co-founder of the Pittsburgh Playhouse in 1934 and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1937. on rft1nri~ll'" Annapolis tutor Elliott Zuckerman has been named to the board of the Shriver Hall Concert Series in Baltimore. �Page 5 THE REPORTER November 1985 Mayor rights matters Phew! Co Although St. John's might not have lost much sleep worrying about it, it gave you something to think about. Had it not been for a nice piece of municipalese, for the past 15 years the college could have been considered illegal, you know -the whole college operation. That was up until last month when <'>fficials decided to right the .situation completely. Never mind the act establishing St. John's as a college 201 ·years ago. Ac· · · · cordmg to the C-1 zonmg under which St. John's was placed in the city's last com· t f 1970 St J h , h ·· phred ebnsLve zom~g ac o . ' . .o n s a een authonzed to exist-as a kmder. garten or as a high school but not as a college. Annapolis;s senior planner Francis Silberholz said the c..:1 ConservationResidential District is the right one for St. John's. It's been the type of district set aside for such non-commercial enterprises as schools, parks, libraries, museums, art galleries, and record buildings. The trouble is whoever wrote the act · neglected to put in the word "colleges." But the situation really was not as bad as when it first appeared the college was illegal. Eileen director, the city that pre-date nance, the college holds a conforming use" status. To ~A1µa1,1u, ever, it must have the situation corrected. · h dd"f t f Not a actor mt e a . i wns o Randall and the shp-up was . . discovered only with olans to renovate the boat house. Mayor Richard L Hillman and Alder .. ·d man 1o hn H ammon moved t o remed y tt · September when they proposed ma e.rs m _ . the C~ty Code be amended to permit colleges m areas zoned C-l. ·By October l 4, after proce~ding through all the necessary steps, the city erased ~ny doubts of th.e matter, ai:id St. Joh.n's, .'f 1t was ever senously worned about its nght to exist as a college, can give a sigh of relief. It can now be a college. Delattre addresses aluinni J. President Edwin Delattre reminded renovation of Francis Scott Key, Mellon, alumni at their annual Alumni Associa- and the boat house." tion meeting that one result of the move to In Santa Fe, plant debt has been retwo presidents will be to cut the alumni- duced from $2.5-million to less than $1. presidential ratio in half. million. .. In all such matters, St. John's has "The Advancement Office there is opted for small ratios," he told members working - on long shots to be sure, but assembled in the Conversation Room. working -on the prospective major donIn a brief state-of-the-college talk, he ors for a library." reminded alumni that the move to two President Delattre said he wanted to presidents is one that was carefully delib- thank two persons that day. erated in 1968, 1978, and during the past In his opening comments, he paid tribacademic year. ute to Thomas Parran, former alumni "This step was never possible when sur- director, who died five days later, for his' vival for Santa Fe was in the balance, but vision of the Alumni Association which it is the only way to take full advantage of was reorganized on a nation-wide basis in the opportunities before St. John's now 1982. "His convictions about the possible for participation of the presidents in the became my own, and all of us owe him Iife of the college, including its internal profound debts of gratitude." intellectual life, and for their representaThe other was Adolph W. Schmidt, a tion of the college regionally and locally as member-emeritus of the Board of Visitors well as nationally. and Governors, who recently identified "l think it is a profoundly important SL John's as the college he wished t9 have and valuable step." an endowed chair in his name. There are some risks, he added, and the "'The tutorship, which will be held by one most mentioned is the risk of unity to tutors from both campuses over a period the college. · of time, releases the tutor to devote one "But in my judgement the unity of the third of his or her work to leading a study college derives from this academic pro- group for faculty and thus promotes not gram, from the ever-improving coopera- only the college's unity but also its capaction of individual counterparts on the two ity to ensure that the work in the program campuses, from careful communication of experienced tutors will be accessible to between the two, from student transfer other tutors, perpetuating the educational and faculty exchange, from the joint In- health of St. John's," Mr. Delattre comstruction and Faculty Salary Committees, mented. from the unity of the board and from the unity of the Alumni Association as well as the unity and uniformity of the college's governing documents. Seven receptions are taking place in 'The presidents will be well-instructed major cities across the country this fall for about the importance of unity to St. prospective students and their parents. John's and will surely be qualified t_o Helen Colston, who serves as the Adappreciate it. Accordingly, I doubt that missions Office alumni liaison, said they the risk is very great to St. John's as one ·were held in October at the Salmagundi college . ., Club in New York and at the homes of two In reviewing what he described as "pro- members of the Board of Visitors and found progress" toward the financial se- Governors, Ginger S. Kenney, '67, in the curity of the college, Mr. Delattre offered Boston area, and John Van Doren, '47, in his thanks for the assistance of alumni and the Chicago area. friends. This month receptions are planned at He continued: the homes of four other alumni. One will "Annapolis now has nearly $15. 5- be given'November 10 at the Reston, Va., million in endowment, Santa Fe $8.5- home of Sharon Bishop Daily, '65, in the million. Both campuses have cumulative Washington area, another November 16 reserves from operations and no operat- at the home of Jeremy P. Tarcher, '53, in ing deficit. Here, the physical plant is Los Angeles, a third November 17, at the entirely paid for, and we have raised home of Thomas M. Carnes, '52, in San $515,000toward the $3.2-million need for Francisco, and a fourth November 24 at Richard Bank adds a page to his novel. photo by James O'Gara SF tutor is writing by MARY SUE LAUREL You might not think of Rousseau in conjunction with the 1960s, but Santa Fe tutor Richard Bank definitely had Rousseau in mind whan he began writing Autumn Blue, his fir.st novel. Mr. Bank, who is in his second year of teaching at the college, employs the ideas of Rousseau in a book he describes as a political-philosophy work written to show the attempt of a young rebellious man who uses the "confrontation politics" of the 60s to challenge what is shown to be the "uncaring and egocentric philosopy" of the '80s. The novel is based loosely on a scandal that occurred while Mr. Bank was teaching at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Epigraphs from Rousseau himself form a prelude to each chapter. His theories and philosophy are explored in a classroom setting. These are then juxtaposed in alternate chapters to real life. Mr. Bank feels the "confrontation politics" of the 60s simply won't affect the jaded, self-centered mentality of the 80s. By showing the failure of confrontation, Mr. Bank hopes to ••make an impression on that 80s mentality." He hopes that people won't simply tum Alumni hold receptions the home of Edward Mullinix, '45, in Philadelphia. AH the receptions are held from 2 to 5 p.m. · Attending will be alumni and professional staff members. The Alumni Office will/play host for a luncheon fpr theJTl preceding each reception. The seven receptions represent an expanded number over the four held last year in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Washington. They proved highly successful in recruitment efforts. Mrs. Colston said that 20 of the secondary students attending completid applications to St. John's with 17 actually enrolling. In addition, last year the San Francisco Chapter invited prospective students and their parents to attend a meeting in which Tom Simpson of the Sanfa Fe faculty was the speaker. k away from the horrors of modern life but instead will explore their own consciences. Mr. Bank finds in Rousseau a crying need to examine the human spirit. He sees Rousseau as saying that we must not forget to expand our spirits in the midst of an intellectual enlightenment. Although this is his first novel, Mr. Bank has written one-act plays in the genre of the Theatre of the Absurd. One such play, The Rock, was based on the Myth of Sisyphus and was performed by friends for local high schools. Mr. Bank also began experimenting with the use of novels to supplement the theories he was teaching in his political science courses and thought of writing a novel for this format. Finding himself with a year on his hands, he embarked on what he called a "self-financed sabbatical" and formally began Autumn Blue. Even though he is excited about the novel, he feels that his tutorial duties, among other things, are more important. He wants to become ..fluent in the St. John's curriculum." Two of the first books he read as a political science major were The Apology and The Credo, so he feels at home with the program. He also is building on land he is buying just outside of Santa Fe. He and his wife Laura are expecting their second child in January. Their son, Robin, is three years old. A l 97 4 graduate in political science from the University of Denver, Mr. Bank earned his master's degree and doctorate in l 97 5 and 1979 from the University of California at Sarita Barbara. Jennings retiring (Continued from P. I) 1966) as a junior and senior high school and community college mathematics instructor at Longview, Wash. From 1949 to 1956 he was an industrial accountant with the Weyerhaeuser Company in Longview and with a small firm in Wyoming. A Lawrence College graduate, Mr. Jennings holds a master's degree from Reed College and a doctorate from the University of Denver. The Jennings have a son and two grandchildren. �sabbatical brook has plungeu of concert at the works with the \Juun...,L and Salisbury, Md., Earlier there had been a weekend at Yaddo, the center for and composers near Saratoga, which he is a director. A week after the concert there was the homecoming banquet where the Alumni Association awarded him an honorary membership. All the while he was immersing himself in resumes of presidential candidates for the two campuses preparatory to a meeting of the Search Committee in New York which came two days after the alumni dinner. Serving as faculty representative on the Search Committee will be the final act of community service before Mr. Allan-_ brook retires at the end of the year to devote his full time to composing. ''Final" has the wrong connotations to it. He will return to St. John's for an occasional lecture, and certainly there will be more concerts. He will continue to be a presence on campus, but Mr. Allanbrook, who devotes his summers to strenuous composing and writes music during the school year as tutorials and seminars permit, wants to release the strength of his energies to what for him is the supreme satisfaction of composing. MEANWHILE, HE will be in Columbia, Md., November IO where the city's Pro Contare Choral Society will sing his two magnificent renditions of Tennyson's .. Break, Break, Break" and "Calm Is The Morn." Commissioned by the Salisbury Choral and sung for the first time last spring to an accompaniment by the Annapolis Quintet, they obviously moved concert-goers when they were repeated at his September 20concert. The final "calm" maintained in a dramatically peaceful moment over eight measures was breath-taking for both singers and audience alike. The concert marked the premiere of a major piece for piano and French horn, "Twenty-five Building Blocks," composed this summer at the request of Arthur Brooks of the Annapolis Brass Quintet and performed as a grand duo by him with Mr. Allanbrook. Mr. Brooks, who has performed Mr. Allanbrook's music in the past, considers him "one of the most important living composers today." Mr. Allanbrook, who admires Mr. . Brooks, has compared him in his technical brilliance tot.he young Horowitz. Two other compositions, "Commencement Exercises,". first performed for the 1985 commencement, and "Five Marches for the Quick and the Dead" ( 1979), both performed by the Annapolis quintet, brought a good deaJ ot comment in conversation at the reception that followed the concert. Evocative, ambiguous, mysterious, subject to varying interpretations, they are like a good book that needs to be read again to understand all they contain. Members of the audience will hope to hear them soon. A composer since about the age 13, Mr. Allanbrook has returned to teaching amid a bright run of commissions, premieres, and recordings after a year's sabbatical spent writing music in his sunny, loft of a studio at his home on Revell Street. ..._____ -- ·---- ---· --- --~ m Douglas Allanbrook composes at his piano. LO'~gy Scho~l of There he was able to ous composition teacher, ger. In December of that year he was drafted. His military service included two years in Italy as a sergeant in the Infantry. In 1946 he returned to this country and resumed his musical studies at where he studied with Walter Pis,ton and secured his bachelor's degree in 1948. From 1948-50 he was a traveling fellow of Harvard at the Conservatoire Paris, where :he again was able to study with Nadia Boulanger. From 1950-52 he was a Fulbright fellow, studying principally in Naples at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella and a student in harpsichord and early keyboard music of Ruggero Gerlin. His first big performance came in 1947 when the National Cathedral Choral Society and the National Symphony Orchestra presented his "Te Deum" with Paul Calloway directing. The National Symphony also premiered his First Symphony, commissioned by the Ford Foundation for its 1960-61 season. In 1952 he joined the St. John's faculty. For a three-year period, from l 955 to 1957, he also taught composition and theory at Peabody Conservatory . Summers he has sperit at both the McDowell Colony and at Yaddo, the center for writers, painters and composers near Saratoga of which he is a director. Yaddo was where he did much of his work for an opera based upon Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Alley. An earlier opera based upon Edith Wharton's Ethan Frame he completed during his years in Italy. . In addition to this country, his music has been heard in Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and Ireland. piano and harpsichord music. He wrote the piece for Mr. Brooks at the young musician's request because Mr. He is one of the few composers today writing for the harpsichord; some of it was Brooks feels Mr. Allanbrook "writes remarkably well for brass instruments. He premiered by the late harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick. has a wonderful grasp of the brass idiom Music has not been simply the only for someone who is a pianist. His music works very well." thing bringing Mr. Allanbrook's name to MR. BROOKS BASES his opinion in the forefront this fall. Last month The part on Mr. Allanbrook's Symphony for Great Ideas Today published as part of its Brass and Orchestra, originally commiss- . 1985 edition a lecture he had given earlier at St. John's: "The Inefficacy of the Good: ioned by the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. The Annapolis Brass Quintet perOn Reading Thucydides." formed it in Stuttgart last September and Mr. Allanbrook also has lectured on last year in a second concert in Dublin, Homer, on Pascal, and on the Risorgiwhere it was recorded for Irish radio. mento. The quintet also recorded the symphOne of the joys of his sabbatical year, in ony in Munich for German national addition to having more time to compose, radio. (The symphony has been performto read history, and to read all of Proust in French, was to acquire an extraordinary ed in Illinois by the Chicago Brass Quintet.) new harpsichord built for him by Richard Last spring at St. John's commenceRephann, director of the instrument colment Mr. Brooks took part in a perforlection and principal harpsichordist at mance of Mr. Allanbrook's "ComYale University. The instrument has a mencement Exercises," written for the tone so rich that listeners feel as if they Brass Quintet and commissioned by St. were hearing the harpsichord for the first John's Bicentennial Committee to signal time. the end of a year celebrating its Charter of It will be there for both new composi1784. tions and for practice in his retirement. Following his retirement, his wife, Wye Recently it was recorded by Crystal Allanbrook, a musicologist, who is also Records of California together with Mr. Allanbrook's "Night and Morning Music" on the St. John's faculty, will continue to teach. As chairman of the Campus Plan-· for brass quintet. The Brass Quintet also St. John's College's senior class reached ning Committee and a member of the has recorded another Allanbrook piece: 100 this fall, two more tha l 984's class of Instruction Committee, she is one of St. · 98 and largest since the inception of the ''Invitation to the Side Show, "inspired by John's most active women in terms of New Program in 1937. a painting by the same name by the academic life. Together they share reFrench pointillist, Georges Seurat. Nancy Lewis, registrar, said overall colsponsibilities for their seven-year-old son, There is still another commission to be lege enrollment totaled 394, one less than completed. The Children's Chorus and John Vincent, a second grader at Key the 395 for the 1982-83 figure, which also Orchestra of the New Philharmonic · of School. was the largest since 1937. St. John's limGlen Ellyn, lll., has asked for a piece the While Mr. Allanbrook is unwilling to its itself to an enrollment of 400~ a figure chorus can sing when the philharmonic . characterize his music, musicians who customarily exceeded when a small, midhave listened to it have described it as dedicates its new hall outside Chicago year class of freshmen enters in January. being, in addition to its moving quality, next year. This. year the Annapolis campus also intelligent and finely wrought - a quality has 83 juniors, 104 sophomores, and 107 The new compositions come as an exexpressed in its wit and construction. He freshmen. tension of a sizeable body of work that is known to pay scrupulous attention to three years ago won Mr. Allanbrook a In Santa Fe, undergraduate enrollment precise coloration and· manages to attain stands at 276. Class sizes include 91 freshmajor expression of recognition from the American Academy and Institute of Arts in his compositions both lyrical and dra- me~, 87 sophomores, 60 juniors, and 38 matic qualities. and Letters. For his achievements as a semors. composer, he was selected as one of four A pianist of what The Washington Post Santa Fe's year-round Graduate Insticomposers from across the country to has described as "compelling accomtute enrolled 38 in Santa Fe and 21 in receive $5,000 awards. plishment," Mr. Allan brook can't recall Albuquerque. The Annapolis campus, Besides his brass music, Mr. Allan:.. what his first piece was when he began with 10 students, this fall seeded a master's brook has written seven symphonies, two composing music as a boy in Melrose, program in Baltimore similar to that operas, four string quartets, and ''endless" Mass., a suburb of Boston. "I think I offered in Albuquerque . Senior class sets record �The re.l<itlcmslh1D ation and the rei:,re~;ents a "fine md!epem:ter1ce, coopera.... "r,....,,.se," President Eda letter dl51CUSS1Il2 relat10nsh10 and sent to alumni officials. Delattre said he had put down some thoughts because he wants to be sure that there will be "an enduring understanding o1what we have done together and how we have organized the relations between the college and the Alumni Association. "It seems to me that such an account will be useful as we make the transition to two presidents and as they, in their tum, lend their efforts in behalf of the college and its alumni."' In his letter, Mr. Delattre makes a number of points: The association and college are distinct entities, each with responsibilities for its own governance. Just as St. John's is united, the association, like the college, is one thing. Despite their independence, the two entities share common purposes: alumni should participate in the life of the college; they should hold positions on the Board of Visitors and Governors; the college should serve the ongoing intellectual lives of its alumni; alumni should participate in recruiting students. Both are committed to the financial and educational well being of the college. "Ever since we ·began work together in 1980, along with other alumni and with college officers, we have taken the position that the educational programs for alumni and the special events for alumni, such as homecoming and summer seminars included, should be kept distinct from the solicitation of financial support from · alumni," Mr. Delattre said. Chicaao: • l "Dick Watson ('34, a fullback) knocked the Hop kins guys six feet across St. John's Street," Frank Wilson related. Although the campus was legally off limits to Annapolis police, "Governor Ritchie declared martial law, and six or seven Johnnies were arrested and thrown in jail. President (Douglas) Gordon had to go down and bail them out." That was the year Roy Shawn, '35, was kidnapped, Mr. Wilson reminded his classmates. Mr. Shawn was walking to his home in West Annapolis when a carload . of Hopkins students picked him up and carted him off to Baltimore .. "The loss of a rat cap was the only loss he suffered," Rat- Tat reported. write. He has sold short stories recently to Woman's World and McCalls. Mr. Bailey considered a career in journalism, accord. ing to the yearbook. Editor-in-chief of the Collegian, he became an accountant. instead and is now semi-retired. Another alumnus who profited from the one-on-one teaching arrangement is Mr. Wilson, who worked for insurance companies before retiring. He was the only student in a Latin class taught by John Kieffer, a faculty member mentioned as .a favorite by several of those at the reunion. John Woodman, who continues to practice law, recounted an incident illustrating the compassion a professor displayed for his students. On a Saturday morning, he (MR. SHAWN OF ANNAPOLIS reginformed political science professor Joseph istered to attend the reunion but had to Kings bury that his father was ill and asked cancel at the last minute because of illness. whether he could take his exam, scheBefore retirement, he was a marketing duled for Monday, on Sunday so that he manager serving as liaison between manucould leave for New York. For their reunion banquet, they gather-_ facturers and the National Aeronautics "Why don't you go tonight? I've already ed in the private dining room of Randall and Space Agency.) marked your grade in my book," Mr. Hall, where the men were presented with Mr. Donohue, an outstanding athlete Kingsbury said, and added that under the boutonnieres of orange chrysanthemums, of the era, was an All-American lacrosse circumstances. Mr. Woodman would not Alumni directors are responsible for all a gift of the class of 1975. The centerpieces player in his sophomore and junior years have to take the exam. program activities, he pointed out, while were donated by the same class, which was and was a member of the team that won His classmates commented that John the development officers are responsible holding its 10th reunion. the world championship in lacrosse. Woodman had a reputation as a brain. for fund raising. The classmates chuckled over the bus Mr. Hurlock also was recognized for "l view this distinctiveness as instru- hijacking incident. In 1934 the King WilAfter graduation he stayed on at St. his scholastic ability. A retired metallurmental to our achievements both in the liamPJayersproduced"GoodbyeAgain," John's as a coach until intercollegiate gist, he made the Dean's List all four alumni programs and in alumni financial and the response was so enthusiastic that sports were abolished in 1937 with the years. support of St. John's, and trust that it will they arranged to repeat the performance advent of the New Program. During a be preserved," he said. The men inquired after Miriam Strange, in Salisbury. career in the insurance business, Mr. retired registrar, and Isabelle Simpson, "We were wise, t think, to conclude that Charles Catherman, '35, of CumberDonohue continued to officiate at athletic retiring this year as assistant to the presithe association should be an autonomous events, including refereeing the Orange land, Md., commandeered the bus in dent, and called them "two great ladies." institution with its own tax-exempt status, which the players had ridden to th·e EastBowl in 1958. "St. John's had a remarkably good its own board of directors, its authority to em Shore and drove the cast and crew to Ed DeLisio, a semi-retired contractor, faculty for the depths of the Depression," grant honorary membership, its authority Ocean City and back. also distinguished himself in both football Mr. O'Donnell observed. to grant charters for local chapters ... " he -·- and basketball. At the banquet, he descontinued. THEN THERE WAS the streaker. To cribed himself as a ..dummkopf" who was The shadow the Depression cast over eternally grateful to the late Ford K. win a $1 bet, James Hays, '35, (decease~) their student years and the death or illness Mr. Delattre expressed approval of the Brown for introducing him to English of classmates were the only somber notes fact that the association bylaws are com- ran nude through downtown Annapohs literature. long before the word "streaker" was in struck during the reunion. patible with those of the St. John's CharAlthough their tuition seems miniscule ter and Polity as well as compatible with .. common _usage.. "Everybody loved him ... " "He was such by today's standards,.it was simply out of a versatile guy ... " The classmates seemed The.episode d1scuss~d at greatest, length the authority of the board, college officers, and faculty. and with the most rehsh, however .• was a almost in awe of Mr. Brown's intellectual reach for many parents in the early '30s, Mr. Wilson said. Several of those present brilliance and athletic ability. They recallegendary donneybrook which erupted in .. Naturally, it will fall to our successors mentioned their distress when lack of the men's freshman year. led how the former Rhodes scholar would to preserve this fine combination of indefunds made it necessary for gifted classAt that tim.e, intercollegi~te athletics show up in the gymnasium every day in a pendence, cooperation, ·and shared purwere taken with deadly senousness. In sweatsuit to work out at handball. mates to drop out before graduation. · pose," he said. fact, the college's long-standing rivalry . Along with waiting ta.hies and carryi.ng He added that it will be important for with the Johns Hopkins University makes out ashes, St. Johnnies found a rather John O'Donnell, a mathematics major, them to grasp the principles that are now today's feud between the Washington bizarre way to earn money. Mr. Delisio pointed out that at the request of a single being applied. Among them is that the Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys look recalled that Midshipmen would hire student, St. John's would schedule a college is eager to provide services to the like a spat between opposing teams of a them at $1 a night to occupy beds at the course even if no one else signed up. association through its alumni directors women's bowling league. Naval Academy so that the Mids could Under this s"tipulation, he studied Russian and through budgetary provision. Traditionally the Johnnies lit a bonfire stay out all night. literature with Mr. Brown. "The communication assures that where on the corner of St. John's Street and Money may have been scarce, but for THE YEARBOOK describes Mr. association activities and projects are .inCollege A venue the night before their the men attending the reunion, their stuO'Donnell as "indeed a man of many dependent ()f St. John's, the college is football game with Hopkins. On this dent days were rich in comradeship and parts .... he reveals that he likes to write but aware, and that where the activities are memorable evening, Hopkins students intellectual opportunities. And their is too lazy to do it." Retired after a career underiaken mutually, necessary details journeyed to Annapolis with the intention memories of those four years remain vivid selling office equipment, Mr. O'Donnell is are not neglected." of i~~Wng the 9re themsel.ves. and fresh. pr9yiµ~Jha,t ,he is by np mea!1s w~ lazy to , by DOROTHY KINSMAN Solemn-faced, hands clasped behind their backs, the 33 seniors stare out from their group picture in the 1935 yearbook, Rat- Tat. Neat. ly trimmed hair is parted, precisely or combed straight back. The uniform is a three-piece suit, white shirt, conservative tie. Seven of the 33 got together during homecoming for their 50th reunion. And their reminiscences of the pranks and escapades of their student days contrasted sharply with the stiff formality of the photograph. Attending were Roland Bailey, Chicago; Edward and Olga DeLisio and Frank and Anna May Wilson, Annapolis; John and Helen Donohue and Francis Hurlock, Baltimore; John O'Donnell, Catons'." ville, and Richard and Mildred Woodman, WaterviHe, N. Y. ~ ........._ . ~.\ �u~n.c.·a No·vember 1985 THE REPORTER II In four years at St. John's, students have approximately 230 great books seminars. "Of these, one is spent on a book written by a woman, a novel by Jane Austen," according to Dean George Doskow. ..In a language tutorial there may be a little time spent on Emily Dickinson, or the occasional French tutorial may read La Princesse de Cleves, but the number is, to say the least, disproportionate. "The real question, however, is not what are the numbers, but rather what difference do they make? Does it matter that we read almost no books written by women? Don't the boo ks we read raise the most important questions and discuss them as carefully and thoroughly as possible? I would suggest that the answers to these questions is not simply, 'yes.' I think there are questions which do not get raised, or do not get raised in fruitful ways, because they were simply not questions for the authors we read." In the college's first major discussion of women and the great boks, a subject sometimes talked about informally but never given public attention, Dean Doskow pointed out that even the greatest thinkers have blind spots, and there are issues difficult to raise because of tacit assumptions they make. "Questions having to do with the status and nature ot women and the relations between men and women seem to me to be foremost among these," he told faculty and students in the opening lecture of St. John's Friday night series. · "It is, I think, the case that we pay a significant price, the price of a partial, a male-edited view, of our tradition, by following a curriculum based on a reading of the Great Books." POINTING OUT that it was an issue he because of their rarity they can make ot her an object of cold admiration; but at the same time they will weaken the charms with which she exercises her power over the other sex. "A WOMAN WHO has a head full of Greek ... or carries on fundamental controversies about as well even have a beard ... A woman therefore will learn no l!eometrv ... Her ohilosoohv is not to reason but to sense." Dean Doskow said he had used the word "argument" in referring to Kant, but pointed out that this is the wrong word. "What we have is pure assertion." + 0 GEORGE DOSKiOW it gives voice to the attitudes, prejudices, and customs of a society in a way which we. are often unconscious of or simply take for gnmted. What we have to do as readers is to think more about our language, both its diction and syntax, as we read and discuss. " ... As long as we think of men as the norm and women as other, we will have to deal with the ambiguities of the word, ·man.'" Then, turning to several writers on the program, Dean. Doskow referred first to Hobbes. Saying that one might think he was talking about human nature .in the first book of The Leviathan when he writes "On Man," he is actually taJking about male nature. ''Woman appear here only as property subject to conquest." FOR HOBBES, the family is not of critical importance, and· in his writings there is no serious talk about it. AH relationships, domestic and political, ultimately are based on fear. "For Hobbes ... the difference between men and women insofar as he considers the question at all, "A woman has a head foll of seems to be the same as the difference Greek ... might as even have a between men and men, namely power. Men and women do not seem to be differbeard." Kant ent in kind." had been thinking about for some time Rousseau, De,an Doskow charges, saw but not yet thought his way completely men and women as so radically different through, Mr. Doskow first discussed the that it is hard to imagine, in the. light role that language plays. of what he says, that the Social Contract While there is one title for men, he said, applies to anyone but men. the two titles of "Miss" and "Mrs." sugWhile Rousseau claims "they are alike gest that the distinction between sini)c: in organs, needs, and capacities, in what and married has been considered the crurelates to sex they are different." In reality cial distinction in the life of a woman. Rousseau believed that ..a perfect man "Spinster," with its parallel, "old maid," and perfect woman should no more r.esuggests someone whose life has been semble each other in mind than in counincomplete. tenance." "There may be 'merry widows,' but in Rousseau. Dean Doskow said. had a popular speech, -there are no 'merry spinlitanv of differences: Men are active arid sters,' as there are, to use an old phrase strong, women, passive and weak; man .is whose meaning has changed, 'gay bachmade to dominate, woman to please and elors."' be dominated. "Her strength is in her The use of the male gender in English charms and through them she should conand in French suggests to him the strain him to discover his powers and 'women's second class status. While the make use of them."· words "misogynist" and "misthanthrope" "Her 'mind,' as Rousseau says," Mr. exist, there is no word to describe the Doskow continued,. "is pleasing but not hatred only of males, an absence that brilliant, solid but not deep.' In short, she implies there is no need to have one. can manage in a conversation ... Women are certainly not to be thought of as free "Uxorious" or "hen pecked" are acceptcitizens of a republic." ed. "One cannot, in English, be 'rooster Mr. Doskow next quoted Kant. Kant pecked,"' Mr. Doslrnw said. In G~eek, "anthropos" is a more general . wrote: "Deep meditation and long-sustained word, meaning all mortals, men as well as reflection are noble and difficult and do women; "aner" describes man as heroic or not well befit a person in whom unconnoble and cannot be used to include both strained charms should show nothing else men and women. than a beautiful nature. Laborious learn"There is much more to be said on the ing or painful pondering, even if a woman subject of language," he continued, .. but I should succeed greatly in it, destroy the think l have said enough to show that merits that are proper to her sex, and language is not a neutral instrument, that one ,,....,,..,,,,. nature inferior; and _ other is ruled." .....,f.,..?10 · In Aristotle, Mr. Doskow said women's role is restricted to a limited part of household management, namely preservwhat their husbands h.ave been able to and, in a subordinate way .......... ina household. "When Aristotle addresses the question of the communitv of women in Plato's questions about scheme, but one of the ideas Socrates advances, namely that women can do the same jobs as men and be citizens, he completely disregards. He talks consistently about women and children as property, completely ignoring the fact that, in The Republic, women, like men, would be guardians and presumably equally citizens and not property." Plato, however, has the flute girls dismissed when the symposium ·begins. When serious talk in the Phaedo'begins, . Socrates' wife has to leave. Dean Doskow concluded: "I COULD CONTINUE this discussion of authors of our books who regularly and sytematically deprecate women, a whole range from St. Paul to Nietzsche and Freud comes readily to mind, but I think I have made the point sufficiently. "For men, the question that remains is what to do about it. In certain ways there is not much we can do. We are committed, l think rightly, to the principle of reading the best books we can find in the western tradition, but for a variety of reasons, several of which l mentioned, that tradition contains books written almost exclusively by white males until relatively recently when c~rtain possibilities have opened up which were not open before .. "We might read some Sappho in the Greek tutorial, we can make an effort to use some books by women when we choose the modern fiction we read in the senior seminar, and there are certainly first-rate modern women poets who could be read at the end of the senior language tutorials; when we read documents in American political history, we should think of including some which deal with women's questions such as, perhaps, the Seneca Falls Declaration or part of the Abigail and John Adams correspondence. .. We can try to be more self-conscious about the way we use gender-loaded language. But these are all only minor changes, in part cosmetic, which don't get at the heart of the problem which is that the western tradition is one which has systematically excluded women from any "For these most serious and thoughtful writers the things we are talking about ·were not even questions," he said. "They could assume an audience which would nod acquiescently to all of these assertions because they were obvious home truths." In reading such authors, he said that it is necessary to question what the authors take for granted and for students to reexamine their own assumptions. "And the time· to be most suspicious of ourselves _and others is when we all immediately agree that something is obviously true or false." Despite their vision of women, it is still possible to read Kant and Rousseau as if they were addressing both men and women, he said. Dean Doskow said he had raised the question of their attitudes toward women "to show how even the most thoughtful of men, those who generated major revolutions in modern thinking and questioned most sharply assumptions held for centuries, were in certain ways, important to us, blinded by habit and prejudice." Then, turning to a discussion of the psychology of animals by Aristotle, Dean Doskow quoted the philosopher as finding male-female differences he found among lower animals characteristics that become most clear in humans. He quoted Aristotle: "'Woman is more compassionate than man, more easily moved to tears, and at the same time is more querulous, more apt to scold, and to strike. She is furthermore, more prone to despondency and less hopeful than the man, more void of shame " ... The literature available to us reflects ... (a) male-oriented view ... The best we can do as an institution is to try to make ourselves conscious of these questions as questions, to try to raise issues of concern to women as well as we can from these readings." Doskow or self-respect, more false of speech, more deceptive, and of more retentive memory." · "Presumably this greater memory gives her a greater reservoir of things to be querulous and despondent about," Mr. Doskow interjected, going on to quote more of Aristotle's view: "She is also more wakeful, more shrink- · ing, more difficult to rouse to action, and requires a smaller quantity of nutriment...The male is more courageous than the female, and more sympathetic in the way of standing by to help ... The male is by nature superior, and the female inferior: and the one rules, and the other is ruled." Aristotle even found that the female birth is born out of a kind of incapacity, primarily, he believed, to the young and the old rather than those in thefr prime. significant public role a~d has deprecated the private role to which women have been relegated. ..The consequence is that the literature available to us reflects precisely that maleoriented view of the world. The best that we can do as an inst~tution is to try to make ourselves conscwus of these questions as questions, to try to raise issues of concern to women as well as we can from these readings. . . "We must ask such questwns as what 1t means in The Oresteia for Apollo to win his case against the Furies because Athena didn't have a mother; why St. Paul says in Corinthians that "A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; b~t woman is the glory of man," and what it means for women, and (See Women and, P. 9) �0'!!!111'11"1!10. 9 s Competition #5 isforthe Preceptorial topic that is most likely to be everyone's last choice. The title mav be supplemented with a brief description or list of other activities have inContinas director of Lines and Consolidated Rail as a member of the Committee to the Committee on of fellow prise Inititute for YuOIIc Kesearcn, as director of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and as a Fellow at the Yale School of and 1'11.l<1H<lJl",'i;Hll;;JH, .. St. is honored lishment ofthe G.D. Searle Scholarship Endowments at the campus, Mr. Delattre said of the endowments. "We owe many debts of to John Robson for his dedication to the work of the college, his tireless and wise i1n1'.!Pr•Olhl "--'HH... U.F,V, """""''"'""sentence of the Meno was rewritten no less than six r1e1mn1?:. Kant and Freud. the last in a and learned AH were clever and ail had moments of hence commendations to Thomas Storck and Thomas G. Keens, and an award of a $15 book credit to Harrison for the entry. The £rand of a $25 goes to the earliest entry, from David Carey. the easiest to do. this Thomistic renderin£ is chiseled to service as a board member and chairman and his devotion to students. ' "In all the work We have done together - countless instructive and pleasureable hours for me - John has always had a special attentiveness to the well-being of students and to institutional support of their educational and career aspirations. It pleases me immensely that scholarships for financial assistance will from now on be awarded in his name by gift from G.D. Searle and Company." the nuclear of both nations. Mr. Jerrems was also co-founder of the "--''i•uµu .... of for SocKesp<)nsmim\' and, from 1978 to 1980, the Steerin2 Committee of anti-nuclear movement where he now resides. "I felt if you can't minds, you should change politicians .. said in discussing his candidacy. DANJERREMS important to put progressive people into state and local government ... Mr. Jerrems has scheduled his first fund raiser for November 14. It will be a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. at the home of Dr. Jerome Frank, professor emeritus of Johns Hopkins University, at 603 West University Parkway in Baltimor A physicians' assistant at Lutheran Hospital in West Baltimore since I 979, Mr. Jerrems down from the chairmanship the Campaign for a Nuclear Freeze, campaign he has headed the five years. It lobbies for a verifia bie, "-'"'""''-' "' (US and USS halt in the testing, production, and of nuclear weapons as the first step toward reductions in FIRST PART, JOHN ROBSON board Law Center, the . _ Planning Area Committee, and the York-Coldspring Planning Area Committee. His memberships include those in the Victory Democratic Club, Third District Citizens for Good Government, and Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs. To win the 1986 election, he estimates he will need to recruit about 250 volunteers and raise $25,000 by next summer. Alumni interested in helping are invited to give him a call at 433.:.8090. Besides his degree at St. John's, Mr. Jerrems holds a second bachelor's degree in Johns Hopkins University's health associate program and has taken additional work in psychology at Loyola College in Baltimore. In 1972 he studied French in Paris and Burgundy, and in 1971-72 was engaged in the community leadership program at Dawson College, Quebec. Eusebio goes to Colby Daniel Eusebio, Saga Food Service manager, has left St. John's to become dining services director at Colby College, Waterville, Me. Manager for the past three years, he continued his service through September in order to take care of home coming. After six years with he now Seikr's His successor is Steven son, food service wa11alt,\;;1 at Goucher ,,_...,,"'"'"" ... he will carry the title of food services director. Mr. Eusebio's secretary, Susan Will, has been promoted to food services manager. .... ~~·~~TI: In Four Articles it is necessary to investigate virtue, ""~"'"'' which four must be whether virtue can be taught. whether it is not teachable, but rather the result of practise. whether it is neither of these, but is possessed by nature. Fourth, whether it is acquired in yet some other way. FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER VIRTUE CAN BE TAUGHT We proceed thus to the first article: Objection L. J,.;1.,uu•u, mt.en~st1m12: submissions arrived for Competition #4 after the was prepared for the press.They did meet the I, who didn't wait until the very last moment, must apologize for behavior so uncharacteristic of St. John's College. Neither is The first, from James Forrester, sets us squarely the middle of V of Paradise Lost, with seams so well sewn that was sent to the text to find out where left off and Forrester took over. But the oarodists own admission the version was neither an nor a oara1Jn1rase. The other was from H.A. by now a contributor. version, by the author of Emma, struck me as an amusing decoration, within which the Meno auestion was merely alluded to. t (Continued from P. 8) why in Paradise Lost Eve prepares the writers of Chicago Chapter Seminars devoted to women writers are underway this year in Chicago. The chapter has scheduled discussions from 6 to 8 p.m. the first Thursday of each month in the office of Chris Nelson in the Marquette Building, 140 South Dearborn. Selections are being chosen from a group of writers who also include writers on women's issues. Among them are: - · Joan Salvador, Susan Sontag, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Virginia Wolfe, Emily ;~1,:~ .. ~~· r .. ~·-~n McCullers. Jane Chester, Barbara Wollstonecraft, Ursula LeGuin, Toni Doer, Willa Sand, Doris LessHardwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Penel:-ope Mortimer, and Edna O'Brien. dinner while Adam has theological discussions with an angel and what that says about Milton's attitude toward women." Dean Doskow ended by quoting a statement made by Carl Degler in Tne Chronical of Higher Education: .. Undoub.tf:dly it will take many years for scholarly disciplines to be redefined to include women's interests as integral elements; after aJl, it took many centuries for those fields to be developed to suit the needs and purposes of men .... .. But simply because the disciplines have been defined by men, they have given us a one-sided and one-sex conception ... A fuller two-sex version has to be developed because the old version is no longer adequate. Women today are, as they have never been in any preyious society, public as well as private human beings. Their interests and their past have to be included in our definition of man or human kind. And they will remain public figures in the future. The watershed in human history has been crossed. " ... The only question remaining is, How quickly can we begin to include women and their interests in every aspect of our definition of what it means to be a human �Page 10 Richard Duhan, A '63, died September 4 at his home at Old Chatham, N.Y. He was 43. Of his death, his wife, Miriam Golub Duhan, A '63, writes: "I would like you to know that although · Dick's illness was quite painful and hard, after we finally found out what was wrong (pancreatic cancer) in March, our lives simplified tremendously, and we were able to live just as we wanted. We crowded an enormous amount ·m these last six months. "Dick was totally alive until the day before he died. Until that day he was kind and unbelievably generous and always interested in the he was with. He only more so generous After leaving St. John's, Mr. Duhan received a master's degree in social work in 1967 from Adelphi University. He was employed by W.R.I. Inc., a public policy research company in Albany, as a senior policy analyst, and also was involved in real estate development in the area. He also had been employed by the State Division of House and Community in Albany and the State Division for Youth. During the administrations of Mayors Beame and Lindsay in New York City, he was deputy (.Hr~ctor of Neighborhood Government. He also was well known as an advocate for rural housing and received many awards in the field. are his wife, son, mother, two sisters, and a brother. may be made to the Richard Duhan Memorial Fund on the Annapolis campus. David Shapiro, SF '76, was killed June 19 in a gliding accident in Vermont during a regional championship competition for glider pilots. Sydney Fairbanks, a tutor at St. John's from 1948 to 1952, died of pneumonia July 30 at Washington House, Alexand:.. ria, Va. He was 90. Born in New York City, Mr. Fairbanks was reared in England. He entered Harvard University at the age of 15 and transferred to Cambridge University upon the. award of a scholarship for his knowledge of Greek. During World War I, Mr. Fairbanks · drove an ambulance in Europe, serving with John Dos Passos. He received the Croix de Guerre for courage under fire. Shapiro's mterest in gliding had led to studies in aerodynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Other details were not immediately available. In 1925 he was awarded a law degree from Harvard and later returned to Harvard to earn a doctorate in Middle English. After leaving St. John's, Mr. Fairbanks was an analyst for the National Security Agency. He was the first editor of the NSA Technical. Journal and worked for the Department of Defense until retirement. His third wife, Bertha, preceded him in death. Survivo~s include a sister, a son and two nephews. Emslie Gault, retired executive . Emslie N. Ga ult, '32, a retired executive of the Coca-Cola Company, died September 18 at the age of 76 in Centreville, Md .. after a long illness. · An employee of the company for 41 years, Mr. Gault was manager of national chain accounts in the New York office for the fountain-sales division at the time of his retirement in 1975. At St. John's he was a defenseman on the 193 l lacrosse team that beat a Canadian team for the world championship.· Mr. Gault was a native of Union, S.C., and was reared in Baltimore. He is survived by his wife, two sons, a daughter, five grandchildren 1 and a grea:tgrandda ughter. · ·. Members of the Class of 1975 looked as young and played about as well as they did as students when they gathered here for their tenth year reunion during homecoming. "The most striking thing was how little people had changed in appearance," one of their numbers, Michael Oink, now an Annapolis tutor, said. Altogether between 30 and 35 were here, a record number, alumni director Betsy Blume believes, for a single class reunion. They contributed a large propor.,. tlon of players to the annual alumni. student soccer classic, including all the line:up as the second half began'. Members lunched together for the first time Friday at noon, had seminars led by Nick Maistrellis and Bill O'Grady of the faculty, and held a "Chase-Stone memorial party" in the coffee shop, "disappointed but reconciled" to the fact that ChaseSt.one is now a quiet dorm. Three came from California, four from Chicago, arid a large group from New York City. The Annapolis campus has an opening for the newly established position of resident life and facilities coordinator. Norrie Loomis, personnel director, said the coordinator will be responsible for dormitory occupancy year-round, room assignment, providing student billing information to the business office, coordination of the board program with food service and the business office, scheduling use of non-classroom ..space, and maintaining a monthly calendar of facility use. · Applicants should have two years comparable supervisory experience · with housing experience highly desirable and "highly developed inter-personal skills, especially the ability. to relate to college students ·.and the public." A St. John's degree is desirable. Applications and resumes should be submitted to Mrs. · Loomis by November 29. Beginning salary range is $13,800 to $16,850. In Memodam (September, 1984 - September, 1985) Peace Co.rps holds reunion The brnrize plaque to the right of the took part. Bob Bart, ot Santa Fe, served registrar's office in McDowell Hall reads: as chairman of the St. John's College· "In gratitude fo~ the St. John's concept Peace Corps Committee. of education which has made an immeasMiss Leonard said she felt a special urable contribution to our training. Peace · affinity for the volun~eers. In 1962-63, Corps India XVI June 19-September IO, while on sabbatical from St. John's, she 1965." was Fulbright lecturer and honorary proPeace Corps India XVI consisted of the fessor of zoology at Lady Doak College 83 trainees in the 16th group of volunteers and American College, Madurai, South India. · sent to India. To reminisce and laugh at slides taken during their trai_ning, 27 memThe St. John's tutors led seminars for bers of the group gathered recently on the the traine~s on writings of Montaigne,· St. John's campus. . Swift, Hobbes, Locke, :Rousseau, Plato, Th~y came:from all over the United Twain, de Tocqueville, Marx, and others, . States to talk about a time that had a In preparation for their work in India, tremendm~s impact on their lives.· One the trainees stµdied Hindu and poultry flew in from Nigeria. · culture. The Peace Corps' intention ·was ..They obviously have a .warm spot in for them to.promote eggs as a good source their . hearts for the college," observed of protein in the Indian diet. assistant dean Barbara Leonard, who atPeace Corps India. XVI is planning tended the reunion. She is one of several another reunion for next year in New current faculty members who participated Delhi. in the training program. Their training was considered an experOthers were Eva Brann, Bryce Jacob- imental program. It was successful enough sen, and Malcolm Wyatt, on the to be repeated on the St. John's campus lis campus, and Dean Haggard, of Santa the following year for another group of Fe. Tutor Emeritus J. Winfree Smith also volunteers. 1909. Robert E. Jones 1914 William D. Noble 1918 Clyde Bourke 1920 John H. Birely 1923 Charles W. Keefer 1925 Robert E. Ferguson 1926 M. Stanley McComas Carl P. Russell Arthur Town&hend, Jr. 1929 Carl G. Merkel William S. Walls 1930 David S.'Jenkins 1931 J. W. T. Armacost 1932 James W. Crabbe Emslie N. Gault William T.D. Pumphrey 1934 William B. Matthews, Jr-. 1935 T. Bayard Evans Max Glickman 1939 William H. Spurgi_n 1940 ·George J. Silkworth 1941 Christian H .. McGarry William H. Horsey. 1942 Thomas Parran, Jr. 1944 Rob~rt F.G. Bunting William. H. Horsey 1946 ·Eugene T. McNamara 1951 Harry J. Martin 1954 John L. Leeth 1958 Frederick C. Gurney 1963 ' Richard Duhan 1975 David Shapiro 1981 Matthew Hansen (SF) : �t November 1985 (Continued from P. 2) Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Peter Gilbert, A, who was awaraed a second bachelor's degree in June at Oxford University, has begun a doctoral program at Catholic University's Department of Church History, where he is specializing in patristics and Byzantine theology. Lisa Lashley, SF, married Ronald van Amberg on June 29 in San Marino, Calif. The couple honeymoont!d in northern Spain, Andora, and northern France. Johnnies attending the wedding were Debra Rutherford, SF '80, and Tara Brickley, SF '84. Lisa is in her fourth year of teaching math at upper school of Santa Fe Prep. The couple lives in Tesuque. 1983 Elizabeth Bac·a, SFG I, is the executive director of Ski New Mexico. She and her husband, Ron Stoney, own the Abominable Snowmansion Skiers Hotel north of Taos. The mother of Melissa Kullberg, SF, is pleased to report that Melissa has achieved a level of fluency in Italian. She currently is studying Italian history and Italian art at Dante Allegretta in Rome and plans to return to the U.S. later this fall. Tanya Jean Lathrop Harrison, SF, is living in Chicago with her husband Chuck, SF '81, and three children, one of whom is adopted. Chuck is studying law at Chicago's Kent Law School. 1983 Miriam Huaco has begun medical studies at the University of California at San Francisco. Marianne Braun, career counselor, surveyed members of the Annapolis Class. of 1985 at the end of the school year to determine their plans. Unless thay have changed unexpectedly, here is what some new graduates are doing: Elizabeth Anderson is attending the University of Pennsylvani~ Medical ·school; Jed Arkin, who has been accepted by the University of Chicago School of Business Administration and by the Harvard Business School, is working for the JMB Company in Chicago before entering Harvard; Wenda Bauchspies is pursuing her Watson Fellowship in bookbinding in England; Eric Burman is employed by Booz, Allen . & Hamilton management consultant firm in Arlington, Va.; Anna Davis is a paralegal with a Washington faw firm; Scott. Dq,ipree is in Botswana with· the Peace Corps; Laura Finnegan is taking pre-medical courses in Chicago;· .Tania Forte is at the University of Chicago.where she recei;ved a financial award to do work in atnhiopology; Jonathan Friday is beginning prerequisites for additional study in architecture; Elizabeth Kartiganer is an au pair girl in France; Joseph Houseal has a financial award to study dance in Japan; Daniel Kowalski, with a $5,000 award, is attending the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard; Maggie Kinser will work in Japan; Ramsey Larson is enrolled in Bryn Mawr College's post-baccalaureate, premedical program; Martin Marldin is pursuing his Watson Fellowship to study acoustics of organs in Germany; William Rohrbach is traveling in Africa and France; Gillian Nassau has a teaching assistantship at the University of Florida, where she is studying philosophy; Dale Sheldon, who was accepted at the THE REPORTER ·Page 11 University of South Carolina to do work in international relations and in Middle East languages, has been hired by the corporate investment department of the ·Bank of Tokyo in New York; Jason Walsh has been accepted at Harvard's School of Business; Steve Weriin is studying philosophy at the Technische Universitat at Braunschweig, Germany on a scholarship; Mary Lee Wielga is with Peace Corps in Swaziland; Jeffrey Wilson is circulation librarian for the' St. John's library, and Brooke Zykan is admissions representative in the St. John's Admis- . sions Office. · Pfc. Todd Reichart, one of the Army's newest recruits, went off early last month to Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo, ("It's known Peter . Kellogg-Smith, right, ~is with Neville Bulpit, a professional delivery as 'Lost in the Woods,' Mo.") for basic captain. ·. training. ' In for four years, Todd will take a year's training in the Army's Defense Language Institute and then another year at the Peter Kellogg-Smith, '43, is at home in whale, which seemed to be asleep, but Intelligence School in Phoenix. Basically Arnold, working as an inventor and sculpfinally spouting and snorting, took a leishe is being trained as an interrogator for ' tor again, out of the sea's spray and the urely leap down into the waters. military intelligence. He has selected wave's dip, after a voyage _that most sailThere were no mis-adventures to mar Mandarin Chinese as the language he ors only talk about: crossing the Atlantic · the voyage. One problem, however, was to would like, but that choice is determined in a 38-foot sailboat. keep warm. in large part by military needs. "I aced The president of the Annapolis Alumni "I wore two sets of longies, a heavy their tests,'' Todd reports. "They were Chapter left Lymington, near Southampshirt, sweater, foul weather gear, gloves, amazingly easy." ton, on May 30 and 3, 100 nautical miles sea boots, layers of socks," Mr. Kellogg"The big draw is educational money," later reached port at Solomon's Island, Smith said. "We had only two sunny days he explained, feeling like a recruiter. UnMd., on July IO. between England and the Azores. It was der the new GI bill, he will receive $25,200 He was one of a five-man crew aboard nasty with cold, drizzle, rain, wind, penetoward graduate school when he leaves the Contessa cutter, Validity, which a trating dampness. It was hard to cook." military service. friend, Washington patent attorney Carl Mostly the crew managed their meals According to Nancy Solzman, SF '85, G. Love, was bringing home from Engindividually. Also, it was difficult to keep C. Michael Rice, A '84, is now working land. clothing dry. Because salt absorbs so with nuclear submarines for the U.S. in taking advantage of the favorable much moisture, he explained that it's Navy. His tour of duty ends in 199 L pound-dollar rate, Mr. Love, like numer- . , really no good to attempt to wash clothing Louise Solomon, SFGI '85, attended ous bargain hunting boat owners, had until you can get rain without sea spray. the Great Books Workshop in Albuquerpurchased the boaf .in England, saving , Then you need sun without spray to dry. que on 8/ 26-27, which is conducted by the enough money to pay the crew and enjoy The combination was not always easy to Great Books Foundation, a program the pleasures of 46 <fays at sea. . come by, . . geared to children K-12. She found it There were week-long stops en route in IN ENGLAND, before beginning his interesting to compare their teaching the Azores, mostly Horta, and in Bervoyage, Mr. Kellogg-Smith visited his old methods with the program at St. John's. muda. Mr. Kellogg-Smith was enthusiasclassmate, Adrian Mayer, '43, who is preThese workshops are held nationwide. tic about the nine beautiful islands that paring to retire as a professor of anthrostretch out 900 miles off the coast of Porpology at the Univesity of London and tugal amid their old, old independent cul"who looks wonderful," as well as a niece ture. He was less enthusiastic about Berin Durham and a former student at Bay muda, 'just an expensive tourist place." Country School, the Arnold school where There was a total of seven days flat calm he formerly was headmaster. after leaving the Azores. "You try to keep In addition, Mr. Kellogg-Smith had the cool and you go swimming in warm, clear rare opportunity of visiting Findhorn, a water,. so clear you wouldn't believe the planned community in Scotland estabcolor if you saw it in a painting," he said. lished on something like utopian lines, As a result of lectures in Poland last Mr. Kellogg-Smith, who has taught and to stop overnight at a Benedictine summer, James Beall, an astrophysicist sailing and who has lots of boating and Monastery near Findhorn. on the Annapolis faculty, has begun a col~ engine experience, had special responsiMr. Kellogg-Smith found the guestlaboration with two scientists at the Unibilities for .the diesel engifle and other master charming, but after hearing him versity of Lodz, Poland. mechanical parts of the boat. The engine, make sonfe disparaging remarks about He lectured there on "Infrared and used mostly to get in and out of port and American education, assured him that Optical Emission from Accretion Disks to charge batteries, quit five days out of there was one American school he would Around Black Holes" and on "Short Time the Azores and required welding in Berbe interestc;d in. He promised to send on Scale Variability of the Seyfert Galaxy muda before it was working again. the St. John's catalogue. In turn, the guest NGC 6814." HE TOOK HIS place at the wheel durmaster gave him a booklet on how to His talks have led to a collaboration ing hi.s watch. On a rotating basis crew · organize and run a Benedictine monastery. with two of the university scientists on the members were assigned two members to a production of Gamma-rays in active galwatch, four hours on, six off, during axies and quasars via the interaction Qf which they lent a hand to the hard work of relativistic charged-particle beams with sail changes and watched for other ships. ambient material in the galaxies' cores. "There were very few ships, but you Matthew Whedon, '86, and his wife, On his trip to Europe, he also stopped Susan Fastbinder, '87, have organized a want to see all of them," he said. "More in Milan, Italy, to give a lecture on accreBaha'i Club at St. John's. importantly, you want them to see you." tion disks at the Institute for Cosmic They arranged for Jerome Knudson , a He did part of his navigation by steering Physics. He has been asked to return to teacher of the Baha'i faith, to meet refor a particular star. Because there are lots Lodz next year and to speak in Frascati, of small thunderstorms, a star might cently in their home with people interested Italy, at that time. cloud over, and then he would pick in the religion. Mr. Knudson of Costa In addition to teaching at St. John's, another to steer by, rechecking directions Mesa, Calif., met with similar groups durMr. Beall spends one day a week working with a compass. • ing a bicycle trip across the country. The at the Naval Research Laboratory in Baha'i faith, which originated in Iran, is The- crew saw pilot whales and lots of Washington. He was a resident associate based on approximately 400 volumes of exuberant porpoises that came leaping for the National Research Council at the scripture revealed by the 19th century playfully out of the waves. They were able laboratory before joining the faculty in prophet, Baha'u'llah. to get within a hundrec;J feet of one huge 1982. Crossing the ocean in sailboat Beall lectures in Poland Baha'i Club is formed �·Page· 12 ·November 1985 THE REPORTER I •f Tom Parran, cg; c IC» 'Ill .&; u order to Association's genera! memoersn1p a er voice in the selection of both the officers and women it honors, elects and the association. board has asked its Committee members are of officers, the of its annual Award of Merit, and nominees for honorat their annual ml':~eung persons, the former alumni directo dies Thomas Parran, alumni director on the Annapolis campus from 1966 to 1982, died October 3 at .Bethesda Naval Hospital after a l 3-year fight agafost capcer. He was 65. Mr. Parran resigned as alumni director · in January of l 982 to accept the part-time position as director of publications and managing editor of the college magazine, The St. Johns Review. After undergoing a broken hip on memorial Day, 1984, he found his health further complicated and began full retirement on January 3 I of this year. Mr. Parran completed three years of his St. John's ·education as a member of the Class of 1942. He returned to the college while serving with the Marine Corps under its college program and completed his final year in 1959. On January 31, 1962, he retired after 20 years with the Marine Corps, leaving with the rank of lieutenant colonel. The following day he joined St.John's as assistant to the DH~SlClent. In December of that year he assumed additional duties as alumni and in 1966 he became director of activities. For an interval, from 1964 to 1968, he served as director of In October, 1978, he was director of colle!!e relations_ a nosition he held \ -~ .. ·1r~ Pg;5ser:c71yr P1\0P05ED . Here's the way the boat house wo1.:1ld appear. With $50,000 on hand from an anonymous donor, St. John's has ning for a major renovation house. But actual work to modernize the 5 Ivear-old and to its use imnnrt~nt center for student life be planned is a wall on the main floor with a wall ov1er!iOOJKmg Creek. A new deck will be level at the boat the comer of the of the way down the inner can take place prior meeting. campus side. area for boats will be constructed below the deck supplementing the floor space for To extend its use for Rhodes said the main floor kitchen and a Two with showers and a ch;an;grn,g planned for the vv.,,,,..,,,_ to use exercise room. Outside there will be additional shower for rinsirnz off and a Edwin and Allan Hoffman, A '49, who received this Alumni Association's Award tribute to ML Parran for his role in the of the association on a nation-wide basis in 1982. Buried at Arlimzton National Cemetery sial ?Ail!.&. A1n.oi.i1cn,AtA The est of Julia of Tex., a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, is general chairman of the boat house project. Luther '21, is honorary chairman. He was of the Alumni Association, when the boat house was built in I 935, and a leading figure in its construction. ~ ganization Committee, reorganizing it to been complimented by splendid serving become more nationally representative." on the faculty," Dr. Dobreer said of him. Dr..Dobreer also noted that Mr. HoffIrwin Hoffman was praised for his devoman had served as a member of the Board tion to the college, board service, which of Visitors and Governors and had been includes chairmanship on its Career an active chairman of the board's Alumni Counseling Committee, and fororiginatRelations Committee, which he said had ing the Honors Seminars. He was not the only Hoffman to be been important in establishing the colThe banquet and awards climaxed a recognized. His brother, Irwin, of Santa lege's working relationship with the . weekend which also included a lecture by Fe, along with President and Mrs. Edwin Eva Brann, a reception for Priscilla J. Delattre and Annapolis tutor Douglas Alumni Association. Since 1978 Mr. Hoffman has led a Shore, A '55, whose art work was being Allanbrook were made honorary memGreat Books adult seminar at a library shown in the college Art Gallery, the assobers of the Alumni Association. near his home. With his brother he also ciation's annual bus.iness meeting, and Dr. David Dobreer, A '44, who had conducted S-t. .John's pilot Honors SemSunday' brunch at the home of President been re-elected association president that inar program for high school students. and Mrs. Delattre. morning, presented the awards as more In announcing honorary memberships, During the business meeting the associthan l50alumni and their guests applaudPresident Delattre was cited for his coned. ation re-elected Jean FitsSimon, A '73, as tributions to the college through financial vice-president, and elected Bernard E. "Allan was instrumental in building the betterment, his work in faculty dev,elopJacob, A '54, as secretary, and Chris NelNew York chapter into a thriving organi- ment, and administrative reform. His wife son, SF '70, as treasurer. Named to a zation and a model for other chapters,"· won the honor "for her fortitude and willDr. Dobreer said. second term as directors were John Van ingness to exert herself in the interest of Doren, A '47, and Carolyn Leeuwen"He was also instrumental in preserving liberal education." burgh, A '55. the unity of the Alumni Association and Mr. Allanbrook's "long and fruitful Elected to the board for the first time as chairman of the Alumni Board's Reor- career as a musician and composer has Allan Hoffman, A '49, who took a leading role in the national reorganization three years ago of the Alumni Association, received the association's annual Award of Merit during the homecoming banquet in the din'ing hall. .... ....___-..... were Mary Bittner Wiseman, A and Martha Clark Dabney, SF '78. After passing an enabling amendment to add four more directors in a move to strengthen board representation, it named to those positions Harrison Sheppard, A '61; Allan Hoffman, A '49; Kenneth Kimble, A '77, and Bartholomew A '68. To complete its executive committee as· a fifth member, the Alumni Association board, at a meeting Sunday, elected Harvey Goldstein, A '59. During the meeting, the board unanimously approved a resolution put forward by Mr. Nelson stipulating that the association's annual tours abroad should continue to be a service to alumni and friends and be kept distinct from fund raising aspects of college life. Members also agreed to make the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the New Program as their principal business on the occasion of homecoming in October 1987. � 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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SJC's fiscal Number high for doctorates· state wins board praise ..I can't recall being in better shape financially," Charles A. Nelson, '45, chairman of the Finance Committee, said of the two campuses at the July meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors in Santa Fe. ..We're in extraordinarily good condition and remarkably improved." A .dramatic growth in the Annapolis endowment investments and the elimination of the cumulative deficit in Santa Fe nelps explain why. Harriet Higgins, of New York City, chairman of the Investment Subcommittee, relayed the story of the major upturn in investments for the Annapolis campus. In March, 1984, she said, the Finance Committee selected three investment managers to assume the management of the Annapolis endowment funds. "The moneys at that time were $12,023,889 and were allocated $5-million (or 41.6 per ceht) each to Harris Associates and Manning & Napier and the balance of$2,-023,889-million (l 7.8 per cent) to Shufro, Rose and Ehrman," Miss Higgins said. Funds were distributed to the three managers in May 1984. During the 12month period from June 30, 1984, to June 30, 1985, the endowment had grown to $15,198,400, of which only $318,202 represented new funds received. The total return of 33.5 per cent for the year compares to 24.0 I per cent for the Dow Jones Industrial average for that time. (See We're remarkably' P. 8) The Annapolis campus ranks fifth among l,500 institutions of higher learning in this country in the percentage of students who go on to complete doctora degrees in the humanities, a study by the Great Lakes Colleges Association has disclosed. In a newly released report that covers only Ph.D. 's, the study listed St John's as twenty-seventh among institutions for doctorates in all fields. Altogether, l l 7 St. John's alumni, or I 0. 4 per cent of the graduating classes, have received their doctorates over a 30-year period. In an era when many of the earlier graduating classes were small, some 55 St. John's alumni, or 4.9 per cent, received doctorates in the humanities alone. Outranking it were f.our other colleges: Bryn Mawr, with 5. 7 per cent, Haverford, 5.4 per cent, Swarthmore, 5.2 per cent, and Oberlin, 5.1 per cent. (See College 27th P. 9) Freshman class fills early in East The Annapolis campus filled its September freshman class by the last week in April, the earliest in recent years anyone can remember. John Christensen, admissions director for the past seven years, whose office has experienced a steady growth in the applicant pool during that period, said the old pattern was to fill the class by the middle or late June with I05 to l lO freshmen, the size to which it is limited. (See Applicant P. i l) September 19851 Search for presidents_ has Sept. 15 deadline process. St. John's Search Committee seeking presidents for its Anna.polis and Santa Fe The two new presidents will succeed ~ campuses hopes to have final candidates Edwin J. Delattre, who is beginning his available by early next year to begin the sixth and final year serving both campuses campus interview process. and who has said St. John's wm operate Moving ahead in it.s nation-wide efforts best under a two president system. the committee has set a September 15 The Search Committee was named at deadline for nominations. the April meeting of the board when the James Fratne, '50, of New York City, visitors and governors decided to end the chairman, informed the Board of Visitors practice of having a single president, someand Governors at its 1uly meeting in thing that has been done since the opening Santa Fe that while committee members of the western campus in 1964. intend to screen resumes themselves ·Since then one committee member, "We'll look at every piece of paper" - it Charles A., Nelson, '45, of Croton-onhas employed the Chicago executive Hudson, N. Y., has resigned for personal search firm of Heidrick & Struggles, Inc., reasons and has been replaced by Ray Cave, '48, of New York City. to assist in the search for two presidents, who take office next July l. Besides Mr. Frame and Mr. Cave, After the initial screening, Mr. Frame members indude three others from the said the Search Committee will develop a board, Mara Robinson and Daniel T. short list of candidates, each of whom will Kelly, of Santa Fe, and Joyce Rumsfeld, be interviewed by the entire committee in of Winnetka, Ill., together with the deans the fall. Finalists for both presidencies will and a faculty representative from each be interviewed by the faculty and staff campus. They are Dean George Doskow members on both campuses. and Douglas Allanbrook, of Annapolis, Committee members are working unand Dean Robert Neidorf and Jack der guidelines of confidentiality establishStedman, of Santa Fe. ed during the last presidential search conThe openings have been nationally adducted in 1979-80. They have scheduled their next meeting fo~ September 30 in , vertised in The Chronical of Higher Education and The New York Times. New York. "These two presidents will be co-equal Following a precedent also set during that search, the Search Committee is and each will report independently to the board," the statement in the Chronicle expected to present the names of only one president for each campus, rather than says. "It is clear that they must work harmoniously together to preserve the unity several candidates, for final board action. of the college." In receiving nominations, Mr. Frame emphasized that the committee is attemptEssential requirements the Search ing to develop a pool comprised of only Committee lists for the presidents are a serious candidates: that is, candidates commitment to the liberal arts education, who will both consent to be president and ability and willingness to raise funds, colbe willing to go through the nomination legiality, and administrative ability. Program starts/or teachers ! - Engineering student Brian Creighton, left, and Dr. Owen Brady, dean of liberal studies, both of Clarkson Universitv. learned about St. John's first hand this summer. Story on P. 7 Claudia levy photo A new and innovative teacher preparation program developed by St. John's College, the University of New Mexico, and by Santa Fe public schools was launched this summer with 16 St. John's graduates participating. "This may well be the first time that public and private educational institutions have worked together with a public school system to develop a program in teacher education," Edward A. Ortiz, superintendent of Santa Fe public schools, said, "By moving in a new direction, it's the kind of program that can bring into our schools the increasing numbers of teachers with high levels of knowledge that we need, to keep improving our educationai system." The program includes coursework at UNM and a one internship in Santa Fe schools. will be a pair in classrooms and, team, will have total responsibility for a classroom for an entire year without the traditional teacher overseeing their work. An experienced educatior will be on hand as a supervisor and consultant. interns for both elementary and secondary teaching will take the same courses at UNM and, unlike most teacher education programs, will have the opportunity to be certified in grades one through twelve by doing additional supervised teaching after the completion of initial certification work. In his assessment of the program thus far, Andy Njaa, SF '75, said: "In many ways it was an extension of the St. John's style of learning. We wouldn't allow it any other way. When one class started out as a regular lecture class, we quickly explained our style of discussion. Our professor, Joe Martinez, Teacher P. 5) �Page ·2 SEPTEMB.ER 1985 THE REPORTER 1 Alumni to elect officers 1928 Louis L. Snyder was awarded a citation in March at the 18th annual New Jersey Writer's Conference, held by the Alumni Association ofthe New Jersey Institute of Technology. He was honored for Anvil· Book's publication of his book; National Socialist Germam•. The 1985 Swedish edition of his book, The World War, 1939-1945, published by Simon & Schuster, has just been published by Tidens Vorlag in Stockholm. He is a retired professor of history at the qty University of New York. 1962 Joel B. Greenbergh, known as Yossi Gilboa in Israel, has received an award as one of Israel's best tour guides ... He says that his sophomore year readings at St. John's have given him a unique basis for conducting Christian groups," Moshe (Mel) Kline, '66, reports from Jerusalem. Mel provides news of two other Johnnies: Ezra Harris, '67, has returned to the States after lO years in Israel and is working towards a master's degree in special education. And David Moss, SF'67, who lives in Jerusalem, is illustrating ancient Jewish texts. Many of his works are in museums throughout the world. 1968 From Lee Reichelderfer Tyner comes this report, "I have left the Department of Justice after 91/2 years and am now with the Office of General Counsel, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, doing Superfund work." Her address is 1416 Geranium Street, N. W., Washington, D. c. 20012.. 1969 A vron Alberts writes from Somerville, Mass., that he plans to begin work towards a master of divinity degree at Harvard 1'ivinity School this fall in preparation for ordination· as a UnitarianUniversalist minister. In 1984, he received a bachelor of arts degree in liberal studies from the University of Louisville. He and his wife have three children. A son is enrolled in a program at Whitney Young College of Kentucky State University which is modeled on the St. John's curriculum. 1977 Steven K. Ross and Yolie Ross proudly announce the birth of Rebekah Grace Ross on May 5 at Washington Adventist Hospital. , 1978 Christopher Olson writes, "After nine months of training in New York, I was sent to work at the Buenos Aires branch of Citibank, where l will be a corporate lending officer for several years. My new address is: Jose Hernandez 1889, 15 p, (14281) Buenos Aires, Argentina." Telephone, 781-5944. Under the sponsorship of the lnstitute for Education Affairs, Terrance A. Teachout has been awarded a year's editorial Rebecca 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. Delattre, president. Published five times a year, in f ebruary, April, June, September and November. Second-class postage paid al Annapolis, Md. USPS 018-750 internship at Harper's Magazine. He also is on High Fidelity's classical record reviewing team and reviews books for National Review. Before his recent move to New York, Terry studied psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus. He is co-founder and assistant editor of Illini Review, a conservative monthly. SF 1979 Via spouse, Mary Sue Laurel, (who happens to be working in the Santa Fe Alumni Office), we hear Christopher Garwood has just completed teacher certification in elementary education at the University of New Mexico and will begin as a primary school teacher with Hodgin Elementary School in Albuquerque. · In conjunction with teacher certification, he also will obtain a master of arts degree in elementary education. The University of New Mexico secured his joint certification and graduate program through a university grant. He worked closely with Prof. Keith Augur, who was responsible for the collaboration of the University of New Mexico and St. John's College teacher intern program with the Santa Fe public school system, which began in June. 1980 The Rev. Frank S. St. Amour, Ill, has been appointed rector of St. Matthew's Apglican Church, Newport News, Va., and was scheduled to assume his new duties at the end of August. He and the former Susan Pound of Bridgend, Wales, were married June I. They plan to attend homecoming at St. John's this fall. Their address is 215 Main Street, Newport News, Va. 1980 Anne W. Schanche has joined the staff of the Tri-County council for Southern Maryland as an economic development specialist. She formerly was marketing director for the Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company in Baltimore. An article in the Lexington Park Enterprise traces Anne's career since leaving St. John's. She served in the Peace Corps, Ivory Coast, West Africa, teaching English and supervising a village development project. When she returned to the States, she enrolled at the University of Maryland to pursue a master's degree in public management. Under a Fullbright/ Hays fellowship, she studied national food policy and nutrition status in Sri Lanka. Anne then completed requirements for the degree and graduated with the charter class of the university's School of Public Affairs in 1984. She lives in .Compton, Md. 1981 Dan Van Doren, who completed his law studies at Boston University in May and spent solid parts of the summer studying for the New York Bar exam, has become involved in the public interest. He also wants to do something about illiteracy in this country. • Last month he joined the New York Public Interest Research Group, which focuses on legislative advocacy. "It tries to deal with societal problems through the legislature, not the courts," Dan writes. "While social change is possible, often the only route, via court decisions, the change is incremental and haphazard. Legislati~Ve advocacy attempts to write laws with broad sweep by taking' into account as ,rf:rnny aspects as possible. ln a sense, the'1 ~riting of laws tries to account all at oAce for the different issues (Contin~~d on P. H) a Dr. David Dobreer, '44, of Alhambra, Calif., has been nominated for another term as president of the Alumni Association. He heads a slate of officers nominated for election at the annual meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, in the Conversation Room. It also includes: Jane FitzSimon, '73, of Washington, vice-president; Bernard Jacob, '54, of New York City, secretary, and Chris Nelson, SF '70, of Chicago, treasurer. Nominated as directors are John Van Doren, '47; Carolyn Banks Leeuwenbiurgh, '55; Mary Bittner Wiseman, '58, and Martha Clark Dabney, SF '78. In addition, the association will vote to expand the board by adding four new members. If that is approved, nominees for those posts will be Allan Hoffman, '49; Kenneth Kimble, '77; Bartholomew Lee, '68; and Harrison Sheppard, '61. Nominated as alumni representatives to the Board of Visitors and Governors are M's Wiseman and Mr. Nelson. Goodwin, O'Grady are wed Josephine Goodwin, '84, of Chesapeake, Va., and St. John's tutor William O'Grady, Jr., were married in an early afternoon ceremony May 31 at the Anne Arundel County Courthouse. The witnesses threw rice, and the party sipped champagne from paper cups. The following day there was an afternoonlong celebration in the garden of the Dorsey House. Witnesses present for the ceremony were St. John's tutors Sharon Garvey, Marilyn Higuera, Nicholas Maistrellis, and Howard Zeiderman along with Miss Garvey's husband, Tim Wisecarver, and Paula Rustan, SF '83, a former student of Mr. O'Grady who flew in for the occasion from Chicago. Mr. Maistrellis and Mr. Zeiderman planned the reception and luncheon in the Dorsey Gardens. It was an occasion begun with readings by the O'Gradys, her sister, Pam Goodwin, of Arlington, and his brother, Terrence O'Grady, of Green Bay, Wisc. Each took turns reading from The Odyssey, the book which had brought the O'Gradys together, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Dostoevsky. Afterwards there were punch and horsd 'oeuvres, a formal, seated luncheon, and a wedding cake with toasts by Joe Sachs, Wendy Allanbrook, and Sharon Garvey. The bride wore a short, high-necked, Mexican style dress of white cotton. The couple are making their home at 75-A Franklin Street in Annapolis. During her final two years at St. John's, Mrs. O'Grady was student liaison for the Caritas Society. Carol Shuh teaching in Kuwait Carol D. Shuh, '73, teaches biology at the Universal American School, Khaldiya, Kuwait. " ... A nicer bunch of teenage Arabs you could never hope to meet," she writes of her 7th, 9th, I Ith and 12th graders. "Many of them are Lebanese, with plenty of Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Turks, Iranians, Iraquis, etc .... There's also a sprinkling of other nationalities ... The staff is almost as multi-national as the kids, with the majority being either Lebanese, like the superintendent and two of the principals, or American, or British. "The kids are ... friendly, enthusiastic, interested, hard-working and well-behaved. They're not perfect, but discipline, classroom management, and motivation are not nearly the problem here that they would be in the states." Commenting on the unstable situation in the Middle East, Miss Shuh reports that she was told "women and children in a school are not preferred targets foJ political terrorists." On the other hand, she must cope with "the whole issue of censorship. Anything to do with pork, liquor, Jews, or Israel must be strictly avoided. A book in the library about woman prime ministers had to have the chapter on Golda Mier cut out before the censor would approve it, and Susan (her roomate) couldn't teach the theories of Sigmund Freud to her psychology class. "Maps have the whole country of Israel blacked out, and any slightly revealing picture of a woman must be scribbled over or have brown paper pasted on it. "This week I did my part - l made the'• seventh graders open their biology books to the sentence, 'Marrow is the soft Iinner~ : . f' CAROL D. SHUH part of a bone which you have probably seen in a ham bone or steak bone.' l went around with a marker crossing out the · offensive phrase while they whispered and were indignant that they had to submit to censorship." Of Kuwait, Miss Sh uh writes, "Yes, the whole country is a beach! Well, it's flat, sandy, and has seawater at one edge what else can you call it? Of course, there is also a big, bustling, brandinew city built on the sand, with lots of freeways, apartment buildings, modem shops and stores, and beautiful villas, hotels 'and public buildings." After graduating from St. John's, Miss Shuh studied biology and ecology at Purdue University. Following employment in this field, she joined the Peace Corps in 1978 and taught at the Barina Secondary School, Makali, Sierra Leone, until 1981. She obtained a master of arts degree in science education from the University of Iowa when she returned to the states. �. . Page··a THE REPORTER. SEPTEMBER ,1985 ' St.~ John's type progralll in Kentucky to expand Persea The Whitney Young, Jr., College of Mary's College, Moraga, Calif., Thomas Kentucky State University, which two Aquinas College, Calif; ... Notre Dame, years ago became the first public institu- Shimer College, with the remnants of the original curricular iqeal of Robert Huttion toadopt a program modeled after St. chins, Stringfellow Barr, and Scott BuchJohn's, wiffexpand its curriculum to four anan surviving in the college program at years. . the: University of Chicago, the general Tom Slak~y, the college 1s first dean, who directed the first two years and who studies curriculum at Columbia Univerreturns to his teaching duties on the sity, and a modified interal ·studies prof\n,na1poi11s campus this month, said that gram at Berea College, Berea, Ky. the program will vary from St. John's all "For this reason the Whitney Young required program in that it will permit the College is an innovation in public educacompletion of both major and minor pro- tion." grams during the final two years. A junior In planning the program for the final year will be added this fall and the senior two years, Mr. Slakey said the effort has been to be "simple and flexible." Unlike in 1986. Replacing Mr. Slakey will be John St.John's, Whitney Young will offer three Lyon, who taught for 16 years in the Pro- options: gram of Liberal Studies at the University Completion of a major within Whitney .of Notre Dame. Young toward a bachelor of arts in liberal Four St. John's alumni, all Annapolis studies with a minor in a university departgraduates, are on the faculty. ment, completion of a minor within WhitThey include Eric Salem, '77, who is eny Young with a major in a university completing his doctorate in political phil- department, and using the Whitney Young osophy at the University of Dallas; Don curriculum during the freshman and sophEdwards, '77, who has completed his doc- omore years to complete all university torate in classics at Brown University; requirements with a completion of both Theophus Smith, '72, who is returning major and minor in university departfrom leave at the Graduate Theological ments. As his work at Whitney Young came to Union <in Berkeley, where he has been working on his dissertation, and Ronny a conclusion this summer, Mr. Slakey Millen; '7 l, new this who has just served as a leader in a special, four-week completed his doctorate in the history of study of political science for high school students held at Whitney under science at the University of Indiana. Three other non-St. Johnnies continu- auspices of the National Endowment for ing from last year include Louise Chawla, the Humanities. Sand:ratJ'a1tt~1rson.1 · William Horton. Young is the only historically black university in the state of Kentucky. In a report program, Mr. Slakey noted that since desegregation, the university has been losing the best black high schoolgraduates to other institutions, and A book written by Annapolis tutor Wye it has~:been difficult recruiting the best Allanbrook has been named among the white high school graduates. KS U's responses to these two problems Best Academic Books of 1984 by Choice, were to develop a small college within the a magazine for librarians. Her book, Rhythmic Gesture in Mozuniversity modeled on the great books program at St. John's and to ask St. art: Le Nozze di Figaro and Don GioJohn's to send a senior faculty member to vanni, is one of 12 books in the field of music named for this honor. Altogether head the project. Last year the college had approxi- 603 books were chosen based upon 6,500 reviews and a criterion requiring that mately 60 freshmen and sophomores, books selected fill ~ gap in literature or tw()-thirds white and one-third black, and have expectations of becoming landmarks almost all residents on campus. in their fields. An ad hoc committee that reviewed the This summer Mrs. Allanbrook particifirst two years of the program and headed pated in the Smithsonian Associates Resby Professor Phillip Sloan, associate proident Associate Program, lecturing on fessor in the Program of Liberal Studies at "Mozart and Women in Love," a talk in the University of Notre Dame, said the which she discussed Mozart's relationship committee was unanimous in its concluwith women and the memorable operatic sion that Whitney Young had fulfilled the heroines of his Marriage of Figaro and central aim of its establishment, the creaDon Giovanni. tion of a fine liberal arts college at KenIn August she was a resident for two tucky State. weeks at Yaddo, the artists' center in It also said it had succeeded in fulfilling Saratoga Springs, where she pursued stua subsidiary component of its original dies in expression in classical music. mission, the increase in the proportion of A new review of her book which appearresident white students on campus. It coned in the spring issue of Eighteenthcluded that the college has attracted to the Century Studies described the volume as campus a high percentage of highly able "exhilarating." students. .. In a penetrating, imaginative, and The committee unanimously recomthought-provoking treatment, generously mended the continuation of the college for supplemented with eleven figures and· a period of time sufficient to evaluate, by over two hundred musical examples. the standardized performance estimates, at author explores a fresh, almost untapped leastfivegraduatingclasses. In 1991 it will subject: Mozart's musical imagery," Malbe re-evaluated. colm S. Cole, of the University of CaliforThe report said: nia at Los Angeles, writes. "Most current examples of the great "'Supplementing Allanbrook's scholarbooks curricular program exist as full programs only in expensive private' ly attainments is a novelist's talent for building suspense.·· ·· schools - St. John's two campuses. St. lS to Persea Books of New York City will bring out a collection of poetry by · Santa Fe tutor Charles Bell in October. Entitled "Five Chambered Heart," the book is a sequence of related poems written as a meditation of love in all its forms. Mr. Bell prefaces his table of contents by writing: ••The poems 9f this. book form twenty numbered waves which move recurrently through five archetypal states of love: love simple; love narrowed, as in lust; attached to things, earth; perturbed or reversed, waste; transcended, so\ll. Longer poems imaging the same states surround each sequence of five such waves." , A Mississippi-born novelist and poet who began his career as a physicist, Mr. Bell joined the Annapolis campus in l 956 and in 1967 became a tutor on the western campus. He is the author of two other collections of poems, "Songs for a New America" and "Delta Return," published by Indiana Press, and of two novels, "The Married Land" and "The Half Gods," published by Houghton Mifflin. More recently he has devoted much of his time to the production of 38 multi-media "shows" - "Symbolic History - Through Sight and Sound" that represent the historical unfolding of man's view of himself and th!? world as expressed in thought and the arts. He also is a.t work on a third novel, 'The Third 1\..111gc1oriri, essays, "And See It Whole," and a philosophical of Reality." Many of the poems published in "Five Chambered Heart" have appeared in other individual publications. Of Mr. Bell's first 'book of poems, the poet Galway Kinnell has written: "No other poet of our time has written of the American country and of the tragic ground by which our dignity is renewed, this resilience of spirit, with an equal combination of philosophic intelligence, respect, faith, compassion, and dignity." Seth Cropsey's double life "It's very hard to keep things like that St. John's and the Naval Academy's entirely quiet," Mr. Cropsey said. "People relationship does evolve in all sorts of know I have another job during the week." unexpected ways. Now, perhaps ironiMr. Cropsey works in intelligence. Just cally for the place across the street, the as in the espionage novels, his dual Academy owes its deputy under secretary Naval career at two· distinct levels gives · of the Navy to St. John's. him an opportunity to go out and find out (Fair enough. Rear Admiral Charles R. things for himself. Instead of receiving Larson, superintendent, told the Student reports channeled through others, he can Forum last year that when he retires, he gain a first hand experience of how the wants to come to St. John's.) Navy puts itself together. Among his Navy circles, Seth Cropsey Instead of receiving reports channeled can say he is a graduate of the school in through others, as he does in his Pentagon Annapolis, a city virtually synonymous in office, he can gain a first hand experience large parts of the country with the Naval Academy, although technically his camof how the Navy puts itself together. pus is Santa Fe, where he received his Mr. Cropsey saves some of his time to degree in 1972. attend meetings of the St. John ·s Board of The thing that is particularly interesting Visitors and Governors, of which he is a at the moment about Mr. Cropsey is that member, and to attend the St. John'ssome people might go so far as to say this Naval Academy croquet games. It is not 35-year-old alumnus is leading a double every deputy under secretary who gets to life in the Navy. Sounds ominous, doesn't watch Navy at one of its more serious it? To speedily set your·mind at rest, it's · efforts. really enterprising, even investigative. . Most of the time he can be found in his Condos get Pentagon office as deputy under secretary Los Miradores, the condominiums on of the Navy. St. John's endowment land adjacent to One weekend a month, he is at Suitthe Santa Fe campus, received two awards land, Md., participating in drill weekends, at the 1985 Pacific Coast Builders Conferas an ensign in the Naval Reserve. He was ence in San f rancisco. on active duty for two weeks in June in Chosen from 777 entries from 14 westPensacola, Fla. - ..an immensely interern states, Los Miradores took grand esting experience.•• awards for best medium density residenMr. Cropsey had wanted to do it for a tial community and best condominium long time and finally, in February.joined unit. Judging was based on ..compatabilthe Naval reserve. His fellow ensigns are ity and harmony of the project with the generally awaro of tb~ e>t~er aspect of his environment and ..special and unique Naval life. · · · · .· ·. · 1 1' ., ,vdesia&sobation8''~ pnze fl J �i Page4 THE REPORTER Ah-exciting China greets 3 By HELEN MARINE The author is a free-lance writer living in S.C. She and her husband, Wendell "'Wink" Marine, '47, toured durJune on a sponsored the St. Co Hege The group of 34 visited Beijing (Peking), Xi'an, Shanghai and Hangzhou. Following the 12-day tour of China, the group spent four days in Kong. The staring match was friendly. We were different, and so were they. But it wasn't only the physical differences that intrigued us; it was the numbers. Although we knew Beijing was a city of nine m'illion people and three million bicycles, we hadn't expected to see all of them at once. This was Friday, our first day in China, and we were strolling down a street about a block from Tien-an-Men Square and the ancient Forbidden City. We had wasted no time before plunging into our "Sightseeing and Lifeseeing Program" for, as Carolyn Leeuwenburgh, the tour coordinator, put it, .. You can always sleep in some other country." We had arrived late the previous night, and during the hour-long bus ride from the airpot to the hotel, Carolyn and Li Bin, our local Chinese guide, had briefed us on our Beijing itinerary. The Hotel XiYuan proved to be modern, and our rooms more than adequate. There was a service desk on each floor, and the young men in charge saw to it that all rooms were supplied with thermoses of hot and cold boiled water. They also kept our keys, handled our laundry, and took care of necessary plumbing repairs, all with unfailing courtesy. On our first morning we were allowed to sleep late, in recognition of the many hours of travel recently endured, and breakfast was at 8 a.m. rather than an hour or two earlier as was the norm on days to follow. Even though we had traveled on the same planes from either New York or San Francisco, breakfast was the first time most members of the group had an opportunity to meet. At a later meeting we all introduced ourselves, and, as is usual with a large group, promptly forgot most people's names and spent the next several days confronting one another with ..Now, your name is?" AU our travel in and around the cities was by bus, in most cases a late Japanese model. Our national guide, a pleasant young man named Bao, was with us for the entire trip while in each city we had a local guide. Bao didn't say much during 'the tours but was always available to answer questions and aid with any problems. Even though there is a certain amount of individual freedom in modern China, jobs are still assigned by the authorities. Our guides, as the Chinese with whom we had the greatest contact, had varied personalities and some were much better suited to the job than others. Some spoke perfect English, and some were more open than others. Mr. Hao, in Xi'an, was difficult to understand and follow as we trai.psed behind him in museums. Unfortunately, we visited more museums in Xi'an than in any other city. Even though we found explanation written in English in a few places we never seemed to have enough time to read them. · A hotel near the Square was the site of our first authentic Chinese meal. Most of us had practiced with the chopsticks Carolyn thoughtfully sent prior to the tdp. but a few of us brought utensils from home and eschewed chopsticksJor the en"' tire trip. Because we werea large group, we sometimes ate in a private dining room where we could commiserate with:one another over our inability to capture the smaller or more slippery delicacies. However, our first meal was in a large dihing room where we felt we were the focus of every Chinese eye. Some of us were more dexterous tban others, but we all managed to put food on our plates. At each meal we were seated at round tables accomodating eight to twelve diners. At each place was found a saucer sized plate, a small bowl for rice and a larger one for soup. Several dishes of - we were never sure what - were already on the table. After they were passed, waiters would appear bearing dish after dish of hot fish, meats, and ve.getables. We never knew how much we had eaten at any one meal but decided it wasn't much. Most of the time was spent passing dishes from hand to hand rather than from hand to mouth. Soup was usually the final course with fruit served rarely and a sweet dessert served only once during the trip. Warm beer, mineral water, or an orange drink was the usual beverage with wine or mao-tai reserved for banquets. Following our first successful meal we returned to Tien-an-Men Square and entered the Forbidden City through the Gate of Heavenly Peace. The remainder of the afternoon was devoted to wandering through the 250acres where two dozen emperors from the 15th to early 20th century lived and formulated policies. Again, we were overwhelmed by the number of people, all well dressed and appearing to be well fed and satisfied. Upon leaving the City we were confronted by several aggressive young Chinese men, all wanting to take our pictures using either their Polaroids or our cameras for a hefty fee. That was our first and only brush with rudeness, and Li Bin deplored i\. calling it "capitalism on the march." Dinner that night was at the Friendship Hotel complex, built in the early l950's to accomodate the thousands of Soviet technicians sent to provide assistance to China. Its buildings now house foreign residents and their families. One member of our group celebrated his birthday with a cake Carolyn obtained somewhere. During the tnp we celebrated three birthdays and a Scott Abbott, '43, at Shanghai school wedding anniversary~ the accompanying ·ca~e$ ,prpvid.ed--'mu~h needed filli"g for .~,' ) ( l; (1~·. 1- ', t .~ '- SEPTEMBER 1985 0 .alumni tour Barbara K. Hutchins, '64, has dinner with old family friends, Mr. and Mrs. Lao. our respective sweet tooth(s). Lao had met in 1927 "when Uncle Frank A day was spent traveling to the Great was head of the China program." Wall and the Ming Tombs and during the She said they had remained in touch long ride Li Bin filled us in on the history through the years and "upon learning I. of China, as he saw it, from the time of was planning to visit Shanghai, my uncle liberation. He was often critical of the late wrote Mr. Lao and then told me how I Chairman Mao, but gave us a balanced might contact him. I was anxious to meet him," Barbara continued, "and, unable to view. The Wall was an experience. Most of us contact him at work, enlisted Bao's aid. climbed as far as possible up one side and We then hopped into a cab and went to his then collapsed. Carolyn offered an Olymapartment. He was delighted to see me, pian award to the St. Johnnie who could and he and his wife agreed to have dinner climb both sides: Wink Marine, '47, claimwith the St. John's group." ed the award, but it was denied him when Our dinner, which was actually a banit was learned he had climbed each side quet featuring Peking Duck, was a lively -halfway. Incidentally, Wink did earn one that night, complete with friendship one distinction. He was the only one on toasts and a rendition of the Yale Fight the trip to run into an acquaintance -in Song provided by Mr. Lao and Harvard China. In one of the Xran museums, he grad Frank Rettenberg, father of Frank met a neighbor and co-worker. In that Rettenberg, Bethesda junior. case it was a "small world." The next day we ~wex~ .scheduled to Before leaving Beijing for Xi'an we leave Shanghai and travel by train to again visited Tien-an-Men Square, to tour Hangzhou, a city of one million people the massive Great Hall of the People and renowned for the beauty of West Lake, the Chairman Mao Memorial. At the the delicately flavored Dragon Well tea, Memorial we marched in columns of four and its silk factories. into the Hall where we viewed a large Before leaving Shanghai we visited a statue of Mao before going two by two commune on the outskirts of the city. We into the chamber where his body lies had been told previously that the Chinese encased in glass. A fitting and eerie climax authorities now call these living areas to our days in the capital city. townships - they are discouraging use of We left .Beijing via military transport the word commune. There we visited a which turned out to be a British Trident family apartment, the medical complex jet with our group as the only passengers. and a school. The medical facilities seemWe were treated royally, plied with gifts ed primitive by our standards - but who and food during the three-hour trip. The are we to say the ancient herbs and highlight of our stay in the Xi'an area was remedies aren't effective? One of our the trip to see the 6,000 man terra cotta group submitted to an acupuncture treatarmy unearthed in 1974. Considered one ment to relieve her headache and was satof the major archaeological finds of the isfied with the result. century, the army was built to guard the This was the first opportunity we had to first emperor of the Qin dynasty after his see the countryside - small towns and death. At present 500 of the life-size figrice paddies, farms and gardens, and ures have been restored and are in a shelscenes remembered trom old movies and tered hanger where they may be viewed by textbooks. It was also a relaxing time, the public. time to reflect on things we had seen and Our next stop, Shanghai, was to many done, time to teach Bao the fundamentals of us the most interesting city on the tour. of western card playing (bridge and Our hotel was old, circa 1906, but its nain hearts) and time to catch up on conversavirtue was its location on the Bund, or tions with fellow tour members. waterfront. We were able to stroll on the In Hangzhou we had our final Chinese Bund and interact with local citizens eager banquet, this time featuring Beggar's to practice their English., Shanghai was Chicken, a local delicacy where the chickalso a ..dream come true" for Bill King '38, en is wrapped in lotus leaves; slathered who as a boy growing up in Annapolis with clay, baked and brought to the table heard many a sea story about the waterencased in the solid clay which is then front. Now retired after a career in the cracked open. The banquet also marked Marine Corps, Bill fairly beamed as he our final contact with Bao, who would strolled the Bund and drank in the atmosleave us the following morning upon our phere. departure to Hong Kong. Shanghai was also where we met Mr. We were rudely welcomed back into the and Mrs. Lao. Mr. Lao, an official with capitalist world when we flew into Hong the Shanghai Ministry of TransportaKong in the midst of a typhoo'1. The hustion, was a student in the Yale in China tle and bustle of a modern city was jarring program which operated prior to 1949, after our days in China and at first it was Barbara Hutchins, '64, explained that her hard to think about doing things without uncle, Dr. Francis S. Hutchins. and Mr., the group. - l �-::"' ':~,,$,. ' ' THE REPORTER SEPTJ:MBER 1985 C:lfttis Wilson to chair meet Annapolis tutor Curtis Wilson will chair a session on "Theory and Observation in Kepler's Natural Philosophy" at the annual mveeting of the History of ScieMe Society at Indiana University October 31-November 3. Among the contributors to the session will be William H. Donahue, '67, former Santa Fe tutor, who has been translating Kepler's Astronomia nova for Cambridge University Press. Mr. Wilson is the author of a booklength article that appears in the latest edition of Archive for the History of Exact Science. It is entitled "The Great Inequality of Jupiter and Saturn: from Kepler to Laplace." The 285-page study concerns a difficulty that troubled astronomers from Kepler onwards and was finally resolved by Laplace in I 785-86. The mean motions of Jupiter and Saturn appeared to be subject to long-term accelerations and decelerations. Laplace shows that these effects are perturbations caused by the mutual attractions ofthe two planets. In accounting for the fact that Laplace's discovery came only full century after Newton's discovery of universal gravitation and the writing of the Principia, the study becomes a history, of the development of celestial mechanics from Newton to Laplace. a Teacher program (Continued from P. 1) was very open and m the end our class had become a synthesis of the lecture and discussion styles, with heavy emphasis on discussion. Joe said that he probably learned as much from us as we from him. Now he's anxious to visit our campus and see more." The interns began their classroom teaching at the end of August. Others participating are Elizabeth Drew, SF '80, Greg Toppo, SF '85, Katherine Goff, SF '80, Janette Hradecky, SF '85, Bruce Johnson, SF '85, Diana Lujan, SF '85, Julia Neidorf, SF '85, Clairyce Ellis, SF '84; Joel Friederich, SF '85, Richard Scholnik, SF '85, Lemuel Mar-· tinez, SFGI '82, Mally Mechau, SF '84, John Van Beckum, SFGI '84, John Balwit, SFGI '84, and Patricia Rubin Sowa, A '84. Cooperatively funded, fellowships for the interns and the salary for the program director are provided by the University of New Mexico and Santa Fe schools. Tuition for coursework at UNM also will be underwritten by a university grant. Page 5 Great 'ole girl about to· leave Isabelle Simpson is about to hang up her stenographic pad, bequeath her successor all her files and as much accumulated knowledge of St. John's presidential office as she can transmit, and perform what for her will be an odd act. After 30 years with the college, she will retire. At 75, she has decided it's about time. In 1980, when he arrived on campus, President Delattre was eager to retain a secretary and assistant to the president who knew the history of the college and its current affairs. He invited her to stay with him and expressed his gratitude that she had done so. "Isabelle is not only a colleague but a beloved friend family," he said. "Her retirement John's will enable all of us to have even more time together in personal settings for which all the Delattres are grateful." Since then she has had five productive years, but, after coaching her successor, Anne Smith, who is dµe to arrive September l, she will bow out January I after being "everythmg a good executive secretary should be," according to her associate d,own the hall, dean's secretary Terry McGuire. Isabelle Simpson wonders about retirment. She has a built-in alarm clock that awakens her at 6 a.m., even on Saturdays and Sundays, and she imagines that internal mechanism will not cease nudging her. After all, with the exception of two years with an infant daughter, she has worked continuously since she graduated from Baltimore's Western High School in 1927. They have been years when she also was secretary to the late governor and senator, Herbert R. O'Conor. It will be a long pattern to break. Nevertheless, her retired friends keep encouraging her to come on in; the retirement waters are fine. They have planned a southern cruise next year and a boat trip later on the Mississippi Queen. One friend N. California sets Odyssey seminar The Northern California Alumni Association Chapter has scheduled the first of three sessions on The Odyssey for September 22 at the home of Grant and Marlene Franks, 1810 Virginia St., Berkeley. Covering the first eight books, the seminar will be followed by two others on Homer on October 20 and November 17. Seminars January through March will be devoted to James Joyce's Ulysses. Interested persons should telephone Mr. Franks during working hours at (415) 772-6723. Trip to Italy next in '86 Now that the ancient cultures of Greece and China have been explored, the St. John's College Alumni Tours will turn to the rich cultural heritage of Italy next June. The Alumni Association board approved the fourth tour under its sponsorship at its July meeting. Carolyn Banks-Leeuwen burgh, '55, coordinator, said the 16-day tour is scheduled to begin the first week in June; the precise date will be announced later. The tour will begin in Sicily, where participants will visit the Greek settlements in Agrigento, Syracuse, and Taormino. ;•We'll then sail to the Roman remains of Pompeii, Herculanum, and Paestum and, of course, the Italian capital of Rome," she reported. "From Rome, we'll travel north to Assisi, Siena, and Ravenna to see their medieval treasures before visiting the renaissance cities of Florence and Venice." Assuming a more leisurely pace, she said the tour will conclude in the beautiful setting of Lake Maggiore. Additional information may. be o"fa'ined by . writing Mrs. Banks~. Leeuwenburgh at 294 Jefferson Rd!, PrindetQn, N ,J,,,Q85,40 (60?l~~'1-:\IP~· 1 admirers. "She is the most dedicated .employee that this kid has ever worked with," Mr. McDowell said in a tone of voice that left no doubt about it. Under a new college policy, Mrs. Simpson began signing a time card last year. "Her contribution to the college still can't be measured qualitatively," Mr. McDo..: well emphasized. Mr. Freda came to the President's Office with strict orders from Mr. McDowell: "Whatever you do, don't let Isabelle resign." They've had their own special relationship. .. She's really demanding to work for, but it's a joy," Mr. Freda said. "I've loved iL She is one of the most thoroughly kind people I ever met - just fantastic." Mr. Freda had hoped that when he graduates next May, "We could go out together." Instead, among his college memories will be the two weeks in which ISABELLE SiMPSON ....retiring soon he lived at ·her Watergate Apartment early this summer co,mpleting a special already has lined her up for volunteer project for the President's office and their work with the Red Cross while she hopes dinners and movies together. It was so to give more time to St. John's Caritas enjoyable he offered to stay with her folSocety. lowing foot surgery in August, running She also is thinking of a class or two at errands and generally helping to ease that Anne Arundel Community College. "I'd period. like to learn to play bridge better," she Other assistance for Mrs. Simpson also said. has come, especially in the preparation of "It's been interesting work - not a 9 to Mr. Delattre's talks and articles, from 5 job - and l 've loved every minute of it," John Burkett, assistant to the president. she said of her years at the college. It has been welcome. Mrs. Simpson's She has been a flexible secretary for a health has been imperfect. Between 1972job requiring flexibility, working late at 74, she was hospitalized five times for a night or on weekends, if need be, for her mysterious ailment finally diagnosed as former boss of 25 years, President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle, and for Mr. De- due to a hair spray. It resulted in having part of a lung removed. She has had lattre. pneumonia twice since then. For such services and many others, she Discreet and loyal, Mrs. Simpson is has won Mr. Weigle's admiratio_n. known for her considerable secretarial "One t~ing that I recall most vividly about our service together was her per- skills and for her invariably, cheerily gracious manner. Those qualities don't stop petual cheerfulness," Mr. Weigle said. "I know that she had great personal prob- there. According to her neighbor across the hall, college registrar Nancy Lewis, lems and that she was not always in the who has a special fondness for her. best of health. It did not seem to matter. "She is a very giving person," Mrs. , She was always ready and willing to forget Lewis said. "Her devotion to the college is herself and to give of herself to the job. "Over the years she has come to be absolutely magnificent. She always operlooked upon as the main cog in the wheel ates on a plane that is so commendable. that is McDowell Hall. All of the other No matter what kind of pressure there is, secretaries look up to her and seek her she never sees things in a small or petty way. Her feelings about the college are advice on many matters." noble." Her relationship with the Delattre famBecause her night vision is not as good ily, into which she has been absorbed, has as it once was and she cannot drive to a special dimension. She has baby-sat for them, become a · rehearsals after dark, Mrs. Simpson will friend of Mr. Delattre's mother, with not rejoin the choir of the Woods Memorwhom she stayed when his father died, ial Presbyterian Church, with which she and walked the Delattres' dog, Frisky. sang with so much pleasure for 17 years. She has accompanied the Delattres to Alumni giving family weekends in Charlottesville, taking hits $200,000 dictation along the way in the car. When Donna Delattre died in 1983, she felt "as if Alumni giving to the annual fund I had lost my own granddaughter. She for 1984-85 topped $200,000 for the was a wonderful girl. l loved her." combined Annapolis and Santa Fe Mrs. Simpson especially enjoyed the campuses for the year that ended years founding the western campus. When June 30. the Santa Fe campus got underway, she Allan P. Hoffman, '49, chairman packed her bags and came out for exof the Alumni Relations Committee tended periods to work with Mr. Weigle, of the Board of Visitors and Goverstaying as long as six weeks. nors, announced the amount, the Working in a narrow strip of an office largest on record for annual alumni next to the president's office and a traffic giving for current unrestricted purladen hall, Mrs. Simpson only four years poses. ago acquired some help: a student assistNational chairmen for the 1984ant, George McDowell, '84, a third year 85 alumni giving effort were Tom law student at the University of Maryand Alice Carnes, of San Francisco, land, who has been succeeded by Andrew who were given a vote of thanks by Freda~:ornryn Mawr~ ri~in\gstni'oT. . th~L t.1utj;irii1 f\.ssociation;;bq)\~~ .' 1 miey:notbmy havd~~ert !>ut~clt\~Med �Page 6 THE REPORTER . SEPTEMBER 1985 Teamwork, p_ar excellence! Four men JOE SPRIGGS There's not much difference, in Joe Spriggs' mind, between being a father and a foreman. He's one of St. John's buildings and grounds people who help keep the college wheels turning. At 6 I, he is the oldest in terms of service, having been associated with St. John's for 39 years. As foreman, he has a standing crew that consists of George Hicks and Gilbert Hawkins, a crew that swells during the summer months when demands at the heating plant lessen and the need for more help for the grounds grows along with the 28 acres of grass Joe estimates St. John's has to cut. Summertimes he may borrow one or two men from the plant. Borrowing people - helping one another - is something that happens over and over with a group of four essential men, who operate like a sort of four maintenance musketeers. Working together with rare harmony, they assist each other outside their field of specialty: grounds, plumbing, carpentry, and electrical work. •'Everybody pitches in and helps," this respected; long-time' employee remarks. "It's sort of like a family. It's the only way to work. It's the proper way to work." He enjoys his association with his own particular crew. As,a foreman, you have to know how to get along, to be both "pleasant and stern," much as a father is, he observed. Born in Cumberstone just south of Annapolis, Joe spent from 1942 to 1945 in the Navy and worked for a construction company in College Park before joining St. John's 39 years ago. Grass-cutting time, snow-clearing time, he's outside keeping the grounds in order. When he's not at work at his own job, he can be found lending a hand elsewhere. A man ot great faithfulness, he has never been late with the exception of the big blizzard of 1979 when, with roads blocked, he walked from his home in Eastport, wading waist deep in the snow to begin the business of clearing parking lots and sidewalks. "Snow clearing is hard," he said. "It looks easy, but it isn't." This spring he spread 28, 50-pound bags of fertilizer on the college lawns. He entrusts the college's expensive Cushman diesel power lawn mower, which converts to a snow blower and shovel, to George Hicks' care. The college also maintains three smaller Gravely tractors for grass and snow clearing. o SIDNEY PHIPPS While lesser men might find it unsettling, what Sidney Phipps likes best about his job is having something different to do every day. "I come to work and never know what will happen,,; according to this 33-year- · old plumber, whose big smile and obliging ways have won him friends across campus during the past five years. That includes not knowing how he will score as a member of the students' Green Waves softball team, with which he regularly plays. What he also appreciates is that the atmosphere of St. John's is completely different from others he has known. "Everyone- is so nice that you feel relaxed," he said. "When there is pressure, everyone pitches in. "Charlie Wallace (superintendent of buildings and grounds) is very smart on plumbing, especially heat. Sometimes you need two people to break pipes loose when they're frozen, and Gordon or someone else helps. Joe is a great guy, If he can't come, he gives me one of his helpers. I help Gordon pull wires. When they partitioned off a new office in the Carroll-Barrister House, I helped Frank hang the sheet rock." Sid says he has learned a lot on the job. Perhaps that is because of the age of the plumbing system on campus, which has experienced much delayed maintenance. St. John's is modernizing its systems, especially, he said, with the addition of new pneumatic equipment for air conditioning and heating. The biggest job Sid has completed since coming here is to replace 180 feet of fourinch steam and hot water lines and two return lines behind the quad. Dating to an era when there was no insulation, the pipes had worn paper thin over the decades. The pipes the college now is laying are wrapped with three-inch, top-grade insulation that "smells like rotten eggs," and these in turn wrapped with tar paper. They promise to last. Charlie Wallace and Sid have worked together on this. Using a burning rig, Sid removes the old pipe, and Charlie Wallace welds the new pipe into place. During the summer he makes the rounds daily checking all the gauges of the air conditioning units to make sure the cooling system is working well. During the winter, a regular daily stop is the Carroll-Barrister House, the only building on campus with a heating system ·independent of Jhe heating plant. e Hege GORDON CARL TON or • FRANK REESE Curious about how many miles he · Frank Reese has a surplus of carpen·might walk on thejob at St. John's, Gorter's talents dripping from his ten, 49·don Carlton borrowed a pedometer this year-old fingers. summer and averaged it out over a period He may find he spends considerable of three days at eight. time replacing window glass, mending screens, and coaxing venetian blinds to That's meant a Jot of mileage since his good friend, Sid Phipps, whom he got to · pull smoothly - those chores most fre-know playing softball with the Gambrills quent -'- but who is there among us who Athletic Association, told him four years can take three dilapidated old chairs, play ago that there was a need for a generalized around with them a little, and extract sufficiently good parts to put together a permaintenance assistant on campus. fectly good, here-to-stay chair? FurtherSince then his job has shaped itself into more, it's a penny up for the treasurer's that of campus electrician, not surprising office. for someone who has had seven years Or who can make and transform rooms experience in Annapolis with the old as he does, fashioning new walls and ceilAnarex, Inc. firm and another year and a ings for the security force's office in the ke half with Colonial Electric plus his own House and converting an architectural two years spent free lancing as a surveyor lean-to into a spic-and-span center where and electrical helper. a guard can take pride in hanging his hat? It was Frank who was the principal man What he found waiting for him was an earlier this year in carving out a neat, new accumulation of minor electrical work alumni liaison office in the basement of 'that had been overlooked or neglected for the Carroll-Barrister House. The admirayears. For instance, he has replaced the lights in Pinkney, which he said were in tion was distracting the first few weeks for Helen Colston as people kept bobbing in "really deplorable condition." The good thing is that once electrical problems have their heads to see and approve. And it was been corrected, his work then simply Frank who built the addition to the printshop to house the sophisticated new off- . becomes a matter of maintenance. set camera the college is acquiring. This summer Gordon helped assure Frank came here seven years ago when better.lighting at St. John's. He spent part his first heart attack warned him he of it installing ballasts, a type of transshould cease heavy work. Two years ago former which permits the 30 lamp posts in April he underwent bypass surgery. As on campus to be converted from incaneveryone is happy to know, things look descent lights to mercury vapor, a form of good for Frank's health now. lighting that Gordon said will last a hunA true Annapolitan, he was born in dred per cent longer in addition to provid'i Eastport and attended Annapolis High ing intenser light. School, leaving to serve in the Air Force This time of year, as fall deepens and form 1954 to 1958. He was employed by the days shorten, he regularly rechecks the the Bayside Cabinet Company in Annatimer to make certain the exterior lights polis for l 9 years, then by a Baltimore stay on longer. The process of losing daycabinet company for a year bet ore makmg light begins soon after June 21. By early nautical furniture for not quite a year with July he estimates days have shortened by Subsea Artifacts in town. It was then he I 0 min1Jtes. was advised to do less heavy work. The St. John's job suited his health There are other recent projects: new requirements, and he began working lighting for the guards' revamped headwhile Dave Tucker was still superintendquarters and for the alumni liaison's new ent of buildings and grounds. When there office along with the installation of new is any heavy lifting to do, he can get the lights at the president's house. Maintainnecessary help. ing a regular check on the circulating fans By now there is probably not an office, for the heat and air conditioning system classroom ordormitory room that has not and on such miscellaneous pieces of equipexperienced his touch. He likes the cabinment as the ice machine, he's prepared to et finishing work best. In addition to carfix anything that needs fixing. pentry, Frank fashions keys in his carpen"In contrast with the 'outside world,' ter's shop in the heating plant, averaging a ins.tead of being a number, you're thought lost key replacement a day during the of as a real person," he said. "What I like school year. After commencement, in most is dealing with people. You get to June, there are usually 50 to produce to mingle and get to meet people from differreplace dormitory keys that are either lost ent parts of the country. It's very pleaor; keys which students have forgotten to surable." turn in. �Page7 SEPTEMBER 1 Santa Fe adds Community show As part of the western homecoming, the Santa Fe Art Gallery featured alµmni and other members of the college community in the show, "A St. John's College Collage." · Among alumni participating were Anne Farrell, A '69, exhibiting mixed media pieces; Lisa Rappoport, SF '79, showing a series ·of photographic portraits; Kay Harvey, SF GI '77, featuring colorful prints on paper; Zelda Zinn, SF '81, showing photographic work from her master's portfolio at the University of New Mexico, and Lovejoy Reeves Duryea, A '67, exhibiting mixed media .collages. Other work by members of the St. John's community included tutor Tom Simpson's family, Marcia (Skip) Simpson's large watercolors, Pat Simpson's Steel constructions, and Roxanne Swentzell 's ceramic figures. Of recent shows, this one was particularly well attended and brought record sales. three to staff Meeting again after 1O years for the Class of 1975 reunion in Santa Fe were, from left, Kit Brewer, Leslie Johnson, John Eric Scigiliano, and Dan James O'Gara photo Georgia. College picks 1 Fourteen New Mexico teachers were awarded fellowships by the Santa Fe Graduate Institute for its Summer Institute on Classic Texts in History for Teachers. They were Martha Armijo, Frank Thomas Clark, Judith Formes, Anne Gonzales and Susan Schulte of Albuquerque; Alfred Lujan and Lucy Schlesinger, Santa Fe; Joanne Flaherty, Bosque Farms; Franceen Nielson, Aztec; Barbara Roberts, Corrales; Barbara Minton, Farmington; Clayton Rowley, Grants; Mark Blustein, Eagle Nest; Luzita Barela, Taos, and Charlotte Lee, Lincoln. The eight-week program was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities to improve the teaching and learning of history. The curriculum is based on reading and discussing central texts in history and the philosophy of history. Myers is director Lynda Myers, a tutor on the Santa Fe campus since 1977, is the new director of the Graduate Institute. She succeeds Stephen Van Luchene. After studying at Shimer College and the University of California at Berkeley, Mrs. Myers completed her undergraduate studies on the Santa Fe campus in 1971. She received her master's in classics at the University of North Carolina in 1975 and from there went on to study at Washington's Catholic University. . na With the· resignation as president of Dan Raizen, who has moved to Boston, the Chicago Chapter has organized itself as a committee for the 1985-86 year and will run itself without elected officers. Members of its executive committee are Paul Frank, Janice and Malcolm Handte, Rick Lightburn, George and Susan Lobell, Cindy Rutz, and Nancy Walface. Among activities being considered: a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright houses, a movie seminar, and a concert of ancient music. The college has .thrown its shadow . south to Emory University's Oxford College, which selected St. John's for ·study in connection with its. faculty development program. This summer Dr. Matthew Morris, associate professor of humanities at the small Georgian college of .500 students, was enrolled in the Graduate Institute to learn more about the college. Other Oxford professors, representing its humanities, mathematics, science and social studies divisions, are scheduled to come in succes- · sive summers. Dr. Morris's visit was an outgrowth of a faculty development study that began two years ago and ·resulted in· a visit in the spring of ] 984 to the Georgian college by · Geoffrey Comber, Graduate Institute diiector. Mr. ·Comber led a seminar there . based on Pascal ~s · Pensees. The faculty later conducted a seminar on Heidegger and have scheduled one on The Merchant of Venice. . . . Ur. Mo.rris; who was enrolled in the · philosophy a.nd religion· segment, said that although he is accustomed to classes seeking to form a "unified whole," rather than those in which a lot of different opinions are heard, he had beeri impressed with the careful reading and analysis of participants arid found the varying views representing a variety of religious backgrounds, enriching. He said he probably will attempt to adapt the seminar·method to his advanced French classes. The appointment of three staff mem.., bers for the Santa Fe campus has been announced by. Dale F. Levy, chief advancement officer. They include Tony Wilkinson, director of annual funds; Mary Sue Laurel, coordinator of alumni activities and information services, and Jan Eldridge, community events coordinator. M's Wilkinson will be responsible for . securing gifts from alumni, parents, and friends and from within the college community. Currently enrolled in the Graduate Institute, she also will recruit and train volunteers as well as work with other staff members. M's Laurel will devote a third of her time to. alumni activities, working closely with the Annapolis Alumni Office. The remaining portion of her time she will spend on publicity. · An alumna of Santa Fe's Class.cf 1979, she currently is working toward a master's degree in art history from Tufts .University. After filling the position for more than eight months on a temporary basis, M's Eldridge now assumes the position of .community events coordinator perman-' ently. ·She will help coordinate concerts, · Evenings at St. John's, art shows, seminars, and other events involving the public. Previously M's Eldridge was engaged in conference planning in Washington. Three named for 50.th St. John's will have another celebration to mark two years from now: the fiftieth anniversary of the New Program. · To develop an alumni program marking the anniversary, the Alumni Association has· set up a committee that includes John Van Doren, '47, chairman, Harvey Goldstein~ '59, and Carolyn BanksLeeuwenburgh, '55. New engineering program begins Early on Brian Creighton received some reassurance from a member of the Annapolis Graduate Institute, where the spirit of cooperative learning is strong. At 21 the youngest in classes which in many instances include experienced teachers, he confessed he initially felt a little intimidated. They were working on theu master's degrees; he is completing his bachelor's. Mr. Creighton is, in fact, an undergraduate, a junior this year at Clarkson University, Potsdam, N. Y., studying to be a mechanical engineer. "They visited me in my room, and we went out together for dinner, and basically no one looked down on me," he said. "Someone told me, 'You'll do fine because everyone wants you to do fine."' He is the first student to attend St. John's summer program under a new exchange plan involving engineering students from other institutions and St. John's students interested in engineering. Under it, St. Johnnies are able to get a head start. Three summers' work and two years of specialized engineering studies following graduation from St. John's enables them to earn a second bachelor's degree in engineering in two, rather than in four, years. Engineering students, in turn, can work off some liberal arts requirements at St. John's. Graduates ofengineering schools also may come to St. John's to expand their education. This summer Mr. Creighton is here while Burch Harper, Hyattsville, Md., sophomore, is studying at Purdue. (Mr. Creighton has less to fear than his modesty suggests. An excellent student at Clarkson, he is a writing tutor there.) Santa Fe students Michael David and Jurgen Reinzach took summer studies at the New Mexico Institution of Mining and Technology, and another Santa Fe student, Leonard Woods, at California Polytechnic Institute. The Santa Fe campus welcomed a graduate in chemical engineering to its master's program. At St. John's with Mr. Creighton was Dr. Owen Brady, professor of humanities and Clarkson 's dean of liberal studies. Both were at St. John's on grants provided by the Exxon and Luce Foundations, which are underwriting costs of the engineering program. Some of the books represented rereadings of those included in Clarkson's yearlong course involving Great Ideas in Western Culture, an interdisciplinary program Dr. Brady was instrumental in instituting in 1981. This year about a thousand Clarkson students, mostly freshmen, will read the Bible, Plato, Dante, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, Freud, Darwin, and Camus. With departments abolished for its Great Ideas program, Dr. Brady said faculty members are discovering that it gives them a common ground in which to talk. A number of his faculty would be comfortable at St. John's, he believes. As for the students, "We have a lot of students who are closet liberal arts majors." Dr. Brady was at St. John's for two reasons. One was to gain a stronger understanding of the program so Clarkson will be able to develop guidelines for selecting undergraduates to send here. And he was here to learn more about the program itself. One of the ideas he appreciates was the presence of two seminar leaders. "You don't have a single authority figure, and I think that's helpful," he said. "It allows the students to participate in discussions more as equals." He likes the way preceptorials and seminars interlock, helping, he believes, to give breadth and depth in studying western traditions, and he hopes that two years hence when Clarkson launches a new seminar program on a variety of topics, there can be seminars related in much the same way to its Great Ideas classes. Mr. Creighton thinks the summer program in Annapolis or Santa Fe is best for students who have just completed their freshman year. Between the junior and senior year students are often trying to get practical experience in engineering. �Page a Bill Ross Bill Ross remembers the night Washington was on fire. Standing on a rooftop at 13th and Pennsylvania Avenue, he recalled the flames blazing along the 14th Street corridor, the mass arrests, the burning, the looting, the city in smoke, and later, his visits to the cell blocks. Martin Luther King had been shot, and there was rioting in the streets that April night in 1968. "It looked like the whole city was on fire," he recalled. "All you could see were th.e half-tracks on the street filled with soldiers. We kept on thinking is would stop." But it didn't, and Bill Ross found himself, away from his law office, as chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union Greater Washington Affiliate, helping to set up a command post across from the old Federal courthouse on 5th Street. "I lived there four or five days," he said, "attempting to make certain that there were no mass violations of civil rights at the same time we were trying to minimize damage to property and persons." "It was one of the better run riots," he observed wryly. "That was due to the combination of citizen participation and extraordinarily clean and successful police action." WHILE HUMAN casualties in the riots in Detroit and Los Angeles were in the thousands, the two or three deaths that occurred in Washington that week were restricted to accidental deaths, persons killed in burning buildings, and to a few injuries. "Our injuries were very, very small infinitesimal by comparison with what was happening elsewhere." Lyndon Johnson, who was president, and his White House advisors had decided on a •trade-off: property against human life, a decision in which the ACLU as an organization had not taken a role but one which Mr. Ross thought was the right one. One of the things that impressed him was the breadth of the response to King's death. The cell blocks, where he spent some time, included employed, middle class Washingtonians, people who had left their jobs in mid-town and admitted somewhat sheepishly to doing some ••trashing." 'The participation was broad-gauged, spontaneous, highly emotional - people engaged in social protest," he described the rioting. Although no longer active with the ACLU's Washington Affiliate, the ACLU has always been a major interest for this Washington attorney who is a senior partner in the prestigious law form of Wald, Harkrader & Ross, which he helped found in his native Washington in 1962. Now grown to a staff of 125 attorneys, it occupies the four top floors and much of the other parts of a handsome, new office building at 1300 19th Street. a block or so from Dupont Circle. MR. ROSS HAD just moved to the eighth floor the day of this interview. There were boxes to be sorted, paintings to be hung, telephone calls to be answered, business attached to his practice, one in which he specialises in antitrust and public utility law. But there was time to remember back to his first year at St. John's. Barely little more than an academic baby, William Warfield Ross arrived on campus in 1942 at the age of 15 with the blessing of the THE REPORTER SEPTEMBER '1985 attorney working at reform in laW WILLIAM ROSS headmaster of Maryland's St. James' School, who thought he was ready for it as, indeed, he was. "My freshman year was enormously exciting, probably the most exciting year I've had in my life," he said. "My recollection is ofthe college reeling under the full impact of the shock of the war and the economy,· with enrollment down," he said. ''The college was struggling, and the faculty was trying to keep the school together, and you were aware of that." He remembers vividly some of the great names of the St. John's faculty: Richard Scofield, his first seminar leader, John Kieffer, the relatively young Winfree Smith with whom he went sailln~. Catesbv Taliaferro ''raising hell in the lab," William Kyle Smith, Jacob Klein, a marvelous teacher whose English was still a problem (his "horses" cames out "whores," much to the amusement of students), Red Hammond, and of course, Scott Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr. There were two years at St. John's, two in the Navy, and then his two final years before graduating at the age of 21 and going on to Yale Law School. After that has come a distinguished career in which he has been active in law reform, both on the Federal and local levels. For the past 20 years, he has been the American Bar Association's principal point person in efforts to revise and improve administrative law. THE EARLY PART of his career was "checkered and varied." Originally he joined the law firm of Radner and Zito, which dissolved. In 1952 he became a junior legal assistant in Pre~ident Truman's executive office, staying on nine months into the Eisenhower administration until it discovered he was a Democrat and asked him to go. Next came three years with the Department of Justice and then a brief time with the Federal Power Commission before joining Morgan, Lewis• & Brokius, which he left in 1962 to help start his own firm. His interest in legal reform dates back to the era of Robert Benjamin, the famous New York Attorney who had pioneered in administrative law during the 1930s and 1940s. When Benjamin retired, Mr. Ross, working with others, took up his efforts for the ABA to revise and improve the procedures of governmental agencies deal.: ing with the public. A sizeable part of that work llas been concentrated on the generalized Federal Administrative Procedure Act, passed in 1946, an act Mr. Ross describes as very important but, conceived in a way that reflects political compromises, requiring changes. Unclear in many areas, the act, he said, fails to give enough guidance to participating agencies. On the one hand, there are uniform procedures but procedures riddled with exceptions that were seen as necessary to get the law through Congress; on the other, it is not sufficiently flexible to give agencies room to experiment. . Unlike court reform, in which the bar has been successful in effecting major reforms, administrative law by its nature is intensely political since efforts to "improve" agency procedures embody social and political values as they are perceived by Congress and interested elements in the public. Reform is slow. The so-called public interest ~roups, Mr. Ross pointed out, in some cases have grown comfortable and favor certain builtin inefficiencies because those very same inefficiencies may block the introduction of a drug, chemical or pesticide to which they object. "You don't have allies you thought you had," he added. Results from reform itself, he said, are not always predictable ...Things can come back to haunt you." ONE OF THE major reforms the ABA succeeded in accomplishing during the 1960s, working in combination with the American Newspaper Publishers Association, was the Freedom of Information Act, which Mr Ross feels represents an important, good reform in a permanent way. At the same time, there have been problems and Mr. Ross believes parts of the act don't work as well as they might. In seeking to improve administrative law, Mr. Ross has served a as chairman of the ABA Special Committe on Revision of the Administrative Procedure Act, as chairman of the ABA Section of administrative Law, and as. chairman of the Administrative Law Section of the District of Columbia Bar Association. He edited the first manual for administrative agencies of the District of Columbia and served as chairman of a District of Columbia Government Commission studying procedures and structures of the District's Board of Appeals and Review. During the late 70s, he taught law as an adjunct professor in the Cornell Graduate School of Business and Public Administration. In addition, he has written numerous articles on legal subjects. A former member of the steering committee of the national ACLU board, Mr. Ross's interest in civil rights dates back to the McCarthy period, an era when Americans were being thrown out of government and private employment when faceless accusers were applying a test of loyalty to country and trustworthiness. It was an intensely active period for him. More recently his wife, Jennie, served as executive director of the Washington Affiliate and followed him on its board. HE ALSO WORKED on a project of Scott Buchanan's and the Fund for the Republic during the 60s, one which involved Harris Wofford and some other St. John's people. As part of that study, eight lawyers and eight economists met over a period of two years examining business corporations as institutions in modern society. Emerging from that period were a number of research papers and books. A sailor, Mr. Ross recently disposed of his British-designed, ocean-going, auxiliary cutter that he formerly kept docked at Galesville, partly to free the Rosses for other interests. In August they were in Kenya for a trip sponsored by the Washington Zoo "to look at ammals, people, landscape, another society while it's still there." Two summers ago they were part of St. John's Alumni Association sponsored trip to Greece. In conversation with Mr. Ross, one remembers his sheer brilliance, his ability to sponge up great quantities of history. Thoughtful, funny, observant, deeply interested in everything he· sees, he reads widely - history, novels, books on natural history, poetry from its beginnings to contemporary times - and, although he disclaims it, Bill Ross appears to be one bf those rare people with the type of retentive mind that remembers everything he has read. Participants will remember him for his , particularly eloquent toast at a luncheon ; stop celebrating the glancing light ,that friendship throws. · . The Rosses have three children, the two oldest married and away from home, and the youngest, Billy, at Washington Unlver·sity in St. Louis, Mo. We're "remarkably improved" (Continued from P. 1) In accordance with the college's spend- endowment fund for the purpose, to retire ing rate policy, $934,479 of endowment the plant fund debt as well as to help income was applied. to the Annapolis finance a faculty development program. operation. During his chairmanship on the board, Meanwhile, the Santa Fe endowment, Mr. Nelson had urged that the college give which stood at $1,826,000 in mid-1980, its first attention to the growth of enhas reached $8, l 00,000 in market value. dowment on the grounds that increased Emery C. Jennings, treasurer of the income from endowment moneys makes Santa Fe campus, said the college con- the college much less vulnerable in a year eluded the year with a surplus of $1I4,000 in which one majoJ donor might fail to enabling it to wipe out the cumulative give the college expected support, suddeficit, which stood at $943,000 three denly causing a big deficit. years ago and at $74,000 in June, 1984. The increase in the endowment holds The surplus also adds $40,000 to Santa major implications for the budget, Mr. Fe's 1985-86 operating fund. Nelson said. To balance the budget in This leaves Santa Fe with a plant fund Santa Fe this year required $541,000 in debt of roughly $900,000, representing the private gifts. Its endowment produced residue of dormitory construction costs $855,000 in income. In Annapolis, it was and the expenses of the college's land necessary to raise $375,000. There the development project involving the Los endowment yielded $934,479. Miradores condominiums. Following Mr. Jennings' report, David , ,Under ,aJ01ye,<;ir pl,fl n, Santa Fe will use ,Ar ,AJ~r:. of Santa Fe, moved to express the the income proceeds from the land devel- ho1r1fs "great thanks" to Mr. Jennings. opment, which it has earmarked in the "He's done a magnificent job ... 1 - ..; --..,- �I ,,,~,, SEPTEMBER 1985 · :,·,a· · ''C:'' ~'ll'·e·''u:e,, , ·, 7t" "'''''',.2, · ., }' ·-·.--:h '.--- "---, ·bl-_..,,·"',.; ~· --- Page9 THE REPORTER ,' ·'. ',' . h .for allfields (Continued from P. 1) ! The group's sizeable ratios place them substantially ahead of such places as Chicago, Vassar, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Smith, and Trinity. St. John's failed. to make the top 50 institutions with the largest percentages of do,ctorates in science. They ranged from the Califor~ia, Institute of Technology, with nearly 40 per cent, to New York's Union College, with 5.3 per cent. St. John's, with 49 Ph.D.'s in science, ranked 4.4 per cent. The association concluded that liberal arts colleges dominate the list of institutions with the highest percentage of graduates who go on to earn Ph.D. 's. The 30-year study was based upon a comparison of the number of bachelor's degree recipients who earned Ph.D. 's between 1951 and 1980 with the total number of bachelor degrees awarded between 1946 and 197 6 at each of 1, 500 ins ti tutions. Harvey Mudd College closely followed by Cal Tech led the list for doctorates in all fields with 40. 7 and 40 percent respectively. As the top two in the sciences, their positions were· reversed; Cal Tech had 39.2 percent and Harvey Mudd, 39.1 per cent. The University of California at Berkeley had the largest number of graduates who earned doctorates between 1951 and 1980, but those 8,80 l students represented only 6 percent of their graduates. In compiling figures for the Annapolis campus, which is now graduating classes of about 80 or more from a student body that restricts itself to 400, the Great Lakes (o)leges A,ssociation figured the average number of bachelor degrees granted during the 30 year period between l 946 and 1976 at 37. 54. , St. John's New Mexico campus, which opened in l 964, is too new to be included in the study. Gu(},rds_' center: honors Savoy . Klin.e working On''MishnCl Moshe (Mel) Kline, '66, is preparing a new edition of the Mishna, the third century cano,nical compendium of Jewish, law. It i:'s based upon his discovery "that there is a heretofore unknown metaphysical teaching within the structure of, the text." He already has completed one of the six books. After leaving St. John's, Mr. Kline and his wife, the former Deena Brodkin, '67, were awarded master's degrees in education from Yeshiva University. They moved to Israel in 1969 and taught and farmed part time for five years. In 1975 they became members of the kibbutz Lavi, where Mr. Kline worked in the orchards and Mrs. Kline worked in the childrens' houses. "Lavi is an orthodox kibbutz dedicated to the principles of Torah v'Avodah, physical labor combined with study in the framework of Jewish religious law," Mr. Kline explained in a recent letter to tutor Joe Sachs. "The generations of the diaspora emphasized the element of abstract study with an almost Greek aversion to physical labor. I learned that this is an aberration caused by the long exile. "Man is a partner in creation and contributes to it through his work. For the Jew, the land of Israel is the medium in which he can best express his creativity. In Hebrew, 'avodah' means both labor and divine service. Ideally, there is no distinction between them. Through pruning fruit trees, I learned just how human actions contribute to creation on even the lowest level. That is one aspect of reality which I feel was not dealt with sufficiently at St. John's." In 1984 the Klines "reluctantly" left the kibbutz and moved to Jerusalem so that he could devote full time to his edition of the Mishna. "My work owes a great deal to what I learned about reading a text at St. John's and especially from Leo Straus's Persecution and the Art of Writing," he says, Atthe Hebrew University Mrs. Kline is studying the administration .a.nd • development of curriculum for early childhood _programs. The Klines, who have four children, "would be delighted to hear from alumni and· faculty who visit in Israel.'' Their address: Metzery Tiran 30, Jerusalem. Telephone: 02-81631 l. 3 graduates back for more You can't get too much of a good thing - at least, at the Graduate Institute. That appears to be the opinion of three holders of master's degrees at the Annapolis campus, who, despite their graduation, returned this summer to take advantage of a segment in history which has not been taught since 1978. Those returning were Joan Vinson, MA '81, of Annapolis; Paul Finney, MA '82, of Bethesda, Md., and Richard Mills, MA '82, of Riverdale. "The great majority of the students and faculty in the history segment are enthusiastic and delighted they caught its revival," Geoffrey Comber, Graduate Institute director, said. Some 35 students were enrolled in the two history seminars. Generally the Institute is restricted to four other segments. The history offerings were included in the 1977 and 1978 summer programs but have not been taught since. Altogether, the Annapolis Graduate Institute had 106 students enrolled, not including two participants from Hartford, Conn. public schools here for a two-week period to become more fully acquainted with St. John's. Exams o continue but o longer enablings Beginning this fall senior ..enablings" will be a thing of the past on the Annapolis campus. Faculty members have agreed that the examinations, based upon a selected group of readings and scheduled for the first week iri the school year, in reality have never worked as a means of deciding whether a student should return or be excluded from his senior year. Occasionally, a senior may fail but customarily . is told to take a second such examination. In practice, over the years, the "enabling" aspect of the oral has been rendered, in.the minds of many, meaningless. This spring the faculty decided to drop the word "enabling" and to substitute another oral examination on which the xeturning seniors will be graded. This one is designed to provide a fruitful occasion when fourth year students may look back at some seminar books which Dean George Doskow said they probably will see very differently than when they first read them as underclassmen. During the early years of the New Program, students in fact were enabled in the fall of the senior year. This procedure was abolished when the faculty judged it to be badly timed particularly during a month when students told they should not return to the college were unable to make alternative plans for attending another school. Students now are enabled at the ~,nd,qf their sophomore year. A set of written tests provided the means until the early sixties, when they were abolished in favor of other forms of evaluation, including placing more weight upon the sophomore essay. Like the former senior enabling examinations, the fall orals will continue to be a half hour in length and, with the exception of an addition, Sophocles' Oedipus, will be drawn basically from the same list. In a letter to rising seniors, Dean Doskow informed them that they will be expected to make their own selection from the list of books to be reread carefully and then will be expected to initiate the oral by posing either a question or problem they wish to consider. "We are beginning in this way because we think it important that you take advantage of this opportunity for new reflection on the things you have studied and come to the oral prepared to discuss something of genuine importance to you. "You may want to prepare for the oral with a possible senior topic in mind, but this is by no means a requirement. We hope this new format will generate better reading, better discussion, and more learning." In his letter, Mr. Doskow discussed the new form of the discussion. ••first, it will no longer' be an enabling examination. It has long seemed to many of us that making entry into the senior ,y,ear conditional on~ ~ingle oral examin- ation made little sense, and we have thus eliminated that aspect of it. in addition, we thought that the former reading list made too many specific demands on the summer between the junior and senior years, a summer already ~argely given over to a reading of War and Peace. "We recognize that students have intellectual projects of their own on which they are working, and, particularly in the light of the fact that many students must work long hours at jobs during the summer, we do not want to schedule most of. their free time. "On the other hand, we think it important that rising seniors take time to look back at some seminar books which they probably will see very differently now than when they first read them as underclassmen. This kind of reflection is a very important part oflearning, and we think it important to have a formal occasion for it." The senior oral examination list includes:· Homer, The Iliad; Aeschylus, Oresteia; Sophocles, Oedipus; Plato, Republic, Books II-VI; Aristotle, Phvsics, Book ll; Book of Genesis, Chapters ·l-10; St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans; Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, First Part of the Second Part, Questions 90-97, 100, 106108 (Treatise on Law); Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, King Lear; Descartes, Meditations, and Hobbes, Leviathan, ~hapters XIH-XXI. f.i The Annapolis ~ampus's security for:. ce's headquarters in the "ice house" was renovated this summer and last month dedicated to the memory of William Robert Savoy, Jr., who died last December 20. Mr. Savoy, who was 58, had been a member of the security force for seven years and was acting head of security at the time of his death. During the summer the small annex of Pinkney was gutted and a section petitioned off to provide new dressing and washing facilities for the nine-man force. The roof beam was supported, walls and ceiling insulated with fiber glass, the walls were repainted, a new ceiling with recessed lighting added, and the room recarpeted. College treasurer Jeri Rhodes estimates that the work was all done by the college maintenance staff for less than a thousand dollars. Until recently the room was occupied by the college archivist. No one knows much about the history of this lean-to style structure with its sloping roof and single exterior doorway. During the renovation, Frank Reese, the college carpenter, discovered signs of a doorway on an inside wall that once led directly into Pinkney, and there were signs of plumbing indicating it had been used as a bathroom at one time. The Reporter welcomes information from alumni knowing of its origin and how rt got its ice house name. .. zons Three classes - those of 1935, 1960, and 1975 - have scheduled individual reunions during homecoming this year. The Class of 1935 has scheduled its fiftieth reunion dinner in the private dining room of Randall Hall at 5:30 p.m. September 27 with three more social events planned for the following day. They will include a get-together for class members and friends at 2 p.m. in the Carroll Barrister House, cocktails with wives and friends at Frank Wilson's home, 700 Americana Drive, Apartment 32, and the homecoming banquet in the dining hall scheuled for 7:30 p.m. · Mr. Wilson and John Donohue are in charge of planning. The Class of 1960 will gather in the Baldwin Room September 28 for a round robin talk before adjourning to Room 33 at 3 p.m. for a seminar on The Tempest led by Curtis Wilson. Members will hold their own cocktail party from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Baldwin Room before joining other alumni at the general alumni cocktail party at 6 p.m. At 7:30 p.m. they will return to the Baldwin Room for their reunion dinner. Katherine Haas is chairing the 1960 re-. union. The Class of 1975 will use Room 21 as its hospitality center. Its first event will be a ..Class of 1975 Memorial Chase-Stone Party" but held in the coffee shop to which it has invited other alumni. (Chase-Stone has become a "quiet" dormitory on campus.) Saturday's events will include luncheon at IL:JU p.m. m the pnvate cHnmg room and a seminar at 2 p.m. The steering committee for the reunion includes Michael Oink, John Rogers, Chris King, Ann Peterson, Betsy Blume, Becky Zlotoff, and Bob Tzudiker. I -- �Page 10 Recrui tnien t area r The Santa Fe campus recruits students primarily in the vast area west of the Mississippi, almost twice the territory covered by the Annapolis Admissions Office. That is one of the differences the two campuses find in filling freshman classes, Patricia Preib, Santa Fe's new admissions counselor, told the. Alumni Association board at its July meeting in Santa Fe. "The primary difficultyfor the Santa Fe campus," she said, "in recruiting is in generating enough current inquiries; that is, · tting enough students who are ......... rny interested in the Santa Fe campus. "In order to create 105 enrolling students easily, we need to generate about 6,000 current inquiries. As it now we receive only 4,400 current inquiries. onetheless, out of this 4,400, we do generate a class of 90 students. "This means that the ratio of mamries to enrolled students at the Santa pus is about 49 to I. In other it takes about 50 people interested in Santa Fe to produce one student. .. The Admissions Office receives its inquiries from juniors and seniors who take the SAT and ACT tests. In she estimates that it takes 7,000 responses to ·mailings to them to help fill a class of 105. Other in recruitment she said that are facing Santa Fe campus are that it is a young and isolated campus, not very well known and not located near urban areas where the college can tap students or where a great deal of visibility can be provided. In discussing Santa Fe's large recruitment area, she said that in order to attend a single•college fair, the Santa Fe staff is sometimes obliged to fly up to 2,000 miles. .. This makes our travel to important areas west of the Mississippi much more extensive and time consuming," she said. As compared with the nine to ten weeks of travel time in Annapolis, Santa Fe spends 20 weeks on the road. In addition to mailings which both campuses handle jointly, Miss Preib said the Santa Fe Admissions office did a special June mailing of 20,000 pi.eces in the southwest from which the campus had 850 responses. During the July meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors, President Delattre said that 50 per cent or better of the freshman class in Annapolis is generated within a 225-mile area as compared to a 1,000-mile area· for 50 per cent of the Santa Fe students. last year, Dean Robert Neidorf, who has been interested in population differences for the two recruitment areas, did a rough numerical study to satisfy his curiosity. "'For the Santa Fe campus I studied population and area figures for New Mexico and the contiguous states of Arizona, Colorado, Texas and Utah, .. he reported. ••The aggregate population in 1970 was 17.3 million, spread over an area of 692,000 square miles. This yields a ratio of approximately 25 persons per square mile. .. For Annapolis l studied the same figures for Maryland. Delaware, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania and Virginia (not New Jersey or New York). Here there is .an aggregate of 21. 7 million persons· population. spread over 99,000 square miles. The population density is then 219 THE REPORTER .. . $EPTEMBER '1985 Students stage rescue one· ar h n. At least 60,000 bees on the Annapolis campus owe their existence to their own cynical practice. If you've got honey, c'm . on in. If you don't, hey, buzz off. They also can credit their lives to students, who started a rescue operation when the bees began swarming in the shrubbery near the Campbell Hall box. That happened May 11, almost at the end of school. This fall, when students return, a new colony of bees will have their own proper hive in the Mellon-Kev courtyard. The college had the choice of either ex1tenmn1atmg them or, a bit of bee and some saving · former alternative. He had his first hands on experience, with in moving them from .,1-,.,..,,.,. ......" into a new hive the students purchased from Jon F. a Pasadap1cu.ltunst, to whom thev turned for Masters, also a Anna1nmue, Va., professional with Mr. beekeeping, led the rescue Clulow told them how to proceed How would a student get up the nerve to help knock down a swarm of bees into a beehive? "I'm considered fool-hardy," Mr. Potts joked. In actual fact, when bees are swarming, they are usually docile, being gorged with honey, according to Mr. Clulow, who estimates that because of the size of the Humphreys bee megalopolis, it easily must have occupied Humphreys a year or two. It produced at least three swarms. Mr. Potts and Mr. Masters managed to get the first swarm with its queen into the new hive and its new location in May. A second swarm flew off to parts unknown. That still left thousands. To encourage their departure, Mr. Clucnn:n~~. Frazer, Pa., and one of two new student tutors, low devised a wire net trap which permitret1rea·1s b1ehind a hive designed to lure beei from Humphreys. ted them to leave Humphreys but not reClaudia levy photo enter. At the same time, he placed an ding a bee suit for whoever is doing the is over, he plans to take the Humphreys elevated hive with a weak bee population hive home to join the 45 colonies he serious work directly with the new St. of a mere 4,000 a few inches from the John's colony. already tends. opening of the old colony. Unable to As for the students' hive near Mellon, it This fall students will have an opporreturn to their former home, the honey- . was cared for this summer by a laboratunity to watch messenger bees perform laden bees took up residence in the new tory assistant, Tom Lowry, of Marcellus, those funny dances on the top of the hive hive. By mid-July the population had and do all those interesting other things Mich. St. John's laboratory program has grown to 40,000. · cooperated by seeing that the students biles do. The bees are safe to gather honey Once the original colony has reduced for yet another year. · have a license to keep bees and by providitself to spare numbers, Mr. Clulow will remove the screen traps and lavish honey at the entrance, a step that will encourage other bees to enter and attempt robbery. He predicts warfare and the death of some of the original inhabitants anxious to proresearch consultant for the plaintiffs' atIf you attended the Santa Fe campus tect their own baited entry. But it will dear torneys. Over the six-year period, Mr. and were a residential customer of Gas out the Humphreys column and at the Simpson also hired more than a doz~n St. Company of New Mexico at any time same time will have permitted the vast John's graduates as paralegals and combetween July, 1976, and April, 1984, number of bees to survive. • puter, programmers for the massive lawchances are you have some money coming Mr. Chalow, who is chief technologist suit. to you. for a research unit in nuclear cardiology at The class action suit affects only resiSix years ago, an anti-trust lawsuit was Johns Hopkins University, raises bees in dential customers, and St. John ·s itself filed against five natural gas producing his spare time. After the whole operation does not qualify. companies resulting in settlements totalAlumni wishing to find out about their ing $75-million. eligibility to receive part of the $75These settlement funds are now being million settlement may call one of three persons per square mile. distributed under the direction of the U.S. numbers: the Distribution Project's toll ... also studied the freshman enrollment District Court to people who were resifree numbers in Albuquerque, (505) 266lists for the fall of 1983 on both campuses, dential customers of New Mexico's largest 8751, elsewhere in New Mexico. (800) estimating the driving distance to homegas utility at any time between July, 1976, 824-2894, and outside New Mexico, (800) towns for each student with thehelp of a 245-1765. They also may write to Distriroad Atlas. For Santa Fe, the average dis- and April, 1984. St John's tutor Thomas Simpson, . · butiion Project, Box 8550, Albuquerque, tance is 1. IOS miles; for Annapolis. 550 played a large role in the lawsuit as a N.M. 87198. miles." Gas firm repaying claims ·so. �Page 11 THE REPORTER S.EPTEMBER 1985 ~~1tote<t , (Continued from P. 2) which might come to the court.s only one · Baltimore in June. While she was working at a time . ., at the library, Cathy continued to play on In law school, Mr. Van Doren helped the Maenads-team and to sing in the Small set up a fellowship program for students . Chorus. toworkinpublicinterestjobs. During the Hey, Joel Block! Where are you? Lyn last two years the program gave out 30 Cronin wants to know. Can you please fellowships, each of about $2,000. This re-establish contact by writing her at RFD fall he. would like to put together an #1, W. Brookfield, Mass., 01585. Thanks. SF 1984 Alumni Committe of the Public Interest Project. As recipient of the Ted Berigan MemorDan says his work with NYPIRG will ial Scholarship to the Summer Writing not be ..high falutin."' As one of its issues Institute at Naropa, Boulder, Colo, Fororganizers, he will work in consumer law, tune Rebecca Nagle had the opportunity doing research, lobbying, and doing some to study last summer with Allen Ginsberg, · . Ann Waldman, Amiri Baraka "and many legal writing. Commenting on Jonathan Kozol's est- other fine poets and writers." imate that there may be as many as 64Fortune reports, "I am currently enrolmillion illiterate Americans, Dan said, "It led in the graduate writing program at the is practically incomprehensible that so University of Missouri-Kansas City, and many are unable to read. I want to stop read at New Letters, the renowned literary this epidemic, and I'd be interested to hear magazine under David Ray. from any Johnnies who are of a similar "l am publishing in smaJl periodicals mind." nationwide; recently I have been pubHe can be reached at his new address, lished in a book, Lyric Fiesta. My own 54 East 83rd St., Apt. 3B, New York, N. Y. chapbook, tentatively titled Like Barking 10028 (212) 628-9121. Fountains!, is due the spring of '86. It is a Two exciting changes have occurred in mixture of original work and translations the lives of Barbara-Jean (Sisson) and from various French poets/esses." Joseph Roadfir Joey Townsend, SF'68, and Unyong "The first (and best!) news is of the birth Kim, SF '84, are classmates in the master's of our second child (and second daugh- program in Buddhist and western psyter), Mary Rebecca - "Molly" - was logy also at the Nampa Institute. born on April 19; her big sister Kate will "Boy, were we amazed to run into each be three in August. other," Unyong reports. Last November "Our other news is that we are leaving she ran in the 1984 Marine Corps MaraHoosac School in Hoosick, N. Y. Joe has a thon in Washington but "hasn't touched new job teaching math and physics at the running since." 1985 Tilton School in Tilton, N.H. 03276. We Heading for two years in the Peace hope any Johnnies in the neighborhood Corps, .Mary Lee Wielga will leave Sepwill drop by!" tember 8 for Swaziland, where she will 1982 teach mathematics at an intermediate Jim Ingham and Leslie Bellisario, '83, level. The little southeastern country is were married June 23 in Charlottesville, located between South Africa and MoVa. zambique. While it is English-speaking, Mary Lee expects to learn some of its 1983 Cathy Berry, library clerk for the past native SiSwati during her three months two years, began three semesters of pre- training there. She is yet to learn her spemedical training at Goucher College in cific location. Writing gets a hard look (Continued from P. 12) In acknowledging that the college has the writing. "This requires constant reiteration befailed to pay sufficient attention to writing, the statement also said that some cause the temptation is always to get to the goods have come out of this partial neg- substance of the paper: it is much more interesting and more fun, both for the stulect. "The time we might have spent concen- dents and tutors. Students often complain trating on writing we have spent on other that they are not taught to write, but they, matters equally important, and more at- in fact, almost always want to talk about tention to writing will mean that other their ideas when they get to a paper conthings we do will, to some extent, suffer. ference. Tutors must insist. We should But, nevertheless, it is time that we begin also urge that students rewrite their more interesting papers to learn to edit and to focus on writing more seriously." revise rather than going on to the next The first step, they said, is to assure that project." students write with some frequency and The deans suggested that at least one in that there is regular writing in seminars, three papers should be rewritten, and, tutorials, a.nd laboratories. when it is appropriate, that a paper be The college has taken steps in this direcrewritten more than once. They also said tion by setting a minimum number of it would be helpful if students read each papers for each class. What it now must other's papers to help them develop a do is to coordinate the timing so papers do sense of writing for a particular audience. not cluster together at one time. But Dean Doskow and Dean Neidorf stressed there is no single right way ·of The statement continued: implementing these suggestions. Different "We then have to remind students and tutors will have different approaches ...As tutors regularly that the form of papers we concentrate more on writing, we must be considered carefully, that the should expect to learn eff¢ctive techniques technical side of. writing should not be from each other. .. We should get better at · disregarded or given short shrift. A signifteaching writing as we work at it more, icant part of the time spent at paper conferences should be spent on the quality of and we are confident that we will." I: Applicant pool getting bigger (Continued from P. i) It's hard to explain all the reasons why postpone enrollment until January, and the college was able to fill the class so early still others will go elsewhere. this year, ~e sai~. During the summer months, Mr. Christ"ln the. time smce 1983, we have chang- ensen said the waiting list varied from 10 ed some mternal procedures and added a to 20 students lessening as students withfourth staff member, whic~ meant we drew to pursu~ other plans. · were able to correspond with students . . . . . who were in the serious stage of inquiry at Mr. Chnstensen said it is still ~~rly to an earlier time," he believes. "Some were analyze the effect of a recent dec1s10!1 to encouraged to go through the applicacut ~ack. on the n~mber of essay quest10ns tion process more quickly." apphcat10ns require. Meanwhile, the number of applications Instead of five questions with several have grown from an average of 195 to 210 optional questions, students had been five or so years ago to more than 250 in the asked to write on two with a third queslast two years. . . tion optional. Because one question relatAs the number of apphcants has m- ing to their most significant personal creased, Mr. Christensen said the e~try experiente had proved so helpful in evacycle was pushed back and speeded up ma Iuating applicants, he said it had been way that helped lead to an adequate decided to reinstitute it. Applicants now number of deposits by early sp~ing. . write on three questions with a fourth one One highly successful recruitment m- optional. nova ti on tried out ~or the first time. in While the number of questions has been 1984-85 were receptions for prospectiv~ reduced, Mr. Chirstensen said students shtudent_s a_n? thheir paren~s. a~ da~umt ndi are continuing to write in all the five to ten omes m c1t1es w ere ~nqumes m ica e a es re uired in revious ears. strong clusters of possible freshmen. ·P g q P Y Receptions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and WashingRegister on way ton generated 20 applications and 17 enrolled students. During the coming academic year, Mr. Christensen said the colThe new alumni register is scheduled lege hopes to hold similar receptions in for publication by next March. Boston and Miami. · Cards seeking basic information from As applications have increased, the former students are being mailed this Annapolis waiting list has grown. As a month. Betsy Blume, Annapolis alumni result, 18 freshmen have been channeled director, said cost of the $20,000 direr,to the Santa Fe campus, where there were tory is being shared by the college and by openings. Others on the waiting list will the Alumni Association. 1< Rewrite the first sentence of the Meno as it might have been written by one of the later program authors -as the start of a philosophical treatise, or a scientific study, or even a novel. By the first sentence, I mean all of Meno 's opening question to Socrates. Deadline, October I. 1Zepollt 0# ~ ~ ~~7~ 7"'° We have not been overwhelmed with submissions. There were only two for the extended Number Two: to write a publisher's blurb for the first appearance of a program book. The first, for Euclid's Elements, was typed appropriately under the letterhead of a New York publishing house, and occasionally showed the right combination of cautious cliche and syntactical inexactitude: "The Elements may well become the standard text in all the schools, to teach the mind in logical thinking and in the demonstration of the beautiful forms of geometrical truths." The use of "mind" in that sentence does, l hope, horrify all alumni; but am I right in also detecting a dig at our favorite school-selling overstatement, which I hear daily now, that we "teach students to think''? A $JO book token to Laura Bridgeman, '75. The other entry was a collection of snippets for the Iliad, from such periodicals as Charioteer and Driver ("Brilliant summation of racing strategy") and Gladiator Garments (" ... for the warrior who wants to be properly attired"). A $10 token to H.A. Hammond, '47. Mr. Hammond. to be applauded as our first double contributor, was not so successful with his Clerihew (Competition Number Three), on Euclid, a bit too elliptical for the form. Nor did the other Cieri hews submitted, on Rousseau and on Darwin, meet the perfection required. "Darwin" and "Origin," for example, do not rhyme. Lines three and four of the Rousseau (from Camille Pisk, Graduate lnstitute),are worth quoting for the Nashian tone (without, unfortunately, the Nashian rhyme): He hlathered on and-on ahout Emile s education, But ahandoned his own children to the welfare of the nation. Should .. but" have been replaced by "and"? EtUlf ..... :rns Wi._ and, won.h �Page 12 SEPTEMBER 1985 THE REPORTER, • Fe Homecom· is September 7-29 Images - mental and visual - will mark homecoming on the Annapolis campus September 27-29. The first will come in a lecture delivered at 8: 15 p.m. Friday by St. John's tutor Eva Brann and the second in an exhibit of the work of the well known California artist, Priscilla Bender Shore, '55. Homecoming events will be highlighted by the annual Alumni Association meeting, a• cocktail party, homecoming banquet, and the president's Sunday morning champagne brunch. Alumni director Betsy Blume said that alumni will register this year in the Great Hall, instead of in the coffee shop, beginning at 5 p.m. Friday and from 9 to 2 p.m. Saturday. Friday's events will begin with an informal dinner available between 5 and 6:30 p.m. in the dining hall and a career counseling session conducted by alumni for students at 6:30 p.m. in Room 24. For Friday's homecoming lecture in the · Key Auditorium, Miss Brann has chosen as her topic, "Mental Imagery: The College and Contemporary Cognitive Science," in which she will draw upon her research in cognitive science at the University of Delaware. On leave to teach at tbe university, she will continue as a faculty member there during 1984-85. Following her lecture, an exhibit of Mrs. Bender's work will open in the college art gallery. There will be a wine and cheese reception. Also scheduled follow,ing the lecture is the Class of l 975's "Memorial Chase-Stone Party" in the coffee shop; other alumni are welcome to attend. Saturday morning's program will be highlighted by the annual Alumni Association meeting in which recipients of its Awards of Merit and honorary memberships will be announced. It will be held in Key's Conversation Room. A buffet luncheon will follow in the dining room. An alumni seminar related to Miss Brann 's lecture is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in Room 34 of McDowell led by Miss Brann and by St. John's tutor Howard Zeiderman. the Santa Fe homecoming in the summer, at the of the Summer Alumni mented this year in draw more alumni. It was a success! About 50 alumni participated. Betsy Blume, director of alumni activities in Annapolis, who organized the program, said last year's September's homecoming was cancelled for lack of registration. In scheduling it for the summer, she said it also was thought the timing would be more convenient in terms of travel. The Summer Alumni Program, held July 14-28, drew JO alumni. Homecoming events occurred in the intervening weekend. SAP's first week readings included those by Marcuse, Montaigne, Buchanan, and Melville with the second week read-· ings devoted to Yeats, Fowles, Flaubert, and Chaucer. Besides inteHectual stimulation, alumni had an opportunity to enjoy the pleasant climate and sights of Santa Fe. For 16 participants, Santa Fe offered refuge from the humidity of the East. BOTH ANNAPOLIS and Santa Fe alumni encompassing classes from l 943 to 1983 participated in alumni events. Some brought their families. An outdoor buffet on July 19 started homecoming. Seventy-five alumni, faculty, and members of the Board of Visitors and Governors listened as David Oobreer, Alumni Association president, presented Mrs. Faith Meem with an honorary membership: Dean Robert Neidorf gave the lecture entitled "Brains." In the lively question and answer period, human and artificial intelligence was discussed. Following the "Q and A," the hearty ones stayed for the rock and roll party in the coffee shop. On Saturday, the homecoming seminar "t horn • Faith Meem is in conversation with Dale levy, Santa Fe's new chief advanceJames photo ment officer, and board member John Van Doren, '41. on William James· Varieties of Religious Experience was led by tutors Jack Steadman and Stuart Boyd. Meanwhile, the Alumni Association board met to discuss such issues as the alumni register, alumni travel .program, and prospective student receptions. The Saturday evening banquet featured tutor Thomas Simpson, '50, as the speaker. His talk, "Magic," focused on the importance ot practicing dialectic in everyday life. Mr. Simpson claimed that magical powers must be at work whenever dialectical reason is His words of the evening were: "We are in some way primary bearers of a special power in the world, and we might be thinking of just what responsibility that role entails." HOMECOMING WEEKEND provided the opportunity for the reunion of the start The A,nnapolis campus will institute a peer-writing tutorial program this month similar to others which have been instituted at a number of colleges with good success, Dean George Doskow has announced. And students also will get the word this fall: The college intends to enforce deadlines more rigorously and to ask for more rewriting. Speaking also tor the western campus, Dean Doskow advised the Board of Visitors and Governors of the possible need to make language tutorials smaller since student writing is very time consuming for tutors. A minimal paper conference takes at least a half hour for even a short paper. Over the years, Mr, Doskow said the size of tutorials has crept up so that l 5, nominally the maximum size for tutorials, is now the norm. Mr. Doskow has chosen seniors, Rebecca Einsig, of Frazer, Pa., and Daniel Schoos, of Wayne, Pa., who are considered both very good writers and very good at working with others, to be available for three hours two evenings a week. They will assist students, who may come to them voluntarily or be referred to them by faculty members. While saying there was no easy panacea to the problem, both Dean Doskow and Dean Robert Neidorf have agreed that it is time for St. John's to focus on writing more seriously. • class of 1975. Members of the class of l 975 attending were Sandra Bell Charlottsville, Va~ Leslie Johnson, Redding, Calif.; Irene Marcuse, Bovd Pratt and Kit Brewer, all of Santa Fe; Seattle; Meg Sheehan, Los r\n~i:::u::s; Rani Kalita, John Teague, and ney, all of Albuquerque. By Sunday, some alumm were 1usc arriving while some were making their farewells. The informal surrounding at President Delattre's brunch lent. itself to spontaneous discussion. The second week of the Summer Alumni Program 22 with its emphasis on literary texts. At conclusion of each week, a farewell luncheon allowed everyone the opportunity to share their experiences of the program. Then it was back to their everyday life for alumni, having taken the "Magic" with them. · • In a paper on writing at St. John's prepared for the Board of Visitors and Gov.;. emors, the two deans said it is a mistake to talk about a writing problem at St. John's, not because the students write well, which they said is not the case, but because talk about a writing problem suggests that there is a solution. "What we have, and this is something shared by most, if not all, schools, is a number of different kinds of writing problems, and each of these must be addressed somewhat differently." Some they noted: Students who ·are troubled with the simplest mechanics of writing, such as punctuation and syntax, and who need remedial work; students who have difficulty organizing a paragraph or an essay; those who resort to certain types of jargon and who think obscurity is a synonym for profundity; students· whose . writing is muddled because their thinking is muddled; students whose jumbled writing indicates their reach exceeds their grasp; students who write decently but dully, and those who can put together a reasonably solid oiece of work but who have no sense of style or how to say things felicitously. In helping solve thelf wntmg problems, the two deans emphasized that there is no quick fix. ··Rather, each' kind of writing problem requires individual attention, close work with the student on a one-to-one basis, and a lot of practice. .. To learn to write well, students have to write frequently, they have to have their work criticized on a regular basis, though not necessarily everything they write. They have to learn to edit and how to tell a finished product from a and, finally, they have to care about their writing." · Mr. Doskow and Mr. Neidorf said they believe that St. John's approach to writing has been correct. While many schools across the coun,try are only now instituting what is generally called "'writing across the curriculum," St. John's has always believed there should be writing in all parts of the program and believed that students do their best and most serious writing when they are writing about things they think are important, not when they are doing writing exercises whose content is a matter of indifference. 'This policy we will continue to follow." w ..1t1 ..... p. Delattre in Europe President Delattre will be in Europe September 6-18, first to attend a meeting of the Quaker Chemical Corporation board, of which he is a member, and then to vacation with Mrs. Delattre in Scotland. On September 19-20 he will be at Bard College as chairman of the accreditation team for the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. � 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/9cd5573993ba2f70c110178b9e83ebe6.pdf 232a7ebfebea35537276c3366a38b578 PDF Text Text 5 for two new one for its Annacampus and the other for its Santa campus. The search be!:!:ins as President Edwin J. of announced that he leave the _ at the end of the 1985-86 academic year. Members of the Board of Visitors and • at their 1..:mrn11:es in the to start Hall With architects concluding the first of their study by June 30, the Annapolis campus is plamming an extensive renovation of its 27-year-old Key-Mellon .· complex. The renovation, for which $2Y2-m~llion is being budgeted, will be designed to correct major problems involving wasted space and acoustical and heating deficiencies. The program may involve a small addition for Mellon. Funding will be completed through public and private sources. St. John's treasurer Jeri Rhodes, college liaison officer on the project, said she expects work to begin in the fall and to be furthered durmg the two following summers. The decision undertake a near radical renovation was made by the Campus Planning Committee, headed by Wendy Allanbrook of the faculty. Earlier in the spring, after the committee had interviewed seven architectural firms, St. John's signed a contract with Weiler, Fishback & Bohl of Annapolis. The Campus Planning Committee already has announced plans to renovate to Mellon to be P. 8) Forever free of easy b oks Ann Burlein and Elizabeth Waldner took top honors at commenceement this year, Miss Burlein for winning the Board of Visitors and Governors Silver Medal as the senior with the highest academic standing and Miss Waldner for receiving not only one of two senior essay prizes but two others as well. Altogether the class of nearly 80 seniors received what amounted to a collective verbal prize from a distinguished writer who heads Johns Hopkins University's English Department. Hugh Kenner gave it in a speech berating the era of the "easy book" in which he said, only two things are known by the reader: "Run, Spot, run, and close the cover before striking." "This is the first time in my life I have addressed an audience in which everyone has read at least one book twice, one of the most unnatural acts of the 20th century," Professor Kenner told seniors, whorrr he described as "a group of people forever delivered from the easy book." Someone calculated in l 930 that 200million words of new fiction were being generated each month, he said, after quoting a former minister of education as saying before the l 927 Book Sellers Association meeting in England that there was "no more potent narcotic than line after line of print." Like all narcotics, Professor Kenner declared that there are pushers for books, most of whom are school teachers who tell their students to "develop. the habit of reading." I ri his brief and witty talk, he warned (See Class of 198.5 P. 9) Pekkanen receives magazine aw·ard John Pekkanen, '61, has received the prestigious l 985 National Magazine Award for Service to the Individual. The equivalent of a Pulitzer award, the National Magazine Award was presented him for work that resulted in an article, "How To Save Your Life," that appeared in The Washingtonian magazine. This is the second National Magazine Award he received. Three years ago, when the competition included Time . and Newsweek, he received it for his article, ..The Saving of the President." It was judged to be the best job of reporting done that year by a magazine. To prepare his way for his new prizewinning article, Mr. Pekkanen led a team of three other staff writers and editors in a (See It's a P. 2) board members, the . and two tem· ...,,,~ Board chairman dahl said board include James H. t'rame, comCh<unnain, and Nelson, board chairman, from the East; Daniel T. Kelly, Jr., and Mara Robinson, SFGI '83, from the West, and Joyce Rumsfeld, from the Midwest. Representing the faculty along with Dean George Doskow, of Annapolis, and Dean Robert Neidorf, of Santa Fe, will be Douglas Allanbrook and Jack Steadman, from those two campuses. released to the college community that he sees its charge to him largely completed. "My charge since 1980 has been to further (the college's) maturation, in terms of. financial stability, enrollment, and leadership. Because so many members of the college community - board, alumni, friends, faculty, staff - have given much of themselves to make St. John's stronger, the most important of its weaknesses have been faced, and its condition as .it enters' its third century is strong, resolute, on both campuses. "Accordingly, I see the charge to me as largely completed, with the transition to two presidents promising to enable us to take full advantage of the progress we have made. There remains the question of completing my service to St. John's most usefully . "At the request of the board officers. and with pleasure, Mrs. Delattre and I will be happy to serve St. John's for the coming academic year as the search for the new president is conducted. "DURING THAT time, we will decide (See Third· Call P. 9) �Page·2 THE REPORTER JUNE 1985 Its a second for Pekkanen 1932 Henry S. Shryock, Jr., and his wife, Pauline, plan to hike this summer in the Cotswolds and the Scottish Highlands. They also will attend a meeting of the International Union for the Scientific study of Populati-on in Florence. Mrs. Shryock is a native of Scotland. The couple was married in 1983, following the death of his wife of 45 years. They have taken hiking trips in Hawaii and New Zealand and try to hike every Sunday, usually in the Blue Ridge. Mr. Shryock is a part-time lecturer at . Georgetown University. He and his wife live in Suitland, Md. 1965 Barbara E. Poeter is living in Pittsford, Vt., "working at my art and doing some free lance writing." After leaving St. John's, she got a master's degree in the history of art and lived in New York for 14 years working at various jobs "from math teacher to waitress." She had her own catering business. "Although I can't say I've opened many of my great books .. ., l have faithfully dragged them about the country with me ... I just might read Euclid again," she writes. 1967 Whitley Streiber is the author with James Kunetka of a futuristic thriller about a believable nightmare, Warday, which has made the best seller list of both The New York Times and The Washington Post. Published as a paperback by Warner Books under an arrangement with Holt, Rinehart and Winston, the book describes the journey across the United States of two survivors five years after a "limited" nuclear attack on this country. It is~a selection of the Book of the Month Club and the Preferred Choice Bookplan. Mr. Streiber attended St. John's for a single semester beginning in September, 1963, before transferring to the University of Texas. 1972 Bay Boedecker and Anne Kelleher announce the birth of Nicholas Kelleher Boedecker on March 14. .They are living at 7200 Holly Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912. 1974 Richard Ferguson is living in boulder and urges Johnnies in the Denver/ Boulder area to give him a call. .. I'm in the phone book," he writes. Richard attended law school of for a of in a Bachelor of ln1'1Plr<:ll\/ Published times a ruary, April, June, September and ember. Second-class paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS 018-750 says. "I still sail (we have a 13-foot sailboat we use on the local lakes) and do some mountain climbing. I am active with the local mountain rescue group and ski almost every weekend during the winter and spring." Richard's wife, the former Marianne Haffey, is an elementary school teacher. SF 1975 "In Praise of Giselle," an article in the January-February 1985 issue of Print magazine, voices appreciation for the work of Giselle Minoli as merchandising director of CBS Records. Following graduation, Giselle studied theatre in San Francisco. Her job as an in-store merchandiser for CBS Records' San Francisco branch paid for her schooling. Dissatisfied with the quality of the posters supplied by the company, she began creating her own displays. At 23, she was named "Field Manager of the Year." Appointed national merchandising director, she moved to New York and oversaw the design of posters for the company. "Music buffs were stealing (the CBS posters) out of record stores and selling them to each other at outrageous prices," writes Paula Scher. "CBS Records now had the reputation for producing the best point-of-sale material in the industry." A restructuring of the company in 1983 made the job of merchandising director "redundant," the article says, and Giselle Minoli was let go. 1976 Kimberly Beaton Quintero is editor of the Gilbert Independent, a weekly newspaper published in Mesa, Ariz. She writes that the paper "is our town's only voice ... there are a lot of critical issues to be faced here, and the paper. .. has a great opportunity to really make a contribution to the shape of the community." As a member of the town's Education Commission, Mrs. Quintero is drawing on her St. John's background to help design a seminar-type literature course for grades 7 to 12. She has four children, ages 8, 6, 3, and 2. Mrs. Quintero writes, "Though I hold degrees from three other institutions, St. John's is and always will be my academic• home in my heart." John F. Bukacek, is putting to use his proficiency in the Japanese language by translating technical and commerical material. He writes from Chicago: "l wonder where thymus will carry me next? Since graduating from St. John's, until last year l was involved in Montessori. in Montessori schools for two years the U S., then went to for (Continued from P. 1) survey of emergency and trauma care in the Washington area. They spent five months examining the services and flaws in local hospital emergency rooms. One result of the article was the replacement of the emergency-room staff at one hospital. His citation singlea out "fine research, extraordinary writing, and dramatic visual presentation." Mr. Pekkanen's award is particularly extraordinary in that each year 25 articles become finalists with five finalists for each of five categories. , He has been a finalist five times in the last five years. Winning twice in those years is a record believed to be unmatched by any other writer. Mr. Pekkanen has been a writer since leaving St. John's. He joined the staff of the old Life Magazine and, as chief of the · Midwest Bureau in Chicago, became at 27 Life s youngest bureau chief. He subsequently was awarded a Nieman Fellowship to study at Harvard University. Mr. Pekkanen is a senior writer with The Washingtonian. Currently he is at work on two books which have been commissioned from him. One, Donor, dealing with organ transplants, he is writing for Little, Brown & Company. The whe Alumni who have some thoughts about the college and who would like to talk them over with a member of the Alumni Association's Board of Directors are reminded that all over the country board members are offering their receptive ears. Ope? to hear you are: Franklin R. Atwell, past president, 67 Conduit SL, Annapolis, (301) 268-8740; Betsy Blume, alumni director, Annapolis campus, (301) 263-2371; Katharine Bond, student representative Annapolis campus, (301) 263-2371; Joseph Cohen, Annapolis tutor, c/ o the college, (301) 263-2371, Ext. 244; William A. Darkey, Santa Fe tutor, c / o the college, (505) 982-3691; Vernon Derr, director, 3410 Everett Dr., Boulder, CO 80303, (303) 499-2065; Dr. David Dobreer, president, 1924 Westmont Drive, Alhambra, CA 91803, (213) 283-63 Suzanne .1Uv11;;1uu .. , president, 6417 Richland Plaza ''-''-'•.uauu. TX 76 J J8, (8 7) 595t'Jt;l~llmOil, executive viceAssoc1;n10n, I014 D.C. my m the International Student H;use and became verv good friends with a Japanese student. With his guidance, l managed to learn the fundamentals of both spoken and written (Continued to P. 11) ~~~~=-~~~~-- JOHN PEKKANEN other concerns Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Naval commander in Vietnam, and his son, Elmo Zumwalt, HI, who has developed cancer after being doused by Agent Orange. He is writing this book for the Macmillan Publishing Company. Fourteen years ago Mr. Pekkanen began his free lance work. Married to the former Lynn Kopke, '63, he writes from the study of his home in Washington. -~~~~~--------------~~~~~~~~--~~~~~~--~~~~--~~ 647-8846; Kenneth Kimble, secretary, 31 Maryland Ave., Apt. #4, Annapolis, MD 21401, (301) 2636378; Carolyn Leeuwenburgh, director, 294 Jefferson Rd., Princeton, NJ 08450, (609) 921:.3106; Frank B. Marshall, representative, Board of Visitors and Governors, 409 Old Country Road, Severna Park, MD 21146, (301) 6473686; Harold M. Morgan, Jr., director, 915 Girard, NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, (505) 266-5330; Chris Nelson, director, 1020 South Belmont, Arlington Heights, IL 60005, (312) 439-2833; Jules Pagano, director, 395 South End Ave., Apt. 24D, New York, NY 10280, (212) 4663329; Daniel J. Raizen, Chicago Chapter president, 638 W. Roscoe, Apt. 3, Chicago, IL 60657, (312) 4770133; John Ross, Washington State Chapter president, 4222 Interlake Ave., N., Seattle, WA 98103; David Schiller, Boston ident, Box 01 liam W. Simmons, �Page 3 THE REPORTER JUNE 1985 w podium to honor Br her Ro be Smith Brother Robert Smith once compared teaching at St. John's to being in a garden so it was perhaps appropriate that the Dorsey Gardens were the scene of his retirement party. If you can imagine a large and cherubic sunbeam that has filtered through the garden's green branches, you can imagine Brother Robert there. Brother Robert beamed in his benign way. The college community radiated its affection. Having reached the age of 70, Brother Robert, who was released by his Chrifitian Brothers order to join this secular college in 1972, is retiring officially. There were speeches and toasts and a present to add to the one the college presented him the previous Friday night. That was a podium to be placed in the library's King William Room. Dean George Doskow said it will bear a plaque in Brother Roberts's honor. Brother Robert was the first to use it in his Parents' Weekend lecture on one of the St. John's writers he admires most Montaigne. Built by John Cook, a college laboratory technician, it was constructed from parts of old walnut college beds believed to date back to the early parts of the 19th century. The podium will be used for St. John's summer lecture series and for other talks in the King William Room. For his own personal use, faculty and staff members gave him a North African rug which can be used as a waH hanging in the Mar'ket Street apartment he will continue to occupy. Former dean Samuel Kutler made the presentation during the Sunday afternoon party in April. AT THE APPROPRIATE moment there were speeches from three close friends. One of them, Elliott Zuckerman of the faculty, pointt?d .out that, unlike himself, Brother Robert prefers small parties. "If on the day after a party he tells me he's had a good time, I know that early in the evening he had seated himself in a corner next to someone he wanted to see, or some new person he was interested in, and had had a genuine conversation," Mr. Zuckerman " ... .I think of Brother Robert's teacnmg life as having something in common with those 'successful parties.' To be sure, when the group of has a proper name and a common purpose, he does not negNo one here has to be lect the Hnott1er Robert knows how tutorial and that he is a practised master at leading a seminar. But when you listen to him talk about his classes, you will hear about individual students .... "It is well known that once he has started to awaken a student he does not lose interest. His care for their careers is remarkable, and I know of no one who had made greater efforts with graduate schools and on behalf of the future of one-time students. "TO GIVE UP interest after a student has graduated would be, l suppose, like getting up from the tete-a-tete in the corner of the party, with the weak excuse that one has, after all, merely to mingle." Mr. Zuckerman noted that if his friends and former students were not spread all over the map, this would be a larger gathering. ··vet each one present would be holding in his mind the memory of formative conversations, in which Brother Robert had pointed the way toward the right career or a better way of life, or in which he had lit up some new corner of this world, which he finds so interesting and makes more interesting still." · Contestants are asked to write a Clerihew about someone related to the St. John's program, either as author or teacher. A Clerihew is a four line verse that rhymes AABB and does not scan. Here is an example: John Stuart Mill By a mighty effort of will Overcame his natural bonhomie And wrote The Principles of Political Economy. The usual prize is offered: gift certificates redeemable at the college bookstore. Deadline, August I. ~ So far there have been no submissions for what I thought would be an enticing request: to write a publisher's blurb (one or two paragarphs) for the first appearance of one of the program books. I'll extend the deadline L There were only two submissions of translations of La Fontaine's ..The Wolf and the Lamb". They were from Lisa Cleaves, of Frederick, Md., and Late Sleeper from somewhere in Florida. Both managed to reproduce exactly (or almost so) the elaborate rhyme-scheme of the original, and there were occasional lines that also matched the syllable count. Late Sleeper's predominantly anapestic lilt seemed a bit too quick for the choppier pace of the original. The entire versions are too long to reproduce here, and there are no gems that demand excerpting. But I award $15 certificates (on file at the bookstore) to each, with congratulations for having taken on the extra challenge of the rhyme-scheme, and for having attempted at all what was probably too specialized an assignment for the first competition. Brother Robert acknowledges speeches honoring him. Todd Reichart photo Another close friend, Mrs. Jacob Kelin, compared him to Montaigne, who she said lived in a tower in a castle in France, where he thought and wrote and occasionally came down to the valley. "Brother Robert lives in a tower at 95 Market Street in Annapolis. He cooks there, he sings, and there he writes, and there he reads. If sometimes he goes away into the valley at St. John's or Market Street or Conduit Street, he comes out and straightens us all out. And don't we love someone who straightens us out!" St. John's tutor Douglas Allanbrook recalled Brother Robert's long association with St. John's, dating to the early days of the New Program, and remembered former dean Jacob Klein's declaration, on his first meeting Brother Robert, that ''that's the freest man I ever met.'' He praised the work Brother Robert had accomplished at St. Mary's College, Moraga, Calif., in setting up the first program in the country modeled after St. John's, and "making it work by sheer odds of intelligence and spirit." EXPRESSING PLEASURE that the Christian Brothers had enabled him to come here, Mr. Allanbrook said, "l hope St. John's will always be the free and rigorous place that can receive such a man." Brother Robert's interest in St. John's dates back to the time he obtained his first catalogue for l 937-38. During his first year at St. Mary's, 1941-42, he helped start a seminar based upon the St. John's list. In 1942-43 it expanded into a pro. gram patterned after St. John's. In 1956, the Integral Program torma11y was established. Brother Robert headed it until l 964. His leadership in turn was followed by two St. John's tutors. In 1966-67 he joined St. John's as a visiting tutor and then returned to once again head the Integral Program. In 1972 he applied to the provincial, the head of the Christian Brothers' California Province, for permission to come to St. John's in order to spend the rest of his life "teaching and thinking about things" without administering. As an immediate project, Brother Robert will translate from the French Olivier Naudeau's The Ideas of Montaigne and the Development of His Thought. His other scholarly interests have included Rabelais and the Nominalist philosophers, whom he spent a year studying in Venice in 1963-64, and the Desert Fathers, a group of 5th Century Christians who lived principally in Egypt. A 1935 graduate of St. Mary's, he holds a doctorate from the Universite Laval in Quebec. Spaeth publishes adresses, essays Addresses and essays by long-time faculty member Robert L. Spaeth, now dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn., are gathered together in a newly published book entitled A Dean Speaks His Mind. An alumnus of St. John's University, Mr. Spaeth joined the faculty there in · 1979. He is also the author of No Easy Answers: Christians Debate Nuclear Arms, which appeared in 1983. An introduction by Eva Hooker, C.S.C., says: "Dean Spaeth says 'Conversation is difficult because thinking is difficult.' In this case, however, the capacity to think, to write, to speak out is preserved, carefully harnessed; the essays in A Dean Speaks His Mind are brief, honed for the ears of the straining freshman--or occasional, 'assigned,' I would presume, by the pressing needs of some administrative moment. They bear the marks of what I call 'walking thought,' the idea that has been carried around and nudged at for a year or two, the idea that has been huddled with in the col_d of the long Minnesota winter." �Page4 JUNE 1985 THE REPORTER bi/ant by DOROTHY KINSMAN A resolved group of midshipmen crossed King George Street one fine April day this spring and arrived at the Liberty Tree determined to capture the Annapolis Cup. They returned to the Naval Academy as the institution's first victors in its third annual croquet tournament with St. John's. Navy won two of the three games played before townspeople and several hundred cheering students, faculty members, and alumni from both institutions. "You can say, 'It's only croquet,"' commented First Classman Shaun Callahan, of Baltimore, Lord God and King Wicket of the Academy team. "But it was much more embarrassing the second time." He referred to the Navy's loss, two games to one, last year to an institution with less than a tenth of the Academy's enrollment. vy team akes Annapolis cup Attributing the Mid 's victory in part to an agreement to lay off the free-flowing alcoholic beverages until the last ball had been pegged out, he added, "our teams could not have played any better." St. John's Imperial Wicket, Steven Werlin, of Lexington, Mass., was equally laudatory of his college's performance. "ANYONE WATCHING the match would think very highly of St. John's and the students it produces,"he observed. "It was an unqualified success. Each student projected an image that both he and the college ought to be pleased with." In appreciation, the graduating senior and team captain established the Imperial Legion of Glory. He designated as members all Johnnies except himself who played in this year's tournament. Techni-:. cal advisors Tamara Wilson, Charlotte, N.C., and John Lavery, Herndon, Va., both sophomores, were also named members. ' .. Spectators may not have known the difference between a dead ball and a rover at St. John's-Navy's third croquet tournament; everyone, however, enjoyed the sights and the sounds. Quite coincidentally, both sides chose octogenarians to roll out the balls for the opening two games. Imperial Wicket Steven Werlin invited Mrs. Jacob Klein, widow of the late dean, "because love her madly." The Middies asked Mrs. Eliot Bryant, of Washington, founder of the Academy's Creative Arts Program and long-time Academy patron. Recently she donated a croquet set to the Academy. The president of St. John's Croquet Club for some years has had a title with a royal ring. This year Navy developed a new, if perhaps overstated, title of its own: Lord God and King Wicket. You can't go higher than that. Commander J._D. Buttinger, officer representative of the academy team, was resplendent in a tum of the century uniform. Complete with gold shoulder boards, it originally belonged to Rear Admiral John Maples, USNA '17. The Johnnies, as usual, expressed their individuality in their dress. Of the players, David Kidd wore the most spectacular outfit: neon bright pink and blue shorts, redbanded straw hat, and red and black suspenders over a flashy George of the Jungle T-shirt. The Navy team was crisply turned out in white pants, white shirts, and black bow ties. Although the Mids had left the Naval Academy Band back in the yard, music was not lacking. It consisted of selectiqns by Joseph Boismartier ( 1689-1774). whom Rebecca Schug, rising Leonardtown, Md., junior, described as a '\lery obscure composer." She and another Johnnie, Paul Anderson, played the pieces, composed for two cellos, on two bassoons. The sound took on a more contemporary beat when they were joined by Bernie Langan on the The tournament is played on two courts, with the first two games underway simultaneously. As soon as one of the games ends, the third begins on its court. The Academy and St. John's fielded tbree teams, each composed of three players. first two this year. By late in the third contest, however, all three Johnnies were "breaking," earning consecutive chances to strike their balls by making wickets or hitting the balls of other players. First for women "All of a sudden a bad situati9n was converted into a rather good one," said Bryce Jacobsen, director of athletics* St. John's, who took part in his first tournament. "We turned disaster into victory while they missed a few shots, and we won the match in short order... Katie Kelley, rising Mechanicsville, Md., senior, will become the first woman at St. John's to bear the title of imperial wicket of the .Croquet Club. Miss Kelley, who has played in all three St. John's-Navy tournaments, will carry the title without sex-related embellishments. "She agrees with me not to be imperial wickette or wicketess or anything else," Steve Werlin, retiring imperial wicket, said. As in previous years, St. John's -trailed Navy during the early stages of all three games. The college never caught up in the s St. John's may have lost in its third croquet tournament with the Naval Academy, but that same weekend it took first honors at the Harvard Invitational ,..,...,.n,, ..t Tournament in Dover, Mass. of and David of Carlisle, knocked their balls Uuougn a in the six-wicket croquet on the courts of Dr. John Schott. Harvard, WellesBrown and St. made the doubles pairs in attendance. its undefeated tournament showing, Humer and St. John's Team I, played the second, and fourth teams. Those teams were Wellesley Brown II and Harvard II, respectively. Also attending from St. John's were Torin Owens, Fernandina Beach, Fla., senior, and Casey Carter, Washington, D.C., freshman, who played two matches with two Brown teams and were eliminated in the close, second game. Mr. Jacobsen, who played on the college's third team, quoted Plato. '"Help your friends and harm your enemies.' Socrates said that this was\ some people's conception of justice." The words also apply to strategy used by championship croquet teams, he said. Summing up the reaction of the spectators, Commander J. D. Duttinger, officer representative for the Academy team, said, ..I'm looking forward to another great day of fun next year. It's always a gas." Bryce Jacobsen cosiders his next play. electric gu~tar. . They occasionally were drowned out by the St. John's cheering team: Joy Kaplan, Marjorie Kaplan, Ruth Frame, Mily Valle, Nancy Townsend, Marion Carter, and Nancy Harris. Sample cheer: "You can keep your deep blue sea! We have our philosophy!" Navy responded by distr1buting hundreds of multi-colored balloons bearing the message, "Callahan for Mayor." No this was not a gag refenmce to their team captain, First Classman Shaun Callahan. The inscription referred to Dennis Callahan, who proudly watched his son lead the Academy to victory. "My son is a six-foot, four-inch, 210-pound croquet player, "he commented from the sidelines ...I couldn't be more proud." · Dennis Callahan is running for mayor of Annapolis. Rooting for their team are, from left, St. John's cheerleaders Milagros Valle, Joy Kaplan, Ruth Frame, Marion Carter and Nancy Townsend. Todd Reichart photoe �' Consider the possibilities of the introductions. St. John's College already has Mr. and Dr. Allanbrook and Mr. and Judge Wyatt. Now the newest case of titling on campus. Mr. and Mrs. Geoge Doskow doesn't quite state it. If St. John's long ago hadn't decided that the title should be reserved for physicians, Dr. and Dr. Doskow might be right. But this year there has been a change in their lives. Dean and Dean Doskow describes their status more accurately. For the Doskows, deaning is a family occupation. Five days a week Dean Minna Doskow commutes from Annapolis to Baltimore to serve as acting dean of the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts at the University of Baltimore. Dean George Doskow is the new dean at St. John's. "He does the cooking, and I do the commuting," Ms. Doskow explained. On weekends she does the cooking. "I go to faculty meetings," laughed Mr. Doskow, referring to the lengthy Saturday meetings that he frequently conducts. (St. John's Annapolis campus may be the only college in the country that holds its faculty sessions on Saturday, something that horrifies college teachers elsewhere.) · Between them, with some domestic help, they get the cleaning done. Actually, it's not surprising that domestic problems are what appears to be a minor problem for this highly compatible couple, who have helped solve each others' problems since they were very young. They met at summer camp in New York state when Minna was 15 and George was 17. He was a senior at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, and she was already a freshman at City College of New York. "She's precocious," Mr. Doskow teased. THEY WERE MARRIED his senior year at Columbia University. Since then they have had 28 years of mutually supportive married life, leading parallel lives in which they have seen each other through to advanced degrees in English literature and into teaching positions. Along the way they have enlarged their family by adding two children. Deaning appears to be iust another phase. Doskow was named assistant dean at Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts in 1979, then associate dean in 1982, last July was appointed for a two-year term as acting dean. After one as assistant dean at St. John's, Mr. was appointed interim dean late last and then earlier this year, following a selection was named by President Edwin J. as dean for a regular, set, fiveyear term. As the has evolved, Mr. Doskow has had impression that some of the meeting are familiar. had all that administrative experience," he commented. "It's made things much easier for me." The Deans Doskow serve distinctly different institutions. In comparing notes, however, face similar problems. "We share the commonalities of the admm1stenng of any organization," Ms. Doskow said. "There are differences in curriculum and governance. St. John's is private and residential with a traditional agti The Universitv of Balti- more is a commuter, urban school engaged in upper level work. "The university also is part of a state system in which the level of control is a state-wide board." THERE IS considerable difference in size. The University of Baltimore has about 5,000 students, of which approximately 1,500 are enrolled in the Yale Gordon College of Li&eral Arts. St. John's enrollment runs about 400. There is another difference. At St. John's, all faculty members are known as tutors, and there are no ranks. Neither are there any departments. Tutors' salaries are based upon years of service. At the University of Baltimore Ms. Doskow spends time with faculty committees and department chairs in considering promotions and merit salary increases. That's the hardest part, she said, the decisions having to do with personnel. As part of her professional development, she has gone to two different faculty evaluation workshops in New York City and the University of Maryland. At St. John's, it is expected that the dean teach one class., but at the University of Baltimore any teaching by a dean is done in addition to his or her schedule. Ms. Doskow teaches an interdisciplinary honors seminar or an English literature course each semester, partly because it enables her to in touch with the whole academic progam and with students. ONE OF HER accomplishments was to found in 1980 the collegiate honors program as a means of raising standards and providing a special educational experience for outstanding students. More recently, she was elected president of the Northeast Region, Natfonal Collegiate Honors Council. She also serves as Maryland Region II coordinator of the American Council of Education's National Identification Program for Women. The author of a book, William Blakes 'Jerusalem,' Ms. Doskow also seeks to into the cracks of her time her schoinvestigations, which currently center on feminist utopian literature. As anyone familiar with St. John's great books program knows, the curriculum and the task of administering it represent a type of total immersion. This year Mr. Doskow has taken time tr om his administrative duties to participate with the dean of Columbia College, Columbia Jniversity, in a session devoted to the quality and coherence in education sponsored by the Association of American College in Mild of temper and nature, both share a along enforce their administrative When problems occur, they customarily are able to talk about them during their walks which regularly follow ARE differences in style. George Doskow is perhaps more informal, favoring shirts open at the collar, andr he has been known to show up for lectures, formal affairs at St John's, wearing a proper business suit and tie with bare feet thrust into sandals. He has an unorthodox vegetable garden that breaks patterns by flourishing in the small patch in front of the Doskows' Thompson Street house rather than in back, which is too sh;ldy for tomatoes and cabbages. The back is occupied by a swim- Dean Doskow and Dean "Creator" rec:eouo1n. away from academic en.mes. Todd Reichart photo ming pool. Because of her year-round schedule, the Doskows have had to eliminate their summers at the 57-acre place they bought a little more than 10 years ago near Parsons, W. Va., summers spent with their daughters, Laura, who is now enrolled in the Newberry School of Beauty in Hollywood, Calif., and Jessica, 17, a National Merit semi-finalist in her final year at Annapolis High School, with college around the corner. Deaning in one way appears a natural consequence of their intertwined academic lives. ·After Columbia, Mr. Doskow went on to the University of Connecticut where, as a teaching assistant, he taught half-time and worked the other half on a doctorate in English literature, awarded in 1965. Then came two years of teaching at Trinity College, Conn., before coming to St. John's in 1965. After. graduating from Mrs. Doskow taught elementary school Harlem on a substitute basis the first year they were married and going to school at night, received her master's degree in education from CCNY. SHE THEN enrolled at the University of Connecticut for a second master's in English. Until Mr. Doskow resigned, she was not permitted, because of a nepotism rule, to have an assistantship despite her straight-A record. When he left in 1962, she was granted an assistantship and "left the fourth grade and started teaching freshmen in college." While Mr. Doskow was at Trinity, she taught at Central Connecticut State College at New Britain. Then came the move in l 965 to Annapolis, where she started work at the University of Maryland on a doctorate. The Doskows took care of their toddlers between them. Following her doctorate, awarded in 1972, she taught two years at Goucher, a year at American University, a year at St. John's doing community seminars, and then came her appointment six years ago at the University of Baltimore. In 1974-75 the Doskows took a break and went to Europe for his sabbatical year. It's been a tremendously busy life. In their separate offices, together at home, Dean and Dean Doskow are adding another ~i...~-·~- The Scofield Loan Program, funded to St. John's from the late and Iola long-time tutors on the Annapolis campus, will enable students to participate in programs supplement their academic work. Mrs. Caroline Chirstensen, director of financial aid, said that under the program, which is administered by the Instruction Committee, at least six students will receive scholarships for summer study. Two will study Japanese and Chinese at Middlebury College. Others will be enrolled in the advanced progam in Latin and Greek at City University of New York, in French studies at . Laval Universitv in Ouebec. and in ad- vanced mathematics at Rutgers. A sixth student will be enrolled in New York University's summer program in Paris. Financial constraints have prevented some students from taking advantage of courses or internships which would have been of value to them, Mrs. Christensen said. The maximum loan is $1, 500. In view of the fact that many students must repay federal loans, the college decided to make the Scofield loans interest free. To be eligible, interested students must apply for aid at the school they hope to attend or evidence that no aid is va111a1J1e1oru1e soecific program �/ / / J ' Todd Reichart pho1o Fred Bohrer, '78. has received a Kress Fellowship to complete his doctorate .in art history at the University of Chicago. dent curator in the St. John's Art Gallery. The· fellowship was awarded by the Center for Advanced Study .in the Visual Arts of the National Art Gallery in Washington. It provides for a year's study in Europe followed by a year of residence at the National Gallery. Henry Higuera, who joined the Anna polis faculty in 1982, has received a grant from the Olin foundation of New York city to study liberation theology, a theology especially.prevalent m South Amenca and generally frowned upon by the Vatican. Founded by a group of priests, the theology accepts the principle of violent revolution and. to synthesize Marxist Mr. Bohrer will leave.Jn September for London, Paris, and Berlin. During his student davs at St. John's, h_e was a stu- What -do movie stars do when they come to St. John's? ' We know, of course, what spectators do when they attend a benefit premiere written by St. John's alumnus Jeremy Leven, '64. Some 400 of them crowded the lobby of the Key Auditorium to drink champagne first and then laugh their way through Peter OToole's -new comedy Creator, especially as some of the St. John's related -lines came up, and applaud as Mr. Leven and three of the principal cast members and directors ~ame on stage to receive flowers and gifts. Peter OToole, filming that day, couldn't be present nor could Mariel Hemingway, who is in a play. But for members of the audience the premiere was a big success. Everyone had a great time. But how do movie stars react to being at · St. John's? Well, if you are Virginia Madsen, you reply "Certainly" in a polite, unpretentious way when a 19-year-old Febbie, Simon McNabb, asks you on the way out of Key if you would like to attend the Croquet Ball. Then you get Joseph Houseal to teach you to waltz and "dance up a storm" as Becky Einsig, Frazer, Pa., junior, put it, until 2 a.m. and talk with students until 4:30 a.m., and then the next day postpone your ·morning flight to have breakfast at Dimitri's with a St. John's student and see as much of the Navy-St. John's croquet game as you can before 4 p:m. when you have to leave, "sadly," one student thought. "She thought it was a very magical "said Larra Anne Anderson, Camp Pa., 17-year-old freshman, who became a good friend of the 23-year-old actress over the weekend. Miss Madsen was full of questions about the college and the program. If you are David Ogden Stires and Vincent Spano, two of the actors; you spend some time talking with Mr. Leven and wonder how you can go the program without enrolling for four years. " who is in his early twenties and began on Broadway when he was 14, called Leven for an hour-anda-half talk. St. John's left its mark. He has begun to read Homer. A little on the shy side, both Miss Madsen and Mr. Spano were like unassuming college students. If you are Ivan Passer, the Czechoslovakian-born director, you think how nice it would be to stav for two weeks.' "It was a big succ~ss for them," Mr. Leven said. "They were more excited about being here than the students were about having them." Since this is St. John's, naturally the evening included a question period. With Dean George Doskow presiding, the participants received high marks for their wit, intelligence, aQd candor. Wearing a tuxedo and slimmed down from the potty physician he protrays in Creator, Mr. Stires showed particular sensitivity in reverting back to a student's question that got lost in the shuffle of others during a discussion which focused, in part, on the relative merits of books versus films as repositories of what, for shorthand purposes, might be called the truth. When a writer · he has only his pen and and no one over -~-~- his shoulder, Mr. Passer obvserved. "Motion picture art is a compromise, a contradiction between finances and art," he said. "When we make a movie, you wouldn't believe how many people are looking over our shoulder." · Stires was articulate in speaking on all sorts of things, from "the black and rriot- tled" character of Iago (he has done a lo1t of Shakespeare) to the fact that films be more successful when deal contemporary themes rather than when they are drawn from established works of art. Mr. Passer declined to say what is "the big picture" that Peter O'Toole keeps referring to in the film, and it was left to Mr. Leven, at the end of the discussion, to define the "big picture" as love, what "allows things to and for him to raise the question what, after 2,000 years, could we tell Plato about it. Underneath, Mr. Leven said, the cast members were all very nervous, feeling they we.re in an "intellectual hotbed." It didn't show. lf anything, the question period was too short. It was Mr. Leven who proposed that Creator be held at St. John's -the film he said was written for students. While the precise amount the premiere raised for student organizations is still being tabulated, Vice President Charles E. Dunn said at least $500 will be turned over to the Student Polity for organizations. "l enjoyed the evening a lot," said Mr. Leven's old college friend, tutor John White, '64, in summing up just about everyone's reaction. "It was very nice of Jeremy to arrange to come here. He's always· loved the school a lot, and he still does. I had a very good time." Marianne Braun, director of career counseling in Annapolis, reminds alumni they are welcome to apply for a number of fellowships. Among them are the Luce, Fulbright, Thodes, and Marshall awards. Former students interes~ed in applying for them may receive early information for the 1985-86 academic year by writing or calling Mrs. Braun. There are age limita-. tions for some. ----- �Even before it started, there was a surfeit of 1984. Let's return to a very good 200 years before that - 1784 - the year when St. John's was chartered. That year two centuries ago was every bit as purposeful as Orwell's .. Big Brother" of 1984. but with a diametrically opposite according to colonial historian Middleton. "They (the founding fathers) sought to bring political freedom, rather than a police state, to perfection, and to provide a constitut10nal and intellectual environment in which the human mind would be set free from, rather than limited by, the trammels of governmental interference," he declared in his talk, "1784," marking St. John's Bicentennial of its Charter. St. John's beginning as a college coincided with the country's start as a new nation. "As you all know," Canon Middleton told his audience in the college's Conversation Room, "the Continental Congress meeting in the Annapolis State House finally ratified the treaty January 13, 1784, the very year and in the same ing where the Maryland General Assembly . passed the act that chartered St. John's '--''"''Jl'-'1;:,'-'· "ONE SAY that our college its start as an institution of higher IP~rnino in<.<t as the infant United States comity of nations and was recognized as an indeuendent nation." In England, William Pitt, the Younger was able to restore Parliamentary government to Great Britain by persuading Parliament to curtail the crown's exercise of the power of appointment to remunerative office of state. Here are some of the other Canon Middleton said were happenmg 1784: where and to paint:opened his h1ladelphia Museum, consisting of his collection of portraits and natural curiosities. In Baltimore, on June 24, l 784, "American's love affair with space" began when this country's first manned balloon ascended. It measured 30 feet in diameter and 30 feet high and was launched by the Bladensburg attorney Peter Carnes. "Also in 1784, the-Philadelphia astronomer, instrument-maker, and mathematician - and later first director of the U.S. mint - David Rittenhouse together with the surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, who later revised L 'Enfant's plan for the District of Columbia, extended the Mason-Dixon Line beyond the point where the English surveyors left it in l 764 in order to obviate future boundary disputes between Maryland and Pennsylvania. · IN THE MOST celebrated ship departure in American history, the Empress of China became the first American ship to reach China. returni1rn. with a cargo of tea and porcelain, silk and nankeen and laying the foundation for the Sino-American friendship. In England, stage coaches were used to transport the royal mail for the first time; Lord Palmerston, the future prime minister under Queen Victoria, was born; at Brighton, the architect, John Nash, built the exotic Brighton Pavilion to serve the flamboyant Prince Regent - later George IV - as an elegant pleasure dome. That year the English Methodists, after having failed in attempt "to warm up" the Established Church and tiring of ecclesiastical discipline administered by bishops Retlrina board chairman who deemed "enthusiasm to be a horrid and board members who ha'vecom~»le1ted word," finally seceded from the Church of board. From left are W. T. England and organized the Methodist 11..a1.n111.1're..,, Mrs. Elizabeth Mit~h112ll Church. Todd Reichart photo On November 14, 1784, Samuel Seabury was consecrated a bishop by three Scottish Episcopal bishops in Aberdeen, Scot<II land, and became the first bishop of any kind with a see in the United States. By October 1784, the Diocese of M~ryland elected as its bishop, William Smith, prinJoyce Rumsfeld, Dr. Thomas B. Turner, Santa Fe businessman John H. Dencipal author of the St. John's charter, Mrs. Jill Wilkinson, and John L. Wildahl, who served as treasurer of the Santa although he was never able to assume that liams. Fe campus from 1963 to 1965, has been office. Re-elected after a "sabbatical" of one elected chairman of the St. John's Board The Jesuit, John Carroll, a native of year or more to membership were Thomas of Visitors and Governors. Upper Marlborough and the future bishM. Carnes, '52, Ray C. Cave, '48, Charles Mr. Dendahl, vice-chairman during the op of Baltimore, published his "Address A. Nelson, '45, J.I. Staley, and Mrs. past year, took office at the April meeting, to the Roman Catholics of the United Louise Talbot Trigg. succeeding John E. Robson, of Chicago, States of America," the earliest Roman who has completed two consecutive terms Previously the Alumni Association had Catholic book by a native American. on the board and now, under board polre-elected Harvey M. Goldstein, '59, for Goya painted his portrait of Don Manicy, must leave. his second, three-year board term and uel de Zuniga, and Reynolds painted Mrs. Mr. Dendahl, 46, is general manager of David B. Rea, '49, for his first, three-year Siddons as the Tragic Muse. D'r. Samuel the Rancho Viejo, a large ranch south of term. Johnson died. Beaumarchais published the city which recently donated' 160 acres Chosen for initial terms were Miss his satire on French society, The Marriage to the Santa Fe college for a Brownell Anderson, of Washington, and of Figaro, while Kant published his Nocampus. two new members from New Mexico: tion of a Universal History in a CosmoThree New York Owen Lopez, of Santa Fe, and Robert C. politan Sense. to board office include James Frame, '50, Poole, of Albuquerque. THE CRIMEA was ceded by Tµrkey to named vice-chairman for a second year, M's Anderson is staff associate for the Russia as a result of a conquest ~y Field Harriet C. Higgins, vice-chairman to sucDivision of Educational Measurement Marshal Count Potemkin, a favorite of ceed Mr. Dendahl, and Lovejoy Reeves and Research for the Association of AmerCatherine II. The first sc~ool for '67, who succeeds Jerome Laican Medical Colleges in the blind opened in serfdbm was ;, of and Santa Fe. as abolished in Denmark, and in <Jlifferent Chairman of the Santa Fe Festival secretary. of the world three boys ""'l"'h.-~tP..rl Named as members emeriti are two Theater and a former president of the first term members: Mrs. Elizabeth Mit- Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Mr. the United States, in South of and Mortimer ......... " . . . ~' and Stendahl in France. an attorney with an Adler, of ~11t1,,,a.l<',u. Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal eyeHe is a former At their meeting in Annaoolis. the and the burner was delh11n11Prn11P State board also elected for a the Swiss and physician. Commission. tive term Mrs. Duryea, Mr. that year George Washington made no fewer than three of his 18 recorded visits to Annapolis. He was in Annapolis on December 28, two days bdfore the bill for the St. John's charter pa.ssed the House of Delegates, complaininig, as he Dr. David Dobreer, '44, retired Los wrote near midnight, that he had an "achas directors to succeed Mr. Nelson and ing head." · Angeles physician, and Washington atLinda Stabler-Talty, '76 GI, of Charlot"Hence, while St. John's chart¢r was in torney Jean FitzSimon, '73, have been tesville. Va. The nominating committee was headed the process of being legislated,! George nominated for a second term as president Washington was not only a lobby~st in the and executive vice-president of the Alumby Vernon D. Derr, '44, of Boulder. ni Association. corridors of the State House, he lwas sufBecause of the size of the organization, Election is scheduled for the annual fering from a splitting headache, the only association members will be asked to vote one we know he had." meeting in Annapolis September 28. on the advisability of adding four addi"AU in all," Canon Middleton conNominated to succeed Ken Kimble, '77, tional board members. of Annapolis, secretary since 1978, is Bercluded, "despite the economic and politiAt an April meeting in Annapolis, the nard Jacob, '54, of New York City. Chris cal troubles of the 1780s, I think we can board also decided to ask for a change in say that 1784 was a good year. It:appearrs. . Nelson, SF '70, of Arlington Heights, the bylaws providing that officers serve a so to us, who are gathered here this even- a director, was nominated to succeed maximum of two consecutive full terms. Frank Wilson, '35, of Annapolis, as treaing, chiefly because it was the: year in There will be no limitation on the terms of surer. directors. The bylaw changes also provide which our forbears did the best of things in John Van Doren, '47, of Evanston, Ill., the worst of times and hoped them in the that officers whose eligibility for remost calamitous. and Carolyn Leeuwen burgh, '55, of Princeelection to a particular office has expired ton, are up for election for another term as "They struck another blow for liberal may be elected to any other office or directorship. education and against ignorance and narrow- directors. MiirY Bittner Wiseman, '58. of mindedness when they crowned the year New York City, and Martha Dabney, SF The bylaws change will be voted upon rh~rtPrino St.' John's,....,_,. ___ " '78, of Washington, have been nrnnncPrl September 28. t �Dale F. vice-president for resource development World Neighbors, an Oklahoma City-based, self-help agency, has been named chief advancement officer for the Santa Fe campus. President Delattre said he will assume his duties June 3. Mr. Levy will be responsible for all fund raising for the campus, working in coordination with the development officer in Annapolis. Since 1.970 Mr. Levy has served in a number of capacities with World Neighbors, a volunteer organization which seeks to alleviate hunger on an international basis. During the past three years he headed a development team which secured more than $7-million for the agency. Prior to that, from 1959 to J970, he was public relations associate with the South.western Bell Telephone Company in Kansas City, Mo. From 1967 to 1969, he served with the U.S. Peace Corps in the Philippines. His civic involvement has included the chairmanship of Hunger Task Force for the Church of the Servant United Methodist Church from 1980 to 1982 and the presidency of the board of directors of Planned Parenthood of Oklahoma City for six years. A 1966 graduate in journalism from Oklahoma State University at Stillwater, he was a graduate assistant in journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Mo., from 1966 Kate '-auae;uau, '72, has been awarded a commission from the ing State Art in Public gram. She will weave a four by 20-foot tapestry to be installed in one of the hearing rooms in the Herschier Building. Using the Aubusson technique, which results in a smooth, dense fabric with rich detail and infinite color variation, Miss O'Callaghan interprets the natural world in her weaving, according to an announcement of the award. "The design for the Herschler Building suggests a view. through a window into a landscape full of bright colors and interesting shapes," the announcement says. A weaver for JO years, Miss O'Callaghan lives in Laramie and has a studio in· the Laramie Plans Civic Center. "Tapestries are vivid and beautiful, both up close and from a distance," she observes. "A tapestry woven in the Aubusson method, using the finest wools available and woven in the traditional techniques, can last for centuries with little deterioration." to 1967. His wife, Linda, holds a master o:t library science degree. With a repertoire of more than a hundred stories, she has been employed as a story teller by the Oklahoma Arts Committee. They have two children, Christopher, 15, and Moria, 11. To the I have just received from the Development Office another long list of tlonors to the Weigle Portrait Fund. May I use your columns to express my deep appreciation to everyone who has made this portrait a reality? There are just too many person·s - board members, former board members, alumni, staff members and friends for me to send personal notes of thanks. I hope that all who gave will read this letter and will accept my gratitude. · There have been many compliments about the portrait since it was unveiled at Homecoming last fall. Peter Egeli, the artist, did a superb job, and both Mary and I arc pleased with the result. Again I should like to thank Allan Hoffman and his committee of the Alumni Association for initiating the project. I hope that everyone will have an opportunity to see the portrait as it hangs on the wall in the Great Hall of McDowell. Sincerely yours, Richard D. Weigle President Emeritus Dear Alumni and Friends of St. John's, At the request of colleagues and alumni, I am undertaking to gather material for a brief life of Jacob Klein. I would welcome not only facts, letters, and pictures, but also significant reminiscences and telling anecdotes, accounts of Jacob Klein's deanship including his dealings with tutors and students. and reflection on his intellectual influences within and without the college. I can be reached by letter or by phone at home this summer. To the Editor: Since both Mr. Sheppard and Mr. Franks seem resolute to misread at least part of what I wrote, ma~ I have one more opportunity to point out that nowhere in letter did I even remotely suggest that I. F. Stone should not have been 'permitted' to lecture at St. John\. What punled me in the repurL qf his visit (~• 11d would puzzle me still had not some who were there assured me this was not the case) was the apparently bland and universal approval of a performance whose main attraction la;, likt: Dr. ~ ohnson 's dog walking on his hind kgs, not so much in being done well as at all. As to charges I am guilty of arguing "ad hominem" - following the lead of MatLuke and John, not to Conversation Room, where acoustics make but both Mrs. Allan brook and Rhodes ~A ..,,.~u • .,..v~ that students and must grapple with other problems in the building. It was designed by the late Richard Neutra, internationally known architect, and his associate, Robert Alexander, of Los Angeles. Since its dedication in 1958, problems of noise have been exacerbated by the increased traffic and construction of a state parking garage. topped by a landing pad for the Governor's helicopter, directly across from Mellon on St. John's Street. Class discussion frequeptly comes to a halt as a helicopter lands or a dumpster goes about its business. ELSEWHERE, A heating appliance operates noisily under Rooin 145 while music practice rooms face sound problems of their own. The building complex is wasteful from the standpoint of heat. Because of window design and lack of insulation, its "thermal envelope is poor, .. according to architect Charles H. Bohl. "lt is a California building constructed . in the fifties when gasoline was 27 cents a gallon," Mrs. Rhodes observed. ln looking at Mellon, a number of architects have expressed enthusiasm for the basement, now poorly lighted and ventilated but potentially a source of additional space. They see much space wasted . throughout the building, including space in what Mrs. Virginia Clarkson, chairman of the Annapolis Campus Planning Committee, recently described as "Paul Bunyan hallways." In solving those problems, Mrs. Allanbrook is hopeful that the music library, which is crowded with records, casettes and scores, can be enlarged and more and better listening facilities be provided there. She also expressed hope that the architect could find a more central location for the art gallery. which is somewhat remotelocated on the second floor of Mellon. seminar rooms have a top priority while more college offices also are being discussed. Architects also are being asked to review traffic flow patterns and to consider the desirability of new entrances. Something is expected to be done with the pigeon-prone, vertical window louvers, designed to move with the sun but never doing that. ... of Plato himself, I Indeed, my mercifully desisting, to - for the benefit of your younger readers especially - that no longer laboring under the f essional burden of defending Stalin, Stone is now intent on indulging his vilifying Socrates. Depending upon your angle of vision, this may or may not be seen as coming to the same thing. · Obviously then, when Mr. Franks accused me of resembling Odysseus vis a vis Thersites, can only acknowledge the gracious and flattering comparison and accept the compliment in the spirit in which it was given - with pleasure. Yours truly, George Schloss (GI '73) 6 Revell St. Annapolis, Md. 21402 (301) 268-1580 -~-- .. --··----·- EVERYTHING will be changed, , Mrs. Rhodes said. "In the thing that impressed me in vvalkin_g through the buildings with archithey felt some part~ of Key and represented good examples of Neutra," she said. "Let's not pretend the buildings bad because they aren't. We want to preserve those things that represent Neutra's style." Architects particularly have praised the auditorium. A theatrical firm will be consulted to see where improvements can be made from a technical standpoint. For the past few months,) in canvassing members of the St. John's community, Mr. Bohl and members of his firm have been engaged in what they describe as Phase I of their architectural work: a methodical study of the uses and func-. tions of the building to develop a-program of what should be included. They expect to have that ready for review by the last of the month. Because Mellon and Key are in constant use when the academic year is underway, Mrs. Rhodes said construction work necessarily must take place during the summers. "We are crushed for space," she said. "With enrollment stretched to its maximum, we don't have the extra classrooms to give up. That's just a luxury we don't have." Ertegun Ahmet Ertegun 's style is described in the March 1985 issue of GQ Magazine as "easy elegance", "jaunty, amused and affectionately chic." In an article entitled "Well-Heeled Soul," author J. D. Reed calls the l 944 St. John's graduate "the world's greatest rock and roll mogul." As one of the founders and the head man of Atlantic Records, Mr. Ertegun has turned out the gold and platinum hits of Ray Charles, Bette Midler, Aretha Frankthe Rolling Stones, Stick McGhee and Laura Branigan. He is currently chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame F oundation, which is raising money to establish a New York site. Mr. Ertegun's closet, the article says, contains 30 or 40 custom tailored suits and 50 pairs of handmade shoes. But his favorite "uniform" is a blue blazer, gray oxford slacks, a white button-down shirt and a black knit silk tie. �r THE REPORTER JUNE 1985 call (Continued from P.1) where in education we should invest our energies and experience thereafter. St. John's has taught us much, and you may rely on us to continue to bring that experience to bear for the sake of ~tudents and teachers for the rest of our lives." By July 1986, Mr. Delattre will have served six years, one more than the national average tenure of a college president. During that time, the financial conditions of both campuses has been markedly improved while board members view the two-president structure something Mr. Delattre has strongly supported, as a major achievement in strengthening the college. John H. Dendahl, of Santa Fe, the new board chairman, said a single Presidential Search Committee to find the two new presidents will be chaired by James H. Frame, of New York City, vice-chairman of the board and a 1950 St. John's alumnus. The college will continue with a single board. the two new presidents are expected to take office simultaneously in July 1986. The effectiveness of the two president system is scheduled for review in five years time. John E. Robson, who has served as board chairman since 1983, at a luncheon in which he and other outgoing members were honored, praised Mr. Delattre 's "dedication. courage and substantive contria period of extraordinarily difand institutional circumstances." "His role in bolstering the financial health of the college is manifest and He. has asked hard questions stimulated the examination of a wo presidents wins app broad range of important issues. He has been my resf>ected colleague and friend." APPROVAL OF THE changes in St. John's Polity came after months of intensive study and discussion by board and faculty members and 17 years after the two president scheme was first proposed. Two previous board studies, one made in 1968 and the other in 1978, recommended that each campus have a president in residence but failed to win board approval, primarily because of the financially weak condition of Santa Fe. The board, which had approved the system in principle at its January meeting in . Santa Fe, authorized enabling changes in the Polity by substantially more than the required two;.thirds majority. It acted despite objections from a majority of faculty members on both campuses, whose views were represented during the board meeting by Edward G. Sparrow, a member of the Faculty Polity Committee and a former Annapolis dean. Although the faculty had been involved in discussion of the governance question, it had not made a formal presentation at the January board session, when others were presented, and asked to do so in But Dean George Doskow, speakmg both for himself and for Dean Neidorf of the Santa Fe ca1no,us. a round of applause when he the board that. althomrh the vote had gone the facultv would ed regularly by the board during the fiveyear period in which it is to be tried out. His concern came as a reaction to faculty and alumni fears that the appointment of two presidents eventually could lead to two separate colleges, a separation board members do not advocate. Mr. Frame, who chaired the Task Force on Governance dealing with the twopresident issue, expressed pleasure following the meeting over the board's action. "We have long since outgrown our one president, two-campus structure and have suffered greatly by all measures for our delay in acting on this." Among those speaking for the two presidents was former board chairman Alexander McLanahan, of Houston, who described a president, absent from a single campus for six months in the year, as an ..acting something" who cannot provide adequate leadership. He· said St. John's . has been ..woefoly lacking" in its administrative structure. Provost Burchenal currently on sabbatical leave, argued for the college to continue with one presidentwould be to pose a threat to the western campus. Prominent in the western campus's fund raising efforts and a long-time supporter of the plan, he warned that competition for the eleemosynary dollar in the Southwest has much more fierce as conditions in the past 10 or 12 years. "The same work that Dick sident Emeritus Richard D. did for 12 years would not be attended " he said. the same good fears are that to continue the to a ent way would be to wind up with one mended by Van of Chicago, campus -not two -and the casualty will that the two president structure be review- s from P. 1) later against that habit. "Ifs like drinking wine. It isn't something you should do because you have the habit." Before the era of the easy book, he said Dante, Milton, and St. ,Augustine felt an obligation to deliver a book that could not be disposed of at one pass. "If it could be gone through at one time, it was not worth the trouble." In the 20th century writers have begun writing books which can't be read at one pass, Professor Kenner continued. "It's called obscurity," he said. James Joyce claimed he wrote books to which he wanted his readers to devote the rest of their lives. "That's a bit oflrish insolence, but Milton might have made the same remark if he had a sense of humor," he commented. Pleased by student applause at this (CcmtimH~d point, Mr. Kenner told departing seniors that as a result of their St. J0hn's education, "You are th~ largest group in the United States that knows whcit I'm talking about, and I mean:that literally, with the possible exception of your sister college in ' New Mexico." Perfect May weather made it possible for commencement to be hdd under the Liberty Tree. Brother Rob¢rt Smith, a retiring tutor, delivered the invocation and benediction. i The commencement mark1'd the end of a year in which st: John's h s celebrated its 200th year as a college. P Fsent to play a piece written by Douglas A!llanbrook of the faculty to commemorate! its bicentennial were members of the Annapolis Brass Quintet, who also provided !processional and recessional music. , On pranks - Adler's and others! Mortimer J. Adler, on whom seniors traditionally play a prank during his annual lecture here, this year had a small prank of his own. With one lecture title announced, he gave another, basing his talk on a new book, Ten Philosophical Mistakes, which is a new Book of the Month choice. In it, the St. John's emeritus board member also addresses such questions as whether moral values are subjective and relative, whether happiness is a psychological rather than an ethical state, and whether "human nature" exists. At the end of his lecture, Mr. Adler had a recommendation that also might be Page9 viewed as a trick played Jpon the St. John's list. He suggested that students do the St. John's program backwards, starting with modem thinkers and ending with Plato and Aristotle, when philosophy was free of modern error and at its best. As for the seniors' prank on Adler this year, it was based on a "People's Court" television show. Audience verdict: not one of the best - humorless, witless, charmless, noisy, a shade insulting to a venerable speaker. Either these annual lecture interruptions should be carried out with more thought and skill or they sh9uld be abandoned as tiresome vestiges of a tradition not worth retaining. MARK STREETER, also received a first prize for his ·senior essay. In addition to her first place prize, Miss Waldner received those for the best English version of a French poem and for the best original English poem. Second place for the latter was shared by Charles Randles and Stuart Sobcynski. Other prize winners announced by President Edwin J. Delattre were: Christine Gowdy-Jaehnig and Steven Werlin, maroon blazers for contributing most to the college's athletic program; Kim Paffenroth, as the freshman or sophomore submitting the most elegant solution to a mathematics problem; Kenneth Martin, Peter Breslin, and Steven Singer, for the best original musical compositions; Mark Manry, for the best English version of a Greek text; Linda Berkowitz, for the best freshman essay, and Arthur Karins, honorable mention; Catherine Irvine, for the best sophomore essay, with honorable mention to Joseph MacFarland and John Sullivan; Daniel Schoos, for the best junior essay, with Sharon Jo Portnoff, honorable mentibn; Joel Bennington, for excellence in speaking; Adam Weiss, the Ronay scholarship award; Tania Forte, James Goddard, Robert Ingham and Sally Shaw, the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation scholarship awards; Rhonda L. Datcher, Brian Weimer, and Rebecca Schug, the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr., Memorial Foundation scholarship award; and Rebecca Ann Einsig, the Duane L. Peterson scholarship award. be the one in the West." During the discussinon, former dean Robert Gold win, who serves on the board responded to one argument that the two presidents might lead to a bad competitive situation between them. Unlike other institutions, where professors engage in research and sometimes are reluctant to discuss their findings with fellow faculty members, he reminded the board that one of the things that makes St. John's unique as an educational institution is that, by comparison, the way for a young tutor to succeed here is unorthodox: to succeed, a faculty member ''must excel in cooperation" with other faculty members. In handling problems in the past, Mr. Goldwin said there are times when one campus might say, in effect, "We're doing better than the other campus. Now how can we help them?" He expressed hope that this same spirit of cooperation seen in instruction would be reflected in the administration and said the board's role, rather than one of intervening inappropriately, would be to encourage that spirit of cooperation. Mr. Delattre said he believed the two presidents were "highly desirable" and would lead to a "strong coHege tor students, of greater influence and service regionally, and nationallv. The fullest realization of St. John's depends on presidential leadershio at each campus." The Alumni Association board, meetthat weekend, defeated a measure opposing two presidents, but, in a of support for the adopted one from that stated that "separate and the substantive advisability· the pro. posed changes, it is wrong policy for the Board of Visitors and Governors to impose such drastic Polity changes on faculties largely opposed to them." tein Harvey M. Goldstein, '59, a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, has won the largest settlement of its kind in Dade County, Fla., history in a lawsuit argued before the Dade Circuit Court. Mr. Goldstein and his wife, Caron, who is in practice with him won the multimillion dollar award in a law case involving a 31-year-old former burser of Western Cruise Lines, a Los Angeles-based company with a sister operation in Miami called Eastern Cruise Lines. On a trip to Ensenada, Mexico, Miss Lennon, a diabetic, caught pneumonia, but the ship's doctor failed to send her to a hospital on shore, and she slipped into a coma. Taken to Los Angeles, a doctor failed to' monitor the level of oxygen in her blood, and she went into cardio-pulminary arrest. The Gold steins said another doctor tried to put an air tube into her wind pipe and accidentally stuck it down her esophagus, preventing her from breathing. Suffering from brain damage, Miss Lennon is now confined to a Dade County nursing home where she is unable to speak. She was awarded $7. 75-miHlion. The Goldsteins nc>rmally receive 40 per cent of any award. �Page 10 JUNE 1985 THE REPORTER Remembering the Forties • "For me, he was the spirit of St. John's." Peter Kellogg-Smith, '43, was remembering Scott Buchanan, the charismatic, fabled first dean of the New Program, who left a legendny reputation among alumni of his era. He was remembering some of Buchanan's central ideas, remembering how, in the deep drawer of his dean's desk, he kept tools and wrenches and how, as a student, he would accompany Buchanan on his campus rounds to fix not only plumbing fixtures that were ·not quite working but electrical ones, too. "One of the cherished times was trailing Scott while he was fixing things and talking to me," Mr. Kellogg-Smith recalled. "It was one of the greatest privileges that happened to me. I was always amazed at the extent of his understanding of mechanical and electrical devices." The president of the Annapolis Alumni Chapter outlined some of Scott Buchanan's perceptions in a tea and history talk devoted to the early days of the New Program. "He believed that you should give a book - any book - a first rapid reading and that you would get something out of it, and then you should go back and study it carefully, but that was not an important as the first over-all reading ... "One of his principles was that everything in the universe - a molecule on a distant star - was related to everything else and could not be separated from it,"' he said. ··we used to debate whether things not related could exist... "HE BELIEVED that in problem solving you could thoroughly understand ng mathematics without being able to solve the problems. l think he felt to solve problems sometimes got in the way." Mr. Kellogg-Smith said he loved this theory since he had great difficulty in solving problems in math. "l wrote a senior paper on it, and Scott said that I knew more calculus than anyone on campus," but Mr. Kellogg-Smith said he couldn't solve a problem. Scott Buchanan believed everyone should be using his hands so he got Franz Plunder to teach boat building in the boat house and established the gas engine shop in which he encouraged students to think physics by taking apart cars. He showed great interest in a machine shop run by an excellent machinist by the name of Joe Smith, who made much of the laboratory equipment. "He knew what was going on, and he knew who was using the machine shop by monitoring it without going there very much." He remembered how Mr. Buchanan personally resented the fact that only a special Nash tool could be used to fix his Na.sh. Mr. Kellogg-Smith arrived on campus in the fall of 1939. "Registration was easy; you could buy your freshmen books for $25, and you got to meet Kitty Lathr~p who ran the bookstore." ' IN THOSE DAYS, the assignments were huge, perhaps even bigger than those for today's students. The first evening, half-way through dinner, an upperclassman announced he had the language • his e assignment for freshmen. By the first meeting, the following morning, they were to know the entire Greek Alphabet, both how to read and write it and both small and capital letters. And so it continued. "'We are your doctors,"' he quoted Stringfellow Barr, the program's first president, "'and we tell you what's, good. You won't choose. You don't decide for your doctor if it's the pink or yellow pill you take."' The program makes large demands, Barr admonished students, and we were expected to reach up high in seeking to master it. "You 11 know when you 're really thinking because your head will hurt,"' he said Mr. Barr told them. "That was his main message and a very strong one, and our heads did hurt eventually." The year 1939-40 was the final year of the Old Program with fraternities and inter-collegiate athletics still underway. Barr felt the end of inter-collegiate athletics was important. Instead· of only ten per cent of the students having the opportunity to play, he liked to say that now 90 per cent of the students participated. Mr. Kellogg-Smith said St John's did continue to sail competitively against Navy, winning half the time. Students represented diverse backgrounds with many enrolled as the result of state scholarships. There were lots of poor students. Because there was no work study program in those days, Johnnies earned money any way they could with the college hiring them as waiters and in the library. A well run Student Employment Office helped find jobs in town, including 's s jobs doing carpentry and babysitting. "AT THAT TIME more male college students had experience changing, feeding, and burping babies than female because there were not as many women supplementing their expenses in college," Mr. Kellogg-Smmith said one national study reported. There was a 90-piece orchestra that included Navy bandsmen, townspeople, and 15 St. John's students. Drama was excellent, and the King William Players strong. Dress was much more formal. In addition to coat and tie in class, students some times donned dinner jackets when dining out. "Tutors were very accessible. We felt they were our close friends." There were a number of questions facing students. "As freshmen you thought you had to decide whether you were Platonists or Aristotelians," Mr. Kellogg-Smith said. "You had to get your identity straight. Another favorite question: Can you think without a language?" There were the cause and effect problems. "Whenever you opened your mouth, you were challenged about what you meant: what was the chain of causes, the final cause?" Eventually Mr. Kellogg-Smith had an insight that you didn't have to go back to a first cause or, in fact, any cause and wrote a paper entitled "An Undemonstrable Thesis About Undemonstrable Theses." The paper was accepted. And then there was the question of how the sofa got to the top of the flagpole and how did it get there on such a thin line? An giants of day lifted up great boulders Compared with most conventional colleges, St. John's laboratory is modestly equipped, but the laboratory appears as a state of the art academic center compared with those early days of the New Program in which tutors scoured the Main Street area, picking up push pins here, screws at a hardware store there, brackets at a welding shop, oddments to be disbursed over the desk tops of the Humphreys basement as the laboratory program was being organized. Money for the purchases was scraped out of petty case. Petty cash was always a problem. In the spring of 1937, St. John's was in woeful condition. Its property had been mortgaged; there was no money to pay the interest on the mortgage and not enough to meet operating expenses. The college had lost its accreditation. As a consequence, the board had given the New Program's first president and dean, Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, carte blanche to make drastic changes at St. John's. tlut the New Program did not mean hard times were over. In reporting this situation in a tea and history talk, tutor emeritus Hugh McGrath looked back at some of the extraordinary external pressures which he said from the program's inception hampered these extraordinary men. It also provided an opportunity for him to present Barr as an ..indefatigable, cheerful, and uncomplaining Martha, going about the household tasks of the college." Describing details of the late thirties and early forties, much ot them related for the first time, Mr. McGrath used as a primary source an account by James S. Martin, who came from Chicago to the campus with Barr and Buchanan. A CHICAGO LAW graduate, Mr. Martin originally was appointed to teach history and government to Old Program students but became a tutor his first year. In fact, Mr. McGrath said, during the next five years Mr. Martin became deeply involved with the ..exceptional circumstances" of the college before leaving, in 1942, to become head of the Economic Warfare Unit of the U.S. Department of Justice and later head of the Decartelization Branch of the U.S. military government in Germany. Mr. Martin was everything but captain of the Queen's Navy in those years. Besides his instructional duties, he was appointed treasurer, business manager, and superintendent of buildings a111.d grounds, without added emoluments, in addition to already serving as assistant to the president and de facto general counsel. "As treasurer he had to confront, with Barr and Buchanan, what he earlier referred to as the 'financial mess' in which the college found itself," Mr. McGrath said. But about the organization of the laboratory. Mr. McGrath quotes Mr. Martin, now retired and a Palm Harbor, Fla., resident: "The New Program included mandatory Saturday morning laboratory exercises for all students, starting with mathematical fundamentals and their appli:. cation to physical experiments. "George Comenetz, a math expert, and I were assigned the task of devising and setting up the week-by-week schedule of laboratory exercises and serving as monitors, tutors, and laboratory assistants during the three to four-hour sessions. "Obviously, the lion's share of the devising fell on George, a genius in mathematics and physics; but we divided the task of collecting the materials and arranging the required assortment at each work station so that the students could arrive promptly at 9 a.m., read the mimeographed description of the experimental procedures .... and get right to work, while George and I roamed the aisles to provide clarification, usually through questions, not answers. ASSEMBLING THE laboratory material brought Mr. Comenetz and Mr. Martin abruptly into confrontation with the business side of St. John's and, in retrospect, Mr. Martin found them stepping into the heart of the financial mess that had been the undoing of old St. John's. "This did not immediately appear in our weekly confrontations with the treasurer and business manager over the simple question of getting a small cash advance to spread ourselves all over down-town Annapolis on Friday afternoon and into the evening, acquiring thread at a notion store, patent office Bristol board at a stationer's, screws at a hardware,· rubber headed push pins at an upholstery shop, small brackets welded on one side by a welding shop, and so on until we aqived back at the lab, each with assorted pack- ages, the contents of which we distributed over the tabletops in the basement of Humphreys Hau.·· Mr. Martin said he should mention that as far as George Comenetz and Scott Buchanan were concerned, even ifthe college had all the money in the world, the early experiments would have been made with the same cheap materials. "We got some remarkably accurate measurements of the relative distances of the sun and moon (based on Aristarchus), using sticks of wood from the lumber yard and sights fashioned with tin snips from sheets of galvanized steel." But by the end of 1937-38, Mr. McGrath said that the "exceptional circumstances .. had begun to take their toll. "The root of the trouble," Mr. McGrath explained, "seems to have been the bizarre mortgage arrangement in which the college had become entangled as a result of the strange project of purchasing old properties, chiefly colonial mansions, with the aim of 'restoring' colonial Annapolis as colonial Williamsburg had been restored in the 1920s. "THE FINANCING fell through, and the college found itself with a $300,000 mortgage on its own properties. The mortgage certificates had been issued and divided in such a way that each certificate, as part of a certificate, constituted an individual mortgage on the property. This meant, in Martin's words, that the college 'could be thrown into foreclosure proceedings at the whim of any one dis(Continued on P. �I~ Page 11 THE REPORTER JUNE 1985 Financial threats loomed (Continued from P. 2) Japanese. So before going, I studied for about two years, partly with his help, partly on my own. "I really started learning it when I got to Japan and used it every day. ''Now it is an important part of my livelihood. I returned from Japan in 1983 and was teaching Montessori full time here in Chicago, but I finally had to face the fact that I was terribly underpaid. "I also decided that I wanted to put my language ability to work and further develop it. So now I'm translating from Japanese into English. It's difficult and chal-. lenging work. "I'm glad that I was in Montessori, though, and I do miss working with children. I hopemy experiences will help me to be a better parent when that time comes!" Mr. Bukacek's address is 4028 North Paulina, Chicago, IL 60613. 1979 Mai1221ie Miner Caverly and Robert Caver.ly announce the birth of their first child, Robert William (Will), on March 10. "We love parenthood!" Maggie writes from Pattapoisett, Mass. 1981 Jamie S. Whalen was scheduled to present a paper, "John Flamsteed and the Problem of the Obliquity of the Ecliptic." at the 21st Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of the Physical Sciences. The seminar was held April 26-27 at Princeton University. Mr. Whalen is working on his doctorate at the University of Toronto. 1982 Ellen Swinford has become Ellen Swinford Sevander. Her husband, Warren, is a fellow student at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, where Ellen, who has been attending on three-quarters time, has one more year to go before entering the clergy of the Congregational Church. An Episcopalian, her husband is interested in family counseling so they may arrange their lives some time hence so she can be behind the pulpit while he sets up a clinic. Ellen not only has acquired a husband but a five-year-old stepdaughter, Sarah, as well. They are .. mutual admirers of one another." The Sevanders, who were married on December 21, live five miles away from the Fuller campus in Altadena at 35Y2 East Las Flores Drive. The zip is 91001. 1984 The face on the cover of the current catalogue of the Middlebury College Language School will look familiar to many Johnnies. It is that of Peter Green, who took the seven-week, intensive French course at the school last summer. Peter is working at the New York Times' Paris bureau while studying for a master's in French from New York University. Stockdale book wins praise A book by a member of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors "tells as much about the United States, and the lack of confidence of its government, as it tells about North Vietnamese Communist cadres," according to Annapolis tutor Leo Raditsa. · .. But it is too late for us to do aqything but weep - and learn." i Mr. Raditsa's full-page, major review of In Love and War by Jim and Sybil Stockdale (Harper and Row,; 1984) appears in the April 8 issue of the New York City Tribune. Vice Admiral Stockdale spent almost eight years in communist prisons, more than four of them in solitary confinement, sometimes in total isolation. Commander of both the August 2 and 4, 1965, missions in the Gulf of he was shot down over North Vietnam on September 9, 1965. Mrs. Stockdale, who writes chap. ~r""";~"""t of the Nat101nal 1940 M. Robert F.G. Hu1ntuui: J. Martin 'L.nam:s Wade John L. Leeth 1941 1944 1951 1952 1954 Missing. "Slow murder in camps and torture are 20th century's mark," Mr. Raditsa writes. "But Stockdale, with a nobility that takesmy breath away, does not give much importance to torture. For him torture only accelerates blackmail by fear and guilt. It was by blackmailing the. United States and the rest of the West through fear and guilt that the Vietnamese won the war - not by torture." The review points out that Washington was aware, but never publicly admitted that American prisoners were being tortured. "The silence came of the back-andforth between fear and guilt Stockdale saw the communists in Hanoi pr~voke in order to paralyze. The government silence because it feared reprisal but suffered guilt because it did not point to obvious outrage." ' He ooints out that the government protests about Stockdale's "In 1968 it did not the press's characterization of the Tet offensive as a communist victory ... Had the government dared to speak, we might have known the war we fought, and all of Indochina might be free today." (Continued from P.· 10) gruntled holder who hadn't received his interest check."' The constant possibility of a mortgage foreclosure was the principal drawback to Barr's money-raising efforts, Mr. McGrath said. "There were other difficuties, also. The college·'s financial statements were declared unintelligible by Robert Hutchins, at that time on the Board of Visitors and Governors, who was ready to introduce Barr to rich, potential dono.r.<: Clearly, before that could be done, an intelligible picture of the college's needs and prospects would be needed." Nor was that all, he continued. Barr was a beginner at fund raising, who returned exhausted from New York, and was so impressed, he explained to Hutchins, by what potential donors had said about the 20-point fall in the Dow-Jones average that "I began to feel so sorry for them that I wanted to go down into my own pocket and hand them $ l 0 to see of they could helo." Later Barr got into the swing of things - a kind of second wind - and seemed almost to enjoy his money-raising ventures. But the albatross of the mortgage hung around the college's neck for several years. It was solved when Mr. Martih devised a plan which, if accepted by the mortgage certificate holders, would liquidate the mortgage. over a 10-year period during which the college would be protected from foreclosure proceedings. Carried to the U.S. District Court \n Baltimore, the plan was ruled favorably for the college and with the help of Paul Mellon, a special student here for some months, the college succeeded in retiring the mortgage. MR. MCGRATH SAID the chief distraction from the essential work of the college during the crucial years of l 937-40 was the battle with the Annapolis Housing Authority shortly before the first skirmish with the Naval Academy over its desire to acquire the whole St. John's campus . In this case, the authority wanted five acres of back campus, and, under a suit authorized by the U.S. Housing Authority, _had been ~iven the power of eminent domain. The only question was the value of the property. Mr. Barr and Mr. Martin decided "to dispute the indisputable," working out what Mr. McGrath described as a strikingly original challenge to the suit in which the local counsel objected to as being technically improper. The judge dismissed the suit; The Baltimore Sun published a feature story, and The Washington Post commented editorially. Mr. McGGrath continued: "As a postscript, Martin reports that, upon the return of the sudents and the opening of the fall term, Barr outdid himself in an assembly in the Great Hall. Dressed in a red-brown tweed suit, with a pink shirt and green tie, waving a cane as he paraded up and down the platform, he kept the student body and faculty convulsed with a brilliant and rollicking account of the events of the summer." Mr. McGrath said that when he thinks of the "time, the energy, the resourcefulness that was absorbed by these events, which were quite sufficient for a full-time occupation, but which had to be treated as a kind of side-show, I am aghast. I look back at these heroes of the New Program and think of Homer's description of Diomedes and other warriors at Troy: "But Diomedes / Bent for a stone and picked it up - a boulder/ No two men now alive could lift, though he could lift it easily.' "And so, it seems could they." Patricia Preib joins college Patricia Preib. who received her master's degree from the Santa Fe campus in l 984, has joined the Admissions Office on the camp~s as admissions counselor. Miss Preib completed her undergraduate degree in classical studies at Michigan State lJniversity in 19~2 and did a year of graduate work in classics at the University of Texas at Austin before joining the Graduate Institute in June, 1983. �::i> i::I ::;! Ill "O 0 I-' I-'• (/) s I-' ::s: ..i:;-.. H N • (/) c...i t=1" 0 fl) t=1" Ii ::I ~ ::i> 0 0 • p.. ~ 1-rj fl) I-' I-' Ii I-' .f:-- ro 1-1· 0 (/) :::i \..11 rt N 0 in ancient and crafts - .... ~.~·~-,.,·~ al (.) 0 U) c (J.) Q) (J.) . o=-o _s:;::82Ct! -o CG _Ul .~ .~a: c 0 Jd j;?-§ g-3 ..o..o"c"° ::J ::J ....; c ,-q_ (]_ (/) <{ (\J year. Mr. Werlin leave in Technische Universitat at dozen or so who the second time in recent John's nominees won i1::uvw:'.>11 The fellowshins are for $ each. proposals, the foundation looks for projects which are "per""""""' .... u""' imaginative and f easBauchspies, who describes a farm girl from central has this to say about her oersonal commitment to the craft of Professor Herbert M. Neustadt, have advised him on his research on the natural resonances of have been so and 2enerous time and route to leammg years. "After I learn more of the art," she "I may consider it academic " For the present, however, "the craftsman who knows the of D010K·-IJ1.!1QJlnU penses, mcludmg travel. Yet to decide on what area of in which to "1-1'-"''"'"L'-', was earlier in a. special group A native of Boston, Mr. Werlin has spent most of his life in Lexington, Mass., where he graduated from Lexington High School. He speaks fluent German, having spent a year as an AFS student at Remscheid, where he attended its gynmasium. At St. John's, he has been active in the athletic program, playing all sports here. Last year he was president of the Croquet Club, its "imperial wicket." He has been a member of the St. John's team in its two croquet matches with the Naval Academy and captained the St. John's players when they met Navy in April. Magicians' group enrolls Tom Keens Dr. Thomas G. Keens, SF '68, has discovered a magic formula -f-0r.--.relaxing from the stresses of academic medicine. "I recently qualified for regular (magician) membership in the Academx of Magical Arts, better known ... as the Magic Castle in Hollywood," he writes. "Membership is reserved for magicians who must perform a number of effects requiring basic magician's skills, usually sleight of hand.·I passed this test in early February. The Magic Castle is internationally famous among magicians and attracts the world's best." A member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, Dr. Keens is associate professor of pediatrics at the Children's hospital o~ Los Angeles and the University of Southern California School of Medicine. His wife and two children enjoy his magic, he writes. for her education section of the Ameribooks. rm:et11ng in Washwith a book that is falling addition to the Watson fellow"After magn<Jsn1g he has won a needs to be done, I do it. It very from the C. Markland satisfying to look across a room and see ial Foundation and a $100 for the someone using a book that I recognize best project during his sophomore year. because it was my handiwork that returned the book to use. When he goes to Germany in the fall, "I want to repair a book and make it Mr. Marklin hopes to spend three months healthy so that it can be read again and as an apprentice to an organ builder. He again." also intends to examine baroque organs She chose to study bookbinding in Engbuilt by Andreas and Gottfried Silberland because of its "wonderful collection mann in the 18th century. of old manuscripts." Only a few countries The brothers constructed approximatehave a history of bookbindi~g. and it has ly I 00, many of which are still in existence. been practiced in England at least since According to Mr. Marklin, Johann Sebthe I 7th century. astian Bach was well acquainted with the "I would like my feet tp carry me Silbermanns and was continually called through the English countrys~ide while my upon to test their newly constructed inhands learn new skills and my mind meets struments. a new land and different people," she Mr. Marklin is not an organist. His writes. She will apply for apprenticeships interest lies in how the instrument's sound in small towns because the large cityis affected by the area in which it is based binderies are male-dominated and 'housed. The organ is ideal for his study unionized. because it is tuned to its physical setting. THIS SUMMER, for the ~econd year, At churches housing Silbermann orshe will be coordinating the out-door progans, Mr. Markhn will talk to organists gram at a camp operated by the Key and choir members, measure the organs' School, Annapolis. sound with a high fidelity tape recorder, Before enrolling at St. John's, Miss and take measurements and photographs Bauchspies studied geolCYgy at the Univerof the buildings. sity of Maine. "The institution was willing Acoustical architecture is a "wide open to train me to memorize," she says, "but field regarded as a science only since the not necessarily to think. I wanted a real 1920s," Mr. Marklin points out. He adds education, so I went to St. John's." that he is "not so clear" about whether he The Watson Foundation also considers wants to make the science his career. "This whether candidates engage in extracur(fellowship) will give me a chance to sort things out." t( ricular activities "which reflect both initiative and a commitment to his or her par. BOTH HE AND Miss Bauchspies relticular area of interest." ish what he describes as the "backward Mr. Marklin, a student aide in the St. opportunity"the fellowships p,rovide. "OrJohn's print shop, took the initiative in dinarily I would have to go to graduate arranging to use the acoustics laboratory school and then do (this) field work." at the United States Naval Academy. · Miss Bauchspies is considering becomTwo members of the Academy faculty, ing a high school teacher and a profesProfessor Samuel A. Elder and Associate sional book conservationist. An academic the teacher I seek." The Walter S. Baird Foundation has awarded $500 to Martin G. Marklin for his laboratory project, "Sound and Shape in the Platonic Solids." The prize is given annually to a senior who demonstrates achievement in the arts, literature or sciences. The foundation was established by the late Dr. Walter S. Baird, '30. Delattre to lectures President Delattre. will on Robert E. Lee July i l-12 at Brandeis University. He will speak on Lee's education and his contribution to education. In addition, he two days July 8-9 in Portland Me.; discussing ethics and Socratic dialogue with public school teachers and administrators. Last month he addressed the command personnel of the Baltimore City Police Division, speaking on "Prudence, Morality, and Executive Responsibility in Law Enforcement," a talk he gave earlier before the National Executive Institute of the FBI's National Academy. His address was sponsored by Baltimore's police commissioner Bishop L. Robinson. Earlier he had been the keynote speaker at a conference on liberal education and the criminal justice system held at Wingspread in Racine, Wisc. 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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/9511ee7a24d2710ebdd61e154b95537a.pdf 96a0e90207998c2c0ad2f05e0579c0aa PDF Text Text ,1 1 1 1 fl~r~m1mr~fli1 1~1 1 1 ' ___;.~~=--=-~-=:-----------~--=:J-- ~.1~ :\ _ The St. John's _j I Volume 11, Issue 5 , Annapolis, Md. and Santa-~ N.M~ Graduating class of 98 hears poet "In mathematics, I surmise, each of us comes to a point beyond which he simply cannot go; buf in the life of the imagination you never know what further reaches open up. "Maybe in the timeless realm of abstract thought each one has a given capacity·, like our bone structure and bodily limits, inalterably given. On the other hand for all that is bound up with time, all this is timeful, so to speak - the affective and aesthetic life and the work of the providing or ·making intellect - no given limit can be merely assigned;" So spoke Robert Fitzgerald, American ·poet, in encouraging "openness of expectation" among members of the senior class at St. John's 192nd commencement. In the late May exercises, the translator of the epics Df Homer addressed the largest graduating class since the inception of the New Program in 1937. MARCUS CUNLIFFE The distinguished British-born historian, Marcus Cunliffe, now university professor at George Washington University, will be principal speaker for Charter major observance of the year-long Bicentennial celebration of St. John's Charter of 1784 that gets underway in the fall. It is scheduled for September 22, high- - activities on the Aruttapons campus. Jack Ladd Carr, '50, St. John's Bicentennial said Mr. Cunliffe will in an outdoor ceremony under the Tree following a procession (See Others P. 10) John Robson, the third in a series of chairmen of the Board of Visitors and Governors, will wind up his first year as chairman in Like Oliver in his case, more mtormauon, more contact between board and faculty and students, more conversations among the St. John's board members and the St. John's He wants to know its members more for them to know the not as people on paper but as individuals. He feels so strongly about it that he directed the very first statement of the Anril board to need to " JUNE 1984 I Study of curriculum to view three areas In turn, a team representing the In action growing out of its own questioning and sometimes critical self-study, Commission on Higher Education of ~he St. John's is preparing to launch a major Middle States Association of Colleges and effort to resolve three long-standing cur- Schools borrowed many of its observa. tions from the self-study report. riculum issues. In seeking consideration of them, Mr. Two are centered on the role of writing and the fine arts. The third is expected to Delattre, in the final and third report, inv.olve a comprehensive review and . urged that attempts be made to resolve perhaps rewriting of the laboratory pro- questions. gram during the 1985-86 academic year. "Too often open-minded discussion of The effort to formalize policies for curriculum is reduced to discussion writing/ and the fine arts and to improve which is merely forever open-ended," he the laboratory program is being under- said of the fine arts issue in a statement taken at the urging of President Edwin J. prepared for the April meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors. Delattre. In acting on his proposals, the board They come after a Self-Study Committee, headed by a senior tutor, Elliott adopted a series of resolutions. One holding major budget implications Zuckerman, released a report citing questions and problems surrounding all comes as a form of faculty development. three academic issues. Written after It calls for released time from one extensive faculty discussion, the self. teaching station to enable new tutors to · study was undertaken in connection with audit a class before teaching it. "It would make a profound difference the reaccreditation of the Annapolis camto the ratio of progress and to their pus. (See Proposal, P. 5) President Edwin J. Delattre, who presided, noted that the seniors entered four years ago, when he became president. They became, Dean Samuel Kutler said during the Class Day exercises the previous day, an '·'absolutely wonderful class." Threat of rain forced the class into the Key Auditorium for the ceremony, high. lighted by Mr. Fitzgerald's talk and by prizes that included the silver medal to Merle Sokolik, of Springfield, Ill., as the senior with the highest academic standing. Christian Holland, of Bedford, N.H., received the prize for the best senior essay, "Remembering Jerusalem," for which Pedro Martinez-Fraga, of Miami, received honorable mention. Mr. Martinez-Fraga also was awarded a prize for excellence in speaking offered in memory of Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tyd. ings and presented by his widow, Mrs. Eleanor Ditson, former college board member. (See Fitzgerald, P. 7) ' - he told the board, referring principally to dinners board members share with students, "but my own personal hope is to find additional ways to meet and exchange ideas and to grow to know each other as people." The view stands in contrast to the one holding that the college president should be the point of contact between the board and community members .. Mr. Robson makes clear that more conversation doesn't imply any personal desire to "fiddle around" with administrative or academic duties by board members. "The lines of authority and lines of communication are not coinhe of his (See Todd Reichart pholo �-a. 'l ~ 4 ·~ # Page2 &[LQIJ~~D ~&@lr June 1984 THE REPORTER &00@ .Cobb named for judgeship W~@Lr Howell Cobb, '44, of Beaumont, Tex., . has been nominated to be a federal judge in. the Ea.stern District of Texas by by BETSY BLUME .and B~CKY WILSON ·senator John Tower (R."Tex~.): Mr. Cobb By m'id-May,. 1;000 questionhas been a partner in the law firm of , naires dealing with careers and Gilbe~ A; Cra~daU, president of. the agent in Mcintosh, .N.M. He and four· of Orgain, Bell and Tucker since 19-57. If the post-graduate education have Annapohs Alumm Chapter for the .past: his friends have just incorporated Time- Senate confirms the. appointment, he been returned to the. college. two ~ears, has an arti~le appearing in the ·waves, a company which will microfilm . probably will assume office next month. Ron Hale, director career · A trial attorney, he was · gradu;:tted July issue.of The Reader's Digest. documents . and papers for .burial in· counseling for Santa Fe, who. is from the University 'of Virginia Law Written originally for The Public En- time capsule .. compiling returns for both· camterprise, Annapolis bi-weekly for which · ·Rachel Deeter. Abrams finds herself a, School ·and has practiced extensively in puses, hopes the ~O pe~ cent he is ~ columnist, it is' an open· letter .to busy mother and wife. Married in 1980, state· and ,federal courts., particularly in . return c.an be increased to 50 per the civil area. KJ. Reynolds resp'onding to their ad she is the wife of Elliott Abrams assist. cent by July 15, when he expects defending cigarette smoking. ant secretary of state for humad rights,.:. · During World War II he W?S a Marine .Corps fighter. and bomber pilot. Active . tO have all the information fed Director of tourism in Maryland for 13 · They have two children Jacob 3 . and· ·into.a computer. . politically in the Republican party, he ' ' ' years, Gil served, briefly as public affairs Sara, 2. The survey; which takes about has been chairman of Precinct 68 since · director for the state's· IJepartment ·of· Nari.cy Willis has been promoted·to vice five minutes to complete, is deAgriculture before retiring in June of. presil.!ent of the U.S. capital Markets 1974. He has been a member of the·Tower sign.ed to give the college fuller Senate· Club since 1968 and a delegate and 1977. For nearly three years he has . Division of the Continental Bank of Chiinformation on what happens to edited The Senior Sentinel; newspaper of cago, which she joined in 1978. We wish alternate delegate of numerous Republiformer students and to provide . can state and county conventions. . the A.nne Arundel County D~p.artment of· her the best of luck. data helpful to present students.. Among his organizations are the Amer~ Aging. . ·Mr. Hale asks alumni who 1961 . 1973. ican; Texas and Jefferson County ba.r have not' filled· out the forms to Alexa Nadosy Illich was in Annapolis Fro.m Anne Hawk· Fitch, of Blooming. associations, the Texas Bar Foundation, do so as soon as possible in order recently with her family,: partly to intro- t~n, Ind., comes an announcement, of ~he the American Board of Trial Advocates, that the college may have. ;;i.s full ·duce her daughter, Monica~ to St. John's b1rtl;l of. a daught~r. Hannah Carolme.. ·and the International As&ociation .·of In. and correct an analysis· as possi- · as a prospective freshman: Ha~k Fitch; on Christmas Day,,1983. She surance Counsels. . . ble. ' He is married to Amelia Cobb and the For. her part in getting waltz. parties weighed. seven pounds, seven o~nces and started when she was a student here she was 20 mches long. Happy flymg, Han- father of six children. . . . . was presented a bottle of champagn~ and nah!· given a r11 unct of applause at a waltz Thomas. Vetter will be a Libertarian party she attended. Alexa is ·now living in 1974 c.and1~ate for. the, House of ~ep~e­ New York.City where she heads her own ~entatives m Kentucky .s Seventh District firm as. a computers systems consultant. .1~ the N.ovember el~cb~n. · At !he recent Accompanying her and Monica to St L1bertana::i convention m Lexmgton,. he Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, near Portland. John's was her second daughter, Marina, pledged h~mself to the ~l~~s- Portland, Ore., will be the site of the first Tne weekend and husband Michael. · mgs of· liberty, personal respons1b1hty St. College off-campus alumni dinner and an l\fartha ' is one of the nine Anne and justice to the .Seventh District." weekend. Sponsored the college day, one or more yy"''"nntn."'' Tom has ?een for 12 .years and Alumni event is followed Arundel County, Md., lawyers and the a seminar on a only woman to be nominated for a has four children - t~ree b~ys .and a girl. scheduled for October l9e21. . will be members from judgeship of the District Court ~e ~orks as a ~nvate mv~stor and If the Timberline Weekend is success- Santa Fe and The conversaful, similar events ma·y take later tion will continue less L"'"'''UJ' Martha, who graduated from the Uni- firefighter for the city of Maysville.· 1974 · in other parts of the country. Like the with enough time allowed to .:>Vnli\l"O versity of Maryland Law SchooLin 1976, Michael Blaustein will.join the Anna:po- alumni gatherings at homecoming and Hood. is a member of the law firm of Blumenthal, Delavan, Offutt, and· Moodispaw. lis faculty this fall. Since graduation, he ·during the summer, ·the Timberline The price of $175 per person will She chairs the Maryland Commission for . has received a master's in political Weekend will include both social and include meals and· two nights' lodging. Women and is a member of the Women's science at the University. of Chicago .. He academic elements. . . Airport transportation will be available. . earned his. doctorate from ·Harvard in . Timberline is a large· mountain lodge Law Center.of Anne Arundel County.. Invitations to the Timberline· Weekend · Robert Davis left for Bang~ok, .Thai- 1976 from the Department of Near East- . hotel located at the 8,000 foot level on Mt. land, .in April to begin a five or six month ern Languages, writing his. dissertatfoi:I Hood, about an hour's drive east of will be in the mail shortly. stay in Asia, most of which he will spend· on "Averroes on the Imagination and in Nepal with some time in. Japan on the Intellect." Since then,·· he qas been· a. way home. · teaching fellow at Harvard and a re~ . A museum·. architect, he has designed .. · search assistant for the American Coun: major. shows for the H~H: de Young cil of Learned Societies as well as a tutor Alumni on the Santa Fe c·ampus are ther details at Santa Fe's homecoming Memorial Museum in San Francisco, ofHebrew and Arabic. . planning tO convert the balcony above the September 28-30. He suggests that it including ... The Search for Alexander" .. We recently learned .that Patrice Os· dining room to an alumni room. . · · 'include· a display case, a book shelf, a file and the Tiffany show, for which he bourne is now Mrs. Patrice Aggs. She is The desirability of having a. space set cabinet and a slide-cassette 'machine for received rave reviews, and more recently· currently living· in England, has a baby aside for the display· of materials: related the showing of stories .of various alumni "The Vatican Collections." .. · boy, and is an illustrator of children's to alumni was discussed by Sam Lat- accomplishments. · For the latter, he received high praise books. As a basis for funding the project, Mrs. combe, .director of alumni ·activities in for transform~ng the show into "an inti1975 the West, at a meeting of the Alumni Suzanne Poole, a Graduate Institute stu~ m~te •. three-d1mension~l experience" by Jim Jarvis stopped by with his dog, Association's board in April. dent, has contributed $2.;500 to· a special brmgmg as many ob]ects as he could . Gifford, on his way from South Carolina To implement the project, association· fund~ Mr. Larcom be estimated total cost away from the walls so that p.eople could to st. Louis, where he is moving ..· His president David Dobreer. has named.. a would be between $5,000 and $6,000. wa~k around·. them. In N~w York ~nd family is doing well, he said, especially committee that includes Mr. Larcombe, Besides alumni, the room also would be Chicago, .The San firanc1s~o .Chromcle his daughter Elizabeth, now two. "1 can't. Linda ~tabler-Talty, Lovejoy Duryea and opened for visits by high school students noted, ob3ects were stuck .m wallcases, . waif for her to· get up in the morning;•' he Harold Morgan. and others and would be offered to the a~d you walk.ed by the~ l~e you were said .. He will be a fellow in rheumatology · Mr.· Larcom be hopes to annoµ:p.ce fur- ,college as its needs require. ,, . . . at.Washington University School of Mediwmdow sh?p~mg at Macy s. Mr. Davis learne~ ~he. ropes .with the · cine in St. Louis. . · Tut .and Dresden exh1b1ts~ . · The ·following news comes · from the SF 19~9, . . Peter Fox family by way of Mrs. Fox:, James Morrow Hall is a title msurance " ... We have just purchased our first home. Pete is working hard; doing re- . Karl Walling, last year's editor the .st. ed 15 young men ·and women.for study in · search, teaching and seeing neurology' John's College weekly, The Gadfly,, has . Asia next year.. · · ·. The Reporter patiept.s. He is doing some interesting been awarded a Publius Fellowship for He also has been awarded a f~llowship Reb~cca Wilson, editor; Laurence studies of the human brain physiology work in political journalism this summer . to beg,in. work toward his doctorate at the Berns, Besty Blume, Thomas Parran, J. · with radioisotopes and a PET scanner, · at Claremont College, Claremont, Calif. University of· California by the universiWinfree Smith, Elion Zuckerman, adviso'. which will be published soon and, 'PBS ·Named after the pseudonym used by· . ty's Committee on Social Thought ry board~ recently filmed a segment in his lab. I Hamilton, Madison and Jay in writing the . The . Reporter is published by the · Council. picks Cave , Public. Relations Office; St. John's , am· beginning my psychiatric residency,. Federalist Papers; the Publius Fellowand the children are both doing well at ships offer a six-week program to encourCollege, Annapolis, Md. 21404. Edwin J. school so we will be here in St. Louis for age American political journalists to Del~ttre, president · at least another five years. H anyone is study works similar to those of America's .Published five times a in the area, we have a guest room!" founding fathers. William Watt Campbell is practicing ,Jn ·additio !in£ hisl home~owb:H:lfi J..aiiJ~a~t_er.r fa., £i1. 1Mt1; c n~ he also is assistant defender More 10) ·. tion Pirn.a.. <>m of· a Santa Fe plans alumni Walling is Pub · . Fe of alt~trralxi~, . --ill �:::-.,.. ,·".,,'.J""I-'.· b Pa~e THE REPORTER JUNE 1984 , 3 'Board shapes new format the board committee structure, lax and (Continued from P. 1) own particular job as executive vice- distant a decade ago, is playing an president and chief operating officer of increasingly active role in the life of the the G.D. Searle & Company in Skokie, Ill. college, something of which Mr. Robson "IT IS USEFUL to have multiple points approves. "Committees now function as particiof contact within an institution. I do that in my own company. I talk to my division patory bodies in addressing college isheads, but I also talk to anyone I damn sues," he said. "The whole interest level is light years please, even if they are 30 layers down. I don't tell them what to do, but I elicit ahead of what it used to be. Board their points of view, and I don't find there members are much better informed than ever. The board ought to participate in is a conflict." All this is not surprising from John the substantive life of the college, be Robson, former chairman of the Civil knowledgeable about it and interact with Aeronautics Board, who started the air- other elements of the college, administraline deregulation movement and whose tive or otherwise.'' All of this suits him fine. reputation for getting things done took "I like to do things," Mr. Robson said him to the White House some years earlier, at 33 the only Republican among of himself. "I like to look at problems, the Johnson Democrats there. He is not see what the best thing to do is, and then only a mover and a shaker; he is a warm do something." What has happened more recently that and friendly man as well. He likes pleases Mr.. Robson very much is the knowing people. It is his ability to move constructively strengthening of the Santa Fe campus. "Obviously we have come through a that already, in one short year, has garnered results. That is due in part to a period when you had to hold up a mirror new board meeting format. At his initia- to its mouth and to see if Santa Fe was tive, recent meetings have eaeh looked alive," he said. "We've come through intensely at a single, substantive aspect that period of relative desperation." He takes pleasure in the fact that Santa of the college. The April meeting concentrated on St. Fe's endowment has moved from $1,826,John's reaccreditation report. A new 181, where it stood in 1980 when President Dela ttre took office, to $6 million four curriculum study is forthcoming. An earlier meeting reviewed admis- years later. Santa Fe's accumulated defisions procedures. As a result, Annapolis cit of $453,000 is scheduled to be reduced is adding another staff member to work to $85,000 by 1985 and to be obliterated by with alumni as well as developing new 1986. AT THE SAME time, the improvement brochures. Its plan to review the application form - a step expected to increase in the Santa Fe campus has resulted in a the pool of applicants - received a push new, more even handed policy initiated by President Delattre that is removing a forward. A board review of the development sore point in Annapolis. For the first time since the western program in Annapolis, which took place in January, came after intensive work on campus was started, instead of the bulk the part of the board's Development of board money going there, financial Committee and college administrators. gifts to the college from trustees are That campus is now on the way to . being divided evenly between the two institutionalizing certain fund raising campuses unless a board member desigfunctions and handling them more sys- nates his or her gift specifically for one campus. tematically. Financially, it's a brighter world for THE PUBLIC relations program, also on the January agenda, has undergone both the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuschanges and is being expanded. To un- es. Even so, funding remains a major derscore his commitment to this area of concern. the college support, Mr. Robson, soon "If I were to set down a list of things after he became chairman, changed the that need attention," Mr. Robson said, board's Committee on Public Responsi- "obviously it would include the building of a sufficient financial foundation to bility to the Public Relations Committee. "I'm fundamentally opposed to a com- insure the future of both campuses, a mittee set up for public responsibility," basis that could provide for areas that Mr. Robson said. "All committees should have been relatively starved: salaries, focus on that; it should play out in all the faculty development, student aid, and the things the college does. Public responsi- maintenance and expansion of facilities." bility isn't the captive of one committee's A corporate attorney who did his unconscience." dergraduate work at Yale and took his "Public relations is important," he law degree at Harvard, Mr. Robson has went on. "This school has so much to talk served in a number of federal positions. Besides serving as chairman of the about and is such an asset in the jewel collection of higher education, it is a CAB from 1975 to 1977, he was named disservice not to have it well known and under secretary (now deputy secretary) of transportation in 1968 and served understood.'' Waiting just ahead will be major busi- several months that year as interim ness in the life of the college: the administrator of the Federal Urban Mass quinquennial review of the Polity. Al- Transportation Administration. though that is scheduled officially for In 1967 he was appointed by the presi1985, the board will begin its study this dent to be the first general counsel of the year. newly established Department of Trans"The fundamental issues of governance portation. He came to that position from have to be addressed," he said. the White House, where he worked on a There will be a number of hard deci- variety of economic problems. sions to be reached relating to the college MR. ROBSON served as chairman of governance, including the question of the National Advisory Council on Ecowhether the college should have one or nomic Opportunity from 1970 to 1973 and two presidents for its campuses, a ques- as a member of the Department of tion that surfaced in 1979 prior to the Transportation's Urban Transportation search for a college president. Another Advisory Council from 1971 to 1974. issue: should the college have two boards On the state level, he served as transor one. . portation counsel to the governor of THE BO!llD, OF course, will be work-. Illinois and chaired the Governor's Comras : it h;as J w~Ui )citl}w , .. ;~js~iop, to prg~Jiize, tll~ n~~ly established 1.&AO&;,jL§'n"·"'"'l,(I and -a#i. c • ' .Ulinw~ ·DIFI?fr~~~l!t 9~ tr~.1l~Pqrtaitwp . . Summoning the college to Canterbury were Su Price as a nun and the campus singing group, "Flair and V2," as "Friar and Y2." From left are Jeffrey Dunsavage, Phil Peterson and Bob Sacco. ' Todd Reichart photos A prank after Chaucer's heart Only Barbara Leonard was found innocent. Her sin: letting laboratory classes out early. Jonathan Tuck was found guilty of "looking too much like a teddy bear" ("I'd do it again") and admission director John Christensen for admitting them all ("I'm sorry") as tutors and students journeyed to Canterbury Cathedral otherwise the college gym - during the senior class's annual prank. With The Canterbury Tales providing the theme, seminars were interrupted on the eve of May Day by seniors in medieval attire: knights, nuns, monks, a jester, a barmaid wench and lots of fair maidens with tall cone hats trailing scarfs. Nancy Mease had arranged for the summoners to call tutors and students to Canterbury to account for their sins. A pilgrimage involves an inn, .and so Dan Knight and Duke Hughes had constructed the set for an English tavern, converting the fireplace room of the coffee shop into a stopping place, with stuccoed walls, lattice work, metal candle holders and a table laden with fruits, bread and meat. Outside on the steps of the quad, Grady Harris, as the pardoner, randomly presented students with penances for the seven deadly sins. For the sin of pride, they were told to dance later that evening with everyone who asked them. For sloth, they were to dance five dances in a row. 'Outside McDowellj thre 'were minstrels to entertain the wayfarers, a group that included David Meng and Jim Scott on guitars, Susan Lord, recorder, and Barbara Smalley, mandolin. Luminaries lit the way from the base of the quad to the gym, where John ErHe, presiding in a carved chair from the library, served as archbishop and head of the ecclesiastical court. Some of the sins with which the tutors were charged: Michael Littleton, "other-worldliness"; Howard Zeiderman, for looking like Mick Jagger; Sam Kutler, for asking students to teach him (he pleaded ignorance); Edward Sparrow, for dangerous waltzing (he pleaded guilty); Jim Beall, for being both physicist and poet; Gisela Berns, for teaching her husband everything he knows; Laurence Berns, for excessive logos; Harvey Flaumenhaft, for walking into waste baskets; Marilyn Douville Higuera, for confusing students by changing her name; Henry Higuera, for conspiring to confuse; Peter Kalkavage, for outsinging his freshman chorus; Jon LenkOwski, for understanding the German philosophers; Hugh McGrath, for knowing more Shakespeare than Shakespeare; Winfree Smith, for actually liking Mellon Hall. Afterwards Michael Cresswell read his own "Prologue." The following day, with. classes cancelled, there was picnicking at the college, games, and the flag pole was CQnverted ~~ .a May .· pole. Annasta$ia Kezar' was fo·~b.arge oftb~ lat~·r: ,?'. J' I> ')I; ,i; 4> �4 R ~. ALICE WELLS For her performance of a Schumann cycle of eight songs, Alice Wells received the Baird Prize, offered annually to the senior who has demonstrated achievement in the arts, literature or the sciences, during commencement exercises. A mezzo-soprano, Miss Wells has been a student for the past two years of Helen Stephenson, Annapolis voice teacher. The selection she sang for judges was "Frauenliebe und Leben." She will continue her studies in New York while pursuing a career in publications. Eventually she hopes to sing in opera. Competing for the prize were three seniors, who submitted writings, and three performers in music. Judges were Nancy Scott, of Annapolis, and Professor Georg Luck and James Mandrel, of Johns Hopkins University. Miss Wells is the daughter of Arnold Wells, of New York, a former member of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors. Tutor to talk in Austria Wye Allanbrook, tutor on the Annapolis faculty, will give a short paper entitled "Mozart's Happy Endings: A New Look at the 'Convention' of the Lieto Fine" at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, during a four-day conference, "Mozart 1784" August 31-September 3. delivers Martin Marklin, rising St. Louis, Mo., senior, delivered a paper before the student section of the American Physical Society in Washington this spring. It was entitled "Sound and Shape in the Platonic Solids." He discussed findings related to his study investigating the relationship between the shape of a multi-sided solid and its characteristic acoustic mode spectrum. Mr. Marklin also attended the Polyhedra Convention at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., in April which drew an eclectic group of architects, engineers and artists concerned with three-dimensional geometry. St. John's triumphs in wicket game with In a heart-stopping croquet tournament slower, beginning at 2 p.m. in warm first time, weren't used to working as a far more competitive than last year's sunshine and moving into the chill of late team and helping one another line up first match, St. John's beat Navy 2-1 with afternoon. At times the thousand or so shots. "We've got to get used to playing John Ertle proving that imperial wicket spectators might have been watching as threes." may be a title more understated than he chess. MR. BLYLER attributed Navy's win to deserves. Not that that appeared to matter much. its close cooperation and team work. In the climactic final moment of the Out in sunshine on a perfect spring day, Playing in that game from St. John's third game, as hushed spectators held some of them sun bathed and enjoyed were Michael McShane, James Hyder, their breath, St. John's Croquet Club picnic hampers. There was much move- and Adrian Trevisan. Navy players were president executed a series of deft move- ment and visiting around between the Midshipman Callahan, Marc Miller and ments and sent Annastasia Kezar's ball, North and South Courts and sipping of Bob Poore. caught in the jaws of a wicket, to the drinks being sold as a Reality benefit. As The big difference this year was the ending stake to win the closely fought director of athletics Bryce Jacobsen, third game. Last year, as one way to tournament for the Johnnies. dandied up in a white straw hat and establish friendlier relationship with the The excitement was ecstatic. All after- white summer pants for the occasion, has school across the street, St. John's invitnoon long Navy had threatened to win observed, croquet after an· is a social ed midshipmen to participate in a tournaevery game. game. ment. Playing with novices, the Johnnies As far as Miss Kezar was concerned, AT THE SOUTH Court near the central already had taken the tournament by Mr. Ertle's final shot had succeeded walk leading to McDowell, as the tourna- winning the first two games, and the where theological argument had failed. ment got underway, the Naval Acade- third was played in a drizzle with virtual"It was proof of God!" my's superintendent, Rear Admiral ly no one there to see. After Imperial Wicket Ertle was low- Charles Larsen and Commander J.D. This year the third game was crucial. ered from the shoulders of exulting Buttinger, Navy's sponsor, toasted the Spectators had thinned out, most of the Johnnies to accept the Annapolis Cup middies to victory with strawberry-stud- midshipmen to return to meal formation from Mayor Richard Hillman, the John- ded champagne. at the Academy and townspeople to nies joined in sustained applause for the Admiral Larsen, who played croquet as warmer homes. middies, captained this year by Shaun a boy "in the bumpy fields of Nebraska," A little before 5 p.m., when the game Callahan, the only one of Navy's players got the games underway by sending out began, the mood and tempo changed. to be in last year's tournament. · the first ball. Fans, down to about a hundred, remained "Last year we didn't even know the A long blue line of middies on one side glued to their places or moved to watch rules," he said following Navy's winning of the South Court good naturedly ex- plays better. While there was applause game in the North Court near the library. changed calls adapted from football with successive moves and cheering to "We had to ask the referees." across the court with St. John's cheer- urge players on, people were "shhhing" THIS YEAR THE middies not only leaders led by Claiborne Booker. The as adrenalin-pumping tension mounted. knew them but demonstrated that the Johnnies invented their own in another "It was fantastic that St. John's did not Navy's concern with strategical matters form of competition. fold under pressure and was able to put can be transferred to a game on a college A pep band pepped it up, and the , together the game," observed David green. They lost by the width of a wicket. presence of lots of media types, including Weitzel, one of two Johnnies who came in "Navy definitely outplayed St. John's," the crew from NBC's Today Show, which second best in the nation in the 1984 Noel Blyler, '81, St. John's assistant remained to the end, added additional National Collegiate Doubles Croquet admissions director, who refereed the excitement. (The Wall Street Journal, Championship ·Match, who watched from . two North Court games. said .. · which ran an advance story, called later the sidelines. "The difference was that the midship- to ask who won. It didn't want to keep He praised Annastasia Kezar's ability men played together around the court, readers in suspense.) to. set up a "break" - a succession of and the Johnnies didn't. They played a St. Johnnies were playing triples for wicket runs that enabl~d her to help better game strategically." the first time since last year's tourna- position St. John's balls in a way which The middies would have won the final ments. enabled Mr. Ertle and the third team game had it not been for two crucial Kate O'Malley, '83, who played for St. player, David Kidd, to score points. shots, one in which a Navy player shot John's last year, was down from New "ALL THREE PLAYED fantastically," his. ball to the .end of the court to help a York to referee the Johnnies' winning Mr. Weitzel said, "and the imperial teammate and was stranded and another game in the South Court, for which Navy wicket was able to play the shot of shots. move in which a middie failed to knock held the lead for seven-tenths of the Navy was a hundred per cent better. It John Ertle's ball out of position. game. was amazing. I hope next year it will be "The middie's play to the end of the St. John's moved ahead once Katie a little less exciting." court was the sort of move that if it Kelly pulled away from the third wicket, Clearly showing what a little practice works, you're a genius," Mr. Blyler said. where everyone appeared stuck, and and study of rules can do were the "If it doesn't, you lose. As a result, Mr. once Steve Werlin, as a rover, was able superbly capable players from Navy, Ertle was able to make a series of great to pull the team mates along. Manning Harry Hughes (no relation to the govermoves." the third victorious mallet for St. John's nor), Kurt Kranker and Glenn Stafford. Like last year, the afternoon had a was Ken Shen. (By royal fiat, now that Score boards are. impractical for crofestive atmosphere, but the tournament Mr. Ertle has graduated, the imperial quet games, but Mr. Ertle had built was markedly different. wicket's title passes to Mr. Werlin.) "dead boards" for each court, showing In 1983 players fairly skipped through From Navy were Rick James, Paul the color and order of play. the wickets. This year, because there was Costello and Jim Challender. St. Johnnies' dress ranged from rag-tag much more deliberation among team "I've never played a. more tense cro- . cut-offs to Miss Kezar's sailor dress, memb'e'rs over strategy and much more .quet game in my life/' Miss Kelley said, indirectly paying .l1p;mage to. the rivals, hindering by opposing players, the first adding that St. John's fell behind' because and Miss Kelleyis filmy ''tulip " dress. simultaneously played games were the Johnnies, playing together for the Middies enlivened their neat summer 1 whites with colorful bow ties matching their mallets and balls and bowler hats giving them a 19th century look. Two members of the St. John's board, that had met the day before, added sartorial flair. Seth Cropsey, '12, properly accoutered with umbrella, wore a straw hat and bright red carnation, and Jerry Lapides, an academy graduate, a straw hat sashed in red. Dressed several centuries back were Chris Junker, '83, in the Elizabethan costume of Leontes he wore for last year's Winter's Tale, and the mayor in colonial dress. St. John's College physician, Dr. Charles Kinzer, who has confessed to always wanting to be a team doctor, was there fully dressed ·in a white medical coat with stethoscope and bag. With him was his wife, Kathyrn, St. John's librarian. Croquet at the college is a library. sponsored activity. (Not generally known at St. John's is the fact that the athletic office has somewhat secretly acquired a croquet set.) THE PEP BAND included two bassoonists, Becky Schug and Paul Anderson, who as a duo branched out during the afternoon and played a little Mozart; Karen Tourian, piccolo; Susan Scarff, alto sax; Phil Peterson, trombone; Chris Howell, trumpet; Joel Benson, Norman Smirle and Ted Dedden, kazoo players; Bernie Langan, electrical guitar, and Joe Ainley; "duck call.u The cheerleaders were Ruth Frame, Alexandra Kambouris, Melinda Rooney, and Terri· ;Luckett. Led .by Mr. Booker, they and· the middies engaged in an exchange of .boasts. (a. Homeric tradition}, the mids about not having to pay, the Johnnies about not having a curlew, and the Johnnies with such cheers as "That's alright, that's okay, we have parties every day." Almost all the mids who played in this year's tournament expect to be back next year and suggest that this year's game may have been grooming for 1985. "Like the Chicago Cubs, wait until next year," Commander Buttinger said. The Buttingers played hosts onc.e again to an after-tournament party at their home on King George Street, where there must have been a general consensus. Croquet is no children's game. Navy and St. John's proved it. The Annapolis Cup has been returned to the Little Campus, neutral meeting ground for both schools for sixty years, where it has been on exhibit during the past year, a little to the side of the cash register. "Absolutely the most adorable thing I've seen Jn ITIY lifet" M.ar~ Ell.en Nichols of. the L.C $aid o~ ~he t°"ur~~~ent. . 'is keeping a· joamaiistic record ·rif" events on her walls. j �JUNE 1984 THE REPORTER Page 5 (Continued from P. 1) .in the ·program," Mr Delattl'.e each teacher, he estimated such time would cost t.he college the reworking of the also will .. ,__... ,, .. ,_ to be released the 1985-86 school · year to develop statement of educational .rationale, objectives and practice and fostitutional needs by 1987." During the interim; it. authorizes, subject to the budget, continu. ing work on the laboratory manuals. Statements on writing and fine arts· out with zest wisdom's pearls. We're the ·dons ... " Singing with toreador would be due by next April. The resolu- · "We live in the best of all worlds at St John's, We · tion on writing .asks for an interim report from left, tutors Brother Robert Smith, Chaninah Maschler, David Stephenson, Curtis Wilson and ·Dean Samuel KuUer. · · · · · Todd R*harl photo by January which includes "a statement of financial needs for implementation of . specific ref9rms." · · The resolution on the fine arts asks for a position statement' on its. place .within the curriculum ''with a plan for imple- · by RALPH STENGREN, ~86. · The play trials and Committee, their Spanish foqtli~ition mentation of. any curricular or extracu.rReality is. traditionally the time at the tribulations centers around. the St. John's . seriousness, with sufficiently imperious. . of the lovelorn was ricular changes entailed."-. . ·end of the school year when.JohnniesJay student Dorothy, played by Susan Fain. · 'A.H. in all, the cast was superb, ·and it. IN DISCUSSING the emphasis that .aside their ·books for a weekend of Alas, her heart is held in thrall, not by was ·woriderful to see our tutors oil stage .. writing should receive at St. John's, M!. . picnics, games, and just general revelry. Delattre said, that "ser~ous weaknesses m This year, the experience was made a~l the love of truth, but rather by that hoofing it up arid having just as much .fun writing have been ~ited by the Education the more memorable by a gift from the manly lllan, Roger (Peter Kalkavage), . ,as the audience did . .It was really a fine who will have nothing to do. with her. The . way to celebrate the end of ·the year. Team Report :on the Commission on faculty to the entire community. stage is then set for that ~lassie gi~lWalsh is intern · Higher Education of the Middle States On Reality Saturday, members of the throws-hers.elf-at-boy, boy-1gnores-g1rl faculty presented the superb musical, story, but since this is St. John's, it's not . Jason Walsh, a rising Annapolis senior_, Association of Colleges and Schools.·. "My own experience iri reading essays , "Pumping Irony," written and directed nearly as simple as that. .has been named a summer intern for the· suggests that there is truth· in the criti- by David Guaspari, who also did the_ The plot is .complicated when Dorothy Massachusetts Advanced Studies· Pro. · cism/' he said. " ... The fact is that there choreography; with music hy Michael thinks that perhaps she would be better gram ·for gifted and talented secondary has long been a tension a"bout writing and Littleton. The show 'presented a satirical .off searching . for truth among. "the students .. its place in the program, and the tension view of the search for truth (I think) .and Greeks," away from St. John'.s and .He Vl'.ill serve as a teaching assistantin goes unresolved; the problem is that St. · a hilarious look at the foibles of students Roger. As she thinks about this, she is · astronom·y at a program operated. jointly John's does take a position on the and tutors: here at St. John's. swept up ·by the chorus of the great- . by Milton.Academy at Milton, Mass., and matterv so· the· place of writing From the time that Michael Littleton great-great and· further multiply great- . public .schools. .. remains adrift." took his seat at the ,piano and Elliot ·grand-daughters of. Ocean. and their sig-· : In addition, during his six week· internMr. Delattre traced sQme of the recent Zuckerman lifted his baton to conduct the nificant Others, whose dut~dt to visit' ship that begins June 29, he will be a history surrounding the debate ·on writ- show, all the way to the fin~le, .the ·the bound Prometheus with isnews of resident head and. supervise the sp.orts ing, including a 1979. statement of the . audience that filled Key Auditorium re- mankind. and field program. · · Student ·Committee· on Instruction: in sponded with thunderous applause. · 'Mr. Walsh recebred the internship after ' Promethe1i's, played by Mr. ~'{iuaspari, which students agreed that writing is a · it turris 'OUt, is a cynical opportunist submitting a description of work at St. problem that needs. more attention at St. some tutors assign. even fewer than four whose cliff is a tourist attraction. His· Johh's in Ptolemy, Copernicus,· Newton John's, .. . '. . "The. 'problem with. writing' was most ·.is riotorio.us, and the first step we· OU;ght · .· "gifts" to mankind are sold by the ·.and Kepler.Co-pr~sid«:nt of the St John.'s· <:ommonly express.ed by students as 'fear to take is. to ensure that all language appropriately be-horned Wagnerian Io ,Astronomy Club, he took courses m of writing,'''· Mr. Delattre said. "There tutors fit in. the required number of (Barbara Leonard) at the concession astronomy at Rogers High School' and stand. · has had a ·continuing background interest· was general aeknowledgement that writ~ assignments. ·. . ing assignments, especially the annual . "ln ·additiori,'~here are papers in the : To make a long story short, Pro me~ fu the field. music tutorial and in all semesters of the theus. falls ·like a ton. of bricks for the .· ·Mr. ·walsh has .served as a laboratory essay are occasions of fear and frustra. tion ~ :ve'ry. mµch ottt Qf proportion with mathematics tutorial and the laboratory, virtuous Dorothy· who eonvinces this re. ·assistant during his sophomore and jurisuchJ~sks." . , . . · . · . though some of the latter may be techni- luctant god to ·return with her to St. ·ior years and is ·a member of the St. Juniors College, "mankind's. fast · • He ,als9 quo.t~!I a proposal contained in · cal. rather tha~ discw_-sive.papers for and '_. John's .The trouble is that wheri. best John's' ~barter Bicentennial Co~m~ttee. sen~ors also write reqmred the hope." they ' · the 1979.Statement of Educational Policy preceptorials."' • return; Roger suddenly becomes interest~· 'by Roberts: Bart, then dean of the Santa In developing skills - "the linguistic Fe. c.aroP.tis, that tq~m. be. made for more counterpart ·of mathematical demonstra. '· ed in Dorothy· ("she's so well-travelled,". he says) leaving Prometheus to fend for writUig,w~thin the prpgram .. Mr. Bart had tion" - the student gets constant exer- ·,himself.-' wri~teri: . . . . . .. "This, proposal. iS not to be confused. cise .only. in that of translation, Mr. . The .rest of the play consists of a series with, a proposal. that . stildents learn to Zuckerman observed. "It may also be · of' funny vignettes about Prometheus' write better. Undoubtedly by· this means o~~erved ~hat r_e-wr~ting is neglected." . . difficulties following the Program. The ... After .all is said and done, th~ next production ends with the trial of Prome. they. would learn to do so both technically 'step will be. on the prosaic path of finding · theus before the Instruction committee, . and in terms ot their ideas. But the goal more for. the. ·with singing the throaty "I of this proposal is to make' them more kinds time and more opportunityare now .wannaGuaspari to. a snappy Ray Charles of writing ?Xercises that know" responsible for their· thoughts and more neglected," he concluded. beat.. active in thefr ect1Ltca.t10n. In dealing with the laboratory, Mr . ...,..,.....,...,,""''"""" deserves an· instruc- Delattre. called for released time for · There were so many fine the tional t>ropos'a.1. a clear statement. on three· or four or more tutors from both show that it seems a shame actorE; in out · to single .the place .and expectation of- writing at campuses in 1985-86. onlY. a Jew· of the · performers. There John's,"·Mr. Delattre said. '~IT OUGHT BE BE done with the were, however, a few that were particuThe self-study report by Mr. Zucker.· expectation that an instructional proposal , man notedtha~ it. was ···generally agreed will be developed and the manuals and larly notable. ··that our students don't write enough." Mr'. Kalkavage, in his stage debvt, was experiments will be treated ·systematical:Besides annual essays, the report said ly thereafter," he said. . terrific. as the too-cool Roger, and Miss students write short papers in all four "The board should commit the college' F.ain gave us a convincing Dorothy that years of the. language tutorial. Mr. Zuck- to fonding such a project and enable the was both flighty and sincere .. Hugh Mcerman wrote: ,. · faculty to proceed with the results to be Grath as Zeus was truly. a regal king of "The currerit plan is the gods, while the comic duo. of. Force reported in April, 1986, and thereafter." each :Vear. one of them In discussing the laboratory program, and Might, played by Jonathan Tuck an.d bum.· M:rvZuc~erman,w · · , ' · ·· · Faculty sings, dances in hit show .. , ... '<\'.~~.CU~!, -1- .L o} ,· \ . '..~.} �THE REPORTER' Page& JUNE Til!!hman book tells St. John's history by GREGORY A. STIVERSON Assistant State Archivist The Early History of St, Jobn 1s College in Annapolis, by Tench Francis Tilgh· man, St. John's College Press, $13; to order by mail, add $1. Adversity successfully overcome is a literary motif often and successfully used by authors. Adversity crowned by failure is a theme more difficult to develop. Yet this is Tilghman's chore, to document the history of a college "staggering from crisis to crisis," decade after decade. The acute financial distress and imminent closing of the school, repeated with numbing frequency throughout these pages, makes the reader yearn for resolution: little matter whether the climac. teric be a permanent, humiliating closure, or a sudden commitment of public or private funds to ·enable the college to fulfill, or even exceed, the most sanguine dreams of its founders. Unhappily, St. John's plight was never resolved in .such dramatic fashion. No benefactor.-stepped to the fore, and the single forced closing of the school in 1818 proved temporary. THIS STORY OF St. John's first century and a half, in short, has neither a dramatic nor a happy ending. The college struggled on; year after year, providing a mediocre education to successive generations of predominately Annapolitan youth. When the New Program was adopted in 1937, an observer of St. John's· history must have concluded that there was tittle to lose, but even less reason to expect success, given the tribulations of the college since its inception. St. John's had tried gimmicks before, from rigid discipline to compulsory mm. tary programs. Each attempt to make the college a success had failed, some more quickly and miserably than others. As a chronicle of persistence in the face of repeated failure, this story has few equals. The marvel is that the college survived at all, or that anyone cared. What saved St. John's from the specter of imminent collapse that almost constantly faced it was the General Assembly of Maryland. This same Assembly, ironically, doomed the original plan of the college by revoking in 1806 the perpetual grant of funds provided when it was chartered. Stm, at virtually every juncture the General Assembly appropriated additional funds - usually too little and for a period too short to allow for long-term planning or expansion. This financial support from the state, parsimonious and begrudgingly given, was what literally enabled St. John's to keep its doors open. Why the state continued to support St. John's would make an interesting story, only hinted at here. St. John's became a "political football," Tilghman argues, although given its small size and parochialism it is difficult to see why. times during the nineteenth century the public treasury was in straitened circumstances, to the extent that the state was even forced to default on its bonded · obligations. Never, it seems, did the college look to the public, which it was intended to serve, for support. When in 1894 Miss Fanny Gray gave the college $500 to be used as the college saw fit, members of the board were ecstatic. The marvel is that in its 110 year history, this was the very first free- will, unrestricted gift received by the college. Why had such giving not been encouraged by the college board and administrators? Why had the ailumni, if they felt they had been well-served by the college, not made a financial commitment to the support of the school? Perhaps it was not so much aristophobia on the part of the legislature, but real aristocratic pretentions on the part of the board and college administrators that led them to demand state support to spare them from soiling their hands in fund raising. The author argues that the history of St. John's illustrates how "small liberal arts colleges are founded, struggle to survive, and ... frequently are rescued by alumni and supporters who see them as the best way to fulfill the American educational goal of an enlightened civic policy.'' THE PAGES OF this history suggest instead that the college did little to save itself, except to beg, occasionally grovel, at the door to the public treasury. That St. John's continued to exist was due largely to its proximity to the State House, and, as the decades passed, to its growing antiquity - enhanced after the Civil War by the fable that the school descended from King William's School, established in 1696. It cost so litte to placate the college that the legislature could usually find a little money to keep the local institution alive. While in many respects this book is a narrowly focused view of a very provincial institution, the author's stated intention is to use the history of St. John's "as a kind of glass through which might be viewed the changes in American education as they affected the smaller colleges." St. John's proves not to be a very good example for this kind of investiga. tion. Tables listing the successive curricula adopted by the college demonstrate, albeit not very decisively, the trend toward more flexibility in education, greater emphasis on practical subjects and ap. plied science, and the movement away from the study of "dead" languages. These graduate changes in the curriculum, culminating in a system of free electives, and periodic accretions of scientific apparatus, a chemical laboratory, mineral specimens, and the gift of a fine collection of shells, demonstrate that St. John's was drifting in the mainstream of educational thought in nineteenth-century in Am~rica. But the college was not an innovator. It had neither the funds, nor the faculty, to do more than barely muddle along. Since this book has limited utility as a case study in the development of liberal arts education in the United States, its principal value must be as an institutional history of St. John's itself. But even with so limited a goal the book is deficient. The author knows the available college sources well - the minutes of the board and faculty and other materials relating directly to the school. But these sources often need to be supplemented, and they usually are not. The result is an uneven, and often sterile, recording of the college's history. SOME OF the principal figures in the history of the college are treated fully and well, especially McDowell, Humphreys, and Fell, who together headed the college for nearly eight decades. But minor figures, and nearly the entire student body, are ignored or only mentioned in passing. People are often cited by surname only, when they could have been identified more fully. And the utility of the book as an institutional history is seriously marred by the lack of an index,· which impedes access to information on both events and individuals. The most interesting thing about this book is its date of publication - 1984, forty-seven years after its inception and forty-three years after its completion. It represents a college-sp~msored assessment of the college's histo.ry as the New Program began. Given the results of that assessment, it is little wonder that the college administration "lost interest" in its former plans to publish the results when they read final manuscript in the summer of 1941. The chronicle of a century and a hali of failure must have made very depressing reading in 1941, just four years into a new departure that the administration would turn St. John's around. AS TILGHMAN WROTE in bis conclusion, the- college had never fulfilled its promise to become Milton's ideal college built around a 11 spacious house and ground" where a "complete and generous education" would prepare a man "to perform justly, skiillully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." St. John's always had it within its power to attain Milton's educational paradise, Tilghman concludes. But it was in the years after Tilghman's book ends that St. John's actually transformed itself. It successfully broke the shackles of a provincial "backwater" college, and became an innovator in American educa- tion. St. John's has actually approached Milton's educational utopia. It is this fact, the ultimate success of St. John's in the period after the close of Tilghman's book, that alone makes this volume recounting a century and a half of failure worth reading. The Berns to teach at Wisconsin school Laurence and Gisela Berns, faculty members on the Annapolis campus, will join the teaching staff at the Clearing, an adult vacation school at Ellison Bay, Wisc., for a week this summer. Mrs. Berns will lead a class entitled "Thoughtful Nature in the Poetry of Robert Frost" and Mr. Berns one called "The Trial and Death of Socrates." FINANCIAL SUPPORT for St. John's became an issue of contention between the Senate and House of Delegates, with the more democratically inclined members of the lower house believing that colleges favored the upper class. This aristophobia, as Tilghman calls it, helps explain the tenuousness of the support the state was willing to render to the college. But Tilghman's criticism of the state may be too severe. Once the initial pledge of ample financial support, made by the legislature in an exuberant time of plenty, was withdrawn, administrators of the school doggedly persisted in extending their hands into the public pocket. The author fails to recount that at ------=--111 �THE REPORTER JUNE1984 Better locker room is due A new locker room is on the way for women on the Annapolis campus. What has been generally seen as a inadequate facility, with one shower is being replaced with a three-room With work will include a locker- room that will occupy the athletic director's present office, which will be moved to the pingshower room will be mod. to include four showers. and an exercise room will be added that will include additional lockers. Altogether there will be about 50 lockers. The table will be moved to of· the gym, under the the where one was previously The mm of Dunton Contractors, Inc., Annaoolls~ has begun work on the Al Weller of Weller, Bohl of Annapolis is the architect. Should the gym be modernized and expanded, the three-room suite would remain Summer .work also involves the modernization the men's and women's washrooms b.asement of McDowell. It will involve closing the exterior entrance of the men's room and opening a new one into the hall. Doors will be widened and facilities changed to meet reauirements for the handicapped. teAE!PD11>ne booth will be moved to end of the hall and new cases between the two ... Hh•""'"" doors. The work is scheduled 15 by J&B Contractors of Reisterstown. Robert G. Hammond is the architect. Altogether the McDowell will cost $40,000. Some in state money, the residual amount in a 1977 St. John's bonding will heln finance the remodeling. of • • JOlilS senator Page 1 . Fitzgerald on 'mysterious ifts' (Continued from P. 1) Customarily seniors have selected tu. tors as their commencement speakers. In breaking with this tradition this year and to round out the circle of their education here, they chose a writer whose translation of "The Odyssey" marks the beginning of their seminar studies at St. John's. Mr. Fitzgerald invited 1them to reflect, not on the private world, but on the public world. He said: "We may remember first of all how very large it appears in spatial dimension, a vastness that it takes light itself eons to cross, an abyss of which our night sky gives us a faint notion, sown with star clusters and galactic systems on the order of the one in which our fearfully flaming sun is a minor star among millions. uwe glance outward in awe, and we glance briefly, because it is. all very much too much for us, reminding us of the inch we occupy on one enormous scale. Clever engineering and mathematics have enabled a few young people to get as far as the moon in the great abyss." This huge affair, he said, is 11 none of our doing, or making, nor are we likely to affect the prodigious forces at play in it by any force of our own.'' And while we observe and study the physical universe, there is no evidence, Mr. Fitzgerald said, that it, or any part of it, observes and studies us. "Up to now, at any rate, that is our distinction." He spoke of the "sheer momentum of the great human inheritance of ill" the world imposes. , ·· "We have only to think of the murderous wars and of the barbarity and terror deliberately employed in them to take the measure of unregeneracy in human kind," Mr. Fitzgerald continued. "And when we do so, what a forbidding prospect the future seems to hold for the whole world: populations growing beyond Two to intern Two members of the Annapolis graduating class and an alumnus of 1983 have received three-year internships as coun. selors at the University of Chicago's Sonia Shenkman Orthogenic School. Under the program, they will work toward master's degrees in human development and child psychology as they of other sen a tor, assist at the same time in caring for Sarbanes. He also was awarded a· children with emotional problems. The two seniors are Annastasia Kezar, internshin at the American Enof Lansing, Mich., and Melinda Rooney, session of the of New Castle, Del. The alumnus is Mr. Ginter Michael Houston, '83, now of Omaha, . a member of St. John's Dele- Neb. Another St. Johnts alumnus, Steven Council, chaired the Student Activi(.;01nm:1.tte,e, and has served on the St. Berkowitz, completed the program this year and has been accepted by Bryn John's Charter Bicentennial Committee. He is a member of the Prince Georges Mawr College's post-baccalaureate, pre. . . u.r:a., ..•!;A of the Young Democrats medical program. the camMullen has article Governor Harry c011~ress:mcm Steny Hoyer. on Jefferson's rotunda attenclecl a Business TomorWilliam Mullen, Annapolis tutor, is the Princeton's author of an article on Thomas Jefferson's rotunda that appears in the current Modulus 16, the University of Virginia's architectural review. Entitled "Roses for the Rotunda," it is the interpretation of the architectural symbolism of the Jefferson's rotunda that he modeled after the Pantheon. The article represents part of a book by Mr. Mullen of the relationship of the Ameri. fathers to ancient Rome: is one of five young chosen a non-partisan board to an intern this summer in the Maryland Senator Charles Ma- Exvansion: Rome at the ROBERT FITZGERALD the point at which they can be fed, depletion of the fossil fuels and energy resources, fear and want everywhere exacerbated, glacier.like states impervious to their own best spirits, and the terrible silos, out of sight, but charged with who knows what furies. "We quail, and we should quail, to think of all this.'' But, Mr. Fitzgerald said, in plucking up courage, perhaps we should not be quick to settle for our own limitations. The experience of living is to some extent a testing and determination of these limits. "I make these points as a kind of premise for the only suggestion I have to offer, which is that a just expectation of life may include an expectation of moments that seem mysterious gifts from we know not where." He illustrated t~at with two anecdotes, one relating to a visit to Greece at the time he was working on "The Odyssey" when he had been impressed by the goddess, Athena, who now and then appeared in human guise. Lonely and lacking facility with modem-day Greek, he met a little girl, eleven or twelve, who recognizing him as an American, spoke to him in English, and introduced herself as "Oh, I'm Athena." "Well, of course, it turned out that she had grown up in Camden, N.J., and had come over to help her grandmother run the shop, and had thought me an Ameri- 2nd generation of graduates Eight children of New Program alumni - four from the Class of 19~6 - were among graduating seniors. One of them, Thomas Smith, son of Richard Smith, '54, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps at the conclusion of commencement. Conducting the ceremony was Frederick B. Wynn, father of Frederick Wynn, of Upper Marlboro, who also received his degree. Seniors whose ·parents were in the Class of 1956 were Damon Ellingston, of Washington, son of Jennifer Ellingston; Leslie Jump, of Westminster, Md., daughter of Janet Beamer Jump; Jon Leizman, of Baltimore, son of Roslyn Rosenbaum Leizman, and Theressa Libby, of Centreville, Md., daughter of the late Rev. Donald Libby. Other students whose parents are St. John's alumni are Mimi Desjardins, of North Kingstown, R.l., daughter of John Scott Desjardins, '47; Lydia Sandek, of Nyack, N.Y., daughter of Lawrence Sandek, '54, and Kasia Winiarski, of Calif., daughter of Warren P. w;,.,;.,.,..,i,.; '52. can because of my suit, and so on - all perfectly plausible. But did not the goddess always have a good story, too? The girl didn't say her name was Athena; she said she was Athena. Just a few minutes of talk with her put heart into me again." The other incident occurred during a stop in Ithaca, where during the classical centuries there had been a cult of Odysseus as a demi-god. It was a time when he was engaged in the second part of translating "The Odyssey." Mr. Fitzgerald had been walking along the shore and was heading for a taxi when an old fellow shuffled toward him, and, speaking in perfect, Oxonian English, said: "You know, we say that he never died. We say that he still turns up now and then, looking like a soldier or a sea captain ... or ... just a stranger." "He paused and looked serenely at me," . Mr. Fitzgerald continued. "And there in the burning sun I shivered from head to foot. I could not say a word. I bowed my head and walked on. "Just a coincidence, of course, that an old Ithacan capable of saying thtlt to me in my language, without any preamble, should have been there on that particular afternoon when for the only time in my life I came to that spot, and came from years of companionship, almost of identification, with the hero whom he didn't have to name. "But that is how the gods used to appear to mortals out of the radiant Aegean air, or how the messengers of heaven appeared to men in another mythical landscape, and can we be so sure that these were dreams or fantasies? " ... Open-ness of expectation, at any rate, we c2n encourage in ourselves and in one another, so that the mysterious gifts~of experience, strange exhilarations and wonders, gifts from we know not where, will not be lost on us." Preceding Mr. Fitzgerald's address Mr. Delattre announced these awards: The Duane L. Peterson award of $1,250 to a junior for high academic achievement, David Grey Stahl; to students with high scholarship, the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr., Memorial Foundation awards of $1,000, Brian David Weimer, Rebecca Ann Schug, and Alejandra Gomez Far. ias; the $1,250 awards to students plan- _ ning graduate or professional work by the Stella and Charles Guttman Founda. tion, Elizabeth Mary Drew, John David Ritner, Mark P. Gowdy .J aehnig and Christine Rutowski; The Joan Yvonne Ronay $1,000 scholar. Jason Todd Walsh; the best junior essay, Steven Singer; the best sophomore essay, Amy Margaret Mc Manus with Scott L. Kissel, honorable mention; the best freshman essay, Marjorie Claire Kaplan with Lisa Rose honorable mention; the best English version of a Greek text and the best English version of a French poem, both to Nancy Mease; The best original English poem, Michael Fournier, first, and Andrew Kri· vak, second; the best original musical composition, Kenneth Grant Martin; the best original piece of music, the most elegant solution to a mathematical problem by a jw;llor or senior, and the best laboratory project, all to Martin Gerard Marklin. , The most elegant solution to a mathematical problem by a freshman or to the two ilP!ln.,.v·.,hiin and spc,rtsm<JmsJtno con1triliJutin12: most to the athletic pro. the Association maroon Jon Leizrnan and Katherine �Pages -: . I"• i! JUN THE REPORTER 1984 (Continued from P. 5) "The laboratory ... has always been and . remains the most unsettled of the program. A major change since the last self-study has. been the cutting of the lab program from four to three years~ The full year of biology which sophomores had been studying (as one of five classes) was eliminated, and the materi~ls in it To the Editor: Gladstone bag stuffed with Mellon's mil~ this American drama of the. dialectic of reduced and separated into an I am writing this letter in respons~ (1) lions for G:od knows what "Yankee carpet I think. · · . tional part, in the first to twelve to Winfree Smith's recently published A bag" r~asons has perpetuated by ROSS IN his review gets off. some :weeks of the freshman year, and a Search for the Ljberal College: The soi:ne atSt. John's ever since. U is simply superficial silly ideas such as '"Buchanan th2oretical part in the last ten to twelve Beginning of the St. John's Program and not so and is a myth worth exploding in thought all 18-year-old boys were angels· weeks of the senior year. (2) its reviewer, Bill Ross (1947), ·as the interest oftruth. ·and thq.t they could le~rn or understand "Room was· made· published in the April 1984 Reporter. I Mr. like Herodotus, Thucydides~ . · anything." My father an· his life was the dropping o'f the am writing as both Scott Buchanan's son and Gibbon,· 'is entitled to historical most interested in adult education, as he me.asurement, with and also as an alun:mus ofthe third group parallax, ·but J'm surprised at his ama- 'often said, because adults "had experi- equilibrium and he·at retained, of students to enter the New Program at teur...psychologizing about .these peoples' ·enc~ in living," where.as young students pruning of all the topics St. .John's (1939). I was also a teaching motives. His is, for the most part, thus a didn't. His career from 1946through1959, -year;,· mechanics, optics and electricity assistant in the laboratory program in · work of "psychohistory,''- which at best is until he and my mother joined Hutchins and magnetism. The classical and twen1946 and· knew the faculty well from 1937 . a highly speculative· e~terprise often . at the Center for the Study of Democratic . tieth ceptury atomic· theories remain, in through 1946. · motivated by personal animus. I find Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif., .was the spring of the· freshman and the fall of l just finished reading Mr. Smith's Smith's view, presented wlth· quotes out almost entirely with Jewish 'Great Books . the senior·y~ar. . . . .. book myself and found it interesting but of context ·and scholarly note.s, quite adult seminars in Pittsfield, Mass. . "There is considerable unhappiness .he'avHy biased with quite a bit of specula- distorted a11dtinged with "Moi;iday~mornHe did dislike. the southern version of with the present state .of the lab, but its . tive material included as· well as start- ing-quarterbac:k~is_m." . corrupt American politics as practiced in causes must be ex_amined with care. lt is · lingly ad hominem argum(;!nts against MAYBE A SECOND edition of his book Maryland, but he hardly could be·said to rash' to say, as som:e do, that the three Barr a.nd Buchanan, especially iri the · could usefully be'.done? The 'search for a have fled Annapolis only. tQ participate in · years is too short, and that the lab can be· chapter on the termination of the Navy's real AmeriCan Liberal .College is, ·;as · Henry Wallace's lonely crusade. in 1948 . made better only by ·being lengthened three-fold attempt to oust St. John's from Meiklejohn always maintained, an Aristo- · with the Progressive Party; as .he did! . again. For one thing, much of the dissatits. campus, which I'd calt in retrospect phanic comic/tragedy perhaps?· Perhaps· Thank God, he had such a ,loyal intellec- isfaction was present when the lab filled "David and.Goliath." 1·was bothered, I it is more important·that the dialectic tual companion as Winkie· Barr, whose ·four years. admit, by quotes (unau'thorized, at that) continue rather than a. prem~ture do- southern practicality and 'humor diluted "MORE IMPORTANTLY, we have from private letters 'from my father, ·sure? There are many ~oads to' Truthi the "Utopian per~ection:ist ideas and emo- lived now for abOut six years. with a first while dean, to· me while I was away one suspects, and ambivalence, conflicts,· tions' 1 Ross imputes to him. · version of a th:r.ee,-year lab. program and (1943-1946) as a soldier overseas, having ·periods of depression alternating ·with . There were sides of Klein and Weigle . are ready for modifications. An attempt to do with candid private opinions about elation and "success" are characteristic which would bear less idolatry and more last year by the Instruction Committee to the Navy'~ encroachment. ..Qf revolutionary evolution in institutions, · honest criticism than Smith and ·Ross improve the '.Jab was vetoed by the However I am more than bothe·red by I believe; · ·. indulge in, I gather, but I'ni _not qualified faculty as a whole, primarily because it · the MORAL tone of much o~ Mr. Smith's I.n such parlous times as the present we to pursue that tack. Personally J'm glad,· involved changes. µi the math program 11s account which (1) diminishes Winkie should, I think. look back with gratitude in balance, that the college goes on and well. Further efforts must be made. And Barr as president and (2) portrays Bu- and humor to these hopeful, energetic that a place for .the exchange. of such finally, the ·present. irits ·IJeen" ·chanan as hot-headed, depressed, erratic, men who gave such devotion to further- ·disagreements about the- history of a pi~ced together from manuals and mate. and incomprehensi?le in general. He and . ing higher ·educational change in Ameri- small college's interesting program ex- ·rials left over from ·earlier versions of the lab. Much minor·griefcomes.from _ Winkie ·kept the college going by sheer ca. The coming ·together. of R.M. ists. Let's unite in our common search! nerve and often by improvisation.· Hutchins, Meiltlejohn, John Erskine (perLoyally and sincerely,. tests.written from~misdirected memories througho1,1t World War II without. key ripherally but· importantly), Scott BuDouglas Buchanan; M.D. and expe!!tations." . . faculty, adequate funds. support· and ehanan. Stringfellow Barr, Mortimer . · (Class of 1943) The self-study, toe;>, called for .released encouragement from Annapolis,· and, Adler, Mark· Van Doren,. Sidney Hook, :. p .S. I recommend humility· as either the ., time in ·order to· rewrite laboratory man. worst of all, enough students. They were and Dewey, all in tiny ~Annapolis, around. eighth Liberal .Art or that attitude· .of uals and to rethink and redesign experi~ exhausted, and my father was mchroni- the bedside of an ailing little college was mind with which. to approach the other menta for.alltOpics in tbelab. cally by the end of that struggle. In · an extraordma:ry event, I'm sure most s~ven and practice them? Perhaps this is i'1t is wrong, ...Mr. ,Zuckennan slated,. addition,, Alexander Meiklejohn, as "the people wouldagree - as remarkable on one' ultitnate argument in the dialogue . "to give students ·materfals designed for really importaQt figure in edtic~tiorial a small scale as our Founding Father's · you•ve been publishing .about Far East an _abandoned pasf b~cause we are ,w~it-: · ,experiments in America, is relatively Declaration of'Independence and Consti- "Great.Books." The West seems awfully ing.for an unknowrifut4te.:..Good experi: · ignored in Smith's story - at least in tutional ·convention! · · arr~gant these tlays· and, ·as William . ments, -Once fou,n~Qr,ictentifie4, Should be. regard to Barr and Buchanan's eventual .Person~Uy I'm grateful to have been Fullright implied years ago, we may no regarded as ·pa~ts of. the lab wbich n~ed .·resignations - which he," Meiklejohri,.' an observer of such a robust intellectual longer :be able to afford "the Arrogance· .adequate ti.me fo be 'done and ~is.cussed, consistently recommended. _ ferment, .one ~hich . Thomas Jefferson of Power." ·,Thus ·East and. West might and· ·npt as extras to be stuck in around The cari~ature showing Barr .and.Bu- would have liked. As a·fellow Virginian, well pool their "Great B_ooks." How else tlieedgesoftl'lereadings:,,., -· . .. chanan running out'of Annapolis with a Winfree Smith should have emphasized do we avoid being the modern ~'Rome?" In tuming to ·the·questio:n of fi1'e arts; . . . c· . . a· • . . . ., .. Mr. ·Dela'ttr.e noted. that many ;members of the St John's community believe that the fine ·arts .ought.to be in some·w~y f.or.ma1ly' :includ.'~d···in.·.·.·~th. e..:c·u·r.r.itulu.m; ·Among, the quest1ons:he::Sa~d to;J')~ asked ,·~out thei.r inclusion:i:s-::tl~e··.qu~~ti.on ·.~.f . whether ·there would .bec<lamage to the · . program: and wheth~r .fine· arts are .part To The Editor: To the Editor: . . . methods (as emphasizing lectures), and of a iiberallredueated'peJ;spn.: I have read with inter~st. the February In your .February, '-84,, issue you de- e~en, in its philosop~y. To be sure, the . In discussing the'role.of the 'visual arts, .issue of The Reporter in which it is s·aid scribe the Liberal Studies Program es- Kmg s pr.o~ram derives from a pa.rtlr Mr. ZuckermatF·Said they .have that Brock University in Ontario is the · tab.lished at Brock University in Ontario shar~d cr1tiq.ue of. the co~te:mporary um- included only in the formal lectures and firstCanadian programmeto model itself this year and.based upon the St John's ·vers1ty curriculum and is itself , ~ com- preceptorials.' He wrote> ..~ after St. John's College. Here at Gana- Program. You quote me there as saying ~endable eff~rt to restore. the aims. of "There ·are Friciay-night ·lectures .on da's oldest University (we actually began . the program is "unique in Canada". I am ~1beral_ education and:e~tabhsh a. ge~ume .. paintings, sculpture and architecture a life as King's College, New York in 1754 ,told by John Godfrey King's College in . mtellectual community at Kmg. s. I few times in the course of each• before re~stablishing ourselves in Nova Nova Scotia that h.e objects to this should add that our ~wn program d1~fers series, and there should . be more ... In ·Scotia in 1789) we .have .been teaching statement and argues that the Founda-. ~rom the. St. Joh.n s model. esp_eci~lly recent years there 'have been ore!cet>tor:isuch· a programme for the last 12 years. Hon Year Program established twelve masm~ch as the Liberal, S~udies ~UrrlCU· als offered 'in such topics as While .it differs in detail from the St. · years ago at King's expresses the same l~m. will usual~y be con:i~me~ ~it~ spe- painting and the theory of·. Renaissance John's Programme, I think you will see ·.philosophy. . .ciahzed study m a specific d1sc1plme or perspective. But a preceptorial includes from the enclosed description and readThe accuracy of my. statement may be area. . . . . . only about ten students. ' ing list that the same philosophy is at disputable, but it was cerfainly ·based on The present question as to which of us · " · . . · ·. .. .. . . . The c~ll ·for further mclu~1on of art work here. This year, 130 of our freshmen some familiarity with the King's pro- · has modelled our program on St.· John's, any case, be a . can be ~pst neatly summarized ,un,de.r are taking our Foundation Year Pro- gram. It has been my understanding that 'and when, should, gramme. · the· FQundation Year Program ·is quite matter· for ,pleasure, if also amusement, ·two head1.ngs: that the~e should be semin~rs on v1s.ual maste~p1eces, as .there are · John F. Godfrey unlike the St. John's Program in its , for st. John's. . with works of· music; and that there · · President structure (as essentially a first should be.a tutorial,·on the,analogy otthe ' ana ian. , ,' , president . ·.' ·t · ' comillen s ' .A·· n., ,·t.here· 's reactzo··n·. :. ',. ', ' d·.· ' . ,·'' . . . • · · ", . r·o·'· ck.. zn .·. ·nt.or'zo • ,'at·. 8' . ' ' . 0 ' " . , .' ,'·, " in mnsdn. tatorial ~~· · �r . ,, "Speaking candidly, my life is almost perfect," Harry Golding wrote his friend of 20 years, Santa Fe tutor Lynda Myers, SF '72, three months before his death on March 30. "My health is good (for a man of 50 years). I love my work. My students are (mostly) intelligent and disciplined. What I teach - the best of western civilization - is what I think worth teaching. My money income is much more than I need. I have much time to travel... "I have good friends whom I love dearly .. .I am able to respond to the beauties of nature, the wonders of man, great poetry, great music, great literature. I think my learning and travels should make me a fuller and more responsible man - and they have. · "My life, in its range and quality, has risen steadily for. 25 years. But there is one thing that almost ruins life steadily for me: the condition of most of the world's people. Poverty. Limited lives. Disease. Cruelty. Arrogant governments ... War. Race hatred .... Etc. Etc. It is a long list. " HARRY GOLDING Harry Golding was one man who re- Indian family and helped them with a gift sponded to that side of the world he of money," Mrs. Myers wrote in a deplored. statement read at the service. Later they were able to repay him, but "It is a trite saying, but nevertheless it fits: he would rather light a candle than Mr. Golding asked that instead of returncurse the darkness," Alan Dowty, whose ing it to him, the money be used in their friendship dated back to the days when village for relief of a severe drought. In Sri Lanka, Mr. Golding met a both taught at Shimer College, said of "the most vital person he had ever beggar crippled with polio and slowly known" during the memorial service for dying. He set him up in business so that Mr. Golding. · when this man dies, his large extended MR. GOLDING'S remarkable record of family will have something to live on. philanthropy, mostly gifts to people he "On another occasion, Harry learned met during his extensive travels in Asia, from his rickshaw driver that he earned was largely unknown until an increasing- about $3 a day and that $2 of that was needed for the rental of his rickshaw," Mrs. Myers said. Fund honors tutor "The rickshaw cost $200 and a rickHarry Golding had a special devoshaw license cost an additional $300. tion to the Graduate Institute and the Harry thought that the license fee was Continuing Educ~ti9n program. As an exorbitant and calculated to keep all appropriate way of remembering his those not already wealthy from financial service to the .college, the Graduate independence. After further conversation, Institute is establishing a memorial Harry gave the rickshaw driver $500 for scholarship endowment fund named a rickshaw and license. for him. Persons wishing to contribute "The examples go on: an unemployed may make out checks to St. John's Javanese musician is now a batik shop . College Graduate Institute with a noowner ... A Filipino man is now in an tation at bottom left, "Golding Memoaccounting school program. A Tamil rial Fund." farm boy is a rice merchant and brick manufacturer." AT THE TIME of his death, Mr. ly erratic heart took. him ·a few days after Golding was in the midst of arranging to his fifty.first birthday. He died of cardiac arrest while working at his desk at his bring a Chinese student to attend Anne apartment in Eastport, probably after Arundel Community College, the first of three young Chinese men he planned to midnight. following· seminar. educate. Mr. Golding maintained hundreds of "Harry intended to pay their expenses friendships around the world. Christopher and to have them live with him in his Olson, '78, who was among the mourners, apartment," Myers said. "He said to me, recalled that when Mr. Golding returned 'That shows how important I think this is. from a mid-winter vacation to the Yuca- I've never lived with anyone before.' " tan with him and his wife, he had (AACC is attempting to complete arliterally, after a two-week absence, a rangements for the young man's educahundred letters to answer. tion.) The Rev. John Carlyle, '77, rector of George Doskow, assistant dean, also the Episcopal Church of the Good Shep- spoke of this generosity in remarks given herd in Terrell, Tex., who conducted the in the memorial service, transferred service, in commenting on Mr. Golding's from the Great Hall to the Key Auditogenerosity, said in effect that when rium because of the overflow crowd. someone dies, he imparts something of Besides students, faculty and friends, his life to someone else. "I hope the life alumni from both the undergraduate and that was his will be my inheritance," he graduate programs were there along with said. students in a current continuing educaThat it will become part of others tion class he was teaching on William became clear during the eulogies. It was James. known thai Harry Golding lived simply On one trip Mr. Golding left with Mr. and sparingly in order to have every Doskow a large box of books that includthird year free for travel. The extent to ed books on writing and style, histories which he privately gave away substantial and atlases. sums· of his sa:vings to help make life "He had purchased them knowing that better for many individuals: WR.~. known ~Hi )1~s, trav~ls going to meet to his closest friends. people wlio had such books and MADE close ties with an no access to them." Mr. Doskow said. "And sure enough, from time to time I would get a note asking me to send a grammar book or a history to someone in the Philippines or Thailand or China. By the end of the year, the box was empty, and I had in fact to buy some additional books to send off. "This little story seems to me to say a great deal about Harry, his careful attention to details, his foresight and planning, his genorosity, his care and concern for people, and his devotion to learning and teaching. Wherever he went, he not only learned a great aeal himself but taught others." St. John's artist-in-residence Burton Blistein, who had taught with Mr. Gold~ ing at Shimer before both came to St. John's, spoke of his love for students. AT SHIMER, he recalled, the campus pub was a favorite hangout. "Almost any Friday he could be found there, surrounded by young people, drinking, talking, jesting. He was a dormitory resident head and an extremely successful one, counseling, educating, civilizing - or at least mollifying students who by an imaginable standard were extraordinarily unruly and rebellious ... " "Harry often remarked to me that students were his greatest joy," he went on. Two of St. John's students were present to testify to those close ties. One of them, Mimi Desjardins, North Kingstown, R.I., senior, who had two classes with him. Knowing that he would not miss a class without letting students know the need to, she was the student who alerted college officials when he failed to appear for his second class. The other was Joseph Houseal, St. Joseph, Mich., junior. Both had stories reflecting Mr. Golding's wit and humor. "At our preceptorial party at Mr. Golding's apartment, he told us that St. John's was like a buffet," Miss Desjardins said. "You had all this food laid out before you, but it really was your decisions whether or not you wanted to eat or how much you wanted to take. "But there were two things you had to remember about this buffet: (1) You had to finish everything on your plate and (2) if you didn't like the food, you shouldn't blame the tutors because they weren't the cooks." Mr. Houseal told of the student who complained in class of .a Pythagorean theorem that it was "just algebra: It's just A square plus B square equal C square." To which Mr. Golding responded, uchildren, A is a letter and has no multiplicative properties." uHE LIKED me very much,'' Mr. Houseal said. "He always pointed out how I was a buffoon, how my life was a charade. His catch phrase was, 'Mr. Houseal, you're an impoverished human being.' "Buffooning is great, and a shared laugh was never stronger than with him. Yet when I set out to achieve, he was one man I always set out to impress. The point being, when a man who cares about you, walks by and points at you and says, 'You're a buffoon,' and nine out of ten times you are, when the time comes that you're not being a buffoon, you want him to see it. Mr. Golding exhorted us on to excellence in a manner he had developed into a lifestyle. His loves were strong, silent, and gleefully pocketed away.'' Mr. Golding was cremated, and his ashes deposited in the Severn River. His 2,000 records were given to the music libfary, and an established· 3,000 books, office, went lripfe' shelved· in his to the campus Leonce Evans A Leonce G. Evans Memorial Music Scholarship Fund has been established for the 1960 alumnus who was a physician and musician. Date of his death was unknown here. A graduate of the University of Rochester medical school, Dr. Evans interned at Mt. Sinai Hospital and practiced in New York before moving to the Haight-Asbury District of San Francisco. Later he was associated with medical communes at Gardner, Col., eventually starting his own clinic, "La Clinic a," and then moved to Walsenburg, Col., where he practiced ·medicine successfully and was active in community affairs. He was married to Catherine Warner, '64, a marriage that ended in divorce. When their first daughter, Kalea, was killed about four years ago in a car accident in Utah, Dr. Evans was so devastated he dropped medicine and immersed himself in music. About two years ago he married a professional pianist, Peggy Abbott, now of Santa Fe. Until two months before his death, they gave community concerts. Besides his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Lamiel, and stepdaughter, Lori Casander. Contributions to the memorial fund may be sent in care of the First National Bank of Walsenburg, 401 Main St., Walsenburg, Col., 81089. von Schwerdtner Ernst Ottomar von Schwerdtner, who graduated from St. John's at 18 in 1917 as class valedictorian, died April 3 in Baltimore after a brief illness. He was 85. He was professor emeritus who organized the modern foreign language department at Maryland's Towson State University and established its wrestling program. Born at the family home, Severn Hill, on the Severn River, he was fluent in seven languages and had taught at St. John's, Johns Hopkins University and Gettysburg College. In 1946 he was asked to organize the Towson State modern language department. In addition, he established the wrestling program here in 1948, which he coached for 17 years, revived the base• ball program and coached it for four years, and was adviser for the school's first lacrosse team. In 1980 he was inducted into Towson's Athletic Hall of Fame. Following his retirement in 1963, he taught languages and served as academic dean at the Trinitarian College of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Pikesville, Md., until the school closed in 1969. Mr._ von Schwerdtner published a text on languages and grammatical structures, "Fundamental Language Facts." Surviving are two sons, two daughters, and 12 grandchildren. George Ennis George S. Ennis, Jr. '39, died April 5 in Sarasota. He was 67. A native of Baltimore, Mr. Ennis had moved there two and a half years ago from Rockville, Md. He had been a sales manager for Exxon Oil Corporation for 42 years and was a Navy veteran of World War II. His survivors include his wife, Zola, and a daughter, Joan DeVoe, of Virginia. was . buried. :in Sarasota Memorial Park. �Page 10 r JUtAE 1an4_ . THE REPORTER ._,;;, ''""t'~- ~·-;·"f.: I,' More Alumni Notes Alumni, others to process, Room. Noelle curator and archi(Continued from P. 1) (Continued from P. 2) 1981 editor of the scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. at the State vist of the museum in criminal cases for Lancaster County. Noel Blyler, who has been with the House. It will reenact a procession of 1789 ma111:ume. Comedie will speak Will, who earned his law degree in 1978 Admissions Office since February, 1982, held when classes actually opened. at p.m. on the exhibit.· also in the from Tulane University, served three will leave August 1 to begin work at the Guests representing learned societies Conversation Room. years with the legal services division of University of Virginia toward his docto- and institutions founded through 1789, the federal government in Florence, Ala., rate in English literature. alumni, students, board members and before returning to Lancaster. Recently Noel was made assistant director of faculty, Maryland's two senators. "on he represented St .. John's at the installa- admissions in 1983 and last year residen- Charles Mathias and George Sarbanes, Seplem.ber 14. tion of the new president of Franklin and tial assistant. Quickly caught up in the and Mayor Richard Hillman will particiBeaumarchais exhibit be one Marshall College. life of the college, he also served as a pate. Governor Harry Hughes also has of two maio.r exhibits for the GI 1977 member of the staff's Position and Salary been invited. year. Ever wonder how the phrase "booby Range Committee and helped referee the The other will be an exhibit of PalladiLuncheon for alumni and distinguished hatch" originated, all you linguistic lov- Navy-St. John's croquet game. an architecture in which Hamguests will follow. ers out there? Hughlings J. Himwich tells He will be succeeded as assistant Alumni arriving early on campus will mond-Harwood House. the Hishow in the second issue of his immensely director of admissions by another mem- be invited to attend a symposium based toric and the Center for Palladian readable, even, not to exaggerate, fasci- ber of the Class of 1981, Marion Sharp, upon the Bicentennial theme, Studies in America are pa1rtic:ioa1tine:. nating, language monthly, The Sesquipe. who ..jjoined the Admissions Office last and Liberal Education," at 8:15 p.m. It will be held in the dalian, which he is editing in Oklahoma. July. October 17-November 11 and mc1uae a Thursday, Sept. 20. "All of us ... are still speaking Indo-EuroJanelle Stevenson, who has been servafternoon talk Count Mario di Participants will include Eva pean," he says in tracing that bit of slang ing as secretary to the college registrar, tutor; John Van Doren, '47, alumnus; Valmarana of the of Virginia to a root deep in the linguistic past: has a new job in Baltimore, where she Robert Fallaw, professor of history at St. School of Architecture. baba, which appears in English as "boo- and her husband, John, '82, are living. M:r. Cunliffe holds a bachelor of literaJohn's sister college, Washington College by: a simpleton." A plug for this maga- Eliminating the daily commute to Annap- on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and Todd ture and master's from Oxford zine: It costs $12 a year and is published olis, she joined Loyola College last month Reichart, a rising senior from and a master's from the Universimonthly at 706 N.E. 18th, Oklahoma City, as registration clerk for its Department ville, Pa. Manchester. He was a CommonOkla. 73105. It deserves every penny of it. of Continuing Education. Marilyn Neeley's Piano Trio from the wealth Fellow at Yale nnivPr~itv 1977 Loyola also will provide an opportunity second University of Maryland - St. Jonathan Wells, '77, is director of the for further undergraduate work in mathe- John's was chartered to be with Rolling Stone Press, which turns out matics preparatory to a doctoral pro- ton part of the first - will perform a books, mostly biographies of contempo- gram. Janelle already has taken calculus program of 18th century music at 8:15 · rary rock stars. He is involved in dozens and differential equations in the comput- p.m. Friday in the Key Auditorium. of aspects of the press, including talking er science program of Anne Arundel In honor of its long friendship with St. with authors, coordinating art work and Community College. Since Loyola makes Anne's Church, there will be a are packaging the books. His brother, Tom, it possible for spouses to study tuition service at 11:15 p.m. at the church for Jfonumellt '78, is in his second year at Boston free, John also will be taking classes Episcopal clergymen. The Rev. J. Win- Presidents and the Pr1.~sia1em~y College working on a program leading· there. free Smith, tutor emeritus, will deliver an both to law and business degrees. Warren Spector, who finished his mas- the sermon. Sunday luncheon for alumni United States. 1978 ter's of business administration a year wil be at 12 noon at the president's house. Besides tea1e1mig Chris Olson, in Annapolis with his ago at the University of Chicago, is Earlier in September, as a curtain been Argentine-born wife, Marcela, to attend trading bonds on Wall Street with Bear, raiser for the year, St. John's will join the um.ver.sitv Harry Golding's funeral, received one Tearns & Company. Warren, who is the Alliance Francaise d' Annapolis in of .Michigan master's degree in finance and a second living in Manhattan, was on campus for marking the 200th anniversary of the first in international relations last month from the April St. John's-Navy croquet match. taken him to the public performance of Beaumarchais's the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton With a master's thesis that compares The Marriage of Figaro. in the Beha vSchool. Jean-Paul Sartre's and Emmanuel LeviThe Colonial Players will present the ioral Sciences at Stanford and the WoodHe will be joining the City Bank in New . nas's accounts of the "Other," Rebecca play later made famous by the Mozart row Wilson International Center for York City at 399 Park Avenue for a Fine is in the final stages of a master's opera on September 8-9 and September Scholars in waium1Lgto1n. year's training in international banking degree in philosophy she expects to 15-16 with performances at 8 p.m. SaturBe is a fellow with the hope of then transferring to receive by the end of the summer at day and 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Key and holds Argentina. Chris was the recipient of a Washington University. Then she is think- Auditorium. Massachusetts Historilcal Society, Society Rotary Fellowship in 1979-80, which he ing of Paris. On loan from the Comedie Francaise of American Historians, American Hisspent in Tours studying French and at At her parents' home in Silver Spring, will be a Beaumarchais-Figaro exhibit in torical Institute of Early the University of Grenoble studying polit- Md., this summer, she is planning inten- the Key Lobby September 8-23 with two American Historyy and American Studies ical science. He sandwiched that year sive language courses in Paris and then members of its staff speaking. It will Association. between time working in Washington hopes to begin work toward her doctorate feature paintings, documents, playbills, Be is the author numerous articles with governmental consulting agencies in philosophy at the Universite de Paris. appeared both in costumes and staging designs of the first and reviews that before entering the Wharton School. SF 1981 this oountnr and in Emdand. His current performance of the Theatre Francaise. A close friend of Mr. Golding, the Geoffrey Rommel is working as a Jean Loup Riviere, secretary general, Olsons had spent the Christmas holidays programmer-analyst for a property and will make a brief curtain speech opening with him in exploring the Mayan ruins in insurance company in San Mateo, Calif. night and will discuss Beaumarchais at 4: the Yucatan. They spoke of the characSF 1982 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9, in the Conversation teristic care with which Mr. Golding had Bill Day is at the Forman School in provided six books and detailed informa- Litchfield, Conn., where he will teach tion in assisting them on a trip they plan foundations of the calculus this autumn. to the Orient. Kate Day also is teaching at Forman. SF 1979 Her specialty is language training for Martha Jane Post received her doctor dyslexic children. of medicine degree last month at the David Neidorf led a group of St. John's University of Louisville. She is re~iding College students on a training course in at 2054 Sherwood Avenue in Louisville. Big Bend National Park in Texas during 1979 spring break. Anybody know the where-abouts of 1982 Deana Tosheff, last heard of in Munich? Andrew White has been appearing in Karen Wachsmuth wants to know. You the well reviewed play, The Choir, by can write her at 275 W. 96th St., Apt. lOQ, Australian playwrite Erroll Bray at the New York, N.Y. 10025. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Immensely successful at St. John's in Washington. leading the Octet Plus One choral group, SF 1983 Karen received a second bachelor of Mary Mary Feldman has returned music degree at the Hartt School of from Europe to a job as a technical Music in 1983 Hartford, Conn., where she writer for Megatest, a Santa Clara, simultaneously took a parallel program Calif., electronics firm. in musicianship at the Kodaly Institute. Kutler at Notre Dame She has been studying conducting during the past year at Juilliard with a master's Dean Samuel Kutler will be at the degree in sight by 1985. University of Notre Dame June 3 to lead Meanwhile, working with professionals a seminar on the "Meno" in its Program and students, she already has conducted of Liberal Studies. In addition, he will John Wright, Lexington Park, Md., senior, was Maholio in lhe Parents' Weekend •wo concerts at New. York's Alice 'Tully discuss with· facµlty members ·the:r,e. the r::,d:,c:~~a:~~:.e/fth give~.al the ,frent?h, ~~. ~, ~ft1 iis 1~i~J~'~' B:aii, on~ '3: B'acl' taht:ab ~and the OtMr criteria ttsed inrNotre Dame's sele~tion of Qlusic of Bartok and Schumann: Night �THE REPORTER JUNE1984-- Page 11 Sherry Martin assistant dean Santa Fe Charlotte (Sher-ry) · Gray Martin will become assistant dean of the Sarita Fe campus on July 1, Preside~t Delattre has announced. Mrs. Martin, a Colorado native, attended St. John's Santa Fe campus from 196-8 to 1970. She ha.s been a tutor there since 1980 .. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with the President's Award and. Graduation with Distinctionfrom Jhe University of Colorado in 1972. She then spent a: postgraduate year. at the University of Freiburg, Germany, on a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Dankstipendium. Mrs. Martin received her doctorate in 1979 from Boston University, where she specialized in· classics ·and comparative studies. · · , . '· "It was an innovative program, which Joseph Houseal dances with Lisa Ross, center, and Terry Wange in a dance adapted from a Japanese Noh play, "The Sought· for ·Grave:;, • · · ' Todd. Reichart P.hoto allowed me to. combine my interest in . Greek and ancient philosophy with. s.tudies in -Germ an philosophy.'' ·One of her Boston Vniversity teachers, William Mullen, is now a tutor at the Annapolis campus. Joseph Houseal will have a new assign- devise a dance for almost :anything: a during the weeks before the· college Education is a family tradition for Mrs. ment when he returns to college next fall. psalm, a Greek play, a baroqu~ gigue, a closes. . In addition, he was in rehearsal for He will be staging an 18th· century b.allad- prayer; a linguistics problem. J. Glenn Gray, taught opera ·to be presented in connection with For the ballad-opera, a half-hol.lr long "Archaic Fears," which. was presented at Colorado College," she the bicentennial of St. John's Charter of "after-piece" that during the colonial era by the SL· John's Dahce Ensemble May lectured here at St. John's a 1784. followed a more serious offering, Mr. 12 in the Key Auditorium. number of times, · and gave the comAmong the group of dances were "The As it turns out, assignments be Houseal will be working with Dr. John mencement address here in 1977." Barry Talley, director of'musical activi- Sought-for Grave," adapted from the nothing new for this 23-year-old Mrs. Martin assumes the part-time senior from St. Joseph, Mich., who has ties at the Naval Academy, who has Japanese 14th Century Noh play, and the assistant dean position in addition to her been, from the standpoint of perfor: volunteered to direct the music of St. Yeats play, "The Death of Cuchulain," in esiion.sIO:UltJces. She takes over mances· in Annapolis, the student most · John's bicenter{nial production. which St. John's tutor Hugh McGrath· Glenn Freitas, who sought after this year: IN· PERHAPS THE first cooperative played "Immortal Man. to full-time teaching. A dancer since he was 16, who w:as a Joe Houseal was employed to do chore- effort of this sort, the cast, which· inography and stage the ·Naval Academy's eludes roies for a 16-year-old marriage a-· .student at the prestigious Interlachen "Mikado,." to reconstruct baroque dances ble girl and eight men, will be drawn . Arts Academy at Interlochen, Mich., Mr. St~ngren gets for the mid-winter ball at the. State · from both the college and the Naval Houseal is consider~ng not dance, but House, and to recreate 17th century Academy. Because he knows talent' at religion, as a career. He is giving serious Ralph Stengren, rising ·Annapolis jun- tavern dances for the South River Inn both institutions, Mr. Houseal will be thought to joining a religious order. · · LAST YEAR, during a year away from largely responsible .for the casting. ior, has been awarded a State Depart- near Annapolis. nr. Talley has· chosen a ballad opera St. John's when he danced a season with A former member of the New York and ment summer internship ai the. U;S. Washingt9n b'allet companies, be can written by Henry· Fielding, better known the Ballet Russe de Montreal," he indeEmbassy at Copenhagen. as the author of Tom Jon.es. It is entitled pendently researched ancient ritualistic' He will be assigned to. the political or ··.Soci~ty hears tutor "An Old Man Taught Wisdom, or the dances of 12th century Europe,· of the · economic branch for a. six-week period David Stephenson, tutor on the Annapobeginning early June. A resident of Mt. . lis campus, w·~s a speaker atthe regional .Virgin Unmasked," first presented in Aztec_ Indians and the ancient Greeks; "Almost all forms of ancient rfrua l Pleasant, Mfoh., :\\'fr. Stengren learned to meeting of the American MusicolOgical 1734. Like other ballad opera writers, speak Danish while· serving as a Rotary Society this spring at the, University.. of· .Fielding wrote his words and set. them to· . involved· ffi'ovement accompanied by the · spoken word," he said. "It wa.s ritual Exchange student after finishing high Virginia. His talk was. entitled "On the the popular rriusic of his ti:ine. It is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. October 27, performed by .believers for other believschool and before entering St. John's, Visual .Representation of Music." the same evening that St. M(lry's College ers to enhance their faith." when he spent a year in.Denmark. will present a short opera of: ,m~;e serious m~ck at the. University. of Michigan, he 18th century fare, .Pergoles1 s. La Serya taught choreographic composition and P adro~a ( T.he Serv_ant T.urned, Mis- dance history but one .day was challenged· tress). Both produ~tions will run about , by. a professor in the Classics Depart. . . half an.hour. . . . . ment to choreograph a ritual for living Santa Fe _campus senior" residen.ts· Kris-, Graduate- Institute master's degree and . The ballad-opera· will mark the four~h faiths . tiRagan and Jay Smith ended a couple of Jay completed his teaching year .at St. · time Dr. Talley and Mr .. Hou~eal will· . Th.· · . f . th· Ch h f St Th _ idyllic ' but hard: working years on a John's • the, College. ·of Santa Fe •·. and ·have worked tog. eth.er.. · · i.ted his sopho- as..thereAupont,leorhe e urc dovesper ser- ' Inv. · om ·· . · . · , e pos prepare tropical island in 1982. Sarita Fe Community College. Jay is a . more y~ar to ch?reograph the· ~cademy .s · d · Ad' · · t dp t t. h' h · · 1977 s · t F i· · production of Gilbert and Sulhvan's "Pi- vices urmg ven. an en. ecos w 1c . th.e~, .'th ey ,ve been t en·mg the . , . an a .e a umnus. . of Penzance," Mr. House.al not only me 1uded d ances for .psa Ims an d prayers .,. . Smce . , rates world about. it. The couple' know their two years in did what the. audience. thought was a . and for. the poetry of-Thomas Mertoil' and At least, that part of the world which · Africa may· not be as pleasant ·as two . brilIJ,ant job of designing. dances (and· T.S. Ehot, perfor~ed before the centrally packs into their slide show about their . years on a tropical island, but they don't .teaching midshipmen to perform them) loca.te.d altar and tabernacle. ·. . lives in the Fiji Islands as Peace Corps mind. While they .know they'll see pover- buf found. himself :taking over the stage . of his work at St. John's has been Volunteers. · '· ty, ,starvation, disease ~nd politic.al un- · direction as well. . . dire~tly . connected_ with the academic" . .. K . . rest, they are glad to be there. His much admired work in. "The Mika- program. His f.reshman year he· cho:eoS1~ce r~sb, 24, .and Jar •• 32, beg~n. . , : .·. . . . . . do" last year. found him also working graphed 110 lines ()f "The Oresteia," sharmg their extensive Pacific shell and . They W?uld have hked t? have stayed "th h' . b th . M"d h' D .d 1 which he and a group of friends recited in crafts collection and slide show' they've m the, Umted States, but didn't feelthey HWl ils rh<? , ed.r' . i ds itphman t av1 d. . ancie. nt Greek and danced for the first ·,d · . · ,· ' · ld f' d· h t J ll " · ·f· t" ousea , w. o es1gne . e pos ers an . . . . entertame .and educated .st. Johns stu~ cou . m. w a ay ca s sigm ICan · the programs. ·· time in the spring on the steps behi.nd the dents,. staff and faculty' to~nspeople and work here. . .. IN MID-WINTER, when Annapolis eel- . college quad and a second time, by ~omet~mes, Santa Fe public school stuHe contrasted significant work to ''ca- · ebrated the 200th anniversary of the moonlight, following ·a seminar on .the ents. reer,t' which he said is· ''not so much the · resignation of George Washington from Greek ,play. · Kristi and Jay were featured, in a task at hand as. the benefit it accrues to the Continental Army, he reconstructed , St. John's tutor Chaninah Maschler six dances popular in the colonies, includ~ also encouraged him as part of a linguisrecent article in Santa Fe 1s daily newspa- you and your image." , per, The New Meiican. · E<lucatfon in developing nations is criti- . ing baroque gavottes a.nd minuets, for 16 tics preceptorial study contrasting Ian~ So impressed. were they with. their cal; Kristi observed. . · dancers. for a ball aUhe State. House. Dr. guage with other system~. of signs to Corps experi~nce, they've "re. " : . . . , . . . Talley, m charge of .the evemng~s enter- prepare another dance, which he danced One of the thmgs that ma~e it s~ hard tainment, assisted by a violiQ.ist, accom- back stage in the Key Auditorium· for si!tned. up for two more years, · "'n~w"ae· in' irafoing 'in T'ahia~~·_, ~o 4!Gme .ba~j{ ,tp11the. States ,;s ..Y,PJJ.r~ ,s_p panied-'them on the h;ai'psichor,dL •Tn.nn .. +"' .... th"'re j ·~ ' i...• "'" · · '"' .iurCJI!e.~ .as, completed work for her " she said. to· will . _ abroad · uple ·rejoins Peace C<;Jrps · �Page 12 THE REPORTE :J-:5..,_;c.,.:: 0...Q...C/)<(N Annapolis sen- for "'"''-vu.al Endow- new Young summer she will be reaamg at her home in Frederick, on the foundations -of American poJlIU1ca1 and economic i-hn.. n-hi· with her as a Laurence ber. Under terms of the grant, complete a paper on her·work ber. Miss DuRand was valedictorian of her 1981 Line:anore Hi2h School Class in "I believe their will be here " Dean Samuel Kutler ·McGrath and Winfree are retiring after contributing nearly 80 years of their collective lives to the college. Last month the college honored these two tutors at a reception in Randall Hall and a dinner at the home of President ahd Mrs. Delattre. Mr. Kutler gifts to the two senior tutors, the Oxford Russian-English dictionary Mr. McGrath, who plans to learn Russian so he can read Dostoevsky in the original, and Toomer's new translation of Ptolemy for Winfr"@e Smith. And out on back campus, on the King George side of the college, just beyond the tennis courts, there are two trees men: a red oak for planted for the Mr. McGrath a copper beech for Mr. Smith. Both will ·bear. plaques carrying . their names. Indoors, during the reception, there was light poetic tribute written by two former deans, Edward Sparrow and Curtis Wilson, who recited their verses alternately, with guests joining in their invitation to give "three rousing loud cheers for Sirs Winfree and Hugh.'' Retirement will not be a complete one in either of their cases. Mr. McGrath, who arrived on campus from England in 1948, will Teturn to lead a faculty stody group on the of Blake and Gerard Manley lead a junior seminar. An actor, he continued to act this the of Immora production month of tal Man William Butler Yeats' play danced and recited by the St. John's Dance Ensemand he had the central role of Zeus in the faculty musical, "Pumping Irony," in which Mr. Smith also appeared. A member of the faculty since 1941, Mr. Smith will leave late this summer for Santa Paula, Calif., to teach next year at Thomas Aquinas College, which has a modeled after St John's. 1 • ID Two St. John's College seniors on the Annapolis campus have won fellowships from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation for independent study and travel abroad next year. They are Barbara Riva and who will Crafts Movement of and Andrew of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who will trace Greek myths in the Mediterranean area. Administered in cooperation with 50 private colleges and universities, the Watson Fellowships provide a grant of $10,000 to each of the 70 recipients. For married fellows, as in the case of Mrs. Rigall, there is an additional $4,000. Mrs. Rigall, who is also the mother of a five-year-old daughter, will concentrate her work on the Arts and Crafts Movement which followed a period of intense industrialization, a time which she believes has its parallel in the present age with its new technology. The movement came after work shown in the 1851 Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations at the Crystal Palace struck designers and artists as "mindles::: and vulgar." "IN ORDER TO really the time and its consequences," Mrs. Rigall "one must walk down the narrow hallways of the first housing, step out into the balconies designed to much needed fresh air for the workers' cross the first cast iron bridge (still standing!) - in short to wander through and investigate the artifacts of this time while living among the people of too, were products of this time." A sailor since the age of to travel th ..1u1cri"I world and perhaps s rPl'::intnrP I man. '84, has been Governor Charles selected by S. Robb as a Governor's Fellow. He will the summer in the d'ln•,ontlu with a cabinet and his staff. Mr. Booker was one of small group selected for this purpo_se. J. 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Fitzgerald, American poet· whose translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey are read at St. John's, will be commencement speaker 27 when the Annapolis campus graduates the largest class of seniors since the New Program began in 1937. Altogether there are 98 seniors this year, a number so large that in order to handle oral examinations of their senior essays, the college has scheduled them for evenings, mornings and Saturdays. The number of seniors who will actually receive diplomas will not be known until classes conclude. With a brass ensemble providing processional and recessional music, commencement will be held at 2 p.m. under the Liberty Tree unless rain forces it inside to Key Auditorium. It will be followed by champagne and strawberry reception at the home of President and Mrs. Edwin J. Delattre. Baccalaureate will occur at 10 a.m. in the Great Hall. As a new Commencement Day feature, luncheon will be available in the college dining hall for families of seniors for a small fee. The May Cotillion is scheduled for May a REBECCA WILSON Todd Reichart photo • St. John's has produced two national second place winners in six-wicket croquet, but they may not be around much to help when the college plays Navy in the nine-wicket version of the game this spring. The two juniors - Tom Campbell, of Yazoo City, Miss., and David Weitzel, of Carlisle, Pa., emerged second best in the nation in the 1984 national collegiate Doubles Croquet Championship Match in West Palm Beach, Fla., after winning three successive games but forfeiting top honors to Harvard, 8-16. Making up Team II of the St. John's four-man contingent to Florida, they defeated Harvard in one game, 22-9, Wellesley, 15-12, the University of Florida, 12-9, and then lost to Harvard, 8-16. By beating Florida 13-12 in the losers' bracket finals, St. John's II played Har. • l vard in the tournament final, but lost 21-9 to that college, which put the St. Johnnies in second place. (See Campbell P. 4) Annapolis to new vice-pr~sident Looking to the long term needs of the college, the eastern campus is launching a major expansion of its development program. As a first step, it is in the process of selecting a new vice-president for college advancement with the choice expected to be announced this spring. The new vice-president, who will have responsibilities only on the Annapolis campus, will be the first of two to four (See Fund Program P. Here it comes again, clucking its and lamenting life at St. John's, scolding its way up the steps of McDowcliche passed off as observation of the college, unexamined. and repeated as it works its way every year or so into reports and new stories. The cliche is this: St. John's is an ivory tower shut off from the "outside world," uninvolved, indifferent to political events, isolated, even dealing as some visitors recently put it, with a "limited range of ideas." Ivory tower, need it be noted, is usually referred to in the pejorative sense. It's a cliche that raises some questions. If St. John's is an ivory tower, is that · necessarily bad? What actually goes on here that brings the "outside world" in? Are St. John's students in fact more isolated than those at other schools? Or is there some substance of truth in that cliche? "Is St. John's too isolated for what?" Dean Samuel Kutler asked. "Does it mean our students are too isolated for their own good or for the country's good? If it's the latter, I doubt it." "Do our graduates become monks and hermits?" he demanded to know. If St. John's 4,500 alumni include a monk or two count Mr. Kutler noted former students choose ROBERTS. FITZGERALD 12 and Reality Weekend for May 19. Mr. Fitzgerald is Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory, emeritus, at Harvard. He was named to that chair in July, 1965, after it had been vacant since the death of Archibald MacLeish. (See Poet to speak P. 3) to enter law in large numbers, a profes. sion, he observed, that is identified with the political life. Everyone agrees that, because of St. John's heavy academic program, most students coming here make a deliberate choice to give up some part of the world (See Is St. John's P. 8) J. Winfree Smith, A SEARCH FOR THE LIBERAL COLLEGE, The Beginning of the St. John's Program, St. John's College Press, $11. Winfree Smith, a tutor at St. John's College since 1941, has written the first history of the college's foundation and early development. The period covers basically the first 21 years of the college's history, including the deanships of Scott Buchanan and Jacob Klein. Mr. Smith tells the story of the founding of the college with admirable verve, clarity and concision. The principal aim of the work, and one of its achievements, is to trace the history of the idea of ~~. John's as a liberal college in an :;ttempt to understand what has been its impact its members and the (See Smith book P. 3) �=====-~~ ----·-----------~---· Page 2 THE REPORTER £[1Jill ™LI~ D ~&~¥ £[}:!] Clli w~~lr BETSY BLUME and BECKY WILSON ·------. --·--- - - - APRIL 1984 oth campuses to conduct week-long · programs If Harvey Goldstein has his way, the Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washing. · twenty-fifth anniversary of the Class of ton. The Alumni Office will arrange 1959 will have a week-long celebration. transportation. Mr. Goldstein hopes that a week-long The Annapolis faculty also will include Alumni Summer Institute on the Annapo- Samuiel Kutler, Barbara Leonard, Harry lis campus will serve as the centerpiece Golding and Elliott Zuckerman. for a reunio,n of class members. The first . Total expenses for the week will be $200 since the mid~ 70s, it is scheduled for the ,week o~ June 10 with tutorials, seminars in Santa Fe and $250 in Annapolis. and p~rties planned. Details will be Interested alumni should. be in touch with .coming in the mail from Annapolis alum- the two alumni directors; ni director Betsy. Blume. · Meanwhile, similar week-long summer programs for alumni have been sched~ · uled for the last two weeks in and the first week in August on the Santa Fe campus. Alumni attending homecoming Among . tember may make hotel reseru~tinnc there will number of hotels in ,.,.,.,,, .. J~V'"" Torn Simpson, John Robert Bart, should ask for the bloc rooms reserved Dean Hae:e:a.rd. Glenn Freitas and St. John's College. Early reservations Grey advised. The area code is 301. Sam Larcombe, Santa Fe alumni direc- · with cut-off dates. the tor; said that tentatively being planned are: for preceptorials and seminars are sesClimat de France, 224-4317, by Septemsions· on Goethe, classical physics, the ber 7; Hilton Inn, 268-7555, .by September Bible, possibly contemporary .Latin 7; Holiday· Inn, 224-3150, by August 31; American. thought, modern women writ- Maryland Inn, 263-2641, by September 7, ers, and Sophocles. Opera schedules· will and Thr-Rift Inn, 224-2800, by August 21. be sent those requesting them. Baby Iri addition, bed and breakfa~t accom, sitting services may be arranged. modations in private homes, yachts and · In Annapolis, Hugh McGrath and Mari- historic inns may be obtained through lyn Douville will co-lead the week's Sharp-Adams, 269-6232, an agency estab- · seminar on Henry IV and alumni will be. lished by St. John's alumna Cecily 0. able to see a productio11 of Henry \t" at the . Sharp-, '64. she and her husband, Lt. Col. John Ross, were laughing about some of the ways members of their family have answered that mother-in-law sends · letters addressed to "Occupant"·; . her sister, to "Ross and Galloway, Inc." That took place 1, 1981. Both John are in intelligthe Air Force. She ence and he in manpower.· 1978 In v1:~1:.m u1:1 we heard from- Caroline who asks us to print the following: in a cafe · Senea beer and 1966 is plastered, 111 1!<'"" ""'" was married to Ellen· , _ . on the wall '84) in a· marriage across the street. I'm on tour here with that took place 18 at St. this band, ·saraba, that some of you have tius Loyola Church in New York City. heard about!' 1970 Saraba, which plays African-influenced John Dean writes: "I'm still a profes- rock, with Latin and jazz motifs, hcis·won sor at the University of Paris, although the Berlin Senate Rock Competition and recently I've branched out to work as various other laurels. well for the American College in Paris." . "I'll be back in Berlin in February, Last sum:mer John was director of the 1984, and any old friends who are or w,ill USIS's American Literature and Ameri- be in Europe should drop a card if tl~ey can Studies Program in Hungary, and the want to visit. We. tour a ·1ot in Switzersummer before, he studied at the Clarion land, Holland, Italy, and Germany, so Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's perhaps we could connect somewhere. Workshop in Michigan. Anyone feeling envious about the travel"Recently, I've been publishing fiction, ing needn't bother - the sight-seeing is most recently in Weirdbook. Academan- limited to smoky clubs, cold concert halls iac publishing also continues apace." and hotel rooms. Sometimes it's a nice Mark Schneider, '73, has been back in·. 1975 life·. It suits me, however." this country this year. ond a concert tour Betsy Blume must be one of the most Caroline's address in Berlin is: Kott- with his wife, Elizabeth. efficient- people in the world. After writ- busser Str. 15, 1000 Berlin 36, Germany; .. Among Denmark's most sought-after ing her share of the Alumni Notes; she phone (011-49-ao) 612-6185. yo"ung musicians. Mark, a pianist, and wound up duties here as director of 1978 Elizabeth, a violinist, constitute the Duo alumni activities on March 2 preparatory to taking two months maternity leave, · Rita and Pom Collins are spending a Gracino, a name which honors the violin went home and promptly went into labor, certain amount of time clowning around maker who lived from about 1685 to about and the following day delivered by Caesa- - literally - despite his medical studies 1726 and who made the violin Mrs. rean section a six pound, 15 ounce boy, which wind up in May at Georgetown Schneider uses. Univer.sity in Washington. During an ' Michael David Blume, Jr. Their first tom in the United States Parenthood will bring some .reverse elective period of study, he is earning was in 1981, when they played at St.· role playing. Betsy expects to be baek in class credit in Thailand, assisting for six John's. They made their New York debut her office on schedule, and Michael will weeks at a refugee camp until the middle in February at the New School, playing a · do the day-time parenting, taking care of of this month when he is scheduled ·to program oi Bach, Mozart, Debussy and young David. as: be will be called, while return. He and Rita are waiting to find Carl Nielsen. out where his transitional internship will he continues to write novels. Their tour this year also included take him - to Spokane, Wash., Roanoke, la'l6 v·a., or to the District of Columbia. Army Reserve Pfc. Jacqueline Blue Wilson has completed her basic training (These days it's all done by matching· at Fort Dix, N.J. Jackie is now versed in needs through a computer.) Rita is serving as a program coordinadrill and ceremonies, weapons, map tor in community health and education reading, tactics, military courtesy, mm. tary justice, first aid and Army history services in Arlington, Va., County Red and traditions. Let us know what comes Cross Chapter. That means she can teach first aid, coronary pulmonary resuscitanext, Jackie, before you make colonel.. tion, baby sitting, child care for new SF '76 How are you addressed by mail if parents, and clowning~ Yes, clowning. As part of its volunteer program, the chapy~u've decided to retain your name after marriage, as Captain Nancy Galloway ter teaches clowning so that volunteers has done? At a brunch for alumni who can entertain shut~ins in nursing homes, hospitals' and day care centers, Both had worked in the telephone campaign~ Collins have taken the course and are now Augu8te clowns, the traditional sort you see in the circus, as contrasted with The Reporter mimes. Rita entertains in red wig with· Rebecca · Wilson, editor; Laurence .red nose; and tall Porn,· in a blue wig and Berns, Besty Blume, Thomas Parran, J. blue beard, has an act in which lie plays Winfree Smith, Eliott Zuckerman, advise· . a dumb comic to the straight man oLa ry board. .small, peremptory 10-year~olq,:clowt ·· Schneiders gi1:Je U.S. concerts The Reporter is published by- the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md. 21404. Edwin J. Delattre, president. ·· Published five times a year, in Febru· ary, April,_ June, September and' Novem~ ber. Second-class postage Annapolis, Md. USPS 018·750 paid ··At 1979 performances in Boston, Buffalo and· Louisville. _ _ . _ _ ... c Mrs. Schneider has been a teaching assistant at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music since 1978 and has held a solo-desk position with the Royal Danish Orchestra since 1980·. · Mr. ·Schneider has performed with leading.string quartets in Denmark and given lecture-concerts at a number of Danish schools. In 1971 he started a concert series in Copenhagen which has presented many · Danish and internationally known musicians. Earlier, in ·1976-77, he had .given recital tours in this country. The Schneiders . are the parents of. a daughter, Hannah, who is now one year old. st1;. A note from Karen Wachsml\hJ.el~:; that-. she is now enrolled in a master''B program at Juilliard, studying conducting. We wish her all the best. 1981 Peter Gilbert is enrolled in Samuel Johnson's old college, Pembroke, at Ox(Continued on p. 10) Mark and Elizabeth Schneider are among Denmark's most sought after young performers. l �I Ii. r1 llJ~l'U~ 3 (omnnue!CI. from P. 1) Writing in an understated, sometimes humorous but always sympathetic style, Mr. Smith describes the origins in Scott Buchanan's earlier teaching and writing of the ideas which led to the program and the gathering together of the men who saw the opportunity to establish that program at a virtually bankrupt liberal arts college in 1937. Mr. Smith provides a detailed and often gripping account of the complex events and motivations which led to the founding of the college, the struggle to preserve it from annexation by the Navy, and the complex reasons that led Barr and Buchanan to abandon the college and a potential large endowment in an ulti-. mately futile attempt to establish a new institution outside Annapolis. WRITING FROM personal knowledge and careful research, Mr. Smith is able to bring these now far off events into vivid focus. But this is also a history of the ideas embodied in St. John's as much as the men and events who formed the college, and Mr. Smith never loses sight of his main objective which is to explore the possibilities that are inherent in an educational institution of this kind, not as a matter of theory but as an historical experience. The timing is important. One guesses that it would have been impossible for Mr. Smith to have written this account, say in 1960, when be was much closer in time to the events. Much of the book's quality was undoubtedly made possible by the opportunity which Mr. Smith has had to live, .teach . a.nd write in the program for an additional two decades. One of the most striking things that comes out of this history is the continuity of the new program. Scott Buchanan, by theory - and perhaps more important by tempel'.ament - would have been inclined to pull the program up by the roots every two or three years. Mr. Smith makes it clear that he credits Klein's service as dean and Mr. Weigle's as president as preserving and stabilizing the college, but that be also believes that the program has been preserved because the community which it serves has found that it works sufficiently well to maintain the affection and support of several generations of scholars in the face of a world of very different academic institutions and of rapid change. The chief strength of Mr. Smith's history, however, is that it addresses in various ways the values, successes and failures of the program itself. There can be no question that Mr. Smith has long been a firm supporter of the ideas and practices that were established in Annap. olis in 1937 and are followed in Santa Fe in 1984. HOWEVER, HE has some reservations about these ideas and practices which color his narrative and give depth and insight to his book. The whole idea of the program, as he says came from Scott Buchanan, although it was of course elaborated by Barr and others, including Mr. Smith, into a coherent plan for learning in a liberal community. Buchanan was indeed a charismatic, even mesmerizing, personality who many remember as their greatest teacher. Yet Buchanan's thinking, as Smith with some sympathy points out, had messianic, often ·conflicting, strains that made it difficult for him to provide leadership in The bookstore threw an autograph signing party for Winfree Smith. Waiting their turn are, from left, Lydia Sparrow, Alexandra Mullen and Susan Price. Todd Reichart photo a sustained, college-building effort. Buchanan, . as someone remarked, thought that all 18-year-old boys were angels and that they could learn or understand anything. Jacob Klein's observation that some of them have essentially appetitive natures was a necessary counterbalance:· Indeed, it is clear from· Smith~s hisfory that by the middle 40's Buchanan, perhaps driven by Utopian perfectionist ideas and emotions, was no longer able to deal with the problems of a small struggling institution in a wartime society, and the move to Massachusetts was as much an escape as a new departure. Barr left with him because, as Mr. Smith says, he "could not dispense with the help of Buchanan in continuing the program" either at St. John's College or otherwise. Mr. Smith's description of the years of consolidation under Mr. Klein and Mr. Weigle is particularly interesting to this writer who graduated in 1948. THESE WERE years of sustained, responsible reexamination of most aspects of the program in the light of experience: the much vexed role of the laboratory in a liberal curriculum; the encounters with foreign languages; the coverage of a broad range of materials as opposed to exploration of a few matters in depth; skill acquisition versus dialectical inquiry; the proper function of the St. John's tutor, and so forth. Mr. Smith's book suggests but does not answer the questions about ultimate value that must be continually asked by any community of learners if it is to live and prosper. One way of posing this question is to compare the program to another ideal. Does a relatively generalized, nonhistorical, non-specialized dialectical inquiry into selected "great books" together with related and supporting but also necessarily quite· general and non-specialized work in language, mathematics and the laboratory always provide the best road to making a free person; or, to make one of many possible comparisons, can the concentrated, specialized mastery of a difficult field in which one becomes familiar in depth with its history and scholarship, and practices its study, exposition and ultimate mastery under conditions of excellence be a better road? ONE RELATIVELY optimistic answer might be to say the best students at St. John's will get a better beginning education there than at all but a very few places in the Western World, and that medium students, while not so patently benefiting from the program, are at risk in having their lives changed in ways that offer possibilities for freedom, and that the poor student may well be injured by St. John's and can be better off in a middling electives program at a "good" liberal arts college. Struggling with such questions, the c.ollege will be greatly aided by the searching look into its origin which ·Mr. Smith's elegantly written book provides. He recognizes the danger that a program which has so little changed over 46 years of existence may become ossified, that the elements in the tradition which vitalize it could be lost, and concludes: "The sobering recognition of these dangers, while it almost certainly will not enable St. John's College to avoid them altogether, may nonetheless help it in the performance of its task of freeing the human intellect." The book is available through the St. John's College book store for $12, including postage and handling. Its writing was assisted by contributions from Eugene Thau, '47, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Joseph H. Hazen Foundation. Poet to speak at commencement May 27 (Continued from P. 1) Mr. Fitzgerald's career had included journalism as well as poetry. His first book, Poems (1935), was published soon after he finished a year and a half of reporting for the New York Herald Tribune, and his second, A Wreath for the Sea (1943), came out when he was leaving Time magazine for service in the U.S. Naval Reserve. When he returned to Time after World War II, he also served as poejry editor of the New Republic and as an instructor at Sarah Lawrence College and at Princeton. His third book of poems, In the Rose of Time, appeared in 1956. Beginning in 1953, Mr. Fitzgerald lived in Italy with his family for eleven years, interrupted by occasional teaching appointments in this country. He taught writing and literary criticism at Notre Dame, the University of Washington, Indiana University, and Mt. Holyoke College before returning to Harvard as a lecturer in 1964. Admired as a skilled translator of the Greeks, he has put into English Homer's Odyssey and Iliad and Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus and, with Dudley Fitts, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Sophocles' Antigone, and Euripides' Alcestis. He also has translated the verse plays of Paul Valery and the "Chronique" and "Oiseaux" of St. John Perse. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952 and the Shelley Memorial Award in 1955. In 1957 he received an award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters; in 1959, a Ford Foundation grant for creative writing; and in 1961, for his Odyssey, the first Bollingen Award for Translation. A second Guggenheim Fellowship was awarded him in 1971. In 1972 he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and in 1973 an Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship. Born on October 12, 1910, in Geneva, N.Y., Professor Fitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Ill. He received his bachelor's degree in 1933 from Harvard after having spent his junior year at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1962 he was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, in 1963, a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. His translation of the Iliad received the first Harold Morton Landon Award for the translation of poetry. Emeritus at Harvard as of July, 1981, he published his translation of Virgil's Aeneid in September, 1983. �ampbell, 2nd place in (Continued from P. 1) Santa Fe juniors Michael Picone and Linda Sullivan at the Junior Prank Day "Paunch Pad." Behind them is a silver "rocket" fusilage. ''T'h e w:r0 ng stuff' ma k es .I. the right sort of day in SF Ari Latham photo j . Santa Fe campus students who thought they might put in a day of serious study February 21 were thinking the wrong stuff~ , . About 9:30 a.m.. well into the day's first classes, trumpets•and kazoos res~~ tively . rang and tooted thro.ugb classrooms and down dorm halls, They heralded Junior Prank day, the one time in the academic .year when juniors officially disrupt classes and anything else they can think of. The Prank Day, subtitled "The Wrong Stuff," earned two large front-page photos in Santa Fe's daily newspaper, The New Mexican. Linda Sullivan, who, costumed as "Moon Maid," floated through various extracurricular activities, explained the day's maneuvers: " 'Moon Maid' isn't my real name, but it will do for a working name. And I'm not stating what galaxy I'm from for security reasons. "First, we rushed into the halls and counted down: FIVE-FOUR-THREETWO-ONE THE EAGLE HAS LANDED, EVERYBODY TO THE GREAT HALL," she said, her antennae bobbing. "There we had a multi-media presentation to trace the history of a guy named Bruce, who knew he was different from the start. He thought he'd be an ideal candidate for the St. John's Space Program. We followed his training, which .. included such things as lifting copies of Kant on barbells and reading upside The singles players, Mr. Campbell and James Hapner, Hillsboro, Ohio, junior, along with the St. John's I doubles team - Mr. Hapner and Alex Huemer, Hillsborough, Calif., junior - did well enough to give St. John's third in the overall national collegiate standings. Also taking part in the competition were players from Princeton, Barnard, Smith and Brown. Earlier in the academic year a team of four from St. John's won the U.S. Croquet Association's Southern Regional Croquet Championship after defeating the University of Virginia by a point in competition at Pinehurst, N.C. Manning victorious mallets there were Mr. Weitzel, Mr. Huemer, Mr. Hapner and Mr. Campbell, who were presented a seven-inch tall silver cup by the U.S. Croquet Association with each receiving smaller individual cups. Tapping croquet balls in 70-degree sunshine at the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club, the St. John's players -at this more recent game were playing on a professional croquet court of a breed of bent grass an eighth of an inch high. As compared with the usual ne1ghtiorhood game, they were oairtic:im1tiruz highly developed form of croquet much more involved and competitive than the more loosely structured, nine-wicket croquet played at St. John's in last c:m1ncr'~ game with Navy. SIX-WICKET CROQUET involves more strategy and ball patterns of interest,.according-to. Mr. Weitzel. "It's the difference between checkers and chess," he said. Last year's game with the Naval Academy resulted in a visit to St. John's of Sandy Kavden, Harvard political science professor and the U.S. association's vicepresident in charge of collegiate croquet. She encouraged students to consider ~~r~~ga!~~c~~ro~~erious version favored al reach each it's got so we'll come up with the best possible team.'' he said. The tournament will be held once again at St. John's. This year, as its members start prac- Croquet to count toward blazer The Great B.J., as John Ertle, imperial wicket of the Croquet Club, likes to call Bryce Jacobsen, has agreed. And it is up to "his imperial wicketness," as Mr. Jacobsen likes to refer to this Lakewood, Ohio, senior, to work out the details. Groquet is being recognized by the athletic director. Games are sponsored the library, which maintains the ...... u'«<"u;;1. sets, but Mr. Ertle has persuaded acobsen that players' participation in this game should count toward a point system under which St. John's community members earn athletic blazers. In Mr. Jacobsen is leaving it up to Mr. to develon a set of "I a library -sponsored As the weather improves, Mr. Weitzel is seeking a professional croquet court in this area, saying that.so far he has been unable to find one witl:Wi a 5()..mile area outside a private home in Easton. Tentatively, he is considering the possibility of organizing a St. John's Croquet Association as distinguished from the more informal St. John's Croquet Club, to indicate its members are playing croquet in accordance with the U.S. Croquet Association rules. In Florida, the standings on scores, double elimination format, were: · Doubles . Because of the difference between six down, dissecting a cat, things like that. and nine-wicket croquet and because "Then the astronauts came in for their these players may be participating again press conference. We had students Ralph in Pinehurst, they are unlikely to particiRoybal, Jan Conlin, Susie Berger, John pate in the next game with Navy. Baldy, Evan Nicholas and Rebecca · Meanwhile, John Ertle, imperial wicket Weibe as Chuck Yeager,. not quite an of the St. John's Croquet Club, has astronaut," she said. · . announced. that he intends to seek the St. John's· I - Barnard. 15-8; Harvard Next, students poured out of Petersen . · most ·skilled players available. with which II, 11-13; Brown II. 13-16. Student Center to a plaza near· the frozen to repeat last year's victory against the Sl John's IJ - Harvard, 22-9; WellesNina S. Garson Garden· and Refiecting ~~~~l Academy. , . . . ·. . it':ley, ~5-12; Florida, 12-9; Harvard I, 8-18; Pool, where Bruce Johnson a.nd Hoski I m sure Navy s commg at us with ail ·~,flor1da, 12-9; Harvard. 9-21. Schaafsma were spray-painting the fin: . ishing touches on a towering silver rocket at the "Paunch Pad." Frantic· frisbee "We limit the amount of income we Total fees at St. John's next year will flings filled the Near Earth Atmosphere, spend from the endowment because we as the space cadets drank their fill at the come to $11,150. The Board of Visitors and Governors must put some earnings into principal as Keg of Wisdom. has approved a 14.6 per cent jump in a safeguard for the future. Over the "This is supposed to be such a serious place," one student was.heard to mutter, tuition, from $7 ,200 to $8,250. Board and years, we have tried to keep the tuition just before kicking a soccer ball into the room will go up $200 from a total of $2, 700 portion of educational and general expenthis year to $2,900 during the 1984-85 ses at or near 60 per cent of the total, or, plaza. put in another way, to maintain the price academic year. 11 A scavenger hunt, an All-American" A study of 14 schools that share St. of education (tuition) at about 60 per cent lunch (hamburger and hot dogs), Sputnik John's applicant pool reveals their aver- of the cost (the amount St. John's spends cocktails, a dart-throwing contest, mural age fees this year are $11, 795. St. John's per student from all sources of income). drawing, face painting, and Tee-shirt next year will be slightly below that. "The increase for next year conforms printing filled the rest of the day. Raw In a letter to· students and parents, to these principles ... " Fish, a band composed of St. John's President Delattre said the college atMr. Delattre said both he and the St. students and alumni, played a marathon tempts to break even on housing and John's board are committed to providing set all afternoon. meals. Tuition represents one form of as much financial aid to students as the A 9 p.m. party "in celebration of income the college applies to educational college resources permit and to providing success of St. John's Space Training and other general expenses of the col- fair compensation for the faculty and Program" welcomed "press, politicians lege. staff. ' and all assorted aliens." "Our budget projections overall enable "At the present time, state and federal Miss Sullivan, in cryptic off-earth style, moneys are not increasing for independ- us to fulfill these commitments within a summed up the day's events: "It was a ent higher education," he said. "Gifts and prudently balanced and controlled budget which includes the tuition increase." rental income are, but at a modest rate. success.'' SJC fees to exceed $11,000 1 �--~---· APRIL 1984 ------ THE REPORTER Page5 Hugh McGrath retiring after 35 years at SJC One anticipates certain consequences: a clouding of the glass, a dulling of the sheen, a certain loss of elegance on campus. Hugh McGrath is retiring from full-time teaching at St. John's College. After 35 years with the college, he will leave after commencement, taking with . him his brilliance, his fine British actor's. presence, his wit, his memorable .voice and his insights into poetry for it is with poetry that Mr. McGrath is most closely identified on campus. The campus will be poorer by a thousand anecdotes. One thinks of Mr. McGrath reading Shakespeare on Sunday afternoon play reading sessions in the library's King William Room or, eyes mischievously alight, leaning over during a faculty meeting to quote to a colleague a parody of Hiawatha - "That's why he put the Why he the skin side· fur side outside, Why he turned them inside outside"· - or delaying his return home to assist a fellow tutor or student in understanding a particular line of poetry. Overhearing him read poetry in French, a listener pauses, spell-bound, outside his classroom. Years ago, probably during the late fifties, in a program in the Great Hall, this writer heard Mr. McGrath recite Tennyson's "Locksley Hall," an old-fashioned poem, dated by today's standards, but one he made altogether convincing and right with his powerful and moving reading. "His. lecture on 'Cimitierre Marin,' ('The Cemetery by the Sea') by Paul Valery was one of the very finest in my memory," Brother Robert Smith said. "To have had Hugh available in the coffeeshop and to be able to ask questions about poems is something none of us will forget." ST. JOHN'S TUTOR ELLIOTT Zuckerman has credited him with mastering "every subtlety of the French poems and the English poems, too." And it also will be poetry that will bring Mr. McGrath back to St. John's. Next year he will. lead a faculty study group · in reading the poetry of William Blake and Gerard Manley Hopkins. A "Liverpudlian," Mr. McGrath came to St. John's in 1948 with a degree from the University of Liverpool and with additional language studies in London, Paris and Dijon. He had met his American wife, Barbara, while she was studying drama with the Royal Academy in London, and it was through her that he learned of St. John's. Her brother-in-law, James Martin, had been a faculty member and assistant to the president during the early days of the New Program. Since then he has served on the Instruction Committee and such campus committees as the Prize Committee. This year, because he is one of those faculty · ·members most articulate about the program, he is a member of the Faculty Self-Study Committee assisting in the · reaccreditation process. He has taught all levels of the language program, serving frequently as a language archon, and the first three years of the mathematics program. He has taught the first and, when it existed, the sophomore year of the laboratory program. From time to time he has lectured, giving the lecture on the library steps when it was rededicated in October, 1969. He has spoken on Plato's Gorgias, The . Brother's Karamazov, and on one occa. sion, he gave the dean's traditional opening Friday lecture. He has charmed audiences in Annapolis and Santa Fe with his poetry reading. Dean Samuel Kutler and Joseph Cohen of the Annapolis faculty, both alumni, remember one lecture they heard as minutes seeking the proper way to translate a word, insisting that it be right for tragedy and that we not just be thinking in terms of street English." She recalled another quality Mr. McGrath sought. "I really liked his way of eliciting boldness," she said, thinking back to those occasions when he encouraged his class with an "I wish you would be bold.'' Leslie Jump, Westminster, Md., senior, finds him "fascinating" as a te~cher. "He knows an amazing amount of things about poetry and literature," she said, mentioning al~o his knowledge of etymology and linguistics. Miss Jump represents the second generation in her family to under Mr. McGrath. Her mother, Janet Beamer Jump, '56, was also a student of his. Another admirer, Pierre Gagnier, Annapolis senior, describes him as "one of the most entertaining tutors I have ever had." Revered by alumni, Mr. McGrath two years ago was made an honorary member of the Alumni Association. St. John's has changed most noticeably in two ways since he came to the college: in size and with the addition of women. Mr. McGrath said the small enrollment in 1949 - 195 students - allowed him to HUGH McGRATH be "pampered." "When I came to the college, it was underclassmen on what it means to be a student - a talk Mr. Kutler recently less than half its present size. Conseasked him to repeat but one which has quently I had seminars during. those early years with Mr. (Simon) Kaplan, been lost. AN. ACCOMPLISHED actor, Mr. Mc- Mr. (Richard) Scofield, Mr. (John) Kief. Grath played the title role in a campus fer, and finally, last but far from least, production of Charles Williams' Thomas Mr. (Jacob) Klein," Mr. McGrath said, Cranmer of Canterbury and the part of referring to some of the major figures of Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1. His appear- that era. "I was highly pampered." ances have been traditional at the col"That came along with the general way lege.wide Christmas party when he has of treating new tutors. We were put in joined former librarian Charlotte Fletch- seminars with more experienced tutors er and St. John's tutor Winfree Smith in a and given scope ·for observation of the comic skit, A. E. Housman's A Fragment best college had to offer. Of course, with of a Greek Tragedy, always a smashing tutorials, new tutors were thrown hit that grows, if anything, funnier and straight into them and left to fend for. better with the years. themselves, though· they could derive Fotir years ago he had the audience considerable help from auditing tutorials roaring its appreciation when he sang and the counsel of senior tutors." "The Road to Mandelay" during a faculPAMPERED THOUGH he was, Mr. McGrath believes the way new tutors are ty musical comedy, Perils Before Swine. Mr. McGrath is known for his polished treated today is probably a change for and witty toasts, his playful wit in the better, with much more thought going general, his entertaining anecdotes, for into their welfare during the early years of their instruction. In addition to auditspeech more graceful than most. "I guess probably the most remarkable ing courses, they now have by way of thing that has impressed me about Hugh, additional assistance study programs and when sitting in on some of his language archon meetings. Despite the misgivings surrounding the classes or during conversation with him outside of class, is his tremendous reper- entry of women in 1951 (a Class Day toire of literary examples," ·-David Ste-. speech gloomily referred to Anthony being "unmanned by Cleopatra," Mr. phenson, a fellow tutor, said. "That means that he has an ability to McGrath recalled), he said it had been find all kinds of extraordinary words. He interesting to see how little had changed has a wonderful sense of playing with a in seminars and tutorials as the result of sensitivity and enjoyment of sounds and their entry. "I suspect that in character a knowledge of how they go together and and temperament there may be differhow they play off against one another. ences, but in intellect, I don't see any," "He can reach into a storehouse of he said. examples of writing from Shakespeare to He·believes the college must still steer ·Baudelaire which illustrate what he has between its particular Scylla and Charybto say as the result of his extensive dis - pedantry and empty headed talk "reading and memory, and he takes an and currently may be taking · a more obvious delight in unique examples of conservative course. prose and poetry, rhetoric and logic, as Mr. McGrath said that Winfree Smith's ways in which we can express some- depiction of Scott Buchanan in his book thing." about the New Program suggests that the With it, Mr. Stephenson said, express- programs' first dean was somewhat aning. a view shared bY faculty members, archical. That view of the college could comes an "extreme gentleness and kind- be seen as an extreme. ness and willingness to help." ·"The other extreme is a sort of conClearly, not every word, of course, will servatism," he said. "Mr. Kaplan once quoted Mr. Buchanan as saying that what do for Mr. McGrath. "When I think back on his junior the college should aim at is a competent language class, I think of his unending dilettantism .. I suppose one might say we search for the right word," Valerie are placing much more stress on compet. O'Connor, Annapolis senior, said of him. ence and less on dilettantism. We have to "HE WOULD SPEND 10 or 15 steer a middle course. There's a perpetu- al danger that the college will sink into one or the other." HIS EXPERIENCE with the Reaccreditation Committee leads him to believe there is no essential change in the college. "We are still resistent to the idea of a curriculum which permits the college to plan and predict outcomes, to place stress on competence and have something measurable." . His wish for the St. John's of the future is a scholar's and a teacher's .wish. He had just been reading George Eliot's Middlemarch and was thinking of it in connection with Callicles in the Gorgias. "I'.ve been thinking about Mr. Brooke, who had a 'glutinous' mind~ and no matter what topic came up, turned out to have gone in for it at one time 'up to a point.' " It sometimes seems as if edncation is very good up to a ·Mr. McGrath observed, and after that, as Callicles said, it becomes "unmanly." "We can require a great deal of relief," Mr. McGrath went on. "Education can be very trivialized. It's as if we say we have done a spot of thinking, and now we can go out for a beer. We need some means for keeping our spirit zealous. while there are so many competing interests.'' Mr. McGrath will have no trouble in keeping his mind zealous as he retires. "There are just so many things, too many things," he said as he anticipates the crowding of his day. For one thing, he is considering learning Russian so he can read Dostoevsky in the original. He will be enjoying a new house newly completed this spring on part of the . grounds of his former residence overlooking the Severn and Chesapeake Bay. There will be more time off for his children: Peter, a senior editor with Newsweek; Brian, a marketing analyst in Canada with a sporting goods manufacturer, and Barbara, an artist with a Philadelphia advertising agency. His grandchildren include Peter's son and Brian's daughter. DESCRIBED BY former Dean Edward Sparrow as a "splendid colleague and teacher," Mr. McGrath has always been admired by other tutors for his skills in leading seminars. "He has a way of doing what we really · want and that is to ask something about the text which will lead the discussion in all sorts of directions," Mr. Stephenson said. "I think that he can state a question or statement about the text that inspires the students to pursue his own answers about it. That way he adds fuel to the fire rather than ending the discussion. He is a model of a seminar leader in that respect." David Starr had always wanted. to co. lead a seminar with Mr. McGrath, thinking he could learn something about teaching with him. This year he ·has that opportunity. "It turns out that the secret I thought I had to have was not a thing he had but the man himself," he found. "Long ago, on a summer's day in the rose garden of the McGrath's former house on Wilson Road, Hugh spoke with deep respect of the sophistication of the Platonic dialogues," his long time friend, . former dean Curtis Wilson, said. "The word 'sophistication' has its- degraded meanings, but when combined with humaneness and gentleness becomes our very first defense against degradation and distortion of the meanings that matter. Hugh McGrath is a defender of these meanings, a knight of our-Round Table, and one ofthe gentlest, most humane, most courageous, and most sophisticated of them all." ~ . .f:: �APRIL 1984 The new Polity stereo is surrounded by a group that includes, comer and proceeding James Hyder, who aei;ig11ed Pausie, Doug and T. Ward Joa·mson. lower Todd Reichart photo • by JOHN ROSS, '69 "The main reason that most colleges have alumni associations is to support the football team, What, does St. John's offer its alumni in pla&e of football?" That question from Vernon Derr, '44, · Boulder, Colo., is a slight exaggeration, but it does identify the problem addressed by the Alumni Association board during its recent meeting on the Santa Fe campus. The board met on January 21 to conduct its current business, leaving time on Sunday morning for an open discussion of the association's goals and directives. In the last two or three years, the association has grown from an almost exclusively Annapolis-centered group to one with branches and activities across the country. In order to evaluate the organization's activities, it has become important to have a commonly understood definition of the association's purposes. Quring the discussion, John van Doren, '47, Evanston, Ill., suggested that most organized groups of alumni exist to provide two things for their colleges new students and money. St. John's alumni ought to add a third item to that list, he said, in the form of an interest in the ideal of liberal education that is central to the St John's program. That third item - the ideal of liberal education - was picked up by Robert Bart, '57, tutor and former dean "I'm excited that groups of alumni are continuing the work of the college. In a very real sense the alumni are independent of the college itself. If the ~ampuses disappeared, the goals of college would continue in its alumni." This was echoed by Harold Morgan, '68 SF, Albuquerque, N.M., who described St. John's as a "frame of reference" for its alumni - a common experience that is worthy of support. THERE WAS LITTLE disagreement about the association's governing philosophy, but considerably more about the form of the organization. Alumni activities range from seminar and lecture programs for professional groups, high school students, and St. John's alumni to picnics, parties and other social gatherings on the campuses and among the chapters. As the association's president, David Dobreer, '44, Alhambra,. Calif, pointed out, "The college has only become aware of the alumni in the last two years. There used to be only one point of contact in a geographical area, but now there are real, active groups of alumni. We've come a long way in a short time, and as yet, I don't think either we or the college knows exactly what to do about it." The association's quest for definition will continue (probably endlessly, considering that we are, after all, Johnnies). At the board's next meeting on April 28 in Annapolis, John van Doren will propose a statement of goals for organized alumni, out of which a set of criteria will evolve for evaluating specific activities. Last fall the Student Polity stereo would cost $3,000. system reached a crisis stage. Jaggie Lamplighter, Breakdowns in the had JJrni:; ut"u and Lev the Polity for years; components \Vere freshman, charge of the fund frequently in need of repair or ,.,_.TI,,_,,.,..._ on campus. They received contributions ment, or were simply missing. sys- of $5 each from more than half the tem had often been damaged individual members of the Polity, totalinadvertently by students who lacked the ling $1,100. expertise to handle it properly. Gifts from alumni of $1,000, a $550 These problems ended when the stu. contribution from the Delegate Council, dents returned from summer vacation $250 from surplus Reality '83 funds, and a last semester to discover they had no $100 addition by the Film Club, of which stereo at all. Except for a damaged (but Mr. Hyder is the president, made up the repairable) pair of speakers, all its rest. · components had been fatally damaged or Meanwhile, after scouring the Baltilost. more-Washington-Annapolis area to deIn the spring of 1983, then polity termine the best prices on the spe:cif:ied president Michael Henry, '83, now of equipment, Mr. Hyder settled on VeneVoorhees, N.J., had decided that some- man Music and Sound in Rockville, with thing needed to be and Jam es the thought that, especially for Columbia, senior, of. purposes, it would be best to deal with a Hyder, fered to single supplier. Mr. Hyder's qualifications included the The equipment was ordered in extensive technical experience and skills and in the meantime Til"im:1tPlV.IHVni:>ri he had gained from for stereos were used for years at Howard CoimnmTitity SHORTLY BEFORE the Christmas Columbia as an technician. break the custom-built road cases arWith Mr. rived from California, the final items to began designing a be received. Mr. Hyder time over stereo system. in its the vacation installing "I WANTED THE new system to be two cases: the tape decks had to be flexible and of very high quality, of mounted on specifically-built shelves, the course, but also as rugged and n..,,,_.,,...,,.,u delicate turntables and the mixer had to as possible," Mr. Hyder said. He was be fastened in their case, wheels had to taking into account the fact that the be added to the other case, the whole stereo is frequently moved from building system had to be wired and to building as parties demand, and not jack panels had to be so that always as gently as might be wished. the components in each case could be To do this he specified that the electronically interconnected for use. ment be housed in Security for the new was c:ases such as are by musicians and priority, of course, and is outfitted technicians to transport their expensive chains and padlocks - a system worthy and delicate instruments and electronic of the Pentagon. But physical security is equipment. not the end of it. Although the preliminary design and To safeguard its equipment and help pricing were finished before the end of organize parties, the Polity several years the 1982-83 academic year, funding was ago established an appointed position not immediately available. A large fund- called the Son of Bacchus. Because these raising effort was begun, therefore, duties are now more than one person can shortly after the start of the fall semes- comfortabll7- handle, the Son of Bacchus ter. Not including the $700 Klipsch speak- has become the Society of Bacchus, ers, purchased two years earlier with which acts as a sort of technical and monies raised within the Polity and from security squad. Its members include Mr. Hyder, Ward the Delegate Council, the new system Johnson,'Robert Sallion and Charles Roberts, all of the Class of '85, except Mr. Hyder, who graduates this year. BESIDES BEING responsibe for un• • locking the stereo and setting it up at parties, members train students to serve Art Latham has been named Santa Fe as disc jockeys for this relatively sophiscampus' public information officer, Marsha Drennon, director of college advance- ticated system. An important aspect of security for the new system is that only ment, has announced. Mr. Latham, 39, is a veteran of eight- those who have taken the training - and and-a-half-years in daily newspaper and any student may take it .... are permitted to operate the equipment. two years in public relations work. "They only need a few hours training, He was most recently science writer for The Los Alamos (NM) Monitor, which and we had some people who already had covers Los Alamos National Laboratory. some experience working at jobs in radio He was reporter, special sections editor stations and discotreques," Mr. Hyder and features writer for The. Santa Fe said. New Mexican for more than four years, With two direct-drive turnables, two and was feature writer for Cocoa Today, cassette decks, and a disco-style mixer, the Gannett publication on which USA the stereo can play continuously at parTODAY was modeled. ties with no interruptions. The sound He also worked for The Fort Lauder- quality from the 80-watt-per-channel dale News, Fla., The Greensboro Daily Crown amplifier is excellent. It's workNews, N.C., and The Sandusky Register, ing. The DJs, as they are familiarly Ohio. known, know what they are doing. From 1976-78, he was press officer for "Everybody seems very happy," Mr. The Lost Colony, America's first outdoor Hyder said of what's happening at parties these days. Everyone is. drama, Manteo, N.C. A graduate of the University of North Chris Nelson elected Carolina Journalism School, Mr. Latham Christopher Nelson, SF '70, of Arlington served two years in the U.S. Peace Corps Heights, Ill., will fill the unexpired term in the Marshall Island, Micronesia. He is of James Stone, '55, of Arlington, Va., on a member of Sigma Delta Chi, a society the Alumni Association board. He was elected to the board at its January of professional journalists. meeting in Santa Fe. He lives in Santa Cruz, N.M. Art Lathant JOins cainpus -____J �L1984 TH RE~PORTER Page 7 A C above A, please Flaumenhaft Harvey Flaumenhaft, Annapolis tutor, will be on leave next year as a constitutional fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has received an NEH tb edit a book he has written on Hamilton. It deals with the central role of administration in the political thought that informed Hamilton's contribution to America's founding. In addition, Mr. Flaumenhaft will continue an examination of the intellectual sourc~s of the entf~rprise of which the Hamilton work was a part: looking at the roots of the new view of science that went hand-in-hand with the new science of politics in the 17th and 18th centuries. nossible for a pyramid to sound a C or for an icosahedron and a dodecahedron to harmonize together? Are Euclid's five solids '"'"'~'"'""..." of a of own geometric h::i1rhiP·t'~t1nn singing? At St. College a student is on the way to finding out. Now for those of you who are interested in the practical application of science making your kitchen or your car run more reading here. Whether geometric shape possess. es its own acoustical model pattern is a purely academic problem for Martin Marklin, St. Louis, Mo., junior, who won for the best laboratory last year's commencement and who is now seeking to perfect his results in the Naval Academy's physics laborato- ~~~--~------------~~~--~--------~ sU1'ticientt1y ,....., . .,..,,,,,,,.,,,,,i to make a for a time to research. When facilities insufficient. he was able to at the Naval Academy make possrn1e a more between sound and MR. MARKLIN DID not course, to find the so-called are hollow, singing the chorus from Ninth when he first wo1rki1uz on this project. he was looking for was the characteristic sound emitted by each - perhaps a single tone on the musical scale - a search he first conducted seeds into a membrane covering a of each solid. All of his current work is preliminary to his long term goal: solving the wave eQttations of the solids. It is an experiment that probably has never been done. As far as the Naval Academy's Dr. Samuel Elder is concerned, he believes that the question of harmony in the solids is interesting philosophically. According to this professor of physics, the notion that the spheres were harmonious existed among the ancients, a view supported in subsequent centuries with the concept of nature's harmony as reflecting God's plan. Kepler used the phrase, "Harmony of the Spheres," in his "Harmonics of the World." Later science became viewed as more fragmented, but Dr. Elder said that particularly with the advent of Einsteinian physics and the search for the unified field theory, science today is being viewed as more rational. "The university of harmony in science is an old idea that has come back," he said. NOW IN THE SECOND phase of his work, Mr. Marklin is conducting his experiment by implanting in each solid a half-inch large speaker and a microphone one millimeter wide to find the modes of oscillation of each shape. These can be translated into frequencies which are heard as pitches. "The speaker is powered by a frequency generator, and the microphone picks up the frequency with which the air resonates," Mr. Marklin explained. If the sounds are found to be ultra sonic, the recorder on which they are taped can be slowed down to make the pitch audible. Dr. Elder, who is working closely with Mr. Marklin, is permitting him to use the Naval Academy's anechoic chamber, which in reality is a padded, walk-in icebox. It removes all sound reflections from the wall and simulates the free field Todd Reichart photo conditions found in space. Mr. Marklin's project grew out of a music tutorial paper he wrote for Wye Allanbrook. "It was some months ago that I was first introduced to the study of acoustics, and undoubtedly the most fascinating phenomenon of this science was the harmonic overtone series of a vibrating string,'' he said. "While I was pursuing these small whole number ratios, I recollected seeing them before in my geometrical studies. For I had discovered in Euclid's Thirteenth Book for at least three of the five regular solids, the edges were related in square to the diameter by small whole number ratios. What a beautiful coincidence.'' In light of their relationship, he decided to to make audible harmonies by means of the five regular solids. MR. MARKLIN IS the first student to receive a $1,000 grant from the college to finance a scientific project. Jokingly he attI_'ibutes it to the fact that the college was favorably disposed toward him for under a $2,600 budget he and Her1edLct. Annapolis senior, administered last summer as "Febbie Dad and Mom" - assistants in the summer freshman program. Talented in several Mr. Marklin is a skilled artist, who wants art design and leaving St. architecture for a while John's. He also is a performing magician and from time to time gives magic shows. This year he is one of three students in of Reality, a series of events culminates in St. John's weekend involving mock Olympic games. Mr. Marklin is serving as a student aide in St. John's print shop this year and previously served in the mailroom for two years. A well known personality on campus, he enlivened the college last summer with visits to offices wearing a white jacket and straw hat _decorated with a bandana in Caribbean style, bringing coffee and donuts to staff members. ' r In a month of April foolery, with the senior prank ahead, the Mortimer Adler prank behind, the King William Players will present the most April foolery and prankish of all mystery plays: Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound. A nonsensical parody of such dramas as The Mousetrap, which the players gave last year as a scholarship benefit for St. John's students, this production April 14-15 will have the same purpose. Proceeds will go to the Caritas Society's Rosalie Blaul Scholarship Fund. With a corpse on the floor and the requisite maid dusting off the furniture, the mystery-comedy will be staged at 8: 15 p.m. in the Great Hall. Tickets for the play, which will be done in the round, may be purchased at the door for $4. Seating will be limited to about a hundred seats on both Saturday and Sunday nights. The body, stepped upon and ignored during the evening, is played with long suffering by Steven Singer, Providence, R.I., junior. The playbill lists the maid, Mrs. Drudge, as a player somewhat grandly named Elizabeth Windsor. It would be a mistake perhaps at this point to reveal that performer's real identity. The drama centers in part on two drama critics observing, comment. ing upon with varying degrees of introspection, and entering into the action of a London play. Don't expect it to have any logical sequence. It makes about as much sense as all the nonsense patter Tom Stoppard invented for a card game: "I huff." "I ruff." "I bluff.'' "Twist." "Bust." "Check." "Snap." "How's that?" "Not out." "Double top." "Bingo." The play is verbally brilliant and originally conceived. Directed by Khy Daniel, it was well received when it was performed earlier in the year. "Delightful," wrote the reviewer for The Capital. The cast that helped to make it so includes, besides Miss Windsor and Mr. Singer: Moon, Matthew Whedon; Birdboot, Christopher Junker; Simon Gascoyne, Alexander Huemer; Felicity Cunningham, Marie Benedict; Lady Cynthia Muldoon, Kate O'Malley; Major Magnus Muldoon, John Fitzmaur. ice; Inspector Hound, Michael Cresswell, and the Radio Announcer, Warren Buss. "Elizabeth Windsor" is Mrs. Drudge and John Fitzmaurice Major Magnus Mui· doon. Todd Reichart photo �Pages THE REPORTER APRIL 1984 Is St.. John's College really all that isolated? (Continued from P. 1) when they enroll. As a condition of education, it's a sacrifice that has its parallels elsewhere, in pre-medical programs, in engineering schools, among philosophy and literature majors, at music conservatories. Serious students at St. John's, particularly those· who also want to take part in some campus activities, believe they don't have much time left over. "St. John's doesn't encourage an outside interest .in polities," according to Claiborne Booker, Richmond, Va., senior, former Student president who worked at one time on behalf of the election of Governor Charles Robb of Virginia. "THE REASON IS that the St. John's program is so all-encompassing, you don't have time to worry about crises on a day-to-day basis. Students certainly are aware of bits of information - the State of the Union address, or how the arms talks are going, or the invasion of Grenada - ·but from the standpoint of active, constant involvement, most of St. John's students aren't particularly interested in that." But then, he added, uMundane political events are not -as intellectually stimulating in the way that events andJdeas at St. John's are." "I don't think we are more isolated than other colleges," according to Karl Walling, editor of the student Gadny, who went to the University of Maryland before coming here. "You see various kinds of students. Some never consider reading a paper; some see several papers a day. There are a lot of things you sacrifice when you come to a school like St. John's. It's a necessary evil, and I do mean necessary." But there are a number of links with the "outside" world that suggest that if isolationism was ever a major characteristic of the college, in 1984 it is not. Two years ago Mr. Walling introduced a weekly "News in Brief" column in The Gadfly, a column dealing with national and international news. "I think the majority of our readers don't read it," he- said, "but I also think it's read by a large body who don't want to go thumping through the ·newspaper every day." · • In blending comment on the St. John's program and ·the "outside" world, that paper has. begun to make an important contribution. In a story on the student weekly, The Publick Enterprise writes: "It offers a running weekly summary of national and world events. It presents refreshing new reviews - of films 40 years old and texts 2,500 years gone. It ·has been running in series the full content of an intellectual Army colonel's lectures and essays on 'The Continuing Relevance of Clausewitz' from the standpoint of a professor of strategic studies at the Army War CoHege .... Where else can you find a senior Army professor tying an 18th-century Prussian general's insight to the reasons why the U.S. screwed up in Korea and Vietnam?" The Political Forum is headed this ·year ·by Peter Green, New York City senior, who has spent his two most recent summers internin.g with the Washington office of The New York Times and with the mayor's office in New York. It brings a number of speakers to the campus. WITH MEETINGS held with a fairly consistent degree of regularity, some times once a week, some times once a month, depending upon the availability of speakers, speakers customarily are heard by 30 to 60 students. The largest Michael Crawford, Brockport, N.Y., freshman, and Linda Hamm, Flushing, N.Y., sophomore, in charge of a voter registration drive among students, discuss what's necessary with Roger Lowe, Natchitoches, La., sophomore, in the plaid shirt, and J.D. Whitestone, Alexandria, Va., sophomore, at right. · Todd Reichart photo recent meeting, which drew 120, was given by the People for the American Way, an organization which works against book burning and other forms of censorship. Several years ago a talk by CIA director William Colby filled the Key Auditorium. Students have heard a Marxist, an anarchist, the New York Times White House correspondent, a couple of women's rights speakers, several on the nuclear freeze movement, one by the superintendent of the Naval Academy on the education of midshipmen, one by Harry G. Summers, Jr., for whose book - "On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War" - Mr. Walling had done some research. Seth Cropsey, '72, now director of policy for the Voice of America, was another speaker. "The Political Forum is quite active with good speakers on good subjects although it could have more Democrats, u Mr. Booker said. "It provides St. John's with a remarkably intimate understanding of complex political problems. And I think it's been enormously successful partly because of the smallness of the group." "There are always one or two newspapers floating around at breakfast,'' Mr. Green said. (It's a number he feels is sufficient because not all St. Johnnies make it to breakfast.) In the hall outside the coffeeshop, a Washington Post dispensing machine does a ·lively daily business. In the library, newspapers receive such a heavy reading that on weekends "the place looks like a pigpen," according to librarian Kathryn Kinzer, who assigns to student aides the constant job of reassembling and refolding papers. "If we ever have to close the library for a,ny reason, students are standing outside waiting for the newspapers," Mrs. Kinzer said. Because of the demand, during the twice yearly "call-ins," when the ·library is closed, she sends newspapers to the coffee shop. The library subscribes to the The Washington Post, The New York Times, each year during the Maryland General Assembly when they work 20 hours a week at a grass roots level for legislators, doing research, answering mail, sometimes presenting legislative testimony. There are six St. Johnnies interning during the current session. ble:, Last summer two students who are now "The Economist is the one that is juniors - Jason Walsh, of Newport, R.I., particularly used," Mrs. Kinzer said. and Renee DuRand, of Mount Airy, Md. "Many, many people love it. Several - served as interns in the Baltimore students who have gone into foreign mayor's office. Other internships provide service thought it was the one that best valuable experience of other sorts. prepared them." Mr. Walling, who is also a news aide She is one of those persons who believe for The Washington Post's Annapolis that the college years are not necessarily office, held an internship last summer those in which one is most involved in with the Smithsonian's Wilson Quarterly. current affairs. Alexandra Mullen, Cohasset, Mass., sen"I think students here are interested in ior, interned with the Massachusetts gift. newsworthy events in about the same ed children's program; Ralph Stengren, proportion as those at similar schools," Mt. Pleasant; Mich., sophomore, was an· Mrs. Kinzer said, adding that she did not intern at the Dumbarton Oaks archives in believe college provides a particularly Washington, and three students interned propitious time for a great deal of at the Maryland Hall of Records. This is involvement. ("When I was in college, I· not to speak of summer jobs in general. thought Adlai Stevenson was a character Marianne Braun '58,director of career in an O'Henry short story.") counseling at the college, sees the situaThere are -other indications. Late this winter Linda Hamm, Flush- tion from a number of positions: from ing, N.Y., sophomore, and Michael Craw- her own professional one, as an alumna, ford, Brockport, N.Y., freshman, attend- as mother of two St. John's students, and ed the .first national Student Conference as an Annapolis resident. "Students are not isolated from the on Voter Registration at Harvard sponsored by a coalition of political and standpoint of citizenship in Annapolis," public interest groups and· the student- she said. "They live and work throughout the city.'' based Public Interest Research Group. On their return they launched an intenAltogether 119 students, or a little over sive registration campaign on campus a fourth of the student body, live off with the help of volunteers from the campus, and a number have jobs in Political Forum. Miss Hamm reported Annapolis. The Student Employment Ofthat St. John's was one of 14 of Mary- fice works closely with Annapolis resiland's 40 institutions of higher learning dents desiring part-time help. represented at the conference. "THERE IS SOMETHING called over"JOHNS HOPKINS and the Naval stimulation," Mrs. Braun said. "If our Academy were not represented," she students tried to be involved in a whole reported. "These are schools that are not -lot of things, it would .be detrimental to considered isolated. The community col- their education. I see the.demands of the leges, which are less isolated in their program. If there is isolation, it's defensiday~to-day life than private colleges, also ble." failed to send delegates." With a full program of drama, sports, Internships provide opportunities for a number of students to assist in areas in and other activities at St. John's, Mrs. which they gain political experience. A Braun said she would not want to see number of students receive (See time P. 9) The Christian Science Monitor, The Baltimore Sun, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, L 'Espresse, Manchester Guardian, London Observer, and the review sections of The London Times. It gets several news magazines including Time. '.fhe bookstore makes Newsweek availa- �L1 e9 t omecoming .......... ·spea our Participants in a Thursday symposium, the first of a series of four Bicentennial events marking next fall's homecoming, have been announced by J~ck Ladd Carr, '50, chairman of the 200th anniversary celebration of St. John's Charter of 1784. With seminars to be moved to Wednesday and Classes dismissed that day, the symposium is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. in the Key Auditorium on the Bicentennial theme: "Liberty and Liberal Education: St. John's celebrates the 20oth year of its charter and re-examines the conditions of its existence." Open to the public, it will be held in the Key Auditorium and be followed by a question period in the Conversation Room. Mr. Carr said speakers were chosen to represent three of St. John's constituencies - faculty, students and alumni with a representative of St. John's sister college, Washington College, in Chestertown, Md., as a fourth participant. Washington was founded in 1782 and constituted with St. John's, until 1791, • symposium thefirst University of Maryland. Symposium participants will be Eva Brann, representing the faculty; John Van Doren, '47, the alumni; Todd Reichart, Orangeville, Pa., junior, the students, and Dr. Robert Fallaw, associate professor of history at Washington. Presiding will be Dean Samuel Kutler. Miss Brann, who has lectured widely and represented St. John's at a number of conferences on liberal education, is the author of the book, Paradoxes of Educain a Republic, an inquiry into dilemmas arising out of citizenship education in the United States. Mr. Van Doren is associate director for the Institute for Philosophical Research and vice-president of the Encyclopedia Britannnica. He formerly taught history and English at Brandeis and Boston Universities and at Smith College. Although interested primarily in the sciences, Mr. Reichardt has made education and its relationship to political life a particular interest. He has written a recent paper on John Locke. In addition to teaching at Washington, Professor Fallaw is its director of American Studies Program~ He has written recent articles on the Chesapeake invasions of 1779-1781 and on Mahlon Dickerson, a New Jersey governor. Also scheduled for homecoming weekend are a program of 18th century music September 21 by the M;uilyn Neeley Piano Trio from the University of Maryland and Charter Day on Saturday, with a procession from the State House of dignitaries, alumni, faculty and students to the college for a talk under the Liberty Tree. In honor of its long friendship with the college, St. Anne's Church will honor clergymen who have graduated from St. John's during a special service at 11:15 a.m. on September 22 in which the Rev. J. Winfree Smith will preach the sermon for alumni. Luncheon at 12 noon Sunday will replace the usual brunch. It will be held at the home of President and Mrs. Delattre. " Tambra Leonard, Columbia, Md., junior, would probably agree. In the past she has worked for ERA, in a political campaign for a state delegate, as a Young Democrat,. as a canvasser for a Citizen/Labor Energy ·Coalitfon, and she has taken part on one occasion in an antinuclear disarmament procession. Recently she went to. Washington on a one~time-only basiS to ··jQin,,.a peaceable demonstration staged by Greenpeace, which attempts to save the eco-system of Antarctica and is largely identified with the save-the-whales movement. Generally, she says, because she is student, she doesn't seek out such efforts, but if they come her way, she may choose to take part. For the most part she is inactive, waiting for a commencement that will free her to be more engaged; What relative isolation there is at St. John's, if it does, in fact. exist, does not worry Eva Brann, a senior tutor on the faculty. "Of course, we're in a certain sense an ivory tower because we are preparing people to: do a thoughtful job in the world," she said~ "No one stopS students from reading newspapers or engaging in political activity. Of course not. But the notion that it's the school's business to enter into topical discussion is entirely contrary .to the notion of learning as a preparation for acting. "IT IS PRECISELY our business to draw the students' attention and to absorb them into an activity more fundamental than current political questions: namely, to take some time out of their lives to think before they go out to act. It seems to me a mistake. in considering the economy of human life to imagine one can mix reflection and participation easily, and certainly the very young can't do it. I think our political community owes its young four years of leisure." Oddly enough, she said, the conse. quence of the college's not pushing stu. dents is that the quality of political interest she sees manifested in the Political Forum is "exceedingly high." "The usual notion of social concern as eviBced by students is that it shows itself in demonstrative action," she said. "It seems to me much better that the activity should wait until it is rooted into a community and can be truly effective." Jonathan Tuck, who is in his fifth year of teaching with the college, said that when he was a student at Columbia College, his whole life was surrounded by the college and, aside from his family, he did not know anyone not associated with it. "It seems to me to be typical of the college experience to be closed off somewhat," he said. "The real difference is that our college is small, and our curriculum is purposeful, and there is not the same kind of random variety and pluralism in what we're trying to do that you find at a large state university with lots of different purposes - a sort of microcosm." Most of the faculty, he believes, are men and women who came here, usually in their 30s, after prolonged experience in academic life not spent at St. John's. It is against this background that they view the college. "The way we talk in the coffee shop and at faculty meetings makes everyo~ alert to the possibility of. .dangerous provincialism, and that awareness is probably the best protection against it. One of the things I admire about ·the college is its self-consciousness and the honesty with which we go about our · business here." DOES THE TYPE OF education thwart students in their career? It did not stop Brad Davidson from becoming an Annapolis City Council member at age 25. (Being a graduate in itself, he said parenthetically, helped in his election because "most people in Annapolis have a great deal of respect for St. John's.") "What St. John's did was to allow me to move much more quickly ahead tha.n others," he said. "It helped me a great deal. The most important skill it taught me was the ability to communicate and to express thoughts and ideas. If there is a school that teaches that better than St. John's, I have never heard of it." Nor did former Dean Robert Goldwin, at one time an education consultant for the White House and now with the American Enterprise Association, suffer. Coming out of the Army to the college at age 24, he found entering an "ivory • The Alumni Association has decided to launch a national campaign to double its dues paying membership. Board members voted to hold such a drive during their January board meet. ing in Santa Fe when Sam Larcombe, director of alumni activities in the West, pointed out that there had never been such a campaign. "But there has never been such a national association," he said as alumni offices on both campuses prepared its first mailer on the effort. That will come in the form of a letter accompanying bylaws to be mailed this spring that emphasizes the multiple services extended by the association. Follow~up work will be done through association chapters. Mr. Larcombe said that dues will not be increased from the present $10 for alumni who have been out of school for more than four years. Dues for new graduates will be $2. Franciscans stage . . St. John's alumni from both campuses helped Santa Fe campus fund-raisers in San Francisco during a two-day telephone campaign in February. Santa Fe's Marsha Drennon, director of college placement, and Sam Larcombe, director of alumni activities and community relations, assisted volunteers in a phone campaign originating in the law office of Tom Carnes, '52. "We raised a total in pledges· · for the campaign," Mrs. Drennon said. "I'd like to especially thank Alice Carnes, who organized the volunteers and office space in San Francisco." Bay Area volunteers included Laird Durley, SF '83, George Elias, '71, Grant Fr·anks, '77, Mary Mary Feldman, SF '83, Virginia Seegers Harrison, '64, Tom Hoover, SF '70, Robert Sperber, '50, and John Wekselblatt, '63. • (Continued from P. 8) much more activity added. And she out that the limitations imposed are for only nine months. "Students go out in the summer and mix with other AA plans to double size tower" something of a· relief. He says he has based his whole career on what he learned at St. John's. "For me, it was like a vocational school. I got my training for my work at St. John's." Harrison Sheppard, '61, now a senior attorney with the San Francisco Regional Office of the Federal Trade Commission, believes St. John's helped "immeasurably in my profession." "No other form of undergraduate education is better for· the study of law," he said. "In St. John's tutorials and seminars you learn to look beyond the facts to underlying considerations. It is policy considerations that give rise to rules of law. To understand conflicting claims, you have to look beyond facts to principles, and that is precisely what the St. John's education equips a student to do." . TED BLANTON has recently returned . Annapolis tutor Eva Brann will serve to his hometown of Salisbury. N.C., to practice. law after serving for two and a as a seminar leader in the Hickory half years as legislative assistant to Humanities Forum to be held at the Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New Lineberger Center of the Lenoir-Rhyne York: and for Senator Robert Morgan of College· in Hickory, N.C., on May 9. During this academic year she bas North Carolina. Earlier he had' served· as a writer's. assistant for Ray Price, .author spoken on ''Politics and the Imagination'' at .Wake F<>rest University, addressed of W:Jth. Nixon. . · While believing. that St. John's educa- alumni in .the San Francisco and Los· tion is not "practical" in the usual sense Angeles Chapters on ''Intellect· and Intuiand that it ·may take some graduates· tion,,. and -visited the Whitney Young time to get on their feet, he believes "it College of Kentucky State University and gjves a much larger field of vision when St. John's University in Minnesota, where she spoke on "What Is· the Good of a you are thinking about political matters. "As much as anything it is a prepara- Liberal Education?" tion for life in the broader sense since you spend four years with other men and women attempting to discuss questions that have always meant the most to men, and that is always a priceless gift to The Alumni Association is continuing have." its honors seminars for high school students. Mark Habrel, chairman of the Honors Seminar Subcommittee, said its purpose is three-fold: to aid student recruitment, Becky Soloff Zlotoff, '75, is the new to serve as part of the continuing educapresident of the Alumni Association's tion of alumni, and to provide an educaSouthern California Chapter. She suc- tional challenge for high school students. ceeds Robert J. Bienenfeld, SF '79, of Becky Zlotoff, '75, of San Marino, Santa Monica. Calif., is serving as national coordinator. Mrs. Zlotoff resides at 458 19th Street in David Doremus, SF '78, of Dallas, Tex., Santa Monica, where, outside the alumni is working with documents associated chapter, she concentrates on motherhood. with the program, David Schiller, '62, of She and her television writer husband, Charlton, Mass., with communications, Lee, '74, have two children, Jacob, five, and Cindy Rutz, SF '82, of Chicago, is and Celina, four. serving as committee secretary . Eva Brann to lead forum discussion ·High schools have honors seminar Becky Zlotoff is chapter president �Among the last acts of Julius Rosenberg's life was to drop into the St. John's Development Office to check some letters going out over his signature as cochairman of the 1983-84 Alumni for the Liberal Arts Annual Fund. The following day, January 18, he died at age 68 of a heart attack in downtown Baltimore. Up to the last St. John's was a principal concern. The news shocked members of the Board of Visitors and Governors, meeting in Santa Fe, who adopted a resolution endorsed by the Alumni Association board that afternoon. It tells part of the reason Julius Rosenberg meant so much to the college. "Resolved, that the Board of Visitors and Governors had learned with sadness of the death of Julius Rosenberg, alumnus of the Class of 1938, and long-time friend of the college. "Julius was a member of this board · from 1972 to 1979. He was director of development in Annapolis from 1968 to 1972, where his many achievements included the founding of the Caritas Society and the Friends of St. John's College. "Julius served the college widely in a large number of volunteer capacities, including several terms .on the board of the Alumni Association, of which he was treasurer from 1965 to 1967. Julius was tireless in his work for St. John's, particularly with alumni and friends, helping immeasurably to establish the successful, annual fund program of the. Annapolis campus. "In 1976, the Alumni Association honored Julius with the Alumni Award of Merit. "At the time of his death, Julius was a retired executive of the Associated Jewish Charities. The many service organizations which benefited from his work included Maryland Planned Parenthood, the Annapolis Fine Arts Foundation, Big Brothers of America, and the Society for the Relief of Russian Jews. "The board mourns the passing of this truly irreplaceable member of the St. John's family. His extraordinary service, devotion to St. John's, and tireless energy were an example and an inspiration of More otes (Continued from P. 2) ford University where he is completing a second bachelor's degree, this one in theology. Under a two-year program, he was working with Bishop Kallistos Ware of the Greek Orthodox faith during the eight-week, January Hilary term, studying the New Testament and patristics. During Trinity Term, which begins this month, he will study the wisdom literature of the Old Testament and Reformation theologians. As a student, Peter is spending a "vast" amount of time reading and writing. Instead of don rags, he undergoes "collections," one with an oral review with faculty members and the other a written examination to evaluate the level of his knowledge. GI 1981 Sylvia Jones has a new position. She has become. executive director of the Prince George's-County Parks and Recreation Foundation, a job with a wide variety of responsi~lities, as various as working with historic properties to helping arrange community fishing trips. Sylvia enjoys working in this neighboring county with its modern technology-Old South character. A speech pathologist by training, Sylvia helped raise funds among Graduate Institute alumni during the recent alumni telephone campaign in Annapolis. SF 1982 J. SprighUey Kelly Class of 1931 Gordon J. McLean · had been assistant Mr. paign director the Associated Charities and Welfare Funds 1980 with the of his :ruur-.w1ear period as St. director ment. After retiring he continued. the agency three months out and as a volunteer one at AJC office and at the Associated Placement and Guidance Service. His death occurred during a of vohm.teer AJC in Baltimore. After leaving his St. rejoined the AJC as n:u·T.nmP exf~U1tiwe director of the Baltrnmre cmnm1tt.:~ Soviet and director. A later full-time member of the as.E1oc1tatt~o paign staff. From 1946 1951, Rosenberg served as assistant dir4e<:U>r Baltimore's Jewish Bie: Brother Sister League. A native of Russia, Mr. came to Baltimore as a child. He ed Baltimore Polytechnic In.mtute ad was a 1934 graduate of Baltimore College. During his early years he was a youth leader and basketball coach in the old Jewish Educational Alliance. Joshua McDavid will be admitted to the University of North Carolina Medical School this fall. He is currently in Japan ·studying the Japanese language and Following his retirement he was honormedicine. After his graduation, Josh received a Thomas J. Watson Foundation ed by a reception attended by JOO penoos and given by B'nai B'rith in Annapolis. Fellowship for 1982-83. GI 1982 He is survived by his wife of ff rears. An item in the New York "Daily News" the former Pearl Crook. and two grandbrings us news of Judith Collins, who children. His son, Murray Rosenberg. recently was given an award for her civic died in 1969. In honor of his memory SL participation in the Hispanic community .-Johp's is renaming its Murray Rosenberg by La Tribuna, a New Jersey-based Scholarship Endowment Fund the Jufim and Murray Rosenberg Scholarship Enpublication. Judith has been teaching the Hispan- dowment Fund. Memorial contr.ilmliom ic areas of Bushwick and Williamsburg may be sent to it in care of the Almapolis for the last 18 years. She is also a Development Office. member of the Esclabon Cultural HisMrs. Rosenberg wishes to thaok an pano Americano (the Spanish-American alumni and friends who hue rememCultural Link). bered her during the period following Ill'. 1983 Rosenberg's death. Evelyn Cronin, who is studying at University College-Cork on a Rotary Foundation International Scholarship, writes that she is taking a few Irish courses - folk dancing, folklore, ethnography and Cork's short story writers To the Editor: along with medieval art and iconography, Many thanks for publishing Chela \Jell-. ancient Greek and French. With only two er Kleiber's response to Thomas smn:t•s people in the Greek class, she couldn't disinclinations to see great boob of the resist the opportunity to study the New East included in the St. John's prngnm. Testament, the Apology, and Lysia's (February, 1984, September. Im.• respecSpeeches. During her mid-winter holitively.) days, Lyn managed to get to Paris, On the basis of opinion, butt.rened Venice and to Italy. "I haven't got Dante ~the experiences of study at SL John's out of my blood." in a traditional school in India (IC;dal~e­ tra), within the same ten years, I agree with Ms. Kleiber most whol~,, and venture to offer the following modest Class of 1933 beginning: C. Gilbert Hill, Jr. (A and Bare seen as a Seminar series,, G. Dugan Johnson in which a set of works are read and Class of 1938 discussed in tandem; C might be a single Julius Rosenberg seminar, a pair of seminars. or a w~ of Class of 1939 language tutorials; D might be a Single B. Johnson Todd seminar.) Class of 1940 Warren W. Clements A. Selected Plotinus, selected Plato Class of 1951 (e.g., Ion, Phaeao, Meno}, selected SlwlRobert L. Parslow kara (e.g., Upadesasaba.sri,, · Class of 1952 Vivekachudamani}, Bhagavad Gita. Kenneth R. Henneberger B. Iliad - Mahabharata (abridged) Class of 1960 Odyssey - Ramayana Leonce G. Evans C. On the construction of written bnEdwin B. McGee guage (a comparative study of Sanskrit Class of 1969 and Greek) Charles H. Reinike * If the Winthrop Sargeant traaslalioa were used, the Gita could be used llere as In Memoriam Class of 1923 Robley J. Hackett Class of 1926 Jiri F. Vranek Class of 1928 Donald B. Grove W. Royce Hodges Class of 1929 Frank H. Kaplon Patrick D. Keating George H. McMurray George W. Owings, Jr. Ernest M. Wood Class of 1930 the highest sort to all m Greek trip has one, two places The Alumni Association's second trip to Greece is :fiDed with the possibility of one or mo places still available, Carolyn E. I..eeu:wmbuqh. •ss. coordinator, has an- DIRIDCed. UD.like the make-up of last year's passenger list.. this year"s·grvup~of. .30wiH;.;; mdDde a handful of students, for some of whom this may be a commencement gift. The trip to Greece that begins with a11 uwemight flight from Vorlr June 1 _ and mndndes June·· 22 - is· open to the great.er St. .John's family - alumni, frimds,, parents. faculty and students. Interested persons should write Mrs. Leeuwenborgh at 294 Jefferson Rd .• Princeton,, N.J.• 085t0. 'New Letter to Editor Writer urges eastern hooks weD,, or alternatively. since this translation the devanagri-script text, tramli.teration. word-by-word grammatical ma1)'m and translation. In addition, for a \Jest.em scholar's experience of Ea.stem classics, why not invite Winthrop Sargeant to give a Friday lecture! D. 'Three Stands of Development in Voeal Music: Indian and Western mono\Jest.em polyphony and harmony. To suggest this is only to restate what lb. Kleiber has said well: that the time is Jong since past when any of us. least of an the St. John's community, can afford to remain so insular. To do· so is to define "'"tibenl arts" in a way that mocks the ootioB 1iberaL And,, in :response to Mr. Storck's argument that Eastern classics cannot be UDdentood without familiarity with Eastern mltures. I would support Ms. Kleiber"s position with the addition that the Eastern dassics proposed above deal wilb. subjects of common concern to the entire hUDlan family. quite transcending _,. caltaral distinctions: the absolute, die hero. the nature of language, "sacred., and ••secular" artistic expression. Georgia Cushman (Class of 1957) �Page 11 THE REPORTER APRIL 1984 Introducing the board official also . is the emcee in the ·Adler encyclopedia salesman. Todd Reichart photo is is your life, Mr. Adler' Mortimer Adler, with a big orange. button on his lapel, stalked across the Key Stage, slapped his briefcase to the froor as applause swept a crowded auditorium, and then launched into his annual Friday night lecture. The button he was wearing read "I only came foflhe prank:" They had been selling like hotcakes in the lobby as a senior benefit. And there was a prank, of course. It isn't true· that there bas been one every year since 1937. ·Hank Braun, '59, of Annapolis, was recalling that there were none when he was an undergraduate, but sometime during the 60s, despite the fact that America's philosopher-at-large had leai;ned to keep lectures to a c~sp hour, they were.revived. (The first one in 1938 came after an overly long lecture.) As a superintendent;- Peter R. Greer runs an 8,200-student school system in Portland, Me., where his accomplishments include establishing a junior great books program. It's a system that includes programs for Laotian, Khymer, Afghani, Cuban, Russian and Vietnamese students· and a 5,000-student adult education program. Now a mexnber of tne' Board of Visitors and Governors ·Committee, :br. Greer before joining the Portland school system was the·associate director ofthe National Faculty at Concord, Mass. Previously he had been a teacher for seven years in pub.lie schools in Ipswich,. Mass., and at Berlin, N.H., and an of New instructor with the _ and North Shore College in Beverly, Mass. Dr. Greer still continues to teach. With a bachelor's and a master's in history from the University of New Hampshire his doctorate is in education from Boston University - he abandons his role as a superintendent and becomes an instructor for one period of history each week at one of Portland's.. high schools. To familiarize himself more fully with the pedagogy at a first grade level, last September he was an intern-teacher in one of Portland's first grade classrooms. With an impressive record of major achievements in Portland, Dr. Greer has Now audiences have ·learned that his lectures will be interr.upted. Seniors planned this year's prank for St. John's 81-year-old "Uncle Mort" as a take-off on (Continued from. P. 1) "This is your life" television show. new professional staff members and of Written by James Hyder, who also supporting clerical staff that would be served as the emcee, the- show b'egan added in the East. The vice-president will with interviews with Mortimer Adler's oversee a program that will be expanded parents, aged 116 and 104, living in to include staffing for an annual funds Brooklyn - Nancy Mease and Phil Peter- program, foundation and corporation soson - in which his mother complained licitations, and planned gifts. At present fund raising is handled that as a child he talked so much "about forms first, and ethics later on" primarily through President. Edwin J. - that the only way they could quiet him Delattre and Ann Cruse, director of was to "turn off the lights and leave the development. Assisting with the alumni room." · fund raising is Betsy Blume, director of . That became the refrain in interviews alumni activities. In effect, the program.will institutionalwith his high school teacher, Pedro Martinez-Fraga, a former student,.. Marie ize certain fund raising aspects of the Benedict, and an Encyclopedia Britanni- college in much the way they are systemca editor, John Ertle. Adrian Trevisan atically incorporated into the developappeared on stage in swimming trunks as . ment plans of most American colleges. It Mr, Adler's physical education teacher at will enable President Edwin J. Delattre Columbia, where Mr. Adler bad failed to to work with individual major donors and Using as its logos the college seal graduate because he ·failed swimming. to give priority to those aspects of fund · fretted by the New York skyline, the New Mr. Adler received his doctorate there in raising where his office is considered York Chapter has become the first one of 1928, but did not get his bachelor's until essential. the Alumni Association to issue a news- 1983. NOT ALL THE NEW staff members letter: SJAANYC newsletter. ... Mortimer who?" the swim teacher will be added at one time. Rather, once It is being edited by P. Janee Jacobs, asked. the. new vice-president is in place, the '71, and Rick Campbell, '81, with its first Mr. Ertle, playing the Britannica edi- additions will be made in the manner he issue carrying news of coming events and tor, complained that Mr. Adler had or she believes to be most constructive. of individual alumni along with a letter wanted to have the entire A volume In addition to fund raising, the. vice. from President Edwin J. ·Delattre. president will be responsible for alumni, dedicated to Aristotle. Circulated· to New York alumni, parpublications and public relations efforts. "Can you believe that? 'He even had a The new development program was ents and friends, it will be published about half dozen times a year and . thousand-page manuscript ready! He worked out over a matter of months by become the official channel of communi- started to.read it at a production meeting President Delattre, Mrs. Cruse. and thecation between the chapter and New one mornmg, ~nd around 3;3o or s? that Development Committee of the Board of afternoon we fmally couldn t take it. any Visitors and Governors, headed by John York area alumni. On April 30 Dean Robert Neidorf of the more. So· we got up, t~ned off the hg~ts Dendahl, of Santa Fe, who is also viceSanta Fe campus will lead a discussion of and left the room. Ithmk he kept readmg chairman of the- board. Lending his Plato's Phaedo in the Princeton Club. for. another· couple o,~ .hours before he- -s-upport has been board Chairman John E. Robson, of Chicago, Members also will hear a performanee-of noticed we were gone. Mr. Hyder concluded by telling the As one example of the need to increase . Bach's "Unaccompanied Third Suite for ------Cello" by Annabelle Boffman, daughter audience that th·e s~ntors had maintained staffing, college officials point out that of Dr. Irwin Hoffman, St. John's board a tradiUQn of Jnterrµpting the lecture studies reveal that 90 to 95 per cent of all endowment gifts to non-profit institutions with what they called a prank. member. Seminars that will mark the June 23 "These pranks have never failed to be come through some form of planned or picnic of New York alumni will include witty, tasteful, and well-received. So, as estate gifts, such gifts as bequests., life Plato's Apology and Crito, led by ML we have seen, Mortimer Adler is a man insurance policies, residential or com. Delattre, Shakespeare's King Lear, led who has dedicated his life to bringing mercial property and charitable annuiby Sam Kutler, and Genesis, led by illumination to the people around him. ties. Winfree Smith. It will be held at the And without fail these people have taken ·with the expansion of its staff, the hc;n::ne of .Francis Mason, '43, in Rye. college anticipates more extensive work his light and left in the dark.'' ~L i·' The WallStreet Journal. He is the authpr of a number of articles and a frequent speaker. Last summer he was cited by Secretary of Education Terrel Bell as part of the National Secondary School Recognition Program. Dr. Greer serves on the board's Admission Committee. Fund program to expand New York has its· own news letter " 11 been featured in Time magazine and in ~ ' I~: ( [-: '. '• r ~ .1 . .,) ; • ~:i .I; on planned giving opportunities for friends of St. John's. · At the January board meeting board members stressed the fact that the effectiveness of the program will be subject to an on-going evaluation. including a care-· ful reappraisal of the· first two years of its implementation. Sharing that responsibility will be the Development and Finance Committees and the Budget Sub Committee. APPLICATIONS AND resumes fromcandidates for the nationally advertised vice-president's position were scheduled to be in by. March 16-. Named to. the vicepresidential search committee are President Delattre, Dean·samuel Kutler, former dean Edward Sparrow, college treasurer Jeri Rhodes, and Geoffrey Comber, director of the Graduate Institute. A representative of the Board of Visitors and Governors is scheduled to- take part in the final week of interviews. The announcement of the opening states that the responsibility of the vice president will be: · "To formulate, recommend, and implement plans and programs for college advancement in fund raising, alumni- · activities, publications and· public relations, including matters of staffing, budg. ets, volunteer programs and records.· The vice president works with the president on gift solicitations and manages. or supervises programs in annual, capital and deferred giving. 11 · The Development Committee's report to the board at its January meeting said that funds raised for the college go to a number of areas for its 'operation including compensation, financial aid, the library, faculty development and the physical plant. In discussing the need to raise more _funds for financial aid, it said that if St. John's maintained the status quo in its financial aid program., making no changes and adding no programs in any· other part of the college, deficits in the · total current operating budget could be expected to rise to $629,000 by 1988-89. �-'!!:1111"11113 12 ER RTER L1 ::::; "- ---~ ::::J....; c: ,- a... Q.... CJ) <( (\j Todd Reichart photo A symphony by Annapolis composer Douglas Allanbrook Number Five for Brass Orchestra - will be the Irish Radio 4 and 5 on Irish national radio. The the season for Orchestra when it is r"U>1•fnv•mg>6'1 4 by the Annapolis Brass "tuunt:L. A member of the Annapolis faculty, Mr. Allanbrook was heard in keyboard performance of his own music and that of Bach before the San Francisco and Los Angeles Alumni Chapters in separate concerts in mid-Ma1 On March 17, Mrs. Allanbrook, also an tutor, addressed the Stanford on the topiC, Giovanni's Music." Instead of Parents' _ call this Parents. Parents will be able to see two of them, according to Mary Lee Wielga, AlexanVa., junior, and Michael Kessler, Annapolis senior, who are chairing the weekend. The King William Players were divided over which play to represent - James Thurber's A Thurber Carnival or Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - so they settled the question by deciding to do both. The first will be presented at 8:15 p.m. Saturday, May 5, in the Key auditoruim and the second at 2:30 p.m. the next day. The Shakespearean comedy will have an outdoor setting at the French Monument. If it rains, it will be staged in the Great Hall. With swing dancing marking the students' own parties this winter, David Weitzel, dance archon, thought that rather than having a waltz party, particularly with the spring cotillion a week away, parents might like to dance to the big band music of Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman. Dancing will begin at 10:30 p.m. in the Great Hall. Because readini:?:s for the last several The Santa Fe campus is nrg>n'.l'l"ill'HJ' assist Chicago schools as the in the nation to a idea in American em.icauon. It is contained in the Paideia Pr1u1f1 (;!::11 manifesto Mortimer ler, St. John's and closely identified with the New Program 1937. Published in 1982 after discussions with figures in education, it argues that all citizens in this country have a right to be educated equally. To achieve this equality, Mr. Adler proposed to eliminate electives in schools and to establish the same ulum for all students from all levels of ability. The program would not be for the exceptionally bright. The Chicago Board of Education has selected four schools to begin a three- year experiment based on the ideas. this summer, St. John's will t .. !l;n1nct 15 of the 60 teachers who will staff the bringing them to the Graduate return in the summer of 1985 when a second of 15 and administrators arrive there. J. Delattre has arr·an:gernexn a "landmark in schools." :stepnc:m R. Van Luchene, director of the Institute who will oversee the orol:!ram in Santa Fe, said he and members will go to Chicago times during the 1984-85 academic year to review the work of the schools and to assist with the program of on-going Parents' Weekends have been of a literary nature, Miss Wielga and Mr. Kessler have selected Plutarch's Cato, the Younger for discussion at seminars from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday. Parents who do not find Plutarch accessible in their own hometowns may write to the college for copies of the selections. and brilliant performing an operation in the the dashinl:! and coolheaded war nr1c~nn1:.r 1 Requests should be addressed to Parent's Weekend. Price will be $1.25. With a lecture yet to be announced scheduled for Friday, Saturday's schedule also will include a picnic, walking tour of Annapolis, a Collegium Musicum, softball games, and a reception at the home of President and Mrs. Delattre. Invitations with more details will be on the way shortly. · The immensely entertaining Thurber Carnival is a series of playlets that contains such small gems as "The Unicorn in the Garden," "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox," "The MacBeth Murder Mystery" and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." John Sellers, Arlington, Va., freshman, will play the day-dreaming Mitty, successively the invincible Navy bomber commander flying through 135 mile winds, the supremely polished Edith Updike, assisted by Ruth Frame, will direct A Thurber Carnival. Members of the cast will be: David Ray Morgenstern, John Fitzmaurice, John Sellers, John Shaughnessy, Andrew Peltier, Rebecca Kornbluh, Terri Luckett, Annastasia Kezar, and Alexandra Kambouris. Directing Twelfth Night will be Jacquelaine Robnolt. Price will be $1 for parents and members of the college community and $2 for townspeople. The cast will be: Olivia, Jessica Lee; Viola, Yolanda Rivera; Maria, Siobahn Murphy; Orsino, Matthew Whedon; Sebastian, Alex Huemer; Sir Toby Belch, Chris Junker; Sir Andrew Aguecheek, John Fitzmaurice; Feste, the Clown, Chris Stokes; Malvolio, John Wright; Antonio, Steven· Brower; Fabian, Warren Buss; Sea Captain, Robert Williamson; Valentine, David Tappan; Curio, Brett Surprenant. Dancers will be Marlis Decker, Judy Hammett, Beth Morris, and Felicity Ladd. Singers will be Celeste Denucci, Marjorie Kaplan, and Mary Kay Ogden. teacher preparation. Lynn Stinnette, coordinator of the project, will spend four weeks this sum. mer in Santa Fe observing the nrncr.. '.lm Besides Mr. the which worked with among its members such figures as Jacques Clifton Fadiman, Leon Botstein, and two St. John's alumni: John Van Doren, '47, senior fellow for the Institute for Philosophical Research and executive editor of Great Ideas who is joining the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors in and Charles Van Doren, '46, associate tor of the Institute for Philosophical Research and vice-president for the Encyclopedia Britannica. In Chicago, Dr. Ruth B. Love, superintendent of schools, said high schools and two elementaI ChOSen tO participate in the nflnt nrMV"!Hn will serve as "magnets,'' dents from all over Chicago who n'.lV"fif'in'.lto in the "'""''"'"''""' """"'"'"m of at the school level will build upon our present curriculum but will place special emphasis on books," Dr. Love has program there. "In addition, students will foreign language, participate in art, music and drama. Instruction in natural sciences, history, geography, literature, and mythology will be expanded. "FURTHERMORE, learning through discussion will become a required component of each student's learning experience. Students will learn not just from textbooks and a teacher who tells, but also from whole, great books and from a teacher who asks questions and guides discussions.'' Saying that the proposal is "the most recent thrust in the debate over the issues of intense specialization in education," Mr. Van Luchene noted that at St. John's, teaching and learning have been guided by many of the principles in the Paideia Proposal for the last 45 years. Mr. Van Luchene said officers of St. John's already have begun discussions with school officials in New York on a similar but smaller project. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Public Relations Office Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Annapolis, MD Santa Fe, NM Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource St. John's College owns the rights to this publication. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource pdf The Reporter https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/936726579f0338a47ebe2bc229e01579.pdf 01606ae1e244a30a42bdb877ccaf486b PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY l l~l l l~ijil fil ~ll~~li 11111!I !11111 llll II The St. John's 31696 01138 1090 State John's that marked the actual be~[inilting of classes on November 11, 1789. Heading the celebration is Jack Ladd Carr, '50, who has been named chairman. He succeeds Laurence Berns, of the Annapolis faculty, who was forced to resign because of obligations from both witrun·and outside the campus. The anniversary will be the first of three major celebrations which St. John's will mark this decade. The fiftieth anniversary of the New Program wil occur in 1987. The twenty.fifth anniversary of the founding of the Santa Fe campus will be celebrated in 1989 during a year that comes two centuries after classes began in Annapolis. MR. CARR SAID that as many events as possible will be linked to the observance of St. John's 200th year, ranging from the opening convocation address to matriculating freshman by President Edwin J. Delattre and the first Friday night lecture by Dean S. Kutler, "On Freedom," to commencement 1985. All are expected to take into account the charter's bicentennial theme: "Liberty and Liberal Education: St. John's celebrates the 200th year of its charter and re-examines the conditions of its existence." As a curtain-raiser, Mr. Carr said there will be production of the 1783 play of The of Figaro, upon which Mozart based opera, and an exhibition of the theatrical era of (See College, P. 6) ' At the National Art Gallery discussing the only Leonardo in the New World, his portrait of Ginevra de'Benci, are students Jeremy Lauer and Gabrielle Fink, at left, St. John's tutor Tom May, and Gail Feigenbaum, a staff lecturer for the gallery. Story on page 11. Todd Reichart photo Canadians adopt SJC-style _. . . . . . Brock University in Ontario, Canada, is the second university this year to adopt a new program modeled after St. John's College. The other is Kentucky State University at Frankfurt. Brock has launched a Liberal Studies Program with a great books seminar and both elective and nonelective classes. Only · eight students. are enrolled this year, a figure the university believes is low because of late advertising. It hopes to enroll 20 next year. Besides seminars, Brock also includes as part of its required program, a first year course in logic, rhetoric, and poetics, two courses in classical languages Greek and Latin - and one in modern language, a class in fine arts aimed at developing understanding of drama, music, and the visual arts, and a fourth year class in philosophy which for a systematic review of some of the major issues posed in the four years of the program. Students also complete the equivalent of three classes devoted to the natural sciences and mathematics. As at St. John's there is a regular series of Friday lectures and concerts by visiting scholars and faculty members. In addition, the program can be combined with the equivalent of seven full classes .resulting in a combined major honors degree program. ics of a seminar may 1.u::~;1::u'u. Matters can swing out of If one sits in a different place, instance, will the novelty of an unfamiliar set of eyes across the table be as unsettling as Dante's first glance at Beatrice or will the of an hitherto unfamiliar collection bottles be as engrossing their novelty as view of the Grand Canyon? We have de,relllD!E'~d '-'"""'"""" William said. "It is gene.r; upon a scheme devised several at St. John's College in AnnaJmlis, and now imitated at An1er1ca.n colleges and .universities ... '' @ i It may be the Goldilocks syndrome."Who's been chair?" What if the chair Who is in my chair? The nerve. freshman year got to as a so they seminar as " Cathy could get the seat if someone was Berry, made a ruckus in until the person moved. It really was terrible. "Even my senior year the same seat. It's pr~ really were hurt if someone was in their " (1) same chair, of the table, (3) a different ( 4) to sit a tutor or not are QUE!Sti~:>as on whose outcome the What about destabilized acoustics? Will the timbre of voices transformed by reverberations against other walls be such as to distract one from what is said? Is all this to throw into such a (See 1<11 ... ,u .. o- In selecting their books, the uniivir:>ro;:i1rv said they had been chosen "not only for their historical significance but also because of the importance of the issues they raise." "Such works have been aptly described as 'timeless and timely.' They are 'timeless' because the claims make are compelling for us as they were for their first readers; 'timely' because contribute to a much deeper understanding of issues of concern.'' nrt\O"r~m uu1.Lll.l!.'I;;• President Edwin J. Delattre has been elected to the board of the Association of American He was named at the AAC's board meeting last month in San Francisco. mean campus. Mr. Delattre said the NEH Challenge Grants are "wisely designed to support the loni:!-ran.e:e stability of institutions emphasis on the liberal especially in the disciplines normally associated with the humanities." St. John's proposal to the Endowment requested funds to help defray the accumulated operating deficit, to establish endowment for faculty study groups, auditing, and sabbaticals and to support the financial development program as Santa Fe launches its third decade this year. In expressing his graditude, Mr. De· lattre emphasized that by strengthening St. John's in these ways, NEH makes a major contribution to its future and its (See NEH grant, P. 5) . .. ' received praise" in a survey conducted among four-year college presidents who were asked by U.S . .News & World Report to name the nation's highest-quality undergraduate schools. St. John's was grouped among three schools "that deserve recognition for innovative or noteworthy undergraduate programs." "Highest praise went to the great-books curriculum at St. John's College in Anwhere small groups of subjects from philosophy ..,,.,A,,.,..,. and discussing the Sir Isaac Newton thinkers," the weekly �&~ lliJ [MJ ~ 0 ~&~V ~~lf BETSY BLUME and BECKY WILSON . : Mawr School in tsammore 1ance illustration and while Bill pursues his at Johns lance 1957 Del Plain 1975 1961 "alive and not " and in Austin, Texas. Dave would welcome contact anyone from his era who the. area. His address is: 2409 West 9th Austin, Tex. 78703. 1976 From _ . and administrator of a health center and a """'-'n"'""_," center, to an article in ca's English-language newspaper. In present career, Bren is one of very few of a massage to harmonize mind and Formerly, he was an aide to Swami Vishnu Devananda and is interested all of the human ootential movement. 1970 Steven who says he misses a student at St. John's; was on campus recently as a consultant at a career counseling luncheon for seniors and other interested students. , A budget analyst with the Peace Corps, he received his master's in public administration from the University of Southern California in 1979, served as a Presidential Management Intern in, 1979-81, and after "hacking around with the Federal Government," joined the :P,eace Corps in November, 1982, as one of its four budget analysts. He is livin~ in Alexandria. 1971 Martha Stone Kaufman writes: "David (born September 8) joins his sister, Miriam, in trying to exhaust us. I am temporarily retired from my legal practice. This is much harder work." 1973· Paul Martin Rosenberg, '73, and his wife, Carol Victoria Calhoun, '74, are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter, Miriam Nehama Rosenberg, on October 31. She weighed seven pounds, 11 ounces,, and joins an older brother, Joshua. 1974 Bill McClay married Julie L. Holt on July 8 in Tulsa, Okla. She teaches history Laurence J. the Col· 21404. Edwin J. Published five times a year, in ary, April, June, September and Novem· ber. Second·class p()stage paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS 018·750 1979 Stonesifer has entered of Pittsburg.h's School of and Information Science as a full-time graduate student. She is beginning a one year master's program in Library Science. Lynn asked us if we would help her find out if there were other librarians in her class. Her forwarding address is c/o Stonesifer, P.O. Box 568, Bel Air, Md., 21014. Charlie Jones, who spent a year as a Watson fellow studying book making abroad, has resurfaced at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which he entered four years ago as a Danforth fellow to study linguistics and where he is now working on a doctoral thesis. "I'm teaching LING. 201: Introduction to Theoretical Syntax to a bunch of undergraduate creams of the crop," Charlie writes. "Early morning classes: Can linguistics keep people awake?" Two years ago he and his wife, Sheep, produced their first son, Jules Buck Jones. Buck now has a brother, Miles Eli Jones, born last June 10. "Any more kids, and I'll have to trade in my VW." "I suspect I'll be looking for a job soon," Charlie predicts. "Just when I was getting good at being here, it'll be time to move on. I have. even made pizzas at the best pizza place in town (Joe's Cafe) and tended bar at the most neighborhood of neighborhood bars in town: Packard's (almost on a 'par with the Little It looks I may leave here a Ph~D. and practical job skills to boot Nineteen-eighty-four will find me either teaching or drinks.'' 1981 With a fresh bachelor's degree in hand from St. John's, Andrew White is a fun. time classics student. this year at the University of Maryland. His choices: remain to complete his master's or enter the Peace Corps. (UmttnuE~d on P. 6) caplan's shirt advertises his cause. Jerry Caplan, SF '73, is a boomerang maker and businessman, noted for his ability to throw and catch bomerangs simultaneously with both left and right hands. · He's so good, in fact, that in 1981 he found himself, at age 30 and a 10-year veteran of this little known sport that he likes to call "The Thinking Man's Frisbee," as this country's champion in the U.S. Boomerang Association's Australian "Round" event. That' s an event which selects the throwers by emphasizing distance and accuracy. His versatility is such that he has been known to hurl his boomerang around the Carsascalla palace ruins in Rome, the Sinai Desert, and a French farm near Avignon. He also stunned a small audience of Eastern Orthodox monks living on the. jagged peaks of Mt. Athos in northern Greece with one of his performances. "I became the boomeranging apostle of Mt. Athos," Mr. Caplain said. "It's one of those places that ranks with the Lhasa Monastery in Tibet. These monks at Mt. Athos are about· as civilized as people in the 14th Century, and when they saw boomerangs for tbe first time, they really dug it. I even got a few of them throwing." MR. CAPLAN, WHO manages a stationery store, spends most of his spare time studying aerodynamics and boomerangs. He also makes boomerangs in his garage at One Thousand Oaks, Calif. "I have been involved with the sport of boomeranging for about 13 years," Mr. Caplan said in describing the increased prominence boomeranging has gained. "During the time the sport has gained international attention when a team of Americans went to Australia in 1981 and defeated the Australians in a series of test matches. "A return match is being planned for the USA in 1984. There are throwers all over the United States and a national organization called the U.S. Boomerang Association, of which I am a board member. "There ire-teams of throwers in sever. al countries besides the United States and Australia. These include England, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, and Sweden. It's a sport that could be appropriate for members of the St. John's community." Particulars for the 1984 rematch with the Australians have not been completely worked out Mr. Caplan says the Aussies are scheduled to be here in June with matches scheduled in Portland, Washing. ton, Lehigh, and Amherst. "AS A MEMBER OF the board, I am involved with helping to plan the rematch," he said. "New team members have not been determined, but I am among those being considered." Mr. Caplan was drawn into the sport by Ben Rube, who is associated with the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. He has a couple of observations about the For one thing it's not a sport to be lightly. One Frenchman wrote a 450-page doctoral dissertation on boomerangs, representing seven years of research that included tests in wind tunnels, And the Australians didn't originate it. In fact, Mr. Caplan said boomerangs have been found in the tomb of King Tut, and archaeologists have dated them from 11,000 to 13,000 years ago in Holland, Southern India, and the U.S. The non-returning kind . are called throw sticks, and Mr. Caplan reports that experts have thrown them _200 ~ards o~ a i I - "I �FEBRUARY 1983 THE REPORTER Page 3 bomber all of the newsreel companies their own product, "newsreel.' In what instance in out as it as a ed learned to work under tremendous pressure. When he was in charge of ctoc!unt1.elltta1·y films for he wrote a film on the u .... ,,.., ....,,., which was delivered · the in 1·01~mimt, Entitled A this film became the 1 Willlia:ms, Wa1sbiington author who has written on fe~ttulred SDE!ak~er at the Caritas television and first annual revised reference to that QUE!SU<m he poses in the been will be held in the director of the Smithsonian Museum's jazz n'l"nfo,.ts for the Smithsonian Press. of Jazz and Jazz Panorama. Among Masters of New Orleans and Jazz Masters in from the University of Virginia and a master's Pennsylvania, both in English literature, and he has subject at Columbia University. most successful himself. Information "The "are formitranslated into dable offer a gloAfter rious senses and the Films of New imagination. drews decided he """''fPrrPn "The most .......,.,,. •. i- ... ,,lt thing about films side of film making the administrative or television is not the images but the side and reorganized as Andrews Films. " he told a student following a Working out of Huntington, N.Y., he has career counseling session here. produced films on a wide of "By this I mean the idea as well as the subjects - travel, science, and narration or dialogue. Even the shooting him to and editing are forms of writing in which environment. His work has every state in America and much of the you seek to- make a stream of pictures world. say what you mean. But always think of HIS FIRST television series concerned as a 'word' person first, even outstanding U.S. farmers and ranchers everything you might do is auand his most recent one concerned Amer- diovisual. Maybe you at St. John's have ican businesswomen travelers. He has an edge. For who more than you pays made more than a dozen films on the respect to the logos." and environment of Long Island, sponsored by the Island Lighting coinp;:my and to schools for educational purposes. His latest film in the LILCO the poetically beautiful General Alfred Houston Noble, '17, died The Tides of Long Island, was shown to a in October at his home in La Jolla, Caif. few friends during homecoming last fall He was 88. on the Annapolis campus; and he is A former Marine commander of Camp contemplating others on the wildflowers Pendleton, Calif., he had received a Navy and the geology of Long Island. Cross for gallantry in action during Mr. Andrews knows how to use the World War I. He was a native of Feder. camera, having learned that as an emer- alsburg, Md. gency matter when he was shooting a From 1950 to 1951 he commanded the film in Peru for British Airways and his -Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base. He cameraman had to leave before the film was awarded the Navy Cross for gallant. was finished. With New York 8,000 miles ry in the Battle of Belleau Wood and also to the north and no in sight, he the Distinguished Service Cross and Silprc1ceE~de1tf, to. shoot . a of ver. Star~ �R 4 @I In connection with the celebration ·of St. John's Charter of 1784, this is one of a series of stories dealing with the college's history. The story of King William's School, a colonial forerunner of St. John's College and Maryland's first school, might have been far different had a system of taxation not favored Virginia's first school - the College of William and Mary. In the late 17th century, England treated Maryland and Virginia as one single, tobacco-producing entity. By charter, William and Mary was given the entire revenue from a one penny tax on every pound of tobacco exported from both Maryland and Virginia plantations to countries outside England, Wales and Scotland. Not a penny came to King William's School, according to Charlotte Fletcher, former St. John's librarian and a historian of the college, who writes an account of King William's School and the College of William' and Mary in the Maryland Historical Magazine. Re-enforcing the view of the crown that the two states were to be treated as one was the church. In fact, Governor Francis Nicholson felt Maryland's so-called free schools, of which King William's School was the first, should be founded to prepare Maryland youth for further education at William and Mary and eventual ordination in the Church of England. (FREE SCHOOL DID not mean free education. Rather, much as it is expressed in the motto of St. John's booksand-balances seal, Miss Fletcher said free schools were viewed as making students free by giving them a liberal education.) The Rev. Thomas Bray, the Bishop of London's commissary for Maryland, went so far as to say on his visit to Annapolis in 1700 that King William's School was established "chiefly" to prepare youths who wanted to study divinity at William and Mary. It was not until John Hart, the first royal governor since 1690, arrived in Maryland in 1714 that a serious move was begun to gain greater fi.Qancial support. In an address to the Assembly that year, he said: "Providence in his bounty has blessed West dinner talks The western campus has launched a new program, "Evenings in Santa Fe," with a brilliant collection of speakers for this series of dinner talks. So far this academic year they have included John Hightower, of Santa Fe, distinguished journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner; the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, of England and Tesuque, with their stories and slides of Woburn Abbey; Walter Kerr, astute Russian expert and former editor of The New York Times International Edition, and Willard Van Dyke,. curator emeritus of film at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Organized by Samuel Larcombe, direc~ tor of community relations, the program is an outgrowth of the campus' older Indian Table program. Mr. Larcombe's plan to present talks by "people distinguished in all walks of life" begins with a reception at 6:45 p.m. to meet the speaker, dinner at 7:15 p.m. in the dining hall, and the talks at 8:15 p.m. There is an $8 however, a moiety of three pence per hogshead of tobacco was approved by the Assembly for King William's School, an act which also cleared the way for establishing other Maryland schools. King William's School became part of St. John's by an act of consolidation in 1785. It was mandated in 1694, the ,same year William and Mary was founded, by an act for the founding of a free school on ' the Western Shore at Severn. (Annapolis had not been founded.) No text of that act survives, Miss Fletcher notes, but the act was considered weak since it did not mention trustees to carry out its purpose. In 1696 another act was adopted asking the King to extend "your Royal Grace and Favour to us your Majesty's Subjects of this Province, represented in this your Majesty's General Assembly thereof." The act founding King William's School KING WILLIAM SCHOOL described free schools as places where Latin, Greek, Writing "and the like" the Inhabitants of this Province with a would be studied for the "Propagation of numerous Issue but it is a deplorable the Gospel, and the Education of the Reflection that no better Provision is Youth of this Province in good Letters made for the Education of our youth, and Manners" with "one Master, one there being but a slender support for one Usher, and One Writing-Master or School on the Western and one on the Scribe." Eastern Shore of this so wide a bay." ALTHOUGH IT WAS not to occupy the For 22 years Marylanders had not school house constructed for it, the school questioned the fairness of the one penny began holding classes, and by 1700 Bray tax going entirely to Virginia. Governor reported that its curriculum included Hart continued to exhort the Assembly to "arithmetic, navigation, and all useful find means to provide more fully for learning." Maryland children. Miss Fletcher writes The School House was begun after the that the erection of a college building at Assembly in September of 1696 requested William and Mary representing extraor- the trustees to meet with workmen and dinary generosity of the crown to the agree upon a building. It was occupied college dramatized the lack of the initially by the Governor's Council. crown's generosity to Maryland. The House reaffirmed in 1704 that it HART, WHO FELT that the distance had been built as a free school, but the made William and Mary "altogether State House burned in 1704, and the useless to us" and remarked that Mary- schoolhouse was used by the council, by landers wishing to educate their sons sent the public library, and to house public them to England anyway, appealed to records until the new State House was Great Britain. built in 1711. He wrote that "we should have Some In 1721, after the three pence moity share of this Royall Bounty Toward the · was adopted and 25 years after the Support of a Free School already Built at chartering of the school, the School Annapolis and that the one Penny pound House was tenanted by the school master to be Collected within this Province ... and its rooms made available for classes. might be applied to the use and Support The first master was the Rev. Edward thereof." · Butler, who also was rector of St. Anne's Since the penny tax had been pledged Church and one in a series of rectors who in perpetuity by charter to William and were to double as masters of King Mary, the royal reply was no. In 1_720, William's School. • Diana Gonzales is an English teacher at the high school in the rural town of Questa, N.M. Last year she enrolled in St. John's summer Teachers Institute. She became so enthusiastic over What she learned that she went to Gilbert Archuleta, her superintenden.t, and together they came up with some old copies of Homer's Iliad. Diana immediately went to work teaching the Iliad using the seminar approach. To her surprise, students, whose scholar. ly interest had been lacking, appeared to come awake, fascinated by Homer, and to demonstrate an enthusiasm that she had never known before. The English teachers in the system were excited~ They, too, wanted to learn how to teach these great works. And so Mr. Archuleta turned to St. John's for help. IN JEMEZ SPRINGS, N.M., Principal Steve Stewart had St. John's tutors conduct seminars on Plato's Meno for his teachers. The results were reported to be "spectacular." Soon, teachers were passing on their own sense of enthusiasm and camaraderie to their students. The excitement was such that one lr1*P \ . attdentS: alreitdY has begun Ill Ill President Edwin J. Delattre as the keynote speaker at the 98th annual meeting of the New England Association of Schools December 8 in Boston, "Asking the Right Questions About Technology"; as keynote speaker, annual meeting, Independent School Headmasters Association, February 3 in Boston; Ferrand College of the University of Colorado, "Liberal Education in State Universities," November 17. Dean Samuel Kutler at Thomas Aquinas College, January 13, "Play and Seriousness"; at St. Mary's College in California, January 17, "Complex Numbers"; as a panelist at the National Policy and Higher Education meeting of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Manhattan, January 26. Wye Allanbrook, Annapolis tutor, before the Yale Department of Music in, November, "The Contredanse as Don Giovanni's Proper Music." Laurence Berns, Annapolis tutor, at Louisiana State University in Alexandria, "The Conquest of Nature: Science, Technology, and a Human Life." Jeri Rhodes, Annapolis treasurer representing the independent college sector of Maryland's higher education institutions, before doctoral students of higher education administration at the University of Maryland, on financial planning and budgeting. Elliott Zuckerman, Annapolis tutor, before the New York Wagner Society at the Abigail Adams Smith Museum Auditorium, ''After the First Hundred Years." N eidorf is reviewer Dean Robert Neldorf of the Santa Fe campus served as a reviewer for the interdisciplinary doctoral program at the University of Dallas in December. • Dante's Inferno, and Principal Stewart has asked St. John's for more assistance with other seminars. In addition, working closely with the New Mexico State Department of Education, St. John's has discovered a common problem facing rural schools in the Southwest which the college sees itself in a unique position to help. With shrinking enrollments, many of the smaller schools are unable to afford a teacher for each subject area. As a result, an English teacher may find himself teaching mathematics or history. Generally they see themselves as patching up a bad situation. St. John's believes that its experience in teaching across departmental and subject-area lines can be valuable to them. Steven Van Lucene, director of Santa Fe's Graduate Institute, points out that teachers and administrators in outlying areas tend to be isolated from colleges and university support readily available in urban areas. In small districts, there often is little communication among various high school departments and between elementary and secondary schools. H~. sees t\!le ·educatiQ.pal progr~ms ..frag. mented and without cadequate opportuniJjies for teachers to learn from each qther. MR. VAN LUCENE says the college hopes to work with these schools in. two principal ways. One would be to bring teams of five or six teachers and administrators from a project school district to the Teachers Institute each year. The other would be to send tutors to lead in-service seminars at these schools for groups of 15 or 20 teachers, administrators, and interested citizens. The visiting tutors also would help in structuring curriculum and discussing pedagogy. The college believes that the program of summer study coupled with follow-up visits two or three times a year over a period of three to four years will increase significantly the quality of their education. As pilot project, St. John's is beginning with the Jemez Springs and Questa school districts which are close to Santa Fe. Eventualy it expects to make its resources available, both directly and through printed material, to other rural schools in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and Arizona. �THE REPORTER FEBRUARY 1984 Alulllni drive k C To the Editor: I am writing in response to Thomas Storck's letter in the September issue of the Reporter about the inadvisability of including eastern greater books in the St. John program. I strongly disagree with Mr. Storck's arguments and final conclusion. 1) Mr. Storck's first argument against eastern books is that -no westerner has the necessary background to erly understand eastern classics, requires intimate familiarity with a culture's nuances and presuppositions. This argument is inaccurate because the necessary characteristic that enables us to understand ·any great book, eastern or western, is that ·we are thinking creatures who know how to read. We can p\ck up the nuances and presuppositions of the East as we do those of ancient Greece and Rome, through careful practice and the attention to detail that St. John's seminars encourage. We run the risk of reading modern values into any ancient text, including those already on the St. John's list, but we take this risk in order to learn from . these texts. 2) Mr. Storck's second argument is that eastern great books will not help us toward understanding ourselves because we are not eastern. Besides restricting the composition of the student body of the college unnecessarily, this argument puts limitations on us to be no more than westerners. h Pages goes forward The Alumni Campaign for the Liberal Arts was sprinting down a fast track as 1983 concluded. By December 31, $59,456 had been Most disturbing to me about Mr. raised toward a combined goal of $160,000 Storck's letter is that it recommends for -both campuses. In terms of percentages, that means ignorance~ not for technical reasons, but on principle. It is a dangerous kind of the campaign is 37 per cent to its way of ignorance he recommends, because he achieving the $130,000 it hopes to raise for assumes that other people are so differ- the Annapolis campus and the $30,000 it is ent from us that we should avoid them seeking for the Santa Fe campus. Altogether 653 alumni have contributed rather thaQ make an attempt to underto both campuses to date. The total stand and benefit from them. St. John's represents liberal education; amount raised is $24,547, above that for education which makes us free and the same time last year. "The campaign is going far better than independent because we gain the ability to think clearly through exposure to as · I imagined," Allan Hoffman, 49, national many kinds of human thinking as we are chairman, said. "Alumni support is exemplary. We're really confident we're likely to encounter. Inclusion of Oriental great books would going to make our goal." In February the San Francisco Chapter not simply be ~n improvement. It is vitally necessary to preserve the integri- will sponsor its first telephone campaign, ty of the college as a liberal arts and in March both the Chicago and New institution. It is artificial to pose a· York Chapters will be telephoning alumgeographical separation of eastern and ni. western ideas. The decision to include these books becomes even more important as the world grows smaller. Having pioneered the Western great books tradition, and inspired other colleges and universities to adopt the method in their own curricula, St. John's (Continued from P. 1) should move ahead and expand its pro- growing soundness as an educational gram to include classics from all over the institution. world. St. John's should and does serve He pointed out that work by St. John's as an educational laboratory. It is the students and faculty on questions and ideal, in fact the only' environment for texts in literature, philosophy, theology, this next logical and reasonable step. history, political theory, poetry, and Ian. Chela Weiler Kleiber '77 guages are included in the areas of r_.lEH 1010 West Upsal Street support. He expressed his admiration for Philadelphia, Pa. 1911~ the NEH program that enables this form of support. "We are pleased that NEH, under the direction of William Bennett, has extended this opportunity to St. John's contributions to work in the humanities. The grant is a milestone for us, and will need. the help and support of our friends and amount that was received from her ·benefactors tQ match it and thereby to -foundation in June. Meanwhile the $211, take full advantage of it." 000 not covered by her pledge had been "We are pleased to contribute to the donated to the College by a former . health of the humanities in such.a diverse member of the Board. Hence, all indebt- :range of institutions," Mr. Bennett, who edness of the Santa Fe campus to the · is chairman, said in announcing the Annapolis campus was wiped out only grants. thirteen years after I had obtained Mrs. "Challenge grants are both a recogniPeterson's pledge. tion of the quality of the institution and a Sincerely yours, challenge to them to make to the private Riehard D. Weigle sector the same strong case for support President Emeritus they made to NEH." eastern boo s We do not currently read only books written in English, although an argument could be made that our thinking is so shaped by language that we will never be able to understand books written in a foreign language. The wonder of education is that we find out how complex we are as human beings. We learn about books from the ourselves when we East; indeed we learn more by expanding our experience through these books. The "terms ofthe West" Mr. Storck cites will never be enough to 'lead us to self. understanding. We need the light of Asia to illuminate our prejudices. 3) Mr. Storck's third argument is that the "Great Conversation" we observe in the present program would be interrupted by the introduction of books from the East. ·There are some authors we read who were not as ignorant of the East as we are at St. John's. Goethe, Nietzsche, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Yeats and T.S. Eliot took the East seriously. Much of the great conversation is already lost to us because we do not read books from the Orient. I do agree, however, that it is a great challenge to introduce a number of new books into the program all at once. Careful planning would be necessary, as it has been in the past with the introduction of music and changes in the laboratory program. St. John's has never been a college to avoid a challenge when its own principles are at stake. NEHgrant ~ 'milestone' On indebtedness at Santa Fe To the Editor: I was delighted to learn that the indebtedness of the Santa Fe campus to the ·Annapolis campus had been erased, but there is much more to the story than appears in your article on the first page of the November Reporter. The first major construction. contract on the western campus was let only after total pledges exceeded the amount of the contract. As work proceeded on the classroom building, the laboratory building, and the student center, it soon became apparent that requisitions for nounced. ·A program scheduled to begin registration at 10 a.m. will include a morning tutorial followed by lunch and a seminar. Persons wishing to pre-register for the coming summer session will be invited to do so. Cocktails and dinner will conclude the day. Invitations are on the way with former students from both campuses welcome. For additional information, be in touch with the Graduate Insti- payment to the contractor were coming in more rapidly than payments on pledges. The Board of Visitors and Governors was thus confronted with a dilem~ ma. Should it suspend construction pending receipt of pledge payments? Should it seek to borrow -from an insurance company at what then seemed an astronomical rate of interest, eight percent? Or should it borrow from the Annapolis endowment fund? Upon recommendation of the Finance Committee, the Board adopted the third alternative. The sum of $2 million was needed, but the Chairman of the Finance Committee himself gave $50,000 on condition that the borrowing from the endowment fund not exceed $1,950,000. The rate of interest to be paid by Santa Fe was set at four. percent, the amount that the endowment fund was then earning annually. Within five years the amount of the loan had been reduced to $1,461,000, mainly gifts to the Santa Fe campus for this purpose. to assure of Seeking a the I Mrs. Duane a member of the Board, to pledge the sum of toward loan reduction. In return for her pledge, I suggested that the student center be named for her late husband. She accepted request, and the building was named Duane.. L. and Clementine Peterson Student Center. She planned to make annual payments toward the pledge and promised that any remaining balance would be a first charge against her Annapolis treasurer Jeri Rhodes presents the keys of the Student Polity's new Chevrolet Suburban to PoJity,president Phifip:~eterson. Thecninel'seat Suburbaq SDP&>lemen:ts la .six· passenger darnsed: tor studeatiactivities. At right is assistant dnn • �U~l'llft 6 ' (Continued from P. 1) Beaumarchais from Paris's Commedie Francaise. Jean-Louis Riviere, secretary-general of the Commedie Francaise, who will the exhibit to St. will an mrormal talk at 4 p.m. Septemthe Conversation Room. The French connection will come 11 months after the bicentennial of the of Paris. which declared Ameri- of the 18th and bawdy in usual college will be linked to the bicentennial, Friday lectures, commencement. opens on 15-16 . the Colonial theatrical company . which will be co-sponsored. Anna1>0Hs' Alliance Francaise. OF Wadmond, educational cor1su1ta1nt one of 16 scholars on the Anna1po11s at a recent luncheon. Todd Reicharl photo St. John's College has received a grant of $160,114 from the Beneficial-Hodson Trust. President Edwin J. Delattre, who accepted the gift, one of four given to Maryland schools this year, said it would be used for scholarship purposes. This year there are 16 students designated as Beneficial-Hodson scholars. The gift was presented by Finn M.W. Caspersen, chairman of the trust and chairman and chief executive officer of Beneficial Corporation, during a· luncheon at the World Trade Center in Baltimore. Since St. John's became a Benef.icialHodson grant recipient in 1964, it has received a total of $1, 760,846. In accepting the latest grant, Mr. Delattre emphasized the important role its generosity plays in the future of St. John's. "The Beneficial-Hodson scholarship endowment at St. John's College enables the college to provide educational opportunity to highly de.serving and meritorious students," he said. . "This gift of over $160,000 reflects the abiding commitment of the BeneficialHodson Trust to high quality independent college education. All of us at St. John's are deeply grateful for the gift. We are Notes (Continued from Page 2) Andy recently played Jacob, the patriarch in Clifford Odet's Awake and Sing, which was Nathan Rosen's master's project for his degree in drama at Maryland. The Rosens, '83 (Leslie is a Montessori School teacher) and Andrew are living in the same hoµse in Hyattsvile. Also residing with them are Laura (Trent) and David Stein, '83. Laura is with the Defense Department, and David is teaching geometry at Si. twell Friends School in Washington. 1982 Rachel O'Keefe and Sean Mulholland are both teaching at the same private school in Washington, the Maret School. Rachel is teaching mathematics to fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth graders and Sean humanities to fifth, seventh and ninth 1:1rarlPrs ' honored by the support and confidence of the Beneficial-Hodson Trust." Other recipients include Washington and Hood Colleges and The Johns Hopkins University. Altogether grants totaled $2,230,114. A perpetual scholarship fund in memory of Betty Beck Bennett, '60, who died September 3 of cancer, has been organized by the Northern California Alumni Chapter. With Harrison Shepherd, '61, serving as chairman, alumni of her era hope to raise $5,000 to be used for the financial aid needs of Annapolis students. Letters have gone out to members of classes from 1958 through 1963 who were on the campus during the years Mrs. Bennett was a student. "Betty's expressed wish for a charity of choice in her memory was St. John's College, to the benefit of ·the Annapolis campus," Mr. Shepherd said. "As vice-president and charter treasur. er of the St. John's College Alumni Association of Northern California, Betty worked actively for the college to the last months of her time with us." The chapter hopes to raise enough to present the endowment to the Board of Visitors and Governors by the time of its meeting. Bennett, who was 45, received a law degree in the mid 1970s from the Golden Gate University Law School in San Francisco. An employee of the State of California at the time of her death, she was on the staff of the Commission on Judicial Performance. Born in Cumberland, she is survived by her husband, David, and by two children, Kathryn, of Berkeley, Calif., and Alice, of San Rafael, Calif. Tax deductible contributions should be made payable to St. John's College and noted for the Betty Beck Bennett Memorial Fund. They may be sent to the Annapolis campus in care of the Develop. ment Office. of the Bicentennial .Commit~e ~umci and board members with friends from are, besides Mr. Carr: Mr. Mr. Delattre, Blume, Zoe Gilbert A. Ann Robert Goldwin, Major General John W. Huston, Phebe Jacobsen, Emily Kutler, Dean Samuel S. Kutler, Jerome LaPides, Canon A. Pierce Middleton, the Rev. Winfree Smith, Rebecca Wilson, and Mrs. J.M.P. Wright. events, AHanbrook, St. John's tutor, who has written on will give the lecture on 14. Mr. Carr said Charter Day will be of three days of special events, days coinciding with homecoming. With seminars moved to Wednesday, a sym. posium is scheduled for Thursday, September 20, "The Annapolis Enlightenment and St. John's College." It will be held at 8:15 p.m. in the Key Auditorium and be followed by a question period. Friday, September 21, the Marilyn Neeley piano trio from the University of Maryland will perform music of the 18th century at 8:15 p.m. in the Key Auditorium. Charter Day will begin at 10 a.m. with · the procession by faculty, students, alum. Cleanliness is not only next to godliboard members, and distinguished ness, but .now it's next to the Student guests with participants marching to the Activities Center in the basement of the Liberty Tree, where the ceremony will be Evans Science Laboratory. Amid much thanks giving, particularly held. Should bad weather occur, it will be from Istvan Fehervary, SAO director, held in the Key Auditorium. Believing that there is a need to focus who has sought such facilities over a 10more central attention on St. John's year period, the western campus has two history, the Charter Bicentennial Com- showers and a locker room. mittee also is planning a series of infor. Stud'ents engaged in the weight room or mal talks on college history - "Tea and fencing or karate have never had a place History" - in the King William Room of to clean up. Nor has the college, as a the library. Scheduled for the first Tues- good host (blush, blush), been able to day of the month, the series will include offer facilities to visiting teams. The days talks covering the period of King William of embarrassment are over. School, consolidated with St. John's in The work was completed by the build1785, and continuing into the New Pro- ings and grounds staff as the result of a gram. gift from local philanthropists Mr. and John Barry Talley, director of musical Mrs.-Donald Kirby. The Kirbys also have activities at the Naval Academy, has been responsible for the repaving of the volunteered to direct St. John's students college tennis courts, now considered the in a ballad opera, a short musical affair best in Santa Fe. r SU r What do St. Johnnies do after graduation? How difficult is it to enter fields like law, medicine, teaching, journalism, science and the arts? Where can current students turn in order to gain a realistic, insider's view of educational prerequisites, job prospects, and potential rewards and challenges within a given career field? A new Alumni Career Survey is being co-sponsored by the Career and Alumni Offices in Annapolis and Santa Fe with assistance from the Alumni Association and strong support from President Delattre. Alumni are being asked on a one-page questionnaire to provide information not only on present and previous occupations, but also on education beyond St. John's and on other activities, including community involvements, artistic and intellectual pursuits, and avocations. The data gathered will be entered into a computer program in Santa Fe. It's designed to identify alumni willing to assist students and to provide some very specific information. For instance, if a student wants a list of names .of alumni lawyers in San Francisco, that information can be made available immediately. Alumni are urged to complete and return the Alumni Career Survey questionnaire as soon as possible. �FEB "We've Gessner of in RETURN from Was~ ington, for ten cents more, passengers could ride down King George Street to the dock area and board a ferry where the Academy's field house now stands, crossing over to Claiborne below St. Michael's. Later, it went to Romacoke on Kent Island with another ferry connection to Claiborne. And this was not to speak of the old B&O side track which rather "messed up" St. John's back campus. It entered about where Calvert Street is and cut diagonally across the back campus to just behind the French Monument, crossing King George Street and running through the Academy gate near College Creek, hauling coal and other supplies. The city, itself, was netted with overhead wires for street cars which went down West Street, around Church Circle, down Main, across the market space and up King George, down College Avenue, back to West. What with all the additional telegraph, telephone, and street light wiring, standing at Church Circle the overhanging wires were so dense you couldn't see the city dock. Electricity had made cheap public transportation available. Electricity was what was beginning to make Annapolis work coming to St. John's during President Thomas Fell's long term, of 1886 to 1923. "That was another reason he was well thought of,'' said Mr. Gessner of the president who doled out pocket money to students and ministered to their medical needs. "He brought the creature comforts of steam heat and electricity." Hot water was still not easily available. to 1923, the boys shaved with hot water they drained from the radiators," Mr. Gessner said. "It was the only hot water they could get." "BUNNY" Gessner's acquaintance with St. John's goes back to the college's military era when he was among the young volunteers from the eighth grade that the St. John's cadets were teaching to drill. Later, in 1927, after it had become a civilian school, he graduated from here, returning in 1928-29 to coach junior varsity football, basketball, and lacrosse teams for two years and to instruct physical educational classes. For budgetary reasons he actually .e:ot oaid the first M•'!!U"llft 7 year for services as a night watchman. he wound and served for 40 years tte Sales Division of the Coca-Cola cornmmy out of Atlanta, P1Ht:hm·ah . . . . . . . . . .UAJ the 1970s he served as president of the Association and is now a member of the Alumni Association Board · and its Portrait and Memorials Committee. HE'S A REGULAR member of the monthly luncheons of the Alumni Association, nailing facts in place about St. John's old days with his sharp memory of college history and throwing out oneliners with such quick wit it's a wonder some presidential speech writer hasn't grabbed him. At one fall meeting it was Bunny who described the art of sail boarding, of handling a free swinging mast in which the sailor bears the weight of the wind, dumping it out when the load becomes too heavy, and guiding the directions of the board with his feet. He knows because he was done it for the two past summers. Mr. Gessner remembers St. John's in those early days when the back part of the campus beyond the short line tracks was mostly brush and when "Buzzard's Roost," a slum full of shacks, existed about where the state parking lots along Rowe Boulevard now are. The creek was mostly frequented by fishermen, drunks, and crap shooters, he said. He recalls the excitement of St. John's during his days on campus. During World War I the college had been run by the army, which returned it to civilian hands afterwards. By the time he arrived as a freshman in 1923, St. John's "was on a new kick. It was going places and rising from a low point in history that occurred during the old age and retirement of Dr. Fell in 1921." "DURING WORLD WAR I St. John's was taken over by the U.S. War Department," Mr. Gessner recalled. "Colonel Duncan Elliott was the officer in charge. He was a good administrator and disciplinarian. Following the war, the War Department turned the college back to the Board of Visitors and Governors. Dr. Fell was still president but was not well and advanced in age. "The military officers sent by the army to run the ROTC program did not take their duties as seriously as Colonel Elliott had, and the college administration did not fill the void. In 1921 the student body went on strike.'' From Lt. General Ridgely Gaither, '24, one of his sources, he learned why. The students were demoralized and themselves demanding higher standards of teaching, discipline and administration. a New York nec~arr1e the moving force which reorganized col. lege. There were changes in the administration, the faculty, and the board. Interestingly, although the milit"T'" was over, the new president, Enoch Barton Garey, a former professor of military science and tactics at Johns Hopkins University, who established an ROTC unit at St. John's, had wanted to buy the tip of land across College Creek from the campus to bring part of the U.S. Cavalry to St. John's and also have a place where polo could be played. It was a plan Mr. Gessner said that General Douglas MacArthur and the White House vetoed. WHAT GAREY did do was hire a "first class faculty,'' including three Rhodes scholars: Walter Agard, who became dean and later joined the Experimental College at Wisconsin; Tom Brockway, who later joined the Bennington College faculty, and Ford K. Brown, who became a major tutor under the New Program. Both Agard and Brockway eventually were voted among the top ten professors in the United States by the old Life magazine, according to Mr. Gessner. And there were such people as Jerry McGill in philosophy, James Cane in journalism, and Felix Morley, later president of Haverford. Clarence Stryker, whose portrait is in the Great Hall and whose ashes were buried under the Liberty Tree, was a "wonderful" history teacher. Faculty members who became part of the New Program were Richard Scofield, William Bailiff, Frederick W. Appel, and Vertress J. Wychoff. Alexander Meiklejohn lectured regularly. The faculty began to weed out bad students. Names of those who failed to perform well were posted on a "black list" at McDowell Hall, making impossible for them to take part in extracurricular activities until they improved. The quality of the two-year, pre-med program became so good, Mr. Gessner said, that a graduate could go to any medical school in the country. CLASSES WERE SMALL. "I took Latin for two years, and there were never more than ten in a class," Mr. Gessner said. "Students were free to talk any time. All the classes were taught in a disciplined manner but always open to student questioning and comment, not too to deal " Mr. Gessner his own bit of philosophy. "Honest are hard to deal with. When I left, we good scholastic and athletic programs, and we had high morale." Mr. Gessner told one story about Mr. Garey that he got from Ford K Brown. Garey apparently had given a speech in which he had declared that St. John's would always and forever be committed to the liberal arts and the humanities. When Garey was reseated by Mr. Brown, he asked him in an undertone, "What the hell are the humanities?" What did Garey in was 1929, the year he resigned, and the depression which hurt the college badly, partly because of what Mr. Gessner believes to have been an unfortunate decision. He said Garey was persuaded oy a number of board members to buy up colonial houses in Annapolis. Among the properties it acquired are some ·Of the city's proudest properties today: the Hammond-Harwood House, the Brice House, the Bordley-Randall House, the John Callahan House (formerly Pinkney), once located on St. John Street and now on Conduit, and a brick house at the corner of Prince George and College Avenue. GAREY HAD BEEN persuaded that St. John's could become an outstanding center for the study of colonial architecture. While the college helped preserve what was to become some of the great architectural treasures of Annapolis, Mr. Gessner said at that practically· speaking, the houses were "worthless property.'' "What could you do with the Hammond-Harwood House, with no plumbing They were not assets, and no and they be sold because nobody Who were you going to had any sell a lot of to?" As the worsened, Mr. Gessner said college found its own financial situation worsening. "St. John's doesn't seem that much cn:m,g;ea," Mr. Gessner said as he observes students today. "I can visualize these people as being as unsophisticated, as silly, as smart, or as bright as those I knew when I was on campus." He likes the friendliness of faculty and students he sees on his frequent campus visits. �THE REPORTER Pages FEBRUARY 1984 s ets . . . . , -"'- - HANS VON BRIESEN Von Briesen lab director One can acquire a new perspective in teaching at St. John's. "Western civilization is not as sick as I · had thought and has deeper roots than I imagined," Hans von Briesen, who once left the academic world for good, has found. Mr. von Briesen is director of laboratories for the western campus who also leads freshman seminars and teaches the sciences. Annapolis tutors marry Oh the uses of Aristotle. Practical as this philosopher was, a party theme he probably thought he would never be. The Aristotelian adaptation was seized upon by a noonday book group for a shower for St. John's tutor Henry Higuera, married December 30 to another Annapolis tutor, Marilyn Douville. The study group, made up principally of staff members and faculty wives, has ·been reading books on the program for the past three and a half years and more recently Aristotle's Ethics. · . To show their appreciation for Mr. Higuera, who served as their Ethics leader, they threw the surprise shower in the Carroll-Barrister reception room and accompanied all their with Aristotelian quotations. "Sight is superior in to the other senses," one card from a member · of the group, who .decided that since cleanliness to she would give him towels. "A man's work is cornnl.ete!d ence as well as by virtue," came another with a set of screw drivers. is a matter of size and order therefore either in a very ... or in a creature of one thousand miles apropos of a er. The Higueras are now in St. John's Dorsey House, 213 Prince Street. A mathematician previously associated with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Mrs. Higuera is in her fifth year of teaching at St. John's. Mr. Higuera, who has a doctorate from the University of Toronto and taught •cJ/feviouJlt :i atf' Dickinson' College~'. j~~Md the faculty last year. · ' ., ,.,nM:J 1,1 J A number of years ago· Mr. von Brie- Thomas G. Keens, a member of Santa Fe's first graduating class, has been promoted to associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. The promotion carries tenure with it. Dr. Keens continues as a subspecialist in pediatric respiratory disorders in the Neonatal Respiratory Diseases Division at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. He · runs the Infant Apnea Program there. "This is a program which evaluates infants at high risks for the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS, crib death)," Dr. Keens said. "Many of these infants are sent home on electronic monitors which sound an if the infant stops breathing or the heart-rate fails. Although not a proven method, it remains the best technique presently available to prevent SIDS in high risk infants." This 1968 alumnus also manages infants and children with disorders of neurologic control of breathing and respiratory muscle weakness - who require long-term assisted ventilation. He manages a number of these children at home with respirators or diaphragm pacing. During the past year, Dr. Keens was elected to membership in the Society for Pediatric;: Research, a prestigious research society for academic pediatri· cians. Previously he was elected to full membership in the equally prestigious American Physiological Society. Last February 25 Dr. Keens and his wife,-susan, gave birth to their second child, Thomas Keens, in La Canada, Calif. The one.year-old is reported to be a constant source of sibling rivalry for his four-year-old Jenny Erin Keens. · "It's a great life, and I am thoroughly enjoying academic with its combination of care, teaching, and '' Dr. Keens said. Chicagoans go to rt.Tl•CH·~ Members of the Chicago Chapter of the Alumni Association will attend a performance of Mozart's Do11 Giovanni the Chicago Opera Theatre on February 5. A get-together with a member of the production and dinner will follow. On March 6 members will meet with President Delattre for a discussion of study comm unities for humanities teachers: Introducing the hoard sen, who did his undergraduate work at Stanford and earned a doctorate in physics at the University of Rochester, had spent three years teaching science at the St. John's new board chairman is a Opportunity, from 1970-73, and memberNortheastern University when he found himself souring on academia and, looking Chicago attorney who has held top gov- ship on the Department of Transportafor a wider meaning of life, chucked it all ernmental positions at both federal and tion's Urban Transportation Advisory Council, from 1971-74. state levels. for the Lama Foundation in Taos, N.M. IN ILLINOIS, Mr. Robson has acted as A 1952 Yale graduate with a law degree He stayed at this spiritual community for six years, working his way up to chief earned in 1955 from Harvard, John Rob- transportation counsel for the governor administrator. It was there that he met son had practiced law in Chicago and and chaired a gubernatorial commission Washington between 1958 and 1975. He to organize the newly established Illinois his wife, Sakina. Because she is a singer, they moved to · became executive vice-president of the Department of Transportation. Mr. Robson's other activities have inSanta Fe to take advantage of the city's G.D. Searle & Company, Skokie, Ill., in 1977 after resigning as chairman of the cluded serving as director of the Conticultural life. A Santa Fe tutor, Tom nental Air Lines and Consolidated Rail Simpson, suggested that he apply for the Civil Aeronautics Board. In 1968 he was appointed under secre- Corporation, as a member of the Visiting college's laboratory post and, although he was wary of the academic world, St. tary - now deputy secretary - of . Committee to the Committee on Public transportation. He has served several Polley Studies, University of Chicago, as John's appealed to him. A dedicated individual, he is now in months as interim administrator of the a visiting fellow at the American Entercharge of all science laboratories, super- Federation Urban Mass Transportatfon prise Institute for Public Policy Revising supplies, repairs, marketing and Administration. In 1969 he returned to the search, as director of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, and as a logistics as well as 14 laboratory assist- practice of law. Earlier, in 1966, he had served on the Carthage Fellow, Yale School of Organiants. He teaches chemistry and atomic theo- White House staff working on a variety of zation and Management. A native of New York, Mr. Robson is ry in freshman laboratory and atomic economic problems. Other federal posts physics and evolutionary and bacterial have included chairmanship on the Na- married to the former Margaret Zuehlke genetics in senior laboratory. Through tional Advisory Council on .Economic and has two children. his seminars, he is enlarging his horizons. "Now I'm learning more of what I came here to learn," he said. "I've taken seminars and preceptorials whenever I can te expand my own knowledge." He believes that in most science programs, the emphasis is on the information content of a theory. At St. John's, it is the meaning of the theory. As a consequence Mr. von Briesen believes it is difficult to communicate the importance of science at St. John's to outsiders'. He feels_ good about being at St. John's "because I can ask things afraid to about science that I was ask." The von Briesens have three sons, a daughter, and twin granddaughters. His second son, who just received an honorable mention in the state science appears to following in his '"' ..... '°"'" footsteps. When he is not in his laboratories, Mr. von Briesen, who is 45, is either reading scientific magazines or journals or fol- Caroline Taylor, director of financial aid, is with John. Robson, chairman of the Board of lowing his great love, repairing automo- Visitors and Governors, and board member Harvey M. Goldstein, · 59, during a party for biles. Both von Briesens also are deeply faculty and board members. Provost J. Burchenal Ault is in the back. ~~vqlvediq the, mµsict and ~t\t~ate.i: pain~ !~Jr 1<d: !B gn;'fl~~ j l:tJ•): l~idc ir:•:BllQllirtAl'ltto Robson former CAB head 1 nntidttes~S~fl.ta Ji"/.,;;ii~1~"' ,,,,, ~'.l1·•N �St. John's College never gives examina. grades,the senior oral examinations are evaluated on an honors-pass-fail basis. tions. True? False? "I'm proud of the way most seniors can And that, incidentally, is exactly the sort of short answer question the college handle it," Mr. Kutler said. "Some sendecries. The answer is false, of course. iors are very nervous, but generally, as According to Dean Samuel Kutler, stu- the students read their summary statements that begin the examinations, they dents are constantly being examined. "All classes are under continual exami- calm down." There are two times in which students nation," he said. "That's better than a big test at the end of the year when you are enabled. The progress of sophomores is reviewed at the end of the second year bone up and forget." Examinations, in the conventional, by the Faculty Instruction Committee bluebook, semester-end sense, don't exist together with the advice of all the tutors at St. John's. They do come in other of sophomores. The sophomore essay forms, including the half-hour oral in becomes especially important, particuwhich a student is examined by his two larly as it relates to the possibility of the student writing an acceptable senior esseminar leaders. Orals come at the end of each semester say. To be accepted, it must have reuntil the end of the student's four years ceived a satisfactory grade. A second enabling examination comes at St. John's when the oral is expanded into one of the most important events of as seniors return to the campus in the his senior year: the hour-long examina- fall. Occurring just prior to registration, this examination consists of an examination of his senior thesis. On the Santa Fe campus, where semi- tion of six books from the program nars papers are required every semester, assigned over the summer. the orals are based upon an examination "THE PURPOSE IS to re-read some of the papers. Annapolis has a slightly _important books and to see how a stuidifferent system, requiring a single semi- dent's reaction may differ from his nar paper at the conclusion of each of the previous readings,'' Mr. Kutler said. four years and more papers in tutorials "One of the bad things about the program is that we rarely have a chance to and in the sciences. IN THE EAST the oral on the paper return with care to the books we have comes only at the year's end; at· mid- read." The examination is viewed against the year a student faces a half-hour examination on the books he has read that student's total record. If his performance represents a borderline case, the tutors semester. "An oral examination can be a very may waive the results but use them as a revealing conversation among three peo- warning and inform seminar leaders to ple," Mr. Kutler said. let the dean's office know if the student is "It fills a gap. In a seminar a student not making satisfactory progress. If it is a failure, a student may be talks, but he can't always follow up on what he has said. This gives the tutors a asked to repeat the examination or, in an chance to see how deeply he can pursue extreme case, the student will not be the text without relying on the next readmitted to the senior year without student to take over. We don't try to pin meeting special conditions. "We treat the examination as a diagnohim to the wall. We try to help him. It's sis," Mr. Kutler said. the best kind of examination." Tutors often give quizzes, particularly It also enables a student who tends to be silent to speak as much as he likes, in the languages, and may mark answers away from 20 other students in his right or wrong without giving grades. Class demonstrations in mathematics are seminar. "Orals are much worse," Rebecca considered a form of examination as they Einsig, Philadelphia sophomore, said in are in the laboratory sciences. Lab recomparing them to written, bluebook ports also come cis still another form. There are two tests students are asked exams. "I would much rather go in and write regularly to take. One is a test of ability an answer on a given topic. Most stu- to perform relatively simple algebraic dents at most schools spew back what the and trigonometric operations required professor says. Here, two adults held in just before the junior year. Rising seniors great esteem, have a conversation with also are tested to see if they can read you, and you have to think on your feet. relatively sophisticated French prose, usually something from Tocqueville. StuYes, I think that's harder." The examination of the senior thesis is · dents are permitted to bring dictionaries an impressive occasion of a distinctly St. and other textual aids to class. SHOULD A STUDENT fail either of Johnsian character. Formal in nature and beginning with a touch of ceremony, these, Mr. Kutler said he is advised to it is held in the King William Room of the enroll in a class over the summer so that library with the student and the examin- the deficiencies can be remedied, and, ing committee of three tutors all attired using proctors in the town where he may in academic dress. Generally, it is at- be taking the course, he is re-examined. tended by a group of friends and by the If he has a bad record in the sciences, the student is requested to write papers to faculty adviser for the paper. IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, the examiners indicate he has a greater grasp of the are tutors with whom the student has not work. previously worked, a committee that Blue book examinations. may be unmay bring more surprises to the occasion avoidable at large universities where it is than if it were a group with whom he had conceivable, in large, lecture classes, been closely associated. The examination that a student can go through four years climaxes a month-long period in which of college without opening his mouth. the student has been freed from all At St. John's students are expected to classes to concentrate on the paper. talk. And with no short answers, no "The student gets a chance to show chance to fudge when one is pressed, what he's done during the previous four, however, politely, to speak precisely, full weeks and a chance to show how well with all the searching, follow-up quesprepared he is, not only to write a paper tions there, the oral examination may be Student talent comes out twice a year to work for King William Players. Dressed as taxi but to go beyond that and to discuss the among some of the most demanding cabs at one recent fund-raising cabaret were, from left, Gabrielle .Fink, Julie Hamburger, text with some fle~bility," Mr. Kutler given. Examinations? St. John~es may well take some of the toughest in the said. and Samantha .Alderson~ P@~id K'dd.i• ~i!19i!19 1a~ the mike.. . · ~ . •• · • ~· ~ · ·:• , ·· 1. ' .1 ' • ·•· ' '" • · · : :. • . Todd Relchm1 photos ' ·.While the papers receive letter- country. �THE REPORTER Page 10 FEBRUARY 1984 ' WILLIAM A. DARKEY It is an honour and a nrivH1~£!e to have this John Meem in ly honoured to and almost as a member to have his sustained friendshiD for this as well perfectly obvious never have been here at all be;rnt]ifully on this beautiful land but Mr. and Mrs. Meem; nor possibly would it have survived on this campus without their continued generous support. To say this is to say very much. John Gaw Meem and his wife Faith were more responsible than anyone for St. John's College having settled in Santa Fe, Provost J. Burchenal Ault said at a memorial service at Holy Faith Church last summer following his death at the age of 88. Before any other · had they gave over 200 acres of land for the college. St. John's held its own memorial service for Mr. Meem in November when former Dean Robert A. Darkev delivered these remarks. this and a marvellous the past, to find what is this it was very should like rigJ~m~ss.InreTinernbE~ri~1~ of his friendship I shall also the nature of John ~u.uege in the colle~e. Mr. Meem's death in .n.u.e;u.•:n, I think that all of us have presence in ways that are new, and for us in our awareness of his absence. One of these ways, for me, has to see new eyes, beautiful bu.ildings which :realize his vision of and which we see as we go of our about Santa Fe in the daily lives. For me these pr1.nc1Lpauy have been the PrPd"lvtPrii::in Cristo Rey, the the Courthouse, St. Francis and most of all St. John's College every day. These, and also the a"r~u·ii1"ln~ vate homes that he designed, historic that he helped to preserve. His presence is everywhere in the heart of Santa Fe. It has come to me that these buildings are not merely beautiful, though they are, but that they are also. and more importantly, expressions and :realizations of a vision of human civility. For most of human life is acted ·out in builldin.a:is. and I was standing with Mr. Meem on the terrace of his own beautiful home looking southward to and I made some still with an unaccommodated easterner's eye and that I found the land and often ening. HE SAID SIMPLY. still looking south, "I love it." And then, after a he said. "It gave me my I felt that he had a deep sense of ...,,.t........ ,,..,,,... that gift in his stewardship of this Mexican land and its traditions. He liked to let the land lie and be what it would of itself. I once remarked on some very large and undisturbed anthills in front of his house. He said, "Yes, aren't they lovely? They were there when we moved here." He made himself a part of this country in· a most thorough way. He knew the Indian culture and the Spanish culture, not vaguely or sen- timentally, but very well, beginning from the precision of his profession, and extending far beyond any narrow sense of architecture into the culture of which that architecture is a manifestation. then to build upon that in into the future. think that it may well have been um1er·sta1nding of human traditions in his own art that led foster the St. John's program of liberal arts. For architecture so conceived and so a liberal art. That is of Meem as a fellow of this For the office of the fellows is to us mindful, in whatever ways and perhaps we ought to example, of be, of we ought to be in practice in the world. I should. like now to return from these somewhat abstract thoughts to the immediacies of the relationships between John Meem and the college. He served on our Board of Visitors and Governors. When. ever he could., he attended college funcincluding commencements, convocations and community seminars of which he was a most thoughtful member . He often walked on the campus in the early morning with his dogs. I have wondered what he actually thought of us, of this actual incarnation of the idea, what he thought of all of us here. WHEN I my thoughts go in this direction, I am amazed at the courage, the trust and the generosity of spirit out of which Mr. and Mrs. Meem proposed to put this college literally in their own backyard, not just to give us a plot of unoccupied land somewhere, but to invite us to be their neighbor and to share with us the very piece of land on which they lived. Que cosa ! I think Mr. Meem has taught us something about 11eighb(}rbood wonderfully characteristic York Dr. '43, writes: "I met him at St. in his freshman year at the beginning of my senior (1942), and we planned a visit after war to the kibbutzim of his Israel. This took place in 1950 with several other students under the aegis of Stringfellow Barr's Foundation for World Government. "Sam was to this summer learn. exp,emmce for all of us since he knew both country and Hebrew well. He studied medicine at Lausanne, Switzerland, after. wards, and worked in at Albert Einstein Medical Center in New York, but his first myocardial infarction made him shift to a , less active (physically) branch of medicine. He became a good and well of psychoanal· ytic psychiatist in New York. "He taught both at the Dartmouth Medical School, where he commuted from a summer home nearby for several years, and later at the Cornell Medical School at New York Hospital. "He was a warm, generous, highly intelligent person whom we shall all miss. He had high hopes for his only child, Talia, becoming a ballet dancer following his beloved wife Flo's example. He was a good physician in the best Hippocratic tradition much liked by both his friends and his students. "He always credited St. John's and its New Program with being the high point of his life and continued all his life as a student and reader of great books." Sheinkman's York City. · · �, 1 More 40 students are taking part . in the new· series of Saturday .visits to the National Art Gallery in Washington. The response has been enthusiastic. "I think it's going wonderfullv." Lisa Ross, Bloomsburg, Pa., senior, "Discussions are out as well as those for any seminar the curricuand as are as found Assisting him are a group of tutors who . include Janet Dougherty, William MulTom May, and Elliott Zuckerman. Although there is a sizeable program of · extra-curricular studio art class'es at St. JohR's, the study of the visual arts is not of the college's formal curriculum. in response to Mr. Blistein 'l'll"l''lncr.orl the Washington visits. visits have convinced me that natural our students find it sense· almost easier to talk of art lack of "THE STUDENTS showed the same in some even showed in .cuscm,su1g or the music we listen to in or tutorials." / ,,?.. a wonderful " Elizabeth said. "I a seminar which students use _ have studied as references for their observations. visit students the final Bosch's " Titian's "Venus George de la Tour's Todd Reicharl photo (Continued from 1) sible to function? IT'S BEEN KNOWN to ue.1w11::u. Annapolis tutor Tom May recalls the story about Kant at the University of Konigsberg. Kant was given to lecturing brilliantly to a single object he picked out at the beginning of the year. One year he selected the second button of a student's shirt on which to fasten his attention. When the student owning that shirt failed to appear one day, Kant became so distraught and helpless without his button that after three abortive attempts to lecture he was simply defeated. and. left the room. A change at St. John's can affect the best of people. Nancy Mease, West Orange, N.J., senior and chairman of the Student Committee on Instruction, recalls one seminar finding another student sitting in her customary place and having to squeeze in another chair. "I couldn't concentrate. It disrupted the whole seminar." One time during his sophomore year, Claiborne Booker, Richmond, Va., senior, recalled, two of the students decided to exchange seats with their tutors. "The seminar was terrible." "l'm a middle of the table man myself, although I do like to change. sides," he said in describing why he believes students tend to retain the same "We at St. John's thrive on normalcy and tradition so much that we like things to stay the same." A wholly unscientific and statistic-free study of where people sit around . St. John's tables reveals there are generally two types of students: those who like the same seat or the same narrow range of the table and those tvoes who wander more freely. Homing in to the same seat to come later, rather than earlier, one's college career. Moving around appears more characteristic of first year students. As freshmen do all sorts of wild their first yeai: ~waY, frqrp., ~p~e rellsh fr~~doll) te>: ,br~ak; away from the fixed seating requirements of their high school years. "As a freshman, I deliberately sat in a different seat each time," Marion Sharp, '81, now an admissions representative, said. "For one thing, it was my first chance to do so. Later I stopped really caring and tended to sit in the same place for different classes." "SITTING IN A corner is terrible," Geoffrey Garner, Lexington, Ky., · more, summed it up. "You can't put your arms. on a table and lean forward." In tutorials, Mr. Garner likes to figure out left to right recitation practices. "If I'm well prepared, I sit on the right," he said of his Greek class. "If not, I sit on the left.'' Sometimes where one sits becomes just a matter of avoiding still one more decision in a decision-filled life. semester is underway. Like several tu. tors, Curtis Wilson prefers sitting midway on the long side of the table; it makes him feel less aloof. In tutorials Nicholas Maistrellis likes to wander around on the periphery of the class or sit off in a corner and keep talking. "It's one way I can pretend to be a professor," he jokes. The only understood rule for tutors in seminars is that they sit opposite one another. And where they sit does get talked about. "If. I change my place in a ·seminar from an unassigned but accustomed seat, it never goes unremarked,'' says Mr. May. "Last year when I was teaching with Hugh McGrath, he attended all but one seminar, and at that seminar I sat where Hugh usually sits. The students were astonished. Until I explained that Hugh was not going to be there, the students were visibly uncomfortable." Despite the chemistry its variations may produce, seating poses no problem for those calmer types in the college community. Seating is one of the things for which you tend to develop a routine, and it's not so important that you have to keep thinking about it, according to John White in delineating a common-sensical, unneurotic view of the whole matter. Which may be one reason many persons prefer the same seat. One thing seems clear. Wherever the tutor sits, that place assumes an added significance. By way of illustration there · is the story of Sancho Panza regarding the farmer reluctant to be seated. Sancho recounts: IF OBSERVATIONS for the Graduate Institute students hold true, it may be that the longer one remains a student, "If I have a class the first thing in the the more one is likely to stake out one's morning, I don't have enough mental own chair. "What I have found." Mr. May said, activities generated to get an idea where "is that 75 per cent of the undergraduate to sit," Pierre Gagnier, Annapolis senior, students by the third or fourth seminar of described his plight. "In the afternoon, I've usually finished the year tend to sit in the same place. There are always a few more mavericky my work just seconds before the class students who move around. The other begins, and I don't have time to choose." Why do students like to sit next to thing is that in the Graduate Institute people never change. Some of the most tutors? Feeling protected perhaps, or gregarious and flexible students appear because they like a tutor. "I liked sitting visibly and audibly upset if someone next to Winfree," one senior says fondly of a seminar she spent at Mr. Smith's takes their seat." The reason for selecting a seat may be elbow. Sometimes it's as simple as that. as simple as the need to serve a physical "It makes a difference if you are requirement. Karl Walling, Annapolis sitting among a lot of aggressive seminar senior and Gadfly editor, seeks a place at participants," Miss Sharp said, thinking the table where he can lean backwards back to her days as a student. "If you sit and have support. (And yes, he does at the end or near a tutor, you're more mind if people sit in his chair. "They all likely to be heard." Some generalities: know better.") In some seminars women have been Chris Reichert, Philadelphia, Pa., :mphomore, who is six feet, one inch tall, likes known to cluster on one side, men on the the middle of the table because there is other. Some boy and girl friends sit next more leg room and because he, too, to each other; others don't. Students who wants to lean back. Monika Viola, Annap- move about the most are thought by olis senior, who is long-legged, avoids some to be people with more definite personalities than those who don't. cross bars of laboratory tables. To have a table where one side is Joan Cook, Annapolis senior, seeks out " ... The farmer, who had been well the short end of the table, near a tutor, talkative and other side quiet leads to brought up and was proud of his manbecause she feels she can see and hear lop-sided discussions. The most persistent ners, would not hear of it until the everyone better there. Others believe the patterns are thought to occur in tutorials gentleman, becoming quite angry, laid middle of the long sides provides the in which students stay as close to or as both hands on the farmer's shoulders and same advantages. far" away from the tutor as possible. forced him into the place, saying, 'Sit No one likes corners. You can't hide in TUTORS ALSO have their own seating down, you stupid ass, for wherever I sit them or, for that matter, at any place preferences. At mid-year Elliot Zucker- will be the head of the table to .you.' That else. at a St. John's. table. Also, they , man .~hang~s en,ds. with his . co-leader, is my story, and to tell the truth, I don't :'partly as a . to' signal tbt, a new · think•it's out: ofolace her~.''' prpvide phys.ical com.fort L'", . ." . .. . . way ,. 1-- �12 ['..) )> (J) --0 ""D _ __.:::J'."""CC +>-:::Jc._O""CY OP.l 0 -J::,.-o ::Jo CfJ Q_ :::J :0 ::::J iii. (I)- CD gs__ == m - oo:lrr ::;;:: 0 =--'< o..-0 . ro :::::i (Q (fJ CD~ 0 CD 1-1·,,.,,..H,..,. was introduced on the western 13 years the brainchild of the director of Student Activities Office,· Istvan This year there 15 to 20 students involved in the country. of E. Leslie Medford, Jr., of is a $100 best set of new words for the college song, "St. John's Forever." The present set of lyrics, dating back to the time when St. John's was an all-male school, is considered anachronistic. The competition will be open until April 1. To test the singability of proposed wording, the freshman chorus under St. John's tutor Peter Kalkavage will try out each entry. Serving as judges will be Mr. Medford, Mr. Kalkavage, and three seniors: Claiborne Booker, of Richmond, former Student Policy president, Joan Cook, and Karl Walling, Gadfly editor. The winner will be announced at commencement. Present words are: Calif., Saint John's forever, her fame can never die, Fight for her colors, we'll raise them to 'the sky. Each loyal son pledges her his heart and hand, For her we as brothers stand. his worked with the team but with the as well. When he escaped Curtain in 1956, this country - and to St. John's. Under the sport has flourished. first in tournament, a meet in Dallas, St. home gold and silver medals. John's holds its own in with the schools in the Stan. the Air am Young University. Once again it showed its prize-winning capabilities in the Albuquerque competition and better financially <::1mn.nrtoPrl Combining a knowledge of the college's academic program with her own professional experience as a bookstore manager, Roberta Rusch, '78, assumed duties the first of the year as manager of the Annapolis campus' bookstore. She suc. ceeds Frances Boyd, who resigned in October. Prior to returning to St. Miss Rusch since last July had managed the B Dalton Bookstore in Wilmington, N.C. After graduating from St. John's, Miss Rusch was associated briefly with the computer business but began selling books in September of 1978, first with Waldenbooks for three years and then for the past two with B Dalton Booksellers. ;,1,;1Jtuv1.::i. most under the tutelage of Hun. masters. that work er. It is the of professional people with many fencers possessing ·doctoral aes;ree~s. He finds that fencers become a close and in cornp1~ut1on very close because, not only physically demanding, but the fencer must always be thinking one step ahead While she was with she served as assistant manager of a store in Va.~ and then as manager in Virginia Beach, Va. When she joined B Dalton, she worked her way up again to become manager of the Virginia Beach store before being requested to assume the management of the Wilmington store. With the exception of five years in Ohio, Miss Rusch up in Summit, N.J., where she was and where she gradua1ted from high school. St. John's she was active in women's athletics. Her name is pronounced "rush," as in "we rush to welcome her back to St. John's." of his co11n-PE!Utc>r He has an exc:nairige with the Air Force Ac::ulemy which enables the Air and St. John's teams to more often with one another. In he has ized a major tournament which is every to """'*'"'"""'~'" The great that this year it newly built Santa Fe Mr. Fehervary leaned and beamed with come the center of state of New Mexico." College St. John's College has received a dential contingency of the Exxon Education President Delattre said it would be used for "small but projects," among them the of faculty study groups. The foundation no restriction on the use of funds. Its award program a variation of an earlier one under which it sums of $2,000-$5,000 a year to presidents of private institutions. Entries should be marked St. John's Song and sent to the college in care of The Reporter. Friends the are reminded that the Alumni Association's second to Greece is open to them as well as to former students. Fond of the music of "St. John's Forever,'' Mr. who is dean of admissions at the University of the Pacif. ic, has an attachment to St. John's that spans three eras. As a child, he watched St. Johnnies drill on the front campus during its time as a school. He was a student here when the New ed. "I graduated under the ' but I appreciation of the 'new' in its .. . I am still close to the college scene and have an even for St. John's." _ who is said it will to Athens on conclude June 22 when back to New York. based upon double occupancy of rooms is Interested persons should write Mrs. Leeuwenat 294 Jefferson 08540. The Annapolis a 1984 Arundel and Arts. dence, said the money nni>T'.:ihna costs. In addition to a bus tour Greece, the will involve-a cruise Santorini, Patmos and Roberta Rusch, the new bookstore manager, chats with John senior. SUS. Todd Reichart 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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Computer age reaches the college Ten years from· now someone reading this story doubtlessly will find the whole excitement about a computer at St. John's College a little naive. in the belief of Flaumenhaft, November 198-3] Alumni ready fund drive a theme of ''One Colt:a1mp1uses," St. John's alumni .u, coc~rru1na1tea., fund ca11npa1gn for both campuses this . . ..,.AV&. . the year will do what around" with the co1111pu1ter which the with _ from the William H. and Mattie Harris Foundation. It will ....... ,.•• T • . , , , . Instead of meem:unoigetner . as most such will be members will much alone at the computer during time assigned to them and in twos and threes trying to write problem-solving proHarvey Flaumenhaft chairs the grams. They will meet weekly to discuss principles and techniques. MR. FLAUMENHAFT, who has been fascinated with artificial intelligence and general information technology for some St. John's College, "a haven for extime, is serving as chairman of a fourmember study group core. It includes traordinary people who can't resign Louis Kurs, David Stephenson, and John themselves to the compromises of a White, all released from a single teaching normal university," retains its high ratstation and devoting a third of their time ing in the second issue of the Selective Guide to Colleges. to the study group. It rates 13 of a possible 15 symbols, as Joining them on an informal basis and more irregularly are other members of it did last year when The New York the faculty, who have shown surprising Times issued the first such volume. Stars awarded last year in all three - interest. The· first- time the .sttJ.dy group met a third of the faculty showed up: · · · categories of college life the guide evaluates were used this year for only one (See Computer, P. 10) academics. On a scale of one to five, St. John's receives five. Telephones are used to rate social life, with St. John's receiving three, and asterisks for quality of life, for which the college is awarded five. In total number of symbc. ls, St. John's continues to be one of 11 sch ')Ols ratim;! 13 symbols and is outranked only which one more: and Virginia. None study group on computers. Todd Reichart photo SJ C retains high rating unchanged the ratings of top winners among its 275 "best and most interesting" colleges and universities. ST. JOHN'S WAS one on2 colleges 36 institutions in all, including universities - that received a five-star rating for academics, which. the guide bases ·on overall academic climate, reputation, faculty, and the abilities of the students. It was one of five colleges - 13 ·,nstitutions in all - to receive a fivea stel'isk rating for quality of life, and it rec~..iveJ a three for social life. To receive five is to be seen as "something of a party school." (More than one St. John's community member considers the three preferable to five in this category.) (See S.JC among, P. 4) the Santa Fe ca11nous: of Annapolis, at Annapolis to 1937, and Fred Schwendimann, of Santa Fe, GI '70, for the Graduate Institute. Mr. Hoffman will double as chairman for fund raising for students who attended Annapolis after 1937. Assisting will be members of the college's professional staff: Ann Cruse, director of development in Annapolis; Marsha Drennon, director of college advancement in Santa Fe, and Betsy Blume and Samuel Larcombe, directors of alumni activities in the eastern and western campuses, respectively. A MAJOR PART OF the fund raising will be conducted through telephone campaigns planned in every time belt in the United States. They will be held in Annapolis this month, in Santa Fe from December 4-7; and they are set tentatively by three largest chapters: San Francisco in February, New York in March, and Chicago in April. On the basis of experience in both which has conducted telephone campaigns for the two past years, (See Alumni map, P. 8) another Sure. But to his year to do so. Bryce Jacobsen concluded year a program he for consideration that the see their own short term goals might be the association's role as a board wants to hear what they have to has into- what must be the na- tion's most successful intra-mural colle21. "There is no indebtedness in the cial books J. Delattre Alumni Association who greeted the announcement a1.>11Jrnus1~. in a renort the of giate athletic "'.. ,, ........ ., m At a college there appears to be .n.;~.., rn.~ it. There also appears to be Mr. Jacobsen. When he retires, as he indicates he will do when he's about 65, he will be irreolaceable. luncheon staff members ties which John White, assistant athletic director, said was to show Mr. Jacobsen "what we have to put up with And at commencement it �Page 2 THE REPORTER &~ Q1J ffilAl ~ D ~&~u &oo© w~~u by BETSY BLUME and BECKY WILSON 1945 Laurence L. Levin has just retired after 30 years of high school teaching and lives in Bayside, N.Y., with his wife, Lee, and their two sons, one of whom is · studying for his law boards and the other serving as assistant manager of a gas station. Alumni wishing to, get .in touch can write to him at 46-14 216th St., Bayside, N. Y. 11361. 1961 Ted Stinchecum lives high up in the sky of Manhattan, so high, in fact, that the wind can build up to 60 miles an hour on bis 42nd,floor porch ("it's scary") and so far up that, missing the singing of crickets, he has bought eight to remind him of the sounds of the earth. ("Do you have a tape?" his incredulous neighbors asked, thinking,. perhaps he really ·had gone madly bonkers over crickets.) Ted is coaching, mostly actors for the stage but also doing some work with those in television and film. He also is writing a play on Erasmus and Luther, expec~d to be completed by spring. 1966 Constance Gould Merritt feels a surge of pleasure when she After years of housewifeliness, a new and .,.,tfofuin<t "I have become an electric technician Corfor Evans and Sutherland a well respected company her new career a "joy." "For some reason I have had a need to fix the broken, and I need the exhilaration of the chase. I enjoy finding out what it is that is causing a circuit board to malfunction. The group I work for is responsible for checking the circuit boards when they come out of production. If they work, we pass them on. If not, we have to find the problem ... "I credit St. John's mainly for having given me the skills, the self-confidence, and the self-discipline necessary to achieve the career desired - not necessarily a 'liberal arts' job, as most people see the liberal arts. May St. John's prosper and flourish." 1968 W. R. Albury has been promoted· to associate professorship in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales at Kensington, Australia. "I was married in April of this year to Barbara Helen Altorjai," he writes. "Barbara is a professional actress and lectures on art and drama at a teachers' college in Sydney. We recently have returned from a combined honeymoon and conference trip in Europe duringwhich I attended the Seventh Internation- al Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science in Salzburg, and we visited Barbara's relatives in Budapest, after stops in Rome and Paris." Professor Albury also published a small book, The Politics of Objectivity, put out by the Deakin University Press. um Citicorp is so large in New York - it has 17,000 employees - that what would be more natural in that theatrical city than for it to develop its own theater. P. Janee Jacobs, an assistant vice-president, has done just that. A member of the Citicorp Theater Guild, she is helping prepare for its second full season that opens this month with "Heaven Can Wait." Janee works with graphics, designing the guild's logos, programs and posters, working with set designs, and this year she is trying out for a part. With a 1977 law degree from the University of Mary. land, she law in Baltimore for two north. Currently she between at after the International co1np4ms:aticm a unit which bas been 1973 The Class of 1973 held its tenth anniverat homecomimz in Annauolis. Some of its news: Daniel S. Pearl has a wife, Faith to whom he was married in 1982. He is director of counseling and services at Johns kins and to enter ns\rl'hiat.1rv in Baltimore next law nr::irTH'llo in Elizabeth Unger came one of two assistant attorneys in Kaufman County, Tex., in January, 1982. Her husband, James, has been rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Terrell, Tex., since September, and also teaches philosophy at the Diocesan Seminary. They are the parents of James Austin Carlyle, who was born May 18, 1982. In her "spare time," she works on community theater programs, most recently as assistant director for A Streetcar Named Desire. Donnel O'Flynn is a second year student at the Protestant Episcopal Theolog. ical Seminary in Virginia and a postulant for Holy Orders from the diocese of Washington . .Janet Cbristhilf O'Flynn, '74, is an occupational therapist for the Arlington County, Va., public school system. Joining them at homecoming was a darling handful, Aidan Francis O'Flynn, who was born June 5, 1982. He is "fairly tall, energetic, voluble, although not yet articulate, and most of the time gracious and funny," according to Janet. Since May, 1982, the O'Flynns have lived in a Christian community, Ferrar House, in the middle of the District of Columbia, where they share every-day (Continued on P. 11) The Reporter Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence Berns, Thomas Parran, J. Winfree Smith, Eliott Zuckerman, advisory board. The Reporter is published by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md. 21404. Edwin J. DelaUre, president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. ........ • Second-class postage paid ~t Annapolis, Md. • • ·• • , · i. ' USP&018·7SO November 1983 It's a fifth for the Fabi -family When the Fabi family of Scranton, Pa., gets together, there are enough for a seminar. Diana Fabi is a senior this year, and Andrea is the newest member to reach the Annapolis campus. She became. a freshman this fall. What's happening with the three other members, all of whom received their · degrees in 1978? Mark is a third, year medical student at Jefferson in Philadelphia. He has passed Part I of his National Boards and_started clinical rotations. Maria is married to Gene Bunnell, a second year medical student at Jefferson. She works as a marketing analyst for Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation in Philadelphia. Teri is a second year student at Temple University Law School in Philadelphia. She spent last summer in Rome studying international law. Who's left of the Fabi family? Pamela. She's a junior at Central High School in Scranton and visited St. John's one weekend earlier this fall. She may be the sixth. Five already may be a record number of siblings to go through the New Program. With a sixth, the Fa bis could establish an alumni chapter of their own. McVay' s. score is third highest one in nation Alan McVay, SF '76, has received the Robert Beyer Bronze Medal for having the third highest scores in the nation the 2,200 people taking the Certificate Management Accounting examination last June. Mr. McVay is on leave from Mountain Bell studying for a master of accountandegree at Virginia Polytechnic Instiin where he also is The examination k.nclwlea1ze ae 111e1~01nn~. the diverse skills needed for the tasks of pr<>ttu.cing, and analyzing in- business aec~1sums. The five of the examination range from economics and business finance to decision analysis. three days to complete, each of involves a three and a half hour essay exam. "Since the CMA program began in 1972, about 4,000 candidates have been certified," Mr. said. "The certification requires, in to the exam, a college degree two years of managerial accounting experience. "I got my experience designing an accounting and information system at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in the years 1977-79, where I was responsible for introducing flexible budgets, a cash man. agement program, working capital analy- ALAN MCVAY sis and financial forecasting, as well as financial statements and accounting operations day to day." Chester Burke, Leslie Starr are woodwind quintet members Two St. John's alumni are members of orchestra. After receiving his degree from St. the Baltimore centered Waverly Wood· winds Quintet. John's in 1974, Mr. Burke spent several They are Chester Burke, flutist, who years in France where he studied with was named to the St. John's staff July 1 Michel Debost and other prominent as manager of laboratories, and Leslie French flutists, received a "premier Starr, of Baltimore, who plays the oboe. prix" from the Conservatoire National de A 1972 graduate, Miss Starr obtained a Caen, and toured southern France as second bachelor's degree in music from part of a flute and guitar duo. the Peabody Conservatory, where she He returned to the United States to now teaches recorder and recorder en- earn a master's of music in flute from semble in its Preparatory Department as the University of Michigan, where he well as gives private oboe and recorder received the Nelson Hauenstein award as lessons. Prior to joining the Peabody the outstanding flutist and was selected faculty, she had taught instrumental to perform a concerto with the University music for two years at Baltimore's Symphony Orchestra. Friends School. Following his studies in Michigan Mr. Miss Starr plays baroque oboe and Burke taught flute for a semester at the renaissance woodwinds with Baltimore's University of Colorado at Boulder while Pro Musica Rara and has performed with the regular professor was on sabbatical. baroque orchestras in Massachusetts and He then returned to Paris where he Michigan. In the spring of 1982 she presented a series of flute and harp played second oboe during the regular recitals. Last year Mr. Burke taught in oboist's and she continl 'the ohysid '.laboratort at Tow.:'ues to substitute with' ::tlie �' The Alumni Association chose an honthe Rev. J. Winfree and Time magazine managing Cave to receive its annual editor of Merit homecomin!l on the campus. The were presented annual business meeting also two new members and awarded Jack Carr, with a certificate of leadership for "out. service" as chairman of the Fund Campaign. as honorary members were St. John's tutor who served two terms as college dean, and Rebecca Wilson, Annapolis public relations director and Reporter editor. In making the presentation to Mr. Smith, a University of Virginia graduate who was made an honorary member of the association in 1980, association president David Dobreer praised his years of service to the college which began in 1941. "It might almost be said that his life has been the college's life," Dr. Dobreer said when the award was made at a morning meeting in the Conversation Room. "They have grown nearly inseparable. Even for many of us who have not had the experience of sharing a classroom with Winfree Smith, there is an abiding sense of his personality. His gentleness, his humor, his intelligence, and his warmth have permeated the school through all these years." The award to Mr. Cave, who graduated in 1948, went with recognition of a journalistic career that began in Annapolis with the old Southern Maryland Times. It included years with the Baltimore Evening Sun as a police reporter and assistant city editor and as a writer and later executive editor for Sports (Continued from P. l) the college in which he said St. John's continues to be a beacon in American education. In briefly touching health of the college, ed that Annapolis had the on June 30 with revenues exceeding expenditures by $148,000 ·while Santa did so in the amount of $488,000. He cautioned, however, that the Fe figure reflects appraised real ,.,.+.,.M'-' not yet converted to cash. Speaking on the program, Mr. Delattre' ' described. a self-study now underway in connection with the Annapolis campus's'<; reaccreditation process as typifying St. . John's ongoing reflections about the pro. gram, its content, and its aspirations. "QUESTIONS ARE being addressed. Cave, '48, one of two to receive the Alumni a congratulatory handshake from Dave Dobreer, about the emphasis -0f the program, including the degree of emphasis placed Todd Reichart photo in writing and on the fine arts, but the fundamental elements of the program, its · conception of the liberal arts. its 16 mustrated courses, its prescription for study by "Ray bas. m the last several years, students and faculty are carefully maindemonstrated his devotion to the college tained by all who work here." as a member of the Doud of Visitors and In recent months, he said St. John's Govemon. Frank Marshall, of Annapolis, and has enjoyed more than customary public "We ue proud of hlm and of bis John Van Doren, of Evanston, ID., are visibility. "The college is coining to possess a bit professional dedicatim. and pleased that the two nominees of the Alumni Associahe continues to cue for his college m tion's Board of Directors for election to more of the reputation· it deserves in the Board of Visitors and. Governors. public discourse, and it is affecting other thought. word and deed. n They were chosen during a business schools in promising ways as a result. "For example. Kentucky State UniverIn bis presmtatim. to Jk. Carr. D:r. meeting at homecoming on the Annapolis Dobreer said he had mounted a cam- campus. Six of the BVG's members are sity at Frankfurt has just opened the Whitney Honors college. The program paign which raised $llt.,no. 31 per cent elected by alumni. Mr. Marshall, a member of the Class of there is based essentially on the St. over the prece:d.mg year. 1945 and now serving on the board, was John's program, and has attracted 44 chairman breaks elected last year to fill a year-long entering freshmen of diverse backm mind the vacancy created by the resignation of grounds and excellent high school accomis hap. Rebecca Brinkley-Connelly, '72, of Den- plishments. "The college has as its dean Thomas break his ver. He was nominated to begin his first three-year term in April. Slakey, a tutor on leave from Annapolis Mr. Van Doren, '47, is nominated for a for this program. Two of the other three term to start next July. He is the son of members of the faculty are St. John's Van Doren, American poet and alumni, and the newly appointed vice. long-term board member, and the father president of academic affairs of the of an alumnus, Dan Van '81. He university is a former St. John's succeeds Harrison of San member. Efforts of the Graduate J:!'r:anc:isco. who has res11giltea. of the alumni through honors seminars in secondary schools, and of Alumni wishing to submit other names individual tutors promote some such as candidates are advised to file pe1cmcms service to American education." December 1 with the AlumMR. DELATTRE SPOKE of the Office. If there are additional names, extended efforts faculty, staff there will be an election by mail ballot and board which said go on throughout the two will be considered the country, literally, every day. elected. "Securing and contributing funds, adThe alumni board also elected Lovejoy vising students about careers and providReeves Duryea, '67, now a member of the ing opportunities for the investment of Board of Visitors and Governors, to serve student talent and self realization in as the BVG's representative on the alum- worthwhile work, bringing students to St. ni board. She fills a vacancy created by John's who enrich the community by Mr. Sheppard. their presence and who take from it means to their own continuing maturaIn addition, the board elected to its tion - these are things that go on with membership four new members: Vernon increasing power every day on a remarkDerr, '44, of Boulder, Col.; Bernard ably broad scale." Jack Carr, '50, of Annapolis, receives a citation from alumni President David Dobreer. Jacob, '54, and Jules Pagano, '48, both of for leading last year's successful fund campaign. New York City, and Harold M. Morgan, TClddl ~photo SF '68, of Albuquerque. Gadfly needs Barbara Rigali and Scott Dupree were word processor chosen as student representatives on the The Gadfly, St. John's student weekAnnapolis and Santa Fe campuses, reTwo state committees and a trip to ment, to which he a1m was appointed by spectively. ly, is raising funds with which to buy a China are among matters occupying Govemor Hughes. Last month he conword processor. former President Richard D. Weigle now ducted a three-week tour of 14 persons Karl Walling, its editor, has requestTutor publishing book that his 18-month interim presidency at into China sponsored bJ the Yale-China ed that alumni and friends of the St. Mary's Gollege in Maryland has Association. stopping en route in San Wendy Allanbrook, Annapolis tutor, is college at firms that may be selling or Francisco to meet with alumni there. concluded. the author of a book, Rhythmic Gesture replacing their old word-processors to Governor Harry Hughes has named in Mozart: Les nozze di Figaro and Don consider the possibility of a tax-deduct. Praised widely for his service to St. him chairman of the Cowes Committee to Giovanni, to be published by the Univerible gift to The Gadfly or selling the observe the 350th anniversary November Mary's, Mr. Weigle received a standing sity of Chicago Press early next year. weekly old word-processing equipment 22 of the departure of the Ark and the ovation from the gradating class and a Her article, "Pro Marcellina: The at a discount rate. Dove from Cowes on the Isle of award from the student body ' Act IV," was published Interested persons should get in .c.ugmm journal Music and Lettel(!a Mr. Walling. of fall. Weigle is active with state AluDlni choose BVG nom.inees �1.1~no4 (Continued from Besides St. those marks for academics were: winnincr Wesleyan, sin at Madison, and Yale. Those for "rm!!Hh1 of life" besides St. John's are: are: Universities of ware, Georgia, Vermont along with University of Wisconsin at Madison, Boston College, Dartmouth, Ithaca, Lafayette, Ohio Wesleyan University, Pennsylvania State University, and West Virginia University. Other Maryland colleges and universities included in' the directory were rated , this way: Johns Hopkins: Academics 5, social life 3, quality of life 3; Goucher, .4 in each category; Hood, 3 in each category; ·Morgan State, 2 in each category; St. Mary's College (St. Mary's City), A-3, s. 2, Q. of L.-3; and University of Maryland, A-3, S-2, Q. of L.-3. St. John's Review is on the way The first issue of The St. John's Review under its new editor, Walter Sterling, is in the mail. New to the editorial board are Cary Stickney, Santa Fe tutor, Joe Sachs, Annapolis tutor, and S. Freis, of Jackson, Miss., alumni representative. Carry.over members are Eva Brann and Curtis Wilson of the Annapolis faculty. Susan �NOVEMBER 1983 THE REPORTER Page 5 chord and a _ Later this Mr. Allanbrook has been invited to serve as residence at the Empire State Institute for the Arts in His .week-long residency will be marked the first performance of a recent work of Mr. Allan. a quintet written for oboe, clariviolin, viola, and cello. U is dedicated to the memory of his teacher, Nadia Boulanger. During his stay in Albany he will discuss and perform his keyboard works. Mr. Symphony for Brass and Orchestra (Number be performed in Dublin, Ireland, first week of April by the Brass Quintet and the Dublin orchestra. Last Mr. Allanbrook spent a month at a working retreat for artists at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., where he sketched out a new work for solo cello and orchestra. Roberta Rusch, '78, now managing a bookstore in Wilmington, N.C., is with . pre.sident of the Seattle Alumni Chapter, at the · 'Todd Reichart Bowerfind, Cleveland, 0., senior, and Sylvia Jones, MA '81, of go after the ball during the annual alumni-student classic markireg �...... n~·~"'~acthepf()te~CtlClil not for he not have been moved to if he hadn't had the St. John's laboratory program, he mav have had a harder time bringing forth but since, as the saying goes, a St. John's alumnus can do anything, Ken Thompson has gone and invented, not but a·boon for cats, big and small. He has given the feline world - ta, da ! - the Tiger Toy. The Tiger Toy is what has engaged the serval at the Washington Zoo in passionate play and kept a jaguar and a of Bengal tigers at the Catoctin Mountain Zoo near Camp David, Md., pouncing and .swinging and swatting and - pant-pant - leaping by the hour. And in Knoxville, it's sweetening the life of a black leopard in the Tennessee Zoo. pm;sn11111:1es in view, he The Tiger Toy is a cat exerciser. aec~teiE~d in June 1982 to cease his work Version two for the big captive cats is one of three toys, all being patented by at the Joint Center for Political Studies in this 46-year-old Kensington, Md., attor- Washington, form a corporation - the Kenning Conmration - and market his ney turned entrepreneur. It's ~signed to take the boredom out of invention. To manufacture the toy, he signed a a cagoo cat and some of the mischief out of an apartment-bound kitten, and it's contract with the Centers for the Handiintended to better health and capped at White Oak, Md. The workers there were so entranced by a videotape longer life, too. The Barnum and Bailey people tell Mr. Mr. Thompson made of cats at play with Thompson that their big animals, exer- the mobile that they cheered when they cised as they are to meet the demands of saw what their finished work had achieved. show business, live two or three times Mr. Thompson likes its than their dispirited coumt€~rpc:trts zoo. If zest is what long life character: dense rubber ball from requires, zest is what the Tiger Toy from New York, hook from Taiwan, and provides. THE THIRD VERSION is a crib mo- dowels and wooden balls from Maine. bile. It is not your usual mobile with As a safety he has taken care the mouse fixed arms. Instead, the same · to run the cord a of straws so it mechanistic cat exerciser, it is designed for to grasp, tug won't accidentally choke the cat. The Tiger Toy has the seal of from and with. Cats, oldest and most est:am1tsnE~a Version one for small cats, with its catnip mouse, is. just now going on the of the cat world. market and is the one that brought all Mr. Thompson ha:s Campaign by a.'!uo'!"HdrH>" three into being. Cat Fancy and Altogether, add up to a new turn a cat show in ln;:mrnuu in the life of Ken Thompson, former associate political science profes- He introduced it to a Bethesda, sor at the University of Southern Califor- shop, and a couple of distributors from Chicago and New York are taking an nia, former Congressional active interest. For the coming holiday former policy analyst, and now an attorney licensed to practice in the District of season it is being carried in the gift Columbia. catalogue distributed by Friends of Animals to a quarter million households. The cat exerciser had its origin a number of years ago when Mr. Thompson Things are moving. was working for the State Legislature in IT WAS A FRIEND of Ken Thompson's Kentucky and found his pet cat was at St. John's - Cynthia Bledsoe Heine, '61, now living in Springfield, Va. - who getting into all sorts of big trouble. "She was most when left · suggested the giant version for the zoo alone in my apartment, Thompson animals. said. "She went so far as to threaten to "Poor things," Mr. Thompson said. "I've always felt sorry for them. They're chew off my shoelace tips and shred my curtains if I didn't rig up something to obviously bored. Of all the cats that need exercising, those in the zoos need it keep her entertained while I was gone." MR. THOMPSON got the message. Idle most.'' Since enclosures differ, these cannot be paws, as everyone knows, are the work of mass produced but rather must be custhe devil- Clearly she required amusement. So by putting one thing together tom made. In terms of economic feasibilwith another, by fiddling with this and ity, Mr. Thompson believes producing the giant Tiger Toys is almost more in the that, he developed a mobile type structure which features a floating torque nature of a public service than a comdesign. The center is thrown off balance mercial enterprise. But aside from enlivby a counterweight, which 'makes it bob ening the animal's long days, he feels the up and down in accordian fashion, and big mobiles add much more enjoyment to visits to the zoo since, after all, a tiger at makes this lopsided toy capable of tremendous compound action. play is much more interesting than a "The inspiration for my invention was sleeping tiger. Those he has built are made of a tough the mechanics section of the science laboratory at St. John's," Mr. Thompson plastic piping with quarter inch stainless said, duly giving credit to some princi- steel cables. These Tiger Toys have a breaking strength of 2,000 pounds, necesples he. had learned in analytical physics. Mr. Thompson continued to think about sary when you consider that the Bengal 500 nounds. A nvlon sleeve and refine the to:v off .and on over the smaller AS FAR THE infant the one which may he Mr. Thc>mi::~son a contract October 4 with Century Pmrh1ds, a subdivision of the Gerber _ food which will manufacture and market it on a basis. Mr. Thompscm has moved from the amateur to the professional class of inventors and to still another career .. To. interest manufacturers tributed featuring triplets and set of twins having a roaring good time with their catchable mobiles. Th1ompscm had the satisone had been an organization called Child sponsored by the Montgomery Board of Education. that the had Child Find encouraged a child to He thinks there are possibilities for diagnostic and therapeutic use. Montgomery County's Child Center also has one hanging in each of its classrooms. "In a classroom of severely and profoundly mentally and physically handicapped children, the varied motion of the for mobile ... provides a visual tracking and a real for encouraging the children to lift their heads," its program director wrote. "Our children are intrit:m~ri the action of the mobile as att1em111t to bat or the ball. These children often lack control to preciseThe mobile is particueffective since it returns to for :successful 1nt1eracucm THE TIGER TOY marks a around in a career for Mr. Thompson. he received his After at of in W1;sco1n:s1.n,· where he met his wife, Pat, "No one's to argue a• - • Bengal? who also earned her doctorate. (They met on a Wednesday and were engaged four days later on a Sunday.) She is now research director for the Office of Family Planning with the Office of Population Affairs of the U.S. Department of Health and Human.Services. They have two daughters, Kimberly, 12, a student this fall at Sidwell Friends School, and Pamela, who is almost three. Before going to Wisconsin, he served from 1961 to 1962 with the 525th Military Intelligence Detachment at Ft. Meade. From 1967 to 1975 he taught at the University of California, receiving tenure in three years. In 1972 he was the Democratic party nominee for Congress in California's 33rd :ongrE~SSJtonal District, a district so large it measured 350 miles east and west 250 miles north and south. had an I drove like won. a change, he decided to law at Antioch University School of Law in Washington, from which he graduated in 1979. While in law school he worked one summer for the Environmental Protection Agency, writing a major article to , define legally the standards of clean air. Later came a with the Center for Policy Research and then with the Joint Center for Political Studies as a senior research associate. At the latter he produced an document, "The Voting Rights and Black Electoral Participation." When the voting acts law of May, 1982, was passed, he felt about it. he decided to leave his $40,000-plus to concentrate on his invention. He takes too much purr-sonal interest in cats to leave the toys alone. As far as he is concerned, this sort of life is the cat's whiskers. After all, he may be the man who takes the yawn out of a lion's life. (C«J~nti:nue~rtfrom P.1) ideas as we can get," Miss Fitzsimon said. IN AGREEING with a proposal forward by Mark Habrel, Chicago ter president, the board is asking chapters send copies of their budgets together with a description of their goals, priorities, and their for the Office. to the material be in hand no later than . 1. David Schiller, Boston Area Chapter was among those urging that association give careful consideration to its Is the association there to help recruit students, to serve as a fund raising arm of the college? "There are thousands of ideas'" he said in _ for them to be into focus. "This association sprang full blown from Zeus's head," David Dobreer, presinoted with reference to its reorganization in 1982. "It now needs to get its aims straightened out and enunciated in clear fashion." The board turned over to its Institutional Relations Committee problems of how to make visitors and members of the Graduate Institute feel more welcome to the college. In other bm;im~ss, the association voted to establish a $1,000 Donna 'Delattre Memorial Fund, in honor of· the 13-yearold daughter of President and Mrs. Edwin J. Delattre, who died last summer. The money will be divided between the two campuses. MEMBERS WERE informed that Mr. Delattre, upon their request, is recommending that chairmen of three alumni committees - student recruitment, career guidance, and fund raising - meet with corresponding committees of the Board of Visitors and Governors. To work on eliminating any discrepancies that may exist between the ~ollege Polity and its own bylaws, Dr. Dobreer named a special committee consisting of Betsy Blume and s·am Larcombe, alumni directors in the East and West, Kenneth Kimble, secretary. and Allan Hoffman, New York Chapter president. John Ross, president of the Seattle Chapter, was named chairman of the Communications Committee to succeed Robert E. Nichols: of San Franeisco. �'-'uiii1.m:r is investiare linked to the "Human Freedom and World Unity." Seminars are held at the Commonwealth School at 7:30 are scheduled to include a seminar tea President on November 14 on Thoreau's Disobedience and Martin Luther King's Letter from a J:Jirm111gham Jail, one Mr. Delattre will New York alumni. to be read are ........... 11 ~•.,. conclusions of Henri He1~~s<>n's Free Will, in which ps~rch,olo;gic;al facts are ciltferient that objections to the determinists are baseless, Dec. 9; Book 3 of Maxim Autobiography, which deals with on the eve of the Jan. 3; Franz Kafka's The Jwrle11w11t. an account of a struggle with and overwhelming power, Feb. 10, and Book Two of Romain Rolland's Jean in which friendship between a young German artist and the perhaps can be established between A second seminar series on Chinese philosophy "has broken out" in Charlton, Mass., for alumni in the western and central parts of Massachusetts and in northern Connecticut. It with Confucius (551-479 B.C.) and Chu the great 12th century synthesizer of previous For further informarh !!ntPr president David Schiller The Santa Fe campus has revamped kof George Clayton Pearl, a fellow of the and revitalized its art gallery and opened American Institute of Architects. In preparation for the changes in the its 1983-84 season with the first in a series of exhibits of major artists whose work is St. John's art gallery, located on known both in the Southwest and nationally. Approximately 40 lithographs of Bruce a leading lithographer whose works are represented in a number of private and museum collections, will continue on display until Thanksgiving week. Samuel Larcombe, director of alumni activities and community relations, said the new plan for the gallery is expected to be unique in Santa Fe, a nationally recognized art center in the country. It calls for the exhibit of each major artist to be followed by a show of a lesser known artist, perhaps his protege. Besides making the work of an artist of national stature available to students, faculty, and the Santa Fe community, it Bruce Lowney show is underway will provide younger artists with an second floor of the Peterson Student opportunity to introduce their work. A New Mexican artist, Mr. Lowney Center, Mr. Larcombe talked with a studied at the Tamarind Institute in number of museum and Santa Fe art Albuquerque. A former visiting instructor people, who felt the scheme of alternately at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo., exhibiting works of prominent and lesser he will be a visiting instructor next known artists would make the St. John's spring at the University of Texas at Gallery an important center in Santa Fe. The gallery also has been refurbished. Austin. The opening of his show coincided In September the .old exhibit wall was with the Santa ye Festival of the Arts. Among other artists whose work will be replaced by a new wall. New track shown are three distinguished Santa Fe . lighting was installed, and carpeting is artists: Rick Dillingham, a ceramicist; being added. The room has been repaintPaul Caponegro, a photographer, and ed. Gallery hours are from 1 to 5 p.m. Forrest Moses, a paint~r. Also planned is Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. a retrmntective of the arch~tectural, in After a cocktail alumni in the Denver area will get together again November 11 to discuss Isak Dineson's short story, "The Heroine." Robert Bart, tutor and former Santa Fe will lead the discussion at 7 at the of David A.C. in what is hoped to be the first of a number of alumni events in the Denver area. The cocktail party was given Denver alumni by the college at Stouffer's AirHotel. It followed a meeting of rei:1re~;en1ting both campuses and a national campaign. Speakwith them was Samuel director in the West. Alumni in the Los Angeles area are meeting for seminars the second Sunday of the month at the home of Dr. David Dobreer, 1924 Westmont Drive, Alhambra. Discussions are set for 2 p.m. Readings for the year will include three by Camus, The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall in February, March, and April, respectively. Also scheduled are Euripides' Hippolytus and Racine's Phaedre in November, Euripides' The Bacchae in December, and Shakespeare's Coriolanus in January. Readings will conclude in May with Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. i President Delattre will lead a seminar for New York alumni on writings by David Thoreau and Martin Luther 30 p.m. November 16 at the Princeton Club. The will be Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience and Letter from Jail. The seminar will be held 7:30 p.m. in Room 405. Dinner will be a 5:45 in Room 408. I Wanted in Chicago: Musicians from the college community who can n11>1''tnrm The Chicago Chapter is planning a Collegium Musicum like those now held on both campuses. The informal concerts, first organized in 1972 in Santa Fe, are the inspiration for a musical and party planned for December 11. Interested nersons should call chapter President Habrel. Other programs for the year: Betsy Blume, Annapolis alumni director, will speak November 6 at the Brent House. On 15 members will see the Best of Dance for a Dollar, a modern dance performance at the Mo Ming Dance and Arts Center. On February 5 they will see Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Chicago Opera Theatre and on March 3 hear President Delattre discuss study communities for humanities teachers with an article he wrote as the reading. Dean Samuel Kutler will speak on "Play and Seriousness" April 8 when the reading will be Plato's Phaedrus and Huizinga's Homo Ludens. J. Winfree Smith will lead a discussion of ShakeLear on May 6. f'h!!nfoT meeting, 1'\l"Pl>Onon will be Annaoolis tutor Curtis Wilson has been succeed Professor of the Centre Alexandre in Paris, in editing the second of The General History of Astronomy. As co-editor, Mr. Wilson will be responsible for the volume dealing with the solar system and celestial mechanics from the 16th after Copernicus until 1860. The four-volume history is sponsored the International Astronomical Union is being published in England by the Cambridge University Press. Dr. Michael Hoskin of University is the general editor. To the Editor: I fully the letter written by John Ross, and pu~lished in the issue of The Reporter. "St. Forever" means a lot to many St. John's alums. The words are indeed out of date, but let's retain the music while updating the words. I will be pleased to offer a $100 prize for the author of new words to the traditional melody of "St. John's Forever," and I encourage The Reporter or some other group within the college to conduct the competition. I hope you will take on this project. Sincerely yours, J. Leslie Medford, Jr. 7505 Park Woods Drive Stockton, Calif. 95207 Thank you, Mr. Medford, for your generous offer to provide prize money. We have received a suggested change in wording from one alumna. If we have more, there can be a real contest. Please send new words for the song to The Reporter. We'll arrange for a judging . committee. ... . �Pages THE REPORTER NOVEMBER 1983 as an C.i:l;:l,A>:)~>CUA~ case under Cox Leon Jaworski. Carter administration offered assistant attoradvised Presiney in dent Carter on constitutional matters. Last sorine: he delivered a lecture, "'*«l'"'"'"h' ' grants (Continued from P. 1) and in New York, held its first last year, the group expects that calls will produce a large proportion of the combined goal of $160,000. "Those responding by mail will not be called ~uring the telephone ca--~:-- n Mr. Hoffman said. "But we telephoning those alumni who in their forgotten or will give us a chance to number of A number of '"'ri'"""1" Hoffman in terms of rate As an increase in alumni .-.uu•uvvu~ from next former This coordinated also will mark the first time there has been as a formal involvement the alumthan being by the alumni for the St. John's has received two new foun. dation grants, President Delattre has announced. The first is for $75,000 from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation of Jacksonville, Mr. Delattre said it will be used to strengthen the funding of faculty salaries and for work-study grants. The second is a presidential discretionary grant of $45,000 from the General Mills Foundation of Minneapolis, Minn. A new it was established this year because concern the trustees for the need to maintain and encourage liberal arts curricula General Mills Founof liberal arts St. LAWRENCE HAMMOND dent Nixon. A more than usually interest- ing_ question period followed. A graduate of the University of· Texas law school, Mr. Hammond began his law degree by clerking for Justice Black and Justice Lewis Powell, learning about St. John's from Justice reader of the classics the St. John's n-rnot'!lm a law clerk in Mr. Hamof Santa Fe mond's office and tutor Sam with him about it aroused an active interest St. which led to the lecture The latter will deal with s.m1wPm"' Court decisions and how been interthe Mr. Hammond is on leave as a n!.ll"tin ..... in the law firm of and Victor. He also teaches law at of Arizona at Tucson. TTnim:n•cihr a participation per cent. $15,458 raised in 1982 Sante Fe hopes to • Two members of the .&mrnvuu:) delivered this tenth death Leo Strauss. Tl1ey were sored by the American Political Science Foundation at the House Chicago. Strauss, a political philosopher ly on the Chicago, was St. John's Scott Buchanan Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the time of his death. "Leo Dean Samuel Kutler Strauss and the St. Program" and Laurence Berns on "The Prescientific World and Historicism: Preliminary Reflections on degger and Husserl.'' At another conference marking the 10th anniversary of Strauss's death, this one at the State University of New York, Mr. Berns participated in a panel discussion in which he spoke on "Aristotle and the Moderns (Hobbes to Hegel) on Freedom and Equality." ' Dean Kutler also spoke on liberal education :at, the·1 annual t11eat at :oonege, You have to like running to know about sergeant over in Humphreys," Mr. GesSt. John's those emblems of sner believes. That for 1910 may never classes that are _ have been made. Those for 19th century classes were of wood. From 1910 on, they H•u,a,;nuu• track, 38 in all and some its sloping concourse. bears were constructed of bronze. no one whose names the names of class members. can run around the MR, GESSNER AND Luther S. Tall, " Bernard Gessner, of '21, of have taken an active Anna:1Jol1.s, told the Alumni Association at interest in the shields which they see as meetu1g last month. an alumni presence on campus, and both when the Great Hall was a are attempting t-0 make up as best they there, but after can for the loss of those that are missing. moved so that the Great Volunteering to help them is a New freed for portraits. Program graduate, calligrapher John When Richard D. Weigle Rogers, '75, of Mt. Ranier, Md. To pn~s1dlem~y in 1949, he found the shields in replace the lost emblems, he will prepare the attic of McDowell Hall and had them scrolls listing the names of their class resurrected. members. These will be framed and Since are comparatively heavy with the shields. and a large amount of space, Mr. Mr. Tall already has contributed monWeigle chose the brick walls of the ey for framing and incidental costs. gymnasium, partly because that was the Alumni wishing to augment this fund are only place at that time large enough on , requested to send checks made out to St. campus to hold them and partly because John's College and marked Alumni Shield the classes the shields represented, with Fund. They may be mailed to Betsy their individual ,teams, were particularly Blume, alumni director on the Annapolis campus. interested in sports. Seventeen of them are missing, possiEventually, Mr. Gessner said he hopes .b.urned in the .fire that largely de: a, Place can be found where the shields in J~09. :Jorn~ destroyed by an "ROTC house if it were to be modernized and expanded. The boat house has become a special interest of the Alumni Chapter, which has asked an architect to review its soundness. The is hoping the upper floor could be in such a way that it can serve as an alumni center. To boat house in Mr. Gessner association that the building, located on what he said is the largest open shoreline in Annapolis outside the Naval Academy and "coveted by everyone in Annapolis," needs water, toilet facilitaties, insulation and heat. ONE BIT OF HISTORY generally unknown which Mr. Gessner recounted was that construction of the board house originally was alumni, with Lutie Tall as a promoter and the late Dean Douglas L. Howard instrumental in getting surplus material from the Naval Academy for the job. Later alumni turned it over to the college in an unfinished state. Missing are shields for the classes of 1918, 1912, 1905, 1891, 1888, 1887 I 1884, 1882, 1878 �(Co111tmued from P. 1) ed him with a scroll. IT WAS SIGNED by heads of all its separate constituencies-the Board of Visitors and Governors, faculty and staff, Alumni Association, and Student Poliit laid forth Mr. Jacobsen's .....,,.+;,,..,,. 1 ''" virtues: "Under his direction the college's all volunteer, intramural athletic ........,. .......... .,.,... has grown and flourished. examnle and firm £:uidanct!, it true to its aim: fairness and honesty, friendship />lfl11'':ruu•i£l sano. "His wisdom and his inimitable sense of humor have become bial us. To him we have on countless occasions for clear thinkini;i; on issues both and theoretical. "We are to him for remindine: to the us of our world around us and for insisting among the questions to be cherished of what it means to be the human. Jacobsen! administraand architect, geometer Socratic philosopher, teacher, wise counselor and friend, we salute you! you long flourish in our midst." Students also honored him last spring. Prior to a play in the Key Auditorium, Monika Viola, of Staten Island, N.Y., a member of the Amazons' team and now a senior, this 62-year-old tutor as a token of the students' with a affection. received a ovation. MR. JACOBSEN likes to of the in _ the unusual happens. For occasionally he and another referee aren't able to call a "We don't feel compelled to cau a move we can't see," he said. "It's pretty much up to the students close to the play to tell us, even if it's against their particular team. That has happened more and more in recent years. That's great! When things like that happen, I feel good about it." "Most people seem to think the athletic program has been a great success," he said. "Everybody who knows anything about it seems to agree. Let's assume it is. My greatest pleasure in being here is knowing that this has occurred. · "At any time hundreds, tens of thousands of students, have spent hundreds of hours literally being involved and participating in the athletic program. Almost all of it has been good for them. I get a good feeling about that." · MR. JACOBSEN, WHO won a blazer in 1940 for his participation in student athletics, had been farming for 10 years ten miles north of Gettysburg, Pa. (he got into farming during World War II) when he decided to apply to St. John's in 1958; he forgets, for what position; it might have been tutor. (His position at the college is that of tutor and athletic director; he spends about half his time teaching mathematics.) "It turned out that the college needed an athletic director," he recalls. "I had ball or a whistle nor had I in teaching. I had nevei: d1rectec1. an athletic nroe:ram. I was a classic case of me so and his up and moved cmmren. and .Mr. Jacobsen became the fourth director in four years. The first two or three years were a little A lot of had to be worked out, the extent the the director's students'. "It's a little "Mr. Jacoba shade away from a blush. can ask the students to do will do it.'' Jacobsen went thr1ou2:h or two before some formalized uncler!;ta11di11g made this possm1e. Then be his own controversial ideal of what the program should encompass. He wanted soccer, instance. should we have soccer? the students nrotested. It's a game. After back forth for a of years, Mr. Jacobsen showed himself a man of the criso e:esture. He matter about volleyball; nobody they are two of St. all interested students, groups then there was the shc~cking ago of two team i;~1J'1.1:a1,1:i. upon themselves indenendentlv nostnone a game. When at game he was scandaltheir casualness. Since then students have learned that if ,..~ .. n..~~~ sacred at St. it's not books list. It's the game schedule. It took time also to develop a strong program of athletics for women, who were first admitted in 1951. "The girls' program didn't solve itself until about 10 years ago," Mr. Jacobsen said. · "There simply was not the interest to sustain a viable program. None of the things we did at our end had too much effect. It wasn't until society's ideal changed about women that more and more girls, who already· had been involved in athletics in elementary or high school, arrived, and we could do anything. It was a matter of arithmetic-not large enough numbers." ALL OF WHAT HE HAS done. has impressed everyone, including the Alumni Association, which presented him with an annual Award of Merit five years ago. "For the past two decades Bryce has, by his own quiet and sincere example, instilled in thousands of students an exemplary spirit of fairness and tolerance in all sorts of athletic ~----'-a:-- " their award read. "He personifies certain characteristics he outlined in his memorable Class Day remark last May: that we have been 'Part of a community that set a szenuinely concerned about what it means no means incommensurate." As an Mr. Jacobsen has ch,1m1no11sh1p tennis. This he did the auad steps cartilage and He was out of tennis for two and it took a lot to get back in, but did with a somewhat spectacular come-back. With his Warren Drake, he won the 1977 doubles in the Canadian Senior (55) Championship sponsored the Canadian Lawn Tennis Association and for three successive years, from 1976 to won the Senior 55 doubles title in Atlantic Lawn Tennis Associathe were tion. In 1977 he and his ranked fourth in the nation. IN 1919 HE whammed his other knee a followwith a tennis racquet from a serve damaged ne<~es.sit;1tir1g a second interNow he doesn't an1:ic1pa1te "social tennis. _ he began some jogging, which he has continued through the summer. Mr. Jacobsen has always competed with winning in mind. "When I play, I like to win," he said. "Most people who compete, compete to win. Either as a competitor or supervisor, I don't try to discourage competition. But it's not everything. Half the competitors have to lose. When you lose, you should lose ·gracefully and behave like a gentleman.'' Mr. Jacobsen feels some of the behavior on the tennis courts at international matches represents "a disgrace to the United States. Most of the bad actors are from here." He discourages swearing. The self. deprecating, under-the-breath phrases of a frustrated player angry at himself he can understand and ignore. "When it is more blatant and not necessarily directed at oneself, we don't like that," he said. Occasionally it can get someone ejected from the gym; generally, all Mr. Jacobsen has to do is just say something to the offender. He at all costs, the damage and corruption of sports even in lower grades, the lying and cheating coaches. "Instead of character building, it's character destroying," he commented. "It's a great concern to me. I can't do hanniness." Mr. Jacobsen would cna1nJ?;ji:!S that would make it possible to individual That would mean more and badminton courts. "We don't have enough, and those we have have .very limited use because they have to double up for other If we had separate volleyball and basketball courts, that would be a great boon.'' All of of course, depenqs upon renovation expansion of the gymnasium, built in 1910. Mr. Jacobson has served as a consultant as proshave and dwindled for the gym's over the past 15 years. now there are no immediate of in Baltimore and a Towson High Mr. Jacobsen learned construction work along the way and has been an unofficial consultant for countless members. So it is with an and electrical which will have to be remacea its lack of insulation. "When the wind blows, it can be enormously cold," he observed. "The big end toward the tennis courts, with the windows, is aesthetically beautibut functionally a disaster. And as the radiators have blown up over the years, they have been taken out and not replaced. The total radiation must be half of what it originally was there. There's no heat at all in the racquet courts." Doing something with the girls' primitive locker room, which has only one shower head, is the gym's most crying need, he noted. Mr. Jacobsen has not only directed the athletic program but he has helped publi- . cize it as well, more recently in The Gadfly, student weekly which has succeeded The Collegian. About 15 years ago, when The Collegian got started, a student was supposed to have reported on the athletic program. When he failed to meet a deadline, Mr. Jacobsen volunteered to submit a sports account for the second issue. "I haven't missed a deadline since then," he said. He is the weekly's only contributor. Jacobsen, of course, is known for what is generally thought to be an atrocious tie collecton, so famous that, besides making the papers, it won him by the Seneca Indians in N.Y. Last winter :----+nn4 ...... �The late Ford K. Brown was always a and there's a suggestion of it in the _ that has come to St. John's College. his "We remember Ford for his and his Lath-. former director and a friend of 50 years said in ceremonies C1ed1ca1;mg the of the St. John's tutor. Mr. a member for 43 vears. died in 1977. nnw•t-.. <> 1" indicates something of " Mr. went on. "The around his mouth indicates his upchuckle. Missing is his pipe." The portrait showing Mr. Brown in academic dress, wearing the short sleeved scarlet garb of Oxford University over his black robes, has been presented the college his daughter, Janice Brown, of New York City. It came to the college as part of the efforts of the Alumni Association's Portraits and Memorial Committee and was presented at homecoming by Allan Hoffman, '49. Mr. Hoffman had been responsible for its restoration and reframing. For Mr. Lathrop, a former student, it was an occasion for affectionate stories. "Ford spent his entire adult life at St. John's College under six presidents, which was certainly a tribute to his vast good humor," he told a roomful of alumni, a number of whom had studied under Mr. Brown. 1 RON HALE Ron Hale, Santa Fe planner and consultant, has been named director of career counseling on the western campus, President Edwin J. Delattre has announced. He succeeds Mary Jane Hickey, who is rejoining the Luce Foundation in New York."' The son of a foreign service officer, Mr. Hale was born in Mexico and spent his early years in Spain, the West Indies, San Diego, and Washlngton. He is a 1965 graduate of Swarthmore College, where he earned his degree in political science, and he holds a 1975 master's degree in education from the University of Southern California. Mr. Hale formerly worked for the American Friends Service Committee in its national office in Philadelphia and its Mid-Atlantic office in Baltimore with program responsibilities for Appalachia. From 1973 to 1976 he organized cooperative education and field experience programs for the Community College of Vermont, and from 1977-78 he was a core faculty member for Antioch University West in San Francisco. He has been a resident of Santa Fe for the past four years, one of them spent at the College of Santa Fe as coordinator of advising and retention. With Bluegrass music a special he is a member of the Lonesome Ramblers band and president of Southwest Pickers, which promotes Bluegrass music. (Continued from P. l) With a doctorate in political science, Mr. Flaumenhaft makes no pretense of expertise in the computer sciences. At St. John's, as they traditionally do, faculty members are tackling computer programming with the same sort of adventurous openness with which they have learned to teach each new phase of the curriculum. But it was Mr. Flaumenhaft who last year helped write a proposal to the Sloan Foundation, which has been concerned about technological illiteracy in liberal arts colleges, that resulted in a $25,000 grant to St. John's, most of which is being used to underwrite the faculty study group. · With the writing of the application and his interest gaining momentum, Mr. Flaumenhaft located a computer to begin his basic study. By the first session he was able to demonstrate some elementary techniques HE RECALLED his own student days, when he had worked long hours on a paper only to have Mr. Brown write at the top, "You would have done just as well and received the same mark if you had not written anything." Mr. Lathrop's grade: "The square root of F." "For this reason we became very dear . ,, . friends, Mr. explained. Later, in one of Mr. Brown's numerous efforts to lose weight, they played squash together in St. John's "so-called squash " playing hard and perspiring Afterwards, on Mr. Brown's su~~ge~suon, they retired to the Little Campus or the old G&J Grill "to replace what Ford called his vital fluids." "He was a dear man," Mr. Lathrop said. "I remember him · love. I remember sitting his bed he was dying, and he was still trying to chuckle." David Dobreer, of the Alumni Association, in a recallinll why Mr. Brown always . to have . customary question after his own lecture, his declaration: "Silence is rhetoric is there will be no questions." Always something of a maverick among faculty members, Mr. Brown doubtlessly would approve of the positioning of his portrait. It is hung on the upper level of the Great Hall, the first of several portraits planned to go there. Some people have roses named for them; others, tools, pianos, airplanes. Annapolis tutor David Guaspari has sentences named for him. That came about because of a 1979 article by Mr. Guaspari which resulted in a commentary. His paper "Partially Conservative Extensions of Arithmetic," prompted Craig Smorynski, a mathematician, to write an analysis in the Journal of Symbolic Logic entitled "Calculating Self-referential Statements: Guaspari Sentences of the First Kind." "The main .result of this paper is a theorem that is 'obviously true,' " Mr. Guaspari begins his·paper. This is a theorem which extends the famous ·"Incompleteness Theorems" of Goedel, the 20th century mathematician. These are theorems in which Goedel shows roughly that there is no system of axioms from which solutions to all mathematical problems can be derived. From Goedel's argument follows something stronger: That U problems are divided into classes according to their logical kind and complexity, no system of axioms can settle all the problems in any one of the classes. Solutions to logically complex problems needn't entail solutions to simple ones, his paper points out. Proving this "obvious truth'' required a year's work on his part and was condensed into 21 pages that appeared in the. October, 1979, issue of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. And that was the issue that brought Smorynski's analysis of "Guaspari Sentences of the First Kind." Library has 4,000 check-outs The Santa Fe music library had 5,570 visitors last year and 4,000 check-outs. It is growing "like Topsy," according to Martin Stone, former music librarian, who now heads public relations on the western campus. From an initial gift by alumnus Jack Holzman, '52, and a few hundred records, the music library now contains over 8,000 pbonodiscs, hundreds of tapes, and thousands of scores. Since the Santa Fe campus is a distance from town and most students lack transportation, it plays an important part in the students' recreation. As a consequence, besides classical music, the library also carries rock, country, and western music, show tunes, and spoken records. These are in constant use. With the new music program and manual written ·by Ralph Swentzell last year and revised by Phil Lecuyer this year, Mr. Stone said the library is constantly swamped with sophomores listening to the required records and tapes. "Add to that the students listening for their own pleasure, and it's no wonder that the six listening stations and three listening rooms are always in use so that the extended hours of the library until midnight are truly necessary,'' he pointed out. During the past four years, when he was music librarian, Mr. Stone said the library grew "by leaps and bounds," partly because he solicited townspeople in Santa Fe for their collections of music instead of selling them. This resulted in a great many gifts. There is no music librarian at present, but 12 student aides are manning the a popular on campus and a busy one. group is using is Pascal, and there are a number of books to help guide its members. "IN THE LAND of the blind, the one. eyed man is king," Mr. Flaumenhaft joked. "I don't claim to be knowledgeable, but I do claim to be interested. We'll be poking around, spending different amounts of time and not all of us learning in exactly the same way." faculty members: Eva Brann, George those who never quite got it right in Doskow, David Guaspari, and Curtis freshman language just what it means to Wilson. say that the crucial clause in a passage Last month, with Mr. Flaumenhaft contains a genitive absolute. serving in a liaison capacity, St. John's "Computers properly used can help to co-sponsored with the Na val Academy a make it likelier that more students will conference, "Computers and the Humani- achieve sufficient mastery of grammar," ties," which was held under the auspices · he said. of the Maryland Committee on the Hu"The capacities of computers for dismanities. playing animated color drawings suggest MR. FLAUMENHAFT'S own view is breath-tak~g opportunities for ma~ing that while computers may seem very mathematics clearer to those who Just ' , muddle through. re~oved from St. Johns and the Greeks, "Learning with computers should not t~e1r u~e could enhance the free flow of be seen as an alternative to learning by discussi?n. . discussion,'' he went on. "P roper1y const ruet e d mt eract'ive com· . He pointed out that many class discuss1on~ ~re hampered beca~se many of the puter programs could greatly help us do participants lack techmcal knowledge the work of disentangling elements and putting them together. Doing some of our presupposed by others. A cosmic discussion arising from the learning with computers could enable us reading of Ptolemy in sophomore mathe- to spend more of our time in class letting matics, for instance, Mr. Flaumenhaft the discussion wander where it will, may never g~t gQi!lg _b~~~u~e ~o! the , , ~going ~e~p.e~ ,and Jur,tner 41 our question. Mr. Flaumenhaft considers the invention of the computer comparable to the alphabet or to the printing press in the vast and dramatic way it is affecting knowledge. As a tool, he believes that people should have some familiarity with it even though it is difficult to predict just when someone will have a marvelous idea for its application. In addition to the study group, another sign that the a_ge of the comouter has for a interruption to explain to Zenith Brown dies Zenith Brown, widow of the late Ford K. Brown, died at the Episcopal Church Home and Hospital in Baltimore August 25 at the age of 85. The author of 60 mystery novels written under the names of David Frome and Leslie Ford, she wrote the first in Eng.· land in 1928 when her husband, who died in 1977, was doing research on a Guggenheim fellowship. ing." �NOVEMB THE 1983 11.d""'l/l'<I- 11 Alumni East and West {Continued from P. 2) life with another family of five and a single man, all from St. Paul's Parish on K Street. Paul Rosenberg and his wife, Carol Calhoun, '74, are living in Bethesda, Md., with their 18-month-old Joshua. A second child was expected about press time. She is an attorney associated with the tax section of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Washington while Paul is a computer systems analyst with Aspen Systems Corporation in Rockville. 19'14 Edmund F. Raspa, HI, and Sallie Dobreer Raspa, '75, are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter September 25 at the Cedar of Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The baby, who weighed seven pounds, two ounces, is being named Ketzie after her late maternal grandmother. Ed received his degree in architecture last year from the Southern California Institute of Architecture and is associated with the Los Angeles architecture firm of Frederick Fisher. Captain Erica Chaney King, now stationed at Palms, Calli., was a runner-up in an Amphibious Warfare School writing contest sponsored the Marine Association. For her article, "What You When You Don't Say Sir?" which examines problems associated with the image of women as leaders in the military services, she received a prize. · SF '74 R. Bell and her John a new Their months old arrived in a five weeks before her ed date, weighing in at five pouna.s, one but in excellent health. "She's a ctel:igb.ittul person, and no could more. She sleeping through at one eats anything, loves people, enjoys traveling;" writes Sally. "So we are most pleased and enjoying Katherine mightily.'' With John and her father, she currently is involved in incorporating their own business, to be named. The Ten Thirty Corporation. uwe'll be providing publishing services oi all kinds, up to and including publishing books. We already have several possibilities for books to be published as well as on-going work in educational textbooks, software manuals, and technical writing (audios, primarily)." They have moved to Jackson Heights, N.Y., into a cooperative that is spacious compared to their former apartment at E. 84th Street in New York. 1975 The Rev. Isaac Block, pastor of Mt. Rainier First Baptist Church, was paying a pastoral call on John Rogers and asking the usual, polite question, "What college did you attend?" John's answer caused him to sit up; it turns out that both Mr. and Mrs. Block received their master's from St. John's in 1970. 1907 1916 1923 1928 1929 1931 Besides working as a calligrapher and deliberately keeping hours just sufficient to take care of such basics as mortgage payments, John has been appointed to the two-member Mt. Rainier Ethics Commission, mandated by the State Legislature for each Maryland municipality as a watchdog agency to investigate fiscal improprieties. John, who is chairman, was named after City Council members became acquainted with him. He had begun to attend council meetings regularly in March of 1982 after moving to Mt. Rainier the preceding fall. 1976 Roberta Nalbmdian received her doctor of law degree in July, 1982, from the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, and currently is doing research for a Matthew Bender publication, Law of Ability Inslll'ance. Licensed to practice in California and Michigan, she underwent her Illinois bar exam in July with the hope, since she likes the Midwest, of settling in Chicago and practicing general civil litigation. Elected. to the Justice Traynor Honor Society, a big honor for law students in California, Roberta was one of five student editors for an international law journal, Significant in Private International Law, out of the Hague. Before into the next aspect of her career, Hnl'lPrlt::i ied by her Greece as a member tour last summer. 1978 ..... ,J'"""''" lives and has cornpJ:ete:d government at the Mary. She is """~ 17 "'' d" the Ray Graham Paula Jacobus is a senior at the Jniversity of School of Medicine. After her graduation next year, she plans a three-year residency in internal medicine. Katie Cooney is married to Tom '76. Katie was graduated from the New York University Law School and currently works in litigation for a New York City law firm. Tom is a law student at New York University. 1980 From Halifax, Nova Scotia, comes news of Paul and Robin Thomson and others who are doing graduate work north of the border. Paul is a junior fellow at the University of King's College in Halifax and teaching in what is known as the Foundation Year Program, a one-year program in the liberal arts after which the students complete their bachelor's degrees. "I am certainly looking forward to reading many of the 'great books' again and teaching in a school which seems to have a lot in common with St. John's," he writes. . Paul is completing his master's degree at Dalhousie University in Halifax with his thesis, "Scientific Realism and Constructive Empiricism," receiving its final reading. In Memoriam Mr. Claude W. Owen Mr. John Matthews, Jr. Dr. John Roberts Philips Mr. Edward T. Beavin Mr. James G. O'Neill, Jr. Mr. Louis Rosenbush, Jr. 1935 1937 1939 1947 1952 1980 Dr. Elmer G. Linhardt Dr. Asher Hollander Mr. G. Charles Beneze Dr. Peter F. Buri Mr. John L. Fuller Betty Beck Bennett i _ "Dalhousie University is becoming quite a haven for St. John's graduates. Ted Zenzinger, '83, is starting his degree this year, and Matt Davis, '82, is starting the second year of his master's. Matt holds an Isaac Walton Killam University fellowship this year (on the order of $11,000). I held this fellowship last year, and it is quite a prestigious fellowship. Our. receiving them is a tribute to our St. John's education." Robin is in her second year of a master's degree in business administration with a prestigious and lucrative fellowship from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to make the way easier. 1981 The Fast Fun rock group - David Auerbach (Johnny Moron), '81, James Brunner, '81, James Preston, '80, and Tracy Litwin, '82, who have been living in Geneva and there-abouts, have a new address. It is c/o Brunner, 2 chemin de Beausobre, 1110 Morges, Suisse. B. J. Roach writes: "~fter much searching, Joe and I are now both employed at the Hoosac School in Hoosick, N.Y. Joe is teaching math, I am a part-time guidance counselor, and we're both full-time dorm parents. It's a lot of work, but we like it a lot. "The last time we corresponded with you was 13 months ago, when our daugh. ter, Katherine Anne (Kate), was born. She now runs around the apartment and is the darling of all the students and faculty." The Roaches, new address is Hoosac School, Box 8, Hoosick, N.Y. 12089, and. their phone is (518) 686-4734. 1983 Barbara Cooper, who is in Kenya on a Watson Fellowship to study African music, writes that "my music project is · coming fine: everything from traditional marriage ceremonies to Bob Marley.'' .. ' '29, a former tax assessor in Vero was of a one feature article worked with for five as a mv·est.igator for the Rev accountant on the and as Hotel in wB.lShimgton Press _,.,,,. ..,,,,, l'''""'°''1t1v His childhood turns out to have been exc:itu1g than most. His had raised over Hester home in Cuba, where his father was a civilian auditor with the so he could be born an American citizen. With the fleet's doctor in attendance, he was the first child born in Guantanamo. Then there were two narrow escapes from death in childhood. The was as a two.year-old in Guantanamo, when he was up for dead in an earthquake later found hungry and unhurt under two beams. The second time was as a sickly child en route from Puerto Rico to New York City for medical treatment. The ship's doctor told his mother he was dead, and she had the option of burying him at sea or taking him home. His mother decided on the latter. "It was a good thing she made the decision, because I recovered that night," Mr. Hester said. "We got to New York and life has been uneventful ever since." FOLLOWING HIS father's government assignments, he moved to New Orleans, Washington,. and Arlington, Va., w~ere he grew up. With a penchant for actmg, he performed as a comedian at La Petite Theatre du Vieux Carre in New Orleans, one of the t~p lit~le theaters in the country, and m Arlmgton worked as an usher at Keith's Theater and served as a "shill," an audience "plant" who acted as a straight man for the stage comedian. Mr. Hester has performed in theaters in South Jacksonville, Jacksonville Beach, Hollywood, Fla., Sarasota, Vero Beach. and Venice. Appearances have included such musicals as Mame, South Pacific, and The Music Man. He considers the role of judge in a 1973 production of Tom Jones with the Riverside Theatre in Vero. Beach "one of J,llY best parts.". . Wftfra degte'e' ll 3.CCOWltihg,; Fla., and when Mr. Hester took a job with Pan Am as a controller for Hotel Grande, moved to Belem do Para, Brazil, for two years. BUT WANTING TO settle. down in the United States with a small son, James, they moved to Venice, Fla., where they bought a second motel. He became tax assessor and tax collector and city clerk for that city. In 1964 he ·came to Vero Beach to serve as tax assessor, a position he held for seven years until the city and county tax offices combined. Until 1973 he served as city clerk. Now that he has retired, he and his wife plan to travel, putter around the yard, play duplicate bridge and visit with their son, his wife, and two grandchildren. For exercise, Mr. Hester walks two miles a day. 36 per cent of class h 0 Id NMS rat•IIlgS Thirty.six per cent of St. John's freshclass of 106 students this fall hold Merit Scholarship honors, admissions director John Christensen re. ports of the eastern campus. There are five scholars, five finalists, six semi-finalists, and 23 commended scholars. · Sixty-three per cent were graduated in the top fifth of their high school class, 20 per cent in the second fifth, 11 per cent in · the third fifth, and 6 per cent in the fourth fifth. There are none from the final fifth. Median verbal SAT score is 630, and median .mathematics ~AT score . 600. . I ;1 1 J ·· : 'll j } '· : L �E REPORTER Page 12 NOVEMBER 1983 s l'-))>(1)-0""'0 _.:J~CC .J:>.. :Jc.... cr cr == m OQ.J 0 .J:>..-o =:;- 0 Q_ (i)" ;:j :D (./) =:J'" (.f)-~~ - oro cr ~o ::::-.'< o._-0 . Ci) ;:j (Q (./) CD~ rm - c=;· CD c fl> ~ Q. a. '"'I CD en (fl r! e " ! as master of the dinner was chef Delmo so delicious that Santa Archuleto was called forth from the kitchen to loud api11atlse. Sumptuous also, with its variety of food, was. the champagne brunch at the President's House Sunday morning. Claudia and Sam Larcombe acted as hosts in the absence of President and Mrs. Delattre. Mr. Larcombe is alumni director in the West. Saturday's events included luncheon in the junior common room. At the suggestion of Frank McGuire, GI '69, that there he and should a homecoming queens. his date we:re elected as two Seminars led by Robert Bart and Carey Stickney went well as did a tour of Pecos led Dr. Linda . of the Uniu""l"~Hu New 1urt:JU.1.;v, and of the Girard of the Museum of Inte.rna tion al led bv Charlene Thomas a 1950 graduate of the college a St. John's tutor for 27 received an Alumni Association's award of merit homecoming on the Santa Fe campus in September. Mr. Simpson, who joined the western faculty ten years ago, received the award in ceremonies following the banquet in the Junior Common Room. Also honored were five other persons who were made honorary members of the· association: Provost J. Burchenal Dean Robert N eidorf and his wife, faculty member Charles Bell, and emeritus Robert speaker at which drew 35 former stue1.e11ts. Morrow Hall, '69, former mayor of EsN .M., owner of the New Mexico Abstract and who had a serious message for his listeners. As as for alum. he said that make director. Graduate Institute i:lm.11mn, Fred GI Mrs. Schwendimann were hosts at cocktail their home. The President Delattre thinks the switchboard should be in bronze. How do you preserve an like that any. way? "Can't you do something about that ring?" one staff member asked a telephone repairman on a visit not too long ago. She finds the ring so abrasive to protect herself she holds the receiver a foot from her head every time she dials another office. She got him to listen. "I haven't heard a sound like that since, hmmm," mused the repairman in search of the right decade. He never did come up with the date (nor the solution for the ring), but it may have been about 30 years ago when the PBX board was installed, according to Annapolis treasurer Jeri Rhodes, whose office will oversee the installation of a new phone system. Even then it did not represent the state of the art. A new ITT System 3100, which will cost about $100,000, should be in place soon. Things will get better, and they need to. Although there are about a hundred phones at the college, the system at its feeblest, stingiest best is unwilling to have more than seven calls in or off campus held at one time. That's callers get a signal so often. back er in wild. was who found vacant before anyone could With a little more than Jimson ever bothered to seek, two students have painted a mural in the part of the building St. John's pendulum Pierre Gagnier, Annapolis senior, and Kevin Tracy, of Kirkland, Wash., who graduated last May, painted it over the summer months as the result of an extracurricular painting_ class at the college in which both were enrolled. The mural was suggested as a cooperative class project by their teacher, Marguerida Kendall, herself a symbolist painter. What resulted is a mural using "a classical theme based upon a drama in which both Mr. Gagnier and Mr. Tracy have been particularly interested: Aeschylus's Eumenides. The mural is actually in two parts. The nine-foot high larger part emphasizes the Hril<tg:mg the break between the two are symbolizing Athena. Atbupper WORKING OUT the Gagnier said that the central Orestes is shown, dagger in ridden over the murder of his mother, and fleeing from the Furies. On either side the pincer-like beaks of the Eumenides threaten him while the large, malevolent eyes watching him represent an. seeing guilt. Orestes is enclosed by lighting bolts. Athena has used them as a threat to get the Furie~ to recognize that a new dispensation has been established,. the Areopagus, a jury of the people in Athens to decide guilt and innocence. White budding vines represent the fertility of the new arrangement and branch out from Athena in the upper panel. The wreathed profile of Orestes outlined on the column is the reverse of the head of THE MURAL HAS __ of artist-in-residence Burton Blistein. · "The students have done a first rate job," he said. ~'For students to execute a mural of this scope and on this scale during their spare time is really quite an achievement.'' Mrs. Kendall was pleased that the students were able to represent concepts of a work from St. John's reading Jist visually and through a symbolist approach. "I would love to see them do some more," she said. The mural poses a secondary question for St. John's party-watchers. With the mural's theme of guilt, the question is, will it have a sobering effect on parties that take place at the pendulum pit? Only time will tell. addition, the new those with n-Uo ... h1cr John's to consider cornmmi~~s competitive long distance bids. will be -------- ~ ------- - ---~ ---------~-- ----~---~ - j � 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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"St. John's tutor Curtis Wilson ran away with the Olympic games held on the ancient field of Olympia, establishing the first St. John's Olympic competition," Carolyn Leeuwenburgh, '55, who coordinated the trip to Greece for the Alumni Association, said, in deciding the occasion should be written up then and there. "The second runner-up was Jenifer Smith, '76, and coming in third was Sharon McMahon, '80," Mrs. Leeuwenburgh reported in her account written at lunch -in an outdoor restaurant where something almost as vigorous as racing was to follow. Running with them were Jack Owens, '37, and his wife, Marguerite, Blakely Littleton Mechau, '58, who accompanied her on the and Merson Booth, Naval Academy, '47, and Delattre said because of the for her ability to offer constructive and imaginative for their solution, and for the wide ~mrmffrt she received from among members of the St. John's community who interviewed her. FOR THE PAST YEAR and a half Mrs. Rhodes has been supervisor of leases and debt accounting at the Marriott Corporation in Washington. Before that she served from 1980-82 as assistant comptroller of Colorfax, a Washington photo processing laboratory. Previously Mrs. Rhodes was associated for seven years with the College of the Desert at Palm Desert, California, leaving there to serve two years, from 1978 to 1980, as supervisor of water utilities accounting for the city of Corona in California. A native of Lewiston, Me., Mrs. Rhodes is the daughter of a foreign service officer and spent her first 18 years his wife, Barbara. abroad, returning to this country to It was the second race for Miss Smith complete her secondary education at and the 62-year-old tutor who runs daily. Northfield School in Massachusetts. She (Continued on P. 9) was graduated from American Universi- After consulting with New Mexico health authorities, Dean Robert Neidorf is reassured that students on the Santa Fe campus can continue their studies without fear of bubonic plague. He expressed his confidence following the death August 2 of Donna Delattre, 13yea!r-old daughter of President and Mrs. Edwin J. Delattre. Donna died of plague in Greenville, S.C., while visiting her grandparents. Mr. Neidorf said the New Mexico Health Department has investigated the campus and the surrounding environs and does not consider the college "unusual." State epidemiologist Dr. Jonathan Mann has informed him that St. John's does not renresent "a hi!!h risk area." Earlier, Dr. Mann had reported that the state ·of New Mexico is "safe and the risk is incredibly small." Noting that students are ten times more likely to be hit by an automobile than to catch the disease, Mr. Neidorf quoted Dr. Mann as saying that it is much more likely to occur in outlying areas. The plague season is considered to end in September. Plague is caused by a virus transmitted by fleas from wild roqents, including rats, chipmunks, squirrels and prairie dogs. While Dr. Mann has advised Santa Fe residents to dust pet dogs and cats for fleas on a weekly basis, he said it has (Continued on P, 4) JERI RHODES California at Riverdale. Her husband, Roy, is a sales representative with the Grime Truck Center in Frederick, Md., and she is the mother of two children, Matthew, 9, and Keith, 6. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the District of Columbia Chapter, American Society of Women Accountants. Under a program to be implemented by the staff of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Annapolis campus is preparing a series of visits to the gallery to introduce students to major paintings within its collection. While Burton Blistein, artist-in-residence, has conducted visits to Washington and Baltimore museums in the past, this will be the first time members of a gallery staff will lecture and conduct discussion groups with St. John's students. Art is not a formal part of the St. John's curriculum, but offered rather on an extra-curricular basis. The Washington program will be open to all interested students without charge. Mr. Blistein has designed a series of . four visits with the college's own needs in mind, and Kent Lydecker, curator in charge of tours and lectures at the National Gallery, has agreed to execute his program. It calls for packets to be distributed to participating students that will include inexpensive prints of paintings in the National Gallery Collection. Students will be asked to post the prints in their rooms and to think about them a month or so before their Washington visits. Mr. Blistein has selected works which, (Continued on P. 7) �,, ·TH &~M 0@000 ~&~11 &~@ w~~u by BETSY BLUME and BECKY WILSON 1936 Robert Lau has been· honored by the Houghton will continue to distribute the New Jersey Library Association by being books published by Jeremy's Los Angeles named the "Library Trustee of the publishing company, which plans to publish about 30 titles its first year. Year." Bob tells us: 1958 "In my acceptance speech I touched on Besides teaching mathematics at my· brief stay at Annapolis, which later Brookcliff Junior High School, Blakely led me to become sort of a disciple of Littleton Mechau has become an orchardStringfellow Barr albeit he didn't hit St. ist, cultivating fruit trees that include John's until several years after I was · peach, apricot, plum and sweet cherry, gone." all on 131h acres, at her home at PaliAs a member of the Mercer County sade, Colo. Her husband, Michael MeLibrary Commission, Bob has served for chau, is a probation officer with the 16 years as representative of Ewing state. Blakely and her mother, Betty ·township, with three terms as president, Littleton, (who is also the mother of St. one as vic~-president, and for the fast John's tutor Michael Littleton), took part nine years, as secretary-treasurer. in the Alumni Association's Greek tour In addition, Bob is supervisor of educa- last summer. tional benefits, Bureau of Veteran Ser1959 vices, New Jersey Department of Human After years in the Annapolis area, Bill Services. His community service includes and Carol Tilles have moved to Tampa, the American Legion, the Exchange Club Fla., where he was transferred by IBM to of Trenton, and stints on the Board of a new IBM enterprise - the IBM InforEducation and Zoning Boards of his mation Network, a telecommunication township. We'd like to offer our congratu- company. lations to Bob on his recent award. "We would like those St. Johnnies 1937 visiting the Tampa area (which includes Jack Owens, who with his wife, Mar- Clearwater and St. Petersburg) to drop guerite, took part fa the alumni-spon- by," Bill wrote. "They are always welsored to Greece this summer, is come." Their phone number is (813) 886devoting energies to a 452¥2-acre 9275, and address is 4119 Crosswater farm, "Fairhope," at Pointe Clear, Ala. Drive, Tampa, Fla., 33615. Formerly a boat builder, he still spends 1961 his summers at Gibson Island near AnCynthia Bledsoe Heine, who formerly napolis. Jack, whose humor enlivened the administered special projects at the UniGreek tour on more than one occasion, versity of Florida, Gainesville, has behas 111 head of cattle and raises pecans, come director of training at Unified corn, soybeans, and potatoes. Industries at Springfield, Va., a contract 1941 and research company which. does techniHenry Robert was pictured standing cal training under the government. behind Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of After attending St. John's three years, Chicago at the National Conference of Mrs. Heine received her degree in EngCatholic Bishops meeting in a photograph lish literature and education from Ohio in the Baltimore Sun May 3. Henry is State and is completing work toward a active in his local parish, St. Mary's, in doctorate in administration and manageAnnapolis, and we presume he was lend- ment in education systems at the Univering his parliamentary expertise to th_e sity of Florida. She is the mother of two bishops. sons, Seth, 15, and James,13. 1950 1967 Tylden Street has been the subject of Linnea Back Klee writes: "Twenty an article in ·The Baltimore Sun dealing years after beginning my two year resiwith the way he constructed a 30-foot- dence at St. John's I have finally finished long sculpture on the facade of Balti- my intermittent formal education with a more's new Waverly Elementary School. Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the Tylden, who teaches three days a week at University of California, San Francisco the Maryland I~ >ititute of Art, had to and Berkeley (a joint program)." incorporate a circular window with a 24She and her husband, Earl, work in San inch diameter into the space. His answer Francisco where he is a political science was to devise a scene from Greek my- professor. Her brother, Eric Back, '64, is thology with a boat in which the window working in Pennsylvania, and her former becomes the porthole. The sculpture is sister-in-law, Kay Randolph-Back, '66, strikingly beautiful. "has joined the professional class in Michigan." 1953 1968 "The transcontinental union consumDeborah and Gilbert Renaut are the mated by the two houses Jan. 1, 1980, making J.P. Tarcher, Inc., a wholly parents of a third child, Samuel Charles owned subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin, Thompson Renaut, born June 27. Sammie was dissolved July 1, 1983, when Jeremy joins an older brother, Jonathan, and Tarcher, founder and president of J.P. sister, Elizabeth. Debbie is on leave this Tarcher, Inc., formed a new publishing year from her teaching duties on the company, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., The Annapolis campus while Gilbert continWest Watch publishing trade magazine ues legal duties with the U.S. Energy reports. Department. (Continued on p. 11) The only tie that remains is that The Reporter Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence Berns, Thomas Parran, J. Winfree Smith, Eliott Zuckerman, advisory board. , The Reporter is published by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md. 21404. Edwin J. Delattre, president. Published .five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second-class postage paid At Annapolis, Md. USPS 018-750 Richard Carter publishes scarte Richard B. Carter, '54 is the author of a defined gap between his 'specific' and book published by the Johns Hopkins metaphysical' writings. From this University Press entitled Descartes' emerges Descartes' unique conception of Medical Philosophy: The Organic Solu- medicine as an exploration of the perfect tion to the Mind-Body Problem. ·unity between the thinking mind, the A resident of Baltimore, Mr. Carter is functional organic complex of the body, research scholar at the Psychophysiologi . and an intellectually free society wherein cal Research Clinic and Laboratories of both mind and body may flourish. the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "Carter gives a reading of Descartes In describing the importance of the as Descartes himself would have wished book, Arthur 0. Danto, of Columbia to have been read: the sort of reading University, writes. that only someone steeped in the mentali"Carter synthesizes the whole of Des- ties of the 17th century, but aware of the crates' vast endeavor - geometry, phys- 20th, could have given. It is quite a ics, psychology, physiology, ethics, and remarkable achievement, executed with politics - bridging the conventionally sympathy and scholarly solidity." Alumni seeking leaders for high school seminars In an effort to acquaint more high school mission office will supply the alumni with students with St. John's, the Alumni copies of the text to be discussed, packets Association last year conducted 18 "hon- of information about St. John's for the school officials, and introductory broor" seminars in seven different states. This fall it is seeking additional alumni chures for those participating students to serve as leaders and to expand the who may be interested in the college." program. INTERESTED alumni may reach Mr. Mark Habrel, of Chicago, chairman of Habrel at 5307 S. Hyde Park Blvd. #313, the Student Recruitment Committee, ex- Chicago IL 60615, His telephone number plained that, in conjunction with the is (312) 288-2125 or (312) 344-6252. college's two admissions offices, the assoIn another program to be undertaken ciation offers sample seminars to select- on an experimental basis this year, ed secondary schools across the country. · alumni chapters will hold receptions for The schools nominate · - and thus prospective students and invite them to "honor" and senior high school attend their own alumni seminars. in reading texts from students the program. "It is hoped that such events will introduce St. John's to new prospective students each year and strengthen the Stephen C. Fineberg, '64, assistant college's ties with the schools through professor of classics and chairman of the repeated events over several years." Assisting in the program are Mark Classics Department at Knox College, Bernstein, '69, Philadelphia; Robert Bi- Galesburg, Ill., has been granted tenure enenfeld, SF '78, Los Angeles; Harvey and will be associate professor of clasGoldstein, '59, Miami; Allan Hoffman, sics. Mr. Fineberg, who has a doctorate in '49, New York;- David Doremus, SF '78, Dallas; Martin Kalmar, '69, Baltimore; classics from the University of Texas at John Ross, '69, Seattle, and David Schill- Austin, was brought to Knox in 1976 to reintroduce the classics as of a vital er, '62, Boston. READINGS :SELECTED ranged from liberal arts education. In 1980, he re. Antigone to Euclid's Elements to a musi- ceived the American Philological Assocal work of Couperin, "Lecons de Te- ciation Award for Excellence in the nebre." Nearly half the seminars were Teaching ofthe C~assics and in 1979 was held in New York and in Illinois - 24 per awarded the Kno~ College Philip Green cent in each state - while others took . Wright-Lombard <l:ollege Prize for Distinplace in Maryland, Massachusetts, Penn- guished Teaching. Fineberg sylvania, Florida and New Mexico. Six taught classics at the University of Texas friends of the college assisted graduates at Austin and was a visiting professor in classics at the University of Victoria, as co-leaders. Alumni interested in assisting should British Columbia. first inform Mr. Habrel, who will provide a brief outline of how the program works. If appropriate, he will put them in touch " with alumni already leading such semiIS .....,,....,., ... ,................,. . ....,.....,.,.,..,.., ... nars. Mr. Habrel said those wishing to initiMichael J. Hodgett, SF '69, who began ate programs in new areas would be his banking career with the First Interreferred to the admission offices. state Bank in Santa Fe in 1972, has been "The admissions offices will discuss made its vice-president and chief finanwith alumni those schools which seem cial officer. most receptive to an honors seminar," he Before assuming the new position, he explained how the system works. had been vice-president and controller of "Alumni may propose particular the First Interstate Bank in Salt Lake schools that they know well or they may City, utah. request the admissions office to select A graduate of St. John's and of the New schools for them. Similarly, alumni may Mexico School of Banking at the Univerdecide they would prefer to make the · sity of New Mexico, he has compl.e_ted,;hjs ini,tial contact with schools or they may second year at ~he Stonier Graduate request the admissions office to make the School of Banking!at Rutgers. . contact for them. In either case, final After six years with the Santa Fe bank, arrangements will be left to the alumni Mr. Hodgett was named controller of the and the school officials coordinating the First Interstate Bank of Nevada in Las program. Vegas in 1978. He! has been with the Salt "Once a seminar is arranged,, the_' ad- Lake City bank smce 'No'\tember 1979;' ,,, receives tenure I' I' 'A �";' -~ "'~TRt: . REPORTER -':',·· ••na3 Campuses preparing for fall homecomings Tours, talks set in West SJC histories to be ready Alumni gathering on the Santa Fe campus will have a choice of touring two places which have become part of the Southwest's heritage during homecoming September 23-25. Alexander Girard, internationally known collector and a leading designer who served as a consultant to St. John's when the western campus opened, will conduct a tour of the folk art he has assembled. It is exhibited the Girard Wing of the Museum of International Folk Art. The tour will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday. As the result of last year's successful archaeological tour to Tsankawi, alumni also will be able to tour Pecos National Monument on Saturday morning. Leading the bus trip, scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m., will be Dr. Linda Cordell, chairman of the Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. Two talks marking homecoming will be those of St. John's tutor Robert Sacks, '54, and by Daniel Cleavinger, SF '68, Santa Fe attorney, who will be the banquet speaker .. Mr. Sacks will speak on Shakespeare's Tempest at 8 p.m. Friday in the Peterson Student Center. Mr. Cleavinger's talk is scheduled to follow dinner at 8 p.m. Samuel Larcombe, '66, director of alumni activities and community relations in Santa Fe, will be the master of ceremonies. Dinner will be in the Junior Common Room preceded by cocktails there at 7 p.m. The homecoming seminar at 3 p.m. will be based on Flannery O'Connor's The Artificial Nigger and will be led by Robert Bart, '57, and by Cary Stickney, '75. The president's champagne brunch will take place Sunday at 10 a.m. at the President's Home, 1040 San Acasio. Two new histories of St. John's - one of the New Program and the other a history that begins with King William's School and continues until 1923 - will be ready for distribution at Homecoming September 30-0ctober 1. Winfree Smith, St. John's tutor, will be in the bookstore to autograph copies of his history of the college since 1937 from 11:30 to 12:30 a.m. and from 3:30 t-0 4 p.m. September 30. Tench Francis Tilghman, still recovering from a broken hip at Blacksburg, Va., will be unable to be present to autograph copies of his account of the college, which originally was published in part as a series of articles in the Maryland Historical Magazine beginning in 1949. The histories will represent the first books to be published by the newly revived St. John's Press. As a novel change this yea.r, the homecoming dinner will be served in McDowell Hall. Approximately 110 alumni from classes of the twenties through the forties will be served in the Great Hall. ROUND TABLES WILL replace seminar tables on the second floor where an expected 120 former students from the fifties through the Class of 1983 will dine. None of McDowell's third floor classrooms will be used . Beginning at 6:30 p.m. cocktails will be served in the dining room, which also will be set up like a lounge for after-dinner gatherings. MICHAEL BLUME, '78, of Annapolis, this year's homecoming chairman, said that awards of merit, customarily presented following the banquet, will be made instead during the business meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Great Hall. A highlight of the business meeting will be the dedication of a portrait of the late Ford K. Brown, a member of the faculty from 1925 until 1968. in Marsha Marsha Drennon has been named to head the newly established Office of College Advancement on the Santa Fe campus, President Edwin J. Delattre has announced. Designed to serve both as an educational resource center for the Santa Fe community and to assist the president and Board of Visitors and Governors in their fund-raising activities, the new office will include two other administrators: Sam Larcombe and Martin Stone. Mrs. Drennon, who is a native Santa Fean, has been associated with the college for the past nine years as registrar and director of student financial aid. Mr. Delattre said she will be succeeded in those positions by Mrs. Diane Trudell, assistant registrar and financial aid director. Mr. Larcombe will continue to serve as director of alumni activities in the West and will assume new responsibilities as director of community relations and seminars. Mr. Stone, music librarian for the past four years, will become director of public relations and. ipj9rm~tion,. Alumni Association board members meeting in Santa fe are, from Betsy Carolyn Banks·Leeuwenburgh, David Mark David Dobreer, Dean Samuel John Ross and Sally Dunn. • A now for Summa Obscura Award In appreciation for the work he , has done on behalf of alumni and alumni activities, the Alumni Association's New York Chapter presented St. John's President Edwin J. Delattre with a plaque during a summer program which drew 70 alumni, including some from Boston. It was an occasion for a buffet lunch, seminars and dessert at the Long Island home of Allan Hoffman, '49, president.On the lighter side, it also was the occasion to make the kind of awards every seminar has always wanted to make but never dared. The chapter withheld names of recipients, but engraved statues went for these: The Immanuel Kant Critical Award for most obscure point; the Aristophanes' Cloudy Thinking Award for best performance not having read the text; the St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Obscura award for the most trivial distinction; the Plato, Socrates and Other Sophists' Award for the wprst analogy; the St. Augustine Confession Award for the wordi~st; the Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Award for conclusion jumping; Aristotle Analytical and Categorical Award for the non-sequitur campaign, and tlie Edwin J. Delattre Presidential Award for best athlete - bull throwing. Seminar leaders were President Delattre, Dean Samuel Kutler, and William Mullen, Annapolis tutor. Scheduled for September 17 are two seminars, The Trojan Women, led by Nicholas Maistrellis, and Death in Venice, led by Elliott Zucker'man. The Alumni Association's Board of Directors has established a new career advisory service to recruit alumni to counsel current students on jobs and graduate schools. Carolyn Banks-Leeuwenburgh, '55, will serve as chairman. Meeting for the second time on the Santa Fe campus, the board also nominated for election at the annual meeting October 1 in Annapolis four directors: Jules Pagano, '48; Robert Nichols, '48; Bernard Jacob, '54, and Vernon Derr, '44. The board adopted an amendment to the bylaws enabling chapter presidents to designate a substitute if the president is unable to attend meetings. Bylaws are to be published and mailed this fall, and guidelines for chapters also are to be distributed. It also approved a second associationsponsored trip to Greece next year with Mrs. Banks-Leeuwenburgh, '55, in charge. In other business, Jean Fitzsimon, '73, was chosen to head fund-raising activities. Those present included Association President David Dobreer, Miss Fitzsimon, Mrs. Banks-Leeuwenburgh, Sally Dunn, Samuel Kutler, Robert Bart, Betsy Blume, Allan Hoffman, John Ross, Robert Bienenfeld, Sam Larcombe, Mark Ha brel, Harvey Goldstein, and David Doremus. Tennis courts are back in shape The tennis courts on the Annapolis campus have been sealed against water, patched, and low spots where water has stood eliminated. They are level once again in work completed during the summer months. The refurbishing was financed by rental fees for the three courts. Robert Goldwin, '50, former dean and now director of constitutional studies and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, will give the homecoming lecture at 8:15 p.m. Friday. He will speak on the topic, "James Madison and the Bill of Rights: Something More Than a Change of Mind." Alumni seminars will be linked with his_ subject. They will be held at 1:30 p.m. on the Federal Papers and on de Toqueville's Democracy in America. Leading the seminars will be Mr. Goldwin and Charles A. Nelson, '.45, and President Edwin J. Delattre and Allan Hoffman, '49. Among special events that will be taking place will be a lecture on the Bray Collection, part of the first public library in the country that came to St. John's through the King William School, by librarian Kathryn Kinzer in the Rare Books Room of the library. In addition, there will be a Collegium Musicum concert at 4 p.m. in the Key Auditorium. It will be led by Alexandra Mullen, Cohasset, Mass., senior. President Delattre's first brunch proved so successful last year that it will be repeated at 11 a.m. Sunday. Among the classes holding reunions will be the Class of 1928, which is planning its 55th anniversary. Members interested in attending should write David Crowley, 509 New Street, New Berne, N.C., 28560. �T 4 • people that much more meanine:ful. that much richer." IN 1966-67 MR. Bunker train Peace Corps workers. what comparatively to do in these have worked with nei:~hl:l1ors to and some the hills around us, and we didn't lose all the battles. "I felt my wife the LWJLVJUCl•lLCJl its first his retirement tells something the man. He will read some books He will climb a whole lot more mounmore than one ordinari He will be seeing more of and their tarnililes, esnectilllY outside of New Mexico. He will do what comes to for with a view to to down and be in Central gy, particularly them, use," he said. tic1J.1at.ing what to do about He has two books to finish. One he has been urn1'1r1n <! "I told all novel. The other Achilles and «111 rr1;:c:,"'11" BOB who has come to perwhat St. John's is all with the \.VJL•c;i:;•c. after 18 she her relations on the western Catherine talked with this and respected tutor who had a number of tncmgnts about teaching extending from his ence with freshmen students to l:i:u.wt:>iu•. old adults from Santa Fe. "I'm especially fond of freshman seminar and language," Mr. Bunker said. "I just plain have the clear headed joy of the Greeks. The freshman come in with a very real enthusiasm and excitement. It's the first time they have seen that it's possible for people to pool ideas and come up with insights that no one could have reached alone." He likes to watch freshmen; three years after they arrive he enjoys seeing how much they've grown. When William A. Darkey was dean, he asked Mr. Bunker to direct the college's program of community seminars. "Why did I stay with it as long as I did?" Mr. Bunker explained his long time commitment in this capacity. "Because I appreciate the different perspectives one gets from the undergraduates and the fifty.year-olds from the community. "In part, of course, it's so that I can 1 Bob Bunker, in retirement teach some things which are not part of the program or to teach some things repeatedly. I think probably as much as anything else, I stay with the community seminar because these are books that I haven't yet figured out for myself. I want to see what I can learn from other people." Community education suggests the town. What about St. John's relationship with it? Does the program by its very nature lead to an isolated, rather selfabsorbed community for students and tutors? "IT SEEMS TO ME there is always going to be a town and gown situation," Mr. Bunker replied, with perhaps a view to other colleges and other towns. "Col- Donna Delattre dies at 13 (continued from p.1) never been known whether domestic animals have ever carried the plague. BECAUSE OF THE increased incidence of the disease this summer in New Mexico, which Dr. Mann attributed to the unusually wet and cool weather, he said physicians are alert to the signs. If the symptoms are present - a high fever accompanied by swellings of the lymph glands in the arms, neck and groin area - the disease is easily treatable with such common anti-biotics as streptomycin or tetracycline. The death of Donna Delattre saddened members of the St. John's community on both campuses. Both held memorial services on the morning of August 5, the same morning she was interred in the f:lmihr hnri"J pilotjat Liberty. S.C. a man to climb mountains. leges are simply doing something else." But what about the nature of St. John's own particular self-contained program? Would that be an additional factor? "I suppose so," Mr. Bunker conceded. "I suppose there are tutors here who, if they would assign books that fitted what was going on in town, would do so. I don't see, however, that that's possible at the same time that we are working quite so hard to find what in our list of readings helps us find answers for the difficulties of the world as we see them. The bind is a very great one. "I'm very well aware now that I am about to be a tutor emeritus, about to stop teaching. What I have learned here is going to mean a great deal to me. Before I came here I was basically, in my opinion, an activist. "I worked as a social economist with the Pueblo Indians, and when I began to teach, I took special pleasure in the fact that most of those I was teaching were Chicano students from New Mexico Highlands University. Those years were enormously valuable to me, but I see them in a much better perspective because I can apply Plato and Shakespeare and Marx to what I was doing. . Donna died at Greenville Memorial Hospital a day after she showed severe symptoms of the disease. In residence during the 1982-83 academic year with her family in Santa Fe, she was en route to Annapolis where the Delattres will be living this year and where she would have been a ninth grade student at the "The different ways of perceiving huKey School. man beings' joy in one another that one Donna had gone ahead to visit her maternal grandparents in Keeowee Key, finds in the Great Books; the different S.C., while her parents and 11-year-old ways that one learns how human beings can appreciate one another's worth, for sister, Winifred Lee, were to follow her. Donna had attended the Brunn School ' me, feeds right back into and illuminates in Santa Fe last year where she partici- what I did with Indians and Spanish pated in cross-country running and soc- Americans. cer .From 1980 to c1892 she attended the "I'm hoping that I will have a chance Key School in Annapolis. Gifts in her to work with people away from any memory may be made to the scholarship campus again. I feel that what I have ,fands of either school. here will make what I do with tutor on the Annapolis 1974 until 1978, has been for academic affairs at State which this month is St. John's curriculum. Mr. is scheduled to complete work on his in theology and philosophy at Brasenose ...,.,,....... 6 .. , Oxford University, England, in Janmn•'lJ A former resident of Wallingford, he previously was special assistant to the Connecticut commissioner of education. His wife, Nancy Coiner, '75, one of the first 13 women to become a Rhodes Scholar, who was in Kentucky this summer, has been selected as one of three graduate students to begin a doctorate program in coni,parative literature at Stanford University this fall. For the past three years she has taught English and mathematics at qhoate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford. A graduate of Kenyon College with a baccalaureate and master's degree from Brasenose College, Mr. Benjamin was selected from more than 150 applications or nominations, according to KSU President Raymond M. Burse. Thomas Slakey. Annapolis tutor, is on leave for two years to serve as dean of a program offered by KSU's new Whitney Young College of Leadership Studies. The college, modeled after St. John's undergraduate program, will open September 11 with an address by St. John's President Delattre. Established in part as a way to hasten integration at the previously all-black university, it will have an integrated enrollment of 49 students and a faculty of four. Besides Mr. Slakey, who will lead a seminar, its faculty will include two St. John's alumni - Theophus Smith, '72, now finishing his doctorate in theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., and Eric Salem, '77, who has been doing graduate work at the University of Texas at Dallas. Mrs. Sandra Patterson, with a master's in classics and a doctorate in English from the University of Kentucky, is the 1 1 �r 11Jl:lllna To the Editor: I was most disturbed the sentiments in the most recent R,..... ,. ... 4-... ,. about "St. John's Forever." While believe it was ever played or sung career at some of the the is associated with a period of the past that is as important to the who were part of it as anything came later. St. John's may possibly need an additional soog, but we ought to maintain "St. John's Forever" forever! While I don't believe it was intended that way, the suggestion that we formally forget about "St. John's Forever" in folios of "famous done so face of those a. dance or until the song was for somebOdy every time the song is we might see as in dollar and a half a year come """'"'; .... ..,. There was, after life at St. John's before the New "St. John's Forever" is one of our remainin~ ties to the college's For the benefit of those of us who had the misfortune to attend St. John's after but before croquet, will you please publish the words and music to the (presumably) grand old song, so that we all go to work on improving it? May I suggest that the pages of The Reporter might be a good to conduct a competition to new verses for the old song? might even be worth a St. John's T-shirt or something as a prize. For all I know, this could even become tune a money-making enterprise for the college. All those records and sheet music " $~fl d I £ J I ::i I J J I r r - J"ohns So.int tor - HI - er.,/ Hev I.I~ I P I '§:t-b_~__ J d . \f--f .~-~E'Y" I Co' +~· co..n ~ ' - J :J I ' I l -.I I Yours sincerely, . John Ross, '69 3959 Fremont North To the Editor: Seattle, Wash. 98103 Your appeal for a St. John's school song prompts me to recall that my classmate, Bruce· Baldwin (SF'68) has already written one, though he probably didn't intend it as such at the time. The title was (and remains, as far as I know) "Can You Tell Me, Socrates?" It's a catchy tune and bears the distinct advantage of the fact that every St. e..- · Johnny already knows the first verse. They may not know the second verse, if --- --] there is one, but that's no big problem. After all, who knows the second verse of ~ t another candidate for St. John's school song, "The Star-Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key, '96)? Best, s'4< 'I I J " ld.}i I\ ,If.\ b L - d•~ ::l ---- 1:- --1 t..!~~r =Et a:~;.,, 1 5 _l _ _ _ •;r= Todd H. Everett, SF '68 PO Box 38091 Los Angeles, CA 90038 Editor's Note: Glad to hear about it. Can you or Mr. Bal~win send on a copy? self-under.standing must be in For West. terms of To the Editor: Several alumni have written letters expressing views on in the St. John's curri,..nh1m pa111cu1a.r1y in regard to including tant works Eastern cultures in the program. I believe that it would be a mistake to include such works in curriculum for the followin~ reasons: 1. Almost no one in the West possesses the to understand classics. I am but _ the and nuances that characterize the East. One cannot a sufficient of another culture by readin~ a few books of of historical or " Yet to read the the East without the intimate tanillliar11cy mostly subconscious, which we with our own civilization would put us the position of constantly reading Western attitudes into the books of the East. 2. Reading the works of the East will not help us toward self-understanding. Whether we like it 'Of we are of ,the West, and. have been sb1.ect1bl\ntbe1~rtst 1' i 3. the great works of the East will coherence of the curriculum. It has often been remarked that the books comment argue r1i:-v·p1on_ one another. enough Eastern are read so that some of their mamgue and can underthen it would seem that a large number of Western works would neceshave to be omitted, thus nnc::f>nru111 the these books are cornmenting on one another, etc. But on only a few books of the East adrnit1ced, then will be read their context. If books of the continue to be the focus of then seems that to omit very many, to make room those of the East, would result in leaving out important elements of the West's own "great conversation." I For these reasons I hope that St. John's does .not move to include the great books of East in its curriculum. · Sincerely, Thoma.s Storck, GI '80 Rt.; 3,,iBox 215 1 31 Fitonf Roy/a}, s~a. 22630 the To the Editor: This will be as brief as I can make it. I haven't the time or the statistics to "real world'' is a question its alumni have the real To some the direction in which this has become _ seems to a notion that St. John's e:raduates must be to succeed in realm of and the alumni include the To the Editor: You want a new school song. What's wrong with "St. John's Forever," if you can find a copy of the old sheet music. Call Dick Torovsky (Richard H., Sr.), '21, retired Army colonel, lives in Annapolis. His father, a Navy commander and director of the Naval Academy Band wrote the music, and Dick just might have a copy. Charles W. Keefer, '23 9 Colonial Village Webster Groves, Mo. 63119 Editor's Note: Thanks, Mr. Keefer. Tl1ere are plenty of copies available, but now that women have been a part of St. John's for more than 30 years, our objection is tha.t the words have become anachronistic. in.r1m1tt'u ates, those who either are not at to take advan*·"':r"' understood to be a more _ solid lab and the handful of those who. for reason, do not possess the w1.1um.1G1 cess to pos;ithms cal foumdatic)n fessional credentials. One is this: Is St John's abandoning alumni in favor of graduates? To regard our world as requiring the skills of a liberal, human education is to regard ourselves as military or agriculture or industrial advisors without which other nations cannot determine, feed~ or support themselves. 1WluH is forgotten whett we .ask about the paths of St. 1 iJobrr's "sttld.Ents' ,in !the :real world is this: We came to St. from that and we came wiPinalu and eagerly, persons with dation as well. We world. our own. As auestions concerning the future the program, consider this: Freshmen used to encounter the qu1est10n of measurement. Genesis used tQ look at trees. Without a sense of proper measure and of the means of growth and creation, we cannot have music or art. As old farmers say, those things can take care of them. selves. An old song goes, "You -and I and everyone knows how oats and beans and barley grows." Sheri Anderson, SF '78 NewfQlden,·,Minn.566738 f[ �Pages some times a under the state colors desk. k and bedecked with near her \.Vest Street in 1981 Governor about M's. named her Hughes, hearing work on the of the Commission for a term. member commission acts as· a sort of board for its five-member pro- cation in obtaining Board of Education's objections, made it possU:He child Another case a class-action suit in 1979 Anne Arundel County Board Education, in which she renresented the While other pens have come to her from time to time, this one means the most. It's the one that the governor used to sign the first of legislation with been connected. As a woman who knows ate and out an idea, M's. found for this of tion in a law as sensible. That was in after she finished law school. The law in cases of domestic the abuser be removed from the household upon "'"•·-'U\J''-' of his child or an rather than penanzmg laws." in is considered one education disabili- worn. ""''h11"'1u over a two sponsors Rosalie Abrams, of Baltimore, ueJleg;ate Thomas of Calvert - and the bill was the General As~;em1my amen<1m1ent was added in a misdemeanor to violate the law.) SINCE THEN M'S. Wyatt said that well over 3,000 have been "'"'""'« 11'1" to judges with 80 per them upon. It was at the time she was working to get the legislation adopted that M's. Wyatt discovered what she described as a "tremendous" state-wide lobby of women waiting to do what they could toward passage of the state's equity laws. It is the VVomen's Legislation Coalition which the Maryland Commission for Women brings together three times a year: at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the Maryland Legislature. Quite to her surprise and amazement, claim that this will ruin said. "but they the child labor receive together with she Center. law stuconcerned with in. for funds from the for homeless women or shelters for battered women and rape we couldn't it th .. nnah because 1Pvc•rv11n&> same funds. that the most serious is one of inn1rnV'1h1 THE PAST and the on behalf of have other issues: enforcement of child from absent _ don't" What M's. those izes: domestic and family law and laws education. I LIKE special education is because it's innovative, it's new, it's creative, and there are not many cases in it," M's. Wyatt said of this specialty. "It combines many kinds of issues." Some time ago, when a deaf child was threatened with removal from a traditional classroom in a private school, where he had been doing well academically, M's. Wyatt successfully assisted the 1Anne Arundel County Board of Edu- for the poor, the law to considered are more 17,000 service-connected women in J.Y.a.a.1. 3 land), and issues involved in involuntary divorce. 1 '11prii•nt1u the commission is. investigating studies of comparable worth in job positions largely dominated by one sex. "Day care employees in Boston receive less than those who provide dog care," she pointed out. "And why are nurses paid less than engineers when you consider the skills, responsibility, and training of both professions?" To her's and the commission's satisifaction, Governor Hughes, who she reports has three women on his cabinet and is "very much committed" to women's in child care. of several St. which there are no mi:l1t:·n:uum:: household she also had her behalf of women. luncheons at an caucus, agreed that women should be n1:>r1T1ittt1il to attend law school in crn:iv1nc1,na: time basis and the law school's administration. three other St. John's attended the Universi- Law with Sandra the to take of this more flexible ;:i<.;m;;uu.11.me,. The other two are Sandra Comenetz Maistrel'71.) While still in law and another student at M's. on an inter- of counselGold, she published by the Catholic University Review, and another article, one opposing maxi. mum security facilities for juveniles, appeared in the Maryland Law Journal in 1976. Along with her law work and programs for women, her family is a primary concern. It includes Rachel, a senior at Bryn Mawr, Ruth, who will enter Oberlin in the fall, and Mark, a senior in high school. Ralph Swentzell's music manual wins Praise by CHARLES G. BELL The sophomore music course at Santa Fe has developed, under the leadership of Ralph Swentzell, a variant form of great interest, and, I believe, appropriate to St. John's. There will always be differences of opinion, but since few who have not taught the Santa Fe course these last years seem to know what it's doing, I wish to write briefly about it, - from my own perspective, which is that of having taught the music at Annapolis under Vicki Zuckerkandl (my first year there, 1956-7) and of teaching it more recently here. It cannot be denied that even when Vicki was alive different people proceeded different ways, and that since Vicki's the content, especially at Santa Fe. has been open to 0V111or1m,0ont shared encounter with aesthetic reality as the reality of spirit. FROM THE start, however, there were those who regretted the Germanic Transcendentalism; others thought rhythm prior to the logos of the tones; some stressed natural harmonics; others perceptive taste. Most of all, everyone knew that the dynamic analysis was largely appropriate to what we may call the Cartesian phase of western culture, from the tonal formulation of about 1600 to the late 19th century revolt from tonality. But for the wonderful music from Gregorian through Organum, Ars Nova, the flowering of Flemish and English, Italian, German and Spanish polyphony, sacred and secular, often in intimate relation to the books of the sophomore year, often or sung by amateurs enough to be (not to the non-western and Vicki's tone-vectors were ed from the Greek fragments down to the time of Bach, when the concert repertory and most listening begins. But all I did about it was to follow the common practice of tempering the course to my predilectons. Though surely what a program like ours requires is what Heraclitus deplored the lack of: "And though reason is common, each man acts as if he had an insight of his own.'' IT IS EXACTLY here that Mr. Swentzell's search for musical treatises from the Greeks to Rameau, as we have accumulated crucial papers for our laboratory sequences, gave a leverage, like that of the seminar books, on a common St. John's study of music as clarified and discussed by those who were originaly making it. Excerpts from these treatises, with a of related both in score the best rPP1nrrt1~rt p1erf()rm,an<!eS, constitute a musical St. John's tutor taken in nev'elon. and to teach. mental order, these texts no more a of music than our math and lab of science. sequences built a - - of thoughtful inquiry into the nature of music, as Zuckerkandl originally conceived, although with a less personal theory of the subject and with a larger core of examples .. Finally, when from Monteverdi, through Bach and Beethoven to Brahms, Vicki's force of the tones becomes a telling instrument of inquiry, it is fit that passages from his books should provide (as formerly) a basis for such listening and discussion. If music at both campuses is to be a shared experience, it seems the Swentzell manual could be a point of departure. Together we could sift and refine its centuries of theory in the light of an increasing wealth of examples - a heritage like that of the books from the Greeks to Augustine, Thomas, Dante, Kant Chaucer, Shakespeare, with all the rest the contrast. continuous realms of ., ....u • .,....u 1;;, post aesthetic encourage _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _r -_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _,..;.._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.....__..,..._ _ _ _ _....,_ _..~--- ----~·-·-------~-. --~~-- ~- - �D~Aif!I. 7 ' John Gaw Meem, without whom the Santa Fe campus never would have been 4 at the age of 88. It was his together with that of his of more than 200 acres of that made possible the opening of St. John's second campus. He was honorary fellow of the college, the fourth person to hold that honor, and a member emeritus of the Board of Visitors and Governors. To honor both the the Santa Fe established the Gaw and Meem tutor's chair. Last spring, as eXll!ession of its the college and dedicated in honor a small area off the Peterson bUi.idirig as a meditation center for students. A of the "Santa Fe Mr. Meem came Fe in 1924. He was known rell[iortaUlY and nationally as an architect traditional Pueblo lines and building adobe and modern materia1::>. In 1948 Mr. Meem was instrumental in Santa Fe one of the country's first "'"'mnro.t1ii>n'1iu·o zoning ordinances to serve the distinctive look of the Mexico state caoital. Bee:inning: in the 1920s he his office in Santa Fe in 1924 architecture until he rea member the Old and was a charter member of the Historic Santa Fe Association. Mr. Meem was the recipient of numerous honors. Gifts in his memory may be made to St. John's or to Holy Faith Episcopal Church in Santa Fe. 1!:160. He was ~t.n~~~ n..... from using college St.John's boat house is 65 feet long. The Annapolis Rowing Club's shell is 63 feet. With figures that work, the boat house appealed to members when they were looking for a place to house their nine. man shell, that, plus the fact that· the waters of College Creek are quiet and calm and ideal for rowing. Under a contract signed between the college and club, the club has a new home, and St. John's will be able to extend its active boating program into a new direction. To encourage students to participate, the club is offering a student membership of $10 as against the regular $50 membership. With it goes an opportunity to participate in rowing that begins as early as 6 a.m. Monday through Thursday. Maureen Lamb, who rowed four years for Harvard, from which she received a degree in government in 1982, is the of the organization that in50 members and which has been active on the water since May. She said Friday is the only day in which members are not actively engaged one which uses in this strenuous the whole of one's - arms, shoulders and neck. Members at 7 a.m. Satur- and 'T'hm,..~.i!3vs Tuesdavs and there are evenin~ St. Johnnies who t::.11.\.. .1.u.u. .11.ui::. summer. Favorite visitors include Robert from and Don Cook from Santa Fe. As with any group of people, the composition changed with the mobile population of the city. Older members man. dropped out, newer ones joined. Tutors Last year saw us offer seminars on came less often, and there was more Plato's Seventh Letter, Aristole's Nicominterest in seminars on works of painting achean Ethics, Scott Buchanan's So Reaand architecture. son Can Rule (led by Mr. Delattre), and When I moved to Chicago and joined the group in 1980, we had a number of excellent seminars on political writings as well as such books as Through the Looking Glass (complete with the chess (Continued from P.1) game). And because of the good relations between the Nelsons and the campuses, he hopes, because of similarities and we still had occasional tutor visits as well differences will "stimulate thought when as an early meeting with the then new seen juxtaposed over a period of time." Accompanying the prints will be readings president, Ed Delattre. Yet, in 1981, the Chicago seminar group written by contemporaries of the artists, reached a kind of crisis. The Nelsons which raise fundamental questions about were looking for others who would take the visual arts. Each visit will begin with a lecture by over their role as coordinators. At the same time, the core group was in transi- a gallery historian. The lecturer will tion, fewer were attending, and while we attempt to provide general background, had just had our most successful meeting using the assigned readings for reference with a seminar on a painting by Cezanne, and illustrating the talks with originals in we also had had a seminar for which the the gallery collection. This will be folleader did not even show! Clearly, a lowed by a coffee or lunch break, and then discussion in the gallery of one or major change would have to take place. That change became a reality at a several original works studied earlier in reunion dinner in April of 1982 attended reproduction. "The paintings will be in effect our by Provost J. Burchenal Ault and Alumni Director Sam Larcombe. With their sup- 'original texts' and should, I think, be port, we agreed to organize formally and treated as we treat such texts at St. request a charter from the national John's," he said. "The focus should be on the works alumni association. By the end of the themselves, not on historical context. The next month this had been done. (It is interesting to note that our local primary goal of discussion should be to crisis coincided with the national change explicate inner relationships, the artist's reflects them. and to a more as- aim as the been for the related issues." sociation. If in the there is doubt that Mr. Blistein said he had not limited 1.A11ca!§',u would a charter. himself to the historical sequence. He to select works institut- nreferred. excellent in themselves raise auestions about the read- Ii stein with student recruitment. this we have discovered that there are any number of urivate liberal education n"'"''"'""'"C! related to our And we continue to elicit reactions from our locals in re ....... -,..:i"" to their continuing needs as well as reactions to career counseling for alumni and such topics. · 'l'!h .. ,,. ...,... i.. -~S First meeting: Enthroned M~donna and Child (13 century); Raphael's Alba Madonna; and El Greco's Madonna and Child. Second meeting: Di Paolo's Annunciation; Master of the Barberini panels Annunciation; Jan van Eyck's Annunciation; Veronese's Annunciation. Third meeting: Leonardo's Ginevra de Benci; van der Weyden's Portrait of a Lady; Rembrandt's Portrait of a Lady with an Ostrich-Feather Fan. Fourth meeting: Bosch's Death and the Miser; Titian's Venus and Adonis, and La Tour's Repentant Magdalen. Readings proposed by Mr. Blistein include selections from these writings: For the Middle Ages, excerpts from The Book of Suger, Abbot of St. Denis; for the Renaissance, excerpts from Alberti's De pictura; for the Mannerist and Baroaue periods, Lomazzo's Treatise on of and Idea of the of Painting; the 18th century, Sh:aft:sbutry's Notion of the Historical or Tablature of the Judgment of from Lessing's Lao- both. are Scott \ �E RCEPO,RTE the teacher. But she has been to the bank to arrange to come back to St. John's College next summer for work in those fields. "Pm pn11osopr1y and theology for dessert,'' says, with an eye to still another summer. Miss Cook has been one of 15 recipients of fellowships to attend a new eight-week. English Teachers Institute at St. financed by a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humaniti~. . It is a self-contained program, but Miss Cook has found her experience studying great books in a program modeled after St. John's undergraduate program so absorbing that she wants to return to participate in the college's parallel Graduate Institute that leads to a master's degree. Not that she needs a master's degree. She already has one from Johns Hopkins University. But working without any constraints - parents to please or credits to earn - she reports working harder during the past weeks than at any time in her lifetime. 11 U is the best intellectual and educational experience I ever had," reports this Severna Park (Md.) High School teacher. "I HAVE NEVER been made to think. That's probably the best thing. It isn't that I'm coming out with a whole new body of information, but I am given an opportunity to use information to reach my own conclusion. I've spent a lot of time being bored in classrooms. rm not bored here." "There are so many people to talk to," she went on. "In no other place have I been encouraged to talk with the 'deities' who lecture. The professors here have been de-deified. You meet them as human beings, and that is something special. "Elliott Zuckerman - he's outrageous. I love him. John Christensen perceives all the human issues and is always bringing them out. He doesn't see the reading as stylistic matter. He's always bringing us back to what the writer is like and what he is saying about the human condition. He puts· the human back in the humanities. I have respect for all his perceptions." The English Teachers Institute was an experiment of its sort, one aimed at providing teachers from Anne Arundel County and Baltimore with an intensive program of studies. Another such institute operated on the Santa Fe program under funds from the NEH which altogether totaled $200,000 for St. John's. Benjamin Milner, director of the Grad. uate Institute, said next summer a simi. . self-contained institute would be held for social studies teachers with readings drawn from the Graduate Institute's Politics and THIS "'"'"""''"'"'""' HE invited two Baltimore English professors to the Fred H. White, of College's English Department, and David C. Dougherty, who teaches at Loyola College and is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins. As English teachers, accustomed to guiding their own classes to central points they consider important for their own students to be aware of, most of the secondary teachers and the two visiting professors were impressed by how well St. John's seminars function in uncovering ~ajor issues. With poL 1.¢~tm,-i~~J Jhe seminars are marked by an openmg are even Benjamin Milner, right, director of the Graduate Institute, David C. Dougherty, left, and Fred H. White. Todd Reichart photo question, after which the students discuss the readings. Mr. White believes if the students come well prepared, there usually is enough of an intuitive consensus any time to get questions addressed within a two-hour period. "In a seminar almost any genu. ine question will move to the core of the work,'' he said. And students do come prepared, he has found. "I've been very much struck by the preparation that is unusual in my experience," he said. "Students come very well prepared and eager to talk. The quality of conversation is very stimulating." HE HAS .BEEN interested in the fact that seminars tend to move in the opposite direction of those at the usual graduate level, which he finds by comparison to be fragmented. At St. John's students are directing themselves to a common understanding of a single work. ''Occasionally, the direction of the sem. inar does not accomplish as many normal objectives as it would under a controlled form," Mr. Dougherty obser. vedi "I am not at all sure that this is a bad thing. It is surprising how many thing.s find their way into the discussion that I would want to insist on, and it is attractive to see the class consciousness develop an idea rather than the tutor." With some students in his seminar and preceptorial from the Graduate Institute David Jordan, .n........a., on, of all has become an ancient Greek curses. In Athens to dine with the Alumni Association's touring group, Mr. Jordan described a curious kind of cursing, inscribed on thin sheets of lead and rolled up like a cigar, that dates back to the fifth century B.C. These were nailed into graves or dropped into wells - believed to be that much closer to the underground - so that Greeks who died prematurely, and presumably had time for an active life in the nether regions, could carry out the work of the curses. Now teacliing and doin&.te'P.earch at the ' American "School for Clastlca1 Studi~f in itself, he has found students, particularly those at St. John's in previous years, "fiercely loyal to the program." "It is refreshing to see that loyalty, that kind of enthusiasm.'' What it's like to teach at St. John's brought comment from another visiting teacher, Franz Nauen, who is a member of the philosophy faeulty at the University of Haifa and who is with the Graduate Institute there. For him St. John's has provided his third type of teaching. At Harvard, where he began his teach. ing career, the teacher, like a hound chasing the fox, could be a little brutal in exposing unexamined assumptions in. a no-holds-barred fashion. IN HAIFA AND at the University of California at San Diego, where he also has taught, he said he lectures and then has pleasant conversations at the end of his class with his students. At St. John's, the experience has been totally different. Mr. Nauen was astonished that no secondary sources were used. Students' opinions· are taken very seriously. It is not a matter of imposing information. "And because there is not much houndchasing-the-fox, as at Harvard, one's own assumptions are constantly being questioned," he said. "Everyone tries to be extremely courteous to each other. Nevertheless, people can be critical of a teacher's position." Athens, Mr. Jordan said that customarily the curses were directed at four groups: to athletes, to lose races; to the judiciary, to lose law suits; to thieves, to return property, and to those whom the sender hoped would fall in or out of love. Altogether there were about 1,300 such tablets. Since they frequently were written by unschooled people, Mr. Jordan said the curses are valuable because their informal spelling helps to trace the evolution of the Greek language. After leaving St. John's Mr. Jordan obtained a master's in ancient astronomy and a doctorate in classics from Brown University:He has'been in Athens since Jt9fO! tLi ~I ~11::! ,~ ~,1 n ~ ~ Ll f J t. - :J 1,<. ~- for the coming year when will seek $125,000 from former students their annual fund campaign. Altogether, alumni raised by 1, according to Jack Carr of Annapowho headed the successful campaign for $100,000. The sum represented $109,605 in unrestricted giving and $5,105 in contributions for specific purposes within St. John's operating budget. In building on the work of the 1981-82 campaign headed by Frank Marshall, of Annapolis, Mr. Carr said that 1,054 donors had contributed to last year's drive. He said this means that during the last two years there has been a major, 35 per cent increase in the number of alumni giving over that for the year which ended July 1, 1981. THE 1981·82 campaign was one in which St. John's was a finalist in competition sponsored by the Col,lncil for Ad-vancement and Support of Education and U.S. Steel. It was among 41 institutions of higher learning across the country receiving the Alumni Giving Incentive Award in the improvement category. It raises the proportion of alumni giving to the "respectable" level, according to Mr. Carr, who pointed out that colleges in the selective liberal arts group to which St. John's belongs find that on the average between 30 and 50 per cent of thefr former students contribute to their alma maters. (Proportion of alumni making gifts to such drives for the average four.year college is 24 percent). To reach next year's goal, Mr. Carr said it would be necessary to raise an additional $11,000 - a "do-able" figure and to add approximately 150 additional donors. Attributing part of the success of the campaign to telepl!one drives in Annapolis and in New Y~rk, Mr. Carr reported that plans are und/erway to stage. similar telephone drives in San Francisco and Chicago. "The response by volunteers was so successful in New York, we think people will be eager to take part," Mr. Carr said. "The whole campaign for me has been a lot of fun. The secret was that worki11g with volunteers was such a pleasure along with talking with old friends and renewing old associations. Some volunteers helped two or three nights our phone campaigns. It wasn't just a matter of a St. John's alumnus fulfilling his duty. It was fun." inadvertently William Players' prc1ctuct1cm of The ur;,..,f,a,..,t:< Tale in the issue was the following paragraph. Since Miss Nayar is a particularly fine actress and contributed so much to the success of the we especially regret the omission. Making belfevable the unbelievable role of Hermione, Queen of Sicilia, was Daphne Nayar, a major requirement calling upon the considerable acting taJ. ents she already had demonstrated in other KWP plays. :rn this tale of reconcili· ation, Daphne }fayar was persuasive, playing Hermionf with queenly dignity and. providing st~ll another reason why th&JJroflut§Hon1w~s a)mtb8'wr ·~~e;· �(Photo by Marguerite Owens) uairticiva:nts - a included ammm, and who came from With Else in i?:Oml grace. could have seen alone and the late Dean Jacob par- felt the trip was conap11ete, as senior member said. ticinants. it included three physicians and THE ST. JOHN'S TOURING group coincidentally, who had found Greece magnificent, partly beon tne atomic bomb. One of the physicians was Dr. David cause there is so much mountain and Dobreer, of Los Angeles, president of the blue sea together. Even viewed through Alumni Association, who traveled with rain and mist and the lingering effects of his daughter, Janice. Another was a St. jet lag, the Boeotian Coast is unforgettaJohn's father, Dr. Thomas O'Malley, of ble. Because it was June, the weather was Sarasota, Fla., who ·came to the assistance of Miss Smith the final day in comfortable, bright enough for dark Athens when her foot was run over by a glasses and hats with two members of truck. Fortunately, the truck left track the group - Roberta Nalbandian, '76, of Sacramento, Calif., and Katherine Cave, marks but no broken bones. TWO MEMBERS OF the same class of Stamford, Ct. - doing much of their who went on the Hellenic tour without sight-seeing under umbrellas. The St. John's group traveled through knowing the other was planning to do so were Henry Fahrig, of Palm Beach hilly countryside terraced with silvery Gardens, Fla., and Mr. Owens, who olive trees and vineyard accented with divides his year between Pointe Clear, cypress and wild flowers - splotches of Ala., and Gibson Island. They both re- wild blue thyme and lavendar hollyhocks with a kind of broom producing a yellow ceived their degrees in 1937. "For someone who went through the flower like an aborted orchid. By July and August, Emelia Pittas, the Old Program, it was completely enjoyable to be in a group in which most people E:iglish speaking guide who accompanied were from the New Program and to find the group on its bus tour, said Greece out how intelligent and exciting they all turns1 hot and brown. Sightseeing in Greece turned out to were," Mr. Owens said. "Each day was very entertaining. We had an interesting have its strenuous moments, requiring and exciting tour guide, who found us goats' feet, for the ancient Greeks and interesting places for lunch with great church fathers of the Byzantine period appeared to have built nothing low. food." "I felt our group was a perfect size, Protection and a long view were everyand we became a family," Barbara thing. Booth, who lives in Bethesda, Md., comThe St. John's visitors discovered this mented. "We were all getting into the Apollonian and Dionysian spirit, and if at Delphi, where they left some members behind in the climb upwards. (They had we had stayed any longer, wow! " Merson Booth, who spent a year audit- duly purified themselves at the Kastalian ing a St. John's seminar and who comes spring before visiting the Temple of to an occasional lecture, contributed Apollo.) Delphi - "navel of the world" and, for brawny talents and kind help with lugZeus, center of the universe - is pitched gage especially appreciated by Mrs. Leeuwenburgh on the return truip. There high on the shoulder of a mountain, was difficulty with Olympia Airways, the seemingly as wild as any in the Americontracted airline, and substitute flights . can West, with temple, stadium and th.eater 1 reached by;!; zig-zagging i road, bad .to be arrane:ed for the trip hopie. that the location THE PALACE OF Ag:am1em1non was killed his wife temnestra, is reached by an entrance covered with stones, made as butter millions of and a wall hike Below, the wide Argos disaooears into the distance. Seen at night from the roof of Athens' King's Palace Hotel, the lighted Acropolis appears to hang surrealistically at a distance in the sky, a phantom structure as far removed as the civilization it symbolized. Sounion, where Lord Byron carved his initials at the Temple of Poseidon, commands a strategic view of the sea lanes. Costas Skordas was the skillful driver at the wheel. He negotiated curves through deep mountain gorges and guided the bus through narrow village streets without injury to any of those little Greek ladies muffled in black or the seemingly smaller donkeys they goaded. (Greece has very small donkeys and very large ants.) Besides those places named, Miss Pittas, relating an abundance of details of Greek history, architecture and art, guided them to Marathon, Thermopylae, past Thebes, to Mistras, Nauplion, Epidaurus, Piraeus and once again to Athens. By sea aboard the K-Line's Constellation, the trip took the group to Mykonos, Patmos, Rhodes and Santorini. For some, the high point of the trip was across the border in Turkey to Ephesus (remember St. Paul's Letters to the Ephesians?), with its remarkable ruins of the great Greek city where St. John preached and St. Paul was imprisoned. Participants swam in the pale turquoise waters of the Aegean at Lindos on Rhodes, where conversation centered on topless swimmers. They partied and dined together, feasted upon superb yogurt made of goat's milk and topped with honey, shared bags of cherries and figs, pored over the endlessly fascinating archaeological pieces in the Athens museum, compared each other's shopping acquisitions, hunted for Socrates' prison in Athens' agora, and· absorbed~ centuries, .of history going goddess Gaea. For Grace McNeley, the return to was especially Indian who teaches at a ''-'"''·"''""'"• she was that civilizathe West did not spring full that Indians were not the first to smoke signals nor to have a system based upon matrilineal lines. Their resemble one another. "The simibecome very deep in terms of western civilization," she said. Altogether, the trip was a huge success. Financially, with some of the customary overhead eliminated, it was a bargain. "It lived up to more than expectations, partly because of Emelia," Bill Ross said. "The arrangements were excellent. It's going to be a nice glowing memory." Roberta Nalbandian agrees. (Miss Nalbandian found herself as the partner of the Constellation's dancing instructor, a handsome Greek by the name of Pericles.) "I think it was a great way to travel and the Greek trip was particularly appropriate for the St. John's program. I think it should be done again." It will be. The Alumni Association board, at its July meeting in Santa Fe, approved a second trip to Greece next year. Dan Kowalski is Truman finalist Daniel Kowalski, Annapolis- junior, was a finalist in the Truman Scholarship competitions. Trumans are awarded annually to one sophomore student from each state preparing a career in government service. In entering the competition, Mr. Kowalski submitted a 600-word essay on workfare and wrote on the effects of unemployment. A former student at Michigan State University, where he completed two and a half years before coming to St. John's, Mr. Kowalski had been a member of St. John's Student Committee on Instruction and a former director of student activities. At Florian High School in Hamtramck, Mich., he was president of the student council. �• (Continued from .P. um 2) From George Elias comes news of a dozen full years. Now living in Oakland, Calif., he writes: "After gr41duating in 1971, I spent an eventful three years in the army as a paratrooper, linguist (Arabic) and auto mechanic. I even underwent survival and jungle training although I never left the U.S. . uwhen I left the service, I moved to Berkeley and studied engineering at the University of California. Before receiving my B.S. in 1978, I became editor of the university's engineering journal. I doubled circulation, expanded the volunteer · staff to over thirty, and made the magazine a profitable enterprise. · "For the last five years I have worked in San Francisco at the Wells Fargo Bank. I now manage a department of sixty in the business services division. Next year I will receive an M.B.A. in new venture from the University of Califor. nia's Berkeley's evening business school. I expect to start my own business within the next five years. "My wife Karen and I just celebrated our sixth anniversary. Our daughter Ingrid (who is the joy of our lives) is almost two-and-a-half, and at times we seriously consider having a second child. 19-12 We recently received an announcement of the marriage of Boedecker to Ann (Continued from P. 10) by long periods of heavy drinking, Cain denied efforts to be a ''tough guy writer.'' Speaking of the writing of Hemingway, with whom he was frequently compared, he said, 11 All my guys are a bunch of yellow bellied rats. I ·thought if I ever met Hemingway I would ask him, 'How long do you boil them to make them so tough?' " " Carl Bod, a University of Maryland professor, would have agreed. "The critics do their damndest to put writers in pigeonholes, but James M. Cain, wouldn't pigeonhole," he said at the Cain memorial service. "He was not a tough-guy writer. He was not a detective story writer or a writer of hard-nose mystery as exemplified in the works of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Ham. mett. And he was not a Hemingway. He was his own person. There has never been any writer quite like him, and the kind of work he did will be with us for a long while." In retelling Cain's life, Mr. Hoopes has done a skillful job, not only in his engrossing descriptions of the great days of the old New York World (Lippmann hired Cain because of the perfect syntax of his spoken English) and in describing Hollywood of the 30s and 40s, but in bringing together details relating to St. John's and Washington College histories. For those of us who never had the opportunity to meet Cain in all those years he was living in semi-retirement in Hyattsville, caring for an ill wife, it has been a pleasure to grow to know him through the pages of Mr. Hoopes' absorbing biography. \ ,, .RMW Kelleher. They were married on April 30 in Washington. SF 1973 Richard Cohen is a reporter for the San Francisco Business Journal, a stockbroker magazine, in Sonoma. 1974 Sam Goldberg is now a clinical assistant professor· at the Univerity of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He works in an inner-city mental health clinic, supervises a few medical students, and maintains a small, private practice. At the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. where he ·spent the last year of his residency, he is completing a study of the stages of onset and recovery from psychosis in schizophrenic patients. This month he begins formal psychoanalytic training at the Baltimore-Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis. "Most happily, I have just celebrated my first anniversary of marriage to Elaine," he writes. 1975 Captain Harriet Quesenberry arrived back in this country in February after a year in Turkey, spent not far from the Syrian border. She loved it there "tense but fascinating." Harriet is a captain in the Air Force Nurse Corps, holding down a demanding and enjoyable job in Hampton, Va. "If there are any Johnnies in the Tidewater region, please let me know," she writes in hopes some seminars will be possible. At the time we heard from her Harriet was in the process of applying to the Graduate Nursing School at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. Her address is 205C Thoreau Circle, Hampton, Vq.. 23666. Her telephone is (804) 865-0608 or (804) 865-6732. January Hamill-Gatza and her husband, Mark Gatza, have moved from the campus of St. Timothy's School into Baltimore City. Mark will continue at St. Timothy's, but Jan is interested in engaging in parish work. Their new address is: 5859C Western Run Drive, Baltimore, Md. 21209. Jan writes: "Please keep us in your prayers as I try to find a concrete answer to a call to parish ministry." 1976 Bill Nooter was married to Elisse Blake Free in a ceremony performed by his uncle, Judge Ingram. Bill is an assistant corporation counsel for the District of Columbia, and Elisse produces a public affairs program. Unfortunately, she didn't tell us more. Their address is 4448 Faraday Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016. SF 1976 Miriam Marcus is a registered nurse and has just changed jobs. She is now working at the Group Health Hospital in Seattle in the medical oncology (cancer) unit. She is on the night shift, which means daylight hours are for sleep. She welcomes Johnnies but advises that they write. ahead of time since she has no phon4i!. Her address is P .0. Box 12241, SeattJe, WA. 98102. ' 1977 With a new master's degree in architecture, Frances Goodwin is working for an a~chitect in Charlottesville, Va., in an office which employs only three, ideal, she reports, for doing a lot of design work. SF 1977 "Hello to you and Johnnies everywhere," comes a letter from Tom Stepnowski. "Although I matriculated at Santa Fe in 1972, I graduated with the_ class of 1977, of which I consider myself a member. "For three and a half years I have · been a copy editor at an elementary /high school textbook company, trying in my small way to mitigate the wholesale stultification of American youth. I also have attended English courses at night at Chicago's I)ePaul University, where I met Richard McKeon. The comprehensive examination covered, among other textbooks, the Poetics (but Telford's translation, not McKeon's). "This year I chucked all that and am now two-thirds through a fascinating . computer career program at DePaul. I paused this month to pick up my M.A. from DePaul. My immediate goal is to become a programmer-analyst. But I haven't thrown away my cap and gown yet: I get nervous when I'm not going to ·school." 1978 Larry Ostrovsky graduated from law school in May of 1982 and passed his Ohio bar exam the following July. He is now in Alaska serving as a law clerk to the general counsel of the State Court Sys. tern. "The only St. John's person I've seen in Anchorage is John Sweat, '78," Larry writes, '.'and I would be happy to hear from anyone who is up here ... My number is (907) 344-8126." Steven Cason and Liz Tarr were married on July 16 in Crofton Park, Md. They are living in Crofton although they hope to relocate to Columbia, Md. We were fortunate to have attended the ceremony and reception and want to wish them the best of luck! GI SF '79 Marilyn Schaefer has been awarded a $5,000 Ingram Merrill Foundation grant to aid in her continuing series of painted three and four-panel screens on the theme of the seasons. M's. Schaefer is an associate professor of art at New York City Technical College, part of the City University of New York system. She will be on sabbatical leave, painting in Paris, during the 1983-84 school year. 198(}, Tom Palmer once again has been busy at his typewriter. Now a policy analyst with the Council for a Competitive Economy, he has published a in Data Processing Management, one of the larg. er computer trade publications, and he has another article in Policy a publication of the Cato Institute, called "Infrastructure: Public or Private?" which makes a case for voluntary market ownership and management of the infras. tructure. After completing his bachelor of divinity degree at St. Michael's College and the University of Wales, Frank St. Amour entered the deaconate on July 2 to serve the Anglican church in Wales for a time before returning to the states. He will serve in the Parish of Coity with Nolton, Bridgend, Wales. . 1981 Two major things have happened to Martin Miller. He received his master's degree in electrical engineering in June from the California Institute of Technology, a feat for which he is to be warmly congratulated, especially since he has accomplished it in such a short time. He also has had a second operation to partially correct a heart condition. His first came just after graduating from St. John's. "I am feeling fine." For the past, year he bas had a work- study fellowship at Hughes Aircraft Company where _he helps design integrated circuits and where he will continue to work. Fellow alumni wishing to reach him may contact him at 4350 W. 130th St., Apt. #4, Hawthorne, Calif. 90250. 1982 Laurie Crigler has opened a clothing and erafts shop called "Best of Both Worlds" at 35 Maryland Avenue, Annarolis. The shop sells clothing, crafts, weaving, papier mache decorations, and paper flowers. We hope it will be a success. Nathan and Leslie Rosen are currently sharing a large Victorian house with David Stem and Laura Trent, who were married o~ June 11. Christina Faulhaber also lives there. She and Leslie spent the summer training in Montessori methods in preparation for their new jobs in the "one-year-old-world's.only" Montessori school, the Barrie Day School in Silver Spring, Md. After participating in a summer acting conservatory at Catholic University, Nathan returned to the University of Mary. land to finish his master's in theatre arts. He invites everyone to College Park to see his thesis production, A wake and Sing, which runs Nov. 9-13 and 17-20. David will teach geometry at Sidwell Friends School, while Laura will continue her art studies following her summer work as a graphic artist. "We pride ourselves on the greatest concentration of Intermediate Greek Lexicons in Hyattsville," Nathan writes. Their address is: 4315 Gallatin Street, Hyattsville, Md. 20781. Attention book readers of all sorts. Harvey M. Goldstein, president of the Miami Alumni Chapter, reminds former students that old paperbacks and hardbacks they may routinely throw out are welcomed by librarians of both campuses. Kathryn Kinzer, Annapolis librarian, said the eastern library is completely dependent upon gifts for its paperback section, an important section for recreational reading, while James Benefiel, Santa Fe librarian, welcomes second hand books as "a big boost." Both campuses have periodic book sales to dispose of unwanted volumes with the money earned going to purchase new books. They hope not only alumni but parents and friends will respond. does The trail-blazing Boston Alumni Chap. which conducted a series of seminars on eastern books, has taken another innovative turn in its readings again with a discussion of Peter Drucker's 19S7 book, The Effective Executive. David Schiller, '62, chapter president, · said that three participants, active in personnel and consultation work, were impressed and .others thought it a "truly great book" of its sort. Non-Machiavellian in its character, The Effective Execu. · tive is concerned with a humanistic approach to management in business ... presenting moral models frequently in · mechanistic terms and describing intelli-. gent tools for organization. ~ �. Sfi;PTEMBEll~ Buchanan's book focuses on education by GEORGE DOSKOW So Reason Can Rule-Reflections on Law & Politics is a collection of talks, essays and papers written by Scott Buchanan between 1952 and 1966 and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Their subject, whatever the nominal title of any of the essays may be, is education, for education, construed in the broadest sense, was clearly his preoccupation. He sees democracy as the archetypal form of government. "Democracy, as self.government or government by the consent of the governed, is not one of many forms of government. It is a principle of all government: governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed" (p. 76). With this as a first principle of politics, he goes on to argue that an educated citizenry is the only foundation on which a sound democracy can exist. For him, however, education is not merely that which happens in school (that at best provides a basis for what the rest of one's life should be spent on). Rather education should go on in what at first glance seem the least probable places: the courts, congress, corporations. It sometimes seems, as one reads these essays, that the Constitution was written • not to provide the machinery for governing a nation, but rather a machinery for educating its citizens. As the Founding Fathers said, if men were angels they could need no government and if they were beasts, they could not attain it. Being men who could learn, · they might achieve it through discipline. So, in this most difficult of enterprises, the roles that men play must be turned into learning disciplines; there must be a curriculum, and this is supplied by a constitution and laws. A citizen in self. governing society is enrolled in that school; his right and duties launch him on a life-long learning. But a representa.tive ... must both learn and teach. The great comprehensive assignment is to learn ·and relearn the common good and through the laws to teach it to succeeding generations of citizens. (p. 193) He argues that the system of checks and balances exists primarily to guarantee that full and free discussion may take place to generate an informed consensus. So if the House :;.qd Senate, as is often the case in important matters, pass different versions of the same piece of legislation after debate (bearing in mind that the Supreme Court can rule- on the constitutionality of the bill), there then must be further debate in the conference committee, and still further debate when the consensus bill is returned to each house. Should there be a presidential veto, this provides yet another opportunity to reconsider the legislation, to try to improve it, and, in the process, for the legislators to educate themselves and the citizenry. I have described this example at some length because it seems to me characteristic of the way Buchanan thinks. He operates always on the most optimistic assumptions, that, as he puts it, "All men by nature will that justice be done," that "Reason can rule" that corporations have developed ''a human face," in short, 'thatdemocracy is possible. ovelist was born and taught here It's too bad St. John's could not have life," Roy Hoopes writes in a highly persuaded James Cain at some point to readable biography, Cain, newly publish. return to the coll_ege, where he was born em by Holt, Rinehart and Winston of New and . spent his early boyhood and later York. taught for a year. Cain was born at St. John's in 1892. His Rebecca West wrote: "You seem to me father, James W. Cain, had come as a one of the few modern novelists who knows what y-0u mean to say when you professor of mathematics and acting start a novel and end up by saying much more because you let the thing grow in good imaginative soil as you write. You were a fool not to be born a Frenchman. ' The highbrows would have put you with Gide and Mauriac if you had taken this simple precaution." Indeed, Albert Camus once wrote that he learned to write from Cain. In a 1940 essay, "The Boys in the Back Room," Edmund Wilson called him the best of the "poets of the tabloid murder," a group that included John Steinbeck, John O'Hara, William Saroyan, and Horace McCoy. Best known for The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double and Mildred Pierce, all made into successful movies, he was a prolific writer and master of the shocking sex and violence theme of the 1930s. As one reviewer put it, his books were "fast and mean and smooth and go like hell." Cain wrote editorials under Walter Lippmann during the heyday of the old JAMES CAIN New York World, wrote for H.L. Mencken's American Mercury, served as man- professor of English literature, arriving aging editor of The New Yorker under in 1886, the year Thomas Fell became Harold Ross, and was a reporter for The president. He was soon made superinBaltimore Sun and American. tendent of the preparatory school and He spent 17 years in Hollywood when college treasurer. he made more than $380,000 as one of Young James Mallahan Cain was bapHollywood's most famous screen writers, tized at St. Mary's Catholic Church and but he was never a successful script attended the Green Street School. He was writer. His own books were adapted by precoeious in class and an omnivorous other writers, and altogether he shared reader at home. credits for only three film scripts. He returned to Maryland in the late "Professor Clarence W. Stryker, a forties and died in 1977 at his home in member of the St. John's faculty, lived in Hyattsville at age 85. A year earlier, The Humphreys Hall, just across the lawn Reporter, hearing that he had been a from the Cains, and he and his wife took former faculty member, wrote asking for an interest in young Jamie's reading and his memories of St. John's. introduced him to Alice in Wonderland, He wrote back a snappy but courteous which to the end of his life remained his letter, mostly about President Enoch favorite novel,'' writes Mr. Hoopes. Garey, who had brought him here and Henry Hopkins, a friend and later a who also was the cause of his departure, famous Baltimore architect, recalls Jaadding that the thing he held against mie playing with an old Civil War sword Garey he did after he left: permit the he found in the basement of Paca-Carroll. construction of the Hall of Records that (It had served as a hospital during the "completely loused up" that end of the war.) campus. The Paca-Carroll house, in which he "He said ... the year he spent teaching was born, was Jamie's home for the first at the small college was one of the 11 years of life. Mr. Hoopes writes: 'pleasantest interludes' he ever had in his "The Cains lived on the north end of the double house, and, of course, it was haunted. 'The colored help, who knew its history, said it was,' Cain recalled, 'and I I never had the opportunity to meet am under the impression some bloody Mr. Buchanan, but on the basis of these episode had taken place in it some time occasional essays, I can understand his in the 70s. "My father would get very angry at reputation as a marvelous teacher. He has a gift for finding interesting possibili- such tales, for one of the things he had ties in whatever comes across his path. convictions about was the frightening of He makes the most of everything and children, which he held was wrong and finds what is hopeful and promising in likely to produce unfortunate results later even the least likely occasiomL This in life. He said there was no such thing as ability is, I think more useful in conver- ghosts, and with my head I suppose I satiom than in writing, and it is clear believed him. "But my heart was a differ,ent matter. that all of these essays were meant to be occasions for conversation for much of The front room in the cellar, where a what he says cries out for argument, pale gray light filtered in from under the clarification, qualification, and sDme- front steps, certainly looked like a place times even outrage. And these arr~ all that a ghost would like. And my room, part of the continuing discussion wnich which was on the third floor and had he saw as the true mode of education for dormer windows, I was always a little frightened to go up to, and· left the door citizens of 'a'democracy. open when I had gone to bed, so I could see the friendly light and hear the reassuring talk from down below." When his father was made president of Washington College, the Cains left. Cain entered Washington at 14 and graduated juslshort of his 18th year. After a variety of jobs and then work on the Baltimore American and Sun (he became a close friend of Mencken), Cain joined the St. John's faculty in 1923 at the request of Enoch Garey, who the elder Cain, now a member of the St. John's board, pushed for the presidency. Garey offered $3,500, close to double Cain's Sun salary. Cain and his wife - the first of three he was to marry - took up residence in a faculty apartment in Humphreys. Mr. Hoopes said Cain had early misgivings about Major Garey, a former West Point football star. He was appalled that his inaugural address was directed entirely to a building program and said nothing about the educational objectives of the college. "Despite his misgivings, Cain got along with Garey for a while, and his life settled into pleasant routine," Mr. Hoopes writes. "Cain taught three courses at St. John's: a lecture course in journalism which attracted nearly a hundred students: English A, big class of 50 or 60, in which theme-writing was the principal activity; a class in the technique of journalism that involved relaxed, easy, feet-on-the-table discussion. (Cain would bring in a stack of a~htrays and proclaim smoking permissible.). "Students who took Cain's courses at St. John's recall him as an excellent teacher. Bernard Gessner remembers him as 'the fastest speed-reader I've ever seen.' In class he was a hard taskmaster and became annoyed when students could not learn punctuation. "He continually stressed brevity and consciseness and, !according to Gessner, would say of alpiost every paper a student turned in, 'Boil it down.' Two of Cain's favorite pieces of writing were the Lord's Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount, which he read often to his classes to demonstrate terse writing that expressed so much." Felix Morley, who was teaching at St. John's at the same time, remembers him as a big burley fellow, not good looking but with strong appeal for women. But Morley had the feeling he was "putting on a bit of an act. He had a lot of ability, no question about that, but he had not found tQ.e right channel." His relationship with Major Garey deteriorated, and when Garey wanted to fire four hired football players he suspected had shouted "Goofer Garey" at him as he passed Pinkney, Cain became angry, doubting Garey could identify them fully, and resigned. "Next day, through pressure Cain brought to bear on the bank that did busines with the college, Garey backed down and reinstat· ed them," Mr. Hoopes writes. At any rate, with an active case of tuberculosis, Cain could not have remained at St. John's and was hospitalized in a state tuberculosis sanitarium. His New York and Hollywood careers followed. A rare conversationalist, fond of talking out of the side ~f his mouth, a novelist whose immense talents were diminished 1 (Continued on P. 11) .... �f\.))>(J)-U-0 _.:::i:-+cc +:>.:::i c:_CYCY 52~ g_ ~~ m Q.:::i:o~ en· en-~ 0.. - OQ.J CY s: 0 ~-'< o..-0 . CD' :::i CD UJ <D r- CD ~ 0· (]) c: r.n The Santa Fe campus, ceived an estimated 500 am:mcauons there is five new fall. Dean • What has St John's meant to them? Members of Santa Fe's Class of 1973 held what called a "reverse don. to in psychology Brandeis TTniv.i>r..:itv psychology; ate Institute at Santa Fe. Katharine Mulford: B.A., University of New Mexico, in philosophy; B.A., UC, Berkeley, in philosophy and theology; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, in philoshas taught at the University of Oklahoma and Northern New Mexico Community College. Frank Pagano: B.A., Cornell University, in government; Ph.D., Boston College, in political science; formerly taught at the University of New England. David Sanders: B.A., Brown University, English literature; Ph.D., Cornell University, English; formerly taught at Cornell University, Goucher College, Germantown Friends School. II i into a formal new which will be called the Kate Memorial Garden. Edwin J. Delattre said the garden will honor the late Mrs. Myers, for whom the campus has endowed a fund. A resident of Ohio, until her death in 1957, Mrs. Myers was the of the late Phillip Andrew Myers, II, and of Mrs. Carleton Mitchell, a member of St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors. She had been a dedicated gardener in her own serving as president of the Garden Club of Ohio. One of the flowers to be planted will be a fragrant, miniature the seeds of which Mrs. Myers brought back from England in 1928 and which has grown in both her own and Mrs. Mitchell's garden at St. Margaret's. ii I Annapolis career counselor Marianne Braun reminds alumni of a number of fellowships and of the deadlines for applying for them. For further information and applications, former students are advised fo be in touch with her. Fellowships are: Fulbright-Hayes: Duration, one year; applications must be sent directly to the Institute of International Education and received by October 31. Luce Scholar's Program: Duration, one year; age limit, 29; job placement in Asia; applicants must be nominated by the college; deadline, first Monday in December for receiptof application. Marshall Scholarships: Duration, two years; age limit, 25, deadline, October 22; must be sponsored by the college. Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities: For graduate study in the United States and Canada; the application process must be initiated by a tutor's letter of early November. nomination to be sent t_o the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Rhodes Scholarships: Duration, two years; age limit, 24; deadline, October 31; study at Oxford University; applicants are asked by the foundation to request an evaluative letter from the College's Fellowship Committee. Rotary: Graduate scholarships for are offered through the Rotary Foundation; journalism scholarships are another group for which graduates are eligible; applications must be submitted by March 1 through vour local Club. . its and at the center where a sundial will be There will be four white oak benches constructed by William B. Schreitz. '67. Annaoolis cabinet maker. their on the ... c:u••11Ju,.,. Their included about how St. John's later lives and suggestions for which will be in a letter the Instruction Committee. Another question emerging from a seminar on the Phaedo dealt with whether the college leans toward a mind vs. body dichotomy. Is the program priate only to ~ particular stage or it apply to all stages of intellectual development? I Members of! the class felt that St. John's has contributed a strong moral sense to their lives as testified by the large proportion of their class who had entered the field of law or religion. Members also believe that the friendships they had formed at the college remain their strongest and lieepest friendships because of the work they all shared and the intensity of that WQrk. For a closing, they all agreed to meet again in five years. The mid-summer meeting drew 20 alumni and their spouses, principally from the Southwest and as far west as Califor. nia. Festivities included a luncheon, attended by President Emeritus and Mrs. Richard D. Weigle and by Provost J. Burchenal Ault, and a formal dinner given by Dean Robert Neidorf and Sam Larcombe, director of alumni relations. Marianna and Nancy Seamon the S&H Garden Designs in cooperation with the Campus Development Committee, headed Wye Allanbrook. The garden will be planted with azaleas and flowers which bloom while students are in residence. Besides iris, there will be narcissi, tulips and phlox. Planting will be under the direction of Wayne Turcotte, St. John's new horticulturist. A number of trees are planned. Already in place is a Franklinia, a large leafed fall bloomer that blossoms between late August and frost. Later in the fall Mr. Turcotte will plant three tulip poplars on the street side of the garden with two "under-sfory" trees to be placed underneath them. They will be fringe trees - Chiomanthieus Virginicus Thomas Jefferson's favorite. The arbor marking one end of the narrow garden has been repaired and planted with two kinds of white clematis, one of which will bloom in the fall and the other in the spring. Formal dedicatory ceremonies are planned for later in the academic year. 411 The Friends of St. John's College raised $25, 724 during their annual fund campaign ending July l, a year-end talley for the academic year 1982-83 shows. Working under the chairmanship of Anna Greenberg, the organization raised the money from individuals and local in part through a telephone '"'""'"l'Cl,AFJU in which Mayor Noah Hillman $2 ' and City Council Member Ben Winegrad took part. Seven members of the Steffey real estate ·office recruited by Marilyn Williamson, a member of its staff and of the Friends of St. John's, raised pledges the first night of the telephoning. Altogether 50 members of the of St. John's took part in the telephone campaign, according to Ann Cruse, direc- � 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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Hit It the Key Auditorium to fill the ae1eg:1t1c'n of insistent PrE~su:l1ent Delattre and commencement be Wal- '' Elliott told the pro- Governors at its "that consists " there was a team in straw boaters opposini;i; team in John's cheer (Continued P. 10) �Page2 NE 1983 THE REPORTER enaut helps win largest • Cl i enforcemen case by BETSY BLUME, SAM LARCOMBE and BECKY WILSON Deadline for the September Reporter is August 10. um John Noble is retired and living outside Easton, Md., after being president of every organization in that area: the art academy, maritime museum, the historical society. John has had lots of opporfor leadership beginning right af. ter he graduated, during World War I, wheri in 1918 he was assistant provost marshal in France. He also had his own firm selling Fords, Lincolns and Mercuries in Easton. Nowadays John says most of his a~tivity takes place on the golf course. 1928 1953 Alumni of the class of '53 are encouraged to contact me (Betsy Blume) about organising a reunion during the upcoming homecoming. I am particularly interested in one or two of you volunteering to work with me in planning the event. Time is running out so please get in touch soon. A venture capital firm of which Stew· art Greenfield is one of the two founding partners - Oak Investment Partners is written up in the April issue of Forbes magazine in an article, "Beyond Hand. Holding." The firm is praised for offering 55 cent compound lots more than annual return. It out that Mr. Greenfield and contacts, ence and nlain old often Gilbert Renaut, '68, is one of the senior attorneys on the federal Energy Department's 11-member litigation team that has won the largest civil enforcement judgment in the nation's history, $1.6billion against the Exxon Corporation. 1964 is assistant nro1dwcticm for a .1v-.uu•u" the American u1~1uL1Lu1:: _ writes the trains clients with Bahrain's Power and Water . .,.,.. ..};,. .. l ..... i., interested to trace and tele- "We were required to become intelligent in statistics, geology, and petroleum engineering, and to subject executives of Exxon and other industry giants to close oral questioning," Mr. Renaut said. "I have to be grateful to St. John's that I am quite unintimidated by such things and that I am free enough in the use of reason to take a fresh approach to what my colleagues often saw as old and insoluble problems." After leaving St. John's, Mr. Renaut taught secondary mathematics for four years at Edmondson and Walbrook High School in Baltimore. He was graduated from. the University of Maryland School of Law in 1975, having served on the editorial board of the Maryland Law Review and as senior class vice-president. He then spent five years with the federal Solicitor of Labor's �J • If you were to appoint an official voice of Baltimore, whose would you select? The mayor's? The head of the Chamber of Commerce or the president of Johns Hopkins? No; wrong choices. We'd name Lisa Simeone's. We're supporting the suggestion made in a Baltimore newspaper. As it happened, Lisa Simeone is one of St. John's students who as an undergraduate knew what she wanted to do. And in almost as short a time as it takes to· say WBJC, she has fulfilled an ambition. She has her own program from 6:30 to midnight on Baltimore's largest classical music radio station. It's absurd to be so proud of almost .like a proud array of relatives, the Annapolis St. John's communa .. shares a happy, collective twinge as its members let their radios drift from "All· Things Considered" to the evening programming and hear this 1980 graduate identity herself. Her voice is modufated and relaxed, and her accent supplely correct as she announces the names of composers and works originating in half a dozen languages. It also is beautiful, so lovely, in fact, that Baltimore's Evening Sun ran an editorial in January complimenting her on her ability to pronounce "Bawlamer" /"Baldamer" /"Ballmer" correctly. · "Unexpectedly, the other evening we listened to the name being uttered as musically as we've ever heard. it," Gwinn Owens wrote. "The voice was that of Lisa Simeone, the evening announcer, appropriately, on WBJC, Baltimore's principal outlet for classical music . We noted also that Simeon~ pronounces foreign composers' names with unselfconscious accuracy. "Curious, we called her at the station, expecting that she had some exotic for. eign origins. But she comes, surprisingly, from non-exotic Pittsburgh and is a graduate of St. John's College in Annapo. lis. She has no explanation for her careful diction - it just seems to come naturally. Her 'Baltimore' is a sort of 'Bahltimore,' with all the vovels and consonants where they belong. Listen sometimes; it's lovely." . The editorial brought ·a follow-up suggestion from a Baltimore resident that "if there ever is an opportunity to e11J111uu.u. ·an official 'voice' for Baltimore, Simeone is certainly the prime candidate." "In fact," George L. Shepard wote in the Sun's Forum, "there is no equal to Ms. Simeone on the radio. Her peers at WBJC could take lessons from her for purposes of enunciation and diction." At work full time as a radio announcer at the station since only September, Miss Simone's voice on Evening Classics has become so familiar that every now and then, when she's shopping, a clerk will ask, "You're Lisa Simeone, aren't you?" And she has begun to save fan mail for her grandchildren, letters like this one from, an European-trained linguist: "Bless someone for Lisa Simeone. It's such a pleasure - and relief - to have an intelligent person working with classical music in WBJC, who not only can pronounce correctly all the ·composers and works in the classical repertoire, but has a pleasant voice and sympathetic manner." At 25 this bit of area fame has come quickly but not without some hard effort. The search began following a 10-month trip to Europe after graduation. She visited relatives in Italy' worked briefly as a tour- guide for a Samos travel agency in Greece, and toured France, Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium. Back on this she to Nova Scotia before beginning to look seriously for a job as a classical radio announcer in August, 1981. Initially she was stopped by lack of experience. To gain it, she did what other Johnnies have done in the past and sought training near Annapolis at Anne Arundel Community college, which operates a small radio station. She was there six months beginning in October, gaining the opportunity to have her own once or twice weekly, three-hour show in classical music that enabled her to make tapes essential to showing stations how she sounded. "I sent them off and had countless, countless interviews, mostly with commercial stations in Baltimore and olis, but no one wanted me," Simeone said. But in the end an affiliate of National Public Radio did - WBJC (91.5) - even if at first it meant working on a voluntary basis. Miss Simeone took part in the 50,000-watt's station's spring fundra_iser in March, talking on the air and making a pitch for money to its 50,000 to 75,000 listeners. It was successful, and she began part-time work with WBJC in July and August with the promise of a full. time position at an unknown date. Meanwhile,· while job hunting in radio, she held two, part-time jobs from Sep. tember through April at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Historic Annapolis, both of which were aware of her ambi· tions in radio. She finally found a position as an administrative assistant to the director of performance programs at National Public Radio in Washington, a job she described as a "glorified secretary" but one, before radio become as competitive as it now is, that sometimes led to on-air positions. Thereupon followed two months of hectic commuting, from Annapolis to Washington for her daytime Public Radio Job, to Baltimore at night for her part-time schedule with WBJC, and then back to Annapolis again for the night. "It was insane," she described the circuit. It ended in September when WBJC (91.5), for which Baltimore Community College owns the license, offered her a full-time position. Miss Simeone's interest in a career involving radio dates back to her high school .days at Penn Hills Senior High School in Pittsburgh when two high school teachers, attracted by the quality of her voice,· asked her to provide narra. tion for concerts. Active in drama there, she found her St. John's schedule precluded play production but permitted her to sing in the Octet Plus One. ·Always a talker and a vivacious one at that, Miss Simeone consciously slows down on the air, carefully controlling a vibrant personality. "I would bulldoze people if I talked on the radio as I do in life," she said. In life, according to The Baltimore News-American, which did a story on her, "she talks as fast as an AM disc jockey;'' She is able .to speak and write French and Italian and has always had a facility for language. Her ear is keen enough to pick up such Eastern differences as the way "sz" is pronounced in Hungarian as opposed to the way it would be pronounced in Polish. And she describes herself as a real tyrant about correct pronunciation. To improve her voice, she listens to something called air check tapes of her own program .and decides what corrections are necessary. "At the beginning I did this almost every night," she said. "Two months later I destroyed most of them. devel~ • • Lisa Simeone pauses in the midst of a broadcast. oped. You become more. you.'' Not only has she fulfilled her wish to Miss Simeone does her own program become an announcer for a classical selection, customarily in the hour after radio station, but, with· sufficient money she arrives at work at 5 p.m. when she and time available, another ambition. pulls her records for the evening. Only She takes ballet lessons daily. ·Otherwise, the major work to be played that evening from 5 p.m. to midnight she is fulfilling a is known ahead of time because the career quickly arrived at in' terms of program guide is not large enough to list most and bringing with it a touch of all the music. fame. Her knowledge of music has grown as she carries .armloads of records home from the extensive library the station maintains. "It's a tremendous library," she said. "I've never seen so many records outside Harry Golding's apartment." Avoiding ·what she calls "announcereese," which she feels turns people away from classical music, she uses only the briefest notes in introducing each piece. The Rev. William Kyle Smith, a mem"Reading from a script is bad because . ber ofthe Annapolis faculty, from 1942 to you sound like you're reading. You never 1968, died in his sleep · May . 11 on his want to become dependent on that. Ad· eighty -eighth birthday. ·He . had· been a libbing is an important skill in this patient at the Westmiµster~Canterbury work." · House in Richmond, Va. · · Unexpectedly, like the other on-air Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in. 1895, he people at WBJC, she has certain technical things to do during the evening, the was ·educated at the Jefferson School for sort of things that one would imagine a Boys in Charlottesville, Va~, and at the radio operator ·might perform: checking University of Virginia, where he received meters for the station's transmitter at· his bachelor's degree in19~L Pikesville or making certain that the In 1924 he obtained a bachelor of station catches a satellite "feed" for a theology degree at the Priileeton. Theolog. program from Public Radio. ·ical Seminary. He served. as .an instructor in Spanish and Portuguese . at Virginia In addition, she makes a· voice track from ·1919 to 1921 and at• Princeton from for a five-hour Sunday program. She is 1921 to 1922. on the · air "live" five days a week, Saturdays are free, and on Sundays, also In 1924 he became pastor for Presbyfree days, the station runs a program terian students at the University of Virwith her voiee taped. .ginia and from 1930 to 1942 served as The job seems somehow all rather secretary of the University of Virginia glamorous. But by contrast with the Christian Association. He· a.lso was inelegance of her speech, there is an structor in Bible literature at .the Univerinformal side. Because visual appearsity of Virginia from 1933 until 1942, when ances are not important in radio (too bad he joined St. Johns five .years after its since Miss Simeone is beautiful) and New Program of liberal arts was estabbecause she works with the same, small, lished. ten-member staff, Miss Simeone has the Mr. Smith served as St. John's assist. freedom to work dressed .as she always ant dean during two periods, from 1942 to does, in blue jeans. 1946, and from 1951 to· 1966, a position he Miss Simeone lives. in the part of the held concurrently with a tutorship. city that is quintessential Baltimore Surviving are his wife, .Mark Dickey Mt. Vernon Square - with a view from Smith, a patient at the Westminsterher high ceiling apartment that includes Canterbury House, and, a· 'son, Dr. Wila statue of General Howard on the green liam Kyle Smith, Jr., '47, of Richmond. and the redstone spire of the First Mr. Smith is buried at Cedar Hill CemePresbyterian Church rising in dark, Eutery, Covington, Va. ropean grandeur up the street The Pea. body Institute is around the corner. Brick Gifts in memory of town houses and apartments crowd the made to the Annaoolis \.C•mrnu::> area. �,. '• llol~ft4:!a 4 uThe only way· to stop the arms race is to stop it," Daniel L. Jerrems, '77, believes. "And the time to do it is now." In Annapolis to address the Political Forum and to testify before the House Environmental Matters Committee - the Maryland Senate previously had passed a freeze measure - Dan Jerrems is serving as coordinator of the Maryland Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze. He has been active in the anti-nuclear movement since 1979- when he earned a second bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins enabling him to become a physician's assistant, a new, highly skilled medical position popularized since· the Vietnam war. In 1980 he helped form the Baltimore Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a national organization. "I came to the conclusion that the arms race would stop in one of two ways, either through war or a negotiated agree~ ment," he said. "The 1981 freeze proposal appealed to me as a workable agreement and as the best way to·· stop the arms · race." AS CHAIRMAN of the PSR's Freeze Committee, he took the idea to the Maryland Coordinating Council for Peace, a coalition of peace groups, and it · named him to head. up the task force· on ·the freeze. In ·December, 1981, an inde-· pendent Maryia.nd Campaign for Nuclear Weapons Freeze was announced with Mr, Jerrems as coordinator. The movement has grown considera. · bly, reports this former, two-term president of St. John's Student Polity. It has ,300 paid members; a mailing list of 2,000, and 12 chapters. It also has accumulated an impressive record of grass-roots action._ Freeze reso-· lutions have· been adopted by city councils in Baltimore, Havre de Grace; Tako. ma Park, Garret Park. and Aberdeen. County councils have adopted similar resolutions in Montgomery, Howard, Har. ford, Baltimore; and Allegany counties. In December, Mr. Jerrems was one of 30 regional representatives attending the national committee for the Freeze Campaign in San Francisco. He represented Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia. As Maryland coordinator, he is pressed for time, and at least for the present has withdrawn his membership in PSR. He actually works 65 hours a week at Lutheran Hospital in Baltimore, making evaluations, calling physicians when he and the nurses cannot handle a case, and assisting in surgery. He is on call every fifth night and every fifth weekend, for 48 hour periods, when he spends the night at the hospital. - Mr. Jerrems lives in Charles Village near the undergraduate school on Johns Hopkins. He believes the new activism is important. "We can make an impact," he said. Johnnies wishing more information may write Mr. Jerrems at 2702 Maryland Ave., Apt. C, Baltimore 21218. SF Class of '73 to gather Santa Fe's Class of 1973 will celebrate its tenth anniversary with a reunion in late July on the western campus. Michael Barnes, of Toronto, who is in charge, said the majority of the festivities, including. a dinner and dance, are planned for the weekend of July 29-30, but. rooms are available on campus for alumni and guests for the entire week starting July 24_. "Everyone who was· part of the Santa Fe class of' 1973 for any length of time is encouraged to attend," Mr. Barnes said. ".Whether you are staying the full week and possibly joining the alumni seminar program, or for the weekend, please contact: Michael Barnes, 569 Dufferin St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada. M6K 2Bl." • J • s Richard Woody West, '61, a former editorial writer for The Washington Star, has joined the editorial writing staff of the new Washington Times. On the Star staff for 20 years until it stopped publication in 1981, Mr. West is a former reporter, assistant city editor, and editorial writer. A native of Helena, Mont., where he rode buffaloes as a child, Mr. West attended the University of Missouri for a year and then from 1953-54 was a rookie policeman in Pasadena, Calif. From 195457 he served with the Marines. He received his b~chelor's degree from American University in 1961. While he was a member of the Star staff, he wrote a memorable series on the neighborhoods of the capital. Before join-, ing the Times, he had been for the: previous year the Milwaukee Journal's Washington-based. editorial writer. As an editorial writer, he is a "generalist," writing editorials on a wide variety of. subjects, including regional issues, national defense, and foreign policy. · Alumni take fund show on the road Jt"°~ Everyone· knows New York is where. nors, dialing away, and Mr. Hoffman, the money is. so there on 39th Street president of the New York Chapter, alumni, in a long green room ·of the persuading a former Johnnie to double Williams Club with green baize tables, his contribution from $1,000 to $2,000. were thinking green-dollars, that is. The Sally Bell, SF 1974, won a prize as the· color also could have stood for a green first to raise $500. As one of two assisting light for the ~irst telephone campaign of spouses, her husband, John Fink, forgot any of the Alumni Association chap- he was a graduate of Hunter College and ters-New York.'s, of course. worked with her on behalf of the Santa "This is the first time we have taken Fe campus while Mrs. Nelson plugged this show on the road," Jack L. Carr, '50, away, ignoring Oberlin connections and chairman of the. Annapolis· campus's· concentrating on st.. John's. annual fund campaign, told the gathering The occasion generated more than just before ·the phoning began. money. The atmosphere was charged "The phone. campaign is working extra with electricity as Jack Carr, captaining well in Annapolis so that when Allan Team A, and Betsy Blume, director of (Hoffman, '49) invited us, we jumped at alumni activities in Annapolis, captaining the idea." Team B, brought returns back for tabulaNot only did they jump at the idea, but tion by Jeanette Hoffman, secretary in alumni, competing in Team A and Team the Alumni Office. By 8: 15 p.m., the B, plunged enthusiastically into an in, group had raised $4,500; by 8:30 p.m., tense hour and a half that raised $7,012.50 $6,200. for the Annapolis campus and $1,305 for As for Bill Salter, '79, he wouldn't Santa Fe. accept 8:45 as quitting time, and, as the According to Ann Cruse, director of professional staff boxed up supplies for development for the Annapolis campus, the return trip home, he stayed at his who has overseen a number of evenings phone until 9:30 p.m. He also went home of telephone campaigns by now, that was with a clutch of cards- bearing names of the second largest sum raised by St. alumni he wanted to call the next day. A John's in a single evening. persistent man, Bill Salter. THERE .WAS Charles /\. Nelson, chair. BEFOREH/\~l). :f.:lr~. Cruse had proman of tbe Board of Visitors and Gover. . vided some instruetlons in basic tele- phone techniques: Alumni were appreciative. "You made it easy for those who had never done it before," Mary Bittner, '58, thanked her. "I was scared to death." Here's what some of the statistics looked like by the end of the evening: Alumni made 315 calls; of that number, they failed to get answers to 168. Ninety. five persons made pledges: 70 from the New Program, two alumni here prior to 1937, 11 Santa Fe graduates, and 12 Graduate Institute alumni. Former stu. dents were called in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, and Virginia. The best news of all, perhaps, was of the 95 who pledged, 60 were alumni who had not contributed in the last three years. Afterwards, when Jack Carr took the professional staff and Mr. Salter out for drinks at one of those dark, expensive, noisy New York night clubs, everyone felt pretty good about it all. Participating besides the alumni al. ready mentioned were Jack McGuirk, MA '80; Robert Goldberg, '50; Alexander Koukly, '44; George Levine, '44; Joan E. Cole, '57; Carolyn Brown,. '58; Richard Edelman, '51; Jennifer Smith, '76; Larry Feinberg, '64, and Cohen. MA '74. e Guess where homecoming dinner .will be Homecoming chairmen in years· past have always faced a problem as to where to have the homecoming banquet. This year's chairman, Michael Blume, has come up with a novel idea. The banquet will be held in McDowell Hall. Sounds like a senior prank, doesn't . it? But no, it's really expected to work. Dinner by candlelight will be served in the individual classrooms with alumni divided according to decade. The speeches and awards that usually follow . the banquet will be made during the morning business meeting. A reception will be held beforehand in the Edgar T. Higgins dining room. After dinner, alumni wishing to continue their conversations may return to Randall where a cash bar will be set up. Sunday brunch, held for the first time at the president's house last year, proved so successful that a second one is being planned. , :' . Alumni ~peaker will be former dean Robert A. Goldwin, '50, resident scholar and director of constitutional studies. at the American Enterprise Institute. will speak on the Bill of Rights. Meanwhile, Sam Larcombe, director of alumni activities in Santa Fe, has announced homecoming for the western campus for September 24. With each year's homecoming there becoming "bigger and more elegant," he said that among events being planned are an archaeological trip, annual dinner, and brunch at the president's house. He Barr booklets available A booklet containing tributes to the late Stringfellow Barr, first president of St. John's New Program, and made during a memorial service for him on February 26, 1982, is available in the St. John's Publication Office. Thomas Parran, Jr., publications director, said that a limited supply may l)e ordered on a first-come, first serve basis for $1.50 a copy, a price that includes postage and handling. Checks should be made payable to St. John's College and addressed to Mr. Parran at the college. �down from the the Board of Visitors and Governors onto a red of exc·em:wn of a few here and there, he has been done. member of the board over of 28 years, the last five as 1.:11,:tu·Jllldll! to him'. chairman of wl.1en Mr. Nelson was fint chairmen who had in went LUI VU.EJU transition. at the of In nu1u11..n,rn'" the last which man, the to throw a for Some 116 persons and staff members and members the Alumni Association board meet. in the that weekend Hall to him inforand then went to the Edgar T. Hall to hear his more formalwill '21. '' his successor, John Robson, of Chicago, commented, "a tough act to follow." WITH PRESIDENT Edwin J. Delattre presiding, it was a time of tributes, gifts and applause. Mr. Robson saw this St. John's alumnus's contribution to the college durin-g St. John's "new era" - a time of a new college president and increasingly active board committees - as nothing less than "gargantuan." "He leaves the college in vibrant condition, stronger and better prepared to cope with the future than when he assumed office," Mr. Robson said in praising Mr. Nelson for "skillfully guiding the college during a difficult and important time." "Chuck Nelson has represented the very best spirit and meaning of St. John's." The board's vice chairman, James Frame, '50, lauded Mr. Nelson's "magnificent job." "I personally have learned much from Chuck.'' Board John S. Robson, of Chicago, has been elected chairman of the'~Board of, Visitors and ·Governors to succee'd Charles A. ~els~n, '45, w?o is s~e~ping down, after servmg as chairman smce 1978. Named as a vice-chairman are former Santa Fe treasurer John H. Dendahl, of Concord, Mass., and James H. Frame, '50, of New York City. Jerome LaPides, of Annapolis and Santa Fe, will continue as secretary. In addition, at its April meeting, the board elected Charles Weiner, of Houston, Tex., to fill a vacancy in the board's Class of 1984. Members also named for their initial terms on the board Dr. Peter R. Greer, of Portland, Me., Gerald P. Peters, III, SF '71, of Santa Fe, and Seth Cropsey, SF '72, of Washington. Earlier in the year the board had named Lovejoy Reeves Duryea, '67, of New York City, and Jill Wilkinson, of Bethesda, Md. The board also elected for their second consecutive terms David A. Robert A. Goldwin, '50, John T. Harrison, Daniel T. Kelly and Roger W. Straus, and for re-election after an absence of one year, Eugene V. Thaw, '47, and Robert Yarnall. MR. CROPSEY received his master's from Boston college in political in 1975. From 1976-77 he \l;A~"-vcu, one or two other reached the "momentous that resulted in act of incredible on his n of who served onetly as man - "one of the best" - of Bromwell chairman over a who gave him some of his first assignments. Three other former chairmen he cited were present: Adolph Schmit, three times chairman, Walter F. Evers, '35, and Dr. Thomas Board member and former dean Robert A. Goldwin, '50, who has known him for 37 years in a friendship that began when he was a St. John's freshman and Mr. Nelson a senior, praised the retiring chairman as "one of the most principled men I have ever worked with." It was Allan Hoffman, '49, who had also known this member of the Class of '45 during his student days, that reported that with the exception of a few mandated leaves required of board members and a few other years, Mr. Nelson had served over a span of 28 years, the first time in 1955 when he was selected by the alumni to represent them. QUOTING FROM classmates, Mr. Hoffman had put together a series of comments from alumni who were at the college during Mr. Nelson's days and which produced a composite portrayal: a student serious, athlet- ic, wise, a born leader who appeared always under control, calm, possessed of both a sense of awareness and humor, trustworthy, avuncular, even "fatherly," a "nice, sweet guy." President Delattre presented gifts to both Mr. Nelson and his wife, Anne - a silver pitcher and a tray. ("Annapolis and Santa Fe both have their bays: Annapolis, the Chesapeake, and Santa Fe, Nambe.") In accepting the pitcher, Mrs. Nel. son, who spent the first year of her married life living in the married students' housing on back campus, said the "St. John's community had been of extraordinary importance to both of us over many long years ... The college is a very great college. We are honored to be part of it. These have been five superb years." Sharing the evening with the Nel- new.. chairman magazine,T trom 1977-80 a reporter with from the University of Texas. From 1942 Fortune magazine and from 1980-82 as. to 1946 he served with the U;S. Air Force sistant to the secretary of defense, Cas. in India and from 1950 to 1952 in Korea. par Weinberger. At present he is director He also is a direct.or of the Fluor of policy at the Voice of America in Corporation in Los Angeles. Washington. Mrs. Wilkinson is a native of Abilene, Mrs. Duryea is an artist and writer Tex., and was graduated from the Uniwho previously worked as a manager of versity of Texas in 1970 with a degree in Avon Products in New York. She was fine arts. Her math interests lie in art graduated from Rosemary Hall and St. and languages. She also is involved in Catherine's schools. research on alcoholism. Dr. Greer is superintendent of Portland public schools. He received his bachelor's Kitty Dobreer dies and master's degrees from the University of New Hampshire in 1962 and 1964, Alumni join in sympathy for Dr. David respectively, and his doctorate in educa- Dobreer, '44, president of the Alumni tion from Boston University in 1974. He Association, whose wife, Kitty, died April has served two years as an associate 13 following a stroke. director of the National Humanities FacThe association's board, at its April ulty and seven years as a classroom meeting, voted an appropriation of $100 teacher. to the college in her memory. Individual Mr. Peters owns his own private art contributions may be made to the Ameribusiness, the Peters Corporation, which can Heart Association in California specihe founded in Santa Fe while still a fying they are given in memory of Mrs. student at St. John's. He also is engaged Dobreer. Checks should be mailed in care in real estate operations there. He is a of Miss Janice Dobreer, 1924 Westmont former chairman of the executive com- Drive, Alhambra, Calif. 91803. mittee of the Wheelwright Museum in In reporting on the part she had played Santa Fe and a member of the Bank in the Southern California Chapter, Edof Santa Fe. mund Raspa, its secretary, wrote of Mrs. MR. WEINER IS chairman of the Dobreer: founded by board of Texas Crude, "At a moment's notice, she would open him and his brothers in 1941. A native of her house to assorted alumni, students he grew up in West Texas and and friends of the them bachelor's de£:ree ~in,1948· with refreshments humor. And then Mr. Nelson turned to three persons he wanted to thank. The first was President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle, founder of the western campus, "an extraordinary president," whom Mr. Nelson praised for "doggedness in the face of an impossible task." "It is very difficult to find anyone who could accomplish what he did. I suspect we will have a monument to that success a hundred years from now in Santa Fe." He cited the "extraordinary ac. complishment" of J. Burchenal Ault, provost, in matching funds for a Murchison challenge gift for the western campus and for his work in land development. "There is not an alumnus ·who is as devoted to this college as Burch is." He concluded by praising Mr. Delattre, "one of the reasons the job of chairmanship is so enjoyable." Emphasizing the care and thoughtfulness with which Mr. Delattre considered the consequences of each action, Mr. Nelson said he possesses a constructive quality of ·leadership very few presidents possess and called him an inspiration for students. Weigle, Kieffer portraits planned Now that the portraits of Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan are hanging in the Great Hall, an Alumni Association subcommittee on faculty memorials is considering ways to honor two former presidents - President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle and the late John Kieffer - and the late Dean Jacob Klein. The present thought of the sub-committee, headed by Bernard Jacob, '54, is to establish a memorial other than a visual one for Mr. Klein. Contributions have been made for portraits of Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Weigle. Persons wishing to add toward these sums may do so by sending contributions to St. John's Development Office. "She tolerated our long-winded philosophic discussions, participated in the more mundane activities of the chapter, and gave both time and money to sustain its growth. In short, she was a woman of infinite grace; she will be sorely missed all." her memory, the .. Authors Club together with its Robert Weiss, '47, and Jackie Weiss also made a contribution to the "which Kitty I Ji �' 2raun·1n2 to read in the HP'fllill"FAOIF' that my had made and final 2ift of orooerty to the in Santa It worries me that a cumulative deficit of close to a million dollars has !lm"i!li'PnL now been incurred. in the of the deficit was in less than three years, rather than six. Substantial in the 1979 fiscal in the 1980 fiscal year effeetivelv reduced a cumulative deficit of ble sum in 1978 to the managea- The article seems to that I was years. This as I , have shown. well ask how the cumulative deficit could from OO~H ~ can decide to use an unretha t it deems It would be pe1·so11al n'l'iP·fiP'l'il>nt'II> to see the monies ' to endowment fund of the be a western campus so that there fund with to and ~e~ in two years and nine "about months. Sincerely yours, to the article, the will use the from the sale of land "to the deficit." I recognize the Board of Visitors and Richard D. Weigle President Emeritus St. John's College • • l To Dr. Richard President Emeritus from the endowment to current has grown ~.1.au·"''J in year ending June 30, an estimated $621,630 in the year June 1983. Over the same the income from endowment has grown from to 15.8% of educational and This shift will have a effect on operations in Fe in the years ahead. St. John's Colleize Dear Dick: lam deficit The endowment of under Santa Fe camDelattre admin$1,826,596 as of June 30, 8, 1983. the in- friEmd~>hiP as you noted. current fund we shall be the current fund deficit thus at the same time au<ll;Jll.1u~ ly one of the nl'nihli:>mt: of the the cost of bank the of the excess. The use of the funds from the Ward is not only entirely in accord with consistof their n1'nno .. tu to the college under your The Wards have our assurance that the use of their most in this fashion is most contribution could have at this historic moment to the '""'0 -··~u·m financial of the Santa campus and thus to that the ent with the use we have John .DUl'Kf'H Gilbert A. Robert Phebe Jac;:oo~;on, John W. Samuel S. A. J. W'i11f''"£'" and St. Clair TERMS OF its ""'""1""'''"" John's is one of four ins1titutior1s ered in 1784 and It nineteenth in being the oldest King William's School, wmcn was lished in 1696 and which was made a of St. John's by an act of consolidation of 1785. St. John's acquired its books, and the Rev. Ralph Higginbotham, its last master, became vice-principal of the new St. John's and head of its grammar school. Other colleges chartered in 1784 are Becker Junior College at New Brunswick Theoloe:ical Seminary, anrl the University State of New York Degree ~· .. Colleges ·""'"' ..tt.>""'..a preced.ing ,\(ff';:)in'I of St John's incJludE!d the of William and 1693; Yale University, 1701; Uni- of Penns:vlvania. 1740; Moravian fnim:>?'~ihr 1746; 1749 1754; Rutgers UniDart- Faith exceeds our current oim.11c1.uu1u. which now ""'"'"""'"" be reduced accommodate new books is a false _ lem. of materials and other kinds accommodations are cerThat leaves only the definition of aware that the (IT SHOULD ALSO 'be noted that Buchanan's definition does not automati- _ one's relation to art should have _ prc1ct1.cinlg one's non-verbal skills. from whatever it the decision as to .. . .,...,..,+,.,,..,.,,, somehwat harder since there of distance between us and the publishing date of the In the second it is important to point out that art books and indeed art works belong under the liberal arts. The Greek bv G. R. raise the n11>r1;:i~tLrnt swerable themes in Chicago, Pasadena, John's to mean: 1. That is or book which meets these four written 2. A note in music 3. A dra"'',.,..., conditions for posIt is thus clear that the sible inclusion in the SJC Great Books · mentals of both words and non-verbal Western the term arts are meant of tradition: that the first of the seven arts. No all we've ever and so forth. But the inclusion under liberal arts needs other considerations are those of non-western books as time and inclination. there to be made will either meet Buchairnu would appear to be no mt1rms:1c 011>1e1cucm criteria as outlined above, or to either art books or non- western books not. as the of when to read with some excepis solved and if there is and the .. ,, ... .;i;,..,... them. method \J<llt(UIUJ;, Eu- same as is the time for a rebooks on the probe made to each ------~·~.~-~-~·~~-----~-~··. __... �llJ'!:lllr1llCI 7 • To the Editor: E.B. White once said was the art of second thought. And you that most thoughtful with this statement. For if in of this I were to clear off the mess on my desk, my wife would be much with me, and I wouldn't have to the stacks of files and books helter-skelter on the desk top. But I am oromtited to write to you read the February a issue to the St. of the which I received by and read with great and amusement. it memories of in the book of my closed . Nowadays, my wife has given up in her attiemots to order to my disorderly ways, and I'm on my day off, and it's Sunday in San Juan and, frankly, it is the good life today what I'm after, and I'm in no mood to fight the universal tendency to disorder. As a matter of fact, it is on days such as this that I choose to drink mo:rn111g coffee in the front balcony M.S. HERNANDEZ I to gain my little neighbor's confidence-a "Tortolita"-that has particular to the fact that we serve so perched its nest on one of my wife's many people with the stuff that makes the wars, the pas. flower If I stir near it, the bird flies the news sions and the of from all away to a nearby roof where it struts noteworabout with one wing "apparently walks of life. so lone: as " To the bird I appear menacing, noteworthv and true it seems to it that I may take away the small and cream colored egg set amidst the plant in the pot. a fact that the bird it were in order to u11~v1mi::;. The here ~nno~?~n~~~ never to be true ~ '\ r1:1( But we law enforcement are not extensions of and that unsaid could make us the many violent attacks at home or where our roles may be confused those of undercover agents or any other such thing. course, we do not obstruct as it may be practiced but we do not help in any way other than in reporting facts as we are legally allowed to them. HAVING LAID my case to rest in the hope of St. Johnnies a service, eat your degrees in the a rum-ice and that I am all to visit our lovely with you your welcome tourist dollars. Of course, best to all. Sincerely Moises S. Hernandez Freshman, 1978 377 Ingeniero Jose A Canals Roosevelt, Ha to Rey, PR 00918 say And that is the too St. John's itself to the tower of McDowell hall in Smurfs. what freshmen thou£?"hts of Plato of the Paul '77 Westmont. N.J. cover story on tne SUO]ect tne n i;l:)!UlJeLU.U m .IL m; ..;>L<Ul'C .IJl'CJ:'«• - ~- wasn't let them do it.! The whole idea of the Great Books program was to from contemnora ~sn't out it wasn't worth think:ing in the first anyone who went to St. John's knows that lems we have today can be exmameu """'..:i;"'"" Plato. To The Editor: I refer to the letter from John White nublished in the John White the Taft edition. know that the "re. Act'' tie to who most wonderful collection of ties St. John's, or for that matter the world. has ever seen. in teach-ins I still had to ioin the courses at St. Jonn·s, wnen you can tne Great is Smurfs on TV when you or Life on Earth on PBS. Jethro M. Eisenstein Class of 1965 New York " etc. And of associates and I at the National Ac:aaemy of Hubris (NAH) have decided to tackle this we've been these davs is makinll road nn1u.o,.C!1t-u meant a parameant the state gm.rer111ment of Wisconsin in Madison! I understand. Of course, I am about the veiracnv of good Doctor Harris's advice. After he is a I. am a mere student He teaches at "the Midwest " and I can't even the is it, Ian? I can't find in Jnrthl"ina~'? Nnt>~ r!:m~? Some and evil were stuff comments to us cornJn·eh1~nding to the bottom of not civilization at St John's. Simon record and �<Continued from Todd Lutton broadcast event over the WRNV-FM. poinuon," Miss """'""'"' for her the stake l,Ommanaer came in an old admiral's uniform his rememAlice in Wonderland was once on St. great book list, came as the White Rabbit, with their Aman. 7, as of Hearts. threw the afterwards at their house across was the home of late St. John's tutors and Iola Scofield.) Now that the tournament has been held and the Navy has two sets, Commander Buttinger says he thinks the academy will form its own club. It might be nice, he suggested, if the Johnnies and Middies together might go to Williamsburg and take on William and Mary. One gets the idea that the fighting spirit of the Navy isn't going to let a 3-0 score go unnoticed. All signs are that this is the first - not the last - croquet tournament. As they promise, they'll be back. in formal the crowd. In the end St. John's was awarded whaf Kevin Houston who initiated the whole '' has a nice it.") The ostentauous1y large cup was presented Richard L..u.u.uua.u, present in tri-cornered hat and costume of a colonial soldier, who said it went to St. John's, "formerly King William's in a traditional croquet game that doesn't date back at all." The cup was donated by the Little Campus, local restaurant frequented by both Johnnies and Middies, which will display it on its neutral ground during the year. To the losers went a croquet set given by Margo Young of The Publick Enterprise. The bi-monthly was "very, very happy" to see all the mixing and wanted to provide a mechanism to make it possible to continue. Mr. Ertle, who captained one team, said "it was gre"a1 to see all the midshipmen" and expressed hope that "we can keep this thing going." "We'll be back," promised Navy's cro- Claiborne Booker. 0new president of the Student Polity, leads the cheering at quet coach and captain of one team, the pep rally that l'eceded the croquet game with Navy. Michael Polk photo Oxford-bound Rhodes scholar Midshipman Mark Hagerott. three uniforms: summer white pants, zany, quintet in orange and black cosAfter the tournament he agreed with winter dark jackets, and bow ties from tumes they managed to put together, as Mr. Heyburn, who is croquet correspon- dress uniforms. they added hoopla with chants originated Charlie Landrum captained Navy's sec- for the occasion. (Old Greek students dent for The Gadfly, that the objective of the tournament had been achieved. It ond team. Other Navy players were Stu that they were, they couldn't resist enabled the two self-contained institu- Card, R.C. Ransier, Tom Hogsten, Tim throwing in a few "Aner, gyne, sophrotions, separated only by a street, to have Boorujy, Glen Shultz, Bret Muilenburg, sunes" - "man, woman, moderation.") They were -Jeannine ~Ament; Linda a good time together getting to know one Joanne Goodwin, and Shaun Callaghan. another. St. John's Imperial Wicket John Ertle, Hamm, Cindy Walton, Celeste Burke, and "Everyone had fun," Midshipman Hag. in a brown Fedora hat, ·captained one Sue McGuire. (Celeste Burk~ ,was phptoerott observed. "The-midshipmen had an team and Pat Higgins, in grey hat and .graphed with one Of,.,e middies in The opportunity to get together with St. John- Hawaiian shirt, the second college team, Washington Post, present to cover.) nies, , and that was the main thing. John McKee wore shorts, sports jacket The pep rally the.-· day before: on the Winning or losing, both sides came out on and Tam O'Shanter; Adrian Trevisan quad had been led by Claiborne Booker. top. There was a festive atmosphere. It wore hot pink swimming trunks with Jerry Spires, Collegium Musicum choral was a perfect success." black stars with his shirt and tie, and director, taught as many students as he There was some musical cooperation Drew Parker white cotton pants and could St. John's now anachronistic alma going on before the games started. Henry seersucker jacket. mater. Dorman, Bob Lunifeld, and Mark Daghir, Everybody was friendly. "You're the Members of the third team - Katie part of the Navy's pep band, were joined Kelly, James Hapmner, and Steve Wer- first person I ever met from St. John's," by Roger Burton, Phil Peterson, and lin, who played loyally after the awards Midshipman Glen Schultz told Miss Karen Tourian of St. John's for "The Star ceremony - were an inconspicuous trio O'Malley as he and Midshipman Burt Spangled Banner" and both school songs. Muilenburg talked with her, and they all out of the limelight. The well mannered midshipmen kept discovered they had Florida connections. With all the Johnnies coming in first, their hats off respectfully for St. John's theirs was a handsome victory. alma mater. Nathan Walker carried the , (Mr. Werlin, rising Lexington, Mass., flag wearing an old St. John's uniform sophomore, takes Mr. Zuckerman's point dating back to the time the college was a about this thinking man's game one step military school. further. Practice, he contends, isn't necThe bicentennial of St. Johns' charter Two charter members of the St. John's essary. "I think croquet is an utterly is not the only anniversary that the Croquet Club of the Class of '81 - Tim mental game. I don't think it needs to be college will celebrate. Ficco and Noel Blyler - in striped pull- practiced. It's a matter of concentration. Dean Sam~l S. Kutler reminded the overs, refereed the games and called All you need for past practice is reading Board of Visitors and Governors at its whatever fouls they spotted. April meeting that the New Program will great books and exercising your mind.") The club's Imperial Wicket Emeritus Katie O'Malley wore conventional be fifty years old in 1987. John Schiavo, down from New York, white shorts and a yellow cardigan and To point up the significance of that served as master of ceremonies. When he looked photogenic for the number, he noted that the program will learned the library croquet sets had picture-taking at end when players all have endured for a quarter of the length fallen into an almost crisis stage of posed on the steps of the library, and she of both the history of the college and of dilapidation, he went halves with the and a middie crossed mallets just to the American Republic. By that account, Student Polity and. bought one. show what it was all about. rather than being "new," the New Prodirector Betsy Blume, '75, together with On top of a ladder taking the gram may be one of the oldest academic her Michael Blume, '78, gave was a National Geographic photographer. curriculums in the nation. an almost new set. And the The picture may run some time next One reason the program survives so the third. year in a story about Annapolis. Mr. Kutler believes, is that the with their straw hats, the midpaper formal parts of the program which re' fleet some of the central ideas of Scott in Students to be summer interns St. John's College students will fill a variety of internship positions this summer. Peter Green, New York City junior, has been selected by the Washington Bureau of The New York Times as its intern. Last summer he served as an intern with the New York City Summer Management Internship Program, writing speeches, letters, and briefing memoranda for Mayor Edward I. Koch. Leslie Jump, Westminster, Md., junior will be an intern with the United Nations in Geneva. Two sophomores, Rene Dur-and, of Mount Airy, Md., and Jason Walsh, of Newport, R.I., have been selected froJJl among 150 applicants for the -Baltim,or:e. City Hall \nternship program. Three rising seniors will have archival research intern,ships · at the Maryland Hall of Records. They are Laura Nakatsuka, of Honolulu, Katherine Oggins,' of Vestal, N.Y., and Lisa 'Eckstrom, Newport News; Earlier this year, during a session of the Maryland General Assembly, four St. John's students held internships: Anne Braswell, Hendersonville, N.C., senior; Miss Jump; Claiborne Booker, Richmond, Va., junior, and Jody Nicodemus, Owings Mills, Md. junior. program is almost Buchanan, the founding dean, remain strong. Among them, he said, is the notion of great books, which are taught in the seminars and preceptorials; of the liberal arts, the trivium and quadrivium, which express themselves in the language and mathematics tutorials, and his belief that a classical education must be combined with an account of modern science, especially an understanding of measurement. The latter is represented by the St. John's laboratory program. all ~ -~~--- -.. "These have served us very well for " Mr. Kutler said. "No one on that I know of would think of a l . ;· .' ----~~ ~----....,--·~------------~ __ ... _...., ___ ~ ... ___. . . . . _._~ J __... �-'!:llllll"lll!:il t. John's neeas a new school song St. John's has a critical need, not of money, nor more students, but for a new school song. No one can remember "St. John's Forever," and when both The Washington Post and Annapolis's Publick Enterprise, in accounts of the croquet tournament, comment on the fact ("'Hummm, hummm, la de da de da' won't do," writes the PE), it gets, well, sort of embarrassing. And besides, with all the male references, "St. John's Forever" is anachronistic. It dates back to the time when there were no women. "We as brothers stand" became automatically obsolete in 1951. "Each loyal son," indeed. Even very. bright, musical people don't remember St. John's alma mater. Perhaps there's a reason. "It's never moved me," says fotor Michael Littleton, who harmonized Jeremy Leven's very lovely melody, "There'll always be a St. John's, deep within my heart." Mr. Littleton can recall a rhythmical impulse or two, but not more. "I don't know it," he freely admits, joining all of us who move our lips and pretend we've got the words. "There's nothing substantial." . · While "There'll always be a St. John's" is a fine thing to sing on . occasion, its time signature and mood doesn't lend it to the rousing, robust requirement of a song the college needs as it prepares to do battle with Navy in croquet. "The main thing is something sho.uld come forth that really commands appropriate thumos," Mr. Littleton says. Thumos, he explained, is the spirited element of the Platonic soul between desires and reason, an element that knows how to side with noble· causes. Now that's what's clearly needed: lots of thumo~ and a good, solid, memorable melody. It's pitiful when ~tudents have to go round singing "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt," with a few words substituted about St. John's, just to have something singable. They deserve better. ' · With all the talent. among faculty,· alumni and students, there must be someone who can compose something better. Musicians of St. John's College, this is a call. Please get busy · and start composing ·and then -send your offering to The Reporter, and we'll see that it gets the most serious attention. Peter Kalkavage, who will lead freshman chorus next year,.· is volunteering to help by having the chorus try out new songs as they come in. Let's have everyone singing by the next croquet match. And watch those pronouns. Richard iller wins Richard Miller, 21-year-old St. Mary's, Md., senior, has won the Walter S. Baird Award for a collection of six experimen. tal poems. The Baird Award, valued at $500, is given annually to the senior who has demonstrated achievement in the arts, literature or science. 9 aird art forms. Judges included Nancy Scott, Annapolis artist, and two members of the Johns Hopkins University faculty, George Luke and Jam es Mandrel. Alumni view wider program · With professional training becoming so highly specialized, an Alumni Association committee concerned with continuing education is quietly exploring the possibility of reaching out to persons other than alumni. RICHARD MILLER The son of writer Warren C. Miller, Mr. Miller has been writing all his life. "I consider it to be the most important thing J do." · At St. John's Mr. Miller has been a ·member of the Student Committee . on Instruction, a delegate to the Student . Polity, and a senior resident at Campbell. He also is a member of the Subtle Brothers, musical group on campus. This summer he will return to St. Mary's' to work at the Patuxent Naval Base with a view toward saving money to go to Europe and to write poetry. His poems were entitled "Offering," "A Child/A Dream," "Don't Try/Moving Sale," "Kiva," and "Hitch High King." Mr. Miller was selected from a group of about a dozen contestants, who represented music, paintings and various other John Van Doren, '47, chairman, told the association's board that through his work with philosopher Mortimer Adler in the Paideia Proposal, which calls for· a radical restructuring of education at elementary through secondary year levels, they have become aware of a disposition in the graduate and professional schools to take a fresh look at liberal education in these S'chools. "What we are getting in medicine is that their faculties are worried about lack of humanities in learning." The same holds true, he said, about law. "The time seems to be at least· some.what ripe for us to suggest, to explore witp professional schools, what the importance. of a liberal education -should be ... There is a certain receptivity where once there was not." Since the seminar idea is the "real arrow in our quiver," Mr. Van. Doren· proposed at the board's April meeting that alumni seek to gather persons ·from professional groups ·with a view to reading books with a subject matter that would enlarge their professional and technical· thought. His idea gained ·support from Dean Samuel S. Kutler, '54, who cautioned that seminars could be somewhat quixotic and could fail two or three times. "If not every time is a 'crashing success, it would still be a nobre attempt. It would keep the The article did not mention that for ~spirit of (the late dean) Scott Buchanan alive." years the St. John's community has contributed members to the orchestra for While Mr. Van Doren said he fm:-esa w the academy's annual musical .In 1982 the likeJihood of failure now and then, he Joel Houseal, who had danced professionfelt it would be avoided with a series of . ally before coming to Annapolis, served seminars with any single group, rather as stage manager and did all the chorethan a one-time meeting. He emphasized· ography.for the academy's The Pirates of that the seminars would not supersede Penzance. -,_ nor take the place of those for alumni. SJC, academy share other activities The Naval Acade,tny publication, All Hands, ·has appreciative words about increased involyement between the academy and college, including seminars which have engaged both mids and Johnnies. "Thanks to initiatives by Vice Admiral E.C. Waller and the new president of St. John's, Dr. Edwin J. Delattre, opportunities for intellectual give-and-take between the two schools are now available and growing," All Hands writes. "Over dinner at President Delattre's, the leaders of these two nationally regarded institutions decided to encourage , a greater exchange." Last year midshipmen and students discussed Thucydides and Keegan's Face of Battle; this year, Jonathan Schell's Fate of the Earth. "It seemed each group entered the discussion with stereotyped views of the other, and both were enlightened by learning just how much more sophisticated and varied than expected were the views of their neighbor colleagues. "The excitement generated by these exchanges was so great that both groups have urged the seminar be continued and that the scope of its discussion be broadened to include other strategic and geopolitical issues." In addition, Laurence Berns . of St. John's joined a newly formed Naval Academy Interdisciplinary Faculty semi- nar Jor an extended analysis of Francis Bacon's philosopey of science. Jonathan Tuck, another tutor, visited an English class at the -academy to discuss Castiglione's Book of the Courtier. Professor Michael Parker of the English Department was asked to help select the recipient of the 1982 Baird award. Tentatively planned for next year is a seminar on Don Quixote. All Hands continues: "As a result of these activities the wall along King George Street has not come . tumbling down, nor is it expected to do so. But the seminars and exchanges have allowed midshipmen to meet their peers at St. John's, have forced midshipmen to compete intellectually with some highly developed academic minds, and have effectively helped to broaden some mid. shipmen's perspectives. "Perhaps LCdt. (James) Williams summed up the benefits of the program best when he remarked that the 'semi. nars give midshipmen an excellent opportunity to practice the kinds of skills in quick response to a largely unstructured but highly critical environment that is part of the real world of Navy policy formation. That this growth experience was one the participants greatly en. joyed,' concluded Williams, 'makes its future place in the Academy all the more promising.' " ,Introducing new SJ C ring SL John's. has a new school ring. Instead of a stone, it features the books and balances seal. Deborah Sack, '83, ring archon and the senior behind the idea, said that a ring may be engraved with any year a former student chooses, either the year of matriculation or of graduation. Since the ring does not carry a campus name, it is suitable for Qoth eastern ·and western campuses. Prices for alumni for 10 karat, 14 karat, and lustrium versions are, in that order, for women, $184, $245, and $118, and for men, $225, $295, and $121. Costs are subject to change as gold prices fluctuate. Rings may be ordered through the Annapolis Alumni Office on the Annapolis campus by writing Betsy Blume, director of alumni activities. Orders pre-paid in full will have no postage costs. A deposit of $35 can. be sent to the Alumni Office, and Josten's, the manufacturer, then will send the ring COD. Checks should be made out to Josten's. Alumni should designate which kjnd they prefer and whether they want their rings eni!raved. ----"'-·~ - �(Cont. from 1) "To the .student who submits the best original musical composition, a prize of $100 to Jerald Vern Spires, of Milwaukee, Ore., with honorable mention to Pedro Julio Martinez-Fraga, of Miami, and it is not raining," Mr. De.lattre announced in a single breath. Cold rain continued intermittently during the 40-minute commencement address on beginnings and endings by DeGrazia, St. John's while of. the · audience leaned over ·their chairs to share umbrellas as generas possible and faculty and seniors huddled under their mortar boards. It harder as tutors Jacobsen and John White their athletic talents and hooded the 74 gradurecord time the and cheering of St. John's class. Some took refuge the trees or drier parts. Academic discipline? St. John's could have given the Naval Academy a lesson in that. It never broke. Seniors and listened respectfully to the beneby tutor Michael Littleton then processed away, wet-footed, in rain. damaged robes, in what Chesapeake fishermen call "falling weather" to Ran· dall, where there was a crowded reception where champagne punch and strawberries were served. The weather being capricious, it stopped raini~g then. Other awards announced by Mr. lattre: The senior man and woman who have contributed most to the college's athletic program, Kathleen Rose Farrell and Michael Henry; the student with the best laboratory project, Martin Marklin; the student with the best essay on a piece of music, Kenneth with Pedro Martinez-Fraga, honorable mention; Best original English poem, Leslie Bellisario with Pierre Gagnier, sec. and Albert Harris, III, honorable mention; best English version of a French poem, Geraldine Edgell McDowbest English version of a Greek text, George McDowell, Jr.; best sophomore essay, Ann Burlein with Mr. honorable mention; best junior Lisa Eckstrom; excellence in speaking, Christopher Junker; A $1,000 award made under Bela Ronay in the will of the memory of his wife, Sally Campbell Shaw; Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation scholarships of $1,250 each to Mr. Bailey, William Gavula, Stephanie Nelson, and Eugene Sands; · THE ENSIGN C. Markland Kelly, Memorial Foundation award of $1,000 to Rebecca Schug, Alejandra Farias, and Mr. Marklin, and the Duane L. Peterson award of $1,250 to a junior, Mr. Gagnier. There was no award this year for a freshman essay or for those customarily given for solving mathematical problems. Besides the 74 graduating seniors, Loubna Abdel Tawab Youssef was presented a master's of arts degree. Performing brass music for the recession were three students, Roger Burton, Torin Owens and Michael Slakey. Class Day on Saturday was marked by student speeches by Miss Cooper and Darrel Moellendorf and by faculty talks by· Chaninah Maschler and Winfree Smith. Madeline Rhum performed a Chopin waltz, and Mr. Bailey, accompanied by Michael Littleton, sang "Danny Boy." A short sequence combining · a reading from The Meno with a laboratory experiment in collision was staged by Jonathan Edelman, Mr. Moellendorf, Kathleen Bergren, and Jody Skinner. One guest long familiar with St. John's suggested the whole thing had been the senior prank. "I'll never forget my graduation," Christine Malinowski, of Parma, Ohio, remarked with· special emphasis between sneezes the following day. She had worn a sun dress under her ·robe and was soaked to the bone. "It was worth it," Patricia Horovitz, of Argentina, one of. the seniors who peti. tioned President Delattre, appraised the results, "and I daresay my classmates would agree." While admitting it was probably· hard on parents and tutors, she went so· far as to comment poetically that the rain was "God's blessing. He cried because He was so full of emotion because we were graduating." 1 · . Which ·.all goes to prove that at St. John's there is more than one way to look at a ·good solid dousing. One can never generalize about the Tradition?·.(Rainy) heavens knows that it's alive at St. John's. And perhaps it King· William Players' productions, even was bound to rain some time or other at within a single year. With no continuity ·commencement. This was it. It may be of style and bearing little relationship to cm some future commencement day, one another, productions can range from . when the skies are sunny, St. John's may fine to occasionally rather awful, dependeye a passing cloud with a neurotic ing upon who is around to do them. The shudder' but for the moment it has spring production belongs to a special proved that it can handle at least one class of excellence. It sparkled as what rainy. commencement with good sports- may be.one of the one, two, or three best performances done under the King Wilmanship. · "Everyone was absolutely wonderful as liam banner in years. far as I could tell," Nancy Winter, This Winter's Tale was totally a charmcollege registrar, said. "They took it in er. At curtain time, when Kate O'Malley their stride." · .entered to take her bow for her portrayal IF THE DAY lacked perfection, it held as the spirited Paulina, members of the a great deal of it for Barbara Cooper, of Parents' Weekend audience were on their Baltimore; who received· the two top feet for a standing ovation. prizes of the senior class: the silver Brightly, lightly done under the direcmedal as .the senior with the highest standing and the prize for the best senior tion of George Reese assisted by Stephan~ essay. Honorable mention for senior es- ie Nelson, the play fairly danced its way says went to James Bailey, Jr., and Jody through the full length version with scene changes made with lightning speed as Skinner. A special award - a scroll _; was props were whisked on and off stage and presented.to Bryce Jacobsen marking the actors moved quickly in place. To project completion of his twenty.fifth year as Shakespearean words is honey and man· director of college athletics. It was na for an audience, and gratefully, it the faculty, board could hear an the lines. CASTING WAS carefullv done with two Karl Walling, Annapolis junior, has won one of five summer internships with The Wilson Quarterly, a national journal put out by the Woodrow Wilson International Center at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. The internship, made available to soph~ omores and juniors who are recipients of need based financial aid, will provide Mr. Walling $1,625 during the summer and an additional $1,325 toward his education his senior year. Besides assisting in preparing the quarterly, Mr. Walling will be engaged in weekly, two-hour instruction sessions in writing and Selection of interns was determined in .......... ..,A....... In the co1np1~t1drew of apJ>licants, submitted an essay on Virgil's " which won the essay prize KARL WALLING his sophomore year, and the rough draft legislation. of his essay on the Federalist Born in London, Mr. Walling, who is 26, Papers. Besides attending St. John's, this year was graduated from Redford (Mich.) Mr. Walling has been working as a news High School and then took a year's training in German. at the Defense Lanaide at the Annapolis office of The guage Institute in California and the U.S. Washington Post. During the first part of his junior year he had edited a national Army Intelligence School in Arizona. and international news summary for The From 1977 to 1981 he. served with intelligence forces in. Western Germany, Gadfly; St. John's student weekly~ During·his sophomore year Mr. Walling gathering military and counter-military had helped prepare a non-partisan publi- information and serving as an interroga. cation of the Legislative Study Group of tor of defectors from Warsaw Pact counthe Maryland House of Delegates, ·which . tries. He is planning graduate work in examined the pros and cons of pending political philosophy. · 1 Mr. Littleton delivered a well received baccalaureate sermon Sunday morning when Alexandra Mullen played a Bach Prelude and Fugue. IN WHAT appeared to be an effort of the gods to promote moderation, heavy rains fell during Reality Weekend, not drowning out the· games, however. With the exception of the obstacle course, all were played, and one new one added: wrestling in the mud in a pit dug for the occasion near the gymnasium. Someone reported that Spartan madball, being the game it is, was more fun played in the rain than in the sun. The Tempest provided the theme of this year's senior prank, transforming the President's House into "Prospero's Island." Dean Samuel Kutler served as Prospero, students prepared the food, there were games on the lawn, and classes were shut down. To indicate th·at great books were dead, at least for the day, cardboard gravestones were ~erected on the quad with fitting epitaphs: · C«Darwin: The Descent of Man"; "Chaucer: Gone on the Final ·Pilgrimage"; "Aquinas,,No More Objection, No More Reply .... Out to Lunch"; "Schrodinger: Particle or Wave?" • • ' Tale is maJor succ SS Wint rs tutors, Robert Sachs and William Mullen, who devours Antigonous, nicely played . · · by Steven Singer. (Special applause for assisting. Khy Daniel was superb as the memora. . Mr. Tuck's growl.) · · ble rogue, Autolyc~s. Christopher !unk~r Making an appearance at St. John's made an impressive Leontes · with his was nine-year-old Benjamin McDowell, of strong and commanding delivery and Fairfax, Va., ·a young friend of the contrasted well with his generally more director, who was altogether fine as. moderate counterpart in Bohemia, Polix- Mamillius. Minor performers pfayed enes, played with measured dignity by . their roles with polish. Mic~ael Cress?'ell. , , AN ADDED LILT was provided by the ~1ke her sister.. Anne 0 Malley• Bl, dancing for which the choreography had Miss O'Malley proved a. superb actress, · . been done by Lisa Ross. Dancing with admonishing Leontes like a female SL her as shepherdesses were Lisa NurPaul. Alexandra Mullen and James Bailey as com be, J'l ai·n Robnolt Caroline Taylor Perdita and Florizel ·made well-matched Beth Anderson and Robm Braun. lovers. Marion Sharp and Anne Brockway Comedy was provided not only by managed the enormous job of designing Ralph Brassacio as the exuberant clown and making the Renaissance style cosbut by Jonathan Edelman and Eugene tumes and Mark Pothier the stylized Sands, who interpreted their brief roles wooden trees. and the arrestingly beautias Cleomenes and Dion with foppish light ful abstract of winter trees that marked heartedness. Wendell Finner. as the Old the scrim. Shepherd and Peter Breslin as Camillo The play was all of a piece, with actors both gave imaginative performances. in balance with one another. Intelligently Miss Nelson and Mr. Reese vacated and imaginatively interpreted, the play their directing roles long enough ·to ap- was a delight, one which will set a pear as an energetic barmaid and as a standard by which future productions are thoughtful Time. A well costumed tutor, likely to be measured. It will be to do one which is Jonathan Tuck. took the na~-~ ~f c •. • �J E 1983 Page 11 E REPORTER (Conthrned from Pg. 2) decad had a special perfection. Nicoma- in Phoenix, finishing eighteenth among women in 3:07:08 time, enough to qualify her for the Boston marathon. Not bad when there were 3,600 others running. Altogether she has picked up five trophies in running. Now engaged in one of those fancy, esoteric computer positions at Honeywell in Phoenix, Jean has earned a master's degree in business and public administration at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she earlier completed her bachelor's degree with a major in oriental studies. chus (in a hitherto unpublished extract) . suggests that tenth reunions mystically participate in the Good. Al-Ghazali says in The Destruction of Philosophy (according to the East Orange Codex, edited by Big Al Rizzuto) that the Pythagoreans are "okay by me." So-it behooves all Annapolis alumni of the class of 1973 to contact Bryant (officer and gentleman) Cruse to arrange for their 10th reunion next homecoming. His address is: 108 Drive, Annapolis, MD, 21403, Tel: SGI 1977 (301) 263-2371. Tell him Big Al sent you. Ellen Veden, a fine artist and Media Nicholas Patrone has accepted a position on the faculty of the East Carolina Arts Coordinator at Simon Baruch Junior School in New York City, -~~~~~ " School of Medicine as an assistant her acrylic paintings sor in and internal medicine. Time-Life first child was born in March. His of the brother Art for Offices, Inc. one-woman shmN will have a 1 to hear from our Santa Fe classmates." 1979 William Salter is in systems analysis and development with the Automatic Data Processing in the financial district of Wall Street. A client service representative, he also has been attending the New York Institute of Finance on a part time basis and in the fall plans to begin studies, again part-time, at New York University, working in their diploma program in systems analysis. He expects the program will require two and a half years. Eventually he would like to relocate in the Annapolis-Baltimore-Washington area. SF 1979 Miller "'"'-··--1 - is "''"""" 1 '~""""1 a socxal worker with New Child and Servlces in New Bedthe case coalition telethon, reports that after 20 years on the New York police force, he plans to retire in December. Detective McGuirk also is an instructor in ethics and other subjects at the New York Police Academy. 1981 "I wake up every morning and say, 'Is this real?' " Rick-Campbell can't believe his good life as sales representative for ComputerLand in New York City. His biggest clients are Chase Manhattan Bank and Merrill-Lynch Commodities, Inc. Rick got the job after doing some work with word processors and data processing and then considered starting his own computer consulting business. He had gone as far as having cards and when the offer to was made by someone he a trade fair. Clarence L. 1911 1929 1936 1952 SF 1975 Jean Kurs had been when ran 1973 SFGI 1974 SFGI 1976 SF 1977 SFGI March 21 J. Foster Davis Dr. Bennett S. Ensor John H. Norman Dr. Isadore Scher Howard Bernard Milton Asnis 1 �12 JU NJ>Cf)iJLl""""i _,_ :::i :-<-'c c :I: 23~5g::g:m ·-1>-o ::i-'o-~ 'g :::i_ JJ<D _(f) (j) ' (1) Q. :s::OilJ~ o..g=: . (j) (Q 0 :::J ('I) (f) ~ () (1) Santa Fe is a Hoffman. It includes cornmlttt~e Jean Fitzsimon and Leeuwen. members elected will serve terms of three years. Alumni may offer nominations the October petilU011s of not less than 30 members obtained the consent of the taken the accidental. A 1977 Historic District ca£mwtai:e street she likes her ass:igrim~ent handed in on time. "General. not to wait years," she lost an election for the ever Euclidean solids Miss Brann came time to '1'"1 "'"'r" that a brass the assignment he She was m.l;)jJIU"1ULC:U then returned she was studied at the of and resumed studies. Once back in this country Miss to write about the between music the <-U•U•F,A""' the belief that "'""'"1 ~•.,. the most a Baltimore senior this Kenva next fall 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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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1~nrn1 m1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 The St. John 31696 011381009 • • The second semester enrollment in years - some 420 students. is the biggest second semester since St. John's launched its of nonstudies in 1937. reconsiders 375 optimum number. attributed the enrollment figure decline in the attrition which has been cut in half in the past five years, and to the fact that, because of colstulege costs, a larger number to their dents are education in four (Continued on P. 6) The Santa Fe campus has received a land grant 20 acres - from Fe residents C.O. Molly Ward. two miles south of the Located camuus. the property borders the Santa limits on. the north and west and is accessible on the east the Old. Santa main access Fe Trail. one of the roads. The 20 acres are tract St. John's in 1972. college treasurer, has the value of the two combined tracts at between and SS00.000. He noted that the new considerably the value the 1972 property since the acreage was not accessible by from the east. An ad-hoc committee of the Board of Visitors and Governors was am:,ointed the board's mine the best dispos:iticm which Mrs. Members Harriet Hig_gins, Stephen of 6) Glenn • The campus has a new press that is more than a press. It represents the of the beginning of a new venture - the St. John's handle a special rush run of a hundred letters, that meant down" the press, which took 15 and then setting it up again with correct figure, so on, which could reqmre as much as two hours. IN A THEORETICAL 35-hour chan!le-overs resulted the shut down an (Continued While the 385 was a meant that in order to work v ro-r~au .;~ nll')innintf't' _, a as recovers Dean Neidorf underwent successful op. eration in at Johns ...... v'"'!'''~"A in Baltimore for the removal of a tumor. Now at his home at 433 Calle la Paz, expects to resume his duties in earlv summer. Mr. Neidorf's medical him in the midst of the extended (Continued on P. 7) P. 7) _ tutor Thomas J. sumed duties in ~··~~· new school at Ke~nti1c11:y to be modeled after John's uaimm1uy known books program. He will be on leave for two years to administer the which opens next fall on an basis. Instead of the four year at St. John's campuses, assistant dean of the Santa Fe campus, is dean while Dean Robert from surgery. One offers a St. its said an ..... ,.. ...... n .. ,.,., will drawn both from within present structure and from without. The will rir>nri:><u•nt ment John's curriculum. Instead of the four courses which St. John's students take each year, there will be three. Mr. Slakev said there will be a seminar tutorial which work science will �2 THE REPORTER APRIL 1983 BETSY BROWN and BECKY Deadline for the June 1912 Michaelson, Sr., has been chairman emeritus of the board of directors of Federal which he is a and Loan on the founder. He has most recently as chairman. since 1925. 1920 is Mav 10. the fact remains that Stag's Leap won, ... t-·h....,•t·•..,...,. world-wide publicity at a time when wines were little known and little the boundaries of the State." Involvement in wine began in 1964 for who is a former lecturer at the nn>uorc;,>tu of Chicago, when he went to in the he moved to was crop board of Annapolis Federal Savings and Loan will be nett Y. who also serves as chairman of the Clark-Melvin which deal in investment securities, pension and profit-sharing services, and insurance brokerage. He has been on the and loan board since 1961. 1951 is a in the financial firm Cromwell & Kyle. Ad1diti.om1lly he is secretary of the Bucks County, historical society, and is active in the Episcopal Church, serving as the chairman of the national task force on animal rights and religion. is listed in Who's Who in the East is a steward of the Welsh society ot' Philadelphia. He has five children. The New York Times reports that Warren, '52, and Barbara ('55) Winiarski are in litigation over the right to use Stag's Leap as the trade name for their successful wine cellars. The opposition is seeking to retain the name Stags' Leap Vineyard. No matter where you put the apostrophe, there's confusion in California, where the two firms are competing over the to use the Napa Valley place name. "The Stag's Leap name was worth relatively little until it emerged suddenly in the spotlight on May 24, 1976, when a wine made by Mr. Winiarski, the Wine Cellars cabernet saufirst in a bicentennial at the Hotel in Paris. Jerry Robards writes in the Times wine column. "Nine eminently qualified all made the their collective favorite. " ... Critics of such tas·tm~~s claim that are French wines are too California wines too the kovi _ _ recorded at the time it was the museum in 1955, according to The Washington Post, which ran two photos of Frank Greenwell in an article headed, "Tusk, Tusk! Fixing the Fenykovi." The elephant is the centerpiece there under the rotunda in the Museum of Natural History, and Frank is doing all the work in public. Ronald C. a former councilman in Anne Arundel surprised to learn that the local Planning and intends to Greenway Road to Drive, honoring a request made by former constituents, who would like to express their thanks to the man who represented them for eight years. The news was broken at a breakfast party in his honor. 1961 A Washington Post story dealing with issues facing women before the Maryland General Assembly features a two-column photograph of Annapolis attorney Martha Wyatt, chairwoman of the Maryland Commission on Women. The story quotes her on proposed legislation to shorten the separation period before a contested divorce is legal. 1964 Cecily Whitehill has successfully transplated British bed-and-breakfast idea to Maryland. This year, she and her B. J. intend to add boats their list of host The firm is named Sham-Adams. Inc.. and can be reached at Md. 21401. AHnrnAv Denise Fort holds a state office. photo by Kitty leakin CATHERINE BROWN On January 1 Toney Anaya, New Mexico's incoming governor, a011>ointe!d Denise Fort, SF '72, to serve as secretary of the state's \0..,,.,, ...-1,....,..:..,t of Finance and Administration. One of four women appointed to the cabinet, she is at 31 the youngest cabinet secretary in the state's history. Ms. Fort received a law degree from Catholic University in 1975 and has been in public practice in a variety of capacities since then. The following is an excerpt from an interview with Ms. Fort. CB: Tell me about your new What does the Department of Finance and Administration do? DF: It is responsible for the finances of the state. Right now we're preparing the state's budget and trying to cope with the deficit situation in which we find ourselves. We also provide a variety of service functions for the entire state government .... We're proposing to the legislature that they reorganize the department, splitting off the financial functions from the service functions. That will enable me to concentrate more on the budget and on financial planning than I am now able to do. CB: But your area is really financial planning? Pla1nning isn't really the best word to use for it. decisions within the state are not made in a very •n 11·0 ,......... 1t 0 r1 one of my goals would be to make the the governor's goals in other m<!re~asea tourism and natural :resource All of the ori,or:itiE~s r:>rnar has identified in other areas should be tied into the nT>nfoof't<1 In that sense I will be of the state's revenues. CB:Did you as a career move? to enter stepping stones to get into this but cairnnaiEm because the issues he cares his appened if I set out get;tin.g this man elected.. had not but I was interested in elected. (Continued on P. 7) J. Winfree John's September and CB: Do want to in or a:re you interested in DF: I haven't really ever been in private practice; I have worked for the state and for interest groups. It's conceivable that there would be a '(Continued on.~P~ �(Continued from P. 2) of practice I'd enjoy. I'm not thinking much at this stage about my next job might be; I'm enjoying this one a great deal. I suppose I have realized that it's very hard to career moves, because I never . would have known how to plan for this one. I think I'll have a better idea in a couple of years what I might like to do next. CB: Are there other St. John's graduates in this administration? but we don't know each other. Sometimes it doesn't come up for not the identification I have with wouldn't some John's ideology that attach any significance to state government. My class couldn't have been a more diverse group. A number of in my class went into law and a number of them stayed in this area. we really couldn't be more different from each other. CB: Why did you decide to go to St. John's? orincipled reason, I suppose. I was not in DF: There was a not school. I was finishing and I didn't was on early admissions; I make it another year. got to my senior year of more serious reason I chose St. John's was that onnosed to structured and I wanted at that time to get into a more situation. at St. John's were ideal for what I needed. I was looking for a place where the education was determined who knew better than I did what the education should consist of. school was just too " '60's" for me. I moved to the other av1r ... ,,.,,...,, ended being exactly what I was for. The reason I imuauy went there my thoughts about St. John's didn't bear much relation to one another, but those are the reasons. I needed to move to a place where education was important. like it was at St. John's. For all the cynicism that one can have about it later, the interest that have in their own education is really unequalled by what I have seen at other schools. The of an entire campus taking its studies seriously was unique to St. John's. 0 CB: Did know when you were at St. John's that you were interested in DF: St. John's was a turning away from for me. I guess student existed in Annapolis; it's hard to believe it wasn't satirical the way most of the things at St. John's were, but it wasn't. There was a polity and there were rules. There was a famous case, in someone threw a lima bean at someone else in thP- dining hall and missed that person and hit an unintended victim. The so-called litigation dragged on for over a year. I believe that some of the people involved in that process were serious, but maybe it's distorted recollection. They were worried about who was infringing on rights in food fights .. I stayed as far away from student government as I could, but my interest in the program was much of a political sort. I wrote my on Thomas and the idea of natural law, and I wrote on and Hobbes in my year. CB: Did you to go to law school all the way a.1uuu~n year I had a decision I went to Harvard summer school and took a course in law and one in urban social idea about what kind of career would come out of urban didn't have anything like it at St. and it seemed to be type of I would be interested in if I was to go on to graduate school. Based in on that summer I decided to go to law school instead. CB: How did you find St. John's as ureoaration for law school? DF: It was a good in that one a lot of verbal skills. It's hard to generalize about what St. John's but I found it place to become about many different subjects. I sort of person who would have ever taken a math or science or .1.;:1.11~uaj;;!;t:: course had I gone to other school. gone to St. John's I I could deal with ,,,,l'"., •"1° inhorantly alien to me, deal with learn somc:1-um6 nron!ll"!ltinn for law where with areas that are and may be very to understand. You one hones. convince someone else. 0 .,.,'""'"'"' been interested in social .11.c:u;n.01u<:11:.1.~1\:a.11. about social issues? Did you find other DF: In is that in school it was a mixed in that way. much more true now than was in my I was there in 1968 and '69 ... St. John's was not the height of student activism, but there was a lot of consciousness about those issues. I wouldn't really describe it as student apathy; unlike some other schools, there wasn't a natural channel that kind of activism. That's proably the result of its being such a small school, more than a lack of concern among the students and tutors. CB: How do you feel about St• Jobn~s now? 'Do fOU think the program is still Photo by Ken Kimball The waltz party was small which heretofore has concentrated with champagne and hors d'oeuvres, .,,.f1u>t1 .. .., on monthly luncheons. more elegant than most in the Great Hall, but with two former dance archons on the committee it should have been. · In the first event of its former archons Cruse, President Dela ttre and a and Ken together former member of the St. Anne, '76, Meg, '76, and of Visitors and Governors are S70,"' and Lan. the President's Commission organized for House Fellowships. alumni during last Admiral James B. Stockdale is month. as chairman of the Mr. Kimball .......,nriir1.,,.r1 from Robert Yarnall, of Philadelphia, a former his personal coJHe~cu~on. includ- -St. John's trustee, as a member. ed a couple of Fourteen to nineteen fellows are chosen Simon and the commission to serve for a year as '' 11..... the Beatles. assistants to the vice-president, concentration of acmembers of the Cabinet, and on the co:mt>li~>he!d male dancers among the President's staff. In addition to persons who attended. the work assignment, the The waltz party represents a new include an educational program ,:a~ .............. " for the Annapolis Alumni and broadens the experience of which soonsored it and working at a hiJ?h government level. relevant? DF: I the program, and I think the approach to education is a good one. was a time in my life when I had time to think about things I thought about in school at great I'd like to go back there ... I very much feel I wasted my education in I didn't get everything out of it, although I know no one gets everything out of it because there's so much to the materials. I'm still interested in those sources of learning However. I do have some with St. John's as an institution .... The school does. after all, encourage people to be critical... The lack of racial, ethnic, and class integration strikes me as a great shortcoming. The permanent part of the has set the place in some directions with I disagree. I have of the school at not. mistv.-QYed .:wa& :fun, to, be tb.er.e �On the question To the Editor: I've just received the latest Reporter and feel compelled to set down a few thoughts on the idea of including fine art in the St. John's curriculum. I feel involved in this issue as I studied various aspects of the visual arts full time and part time for a number of years after from St. John's and have 111Ti'11l'l.rina in related fields up to the of western civilization these days. If we want to read the "great" art historians (starting possibly with Cennini and Va. sari), this still does not equal the "experience of listening to Don Giovanni"; reading a great color theorist like Jo. hannnes Itten is a far cry from singing Wachet Auf. On the other hand, if the proposal for the study of art is to replicate the music nMO'Y''Hlr\ with direct involvement in the the cost alone make a venture. But aside from cost, In studied art and Western architecture' so derived from the Greeks to tie it the it would be a involves so own in order to mE~a111m of the renaissance? Or are the students to at some carrara to discover the If, on the one the nrn,nn~::i 1 of western art and criticism and we this then I think in order to all the program in harmony, we with the great books and get down to basics with Will and Ariel or whoever is writing surveys additive nl'i'lln<11>'H<11" distinct The contemporary and also could be introduced in this contest. On another point: One essential criterion, little mentioned while we were stuin the selection of the great books is the brilliant exercise of the craft of writing, from Plato to Tolstoy, from Euclid to Newton. I am not at all sure the craft of the writing of art history and criticism is practiced so THE TRUE QUESTION here seems to be why teach art at St. John's? St. John's cannot be perfect in the sense of being all inclusive. Choices must be made. We weren't taught how to write either - a major handicap for any new graduate of the school. The oral and rational powers developed at St. John's, however, find their way into the written word of the older alumni/ae. There is an "intuitive" process that takes over, the four years of rational speech and the Art was a life before St. have made "art" related 1 An ""'"'"w'1-"''''.!- q11est1on. 1 To The Editor: resource John's. The St. fine the White and Mr. Jacobsen! What of the Mellons to see that their """'h· t"' tions to St. John's would a collection eaualed (in de2ree not in of their other the institution of the National Art! The editorial prowess at KPnortP.r is another testament to of St. John's communi1 Vivian T. R. Barry '65 Washington, D.C. • To the Editor: I am extremely grateful for the undergraduate education I received at St. John's where I learned how to think and logically. The academic j-.,.,,.,.,, . ..,, I received there has enabled me to do well professionally - as a graduate student, as a teacher, and a professor at the large Midwest University. However, my experiences since St. John's have raised significant questions about the St. John's curriculum. This curriculum is based upon the Socratic maxim that the unexamined life is not worth living. In order to examine our collective heritage, students at St. John's study in some depth the intellectual underpinnings of western society the great books and great ideas that helped produce twentieth century European and American civilization. The studies are devoted to classics - books that have withstood the tests of time. This criterion that all books read at St. John's must be classics has led to a disdain for contemporary works. Modern books aren't read because they have not withstood the test of time to see if they are in fact classics. This is a shame. The results of this policy are that St. Johnnies do not study, or comprehend contemporary civilization at all. I would like to suggest that St. John's devote part of its curriculum to examining contemporary problems, so that the graduates of St. John's have a realistic Iii To the Editor: contemporary society in an academically ic disciplines such as education, sociolorigorous way that would maintain the gy, urban affairs, psychology, etc. Since high standards of critical reflective many St. Johnnies encounter these meththought that constitute a St. John's edu- odologies in graduate school, a small cation? taste in the senior year might better A new "course" could be introduced in equip them to make decisions about the senior year. This course would be academic careers. Fourth, it would allow tutors to discuss structured around topics such as equal rights for women, the nuclear arms race, .. ~.1temporary issues that interest them. affirmative action programs, school de- Many people who teach at St. John's segregation, decaying urban environ- have previous experience with governments, rebuilding a declining industrial ment agencies, with other universities, base, etc. Classes in this course could corporations, and graduate schools where meet on a weekly basis and be attended they have thought considerably about by guest tutors who had some interest fn certain social oroblems. Finally, the greatest advantage of this the topic under discussion. Two students in the class could lead class discussion. course would be to allow each senior to on the topic. This responsibility would become familiar with the different include doing historical research on the tions about important issues he or she may contemplate, become active in, and/ prc>DIE~m. presenting a basic bibliography so others would know where to get more or vote on. Many supporters of the St. information on the topic, summarizing John's curriculum argue that it is good current positions on the topic, and raising training for participation in a democratic pertinent questions for debate and discus. society. However, St. Jvhn's graduates cannot provide informed opinions on sion. contemporary issues until they overcome I can see several advantages to this their ignorance of them. This course proposal. In the first place, it would give would enable them to return to society seniors a chance to lead a classroom with some understanding of key problems discussion. and issues that influence all of our lives. Second, seniors leading these classes Knowing about this world they would be could do contemporary research which better prepared to become active, inwould give them skills they don't normalformed citizens in the society we all ly acquire at St. John's. This type of inhabit. research would expose them to J""·'"""J." Ian M. Harris, '66 that discuss contemporary problems in a Associate Professor of Community reflective way. Education introduce seniors to b:v '.academ"· 1 I would appreciate your printing a correction in the next issue of The Reporter. On page 7 of the February, 1983, issue ("What Makes a Good Seminar?"), I am quoted as saying, "We're not here to find out what the truth is. We can hire someone to tell us that.". I appreciate the difficulty of trying to take notes on a rapidly moving conversation, but I know for a definite fact that I did not say that. Perhaps someone else did (though I do not remember hearing it) and the reporter thought it was'me. But I know there is not the slightest chance that I said it, for the following reasons: it is contrary to what I think; it an outrageous formulation that has never occurred to me; such a statement would come only from an incorrigible philistine; and, finally, I don't even understand what the statement means. Please correct the record. Sincerely, Robert A. Goldwin, '50 Resident Scholar and Director of Constitutional Studies American Enterprise Institute Editor's Note: Sorry, Mr. Goldwin. At the risk of appearing both philistine and frivolous, we rather relished the irony of this tongue-in-cheek comment. If the comes we'll be rightful �I E ........... 5 R ' . tutors music assistant dean St. Mary's College, Moraga, Calif., will honor Brother Robert Smith for the part he played in helping found its Integral Curriculum during a two-day silver anniversary symposium April 15-16. Brother Robert has been on leave from his Christian Brothers order to serve on the St. John's Annapolis faculty since 1972. He became the director of the St. Mary's program in 1956, a year after it was established under a different form. Brother Brendan Kneale, the present said Brother Robert will receive an award for distinguished service at· dinner on 16. Brother Robert also will on St. Mary's Great Books at that time. iuv•cn::.n::u after the St. John's program, to curriculum has influential St. It re. four of The Friends of St. John's and the King William Players, under the direction of Robert Sacks, Santa Fe tutor who is a visiting member of the Annapolis faculty this year, presented a remarkable production of Macbeth in January. With the noise:~ of the heating fans turned off on Saturday night, almost every word the actors spoke could be understood without difficulty. Their clarity had the confidence of modesty: they almost never sought to impress. Their refusal to be hurried gave the audience time to understand the words and taught an lesson in seriousness. I had dread of the ranting that mars productions of Shakespeare and one despair of witnessing a performance equal to the vividness of silent reading. Sacks's first and most important for it made possible all the seriously with the The witches and the ghost ........U'l~•v were real spirits, not fancies or that an easy psychological explanation could dispel. They pointed to a world greater and stronger than the words and understanding of any individual. Sack's readiness to deal with the supernatural made it clear from the beginning that Macbeth, played by St. John's tutor Robert Williamson, had real strength, which his reliance on the supernatural weakened and kept beyond his reach. It made clear that Macbeth was greater than his own measure of himself and that MacBeth's incapacity to take his own measure made it impossible for him to to his rational dread of undertaking murder of the Because Sacks on its own Ill., in March. Harold Bauer, '55, conducted. In a concert at the College of DuPage, Mr. AUanbrook's Symphony for Brass Quintet and Orchestra, originally commissioned by the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra and performed with the Annapolis Brass "'1eu.uu.o;:;g,, was played. 1, Fe the program. lecturer will be Fe tutor, who will address auestion of the in two talks: there a of the and is relaliberal arts one which would significantly diminish the destructive social effects of LEO RADITSA The music of Annapolis tutor Douglas Allanbrook was performed by the Chicago Brass Quintet and the New Philharmonia of Glen Ellyn, the sciences in their practical applica. tion?" Thomas K. Slakey, now on leave from the Annapolis campus to organize a St. John's type program at Kentucky State University, Frankfurt, and at one time vice-president for academic affairs at St. Mary's, will be among those attending. Carla Schick, a 1977 graduate of the Annapolis campus, is now a member of the St. Mary's faculty. It is scheduled to be .,.,,....f,.,,.. 1"11"1,,.t'l the Dublin Philha:rm 1984 season and was .... ,,,..f,,...,......, years ago by the Orchestra. a cornpttter Combeen active on Admissions Commit. • of the duplicity of the oracles at the end recalled the loss of illusion of the kings of Herodotus, but Macbeth's disillusionment is different from theirs. For unlike Herodotus's kings, Macbeth experienced the fullness of his strength even though that experience comes too late for anything but his own warrior's death which, like the death of Catiline in Sallust, lent Macbeth some honor and allowed the audience to experience the dread of wasted greatness. Macbeth's blind search for his strength and his discovery of it contrasted powerfully with the weakness that overwhelmed Lady Macbeth, portrayed by Wendy Feintech, Beverly Hills, Calif., senior. Her appearance washing her hands in her sleep taught the difference between madness and the supernatural because of its brittle woodenness that recalled the vulnerability of a young girl. She walked as if she were almost already dead, a fading from life underlined by the two observers, the English doctor, played by David Amirthanayagm, and a gentlewoman, played by Alexandra Mullen, who must speak of her in the third person because she is impervious to address. In contrast to this senselessness, Macbeth's extravagantly credulous praise of medicine gave the first hint of his strength for it bore unabashed witness to his love of Lady Macbeth, a love that soon showed its limits in its refusal to yield to sorrow. At the banquet after the murder of Banquo, Lady Macbeth showed a wondrous formality that managed for an instant to turn Macbeth's vision of Banquo's ghost into a nervous tic and to dispel the Scottish nobleman's intimations of the untoward. Its insistence, however, showed the innocence she boldly mustered actually amounted to ·a desperate yearning for all this ' plain goodwill of by tutor Hugh McGrath, looked like weakness of mind and paralysis, a paralysis not entirely unlike Lady Macbeth's bold formality. He would see nothing. In the face of his own murderers, his own murder was inconceivable to him. There was something about that suggested the unwittingly willing victim. This is not innocence. He could imagine nothing; Macbeth, almost anything. The unknowingness of the Porter, which Mr. Sacks played, in contrast to the almost willed ignorance of Duncan, provided the relief of familiar prosaicness exulting in itself in drink. Mr. Sacks set his words to his slow progress through a stage which appeared by its darkness as boundless as the inside of a cave where the only light came from him. The darkness made the light of the next scene, in which the court discovers the murder of the king, harsh, sharp, and unremitting. The various postures of the members of the court and their distance from Macall directed with something of the stiffness of a tableau, put Macbeth at the center of the scene - and of their minds - suggesting to them his guilt. This undercurrent of unbearable knowledge was enough to make Macbeth's speeches of horror at the murder echo in hollowness. It made palpable the hyprocrisy that from then on would not yield its cruel hold on him despite his unsparing words to himself. Our contemporary audiences will not shriek or scream or even gasp. But they will laugh with a harshness, even a brutality that is precious, because unexpected. They laughed at MacBeth's uncharacteristically brief blunt remark upon hearing the catalogue of the prodigies that it indeed had a "rough night." (Shakespeare's capacity to take this untowarti: but{ laughter at public executions in Villon, ,distinguishes his tragedy from ancient tragedy. Such laughter would undo an' cient tragedy. That is why Aristophanes' laughter deepens ancient tragedy). This production's capacity to convey the greatness of Macbeth, his nobility at the same time that showed his weakness, was its greatest accomplishment. It showed how he became evil or small, but because he could not cope with his greatness. The word "tyrant" at the_ end rings with its full meaning, something that rarely happens in reading Macbeth. At the end the play.goer understood that Macbeth, despite his virtues, has turned into a mere tyrant and that tyrants end this way in countries that have the stuff not to allow the tragedy of a man to turn into the tragedy of a .nation. At the end Caithness's (Christopher Junker) distinction between rulers who cannot and rulers who should be obeyed had the force of self-evidence. It allowed sorrow to dispel . the aroma of blood that had penetrated much of the performance . In this production Macbeth looked like some hoary antique, full of richness and meaning, like the crowns of golden laurel recently discovered in Macedonia or the two fifth century statues that scuba ·divers found a few vears ago off the beach in southern Colabria. It seemed perfectly intact and at the same newborn, as if arisen from the sea of time with a glistening intelligence and depth of feeling that made your eyes and ears wince and smart. It seemed fresher than anything we can imagine, which is a measure, I think, of how much we are adrift in our own times and lost in our incomprehension of them - and in our loneliness that will not stand greatness and therefore. snends: itself~ in �Continued from P. l) four volunteers raised more than 000 in for the Santa Fe fund. The amount, pledged by former students living west of the Mississippi (and in Illinois), from Chicago to San Diego, represents a third of the 1983 campaign goal of wr. •• -:-- the telethon, first of its kind Fe, more than half of those reached agreed to pledge, and and number of new donors was e:ratifvine:." Sam al. said. SF IF THE LAND is President Delattre said the college use the ·ceeds to help eradicate the deficit in western unrestricted fund used to operate college. The operating deficit is now about $943,000, a sum~ cumulative over a six-year period. "The income which will be realized from this property will contribute to the well-being of the Santa Fe campus and therefore of St. John's Col" Mr. Delattre believes. Wards as comJJanions, said. and Mrs. J. Burchenal Ault in as did Marsha Drennon, and director of financial aid. A week earlier the volunteers had had dinner in the common room as of the Janet Fedor of the !uuumain Bell Telephooe Company , on how best to use the for The response was enthusiastic. said he to call all alumni next "The telethe "best beto~:eu11er living voices and the college and recognizes its alumni. • Continued from P. 8) wanted to find a location within Annapolis' Historic District. "I belong here," he said. for the idea came from St. John's and musician Douglas Allanbrook, and that led to his arran~:em:ent with the A native Texas, Mr. Holmes four years as a motion cameraman in the U.S. Air Force and then became master and first mate of the Western which sailed a charter route and the Caribbean. Later he became first mate of the research vessel .,,,.,.. _1:.w"" off the East Coast. LEAVING the vn•.r>uious boat u1.u1uu1i:; the \..V.1..UOjO,'-· the himself. Mr. Holmes has made instruments from at the Smithsonian Institution Washington, including a 17th virginal and an English spinet. He also has built clavichords, a hammer dulcimer, Celtic knee haros. and Although the Wards have travelled extensively, the land which they have given the has been their homebase for more 10 years. Mrs. Ward moved to Santa Fe in 1936 after receiving her medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1935. During World War II she was the only anaesthetist in Santa Fe and assisted in many operations. MRS. WARD'S first Bill Mar. died in 1950. A Swiss born American Mr. Martin became a detective and solved hundreds of federal cases in New Mexico his career. Mrs. Ward's Bill Anwru~an. diesc:rib~es several of his _ to " she estiRad: (Continued from P. l) Dean Samuel l\utler and the will rather Greek and English, as is Instruction Committee. ADMISSION IS exp1ect1ea done at St. John's the first two years. If there is sufficient Greek will be selective with students Hunter a campus .r1 ... ,...,,.,;;1-"''" offered as an elective. remodeled Like St. classes will be and learning will be discussion. The new Plans call for sop1h01n01~e year, to have of originally in continuin_g -study for the bachelor of arts omm1lg a single, non-elective <'ur·rirnlum enrolled in the or of in the liberal· a·rts. St. also has to another of the served as a model for Thomas .n.y:UJW1.•'"'"' .division in Calabas, is headed Hecuora, N.H., as well as mo11v1nma1 old former Rhodes scholar and attorney ....,"',..,.""'"""'at Mary's College in Mora. ~",.,..,..,,l'I Burse_. higher education Dame University, and has been desegregated in the KSU, like heretofore black i:)\;!Jlvu103, has found of Ke1ritmr!ky's black high school stu11ents to enroll in predominantly (Continued f:rom P. 1) tions. ~ KSU have established rather than out as the College of Studies in an many have effort to· attract some of the better Mrs. students. that " A PLACE LIKE Centre in the Ivy schools or any well-known schools have leave for one academic she said 13 have of dean of educational servsaid the att:rjH.n.n at 3.29 per cent as 6.12 per cent in January 79 academic year. While the number of ... ..,1-1'.._.,._ .. ,,.. vi.. .,, to St. John's to ae<~n11te attrition also to adopted in after must have a liberal education to ...,..,,. ........ ,,. to admissions them for that now. will be He attributed the lower rate in semester of the brochures which the when. a recommendation 1972 which to its permanency. .w1::.Lµ<cd inform pros. The new also is an outllrowth of what a mandated for calls for the 1111iul"Niitv have a distinctive role in education program. arts program was n"l'l'•nn·~"'n KSU consultant Tom gens, a retired Centre College -rn'4'l•c:u11Pnt and former member of Kentucky's State Council on Higher who held early discussions with D. president emeritus of St. Recently Dr. IQ.n"l'!l<Yo•"'"' CATHERINE BROWN Santa Fe's Graduate Institute can be of its winter's tale for the 1982-83 academic year. With 51 students enrolled last fall and 54 for the spring semester, it is evident that the year round graduate at Santa Fe is yet another in a of St. John's "great ideas." students enrolled in the Graduate Institute's first fall semester in 1978. At the end of the a showed that and were pleased with class schedules and the classes,'' and the mended that the m:>!)"l'_1"f\11Ylf'I continued for the program creased ~&.,, ..........,....,.0, each year. In the fall of 1982 the institute offer its pr,.,,.,... ., .... que. This serrtester and week to the the 18 the pni1osc,pny-u1eoi.ogy of the- program. the the that exJJected to condiverse stu- of the Graduate have three visiting members, including an Annapolis neurologist, when it begins its eight weeks summer .....,,.,,.,..... .,.m June 20. nh1irc::ir•ii:in is Dr. Nicholas ca1pozzoli, who his master's degree in 1981 from the Graduate Institute after ~ ... rn11r·1vH1 a medical degree in 1968 from �l1 THE REPORTER Page 7 nding · hop (Continued from P. 1) Continued from P. 2) As Mr. Colby envisages it, it will be met at Ft. Huachuca, Ariz., where she aimed at a narrow market. Plans call for was a student at the U.S. Intelligence it to start small, with about three titles Center and School. Currently she is the first year, and then expand to 12 titles undergoing language training at the Prein three years. Copies for each edition. named James Joshua Hall. He sidio at Monterey, Calif. They to be will run to about 2,500. nounds. three ounces, and married at Ft. Bragg in July, where she A committee will determine "This is our first hopes to get stationed. book choices and oversee Work<i.rnmu~n I haven't yet beirnn to HHC Scott's new address is ing with the will be FisherIB USAIMA, Ft. Bragg, N.C. 28307. gate with which the "Hi folks! This is Michael David has been associate~d to announce his marriairn several years and which will do director of alumni corrrnc>sition work and handle adverties. been since I ......... ..:i .. "• distribution. St. John's wm be and it's about I let her resoo1rrniible for and bindini:?:. The honest man of me. The t\."00 latter will be done whom I Some of the . _ has in mind are ,,.,.,;,.,;..,n 1 and decencv 1972 St. John's tutors Since From J amelia and Dennis · mother their own commentaries: who have moved from Vermont which are out of _ the comes word that the their born 4, color repro1981, with every ductions. other word ~ That is due whose ness on his book in bered with . . down estimates. "It to this a.ecmon, it is added them to the last and weeks of backthat I am among the of voila! It can handle color men,_ for she is among.the best. women. most expensive presses. In po:ssesst!S "ISBN" She is not only my wife; she is best worth $20,000, as numbers. occasional times friend and has been for a long - $5 ooo purchase price. in the past, publications have emerged Marriage is a climax to a relationship :,A COLLEGE DOESN'T have to have bearing the imprimatur, "St. John's beyond. expectatio~,' nearly hope. a $3-million press for it to do the job," Press." But there has never been a St. Best w1s?es to alll .,, . Mr. Colby said. John's Press in the sense of something Francis Goodwm recently received his Along- the way. he acquired an 18-footdone on a systematic, on-going basis. As Il!-aster's. in. a!chftecture from the Univer- long collator-sti,tcher-folding rnac~i~e to far as Mr. Colby is concerned, it can be s1ty of V1rgm1a. make all those operations more efficient. 1979 done practically and with a degree of Mr. Colby, who possesses high manageBuel« is an ensign in the United rial skills along with. both practical and success. "We should have done it 10 years ago," stationed at the Panama imaginative foresight, became manager Canal. She writes: " .. .In the of the printshop in March, 1979. he said. middle of war exercises so can't say The new offset press promises to make Since then he has transformed a it an a reallty. much ... Say hello to anyone who remem- · little print the cellar of . bers me. South America is very interest- Carroll Barrister House; which the col"Although I am now the 375 ing ... " She asked us to publish her lege from time to time had threatened to press was one of the last products address for her friends. Her mailing close into a hard working center .turning developed under my administration," address is: PSC Box 256, FPO Miami, out ~ stream of· college publications: Mr. Van Tassel, who formerly headed 34061. Her real address is: U.S. Naval admissions material, ·student magazines the A.B. Dick Company in Chicago, said. Station, Panama Canal (that's on the and student .weekly, classroom manuals, West Bank of the Pacific side< of the lectures, and development material. If he "Consequently I was delighted to parCanal). ticipate in making it available to St. can add a third man to bis staff John's. The college is fortunate indeed to manpower now become a problem Blake Kline was recentli: married to Mr. Colby hopes to start printing the have a man of Chris Colby's vision and Janet May, a student ·at George Mason college magazine, The St. John's.Review., dedication ... His enthusiasm is contaUniversity. This year, by the end . of June, Mr. _gious, and it's a pleasure to see this equipment coupled to his competence. Tom G. Palmer, a policy' analyst with Colby estimates he will have done $120,With it his splendid contribution to the the Council for a Competitive Economy, 000 in "charge back" figures for college college will be enhanced.'' which has an office in Washington, has offices, about half th(} cost if the printing his name on the cover of Inquiry, a had been done commercially. Libertarian Review as the author of its Two years ago, in 1981, when Randall lead article, "The Infrastructure Scam." was remodeled to contain a suite of In an attack on the Surface rrr~1n'l·nnr·hl. business offices in the basement, the tion Assistance Act of 1982. his article n-rint~hnn moved to larger quarters there. t;o111tnt1.u~~d from P. 1) ,.1. ... ..,..,...,. that "the entire business pouring in, that room 1 1 has posed logistics problems, "'"""'°'"'·· ft- •• for , With the new A.B. Dick 375, the printshop is taking a big jump forward. It is a small, sophisticated, virtually care-free offset press with an image area of 17 13 inches, which can out 9,000 an hour. Mr. of its safety tors. exnands tremendously the µu:s:irnmooerations:" Presi- 1969-Sa.nta Fe James Morrow Hall and his wife, Melinda. gave birth on December 3 to a in 1980 Sims has been a rennrfoi" JarlH.., .. on The Winchester Star in since · 1982. She ar.,..:i ...... ed with a .............. " ,..,. ..... ia Commonwealth ·tJniviPr..:ihr previous December. 1915 t;a111tai1n 1922 Lee Goldsborou!!h 1931 James H. Shreve 1933 The Hon. J. nn.r11,,•..,, 1933 Stefan F. Muzio 1934 Austin W. Winston 1981 Melissa Walker was married June 12 to rMnry Allen Michalek. Melissa is emat St. Luke's in Milwauthe oncolo!Zv "Nur:setindlers " She from Alverno College, where in and biology. This she was selected as "Outstand. Woman of the Year" at an ophthalmo1og1st, and parents of a student of befriended �o<l) I) rl )) (:).() ..1....1-...._, -0 (\) Cl) u) C--i CJ>O:-c = {5.52 ..c g-"'" w=- 0 coo c""" ::c ..o.0--, <( ..-:::J ::l,.,_; c ...... CL 0.. C\I a H Ci'\ t::: ~ .--.< <!j Cl) has raised its total fees by for the 1983-84 academic cent increase was ::invlrn111Pl'I meeting of the of St. John's Santa Fe camPresident Edwin J. Delattre said the increase is "as small as we can make it and for St. John's detail that does not represent fast lane." She attributes much of her Plllllosopru. cal and historical approach to to the she received St. "I wouldn't able to reflect as well on my work without that " she was as in a recent article on her in the Kokomo Tribune. Her St. John's education has her to her work into nP1r~mlf'irtuvP interested in beautiful no serious career mtEmtl.on, she has studied seven years, some of that time with Dick Jackson, who specializes and with Ir. artist and calligSince graduation from St. she has interned at the Smithsonian Institute. VERSED IN SIX alphabets, Mrs. Hatfield has been asked to do business and greeting invitations, letterheads, posters, and teaching. The she does at the Grissom Air Force Base and at the Seiberling Mansion. Mrs. Hatfield came to Kokomo from with her Steve, last She finds the historical aspects of •'lnhu f'leon1n'lthur and tries to instill among the a religious person does a or historical the history of would be advantaof geous ... If you know the YOU Cafl See it in 1n111nnl'l11•<1I Mrs. artist and a book binder to proauce a handmade book. "A children's book would be delightful,'' she thinks. Since her Mrs. Hatfield also has been to St. Johnnies ..,,,,i,,,,.,,... to get in will find her ncuu1;;1u. in June. we could to is the smallest 11uu t:a;)t:: we could see way to Tuition will raised board $100 to $1,550. the same - $1,150. The are identical for St. John's eastern and western campuses. PvPrvthinQ' ' ; With an invitation to Boston and Philaalumni to join them, New York alumni are a second summer June 18 the home of Allan Hoffman on Long Island. 1'e>'i11hir·v bentside constructed in the manner of Thomas Hitchcock. Mr. Holmes is a creator and restorer of oar·ocu1e 1n:i.vnn~1·r1 musical instruments. .........., .....,,..,... upJllolding the tradition these years," be because there's a it's a good with its respect for ancient values, to be the sort of craftsdouble 17th The lunch with beer Mr. Hoffman's Lawrence. will be three semmars, one .."".rl;.,,,. of Bertrand Russell's ··:sc~eouc:a1 will be led lattre. other seminars will be cles' "Philoctetes" and Hume's on Natural n.e11g1:un. Luncheon cost will Other details wm be on the Recent seminars at have included one on the Princeton Freud's Dream led Beate von and another on led Wilson and Daniel '67. Barbara Leonard will lead seminar on Ibsen's The Doll's House 18 at Princeton The bv dinner " ... We at St. John's have pos:iticm of guarding 1trPat.P.st philosophical traditions ... and be with enthusiasm that we all welcome another of tradition." Mr. Holmes is plann:ing He will build a wood and as the we!:!fha'r imn'rl\UO<! to get rid of the will be PLANS TO 23-25, in Blume advises that blocks of rooms have been Alumni director reserved at three where alumni should indicate want a room in the "St. John's group. She cautions that deadlines for reservations are strict. Rooms are reserved at the uvuua_v 16; Hilton (301) 268-7555, call Sue 2242800, call by August 30. In will offer bed and breakfast accommodations. Because the Naval Ac:utemy I-'""'"""'-" to reserve rooms at Inn. However list in event some rooms become !rn!:!il'lhla de1>rel)Siillgly grey cinderblock a color he suggests will blend sawdust he mass nl"nnnt>o!.l filtered floorward with which he this one was Holmes to fit into- its Corolla. Holmes had reached the construction where the He likes to work because of the wood's stalbili1ty shrink or swell changes in the humidit·· In Santa no rooms have been reserved. be made at the La Fonda, (505) 982-5511; La ..... ,.......... the Governors, 983-4333; The Desert Inn, (505) 982-1851; Motel ( 505) 983-3391. a wood that out its advantages. you want it to." In comin1! to St. � 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/e0c023db19933415c8a27adae25a78d2.pdf edddcf790d435a58df3e81d8db0a08af PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1111WI~rnmr1m111 IIII IIllIll II The St. John's i IIllIiIIll 31696 01138 0985 REP CVolume 10, Issue 3 On Caml?_us Alumni debate art question Not too long ago alumni in San Francisco met to hear Eugene Thaw, '47, talk about art at St. John's. This time it was alumni in New York City who gathered at the Princeton Club to hear him speak about what may be St. John's most controversial curriculum question: the place of fine arts in the program. "For El Greco to have been shown at the National Art Gallery and for no one from St. John's to have seen the exhibit is almost equivalent to St. Augustine coming alive to lecture and not having anyone from the college to attend," this distinguished art dealer said. (Continued on P. 8) Whistling ghost has guards on chase In the wee hours of the night, when the moon hangs low and darkness brings a lonely stillness to the Annapolis campus, the guards can hear it: the call of that tantalizing, bodiless "Whistler" who sends shivers down their spines. They're convinced it's not a bird, and the security force has established it is not a student prank. Mostly, but not always, it has been heard during the summer months when the students are gone. There are no footsteps, no rustling in the shrubbery, no clues. (Continued on P. 4) Walter Sterling Review Walter Sterling, '65, is the new editor of The St. John's Review. Assuming duties last month, he succeeds Leo Raditsa, Annapolis tutor, who has edited the Review since 1978 during a time in which the journal was renamed-it was previously The College-and undergone substantial changes, including an increase in size and in the number of issues and articles written contributors not directly affili- RTER' Annapolis, Md. and Santa Fe, N.M.. February 1983:J A natural affinity Johnnies filling editors' desks across country By NEAL ALLEN, '78 , De~n Robert Neid?rf sa~s 4e s surprised n_iore. John~1es .don t e?ter public service, mcludmg Journahs~. Given the nature of th~ c?llege, it seems strange the press isn t flooded with St. John's graduates. It seems ... The words "seem" ~nd "appear," repeated to a nauseatmg extent in seminar, are used even more immoderately by news people, who, like Johnnies, are devoted skeptics. , . "You come out of St. John s with ·the philosophical bent that you need as a reporter," says Paula Cohen, GI '74. She is public relations manager for Newsday, the 500,000 circulation Long Island daily: "You can't take thmgs . ~t fa?e value ... you get very suspicious m Alumni gifts average Alumni of the Annapolis campus 'pledged an average of $78 each in December's four-night telephone campaign that raised $27,250. The figure is substantially higher than the $45 national average pledged by alumni of colleges and universities in 1981. The total of $27,250 raised through the telephone effort helps bring to more than $50,000 the year-end sum raised by December 31 for alumni giving. Altogether (Continued on P. 5) some ways." Most of what good reporters do, ·when they're not forced to waste time acting as stenographers for ·official spokesmen, is try to break through a deep sludge of jargon and dissembling to translate events for their comm~nity. David s. Broder, the syndicated political columnist at The Washing. ton Post graduated from the University of c'hicago in 1947. The Hutchins program, nearly identical to that at st. John's, was then in force. Mr. Broder says his career benefitted from the curriculum. "You learn how to read," he says. "The kind of liberal arts education they were offering was· essentially a process of reading fairly difficu~t original texts ... uncovering what it was the author meant. "MOST OF WHAT you're dealing with as a reporter is people's words, whether on tape or on paper." Tom Geyer, '69, is general partner and chief operating officer for Ingersoll Publications Co., a group of 50 dailies and weeklies. Says Mr. Geyer, "A St. John's education, the program, is a wonderful preparation, for the naive a~a.ly­ sis of complex issues and unfam1har problems into everyday language, the language of the seminar if you will.'' ST. JOHN'S TRAINS students not to be afraid of unfamiliar problems, John Burkett, former assistant to the president at Boston University, has been named to that position at St. John's. President Edwin J. Delattre said Mr. Burkett will serve primarily on St. John's Annapolis campus but also will have some duties on its Santa Fe, N.M., campus. Mr. Burkett will assist the president by working closely with faculty, staff, students and college board members in handling detailed work associated with the president's office. Under an agreement reached with the college's Instruction Committee, which aets on all academic matters, President Delattre said Mr. Burkett also will teach in the undergraduate seminar program when it meets the college needs. A philosopher by training, Mr. Burkett has held a number of administrative and teaching positions at Franklin College, DeP auw University, Boston University, and the University of Texas at Austin. HE IS A 1962 graduate with highest distinction and honors in philosophy and religion from DePauw University. He also studied at Yale University and at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received his doctorate· in philosophy in 1971. In 1968, while teaching at Austin, he was awarded the Bromberg Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was a-Woodrow Wilson Fellow from 1962-63 and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. (Continued on P. 5) (Continued on P. 9) ( Continued on P. 3) at the end of the all that matters consider Winfree his face across the table in the coffee shop, you note the almost Jamesian movement. Mr. Smith lowers his eyes millimetriThe barest of flickers, and. it is all · there: an intuition on target, a grasp of all the factors. With other people, you would. have to speak paragraphs, talk whole pages. With Winfree the understanding is immediate. Recently, a staff member, disturbed about some issue or another, took her case to several faculty members. Without exception their comments were linke_g (Continued on P. 6) Delattre's new aide is Burkett Tom Parran photo Anne Arundel County's high school students are being given an opportunity this semester to become acquainted with St. John's seminar and tutorial method. Un°der an arrangement worked out between the Annapolis campus and -the county school s~tem, students from five schools will be on campus for a day to attend classes this semester, director of St. John's corltm1uirtg education program, has_announced. In a program of its sort, Charles ilkerson, department chairman at Old Mill High School, last year brought his English students for a day of classes led that included seminars on Shakespeare's Macbeth and tutorials on Shakespearean sonnets. , The experience was so successful that Oliver F. Jenkins, Jr., coordinator of the gifted, talentM, and advanced programs, asked if it could be extended. When Alan Starkey, coordinator of English, called a department meeting, the response from other county English teachers was "overwhelmingly enthusiastic," according to on p. 6) .....,., �Page TH~ ftEPORtf!R 2· AflWOO~~· ~A~U ~(!)W~~U FBSRUIARV~ 1:e1s Marshall is new alumni trustee by BETSY BROW:S, SAM LARCOMBE and BECKY WILSON Gay Singer Kenney, '67, of Winchester, Mass., and Steven Lee Tucker, SF '69, of · Santa Fe, have been renamed to the St. 1968 1938 Doren said. In addition to the progressive John's Board of Visitors and Governors. Bartholomew Lee was the Libertarian Julius Rosenberg has been honored by study of such courses as those in science They were nominated by the Alumni his Annapolis synagogue, Kneseth.' and mathematics, Mr. Van Doren said, Party candidate for attorney general of Association's Board of Directors along Israel, by being presented with its· "There are also courses that are not California. He was graduated from the , with Frank Marshall, '45, of Annapolis, Distinguished Service Award. We· progressive, such as the. humaQ.ities. University of Chicago Law School in 1971 who was chosen to complete the term of offer our congratulations! Study of literature and art should go on · and remained to teach .. In 1973 Bart Rebecca Brinkley-Connelly, '67, of Denat any age. If students begin young to moved to San Francisco, joining the law ver, Colo. Mrs. Brinkley.Connelly re1945 . analyze literature, they will be in a better firm of· Fred Furth. By 1979 he had .signed late last summer. Want to know an odd and interesting position to deal with ideas when they get opened his own firm, specializing in anti- . .The three were nominated during a · fact about Gene Thornton? He was (}ne of older." · trust litigation. meeting of the board at homecoming. the first two contemporary writers to They' were declared ele.cted under the 1951 popularize the word ecology. "I had to · He conceded that he was not in the board's bylaws when no petitions nomi.Jorn Williams retired last year after 28 look it up in the dictionary," he said at race to win but to raise issues, primarily . nating other candidates were. filed with dinner before the Eugene Thaw lecture · years teaching math to junior high aged concerning the abolition of laws involviilg .alumni offices in Santa Fe .or Annapolis. on art in New York. A man who likes to. students· in Nyack, N.Y., schools. His drugs, sex, handguns, and other "victimAfter serving in the Un.ited States write on art himseH, he helped introduce wife, also a retired teacher, and Tom less" crimes. The position of his party Ar~y from 1945 to 1947, Mr. Marshall spent six weeks recently in Greece ("if is the word while on the staff of Time can be summed up in the phrase, "mini- completed graduate study . iri business magazine, which he left in 1970 after not enough"), and, as one consequence, mal government." Bart says, "We are· . administration at Johns H:opkins and Tom has been rereading Thucydides. For serving as a "swinger," moving back and eating the bitter fruit of government Loyola College. Currently he is an invest~ forth among such magazine sections as St. Johnnies planning to take the trip to intervention." .ment representative for Alex Brown & Greece the Alumni Association is plan-. those devoted to law, modern living and Sons in Annapolis. · ning for June, they recommend Nik.es medicine. HE IS A PAST member of the AnnapoKazantzakis's Journey to the Morea. He also was the first to write about air SF 1968 lis Selective Service Board and a past pillows in automobiles. Now the photogJoan Townsend has finished her mas- · member of Anne Arundel County's 1964 raphy editor for The New York Times,· Patricia Camey Ceccarelli writes: "We ter's degree in anthropology at Columbia YMCA Central Branch Board of Manage·Gene has done free lance writing in art have just moved from England to Italy... University in New York. She expects to ment. He is a member of the Annapolis and photography for the past 12 years, live in the Ozarks before deciding wheth- Alumni Chapter and last year served as including · work on the photography an- After over ten years of gentle English er to pursue a doctorate. chairman of the Annapolis campus's rural life, the transition to Rome has nual Time-Life puts out. He lives partly Annual Alumni Fund Campaign. be.en a shock! But we are slowly easing in Manhattan, partly in eastern Long . Mrs. Kenney received a master's deinto it, and l think I may even grow to Island. gree in architecture from Harvard Unilike· it. During the last few years I was 1946 versity and · now works as ·a full-time Samuel Sheinkman has returned to senior clinical psychologist responsiele 1969 consultant in the Information Systems New York City after spending seven for all services to children, adolescents, Philip G. Holt is serving as copy editor Section of Arthur D. Little, Inc., specialand their families for the county of for the American Society for Microbiolo~ years in New Hampshire. He is clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Lincolnshire, so the move for me also gy in Washington, an organization which izing in the area of managing the soft, Cornell Medical School, attending psychi~ entails a reshuffling of professional ident- puts out nine scientific journals and ware-development process. In her home community of Winchester, atrist at the Payne Whitney Clinic~ and ity. My husband, Giorgio, decided it employs two other St. Johnnies: Karen Mass., she is a town meeting member. assistant attending psychiatrist at the was time to leave English academic Stagg Simon,. '69, production editor for New York Hospital of the Cornell Medical life for a professional practic.e in Infection and Immunity, and David El· She has been an active board member, .architecture here in Rome. The chil~ weH, '74, who among other things is serving as chairman of the board's CaCent~r. reer Guidance Committee and as a mem"It might be of interest that even after · dren, Sheila, now 12, and Luca, 8; responsible for the ASM News. ber of the Alumni Relations Committee. all these years 1 my St. John's experience are attending an English school in She is also a member of .the Boston Rome and are very happy about th~ has not left . me and permeates such With a doctorate in classics from Stan- Alumni Chapter and was a member of :school ... Please sent out my regrds teaching as I do," he reports. Samuel also has a part-time. position as in one of yotlr newsletters with my ford, Philip has kept up with classical · the association committee that drafted psychiatrist at the Hawthorne Cedar. new address in Italy: Apt. 6, Via Di research, publishing hall a dozen articles the recent by-laws revision. Mr. Tucker is a member of the law Knolls School, which is a residential ·Priscilla 900199,, Rome, Italy. l miss on ancient literature, including articles in The Classical Journal, The American treatment center for adolescents spon- ·all those wonderful friends .of 1960~ .Journal of Philology, Ramus, Helios, and firm of Jones, Gallegos, Snead, and Wertheim in Santa Fe. He is active· in sored. by the· Jewish Board of Family and 64." Jeff Escoffier is executive editor of the The St. John's Review. He also has been · local alumni activities and is a member Children's Services. He has a private practice and "as a result of a lot of Socialist Review. In an article in Mother teaching within St. John's continuing of· the board's Committee on Alumni traveling on top of my St. John's experi- Jones, he was quoted as saying, "We're education program. This spring he and Relations. trying to develop a sodalist vision that his wife, Meredith, are expecting their · ence, lwork in seven languages." "Steve and.I are now proud parents of He also writes: "In spite of its draw- holds out not just one alternative but first child. a second daughter, Jennifer, born Octo~ many alternatives ... At its best, he backs, we find that New Yotk City has ber 14. She weighed six pounds, 12lh much to offer, and we are fortunate that argues, SR is a troublemaking magazine, SF-1971 ounces and was 19 inches long at birth. I a place where thoughtful writers can feel our ten-year old daughter, Talya, has Bonnie Gage is engaged in a three-year completed my fellowship in pediatric free to talk about everything ... '' .Jefbeen able to take advantage of all that master's program in photography at the· hematology and oncology at Washington the city has- to offer, cultural and frey's new address is 225A Collingwood International Center of Photography in University and am now practicing pediaSt., San Francisco, Calif. 94114. otherwise.'' New York. trics. 1967 1947 "Steve · has completed the research Ian Harris has received tenure as an John Van Doren is one of 20 persons portion of his fellowship an4 has begun who developed the Paideia Proposal for assistant professor of education at the · his clinical trainin in cardiology at 1973 education recommending a common University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Barnes Hospital." In November, he From the medical team of Melissa presented an abstract at th~ meeting of course of study for students beginning Since graduating from St. John's, be. about age five and continuing through earned his master's and doctorate in (Matthews) and Steven Sedlis comes ·(Continued on P. U) high school. ("Paideia": Greek for gen- education at Temple University, complet- news of a second child. ing the latter in 1975. He has been at the eral or non-specialized learning.) The executive director of Great Ideas University of Wi~consin ever since, in the Notice of Nomination and Election Today, .an annual publication of Encyclo- Department of Community Education. He previously worked in secondary paedia Britannica, was among 300 educaOf Alumni Representations to the St. John's College tors participating in a symposium in New education, teaching science and becomBoard of Visitors and Governors ·· York to consider preliminary findings of ing science education supervisor in the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate studies, problems, and possible solutions Nominees of the Alumni Association's Boird of Directors to the St. J~iifi's · to secondary education sponsored by the School of Education. Amid all of this, ·)J.e College Board of Visitors and Governors are Gay Singer Kenney, '67, Steven Lee has found time for extensive community College Board. Tucker, SF '69, and Frank Marshall, '45. No nominations by petitions have been work, publication, professional consultareceived by the alumni offices at Annapolis or Santa Fe; ap.d, according to the tion, and speaking engagements. In fact, bylaws of the Alumni Association, the Alumni Association's Board's1 nominees are "Most of what goes on in college when looking at his curriculum vitae, one · considered elected, as of the receipt of this notice by the alumni. general education course~ca,,n"~d,spoµ}fl . imagines that Ian never has a moment to be down at the secondary 1~vel,y, 'Mt. vah1 ' spafe1 1· ' ' '· ··· c ' · < ' , ,_, • "., • -·· • · 1" ' · · Deadline for the April Reporter is April 10~ · ~ ... , t . r j i ~ . \ ; l l , ·I ; I ,i ,1,i ~ ' �Fe,aRUNR~JJD89:l ~ -- - ' ~ . ~ Page 3 Tlt\§~~Q'1cT6Ri -·%'··· il\._ Yikes! Here comes Bryce in another tie If someone must wear ties of the sort with which Bryce Jacobsen stuns his fellow man, the challenge might as well go to a director of athletics, which is what he is. With opposing colors to umpire and whole teams of designs to referee and separate, patterns clash as polka dots trample muscular curley-cues and paisley prints scramble chinward, scoring points and goals for gymnastic swirls and leaping motifs left behind in the sartorial fray. It takes a strong man to wear the sort ~ of tie Bryce Jacobsen wears, and strong men to see. It's tussle and brawl all over his chest. His freshmen mathematics students at ·st. John's College initially are polite after their first pop-eyed impression of a new and dazzling form of technicolor. "That's an interesting tie you have on, Mr. Jacobsen," they comment cautiously. Later, their remarks become franker, in the manner of Mr. Jacobsen's colleagues in the St. John's coffee shop as he sports still another item in his collection, perhaps against a checked or striped field or one of solid red. Mr. Jacobsen has two racks of ties, about 50 in all and all gifts. The tie which started his collection, a particular sensational eyebrow-raiser given him by fellow tutor John White, is the only one from which he has parted. That was under the misconception, when he offered it at a student fund-raisirig auction, that he would ·get it back;; as the bidding progressed, for $2 or· $3. Instead, the price soared to· $12, a sum he could not match at the time. MR. WHITE UIMSEL.R had assembled a collection of atrocious ties as a St. John's student, a collection his mother eventually threw out When he graduated in 1965, he gave hrs only remaining such tie to Mr.· Jacobsen as a token of his affection. "We have a different style," Mr. White, who is also assistant athletic director, observed in thinking back. "I had one with a steel mill which said, 'Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act: Bryce doesn't go in for that kind of atrocity.. His ties have bizarre colors and patterns." As something of - an expert on the subject, Mr. White admires Mr. Jacobsen's collection. "His ties are not simply ugly, but always ugly in an interesting way," he noted. With the appearance of that first tie from Mr. White, Mr. Jacobsen's stock has expanded as people have grown to. understand the kind he wears. Some of· the ties, he suspects, were gifts to the donors themselves. With -Mr. Jacobsen, they're all in home free. "I have yet to find a tie that I didn't think elegant," he said, his blue eyes lighting up like a scoreboard. Mr. Jacobsen does not wear his ties thoughtlessly. He is not at St. John's College for nothing. He has philosophical and political reasons for doing so. For instance, time was when he protested. That was about forty years ago when he and another St. John's student, rebelling against a rule requiring ties to be worn in the dining room, told the late Dean S'cott Buchanan how sensible the Chinese were, how they wore no belts or ties and how great it was to wear shirts outside their pants. Mr. Buchanan listened and agreed, but laid down the law by saying, in effect, no ties, no stay. AS A MAN WHO describes himself as a secret trend-setter, Mr. Jacobsen believes that tie-wearing can reflect the nature of a nation. He points out, by way of an example, that high governmental officials in the Israeli government generally do not wear ties. "They can establish their own customs," he said. "It's amazing what a new nation can do. And Castro doesn't wear them because of the revolution in Cuba, because ties represent the status quo. No revolutionary would be caught dead with a tie." Since his student days, his views on ties have changed. · "I've come to believe in my old age that custom plays an important role in ~he affairs of men," he explained. "Therefore,• for that reason, Iwiil wear a tie to maintain custom. I'm a reformer-perhaps I am, and have been, a nonconformist radical-but not a revolution- Bryce Jacobsen models a flashily colored tie. Tom Parran photo ary. On the other.hand,'! beiiev~,~~armg ties is an absurd, irrational custom. But I think its important to keep (pardon the pun) ties with the system and the status quo." So he wears them, in a way poking fun at what he sees as a crazy custom but on the other hand helping preserve it. On those occasions when the sobriety of an occasion calls for a more conventional selection, he usually chooses a tie handed down to him by his father or father-in. law. The reaction from friends is, "What happened? Did you make a mistake?" BE ASSURED. No mistake; a deliberate choice. And so is the tie of luminescent brilliance in bands of red. yellow. and blue he <'an be seen wearing- in the gymr~ .. .:.ium, bright enough to serve a construction flagman three miles down Route 50. And, so is the brown and pink silky job of vague permutations that finds its way into his Euclid class. And there are the consequences, some good, some bad, but mostly good. The art world will suffer; conversation won't. Generosity will increase as friends rid themselves of unwanted neckties and win Mr. Jacobsen's gratitude. Certain to develop are fortitude and stamina-desireable qualities for undergraduates-as students shade their eyes and bear it. Meanwhile, as a philosopher-athletic director, Mr. Jacobsen makes a point St. John's St. John's alumnus is unanimous choice (Continued from P. 1) ated with the college. Dean Samuel Kutler said Mr. Sterling was the unanimous choice of the Instruction Committee, under whose jurisdiction the magazine falls. He has been named for a four.year term. Although the positi~n will be part-tim~, Mr. Sterling has resigned from the philosophy faculty of the Thomas Nelson Community College in Newport News, Va., in order to concentrate his efforts on the magazine. Following his graduation from St. John's, Mr. Sterling received a master's degree in philosophy in 1966 from Pennsylvania State University, where he taught for two years, .leaving to join the Mar!ne Corps. . After two years with the Marines, he did graduate work in philosophy at Catholic University between 1970 and 1974 and from 1974 to -1977 taught philosophy at Northern Virginia Community College, St. Mary's College in Maryland, and Prince Georges Community College. Between 1977-80 he served as a general ni:~:~::,, for a chain of vitamin stores-Vitamin Specialties Company in readership is the alumni." Philadelphia- but left that position in HE ALSO WILL continue to seek a order -to return to Norfolk Va. and readership beyond the St. John's commudevote more time to his 11-y~ar-old son, nity, and he will continue Mr. Raditsa's Walter IV, whom he is raising. policy of seeking outside contributors for For about a year and a half he served articles. "My ambition is to make The as manager of The Review of Metaphys- Review as good as possible, to try tu ics, a quarterly published at Catholic rea_ch for as many potential contributors University, editing the book review sec- as _possible." tion, proof reading, and handling. the He wants to make the magazine as business end of its operation. politically independent as possible. In accepting the editorship, Mr. Ster"The Review should not be a publicaling emphasized his belief that The St. tion of the left, right, or center," Mr. John's Review is aimed primarily at Sterling said. "In other words, its aim is former students. not to be a publication of any party, and, "St. John's education is as important if possible, not to be taken as a publicaas it is unique," he said. "That education tion of any party. doesn't end with graduation. The St. "I am inclined to think that the closer John's Review can perform the function an article .comes to matters of ongoing, of a continuing education for alumni. I sharp debate, the more such an article think St. John's alumni are very con- needs to be characterized by a tone of cerned with the kind of reading and restraint and a careful concern to be just reflection they did as students, some- to all sides of the argument. Victory irt times more seriously later in their lives, argument should never be the concern of when so much of their lives are occupied any article published by The Review." with every-day things, than during their Mr. Sterling is particularly eager to student days. . .Whatever the larger have writers from the faculty. While ambition of the i!~!5lrt;!rL jointing out that tutors at St. John'~!, unlike faculty members generally elsewhere, are under no pressure to publish, he believes it desireable to encourage them to write. In seminars, he pointed out; a conversation can break off. "An article does hold still for analysis." Oriental art books are gifts The Annapolis campus has received a gift of 173 Oriental art books appraised at more than $8,000. , The donors, who are unrelated, are Dr. Douglas Buchanan, '43, of North Ando.ver, Mass., and William C. Buchanan, Jr., '48, of Bainsville, Ohio. They had been left the collection jointly by a retired art historian, Gertrude Brenner, of Ridgefield, Conn., and decided, in turn, to present it to the Annapolis library. In expressing pleasure over the gift, Mrs. Kinzer said some books will be placed in the library's permanent collection and others, not found suitable for St. John's wij.l'b;e Solq'. - ,, ,, ~., ' ' ~" 11. \~ ~· I 1 ~"\ ,;_ "i;f q' 'f' fl\ .ri [ '" �Page 4 lumn · trip In addition to alumni, the trip to Greece the Alumni Association is planning for June 2-17 is open to parents, friends, and others in St. John's extended family. i HERMES OF PRAXITELES ... at the Olympian Museum Scheduled to begin with an overnight flight from New York to Athens, the trio Greece includes will include a four-day cruise of the Aegean which will take passengers to Mykonos, Crete, Santorini, Rhodes, Pat. mos, Corinth, Sparta, and Olympia. Carolyn E. Leeuwenburgh, '55, an experienced travel agent who is in charge, said that some 40 persons will be necessary if the trip is to materialize. To participate, individuals are asked to send checks of $200 made out in her name to 294 Jefferson Road, Princeton, N.J. 08540. The price of $1, 750 per- person will include first class service and accommodations, according to Mrs. Leeuwenburgh, who said the cost is substantially lower than for other comparable tours. SHE HAS OUTLINED the itinerary as follows: June 2: Overnight flight to Athens aboard Metro Airlines Boeing 747 with dinner and breakfast aloft. June 3: Morning arrival in Athens with transfer to downtown, first class hotel; afternoon to rest up; orientation and welcome dinner at hotel. June 4: Tour of Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Acropolis and Parthenon, visits to National Archaeological Museum and to modern monuments. June 5: Free day in Athens to visit museums or enjoy the exciting bouzouki music around the Plaka. June 6: Morning transfer to the port of Pieus to embark on the Constellation for four-day cruise; first port of call is tiny And the case of the neurotic elevator u day cruise Mykonos, a picture postcard setting of ancient games in Olympia and the muwhite houses, windmills, and 300 chapels seum where the incomparable statues of in a blue sea. Praxiteles are housed. June 7: Visit to Crete, Greece's largest June 13: From Rion we ferry to Antiisland, where Minoan civilization goes rion en route to Delphia to visit the back 6,000 years; visit to the excavations Temple of Apollo, the Theater, and Stadiof an~ient Knossos and the archaeologium, the Castalian Springs, and the Thocal Museum in Heraklion; then to Santo. los. rini, a volcanic crater. June 14: We see historic Thermopylae June 8: Arrive in Rhodes, known as and the crescent shaped Bay of Mara"Isle of Roses," to see the city built by thon, the two Doric Temples devoted to the crusaders and the Knights of St. John; drive to Lindos to see the rnagnifi- . Themis and Nemesis at Manous, the Fifth Century B.C. Temple of Poseidon at cent Acropolis. Cape Sounion; overnight in Athens. June 9: Cruise to Patmos, where, in a June 15-16: Free days to Jill with cave, St. John the Evangelist wrote the myriad wonders of ancient and excitingly Book of Revelation; visit to Ephesus, modern Athens. with its awesome wonders, in Turkey, June 17: Athens to New York, arriving once the leading city of culture of ancient the same day. Asia where the Temple of Artemis stood. June 10: A trip by private motorcoach to visit Corinth as it was in Roman Former nurse dies times; visit to the museum and Aero Pauline Fowler Teed, - of Storrs, Me.,· Corinth; in Mycenae to see the glories of nurse on the Annapolis campus from 1962 the civilization of Atreus and Agam?mto 1969, died November 6 of cancer. ~he ~on and t? fe~l Hom~r's Iliad .come to was 75. The mother of Mary Fowl " hfe;. overnight m beautiful Nauphon over. Teed, '64, she had been a founding nurs~ lookmg the Bay. of the Blue Hill Public Health Nursing JUNE 11: ENJOY great scenery en Service in Maine and a nurse at Kirn 'Jall route via Tripolis to Sparta with its Union Academy in Meriden, N.lI. She shrine dedicated to Artemis and the had married the Rev. Leonard W. FowTomb of Leonidas and. remains of the ler, who died in 1957, and later the Rev. Roman and Byzantine empires; overKenneth R. Teed, of Storrs. She was a night in Olympia. member of Storrs Congregational June 12: A day to explore the site of the · Church. Guards hunt ghost that whistles its 'whoos' (Continued from P · 1) If it is anything, it is the ghost St. John's security force talk about - the Whistler. While most of the staff are sceptical about supernatural beings, they have been exchanging stories about this elusive creature since the 1970s. Four or five times the Whistler has teased St. John's guard Harold Michaelis as he has made his nightly rounds, whistling on one side of the library and then, as he encircles the building, sounding on another. This is his first year in his six with the college Mr. Michaelis has not heard it, perhaps because he is working more daytime hours. Sometimes it has sounded .right behind him, sometimes as far away as the gymnasium parking lot. "We always investigated and never found anything," he said of himself and the second guard sharing his shift. JAMES BASSFORD, now St. John's chief engineer and at one time a guard, said he and the late Walter Rausch, the former security· head, spent one evening looking for the source of the sound after they first heard the Whistler. That was while they were standing on the college quad. "The whistle came up from the gym, as if it were beckoning us," Mr. Bassford said. Halfway to the gym, the sound stopped, but ten minutes after they returned to the quad, the whistle started again. This time they decided someone might be whistling through a gymnasium window. No one was there. Lt. Richard Dalrymple, now head of security, said that initially guards thought a student was playing. a prank. "When the college wasn't in session and we heard the Whistler, it got a little eerie." Lt. Dalrymple has heard the Whistler go from the boxwood garden behind the Carroll-Barrister House to the gym to the tennis courts, moving in split seconds f~ster, he said, than a person can move: On\!' ~veh.j~~~ ~e: a'i\~ .§o'hie: pth~f i~ Juards 1 :- :,_,'~"· ·. l" "'I . 'L 1 ·1 ~llhft;}!?,.! iJ .. . cordoned .0 tt an area 1~, an effort to c~pt~,re this. gh~stly prey. We nev~r ~~w hi~, he s~id._ "W_e never caught him. The whi~t~mg is not unpleasant to th~ ear and definitely f~om ~ huma~ throat, ~t. Da~rymple said. . The pitch, t~e timber is p~rfect, not ~1gh, nor low: It is always .a s~.ngle sustained note, with no undulation. / _ ,/ _,,.,} time in this ancient college campus of old brick buildings and creaking floors, particularly McDowell Hall, where Francis Scott Key went to school. First begun in 1742, it housed students and teachers during its early days as well as provided classroom space. the King William Room assumes an eeriness during the witching hours of the night. Approving art experts to the con. trary, a pair of penetrating eyes that follow step-by-step a guard as he checks the King William Room can give a fellow an unsettling feeling. "YOU WANT TO GET out of McDowell post haste," Sgt. William Savoy, assistant security head, summed up guards' reaction. The king appears provoked. "What are you doing here?" The college bell has been known to go off mysteriously at 2:30 a.m. in the bell tower, venetian blinds to fly up, doors to shut, and lights to go on. One former guard checking the first floor fled from the building after hearing sounds upstairs like someone dragging a leg. "One night when the college was closed, I decided to take a break and sat down in a chair in the Great Hall facing the front campus," Mr. Dalrymple said. "There were a few creaks. That was fine. It gave the house time to settle down. But 15 to 20 minutes later, I heard sounds on the balcony like footsteps. I checked out the classrooms and offices. Nothing was there. And then I heard something up there I couldn't identify. I unparked the chair, and that was the last time I ever sat there. I have gone through the entire repertoire of sounds that could explain it, and none of them fit.'' It's spooky late at night on campus. Not a year old is the account of a former guard who was so frightened by voices in an empty Carroll-Barrister House, which dates back to 1722-23, that he took a fast leap out the front door, felling an awaiting guard. There are creepy, crunchy sounds as guards check back campus near the site As something of a Johnnie one-note, the of the French Monument, believed to be Whistler, like the story book ghost, goes not far from where the French Revolu"whooo-whooo," but whistles the whoos. tionary War dead are buried on campus. For the guards who work the midnight With its roving eyes, even the portrait shift, from 12 to 8 a.m., it's j\1 ghostly "Kine:1Widliamu<!wer the m antle;piece in 1 AND THEN THERE are all the stories about the elevator in the library. Is it haunted or is it merely only somewhat disagreeably neurotic or even just whimsical? Typical of the stories is the one by Lt. Dalrymple, who recalls one icy winter day sitting in the library about 4 a.m. and having a cigarette to warm up. The library was locked, and no one was there. Less than five minutes later, the passengerless elevator opened its doors. "I know that elevator had been messed up forever, but on the off chance it wasn't that, I now will go through the library to check it, but I won't sit there." Since it was installed with the renovation of the library during the 1960s, the elevator has been noted for its erratic behavior. Librarian Kathryn Kinzer reported that it has been known to descend to various levels and "hover." Somewhat rudely, when would-be passengers have walked toward it, the doors have snapped shut, and the elevator snubbed its intended occupants by flying away. When a student suggested its electric eye had not been properly aligned, the eye was removed. (Former librarian Charlotte Fletcher suggested the elev~tor had received a lobotomy). That helped, but its behavior remains quixotic.· It is, among other things, the slowest elevator in town. The elevator may have its explanations. But the Whistler doesn't. As they make their rounds in the dead of night, ears atuned to that eerie sound, the guards are still searching for b.1·1 �~3.~~I '.:j;t~·Jl ~, THE REPO,RTER Bruce Adams • • zs inventor Bruce Adams, GI '74, of Santa Fe, is responsible for an invention which may prevent an untold number of airplane crashes in the future. Aware of a real need for a mechanical means to remove light and crusted snow by mechanical means that would not damage airfoils or the aircraft's paint, he has developed new scraping devices and .is marketing them under the name of Bamco., Inc. They range in price and complexity from the Model 10 "Handefroster" at $14.95 to the Model 400 "Frost Aid Kit" at $995. The Handefroster is made entirely of plastic and fits easily into a pilot's pocket. The frost kit is more complex and consists of a set of vinyl-covered, "flex. lock" aluminum handle sections, each featuring three double-acting, scraper/ squeegee blade combinations of soft, medium, and hard durometers." Many of the machine tools Mr. Adams employed for his invention were his own, although he was aided by a Santa Fe tool and die maker. Not having a degree in engineering made it more difficult for him to persuade manufacturers of his plans for the scrapers, about which the aviation magazines are enthusiastic and which have asked for models to do a full in-service evaluation. But Mr. Adams, who has a degree from Colorado College, has managed to "turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones." "That's absolutely necessary if you're going to be an inventor." "I al~o wanted to prove that as a liberal arts person, I could get deeply involved in an engineering project and come out on top," he said. . "MY.\Yh.ole ed11c.ation at St. John's, in 'fact~ was very imporfant. I studied a lot of philosophy there, and the logic of philosophy is the same as the logic of engineering. Everything fell into place." In the laborious process of invention, he speaks philosophically of reversals and setbacks. "The inventor's most important asset is the right to fail. The inventor must take failure as a statistic. It's only a failure when you give up." Page 5 Volunteers enthusiastic (Continued from P. 1) in evidence throughout the telephone the Annapolis Alumni Fund Camp~ign campaign," Mr. Carr said. "There was has a goal of $100,000 to the reached· by ·.an 8:30 cut-off, but some people were July 1. ··calling at quarter to 9." · The 48 alumni volunteers, organized . THE $27,2~0 FIGURE was attained, into teams, worked competitively, mak- Mr. c.arr said, beca~se of the careful ing more than 500 telephone calls, with m~tching of callers with classmates. He prizes at the end of the evening for the s~1d the program could not have worked most successful callers without the thorough preparation done by · Ann Cruse, director of development, and the Annapolis development and alumni staffs. For the second year, the C&P. Telephone Company lent its headquarters for the telephone campaign. Volunteers were served supper beforehand. Alumni who served as volunteer callers were: Julius Rosenberg, '38; Sylvia Jones, GI '81; John Engel, '34; Charles Peace, ~36; William Athey, '32; James Levan, '74; Bernard Gessner, '27; Theodore Hendricks, '73; Nathan Rosen, '82; Leslie Rosen, '82; Cyril Murphy, '36; Matt Evans, '31; Meg Kimble, '76; John Martin, '35; Gerry Atterbury, '46; Jon Donohue, '35; Brad Davidson, '77; Katherine Hsu Haas, '60; Bruce Preston, '65; Stephen Bergen, '45; Stephen Mainella, '54; Frank Marshall, '45; Gil Crandall, '36; Marty Rausch, '36; Tom Smith, '38; Leonard Delisio, '38; Bill Matthews, '34; Michael Blume, '78; Rosamond Rice, GI '81; William Elliott; '47; Bill Barr, '42; Bryant Cruse, '73; Darrell Henry, '61; Joseph Cohen, Marjorie Collingwood Kimble, '76, '56; James Tindall, '39; Walter Chance, bright-eyed and alert as the telephone '38; Tom Slakey, '81, and Patricia Hyslines hum. sel, '82. A quarter of the 348 alumni who Trip to China pledged gifts were donors who had not made a gift in three years. President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle "I am pleased but not surprised by the will conduct a study tour of China Sepresults after my experience with the tember 30-0ctober 26. A former trustee of campaign because I sensed the enthusi- the Yale-China Association who taught at asm in each session," Jack Carr, '50, one time in China, Mr. Weigle said the 27campaign chairman, who was present at day tour will include a Yangzi River each of the four nights, said. cruise and a four-day stop-over in Hono"It became clear that there was a lulu. Price will be $4, 747 per person great rapport developed between the double occupancy from New York, $4,389 from San Francisco. Interested persons volunteers and the people they called." may write Mr. Weigle at 1925 Harwood "All this contributed to the high morale Road, Annapolis, Md. 21401. Assistant starts work JOHN BURKETT (Continued from P. 1) He and his family will move from Abilene, Tex., to Annapolis next June when his son, Paul, complet~s his high school education. For the past several years at work on the moral philosophy of the nation's founding fathers, Mr. Burkett is a former dean of students and a philosophy professor at Franklin College, a former philosophy and religion professor at DePauw, and has served as a member. of the National"Humanities Faculty, which Mr. Delattre headed before coming to St. John's. Besides serving as assistant to the president of Boston University, he was director of the university's Student Academic Support Services and taught on its philosophy faculty. At Austin he both taught and was associate dean for student academic affairs at the College of Arts and Sciences. Bill Gorman, major figure of early era, dies William Gorman, St. John's tutor from 1937 to 1945, died at Santa Barbara, Calif., last March 23 of cancer. He was 71. Closely identified with the circle of men whose thinking led to the start of St. ,John's New Program, Gorman was a fellow at the Hutchins Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at the time of his death. He was a central and charismatic figure on campus during the early days of the New Program and possessed an influence that extended far beyond the eight years of teaching here. Former students remember him as a great teacher. "There is or at least was a myth in the early 'golden age' of St. John's that the great books and balance were great teachers unto themselves," William Goldsmith, '45, of Concord, Mass., said. "Nonsense. You soon discovered that the books came alive for most of us under the tutelage of great teachers. And Bill Gorman was one of those great teachers. His sensitive appreciation and understanding of Aristotle, Vergil, St. Thomas, and so many of the other great authors was communicated to his students. 1 L ~ r , , c. "He not onlv made the books and their authors come alive, but in his own purpose and character, he revealed something of their meaning to the world in which he lived with him, full of discovery, joy, and excitement. We shall indeed miss him." C. Robert Morris, '48, of Minneapolis, recalled that, as the senior tutor in his seminar, he took him through the Greeks. "I remember the magnificent way he led us to discovery, tolerant of our immaturity' patient with us so long as we tried, and giving a constant example of how the intellectual task ought to be done - with grace, humor, and insight. I loved him, and I still love the memory of him. It is one of the things that strengthened my ambition to become a teacher." His old friend, writer and editor Clifton Fadiman, whose friendship goes back half a century, wrote of Gorman that he "stood in awe of his mind, his erudition, and his religious faith." An Irishman fond of slowly pushing live tobacco coals back into the bowl of his pipe, Gorman was remembered for a second-hand tuxedo purchased for about $7, which he wore, according to John Hedeman, '43, on a trip to Europe. rlfo. wore ;it fo :the liCaptaiJf1111tatile the first night and throughout the rest of the 1 1 -' trip and at every dress-up event at St. John's until "green mold was growing on the lapels," Dr. Hedeman said. A member of the Instruction Committee, Gorman renewed his affiliation with St. John's in 1948 as a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, serving with the board uritil 1951. A graduate of the University of Michigan, where he also completed work in philosophy and literature, Gorman began his career in literary criticism in New York City, writing for newspapers, weeklies, and quarterlies. In 1933 he joined the faculty of the School of Law at the University of Chicago, leaving there to become a fellow for three years, from 1936 to 1937, at the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Following his eight years at St. John's, he became general editor in 1945 of A Syntopicon for Great Books of the Western World, a 54-volume publication of the Encyclopedia Britannica. He also became editorial consultant for classics in mathematics, astronomy, and mechanics published by The Great Books of the Western World and a member of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Board of Edik>ts. I'. J ! He left to become associate director for the Institute for Philosophical Research in San Francisco. From 1956 to 1964 he was associated both with the basic issuP.s program of the Fund for the Republic and with the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. For· a two-year period, from 1964 to 1966, he was visiting professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., leaving there to return to the Institute. He served one summer, in 1969, as a scholarin-residence at the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies. Between 1969 and 1973 he was associate editor of the Propaedia of the new, 15th edition of the Encylopaedia Britannica and acted as a consultant and contributor to the Great Ideas Today, an annual volume published by the Encyclopaedia Brittannica. Among his more recent writings was a book, American Testament, written with Mortimer Adler for America's Bicentennial. He is survived by his wife, the former opera singer, Natalie Bodanya, who resides at 3090 Eucalyptus Hill Rd., Santa ~a~~~ra~ y~ljf1~110~, ~nd bj1 ~ ~Qn, Paul; of Brookfyn, N. Y.; a wrltl!f. · j~ ........... �• (Continued from P. 1) together a common, almost testimonial refrain. "Have you talked with Winfree?" What they had in as others do, is a certain sanity, a an openness, a perspective, the promise of a fair an courtesy, which Mr. Smith somehow manages to deliver with as much time to listen as necessary plus an appreciative chuckle or two or three or four. (MR. SMITH IS St. John's Number 1 as anyone who has sat within several rows hearing distance of him at a night lecture A central figure on than four decades, Winfree is not simply endowed-he has taught all program except music-he possesses something beyond that. He is that rarity the Greeks would have chosen for their midst: a wise man. "Winfree Smith makes no mistakes," his long-time friend, Robert Bart, former dean of the Santa Fe campus, once commented of Mr. Smith's ability to sense right directions. Perhaps this sense is due, to use a phrase he once employed with a former student, to "the intentions of the heart." His heart. Ranlet Lincoln, '50, of Washington, recalls one occasion and a single sentence Mr. Smith voiced during a coffee shop conversation about the ambiguities of moral valuation. "IN RESPONSE to some murky groping about how one could be sure that a good act was good, Winfree said quietly, 'Well, it's all a matter of the intention of the heart, isn't it?' "Mr. Lincoln recalled. "I did not and could not give a clear answer to his question then, and I cannot now. But the question '. . .isn't it?' has remained with me for 34 years .. .I have no doubt at all that the intention of Winfree's heart was for the thoughtful moral virtue of his students. For that we all owe him more than we can say." "The best thing about Mr. Smith is that he is a very good example of a good man-intellectually and morally-in seminar and outside seminar," one of the members of his current senior seminar believes. !'He is," Mr. Bart affirms, "an angel." All of this would cause Mr. Smith to blush and brush aside with some dispar. aging disclaimer for among his endear. ing qualities is modesty. Winfree, as college students have called him behind his back for generations, is in his forty-first year of teaching at St. John's and in the midst of one of his most important decades. What makes this period particularly newsworthy is the history of the New Program which he has spent part of the past four years researching and writing and which is in press. If all goes on schedule, it will be published by the St. John' Press late this spring. Details regarding its distribution will be announced later. NEEDLESS TO SAY, alumni are looking forward to its publication. "To think of Winfree Smith as a senior tutor at St. John's is impossible," Francis Mason, '43, of New York, said. "He was the brilliant new person on campus when I was an undergraduate and has remained that for many of us ever since. It is a matter for universal rejoicing, I think, that he is the author of the history of the St. John's program which is soon to be published." Besides working on the history, Mr. Smith this year is concluding what is expected to be his final term on the Instruction Committee, one of the numerous times he has served on that since he first was named to it in 1943 the late Scott Buchanan at a time members were still appointed rather than elected. During this decade he has served as a member of the Search Committee to find a new college president and as the senior Committee. member of the Currently he is a member of the committee to celebrate the 200th of St. John's charter. To eyes, his schedule would exhaust a man of 20 since Mr. Episcopal priest training, in leads a dual life. He is out four nights of the week: two for seminar, a third for Friday's formal lecture, and on Tuesday he leads an extra-curricular class in the New Testament, one he has taught continuously since arriving at St. John's in 1941. He is up at dawn Wednesday mornings to conduct an Eucharist service at St. Anne's Church, where he is a special assistant and where he attends meetings of the clergy twice a month. (For about eight years, at the request of St. John's students, he had held communion services five week-day mornings.) Sundays he assists with services. Mr. Smith is among the most versatile of St. John's tutors. His ability to teach in all parts of the program-seminar, language, mathematics, and laboratory-is outmatched by only two Santa Fe tutors, Charles Bell and Robert Bunker, who have taught everything, including music. Winfree Smith in the college Mr. Smith has not taught music, perhaps because of one of those early invaluable to all of us." childhood experiences. IT HAS NOT always been work, howev"WHEN I WAS A boy in grammar er. school, and the class in which I was in If he is a reserved, extrerr..ely private was asked to sing for the PTA, I and sort of person, he also has his fun-loving another little boy were always excluded," ·side. Mr. Smith laughed. "This led me to Almost since they were instituted in the believe I had absolutely no musical 1950s, Mr. Smith traditionally has opened ability." the Olympic games during Reality WeekHe has written a text for the second end when he has rendered with elan and year math program entitled Cartesian conviction some words in Greek, some Geometric Algebra. times from Homer, sometimes from He"How fortunate we are to have Win- rodotus. free, who has devoted himself to a life of He may be the only Marylander who learning in this college," Dean Samuel knows the ninth and blatantly southern Kutler said. "It is a tribute to him and to verse of the state song, surely the worst the founders of the program that he has written in the nation, which brings an written a manual in mathematics for uproarious response at parties: "She is study in the sophomore year, so outside not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb-Huzza ! the world of his training and in another She spurns the no.rthern scum! She area." breathes! She burns! She'll come! She'll Over the years he has been a member come! Maryland! My Maryland!" of the Campus Development Committee, And with proper encouragement, faculthe Prize Committee, and the Faculty ty parties have been enlivened with his Salary Committee, at one time chairing recitation of an absurdity which goes the latter. He served briefly, in 1947, as something like "I'm a little teapot, short assistant dean. and stout,/Here's my handle, here's my He has won the admiration of two spout./ Tip me over, pour me out"- a presidents. piece also adapted to "I'm a little mon"No tutor knows more about the pro- ad,'' with other Leibnitzian substitutions. gram than he doest President Emeritus For years he had a famous mint julip Richard D. Weigle said. "He has made a party for seniors during commencement tremendously valuable contribution to the weekend. In 1981, when the party became college over the years, as a tutor, as a a bit much, it ceased; but last spring, member of the Instruction Committee, as seniors, who had heard previ9us accounts an archon, in many, many ways." of the party, asked if they could do all the "Winfree Smith is as wonderful a fixing but hold it at his Cumberland friend and colleague as anyone could Court home. This May again, under a hope to have," President Edwin J. De- new arrangement, there will be a mint lattre said. "I scarcely dare to think julip party at his house. about the mistakes I might have made as Along the way Mr. Smith has married a newcomer had it not been for Winfree's countless students. He doesn't know how generous and instructive guidance to me. many; he would like to have kept a His wisdom and experience are simply record of the number. He also has helped library. Tom Parran photo bury members of the St. John's community. The brother of a professional actor, Archie Lee Smith, now on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University, Mr. Smith has appeared in the King William Players productions, specializing in "very minor Shakespearean roles," including, once, that of a renegade priest. Last month he portrayed the Old Man in the KWP's Macbeth. HIS BIGGEST performance, however, comes at most of the college's Christmas parties when he, Annapolis tutor Hugh McGrath, and Charlotte Fletcher, retired librarian, have delighted the St. John's community with A.E. Houseman's comic travesty, "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy.'' In addition, Mr. Smith has been chosen to speak by seniors at a number of commencements-his 1970 address was reproduced in The Congressional Record-and he is in constant demand for alumni seminars. A Virginian, born in Ashland with much of his boyhood spent in Fredericksburg, Mr. Smith came to St. John's in 1941 at the request of Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, who founded St. John's New Program and who were his teachers at the University of Virginia. He had come under the influence of Barr, a historian, and consequently received a bachelor's degree in history in 1934 and a master's in history in 1935. Then he came under the influence of Buchanan, which explains his doctorate in philosophy, awarded in 1948. He also has studied at the Institute Catholique de Paris. All the course work for his doctorate (Continued on p: 7) I l �} (Continued from P. 6) came while he was serving as rector of St. Paul's Church in Ivy, Va., just outside Charlottesville, a parish tiny enough both to permit him to serve it and to work toward his doctorate. He had gone there after receiving the third of his four degrees and his second master's, one in divinity, at the Episcopal Seminary in Alexandria in 1938. The fact that he had turned out the mathematics textbooks is somewhat surprising given the nature of his graduate studies. "I didn't realize the importance of math when I first became an undergraduate at " he recalls. "It was largely because Scott Buchanan that I came to think of it as important in my education." HE HAD TAKEN A freshman class in trigonometry and analytic geometry and in his senior year skipped over to calculus. Nevertheless, he describes himself as "almost totally ignorant" when he arrived at St. John's. "Everything I've learned has been at St. John's, largely from other people teaching here and from students," he said. Mr. Smith dismisses stories of a golden age on the Annapolis campus, and while he thinks students now enrolled are much like earlier ones and are· responding to the program the way they were during earlier eras, there are some differences. "Students are reading the books more carefully," he said. "Tutors have a better grasp of what's being taught." The fact that the size of the student body is larger also is healthier, he believes. Mr. Smith has no particular favorite part of the program in which to teach. While there have been changes within the program itself, he has been impressed that the program has existed almost fifty years with no great criticism from any part of the faculty to change its basic structure. Nor does he anticipate any great change. "At present the Instruction Committee is trying to plan the work of the classes in such a way that there will be more leisure and also more clarity about certain transitions such as that from Galileo to Leibniz and from ancient to modern mathematics," he said. With architecture a special interest-he took several courses in architecture at the University of Virginia-he does believe that the visual arts should be included in the seminar program. "I think it would be very good if we could study great works of art within the program," he said. "The reason I think such a study suitable is that I believe there is something for the intellect in great works of art. I think it might be rather difficult for members of the faculty to conduct such seminars, but I wouldn't want that opinion to keep us from pursuing Gene Thaw's suggestions." (At two recent alumni meetings Eugene Thaw, '47, has advocated seminars on great works of art.) His sister, Margaret Lauck, died of an aneurism in 1972 shortly after becoming college registrar. In preparing his history of the New Program, Mr. Smith has consulted board and faculty minutes, correspondence documents such as those by the dean on educational policy, and developed a history which begins in 1937 and continues through the deanship of Jacob Klein, ending in 1958. Now that he has finished his book and his time-consuming membership on the Instruction Committee is coming to an end, he has no special plans for the extra margin of tjll}.~ pe wW i&~~R· "I'll devote Members of the Annapolis campus's Self-Study Committee with Dean Samuel Kutler are, from Joe Sachs, Dean Kutler, Hugh McGrath, and Elliott Zuckerman, chairman. The is the in connection with reaccreditation. Photo by David Frame • • ing. It raised questions, but questions that were better, more difficult, more promising than the question asked when I went in ... A good seminar leaves you off balance. It keeps you awake, with problems to wrestle with for weeks to come perhaps longer." People appeared to be agreeing. A good seminar is not concerned with an outward, external form - with having a beginning, a middle, and an ending. It's not necessary for people always to speak "beautifully," and it's very seldom that a seminar takes a beautiful shape. Nor does a seminar possess any particular virtue because participants "have stuck A good seminar, Mr. Goldwin believes, to the opening question.'' stimulates students to think. "We're not In fact, there may be, as someone here to find out what the truth is," he suggested, a "beautiful chaos" about a quipped. "We can hire someone to tell us good seminar; and it may require, as that." tutor Hugh McGrath observed, a year, gather than one or two meetings, to Unorthodoxically, later in the discusanswer that question so frequently asked sion, he posed the possibility that the in the coffee shop late Monday and "side-effects" - unsupported opinions Thursday nights? How did your seminar can be "among the most impressive and go? fascinating contributions to a seminar" In a discussion in which faculty, stu- even if the person offering them doesn't dents, and members of the Board of know how to support his views. Visitors and Governors participated, Annapolis tutor David Stephenson suggested "Others can be stopped in their tracks simply that a good seminar might be one by an arresting thought," he said. "They in which a "misunderstanding is cleared may have a lingering effect more imporup and is followed by a truer understand- tant than all the supported thoughts they ing." didn't think about too much." Board chairman Charles A. N~lson, '45, agreed. A seminar can exist in all sorts The discussion of the seminar (it of disarray, he said, but the confusion is wasn't a seminar on a seminar since not nearly as important as the seminar's there was only one leader, Elliott Zuckerhaving good resutts. It is a good one if a man said) was held in the Conversation participant knows more and can claim Room as part of a self-study being better insights than when he first arrives. conducted this year in connection with St. "A seminar ought to make progress," John's reaccreditation process. It was led according to former dean Robert A. by Mr. Zuckerman, the study's chairGoldwin, '50, now a member of the board. man. "WHEN I THINK BACK to the ones I There was some talk about the prope~ judged the best, the word 'struggle' comes to mind - discomfort, a kind of tension between the scope of a seminar unsettling. In other words, the seminar discussion and the need to understand the was not satisfying but rather unsatisfy- text. Mr. Stephenson pointed out that a good seminar in actuality may have involved a fundamental mistake with myself to teaching better,''-he said. regard to the text. A formal sort of retirement for this 68year-old senior tutor will come in 1984. "A good balance of waffling and pedanUnder the current policy, tutors lose tenure at age 65 and can be reappointed try is probably a good seminar," Mr. McGrath said in speaking of the need to on a year-to-year basis until 70. After steer between these two Scyllas and that, if they choose, as tutors have done Charybdises. in the past, they may teach a preceptorial or engage in some other form of part. ONE PERSON UNDERSCORING the time teaching. To have Mr. Smith continue teaching need to understand a text was Ben will be just fine for faculty and students. Milner, director of the Graduate InstiAfter all, what college communities pos- tute. In reading books, he believes, semisess "an angel" in their midst? Not nar participants in effect are inviting great thinkers to join in the conversation. many. St. John's knows when it has one. Mr. Milner said it is necessary to find out what the writer has to say as well as what the students are saying. Some prot~ction in interpreting the meaning comes by there being two leaders. " What if both are pedants?" Jonathan Edelman, chairman of the Student Committee on Instruction, enquired amid laughter. Another student, Merrill Ahrens, Annapolis senior, offered the opinion that a good seminar had its intimate aspects: books looked at intimately and a feeling of intimacy developed among members. The remark came just before a question about the part psychodynamics play in a seminar and the possibility put forward by New York physician and board member Irwin Hoffman that a seminar might offer some form of psychotherapy. "Psychodynamics have never been fully explored and have a great deal to do with a good seminar." Mr. Zuckerman contended that seminars stand "at the other end of the psychological encounter" and that participants must steer away from still another rock: "to be intimate with the psyche." CITING ABRASIVE relationships which can emerge and grate on the nerve.s, Mr. Goldwin said he felt no therapy existed "except to build strength of character." A member of the self. study committee, Joe Sachs, asked if seminar relationships could not result in a "high type of friendship." · As to the unique qualities of a seminar, Mr. Zuckerman said he never, on any occasion, talks as he does at a seminar. "When I talk to someone at a bar, he doesn't know the rules." Not altogether in agreement, Annapolis tutor Laurence Berns ascribed to seminars a carry-over value, that people really do develop skills of learning and teaching, an ability to rephrase state.ments and inform different people in slightly different manner. Through seminars, he said, people learn to "think better, more precisely, and more accurately." ~--i ~'!' �Page8 THE REPO Thaw questions role of fine arts in curriculum (Continued from P. 1) cerned onl~·:>, 1 "' what man has thought and igno~UI ·.the has made? For St. John'~ lQ J '· !::.~ the ornaments of civilization, · it~,,~;;t~tral links in the great traditiQ11 ,~~.\W1Jjtern culture - the Acrop-, olis, · t~/:~~:t\l~drals, Michelangelo, Cezanne ~ is:' to', make a statement he believes ·a'~· \«ehement as any enunciated repudiatiorf> .·· While sfatitlg that he was not con. cerned with· the mechanics of how the fine arts are lo be included but rather with the principle that they should be, he proposed a' :comparatively simple solution: that there should be seminars on art at St. John's ·as there are seminars on music. Lectures alone, he said, won't do it. "You cannot hear Don Giovanni through a lecture," Mr. Thaw told his audience. "You must hear it. A lecture can make a point which will lead us to a deeper understanding. The same holds true of painting. You must see it, experience it visually; then a lecture can help one to see it more intensely. But a lecture is not the real answer to the fine arts problem in the St. John's curriculum. Quite simply, there ought to be seminars: on great works of art." The same methods and principles which underlie seminars on great books will easily apply to seminars on art, Mr. Thaw believes. In his opening remarks, Mr. Thaw figuratively rapped St. John's knuckles for what he sees as a kind of religious dogmatism. "It is ironical that as an educational idea dedicated to open discussion for free men who are pursuing truth should resemble in so many ways a dogma, based upon holy truths or on the attitude of certain high priests,'' he said. "As commendable as it may be to defend the purity of St. John's practices from contamination, what has arisen over the years is a built-in resistance to new ideas or to old ideas newly presented, which might change the status quo." CHARGING THAT St. John's program has a humanistic, literary bias toward words, Mr. Thaw continued: "Man is more than a rational animal. He is something more. He is a maker. How can an education be successful which only acquaints us with what man has thought and not with what he has made? The best that has be.en thought is supposed to prepare us to think for ourselves, to be better prepared, to distinguish right from wrong, to be good citizens of a republic. "I submit that that good life also depends on citizens who can make judg. ments between the ugly and the beautiful and equally important, whose sensibiliabout which we know nothing of the ties are able to seek out and respond to meaning except for the dynamic visible those among us who add to life by forms. One could go on and on." making images which are created for He spoke of themes fine arts have in their own perfection and not mere utilicommon with the written word. ty.'' "Now censider 'angst' and modern Later he charged: man. Is it only fruitful to discuss the "Almost all philosophy since Kant, but formulation of Kierkegaard or the desespecially 20th century philosophers, perate fictions of Dostoyevsky? I invite have agreed that art works, both the you to look at the compulsive images of making of them and the experience of . Van Gogh and Edvard Munch, and the them, involved a cognitive process. Just alienation and nightmare of the modern as philosophy, as its basic task, seeks to predicament will become not only clearer explain how we know and what it is we conceptually and more intensely felt and know in the real world, so does it seek more deeply understood. equally and importantly to know the "Look at this sculpture by Andrea same things about the world of the Riccio. It is a small bronze inkwell that imagination. was made in Padua around 1500. It probably sat on the desk of a philosopherhumanist of the Renalssance. It is groArt seminar set tesque, surrealistic; but looking at a chimera like this we are reminded, like At the suggestion of Dean Samuel Kutler, the Student Committee on the philosopher who first owned it, of the dark underside of the search for knowlInstruction is planning a seminar this edge; that wonders, strange happenings, spring on great paintings. Nancy flukes of nature and irrational surprises Mease, West orange, N.J., junior, will of all sorts keep surfacing to defeat our be in charge. Earlier last fall a most careful efforts to create systems." student group on contemporary literature used paintings of Margritte, SalAMONG ALUMNI speaking were Steven Benedict, now director of a program vador Dali, and Miro in reading leading to a master's degree in art Freud's work on interpreting dreams. administration at Columbia University, "One cannot deal with one without the who wanted to know if there could be others. They are by the very nature of other modes of learning at St. John's our needs and our sensibilities, inter~ other than through those of the seminar and tutorials. twined. Only at St. John's are they not." What amounts to a one-man crusade to During the question period, Mr. Thaw reminded alumni that faculty members modify the St. John's program on behalf on works of art have proved "enormously of art is now in its 37th year if it is to be successful." Discussions themselves, he dated from the 1945-46 yearbook Mr. Thaw edited and which alumni presented said, provide no verbal equivalents to him at the outset of the meeting. Charles paintings and can serve only as guides to Nelson, chairman of the Board of Visitors intuition and to deeper understanding. As and Governors, in making the presentaan aid but not a substitute, discourse can tion, read a passage revealing his early bring a work of art closer. In the end, convictions. "the eyes make the last leap, and the That fine arts can be successfully picture is speaking." included he remains certain. "We'll find In discussing specific works and how a way if we only just begin," he said. they lend themselves to seminar discussion, Mr. Thaw referred to Plato's Philebus and a letter from Gauguin dealing with what the artist termed ''the mysterious relationships existing between our brains and ... arrangements of colors and lines." (Continued from P. l) "WHAT A SEMINAR on a late Cezanne Barbara - Murchie, resource teacher for 'Still-Life' could be held with those two English language arts. texts as a starter!" Mr. Thaw said. Mrs. Murchie said that one of the "Are they saying the same thing? Is appealing aspects of the program was an Socrates meaning only Pythagorean opportunity to acquaint advanced English mathematical forms or something more students with St. John's unusual liberal general in our aesthetic response? Is all arts progrnm, with its emphasis on great art reducible to such formal analydiscussion, in contrast to programs ofsis with any additional content only fered through a more usual .university incidental or literary? Consider the apapproach. peal to us of primitive art, for instance, English students. came from Annapolis Senior High on January 11. Brooklyn Park Senior High and Northeast Senior High will send students on February 8, Severna Park Senior High on March 1, and Arundel Senior High on April 12. Baltimore English students from Western and City College high schools. visited St. John's and participated in a similar program in December. "The seminar, an open and free discussion of a book as it ·touches their own interests and concerns, represents a special opportunity for these students," Mr. Milner said. "Not only will they have a taste of college, but of learning in a different mode, of learning by listening to themselves talk. Because it is what we do all the time- and. do well-and because the students find it provocative and demanding, this seminar program for high school students is an ideal way for the college to Tutor William Mullen with two juniors in his art preceptorial, Karen Tourian, of Durham, N.C., and Pedro Martinez-Fraga, of Miami, Fla. · serve the public schools of Anne Arundel At present these are the things St. John's does for art. It has extra-curricular studio classes. In 1975 it opened a gallery, the first secured, public art gallery in Anne Arundel County. There are customarily two lectures on art each year in the formal Friday evening lecture series. One room of the library is devoted to art books and prints. The college employs an artist-in-residence, Burton Blistein, who regularly takes students to galleries in Washington and Baltimore to see and discuss art on the spot and who arranges discussions in the St. John's gallery. Mr. Blistein also leads a preceptorial on art each year for juniors and seniors. INSTEAD OF Mr. Blistein this year, however, it has been tutor William Mullen who has conducted a preceptorial on art. As the basis of their discussion, the ten participating students have been reading treatises on perspective a(ld painting written during the Italian Renaissance by Alberti, Piero della Francesca, and Leonardo. The eight-week-long art preceptorial is as close as St. John's gets to formal incorporation of the visual arts within the program. In the nearly fifty years of the New Program, St. John's has never made fine arts, unlike music, a part of the non. elective curriculum. This does not set well with Mr. Thaw, who is a passionate believer in the importance of art for liberally educated men and women and who would view all these efforts as peripheral, as mere dodges - art slipped in under the doorway. As a former student who believes great works of art, like poetry, embody certain kinds of truths and insights which can be perceived in no other way, he would like to see the fine arts formally included in the St. John's program. And so would, judging from repeated statements of sympathy, a large proportion of alumni who turned out for their biggest meeting to date in New York. The lecture drew approximately a hundred, including six board members, the college president, and deans from both campuses. The session was of importanc.e because of the self-study St. John's is conducting in connection with its 1983 reaccreditation. Dean Samuel Kutler informed the gathering that the question of the fine arts at St. John's is on the agenda for discussion. THERE WERE certain points Mr. Thaw emphasized. How can education be successful, he asked, when it is con- Inside look for students Photo by David Fram~ County." �llJ~.t"llft E Introducing the Board History, art • are interests of Missourian why aren't ere mo 9 ? (Continued from P. 1) deepening curiosity. Sally Quinn, The Washington Post feature writer, is said to have looke~ W. T. Terry, Jr., is a St. Louis, Mo., up the word "dilettante" in her resident whose interest in history takes youth. When she discovered its him outside his own area of banking, meaning, she reportedly announced, finance, and portfolio management. "That's what I want to be." As a Princeton University graduate of Says Pat Polillo, '56, general man1955 whose thesis on the French and ager and vice president of KYW-TV German remilitarization of the Rhineland in Philadelphia, "The subject matter brought him high honors, he is active· of journalism is wide. (It) has to do with the Missouri. Historical Society, with what people do and what they which houses the Charles A. Lindbergh are." collection -and over two million docuSo you have skepticism, analysis, ments, diaries and letters, including the and dilettantism or curiosity - ·an attributes common to Johnnies and journalists. But there's a greater influence at the college, which comprises those bents, and leads to Dean Neidorf's wondering why more Johnnies don't go into public service fields. · "The rhetoric of the college is constantly blathering about preparation for citizenship," says Mr. Neidorf: "The college is very much under the influence of Greek literature and philosophy. The reason why that's so engaging is the fact that the Greeks, alone of all cultures, had W.T. TERRY, JR. some kind of conception of what a papers of David R. Francis, U.S. ampas- man ought to be as a citizen." sador to Russia in 1917. AND A JOURNALIST, he says, "is His interest in financial affairs took him to the Stonier Graduate School of one of the people who tells the Banking at Rutgers, N.J., in 1966. Ear- society who and what they are." lier, between 1955-58, came service as a Mr. Neidorf dispels ''the do gm a lieutenant with the Marine Corps and as about how reporters merely tell the an air intelligence officer. From 1959 to 1971 he was affiliated with facts.'' A lot of working journalists the Boatmen's National Bank in St. would consider that heresy, which probably gives Johnnies a leg up Louis. Through a series of consolidations and when competing in a tight market mergers he has been a witness to and for jobs. involved in the enormous structural Graduates who have broken into changes affecting the securities industry. the press seem to have done very He became associated with G. H. Walker, well: Ray Cave, '48, managing ediInc., in 1971, which was merged into tor of Time; Mark Jenkins, '76, until White and Weld in 1974, whicl\, in turn, recently managing editor of the alwas acquired by Merrill Lynch in 1978. ternative Washington (D.C.) About four years ago he moved to Tribune; Eugene Thornton, '45, a Drexel Burnham Lambert as vice-presi- photo editor for The New York . dent for investments. Times; Eric Scigliano, SF '75, With an early education from St. Louis award-winning reporter in Seattle; Country Day School and the Phillips Theodore W. Hendricks, Jr., '50, top Academy at Andover and with two chil- reporter for The Baltimore Sun; dren in school - a son, Michael, at the Richard West, '61, editorial writer University of Virginia and a daughter, for The WashingtOn Times, formerly Elizabeth Jane, at Miss Hall's School in editorial writer ·for the old Washing· Pittsfield - interest in education has ton Star; John Ross, '69, scientific become a family affair. Besides his own membership on the St. and technical writer in Seattle. John's board, his wife, Valerie, has John R. Pekkanen, '63, is one of a served as a trustee of the Mary Institute number of successful free lance writand two years ago was elected the first ers. John Holland, '66, former news woman to the St. Louis Country Day assignment editor for NBC, is now School Board of Trustees. Roger Mudd's producer. Steven K. In addition to banking, education, and Ross, '78, is local news editOr for . history, Mr. Terry has a personal interest The Jordan Times in Amman, Jor·in the watercolors and prints of Karl dan. Robert 0. Davis is chief editor Bodmer, Swiss artist who accompanied for the U.S. Steel Research LaboraPrince Maximilian's expedition up the tory in Monroeville, Pa. Missouri River in 1833-34. And he continues to watch Princeton's crew. He was So why does such a natural career both a member of its junior varsity and for Johnnies rank only seventh or so its varsity 150-pound crew and ·rowed in among choices for graduates? Mr. the 1954 Henley Regatta in England. Geyer's comments offer a possible, The Reporter . Rebecca Wilson, editor; Laurence Berns, Thomas Parran, J. Winfree Smith; Eliott Zuckerman, advisory board. The Reporter is published by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md. 21404. edwin J. Delattre, president Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second-class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS 018·750 Neal Allen in the newsroom of the papers he publishes. Photo by. Mike Batoff disturbing answer. "ONE OF THE ULTIMATE drawbacks of the St. John's program is that if it succeeds, it leaves you in a state of permanent amorality, at least in an intellectual sense." That could mean a kind of cynicism. Maybe St. John's doesn't, on the whole, breed gradl!ates who want to care about a grossly imperfect world - the Ivory Tower syndrome. Successful journalists, however, are a surprisingly optimistic bunch. They're boy scouts, guarding the guardians. They wouldn't track down corruption and praise good works with such zeal unless they thought there was a possibility for a better world. Stephen Deane, SF '79, offers a more palatable reason why more Johnnies don't consider a journalism career, despite the good track record of those who have. St. John's in many respects is an ideal training for journalists, says Mr. Deane, but it fails in one significant w~y. The college nowadays spends little time teaching students how to write. · Mr. Deane is on the reporting staff of The Prince Georges Journal, a daily in the D.C. suburbs. He says he couldn't write before going to St. John's, nor when he left. "I think it's possible, with a competent teacher, to teach writing," Deane says. "A lot of the mistakes I made (a as cub reporter), if I had had somebody pointing them out (earlier), I wouldn't have made them.'' That can be a discouraging handicap, especially when competing for jobs with journalism majors, who know the nuts and bolts of "writing news." MOST ENTRY-LEVEL newspaper jobs are snatched by journalism school graduates. In many ways they're the worst prepared since they've trained in technique they've learned algorithms for structuring news stories - but often know little about analyzing the world around them. As Mr. Geyer puts it, "The standard journalism education leaves one illiterate in all the languages a reporter needs to be conversant with if he's going to communicate the language of specialists to the general public." Alan Mitttelstaedt, '78, is a reporter at the San Luis Obispo County (Calif.) Telegram-Tribune. "The best thing about St. John's," he says, "was there wasn't one book that could tell you everything you thought you needed to know about journalism." Again, Mr. Deane: "Reporting is one of the few professions that is really an art. You have to size up the situation, and know the right questions to ask, and also solicit answers ... You have to have the chemistry to figure it out." Put more simply, you make a living asking people questions. It's a very tight market, and the number of reporting· jobs is diminishing. But, says Mr. Geyer, "If you can get them, they're very good jobs, and they can be gotten if you're persistent.'' Some advice for recent alumnif.· who are considering journalism: Editors don't care much whether a reporting applicant knows scholarly things. They look for a few practical qualificati9ns: humility, willingness to be an exploited worker, and clips. String for a small weekly, so you'll have something to show an editor for a bigger paper. TEACH YOURSELF or get someone to show you the writing gimmicks used by the press. Newspaper style,· conventions are pretty simple. Most reporters and editors don't go much beyond them. Those who do are the leaders in the field, and the best come to see today's world as a massive polity deserving study. It's not too surprising that the great newspaperman I.F. Stone's first project after .folding his gadfly weekly, was to write a book rethinking the death of Socrates. *** Neal Allen recently was named publisher of The Beachon and Beach Haven Times, weeklies based in Manahawkin, N.J. After graduate school in political science, he was a reporter and business editor for The Daily Freeman in Kingston. N.Y. He got his start from old boy Tom Geyer, chief of operations for the group that owns the, Freeman and Times-Beacon newspapers. �Page~0 11 Bay alumni probing '!1!~~1~!~b~!.n.~!1fu? w!un~!~~t!~.?.~,:m. by HARRISON J. SHEPPARD, '61 San Francisco - Do we possess inte.1lectual intuition? Some haye ~alle~ this question the greatest question m ph1losophy. Kant, believing Plato's answer to this question was "yes," answered "n?." St. John's alumni in the San Francisco Bay Area have begun what. m~y be a two-year inquiry into this question and the significance of its terms. In an inaugural lectur~ by tutor Robert Bart, the group began its fourth. annual series of lectures and conversations led by members of the St. John's. faculty. The choi~e of the the~e for this ye,~r's (and possibly next years) program- Intellect and Intuition"-was sug?ested by Eugene Thaw's lectur~, The V1sua! Arts and the Liberal Arts, m .;an Francisco a year ago. Robert Davis, '69, president .of t~e Alumni Chapter for Nort~ern ~aliforma, in a letter annou~ced the mtenbon of San Francisco alumm to take a furtn~r step 'in their activities by establishmg "a framework for constitnt.in{f 011rsP.lves as a 0 part of the St. John'.s commumty. g conversation and inqmry ..our o~emn 1982-1983 program:--:a d1.scu~s1on of 'Intellect and Intmbon-1s aimed at initiating this. -~ . "As alumni are away from the college longer," Mr. Davis continued, ~·t~ese two distinct faculties, and the polarity between them, call themselves increasingly to our attention. We would examine the faculties themselves and their relation.to each other and .to life itself. The series has some aspects in common with the continuing discussion about the visual arts and the. curriculum, b~t we wish to steer away from that_single issue. · "We seek rather to elicit from St. John's tutors how they as individuals have resolved the conflicting claims of these apparently divergent modes of being amid the rigor of life at the college." ABOUT 40 ALUMNI and friends gathered at the St. Francis Yacht Club to hear Mr. Bart's remarks. Euclldean proof for the equality of angles in an isosceles triangle. He compared the rigor of this proof with a Thalian admonition to "just look" at an isosceles triangle to see that the equality of its base angles "cofildn't be otherwise." Mr. Bart invited us to think about the difference ~etween ·these two modes of apprehending an~ comprehending the truth of the propos1tion we were considering. Mr. Bart's rem~rks·suggested a number of other questions: Can you even do geometry if you don't already know ~hat a point or a line is? Are there not givens ·provided to us by an intellectual faculty: through which they are known: nous? intuition? · THESE QUESTIONS led tq other questions: In what ways are intellect .an_d intuition opposeO. and in what respects is intuition auxiliary to or the· subject of reason? Was it. Plato's view, and do we accept it, that "the task of reason is t~ unfold what is given by intuition?" May diate apprehension of some whole?" Is it a process, an activity? . These questi?ns and others.were. raised and discussed m a conversation with Mr. Bart after he had concluded ~is remarks with some discussion of Henri Bergson's views on the. s~bject (Bergson:s short work, Introduct10n to Metaphysics, had been suggested. • h l · Not so hig ' p ease Phew! We're glad it really isn't so. Costs are high, but not quite this high. St. John's really isn't the fourth most expensive college in America with tuition and fees at $11,900, as listed by Peterson's Guide to Competitive Colleges and its Undergraduate Guide report. Through a clerical error, fees for room and board were reported twice, inflating the figure by $2,600. A correction is on the way. Last month Peterson's issued another printing, adjusting the_ figure downward to the correct sum'-'-$9,300. Attenti n Alumni! We need your reactions by BETSY BROWN Director of Alumni Activities, Annapolis Campus commensurate with the time devoted to languages? As you know, St. John's is in the process of a self-study to prepare the Annapolis ·campus for reaccreditation by the Middle States Association of College and Schools this year. To do this, we need the help of alumni. Both the college and association are interested in alumni commentary on the value of their experience at St. John's and on their experience in specific parts of the program. I would be most grateful to any Annapolis alumnus who would send in writing thoughts on any of the questions below. (These were used in the 1953 self-study.) Please feel free to answer any or all of them or simplx to. comment, in general, on the value of your St. John's education. It would be helpful if I could have your responses by March 15. Please a.ccept my thanks, in advance, for your willingness to help. 20. From the standpoint of liberal education, do you think the St. John's approach to the teaching and studying of foreign languages is right? If not, outline what you consider the proper approach. 1. What are your present feelings and convictions about the St. John's program? 23. Should more attention be paid to formal logic? 2. If these feelings have changed fundamentally since you left the college, can you account for the change? 24. Did the language tutorials increase your ability to read and t&>understoodcpoetry,,b" 3. Are you aware of any advantages or disadvantages relative to your contemporaries which you attribute directly to your having attended St. John's? 4. To what extent have your choices (occupation, graduate study, etc.) been influenced or d_etermined by your experience at the college? 5, In your opinion, in what respect is the program most successful? Least successful? 6. What changes if any would you like to see in the program? 21. Did the language tutorials deepen your appreciation of English and improve your ability to read and to write it? 22. Did the language tutorials make you aware of or increase your problems of language and communication in general? ~wareness of the 25. What are your comments on your experience in the St. John's laboratory? .c 26. Comment on. the laboratory program as it now stands as to its virtues and defects. 27. Suggest any revisions which in your opinion would help correct defects you have noted. 28. Is the college right in considering the seminar the keystone of its liberal arts ·program? 7. Would you like to see the curriculum broadened in any way? 29. What, in your opinion, could be done to improve the quality of the seminar? 8. Would you like to see it revised to emphasize features now in your opinion neglected? 30. Did your work in the rest of the program substantially enrich your reading of seminar texts? 9. Should there be room within the program for students to exercise individual · preferences? 10. Would you favor a greater use of abstracts and textbooks if this would free time for more intensive consideration of modern developments in mathematics, science, and philosophy 11. Should St. John's require more specialized preparation for the program? If so,_ outline the preparatory work you would consider essential. 31. To what extent did you find collateral reading necessary or helpful? 32. To what extent' do you think your reading of the books on· the seminar list was hampered by your lack of historical background? 33. Did you find the formal lecture and question periods a valuable supplement to your own reading and seminar discussions? · 12. What should be the criteria for judging the work of a student? 34. Would you favor reading fewer books and reading them more thoroughly with greater attention to detail? Or would you like to see the readings expanded, e.g., by including some,oriental classics? 13. In your opinion what is the proper role of the teacher at St. John's? 35. Should more attention by paid to recent and contemporary works? 14. Would you favor a less formal pattern of classes and instruction? 36. Does the community life here contribute significantly to the learning process? 15. What is your opinion of the college's athletics policy? 37. To what extent do you favor student control over disciplinary problems? 16. How does the St. John's program compare with other college programs with which you are familiar·? 38. Are you satisfied with the status of College-Alumni relations? If not what can be done to make this relationship a more fruitful one? 17. What criticisms, if any, do you have of the mathematics program? 39. How would you explain the fact that St. John's has difficulty in attracting students? 18. If you studied mathematics in graduate school, or used mathematics in your nonacademic work, was your mathematical training at St. John's adequate for your needs? 19. In general do you feel that the values of the language program at St. John's are 40. Please send your comments and responses to: Miss Betsy Brown ' Director of Alumni Activities St. John's College '.l sA~pe,lis1 14D 2lA@4 �P<!g~ R~ff q>;lfl~e!R 1· F&8tRUNR¥ J1983 Alumni East and West (Continued from P. 2) the American Heart Association in Dal-' C()mes news of a move from California to las. The abstract was entitled "Induetion Boston and a generous offer to alumni. of Irreversible Lying in Cardiac MyVicki received her ma_ster's in philosoocytes by Lysophosphatides." phy from the University of California at San Diego,. remaining: to take an additionDeborah Achtenberg is a member of al year's study in intellectual history. She the philosophy department at the Univer- then became full-time "pastoral assistsity of Nevada and has received her ant" to the priest of a medium-sized doctorate in philosophy from the New Episcopal parish in San Diego. Last fall School for Social Research. She would she entered Harvard's Divinity School's like to invite any Johnnies in the area to master's program. get in touch: c/o the Philosophy DepartBarry completed a bachelor's degree in ment,. University of Nevada at Reno, economics at San Diego State University Reno, Nev., 89507. last June. During his five years in. San Diego, he· discovered bicycles and began s':f 1973 long-distance touring and road-racing. In The Rev. Constance McClellan is at the Cambridge with Vicki, he is planning a Westminster United Presbyterian Church career in economic research. at Las Vegas, Nev. She welcomes all "Since we will be in Cambridge anyalumni .visitors. where from three to six years, we Deidre Marlow recently finished collab- - welcom~ any alumni who want to visit orating on a· musical with Gary Boulds. historic Boston· and needs a place to Deidre is currently living- in Boston. stay," the Phillipses write. "Our address Kip_ Smith -is residing in Oakland, is 24 Peabody Terrace #509." Calif., and working for the Chevron Oil Company in geo-thermal explorations SF-1977 · that lead to new electrical sources. Teresa Engler Raizen has graduated from the University of Chicago Law SF 1974 Ellen Leitner (formerly Margaret E. 1School and is now associated with the Usner), after leaving St. John's during Chicago law firm of Ross and Hardy. Rosalind Hutton recently moved to the her sophomore year, studied the violin at People's Republic of China. Rosalind and the University of New Mexico, under Renata Armani, and then in Vienna, her husband are both teaching at the Austria. After ten months in Vienna, she University of Hunan. played with the Innsbruck Symphony Gl-1977 Orchestra for one season. At Innsbruck, Ellen Veden recently opened a show of she met her husband Hans, a master carpenter, and they returned to Santa Fe her paintings and drawings at the Ed-· for four years, during which time Hans, a ward Fimbres Gallery in New York City. native of Austria, became well-known for his fine work. 1978 Ellen played with the Graz PhilharMargaret Buckley, who attended the monic during another year spent in Austria. She and her husband live in Annapolis campus her first year and the Santa Fe campus her second, has made Chimayo, 25 miles north of Santa Fe, her final solemn profession· as a clois~ where Hans has a workshop. Ellen has formed a string quartet. Motherhood tered nun in the Franciscan Poor Clare Monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe in absorbs a great deal of her energy; she Roswell, N.M. At her profession she has three children, Maria Elena, 6, Joreceived the name of Sister Mary Cecilia. hanna Feliz, 2112, and Franz Amadeus, 1. The· ceremony was performed by Archbishop Robert Sanchez, of the Roman 1975 Catholic Diocese of Santa Fe. Gershon (Gerry}. Eck.,. an recently began working for the Ne.W York law firm Lucy Tamlyn is with the State Departof Seward & Kissel, specializing in mu- ment as vice-consul in Bogota, Colombia. nicipal securities. He received his J.D. She says: "The title is nice but the from the University of Michigan last actuality is isstting visas all day to August. Before entering law school, Ger- Colombians who would do anything to get ry had served in the Navy for four and a to Disney-Mundo. On the off-chance that half years, leaving with the. rank of any St. Johnnies are traveling through lieutenant. Latin America, they are welcome to drop Bob Tzudiker was once again a player in. I can offer a guided tour of the last fall on an episode of the hit television embassy, detailed information on how to series, "Hill Street Blues," his second get into the State Department, and demappearance on the show. onstrate the joys of having the U.S. government as a daddy - e.g., I have a SF 1975 maid." Tom Larsen, who spent his freshman year in Annapolis and his sophomore SF 1978 year in Santa Fe, has been a musician Darcy Scholtz has graduated from the for the past four years. The "Tom Larsen University of Puget Sound Law School. Blues Ban.d," which he manages, plays in · She hopes to practice law in Washington small clubs up and down the East Coast, primarily on the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula state. (he lives in Salisbury, Md.), and in New Jersey, New York and Washington. He SF-1979 has produced an album entitled "All the Charles Hamm is a senior medical Way Live" that has received good restudent at the University of Arkansas and views in area musical periodicals. Johnplans a career in pediatrics with emphasnies should look for the band's is on cardiology and young people's appearance in their area. hearts. He reports that Greg Cowell, also Barbara Stewart is a student in the of the Class of 1979, is studying medicine Columbia School of Journalism. at the Rush Presbyterian School in Chica. 1977 go. Rrom 1 i(~ass) 1 and Barry Phillips \ j· 1979 Charles G. Woods, who attended St. John's as a Febbie for one semester" has written to tell us that he has received the bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy and religion from Beacon College in Boston.· He is hoping to complete a work on Spinoza and Plotinus which will count toward his doctorate. In addition~ he is involved with architectural design in the areas of earthsheltered and passive solar house designs. His work has been shown in various publications, including Popular Science and The Chicago Sun Times. He h.as published a book entitled Natural Architecture. He lives and works in a house he himself designed, located in the Poconos in Pennsylvania. Charlie says: "Although I left St. John's, it was an important part of my life and education. I still base my education. largely on the St. John's plan." Charlie's address is R.D. 3, Box 538, Honesdale, PA 18431. 1980 Joe Berg is alive and well and living in Milwaukee on the "swank East side." He is completing a mathematics degree at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee "with one short year left to go." Joe writes: "Milwaukee is an excellent place to get training in mathematics. It is a terrific place to visit in the summer, but I will probably relocate to the Piedmont region in little more than twelve months, I hope, to do a little mathemat-. ·ics." A:ny Johnnie wishing to contact Joe may obtain his phone number through the Alumni Office. 1980 Miyoko Porter is working at the Japan Medical Laser Laboratory, one of the most advanced laser research clinics in the world, primaTily as a translator. She also teaches English, and she is studying the shakahachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo. flute. "And I have finally begun to do a little singing around town (Tokyo) - had a little trouble for a while since the Japanese. didn't think my jazz was · 'polite' enough." SF-1980 Tina Ironside is .acquiring a master's degree at Simmons College Graduate School of Management, which she reports was fouQ-ded by two fine Harvard alumni dedicated to producing top women managers. Enrolled in eight courses last fall, she says she already has expanded her horizons. 1981 Jam es Whalen is at the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Te~hnology at the University of Toronto, where he is studying under a university fellowship. Jamie returned late last summer from Germany, where he spent the past year apprenticing with Schempp. Hirth, a small plane manufacturing firm. During travel, in Europe just before returning to this country, he saw George Anastaplo, '75, who was at work in London then on a doctorate concerning early 18th century British mathematicians. On his return, in New York, he visited with three members of his class: Kathy Abrams, an actuary with an insurance ·firm, .Kurt Schuler, working for a brokerage firm, and Paul Cree, who is affiliated with an IBM systems team. ' Amy Geiger is a second year student at the University of Chicago Law School, where she reports other St. Johnnies enrolled are Mark Wielga, Stephen Gilles, and Nelson Lunt. She was in New York recently for an interview with a Wall Street firm. SF 1981 Tina Clark is a disc jockey for Station KNYN in Santa Fe. SF-1981 Karl Stukenberg is an actuarial trainee at a pension consulting firm in New Jersey and is living in Brooklyn. SF-1982 Cindy Rutz is in Little Falls, Minn., engaged in a commendable activity: saving money for graduate school. 1982 Ellen Swinford spent last summer at the YMCA Storer camps as the director of the Frontier Center Waterfront and as the program resource person, teaching sailing and counseling. She is pursuing a master's degree in divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., and has become the director of Christian education at the Hollywood Congregational Church. Married last August 14 in Indianapolis, Marion (Betor) · and Jonathan Baumgar· ten are living in Oak Park, Ill. Jon is in full swing at DePaul Law School, and Marion has been hired as a claims examiner ·for the Railroad Retirement Board. They like Oak Park and are able to get to downtown Chicago easily on public transportation. Their address: 425 N. Humphrey Ave., #2B, Oak Park, Ill. ·60302. Gf1982 Ga'il Donohue recently was promoted to acting director of the University of Houston. Gail and a group of St. John's friends are trying to organize a seminar group in . the Houston area. If you are interested, please write her at 1821 W. Main, #11, Houst_on, TX 00798. In Memoriam 1917 1919 1920 1920 1921 1923 1928 1931 1932 1937 1937 1950 Ira B. Talton S. Herbert Wareheim Bernard S. Heidelbach Charles W. Fitzgerald Edwin Semler John Bacon Arthur C. Elgin Dr. James U. Thompson · Dr. Charles Vernon Williamson James J. Bucheister Lewis A. Bevier William C. Davis Jan. 30, 1982 Feb. 21, 1982 . Nov. 22, 1982 August, 1982 August 5, 1982 December, 1982 \ ,/ ~ �r (]) Ol c ,(\j ~. ru (/') (/') !(]) [,,_ Pro i5 b ;c 6 § I I I l O-£i~ 0 2- - 0.."0(])(/)(/)- w ©O:·c= . a: fi5 .2,..c COO ~ "'1" W=-·O :I: .,0.0"J The Annapolis campus has received a grant of $167,408 for scholarship aid from the Beneficial-Hodson Trust of Peapack, N.J. The gift was presented by Finn M.W. Caspersen, chairman of the trust and chief executive officer of Benefieial Corporation, at a luncheon at the World Trade Center in Baltimore. It brings to $1,600, 731 the amount St. John's has received since the college became a Beneficial-Hodson grant recipient in 1964. President Edwin J. Delattre said the new gift will be applied in its entirety to the Hodson Scholarship Endowment. "I am especially grateful to the Hodson Trust for their support this year," he said. in accepting the grant. "In today's economy, benefactors like the Beneficial-Hodson Trust help us keep the quality of our program high and to offer these rigorous educational opportunities to deserving students of diverse economic backgrounds." c "'1" :::J :::ll.,._; c r.... Q..0•.'(f')<( N Donald Elliott, '48, who teaches at the Garrison Forest School, a girls' boarding and day school in Garrison, Md., is conducting two evening program seminars for Garrison area residents this year in addition to a study of Jacob Bronowski's film series, "The Ascent of Man.'' A member of the humanities En. glish faculty since 1966, Mr. Elliott was graduated from St. John's at age 19. He is the author of three books: Alligators and Music, Frogs and the Ballet, and The grant marks the nineteenth consecutive year that a Beneficial-Hodson Trust will be applied to St. John's to offset the rising cost of education. It was one of four given to Maryland schools this year. The Hodson Trust was begun in 1920 by Thomas Hodson, a lawyer and Maryland state senator, whose son, Col.. Clarence Hodson, in 1914 founded the forerunner of Beneficial Corporation, a multi-billion dollar, Delaware based, diversified financial services holding company. Colonel Hodson an early oerum:.c tor of Washington College in Chestertown. s Santa Fe's expanding summer seminar program for alumni will take another leap forward this summer. Last year's was the best and most successful yet with the Alumni Office forced to turn down some applicants so this year, instead of having 20 to 25 people each week, there will be spaces for 40. tsam Larcombe, western alum_ni director, who is in charge, said that the decision was made witn the "growing understanding that the summer program is the best way to enjoy being an alumnus." The alumni weeks will fall on the last week in July and the first two in August. Tentatively being planned are week-long tutorials in writing and a tutorial on the films of Charlie Chaplin. Cost will be $200 a week, a figure that includes tuition, room, and board. Spouses and children are welcome. • Topics and names of participating tutors will be in the mail to alumni before the end of March. Mr. Larcombe issued a special invitation to pre-1937 alumni. "All can talk together," he said. "Age is no barrier. Participants should come prepared to read carefully, talk will~y, and enjoy a special fellowship. Alumni week will be an occasion for hard work and a good time." • ' ' St. John's two campuses are listed among the most selective colleges in the United States in the Comparative Guide to American Colleges by James Cass and Max Birnbaum. "We never aimed to be the most selective," Charles A. Nelson, chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, said at a workshop marking the fall board meeting. "It was never our intention to become as highly selective. We· become one by the action and deliberation of the students who come here. They turn out to be highly capable." He said the rating was determined by the of St ,John's students Listed with St. SATs Lambs' Tales from the Great Operas. Well reviewed by Time and other publications, the books, according to The New· Yorker, are "for ages six to 60" but also are "over most high school students' · level.'' Mr. Elliott's oldest son, Bruce, was graduated last May. His youngest son, John Gary, is a freshman. Readings in Mr. Elliott's seminar on the Great Books are drawn p. rmc1pa11) from the St. John's list. Alumni may interested in the contents of his literature seminar. Readings are: Maugham, The Locust-Eater: HawDaughter; Conrad,(_ The Secret Bartleby the Sc1·ivt~ner: ' Mudd, Connecticut Wesleyan, Amherst, Wellesley, Williams, Reed, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, and Haverford colleges. (St. John's admissions officials use the phrase "self-selective" for its matriculating class members. Those applying to the college must be willing to undertake a program which requires, among other things, two years of Greek and four of mathematics, requirements which in themselves screen out students unwilling to do work throughout the liberal arts.) camIn an overview of the pus's present financial Mr. Nelson said the largest significant increase in St. John's budget was represented by the jump in scholarship aid to from almost zero in 1972 to 9 per to cent in Most significant decline is in the proportion of revenues for instruction, of which 87 per cent goes to salaries. St. John's tuition is higher than the median among top liberal arts colleges. "The cost of instruction per student at St. John's is high in spite of the fact that salaries are low and teaching loads heavy," Mr. Nelson said. "The basic reason is the ratio-roughly 8l/2 students for each faculty member. That makes St. John's education much more expensive per student.'' Following the meeting Mr. Delattre said the ratio resulted from St. John's abiding commitment to treating the lower levels-freshman and sophomore classes-in the same manner of the with small classes rather than teacn111g them in large lecture classes. Dostoyevsky, A Mario and the in the 'T'h>'l'l11cth Alice in Wonderland the LOl'JKlJrJ.J?;·IJUISS. and St. John's students need to know about the into which other have · entered. Write and tell us about your jobs and you have describe the career followed. In acWlltlon, specific job you know about, either or for the summer. If your company offers internships for which our students could apply, please let us know by writing to Marianne Braun, director of career counseling, Annapolis campus. Fort March 5·6 in direction of William Players' well received production is Caritas Societv's fund. Time and "The the the Photo by David Frame Ross Cruse, director of aeve1opment, nas announced. Funds will be used for the college's work-study A former chairman Hill died January 17, 1982. Hill was a resident of Chevy Chase, Md. He had been a Washington attorney, serving as president of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia and as a member of the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association. After attending St. John's, he obtained a bachelor and a master's degree in law in 1917 and 1920 from Georgetown University. He served as Alumni Association president irt 1936. I I I I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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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The development is expected to triple that campus's endowment. The college entered into a lease of the land to developer William Zeckenof New York, whose projects renovation of the Shoreham Hotel and construction of the Shoreham Park Condominiums in Washington, D.C., construction of a 36-story residential building in New York and the of the Delmonico, Navarro and the Barbizon hotels New York. John McHugh, Lloyd ArchiSanta Fe, the condomiis Fe SilDerst.eu1. New Conn., senior. David Frame photo • • About three weeks into the school year, St. John's College physician Charles W. Kinzer takes an expectant, seasonal sniff of the air and makes a mental note. It's time for viruses to begin stirring again. After the experience of 13 years with St. John's, he has discovered a pattern that comes regularly as the leaves fall. Three weeks of school is just long enough to develop the college's first viral epi. demic. The same thing happens about three weeks after the winter break. "The people we generally . see are as 'susceptibles,' " Dr. Kinzer "When college ends in the from school to var. they of world and come back or111gu1g with them all manner of to a new set of and blamed on the or the of Aner 1or use The computer, the of mathematical and sciwill be housed in of Mellon Hall. Dean in expressing pleasure said the college is number of alternative uses. Once it's over, the college community, like an individual, builds up its own collective immunity to whatever new foreign bugs have invaded the classrooms. ALTHOUGH THE illness curve may move upwards at such times, Dr. Kinzer feels St. John's students "are generally a healthy lot.'' They are, however, he believes, "prone to clumsiness," and he added, in a myth-breaking observation which should bring cheer to the parental crowd, "middle-aged people learn to move better than young adults." And well he might make such an . 's observation. Not four days earlier, Marilyn Mylander found herself looking at the third injury of the day. Spread before her was a hand accidentally hurt by a closed door. Two freshly bound sprained ankles belonging to a freshman and junior both soccer players - had just limped out of the Harrison Health Center. (Continued on P. 4) • project calls for two groups of 56 condominiums each. Called "Los Miradores" for the scenic views in all directhe first group will opening in early with four units completed in January. A total of 12 units, plus a 60-foot swimming pool, should be completed by spring. Four different plans are listed at prices from $275,000 to $335,000. Real estate agent Karen Walker of Santa Fe is handling the marketing of the units. One of the -first owners will be Mr. Zeckendorf and his wile, a dancer who once performed with the Santa Fe Opera. The second group of 56 condominiums will be built in much the same manner on property just southeast of the college. St. John's will receive at least $2.8 million from the developer to lease the land. An initial installment of $675,000 has already gone into the endowment. (Continued on P. 4) • Evelyn Cronin, New Braintree, Mass., senior, has received a Rotary Foundation International Scholarship for a year's study in Ireland. The 21-year-old who formerly heifers on her """""t.:·' raised farm who two years ago weeks workine: on a With 1.AHl.:i:il::U chartered members consider new guidelines fees at its and air fare. Fe. Animals are not her This will be the first time the associais director of women's tion board will have met on the western an occasion which President Dobreer said will come as a "tremendous for the associa- · which is makimz national service a call for the meetings to be held on weekends. This meeting will· occur on a SaturdiY during the same weekend the Board of Visitors and Goverc.;01ntu1Ue!ct on P. 3) interest. For the has received Continued on P. 6) ·EVELYN CRONIN �Pa9.e 2 .. THE'REPORTER lfillY~l~~ - " .(?A~U ~C!) cy(C~U; By BETSY BROWN and BECKY WILSON Deadline for the February Reporter is January 10. The Alumni Association's Board of years. He has taught a year at Harvard Directors has nominated Gay Singer as well as at the University of Washing. Kenney, '67, and Steven Tucker, SF '69, ton in Seattle, at the University of for their second terms as alumni repre- Monash in Australia, and the University sentatives on. the Board of Visitors and of British Columbia. 1968 Governors. In addition, Frank B. MarDean Bannotte was featured in an shall, Jr., '45, has been nominated to complete the term of Rebecca Brinkley. article of the magazine Collectibles Illustrated, which wrote: "His New York City Connelly, '72, who has resigned. Nominations by petition also are invit- apartment is literally crammed from ed. According to the association by-laws, floor to ceiling with dinosaur memorabipetitions require the signatures of 50 lia. Included among the assemblage are members. They must be accompanied by more than 1,000 books, as well as films, biographical sketches, and the consent of records, newspaper stories, postcards, those nominated must be obtained. Peti- puzzles, and games, all with dinosaur tions should reach the offices of the themes. .Over 300 dinosaur toys of all directors of alumni activities in Annapo- shapes and sizes can also be found in the lis or in Santa Fe no later than December collection ... '' Dean developed his passion for dino1. If there are no more nominations, the nominees will be considered elected. If saurs as a boy, and returned to his hobby there are more than three nominations, about ten years ago. "I'm more intrigued by man's fascination with the idea of there will be an election. prehistoric monsters than with the actual 1933 From Around and About, the newslet- creatures themselves," he says. ter edited by Elmer Jackson, '27, we 1969 learned that Dudley Digges, '33, has been Byron E. Wall has been appointed named by Maryland Governor Harry editor in the Scientific and ·Medical DeHughes to head a commission assigned to partment of Academic Press Canada in celebrate the founding of Maryland and Toronto. the American Revolution. The commis1969 sion · already has sponsored a Charter Day celebration at St. Mary's City, Md., Joseph Baratta received his doctorate during which Dr. Richard D. Weigle, in American history from Boston Univer'49H, and interim president of St. Mary's sity in May. His dissertation concerned College, made college facilities available the world government movement (1937to visitors. President Delattre is also a 1947) and was entitled Bygone 'One member of the state commission named World' (which had been Wendell Wilkie's by Governor Hughes. The commission is phrase). Robert Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and expected to remain active through 1984. Stringfellow Barr were all connected with 1938 Jack Wagner writes: "Everywhere I this movement. "Student Federalists held a summer institute at St. John's in June go, I meet people who know about the New Program ... They say to me: 'Did of 1947, at which tutor J. Winfree Smith spoke on 'Wonder, Doubt and Belief,' and you go to St. John's? That is an excellent President John Kieffer on 'The Trivium: school'. . .Although I did not graduate Grammar, Rhetoric, and Dialectic'." He from St. John's, I did receive a good education there-which was of tremen- is writing additional chapters to take the story to 1951, all of which he eventually dous help to me when I studied metallurgy at Penn State." would like to shape into a book. Joseph also has had the good fortune to receive 1951 an academic appointment at the College Tom Williams, who has been a teacher of Basic Studies at Boston University. His in mathematics within the Nyack, N.Y., address is 134 Thorndike Street, Campubic school system since 1954, retired bridge, MA, 02141. this past July. He and his wife, Cile, 1970 spent September and October in Greece, Dr. Anthony Vitto has received an mainly in the Pelopennese and Crete. appointment as an instructor in neuropathology of the Harvard Medical School. 1952 He also holds a joint appointment at A recent article in the Baltimore Sun, McLean Hospital and at the Ralph Lowell describing the visit of President and Mrs. Laboratories of the Mailman Research Marcos to the White House, tells us that Center, where he is directing a research the Marcoses and 140 other guests were program on the biochemical basis of feted with an elegant dinner accompanneurodegenerative disorders with a spe. ied by a 1981 Stag's Leap ·chenin Blanc. cial emphasis on Alzheimer's and HunThis is quite a tribute to the Stag's tington's diseases. His new address is 15 winery, owned by Warren P. and Barba· Harris Street, Belmont, MA, 02178. ra (Dvorak, '55) Winiarski. The writer of Keith Krokyn in an article of the article comments about the dinner· Billboard, newspaper of the music and and wines that "everything was just entertainment world, in connection with. right." Washington's successful night-club, the 1961 Wax Museum, for which he is the booking Maits111shiita, who now teaches law manager. Formerly, Keith booked talent in Tokyo, was in for the now defunct Cellar Door Club and town recently visiting tutor emeritus for Cellar Door Productions, Inc., which and Mrs. James Tolbert, as he does is still flourishing. The Wax Museum, several times a year. which has a 1,000 person seating capaciHe had just completed a six-week term ty, "offers an act a chance to play in a · at the Law School at Tulane University, concert situation, but in a club," accordwhere he obtained his doctorate in politiing to Keith, who has booked various cal science. Internationally known for his kinds of bands, from Count Basie to knowledge of trade laws, he has written Rickie Lee Jones. 200 articles and a number of books in Japanese and English during the last 20 (Continued on P. 7) · 1 NOVEMBER' 1'982 · Ranlet Lincoln is director at Washington Cathedral Ranlet Lincoln, '50, former dean of extension at the University of Chicago, has been appointed director of develop. ment of the Washington Cathedral. Mr. Lincoln will be responsible for RANLET LINCOLN raising the capital, operating and endowment funds necessary to carry out the cathedral's ministry and continue its construction, Charles A. Perry, cathedral provost, said. ' "Mr. Lincoln's broad experience in institutional management and development work will help the cathedral build and expand significantly and successfully," Mr. Perry pointed out. "His recent success in organizing, con. ducting, and funding a . wide range of educational programs at the University of Chicago is directly relevant to the cathedral's incre.asing emphasis on developing the program of our mission to the city and the nation." Since 1969 Mr. Lincoln has been dean of extension - adult education - at Chicago and also held the rank of associate professor in the university's college. He also served for 12 years as moderator of a daily half-hour television program, "Perspectives," a talk show featuring university guests. Mr. Lincoln joined the university in 1963. For three years before becoming dean he was director of alumni affairs. A native of New York, Mr. Lincoln spent part of his youth in Washington where he attended Western High School. Since his graduation from St. John's, his career has centered on public relations, broadcasting, fund-raising, and institutional development. Mr. Lincoln is married to the former Claire d'Arcis Dunham, of Washington and Geneva, Switzerland. Washington Cathedral is a leading ecumenical institution and the fifth largest Gothic cathedral in the world, serving 500,000 visitors and worshippers annually. USFA&G gives college $25,000 The USF&G Foundation, Inc., of Baltimore, has approved a contribution of $25,000 for capital improvements on the Annapolis campus. It has sent the college $5,000 and plans additional payments in that amount for each of the next four years. Mykonos, with white houses, windmills, and 300 chapels in a blue sea; the Acropolis, the Parthenon, excavations at a.;pcient Knossos, Rhodes - the city built by the crusaders, the cave on Patmos where St. John the Evangelist wrote the Book of Revelations, Epheus with its awesome wonders, and Olympia, where the real olympics really were played, the site of the ancient games and museum with its incomparable statues of Proxitelles. These are scheduled for the 16-day tour land and sea the St. John'·s Alumni Association is planning for June 2-17. Caroline Banks-Leeuwenburgh, '55, of Princeton, N.J., who is in charge, said to make the trip to Greece possible forty to forty.five reservations are necessary. Planned for St. John's extended family, it is open to friends of the · college and parents as well as to St. Johnnies. The overnight flight to Greece June 2 will be from New York to Athens Metro Airlines. Throughout the trip, professional, English-speaking be available. Mrs. Banks-Leeuwenburgh said the cruise will include in Mycenae to view the civilization of Atreus and and to feel Homer's alive. At Sparta participants will villages built on six hills. All that remains of its supremacy are ruins of the shrine dedicated to Artemis and the Tomb of Leonidas. The trip will include two free days to see ancient and modern Athens before returning to New York June 17. All hotel arrangements will include first class service. The will be aboard the Mts. Oceanus of the Epirotiki Lines. The inclusive person of $1,750 will be based upon a double room occupancy. In order that Mrs. Banks-Leeuwenburgh may proceed with planning, numbers are important. If you are interested in joining such a venture, please write to her at 294 Jefferson Rd., Prince~on, N.J., 08540. / __J �', It was a spectacular homecoming, the best in years, people agreed. Even the weather cooperated as alumni took their final moments at a leisurely brunch at the president's home sitting in the fine blue-and-gold October weather, admiring· the first reds of the leaves. Nature stage-managed it so that there was even a big harvest moon to light the way from the cocktail party in the dining hall, where a good many of the 400 people who came to homecoming gathered, to the gynasium for dinner. "There's ho question that homecoming ceremonies and everything on both campuses represented a big step forward," David Delattre, the Alumni Association's new president, who was fortunate enough to attend both, told the association's board. During the board meeting Sunday morning and the annual meeting the previous day, there was much business. Among the items accomplished: Frank B. Marshall, Jr., '45, of Annapolis, who headed the eastern campus's highly successful alumni campaign, was nominated for election as one of six alumni representatives on the Board of Visitors and Governors. He will fill the incompleted term of Rebecca Brinkley. Connelly, '72, of Denver, who has resigned. BVG INCUMBENTS Gay Singer-Kenney, '67, of Winchester, Mass., and Steven L. Tucker, '69, of Santa Fe, were· nominated for second, three-year terms. (The alumni have 18 members of the 56member board, six chosen by the alumni and the remainder by the board). Robert Bart, '57, in Santa Fe, and Sam Kutler, '54, in Annapolis, were chosen as the two alumni tutors who serve on the association board. Barbara Rigali, Annapolis junior, and Mary Feldman, Santa Fe senior, were selected as the two student representatives. Named as the two alumni members of the Board of Visitors and Governors who serve on the Alumni Association board were Harvey Goldstein, '59, of Miami, and John Williams, '50, of Belvedere, Calif. At the recommendation of association treasurer Frank Wilson, '35, Annapolis, the association retained the present amount of dues: $2 for persons who leave the college during '·the first five years SJCAA board (Continued from P. 1) ~! nors is meeting. In presenting a proposed set of guidelines to the SJCAA board, David Schiller, '62, of Worcester, Mass., said they had been devised along "loose" rather than "strict" lines to give chapters as much flexibility as possible. · As they now stand, they require each chapter to hold four meetings a year and for chapter presidents to submit annual reports to the association president. Each chapter may create its own bylaws, but they must be consistent with the bylaws of the SJCAA. The Chicago Chapter will be headed by Mark Habrel, SF '75. Approximately a hundred alumni reside within the greater Chicago area, which for purposes of organization also includes northwestern Indiana and southeastern Wisconsin. One of the oldest groups in terms of sponsoring seminars, which Chicago alumni have been doing for the past six or seven years, the chapter conducted an architectural walking tour along with a seminar on writings by Frank Lloyd Wright in October. after their class commencement, $10 for others. Mr. Wilson reported that the association has a paid membership of between 1,100 ~nd 1,150, who are entitled to vote. · DAVID DOBREER ... New President . At the ~ecommenda~ion of Henry. R~be~h I~Iht 41, Annapolis! the association w1.. rig en a marker m the form of a Great books, Elliott Zuckerman •was proposing, require something other than sitting and studying. They require talking about them. He was referring, of course, to the individual readings from the St. John's list as they are discussed in seminar. This in effect was what a group of alumni were doing about all the books as they met for one of a series of homecoming discussions on the question, "What does the St. John's Program Presuppose About Education?" Since the opening question already had been asked, Mr. Zuckerman offered an opening answer. "It is the chief presup. position that it is the books that teach and not the people." · "What's the difference?" Peter Kellogg.Smith, '43, shot back. "Books come from people," David Carey, '72, joined in. "In any case, teaching is a process that involves books whether it is by dialogue or through th~ printed or spoken word." Could this be done in a series of lectures without reading? John Ross, '69, asked. If the lectures. were as well prepared as the books, Mr. Carey. thought. Would the lectures be taken as seriously? Mr. Ross wanted to know. And -would the books themselves be taken as seriously if they were printed last week? ALUMNI WE!RE exchanging their views at four other seminars held simultaneously in McDowell. Coming as part of St. John's 1983 re-..accreditation process, the seminars represented t.he first of a number of discussions that will be taking place this year on various parts -0f the curriculum during a self-study required by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Working with the Alumni Office Mr. Zuckerman, who is chairing the' selfstudy, will seek to summarize findings of the five alumni. seminars with a view seven-foot across erected over th'e grave of former St. John's president Thomas Fell in St. Anne's Cemetery by the Class of 1952. It is tilting. Mr. Roberts will have a committee which includes Edward F. Lathrop, '38, and Bernard Gessner, '27, both of Annapolis, to assist him. In addition to the president and treasurer, who are automatically members, the board elected to the executive committee Jean Fitzsimon, '73, of Chicago, the association's executive vice-president, and Ken Kimball, '77, of Annapolis, secretary. BERNARD JACOB, '54, of New York City, reported on the Portraits and Memorial Committee, which also includes Harrison Shepherd, Francis Mason, Bun. ny Gessner, and Allan P. Hoffman. Com~ittee efforts are centering on the ques. tions of proper memorials for former dean Jacob Klein, "one of the most extraordinary people in the program," .and for two former presidents Richard D. Weigle and the late John s'. Kieffer. Mr. Jacob hopes to set up two advisory committees. Members received a warm welcome from President Delattre, who thanked alumni for gifts they had made the college, invited them to his office where the breakfront and desk of Francis Scott Key are located ("It's a joy to work in the presence of furnishings of such a man"), and who reported that histories of St. John's by Winfree Smith and Tench Tilghman are expected to make their appearance shortly as important companion pieces for St. John's upcoming Bicentennial. 0 ; Eugene Thaw, '47, New York art dealer who has written seriously on the visual arts, will address the New York Alumni Chapter at 7:15 p.m. November 17 on the. topic, "The Visual Arts and the Liberal Arts." Allan Hoffman, New York Chapter chairman, said that afterwards there will be a discussion of "The Fine Arts and St. John's." Members will meet at the Princeton Club. With discussion linked to a self-study the college is undertaking this year, the seminar will be attended by President Edwin J. Delattre, Annapolis Dean Samuel Kutler, a representative of the Instruction Committee, and by Betsy Brown.• eastern alumni director. Members are reminded that the buffet supper has been discontinued in favor of a more substantial optional dinner. Those wishing dinner at 5:30 p.m. should call Mr. Hoffman at (212) 239-1146. There will be news and discussion at 6:30 p.. m. Also scheduled are these seminars: January 26, On Dreams, Freud, led by Beate Ruhm von Oppen; March 16, Principia, selections from this work by Newton, Curtis Wilson and Dan Vona, '67, and May 18, A Doll's House, Ibsen, led by Barbara Leonard. Fisher at Oxford How.ard Fish~r •. ~t. Joh~'s College tu- t~r, will be a vmtmg semor member of Lmacre College, Oxford University, until Ja~uary. In England Mr. Fisher will be domg work related to Michael Faraday and other 19th century English scientists. ' . at s zmportan tow~rd reaching som~ sort of consensus. D~~mg the fall meetmg of the Board of Vm~ors an~ Governo~s, the seminar will receive ma1or attention at a discussion set for 4 p.m. November 5. In Mr. Zuckerman's own seminar, some of the central questions came up. If books are the teachers, why is it important to have classes? Is the influence of t~e tutor s.uch that o~e can have widely d1fferen~ mterpretabons of the same b?ok? Might the book be presented in a dlf~erent way for freshmen than for semors? Tom Horvath, '75, asked. , Maynard Swayne, '58, expressed the ~ought that no matter how strong the m~uence of a tutor in the discussion might be, he believed no tutor would be "able to overco~e the ~ower of Euclid." !he same questions which had come up m 1954, when he. was a freshman, also were asked durmg the past summer when h~ obseryed. Gra~ute Institute cl~sses 1~ E~clid mvolvmg people of widely differing ages: Perhaps some other book, but not Euchd._ . . AN~APOLIS 1:UTOR M1cha~l Littleton was .mter.ested m the question of the relabon~h1p of ~earning to books. ~o~d dest~~ymg a, l~brary destroy. a hvmg tradition? Isn tit an open question whether the tradition was worth the trouble? He assumed it w~s. Could something be found as a substitute for books? Could knowledge be regenerated from the ground up without benefit of a library? Could two people find something which could be substituted for books? What's. impor~ant about. getting t~e book straight durmg the semmar? Does it matter all that much in a discussion? Mr. Zuckerman objected to the claim that "St. John's teaches people to think." "T~~t's too .long a~, assig~ment for me, or its ~eanmgless, he said. ~onduc1ve atmosphere to thought rather "Is it that St. John's has a more than method," Paula Swayne, a Graduate Institute alumna, suggested. Mr. Horvath thought St. John's might provide a process of enquiry. Mr. Zuckerman expressed belief that "enquiry is a by-product." "How to read is the closest thing I would accept " he said. "How to talk?" Mr. Kellogg.Smith added. There was some discussion .about the way books are read at St. John's as compared to the way they are read at major universities, such as Columbia and Cambridge, both of which Mr. Zuckerman attended. At Columbia Mr. Zuckerman said the students with whom he associated tended to read books casually ~n~ believed themselves to have brlliant ms1ghts. At St. John's he believes the book remains more important than the response. HE DESCRIBED sessions at Cam. bridge, where students meet individually wit.h thei.r tutors, as representing an entirely different system of learning than that at St John's and one providing sets of techniques .for examinations. Cam. bridge was also a place where primary works were overwhelmed by secondary sources-. "I never read Paradise Lost ,, he said, "but I knew everyone's view ~f it." The difference might be, Michael Berger, '78, suggested, that at St. John's students continue to reflect and perhaps to read again. Reading books at St. John's begins an on-going process extendi~g ~eyon1d four years, rather 'than consbtutmg a 'one-shot deal," he said. What's a good seminar? An effective seminar is a "seminar in which a few people see something that they would not otherwise.see,' Mr. Zuckerman said. "A good semmar can be extremely messy. I'll define a good seminar as one in which I learn something." ....... �Page 4 THE REPORTE 1 • • (Continued from P. 1) "Three injuries in 15 minutes," St. John's red-headed. nurse was all calmness, if somewhat surprised. "This is a record for 9:15." Caring for St. John's ill and injured students, this nurse-director of college health services, as she is technically known, and Dr. Kinzer seek to keep St. John's student body healthy. This they do in the college's superbly equipped and designed infirmary, a place envied by college health nurses and physicians who have visited the campus. Presented the college by the family of John T. Harris of the Class of 1907, the Harrison Health Center possesses a gleaming, fully equipped examination room and five patient bedrooms that only once, during the eight years_ Mrs. Mylander has been associated with the college, have been fully occupied, not by an epidemic but by a combination of ailments. · THAT'S THE WAY it usually is. Want to know the sort of thing Mrs. Mylander and Dr. Kinzer treat on a typical day? There's a student who had cut himself and needs an updated tetanus shot, another who requires an allergy injection. There's a lump a student is concerned a leg about, a bad throat, a skin infection that could have been caused by a spider a hernia nrnhli:>m One student a bed board. Another felt he was not hearing as well as he should. Colds are the biggest problem. "Our students work and when they're half-sick, they want to go to class because they are afraid will give the cold to someone they don't want to miss class," she said. "I do wish someone would come up with a remedy." Like the rest of the medical profession, Mrs. Mylander has no magical cure and believes home remedies work as well as any. Students are advised to stay in bed a couple of days, and she pushes the fluids. Sore throats she takes more seriously since they can be precursors of more serious illnesses such as rheumatic fever or glomerulonephritis, a severe kidney infection. The college does its own throat cultures. Generally, however, like Dr. Kinzer, she believes a high percentage of the students are in good health. Cases range from simple inquiries to those requiring complicated diagnostic work-ups and hospitalization. "We like to emphasize educating people about the symptoms they have and about what should be done to foster good health through appropriate physical exercise, adequate rest, and avoidance of harmful substances and avoidable conta. gious diseases," Dr. Kinzer said. As far as personal health is concerned, Dr. Kinzer believes there is not really a great deal of difference between St. John's students and those at other colleges. Since the student body is "preselected," he believes St. John's students are more mature than most and able to handle the rigors of the curriculum in a way. Mrs. personality: the with its class Sm:tps<m oil paimung, of Mrs. available is the loan of medical books from her office. Students who suffer from an ailment or who are concerned about an ill member are welcome to consult standard works as Harrison's "Principles of Inter- A violinist who enjoys playing chamber music, Peter A. Benoliel is a public leader in Philadelphia whose interest in music has resulted in a number of · affiliations. He is a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra Advisory Council and a member of the Advisory Council for Princeton University's Department of Music. He also serves as director of the Marlboro School of Music and.js a former director of the Curtis Institute of Music and former vice-president of Settlement Music School. Chairman of the board of Quaker Chemical Corporation, Mr. Benoliel is cochairman of the Visiting Committee for St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors. A graduate of the William Penn Charter School in and a 1953 graduate of Princeton Mr. Benoliel the Quaker Corporation in 1957 as a chemist and became in 1966 and board chairman in 1980. PETER A. BENOUEL At present he is a director of the Philadelphia National Corporation and Foundation. UGI Corporation and a former director of A trustee of the Philadelphia Museum Alan Wood Steel Company and Publicker of Art, Mr. Benoliel also is an overseer of Industries. · the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Mr. Benoliel served as general chair- University of Pennsylvania and an overman of Philadelphia's United Cam. seer of the William Penn Charter School. paign in 1981, having been active in that He is a member of the International campaign since 1964. From 1976 to 1977 Advisory Council for Bryn Mawr College. he was business chairman of the Planned The father of five children, Mr. BenoParenthood of Southeastern 0°,,..,.,.,,".~"'­ liel is a print collector who likes to ski ia. He is a director of the Greater and play tennis and squash as well as to Philadelphia Partnership and a trustee of read. His particular interests are philsothe Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach phy, music, history, and literature. nal Medicine" or "My Body My Health" by Felecia and Gary Stewart, books mixed in, incidentally, with Mrs. Mylander's own copies of Gibbon and Plato. Angela Frawley, the resident nurse, who occupies the nurse's apartment over the infirmary, is on call at night and adds an Irish lilt to the medical directions which mark those nocturnal hours in which she sees students. IN ADDITION to caring for the health of the Mrs. Mylander directs the twice yearly, college blood drive, to which members of the St. John's community contributed nearly 250 pints last year. She also conducts cardiopulminary resuscitation classes. For faculty and staff members, she administers flu shots in time of need and takes a running record of blood pressure for those requesting it. Besides Dr. Kinzer, who keeps noontime hours three days a week on campus and whom students also may see in his nearby office, the college has a gynecologist - Dr. Edward Morris - who comes once a month. If a problem appears to have an emotional basis, Mrs. Mylande-r refers students to Dr. Sigmund Amitin the college psychiatrist, or to Hrenaa Robertson, the student counselor. Marilyn Mylander actually begins most days in a non-medical fashion by auditing a freshman class in Greek, an activity which comes as an extension of a master's degree in liberal arts she earned at St. John's in 1979. Her bachelor's degree in nursing came in 1974 at the Universitv of Maryland after she had succeeded 0 ~•·n1r1a credit at seven different colleges. MYLANDER arrived on the Annapolis campus in 1974 accompanied by her seven-year-old son, Erik. Three years ago she married a Naval Ac::i.c1emy faculty member with strong family ties ·to St. John's - Professor Charles der. (His late mother, Virginia, tormiP,r1v managed the bookstore, and his father and grandfather, Walter Jr., and Classes Walter C., Sr., are alumni of of 1932 and 1900). She commutes to the from their farm on the Eastern Shore across the Bridge. She is, according to Dr. Kinzer, a "three-C person and competent." To the Editor: Correction! In the on stated in an interesting friend Peter Davies (page 3) Weiss, Bergen, et al, spent a summer (1950) in an Israeli kibbutz 1:111nn111r·t&>rl the Foundation for World Winkie Barr and my father Scott Buchanan were officers of. Peter Weiss and I started this summer project, "Operation " with an application for the two of us to travel a small grant to and from Israel where we proposed to live on, work in, and study the kibbutz. The foundation, in extending the grant, of added about 20 other, people them St. Johnnies), and we summer at one of the Hashomer kibbutzim near Haife, E. in Hashofet. The foundation never started, supported, or "sponsored" the n.u.11uu,,1L, says. It was even for· world government! We to learn how similar communities could be elsewhere in We felt that world the developing government was a necessary condition for peace. Today, with neither peace nor world government, we might do well to review the ideas we had then, discuss and possibly back the Israeli "left" (including the kibbutz federations) in the struggle against Menachem Bee:in and Israeli expansionist Is interest among alumni? Am I feeling like Cassandra? I logue. . Miam1. welcome John's college has National Merit Scholars in its freshman class of 107. Altogether 45 students, or 42 per cent of the class, have some National Merit honors. Nine are J.u1au., ...,, and 22 are commenaea. The fig:ures continue to reflect the large classes who come to St. with National Merit ratings. This figure is identical In 1980 there with last year's cent in 39 per cent. were 37 Inc1ue1mg those in this fall's freshman St. John's has enrolled 19 full scholars over a four.year period, 5 per cent of its enrollment of 395. A profile of the entering class prepared the St. John's College Admissions showed that 60 percent of the students are men and 40 per cent women. cent in the of their high class and 27 per cent in the second fifth. As rated the Scholastic Test, median range for verbal scores for freshmen stands at 614 and for mathematics at 583. Some 21 per cent of the students had attended college elsewhere before deciding to enter St. John's. They come from 29 states and the District of Columbia and two foreign countries England and Costa Rica. U.JLLil.Jl.llJLUIJL ' 711 '~-.T.,......... c Alumni who winter in the Miami area and who want to join in alumni activities there should in touch with who is a program covers a area. He will be glad to include you. His home address is 7300 S.W. 75th FL 33143, and his number is (305)667-0007. tutor Curtis Wilson was full in the International Astronomical Union at its recent General Assembly in Greece. A former Mr. Wilson is on leave this semester at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton where he is a visiting member _ on of how modern astronomy became co1nti1nm~a from P. 1) St. John's now joins the ranks of other real-estate schools that have on leased college land: Univer. sity owns the land on which Rockefeller owns Center sits, and Stanford lands containing approximately 5,000 houses and part of the Silicon Valley electronics area. j I I �1 • St. John's wants its students not only to be physically well but to be healthy in spirit, too, and so there is the network: assistant deans, dormitory heads, concerned tutors and staff members, students themselves, the professional staff-all attempting to reach out and easy since, given almost 1lation, it is estimated that at any time 10 per cent of its people - some say 15 per cent - experience emotional according to Dr. Sigmund college psychiatrist. It's all very approximate, but in an enrollment of close to 400 on the Annapolis that would be about 40 students. John's runs about average. Last year 21 students saw Dr. Amitin, and 30 talked with college counselor Brenda Robertson. Some were the same students. Others presumably dealt with their problems in other ways. There is no real line that decides who will consult with Miss Robertson and who will see Dr. Amitin. Frequently the first an If Dr. term counseling may be may refer a student to Miss Robertson IF MISS ROBERTSON believes a stu. dent has some medical her scope and r.cu·m11"0C! she student to Dr. Amitin. Most of whom he other experience at the college." sees are self-referrals although other Early in the school year, Miss Robertstudents may come at the suggestion of son and Dr. Amitin, with the nurse. the assistant deans or the college nurse director of health se.rvices and· college and physician. In recent years, counseling services have been reduced in Annapolis. Under his arrangement with the college, Dr. Amitin is authorized to schedule four · sessions with a student as against the ten rnr,m&i..r1v allowed. Miss Robertson, at one time a employee, works officially with the college 10 hours a week. Last year her schedule stretched to a generous 15 or 16 hours. The clinical director at a local crisis center with a master's in counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, she has difficulties in generalizing the reasons students come to see her. "The concerns are as unique as each student," she said. "Most students are feeling either very depressed or a great deal of anxiety. My responsibility is to them understand feel depressed and anxious." For the most part the problems she deals with are not so different from those that might appear at more conventional colleges. But the St. John's program may DR. SIGMUND AMITIN make a difference. "I because of the mands of the program and the persnM 11_ come in ties of those who choose to come there are an number demands students who make "Some students have upon themselves, who want to be what we who want to do their seminar re~1au1gs stckm~ss," Dr. Amitin said. "Some stu. . which isn't and who have a rough time. There have a very accurate perception of their dents with members achievements and look themselves may be A can be as inadequate, as not very well, or romantic distressing. when, in are very well," she said. Her sessions with students matter and are isolated away from their college life. Miss Robertson sees the latter as an amranta!le. "I'm not evaluating not cnscmmr1g not socializing with said. "It's entirely senarate from every "Some students come because of scholastic difficulties in which can't concentrate or speak in class and in which feel threatened by peers who so much and intact. And there are a number who abuse alcohol and drugs to cope with stress, not the cause of some students is but when their there appears to have been excessive tutor Hugh McGrath and have been made honor. of the St. John's Alumni .1.u.e;,•u•.••u• distinction, member. to a small group that now includes Assistant Dean Barbara Leon. the Rev. J. Winfree Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Weigle, Alice Carnes, Miriam Strange and Charlotte Fletcher. The two were voted into un:mui;;1 after netitions were submitted at home. ~--·-·--·-· for membership for been initiated by where Mr. McGrath had seminar on The the suggestion from New York, that the in Middle English, in rmsn-oorn tutor had recited of the Prologue. Mr. McGrath has been a tutor on the Annapolis campus since 1948. At one time campus drama and known for poetry, he has been a numerous faculty commitur.,, ......... , who now resides in Va., taught here until 1941. He is the author of a history of St. John's commissioned by former dent Stringfellow Barr and soon to be published. use." Beyond the four sessions allowed them, students may choose to see Dr. Amitin as a private patient, be referred to other private therapists, or they can arrange for consultations with the Family and Children's Service, which has a sliding fee scale. Clinical psychiatric services are limited in Annapolis. Again, they may talk with Miss Robertson, who has been known to see a student for more than a DR. believes St. John's tends to get some students who intellectualize and isolate their feelings and can be overwhelmed by them. "The program can elicit a great deal of conflict in terms of clarifying what one's philosophy is and one's integrity and to open more corridors and more crevices than might be possible at what might be considered a more pragmatic .institution,'' he pointed out. "It's the same way in one's life search of oneself. If one feels he knows his own ideals and then discovers something that is in disagreement with them, that provokes a lot more conflict." Overall, however, he said he was reasonably impressed the way St. John's students handle themselves, despite the pressure of an age in which the number of suicides have doubled in the last 25 years. Of concern always are those si.e:ns of their seriousness f .. annanpu and in+nneoltu and ap1[)et:ite, decreased sexual interest, in concentrating, withdraw. tiredness after rest, loss of interest in formerly activities, abuse of and suicidal tho1uglrits. his 13 years with the Annapolis campus. Dr. Amitin has known of only That's an ex. the vast number of problems are not as black they can be hard ones. Miss 1-1.nhPr·t1:rm and Dr. with others at St. quietly, ~11i:mrnrtrn'Plv ple overcome them. • It can be to David Schiller, '62, chairman of the Boston Alumni who was responding an old argument. Seminars are nossible on Eastern literature. "Oriental literature is Cletimt~ely western." he told the annual meem1J:i: of the Alumni Association ..,,.... .,..... ;... ,.,. seminars in Boston. '"r1r. no about it." Eastern is excluded from the St. John's curriculum curriculum is based on western and the college feels it hands full with that. omitted from the list are some western books mt:mo1::r:s would like to see and there is a feelirrg that to include Eastern selections not be the time limitations imJ>OSE!d four _ of how scrutable Eastern books are. tte:ide,ggE~r and Hegel certainly are more difficult than eastern writinl:!s." Mr. Schiller said the meeting. The experience of the Boston seminars indicated that the content of the books as easily or as of that of the eastern he observed. however, the may not have the most books. "There may be obscure texts we haven't read." The one thing the seminar participants agreed that they would have liked in nreoaration for the readings was more of a background in Islam. Mr. Schiller said the decision to read eastern books came as a result of a decision to do a series of seminars on states of beginning with and wrnr1m111 toward William James. Whoever suggested the book led the seminar. those read in the Boston seminars were The by a Persian book dealing with the whirling dervishes of 'A of Rings Musashi, a medieval Japanese book; Layla and Majunun, by Nizami, an Islamic love story which is also a revolutionary tract, and Tales of Genji, by Lady Murasaki, one of the most famous novels of Japanese literature. 0 .,., 0 ,., �Dean Samuel Kutler presides at the dedication of the Ruth Sutphin Memorial Garden, the rose bed near Randall named this fall to honor Ruth Sutphin. Mrs. Sutphin died January 22 after 24 years as bookkeeper for the Annapolis campus. David Frame photo Two men who have been actively involved in the life of the college Edward F. Lathrop and Charles A. Nelson - are recipients of the Alumni Association's annual Award of Merit. They were presented by the association's new president, Dr. David Dobreer, at a dinner climaxing homecoming and attended by more than 200 persons in the gymnasium. Mr. Lathrop, '38, is a former tutor, athletic director, and alumni director. Mr. Nelson, '47, is chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors and father of three St. John's graduates. Active in football and in lacrosse during his student days, Mr. Lathrop remained at St. John's following his graduation as a coach and mathematics tutor. After World War II, in which he served aboard submarines in the Pacific theater, he returned to the college as director of athletics and tutor. In 1948 he was made alumni secretary. Prior to entering St. John's he had served in the Merchant Marine and spent three years at the Coast Guard Academy. In 1950 he began 15 years of Naval service, serving as the commanding officer or deputy in a variety of posts. His last assignment was as commanding officer of the Naval Reserve Training Center at Fort McHenry. FOLLOWING HIS retirement from the Navy he taught at the Landon School in Bethesda from 1965 to 1974. Active in St. Anne's Church, he is a junior warden and member of its vestry. For a time his wife, Kitty, was manag. er of the St. John's bookstore. His sisterin-law, Miriam Strange, of Annapolis, was for many years registrar and archivist at the college. "Truly it may be said that .Ned has been worthy of that award which he received upon his graduation - the Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award, which was given to the member of the senior class who best exemplified the traits of love for and service to men," Dr. Dobreer said. "The Alumni Association is pleased to ratify the observation of his teachers and to present him with the Award of Merit." Now head of the higher education division of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company, New York consulting firm, Mr. Nelson was cited for his many years of service on the board. Following his graduation Mr. Nelson went to the University of Chicago to direct a post-war series of seminars in . world politics and at the same time became director of the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults and executive director of the American Foundation for Political Education. IN 1956 HE was named senior associate in the management consulting firm of Cresap, McCormick, and Paget in New York, counseling non-profit institutions, particularly educational institutions. He formed his own consulting firm in 1958, remaining with it until he joined Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company. In 1976 he was nominated by President Ford to serve as a member of -the National Council of Educational Research. He served one term, declining· reappointment when he was chosen St. John's board chairman. At that time he also resigned from the board of the Westchester Council of Arts. Three of his four children - Janet, Theodore, and Christopher - are St. John's alumni. A fourth son, Colin, is Williams College graduate. Mrs. Nelson is a member of the faculty of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Scott Buchanan, who founded St. John's New Program in 1937 with Stringfellow Barr, saw the classics as the "largest and most imposing symbolic constructions the European animal has made." In a Friday night homecoming address, Annapolis tutor Winfree Smith quoted Buchanan in .reading from the opening portion of his history of the New Program scheduled for publication by the college next spring. . His reading before a heavily attended audience that packed the Key Auditorium followed the appearance in The St. John's Review of selections from two other chapters. They dealt with the Naval Academy's efforts to absorb St. John's and with Barr and Buchanan's departure from the college, Buchanan ostensibly because he feared another attempted Navy take-over but also because he planned to assist Barr in establishing a new college, one he suggested that could be linked with St. John's during a transition period by one board and one presi· dent. ' "He left the college because he hated the Navy," Mr. Smith said during the question period that followed his lecture. "He really felt threatened by it. I'm not quite sure about Barr. I think the real reason Barr left is because Buchanan did. He was very dependent upon him." A certain restlessness in Buchanan's character was also a factor, Mr. Smith observed. After recounting the short peri()ds of time he had remained in other places, he said it was remarkable that Buchanan had remained at St. John's as long as he had - nine years. "Buchanan was one of the few great teachers I have had," Mr. Smith said in response to a question. "There was a time in my life when I thought there was no one like him. I would and still say that I owe a great deal to him. He aroused my interest in important books and in important questions.'' But while he praised Buchanan's great gifts as a teacher, Mr. Smith expressed the belief that Buchanan lacked a deep understanding of the books on the St. John's list. He also voiced the opinion, with which John Van Doren, '47, agreed, that, according to Buchanan, there was no great book that was ultimately in contradiction with any other. Mr. Smith added that the program as such did not change in any fundamental way when the late Jacob Klein became dean. Rather, Klein's own goal was to preserve it and make it better. "He deliberately avoided placing himself in opposition to Mr. Buchanan." Of the original St. John's list, approximately half remain on the list. Mr. Smith said that it seems that it was from Philip N. Youtz, whom he called in to organize small study groups at the People's Institute, and adult center at Cooper Union, where Buchanan became assistant director in 1924, and also from Mortimer Adler that he got the idea of using great books as a means for liberating the soul from prejudices and ill conceived opinions. In discussing the origin of lists; Mr. Smith cited one Thomas Jefferson drew up for his nephew, of which a sizeable fraction are on the St. John's list. Jefferson considered Bacon, Newton, and Locke "the three greatest men the world bad ever produced," but dismissed· Platonists, "Stagyrites, Eleaties, Gamalietites, Scholastics, and ... " -~ Maltese Falco seniina_r Mystery fans might be interested in knowing that the western Washington Chapter has held what chairman John Ross, '69, called an "amazingly interesting" seminar on Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, a 'book credited by a recent public television program on Hammett as having elevated the mystery to the "level of literature." It was an informal occasion, over dinn~r in a Lebanese restaurant, and Mr. Ross reports he was quite surprised how well it went. While he believes there are very few mysteries with the merit Hammett was able to maintain in The Maltese Falcon, he says that a case can be made for almost any book, however terrible, to provide a jumping off point for discussion. This one went well, and he respects the book. Delighted about activities of the small Washington group in an area where there isn't an immediate St. John's presence "it's almost more important to meet. when the spirit is not as evident" - Mr. ·Ross said that the mystery was drawn from a long list of books he and Eric ·Scigliano proposed. Mr. Ross is a technical writer for Telematic Products, a job he acquired· after serving as a journalist with the· ,Coast Guard and after eight years in high commitment, low paying jobs with listener supported radio stations. He still does free lance broadcasting. "I do very well when the volcano blows up." It might be interesting to get together a list of mysteries which would provide good seminars. Or science fiction, an idea-loaded genre, for that matter. Any ideas? Let us hear. · • in (Continued from P. 1) scholarships to attend the Leo Marchutz School in Aix-Provence, France. Her schooling there was cut short the first summer, and she went to work on a dairy farm in Ireland. Frequent talks with a veterinarian who came to the farm and who described the strengths and weak-' nesses of Irish and American veterinary education led to her decision to seek a year at Cork. She also grew to admire Ireland. "It was wonderful," she said. "I loved Ireland. It's chiefly an agrarian society with farms which range from tiny, one or two.cow farms with a horse and a cart and a dog to take the milk to the creamery to large farms with 200 cows." Besides raising and riding horses competitively, Miss Cronin, along with her sister and four brothers, were encouraged by their grandfather to raise heifers, which they showed competitively in 4-H and U.S. dairy breed competitions. Prior to coming to St. John's she was a student at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Ct., where she held a scholarship. She graduated there in 1979. �ii .N.OVE•JIBEH '1982 · , THE' REPORTER '.·~ /um n1 . (Continued from P. 2) 1971 Richard Ferrier made a visit to the college this summer (and "especially the bookstore") and stopped by to tell us that wife Kathy Austin Ferrier, '74, gave birth to their third child and third boy on March 11-Austin Warren Ferrier. Richard has been teaching at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif., for the last four years. Thomas Aquinas is a great books college "akin to and in important ways indebted to St. John's. My Ph.d. thesis was on Vieta and I've taught the junior mathematics tutorial and.laboratory for a number of years." Richard also has lectured on Lucretius at St. Mary's College in California in its integrated program. He tells us that Ed Macierowski, '70, will be lecturing at Thomas Aquinas this fall. 1973 With bankruptcies rampant, Jean Fitzsi~on is moving at a fast pace in c.h1cago, where she has been residing smce July. Formerly deputy director of the Justice Department's Office of Information and Privacy, she is now the department's U.S. trustee for the Northern District of Illinois. Jean can walk 15 blocks to work, or she can reach her of~ice the way they get places in Venice. w.1th her apartment on the Chicago River, she has the option of taking a tour boat. Jean is a member of the new advisory committee for Chicago alumni. 1973 GI Gwendolyn R. Morgan has returned from London ·where she has spent a year as a Fulbright exchange teacher. In addition to her teaching duties she participated in special seminars. Sh~ also seized the opportunity to tour the British Isl~s as well as Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, and Belgium. Accompanying her were her three children, Andrea Lynn, Nathaniel and Kelvin. Mrs. Morgan is an Engli~h teacher at B~nneker Academic High School in Washmgton and resides with her busband, Nathaniel, in Hyattsville Md 1976 ' · Sheri Brown nee Rothstein informs us that she and her husband, Matt, have been blessed witfi a son, Ethan Samuel, who arrived on February 22. Sheri and Matt currently are living in Newport R.I. (478 Warley St., NECT, Melville, RI: ?,2840) where they will remain until May. Then we go to wherever the Navy sends us." 1977 Sarah Anastaplo has been admitted to the University of Chicago Medical School and will begin studies there in the fall of 1983. Meanwhile, she is working for pay in the emergency room there and for free in a laboratory on campus. · 1978 We f?und out through the Washington grapevme Steve Scott got married on August to Miss Stacey Somers. The wedding took in Gloucester, Mass. Steve is in Washine:ton for Conof New / Rebecca ·The is ou1omme,a st a China, Thailand, Burma, Bangladesh, 1979 India, and Hongkong. In April one could Tm~ R~ea and Kevin Park.er were travel in China on an individual visa, and mar:ied m the Great Hall August 21. I should be happy to pass on to whomevKevu~ has b~en working as a library · er wants to get there information on the tec~mc~l assistant. at Southern Illinois visa andtravelling conditions." Umve~s1ty, and Tma has received her And she sends on addresses of St. M.S. I~ zoology .from that institution. Johnnies in Japan. They are: Molly They .will be seekmg employment in the Aston, c/o Takabe, 3-12-3 Osaki, ShinagaWashmgton, metropolitan area. Tina will wa-ku, Tokyo 141, Japan; Bill Boon, c/o retain her maiden name. Both may be Kakimi, 2-18-6 Nishioi, Shinagawa-Ku, reached 2621 Johnson Road, Boothwyn, Tokyo 140, Japan; Anne Button, 5-13-23 PA, 19061. Zaimokuza, Kamakura 248, Japan; Miyo· A ~ecent letter from Ira Weiss brings ko Porter, 1-8-5 Nishi Aiabu, Minato-Ku, us this news: :'Sorry I ?annot make the Tokyo 106, Japan. 1982 Homecommg. I am Just recuperating 1980 from 5 by-pass open heart surgery-home · Eugene Wise writes: "My work (with o.nly sine~ th~ 5th of August. I am doing IBM) is challenging and exciting, the fme cons1dermg all I went through: a folks are great, and I miss seminar. Hope seven-and-a-half-hour operation, Then two hours in the recovery room, cardiac all is well. Take care." His new address is 163 East Gates Street, Columbus, OH, arrest and complete loss of blood pres- 43206. sure. I was rushed back to the operating 1981 roo~ for another two to three hour Daniel Van Doren is back in law school session and brought back. I spent July in at Boston University after a tough piece Burke Rehabilitation Institute. I am still of luck. Two weeks into the term last wea~ but recovering strength slowly. I year, he was struck by a car and re~eived an M.A. in political and social hospitalized for six weeks with leg injuscience from the New School and accept. ries which required a good six months ed . as a. doctoral candidate in the City from which to recover. May it never Umvers1ty ~f New York. But all this was happen again, Dan, or anything like it! before my illness. If all goes well, my entry date for the doctor's program is February, 1983." Ira's address is 300 Mercer Street, Apt. 22F, New York, New York, 10003. For those of you who didn't have the For the ninth year, the Santa Fe pleasure of knowing him, Ira entered St. J?hn's .in 1975 at the age of 65 soon after campus will hold its annual seminar day his retirement as a senior vice-president November 10. Fourteen free, one-time of a New York bank. Good luck with the seminars are planned to acquaint the Santa Fe community with the college's doc!orate, Ira! Lisa P.ennypacker received a master's great books program. Last year more than 300 persons particqegree m landscape architecture last May from the University of Virginia and ipated with a reception and dinner following the program. The seminars and is now teaching at Penn State. "As an aside," she writes, "for those tutors will be: Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Robwho. feel that p~ilosophy and landscape · architecture are intellectually light-years ert Bart; fragments from the pre-Socratapart, let me proclaim to the contrary ic philosophers, Charles Bell; that they are integrally related. The art Montaigne's On Experience, Stuart forms produced by and culture are a Boyd; Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopac.oncretizatio~ of issues and ideas of the time. For this reason, one can virtually read the chronology of western ideas and thoughts by studying the history of landscape a~chitecture. It almost goes withKirk Hughey, GI '79, is a Santa Fe out saymg tha~ I think that it's an artist who has been credited with comexcellent profession for St. Johnnies!" bining the myth of the cowboy and the Lisa's address is: 307 Locust Lane Apt myth 208, State College, PA, 16801. ' · ings. of the Greek gods into his paint. From Jean Oggins comes all sorts of There is a mythical link between the mf?rma~ion. First, she reports that the Umvers1ty of Michigan at Ann Arbor took world of Odysseus and that of the Wild her for graduate work in psychology West, according to the 41-year-old artist because "they found the breadth of the who grew up in Greeley, Colo., with its St. John's program distinctive-excellent legends and later completed his master's at St. John's and spent a year in Greece. · pre~a~ati.on fo~ a field that itself ranges farm its mvesbgations." Like Matt Dillon, he believes Odysseus She ?ffer~ heW to alumni wantil'IO' was the lonely wanderer who steered travel m Chma. The last two years himself through the dangers been very interesting ones. After more of life. than. a rear and a half of teaching English .m Japan, I travelled for four Last summer· he hung well received months m Asia, with time spent in Red shows of riders and horsemen at the Fagen-Peterson Gallery in Scottsdale, Ariz., and at the Los Llanos Gallery in Santa Fe. . J. Winfree the Public Relations 21404. Edwin J. DelaHre. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS 018·750 Page 1 In addition to being a painter, Mr. Hughey has been preparing linoleum cuts of New Mexican wildflowers at the Museum of New Mexico Print Shop. He also makes monoprints, applying colors to· metal plates and transferring the image to paper. Before deciding to become an artist, ·he had been accepted at the Harvard University Law School If there's a prize for the first baby of the Class of 1981, it goes, with the class's proud hosannas, to Joseph Roach and his wife, the former Barbara Jean Sisson. Kathryn Anne was born August 31 in San Francisco, where he is teaching at Drew Preparatory School. The baby weighed 9 pounds, 1/2 ounce. The father is "ecstatic." Melanie Jago, '80, heads the mathematics department at the school. Also in San Francisco is John Hiner, '80, a third year law student at Hastings. Alex Cummins is at George Washington University taking a master's degree in international affairs. What was going on in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, one fine day earlier this fall but a soccer game among nine members· of th~ Class of 1981: Kathy Abrams, Rick Campbell, Evan Canter, Sue Coffee, Paul Cree, Lycette Nelson, Kurt Schuler, Karl Stukenberg (SF), and John Wilson. Lycette, who had organized the gang at her nearby house, did one more good service for the day by kicking the winning goal, but kicking it for the opposite team. It's true. Competition isn't what St. John's is about. • tra, Robert Bunker; Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman, William Darkey; Euripides' Alcestis, Michael Dink; Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Sharon Garvey; selections from Seymour Paper's Mindstorm, Dean Haggard; Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, David Jones; Flaubert's A Simple Heart, Georgia Knight; Lincoln's First and Second Imwgural Addresses, Gettysburg, 13th and 14th Amendments, U.S. Constitution, Samuel Larcombe; Albert Camus' The Stranger, Elliot Skinner; Plato's Lysis, John Steadman, and Franz Kafka's The Penal Colony, Cary Stickney. KIRK HUGHEY Berns gives paper St. John's College tutor Laurence Berns delivered a paper, "Aristotle's_ 'Politics' " at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Denver, Colo., on September 4. A student of Aristotle, Mr. Berns is at work translating the Greek philosopher's "Politics." �E 8 THE REPORTER Published bv Public Relations Office . Sf. Jo-hn's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 chose were unsung or unknown in and several of the numbers were directly from the Moscow church Mr. Ossorgin's teaching involved the choir members appreciate meaning and the composition. Since the original choir also had members who are now living in other cities in Mr. Ossorgin sent those members music and tapes of the singing so could the choir for a concert in mid-summer. One member who now lives in Las used vacation time to to Alaska for the Let u;::>-f\-ncr1rv-<:A~-'""'"''"' ~· ·-·-·---- concert. Mr. Ossorgin St. John's -"Honors Seminar n .." .... ""'""' " a success in the New to this year to a p1am111:!u seminars over the """'""h'" Dr. Irwin member of the Admissions Committee of the Board of , Visitors and and his brother Allan P. are in search of alumni interested seminars for school students. .1:teimo1nse from those in the New York been enthusiastic. One ;nuu1::1.1~ •. the even sue~ge:;t. "I would recommend suEmdin.e: least half a if not more, in a sen1in;;ar of this felt there had been too much to in too short a time. The idea for the seminars the board's Admission chaired former Dean Robert Goldwin. 'HONORS Seminar the gra:m,' SL to now this has been in each case a Sophocles. We have used Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Philoctetes." The high school selects 20 honors English students from the junior class with the seminar run in the classic St. John's manner. Afterwards students write an evaluation. Among those schools where Dr. and Mr. Hoffman have led seminars have been the George School in Newtown, Pa., and the Baldwin Senior High School in Saldwin, Long Island. One of the most interesting developments occurred at tne George School, Dr. Hoffman reported. "Ms. Nancy Cooks, chairperson of English, told me recently that as a direct result of the St. John's seminar held there in the fall of 1981, that Greek plays have been included for the first time in the school St. John's second seminar was invited back for this falL and the nlav selected was Anngone." While the Hoffman brothers have led seminars in the New York area, Dr. Hoffman said' this he hones that seminar leaders can alumni. ed persons should write him at the 123 Grove Island Cardiovascular Cedarhurst. N.Y. 11516. was returned to in of the church songs Mr. Most Jack Ladd has been named to head the campus's 1982-83 An- not afford to would build a nual Alumni Fund Campaign. possible a His appointment by President Delattre their gifts was announced by Mr. Carr's predeces- of contribution to the college. Alumni, who were gathered in the sor, Frank Marshall, who chaired the 1981-82 drive which raised $87,693, some Great Hall, in turn expressed gratitude to Mr. Marshall. By way of their thanks, $12,693 more than its goal of $75,000. they presented him at dinner that eve"This year we're going for $100,000," Mr. Marshall informed the annual meet- ning with a certificate of appreciation for· ing of the St. John's Alumni Association. his "outstanding service" as chairman. Gifts from alumni also brought words "I'm confident we can make it. Last year of appreciation from President Delattre, was the best alumni campaign ever, thanks to you. Some 1,028 alumni made who said the $155,000 surplus with which this possible." · the eastern campus concluded the year summer. Mr. ussorgm music on the Fe ca1np11s for which St. Board of Visitors and Governors named him to the Norma Fiske Chair. In Mr. with the of his and built a small church on the where Russian Orthodox every other would not have been without their contribution. A sizeable percentage. of all increases was attributed by campaign workers to a telephone campaign. This it will run twice as many nights, altogether. Dates chosen are December 6-7-8 and December 13-14-15. Mr. Carr served as president of the Alumni Association from 1965 until 1967. He now serves as a cultural administrator for the Maryland Department of Economics and Community Development. Because of increased demands for enrouLmEmt, the Santa Fe Graduate Institute added a second this fall in Altmque1·que. Tutors Santa Fe comtwo nie:hts each in in with students bri11gir1_g al New Mexican fare. r'nw............ 53 students are enrolled in the Institute as comnared to the 17 who enrolled in the fall of I David Frame 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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WILL be climaxed ·with the annual cocktail and dinner To former students to see the refurbished the be at 6:30 p.m. w1tn Annapolis tutor Michael Littleton at the A candlengm p.m. in the remarks the of Awards to the Afterwards there will be music of Holmes and the Area Forecast, a band drawn from musicians. St. John's comes as the looks forward to the fiftieth anniversary in 1987 of the New of the 50 years· toucne~d. upon in a lecture, "The of St. John's . ,. . ______ " co-~cnamrte: review as a alumni! at the end of is of the prowill mark of the Alumni Association and of the of Visitors and Governors this fall and constitute discussion at two Saturdav me~eungs in December and aac1m.on, Elliott Zuckerman, who is directing the for the Middle and States Schools, said that Tuesday afternoon sessions are nlanned 1982-83 year on four other 1981-82 Annual A review of four by the MSACS as of St. John's 1983 reaccreditation process, but this decennial will be of unusual to John's. The fiftieth of the New 1987, it's hard to know run-down shows A Continued on P. 5) hornec:orning in seminars ucwoer the St. John's n .............,...., Pr,esumnose About Education?" November 5, the of board there will a· discussion of the seminar. In December a meetuu! will be devoted to the case for as an essential of the program in the upper In late January, seminar on President Delattre with as the basis of the discussion. ad~iiti.on. there will be and We1dne!sd~tY aJrter·nocm sessions devoted to ~ exceeded tt ei:r 17 per cent. in unrestricted money, the balance the The rate of - the percentage of alumni giving to the college - was 35 oer cent, 12 cent above the percent for n~rican colleges. It repover last year when 21 eastern camnus's alumni Here's what's ahead for alumni at· on the Santa Fe campus Some of ·the visual beauty of the a lecture on why prediction is so a cocktail party, a dinner, a seminar on Alice in Wonderland, and a PrE!Sidlen1tial brunch. Activities will .with the Cochran Lecture by Vernon a senior scientist with the National Oceanic and Administration in He will at 8 n.m. Fridav the Peterson mt.liwE•~L ud fine arts. c ...... ",..,,... as the basis of the session on will be Dean Samuel Kutiua.t.u<;;;1u1cnu,;:, ProCurriculum." A workers were elated over the increase in .,,. .....,..,,,...4malgnlfu~ent," Frank canr1.pa1gn ... uc•u ... "''" said. "Alumni supposs101e for the cor:tcu.tae the fiscal We are all alumatto a tele- persons an or near i.~auuLuu Mcmume:nt. Since the difi'icullt, she those who should be in condition. 10 a.m. Garvev. GI '78 and John's tutor, will director of the New on a in Continued on P. 8} �E REPORTE.R Page 2 SEPTEMBER 1982 ITT makes Jim Frame • BETSY BROWN and SAM lARCOMBE 11-,,..,,it.,.,, ... and western alumni directors Next deadline tor The Reporter will be October 10. 1925 has published his 59th Mini Nationalism: Autono1m1e1Jien1aer.1ce, an examination of of nationalistic movements such people as the Basques, the and the Palestinians on world politics. The publisher i.s the Greenwood Press of Westport, Conn. 1936 Robert Lau was honored by the Erving (N.J.) township at its first annual Senior Recognition Tea. He was among_ ten chosen for service to the Robert has been a Mercer commissioner, an American 314 service officer, and a Mercer County Advisory Commission on Veterans Affairs. We Robert for his nublic spiritedness. 1942 Journet Kahn is the director of the Center for Liberal Studies in Chicago. Journet received his doctorate from the . University of Notre Dame and has in philosophy· and psychology ments as well as in books program Shimer and on the at Notre Dame western campus. He has designed and implemented inter-disciplinary Marquette Tr~;.,n.,,,; .• ., at St. the American College of Greece Ath. ens. The Center for Liberal Studies is an adult-education program using a books This fall it addresses the topic, Man Revolts." 1960 George Jones HI is a career officer in the U.S. Army, completing 21 years of service in August. He is a lieutenant colonel assigned to the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) at Ft. Monroe, Va. George also has been married for 21 years and has three sons Michael Benjamin, 14, Christopher Allen, 8, and George B. Jones IV, 19 and a sophomore at Washington College, with a major in political science. Besides these successes, after some delay George obtained his bachelor's degree in economics in 1971. His current address is:LTC George B. 228 Darrington Court, Newport News, Va. 23601. 1961 John Pekkanen was honored, together with the Washingtonian magazine, by the American Society of Magazine Editors in New York. John, who is a free-lance medical writer, gained the top award in reporting for that magazine with his story, "The Saving of the President," which concerned the assassination attempt upon President Reagan. It was described by the judges as "an absorbing meticulously reported and smooth,, reminiscences of the college. s 1968 that the Chicago Review will a piece of his short fiction in a forthcoming issue. He is working on a novel and describes his work as Of the Rick says, title is 'Instuns un Dighdacdics.' Its style evolved over a period of about seven years and is still evolving) ''"'""'""'·'"'""'t"" many devices, the intent of is to break the momentum of its language. Concise and explanation of the various turn invariablv into something as impenetrable as iron. He and his wife S'69, live near Villanueva. N.M. s 1970 David Skibbins. is working with psychotic children at St. George Homes in and is finishing his doctorate in __ A true alumnus, he commented that the doctoral work was meretraining and educa" He is stopped when I left St. interested in in the Graduate Institute. RPrhlPv um who began his studies on the western campus, visited Santa Fe briefly this summer. John teaches in an school in Piedra, Cal., and devotes a good deal of time to ·m1rc;:nina botany. . Judy Maistrellis graduated last spring from the University of Maryland Law School in Baltimore and has taken her Maryland bar examination. 1972 Grant Wiggins writes: "I have just finished the first year in the Ed.D. Philosophy of Education program at Harvard. Running avidly (can you believe it, Bryce?), playing music, enjoying life (and the Sox), and anxious to hear any old buddies who may be in the area. Note: Harvard is everything one would expect - and worse." Grant can be reached at 23 Peabody Terrace, #32, Cambridge, MA 02138, (617) 864-9805. Irving Williams and his wife, Audrey, were blessed with the arrival of Hannah Catherine Hillman-Williams on February 23 - 7 pounds, 12 ounces and "a real joy to us!" Since leaving teaching at the University of Southern Maine two years ago, Irv has been program coordinator of a day.care program. Audrey has resigned her teaching position to be a full. time parent for their two children. "Other St. Johnnies reportedly still alive and well and in the area are Jennifer '73, Charles 'Reefer' S'74, and Deborah 'Miss Randall' John Leslie Starr played second oboe the spring in the Baltimore Sy1nphorty Orchestra, for the oboist, who ·was on .,..., .. t,,. ...... a Leslie also leads a group, The Woodwinds, flutist Chester Burke. '74. narti~inatPs ·continued on 7) September USPS 018·750 JIM FRAME .••A top executive James H. Frame, of the International phone and Telegraph Corporation, Mr. Frame has served almost continuously with St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors since 1974. Currently he is chairman of the Campus Planning Committee and a member of the Retirement Committee. Previously he was a member of the Polity Committee. ·A resident of New York City, Mr. Frame until his appointment was director of ITT programming, a position he had held since joining the company in 1978. In this capacity he has been responsible for directing the corporation's efforts in oroE:rammine: technology world- a wide. In announcing Mr. Frame's ITT's president Rand V. the role Mr. Frame had at making ITT an industry pacesetter in programming technology. Prior to joining ITT, Mr. Frame held a number of management positions in programming development in a career at IBM spanning 22 years both in this country and in Europe. Before leaving to join ITT, he had been director of the corporation's programming development laboratory in San Jose, Calif. Mr. Frame is a native of Chicago. 41> John J. Logue, '50, placed Pennsylvania's Democratic the U.S. Senate seat now can Senator John Heinz. "I think that taking second place in a cent of the three-way race and 24 accomstate wide vote is a for our low issue " Mr. . Mr. science at Villanova 1 '"'""'"'"i't" since 1959 and is director of its Institute. . he earned both and master's degrees at Yale and a doctorate at the of Chicago. He has lectured on world in 15 countries, served as chairman of UN observers at the UN Law of the Sea Conference, and worked to establish a Common Heritage Fund from ocean mineral wealth. Mr. Logue has two books, The Fate of the Oceans and The Reform and Restructure of the United Nations. the former director of for the Santa Fe been elected chairman of the Council of Colleges and Universities of New .,.. ,,,,,,,A.... v • .LJJ. cumo.m, . Miss Branham as director to run for of of New Mexico. Defeated Miss Branham is now working on the campaign staff to elect Jeff Bingamon to the U.S. Senate on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Bingamon is at. general of New Mexico. �,Vi SEPTEMBER 1982 THE REPORTER Page 3 ' In 1946, after a year at St. John's, Peter Davies left to join the Merchant Marine and met Mahatma Gandhi. That was just following the great food famines of 1943 in India. Mr. Davies asked Gandhi what American students could do to help. Gandhi replied, somewbat presciently, "You can grow leafy salads in window boxes," prescient because that is precisely what Mr. Davies' oldest son, Kenneth, 29, is doing in New York. He is that city's director of urban gardening, working toward the greening of the city by starting gardens in empty vacant lots and encouraging. the growing of lettuce in window boxes. tradiKenneth is carrying on a tion of service. It was Peter Davies' meeting with Ghandi and his first exposure ah Indian village in Calcutta that him on becoming an ....................tural economist. His own father is a former member of Parliament and a former of foreign affairs. Peter's second son, is scheduled to receive his doctorate veterinary medicine from Cornell in 1983. Since graduating in 1949, Mr. Davies has done everything from working on the round of tariff negotiations to directing the Food for Development progr!tm in Brazil to serving as program director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation's Latin American activities. IN MAY, 1976, HE assumed his present position. He is president of Meals for Millions/Freedom from Hunger Foundation, a non-profit, self help private volunteer agency working in food and nutritional programs around the world and in such pockets of poverty in the United States as the P apago Indian Reservation . near Tucson, Ariz. Operating with a budget well under that of the Annapolis campus, Mr. Davies believes his foundation provides something that goes beyond simply teaching nutritional know-how: an alternative to civil war and political qnrest. Recently, on a return flight from Ecua.dor and Honduras, he found himself reflecting on the impact that Meals for Millions' self-help program has politically in these countries. "We are an important, if limited, alternative to the turmoil and suffering that is wrought when the conditions of poverty lead to the kind of armed con, frontations we are witnessing in El Salvador today," he said of his foundation's work. "Helping communities to become self. reliant and productive is a much more effective response ·to armed guerrillas than any military solution. Revolutionary activity is bred where there appears to be no other alternative than to take up arms against those who are in control. "POLITICAL UPHEAVAL is bred where children are hungry, where people in rural communities lack hope that they can, through peaceful means, improve their living conditions. In turn, this opens the way for exploitations by Soviet bloc countries." It is his firm conviction that small amounts of money spent on effective self. help projects will dQ- much more more effectively than millions of dollars spent on helicopters and arms of destruction. Mr. Davies spends much of his time in a plane, flying from New York, where the foundation's eastern office is located, to California, where Meals for Millions' new headquarters is to be built at Davis. There the University of California, with its well-established departments in agriculture, food science, and nutrition, will work in close cooperation with the foun. dation. Mr. Davies expects to continue to reside in New York. In 1955 he and his wife of 33 years, Phyllis, an attorney and executive assistant to the president of the Tax Commission of the City of New York, built a house in Riverdale in the Bronx amid beautiful old elms, gums, and linden trees. It is there that Mr. Davies practices what he preaches and gardens enthusiastically. "When my father was here for a visit recently, we had ten items for the salad from our g,arden," he noted. THE TYPE OF agriculture, however, with which Mr. Davies is primarily concerned is far removed from the Bronx. In the subsistence level areas where his foundation works, it is developing a "hands on" technology: simple-to. construct solar dryers to. preserve newly harvested crops, solar ovens and sawdust stoves to save long hours of fuel gathering, iceless coolers to . reduce spoilage, and village texturizers to turn proteinrich grains and legumes into nutritious foods. Financed by the public, churches, and foundations, with only about a quarter of its income from the U.S. Agency for International Development, Meals for Millions is teaching nutrition to villagers in Honduras, planting gardens in the Caribbean, producing high protein food in Korea, mounting a breast feeding campaign among Papago women, teaching bee-keeping and small animal raising in Africa, and much, much more. The foundation's motto is "Self-help for a Hungry World." . All of which keeps Mr. Davies moving, which is something this dynamic alumnus has done lots of. To capsule briefly: After a year at St. John's, he entered the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy with another St. John's alumnus, H. Gerald Hoxby, '47, in June, 1945. After 18 months in the Merchant Marine (where he read St. Augustine on a World War I City Service Oil Company tanker and at 19 was a volunteer union organizer), he returned to St. John's in January of 1947. He married Phyllis Botner immediately after his graduation in 1949 and, because his wife had a year to go in mathematics and physics at Radcliffe, applied to Harvard's Littauer School of Public Administration to major in agricultural economics. In 1951 he received his master's degree and passed his doctoral orals in political economy and government under John Kenneth Galbraith, but never completed a Ph.D. thesis. In 1950 he took time out, with a number -0f other St. Johnnies, including Peter Weiss, '46, Steve Bergen, '45, Jerry Cantor, '47, and David Rea, '49, to spend some time on a kibbutz in Israel sponsored by the Foundation for World Government, which had been founded by Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan. ON HIS RETURN, he spent six weeks .with the U.S. State Department's foreign aid program, but because he was a conscientious objector and it was the McCarthy era, he had to resign, and it would be ten years before he returned to work in foreign aid with the U.S. government. In 1952 he joined the Council on F-0reign Relations as a research assistant for Eugene Staley, an academician writing on under-developed countries. When that project was finished, he became an economist-writer for McGrath-Hill publishing company, writing for some of its 37 trade magazines and becoming assistant editorial director of the publications division. In 1958 he joined Business International, an international consulting firm, as vice-president, and spent three years organizing executive round table discus. sions for leaders of U.S. multi-national firms held in India, Japan, and the European common market. Another alumnus, William Brubeck, '44, who was working with Chester Bowles at the State Department during the John F. Kennedy presidency, suggested that Mr. Davies join the White House staff as a consultant to the special assistant for trade policy. This was in 1962. Mr. Davies then worked on the Kennedy round of tariff negotiations. From the White House he moved to the Agency for International Development, Department of State, as chief of its private enterprise division ten years af. ter his first, brief sojourn. Then, for exactly a two-year period bracketed on either side by his June 7 birthday, he returned to India as deputy managing director for the Coromandel Fertilizer Company, a joint AmericanIndian venture. · HE RETURNED TO AID in 1965 to serve, in the capacity of a foreign service reserve officer, as assistant director in charge of rural ·development for Thailand, working on the building of roads, agricultural programs, and leadership training, responsibilities followed by leadership training assignments in Indonesia and Pakistan. From there he went to Brazil for three years, from 1968-71, to direct the Food for Peace Program, which he renamed Food for Development. Speaking what he describes as "horrendously poor Portuguese," he got to 26 of its 27 states and territories and developed an admiration for the joi de vivre of the Brazilians. "Some people think Brazil will be the next Japan," he observed. "It's a huge country with a population of 130 million. and economically fabulously well en- · dowed. Sao Paulo is just like New York." On his return, he spent six months in Washington as AID's deputy director for the Office of Population and Civic Development for Latin America. Then in 1972 he left AID to become program director for the Western Hemisphere for the International Planned Parenthood Federation. He continued in that capacity until he joined Meals for Millions in May, 1976, as president. As foundation president Mr. Davies has not much time .left over. When he hassome it's not just for gardening. When it's possible, he likes to race his 28-foot sailboat th.at he keeps at Rowayton, Conn., called "Pandemonium." Otherwise, he is out fund-raising or flying between New York and California, a man with a mission, knowing that a satisfied stomach can change the way people think. Straw hats and suspenders, some rare old harmonizing, and a rendition of that stirring poem of the Klondike days - "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" - will mark the Caritas Society's annual scholarship feast October 16. This year the feast will have a Gay Nineties theme. On hand will be the St. John's Barbershop Singers Ied by Elliott Zuckerman, a mostly faculty group that brought down the house when it performed last spring at the college. President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle will take time from his duties as acting president of St. Mary's College to render the Robert W. Service poem in a manner which has brought cries of "encore" when he has recited it in the past. The reception is set for 6:30 p.m. in the Great Hall. Dinner will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Edgar T. Higgins Dining Room. Music followj.ng dinner will include such old numbers as "Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby," "4ura Lee," and "Sweet Adeline." Proceeds will go for St. John's scholarship purposes. Price will be $20. Reservations may be made by calling Mrs. Anthony Mileto, 266-8735. Mrs. Peter V.V. Hamill, vice-president for fund raising, is chairing the evening. In Mrs. William Jacobs. charge of food will �ments with Harvard and Hobart. The WB&A Railroad ran a track across the back behind the French Monument to Naval Ac:Htemy Women had yet to be adrnitt:ed. all-male there was a debating team that Mr. Blau! caritai,ne41. ternities with their own unlimited cut if vou made the dean's a '-o.Jl"JUO::lcll IJl(;A Dick Blaul lived at 5 St. John's now relocated on Conduit Street renamed the John Callahan House. His bed was a few feet from the organ of the old Church on College which was razed the 70s to make way for a state building. The groans are still with him. At of how much he wanted the organ would start close to his ear. "And I never could roommate, Bob to swap me." HAZING STILL WENT on. Freshmen and were ." the to St. WILLIAM ATHEY ... As a ~cn•n"''" wrote: '~To the of Dr. Petain goes the statistical honor of and enl"nnr::u1ini:r the e:reat militarv machine of arbitration. of of German seizure of some fires. Freshmen also had to town to the Middies cheered St. Johnnies Johnnies cheered Middies. Mr. and Mr. Blaul recall the a game, that St. Johnleft some and black uuuAml:)O!ll .on the Johns liOJ[)k111s Ho10K11rrs retaliated dents to Anna1>0lis. all the RICHARD BLAUL ... 1932 throughout the C"""'*"'" be Lawrence L. the years. The reunion dinner is scheduled for the Hilton, the place Bill who is the event, wants. a 1-0cation to indicate how much the has "I doubt if there in 1932 in walk down Main and you'd know - the barber, every store owner. Some of these have never been back. The:re've some tremendous changes in· .n....... ~,v.u.;;i. Even I gasp when I see the masts down at the Yacht Club." THE ONLY PLACE on 1111:.irv1:um nue that remains, who until recently ance office there, is the Little vo:1.mvu~. Back in 1932 it was called the Bowl. And \..ua.u.p;,~;u There was no bell, no Chanceuor Jonnson, Barrister, no boathouse, no iiuu mc:u ant, no The old with its covered-over A smoke house was located at about corner of where Campbell is, and the superi1~te11dentof ouu.am1gs Everett Smith. and there. Students attended lab in the basement of McDowell or at Lutz' Tavern '-'-'"'"\./'"'"'" ly across from the on Avenue. It retained the name was known St. John's era. One field and the tennis courts were between the gym and the smoke house. Another Street about courts are. It had bleachers were - ·· encircled the field. The front trees while the There were woods-_ "Buzzard's - all the back from about is to the boat house. \..AUlUF,<:OU. us worn. Some carried over into their te~1cnmg d was " Mr. recalled. "He got me interested in art. Another was Ford K. Brown. He was a with a great sense of humor. And John was a wonderful guy with a tremendous heart." Former college with her was on the staff. Mr. """+.. ..... ;,.,,,, after 20 years and he:.:umi-; Dick Blaul! Where The next moirniiu?: he wouldn't And will be one of the stories that will be remembered when the Class of 1932 its tales of St. John's 50 years ago. were so were months the didn't know whether it would get There were rumors that the cash flow was so bad that the not be to pay the Annaoolis As an economy the Class of 1932 knew three he'ads. President Enoch Barton in 1929 and became interval St. John's was one of the landowners. its .. v,,......5 ., House House. Two events marked the Class of 1932's final The class learned that the iv1emoria.1 Hall of Records was to be built ca1np11s to mark the 300th !:irn1nTd=>r<;:~r,1 of the of Seniors also attended ceremonies at the French monument in which marshall Henri the hero of the World War I Battle of a wreath. He also received an that St. John's program for a �come to St. John's, all your cm1ceots are shaken. Now I that I never man show. The ..... ,.,,.,.,,..,,~ me with In the work Dobreer, of Los heads a of officers to be Scheduled discussion are the activities of the association within the context of the new members are a walking tour of the Historic area has been scheduled for and in f'nr1nl'.'·rl'.ltinn with Centuries Tours. The tour will leave the coffee shop at 10:30 a.m. A buffet luncheon will be served at 12: 30 in the hall. Alumni will have choice of two late afternoon at 4 Satur: the annual alumni student classic on back of a Wardour. �IUJ~H'I~ 6 SEPTEMBER 1982 E • One graduate, Washington consultant Paul Finney, wore a bouquet of balloons his daughter tied to his hood. They were bright and bouncy like the celebratory mood of the reception following commencement this year at the Graduate Institute. The 1982 summer session was over in Annapolis. And what a session it had been. Talky. "I thought I would have to blow my whistle on them," Torn May, who co-led a philosophy and theology seminar, said of his students. That was night for Romans with everyone pouncing on their Bible, pulling out one quotation after another in an effort to determine exactly what it was St. Paul meant by faith. Roman candles were going up all the way. The Politics and Society Seminar members encircled a table elsewhere in McDowell. "It was hard to get in a word edgewise," commented Ben Milner, one of its leaders and director of Annapolis's Graduate Institute. Absence of words was not a problem for these students working toward a master's degree in the summer program. In Room 34 Torn Slakey and Jeffrey Franklin were leading a seminar devoted to mathematics and natural science, considering such things as the notion of purpose in biology and the relationship of mathematics to nature. ON AUGUST 12 the eight-week program-all the talking, all the parties came to an end in a commencement in which ten students received master's in liberal education. The ceremony was held in McDowell . Hall with much of the pomp and ceremony which marks the undergraduate program. Completing the program were: Noelle Joan Burke, of Washington; the - Rev. George Leonard Cochran, OP, of Providence, RJ.; Andrew Favret and Gertrude Koch, of Silver Spring, Md~; Paul Finney, of Bethesda, Md.; Robert Heeney, Jr., of Severna Park, Md.; Richard Mills, of Riverdale; Jean Monroe and Phoebe Schock, of Annapolis, and Leonard Perrett, III, of Bethlehem, Pa. The Rev. Winslow Shaw, pastor of the Paul left, and the eastern campus. R. Howard Sheolhe1·d First Presbyterian Church, delivered the invocation and benediction, and President Delattre the address. In his talk, "The Liberal Arts: Real Career Education," Mr. Delattre said most students are not learning the difference between a vocation and an occupation, between having a calling and having a job. ''The nourishment of mind which comes from the study of the liberal arts can make a career the work of a lifetime, irrespective of formal retirements,'' he declared. "The study promotes genuine independence and personal direction. "For all these reasons, the popular wisdom that students are nowadays thinking more than ever about careers, rather than about political reform, for example, is not true. To be sure, many students are preoccupied with job .opportunities, means of securing an adequate income, achieving financial independence, and the like. Many of them believe t{lat when they address themselves to such matters, they are thinking about careeers. Annapolis Capital photo make this mistake because they have not learned what a career ·is. Many, I fear, never will. The situation is not likely to improve until the liberal arts are taken seriously in all kinds of institutions - educational, journalistic, familial, religious, financial, and so on-and even then only ,if the liberal arts are soundly taught and studied." Mr. Delattre said that liberal arts provide the only real career education in that it includes the paramount disciplines in which careful and accurate uses of language are learned and concepts and methods of inquiry conveyed, including the concepts "careers," "leisure," "vocation," "profession," "work," "employ. rnent," "occupation," and "success." "No student can prepare for a career in any systematic way without a grasp of these concepts and their implications," he continued. "There is no good reason why any secondary or college level student should have to face adulthood in ignorance of such things." • Jeremy Leven, '64, is the author of a second novel, Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S., published by Alfred Knopf at the end of May. An alternate for the Book of the Month Club, the novel was published last month in Great Britain by Michael Joseph and is scheduled for paperback next year by Granada in England. Next June Balantine will bring out the paperback in the United States. Another edition will be published by Laffont in Paris next year. Swedish and Israeli rights also have been sold, and Knopf has informed Mr. Leven that Finnish, Norwegian, and Italian editions are "on the horizon.'' A movie version is being produced by Steve Freidman · and being filmed by King's Road Productions. (Mr. Freidman has done Eye of the Needle, Slap Shot, Blood Brothers, and The Last Picture Show.) The director is Ivan Passer (Law and Disorder, Cutter's Way), who also wrote the screenplays for Miles Foreman of Loves of a Blond and Fireman's Ball. In a letter from New Haven, Conn., where he is a fellow at Yale Medical School's Child Study Center, Mr. Leven writes: ""I've just come from th,e West Coast where I've been working with them on the screenplay which I'm writing for Satan. While there I met a writer who has the same agent in New York City that I do and who told me all about her best friend, Michael Elias ('62), who has a major film which is being released any second. It is immanent that we will finally meet." .. of his first novel, Crea tor, Mr. Leven reports that he has been preparing its screenplay adaptation. "I have just now finished the 18th draft or so, a complete reworking of the book until it is hardly recognizable, though I hope still good, and there appear to be several people interested. As with all things about Hollywood, nothing is certain until it's done, or later, I've learned. They actually have a way of undoing things ... Even Penelope would be amazed by their finesse." By way of personal news there is more: Joshua Michael Leven was born with this April 10, "but I had some project," Signs of the times: Circulation for· faculty and staff at the Annapolis campus's library has remained the same for the past two years, but the number of books taken out by students has increased substantially. _ Mrs. Kathryn Kinzer, librarian, believes that economic pressure is causing more students to borrow rather than to buy books read in the college program. Money they normally would spend on books is going elsewhere. While student enrollment remained approximately, the same for the past two years, she said circulation jumped from 32.6 books per student in 1980-81 to 36.8 books per student in 1981-82. Altogether students borrowed 14,056 books last year as against 12,274 the previous year. It is the library's highest student circulation figure. In contrast, there was only a two-book difference for faculty and staff. It went from 2,084 in 1980-81 to 2,086 in 1981-82. "While we like to think that the circulation is alforing and the students diligent, this summer rise in student circulation almost reflects economic pres- sure," Mrs. Kinzer observed. Is St. John's elitist and irrelevant? President Delattre has been fa.ced with such a question. In a speech in Los Angeles, he told Southern California alumni that elitist had been defined by a journalist with whom he talked as a school with a limited enrollment reserved for very bright students and indifferent to the general public. St. John's keeps its campuses small in order that students and faculty may have opportunities for friendship and serious conversations, Mr. Delattre said. with reference to Euclid and Plato, he quoted the late Stringfellow Barr, who helped establish St. John's New Program, as saying "that there is so much intellectual dynamite in these books, that they should be studied b:v the dumbest freshmen in America." "I went on to say that any decent and experienced teacher knows perfectly well that most of the books we study are not the province of geniuses, but can be read with benefit by any person of normal intelligence who is willing to work hard and patiently. "This fact is demonstrated by all sorts of adult programs, secondary school programs, and by self-educated readers, as well as by the student body at St. John's, which, I explained, is composed of generally bright and thoughtful people who read and converse with seriousness of purpose, but not of people who are, across the board, geniuses. "I insisted that our students are a sampling of the general public, and that our undergraduate and graduate programs, the latter including many school teachers, were centrally concerned with the public. Who else, after all, is there to teach?" Queried about the question of irrelevance, Mr. Delattre told alumni he was tempted to ask, "Irrelevant to what?" He continued: "Rather, I responded by describing our program and urging that if knowing the foundations of western civilization, the foundations of the United States, having a grasp of the engines of political and economic authority and power, if knowing the methods of practice, learning, and discovery in mathematics, the sciences, and the humanities, if achieving the skills necessary to civic, occupational, and personal adaptation in a complex, technological social order, if becoming adept readers, thinkers, and conversationalists - indeed, if learning the disciplines of mind which have come progressively to advance civilization since the dawn of human intelligence - if these are irrelevant, then surely St. John's is. "But if, instead, the study of trivia, absenteeism, cheating, random collection of courses, indifference to the scholarly and scientific disciplines, grade-grubbing, and the like - commonplaces in American education - are the real forms of impracticality and failure in teaching and. learning, then we are avoiding most of the hazards of b,ad education." SJC photos featured Three photographs of the Annapolis campus are featured in a new handbook, Planning Your College Education: A Practical Approach for Students and Parents. Omitting discussion of specific colleges, the handbook deals generally with issues affecting college choice. It was written by William A. Rubinfeld and published by the National Textbook' Corn" pany. �E SEPTEMBER 1982 RTE Page 7 • (Continued from P. 2) s 1972 Seth Cropsey has left the Defense Department to join the Voice of America. 1973 Brad Arms, '72, writes to Jan Huttner, '73, and were married at Band Chapel University of Chicago on June 27. _ ceremony was attended both Johnnies and Obies (Oberliners?). In addition to up from '73, came from the rr... ;"""'"''h' ware." John Morse, '72, also attiendled. Jan is finishing her doctorate in the philosophy of psychology at Chicago. Her husband is also a doctoral candidate in Tzannes nee Chalek tells us that she and her husband George "joyfully announce the birth of their son," Peter Basant, who was born on June 9. Happy birthday, Peter. M. Jane Young has received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvannia in folklore and folklife. She has been hired to teach folklore courses in the ...n ....,,. ......1,,.,..... n ...... ., ..tm.::mt of the Univerand she tells us it position. Jane has also r11>1"'11>nt1v married a fellow folklorist, Robshe is her own name. (He wm be teaching: mathematics at Austin Jane's new address will be Young, Assistant Professor, Dept. of n~~ .. a .. of Texas, AusM residency in pediatrics at St. Louis Chil- great books in Philadelphia." Cheila's dren's Hospital, which is associated with directory address is no longer correct. the Washington University School of Med- Her mail will reach her at 1010 W. Upsal icine. While there, Jim was joined by Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19119. s 1977 Steve and Melissa Sedlis, '73, Darcy Scholts has been awarded a juris and by Peter Fox, '75, all doctors comthe University of Puget pleting or fellowships~ Jim and doctor degree Sound in Tacoma, Wash. While in law his wife Karen another member to she was a member of the Law our in "Elizabeth Bradford Women's Caucus, was the Jarvis was born at 7 a.m. on 29, not ammu!1ot1s timing since her dad- Thurston County Pr1Jsecut.ing and did volunteer work for " 1"'""r11" been up all the nr11>vin11~ Tacoma Human Relations Dn~n-•~n~+ taking care of sick Rosalind Hutton wrote in suJJ1poi;e that I don't have to add that she and her husband will leave for is of our eyes." The Jarvises are living in a small China this month. He will be associated South Carolina town 35 miles northwest with the Office of Foreign Experts at of Beach. Jim has a private Hunan University. 1978 "'"""'11-""'' in although it was set Michael who is an internal conup under National sultant with Montgomery Ward, informs am the us that his second child, Daniel Michael, radius, and -I expect that I'll get very 10. His wife, Diane busy. We are obligated to be here at least was born (Lamoureaux), '80, is with the two years, and we are to children although she hopes to finish her longer." Their address is Piri1tPu1onr1 write them math degree soon. You Drive, S.C. 29569, (803)756-6135. at 1109 Elmhurst Street. Ill. 1976 60196. Carl Dunn and his 1978 announced the birth of Sanderson on May 16. pounds, twelve ounces appear very nroud. Cone:ratulations Jose Jr .• · his master's .... 78712. and Elizabeth with joy the birth of their son James Austin on 18. mum Mozell Morris was for the content design development of an award-winning educational television program, nart of a life-science series MOZELLE LANG produced Mississippi ETC. "The Natural Balance, which. concerns the ecosystem, was awarded the Instructional Design Award by the Educational Communication Associa1974 is stationed with Quantico, Va. Both Warfare of 1983. s 1974 Kate and David Gross news of the birth of their c:ta11gnter on 9. David law in area; Kate is a freelance editor. David that she is and that she gave birth her first child, Cassidy Ann. 1975 .Jarvis has finished a three-year new venture. for rhrnlnvil'> address will be: c/o Kildonan Amenia, N.Y. 12501. s 1976 Judy Kistler is teaching at the Forman School in Litchfield, Conn., a school which specializes in educating dyslexic and learning-disabled students. Her husGI '80, teaches there Hutchins vlanm~d to duce Euclid the curriculum. She would be happy to correspond with those interested in school teachand in teaching dyslexics. 1977 Marlene Franks writes that she has received master's in from Berkeley and work a doctorate. Grant continues to do "'"""''"'"'t"' law at and where he works on anti-trust and law nrc1blE~m:s. Michael us that he has married Ms. Bonnie Larine James and that he and his wife have changed their names to Michael and Bonnie St. James. Patrick Gould was a member of the of the Graduate Institute in Anthis summer, teaching in the and theology After gratdu;atiru?: from St. John's, Mr. Gould earned a master's of letters 1979 from Scotland's n-: .. ~ .. Andrews. At ...,..,,,,..,.,.~+ ward a doctorate in oonuca1 nnuosonnv at Brown n,..;.,".,,..a, s 1978 Ann and Kevin summer at the Flagstaff, courses. In the fall, United Arab Emirates to continue their teaching careers at the American School in Dubai. 1979 Sollars received her master's degree in anatomy and cell biology from Columbia University last month and will be married September 4 to Dr. Gary Pickard. I will be keening my own name." September 11 move to Berkeley:, where her husband is located and where she will shift her academic pursuits to psychology. s 1979 Marthastopping by the Santa Fe campus this summer, said that she had just finished her second year of medical school at the University of Louisville. She added that she would welcome visits from classmates. Elaine Bomford is in New work. ing as administrative assistant in the concert division of the Hebrew Arts School. A short sketch of Hayden, written was in a recent issue of Concert's Hall's program notes. 1980 Mark and Julie (Neitz) returned after two of the Peace Corns Zaire. 1912 1914 1916 1917 - Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. 1920 Mr. 1920 - Mr. 1926 Mr. 1929 - Mr. 1930 1931- Mr. 1931- Mr. 0. Milbourne Thomas c. HOlPKlllS Carl R. Lar1gn:1m1ner B. _ Maurice E. Newman, Jr. Edwin W. Lowe Walter S. Baird Edward B. Hines Rvle L. Benson selected the University of Chicago Law School in preference to Harvard, which also accepted him, because of its greateremphasis on legal theory. Julie will teach math and science at the Harvard School in Chicago. Their address is 5316 S. Dorchester Avenue, Apt. 305, Chicago, Ill. 60615. s 1980 Cullen Hallmark is studying law at the Tniun .. eoihr of Texas. 1981 Auerbach and James '81, and James '81, are "Fast Run"-a New Wave rock band. They are living in G.eneva and have performed a couple times during ·the early summer "to a mixed reaction." We wish them luck. Elizabeth Scali and Andrew Pease were married a year ago in June and are in Alexandria, Va. She is working as a receptionist and administrative assistant for the Hannaford Company, a relations while pursuing studies at the "Alliance Francais ashington.)) Her husband is n 111~c:nn'l0' at 1982 Leslie Smith and Nathan Rosen were married on 24 in the Great followed a in the at which " Their honeymoon was spent in.West ~~;-~ft and 1-'t:>tinc:11l'1'~1"1i are at the National Institute of Health where Nathan is a staff writer in the office of the National Cancer and Leslie is testing a co11npt1ter at the National Library of Memcme. fall Nathan will begin work toward a master's degree at the University of Maryland. Leslie is seeking a teaching position for the fall and would appreciate information on openings anyone have. Their address is: Nathan Leslie Rosen, 4511 Longfellow Street, #5, Hyattsville, Md. 20781. s 1982 in Brad Wronski wrote June that he was fortunate to find a job almost as soon as he had He is in St. Paul, u1n1rlrir'l0' as an assistant vocational rehabilitation counselor at a home for the mentally ill. Steve Sayre has landed an editorial at Scribner's in New York. He wrote to say that his first project was the Dictionary of the Middle Ages. .l.V.lll.ILJn..'V JL.!Jl.ll.a~ Michael Elias, '62, with Rich wrote the script for the generally received. "Young Doctors in Love,'' released this summer. "Their 95-minute assortment of thrm" ........... and dead-nan the 1933 - Mr. Leonard J. u"""'~"' 1933 - Mr. U. Chester Ullman · 1938 - Mr. Samuel P. Jr. 1939 - Mr. G. Robert Mowell 1945 - Mr. Owen C. Barnes 1949 - Mr. Ellsworth 1949 - Mr. Eric Teel 1952 Mr. Lancaster B. Knott 1980 GI - Ms. Martha Sexsmith 1982 - Mr. Bruce De1np!;ter �TH Published by College Relations Office St. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 Ler u;:, ""'"'"'~r~n""' f'\11·c.rv~-~-- 24 hours year, it Back in alumni. a member of Tutor Joe said its content is editorial at '''aua ... uthina that concerns work as members the the The asked in the year President Delattre few tutors to think she is on the conltril:mti.ons so to haJ1pe11s is that the function as the i;rpr11ithrP Both definitions relatic:mship between tudes." The translation, which runs about pages long, consists of 94 Euclidian It is a book which Mr. publications and to decide whether we sort," Mr. Sachs said. have the of our conversa"From the tions we thonaht something like The it was Collegjan of edited David Lachterman ('65) Susan Roberts ('66)." The which included the Because of _ will be from to some which receive honorable mention. 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JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1~rn1r1 1 ~1r1 ~ St. John 11111111111111111 31696 01138 0894 I 'Volume 9,}ssye. 5 . - ~napolis, Ma. and Santd Fe, N.M~ Class of i' I Jl)N~ 1982 c r I lie e r James of Dallas, who came here as a has received the Board Visitors and Governors' Silver Medal awarded anto the student with the excellent were the essays this that six seniors were given honorable George L. Ianmention: Mr. nacone, Holly Johnson, William Ney, Abraham Schoener, and Anderson Weekes. Terri-Ann P. Hahn and Mr. Schoener were the seniors found to have contributed most of the college's athletic their oarticiuation, ..-..&llllllllU.u~ blazers. Other prizes announced by President Delattre were: The Duane L. Peterson of Jonathan Edelman; the Markland Kelly, Jr., Memorial scholarships of $1,000, Alexandra Farias, Martin Marklin, and George McDowell, ; the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation scholarships of $1,250, James Mr. Edelman, Mi~hael Continued on P. 7) an eventual corno1:ise!d of a Western 'and united under "one and visitorial Out of retirement of a It wasn't the misuse SUJllertlUll:y Which brnu aM .a out "emeritude," as he it, but rather afthe senior class for this tutor whose final year of teachine: was their first. · taken less seriousl:v works. his return to the United States he work toward a doctoral Besides 19th centur: Mr. Weekes is interested in the philosophers, Aristotle, and later philosophers such as Husserl. Eventually he hopes to teach. The prospect of understanding the philosophy of nature in its system context will not be especially easy, to Mr. Weekes. "I don't know if I can do a year," he said. "I've set mvself an enormous task." A native of Delray Beach, Mr. Weekes is the son of Mrs. Allan J. Greene, of Boynton Beach, Fla. Prior to comine: to St. John's as an early entrant, he at the Gunnerv School in Washimzton. Conn. to �2 is 70. BETSY BROWN I want to thank all of you who wrote in about yourselves, including those who have been out of touch with us for a while. Many of you have told me you would like to see more alumni notes so if ha1J1per:1ing to me a line. - 1 Bernard F. Gessner attended the Annapolis alumni's monthly luncheon wearing a blue blazer decorated with a rare brass button. A remnant of St. John's military-school which ended in 1923, the button was taken from a St. John's uniform of the time and 2iven to the widow of William of West River, Md. Given the -current price of buttons, it is quite costly. According to the engraving on the it was made in England for the New York firm of J.R. Gaunt & Son, Inc. Its face is a replica of the old St. John's seal, contraining a small figure ready to ascend a mountain of rocks. · 1 Louis Snyder, professor emeritus the City College of the City TTniuoV'c;ifu New York, is the author of a doc~un1en1ta1·y the Third Reich. which in= the Clearfield Bank and Trust Co.,, of which he became president in 1960. Although he retired in 1977, he has served as chairman of the board of that company since 1972. He writes: "I raised a of six wonderful children who have given me ten grandchildren so far; still two sons unmarried." His youngest child, a daughter, was married in April, and his youngest son is in the Navy, serving on the submarine U.S.S. James Monroe. Their mother died in 1975. His new wife, Esther, "is providing a joyous home life in my active retirement years." As would like to renew some St. John's acquaintances. He particularly mentioned John Donahue, "with whom I played football in the hey-day of mtercouegiate sports at St. John's." His address is: Box 160, Treasure Lake, R.D. 4, DuBois, Pa. 15801. 1 Sam Schenker has resigned as executive director of the Chesapeake Savings and Loan Association of Annapolis although he will continue as its president. A lawyer for 41 years, he is now in ..,..,.'l,.ti•~ 0 with his son, H. Douglas sometimes serving the grandchildren some of his first clients. He and his rPrPntlv made a trip to China. 1 The Rev. John is a "'"11''1"-hmo assistant of St. John's Episcopal Church In tage, speeches, <l>Y•"",..nt., Ellicott City. John actually left letters, radio court records. His work in 1970 to spend a year in book, Hitler's Reich (Nelson-Hall), os~fCbliat,ric chaplaincy program at covers the between World War I and the of the Third Reich. Recently, that he spent 20 months as a research Psychiatric at the Mr. who is retired from CUNY, served as a visiting professor at Research Center investigating the the 1Tnhro,.,..,i·h1 use of psychedelic drugs. he has been a counselor for the and Consultation In connection with the Archbishop of Centers of Greater Baltimore and so1nt1ua1 Canterbury's visit to Maryland's Eastern director of the Shalem Institute for Shore last year, James F. Leslie wrote a ~...1...H11 !111 Formation in Washington. three-act play concerning Kent which was presented at the Wye 1 1 Theatre (Wye Mills, Md.) with Tom This note comes from Alfred Parran, '72,. as narrator. The play was, Franklin: "At present I'm an unemployed called The Green Gem, a title with which chemist with an MBA. My oldest child, Kent Island was in earlier gradualted from MIT with honors and It was so well-received that a second daughtier has completed performance has been requested. Jim, with a major in who was a counselor at Towson, Md., high and my youngest is about to school, has retired to Kent Island and is 1 Stevens." active in history circles. official 1 1 W. Lee HI, known to his St. John's friends the nickname "As," left, St. John's in '36 in order to Wharton He writes us, however, that his "heart and feelings are for St. John's. Oh what memories!" As served in North Africa early in the Second World War and in the invasion of Salerno and where he was c:o1>V'·im111;:lv wounded while commandinl:! a uat.11.au.vu. He two and a years in and was retired as a colonel Reed in 1947. After his to his native Cle!arl~iel1d, 1 5 The Rev. Duncan has become director of libraries for the of and of the que. He served for two-and-a-halff years as interim pastor of churches in Scotch Grove and Center Junction, Ia., and has been, elected chairman of the Ministerial Relations Committee of John Knox. Presbytery, United Presbyterian Church. 1982. Three of these concern Eliseo Vivas, of Northwestern University, who was Hugh's mentor. The first, A Theory of Art, .Literature and Tragedy: The Philosophy of Eliseo Vivas, should appear momen- after a delay of almost a year. This will be followed by an annotated bibliography of Vivas' writing, a collection of Vivas' essays which Hugh edited, and an anthology of original essays in aesthetics. The titles are: Eliseo Vivas: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: Garland Press, 1982); Vivas As Critic: Essays in Poetics and Criticism (New York: Whitson Press, Inc. 1982); What is Art? (New York: Haven Publishing Co., 1982) 1 John R. Pekkanen. a writer living in Washington, served both as a production consultant and as James Brady, briefly gli1rnp:sed on an operating table, in ABC's "The Saving of the President." It was shown as a special edition of "20/20" dealing with the at· tempted assassination of President Rea~an. Lou Borst nee Rice received a JD from the University of Iowa in December of 1977 and since has been uracticing law in Mt. Pleasant, Ia. Besides practice, she has. a contract on to nV'r•uirlo and at Iowa Business She was married in 1978 to Borst a director of continuing education at Iowa _ She has two children at home while her eldest is a freshman Tnh1o1>r1;:ih1 of Iowa. the whole exhibition: "It's an enormous balancing act ... You have this cloud of amorphous things that have to be considered and satisfied and incorporated. It's also a distillation process, a matter of playing forces off against each other, seeing who gets his way on what, because they don't always agree." At the time of the article he was looking forward to planning a large Vatican- exhibit due to open in November of 1983. He told the Chronicle that designing museum exhibits has been "almost a parallel side-track" to ar· chitecture, but "it is not my life work." He plans to return to architectural in two years. Alex who writes that he would like to hear from 2305 Souvenir, has given us this Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3H 153. He tells us that he is singing with both the Montreal Black Community Choir and a Lutheran German Choir. Also, he belon~~s to a the members of are ref11ge1~s Latin American dictatorships. "I am like I was only more so, with a little I have cornment:in~ on the 1 Paul vu:iwcm~ . that it's his not himself who does mentaries for the Public Radio Considered." Paul and sto1:me1d. His wife has done innumerable ......... ,,. ..... , .... ..,for ''NPR Journal.'' for " he sure what I am, either artist or else an exsuccessful commercial artist. In I used to be able to eke out a or w::armini1 beside a woodstove. But then came Ronald 'MacDonald' Reagan. Don't I'll be back on feet soon. 'Til in the and I've to fix the back ....... 1 ..... Travis L. Price announces the birth of a son, Travis L. Price IV, the most recent addition to a which includes Jeanne Mackenzie the and sister Sara Mackenzie is an architect living in and describes himself rate." 1 1 wnrlrnhnn who is on addressed a of the Radius -1...:-- ' ' that the Susan Elizabeth in June. The wedding will Paul's Church, Baltimore. Ian Harris tells us that he was an ficial delegate at the convention in Detroit of the Democratic uv•-.UllJLA"" which is the largest socialist or~:anl1zat1on in the United States since the acAn article in the The San Francisco Chrnnif'1P news of Robert Davis: "Since last architect with the facial contours of a Greek statue, has been a for 'The Search for Alexander, exhibit of .more than 160 ......u.,,h its across the ,.,..,,,,...f,..,u debut at National in astnni~ton, D.C." was responsible for desi~ning "And we are still _ same house" Karen writes . we stiH for those who are have the dogs!'' coi1gratutlation.s! �I I Can you imagine all of the St. John's faculty and student body disappearing one by one down a rabbit hole, just like that? For this is what happened one Thursday night in the prankist month of May. Really. It was sort of science fiction-y. Well, almost like that. First there were all those Alices. They invaded seminars, complaining loudly, "And what is the use of a book without pictures or con· versations?" · Despite the interruption, seminars might have gone on, accepting the visitors as just more St. John's eccentrics, had not the White Rabbits arrived, consulting over-sized pocket watches and being overwhelmed their own tardiness. "Oh dear! Oh dear! shall be too late!" So what was there left to do but for everyone naturally to close their books and follow. And down the rabbit hole everyone went. At least they disappeared through the trapdoor behind stage into the lower depths of Mellon wher...~ there was a table with little glasse to drink marked "drink ljtt!~_S.112..~lg!s. me's" and another marked "eat me's," by consuming 0110.,.,mn~ experienced an act whicfi their otherwise studious· devoted solelv to the and the THE theme from a book form( ~"""'"'am, Alice in Wonderland, the senior involved everyone in a caucus race - musical chairs - in the pe1rid11luim which had been a tears. As the Cheshire cat, Eugene smiling face emerged meowing from a hole in a sheet painted like a tree while Herschel Weinstein, seated on a mushroom, away at a soap bubble as if he had always been a Tribulski, Maggie Argent, Liz Colmant, and Joel Weingarten. · Upstairs, in the Key lobby, Liz Stuck, Kate Lissauer, and Charlotte Barham, all dressed in red with crimson faces and wearing fresh fish over their bibs, led the students in dancing an adroit Lobster Quadrille while on stage James DeMartini read Lewis Carroll poetry and introduced what everyone agreed was a wonderful version of the Mad Tea Party. Cathy Hartel was Alice; Andy White, the March Hare; Janet Durholz, the Dormouse, and Fritz Monsma, the Mad Hatter. Patty Sowa directed. "Better than the movie," praised Marilyn Mylander, director of health services for the college, referring to a 1933 film of Alice in Wonderland shown the following day. Maggie Argent coordinated activities indoors. Outdoors Steve Berkowitz, who was in charge of the senior was assisted Marco Acosta and Tracy Litwin in setting up a carnival with whirling swings, a dunk tank, and game booths run students. George 1au1w1.:um:: organized day. Instead of and 1,1,1.~,1.11 Acu..,, there were games on back spired by the classes attended Turtle: "Reeling and w ...1t1i;,..,,..., dislodging an from an opposite ropes - and n,_ ..;sion" - the with grease !""&.rited by someone else. There was also and Gimbelling, a series of and Whifflim!:. word j§AI§"'-"~ ...... game of in red and St. John's Jacobsen a • I chess is ever simple, since moves were completed by responding to riddles and syllogisms and questions taken then from the St. John's program and bits of Lewis Carroll logic. If the attacking piece answered correctly, then the attacker could take a square. The commands were shouted out by the White Queen, Janet Durholz, and the Red Queen, Kate Lissauer. "Spell avuncular backwards." "Give three rhyming words for Alice." "How many vertices are there on a dodecohedron?" "Complete this syllogism: Babies are illogical; No one is despised who can manage a crocodile; All illogical persons are despised." (If you must know how to complete it, Carroll's conclusion is, "Babies cannot manage crocodiles.") The game ended when Mr. Jacobsen's pawn, Rick Wynn, got to the other side of the board. Also, with lawn-style pink flamingos around, students wearing huge playing cards and carrying mallets wrapped in pink played a simultaneous croquet game. During the day, luncheon and dinner were cooked and served by seniors outdoors. For a time of nonsense, there was no nonsense about how everyone enjoyed the prank. And, as the Duchess might have declared in her decisive way, the moral of that is that it was one of the best senior pranks ever. Decorating the rabbit tunnel were animals and characters made Bryce Jacobsen, left, and Dean-Elect Sam Kutler call the moves in the chess A pr9perly mad Mad Hatter - game. · frih: Monsma - has Rabbit Paul Hart~I amused. photos by Todd Reichart �I CmLtJn·uea from P .1) highly respected and more competently used. "First of all, then, most of you often use bad grammar," he told the seniors. "I had occasion this year to read a brilliant paper by one of the brightest of St. John's students, and in it I found the words 'concerning she.' You say 'between you and I,' 'for my roommate and I,' as if the right word, 'me,' were an obscenity. "The taboo on 'me' has infected the objective forms of other personal pronouns, especially in pairs. I have found 'to he and I' in The Washington Post. Other offenses he noted: "Phenomena," "criteria," and "media" are plural, not "To say 'I feel can mean only that your fingertips are numb." "Your sentences begin with dangling modifiers: 'When 19 years old, my grandmother died.' " Good word usage consists mainly of short words. Consider the superiority of the short words in these pairs: terminate, countenance, deracinate, uproot; utilize, relinquish, A long-held conviction colleagues, and students of the Scott Buchanan that his ... ~.+·~·"'n an audience far wider than his lifetime has resulted the appearance of a collection of nieces. So Reason Can Rule. The book has been Farrar, Straus, and Giroux with St. John's College. It carries the subtitle, Reflections on Law and Politics. "It has been underwritten a group friends who learned from in hi 5 lifetime and who believe, with goot' reason, that his work should be in print," . according to President Edwin J. Delattre, who wrote the introduction for the volume. The associate editor is a Santa Fe ........... uuu, Nancy Miller, '75, now with the publishing firm. At an April reception at his home celebrating the publication, Mr. Delattre said the book had emerged frm the vision of F. Palmer Weber, of Charlottesville, a long-time admirer and friend of Buchanan, and his desire to see his work in print. Noting that So Reason Can Rule deals with law and politics, Mr. Delattre told guests, who included individuals active in its publication, that "It is our intention to begin work on the second group of essays by Scott Buchanan on education. We hope to have another party celebrating a second book and describing a third.'' ACCORDING TO THE prefatory note, most of the pieces in So Reason Can Rule were circulated principally among associates at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara (now the Hutchins Center) or had limited distribution in center pamphlets and periodicals. The selection of his works has been the responsibility of a small committee that has included Mr. Weber, Stephen Benedict, Jay Gold, L. Harvey Poe, and Harris L. Wofford, Jr. Cooperating in other aspects of the project have been W.H. Ferry, David Padwa, Bernard Rappaport, Adolph W. Schmidt, Jr.,. Stanley K. Sheinbaum, John Van Doren, and Peter Weiss. In his introduction, Mr. Delattre comments on the "intimate" character of B.uchanan's writings: "He is very clearly enjoying the • • are connected, probably causally, with endeavor, try; eradicate, wipe out. shOddy politics. Your language is full of unecessary words that obscure your meaning. "The airline stewardess says, 'Ladies and gentlemen, at the present time we would like to ask you to please make sure your seatbelts are securely fastened,' meaning 'Fasten your seatbelts.' " .. Linguistic offenses include many words and phrases that should not be used at all or have other meanings. "Disinterested" does not mean "without interest." It means "impartial." Among the ''horrors'' Mr. Tolbert told students to drop from their vocabulary are such phrases as "in depth." They should say "thorough," "careful" or "in detail" instead. "Leave 'overall' to the working man and say 'total' or 'in all.' There is no such word as 'irregardless.' There is no such word as "alright.' 'All right' is two words. Stop adding the pseudo-suffix-wise. The city government has failed garbage collection-wise.'' Tom Parran photo George Orwell, was "During the in believing that thoueJ1t language can corruot each other and one of the President's men of others who have seriously about the ideas of reason, and forHuchanan converses with Lin"'"'"'"'"·""" of there with Thomas on what a law now with Plato on the law as teacher ... with Gandhi on for all the text, one vividly feels onself to be in the presence of · a participant in a dialogue spanning centuries past and yet to come." "His dominant theme is the unfinished business of American federalism, especially the Constitution's failure to anticipate the mammouth expansion of corporate power and influence as the Republic grew,'' according to the publisher's notes. "We must, he contends, invent ways of integrating the corporation into the political process as a fully accountable participant. In related chapters, Buchanan examines the significance of law, natural law, and revolution in their current settings and reflects- on the political dimensions of science, technology, and economics." IN A CATALOGUE describing the book. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux writes: "Scott Buchanan was an American philosopher of a high order and a Socratic teacher of unsurpassed power. He was known to the public largely as the principal architect of the Great Books curriculum of St. John's College. But to friends, colleagues, and students who knew him over 43 years at Union, Ii I I He _didn't know that 'enormity' means 'excessive wickedness; outrageousness ... A monstrous offense of evil.' " .... Much worse was the sleaziness of the Oval Office conversations revealed by the famous tapes, and I am thinking not of the expletives that were to deleted but of the bad grammar, the meaningless abstr:act10ns. the cliches, the wordiness, the wrenching of nouns into makeshift verbs. ("I am no-commenting on the whole business,' said the Attorney The linguistic crimes committed continuas111mg:ton reached a when reached lowest Can 88 St. John's make a difference? Mr. asked. "I believe that every nr1>f'i!:i::>lv word makes a turned David me: "The of Scott Buchanan as master teacher constitute a cm·on:tcung-lectures, and woirkirur papers-ot his intellectual ni!uC'C exception of an Mathematics, printed in 1962, are largely unknown and unavailble. Reason Can Rule is the first in a series that will bring Buchanan's thought to the wider audience he deserves and did not have in his lifetime. He died in 1968 at the age of 73. "At the time of Scott Buchanan's then president death, Robert M. of the Center for the of Democratic Institutions, said: 'He was first person ever to mention the significance of the developing countries in my hearing. He was the first to talk about what technology had done and would do to civilization. He was the first to propose a positive interpretation of the Bill of Rights and to put forward the idea that the First Amendment imposed obligations on the govern· ment to support and advance the enlightenment of the people. He symbolized for us what we were trying to be and do. He personified the Civilization of the Dialogue.' " So Reason Can Rule may be ordered through the St. John's College bookstore. Cost is $12.95 for the cloth-bound edition and $5.95 for paper-back plus $1.25 for postage and handling. Royalty from the sale will be returned to a fund set up for the future books by Buchanan. Also available throuj!h the bookstore are Scott Buchanan's Possibility, originally published by the University of Chicago and Midway reprint, $5.45, and Poetry and Ml!thematics, published by Chicago and a Midway--reprint, $5.45, and' carry a $1.25 charge. Ten years ago a long essay by Scott Buchanan-Truth and the Sciences...,- was published by the University Press of Virginia with a forward by former Dean Curtis Wilson. Now out of print, it deals with scientific and philosophical books on the St. John's program. California and former member of the of Visitors and has been nominated to head a slate of officers for the Alumni Association. Election is scheduled at the annual meetu1~ October 2 A of Dobreer is nra:u;:irli>nt of St. John's California Other nominees: Executive Vice-President of Justice: Secretary - Kenneth incumber1t, Annapolis om1mr1g standing re-election fo:c Treasurer - Frank K. Wilson, '35, of Annapolis, retired legal adviser for the Aetna Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn., standing for re-election for his second term. _ Nominated for the three-year directorships are Carolyn Banks-Leeuwenburgh, '55, of Princeton, N.J., teacher ana psychotherapist; Linda Stabler-Talty, '76 GI, Santa Fe businesswoman working with audio-visual and multi-media presentations; James W. Stone, '55, of Arlington, Va., State Department linguist; John Van Doren, '47, of Evanston, Ill., senior executive with the Great Ideas of Western Man subsidiary of Encyclopedia Britannica. The nominating committee, chaired by Bob Nichols, president of the Northern California Area Chapter, sought to select candidates reflecting experience in the association and its new national emphasis. Committee members included Pablo Collins, Rebecca Brinkley-Connelly, Sally Dunn, Edward Grandi, Gay Singer Ken· ney, and Jim Stone. Other nominations for the offices may be made by thirty or more members in good standing and presented at the annual meeting. Consent of a candidate must be obtained to the non1imttion. �5 • I ~ I turn out under the college mamgul:! of one soul with another. class almost has its own dean. ~nn ..notr'1 the one to the And so rather Edward G. of r:l.Lll.CUi:>7 four of whose five years as dean and the one .their years at the college, down the are each a was the Class of 1982's own particular framework, and a different dean. 't framework within which each of us can ath was a Class Day Speaker find an acc~unt of his own time here. There e comm um Y with another member who have been other of course, that arrived the class's freshman fall: David we have met, those were smarter Guaspari. It was Mr. Guaspari, in a Abraham, Dante, Don collaborators. reversal of what is customarily heard at Bezuhov of The St. John's, who spoke on the pleasures 'Jf significant for us. collaborative "m1rrnwin11 the mind." "THE THREE one of foundations speakers looking back over the their college years and to those ahead which occurred at the end of each of the corner of but it has to be, for a four years, the first one being ~t whole His is to learn to live in were William Nye and Janet Durholz. With Patty Sowa presiding, there was music. the end of the fourth year, remam that world. paradigmatic each in its The normal and relation to Singing a cappella ''By the Waters of proper image - our campus own way a of and of our is steal from Babylon" was a sextet comprised of Miss on them. The conflict is Sowa, Elizabeth Stuck, Eugene Wise, time on it with our friends: first, the place -there's no one Jonathan Adams, Patty Nogalis, and of wild and great speeches when we are filled with a new love of words: second, the for to sleep with Robert Crutchfield. place of conflicting extremities reconciled, in a way comic. The comedy consists Michael Fried performed on the little French horn accompanied by Alexandra and self-knowledge gained, through the in a comparison: There's the liberal arts; third, the place of change mouse of one's own world, with Mullen, and Marco Acosta played three pieces of Bach transcribed for the through growth and experience on the big undignified heaving and announced with classical guitar. James DeMartini read a river; and last, the scene of .our first lov.e, 1 great ceremony and there is the imlong poem, Walt Whitman's "Crossing now tamed, moderated, gmded, but stIJJ.1 mensity of, say, Newton's or Cantor's; and unavailable by caressed, by dialectical eros. Let these: an unsentimental Brooklyn Ferry," which appeared four images be the ones that stay with \is.: other means, forrespect,fear, ~., ..]r..,,,..,, the aliegorical of the occasion. when we try to assess next year, five years- /flailing - the sheer In his speech, Mr. Sparrow asked fifty years from now, whether it would be possible for a "brash,' from now, us of this blessed epoch." the ,'achievements. «mnr.onm meaning for young fellow," whose disparaging freshman le_tter home he claims to have ·em arks, Mr. Guasnari. who has found in the college archives, to end his at St. John's saying something like St. John's is one of 33 liberal arts colin the United States to receive a from the Alfred P. Sloan ounaauon of New York to conduct a concerned with and as With its traditional interest in the sciences, mathematics, and related fields, the Sloan Foundation is concerned with the adequacy of "quantitative literacies" in liberal education for the last part of the It plans to award $250,000 to_ each of the colleges presenting a proposal. to be of the greatest merit. say, contains the normal, sheer ill-will and nli'mrnlrn., human -4111 �• I make the beneficence." He the occasion to pay tribute to volunteer workers. "Like any relies on the cuuu::st:1, and encourageme1nt u1cuds. Volunteers are life of this From and Governors the Board of attracted 58 'l;lldll.I::', t:. " volunteers who stuff tributions from WHAT FOLLOWED was a research 1nalllll.g:s, the college could and them them." cmnn'lstin~ for an class members of the Board Visitors OPf~niru~; up a whole new interest lio•vernors. in session that weekend. a better way to ..,.,,. ..,.1 ... dinner l odd Reichert The occasion was an cocktails at the m•1>1::irli:>nt'"1 i:''olllm;vin.I! dinner !ll'J''!1ini11a:>11 in a semi-r.irr.IP 9 With a view to the lesson of Mohammed and the the Graduate Institute is of a to me!trc1politaLn areas where students are orediction of travel The Graduate Institute came for discussion the An:ril meetine: the Board of Visitors conversation centered on the annual and statement · of Educational It is written on alternate years John's two academic deans. son, methane ma.nu:facturing their uses. "All orJ:![aruic home would into would be for cookin~. u.:;~lll.ll.l.F;, and the residual tarme:rs for the fertilization Graduate Institute. "I would be less than honest if I did not that we should a close reading discussion to as an audience as possible," Mr. Bart told the board, the King William Room with his them. "We have not been im:a~tnat.ive enough about what we can do in farms begun by Bill Mollison, a main theorist, in Australia. Eventually, she would like to be an American subsistence farmer selling co1111post and a local consultant for home co1nrrmn11ty methane construction and another member of St. Bruce of she hones to set up a center in education about he before." member Robert A. Goldwm, a former dean who headed the first when was Graduate .;,.-1,.;nn-hr established in described the ......r,,....,..,,,,..... one of education.'' work in America with tends to be nar1rowlv fc1cm;ed, the St. John's master's serves as a "corrective" to the teachine:' of un- other institutions,'' he observed Mr. Bart informed the board that St. John's does not want a ....... ,,4'1,, ... +,, since its teachers, drawn almost exclusively from the 111uta:>1"1Cl'i'i:ir1rn~t~require the expertise undergraduates. In his written statement, Mr. Bart noted that the Graduate Institute originally was conceived as a means for introducing high school teachers and other serious older students to central concepts of the curriculum and the pedagogy of St. John's. He wrote: "However, practical considerations its originators, Mr. Goldwin and led to Laurence Berns, (St. John's the appeuance of dividing the cur·r1c1um:m into segments somewhat resembling divisions of the Chicago and Theology, and Natural Science. Politics and Literature. " .... Several arose from administrative arrangements deemed In the first place it was decided the itt~tduate students choose the order which took segments. This concession has the startling consequence in a well-organized curriculum to imitate the underf!raduate nrm;11·~m �1 f he founder of the a world leader and manufacture of '"'struments with subsidiaries in South America. the :Man of the Year award from the Scientific A.oparatus Makers Association. was he tb.ow.?lrtttwasfantastic. dimension of the in 1934 and then served as an instructor in common ideas at Harvard in 1934-35. He was a In a way, we le-arn to see omrsetve,s. enables us to focus on ideas and that · member of the Board of Overseers in and at a become more distinct knowable. The member of the Board of Overseers in Middies got used to the seminar format Electrical at the and were very skillful in their Massachusetts of Technoloe:v techniaues." and a trustee of the Blood Research and stitute of Boston. law. for In 1973 he set the modern precedlent civil claims of ago he set the recoverable mlllllnr~1rti1f'e> in Florida. And he has the use. of videotaped tes1timiony in civil litigation in Florida. publications include a 1974 at.......... ,...,, •., handbook for use of videotaped tesitimony in the courtroom and a medicallee:al11ailtdbiook for nurses that llnne>!n•e>rl Despite the pace of his career, Mr. .Goldstein continues to be active in St. John's circles. Currently he is engaged in an alumni seminar group in Florida. He attended the St. nuumli program in Santa Fe for the last three years and will be there again this he took time to come to summer. In Arnnaoolis to attend a to revise the Alumni Association In he is a member of the committee for a memorial for the Klein. A 1002 !lraduate of the Yale Law HARVEY M. GOLDSTEIN U.S. received the of Army tificate of Achievement for services in Southeast Asia. the American Har of Florida Trial Association of Trial Asimc:umon. American and American Arbitration Association, He is married to the former Caron· �• ., .... ..,J"''-L• as you have been told, is "The Visual Arts and the Liberal Arts." What I have to say is disarmingly The arguments I shall bring forth in discussion are so transparently clear as to seem, to me at least, almost self-evident. Yet no suggestion of change in the St. John's program has provoked more controversy and even dismay, throughout the course-Of the great books experiment, than the suggestion that something should be done about the visual arts. Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan thought about the problem constantly and confessed their failure to find a solution. The great Jasha Klein became nearly apoplectic in response to any insistence that St. John's should change course to accommodate the fine arts. (Curiously Barr and Buchanan were themselves quite without personal sensitivity to visual arts to which Jasha, unknown to most, was very sensitive; he had a good eye and considerable experience of art from his European background). Music was the other missing ingredient in a St. John's education when I was a student. But some 30 years ago that began to be corrected, in good part, I imagine, because understanding advocates - Victor Zuckerkandl and Douglas Allanbrook - joined the faculty. Probably not since Richard Schofield has there been anyone at St. John's who could have developed a liberal arts to master works of and! architecture in was done for music. whom I have not met nor Charles listened to, has I am in elaborate slide to construct in· t.,.,,.,,..,t;,...O' syntheses between works of art books. I was a student so had some lecturers who discussed art. I remember the scholar from the U/"'""''""'" in London who analyzed ... '"'·1-'.. """i "School of dividual Plato Florentine t perience it Then a lecture can one to see more · But a is not the real answer to the fine nl'nhli>m in the St. John's cu1·ric:u111m. there ought to be works of art, a few, at The same methods and which underlie seminars on great will easily apply to seminars on art. Why should they not? What then are the big prome:ms, n1'nhl1>ms there are? solution been avoided for 50 years of St. John's new .......,.........,"" First of all, as with a cm1fr<mtati<m with visual art breaks down students as well as tutors into unequal Just as some people better have better ears than others or more responsive sensitivities, irrespective of intelligence, $0 do some of us have more responsive eyes than others. BUT, COULDN'T one make the same argument for poetry, drama, science, and mathematics? All such worth-while pursuits, even in a program which, like St. John's, prides itself on eliminating narrow specialties, will find some participants with more acute native equipment than others. The whole point is that one derives what one can, benefits as far as one is able, and inequality of natural aptitude does not cancel the whole ball game. But there is another, more deep-seated reason for the failure to do anything about the visual arts at St. John's. In spite of a defense of this college by Eva Brann as "the pursuit of radical inquiry," and in her estimation very successful in at least three educational aims: of intellectual faculties, of the . and initiation into the cultural tradition." In I say, of those claims, the college and Pr<J1oa1wb~s common to more mu.nmane that a bias what Sherman Lee of Museum called in a recent lecture, "the humanistic bias." He remarked that and prose are the bread and butter of discourse. But the arts deal with mrngt::s, movements,, and other nonliti>rl'll"v devices. There are as much facts of and current events as are woras, or ideas exnressible onlv in words." To go back for a moment to Eva Brann's statement that the St. John's n-rr..'.11"-:l'ITI ..:h<:l"l'nt:>TII;! intellectual faculties how cari one there have been lectures since my time and have sometimes in any case, cannot to go. i:>vncii'ii:>nce Don Giovanni must hear it. A which will um1erstanmn_g. The same see it, ex- Michelangelo's Cezanne, and Picasso? FRESHMAN learns, "Man is a rational animal." he is also sornet:mr1g more. He is a maker. How can an be successful which acQ1ua1lllts us with what man has thougt1t not with he has made? The best has been is sui:1prnseo to us to think for ourto be to distimwii;h from good citizens of a rei;m11uc. I that the life also aetlen.as. on citizens who can make between the and the whose are created f not a moral good. Some art collectors I know in my own profession would sell their mothers into slavery to possess a coveted - a further reminder of the of art. . All I have been is of both and visual at St. John's dramatic, despite Plato because, first of all, it is an essential of the tradition I mentioned earlier because it is the sole embodiment of certain kinds of insights that can be no other Great works of art also .....u .... v .....:1 as my from And who can Sherman Lee also are essential links in t .... ..i;t;,,... of western culture? What is difJEerient in their language? We learn as children to talk and to read words and But it is only more sophisticated education that enables us to _ deal with the subtle and complex formulation of ideas in the books read at St. John's. It is a process of growth which never ends. The same holds true for visual experience. We learn early to see, to distinguish, to read the phenomena of sight, but to read the complex content of a painting or sculpture is more difShouldn't we know how? Here, also, we may a process of growth for a life-time. nY'i'•h<:ln1u for their own and not for mere utility. But hold on a minute: I have not yet touched on the true reason the fine arts have been resisted so long at St. John's. We must go back to Plato. Jasha Klein's reaction to a similar attempt made to deal with this subject in a lecture at the college about 10 years ago was to send me a copy of his own lecture on the "Ion." Art is dangerqus. The rhapsode Ion, who recites Homer so well that he wins prizes, has no idea of what he is He is nossessed bv a demon. or oamter or art. an inGreek to describe extra infuses a work or art. It is "divine madness" by the muses and in a chain the author the to the aue111enlce, all of whom are infected with this irrational Persuasion this of in art can so nmm:>rf11l thi:it UT&> dO IlOt kllOW What iS The The teacners and Mr. home. the semester Mr. also led s-eminars at School in Baltimore with who teaches at the istotle's Nicomachean Ethics Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. school students to were tnose from the talented ninth twelfth Old Mill Hi2h School in and rnngu:age tutorial on sn:aKe~sp1ear·e·s a seminar on Macbeth. Nominations are for the annual Alumni of awarded to a former student at "for ctistm:gmshE~a and meritorious service the United States or to his native state or . to St. John's · or for outachievement within 1,;uu;,en "Names should be submitted to Frank President, St. John's College .tuumm St. John's �JU 9 m i II II vour The envelope was an oversized one addressed "To Mom from All Your Kids" and the Happy Mother's Day message was signed from Someone Who Loves You.' Barbara Leonard, who has mothered three decades of students since arriving on the Annapolis campus in 1951, was presented a card a few minutes after mid· night during the spring cotillion. Along with it the 65-year-old assistant dean received a dozen, long-stemmed red roses, a cocoanut cake, and a one-pound box of chocolate candy. The card was dense with signatures, inside and out, including those of alumni back for the cotillion. Angelina Kline, Silver Spring sophomore, signed for her parents, Cornelia Hoffman Corson, '57, and William E. Kline, '59, and for her · brother, Blake Kline, '79. Deborah Newington, Ct., junior, who made the presentation noted that ·the fate of most mothers is to be not appreciated enough. She said students wanted to honor Miss Leonard this way to show "how much we love her and how much we care." s m Was the wrath of Achilles indeed the theme of Homer's Iliad? That was the question incoming Dean Robert Neidorf of the Santa Fe campus asked alumni at a lecture before Northern California alumni in San Francisco. W. Laird 8'78, writes: "Did there lurk behind this was it caused a darker theme Simone Weil) Or did there lie behind, sublating both these ) 1.uc1uc,.,, a third (final? an awe-ful conlfronta1tion with the fact of me? . I I .. I n Annapolis alumni, who for years have been meeting once a month for luncheon, are the newest group seeking to charter a of the Alumni Association. In "'"""'"""H".. they have elected Gil Crandall, president; Marilyn '81, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer. t m1nar will meetu11:! since of19 at the home of in Croton-on-Hudson. swi,mrning, outdoor cookery, Melville's Othello. will be the essay, Ann Maria honorable .u .. ,., .....,.u version of a Greek Christian with honorable mention to Catherine Nelson and John "Mr. Neidorf was not content to leave these in the book. He asked us to considc~r at least two other attemots to beard death: the Christian Denial Socratic Transformation. after was our reaction. at overother seem Frederick Monsma. Robert Neidorf demonstrated to us his on-e:oim! and trinitarian concern with the and us, and reaffirmed for more that lies at the bottom of all tnoiugnts thinkine: and any life worth living.'' I e I Half a dozen alumni came up with some practical tips for the market, many applicable to a number of fields, as they leavened accounts of their own ex· periences with ideas aimed at ......... .-u••r. students after they leave St. John's. At a Career Night planned by Marianne Braun, director of career counseling, students were told to "shoot higher than you think you can" by Washington attorney Jean Fitzsimon, '73, now deputy director of the Office of In· formation and Planning, Department of Justice. "You're much likelier to get into a good school than into University Podunk because the good schools know about St. John's, even tl your grades aren't all that high," Miss Fitzsimon advised the gathering in the Great Hall. She made a point echoed by others: Don't hesitate to call upon other people to help, particularly St. Johnnies. "The job market is the pits," she commented. "Blind resumes don't get you anywhere." Furthermore, she noted, resumes are · getting better and better all the time. Janet Nelson, '72, who spentfour years in financing and banking with the Equitable Trust in Baltimore and who made a major switch to work in public affairs with the Cato Institute in Washington, touched upon two personal of career. Sometimes. she I it's necessary to make changes, "to zigzag all over the place." She mentioned one of the gains. "Any job in which you learn about people, you learn about yourself. You develop a lot of confidence.'' AND SHE HAD some practical advice. "Try to work for someone who is a good manager. That way you'll be so much more productive. You'll feel successful, as if you're achieving." Two of the speakers-Blake Kline, '79, and Bryant Cruse, '73-reminded students that they have enough credits to claim a math major and a physics minor. Mr. Kline, who is with _the computer industry and now associated with Dialcom in Silver Spring, Md., advised the gathering that unlike the job situation elsewhere, the computer industry is booming and likely to continue so for two or three years. Mr. Cruse, a former Navy pilot who is now an aerospace engineer at Westinghouse, spoke of the importance of tailoring resumes to fit jobs for which graduates are applying. He had some good words about the application of his St. John's education. "All in all the St. John's experience was essential for me," he appraised his years here. "I don't know if I could have known what I did when I went into the and wh~n I got out without St. I alumni ....-0:01r110.. or1 Alliance their first seminar on The Federalist seminar was former Curtis Wilson. The a forerunner of what is intended to be more seminar a group that '61; Andrew and Bart it,'' western alumni director who was in the area and who seized the nnnn .. hrnHu to go. A second is • I John's. This place teaches you how to make theoretical decisions. The practical ones make when you get out." ALSO HAD some of the most encouraging words of the evening. "Some people wonder if they can do a job once they get it," he commented, adding flatly, "Any job you can get, you can do." A speaker wearing three hats was Brad Davidson. He is an Annapolis stock· broker, Annapolis City Council member, and a member of the National Guard. "These are jobs in whichq talk and listen to others, skills I learned at St. John's," he said. "The ability to communicate and share ideas with others are the common thread." Almost all of the speakers were recent graduates. It was the senior member of the group, Annapolis stockbroker Frank B. Marshall, Jr., '45, and a former Alumni Association president, who gave a sweeping endorsement of St. John's education during a discussion of whether specialized training is important in business. Graduates may want to take some "nuts and bolts" classes, perhaps at night school, he said, as a "little, added supplement" for their Mucation here. "But the power to solve problems, to think straight, to write-you couldn't get a better education than you get here ... It will not be necessary to go to a graduate' to be competent in business." Mr. Davidson, Mr. Marshall, who at one time worked in advertising, spoke of the importance of what he had learned at St. John's. "The common thread which ran through advertising, selling, and brokerage is one of the things I learned here: how to talk and how to be persuasive to someone else. The persuasive ability is critical.'' WHAT'S THE value of going to a name school for graduate work? It depends upon what you want to do. And so does the location. "If you're going to do public interest law in California, Harvard is not the place,'' Miss Fitzsimon said. How important are grades? Opinions differed. "Nobody cares in mid-career," Miss Nelson said. In law they may be more important in landing a job. "It's important to do well in law school,". Miss Fitzsimon had told students, adding at this point in the discussion that as time goes by and work experience becomes more important, they are less significant. She recommended government ser· vice, which she said doesn't lock employees into management entry jobs. There is a lot of room to move around in a way not usually found in the private sec· tor. "I found it exciting. If you want to do well, you can really do so. The opportunities are there." �ID Continued from P.1) School of 140 tudents and into calculation of Venus. HIS INFLUENCE in the church was He got elected but, of an of excessive in New was rejected as the first of although his to his "pl'"ihr Chestertown vestry of manners." When Thomas Claggett chosen in his place, Smith was precedence over three consecrating bishops and allowed to preach the sermon. In November, 1780, he presided as president at a convention which changed the name of the church from the Church of England to the Protestant Episcopal Church. "Soft, polite, insinuating," John Adams characterized him. "Adulating, :.ensible, learned, industrious, indefatigable; he has art enough, and refinement upon art, to make impressions 1 " It was William Smith, the Anglican, along with clergymen representing Maryland's two most predominant faiths - Patrick Allison, the Presbyterian church, and John Carroll, the Catholic church - who drafted the law on December 16, 1784, establishing the college at Annapolis as part of the state's first university. The three were among six agents named to solicit subscriptions and donations. The university law, "which we happily did with great unanimity," Smith wrote in a letter the following J an-uary, also brought proud comment from him when St. John's Charter of 1784 finally was enacted into law: "Maryland has been the last of the states in her provisions for learning, but none of them can boast so noble a foundation as her university now is.'' ST. JOHN'S, ITSELF, did not start classes until five years after it was chartered. At the last meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors on November 1789, before its opening, William was named president of the college pro tempore. The following day it .was he who "an elegant sermon" in McHall. It came as a climax of a procession of dignitaries, students who marched from the Stadt House to McDowell for what was the start of the active life of St. John's as an academic institution. And then William Smith vanished from the St. John's scene. He returned to Philadelphia, after nine years in Chestertown, he resumed his position as provost of the University of Pennsylvania the preceding July. At St. John's he had brought on this occasion Washington College's list of delegates to the convocation of the University of Maryland, and his name was on the list. In that way he appeared directly connected with three institutions at once. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1727, Smith doubtlessly would have felt at home at St. John's in 1982. Last October, Sir Noble Fraser, principal and vicechancellor emeritus of the University of Aberdeen, reminded an audience at a celebration of Washington College's 200th anniversary that Smith had written, in a publication about plans for a college, that "what has chiefly been aimed at. .. is to tea~h youth ~o think well, that is - closely and )ustly.-.' . ;:,ir i-..io01e continued: , "TO TIDS DAY, this must be the test. of the relevance of the· curriculum. Relevance is concerned, as a colleague of mine once wrote, 'not so much with the Jones Smith Americans the War for mc1ep1endlenice absolute from Dui::.1.auu. "His · was a radical one 1765, when he wrote to the Dean of Gloucester to the Act," Jones writes. "It reE;pe cta1Jle one in 1774 and a one in 1776. Smith had such good reasons for his attitude that he maintained it until it ruined him." Jones believes he opposed independence because he saw an uncertain future for the Church of England in an independent America and hence an un· certain future for himself. At one time he was imprisoned by Americans and reprieved by English justice. In 1777 the Supreme Executive Council sent a militia officer to examine Smith's private papers. When the council turned up no evidence of treason, it issued warrants for the arrest of Smith and 40 other persons who, it thought, might have "evinced a disposition inimical to the cause of America." Smith was paroled when he swore not to express himself politically and to appear whenever summoned. The charges were never stated, but mostly they were believed because he kept bad company. HIS FUTURE father-in-law, William Moore, was a loyalist. A justice of the peace and presiding judge of the Chester County court, Moore with Smith was charged with libeling the Pennsylvania Assembly. "Smith was offered an op· portunity to recant, but he refused, and all those in the gallery who applauded him were arrested and fined," Jones wrote. During the four months Smith spent in jail he taught students, who strolled over from the college a block or two away, much as he would have in the classroom and also brought out an issue of the At 30 William Smith was content of studies as with what they do to the mind.' Dr. Smith always argues that in this way and with this goal, educators could at the same time preserve both freedom of government and the spirit of enterprise and commerce. "To quote him again, 'commerce and riches are the offspring of industry and an imprecarious property; but these depend on virtue and liberty, which again depend on knowledge and religion.' '' Later in his speech, Sir Noble said Smith would have been a "generalist." He said: "Smith, I believe, would have firm, through the age of industrialization that followed his life, against a which enabled the specialist to usurp rank of and educ ator. shaken free from the conof theological he would have remained a concerned with the encm1rage1ne11t of the quality of excellence but the individua education as in his memof society, as a social and as seeing the ideals of that rooted in freedom and democracy, themselves on and its transmission through education. At 26 Smith wrote a proposal, -"Idea for the College of Mirania," which so impressed Benjamin Franklin that a year later Smith was made first provost of the College at Philadelphia, what was to become the University of Pennsylvania. "He was the greatest intellectual power of the greatest city on the continent," Thomas Firth Jones wrote of Smith in his -only known and' sometimes superficial biography, A Pair of Lawn Sleeves, just after Smith had calculated the parallax of the transit of Venus, missing the figure by about one-tenth of one per cent, a proces~ now worked out by· radar. "THE TRANSIT OF Venus report was ·only one of a long ~eries of astronomical accomplishments, which were no greater than his accomplishments in literature, education, and the church. He was included in every project thought of in Philadelphia, just as Franklin had been 15 years earlier." John Sartain. Smith had been a scholarship student at King's College, University of Aberdeen. Readers who know St. John's will recognize a certain familiarity with the manner in which his bursary, as it was called, was awarded. The boys submitted themes and defended them orally. "He did not in fact take his degree, but that signifies nothing," Sir Noble Fraser said. "It was no mark of failure. It was common practice for students on satisfactory of part or the whole of their course to depart without graduating. That he stood in good when he left is shown the award later to him in person on the 1759, of the honorary of doctor of divinitv hv KinE!'s Collei:rn. two days before he nnr•nnc~.i> a ceremony at " He also received doctorates from Oxford and the of Dublin. After leaving King's College, he spent a year in London working for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel before to New York to act for two years as of an English a tutor to a officer. It was that he wrote "Idea for the of Mirania." BEFORE the offer to teach natural philosophy and logic at the College of Philadelphia, he returned to England to be ordained an Anglican priest. In 1754, through Franklin's influence, he was not only professor of natural philosophy but provost. A person of seemingly limitless energy, he spoke with eloquence, and his conversation was described as "learned, witty, and persuasive." An attack on Franklin in the American Magazine, a monthly chroncile Smith published beginning in 1757, which Thomas Jones believes "may well have been the best magazine published in America before the Revolution,'' ended the friend· ship. Smith suggested that Franklin "has not been careful enough to distinguish" between his electrical discoveries and other people's. Despite their enmity, when Franklin died, Smith was chosen by the American Philosophical Society and finally agreed to deliver the formal eulogy for Franklin. Smith was "still the best_ speaker in American Magazine. But after the war the Assembly passea an act which dictated the demise of the and college and usurpation of its funds by a wholly new institution servient to the assembly and named the University of the State of Pennsylvania. Jones believes the purpose was ,,1....,n1u. to remove Smith. Smith lodged six appeals between 1780 and 1784 illegality, in a he was restored as unl.uu~~., and funds were trno;:tp,po;i and At the time he lost his provostship, the vestry in Chestertown, Kent County, Md., offered Smith 600 bushels of wheat a year if he were to come there. (Ezra Stiles, the to dissident president of Yale, who have hated Smith, felt the represented "opulent church living.") AT CHESTERTOWN, in July, 1780, he preached the Fourth of July sermon anastarted taking a few students in a private academy, later merged with Kent County Free School. of which he became prin· cipal. When his school grew to 140 students, he persuaded its board of visitors to apply to the Maryland Assembly to add a college. The Assembly agreed, but stipulated the board must collect at least 10,000 pounds before he could make the charter good. He successfully launched the new Washington College, named for George Washington, and in 1784, with an improvement in state finances, the Assembly passed the bill to found St. John's which, together with Washington, would constitute th~ University of Maryland. �11 (Continued. from P. 2) Dana Netherton will leave the Navy at the end of June, after which he will marry Marjorie Gottschalk (Gettysburg College, '73) in Philadelphia. He hopes to have 1 74, in his wedding party "if he can come out from San Francisco." Dana will enter the University of London (King's College) next October in pursuit of a master of philosophy degree in EcClesiastical History. He will be ·investigating the possible influence of the Eastern Orthodox liturgy on the English Tractarian (Anglo-Catholic) movement. He will be in London in mid-August, but until he has found a flat, mail can be sent to: c/o Mrs. and Mrs. V. C. Netherton, 43 Club Grounds North, Florissant, Mo. 63033. Nancy Willis recently was elected a second vice-president in the financial services department~ of the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago. Nancy joined Continental in 1978 after receiving both an MA and MBA from the University of Chicago and became an officer of the bank.in 1980. oil!JLV•O,\l\N in known as ' 'S '73, is planning a party in which all St. Johnnies will be invited." If anyone can confirm the rumor, let us know ... l Bill Nooter was from the George Washington Law School in January, 1981 and has passed his bar exam. He will be. clerking for a judge oo the D.C. Superior Court until September. We saw recently ·at an where alumni gathering in she is living. A sGamstress and embroiderer, she was responsible wedding gowns at the wedding Ne:sheim, '77, and Mark '75. From the outfit that she was wearing, we would bet that it was a beautiful wedding ensemble. Sally is to build a business with her talents, we wish her well. Connie Mansueto is living in LoUm.1.uu "as a feminist-anti-nuclear activist." She is to the UniverSity of London to 1 is working become a master's candidate in American history at economics. Good luck. Connie. has been ap11rm!!:irnlatc::~l:Y 15 Richard. Brad Davidson was the M. Weaver for bv the in The Baltimore Sun for Intercollegiate Studies Institute of work his first few months as the Mawr, Pa. Also, next fall he will have an youngest member of the Annapolis article, Santayana and Van Wyck .Council. The 26-year-old out1Hsltled in The New England received all the attention as the result of Duarterly. his in a successful fight to give married to the City Council greater control over plans informs us for new hotels and inns in Annapolis and Joshua Micah for backimi: lee:islation . .that set gui.dellim~s Carol live in on what con11mcmt. "Here at the Annapolis City Marina. man (9 nounds. 11 1 11. Bennett writes: "I recently ..,,.,,..,;r11nrr over the Berkeley traffic fine for running a stop sign on my 1ncyc1e from $31 to $15. The old school tie was not invoked." · John and Ann Fitch have had Elizabeth Leah (6 7 ounces) since have ·been inNovember formed. It is that .the arrived and although mented, the are 6 oouna:s, 7 ounces. 1 writes to let everyone know that he is · of the Bethlehem Peac~ Pilgrimage started in Seattle, Wash., in early April a(\d to reach Bethlehem November of He is of a nucleus pilgrims who will make entire journey of 6;500 miles to demonstrate an opposition to the international nuclear arms race by men of all faiths and nations. Dean writes, " ... The essential tbing is that we make the pilgrimage, pray, and encourage others to speak more energetically in favor of more Christian, more Godly, more reasonable approaches to international relations." 1 Grubb, on the occasion of receiving his new Alumni "It reminded me of the .........,"•11''""'11' role that St. John's has in my life. Reviewing the list of was most surprised to find that I remember many of the faces as well." Peter has settled down in Spokane, where he operates a river trip outfitting company. The business is slowly building, and he "The tremendous snowpack in the to fill rivers with and we're to a great season. In 1980 §;:.n!n•rnw f!'lmilv came on a river trip with '80. I would love to discover the of travel Dear Editor: I was very interested in your picture of Humphreys Hall on Page 11 of the April issue of The Reporter. I spent many hours in front of the test tubes in the building. I lived on the campus from 1913-16, when my father, J.C. Gray, was on the We lived in the top left side of the building to the left of Humphreys Hall. I have several personal pictures that include a part of HH, and the portico appears to be the same. These were taken aboutl915. I e:raduated from SJC in 1934. My Joe, a 1936 graduate, was born on the campus, not in the local hospital. He may be the only SJC graduate who actually was born on campus. About I sent the archivist on the cards of the campus. Ask see those. One may include HH. These cards can be dated by the w11m1n:gton, Del 19803 Editor's Note: From C. J. suggestion that we check nn!il.fll"lll11'11 1930, 1928 was the yeatrDcmK. It is. 1 Rosalind Hutton will be attiend.ine: University of California at R"1"1l'"1"v summer, and then she and her hm;band, isstm Marc will to China to and now has a workini:l: English. says they will be in the of British as a Republic of China for a year or .for their mid-Atlantic ts:i•r'l'itnrv two and invites any Johnnies who might be extends from Geora:ia to in the area to drop by. "We would be glad State. to see them. Unfortunately, the Chinese work week is six so I am not sure we u .. - i . •• has returned to this would have much time." Teir address and a half in after August 20 will be: c/o Marc Betz, as an English Foreign Expert, Huun University, most of her time in Changsha Hunan 1801, People's Republic on a freelance basis of China. and universities. A become board members of chartered cfo'oll>i'tnr<o: of alumni activities n.!!<ftmn.1.JJ:. to the charter seriousness of purpose for members and stresses their 'll'UH'TIOlUl It reads: "The to establish best means to an active the alumni in life of the for. association another desire to best interests College as one c01m1mnlitY of and for liberal education. do " meetir1e: drew alumni from who have been with revisions. David Dobreer, '44, San resie:nation of a editor on metm:iolitan desk of The York Times. sends his best wis.l:!es to all Johnnies. His latest address: 54 W. 88th Street, New NY, 10024. Warren Jolmson. an Services of Northern California \.i:u::uumi:; has sent item:" ... There's a rumor Southern California that Dennis writes: "I am student in the Administration of i �12 It occasion. the social calendar will include the usual Welcome Aboard 1117 lecture ;'~"""'"' and l.nn""""'" the Class of 1980. Then there will be those gat:he1rini~s of three classes. Bill in charge of the 50th !lnr1nr1:.'1'c::~!n•v of the Class of '32. He asks that couples planning to attend get in toch with him at Rd., Baltimore, 21212, or call . 435--3762. the Class of 1942 are planning that class's 40th anniversary. The annual business meeting is slated for 10 a.m. in the Conversation Room. At noon alumni will be invited to go down the. seven minutes 2:15 D.m. President t<J the ca11npu1s, summed up the sense of in in Baltimore area. WITH THE 250 the ~NUMBER of Also • I the Alumni Association to act on the the association structure member of the class of delivered Seotemtier 24 western @I I , year . The Tom Parran and Bryce Jacobsen of It took a Colo., will deliver Edward B. Cochran Memorial Lecture on the Santa Fe campus this in association structured ways reach out more students. • I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available College 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/34ff729f5545aea6d2053e1129dd90a8.pdf a6910fc82039c614ab9ca5ece84aa626 PDF Text Text , " _, .- . .~. .; .·. ,;r ...... ,- ~ ~· ,· 1'· .. .,. ___ 1 ···-;'<~ ' t :-"';_;.,: ·»~!''- I Described as the of liberal arts education " St. John's is outranked institutions - all universities colleges and universities by New York Times to Colleges. Under a star system, St. John's receives five in two categories, those for academics ,and quality of life, tops on a scale of one to five. It received three stars for social life. It is one of 11 schools rating 13 stars in the Times new and con· troversial college Baedeker. In what the Times describes as "the inside are most rated St. John's those for Stanford which as the best universities the country and the University of Virginia, seen as the best public university. No institution received a total of 15 stars in the evaluation. Like St. John's, Brown, Stanford, and Virginia received five stars for academics and quality of life, but those universities all were given four I social life. THE BIG THREE and Princeton - all were fewer than St John's. Each was rated five academics and three for social life. Harvard and Yale earned four and Princeton three for quality of life. Among Maryland schools, St. John's ranked at the top. Nearest was Johns Hopkins (A·5, S-3, QL-3) and Goucher (which received four in all categories). · Both were among the 22 institutions receiving 12 stars. II explainin.e: its the Times is a term which has currency in circles. noted that there are a number of schools with relatively small social nn1"ni"tlll"liltu~i!l but with a strong sense of community that make them splendid places to spend ~·~ars. _ The Times said that it assumes a college with a rating of four or five for social life ''is something of a party school.'.' ("Three might be a five for St. (ContinuedonP. 8) ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY 1111 ~1~111111~rmn1m~m1111111111111111i The St. John 3 1696 01138 0852 Volume 9, Issue 4 mourns ew Program's first president Stringellow Barr died February 3 of pneumonia at a retirement home, Goodwin House. in Alexandria. He was 85. u1 didn't know he was so famous," a St. John's freshman said when Time magazine took note of his passing. Mr. Barr was not only famous for establishing with Scott Buchanan in 1937 · St. John's New Program, but as an educator and man of ideas he had a national reputation. · . The Richmond Times-Dispatch, in a page one obituary, recalled that he had criticized his native Virginia for lack of integration fu the early 1950s and that he had been an outspoken advocate of change, not only in college education but in global politics, 1n the domestic social fabric, and on behalf of the industrial future of the South in the 1930s. At one time he engaged in a noted debate with Vandebilt University professor and poet John Crowe Ransom on whether agrarianism or industrialization was the key to the future of the South. One month after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in .Japan by United States war planes, he (Continued on P. 11) 'Anna pol ollege views fe Sparrow sees St. John's as strong deanship is what pains most deans: in· forming tutors they have not received another appointment or they have been rejected for tenure. "ONE 011' mE hardest parts for me and what leaves me most drained are the complaints," he said. "They can be a little bit unnerving." And, he observed wryly, as he healthy.~' That's Edward G. Sparrow speaking stryggles to find solutions to them, there's of the state of St. John's in 1982 at a time in never a balance of praises. When things go which he is concluding his five year term well, people don't drop by his office to say in the Annapolis deanship, five years of so; when they go badly, the complaints being part of what he calls "preserving come in. But it's clear that this amiable faculty something that is good." And that, for him, head, whose face can break into a twinklymay be the best':part of the deanship. "What I've liked best has been helping eyed, leprechaun-like, almost mischievous an institution which I believe in strongly. look' of enjoyment at moments during That, of course, means the students, and weekly administration meetings, has . helping make what is so important to them enjoyed the last five years. He is and their lives either more possible or especially grateful to the faculty. "I enjoy working with other tutors," more rewarding," he said, adding by way of a summary, "to be of significant he said. "The tutors are an extraordinary group. I've always been gratified by their assistance in a worthwhile enterprise.'' What he has disliked most in the (Continued on P. 8) "St. John's academic life is sound. It's . defined by the academic program, which is itself. defin~d by the students and tlle tutors and the books; and the students and the tutors and the books are good. When you put these three things together, you are bound to have a strong, challenging situation. It's strong, it's consistent, it's re Robert S. Bart is completing a fiveyear term as dean of the Santa Fe campus. As his deanship comes to a conciusion, The Reporter posed these questions. · A. What did you like best about the deanship? What have you disliked the most? A. What I liked best was exercising what ability I have to make all the people of the college in doing what they set out to do them, if I could, do it better. That especially to the associates and the members of the staff working with me. Their support, their imaginative and independent cooperation, has been a constant joy. Above all, I have liked working with Ray Davis and Don Cook, the assistant deans, and Kathy my wonderful assistant and secretary. Apart from the ultimate authority no one with sense likes to exercise, they have shared with me all the dean's work. The college in Santa Fe rightly has looked to them constantly for April 1 N.M, guidance, direction, inspiration, and friendship. What I have minded most was the fatigue. But it was always worth it. Even my heart attack brought me so close to hundreds of friends, students, colleagues, and family that I never had a happier time than I spent in the hospital, surrounded with tenderly cared for and constantly overwhelmed the generosity and attention of the letters, notes, and messages I received. Q. How do you view the college academically as the 1981-82 academic year approaches an end? Can you make any comparisons with St. John's as it was when you first arrived? A. When I first arrived in 1946, the college was in the last glow of the enthusiasm generated by the educational revolution initiated by Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Barr. It was shocked at being abandoned by its leaders for motives that could (Con~ued on P. 6) ., r I cut Both on its eastern and western campuses, St. John's College will experience substantial losses in federalfunding if·euts in higher education proposed by the Reagan administration go through. In Annapolis, where three-quarters of the students use federal loan programs to finance their education, losses would total $55,250 next year and another $223,800 in .1983-84. Santa Fe would lose altogether $201,000 over the next two years. Twothirds of the students there have some · form of federal aid. While a national bi-partisan coalition may be correct in its judgment that not all cuts recommended by the President will be approved, St. John's already is moving to take positive steps to expand its own. resources. President Edwin J. Delattre said that the college expects to launch a major effort toward increasing endowment for scholarship purposes. As part of this effort, it will expand its trusts and bequests (Continued on P. 6) ..,..· Tutor receives ational a rd In a major expression of recognition, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters has selected Annapolis tutor Douglas Allanbrook.as one of four composers it will honor in May. Mr. Allanbrook will receive a $5,000 award in recognition of his achievement as a composer during an awards ceremony in New York. In all, only 17 individuals are singled out each year the AAIAL for the national awards honoring work cmnpJletE!d in literature, music, and the fine arts. the 17, Mr. is one of four composers chosen to receive what is considered to be among the arts in the C"""t""" of his '-'mmge::s, written for and le, for brass - were submitted to a jury of composers who included Milton Babbit, Leslie Bassett, Arthur Berger, Lou Ulysses Kay, Ned Rorem, and Louise Talma. Like other prize winners, he was nominated for the award by a member of the academy. (Continued on P. 8) .. ·...i \~- �. '1- --...·•• 1 Ii Amlin Gray, who was drafted in 1966 during his sophomore year on the Santa Fe campus, is the author of a play which opened at the Westside Arts Theater in New York in February: How I Got That • • r1 IS t comes to, instead of a moment of is a moment of complete reversal." The play has been done at several regional theaters, including the Kenned~ Center in Washington. Mr. Gray, now 35, 1s an actor turned 'UT'l'iaht. Following his discharge in he studied at the American Music and Dramatic Ac:aaemy in New York. In the seventies appeared in a number of Off Off 1-1.-r1"\!11111u1!1u shows in New York and toured for a year with the _National Shakespearean Com· pany. But he discovered that writing was what he really wanted to do. His first play, written in 1973, Founding Father, a historical play about Aaron Burr, was staged at the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference in Waterford, Conn. The Milwaukee Repertory Theater has produced seven of his plays. resident playwright at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Mr. Gray has written of a young reporter out of Dubuque who is assigned to cover a guerrilla war in "Am-bo Land."There he confronts an "Historical Event," an event the Navy: the Origin of Radar at the Naval Research Laboratory, published by the which challenges and ultimately destroys fO'l''W $1 lFlt tO laboratory. Ymelda, armed with her the reporter and which is interpreted by a · B.F .A. from Philadelphia College of Art single actor in 21 guises. · Am-bo Land is not too far removed (1979), has been exhibiting in the D.C. area from Vietnam. A conscientious objedor and teaching art to children. who had refused the student deferment Morton N. Fine, '35, may produce a . while on the western campus, Mr. Gray television film show in Maryland using the Frances Goodwin reports that she is trained as a medic for alternative service Maryland marine police, Jack K. Smith, director of the state office of motion pic- now in the last semester of the study of and spent a year at an Army hospital ture and television development, has architecture at the University of Virginia before being sent to Vietnam. There, close and that she had a great time last summer to the front, he was both participant and reported. A veteran television writer known for traveling around Zimbabwe, South Africa, observer in the war. "How I Got That Story is about several successful shows, Mi: Fine wrote and Botswana. "' · Julia Perkins was married in August dislocation," Mr. Gray said. "The play is the television series, "I Spy," and. several episodes of the "Streets of San Francisco" to Robert Hennessey, brother of Elizabeth. about a man who goes into a situation with " and "Kojak" as well as the made-for- In. attendance were Elizabeth, Raebel a set of tools which he actually uses with I S McKay, Rick Plaut and Carol Katrina,. reasonable competence, but which are television movie, "The Greek Tycoon." William Owen, Saul Benjamin, Cynthia wholly inappropriate to the situation. The According to Mr. Smith, it was while No, former students on the Santa Fe Mr. Fine was a student at St. John's that Nash, Deborah Cohen, and Ann reporter seems to think he's uncampus ;will not be transmogrified into a (Browning) Byers. Julia is assistant editor derstanding something. But what he he became interested in the marine police. - mere number although their complete Before he can proceed with what Mr. of History and Theory, a philosophy of entry in the new "floppy disk" record history journal published by Wesleyan Smith called a sort of "CHiPs on Boats," storage system will include relevant University, and is working on on her MALS will have to sell his idea to a network numerical information. It will be in Literature degree in Wesleyan's and then write a The Alumni Office is phasing out the Graduate Liberal Studies Proram. several months will be known well-worn, three-by-five cards and is using Husband Robert is a photographer whether the series will be the college's MICOM word processing' printer working at the Meriden Gravure equipment to store official Santa Fe Co. . 1 Alumni planning to attend the Alumn. alumni records. Summer Seminar Program in Santa Fe, Stephen Benedict heads the Arts The immediate advantage of the new Administration program at Columbia system lies in the ease with which letters A happy relocation to Denver is will be asked to indicate which two of three prefer, Sam University and occupies most attractive reported by Marjorie Allison, who now proposed tutorials and mailing labels can be printed, acquarters in the penthouse of the Teachers lives in a remodeled carriage house a few Larcombe, western alumni director, has cording to alumni director Sam Larcom be. "With more and more metropolitan College. The program which Steve ad- blocks from one of Denver's nicest city announced. Proposed for three week-long sessions alumni groups in the West being ministers leads to a master's degree and parks. She works for the Rocky Mountain are: organized, announcements of seminars reflects the conviction that the Business Journal selling advertising July 18·24: Seminar, Don Cook and and other local activities must be sent out management of cultural in~titutions space, and at night is doing an internship frequently," he said. "Also, print-outs of should be viewed as a creative with United Cable Television, learning all John Verdi, The Plague by Albert Camus; tutorials: Gerald Myers, Thomas Mann's profession that can have a positive effect aspects of TV production. alumni living in each metropolitan area Tonio Kroeger andDeathin Venice; Roger on the quality and future of artisitc life. can be run off and sent to chapter Peterson, What Is a Species? 1 short presidents." biology papers and field sessions; Samuel The Alumni Office will keep three 1 Kutler, selections from Kant. complete handy: a master file in The library received a note from July 25-31: Seminar, Tom Harris and zip code an alphabetically ordered Martha Sexsmith, who received her Larry, Schlueter, reporting that he David Starr, Ecclesiastes and a book file, and a file ordered by graduating class. recently wrote a foreword to a book by master's degree in 1980 from the Santa Fe from the Apocrypha; tutorials: Charles The college is in the process of Saunders, Screed. Larry also reports Graduate Institute, died of leukemia Bell, selections from Pascal; Ralph ....,"l, ............."' an automated data processing Hazel, '69, does a daily blue grass and January 31 in Celveland. She was 32. Mr. Larcombe said, which To honor her memory, fellow students Swentzel, selections from Lao Tzu; Tom old time music show on station Wwoz in and Simpson, Scott Buchanan's evEmt1.ialJly will process all information New Orleans. Their son, Charlie, helps who fondly remember her independent Mathematics Distance. alumni "Indeed, we found in and inquiring mind, have established a Hazel with the show. Ausust 1-7: Robert Bart and itself hope that in future years the for an Graduate Institute can be and means of "independent inquirer in liberal arts." Cary Stickney, Shakespeare's King Lear 1 and Sophocles' Philoctetes; tutorials: the he They hope to award the first scholarship in Philip Lecuyer, On the Concept of Person, Peter C. Newlin was a participating the summer of 1983. Mr. also had a reminder. four short readings to be announced; member in an urban design and "'u•.uu.1ui:. seems in order at this point: A native of Binghamton, N.Y., Miss project developed by the firm James Sexsmith completed her undergraduate Robert Neidorf, Plato's Phaedo; Stuart both alumni offices a growing Boyd, The Song of Roland. Wood Architect, & Associates, for number of 'lost' Don't get lost studies in the theater arts and speech at the city of Md. The Sessions are filling up rapidly. Alumni v011rs1elf. Notify the college when you move Hiram College in Ohio. She began wishing to participate are advised to write received an award sponsored and remind your classmates to do graduate work at St. John's in the of Mr. Larcom be as soon as possible. Progressive Architecture magazine. likewise." 1979 and continued her studies year around. After 1980 she moved to Seattle, In Memoriam 1 where she was active in alumni seminars, 1912 - Dr. Frederick A. Miller, Cam- Calif., August 25, 1981 A mid-winter note advises us that on and then to Cleveland where she had hoped bridge, Md., Jan.19, 1982 1931 - Joseph L. Lingo, Sun City Center, November 25, David and Ymelda to take special work toward· a degree in 1914 - Francis w. Hill, Chevy Chase, 19,1981 (Martinez) Allison became the parents of computer sciences. .. Md., January, 1982. Pikesvme, 1931 - Louis Rosenbush, Camilla Martinez Allison, who entered this Persons wishing to contribute may 1921 - Dudley W. Davis, Baltimore, Md., Md., Sept. 227, 1981 world weighing just over eight pounds make checks payable to the Martha September 2, 1981 1931- James E. Torbet, Charlotte, N.C., delightfully distributed over twenty-one Sexsmith Scholarship Fund and send them 1922 - Nelson D. Miller, San Antonio, inches of baby. David. reports a new job Jan. 21, 1982 to the Graduate Institute in Santa Fe. Tex., July 15, 1981 1932- James A. Phillips, Salisbury, Md. 1926 - John G. Purnell, Pikesville, Md., 1933-John E. Taylor, Swarthmore, Pa. Reporter Nov. 8, 1981 1934 - Anthony F. Mileto, Annapolis, Md., 1927 - Charles C. Cockey, Baltimore, Md., Rebecca Wilson, editor; Samuel Kutler, Thomas Parran, J. Winfree Smith, Elliott· Sept. 25, 1981 Oct. 7, 1981 Zukerman, advisory board. 1929-Dr. Lauriston L. Keown, Baltimore, 1935- H. David MacCool, Baltimore, Md., The Reporter is published by the Public Relations Office, St. John's College, An-. :Feb. 10, 1982 Md., Dec. 4, 1981 napolis, Md. 21404. Edwin J. Delattre, president. , 1929- Walter W. Phillips, Audubon, N.J., 1935 - J. William Struven, Baltimore, Publish·oo five times·a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Jan. 21, 1982 Md., Nov. 30, 1981 Second cla~s posta_ge paid at Annapolis, Md: 1930-William H. Conca, Tullytown, J.Y., 1938-R. David Rees, East Haven, Conn. Nov. 16, 1981 1949 Honorary: President Emeritus USPS 018-750 1931_ -- Roy S. Chamberlain, Monterey, :Stringfellow Barr, Al_exandria, Feb. 3, 1982 new director, asked me fo do one final column. I offer her my best wishes as she takes over the alumni and thank all of you for co11tim1ent, cri1tici:sm, and co11te111Ucm over historian of Naval Laboratories, in charge of establishing an historical program for all the Navy's major and as as development centers publication of his first book, New Eye for 1 'Flo disc' m 1 3 . I ~ �_,_...,,__ APRIL 1982 ____ ....__ ...... Page9 THE REPORTER Page3 With eight plays, KWP's schedule brimming over It's been the biggest season in at least 10 years, perhaps ·longer, and nothing could more please the King William Players' president, Comfort Dorn. The St. John's student body appears stage-struck, both performers and members of the audience.. Altogether eight plays have beep. scheduled. Miss Dorn doesn't know the reason why the college attracts so many people interested in the theater. "I'm not sure what the relationship between drama and the program is," this Rockville, Md., senior said. "There's. a performance angle in being. in seminar and being in classes. This is a good school for talking, and talkers are often theatrically inclined. St. John's students gain an ability 1fo speak, to present a coherent view, and they gain confidence in talking in front of people. And St. John's students tend to have a .broad range of interests in a lot of things." So they have come out by the dozens this year, not just the theater buffs but those who enjoy a good time hammering on sets pr fitting costumes. "WE ARE REALLY the biggest organization on campus after the athletic program," Miss Dorn said. "We receive more money ($1,500) from the Delegate ·Council than other organizations. We .produce a lot. Other organizations come and go. We're staying strong, and we have some marvelously talented underclassmen. We seem self-generating in lots of ways. People just keep coming." This year the Players staged two .Becket plays -Endgame and Waiting for Godot - with Andrew White·, Arlington, Va., senior, scheduled to present a one· man show, Krapp's Last Tapes, this spring. In addition to the major spring production, Skin of Our Teeth, scheduled for Parents Weekend, the players have performed The Clouds, The Typists, Three Sisters, and The Trojan Women. Small productions have been particularly important, a good way, Miss Dorn believes, of getting underclassmen involved. Play selection begins at "consensus meetings" held in the fall and widely advertised on campus. At that time the students provide a description of the plays which they would like to see produced and Comfort Dorn, president, center, is fianked by Leslie Jump and Nathan Rosen. Tom Parran photo draw up a schedule of small and large finances; Melinda Rooney, Newcastle, productions for the year. The selections ·Del., sophomore, secretary of make-up are confirmed at a meeting of the Players' and props; Sean Mulholland, Washington General Assembly, the formal senior, secretary of sets, and Holly organization which meets once each Johnson, Rockford, Ill., senior, secretary semester. of costumes. For a short period of time while their At present Miss Dorn said the play selection process may need to be revised to play is in production, the directors of magive more time for reading by more people jor productions join the Steering Commitbefore final choices are made. Sometimes, tee as secretary of production. she pointed out, the description can be The General Assembly, which meets better than the play itself. once a semester and generally draws 15 to UNDER THE NEW charter, the group 20 people, is open to anyone who has taken behind the day-to·day operations of the part in a KWP production with memKing Wiliam Players is the Steering bership expiring seven years after the date Committee, an advisory group which of the member's last production. For that seeks out available expertise and elects its reason, alumni can be full members. own president. The· general secretary- ·Michael David Blum directed a recent Leslie Jump, Westminister, Md., production of Everyman and appeared in sophomore - and the secretary of small The Oresteia and Jim White, a former productions - Nathan Rosen, Potomac, director and actor now working in. Md., senior - are elected by the assembly. Washington, was able to attend one: The president appoints the other meeting. secretaries. This year they are: Several years ago the King William · Todd Reichart, Orangeville, Pa., Players, Dwarf Players, and Modern sophomore, secretary of publicity and Theater Group decided to merge and adopt a new charter. The charter can and is amended from time to time. One proposal now being considered is that all try-outs be open, that th~re be no pre-casting, and that the director be joined at try-outs by two members of the Steering Committee. The King William Players are financed principally through the cabarets it stages each semester and through "angel" letters sent to parents soliciting their support on Parents Weekend. -Miss Dorn said proceeds from ticket sales usually are expected to cover only royalties. Small productions are budgeted tightly at .about $75; larger productions at $200 to-$1,500. AS AN ACTRESS, Comfort Dorn (she · was named for her grandmother) has appeared in a number of campus productions. She was a drama major for two years at Emerson College and then decided to audition for one of the 25 openings at what she considered the best drama school in the country - Juilliard. So did 1,000 other persons. When she wasn't chosen, Miss Dorn did some rethinking; and, on the grounds . that she was receiving neither a first class liberal education nor a first class training in drama, decided to go to the school she had heard about since high school. It took her four to reach St. John's for, after she spent some time in leaving John's meant more, not less ex- rn,•rii:>nce in drama. Besides serving as presid~ent, she has appeared in The andAs You Like It. "'"''""'L1u"" in May, she plans a Todd Reichart photo camnus. With a she said Players for once could spend all their funds in acquiring high quality costumes instead of spreading its budget thinly as members must. �1 , ~ I could do an entire out that Winkie's heart. It came of Greek as a astom1d1111g. It also was his old age a went :consummate a small who love it.' "I think St. John's was his finest and that the flourishes today is evidence of his and determination." Years later Mr. Mason deepened his friendship with the Barrs after their retirement at Kingston, N.J., near Princeton. . "Gladys Baldwin Barr was a great lady with wit whose father had taught at Oxford. She had studied at London University, been painted by Jack Yeats, and had read everything - a woman of style. The dining hall at Randall in the old days was out of Dickens until Mrs. Barr put some style into it with paint and the portraits of William and Mary over the fireplace. She was known as Oak, which gives you an idea of how formidable she seemed. "When the first New Program students wanted to -put.on a play, it could be no Broadway nonsense .. Mrs. Barr chose Murder in the Cathedral. Winkie was so devoted to her that after her death have ex1>ected Charles Nelson angry, and his anger presents itself in spontaneous fashion. He can lay all areas waste." IN A ROOM frequently swept with laughter as speakers recalled Mr. Barr's witticisms, four former students and two speakers who had served on the faculty with him paid tributes to the man who had served St. John's between 1937-46 during, as Francis Mason, '43, put it, "his finest hour.'' Looking ahead, President Edwin J. Delattre described what Mr. Barr had entrusted to the college. The college is, former tutor Harvey Poe said, "his masterpiece.'' They talked about what Mr. Barr was like as a teacher at the University of Virginia, as a tutor here, as a president, as a friend, husband, and son, as a combatant who helped save the college from a Navy take-over, as an idealist who strove for an international government to prevent nuclear holocaust, as an exhuberant and dynamic leader during the grim days of World War II. "It is very hard indeed to understand, looking back, how St. John's College survived those first ten years of the New Program, " the first speaker, Charles A. Nelson, chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, recalled. "The recently arrived immigrants on the faculty here heard the grim news on their radios as they plotted on their wall maps at home the daily advance of the German armies over Poland and Czechoslovakia and France and the Soviet Union. education our co11te1?:1;s intellectual " AFTER 1945, both Mr. Barr and Mr. Buchanan suggested that Mr. Nelson serve as the president's student aide. During that time he had a close-up view of St. John's battle with the Navy at the time the Naval Academy sought to acquire the campus. "My chief duties, or perhaps I should say the most memorable ones, consisted of' carrying messages from our two leaders to the Washington apartment of Sen. Wayne Morse, of Oregon, an ally in the battle, and serving as chauffeur, in Winkie's bottle-green Buick, for those who went to the Congressional hearing to watch as Tom Parran's father and Richard Cleveland and Winkie built their case against the admirals. The passage of the years has simplified those events in my memory: Winkie got out his slingshot and slew Goliath, whose name was Admiral' BenMoreel. "Only yesterday did I discover, having had the privilege of reading a pre· publication draft of Winfree Smith's history of the period that there was a long period of vacillation and ambiguous pronouncements before Winkie decided to place that smooth stone in his slingshot. But the lives of our heroes always prove to be more complex, more human than our memories allow. We tend to forget that. Achilles and Odysseus were both draft-· dodgers, Achilles hiding among the women · and Odysseus feigning insanity ... " In his remarks, Mr. Mason, assistant director of the Morgan in New York, said: Stephen Benedict "THE BARR-BUCHANAN spirit, and he was never able to write again. She was a lesser word will not do, expressed that lively pursuit of the truth in a partnership. the world to him. and without the world to listen, he could not write." It was a partnership where it was Later, while Mr. Barr was still living really possible for anyone rationally to n.u1.i:;::;1,uu, Mr. Mason and Allan Hoff· choose sides. Irrationally, of course. it some of his recollections of was. I had in tutor of stomach Barr. It did not seem to him that you could ask serious to answer them with accent. He did not came to know it. that went to Oxford like New of Mr. Barr's to the hall - one on atcollege. "Peter Kellogg Smith ('45) rPr~m~n that when Winkie was asked about the normal attrition rate at St. John's, he replied, 'I couldn't tell you. You see this college was not started until 1696, and we haven't had a normal year yet.' " Allan Hoffman, who is now chairman of the Alumni Relations Committee of the Board of Visitors and Governors, talked about what Mr. Barr was like as a seminar leader when he had him in his freshman year in 1945: "HE WAS PROVOCATIVE, eloquent, and witty. The seminar was never dull. He said that this was because the authors of the great books were not dull and thinking about their thoughts cannot be dull. He helped us with our thinking. If our expression of an idea was fuzzy, he helped us with our definitions and our logic. When he finally obtained a clear statement from us, and only then, would he say, 'Now let's examine what Mr. So-and-So thinks.' "He never lectured or pontificated in seminar. He believed with his whole being in what we were doing. Often he'd say, 'I never thought of that' or 'That puzzles me, too' or 'There's a funny thing happening in this reading assignment. I wonder what the author is getting at.' '' It was not until 1974 that Mr. Hoffman said he dared to call Mr. Barr "Winkie," a nickname he loved to be called, one taken from a children's nursery rhyme. · "It is difficult to talk about Winkie without saying something about Scott Buchanan. Winkie met Scott in Balliol College, Oxford, England. Winkie disliked Scott at first. Scott sought out Winkie and asked him difficult and penetrating qUE!Stiems. Scott got through to Winkie, who was an English literature major. Soon had shifted his to history. would say often that Scott Buchanan was the most Socratic man he had ever met. uSCOTT TO MANY of us had a very obscure way of exnressinR: ideas. He· was uu.1.,F,"~"A �I i h r Ja ~ f 'I ·»H AP~l1982 u ~ge THE REPORTER • 1n ith (Continued from P. 4) 'What did he mean?' Before- the silence became too painful, Winkie wm}l-d say, 'I think what the dean means is,' and a very clear and lucid idea would be expounded. At least we would begin to understand Winkie's words. When Winkie was finished, Scott would say, I think that states fairly well what I was thinking, but. . . We knew another ·profundity was coming. "As dean, Scott reported to Winkie, the president. Winkie, as a tutor, reported to the dean. During those early days of no endowment, no finances, the draft, World War II, and the threat of the Navy takeover of this campus, Winkie said that only by teaching did he retain his sanity, and teach he did. He taught the alumni of the Old Program what the New Program was about in person, in writing, and on the radio. "He taught history courses brilliantly to the St. Johnnies who were in the Old Program from 1937 to 1940. He was a frequent Friday night lecturer. He taught the U.S. Senate Armed Forces Committee that tile \T.S. Navy's purpose was to. defend, and not to destroy, institutions like St. John's." In touching on his association with alumni during his late years, Mr. Hoffman said Mr. Barr moved to Kingston in 1969 when he was 72. In 1974, when he was 77, he led a seminar during the twenty-fifth reunion of Mr. Hoffman's class. "His health was not the best. He had lost Oak, his wife, and Scott, too. Whenever he · talked about Scott he would cry openly. He had had a heart attack, but his mind was clear. He loved St. John's, he loved St. uu1J1un::o:1. and he loved to teach." 1977, more than a Johnnies celebrated his 80th in his honor at Prinat the age of 81, seminar. one on Oedipus New York to his living room. "Some of us sat on chairs or footstools. Many of us sat on the floor at his feet. His mind when it came to the examination of ideas - was very keen. It was an ideal seminar. I can hear saying, as that last seminar came a close, 'It's a funny thing: The Greeks knew the right questions to ask. They weren't always successful with their answers, but they tried and continued to ask the questions. The Romans had some answers but didn't know what questions to ask.' " Although Mr. Barr asked the group back, he was unable to have them. In less than a year he moved to the Goodwin House in Alexandria, a retirement residence for clergymen. "He never lost his sense humor,'' Mr. Hoffman said. "He told me this story on my first visit to see him at Goodwin House. '"I was iri back of the elevator for the doors to closk! when two elderly gentlenten One to the other, 'I don't is coming now they are in all kinds. There's a fellow on the second floor who thinks he's Napoleon, and we have a new resident on the fourth floor who is going around and """''"'"""that he is Stringfelllow director of Columbia University's arts administration program, spoke of Mr. Barr as a "'".r..•u"''''u animal. While Scott Buchanan came late in life to a direct and lively concern with vui.nu.;,a.1. action, he said Stringfellow as historian and teacher, had always been engaged with the world -of affairs. As a bla , 'bri h , I student, Mr. Benedict and several ~thers Winkie's reaction to the travesty of today's were helped by Mr. Barr in reviving the so· . politics." called ,Sunday Night Meetings on current Two speakers - Mr. Poe and Mr. world issues. In his remarks Mr. Benedict Smith- recalled Mr. Barr as a teacher at said: the University of Virginia. Mr. Barr did "I could not give chapter and verse but not always treat his classes gently, Mr. would wager a good deal thz.t Winkie's Poe said in recalling one episode in which political intuition/ was· indispensable in he addressed his students in a scathing, those complex and difficult early years of even insulting manner. "Scott gave him St. John's rebirth ... 'hell, 11 Mr. Poe said. "I don't think he ever "The political; strain in Winkie Barr went that far again.'' "Everyone came alive in his history survey course," Mr. Poe said. "He was colorful, witty, urbane, rudite. It was more theater than teaching, but it made me look beyond the details to the larger and. more basic problems. It made m:e begin to think. "St. John's under Barr and Buchanan then became the mecca or holy place of 'intellectual life," he continued. "A visit here was exciting and a little mystifying. But many outside were convinced that the program, whatever it really was, held the intellectual hope of America." Allan P. Hoffman In recalling his service with the was deep and lasting. And there were Foundation for World Government, Mr. glorious moments when it was most Poe, who was a member of the board, manifest, as for glorious example, the high described it as a ''noble and generous idea, eloquence of his defense of a small liberal no doubt ahead of the time." Many of Mr. arts college against the Naval marauder Barr's ideas, he pointed out, including his across the way. The issue was joined in a belief that there was sufficient technology Senate hearing room in 1945. As Winkie to provide food and health care for all the concluded his peroration, the room, people of the world, were considered jammed, to be sure, with St. Johnnies, radical then. but are commonplace erupted in supportive applause. Surely, we thought, the Navy, solemnly present in heavy braid, knew then that the jig was up. And so it turned out; it was due, I should like to believe, in no small measure to . University of Virginia but left soon af~ Winkie's long-honed powers of rhetoric." but In all of Mr. Barr's none terwards. "I felt he was at not disillusioned." After of a modest achieved the the pamphlet entitled "Let's the Human Rutgers, he joined Mr. Buchanan of Democratic Inm Race," which Mr. Benedict described as a Center for the "I also saw reasoned plea to Americans in the middle stitutions at Santa them there," Mr. Poe went on. "It was a of the Cold War to abandon their in- .refuge but not a n!!ll·~f,rnr'""' sularity, to to understand the wrote much of their latter and to outside their building of common institutions works there. I felt that the world had somewhat closed in on them as persons. that addressed But their writings, the ideas espoused NOTHER at the Foundation, and their work described as political character was his novel, "Purely their masterpiece - St. John's vV!.AC:F,'1;, Academic" in which Mr. Barr mined the are, I believe, expanding, growing humor and intrigue of life. He con· acceptance, and will endure. no changed my tinued: · what it would have "Following the years at St. John's and life. I cannot his exciting just as he was about to return to teaching, the profession for as he put it, 'I exhilarating - influence during my have a fatal and 'Winkie was man year long ago. He started me on a road, which I still travel, although deflected by an odd of events that led more slowly." him to assume the presidency of a small J. Winfree St. John's tutor foundation devoted to the problems of the. arrangements achieving world order. This was .the since 1941, had Foundation for World Government, whose for the afternoon. In separate talks recently, he had spoken at the unveilings story must one day be fully told. of both a photograph and oil paintings of "I had the good fortune to work with him in the first year of this Quixotic en;. the New -Program founders, occasions terprise in world politics. Winkie was when he had given many of his personal disinclined to assume the role the remembrances of the two men. This time donor thrust upon him. Bu( even the he spoke of Mr. Barr in relation to the smallest chance that doing so would progr~m. "On this occasion it is not only lengthen the odds against the nuclear holocaust was auite sufficient to overcome but necessary that we give to the wisdom, the his doubts. the many things I learned courage, and the artfulness of this man years ago brought to from was that need neither who more than be firty nor dull. In he found an the this college what we tend to take for - the studv of the 2reat books foibles of the race writ large as well as its If he had conpotential for temporary surely Churchill, Adlai Stevenson were them. They used one always suspected, Virginia heart, nourished an ventures.'' MR. SMITH unquenchable nostalgia for the founding and felt that none who came after memories of Mr. Buchanan, would ever rival them in w1s:norn. and North Andover, "HOW I MISS THE pungent wit and Buchanan had said in his tribute: like Thomas Jefferson, operated satiric insia:ht that would have illumined th re' a code of honor in his relations with in an era when loyalty, discretion, and "virtue' (in the ancient Greek sense) were often ignored or forgotten. "He had, again like Jefferson, an enormous sense of the importance of roots. Yet he outgrew local· prejudice and regional biases. He led the way toward racial equality long before the civil rights movement of the sixties. He originated much of the thinking about the necessity for and the means to reform American education and the necessity for for· mulating a world constitution. He had the courage to oppose publicly the atmosphere of suspicion and distrust engendered by the Joseph McCarthy investigations in the early fifties ·and in a true sense 'defended our ancient liberties.' He loved a good fight, could turn a good phrase in the best Churchillian manner, and would have been a great United States senator." In his remarks concluding the talks, President Delattre read from an article he had written for the Baltimore Morning Sun following Mr. Barr's death: "When asked by a student in 1959 what colleges were obligated to do for the students, he replied: 'To keep a good thick ivory wall around you long enough for you to think a little. There is a tremendous shortage of ivory in this country.' "IN THE SAME YEAR, on WNEW-TV in New York, he said of teaching, 'The! essence of teaching is joint learning ... teacher through student and student throu1:1rh teacher.' And nine years later, 'I suppose that real listening is always a form of loving.' In 1967, rehearsing his as a teacher: 'I wanted people to to read and write ... Students don't know how to read and and I would add that a hell of a lot of people teaching them don't know how to read or write either.' " education is to the dictates of tashlon as and popular music, Mr. Delattre said that it is almost always out of fashion t<rinsist that students should invest heavily in their minds. "Walls of ivory are Francis Mason ·objects of derison, envisioned as impractical, unrelated to jobs and the sup:posedly attendant economic capacity to 1realize a heart's desire. - He said the price of this fiction "o:atheti~~allly high." "Whenever we less of and our students .Barr found whom not I ; • �6 1 t not convince the could only be the discipline of the curriculum and 1'1•"'''"'"''" of the faculty and the institution .. A horde of veterans, which included some' of our most distinguished also contained many young men scarcely aware of what the college was about or whether could or ever wanted to meet its Eleven new tutors knew what to make of the situation, •UL.uvlai:;u in the end strong and inspiring d'll1r'O,..tlnn was found, A new tutor finds the much surer of what it and more able to discern some the defects of our work when set clear achievements. The admissions program assures us that few students who enroll could not benefit immensely from what have undertaken. This is all the more remarkable on the schools have ...... on<:'l ..orl them less well. In 1946 the college was in chaos and remained so until Mr. Klein became dean. In 1982 it is a remarkably well organized and resilient institution, able to sustain itself and of carrvimr out improvement conceive. On the other I continue to believe we have unknown allies in the schools. We should cultivate them 1 Q. What do you see as the strene:ths of the Its weakness? strength of the college is However, the the student's first of the difficult texts in such a that he or she reads them for themPerhaps the thinking too """"~,;,.d I could wish that the third carnpt1s were close to to SPE~cul:ate about but Mr. assures us that it is not. It could be an occasion for a bolder review of the curriculum than is n'l"<ll'tll,..<:'11 or desirable on the nresent campuses. em- ROBERT BART assiduously, out the many areas we have in common, use our examle for them where it is bring them the good news that liberal education does not a distinction between two , between "science" and "humanities." we can our· ex:amp1e show such that our way in fact !;!l<:'luu:hhr send their' contributions and cm:1.n~t!:s to make - both - · · littlethe five A. I have not set out to- make notable~ as dean. Our Santa Fe campus: to settle down and absorb or its somewhat stormv oast. The I one 80 students nrl!'•!;P11l'P On CampUS Of SOme most teachers from Anhas had an incalculable effect in building bonds of and affection. Annapolis tutors have lectured and let us see how tackle and unfold the proble_fil~ we are engaged with. frrnnh11n11 Q. What do you believe St. John's role should be in higher education? A. St. John's role in higher education can only be what it has been, for students and faculty and - distant admirers, - a miracle in the wasteland of modern education. The saddes thing in my work as dean has been writing to dozens of eager and obviously able teachers, who Wi$h to study worthy texts and share with students in the process of learning together. There is only rarely place for them at St. John's, and I, at least, cannot name five other places even faintly like it where they should apply. St. John's is the standard of undergraduate education, but no institution uses that standard as its measure. A dark and iron age has come upon American education. and would gain time for discussion. The would be better grounded in the material under consideration. I think the should also form a resolution to reduce the number of some of the most ambitious units of Q. What would you like to see accomplished? Are there any new directions in which you would like. the college to move? A. At Santa Fe, at least, I would like to see more thorough preparation for tutorials and lab on the part of more students. At the same time I would like more freedom to discuss the meaning of what we have been doing in long stretches, such as Apollonius, Ptolemy and Copernicus, Newton, to take examples from the math tutorial. I believe the two goals would complement each other·. If less time were wasted on fumbling demonstrations and translations, students would have a greater satisfaction in their performance have worked with me, have had an exrange of choices for them to concentrate on from among the thinJ?s I could not to do. Their work has revvar'diill2: for that reason, and the I and students are that the diverse as a result. I am convtnced that the role of assistant dean should be conceived the terms as It men and women who command of the and the the dean students in much the same it is for does. In that the dean to almost his res:p011su111u:tes if he wishes to''""'"'"'"''' T"''"'"" formal duties that involve the nrP~iilPnt and the board. chosen music because ofits evident foundation in I do not believe we can hope to include another of the fine arts in the curriculum. We can and should do much more to stimulate interest in the visual arts exs tracmrm!ul;ar means. That is not easy, buf made in Anna1lOlllS. to go to its world of exs practicing the arts themselves, or in studying The is avenue I can see into this perience. It saddens me since my this field to me as much to me as music to lecture on the Roman pos:ltlo1n of the dean can be On the basis have it a and Continued from P. 1) for cuts in Federal our Federal money reduced,'' Mr. the will make every effort to its own resources. and seek increases state such as those successfullv made in the of New Mexico."· Under the Reagan '"'"''"""""} for Pell Grants would and the College Work in Study Program cut by 43 per cent. "In 1980-81 half of our revenues for tui:tion, room, and board were provided by financial aid funds," Miss Taylor said. "The federal programs provided 30 per cent of the total revenues." Annapolis' scholarship producing endowment provides only 2.3 per cent of financial aid revenues. The bulk of the col-· lege's institutional funding is. provided by St. John's grants which come out of the annual operating budgets. In Santa Fe Marsha Drennon, financial aid director, anticipates a drop in 1983· 84 of 49 of the number of students Pell Grants will be able to help. Funds will be cut from their present level of $129,000 or $80,000. The federal College Work. Study pro- will go and the western doubling the return on its .. .....v ....... .,.... " money, from to next year. THE STATE OF New Mexico also has becoming the second state to under of New Mexico also is for federal ........ ~"'IUU1Uj5 eliminated for a state program. "The Santa Fe campus is making every effort to anticipate losses and to compensate for them whenever it is " Dean Robert Bart said. Annapolis college grants will go up 12 per cent, from $410,000 to $459,000. Present funding on the Annapolis campus together with proposed cuts for 1982-83 and for 1983-84 would be: Pell Grants - $145,000, less $14,000, less $58,000, a reduction of 50 per cent; SEOG - $75,000, less $18, 750, less $75,000, total elimination; CWS - $110,000, i:ess $16,500, less $30,800, less 43 percent; NDSL - $60,000, less $6,000, less $60,000, a hundred per cent cut. Among the nation's colleges, St. John's has one of the lowest default rates. In Anapolis it is about 3 per cent; in Santa Fe, 2 per cent. �APRIL. l982 Todd Reichart photos t lives of the battered copies we have. Our student binders can do several kinds of covers to repair loose complete new covers. When a book must be resewn, we send it away to professional binders because although we can sew, it is not cost effective to use student help in this way. "Another kind of work is being sent to the bindery in increasing numbers paperback. We find that we can purchase books in the paperback edition and have them bound before they are manufacturing for ourselves low cost hardback books. Obviously, only well made paperbacks can be treated this way." over cmnpJlete works and Robert as · Dickens, Stevenson as well as a Accession of James adeiltlon. it would like of: Q:l'..,;,,,i,.,.:;,.i.. Gauss's a 12· volume work out by Olms, I:ildesheim at a cost of about Edmund Husserl's , cost of which will be about The six-volume Deutsches Worterbuch; The ItalianEnglish, li'ncrH<:!h-lhH:m in four volumes, ____ _ Persons wishing to contribute any of these volumes are requested to inform Mrs. Kathryn Kinzer, College Librarian, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md. 21404. the ~~v•""' ~·~~·~+ which were sold. disposes of part of its surplus 4.t..~,..,,,,.h book dealers. In its sales Copies of the piano recording of a performance by Douglas Allanbrook, Annapolis tutor, are available at the bookstore on the eastern campus. President Edwin J. Delattre ex· pressed appreciation to Mr. Allanbrook for contributing his musicianship to the production of the recording entitled "Music from St. John's" and released by Richardson Recordings. It may be pur- chased through the bookstore for $7.25 with $1.50 for mailing. All proceeds beyond production costs go to the college. Checks should be made payable to the St. John's Bookstore. The recording includes a performance of Mr. Allanbrook's own Venice Music and Naples Music, Haydn's Sonata 42 in C Major, and J.S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue No. 14 in F Sharp. . .. n1 ri I Alumni will hold a special meeting in Annapolis April 24 to act on a proposed revision of the Alumni Association bylaws. The meeting at 2 p.m. in the Conversation Room will follow a mail ballot conducted last month. Allan Hoffman, of New York City, and Pablo Collins, of Washington, are serving as co-chairmen of the committee which has proposed the bylaw changes. In addition, members will discuss the future direction of the association. .. �llld'l"l!l11"U:ti8 1 • I Continued from P.1) of cooperation on those occasions I have asked them to take a different assignment or asked them to participate at the last minute in a senior examination. I've always been touched the degree cooperation.'' During the past five years, Mr. Smitrrow has made a particular point of and becoming acquainted with· each senior. Without the opportunity of really knowing members of the graduation he simply has not liked the idea of repeating those ceremonial words at commencement in which the dean "bears witness" to .the class he traditionally presents for degrees. HE ALSO HAS been responsible for producing The Tutor's Book of Customs and Policies, a . handbook particularly aimed at newer tutors to help inform them of what is expected of them. Among the material it pulls together are matters that otherwise might be buried in faculty minutes: such things as standards for degrees and essays or policies on grades and transfers to Santa Fe. Dm:ing his tenure Mr. Sparrow also has worked to simplify and make certain administrative procedures more rational. It was his initiation which resulted in an expansion of student weekend activities. More recently he lent the personal and financial support of his office to the new Wednesday afternoon "fireciders" for and students, occasions for them to mix over cider around the coffee fireplace. And together with his wife, Lydia, Mr. Sparrow, who is a convivial and warm host, also has expanded entertainment at the college. One of his most important roles during his tenure came as a member of the Presidential Search Committee· and his part as dean during the transition from one president through the first months of a new president. Mr. Sparrow has changed one opinion he held early in his deanship. "I used to think St. John's could really serve as an effective model for other in- SPARROW students, but not something that other institutions will imitate in whole." Because of the structure of their own institutions, he believes there are several reasons colleges or universities would not institute a St. John's type program. "But by continuing to exist and to exist strongly, we become a touchstone that in itself fulfills a purpose." DURING MR. Sparrow's own association with the college, dating back to his arrival on campus in the fall of 1957, St. John's has undergone only minor changes. Preceptorials have been introduced,· German dropped, there have been changes in the laboratory program and in the reading list, but essentially he feels the college is much as it was when he arrived. "I'm sure alumni of those early. years coming to seminar would feel at home," he said. "Conversely, if one of our studentswere to go back in time, he also would feel at home. That's largely because of the kind of atmosphere that existed then is the ~. hope it will be useful to prospective students of higher education and their families; and I am particularly glad for St. John's to have some public measure of what it deserves ... Students )Vere having fun with the s r rating. Asked to to an unrelateu student q-uestionaire which came his way from another college, Ralph Brasacchio, speaking with mock hauteur, told the Polity that he thought St. John's should reply "even if it's only a 12-star college." The survey of the country's "best and most interesting" four-year institutions includes informal essays covering six broad topics: academics, student body, housing, food, social life, and extracurricular activities. St. John's high rating owes much to student opinion. Descriptions were based upon 12-page questionnaires sent to students and some ad-. ministration members last year. The St. John's section is generally flattering although there are some instances of inaccuracies: "A happy hour on Friday free drinks for is said to (During late cider for tutors and students on Wednesdays in the coffee shop.) Students are reported to every wakfug hpur of the dav" rP::irliM writing, and philosophizing, which would come as a i::nl'nl'i•i:iP John's tutors. ST. NAME is said to be borrowed from Cambridge University when, in no one is certain where the name came and the attrition rate is set at 50 per cent, rathr than betwe~n 40 and 45 per cent. Not counting S1toi.:-:- pieces of poetry, ' 1 I I stiitutJtons." he said. "I don't think that going to remain very more. ourselves - alone, a place other will admire from a distance. St. remain a mecca for some teachers and • (Continued from P. John's," quipped one faculty member.) Other places receiving 13 stars included the University of Colorado, Dartmouth, Haverford, University of Indiana, University of Massachusetts, University of North Carolina, Oberlin, University of Texas, University of Vermont, and ~University of Wisconsin. Listed as 12-star institutions are Arizona State University, University of California at San Diego, University of California at Sarita Cruz, Colorado College, Duke; Georgetown, Goucher, Hamilton, Harvard, Holy Cross, Johns Hopkins, University of Kansas, University of New Hampshire, University of Pennsylvania, Rice, Smith, Swarthmore, Trinity, Vanderbilt, Wellesley, Williams, 1 and Yale. THE ANNAPOLIS campus took its 13star status in striCfe. President Delattre said he wasn't at all surprised to see it. it's scarcely surprising that a new education guide ·would confirm the excellence of many institutions that associated with education to be excellent. Naturally delighted to see quality recognized as II Ii same which exists now." St. John's own institutional structure, Mr. believes, · a form f)f and which makes genuine of learthe one is the which Mr. soatrro,w preserve the program. "We are sometimes criticized not having enough 20th centliry -material or enough history or enough writing and nothing in the fine arts or on such issues as ecology or natural resources or war," he said. Because of the amount already in the program, there are restraints. Mr. Sparrow believes that the fine arts needs already are being fulfilled in the college's extra-curricular art program, with its classes, gallery exhibits and talks, and trips to Washington and Baltimore art galleries. "We have a grett deal of writing in the program." he pointed out. ustudents complain about naving too much.'' "I SEE STUDENTS as they come in as freshmen and as they leave as seniors," Mr. Sparrow continued. "Being here has touched them deeply, deeply as human beings. They hav.e been through an intellectual experience of growth and maturity. The college's ability to do that is the ability to maintain them in a good direction.'' The one change he would like to see implemented is a practical matter: the raising of faculty salaries. The position of dean is an enormously one. Mr. Sparrow do;;s mt see to simplify it. He thinks the night lecture in the school year continue to be delivered by the dean, as it the fact that its much summer time. "The dean is the teaching head of the faculty and says something about the academic tone of the college, and an accurate way to reflect this is in the opening lecture,'' he said. · It is also important, he believes, for the dean to continue teaching a single II 41> course. "It is so easy to succumb to the temptation to substitute papers people," he said. "The deanship require's one to think 'horizontally' - to think in terms of what might, or should, or must or happen in fifteen minutes, two five months. It is cruCial to the ability and practice of thinking vertically': of what might be, or is. And that is what happens in the classroom." With two more months to go, Mr. Sparrow will conclude his deanship on July 1 when Annapolis tutor Samuel Kutler takes over. After that there will be a summer free of the usual lecture writing obligation and ·time to prepare for a change. Accompanied by their two youngest children, the Sparrows are hoping to take his sabbatical in Spain, a time for Mr,. Sparrow to do some reading, principally poetry, and some writing, mainly in the realm of theology. It will be a time of restoration, a time for a well earned rest. 1 r 19 SI (Continued from P .1) In addition to the $5,000 award, the AAIAL will subsidize the recording of some of his music by Composer Recording, Inc. Mr. Allanbrook early in January gave a major retrospective concert in his 60th year featuring his music. His compositions 's students here read about 150 writings essays, tracts, lectures, plays, treatises rather than "about a ,hundred great books.'' The most.critical part comes with the closing paragraph: "There is an almost mystical reverence for learning at St. Johns. Students will tell you they're looking for truth, beauty' and other such lofty ideals in their education rather than a thorough grounding in something as pedestrian as political science. St. John's rigid adherence to its prescribed curri.culum can lead to pretentiousness and stifle the creativity so admired in grea inkers of the past. But these are h ar s of the trade that Johnnies gloss over in their eagerness to promote the wonders of this one remaining outpost of classical liberal arts education in the nation." Quoting in part from the opening section, the c~talogue reads: 11 St. John's . . . is a havenfor ex· people who can't the compromises of a normal university. A sort of kickback to the better days of England's elite uaiversities, Oxford and Cambridge, it is a school that caters exclusively to serious students who philosophize every waking hour of the With a history that gQes back more. than 275 years ... it follows a curriculum. that would have delighted Matthew Arnold! and other 19th cegtury traditionalists." DOUGLAS AUANBROOK have included music for opera, for .orchestra, for string quartets, and for the voice, piano, and the harpsichord. Not only has his work been performed both in this country and abroad but, in addition, as a pianist and harpsichordist, he has given numerous concerts here and in Europe. Mr. Allanbrook began his musical studies at age eight and began composition at· 13. He studied composition with Walter Piston at Harvard and wlth Natlia Boulanger at both the Longy School of Music in Cambridge and at the Paris Conservatory. The Italian harpsichordist, Ruggero Gerlin, of the Naples Conservatory, was his principal keyboard teacher. A 1948; graduate of Harvard College, Mr. Allanbrook was · a traveling fellow of Harvard in Paris from 1948 to 1950 and a Fulbright Fellow in Italy from 1950 to 1952. In 19!:>3 he joined the faculty of St. John's College antl has been associated with the college since then. The academy is headed by Arthur Schlesinger. Election to it as members has. been considered .for many years the. highest formal recogntion of artistic merit in this country. �Don't knock it. It can be ladder. Barbara Dorsey could no more have remained a dishwasher than she could stand still. Not with all her nat•1ral for ]P!HlPr~hin you will as a sort of rndnu!l~hino"'? common, the same ve1·1en.ces .:aauu1.1.i:;;u at different times and of what it meant to be a St to turn in my mind. How I wished more classmates from my decade and more of the 50s, 60s, and 70s would take advantage of the super program. The program was well organized. Upon arriving at the campus, I was given a containing my room location and the class schedules, information on curricular activities and campus '1t11•111,,.t14:! maps, opera and theater schedules, and a list of restaurants. Living in a co-ed dormitory was new to me. I had to learn not to barge into the bathroom and to insert my men's card into the clip on the outside of the door. The views from the campus windows are spectacular. The climate in July is fantastic. Exc_ept in automobiles, there is no need for air conditioning. Mornings and evenings are cool. The alumni seminars and tutorials were very satisfying. For an alumnus who remembers the kind of "edifying con· fusion" that was encouraged during the 40s, I was pleased with the way the alumni, for the main, stayed with the texts and nrincioal ideas and tried to understand before considering their con~ sequences or relations to other ideas. Classes were serious. material had to be read This is a workin~ experience. I wish I read more of to Alumni Week so have had more time to hike or ..:~:•:-,., For one solid week, I listened J watched no TV; I read no ne'IJvsnaPE!r, but I had a perfectly relaxed int1ellectu.all~ stimulating vacation. are excellent I ate all my meals would want to miss onversations? As it cm::1ve1:-sa1;ion never stopped. It hall to dorback to class I was an un- "I love with whom I work," Barbara guess St. John's my second home." Te1chI1ic:1lly her dav bei::ins at 10 a.m. room to make "It ends at 7:30 p.m. when she goes home To hear Barbara tell it, "'""tr~ .... ,,, food service is a piece of means coping with crisis. During the blizzard of '79, she was the only kitchen employee to appear when snow closed roads, and, aided by students, still managed to feed the student body. Not too long ago, when the Saga Food Service joined St. John's, she arrived to learn that three people had quit. "I almost had a heart attack that day." Ever ready, she has been known to come to afflicted with bursitis, on crutches. As the indispensable right hand assistant to Jim Krysiak, Saga's manager r I in the midst of Mortimer at St. John's, the Auditorium parted to in a tableau "The School of which traditionally the Chicago the seniors had all the characters in place except one. Aristotle was Paul Hartel, as a nhnfoO"l"!:inhPr-~rfo~t_ diSCOVered the ababOUt on He then led Al'h:tntlP'~ crowned nresen1ted him a nhntnar!lnh to commemorate the Tom Pam:m photo Barbara has never turned for St. lHn~lrinn if down a necessary on her days off to catering or other responsibilities. Her efficiency does not go unappreciated Krysiak. "She's super," he reported. "Without I would be here seven days a week. She takes over pretty much of the operational side of the place." It's that kind of devotion that has helped her move from dishwasher, the position she held first when she came in 1974-75, to luncheon cook, to lunch and dinner cook, to head cook. Two years ago she became kitchen supervisor. There's a new chef, George Tucker. A resident of 952 Sherwood Forest Road, Barbara Dorsey had her first experience with food preparation at about age 10 when she accompanied her mother to work in a Charles County restaurant. Her mother would get her to help cut lettuce or mak~ hamburgers, and if Barbara didn't do it right the first time, her mother gave her a second chance. SHE WAS A home ec major at La Plata High School, but left before her senior year to marry at age 17. The marriage ended in divorce, and she now is married to Franklin Benjamin Dorsey, a self-employed coment finisher. Late this adopted a two-year-old boy, winter Santo. She already has had lots of "'""'l"n 1• 0 mothering youngsters who live · next door and with whom she plays on a daily basis. To baseball and make it possible for to continue at St. has a far higher propor:lents who pass the State Department's Foreign Service program than the national average, Marianne Braun, director of career counseling in Annapolis, has been informed by a State official. J. chief of the recruitment program, has disclosed that of the 14 former or St. John's last students who took the year, twelve the examination. This means that ner cent achieved nassin!! """"nn.uu average scores cent. she has live-in The from the temporary, much to the of students and fellow workers. "I'm charmed by her," St. John's senior Jonathan Gold, of Mobile, Ala., who appreciates their pleasant, casual relations, said. He's not the only student to sound Mrs. Dorsey's praises. "She's a really lovely and wonderful person," Ellen Swinford, St. John's senior who supervises the student aides in the dining room, observed. "She's a very hard worker, and I sometimes wonder if this place could go on without her. She's been a good friend to me." Besides helping at the President's Home, Barbara occasionally moonlights by assisting Annapolis caterer Rita Cohn. "She's willing, competent, very much in charge of things," Mrs. Cohn remarked. "She can anticipate. She's unreal. She works until she's ready to drop, and her work does not show it. She is very professional in all aspects of food service." on nel St. John's College President Edwin J. Delattre has been named chairman of the of the President's Dallas regional Commission on House Fellowships. The commission is headed by Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale, a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, Calif., and a member of the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors. Since 1965 almost 300 outstanding young leaders have narticioated in the program, snEmc:tin2 as special assistants to Cabinet officers and key White House staff members. Mr. Delattre will head a 15-member panel who will screen annroximatelv 12 semifinalists in that From Marianne counseling director of the Annanolis campus, comes a reminder alumni in search of former students who miJ?ht nossess information �;1 Page 10 APRll 1982 I I Almost every Thursday at 1 p.m. David Stephenson can be found with a small group of junior laboratory tutors in the coffee shop. In a small academic huddle over sandwiches and coffee, the tutors discuss what for some is unfamiliar work or they attempt to clarify a .,...,.'1,hl.am of a text or they consider a po~;sible experiment. At a similar session for Brother Robert with half a dozen tutors of French. Besides as an occasion to review pedagogical it may be a time for reading and discussing French and for the drama along with other third year language tutorial. Mr. Stephenson and Robert are "archons," the Greek word for firsts and preferred at St. John's to "chairmen," with its conventional, departmental connotations. St. John's has no departments. The weekly meetings most archons schedule is one way tutors le~rn from one another at St. John's. Currently in his second year at the college, President Edwin J. Delattre has been so impressed by the amount of cooperative learning among the faculty he has observed since arriving here that he commented upon it in a recent statement to thefaculty. "EVEN THOUGH our workloads are heavy, our methods of enabling tutors to learn from each other are probably the best in existence and would be widely emulated, I think, if known," be wrote. "This may be the most positive contribution we can make to higher education broadly conceived." The extraordinary amount of teaching and learning among faculty members springs from St. John's commitment to liberal education by way of a non-elective curriculum in which faculty members are expected to teach widely. Because they all teach in a single program and contribute fo the overall learning of students, St. John's tutors welcome others to their classrooms as auditors. Older tutors are known to spend much time with newer faculty members. "What this place has that is so special is a faculty with a uniform mission,'' Mr. Delattre said. "They stand for a program with a common goal in intellectual life. Because it works and because they are questions, they must constantly on one another's expertise." tutors are required to teach in the Mr. Delattre said older and younger members John's. In age division 1mivl'>r~itv where upper work and are ESPECIALLY HELPFUL Nicholas Maistrems, \ II laboratory cm:hon, chairs a dislaboratorv tutors who from e • •. 1n existence I Mr. MaistreUi~ Sarkissian. Robert bara Tom Pattan photo morning faculty seminars a year on a topic which interests tutors, which may be based on music or philosophy or comedy. "We talk to one another, just as students do, we hope, somewhat more clearly and consistently, but none the less with the same spirit," Mr. Sparrow continued. Individual faculty members regularly organize study groups. Currently there are four underway: a group in contemporary physics, led by Robert Raphael; one in Aristotle's Politics, led by Laurence Berns, and one in psychoanalysis and another in Aristotle's Metaphysics, for which Howard Zeiderman is serving as coordinator. Customarily, the groups meet for one or two semesters, but there are exceptions. Another tutor, Wye Allanbrook, was responsible for a faculty study group which met to read Latin for over a period of five years. Mr. Zeiderman has been particularly active in initiating such groups. Among those he has formed have been groups devoted to Husserl's Cartesian Meditations, to Heidegger's Being and Time, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, and to the work of a contemporary French philosopher, Of Grammatology, by Jacques Derrida. One of Mr. Zeiderman' s objectives has been to get tutors to look at modern not in to the program, but in order tutors become more aware of them on own. conducted like seminars and in is free to ask the question. There is no duties to in groups. Both class time and for these small sessions considerable time to schedule. A 49 tutors ac~ responsibilities to attend a study group on William of Ockham, a medieval logician whose influence has extended to the roots of modern philosophy. Another five took part last year in a study of Einstein's ge11eral theory of relativity led by Professor Gordon Feldman of Johns Hopkins University's Physics Department. Students have been studying special relativity for 20 years, but the study group gave faculty members the next step and a larger context in which to place the relativit~ theor~. In addition, the Mellon grants gave 20 tutors released time to audit classes or to pursue their own project of individual study. Individual work ranged widely. Among those engaged in special projects were Douglas Allanbrook, who was able to complete the writing of his seventh symphony; Eva Brarin, who made a study of James Madison and subsequently lectured on him at the University of Dallas, and Michael Comenetz, who worked on Gauss's General Investigation of Curved Surfaces as well as another work of Gauss. What St. John's has learned to do, Mr. Delattre feels, could be adapted at a departmental level at other colleges and universities, not only within departments but in inter-departmental discussions of distributive requirements in general education. As a comparative newcomer to the St. John's community, he remains impressed. "There is a lot of faculty cooperation at St. John's," he noted appreciatively. "There's no place like this." Introducing the board Ex-treasurer now member John H. Dendahl is a former St. John's treasurer and business manager who moved to Massachusetts last July to become vice-president and ·controller of the Thermo Electron Corporation. Born and educated in Santa Fe, Mr. Dendhal was graduated from the 1nnra>Y'1:1hr of Colorado at Boulder in 1961 where he earned in both electrical engineering and He served two as with the Eberline 1n..:·h·11·m.111nt f'i:Yrnnrlltinn before bec:om.mi:! Golden 1ew to the faculty. the executive officer 1975, and chairman of the board in Ft:>h11"1ll'.l'l'V the late Dean recedent. Plutarch was archon 'the at Chaeronea.) learn from one another other's " Dean Snarrow said. "This continues y Monday and great iJks seminars younger tutors are paired :h more experienced tutors. In addition, there are three Saturday their senior essays, and even at academic matters as changes discussed. are In the last three years, the nnnnrhmitv for members to themselves has been striengtnenea for Anarew W. Mellon E'oundation. Last year five faculty members were released from a third of their teaching 1978. The father of five aa1.:lgh1ters served as a director of the and the He also has been a trustee or director of the Association of New Mexico, Santa Fe vu11uauvu, First National Bank of Santa and Center for En· vironmental Problem...,..,... '-'IJIU!\,;u, u ...,,. Mr. Dendahl joined the Thermo Electron Corporation last July and, with his family, is residing in Concord, Mass. Former Dean Robert A. Goldwin, '50, now a member of the Board of Visitors and is the author of a chapter which appears in Ethics in Hard a publication of the Hastings Center Institute of Ethics, and the Life Sciences. Mr. writes on "Rights Versus Duties - No Contest" in the book, edited by Arthur L. Caplan and Daniel Callahan. �1 I s P.1) expressed his concern about the possibility of global atomic warfare. "Only a sovereign nation needs atomic bombs to coerce it," he wrote in Sep1945. "Where citizens instead of nations are in the sovereign units of no such bombs are needed to coerce " sceotical, too, noting HE trust any league, alliance, association or treaty among sovereign. nations to outlaw the production or use of atomic bombs is to trust swamps to cease producing mosquitoes." After leaving St. John's he became in 1948 president of the Foundation for World Government. An activist, he signed an appeal to President Harry Truman calling for amnesty for convicted U.S. Communist Party members. During the Vietnam War he joined 5,000 college and university teachers in signing an 86-word petition urging the Johnson Administration to work for neutralization of North and South Vietnam. He wrote 11 books, including a novel, Purely Academic, a satirical novel on American college education which reached The New York Times best seller list in five weeks. The Times called it an "acid critique of college life." Among the others were histories of Europe and Greece, a cookbook, and a children's book --Copydog in India. The Will of Zeus was published while he was serving as professor of humanities at Rutgers University from 1955 to 1964. A Italian biography of the 19th nationalist, Joseph Mazzini, was published while he was teaching at the University of Virginia. His 1949 book, Pilgrimage for Western Man, was a for a world state. _ A SMALL Let's Join the Human Race, dealing the world's economic and political problems, resulted in a 1952 cover sketch of Mr. Barr on The Saturday Review. Justice William 0. Douglas termed it "one of the most important0political tracts of our time." With major directed to un* derdeveloped nations of Africa, and the Middle East, where Mr. Barr had traveled it eventually ran to 234,000 and was translated into several languages. "Since it attacked American foreign policy without first insulting Stalin, I had the devil of a time getting it published," Mr. Barr said at the time. "But I hoped that, even during the Cold War, I might get at 5,000 people or so. The has now run to 200,000 and is still going stron.g. The problem that interests me is less why our relations with Russia are bad, but why our relations have gotten steadily worse with a couple of billion people who for some curious reason are neither Russian nor American. Why, in short, everybody is out of step but us.'' Mr~ Barr was concerned in part with education because he was concerned with democracy. He was fond of saying, "When I was a young men I remember Dean Inge of St. Paul's Cathedral in London saying Rome was destroyed by the barbarians. We breed our own. We cannot make that mistake. We must rid ourselves of the arrogance of not listening to the wonders of the ages because we don't understand it." THE CONCERN never left him. In a 1966 speech at the College of St. Scholastica, Mr. Barr said liberal arts were "the arts of thinking and writing, of speaking and listening, of thinking." "We substituted," he told his audience fi s "a mixture of proliferating subject matters, alleged facts, and pre= professional training, spiced with semiprofessional athletics and college activities." The end result, "glued together with survey courses, is higher illiteracy, certified by the degree of bachelor of (liberal) arts." The son of an Episcopal clergyman and the grandson of another, the Rev. Frank Stringfellow, for whom he was Mr. Barr was born in Va., in 1897. . It was of his grandfather, a famous .Confederate Scout, that Mr. Barr wrote: "Living with him was like being with Oliver Cromwell. He always prayep. to God when in a pinch, and God always came ·across. His method worked whenever he got into a tight jam in the war. He was cap-tured, imprisoned, condemned to de~th, but always got off." After attending seven schools, he enterea Tulane University in New Orleans at the age of 15, remaining there for a year and then transferring to the University of Virginia, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1917 and his master's. At that time it was his intention to teach English literature. HE TOOK PRIZES for composition and oratory, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and won a Rhodes scholarship, but his appearance at Oxford University was delayed during 23 months of war service with the Surgeon General's Office. Entering Oxford in 1919, he remained for two years, changing his speciality to history, but he finally got fed up with the study there altogether and left with an Oxford BA, not the doctorate of philosophy for which he came, a degree instituted, he · said, "to catch the American trade." It was at Oxford that he met another Rhodes scholar, Scott Buchanan, who came to St. John's with him as dean. Even then they discussed the possibility of starting a boys' school. Upon leaving Oxford, he married in 1921 a rabid Anglophile, Gladys Baldwin, a girl of American birth whose father taught at Oxford. He had met her in the U.S. while he was in uniform. After Oxford he was a member tor a while of the staff of the Paris edition New York which he claimed "had all the mores of a small town newspaper." He specialized in obituaries. "I got so I could interview a corpse." He studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the University of Ghent under a recinrnr::i l scl:ltolarshiP from the Committee on and was able to present a University-of Zurich for his doctorate when his father's illness and death brought him to this country in 1923. AFTER DOING some private tutoring in French, he joined the University of .Virginia in 1924 as an assistant;>rofessor of history. In six years he rose to full ·professorship and became a campus legend. At the age of 33 he was mentioned as the likely successor to the presidency of the university. Before he had settled in his mind whether he would accept an offer, the appointment went to someone else. During his 12-year stay at Virginia, he became editor of The Virginia Quarterly Beview, a literary magazine, and wrote frequent editorials for the Norfolk Virginia-Pilot. He also generated with Buchanan, who had joined Virginia's faculty in 1929, plots of rebellion against the elective system. The year before coming to St. John's, both Mr. Barr and Mr. Buchanan were on leave at the University of Chicago, where their work together resulted in a new concept of college education. At St. John's It can't be! But it is: Humphreys in the old days. Theodore L. Brownycm:I, of Silver Spring, Md., found this postcard view at a flea market in, of all.places, Fla. Any alumnus who can date the building is asked to write the editor. We'd to know when looked like this. r• • I ct or Robert P. Turner, Jr., has been named director of community relations for the Santa Fe campus to succeed Mary Branham, Provost J. -Burclienal Ault has announced. Miss Branham has announced her candidacy for Secretary of State of New Mexico. Currently associated with the college on a part-time basis, she will leave St. John's following commencement exercises in May. Mr. Turner for seven years was director of continuing education at the College of Santa Fe, a program he founded in 1970. While there he also was an, instructor in Latin American and Iberian history and served one year as coordinator of the CSF's college program in the New Mexico State Penitentiary. He holds a master of arts degree from the University of New Mexico and a bachelor of science degree in engineering from Princeton University. He has been prominent in civic work in Santa Fe, helping found the Council on International Relations and serving as its· first president. He was one of a group of citizens who planned the transition of St. Vincent Hospital to community control, and he was elected viCe-chairman of its first Board of Trustees. In recent years, as president of the Old Pecos Trail Association, he was an ad· vocate for a strong water board during franchise negotiations between PNM and the city. He is a member of the Historical Styles Committee and the City Planning Commission. Mr. Barr described his own function as the "creation of conditions" under which Mr. Buchanan could carry on the program. During his presidency St. John's was threatened on two occasions to be dispossessed of its campus, once by a housing authority and again by the U.S. Naval Academy, both of which coveted the college grounds for expansion. Feeling that the Navy had not provided sufficient assurance against to absorb the campus, Mr .. future Barr left in to seek a site for a new .... u.1.u;;i::;.,.;. A $4,500,000 grant was made for the project throul!h the Old Dominion Foundation by Paul Mellon, who had been a student here, but the college did not materialize. AFTER ST. John's he returned to Charlottesville, where he headed the Foundation for World Government and taught political science as a visiting professor at Virginia. His wife died in 1977. In May, 1979, Mr. Barr moved from Kingston, N.J., where he had retired. His was cremated, and his ashes will be in a service at the burial ground at Cismont, Va., on Easter Saturday, April 11. Kate Lissauer, Westminster, Md., senior on the Annapolis campus, offers this recipe which she informs us is reprinted from Thus Ate Zarathustr;i: ZARATHUSTRA 'S ZUCHINNI BREAD Mix 2 cups sugar, 1 cup oil, 2 cups . grated zuchinni, 3 eggs, 3 tsp. vanilla. Sift 3 cups flour, 3 tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. salt, V2 tsp. baking soda. 1 tsp. baking powder. Conbine with first mixture and add 1 cup of nuts. Put in two greased and flowered pans and bake one hour at 350 degrees. That's your basic recipe. To :raise the bread to super-recipe heiglJts beyond conventional expectations, a<.A 1 cup crushed pineapple, well dr~~.N;d, V2 cup raisons, and only 1V2 tsp. cinnamon. From Mariam Kalis, GI '75, of Grand Forks, N.D., comes this recipe for: DAVID HUME'S SCOTCH BROTH 3 lbs. lamb or mutton, an_y cut, enough water to cover 1 tsp. salt, 1/2 cup pearl barley, 2 carrots,. diced, 2 turnips, diced, 3 onions, 112 cup chopped parsley. Place lamb or mutton in deep kettle or Dutch oven and cover with water. Add salt. Bring to boil and reduce heat to very low. Skim off fat whenever necessary. Simmer, covered, for an hour. Add barley and vegetables, except fOr parsley. Cons tinue simmering, covered, for another 1V2 to 2 hours. Skim fat from soup. Before serving stir in parsley. ,._ �., u: Emeritus the in .:iffice. Mr. Weigle, who turned 70 on March 9, will continue to divide his time between Annapolis and St. Mary's College, where he will be in residence several days· a week. The board is expected to begin its search for a permanent president some time this spring. The southern Maryland college of 1,300 students had grown during Jackson's tenure from a community college to a fourresidential state college specializing liberal arts.. Dr. Weigle served as president for 31 years at St. John's prior to his retirement in 1980. He has .been a member of the St. Mary's board for the past four years. ilson are: Holiday Inn - Ten rooms, call Marge Watras (30H24-3150), Sept. 17; Hilton Inn -Twenty rooms, call Sue Agan (301-268-7555), Sept. 10; Maryland Inn - Ten rooms, call Norma Foster (301-263-2641) Sept. 10; Thr-rift Inn - Ten rooms, ask to speak to Mary (301·224-2800), Sept. 2. Alumni interested in a more personal, Maryland version of bed· an<J..breakfast may write an alumna, who a new business. Sharp-Adams, Inc., Gentry Court, Annapolis, Md. 21403. The phone number is (301) 269-6232. at Princeton in fall For the first College will have a "St. John's is such a pretty place, and there's so much that goes on you don't remember without pictures," remarked In an effort to keep tuition and fee its editor-in-chief, Cynthia Keppel, LOrton, Va., sophomore, who edited a prize win- prices as low as possible .despite rising ning yearbook in high school. "It lends costs, St. John's will increase its total · college fees by 9112 per cent to $9,300 for the itself to photographs." 1982-83 year. For assistant editor Tracy Mendham, The Board of Visitors and Governors of Lyndeboro, N.H., the reason to publish increases for one is St. John's should have a has and will go to ye~Lrb1tlok fm the same ,reason any one, are $6,000 for "I'll remember St. John's a lot longer than I'll remember high school, and I have $1,100 for room, and $1,300 for board, or a · totalof $8,400. my high school yearbook." President Edwin J. Delattre said that The yearbook was their idea together tuition and fee increases are always with that of another sophomore, Melinda burdensome to many students and their Rooney, of New Castle, Del. They talked it families. He added that the actual cost of over · with Dean Edward Sparrow and education of a student at St. John's this, President Delattre, who were enthusiastic, year is approximately $12,000, $3,600 more . and then went to work, organizing a staff than the tuition and fee charges. that includes at least three experienced "The difference is made up by the high school yearbook editors: Dan Knight, generous gifts of benefactors of St. John's who will handle advertising; Marlys .and by investment income from the per· Pearson, who is in charge of the un- manent endowment of the college," he ; derclassmen sections, and John Schillo, said. · who, along with Chris Marks, is respon-i In its efforts to restrain increased sible for small groups. prices to students, Mr. Delattre said St. Because the staff felt it important to John's would continue to do its best to raise include photographs of commencement endowment and other funds to be appliedii and Reality, the book will not appear until to overall education costs. sµmmer. It will be hardback and printed by a firm specializing in yearbooks. The cost will be $10. (In ordering copies, alumni should send an additional $1.50 for handling. Orders should be addressed: Yearbook, St. John's College, Annapolis, Stephen R. Van Luchene, who! Md. 21404). resigned as admissions director of the I Some of the photography will be in Santa Fe campus .in will become I color. Since the student body has a number the new director of the Institute 1 of good photographers, there has been no on the western campus, President Delattre 1 dearth of experienced photographers. Alex has announced. Middleton is serving as photography He will succeed David Starr. Mr. Starr i editor, and Ed Sauer is in charge of senior will continue as director through the 1982 I ph<;>tographs. Pictures also are being: summer session and then go on a year's supplied by Jan Feldman, Todd Reichart, sabbatical leave before his· James Gosselink, James Hyder, and Peter teaching duties on the Annapolis campus. Green. Mr. Van Luchene served as adAlmost all the work is being handled missions director for two and a half by underclassmen. Kate Lissauer, of A tutor at St. John's since he Westminster, Md., is the only senior on the English literature at Arizona State staff. She will serve as senior editor. Mr. University, where he graduated in 1969 Gosselink will be in charge of faculty-staff and at Notre Dame University, where he photography and layi.out and Jeff Dun- specilized in 19th century English savage of student life. Mark Pothier and uterature ana receivea rus master's ana Rob Crutchfield· are ·assisting with art doctoral degrees in 1971 and 1973. work. He is the author of a book, Essays in The· Gadfly, the student weekly, is Gothic Fiction: From Horace Walpole to sharing its room in Mellon Hall with the Mary Shelley: a book which ex~mines five· yearbook people. ' early Gothic romances. ·I1 .r Curtis Wilson, assistant dean on the Annapolis campus, has accepted an appointment as a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton for the 1982 autumn semester. An historian of science, Mr. Wilson will be writing on a question in the history of astronomy, the problem of the longterm inequalities of Jupiter and Saturn, which was at length resolved by the French mathematician, Laplace, in 1785. Mr. Wilson, a former dean and former member of the faculty at the University of California at San Diego, has written extensively in the history of 17th and 18th century astronomy. He recently chaired a session on 17th century astronomy at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in Los Angeles. Let's get those percentages up! The news is good, but Frank Marshall wants to make it better. By March 1 the number of alumni contributing to the annual fund campaign was 689, representing an 150 per cent increase over the average number of alumni who have contributed during the same period over the five previous years. On March 1 gifts totaled $53,415, representing a 96 per cent increase over the average for the past five years. It is 250 per cent higher than last year. Among St. John's 3,300 alumni, the percentage of donors averaged 21.6 during the last five years. about average for your ordinary, garden vegetable sort of college. "But that isn't good enough," Mr. Marshall, who is heading the Alumni Annual Fund Campaign in the East, beli~ves. "We think St. John's deserves a proportion of 30 to 35 per cent that would· put the college where the better liberal arts colleges are. We stili need 311 donors to get to 30 per cent by June 30 and 511 donors ...- '···''"·~-"""'-- to reach 35 per cent.'' The size of the contribution isn't always as important as the number of contributors itself, he noted. "Foundations and major donors don't always ask how much your alumni gave, but they are very in· terested in what percentage con· tribute," Mr. Marshall explained. "That figure is extremely vital." None the less, money is also a consideration and a goal. This year alumni are shooting for $75,000, their biggest goal yet. To help with the drive, alumni will hold a Class Captain Day for potential, current, and former class captains beginning at10:30 a.m. April President Delattre will welcome them over donuts and coffee in the private dining room. The morning will include an hour-long training session led by Mr. Marshall and Ann Cruse, director of development, and an opportunity to tour the recently refurbished and enlarged PacaCarrollDormitory and Randall Hall. 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John ·s 1 31696 01138 0845 EP·.·.·RTER Volume-9, Issue 3 .Annapolis, Md. and Santa Fe, N.M, Kutler,Nei orf t ec II Februarv 1982 I n ns ree questions I • IS n r :Robert Neidorf, dean of the Santa Fe mittee by President Delattre, Mr. Zuckerman will be assisted by Sam - ......... ., ... .., from 1973 to 1977 and a former who will become an ex-officio of Santa Fe's Graduate Institute, mt::ma.n:a when he assumes the Annapolis will begin a second term as dean of the and western campus in mid-summer. Joe Sachs. out. its the committee visit. Named to head the Self-Stmtv Com- The Annapolis campus 4as received a grant of $168,140 from the Beneficial· Hodson Trust, a sum which President Edwin J. Delattre said will be used to establish the Hodson Scholars Endowment program at St. John's. The gift was presented at a luncheon in Baltimore by Finn M.W. Caspersen, chairman and chief executive officer of the Beneficial Corporation. Present with President Delattre were Dean Edward G. Sparrow, John Christensen, admissions director, and Caroline Taylor, financial aid director. Mr. Delattre said the endowment will. permit the college to choose several Hodson scholars each year. "I would like to express our gratitude to the Hodson family for their continuing support, which enables St. John's to serve Us students and its high educational ideals," Mr. Delattre said in receiving the funds; "I would especially like to thank Mr. Caspersen for his sincere interest in the college's well-being and its service both to the state and the country. He has been a source of valuable counsel to me personally and has .given generously of his time and effort. All of us at St. John's are beneficiaries of the Hodson Scholars Endowment by means of which scholarship support will be awarded to deserving and meritorious students. "NO FORM OF support is more critical to St. John's than such endowment (Continued on P. 3) of the New St. John's tutor J. Winfree also is exto be useful for discussion purposes. - With well over half his life devoted to St. John's as student, and Samuel Kutler will assume a fourth rela1 when he becomes dean of Annapolis campus where he graduated ROBERT NEIDORF SAMUEL KUTLER A 1948 graduate of Rutherford in 1954 with the last all-male class. School, Rutherford, N.J., Mr. Neidorf Since he joined the faculty in 1960, the received a bachelor of arts degree in 1951 52-year-old tutor has become one of the from the University of Chicago. He commost active faculty members, serving pleted his work without a major and as a numerous times on the Instruction Commember of the last class to go through the mittee. Currently he is heading the An"Hutchins' system," which had many napolis committee making a quinquennial resemblances to St. John's. review of the Polity. "The next four years were something Mr. Kutler will ass4me the deanship of a jumble," Mr .. Neidorf recalls. "At with some ideas already in mind about An outline of what the Self-Study various times I was a chemistry techniprojects he would like to accomplish. Committee hopes to accomplish was cian in the gynecology-and-obstetrics "One of the things I would like to do submitted February 1 to the MSACS. The department at the- university hospital, a , would be to bring four retired scholars and report itself is due in the summer of 1983. (Continued on P. 5) writers to St. John's to stay for two week periods and meet with students in small groups," he said. "They could share their meals with students and meet the faculty Besides the study of the academic program, Mr. Zuckerman said all carnp11s offices will be asked to prepare their own self-studies. They will be requested to consider how they construe themselves and their work as fitting in with the program. In March and April he plans to talk individually with associate and- staff· members. i le · The Annapolis campus will look a shade leafier and greener by summertime. Seventeen trees are going into place. Not only that, but the steel girders in the Key-Mellon patio area, bare since the building was completed in 1958, are to be covered with vine. That will take longer. Climbing hydrangea have been planted at the base of four beams, but a number of seasons of growth will be necessary before this vine, considered among the most beautiful, will provide shade for outdoor occasions. In the largest tree-planting program of recent years, the cpllege has moved to do something about the increasingly empty appearance of the campus where storms and disease have sizeably reduced the tree populations. Recently six white oaks were planted on front campus, four along the central walkway and two in the tree lines paralleling College Avenue. (ContinuedonP. 7) A linden has been planted near the .. Hall of Records and a sugar maple in the triangular spot between Paca-Carroll and the Hall of Records ... Two elms Zelkova, a variety similar to American elm but resistant to Dutch elm With reorganization plans furthered disease, are planted in front of the library. last month by a nationally representative Six white pines which will help reduce . group, proposed amendments to the noise on the St. John's Street side of the Alumni Association by-laws are scheduled campus will be planted behind Mellon in to be mailed to 4,000 alumni before April the spring. Spring planting also calls for a 23-24 when the association holds a special magnolia near Key's Conversation Room meeting on the Annapolis campus to act on and some shrubbery - 20 flowering reorganization. Weigelia - on the street side of PacaThe group, which has a geographical Carroll's new addition. spread that includes Boston, Denver, and In planning the landscaping, Kelton West Coast cities, met on the Santa Fe McKinley, a member of the Campus campus Development Committee, and Nicholas changes. January 15-17 to consider Maistrellis, a former chairman, worked Allan Hoffman, of New York City, and together. Mr. McKinley, a botanist by Pablo Collins, of Washington, are serving training, advised the committee on ac- as co-chairmen of the committee charged quisitions for the $5,464 landscaping proby the association at homecoming last ' gram. (Continued on P. 4) u n1 set for �Page~ . FEB.RUA,RY 1912 THE REPORTER THOMAS in November was one of twenpersons cited the (N.J.) Council com- Duncan B:r1ocl!:w~1v pointed director of Schools of Theology in Iowa, and for the College of Liberal Arts of the University of Dubuque. Prior to going to Dubuque, Duncan was librarian at the Hartford, Conn., Theological Seminary Foundation. George K. principal of Maple Elementary School in Cambridge, Md., in November was honored by the Boy Scouts of America, Del-Mar-Va Council, with a Silver Beaver citiation. The citation is made for noteworthy service of exceptional character to boyhood by registered scouters. George has devoted a great part of his non-professional life to scouting· in the Cambridge area. in the Environmental Justice Land and Natural Defense Resources Division. Sarah Braddock Westrick visited the Annapolis Alumni Office in November, reporting on sister Theda's activities (see 1970) as well as her own. She is completing work on a master's degree in and of information science at the -1 n Bruce Baldwin reports the arrival of his second child, Marisa Stephanie, last August 16, thus making four-year-old Ian a proud big brother. Bruce has recently enrolled at the University of Maryland to finish an MBA, and finds his consultant business veering increasingly into data base management systems. He encourages classmates to write or call: 122 Conley Drive, Annapolis, MD. 21403-, 301/263-5571. -1 n James Morrow Hall and his wife, Melinda, gave birth on December 3 to a Ken Thompson has taken a job as baby boy named James Joshua Hall. He senior associate with a Washington, D.C., weighed eight pounds, three ounces, and "think tank," the Joint Center for Political measured 21 inches. "This is our first Studies, with major focus on securing ac- child, and although I haven't yet begun to cess of minority and politically suppressed read Plato's dialogues or demonstrate the groups to the political process. Currently Pythagorean Theorem to him, I intend to he is doing research and writing in connec- beging shortly," Jim writes. Currently, tion with the Voting Rights Act. Ken and is running the New Mexico Abstract Comhis wife, Patricia, welcomed their second pany in Estancia, 70 miles south of Santa daughter, Pam, on December 16, 1980. Fe and would welcome visits or communications from old St. Johnnie friends. The zip for Estancia is 87016. In December, a nice note from Elizabeth Dobbs reveals that she has been promoted to associate professor of English Theda is now and has been given tenure at Grinnell Col- associated with the law firm of Niesar, lege. In June, Elizabeth will leave for four- Moody, Hill, Massey & Kregstein in San teen months in Europe, vacationing in Francisco. Greece and Crete this summer, then teaching medieval literature in the Grinnell-in-London program during the fall semester, then a second.semester sabRandolph Runyon writes to let us know batical working in London, Oxford, or the several interesting things about his south of France, followed by summer 1983 career. Randy received his Ph.D. in travel through Western Europe. Elizabeth French from Johps Hopkins University in would appreciate any leads to flats in the 1973 and is in his fifth year of teaching Kensington Gardens area of London. · Fr e n c h ( a nd oc c a s ion a 11 y InterThe Golden Gate University Law dis ci plin a ry Studies and American Review, spring 1981 issue, contained an ar- Studies) at Miami University (Ohio). ticle by Bart Lee entitled "Symbolic Con- Perhaps the biggest news is of the publicatrol, Inc., v. IBM: Eliminating Af- tfon of his book, Fowles, Irving, Barthes: firmative Defenses in Antitrust Treble Canonical Variations on an Apocryphal Damage Actions." Bart starts off by Theme, (Ohio State University Press stating that the suit is necessarily a 1981). "tilting at windmills story," and then, sure From Jan Huttner, '73, comes news of enough, shortly thereafter he cites Don Harold Stone. He received his Ph.D. from Quixote de la Mancha as first the Committee on Social Thought at the "trust buster." University of Chicago last June and A welcome letter from Lee Reic- delivered his doctoral lecture on helderfer Tyner announces the birth of December 3. The title was "Epicureanism her second child, Rachel Christine, on and Historical Writing on the Bay of November 20, 1981; son Michael Frederick Naples." Jan was in the audience, being at will be two years old in June. Lee con- the university currently completing her tinues to work as a trial attorney at the Cm1ttimlledonP. 7) 1 1 1 1 _Rebecca Wilson, editor; Samuel Kutler, Thomas Parran, J. Winfree Smith emott\':.Zuckerman, advisory.board. 7 . . . . ' The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404. Edwin J. Delattre, president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. USPS OUJ-750 Annapolis campus's popular Assistant Dean Barbara Leonard blows out !two candles - one for the and one for the future - at a o:.u1r!nr'i~"" en associates and staff members. At are John admissions diredor. and Caroline Tavlor, financial aid Todd Reichart photo s Co-chairmen Brad Davidson and Ed Grandi have announced that Hmme<!om1in~ 1982 will be held October 1·3 on the Annapolis campus. Of primary· importance, they stress, is the making of advance hotel-motel reservations., Although that weekend is supposed to be: free of Navy football or boat shows, many other things go on in Annapolis which consume rooms. "Brad and Ed say further that, although all details have not been completed, the annual meeting will be held in the morning on Saturday," Thomas Parran, Jr., retiring eastern alumni · The same needs which the current restructuring of the Alumni Association is designed to meet continue to be reflected in the activities of local alumni groups. Since the ,annu.al meeting in September, when three regional chapters were chartered, three more have been given official recognition. The Denver alumni, headed by Rebecca Brinkley-Connelly, SF '72, sub· mitted an application immediately after homecoming, and the association directors acted favorably on it at their October meeting. In December, groups in Boston and Seattle applied for recognition. The Boston petition, sponsored Ginger Kinney, '61, Leland Giovannelli, David Schiller, '62, Deirdre Marlowe, '73, and Joseph Baretta, and that from Seattle, bearing the names of John Ross, Kathleen Flynn, GI '79, and Eric Scigliano, SF '74, were approved by the directors just before the winter holidays in December. With six active chapters across the Cl 1- director, said. "Seminars, career sessions·, and soccer games will be held in the afternoon. There will be feeding at the usual time, and a libation or two late on Saturday afternoon. "As now planned, the dinner will be held in the refurbished dining hall. Although seating is limited to about 200, that should suffice if attendance patterns of earlier years hold this time. It does mean that if there are too many reservations, first come will be served. As soon as you receive the reservation form early in the summer, get it back pronto." country and in response to specific requests from those chapters, the directors are addressing the question of guidelines for such local groups. Sam Larcombe, western alumni director, and Tom Parr an, retiring eastern favor minimum regulations in order to make it relatively simple for a chapter to be formed and to function. They agree, however, that certain minimum standards of participation and activity should be expected. Mr. Parran said this increase in for· mal chapter activity is symptomatic of a general feeling among alumni that the impetus for association activities should come from the grass-roots and that the governing body of the association, in addition to being truly representative of the demography of the alumni body itself, should establish broad, general policy and then be responsive to ideas and activities initiated by the respective . regional groups. · Ill Tl Harvey M. ·Goldstein, '59 and Allan P. Hoffman, '49, have been nominated by Alumni Association directors for terms on the Board of Visitors and Governors beginning this spring. Under the association charter, nominations petitions signed by at least 30 alumni are invited. They should be accompanied by a biographical sketch as well as the nominee's signed consent. Petitions will be accepted until 4:30 p.m. March 15 in the Annapolis Alumni Office. If there are no petitions, Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Hoffman will be con· sidered elected. If one or more petitions are received, there will be an election by S mail ballot. · A Miami attorney, Mr. Goldstein would be starting his firstthree-year term, replacing Sharon Bishop, '65, who has served two consecutive three-year periods and who is not eligible for re-election. Mr. Hoffman is a New York business man who is completing his first term on the board. Alumni Association directors are nominating him for a secondter:m. Alumni are defined as former un· dergraduate students not currently enrolled whose classes have graduated, persons in receipt of a master's degree, either earned or honorary, and all honorary alumni. �FEBRUARY 1982 Page3 THE REPORTER ·The • by SAM LARCOMBE Western Alumni Director News of local alumni activities was good as the year gets underway with existing groups and chapters holding regularly scheduled seminars or other gatherings and with alumni in at least five other cities either organizing or planning to do so. napol In Annapolis, the monthly alumni luncheon series has moved to the new private dining room in Randall Hall. Program chairman Ann Cruse has given the occasions added signifiance by inviting members of the faculty and staff to talk informally at each event. Arizona • I I Southern . In November, in Downey, a suburb of Los Angeles, members of the new Southern California Alumni Chapter gathered to inaugurate their formal life with a delicious buffet dinner and a large seminar on The Philoctetes led by visiting tutor Bill Darkey. Superb arrangements, made by chapter President ·David Dobreer, A '44, complemented what many of those who came said was one of the finest seminars in memory. The chapter's steering committee met in December to draw up plans for the future and to discuss · their second major activity-:- a visit this month by Santa Fe Dean Bob Bart, who has ~uggested as a text for the discussion he will lead, Plato's Symposium. Encompassing an area stretching south from Santa Barbara to the border with Mexico the Southern California Chapte; represents one of the Alumni Association'.s most valuable assets. Its current poten· .tially active membership numbers way over 200. With the good start made by David Dobreer and his associates, the · chapter's future looks bright. Arizona alumni were invited to a November seminar party at the Tempe home of Mariam Cohen, A '69. Santa Fe tutor Stephen Van Luchene, in the area on admissions office business, joined them. This gathering marked an ambitious effort to bring together St. Johnnies spread over a vast geographic area, and to bring news. 1nneapo .. of the college directly to its permanent. In the Minneapolis-Sf. Paul area, one members in southern Arizona. Mariam reports that the invitations aroused of the newest alumni groups in the country definite interest. She plans a second gathered for its first seminar in Novem· ber. Former Annapolis tutor Bob Spaeth, gathering late in February. now dean of arts and sciences at Min· nesota's St. John's University, was invited for the occasion to lead the discussion on In November, Boston area alumni Lincoln and Thoreau. Michael began a series of monthly seminars on the works by A '65, the group's spokesman, Woolsey, theme, "States of Mind." Starting with what spokesman David Schiller, A '62, says that a monthly schedule is planned. called a "mind-crunching seminar on Hegel's Phenomenology, the ·group has · The New York Chapter has begun its gone on to discuss a novel by James Cain (who taught journalism at St. John's new life with two major autumn events. In College in the Old Program) and Plato's October members heard a brief lecture on Kant's "Religion Within the Limits of Gorgias. With interest running high, the group has decided to meet twice monthly. Reason" given by Annapolis tutor Joe Leland Giovanelli, '78, on the faculty of Cohen, followed by a "great" two-hour seminar on the work, led by Mr. Cohen. Boston's Commonwealth School, thoughtfully arranged for a seminar room In December, there was a similar evening at her school and has invited selected with Curtis Wilson traveling up from students to join the alumni in seminars of Annapolis. The text was Hume's "Essay on Taste." Both events wer~ held at the interest to them. Williams Club and began with a buffet dinner and a short business meeting. Chapter President Allan Hoffman, A '49, Chicago's venerable seminar group reports that the occasions have been well continues its schedule of readings, and attended, and that the conversations have invites all alumni in the windy city area to been excellent. He notes that an attractive participate. In November, Mark Habrel, S feature of the evenings has been the '75, led the group in a discussion of Books alumni news and views portion of the business session. He adds that the New VI and VII of The Republic of Plato. York Chapter welcomes all St. Johnnies to its functions. M " I p au I I San In San Francisco, the Alumni Chapter of ~orthern Calif?rnia began its third full ser1e~ of events with a talk in November by President Edwin .Delattre on "The Importance of Heroes and Heroines." The turno~t wa~ goo~, in spite of one of the stormiest nights m recent years, and the question period was spirited. In Decem· ber, Winfree Smith flew from Annapolis to talk on Aristotle'sNicomachean Ethics. In January, Robert Neidorf, of the Santa Fe Fa~ulty, spoke on portions of the Iliad. This month. Eugene Thaw, A '47, lectures· on "Fine Arts and Liberal Arts"; and in May, th~ chapter will gather for a picnic and semmars on four of the books recently added to the Annapolis reading list: The Bear, The Good Soldier, The Dead, The M~tamorpho~is. . Cha1;>ter president Bob Nichols, A 48, remmds members that spo~ses, friends, and visiting St. Johnnies are welcome at ~ll events. Debra D. C~rroll, '77, _is chapter_ treasurer and Michael Levme, '77, secretary. Mr. Sheppard and Thomas M. Carnes, '52, as past chairmen, serve as senior advisors. San In Santa Fe, three separate seminar groups have sprung up in recent months, thanks in part to the efforts of Linda Stabler Talty, G.I. '76, and Sally Dunn, S '71. . Ms. Stabler Talty organized a Shakespeare reading group before the summer had ended, and Ms. Dunn invited all alumni living in the area to a general ·meeting at the college in October to consider other possibilities. Out of that meeting grew two new groups, both choosing to read and discuss 20th century fiction. Any local alumnus who resolved at New Year's. time to take up serious: readin·g and talking again should call Sam Larcombe in the Alumni Office for meeting times, places and book titles. Washington Alumni of Western Washington state have continued their program of monthly seminars, starting their new season in October with Thomas More's Utopia. In November, deciding to vary their format, a group of them met for dinner at a small, atmospheric .Lebanese restaurant and, after an excellent Levantine meal, turned · to the evening's text - The Maltese Falcon. In December, it was back to in· tellectual business with three essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Spokesman John Ross, A '69, reports that, since the summer of 1980, about half of the total number of St. Johnnies in the area have participated in the seminars and social gatherings. He welcomes the other half. As a New Year's present to the Seattle Area alumni, the Alumni Association board granted them a charter, making them the fifth new association cha~ter. .. um ma The Washington seminar group, meeting at a branch of the city's public library, maintains its twice-monthly schedule with ease and informality. Spokesman Ed Grandi. A '77, says that an area alumni are welcome, and that the group is devoted strictly to discussions of texts chosen by participants. (Continued from P.1) gifts, and we are honored by the example set by the Beneficial Hodson Trust.'' Mr. Caspersen also announced grants to Hood and Washington colleges and to Johns Hopkins University. "With this year's grants, our total contributions to these fine Maryland institutions since 1936 total nearly $24-:million. We are proud to continue Colonel Hodson's tradition of contributing to the future of higher education in the Old Line State." Mr. Caspersen cited the increasing support American corporations are providing private colleges and universities facing "increased inflation and cut-backs in federal aid to education." He noted that "1.2 per cent of the total 1979-80 academic year operating expenses of the nation's 3,000 colleges and universities were paid for through corporate financial assistance. We hope to see that percentage increase in the years to come." In addition to other grants to St. John's, the Hodson Trust was a principal contributor to the recently completed program to enlarge Randall Hall and to refurbish the Edgar T. Higgins Dining Hall. It was Edgar T. Higgins who initiated the relationship between the Hodson Trust and St. John's in 1965 with a gift of $10,000. In all, the trust provided $582,000 for the project, and Mr.- and Mrs. Caspersen joined with members of the Higgins family to dedicate the dining hall. Alumni in Denver and environs, now holders of the. fourth charter granted by the Alumni Association, continue with In Philadelphia, several interested regular seminar meetings. In recent alumni have met informally as an ad hoc months, they have met to discuss The steering committee to consider formfng a Tempest; James Joyce's story, The Dead; regular seminar and social group for all Scott Buchanan's seminal article, "The St. Johnnies in the Greater Philadelphia. New Program at St. John's College," from Area. Victor Schwartz, A '61, reports that the 1937 prospectus; and The Timaeus. the committee should be having some Gathering at the home of Becky Brinkley- suggestions to send out to alumni in the Connelly, S 772 on December 19, they en- area and says that ideas and participation joyed a seminar party with an appropriate are most welcome. text: Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol. Phi President Delattre was welcomed to Houston ~n November at a well-attended alumni reception very graciously arranged by Scott Kelso, GJ. '79, his wife, Mary Jean, and Barbara Prendergast, G.I. '72, and held at the Kelsos' home. Plans are being laid to form a permanent group. h l:'ortlarut area alumni entered a December, second season of seminars gathering to talk about poems by Donne, Yeats, and Auden. Christina Pierce and David MacLaine, who served as hosts at tlie meeting and who have been at the center of the group since its formation, urge,their fellows to join in the dialectical good times. Finn M. W. Caspersen, chairman of the Hodson Trust, presents a check to Presi- dent Dela.Ure. �in order for the alumni k William B. makes one winner for the second G I I "C'mon, gang. We've got you three to one," Team A's captain, Frank Marshall; challenged alumni Team B phones. 7:45 p.m., as reporting continued every 15 minutes on opening night in the alumni's first major telephone campaign, the seven-member Team A had raised $2,085 and Team B $835. With the race underway in Annapolis to see which team could raise the most pledges during an hour and a half of calling, bits of nostalgic gossip were flowing through the telephone lines of two national time zones with the same rapidity that pledges were being recorded for the 1981-82 campaign. "Alright, I'm going to put you down for $200," Bill Athey, '31, was telling an alumnus of his era. "You know whose here calling? Bunny Gessner. Well, I agree. He's a wonderful guy." And about then Bunny (Bernard) Gessner, '27, was in the midst of his first conversation with a classmate, J. Handel Hopkins, of Pl;lrsonburg, Md., since 1924. Old ties were being renewed. In the room loaned by the C&P Telephone Company, where Team A was placing calls as far west as North Dakota, Ken Kimble, '76, leaned across the aisle to Annaoolis City Alderman Bradford Davidson, '77, working in his shirtsleeves at an opposite desk, to say that "Frances Goodwin sends her love.'' In another conversation, Mrs. Kimball, '76, had learned that John Borders and his wife Meg McGuinness, both of the Class of '76, had a five-week-old son, Christopher. And so it went. The first hour and a half of the campaign raised $6,310, part of it from a number of first-time donors. John Donahue, '35, alone was responsible for eight new donors. The seven-member Team A wound up with the largest portion - $4,325 - with Bill Athey receiving a prize as the first to get $500. "Nothing to it, fellows," the retired insurance executive from. Baltimore dismissed the achievement. "It was just plain luck." He credited his performance to one alumnus who had his gift matched and tripled by Exxon. Not all those telephoning were ~lumni. campaign fodd Reichart photo I ~ I Shirley Huber was standing in for Frances Huber, '76, now-working toward a master's degree in arcnaeo1ogy at tne University of Indiana. "I appreciate what St. John's did for Francie," this St. John's parent said. "I think Frances gained a great deal from the college. I'm glad to donate my time." Besides a mother and a husband-andwife combination, there was a fatheNon team down from Baltimore: the two Theodore Hendricks, 1950 and 1973. Rosaline Rice, newest alumnus present, the Graduate Institute where received her master's last summer. Team B. was captained by St. John's new development director, Ann who instructed all the participants on procedures following supper just before the calling began. Mr. Marshall, who is chairing the 198182 Alumni Fund Campaign, said he became involved in last spring's friends' telephone campaign as an "unbeliever," convinced such drives would not work. But agreeably surprised by its success, he was convinced a similar alumni campaign would. And work it did. Because of the time difference, workers did not reach alumni in the Rocky Mountain State or West Coast time belts. But within its limits, and as a first time effort, the campaign was 'judged to be highly successful, particularly from the standpoint of first time gifts. In all, only about 500 alumni were called and of that number a sizeable numb~r could not be reached. Seventyfour alumni; or 25 percent of those called, were making pledges for the first time. Of these, 52 has been New Program students, and 22 had gone to St. John's prior to 1937. Mr. Marshall reported that$15,330 was raised from 303 alumni. More than a third of whom - some 132 - were making their first gift to the college within the past three years. - Alumni who helped make the phone campaign a success were: Mr. Marshall; Gerry Atterbury, '46; Frank Atwell, '53; Betsy Brown, '75; Jack. Carr, '50; Tom Carter, '36; Garnett Clark, '36; Joe Cohen, '56; Gil Crandall, '36; Bryant Cruse, '73; Brad Davidson, '77; John Donohue, '35; Matt Evans, '31; I Bunny Gessner, '27; Roger Glad, Sonny Greengold, '38; Ted Hendricks, Jr., '50; Ted Hendricks, III, '73; Shirley Huber, parent; Jones, GI Ken Kimble, '77; Meg .u.uuo.ne, '76; Chris King, '75; Cynthia A. '75; John D. Martin, '35; Matthews, Cyril R. M11 .. nhu Co11tinued from P. 1) October to come up with a reorganization -Mr. Hoffman said it is expected to fake the form of amendments to the association charter. Prior to being mailed, it was to be forwarded to the association board for its review. Changes will be placed before alumni in the form of a mail ballot asking for their approval. "The objective is to have an alumni association which will more correctly represent the 4,000 alumni from two campuses nationally distributed in a way which will not be divisive because we are one association," Mr. Hoffman said. "And we want an association that will be more responsive to the needs of the local Ii A collection of convocation addresses by President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle has just been published by the St. John's College Press. Entitled Convocatum Est, the traditional Latin phrase with which the St. John's president declares the college in session each fall, the collection represents addresses to entering freshman classes by Mr. Weigle delivered at both eastern and western campuses over three decades, from 1950to1980. The 25 addresses have been arranged largely in chronological order with reference to major events in the life of the college. They begin with the 1950 talk, "Plato's Cave and St. John's College," and conclude with his final retrospective talk of 1979 reviewing his previous 30 years with St. John's. Jr., '36; Michael Parks, '74; Charles F. Pearce, III, '36; Jim Randall, '38; W. Rausch, '36; Rosamond Rice, GI Julius Rosenberg, '38; Jim Rowe, Simmons, '48; Al Slafkosky, Bill and Carol Tilles, '59; Barbara Tower, '59; Joan Vinson, GT '81; Everett H. Wilson, Frank Wilson, '35, and Gerald Zentz, '54. chapters, which is the new phenomenon of the association." Serving on the reorganization committee are Gay (Ginger) of Boston; Steven Tucker, of Santa and Harrison Sheppard of San Francisco. Named as advisors to the committee are Rebecca Brinkley-Connelly, of Denver; Dr. David Dobreer, of Los Angeles; Sally Dunn, of Santa Fe; Bob Nichols, of San Sam Larcombe, western alumni director, and Tom Parran, former alumni director of the Annapolis campus. Formal action will be taken the Alumni Association at its specially called meeting April 23-24. I Convocatum Est is on sale in the St. John's Bookstore at $4.95 for a clothbound edition and $2.95 for paperback. Persons ordering by mail should add $1 for handling. e llr!Ll111llrllt;,;,•· The widow of the late Walter Douglas Weir, '57, who died of heart failure in his sleep last May 30, has presented the Annapolis campus witn an electrical organ in his memory. A Baltimore psychiatrist who was a member of the faculty of the University of Maryland Medical School, Dr. Weir was a serious musician who had purchased the electrical Rodgers-Scarborough organ in 1979. It has been placed in the Great Hall where it will be used for baccalaureate and for other occasions. �r cashier iri ' " cateteria, a a research at the Illinois Institute of and a switchboard operator in dorm.· "For a while I was a pre-med student, later a and in between I on a bicycle. But most and the best that ever happened to me, was that I met a in the School named Morris. In 1955 we were marand in the same year I received an M.A." another stint at IIT, the Neidorfs moved to New Haven, and in 1959 he was awarded a doctorate in Phl.lOSOPl'lY atYale. next three years he was an inand assistant of, where ohilosonhv at Bucknell a small graduate liberal arts program for teachers and served as executive secretary of the honors program in the College of Arts and Sciences. "It was in the last context that I first · became aware of the existence of St. John's College. A colleague showed me an article by John Kieffer describing the cur~ riculum. I applied at once." He served as tutor from 1962 to 1964. "Then a certain restlessness, combined with a grinding frustration over the salary levels, drove me back to the conventional academic world," Mr. Neidorf explained his decision to leave the college. From 1964 to 196'7 he was an assistant and later associate professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at .uuili::;u.caiuLvu, where he was given liberty to and teach courses as he wished. two I realized that whatever real I had came from two at John's," Mr. Neidorf cor1ti1:1me,d. "So I wrote for advice to Curtis then in Santa Fe, who had been dean in Annapolis when I first was appointed. With his encouragement, I applied again, this time to Santa Fe, where we arrived in 1967. Since studying . and teaching here, has been a fulfillment beyond what I imagined possible. "I have· been assigned to most of the classes in the curriculum, lacking only music and junior and senior language. I to have the chance to repeat most of until I get them right." Mr. Neidorf has served for six years on the Faculty Salary Committee, for nine years on the Instruction Committee, and was a member of the recent Presidential Search Committee. From 1970 to 1973 he was director of the Graduate, Institute. Much to his own surprise, he is looking forward to resuming the deanship. "I know from experience it is not a rose garden, but I would gladly put up with much worse than that job can generate in exchange for the privilege and the pleasure of working closely with the people - faculty, staff, and students - who are here. "Also," he continued, "it seems to me that the Santa Fe campus is in excellent condition educationally. A major reason for this is that Robert Bart has been a tutor here for six of the past seven years, the last five as dean. His learnedness and kindness are beyond compare, and he has made vivid for us a sense of the traditions of the college and a vision of its ideals. It is not possible to thank him too much." Mr. Neidorf is a member of the American Association of University Professors and of Phi Beta Kappa. ("I used to be a member of the American Philosophical Association, but I let that who made all the to her immediate riqht, Blair for the Presidential Career LunToler and Blake Kline talk with students about the Tom Parran photo Two and "creative." of the Speru Secor Corporation, and Blake Thomas Kline, of the Dial Com Corporation, both members of the Class of 1979, spoke of their experiences last month at the second Presidential Career-Counseling Luncheon. In a program extending the Placement Office's program of consultations between alumni and students, President Edwin J. Delattre has initiated a series of luncheons in which students have an opportunity to glean pointers about careers in specific fields. Earlier, in October, another group of students had luncheon and met Theodore Blanton, '75, legislative assistant to Senator John C. Danforth. He discussed opportunities in government. drop when I discovered they were not much interested in philosophy.") An expert chess player, he also is a member of the United States Chess Federation. His attempt to defend Leibniz from -Voltaire was printed in the Bucknell Review in the spring, 1961, under the title, "Is this the best of all possible worlds?" Mr. Neidorf's argument against the popular view that Einstein was a radical empiricist appeared. in Philosophy of Science; April, 1963, in an article entitled "Is Einstein a Positivist?" His textbook on so-called symbolic logic, Deductive Forms, was published by Harper & Row in 1967. It is now out of print. His occasional lectures and addresses have been printed in The College, now The St. John's Review. The -Neidorfs have two children: David, 24, who attended St. John's for two years, then served four years as an outdoor skills instructor, mostly with Outward Bound, and who is now a junior at the New School for Social Research in New York, and Julia, 20, a sophomore in Santa Fe. Both Miss Toler and Mr. Kline are in comput~r programming, somethini;i; they described as puzzle is no working with math; basically involves using the programmer needs to about the subject itself, no. That part belongs to ARE SOME of the things the eraduates had to say about the comCompanies are looking for "people who are intelligent and who can learn." A iob search can take~as long as five Many hire for the summer, and a summer job in the field helps. Use any contacts you have to get that first job. It's always helpful if someone in the company can say they know you. The best way to prepare is to take a basic course in computer language at ·either a community college or university. Avoid computer training centers. Once in the field, it is well to take courses now and then in a second or third computer language since technology changes with astonishing rapidity. In applying for a job, graduates should include on their resume the fact that St. John's provides the equivalent of a math major and a physics minor. "If you can think about physics and do math, you're a good candidate for computer programming," Mr. Kline said. St. John's classroom experience, itself, provides good preparation for an interview. It is not too early for seniors to send letters and resumes to computer firms. The alumni cautioned that it may be necessary to apply to a great many companies. They suggest Chambers of Commerce as a source of company names in a given area. Many . companies hold open house, and a call to personnel offices should yield this information. . THE TURN-OVER rate is high since moving to different companies is generally how people progress, at least in the early years. Salaries begin in the - $18,000 range-with the expectation a 10to15 per cent increase in slow years, more in good years. co1np:an11es are more secure and provide more potential for future ad· vancement. Smaller companies generally 1 " ' " " ' " " ' '° greater opportunity to learn more. In order to ~et into management levels, one needs a master's degree. After a year or two of experience in the there is no problem with job offers. There are com~uter services with which one can register and be sent on projects on an as-needed basis. Many foreign-based American firms are greatly in need of American personnel. The Washington area is especially good because of the number of defense contracts. One advantage with working in the computer field is that it provides flexibility, including time off for women wishing to have a family. Parents Weekend is scheduled April 30-May 1 on the Annapolis campus with two juniors, Katherine O'Malley, of Sarasota, Fla., and James Bailey, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., chairing activities. Saturday morning seminars for parents and students will be based upon Shakespeare's The Tempest. Parents are advised to read the play before arriving for a full program of activities is planned, including a Friday night lecture by St. John's artist-in-residence Burton Blistein, a waltz party, and a production by the King William Players. _Early hotel reservations are recommended since room space is in short supply. Brochures with details will be on the way soon. �Page6 THE REPORTER • • ........ - .. 111 I. alum i The Editor St. John's Reporter St. John's alumni should be aware of a program of the National Endowment for the Humanities that could benefit from their participation. Every state has a voluntary-citizen committee composed of humanities scholars and public representatives, whose purpose is to provide support to non-profit organizations for public humanities programs. These programs bring humanities scholars into discussions with the public in various formats. Some projects explore particular issues of public policy from the perspective of philosophy, ethics, or history, for instance. Others are intended to increase the public's understanding of regional literature, local history, or traditional subjects of the humanities, with the intent of improving the quality of citizenship. These programs have a laudable sidebenefit in their effect upon scholars, because they encourage humanities scholars to expand beyond their narrow specialization by speaking publicly. and in public language, about what they think and know. A scholar is implicitly challenged to consider the roots of his discipline when he is asked to assess the potential contributions of his discipline to public life. I am currently serving as the "Humanities Intern" for the Ohio Program in the Humanities. I have had the opportunity to read widely in the recent discussions among the State Committees and the NEH concerning the humanities and public life, and the depth of thought and soundness of judgment commonly displayed are impressive. There is a strong emphasis in the mission of the committees on projects that encourage thoughful, spirited discussipns. St. John's alumni could greatly strengthen such programs by their participation on every level, because they have an almost unmatched level of experience in pursuing extended, rational inquiries, and understand the principles of learning through discussion. As participants, planners, project directors, and even as State Committee members, St. John's alumni could help devise and implement projects that result in fruitful, public conversation. Any Ohio residents who wish to begin exploring ideas for possible projects, or who want to know more about our activities and be put on our mailing list, should write to me. I would also be glad to provide the address of the appropriate State Committee to residents of other states. Sincerely yours, Michael C. Jordan, '74 The Ohio Program in the Humanitles 760 Pleasant Ridge Ave. Columbus, OH 43209 Alumni are invited to apply for the position of admissions representative on the Annapolis campus. John Christensen, admissions direcwhom the representative serves as an assistant, said that ap1>Hc:an:ts know the well. Besides clerical and records keeping, the position also involves a considerable amount of travel. Applicants should write directly to Mr. Christensen. St. John's has rejected an offer from a ·Greenbelt, Md., development firm to build and,operate a luxui:y inn on a three-acre site between the college's heating plant and College Creek. Formal action was taken by the Board of Visitors and Governors at its January meeting in Santa Fe. "After careful deliberation by the special board subcommittee on Annapolis planning and a thorough report to the visitors and governors, the board passed a resolution to the effect that ·despite its r.ecognition of the advantages of such an inn for the Annapolis community, it nta I believed that such a development would not be consistent with the needs of the college and its concern to preserve its limited physical space," President Edwin J. Delattre said. Mr. Delattre said that the board also adopted a resolution indicating that the college would discourage any commercial development of the campus in "the foreseeable future." In its unanimously approved resolution, the board said: "The college feels it can best fulfill its respon- . sibility to the community at large and to its members by preserving the physical in· slates The Alumni Summer Seminar Program in Santa Fe has proven so popular that it will be offered three weeks instead of two this year, Sam Larcombe, western alumni director, has announced. Mailers announcing faculty and texts are scheduled to be out by the end of February. If you plan to attend any of the week-long sessions which begin July 18, July 25, and August 1, Mr. Larcombe nt "Good times," according to Joe Ginter, Ft. Washington, Md., junior, "help build the soul." If that's the case, there is a great deal pf soul-building going on at the Annapolis campus for an expanded program of student activities has provided a number of good times this year. One new . program has come as the result of Dean Edward Sparrow. Aware that weekends on campus can be a bit slow and of opportunities offered in the Washington-Baltimore area, he initiated a program which has resulted in trips that have included back-packing in West Virginia and wild pony watching at Assateague. A gift of a 1968 Chrysler station wagon to the college has helped provide transportation. Now dubbed "Mary Anne," it was given by Mrs. Jason Geiger, of Rockville, Md., the mother of a former student. In past years the Student Polity has sponsored a program of student activities, which Mr. Ginter currently is chairing. Mr. Sparrow's new program is being administered by Marianne Braun, placement director, with the assistance of James Bailey, Tuscaloosa, Ala., junior. Most of the planning is done by the students the.mselves. Here are some of the things students have been doing under both programs: Almost the entire student body participated in an Octoberfest, in which Professor and ·Mrs. Charles Rector of the Naval Academy taught folk dancing on the college quad, and a German meal was featured in the dining room. A rathskeller followed in the coffee shop. Fifty- students attended a Saturday matinee performance of Othello with James Earl Jones at the Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore. A number attended a dress rehearsal of the Annapolis Opera Company's Die Fledermaus. Fifteen students rented a bus which took them to Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia for back packing over the Long Weekend in October. This was a trip in which they saw fall colors, hiked 20 miles in the Otter Creek wilderness area and spotted deer, and awakened Monday morning to find their tents covered with snow. As they departed, a blizzard fell. Back-packing was new to approximately FEBRUARY 1982 tegrity and beauty of the Annapolis campus intact." Construction of the inn on a three-acre site would have meant a 10 per cent loss in ·the size of the small Annapolis campus, now 30 acres. Its effect on St. John's active' intramural sports program had aroused widespread concern among college com.munity members objecting to the plan. Prior to the board meeting both the Campus Development Committee and the faculty as a whole had gone on record against the project. summer seminars advises that you reply promptly since talk was quite serious." there will be a definite cut-off in numbers. Mr. Larcombe, who is "camp director Open to parents and friends as well as and I love it," does everything from to alumni, the summer program resulted locating baggage to rounding up lost in crowded tutorials last year. "Everyone children. Many alumni, he said, find it had a wonderful time," Mr. Larcom be · helpful to read as much ahead of time as said. "Informal fellowship appeared possible in order to have some free time to richer .than during student days. Alumni take advanta,ge of opera and sightseeing. were very serious about the program, and The program includes care of young discussions ran full length. The coffeeshop children. es rogram expands ticularly with regard to music, t,he theater, half the group. A number of students spent a day at and dance, there is a new bulletin board in Assateague' on the Eastern Shore watching the coffee shop, "What's Going On. 11 Inthe wild ponies there as well as a wide formation on student activities regularly variety of water fowl. Students walked on appears in The Gadfly, the student weekly. Popularity of the program is so high the beach, collected shells, and some went swimming. that, while he is appreciativ:e of the station With binoculars in hand, they have wagon, Mr. Bailey feels what is really gone birding at the Blackwater Wildlife necessary is a mini-bus to. carry more Refuge, also on the Eastern Shore. students. Trips to Washington are held every other weekend, essentially free days when students may visit art galleries, museums, restaurants, and other points of interest. During "Dead Week" in December William Henry Bayliff, a member of students went to New York City with priority for· sight-seeing choices given to the St. John's College faculty from 1928 to those students who had never visited the 1942, died of a stroke December 13 in Annapolis. city. A native of Cherokee, Okla., Mr. Also being planned are trips to Skyline Drive, to the colonial cities of Bayliff received a master's degree from Williamsburg and,Fredericksburg, Va., to the University of Oklahoma in 1928. After . John Brown country in Harper's Ferry, W. leaving St. John's, he became executive Va., and a weekend of skiing. Students secretary of the · Maryland Board of . hope to hold a square dance with lots of Natural Resources, and served until 1967. He surveyed the original markers of hay to lend some authenticity and are in the process of arranging swimming trips the Mason-Dixon line. His hobbies in· eluded gardening, photography, and at a local YMCA at 50 cents a visit. To keep students informed of what is drawing. ms survivors include his wife, 4 available in Annapolis and Baltimore, par- Thompson St., Annapolis. William dies of . . . . . . . . . .. . From Jean M. Wood, 201 Miranda Ave., Springer, N.M., comes this recipe. "I can promise you this stew will be a real hit," she writes. "This I know from having served it many times and having received praise for it, requests for the recipe and about your stew, Mom?'" FOR THE STEW In 1 tablespoon meat drippings in a 5-6 saute 1 lb. best ground round, 1 cup chcmo~~d onion, and 1 c. chopped bell pepper meat is browned. Add juice from 1 lb. can whole-kernel corn, 1 No. 2 can kidney beans, and 1 No. 2 can tomatoes. Cook until liquid is somewhat reduced. Add the cut-up tomatoes, beans, and corn and 1 4 oz. can chopped green chiles, 2 or 3 shakes garlic salt, and several shakes, if you have it, of Trappey's Chief Magic Kitchen Seasonings. Bring to a boil and serve. Serves six. Good substitution: Instead of kidney beans, use Trappey's pintos with J alapeno and no other chili. To enrich the juices, have the from beans used in three-bean salad and add these to the stew. (These are juices from wax, green, and kidney beans.) Season with salt and fresh ground pepper is desired. St. John's Recipes are welcome. Write Recipes, St. John's College, Annapolis, :tAd. 21404. �FEBRUARY 1982 More THE REPORTER Page 1 lumni Notes (Continued from P. 2) dissertation in the Committee on the Co& ceptual Foundations of Science. She that Harold and his wife, Barbara, i .. n+e student at Northwestern reside in Ev ans ton, Ill. and W. were married last October in Md. Peter is head of technical services for the office of management Transit information services. He earned a master's degree in computer science from George Washington University in 1976 before going to work for the Health Resources Administration, and thence to the Transit Authority. Sue is now a freelance writer and editor in Washington, specializing in science and medicine. Previously she worked in Philadelphia as a senior editor with the American College of Physicians. December (1981) with an MBA degree in ... ""As time international education at St. John's 11eve1oos throue:h the addition of perspecof its value as a way of tnr,oue:n ...., ,..,m,,,.,, This is of difficult process to describe ... St. John's intellec'"""''""10'1 the foundamec:mm,gtul unaers1tam:tmg I school ... may from professional benefits of my education are less summarized (but) ... it be this: The John's education can a fundamental confidence in one's to meet personal challenges th ..nucrh the of awareness and the capacity for personal action." n -1 Mary Elliott Vidakovich reports from southern Illinois that she graduated last Arthur (Tom) Horvath last August May from the Saint Paul School of finished work on a Ph.D. in clinical Theology in Kansas City, Mo., with a psychology from the California School of master of divinity degree, and is now sex:.vProfessional Psychology at San Diego. He ing a three-point charge in the Southern Ilis now doing one year of post-doctoral linois Annual Conference of the United training at the National Naval Medical Methodist Church. Her husband, John, Center, Bethesda, Md., as the first of three serves another three-point charge in the years of repayment to the Navy for a same area. scholarship during graduate school. As of January 1, Nancy Polit King has accepted a position as research attorney to Clark Havighorst of the Duke University Law School, helping with investigation of (Continued from P. l) competition in the health care marketplace. Nancy went to this new posi- in their homes." His plans for Friday night lectures will tion from a year with the Health Care Financing Division of the General take a small twist. Lining up those for the Counsel's Office, DHHS, and is especially 1982-83 year is the one responsibility he is excited·· about· returning to an academic assuming before he takes office. With the hope that lectures can be made more community. On October 27, 1981, registering 5 closely program related, he plans to sugpounds, 13 ounces on the "Richter scale," gest, as much as possible, specific subjects Benjamin Lewis Rogers Kniaz was born to to prospective lecturers. Also, he would and Peter Kniaz. Peter writes that like to see groups of lecturers on the same all are well and enjoying the young man. subject, and next year intends to have Included with the clever announcement of several biologists. Late last fall Mr. Kutler was named as Benjamin's birth was a "business card" a member of the Annapolis campus's Self hand-lettered by classmate John Rogers. A card received recently announced Study Committee in preparation for the the opening of an office for the practice of 1983 re-accreditation procedures. As dean, law by Joyce S. Mendlin, in Brentwood he will become an ex-officio member. Already he has been active in the commitVillage, Los Angeles. tee's early considerations. Under the Polity, deans are appointed for five year periods. In naming Mr. In the course of other duties in connecof Visitors and tion with an about-to-be-published/volume Kutler, the Board faculty member Goverknown nors has chosen a of Scott Buchanan's works, we discovered for his kindness and concern for people as that the associate editor at Farrar, Straus well as for his understanding of the St. & Giroux who works on this book project is John's program and as one of the college none other than Nancy Miller. (That's to community's most active members. report on Nancy, as well as to give an adA mathematician by training, Mr. vance "plug" for So Reason Can Rule, Kutler was a member of the senior staff of due out this spring. Watch these pages for the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns more on this book which few St. Johnnies Hopkins University from 1955 to 1961 durwill want to miss-TP) ing a time he also was pursuing graduate work at American University .. In addition, Johan H. joined the at that time he instructed an advanced First National Bank of Atlanta as a calculus class sponsored by the ·National management associate. After serving in Science Foundation at American Universivarious divisions of the bank for orienta- ty. In 1960 he joined St. John's on a part· tion, he will be assigned to a specific divitime basis to teach one class in relativity sion. Before moving to First National, Johan served as territory manager for theory. The following year he became a fulHime member of the faculty. Besides American Express in Atlanta. years of service on the Instruction Com· mittee - joining it first as. an untenured n tutor - he also fs a member of the library The following is from a letter from amt prize committees and. has served on Arma Flamand which the provost the salary committee. received last fall: "As you may recall, I Mr. Kutler has been a Friday lecturer spent 21h years in Alberta as a commercial at both the Annapolis and Santa Fe camproperty and liability insurance under- puses. His lecture topics have included "A writer. Since that time I have been a full- Dialogue on Euclid's Elements," "What Is time graduate student here at the Univer- It To Ask What Is It?", "I Think, sity of Dallas. I am currently in my fourth Therefore I Am," "How Many Points Are and final semester and will graduate in There on a Line," and ~'Plato's Image of 1 Ii n - 1975 -1 It's been an adive year for the Annapoliis c~am1D1.11s' Student forum. Here one of the soeakers. William former head of the to a group of students. Todd Reichart photo I Socrates." Among his academic contributions have been the development of a program of mathematics and natural science for St. John's Graduate Institute, its summer program leading to a master's degree. He has been a frequent member of the institute's faculty in Santa Fe. For the Annapolis campus's mathematics program, he wrote 'the junior manual, An Introduction to the Calculus. As an alumnus, Mr. Kutler began seminars at homecoming and has supervised them during the years. Besides leading seminars for alumni in Santa Fe and Annapolis, he also has led them in Boston, Chicago, and New York. Born in Trenton, N.J., Mr.Kutler grew up in Lansford and Shenandoah, Pa. During his senior year at St. John's. he codirected Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean. He also served as judge in the student government court and participated in two out-of-town demonstration seminars. A member of the Mathematical Association of America, he has participated in conferences on liberal educa· tion and on mathematics elsewhere, including recent conferences at St. Mary's College, St. Mary's, Md., and the University of Ma'ryland. His paper delivered before the Maryland-District of Columbia- A book written by Annapolis tutor Wye Allanbrook will be published by the University of Chicago Press probably in the fall of 1983. Entitled The Motion of Character: Rhythmic Gesture in Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, the book concerns Mozart's use of. dance rhythms as expressive means in those two operas. An excerpt from it appeared as an article in the January, 1981, issue of Musical Quarterly and· two further articles taken from it will appear in the English music journal, Music and Letters, and in a collec· tion put out by Broude Brothers publishers in New York City entitled Words and Music, the second volume of the series, Studies in Music History. Virginia section of the Mathematical Association of America at College Park was on "Euclid's Notion of Number." During the early 60s he taught a summer program of Euclidean and nonEucliciean geometry to high school students at the University of North Dakota under the NSF:sponsored program. Mr. Kutler is married to the former Emily Martin, '55, who is on the staff of Historic Annapolis and the St. Mary's City Commission. They are the parents of three children, Jonathan, 25, a mathematician · for the Sperry Corporation in Northern Virginia, and Martin, 21, and Rosalind, 19,. both students at Earlham College. ge The Maryland National Foundation of Baltimore has announced a pledge of $30,000 to St. John's College. In announcing the gift, the foundation instructed that the funds be included in the Annapolis campus's endowment fund. The pledge will be payable over a period of five years beginning in 1982. St. John's President Edwin J. Delattre expressed pleasure over the gift as an important addition to the college endowment, which now stands at.more than $11-million. He indicated that while the income from the gift was not restricted by the foundation, he intended it to be used in support of financial aid for students. \ Brock University at St. Catherine, - Canada, is the newest institution to become interested in St. John's. Faculty members are considering the possibility of instituting a St. John's type program in 1983. A plan there calls for students to concentrate a third of their curriculum in a major subject; the remaining two-thirds would be similar to the St. John's program. Curtis Wilson, assistant dean of the Annapolis campus, was recently at Brock to consult with the faculty. �Page 8 FEBRUARY 1982 THE REPORTER ves b t THE REPORTER Published by ·College Relations Office St. John's College 's Ii Annapolis, Md . .21404 let • I ® Elizabeth H. Brown, a 1976 the campus, has been appointed its new director, President Edwin J. Delattre has announced. She succeeds Thomas Parran, Jr., who becomes St. John's publication direc- who received her 1980 from the Santa Fe ca11nputs, has been named its director of ad1nis:sio1ns. She succeeds R. Van .uui1.:m::ue. who will return to rmMrme tea1chini:r John's. Miss McCormick is a 1976 11r~r1m1tP School in all Miss served as director to Mr. Van Luchene. final St. John's she was a :nuu1::m aide the Admissions Office. ELIZABETH BROWN tor. The change-over became effective early this month. Miss Brown currently is associated with St. John's Admissions Office, where she is admissions representative. Prior to joining the college three and a half years ago, she was a secretary with the First Mortgage Investment Company in Kansas City, Mo., where she attended high school. Her selection from among candidates, representing a promotion from within the college, was made by President Delattre in consultation with a committee comprised of Mr. Parran, Dean Edward Sparrow, Dean-Elect Samuel Kutler, and Ann Cruse, director of development. As an admissions representative, Miss Brown has played an active role in student recruitment. Currently she is chairman of the Annapolis campus's Staff Council. During her student years she worked as a student aide under Mr. Parran in the development and alumni offices. Two c ir Mrs. William Egolf and . John A. Martin are co-chairmen for the Ninth Annual Sustaining Campaign for the Santa Fe campus. The campaign opened last fall with a cocktail party in the Junior Com· mon Room in Peterson Student Center. A dozen vice-chairmen and six dozen committee members are soliciting friends in Santa Fe and Los Alamos during the drive which has a goal of $100,000, and is scheduled to wind up this month. ' by an an unidentified child but Green dived the _. water, to two women who their arms down to reach him. "His father was in a state of but he thanked me," Peter said. The mother was too off the shaking child to tell him child's name. I I I 7 Susan Richmond, a Washington free humanity, and the things they think about lance writer and researcher associated concern them, and they concern me so the with Changing Times magazine, is return- reading becomes a benefit for me," he ing to the Annapolis campus's Graduate. said. Institute next summer for a particular "In reading their thoughts and reflec· reason. tions, I have a conversation with them. I "The institute enabled me to retreat to can listen in on their conversations with a quiet place within my head," she said of each other. They help me understand the last summer's experience. "I've learned basic questions so much better." the fine art of thinking." The Graduate Institute program, basPaul Finney, of Bethesda, vice- ed upon the college's undergraduate chairman of the Bureau of National Af- "great books" program, will begin its fairs and a corporate consultant, plans to eight weeks summer master's program on return in order to have a "mini- June 21 on both the Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses. sabbatical." Also, he is coming back for "psychic Benjamin Milner, director in Anstimulation, for the pure joy of exposure to napolis, said that participants may center · the foremost thinkers and writers of all their studies in one of four areas: politics times, most particularly for Homer, Plato, and society; literature; philosophy and Aristotle, Augustine, and Euclid.'' theology, and mathematics and natural Paul Schatzberg, who is working science. toward a second master's on a part-time, The program is conducted on a discus· basis at the same time he serves as a sion basis in a system of twice weekly chemist at the Naval Ship Research and seminars and small classes called precepDevelopment Center in Annapolis, speaks torials. As in the undergraduate program, of the conversation he wants to continue there is no lecturing in class. Participants with the authors taught in the, institute come prepared to read, discuss, and write on questions raised by writings of western program. civilization. With a 1978 degree in journalism from "THE WORKS THAT we read are written by great human beings, but human the University of Maryland, Miss Richbeings with which I share a common mond had considered herself qualified pro- fessionally to get a and perform but felt she "didn't certify as a thinking, human being." In search of a liberal arts education in a small, intimate setting, she enrolled in the Annapolis institute for the first time last summer. HER EXPERIENCE here, she said, has forced her to think and speak in a new way. "There is nothing but yourself to bring out," she found. "You can't rely on anybody's notes. You can't skim a text to prop up an answer. Every day I was learning something new." In academic work, she noted, there is a lot of conversation. "At St. John's, there is something called discourse. I joked about this with my friends. We're discoursing, I would tell them with tongue· in-cheek. We are talking about timeless questions. "My studies in the institute made me much more patient with myself and what I want to accomplish. I'm filling out a personal part of myself and have deferred a few professional steps to learn more. "The tutors taught me something besides material. I was impressed by their humility. I learned a lot about equality in the way the courses were taught. Here were very credentialed persons reminding me how everybody has an opportunity to participate." - � 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 1 1~ 1~mim~1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 31696 01138 0795 I I Volume 9, Issue 2 Senior seminar · t · adding The St. John's p TE ·Annapolis, Md. and Santa Fe, N.M. lum i charter t • I ., I November 1981 first who someone once an Annapolis has been graduate now living in . The Good attending summer alumni seminars in ;arin2: the sub-tit.le. Santa Fe. He identifies with both campuses. read In San Francisco a recent meeting time this drew 95 alumni. Of those present, three added were former Santa Fe students, five had Dean Edward G. Spa.rrow gone to both campuses, but the vast ma· that at present seniors read jority were from the Annapolis campus. of fiction, Tolstoy's War and "To wave the flag of Santa Fe on the Dostoevski's The Brothers Karamazov. West Coast is to wave the wrong flag,'' Bob With the thought that there were not Nichols, told the annual meeting of the imaginat:ive works of literature for Alumni Association. not Both men were cautioning that any in .1.:.1ui;.u;:,.u, St. reorganization of the Alumni Association Instruction Co1mn1itt:ee. which should make the organization truly makes decisions on book c1u11c~::s, m1c1ue1.ec1 national in character and avoid any eastThe Good Soldier and four others: west Like Mr. aware Conrad's Heart of Darkness, William of the commonality of purpose and inFaulkner's The Bear, and James Joyce's. terests of all alumni, regardless of where The Dead from his collection of short they went to school, wants something that Dubiners. will assure "cross-pollenation." adc1ition, students will read Kafka's It was a point repeatedly made 1n a Me·ta1n0Jrph os1's, u1L 1p:r,1ucuJ.:1 written in Ger- discussion of reorganization marking a man. by these four meeting in which most alumni authors have been read in St. were looking for the first time at ·a John's li1U!o;Ui:l,.;t:1.1.u·vAAICU;;:I proposed plan, one the alumni hopes will Because of the amount serve the growing number of former reatdi11e:s seniors face in their twice students more effectively. the Instruction Aimed at ending what one alumnus shorter works oUiction. termed an "inbred" Annapolis orientation of the board and establishing a board Continued on P. 4) 1 ree c a s In a major step initiated by alumni in three metropolitan areas, the St. John's Alumni Association has granted its first charters for chapters to New York, San Francisco, and Southern California area alumni. auiPPE~d wrote finest French novel in .a:.1u,i;u~•u language," is appearing on the Annapolis campus's seminar list for the first time. I national in its scope, the reorganization effort is an attempt to administer the alumni i:>rogram geographically more fully, according to Franklin Atwell, '53, · association president. WHILE THE PLAN had been sent to 15 to 20 alumni, members, meeting at homecoming, agreed that more response is necessary before further action can be taken. At the recommendation of Harrison Sheppard, '61, the association voted to hold a special meeting in April in Annapolis and (Continued on P. 4) r The and Santa Fe campuses have their largest senior classes since the New Program was founded in 1937 - 90 seniors in Annapolis and 70 in Santa Fe. The enrollment brought the con·a tulations of a former dean, Robert A. <.:rold.Vlrin. '50, now a member of the Board of Visitors and Goverrmrs_ nnrina its fall Anna1po11s he notea that tne ngur11:: 1;:, almost a fourth of the student "One can remember there was a The action was hailed by alumni leaders from the East and West Coasts. "I believe we are on the threshold of a new era of alumni activity, both on a local and a national level," Allan Hoffman, .of~ew York, said .. Harrison Shepphard, '61, of San Francisco, said that the charters, affecting approximately a fourth of St. John's 4,000 alumni, will provide an opportunity for alumni to become "a permanent part of the college in fact as wen as in name." "Alumni moving into a new area will know where to go to rejoin the St. John's community away from home," Mr. Sheppard said. Former students from the three new chapters had applied in the three months prior to homecoming for the recognition. The action was authorized by the board of directors, under association bymay and recognize local, area, or .."'' A consensus of alumni sees the action as a new among growing numbers of alumni. In con-Continued on P. 4) In considering Alumni Association, the second Autumn Gathe ...1ncr that the emphasis a no-host bar was of the where several Continued on P. 4) �2 THE REPORTER cm1cn:::K 1981 rit 'A[LW~~O. s, LARCOMBE E. Barkman retired of law from the of College of after 25 at that institution. Before Toledo in 1956 he had for 10 years with the firm of Sullivan & nmfoll~{ll" FRANCIS BARKMAN Cromwell in New York City. Barkman was designated professor emeritus at the law school's August commencement and plans to teach part-time for another few years. 1 3 Ogden "Peter" Kellogg-Smith is the proprietor of the Annapolis Mast Step Company, purveyors -of removable steps for sailboat masts. l 4 Vernon Derr has accepted a posiifon of deputy director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. A recent letter from his wife, Mary, reports that his life continues "very busy." he also is in the nr11£'1P<;!C:: two books PUlblHihecl. will have a older brother, and cf""""' 1·"'"'1 of poems, and other Mr. Hunter's address is L' Ami rue Taziaux #1, Brussels, 1080, tseJlgn1m. that his novel, Book-of· cm:;-m.vmu, will be out in next move ahead for version, which says will Jason Robards and Steenbergen. When shooting will start "anvbodv's guess," he adds. Just to keep from becoming bored, he has accepted an appointment as fellow at the Child Study Center of the Yale University School of Medicine. He will continue to investigate neurochemical and neuroanatomical development in children and their effects on behavior, especially syndromes involving inhibitory dysfunction such as autism. Jeremy adds that his creative nroduction continues not only with a new novel, Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure . by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S., due out next spring, but with the expected · birth of a baby in April. 1 September brought a surprise visit from Randy Albury, on sabbatical leave from the University of New South Wales, Australia. He was teaching the history of science at Johns Hopkins during the spring semester, and this fall will be doing research in the history of medicine at the Hopkins Medical School. He plans to return to Sydney in December. Randy reports that Becky (McClure) is a tutor in the politics department of Macquarie University, North Ryde, Autralia. 1965 Nathan Pollack, M.D., has opened an office for the general practice of medicine in Denver, Colo. to criticize the Two Annapolis area alumni of the judiciary," Franklin R. Atwell, Alumni thirties received the Alumni Association's Assodation president, said in presenting 1981 Award of Merit at homecoming this him the award. year. Mr. Matthews was praised for Matthew Strohm Evans, '31, who achievements which began as a hobby at retired in 1977 as chief judge of the Circuit age 12 and developed into his life's work. Court of Anne Arundel County, was "After a brief post-graduation stint in presented the award for outstanding the insurance business, he served for achievement in his chosen field during the 21 years as executive director of the Alumni Association's annual banquet. Maryland Tuberculosis Association," Mr. W1llam Bernard (Hippo) Matthews, Atwell said.· Jr., '34, received his award for "Then, in 1960, he helped draft the distinguished and meritorious service to Maryland Boat Act of that year and his native State of Maryland. became its first administrator. He is the Present for the fiftieth reunion of his author of a number of books on navigation class, Judge Evans is also a graduate of and other aspects of boating, but his the University of Maryland Law School greatest literary achievement, and the one who began his law practice in Anne ·of which he is the proudest, was the 'Guide Arundel County in 1941. In 1956 he was for Cruising Maryland Waters.' elected to the Circuit Court of the county "From the early days as the first and in 1962 became chief judge of that boating and recreation director of the 1court. He'retired-in 1977. State until his retirement in 1978 as boating "During his 21 years on the county liaison officer, he did more to popularize bench, he earned a deserved reputation for recreational boating in this country than hard work, consistency, and knowledge of any other individual. He is truly 'Mr. the law, even receiving high praise from Maryland Boating.' " Eric Bercovici, '54, a television writer and producer, who received an Emmy nomination as best writer for his 1"'~-1 screenplay of the television speci;:il, Vida Kazemi Ross called recently to Ken Hunter is in Brussels, Belgium, "Shogun," is the author of a new novel, where he is vice-president and co-founder report the birth of her first child, a son, So Little Cause for Caroline, published by of L' Ami Ne, a Brussels-based Kayvon Christopher. Joan Townsend is studying an~ Atheneum in September. organization for children in any kind· of For the past 20 years, Mr. Bercovici thropology at Columbia University where distress. has written and produced for films and "We are purchasing some land in the she has an especial scholarly interest in television, both here and in Europe. In Belgium woods for a school for 25 kids,'' he the anthropological study of nutrition. addition to "Shogun," for which he won writes. "Three or four of these ·will be both People's Choice and Golden Globe n autistic, and we are positive that they will awards, his credits include the Emmybe fully functioning and talking within two While she was teaching mathematics nominated "Washington: Behind Closed years. to junior and senior high school students, Doors" and two forthcoming dramatic "If we are right as to the cause and Claudia Larcombe has been pursuing - series, "James Arness" and "Chicago cure of autism, it will mean a totally new studies in American cultural history. This way of understanding childhood and adult summer she was awarded a master's Story,'' both to be aired over NBC this fall. Born in New York City, Mr. Bercovici schizophrenias - a new psychology. degree from the American Studies attended St. John's and the Yale Drama "One of my functions is going to be Department of the University of New School. After nine years in Europe, propaganda so as soon as the stuff is Mexico. working in England, Spain, Germany, James Walker recently was married ready, I'll be more than happy to send you short summaries of our research and and now is beginning to make a name for Austria, Yugoslavia, and Italy, he now photographic studies of the kids and the himself as a criminal lawyer in Houston. lives in Beverly Hills, Calif. His first novel, Wolftrap, was He hopes to co-author a book on Texas environment we are setting up for them." published by Atheneum in 1979. The Los In a few years, Mr. Hunter plans to criminal law. Angeles Times called it "a taut help set up small places in northern Maine (Continued on Page 4) psychological spy novel · economically written, with a dash of Spillane and Le Reporter Carre." So Little Cause for Caroline, a tale of , ·Rebecca Wilson, editor; Samuel Kutier, Thomas Parran, J. Winfree Smith,· mystery and suspense, is the story of a Elliott: Zuckerman, advisory board.· · · down-and-out San Diego ex-cop, Harold - The Reporter is published by the Office of College Relations, St. John's ColShilling, who is hired by a Lake Tahoe lege, Annapolis, Md., 21404. Edwin J. Delattre, president. gambling czar to find his missing wife. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and Shilling locates her in San Francisco, but November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, Md. minutes later he sees her take a high dive off her terrace. Is it suicide or murder? USPS 018-750 To find the answer, Shilling un- l • • r1 r I • r1 s I n 1 • I ERIC BERCOVICt Luke Wynne photo dertakes a journey through California's seedy underside, a journey that leads to blackmail, deception, betrayal, and death. He is helped, and sometimes hindered, along the way by an appealingly bedraggled part-time .prostitute named Fay. __J �NO,/cMBER - · - - - - 1981 i h THE REPORTER I To be an effective preservationist requires sympathy, a sense of history, and an aesthetic and practical eye as to what can be accomplished. Michael W. Gold, '61, has all these. You can find him in his adopted city, Richmond, Va. There is a romantic aura about the building in which he has his office, high on the third floor, under sloping eaves. It is a house Edgar Allan Poe is said to have visited two days before his death, the Elmira Shelton House, named after a childhood sweetheart of Poe, a structure elegant and tall, with its Victorian furnishings, amid the iron fretted, brick homes of Richmond's East Grace Street. The house stands in the heart of old Richmond-Church Hill-a gracious neighborhood in which Mr. Gold is involved, both personally and professionally. St. John's Church, where Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech, is across the street. His own home is three blocks away. Mr. Gold is easily at home in his adopted city. As the managing director of the Historic Richmond Foundation, he is one of the country's top preservationists, seeking to conserve buildings in Richmond for their historic and cultural importance, rather than because Richmond architecture is, in comparison with other cities, very exceptional. Some of the original, older sections of the city were destroyed by the Confederates themselves, evacuating the city on the last retreat to Petersburg, a desperate army of men who burned their own stores of munitions as they left. It was a pity for the war was visibly over, Mr. Gold noted. A week later there was Appomattox. BUT RICHMOND is possessed today of a rich architectural heritage. Now with assets of more than a million and a half dollars raised during the 25-year-life of the Richmond Historic Foundation, mostly as the result of its successful real estate enterprises, this wealthy, private organization is in a position to negotiate for the purchase of the Old City Hall and Richmond's first Almshouse of 1860, what was also the city's first Confederate hospital. (The standard joke among Richmonders is that new arrivals in town asking for the "Po' House" would be sent to the Poe Shrine rather than to what until recently was the city nursing home.) Mr. Gold is a · northerner who has I s rv · Page 3 • I • I MICHAEL AND RENE GOLD become a strong southern apologist. at St. John's. St. John's also helped extend Brooklyn born and raised, he is living in his appreciation of architecture. He came the South by choice. He has become here after two and a half years spent southern in outlook and sympathies, studying architecture at the Pratt Inbelieving that the South has received short stitute. shrift in histories written by the victors. "I learned much from the architecture In its ideological differences with the of St. John's, about measuredness, ormercantilism of the North, he believes the derliness, a sense of dignity, and hence pre-war South represented a serious honor," he said. "The buildings made a defense of the classical spirit. "It was," he tremendous impression on me." contends, "the last non-Marxist complaint Mr. Gold does not stop there in paying against the evils of capitalism. Outside the tribute to St. John's. question of slavery, which was the tragic "St. John's for me was a conversion," flaw in the southern position, the southern he said. "It changed me absolutely. I don't critique of northern society was know what I would have been like had I legitimate. What they understood them- gone elsewhere. I might even have turned selves to be fighting for was worth fighting out to be highly successful, like for." Maugham's Verger, but in no way could I Perhaps because of his political be the person I am now. All the things I science background (M.A. University of believe in I can trace to Plato and Chicago, 1963), Mr. Gold believes in Aristotle.'' preservation from a political as well as an There were a number of things he architectural standpoint. learned at St. John's, he said, making "I'M PROBABLY preserving these observations along the way: buildings in a more 'political way than . "I LEARNED to know that really wise most professionals in the field," he said. people exist, and I acquired some notion of "There is, after all, a real connection what wisdom looks like. Compared with between preserving the buildings of our really wise people, the gradations between ancestors and preserving the institutions the smart and the dumb aren't really very of our ancestors.'' significant. That helps one to be sceptical Taking the nation's founders and about the 'wisdom' of intellectuals on the history seriously and taking seriously the one hand, and, on the other, receptive to symbols of the authority of the past are what ordinary people know. Some of the among the things Mr. Gold said he learned most stupid people I have met have been • I the most highly educated. I learned to recognize the things that ordinary people know well, and that that sort of knowledge is more reliable than sophisticated knowledge, which can turn out to be fashionable and evanescent... "I have a readiness to accept the past as equal, which is oddly unusual in my profession. I don't discount past utterances, styles, and practices. This applies daily to research used in restoring old houses. There is a tendency to dismiss apparent obscurities in material or written records of the past as somehow inevitable on account of their antiquity. One certainly learns at St. John's to resist-and how to resist-this tendency. "One certainly learns better at SL John's, also, .the fallacies of progressiveness and how pervasive progressiveness is. I learned to recognize reductivism and to despise it. Ideals are possible, and they matter. One reason the architecture was better than the modern is that the ideal was encapsulated in a canon to which the vernacular styles could adhere. "I'm more serious than some professionals about the preservation of the symbols of authority of the past, without which you can't have civilization ... I have more belief in the efficacy of rational discourse, and I also understand its limits (though I sometimes fore: et the latter). "I DEVELOPED a nose for the spoudaioi (the morally good people), anu the willingness to rely on them; hence I feel less pressure to keep educating myself. I'm quite at peace with the knowledge that I'll never pick up Hegel again." Mr. Gold became involved in preservation work in New York City in 1966. Two years after he began work with the New York City Department of City Planning, a Landmark Preservation Commission was established. By chance the newly named director knew him and asked him to be assistant director. As director of preservation until 1974, he worked in all of that city's Historic Districts, particularly Brooklyn Heights, Greenwich Village, the Stuyvesant Avenue section of Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Mount Morris Park in Harlem. With a change in mayors, however, Mr. Gold lost his politically appointed job and began looking for new work, but only in the South. He found it in Richmond and arrived with his bride of one year, Rene, in 1974. His marriage was a matter of bossmarrying-secretary. This lively young person was fresh out of New York University when she met Mr. Gold at a time when she considered herself a "hippy" type. The first day she went to work she was struck by his coat-and-tie straightness. Each was dating another person, but over the next two years they developed a close friendship which eventually led to marriage and two children, Benjamin, 3, and Sarah, six months. u h (Continued from P.1) time when the senior class was less than an ei2hth. 11 he said. has the effect of a much more with so many seniors mature student mn.uer1crn1g freshmen and others. It was we used to aspire to . . . . St. the of one COilttin·uouts, well program acAnm::u:>olis Presidential Alumni Lunassistant to Miswith students about i:... ...1 ........ 1 government. from left are senior class is expected This year's junior class 67. In Santa Fe it is 68. In the sophomore and freshman classes number 112 and 103. respectively. �I know." Stockdale served for more than years as an officer of the regular Navy, most of those at sea as a fighter pilot aboard carriers. He was shot down on his second combat tour over North Vietnam. As the senior Naval service prisoner of war in Hanoi for eight years, he was tortured 15 placed in leg irons for two, and in solitary confinement for four. Earlier this fall, in an address on leadership before the Greater Salisbury (Md.) Committee, Mr. Delattre had this to say about Admiral Stockdale: "Among the heroes of my adult life is Jim Stockdale, the naval pilot who spent eight years in captivity in North Vietnam, whose captors allowed a street mob to break his leg and then refused to fix it so that now it will never bend again. "He was told by his captors to fix the political problem in his head first and then they would fix the problem in his leg. He was instrumental in the system of wall- where Greek is an important part of its books program, has elected to its board a retired admiral who once Credited his readings in Greek philosophy for his ability to survive torture and solitary confinement during the Vietnam War. Meeting in Annapolis last month, the board elected Vice Admiral Jam es Bond Stockdale, now a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institute in California, as a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors. The election is believed to mark the in the memory of college ofSt. John's has named an alumnus of the Naval Academy to its board. A 1947 graduate, Admiral Stockdale is a member of the academy's Academic Advisory Board. "It is a great honor to have him as a member of the board," President Edwin J. Delattre said. "Jim Stockdale is a man for all seasons and one of the best writers and thinkers on the nature of education and (Cointin.ued on P. 1) r 0 versation among themselves and in correspondence across the country, there has been a demand for an organization more responsive to alumni needs. Chartering is seen many as a way of achieving it. AS CHAIRMAN OF THE New York group, Mr. Hoffman automatically becomes, with the chartering, a member of the Alumni Association board. He expressed hope that other groups would be chartered as a means of more effectively organizing local activities. "I would love to see more charters set 'up shortly," he said. "I can think of Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Washington, and Denver. And much smaller chapters can be active, too. Where you have a couple of dedicated alumni willing to work to make a group coalesce, you can ask and get a charter." Because of campuses, he said less a need for "h""*""'"'cr t Santa Fe. Bob Nichol~. chairman of the San. Francisco area alumni, accepted a charter for the 300 to 350 former students living in that area during the association's annual meeting. The charter for the Southern California area, which extends from Santa Barbara to the Mexican boarder and eastward to Arizona, was accepted on behalf of the approximately 200 alumni there by Dr. David Dobreer. Mr. Hoffman, chairman of a steering .committee for the more than 400 alumni living in the New York area, stepped aside to permit Jack McGuirk, who received his master's in 1980 from the Graduate Institute, to accept it for that area. "THE BOARD CANNOT establish chapters," Franklin Atwell, association president, told the organization at its meeting in the Conven:ation Room. "The must ask for them.'' In one sens~, the chartered chapte~s n of which The Good Soldier is one. "It is the St. John's Madox Ford is a writer. "He would be on anybodv's first class prose writers. "We chose one the most artful and tascm.am1i;i; works of the 20th """1hn•u a member of the hrnt ..11nt11·w1 l\,;O:mnutt.ee, said. "The Good Soldier is an mcrecUOJlY cc)mJpnc~au~a story of love and . weakness and and suicide worked out in the most intricate way with a balance of events. It's an exemplar short novel should be." To make for these works, Marx's Manifesto" will with Freud's Discontents the Pleasure Freud will remain tapping communication which preserved the sanity of men for years in 1 " " ''j'"""' ccmunerner1t. despite the so communicated ment and were ~au.i:;,u~c .... "His of education is explicitly revealed in his second thought as he ejected from his hit by anti-aircraft fire at level. thought: 'You are leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epictetus.' Epictetus was, of course, the first century stoic philosopher from whom Stockdale had learned, 'Lameness is an impediment to the leg but not the will.' Epictetus, the philosopher, was born a slave, and as a young man was crippled by a cruel master. From him, Jim Stockdale drew sustenance as a prisoner determined not to become a slave, even if his captors crippled him .... "I would add that his first thought as he ejected was 'five years to wait before I get out oniere.'-H1s estfmate was three years short." as they may be alumni and represent a radical change in emphasis within the alumni organization. At a time when the association is considering steps to set up a new structure which can better serve its national constituencies, the new chapters are expected to provide new foci for alumni activities. The new chapters also will meet practical considerations. According to Mr. Nichols, the San Francico chapter will give coherence to the alumni program in that city. "We have functioned three years as an ad hoc Volunteer Steering Committee,'' he said. "When we began to hold three or four events a year in addition to seminar functions in private homes, we found we needed an association for a bank account so we could pay our bills.'' DURING THIS TIME of informal organization, there were ·seven signatories for checks and three chairmen-Tom Carnes, Mr. Shennard. and Mr. Nichols. "It seems such a and un-· satisfactory of functioning," Mr. Nichols nhCU>V'1[Tl'.1{1 Chartered certain lei:rnL tax <>rhr,,nt.:i funds to With a an occas10na1 plebiscite come up. "It will said. ''he a committee AJl._.,,.._. ...... , who chairs the New new chartered Both the eastern and western camhave begun a search for a new dean. Edward G. Sparrow and Robert Bart are concluding their fifth year as deans in Annapolis and Santa Fe, respectively. Under terms of the St. John's Polity, deans are chosen for a five year period but are elig!ble for reappointment. To consult with President Edwin J. ·Delattre, the college has named a sixmember committee composed of tenured tutors representing both campuses.· In turn 1 members of the committee consult with all members of the faculty on the separate campuses. Mr. Delattre has asked for their report by next month and hopes to have his recommendations to present to the Board of Visitors and Governors for appointment the board at its January meeting. At a special meeting of tenured tutors in Annapolis, Eva Brann, Thomas Slakey, and Curtis Wilson were elected to the committee. In Santa Fe, the tenured tutors chose William Darkey, Gle_nn A. Freitas, and Thomas K. Simpson. Because St. John's comprises two campuses as a single corporate unity, the committee is considered a committee of the whole college, but customarily the two segments defer to each other in their decisions. While there are assistant deans, "the dean" refers to the top academic post held by the official who supervises the instruction and who is responsible for the general welfare of students. At s·t. John's the title carries more than usual authority since, in the absence of the president, the dean may exercise, if necessary, the president's prerogative. Other than acting in matters of fund raising, the dean is in effect the president in the absence of the rm~s111enlt. Thanks to two Santa Fe students, the common room in the lower complex has become the place on campus for times and subdued room has been the result of the efforts of and head resident Carla '81. Until this year it has been furnished with a green rug, two hard chairs. and oio·ui.,;,,.,,.. set. Miss Rustan to donate old asked per·sw:icte~ct fellow students to furniture works of art, contribute and labor. The room was cleaned. The uuuuml§:s and crew installed a dimmer found odds and ends of campus furniture. h ..,..,,.,,.., ..... area's the ''"'""t"'""t'''"'"'a of the bylaws. The and then issue their recommendations to all with a view to a mail tion would follow "'"""·"""'""r1 structure "'"'"·.,,."' '~"r1 the board calls for a national board of directors of a chairman, presidents of new Annapolis and Santa Fe Committees, and executive secretaries from both the and Santa Fe campuses. (Continued in 1) and table linen transCommon Room into an chamber for the annual. included Provost Ault, former Dean Assistant Dean SF '78, served ceremonies. The "''"'"'"'"'''-' who descrilDed the conventional success of one alumnus in protes~non but who felt his life was he came to he missed was the eniovment of serious conversation. Mr. suggested that the purpose and reason for an association, whatever its form.· is to foster such a conversa tion. "It's like the room," Miss Deike said.. "It's a center for conversation and a for those students livin_g campus to rest and "We didn't women said. all in �s • II I Peter Wages, at 9 o'clock in the morning the day the seniors returned when he was taking up residence in Room 110, pronounced Pa ca-Carroll "magnificent." The newly refurbished dining room he found "marvelous." He was impressed. So· were other returning students. From the standpoint of facilities, among all the recent classes, the seniors may be the luckiest. They knew the dormitory when rain swept soot down the chimneys into the rooms and when the dining room was marked by tired old drapes and even more tired old tiles. They will be able to use both Randall and PacaCarroll at their sparkling best their final year in college. "We owe a profound debt to Dick Weigle," President Edwin J. Delattre told alumn at homecoming in paying tribute to his predecessorfs role in raising funds for the projects. "Paca-Carroll and Randall will contribute substantially to the quality of life of the students who live here." Noting that the projects are paid for and there is no indebtedness, he said, "In my view they have been completed magnificently." At Paca-Carroll they were adding the sort of finishing touches recently that you think of once you move into some place new. Bathroom clothing pegs were going up, and a new ironing board had been provided. Door closures were reworked so that the doors didn't bang. Banging has been one of the noise problems. In some spots in the new western wing, conversations can be overheard between the men's and women's floors. "You have to speak in hushed tones if don't want any juicy to be "one student cautioned. four loft rooms which each house two students has broul!ht favorable comment from occupants. Sally ween the renovated old section and the new addition is '°"'"'"'-A•"'HV v1e~ascmt. "The return to my roots has been a mixed blessing. While living on the fringe of the campus (P-C'ers have always considered themselves a breed apart from the staunch Humphries traditionalists or the red-eyed Pinkney radicals) is again an enviable position, I miss the unique ambience of old Paca-Carroll, which I guess has gone the way. of carriage. rides and white gloves. On the whole, though, the price of progress must be tallied in the black." HIS OBSERVATIONS came in a formal, written ·appraisal of PacaCarroll's new look. Less formally, he added, "It's much nicer there. That's for sure." The $1,136,000 dormitory project was dedicated at a ribbon cutting ceremony the week before students returned to permit guests to tour the building. The occasion brought donors, builders, architects, and others responsible for the project to the courtyard between the new building and its wing. At 20 minutes of 4 someone tied a white ribbon across the doorway for the ribbon cutting ceremony. At one minute of four a light, intermitten rain began. No matter. Dean Edward G. Sparrow held an umbrella for President Delatand other guests drew under from the umbrellas or French doors leading to the common room. Mr. Delattre spoke of William Paca and Charles Carroll, both of the had Declaration of Independence. been a member of the St. John's board. "Through the generosity of St. John's friends and benefactors-Paul Mellon, the State of Maryland, the A.S. Abell Company National Bank Historical Foundation, the Trust, and the Sheridan 1''mmctatiion--a11d throu~:h the skill and effort of all who nlanm~a and executed this to dedicate this wonderful new up "he said. snlendid dwelline: for 49 for 19th • trance hall where the plaque is hung, President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle spoke of Mr. Higgins' appreciation of the warmth and to the man behind college. "I felt Edgar Higgins understood the plaque unveiled in Randall what the college was up to. He saw the Hall. dining room - "one of the most cherished and treasured rooms" in Anpotentialities of this place." St. John's new president said the according to President Edwin J. - is officially the Edgar T. dining room already had provided him one Higgins Dining Hall. of the most moving and memorable "I'm sure he would be pleased and moments since coming here. Mr. Delattre honored to have this beautiful dining room told of a party given dining room emnamed for him," his widow said as she ployees as a gesture of appreciation by unveiled the plaque and a champagne students. The Saga Corporation had toast was offered by President Emeritus trucked food across town from another cafeteria it serves for the first three weeks Richard D. Weigle. There were thanks all around of school when the kitchen was not in full following dinner in the recently operation. redecorated room, with its deep sand walls "Last Thursday," Mr. Delattre and frosty white paneling -a "gorgeous recounted, "I was having lunch here with a guest of the college. We were seated near room" in the view of Sharon Bishop, the southern end of the room when sudchairman of the Board of Visitors denly the entire dining hall burst into Governors Campus Planning Committee. It was Edgar T. Higgins who initiated applause. I looked up to see that the kitchen and coffee shop staffs were being the relationship between the Hodson Trust escorted in by several students. All the and St. John's in 1965 with a gift of $10,000. Over the past months the dining room has members of these two staffs were thenbeen restored and the building expanded seated at tables set and prepared for them. with a substantial amount of the cost "They were served lunch by students who also performed the duties· of the staff $582,000 by the trust. "Edgar T. Higgins had quite a love of the lunch period. This event took this institution and thought it was implace in order to acknowledge the diligent and that it should be nurtured," and patient work of the staff in the inCaspersen, the present Hodson Trust terests of the students during the period chairman, said in his remarks praising after school opened when tlie kitchen was Mr. Higgins as a man with a quality of ._ not yet in operation. judgment and of honor which pervaded "All food was delivered by truck and served here, uncomplainingly, by the every action. Two of the speakers present felt staffs. Tears of joy marked the cheeks of several staff members. It was, in sum, St. particularly that the dining room was the John's at its best, and I wish you could appropriate place to bear his name. For a man who loved desserts, his have witnessed it.'' The party was arranged by Mr. Harriet Higgins, a member of Schiavo and by Ellen Swinford, Westland, said she knew he would have ~~~MT~· Mich., senior, head of the student supertremendously " visors for the dining hall. Guests present included a number in associated with the building, instudents," cluding Elizabeth Saunders and Terry Buch2man. decorators for the much ad0 .. in"'" sident of mired room. telling them how imguests Renovation had taken place over the room is as a center of summer, and the room was the life. "You couldn't for use at the ovenina of much student find a finer food to the enAfter ;me:wmty to student of the fall, the room was scheduled for insnection by health authorities to enable area to be used. were to it at 10 a.m. the it was not until 6 before that we could clean up lt was a family affair, with children and old friends present, givmg students to ectutipr:nenlt, remove dirt the N.J., "The new renovated Paca-Carroll is more modern and convenient old P-C was notorious: I often campus to use bathroom, and our common room is most comfortable and decorated on camp~s. The bricked bet- St. John's Tutor Samuel Kutler conducted four seminars in the Mid-West. He was the leader for a seminar held alumni. Earlier he three seminars based the three=volume work Frederick 1974 Nobel Prize economics. entitled Law, Leeislation. VU \JUAlo;UV Todd Reichart photo �Page 6 THE REPORTER II You don't applaud when you feel. moved, and so the audience didn't. It was President Delattre who broke the moments of church-like silence by inviting guests to step forward and view the pQ.rtraits of the two friends whose lives had meant so much to each other and to St. John's. Faculty members, former students, people who had never known Scqtt Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr except as legendary figures crowd.ed forward to two portraits hung on the western wall close to the front of the great hall. A moment before, Tom Parran, alumni director, lifted the covering of the paintings by Herbert Abrahms, noted Connecticut portraitist, and revealed the two men as they would have been in the early 40s: a thoughtful Scott Buchanan in profile, books in the background, a pencil clasped in his hands, as if he were making a point ·in discussion, and Stringfellow Barr, red-headed, his lips slightly pursed, a11 expectant glint in his eyes, ready for one of the witticisms which made him "one of the most entertaining people" and • • I I I "most agreeable companions" the late former board chairman Richard Cleveland ever knew. Mr. Abrams had painted.the portraits of the former dean and president as a pair because the two men, in their rare relationship, had acted in unison as a pair, sharing "deep, unexpressed understandings and, at the same time, deep unexpressed disagreements which they also understood and respected. and ii.rho studied under both men at the Uriiversity , of· Virginia, was principal speaker. He was preceded by President Delattre who spoke of how Barr, now approaching his eighty-fifth birthday, and Buchanan came to Annapolis. It was a talk in which Mr. Smith spoke of the men taking the measure of the other, of Buchanan seen through the eyes of Barr, of Barr seen through the eyes or' Buchanan, of both men as considered by' Cleveland, a board member from 1930 until long after Barr and Buchanan left, and then, finally,' Mr. Smith's own impressions of the two men when he was a student at the University of Virginia~ THE EARLY EVENING ceremony was highlight of homecoming and a culmination of a project begun last year when alumni decided that prominent St. John's figures should be visually "SCOTT BUCHANAN arrived at St. memoralized and named Allan P. Hoffman, '49, to head a committee to do so. John's in 1937," Mr. Delattre told the Along with Dr. David Dobreer, '44, he had audience in reviewing the role they had in raised the money for the portraits. establishing St. John's current program. "The two had worked together at the Another member of the committee, Bernard Jacob, '54, assumed chair- University of Virginia and had recom· manship of the committee at homecoming. mended in 1935, in the· Virginia Report, that the honors course at Virginia should Winfree Smith, St. John's tutor who is consist of a prescribed program at study in writing a history of St. John's since 1937 the liberal arts." ' • I by J. WINFREE SMITH We should all be very grateful to Allan Hoffman and to all who have contributed to the making of portraits of Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, which we are about to unveil. These two remarkable men were the founders of the St. John's program which has undergone several changes but is still in a fundamental way the same as when it was introduced by them in this place. As Barr was always the first to admit, the program originated in the soul of Buchanan. But ft is also right and necessary to say that Buchanan could not have got the St. John's program going without Barr. Barr was colorful as a person. His written words, and even more his spoken words, were colorful and alive. He used this gift of speech to great advantage in presenting to the public a program which, in some way, was very old and yet new and unconventional in relation to what was currently being done in . American colleges. Barr and Buchanan met at Oxford in 1919. They were both Rhodes scholars and both at Balliol. Barr almost immediately found conversations with Buchanan very exciting. Then for a while there was a lapse in their friendship because Barr, coming from the South, could accept English society with its distinctions of class more readily than Buchanan could and because Barr disliked what he called some truculence or trickery in Buchanan's conversation that made fools of people. It was not long, however, before their friendship was resumed to grow stronger and to last until Buchanan's death in 1968. Let me read you something that Barr himself has said about Buchanan: "Several English members of Balliol and l sh rted meeting with him regularly in a di~cussion group. It was his curious kind of questioning that bound us to him .... I had quite simply been snared into Platonic dialectic by a dialectician who staked his life on Socrates' statement that the unexamined life is not worth living." BUCHANAN WAS GOOD at ques-. tioning. He was also good at listening to the responses to his questioning. Concerning this ability Barr remarks, "I observed that the reason Buchanan seemed so gloriously unprofessional was his extraordinary ability to listen and his apparent assumption that it is sometimes the dullest person present who raises the NOV.EMBE_R 1981 best question.'' These quotations tell us something of Buchanan as seen through the eyes of Barr. There is a letter that Buchanan wrote to Sidney Hook in 1944 that tells us something of Barr as seen through the eyes of Buchanan. The letter is in reply to Hook's attack on the St. John's curriculum, published in the New Leader, in which he had made Barr his special target. First, the letter spe·aks of the deep, intimate, and loyal friendship. "We work," he writes, "very closely together on everything that goes on at St. John's. We have deep, unexpressed understandings and, at the same time, deep unexpressed disagreements which we also understand and respect. The South and the North have a great deal to do with these things, but there are many other mysterious things in it, too. We are both teachers by temperament, training, and experience. Administration, public relations, educational policy, and even personal relations at St. John's tend to become mutual teaching relationships. Learning is the principle of the degree of community life that we have." "TO MY STUFF HE adds a sense of humor, a natural dramatic enthusiasm, and a biting sarcasm with irony. He is as true a liberal as anyone I know, with solid convictions that come from a deep, Confederate tradition of rebellion. He has a streak of timidity before the smart city guy with a sense of honor to cover it up that makes him laugh at your articles and squirm when I write you letters ... I have never heard him try to demonstrate anything but a Euclidean theorem, certainly not the eternal verity of the St. John's program. (Hook had claimed that Barr thought the superiority of the St. John's Program could be demonstrated by argument.) He fights with a few members of the faculty who think Platonic or Thomistic demonstrations can even state the program ... I once said to him that I didn't think we would ever have been friends if we hadn't met at Oxford both just emerging in depressed states from the last war and almost forced together for mutual comtort. Tms nurc mm very mucn, om 1 still wonder that we know each other as well as we do." A man who knew well both of the two friends was Richard Cleveland who, as a member and, at various times, chairman, - ... -- ma Funds were never obtained at Virginia, and in 1936 the two accepted an invitation of Robert Maynard Hutchins, then president, for them to come to the University of Chicago. "They were at Chicago when Francis Pickens Miller of Virginia (then a board member) informed them that St. John's College in Annapolis might be the place for their experiment in liberal education to be conducted, and so it was." "Buchanan and Barr were convinced that the prevailing trends in education, trends favoring specialization and wide offerings of elective courses, could not provide adequate preparation for life as a citizen. "They were further concerned that intellectual foundations of contemporary thought and institutions were being neglected in education. Accordingly, they designed for St. John's a program of study, 'The New Program,' as it is called at the college, which addressed these issues .... -"The focus was and is very much on the art of conversation and on the skills of reading and listening which are essential to it." diffe of the board, served the college from 1930 his course in the History of the World the until long after Barr and Buchanan left. first year he taught it. That was when Cleveland was largely responsible for Hoover was president, and he described it bringing them to St. John's from Chicago as "the History of the World from the in 1937. A recorded interview with John Amoeba to Hoover." It was a lecture Kieffer enables us to see how the two course. The lectures were delightfully friends appeared in the eyes of Richard amusing and informative. Whether I came Cleveland. Kieffer had asked him about to understand much about the history of the board's reaction to Buchanan. He the world is a question, but I was beginning replied, "I don't think that changed much to think about things I had never thought from the beginning until the time that he about before and to think differently about and Barr left ... I think that he veritably · things I had thought about. SCOTT BUCHANAN in a different way believed that if we board members were really serious about the new program and had a similar effect. He taught philosophy. this. college we would retire from His class in metaphysics was not like a St. everything else we were doing and settle in John's seminar. It consisted in an alter= Annapolis and just pay attention to run- nation of brief lectures and question. He ning the college. Of course, that's his would lecture for 15 minutes or so and then method of teaching, and his method of answer questions, then lecture for another dealing with people was deliberately 15 or 20 minutes and answer more questions. As Winkie Barr moved through provocative. I loved him very much, but he world history, he moved through certainly irritated me very much because philosophic thought, referring or alluding, I thought that a lot of his provocation was in interesting ways, to Plato or Aristotle, unnecessary. But that was part of his Spinoza or Kant, or whomever. Looking pedagogical resource, getting people back on it now I can see that his own unm stirred up. I think the board in general had derstanding of philosophic thought did not the greatest respect for Scott Buchanan, go very deep. But at that time that was but that they felt that he was a touchy perhaps of little importance. The main fellow to deal with on an ad hoc basis." thing was that questions got articulated, IN THIS SAME interview, Cleveland new and exciting, because important, said . of Barr: "Winkie was a locus questions. I remember that Buchanan classicus of an outgoing personality. He would never at the start of a course give could get along with one or two people, and out bibliographies the way other he could get along with thousands and be professors did. He would hardly ever equally charming to both groups. He is one mention a book until an exciting of the most entertaining people I ever question had emerged in discussion when knew and one of the most agreeable he would refer to some book as the place companions. More than one night after we where one could find out more about it. had finished meetings we'd sit up until all This made one want to go straightway and hours telling stories and having fun. There get the book and read it. He loved to make were some people who didn't go for Winkie enigmatic utterances. In recent years altogether, partly because he always wore whenever I have recalled one of these in blue shirts; but on the whole, when ever he the presence of Barr, he has always said, went somewhere to speak, he was very "You knew what he meant, didn't you?" well received. Scott Buchanan would have Winkie Barr now resides in a room in found it difficult to speak to some of those groups ... with absolutely no experience · Goodwin House in Alexandria, Va. Goodwin House is a place where people of whatever as a college administrator, advanced age are well cared for. He has on Winkie turned out to be absolutely first the wall of his room some photographs. class in . that respect. In dealing with There is hardly anything else in the room people he was remarkably efficient and in the way of persorral possessions except effective ... " his clothes and a few books. Two of the I shall add a few words of my own photographs, one on either side of his about these two extraordinary men. I was dresser, are of his wife and mother. Not a student of theirs at the University of far away is a photograph of Scott" Virginia in .the nineteen-thirties before Buchanan taken when they were un= they went to Chicago and then to Annapolis dergraduates at Oxford. and St. John's. Barr taught history. I took . -----,-----~--~~~ ------~---.-~-~~~----¥~-----~~~·-~-~- ----~-- �REPORTER NOVEMBER 1981 Page 7 • I I ••• Jim Scott is continuing his Buddhist ,tudies at the 800-year-old Carthusian monastery of Chartreuse de St. Hmrnn in whose been a L11n:0:n::u Lii!htburn writes to say that from a master's administration at the school. His '1"'""';.,.,cr interest he of a of tion of a 1940 v1>~111"h1)nll' Buchanan now hartgir1g Mr. Hoffman n member of the Our thanks to Glenn Gladfelter' s chives Committee, co-sponsored with mother for sending us the March-April Francis Mason the 80th party 1981 issue of Montana Magazine (handof Mr. Barr at Princeton, N.J., coor· some publication), in which Glenn wrote of dinated in 1979 the homecoming of the re-1 the experience he and his wife, Dale After gaining practical experience. as Decade of the 40s, and this year chaired Graves, underwent during the fall of 1978. The two bought 20 acres of land 13 dirt road a para-legal aide for a Santa Fe law firm, the New York Area Alumni Steering Com· miles from Cascade, Montana, pitched a Paula Maynes has succumbed to the mittee Group, which asked for and was homecoming one of the three, tent, planted a garden, and began building temptations of the trade and joined Mary ·granted at chapter charters of the Alumni a house in the spring of that year. On Howells at the University of New Mexico first, local Associations. November 8, 1918, one of the worst bliz- law school. WITH JONATHAN E. Brooks, '49, he zards, heaviest snowfalls, and coldest co-chaired the 25th reunion of the Class of -1 n winters in Montana history trapped them Henry and Mary, S '78, Horsey live in 1949 in Annapolis. in their tent, with no heat and little food, President and owner of the Handy· for 10 days. They were rescued by two Ft. Collins, Col., and are doing gtaduate friends on snowmobiles, none the worse for work at Colorado State. Mary will begin Andy Speciality Company, Mr. Hoffman work in a mechanical engineering. since 1978 has led a seminar offered at the the experience, apparently. master's program this fall. Kevin and Ann in United Arab and were ex}'.l1ect.ing a child in late October. Howells Ricketts recently has and begun law at the University of New Mexico. 1 nta Fe-1 Mary Jane Shoemaker wrote to Sam Larcombe during the summer of her plans for a traveling school, based in Santa Fe, enrolling six to ten teenagers. During the winter they would stay in Santa Fe, matching the pupils up with master teachers in apprenticeship programs ranging from pottery to politics. In the good months the pupils would travel to their teachers, perhaps all over the continent. The whole idea, according to Mary, is to "provide students with background to make wise choices about their futures." She is anxious to hear from anyone who would like to help with any phase of the program. Her address .is 1025 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501. 75 In a wedding in which 10 clergymen participated, if you do not count the bride, January E. Hamill was married to Mark F. A. Gatza September 5 at St. Anne's Church. They are at home at St. Timothy's School, where Jan is chaplain. She also assists the rector of Epiphany C,hurch in Timonium. Mr. Gatza is chaplain at St. Paul's School for Boys in Baltimore. Among the clergy taking part in the service were the bishops of Maryland and Connecticut. Mr. Gatza is a member of the Yale Morris Dancers, and several came down for the reception afterwards. n 1 5 Adrian Rosen called the Alumni Office from Philadelphia to say "hello" in September and reported he had received a bachelor's de~ree from Edison College with an additional degree from the Berkeley College of Music. After teaching school for a while, he went back to his real interest: musical performance. n l Paula Fulks married Larry Haar in May, 1980. Both are graduates of the Notre Dame Law School. She has joined the law firm of, Deacy & Deacy in Kansas City, Mo., where they live. Santa ALAN HOFFMAN Peninsula Public Library which will attempt to read all of the books on St. John's reading list. His brother, Dr. Irwin Hoff· man, a Long Island physician and new member of the board, is a member of the Tuesday group. Born in Brooklyn, Mr. Hoffman previously has been associated with B. Gertz, Inc., of Jamaica, N.Y., and with Associated Merchandising Corporation, of New York. He and his wife, Margie, have two children, Jack, 16, a student at Philips Ex· eter Academy, and Debbie, 14, who is in Lawrence Junior High School. l Nancy Ralph has been working as a counselor in z battered women's shelter in Ann Arbor, M''.ch. Reid Kinr;sberry is working for the Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C. Kak Burk should be graduating soon from Eastern Michigan University's Philosophy Department. Cullen Hallmark is continuing his study of law at the University of Texas. Steve Crampton reports a busy schedule as a first year law student at the University of New Mexico. Jill Cowley is now living in Logan, utah, where she is studying landscape architecture. After a brief visit on campus, she traveled home to Australia over the summer. Turning from banking to opera, David, Whiteside has enrolled at the University of New Mexico to study music theory, voice, and Italian. John and. Carrie Bishop Preston, SF '83, have announced the birth of a daughter, Aileen, on August 16 in Georgia where John is stationed with the U.S. Army. David Whiteside, hoping for an operatic career, is studying voice in Santa Fe. 1 Peter Grubb and his brother are in their second year of business as river trip outfitters; River Odysseys West (ROW) is the business, offering 4-12 day trips in Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska. · 1 1 Lisa Cobb and Philip Allardice '79 are now married and are living in Oman, where he is director of communications for the sultan. Peter Gilbert and David Auerbach (John Moran) were scheduled to go to ~witzerland in September to play rock 'n roll with two other members of I Ragazzi ("The Kids") already there, Jim Brunner Arnona alumni who had lunch with President Delattre in SaDisl:n.n·v were A. and Dr. 0. H. nuowu:u;on and Jim Preston. Writing from Cutchogue, Long Island, where David and he spent the summer painting houses and weeding, Peter wrote: "Johnny and I and a local woman named Pamylle Grienke led a great books seminar here for five weeks, which was in many ways interesting, but which also left me with an unhappy sense of my distance from St. John's College." Barbara-Jean Sisson and Roach were married this summer and are now living in San Francisco. Joe is teaching at Drew College Preparatory School, where Melanie Jago, '80, also teaches. The Roaches live at 1030 Franklin St., Apt. 201, San Francisco, CA 94109, telephone (415) 776-9705, and, we suspect, would welcome word from friends. Out of the frying pan into the fire! Janelle Stevenson received her diploma in May and almost immediately joined St. Tom Pam:rn Photo Johns', first to operate the addres~-o'­ graph machine and then to become the able secretary of college registrar Nancy Winter, who is giving her rave reviews. Husband John is completing his senior year on the Annapolis campus. Janelle has become an active member of a noonday great books group made up of staff members and faculty wives. Mrs. Mozel is with the Mississippi Authority Educational Television in Jackson, planning science programs. u Bro. Thomas Casey is now at the Christian Brothers House in Brooklyn. IN MEMORIAM 1922-J. Wesley Everett, Baltimore, Md., September 5, 1981. 1931- Dr. Isadore Scher, Baltimore, Md., August 28, 1981. . 1973 Santa Fe -- Thomas Alex Lawson, Phoenix, Arix., .August,: 1981. �Page 8 THE REPORTER NOVEMBER 198 l Richard son releases THIE REPORTER · Published by College Relations Office St. John's College Annapolis, Md. ,21404 II The piano music of Annapolis tutor Douglas Allanbrook is featured on a recording just put out by Richardson Recordings, "Music from St. John's College." Charles Richardson, GI, 50, has recorded Mr. Allan brook performing his own Venice Music and Naples Music as well as Haydn's Sonata 42 in C Major and J.S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue No. 14 in F let u_____ _ Frank B. Marshall, Jr., Annapolis investment broker, who once said that the best education such a broker could have was the one he received at St. John's .._,._,~n:;F,•c, will head the annual Alumni Fund carnpa1i,gnfor 1981-82. President Edwin was announced at the annual meeting of the Alumni Association when had words of nraise for as he talked about have done a darn the " he said. "Some of have 1111r1r1rii;:i>n per cent up the shortfunds to educate fall-what it the which come students and the actual last year eastern campus to wind up its fiscal year with a modest $12,000 "Alumni also gave $90,000 toward endowment in and one unnamed alumus a million dollars for the work on Pa ca-Carroll House.'' the honor of her excep- ar~fof11l contribution to continuance of the John's therefore to the Association and the John's :se1>te1nb1~r formation and activities Area alumni of the in the 1978, to June, 1981." The program performed by Mr. Allanbrook is one he originally gave during a summer concert at the college. Mr. Allanbrook's Venice Music and Naples written a year apart in 1974 and 1975, form a of compositions which of reflect Mr. Allanbrook's residence in Much of same material is used both but it is cast to form two different musical imthose cities. the notes accompanying the the Venice Music is a Turneresque which con· tains memories of while the Music employs the banal and sardomc tarantella mingled with strands of Neapolitan songs. The Sonata in C Major is one he wrote in and the Bach Prelude and Fugue originally appeared in his Well Tempered Clavier. For this recording Mr. Allanbrook has been fortunate to have the fine technical assistance of Mr. Richardson, who nnor~tes his one-man comnanv from his and who is credited some of the highest most noisefree rec:orclimis To assist in record, he equipment. "The piano is a very difficult strument to record, and it places extreme of of the former uuu~ ~··~ be called. This December and volunteers. In addition, there will be a Class ... prc)fessi1on;:ili£~e their le:iflPr~hm luncheon with Delatfre and a tour of renovated forward to a time," Mr. cm1c11ud.E~d his remarks. "Don't us a buck; us a hand. invited me to I'm you to be a too. Exnect a call for assistance later on." A resident of Severn a Mr. Marshall received his earlv education in Baltimore. John Christensen was one of three admissions directors tations on education at the 37th annual meetu1g National Association of College missions Counselors/last month. asociation Mr. Christensen with admissions directors from shire Mass., Warren Wilson College, Swannanea. N.C. r Cl I demands upon the recording and playback equipment," he said. "Some of the equipment used is available commercially, but a number of items of equipment were custom made by me, such as, for example, the power supplies, microphone pre-amplifiers, and matrix circuits." IN ADDITION to the difficulties of a first rate recording, Mr. noted that it is a long ·and1 complex process to turn this into a high quality record which accurately reflects the original "A great of care and effort has gone into producing this record in order to listeners with a musical experience that adds to and does not stand in way of the music and the wonderful Douglas Allanbrook on Bosendorfer " he said. has .,,, ...,,...;,.,.,. to almost any record in of tonal range, freedom from and range. It will provide a real .... muu;::ou 6 ... to the best audio the audionhile as music lover. The record may be r11n·l"h~~"''11 the St. John's bookstore $7.25 with for mailing. Checks should be made payable to the St. John's Bookstore. Three graduates of the Santa Fe campus have been elected to the Alumni Association's Board of Directors. They include Pablo of Was Dunn, of Santa and Stephen of Los addition, Girard Bradford an eastern graduate residing in n.u.•u:n1v.u.,, also was elected to the board. serve for terms endin1! in 1983. � 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 1~1~1r1 1 1 r1 r1~ i 11111111111111111 31696 01138 0761 The I Volume 9, Issue 1 An n lis, Md., and Septem nta Fe, N.M. • I s I I rr II rs t The Santa Fe campus has decided to lease 40 acres of college land for the development of 112 residential units. After two years of study, the decision was formally reached at the July meeting of the Board of Visitors and Governors. It came following an intense review of options open to the college to increase its endowment and to help stabilize the financial future of the Santa Fe campus. Under an agreement reached with the Zeckendorf-Colin Co., Inc., of New York City, two 20-acre sites have been designated for 112 clustered residential units with 56 units on each site. Provost J. Burchenal Ault said the leasing agreement will yield $3.1-million to the college during the first three years of construction, which begins next spring. In addition, it will yield $134,400 a year for the " next 12 years as r~ntal and $268,800 a year for the following 10 years. Pa ca-Carroll looks superb! The surprise is that after all these years of knowing the dormitory, to see Paca-Carroll now, full face, is to see it as if for the first time, defined as in a pen-andink drawing with architectural features crisply delineated. Restoration work completed during the past 13 months has laid the building bare, bringing into bright focus its formal exterior much as it might have been seen when the dormitory was first built 124 years ago as a faculty duplex. It is lighter by several degrees. This is part real, part illusion. What is real is that the hodge-podge of hemlock and spruce which has darkened its eastern side has been stripped away. What is illusion is that the bricks appear lighter and warmer in color than during the building's past dilapidated years. In actuality, the bricks themselves have not been sand blasted, which is considered technologically wrong, but merely pointed up, according to James T. Wollon, Jr., of Havre de Grace, Md., the ·restoration architect. The mortar, however, has been cleaned, helping lighten the building. Woodwork has been painted a sand shade, instead of the usual hackneyed white, to blend in with the mortar. NOW THAT IT is in use again, the Continued from P. 3) s c cm1tinued from P. 5) The forces of French General Count de Rochambeau, which camped at St. John's 200 years ago en route to Yorktown, will be back on campus October 14. This time they will bring the pageantry and paraphernalia of the long and historic march that began in Rhode Island in June, mn, rather than real war, aunm1.e:n a mock battle will take place on t..:c:uu1-1u.,, where French soldiers the Revolutionary War are and sailors buried. Jack Ladd Carr, '50, historic-cultural liaison officer for the Maryland Department of Economic and Community Development, is coordinating Maryland activities to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the march of the French from Newport, to Yorktown, Va., and the decisive battle of the Revolution. In Annapl'!lis the colonial militia will consist of a contingent of approximately 500 men from the ,eastern United States and Canada clad in meticulously reproduced French army uniforms of the period. Accompanying them will be an estimated 250 "camp followers" made up of family members. THE NUMBER WILL fall somewhat 3) Paco-Carroll's new addition and entrance to the mom and the kitchen. are shown above. Below are the new which will house the new Photos by Tom Parran c When . a dining room is redone and everyone thinks it's beautiful, there should be a party. Next month, to mark the dedication of the Ed.e:ar T . .1..up;;J;:;u.1., there will be Later that week on Saturday, October 17, St. John's Caritas Society wi~l celebrate the dedication and redecoration during a .... i.,, ..... "'"""'~ reception and feast. The raiser of the year for Caritas, the dinner of French food will be held in to the large dining room and will be "'"""""" mi,,h1nn to contribute to fund. STRIPPED OF floor and week after school ended in room with fir1~n1 :>lf'P is being redecorated as of an extensive renovation program for Randall Hall. Finn Caspersen, chairman of the Hodson Trust, which has supported the project 1'"0ftilM11Cfo will attend as well. President Edwin .J. Delattre said the room is being named in honor of the late Continuedo:nP. 5) II Endowment on the Santa Fe campus is expected to increase from last year's $2million to $5.5-million within the next five years as the result of a challenge gift of the late John Murchison, of Dallas. In,December, 1979, the late member of the Board of Visitors and Governors agreed to give the western campus a million dollars in endowment if St. John's received $2-million in gifts and pledges by December 31, 1980. Not only did the college raise the sum, but it exceeded it by $450,000. Results, however, were not announced until the gifts underwent careful legal scrutiny and an independent audit to assure that at least $2-million qualified under the terms of Mr. Murchison's grant and under federal and state law. The first of the four Murchison payments of $1-million .have been received. Altogeth~r $3,450,000 will be added to the endowed funds, most over the next five years. President Edwin J. Delattre, Provost J. Burchenal Ault, and Charles A. board chairman, along with num""""" board members and friends led contributed generously to the concerted effort to meet the Murchison challenge. First sums were raised under Richard D. Weigle, whose presidency the challenge gift was announced. Credit also is attributable to Branham, director of college relations, and to Margaret Twyman, coordinator of a campaign which raised $500,000 to the John and Faith Meem which also qualified for the Murchison challenge. �P~ge.2 THE REPORTER ·~~lle!JOO~a: .... . .. By Tom Parran '42 Eastern_ Director of Alumni 1Activities · 1918 A gift of $3,000 bequeathed the college by the late James W. Nelson, a Baltimore physician, has been used to establish a memorial endowment in his name. 1928 A festschrift entitled Nationalism: Essays in Honor of Louis L. Snyder was published in Jul~ by_ Greenwood Press. Edited by Michael Palumbo and William 0. Shanahan. with. an introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., the book consists of chapters by leading American historians of nationalism, Louis Snyder's field of specialization. . 1948 1981 Fellowships are available ~A~U~ . S~PTEMBER length poem. In addition, he has been serving as chairman of Millsaps's Faculty Development Committee. l A too-short note from Christopher Hodgkin advises that in the past twelve months he has been married, moved from New York State to Washington State, changed jobs, and in June became the father of twin girls. A member of this class received muchdeserved recognition recently. Elaine Pagels, in her widely heralded work, The Gnostic Gospels, refers to several publications of Pheme Perkins, now associate professor of New Testament at Boston College . Richard Carruthers this past spring received a master's degree from Whitley Strieber, who attended St. Williamette University's Atkinson Graduate School-of Administration in the John's for a single semester beginning in same commencement exercises at which September, 1963, before transferring to the daughter Jennifer received her bachelor's University of Texas, is the author of the degree in humanities. Richard, co-owner 1977 novel, Wolfen, which serves as "a of Bioproducts, a fish meal firm in point of departure" for the current movie Warrenton, Oregon, received his own starring Albert Finney. The movie bachelor's degree from Williamette in received bad press from The Baltimore 1955; his wife and son also hold degrees Sun: "From any logical standpoint, the film is a mess, but, for those who dote on from the same institution. scary noises and decaptiated heads rolling around in infra-red light, it doubtless will have its meanin!!ful side." D. Michael D.D.S., has been made a Fellow of the American College of Dentists, an honor accorded fewer than 100 George Partlow reported in recently dentists each year. from Alaska, where he still does data As of August, John F. processing for the State Department of be teaching history and pnuosopny Transportation, and contemplates running Mohamed Ali Othman for Borough Assembly as a Libertarian Yeman Arab Republic. candidate. George says Kent '71. is .Joshua Kyle, eldest son of A. a serious candidate for the national Kyle, this summer attended courses at manship of the Libertarian Cluny Hill College, Forres, Scotland, and will return this fall to his sophomore year at Yale. Last year he was awarded the Archibald MacLeish Frederick who has been working in Anchorage, Alaska, as an alcoholism counselor, will return to school this fall to work toward a·master's degree Richard Freis, in a recent public.ation of Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss., where in counseling psychology at the of Alaska. he teaches, has written of the need colleges to develop within organizational structure the-means toward rf>newal and productivity, much as 29 was Martin Kalmar on businesses have done, especially since the awarded the degree of doctor philosophy Second World War. He cautions, however, from the Johns Hopkins University. that this is productivity measured not predominantly in economic terms, but in the development of fundamental human ~ Dan moving his powers. law office to _tt_;spano1a t'r<>sniects. he A member of the Millsaps faculty says, look since 1975, Freis is chairman of its Classics Beth is now working as a word Department and director of its Heritage processing consultant in the San Francisco Program. He was president of the Bay area. Mississippi Ballet International during the First U.S.A. International Ballet Competition and is now its executive viceThe 23 edition of the Santa Fe president. Recently Freis has been on half-time Reporter (a commercial paper, not the St. leave completing a libretto for the opera, John's version) carried a fine article Weinberg on Sam Hitt's gardening Achilles, which also will appear as a St. John's alumni of both the undergraduate and graduate programs are reminded that they are eligible to apply for a number of fellowships. Marianne Braun, director of career counseling in Annapolis, said that among these are: Fulbright: Provides funding for full-time study in a foreign country and requires a well-defined academic project; no age limit; deadline, October 31. Luce: Provides and funds placement-for-work in one's profession in an Asian country; deadline, early December; upper age limit, 29 years. Marshall: Finances study at a British University; deadline, mid-October; upper age limit, 25 years. Rhodes: Provides full-time study at Oxford University; deadline, October 31; upper age limit, 24 years. Rockefeller: Provides funding for study for the ministry in the United States and Canada.; deadline for nomination, November 20; upper age limit, 30 years. · Mrs. Braun said St. John's Fellowship Committee, of which she is a member, will be happy to provide informationon fellowships and to assist alumni applicants. She said a good source of information readily available in libraries and bookstores is The Student Guide to Fellowships and Internships, prepared by Amherst College students. In order for the college to continue to be eligible to participate in the Luce program, it must present a finalist this year, Mrs. Braun said, adding that she is particularly eager that graduates apply for this fellowship. II c c 1 n Continued on 7) Rebecca Wilson;, editor; Samuel Thomas Parran, J. Winfree Smith, Elliott' Zuckerman, advisory board. The Reporter is the Office of College St. John's ColJ. Delattre, president. lege, Annapolis, Published five a year, in June, September and November. Second class postage paid at An:n:inn11s_ USPS 018-750 The new rector of Baltimore's prestigious Old St. Paul's Church is the Rev. William N. McKeachie, who spent his first two undergraduate years at St. John's before going on to the University of the South at Sewamee, Tenn. He will be the 15th rector of the "mother parish" of Baltimore's Episcopalians, which dates back to 1692. Mr. McKeachie, who is 38. had been invited last summer to share in the m!nistry of the church, and when the rector decided to leave the ministry, Mr. McKeachie took over as acting rector. The senior warden considered him to have· done an "outstanding job," a view supported a committee that considered 23 possible candidates and, after reducing the list to 10, found it clear that there was broad support for Mr. McKeachie. Mr. McKeachie will occupy a big downtown rectory at Saratoga and Cathedral, one of the oltlest buildings in Baltimore and first occupied by a in 1791. He will be residing there alone as the second bachelor to assume the in the long history of the A native of New York, he moved to EnJ~lar1d when his was He was at St. John's from to 1964. After his graduation from Sewanee, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, he held in- medieval studies at the Toronto and at rT11ivi:>r.:11rv in Toronto._ He was ordained a deacon in 1970 in Canada and a later the same vear at England, where he served as an assistant While an unat John's, he was confirmed at St. Anne's Church. 86, who served on from 1942 until 1968, at University Park Nursing Richmond, Va. The former tutor and assistant dean has been in fragile health since suffering a hea·rt attack several years ago. He followed his wife. of 57 years, to the nursing home when her hip was fractured. They have been residing with his son, Dr. W. Kyle Smith, '47, to whose home they hope to return in November. For the present, former students may write to him in care of the nursing home at 2420 Pemberton Rd., Richmond, Va. 23229. the panel participants at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association meetings in New York 3-6 will be five SL John'sconnected people. Laurence Berns of the will present a paper, "Spiritness in and Politics: a study in Aristotelian Ps1.rf't"1101r111v " a panel on Aristotle in which Harry Neumann, '52, of Scripps College, will deliver another paper entitled "Aristotle and Nietzsche." Still another paper on Aristotle will be delivered by Eric Salem, '7,, University of Dallas, on "Nietzsche and Aristotle on Art." In addition, Jan Blits, '65, of the University of Delaware faculty, will chair a panel, "Realism and Idealism," while Mark Jordan, SF '73, now associated with the University of Dallas, will chair the panel on ShaJcespeare. �3 1 SEPTEMBER 1 I <II I (Continued from Page 1) He said the plan will increase the Santa Fe campus endowment by a minimum of $2.8 million in the first three I years. Together with moneys realized through the Murchison challenge grant, Mr. Ault foresees a total of close to $9million in endowment for Santa Fe by 1985. /,,.-:-Oflll\Sp:u. tblsirq fb--kir!i 1> 00 0000 6' ~00 Hlk.iritTroil 00 ~-- -------.__ / \ 000 '"'"~ 00 \ f 00 ! 1' .A _,,,-- Ric!in:j Tft1il 00 <:toOO 600000 00 0° ) } . · · ·. . .·/ A ~ ~ ftxlsilj ~ O 0O g g !l' g 0 0 Wilson . "',..p d'o 0 Curtis Wilson, assistant-. dean of the Annapolis campus. is the author of a review of two new books dealing with Newton appearing in the August edition of physics today. They are Richard S. Westfall's Never at Rest and I. Bernard •... o0 o 00 _g0° • 0"00000.,'"- ~ i Think gold when l.r,;°/- !·~ / \ I ~' J. /. . u 0 o0"°0 -0 ~d)d'orl" "· ·~~,.,. ~)~ \ \'\¢. on•·r~~ 000 ic•oo'i, 00 Oo•onooooo . 1. f } ~" \ \\. . . ~. \ .. ~ 0 J Coehn's The Newtonian Revolution. Mr. Wilson has written a number of studies of .17th and.18th century astrenomy. /,,---ap::n Spre ...,~ / APPROVAL CAME with the strong support of St. John's new president Edwin J. Delattre, who emphasized that expansion of the endowment will be indispensable if Santa Fe is to be both financially stable and able to provide substantial financial aid to students. In considering leasing land, the Santa Fe Campus Planning Committee also concerned itself with the total development of the college over ca long term and where future construction can best be placed. It has set 35 acres aside for a proposed auditorium, faculty housing, and other purposes. About 173 acres will remain open in their present natural state. Since the housing sites will be leased rather than sold, the size of the campus will remain unchanged: 287 acres. In planning for the residential developments, Mr. Ault said great care was taken to assure that the need for endowment monies was weighed against aesthetic, environmental, and civic considerations. Besides professional consultants and Santa Fe civic leaders, the planning involved faculty, students, and staff. THE BOARD'S Executive Committee joined the Santa Fe Campus Planning Committee in recommending adoption of the plan. In passing a resolution authorizing the development, the board also recommended that President Delattre appoint a small Development Management Committee to work with the Zeckendorf-Colin Co., Inc., in reviewing and approving designs, plans, schedules, and budgets as well as matters of zoning and historical style. In addition, the committee will negotiate the leases between ZeckendorfColin Co., Inc., and St. John's and between condominium buyers and the college. .. --<; I t GI '\\ . •••0 00000 0 //; ~I ~a],\, . ~JN11fA JFIE '·%·~,~4,~ ~ "o'bo 'J .\ . 11 _,,:::J C.0\~ \ "1' •ooo';;;::....._~ 0000,~ o,oooo·~oo E:xJ:nns1or1 f'ti>t l"·'lOO' Sl<-idf\'"m,,0,,1"41 •IY'ofnll April 11.1~1>1 \ \ 8' 0 \ ~\ ooo"oo,~ 1'"1,~{", Shown above are sites of the future residential ho1usina for the oroaosed avmnasium-auditorium and focultv· housina. The dome of venerable McDowell Hall has the new look this fall of an upside down buttercup. It was repainted yellow this summer instead of its traditional gold color. That's because the cost of gold not only has affected the international monetary market but the price of paint as well. "Absolutely out of the question," the painter told St. John's Treasurer Charles T. Elzey in discussing the price of gold paint and less costly alternatives that could reasonably fit within the St. John's budget. So, after looking over color clips, Mr. Elzey chose a shade of yellow and one he felt most closely imitated gold. McDowell, third oldest academic building in continuous use in the nation with a history that dates back to 1742, now sports a bright yellow cap which has startled some members of the college community. "It's supposed to fade," Mr. Elzey reassured them in reporting on the possibility that time's alchemy might enhance its resemblance to gold. la c c m s (Continued from Page 1) short of the several thousand French troops, possibly close to 3,000, who with a train of artillery, moved into the city at 7 a.m. on September 18, 1781. Marching in perilously hot weather, they had camped seven miles short of Annapolis the preceding night after marching 17 miles from Byran's Tavern at what is now Waterloo. It was to mark the now lost burial sites of some of those men that what is reported to be the first monument to the unknown war dead, the French Monument, was dedicated on back campus in April, 1911. "Old - very old - Annapolitans can recall their great-grandfathers speaking of a few simple headstones that marked the graves of the French dead buried here," the Annapolis newspapers wrote at the time. When the French arrive this time, they are to proceed first to the State House where there wili be ceremonies at 3 p.m. involving the presentation of a proclamation by Rhode Island Governor J. Joseph Garrahy to Maryland's Governor Harry Hughes. The State of Rhode Island is sponsoring the march to Yorktown. REPRESENTING THREE of the five original French units, the Royal DeuxPont, the Soissonnais, and Lauzun's Legion, the men will wear the colorful busbies and baldrics of 18th century uniforms in crimson, green, and black colors. From the State House they will parade to City Dock, then up Prince George Street, up St. John's central walk, and around McDowell Hall to the French Monument, where there will be a wreath. laying ceremony. Afterwards, at 5 p.m., there will be a mock battle between the French and American forces and the British on the lower back campus at College Creek. The tactical demonstration will be an ·enactment of the assaults on Redouts 9 and 10, key events in the Battle of Yorktown. Joseph Steen, who will coordinate military activities in Annapolis, said there will be "great and grievous losses" for the French and American forces in their ultimate victory. Fighting will be . done with muskets and bayonets. SOON AFTER THEIR arrival in Annapolis, the soldiers, who will arrive at the Marine-Navy Stadium in campers and vans, rather than on foot (they \vill cover as much ground in a week as the original French did in a month), will erect a "castramentation," the 18th century word for a camp, on the St. John's campus. Mr. Carr said the camp will be as authentic in detail as possible. Following the battle, the soldiers are to have an outdoor supper on campus and then be free for an evening of "jollification." The evening will be short since the men are due back at 10 p.m. at the stadium, where they will spend the night. They will leave early the following · morning for Yorktown. One detachment from the Royal DeuzPont will mass following breakfast at the sea wall by Dewey Field at the U.S. Naval Academy and board two sailing ships, the Pride of Baltimore and the Providence, a reconstructed, Rhode Island sloop. From there they will sail to Yorktown. Richard Hambleton, of Annapolis, will coordinate the wreath laying ceremony at the French Monument in which the Naval Academy French Club will have a leading part. The ceremony at the French Monument is conducted annually by the · club to mark Veterans Day. The French ambassador has been invited for this occasion. �4 E REPORTER • I Consider the usual routing for academic degrees. Customarily, as everyone knows, it proceeds from bachelor's to master's to doctorate. At the Annapolis campus this summer there were five men reversing the order. All here with a doctor's degree or the equivalency, they were attending the eight-week summer institute leading to '' master's and modeled after St. John's undergraduate program. People who like to learn, they included four who spoke of coming because of hiatuses in their own education. A fifth, Father Nicholas Ayo, who was concluding a sabbatical at Princeton and Berkeley, was here preparatory to assuming new teaching duties with Notre Dame University's General Program of Liberal Studies, which has a curriculum patterned after St. John's. Father Ayo came to take the literature seminar and a preceptorial, but he seized the opportunity to audit all the undergraduate classes he could and to get to know as many members of the faculty as possible. "THE BOOKS WERE not so forbidding, but what interested me was the decentralization of the teacher and the calling forth of the students in a way in which the teacher participates in the discussion but allows the students freedom in which to develop a good conversation," he said. "I've gotten a picture of what is done. Whether I can go and do likewise is· another thing." . Two of the participants in the master's program are Annapolis residents. Dr. Nicholas Capozzoli, a neurologist, was one of 11 to receive his master's during commencement in August. Trained primarily in medicine and the sciences, he came to the institute to round out his education. A participant also in St. John's community seminars, Dr. Capozzoli has 11 get master's, in Annapolis Commencement was termed a "way station" for the 11 recipients of master's degrees at the Annapolis campus's Graduate Institute this year. · Geoffrey Comber, who took a leading role in founding the program here five years ago, reminded graduates that they have a lon~ road ahead. In ceremonies in the college's Great Hall, he told them: "You have spent a great deal of time here in the company of each other and of Hobbes, Euclid, and a host of others, and you have begun that process that frees you from the bondage of thepre- sent. "You are to be greatly congratulated on reaching this way-station marked by receiving a degree. But if I am even half right ... you, like all of us, have a long road ahead, and you owe It to yourself fo travel it, trying to keep the excellent companion'Ship you have had so far to help you further - your friends present here as well as Hume, Lobachevski, Darwin, Homer, Montaigne, and so many others, ever ready when you pick them up to assist you." Benjamin Milner, who succeeded Mr. Comber as director, presided at the ceremonies in which degrees went to: Nicholas Capozzoli, Severna Park; Susan Davies, Greenbelt, Md.; Wade Dorsey, Jr., Raleigh, N.C.; Jeffrey Franklin, Crownsville; Mary Ann Isaac, Englewood, N.J.; Sylvia Jones, Chevy Chase; Rosamond Rice, Annapolis; Steven Roehling, Emory, Va.; Glenn Springer-Miller, Columbia; Joan Vinson, Washington, and Marilyn Williamson, Annapolis. - I SEPTEMBER 1981 I i"1ve men with doctoral equivalendes at the Graduate Institute this summer were, frcr:n left, Dr. Nicholas • Merle Maffei, and photo continued his full-time medical practice. Baltimore. He said he enrolled because he FATHER LEONARD Cochran. a professor at Providence College in Rhode "I just enjoy all this stuff," he said. deals with relatively technical and narrow Merle Maffei, Annapolis attorney, who issues and felt a need to broaden his Island, never expected to go back to school also continued to work full time, arrived ,concerns. after obtaining his doctorate but believes with a juris doctor degree from American the program will help bridge a hiatus in his "One of the interesting things in University and a bachelor's degree in teaching first year students is that I can education. "It wouldn't correct my mechanical engineering from Villanova almost always pick out St. John's people education since you can't make up for lost University. His education, he noted, "fell because they are the least troubled by years," he said. between the cracks." A literature student ambiguities," he observed. "They accept Here for his second summer and inthis year, he hopes to return next year to more readily that a right decision is hard volved in the mathematics and natural take the institute's theology and to reach." science segment, he said the seminar philosophy segment. (Among Mr. Hornstein's students method emphasizing the· participation by Another attorney here is Alan Horn- have been Martha Wyatt, '61, Joseph students had been foreign to his own exstein, associate professor of law at the. Cohen, a tutor, and Alfred Mollin, a former perience. "It's going to be helpful in University of Maryland School of Law in tutor.) - teaching at Providence," he said. St. John's recipe column to start St. John's has a number of great books, but alas for those for whom food provides much thought, it possesses no recipe book. It's time the college had one. To fill this culinary void, The Reporter is beginning work on The St. John 's'Book of 100 Great Recipes, and we invite you to participate. If your recipe is accepted for publication, it will be printed not only in the book but in the new recipe column which starts with this issue of The Reporter. To begin with, we are publishing the Nietzsche Nuss Torte (tutor Elliott Zuckerman's favorite) submitted by one of St. John's finest cooks, Mrs. Jacob Klein. We are asking alumni, students, parents, and friends to send on their recipes. We hope you have your own titles lo offer, but recipes are sought for Machiavelli Minestrone, Mr. Woodhouse's Thin Gruel (see pages of Emma), Eggs including, recipes for Big Enders and Little Enders, and Cleopatra Salad. Before any recipes are published and thus committed to immortality, thev will be kitchen tested by Emily Martin Kutler, '55, and College Nurse Mylander, GI '79. This means that they not only have to be good but great enough to be savored by future generations of readers. Submissions may be sent to: Recipes, St. John's Reporter, Annapolis, Md. 21404. NEITZSCHE NUSS TORTE For the cake: Six eggs, 1 cup of sugar,~ ground nuts. (No flour needed; the ground nuts substitute.) For the filling: Three pints of whipping cream with sugar and vanilla to taste; 1 envelope of unflavored gelatin. For the icing: Two cups confectionery sugar and 1 tablespoon instant coffee dissolved in l;4 cup hot water. · Separate eggs and whip the whites stiff. Add % cup of sugar. Beat the yolks with the rest of the sugar until high and foamy. Add the ground nuts and mix with the stiff egg whites. Put in two round pans and bake one-half hour at 350 degrees. Whip the cream and add sugar and vanilla along with dissolved gelatin. Spread between the two layers of the cake, which should be cold. · Mix the confectionery sugar with the strong coffee, being careful to add the coffee one spoonful at a time until you have a smooth but not too liquid a paste. Heat the mixture to make it sufficiently fluid to pour over tije cake. Decorate with 'almonds or other nuts. ·--·------ I �SEPTEMBER 1981 Page 5 THE REPORTER II I (Continued from Page 1) chairman of the Hodson Trust and chief executive officer of the Beneficial Cor~ poration. In keeping with alumni wishes, the dining room will remain essentially as it has been for generations of St. John's students who have shared meals there since Randall was constructed in 1903. Meanwhile, workmen are rushing toward the completion of the building, for which work began last November. Slightly behind schedule, Randall is expected to be finished this fall when a new ~mite of offices is completed in the area occupied by the old kitchen. Altogether, the renovation is expected to cost $1, 729,000, including $1,034,000 in a basic contract with Charles J. Cirelli & Son, Inc., of Severna Park, and $320,000 in new kitchen equipment. THE CAMPUS Development Comheaded by St. John's tutor Wye !lnt1rn,,ll has worked closely with Amn.aJJ10lis 11"1°''""'~'t"" Elizabeth Saunders in redecorating not only the present dining room but the two private dining rooms that have been added. In making their choices, both Mrs. Saunders and committee members have sought to enhance the architecture of what is considered to be one of the most beautiful rooms in Annapolis and to do nothing to detract from it. "We have trimmed down all accessories to com· pliment the architecture," Mrs. Saunders said. All woodwork and the carved, ornamental plaster will be white, as it originally was, and the walls will be painted sand beige. To prevent the columns from being overly conspicuous, they also are being painted sand beige but a shade lighter. • t • Before his death on August 10, 1976, Edgar T. Higgins was chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of the Beneficial Corporation, of Wilmington, Del., as well as counsel of the Beneficial Managerr,ent Corporrition, of Morristown, N.J. Born in Richmond, Ky., April 3, 1906, he received his bachelor's degree in 1927 from the University of Kentucky and a law degree from the Harvard Law School in 1930. In 1933 he became associated with the Beneficial organization with the title "of counsel" to Beneficial Management Corporation. In that corporation, he held the titles of counsel, vice-president, first vice-president, and chairman of the board. He was a member. of the board of directors of Beneficial Corporation and of its subsidiaries, Speigel. Inc., and Beneficial Management Corporation. He had served as director of Bankers National Life Insurance ·company, of Parsippany, N.J., and of the Palisades Life Insurance Company, of New City, N.Y. At one time Mr. Higgins served as a member of the Common Council of Summit, N.J., that city's governing body. New wooden floors with a medium oak stain have been laid and are being finished to withstand continuous use. Because of the amount of noise, the Campus Development Committee considered it advisable to use acoustical tile on the ceiling. MRS. SAUNDERS AND the committee decided not to use draperies. After considering old-fashioned "sunbursts'' EDGAR HIGGENS Admitted to the bar in both New York and New Jersey, he was a member of the Morris County, New Jersey State, and American Bar Association. He was chairman of the New Jersey College Fund Association and a member of the board of directors and executive committee of the National Consumer Finance Association. and homespun linens, they discovered, removing the old draperies, fhaflhe room looked so fine and that the architectural features were so handsome that draperies appeared superfluous. Instead, Mrs. Saunders said that four lO·fooMall Fiscus Nitida will be placed in central windows on either side of the room. These are topiary trees that will be trimmed to oval sh~pes and bring a u~on 124, a ca-Carr II looks great! (Continued from Page 1) landscape architect, James R. Urban, is attempting to assure as much interior light as possible by planting a deciduous hedge across the front, a large leaf shrub which ho ult receives ra octorate St. John's Provost J. Burchenal Ault has received an honorary degree of doctor of laws from Long Island University, Greenvale, N.Y. Before moving to Santa Fe- in 1970, the Aults lived in Oyster Long Island, and were involved in the development of the C.W. Post College of Long Island University. A Yale University graduate of 1947, Mr. Ault became vice-president of the Santa Fe campus in 1970 and was named provost for both campuses early this year. rnal ent ex "This year we're going to push The Atlantic right off the newsstand," says Nathan Rosen, Potomac, Md., senior and editor of Letters: Prose and Poetry, which contains stories and poems not only by St. Johnnies but by students and faculty members from throughout Maryland, including one by a Naval Academy professor. "We're expanding our page and type size to improve our looks, and the stories get better every issue," he believes. will shed its leaves during dark, wintry days. The single hedge speaks to the sym· metry of this Federal style building, which the restoration has strikingly emphasized. Divide the structure in half, and there is perfect balance: six multi-paned windows across the top, two chimneys (the missing one on the McDowell side has been replaced), two entrances with new, wooden classic Greek revival framing'. Down to the corner drainpipes, it is even-Steven, a reflection of an equable 19th century hand. A count of the bricks doubtlessly would come up with the same number. Paca-Carroll after all was designed for two faculty families, and no politic architect was going to get himself into hot water favoring one over the other. Both the old structure and the new addition will be dedicated by President Delattre at 4 p.m. Friday, September 4, just before the opening of the new academic year when Paca-Carroll will be occupied by 49 students. The reception will take place in the new brick courtyard, located in the Ushape formed by both buildings. On hand to cut a ribbon across the doorway leading to the dormitory's common room will be President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle, during whose tenure money for the $1,136,000 project was raised. Along with members of the college community, the dedication will draw donors, architects, and others closely associated with PacaCarroll. ROBERT G. HAMMOND, of Annapolis, was· the. architect, for the new addition. Chunky and clean-cut in style, it makes no attempt. to imitate tpe old m I I r r • building but rather, as a contemporary structure, to blend quietly in as a younger child might with its parent. Dormitory rooms will be similar in both buildings. Beige hallways will be accented by bright red light fixtures in the new addition and by bright blue in the old. The common room with its tile flooring · will have a mantlepiece of grey marble retrieved after the old dormitory was gutted. It will be the only working fireplace at Paca-Carroll. Others have been closed as fire hazards. Furniture and stair railings are in oak. Upholstery in the common room will be in neutral greys and brick reds. Students will be segregated on dormitory floors by sex. It will be the women, however, who will have the initial adventure of occupying the "loft rooms" on the second floor of the new wing. These are double rooms with lofts built under the high sloping ceilings where one of the occupants must run up 15-step ladders to reach her bed and desk under the eaves. Altogether there will be 22 single rooms and 12 doubles. Upstairs on the fourth floor of the old structure, which ghosts are rumored to haunt, there will be a double and triple room to be occupied by five men. IN LANDSCAPING Paca-Carroll, Mr. Urban has made a large Washington hawthorne, which blooms white in late May, the focal point of the courtyard and placed it in a raised bed of azalea. The walls of the bed and walls rimming the court will double for outside seating. suggestion of a formal garden. The two magnificent, blue and beige, framed Chinese hangings opposite the fireplace will remain in their present positions. The original light fixtures have been removed for repolishing and to have their candle fixtures replaced and are being hung lower on the chain. Tables of the present walnut furniture, which will continue in use, have been refinished with formica tops. In contrast with the cool beiges of the main dining room, the two private dining rooms, which can be combined into one larger room, are being painted a lacquer red with the woodwork in cream. Two oriental rugs in which the same shade of red predominates are being laid on the floor while the draperies will be cream with lacquer red trim and colonial cornices. THE separated ·by wooden folding doors painted to blend with the walls, will be furnished with four large, handsome tables in walnut. Altogether the two rooms can seat 32 persons. Chairs will be like those in the large dining room. Traditional candelabra lights will be used along with recessed ceiling lighting. The room's old serving area has been converted to supplementary dining purposes. Decorated to suggest a colonial feeling, its pine furniture stained dark will include booths upholstered in lacquer red. Walls will be covered with a washable, vinyl burlap in beige. Outside, on the new terrace constructed overlooking the back campus and linked to the dining room, the furniture will be of contemporary redwood style to blend with the bricks. There will be a new entrance with a ramp for the handicapped on the College Avenue side of Randall. The old entrance to the dining room· now will serve the upstairs dormitory rooms. The hallway there will become a seating area linked to the upper level common room with flag blue carpets. The upstairs room will be done in blue and green and the downstairs in blue and cranberry. The downstairs room also will have a Fiscus Nitida like that of the dining room. Two seatings, each preceded by a champagne reception, are planned for the Caritas feast in the redecorated room. The first will be at 6 p.m. with dinner at 6:30 and the second at 7:30 p.m. with dinner at ·8. The scholarship donation will be $20 a person. J>ersons wishing to attend should make out checks to the Caritas Society and send them to Mrs. John Hunt, 156 Prince George St., Annapolis 21401, whether they prefer a first or second seating. IS Reorganization of the Alumni Association again will claim primary attention at business meetings of the association during homecomings simultaneously held on both campuses Friday and Saturday, Sept. 25-26. In Annapolis it will be marked by the first Edward B. Cochran Memorial Lecture, honoring the late member of the Class of 1944, by Daniel O'N. Vona, '67, and by the unveiling of the Barr-Buchanan portraits in the Great Hall. Seminars on the Book of Job will be led by J. Winfree Smith and Samuel S. Kutler. In Santa Fe, alumni will hear a talk by Seth Cropsey, SF '72, following dinner on Saturday. Topic for the alumni seminar, led by William A. Darkey, will. be Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner. · · �Pag~ . ~ 6 REPO R SEPtEMBER 1981 I ttr t 11 r The followimz I in the Arundel Sun section of The .o•uumu1 Sun. Edwin J. Delattre, appointed president of St. John's College last yeair, gained national attention this month for his support of President Reagan's budget cuts in education. Urged by many educational assocl.ations and professional colleagues to oppose the federal reductions in Basic Educational Opportunity Grants, he defended the president's goal of curbing inflation - which in Dr. Delattre's eyes is a key threat to American colleges and their students' ability to pay for them. He called instead for greater coopera· tion among colleges, banks and corporations in guaranteering student loans, whose high interest rates already have soared out of reach for many lower-income families. In a telephone interview last week from St. John's second campus in Santa Fe, N.M., Dr. Delattre explained his controversial opinions to Arundel Sun reporter Stuart Low. Qmesti.on: One of concern over the main reasons for not opposing the president's cuts was of inflation for higher education. To what extent do you see infla- tion liberal arts institutions like St. John's? Answer: There's no question that inflation has already impaired the ability of families to pay for the education of their children. In inflationary times like these, it's very dif~ ficult for colleges to be fair and responsive to their own personnel: their staff and their faculty. For most of the institutions I'm familiar with, the cost of education is con" sider ably greater than the price that is charged (to the students). As I said in The Wall Street Journal, there's no way in the world independent higher education can bear both inflation and significant federal cuts to education at the same time. So it's just crucial that those who are making the decisions about the cuts - and the way, I don't support all the cuts-have pretty substantiatevidence that they're going to make inroads into inflation. I am in correspondance with the Department of Education · about criteria for eligibility in questions of needs analysis when the cuts come. What does St. John's College to do this year to cope with inflation? A: I will be going to the finance committee of our Board of Visitors and Governors in October with a set of recommendations for ways in which St. John's can help to serve the interests of its own students and of students yet to come. I hope to have steps in progress toward the cooperation of lending institutions with the college and toward the expansion of the endowment. Certainly by the time students are applying for financial aid in the spring of 1982, we want to be able to ten them what kinds of financial resources can be brought to bear in their behalf in September of 1982. Nobody can afford just to sit back. Q: You have suggested three ways in which colleges might help students from lowerincome families obtain financial aid: having universities guarantee bank loans; establishing a "cooperative relationship" among students, colleges and banks: and encouraging corporations to help guarantee student loans. What would be the practical advantage to banks or corporations to get involved? Summer freshmen threw a "Febutcmt Party" with tutor John Sarkissian doing the introductions. With him in the Dorsey Gardens is Philip Clark. Christine Rutkowski and Mark Pothier helped carry out the dress scheme for Febbies, which was white. To.dd Reichart photo Introducing the board itchell is former chancell r Maurice B. Mitchell, a Colorado publisher who resides in Santa Barbara, Calif., brings to the Board of Visitors and Governors impressive credentials in education, broadcasting, and In publishing. · He is chairman and co-founder of Westview Press, a scholarly publishing house in Boulder, Colo., chairman of the Board of Directors of National Public Radio in Washington, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of International Education in New York, although currently on leave from the chairmanship, and chairman and cofounder of the Pacific Basin Institute in Santa Barbara. In California he is chairman of the Task Force on Education Technology for the State Department of Education and chairman of the California Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. · Mr. Mitchell served as chancellor of the University of Denver from 1967-78 and as president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions of Santa Barbara from 1978-79. In addition, he has been president of the Encyclopaedi.a Britannica, president of the Encyclopedia's Britannica Films, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, and chairman of the Denver branch board. He was a member of the U.S. Commission on Rightsfrom 1968to1974 .. A: The practical advantage to banks is that they would have a straightforward working relationship with a responsible individual at a college, and that they would be freed from the paper work: There are some banks in our area who just don't want to get involved because of all the federal paper work and record-keeping. Having an administrative structure where the bank can deal directly without any red tape, having students know exactly where their obligations are and having colleges take a risk with respect to the student are all inducements. With respect to corporations, it seemed to me this might be a timely moment to suggest that they consider in their guidelines either annual funds for scholarships, annual funds for loans or endowment funds for scholarships. That might help pick up some of the slack that the cuts are likely to create. Many lower-income families, rather than incur debt through high-interest education loans, might simply choose less expensive schools. Couldn't this place a strain on state or community colleges such as Anne Arundel Community College, who are likewise being hit by budget cuts? A: As you know, every year since 1977 more than 50 percent of the entering freshmen in America have entered two-year colleges. You have tremendous growth in that portion of American higher education. It might become very difficult for the taxpayers if independent higher education is not used, and if closer-to-home, less expensive institutions came to be flooded. What you would be witnessing is a real reduction in the diversity of American education, and that's a terrible risk for a pluralistic country to run. sacrifices for their children's education, demand to see a marketable skill at the end of four In other words, stress and remunerative skills at the expense of a liberal arts as offered at St. John's? A: I disagree with that notion of "practical." When I think of careers, I think in terms of life-long employment. I think a lot more about preparation than specific entry-level positions. Of course, that tendency toward viewing education as worthwhile primarily because it has short-range economic utility is very popular in this country - always has been. I'm not disdainful of that view. But to suppose that's all education is, even in the short run, MAURICE B. MITCHELL seems to take a pretty dim view of the aspirations and promise of each generation of the Until recently a member of the Board · young as they grow into the time when they will take responsibility for the world. of Editors of the Encycfopaedia BritanYou're not going to have much in the way of federal policy, or a conception of citizennica, Mr. Mitchell currently is a member ship in the country as a whole. You would be likely to promote the growth of a country of the Annenberg Task Force of the Cor- where most people are very much divorced from significant parts of the mainstream of poration for Public Broadcasting. decision-making about where their country will go. He has been recognized in various If I could become scholarly for just a moment, John Stuart Mill said at his commenceways. Honorary doctorates have come ment address at St. Andrews (Scotland) in the 1860s: "Men are men before they are from the University of Denver, West lawyers or doctors or engineers." There's a lot more to being a competent human being Virginia Wesleyan University, the than having a particular fr ade skill. National College of Education, and And if we lose sight of that, not only education but the whole quality of life in this counColorado State University. will suffer: · · ' · �SEPTEM.BER 1981 THE REPORTER ·pqg~ 7 More alumni notes ... (Continued from P. 3) 1 work - considerable, apparently - and his work as a pest control consultant devoted to non-pesticide ways of controlling insects which plague the farmers of New Mexico. Richard S. Westfall'sNever at Rest: A Biography of Newton, newly published by the Cambridge University Press, in a chapter dealing with Newton's discoveries in mathematics duri!lg the years 1664-1666, praises the contribution of two St. John's n Fe--1 1 graduates. "I revised this chapter," Mr. George Brown, ·Jr., received his · Westfall writes, "after spending much M.B.A. in finance from the University of time with two students, George Anastaplo Colorado in May, 1980. He currently is and Richard Ferrier, '69, on Volume 1 of applying to be a commissioned officer in W_hiteside's edition (The Mathematica) the U.S. Navy. Papers Isaac Newton). I owe many points in what follows to their insights, which they worked out with extraordinary tenacity.'' Harvard University has awarded a Alan Rutenberg, with a 1976 B.A. from Frank Knox Traveling Fellowship for 1981Brown, is a second year, law student at the 82 to Joanne Aitkin. Joanne, who received University of Chicago. Last year Alan her master's degree in architecture from received an M.A. degree in humanities Harvard on June 4, will use this prestigious fellowship to travel in from the University of Chicago Committee on General Studies. England, Scotland, and Wales, studying 19th century British bridge building. Pamela W. Hart and Matthew T. n Mallory were married on June 20 in In July Dan Dabney was in Denver to Ridgefield, Conn. Pamela is an assistant technical director with Source., a participate in the National Dart ChamWashington, D.C., theater group, while pionship (outcome unknown) and is Matt is a civilian budget and management ·developing an automated system of analyst for the Naval Sea Systems Com- scheduling dart contests. mand in Washington. 1 1 n 1 -1 Rachel is now Mrs. McCaleb; her husband's first name is not known to us. Isobel Wertheimer has married and is now Mrs. Czech. 1 77 Pearl, M.D., is on the staff of State Hospital, Sykesville, c~~•nrrf;,...Jrl At age 25 Brad Davidson has become one of Annapolis's fathers. Brad scored a stunning upset over three A note from the tir1~nu1gstalJls, and S74 announces the their child and son, Han, as well as informing us that Galen has finished his in pediatrics at the n,...;"""'";t.r of Minnesota Hospitals, and is a three-year fellowship in ,..,...,,:i; .• t.,..;,.. neurology at the University of note also called our atof a book bv entitled Changing States The ·book has apparently been published in Israel and England as well as in this country. Barbara is married to a musician, makes her home in and was a candidate for the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, on the socialists' list. Constance McClellan writes that she was ordained as a Presbyterian minister 11, 1981. She earned a degree of from Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1978 and then two years on housing issues for and elderly. She is now.the woman pastor for Maumee Valley u ... ""J""'t.o"" in Northwest Ohio. Warren Buckles was graduated in mechanical engineering from the Jniversity of Wisconsin in 1977. He now serves as staff engineer for the University's Solar Energy Lab, has been involved in building and programming computers, and published a paper on solar water heaters in the Solar Energy Journal. Warren will return to school this fall to work toward an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering. He is married to the former Rakower June 1977, and the has two Avi and challen.e;ers for the _ with rt11uapumi paper described as "eye-popping" ·results. Later he defeated formidable Republican and rno1ep1~naem of the Democrats of Anne Arundel door~to-door cam-· he made "overof the Eastport area and soending the principal issues of his A Brad is with Merrm · Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith in Annapolis. Ted Burke visited the Santa Fe campus in early August, en route to a new assignment with Navy air in Norfolk, Va. Lois Ekler Day tells us that husband '71, is c_urrently a product supervisor-manager at Boeing Compyt~r Ser~- vices. He is within a few months of earning his private pilot's wings, plays soccer with a local amateur team, and is doing some writing. Son, Christopher, almost 2, and her own writing and tutoring in New Testament Greek, as well as doing an occasional book .review, keep Lois moderately busy. Tom looks forward to Christopher's graduation from St. John's with the class of 2001. Chela Weiler Kleiber writes that she has earned a master's degree in South Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania; among her studies were Sanskrit, Bangali, and Indian music. During the past year she worked for a Wall Street discount brokerage house. Husband Greg will attend Yale Law School this fall so the Kleibers have moved to New Haven. 1 n Susan Weaver is now at the University of Illinois studying comparative literature ·and working as a teaching assistant. Before entering Illinois, she lived in France and studied the French language and literature. 1 Review at the University of New Mexico this fall. 1 Annapolis tutor Harry Golding passes along the information that Charlie and Sheep Jones have been joined by Jules Buck Jones, born May 27, at 7 bls. 12 oz. All are reported doing well. In 1979 Maggie Miller married Robert Caverly. This past May she received a master's degree in social work from the University of Maryland and now works at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, in the Hospice-Home Care program, concerned with the terminally ill. Her husband is a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins. Deana Tosheff is a researcher for Radio Free Europe; friends can reach her at Jakob-Klar St. - lA, Apt. 9, 8000 Munchen 40, West Germany. 1 81 All the versatility of a St. John's graduate will be required by Buffie (Elizabeth) Bowser, who has begun 8 Jill Potkalitsky and Russell Dahlburg, '77, were married in April. Both have earned master of science degrees in physics from the College of William and Mary and are working there on doctorates in plasma physics. They would like to hear from St. Johnnies in the area; the address is 1372-B Mt. Vernon Avenue, Williamsburg, Va. 23185. We hear from Grant Franks, '77, that Julia Van der Veur is now living in Berkeley, Cal., at the Integral Urban House and will begin working part-time in at the Berkeley Free Clinic. SP /4 Scott Arcand has completed the Forces Qualification Course and is stationed at Ft. Bragg, N.C., as part of the 5th Forces Group. Scott is an """"'i"L<un medical specialist assigned to a Forces team, where he shares respm1sUJlllty for the medical fitness of the team members. Apparently his medical training has whetted his interest: Scott to enter medical school after his Armv service. He asked that we address as well as word that he anxious to obtain copies of each of the 1978 class - the official one and Harbor Queen. So he can be the one on rP:l<"hr.rl as follows: SP /4 Scott A. 358-52-9607, A-3-5 SFG(A), Ft. Bragg N.C. 28307. ' Todd Reichart photo Elizabeth Burch is now Elizabeth A. physics and to Michel. 8th graders, and American history Michael Ciba writes that Phil .,.""""""'"'~nt to 6th graders, at a small, Jemielita and Kim Severson were married school - the Riverside in on Jun 27. Bob School - just outside as well as Michael and '80, Oklahoma City. were in attendance. "At the momr.nt T'm wolfine: down on classroom technique and wondering what the kids will be like," Buffie wrote i_I). mid-summer. "It is the perfect Martha will be a- third year though I anticipate the busiest year of law student as well as the editor of the Law my life." �Published by College Relations Office St. John's College Annapolis, Md. 21404 r s s Thomas Parran, who has headed the alumni program on the Annapolis campus since 1962, is resigning as alumni director and director of college relations to fill the newly created position of director of St. ·John's publications. At his own request, Mr. Parran, who had a heart pacer installed during surgery in 1980, will be associated with the college on approximately a half time basis in order to tpursue interests away from the college. He will continue as alumni director until January 1. The change in position was announced by President Delattre along with the ap- ANN CRUSE pointment of an alumna, Ann Cruse, as the new director of development for the Annapolis campus. Mrs. Cruse, a development officer since September, 1979, assumed her expanded duties on July 1. She will be responsible for St. John's annual campaigns as well as for working with foundations and corporations in seeking funds in support of the college. In addition, she will assist alumni in their annual fundraising efforts and continue to work closely with the Friends of St. John's._ IN MAKING THE appointments, Mr. Delattre announced that the Office of College Relations, an umbrella organization covering a number of associated college functions, is being dissolved. Both Mrs. Cruse and Mr. Parr an will work closely with Provost J. Burchenal Ault in carrying out their duties. The reorganization also will mean that Ingrid Miller, college relations secretary, now will become assistant for records and research in the Development Office. In his new capacity, Mr. Parran will have particular responsibilities for the t college magazine, the St. John's Review, of which he is managing editor, and other publication matters. He also will oversee the St. John's pri11tst1op. Mr. Parran was named assistant to the president in February, 1962. In December of that year he assumed additional duties as alumni secretary, and in 1966 he became director of alumni activities. For an interval, from 1964 to 1968, he served as well as director of publicity. In October, 1978, he was made director of college relations. Mr. Parran matriculated at St. John's in 1938 but, after completing three years, left to serve 17 years with the Marine Corps. He returned as a lieutenant colonel assigned to St. John's on a duty basis to complete his education. After finishing his senior year, he received his degree in 1959. MRS. CRUSE came to St. John's in 1972 after a year at Mt. Holyoke At the end of her freshman year, she marry a senior, Bryant Cruse, a former Navy pilot and now an aeronautical engineer with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Mrs. Cruse completed an undergraduate degree in marketing at the University of West Florida in 1976 and her master's in liberal studies at Georgetown University in May of this year. From 1975 to 1977 she taught business courses at St. Mary's Academy in Southern Maryland and, on a part-time basis, in 1977-78 accounting and marketing at Prince Georges Community College in Maryland. From 1978 to 1979 she served as a production analyst for the Fedders Corporation at Edison, N.J. . . umnm 1 t no r n The Annapolis campus is seeking a new alumni director to assume duties January 1. Interested persons should apply directly to President Edwin J. Delattre: St. John's College, Arnapolis, Md. 21401. n ral n· Two St. John's College seniors are attending school this year as recipients of a grant made available the Crown Central Petroleum Corporation, of Baltimore. They are Helen Conlon, of Silver Spring, and Robert McDonough, of Bayonne, N.J. Over a two-year period St. John's will receive $6,250 from the corporation as scholarship aid for students of exceptional The money is der. Betty Lilienthal photo MARGARET TWYMAN If a survey of students were taken to indicate, in order of importance, who the real VIP's on the Santa Fe 1,;a11HH1o:i on the list would be those u101nr1t>,r-.n1,pn women who serve meals three times daily. On the western campus there is seldom a complaint to be heard because the variety, tastefulness and attractiveness of the meals meets the highest of standards any measure. Since 1979, the team of Ch1nander, food service director, and Delmo Archuleta, chef supervisor, have combined their talents to serve the tastes and hearty appetites oJ the students and staff. They are the employees of SAGA Corporation, the company under contract to manage the food service. Wayne Chinander L:i a graduate of Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, with majors in English, sociology and philosophy. He continues to study as an active enrollee in the Graduate Institute. Mr. Chinander has been involved in college food services since 1971 and claims he finds it creative and most rewarding "especially when students take the time to compliment me on one of special dishes or menus." His special training in food services was under the tutelage of SAGA Corporation, with formal Michigan. He also attends training sessions so he is on in new techniques, menus, and food Barbara, is an author of children's books, and while she writes, paints. He showed some of his canvas artistry in a art gallery show last year. Together collect art when time and budgets allow, travel far and wide. When asked about student Chinander love food ... , , . but C"l.J'CLi<lll ~ enchiladas and several outdoor cookouts we offer them each year ,are total sell-outs •. too!'' Delmo Archuleta is a native New Mexican who graduated from Pojoaque School with a in culinary arts. to comine: John's College he worked for 13 years Lodge. While there work under the tu chefs from here and But he says he at St. John's,because he likes around the students, with them; and I also like being with people who are emnloved here ... it's a pleasure to be , "Being here" for Delmo Archuleta means being on the staff of St. John's College in Santa Fe for fourteen years! In his spare time, he and his wife, Isabel, collect antiques together, and Delmo hikes and fishes at every nnnn ..tnnlt A lot of high school juniors across the country have been learning directly about St. John's College. John Christensen, admissions director of the Annapolis campus, reports that 110,000 mailers were sent college-bound students from both campuses earlier this year informing them about St. John's, and the response has been good. In Annapolis, between and June 25, some 5,800 students indicated they were interested in hearing more about the college. Biggest day was May 11, when the Admissions Office received 563 responses. During the spring most days averaged 200. Mailed to students on the basis of PSAT scores and other criteria, the mailer is a revised version of the one used for teachers several years, "The will return to St. John's next year." Mr. Christensen does not know to what to attribute the surge in interest other than the fact that this year's mailing started three weeks earlier, soon after students had received their PSAT results. Put out as a joint mailing with the Santa Fe campus, the mailer has resulted in an unusually high number of inquiries from west of the Christensen said. I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available College 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/9219c9c1b58738d8bde271f575123dc5.pdf d55f7b1eee23f142cd185b8705829e7b PDF Text Text ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY \Ill IIllIll II\\I l~~lijrn!1111r11m11 \~Il IIIll111 31696 01138 0753 The St. John's Santa Fe, N .M. PEGGY DRISCOLL DIES IN TRAGIC ACCIDENT Margaret Weyerhaeuser Driscoll (Mrs. Walter B.), former Chairman of the Board. of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College, was killed in an automobile accident near Santa Fe on Thursday, June 11, 1981. Peggy was born in Cloquet, Minnesota. She has been a resident of Santa Fe since 1963. Her husband is deceased. Two sons, Walter John and Rudolph W. and their families, survive. She received her B.A. degree from Vassar College in 1923, and since that time has been the recipient of three Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees, from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota; The College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, N.M.; and The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Peggy Driscoll's life has been devoted to many worthy causes covering a broad spectrum of interests. She has served on the Boards of Christian Education, Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A.; Church Women United; Christian Ministry in the National Parks; Child Welfare League; Macalester College; National Association School Social Workers; United Presbyterian Foundation; Medical Services of the Southwest; Medical Center (Albuquerque); Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival; Santa Fe Preparatory School; The School of American Research; The National Ghost Ranch Foundation; The Museum of New Mexico Foundation; The Santa Fe Opera; The Opera Foundation; and others. She served on the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College from 1965 to 1969, and as its Chairman from 1969 to 1971. Her life of service reflected her warm heart, high intelligence, and dedication to humanity. Her friends are legion, everywhere. Provost J. Burchenal Ault said of Peggy, "It is impossible to imagine this community and this College without Peggy Driscoll. She gave so much of herself to everything she touched. There was never a time in my experience when Peggy was asked to help, usually to lead, some worthwhile endeavor that she did not respond with enthusiasm and total involvement. Her warmth, her fine mind and her profoundly thoughtful judgments combined always to get a job done well, no matter how difficult, and to make friends along the way. There is just no way to measure how much we have lost in Santa Fe by her passing. Yet how much also has she left us by way of in- June,1981 JOHN JEFFERSON WATKINS, JR. A WARDED SIL VER MEDAL The Board of Visitors and Governors awards a silver medal each year to the Senior with the highest academic record. This year's winner was John Jefferson Watkins, Jr. of Mt. Ida, Arkansas. Watkins, a graduate of the Air Force Academy on June 5, 1968, has been an outstanding leader at St. John's College. As a Junior he received the Duane L. Peterson Scholarship of $1,250 for academic achievement, constructive membership in the College community, and commitment to graduate study. In addition he received a St. John's College Community Scholarship in recognition of financial need, academic achievement and constructive service to the college community, provided by faculty, staff and students. Other seniors receiving special recognition were: Hazen Hammel, Clarks Summit, Pa., the Senator Millard E. Tydings Memorial Prize of $50 for excellence in Public Speaking, and also the Richard D. Weigle Prize of $100 for the Senior who has written the best Senior essay; Paul Cheney, Santa Fe, one of three Thorne Endowment Scholarships for summer study in preparation for medicine; Lisa Lashley, San Marino, Ca., an award of $75 in acknowledgment of excellence for her translation from the Greek of the first chorus of the "Antigone"; Joseph Sidney Moore, Newport Beach, Ca., a plaque for Outstanding Performance in Athletics; Michael Earl Urena, Alta Loma, Ca., a plaque for Outstanding Contributions in All Student Activities; Gina Ironside, King of Prussia, Pa., a plaque for Outstanding Contributions in All Student Activities; Barbara Obata, Mill Ca., The Walter S. Baird Prize in honor of President Emeritus Richard D. Weigle, awarded to the senior on each campus who has demonstrated achievement in the arts, literature, or sciences. Other Awards and Prizes presented by President Delattre were: -Thome Endowment Scholarships for summer study in preparation for medicine to Joshua McDavid, Eden, N.C., and Michele Dace, Ventura, Ca. To a Junior for academic achievement, constructive membership in the College Community and commitment to post-graduate study, the Duane L. Peterson Scholarship of $1,250, Bradley Wronski, Redwing, Mn.; To a member of the Junior or Sophomore Classes for len.dership ability, The Bromwell Ault Memorial Scholarship. A prize of $50 accompanies each scholarship: Stephen Acciani, Chatham, ,N.Y., Michael Gadberry, Wichita Falls, Tx., Virginia Tierney, Santa Fe, and Mark Bartlett, Waterville, Me.; To members of the Junior, Sophomore, and Freshman Classes in recognition of financial need, academic achievement and constructive service to the College community, The St. John's College Community Scholarships provided by faculty, staff and students: Elizabeth Povenelli, Shreveport, La., Jan Swanke, Arcade, N. Y.; To a student in recognition of academic achievement and of talent in the writing of poetry, The Henry M. Austin Scholarship of $450: Christopher Carsten, Del Mar, Ca. Continued on page 11. Commencement on the Santa Fe campus was held on Sunday, May 24, at 3:00 o'clock under sunny skies. President Edwin Delattre gave the Commencement address and bestowed Bachelor of Arts degrees on 36 seniors and Master of Arts degrees on 6 who completed study in the Graudate Institute. He was assisted by J. Burchenal Ault, Provost, and Robert S. Bart, Dean. Four other seniors will receive degrees conditional upon completing requirements. Prior to Commencement, at noon, the Baccalaureate service was held at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith, with Michael Ossorgin, Tutor, as speaker. A reception for graduates, parents, guests and the college community was held in Peterson Student Center immediately following the Commencement exercises. Delattre spoke to an audience of some 300 people on the subject "Ambition and the World". In his remarks he reminded the graduates of the reality of their lives up to the point of their Commencement. "The world is not something out there, estranged from you and from the college. The world includes the college, and you, and all that you have made of yourselves to this point in your lives. It includes your strengths and weaknesses and the habits you have made your own these past several years. There is not any world out there which is more real than the parts of the world you already live in-at home, at school, and at work. On this, your Commencement, you are not about to enter the real world, precisely because you have been in the real world all along. It is the only world there is, and you will not find it utterly unfamiliar to you." Delattre continued by describing the extremes which exist in the world around us, adding, "I expect that all this sounds familiar. It ought to, because the world writ small is not so different from the world writ large, and educational institutions like St. John's, and the bosoms of families can do only so much to insulate the young from the harsher extremes of the world. They can postpone the time when each generation of human beings must take the responsibility for the world in its turn, in order that the young may learn to take responsibility for themselves. But they cannot often deny or conceal the most elemental features of the human condition-specifically, what people are like or the fact that our individual and combined powers of mind, body, and will are limited, or that there are for most people obstacles to human fulfillment and for many, wonderful challenges and opportunities." The President holds high hopes for the future of the graduates, and in listing his most fervent hopes, including the characteristic of ambition, he stated, "I hope that your experience at St. John's has contributed solidly to sound habits of reflection and decision for you. "My most earnest hopes for you go far beyond this, though, and I will take a moment to describe them because they help to explain why the rest of my thoughts today center on ambition. I hope that your years at St. John's have been challenging and that they will be memorable, that they will encourage you to be active members of this community for the rest of your lives. I also hope that as you mature through more experience in living generally, your lives will become progressively richer, and that you will continue to have reason to look to the past with fondness and respect. Like any teacher who takes the young seriously, I hope that you will outlive us, that your opportunities for happiness will be abundant, and that you will be deserving of them. Continued on page 12. �Page2 THE REPORTER JUNE 1981 ~Liunni ~citivi-ry CHICAGO Alumni visiting Chicago and happening to tour the impresSionist collection at the Chicago Art Institute on the evening of May 28, might have noticed familiar faces; certainly, the drift of the group's conversation would have been familiar. They were members of the Chicago alumni seminar, gathering to look at paintings by Cezanne. Later that evening, they walked over to a conference room a few blocks away to begin the May seminar on Meyer Shapiro's Apples of Cezanne, An Essay on the Meaning of Still Life. The arts of discourse have flourished formally and regularly among Chicago area alumni since February, 1976. During these five years, forty seminars have been held, and more than eighty alumni have, at some time, participated. Furthermore, some forty St. Johnnies maintain a continuing interest in knowing about each event. Tutors from both campuses have been invited to join in the discussions. Indeed, on nineteen occasions, these evenings have been led by visiting tutors. These statistical remarks pay tribute to one of the college's most enduring and active alumni groups. Chris Nelson, SF '70, the group's spokesman, secretary, and general manager, said recently that only the bad Chicago winter weather or summer vacations have ever seriously hindered attendance. He commented that between ten and twenty-two participants have arrived, month after month, to enjoy the company and the good conversation. He noted that the nucleus has changed over the years, but always has been solid. Chris complimented his fellows on their active participation, on their willingness to suggest texts and to lead discussions. Also, he pointed out that the alumni of Chicago are by no means exclusive: they like to invite others with an interest in dialectics. Participants have included current students on vacation, parents of students, prospective students, and children of alumni. Also, he pointed out that the regulars are a good blend of alumni from both campuses, and are both undergraduate and Graduate Institute alumni. What is next? Probably a big event, San Francisco-style, with a Tutor invited to lecture on an assigned text, and refreshments provided. Probably a theme for several seminars and lectures. Is the future bright? Well, so many alumni called to say they were coming to the Cezanne seminar that Chris Nelson had to find a larger meeting place. The seminar, large by undergraduate standards, nevertheless supported several successful lines of thought, as alumni responded to Bob Neidorf's questions about the nature of Oedipus' crimes, and his stature as a great man. By the time the evening had ended, there was a general sentiment in favor of keeping the group active and carrying on a program of seminars and social gatherings. Becky Brinkley-Connelly, along with Karen Gasser, GI'78, and Don Koontz A'51, agreed to make plans for a second event. As a result, the group gathered for a discussion of T.S. Elliot's Four Quartets on the evening of May 15 on the campus of the University of Denver. Difficult as Eliot's work is, those present reported that they enjoyed the evening and had found the con-· versation good. Plans are now underway for a full season of activities. PORTLAND An article in The Reporter early in 1980, mentioning that a number of alumni lived in and around Portland led Catherine Carroll, SF '70, to write the Santa Fe alumni office saying that she, too, lived there, and wanted to get together with others. Out of that article and her letter grew the nucleus of the current Portland seminar group. Late that summer, Cathy wrote to all known alumni in the area, inviting them to a seminar meeting and to consider meeting regularly to read and discuss good books. Inger'Aariias, SF '76, Herb Riely, A '58, along with Christina Pierce and David MacLaine SF '74, became actively involved at the beginning, and have remained as the group's mainstays ever since. Neither the ash of Mt. St. Helen's nor the damp and rainly climate has interferect with the Portland group's regular schedule. Furthermore, a listing of readings shows that those who have joined in have enjoyed a rather impressive year of subject matter: Troilus and Cressida Ajax Lysistrata The Acharnians The Trojan Women Iphigenia in A ulis Major Barbara Enemey of the People Utopia The Golden Bough Language and Myth J.B. The Kreutzer Sonata The Slave Free Fall DENVER Theory of the Leisure Class David Mac Laine and his wife, Christina Some thirty Denver area alumni, along with spouses and friends, gathered at the Pierce, have taken much responsibility for Denver Athletic Club on the evening of suggesting titles and leading the discussions. Christina, in a recent letter to the alumni April IO for informal conversation, refresments, and the chance to discuss office in Santa Fe, states eloquently how Oedipus Rex. Santa Fe campus tutor strong and rewarding an alumni seminar Robert Neidorf was present to lead the group can become: "We are beginning to have the kind seminar. of discussions' one hopes for: Greeted by hosts Rebecca Brinkleypenetrating questions regarding Connelly, SF'72, and her husband Darrel, specific issues raised by a text and arriving alumni from both campuses, ease in talking over these issues, representing classes from 1944 · through associating prior reading, etc. The 1980, quickly made or renewed acquaintances. They spent the first hour of the novels have been the key to this turn of events." evening in lively exchanges of recollections and college lore while enjoying the wine, She adds that an alumni party is being cheeses, fresh fruits, and pastries provided planned early in the summertime. She by the hosts. All who knew Bob Neidorf hopes to bring together most of the St. were extremely pleased to see him again, · Johnnies living in the area for a pleasant and he found himself the center of much at- gathering, but also to consider the group's tention throughout the evening. future. SAN FRANCISCO What is next? Well, Ross thinks it is about time for another party, and plans are being made for what might become an annual event in Seattle. Bay area alumni, many of whom are from the Santa Fe campus, have finished their second season of events with a party and a third Friday evening lecture on the theme of the place of the alumni in the colBOSTON, PHILADELPHIA lege community. Charles A. Nelson, class NEW YORK CITY of 1945, and current chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors, flew out. from April was an active month for alumni of New York to speak at the June 6 gathering St. John's College in three major Eastern held at the St. Francis Yacht Club. The cities. Mid-month events in Boston, event was described as a celebration, markPhiladelphia and New York brought ing the success of a year of growth and together scores of alumni from 1both camactivity. puses for evenings of fellowship and conMr. Nelson to.ok as his text the Address versation. These three meetings were atof Francis Scott Key at the commencement tended by 1. Burchenal Ault, Provost, and of St. John's College, February 22, 1827. It Sam Larcombe, Director of Alumni Relawas Key· who founded the original alumni tions for the Santa Fe campus. group, and current alumni were asked to Foreign affairs writer and consultant Bill 1 read his speech in advance of the June Brubeck, A '44, graciously made arrangeprogram. ments for Boston area alumni to meet at the The sizable crowd of alumni present enPhillips Brooks House at Harvard Universijoyed a leisurely evening of conversation ty for wine, cheese, and a seminar on The highlighted by an elegant buffet provided Prelude by William Wordsworth. Leo by the Bay Area Alumni Group. The Radista, Annapolis tutor and editor of the Group's steering committee, chaired by St. John's Review, had chosen the reading, Harrison Sheppard, has worked steadily during the past year to organize programs · and travelled up to guide the discussion. Joining the group were Santa Fe campus of interest to St. Johnnies, and to lay the graduates Zida Kazemi '68, Deidre foundation for alumni service to the colMarlowe '73, Glen Barrentine '80, and lege. Sheppard, who joins the Board of Laura Davidson '80 who was visiting from Visitors and Governors at its July meeting Silver Spring, Maryland. Following in Santa Fe, reports that plans will be made refreshments and conversation in the this summer for the group's third season. Phillips Brooks wood-panelled common Sheppard also reported news of the forroom, the group turned to the text at hand, mation of smaller alumni seminar groups in and spent the balance of the evening in keen San Francisco and Berkeley. The groups discussion of the autobiography of the have met twice already, reading the poet, a difficult reading, but one that yieldApology of Plato in April, and his dialogue ed much of its substance that evening to Charmides in May. Meetings of the San those who were there. Francisco group throughout the summer President Edwih Delattre spoke to enwill discuss The Gorgias; selections of thusiastic groups of St. Johnnies in Artistotle's Ethics; Hegel's Lordship and Philadelphia and New York City, sharing Bondage; Heisenberg's Physics and Phiwith them· his thoughts on the college and losophy, and possibly a work by Gertrude liberal learning in the 1980's. In Stein. Philadelphia, Edward Millinix, A '45, and his wife served as hosts for the evening, SEATTLE providing a meeting room at the new Plaza Hotel, and furnishing wine, cheeses, and Last July, in order "to meet kindred fresh fruit. Mark Bernstein '69, and souls out here in the wilderness,'' alumni in Michael Mongeau '73, both of whom had the greater Seattle area gathered with spouses at the home of John Ross, A '69, studied at the Santa Fe campus, were for food, drinks and fellowship. That party among the alumni present. The Philadelphia meeting marked the first time led to the formation of a small seminar group, which, nearly a year later, still meets that alumni there had gathered in several monthly. years, but the size and high spirits of the crowd led to a general agreement that an acStarting last September, the seminar tive local organization would be possible members have read The Meno, The and rewarding. Apology, The Crito, Prometheus Bound, Richard IIL Oedipus at Co/onus, The Nearly seventy St. Johnnies convened at St. Thomas Church at 53rd and Fifth Prince, selections from The Federalist Avenue in Manhattan to meet President Papers, and Huckleberry Finn. The group Delattre and to hear him describe his hopes gathers in Gould Hall at the University of for the College. A spirited question period Washington for the formal discussion, and followed, and those present called the evenafterwards reconvenes at the nearby College ing a great success. They found the PresiInn for refreshments and general talk. dent a man of warmth, humor, and wide Active Santa Fe alumni have included understanding. Gail Smith, '75, Bill Unbehaun, '75, and Organized by Board member Allan HoffEllen Anderson, '75, Eric Scigliano, '74, Martha Sexsmith, GI '79, Kathleen Flynn, man, A '49, the affair brought together St. GI '79, Bruce Robertson, '74, and Steve Johnnies from all the decades of the "New Wolford, '80. Program,'' including a strong contingent of John Ross reports that keeping attenSanta Fe alumni. Hoffman, with the help of Mary Wiseman, A '58, Lowell Shindler, dance up has been the group's major task, A '64, and Alice Ericsson, SF '74, arranged but that every discussion has been lively and for a wide variety of refreshments, inrewarding. Indeed, Gail Smith said of the cluding two 6-foot hero sandwiches. These Richard III evenings: "I can tell it's good hems. may well become the hallmark of when I start to scribble ideas all over my New York alumni parties. book." Plans are now underway to organize a Reflecting on the worth of the group, formal alumni group in the greater Ross said, ''In the course of the last year, metropolitan New York area, and news of a several of us who would never have met, season of events beginning in the autumn have developed good friendships as a result should be out soon. of these seminars. '' �Page3 THE REPORTER JUNE 1981 UPD In the winter of 1980-81 the Independent College Funds of America awarded St. John's College a grant-in-kind consisting of the services of lawyer Donald Elliott and architect-planner Richard Weinstein, both of New York City, who specialize in helping colleges convert unused land to earning endowment. The Santa Fe Campus Planning Committee, consisting of the Faculty Campus Development Committee, local Board members. and several friends, alumni and The College owns approximately 300 neighbors of the College, was formed to acres of land lying in the foothills of the direct the entire range of investigative work Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the · the development project required. Stephen southeastern portion of the city of Santa Feinberg of the Board of Visitors and Fe. The campus presently occupies 35 acres. Governors has served as its chairman, and The Zeckendorf plan would involve the J. Burchenal Ault, Provost of the College, construction of 112 clustered residential has served as its day-to-day director. units divided equally between two twentyacre sites. One site lies to the north of the This Committee, after interviewing a campus' across Camino de Cruz Blanca. number of developers, both local and naThe second site is in a meadow behind the tional, recommended to the Board at its campus adjacent to the arroyo and near the January meeting that William Zeckendorf, Public Service Company water storage Jr. be selected to work with the Committee, facility. the College and New Sources of Funding in The plan would also reserve approx- the exploration of development imately 30 additional acres for the present possibilities. The Board approved the and future needs of the Santa Fe campus. recommendation with the stipulation that Locations have been provisionally any agreement signed with Mr. Zeckendorf designated for expansion of present for this purpose, "in no way commits St. facilities to include a library, gymnasium, John's College to sell or lease any of its proand an auditorium-conference site. Space perty, regardless of the outcome of the for additional dormitories, classrooms, stu- study.'' dent and faculty departments has also been Mr. Zeckendorf selected the Washington provided. The remainder of the land owned office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to by the College would be preserved as open serve as architects for this project. Other space protected against future development members of his development organization by restrictive covenants. are John McHugh, a Santa Fe architect; If the Zeckendorf plan is approved by the Davis and Associates, a Santa Fe contracBoard, the College would receive a $2.8 tor; and the Santa Fe engineering firm, million guarantee from the sale of the land Scanlon and Associates. The firm of containing and immediately surrounding Stephen Flance and Associates has been rethe residential development, and a share of tained as a consultant to the College. the profits resulting from the sale of the From the beginning the Planning Comunits. mittee has been sensitive to the need to keep --The possibility· of leasing, rather than · both the College community and the comselling, the land to the developer is current- munity of Santa Fe fully informed of the ly under investigation. However, the finan- plans as they have developed. For this purcial arrangements and relative adv.antages pose there have been several all-College and disadvantages of such a plan are being meetings during this school year. These worked out now. were culminated recently in seminar discusA comprehensive land use plan has been sions of the impact of the proposed needed for some time on the Santa Fe cam- development on the life of the College, and pus. During the past few years, the College on May 19, a final all-College meeting was has been approached by a number ofpeople held with President Delattre, Provost Ault interested in buying or using portions of the and several Board members. College's land, and there has been no Ault, Coordinator of Planning Activities systematic way of evaluating these requests. There has also been a need to update the Barbara Skaug and Don Cook, College Master Plan to allow for the future Chairman of the Faculty Campus Developexpansion of campus facilities. Most impor- ment Committee, have held numerous tant, however, the increasing disparity be- meetings with neighbors, friends of the Coltween income and budgeting requirements lege, and neighborhood associations in Sanfor the continuing operation of the College ta Fe to explain the proposed project and to made it mandatory that every possible learn their responses. means of augmenting the endowment of the The final meeting of the Santa Fe Camwestern campus, including land developpus Planning Committee will take place on ment, be explored. June 23. Opinions and concerns expressed As the first step in the planning process, by the College and Santa Fe communities Stephen Flance and Associates, a Santa Fe will be addressed and a final recommendaplanning firm, was retained to compile a tion to the Board on the Zeckendorf proland-use inventory of the College property. posal will be made. This study, completed early in 1980, provided information concerning boundaries, The Santa Fe Campus Planning Commitdonors and restrictions on land deeded to tee has consistently attempted to balance the College. It also included a survey of sur- the need for endowment with aesthetic, enrounding property owners, plans for vironmental and civic considerations. A development in adjacent areas, and a com- copy of the Statement of Planning Prinplete description of the geography, geology ciples which the Committee drew up to and development potential of the College serve as a guide in its deliberations is land. printed here. At its July meeting the Board of Visitors and Governors will decide whether to approve a proposal to develop portions of the St. John's College property in Santa Fe. The proposal, submitted by William Zeckendorf, Jr., developer of New York City, is the result of extensive deliberations on the Santa Fe campus concerning possible uses of portions of its land to augment the endowment of the we!ltern campus. Left to right: Stephen R. Plance, President of Stephen R. Flance & Associates, Planners, of Santa Fe; J. Burchenal Ault, Provost of St. John's College; Don B. Cook, Chairman of the Faculty Campus Planning Committee; William Zeckendorf, Jr., President of Zeckendorf-Colin Co., Inc. of New York City; William Lie Zeckendorf, also of Zeckendorf-Colin Co.; and David Childs, Architect, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Washington, D.C. · PLANNING PRICIPLES St. John's College, a community of learning and teaching, is committed to the pursuit of excellence in liberal education. To continue to fulfill this responsibility, we must explore suitable means of augmenting our present endowment. An adequate endowment will assure that a St. John's education can be made available to an economically and socially diverse group of qualified students, that the faculty and staff can be adequately compensated, and that necessary supporting services can be supplied and maintained. One possible means of adding significantly to the College's endowment is through development of portions of the College land contiguous to the campus. While the College property is clearly an economic asset, it also possesses spiritual and aesthetic value, not only for members of the College community, but also for our neighbors. We believe that the environment in which one learns and studies is important, and that our environment in Santa Fe must not be treated in any way that will substantially diminish the quality of life for members of the College community or its neighbors. Any plan for possible development on St. John's College property must, therefore, balance the need to augment our endowment against environmental, aesthetic and civic concerns. Also, the impact of any development on the primary functions of the College, its learning and teaching, must be carefully assessed. FINANCIAL AID OUTLOOK 1981-82 The first round of financial aid awards for the 1981-82 academic year was mailed on March 31, and awards will continue to be made on a bi-weekly basis until fall registration. Approximately 95% of all anticipated awards have already been announced, and we are pleased with the positive responses we have received to date. Tentative federal funding levels for the Title IV programs have been received, and indications are that total dollar predictions made earlier this semester were very close to the actual dollars we will be receiving. It now appears that President Reagan will approve supplemental appropriations for· the Pell Grant (formerly Basic Grant) program, and awards should be within a few dollars of the estimated figures which appear on the students' award letters for next year. The Parent Loan Program (PLUS) will also be available to parents with dependent undergraduate children. A parent may borrow $3000 per student each academic year; the aggregate loan limit per student is $15,000. The first payment is due within 60 days of the first disbursement of funds, and there is NO federal interest subsidy on these loans. Continued on page 6. SANTA FE GRADUATE ELECTED BY ALUMNI TO THE BOARD OF VISITORS AND GOVERNORS Rebecca Brinkely-Connelly, graduate of the class of 1973 in Santa Fe, has been elected as an Alumni Representative to the Board of Visitors and Governors of- St. John's College. She joins the Board at its July meeting in Santa Fe. Born. in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Becky grew up in Lovington, New Mexico, and skipped her senior year in high school to come to St. John's College in the fall of 1968. At the end of her sophomore year, she was presented one of the Student Activities Organization awards. Following graduation, she was certified as a 'librarian, and returned to work in the Lovington Public Library. In 1976, she moved to Denver, Colorado, to work at the First National Bank. Currently, she serves as the bank's personnel officer. Like many other alumni, she has studied automated systems and uses them daily in her work. Her husband, Darrell Connelly, is a geophysicist, and manages the software program for McAdams, Roux, O'Connor and Associates, a Denver oil exploration firm. �The SAO Crew: The Boss, Istvan Fehervary, Students/Nancie DiSilverio, Kimber Pashcall, Jan Swanke, Wendy Root, and Kevin Holthaus; and Assistant Boss, Steve Crampton. Rehearsing for the May 9-10 performances of "The Tempest" are James Allen (Prospero), Joe Sachs, Tutor, who coached the cast, and Brett Goldberg (Ferdinand). THE Soccer player Amber Eden. Peter Burdge, Jr., at bat. In the summer of 1969, President Weigle created a new office on the recommendation of the faculty, one which would be responsible for all student activities on the Santa Fe campus, mainly for sports and recreation. For the new Director of Student Activities the faculty invited Istvan Fehervary, who lived in Tangier, Morocco, at that time. Although the college was in full operation when Fehervary arrived, two basketballs were the only sports equipment the college owned, and three tennis courts the only facilities. There was not a track, a soccer field, or even an office. Thanks to many tutors and the senior class of 1970, the first year ended with great success. The old 1969-70 SAO bulletins show that the college began many sports activities at that time. We had the first soccer team in Santa Fe, and the best softball team. We had monthly excursions to the mountains, and in 1970 the first Fasching Ball and the first Oktoberfest were held. That summer, with the financial help of Mr. Don Kirby and voluntary labor donated by students, the present soccer field and track were built. For two months St. John's shoveled, dug and finally celebrated the new track in good spirits. Over the years the SAO has become a center not only of sports and recreation, but of other activities as well. Theatre groups, film, music and literary societies sprang up ad hoc. Non-academic activities such as ballet, modern dance, fine arts, judo and karate, etc. have been offered in classes lasting the length of the semester. Most social events have received full support. The first waltz party was almost a disaster. Virtually no one present understood what the good Johann Strauss wanted with his waltz music. But the sound was inviting, and the waltz parties have become a good part of the college night life. Today the '40's melodies of Benny Goodman and Glen Miller are also popular on the dance floor. In spite of the fact that the Santa Fe campus has never had' or desired a student government, the SAO has made most of its decisions and plans only after discussing them with student groups.This cooperation has resulted in a special relationship between the SAO and the senior class, which has taken the leading role in organizini many student functions, including the Halloween party, Lola's Lounge, Senior Prank, and of course, Reality. A fresh wind went through the SAO at the beginning of this year. On the recommendation of Robert Bart, Dean, an Assistant Directorship was created with the full support of President Delattre. From 1969 Fehervary had directed the office alone, with only the help of some student aides. The lot fell to Steve Crampton, a recent graduate of the Santa Fe campus. His contribution in working with different student groups and in organizing all possible sporting events made this year a specially good year in terms of student activities. Unfortunately for the campus, he will attend law school at UNM next year, leaving the college. For the future the SAO is planning more requested courses, including dance, theatre, etc., and in sports, more intra-mural activities. The All-College Sports day held in the · spring was a success, with seminars competing in volleyball, softball and track and field. We will have several sports days next year. However, we will also maintain our participation in the city's organized sports activities, such as basketball and soccer. The Student Activities Office is open always to new ideas to make life more pleasant, relaxed and healthier. Gens una sumus! We are one family! Mime Class in motion: Gina Ironside, MarKlinewicz, Lauren McDonald, Amber Eden, Natasha Walter, and Dill. Performers in "Rosa's Cantina: An Evening of Dance", on May 5: Po Hall demonstrating Middie Eastern Belly Dancing: Trisha Fike, classical ballet (far right). Appearing in the presentation of "Jesus Christ Superstar" are Mark Bentley (Pontius Pilate), top, and Hazen Hammill as Jesus. Heads up, with Frank Bernard and Don Macleod. �Pages THE REPORTER JUNE 1981 PLUS CA CHANGE, PLUS CE N'EST PAS LA MEME CHOSE LAB PROGRAM The laboratory program has seen considerable change in recent years. The major cause has been the complete elimination of Sophomore lab, previously biology, to make a more regular space available for the music tutorial. At the same time it was thought that biology should be retained somewhere in the laboratory program. This necessitated further changes-the domino theory in action at St. John's, as it is for almost any change in the program. The first ten weeks of Freshman lab is now observational biology, including many exercises and readings from the previous lab: Aristotle, Harvey, Goethe, Virchow plus classification, dissection, cell studies, embryology, morphology. Missing from this context are evolution and genetics. The domino removed from the table is the Theory of Measurement, though some spots remain (Archimedes, Pascal, and the sequence on heat and temperature). The chemistry sequence for the remainder of the year is largely unchanged. The Junior lab has been restructured to accomodate the study of Electricity and Magnetism in the second semester. Students now study Galileo, Huygens, Newton, and Leibniz (among others) in first semester mechanics, then spend the opening three weeks of second semester on optics. The rest of the term is devoted to Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnestism and a textbook by H.H. Skilling, Fundamentals of Electric Waves. The first half of the Senior lab is the more modern study of atoms, picking up where the Freshman lab left off. This is the same sequence which previously concluded the Senior year. The last half is now evolution and genetics, with some further reading in embryology. The bacterium E. coli has usurped the fruit fly in experimental work, and DNA, RNA, enzymes, and the operon conclude the laboratory sequence. FRESHMAN LANGUAGE During the last decade we stopped using Chase and Philips as the text for Freshman Language. It was, and still is, a good but rather laconic presentation. Two tutors at Annapolis, Alfred Mollin and Robert Williamson, produced a text which we have adopted. It emphasizes a rational and rationalizing approach to learning paradigms and syntax. A second edition is being used for the first time this year. A number of adjustments were made in response to criticisms from tutors' experiences with the first edition. The first edition followed a rather thorough morphogenetic method which has been mitigated in the second. More emphasis has been placed on rote memorization. The exercises, especially in English to Greek, have been increased. SOPHOMORE MUSIC The sophomore music tutorial in Santa Fe was omitted this year to use Zuckerkandl's The Sense of Music as a text. While one misses his engaging discussion, the substitution of source readings on music theory from the early 6th into the 18th century has allowed for a more direct kind of insight into major questions about musical theory and practice arising during this time. These questions are not simply historical curiosities since, beyond their particular concerns about, for example, modes, rhythms, or the mathematically computable consonance of specific intervals, they lead to very general questions about the relation, in an art such as music, between theory and practice, or between how the response of our senses and emotions relates to an intellectual understanding of what we listen to or play or sing. We began this year, as is customary, with Gregorian chant. We subsequently listened to the way in which these chant melodies were used as the basis (or cantus firm us) of increasingly complex polyphonic compositions. When, by the mid-13th century, the motet form succeeds to the organum, the heterogeneity of separate voice parts, some on Latin sacred, others simultaneously on vernacular secular subjects, combining with the new sounds of new instruments astonish the fresh listener with the ingenuity of the music, while also making appeal to one's mental powers to unravel and pick out the clear sense of it all. Listening to late medieval music while reading Dante and Chaucer in seminar, sophomores perceive in terms of another language how it happens that Chaucer's people are engaged, avowedly, upon a pilgrimage. At the same time we have been reading musical theorists, beginning with Boethius' classical conception of music as audible number, whose mathematical proportions can be thought of in the terms of the Timaeus, as productive of universal harmony. While medieval writers on music are engaged increasingly with the working out of the rhythmic complexities that polyphonic composition must keep clear, the later Renaissance theorists turn their backs upon this medieval and inventive glossing upon a mathematical-musical text, and draw a new inspiration from the ancient sources; Aiming now for a humanist balance they see in the example of Greek lyric monody an occasion to bring music out of its niche in the quadrivium, and to universalize it in a new way. With Monteverdi (whose opera Orfeo we study) comes the powerful insistence, in both words and music, of the rhetorical force of the sung, solo melody. Thus a chronological order, comparable to that which the seminar readings normally follow, has strengthened the music syllabus. One text (whether written or played) builds upon another, or reacts to it. A limpid Renaissance song follows, and rejects, the intricately late Gothic lacework of a Burgundian motet. Upon this background, that has stretched from liturgical chant to a Machaut or Palestrina mass, from the troubadour chanson to the courtly Renaissance m~drigal, Bach's St. Matthew Passion has assumed a new measure of richness. Behind the baroque strings and winds we hear earlier, reedy, breath filled pipes and plucked and bowed strings and lyres, lutes and viols; behind Lutheran chorals lie Catholic sung liturgies; behind the arias and recitative, early secular opera and love song. The late spring materials are at present less clearly determined; some tutorials doing Mozart's Don Giovanni, others turning more to purely instrumental Classical and Romantic works, and a similar variation occurs in the readings, where some have found studying harmony out of readings in the 18th century Rameau more valuable than have others. Judging, however, from the excitement generated thus far by this year's music program, we shall be working to see if a syllabus that seeks to bring together written sources in music theory with study of the music itself can be arrived at also for the more recent period. INDIAN TABLE A POPULAR COMMUNITY ACTIVITY Indian Table, which began in 1971 with· a group of three dozen Santa Feans interested in Indian peoples, culture and history, has been holding monthly dinner meetings ever since and now regularly attracts around 100 enthusiastic friends of the College. The evening begins with a social hour when everyone enjoys conversation, wine and cheese. Dinner and program follow. Speakers over the years have included Pulitzer Prize winning Indian author Scott Momaday, Dr. W.D. Spining who worked for three decades at a Presbyterian mission hospital on the Navajo Reservation, Sioux opera singer Bonnie Jo Hunt, Dr. Charles Blackwell who was in charge of the Indian Scholarship Program at the University of New Mexico Law School, Apache artist and sculptor Allan Hauser and distinguished archaeologist Dr. Bertha Dutton. Last fall Susan McGreevy, Director of the Wheelwright Museum, spoke to the group and in February the program was given by Ramona Sakiestewa, the first Indian and first woman to be the President of the Southwestern Association on Indian Affairs. At a special program by Bill Fields on Indian Religions, friends contributed $565 to a scholarship fund for an Indian student at St. John's. This year's recipient was Vernon Tsoodle, a Kiowa from Anadarko, Oklahoma. Fields, who is Chairman of the Division of Cooperative Services for the Southwest Region of the National Park Service, is of Cherokee heritage but his boyhood was spent primarily with the Navajos and with the Hopi and Zuni tribes. He has adopted the ancient religion of the Navajo people. With some fifteen Indian pueblos and three reservations ·in the proximity of the Santa Fe campus it is obvious that the resources for interesting programs on Indian culture are endless, and it is expected that the numbers of people attending Indian Table programs will continue to grow. INFORMAL STUDY GROUPS ATTRACT EA GER STUDENTS Both current and former Graduate Institute students have welcomed the opportunity to participate in one or more of the three informal study groups which were formed this past year. Bob Arne, a Graudate Institute student, has led two of the groups. Ahmed Moussalli, a graduate student from Lebanon, has led the third. a Arne, who has rich background in ancient Greek philosophers and language, led one seminar on Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, and another in Beginning Greek. The Ethics Seminar· met every Thursday evening for 2 to 2 Yz hours from January 19 through April. Eight people have been enrolled in the seminar. The Ethics were read in English and in their entirety. As most of the enrollees had studied some ancient Greek, discussions included attention to Aristotle's Greek terms and his use of language. The second study group led by Arne covered Beginning Greek. Using Clyde Pharr's Homeric Greek the students translated Book of the Iliad. They also studied Chase and Philips' A New Introduction to Greek to assist with grammar and to introduce Attic Greek. This summer Bob Arne plans to lead a study group reading a short Platonic dialogue or a short section of Aristotle in Greek. The third seminar, led by Ahmed Moussalli, studied the Koran. Six people were in this group which met weekly for 1Yz hours. The students started reading at the beginning of the Koran, reading aloud a few lines at a time, asking questions and discussing the content. These informal study groups offer additional opportunities for people to pursue special interests not otherwise included in the regular Graduate Institute curriculum, and they are growing in number. BOB BART'S BETTER Proving that "you can't keep a good man down", Bob Bart, Dean, is making an excellent recovery from the serious heart attack which felled him earlier this year. He was able to participate in the commencement exercises and was present for some of the planning meetings. His doctor has warned him not to try to do too much too soon, but knowing Bob, he'll have to be reminded of this as be begins to gather more strength. Everyone on the Santa Fe campus is happy to see him on occasion, however briefly, until his doctor tells him he can go "full speed ahead" once again. The Spark of Sophomore Music Gina Ironside '81 Of all the things that might crystalize for us through four years of study at St. John's College perhaps there is one aspect of the program which seems to make all the rest a lit. tle more tangible; one course, one class, or even a single book which touches us in such a way as to open up vast, unexpected horizons. In my case the spark was Sophomore Music. I was a member of the second class at St. John's in which music was emphasized above laboratory science in the Sophomore year. I recall at the time there being some feeling among my fellows that the music study was a poor alternative to lab, and even that its analytical approach was ungenuine and repugnant. In looking back it seems that the music tutorial took most of us by surprise-perhaps me more than anyone. For though I grew up with a rather musical ear, piano lessons, and music class in public school, the world of classical music and its foundations remained beyond my ken. It was through the Music Tutorial and the wonderful collection of recordings in Music Library on the Santa Fe campus that I grew to appreciate the amazing mathematical patterns in great music, along with its spontaneity. My beginning insights into music gave me, just as Socrates claimed they would, a more balanced and rhythmical, perhaps even inspired approach to all the other studies at St. John's and, to life. �Page6 THE REPORTER Santa 'Je .'.2Lfunmi Sketches FINANCIAL AID Continued from page 3. Proposals have also been made which would change eligibility requirements for the Guaranteed Student Loan program. Students and parents should check with their state or local lending agent for information regarding these changes and their effective dates. The agency will be able to give advice about obtaining loans for the coming year, and can inform parents of their participation in the PLUS program. It now appears that the National Direct Student Loan program will not be phased out over the next four years; however, students will be urged to borrow from state agencies, and loans through the Financial Aid Office will be limited to previous borrowers and to students who cannot find other loan sources. The anticipated financial aid awarded from each program for the 1981-82 academic year is as follows: $ 180,000 Pell Grant 115,000 College Work-Study 76,000 Supplemental Grant 70,000 National Direct Student Loan Institutional Grant 450,000 (including endowed monies) Outside resources and 60,000 scholarships 40,000 State Grants 350,00 State Loans $1,341,000 The Student Off-Campus Employment Office (now an extension of the Financial Aid Office) will be open 35 hours per week beginning June 2, 1981. The goal of this office is to list one hundred off-campus student employment opportunities by registration time in the fall. Work has already begun on this project, and it is hoped that positions will be available through museums and other state and local agencies located close to campus. It is also hoped that individual scholarship search resources can be expanded through the Financial Aid Office. A College Work-Study employee will be added to work on the project and to aid students in their searches. Expanded opportunities through the Student Employment Office and scholarship search, along with increased institutional funding and adequate federal funding predict that 1981-82 should be a very good year for all students hoping to attend St. John's College. LOCAL CONCERT BY RICHARD STARK Richard Stark, pianist and composer, tutor and former Musician-in-Residence at St. John's College in Santa Fe, presented a recital with guest artists at The Church of the Faith on May 26. His guest artists were Jeanne Grealish, mezzo soprano, and William Mullen, violinist. The program included the Mozart Sonata in A minor and an original composition by Stark, "Good , which consisted of recitatives in the form of a song cycle for poems of Mark Van Doren. The music was written for mezzo soprano Grealish, who was accompanied by Stark. After the intermission, Stark presented Sonata in A major by Cesar Franck with William Mullen, violinist. The auditorium of the church was filled to capacity with an enthusiastic and responsive audience. Stark, who has given many recitals in Peterson Student Center over the . years, is known as a brilliant creative artist and composer and has a wide following of friends and admirers who support his recitals at every opportunity. CLASS OF 1968 - GEORGE C. CONGLETON writes of a divorce a year ago and a current job with the Tennessee Valley Authority in Knoxville, Tenn., as a systems analyst in corporate administration. His spare time is occupied by theatre and the Great Smoky Mountains. George invites anyone going to Knoxville for the 1982 World's Fair to look him up: 802 W. Hill Avenue, Apt. 2, Knoxville, Tn 37902. CLASS OF 1969 - MARGARET GAFFNEY enrolled in the Nursing School of the City College of San Francisco, expects to be graduated in June, 1982, and to practice midwifery.' CLASS OF 1971, GRADUATE INSTITUTE - JAKE MARTINEZ recently called with news that would do credit to anyone: he has been promoted to the rank of Major General in the New Mexico National Guard; he is serving currently as chairman of the Santa Fe County Commission; and his alma mater, the College of Santa Fe, honored him at its May 10 commencement as an outstanding graduate. CLASS OF 1972 - SETH CROPSEY has been appointed as assistant to the Secretary of the Department of Defense, with particular responsibility for assembling the defense posture statement. This document will estimate the task of the Department in meeting the defense challenges facing the United States. CLASS OF 1973 - JANET BUCHBINDER works in San Francisco for Bill Graham Presents, one of the country's leading rock promoters. BOB HAMPTON has just graduated J.D. from St. Mary's University Law School in San Antonio, Texas. MIRIAM SKINNER NEWMAN graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin College in 1979, has a year-old daughter, and lives in Denver. CLASS OF 1974 - MARIA KWONG continues her art work in Los Angeles, including photography and toy-making. Her work is displayed in many area stores. ERIC SCIGLIANO advises that he has left the staff of Argus (the oldest regional news weekly in the country, he believes) and is doing freelance writing and illustration work which took him to Central America last month. JUNE 1981 gram in counseling this autumn. DENIS YARO has been in the diamond importing trade, in Los Angeles; is now looking into the entertainment business management field. CLASS OF 1976 - PABLO COLLINS currently serves on the Capitol Hill staff of Texas Representative De La Garza. He received his M.A. in Public Policy at the University of Texas in 1979. He reports that John Pilcher, 1976, and Steve Scott, 1978, also work on the Hill. CAROL DOCKHAM has studied Russian; has lived in Brindisi, Italy, and reports that "linguistics is a good field for St. Johnnies.'' Currently, she lives in Albuquerque. MARTA HONT AS is currently studying Spanish in Albuquerque. PAULA FULKS VAN DER HAAR is now practicing law in Kansas City. CLASS OF 1977 - STEPHEN DEAN writes for the Cambridge, Maryland Banner. Recently, he researched and wrote the widely read series on drug use in local pubiic schools. MICHAEL LEMAR is with a realty firm in Houston. MARTHA CLARK DABNEY, University of New Mexico law student, recent mother, and gold-star alumni correspondent, sends news of: MARIAN BILLINGTON, '78, who hopes to pass the Foreign Service exam, and is teaching school in El Salvador; ANN and KEVIN BURGESS, '78 who are teaching in Saudi Arabia, and expect a baby; COLLEEN REGAN and MARY JANE PEERS, both of the class of '78, are in business in Los Angeles, though COLLEEN plans travel abroad; MICHAEL GROSS, '76, recently was married; JOHN ARAGON, '76, is studying law at the University of New Mexico. STEVE MACKEY writes that he will graduate from California Polytechnic State University within the year with an M.E. degree, and hopes to apply his knowledge to the fields of specialty design and solar engineering. Steve reports that brother KIMO, '76, is designing and building sailboats in the San Francisco Bay area. CLASS of 1979, GRADUATE INSTITUTE - BROTHER THOMAS CASEY has moved to the Christian Brothers house in Brooklyn, New York. CLASS OF 1980, GRADUATE INSTITUTE - DAVID FISHER writes of his marriage on March 22 in Cheyenne, Wyoming to JUDY KISTLER, '76. He instructs math and language at the Forman School in Litchfield, Conn., and will spend the summer preparing a manual for the school's geology and minerology classes. Judy will join the school's faculty in September, teaching math and · language. TOM STORCK and wife Pat, send news that daughter Mary Gwyn was born 16 February, 1981. CLASS OF 1980 - NANCY CLINE has· moved from Santa Fe to Richmonq, Virginia to enroll at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Department of Elementary Education. When she is awarded her M.A., she plans to teach. NICHOLAS CULLENDER called to correct an earlier report of his veterinary studies: he says that while he likes domestic animals he is, in fact, going to law school. Also, he told of the happy news of his engagement to Tracy Schlegel. GERI GLOVER, who has completed a stint with a Santa Fe tax consulting firm, reports news of SUSAN KEELER, '80, and NANCY RALPH, '80: "they spent the winter freezing in Michigan. Susan is working in a deli and Nancy is a Vista Volunteer at a Safe tiouse for Battered Women." REID KINGSBERRY, '80, has taken a job in Washington, D.C., with the Reagan administration. JOE MORRIS has finished his first year as a professional apprentice at the Dallas Theater Center, while working towards an M.F.A. with a focus on directing. He is engaged to be married to AIMEE ROBSON, who just graduated in Santa Fe with the class of 1980. WILLIAM. A DARKEY NAMED FIRST JOHN AND FAITH MEEM TUTOR The Board of Visitors and Governors announced at its January meeting the appointment of William A. Darkey as the first John and Faith Meem Tutor. The Meem Chair was established in 1980 following a successful drive for the required $500,000 funding. · CLASS OF 1975 - GISELLE MINOLI moved last year from San Francisco to New York, where she directs customer merchandising for C.B.S. Records. She reports a recent nationwide business trip on behalf of her company. GAIL SMITH continues her counseling work with troubled adolescents in Seattle, and will enroll in a masters pro- MARY BRANHAM TO RUN CLASS OF 1979 - SUZANNE GILL AND DAVID DOREMUS were married in Las Vegas, New Mexico, on June 6. David is studying politics at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. Suzanne will join the administrative staff there in the autumn. STATE OFFICE Mary Branham, Director of College Relations for St. John's in Santa Fe, announced on May 22nd that she will be a candidate on the Democratic ticket for Secretary of State in the 1982 New Mexico elections. It is anticipated that she will take a leave of absence for a few months, beginning in January 1982, to campaign for the office. Prior to joining the St. John's staff, Branham served in the office of the Secretary of State during three administrations, first as an Administrative Assistant and then as Director of zhe Bureau of Elections. Beginning as a staff writer in the Department of Development, she then became the only woman ever to have been named Director of the Tourist Division for the state. Mary Branham grew up in Fort Sumner, N.M, and graduated from high school there. She later graduated from the Ward-Belmont School, Nashville, Tennessee, and received a B.A. degree from Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas. She recently received an M.A. degree from St. John's College. She serves on the Board of the Council of Independent Colleges and Universities in New Mexico, and is a member of the Methodist Church, the League of Women Voters, the Old Santa Fe Association and Democratic Women of New Mexico. She has been a freelance writer of documentary film scripts and articles which have appeared in Travel, New Mexico Magazine, Desert, Catholic Digest, Colorado Magazine, Popular Photography and American Mercury. Darkey received his A.B. degree at Annapolis in 1942. Upon graduation he became a Tutor there, leaving only for military service and for subsequent graduate study at Columbia University. He continued as a Tutor in Annapolis ontil 1964, at which time he transferred to the new Santa Fe campus. From 1964 to 1968 he was Director of Adult Education and then served as Dean on the western campus from 1968-1973. In 1979 he edited Three Dialof.{ues on Liberal Education. The Meem Chair was created to honor John Gaw Meem, renowned Santa Fe architect, and his wife, Faith Bemis Meem, who gave most of the beautiful land now occupied by the western campus. Friends of the Meems and of the College gave generously to this project, reflecting their deep admiration and affection for the Meems and gratitude for their many gifts to the College and to the community over the years. Una Hanbury, noted Santa Fe sculptor, has created a bronze portrait of the Meems which is to be displayed on the campus as a permanent visual tribute to them. �Page7 THE REPORTER JUNE 1981 Conimencement Candids Graduates Lisa Lashley, Mark Langley, Robert Kozlowski, Maha Khoury and Gina Ironside. The inevitable ceremony visitor. Kuirina Cracer Guadiana wllh her young son, a favorite "pet" of everyone's on campus. Local Board member Louise Trigg with Michael E. Pulitzer of St. Louis and Ed Delattre. Provost Ault surveys the scene. President Delattre delivering His address. TJ-{'£ Dean Bart presents the Class of '81. Thomas Donnelly smiles his acceptance. Gina Ironside, smiling in spite of crutches, the result of a bike accident. C£.'ASS oy 19s1 Bonnie Bassan, Oak Park, 11.; Joshua Dan Berlow, Bethesda, Md.; Martha Reeves Billington, Las Cruces, NM.; Peter Fletcher Brush, Rutland, Vt.; Alison Carper, Alexandria, Va.; Paul Richard Cheney, Santa Fe, NM.; Geoffrey J. Comber, Annapolis, Md.; Katrina Renee Crater, Denver, Co.; Monica Lamont Creelman, Baltimore, Md.; Corey Keith Crume, Tustin, Ca.; Thomas More Donnelly, Oak Park, II.; Catherine Dory Eisenbeis, Patagonia, Az.; Lance Macconnell Forsythe, Tucson, Az.; Armando Guadiana, Laredo, Tx.; Hazen Howard Hammel, Clarks Summit, Pa.; Charles J. Harrison, Hyde Park, II.; Terrilynn Hicks, Santa Fe, NM.; Maria Cristina Ironside, King of Prussia, Pa.; Maha Chicago, II.; Mark Lonsdale Langley, Tucson, Az.; Lisa Lashley, San Marino, Ca.; Elizabeth Morgan Mills, Solana Beach, Ca.; Joseph Sidney Moore, Newport Beach, Ca.; Barbara Elizabeth Obata, Mill Valley, Ca.; Aimee Elsie Robson, Starkville, Ms.; William Geoffrey M.T. Rommel, Pewee Valley, Ky.; Schweidt, Valley Streatm, NY.; Michael Phillips Stanton, Miami, Fl.; Karl William Stukenbcrg, Worthington, Oh.; Carla Ruth Tangora, Phoenix, Az.; Robert Edward Tangora, Austin, In.; Michael Earl Urena, Alta Loma, C::a.; Michele Ann Varricchio, Allentown, Pa.; John Jefferson Watkins, Jr., Mount Ida, Ar.; Jonathan Blake Weis, Mount Hermon, Ma.; Zelda Zinn, Houston, Tx. Those who will be included in the Class of '81 conditional upon completing requirements are: Eric Albert Ebert, Santa Fe, NM.; Robert Kozlowski, Chicago, II.; Thomas John Slakey, Jr., Annapolis, Md.; and Kevin Stevens, Pearland, Tx. SIX MASTER OF ARTS DEGREES GRANTED BY THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION Master of Arts degrees were granted to: Mary Branham, Santa Fe, NM.; Arlene Mestas Duran, Espanola, NM.; Susan Lynn Gevirtz, Seattle, Wa.; Nancy Jo Gill, Albuquerque, NM.; Mary Teneyck Peterson, Santa Fe, NM.; and Karleen Georgiana Redle, Denver, Co. Tutors Elizabeth Engle and Peter Pesic: hurry to join the others. �Pagel THE REPORTER 1981 SANTA FE GRADUATE INSTITUTE A LIVELY PLACE BRIGADIER MORDAUNT ELRINGTON DECEASED The Santa Fe campus of the Graduate Institute expects about 100-110 students to participate in the 1981 summer session of the Institute. The students are from all over the country, with more students from New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, New York, California, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts than from other states. We will have fourteen Middle Eastern students here this summer, plus one student each from Korea and Canada. Many of the students are primary and secondary and junior college teachers; there is quite a diverse representation of other careers, with one or two students each from various fields and backgrounds. General Mordaunt Elrington, husband of Peggy Elrington, nurse for the Santa Fe campus, passed away on March 17, 1981 after a brief illness. The Elringtons have lived on campus in the Lower Campus Apartment since joining the staff in 1965. Elrington was 83 at the time of his death. Elrington was commissioned into the Royal North Lancashire Regiment in 1915 and served in France during World War I. Subsequently he served in Turkey, China, India and then Malaya and Singapore. He became British Camp Commandant at a POW camp in Seoul, Korea, and commanded the operation, in spite of frequent illness, with great diplomacy and skill until the camp was freed by Americans after three years. Elrington has been described as follows: "He was an outstanding officer, efficient, strict but sympathetic and kindly, and was admired and respected by all ranks. Tall, extremely smart and always meticulously turned out, he was an example of what a regular officer should be.'' During his military service he received many honors in recognition of his bravery and military skill, including the D.S.0., O.B.E., and M.C. After his retirement and taking up residence in Santa Fe, he served as Assistant Headmaster of Santa Fe Preparatory School and taught history and Latin. He flew back to England to attend the last Regimental Dinner of his Regiment which was graced by the presence of Her Majesty the Queen, Colonel-in-Chief, who expressed great interest in his work. JUNE 1981 Of the fourteen Middle Eastern students we expect to have this summer, twelve will be here for their first summer and two will be students who were here last summer. The Middle Eastern scholarship program is sponsored by the Reader's Digest Foundation, the DeWitt Wallace Fund, the U.S. International Communication Agency and the government of the country of origin of each student. Many of the Middle Eastern participants are young college teachers. Most of them will be from Turkey, Jordan, Egypt and Israel, although there may also be students from Algiers, Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait, and Morocco. The first year students will take a seminar and tutorial plus a Middle Eastern preceptorial. This summer three Middle Eastern preceptorials will be offered: one on the poet Rumi, one on Judah Halevy and Ibn Arabi, and one on Ibn Khaldun and Giambattista Vico. These three preceptorials are open to any interested Western students as well. Richard Martin Stern and Aileen Phillips make plans for an "Evening With Writers," one of the events sponsored by the St. John's College Library Associates Committee. Stern, who is past president of Mystery Writers of America and the author of twenty-two novels including The Tower from which the movie, The Towering Inferno, was made, has been chairman of the St. John's library committee for more than a decade. Phillips, whose book, Kid's Diet Cookbook, won a National Science Teachers A ward in 1980, in addition to being a prolific writer, is Director of Community Relations for the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. About fifteen to twenty primary and secondary school teachers will be present this summer as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities program. They will take a regular seminar and tutorial, as well as a special preceptorial that focuses on education. To qualify for the N.E.H. program each teacher has written a proposal for a change to be implemented in his or her school this fall, one that utilizes the St. John's approach to learning and sometimes includes books read in the program. During the education preceptorial each school teacher develops his or her proposed project in detail so that at the end of the summer the teacher is ready introduce this new program in the fall. The other preceptorials that will be offered include readings of Chaucer, Aristophanes' War Plays, Plato's Symposium, Freud, The Bible, Aristotle, Mendel and others on genetics, and Pavlov and B.F. Skinner. There will be several special activities for G.I. students on campus this summer, including five tape/slide shows to be given by Charles Bell, Tutor; two Chamber Music Festival concerts; one piano concert to be ·given by Edward and Sharon Lawrence (Mr. Lawrence is currently a student in the Institute); two lectures; a Collegium Musicum; one or two All-College Seminars, one of which will probably be on readings from the Koran; a recital in Greek of part of Homer's flliad by William Mullen, Tutor, Annapolis; and three art shows. One of the art shows will -present photography by D. Robert Yarnall, Jr., a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors. There will be a day camp for the 20-25 children (ages 3-12) present on campus this summer, as well as several planned activities . for teenagers and trips to nearby places of interest for students and families. Mrs. Abel Davis and Saul Cohen are co-chairing the Eighth Annual Sustaining Campaign for the Santa Fe campus of the College. They have led two previous successful drives for funds from Santa Fe and Los Alamos supporters. The first year under their leadership the important local campaign increased from just under $45,000 to just over $66,000, and from 219 donors to 316. Last year's total was $91,289 from 369 gifts. The goal for the present drive is $100,000. The growing success of the local fund raising effort is an indication of appreciation of the involvement of the College in Santa Fe life, through the St. John's community seminars, art shows, the library and concerts, and as an important employer and substan· tial buyer of goods and services. ISTVAN FEHERVARY KNIGHTED It sounds as if we are going back in history. For many of us the .idea of knighting people .belongs in the past. But in truth this custom still exists, and Istvan Fehervary, Director of Student Activities, was awarded membership in the Knightly Order of Vitez on 6 December, 1980. Although the concept of the Knightly Order of Vitez (translated "brave, courageous warrior") dates back approximately 1000 years to the reign of St. Stephen, the first King of Hungary, it has not been active during the past 350 years, when the Austrian Hapsburg reigned as · King in Hungary. It became active again in 1920, after the first World War, when Hungary broke all ties with the Austrian Hungary empire and dethroned the Hapsburg Dynasty. In this year the newly elected Regent of Hungary renewed the ancient tradition as a reminder of knightly orders of past ages and of the virtue of valorous conduct. To become a member of the order one had to prove his true love of his fatherland and of the people. The Order is a patriotic organization with a democratic character in that each member qualifying under the prescribed requirements is selected without regard for origin, religion or social position. Because of the treaty following World War II which placed Hungary within the Soviet sphere the patriotic Knightly Order of Vitez could no longer function in Hungary. However, in 1957, members of the Order in exile took appropriate steps to insure the preservation of the Order and of · its continued activity abroad. At their request Field Marsh<Jl Archduke Josef then residing in West Germany convened once again the council of the Order of Vitez and . he was elected HRH General of the Order. He was also responsible for the inclusion of the of the Order in the internationally recognized list of the orders of chivalry, which contained such names as the Johanite's Maltesser, etc. Istvan Fehervary was awarded his membership in the Knightly Order of Vitez for his special leading role in the Hungarian Resistance Movement between 1945 and 1956. �I JUNE1981 Page9 THE REPORTER SUCCESSFUL SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF SERVICE On Wednesday, January 28, 1981, in the Junior Common Room of Peterson Student Center, present and former members of St. John's College Search and Rescue Team celebrated the tenth anniversary of the founding of the organization. Herb Kincey and Jim Carr, two of the founders, along with several other original members, joined the others for an evening of reminiscing and socializing. The slides of earlier trips and rescues only furthered the sense of zeal and dedication which permeated this happy gathering. The St. John's Search and Rescue Team is an enthusiastic group of students and townies who are always on call to find lost hikers in the New Mexico mountains. There are over seventy members on the SAR team this year, half of whom are St. John's students. All that is required to be a member is a willingness to participate in meetings, training sessions, and actual searches, plus a love of the mountains. Searches may be necessary at any time. Herb Kincey, an SAR founder, demands and insures that each member is welltrained to fulfill his or her special duties. A number of practice searches are conducted each year, as well as special training sessions, first-aid courses, EMT courses, and back-packing trips which familiarize members with potential problems in the mountains.· Kincey believes that St. John's "has perhaps the best prepared team in the state." A St. John's student is usually elected President of the SAR team, with a townie as Vice-president. This is to insure that at all times there is a head of operations, in the event of a search. The President for this school year is Lisa Lashley, '81 (Santa Fe). The President is in charge of organizing the weekly Wednesday night meetings which usually cover general business, plans for future training sessions, and the like. But perhaps the most important duty of the President is to organize the search parties. This often means rousing tired Johnnies out of bed at ungodly hours of the morning! The basic training for each SAR member includes courses in avalanche training, snowshoeing, hypothermia, rescue techniques, base camp operations, rockclirnbing, and equipment use. On weekends, there are regularly scheduled sessions on technical rockclimbing (beginning, intermediate, and advanced), winter camping, back-packing, canoeing, rafting, cliff evacuations, practice searches, and survival skills. Also, SAR sponsors weekend bake-packing trips in the Pecos Wilderness and the Santa Fe National Forest, both of which are located nearby. During spring breaks, SAR usually sponsors a week-long back-packing trip, either to Arizona, Colorado, or Mexico. Last year, a group went to the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix. This year, the SAR team may attempt some 14,000 foot peaks in the Colorado Rockies, or else hike the canyon lands of Arizona and Utah. At an April meeting, President Lashley covered general business and then proceeded to direct what SAR calls a "de-briefing". This is a review of the procedures followed on the most recent search. Early Thursday morning of March 31st the State Polic instructed a Mission Coordinator to alert the St. John's SAR team that there were two people lost near Las Vegas, New Mexico, about fifty miles from Santa Fe. State officials had been searching all the previous day and needed additional help. Two young people, aged 18 and 19, had not returned from a caving expedition when expected, so they had been officially reported as missing. (The possibility of kidnapping or of their being runaways had been ruled out, as required before calling the SAR team). Because the clues as to their whereabouts were sketchy and questionable, the St. John's team believed them to be inconclusive, therefore suggesting that the search area must be broadened. This judgment was confirmed a day and a half later when the boys were found not in a cave but on a mountain far from the original search area. The SAR team had another exiciting but more tragic search earlier this year. Two students from UNM-Albuquerque were hiking in the Pecos Wilderness. They were reported missing, and the St. John's team responded to the call for help. The boys were finally located on Santa Fe Baldy, a treacherous peak near the ski basin, more than 13,000 feet high. They had been caught in white-outs, blinding snowstorms which reduce visibility to almost zero. One student had died, the other was still alive, having survived miraculous1y for two days. However, the rescued boy suffered severe gangrene and hypothermia: his body temperature was fifteen degrees below normal when he was found. Severe weather and lack of adequate preparation and experience on the part of the students were blamed for this tragedy. This was a grim lesson further demonstrating how treacherous the New Mexico mountains can be in winter. Fortunately most searches do not end so tragically, but without exception they are thrilling and challenging for everyone involved. S and R Presidents: Lisa Lashley, Mary Shoemaker, Tom Rushton, Mary McCormick, Jeff McE!roy. Original members: Burke Denman, Brad Davidson, Peter Vanderlaan, Mary Shoemaker, Herb Kincey, Debbie Hathaway Davidson, Michael Wood, Jim Carr, Istvan Fehervary, Tom Rushton. ANENCOUNTE WITH TWO REMARKABLE MEN More than forty students, faculty, and alumni gathered in the Junior Common Room on the evening of April 8 to hear William Darkey, Tutor, describe the early days of the new St. John's College program and of the friendship of Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan. Darkey studied at the Annapolis campus during the Barr and Buchanan era, graduating in the class of 1942. Mr. Darkey's talk marked the dedication of a large photographic portrait of the program's founding president and dean, donated to the Santa Fe campus by Allan Hoffman, '49, currently a member of the college's Board of Visitors and Governors. Hoffman, who chairs the Alumni Association's Memorials Committee, said in an interview that he gave the portrait to the college, "because, nowhere, on either campus, was there a proper memorial to the founding fathers." He added that he thought it was important for current students to be aware of who Barr and Buchanan were, and how they looked at the time they were guiding the college between 1937 and 1946. Hoffman said he has been impressed for years by their courage to turn away from the elective system and revive in America the classical approach to liberal learning. at a table with the _ began his talk by introducing the audience to the men as they appeared in Marion Warren's circa 1940, standing on the front steps of McDowell the campus. and with warm humor, he told of their meeting at Balliol Oxford, where both were Rhodes scholars, and the of their the 1920's and 1930's before the invitation came from the Board of Visitors and Governors to institute the new program at St. John's. The two friends had worked with Robert Hutchin's committee on college cirriculum reform at the University of Chicago, and had gone from there to the University of Virginia to teach. Barr, the historian, and Buchanan, the philosopher, shared, Dar key said, a strong mutual respect, and an interest in each other's fields. He described them as men of good humor, able to poke fun at one another and at themselves, yet never losing the great seriousness of their purpose. Darkey characterized them as very open men, continually explaining their aims, their reasons and their decisions. He recalled their practice of corning to the McDowell coffee shop during the morning hours to talk informally with any student or tutor who turned up. Also, he mentioned the weekly college meetings, held in the evening before seminar. Barr and Buchanan even conducted Sunday political seminars for those who, having read the New York Times, wanted to discuss the issues and events of World War II. Mr. Darkey spoke eloquently of the excitement of their era, of the program being, as it were, invented as it was being taught, of their high expectations of good faith and steady endeavor from the student body. Commenting on what seemed to be some of the basic premises of the Barr and Buchanan endeavor, Mr. Darkey mentioned they held firmly that conservation acwas possible. He recalled a visit Mr. Buchanan to a seminar in Santa Fe during the western first year: after the seminar had ended, Buchanan said to him, "Bill, that was the real In up the work of the two remarkable men, Darkey said that theirs had been, in the best sense, a quixotic enterprise. But as to the who was the Don and who Sancho Panza, he had concluded that is was to answer. A discussion followed, with Charles Bell recalling his own early encounters with the two. It was clear that the audience was both fascinated and moved by Mr. Darkey's talk. �Page10 THE REPORTER TWO FACETS OF ENERGY ROSY ADMISSIONS PICTURE FOR SANTA FE I. ENERGY STUDY GROUP When asked recently how the enrollment picture for '81-'82 looked, Steve Van Luchene, Director of Admissions for the Santa Fe campus, replied, "Wonderful! The best it's ever been''. In round figures this means that at the end of May, 104 applications had been approved, and deposits had been received from 68 applicants. A year ago 93 had been approved at this same time and deposits had been received from only 50. So, enrollment for next year should produce a full house on the Santa Fe campus. The joint recruiting program shared by the two campuses, begun approximately a year ago, has proven to be very effective. Van Luchene in Santa Fe and Christensen in Annapolis have cooperated in their efforts to reach 150,000 high school students through a combined mailing each year. This mailing and other cooperative ventures have demonstrated the importance of interpreting the College as one program on two campuses. Also, applications are now, if accepted by one campus, accepted by the other as well. The newest approach initiated by Van Luchene this past year has been one created to acquaint high school teachers and administrators with the College on a more personal level. To do this, 4 Santa Fe tutors, Bunker, Steadman, Verdi and Van Luchene, conducted seminars with high school teachers in Colorado Springs, San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas and Phoenix. In each situation, the participants were asked to read a book from the program and then meet in seminar to discuss it with a St. John's tutor, observing the way our classes work. The benefit to the college is that more secondary school educators learn about the program so as to encourage students to consider St. John's College; and some participants, jt is hoped, will be encouraged to enroll in the Graduate Institute. One of the exciting spinoff benefits of these seminars is the fact that they bring together teachers from different departments with a high school who, under ordinary circumstances, would rarely have an opportunity to learn together as a group. The alumni have also been very helpful in recruitment efforts. Many potential students ask if they might meet with a local alumnus, sometimes in special field of interest. The Admissions Office arranges these meetings by contacting an appropriate alumnus in the area. The alumni also attend high school college nights or college fairs when the Admissions Office staff is unavailable to do so. They distribute information about St. John's and answer inquires from students, teachers and parents. Van Luchene considers the alumni a very important part of our team effort to stimulate interest in the College and inform the public about our program. When asked about the number of new students who have requested .financial aid for the coming year, Van Luchene reports that it is anticipated that between 500/o and 60% will be receiving some form of financial assistance. As the information above reveals, the Admissions Office in -Santa Fe has every right to claim it "is doing something right". Steve Van Luchene and his Assistant Director, Mary McCormick, have been creative, innovation, energetic and enthusiastic in their approach to the admissions challenge, and the future looks rosy, indeed, as a result. Congratulations to all involved! JUNE 1981 Jim Benefiel JIM BENEFIEL: ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN In an informal meeting with student leaders who had gathered to offer their help and guidance on this issue of The Reporter there was enthusiastic agreement that one of the most interesting and beloved people on the Santa Fe campus staff is Jim Benefiel, Assistant Librarian and head of technical services. A later interview proved this to be quite a correct assessment of this genial man. . . Jim was born and raised in Coffeyville, Kansas, a small town which he remembers with great fondness. He received his BA degree from the University of Kansas in 1951 with a major in Romance Languages, and a Masters degree in Spanish the following year. In 1968 he earned his second Masters degree from Denver University in the field of librarianship. In between Jim served in two differenct capacities with the U.S. government, first in the U.S. Army Counter Inteligence Corps in Stuttgart/Offenbach, Germany; and second as a cryptanalyst in the National Security Agency in Washington. He has been an instructor in Spanish, French and Portuguese at the University of Kansas and at Northern Illinois University, and has pursued graduate studies toward his PhD at both the University of Kansas and at the University of New Merico. In 1968 Jim joined the Congregation Fratres Scholarum Christianarum, better known as the Christian Brothers, and then served in 1970-71 as the Librarian of the Antonian School, a Christian Brothers high school in San Antonio, Texas. He left the Order in 1971 at which time he joined the staff of St. John's College in Santa Fe. Jim's interests embrace everything from long involvement with research in Buddhist psychology to continuing personal research into the fine local restaurants! He has a love· for music, particularly the opera and the flute, which he has studied. His reading is primarily in Brazilian literature and Spanish and French. His deep religious leanings have taken him on retreats to many of the beautiful retreat houses throughout the West where he is refreshed in spirit on frequent occasion. Jim's popularity is easily understood. He is rarely seen alone on campus. Students enjoy discussing their thoughts, their pro"' blems, their plans with Jim. His humor radiates and his pensive nature reflects his deep concern for others and for the world around him. A library is his happiest environment, he says, loving reading and research as he does, and he finds the St. John's library an endless source of pleasure and inspiration. Yes, Jim Benefiel is indeed "most interesting and beloved"! The Energy Study Project, now the Energy Study Group, is in the third year pf its existence and has been informal throughout. During its second year, the group concentrated mainly° on the public debate surrounding commercial nuclear power production and on the College's participation in the grant program of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (see accompanying article). The group began this year with a twopart report by Randy Linder, a junior, on the exclusively economic aspects of nuclear power, including mining, milling, processing, power generation, waste disposal, plant decommissioning and uranium reserves. Two conclusions of the report were, firstly that nuclear power production could not be commercially feasible without a substantial portion of its costs being borne by the government, and secondly that an expanded nuclear power capacity, using current technology, would, in a few decades, be dependent on foreign sources of uranium for its fuel. On the initiative of Steve Acciam, also a . junior, two representatives from Los Alamos National Laboratory were invited to report on the Los Alamos laser-driven, thermonuclear fusion power project. The many in attendance were rewarded with a clear, far-seeing, and intelligent presentation. The Los Alamos team estimates that fusion power will not be feasible on a large scale until around the year 2025. The team expressed the view that its current level of funding ($25 million per year) was presently sufficient for maximum progress; this surprised those of us .wont to attribute the attitude ''more is always better'' to hightechnology researchers. Presently, the Energy Study Group is tentatively and slowly gathering information for a feasibility study of on-campus fuel alcohol production and utilization. This is a small but long-term project, the pursuit of which requires patience and perseverance. The limitations on this project may prove to be those of manpower rather than of economic or technical considerations. The research and presentations that the members of the Energy Study Group migh( themselves engage in are genuinely important but largely precluded by a prior com· mitment to the rather intense curriculum. We welcome, however, speakers and suggestions for speakers who can furthur an ongoing dialouge leading to an intelligent appraisal of energy issues and policies, including their social, political, economic, and ethical implications. GAIL HAGGARD ARTICLE IN NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE An article· by Gail Hartshorn Haggard, SF '71, wife of Dean Haggard, Tutor, coauthored by David C. Deardorff, appeared in the April issue of New Mexico Magazine. It is an enchanting article titled t•Going Native with Wildflowers and Grasses." The color photography was also contributed by Haggard, and the cover photo is proof of the harmony and color of these spontaneous flora as described in the article. Not only do the authors tell of the special enchantment of gardens and fields filled with these native plants, they also advise the reader regarding their cultivation. Haggard and Deardorff manage a nursery in Santa Fe and have been cultivating the native flowers and grasses for several years. They are now selling healthy seeds to people who are becoming increasingly interested in growing these natural wonders on their property. The nursery is named Plants of the Southwest and is located at 1570 Pacheco Street in Santa Fe. They will send a free brochure to anyone for the asking. II. FEDERAL GRANTS AID ENERGY STUDY Thanks to the efforts one year ago of the Energy Study Project, St. John's College is receiving Federal matching grants for the study and possible implementation of energy conservation measures on the Santa Fe campus. The study has already revealed that the operation and management of the heating systems are close to optimum efficiency, given the limits of the existing systems; and that more can be done to reduce energy waste due to carelessness, through education within the College community. J:he Federal funding is provided through a three-phase program authorized by the National Energy Conservation Policy Act. The first phase for the College consisted of an energy audit of five campus buildings and preliminary appraisal of potential for conservation measures. The five buildings audited were the Upper and Lower Dormitories, the Peterson Student Center, the Evans Science Laboratory, and Santa Fe Hall. The second phase, now in progress, consists of a detailed technical study, including cost analyses, of promising energy conserving modifications of the buildings. On the basis of the first~phase reports, application for the second-phase grants were approved for the Student Center and both dormitories, but for neither the Science Laboratory nor Santa Fe Hall. The third phase, if undertaken, will include the implementation of those building modifications recommended in the secondphase reports that receive the approval of both the College and the U.S. Department of Energy. Local administration of the grant program is carried out by the New Mexico Energy and Mineral Department. The cost of the energy audits and reports was $2,400; cost of the technical study will be $5,800; half of each is provided by the Federal grants. The College share of the cost of the energy audits was paid for from funds saved by the College in reduced utility bills due to commumty conservation efforts during · the fiscal year ending 1980. The role of the Energy Study Project was to conduct a series of lunchtime interviews with consulting engineers for the purpose of deciding whether the College .should participate in the grant program, and if so, to choose the consulting engineer required to perform the work. These interviews were conducted under the initiative and guidance of Tom Simpson, Tutor, and with the advice, consent, and full cooperation of Emery Jennings, Treasurer. The chairman of the Campus Development Committee, Don Cook, was also consulted. During the process, Richard Kruempel, Maintenance Mechamc, ·and Hans von Briesen, Director of Laboratories, joined the group. In these interviews, students played a major role in discussions, questions, and evaluations of prospective engineers. bi May, ·1980;-entry i-nto the grant program was advised, with the engineering firm of Coupland Moran Associates of Albuquerque to perform the work, including most of the paperwork required by the grant program. The first phase was completed in June, 1980, and grants for thesecond phase were awared in October, 1980. The Energy Study Project advised entry into the grant program for the sake of understanding the energy conservation options open to the College in. the long run, not necessarily for the sake of implementing them with Federal assistance. As of this writing, the second-phase technical report is 'expected soon. �I I JUNE 1981 THE REPORTER DRAGSTEDT AND ROSE LECTURES OUTSTANDING On November 14, 1980 the college community heard a lecture by Dr. J. Albert Dragstedt entitled "The Law of Law _in the Oresteia." Dr. Dragstedt is a tutor in the Integral Curriculum of Liberal Arts at St. Mary's College of California. (The Integral Curriculum, begun during the Second World War, assumed, under the direction of Brother Robert Smith, now a tutor at the Annapolis campus of St. John's, a shape closely resembling that of the St. John's program. Although it has continued to develop along its own lines, it remains essentially similar in its approach and method.) The range of Dr. Dragstedt's research and publications is especially broad. A classicist by training (he studied at Chicago, Heidelberg, and Berkeley), he has published not only in classical literature and philology, but also in ancient political history, the history of logic,. and the theory of Marxism. He maintains as well an active interest in contemporary hermeneutics and in the history of Christian theology. Dr. Dragstedt's lecture was a complex analysis of the evolution of the idea of law in the Oresteia. He sought to explain how Aeschylus represented, in the dramatic form of a family history, the whole development of Greek political society, from its origins in a tribal society, dominated by structures of the primitive family, to its final historical form of Athenian democracy. He laid enormous stress on his view of the parallel development of morality. In a society based on family relationships, the characteristic morality is- composed of inherited, impersonal duties and privileges that cannot, despite their inherent ambiguity, be re-examined by every individual and each generation without destroying the continuity of the generation that alone justifies such a society. A democracy, on the contrary, assumes the burden of continually re-examining inherited customs and structures and of providing a rational basis for a continuously-evolving society. Only in a democracy, therefore, is the political order clearly based upon the underlying realities of society, induding the family, and only there does it transcend them. This relationship is represented by Aeschylus in the final chorus of his triology in which the Eumenides, ·representatives of the underlying powers of family, inheritance, and tradition, are reconciled with the rational political order and so become Furies no longer. Dr. Dragstedt concluded his lecture with a spirited reading, in Greek, of this final chorus, showing how the harsh rhythms and savage emotions of the Furies are gradually softened by the serene rhythms of Athena's wise counsel, until the two are harmonized in the luminous music of the concluding procession in which the Athenian people celebrate the secure establishment of their new democratic order. Edgar S. Rose, Francis B. Gummery Professor of English Literature at Haverford College (and present head of the English department), who taught for ten years in the Hutchins College of the University of Chicago (and barely escaped tutoring at St. John's), gave, on December 5, 1980, one of his thoughtful criticisms of poetry, entitled: "Poetics For The Person Who Knows The Second Law of Thermodynamics.'' Various short poems were read and plal:ed in a topology of the Imagination, moving from the world without to the world within: Whitman's "Farm Picture", Pound's "In a Station of the Metro", Basho's "The Poor Man's Son", Issa's "Contentment in Poverty''. One saw the semantic (the skill of words) converge with the mimetic: What is to be imitated, the forms of sense or symbol? and for what end, the absolute of art itself, or the rhetoric of reader-persuasion? In Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", the imitated occurrence was mined and deepened to a private mythology of the death-wish, In Marianne Moore's "To a Steamroller''_, we mounted the rhetoric of symbol, the empirical crushing of the rational method-its paradoxical tie to imagination: ... As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you, but toquestion the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists. · What gave Professor Rose's lecture its Thermodynamic title, was the concentration (first and last) on two antithetical poems: Elder Olson's "The Exigesis", and William Blake's "To Spring". Olson has versified physical law: that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but that it must run down hill. Nothing is lost ... Time, like the sea, gives back all in the end ... on its own conditions ... Saturn ... Devoured all his children except four, Pluto, Juno, Neptune, Jove ... -earth, air, water, fire. Here imagination bows to the dark idolatry of the external world. Whereas in Blake's Lyrical Ballad, it enters its own fountain of mythic birth: The hills tell each other, and the list'ning Vallies hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy bright pavillions: issue forth, And let thy holy feet visit our clime ... Thus Northrup Frye's (quoted) goal of poetry is achieved, "to show the world reconciled and possessed by the human mind". Which Blake would more likely have called the divine mind. Gillian McHugh and Olga Krassilnikoff presented a spring concert on Sunday, April 26, featuring works of Poulenc, Debussy and Schumann. Their Sunday aftepwon program was one in a series/or the benefit of the Music Lib~ary Collection. lfl addition to being distinguished pianists both are members of the Friends ofthe Music Co!le~tion. The committee is active in arranging such varied benefit concerts as an evening of Broadway show tunes by an Albuquerque group, "TheComprmy''; a recital by mezzo soprano Jeanne Grealish with pianist Jane Snow; choral music by the Sangre de Cristo Singers, and a program of original works by New Mexico composer John Donald Robb. Pagen RESPONSE TO COMMUNITY SEMINARS ENTHUSIASTIC John Watkins comes forward to receive top award. SPECIAL A WARDS Continued from page 1. Acknowledgements of Excellence, accompanied by Awards of $75 each, were presented to: Michele Dace, Ventura, Ca. for her Sophomore essay, "In the end will be no WORD"; Margaret Mertz, Houston, Tx., for _her Sophomore essay, "Fresh Transfigurings"; Bruce Johnson, Lake Oswego, Or., for his Freshman essay, "The Absorption of Oedipus"; David Halsted, Traverse City, Mi., for his poem, "Act III, Scene One'' (The Henry M. Austin Poetry Prize); for his musical composition, "A Study in A major'', Peter McClard, Denver, Co.; Carrie Preston, Santa Fe, for her translation from the Greek of the "Odyssey"; Leslie Whiteside, Encino, Ca., for her Mathematics paper, "The Three Conic Sections"; Stephanie Nelson, Lewiston, Me., for her Mathematics paper, "How Then Do They Differ?" Plaques were awarded to Rebecca Coursey, Hamilton, Oh., and Elizabeth Povenelli, Shreveport, La., for Outstanding Performance 1n Athletics; Mark Dayton, Kentfield, Ca., and Mara Schiffren, New York City, for Athletes of the Year. Community seminars have been an important link between the St. John's College community since the New Mexico campus opened in 1964. That first year there were ninety participants in the weekly continuing seminars. This year, more than one hundred fifty persons enrolled, making this the most successful year for the special seminars. In addition, for the past seven years onetime demonstration seminars have been held each fall to acquaint friends in Santa Fe and Los Alamos with t,he St. John's approach to learning. The first year there were 80 participants. Last fall there were more than 200. Seniors, faculty and staff members are invited to participate in these seminars along with townspeople. Reports indicate that it is a mutually enjoyable experience for both the St. Johnnies and the guests. The one-time seminars often encourage friends of the College to enroll in the regular six, eight, or ten-week seminars, and now and then a person decides to become a student in the Graduate Institute as a result of attending one of them. One-time seminar subjects have offered a wide variety of texts, including the Wallace Stevens poem "Sunday Morning," "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin," an Isak Dineson short story, a D.H. Lawrence play, and "The Plague" by Camus. Favorites each year are the "Declaration of Independence," readings from Plato and Aristotle, and Shakespeare plays. The regular community seminars offer both program and non-program books. This year they have included Faulkner's "Absolom, Absolom," readings from the Old Testament, Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" in Middle English, revolutionary documents, and the Mind-Body problem. Reaction to these continuing seminars, from both the public and the tutors, is enthusiastic. Those who participate come to appreciate the unique learning situation here, as well as the challenges the program offers. And, tutors remark on the rewards of teaching and learning with intelligent and energetic students from the local community. Those who enroll come from diverse backgrounds-retired professional people, educators, St. John's College staff, scientists from nearby Los Alamos, faculty spouses and an occasional high school senior. Art Committee member Dr. A. Donald Bell and Mary Branham, Director of College Relations, are shown with a work by one of three dozen local artists competing for exhibits next year in the College Gallery. In addition to selecting work for shows and sponsoring receptions for the openings, the Art Committee has planned three trips for friends of the College. The first was a long weekend to Canyon de Chelly; the second a spring jaunt to the Mescalero Reservation in the southern part of the state and, last fall, a six-day trip to Mexico for the spectacular train. trip from Chihuahua across the Sierra Madre Mountains and the Barrancas to the west coast. Each of the trips has been a benefit for the College with a tax deductible gift included in the cost. �Page12 THE REPORTER JUNE1981 THE REPORTER Published by St. John's College Santa Fe, NM 87501 LEj Continued from page 1. "Now many of the books you have read here and some that you will go on to read out that our world is a contingent and that the fulfillment of such is not guaranteed. Yet that the world is is no reason to despair, no reason not to aspire to the self-knowledge which enables us to deal with the world objectively because it hones judgment which enables us to know what we may reasonably expect of ourselves; no reason to forsake purposefulness and direction in the conduct of a life. And here, ambition is pertinent ... At its worst it is akin to the sin of pride, and when it has this character, it is sterile; it no good to the person who has it, no good to those he or she affects. Indeed, it is often incredibly destructive to everything it touches, as the lives of tyrants so clearly show. Embodied in the lives of people who do not know themselves, who do not know what can effectively resist, ambition is an arid and dangerous because it becomes a lust to be honored rather than a desire to be honorable, a lust for power rather than a concern to accept exercise it ambition knows no It is without principles, and it is rightly to be feared. ''But the alternatives to sterile ambition seem not to be limited to indifference, apathy, refusal to aspire to responsibility lack of purpose, or refusal of involvement in worldly affairs. There is fertile ambition to be considered, ambition which has not to or perquisites do with self of office or with reputation-ambition which has to do instead with the aspiration to work in the service of ends worth serving, personally, civically, and vocationally.'' Delatire-expfafoecr that fertile ambition is to be found in virtually every walk of life, and he concluded with the following: "For all its frailty, for all that we have failed at in the history of humanity, the world still contains a startling amount of resolute, civilized intelligence and good will. I hope that you are and will continue to be members of this company of human beings, this company whose character and resolve and aspiration survive and even flourish in good times and bad. By your efforts at St. John's, you have made an investment in yourselves toward becoming members of this company, and in that way, your experience in college ought to be continuous with the rest of your lives, even though you are individuals with distinct personalities whose paths will diverge from each other. ''Thus, to conclude: In my view, I hope it · is clear, the highest ideals of education are likewise the highest ideals of the rest of the world. I believe that tomorrow is not so much the first day in the rest of your lives as it is the next day in the lives you are already living. on have achieved The warmest welcome to permanent membership in the College as alumni. And, with all my heart-joy, humility, and resolve into the future. Learn well now, just as you have learned how to learn at St. John's." INTRODUCING ... Gen Mantelli (seated), Joan Allen and Janet Fennell Ray Davis, acting Dean, with Michael Ossorgin, Baccalaureate speaker. The ringing phones and humming typewriters in the second floor offices of Weigle Hall confirm the fact that the President, the Provost, the Director of College Relations, the Director of Alumni Activities, and the National Campaign Coordinator keep the three people pictured here extremely busy. Gen is secretary to the President; Joan, secreta1y to the Provost, and Janet, secretary the other three administrative staff people. Geneva lV!antel!i came to Santa Fe from Colorado in the summer of 1964. She is a graduate Lore/to Heights College in Denver, with a in Business Education. Her husband, Charles, is a civil engineer with the Federal government. Their two sons are both engineers. Gen was secretary to Episcopal Bishop Kinsolving for seven years before coming on the to St. John's in 1973. She and her husband are avid golfers and can course at every opportunity. Gen was Club Champion of the Santa Fe Women's Golf Club and three years, and claims one hole-in-one! She also enjoys water she finds the and has been active in and PW Colorado Joan Allen and her husband, Don, a retired Vice-President of an international agricultural company, came to Santa Fe from St. Petersburg, Florida in 1978. Both Allens originated in Iowa and received their degrees from the University of Iowa. Her was Political Science. Now that their two children are grown (their son is a writer daughter is in the magazine publishing field) Joan enjoys "being busy" as a top-notch secretary. In between her demanding job and a busy social life, Joan loves to sew and help take care of the lovely patio gardens they enjoy. She is known to their many friends as a gourmet cook, but everyone wonders "when she finds the time"! Janet is the newcomer of the trio, having come to Santa Fe in 1980 when her husband, John Pat, assumed his duties as headmaster of Rio Grande School here. Janet betrays her English origins with her soft British speech. She was educated in England and lived in London, Toronto, and then New York before moving west. Their two small boys, Phineas, 3!12, and Morgan, 80, both attend schools now and are becoming enthusiastic skiers during the winter months. Janet andJohn Pat rarely miss theatre performances, the opera, concerts, or any other local theatrical activity. Their new friends here delight them. They say they "love living in Santa Fe"! THANK YOU! Without the help of many Tutors, Staff and students this annual Santa Fe campus issue of "The Reporter", could not have been published. Hats off and many thanks to Tutors Charles Bell, Don Cook, Glenn Freitas, Tom Harris, David Jones, Grietje Sloan, Bruce Venable, John Verdi and Hans von Briesen; to Staff Peggy Allen, Branham, 'Steve Crampton, Marsha Drennon, Istvan Fehervary, Sam Larcombe, Mary McCormick and Steve Van Luchene; and to students Nancie DiSilverio, Tom Donnelly Gina Ironside, Lisa Lashley, Sara Marcy, Paige Lacey, Wendy Root and Steve Sayre. Photo credits are shared by several student photographers, and by professional· Lilienthal and Robert Mason. Everyone's cooperation and cheerful assistance has been greatly aooreciated Margaret The Keporter The F 'l's College, November. 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June 1981 Oil costs u .almost 50 % • I Il·e I c l· The first hint of sunshine to warm the roof of St. John's Power Plant has something to say about the cost of oil the,re this year. At strike one of a sunbeam, Jim Bassford casts a thrifty eye ·at his ther· mometer and goes into action with his three huge, color-coded boilers. The question is how long can he shut down the boilers today? Maybe he can close for an hour before noon, maybe he can sneak in two hours. As spring ad· vances, he gauges it closely, knowing that the campus buildings can hold their heat at least two hours, and he expands the shutdown. · So far, according to St. John's treasurer Charles T. Elzey, shutting down the boilers hq.s been the college's most ef· fective way to save oil. It gets burned up at the rate of 45 gallons an hour if one boiler is on, about 60 gallons an hour if two are ln operation. At 92.1 cents a gallon for Number Six oil, oil has become for St. John's what it is to the average home-owner: an essential COSTS are up by 378. 7 per cent in In 1970-71, the college paid for oil; this year it has budgeted $150,000. Taking a shot in the dark, Mr. Elzey has estimated oil will cost $185,000 next year although the amount the college actually will spend depends upon two factors the college cannot now .know: how cold the winter will be and how high the price of oil will climb. That would represent a jump of 490 per cent. Electricity and gas also are going up, . but by less during the same 10-year from $58,956 to $80, 741 or by 37 per cent. Next year's budget has set aside $100,000 for the two utilities, or an increase of 69.6 per cent. . Energy is absorbing a great share of the total college budget. In 1970-71 it was responsible for 3.5 per cent of a budget of $1,844,195. Next year, they are expected to swallow up 6.2 per cent of the $4,598,207. If costs do not taper off, college of· ficials anticipate energy could account for 10 per cent of the budget by the mid-1980s. The campus is watching it, and thanks to new energy-saving steps, the consumption is down. "We won't beatlast year which was an unusually mild winter," Mr. Bassford, who keeps a daily record of the tern· perature, said. At the time of this interview, on April 21, the 1980·81 academic had been colder 229 degrees than orevious year. we definitely are using less oil. This year we will use 155,000 gallons, about a load more than last year and about 49,000 less than the 1979-80 year. It will he the second lowest we've had since I took over Continued on P. 6) s Kurt Schuler portrays K..,.nir1m11n ter, who sang the male lead. Todd Reichart photo s "I'm a Fury," Ann Dutton announced sweetly, fresh in a white spring blouse, blue eyes bright, face aglow in a smile. And so, appearances to the contrary, she is. So is Assistant Dean Barbara Leonard. And so is Susan Coffee, who is serious and gentle and interested in music, but in whose opinion "the gym is really the nicest building on campus." No Fury Euripides would recognize, they are the kind you will find gathered on a spring day beyond the sycamores on back campus, glove and hat in hand, warming up for a softball game with the Maenads or the Amazons or the Nymphs. The presence of four teams in the past half dozen years; representing one third of the women, speaks for a new vitality in the women's once floundering sports program. In continuing a trend begun some years ago, women sports are moving upward and outward at St. John's - the "in" thing. Women sports are big on campus. "Don't credit me," Athletic Director Bryce Jacobsen cuts through any praise due him for a program which has the playing fields and gym asplash with the • r blue, black, maroon, and gold of team colors. He-thinks the new interest may be due to the arrival of larger numbers of freshmen each year who have been active in the nationally growing program.of elementary and secondary schools. Or it could be due to the women's movement itself or to all the heightened interest around the country in good physical health. ST. JOHN'S WOMEN'S sports program has been slow in evolving. Although co-education was adopted by the college in 1951, a program for women did not begin until the early 1960's, partly because of lack of sufficient numbers. When it was undertaken, every men's team had its counterpart among the women. Points were totaled as a unit. "The disadvantage was that a good men's team didn't want to be pulled down by a poor women's team," Mr. Jacobsen ex· plained the flaw in that program. "And when the inevitable happened, decided to separate." That also turned out to have a de(Continued on P. 7) Perfect weather, the awarding of prizes, the commissiOning of one graduate as a Marine Corps officer, and some encouraging and precautionary words from President Edwin J. Delattre marked this year's commencement exercises . Seniors, who had marched in Mr. Delattre's inaugural procession last fall, heard their last formal talk at St. John's delivered by him in ceremonies under the Liberty Tree, traditional site for commencement. For all its frailty, for all that it has failed in the history of humanity, Mr. Delattre reminded graduates that the world stm contains "a startling amount of resolute, civilized intelligence and good will. Altogether St. John's awarded diplomas to 73 students, led this year John Seddon Wilson, who received silver medal given by the Board of Visitors and Governors to the senior who has the academic standing. Two seniors shared first place for the highly rated prize for the best senior essay. They were Peter Gilbert, of Whippany, N.J., and Lycette Nelson, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Florence Roessler, of Arlington, Va., received honorable mention. After the awards and commencement address, David M. Nau, of Reisterstown, Md., took the oath as second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Able to qualify for a commission as soon as he received his degree, Lt. Nau chose the occasion in II order that it might occur when close friends and family members could be present. His classmates gave him a standing ovation. Susan Coffee, Washington! N.Y., and (Continued on P. 3) A ceremony dedicating two new oil paintings of the New Program's founders - Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan - will highlight homecoming on the An· napolis campus September 25-26. The portraits are being completed by Herbert Abrams, of Warren, Ct., distinguished American portrait painter, and are scheduled to be delivered here for framing this summer. Allan P. Hoffman, chairman of a special committee established at last year's homecoming to consider visual ways to honor prominent St. John's figures, said the paintings, designed to be as a pair, will be placed in the Great The portraits depict Barr and Buchanan as they would have appeared soon after they arrived in 1937 as the program's first president and dean. In order to capture their likenesses and personalities, Mr. Abrams consulted (Continued on P. �THE R~PORTER . Page2 'ACLC\J~~~ ~r;;u ~CD w By Tom Parran '42 Eastern Director of Alumni /Activities · 1921 For those of us who have been known to partake of certain spiritous beverages, always in moderation, the work of Dr. Thomas B. Turner is most encouraging. A recent issue of The Johns Hopkins Medical Journal reports the results of a study that Tommy, Virginia Lee Bennett, and Hector Hernandez made on "The Beneficial Side of Moderate Alcohol Use." What was reported was " ... that the moderate use of alcoholic beverages by adults may reduce the risk of myocardial infarction, improve the quality of life of the elderly, relieve stress, and contribute to nutrition." There is far more to the report. to be sure, but we just wanted you to know that there is some good news for a change. against the Federal government, charging the latter with a campaign of "disruption and defamation." At press time, the issue had not been resolved. (Our thanks to Connie Holland for this item.) 1969 A very welcome letter from Linda Tor· caso Bernstein reveals the arrival on January 23 of second son Joseph Lee; David Jason is now 31/2. Linda and Mark attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School and have practiced law since receiving their degrees. He is a founding partner in the firm of Berson, Fineman & Bernstein; she is on maternity leave from Community Legal Services (and wonders about the effect of Reaganomics on her job). The Bernsteins live in the Mt. Airy 1935 section of Philadelphia. A recent mention in this column of the Linda also reports a visit with Richard calligraphic activities of John Rogers, '75, elicted a response from Bob Lam pee about Stevens when he was last home from his own work in calligraphy. After 40 years Alaska. He lives in an isolated village acas a newspaper man, Bob now makes his cessible only by plane, in a house which he home in Phoenix, Ariz., where, in 1975, he built, heats ·with wood, and lights with and three associates started Pengraphics. kerosene. Smoked salmon, which he catCurrently, he and one other calligrapher . ches, and caribou, which he shoots, apwork full-time doing presentation scrolls, parently form a large part of his diet. Joan Mooring reports receipt of her certificates, diplomas, love letters, and a doctorate in clinical psychology last variety of other hand-lettered items. November and a month-long trip to the 1938 John Lambros, assistant to the People's Republic of China, where she general manager of Bethlehem Steel Cor- delivered two papers, took pictures, made poration's Baltimore yard, retired in many friends, collected data for research, March after 42 years with the company. got lost in every city, and, obviously from One of St. John's truly great athletes, John her letter, enjoyed her visit thoroughly. 1970 is a member of the Maryland Athletic Hall Theda B. Hitchcock has joined the San of Fame and the Maryland State Softball Hall of Fame and is as well a member of Francisco law firm of Sullivan, Jones & the Board of Governors of the National Archer. 1972 Football ijall of Fame. Alexander Ward studied engineering 1950 George B. Miller; Jr .• former librarian at Florida Atlantic College, received a on the Santa Fe campus and former assis- master's degree in foreign affairs from tant dean for Collection Development at Georgetown, and is currently a yacht the University of New Mexico Library, is designer. Barton Wright reports acceptance at now a professional writer. In conjunction the University of California, Los Angeles, with two others, Georg~ has compiled and edited Puppetry Library: An Annotated law school. 1974 Bibliography Based on the BatchelderCaptain Erica Chaney King has been McPharlin CoJlection at the University of promoted to assistant disbursing officer of New Mexico (Greenwood Press, Connecthe First FSSG, Marine Corps Air Station, ticut, 1981). El Toro, Cal., and is eagerly awaiting her 1958 transfer this month to the fair Pacific isle Thomas S. Yoon is executive managof Okinawa. ijusband Greg, also captain, ing director of ICC Construction Co., Ltd., USMC, will be assigned to a ground unit of Seoul, Korea, in charge of overseas there. In June, 1982, the Kings expect operations, especially in Saudi Arabia. He transfers to the Washington, D.C., area. is very interested in hearing "from alumni 1976 associated with construction companies, Mark Fabi has been accepted at Jefconsulting engineering firms, or construction material manufacturers. His address ferson Medical School, Thomas Jefferson is 106-13 Hoekidong, Dongdaimun-ku, University, Philadelphia. 1917 Seoul, Korea. From Chili comes news that Rodney 1965 Dana Densmore is a product planner for the Nixdorf Computer Corpt'ration and lives in Newton, Mass. 1966 It's now Judy Millspaugh, M.D., by virtue of a medical degree from American University, awarded last month. Our congratulations, Judy. Peggy Winter this spring represented the Socialist Workers Party in a suit Anne Strabucchl is married to a member of an old, distinguished "Chilean family, Pepe Montt. They are now living in a big, old fashioned flat in Santiago. Rodney is working for television, and Pepe is associated with his brother in a small furniture factory; 1978 Janet Ehrenberger Perry reports to our editor that she is very busy outside her The Reporter Rebecca Wilson, editor; Samuel Kutler, Thomas P~rran, J. Winfree Smith, Elliott Zuckerman, advisory board. · · The Reporter is published the Office of College Relations, St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., 21404. J. Delattre, president. Published five times a year, in February, April, June, September and November. Second class postage paid at Annapolis, USPS 018-750 ' J JUNE 1981 Pat Polillo has top TV post . Pat ~olillo, '56, has been appointed v1ce-pres1dent and gene~al manager ~f Westmgho~se ~roadca~tmg Company s ~YW:TV m -~hll~delphia. He. leaves. an identical position m San Francisco, where he had been since February, 1979. Variety reported his move by saying, "What's interesting about KPIX's closing assault on market's long-time news leader is the fact that station's g.m.-v.p. Pat Polillo was the man who guided KGO into the top slot when he was news director there in 1970·73. He's been KPIX's topliner since February, 1979." Prior to joining Group W's San Francisco station, Mr. Polillo received widespread industry recognition as vicepresident of television news operations for Group W's TV Station Group, headquartered in New York City. While serving in that position from September, 1974, to February, 1979, he assisted the five Group W television stations (now six) in developing . and implementing new directions in the important area of station news programming. Among his achievements, Mr. Polillo trailblazed a mini-cam revolution in 1975, with Channel 3 becoming the first all ENG news operation in the top 10 markets. He also is one of the prime movers behind the increased development of local investigative reporting. Due primarily to his efforts, Group W established the award-winning I-Team investigative reporting units. AN AUTHORITY on TV journalism, he played a key part in screen writer Paddy Chayefsky's research for the Academy-award winning movie "Net· work." While Mr. Polillo was director of news and program development at WAGA· TV in Atlanta, from July, 1973, to September, 1974, Chayefsky said in the May 16, 1974, issue of the Atlanta Constitution, "Pat Polillo is the archetype of the new kind of television news director. That's why I chose to come here first.'' "The Fighter at Five," as he was referred to in a 1974 Atlanta Magazine headline, moved to that city from his first San Francisco job, as news director at the ABC owned-and-operated station, KGOTV. He took over the third place news operation in June, 1970f and left it in a dominant number one position in 1973. That same year, KGO-TV's news department was awarded an Emmy for HBest News Program" by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. regular job in information processing. She has been made regional director of the Western Region of Women in Information Processing (WIP), charged with organizing all the local chapters in California. She also is marketing a book about being a computer consultant for a friend. Peter Janssen, reports his father, is in Bangkok writing for Focus magazine and doing free-lance work. Winfield Ihlow, after two years "living out of the family farm'' in Minnesota, last fall enrolled at Indiana University, initially history and philosophy of science, then shifting to mathematics. This past semester he has been filling out an undergraduate major in the latter field as Most of his career and life have been spent on the East Coast, including Boston, where he was news and public affairs director at WNAC·TV in 1969 and ' PAT POUllO Philadelphia, where he revamped the 60person radio and TV news operation at WFIL-TV and WFIL·A.M·FM Radio from 1967 to 1969. Mr. Polillo started out, however, in radio at age 16, working in Baltimore as a producer-director and -occasional on-air talent for WBMD in 1948. Three years later, he made his first. move into television at WAAM-TV in Baltimore as a projectionist, cameraman, and on-air talent. In 1952, he left to attend St. John's. That same year he joined the Counter Intelligence Corps as a special agent for three years, including two years service in Germany. Upon his discharge, Mr. Polillo studied German language, history, and literature at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he was awarded University and Gilman fellowships, ear· ning a master of arts degree in 1961. He returned to broadcasting after graduation, as producer and news editor for WJZ·TV. Six months later, he moved to another Group W station, KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, where he developed and produced Group W's first half-hour television news program in 1963, top-rated in its time period. MR. POLILLO'S distinguished career in broadcast journalism, spanning more than 32 years, bas been marked with many awards, including the 1975 Headliners' Award for the Group W news documentary "Flowers from Horseback," and the Eudora Welty Award for Documentary Excellence in 1974 for his special "Trouble in the Ghetto." well as teaching a basic skills algebra course - and enjoying the teaching. By next spring he hopes to become a fullfledged graduate student in mathematics. 1980 Michael Conner sends a message from Japan, where he and five classmates are living and working as English conversation teachers. Mike also is a proof reader· editor for a marketing research firm, as well as an announcer-narrator for NKH, the Japanese national education television network. When Mike leaves Japan, perhaps next October, he hopes to return to the States via the Trans-Siberian Express through Russia. IN MEMORIAM 1923- Frederick C. Stecker, Bodega, Cal., April 21, 1981. 1924-Tilghman B. Marden, Jr., Baltimore, Md., September 12, 1979. 1929-Thomas H. Perrie, Columbia, S.C., June 10, 1980. 1933- WilliamJ. Carter, Baltimore, Md., September 23, 1980. 1933-Charles A. Snyder. Annapolis, Md., January 1981. 1934-John H. Shea, St. Petersburg, Fla., March 7, 1981. 1940-Herman Cooper, Silver Spring, Md., March, 1981. 1941- Albert H. J aeggin, Flushing, N. Y., 3, 1981. 1949C. Ellsworth, Chicago, Ill., November 1, 1980. 1951Lovettsville, Va., June 14, 1980. 1980 - Beth 22, 1981. �J 1 1 s Continued from P. 1) Matthew H. ffartzell, Evanston, Ill., received special maroon blazers offered by the Alumni Association to the senior man and senior woman who had contributed most to the athletic program. They were presented by Frank Atwell, association president. Then, in a of their own, the two seniors presented Bryce Jacobsen with a blue blazer. Mr. Hartzell said it was to recognize the St. John's athletic director for running "the best athletic department of any college or any ~university in this country.". Altogether, the . Class of 1981 had proved itself particularly capable. Dean Edward Sparrow informed members that within his memory it was the first one in which all seniors were able to graduate without reservation. Prize winners announced by President Delattre were: For high academic achievement, constructive membership in the college community, and commitment to post graduate work, the Petersen award for a junior of $1,250, James Ingham, Dallas, Tex.; to students with high scholarship, awards of $1,000, in memory of C. Markland Kelly, Jr., William John Gavula, Philadelphia, Martin Marklin, St. Louis, and George McDowell, Jr., Brighton, Mich. For graduate or professional study, the Guttman scholarships of $1,250 each to Evan Canter, Chicago, Michael Rutherford, Kingston, Ont., Elizabeth Scali, Harrisburg, Pa., and Ruth Ann Smith, Annapolis; 'fhe Ronay award of $1,000 for high scholarship, Abraham Schooner, Stratford, Conn.; for excellence in speaking, the Tydings senior award to Jamie Scott Whalen, Lasalle, Ill.; best junior essay, Janet Durholz, first, and George lan~ a c o~e. honorable mention; Best sophomore essay, David Carnes, Joplin, Mo., first, and Leland LeCuyer and Susan Maguire, both Annapolis, honorable mention; best freshman essay, Christian Paul Holland, Bedford, N.H., and Charles Allen Speight, St. Albans, W. Va., first, and Thomas Loveland, Eugene, Ore.,· and James Hyder, Columbia, Md., honorable mention; Best translation of a French poem, Merle Allan Sekelik, Springfield, freshman; best original English poem, Mr. Carnes and Pierre Henry Gagnier, Detroit; best original musical composition, Michael Friend, Spring Valley, N.Y.; best laboratory project, Jonathan Gold, Mobile, Ala., and most elegant solution of a mathematical problem by a junior or senior, Martin Miller, Lewiston, Me. In his talk, Mr. Delattre distinguished between two types of ambition, one of which he said is often "incredibly destructive to everything it touches." "Embodied in the lives of people who do not know themselves, who do not know what temptations they .§:!ail effectively resist," he said, "ambition is an arid and· dangerous thing because it becomes a lust to be honored rather than a desire to be honorable, a lust for power rather than a concern to accept responsibility and exercise it well. Sterile ambition is without principle, and it is rightly to be feared.'' But there is also another type of ambition that Mr. Delattre- described as "fertile," ambition which "has to do instead with the aspiration to work in the service of ends worth serving, personally, civically; and vocationally. "Please understand," he continued, The dancers, left to right, are Lisa Nurcombe, Joseph Houseal, Alexc:mdra Mullen, and Beth Lohr. Hidden behind Mr. Houseal is Lisa Ross · Todd Reichart photo Oresteia inspires dance performance A freshman seminar paper became more than that this year when Joe Houseal, St. Joseph, Mich., freshman, con· verted part of The Oresteia to dance and recitation this spring. A former professional dancer with the Washington and New York City ballet companies, Mr. Houseal wrote a formal paper on the Aeschylus trilogy and ended it with some thoughts on the manner in which The Oresteia might be adapted to dance. This he proceeded to do. Supporting his role as Orestes was Lisa Nurcombe, Burlington, Vt., freshman, as Electra and: a student chorus comprised of Alexandra1 'Mullen, Beth Lohr, and -Lisa Ross. The visually stunning performance, with· Electra in a long wite gown and the rest im short, pale, -cocoa-colored chitons, was: given on a bright blue May day on the steps; leading to the McDowell quadrangle .. Dancers and spectators, seated on the: grass and on the quad above, were floodedl with the noonday sunshine. The performance of about 15 minutes incorporated the kommas, an ode in choral form, in which both actors and chorus participate, drawn from the last half of The Greek Libation Bearers. It was recited by the dancers in Greek with a gravity and dramatic intensity suited to those moments m which Electra and Orestes attempt to summon their father from the grave .. Mr. Houseal's stylized choreography was geometric in nature and powerfully re-enforced the speech. Consciously eschewing ballet technique as. too ethereal for tragedy, he adopted, in movements reminiscent of Nijinsky's Afternoon of a Faun, the two-dimensional "life is not just work, and not all personal becoming is a matter of effort or strain. But the motives to become a better person, to accept one's share of responsibility for the world, to bring civilized intelligence directly into play as a person, and as friend, citizen, parent, or member of a ·profession or occupation - these are motives of irreplaceable merit. They come to be by virtue of the desire and convictions of individual human beings; they do not happen by accident very often, but are accompanied by resolve. To have them is to have the kind of ambition which is fertile." art of a Greek vase. The translation was Mr. Houseal's 'Own. After scanning the poetry with a view 1to its euphony and rhythm and after 1examining the religious content of the verse, Mr .. Houseal had spent the spring· vacation considering how it best might be presented in dance. His intent was tu dance it as it might have been done in. Aeschylus's day, to present a credible performance. As he has polnted out, no one can vouch for its authenticity. What Mr. Houseal achieved was a remarkable production-a rare moment for St. John's in any year-which calls for an encore. The perfoi:mance occurred the same Id · ew JONATHAN GOLD ... Tieing up experiment day that Peter Amott, chairman of the Tufts University Drama Department, staged a one-man, marionette production of The Baccbae. It was a magnificent performance which evoked a standing ovation from the audience, the vast majority of which knew the play, and brought the widely expressed thought that his performances at St. John's should be annual. Both events came on the Friday before Reality Weekend. Dealing as they did with. tragedy, the two events were poised, as festivals require, as the serious moments before play of another kind begins. rato rize An experiment in embryology has won Jonathan Gold, Mobile, Ala .• sophomore, a new prize offered for the first time this year to the St. John's student who has carried out the best laboratory project. Awarded at commencement, the prize was established by the estate of Herbert C. Fooks, '06, who died June 11, 1980, in his memory as well as that of his cousin, Burleigh C. Fooks, '20, and his nephew, George H. Fooks, '29. Mr. Gold's project involved a study of the specific developmentaLpatterns in the embryo with its "organizer" region necessary for forming the surrounding cells into specific and specialized tissues and organs. Working with newts, Mr. Gold attempted to repeat experiments conducted by one of the early embryologists. Hans Spemann. Mr. Gold undertook the work as a preliminary step to an investigation he hopes to conduct next year exploring a fundamental question left unresolved by Spemann: to what extent can an organizer graft influence the development of an undifferentiated mass of embryonic cells lacking organizers? Translation appears Annapolis tutor Mera Flaumenhaft's translation of Machiavelli's comedy, Mandragola, has been published by Waveland Press of Prospect Heights, Ill. Previously, Mrs. Flau.menhaft has published articles on Othello and on Mandragola. Her article on Odysseus will appear this year in Interpretation. tC.~ �Winfree Smith Rod Frechette, left, and Spartan Madball has only one rule: getting there. the Real Olympics underway in an exhortation in Greek. do their best in this tug of war make the goal but don't kill anyone Photos by Todd Reichart Herodotus wouldn't recognize it, but it's the Battle of Salamis and Jonathan Edelman has the mellon. �JU 1 5 ~ �J ge6 s r r as engineer five years ago." THE COLLEGE consumed 149,000 gallons in 1979-80, 197,000 in 1978-79, and 200,000 gallons in 1977-78. A load consists of 6,000 gallons poured into the two 10,000 gallon underground tanks near the Power Plant. "When I came oil was 35 to 40 cents a ;gallon," Mr. Bassford said. "Now it is 92 ;cents a gallon. It's more than doubled in :snuttmg down is sornet:hir1g is doing more and more of betwe{~n tober, when the days 1,;1.1•~µ11::.u, the years of was no need to do so. ~ 1'180-81 r Mephen Fineberg, '64, assistant professor of classics at Knox, College, Ill., has been awarded one of the American Association's Awards for Excellence the Teachin2 of the Classics. Mr. who holds a doctorate from the of Texas, has been at Knox since 1976. In that time he has built what was a defunct program ffterature and the classics. civilization of The association's award was for the eastern section of the Midwestern states. Mr. Fineberg was one of seven nominated for the award from this region. Mr. Fineberg believes that the value of Greek and Latin needs no justification. "The classics mark the threshold to western civilization," he said. What he fears is that the classics have been put into the category of "irrelevant" disciplines by a world in revolt against its traditions. "It is a world of pragmatists and, if you realists as never before," said Mr. Fineberg. "If this skeptical public is to be reached, the job will be done not by the scholars but by the teacher." Mr. Fineberg_ said the philological. association's awards are part of a new nation-wide emphasis on excellent teaching and the revival of the classics. "This will be healthy not only for the public, which is threatened with an eclipse of a vital and significant tradition, but also for the profession itself," he said. "There is always a danger of becoming so expertly and technically efficient that one forgets the reason for which the were originally expertise and sought.'' l'tl0-"11 ) I t "They were witty, oh so clever" to paraphrase one of the songs of West Street Story, the first student musical since the 1973 Wizard of Nous and a bright and breezy culmination of Reality Weekend. Inspired by a musical of a similar name, the show was written primarily by Matthew Hartzell, Evanston, Ill., senior, The program Fineberg helped resurrect at Knox, after a JO-year hiatus, saw its first two majors graduated last spring. The program now has six majors. Fineberg pointed out that many are double majors, from other fields such as economics and modern languages. Some are successful athletes. "They seem to strive for excellence in a diversity of " assisted by two other seniors Timothy Ficco, of Greensburg, Pa., and James Preston, Hyattsville, Md., as well as by a junior, William Ney, of Lebanon, N.J. Although the two talented pianists David Nau and John Shock - performing on uprights at the right of st-age,-had a head start learning the music, the show, because of the pressure of everything else going on at St. John's, went together during the two and a half weeks just before production, and the musical itself was staged all the way through that even1ng for the first time. It was chancy but highly successful. All the dances, choreographed by Joe Houseal, were learned in the final week and were particularly impressive with the twists, jumps, and drops of the "Boy, boy, silly boy, be cool, boy" number performed the Little Campus. Jimmy Brunner helped direct, and Joe E dozien' s dog, along with a Golden nrtrn1t'1Prl some suspense with an um;ch~~duled dog fight off stage. The two factions in West Side were by students and tutors. be~mtilful young tutor, Maria Sune, and a student, Anthony Sophra, fall in love, but their for Tony to return to teach in five years are thwarted when it appears he has had a disastrous senior oral and she has lost a chance at tenure. Both rumors false but not before up for a 10-vear stint """nfr.,..t<>hhr at home on was able to his fine voice to use, the song, "Reason," while made a prettilv charmand Maria. Anne was excellent as the tutor. Both women are to be for unthe difficult "I Feel song, with its octave range. Seniors and underclassmen came thromrh s101ena1d.tv as students, tutors, chorus member dancers. There were a number of with on stage with lunch box in hand as assistant dean. Dan Van Doren was cast as the dean. Best of all, the show helped break a raising the level of WPPkP.nct performances to a higher '"'<1 "'"''"" 1 E 1981 • level. But more needs to be done. The first part of the evening would have been vastly improved'had it been edited and tightened. The films could have been shown at another time. James Demartini's Homeric poem about euglena, volvox, and stenter successfully captured all the bombast of heroic verse for the heretofore neglected world of protozoa, but while any master of UN emcees this show• iriot·u ceremonies could take a lesson from easy and pleasant manner. Mr. suffered fron one fault: excessive rr.o.""""'";h, of heart. While amusing in part, contest went on and on, as it does, too long, and time limits should have been called. Bre--''-after all, does have something to do the soulf of wit. intermission, some of the audience, restless and had fad= ed away, of the best part of the What is needed is a senior to better what and what would be to anticipate would be a group of students who can match West Street Story. Mr. Hartzell, his cast, and accompanists are to be congratulated for St. John's a wonderful musical to end the year. st is The chairman of the Board of Visitors and Governors' Visiting Committee for the Annapolis campus is John L. Ernst, author of two children's books and editor of four others. Elected to the board in July, 1979, Mr. Ernst is a native of New York City who was educated at Lawrenceville School, Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1962, and University College, Oxford University, where he was a student from 1962-63. Associated with the Doubleday Books for Young Readers between 1964 and 1972, he has served as editorial assistant, associate editor, assistant manager, and editorial director there. At present he is president of Bloomingdale Properties, where lie served previously as vice-president and vicechairm an. Books which he edited for Doubleday have included Phantoms & Fantasies, Favorite Sleuths, Call Us Americans and Jokes, Puns and Riddles. He is the author of Escape King: The Story of Harry Houdini and Jesse James, both published JOHN l. ERNST by Prentice-Hall. Mr. Ernst has served as a member of the Children's Book Council and as a trustee of the Cancer Research Institute. He is the father of two children, Alexandra and Matthew. Mr. Ernst's other _interests include reading, collecting Navajo textiles, and raising polled Hereford cattle. �7 1 • I I «I I I (Continued from P. 1) leterious effect, he said.'- Starting with five independent women's teams, "1Ule college found that one by one they dropped away until the number finally was reduced to two. "That meant with every game, the teams were playing each other," he recalled~ "Having reduced the-number to the absolute minimum, even that didn't work. So for a couple of years we hobbled without a successful girls' program. there were no teams in the early 70s. About the mid·1970s, there was an in interest among girls. More were who had been active in high school school. Now we can maintain For the last five or six years, n~M~~rlln and going · " SO NOW THE women have their own schedule of team and individual soccer in the basketball ball in the softball in the along with track, tennis, pingpong, uui.avi", and racquetball. ad.ctlt10n. to spur them for earning St. John's blazers needed) and a physical fitness has some women runnim! and calisthenics on their own. the program, named its first women's in the athletic director, Helen 1970's. In recent years have Reineke, been Beth Gordon, and this year, Lisa Cobb. Tricia Because, along with Mr. Jacobsen, Miss Cobb is out there refereeing and 11mnirimz games and has no onnortunitv to she is which sep"'"'"'t-o" e':uuz.~u teams sex. Greenwaves. also been another cuau!!e. "The Furies ...,hf,,.,." of Camurn. and name. Like the program for the men, the women follow the same guidelines. There are no intercollegiate games. No freshman needs to try out and demonstrate her skill in order to join a team. Much more relaxed than the blood sports associated with some high school programs, the competition is there, but so is the fun. "THE COMPETITION is enough to assure team loyalties, but not enough to make you feel crushed if you lose," Patti Negales, Ciudad Guayana, Venzuela, junior and an Amazon stalwart, said. The point is to play, no matter what your strong or weak points. "The program gives people who have been active in sports a chance to stay active and those who know nothing, a chance to learn," Terri Hahn, Granby, Conn., junior and captain of the Maenads, said. Every St. John's woman is encouraged to take part. "We're very heavy on praise," Ellen Alers, Clinton, Md., junior said of one way of encouraging them. "Students who are not necessarily the best are willing to try. That's the most important thing.'' "Not good enough!" Miss Cobb is impatient with the notion anyone ~should excuse herself from playing for that reason. "There's no way you can't be good enough.'' Furthermore, there are other reasons for playing, she believes. "People complain that_ there's not campus · "all sorts of in all sorts of levels of " Miss said teamwork makes it nm1sib1le to have a close other women in which look as other as true friends, rather share a co1rnpetitors, and understand lot in common. "~"tHnrt OUt and women women "It fosters an caIJau1t'., of you can make - a difcan start on the - ~··:-~ time," she said. "That's it so much easier to spend an in the fresh air and go back and work don't I've e:otten to know all and and I've got to know them program." a get to know another side of the than that you knew in the classes." She also underscored Miss Cobb's belief that aids studies. "I find can my Greek much better around." have been STRONG for the program Miss comes students appreciate. The program also attracted Marilyn Douville, a new tutor, who plays with the who sustained a black eye this during a softball game. The college nurse, Marilyn Mylander, is a Fury, and Nancy Winter, the college registrar, is an Amazon, but finds her working schedule precludes daytime games. In terms of the number of games played, the program is just about equal to the men's. The men play 40 games a year; the women, 39. While it is not taken as seriously as the men's (the single shower and inadequate locker room are seen as symbols), there's a sex-based difference which Mr. Jacobsen appreciates: the way the women look upon competition. "It's much nicer," Mr. Jacobsen said of women sports. "I think partly it's because men take their competitive selves more seriously. It's partly tied up with the male image. They can get upset if they lose or upset if the referee calls a foul. It does something to this strange, competitive, macho image. "Girls don't have it. Some problems for officials aren't there when they are working with girls. They like to win as as the boys do; they play to win, and they don't get uptight about it. They don't feel diminished if they lose. It's much nicer for tfie referee and much nicer for the winn~rs and losers.'' Occasionally, because a problem may arise within a team, a man may ask to be 1 And like the like to it has been set up. Miss Cobb see a shorter soccer season in the when the weather can get uncomfort cold, with some soccer games played the spring. Miss Leonard believes participation would be increased if a week were put aside before each new sport of the season is introduced when rules could be taught to those who don't know them. Without really being able to define what happens, most of the women have grown to enjoy the experience of playing together in teams. Miss Hahn believes most people who come to St. John's come as individuals, who are used to working and studying by themselves and who have to develop the art of being a team. "It offers more awards than being an individual," she said. "It has to be taught. It doesn't seem to be a natural impulse for women." (Mr. Jacobsen recalled one freshman who played as if no-other member of her ·team existed. "It was almost funny to watch," he chuckled. She not only caught on, but by her senior year had distinguished herself.) A LOT HAPPENS in teamwork. The wo·men speak of recognizing each others. limits and strengths, of encouraging one another, of, mutual responsibility, of growing better together. Importantly, there are friendships. "These is a lot of affection between everyone," Mrs. Nogales observes. Noting that the program provides women with an opportunity to work with realize that you can do that, there's no You learn you are a person. In her words, that can be hH'!l'l"!l hT1 cr" It also may be the reason more than one shv l!irl here has ila:>va:>lonPrl 1 1 as in the case of L•"'"'"l.l"C::: Nelson, the Amazons' captain, who not become active in the sports program until her sophomore spring, students do not immediately take part in· the program. Once involved, Mr. J acobesen said they almost always remain. Captains are chosen yearly, either by their predecessors or by a general consensus. Then, in the fall, sophomore draft, each captain takes a turn selecting sophomores she wants on her team until the names of all possible sophomores are exhausted. A number of the students develop their skills for the first time at St. John's. Rebecca Krafft, Alexandria, Va., senior, and captain of the Nymphs, swa·m in high school but was not active in team sports until she came here. t The Annapolis campus's Development Office is looking for a development officer, preferably an alumnus, who can assist with St. John's fund raising efforts. Interested persons are asked to write or call Ann Cruse, development director, at St. John's. �JU E 1981 St. John's old timers are Last Ford month it was Rfohard Ford. is 56 years and of those 56 years, count two in the he 43 on one would guess more years than anyone since 1784. He came here when he was 14, exaggerating a little about his age, a sharp little kid and a natural craftsman, the sort who might have cut his teeth on a cross~cut saw. After all, when he was seven, wasn't he busy repairing screen doors and steps on Clay Street where he grew Former registrar and archivist Miriam Strange remembers not what he did for the but all the work he achieved at the property the college owned: the House, Hammond-Harwood, Pinkney-Callaghan, and the Claude House. "I have the greatest kind of ad~ and affection for '' Miss Strange said. "He is one of us old folks; we ·belong to another era. In those days the' college had a different character. We had a much smaller working force, people did a great variety of things. His contributions were quite amazing in terms of service. He would work all hours of the when he was needed. That type and of he's given isn't easily up? the late Archie Mccourt, whose almost unScottish brogue Ford to interpret, Ford settled enough to learn all the tricks of the plmmb4~rs' trade following other around and keeping his eyes But now, troubled a of arthritic legs which won't behave as he would like after 11 o'clock in the mornimz - he's been on campus at 5:30 a.m. -he can't you, Ford,·' you tell him. addressing him by name by which Trained his first hands behind his head. "There were Ford K. Brown and JimTolbert and John were real baseball friends. Mr. Kieffer nri:•11iil.ont and dean) and I used to conversations. But (the late) Mr. Brown and Mr. Tolbert (former admissions director) were the ones used to do a lot of and some would do my walking tor have been com= whom he had to her death last month of a rest he hopes to find carpentry work. Ford worked _ sick leave benefits for its members. And he has had friends all over the "I can't natne them " he relaxing at the end of his long work him. "I've had some wonderful John's and worked with a · The have been he said of crew. all about my condition and Gilbert Joe i;;;:nrw1.1~ that as Matthews, George children most of all the fellows out "IT'S BEEN MY legs. 11 o'clock FORD ARRIVED AT St. John's in there have been I walk from the same vear two of his lon2'-time Jacobsen, the Power to the colfege uu~Auu1l:;:~. s nu Two St. John's alumni - Howard Zeiderman and Sachs - will become tenured of the 1982, at the end of their year appointment. Sachs received his .bachelor's from St. John's in 1968, He was student at the New School Social Research in New York from 1971 to 1973 and obtained Shlte St. John's. Mr. Zeiderman, who gr~tduatt~d St. John's in 1967, had at Dartmouth vvrn::ei"'· his master's from Princeton, where he was a Princeton National Fellow. From 1973 to 1977 he was a on the Santa Fe campus. In 1978 he ioined the .nUU<11JVHCI campus. "I remember once Barr, debt, said, Richard Perlitz debt.'' Mrs. Perlitz was a former switchboard onPr.:itor who also took care of the mail and affairs. JOB AND Ford has -whether it's been rep1lacin.e; under a of the Case- on window frames, and molding cases. the he made wooden dowels as colonial craftsmen would have done. And to do the he from a fire in the Great Hall. was some pressure to cornp1ete work on the house as soon as and Ford found on it after 4 p.m. and until 11 p.rn. or It was an indication of his willingness to meet During the John's went througn the Christmas bnlirti:avc: worked hours care of burst heat coils in the Conversation Room and the air conin the library along with Harrison in Chase- for St. John's President Edwin . Delattre has been named a consultant of the Values Education Commission, established in 1978 by the General to morals and values education in Mar:vland Schools. as new ones are have been noted down on be executive divided into separate rooms Company. Nancy Winter, Thomas Jean Mrs. Norman Heaney; Barbara Peter Dr. Jane Rucker, Mr. and Mrs. William Simmons, John Moore, Jack Carr, Torn Parran, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elzey, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilson. , mMi:!m::u, �R J associate of the Daniel fall will lectures a series established in memory the late Edward '44. Professor Vona will deliver the first in series of talks which Harrison ~nE:ppara chairman of the St. John's Bay Area Alumni Steerinl! Committee. said In 1979 he took 9 in the second Marcel Gressmann meeting in of the Einstein Centennial Year at the International Centre for Theoretical He has held number of -· at schools of and at the - and of Waterloo in nuclear resonance. is His month and will cormn1ue;umm enable to use and other was awarded connection with his under a Mellon third of his teaching The nhillosont1y of science. and docfrom Fordham a second doctorate in history and science .at Jesus College, Oxford. in the Constitutional a book Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey Tulis and published the Louisiana State University Press, contains a chapter by Mr. Flaumenhaft entitled "Hamilton's Administrative ..... "'..,"'''u."" and the American Presidency.'' • I "Like the Nantucket whalers of Melville's America, you're wayfaring emigrants now," Kent Taylor told the senior class just before graduation. "But it's to you - and to no one else - that the whales can come." *** More than commencement, Class Day becomes the most personal expression for seniors of their years at St. John's. Drawing upon their own experience at the college, speakers, in highly individualized ways, touched upon such topics as authority, universals, the tension of venturing where conclusions have not been reached, seriousness, playfulness, and wonder. Chosen by the class, the speakers this year were Elizabeth Bowser and Lawrence Jones,.representing the seniors, Kent Taylor, an exchange tutor from Santa Fe completing his first year here, and Peter Kalkavage, who joined St. John's four years ago when the seniors matriculated. Sharirig the program in the Great Hall were four other seniors who provided music: Evan Canter, who also presided, Katherine Heed, Peter Norton, and Joseph Roach. Excerpts from the speech included: Miss Bowser: You know that sometimes, seldom, with no warning, a problem or something you're writing will turn out right or in a game you and the ball and the other players will move so exactly, but so smoothly and quickly, that it could never have been simply intended to happen. An even when speaking to someone, occasionally you're able to see more sharply and meet some word completely, and know how to approach the other person. Some of these smooth, startling moments obviously come from skill. Those involving the connections between us least obviously of all, because so much pours in from outside of the single person. Calling it skill is to dismiss a mystery anyway - those. moments can feel as though they come arbitrarily from outside. I Those moments are our reward. But I can imagine a person who has been in friendships, conversations, and communities and who, when alone, deciding; senses realistically the weight of his words and deeds. The quality he shows after many years of such "skill" is called authority. Clearly there are two kinds of authority, the inner sort and the sort which is conferred, and it's a shame to see them separated though a dutiful man can maybe carry the second kind, and the inner kind will never go to waste. This authority does not bear down on people but has gotten over its original fears of incapacity and feels its power to meet its bonds. You see why I don't use a word like goodness though I could. I am about to say we may be like that someday. That's the sort of beginning we've just made, the beginning of a skill of meeting. Not working upon what is giving, but meeting. We will fail, how many times, and I am not the one to tell if anything lightens that, but anticipate authority. The word, unlike· goodness, brings the little fear and the strength (for some reason, strength) that I wanted to give you. all I I gravity about which we dance. We learn that the joy of the poplar tree it gives exlies in the kind to pression. The universal is our lifeblood. To it we belong. By it we're made. In it we understand what it means to say that the essence is in the definition; for the definition of a thing is perfect, unblemished, and unattainable; and only by love and devotion to some perfect content does anything exist. The perfect content of all existence lies open before us in the act of thinking. For in thinking we leave all prejudice and pettiness behind and enter directly into the universal. There we rejoice because in thinking our private limitation and misshappenness becomes of no account. And in thinking we are truly freemen. Mr. Taylor: When baby frogs grow up, they lose the knack of breathing underwater. That's clear, isn't it? No hedging. No qualifying. Now what's the question. Maybe it's about you. What skill have you lost by being here? What you've gained is more obvious. Probably an Annapolis sinus condition. An ability to drop the name "Aristotle" with a certain bravado. A number of books. Some Mr. Jones: Such is the predicament of a friends. Some high times. Some low times. Baudelaire that all that is precious and Some practice coping with difficulty. Some living, every prize born of his own insight resourcefulness. Some awareness of other and suffering, when set into speech, when people. . raised to the altar of the universal, But what have you lost? Could this becomes lost as a peculiar and private, image of frogs' losing their home in the specific and finite event, within the author, water suggest that growing makes you arid is now like a mirror held out into the lose what you used to be at home in? But what have you lost? Could this world; ·and speech and the universal become an abyss into which our life blood be how to be comfortable taking things for ~ranted? flows. Is this our inescapable curse, that all If so, it's an amphibian awkwardness that is most dear to us, that all our tears you share with the writers of the books and laughter, should merely spill out into we've studied. The bo.oks don't seem full of habit and ease. They have a tautness about the universal, there to be trampled on? In fact, the world always has and them - a tension of venturing where always shall trample on our private joys conclusions have not already been and sorrows. But in the abuse we discover reached. Maybe those writers have always that from the beginning our treasure is the had to break with settled certainties. universal itself, that rather than being a Maybe in greatness there's always a dead thing, the universal is a still center of moment of leaving something behind. Greatness in these books has made you ready to leave, too. What else could a graduation really mean? So no matter what you say, I don't see that you want answers, delivered to your door like pizzas. They can't satisfy you anymore, whoever delivers them and however impressive the pepperoni and ripe olives-0n top. You've begun the higher work of evolving where an answer would fit if anymore appeared. Like the Nantucket whalers of Melville's America, you're wayfaring emigrants now. But it's to you - and to no one else - that the whales can come. Mr. Kalkavage: Plato's dialogues were stunning reminders that our pursuit of truth depended on our sense for the ridiculous and the half-serious. It was by seeing the ridiculous for what it was, especially when we observed it in ourselves, that we seemed to come to our senses. Being teased is like being caricatured. Both have the effect of making us wonder about our own strangeness just as Socrates says he wonders who he is, whether he's a monster more complicated and furious than Typhon or a gentler and simply creature. We might ask the same question of ourselves. Laughter, too, has played a large role in our serious play ..... All of us, these last four years have shared in weird and wonderful things. These have been things not at old ordinary but full of gods. We would not have seen any of that were it not for our capacity to wonder. Wonder was our dominant passion. In this connection, I want to leave you with the memory of Shakespeare's "Tempest." The passion of wonder is very much in the foreground in that play; it is present in the utter· strangeness of Prospero's island and in the various characters' responses to that which is strange. �~,,__ ·-,~- -----~-·- ·,;·~- ... --=-=-::::;;;:-:--~-:-:;~-~~~-~:;;;;:µ.-., J II In a contribution of what is exto a permanent art collecat Annapolis, a group of 44 etchings and woodcuts by two contemporary Japanese print makers has been presented to the, college by two graduates, Mr. and Mrs. !ay Ginsburg, of Gaithersburg, Md. They are the work of the highly respected and much sought after artists, Tanaka Ryohei and Hiroyuki Tajima. Burton Blistein, St. John's artist-inresidence, said the collection will go on exhibit next year at the college. The work spans a range of some 14 years, from 1962 through 1976 for the Tajima prints, and from 1965 through 1978 for the Ryohei prints. They are part of a collection _begun in 1967 when the Ginsburgs spent a week's vacation in Japan while Mr. Ginsburg was on leave from active service in Vietnam. Since then, the Ginsburgs' collection of Japanese art has grown so greatly that they decided to contribute the 44 pieces to St. John's. A few are mounted, but before they can be readied for the show, Mr. Blistein said the remainder must be framed. THE TAJIM;A woodcuts are almost exclusively a_bstract in design, works in Endowment up for library As the result of gifts of both books and funds, the library's book endowment fund has grown by $9,700 this year and now stands at $25,461. Librarian Kathryn Kinzer expressed pleasure over the contribution of books by faculty, alumni, and townspeople. In addition, Eugene Thaw, '47, member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, has pledged $10,000 for a two-year period ·"', which ends July 1. Other gifts of money also have come from the Caritas Society and individual donors as memorial funds. To keep abreast, Mrs. Kinzer estimates that the library must acquire approximately a thousand titles a year, many for replacement purposes. Altogether the library has 80,000 books. i'The trouble is our money will buy fewer and fewer books a year," she said. "In 1980 the average price of a scientific book was $35.15. The average cost· of a hard cover book was $23.57. New books for our library are picked very carefully, title by title, not only with regard to their own merit but to the merit of the library · collection as a whole." GIFTS MADE since January 1 include those of Roger Drissel, of Annapolis, and John Koontz, of Cape St. Claire, and those of four former students: Mary Couglin, '73, and Michael Van Beuren, •751, both of Annapolis, Paul Vander Waerdt, '82, of Baltimore, and Cliff Adams, '77, of Ne·w Medford, N.J. Faculty ,,members who have given stnce the firstM the year are Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Allanbrook, Eva Brann, Joseph Cohen, Harry Golding, Brother Robert Smith, Winfree Smith, and John White. "Alumni gifts from their student days are almost tailor•made for additions to our shelves," Mrs. Kinzer said, in speaking of the need to maintain multiple copies of books which fall within the St. John's program. If the library is not able to place gift books on its own shelves, it customarily checks with the Santa Fe campus to see if the western library would like them. In instances of special collections, such as a children's collection, Mrs. Kinzer seeks a suitable location. Others are sold at the library's twice annual book sale, and money earned there absorbed into the book endowment fund, a money earning runa ·established for book acquisition only. 41 1 II t w 111 c·h soft, random, organic shapes-many in an almost luminous blue-' green-appear puddled within geometric rectangles. To gain part of his effect, Tajima uses printer's ink and fabric dye as well as shellacked pieces of paper overlaid with laquer into which lines are cut by a knife. The Yamaha artist received the New Artis,ts Award of the Modern Art Association in 1962, when he was also represented at the exhibit of Contemporary Japanese Art. Since 1961 he has held yearly, one-man exhibits and been represented at the Tokyo International Print Biennial. In addition, his woodcuts have appeared at the Northwest International Print Exhibit in Seattle as wen as in numberous collections. all over the world. Tanaka Ryohei, about whom less was immediately available, has made etchings in which roofs are a favorite subject matter and one which permits him to display the textural differences possible when tools are in the hands of a brilliant and meticulous craftsman .. ·His etchings include those of a tile root with palm leaves, thatched roofs, and wooden shingles with stones. Another is a superb etching of tree roots. . BEFORE ST. JOHN'S opened its art gallery in January, 1975, Mr. Blistein said facilities, including storage, were not available for a collection. To permit the to exhibit such a: collection more adequately, he would like to strengthen the security system although 'it is sufficient to enable St. John's to obtain circulating exhibits from major museums. Mr. Blistein has indicated he would be more confortable with the installation of a .central alarm system. In addition, he is ·planning to provide a humidification system. Both projects, which he hopes to accomplish shortly, will enhance the gallery's environment in a manner which will better serve a permanent collection. Jay and Susan Ginsburg-she is the former Susan Liebersohn- are 1965 graduates. In February he resigned from the vice-presidency of the Gaithersburg in· surance firm, the Richard Leahy Corpora· tion, with which he will remain associated one day a week, to devote himself more fully to the firm, Manna Meals, Inc., which he and his wife founded. The Board of Visitors and Governors elected three new members at its April meeting when the board also authorized 'the raising of total fees by a thousand . dollars next year. ' Students will pay $8,400 to attend St. John's during the 1981-82 academic year. Tuition will go up from its present $5,400 to $6,000 and room and board by $200 to $1,100 and $1,300. The figures are identical for both St. John's campus in Annapolis and for its western campus in Santa Fe. St. John's Provost J. Burchenal Ault estimates that, While the college a bout breaks even for room -and board charges, the tuition fees cover only approximately 70 per cent of the actual cost of educating students. Helping defray ·the $8,400 cost , is financial aid which this year went t~2C students in Santa Fe and 200 in Annapolis. Manna Meals specializes in natural and Eleeted for their first, three-year vegetarian food. Two years ago it began tcr terms on the St. John's board are Peter A. serve institutions, including 60 colleges, . Benoliel, of Philadelphia, chairman of the hospitals, and day care centers. board of the Quaker Chemical Co.; John H. The Ginsburgs are the parents of four Dendahl, of Santa Fe, N.M., president of children: David, 11; Nathaniel, 10; Steven, Everline Industries, Inc., and Dr. Irwin 5; and Leah, 20 months. Hoffman, New York City cardiologist. A linguist, Jim Sto e knowsRumanian. were considered very exotic his Farsi . Two years ago Jim Stone, '55, was placed in charge of the Persian classes of the State Department's Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Va. And you know what happened. to those now celebrated students of Farsi, including four of his own students - Ann Swift, Kate Koob, Donald Cook, and Steve Lauterback. Now that they are back, Jim expects to be seeing the former hostages again as he did five other of his students, those who came out of Iran by way of the Canadian Embassy basement. Jim is a linguist, a member of that comparatively new discipline which has more interest in the wiring and machinery of a language than in its literary value. He has been a supervisor of languages at the Foreign Service Institute since 1964 and so far down in' the pecking order, he reports, that the comings and goings of various political orders every four years is unlikely to affect him, except, of course, he expects to get busier. As people res!gn, very few new staff members were hired under- the Carter regime. That may be even truer under Reagan. As a consequence, his assignments have been' expanded lately to include supervision of the training of modern Greek. This is fine with him - "I like working with languages" - even though what he does most lies with languages belonging to the Hindi family group. HINDI IS WHAT got him his job with the institute. Although he claims he is a "very average" language. learner, Mr. Stone first picked up Hindi almost by an osmosis process. That happened one summer, when he was working toward a doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley and after he held a summer job working on a Hindi textbook. ''I was really serving as a messenger and doing some typing and proofreading," he said. For a start, that was enough. Hindi began to take hold, and by the end of 1964, after completing all of his classroom work for a doctorate, he knew enough to qualify for his institute position. (The paper work involved in the employment process took almost as long as it takes to learn a language - five months.) "People ask me how many languages I know, and that's hard to answer," he said. "I know a little of this, som~ of that, some 1 JIM STONE . It • · : · . m 1 a specaa Y languages ma useful way. I can tell what language is being spoken." . . But mostly he has become acquam~ed with a large number of South . Asia.n languages. He knows Urdu, which is spoken all over Pakistan and by the Moslems in India. When Moslems write with aq Arabic awhabet, it is Urdu; when the Sanscri.t alphabet is used, the language becomes Hmdi. . . . Mr·. Stone also knows ~engab, which is spoken m Bangladesh and m Calcutta, and more recently he has learned Nepali. STUDENTS FREQUENTLY come to the. institute to ~earn. t~ose lan~uages feelmg they are fairly difficult, but m fact, Mr. Stone said they are really not. They are Indo-European in origin with verbs and nouns more or less as one would expect. "The Hindi language is something you can start with and make progress bit by bit,'' Mr. Stone feels. It is so much so, he pointed out, that most full time students who stay with the school 44 weeks find they have sufficient expertise to read editorials in native papers. The Foreign Language Institute was established in 1947 right after the second World War, which Mr. Stone believes pushed the United States, more than anything else, into the study of languages. "Languages like Vietnamese or Camb.odinese or even Finnish and H' d' during the war," he sa'id. In its attempt to rqore adequately staff the 150 embassies it maintains around the world, the State Department also has made room for people in government, persons associated with the International Communications Agency, agriculture, the military, even, occasionally, someone with the FBI. There are about 150 language classes, ranging in size from one to six persons who spend their full time studying, according to Mr. Stone. The instructor is a native speaker, and, as a linguist, who also is a supervisor of a scholarly type, Mr. Stone does "whatever is left over." IN ANNAPOLIS ~to attend a board meeting of the Alumni Association, Mr. ·stone said St. John's was the place where he saw that language could be interesting. Drafted following his graduation, he spent two years in the Army between World warn and the Korean war, ending, up "defending Pittsburgh." "What kept my sanity was (the late tutor) Bert Thoms, who was teaching in Wa_shington, Pa., at the time," he recalled. "I spent many weekends there. That was a real lifesaver." Then followed three semesters studying linguistics at Georgeto~n University and a year and a half teaching English in Tripoli under a contract of the United states Information Service. Mostly it was administrative work in a big high school for the general public taught principally by Palestinians. After returning here, he took more work in linguistics at Berkeley from 1961 to 1963 whereupon followed his institute position. Learning those languages has been something done in this country. Between 1965 and 1971 he made four quick trips abroad, mostly testing Peace Corps volunteers in language proficiency, but he hasn't been out of Arlington since um. Blessed with a good ear for languages, he also possesses a good ear for music and sings in the b~\ritone-bass ranges with fhe washington Cathedral Choral Society under Paul Calloway. Within his own family, languages do not stop with himself. His wife, who goes by her maiden name, Crawford Feagin, is also a linguist who has taughtin the Northern Virginia area. �Page 11 THE REPORTER .JUNE 1981 l ~ ' K F :I> Here it is-the St. John's quilt! So many requests have come from around the country to the Caritas Society for copies of its St. John's quilt design, we decided to nm them. For those who want to order, the cost of all designs is $10 $1.50 for posh1ge and handling. Kits · materials and are u111E11v1ll"ll1c101 .............-..... apiece with no posta~e Hll'!niruuru'.11 at the 1lhJ1~trntinn the ·~ minafo:m of the eccentricity of the equant in Ptolemy's theory of the universe, croquet before the library, Shakespear, Don Quixote, football before the plane........ -..... McDowell Hall, books (embroidery your own titles), waltzing in the Great the Eudid's I. his proof of the ll"'vnu:iiac:llrs!an 7 ravels, soccer in front Dick. To order. write Rebecca �Published by College Relations Office St. John's College Annapolis, Md . .21404 let us Evan Canter, Chicago senior, has received the first award offered under an endowment given St. John's by Walter S. Baird, '30, of Bedford, Mass., a former member of the Board of Visitors and Governors. It is given for achievement in the arts, literature, or science. also has served as archon of the Collegium Musicum, which sponsors periodic musical performances by students, alumni, and faculty of the whole musical spectrum. As Amiens, be also sang in the King William Players'. production of "As You Like It." · As a change from music, he also has Tom Parran photo The prize of $500 was presented during - commencement exercises. A tenor, Mr. Canter was awarded it for his performance of an aria from The Marriage of Figaro and of "The People That Walked in Darkness" from Handel's Messiah. He was one of five students competing for the newly established prize. Mr. Canter will use his prize money for voice lessons next year in Washington where he plans to work as a Congressional legislative aide. been a gym assistant and this summer will serve as a camp supervisor at Three Rivers, Mich. He is planning a career in law and will use his music in community groups. Serving as judges were Diskin Clay, chairman of classics at Johns Hopkins University, and two alumni, Walter Voigt, Key School teacher, and Ellen Davis, member of the faculty of Queens College of the City University of New York. He had his first lesson during the winter vacation. "She told me something I've always suspected," Mr. Canter said. "I'm a baritone, not a tenor." Mr. Canter is a member of a musical family with a special affinity for Gilbert and Sullivan. Both his parents - his mother once was Buttercup - and his grandfather have sung in productions, a good precedent for his own membership in the Gilbert and Sullian Opera Company of Chicago. During his high school days, Mr. Canter sang in The Pirates of Penzance and Gondoliers. His brother is a former voice major at the Oberlin Conservatory. Mr. Canter also was a member of the Chicago Children's Choir, starting about the age of 10 as an alto and winding up as a tenor. The assistant director of St. John's Small Chorus earlier this year, Mr. Canter A gift from the Starr Foundation of New York City has made possible a new scholarship endowment fund to be named in honor of the foundation's founder, the late C.V. Starr. President Edwin J. Delattre said the took the form of 2,000 shares of common stock of the American International Group, Inc., valued at more than $166,000 in March when the college received the stock. In the past the Starr Foundation, headed T.C. Hsu, president, has contributed to educational and charitable organizations. It has made grants for international studies and to aid foreign students, as well as to hospitals, civic, and cultural organizations. photographs gathered from the St. John's archives, year books, and family members and talked with alumni, including Dr. Douglas Buchanan, '43, Buchanan's son. Buchanan died in 1968, and Mr. Barr, now is living in retirement in the Goodwin House, Alexandria, Va. "MR. BARR was not only brilliant, eloquent, witty, but very quick to break into a smile," Mr. Hoffman said. "Sometimes he would purse his mouth a little just before smiling. The portrait shows him pursed a little and about to break into a smile.'' Mr. Buchanan is shown in profile, ''thinking.'' "Mr. Buchanan also had a great sense· of humor," Mr. Hoffman said. "He was a man of intense intellectual capacity, with the tremendous strength of an idealist, a man whose primary occupation was that of a thinker - a thinking visionary.'' Of special help in painting the Barr portrait were two photographs made the famed photographer, Alfred Eisen· who took them originally for a Life magazine story about St. John's. They were obtained for purposes of background Ray C. Cave, '48, managing editor of , who also assisted in obtaining legal clearance for the artist to use them. Before the portraits were cornp1etea, they were reviewed by an mittee consisting of Gene Thornton, photography editor for The New York Times, who is serving as artistic consultant for the committee, Mr. Hoffman, Francis Mason, Peter Weiss, and Stephen Benedict. THE GROUP IS scheduled to review both paintings once again this month cover the cost, set at more $10,000, Mr. Hoffman and Dr. David Dobreer, '44, have mailed out a special appeal letter targeted to alumni of the 1940s, the former students who knew the two men best. Assisting with the portrait project is a group of alumni who have included Mr. Hoffman, chairman, Dr. Mr. Mason, Dr. Dobreer, Bernard E. Jacob, Bernard Gessner, Eugene Thaw, and Peter Kellogg-Smith. St. John's artist-inresidence Burton Blistein also has been active in the project. Mr. Abrams, father of Kathryn Abrams, a member of the Class of 1981, has a national reputation as a portrait painter. One of six finalists considered to paint an official portrait of Jimmy Carter for the White House, he has painted the governors of Connecticut along with members of many prominent American families. Among his work is a ·portrait of Dr. Thomas B. Turner, which hangs in the named for Dr. Turner at Johns Hopkins University. Meanwhile, a photograph of Barr and Buchanan enlarged from one that appeared originally in the 1940 yearbook has been hung in the hallway of McDowell just outside the registrar's office. Also a project of the alumni committee on memorials, the photograph was unveiled in a small ceremony in which St. John's' tutor J. Winfree Smith, who had been a student of the two men at the University of Virginia, spoke. � 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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